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American Catholic Tribune (Newspaper) - April 26, 1894, Cincinnati, Ohio American ApproTK- by His Emlnene* Cudln*! Otbbons, the Most Eev. Arehblshops of New York, Cnlca«o. New Orleans and Philadelphia, the Rt Bev. Bishops of Detroit. COviugton. Colnmbns. Richmond and NaahTiUe. VOLUME IX. DETROIT,, MICH., APRIL 26, 189L NUMB XME SCROLL OF PAPYRI». BY IIVsRT OOTUE. In a fair ctmotry of the Forfrr*ttt*D now by time. There Iív»nI. unknown, a V^*ho wrote hU thouffht in rhymt* Men and jwred and gave nt* heekl. And wlion thf sin^or dio<l They brvm;rhi the that none wttuld rt*ad .\nd placoil it at hi?; si«le. TKMPERAACE COX Y'EA'TIO!V. This Low R«tea to St. Pool. Mlon Soototrr to All. The Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America, one of the strougt'st tein-jH*rance organizaUoob in the world. Four th«mv:<n«l years or mor» The p«**-i w rote his song; Four thousand 3**»ars went by. ami 1»»! The w*»rds that had s*> long Be<*n hithlen in the dust and pU»om. l'p«>D the luuniniy's heart V^'ere fonnd. wiien men bn»ke in the TttUllt In tk ureh of ant lent art TTit ?si^*frors and the nation fell. And all their pomp and lust Have dbtappeared. and non** t'an Wh»rt* lies their very dust. Th»* hands with whi»h tie-wrought -\ro now but Hides'; t-laj'. But I lore, untouchetl by time thought Wa.s fount] at this late day. tell hi< Above his fonib a st«»d»* ih«*y ralst*. The w»*rld rings with hLs name: V!en yield him now the iii»*e«l of pr.iis.*. But gr»-ater than mere fain»*. ThtiOgh he has n-aeht tl the tinal g«»al. The pure th**ught front his pen íTialI still live on, though ac»*s roll. Ad«.1 sMr the h»*arts of men. XBere !■ \o tirooBii. I am Very much afraid that stuiie <»f our csdtiretl eitiz. ns are d»*ing them* aiKl no'e a great injustice by iH’ing intluoetl i»j »nie members of the A 1*. A rare that has b*'»‘n cmshod, crip-pltsl an«l per'*eeut«‘s^l as th»* Negro, wbould u« ver be a party t*» tmmpU* iip*m th»* rights ».f any respt*ctable elass »>f Aia»*ri«*;m »it1z»*n.«. We cannot aff»>Til to make a».lditional <*neniles. VVe hare m*»r»* Dow than any rac-e*'iu Ain*rl*-a. I b«-li*-v. ii w»»uld b«* largi'ly d»*tri-mental i«» our p»*»»!)!»* to unite with an «»rgunizatí> >u that i- r»*p*irt€Hl t*> have frtr its t*anliual obj»*ct the oblli»'raiit>n »*f certaiu «'‘ivil privlbnres of a religious eUiss «tí »itiz»*ns fn>m publie promi-uenoe. just as much »*> as it woubl be to our dlsa»lvantage t*» join a s,e cieiy that wouhl the supn-niaey z»-n<*. Wheth.-r *»r not It »s ih»* right thing that stn-h an »*rc:iaiza!lon as the A. I*. A *diould exi-t, is not a question f*»r us T.* c**.nsid» r. but i»ne we stv»uM !g- will hold Its twenty-fourth annual convention In St. Paol, Minn., August 1 I to 3, nt'xt. lit. Iter. J. B. Cotter, BUh-: .»p of Winona, Mlun., 1» president, and j Itev. A. 1’. Doyle, C. S. P.. of New ! York, is secretary of the Union. ! As St. I'aul Is the home of Areh-; bishop Ireland, a convention of more i than ordinari* Interest may Ik* looktnl i for. local committee has b»*eu ap-: (Miintetl. anti the most t*oniplete ar-\ rang**tnents are being made for giving the del»*gates and visitors a royal wel-tt>me to the Northwest. Certain seo-titius of the country are alreadj' proin-isetl railroad rates much lower than those usually secured on sueli ooiti-sitms, and it is l>elieved other dlstrict.s will yet fare eqiuilly well. The at-i»*mlanee will Ik* large, not less than l.UiMi prominent temp»*rance workers fnuii all parts »>f the Ignited State's and Camida bt*lng expectetl. In fact, it is the Intention to make this the givat»*st anti most rei>n'sentative gathering of Cath**Ik- total abstainers over brought t«»g»*ther. Uotnil excursions are lK*iug plauntsl to all i>oints of Interest, so tin* trip may Ik* nuule a protitable one in inau.v ways. Fifty thousautl copit*s of the »*iliclal bulletin will Ix* issn»*ti alxnit .lune 1. It will Ih* lK*aiitifully illiis-irat»sl and will c»»iitaiu full partieulai*s j as to eiit»*rtaininent, rates, routt*s, etc.. j ami will Ih* s»*nt frtn* li> anyone seiid-t ing name ami a<ldre*s.s, Atldress A. W. icutridge, t'hairman I.