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Scrapbook: Anna McFarland Stabler, c. 1875- c.1812

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[four newspaper article] [partical first article] will be at home at their residence 1012 Belvidere terrace.

Mrs. Washington Bowle Jr., will receive informally this afternoon and the remaining Wednesday afternoons in January at her home, 94 Mosher street.

[second article] Mr. And Mrs. Sutton's Dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Eben Sutton gave last night at their residence, southeast corner of Park avenue and Centre street, one of a series of dinners. It was in honor of Miss Marjorie Patterson, one of this season's most attractice debutantes. The dinner was served at four beautifully appointed tables. arranged with white roses, mignonette and asparagus vine, the candelabra being shaded with green and silver. The other guests were: Mrs. and Mrs. Randolph Barton, Jr. Miss Sidney Morison. Miss Mary McKim. Miss Dorothea Hoffman. Miss Louisa Whyte. Miss Harriet Brown. Miss Katharine MacSherry. Miss Arabella Hambleton. Miss Anita Smith. Mr. Philip Carroll. Mr. William Whitridge. Mrr. thomas M. Hulings. Mr. A. H. S. Post. Mr. P. B. Key Daingerfield. Mr. Gerard T. Hopkins. Mr. Alfred J. Shriver. Mr. R. Curzon Hoffman, Jr. Dr. Thomas T. Shearer. Dr. John Staige Davis

Mrs. Pennington's Luncheon. Mrs. Joslas Pennington gave a beautifully arranged luncheon today at her

THE OLDEST NEWSPAPER Peking Gazette Was Started Twelve Hundred Years Ago. The oldest newspaper in the world is the [cut off] or Official Gazette, of China

[third newspaper article over another article] MRS. JENNIE McF. B. DUGDALE. dale, wife of William Dofdale, of Indanapolis, but formerly of Baltimore, was held yesterday afternoon from Central Presbyterian Church, Eutaw Place, near Dolphin street, Rev. De Witt M. Benham, the pastor, officating. Burial was in Loudon Park Cemetery.

Mrs. Dugdale had long been an invalid and she died last Sunday at Indianapolis, Ind. where she and her husband lived for a number of years. Her husband and one daughter, Daisy, survive. The body arrived in Baltimore yesterday at noon and rested in the church until after the services.

About 12 years ago Mr. and Mrs. Dugdale were prominent in the Central Presbyterian congregation. Mrs. Dugdale was much interested in the work of the church, particularly the foreign mission department, of which she was president while here. She kept up generous remittances to the fund during her residence in Indianapolis amd until her death.

[fourth article vertically by right side of second article] A Quick Change. He kissed the cook - She was very good-looking; The very next day His wife look up cooking.

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GIFT TO MR. JORDAN STABLER Business Associates Present Him With Loving Cup on Birthday. A pleasant surprise was given to Mr. Jordan Stabler on Monday night, when the members of the company bearing his name and the office forces and salesmen of the main and branch stores gathered at Mr. Stabler's house in a body, numbering about 50, to pay their respects to him upon the occasion of his birthday.

Mr. R. L. Bentley, the vice-president of the company, in a few well-chosen words presented to Mr. Stabler, in the name of those assembled and as a token of their esteem and regard, a solid silver loving cup, handsomely chased, and engraved as follows:

[insert] Presented to MR. JORDAN STABLER On his Sixty-fifth birthday. January 16, 1905, By his associates in the Jordan Stabler Company

completely taken by surprise, Mr. Stabler in feeling terms thanked the donors for their valuable gift. After the interchange of social greetings the party adjouned to the dining room, where the family, having been in the secret, a supper was on readiness, the center of the table being decorated with an enormous birthday cake which blazed with the appropriate number of candles. At the end of a very enjoyable evening all present wished Mr. Stable many happy returns of the day.

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THE OLDEST NEWSPAPER Peking Gazette Was Started Twelve Hundred Years Ago. The oldest newspaper in the world in the Ching Pao, or Offical Gazetter of China. Its exact age is not known, but the first reference to it in Chinese history is found in the records of the reign of K'al-Yuan, of the T'ang Dynasty, A. D. 718-41. It had undoubtedly existed for some time previous to this date and has been published regualrly ever since.

The Ching Pao is a sort of Court Circular, containing also offical decrees and royal containing also official decrees and royal proclamations. It appears from several proclamations. It appears from several offices under several different names, owing to the right of certain persons to copy and sell it. There is also a manuscript copy, issued to subscribers one day earlier than the regular edition. This remarkable newspaper, in all its

{From 1-20 to 1 1906} agreed.

