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THE PORTRAIT GALLERY
Grandfather loot;. frm the paneled wall
At -raiidintilher liaiii-'ini? aeross the hall.
In the ripeti'i'l plow tf tier stately praco:
And a frown coiih-m over his shadowed face
As lie Kins: The world ha.s crown askew.
My dear, hincc we ere yountf wo two.
" XotWia; lhat was is the same to-day;
Mid'-lime fancies are cast away;
All our scruples are lauphed to scorn;
All otir cusioiiis are quite out-worn;
Kai Ii i 1 seeking for soiai'thiiiR new
We were eon tout witli llo old we two."
Into the sliadc cf the prim old room.
Steal two forms tl;rou-h the twiliphfs gloom,
(iran.ifatlier's eyes are sharp to see,
Ami a deep voice utters tenderly:
- I-r aye will 1 love, and love but you.
And ue"ll follow love to the cud we two."
t.'raniifath.-r's face has lost Its frown.
And his eyes prow n solti r pa.o petilly down
( )n the pa.r who nani'ht of his wan-limp know.
And pr.uultn.nher smiles and whispers low:
' due thinp pot s on as it used to do
In the days when we were your.rf we two.""
May Lennox, in Ladies' Home Journal.
HIDING A DUFFALO.
A Traveler Escapes One Danger
by Gottinv? Into Another.
Ttvcr.ty-five j'ears ago, in the fall of
jsc.7. 1 wits traveling on horseback
(Tverthe plains my objective int bo
inu' a small lniniiief camp noar where
ti-.c city of lV-atKvood now stamls. I
liinl Ix-cti on a prosicctini tour two
hundred miles to the northwest, and
was yet alotit one hundred miles from
1113- destination, when the adventure I
am about to relate occurred. It was a
dreary Novemler afternoon, and the
clouds threatened a heavy fall of snow.
It was about two o'clock, and I was
i:aUui;.f for an uninhabited hut fif
teen miles away, where I knew I could
liiiil shelter for myself aud horse for
the night.
1 was riding along feeling perfectly
safe in that wilderness when a strange
Minn.l broke upon my ears. I was not
long in doubt, however, for on glancing
back along the road I beheld ulxmt a
mile away something fast approaching
hat looked like a Idack cloud moving
tapidly along close to the ground,
from what 1 had heard 1 knew at once
that I was lieing pursued by a half
famished pack of black wolves, and
tiiat if I could not reach the cabin my
self and horse would le torn to pieees
by the ravenous creatures. I lost no
time in pulling spurs to my horse fur a
race to the tleatlu The animal caught
the alarm and needed 110 urging to
make him do his ln-.st. For a few miles
the bravo horse did noble work and the
dierciless pursuers failed to gain upon
.is, but it s-hiii became evident that the
lior-Ai cottiil tiot keep up the gait and
.hat the wolves were sure to overtake
us before we could arrive within five
uiil.-s of the leg hut.
On we went, hut sonn the speed of
my horse began to slacken, nnd the
wolves were slowly closing the gap.
My miud was intensely busy with the
problem of what was liest to In- done,
il tK-etirre.l to me that my only chance
va--. to abandon the faithful animal anil
ush ahead on ftt while the wolves
.voce devouri ng bis carcass. It was a
forlorn hope, but there was no other
chance of escape, and, like the drown
ing man, 1 caught at the only straw
hold out to me.
My horse sank down on the roadside
as saxm ar I ceased to spur him for
ward, and T dashed along 011 foot, see
ing that my two pistols were ready for
use. When the wolves reached my
horse they pounci-ji upon him. as I hail
anticipated, and snapped and snarled
and fought like demons over the
choicest portions of their feast. While,
they were thus engaged I gained fully
a mil.- upon them. Dut I knew they
wo.ihl iiuicUly Inr upon my trail again.
Si Mii 1 hoard the ominous sound that
had first Jixetl my attention, and gazing
buck over the level plain I saw the
puck in full pursuit. Knowing that I
coi-.id not keep them from overtaking
'no, I slackened my pace and gathered
strength for the life-and-death contest
that was inevitable. My idea was to
tire and kill two or three wolves at a
time and then rusli forward as far as
possible while they were consuming
the liodios of the dead animals. I tired
rapidly at the foremost, and was lucky
enough to kill four in as many shots.
