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J- 5," t'j ii fe j-ii A II 6 fc COME TO DAKOTA. The Atlautic Coast Visited by a Storm That They Acknowledge Surpasses Precedent. Business Entirely Suspended in New York and Vessels Are Unable to Enter Port. A Woman Frozen to Death on the Corner of Broadway and Fulton Street. Hotels Crowded With Suburban idents Who Are Unable to Reach Their Homes.

The National Capitol Completely Cut Off From the Outside World by the Storm. Come to Dakota. NEW YORK, March hardest storm ever known here is now ing. It began early this morning aud at 8 o'clock the snow was a foot deep on the ground. The high wind caused drifts which in the upper part of the city were three and four feet high.

Traffic was almost suspended. Thousands of gers were blocked 011 the elevated roads. Horse cars were entirely unable to move. But few trains have arrived. The city is completely snow bound.

Travel lias been suspended and business places that are usually opened at 8 o'clock in the morning were not open until late in the day. The United States signal service officer says that the wires are all down east and south of Pittsburg and that he has been unable to get any report from Washington or any southern station to-day. The records date back seventeen years and do not in any case show that New York was ever before visited by such a blizzard. The wind at 11 o'clock this morning was blowing 40 miles an hour. SCENE NEAR CENTRAL PARK.

At 2 p. the storm is increasing and is absolutely unprecedented. All business lias been paralyzed. At the stock exchange less than 15,000 shares were sold. This is the smallest on record.

The produce markets were all nominal. Steamers of Berlin and La Champagne arrived out. The weather stopped the courts. Jurors and witnesses even in murder cases were unable to reach the city. Every street car in New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City and the elevated trains are all stopped.

The Brooklyn bridge and ferries were almost abandoned. Down town hotels are crammed with suburbanites. The vated roads, which run 3,000 trains daily usually, were stopped to-day for the first time on record. Westerners declare that Dakota never furnished anything like New York's blizzard of to-day. Of the forty mails that are due between 4 a.

and noon only two arrived by 2 p. m. News from Europe, where there have also been tremendous gales and snow storms, is important and unteresting, mainly relating to the coming obsequies of the late peror. COME TO DAKOTA. At 9 o'clock this evening there is no abatement in the storm.

Frozen ears and feet were never so numerous. Drug stores have been filled with patients all day aud evening. A woman absolutely froze to death to-night at the corner of Bro adway and Fulton streets, popularly supposed to be the busiest four corners on earth. In hundreds of streets loaded wagons are abandoned and the horses taken to the nearest stables. Where the wind has blown the snow into drifts countless dents have occurred from slipping.

The Astor house alone turned away 300 wouldbe guests and other hotels have similar periences. COME TO DAKOTA. At 10 o'clock New York is absolutely snow bound. The oldest persons never saw its equal. Not one train was patched by either the Erie or the Central to-day, which is something unprecedented.

Telegrams from a distance of 200 miles have the same story to tell, namely: "It is the worst storm ever known here." Police authorities say the storm has not been equalled since 18B5. Most of the police telegraph wires broke down early in the morning and policemen are obliged to tramp many miles carrying important patches. COME TO DAKOTA. NEW YORK, March midnight the storm is unabated. More than 100 tured limbs and contusions of the skull were reported.

The ambulance horses at the different hospitals were completely fagged out early in the night and calls in many cases could not be responded to. COME TO DAKOTA. a. to six feet of snow has fallen on the Delaware Hudson company's railroad and drifted much higher. At 2 a.

m. tbe wind is as high as ever. Many reports of death and dents have been received. COME TO DAKOTA. WASHINGTON, March storm that visited Washington yesterday was one of the most remarkable known for years MMmmm '3' SlMSWi ASK A heavy rin continued until about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, when it turned to a blinding snow, which stuck to thing it touched and turned to ice.

