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I V majority of people die BOonetJhfin ihey should. Evidence of this fact is grow mg daily. Waring says: " Disease is not a •on^uence of life u it is due to unnatural •oriiitions of living—neglect, abuse, want." l»r. Stephen Smith, on the same snbjeet-*.Mau is born to health and long life; dis­ease is unnatural, death, except from old tx in accidental, and both are preventable

by human agencies." This is1 almost invari-.t>lr true of death resulting from heatt dis­ease ('arrkws ov>r-esejlirtn. intemperate nut of tea, mfiee, tobacco, alcoholic or other -tiiuulants are generally the causes of this Uitficuliv, and indifference to itsprogress re-«u.ts in sudden death, or long sickness end-ug in death By the newspapers it can be von that many prominent and hundreds oi per-ons in ) rivate life die from heart die-«aj-e every day

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MM PROM GOTBAM. AN INTERESTING POLITICAL

VERSION SV A WOMAN. Di-

A Campaign Against Universal Suffrage - » r , DeVesSey and Her Views—The Police Investigation—The War on Tam­many, and Ita Prospects.

Special New York Letter. In vipw of the T<ery persistent de­

mand for equal rights for women that is now being urged everywhere, In the press, the forum, and to society. It takes a rather plncky sort, of person to stand up and defend man's right to the exclusive enjoyment of political power. Yet there is such a person In this city, and she is a woman.

For the past dozen years or so Dr. Marie L. De Vessey has devoted her­self to combatting the universal suf­frage idea. Dr. De Vessey is ao^ ad­vanced woman herself in one respect. She is an educated physician. She is

Dr. Marie L. De Vessey.

thoroughly in earnest in opposing the suffrage hobby. For several years past she has visited neighboring citie«. seeking interviews with clergymen, and pointing out to them the dangers to religion and morality that she be­lieves will follow the advent of wo­man In politics.

She has now begun the work of or­ganizing anti-suffrage elubs in vari­ous cities. The general name of the i-Jubs is "The Xon-Suflfragie Associa­tion of American Women," and there will soon be a general convention of i j«- clubs, and an aggressive campaign will be organized against the suffrage jisters.

Dr. De Vessey's general idea is that man was partienlarly designated ay the Creator as the guardian of so­ciety and provider for the home, and he was given the strength and courage to tit him for those duties. She argues that the demand of woman for poli­tical power is an attempt to rob man of the caste which Almighty God has •uost truly vested in him, and which .-he highest development of bis nature <-quires that he should exercise. She n>lds that the release of any portion >f this power tQ woman would not miy be ruinous to man but, miaous i.> woman also. She declares the=real merits of the woman would -siJIFer from the increased work and respoa-•uhility forced upon her by partiejptf-•ion in the snffrage-^that she would .TOW masculine, avariciotts, vain sa.l lomineeriitK. and thereby lose th>-«aste of beauty and refinement that .ruly belongs to her.

Here, truly, is matter to send tbf suffrage sisters into a rage. {But Dr. B»' Vessey does not minee matters. She bel'eves in the Biblical position »f woman. She says: "Man, most decidedly, is the masterpiece In all th<> universal works of creation." and slv> •irffties that if God had not1 intended iim to rule he would not have created the sexes. She holds that woman's treat field of action Is not in doing the vork of this world, but -in jmeoknes^. tud love preparing humanitiif ior to* !wtt« Hfte that is-to be. She declarer that woman dishonors .God when s»b> •lttetnpts to belittle man, who was made in the5 image of God. ' 5

It is apparent enough that the suf­frage campaign in this State Is not to be entirely one-sided. There are comparatively few men in the poli­tical world who carp now to argue against woman suffrage. Many of

eachems taking a vacation. Now that they have returned to town, they do not seem to think that the situation calls for any particular explanation. The matter can be readily summed 'tip $o Blayor Gilroy's eool explanation: •H do not know of anything wrong in the eity administration. If anybody lias done wrong they must be pun­ished and every effort will be made to ilo afe." In faet, the leaders of Tammany, are claiming that the oaiy exposures of police derelictions have •jbeen made by them, and the only con­victions secured before Tammany jus­tices. In truth, the affairs o? that or­ganization were aever in -shrew'der hands, ami this is shown by the effort thai is making to meet every demand of1 the" public for better administra­tion. Apparently the reform agitation lias done and is doing a great deal of good, but the good result has been so promptly shown, and so far in ad­vance of an election, that it has taken the real incentive out of the anU-Tammany crusade.

