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JAS. C. HASSON. Editor and
VOLUME XXV.
The fost SucctsBfgl Kemeily ever il3COT
sred, as It Is ct-rtuia In Its ejects tied il"C3 wit
tli.-tcr. RcaS proof bt'!ow :
PrtooKi.YX, Coniu, 3Iay Ts "9iV
On. B. J. Kf:vntJ. c .:
sirs : li.nt S!ini!iiTl enrfd a Curb upon my horse
ivilh yourt-clL'Iratc.t lvt-ii'Kirs puTiu Cure and It
wtia the lst Job I ever done. I have a doxt-u
empty bottles. Imvlr.; u-etl It with perfet ueci,
curiiwerery Ihtnu I trli-d il. on. My n-lKhlor had
a Iiotm- wiili a vory bail Spavin that made him Uuiie.
it asd me how to euro It. I rrctiinmeniled
K'nd:illM Spavin Cure. He cured tlio spuvlu la
uC turec weeks.
lours respectfully,
WuLCOTT VflTTtB.
CoLcaBca, Qhlo, April 4, '90,
jr. R J. KeTOil.t. Co.:
Dar btrn -i baro b-en ! 1 1 n cr more of Kendall's
Spavin Cure nnd Flint's CouUitlou Fowtters than
ever before. One man anid to me, it wai the beit
fowder 1 ever kept an. I th lxt be ever Uovd.
Kespecfully.
OTTO L. HOFFXA5.
Chittesajkio, N. T., May 19, 90.
Dn. n. J. KETHAt-t, Co..
F):r Sirs: I have used aeeral bottliof your
ri.'-niaf I'd Spavla Cure with perfect auctresw, on a
iiiiti.tbie nn. I blMiel mare that waniuiu lama
tu a lioiie tpnvlu. The mare Is now eutirely fre.
CiuiH lameno.-.sariil sliows no bunch on th Joint.
lU-spectfuUy, i'. H. Hutciilsa.
EHOIL'S SFflViH CURE.
Uo.fKOK, La., Slay 8, "90.
Dlt. I!. J. IvFSDAI.r. fo
U.-utd : t UllllK It
duty to render Ton mT
I'mnuR tor your mr nimrn Jvennau s apavin cure.
I h id u four year old filly which I prized very
highly. Shf had a Tery severe swollen U-b. I tried
iLioiit ef(;iit Uifrerent kinds of medicines which did
ro ir-io.i. I i:trchx-.il a liotrle of your Kendaii's
biiavm Ciuo'wiiicn cur.i her in four days.
I rc:p.i:in yours,
ilAMOS Dowdex.
Price $t per bottle, orris buttles for $3. All drus
F;lsts have it or can t;ct it fur yon, or it will be seat
to any tuLlresi on receipt of price by t lie proprie
tors. 1B. 12. J. KEN MALI, C
Huobsrh Ial!-. Vermont.
ootlO 0.1y.
Ask my agrnn for W. I.. lonuln Shoes.
If not lor anle In your plnce link your
denier lo semi for mm louiie. secure the
agency, and set tbeni tor yon.
(JT-TAKE N SI USTITl'TE. 3
THE
W. L. POUCLAS
S3 SHOE GENTLEMEN
THE BEST SHOE IN THE WORLD FOR THE MONEY?
It U a ftMimltM hhof, with no lucks or wux tbrrinl
to hurt th feet; mudo of the lxl tlno calf. MvUsh
anl eajty, and because tre make mure mJuhs thin
grade than any ttthrr manufacturer. It etjUuis Land
fcfwwl nhr ctmtlMV from Al.oo lo$VJ.
Ort OO ;uninr llaiid-r-wi-d. the finest calf
4)Vff Htioe evtr ofTcrtMl for $'.; (Mpiuls trfncli
ltnportwl shMa whifli cowt from ; t trl.uo.
A OO llnndrwril Writ Slior, line calf.
iJjT stylish, comfortable ami durable. The let
shoe ever ofTred ut this price ; same grade oa cut
tm-niade nhw-t coMIuk from to $ '.o.. .
CCO 50 Police Mtori Farmer. Kallmnd Man
VWi and Itterl'arrientall wvarlhem; tVnecalf.
aeamleM, smooth In-Ode, heavy three lefl. exten
stoo ediie. one pair wilt wraruynr.
Qr) 50 fine cnlft no Im tter shoe ever offered at
3 ftfaa this price; one trial will couvluco thosa
w ho want a 1mh fr cTiifort and RervU-e.
tf try and S..HI WorkiniriiinnS nhoes
It) mm ure very utroutf nnd cturnble. lhiw wbo
linve KTeu thin n trial wtll wear uootlnrmake.
riAUC 9 mul HchiNd ab ar
ILsff UJTu worn by the loys everywhere; they at U
on their merits, ns the iu rt-asiun aulcs s!ow.
I orliAC Ilnnd ewed lie. best
ladvl ICu loiiila. very stylish; etiualsFreucll
Imported shoe eoilintr from $4.i to ti-'t.
l.ndiei' -..0, !2.UO and SI.?.) nhoe for
Mlsiesare the bent, fine Donolo, Stylish and durable.
RMtion. Sets that v. L. DoUKlan' name and
price are atanj-ped on the txttom of each nhoe.
V. L. IxjUULA. H rock ton, Maaa,
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T.
