SAGUACHE CRESCENT.
~AGUA~H~, - - OOLORADO.
A road is being built In the high
Alps, which passes the great St. Ber-
nard and also the hospice of that
name. This great engineering feat
will be finished and opened to the traf-
fic in July ~f next year.
The biggest gorilla on record has
~been bagged by a German commercial
traveler In West Africa and is now on
exhibition in the Umlauff museum at
Hamburg. The a~imal measures 6
feet 10~ inches in height and its
spread of arms is 9 feet 3% inches.
The day of the week to be selected
for the coronation of Edward VlI, in
the coming year, is a subject of specu-
lation. No sovereign of that realm has
been crowned on Sunday since the
time of Queen Elizabeth, and only one
coronation in English history took
place on Friday. It is safe, therefore,
to exclude those two days from any
predict-ton concerning the stately cere-
monial.
"The Paris Messenger" says that an
attempt to resuscitate the old Roman
amphitheater near the Jar~lin des
Plantes, Paris, is about to be made.
This ancient arena, which is now used
partly as a playground for poor chil-
dren and partly for omnibus stables,
has a remarkable history. It is one
of the largest known Roman arenas,
and dates back to the first century.
There is evidence that the Emperor
Julian held sports there.
Woo-Tong, a Chinese merchant of
New York, left New York the other
day for the Pan-American Exposition.
Soon after the train started he saw
Grace Bradshaw, of New York, a
9retty American girl, paid her some
slight attentlon, rapidly became ac-
quainted and finally asked her to be
his wife, and after two hours of argu-
ment won her consent. They alighted
at Wilkesbarre, Pa., to be married, but
being unable to obtain a license went
to New York state and were wedded.
The sword, which has had so long,
and so distinguished a military record,
has been placed on the retired list•
British army authorities have decided
that in the future unmounted officers
shall carry carbines instead of swords
during manoeuvers and in active serv-
ice. The decision is the result of ex-
perience gained in the war in South
Africa. The sword is not only use-
less as a weapon, except in close
quarters, but it serves as a mark to
distinguish the officer from his men.
He thus becomes a target for the en-
emy's sharpshooters, and when the
private soldiers have small power of
initiative, as is the case in most Eur~
pean armies, the loss of a large num-
ber of officers may mean disaster. The
passing of the sword is one of the
signs of the changed conditions of
waF.
An automobile savings bank is the
latest French novelty. The authorities
of Mezieres, wishing to encourage
thrift among the peasants, have had
it built to specifications. It is an eloc,
tric motor-car containing four seats,
one for the driver and three in the
rear arranged arounu a small table.
Folding shelves make a convenient
desk for a person standing beside the
vehicle. Under the table is a smah
safe. The passengers are two clerks
from the local treasury department
and a cashier. The ear travels about
the country, making short stops in the
villages on prearranged days, and re-
ceiving such sums as the citizens or
farmers of the neighborhood may wish
to deposit. So far, however, the Inno.
ration has met little encouragement.
The peasants seem distrustful of the
agility of the bank, and disinclined to
draw out the old stocking from its hid-
ing-place under the hearthstone.
There is a reverse side to the sem-
blance of luxury expressed by the mir-
rors, the gilding, the velvet carpets of
many apartment and boarding houses.
The head of the lace department in a
great store recently spent her two
weeks' vacation in a hospital. She
laughed at the idea of being ill or even
nervous; but she was tired, and for
ten years had not slept in a real bed.
In one apartment house, in order to
keep her room fitted to receive callers,
she slept on a sofa that opened in the
middle, and had neither sides nor foot-
board. Six out of seven nights the
covers pulled off her feet. At another
place her folding bed fell on her and
nearly killed her, so she traded it for
a narrow divan, from which pillows
and blankets slipped off nightly. At
the hospital she finally found a bed
wide enough to sleep in crosswise, a
bed by day as well as by night, a bed
tuckabIe, with a bolster and counter-
pane; and she stayed in it for two
weeks. In countless cases the make-
believe bed is the symbol of a sham
and comfortless existence for which
apartment life is largely responsible.
A farmer living at the village of
~oussac, France, was seen to fall to
the ground, and on a subsequent ex-
amination by a medical man he was
pronounced to be dead. Arrangements
for his funeral were in progress, and
the man had been placed in his cof-
fin, when he suddenly recovered con-
sciousness. Sitting up ~n his coffin,
he so terrified the watchers that they
fled shrieking. This in turn seems to
have terrified the man, for he was
next seen running in his gracs clothes
towards a neighboring wood, gesticu-
latinl~ as though bereft of reason.
BRYAN AND OYSTER DEMOCRATS.
