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Slayer Fined For Executing Individual With Human Traits
EVANSTON, Ill., July 1.—When a parrot teaches itself to swear it becomes an Individual with human traits instead of just a parrot. This is the decision of Justice of the Peace H. G. Williams.
Rutheda, the parrot of Mrs. Bertha Flugge, “was the purest and most clean-minded thing I ever saw” before it flew away from her, according to Mrs. Flugge.
WASHINGTON, June 28.
The Pawnee arrived at the Navy Yard this morning, bringing intelligence from Mathias Point According to a statement of persons in the expedition, Capt. Ward, of the Freeborn, yesterday obtained from the Pawnee a reinforcement of about twenty men, and united with others from his own vessel, comprising between thirty and forty men in all. They started in several cutters for Mathias Point, taking with them about two hundred bags, which were filled with sand on the shore, and with which breastworks were soon erected.
Whilst on returning to the Freeborn to obtain cannon for the battery, a force of the Confederate troops variously estimated at from 1,200 to 1,500, suddenly emerged from thick woods, where they were concealed, and poured a volley of shot into the party, who made a hasty retreat. Several of the men jumped into the water, swimming to the Freeborn. Capt. Ward protected the men as far as possible, firing twelve or fifteen shots among the rebels, but the effect could not be ascertained.
Loss of $350,000 and Traffic to Martha’s Vineyard Interrupted When Steamship Sankaty Burns at Dock
New Bedford, Mass., July 1—The steamship service between this port, Wood’s Hole, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, just beginning its season of greatest traffic with summer vacationists, was rearranged today as a result of the destruction by fire last night of the steamship Sankaty and the dock of the New England Steamship Co. here. The fire which started in a pile of hay on the dock from a cause still undetermined, caused a loss of $350,000. As the dock used by boats on the New York service which is adjacent, was undamaged, it was arranged to use that and to put the other vessels of the fleet on a new schedule.
PARIS, July 18 (AP).—Nicolas Frantz of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg today won the annual longest bicycle road race of the world, covering 4,000 miles, which started June 19.
The race is called “tour de France,” and skirts the entire frontier and coast boundaries of the country.
By Crosby S. Noyes, Foreign Correspondent of The Star
PARlS.—After a number of years of more or less serious spectating, we have finally discovered what we consider the ideal spectator sport.
The Tour de France rates, we are given to believe, as a national sporting event in France almost in the same way as the World Series rates in the United States. But there’s one great difference between the great annual bicycle classic and most other national sports.
The Washington Star amuses us with a story, probably not only “founded on fact” but all fact, of how Captain “Kellogg,” of Connecticut, lately came up among the missing – another case of “mysterious disappearance of a nice young man and two beautiful young ladies,” as the Cincinnati locals would call it:
Keeping house in Egypt is great fun, if you can keep your temper. Servants a-plenty are a certainty, but what they will do next is always uncertain. Here a noted Egyptologist tells some amusing stories of his household difficulties.
BY ARTHUR WEIGALL,
Former Inspector General of Antiquities for the
Egyptian Government.
IN ordinary, amiable conversation with people whose interests have little in common with mine, I often find that the introduction of the subject of servants supplies just that touch of nature which makes the whole world kin. When I have been talking about my life in the land of the Pharaohs, for example, I have observed that some stray remark of mine about my domestic staff has kindled the light of interest in eyes that were rolling upward with boredom; and therefore I offer no apology for making this my present theme. Like illnesses and operations, it has an almost universal appeal.
What happens in Egypt, of course, is outside the scope of everyday experience in the West; yet servants are servants wherever they be, and certain of their qualities—such as that of smashing things with a light heart—are common to the whole species.