El Reno Daily Eagle. (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 4, Ed. 1 Monday, September 23, 1895 Page: 2 of 4
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DAD AND THE NEW DOG. I HE RACED FOR LIFE- THE BATTLE OF RIVOLI. AN unsolved problem.
An Incident Which To aches a
Number of Lessons.
CURE AND CARDINAL.
lion n Young PrlMt of I.yon* Hose to
!lll*li Honor* In 111* Church.
About the year 1827 ft young priest of
the diocese of Lyons was appointed to
a parish bountifully situated in the mid-
dle of a deep valley. In a short time
lie succeeded in winning the love and
veneration of all. Meek and gentle in
manner, sympathetic and self-sacrific-
ing. he was ever ready to help those
in distress of mind and body, sharing
generously his modest income with the
poor. No wonder that he became the
closest friend and counsellor of all his
pn risli loners.
One morning, soon after daybreak,
the violent ringing of the church hells
warned the villagers that some danger
threatened. A reservoir, swollen by
heavy rains, had burst its dams, and
the torrent swept down ’lie valley to-
ward the village, foreing its way into
the houses, and marking its path by
destruction. The good priest, who had
been spending the night at the bedside
of a dying man, was the first to organ-
ize a plan of rescue, and his calm de-
meanor and presence of mind restored
courage and confidence to the fright-
ened villagers.
Suddenly a heart-rending scream was
heard from afar. The flood had dashed
with overwhelming force against a
cottage standing at the extreme end
of the village, and already the waters
hud risen to the roof, upon which a
woman with two small children had
taken refuge. The torrent surged
round the walls of the hut, which j
threatened every moment to give way i
and bury mother and children in the
flood. How was assistance to reach
them? Every heart was paralyzed
with fear. Anxiety had risen to the
highest pitch, when the cure was seen
plunging into the torrent, mounted on
* horse hastily borrowed from a neigh-
bor. It seemed as if the waters would
iverwheltn both horse and rider, i
Hut the brave priest’s courage never
failed: he kept his seat, and
with skilful hand guided the* strug-
gling animal to the cottage. Taking
the children in liis arms, he plunged
again Into the flood, and soon depos-
ited his burden in safety.
Once .more the noble priest stemmed
the wild torrent, in spite of the en-
treaties of his flock, who implored
him not to expose himself to certain
death. “Pray for me!” lie answered
as he turned again into the flood. Men
and women fell on their knees, implor-
ing the assistance of Heaven in be-
half of their beloved pastor. When ho
reached the cottage an unearthly
crash was heard. The structure had
given way, but not before the priest
ha«l caught the woman and had headed
once more for the hills.
Henceforth the love and veneration
of the villagers for their priest was
boundless. In their eager desire to
testify their gratitude they conceived
a strange and original method of ex-
pressing their feelings. A short time
after tin* occurrence they assembled to
elect the crew of a lifeboat that was
newly built. With one accord they
named their cure as captain. In vain
the latter protested, saying that a
priest could not accept such an ofliee;
they refused to listen to such objec-
tion, declaring that the prefect
had the affair in hand, and that
their pastor should settle with
him—they would not relent.
The matter was brought before the
officers of the administration, but none
of them would undertake to decide
such a strange question. At last the
minister of the interior was appealed
to, and he considered the affair suffi-
ciently novel and interesting to he laid
before the king. Charles X. expressed
a desire to know the priest who was
so beloved by bis people, and, as a re-
sult, the devoted clergyman was j
shortly afterward appointed coadju-
tor-bishop of llordeaux. and in 18.VJ
was raised to the dignitary of car
dinal.
The priest to whom his flock thus tes-
tified their love and veneration was
the late Cardinal Archbishop Donuel
—Ava Maria.
IYIimI lit* I'romlie or.
"Augh-waugh!”
It was the baby. He had repeated
the remark sixty times in the past
hour.
Mr. Newleigh's hair, such as it was,
stood on end.
**11 wow aliwb wowdgwow filaugfl”
added the baby, while people living
ucross the street got up and closed their
windows.
Mr. Newleigh took a whetstone out
of the table drawer and ground his
teeth.