It can also- be said that there has been too much pulpit influence in the matter. It is curious to me that mosv clergymen do not recognize that the .people soon get tired of political ami sensational preaching. For instance, in looking over the lists of sub/ecf-for last Sunday's sermons, the Basic <plrlt was shown in denunciations &Z McKane.. of Breckinridge, of Crokeir, of the police, aad of the dives, and this has gone on so long that tben­ts a general desire once more to hear the dominies declaim of "Christ ami I Urn Crucified." Jin fact, the mal­ignant spirit seems to have affecu*.! the churches themselves. In t«u • church uptown the! doors were locked by the rector, and vestrymen broke in the windows to gain possession o2 the church. In another, the police were called in to quell a riot between members for control. In another, th • pastor led a minority in a fl^ht for the for the physical control ot the pul­pit. There is probably nothing that would do this city more good at pres­ent than a revival of old-fashioned religion, which, instead of denouncing sinners, would make them better men.

The suit of William R. Laidlaw against Russell Sage, for damages re­ceived by him at the time of the bomb explosion in Sage's office, when I*aitf-taw claims that the millionaire used aim as a shield to; protect himself, is up again before the Supreme Court Laidlaw is this time represented by-Joseph Choate and ex-Judge Koaii Davis, two of the ablest lawyers in the city. It Is sald_these eminent lawyers. mean that Sage shall not get out or the case this time'by legal technical­ities. As there is no doubt that Laid-flaw was terribly injured, and actually did secure immunity to Sage by his ipresence .between him and the assas­sin, there will be no regret If he geu the $50,000 be is sueing the mUlionairu for.

MILTON S. MAYHBW.

A FERRY IN THE AIR.

Remarkable Aerial Rai lway B n l l t a t Nash­vil le, Tenn. GQ9

High up in the air over the Ten­nessee river, at Knoxville, is an aerial tramway for passenger-car servieo which is used to 'conveying peopio from the Knoxville side of the river to a pleasure resort back of the bluff oa the other side. The car is hauled across the river suspended to wiro ropes each 1% inches in "diameter am!

itee.

The* car.limpty, weighs 1,200 pounds. I t has ja foprteeft-loof body and three-foot pTft#ojrjmS> §Ba* i$ six feet wide by 6% feeffiigin. The seating capacity it sfcrteen ffassehgers.. The. car is.pro­vided witbl automatic beakes, which stop the car to case the propelling cabte breaks or sllps^on the druna. Tw up trip takes about 3% minutes. 'I e descent is made' by "gravity.

The fcexow Comntil them have accepted it as an inevit­able evolution of ^society. The move­ment instituted by Dr. De Vessey in­dicates that the real opposition wfl' come from the religious class of w$- emto fastened, to, the car jaen, who in faet "constitute the great *" "i%"i*" ~*~''"*"" majority of their sex.

The investigation of the Police De­partment by the Lexow Committee of the State Senate, has dropped, tajto a non-sensational rut that is very tryipg to the newspapers &at desire to, see something very: spicy- developed. Be­yond exhibiting- fine fact, whieh .no­body denies, that.there is; a great d,eal of vice to the city, which the police have not suppressed, and- that here and thette a patrolman or eaptatot Is open nxferitieism for fiegleet;o£ $nty, it is impassably to see ffiai,;a8f-Ireat result wtlf follow the tev'glagation. :.*or, speaking in an entirely non-par­tisan spirit, is it apparent that any great inroads are UkeljT to betyaafle upon, "lie ^to~?rjmM^'mp-jhrotjgh | h | j rar tii%t|baj^en |p |4e upon^fce poHce,4 a a old and pretty shrewd politician expressed the fol­lowing; view of the subject the other day;

"This Jght on Tammany was begun too ^ojon to be effective next fall It is the nature of reform campaigns to

, . __ . -, j wear out After awhile the people

a r i d w e k n o w w e c a n s a t i s f y you. Is* *ed of «iamor Ad ^neSaon, a , i J U J J arid t&ey are satisfied wfth the5 few

G , . • i j i • a Uictups Jbat get Jailed., Then they i v e u s a t r i a l a n d b e c o n v i n c e d , setae down into &e oia party r ts,

. and pontics goes on about as usual." iL «TheilStmniaii^Jle|^emjha;Ve ^pjar-, endy acted upon this theory. They ' aU tbonght Ij^eoniaci?^ to,Jtheir health ; to take a journey-wberf Ihe tempest \ wase«gtog most wildly, and Texas, 1 California and the Hot Spring* of Ar» kaniu «U M4 tinir wtbfttleBf ef

JOSEPH CHRISTIE, n®¥ m^^ M>fB«rta, H. 7.