<íH*al Coinmitte»*, l>t. Paul. Minn. PENAL COLONY. Where BURIED WHILE ALIVE. TOO SACRED TO Tht* pri*‘sts of the Arcluiioe»*.s<‘ »>f IMiilaib-lphia. at th«*ir bust qiiart»*rly oonfe'rem-e. a»lopt»sl a ri‘solution to «*n*ct a monument to tin* im*iiiory of the late l>r. tieorge D. Wolff, tlie csl-lt«»r of the Catholic Standard. A commit t»*»* was upiH>int(*<l to take the mv c«*ss;iTy st«*ps. •‘COD BLESSA DA RICH.” The Street I’lenlat II»* »n Kxperlence om » W»shlngton Street. It was noc* on F street and on all tides there was a hurrying to and fro of clerks and typewriter girls towards the lunch rooms of the vicinage. Under foot slop reigned; overhead the heavens rained. By a curb a street pianist was converting have for it« ■ the east winds into strains of “Annie Cttl* ^ Vlmr Kia St I A atCkCkH he Rooney.” Hy his side stood partner of his sorrow» — joys had none, for he wore a face as long as a funeral, and twice as mournful. She was wrapped cris-cross in a big green and blue shawl. - t. . MRS. FRANCES E. PRESTON, The renowned elocutionist, will give a recital at Whitney's hall, 143 Woodward avenue, Monday evening, April .'10. Subject: “I)e Valley and de Shud der” and “Two Oentlemen of Kentucky.” This will be Mrs. Preston's last appearance in Detroit before sailing for Europe, where she goes to extend her studies. WEALTH OF THE WORLD. It •400,000,- n»»re umb'r »*ur trying circ«m>tanf-s. W*^ stHAikl stnml ¿ruily up*»n n»*utral and as she turned slowly around to gmund as to the supremacy ««f om* or i «weep the horizon with her eagle tbo other faction. TTie qii»'.*'ti««n sh»»ul«l eye In search of some pennj' or nickel rise or fall without the lea'«t Int.-rfer-i resembled a boy’s brightly ence of the «-«dored people, that no r**-<«poc.Mb41itT of the D-^-ult will N pla--*-<l upon UA. By declining :•> with tlie A P A pi»,,ple we will make fri»-mls with th»*»,-* wb»'* •♦pp«i*H* them, ami ih»*y c;tiinot take very gr.ave exception** !«> us. well knowing Th** h“'ti1ity again-^t our ra*>* by not taking n part with them Th»*r»* are many r^-Ti-w^ns why w»* sb«Htld not <lo anvtliiiig r;i*.h that will have th** heard: t»iiil**^n**y T. pr**judl<-»‘ * agniost tlust rif** will < By the .\ aid merely more. l*ut ooe ehu- 1* > » ;intag*.niz** any sr-^ t. Th«* ,f th»* cmntry 1*^ r< uter*d t-.4or*d n.ati. ami t*. invit-*nly m.agnify I». P pe,.jib* soli- i*ing «-nr that, not thill they lov.* iw b,v** th»* ambition of aoin.-ami by uniting with tli**n! w* nld u.c tl.= •* n. -YV •nlv kindle in .¡Ip tse that :«nd the lu-arií» of wh<^ ..¡.pase that orguni*.atiuu a hi»ter hatreil agtdnst our peoph*. -h.*ul 1 l«* very pru4v’hi iv. iaiiat!,*n U D'uml to f.dlow. l^'.ays strfk**H th** wi-akes^t part «íFttRiíE W HARTSEUK A P A w r»-ng N*-gr,* I-:.! i- li-'•* ai«- If wr- . V Ti*-»itral gnmnd ’ Tlie right or they ar»* ng. why shotild n-*t the B<- ua-n ‘-r nothing — »t teat i(«». S.T« all tho can*’ltd staiiifis vmi c.ill -.la ,u nnd ii*l th*-in !•» iJn- ad*lr%-^ 1--L.W By this iii»-an*.. b«»th t-iisy an-! a* * •-"Ildt- t** all. jui will h«*lp to pr*^*m *T,- th.- pr*.f*ag:ifi..n *»f Christian faith aii*l < iviliz;iti«(ti In this ami »'th-r nii*v-5on.try • ««tintries. such ;is .\fn* a. I liin.i, -I.ipan. »-t.“ Mon* llian ;,r*- rlv i- <olh . Í».,! .«tnmially -Vt Th** »>an),* H:a. y.-n will Is- entitl»*»! to the manif**!»! spiritual l*eu»*fifs whh h thi* ni*-iiih.-rs *>f lii*- I'nioo enjov. Even Kmall n-iuittanc*-H will Ih:* grate-fulJv accepiisl. Indii.-*- *.ih»-rs to J.»iu u« also. The !'ni.*n will Ih- und-r siii- c**tY' r»bligntior*s t», jui f, ,f* st*ndiDg In nax&e^ of y.,ur fri*nds. netghl>*rH, of firma, et»-. Tlie annual r**iK»rt of the 1‘nkin. width will !•»* laaJled each memlH-r at th»* clos,- ,,f th»- y»*nr. shows your «bare in the m»ble eni»rr»riH**. Hi^d f»»r rircTilara, addrcí?Hing St Francia Uni -u .»f Stamp Collectors. 4J1 CUnt«in strts-u Milwaukee*. Whs. The Very Rev. Thomas S. Bym»*. D D . of Cincinnati, haa been appointed ’i of Naahville. Dr. Bym*' Is one of Lh»' moat dlatlngulahed prioKtg t»f V the w.