As the night fell the heavily laden telegraph wires began to come down. At the signal office to-aay it was learned that the storm was a result of a splitting of a storm through that on the day before yesterday extended south from Michigan. Saturday night It divided, forming into two storm centers, one over Lake Erie and one in Georgia. The wind here reached a ity ot twenty-six miles per hour at night. Off Cape Henry the wind was blowing fifty-five miles yesterday.

The railroads lending into Washington have been blockaded by snow, fallen trees, telegradh poles and wires, so that the ment of trains has been greatly impeded, if not altogether abandoned. The sky is now perfectly clear and it Is growing colder. The morning and evening papers of to-day appeared without telegraphic formation. COME TO DAKOTA. TROY, N.

March fifteen inches of snow has fallen here and the storm still continues. All trains are late and railroad men believe that the worst of the storm is to come. COME TO DAKOTA. ALBANY, N. March snow in this vicinity is the worst of the season.

COME TO DAKOTA. ROME, N. March heavy snow storm storm set in yesterday and still tinues. Trains are four hours late. COME TO DAKOTA.

NEWBUUGH, N. March verest snow storm of the winter is ing throughout this vicinity to-day. About afoot of snow has fallen and it is drifting badly. Trains 011 all the roads are much delayed. COME TO DAKOTA.

NEW HAVKX, March storm is very severe here and the railroads and telegraph lines have suffered much. The snow is sixteen inches deep. COME TO DAKOTA. NEGAUNEE, March two days' blizzard just ending has been the worst of the year for railroad men. Many trains and snow plows are snowbonud in drifts along the lines COME TO DAKOTA.

CANAJOHARIE, N. March has fallen in the Mohawk valley for ty-four hours and high winds have banked it in the highways. Railroad trains are greatly delayed. COME TO DAKOTA. ST.

PAUL, March special to the Pioneer Press: A terrific blizzard is raging on the north shore of Lake Superior and trains on the Canadian Pacific are completele blockaded. No train has rived here from Montreal since Thursday. A RAY OF HOPE. A Bill Authorized Admitting: North Dakota to Statehood. The President's Message Discussed in the Diversity of Opinions as to the Wisdom of the Document The Railroad Land Grants Discussed in the House and in Committee sitions to Forfeit Unearned dominations and Confirmations.

WASHINGTON, March senate committee on territories this morning structed Senator Piatt to report favorably an enabling act for the admission of North Dakota It also instructed Senator art to report favorably an enabling act for the admission of Washington territory and northern Idaho as a single state, providing that no part of Idaho shall be included without the consent of a majority of the electors residing in the part in question. There will be a minority adverse report on the last mentioned bill. SENATE PROCEEDINGS. The motion to refer the president's message was taken up and Mr. quitt addressed the senate.

"The sage," he said, "has made a profound impression at home and abroad and has received the hearty endorsement of wise and judicious men everywhere." He predicted the triumphant re-election of Mr. Cleveland. Mr. Dolph addressed the ate on the same subject. He would use the surplus as far as necessary in the ment of rivers and harbors, in the struction of coast defenses and in the tinued liquidation of the public debt.

The senate then went into executive sion and the following nominations were confirmed: Chas. S. Carey of New York to be solicitor of the treasury Rev. John T. Dolphin of Minnesota to be post lain.

The following nominations were nounced: For register of land office, H. H. Dickman at Crookston, Minn David J. Wilcox, receiver of public monies at Walla Walla, W. T.

Adjourned. HOUSE PROCEEDINGS. Under the call of states a large number of bills and resolutions were introduced and referred, among them bills for the feiture of the Hastings Dakota railroad land grant in Minnesota, and relating to tariff and internal taxation (the Randall bill). RAILROAD LAND GRANTS. The house committee on public lands day decided by a party vote to formulate a general bill providing for a forfeiture of all unearned land grants.

