The Norman Transcript. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, July 14, 1899 Page: 2 of 8
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KILLARINEY LAKE8 FOR SALE.
TO JOURNEY ALONE.
Beautiful and world famous, the
Lakes of Killarney, with their sur-
rounding woods, meadows, hills and
valleys, are for sale, and in peril of
becoming private property, says the
New York Herald. This fact has sent
a thrill of fear to the heart of every
loyal IrUh-AnierU'an citizen, especial-
ly those who have visited the historic
chain of waters, and who have lived in
the hope that beautiful and romautlc
strongly favoring the movement, and
the concensus of opinion was that
there would be no difficulty in raising
enough mom y to purchase the prop-
erty and insure its preservation as a
national Irish park.
It is stated that that portion of the
beautiful l.ike offered for sale embraces
about 13,000 acres, which can be
bought for $ I.">0,000.
One gentleman said: "I will sub-
ings in their original condition. Let
every true lover of his mother country
put his shoulder to the wheel and
make Killarney Park, Ireland, a last-
ing monument of his remembrance. I
am heartily in favor of such a plan,
and I am ready to contribute what-
ever amount is considered to be my
share to insure its success, whether it
is $1,000 or more."
sentenced him to fifteen days' impris-
onment.
Sardonic- Humor.
From the Sing Sing Prison Paper,
Star of Hope: The state takes under
its special protection none but thQse
who merit it by their character. It is
certainly remarkable how well we en-
dure our confinement, considering how
everybody in the world that we were
PADEREWSKI WILL NOT BE
TEMPTED BY CUPID.
Chs Humor Keccutly Circulated Founded
Oil Divorce tune— lie Is More In-
terested In Agriculture Than He Is In
Marriage.
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Killarney would ever be a spot free
to all who cared to go and see.
Practically the whole of Killarney
district, which is owned by the Earl of
Kanmare and Mr. Herbert of Muck-
ross, has been placed in the hands of
their Dublin solicitors for sale, and al-
ready private capital has been Inter-
ested In Its purchase. In a few weeks
the mansion house and desmesne will
lie offered for sale to the highest bid-
der.
Irish-Americans have been awaken-
ed to the meaning of a private sale of
Killarney, and it has been suggested
that Irishmen by popular subscription
purchase that most valuable asset of
the kingdom of Ireland—Killarney—
maintain it as a national park for the
people of Ireland, and thereby perpet-
uate the world wide interest that has
centered about Muckross Abbey, Din-
Ish island, the Tore waterfall and the
Gap.
The plan has met with pronounced
approval thus far. Several prominent
scribe $1,000 or
5,000 If necessary
to insure the suc-
cess of such an un-
dertaking, and I
know of several
others who will
gladly do like-
wise."
Another declared
it to be a capital
idea, and contin-
ued: "By all means
let the Irish-Amer-
icans preserve the historic in-
terest of beautiful Killarney. I
will do all in my power to aid a
movement to make the place a nation-
al park presented to the people of Ire-
land and maintained by the purchasers
of the historic spot. There should be
no hesitancy on the part of any Irish-
; American citizen to help such a grand
I movement, for many of our younger
i folk will want to visit this romantic
country in years to come, and the only
Irish-Americans who were interviewed j way to make such visits possible is to
on the subject expressed themselves a.s | preserve the lakes and their surround-
THE UMBRELLA'S STORY.
It Is Thought to He Thousands of
Years Did.
The umbrella Is of very ancient ori-
gin, says the Woman's Home Compan-
ion. It is found in designs on Greek
end Etruscan vases, and is traced back
to ancient Egypt, the mother of arts
Its first use was undoubtedly to protect
from the burning rays of the tropical
sun; its Latin derivation is from um-
bra, a shade. The English got the
umbrella from France, and the first
man who carried this rain protection
in England was Joseph Haiiway, who
began the practice when a young man
and continued it until his death in
1784. Hanway was famous in his day
as a philanthropist, but he is remem-
bered now quite as much for his per-
sistence in carrying an umbrella, and
beating down the prejudice against the
use of it, as for any of his purely ben-
eficent deeds. When Hanway died, all
the people in England were carrying
umbrellas, and they have been carry-
ing them ever since. Indeed, nowadays
England would not seem England
Only the Dumb Really Safe.
A sharp watch over the tonguo is
necessary in Germany nowadays,where
a careless remark easily brings the
speaker under the heavy hand of the
law. Only the other day a workman
attending his father's funeral was ov-
ercome with grief as he turned away
from the grave and sobbed out: "Fare-
well, we shall never meet again." His
words were reported to the magistrate,
who summoned the workman for an
outrage against public morals by de-
nying the immortality of the soul and
without the ever-present umbrella.
Though the umbrella came from the
Bast, reaching first Italy, then Spain
and France, and afterward England
and Germany, the pendulum now is
swinging back again, and late com-
mercial statistics show that the city
of Paris is exporting 600,000 umbrel-
las annually to Turkey, while in Eng-
land in one year 819,000 umbrellas were
manufactured for shipment to Burma.