Then I rushed forward.and gained some
distance ln-fore they devoured the dead,
and again started in pursuit. Again I
fired, and killed three or four, ami
again ran for dear life. It was still
fully four miles to the longed-for hut,
and I Wgan to feel that the contest
wa.- too unequal, and that I might as
well give up the struggle first as hist.
The running fight was kept up for a
mile or two more, when I was suddenly
relieved from all danger from the
wolves but threatened by another
fully as horrible. I had halted and
turned for the purpose of fi ring another
fusillade at my relentless enemies when
the whole pack suddenly stopped and
stood for fully a minute in a listening
attitude. From the west came a sound
resembling distant thunder, and great
clouds of dust were rising not faraway,
oliscuring the western view. The
wolves appeared to thoroughly under
stand what causea the ominous sounds
and clouds of dust, for they gave one
frantic howl over being deprived of
their expected prej, and then darted
madly nwi.y to the northwards At first
I felt as if I had been delivered by the
hands of a special providence, but was
not long in discovering that I was still
in the greatest of peril, ami had not
one chance in a thousand of escaping a
terrible death. That which caused the
seeming distant thunder and clouds of
dust was what was known in the par
lance of the plains as "a buffalo stam
pede." No one has ever explained
whatever caused a herd now nnd then
to ln-come suddenly frightened and in
almost one solid mass rush madly
away, never stopping until they were
completely worn ouL In those stam
pedes the maddened animals would
Keep up a snorting and bellowing,
creating u scene that could be com
pared to nothing but pandemonium.
No living thing ever escaped being
trampled into a shapeless mass that
happened to Ik- in front of them. Even
the wolves that followed me with such
dogged piirjxise understood the danger
perfectly welL
1 had given myself up for lost, for I
was near the center line of the ap
proaching herd, and it would have
been folly for me to have run forward
or backward with the hope of getting
out of their way. On they came, like
the huge waves of an angry sea, and,
although I fully appreciated the great
peril I was in, the scene fascinated me,
and I awaited the end with calm resig
nation, in the loremost ranks was a
huge bull with shaggy mane and long
hair extending far back over his neck
and shoulders. The front rank was
within a hundred yards of me when I
was seized with an inspiration. I sud
denly saw one single chance for es
cape and resolved upon making the at
tempt, although the odds were against
me a thousand to one. Not far away
there was a little mound some three or
four feet high, and to this I ran and
stood on top of it. The desire to live
nerved me to almost superhuman ef
fort, and as the fleeing animals rushed
upon me I riveted my eyes upon the
shaggy shoulders of the m onster bull
and made the leap for life.
I landed square upon the spot I had
selected on the animal's back, but
would have fallen beneath his feet and
Wen at once trampled to death had I
not seized hold of the long hair of his
shoulders and steadied myself until I
cou h I straddle his back. I held on to
his mane for dear life, and no doubt I
am the only man that ever rode or will
ever ride such a race.
On, on we dashed with the speed of
the wind, and many miles were covered
lefore the animals were exhausted.
My unwilling steed attempted to shake
me off, but I had no idea of being
thrown after I hail been so lucky in
mounting him. They came to a halt
alniut sundown on the verge of a for
est, and the animal I was. riding
stopped under a tree the limbs of
which I could reach from my position
upon his back. I climbed into the tree
and there I spent the night The next
morning there were no buffaloes or
wolves in sight and I started toward
my destination on foot During the
flay I met some prospectors who were
going in the same direction as myself,
and the next day I reached the camp
safe and well. It was Thanksgiving
day, and my friends in camp had killed
several wild turkeys and were having
a dinner, such as they were accus
tomed to back in the states. I can
truly say that no one ever felt more
thankful than I did that I was there to
enjoy a feast instead of having Wen
torn tn pieces by the wolves or tram
pled to death Wneath the feet of five
thousand panic-stricken buffaloes.
Globe Democrat.
SLEEP AN ETCHING.
To. Morrow fame tti Every One In the)
Hotel Kxeet the I(hI-.
The great hotel is falling into si
lence. The last of the dancers came
up nearly an hour ago. The loud
voiced man crossed the hall, intermit
ted his talk for a time and then left off
altogether; the click of the billiard
cues stopped a few moments since;
only an occasional voice or step is
heard in the corridors; the little dying
baby in tne next room has ceased to
moan and sleeps for a space, I hope.
The two who have come at last
through weary ways of doubt and un
certainty to so full and sweet an un
derstanding have separated with many
vchisjx-rcd farewells and kisses in
which the long-repressed yearning of
each heart met with an answering
love. Their sweet remembrances melt
softly into the margin of sleep and
shine back again from its misty depths,
a tender, otherealizcd reflection.
