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The greatest gathering of royalty~ buried from St. Ge~ge's, as was also from it to the Frogmore Parl~ mauso.
the world has ever seen assembled in [ William IV.. Victorta's immediate ] lens, Where Vlctoria's remains have
St. George's chapel to attend the fun-I predecessor on the throne. Edward[ been interred beside those of the
oral services over Queen Victorians re-I VII. was christened and married in the Prince Consort. The first St. George's
mains.
Victorla's
father
and mother, [ chapel.. St. George's adjoins Windsor chapel was erected during the Joint
the Duke and Duchess of Kent. wereI Castle, and it is ~nly a short drive reign of William and Anne.
On the great lakes has appeared a
new style of lifeboat, invented by
Captain Mayo of the life-saving serv-
ice. He has tested it himself, and be-
lieves it to be a success. He has gone
to Washington to preson~ the model of
his invention for the consideration
of the government. The new lifeboat
Is really a sort of "life car," the prin-
ciples being much the same as those
embodied in the latter device. The
life-car is supposed to be hauled ashore
by lines, while the Mayo lifeb'oat is
intended to be blown or rowed ashore.
according to circumstances. A llne of
steamers sailing out of Chicago has
been equipped with the Mayo boats.
and the captain and his associates are
hopeful.
The newly devised boat is a cone.
rounded at both ends. It Is intended
to be thirty feet long and seven feet
in diameter. ]t is perfectly round,
there being projecting fins, or bilge
keels, to keep it from rolling. The
shell is built of three-inch oak, cov-
ered with aluminum, or sheet steel, as
the builder desires, and is shaped on
strong oak ribs on the inside. The
forward and after end of the boat are
air cham~bers, built in such a way that
crushing or puncturing are practically
Impossible. Around the shell are open-
The .]Ve oe.rt Lifeboat
kind of gaskets, and on each side two
portholes large enough to push an oar
through. The ports are closed with
heavy doors of steel, end ,,very open-
Ing Is closed and locked from the In-
side. The only unprotected openings
are at the ends of the cone. The for-
ward one is a manhole large enough
for a man to move about in easily, =nd
at the other e~d is an opening design-
ed for the lowering of an anchor. In-
side there are accommodations for 50
people and lockers large enough to
stow the food necessary for their sus-
tenance for thirty days; also .water
tanks" with a sup ply of drinking water
Sumcieut to last for that time.
The seats are so arranged that they
revolve completely arSund, no matter
how often the boat turns over, and the
p~ssenger is always kept upright. The
interior is filled with two aluminum
bulkheads, which swing about with
the motion of the seats inside the boat.
2lways keeping the ventilators a safe
distance xbove the water. To avoid
the danger of filling, the ends of the
boat are fitted with water vents, and
as the whole boat, loaded, draws less
than four inches, there is enough of it
always exposed to the influence of the
wind to allow of its being ~lrlven
ashore. A device for locking the swing-
ings filled with heavy plate glass, set Ing seats in poslti~)n keeps them secure
in rubber and steel gaskets. On two and allows rowing when rowing is
sides are manholes set in the same practicable.
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~N[, fR@,~l A PHq'IOGRAF~ 9~ 7~ P1OD~.~
j~d,~ice from a Chinaman.
Wu 'ling Fang, the Chinese minis-
ter, in the course of an address upon
Confuciu~ and Mencius in Phlladeli~hia
on Sunday improved the occasion by
r~ply to some *critiCisms that have
been made by clergymen of the" Christ-
jan faith upon his~receut ~compaHson
of' Cllrlstlanlty and C0nfUeianism. His
reply tO their strictures was not omy
in excellent temper but it contained
many 'wise dugge~tio~ which~ men of
all religiotts beliefs would do well to
heed.
In makln~ the comparison between
Confucianism ' and Chrlstla~!~ : the
Chinese minister particularl~ d|sclaim-
ed any intention todisparage the lat-
ter. He dove not think it any ~ore
discreditable~ that all Christians do' not
live up to the doc~riue Of Christianity
than that all Confucians do not obey
the precepts of Confucius, nor can hs
understand why some clergymen
should resent nny attempt to compare
Christianity with other systems of be-
lief when they do not scruple to at-
tack other religions. Wu Tins Fang
recognizes all that is good in all sys-
tems, and from this high-miaded
standpoint does not think that "the
noble and sublime teachings of Christi-
anity need fear criticism, much less
comparison.''~ To this extent WU Tint
Fang stands for the good of humanity.
