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Show ri THE WORLD REVOLVES Sit'' V (Special Letter. Current News and Views MRS. LUCILLE LANE DEAD. 1 FIGHT THE DUELING CRAZE. x. RICHARDS, Mil was immediately laid before the Famous Washington Beauty Noted for iii ''iii';;!' nf the stationery Senate ami was passed in the twinkHer Eccentricities. ii the has en- ling of an eye. Then it had to he Mrs. Lucille Bluckburn Lam1, who lt Il"i li thirty-nintsent to the government printing office has Just passed away, was tin- - ymrr;-es- t ire in connection wita to he printed )'ai ui sen upon parchment. Mr. . daughter of former Senator Blak-burthe Scnat,-He u;iiiimod on the Mercer almost literally 6tood over the of Kentucky and one of the pier 1st of .;ay. 1 n i beginning at the type as it was hastily set. and then tlest women iu the capital. She wn lowest ruiiini or Hu ladder in the de- he hurried to the Speaker with a copy partment 4,r which he is now in of the engrossed hill, the ink being AJOi: (HAS. h , . charge. Henry Wilson and Charles Sumner, who were in the Senate with Mr. Richards' father, were responsible for the appointment, and tlu-iexcellent Judgment has been fully sustained. Major Riebards was wounded at the battle of Antieiani. where he had a still damp. Speaker Henderson sign- r Meets With Success In Austria and Germany. i W:nn iumhi two years ago n fused iu fight a duel, fur religious reasons. aid Mas. ruliso.pi.'iilly, inn, i the Austrian court and iirm. iie hardly thiiughl. that he was galtiitu an itminuiM- number of people "'er to ids i miim. Bur he dil so as a mutter of tun. and tin- oiiieotue of 'Ineourageoiis stand lie made is the which was l.iiigne Against formed in Austria, where, when it had en j) evisli-lletin lunger hail eight Tiiunihs. it i aimed iar!ium--n- i to pass a speeiiii law forbidding duels to he fought. Next it spread to Germany, where the emperor liinindl gate it his entire approval. Just now It ts being liitrodm-- d in France, and though i here is no longer any such grim neeessiiy for an instil. Uioti of this kind as in tin- days of Anne of Austria. when, as lias hn n aut iculiealod, no fewer than .i.oou gentlemen perished in mere is still plenty of chance for the League to prevent awkward la.-ul- Lady Helen Vincent Comes of Family Famous for Lovely Women. Lady lb Imi Yn.eiia Vincent it a iiieuiiiei' ol in. K; glish house that Is famous fur its beaut Knl women. ljRdy Helen's uhm her is the dauglitet of tin - - the bill, and over to the senate again went Mr. Mercer to secure the signature of 1resideut Pro Tem. Frye. At 4 o'clock, when lresident Rooseed Movement - h- - velt entered the capitol, Mr. Mercer had the hill ready for the flanl approval. From the time the House e I i - din-ls- . DEPARTMENT unique experience. A round ball entered his nose, knocking out hla upper Jaw and teeth. He spit out the hall and put It in his pocket, retaining It to this day as a memento of his army life. In his thirty-eigh- t years of service with the Senate, Major Richards has witnessed innumerable interesting episodes, and htfs enjoyed many experiences. OF JUSTICE. first acted until the measure became a law, just two hours elapsed. married to the late Thomas F. Lane, and after his death traveled widely, became a convert to Buddhism and last year engaged herself in marriage to Chevalier Trenlanove. The marriage, however, did not take place. In 1898 Mrs. Lane Bhorkt-society at Washington by shooting herself with the Intention of suicide. Two years subsequently her huRlmnd put an eud to his life with a revolver, and Mrs. Lane's name came again before the public. She bad spent almost her entire life in Washington. An interesting discussion Is In WAS PRAISED BY THACKERAY. progress in Boston, in which is that Fitzgerald insisting speech making is an essential factor Woman Whom He Called the Pretto congressional success, and some tiest in America" Is Dead. A cable message front of the newspapers are combatting the Florence, proposition. Fitzgerald, when he was Italy, confirms the report of the death in the House, used to talk a great there of Mrs. Charles Godfrey Iceland, deal, whereas his successor. Represen- whom Thackeray thought the prettiest tative Connery, delivered his first woman in the United States. Mrs. Leland was stricken with paralysis eighteen months ago. She was the wife of Charles G. Leland, the author, widely known for his ballads, written thirty-fivyears " ago under the pen name "Hans She was the daughter of the late Rodney Fisher and great grandniece of Caesar Rodney of ixdaware, one of the signers of the declaration of independence. When Thackeray visaed the United States he was introduced to Mrs. Iceland, then Miss Fisher, at Philadelphia, and was impressed by her