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' . two-i-iii, t'tmnpH for I loo It Of I'JK luiScH. W 5. Powell & Co., Chomlial IVrtilier Manufacturers, Baltimore. Md. 1TJ 1. lril. I'ollclei written at ahort nolce In the OLD RELIABLE "'ETNA" ntl oilier Ural lawaj ompnnlra. T. W. DICK, UFKT KK THE OiO HAttTFOUD WRBIMANCBCOMT. IHlMMtmiKIl HI'SINKSS Knenahurif ..Idly nl.lBHa. Mountain House ST&B SH&VIHG PARLOR! riMil well known and lonat eatal.Hahul h" lr. where . b- ,-7 ft, ' N.I AN I. nrilnr in i. n n i' r. leiui I o ei" ' tt U...ie waile.1 on at their reaidence. JAMUS II. I A NT. rrojirletor 1 . AII'OKNKY-AT-I.AW 4-Speelal attention to RleB eUlm ion Hoiinty. etc. A NAMELESS HERO. IVide th rocky roa.l he lay, Hi nrutli tin- lilaziii uootulay sun. With a.e mill toll rrown thin und Kray, A weary home hoe work done. Uliorr his sides bo puunt and thin ere murkx of many a cruel How They ft-ll ujmee. All! shame and sin. That day he had so far to go. His breath was pone, his strength was apent. The llery aim was overhead As fur as nature could he went. Then drupiied ujiou the roadside dead. The cruel w hip had lost its iwer. No nuire a torltired si ve was he; The trreat All pood that very hour Had niven him his lilx-rty. The lifeless feet so wide apart. The spreading tail, and low laid head Wi re still at last, uo more to start With terror at their owner's tread. And thus he lay from hour to hour. The deadest til int.- Ixuealh the sun; A kiiitf that ncicr knew his power. A nameless hero overdone. At niplit. two brother horses came And, falleriutr, drained his form away A loathsome thiiii; of evil fame And only dead one little day. And yet, in life, he lalnred well In spite of huin.Tr. blows and pain, And did his duty, who can tell That he shall never live aain He was not human, no, but more A man with all his virtues Kreat We'd canonize; but evermore A horse must work, endure and wait. Miss K. M. l'-..n, in Inter Ocean. IN A HEAD'S CAVE. A Hunting Advonturo In tho Wllda Of Hungary. The Russian maneuvers wore over nnl the army was thankful, for the sea son had lioeuone of the worst the old est of us couM remeiiilK'r. The caval ry had had the hardest time. Sta tioned a outposts we had bivouacked in mud and water inches deep, rain and hailstorms, had soaked and stitfeued us for days at a time, some of our tiest horses had ejone lame, and the cook ing had leeii atrocious. I don't know when we had all leen so plad to gx-l hack to our depots and to the comforts of home. Hut when I reached my rooms one of the lirst letters 1 picked up was from my old hunting companion. Count Kltz, and contained an invitation to join liiui for a two weeks' hunt in his favorite haunt, the Carpathian mountains. "I'n.iie down as soon as you jvt this," the letter ran. 'l have seen the tracks of one of the Invest K?ars that ever walked and shall wait for you to join me in pivin it the JVoup do jjruee. I leer and loars were never more plenti ful nor in lietter condition. Comedown and le thawed out by our ylorions Hun garian sun." I could not resist; balls and theaters could jfo. and I astonished my servant, honest old August, who was iMilUhino up my parade clothes, by telling hi.u to drop everything and pack my hunt ing traps. A visit to the colonel was next in order and without much trouble I got three weeks' leave. 1 left town in a rainstorm, but when we steamed into Vienna next morning the sk3' was clear anil the air balmy and exhilarating. Thirty-four hours later, by means of rail, lnat and stage, I was eating supjier with my genial friend Kltz, under the shadows of the Carpathians. Favored by the fine fall weather, we had splendid sport, bringing seven deer and three wild lars and iii;tntities of smaller game during the lirst week. Sunday we rested and Kltz proposed we sh.nild start out next day for the War's lair. "It will take two days to reach its retreat," he said, "but we need make no preparations, as we can spend the night at my forester's." 1 hiring our tramp next day we saw many of the forest inhabitants, start ling here and there a deer or lynx, and once nearly stumbling over a wild sow with a litter of little bristlers. The little fellows tore headlong through the underg-owth, but the sow showed light, and not -wishing to kill her we had to retreat. In the afternoon we spied a line young vixen, sitting lie fore a hollow oak stump and watching with evident pride the gambols of four young cubs. They were playing with a young leveret their in.ii.licr had brought home alive. We had hardly time to admire the antics