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The lar. and reliant clreula
lakrll
aaia Klttiit core mens s it w ,
r-oo.iderstion of advertisers whoa, lavsrs will b
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tlen or ociety and rtiainiani'-atlon lWiKOdlo
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H. and Job Printing of all klndo neatly a ad
exejionsiy exeraled at the lowert i.rioe. And
don'tyon loret It.
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JAS. C. HASSON. Ed. tor and Proprietor.
"HI IS A FBEKMIN WHOM TBI TEtTH MAKES VRKK AND ALL ABK B LAVES BESIDK."
81. BO and postage per year In advance.
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K '.ur li er t-etore you toii It. If Mop
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VOLUME XX VI 1 1.
E BENS BURG, PA., FlDAY, JUNE 29, IS94.
NUMBER -20.
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QulC HEL.Er FOR EVERY TYPE OF
ja CARD'"1- P'"TS RESPECTING
HEADACHE.
t t I very healarh
Lrf -raver ol the
f very healarhe is a
fie cran-
lu-rves lor rest.
Soothe theniwith Kol-F.
ALlNli.
lhen rhildren suffer
a a with heaiiache. or
any 'iie elw lor that
matter, use KorKALINK.
tht ln-st remcilv ever ol-li-rl.
Satr-. slue, won
tl'-itully quik in action.
. -..r .v-r tvt-crof heailj:he. espec-
Vli.t -'lv l-1,nu' l'Pc pecultai t(J
' .'j "n t. ..i.i ureviilarity or uterine irri
ur !-;1 i't"s rs(iiire them to stand tor
KOPF-LINE CURES
Niavoui
NIHVOU3 OIllUTT,
NIMVOUS PROSTNallON.
wVC AK ClMCUUTIdN,
at..ai,TAlti.
li.i.ii nhi-tr nrr c waitc g - on.
KOPFALINE
TiiftiM" f--r l-.i h.-r.. Scholars. Preachers,
-i V M'-'-t t',t"- l-,i'"r". Men, omrn
lai :rc:. -lv inhere nerves re
i ji. ukr-iv n: ! in . t r.
t.- 4utri s it iiii.l-T uli irrumstanccs and
-Ai'n.'nv Pn:c. 25 -cent.
.lru..-i-i- ... .-r-iaiiy, or sent to any ad-
.. ,ali itLtii-i 1 i c"
S3- PdOfdHTOKS.
NKELMANN Sc BROWN ORUC CO.
BALTIMORE, Mo., U. S. A.
"NO MORE DOCTORS FOR ME I
t uij I rutisnmptivp. sent raft t
riiia. i14 lue to keep iiuiet. no exrito-
t'it. ar.il no lentils. Just think f( it.
lar I f..ii!i.l a litt!" IhxiW ca!lel '(Julde
tialiii. bv Mrs. I'lukliatii, aul m It 1
id out what uile.l ine. Si 1 w rote to
. i t a iovely rjily . told inf just what to
aiiil 1 am iu splriiilitl health inw."
-T:rs a'l tlir. wfaknrsses ami ailments
ut with ti.e sex, and restotes ier-
: h'iitli.
All lniL'!rist cell it a atanlarl artl-
le, or fc-nt 1Y mail, in form ol 1'ills or
;ii.-ei. oil rP'-eii't "f 51. IX).
Kor the cur ..f Ki.lnev ComnlainU,
k -.rt t'ie iiiTtitid ha no rival.
Mn. fihh.i:n f:t lv anawers letter of
Lttiry. Euciuse statn for reply.
f AUil..4 .t . Di.. Lnin.
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k . . i i a. ; i - .. k. -. 1. ..titl.a
vuiuc IU nc"Llil nnu cuvuLiit.
HionmniiiTumcDi lIlUID IIIIWI Mllinil.
i nuiiao Htfi inn may aato fuura
mt.m I. Pinknam Med. Co., Lynn. Mae.
From Pole to Pole
11 fnpKiu haa demonstrated it
fvaer U Lurc Ir ull diH-aea of the LukmL
The Harpooner's Story.
A.i luJurJ.JuHe 1, 1SS3.
r. J. C Xtih k ) '. Twenty ve:ir ae.T I
" iirpoo.-.i r in i!.e North t'afilie. when rive
mrrm at ir. crrw UIl.l lny If Were laiil up llh
J-un.l. l.ur l... )!. were il.all,sunu swollen
A 4 tir..i::;j ir. th 1.,-,. TMirnie Llothea al
i iur l.reitth ms m. d p.ttea. Take It
r..i ira 0 w,-rf i,r, tty l.adly off. All out
-j;:.d .4 a . ideuLH.lv deairoved. but the
-t.a La.1 a c uiile duaen h..ttlei,f AtlU'l
ani.iLta iiae us ttiaU We reeo-
-u in i; k,.r il in i ta ever aeen men
-.i .injut t,j any other treatment for rcunry,
1 i -.e ern a t.-d d.-al t.f it. rS"einir no men
o 'n ),.ur Almnnae of y.nr ?ariMiparilii being
-if r an v. I thought voii o.-tf ht ti know o
f- '. 1.-.J so M,d ,,uUe f. ts.
ivUu;;y j .url, lal-l-U T. 'Vl!lQiTB.
The Trooper's ."xperlence.
-rfen, lnJ S.Jriia,) March',', SQS.