An Aerial Ferry, wnng at a height! of S50 feet above

the water, which isi almost three times the height of the Brooklyn bridge at the middle of the span, and seventy-swo feet higher than the top of the towers. The length of the^span across the Tennessee river is 1,060 feet

At the starting point, which is bw (ive,, minutes ride from the heart of Snoxvllle, there is a power hou^c where there are two twenty horse­power engines for" operating the cable.

These cables, on the Knoxville side, according to the Scientific American are anchored, to 12x32 inch oak tim­bers,' fourteen feet Ibpg, placed behind plank bulkheads. Toe connecting ban: are "twelve* feet long, and 1M incher thick.and provision |is made for taking up toe MacS'by means of long thread­ed screws.' The anchor at the high end, on 8»ef bpp0slt4';side of the river,, consists of firon plates fixed In tbo" rock. The supporting cables each have a breaking strain of. sixty tons. The cable'conveying the, motive poiver is a half inch in diameter and perman-

In 1&14. .Scene—A jury roo!m, in which are

Impaneled eleven mepnand one woman as jurors. After fifteen votes to the celebrated breach of promise case the jury, finds itself to tj&e same condition «s on the, first ballot—eleven for a ver­dict In favor of the fair plaintiff, and one for acquittal of the defendant.

Foreman'of the jury \o the solitary womaja—Madam, will you. tell us why you disagree with the opinion of tbo rest "of the jury?

The solitary womtto—Because I do not' thiiir it possible for the" defend­ant to have been to love with the plaintiff. -; .

B>. 0. X-Ah, todeeSI And why? T. 81 W.—Becanse, because, be-bo-

eause, 1-4*—' F. a J,—Sen, yet;'go oni T. 81 W.—Because'I" don't think any

man oTtfte tiefeBdaafs Ipparent gof»a taste toaia^eyefffatt hi'lofe with a woman who wears 'It dress which is such a combination of red and green. So,*n«r»i ? . - . ' . -T-And:a#|iBy» *f * tore* hoars' more deliberation, bring* in a verdict of ac-fluimi for tb« d-f*»d*at-N#w Yavk

HONORS TO KOSSUTH,

4Ut H •- . i t? .}?) ,

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T h e Patriot's Remains t o b e Covered by a Noble Monument .

The death of Eoasutb has afforded a curious illustration of the fact that monarchical government in Europe is to-day very greatly subserMant to tlite democratic sentiment of tue masses*. •Kossuth was a revolutionist, a hater of tyranny, and the one ambition of his life had been to free Hungary from the rule of Austria. He was an exile, because he refused to accept pardon from the Austrian government for his past deeds. Yet -the ashes of this pa-

A TRIP TO CUBA.

GLIMPSE OF HAVANA ARRIVAL,

ON

Polyglot's From Africa—Cuba's Various Names - Strange Sight* and S m e l l a -Unloading Hay a t Havana — Vehicles— Nolhes o f the Night . I was startled in the bay of Havana

to bear the negroes speaking Span-I ish. It never occurred to me that a I black could speak anything but Eug-j lish, and here he was jabbering to the soft liquid syllables of the South. It

! made him seem a sort .of superior i being. In Paris I remember, being sim-'• ilarly surprised because ail the cats . understood French. One might say: , "Kitty: kittyP* or "Pussy! pussy!" i ever so seductively, or he aright j ejaculate "scat!" till he was hoarse,

pondence. r

TflK NATIONAL GAPlTAJa

[ "Somehow I Got Ashore." t without the slightest effect: it

Design for Kossuth Monument.

triot and foe of monarens and friend of liberty are to be interred in his na­tive soil, and crowned by a nobk monument at Bndapest iThe author­ities in Hungary have shown great prudence in not trying to suppress the popular demonstrations in honor of Kossuth. His country is allowed to pay him every honor that patriotic die- j votion may require. After all, Hun- j :ary is practically an Indeggndent na- ( tion in all local affairs, owing only a war allegiance to Austria, and the deeds of Kossuth rendered this inde­pendence possible. Hungarians do well to honor their great patriot.