Indian bats measure six feet across
the wings.
chased from is enjoined to take
plenty of exercise and live as
much as possible in the open
air.
Of course you've heard this
before. Once upon a time a lit-
tle girl visited this place with
her mother, and, seeing a lone
"con" strolling thro' the yard
(a rare sight then, as now), ex-
claimed, "Oh, look! There goes
a tame one!" But this little
joke, ancient as it is, tickled me
into a laugh when I had six
and six staring me in the face.
The authors of "My Excessive
Sentence," "A Victim of Mere Circum-
stance," "Falsely Accused," "tile
Keeper's Inhumanity," and other pessi-
mistic articles written for the Star of
Hope, who have threatened to discon-
tinue their contributions unless the
above-mentioned articles are published
at once, will no doubt be surprised to
learn, using the language of the ' con,"
that "there are others," and we do not
believe that in the multiplicity of
choice our readers will beg for their
tales of woe.
C'O.WiCT NO. 1509.
Costliest Tomb.
The most magnificent tomb in the
world is the Taj Mahal in Agra, Hin-
doostan. It was erected by Shah Je-
han to the memory of his favorite
queen. It is octagonal in form, of pure
white marble, inlaid with jasper, cor-
nelian, turquoise, agate, amethysts,
and sapphires. The work took 22,000
men twenty years to complet*, and
though there were free gifts and la-
bor was free the cost was $16,500,000.
The average whale yields 2,000 gal-
lons of oil.
The latest rumor of Ignace Paderew-
Bki's marriage had as little foundation
as the various reports of his engage-
ment to the American women he met
oil his visit to this country three years
ago. His relations with the Gorski
family have long been well known. His
invalid son lived with the Polish vio-
linist and his wife during the years
that followed the death of his mother,
and he has been their intimate friend,
at times making his home with tbem
when in France.
When Mme. Gorski and her husband
were divorced, there was no change in
the famous pianist's relations with the
family, and his son has lived with
Mme. Gorski recently, and her life has
been in a large measure devoted to the
care of him. It is not believed by any
of the pianist's friends in New York
that he has been married secretly or
in any other way to Mme. Gorski, who
PADEREWSKI.
Is somewhat older than he. The rumor
of his engagement to a New York
woman was so persistently reported
three years ago that her father had to
make a formal denial of it, says the
New York Sun.
As a matter of fact, the acquaintance
between the two was slight. The pian-
ist has little more taste for society
than the average musician of his em-
inence. His only appearances in that
way during the recent visit to London
were in the drawing room of a man of
wealth, when he received $5,000 for his
contribution to the program of a musi-
cale and at the farm of a titled agricul-
turist.
He is more interested in agriculture
than in anything else save his profes-
sion. One of the mistaken reports con-
cerning his American tour is the state-
ment that he is to receive $250,000 from
a manager here for 40 concerts. Ever
since his first tour here the pianist has
come on his own responsibility, and
will continue to do so in the future.
Paderewski is now at his Poland es-
tate. He was hastily summoned there
by his lawyer as a consequence of the
defalcations of one of his principal
clerks, whose books show a deficit of
several thousand pounds.
CARDINALS.
LARGEST BUILDING IN THE WORLD,
K
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Tope I,eo Has Seen 134 Die In His
Pontificate.
Rome Correspondence London Lead-
er: The Romans have a popular tra-
j dition which, curiously enough, is often
confirmed by facts, that when a mem-
ber of the Sacred College dies two of
his colleagues quickly follow him. At
a few days' distance two Cardinals,
Bausa, Archbishop of Florence, and
Krementz, Archbishop of Cologne,
have departed this life, and now good
Romans are quite in a flutter of ex-
pectation speculating with cheerful
resignation as to which Torporato will
be third. Apropos of the death of Car-
dinals, it is a curious fact that the
most likely candidate to the tiara, such
as the late Monaco la Valletta, Galim-
berti, Di Rende, Sanfelice, appear to
have been specially singled out by
death during the pontificate of I,eo
I XIII., no fewer than 124 Cardinals hav-
ing died during the 21 years of his
reign. Indeed only four of the Car-
dinals created by Pius IX. survive, and
I Bhould they precede the aged Pontiff
into the tomb, Leo XIII, will be able
to say to his Cardinals, a3 Urban VIII.
did: "Non vos elegistis me, sed ego
elegi vos." (It is not you who chose
me, but I who chose you.) There are
now 16 vacancies in the Sacred College.
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The above is a correct picture of the Chicago Coliseum, which is being erected on the sile of the old Libby prison. It is 352 feet long and 172 feet
In wkith, or al feet longer anl II feci wider I iar. Madison Square Oarden in New York. It is likely that the next national conventions, Democratic and
Republican, wiil be held with -i the walls of the Chicago building. It will ea.'lly seat 60,000 persons.