He believes that all religions teach
men to be good, and that if every man
would live up to the doctrines of his
religion it would be a better world
and men would live in brotherly peace.
l~.omanc# of a VJni~er,r~tjf.
The banquet in Chicago the other
evening In honor of the semi-centen-
nial anniversary of the founding of
Northwestern University was a fitting
celebration of one of the noteworthy
events in educational history. Fifty
years ago, Gov. French signed the
chart~ of the new university. The
story of the intervening half century is
a chronicle of heroic struggle and ul-
timate triumph such as can be shown
bY" few "freshwater" colleges. "The
university was intended .from the first
to serve the educational needs of Meth-
Odist fafliilies throughout the north-
west, but it was n@ver condudted in a
sectarian spirit. ~t first it was in-
tended to locate the-in~titutlo~ in Chi-
cago0 but an explorlng "expedition final-
ly penetrated the legions north of the
city and discovered an ide~! site in a
grove of oaks on the north shore.
!There the university was opened afg~w
years la'~er, a~d the vtll~ge4hat grew
up a2ound it bece~n$ Evanston. ,The
,modest school that started in -a single
frame building with a handful O£ ~tu-
dents now oucupies' more than a, dozen
large buildings In Evanston and Chi-
cago, counts its studentS bY the
~nds, has an endowment fund of over
$5,000,000, and is the largest Methodist
university in~ the country. Its con-
tributions to the educational life of the
northwest have~ been continuous and
important. Tts graduates are fOund in
the highest places of honor throughout
the United States.
~a~¢r.r Lt~e Long.
The remarkable longevity Of the So-
ciety of Friends in Great Britain has
been fully sustained during the last
year, the average age at death in the
United Kingdom, ,f~om one to 100
years, being 61 years, 7 months and 7
days, Two women' members died over
100 years old.
T~# j~,mour W~ill.
TheArmour will was filed in the Pro-
ba~e court yesterday. The ,estimate
placed upon the fortune is $15,000.000,
which will be divided equally between
the widow and th~ Only SUlWlVing son,
with the sttpulatioh, however, *that the
two grandchildren, sons of Philin D.
Armour, deceased, shall have a million
dollars each when they reach the age
of 25, and a like sum when they reach
the age of 30. no immediate provision
being made for them. as is explained
by the will, because they and their
mother already have an ample fortune
received from the estate during the
lifetime of the deceased son.
There are no other l~eneficiaries of
the great packer's fortune named in
the will, none of his old employee or
house servants, not even the Armour
Institute. His entire wealth goes to
the widow and son. This, however,
will not be a matter of surprise to
those who were nearest Mr. Armour In
a business sense and were familiar
with his system of disbursements. He
probably gave all that he intended to
give while he was living, and this was
n., small sum, for he rarely refused an
application where the applicant was
worthy, he was liberal with his bonus-
es to old employes, and he generously
endowed the Armour Institute.
~f)bere P~obeef4" ..~lrtce~or~
.f'leep.
In honor of Lord Roberts a cathe-
dral in Waterford, Ireland., is to be re-
stored to save the family vaults. When
the intention was lately announced
people wondered which edifice in that
town was to be thus dealt with. Wa-
terford has three cathedrals--the Pro-
testant, the Catholic. and the cathe-
dral in which the Huguenots used to
worship, more commonly known as the
French church. It is the latter struc-
ture that is to be restored for the bene.
fit of Lord Roberts.
"Bobs" is looked upon as a Water-
ford man. For more than two centu-
ries back the "Roberts" family can be
traced. Sir Thomas Drew recently
stated that "from all parts of the Brit-
ish empire come interested inquiries
about the antecedent origin of the
origin of the Roberts family, from
which haSe sprung a Lord Roberts o!
Kandahar, whose biography has to be
written for future generations. It is
found with no difficulty in the record
of a purely citizen family of Water-
ford; through more than two centuries.
a pedigree welt kept and remembered
in their city for the true and upright
citizenship of its many members. Their
last record is inscribed on the t0ml~
stones which lle~under the tower of the
French church, to which zo many turn
now with interest."