Mr. Bryan has the advqntage of the
Oyster l~emocrats, the shuffling and
sllet'.t or: llibiguous opportunists, in
havilig lhe (.olu'ag( to say wh'lt im be-
lieves. They simply want to win. lie
~V~III*~I tO ])l'OllllJt(~ c(wt~lin principles.
In an article ill Ilia l)uper he shows
timt the ])en|ovralic (,nclni(~s of the
Kallsas (;it3" platforln (.all'[ agree
• lnlong then,sc'lves, or don't i,:uo~.v what
they want. it is easy (,nongh to yawp
Itbout ghost issues like lrusts and iin-
perilaism, but the 1)cmo
Emma Goldman was in l)e~ver April
i3, 1898, and spoke before a small audi-
ence. In an interview published in
the News she said the anarchists had
decided not to kill any more crowned
heads.
Miss Ella Naomi Penfold of Bur-
lington has been chosen maid of honor
to the Mountain and Plain festival
queen from Kit Carson county. She is
a daughter of J. W. Penfold, county
treasurer.
Conejos and Logan counties have al-
ready named maids of honor for the.
queen of the Mountain and PI:Hn Fes-
tival at Denver next month. Miss Stel-
la Van Fleet will represent Conejos
county, and Miss Bertha Mac Brewer,
of Sterling, Logan county.
On Sunday, September 15th, the day
after the death of President McKinley,
nearly every pastor in Colorado devot-
ed his sermon to topics connected with
the great ~mtional tragedy. Large pub-
lic gatherings were also held in all the
principal towns of the stare.
The opening day at Denver u~l-
versity, September ]lth, was marked
by a great increase in the number of
students over last year. The students.
are not all in yet, but it is thought the
full enrolhnent will show more than
1.000 names. Last year there were-
880.
In an attempt to hold up the saloon
kept by Grant Depler in Stringtown,.
three miles from Leadville, at mid-
night, Septemher 10th, two robbers
had a fight with Depler and Joseph
Manshine, his bartender, in which the
latter was killed together with one of
the robbers. The other robber es-
caped.
The season of tourist rates on the
railroads is reported to have been far
She best ever known in this state. The
grand total of excursionists who visit-
ed Colorado during the summer Just
closed is between 50,000 and 55,000.
Last year there were less than 30,000.
The Colorado & Southern brought
from Texas to this state the largest
number of excursionists in its history,
a great many of them going to the-
Boulder Chautauqua.
The Denver Republican of Septem-
5er 15th, prints the following dispatch
from Boulder: A terrible mountain
fire is raging abont live miles west of"
Eldora, three miles west of the Re-
venge mine. It began at 2 o'clock
and by 7 dmd covered a space of
grotlnd over six miles square. It is
destroying some of the finest timber in
this county. From Boulder large vol-
umes of smoke were noticed this af-
zernoon.
The Denver & Northwestern railroad
.adS, begun work on its line between
Denver and Arvada. A contract for
trading the road was let to J. A. Osner.
Mr. 0sner will have to remove 70,000
yards of earth and must have his con-
tract completed in six weeks. Mean-
time the other contractors have started
putting up poles and stringing wires.
The electric power will be furnished
by the .Tramway company. The line
will he three miles long and is expect-
ed to be in operation on December 1st.
The Boulder Railway and Utility
Company has met with a disappoint-
meat in the matter of securing the first
$100,000 of its $200,000 mortgage. The
company felt so sure of getting this
money that it went to the expense of
printing bonds, etc., and In all spent
about $7,700. The company claims
that the trouble lay in the trustee nn-
der the old trust deed wanting $3,000
for his services, and this those who
were to furnish the money would not
pay. The affairs are again to go into
the court for adjustment.
N. C. Merrill, president of the Big
Five Mining Company, is said to have
annonnced that the proposed hotel at
Idaho Springs will be built by individ-
uals and not in connection with any
of the mining companies. Architect
Reed of Philadelphia is to look over
the grounds at once and decide upon
plans. Mr. Merrill says there is no
difficulty in arranging for the neces-
sary money. The representatives of
the various mining companies in
which Mr. Merrill is an active member
declined to go into the hotel business.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com-
pany has purchased 300 acres of land
lying between Florence and the Colo-
rado Portland Cement C~)mpany's
works, six miles east of the town. On
this land is a ~hale hed seventy feet
high, and a test of the shale shows
seventy-slx per cent. cement. There
is no need of any lmtmrtatlon of any
material to manufacture this article.
It is said to be the intention of the
company to build a plant to manufac-
ture cement for its own use, and work
on this will be begun before the end
of the year. The plant will have s
daily capacity of 500 barrels.
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