EAT tic A atl Bellefonte, Pa., November 22, 1889. WORDS ;OF CHEER. weary mother, round whose evening chair Brigut taces cluster, to be washed and kissed You're most too tired now to hear the prayer By bahy voices in the twilight lisped : You searce can read your daily page aright, You simply voice a longing ery for rest. But, weary mother, cheer thee up, to night I bring thee greetings, we are truly blest ! Ah! Yes, truly blest, that we can work and pray For those we lo.e owever hard the task. Sufficient strength is promised day by day ; No better gift my grateful heart can ask. How many children creep to beds to-night, By mother hearts nnloved and uncaressed; Ah ! weary mothers, clasp vour treasures tight, Thank God, be bappy, kro that you are blessed. MOTHER'S CORNER. Backward and forward the rocker goes, Waftivg the baby to sweet repose ; Close to the cradle the mother eroons Lullaby, rock -a bys nursery tunes: Dreamily singing she patiently tries Sleep to bring to the Do eyes. Minute by minute the evening flits, Still in tlie chair she drowsilv si s Soothing and rnbbing the aching gums, Longing for slumber that never comes; Rocking the baby that fretful lies, ¥illing the room with its nervous cries. Weary with watching the mother sings, Wooing the God with the leaden wings : Softer and softer the ditty grows, Now the little one’s eyelids close ; Sinking at last into dreamland deep, Mother and baby are fast asleep. THE FIRST BREATH OF THANKS- GIVING. Let winds blow cold, let winds blow high, Let days be dark and drear, Who cares ? Thanksgiving’s drawing nigh, A time of mirth and cheer! What though we burn wood by the cord And weather prophets croak ? Soon on the groaning, festal board The turky, stuffed, will smoke. Then something to the poor we'll spare— Who're always with us here— And we'll forget all grief and care In sweet Thanksgiving cheer. reree———————————— A MENAGERIE LOO:E. 1 was acting as shipping clerk in the office of the Liverpool and Calcutta Steamship line at Cape Town, and among the helpers in the big ware- house were two or three fellows called “Half-Hots,” they being a mixture of white and black, but not mulattoes. The color was more like that of the Chinaman, and their vernacular was a queer mixture of English and Dutch. These fellows were as servile as slaves to one’s face, but as revengeful as fiends behind his back. The old clerk had been in fear of them and had put up with their faults, but I walked around them pretty lively from the first day, and at the end of the first month had plenty of cause to discharge them. I had the power to hire and discharge my own help having at times as many as twenty-five men in the sheds, and $0 nothing was said about these three going away. They made no protest to rae, but a Boer who was acting as iny assistant warned me that I had best look out for myself for the next few weeks, as he had overheard them threatening vengeance. Two days after the discharge of the men an English ship, which had been around to the east coast and up the Bay of Bengal collecting wild animals for the Royal Museum at London, put into Cape Town in distress. She was leaking so badly that she had to go in- to dry dock, and she had to be light- ened of almost everything before she could pass over the gate sill of the only dock at her disposal. The animals were stored in one end of our big ware- house, which was a building 200 feet long by 100 feet wide. There was one big African elephant and two medium sized ones from India, together with two male lions, three tigers, four or five hyenas, several wolves, a couple of bears, half a dozen snakes, a couple of panthers, and a large number of monk- eys. All but the elephants were in cages, and these were placed in a row at one end of the building, and the ele- phants far enough away so that they could not reach the cages or each other. They seemed peacefully inclined, al- though strangers to each other, and the beasts and serpents had been so shaken up at sea that they were glad to secure rest and sleep. It was in summer and the weather was very hot. The warehouse was on- ly one story high, built of brick, and many windows in it-were doubly gnard- ed to keep out robbers. Stout iron bars ran up and down, and outside of them were heavy wire screens. This enabled us to leave all windows raised day and night and kept the building ventilated. In the centre of the build- ing was a cupola, furnishing further light and ventilation, and at the east end a little room had been partitioned off for my office. This room contained a sleeping bunk and a hammock, and I slept here and took my meals at a hotel. There was no watchman inside the house, but one was stationed on the wharf outside. At midvight of the nicht of which I am now going to write, there was a full moon, and the interior of the big warehouse was al- most as light as day. I had been asleep