Aluminum In the Kitchen.
A recent investigation in Germany
of the suitability of aluminum for
oiug utensils raises the question
whether any danger attends the use
of such vessels. While aluminum is
but slightly affected by weak acids
when they are pure, it is rapidly at-
tacked in the presence of sodium
chloride by sulphur dioxide, acetic
acid, and even alum. But says Sci-
ence, it remains a mooted question
whether the amount dissolved would
do injury to the system. Experiments
indicate that aluminum salts have a
somewhat detrimental effect on diges-
tion; yet on the other hanu, alum wa-
ter Is often beneficial to health.
A Clone OiU'Ktion.
Dick—Isn't it always good to have a
flose friend? Jack—Not always. Sup-
pose you want a loan for a few days.
Do you think a close friend would be
the one to approach?
STRONG DRINK
Saved the Life of a Woman Palling
Sixty Feet. *
New York Tribune: Falling a dis
tance of five floors, fully 60 feet or
more, and through a skylight scarce,
ly wide enough to admit her body,
Mrs. Kate Hayes, 35 years old, of No.
235 East Sixty-seventh street, landed
on the ground last night, receiving
only some minor scratches to .show for
her trip. But the whole neighborhood
knew what happened within a short
time. The woman's screams in part,
the crashing of breaking glass and the
shouts of the rescuers broke the silence
of the Sunday afternoon and a large
crowd gathered quickly to assist in the
rescue. Mrs, Hayes, her husband, a
small child and a boarder live on the
fifth floor of No. 235. Between their
tenement house and No. 237 there Is
an open space of six feet or there-
abouts. In this latter space Theodora
Cowes, a real estate man, has con-
structed a temporary offlce building ol
corrugated iron, not more than 5xli
and only a story high. The office ia
lighted by a skylight 2x7 feet in length
a mere slit of glass In the Iron roof.
All that is positively known is that
Mrs. Hayes came through that sky-
light, and came fast, as if she had a
long start. She was found lying on
the floor screaming at the top of her
voice, and the door of the real estate
offlce had to be smashed in before she
could be taken out. She was cut about
the head, and has a gash in her left
leg, but more than that she escaped
She was taken to Flower hospital. The
doctors say her injuries are trivial
They say Mrs. Hayes had evidently
been drinking, and the relaxation ol
the muscles incidental to indulgence
in stimulants, they declare, is responsi-
ble for her escape from instant death.
STATUE OF CEN. ARTHUR.
The statue of the late President
Chester A. Arthur, which has just been
unveiled in New York, is one of the
best creations of Sculptor George E,
Bissell. The monument is, in its ex- 4
treme measurement, seventeen feet
eight inches high. The bronze figure
itself is nine feet high. Mr. Bissell
portrays Arthur standing and in an at-
titude as if he were about to begin a
speech. Behind the figure is a Greek
chair, from which the president has
apparently just arisen. Over one arm
of the chair is a drapery suggesting
the toga which, as president of the
senate, Mr. Arthur might have worn.
The pedestal is of gray marble highly
polished and devoid of ornament save
for bronze wreaths on the sides. Ou
the front block is this inscription:
"Chester Alan Arthur, Twenty-first
President of the United States of
America." The donors of the monu-
ment are eminent New York citizens,
among whom are Cornelius Bliss and
Levi P. Morton. The statue is at the
northeast corner of Madison Square,
and faces south. The pedestal was de-
signed by James Brown Lord Th<\_
dedication Tuesday was attended by a
large number of persons, Including
Mrs. John E. McElroy, a sister of 4
President Arthur, who presided at the
White House during his term; Gen.
and Mrs. Howard Carroll, Miss Masten,
President Arthur's niece; former
Mayor William L. Strong, Gen. G. H.
Sharpe, Charles E. Tiffany, Warner
Miller, Elihu Root, Cornelius N. Bliss
and George W. Lyons. Mr. Bliss pre-
sided. The statue was formally pre-
sented to the city by Mr. Root, who
made an eloquent address eulogistic of
President Arthur. At the conclusion
of the address all in the inclosure
arose, McElroy unveiled the statue by
4j . >■
drawing a cord and loosing the Amer-
ican flag, whose folds had hidden the
handsome pile. The statue was accept-
ed on behalf of the city by Randolph
Gugenheimer, president of the council,
in a brief address.
busi-
The Main Thing to I.earn.
"To make a success at this
ness," saiii the experienced traveling
salesman, "there is one particular fea-
ture at which you should strive to be-
come an expert." "And what is that?"
anxiously asked the young drummer.
It is to be able to explain satisfac-
torily to the firm when you come in
off of a bad trip just why you haven't
sold more goods,"—Ohio Journal
Overdoing it.
"They say that Porkins loved
liia
neighbor as ho did himself." "He ,11,1
more than that. He loved bis nelgh-
3 e anJ sot a horsewhipping."
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