The foolish boy who lost his all at
the gaming table no longer cudgels his
weary brain for some possible plan to
recoup himself and escape disgrace.
His years are but a child's years the
tired young lody and brain relelled
and claimed their need of rest, lie
sleeps with the grieved look alxiut his
mouth that used to tell of some baby
sorrow ami the little drops lieading his
forehead where the pretty young
mother used to lift away the soft hair
to kiss.
The woman whom folly and vanity
counseled to listen to words she dare
not rememlH-r afterward, Wnding ever
her little sleepers has cooled her
burning cheeks; thrust back the fear,
regret ami remorse that crowd upon
her, and crept tremblingly beneath the
blessed curtain of oblivion.
The morrow will awaken them alL
The mirth pauses the scourge is with
held, the menace stayed for a moment.
Joy rests her fluttering wiiigs I'ain's
sting is withdrawn and sorrow knows
a brief surcease.
The door next time opens silently; I
hear the mother sobbing as the nurse's
footfalls die away down the corridor.
So it was to-night for the baby, in
stead of to-morrow. And for the
others, not to-morrow, but next year
or another they shall fall upon that
sleep which hits no dreams Alice Mac
Oowan, in Short Stories.
A ROYAL INDIAN.
The l'rlnce of Wnlea Ilelnnjra to the Mo
hawk Tribe.
There is living in Europe a middle
aged gentleman, who, many years ago,
.was elected a chief of the Mohawk
triln- of Indians This gentleman, says
the New York World, not only comes
from ancestry lxith old and powerful,
but he is also heir apparent to one of
the mightiest thrones in the world. He
is Allert Edward, more familiarly
known as the prince of Wales. When
he becomes king of England he will
doubt less be called Edward VII. In
lsno he visited the United States and
Canada, and during that year occurred
his election as an Indian chief. He was
probably present at this interesting oc
casion ami perhaps an Indian name was
given to him.
The Mohawk Indians, who thus hon
ored the prince of Wales, are one of the
famous Iriquois nations, ami as a na
.Jon their home is now in Canada. Their
proper name is Agmegue or tJagmcgae.
The celebrated Joseph ltrant was a
Mohawk.
IKves it not seem like fiction to read
that a trile of North American Indians
can claim among thtse whom it has
elected chief a man who not only comes
from distinguished European ancestry,
but is himself the heir apparent to a
mighty European throne?
Wr.nftrou 31r-hanlnm.
At a late fair in IJrittan-, France, a
monk from the Friestine monastery ex
hibited a plain-looking table with an in
laid chess iMiartl on its surface. The in
ventor, or anyone so disposed, sets the
pieces for a game and then sits along at
one side of the talde. However cau
tiously he plays he is frequently cheek-!
mated by the pieces from tho opposite
si.lo. which move nutomatioally ai-nms
the ltoard. No matter how scientifieal-.
ly tho player plays the ghost-moved
pieces frequently come out ahead. No
mechanism is apparent; to all intent
the table is a solid board.
BOOKS AND WRITERS.
Marion Chawfoud will have two new
novels in American magazines next year.
SoviEnonr understands that James
Whitcomb Riley is going to write a
noveL
The original manuscript of "Focms
by Two lirothers," written by Alfred
and Charles Tennyson many years ago,
was sold at auction in London on Fri
day for 1 2,41)0.
Ki:y. . Father PAiXAnrrs, the famous
Russian missionary, has brought out,
after twenty years of labor, a Chinese
Russian ilictionary containing 11,Chs
hieroglyphics.
Some manuscripts of Tennyson's ear
liest published poems were sold at auc
tion in London two weeks ago and
In ght for 4so by the representative of
a Cambridge publishing house.
WniTTlfcii's homestead is now owned
by a retired merchant of Haverhill,
Mass., who is w illing to sell the estate
on condition that it shall be properly
and permanently cared for as a nicmtt
rial of the poet.
M. Ai.inoxsK Dacpet intends to
spend some time in England, first at
the Isle of Wight and subsequently at
London. He dx?s not speak Englisli,
but he has a good knowledge of Eng
lish literature through the translations,
Dickens being his favorite author.