of the grace ful little creatures when the mother gave a short, sharp bark, snapped up the leveret and in a wink the whole family was safe underground. We reached the forester's house, or rather, but, lie fore sunset. Two great loat hounds sprang up at our ap proach and came barking ami liound ing toward us. They were old friends oMIltz's and nearly threw him down bv thfir clumsy welcome. Their master was not at home, but we made ourselves comfortable, lighting a tire and tilling our pipes with some good natural leaf that hung over the man tel. lOrhardt came In licforo dark, lie had some news for us, for he had seen the big U-ar we were after that very morning. Ho hail crept up to within a few yards of it as it was feasting in a whortleberry patch alKiut three miles north of us. lie declared it was a stranger to those, parts, having probably U-en driven away from the lower plains. lOrhardt never voluntarily took part in any limiting expedition, and Kltz, respect ing his feelings, never asked him to. He had an observing mind ami bis stories of animal traits were extremely interesting. On a heap of deer and War skins K1U and 1 slept like tops. Early next morning Krhardt awakened me to give me a word of caution. "There never was a lietter huntsman than the 'Ilerr (ouf,'" be naicl, "but his success has made him foolhardy. Don't hesitate to use your rille if he gets into close gar ters with that big War. I had rather see my right hand cut or? than a hair of bis head injured." 1 promised to see to it that his master should not run too great risks if I could prevent it, and tho honest follow gave n his hand, l'.y the time wo were dressed he had a good breakfast ready, and half au hour later we were heading for the whortle- 1vrTe,uau' reached it nothing wan in si"ht. "The brutes are getting on their winter fat and are t.n, ay for am thing." said Kltz. "U-t us cl.mb up ..... ..r.ir-i n. niece and see if we can chance upon their retreat." We began 1 i in nn hour hal Wt Ui .lecduous trees bind - the region rrvw wilder and made progress more ditl cult. We scrambled through brush and thicket, sometimes crawling pain fully up bare rocks, still wet and slip pery with dew, sometimes having to descend abrupt places in a sitting posi tion. Once I missed my f.Hitiiig and rolled and slid twenty feet down a steep incline, clutching vainly at stones and rHts only to pitch headlong into . a thorny bramble that held me a prisoner until Kltz hacked me out with his knife. While I was pulling the thorns out of my Mesh and clothes Kltz went forward to reconnoitcr a great fissure a few hun dred feet up the mountain side. When ready to follow him I noticed a kestrel banging in the air, it shallow vibrat ing at my feet. Suddenly it swooped downwards and then I spied its clear cut figure outlined against the sky at the top of a dead pine, and one foot clntclu'd some small animal its keen eye had marked for its pre3. Right at the fmit of the nine I saw a great dark moving mass which I knew was a War. It reared up and tore the bark of the tree with its great claws just like a cat, then came slowly up the slope, evidently beading in our direction. It had not 3'et seen me. and dodging W hind IxiwUiers and stumps 1 hastened to join Kltz. He was on his hands and knees iH-ering into a dark, low cavern when I reached him and his eyes sparkled at the news I brought. "Let's go into the cave and surprise the old fellow if he tries to get in," he cried. "Supposing his mate is in there?" I ventured to remonstrate, but he de clared that all signs showed that the occupants were not at home, and lie fore I could liml another objection he hail seized my arm and dragged me in with him. The entrance was too low to stand upright, so we crawled for ward on our hands and knees, Kltz leading the way. We had hardly gone seven j-ards when Kltz drew back. He had nearly gone headforemost into a hole. The roek dropped abruptly here, anil I passed him my rille. lowering it by the shoulder straps he could jnst touch bottom. There was no time to stop, so we lowered ourselves careful ly and then passed around to see how much of a footing we had down there. Just then we heard the War enter the cave. It came with a rush, and as we flattened ourselves against the steep wall it dropped at our feet with a hoarse grunt and went shuttling off into the dark. It came so much sooner than we had expected that we had no time to explore the cave and determine on our plan of attack. We could hear it thrashing alxnit and grunting some where in the depths of the cavern, but