The republican members offered two distinct bills, the first to declare a forfeiture outright of that tion of the land grant over which the road was not built within the time specified by the granting act, and the second but to clare a forfeiture of the remainder of the land grant of the part over which the road was not completed in the specified time. This plan they thought would insure the passage by the senate of the bill of the first class without the jeopardizing of anv and all forfeiture bills. We want to employ one thousand hands for one hour each and pay them $3.00 a piece for their services. This is certainly good pay and employment for all. The service we ask is to get us one new scriber for the Weekly TRIBUNE at $2.00 with a 83.00 premium book extra for 26 is $2.26 for the paper a year and the book.

This is the inducement you can offer your friends, and to every old scriber who will get us such a subscription we will give a copy of "Our Family sician, price Read our announcement in another CHICAGO, March case of Mrs. Rawson, accused of complicity in shooting her husband, the banker, was nolle prosqued to-day. Tn V- FROM THE CZAR'S LAND. IMAGES OF SAINT8 HANGING IN NEW YORK BOUDOIRS. Hew York Craze for Everything "Icons" Otyect of Great Religious of Curious Design.

With the erase for everything Russian die New York belles have taken to adorning their boudoirs with Russian icons, and ing lamps before them that are generally kept lighted. To the uninitiated it is well to explain that icons are pictures of the Virgin and child and the saints. They abound everywhere in Russia, from the palace to the hovel, and are treated with extraordinary veneration. The Russians, not being allowed to worship graven images, paint a picture of the saint or Madonna on wood or canvas, and then place over it what might be called a screen of silver or brass, molded or engraved to represent the clothing. Holes are left so that the painted faces and hands show through, and where the Christ child is sented his feet are also seen.

Full length figuresof the saints are permitted, but only a half length figure of the Virgin, and nude or Incompletely draped figures are forbidden. In the Cathedral of the Assumption, in the Kremlin, in which all the czars were crowned, Is the Vladimirski Mother, which is uted to St. Luke. It is supposed to have saved Russia from the Tartars, and is adorned with jewels valued at 8325,000. The face of the Mother is a very sweet one and the face, and one hand of the Child are seen.

This was deposited in the most sacred of Russian drals, represents exactly the side of an cient palladium, and a of it adorns the drawing room of a lady in this citv, who brought it with her from Russia. THE MOST VENERATED ICON. But the most important of all the icons, and the most venerated, is the Iberian Mother, which was brought from Mount Athos, in the time of the Czar Alexis, about the middle of the Seventeenth century. The Iberian Mother sits in the midst of gods and pearls, and, like all Russian saints, has a dark brown ion. Round her head is a net of pearls, on one shoulder a large jewel, another on her brow, above which is a brilliant crown.

Around the picture are gold brocaded hangings, on which angels' heads, painted on porcelain, with silver wings, are sewed, and the whole is lighted by thirteen silver lamps. Besides her face, her hands are seen, and the face, feet and hands of the child. The icon is of silver, large, and has a heavy frame of the same metal. A little wound on the right cheek of the mother was inflicted by the Turks, and scarcely had the steel touched the picture when the blood flowed. This is represented in every copy.

At all hours of the day there are people prostrating selves before this icon, and the Virgin's hand and Child's foot have been kissed so often that, to quote a traveler, "it is no longer the hand and foot that are kissed, but the crete breath of the pious." The devotion of the emporer to this venerated icon is really a matter of political importance and a bond of affection between him and his people. A copy of this icon, in brass, a fashionable lady in this city has set up in her boudoir, along with other souvenirs of her Russian trip, and the suspended brass lamp that hangs before it is lighted on the occasion of an afternoon "tea." These icons in old brass are very valuable, but the modern one are almost worthless. ARTICLES OP CURIOUS DESIGN. Icons are scarce in this city, and probably half a dozen could not be found in the shops. Inquiries at one commercial house brought forth two that had been carefully laid away, wrapped in paper.

