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Show mimrn mmu )immj$w m i., J STATUE OF KAISER WILHELM THAT CAUSED BAD FEELINQ IN GERMANY, This is the full figure statue of the kaiser which has just been unveiled In the Hall of Fame in the ancient town of Barmen, Germany, after receipt of a curt note from Berlin that no member of the royal household could be present at the unveiling owing to the criticism of the kaiser by the people of Barmen following the receipt Vy them of ar bill from the sculptor when they thought the kaiser was paying for the statue. Their original plan was to place an allegorical group in the hall to balance Jt statue of Emperor Frederick and replace It with a statue of the kaiser i ri i i : m t iiWItfNWMfcil fciHflJif Vrt W W L 'wfralsh'iihl ,., .J 'I -. - j WIFE OF COLORED POET. after his death The kaiser, exercising the power given him by the Ger- ELEPHANTS AND THEIR WAYS. man law. vetoed the group, owing to Mrs. Paul Lawrence Dunbar Also a Generally Accepted Ideas Found to Be Writer of Some Note. Incorrect. artistic defects, and when informed Mrs. Paul Lawrence Dunbar is a The a vet age term of an elephant's it was a temporary piece to occupy a place reserved for a statue of him- writer, like her husband. Her first life, although there is no precise inself, to be placed there auer his death, honk was published in 1S93 under the formation on the point, is 7 or So he gave a sculptor an order to make title, Violets and Other Tales," aud yearB. The elephant is not in full the statue at once and send it to In 1899 Dodd, Mead Sc. Co. brought out vigor and strength till 33. The most The Goodness of St. Roque." which ready way of forming au approximate The people of Barmeu Barmen. thought he was making them a pres- met a very kind reception. Some of idea of the age is by the ainouut of turn-ove- r of the tipper edge of the ear. ent of the statue, and hence the disIn young animals, sometimes up to pute over the payment of the 4,0UU the age of 8 or 9 years, the edge is it cost and the rriticism which caused Barmen to be brycctted by the royal quite straight; it, however, then lie family. gins to turn over and hy the time the animal is 3u the edges lap over to the extent of an inch and between tills age and 80 this Increases to two inches or slightly more. Extravagant ideas are held as to the height of an elephant. Srn-- a thing as an elephant measuring ten feet at the shoulders does not exist in India or Burma. Sanderson, who is admitted lo lie the best authority on the subject, says the largest male in ever met with measured nine feet ten inches and the tallest female eight feet iic Inches, The majority of elephants, however, are below eight feet aud an animal rarely reaches nine feet, the female being slightly shorter than the male. The carcass of an elephant seven feet four inches tall weighed in portions gives a total weight of 3.9"u pounds, so au elethe leading magazines of the country phant weighing two tons should lie regularly print Mrs. Dunbar's short common enough. The skin was about stories. At the time of her marriage thrcc-fou- i ths of an inch to one inch to Mr. Dunbar in 1N98 she was a thick. teacher in the public schools of FEW MEMBERS OF COLONY Brooklyn. Since iter marriage she has lived in Washington, where she writes short stories and acts as sec- Consul and His Wife the Only Americans at Guadaloupe. retary and general helpmeet to her II. Ayme. the United States hushund. This picture is reproduced from tiie illustrated volume. Twenconsul at Guadaloupe, who Is now in tieth Century Negro Literature," which contain over one hundred portraits of prominent colored Americans, and noteworthy papers by them on vital topics relating to the American negro. WITH HIGH POSITION. Boston Clergyman General Secretary of Baptist Young Peoples Union. The Rev. Walter B. Cal ley of Bos- ton, who has been made general secretary of the Baptist Young People's Union of America, and will establish headquarters in Chicago, is pastor of Boston Tabernacle. He was burn in Dover, Del., in 1838 of Quakpr parents. He was prepared to enter the publishing business, but by attending CZAR AND THE TRUSTS. In the Days of Slavery. Tae total white population of the d DEAD. Dr. Jacob Josephs Was Chief of Rus- . I only the greatest financier in