1'a.J. I . Aim V 1 li.i,tlnin - I lava
.;..ur tj utify to lire (ti t value of
. r.....o:u. 4 Lave Vsel. stationed
tr i ears, rinnnj whieh time we
-t to l e la tea-a,. Reiiur under ranvaa fog
o a t..: t.r--Ujht en h. Is called in thla
-r:rr"el.lt sores." I iMl those eoree for
t:ii-. I u , njin, d to Uke your Wars,
'' I' 'v.t-m of which made my sore
: i;. .! , and I Min now quite welL
X-ur. Tr ; v. K. HoDCN,
'r,;'r, f'tir-e Muunttd iZijiemen ,
hers Sarsaparilla
J' r " r..v !b..roceh!y efeetfye blood pnrifler.
a...!.. 1;.r ;t..l eradicates the poisons Ol
. a ' : - , auj tuuuiuui Ana
fKKPaREb T
Ayer &. :u., Lowell, M
lk.ia t id lirufinta: Price (1;
a. a Luiia i lur
fOR ARTISTIC
OB PRINTING
TRY THE FREEMAN.
'!.: , 'i irKs oi.tsineil. anrlall rV
Our fr7.'"T"" r"r Moderate F-r.
'-4 rj7c' ,: Opoosite U. S. Patent Ollice.
-'tu,,,,. (.'""',!r'' I'lt'-nt m lees tune than thoee
St., B..' -l"iiu-1on.
V .r, 'irwuiL' vr photo., with devrrtp-
ft.iv, (,J;V"' 'f l',,-I'lahp or not. free t.f
P.-... . r"'l one tm liitent w fierared.
r.rt I .. .. , ...
tkk.,f .... " -"'V'" 'oOhtam Hateut-," with
'Iit in Voiir St nti cskimtv t-
C-SNOW&CO.
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fij, n , uu,'e terms te
kuTnrstryCo.)Rociiester,N.L
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CARTER'S
ITTLE
1VER
PILLS.
!rlt aTeadacbe and relieve all tbe trouble lnof
leut to a bilious state of the system, auob a
Xizzinewi, Nausea. Drowsiness, Distress after
eating, fain in toe hi do, ic. While their most
remarkable surceua lia been shown iu cutllig
ITnulache. yf-t Carter's little Liver PftT ara)
equally -aluabloin Conntlpation. curing and pra.
TciitiDs thiaannoyicrrouplaint.whilo they also
correct all disorders of I heetonaachtiruulate tho
liver and regulate the bowoiti. Kvcu if they oui
HEAB
APlithey wonlj be almost pricelnaa to those who)
eal.'erfrooi tliisdistresainricoiuijlaint: but fortu
nately theircnodueHadoce notetid heretnd thosa
vhooncetry thetuwill hnd these little pillavalu.
r.ble In so many wayn that they will not bo wil
lang todo without tut-ui. But after allaick bea4
ACLHIE
la tbe bttne of ?o many liros that bere Is whftra
weniakeourgrU boast. Oar pi llit cure it while,
others do not.
trarb-r's Little Urer nils are very small atv-t
Tery easy to take. Oue or two pills tuakea dose,
lb v arn strictly vev'etabte and do not gripe or
J :ir?o. but by tii. ir peutlo action please all who
n..ethe:u. lu viaisat J5 cents ; live for tl. tloid
Ly druiists everjwlieroa or sent by mail.
BARTER MEDICINE CO.. New fork.
PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE
HALL'S rfATR
The RTfat poiularlty of this preparation,
after its test of many years, should be an
assurance, even to the most skeptical, that
H U really inetitoriou. Those who have
us.-d Hill's Hair Kknrwbvk know that
It does all that is claimed.
It causes new jrrowth of lialr on bald
heads provided the hair follicles are not
dead, which is seldom tbe case : restores
natural color to gray or faded hair; pre
serves the scalp healthful aud clear of
dandruff ; prevents the hair falling off or
changing color ; keeps it soft, pliant, lus
trous, and causes it to grow lung and
thick.
Hall's IIaik ItrNrrwFR produces Its
effects by the healthful influence of its
Yesretablo tiurredif nts. which invigorate
and rejuvenate. It is not a dye, and is
a delightful article for toilet use. Con
taining no alcohol, it does not evap
orate quickly and dry up the natural oil.
leaving the'hair harsh and brittle, a d
other preparations.
Buckingham Dye
FOR TBI
WHISKERS
Colors them brown or black, as desired,
and N the befit dye, because it is harmless ;
produces a permanent natural color; and.
belmr a single preparation, is more con
venient of application than any other.
ruriuo it
U. P. HALL & CO, Nashua, If. H.
Bold by all Dealer in Me4JciM..
LINInlNI
AKY OTtJE
R.
STRICTLY
For FAMILY Use.
Dropped on suiar suierin children love to
take !l Every Mother should have it in the
house, it iuickly relieves and cures all aches
and pains, asthma, bronchitis, colds, couvhs,
catarrh, cuts, chaps, chilblains, colic, cholera
morbus, earache, headache, hoopiug cough,
inflammation, la grippe, lameness, mumps,
muscular soreness, neuralgia, nervous bead
ache rheumatism, bites, burns, bruises, strains,
sprains, stints, swellings, Btiff joints, sore throat,
hore I'.itis. toothache, t. in i litis and wind colic.
Oriyiuated in imo by the late Iir. A. Johnson,
Family Physician. Its merit and excellence
have satisfied everybody for nearly a century.