ROBERTS,
AKrDl,Ebfnbnrr,l's. iui23. 6m
A4MMI. OO a year t blnr mada by John R.
bo-dm, l ray.N. V.t w k fur us. Keadar.
you may n't nitht a tu-h, but wa ran
taavh yu qolaklj tu nrn from 9a to
4 10 day at Ut Hart, aiiil mora aa yov a;o
on. Uoia iri, all ap-a. Ju any part of
m erica, ytu rau cntitirm at burn, (ti-
it a all yourtim,-r aiiarr nMitiiita only lo
tlia work. All W tiH. lorat pay 81 kk for
avary worker. tart uu, rurniuiiDt
rytbut(r. K Aft 1 1 .1, M'KKI'II.Y Icaruatt.
I AlirK LLAliS rKKK. A-l.trra.-toi.ca.
bllbOM 4 tO.. fUKTLA.lt
ROBERj' EVANS,
UNDERTAKER,
AND MANUFACTURER OF
and dealer In all kinds ot Kt'KMTCUE,
ICberiHbiirg-, 1 n.
-A tnll line el Caskets always on band.-C
Bodies Embalmed
WHKS KEUUIKKIl.
Apt XO 90
HOT DEAD YET!
VALLIE LUTTRINCER,
MAVtTV&OTTJRBR OV
TIN, COPPER AND SHEET-IRON WARE
AND TIN ROOFING,
Kenpectlolly Inrttes the attention ot his friend
ana tnepabiiem ireneral to the fact that be Is still
carry In if on business at the old stand opposite the
Monntaln House. Kbensbunt, and i prepared to
supply from a larice slock, ornianaractorlnir to or
der, any article In his line, from the smallest to
the laiv.t. In the best manner and at the lowest
Urlnv prices.
t4r"So penitentiary work either made nr told
at this establishment.
TIN I)OFlN( SI'KCIAlTY.
tla me a eall and (atlsfy ynunielTes as to my
work and price V. H'TrKINtlEK.
LKnsbunr. April 13. 1883-tf.
'PHE FREEMAN Is the larvest pper In North
X. Cambria. Don't lornet it.
cll7 iaxunea anaeacn time a cak
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Proprietor.
DEATH IX THE ALPS.
Tourists
Killed While
the Mountains.
Climbing
Fourteen Lives I.ot Am one; the Rugyeil
Heights During: the Year 1890
Some MircuIouf
EsrApes.
Since Alpine climliinpr became a popu
lar amusement there have never ix'en
so many fatal accidents in any one year
as have marked the season of 1890.
The last numlier of the Uritish Al
pine Journal says that fourteen per
sons, travelers and puides, have per
ished in aeeitlents above the snow line
durinjr the last summer. This does not
include some very serious accidents oc
curring, not to pleasure tourists, but to
people whose line of duty requires
them to travel in the hifrh Alps. For
instance, about tifteen Italian soldiers,
required to march from fort to fort in
the Alps during' the last summer, have
ln-en overtaken by storms or avalanches
which have cost them their lives. One
party of six men. swept from their feet,
were precipitated more than one thou
sand six hundred feet to the bottom of
a valley, and four of them were killed,
but two miraculously escaped. The
most astonishing1 escape of the season
is that of a few Italian soldiers who
were overtaken by an enormous ava
lanche and rolled down the mountain
with the speed of an express train, yet,
strnnp-e to say, they were suddenly
stopped on a level space after a fall of
six hundred and fifty feet, and were un
hurt beyond a few scratches. The ava
lanche swept on past them, leaving1 the
young1 soldiers staring at one another,
astonished to find that they were still
alive.
The accidents, however, .which are
here doscrilx'd relate only to tourists
and their guides. June 24 a German,
Mr. Toppe, was killed in the Oetathal.
lie fell from a ledge and dragged with
him his guide, who also perished. J11I3
:it Dr. Mayer, of Vienna, and his young
son attempted to ascend a mount ".in in
the Kapruner Thai, under the guidance
of the experienced mountaineer, Nchern
tluiler. The usual search party was or
ganized after the tourists had been sev
eral dajs missing, and the lxxlies of the
entire party were found at the foot of a
dangerous cliiT. It was evident from
the appearance of the guide that he had
made remarkable efforts to save the
lives of his comrades. On the same
d:iy a gaiidc named I'ntersteiner, after
having conducted a tourist in an ex
cursion on the Venediger, set out to
return alone to his home. Some days
later his tracks were found across a
glaeii-r, but his IkxIv has not been dis
covered. Two Italian pvntlemen on August 12
ascended the Oul i!n Geunt with a well
known guide named Ilruiiod. lie left
them to liH a water brittle ne;ir the
siiuunit. On returning to the party he
slipped a lid fell a distance of one thou
sand feet, and when the others reached
him he was dead. Six years later
t'tiunt Villanova of Turin left the can
teen of Viaaille to endeavor to make
the ascent of Mont Illanc by a new
route. He had with him two well
known fruides, one of whom has long
been regarded as among the half dozen
most competent guides in the Alps.
Not one of the party has been heard
from since. This is one of the very few
casualties which, in recent years, have
occurred on the slopes of Mont Hlane.
The tracks of the party were discovered
after a few days upon the upper por
tion of the Miage glacier. The proba
bility is that the party camped at a
great elevation on the evening of Au
gust IS and were lost in a great storm
that occurred on the llth. The tour
ists were very wealthy, and the most
extraordinary efforts hae lx-cn made
to recover their bodies, but without
success.
Seven days later Carrel, an Alpine
guide who is known among mountain
eers all over the world, whose name
appears in every Alpine lxok that has
been written within the last twenty
years, met an honorable and indeed a
glorious death on his own mountain.