These were of engraved silver, about six inches by ten in size, full lengths of male saints, the faces and hnnja being beautifully painted. The paintings, which are complete under the silver, were done on wood, the backs of which were ered with purple velvet. For the table the Russians do not much fancy pure white silver, and the majority of articles in that metal they have A pitcher in this style, of an antique model, imitates the earthenware pitchers used by the peasants, and covered as they cover with birch bark. The cover they wind round with a linen cloth, which is in this represented by the whitish silver. Another pitcher, also of silver gilded, has a very beautiful interlaced design, which is a ite with the Russians.

A peculiarity of the Russians is the tance they attach to bread and salt, two articles playing prominent parts at dings and on all ceremonious occasions. For this reason they pay much attention to salt cellars, and some of the designs are quite unique. A favorite design is chair shaped, so to speak, the seat containing the salt, and having a lid on which is in Russian, "Without salt, without bread, only half a meal," and what may be called the back of the chair being richly ornamented, sometimes having the Russian coat of arms at the top. Such a one had a design in colored pnamcln, the work being in the Byzantine style. Annt.hpr 8alt cellar, which might be used as a ing cup, was a silver and gilt cock about eight inches high.

This bird is extremely popular in Russia, and enters largely into Russian decorations, sometimes the wmh beak or talons being used if there is no room for York Mail and Express. Senator Ingalls. Ingalls is the same old two and sixpence that is, as far as a man who changes every moment can be the same. He will not make many speeches on the floor of the chamber this year. He has a high idea of the dignity of his position and will be careful not to compromise it.

He has taken a big house posite the Capitol and will entertain. He has a wife as bright as himself, who is as well fitted to uphold her part in the social world as Ingalls is his in the political one. The two are very domestic in their tastes, and they are very fond of their children. Ethel Ingalls is to come out into society on the 1st of January, and she will be one of the beauties of the senatorial circle this winter. Tall, slender and bright eyed, sse has a face as rosy as that of a milkmaid, and she will be to the beaux of Washington even more entertaining than her Letter.

Pure Air Indicator. It is estimated that the air in a room comes distinctly bad for health when its bonic acid exceeds one part in 1,000. An paratus has been recently patented by fessor Wolpert, of Nurenberg, which affords a measure of the carbonic acid 'present. From a vessel containing a red liquid (soda solution with phenolphtbalein) there comes every 100 seconds, through a siphon ment, ared drop on a prepared white thread about a foot and a half long, and trickles down this. Behind the thread is a scale ginning with "pure air" (up to 0.7 per 1,000) at the bottom, and ending above with tremely bad" (4 to 7 per 1,000 and more).

In pure air the drop continues red down to the bottom, but it loess its color by the tion of carbonic acid, and the sooner the more there is of that gas a American. BISMARCK WEEKLY FRIDAY. MARCH 16,1888. COWBOYS OF THE PLAINS. Theodore Roosevelt's Pen Picture of a Class That 'Will Soon Pass A way.

Singly, or in twos or threes, they gallop their wiry little horses down the street, theii lithe, supple figures erect or swaying slightly as they sit loosely in the saddle, while theii stirrups are so long that their knees are hardly bent, the bridles not taut enough to keep the chains from clanking. They are smaller and less muscular than the wielden of ax and pick but they are as bhrdy and self reliant as any men who ever with bronzed, set faces, and keen eyes that look all the world straight in the face out flinching as they flash out from under the broad brimmed hate. Peril and hardship and years of long toil, broken by weeks of brutal dissipation, draw haggard lines across their eager faces, but never dim their less eyes nor break their bearing of defiant self-confidence. They do not walk well, partly because they so rarely do any work out of the saddle, partly becauso their chaperajos, or leather overalls, hamper them when on the ground but their appearance is striking for all that, and picturesque, too, with their- jingling spurs, the big revolvers stuck in their belts, and bright silk handkerchiefs knotted loosely round their necks over the open collars of the flannel shirts. When druuk on the lainous whisky of the frontier towns they cut mad antics, riding their horses into the saloons, firing their pistols right and left, from boisterous lightheadedness rather than from any viciousness, and indulging too often in deadly shooting affrays, brought on either by the accidental contact of the moment or on account of some long standing grudge, or perhaps becauso of bad blood between two ranches or localities but except while on such sprees they are quiet, rather self tained men, perfectly frank and simple, and on their own ground treat a stranger with the most whole souled hospitality, doing all in their power for him and scorning to take any reward in return.