All who use it are amazed at its wonderful power.
It is safe, soothing, satisfying; to pay Rick,
sensitive sufferers. Vsd Internaland External.
The TV. -tor's rairoature and directions on every bottle.
III'irtM I'amphlet free. Sold ry w here. IThs-, X. eta,
bax lotlls i. . JHiNo V bjn, Mask
C I flOO worth of lovely Atusic lor Forty ;
-- T 1 1 1 . . Corns, consisting or loo pages
saw- Ml fu siZe Sheet Music of the;
S latest, brightest, liveliest and most popular
sa . selections, both vocal and Instrumental. ;
J gotten up in itie most elegant manner, in--sa
cluJinu four large size Portraits. ;
Ss CAHMeNCITA, the Spanish Dancer.
J PADEHEWSKI. the tireat Pianist,
AULLINA FATTI and
MINNIE SELIUHAN CUTTINU.
SDnaca an. oaoaa vo J
t THE NEW YORK MUSICAL ECHO CO.
s Broadway Theatre Kldg., New York Oty.
et CANVASSERS WANTED.
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IVf.S'rl. foi S lh St.. MITSKtPO. PA.
liduGlES at i Price issyej
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cancER
and Tumor Ct'KFP : n fennv
txok tree. lira. tiaarioniir at ttva
a. m fcan. tt ciia-innait.
THE MARIPOSA "WHALE."
Soma Great Exploits of a Giant
Caliloriiia. Hunter.
Ilia Fame to He I erpetuateil by m Mouu-lueut-St
roil 'er Than t-andow aotl
More lii-ati-rou. 1 ban
Corbet i
Steps are being taken in Fresno to
erect a monument to Asberr.y Wills,
the famed .Mario a L'iant. who u: eil to
whip bears sini.rle-li:tiil-.l anil who
could lift more than Saudow. and war,
altogether more formidable iu his way
than Corbett.
He was the most famous of all Cali
fornia's stroii": men, and was probably
the most phenomenal man iu his suc
cesses as a hunter ever known on the
l'aeiiic coast. Asberry died over a
dozen j'ears ag'O, ami his IhhI y lies in a
rooUy defile near the ctle of Kiny's
tanyon. The determination on the part
of some California pioneers to build a
monument to his memory has caused
many remarkable stories of his prowess
to be . related. His phenomenal
strength, coupled with his exploits iu
the Sierras, are fresh iu the minds of
the Argonauts.
Asberry was born in Mariposa county,
and at the ajfe of seventeen years
stood six feet four inches in his stock
ino; feet, and was at once entitled to
and received the sobriquet of the
'ISutterily Whale." The word "butter
lly" was the translation of Maripo.sa,
which in the Spanish means butterfly.
The name was originally liestowcd to
the county because of the very larjre
number of curious butterilies there.
The Whale" was exceedingly fond of
adventure in the wild mountains alxut
him. He was of tine piysip;te, pro
portionately built, and with eyes as
.'-harp as an cit-rle's. His hair and
beard were as blae'; as a raven's wiiiir.
and he al ways wore quantities of iMith.
This man was always accompanied
1V two companions, whom he delim
itated as "Old Ilcll-in-ttie I.rusli" and
'"Heart Deep." The former was a mag
nificent Loudon twist ride-bore feruI,
which carried an ounce ball. It
weighed eighteen pounds, and was an
old-fashioned muzzle loader, but never
in any way went back on the name be
stowed on it by the -Uuttcrlly Whale.
"Heart Deep"' was a hug'edouble-edifeil
steel dirk weiif hiDff eleven pounds,
which tiie "Whale" wielded as easily
as the average man would a penknife.
On one occasion, while on a bun tin";
trip on the south fork of Kind's river,
he eanie to a meadow aud concluded to
'fence olT a little of it for the use of his
mustangs. He and the sintrle com
panion with him befran felling the
trees. ISy some niiscaloulatioii one of
the trees fell in a different direc
tion from what was expected, ami
caught the friend of the (riant, crush
ing liiin to the earth. It had been a
very lofty tree, was two feet thick,
where it c-Ufrht the unfortunate man,
and was almost as heavy as lead. ISut
the "Whale" was equal to the etmrtr-enev-
Concentrating all his "riant
streng-th, he lifted the trunk from the
crushed and bleedinfr form. The man
soon died of his injuries, but his last
hours were much easier by reason of
the feat of his (riant friend. Many
other feats of strength were per
formed by him at differeut times. His
lifting power was nine times his own
weight, or eig-hteen hundred pounds.
One of his most phenomenal feats of
strength, combined with his (Treat pres
ence of mind in time of danger, was il
lustrated while he was on the middle
fork of Kind's river prospecting- for
(Told. Just before dusk one evening;
he espied a six-months-old grizzly,
weighing fully two hundred pounds, on
a shelving led(re of rock asleep. The
"Whale" said he would capture. the
beautiful thing alive, and leiraa) to
steal up on it. His companion. Lewis,
advised him that he had better i.hoot
it. but the "W hale" said he would en
joy the fun. At this Lewis climbed a
tree to be out of any possible scrim
mage. The giant advanced cautiously
up to the edge of the ledge and grasjed
the j-oung grizzly by its hind feet. The
bear woke, was astonished, and for the
first time in its life summoned all its
young strength in a desperate battle.
