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SlllOOtll, BIHMi KiZfll )IUtH!M. Wliur
quantity o' rcrtlliy.fr anil finality ol
lanil U coiisidi-ri'il, thlM is liirccst rrip
of MtalM-i ever mined In the wrll.
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to prvoiit Irtv Kot Bud tiilKtit.
htiui4 i two-Mni t la in pa for Uook
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OLD RELIABLE ' ETNA"
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T. W. DICK; ;
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Eneniinonr..faiy l. 188i.
Mountain Ifoiise
SUP, SHAVIHG PARLORI
CENTBE STREET, EBENSBUEG.
'I'HIS well known and Ionic established Sharma;
1. I'arlor now Ineated -n tleotre street. i
paiia the livery Miil.la ul O'llara, liayls av Luth
er. here the hnstneps will leearrle.1 on In lh
luture. SHAVIM:. IIAI K tlTI 1Ni , AMI
IIAMI'liiMI dune In the t,eatext anil must
nrllplH- miiiir. t'lrau Towel a .eclally.
ta.lioie waited on at tbelr residence.
JA.MKS 11. M ANT.
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T.
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ATTOKNKY-AT-I.AW
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av-Sieehtl attention to n-ren claims
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S&LDinHE
SCKATCIIIXG A 8IIAKK.
A Submarine Diver Has Some Re
markable Experiences.
The Sing-alar t'ondnrt ol One of the Ter
rora of the lee A Queer Method
of OeAtroylii; sea
Lawjen."
I rocollect a shar that pave me a
consiuVrable shut-k, Ra3's a wriUr for
CliaiuWrs Journal. I hal ln-en en
irafrcil in blowing: up a reef of rot-Ui so as
to enlarge a little harbor nn the eoast.
1 1 was my tlnty to make the hole-uiul
put in the charge of tlynr.tnite. 1 lie
eharpe was espliHled in the eveninjr
after we left tff work. On poinjf down
every morninfr I was aecustometl to fv
over to a eertain letljre which was al
ways a fool rettinp place for lobsters.
Morning after morninif I had invariably
found a pair or more of thest ' erusta
eeans, whieh I sent to the surface in a
basket.
n the morning to whieh I now refer
I walked straight to the ledre and ran
my hand carefully along- its lower side.
I. was surprised to find my hand scrap
iiir w hat I took to lie the rock; but I
was surprised still more when. I ob
served niy hand gTopirjjr within a fwt
of the mouth of a frrcat shark which
had retired to rest In this cave. The
shark must have been as much alarmed
as I was, for it made one spring from
its resting place and disappeared in the
dark wall of ocean. The shock to me
was jrreater than 1 could have lx'lieved,
and even yet I do not care to think
alMiut it much. It is hardly necessary
to say that I did not return to that lede
for lobsters for some time.
On another occasion a birr fellow came
alonjrside me where I was workinjf. I
stopped, of course, and stepped back
quietly to let him pass. Hut hedid r.ot.
lie came nearer. I then thoutrlit he was
curious, but soon found that another
fcclinjr than curiosity was moving him.
As I retreated he still advanced, until I
found myself jammed up ayainst the
rock. I could retreat no further, and
yet the brute came tin determinedly.
Hut instead of approaching' me with his
lonr nose for you don't see his jaws
he turned his side and leran to rub up
against me. I had a small "jumper" in
my hand, which I held with the p. tint
outwards against his skin, as I did not
wish to have his rotisrh skin scoring
against my dress. It was something'
like what a cow would be rubbing
against you.
The iron on his skin was, however,
the very thing he wanted, as he fywiii
pave me to understand. I was kept
there at least half an hour STnti-hhiir
that monster w ith the sharp irm. lie
took it like a pig. bending' his 1 xly ami
turning over on his side so as to present,
a fresh surface to the juniper. I sup
pose h- must have felt easier for the
operation, for jtftcr some time ho
moved away. I h:id one or two further
visits from him on following day:;, on
ea.-h of whieh I was obliged to s:-i-at -1;
him for a time. 1 think he ni"st have
recognized me as a kindly and effectual
S'.-ratcher. I imagine he was suffering
from some paruMt ical or skin disease,
to which he may have fallen a victim.
Otherwise I might Ik in that scratching
liillet still.
One of tho boys who worked in the
Ixiat once inserted a charge of dynamite
in a sheep's head: the charge was of
course attached to the battery by wire.
