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OLD RELIABLE ETNA11
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T. W. DICK.
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Proprietor.
Two Snakea Meet and FIgrht in
Deadly Earnest.
The Trrmeutlou t rualilnfc Tower ot the
Ulack.imke Ulm It Ibc Supreiuacy
Over the Veuomou Itut
Weaker Kattler.
A thrilling fij-'lit lHtHn a lilaek-snakt-
atiil a rattlfNiiukf vas witni-sistsl
mi t!i. t'uiiiiuins r:inir. jrrove y a
jKtriv if ir'!itK'iiK'n from liayt.ma, f-ays
tin' t-'luriihi Tiiiies-l'iiiiiu. l'or sv-ral
wt'flvs jiat a ll:.-ksiial;' alxmt ti'ii ft't
baits lias mailt its In-ailijuart.-rs uii.U-r
an fl.l irili nil tli prvf. apHarin in--t'asi.niallv,
but nvr alkiwiny hiuis'!f
ti Ik kilU-tl. lit was as larjjv ar.nii.il
asmii's wrist" ami as lit-n't a liKikinp
ft-llow as tun wtiul.l want to I'lmmntiT.
ofiit l.-iiifii wtTt si'att'tl uii.l.r a
lai Vf pa!iiu'lti trt-t fiij.yiiir tin pleas
ant al'tiTii'H'ii whfii tht-y lii'tif tl a ntt
tk'siiakt rrs.'i slowly anl tautinusly
nut fr. 111 a brush luap ami coil Iiiiiisi-tf
with lif.i.l in tlu air anl fyes tiiriuil
tiu aril tin-party as if tusay: "Hi-iv I
am." Oin fj-.-ii t li'iuan s'if.l a club, but
the others pt'rsuaiUtl liiui to ilelay liis
attaek and wateli the reptile for awhile
.tml m w liat it woiihl lo. Tlir.V li.nl a
rhaiiee to sie up the stranger, w ho was
ulmtit six feev Itiiijr aiul of a jrvaytsli
.lriK'l eolor. In a few minutes the
Klaeksiiake was si-en to Epp-ar from
muler the trib fifty feet tli.--.tuut aiul
inovt slow ly toward the rattlesnake.
-Now fur a fijrht," said Mr Kert
Walker, and the party tlrew liaek to
ive t he rept iles a full show. Noise
lessly came the hiir black fellow, i-arry-iiir
hir. lie.nl hiu'h ill the air and cca
si.iiially dropiiii; it. apparently study -i:i''
the .'round around whieh lie was to
make the attaek. It was plainly evi
dent that tin filaeksnake wanted to
lLrht. hen within twenty feet of the
ot her creature he. stopped, raised his
head and the rattlesnake saw him for
the lirst time. The ground lietwecn
t lii-iii was clear, not a stick or a stone
beiu-r liotiecd for many yards.
The rattlesnake raised his head and
threw out his tonjrue ami seemed to lie
prepared for an encounter. They
really remitnled one of a couple of des
perate men just eliterinr the arena for
a fii'ht to the death. Presently the
lila.-k champion started on a circle
around his prey, (vttitlif nearer to the
rattler every minute. The rattler
never took his eye from his approaching
enemy and his head jroiny round re
minded the looker-oil of the movements
of a corkscrew. When w ithin six feet
of the rattler the black fellow flew
around so fust that you could hardly
t. II what it was. Jt was like taking a
a trinir tied to a stick and twirling -it
with all one's miht. Suddenly the
two came together and immediately
liecame entwined alio ut each ot her. roll
in over ami over in the dust. This
lasted fully live minutes. Then there
was a lull ami the blacksnakc was seen
to have hi-, adversary by the throat
with his mouth. His lxidy was twisted
alxnit the rattler's ImmIv. and every few
seconds lu-awoiild five a squeeze that
sent the rattler so much further toward
his end.
In ten minutes the black hero dropped
the IkmIv of his victim, blew himself
up. took one last look aiul then slowly
wound otT into the brush.
It was a rare and remarkable scene
and thorotin-hl y enjoyed by all the
party. One of the gentlemen raised up
the tleatl rattler on a stick ami found
that he was terribly frashed ami
mangled. Like the Ua-constrictor, the
black-snake does not bite but crushes
out the life of its victim.
UNCIVIL KINDNESS."
Tenitrrnr.ii r Heart Itut I'artlally '011-t-ealed
ty Kui;ltieMi tf Manner.
KoWrt Louis Stevenson, in his Iwxik
of essays entitletl "Across the I'lains.