of ctitirsx' we could see nothing. "Kefs get out of here," I whispered. "All right," said Kltz, and he gave me a hoist up. As I struggled upward I saw the great War I had seen coming up the mountain not two yards from the mouth of the cave, and I dropped down again, stammering out: "Here's the other one! Lie close to the rock foryjur life:" The great brute came shuffling in slowly and stopped when it reached the edge of the rock. I'eering upwards I could see it-s huge head swinging slowly from side to side. It was snutling loudly and suspiciously. Would it de tect us? A deep bass snort came as if in an swer to my thought, and I saw its lierce red eyes glow as it glared iijxui us. The long-stretched neck tempted Kltz and he sprang up, knife in hand, but W-fore he could strike I bad pushed my rille against his shaggy neck and lired three shots that tore its throat out. A deluge of warm hlo.t.1 streamed down iikiii us, the walls of the cavern rang again and again with the cracking re jMirts and the horrible roars of the mor tally wounded brute. In the dim light and through the smoke I saw it half fall, half spring over the ledge. We jumped out of the way. but the cave was so narrow that one great paw struck my foot lie fore I could get away and threw me headlong The long claws tore through my Ixxit and lac erated me badly. The other liear was uttering frightful roars, and as I lay half sluini'sl and helpless on the ground I never cxioctcil to get out of the place alive, for I Wliove Kltz would want to knife the other War and in the dark he would have little chance of success. It was with a sigh of re lief that I heard him mutter as he picked up my rille, "I suppose 1 must sin wit. but 1 hate to do it." Then he sent shot after shot in the direction of the growls. We could not have re treated from her attack, but she died tamely without showing light. Kltz helped me up. and we got out of as tight a place as I ever care to get into. Tlie smoke of the rille and the musty smell of the cavern had half suffocated us, and the din of the reports and the roars of the Wars rang in our heads for days afterward. l!y the aid of a s tout stick and Kltz arm I got back to Krhardt's cabin to W laid up for the rest of the week with a pretty sore foot. Kltz and the for ester set off the next morning, and light ing up the cave with torches they skinned the hears and brought back the furs and a tine ham Wforo night. The great War was as large a male brown War as either had ever seen ami his fur was exceptionally line and glossy, but the female was a small specimen, and her hide but of ordinary quality. Krhardt declared the big fel low was a stranger to those parts, and had either killed or driven olT the former mate of the small female. Most of the memWrs of the W-ar family mate for life, but in his long acquaint ance with their ways the forester could tell of several such occurrences, and no doubt he was right, Kltz in sisted that the big skin lielonged to me, and when I returned I brought it with me. and it now hangs in our mess room, and it is one of the finest troph ies of the chase that a. lorn the walls. Sidney Hansler, in lk-troit Free l'ress, STUB ENDS OF THOUGHT. A wiff. is wisdom, 1'.i:oki:n hearts have lieen repaired. A nkwspai'KH never tells half it knows. Tiikkk is no corkscrew without a- cof fin nail. A wist: man will think what a fool will say. Hai'.mony is the brain, melody the heart, of music. 1 1 ion tcmicrod pHple are not neces sarily ill temiw-riHl pis.ple. Tiik world is not greatly indebted to gixxl ualurcil jxsiple for its progress. Til kick are as many million kinds of hereafter as there are many million kinds of people. WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN. They Come from the Kocky Moon talna. Where do the waters of Lake Michi gan come from? is an old question; and it is a question as old as the artesian wells. Where do their waters come from? Col. Foster, an eminent civil en gineer, for many years in charge of government interests on the lake, was fond of talking on the first subject. "Kvery drop of those waters," he was often heard to declare, says the Chicago Herald, "came from the Kinky moun tains." His theory was that they were brought here subterraneously. but he never, to our knowledge, marked out the course of the subterraneous stream. He announced this as his conviction long Wfore indeed, he died Wfore the sinking of artesian wells in Chica go and the consequent discovery of the now undoubted fact. William It. Ogden held the same view, and used at times to make