It chanced that the edge of the bowl
der on which the "Whale" stood was
sloping, and he could not get a firm
foothold. VA fearful struggle ensued,
and at length both bear anil man
rolled off into the copse of yerba
buena and fern. The brute was pow
erful and set up a yelling.
This called the mother, a huge griz
zly, only a few rods away, from the
brush. She came twenty feet at a
bound, growling terribly, and with
eves blazing like fire. Lewis, from his
perch in the tree, tried to sliot her
and fired several times. Iu rolling over
with the bear tbe "Whale" had come
up on top. He realized immediately his
precarious position, and. grabbing the
cub by its heels, swung it with pro
digious force, by a powerful swing of
his great arms, against the giant griz
zly. Its head struck the fiery brute
square in the mouth, and its bruised
and bleeding form dropped from his
hands. Quicker than it would be pos
sible to tell it the "W hale" had jumped
to the fore and buried the eleven
pounds of steel of "Heart Deep" in
the vitals of the old bear, killing her
immediately. Lewis elambercd down
from his tree and looked in vain for
marks of his bullets. He had not hit
the War at all. "Heart Deep" alone
had done the work.
The giant of Mariposa only met one
enemy to which he was forced to suc
cumb. Mountain fever at last seized
his powerful frame, his mind departed,
and soon the reaper wrapped his thick,
mysterious mantle of eternity alnvut
him. On the left bank of the deep
and somber King river canyon lieneath
a few feet of granite soil ami the shade
of a wide-spreading juniper, wrapped
iu his hunting garb, unwept, uneonined
and unsung, except in leal tradition,
lies ty hero of Mariposa, and above
his grave is only this inscription:
THI WHALB.
Kiiffarjeiuent trljtlit.
A young fellow wl.r.se Wtrothal had
just been announced w as met by an
inlimate friend lately who questioned
the happy men on his changed appear
ance. To these kindly queries the
youth replied. "Well, I don't know
what it is. unless there is such a thing
as engagement fright. If there is that's
what I have."
A RICE ELEVATOR.
Mew Orleans Claluia tbe First Ever
Ererted In the World.
What the New Orleans papers call
"the first rice elevator in the world"
has jus.t been erected in that city, says
the Seattle Telegraph. The "plant"
consists of an elevator tower, into
which the grain is directed throuirh a
movable chute from the loaoed rail
road cars and from which it is trans
ferred by machinery to the bins and
barrels of the w arehouse, the latter be
ing connected with the elevator tower
by a covered bridge. The rice mm reach
ing the summit of the tower, is spilled
out on a rublier belt some sixty feet iu
length, running at a high rate of seed
between rollers inclined at an angle of
sixty degrees. These rollers are lo
cated at intervals of eight feet and
serve to keep the rubber belt curved in
' such a manner that the rice is tint
spilled while in transit. This belt
terminates just within the wall of the
warehouse, where the grain is received
in a hopper. At the bottom of this
hopper is an aperture opened by a trap
door, through which the rice is spilled
on to a screw conveyor traversing the
length of the second story of the ware
house and passing over a series of bins
designed to receive the grain. By a
delicate arrangement of scales and
weights the rice is weighed while iu
the hopper. At regular intervals rub
ber belts similar to the one running
from the elevator tower receive the
rice from the screw and carry it across
the bins. An ingenious contrivance
causes it to be dropped into the recep
tacle when that receptacle is readied.
A single man can operate this apparatus
aud thus control the movement of each
class of rice, till it is finally tlethited
in its appropriate bin. Its travels are
by no means terminated at this point.
Six screw conveyors traverse the ceiling
of a lower story. Opening the trap
doors iu the bottom of the bins on the
story altove. the rice enters the spirals
of these machines and is borne across
the building and received upon another
rublicr belt. This leads directly to the
milling department. here the husks
are stripped off aud the grain pre
pared for the market. The capacity of
the elevator is estimated at about
eight hundred barrels per hour, which
is equivalent to twenty four hundred
bushels, or four loaded cars. The
warehouse can accommodate ninety
thousand bushels of graiu.
A WOMAN'S MAIL. mRMOR.
The 8trau Usrmrnt Warn by a Califor
nia Adtentur.ua
The story of the achievement of
Maria lSensley has Weotne familiar
through the recent attempts at settle
ment of the Kenslcy estate in San
Francisco. The story of the woman's
iiersouality, as related by the Kxam
iner, is more remarkable. As one evi
dence of her peculiarities it may be
cited that she wore a coat of mail. The
woman was the wife of John llciisley.
once a financial power in San Francis
co. When he failed and lied, after hid
ing his property, to escape his credit
ors, she remained to fight them, and
proved herself a diplomat. After sev
eral transfers she got hold of the
ISensley property, in turn db 'losing of
it to a fictitious woman, from whom
she had no trouble in securing a power
of attorney. "Mrs. Ie Tarente" she
called this fictitious woman, and. need
less to say, when Mrs. ISensley desired
to dispose of any property Mrs. I)e
Tarente never dissented. While !ns
ley was away his wife found herself in
many trying situations, and when she
became a widow her cace of mind was
still disturbed by the importunities of
creditors and their recourse to the law.
Mrs. lte lisle y trace 1 her pedigree back
to noble families that never existed,
and her pride was based on titles that
were never bestowed. She had few
confidantes and the enemies her hus
band had acquired readily transferred
their attention to her. She was wor
ried, and looked it. She grew thin and
feeble, but lost no whit of her pluck.