-st He to a man of great learn-tejr .md has h»*»*n prr*si»l»*nt »»f Mt. St "Sáar? a Seminary of the W**si since Its ^ reopening a few >'eant ago. He was Otoe of the r»*pr»-H*-ntativcs of the Cath-•Oc Church at the World's Parliam»'iit painted top. suddenly a shout was Wahoo! Wahoo! Wahoo! At an open window in the top story of the Hood building a group of savants in shirt sleeves were gesticulating and shouting, says the Washington Star. One of them was shaking a glittering coin In his hand. The pianist became slightly excited and with his free hand gesticulated violently to his wife. “Skippa tra loo! He gotta da mon!” he shouted above the tumultuous notes of his Instrument. “I no ciimba da walL \ou make tire- Go getta da monk.” Tha woman looked up despairingly at the shinini' -n,*. sórt. —vj might after all be teasing her and put the coin back in bis pocket “Getta da roova. Tina. He droppa da raon pret' soona.”’ The man waved his arm at the fourth-story .scientist and beckoned to him to throw down the coin. The hint bore quick fruit A sil-Tory gleam flashed from the window to the asphalt and *a musical ring followed that not even the notes of “Annie Koonej” could drown. “Zip! Biff! Datta granda! O. K., ver gooda! Skippa tra loo! Getta da mon! We go’n eata da din', drinka da beer, feeda da sick monk. Datta ver nice man upa da skyahigh.” Tina waddled nimbly across the street. The bit of silver was half a dollar and it had finally* roiled into the middle of an English sparrow's dinner under a buggy. Tina hesi* tated. but was not lost A tall, well-dressed old gentleman stepped off the sidewalk, came around to Tina's side, and with his cane poked the half dollar from under the wheels. \\ hoii he straightened up his silk hat fell off. the woman screamed and jumped to pick it upi As ,-hegaveit to him she bowed, and her little yellow black eyes twinkled and snapped with gratitude. The pianist lifted his hat to the savant In shirt sleeves and the polite old man. and started his music factory down the street. **God blessa da rich, da poor taka cara daselves!” An EniplUh Writer Pats It 000,000. Few people, even among professed politicians, have much idea of the wealth of the world, or of the manner in which that wealth is growing, says a writer in the Edinburgh Review. Still fewer have any notion of the potentiality of wealth to increase. AL Jannct quotes the elaborate calculation of an ingenious author to show that 100 francs, accumulating at five per cent compound interest for seven centuries, would bo sufficient to buy the whole surface of the globe, both land and water, at the rate of 1,000,000 francs ($200.000) the hectare. The actual growth of riches has not hitherto assumed such inconvenient proportions. ^L Jannet cites various authorities to show that the wealth of the United Kingdom exceeds $50,-000,000,000; that of Franc®, $40,-000,000.000; that of all Europe. $2.M),000.000,OaO; that of the United States, $70,000,000,000. If we place the wealth of the rest of the world at flSO.OOO.OOaOOO w® shall arrive at' an aggregate of $400.-0«X),000,000. We should have, we may add, to multiply this vast sum 30,000 times before we reachea the total to which according to Mr. Jan-net’s ingenious authority, 100 francs, accumulating at 5 per cent compound interest for 700 years, would grow. The figures we have given are so vast that they convey no appreciable idea to the ordinary reader. It may assist the apprehension if it be added that t ranee, on an average, possesses more than $1,000, the United Kingdom more than 1,250 for each member of the populAttpn;^^ on fy f 1,260,000,000. Two centuries, therefore, have increased it forty fold, but the chief additions to it hav« been made in the last fifty years, and we believe that we are not far wrong in saying that the sum which is actually added to the capital of the United Kingdom amounts to $1.010,000,000, or in other words, is nearly equal to its entire wealth at the time of the revolution of 168S. DOWN A MOUNTAIN. The l>»rlnc on Historio Lookout Tnken by »n Unknown Coaster. A short, compactly built man with a heavy blonde mustache took a toboggan slido down Lookout mountain the other afternoon. Ho went via the incline and made the trip from the Point hotel to the engine house.a distance of 4,500 feet, in three and one-half minutes, which is just one-third the time that it takes a car to descend, remarks tho Chattanooga Times. Fully 100 people saw him make the lightning-like descent and all were greatly excited. The nervy coaster, however, was as cool ffs the proverbial cucumber, and, upon reaching the foot of the mountain, walked away as coolly as though it had taken him an hour to descend. About 4 o’clock the coaster appeared at the Point hotel with what appeared to be a block of wood