himself very interesting in expatiating upon it. With him, as well as w ith Col. Foster, it was no more than a theory, but he ad hered to it firmly. Mr. Cregier, who is scientific Wfore he is a politician, is wont to talk ap provingly of the theory in a manner to convince anj- man. The phenomenon is the running out of this lake through the others of the easterly chain and over Niagara falls of an incalculable quantity of water, and this continually ever- minute in the hour, every hour in the day, every day in the year and every year in progressive time! The lake has no visible inlets where, then. dixs it get its replenishment? From the Rocky mountains. Through rents and crevices, down into caverns at the nxits of these mountains, jxiur ever the waters from melting snows. Four thousand feet they sink to strike a gravity incline that levels with their Hi xr under Chicago. I'nder this city and elsewhere on the west side of Lake Michigan this is the proved theory, theory as g.xxl as proved the snow covered Rix-ky mountains are constant ly sending their waters to supply How age and evaporation that are ever going forward in the water3' expanse right here in sight of a million and a half (al most) of people. BLUFFED BY A PARSON. A. Lnndno Tho( Wliu Thought t he Amer ican I'rrarhrr ( wrrleii at Uun. "I had an adventure in London last spring of a very unpleasant nature," said a Memphis minister, the other day. "I was wandering alxiut the city sight seeing one day and finally found myself near the notorious Whitechapel d:strict 1 was approachi-d by a Wggar who aj peared to W a complete physical wreck. I questioned him, and his story was so pitiful that I concluded to investigate it. He said that he l.xlged in the next bhx-k and thither we went. He led me into a gliximy old building and up three pairs of rickety stairs tit a little stuffy nxiin lighted only by a dirty skylight. Once in there he hx-ked the d.xr, laid aside his crutches, pulled off his gray wig, and stood up. a powerful six-fxter in the prime of life. 'Well,' said I, 'I see you are a fraud; what do you want with me?' He replied that he wanted my purse, watch and chain, and to en force his cluint pnxlueed an ugly hx ik ing knife. 'It will do no good to cry out,' he said, 'for you cannot W heard in the street, and no one in this build ing will come to your aid- "I had si .til him up pretty close and concluded that he was Mulling, that be would not dare kill me in the very heart of I union, so I assumed a care less air and told him that if he robbed me he would have to kill me first, and that he might just as well get at it. oIl, I know that you have got a pistol, but I'm not afraid of it,' he said. '.Most Americans carry pistols for just such cattle as you, I replied with all the cixilness I could assume. 'Now, if you are not afraid of it why don't you get to work?' I saw that he was cowed, and throwing my hand to my hip pocket. I stcppiil forward and said firm ly: 'I live me that knife. 'He handed it to me without a word, unlocked the dixjr and held it open for me to pass out. No, I hail no pistol never carry one; but I made no more visits to the dens of London beggars without a burly officer at iny.elbow." POPULAR SCIENCE. At the head of the gulf of Ilothnia there is a mountain on the summit of which the sun shines perpetually dur ing the five days June 19, 20, 21, 22 and 2X Tiieiik is a certain island in the Italtic sea to whose inhabitants the Ixxly of the sun is clearly visible in the morning Wfore he arises, and likewise in the evening after he is set. Tiik central Sahara registers a mean of 07 degrees in July. Central Austra lia boasts of tU degrees in January a mean which is attained in Smth Car olina and inner Arabia in midsummer. Tiikkk is a certain village in the king dom of Naples situated in a very low valley, and yet the sun is nearer to the inhabitants thereof every noon by 3,000 miles than when he riscth or setteth to tluse of the said village. Thkiie are two olservable places bo longing to Asia, With lying under the same meridian and in a small distance of each other, and yet the respective inhabitants of them in reckoning their time differ an entire day every week. The theory that the deepest place in the ocean will W found to correspond almost exactly with the height of the highest mountain has l?cn disproved within the last year, ocean depths 10,000 feet deeper than the height of Mount Kverest having W-en found. totherot the Policemen. For some time a poker game has been running on (lortnan street, Cincinnati. The