Russia, but the ablest railroad manager in all Europe. It was he, it is said, who suggested to the czar the calling of an international conference on trusts for the purpose of regulating them, because these combinations- of capital cause depressions and unreasonable fluctuations in prices." - New Kind of Measures. The transparency of sea water has been measured by Herr Luksch of the Austrian frigate Pola.in the levant, Aegean and Red Sea by submerging a white disc until it became invisible, Transparsays the London Globe. ency and color of the sea vary with tPiiiKrature. wind, salinity or saltiness, altitude of the sun, etc. Transparency is favored hy blueness, great salinity, depth of water and low it is least in summer, and for low altitudes of the sun it ia in general 'IS meters in the eastern Mediterranean. 31 meters in the Aegean and 21 meters In the Red Sea. The maximum depth at which the white disc could he seen was 48 meters, or some 28 fathoms. These experiments open up a question ns to the best color lor submarine boats to hide them from an observant enemy, say. in a Apparently a color assimilating them to the sea water is desirable, and it might, he worth while to make experiments for this purpose. bal-kio- sian Orthodox Jews. the eminent Jewish minister, who has just passed away, was the chief rabbi of the Russian orthodox Jews of the United States, and possibly in many ways the highest American authority in Jewish law, philosophy and religion. Dr. Jacobs was the author of several Dr. Jacob Josephs, Soldier Has Many Times Been Sent to Awe Strikers Gen. John P. S. Gubin, who is in command of the militia sent to quell the rioting and keep the peace among the striking miners at Shenandoah, Iu.. has been prominent as a leader in tlie stare guard for many years and is himself an old soldier and past commander in chief of the Grand Army mander of a brigade during Die war witli Spain aud was elected lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania in ISPS, lie has tin' full confidence of Gov. Stone and lias had experience in preserving peace in the mining distriits in the time of strikes. TO WED A MILLIONAIRE. Pretty Telephone Girl Wins Heart of Albert Edward Tower, Although the date for the wedding lias not yet been fixed, preparations are already under wuy for the marriage of Miss Mary Dogardus, a telephone girl of Poughkeepsie, N. Y to Albert Edward Tower, millionaire proprietor of the Poughkeepsie iron Works, Miss Bogardus has resigned her ixisition in the telephone office and with her sister is visiting relatives ia the country. If the wedding takes place early in the fall, which is the arrangement at present, it will occur little more than six months after the wife of Mr. Tower sou and fatally shot her killed herself in the palatial Tower home in Poughkeepsie. The acquaintance of Miss Bogardus and Mr. Tower began when the manufacturer's telephone became one of cona Krcnc'.imnn Mrs. Ayme lioc-ur- i sider him as really the representative of the United States, ami consequently iiu allow no one hut h RABBI TU GOBIN luif-inch- - EMINENT JEWISH NEW icmi-tubcrc- Pam-liniun- (ini'-fift- NOT - e ! COMMAND Chicago, and his wife are the only Americans who reside at all permanently in t ae Island of GuaJaloiipc. Mrs. Ayme is at tin- present, lime itlor.e in this unusual distinction, her as husband. who will in1 t ie first tiiiiu to notify the world at large of the dreadfui Mdianic dlsasii r at Martinique, having been tu tills i unit ry sine the middle of June on oti'n ial There is u vice consul at Point a Pitre, but as lie is south in ISOtt. according to the census, it is noted, was 8.'O!t.7i!0. of which .'isi.soi owned the slaves in the country, excluding two owned in in Nebraska, twemy-ii.Kansas, flfu-in L'lah and eighteen In New Jersey. One man alone owned more Hum . 1.("u slaves and he was a South Eighty eight owners, hi nine states, had more than 3iu eaf,h. and tiirty (if tin- eichly were South Caronr all the Slave linians. holders or 77.322 uwnt-hut one slave each, and the greatest number of these small holders in one slate was in Virginia, which had also the largest pioportion of slaves. 