about eight inches square under his arm. On one side of the block was a steel horseshoe,in the cur«® of which was a small fianged wheel. The other side of the block was slightly concave. The block was put on the outside rail of the incline, the wheel fitting close,and the horns of the horseshoe were on either side. Then the man put a heavy glove on his right hand, afid sitting down on the block started down the mountain without more ada He held his feet crossed straight and before him, and rested them on the iron rail. For a few feet the little one-wheeled car moved slowly, and then the speed increased until it and its human freight were going down the mountain at a rate that made the spectators hold their breath. When a Fix» Vowels In • Row. The Hawaiian language is composed mainly of vowels, and a few consonant*» put in to vary the monotony. And the beauty' of the system is that there is no waste. Every vowel is pronounced- For instance. when the American eve winks at the > of K»-4iiri'*n- in Chlc^tgo last Si'piemlH'r. ¡ appearance of the simple word *naauao.'’ the glib native rolls out .til A«1 mini hie pfi{H*r on “Man <'ath*'lic Point of View" 'Flit* of .N.ishvin.- was l»*ft racnnt by the «fer la-T y*-ar to F«»rt Wayne. Itnl.. Rf R»*v J«>s«*f>h Rndema»'h»T. * r-- Ibe r?^u^iv,A .*f Hon. W. D. ML*4'»»y. wlk> ‘ii*-d in Monrovia. IJInria. List May. *f^]bH-re he wa- «**1x10^ a>* Unit(*»l ffiate» Mlni=*»**r To that e*nintry. w»*re kt to Indhtn;Tipoii»». in»l.. wh»*r»* buried e-uriy IsRt week. * Tljeri ar© about coloref! Catho of Kanaa». The .<.4§¡i©e srhooÍR, one of which to a nlzht 9^to®L ^nnsht l>y Her. Joseph Short»*r. Tee worth, show a meiulK*rshlp th five syllables with neatness and dispatch. This means “enlighten.” Double vowels are very frequenL but never a diphthong. Three vowels are not uncommon, and. as above, four and sometimes more are found unseparated by consonants In the mouth of the uneducated native the language is apt to be explosive, b*Jt th® higher classes speak it with a fluent grace that surpasses the French or the Italian. In sound it somewhat resembles the general flow of th® continental European languages, for th® vowels all have the French quality, and the accents are not dissimilar.—Washington Star. An K»Bler W»y Out of It. Mra Pigg, a very charming and vivacious widow, called recently on a legal friend of hers to consult him on a matter of interest to her. “\ou know, sir.” she said to him, “when the late Mr. Pigg died ho left all his fortune to me, much to my satisfaction, of course, but he handi-cappod me with the name of Pigg, which I must say I don't like.” “Well,” ventured the attorney. “I presume a handsome woman isn’t especially complimented by being loft a Pigg.” “I should say not,” she laughed. ‘•Now, what I came to see you about was whether or not I must apply to the legislature to get it changed.” **Um-er,” he hesitated as if wrestling with a great legal problem, “um —ev—yes; but an easier way is to a parson, and I’ll pay all the expenses myself.” It was sudden, but a widow is never caught napping, and she ap-I>ointed that evening for another consultation. — Detroit Free Press. curve w»p ... ugainst tne rail and steadied himself by touching the cable with his gloved hand. I'inally, when he reached the very heavy grade just above the enginebouse he took off all brakes and cumodown like a shot out of a gun. Arriving at the bottom he put on the “heel” brakes and gently came to a stop just at the depot. Coolly rising from his queer vehicle he placed it under his arm and walked quiotlj' away before any of the astonished spectators had a chance to recover their breath or ask any questions. Not Cr»mp That Drowns Them. The Northwestern Lancet offers a new explanation of the sudden drowning of good swimmers, hitherto attributed to crampu There is nothing in a cramp In the leg to prevent an ordinary swimmer supporting himself in the water by his hands or on his back, nor to cause him to throw up his hands and sink once for all, like a stone. Such cases are attributed to perforation of the eardrum, through which the excess of water pressure occasions vertigo and unconsciousness, and a practical caution results to persons having such perforation to protect their ears with a stopper of cotton when bath»'nor The .Joke on Cmnnon. Representative