After we had "knocked off"' he threw
in the shit-p's head. In alut ten
seconds the head was "taken in" by a
small shark. In ten seconds more there
was an explosion and fragments of
shark were ubundant. In certainly less
than a minute afterwards the sea was
almost alive with sharks contending
for a relic of their deceased kins-shark.
This ejerienoe was. however, obtained
from the surfaeo. anil what I pride my
self most on is tffat see these creatures
from ttfluw.
ECHOES OF VANISHED DAYS.
Kenan In Ilia Old A-e ( lira pared Youth to
the Vanished AUsa tls.
The lcautifu allegory, of which so
pathetic a use wan made by M. Kenan
in his "Ueeollcctloim of My Youth."
says the Cincinnati Commercial Oazcltc.
is thus translated, the translation Wing
written by C II. lMtman, and revised
by Mine. Kenan:
"One of the most popular legends in
Brittany is that relating to an imag
inary town called Is, which is supposed
tihave liccn swallowed up by the sea
at some unknown time. There are sev
eral places along the coast whi -h are
p tinted out as the site of this imaginary
city, and the fishermen have many
strange tales to tell of ,it. According
to them, the tips of the spires of the
churches may Ik seen in the hollow of
the naves when the sea is rough, while
during a calm the music" of their Im-IIs
ringing ont the hymn appropriate to
the day rises above the waters.' I often
fancy that I have at the Ito'ttoni of m
heart the city of Is; with its bells call
ing to prayer a recalcitrant congrega
tion. At times I halt to listen to these
gentle vibrations, which seem as if they
came from immeasurable depths, like
voices from another world. Since old
age began to steal over me, I have
loved, more especially duriiijf the re
pose whieh summer brings with it, to
gather up those distant echoesof a van
ished Atlantis."
Condemned to Heath Thrloe.
Hans Nielsen, of CVipenhagen, has hal
"lhe probably uniuue. experience of
lu'ing sentenced to death three times,
according to the London News. Such
is the lenity of Danish law, or rather
the indisposition of the authorities to
proceed to extreme measures, that this
notorious criminal has already been re
prieved twice and relegated to prison
for a long term. It was in prison that
he committed hi last offence, for he
murdered one of his jailers. Nielsen
bepan his career at the age of eightr.by
setting fire to a farmhouse, and it is
doubtful whether he haa ever earned" an
honest penny in the whole course of hia
existence. He was formerly a resident
of Ltondon.
Million for IVefenae.
Since the' war of 1ST0-71, twenty-two
years, military expenditures of France
have lieen lifteen milliaids three hun
dred and sixty-eight mill ions of francs,
or altout :i.soi.(HK),tKK. This sum is ex
clusive of the five milliards paid to t;er
niany as an indemnity, of the sum ex
pended on the nary, ami of the amotsnt
used iu building" tratejrie railroads and
the payment of military peiikioasi.
DON'T BE TOO POSITIVE.
The I tank Depmlt at Hnalneaa Man
Thought lie Had Made.
"Don't be too positive," said a busi
ness man to a Boston Herald writer.
"1 used to be. I am not now quite so
sure about thintrs. You would natural
ly think thaf one's life in business and
other avenues of its devious course
tends to make a man careful, not to say
conservative; but it does not as a rule.
To most men experience serves as a
stern light rather than a head light.
"Take a case of recent tjeeurrenee. A
friend of mine who is in business on
North Market street recently thought
he had made a deposit of one hundred
and fifteen dollars in his bank. I say
'thought;' he himself was cock sure he
had made it.
"His bank book had been left with
the bank for settlement, and my friend
merely made out a slip and handed it in
to the teller. - A few days later when
he received his bank book 'settled up,'
iM-hold you, that deposit was not en
tered. He at once took the book to the
young man who was teller on that day
and said:
" 'You have not credited me with
one hundred and lifteen dollars, my de
posit of such a day.'
"The teller obligingly looked over
his slips and book, and said he: 'I have
no entry of it, neither do I remember a
deposit of such an amount.'
"Then arose a dispute. My friend
was positive he had made that deposit
He was going to have it credited or he
would know the reason why. He felt
aggrieved; in fact his feelings were
venomous.
"The bank held a special board meet
ing to consider the matter. They de
cided they could tlo nothing. The tel
ler had always borne a good reputation.
Could my friend remember whom he
saw in the bank the day he uiade his
deposit?
