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Show PRESIDENT'S HOME AN Aa CABLFC" WILL LOOK DIFFERENT THIS SUMMER. CRAY YbH tha I'blrf Ikt Huiitd't liar Itataras to rw-nii- n Uuumi lit- - Will I'M It tit Far an Orirulal 1uuw ttta HEX PRESIDENT informs hi friends next summer tliat the lateh-strin- g ia out at n i a Buzzard's llljr home, Cray Guides will have several more gables than it hail hut summer and ten Uiore rooms fur the accommodation of guest. Besides a large addition to liray liable, the President haa also had a lodge built near the gate which marks the entrance to his estatei This lodge eou-( UNEXPLORED llatkaa ISLAND. Laud or ilk It yaw llnillr Bllard fupulutiua. LOWELL'S MEMORIAL. aid James Millar, who hus long resided THE WINDOW NOV. IN WESTMINSTER ABSEY. on lriuce of Wales island, and whe by resMiu of bis Wing the first white settler and nuiv cunt rolling the larg Tk English 1rupla Laved tha A Hart-ea- a est interest, is referred to as the moo-arc- h Bu af Lrttars aa Oaa af Their of that island, is now in this Ovi Ambassador Bayard's SIIB-escountry. Mr. Millar is lueuted at HuntWards. er's bay, where he has been for four in the business of years catching and AMERI-ra- n at NOTH Eli is immortalized salting salmon. The strange island of Prince of Wales, on which Mr. Millar has elected to make his home, lies at the mouth of Dixon's entrance and only about three miles from the nortWru line of llritish Columbia The island is about two hundred miles long and from ten to thirty or forty miles wide. It is singular in its make-up- . having a fringe of lowland all around. Toward the center are ridges of mountains, some of them reaching lofty heights and covered with perpetual snow. Tliere is magnificent timber in great quantities. It consists of spruce, fir, hemlock. (B1 among the great 'men whose monuments make Westr minster Abbey a sacred spot to the two nations that A have a common The un- short time ago, of the v nemorisl windows to James KuaseU Lowell, in the Chapter house of the of tbbey, la an incident in the life Jiese kindred ieoples that should give ictual pleasure to every right-minde- d nan and woman among them, not only n its recognition of a poet and scholar ehose work belongs to both nations, iiut in its indorsement of the man who las done so much to bring each closer to the other, says a writer in Harper's iVeekly. The names of Great Britains libtinguiahed men who subscribed to the memorial fund indicate the esti began humbly enongh aa lumber RECLAIMS Thera are traces of abundant aa TRINIDAD. tinct laborer on the Chicago river. The vegetation. The mountain slopes mayor has promised reform governare thickly covered with dead trees ment for the World's 1'uir town. He NEW NATION IN THE SOUTH strewn aa closely together a it is possays he a ill elevate all the terminal sible for trees to grow. At one time ATLANTIC. tracks of the railroads entering the Trinidad was covered wjth on rnagnb city, clean the streets and keep them fleent forest, and whatever catastrophe clean, and divorce the police depart- Tfca Barren laloud te Ba Coluolaod oad occurred to destroy the trees, it oer Form a af Uovammoat ment from politics. Mr. Hopkins is a Military tsinly happened within the memory of Tba Prajoatar aa handsome man, gentle of manners and man. A large portion of this timber is reserved in disposition. not decayed in the least, and when cut presents the appearance of a sound, HE GOT HIS TEETH. HE ISLAND OK well seamed wood. It ia gnarled and A Coavlrt Whs Ulvss Valuable liloe Trinidad, of whioh knotty, extremely hard and heavy, its HBtlna for a Mouthful. has specific gravity being slightly less than everybody A firm of bankers have just mode a and of which that of water, it is of a dark Yeddish heard Some little profitable investment very few people color and of very close grain and bej time ago a man who had defrauded know anything longs to the family of Myrtacae and them of a considerable sum of money about, will prob- possibly to the species Eugenia. waa taken iuto custody, convicted, and ably soon be Hie The summit of tlie plateau Is covered sentenced to a long term of penal serscene of a unique with beautiful fern trees, and com vitude. As may be imagined, tha attempt at coloni- Dismiss magnificent view over both prison fare did uot agree with a man sides of the islaud. The mountains of zation. Baron who by meana of fraud had lived on haa due the weather or easterly side of the the fat of the land." He complained for the people of island are more precipitous tha non the particularly of the effect tlie food had research and lee or westerly side, lint they have the careful After upon his teeth. They were neither he haa found advantage of not running sheer into