Cannon of Illinois, tells a good story on himself. It is reminiscent of the days when “Sunset” Cox was in congress. The New York representative had had some things to say about a citizen of Cannon’s state, and the Illinois man wanted to defend his constituent “Will the gentleman from New York yield to me?” said Mr. Cannon. “Certainly,” said Mr. Cox. “For how long?” inquired the speaker. “As long as the gentleman from Illinois will keep his hands in his pockets,” said Mr. Cox, laughingly. Mr. Cannon accepted the terms and proceeded with his remarka He uttered just one sentence and a half, and then his bands, which had been snugly stuck into his pockets, came out and were flying through the air like a couple of windmills. “Time’s up,” said Mr. Cox, who knew his man, and then Mr. Cannon sat down. Anybody who has seen Mr. Cannon gesticulate will appreciate the spirit with which ho tells of his first and only effort to talk without the use of bis arms.—Washington Post tb« Wont Criminals In the World Are Kept. ▲ few weeks ago a convict at Port Blair, in the Andaman islands rushed upon Colonel Horsford with an ax, cut off two fingers of his left hand and wounded him in the head before he could be disarmed. Colonel Horsford, who is the chief ccmmls-sioner of the islands, has since been reported as out of danger. Thirteen thousand convicts are living at Port Blair, which is probably the largest penal settlement in the world, says the New York Sun. The Andaman islands are in the bay of Bengal, and to Port Blair is sent the refuse of 250,000,000 people. The worst criminals of British India and Burma, if they incur long sentences of imprisonment, are sent to Port Blair. Over 8,000 are serving life sentencea The attack upon the chief official of the islands is all the more noteworthy because, since the settlement of Port Blair was started in 1857, with the mutinous Sepoys as first colonists, there have been but two murderous assaults on Europeans by convicts; and yet to guide this army of evildoers only one company of British infantry and several hundred Punjab police are employed, a very small force when it is considered that there are no prison walls, and that the convict barracks are scattered all over the settlement, which is several miles square. The hundred or more boats and canoes required for the work of the settlement are far more carefully guarded than the prisoners themselves. There is no chance to escape, except by capturing these boata Even then there would be little hope of freedom, for the Andamans are far from land and lie in a region of tempests. The only refuge is the forest, where runaways are sure to die of starvation, if they are not shot by the natives. The authorities, therefore, have so little fear of any attempts to escape that as many ad 500 of the convicts are often sent ten miles away without any guards except their own officers Even in this isolated place a remarkable incident occurs now and then to vary the monotony of incessant road making and forest felling. Nearly eleven years ago sounds were heard like the firing of big guns, and it was thought a war ship had gone ashore on South Andaman. The station steamer was sent to carry relief to the crew, but no wreck was found. The noises came from Krakatoa, 1,500 miles away, where the most tremendous volcanic disturbance of modern times was in progress. Years ago the ship Run-nymede sailed from Australia and the ship Briton from England, each having on board a battalion of the Eightieth Foot. * The regiment was to be reunited at Rangoon. One dark night a terrible storm caught both vessels near the Andamans, and a great wave carried them high on the shore. Next morning, the regiment, without a man missing, was reunited on the island. The battalions had traveled around the world to meet, and a stranger meeting never occurred. The administration of this penal colony is a remarkable system of rewards and punishment. Invariable good conduct secures beitef'jf^i!