4nn,s83. Charleston News and Courier. Issues a Call for an International Conference to Regulate Them. M. lie Witte. Ill,1 Russian minister of llnamc, is credited with heitt:; not ifaV AS THE WORLD R.EVOLVES HONORED THE Hr "j nr"i lMrtiiiiwjry services one Sunday in New York by the Rev. Isaac M. liable-man- . lie was led to adopt the mi.iistry. He graduated from Crozier Seminary in INK'). His first pastorale was in Bethlehem. Pa., and three years later he took charge of the Philadelphia mission boards. After nine years he went to Cambridge, Mass., as pastor of Charles River church. After paying oft a large debt there he went to the Baptist Tabernacle in Boston, where his work has been greatly successful. eon-ducte- REGALADO A GOOD d to raise the Start and Stripes above the consulate every litoinir'g at 8 o'clock or to lower (lie colors at sunset. When Mr. Ay ntc is ni home ii says lie invites the entire American SHOT. President of Salvador May Some Day Find Accomplishment Useful. Gen. Regalado, president of Salvas dor, is evidently a shot, according to the New York Herald. He went the other day on board of a for the purpose of testing a colony to dine with him seven days new arnty rifle. In spite of the motion a week by simply announcing to Mrs. of the Vessel he hit twice in succesAyme that dinner is ready. sion a cartridge shell which was susThe Porcupine Fish. pended from a white thread at a disAmong the Bermuda nshes Just retance of thirty paces. With this, however, he was not sat- ceived at the Aquarium is a porcupine isfied. and. turning to the conimander-in-chic- f fish, which has been placed in the of the army, he said: "I now tank with the hoxtlsh. The hoxfish has all over its body n propose to hit the white thread, and I shall he imirh obliged ir you will large number of fixed, spiny protuberhold it for me." ances. Tlie porcupine fish differs from Without a word the eoinmander-lu-ehle- f it in having scattered thickly over Its went to the sjxtt where the body many sharp spines that are capstandard works on these subjects and thread hung, and. taking the top of It able of shifting in position. Ordinarily was widely known among the learned between his fingers, he held it out st these spines lie fiat against the fish's men of his faith. He was 32 years arm's length. The next moment the skin, but when tin fish inflates itself old. a native of Wilnn, Russia, and president fired and rut the thread in with water, as it ran do, until its body , attained rare distinction in learning two five inches below the hand of the is also its many sharp at the very youthful agp of 18. He ntnn holding It. spines rise up like quills uhui the had been rabbi of the Both Hamed rash lie then called the commander-incfretful porcupine. Hagadol congregation in New York icf and asked him to accept as a Hence the name of this fish, which city for fourteen years. Ik sometimes also culled hedgehog. gift the rifle he had unril. first-clas- man-of-w- globe-shaped- h those wbich Miss Bogardus answered in her work. Mr. Tower wa3 charmed hy her voice, sought an introduction, and pnijHised marriage. Tlie engagement was to have hccu kept a secret owing to th recent death of Mrs. Tower, hut now that it is out the preparations for the wedding are in progress. The Home of England's Wealth. The Bank of England generally contains sufficient gold, in 181h. liars, to make 20,0110,000 sovereigns. The Bank, wliieh stands in three parishes, covers three aens of ground, and, as th current price of land in the vicinity works out at .i.'l,non,o(m an acre, it Is easy to form an idea of the money value of tlie homo of England's wealth. The ratable value is about l,oon a week, (hi Bank employs about l.Oon people, pays a quarter of a million a year in wages, and .C33,ooo a year in pensions. Then an 23.ouu.(iiiij worth of notes in circulation which have been handed over llic Bank's counter. Sign of Advancing Age. According to Kir James Crichton Browne tile hand begins to lost its suppleness when the imlix idual is alxmt 40 years of age. The scale of wages in I hi button trade, for example, is a good indication of this tendency of the hand to grow old so early in life. At his very best, in his prime, a skillful button maker can make 8,210 ivory buttons a day For this he receive on his lathi 43 shillings a week. When the workman is 83 years of age lie can Hcldom make more than 20 shillings, this providing that he still er.Jovs sound health- - |