for an hour and a half when 1 was suddenly awakened by a trumpet blast {rom the big elephant. He was chained by one foot to a ring bolt in the tloor, and stood broadside to one of the windows and about ten feet away. He trumpeted as if highly angered, and as I dropped out of the hammock I[ heard him tugging to break his chain. Ou that side of my office was a large window, and I had no need to open the door toosee what was going on. Isaw the big fellow tugging and straining, and he made the building shake with his trumpeting. I don’t think I had been on my feet half a minute when his chain snapped and he was free, and then it struck me that the situation was an unpleasant one. My office was opposite one of the Liz doors of the warehouse, but ninety foot away. To reach it I must cross the hailding. My first idea was to go A Te SN YO AP Se TON DE JY UO 71 1 help to secure the elephant, but he had scarcelv broken ioose wnen pande- monium reigned supreme. The other elephants began to trumpet and to strain at their chains, and every wild beast set up an outery. The big fellow came straight to my end of the ware: house, swinging his trunk right and left, and within ten feet of my door he began work on fifty sacks of corn gord- ed upin a row. He picked up the sacks,one after another,and flung them about, and he grew more angry with each effort. He wasn’t through with the sacks when the smaller elephants broke loose, and then I knew what I must prepare for. The watchman out- sice had caught the alarm, and he came to the nearest window and shouted to me. I dared not to answer him, as the elephant was now close by, and I was fearful that the sound of my voice would cause him to attack my frail shelter. Having tossed the last sack high in the air, the big fellow made a rush down the warehouse for the smaller ones, who were trumpeting at each other and preparing for a row. He knocked one of them over with his rush, and then pursued the otheras he fled amon : the piles of freight. We had been pretty well cleaned out by the last ship, bnt we had considerable machinery, 200 barrels of salt, 300 bags of sugar, 500 barrels of floor, about a thousand American smoked hams, with perhaps fifty boxes, large and small, containing dry goods, gro- ceries, boots and shoes,and other stuff. When the small elephant who was knocked down went over, he smashed the lion's cage, and I plainly saw both of them leap over him and spring upon the cage holding the monkeys. ~ Such a growling, and snarling and howl ing and roaring no one ever heard be fore, and the rumpus drew the atten tion of the elephants directly to the ca- ges. Dropping their own differences for a moment, they drove at the cages, and in two minutes the entire collec tion, except one wolf, killed in hiscage, was let loose and flying around the big room. By this time the watch- man had aroused a number of people, but they dared not open the door. I stood no show to reach the door and let mvselfout, and at once decided that my safest plan was to keep quiet. I was in the darkest corner of the build ine. and unless one of the elephants took it into his head to investigate, I miglit hope to escape injury. My room was not as high as the ceiling of the warehouse, but only about nine feet, and the top of it was ceiled over. This made a big platform about 9x14, and 1 knew that some of the animals would seek this shelter if driven that way. All did fly to my end of the building as they got out of their cages, and the very first move made by one of the panthers was to leap upon the platform. 1 he other was seized by one of the tig- ers right before my door, and the fight lasted until the elephant came to in- vestigate. Then for about five minutes every- thing was as quiet as you please. The animals seemed 10 be sizing {each oth- er up and taking in the situation. I could hear the people outside moving about and talking in excited tones, but when they hailed me I dare not reply, for the big elephant stood within four feet of my window, and was growing restless for further destruction. The lions stood side by side on the barrels of flour, which were piled up about eight feet high, while the tigers were further down on the other side and weil on top of the bags of sugar. Ove panther was above me, as I have said, while the other had skulked among the machinery. The wolves I could not see, but a big serpent was over by the door, and the monkeys were aloft among the rafters. One of the bears was crowded into a corner, evidently wishing to keep out of the row, while the other I could not see. The hyenas had been skulking among the hams, and what started the row anew was one of them trotting down a wide aisle toward my office to find safer shelter. The patter of his feet aroused the big elephant, and he made a break for the lions, who were waving their tails and defying him to come on. He hit the pile of