“To think,” he groaned, burying his
face in the pillows, “that I should
grow up to become the father of a
I'nion depot train crier.”—N. V. Re-
corder.
l'lMMry wml Ptom*.
Lieutenant (in Miss Emily’s private
sitting-room)—Emily, 1 cannot find ex-
pression for the feelings which agitate
my breast—1 love you! (Dropping on
his knees.) lie hold me lying here in
the dust lie fore You!
Emily—Hcg your pardon,lieutenant;
that is an insult. 1 dusted everything
myself only a minute ago!- Geillus-
trecid Zondagshlad.
Tommy'* Suomi.
Mrs. Cawlcer 1 am so glad that my
little hoy went to the head of his class
this morning. How did you come to
U»> it. Tommy.
Tommy- The rest of the fellows had
guessed nil the other ways of spelling
the word. —Judge.
The Lutherans took their name
from Martin Luther, who was horn in
H>»3, and died in 1540. At first the
name was used as a term of ridicule,
hut was adopte I by those to whom it
'was applied, and soon became a serious
designation.
Anions Other Thing* It Show* the Hail
|<e*ult* of Not Tultlng Hood Advice
at the Proper Time-A Mid-
night Tragedy.
When the Son warned the Sire that
he ought to get acquainted with the
new dog the Sire ignored the advice,
and in less than twelve hours lie most
heartily regretted it. According to the
St. Louis t»lobe Democrat it happened
in this way:
They lived in the Rock Church parish
of St. Louis, and not the least impor- !
tant member of the family is the
oldest hoy, who lias a fancy for
stray dogs, cats and other beasts,
lie is constantly bringing home sore-
eyed kittens and neglected and aban-
donded canines, only to have them
thrust out into the cold world through
the back alley gate. One day recently,
however, there fell into the young
man’s possession, in that mysterious
way in which some hoys will, in spite
of respectable parentage and proper
instruction, acquire property, a dog
that was different from other dogs that
he had rescued from a fate more or less
cruel. It was a good dog; never mind
the breed or pedigree. Hoy and dog
became the close * and most intimate,
not to say affectionate, friends almost
at the lirst meeting. The brute v.as
domiciled in the laundry f< r a few
nights, until he could become accus-
tomed to the place. At last it was de-
cided by the boy that the time was
ripe for giving the animal the freedom
of the yard. Then it was that the Sire
was warned by the Son:
“better come out is the yard, pop,
and get acquainted with, my d"g. lie’s
a mighty good watch d> and if In
doesn’t know you, you can’t get in when
you come home to-night.”
“Oh, I guess not. That <!*• * wouldn’t
bite meat unless you batten lit. He'll
never stay awake long enough to
watch anything. Just another of your
worthless strays.”
And so pop was not introduced to the
new dog.
It was midnight when the head of tin-
house arrived home from d*»wn-town,
where business had detained him. He
had no thought of a lion ii tin* way or
anything else to moles: or make him
afraid as In* approached the side porch,
key in hand. Hut the dog was there,
Kiiilro.iilt’r In Montuirt Unit a Close Call
with Indian Warrior*.
In August of 1800 I was running a
bull train between Helena and Fort
Benton, says tin* Sun River Sun. After
going about two miles I shot an old doe
antelope, accompanied by two fawns,
and I determined that I would have all
three of those animals, ami gave chase,
firing whenever I could get within
range, until I had exhausted my am
munition.
breech-loading guns. I finally got the
two fawns and tied them on behind my
Napoleon Said That His
Really Began Thoro.
Life
flic Short CnuipaiRn V.'ns th* Turning
l'olnt of tin* War, and Shaped th« His-
tory of T. a rope for Twenty Year*
Knot of the Austrians.
Impossible to Determine Which of the
Two Women Was Hullty.
| An old resident of Rochester recently |
I related un experience which illustrates
in a rather striking fashion the mean-
ness and dishonesty which persons es-
j teemed by the community will descend
| to when they consider themselves se-
cure from discovery, says the Roches-
1 ter Union.