(fives an example of what he calls the
"uncivil kindness" of Americans that
roup-li friendliness which, in its contra
dictory character, is so iiewildcriii? to
the forei-fiier newly landed. He says:
"It was immediately after I bail left
the emigrant train, and 1 am told that
I looked like a mail at death's door, so
much had the lonjf journey shaken me.
I sat at the end of the car, and, the
catch beinf broken and myself sick ami
feverish, I had to hold the door open
with my foot for the sake of air.
"In this attitude my lcc; barred the
new sUy from bis lMtxofmercliandi.se.
I made ha.ste to let him pass when I ob
served that he w as coiuinf ; but I was
busy with a lork, and so, once or
twice, he came u(oti lue unawares.
"i ti these occasions he most rudely
struck my foot aside, and though I my
self apoloyicd, as if to show him the
way, he answered me never a word. I
chafed furiously, ami I fear the next
time it would have come to words; but
suddenly I felt a touch upon my shoul
der, and a lare, juicy pear was put
into my hand.
"It was the newsboy, who had c ill
served that I was looking ill, and so
matte uie this present out of a tender
heart.
"For the rest of the journey I was
petted like a hick child; he lent me
newspapers, thus depriving himself of
his legitimate prr. lit tin their sale, and
came repeatedly to sit by me and cheer
me up." -
Money Lett ly Author.
Some one has been patheriiifT statis
tics atout the money left by authors.
Lord Tennyson, the most successful of
Kntflish authors, left alout $150,000.
Iloln-rt Hrownintf, of whose will A.
Tennyson ami F. S. l'aaVrave were the
attesting witnesses, left personalty 'in
London of the value of i;lti,77.. Victor
llujro, who. like Tennyson, attained
the aye of !s:l years, liad personal estate
in Kiiylanil to the amount of ii-J,120.
l'r. Charles Macka.y's property was
valued at t'J.iHO, and that of Kliza
'ook at 5,0.")7. Matthew Arnold's es
tate amounted to 1,0-11. Jlis w ill, in
his own band writing, was one of the
shortest that ever came under probate.
It was: "I leave everything of which I
die possessed to my w ife, Frances."
Old Time Veaaela.
In the American navy there are now
but eleven of the old-fashioned wotnlen
Vessels in active service. They are the
lianyer. Alert, Marion, Lancaster, M
hicau, Yantic, Thetis, Kearsarye, Alli
ance, Attains and Essex. These will
..ii . . ..
i.tpituy pi out ot commission us new
. hteel vessels are accepted. The I'eusa
, cola is to be sold, being- already ont of
commission. Her sale will be followed
by this tftjwrumcnt's disposing 0f
Omaha, Iroquois and other old timers.
...... ....... ...,.. . n ittti a fiP c TH f STREET CAR. I PAPTC tpniiT tut r.r I r-w m. m tin 1 a rw, tit I
"HE IS A FREEMAN WHOM THE TROTH MAKES FREE A5D ALL ABE 8 LA YES BESIDE."
EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY. APRIL 7, 1S93.
ICeaaou AiciieU the n'oniu'.
Habit of Stvppina; the Wronu Way.
Many women descend from a horse
car int-xactly the wrong" way. says the
New York Sun, that is, they grasp
the handrail of the platform and face
awuy from the horses as they step off.
instead of (fraspin the handrail at
tached to the liody of the car and fac
ing t i the front, as one should do. A
conductor w ho runs a car upon what
may le called a trunk line, that is, a
line runn'my north ami south upon one
of the busiest avenues, says that he ol
serves no substantial change or im
provement in women in this resiwct.
notwithstanding' the fact that more or
less has l.vn printed on the suljtct.
He mentioned as an illustration a
young woman who had ridden upon his
car for a iiumlier of years. Hcrticcupa
tii. i is one requiring especial intelli
gence, but she gets off a horse car now
just as she did at first.
The conductor,, however, ascribed
this haliit on the part of women, not to
any perverseuess, nor even to thought
lessness, hut to a very simple original
cause. The driver of the car must not,
w hen he stops, permit the rear plat
form to olistruct the crossing; he is
more likely to run past it a little than
he is to halt upon it or even upon the
etlge of it. The conductor said that
w hen the car did slop with the plat
form over the crossing, a woman would
erhaps step straight off. not turning
in either direction; but that when, as
more frequently happened, the plat
form was just licyond the crossing, the
woman would grasp the platform rail
arut step fuciny away from the horses,
so that she might take the fewest
possil.le stejs tiiion the rougher, and
jM-rhajis dirtier, street pavement, and
reach as quickly as possible the
smoother, dryer and cleaner crosswalk.
BLUE-EYED INDIANS.