Investigation practicul numerous nor in good condition when he was sentenced, and as they Tapidly that this almost barren rock off the the sea, for at their base extend great green slopes continued by broad, sandy became worse lie applied to the au- coast of Brazil is capable of supporting becomof beaches sized and a population good thorities for a new set He was told a by no means unimportant factor The plateau is covered with a luxthat the government did not supply ing uriant vegetation. In addition to the convicts with artificial teeth, and at in the commerce of tlie world. to take this small island the first opportunity lie wrote to tha Inlie proposes the South Atlantic, and not only to banking firm in question offering if it, hut to then form a small, people would him send set new to a give they them some valuable information. but ideal kingdom, which is to be governed by a military dictatorship Thereupon the hankers, thinking the Every one who knows Baron James offer might be a genuine one, sent the Harden-Hickey knows that he ia a man governor of the prison a cheque for of picturesque schemes and brilliant 5, and asked him to supply the conhia is vict with a set of artificial teeth. In ideas. This contemplationeffortof of bis the perhaps crowning due course the convict kept his liie. It is certainly a task of no mean and sent the bankers certain promise, information by means of which they proportions, and one which only a were enabled to recover no less than daring spirit could enter into By tha way, the careless student of 1,500 of which they hud been deshould not confound llsron geography frauded. They naturally regarded llarden-Hickcy- s island of Trinklud tliia as the best Investment they had over which floats Trinidad with the ever made. the British flag, near the mouth of the MINISTER TO ITALY. Grinocoi nJbor mu The latter is a good sized island on Wove NarYcask Aanf I ha Moat BrilSAt. which a good many people live at the liant A om limns. Few men have packed so much work present moment, with a well estabhim j ar and so many po- lished trade and a provincial governIAVA MC. litical honors into a ment 'orr ar itrt life that is yet in its Baron Harden-Uickeylslund, howprime as 1 resident ever, ia quite a different thing; it is at Cleveland's new ap- the present time almost uninhabited TKIXWAD BALK, pointee to the Ital- and has been for nearly a hundred tree ferns already mentioned there are ian mission, ex- years. Irobably only mariners know large bushels of acacia, a tall thorny it t to rney - General :its exact location. with flowers like those of scarlet ne MseVeagh. Ia a conversation concerning this plant runners and bearing large beans flowIt is not so great island the Baron said: grasses and many other plants The island of Trinidad ilea in lati- ering a thing for a man The fern trees are from twelve to to have been chair- tude SO degrees 30 minutes south and eighteen feet high. Thera used to bs SO deman of his party, herds of goats and pigs on the island, longitude 3iCYiA0Linj the dominant grees S3 minutes but none seem to lie tin-r-e now. in the west distant about does not proBaron Harden-Hicke- y party at that, and in war-tim- e 700 miles from the pose to taka a largo number of colonbarggin, in a state like Iennsylvania, coast of Brazil. in his thirtieth year. Nor is it so great ists with him on his first expedition to a thing fur a man to have held two imHalley in 1700, his principality. He will have a few Delano in picked men to maintain order and emv Amaro portant foreign missions and an 1803 and Commoby the time that he is ploy West India men or negroes 1o do B0. But for a man to have done these dore Owen in 1838 the heavy work, aa white men would visited the island, suffer from the tropical host were they things, so to speak, on his days off," and It is from their exposed to much hardship. and to have been creating all the time, accounts that most aa the main business of his life, a repThe form of government to be estabof the information lished in Trinidad will be a prineU utation at once solid and brilliant as a leader of tha Pennsylvania bar, is a been gathered. Of polity and will be conducted on ths thing that no man in his generation late years, however, it has been more plan of a military dictatorship Any but Mr. MacYeagh can lay claim to frequently visited. Mariners avoid its Insubordination or crime will be punn have accomplished. Aa he has suc- coral reefs and crags, but ished by immediate banishment from ceeded without any of the arts of popthe homeward bound sailing vessels tha island. ularity, is accredited with a somewhat sarcastic habit of speech, and ia said to have been called tha young man from Bitter creek," Mr. MacVeagha double success must be