One day Mrs. Hensley was dining at
the I'leasanton when a message was
brought to her. She read it. gasjied
and fainted. Ah she fell from her
chair she struck the floor with a clang.
1'eople who raised the attenuated
form wondered at its weight. When
medical attention was called the mys
tery was explained. Inclosing the
woman's body was a coat of n ail,
steel-linked and bullet proof. In her
contentions and her scheming to keep
creditors from getting their dues she
had learned to fear vengeance. It is
believed that until death Mrs. ISensley
wore her armor. When stricken with
heart disease she was still in the
midst of a legal fight, still maintain
ing her frauds, and had as much
reason as ever to believe herself iu dan
ger of violence.
Iteliriau Marriage License.
A recent enactment in ISelgitim has
made it obligatory for brides to have
their marriage licenses or "marriage
lines," as they call them in that land
of fens and dikes, gorgeously liound in
gilt-edge morocco. This is consider
ately done or, in other words, done
for a consideration by the muiiicia!i
ties, who have now taken to binding
up a quantity of more or less useful
information with the documents.
There is a summary of the llelgaiu
marriage laws, a rough and ready les
son on the treatment of children, and
a table with spaces for a catalogue of
the issue of the marriage. The table
contains room for twelve children to
lie entered, so this may lie taken as a
gentle hint that that uumiier is the
extreme limit tolerated by lielgian
burghers in a well-conducted family.
The manual seems only to need the ad
dition of a few choice receipts and a
hiut or two on the best means of ob
taining divorces in order to defy criti
cism. The Whistling; Oyster.
That the w histling mania should go
as far as the oyster is not at all astou
ishing, for why should not a bivalve
do what a woman does? It was an en
terprising oyster who lived in a si ell in
the year 1S4U anJ was exhibited in Lon
don. If we can believe the words of
thousands w ho saw it, the thing some
how actually w histled. Douglas Jerrold.
who saw it, surmised that the oj'stcr
had undoubtedly "been crossed iu love
and now whistled to keep up appear
ances, with an idea of showing that it
didn't caee." -I .ondou Answers.
A great deal of meanness masque
rades in all parts of the land under the
name of prudence. Dam's Horn.
TIIE FIKST TEST.
V
Doctors Give Chloroform a Trial
as an Anaesthetic.
Startling; Rmlti Obtained from Ad rail a la -trratloiis
off the Vutrtetl Drug; ilg;
nltted rtiyticiaii in tiro
traque Attitude.
While the discover-of anaesthetics in
surgery was made by an American it
is claimed for three different men yet
the first use of chloroform for the pur
pose was made by Dr., afterward Sir,
James 'Simpson. Chloroform is still
generally used by English surgeons,
while iu this country most surgeons
prefer ether. A recent article iu the
Century by Miss Eve Simpson, his
daughter, gives an interesting account
of her father's experiments. In his
resolution to discover some new and
unobjectionable agent to produce in
sensibility under the surgeon's knife
he was bold almost to rashness. He
trk'd every new compound first upon
himself, and then, with a few devoted
medical friends, made further tests of
all such as seemed to promise success.
In the year 1S47, especially, he had
been working bard, holding, with I'rof.
Miller, Dr. Duncan ami Dr. Keith, a
sort of anasthetic seance every night
after supper. So many strange, un
pleasant and more or less dangerous
mixtures were tried by these gentle
meu that one of them, I'rof. Miller,
made it his custom to make a brief
call at breakfast time every morning
in order, as he would say, cheerfully,
to hear if any of the excrimciitcrs of
the evening In-fore were dead yet.
It was tne evening in November,
after having tried several other sub
stances with little effect, that Dr.
Simpson Wttiought himself of a small
liottle of chloroform which he had
meant to try and which must be some
where about the place. A search was
instituted, and it was found under a
heap of waste paper.
It was tried at once. Immediately a
delightful excitement seized upon the
doctors; their talk liecame brilliant,
mirthful and then positively hilarious.
Prof. Miller. Mrs. Simpson, and one or
two mcmticrs of the family who were
present, liecame much interested iu
listening to the doctors as they expa
tiated upon the charms, qualities and
agreeable effects of the new fluid.
Prof. M iller relates what ensued:
"Suddenly there was a talk of
sounds being heard like those of a cot
ton mill, louder aud louder a moment
more, then all was quiet, and then a
crash!
'On awaking. Dr. Simpson's first
perception was mental. "This is far
stronger and better than ether,' said
he to himself. Ills second was to note
that he was prostrate on the floor, and
that among the friends about him
there was lot!i confusion and alarm.
"Hearing a noise, he turned a I tout
ami saw Dr. Duncan beneath a chair;
his jaw bail dropped, his eyes were
staring, his head was bent half under
him. He was quite unconscious, aud
was snoring in" a most determined anil
alarming manner. More noise still
aud mucn motion.
"Then his eyes overtook Dr. Keith's
feet and legs making valorous efforts
to overturn the supper table, or more
probably to annihilate everything that
was on it. I say niore probably,' for
frequeut repetitions of inhalation have
continued, iu the case of my esteemed
friend, a character for maniacal and
uiin.-t ruined destructiveness, under
chloroform in the transition stage."