"'Oh, yes,' he said; I will swear I
saw So-and-so as I entered the door.
'"Hunt him up, then,' said the bank
people; 'see if he remembers seeing
you.'
"The person could not recollect such
an event.
"Said the bank people: 'Can you rec
ollect who else was near the teller?'
" 'Oh, yes' said my friend; 'that
young man, pointing there,
"But that young man merely smiled,
and suavely said that he had no remem
brance of the occurrence.
"My friend was angry; he grew war
like. He consulted a prominent lawyer
in Boston. The man of law said, lacon
ically: " "You have no redress. The bank's
word is as good as yours (5o slow.
Are you sure yon made the depsit? We
men do queer things at times. Look
altout your desk and olliee.'
"Suffice it to say that the hundred
and fifteen dollars did not turn up. My
friend in the interim grew still more
positive,
'(tome two weeks elapsed. One day.
going through an old overcoat hanging
in his olliee. he found the deposit slip,
money and all. Tableau! Imagine his
feelings. Ketractions were in order,
lie went to the bank and explained all
in a very crestfallen manner and vowed
contrition to the teller.
"Now he ltcmouns the sad fate that
should have caused him. a shrewd busi
ness inan, at his time of life to lose eon
tldcnco In himself and his actions. Hit
favorite aphorism to-day is: 'Don't be
too putative."
WHAT THE VOICE SHOWS.
I pper Note of the lier;lter haraeter.
latle of Savage Trlbea.
Man inherited from his immediate an
Cestors, the apes and monkeys, a voice
or eonsiderablu altitude, In which thf
lower tones were almost unknown, says
Nast's Weekly. The monkeys chattereo.
b their fellows from tree to tree in
i.iirill head tones, the natural vocal ex
pression of a weak and timid race, in
whose physical formation the luad had
Wgun to hold an iir)xtrtant place. The
upper notes of the register were char
acteristic of the first men, as they still
are of savage trilies and peoples and of
the half civili.w 1 in "tnbers of m odern
ubiety, whose voices have never been
subjected to discipline.
The voices of country people accus
tomed to ma-'nifiVent distances and con
versation at long range are, if not keyed
higher, ofteuer used in the upper
ranges than thise of the city people,
who feel obliged by the necessities of
good breeding to moderate their tones.
When a man is self-contained he uses
the middle ami lower tones of his voh-e;
when angry the voice mounts gradually
to the head. If the gentler sex would
oftener licar in mind the eulogies of
Shakespeaiie and Sott of that voice
gentle and low which is an excellent
thing in women, th.-y would inore rarely
have occasion ti wonder why they have
ceased t3 lie nttra -tive.
The music of the Chinese, Japanese,
and of all wild triltes is keyed high and
sung usually . in falsetto, the lower
notes being obtained by drums, tom
toms, or some other instruments of the
kind. Although their songs are far
from agreeable to the ear, they still
think they sing, an illusion shared, it
must Ik confessed, by a considerable
numltcr of persons in the most refined
modern society. .
Queer Old Virginia. NtaM.
Virginia laments that the unsenti
mental authorities at Washington have
interfered with the old-time spelling of
the historic names of her counties and
towns, and changed Burnt Ordinary to
'i'nauo, l'owhatan to I'owattan, New
port's News to Newport News, Char
lottesville to Charlotteville, and com
inittctl other outrages on the estab
lished orthography. Uut the "Mother
of President." may find consolation in
the fact that she still has Culpepper,
which no northern writer attempts to
spell without consulting a gazetteer,
w hile OceMuan, Dinwid.lic, 1-Muvanua,
Fauquier and Appomattox remain un
ntcrfcred wi tlx.
t'nloa Hatter.
. "Thanks," remarked the star boarder
to the landlady at the table, "but I
don't care for union butter."
"I don't understand you, said the
landlady, with an unctuous smile of
doubt.
"No?" responded the loarder, pleas
antly. "'In nnion there Is strength,'
you know." Detroit Free Press.
"Mamma, I wonder why George
Washington never liked to go swim
ming'." Mamma "I guess he did when '
lui was a little boy." Ralph "No, tie
didu't, or he'il had to told a lie.
BUILT A RAILROAD ON FAITH.
The Plueky Ternaa Who Hnllt the Arkansas
fmu Koad IMd Oood laaarter In;.