It was be who made the lirst ascent of
the Matterhorn from the Italian side.
and also accompanied Mr. Whymper on
his ascent of Chimborazo. On 1 lis last
fatal trip he led Sig. Sinigaglia and a
comrade from the. cabin on tlie Italian
Mue 10 ine iixn 01 me mountains in
perhaps the worst snowstorm that ever
raged on that famous mountain. For
fourteen hours the party of three con
tended with the bitter cold, during
Which they did not dare stop to take
ftxxl. Carrel, as usual, in spite of his
rather advanced years, took the lion's
share of tlie work. At length they
reached a place of safety at the foot of
the mountain. No sooner had thev
emerged from danger than Carrel cried
out: "I know no longer where I am. I
have no strength left." "We tried to
lift him." writes Sig-. Kinigaglia, "but it
was impossible, lie was getting stiff.
We stixiped down and whispered in his
ear if he wished to commend his soul to
God. With a last effort he answered
faintly: 'Ves,' and then fell on his back
dead in the snow."
The accident was not due to any rash
ness or carelessness. The party had
chosen a fine day for the journey, but a
most sudden and most unexpected
change in the weather occurred when
the party had gained the comparative
safety and shelter of the hut far up the
mountain side. There they remained
one day and two nights, but were final
ly tlriven out in the storm by the neces
sity of procuring food, and it was not
till the brave Carrel had brought his
party to the foot of the mountain that
he died of cold. ami exposure.
A Strasburg gentleman named Gochrs
started for the Matterhorn on Septem
ber 18 with two guides. After considN
erable progress had been made a furi
ous gale arose and they at once com
menced to retreat. No one knows now
the ilisaster occurred, but all three fell,
perhaps in consequence of a slip by one
of them, which the others, were unable
to avert, perhaps from the force of the
gale; but they were all found dead on a
glacier hundreds of feet lie low the spot
wnere the accident occurred. Such is
the Alpine death roll for the jear 1810.
Kslskaua's Coffin.
King1 Kalakaua's coffin is made of koa
and kou wood, of about six hundred
pieces; even the handles are made of
wood. No metal of any kind is to be
been, except the inscription-plate, upon
which the crown and the Hawaiian
coat-of-arras are engraved, with other
.11 it able inseriptionn.
HE IS A FREEMAN WHOM THE TRUTH
EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY. JULY 24, 15591.
PRIGS OF THE PEERAGE.
Curious I'eople Are to lie Found Among
the Nobility of tireat lirititin.
The eccentric nobleman is well to th
fore just at present in Kngland. I Ie has
taken to amusing the mob. Last week
says a London letter to the Chicagt
Herald, we had the Earl of Lonsdalt
racing against time on the public, high
way, and to-day at Tattersall's I I;ear
that young Lord Iioslyn has made a be!
with Lord Headlcy that he will eat twe
pounds of steak and drink a gallon of
ale in less time than Lord Headlcy
takes to kill and skin a bullock. Rather
a promising exhibition this.
A day or two ago I met coming out of
his club the gentleman who rejoices in
the title of Baron Uraye. He had a tall
hat on his head and a soft hat in his
hand. He walked with a thick Malacca
cane and he carried an umbrella under
his arm. He usually apiears in thai
way on the streets. He says: "It's so
deucedly convenient, you know." If it
rains he can put on his low-crowned
hat and stick up his umbrella, and then
it gives him a headache "to wear the
same hat for more than half an hour."
The duke of Hamilton can be recog
nized a mile off by his clothes. They
are always of the same pattern very
loud check, very baggy trousers, very
short coat and a pot hat. He usually
has a dozen suits made on the same
lines, color and pattern at the same
time, and he regularly, whenever it is
possible, changes his garments in the
middle of the day. When driving1 a
four-in-hand he is in the habit of step
ping into the inside cf the coach for a
few minutes and changing his clothes
before resuming tlie reins. Of course
he wears black things at night, but
otherwise his wardrolie may le re
garded as one of the most peculiar in
civilization.
Lord Lisle insists upon smoking a
short clay pipe in the streets. He is an
Irish peer and not very well off. His
dining-room walls are adorned with
colored clay pipes, arranged in stars
and crosses, all of which over five
hundred have been smoked by his
lordship. It is said that he would have
leen elected a representative peer of
Ireland but for the fact that his brother
nobles were afraid that he would dis
grace the sacred laxly of coronets by
"smoking his short clay pipe on the ter
race of the house of lords.
Lord Gardner, fourth baron of bis ti
tle, is one of the few English peers
who not only decline to live in their
own country, but go out of their way
to un-Anglieize themselves by eccentric
foreign marriages. This nobleman
lives all the year round in India, and
his baroness is a daughter of IVince
?!irza Shikoe. a grandson of the late
king of Delhi. She is a coffee-colored
lady and enjoys her betel nut as thor
oughly as a Nautch girl. Her lord's
household is similar to that of an Indian
rajah.
Ird Newburgh point-blank declines
to be either an Englishman or a Scotch
man, although he is the tenth peer of
his title. He is an Italian citizen and
calls himself Count Itandini perhaps
one of the only instances on record
where a man prefers being an Italian
count to an English earl. Viscount
TaafFc, nn Irish peer, positively d.-clines
to lx; an Irishman of any tlescription.
He and his father before him were nat
uralized Austrians, and the country has
agreed so well with him that he has
ri.sen to the rank of prime minister to
the Emperor Franz Josef. He also calls
himself a count Count TaatFee.
l!ut you have an instance of renunci
ation of peership, as well as citizen
ship, in Dr. Contee Fairfax, of Virginia,
who, as is well known, is eleventh
ISaron Fairfax in the peerage .f Scot
land: but he finds it. however, a greater
honor to be a citizen of the United
States.