HiiMetl to Ite l-t-e:nl.'d trow Wrecked
SwrUinh SailorH.
The Mayas, inhabiting the Sierra
Mad re mountains in the lower part of
Sonora. are supposed to Ik the de
scendants of the crew and passengers
of a Swedish vessel wrecked on the
Mexican coast long centuries lieforc the
birth of Columbus. They have, accord
ing; t j the St. Louis Ulobc-lVmocrat. a
tradition that their ancestors "came in
n great canoe over the big salt water
many hundreds of moons ajfo." They
have never been conquered by the Mex
icans. They are nominally tinder Mexican
rule, but are in reality governed by
their own ehiefs. Whenever the Mex
ican government interferes with them
they take up arms and they have got
the Id-st of every scrimmage thus far.
The Yaquis are their m ighltors and
these two war-like trilicshavc reciproc
ity reduced to a science. Whenever the
government interferes with the Yaquis
the Mayas come to their assistance and
vice versa. Mexican troops cannot
stand In-fore Mayas or white Indians.
They are the most desperate fighters on
the North American continent. Like
their neighbors, the Yaquis. they are
mostly Catholics. Although quite prim
itive, aim. :,t savage, in their mode of
life, the standard of morality is high.
They live principally by the chase, but
cultivate some corn ami garden truck in
the valleys. The men are large, well
formed and some of the women remark
ably handsome blondes. They all re
tain traces of their Swedish ancestry
ami the linguists say that their lan
guage evidences a North Luropeau an
cestry. THE FIRST PAPER.
From Chlnia Ita lae Sprre.it Over
ala
ttnl Thence Into Kurope
The first invention of paper manu
factured from vegetable pulp is lost in
the mist of antiquity, says the Argosy.
It apjiears to have lecii lirst introduced
into Kurope from the east through the
Arabians ami l'ersians.
The use of paper, according to the
modern application of the word, had
liecome common in China at an ex
tremely remote period, aiul ( iiblmn tells
tis in a note that its manufacture was
introduced from China into Samarcand
KM IS. C, and thence spread fiver Ku
rojH. The Chinese are said to have so
great a variety of paper that each prov
ince possesses its own peculiar make.
The sort commonly known -as silk pa
tter is fabricated from the inner bark of
the bamltoo or niullterry tree. The rice
pajter, so called, is prepared from the
inner portion of the stems of a hardy
leguminous plant that grows plentiful
ly altout the lakes near Calcutta and
also in the island of Formosa, whence
the Chinese import it in large quanti
ties. The stems of the plant lieing cut
into the proper lengths for the sheets
the pith is cut spirally into a thin slice,
then flattened, pressed and dried.
The Arabians apjn'ar first to have in
troduced the manufacture of paMr into
Spain. On the oldest specimen ex
tant of this Spanish manufacture a
treaty of peace between the king of
Aragon and a iicighltoring; potentate,
A. li. 1775, is trauscrilied.
HASHION NOTES.
Iv five o'cloeft tea no two cups and
saucers should be alike.
A gikl's coat of red cloth is trimmed
with gold and black braid.
Ul'TTEUFLV bows with aigrettes sug'
pesting antenna) are among' some of
the most approved hat and bonnet trim
ming's. I r is said that five hundred persons
worked for ten days on the beautiful
lace bridal veil of l'rincess Marga
rcthe of l'ersia. It was, made at Hirsch.
berg, Silesia.
Stick-pins are shown in every imag
inable style, f mm the plainest and most
inexpensive to the elegxint and elaborate,
some of them being of enormous value
from some very expensive stone either
set singly or surrounded by smaller
ones.
A Fakir Traveling a Freight.
The practice of binding" religious per.
sons still exists in India. An incident
occurred recently at Mecrut. A fakir,
wearing nearly hve mauntls (four hun
dred pounds) of iron chains and bands
on him, recently left the cantonment
station. The railway authorities dc
clined to allow hini to traveL as pas
senger, but sent him as freight by
weight in spite of his argument that
native women were never charged for
their anklets and bangles. The iron
absorbed the heat so much that the
rnau naa u ite iWcessaiiii si.r.ua.eu
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with water, ue is an uia uuu, nun j
nearly ttiea at tue stauon- j
Sona ot I'rlitcca and I'oor Men Have Killed
the Catholic hurrh.