Although prompt to resent an injury, they are not at all apt to be rude to outsiders, treating them with what can almost be called a grave courtesy. They are much better lows and pleasanter companions than small farmers or agricultural laborers, nor are the mechanics and workmen of a great city to be mentioned in the same Roosevelt in The Centurv. Washington's Babits. He was very simple in his domestic habits, rising often in midwinter at 5 o'clock. He kindled his own fire, and read or wrote by candle light until 7 o'clock, when he fasted very frugally.

His ordinary fast was two small cups of tea and three or four cakes of Indian meal, called hoe cakes. After breakfast he mounted one of his superb horses, and in simple attire, but which set off to great advantage his majestic frame, ited all those parts of the extended estate where any work was in progress. thing was subjected to a careful supervision. At times he dismounted and even lent a ing hand in futherance of the operations which were going on. He dined at 2 o'clock and retired at about 9 in the evening.

He was kind in word and deed to his negro slaves, and while careful that they should not be overtasked, was equally careful that they should not loiter their time away in ness. The servants were proud of their stately, dignified, wealthy master, and looked up to him with a reverence amounting almost to religious homage. Washington was very fond of the chase. Often when riding to a distant part of the estate he would take some of the hounds with him in the hope of ing up a fox. The habits and tastes of the old English nobility prevailed in Virginia to an extraordinary degree.

The passion for following the hounds was thoroughly planted from the broad estates of the lish landholders to the vast realms which ture had reared and embellished on the banks of the Potomac and amid the ridges of the Alleghanies. An Ancient Canal Uncovered. H. J. Stevenson, surveyor for the Palm Valley Water company, reports making a singular discovery while surveying the canal line running south and easterly from the old Agua springs.

He had run one line on a grade of four feet to the mile from the present terminus of the stone canal to the new town site, but in crossing the pression near the mountain it would become necessary to build a quarter of a mile of fluming. In order to obviate this expense he was instructed to make anew survey on a grade ci eight feet to the mile, so as to strike the town site at a lower level and cross the pression without a flume. On this last vey, after crossing the depression in good shape, he struck an old canal that must have been used centuries ago, for largo trees had grown up in tbe very bottom of the canal, and the indications were that when used it carried a very large volume of water. The most singular thing about the canal was that the surveyors found it just where they wanted to construct the new canal, and in following it up for a distance of about a mile it was found to have a regular grade of about eight feet to the (Cal.) Press. A Picture of the Immigrant.

In his lecture on "Immigration" Dr. Be mis gave a picture of the immigrant at the low level to which he has now mostly fallen. On board a steamer of the Allan line at her wharf in Baltimore a large number of these people were gathered to their feed. This was pork and potatoes cooked together in a kettle with copious liquid accompaniment. ered in groups on the deck about each kettle, the only knife in possession of each group was used by the first man, who cut off a slice of pork and passed the knife to his neighbor.

Making a cup of the meat by the aid of his palm and little finger, the next step was to secure a potato and place it on the thumb end of bis band. Then with tbe ladle he poured the soup over the potato and let it trickle down to the meat. By reversing his hand and eating from each end of it ternately he was able to eat meat, potato and soup all in one process. The sight of a ship load of people engaged in this tion dust have been press. Peculiar Eye of a Marksman.