Dogs W h o Know t h e T i m e o f Day. How do dogs know the time of dayV

some one asks, and proceeds to relate some stories to prove that they do know i t One of these stories is about a collie who starts «very afternoon to aieet his master, who always comes on the 530 train. Trains are continually coming and going, and whistling and rinsing, bat Pete pays no attention to any but this one. As soon as its whis­tle is heard heJbegtos to bark joyfully, and never makes a mistake. Another dog became SO much acen'stoiaed to rfoing to tke/school-house every morn­ing with £fe little master that, when the boy was absent for several week* the dog still went on going to school, irriving punctually at nine o'clock, every morning. Moreover, he never •vent on Saturday or Sunday.

With regard to the first case, it might be replied, perhaps, by a -skep­tical person, that the dog was more likely to be able to distinguish the jieciai whistle of the locomotive

winch drew the 550 train than to jnow it by the hoar of the day. And et the Listener has no sort of doaht

:hat dogs do know when a certain aour arirves at which sonietajns re­gular and accustomed takes pl»»p.

The second jease seems to prove tab very thing. There is a ease on recurd in which a doctor, who was accustom-">d to visit a certain village at a cer­tain hour on a certain day each week, always found a dbg of his ae<iuaim-nnce waiting for h|m outside the town; and it was proved thaf: the .dog never <\ime to the place at any other day or hour. Evidently:all that can be sakl in explanation of such cases is that animals are susceptible of" having periods or circles of time established in their intelligences by use,' and that their ignorance of timepieces only serves to make the tastfnet.jthe keen-?r. It is well known that men who have never possessed .watehes, and who work or nnnt habitually at a iistance from clocks, are very expert at estimating the lapse of time. Per­ception of this kjnd undoubtedly may be cultivated in an intelligent animal as well as to man.—Boston Evening Transcript

;was ! only the "meeny! meeny!" that > at-I tracted "the hairy pet to your side, and loniy "va *fen-r-r-r-r!" that would t cause it to scat to any perceptible ex: tent. So, here were the hotel porters (slaves ten years ago) lisping Casltl-ian; and when you failed to "catch on," asking you, me, I mean, wfth a sympathetic inflection, "vous paries Francais. peut-etre?

But some spoke English—if my mother tongue will forgive me the air legation. We anchored off in the bay and soon there was a fleet of Vocifer­ous tatterdemaiians around the steam­er entreating us to go ashore., "Heah: Massa! You 'member me?" "Dis is de Sary Ann right bean waitin' foir you." "Deah massa! heafc, I be!" "Yankee doodle, vou. reeolieek you tole me to come!" "Massa! Doan' forgitJim!" "Doan take dat black boat Take dis new yel-ler boat!" "Shet«yo tnouf, yo nigger, I knock yo in de watah!" "Dis de boat de Queen took!" "Dey*s cwisbins in dis boat!" and other babel of ex­clamatory noises and lying soflcita-tions.

Somehow I got ashore. I forget how, but I remember that two darkeys im­prisoned my handbag between them, and that another possessed my over­coat and umbrella, and that I paid them a heavy income tax in order to induce them to let go. And to divid­ing it tbey expectorated their-vtle Jingo upon each other. It was eurious to see that even among very black men the word "nigger" remained a Mafia of superlative opprobium—was still an emotional intensive, as to my "States."

<'nba, is about as large, as Pennsyl­vania. When Columbus- set foot on it he called it "Juana," to honor of Prince John of Castile,and Arragon; when King Ferdinand died it received the appellation "Fernandina," When one of the most stalwart of the pj^, rates was banished it I was named Santiago," after the pap>n saint o*

Spain, and half a centhry later, to >lease the Pope, ftlis name was

changed to "Ave Maria"~-Hail, Mary! Bat all the while, in spite of geogra­phers and popes, the original Indian name, Cuba, stuck to large parts of the island, and this, at last prevailed.