Eighty of the popes are honored as
saints, thirty-one as martyrs an.l forty
three as confessors. St. A gat ho was
the only pope that lived to be a centen
arian; he is also the only one after St.
l'cter who may le honored with the
title miracle-worker. St. A gat ho died
at the age of 107, in the year Gs-J, after
having reigned three years, six months
and fifteen days. Gregory IX. died at
the age of IH years; Celestine III. aud
Gregory NIL at thei age of Vi; John
N XII. at the age of 0; Clement XII. at
the age of SS. and Clement X. and lius
IX. at the age of Sit. The popes have
been drawn from all classes of society,
says the St. Louis Republic. Nineteen
were sons of near relatives of princes,
and an equal numU-r came from illus
trious families. Man- came from abt
lute poverty and obscurity. Sixtus VII.
was the son of a very poor fisherman:
Alexander V. was the son of very jumr
aud unknown parents, the future pope
sindiiig all his young life in Wgging
on the streets. Adrian, the only English
pope, was aliandoiied early in life by a
worthless father and hail to subsist on
charity, until, going as a tramp to find
an asylum in France, he entered a
monastery or convent as a servant. His
real worth was soon manifested in his
diligence, arwl his virtues and intelli
gence soon won for hiui the papal tiara.
Sixtus V. hail for father a poor lalmrer,
a common servant for a mother ami a
laundress of vicious habits for a sister.
Celestine V. was the son of a farmer of
no means and little intelligence. ISene
dict XII. spent his childhood in a bake
shop, t'rban IV. learned the caricn
ter's trade from his father, as ditl also
tlrcgory VII. Five of the popes studied
miiliciue before taking holy orders.
Julius III. was the son of a famous ju
risconsult. Hencdict X I. was the son of
a poor notary. The father of I'elagius
I. was a prefect ami the vicar of his
province. The fatlier of I'aul V. was a
patrician of Sienna. The fathers of
Eugene IV., Gregory XII. and Alexan
der XII. all Itclonged to the patrician
families of Venice. Cat holies enumerate
but two hundred and sixty popes, w hile
some 1'rotestant authorities give the
iiumWr as two hundred and ninety
eight, which includes twenty-four anti
poites, Of the whole number twenty
six were deposiil, nineteen were com
IH'lled to give up the tiara and leave
Uome, sixty-four died violent deaths,
eight were j tisoncd, one was shut up in
a cage, one was siranghnl, one smoth
ered to death, one died by having nails
driven into his temples and oue was
hanged, or, as the aceount'says, "died
by a mtose around his neck.
FLIGHT OF THE CROWS.
Armlee of Itlril In the Sky Ilaateiilna; to
the Mouth.
"The preliminary gathering of crows
Itefore they take their flight to the
southland at the approach of winter is
always interesting to me." said a trav
eier to a Sl Louis I Jlolte-Demoerat man.
"I do not think that they take their flight
from this section of the country, as the
winters here are not severe enough.
Hut from the Ilakotas and the south
ern Canadian provinces they leave in
great numlters after the first severe
frosts. One cold, frosty morning I
arose and 1. Hiked out of my Itettrooui
window in Red Eric. Dak., dow n into
a neighltoring cornfield that was
Itounded by a rail fence and from which
even the dry shocks hail been removed.
Only the stubble, bleak and frttst-eov-ercd.
remained.
"The village of Red Eru is lo
cally famous for crows. They gather
altout there in large numlters and ob
tain considerable fitod from a neighbor
ing wild rice marsh. I noticed that
the tiers of rails, rising seven iu nuni
Itcr, were thickly sprinkl.il with crows,
perched altout and cawing most vocifer
ously. I was rather amused at the
sitectacle. and stood enjoying it. when
I observed a long line of crows ap
proaching from over a neighltoring
patch of forest. These also settled
down within the inchtsure. I watched
for several hours and continually ob
served great flocks of crows to come
from all directions and gather in the
field. Hy in ton the fences ami ground
fairly swarmed with the birds. It
seemed to me that there were hundreds
of thousands. Then no more came for
awhile. The denouement of the whole
affair was a great flapping of wings,
anil, division by division, the great gath
ering '- ft in harmonious order. It took
them fully half an hour ltefore all were
under way. When the last flock or di
vision t.tok w ing I litoketl to the south
and saw the line dimly failing away
into space. Then I knew they were
migrating, anil I fully understood the
beauty of that harmonious simile:
Like the llight of birds.
OVER THE WIRES.
Liinhox has C0,ihj telephones.
Kxtkxhivk surveys have lately been
matte for a cable Itetween North Amer
ica and Australia.
MoRK. than one-half of the street rail
way mileage in Massachusetts is now
peratei in whole or In part by elee
tricity. A MAOA7.INK writer quotes Inventor
Edison's father as saying that his son
while a boy wonld not play with other
Itovs. but would "sit around and mope."