floor barrels about in the centre, and knocked a lot of them down, but before he had reached them both lions had leaped to his back, and from thence to the floor behind him. This was the signal for a terrible battle, a sort of free-for-all-fight. I could see the entire length of an aisle thirty feet wide, and it was in this aisle that the lions, tigers, hyenas, and wolves fell upon each other with such ferocity that my hair stood on end, and the scores of people now at the windows fell back in terror. While the wild beasts were having it out,the two smaller elephants began a row, and the big fellow came swinging up the aisle in which the hams were scattered in search of some- thing to vent his spite on. I drew back from the window, afraid he would see me through the glass. He reached out his trunk and felt all over the glass which was a new substance to him, and he might perhaps have pulled the room down over my head had not the panther above me betrayed his presence by a growl. He had better have kept quiet. The elephant uttered a shrill cry and reached for him, and although the panther bit and tore at the Jtrunk feeling for him, he was seized, held aloft for a moment, and then dashed to the floor with such force as to break every bone in his body. If ever a man was scared out of his boots by an adventure, he was no more alarmed than I was as that elephant went swinging down one aisle and up another, clearing everything before him. He knocked the other two down among the tlour barrels, and then pur- sued the wild beasts as they ceased their fight and fled before him. He picked np ham after ham and flung them the length of the building, and a large cogwheel belonging to an engine was flung against my bulkhead with | <nch force astoshater four of the boards Irom the time the second row hegan to its close was thirty-tive minutes, and all this time each beast and animal was uttering his own peculiar war cry. The row was brought to a close in a peculiar manner. The bears had kept clear of the fight as long as. possible, but when finally forced into it both tackled the big elephant as the party responsible for the sitnation. As they did he rushed full tilt at one ot the doors and carried it with him, and took him- self up the wharf to the main street with one of the hears fastened to a hind leg. Such of the wild beasts as were not to badly injured at once broke for the door. One of the tizers and both of the panthers were dead in the ware- house. The other tigers escaped through the town, and were killed miles away a day or two subsequently. One of the lions was dead, and the oth- er, instead of bolting up the street as he went out, ran along the wharf and leaped aboard of a coasting schooner a hundred yards away. One of the hatch- es was open, and he leaped down, and next day was shot in his hiding place. T'wo of the five hyenas got out alive, and were killed next day while secret ed under a barn. Not a wolf was left alive, but the monkeys and serpents had climbed aloft by the supports, and kept themselves out of the row. Of the two small elephants, one had a leg broken and the other haa been so severely injured internally that he died before morning. The big one, togeth- er with the two bears, kept right on through the town and beyond, where they separated. The bears were shot by the men who went in pursuit, while the elephant was captured and brought back, so generally knocked out that he was three months getting over it. It was six months after the adven- ture before we learned what bronght it about. Then we ascertained that one of the discharged “Half Hots” took this way to be revenged on me and the com- pany. Standing at the window oppo- site the big elephant, he bad used a hollow reed to blow little darts at him, and one of these had struck the mon- ster in the right eye and made him furious. The warehouse wasn sight to beheld the next morning. Over 500 barrels of flour had been smashed, the sugar was scattered from end to end, dry goods and groceries littered the ffoor, and the corn could never be separated from the sugar. The hams were about the only things saved, and these had been tossed to every point of the com- pass. The all around damage was es- timated at $100,000 and the man re- sponsible for it died before he could be brought to trial.—New York Sun. A Chinese Poker Game. A Veritable Ah Sin Takes in a Big Pot on Four Aces and a King. “You likee play Melican man pokee ?”’ asked Doc Sing of his new friend, J. Gon,who came to New York from Port- land, Ore., several days ago. J. Gon’s Mott street friends had already intro- duced him to fantan, and the game was the winner. Gon had a large wad in another pocket of his blue blouse, how- ever, and he answered innocently : , «Well I don no, me belly bad Iuckee. Where ?”’ “Go my loom, top side,” whispered Doc, kindly. In less than half an hour, in a small dingy back room in one of the big Chinese tenement houses not far from Chatham square, six well-to-do heathens were engaged in a lively came of “Christian poker.” J. Gon of Port- land was in the game. Doc Sing had nearly $1,400 in cash in his pockets, be- sides being the owner of a little Chinese “mill” in Mott street that constantly ground out dollars for him while he was away trying to earn an honest dollar or two by “Melican man poker.” Opposite Doc sat J. Gon. The ante was raised from a quarter to a half-dollar and the game became interesting. J. Gon of Portland, Ore., devoted his attention to a packaze of Melican man cigarettes, and was already a loser of about $100. Then Doc Sing caught on to three seven spots and two queens, and bet $10. The heathen at Doc's right, having only two pairs raised him $10 better, and it passed until it came J. Gon’s turn to make his bet. e quietly laid down his cigarette stump, and after looking intently at his hand went $50 better. Doe Sing thought he had caught J. Gon of Portland in a bluff, so he met the $50 with a raise of $500,and informed his friend that the game bad reached its limit. J. Gon put up the $500. To the great astonishment of Doc Sing he quietly laid down four aces and a king and scooped the pot, which amounted to over a thousand dollars in cash. After this J. Gon never lost a single hand except when the pot was small. Tt took exactly four hours for J. Gon of Portland, Ore, to clean out the whole gang of civilized heathens. Doc Sing had 25 cents” left te go to the nearest Chinese eating house to get a bowl of rice. He couldn’t afford his usual dish shark fins. Mr. J. Gon of Portland, Ore., faded away. It is now claimed by some of the fleeced ones that he bad one of those peculiar Chicago “duplicators” up his sleeve, or else he was Bret Harte's original Ah Sin in disguise CE ————— To PrESErRVE BurTeEr.—There are two very good ways of keeping butter for winter use. I will give you both, and after trial you can decide for your- self which you prefer. In both cases the butter without additional salt must be packed smoothly and tightly into stone jars, using an ordinary wooden potato masher for pressing it down. For one jar cut a piece of new muslin sufli- ciently large to entirly cover the butter Make a solution of salt and water, dip the muslin in this brine, cover it ove: the butter, and sprinkle on top of it sal to the thickness of one inch. Cover the top of the jar with two thicknesses of tissue paper neatly pasted down, and keep over this a tin or wooden cover For the second jar stir enough salt int. two quarts of water to make a saturated solution ; that is, until the water has d« solved all the salt it can possibly tal up; add a quarter teaspoonful saltpetie and a quarter pound granulated sugar | strain this over the butter, and cover th jar the sume as directed above.—Tubic Talk. Hope for the Hairless Millions. Indiana Science Too Much for the Dev- astating Bacillus Crinovoraz Humanus. Bald-keaded men, who have had to suffer the slings und arrows of outrageous fortune in the shape of the gibes of those who sit behind them at the opera and catch the glory of the ballet reflect from their shining nobs, will be pleased to learn that an Indiana chemist has paved the way for their deliverance. This is not an advertisement, and the individ- ual who speaks of chestnuts or who mutters “Rats,” without farther in- clining his ear to wisdom and his heart | to understanding, may have ozcasion to regret his hasty judgment. It seems some German scientist, find- ing his forehead reaching further back than was strictly demanded by the laws of beauty, began to investigate the | subject closely, and found that the da- | mage was caused by a microbe, which, for the sake of brevity and to distin- | guish 1t from other parasites, he called | the Bacillus Crinovorax Humanus. "This microbe we are told. is shaped like the point of a needle and has a power of rotary motion like a steam driil, which it uses to bore into the scalp of the vie- tim, loosening the fastenings of his thatch, and finally unroofing him as complete!f as. the Kansas cy- clone uaroofs the humble habitation of the hardy settler. It might be supposed that with these powerful qualities of destructiveness the B. C. H. could pursue its infamous career of desolation unobstructed, but the Indiana man has devised a prepar- ation which promptly reduces it to a condition of innocuous desuetude. The first dose causes it to abandon its nefa- rious occupation and remark on the rap- idly growing unhealthfulness of the neighborhood, and the next application causes it either to vacate the premises or give up a troublesome and misspent life. Not only does it rid the settle- ment of the unwelcome intruder, but it deters others of like ilk from coming in to take up the abandoned claim, and the owner of the poll, who formerly went about with a cranium as bare as a billiard ball, thereafter rejoices like Absalomin the beauty and luxuriance of his locks.