Ix the -J7 years since "Dm Quixote"
was published I.3i4 ol it ions have leen
printed of which 52$ were Spanish, 304
English, 171) French, 00 Italian, M Portu
guese. 4." (ii-rman, 18 Swedish. 9 Polish,
S Danish, 0 Russian, 5 tJreek, 3 Rou
manian, 4 Catulonian, 1 Iktsquc ami 1
Latin.
PEOPLE IN OTHER LANDS.
Lobsters' and salmon are so disliked
by the shah of Persia, that when either
is served at a table where he is seated
he loaves the room.
The khan of Khiva, now visiting
some of his fellow rulers in Europe,
travels with his moliak (or priest) and
his own cook. I le feels tolerably safe,
no matter what turns up.
The khedive of Egypt uses a type
writer and is so pleased with the instru
ment that it is saitl he lias conferred
the honor of the Medjidie on the in
ventor. The oldest member of the Rritish
peerage is the duke of Northumber
land, who is nearly ninety years of age.
He has tn-t-n a momtcr of live cabinets,
but always in a sulxirdinate psition
where he couldn't d. any harm.
M. Dfl-rv. the new minister of com
merce, is one of the conspicuous self
made men in the existing French
cabinet. His father was a liveried
servant of the prefecture, of I"uy, while
his mother kept a small tobacco shop.
The case of Rev. Joseph Rest, of
Hamilton, Out., affords further proof
that there is little in a name. Rev.
J.H'"s piety revolted at the idea of per
mitting a servant to wash potatoes on
Sunday, and he debated the matter so
forcefuUy with Mrs. I test that he was
sent to prist m for two months for as
sault and battery.
NEWS NOTES FROM ABROAD.
The Egyptians kneaded their bread
in a wooden laiwl with their feet-
A steam kekkick that easily lifts an
eighty-ton gun and swings it around as
readily as if it were a bale of hay is on
one of the dtx-ks at Hamburg.
In England, France, Germany and
Itelgiuru the numlier of births per thou
sand of population is steadily falling.
The rate of decrease is slower in some
of these countries, but is marked in alL
The Castle of Circy, where Voltaire
spent so much time in the society of his
blue-stocking friend. Marchioness du
Chatelet, has just lieen sold for S"h)0,
000. The buyer is a rich French manu
facturer, M. Viellard-Migeon.
I'.avaria continues to take the lead
in Germany in leer drinking, the eon
sumption during ISIHK91 having been
over two hundred and sixty quarts per
inhabitant. Posen heads the list in
schnapp drinking about twenty-five
quarts per inhabitant.
Several men who have outlived their
greatness are now glad to earn their
living as coachmen in lterlin. Among
them are sixteen nobles seven retired
army oilioers and three pulpitless pas
tors. Three Itritish nobilities now glee
fully crack the whip as London cab
men; they are an ex-niemler of parlia
ment, a baron and a marquis
PRATTLE OF THE CHILDREN.
A i.iTTt.E girl was taking a ride with
a friend. She had never liefore seen a
horse without blinders on the harness
and asked her friend if the horse had
ltst his "spectacles.'
Fanme's eyes were not strong, and
the oculist that examined them advised
the use of a prism. One day a lady
a.skcd Fannie how her eyes were. "Oh,"
saitl Fannie, "they are a great deal bet
ter; but 1 have to look through a prison
every day."
Oi.ii L'ncle Norman had lived with
the family for many years, helping
about the house and yard at whatever
there was to be done. He was a very
talkative old man, fond of using high
sounding words and felt his impor
tance very much. He informed one of
the young ladies of the house one day
that he would have to take a rest, that
he could not stand such "lalxrious la
bor'' liecause he had the "rheumatic
rheumatism." Youth's Companion.
COLOR BLINDNESS IN ENGLAND.
Criminal Xefflltre iee la the Etanuaatloa
wf KadlroaMl Kmplnye.
The numljer of persons employed in
working the railways of the Cnited
Kingdom is alut four hundred thou
sand. Iiailway employes generally be
long to a class, with a very high per
centage of color blind, and it may,
therefore, Ik? assumed that some sixteen
thousand of that nuintter would have a
defective color vision. If pr.iperly ex
amine!., says London Truth, they would
be excluded from positions in whL-h
color blindness is a source of great dan
ger to life ami property. As it is, a con
siderable portion of them remain in
active service. Iutting it at a very low
estimate, there must lie at least four
thousand men employed on railways
who cannot distinguish between rod
and green signals In other words at
least one out of every hundred engine
drivers, firemen, pointsmen, shunters
and others directly connected with tho
passenger service is unfit for the work
he has to perforin,- It is earnestly to lie
hoped that a uniform, reliable test will
soon be introduced.