FOUR CURIOUS PLANTS.
Nature's Hoax, Mot her-in-Caw, Lover's
Own and Scotch Attorney.
IntheLnited States Iiotanical Gar
dens, at Washington. D. C, are four
very curious plants, to which the l t
3f that city alludes as "Ncture's Hoax,
the "Mother-in-law plant," the "Ixv-
er's plant" and the "Scotch Attorney."
"Nature s Hoax" grows wild in Aus
tralian forests. The seed 1-xlge alxmt
five feet from the ground in decayed
t rees. and the plant puts out leaves in
the shape of heads of deer
and elk.
d bv the
Many a hunter has lx'en
fool
plant.
"The Mother-in-law plant,",or "Dumb
Cane," is really the Deffcnbachia se
guiua picta. An auctioneer, being un
able to rattle off the botanical term,
called it the "Mother-in-law" plant, be
cause of its queer qualities. The pecul
iarity of the plant is this, that if a man
takes a bite of it his power of speech is
taken away and his tongue is apt to be
paralyzed for a week. Humlxridt's ar
ticulating muscles, were paralyzed for
eight days by this plant.
A specimen of the mimose radica is
called the Lover's plant, Ix'eause if a
girl be really in love this plant will curl
up at her touch; if not. not.
Superintendent Smith, of the Gar
dens, has facetiously termed a creeper
the "Scotch Attorney." The latter is
credited with engaging himself in a
ca.se and absorbing everything of value
in it Ix'fore quitting it, and that's what
the plant does.
IN LITERARY FIELDS.
A Torxo New Yorker has gone into
the business of devising "catchy"
titles for urtieles and stories sent him
in manuscript.
Tur. reader for a New York magazine
says that as a result of nine weeks
reading he accepted just 'J3 out of l,2i7
poenis offered that magazine for publi
cation. Eugene Field's favorite fad" is said
to l his pet canaries. He has dozens
of these, and divides his affections be
tween them and the books in his fine
library.
The late (Jen. Albert rike told a citi
zen of Alexandria that he removed from
that city to Washington because the
people whistled so much they disturbed
his literary labors.
A magazine editor once received a
story, in which there was not a bingle
mark of punctuation, except an oc
casional period. At the bottom of the
last page the author had written:
"Please put in the decimal points to
suit."
Rev. Dr. Mexdentiall, of Cleveland,
says he wrote the "Ifreadwinners," and
Harper Erothers say lie is not the man
for whom they printed the book and to
whom they have since paid the royalties.
MAKES FBtE A.M) ALL ABE F LAVES BESIDE.'
A SUBMARINE
TELEPHONE.
Successful
Transmtattion ot the
Itam-ao
Voice Through Water.
To transmit the sound of the human
vefe through twenty-four miles of
water to say nothing of 270 miles of
land line has lx-cn regarded as impos
sible, the retardation of the current in
the submarine cable over even short
distances having been found sufficient
o reduce all articulate sounds to an in
definite murmur, says the Manchester
Guardian. The most important sub
marine telephone existing is that
across the river La Plata from Euenos
Ayres to Montevideo, a comparatively
short distance, and that is hardly a suc
cess. The French government, which
has shown remarkable energy in the
development of the national -telephone
system, however aspired to over
come the difficulties and to establish a
speaking communication with London,
and the English telegraphic engineer
ing department at St. Martin"s-le-Grand
undertook to grapple with the
problem. L'nder the direction of Mr.
lreece, the chief engineer, a numlx-r of
experiments with cables have been
made, and a new cable designed in
which every resource of electrical en
gineering lias been employed to secure
success. The cable consists of four
thick copper wires. Two wires will be
required for a single line, as a complete
metallic circle is one of the lir:.t essen
tials; the other wires will le available
to duplicate the line if successful, and
in the meantime they will be used to
supplement the telegraphic service. A
new set of posts, entirely separate from
any other wires, have been erected
from London to Dover, carrying' two
wires to the cable, and these are fixed
to the posts in a special way and
crossed continually. All these precau
tions are taken in order to reduce the
induction to a minimum. The wires
used throughout both the English land
line and the submarine cables are of
three times the usual weight and cf
solid copper. Ix'ing six hundred pounds
per mile weight. The French line from
Paris to Calais is a little lighter. Its
termini arc St. Margaret's bay, near
Dover and Sangatte, ntar Calais. Tlie
cable had been const meted i;i Eucrland,
and will be laid by the English :.-nart-ment,
but the cost will be d'n Med.
The eighty miles of land line froia Lon
don to St. Margaret's bay is practically
completed, as is the line con-tnii ted by
the French government over the one
hundred and eighty miles from i'iiris to
Sangatte.
Since the above was written the cable
has lxen successfully laid and is in oper
ation. A
WONDERFUL EXHIBIT.
A IHS
Tree Vrhlrh Will Ie Seen at the
C hiritgft World's l air.
Among th'e wonderful exhibits with
which Chicago hopes to startle the
visitor to the world's fair, it is likely
that none "will create more eoiameTit
from Euro-peans than the big tree sent
from California.
This specimen, says the New York
World, is from Mammoth Forest. Tulare
county, Cal.. and measures ninety-nine
feet in circumference at the base. It is
three hundred and twelve feet in heurht
and the distance from tne oase to the
first limb is one hundred and seventy
two feet- The tree is nearly three
thousand years old. The story of the
felling of the tree is an interest ir.g one.
A scaffold was built around this giant
of the forest at a point twenty-two feet
from the ground. The saw used in cut
ting it was twenty-two feet in length.