When we landed, about February I* 't was warm and pleasant and the, mercury stood at sixty in the tube. But, aithpagh much Warmer than New York in winter, it is cooler in summer, the average of the hottest

o m e n and Notions. Wh| * y r Max O'Reli opens his flat'

terin£v tips on the sobjeet of woman, feminine, ears all over-.tlje -world are pricked np. He has been lecturing about^fier lately,.and makes sonu? pleasing international comparisons. He said that in the iVench. household wo­man was queen; she jtejf neU husband, and be did not complain; she knew all his affairs. He consulted hereabout bis investments: tfiat'was why wealth to France was so stable, because wo<-men were not speculative. She thor­oughly nnderstood the poetry of ma­trimony. In England a woman knows nothing of her Juisband's affairs, not as much as his elerkv The wife of the peasant proprietor was, the very for< tune of Frapce—hardworking, sober, thrifty, always; working in the house, the fields, the, malfeefc Her daughter did not'wear, Stages, pu* wbeu^ke went to service, every months site paid a visit to the savings,. .bank when shs got her wages,; an Bn^Hsh. servant girl got a new hat" and was photo­graphed in It The mpre, be saw of American women .the, riKwes.deeply~he was impressed with the conviction that they were totally unlike all other women. There were-few women to be compared with them to the drawing room; none with whom, men felfe more at ease. They &«$ fcejanty, bat it was not equal to that of English women; but It was their Intellectual, Qualities tfiai w;ere sMktog. P$m %PJ$% M eighteen a gM wsa MbsFed.^almost every* liberty. In Europe, women let the. men decide wpat. waj proper; to America they ]pf It W&emselves.

, OnfliPoint of View. "No, mamma, t jgjjfl- aotr-cannot'l

marry the count Waen'Tra© marry my hear$ most go wl&t my Baud.5*

"Heavens! child. How do yon ex-' p&et to amuse "faBTielf after that?"-Washington N«Wa,

more utterly unlike anything to the United states ifcan is this eity Of Ha-, Tarn.*. It! lies as low as Venice or Am-sterdam, squatting to the mad—tooMH£

BUILQING IN WHICH low tot (drainage and bearing several j GRS8S MEETS. »alf-piit*d ponds in Its eentr^ It •smells: badly all day and ail night The houses a^e low, flat-topped, square and white, or of some tight color, and of every Imaginable size—large1 .and Mttle elbowing each other. Almost every" building! even the cathedral, is of stucco, like those of Spain. There are whije bouses with blue blinds, blue houses* with white Winds, maroon mpases,,' pink houses, grass-green houses, saffron houses, plum-colored bouses.»- - »

£nd t^e cos tgp^ of the people are even" more varipir. All the men dress in cotton; laborers with cotton sMrts outside their pantaloons, and soldiers ((the Ctiban volunteers) in • light-blue cotton raiment I am afraid I stalled when we went ashore in a sort of lob­ster-pot tigged with oars and were met by a fragile policeman, about Ave feet hif *. wijtb a mouse face, six or eight hairs for beard,, and blue calico clothes With a red braid. Tp a stran­ger -in Havana the chief interest in this .carnival lay in the populaces, who, though sober of mien, and som­bre of song, and slow and sad,' were always novel and kaleidoscopic.

What the stranger here first notices is the multitude of churches, and the next'is the narrow streets paved with very rough stones, over wh|ch he can joit till he is pounded sore, in the fritky volante, with long shafts and tail Wheels, ot in the equally terrible one-horse fly. A long ride in either of thefte is warranted to cure the gout or kill the patient. There are some pretty good hotels; and a couple of thaatret-. thfc bull ring and the Spanish Club are the pride of the town. In the large bat-nofe!>ariji<>nlarly imposing cathed­ral, QwM. o|,the bones of Christopher Colunibus are supposed to rest, the reiaaiojaer '"tieing in San Domingo. Each claims, that all of the remains of the great discoverer came to a full stop in its mausoleum,.but-as a frivolous youfti or our party remarked, it is probably only a senii-c-olon. His monument and statue decorate the in­terior, walls of the cathedral.