credited more than almost any other success of the When it time to sheer intellectuality. ia also remembered that Mr. MacYeagh haa never been a mere dig, but haa shone quite as brightly at the Clover club dinner table as in the highest courts of the land and in the cabinet of Garfield, the sense of his mental attainments rises from the admiring to the marveling. Born in the pretty town of Phu-niville, Pa., not far from historic and lovely Valley Forge, on April 19, 1833, Mr. MaeVeagb began to live and work as soon as he could get at it He waa graduated from Yale at 20, admitted to the bar at 3, and three years later waa district attorney of his native connty of Chester. When war came, Mr. like the late Samuel J. Randall, saw a brief tour of duty aa an emergency man. serving in 180! aa captain of a cavalry company rained to repel TRINIDAD FROM THE SOOTH. invasion. In the following year he was chairman of the republican state central committee, lie afterward apMost governments have been formfrom around Cape Horn generally sight plied himself closely to the practice of Trinidad to correct the rate of their ally notified of Baron Harden-Hlckey- 'a hla profession, and set himself, before chronometers and as many aa five or intention to found an independent accepting his next public office that six pass it daily. principality in Trinidad. Some hava well of minister to Turkey in 1870-7- 1 The landing ia often difficult on no- already responded favorably. Nona along toward liia present position in count of the surf which perpetually; have raised the slightest objection, the law, which ia that of one of the breaks on the ironbound const, tlie and this probably for ths best of realeading counsel of the Pennsylvania great rollers dashing on the beach j sons According to international law Railroad company, and an important with a tremendous roar for days to-- ; they have no right to do so. member of the firm of New York and is not unBaron iisrden-llicke- y The surf is often incredibly gether. Philadelphia lawyers which I 'resident great, and has been seen to break over known to the people of this country Cleveland entered after his first term a bluff which is two hundred feet high. generally. He is tlie of Mr. of office. I'pon his return from Tur- However, by biding one's time there1 John IL Flagler of New York and has key Mr. Me Veagh sat in tlie very im- are days when landing can he ac- - already established a Chaneellerie da portant state constitutional convex emiiplislied without any difficulty Trinidad" at his residence, in that tion of 1S72-- 3, which established bien- whatever. city. nial sessions of the legislature, did His personal history is a most interOn the summit of the Island there and with I on the esting one, running through a number pro- floats almost constantly, even special legislation, away hibited the merging of parallel and clearest day, a wreath of dense vapor, j of adventurous experiences in Ireland, competing railway linns. Then pri- assuming ever and anon the mosti England and on the continent Inapvate life claiiiu-- him once more till shapes at the fancy of the pearance lie is a man of distinguished the spring of 1877, when he was sent strange Above i bearing, with something of tlie French Ainda issuing from the crags. at tlie head of a commission by I'reai-de- this diadem of vaporous clouds tower manner. Hayes to investigate the claims lofty spires of black rock. The highest I The coat of arms which the Baron of the two conflicting state governia about three thousand feetj has already adopted for the princiments of Louisiana. Since hia attor- peak j above the level of the sea. pality of Trinidad is shown in the acney generalship under President GarTha scenery Is very savage and' companying cut It will be noted that field in 1881, Mr. MacVeagh's life has grand, and its effect is heightened by j simplicity is a conspicuous factor in been too well known to require de- the roaring of the surf on the beach the design. tailed mention. and iU echoes in ths ravines, as well Translation of Qalntss Curtiss. os by the shrill cries of thousands of Isdlsa Ssperatltloas. The translation of Quintus Curtiua The western Indian's belief in a ses birds occupied thirty yearn. The mountain sides are barren, save by Vaugelss great spirit is written over the map of translator rendered every sentence the northwest Manitoba is one rec- in spots where a coarse grass grows j The five or ten different ways and finally ord, and Lakes Michigan and Huron sparsely, lint at the head of the ravines ! chose that which pleased him bast have many names that commemorate era downs beautifully green, with of the lx dense groves of fern trees the piety or superstition The Blood-Sar- k lax Masqat! diana. A