The tree was cut twenty-five feet from
the ground. Ten ervpert woodsmen
were employed five months and twelve
days in the cutting, but when the crash
did come it was heard three mPes away.
In its fall the big fellow imbedded him
self six feet in the ground. After the
tipper part of the tree. Ml the top of the
stump was leveled olf and a section
nine feet in height cut from it- To get
this section from the forest it was neces
sary to build a road for four miles and
indulge in much blasting and bridge
building.
Since then it has been shipped to
New Orleans. There a section of the
tree has been cut out and- hung on
enormous hinges, the interior has been
hollowed out and now can comfortably
hold more than one hundred visitors.
This unique exhibit has been fitted up
with two hundred and fifty incandescent
lights. It is likely tiiat New Yorkers
will be given a look at this California
wonder before it is shipped to Chicago.
AN OLD MAID'S CENTENNIAL.
In All Her Lon( Life She Had but One
Suitor.
She is one hundred years old, has
never been married, and probably
never will be. These facts, says the
lloston Globe, combine to make Miss
Permelia Wright famous. She lives fit
Benton Harbor, Mich., and upon any
bright day may lx? seen walking the
streets, leaning on a big cane. She has
retained her faculties, and remembers
many things that happened when the
century was just beginning.
She was born at Fairfax Court-House,
Va., April 2, 1791. She says she never
married because she could not bear the
men. She remembers being -courted
eighty years ago, but by a burgling
suitor, and since then she has not talked
with a man except upon matters of
business.. She has considerable prop
erty and manages it herself. Her mind
is sound, she reads without glasses, has
a remarkably p-ood appetite, regulates
her sleeping and working hours by sun
set and sunrise, and is remarkably reg
ular in everything she does. She had
her picture taken upon her one hun
dredth birthday, and laughingly at
tributed her long life to the faCV that
she had never been fatallv sick.
. The Influence of Color.
Colors not only influence cattle, but
human beings also. On this point some
curious experiences are reported from
Italy as to the effect of colors on the
nerves of the sick and insane. In the
hospital for the insane at Alessandria
special rooms are arranged with red or
blue glass in the windows, and also red
or blue paint on the walls. A violent
patient is brought suddenly into a blue
room and left to the effect of that color
on his nerves. One maniac w n s inm.l
in an hour; another was at peace in his
mind aftr passing a day in a room of
violet. The red room is used for the
commonest form of dementia melan
choly usually accompanied by a 're
fusal to take food. After three hours
in the red room a patient afflicted in '
this way began to lie cheerful and ask
for food.
SI. SO and
THE BUSY IiEAYEI.
An
Animal That Is Growing
Scarcer In This Country.
Kemarkable Feats Performed ty Them
in the Const rnrt ion of Their
Darns Their Food
and Habits. -
So much has lxen written about the
habits of the beaver that almost every
one knows something alxmt the an
imal, and cverylxxly is acquainted
with the fact that it builds dams and
houses to dwell in, says a writer in
Forest and Stream. Their dams are
exceedingly strong and durable, and
they are prompt in repairing any in
jury to them. A dam cut during the
day will usually be repaired the same
night, and in the morning will lx- as
good as new. I ri'mcniVr an instance
of this sort which o.-.-urred on San
Juan island. An t.ld Englishman
named John Wootton. who was new to
the country, wished to r"-t rid of a col
ony of beavers that lived on his place,
and one day cut their ihiin. The next
morning be found it repaired, and cut it
again; and this time to fri'-V.ten awny
the animals when they should come to
rebuild it, he set up a preen cotton wood
pole on the dain and hung his overcoat
on it. The following day on visiting
the place be not only found the dam in
its usual good condition, but the cotton
wood pole antl his. overcoat had gone to
help stop the gap he had made and
were now in the dam.
Beaver houses arc less common now
than they used to lx-, partly because
lx?avers themselves arc less abundant,
but mainly Ixfcause the presence of a
fresh beaver house betrays to the most
unskilled eye the existence of beaver in
the ncighlxirhood. In the older dis
tricts beaver now generally live in holes
in the banks of the streams they in
habit, though in some parts of the
Rocky mountains and in many places
on this coast the sight of a bearer
house is not uncommon.
They arc rcver placed in very deep
water, for a base niust TJe bn5!t- for the
house to stand on reaching tip to the
surface, since the chamlx-r inhabited by
the occupants must lx; dry. The shape
of those houses which I have seen on
the shore approaches the conical.
Those in the water are more irregular,
sometimes only rounded, at others
long and rather flat on top. Within
each house, and connected with the
water by a concealed passage, through
which the lxaver pass to and fro, is the
chamber which is the animals' dwelling
place. It is large enough to contain
seven or eight of them, and high
enough so that a beaver can convenient
ly sit up on his haunches. It is warm,
dry and clean, for the beaver is ex
tremely neat ia all its habits.
The food of the beaver consists chief
ly of the green bark of twigs and
young limbs of various trees. Cotton
wkm! bark is pref.-rred. then ernes
willow, then alder, but the bark of al-mo-,t
any tree may lx eaten. I have
Uti vn them to eat pine and white
;e.i;ir. The licavcr often cuts down
treei of very considerable size to get at
the smaller limbs, which they eat. Ihave
-.eon ct.ttonwoods twenty inches in
diameter so cut. and once on Vancouver
island, near Johnston's straits, found a
C'.-d.ir two and one-half feet through
which they h.td gnawed down. This
work of cutting down a large tree is
done by a single animal. I have seen
the benvt-r ent:-aged in the opt -rat ion,
which is performed as follows: Tlie
beaver sits up on its haunches f ..t ing
the tree, and with its forepaws resting
against it. With his head turned on
one side he cuts a groove alxvo antl
then one below and bites out tlie chip,
taking it olf in almost, the same way iv.i
i .xmaa wov.l.l. lie thus saves biuisd '
the troub'. of jrn-.iwing all the wood u;i
into l'iae tultiiin' When the tree i
felled the whole community .'.t:tck and
c.it up the tender limbs, carrying them
away t- the cache.