complaints became so vigorous that a raid was determined on. In some way the managers of the game received a tip and prepared, to give the officers a hot reception. They filled the rear 3'ard and hallway with boxws, In-nr kegs and other stuff. ItarWd wires were strung so that oflieers scaling the fence would Ix-comc entangled in them. A cellar way was partially filled with sticks of timWr, and the dexur left open. The officers came as expected. They walked into the trap. They were shamefully cut and torn by the wires and bruised by falls over the obstructions in the 3-ard. Every uniform was ruined. When the police were in the midst of their struggles the gamblers, who hail liecn watching, gave them the laugh and lied. CHINESE NILMEKALS. Tho Methods Adopted by Mongo lian Laundrymen. John Hune Oat of Klirurea When lie Hear lie the Hundred Mark and Ilwa to Itmort to Words to Kwp Count. The Chinese laundryman is as a rule a very uncommunicative individual and diH-s not make any great effort to enter into more intimate relations with strangers. However, the alrnond-eyed celestial with whom a ISnxiklj-n Kagle man came in contact proved to W- a little more free spoken than his coun trymen generally are, possibly Triccause he hal mastered the language Wttcr than most Chinamen. He scmed readj to answer any interrogation that might W put to him, and in restxmse to an in quir3' willingl3 explained the system of laundr3' checks in universal use among Chinamen. To Wgin with, he illus trated how the checks were written with a brush-like pen with India ink on the red or green slips of paper. I"suall3- nil paper is used for bundlesof collars and cuffs alone, and the green checks for bundlesof laundr3' composed of different articles. The Chinese sys tem of counting is similar to our own that is, there are nine figures, but there is another character for ten which resembles a crxiss. The other nine figures are of curious formation, easily recognizable as W-ing Chinese charac ters. The 1, 2 and 3 are represented by horizontal lines, the same as Roman numerals, except that the lat ter are vertical. The rest are of pe culiar formation impossible to doscriW. Now comes the point of difference In tween the. Arabic system of notation and that of the disciples of Confucius. Instead of using the first nine figures combined with the figure 10 to express numWrs greater than 10, the Chinese have different characters, which with the cross (10) art? equivalent to what we call our "ttrns." Then the mul tiples of 10 are formed by the use of the same characters as for the teens, but the cross for 10 is placiil to the right of the other character. There still remain all the other numWrs Wyond 20, except the multiples of ten, to W provided for. TIr-sc are formed by combining the character used for the multiple of lOand the character denoting the figure which, if added to the multiple, will make the desired numWr, except that, in com bining the two, the cross denoting the 10 is omitted. For example, in writing 40 a char acter resembling our X is placed to the left of the cross ( 10), and to make 4:1 the X and three lines, vertical in this case, arc used, omitting the cross used in writing 40. Thus it will W seen that the- will have eighteen characters while we have but ten, anil our system is not nearl3" so cumWrsotnc. To re capitulate, they have the nine char acters which are represented by our own nine digits and the cross for 10, which we form by combining the 0 and the 1. There are eight more characters used in forming all the rest of the num Wrs. The 2 and :! wlien used in form ing these numWrs are written vertical ly: the 4 is an X, then resembles an S, the is like an L, the 7 the same with a line under it, the s the same with two lines under it and the a combination of two curved lines. The Chinese can not count beyond 100. or W, rather, and so w hen the laundryman has ex hausted all his numWrs he is forced to fall back on words. Then-fore he writes a word on the check twice, just the same as the numWr is written twice. The numWr is often written in the center also, and the check torn in two pieces right through these char acters, anil thus au additional safe guard is provided. The word written on the check is generally the name of some familiar object or a motto. v ith each hundred checks this, of course, has to lie changed. When the gixxls are put in the wash a strip of cotton cloth is tied to each one on which is written the numWr and, if ncecssarj-, the addition al word and numWr of articles w hich have the same numWr. It