“Some years ago,” he said, “I rc-
T’rof. Sloane’s Life of Napoleon in the
tary genius first won worldwide recog-
saddle and started to catch up with the ?*«“»• "luU"° tllUS de8CribeS U,e
-train." 1 was as much assix miles be batt,e of RlVolL
hind, without a cap or a bullet, only
two empty six-shooters and a rifle. I
noticed that my i addle pony kept turn-
ing to tin* left. Finally I looked over
that way myself, and could see the
head and shoulders of a person down in
the coulee. I spurred into a gallop,
At early dawn began the conflict
which was to settle the fate of Mantua.
The first fierce contest was between
the Austrian left and the French right
iit. St. Mark; but it quickly spread along
daughter of a friend of mine, which
puzzled me greatly. She stated that
she had run in debt to a considerable .
amount above her allowance and that |
several shopkeepers had threatened to
send their bills to her father unless
settlement should be made within a
certain time. She said she had been in ;
similar difficulties several times before
t he whole line as far ns laprino For (hut ,u.r father lm(l satisfied the
some time the Austrians had the ad-
<■ i"
■ vantage, and the result was in suspense,
I since the French left, at Caprino,
yielded for an instant before the on-
! slaught of the main Austrian army
uiudc in accordance with Alvinczy’s
THE HACK FOR LIFE.
and in a moment could see that there
were eight persons instead of one. and
also that they were Diegan Indians in
full war paint and feathers. They im-
mediately gave chase, and for the next
miles occurred oik* of the most ex-
citing ra *.*.» that I ever took part in.
Seeing that the weight of the fawns
was telling on the speed of my horse,
I cut them loose, and at the same time
creditors on her promising to incur no .
debts in the future. His anger on the ;
late occasion had been so great that
she feared to confess her straits and
turned to me as a family friend for
temporary assistance. The amount she
throw ii way rav ovc-ivoat, ami taking simultaneously there rushed from the
tin* ramrod" out of my rill.- I used it us u i opposite sides three French battalions,
whip and gained a little
suers,
was in
my pur-
first plan, ami. as he »«PPf « ask‘d fo'r was hundred dollars.
She begged me to put the money in an j
envelope and place it in a hook that
used to stand on a table in the ladies’ j
waiting-room of Powers’ hotel at
eleven o’clock on the following morn- j
ing.
“The request annoyed me exceeding- i
ly and I was in doubt whether it was
not my duty to inform my friend, who
was a wealthy merchant, of his daugh-
ter’s indiscretion. However, I decided
to comply with her request and give
her a little good advice at the lirst op-
portunity.
“The following morning I drew the ■
money in ten-dollar bills and was on j
my way to the hotel, when I met Miss
X--on the street. ‘I received your
note,’ I said. ‘My note,’she exclaimed
in astonishment. ‘I have written you
no note. But that reminds me that I
was going to write you. My mother
wishes you to dine with us next Mon-
day.’ I turned the matter off, and to i
this day Miss X--- is ignorant of the I
cause of my strange remark.
“I saw at once that some one had j
been forging her name, and stepping
into a private detective agency stated
the facts to a detective, lie advised
inferior force by one vastly superior in
numbers. Berthier, who by his calm
courage was fast rising high in his
commander’s favor, came to the rescue,
and Massena, following with a judg-
ment which has inseparably linked his
name with that famous spot, linally re-
stored order to the French ranks.
Every successive charge of the Aus-
trians was repulsed with a violence
which threw their right and center
back toward Monte Baldo in ever-grow-
ing confusion.
The battle waged for nearly three
hours before Alvinezy understood that
it was not Joubert’s division, but Bona-
parte's army, which was above him. In
his zeal he then pressed forward on
the plateau beneath the height to bring
more of his troops into action, and Jou-
bert somewhat rashly advanced to
check the movement, leaving the road
to St. Mark unprotected. The Aus-
trians, prompt to take advantage of
his blunder, charged up the hill, and
seized thT1 commanding position; but
clambering up to retrieve the mistake.
The hist tvv.. miles of the race | Their physical strength and nervous ^ ..... ............................
....... plain view of the train. The nativity brought them first to the top. me to put some slips of pnper in the en-
train halted, and I supposed that one a»'l again the storming columns were Te, an(, place |t in the book as di- I
.... , , . t lirruiMi hartlr m iIkhi'i i>r 1 1 ... .
if the* drivers would come to my as-
sistance, hut no relief came; they
dropped their whips and jaws at the
same* time and waved their hats and
hands and halloed “Run!” I was do-
ing the best I could. The Indians
chased me to within about one hundred
and fifty yards of the train, when Hob
Chestnut, now of the Chestnut valley,
came in sight from the direction of Sun
river and opened lire' on the Indians.