The present "hot wave has had some counterparts centuries back, according to Samuel Pepys' diary, attention to the following entries in which is called by James J. Dougherty, of No. 107 North Camac street:

January 21, 1661. - It is strange what weather we have had all this winter; no cold at all, but the ways are dusty and the flies fly up and down, and the rose bushes are full of leaves - such a time of year as was never knonw in this world before here.

January 15, 1662 - Mr. Berkenshaw asked me whether we had not commited a fault in earing to-day, telling me that it is a fast day ordered by the Parilament to pray for more seasonable weather, it having hitherto been summer weatherthat it is as to warmth and every other thing just as if were the middle of May or June, which do threaten a plague (as all men think) to follow, for so it was almost the last winter, and the whole year after hath been a very sickly time to this day.

paper are bound in a neat paper cover and stitched with tissue-paper thread, which is thin as tissue, but so tough that when twisted into a thin twine a wisp of it will hold a man's weight.

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THE OLDEST NEWSPAPER Peking Gazette Was Started Twelve Hundred Years Ago. The oldest newspaper in the world is the Ching Pao, or Official Gazette, of China. Its exact age is not know, but the first reference to it in Chinese history is found in the records of the reign of K'ai-Yuan, of the T'ang Dynasty. A. D. 718-41. It had undoubtedly existed for some time previous to this date and has been published regularly ever since.

The Ching Pao is a sort of Court Circular, containing also official decress and royal proclamations. It appears from several offices under several different names, owing to the right of certain persons to copy and sell it. There is also a manuscript copy, issued to subscribers one day earlier than the regular edition.

This remarkable newspaper, in all its editions, is as different from modern American dalies as could well be. Its 30 or 40 pages are only three to six inches wide and about eight inches deep. It has no advertisements, no pictures and no heading. The lines run from top to bottom, and the front is where our back is. The pages have a wide margin at the top and bottom, but none on the sides. The curious and very wonderful Chinese characters seem to be as perfect in the copy that was written by hand as in the printed editions, and one marvels how one man could produce a single number in a week, much less a single night. There are many thousand different Chinese characters, for it is a modification of an ancient picture writing somewhat like the bieroglyphics of the Egyptians, so that learnng one' A. B. C.'s in China is a matter of years of study.

In Chinese writing, as in English, there is a printed kind of type letter and a flowing script for rapid writing, but the two kinds look to an American like two distinct systems, each one of which would fill a book. It is notable that the manuscript edition of the Ching Pao is not in the quicker flowing script, but in the printed form, with its inticate crossing lines of definite length, place an curve.

The printed copies of the oldest newspaper are bound in a near paper cover and stitched with tissue-paper thread, which is thin as tissue, but so tough that when twisted into a thin twine a wisp of it will hold a man's weight.

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gives the coat a tailored effect. Sizes 14, 16 and 18 years, in black tan and mixed grays. Second floor - Eleventh St. side

Pre-Inventory clearance Women's evening Coats and wraps White, pink, blue, lavendar, pearl, garnet, Nile, reseda and champagne. Loose coats, Empire coats and semi-fitting coats. Some are elaboorately trimmed with handsome lace. Heavy satin linings. Coats that were $15.00, now $7.50 Coats that were $22.50, now $11.25 Coats that were $29.50, now $14.75 Coats that were $32.00, now $16.25 Coats that were $35.00, now $17.50 Coats that were $49.50, now $24.75 Coats that were $55.00, now $27.50 Coats that were $65.00, now $32.00 Coats that were $75.00, now $37.50 Coats that were $100.00,now $50[page torn]

tion while with the Los Angeles team in 1904, and played with the New York Americans last season., is employed as shipping clerk in an express office in Indianapolis.

-There are idications that the anti-pass crusade may reach the baseball clubs. If it does it will mean a body blow to some of the former enthusiastic fans, who are now anxiously awaiting the opening of the season.

-Cleveland has asked for wavers on Billy Lush, which means that the player is to be sold his release, so that he can become playing manager of the New Haven team.

-Jack O'Connor, the veteran, and "Young Hackenschmidt" Spencer are the two catchers on whom McAleer will stand pat at St. Louis. He has sold Roth to St. Paul and probably will let Sugden go.