>4ig'érs lor Qays’ work. Twenty years of obedience to the rules secures a pardon for life convicta Pardons are often granted for deeds of gallantry, and murderers, red-handed and with weapons ready, have been seized by their fellows, who risked their lives to gain the coveted freedom. The attempt to assassinate the chief official of the colony may result in restrictions that the convicts have hitherto escaped. A Cjiloomy Outlook. “I am an unlucky devil,” cried the editor. “Whttt’s up now?” “Nothing, only I was thinking that If money grew on trees. I’d be sure to catch the rheumatism and would not be able to climb. ” A New crtiHmber of Deputies. It is i>roposed to erect a new building for the chamber of deputies in Paris to cost 4,503.000 franca The present hall is so small that members ar^ much crowded. There are to be a great many comforts and conveniences in the now chamber which are lacking in the present one and badly needed. Australian’s Emlgrrate to Parasuaj. Australia is greatly perturbed over the emigration movement to Paraguay. The government of Paraguay has given nearly 500,000 acres of good land for settlement to Australian colonists, or others of suitable standing in means and character who join them, and there is an expectation that 10,000 persons may settle on the landa All who go from old to new Australia are teetotalers and have a considerable amount saved, and .the loss of a few thousand men of that stamp is a serious matter. South Australia has, therefore, passed a village settlement act, under which those who want to cultivate land are very favorably dealt with, ^hen comes the question whether thrf Australian land is as good as that in Paraguay, and it is not But there are disadvantages there as well. Resuscitation. A curious method of resuscitation in vogue among the miners of Scotland in the case of insensibility from exposure to choke-aamp. and which is said to be very efficacious, is as follows: The half suffocated man is placed face downward over a hole freshly dug in the earth, and allowed to lie until he shows signs of con-soiotisnesa The idea involved in this proceeding is that the fresh earth draws the foul gas out of the lunera Itettln^r With » W'oman. iara—Now, remember, you have bet mo a box of gloves, aad if I win you must buy roe just the kind I like. George—Yes; and if I win— Clara—If you win, you have the privilege of buying me a cheaper sort--if you are mean enough to do it St. Helena’s Stamp Revenue. In the island of St Helena’s total revenue for 1892 of £7,691 is included the odd item of “£13^ received from dealers throughout the world for postage stampa” The population of the islands is biit about 4,000, and is steadily decreasing. A Cruel Rite That Was Resorted to In India—In Undergronnd Cells. The annals of Eastern nations furnish abundant examples of this custom, which has been resorted to from a variety of motives and under very different ^circumstances. The practico may be employed for the purpose of extinguishing life or maintaining life for a prolonged period without food or drink. There is, therefore, a fatal and non-fatal kind of living inhumation, says the British Medical Journal The common description of burial alive (jamadh) is leper burial, which used to be very frequently resorted to in India, often at the request or urgent entreaty of the victims of this loathsome disease. A pit was dug, by the relatives of the leper or by other lepers, and the unfortunate cast into it and smothered with earth. In some cases the wreck was burned to death before being thrown into the pit. Opium water was freely drunk by executioners and executed on such occasions. This cruel rite lingered in Kashmir and some parts of Rajputana till within very recent years. Indeed, it is questionable whether it is even now altogether extinct Lepers have been known in the extremity of their distress and misery to commit suicide by jumping into the pits. Burial alive has also in India “constituted a mode’’ of suttee, or voluntary sacrifice of life, by widows who have been cast by sympathizing and obliging request, into the same graves as their deceased husbands. Homicidal burial alive has been used as a means of punishment of crime, torture, revenge or murder, and the burial has been in such cases either complete or incomplete. The non-fatal form of living burial has always excited more interest than the fatal, which, however, supplies material for a strange and large chapter in the history of human crime. The phenomenon of hibernation yields some sort of countenance to the idea that the animal organism is capable, under certain circumstances — namely, conservation of body, heat, perfect