considerable apace in the The island is rather more than five In every lend between Spitsbergen nrirthern part of Lake Michigan is miles long. Trinidad is perhaps the and Patagonia there is soma species of called Manitou, and here are north principal breeding place for sea birds in the common g mosquito. and south Manitou islands A consid- the South Atlantic. Multitudes of In British America and Alaska they erable island in Lake Huron is the birds, gan nets. boobies, cormor-- 1 are very large and troublesome. Grand Manitou. Colorado also haa its ants and petrels gather there in enor- -' Federation of Labor lecturers get (40 ; Manitou, ami it occurs, doubtless, elsemous quantities; the deposit of guano a week. where In the west Is consequently great. to-du- 's GRAY GABLES, WITH ANNEX. splendid yellow .cedar and a very superior red cedar. The island has never been surveyed nor explored, said Mr. Millar, and some day it must prove. I think, a most inviting field for exploration. The Indians, of whom there are probably some 3,000, are scattered around tlie island shores in little villages, usually of snout 100 inhabitants each. They consist of many different tribes. Most of those I came in contact with are llydahn There are between 300 and 400 of them at Hunter's Bay, and they are quite industrious as fishermen and sailers of the salmon. The Hydah Indians came up from the Queen Charlotte Islands many years ago and made conquest, driving the native tribe out The former are very superior Indians. They are intelligent and pick np anything very quickly. I think they originally came from Mexico, as they much resemble the Mexican race, Some of them, I have noticed, have as fine faces as any white man, and aa full and fine beards. Though lrince of Walee Island has many resources 1 do not think it will be plate-glasof any use for agriculture. When I The new lodge will make a very at- left on Dec. 11 there was some snow at tractive addition to the estatei It is Hunter's Bay. but still it was not cold. ccvered with shingles It is strongly My nearest white neighbors are at the Presbyterian missionary station of miles sway. At llowkan, twenty-fiv- e my place there are no white persons, except my wife and children, and they are sway for the winter. Mr. Millar le of middle age and has a pronounced Scotch accent. He ia of a type of the hardy pioneer only to be met with at such outposts. SHE WROTE HEAVENLY TWINS- - tains nine rooms and is designed principally as a residence for the man who has charge of the place, and as a cosy place for Mr. Cleveland to live for a while in the winter, should he care to make hunting expeditions around the Plymouth woods and down on the The lodge is built for winter Cape. use, while Gray Gables is merely a summer-house- , and would be rather cold even for a party of hunters The addition to Gray Gables is not at all pretentious. 1 1 is and sheathed on the inside, the outside is of shingles, and the shingles will be left as they are, unpainted, to turn gray by action of the weather. The new rooms are in the addition, or extension," and this now forms the main portion of Gray Gables The old Gray Gables contained only seven or eight rooms floors The new rooms have hanl-pin- e The sheathing is whitewood, and the mantela are of whitewood and in plain design. There are eight fireplaces Some of these fireplaces are of tiles All the and some are of face-bricwindows in Gray Gables are to be back-plaster- far-awa- y A VIEW or THK PORTKR'S LODOL made and plastered in what is called molded block finish. The windows will be plate-glasThe man who looks after the President's affairs at Buzzard's Bay will probably occupy the ell and one of the main rooms. The remaining roans will be reserved for Mr. Cleveland's Tha Ckarmlsx Personality sf Mrs- - Sarak Broad. Mrs. Grand, the writer of Heavenly Twine, is of English parentage, with old Quaker stock on both side. She was born in Ireland, where her father 's held a appointment She had two brothers and two sisters, and was next to the youngest in the family. winter retreat When she wee only 7 years old her Mr. Cleveland has had new trees set died and her mother returned father renovaordered a general out And has Yorkshire to live among her own to tion of the piaee. people. Her education was rather SomiIuk Provoke Aegon and, so far as schools were makes is nearly every desultory, Why it that it one angry to sneeze? One will generally hear an exclamation of impatience after a sneeze. I heard a gentleman let off several of these staccdto explosions the other day, and between every snort be gave vent to lively expressions of sulphuric adjectives. Asked why he did it he said he always had to sneeze when he didn't want to. It interrupted his