HORSES FOR SALE North Phila. Bazaaar Broad and Lehigh Ave. BIG HORSE SALE TUESDAY, JANUARY 23 at 11.30 o'clock 200 Head of Business Horses THE SALE OF HORSES WILL START PROMPTLY AT 1 O'CLOCK WITH NEARLY ONE HUNDRED HEAD OF CONSIGNED HORSES FROM THIS LOCALITY. THESE IN ALMOST EVERY INSTANCE ARE HERE FOR THE HIGH DOLLAR. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT WE DO NOT ALLOW OWNERS TO MISREPRESENT HORSES. PUT IN THIS SALE. FOLLOWING THESE ARE SEVERAL CARLOAD LOTS OF WORK HORSES CHOSEN FOR CITY USE FROM LEHIGH AND LEBANON COUNTIES SPECIAL MENTION IS MADE OF SEVERAL PAIRS OF GOOD YOUNG MULES; ALSO ABOUT 10 BEAD OF HEAVY DRAUGHT HORSES SUITABLE FOR CONTRACT WORK. THE SLAE OPENS AT 11.30 WITH HARNESS CARRIAGES AND WAGONS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. INCLUDING A FULL LINE OF STABLE SUPPLIES. ENTRIES OPEN UNTIL NOON DAY OF SALE. CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED. ALL HORSES TO BE AS REPRESENTENTED OR PURCHASE MONEY REFUNDED. COME EARLY AND LOO OVER THE STOCK. North Phila. Bazaar Co., Inc. 2711 North Broad St.

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[Howard Chandler or Chrizty. 1903?] Sketch of an man and woman, holding a red umbrella sitting on the ground. With several people in the distance.

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4 THE AMERICAN PUBLISHED DAILY AT THE American Building, S. W. Cor, Baltimore and South Sts CHAS. C. FULTON & CO. AND PUBLISHED. The DAILY AMERICAN is served by carriers to subscribers in Baltimore for twelve cents per week, without the Sunday Edition. With Sunday Edition, fifteen cents per week, payable only to the carriers. The Sunday Edition served separately at three cents per copy.

TERMS TO MAIL SUBSCRIBER, POST-PAID DAILY, One Month $ .50 DAILY and SUNDAY, One Month .65 DAILY, Three Months 1.50 DAILY AND SUNDAY, Three Months 1.90 DAILY, Six Months 3.00 DAILY and SUNDAY, Six Months 3.75 DAILY, One Year 6.00 DAILY and SUNDAY, One Year 7.50 SUNDAY EDITION, One Year 1.50 WEEKLY, One Year 1.00

The Washington Bureau of THE AMERICAN is as 1420 Pennsylvania Avenue, where Advertisements and subscriptions will be received. Persons living in Washington or Georgertown can have THE AMERICAN left at their residences long before business hours, and as early as the Washington morning papers, by leaving their orders with Mr. William H. O'Brien, News Agent of THE AMERICAN, 1420 Pennsylvania aavenue

Baltimore American [sketch of Statue of Liberty and other items] AND COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1886 THE NEWS Weather indications for to-day; For District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia. fair weather, southerly winds, becoming variable; nearly stationary temperature. For Eastern New York, Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, fair weather, westerly winds; slight changes in temperature. For West Virginia, fair weather, southerly winds; slightly warmer.

David Nero, the colored religious imposter, who was to evangelize Africa, has been convicted in England - A terrific gale prevailed in the British Isles, doing incalculable damage. In the Campbell divorce suit yesterdy, while Colin Campbell was testifying, Blood, his irate father-in-law, shook his fist in his face and called him a liar. - The Presbytery of Victoria protest against French occupation of the New Hebrides. - Archbishiop Walsh has warned the British government against its present policy in Ireland. - Several of the Belfast rioters have been tried and convicted. - M. Goblet has very reluctantly consented to form a French ministry. - Mr. Joseph W. Harper, United States Consul at Munich, is dead. - Count Kalnosky received the Bulgarian delegation. - The Czar of Russia drank Emperor William's health at a banquet. - Russian and Turkish securties have tumbled on the Berlin Bourse, owing to a growing fear of war. - The jury in the case of Arthur Moreton, ailas Rev. Theodore Keating, on trial in Dublin, as disagreed.

The Police Board yesterday retired Captain Delanty, of the Southern District, on a pension, and appointed Lieutenant Claiborne, of the Western Station, to the postion. - A large number of weddings occured in the city and state. - The Baltimore and Ohio directors re-elected Mr. Robert Garret president. He made a statement, showing the progress and plans of the company. - Capt. Andrew Spier, of Cumberland, president of the Biaen Avon Coal Company, died in this city at the residence of Major Shaw. - A reception was given to Rev. Albert Studebaker, the new pastor of the First English Lutheran Church. - Mrs. John E. Owens has received from many friends messages of condolence and tributes to her husband, who died on Tuesday.