From South Texas came a man who
built six hundred miles of railroad with
a five-dollar bill and faith, and the bill
was a borrowed one. He moved up from
Corpus Christi to San Antonio with all
of his potMessona heaped on a two
wheeled cart, according to the St- Louis
Olobe-Deinocrat. He got a charter to
build a railroad from San Antonio to
Arkansas Pass, lie graded a mile of it,
throwing a great deal more than one
shovel of dirt with his own hands. The
receiver of another road loaned this in
defatigable builder enough old rails
for a mile of track. In a distant part of
the state was purchased an old engine
which had been condemned six years
before and sent to the shops to be
wrecked for scrap iron. Two old cars
were picked up somewhere else at a
bargain. And that old engine, drawing
those old cars, steamed into San An
tonio. On engine and cars in bold let
ters were painted in lamp-black: 'S. A.
and A. P." With one mile of old rail
track and with the equipment of the
old engine and two old cars Uriah Lott
started the Arkansas Pass system. There
haa been some tall financiering in the
history of railroad building in this coun
try, but there Isn't anything which for
dazzling pluck quite approaches tbe
story of the building of this six hun
dred miles of road in South Texas. To
the one mile of track three were added
three miles by a dicker for some second-hand
rails which a street car com
pany had bought from a narrow guage
company. On this basis a credit was
made with a Pennsylvania rolling mill
for ten miles of rails. When they ar
rived there wasn't money enough in the
treasury to pay the freight. But it was
got somehow. Ten miles of track gave
foundation for bonds which built forty
miles more, and so the system grew into
Its present proportions. This man who
built the Arkansas Pass system rode from
San Antonio to Chicago at one critical
period in his enterprise without a cent
in his pocket. He had transportation,
but he hadn't anything to buy food, and
he went through hungry.
A TROUBLESOME RIVER.
Destruction, Caused by the Yellow River
of China.
The St. Petersburg Gazette referring
to the latest inundation of the Yel low
river in northern China, which will
again bring a population of more than
a million upon the point of starvation,
points out that these frequent ox peri
odical calamities are the work of man
rather than of nature. Many centuries
ago the Chinese interfered so much with
the stream as to compel it to change
its course and dig a new bed for itself.
But this bed tho current has never
grown truly accustomed to. It will de
posit its immense quantities of sediment
carried down from the mountains in the
most unsuitable localities, forming
shallows and barriers which, when an
unusually large mass of water rolls
down, will overllow and break through
Its dykes and inundate the - fertile
grounds along the river bod. So it haa
been for centuries past, and the living
generations are experiencing again and
again that the sins of the fathers are
being visited with most terrible cruelty
upon remote descendants. It is doubt
f U.1 whether the river could lie turned
back into its old bed, lying dry at pres
ent. But, if it could, the old bed has
been changed so much in the course of
centuries that even there, in its old,
natural and wonted haunts, the cur
rent of the river might not become tran
quil, but be forced to produce periodical
inundations as it does in its present
course.
GRANITE COLUMNS, .
flow the Hard Stone la Turned Into
hhape.
Granite for columns, balusters, round
posts and urns is now worked chiefly in.
lathes, which, for the-heaviest work,
are made large enrrugh to handle blocks,
twenty-five feet long and five feet in di
ameter. Instead of being turned to the
desired-size by' sharp cutting instru
ments, as in ordinary machines for
turning wood and metal, granite is
ground away by the wedge-like action
of rather thick steel disks, rotated by
the pressure of the stone as it slowly
turns in the lathe. The disks, which
are six or eight inches in diameter, are
set at quite an angle to the stone and
move with an automatic carriage along
the lathe bed. Large lathes have four
disks, two on each side, and a column
may be reduced some two inches in di
ameter the whole length of the stone by
one lateral movement of the carriages
along the bed. The first lathe for
turning granite cuts only cylindrical or
conical columns, but an improved form
is so made that templets or patterns,
may be inserted to guide the carriages,
and columns having any desired swell
may be as readily turned. For fine
grinding and polishing the granite is
transferred to another lathe where the
only machinery used is to produce a
simple turning or revolution of the
stone against iron blocks carrying the
necessary grinding or polishing materi
als. A Bird or Krll Omen.
The pigeon is considered to be essen
tially a bird of death, says the Fancier's
Journal. Thus if a white pigeon set
tles on a chimney some one of the occu
pants of the house will pass away ere
long, but should the bird enter and
perch upon the table it is considered a
less portentous omen and to testify sick
ness. There is a widespread belief
through England that no one can die
happily on a bed in which there is
even a single pigeon's feather. There
is a similar superstition about par
tridge feathers and there is an old say
ing that he who is sprinkled with
pigeon's blood will never die a natural
death.