Neighbors used to call the h;v "Edi
son's fKtl."
At the end of June last there were
CS,."isa miles of telegraph lines, repre
senting tioS.W'l miles of vVre through
out Germany. As regards telephone
. immunization in that country, uo
less than towns are provided with
systems.
!. GAY PARIS,
"Paxamad" is now- the Parisian word
for anything plucked, fleeced or shorn.
A dog dipping establishment has a sign:
"I'oodles Fan a mad here.
To makk l'aris a seaport is only half
the Frenchman's dream. He "wants a
ship canal through from the Garonne
to the Mediterranean, to save going
around Spain.
At the beginning of 1W3 there were
1,701.000.000 francs In frold and l.-.7,-ooo.ooo
francs in sliver In the vaults of
the Rank of France. It would require
;s:t cars of a capacity of ten tons each
to move the metals.
A flower pot fell from an unpro
tected window sill in the Rue St. Denis,
l'aris. Siime time ago. upon the head of
tt 1 1 1 i II u- a rtMwlmr )u.ii.-utli sml
- "
frai tured his skull sa that he died La
twu hours without
recovering
scAunes.
81. 0O and
The Sectional Peculiarities of the
"Tonsorial Parlor."
They III Iter m the Heard.-In tiothan
Superfluous Hair la Oeotly Wooed
Away and Montat.a I lay lUm
la Murderous.
"Where do you get shaved?"
"Ou the face," replies the perennial
humorist.
Rut it is no joke. There is a marked
difference in the manner of shaving.
This h-ads to a preference in barlters.
The man who posseses a palm like a
nutmeg grater will never have a second
chance at tender-faced victims. .
In Washington, according to the New
York Recorder, there is an extempo
raneous colored tiarlter. That is, he
uses lalior-saviug devices as they occur
to him.
One of his fads is to jab his patient's
ear full of lather. While this is not
agreeable to his victim, it saves him
money in stepping to and from the shav
ing mug. W hen he requires a little
more lather for a sandy place on the
chin he takes it out of the ear and rults
it in. otherwise he would have to walk
around to the cup. This little peculiar
ity is offset by his silken fingers which
keep bis custom.
In Richmond and other southern
cities, the barlters still stick to the long
whisk-broom, the brush Iteing about
three feet long and six inches wide. At
the conclusion of a shave, the harlter
will throw this as a knife thrower tires
his blade into a ltoartl. It generally
hits the customer Itetween the shoulder
blades, and, if the sensation is a new
one, he thinks he is assaulted. Then
follows a rhythmic rult-a-dub played on
the back, while the barber hums a tune
in accompaniment.
Refore the advent of natural gas in
Pittsburgh, all the barlters were wont
to wash their customers faces first to
see where the Iteanl lay, and also the
texture of the growth. The s.tot-laden
air rendered this necessary, but as the
neck was only washed down to the
towels inserted over the collar, the line
of demarkation was visible when the
customer regained the street.
In Chicago this washing preface is
still indulged in more or less.
Windy city tonsorial artists boast of
another little peculiarity. Instead of
fanning or rubbing the face dry after
the bay rum, the Chicago barber takes
a napkin by one corner and whirls it
around in front of his subject's face as
if he was flagging a train.
It is alleged that in the St. Louis
barlter shops, patronized by the river
men, sand soap is used to produce the
lather. Several of the river barbers,
though, use an astringent instead of
bay ruin. They say that its concoction
is a secret, but it dents the face and so
intimidates the growth of hair that
each individual hair curls back in
alarm, on the inside of the skin. When
it grows again it conies out like a fish
hook.
There is a current rumor that the
prevalence of goatees and imperials
among M issour lans anil steamboat men
is dne to the fact that the barbers are
unable to shave the capillary growth in
the dimples of their chins.
In Montana, however, the art of shav
ing has reached t he height of culture.
The road agent's Ward is a jtopularone.
This style is the oue with w hieh the cel
ebrated desperado, Henry l'lummer,
framed his mouth. It consists of a mus
tache and chir whisker. As "two bits."
or twenty-tive cents, is the price of a
shave, the mere shaving of the cheeks
does not appear to furnish the mimey's
worth. It is on the chin and throat,
anyhow, that the barber earns his
money.
In order to give the worth of the
money the Montana barlter indulges in
bay rum. It is bay rum which would
eat the varnish from a table or draw
knotsout of a ltoaxd.
It bites.
That is what a native Montar... a
wants. He desires to rcaliiu that he is
shaved, and he wants his bay rum to
take h ld.
He is satisfied, but it is alrmtst death
to the tenderfoot, w hose mossy checks
are blistered an eighth of an inch deep.