In the United States Senate yesterday bills were introduced providing for examinations of army officers for promotion, and for a monument to negro soldiers. Senator Blair made a speech favoring the constitutional amendment for women suffrage, and the correspondence on the Canadian fisheries matter with Great Britain was submitted by the President. - In the House of Representative a bill was passed amending the statutes as to the rank and pay of officers in the volunteer service, and the electoral count bill was discussed and notification given that the previous question would be called on it to-day.

The full correspondence in the Candadian fishery disputes is made public. It makes very interesting reading. The urgent letters and arguments of Secretary Bayard and Minister Phelps are treated with scant courtesy. They press the rights of the United States fishermen aggresively, and say that Great Britain will be held responsibile for all seizures and for all injuries done. the matter is now before Congress. - The Society of the Army of the Cumberland will meet in Washington on the 11th and 12th of May, 1887. - The Bell Telephone suit will be brought in Boston by the government. - Col. Wm. G. Moore has been appointed chief of the Washington police force. - The President still suffers from rheumatism - Thomas Moonlight, of Kansas, has been appointed governor of Wyoming Territory. - Mrs. Cleveland has returned to the White HOuse. - John C. Miller, of Hyattsville, Md., was shot on the streets of Washington by George N. Walker, brother of Major Walker, late chief of police. - Minnie Raymond, who was shot by John Roe, who subsequently killed himself, died yesterday. - Afternooon receptions occurred at the residences of Secretaries Whitney and Endicott. - Senator Gorman and State Treasurer Archer had a consultation at the Capitol.

The ocean steamship rate war continues in New York. - A seam of anthracite coal seven feet six inches in diameter has been stuck at Bauff, N. W. T. - Jennie Saxton, charged with forgery at Burlington, Vt. failed to secure bail. - The United States Commissioner in New York decides that mail on the top of a mail-box is not in custody of the government. -One hundred foreigners from the West were at the Union Station in Pittsburg, on their way back to their home in the old country. - Wellington Goddin, one of the oldest real estate dealers in Richmond, is dead. - Governor Lee has respited Cluverius until January 14. - Colonel Lamb has sued the Richmond Whig for $10,000 for publishing George A. Wise's card. - The Alabama legislature is rushing local option bills through without objecttion. - Isaac Lea, LL.D. a distinguished American naturalist, is dead in Philadelphia. - A New York saloon-keeper swore yesterday that he had been paying $2 per month for eighteen months for police protection while keeping his side door open on Sundays. - A riot broke out at Ameterdam, N. Y., among unemployed mill hands, several of whom were injured. - The steamers of the electric line, from Wilmingron to New York, have been wihdrawn.

There was a $200,000 fire in Buffalo, N. Y. - A dynamite explosion near Fort Smith, Ark., killed two and fatally wounded three person.- Leander Shellengerger has been found guilty, at Nebraska City, of murdering his eleven-year-old daughter. - A part of brutes in Texas disembowled James Connor, a colored man, on suspicion of robbing the mails. - Miners are leaving Pennsylvania for Colorado. - Another earthquake shock in Columbia. - The steamer Allentown is still ashore on Pedock's Island. - Missouri City was shaken up. - Five men of the steamer Knickerbocker were drowned off the Delaware capes while trying to a a schooner. - D. & J. Maguire, extensive shipowners of Quebect, are in difficulties, with liabilities of $500,000. - The jury in the trial of ex-Alderman McQuade has been completed. - Jansen, the wife murderer in Chicago, who has been starving himself, was forced to swallow food.

Which does the President prefer - aggressive politics or aggressive rheumatics?

Just for the sake of keeping his hand in, Jay Gould has bought another railroad.

The Patti company took away $7,600, the price of 1,520 sleigh rides. Just thin of it!

WILL a Daniel now be called to judgement - a just and upright judge? It is earnestly hoped that such will be the case.

SAN FRANCISCO's stock speculators seem to be sowing the wind and reaping the blizzard both at the same time.

A CHICAGO Socialist in New York announce that he believe he has no soul. His friends say he is a close observer, too.

How many people, we wonder, have read all of the President's message? Probably not one in a thousand. And yet, every citizen should read it.

ONE of the reasons that led Judge Fisher to resign was the bad air of the court rooms. this should call attention anew to a glaring evil that needs correction.

MADAME PATTI will doubtless be warmly received in Mexico, but a much warmer reception at the hands of the Mexicans awaits that bogus ticket-seller and spurious agent.

DON'T read your neighbor's newspaper, A New Yorker, who it was proved had not paid is board bil for nineteen years, began his downward career by pilfering newspapers.

JUDGING from recent movements in the petroleum market two or three new Russian "gushers" must have been discovered in which the Standard Oil Company have no financial interest.