will W seen that the system is cumbrous, necessi tating much work. The price of the washing is marked on the part of the check the laundryman keeps, so that he can till at a glance how much to charge. THE BOY AND THE LION. Kraiarkable Adventure f a Ten-Vear-Oltl liny iu the Colorado Miiuiitwloa. "The most remarkable adventure I know of was that of a ten-year-old Wy in Colorado," said a St. Louis man t. a Republic reporter. "A party of us had gone from I'ueblo for a week's hunt ing and fishing along the Arkansas river. We carried tents and cainjxvl out. A man named Hritton had his 3-oung son with him, a manly little fel low, who could land a trout and bring down an antelope with the Ixst of us. One da3" he got separated from the partj', lost his way and spent the night in the mountains. He had with him a 3S-caliWr rifle, a gixxl weapon for small game, but in the section where we were camped monntain lions were plentiful. "His father was well-nigh distracted, and we searched all night long for the adventurous 3'oungster without avail. Just at sunup we started to return to camp. As we descended a ravine we discovered the object of our search, sound asleep, with his head pillowed on an enormous mountain lion, which was curled up its though enjoying a nap. Three of us approached cautiously to within fi.ft3- yards, drew a Wad on the animal and at a given signal tired. The brute never stirred. The W-3-, whom we supposed dead, half rose, ruhlxil his eyes and inquired peevish-: 'What are you fellers trj-in t'do? I killed this yore lion four hours ago.'" The Shjfch'a ('otnprivtnlne. The shah of I'ersia. Nasr-ctl-Ilin, was in Kngland in 173. When informed of the immense wealth of more than one of the Knglish dukes, he caluil3- told the prince of Wales that all such suW jcts were dangerous, and tlaercforu should W put to death, and zealously enjoinwil upon thw prince the nccussitj of so doing. "Rut," replied the prince, "I cannot do that." "You," said th shah, iu astonishment "3-ou, tho heir to the throne, and cannot put. a subject to death?" "H3 no means," said tli prince, "without pnx-uss of law," "Well, then," said the shall, polite-, as if to compromise the matter, "I would put out, tliwir eyes." . BED. A Spirit ualUt'n Hallucination Take Fresh Hold After am Jiitoruilloii. One of the qui-erest women in New York state is Mrs. Anna llaahx-k, of Wayne, Schu3"Ier county. She is a spiritualist, owns one of the finest farms in the country, is wealtliy and has more than ordinary business abil ity's and intelligence. She is a sister-in-law of Colonel Crane, of Hornells ville, the well-known politician and lawyer. Her hallucinations have made her the talk of the ncighWrhixxl. A little over ten 3-ears ago she claimed to have received a mi-ssage from the spirit world directing her to go to 1 nil and stay there for ten .years. Meanwhile he was not to allow an3' water to touch her Ixxly. She went to lied and, the New York Recorder sa.ys, no persuasion or argument could make her get up. She would not allow people to wash her under an3 circumstances, although she accepted clean clothing. She was ap parently strong and health', had splen did color, ate heartilj' and never com plained of Wing ill. When clergymen call-d to urge her to get up she was deaf to their en treaties, and said the t-pirit ordered her to stay in Wd for the purification of her soul. She continued the management of her farm, kept herself posted on the market prices of farm pnxlucts and did a great ileal of writing, but nothing could jK'rsuade her to arise. Recently the ten-3-car limit expired and she got up and dressed herself. She was slight ly W-nt from Wing in lxil so long, but was seemingly in gixxl health and spirits. She received another message from the same spirit. She declares she was ordered to go back to Wd and re main there until her death. She im mediately complied. All sorts of argu ments are Vicing used to make her get up, but she is steadfast iu her refusal, and says she will sta- in lied until she dies and will not allow herself to lie washed. HE STARED TOO HARD. Hot the Old (ienliruian WWhed He Hadn't Spoken Alxiut It. An elderlj' man seated in a Sixth ave nue elevated train the other day, when a pretty young woman entered and took the vacant scat Wside him. She was followed by a man who Uxik the seat opposite. Now, this elderly man, says the New York Recorder, was reading his paper when this young woman entered, and he continued to do so. but his attentimi was attracted to the man opixisite, who was staring at her as only men