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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.
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