RARELY has Mr. Gould, directly or indirectly, received such a rebuke as that administered by Judge Gresham, in deciding the Wabash Railroad case. The action of the court will be hailed with general satisfaction by all holders of railroad securities.

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3 NOTES AND QUERIES. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A Vareity of Information on a Wide Variety of Topics - Replies to Inquires from All Parts of the Country - Their Questons. Please give a full account of Alsace and Lorraine, by whom named, and what do the states from their earliest occupancy of the two states from their earliest occupancy is desired. J. A. HELMAN, Emmittsburg, Md.

Alsace had a dense population of Celts a century or more before the Christian era. The Ill and its tributaries are the principal streams besides the Rhine. Eighteen centuries ago it began to be filled with Germanic settlers, who were called Ill-Sassen, i. e. dwellers on the Ill, and hence the orgin of the name. After the defeat of the Alemanni, near Zulpich, in 498, Alsace became known under Frankish rulers as the duchy of Alsatia. In the ninth century it was part of Lothaire's empire, and in 904 was annexed to Germany by Henry the Fowler, and although claimed as a Frankish possession, remained for several centuries in the possession of Germany. A revolt of the Alsatian peasantry, the most violent outbreak during the religious conflicts of the sixteenth century, was quelled on May 17, 1525, by the sanguinar victory achieved by Duke Anthony III, over the peasants. Part of Alsace was alloted to France by the treaty of Westphalia, in 1648. Strasburg was seized by Louis XIV in 1681, and the whole country came under French authority by the treaty of Ryswick, in 1697, with the exception of Montbeliard and Mulhausen, which were acquired by France subsequently. German was the language of the masses, while the speech and modes of life of the upper classes were French.

The inabitants of Lorraine are mostly Germans, but only in a small part, part is the Vosges and Metz, has the German language maintained itself. This part is, therefore, called German Lorraine. Under the Roman emperors this country formed a part of the province of Belgica Prima. It was conquered by Clovis, and on the division of the Frankish kingdom under his sons, belonged to Austrasia. When the empire of Charlemagne had been repeatedly divided among his descendants, the division of kingdom of Lothaire, son of the Emperor Lothaire I, received the name of Lothars Ryk in low Ferman, or Lothart Regnum in Latin, from which arose the name Lotharingia in medieval Latin, and hence the name. After his death, in 869, Lorraine was divided between France and Germany, but subsequently the whole of it was attached to the latter empire. It was partially ruled by France and Germany until 1766, when it was fully annexed to the former country. By the treaty of May 10, 1871, portions of Asace-Lorraine were ceded to Germany by France, and this new German country is known as Elsass-Lothringen. It has not been annexed to any particuar German state, but it is a Reichsland (Imperial land) immediately subject to the Emperor. It is divided into three districts, Eber-Elsass. Unter-Eslass and Lothringen. "Olsass" means "the country of the Sassen (settlers) on the Ill.

Kindly tell me what the picture in The American counting room, "A Petition to the Doge," represents, and give a short history of the Ducal Palace in Venice. HTIMS M.W.

The petitioner is craving some boon-perhaps asking for the life of release of a condemned prisoner. It was the only way of gaining the attention of the doge. "Doge" was the title of the elective chief magistrate who held the office (termed dogate) for life. The first of them in Venice, Paolucclo Anapeste, was called to the dignity in 697, when Venice had scarcely risen to the importance of a city, and he and his successors ruled it as sovereigns with nearly absolute power. When the state grew mightier, both on land and sea, through commerce and conquests, the nobles continually strove to check the power and influence of their elective head, and the government became more and more republican, until the dogate became a magistracy, and finally a mere title. One of the most noted of the doges was Sebastiano Ziani (1173), who introduced the custom of marrying the sea (Adriatic) by throwing a ring into its waters, on Ascension Day. The office was destroyed with the state, in 1797 by the French under Bonaparte. Lodovico Manin, elected in 1788, was the seventy-third and last doge.

Will you kindly inform me why Bethel street, from Fairmount avenue to Fayette street, is not being paid and the ordinance for grading and paving has been signed by the Mayor? INQUIRE.

The City Commisioner is now making the prelimmary arrangements to establish the grade of the street, and is now advertising for that purpose.

In the stamp flirtation, what might be the sentiment of a stamp in the right-hand corner at the top of envelope, being place across the corner upside down? A lady was the receiver. LETTER-WRITER, Hagerstown, Md.

the "code" does not, specify any such arrangement. If it has any meaning, it is that of an earnest request for a reply. such a nosition is frequently the result of carelessness. Look underneath the stamp for message.