inaction, and preservation from all external stimuli—of living for weeks, if not months, without food or drink; and records of prolonged fasting, with or without sleep, are forthcoming with the regularity of the announcements of gigantic gooseberries, sea-serpents and eight-legged calvea U he alleged proceedings of Indian fakirs and Persian dervishes are cited in support of the possibility of human hibernation in underground cells. The proceedings of these gentry must, however, be very liberally discounted. They certainly achieve some verv extraordinary feats of endurance and self-abnegation. Their efforts to set at defiance the laws and inclinations of the body, and by contemplation, fasting and neglect of the ordinary usages and requiremibnts of life to mortify the flesh and become absorbed into the divine soul, which is, according to the tenets of pedantism, the spring and essence of existence, surpass phvsiological possibility and necessarily engender imposture, which may be conscious or unconscious, or both. This element of uosignea, enters into all their proceedings, and is seldom either diligently looked for or detected. The love of the marvelous is strongly developed among orientals, and fakir stories must be taken with a liberal grain of salt. Tales of prolonged living burial are common enough in India, but in no case has the proceeding Iwen subjected to scientific observation or systematic watching; and in some instances the grave in which the devotee has proposed nate has been uncovered lapse of a few da3’s and its found dead. stricken Down, He Lay Until Death Came to The ex-lord abbot, sect, who died lately at in Kyoto, was the he Buddhist priests in Jap been suffering since year, when he contrae which appears to have character of influenza, ed with much pain an#, fever, and which finally wibr strength of the old prelatesi He does not, howeveVi*. have been altogether pr on the morning of his las was making his way alo rid or attended by a The latter, seeing him falUiú gave the alarm, and insta ter of women charged wi^ of duties and ceremonis^‘ the house of the prelat^ where>lf^ state of ceremony resembliii|* that a court was observed, ran' to spot. There were about twenty, these women, but so inflexible!4a etiquette of the ex-lord household that in the absence of his wife not one of the attendants' venture to touch the body 6f ^hé carnate Buddha, even in the of his death agony. All théy:5í¿&it do was to send a report to the .oMehai in charge of the affairs of ttfe hold and by him the tidings •'A conveyed to the present Idra* ’ whose residence was about a fvmtotig distant. • ' Some thirty minutes elapsed ■ be? fore the lord abbot arrived, simul- * taneously with a physician, and dut?^V ing the whole of that time tbo-yen-erable old man. too sacred to, bo touched, however much his humanity needed tending, lay helpless oh the ground. He died about an bour af- ^ terward.' A court physician, * specially dispatched by the enipjerpj^ y from Tokio, had been in attendi»eé‘ on the old prelate during tbc last days of his illness, and his 8oh,‘ the ^ present lord abbot, had been-at his * side almost continuously. Yet iteras bis fate to die as has been describe^ His remains having 'oeen packed £i|r* Vermillion, were laid in state in residence, where the public was* air lowed to visit them. The ceremony commenced at 2 a m. and contioped * until 3 in the afternoon,during which ^ time more chan 20^000 persons paid' ' their last tribute to the Buddha ' On the following day the coili^n was conveyed upon a splendid char- ' iot to the two temples of Amid% *, Daishi, and, high mass having been \ performed in Hokushoin, the remains ’ were finally laid beside those of his ' predecessor, a quantity of IJjl t'dá' ,4f and incense having been laid or to hiber-after the occupant I’apyru» Docaments. An exhibition of exceeding interest has just been opened at the Vienna museum. This consists of a collection of upwards of 10.000 I'-g’yptian papyrus documents, which were discovered at El Fayum and purchased by the Austrian Archduke Rainer several years ago. The collection is unique, and the documents which were written in eleven different languages, have all been deciphered and arranged scientifically. They cover a period of 2,500 years and furnish remarkable evidence aa to the culture