—From the Indianapolis Journal. Funny Interruptions. Witty interruptions by the audience, continued Mr. Perkins, in a Dartmonth College lecture, often produces more laughter than the speak.r's words. When President Garfield was running for Congress in war times, he made a speech in Asthabula. “Gentlemen, we have taken Atlanta, wehave taken Savannah, Columbia and Charleston, and now at last we have captured Pe- tersburg and occupy Richmond ; and what remains for us to take? “Take a drink !” shouted aun Irish- man. (Laoghter.) “What we want,” said Sam Cox, in a great low tariff speech in Tammany Hall, “what we want is plain common sense—plain common sense— “That's just what you do want, Sam!” interrupted a wicked Rerpublican. (Laughter.) An anti-temperance man arose in the temperance convention at Des Moines’ He looked so good and benevolent that every one took him for a reformer, but they soon found out their mistake. “Speaking of temperance, gentlemen of the convention,” he said, “speaking of temperance, I wish there was but one saloon in the United States, and—" “And that [owned it I"” But the wick- ed man’s voice was crowned amid hiss- es and langhter. Law as Sue Is.--Lawyer—“You say you saw the prisoner, my client, commit murder? Remember, you are on your oath. How do you know you saw him?” Witness—*T saw him with eyes.” “Did you have on your spectgcles?”’ “T never wear spectacles.” “You don’t? How do you know you don’t need them? How do you know my own .you don’t see incorrectly ? Answer that, Did you ever have your eyes examined?” “Only once. TI applied for a position on a railroad and was refused because I couid not tell an olive-green zephyr {from a sea-green one.”’ “Ah, ha! Gentlemen of the jury, the witness admits that he is color blind, and vet he has stood up here and per- jured his soul to injure my client, when his own testimony shows he can’t tell a white man from a negro.”’— New York Weekly. RoLrep JELLLY CAKE.—Separate four eges Beat theyelks until creamy, adding gradually one cup of powdered sugar. Beat the whites to a stiff froth, add them care ully to the yelks and sug- ar. Add a level teaspoonful of baking powder to onejcup of lightly sifted flour. This must be sifted before measuring; “add it slowly to the batter, mixing very carefully, add two tablespoonfuls of warm water. Line a long baking-pan with greased paper; pourin the mixture to the depth of a quarter inch. Bake about eight or ten minutes in a moderate oven. It must be thoroughly cooked, but lightly baked. As soonas it is done turn it quickly from the pan, remove the paper, turn the cake, and spread it with jelly. With a knife quickly crush the crust around the edge and rell up the cake.—Table Talk. Way He KNEW — After the wedding ceremony a friend of the family took the father of the bride aside and whisp- ared to hiri: “1 observe that you do not seem to be aware that your son-in- law is over head and ears in debt.” “Are vou sure ?”’ “Certain; and IT am convinced he has mly married your daughter with the hie object of paying off his creditors with ne dowry.” “Why did you not mention this be- tore?’ . “le owes me $5,000.” AND THE BELLS ARE TOLLING. hay <tood on the banks of the sounding sea, fahone, Foraker and Harrison, he, een, Violets and Pansies, They Can be Raised in Winter Qut- side of a Greenhouse. To grow violets or pansies outside a greenhouse 1s considered ty pracucal gardeners one of the casiest tunings perform. Many florists keep tien in cold frames exclusively, tor, as a rule, they have not room for thea: in then greenhouses, unless uote 15 butit on purpose for them. They mo be wows, in pots, as window pliu.-, privided lenty of air can be gi en cnsunny du. - and a steady temperature Lepween and 55 degrees can be kept up di Kept in too high an artificial temperatuie they will not flower much, but wiil | make up in red spider what they luck in blossom. A geranium, carnation and a monthly rose may wintered and flowered at a low ten perature it ¢ plenty of sunlight prevails. The violet wants to be kept cool at all times if it is expected that iv will fulfill | its mission. All this does not imply { that the temperature of a violet house or frame should never be allowed to run up to 60 degrees, because sometimes the heat in the day time i= not alway under control. The sun may some- times make the atmosphere under glass warmer than the gardener would hke to have it,but to raise the sab only one inch would let the frost in and do more damage than the heat. In such a case a little too high temperature is the least evil. A good place to grow violets or pan- sies may be #onstructed at the south side of a dwelling. Dig a pit 2 feet deep along the house. Into this put a stout frame to receive common hot-bed susa, the