They stopped chasing me and ran the
other way. It never occurred to the
drivers that they had guns until after
Mr. Chestnut commenced firing.
and he made his presence manifest by a
war-like demonstration. Hater familias
paused, and there flashed across his
mind the boy’s warning. He sought to
open negotiations, but the dog wouldn't
negotiate. Then bluffing was tried,
but it didn’t work. The dog. after the
first tumultuous asserti a of his pres-
ence by bark of mouth, planted him-
self squarely on top of the porch steps,
and kept liis eye on the intruder.
Every effort to advance was met with a
growl so ominous that it was prohibit-
ive. lie was simply barred out of his
own house aud forced to heat a retreat.
Driven from tin* side door, the only
one to which he had a key, the next
best thing was to yank the bell at the
front door. This was done with energy
and perseverance, hut it failed to
arouse the sleeping inmates. A recon-
naissance of the side yard was made.
Tlu* dog was still there, and very
wide awake. Again the bell, but to
no good purpose. Then the head
of the house sat down on the front
steps, and for half an hour beat
his brains to a froth trying to
devise a scheme to get in. Then lie lost
his temper and began an assault on tin*
front door that seemed to shake the
verv foundation stones of the house.
The gentleman across tlu* street raised
his window and asked what was wanted.
The dog t lot ted around the side of the
house and took a position where lie
could watch proceedings. Still every-
body in the house slept soundly. An-
other assault on the door brought forth
a growl from the dog. and the windows
of three houses across the street went
up, and three night-capped heads con-
ferred as to who: e house was being
burglarized. The shade trees concealed
tlu* disturber, but did not top his ear.,
to the comments of hi. neighbors. The
dog drew nearer, but didn’t bark; lie
just growled. The muii ■ at down again
on tin* step. For another half hour
man and beast eyed each other. De-
spair and desperation battled in the
breast of the loeked-out, dog-besieged
man. Desperation triumphed. He de-
scended from his place on the front
steps, with one eye on tlu* dog and the
other on a bit of limestone in the gut-
ter. The canine guardian of the prem-
ises allowed him to leave the yard. It
was tlu* work of a f w seeor. Is to send
that rock crashing through the second-
story window into bin wife's bedroom.
The jingling gla. s awoke everybody on
the block not previously aroused, and
prospect were good for a riot call
being sounded, when a soft, low voice
inquired from the broken window:
"Did you forget your key?”
Well, he got in. But the next day he
got acquainted with the new dog.
All for III* W lilskcm.
A Minnesota man has sued a barber
for 1500 damages for ruining bis beard.
QUEER BROOKLYN GHOST.
A Valiant Copper Arrest* the Appuritiop
ami Is Surprised.
The occupants of the row of house?
on South Fifth street, near Wythe ave-
nue, Brooklyn, have maintained that
the roofs of the* houses were inhabited
at night by ghosts, and that their foot-
steps and uncanny sounds could be
plainly beard traveling to and fro.
The “ghosts,” says the New York
Times, became so annoying and the
residents so nervous that complaint
was made to the police. Tatrolmar
Hack of the Bedford avenue precinct,
who is brave and not afraid of any
ghost that ever walked, was assigned tc
look for the cause of the trouble.
Armed with a night stick and a re
volver. the policeman climbed to tlu
roof at midnight, Friday, followed by :»
dozen men.
Some one saw the “ghost” moving
around and the policeman went to have
a chat with it, but it suddenly vanished.
The policeman searched and at last
found the “ghost” lying down behind
one of tlu* chimneys. The “ghost” wan
dressed in woman’s attire.
Hack spoke to it. and in reply the
‘•ghost” said she was a woman, but had
■O ' IMI
thrown back in disorder.