beau- - Senator Blackburn of Kentucky poured out a glass of ice water and drank It with evident satisfaction. There isnt anything quite as good as water, after ail," quoth Blackburn, rewhich, by the way," he added, minds me of a story. "Down in Kentucky." began Mr. Blackburn, there was a farmer, who, strange to say, did not know the taste of whisky. One day, at Christmas time, he was at a neighbor's house and was invited to sample a mixture of cream, lemon, sugar, and other ingredients, commonly known as egglie sipped, then drank, then nog. When he drained several mugs. started to go home he felt curious. r It's an Insidious drink, you Know, and - X when ho reached home. lie went to v . rfr I I bed. The next morning lie awoke 7 with an awful thirst. Breaking the thin covering of ice on the water Mrs. Burrows, Wife of the Senator bucket out oil the porch, he took one from Michigan. drink. long a Mr' Connery s f,w "Mandy. Mandy. come here ami mn,s ,nsi1 ,las lhat man who talks ho shouted. 'I bring the children.' ll,p "I0"1 never lasted such water in my life.'" kai!t Mr. ritzgoiald has closed the dls- (Mission with this contribution: John Marshall Harlan, associate A man who goes to Washington justice of the United States supreme and can't talk should stay at home." court, is one of the prominent figures in Born in In Washington. Kentucky It pays to be persistent. If Senator 1833 he was the recipient of many when a small boy, had not Perkins, state In his native before his honors hnng on like grim death, he would never have reached California; and if he had not reached California, lie never would have been elected governor and Rcnator. It was in 1835 that. Mr. Perkins, then a hoy, agreed with a shipmate to go around the Horn from New York. Perkins went home to Maine to say good-byto his folks, and when he came bark the mate on the ship refused to take him, saying that the vessel's complement was filled. Discouraged. but not defeated, Perkins went to the skipper. "The ship's full." said the captain. Perkins didn't give a continental whether it was or nut. He was going to California even if lie had to stow himself away in the hold, and he told the captain so. ;'f r j j e Breit-man.- 1 'V PREDICTED KING'S RECOVERY. Dr. Bernays, One of the Most Famous Surgeons of the World. Dr. Augustus Charles Bernays. the noted surgeon of St. Louis, who Misi- - In 189 she married Sir Edgar Vincent. The late duchess of Leinster, who died in 189.1, and who was regarded as the most beautiful woman In England. was her sister. I ho late duchess and Lady Helen closely resembled t 'iii'h other. Anotlir lovely daughter of Iml Is Lady Mahle Graham, wife of Sir Richard James Graham, hart. Another lovely daughter of Isird Fevershain is Lady Mahle Graham, wife of Sir Richard Janies Graham, hart. Sir Edgar Vincent has had many Important commissions from the British government. He was financial adviser of the Egyptian government from 1883 until 1889. He was also governor of (he Imperial Ottoman hank until 1897, when he returned to England. Fev-ersha- in RICH MAKES GIFT TO VENICE. New York predicted that King Edward recover, and who likewise insisted from the beginning that President McKinley would die. is widely known in Europe and America for ills remarkable operations and his many innovations in the science and art of surgery. Prof. Bernays studied at Heidelberg ami was later the personal assistant of the great biologist, in the same university. He is one of the fewr Americans who are members of the Royal College of Surgeons. and is one of the most brilliant of the younger sellout of scientific practitioners ami surgical theorists. tivcly would WOULD j the third earl of Fevershain. Banker Gives Large Sum To Help Rebuild Campanile. Thp New York hanker and former confidential partner of Jay Gould is said to have given $100,000 to the fund being raised In Italy to replace the thousand-year-oltower at Venice which Is now a mass of ruins. This information came in a dispatch from d AVENGE HER HUSBAND. ; 1 : , return to England he in an interview that she was the prettiest woman in America. ty. On his de-clar- e Can you clew up the topa'ls?" ask- ed tho captain. Yob," said Perkins. A dozen more questions were asked him, and all of them were anAssociate Justice Harlan. swered so satisfactorily that the capappointment to the supreme bench In tain shipped the lad as a seaman 1877. During the civil warlie com- before the mast. "We really don't need you. my boy, manded the Tenth Kentucky regisaid the captain, and I wouldn't have record during that ment, and his strife is as brilliant as has been his taken you if you had not been so career at the bar and on the bench. d d determined to go." Representative Mercer of Nebraska, hustled a bill