Ilnanaslnc Itlrd Small But IMacky.
Notwithstanding their diminutive
size, pugnacity is one of the most con
spicuous traits of humming birds. Even
kingbirds and the boldest hawks are
afraid of them, being compelled to re
treat befttre the impetuous assaults of
the tiny warrior, whose boldness is only
equaled by the lightning-like rapidity
of his movements, thus baffling any at
tempt at resistance on the part of the
more powerful adversary. The lance
like thrust of the needle-like beak is
usually directed at the eyes of the ene
my. When two or more individuals of
either sex happen near the same spot,
spirited and often violent conflicts are
ainMat certain to ensue.
I-LAHGEST IX THE WORLD.
A Mammoth Search Light at the
Columbian Exposition.
It
Haa a Power of 160,000,000 Candle
and It Ulara Caa He Sue at a
Ulataaee of Slaty Mile oa a
Clear Nlcht.
At the world's fair ground the other
night the scientists in charge made a
test of the search light, which is to il
luminate Jackson park and large parts
of the earth adjoining. The vast elec
tric light is perched on the high tower
of the transportation building. It is a
wonderful thing, this great light whose
rays can be seen sixty miles away and
which can locate a man from ten to
twenty miles distant, according to the
power of electricity that is on.
The light is the largest and strongest
one in the world. It was made by
Schuckert fc Co., of Nuremlterg, Ger
many, and it has leen brought to this
country by lYof. Fred XV. Tischendoer
fer, a mechanical and electrical expert.
He brought the immense light to this
country expressly for the world's fair,
and it will lte on exhibition until after
October 21, when it will be taken down
until the opening of the fair next year.
The light is what is known as a four
foot reflector that is, the great masrni
fying glass, through which the rays are
thrown to such a distance, is four feet
in diameter.
The direct power of the light is 150,
000 candles, without any glass whatever.
With the big glass, however, the power
is magnified to 100,000,000 candle power.
The carltons used in the radiator are
twelve inches long and one and a quarter
inches' in diameter. They are fastened
inside the lamp merely with two up
right pieces of steeL The lamp itself is
operated on a sort of carriage something
after the manner of a Maxim gun. It
can lie turned in any direction and can
be tilted so that the rays will ascend
straight up.
This big search light has only been
in Chicago a few days. It was made
expressly for exhibition at the fair by
the German firm. The test was a grand
success. Under the searching rays
every portion of the fair grounds could
be as distinctly seen as in the broad rays
of the sun. The Columbian guards en
circling the grounds could easily be dis
rned as they paced their beats.
When the full power of the light was
turned on the city of Chicago could lie
viewed distinctly, though the nip-ht was
anything but clear. Prof. Tischen
doerfer claims that on a perfectly clear
night Michigan City, across the lake,
would lie perfectly visible. He also
claims that, on such a night the rays
from the lamp could be seen by persons
sixty miles away.
NEWSPAPER EXHIBIT.
Mornlnjr and KrenlriR Journal Will
Ite
Printed In Maehlnerr Hall.
Publishers of the big newspapers in
Chicago have been discussing for some
time plans of an exhibit they will make
at the fair. It is as good as settle.' now
that lioth a morning and an evening
paper will be issued in machinery hall
every day. The papers will Ik printed
on presses sent to the fair as exhibits,
and it is possible that they will be
printed on paper made on the exposition
grounds. This exhibit would enable
persons who have not witnessed the in
teresting process of producing a great
daily newspaper tosen;T4?ry feature of
the work, from the - manufacture of
paper to the delivery of the story of the
events of a day to sulscrilers.
The morning paper a.t the exposition
will be an intepesting Journal in many
respects. It is probable that each of
the big morning dailies will contribute
one page to it. This page will tie an
exact duplicate of the corresponding
page of the paper that contributes It
Each paper will send to Jackson park
one of those pulp molds known as a
matrix, and from this the metal plates
will be cast and tho papers run tiff in
full view of spectators. On other pages
of the paper ofUcial announcements will
be made.
JAPANESE ART WORKS.
Chief lve Aaanred That Japan'a
Beat
Painting Will Be Here.