At that instant appeared in Bona-
parte’s rear an Austrian corps estimated
by him as four thousand strong, w hich,
having come down the valley on the
loft bunk, had now crossed the river to
take the French right at Rivoli in its
rear. Had they arrived but a minute
sooner, the hill of Rivoli would have
been lost to the French. As it was, in-
stead of making an attack, they had to
await one*. Bonaparte directed a gall-
ing artillery fire against them, and
thus gained time both to reform his
ranks and to hold the newcomers in
cheek until his own reserve, coining in
from the next hamlet westward, cut
them entirely off from the retreating
columns of Alvinezy, and compelled
them to lay down their arms.
Thus ended the worst defeat and
most complete rout which the Austrian
arms had so far sustained. Such was
the litter demoralization of the flying
disintegrated columns that a young
French otlicer named Rene, who was in
command of fifty men at a hamlet on
Lake Garda, successfully imitated Bon-
aparte's ruse at Lonato, and displayed j
such an imposing confidence to a flying
troop of fifteen hundred Austrians that
they surrendered to what they believed |
to be a force superior to their own. j
Next morning at dawn, Murat, who
had marched all night to gain the
point, appeared on the slopes of Monte
Baldo above the pass of Corona, and
united with Massena and Joubert to
drive tin* Austrians from their last foot-
rected. This I did, and the officer took
a position where he could note every-
one who entered or left the room.
“During the next hour two women '
entered the room at different times,
both of whom were known to me. One
was the wife of an intimate friend, who
held a high position in the social life of
the town, and was generally noted for
her liberality and generous disposition, j
The other was an unmarried woman i
bordering on the thirties, who was con- ,
spieuous for her zeal in charitable
works and her energy in educational
reforms. Bach of these women was
alone in the room for some minutes,
and when they both had departed the
envelope had been taken from the book.
One of them was guilty of as mean and
dishonorable an act as can readily be
conceived of, an act which but for a
luclcj’ chance would have put an inno-
cent girl in a most trying position. I
often meet these women, but which it
was who wrote the letter I have never
been able to determine nor even suspect 1
in my own mind.”
GIRLS’ COLLEGES.
Wherein the English Iiistlintion* Lx cel
Those of Amerlra.
A defect in the college life of Amer-
ican girls that must be noted, says a
writer in the English National Observer,
isthis:“The arrangements are too much
after the fashion of a boarding school,
and do not allow sufficient scope for the
development of individual character,
hold. The pursuit was continued as The girls^are expected to retire to bed
far as Trent. Thirteen thousand pris- at a certain fixed hour, and to take a
oners were captured in those two days. 1 definite amount of exercise each day;
This short campaign of Rivoli was and—a more serious feet—they do not
the turning point of the war, and may each have a separate study. Where the
be said to have shaped the history of students • board out, which is the case
Europe for twenty years. Chroniclers in most of the mixed universities and
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dwell upon those few moments at the
i hill above the plateau of Rivoli, and
| wonder what the result would have
| been if the last Austrian corps had ar-
! rived five minutes sooner. But an ac-
! curate and dispassionate criticism
; must decide that every step in Bona-
| parte's success was won by careful fore-
I thought, and tlu* most effective dispo-
I sit ion of t he forces at his command. So
I sure was hi* of success that even in the
some of the women's colleges, they
share the life of the family they join;
hut where, as at Yassar, halls of resi-
dence are provided two or three bed-
rooms to one study are the usual rule.
At Oxford or Cambridge every woman
student has at least one room to her-
self, arranged with much ingenuity as
a bedroom study; here she works, med-
itates or idles as she likes, receives her
friends, and, mistress of her time, en-
1 liu “OlIOST DISCOVERED.
1 drank a little too much, and had gone
to tlu* roof t*» sleep it off.
She was taken to the station house,
followed by a large crowd. At tlu* sta
■ tion bouse she removed a heavy veil. It
was then seen that she hud a heavy
beard.
“1 am Mary Overton,” she said, “and
1; * -, ;;; 4 os Fourth avenue, Now York.”
She was locked up on a charge of va-
grancy. She was arraigned before Jus-
tice Ilarriman and released.
The woman told tlu* justice that she
I had been the bearded woman of Bar-
: mini's show for years.