I'nlike many of or gnawing animals,
the beaver !ihs not sleep through the
winter; he remains active, often ven
turing abroad during the v.-ht-leof the
cold weather. He tnu.t therefore have
fxvl. and a large part of the summer
and autumn is devoted to securing this
food and depositing it in caches. This
fixxl consi-ts of the limbs and twigs of
l he trees most preferred by the ln-avcr.
They are cut from on;. r.nd a half to
three feet long, stripped of their leaves
and smaller twigs, curried to the water
iind floated to the cache, where they arc
Mink. And here comes a very curious
point. These sticks are floated to the
cache and are sunk by the beaver to the
bottom of the water, where they resunia
without any apparent anchorage. They
are not i-tiek in the mud of the Ixittom.
rar held down by wcihls. If you lift
one to the surface it will float, but you
may move it about on the bottom with
out its rising.
I have myself tried this with sticks
from which the bark has lx'en eaten,
but have never done so with green un
peeled limbs before the lxav r had
taken them into their hou.ses. This
matter to me is a very mysterious one,
and 1 have never been able to get any
hint as to how these sticks were sunk.
All through the winter the Ix-aver visit
these caches, carry the sticks to their
houses where they t at off the bark, re
turning the bare sticks to the water.
Sometimes it may happen that for some
reason or other, the cache may r.ot con
tain enough to last the whole winter.
In this case the beaver, if pfssthlc, get
on land through some air hole or piece
of open water and then forage among
the timlier. Occasionally a combina
tion of scarcity and sver weather may
oblige the colony to eisigrate during
the winter to some more favorable spot.
SINGULAR ACCIDENTS.
A Chicago man whose gloves had been
cleaned with Ix-nzine struck a match to
light a cigar and the glove took fire anil
burned his hand quite badly.
Two young men were walking out at
Morgantown, W. Va., when one of them
slipped and was impaled upon a cane
carried by the other and died the next
day.
A KevtuckiA!? who ha.l arrived at
majority offered his first vote the other
day, but so great f as his excitement
that he fell in a heap in a dead faint
and could not sit up for an hour.
The gas generated in a barrel of sauer
kraut caused a fatal accident in
Crawford, N. J., to Mary llennecker, a
twelve-year-old girl. The barrel ex
ploded and a stave struck her in the
temple.
postage per year in advance.
NUMBER 28.
A PLAGUE THREE
FEET DEEP.
The Terrible Kavajfes of
LocuKts In A us-
t ralia.
In ordar to check, if possible, the an
nual plague of locusts that devours the
herbage and blasts the hopes of graz
iers, farmers and fruitgrowers to a
greater or less extent in Iiecemlx'r, the
government of Victoria, Australia, pro
claimed November 7 and 8 holidays for
scholars and shoolmasters in the rural
districts, in order that they might ci
operate wifh the settlers in destroying
the young locusts in the early stage of
their development before they have
been equipped with wings, enabling
them to take flight over the coun
try to begin their work of devastation.
With this end in view preparations
were made in numerous parts of the in
terior to destroy the pest in various
ways, such as by lieating w ith branches
the l-.-ds ia Hil li.-l J , where the a:, yet
wingless creatures wen- known to exist,
or in harrowing the ground, or turning
lix-lcs of sheep upon the land, and also
by spreading straw over the plague spot
and setting tire to it. In such ways
vast de.-t ruction was done to the anaies
of the young locusts in the early stage
of their existence.
It was seen, however, says the Glas
gow Herald, that the raid upon the ver
min should have Ix-en made somewhat
earlier, as nu:n!xrs were already so far
advanced as to lx on the wing on their
mission of mischief; and, lx-ides, the
attack on them was not so generally
made as was desirable in some districts
of Victoria, while north of the Murray
comparatively little effort was put forth
to cope with tlie evil, owing to the fact
that on the New South Wales and
South Australian side of the Murray
the bulk of the land is taken up with
large squattm;' runs and population is
sparse there, thus giving the ravaging
locusts almost complete scope V) prop
agate. People here can hardly conceive how
serious the locust plague is in these
colonics. Recently the reports came
that these creatures massed themselves
so thickly along some of the lines of
railways that, although the brjikefj
were sliLt down, the trains could not lx!
brought to a stand until they had gone
half a mile beyond the stations, owing
to the multitudes crushed Wneath the
wheels, causing the trains to pass along
as if the rails were covered with oil.
The wheels actually slid along the rails.
In many of the northern towns the in
habitants had to close their doors to
keep out the invading hosts. The plague
has now fairly begun work. In the
southern parts of New South Wales
and some of the northern portions of
Victoria the outlook is ominous.
In and around liarnawatha, Victoria,
the insects are spreading in swarms and
causing great destruction. A resident
of that district reports that in travers
ing that part of the country in a buggy
the wheels of his vehicle were com
pletely imlx-dded in masses of young
caterpillars and grasshoppers, vl it h on
:ualiy extensive ::r,'aj "cover. . I t:ie
whole .'.'irfaee to a depth of j:b v.t f mr
iv it's, like a g:;:'aiitie and u:ul':!::tu:g
:at of green paint."