The Mecca of good liarlters. however,
is New York, and the shaving process
in this city has reached the pinnacle of
art. Each hair is moved from off the face
with razors w hose edges rival the Da
mascus blade The soap which trains
down into lather is the finest, w ith the
odors of spices putting to shame those
of Araby the blest.
A Gotham shave admits a man into so
ciety if the artistic work of a genius, or
causes divorce if maneuvered by his
own hands.
J natty Indienaut.
At a recent corner stone laying in
Newark the cornerstone was swinging
in the grasp of a 'powerful crane above
the hole left for it to fit in. Down in
this hole an irishman was fussing
about with a bed of mortar. Suddenly
a portion of the tackle slipped and
down came the stone with a run. It
lit on the Irishman's back, and every
body expected to see him flattened out
thin as paper when tlTo stone was lift
ed half a minute later. No sooner was
the stone clear of the hole, though,
than the man sprang up like a jack-in-the-box.
He was covered with mortar
from head to foot and was coughiug-.
sneezing and spitting to get it out of
his nose and mouth. As soon as ho
could speak he addressed the men man.
aging the crane: "Here, now! Here
now!" he yelled, "O; can stand a joke
as well as any mon, but any of yeos
can have me job aft her thot." and ho
put on his coat and went away, per
suaded the highly respectable assem
blage had put up a joke on him. Chi
cago. Jiewa,
The Slae of the i-arth
To us who live upon It the earth
seems to be a very large affair, and
men have been found who would le
content to own as little as a tenth of it.
In comparison with some other bodies,
however, it is small almost to the point
of insignificance. Five hundred earths
like our own placed side by side could
be easily encircled by the outermost
ring of Saturn; and if by any process
we could hollow out the sun, it would
require three hundred thousand globes,
like our own to fill the space thus cre
ated. In spite of all this, however, the
world is large enough for our purposes,
and, for all we know, more comfort
able to live upon than any other planet
in the universe. Harper's Youug
feople.
fir.
postage per year In advance.
NUMBER 14.
WHY HIS NERVE FAILED.
The liurclar Restrained from (ummit-tl-ig-
Crime hy the " o-o-o" of a Hatty.
The burglar was not a bail-looking
man, although his business had a bail
look, says the Detroit Free I 'less. He
stottil by the door of a sleeping room
and peered in. A faint light was burn
ing and he could hear the measured
breathing of some one asleep. Cau
tiously he crept inside, stooping low
and looking around. No one there save
a sleeping woman. In an instant a cloth
saturated with ether was thrown over
her face and he waited one, two. three
ten minutes, ami the stentorous
breathing of the sleeper told him the
drug was doing its work. With a dex
terous hand he seized the jewelry anil
money lying on the dressing cast and
liegan a quick search in the drawers of
the case. "-oo," carne a voice from
the shadow of the room, tjuick as a
flash the burglar clutched his silent
knife and turned to meet his victim.
No one was visible. tKt-oo." came the
voice again, and the burglar saw a child
in its crib by the foot of the lied. It
was a pretty baby, sleepily holding up
its hands t.) him. He let the knife fall
to his side. and. stepping over to the
crib, touched the child. It coo il again
softly, and held up its arms for him to
take it. The impulse was licyond his
control, ami he lifted 'the baby to his
ltosom, and it nestled its soft, white
check down to his and put its white
arm around his neck. He purred to it.
and in a moment its curly head was laid
against his face, and it was asleep
again. "Never seti a kid like that."
he w hispered to himself. "Most of "um
is afraid of strangers." and tenderly he
laid it in the crib. Then be went back
to the dressing case. He stood still a
moment and then looked furtively over
his shoulder toward the crib. The
sleeping face of the child was turned
toward him. Slowly he replaced on
the case all he had taken from it,
hastily snatched from the woman's
face the saturated cloth, opened a win
dow near the lied and quietly slipjHil
downstairs. Once on the street again
he looked up at the house hungrily.
"Dang it." he growled, "a man that
aiu't got no more gizzard than I have
ought to get out of the business." And
he disappeared into the shadows of the
night-
FAST SKATING IN HOLLAND.
The Hutch man Itoeen't 1-ook Handsome,
Itut He iitra a l ively 4.alU .