\ ( minim; I'roiuli Physician.
crises when Massena seemed to save ! joys the independence and solitude
the day on the left, and when tlu* Aus- I which are too often entirely absent
trains seemed destined to wrest victory from the everyday lift* of the average
’ * ... . .. middle-class girl. Under these influ-
ences she quickly develops sobriety and
self-command, which are tlu* best cor-
rective of giddiness or of what a past
generation entitled comprehensively
‘vapors;’ while the social life of the
college, with its clubs, entertainments
and debates, suffices to cheek any
from defeat at the last moment on the
right, lie was self-reliant and cheerful.
The new system of field operations had
a triumphant vindication at the hands
of its author.
The conquering general meted out
unstinted praise t * * his invincible squad-
rons and their leaders, hut said noth-
ing of himself, leaving the world to
judge whether this was man or demon,
who, still a youth, and within a pub-
lic career of but one season, had humili-
ated tho proudest empire on the conti-
nent. had subdued Italy, and on her
soil had erected states unknown be-
fore. without tlu* consent of any great
power, not excepting his own. It is
not wonderful that this personage
should sometimes have said of himself:
tendency that may exist to turn the
student into a hermit.”
lluriHl Service* Over a Mi»*R of Steel
One of the strangest coffins ever told
of is that for which the British war de-
partment is said to be responsible. The
story is that a workman engaged in
casting metal for the manufacture of
ordnance in the Woolwich arsenal lost
his balance and fell into a caldron con-
taining twelve tons of molten steel.
I "Say that my life began at Rivoli,'
I at other times lie dated his military ; The metal was at white heat and tlu*
career from Toulon. man was utterly consumed in less time
-------- than it takes to tell it. The war dc-
rorgeru** That Never Como to i.tcht. | purtment authorities held a conference
“I believe."said a country banker, and decided not to profane the dead by
“that at least five per cent, of all notes using the metal in the manufacture of
that go through our banks art* forger- | ordnance, and the muss of metal was
. it s. There is a curiously loose notion actually buried anil a Church of Eng-
I-'” <>"• *•* ^ry.nna affain ! inn.i HorPv,nan road the service, for
,, , i,il# .ii.., ,,,,,.15 and again l have had men propose to the deud over it.
makin p himself amenuble to tlie meal- * 1 *. ,,
: . .................i,„^uinrt i,„ I sign to a note the name of a neighbor
who was at un inconvenient distance.
In such eases it was well known that
tlu* man whose name was to be forged
was willing to go upon the note, but I
have no doubt tbut wealthy men’s
names are constantly used upon notes nese commander and said:
that they never saw. The notes are1 ' .....1
taken up by the payee and nothing is
heard of the forgery. For every such
forgerv detected there arc many thul
never come to light.”
eal rule forbidding advertising, lie
hired a man to unnouncc throughout
the town that he had lost a valuable
dog, and that anyone returning it
would receive a reward of one thousand
francs. Tlu* lost dog was only a fig-
ment of his imagination; but tho pub-
lic didn’t know that, and, arguing that
he must be a skillful physician to have
made so much money, patients flocked
to his office.
A «Jok«*.
An echo of the war between Japan
tint! China is the statement thutnJup-
ttncftii scout fell Into the har.fi, of the
Chinese. His captors went tothet'hi-
'tienerul, we have captured a Japan-
ese spy."
"What luck!" exclaimed the gen-
eral; "perhaps he cun telltne where my
army is!"
TIPPING THE OCEAN.
Cbanee to tlm Level I’roduced l>T the
Earth*. Rotation.
The discovery that the axis of the
earth is not fixed in direction, but that
it swinps round in ' uch a way as tc
reuse the north polo itself to revolve
once in every fourteen months round a
circle ten yards iu diameter, is now
generally accepted as an established
fact. '
It is evident that sucli a wobbling of
the earth’s axis of rotation, small
though it be, must produce some effect
upon tho level of the ocean at its shores,
and un examination of the very careful
records, which have been kept fot
more than forty years, of the height of
the tide in the canal at Holder, in Hoi-’
land, was recently made for ttie pur-
pose of determining whether such an
effect could he perceived.
The result of the examination showed
that the average level of the water had
varied with great regularity, in a re-
curring period of fourteen months, ever
since the tide records were begun in
1851.