CHINESE SOLDIERS.
Novel Vay In Whkh They Receive Their
1'a.y.
The Chinese soldier receives his pay
once a month only, and Chinese months
it may lie rememlx-red, are much long
er than those we are accustomed to
reckon by. On the eve of the pay day
the captain of the company, together
with his sergeant-major, goes ami re
ceives the amount of money requisite
to pay his company from his next
superior officer, says the Cincinnati En
quirer. This is not paid to him in jingling
coins but in pure silver, which, how
ever, has leen broken into somewhat
irregular pieces. The whole of the
night preceding pay flay is occupied in
weighing out for each man the required
quantity of silver, and this ccupation,
as may le imagined, is a very tedious
one. and only successfully accomplished
by infinite can-, for here a piece the
size of a pin's head has to bcelipiedoff,
and thert-a piece of larger dimensions
has to le added to make up weight, and
any deviation one way or the other
moans trie loss of perhaps a day's payor
more to some poor defender of the ce
lestial eripire.
When the process of melting out is
accomplished the silver is carefully
wrapped in paper, upon which is writ
ten the name of the intended recipient.
On the following afternoon the com
pany is musteretl and the sergeant
ma jor divides the money, commencing
with the first man in the company nnd
going on to the last. When this divi
sion is conclu ied the question is asked
in stentorian tones: "lias anyone else a
claim?" and the customary "No" having
been promptly given, the men a'e then
dismissetL
Each man now repairs to the nearest
tradesman's shop, where he exchanges
his silver. For one tacl he receives one
thousand small coins culled cash, per
forated in the center so as to allow of
being threaded on a string, anil, having
received the proper amount, turns
homeward with a cheerful mien, but
nearly sinking liencath his burden.
The private receives three and one
half, taols equal to alniut nineteeon shil
lings, monthly, out of w hich he 'has to
provide himself with clothes and footL
15ut he lives on rice and his clothes cost
but a trifle.
FISHY WISE VIRGINS.
They Have Marvelous Hlneflsh at Itarne
at. So Says the Captain.
"I have fished all along the coast,
from the St. John's to the Hudson,"
said the irrepressible Capt. Lund, who
thinks nothing of taking his river
steamboat. City of Jacksonville, out to
sea when it is blowing rilled thousand
pounders "but the fattest bltiefish I
ever saw were those I caught off
Itirnegat in the merry month of
August. I runout in a Uarnegat sneak
Ix at with a friend and we had a fine
run of luck. The blues were running
very large in the wake of a school of
menhaden, and as for fat, oh! my! I toil
you, butter was loan in comparison!
They fairly shone with oleaginous os
culescensoy" (this is a word found
only in Florida dictionaries), says the
New York Herald.
"Well, sir, what do you think? We
got so interested in fishing tluit we did
not notice where we were g -ing, and
when darkness came down v.-e ftnind
ourselves far out of sight of land and
without wind enough to knock a St
John's river cow in other wortls a dead
calm. We did not mind that so much,
for we were on a bank and able to
anchor, but when my friend went to
light his anchor lights he found to his
horror that the oil had run out and the
oil can was empty.
"There we were right in the track of
coastwise tratlie and liable to lx; run
down lx-fore morjiing for want r.f a
light- For half a minute I was flablx-r-gastcd.
Then a bright idea struck me.
" 'Tap a blue.' I suggested
" 'Just the thing, shouted my friend,
who seized the idea at once.
"In less time than it takes to tell it
he had picked up one of the largest and
fattest of our captives and tupped it
with his penknife, ami, will you be
lieve it. we got four gallons of pure
menhaden oil for our lam;s out of that
one fish's Ix-lly.
"We have some right jolly fish down
in the St. John's river," said the cap
tain, with a far-away, homesick hxk in
his starlMiartl eye, "but when it comes
to bluefish New Jersey takes the oil
tank."
USES OF VARIOUS DOGS.
Every Itof If a J I la Specialty, and That
of the I'oij Is Lax.kliiK I'c'.v.
A St. Ik-rnard dog set out to look for
help, says Harper's Young People. He
came upon a Newfoundland dog. anil
said to him: "I will hire thee to guard
my children, and to rescue, if by chance
one of them fall into the water."