and public.and private life of the ancient Egyptians and other nations. They are also said to contain evidence that printing from type was known to the Egyptians as far back as the tenth century B. C. Other documents show that a flourishing trade in the manufacture of paper from linen raga existed six centuries before the process was known in Europe. Another interesting feature in the collection is a number of commercial letters, contracts tax records, wills, novels, tailors* bills and even love-letters dating from 1200 R C. A Nagriret of Tin. A wonderful nugget of tin has been discovered in the mines of North Dundas. Tasmania. It is estimated to weigh 5,400 pounds. The assay of a small piece shows that the large mass of ore contains 67 per cent of metallic tin. Quiet and Orderly. In the heart of London is a public newsroom without a librarian or anyone to look after the papers. Ihey are chained and padlocked so they cannot be carried off. I^ittle damage is done and the room is usually quiet and orderly. Long: Un»>urled. Hortense Thevanon Buisley died in San Francisco in 1866 and her body was sent to N^ew York for burial. It was placed in a vault in a cellar and forgotten. A few days ago it was found and she was buried. Vermillion immediately surrounding the corpse. The coffin itself ^^aVbt pure white pine, without any splecl%l ornamentation other than its rlchjy chased gilt mountings. It was en** veloped, however, by gold brocade pt the finest type, and upon it was laid the state robes of the deceasedt ti^é magnificence of which may be qorf* ceived from the fact that they'-a^ said to have cost 10,000 yen. This, however, does not repre^nt the final rite of sepulture. A fufix^l ceremony on a grand scale was Qiar-formed ten days later, one feature^ bf which was a feast at which l^ere were present the dead prelates siic*»’ ccaaor, oHiof priests of the braiie|f temples throughout the empirc»i^h^ wife, nearest blood relations andHh-t mediate female attendants of ceased, the duties of waiting usiuti^W intrusted to the councillors of * household being on tnis occasion del- -* egated to the principal male atténd,^ ants of the lord abbot’s person. The viands served were of the plajfcn-est kind—a little miso soup, W^ith square cut pieces of bean curd, and some rice. Similar simplicity was observ^> with respect to food distributed 'to , the general body of mourners. It was limited to a ball of rice and a. ^ few slices of pickled turnip. Tb^* recipients of this consecrated food did not eat it. They carried it home. and treasured it as a talisman against* disease, distributing portions to friends, who keep it for the same purpose. The bier, as carried in the procession, was surmounted by a golden phoenix standing on a ball of the, same metal, and from each of the corners hung chains supporting swal-lowa also of gold. In advance walked six temple officials, representing the “six roads” of the Buddhist doctrine, the fresh bamboo staves carried by them being emblematical of the salvation which a Buddhist saint extends to all be- ‘ lievers. 'I he chief mourner was shod with hemp sandals on bare feel, and sixteen ladies of the household had zoriof straw, also on bare feet Other ancient customs peculiar to this, the most solemn rite of the faith, were carefully observed, and those privileged to be present on the occasion witnessed a most impressive ceremony. - * i To A id' Colored Students. fiarvard university recently received by the will of Mrs. Harriet Hayden the sum of $5,000 to found a scholarship for colored students. There are now a number of colored students from various parts of tho country not only in the college, but also in the professional schools. The best known among them is a clever law student, W. H. Lewis of Virginia, who for two years has been center rush on the university football team. His Only Course. “Why did you kiss my daughter against her will?” “She said I would have to kiss her against her will or not at all.”—Life. How Could' It Be Warm. The Publisher—You say you are «•spiring to be a realistic novelist %nd report things as they are. The Author—Yes, certainly. The Publisher—Then what ip thun-ier do you mean by saying “the beautiful Boston hostess gave her i guest a warm receptioiL—Chicago I Record. '

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