The inference is that this regular
change of level must be due to tho
swinging round of the axis of the earth.
The amount by which the level changes
—a little less than five-eighths of an
inch—also corresponds to the calcu-
lated change that should result from
the supposed cause.
So we are gradually learning to ap-
preciate how delicately the ponderous
earth is poised as it swings in Its vast
orbit round the sun, and how even the
mighty ocean responds to the slightest
tipping this way and that of the great
axis of the globe.
THE CZAR'S LAST GIFT.
An Instance of tho Tnoughtflllnc.s of the
I .ate Emperor of Ku**la.
A pathetic story comes from Russia
of the late emperor’s tender regards for
the wishes of his wife. Last summer
the emperor and empress visited a
great shop in St. Petersburg to select
some jewels for their son’s future bride.
The empress saw a beautiful bracelet,
and expressed great admiration for it,
and remarked laughingly to her hus-
band that she must purchase it some-
time. Shortly after their return to the
palace the czar was seized with one of
those serious attacks of illness to which
he was subject, and the empress forgot
the bracelet.
The emperor died, and to the empress
in the early days of her widowhood
came a birthday, the first anniversary
which she must pass alone. On her
other birthdays the czar had been
wont to place a bouquet in the morn-
ing-room of the empress. Inside the
flowers was always folded some rich,
rare gift, chosen months beforehand.
The empress had avoided the room as
too full of painful memories, but this
morning, the morning of bis wedding
day. Nicholas requested his mother to
go there us a favor to him.
The first thing she saw there was the
bouquet in its usual place, and inside
the flowers was a case fastened and
scaled by the czar’s own hands. It
contained the bracelet. He had ordered
it on the same day that the empress
saw it. and on his deathbed had given
instructions for the birthday gift, bid-
ding his son to be near to comfort her
when she received it.
A FOOLHARDY FEAT.
Tho Thrilling i’erformiince of a Travel**t
In Ceylon.
In one of the wilder parts of Ceylon
there is a famous statue of Buddha
nearly fifty feet in height, carved from
the face of a cliff in such a way that
only two slender ties at the back main-
tain its attachment to tlu* living stone.
In connection with this statue a strange
story of foolhardiness is told by Sir
William Gregory, formerly governor <d
Ceylon.
“I mounted tho rock from which the
image was carved, and found it to be
three or four feet above the top of the
statue's bead. Mr. Adams, a man re
markable for his activity and nerve,
told me of a feat he performed here
many years ago, while assistant agent
in this district.
“lie actually took it into his head tc
jump from the top of the cliff to the
head of the statue. Even if the head
had been of the ordinary shape, there
would have been only the smallest
standing ground; but the legend of
Buddha gives him a somewhat sloping
head, with a sharp topknot.
“On tivis slope Mr. Adams alighted.
Tie had then to turn round without any
support, and jump up two or three feet
to reach the rock again. He found hi?
nerve failing, but at last made a des-
perate effort, and just reached the ledge
from which he had sprung when he
was seized and pulled up by un attend-
ant.
“The very thought of such a feat
makes me giddy. There is not tlu* least
doubt of the truth of the story.”
SWALLOWED HIS BATON.
French Drum Major Who Introduced v
New Art.
A decidedly unique variation of a
drum major's usual performance when
on review occurs in one of the French
regiment -of the line or, rather, did
occur for the colonel of that regiment
lias now put down his fool and issued o
positive fiat, that his subordinate shall
henceforward coniine himself to ortho-
dox tricks.
The musical leader in question, say#
the New York World, had at one period
of his life been a mountebank, and evi-
dently a good one, for, after practicing
i in secret a number of times, lie aston-
ished the regiment, drawn up in review
j one day. by suddenly throwing his
' stick high in air, catching it in his
mouth upon its descent, and swallow-
; ing fully half of it. Having accom-
plished this gastronomic diversion, he
: stood for n moment while tin* specta-
tors gazed in awed amazement, and
then disgorged the half of the baton
which lu* had swallowed and continued
i his march down the line.
He repeated this trick a good many
I times and tlu* regiment was very proud
j of him, but it brought it such un un-
I enviable reputation that the colonel
finally hud to stop him. Now Ids per-
formance is thoroughly conventional.
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