It is little wonder that Mrs. Simpson .
was alarmed. ISut the daring doctors
were extricated from among the legs
of chairs and tables, and soon recov
ered themselves and were filled with
triumph at the success of their new
anaesthetic. When Dr. Simpson be
came Sir James Simpson, he took for
his motto Victo Dolore (pain con
quered (, which certainly meant more
and was more honorably earned dian
the mottoes of most pobleuien and no
ble houses.
A Miner's luch.
The mode of measurement of a
miner's inch of water varies in differ
ent localities, but the accepted legal
measure is that fjuantity of water
which will now through an opening of
one square inch iu the bottom of a ves
sel under a mean pressure of four
inches. Fifty of the above miner's
inches is equivalent to a discharge of
one cubic foot of water per second. To
rt t the iuuiiIht of gallons in miner's
inches multiply the given imiuWr of
inches by 14. '.nil. lxiiuliiig off five deci
mals. The result will le the number
of gallons discharged per second. To
get the miner's inch in gallons, divide
the number of gallons flow, or dis
charge per minute, by s.yitiii. The re
sult will le the number of inches
sought. One miner's inch in gallons:
Per second is 0. 14'J; per minute, s. 1)70;
per hour, ":SS.5rt; per day, 1 "2.115.44; per
month. :H:.41s: per year, 4.7.'1,017.
One miner's inch will flow: Ten acres
per year. 1.45 feet deep; 14.4'J acres per
year. I foot deep; is. 11 acres per year,
y inches deep.
A i lear C'sum, of Meat.
Judge Underwood, of Georgia, once
met a friend on a train and said to
him: "I want to tell you of a case I
had lefore me at Cedartown the other
day. and see what you think tif it."
lie then stated the case, and his friend
expressed a view of it, to which he re
plied: That.ame view you express
wa- very largely, ably and elaborately
maintained before me on this hearing
by Wright. P.raiiham. Featherstoiie and
several other lawyers from Koine old
lawyers, experienced lawyers and
there was not a soul on the other side
but a bright young lawyer from Cedar
town, who hal never had any exjie
rience, and myself. This, in fact, was
his first case, and they out-argued us;
but we beat them, sir we beat "em!"
Kossuth sail Ills Mother.
I
One of the most painful trialsof Kos
suth's exile was his inability to be
present at the deathbed of his mother,
iahe lived in poverty in Brussels, and
she expressed a desire to see her sou
once more before she died. The Bel
gian government of that day would not
grant his request to visit her unless he
consented to be accoiupauied wherever
he went by an otlicer of police. He
might have consented to this degrad
ing condition, says one biographer, for
her sake; but no sooner did his mother
hear of it than she herself forbade him
to come to her, aud she expired iu the
last days of ls52, blessing him with her
dying breath-
FIGHTING DUELS IN ITALY.
About th Only Exercise In Which Na
tive of the suuuy Laud Indulge.
Dueling is the leading and almost
the ouly athletic sport in Italy, says
the Idler. It is true that there is an
Alpine club, so-called because its mem
bers climb the lesser heights of the
Apennines, but there is no cricket,
and, except among the laboring
classes, ball games of even the mildest
character are hardly ever played. The
young Italian gentleman finds in duel
ing an exercise which is beneficial to
his muscles and sufliciently exciting
to interest him, and the middle-aged
Italian keeps up his practice with the
foils and occasionally challenges and
fights a friend just to show that he is
not so old as to have lost a genial inter
est in the innocent pursuits of youth.
Dueling is contrary to law iu Italy,
but the duelist is never punished (un
less he should accidentally kill a man),
except in the army, where the sport is
obligatory and strictly prohibited. The
same curious! anomaly exists in ller
many, where army officers are arrest
ed and punished if they fight a
duel and either cashiered or forced to
resign if they do not. The Italian otli
cer, when challenged to fight, is virtu
ally told: ''You'll le condemned if you
do aud condemned if you don't." This
seems to the Anglo-Saxon decidedly
idiotic, but nothing can well be more
idiotic than dueling. Playing cha
rades in a drawing-room rises to philo
sophic heights of wisdom in com
parison with it. At least ninety-nine
out of every hundred Italian duels are
of the class technically known as
"first blood" duels. That is to say, the
combat ceases the moment either of
the adversaries loses blood. In these
duels the sword is always used, aud
the slightest scratch on the hand or
the arm which are the localities usu
ally scratched signalizes the end of
the game anil authorizes the duelists
to sheathe their weapons and go some
where to dinner together. Instances
have happened in whjch a duelist has
been accidentally mn through the
body and killed, but incidents of this
sort are extremely infrequent com
pared with the fatalities of the foot
ball field. Italian dueling is probably
the safest of all athletic sports, except
prize fighting as practiced by modern
pugilists by means of letters to the
sporting papers.
JONES' SNAKE KILLING PIGS.
The Farmer Trained His Kaivrbscki to
K iter id in ite herpenta.
"Talk about snakes," said a resident
of Boston the other day, "there are
more of "em to the square acre in Flor
ida than in any other part of this glori
ous country. But as numerous as they
are the' are not half as abundant as
they were a few years ago, liefore anv
organized effort was made to annihi
late the whole serpentine breed.