This man Swinney, who wants to be a train robber, and isn't, has most remarkable eyes. He is a dead shot, if such a thing exists, and you would think so when you first look at him. His eyes, which are very dark and piercing, affect one unpleasantly, mainly cause he has in the iris, and immediately around the pupil, a light gray ring that yon will not find in the ordinary human eye. In fact I never saw but three men with that ring and they were all dead shots with the rifle or revolver. I have-heard and believe that this kind of an eye is always found in good marksmen but it does not follow by any means that a man without it isn't a good shot.

You hear a great deal about men being bidexterous in the use of the revolver. I have met men who could shoot well with either hand, but these stories you bear about such men as Rande and others being able to fire successfully at two to the extreme right and the other to the extreme Detect- PROFESSIONAL JUROR. HIS DOMAIN, HIS HABITS AND LEADING CHARACTERISTICS. Tricks by Which Legal Proceedings Are Out" an Extra Day or Into the Chief among the institutions almost lime honored, but now in rapid decadence, is the professional juryman, for he is an institution, and it will not be long until he is numbered among the antiquities of that limbo of the long ago known as "the good old times." Many circumstances have brought about his decline, among these legislation on the subject and active measures taken by the courts to prevent his depredations, and his extinction is now only a question of time. He may still be occasionally seen, however, stalking solitary in the neighborhood of the court house or its corridors, for he is not a gregarious animal The circuit court is the place where he finds his best picking and is his favorite haunt.

He is also frequently seen in the common pleas court or in the law and equity court, when common law cases are on trial, but never in the other bunals, as heretofore it has never 'been the custom for jurymen to draw pay in the other courts. On the first or third Monday morning in each month, at the regular time to draw the two panels for the half term of the circuit courts, he, or several of him, may be seen loitering about, hoping to fill up the needed number, as a "bystander," and an interesting study is afforded. If there is a long and tedious trial promised in the common law courts, a number of him is sure to be present, for, unlike the ordinary juryman, he likes the trial to last as long as possible to swell the total of his per diem. In fact, he has even been known. to resort to tricks to long the proceedings.

It is a very simple mutter for him not to agree on a big contest and "hold out" the jury for a day or two. To be taken on the grand jury by hook or crook on a chance occasion is almost a cure. If summoned as a "bystander" for the petit jary he will always, if possible, '-hold till the second day, for, so summoned, he can draw pay for only 0:10 day's services, while, if he uns over till the second day, he can draw pay for both days. HIS NUMEROUS THICKS. His tricks are almost innumerable, and, although ikciv are several species of him, all are characteristic of the genus "professional juryman." Three-fourths of the hung ies, it is said by a court official who is a tical fiend, are duo to "professionals." He delights in a trial for murder or any other serious offense, as there is a chance for a up," in which case, if he show sufficient obstinacy, under the name of a tious determination," ho can spend several days at a class hotel, under the ous care of mine host, who takes care that be shall have the best of attention.

Another favorite trick he has is to slip into tho jury box and fill up the vacancy caused by the absence of one of the regularly drawn jurymen. The clerk has frequently to sult his list and call the roll to di cover the interloper, and when asked to give the reason of his presence he generally explains by ing that he "thought the clerk called his name." Of course there is no penalty, and he slinks away, sad at his detection. But he is a man of insistence. One defeat does not discourage him, and it is but a few days til is ready to repeat the trick. The genus "professional juror," for venience of classification, may be subdivided into a number of species, embracing persons of nearly all ages and all classes of society.

There are politicians designated by various terms, such as "ward workers," "strikers," "wire pullers," or, as they call themselves, "men of influence." There are thriftless bands, unnecessary appendages to thrifty wives, who are generally found to be tresses of small boarding houses, or worse still, shiftless fallows who are not so nate as to bo appendages. These are charged policemen, gamblers, speculators, disabled men, men out of work, and, saddest of all, shabby genteel men of decayed tunes and gentility. Every specimen of the different species is as distinctly recognizable as if he wore a label. These are the men who often dccide a knotty point in common lr.w, or decide whether a prisoner shell spend one or ten years in the penitentiary, shall get a "lifer," or be CornierJournal. A Man of Mixed Drinks.