sash to lean aguinst the building. Tear down the wall that separates the frame from the cellar under the house, and puta row of windows in 1ts place. The idea of this ig, that the natural heat in the cellar shall keep your fiame at a steady temperature. At the same time you may work over your flowers, no matter what the outside weather may be and when no air can be given from the outside, it may be dene indirectly inside. ‘When the outside sash is open the in- side may be shut. Thus the sun will warm up the cellar, and perhaps store a little heat for the night. LA ALTA ET AC o- [13 ] «ol he Bringing Up a Child. James P. Root Tells How His Mother Leaded Him. Janies P. Root, late of Hyde Park, be- lieves in bringing up children in the way they should go. “I know how it is myself,” he said the other day, as he spoke of this matter. “When I was a boy,” he continued, “I had a most ravenous appetite, like all other healthy boys. My dear mother was great on training and etiquette, and she had me at the afternoon teas. Now, tea was a little light for me then, and she knew it, so just before the tea she would quietly lead me back to the pan- try and fill me up with milk pudding until I couldn't wink. Then 1 would participate in the afternoon tea. Of course, loaded as I was, I could find no room for anything else, and when the tea and cake came around I said: “No, I thank you’ The ladies present wouid regard me with amazement, and say : ‘What a well behaved boy!” They didn’t know that I had been stuffed be- forehand. It was a great scheme of my mother’s, And, say, I don’t mind tell- ing you, I've had it in politics. They stuffed me with pudding and I had no relish for thegood things when they were passed around.:’—S?¢. Louis Republic. Few Women Dress Well, Well-dressed women wear appropriate clothing. Well-dressed people are few ; the overdressed are more numerous. Some women robe themselves in such marvelous gowns that they over- shadow their natural charms. Dress should supplement or bring out a women’s good points, not cast them into the shade. A few carefully-selected, well-made, appropriate garments are more satisfac- tory than a great number of incongruous and more pretentious but inappropriate clothes. Women of refinement never startling or con:picnous clothes. Above all, a woman should be neat, keep buttons on and rents sewed up. I passed a woman on Fifth avenue last week, says the New York Press, whose expensive gown had no less than five orsix ragged bits of flounce and facing dragging after her in the mud. Her sealskin coat was ripped in the back, -her three-carrat diamond ear-rings hung from a pair of dirty ears, and one glove was minus a button. This woman is worth millions, but she is seldom well dressed. wear a ————— Had Him There. “See this coat?” he queried as he en- tered a Michigan avenue clothing store. “Yes. I see dot coat. Vhas some- dhings wrong ?”’ «I should remark! See how it is all shrunk up!” «I see. How did she come ?” “] got caught out in the rain.” “Oxactly. Did IT sell you dot coat for waterproof 7” “No, but it hadn't ought to shrink up like this.” “Dot may be, but suppose dot coat swell out und vhas so big dot she vhas « orth $2 more—would you pay me ex- tru?’ “Of course not.” “Oxactly. She vhas even. If she shrinks you doan’ blame me; if she swells you doaun’ pay any more. Please doan’ block cop der shtore, my frendt-- dis vhas my busy day."--Detroit Free Press. BALTIMORE APPLE BREAD. — Make a nice dough for sweet rusks, as they are known in New England, or buns, as they are known elsewhere. When this dough is very light, roll it out into two good sized cakes about half an inch thick, and spread one with stew- Vhen atidal wave eae and gobbled the three, | vith non left to monrn them but Baby MeKee— And the bells in the Whit: Honse are tolling.— New York Herald. ed apples, place the other over it, and let it rise for half an hour, then bake it in a good oven. As soon as it is done spread some stewed apples over the top, add plenty ot sugar, bits of butter and nutmeg, and set the cake back in the oven for the sugar to form a coating. Serve hot or cold. oY TT MERE All Sorts of Paragraphs. —At Atchison, Kan., potatoes sell for 16 cents per bushel. —A steel bridee aeross the knelish Channel is proposed. —Anelectric engineer says 200 miles per henr will le nade by electric trains, —A pair of candelabra once owned by Lafavette bought $450 at a New York auction sale two days aco. —It 1s propised in New York to set up nickel-in-the-slot machines to-receive World's Fair contributions, -—-Last month 351 applicants were re- fused adniission to the pubihe schools of Jersey City for want of roorn. — Ed Lansing of Troy, recently iall- ed a buck that weighed over 320 pounds. This was the largest deer shot in the Adirondacks this season. —The jury in a breach-of-promise case at Champaign, Tl. awarded 1 cent