Tegima and his tall secretary, Yamlte,
who represent the Japanese commission
in Chicago, attended a meeting of the
fine arts committee T?entiy. Tegima
never comes around unless he hits an
announcement to make from the mikado
of Japan. .Tegima told Chief Ives and
the art committee that the artists of
Japan would make a fine display of
paintings and sculpture work at the
fair. This announcement caused Chief
Ives to look at the litvif fellow sternly.
The Jap never winced, but repeated the
statement. It surprised Chief Ives, for
Japanese artists have never shown any
of their paintings at great expositions.
Their displays in this line have always
ltecn in the form of fantastic decora
tions. Tegima speaks English welL
"We are going to show our best paint
ings," he said, "and want all the space
we can get. And statuary, also, and
many fine carvings, all very Iteautiful,
will Ite brought over. Americans jll
be the first to see them."
Tegima then told the committee that
Japanese artists were now ready to be
gin decorating their Bwction of the' art
building. He said the royal artists had
made their designs and were now pre
pared to transfer them to the building.
Colombo Defendant.
The duke of Veragua, the descendant
of Columbus, who has promised to visit
America as the guest of the nation next
year, has received the famous order of
the Golden Fleece from the queen re
gent of Spain. The decoration was
given to him, Spanish papers say, as a
recompense for the little attention paid
to him during the Columbus celebra
tion in Spain. The (.olden Fleece is
one of the most famous orders in Eu
rope, and is worn, as a rule, by members
of ruling families.
They Want Kxettement.
The emigration of the English agri
cultural population into the towns is
attributed by T. E. Kebbel, among1
other causes, to the dullness of village
life. The old feasts, the fairs and the
games have for the most part disap
peared. Thus, while there is vastly
more cricket played in England than
fifty years ago, it is not played by the
same class. I n the old day-long match
es on the village greens the elevens
w ere mostly made up of laborers. They
Art) cm) Jit) longer.
A FIERCE BATTLE WITH GEESE.
Peculiar Kxperlenre ol a Tioga Muah
roona Hunter.
An interesting and rather peculiar
battle, says the Philadelphia Times,
was witnessed the other morning by a
numU-r of jiersons who were driving
along the old summer road, in the
Twenty-eighth want. In a field lying
on the north side of the old thorough
fare and east of Harris' Bellevue truck
farm an aged German was gathering
. mushrooms, and while peering altout
the pasture for the toothsome fungi, in
a stooping attitude, a flock of "Gander
bill" geese strutted under a post and
rail fence from a neighboring pond and
marched with their necks extended at
full length toward the stranger, who at
first paid no attention to their hissing,
but continued- every now and again to
reach down and pick a mushroom.
He soon learned to his sorrow that
the geese were considerably alove the
average flock for l mid persistency and
determined fight One old gander acted
as leader, and, after .marshaling his
forces into position, led on to the fight
by lxtldly attacking the intruder and
striking hira a stunning blow on the
nose, lief ore he could recover from the
effect two of the geese, one from each
side, flew at his face, each taking hold
of an ear anil holding on with hull-dog
tenacity, while they battered his head
and face with their clipped wings.
The sharp points of the cut feather
stems brought the blood from his cheeks
and forehead at every flap. He jumped
and pranced around like mad, wildly
gesticulating and muttering cries and
curses in German.
Two others of his feathery assailants
flew upon his back and began pecking
him on the head and neck, while the
others took hold upon the legs of his
trousers anil his coat tails and tugged
till they fairly di-aptf-ed him to a
swampy part of the field, where one of
poor fellow's feet sank in the slipjH-ry
mud and he fell backward in the slime.
A man in one of the passing wagons
hurried to his assistance, armed with a
bean pole snatched from the truck gar
dens. Be arrived just in time to pre
vent the enraged geese from killing
their victim.
Even the blows from the tough cedar
bean pole for a time had no effect on the
geese, and it was not until five of them,
with their necks broken, lay quiver
ing on the grass that the poor old Ger
man, his face covered with blood and
his clothing with mud, could be deliv
ered. He was led out to the old Summer
road, placed in the wagon, and kindly
driven to his home in Tioga. The only
reason that can lie given for the unu
sual liehavior of the geese is that a rag
picker who resembled the German in
appearance altout a week ago carried
away several goslings that belonged to
one ot the geese.
PROGRESS IN RAILWAY BUILDING
Advanee Made In the t'nlted State and
ireat Britain.