To the mastiff he said: "Thee will I
take for thy great courage to ward me
from all harm."
To the shepherd dog saitl he: "Mv
flocks shalt thou watch over by day and
by night."
And unto the honnd he said: "Yon
shall chase the wily fox."
Antl to the spaniel: "When I shoot
you are to swim for the game."
And to the bulldog. "You shall catch
the bull by the nose, and hold him."
And to the terrier: "Rats! rats! rats!
is all that I shall say to you."
Then ltxiking down at the silken
poixlle he saitl: "Well, if my mistress
hath time and so light a mind as to
dandle w ith j-ou she tnuy take you."
I tut turning an eye askant on the pug
he said: "As for j-ou, brainless little
lump, neither I nor my spouse care a
whit, since your clay image is as gotxl
as yourself."
Making Thlnr a fr
it fell to the lot of a young man in
this town to attend a funeral the other
day. He did not know any of the mcm
Wrs of the afflicted family, but it was
his business to be at that funeral and
he went. The services which were
held in the family residence, were fair
ly under way when the youtrg man ar
rived, and, much to his embarrassment,
the butler insisted upon leading him to
a seat very close to the coffin. After
the service the menial accosted the
stranger as he was leaving the house.
Reg pardon for putting you where I
did, but I had to," he said. "How was
that?" said tho young man. "WelL"
said the butler, apologetically, "yon
see I didn't know you, and we have to
1x3 very carcfuL There's a lot of valu
ables in this house. So people we didn't
know we put away up In fronL No
body would do nothing wrong sitting
alongside the deceased." N. Y. Times.
DOGS GttOWX WILD.
An Island In tho Brazos River In
fested with. Them.
The Animals Are Fiercer and More Com
bative Than Wolves A Hal tie to
the Iteath with the Uu(
Victorious.
Several miles lielow Waco the Rrazos
river makes a lx-nd like that in the
James river across which Gen. IJutler
made the Dutch Gap canal. The island
within this lx-nd is very fertile, and is
planted yearly in cotton, prtxlucing a
bale to the acre easily.
A portion of it, nearest the river, is
densely grown with barberry, yipan
antl cottonwood, forming a chaparral
only passable by paths made, lx-rhats,
by Indians, antl kept ojx-n by cattle go
ing to water and lxiys who drive them.
Among tho animals which inhabit the
chaparral are wild dogs pariahs, or
descendants of pariahs. The theory of
the planters is that the ancestry of this
vest kennel of dangerous antl yelping
curs were unsociable, thievish and do
mestic curs driven away from Waco
early in its history, saj's a Waco corre
spondent of the St. Luis Glolx-"Demo-crat.
The' are essentially wild lx-asts
now fierce, cowardly, carnivorous
hunting in packs ami fighting among
themselves over the quarry their joint
efforts secure. They are ruder toward
each other than wolves, and with the
wolves they are always at war.
Recently a calf, the property of Sena
tor Coke, liceaine engulfed in a lod of
silt left by the river's subsidence after
a flood. The wild dogs gathered, and
the cow-mother met them. She made a
gallant fight to protect her offspring,
but the mongrels pulled her down and
were soon rending lxith her lht-.li and
that of the calf, snarling and hitiugestch
other fiver the bloody banquet. At
tracted by tho smt-11 of blixxl ami the
yelping and growling a pack of wolves
emerged fr iiu thf thicket and j-lined
or attempted to join in the feast. The
flogs abandoned their meal, ceased tlu-ir
family strife anil made common cause
against a common enemy. It was a
wild and relentless fight. All over the
sand, or in the sticky mud, fir rolling
over antl over in the shallows, dogs utid
wolves, locked together in quenchless
hate, tore each other's throats, bit, wal
lowed, and howled: while some,
tumbling together into deep water,
floated tlown the river, fighting as they
went. D-gs slew wolves and wolves
slew dogs. Thus war went on. until
many of the combatants wore dead or
httrsde combat.
The correspondent of the Glole-Iem-ocrat
was rowing down the river, and
rested on his oars to witness the novel
and terrific battle. At length only one
puir continued the fight. One of those
was a huge shaggy cur and his antag
onist a gray wolf, superior to his fel
lows in strength and size. These cham
pions wore nearly evenly mulched.