can stare. The j-oung woman seemed an-n3-ed and bit her lip and looked in an other direction. "How insolent of that man! It's a shame she should W so annoj-ed," thought our friend Ix-side her. At length the good-hearted old man could stand it no longer and be exclaimed, in dignantly: "Don't 3-ou know any Wttcr than to stare at a woman in that manner?" A peculiar expression came over the "starcrs' " face, as he answered: "I d n't know of anyone who has a W-ttcr right, sir she Ls 1113- wife." The interested passengers smiled and the old gentleman got off at the next station. LONG FINGER NAILS. A ChuunuH KaUiMMl One Hs IncAee ao Length. To allow the nails to grow to an in ordinate length is common in China, as an indication that the owner follows a sedentary occupation or leads a life of leisure. Iong nails on the right hand would interfere with the use of the brush (corresponding with our len), and would therefore reflect unfavor ably on the person concerned, as tending to show that he did not devote himself to comix isition and literary ex ercises, the pride of cver3 educated Chinese. They are almost always con lined to the left hand, therefore, and are at times very long, delicately chased silvtr cases Wing worn to protect them. Some j-cars ago I met a Chinese gentleman who had cart-fully guarded the growth of the nails on the third and fourth fingers, the former for ten j'cars, the latter for twenty-five. The nail on the fourth finger, when the. silver protector was removed, was some six inchi-s or more long, and twisted like a corkscrew. Some few months later this gentleman, owing to an ac cident, broke the nail. His grief was as great as if he had lost a near rela tive. llrlnkinfr trout a fuaily's Shoe. In London a century ago it was no uncommon practice on the part of the "fast men" to drink bumpers to the health of a hub out of her shix-. The carl of Cork, in an amusing paper in the Connnoisseur. relates an incident of this kind, and, to carry the compliment still further, he states that the slux was ordered to W dressed and served up for supper. "The cxk set himself seri ously to work tipon it; he pulled the up per part (which was of fine damask) into fine shreds, and tossed it up into a ragout, minced the sole, cut the wtxxleix heel into thin slices, fried them in bat ter and placed them round the dish for garnish. The company testified their affection for the lad3- by eating heartily of this exquisite impromptu." Within the last score of years, at a dinner of Irish squires, the-health of a Wautiful girl, wlntse feet were as prett- as her face, was drank in champagne from otic of her satin slun-s, which an admirer of the lad' had contrived to obtain posses sion of. QUEER PICK-UPS. It is said that the "snake stones" of Ce-lou will invariably cure snake bites. A flIANT's skeleton has been unearthed at Brunswick, tJa., which is nearly nine feet long. CovM.tTirt-T spelled in an Indian dia lect. Quin-iich-tuk-gut, siguiGed "laud on a long tidal river." At the poli-s, where all meridians con verge, there can 1 k- no natural standard time, for it is every hour of the da' at once. "SaVF.CENEAKUF.AToKKS4XAKATI.AKOM- AUoxatktok." That is Kxiuimati for "Yon must get a gixxl knife," an im portant thing to have iu Labrador. TllE prohibition of cigarette smoking among employes is among the cholera precautions adopted ley the New York stock exchange. At Aix-la-Chapelle there is a news paper museum founded l3 Oscar von ForckenlxH-k, which contains tiles of specimens of more than 17,000 different newspapers. - TEN YEARS WARRIORS OF THE WORLD. A son of Gen. I'ope and grandsons of Gen. Sherman and Gen. C. F. Smith were among the latest entries as cadets at West I'oint. CAIT. ClIAKLES II. IlKVL, of the Twentj'-third infant-, has Ixs-n di tailcd to represent the war department exhibit at the world's fair. Fl.U.s are so Hst ilential in Siam that every soldier is compelled to assist in reducing their nurnWr b' catching enough of them every da3' to fill a match Ixtx. Itv a recently issued decree all sol diers of the Russian empire must in future use handkerchiefs, which have heretofore Ix-en restricted to the oflieers. The 1'russian arui3' is said to contain but one officer from the ranks Col. Lademann, who was promoted for acts of exceptional bravery in the Schlcswig Holstein campaign in lsi',4. He has just Wen gazetted commander of the Sixtieth infantr3'. TiiEUfc is a population of 70,000 in Iceland, 3-et the only military force cmployi-d consists of two polici-nn-n, stationed at the capital. Rcykjavic. and