It is a~ticipated that nearly £8,000
~vill be required. To restore the tow-
er alone' will cost some £ 550 and those
responsible for the scheme ave anx-
ioUS that this work should be proceed-
THE KUINED FRENCH CATHE-
DRAL AT WATERFORD.
ed with as soon as possible, for under
it lie all the Robertses.
The fall of the tower, which must
come if neglected--would thus chiller-
ate the Roberts family burying plac~
Lob~rtcr~ and Lo&rt#r~.
Lobsters are almost a ,thing of the
past--that id the kind served ~ food.
--Boston Globe.
Epoch of ::
Meche nism :
e
Altered Condition of Life
]['or All M~nktnd in the
Century 1800-1900..~ .k,
The nineteenth was a most material-
~tic century, an age of mechanism.
~'e have progressed wonderfully in our
:spaclty for luxury, extravagance, com-
'oft. A hundred years ago our forbears
a mileage of fourteen miles. Today
there are 210,906 miles of railroad in
this country; 163.216 in Europe; 26,-
834 in South America; 31,102 in Asia;
$,978 in Africa and 14.384 in Australia.
miles an hour. The Empire State mr.
press made a record of 1.1,3 mils am
hour in May, 1898.
Marine travel did not make ~o won-
derful an advance In speed, ~rough
Fur,To, H 8o.AT.
sere content to live by hand, a~ it
#ere; now we live chiefly by compli-
•ated machinery. A century of prog-
-ess has created demands which forced
the dormant inventive skill of the
world to put forth its best efforts. The
world has made more progress in ma-
terial things in the last 100 years than
it did in all the centuries preceding.
~ivilized man's mode of existence has
been totally altered by his inventions.
The world has gone patent mad. In
the United States alone there were
~23,535 patents granted in the sixty-
two years from 1837 to 1898, During
its existence the patent office has re-
ceived more than $40,000,000 in fees.
0n carriages and wagons more than
20,000 patent~ have been granted; on
~toves and furnaces, 18,000; on lamps,
gas fittings, b.~rvesters, boots and
shoes and receptacles for storing, 10,-
~00 each. The *,otal of patents for the
~ivilfzed world )s easily Lwlce that of
Lhe United ~tates. Thanks to these
hundreds of thousands of contrivances,
what were luxuries to our forbears of
Early in the history of railroading
twelve miles an hour was considered
recklessly fast. In January, 1899, a
train on the Burlington route, in a
the agency of steam, as did land trav-
el, hut the progress in comfort and
safety was greater. In 1790 John Fitch
constructed a steamboat--and was con-
sldered a raving lunatic. This opinion
was confirmed when his e~periment
proved a failure. Seventeen ~yeare
later Robert Fulton, another so-called
visionary, backed by Joel Barlow and
Robert T. Livingston, built the steam-
,boat Clermont. She was soon dubbed
"Fulton's Folly" and when she started
for Albany on Aug. 11, 1807, all New
York was out to witness her failure.
She wen~ to Albany in the astonishing
time of thlrty-two hours, returning in
two hours less. Now when a gigantic
ocean liner, with lifeboats as large as
the Clermont. crosses the Atlantic in
less than six days, we read the news
in a bored sort of way, displeased that
steamers should be so slow. Fulton's
experiment led, years later, to the
iS00 are ~.)mmonplaces of existence to
all classes, rich an~ poor. lh 1900.
With the Invention of the steam en-
gine the world shrunk st a bound to
a twentieth of :'a former size. I',s vast
distances ceased to be formidable.
Where the lumbering stage coach or
the plodding caravan took weeks the
flying express covers the distance in a
few hours. The trip across this con-
tinent used to be a matter of life and
death. Now it is a matter of $100 and
take your ease as you go. Without the
railroad a close-knit nation thousands
of miles broad, such as this country,
would have been an impossibility. In
1825 the first steam railroad was op-
ened ~between Stockton and Darlington,
England. A year later a similar ex-
periment was tried at Quincy, Mass.,
where the engine hauled stone for a
distance of fo~r miles. The first pas-
senger road in this country was the
Baltimore & Ohio, opened in 1880, with
f- ~ODRR~ ~PIHH If'fG
IYIACH IHIE
run from Siding to Arlon, 2.4 miles, building of ths Savannah, which s~tu-
did the dlstauce in one minute and' ally crossed the Atlantic, to the great '~
twenty seconds, or at the rate of 108 astonishment of the entire world. [
ABOUT CONVICTS. more positions than we have men. I SHOVCED HIM A MINE.