They fought by snapping, wolf fashion,
part of the time. Then they closed and
wrestled for throalhold. They foiled
each other with the skill of trained
fighters, rising erect, ltx-king arms,
parrying ami thrusting with their
fan god muzzles until, after fully an
hour had lx-en spent and Ixith were cut
and torn over their entire bodies, the
log triumphed. Getting his teeth in the
nock of the wolf he closed his eyes and
when he relaxed his hold the wolf was
dead.
When certain that his antagonist was
done for, antl to make doubly sure, the
flog dragged the lxxiy of the wolf ten
feet over the slimy margin and uttered
a howl of triumph which brought to life
several of his coin pulsions which had
seemed to lie dead. Some females came
also from the timlx-r, and the victor
limtx-d to the calf, finished along with
the remnant of the pack his inter
mptusl meal. amL after drinking deeply
from the river, ttxik his way back,
closely attended by two females, jx-r-haps
his wives
The reporter could have killed the
brave dog, but would not do it. A bul
let directed against the old veteran
when his battle was won would have
seemed like murder.
"THE QUEEN WENT OUT."
Kxtraot from Victoria's Contribution to
the Oueen.
On Thursday morning, the 2.1th nit.,
the queen antl IVincess I tea trice went
out, and in the afternxn her majesty
drove, attended by Hon. Ilertha Lam-ix-rt
antl Hon. Mary Hughes, lit. Hon.
Henry Camplx-U-llannerman antl I loot
Surgeon Henry C.Wxxls dined w ith, the
queen.
On Wednesday morning the queen
went out with Princess I (cat rice, ami in
the afternixm her majesty and the prin
cess drove out, attended by Miss Mc
Neill. The duchess of Albany, with the
young duke and Princess Alice lunched
with the queen. Rt. Hon. Henry Cainp-Ix-ll-llaniienuan
dined with the queen.
Maj. Hriggs left-
On Saturday morning the queen went
out with Princess Ileatricc, and in the
afternoon her majesty drove, attended
by Viscountess Downe and Miss Mc
NeilL Maj. Gen. T. Donnehy arrived.
On Monday morning the queen went
out, attended, by Miss McNeilL in the
afu-rntxin her majesty, with IVineess
lieatrico.drove, attended by Viscountess
Downe. Prinee Henry of Rattenlx-rg
left the castle for the south.
TABLE NOVELTIES.
Glass salt cups are covered with
silver wire traced in a pretty pattern.
The accepted flower vase is of glass
Around the nook there is tied a big bow
of riblxm, corresponding" in color with
the table dooorat ions.
Claret glasses are to lx" cut in
taglio. The favorite decoration for
them is the head of Queen Isalx-lla,
although many show a fine bust of Co
lumbus. Very gorgeous table lamps have a
base of pale green glass with enamel
flowers upon it. The lamp-shade carries
out the color of the glass and the whole
is a symphony in pale green.
The handles of pit-knives have ap
peared in the form of Spanish daggers
not very sharp, of course, nor very
pointed. When the Spanish dagger is
not used the handle of a Turkish
scimitar holtl sway.
The newest forks and spoons are of
gold with Dresden china handles
They are so pretty that the admiring
housewife finds an excuse for placing
odd ones upon her table in addition to
putting them at every plate.
SCIENCE CLIPPINGS.
To reach the nearest fixed star one
must travel :!:,(KMi,(mh,(NMI of kilometers,
and if the velocity were that of a can
non ball, it would require fi.OOO.OOO
years to travel the distance.
The platinum U-ds in the I.' nil
mountains are the only ones in the
world in which t hat metal is found in
grains. In several places it is to Ix
found imlx-ddcd in the hard serpentine
rtx k, but only in the t'ral in grains.
Ir the earth were to revolve on its
axis with seventeen times its present ra
pidity, the ix-ndulum would not vibrate
at all, and we would weigh nothing at
the equator, for tin centrifugal force
would Ix- so groat as to throw us off.
In a warjxtl lxiard the convex side of
the curve is always toward the heart of
the tree. The warping is due to un
equal shrinkage, and it is easily under
sea xl therefore why the middle plank
is loss subject to this trouble than cuts
from the other parts of the log.
Cork is alxuit the most buoyant sub
stance there is, but there are jx-iiits 1h
yond which even cork cannot go. A
cork sunk two hundred feet deep in the
ocean will not rise again to the surface,
owing to the great pressure of the wa
ter. At any less distance from the sur
face, however, it will gradually work its
way back to light once more.
NEWSPAPER CURRENCY.
A loap of two tons can le readily
carried by a full-grown elephant.