through the recent session of Congress In great shape. He made a record for quick legislation. At 2 o'clock one afternoon Mr. Mercer asked the House to pass a hill appropriating $75,000 for the construction of a quartermaster's warehouse at Omaha. The House at once obliged (he popular Nebraskan, who, as soon as the vote had lieen taken, hurried across the capitol to the Senate, to anlist the aid of Senator Dietrich. The The wife of Senator Julius C. Bur rows of Michigan, is a notable society hostess. Though her husband wai only elected to the Senate in 1895, be had previously served for a number of years in the House of Representatives, and so she is looked upon as quite an old Washingtonian, as the phrase is, in that town of kaleido scopic changes. The Burrows came from Kalamazoo, and they occupy a very handsome house at 14i)4 Massachusetts avenue. VOLCANIC DUST A FERTILIZER. Theories of Scientists Disproved by SL Vincent Eruptions. There is one remarkable fact in connection with the recent volcanic eruptions in the West Indies, which tends to disprove the statement of certain scientists that volcanic dust Is not a fertilizer, namely: that in the gardens in Kingstown. St. Vincent, where volcanic dust has fallen many inches deep, there has rarely been such a splendid show of flowers. They have come out in a wonderful way, so that every one remarks it. It Is recorded that after the eruption of 1813 the quantity of produce on the estate was As illustrating how unprecedented. suddenly death came during the eruption, it is stated tnat in some houses in St. Vincent people were found still sitting round their tables at tea. One man had a smile on his mouth, and had evidently died with a word on bis lips. Another had a pipe in his mouth and his hand outstretched for a match. Wife of Marquis de Mores Prosecutes His Murderers. What promises to he a sensational trial was begun at Susa, near Tunis, when two Chaamba were brought before a court of Frenclnncn for the murder of the Marquis de Mores in 189li on his journey through the desert to found an empire on Lake Tchad. The prosecution, which is supported by the nationalists of France, will, it is said, attempt to prove that which also sa.d the munifithe marquis was massacred on orders Rome, cent gift had caused much emotion from French officials in Algeria and Venetians. In New York Mr. Tunis. The Marquise de Mores is a among Morosini said he had offered to contribute to the fund, but would not say he had given $100,000. lie was horn In Venice in 1834 and emigrated to the United States l:i 1850. He became an employe of one of Jay Gould's railroads, and in 1872 Jay Gould appointed him his private secretary and later made him a partner. He has accumulated a large fortune as an investment broker and banker. Gruesome Incident at London. gruesome mistake was made by some laborers at the Albert Dock. London, whilst unloading the cargo of a vessel recently. The lid of a large receptahle became unsealed, and a quantity of liquor ran from It. The strong smell indicated that the cask contained spirits, and as it was running to waste several laborers drank a quantity and pronounced it to be good. The customs officers bad their attention drawn to the cask, and they found that it contained a human arm which was being sent as a medical specimen. The spirit in which It was soaked was to act as a preservative. A daughter of Louis Adolph Von Hoff- man, the New York hanker. Highest Altitude Reached by Man. The credit of having reached the highest altitude in a balloon is given to Dr. Bersen and Dr. Suring, of Berlin. They first went up to tlie height of 30,000 feet, loaing consciousness for brief intervals. They continued Kipling Declines Knighthood. The London Academy publishes to ascend to 33,79 feet, when one of the news that Rudyard Kipling might them became completely unconscious have been knighted along with Gilbert and could not be aroused. The other Parker and Conan Doyle, but that he aeronaut, after making a great effort declined the olfer. The Academy fur- in opening the valve to descend, also ther states that Mr Lecky refused a became insensible, ami noil her of peerage, contenting himself with mem- them recovered till the balloon bership in the new OrdVr of Merit dropped to It'i.enu feet. His Great Mistake. "The mistake of my life," said the reminiscent man, was when I was selling patent medicines in Russia. One day I attended a review of a crack regiment, and suddenly every tnan in the ranks began sneezing for all he was worth. In a trice I had my sample case open and was trying to sell the commissary a carload of tny pellets, when he rudely informed me that the troops were only hailing with delight the arrival ol Gen. Akaehoochohedooski." Judge. anti-gri- p |