The average Dutchman of the south,
though he can skate very. well, looks
rather f-xilish on the ice. His short legs
and wide breeches are admirable ad
juncts to his nose, ids thin, cocked
beard and the lunipishness of his ex
pression, says Chandlers Journal. To
lie sure, this breadth makes him look
important, but if he were less muscu
lar it would Ik a sail hindrance to him
in battling with the wind, which in w in
ter is apt to make skating in one di
rection something of a trial. The Fries
lander, however, is taller. Itetter pro
portioned and in all resHcts a hand
some fellow. The yellow licard he some
times wears seems to put 1 1 i in at once
on a footing of afiinity w ith the other
mcmlters of that respectable Anglo
Saxon family to whicn .we ourselves 1k
long quite as much as his provincial
sieech and his blue eyes. He is a unst
masterful creature when once he has
put on those quaint, old-fashioned
skates of his, and thinks nothing of
making a score of miles from one vil
lage to another Wfore you and I are
out of Iiil. As for tin ili 1. what cares
he for it? He knows he must rely on
that lusty circulation of his to keep
him from Iteing lK-nutnlKd, though he
clothe ever so lightly, and seems more
regardful for his head which a seal
skin cap takes care of than of his
well-shaped In sly. A Friesland canal
in winter is as lively as anything can
lie. The ice may not lie very goinl or
of unquestionable strength, but no
MNiner are the Units jN'mied in and the
broken pieces of ice sufficiently welded
to allow him to skate In-twi-en them
than the sport In-gins. It is a
feat of honor to 1m the first
in the district to cross the canal
when the wintry season is in its youth.
The name of the bold lad is remem
bered for a week or two, and I have no
doubt his pluck stands him in gt n nI
stead in the esteem of the chcrry-cheeki-d
damsels of his province, w hose
eyes dance past one so brightly w hen
the ice festival is in full swing and
journeying is all done on skates.
OFFICES ODDLY WON.
The Applicants A 1 1 rat ted Notice by llolur
Kecentrftc Thins:.
"I'cople sometimes obtain work from
1'ni-le Sam in peculiar ways," says the
San Francisco Argonaut. "Not so very
long ag-o a piM'tcss of fashion in a far
western state became an office-seeker,
adopting a novel method of pursuing
her object. She appeahsl to a Tinted
States senator, botiiliartliiig him with
p:Ktry by mail. Once a week regularly
he received from her a long letter in the
shape of a pmta. Soiuetinu-s he got
two a week. The pin-try w as probably
the worst that any poetess of passion
has ever produce!.
"At first he paid no attention to it:
but at length it began to prey upon his
mind. When this sort of thing hail
gone on for five or six months he be
came desperate. So finally he wrote to
her. saying: 'Your poems have proved
to me that you are unlit for any public
office. Nevertheless, if you will cease
writing and setniing them to me I will
get you. a joK' And he did. It is re
corded that a man, appointed sixth
autliu ir of the treasury. subjtct to ex
amination, was asked to state the dis
tance of the uioon from the earth. His
written answer was simply: 'Not near
enough to affect the functions of a
sixth auditor.' He passed.
Two Facts About m Ring.
An impressionable young gentleman
in a certain country town recently met
a charming girl whose grace and
beauty took his heart by storm. While
conversing with her he made a discov
ery which he fondly hoped would en
able him to make at one brilliant
stroke an elegant proof of his ready
wit and his lioundless affection Glanc
ing at a modest band of gold that en
circled her fair finger, he remarked:
"Sweet damsel, I pray you present me
with the riuc you wear, for I fissure
you it exactly resembles my love
for
you it has no end.
"Indeed, sir, promptly replied
the
maiden, "you must excuse me if I keep
the riug, for it exactly resembles also
my love for you it has no beginning."
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FOREIGNERS OF NOTE.
Mr. (Ii.aiistonk is by no means the
oldest mcmlier of the commons, in spite
of his S-i years. Charles Villiers is the
father of that InnIj-, having completed
his with year January 2.
Rkv. Josir.rn Jamkm Ciii-.hhkmav. the
Ifaptist minister recently elected presi
dent of the republic of Lilteria, is a
colored man of the most pronounced
tyjH. and is a very effective orator aud
preacher.
Mwk. 1K Ll:ssKpn, so says a fashiona
ble lyondon paper, has recently written
to a friend in England saying that her
husband has constantly remarked of
late that, "like Napoleon III., he w ill
die in England."
Mo.NTAdf Williams, the eminent
English barrister who died recently,
was so overcome with stage fright
when be made bis first speech in court,
in a horse stealing case, that he would
have given up the profession but for
his wife's encouragement to jK-rsist.
Kkicmia !MiT has sent a diamond ring
and photograph of herself in the role of
Cleopatra to the English lady who cap
turisl and restonil to its owner the ac
tress serjH'tit last summvr. The snake
hail cscatcd and this lady, while out
walking, noticed it, attention Wing
tlrawn the more readily to inadaiue's
"cher python" by the gold chain aud
jeweled ringattacheu to it.