business and juried him from center to circumference, and he didn't like it It was a useless and of time. expenditure harrowing do not like to sneeze. Women They may give vent to even so small a cat sneeze. but it causes them to make such unbecoming faces, disturbs their complaisance, disarranges their hair, their bonnets, anil sets them all SABAH OK.IXD. on edge, and they haven't any use for it anywav- - And yet scientists say the concerned, came to a sudden end when sneese is beneficial; that it is a health she was only 1G. ful provision of nature; shakes up the At that time she married and found constitution and preventa clogging herself stepmother to two boys of 10 and sluggishness of ths circulation. and a After her marriage she traveled This may he true, but mankind would in Ceylon. China and Japan Her life much prefer some other method of there probably had a strong influence in forming her character and opiniona regulating constitutional matters After five or six years abroad Mrs. t'nlarkr Wadding hays. Grand returned to England, and after Prospective brides may be interested to learn that there are thirty-tw- o days several years wrote Ideals," her first in the year on which, it is said, it is printed novel. Some people prefer unlucky to marry. They are Jan. 1, 8, this book, which was printed at the 4, S, 7, 10, 15; Feb. 6, 7, 8; March 1, 5, author's expense, to the Heavenly 8; April 0, 11: May 5, 8, 7: June 7, IS; Twins." Two years were spent in 7: .B: Oct 6, 11, 5, IB; Sept. Aug. July writing the latter one. and three years 0; Nov. is, IS, and Dee. 15, Id, 17. were necessary to find a publisher The Germans have, it is said, discov- sufficiently courageous to take the risk of kind ered that a satisfactory paper responsibility of its production. can be anode from the refuse hops that and he Grand's personality is said Mrs. in waste have hitherto gone to charming. coast-guard- LOWBLL MBMORIAL. mation in which the American diplomat was held among them; for not only the great nobles of the kingdom, but leading members of the higher of science, art and letters We reed united in the testimonial. among these the names of Profs Tyndall and Bryce, Kir John Luhhoclc, Kir George Meredith, Frederick Leighton, Leslie Stephen, Dr. Conan Doyle, Canon Farrar, Chief Justice Coleridge, the dukes of Westminster and Argyll, Earl Rosebery and Lords Brssssy and Playfair. It was a distinguished gathering that met in the venerable abbey for the ceremonies of the unveiling. The dean of Westminster presided, and about him were many in high places, among them the American ambassador, the archbishop of Canterbury, the lord chief justice of England, tha speaker of the house of commons, England's minister of foreign affairs, the lord high chancellor, many members of parliament, and lords and ladies, with representative men of letters and followers of the arts and sciences Very graceful was Leslie Stephen's tribute to his dead friend in the speech' in which, as chairman of the memorial committee, the English writer begged Ambassador Bayard's acceptance of the memorial on behalf of the United States. Ambassador Bayard was equal to the occasion. His speech in acceptance of the memorial waa eloquent, and bo voiced a sentiment that all of us here must feel when he said, In all American homes a sense of gratified pride will be felt when they learn the name and fame their countryman, the poet, scholar, statesman and patriot, has received at the hands of Britons in this venerable temple of national religion, honor and The bust of Longfellow renown. snathe Lowell memorial window more than ever endear the memorials of Westminster Abbey to American hearts. aris-tocrs- Alma-Tadem- a, MAYOR OF CHICAGO. A Skotrh of a Msa Mow B lag Talked "ASont. John P. Hopkins, the young mayor of Chicago, is the idol of the democracy of Cook county. He is regarded by it as the political prophet of the west, and is said by many to be. like I 'resident Cleveland, a man of destiny. The President looks upon the vigorous young westerner as a protege of his, and is said to have taken a keen interest in the Chicago election last December, and especially in Mr. Hopkins' 0m . 1 sea-wor- x Mao-Veag- . ! son-in-la- w I I I I nt BATOR HOPKISS. campaign. When Mr. Cleveland heard that the democrats had won the fight in Chicago he expressed himself aa highly gratified. Mr. Hopkins is a Chicago man, but he waa born in Mr. Cleveland's ward in Buffalo, which explains the interest manifested in him by the President He haa been rarely successful in business, and. although but 3d years of age, has worked himself into a position of ease and afllu-cnc- e attained by the majority of men only at a much later time of life. He blood-suckin- man-of-w- ar |