Great Britain and Ireland have now
altout 20,000 miles of railways, of whieh
a little over one-half are double
tracked. Their capital stock and debt
amount to the enormous sum of 5;oo,
000,000. The net earnings were last
year a little over 4 per cent- of tho capi
tal invested and the gross earnings
were for last year almost $410,000,000. ,
The railway system of the United
Kingdom is practically finished, says
the Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telejrraph.
Nothing in the way of new
railroad" construction la going on
worth mentioning. A little over
KH1 miles of new road were added,
and a part of this was an exceptional
matter. The picture presented in these
few figures is that of a finished coun
try, fully developed in all parts and re
sources. Now turn to the United States. Our
mileage now amounts to 171,000 miles,
more than eight times as large as that
of Great Britain. The gross earnings
last year amounted to over a thousand
millions of dollars. Ihiring this time
there were railroads of a total length
of nearly 4,000 miles constructed. In
other words, every three or four years
we build as many miles of railroad as
the total numlicr that suffices the E.ngs
lish, Scotch and Irish people.
And the American task is not done by
any means. The growth along exist
ing lines can well Ik? imagined when It
Ls considered that the English railways
serve a population of ss,00,000, or one
mile for every l.HH) inhabitants, while
our 170,000 miles serve for 00,000,000 of
people, or one mile for .'500 inlmbitarUs,
THE WORLD'S. OPQ COUNTRIES.
The Egyptian is taxed fifty cents oa
the palm tree that grows in hi garden.
Thk average depth ot bund in the
African desert is thought to be thirty
to forty feet
Thk natives in Vera Cruz do a large
trade in fi reflies, which they catch by
waving a b'aziug coal at the end of a
stick. The insects fly toward the light
and are captured in nets.
A XriiHER of remarkable figures of
hammered silver, representing men.
women and animals, have been exhumed
from a peat bog in J utland, Denmark,
and placed in the National museum at
; Copenhagen.
' The highest place in the world regu
larly inhabited Is the Buddhist town of
II aine, in Thibet, which, is 16,000 feet
above sea leveL The highest inhabited
place in the Americas isatGalera, Peru,
15,635 feet above sea level.
A DOXKEV named Miratnbo was Henry
M. Stanley's chief reliance when pass
ing through one of the most savage dis
tricts of Africa. At the explorer's word
of command, he would bray in the most
stentorian manner, to the great alarm
of the natives.
Decree of Cold In Montana.
"Everything goes by comparison out
in Montana," said the president of one
of St Louis big silver mines. "Once
a well-known character named Mack ay
was asked by a lady visUing the west
if the weather did not occasionally be
come intensely cold.
Hi. yes, he replied, 'it gets right
sharp here sometimes.'
'Well,' persisted the lady, 'how cold
does it getv
" 'That depends, he answered, evas
ively. 'Now, to-day is what we
miners call a one-shirt day. When the
weather gets colder it's a two-shirt
day, and when the blizzards come
there are three-shirt days. The lady
was much mystified until I explained
to her the habit of the miners of put
ting on one or two shirts above an
other, according to the temperature."
WIDOWS OF INDIA.
After Their Ilaabaoda' IX-ath Thee
Are
Subjected U Mmb Worrlanent.
Among the many sad things connect
ed with the lives of worueu in India,
nothing is more pitiable than the state
of the poor little widows, says the
Youth's Companion. A child-wife, only
six or seven years old, is regarded by
Iter husband's family as the cause, more
or less direct, of his death. She is
treated at liest with dislike,, and often
with great harshness and severity.
Therefore the death of a young wife
liefore her husband is the cause of great
rejoicing among her friends that she
has thus escaped widowhood.
They are convinced that the gods
have favored her, and that she has lieen
advanced a degree in the great series of
births and deaths through which every
Hindu passes on his way to final tterfco
tion. The prayer of every little girl
before marriage and of every little
girl and woman after marriage is that
she may never liecome a widow.
ine preservation of a husband's
health is a matter of the greatest im
portance, and on a certain day of tin
year a special religious ceremony is ol
served with this end in view. It is em
phatically the "Women's Day,"' and oc
curs altout the middleof January, when
the sun is believed to turn northward.
Offerings are made at the temples,
money is given to the priests, pilgrim
ages are undertaken, fastings under
gone, and vows performed for the pres
ervation of a husband's health and life.