MEDICAL SCIENCE.
Emftics have no effect on horse",
which have no gall bladders to lie acted
upon.
A cask of bleeding through the sound
skin is the subject of a European medi
cal report.
Tiif. imperial cholera commission in
Germany announces its discovery that
wine I'iaret or hH-k will kill the bac
illi of cholera in a few minutes. Tea
will kill them in an hour.
Ai.i. the motions anil sensations of the
various parts of the biMly are repre
sented in the surface of the brain as on
a map. Thus there is a separate brain
area necessary for sight, another for
hearing, another for the motion of the
fingers and so on.
Nt'TMKiis have strong narcotic prop
erties. A pint of tea made from two
nutmegs if drunk by an invalid, w ill
produce a sleep of many hours' dura
tion. The symptoms will Ik alxnit the
same as those occasioned by opium.
Nutmegs in the quantity of two or
three drachms will cause In ith stupor
and delirium.
PRETTY FANCIES.
Dreshf.n china tea bells are very
pretty.
Jcoh are now especially designed for
hot milk.
Mikroks of Venetian mosaic come for
dressing tables.
Dkohai :n china pots are intended to
hold condensed milk.
I'onk dishes are now regarded as a ne
cessity, and are in many charming de
vices. Rosk jars of crystal and gold of Doul
ton and royal Worcester are now indis
pensable. EfK.KV sort of article for table use,
excepting knives and forks, is found in
CojH-nhagen ware.
DntsiiF.x and Worcester candelabra
are very jNipular for the aesthetic ban
quets now in vogue.
Toast racks of fancy' china are new
for the breakfast table, and share Ihiii
ularity with those of silver. Jeweler's
Circular.
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
Thf rice crop in the south this year is
estimated to lie TiJS.lKKl.ooo pounds
TllF. anthracite coal fields produce
more than 4't.ooo.OOO tons of coal a year.
Thf. output of American manufacto
ries for the past j'ear was (7,-15, woo, ooo
in value.
Last year lnO.SO.l.Tf.H feet of lumber
passed through the port of ISangor. Me.;
10."i.."i44.:577 feet was spruce, J4.4.rt:t,07S
hemliK'k, and the rest pine.
ToBAttu has lK'cn successfully raised
on the banks of the Audroscoggiu river
in Maine, and one man is preparing to
cultivate it the coming year on a large
scale.
Thf. earliest machine used for making
screws was invented by David Wilkin
son of Rhode Island, for w hich he ob
tained a patent in 17V4. There wen in
70 in the I'tiited States eighteen es
tablishment engaged iu manufacturing
screws.
A COUNTRY'S HEROES.
Serot. Ckockktt. of the United State"
colored infantry, claims to have been
the last man wounded by a confederate
bullet in the civil war.
Thf. famous five-hundred -dollar sword
which was presented to Gen. R. M..
I'reutiss, "the hero of Shiloh," w as re
cently purchased from a New York
pawn-shop for fifty-five dollars.
Catt. John Ahav Cihu-kk is the
youngest veteran of the Mexican war,
having enlisted at the age of twelve.
He is also the pioneer horse-car driver
of San Francisco, having been iu the
business twenty-nine years.
A. V. 1a KfcF.it, a street-car conductor
in Oakland, Cal., w ho ttMik part in the
march with WolscUy across thed.-s. rt
to Khartoum, to relieve Stanley, is Un
fortunate possessor of two medals for
bravery on the battlefield, one given by
the queen, the other by the khedive of
Epypt-
FOREIGN NEWS NOTES.
A jcew scheme for the extermination
of rabbits is being tried iu Australia.
Cartridgws generating poisonous gas are
put in the burrow s, the holes are closed,
and the rabbits an killed by the poison
in the smoke, n.tt by suffocatiou.
Tobacco and snuff have loug lui'n sup
plied to thu paurtcrs in the Lamln tli
workhouse, aud now thu lmur.1 of
guardians has passed a resolution:
"That the old women in the workhouse
who do not take snuff be supplied with
SWlH'ts."
Rt ssiAN female convicts in Silteria
are in future, if a pmposal made by the
ministry of justice to the imperial
couucil. is ratified, to tic exempted from
flogging and wearing leg irons. Re
strictions in diet ami solitary confine
munt are to lt sultstituted.
Amf.ricax Ufa Hand Eagle Elk, two
Sioux Indians, who were taken to Syd
ney. N. S. V.. as part of a sort of ild
West show, are in the hands of the t
lio at that place. They broke their
contract, then went broke themselves,
aud soon joined the profession of
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