damages, and “advised the plaintiff to beware of the book agents.” —A Bridgton, Me., man believes in the honesty of postal clerks. He got a letter the other dav, one end of which was burst open, disclosing a $10 bill —A muchine that cuts matchsticks makes 10.000,000 a day They are ar- ranged over a vat, and have the heads put on at the rate of 8,000,000 per day ; by one man. { —Something was thought to be wrong with a hydrant in an Indiana, public house. An investigation showed that a d ad snake four feet long was in the water pipe. — Bees that for seven vears made a home of an unused chimney near Knightville, Me., were recently routed, the building being torn down, and more than a tub f honey found. —An intelligent canine that spends much of its time around a railroad cross- ing in Boston takes a position near the safety cates when a train approaches and refuses to allow persons to pass un - til danger is over. — West Main street, Gainesville, Ga., in the vicinity of J. S. Twomey’s store, is known to some by tte startling name of “Dead Man’s Row.” Tn the past 17 years fur men have beer. killed in al- most the same spot. —W. A. Rice exhibited 20 onions at the Arrovo Grande, Cal, fair that weighed 100 pounds. Mr. Young show- ed a44-pound carrot, while Mr. Bercel- los took the cake’ with a beet five feet long that sealed 154 pounds. —At Seymour, Ind., James Gallion, aced 19 years, engaged with other boys in a persimmon-eating contest Sunday afternoon. He won, but early Monday morning he died in convulsions, the result of congestion of his stomach. —A New Castle, Del, woman im- plored the State Women’s Christian Temperanee Union to advance $95 for the purpose of starting a conscience- stricken saloonkeeper in the soap busi- ness. The money was not contributed. A gambler was buricd in Montana a week or two ago, and next morning an anchor formed of playing cards was found on his grave. Somebody seems to have thought the most appropriate way to deck his grave was to eucher deck it. — Africa requires 2,000,000 blankets to supply the native population alone. Besides this there is a demand for wool- en clothing for the ever-increasing white population. This has to be im- ported, although the Cape wool is of the best quality in the world. —John Garnett, a British sailor, died in the Seattle hospital last week. He told his attendants that there was a cache on Apple island lying between Vanconver Island and the mainland that contained $16,0000 in gold dust that came from Fraser river. —An animal supposed to be a bear prowling around Tauton, Mass. A night or two ago it raided a dairyman’s farm, upset his milk cans and had a fight with his dog. He fired a shot at the intruder, but didn’t shoot straight, and the brute made oif unharmed. —A sturgeon 14 feetjlong was eaught in the Sacramento river, near Chico, last ‘week. Instead of killing it the fisherman fastened arope tothe body and turned it loote in the river to get fat. They feed it on the entrails of sal- mon, and the captive likes the treat- ment. —Experiments are now being made in Italy upon this year’s vintage in the electrification of wine. Fifty differ:nt sorts of wine have already been experi- mented upon, and the results have been satisfactory. The win» is clarified, ac- quires a “boquet,” and is said to stand equally well transport by land or long journeys by sea. —A London firm has a contract with the French Government, under which they annually supply France with thousands of tons of dried fruits. The French Government requires this large supply of dried fruitto make the wine which they supply to the French army. —At Leighton Buzzard, England, the other day, a chapel was burned down in which it had previously been arranged to celebrate a wedding. The destruction of the sacred edifice had no effect in postponing the ceremony, and the man and woman were wade one amid the smoking ruins. —A correspondent of a New York paper writes that there are probably 10,- 000 head of deer in Maine. This state- ment was shown to Hon. H. O.Stanley, game commissioner, in Portland. - He shook his head. Too small, too small,” he said, “there are nearer 20,000 ; they are everywhere.” —In Naples there exists a race of cats which live in churches. They are kept and fed by the authorities on pur- pose to eat mice which infest the old buildings there. The animals may of- ten be seen walking about among the congregation, or sitting gravely before the altar during the time of mass. —A Saco, Me., blacksmith is the lat- est convert to the belief that early ris- ing is not always in practice what it is in theory. He got up dark and early, the other morning, and had his fire blazing by 4 o'clock. The next thing he knew the Saco fire department had the hose turned on his blaze and the neigh- bors were screaming “fire” at the top of i their voices.
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