"It seems that a bright iJea involving
the wholesale extinction of snakes en
tered the mind of one William J one-.,
who up to that time bad been a poor
farmer struggling to support a big fam
ily. Now he is one of the solid of
the county, ami he made all his money
by the successful execution of that
idea. He knew that the ordinary
razorback hog of Florida was a great
natural enemy of snakes, and he set to
work to systematically train a whole
drove of hogs to hunt down and de
stroy the reptiles. In a little while he
had his swine as thoroughly trained iu
their part as setter dogs are drilled to
point quail. He first cleared his own
farm of a vast quantity of big ones,
and then he began to hire out his hogs
to bis lieighlMirs who were snake-afflicted.
The fame of those razorhacks
spread all ovei- the land and people
whose places were infested with rat
tlesnakes and men w ho were clearing
up new land sent for Jones' hogs.
"This is no romance. for I talked with
Jones himself and he told me all oli-out
it. and exhibited his book of engage
ments, which also contained a record
of all the snakes slain for the last
twelve months. I have every reas n
to believe he was stating the facts, for
he gave me a warm invitation to visit
his place and promises to give an ex
hibition that would demonstrate the
skill of his snake-killers."
A Long; Pursuit.
Balzac or ISaboriau never wrote a
more thrilling story of long pursuit
and successful revenge than conies by
the China steamer in accounts of the
assassination in Shanghai of Kim Ok
Kim. the Corean refugee. It occurred
in a foreign hotel in the European set
tlement, and the assassin. Hung, was
arrested and held for trial. Hang
camped on Kim's t rail for six years in
the hope of getting him outside of
Japau. While in the pay of the Corean
court he cultivated the acquaintance
of Kim, who had lived at Tokio for
several years under a Japanese name.
Hung induced a Corean exile, who
owed Kim a large sum of money, to
write offering to pay the old account
with interest if Kim would come to
Shanghai. The trial will probably
show that the Corean court promised
the assassin a big reward for removing
a dangerous conspirator whom the
Japanese government had saved iron
their vengeance for ten years. Kim was
the aldest Corean who has come to the
front since the hermit kingdom was
opened to foreigners. He spoke Japa
nese. Chinese. French and tierman flu
ently. A Fellaheen Minister.
Ali Pacha Moubar-k, whose death
has recently taken place, w as the only
Egypan fellaheen, or peasant, who
ever attained the rank of cabinet min
ister. He possessed all the craftiness
of his downtrodden race, trimmed his
political sails w ith much skill when he
saw that the Arabi revolt was on the
point of failure, and found means of
remaining a friend both of his country
men and their EiiglLsh masters, a mat
ter of some difficulty. Like mtrst fella
heen, he was exceedingly uncleanly in
his appearance and personal habits,
objecting most strongly to sanitary ap
pliances as superfluous
Japanese Industrie.
It is a matter of singular interest
that Japan is now manufacturing uiod
.m ar material for the use of western
,.r..iis Six truns manufactured at
tthe Japanese government arsenal at
ikoli have iust been supplied to the
Vnrlujtiese irovernment. A month or
so since a British firm took the first
steps in the establishment of a watch
making concern in Japan lor ine man
ufacture by Japanese workmen of
watches for western markets.
HAKD ON STEXlKJliAPHEKS.
New York la No Place for the Idle
or Incompetent.
A Htarh Standard of I'rofleiency .t by
Employers Applicants Ar Sub
jected to a 1 horough
Examination.
That New York is the grand center
for competent stenographers and a
short-lived rendezvous for incompe
tents is frankly admit ted. Yet. of the
estimated thirty thousand stenograph
ers and typewriters in the city to-day,
the proportion who are a credit to the
shorthand profession is said to be sur
prisingly small. A veteran phoin
graphcr in touch with the progress of
the art recently said: "Here in this
city there are every year a legion of
young people whocommcucc the study
of shorthand through the ill advice of
parents or friends, without making the
first inquiry into the mental or phys
ical qualities requisite in the make-up
of a skillful stenographer; hence it is
that ouly altout one person in twenty
ever reaches the goal of success."
One instructor says much more is ex
pected of a stenographer to-day than
ever Ircfore, and more talent is re
quired here in New York city than in
any other place he knows of in this
country. Business men no longer
tutor and humor incompetent em
ployes. Schools are demanding a
higher standard of excellence than
ever before. We will not recommend
a pupil for a position until he has
passed a technically rigid examination
in taking from dictation and proiu-rl v
transcribing all forms of otliee corre
spondence, legal matter iu the form of
complaints, answers, affidavits agree
ments, testimony. specificatious,amend
ments ' and other details. Besides
this, we frequently dictate extracts
from magazines, newspapers ami en
cyclopaedias. Only a few years ago the prediction
was made that shorthand schools must
decrease their production of graduates,
or. as a natural result, one of two
things was imminent among shorthand
writers a reduction of wages or a
raising of the degree of excellence re
quired for the obtaining of employ
ment. The latter alternative seems to
le rapidly approaching. Probably fifty
percent, more shorthand skill aud gen
eral education is to-day required to
hold a good positiou iu New York eil y
than was needed five years ago. When
questioned as to this the alove in
structor said:
'"Work here is done quickly and sys
tematically, and the stenographer who
succeeds in this busy metrojiolis must
know a great many things besides
having the mere ability to make
marks and operate a typewriter. He
must have education, skill and discern
ment, and le able to use shorthand
and to typewrite with great intelli
gence. One year's training in a busi
ness house here is conceded to 1c as
valuable, from a practical jviint of
view, as three years' training iu many
other large cities.
"That this fact is rapidly becoming
known and appreciated is shown by
the steadily increasing iiuiiiIkt of
voung people who come here from a
distance to learn and practice the art.