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Speelat Washington letter. When I first visited WashiuglOB.

hack in the sixties, the national Cap­itol, in its incomplete state, was any­thing but "an object of patriotie pride. The vast unfurnished building,, '*=witi» its incomplete dome, surrounded-; b / *waffolding. and situated on a barres-

All the S ' d r e ^ " ^ n d . ^ ^ZV'"0^ iai"a o f " .«««: ^ ideal dwarfed b> the petty inability o-niau to esimplete it. Bur the Capitoi is now eoriuiletetl. and. in spite of its many trdirsiormatiun^ ami the man,'.-different mcu wlm have had a liaa.i iu its shaping and reshaping, it hat?" ;aken on a grace and beauty "and dig­nify that on the whole are very satis- " '.u-tory. and it re;illy stH>uxs to repre­sent the power aud dignity ajitl glor?' \tf the L'uioa "" !

Yet it is evident that the Capitol jiiust soon undergo another n'ansfor-ma tion. It is so very i»laiu that tht. modern disme and wings ^ r e superior u> the old central portion, that taem-^f-rs of Congress are still dissatisfied with th«" bui!ilin^,| i.l dftijfOJ.s have nlrendy lteen in.ul#J W rebuilding the '•enrral structure. 1 ^

Tne w.:uder is 'fMt so. noWe „and hattU'tnious a building co«ld have arisen from the conflicting Ideas" and, chauee mctbmi.s em{>l<>y<*d in its con-* s-trnciion. Tui' original Capitol,.its naliheri in 1»»S. and reconstrnctod from 1S10 to l&if». is still hiclujQtecL in* the present structure, as the gentral portion referrtnl to. Its historical as­sociations have thus f.ir preserved it from rccon-itrnction, but the outer wails will undoubtedly sown be doomed to -:Wfn:etion. . Here are some interest­ing figures, in regard to the Capitol;

The Capitol park contain* rviu. acre? of which a purchase made over twenty year* ago cost $<2?4,OW. The improve­ment'<»f this park under OSmstead aas oeen twenty years in hand. Thel&mps, '.interns aud bronze flower caskets east

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never bees a sunstroke to Parana; and the story is probable,, for cooling winds always breathe through the nar­row streets,-even at midday. T

We unloaded hay at Havan%~vasS numbers of bales, and the passengers were glad when the inflammable stuff loated off on a '3ighter," covered wifli

a % rarpanlin so ^iat a chance •park could not set it afire. It seems ' -odd . <that ihe I ej^d tame is compelled *ri furnish hay to the tropies-rthe fruit-bearing, fleres-cent tropics. 'The^slonesf^onnd^yttwj aarbor of Havana looked"* wimewliat •xreen, as if a little feraiization and enlture would mat )then|5 w^% f^sss But grass,'the greatest crop of the rnited States, is the smallest crop of his latitude. In J a c t our Southerns states harvest very little hay. "You ee some odd results otthis,"-says a

/'loildian to me. "When I flrst eaw a •:ow in a bayoo Jt 'siart^d me>£|Shj waded to about'as far as she; could, ind then' suMenl^'she'pWfigM' her whole head under water and. kept it there. KotMng was visible but the ridlge of her Back, andT really thought that the desperate* creature was 'at-Mmpanjr<s)Blcide. P«&afsibe^ojsl,we had taken her calf away and sold i ta couple of days before.. Jnat as"! w t ' preparirig'Wth^d^eohietaiiiWfe other, to attract her attention and-save. h Srl "H am life}-she lifted-her-headdripping'from the deeps, and she <had a wisp bf green grass to her month from the .-bottom of the bayou! That was what she dived for. It isn't pleasant to be a cow to Fiorida,w

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steamers and of locomotives, tin horse-car bells and the more dreadful din of church bells, which ought by this t|me to be suppressed in ever; civilized city, the racket of 8,000 vic­torias and volantes and twiee as many heavy carts, the click of billiard rooms, the endless jabber of voices close un­der the iron-barred window, the twang of amateur guitars, the squeak of sleepless fiddles, the morning and .sun­set gnns from Morro castle and the frequent detonation of its salutes be ween time's, the bugle of the militia,

the yell of ithe jackass driver, the flute of the mosquito and the premature knock on the door by the servant who mistakes you for the occupant of the adjoining room, who left word to be called for the flrst boat—these are cal­culated to keep you awake, more or less.