Where the country presented tiny de
srossion it was fount! impossible to pass
vitll a buggy, and in several lavorablo
tx-alities. such as l -,v-lvi:ig lands, etc..
he ir.se s wi re sur fing ..
Masses some two or three feet
J'lie ;.-:'ound in tin ir wake is qu.t.
i"Tc ;t:iss. Such are some
breeding grounds from which the
developed creatures fake f!i.'ht to
und destrov i t !:rr 1 !,. of i"je t-0i
,t
1:1
r.
f the
fully
iv.-ste
uitrv.
THE FIRST HORSE CAR.
An Inventor of Great .Merit Who Is Little
K.itivi u.
1 had iust eornc out of Madison Square
Gnrden t'-a-t-.T :nd vs wrj'.irv d-va
Tv.en I l n't tt tsint t (.jWutl r"o.irtlt
.ri.r :ie. writes a Nt-v Y rk o r.vr pon
der.t of the Evening News, when a man
of medium size, with gray hair and
shoulders slightly lient, passed by UiO
with t brisk step. It was John Stephen--son,
the liia.ii who built the first j'orso
car. He is n mnrvelo is inni. If" l.ad
many' a hard knock in his time, a .d has
f.urvived misfortunes that would have
downed many less aide and ersevcriag
men. Twice has he lxcn compelled to
start into business afresh; the first time
by reason of a fire that destroyed all
his possessions: the second time from
being sold out by a mortgage. Only by
the most remarkable perseverance and
close attention to work has he been
able to make his way. One need only
look at his face and feel of his horny
palms to appreciate and understand thi?
rough experience through which this
man has passed. And yet he is an ex
ample to all men in his devotion to his
religion and his practice of his Wlief in
daily life, lie told me in conversation
once that in the darkest days he never
doubted that the clouds would pass
and all be bright again. It is this that
has sustained him all througli. He is a
lover of music and literature, antl de
rives the greatest pleasure from the
IK-n.sal of a good book. His inventive
mind is still busy grappling with the
mechanical problems. As improve
ments are needed he works them out,
especially in connection with street
cars of whatever motive power. Around
his knee play his great-grandchildren,
of whom he is very fond.
lie is quite well off and has a ni
home in the country. He is over eighty,
and when he dies will leave his children
a comfortable lgacv.
FUN FOR THE MEN FOLKS.
"Qri-J.u critters, women is," said
fncle Jehicl. "When one of 'em starts
in to git a man nil the others tries to
head her off. an" then, soon as she gits
liim. they all turn ro'tud and help her
to uaiMC him." Indianapolis Journal.
lV.Nr.i.orr. "I mu: t telegraph Emily
my an.-.wer." Helen "What shall you
say?"' Penelope "Yes." Helen "You
can send ten words for the same mon
ey." And Penelope wired as follows:
"1 have decided to do as you have re
quested tsie." N. Y. Evening Sun.
"I shall die happy," said an expiring
husband to Lis wife, who was weeping
dutifully at his bedside, "if you promise
not to marry that object of my unceas
ing jealousy, your cousin Charles."
"Make yourself quite easy, love," said
the expectant widow, "I am engaged to
his brother." Rochester Talisman.
"Don't you think you would make
more money aud enjoy x-ttvr health in
doing housework?" "Yes, I rather
think I would." answered the "nules
lady." And yet your false pride "
"Oh. pride has nothing to do with it. I
don't want to lx; Ixwssed by another
woman, that's all."
Aclvi'tiwinfr IlntcH.
The lre and rcl srle nrr uifr rf t e CM
BIA lrn r irmurds lt to the f-v. ...'
coil idem KB cf .iv-.rtirer whose X' oik ai.M
inserted at tli. Iolliwlbg Imrniti:
1 loch. 3 lmer 1 "V
1 lnh, 2 months.. ." '
1 lurh, 6 months. -'
1 lucil 1 yrT t" "I
2 Inches, months...... '. !
St Inrlie . 1 year
i lorbes. 6 mouth!
I Inches. year -
ejioiun inonttn.... ........
. column. ft motiUi. .......
,j c.iuinn. 1 year ..
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T.'i il
Kuii1ae.il It.tni. nrt Inert1 .n, loc. per line;
futmequeiit lnrtion. fc-. er lln
Auditor'! KotlrM '4 'J
Stray and utmllar N.Mic '
-Keeilut ion or rjrelnif ol any por.r
tln or ocirty and coO'iuunicatlon ileniineil W
call attentK n to any matter l l:iui'ed it Indl
ri.lual Interrvt mum te f.ald lor a adverlren.ect
Hrt-k and Job I riuiiux of All kind neatly and
flrfidunj exe-uied at tlia loweft prices'. Afcd
don't you lancet tt.
COOKS AND BOOK WRITERS.
A Iuetlo Indian girl, who has lxen
a Carlisle student, lias written a little.
Ixxik called "Stiga. a Carlisle Indian
Girl at Home."
A FiusT edition of Walton's Compleri
Angler (1'..'.;), in the original bixniinr,
and a first edition of Cotton's Coii)1j1c,L.:
Angler (1C7C) recently sold for i:;iO.
Ixazo Nitoi:e, the Japanese writer,
spcaksin terms of high appreciation t.f
Dr. William Elliot Griftis well-know 3
Ixxik on Japan, "The Mikado's Empire,"
which he says is by far the best Ameri
can work on the subject.
IfAN'ciroFT once said that he never
permitted himself to write, u'ter he
h;cl Ix-en studying old dix-umelits for
material, until be had read a chapter or
two of Giblx in or some other master of
style, K'causc he would not risk faliing
into the method of a mere analj'st.