"Did you notice that man who just came in and drank a huge tumblerful of lemonade, and then followed itwith a cup of cold lons" The speaker was the white jacketed head barkeeper of a weii known saloon, and he continued: "Well, ho is a regular cuscomer hero, aud comes nearest to being a two legged tank of any one I oversaw. Every night ho comcs in about midnight, and sits down at one of those small tables and orders some kind of a drink. Ho generally begins with a whisky sour, followed up with three or four more of tho Then, as if in fear that his stomach will get chilled he will call, perhaps, for a couple of hot Scotches, which will in turn be washed down by several brandies with ginger ale. At a certain point he appears to be struck with an idea that it is not safe to drink any more hard stuff, for fear it might go to his head, so he switches off on a new track aud orders lager beer. After half a dozeii glasses of this beverage he generally begins tions for going home, and I never saw him so be couldn't walk usual, and he always has perfect control of himself.

I always imagine that he drinks hard at night so as to be able to sleep. Perhaps he has some secret disappointment, such as an unhappy love fair, that would keep him awake were it not for the alcohol. In the daytime he never drinks liquor, wine or beer, but seems to suffer an intolerable thirst for cold drinks. Some days I make for him dozens of ades, and be always wants the largest glasses." York Sim. Frank B.

and Frank G. There are two inen, well known to the public, whose names are very nearly alike. One is Frank B. Carpenter, the painter of Lincoln and author of "Six Months at the White House," and the other is Frank G. Carpenter, the Washington correspondent of prominent newspapers.

Both being well versed on the same topics, it is easy to see that confusion often arises in the minds of their friends regarding them. The man whose middle initial is lives in New York, and says he is frequently given a hearty shake of the hand by some friend who congratulates him upon such and such a letter which has just appeared. Wearying of the constant explanation, now, when the question is put, he laughingly demands, "Is it good?" and the reply being in the tive he answers, "Certainly it is mine, then." York Press "Every Day Talk." A State Without Cities. North Carolina is a state without cities. Wilmington, its largest town, has only 19,000 people, Raleigh 13,000, Charlotte 9,000 and Asheville 8,000.

A MEDICINE MAN SUPPRESSED. The Amusing Story of a Powder sion in an Eskimo Village. There was another episode which these culiar people seemed to consider as a hugs joke, which I will explain as briefly as ble, to show what the native people consider as funny in the frigid cones. One of tho Eskimo men had a painfully disfigured face, to which he pointed so often that one of the party was finally led to ask him the cause. He most cheerfully assented to explain, the grins and suppressed laughter of the others.

When he was a young boy he was one of a small band of natives that upon the remains of Sir John Franklin's fortunate parties that had starved to death, and they found many curious things among the scattered material at the site of the sad scene. One, which immediately took his boyish eye, was a red flattened can that he found, full of "black sand," as he expressed it. The "black sand" was of no possible use to him, and on the first occasion he had to utilize the can, which was one winter evening when he was sitting by the lamp in his snow house, he poured this useless material out on the form of snow that held the lamp, end in ing so some of it splashed in the flame. There was an instantaneous explosion, which he tried to explain by yelling "booml" until I thought tiie top of my head had been knocked off, and when some of the shock had passed away he found that the top of his snow hut had disappeared in the dark night, the stone lamp was broken into pieces, and the kitchen utensils and parlor furniture all mixed up. He was a medicine man of the is, one supposed to cure sickness by magic, incantations, at the time the der can exploded a patient was visiting him, who disappeared in the confusion, and his whereabouts was not known for a month or two afterward, when he turned up in another tribe farther south, whose doctors, he claimed, were not of such a pyrotechnic school of medicine.