(a.) In addressing a young lady, should you say "Yes, miss" or "Yes, ma'am"? (b.) Is it correct to address a young unmarried lady as "Yes, miss"? MRS. G. M. T., Macon, Mo. (a.) The former expression is the correct one. (b.) Certainly. Our English word "miss" is the nearest approach we have to the French "mademoselle", which means an unmarried lady, a single woman, a girl.

Will you please give me a short history of Charlotte Bronte? SHANE-NA-LAWN.

This English novelist, who wrote under the pseudonym of "Curre Bell." was born at Thornton, in Yorkshite, on April 21, 1816, Her father, Patrick Bronte (orignally Prunt)y, was an eccentric man, and became curate of Haworth, Yorkshire, in 1830. Losing her mother in 1821, Charlotte was sent to a boarding school, where her health was impaireg by impure air and [all?] wholesome food. She then taught school until in 1842, when she and her sister Emiy went to Brussels to learn French. In 1846, with her sisters Emily and Anne, she published a volume entitled "Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell." She then wrote the wonderfully dramatic novel of "Jane Eyre," followed by "Shirley," "Vilette, and "The Professor." In 1854 she married her father's assistat, Mr. Nichols, and died the next year. Will you be kind enough to inform me whether or not a buck deer sheds his horns once a year? W. H. SHEARER

Some species of the deer do so, and others do not. The hart (buck) of the red deer sheds his antlers in the spring, and then retires to an unfrequented part of the grove or forest, while his new horns are growing, a full set appearing by august. The American elk, common in the Northwestern states, has tall, branching horns, sometimes six feet high, which ae shed every Februaury or March. The name is properly applied only to animals with deciduous horns.

(a.) What kind of coal is the best to use in a latrobe or other stove in a sitting room? (b.) What is the Susquehanna coal mostly used for, and what kind of coal is it? (c.) What are the prices of the different kinds of coal in Batimore? LOUDOUN.

(a.) A hard Susquehanna or white ash of No. 2 or No. 3. There is such a variety of this grade of stove that it is impossible to answer your question accurately, unless we know its size, the draught of the chimney, etc. The maker of the stove could readily tell you. (b) For heatiing purposes or for cooking where there is a good draft. (c.) The prices vary for the different grades from $5.75 to $9. To obtain a shedule of prices address E. Stabler, Jr. & Co., or some other leading coal dealer of this city.

Can you tell me who is the author of the story called "Cadet Days at West Point," and where the story can be bought, or be had? A. K. R.

We know of no work by that title. There is a "Manuel of Information about the Military Academy." written by Lieut. Ed. S. Farron, and the "West Point Scrap Book" of legends, stories, songs, etc., by C. E. Wood, a large volume, sold for $5.00.

Will you furnish me with an opinion as to the origin of the marks, resembling plants, on the enclosed stone, which was taken from a well ten or fifteen feet deep> GEOLOGIST, Hagerstown, Md.

The stone is a species of slate found beneath the Potsdam sandstone, and the fern-like impressions are dendrite coverings. Another stone was rested upon or against it, and the constant expansion and contraction of the soil has caused these two pieces of stone to rub against each other and thus form the "plant marks." Dendrite is the name applied to a peculiar mineral containing internally, or having it surface covered wit filamentary forms resembling moss, ferns, trees, etc. The moss, agate and mocha stone are examples.

Wha was the probable costume of St. Paul at the time of his conversion? ARTIST, Washington, D. C.

The Syrian-Hebrew dress was that of a loose gown, reaching nearly to the ankles, with scarf-belt, a cloak or heavy mantle would about the body and thrown over the shoulder, trimmed or tasseled, a turban, skull cap or conical-shaped fez, and sandals. a variation of the dress was a sleeveness coat reaching to the knees, and one long under-garment, partly cloak and partly a robe or dress, These were in parti-colors or bright figured raiment. You know of the Tyrian purple, naturally. With this were worn soft leather or skin shoes, or elastic nature, low cut and braided. You are referred to the illustrated German work by Dr. Carl Rohrback.

Is there a drama or play bearing the title of "Damon and Pythias, "and if so, who is the author? Reference to an encyclopoedia does not give me the desired information. NUISANCE, Cumberland, Md.

Yes, there is a play in five acts, bearing the title, written by John Banim and arranged as it was acted by Edwin Forrest.

A receives a United States pension and owew B a debt. Can B attach the pension? If not . what course must B purse to ger the money? INTERESTED

A man marries a woman and they buy a small property, the deed being made in the wife's name. One hundred dollars is paid down, and the balance is secured by mortgage. At the end of eight years they separate, and are childless. The mortgage remains unpaid, excepting the interest and taxes, which they have paid jointly. The house was furnished by the wife with money earned previous to their marriage. If the holder of the mortgage is willing, can the wife hold this property and prevent the husband from selling it and her household goods? W. W. S. T., Cecil country, Md. Yes

Where does the article cork come from, and what is it? J. STEVENS.