the 011I3- two lawyers in the island are the state's attorn-, as he may In- called, and another, who is on hand to defend ai'lxxl- that may W put on trial. RUMBLINGS ON THE RAILS. Thains in Russia run twenty-two rnili-s an hour. IIkkat ItitiTAlV is reported to have lrt,si;o locomotives. On several of the railroads in Russia iron telegraph jxiles are to W sulisti tuted for wixxlen ones. Mexico has ', 5mi miles of telegraph and o.f.00 of nailroad. A district messen ger service will siHin Ik intrixlueisi. Tiik life of a locomotive crank pin, which is almost the lirst thing aWut an engine to wear out, is '(), immi miles, ami the life of a :;-inch wlieel is Gi"i,7:;:i miles. The Japanese government contem plates the construction of six lines of rail way. aggregating 00 miles in length. The purchase of the private railwa-s by the state is also projected. O.v foggy winter days Knglish rail ways employ thousands of extra bands to place detonating signals on rails, t In ordinary semaphores Wing invisible. A new method of signalling is by an eli-c-tric Vk-11 on the lK-omotivc, a contact device causing each signal station to sound automatically the numWr of W-ats required to tell whether to stop or proceed. SPARKS AND FLASHES. Il)wixo by electricity is in eontem-' plation for a large projicrty in Central Spain. The I'ennsylrania railroad is quip ping its anthracite collieries with clin.--tric light plants, and will cut coal twenty-four hours a day. The importance of electricity on rn-xlern steamships is shown by the fact that the new Knglish battleship. Royal Sovereign, has 110 less than eight hundred electric lights and thirty miles of wire. A Caxapiax electrician states that electricity causes the imen 1 Vmon strates it by electrifying a rubWr comti by rubbing it through the hair and then drawing it over the top of a glass filled with water, the result W-ing that the tidal wave follows the comb. It is said that a man in Columbus. O., has patented an ! -trie device intended to automatically lower and raise rail road gates at grade crossings at the ap proach and after the passing of trains. The apparatus is expisti-d to entirely supplant llagmen and gatctenders. CHIPS OF FUN. "Gosh!" exclaimed Josiah I'inkerton, as he gazed at the leopard in the me nagerie, "ies' hxik at them freckles!" Washington Star. "Tim i ins is one of the most disagree able fellows to phi' poker with 1 ever met." "Why? iKx's lie always grum ble when he Iimm-s?" "He never loses." Indianapolis Journal. Kekv Little Helps. She "You'd Wttcr stay and ask papa to-night." He (sadly) "What would Ik- the use?" She "Well, you could stay to dinner, 3'ou know, and 'ou d W ahead a square meal aii3'wa3'." N. Y. Herald. Two of Them. Mrs. Chiggers (after the quarrel) "AW1, you're a f.xil!" Mr. Chiggers "Well, didn't you know it Ik-fore we were married?" "No yes." "Then what did 'ou marry me for?" (Melting! "llecause I was a f.xil, tixj, dear." Chicago Tribune. STATISTICAL RECORDS. Statistics prove that tho negro in the south lives longer than the negro in the north. A m siiEi. of wheat for every citizen of the Cnited States, with enough more for fall seeding, is the pnxluct this season in Kansas. Kl.E'EN million eight hundred and three thousand ball's of cotton were used 1 iy the world last 3'ear, according to an exchange. SwiT.KKl.Axn had 2,P..VJ mechanical establishments, using a total of S2. horse power, of w hich M.'J-l.'l was sup plied by water. 27.4:12 13' steam, ;!'.4 b gas, :t:;2 by electricity. Moiie than 1,000 vessels, aggregating fi'iO.lHH) tons, are lost annually, this W ing Wtwccn three and four jh t cent, of the world's total shipping. Of the ti tal tonnage lost, only 12 jx-r cent, is iu sti-cl vessels, against 41 per cent, in iron and 47 in wixxl. FATHERS OF GREAT MEN. Napoi.f.on' father was a citizen of very humble means. Ashmoi.e, the great antiquarian, was a saddler's son. Makshai. ItEitXAiMiTTO wo the son of a provincial notary. Tiik father of Harry, the historical painter, was a sailor. Maushai. Nev was a cooper's son, and himself a notary. The father of Adrian, the ascetic pon tiff, was a laborer. S.At'KKTitK, the naturalist, was the son of a Swiss farmer. ViiKiii.'s father was a porter, and for inan3' 3-ears a slave. Massu.los, the great French preach er, was a notary's won. Wvatt. the great architect, was tho son of a farm laborer. The father of Niebuhr, the historian, was a farm laWrcr. 1lai Tt'rt, the Latin Shakespearw, was the son of a frccdmait. f tiller ureeu lpinr
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