The medicine man said that his own ous system was badly shattered for a long time, and his hands and face were fearfully scarred as evidence of his story, but if his appetito was at all injured he had more than recovered, for he was the most enormous eater, savage or civilized, that I ever saw in my life, and" could easily dispose of a deer ham at a lunch whenever he came around to repeat his story, which was gether too frequent but we luckily found a good plan of ridding ourselves of him by tho apparent careless handling of a powder can. Schwatka in Woman. Theatre Booths of Olden Times. The story of the rise of the drama to itspresent position of respectability certainly shows a remarkable number of hard knocks, and the reward won by perseverance and durance on the parts of the pioneers can notbe envied them. This is particularly true with regard to what was then generally nominated the strolling player, 'naveling then was not what it is now, and traveling in this country was not what it was in England.

There were "stocks," or permanent nies, just as there were in the earlier days on this side of the water, but there also was found the strolling player in all his glory. The appearance of the old caravans, then a familiar sight, would now be a distinguished. novelty. This old English plan was known as the booth. The caravan of those days had very much the appearance of the present circus street parade.

The wagons were planned differently inside, but there was no marked outward difference between them and the circus wagon. In these wagons the companies traveled, slept and played. They were made so that the ends and sides would let? down, forming a temporary theatre. When the company made a stand, the wagons were placed in such position that they would form an inclosure, and over these was stretched a canvas a floor could be put in, at an elevation, and also a swinging gallery, presenting a complete theatre, provided with seats similar to those now used in the circus. The number of tho wagons depended on the size and financial condition of the company.

The business was largely conducted on tho commonwealth or co-operative plan, though there were a few managers who employed players and became responsible for all gations. The ordinary company was posed of twelve to fifteen persons, with one to half a dozen or more wagons, each drawu by four to six horses. Such companies would put on plays of the character of'Macbeth and Hamlet, while Richard III was a great favorite. These they would present without any scenic or mcchanical assistance, bv.t with iSarked ability. Some of the best actors the world has ever known started out in tliis.

them Gustavus Brooke, mund Kean and Louis GlobeDemocrat. Dr. Coan on Proper Clothing. pr. Coan spoke of this go-as-you-pleaso climate, and said that proper clothing was one of the greatest precautions to health.

The scheme ought to be how to keep warm ar.d not too warm, and to vary the weight of tho underclothing worn not by the month or son, but according to the temperature of the day. If one dresses too warmly in the dog days the skin becomes tender, and then when the fafll and winter blasts strike him he goes down before pneumonia. To go without coats like the Anglomaniacs is equally hardy, because the frame is weakened and then comes bronchitis and pneumonia. The doctor thought that every man who could afford it should follow the Duke of ton, who had thirteen out the right one every day and lived to be 84 years old. Woolens and flannels, no matter as to the color, are the only underclothing we should wear, and all of us should havo three thicknesses.

In the winter they retain the heat after it has left the body, and in the summer they absorb the perspiration and permit it to gradually York Sun. The Contents of Tour Stomach. Just for the fun of it examine your ach and its possibilities. Take a huge glass receptacle and put into it precisely what you put into your stomach. Throw in your morning cocktail, your oat meal, your flsh and bacon, your buttered roll, your coffee, your water, your four or five drinks of whiskey during the morning hours, your pigsfoot and ale, with bread and butter, your drink or so during the noon, your hearty dinner, oysters, soup, fish, roast, vegetables, sweets, claret, bread, champagne, a few nuts and half a dozen raisins and a little bit of cheese.

Add to it two or three drinks taken during the ing while at the theatre, and top it all off with your Welsh rarebit and nightcap, ing it for examination (and study) on the lowing day. What in New York Map "111 Theatres' and Their The theatres of England number 250 and llfSfill they give employment to 15,000 r'i There are in the United States about 4,400 playhouses, giving employment to an army. The sums paid for amusements in this coun- Wwm try aggregate $1,000,000 a day, but managers complain that most of this goes to tbe Opinion. 1W toiS.