It is the outer bark of the evergreen oak, quercus suber. It is not the true bark or skin of the tree through which the sap circulates, but a spongy layer of cellular tissue formed outside it. After a few years this outer covering falls off. In Spain and Portugal, the great cork-growing countries, this process is anticipated, for the bark is removed every six or eight years, the trees continuing to yield good crops for 100 to 150 years. 'Corks, as stoppers, were used in the days of Cato - 201 B. C. "Lighter than Cork" is an Horatian simile. The peculiar cork stoppers for champagne bottles were invented \by a Benedictine monk, name Perignon, at the Abbey of Hautvilliers, about A. D. 1670. The name is derived from cortex, the bark of a tree.

Will you kindly inform we what day of the week July 28, 1835, fell on? E. E. E. It came on Tuesday.

Note. - Among the lists of fast runnng by railroad trains is that of the flying trip of Baltimore and Philadelphia journalists from Philadelphia to Cape May by special train, eighty-two miles in eight-three minutes, on April 22, 1882.

Please give me the name or address of some agent of official of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

SUBSCRIBER, Havre-de-Grace, Md. Address Mr. Charles Montaque of this city.

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POSTAGE STAMPS OF GREAT VALUE Ramance in the Little Bits of Printed Paper - The Rarest Stamp. From the Strand Magazine. Not a little of the fascination which the study anrd collecting of poatage stamps holds for enthusiasts lies in the fact that the story of their origin and subsequent history is in many cases of an exceedingly romantic character.

The single known copy of the rarest stamp in the world, valued at [l]2,000the one-cent British Guiana issued in 1856 - was discovered by a young collector in the colony among some old family papers stored away in an attic. Knowing nothing of its scarcity, and not being favorably impressed by its appearance, he sold it to another collector for a trifiling sum, the purchaser being also ignorant of his great bargain. Ultimately it found its way to Europe and now reposes in the collection of M. Philippe de la Renotiere of Paris, who purchased it many years ago.

The value of [l]1,4500 is placed upon the famous "Post Office Mauritius" stamp, which was crudely engraved on a small copper plate by a local watchmaker of Port Louis, and issued September 21, 1847. A total of only 500 copies of each of these stamps were tediously printed off one at a time from the plate, and the majority of these were used on invitations to a ball sent out by Lady Gomm, wife of the governor of the colony.

It is not until nearly twenty years after their issue that the first two copies of these rarities were brought to light by a young stamp collector of Bordeaux. The most perfect used copy of the 2 pence post office Mauritius was sold by auction in 1904 for no less a sum than [l]1,4500. and is now included in King George's collection.

To the story of the watchmaker who designed this stamp may be added that of the baker's boy who engraved a stamp of the Republic of Corrientes, now forming part of the Argentine federation. In 1855 it was decided by the authorities to issue stamps, but they could find no engraver to cut the die or prepare the plates. While one of the officals was discussing the situation with the head of the state printing office on his veranda one morning a baker's boy arrived with the daily supply of bread, and overhearing the conversation, volunteered to undertake to South America he had been apprenticed to an engraver in Italy. Ultimately the boy was given the work to do, and he turned out a stamp which, although crude, served for all postage stamps issued in Corrientes from 1855 to 1880.

Probably few people are aware of the fact, by the way, that his majesty (then Prince of Wales) was responsible for the design of the 1903 postage stamps of Canada, university ackowledged to be the most artistic stamps of the late king's coronation the postmaster general of Canada, then on a visit to England, took the opportunity of consulting his royal highness on the subject of the proposed new issue of postage stamps for the Dominion. The prince at once took the keenest interest in the work, designed the stamp in conjunction with a member of the Royal Philatellic Society, and superintended the preparation of the "master die" in this country. The Edwardian stamps of Canada can therefore lay claim to the distinctionof being designed by a king.

A stamp round which centers one of the foulest political crimes of modern history is the so-called "death-mask stamp" of Servia, issued in 1904 to commemorate the accession of King Peter I. The dastardly assassination of King Alexander and his Queen Draga by miitary officers, June 11, 1903, wiped out the Obrenovitch dynasty from the throne of Servia and paved the way for the present king.

After the tragedy one of the most famous of French stamp engravers was commissioned to prepare a stamp from a design by a Servian artist, showing on a single plaque the twin profiles of Kara Georg, the founder of the dynasty which bears his name, and King Peter, his descendant.