When he is ill the wife removes her
jewels, puts on coarse clothing, and de
votes herself to prayer and austerities.
If he dies her woe begins.
TRAGEDY IN REAL LIFE.
Sad Mistake of lloraethlef Hunter oa
the Klo (,rande.
"The most pathetic scene I ever wit
nessed," says J udge K. L. Cawthorn, of
Texas, in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
"was a third of a century ago, but it is
as plain to my eyes to-day as it was
then. We had been bothered by horse
thieves down on the frontier, and you
know what that means in a w ild coun
try. A crowd of us started out after
the scoundrels, and just before we
reached the Kio Grande we saw two
horsemen off to the left who acted sus-
piciously. After them we went, and it
was a pretty race for awhile till they
disappeared In-hind a clump of trees.
We had shot to stop them, and when
we got in sight of them again we found
that one horse had l-en shot and they
had deserted him, while ltoth were rid
ing the other. They were evident! V
Mexicans a man and a loy and the
man showed fight, turning and firing
at us, finally hitting our deputy sheriff.
Wc gained on them rapidlv. and pres
ently a well-directed fire sent them all
in a heap.
"When we reached them the Mtoy'
was kneeling in front of the dying
Mexican, sobbing and moaning as if
her heart would break, while her hair,
which had fallen from her cap, fell ,be
low her waist. It was a case of clojte
ment and they had taken us for her fa
ther's servants, while we had ltecn
equally stupid and had taken them for
horsethieves. When he began to gasp
she drew a little pearl-handled revolver,
and liefore anyone could think of stop
ping her placed the muzzle under her
ear and fell into his arms a corpse. No,
we never heard who they were. We
buried them and went after the horse
thieves." Vigilant Chemist.
Adulteration is bad and sanitation is
good, but some of the results shown by
vigilant inspectors and clever chemists
in their efforts to show the frightful
dangers that surround us and rundown
offenders against sanitary laws are very
funny. A wholesale and highly respect
able grocer was tried in a London court
a few days ago for selling tartaric acid
adulterated with lead. The acid was
used in making lemonade, and the lead
in it got there from the vessels in which
it was manufactured. The prosecution
showed that the tartaric acid contained
.(HK120 per cent, of lead. The defense
showed that In order to get a twentieth
part of a grain of the poison into one's
system it would be necessary to drink
lemonade every day for six months at
the rate of 2jo bottles a day. The ex
perts added gravely that before the
twentieth part of a grain could be taken
in that manner the experimenter would
die of dyspepsia. The charge was dis
missed, but to satisfy the sanitary offi
cials the judge agreed to "state a case,"
presumably as a warning to other evil
doers. Klepluuit aa Financiers.
The penny-in-the-slot machine has
been adapted to the use of the elephants
at the Manchester zoo. When a visitor
gives the elephant a penny the ani
mal drops it in the fclot and gets a bis
cuit There is no use in trying to de
ceive the animals by half-pennies.
Those despised coins are always flung
in the face of the giver. The other day
a visitor gave a baby elephant a num
ber of half-pennies in succession, but
all were thrown back. The animal was
then given two half-pennies at the same
time. The creature's demeanor changed.
For more than five minutes he held the
two coins in his trunk rubbing them
together and seeming to be pondering
deeply. At last he dropped the two
half-pence in the box together, with the
result that the combined weight gave
him the desired biscuit, at which he
gamboled about in a manner w hich ex
hibited extravagant delight
A LITTLE MIRTH. -
St. Peter "Won t you walk in?"
Boston Spinster "Ik Browning here?"
Kate Field's Washington.
"Papa," asked the small boy, "what
is dignity?" "Dignity, my son," re
plied the father, "consists principally
of a tall hat and a frock coat" Buffalo
Express. -
"Mr. Scbcgoinb. was very affable
when I called on him." "You must
have struck a tender chord." "No; I
paid a bill." "That's what I meant; a
legal tender chord." Washington Star.
Mrs. Jacksox-Parkk "My. it s after
one o'clock. I believe I'll retire." Mr.
Parke "I guess I'll wait The bur
glars ought to lie along inside of an
hour, and I do hate to lie aroused after
I have once gone to sleep." Indian
apolis Journal.
"Who held the pass of the Ther
mopyhe against the Persian host?" de
manded the teacher. And the editor's
Ixvv at the foot of the class spoke up
and said: "Father, I reckon. He
holds an annual on every road in tho
country that runs a passeuirer train."