Klndn~s Works Very wen on Tho~o
]gelm~Hglt from ]Prison,
Msdud Ballington Booth tells in Suc-
cess how seventy-five per cent of the
discharged convicts who have come ~ln-
der her notice have proved themselves
trustworthy. Her words are highly in-
tere~ting: "The drink evil is, of
course, the primary cause of most
crime. Crime follows drink as a tiger
does blood, and we find that most con-
victs' families are left destitute, and
we have to help them along, too. It
is they who furnish most of the heart-
braking pathos of crimin~l life. Many
sad stories could be told of the family
left behind the man who goes to 'pris-
on. But there are many happy stories
of the reformed convict restored to
wife and children through Hope Hall.
We confine our work to no creed or
sect, but Protestant, Catholic, Jew and
infidel are alike welcome to our
'homes,' the only condition being that
they must conform to the rules, and
prove sincere in their reformation. At
first the most difficult part of our
work was to procure employment for
released convicts. With all our as-
surances men would not entrust the
man witl~ a criminal record with their
business. The reformed convict was
looked upon as an impossibility, but
these poor fellows had won my con-
fidence, and I pleaded with bnslne~s
men to live them small ohance to
live. With" a-uecess the prejudice
gradually disappeared, and now in
ChiCago, where we receive twel~ men
pex week from the prisons, we have
"have some fine letters f~om business
men concerning the trustworthiness
and relfahility of 'my boys.'"
" Women o~ Bird Doctors.
One of the latest schemes of a clever
Woman ' forced to earn her own living
la establishing herself as a bird doctor.
Canaries are her specialty and she has
established a h0pital where she at-
ted~ls to the ills of these pete. Bro-
ken limbs, disordered digestive appa-
ratus, catarrhs and fevers are treated"
by the woman with benefit to the birds
and profit to herself. Other song birds
and house pets, and even the repulsive
parrot, are treated for their ailments
by this bird doctor, who is said to be
the only woman in the world making
a specialty ~0f this business. SO well
established is her fame in this direc-
tion that she makes visits to Philadel-
phia, Boston and other cities' when
called, and has established a regular
clientele there, as well as here, among
dealers who make the handling of birds
an incident to their other business, as
is the case at some of the department
stores.--New York Times.
l~lnee~ Claim Ancient Llaeoa®.
All the princes of Caucasus claim
direct descent from King David, ac-
cording to the Vienna Neue Freie
Presse, and some of them base their
descent from Noah or the landing of
the ark on Ararat, which is nearby.
St. Petersburg is soon to have a
home for self-supporting worktn~
~m~
Tradina Rat Left Gold In Phtee of ~ |
vet Spoo~.
The action of a rat led N. R. Ingolds-
,bY tO the discovery of a rich gold talus
in Arizona. He named the property:
the Rat Hole mine. Mr. Ingoldsby karl
been spending scveral* months near
Mammoth, on the San Pedro river, in
Arizona. His purpose was to en}uy
the hunting and make a collection of
the animals and minerals of the South-
west. He pitched his tent in~ the c&n-
yon of the San Pedro. in the Santa Ca-
farina mountains. He had no neigh-
bors. and was for a long time unable
to account for the disappearance of
smaU articles that he left lying ab'mt
his camp. At last he noticed that when I
anything was taken something was I
left in its place. This was usuall7 I I
bit of wood or stone. The culprit he
~ound to be a large rodent of the t, pe-
cles known as the trading rat. /Phe
habits of the animal made an inter~to
ing study for Mr. rngoldsby, and he
often lay awake at night to watch for
his visitor. A silver spoon was nflss-
ing one morning, but in its place wa~
a piece of quarts carrying free gold.
This still more excited Mr. Ingoldsby's
curiosity, and after several attemp~
he succeeded in following the animal
to its home. Near by was the le~
from which the gold bearing quar~
h~d been taken, Mr. Ingoldsby n~ade
an examination thorough enott~ to
:prove that his discovery was 0t ~-
L sider~bte/value.