The stamps were issued at the time of King Peter's coronation in 1905, and hardly had they got into circulation when it was discovered that the "death-mask" of the late King Alexander had been skillfully and subtly introduced into the design, and on the stamp being inverted could be plainly traced in the reversed features of the two heads.

This discovery at once caused an outery, the stratagem being ascribed to ex-Queen Nathalie, mother of the murdered Kings, and her supporters, but all connivance in the plot was indignantly repudiated by the engraver, and the mystery of this extrordinary happening has never been satisfactorily cleared up.

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[two columns] [first column] (1). WHAT IS, S BEST. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox). I know as my life grows older And mine eyes have clearer sight. That under each rank wrong, somewhere There lies the root of right; That each sorrow has its purpose, By the sorrowing oft unguessed. But as sure as the sun brings morning, Whatever is, is best.

I know that each sinful action, As sure as the night brings shade. Is somewhere, some time punished, Though the hour be long delayed. I know that the soul is aided Sometimes by the heat's unrest; And to grow means often to suffer; but whatever is, is best.

I know there are not error In the great eternal plan, And all things work together for the final good of man, And I know, when my soul speeds onwards, In its grand eternal quest. I shall say as I look earthward, Whatever is, is best. (2). Neither Zola, nor Rostand. The

[second] [three lines clipped, some words are not readable] and Theodore Rose[sevelet] President of the United states Edward VII., King of Great Britain Ireland; William H. Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, Emite Loubet, President of France; Christian IX., King of Denmark; Kuang Hsu, Emperor of China; Leopold II, King of Belgium; Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria - Hungary; George, King of Greece; Mutshito, Mikado of Japan; Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands; Nicholas II., Czar of Russa; Alfonso XIII., King of Spain; M. Ruchet, President of Switzerland; Abdul Hamid II., Sultan of Turkey; Oscar II., King of Sweden; Carl V., King of Norway.

(2.) The Boer War - this war began October 11, 1899. It was caused by the aggressive policy of Joseph Chamberlain, the Colonial Secretary. The beginning of the war was marked by brillant victories of the Boers, but the overwhelming numbers of the British, under the leadership of Lord Roberts, compelled the Boers to break up into small contingents. though these little bands fought with bravery and persistance, and were in strategy superior to the enemy, they could rarionally hope to accomplish little against such odds. The leaders were accordingly reduced to the necessity of at last signing the terms of peace May 31, 1902. The troops put in the field numbered 300,000, of which 250,000 were British and 50,000 Boers. The British lost 30,000 men; the Boers 10,000. The British are estimated to have lost $3000,000,000, the Boers, $10,000,000.

The Japanese-Russian War-The war between Japan and Russia began on the night of February 8-9, 1904. In the eight leading battles on land the Japanese had the advantage. In fact, throughout the war Japan's forces were encouraged by the most wonderful success. The greatest battle in history was fought during this war, that of Mukden, a 16-day contest, lasting from February 24 to March 12, 1905. Kuropatkin, the Russian general, lost 110,000 men and an immense quantity of supplies, the Japanese sustaining a loss of 60,000 men. There were ten important naval engagements. It was immediately after the great battle of the Sea of Japan that Roosevelt began negotiations to bring the belligerents together. His efforts were finally rewarded when the Peace Commission signed the treaty at Portsmouth September 5, 1905. The total number of forces engaged during the war was about 1,540,000. Of these, the killed, permanently disabled and invalided have been computed at 625,000; 375,000 Russians and 256,000 Japanese. It has been estimated that the war cost Russia $1,075,000.000; Japan about $475,000,000. In ships, the losses were as follows: Russia, 68; Japan, 24.

(3.) (a) The Wilson tariff law was passed in 1894, as a result of the tariffreform campaign inaugurated by President Cleveland in his famous message to Congress in December, 1887, and culminating in his election to the Presidency in 1892, and the control of both houses of Congress by the Democratic party. It made a marked reduction of the tariff, but failed to carry out in their fullness the principles for which Cleveland and Wilson had contended, the bill having been subjected by the Senate to a great number of protectionist amendments, which the House was compelled to accept. Mr. Cleveland permitted it to become a law without his signature. (b) The Dingley tariff law was passed in 1897, at an extra session of Congress, called by President McKinley, who had been elected on a sound-money and hightariff platform in 1896. It is still in force, and is te highest protective tariff we have ever had, higher than even the McKinley tariff, which was enacted in 1890 and which, at the time, led to a violent reaction against protectionism (c) The Hay-Paucefote treaty between the United States and Great Britain was ne-

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