Oi.ivMt Wlni'I-ll Holme" was a
classmate at Harvard with Dr. Clarke,
whose reminiscences make the uutoerat
that was to be give this reply when lie
was askisl how he liked metaphysics:
'Metaphysics is like a man splitting a
log. When it is done he has two more
to split."
Tim: Marquis of Lome makes the
heroine of bis new noveL "From,
Shadow to Sunlight," a charming
American girl who wins the hwe of a
monk devoted to celibacy and at last
marries him. The original of the
heroine is a young American whom the
marquis met in this country and whom
lie very much admired.
PARTICULARLY BRIGHT.
Tht worst thing about finances is the
lack of them. N. Y. Recorder.
A good man or a good woman with
out tact Ix-c imes a terror. Hartford
Times.
The fact that riches have wings may
be the reason that they enable a man
to "fly high."
Luck is a good thing to depend upon
if you have no desire to succeed.
Somervillc JournaL ,
Unfortunately frogs are rot the
only croakerij tie worla has to listen to.
Rochester Express, -- -
The only kind of cake that the aver
age small boy has severe objections
to is a cake of soap. St. Joseph N ,-ws.
The farmer who undertakes to cam
his bread by the sweat of a hired man's
brow had better make up his mind to do
without pie. Ram's Horn.
"A it A it k in a house is a well-spring of
pleasure." quoth Tupper, but it's t.-n to
one he never had to get out of bed at
two a. m. to silence th" squalling of a
teething kid. -
A woman's pocket defies the cleverest
pickpocket nowadays, and yet the
woman carries her purse in her hand.
The trouble is, she cannot find the
ptxket herself.
The most'iA iiig circumstances Vr
which a Ixiy can Ik- is when another
1kv is in the alley winking at l.im. and
lis father is offering him a n. . 1 to
carry in a pilcof v.ond. TexasNifthirre..
FOREIGN STATISTICS.
Lovnov is said to have 'JOO.000 factory
girls.
It is said that 540.hoO,Ol0 of Rritish
capital an invested in Paraguay.
Japan had on January 1 40.215 phy
sicians, nineteen of whom were gradu
ated abroad.
Aiiout Sioo.ono.rvin is .perit annually
in U rie.nny for the care of theptxir,
rtsMe of privat:' 1 h::-ity. .
Tun. re-ent census of the German em
pire gives a population of ).. j .n.s ;,
wh'"h is an increase of '.'.i',r,tis ;,.,.
1'SJ.
Russia's he-filth department lias issued
: ''. :n : th.'. the e.pirv-; p. .".! a
li hi 011 lel'oiarv 1. !. 11 -V'.-l h" "iS.
b
I't !.s ill 1 '
ss, Were
II'
.l-UiLlSt
:;.:::..:.! a-aths.
Tin: ni:iib -r of inhabitants of Rritish
India, by the late census is J-J(.l.:u,0i0,
an increase of nearly CJ.000.0C0 hinca
lsj. Tlie pulation of all India
amounts to a Unit 2s.".(.'ki,ooo.
Austria' new parliament contains 51
lawyers, 4l professors and school-teachers,
PJ dx-tors ami apothecaries. t arch
itects and civil r.'ncry.. '.'0 clai-ey'iien,
!-17 laiiiled proprii t..rs. u' ohieials, 0
manufacturer. '. j. .urnali-ts and 0 gen
tlemen of lei ure.
A COLLECTION OF FREAKS. '
A Ci oiti.i.v Ixsy w ith an evtrrnirdiiiary
ii isi-, luivt rtised by a dime museum
manager as "The Human Elephant."
Atoi vTHVMAN was i-i Athens, Ga.,
Friday exhibiting a bulldog with one
fix.t exactly the shape of a hoof.
A Hi:ai of lmir measuring ten feet
and seven inches in length adorns Mrs.
Phil pot, of Gainesville, Tv-xas. Her
height is only four feet.
MahiX, (!a., lias a ten-year-old f-tcn-ographer
and type writer who has start
ed in business for herself in a promi
nent hotel of that tow n.
Mention is made of :t c!:'! l b .rii at
Hartford, Conn., last month which,
weighed only two pounds and three
ounces when it was three days old.
Miss Ella Ewing of Scotland county,
Missouri, is 1J years old. n feet high,
and she weighs ZIj pounds without
carrying an ounce of surplus flesh. sh
is said to Ik; the beiic of Scotland
eourty. Her feet nrc is inches long.
NOT VOUCHED FOR.
Near Mehama. t ire., a few dnys nro n
little girl was followed home from pas
ture by a two-year-ol-.l leer, chilli i
rcai:ly bubnihthig to timcsLlcli.-u.
Franklin, (ia.. boasts of a cnt that
had Ix-en in one family for t w. lit y-t wis
years. When its mistress died it pined
away and refused to cat, litciuUy Curv
ing itself to death.
A noKsE at Alexandria which was run
over by a Texa .v. Pacific train nnd had
one of its legs broken hobbled to a
store near by, knocked at the tlixjr, and
by signs and brute language appealed
for relief.
A Pennsylvania farmer ha-, a hen
which habitually lays uniis.ialiy i.irgi
egg. Inside of each of these is
another pixxl-Mzcd erg, pci.cctly
formed. J!o1h the inside and outside
egg have a yolk and w hite part.
A ixi rat story comes to us from
Michigan. A straw held in the mouths
of three rat-, drew the attention of citi
izens of Nashville to a strange sijht.
They were traveling :il.ui';' the road,
three abreast, when it wso discovered
that the two outside rat were thus,
ei,din:r the center one, whutiwas old
and blind.
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