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Comrtry. ; The first f steel sailing ship built in ${u$sC0Anw was launched recently at Bk'Gs Me., und has been christened the Dirigo. Dirigo is the motto of the ^State of Maine^ and is sa LaMn word which means flfdirecfc*' The vesisel will be flttld for*sea .to "New York city, and' will load soon at pier 19. East Rivera with a^argojor San Fran­cisco. She WaS raj&t by ligthur SeweH- -£8?.000. & Co., the ,gatn fnipnuiMera

Her dimensions are: Length, 312 feet; breadth, '45!1§ feet; aepth, 25.6 feet; gross tortoage, 3,004.80; net ton­nage, g^SS^^lsfe'will^Spf^ad on her four masts an area of about 12,000 yards of canvas. She j&fga. fonr-mas-

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1HerK personnel is captain, three mates; two] boatswains, cook, steward, carp%n|er, jenglaeer, four boyi and a crew of tweniy-fonr men. Tie, Dirigo Gooffwitf, Wlio has for the past eigliteea fmA bad command of the ship Sterling, sailing froim New York.

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Wltf (get afosg alcelyA wnen tbej jare married?" said one chaperone to an-

of it," was the reply. "I took'iaw^ find out shortly after they werft engaged." l

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The (^.itoL Story, our one political father of an artist, as monhted. < .••« A:ti-'Hvfin 1884. The Capitol hill i» » % feet -above the river, a mile •L.-.tam. The-building is 751 fec.t R.ng, its wings, inciading the steps, &Ii iV.t wide, and it covers 3% acres. The old cenn-al f^apitoi is 352 feet long by 121 & feet deep.- Its old central east i>ortico is il50 feet wide, and its columns, 24 in number and 30 feet* high to the ped­estals, give the key,to the wing por­ticoes. Its pediment is- 8©;fe>t wide, 'oo narrow for the" dome's diameter ihDveJt^-0152% feet The .wings a r e ^ •til cotoimnatMr^wM^ULu^^i-^dims! N ptlastered. Each wing is ;143 feet front and 238- feet sides, and each is ••onnected with the old eapitol bv a orridor 44 feet long and 36 feet w'ide. The end porticoes, which are flat on be story line, are 124 feet long each. *o stpps are against the west or city ront of the CapitoL Its centre is 160

|eet long, 83 feet projection, its 10-columned colonade just 100 feet long. -Virginia furnished-the the freestone

of the old CapitoL Massachusetts the marble wings and Maryland their columns. The dome has stood since 1856, is 288 feet above the top of the hill, 360 feet above the eity gate, 218 feet above the building's banister and 129 feet in diameter. It Is 307|& feet from the base line of the building to the top of the statue of Freedom, which is 10% feet high, on a lantern' 50 feet high and 15 feet wide. The statue of Freedom weighs nearly 15,-000 pounds; the iron dome weighs £,-)00,000 pounds. Forty columns with groined arches support H. The two big groups of Persico and Greenhougii cost together §48,000. War and peace cost together 124.000. There are 4& -external steps to the wing and four, -landings. The pediments of the wings are 72 feet span. Only one has flgarei in the tympanum, by Grawford,whleh were ordered in the year ISOg^and cost $46,000. Sogers' bronze door cost ^28,000; Crawford's bronze door cost

Inside the dome is §6 feet wide and 180 feet high. The ousts of Columbus, Baleigh, Cabe and I<a-,SaHe cost $9,SO0. BnunHi's picture la* the lome cost $50,000. The Supreme £krart# fhamber is" 75x75 feet and 4^ feet f-h'gh. The Senate reception room is 68 I feet long. The Senate Chamber is. 4 ' • 13% feet long and 80% wide, 36^eeV"'l> ligb. Taking out the'gafiejiei- ft is is

b3x51. The galleries seat l,2fl©. The * old' house, or statuary halL is 96 feet Jong, 57 .fee"t high, and Is after a the- % aire at Athens. It has" 2d columns. The floor of the House is 115 feet by / <S7 feet; above it is 139 by 93 aad-36. feet high. The galleries seaf?v2J00; The dome has 36 columns, 27 feet higb~ . weighing six tons each. The ajtto/ X ;>art of the dome is 44 steefc bighi; A. I

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By and by the woman, succeeded, ito, moving up to him. Be stOif fefl^, to see her. Then ^e;reieIvea?jMaSse*. tion. . -fj".---«

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