The city of New York cares for 1,(KK
lunatics at a cost of ei2r,oiK) a year.
The population of Ifindon now ex
ceeds that of New York, Krooklyn,
Philadelphia antl Chicago combined,
antl these four are the only American
cities having one million or more inhab
itants. A San FllAXClwo exchange raises the
alarm that California is suffering "a
girl famine." In every large town in
that state, with the exception of Ala
meda, there is a lamentable paucity
of the gentler sex.
Stockmen in Wyoming report that so
far this winter has lx-en very favorable
for cattle. More cattle are lx-ing fed
this winter than in the past, range cat
tle every whereare reported in excellent
condition, and, barring blizzards, the
loss will Ir- much less this year than in
any former w inter.
SrKPiusE and terror caused some zinc
miners to desert a shaft they were sink
ing at Webb City, Wis. As the opening
lx-camc doojx-r, they noticed that the
atmosphere Ix-came warmer. At the
depth of 1 : feet the heat was so in
tense that work was stopped, antl soon
they saw flames burst into the shaft.
i
JOURNALISTIC PLUMS.
Antony- White, of Presquo Isle, Me.,
has a hound that hauls him several
miles to anil from his work daily, and
which during the day renders gxxl
service hauling cedar railroad tics, four
or five lx-ing a usual load.
An erratic clock adorns the post office
in Gallatin, Mo. A philosophic farmer
says of it with quiet sarcasm: "When
ever the clock in the post office strikes
eleven, and the hands point lo half-past
twelve, I know it is just a quarter to
ten."
A woxpKKrrx hen is owned by a man
in Waterloo, Oregon. It is as expert as
a cat in catching rats. It teases them
awhile, antl then releases them. The
owner of this remarkable fowl has ol-sor-ved
that no rat ever comes the
second time within reach of its claws.
A SIXTY-rol-R-YEAH-OLli citizen of
Deering. Me., is suffering from his first
attack of toothache. All his tooth are
sound, antl the one that is troubling
him has defied all the efforts of the den
tist tn extract it, the roots seeming to
tx- twisted around a part of the jaw
lxne. BEDS OF ALL NATIONS.
The Japanese lie upon matting with
a stiff, uncomfortable wixxlon neck rest.
The ancient Greeks or Romans had
their lied supported on frames but not
fiat like ours.
The Chinese use low Ix-dsteads, often
elalxiratoly carved, and supporting only
mats or coverlids
The Egyptians had a couch of a fx
culiar shape, more like an old-fashioned
easy chair with hollow hack and scat.
Ix England the old four-posted lx-il-stead
is the pride of the nation; but the
iron or brass lxdstcad is fast Ixx-oming
universal. The English lx-ds are the
largest lieds in the world.
Ix the tropics men sleep in hartimK-ks
or upon mats of grass The East In
dian unrolls his light portable charpoy,
or mattress, which, in the morning, is
again rolled together and carrieti away
by him.
A 1-Ecn.lAlUTY of the German lied is
its shortness; lx-siiles that it frequently
consists in a sort of large down pillow
or upper mattress w hich spreads over
the person antl usually answers the pur
pose of all other lx-d-elothing combined.
A Wealthy Corporation.
He had Wen standing on the comer
for thirty-eight minutes waiting for a
car. During that time it hail rained
steadily and a half dozen cars had
passed him, going in the wrong direc
tion. For the last twenty minutes he
had Wen saying things that he never
saw in his prayer-book and stamped his
feet as if annoyed. Finally a txilice
man sauntered past.
"Say. Mr. Officer," observed the impa
tient citizen, in a sarcastic tone, 'you
must have a pretty wealthy car com
pany here."
"Think so?" was the guarded re
joinder. "Yes 1 notice they dont use the
same car twice."
"How's that?" inquired the officer,
becoming interested.
"Well, I've Wen waiting here aWut
an hour, and aWut thirty cars have
gone down, but not a blamed one has
come back."
"Loop line comes back on next
street!" and the patrolman sauntered
on through the falling rain. Detroit
Tribune.
Cooking- Fcra Without Fire.
A new mothixl of Wtiling eggs with
out either fire or hot water, has Ixi-n
invented by a Frenchman. "In a little
iron vessel of some kind," reads'tho re
cipe, "put your egg or eggs with a
small piece of quicklime. Jty means of
a stout string lower this into the lxit
tom of a pit. Two minutes later pull it
up and you will discover your eggs to
W ct x iked to a turn."