They come to this city from Florida,
Kansas. California, Cuba. Spain, and.
indeed, from all over the world: yet,
despite thi: great influx, salaries here
range higher than iu any other jiart of
the country. In Chicago, for instan-tr.
many stenographers las.t summer ac
cepted positions at three or four dol
lars less per week than they would re
ceive here.
Our Wst short-hand schools now re
quire an entrance education. Candi
dates for admission are closely exam
ined in sjielliug, punctuation, penman
ship, English composition, geography
and many other vital points, and there
is no hesitancy in rejecting any appli
cant who is disqualiS.il. Only a few
years ag. the average speed necessary
to answer the requirements of an
ainauuensis was seventy to one hun
dred words per minute, while at the
present time a rate of less than one
hundred and twenty words per minute
is deemed inadequate.
"Of high-grade stenographers." said
Mr. Snyder of the Bemington bureau,
"there is not half enough to meet the
demands. Through this agency alone,
three thousand stenographers ami
typewritists were last year recom
mended to paying positions. Of this
number, probably two-thirds were
young women.
"It is curious to note," he added,
'that the young men who come to New
York from the country meet the re
quirements far liettcr than those who
are residents of the city. The former
come here with a definite aim and pur
lose. look upon their rosition and sur
roundings more seriously, and work
with much greater earnestness and sin
cerity." Very Peculiar Hooka
The most curious lok in the world
is one which is neither written nor
printed. Every letter is cut into the
leaf, and as the alternate leaves are of
blue paper it is as easily read" as the
lest printing. The tok is entitled
"The Passion of ChrisL" It is a very
old volume, and was a curiosity as
long ago as lti4. It Wlongs to the
family of Prince de Ligue. and is how
in France. Another Uaik iu which
the text is neither w ritten nor printed,
but woven, has lately ln-ell published
by Uoux, a lok seller at Lyons. It is
made of silk, aud was published ia
twenty-five jiarts at ten francs each.
Each part consists of two leaves, so
that the entire volume contain oiily
fiftv leaves, inscribed with the service
of the mass and several prayers, lioth
the letters aud the border are woveu
in black silk on a w hite ground.
Kducatluc a I'rinrc
It is a costly business, the education
of princes. The great Krupp establish
ment at Esseu recently turned out a
miniature fortress to be set up iu the
private grounds of the royal palace at
Potsdam. It is to lie used iu the edu
cation of the crown prince of Herman v
and his brothers. Its cost was six hun
dred thousand marks, and its princi
ples of construction are not to be made
public. There are armored turrets
that rise, fire their guns and instantly
sink out of vicTr. It is said that a
number of new principles are embodied
in the construction of this fortress, but
they are for the present to remain se
crets for political reasuiia.
SHE SAW MRS. CLEVELAND. "
The M Idole-Aged W ma Made a Itun
for II ami Oot There.
Women adopt all sorts of devices for
getting a good look at Mrs. Cleveland.
On fiue days the mistress of the w hite
bouse generally takes a ride iu the
family phaeton, accompanied by her
liabies and the iinrses. In the after
noon letwecn three and four, if the
sun is shining, says a Washington in
formant, she goes out in the ictoria.
accompanied either by her husband or
a friend. Women, young and old.
have discovered this habit of Mrs.
Clevelaud. and are beginning to lie in
wait for her to catch her as she comes
out on the front portico to enter the
carriage. There is no privacy for in
mates of the white house, and so hen
Mrs. Cleveland goes riding she is
obliged to walk through the public
vestibule and across the public ortico.
A day or two ago a levy of schoolgirls
joined the waiting group on the it.. r
tieo. and when Mr. Cleveland came
out she was obliged to ruu the gantlet.
When she returned an hour or tun
later a funny thing happened. A well
dressed, good-looking. middle-aged
woman, evidently a stranger iu 1 ln
city, was passing the street gate
when a carriage turned into the
circular drive of the white house
grounds. The quick-witted sight
seer instantly surmised that
the occupants were Mrs. Cleve
land andfier liabies. She saw a chance
to accomplish her long-felt desire of
getting a good look at the president's
w ife and she did not nii-.s it. The race
was a long one anil she knew she could
not win it unless something happened
to detain Mrs. Cleveland after she ar
rived under the porte eochcre. Lilting
her clothes in Imth hands she started
up the circular pathway along the
drive at a breakneck speed. The passers-by
and the spectators at the door
applauded, and. perspiring and pant
ing, she reached the steps just iu time,
for Mrs. Cleveland had stojqn-d to give
au order to the coachman, and the en
ergetic lady wa enabled to plant her
self where sue could stare the presi
dent's wife in the face for at least ten
txfe'olids and Could also see the babies
as they were lifted from the carriage
by the nurses and carried into the
house.
As Mrs. Cleveland disappeared in the
vestibule a gentleman standing by
said, admiringly, to the female
sprinter: "Well, you made it."
"Yes." she said, mopping her face,
'folks from my part yf the country
generally do."
AMUSING LLLlMUERS.
Iesperate Situations of IMffldent Young;
Orators.
Some amusing examples of uninten
tional tr:u:sne iiiots are triven in a re-t-eiitly
-published collection of "Btdls
ami Blunders." Slip of the kind
usually result from nervousness rather
than from ignorance, hut it is a ques
tion which was reshnisible in llie case
of the jioinpoiis colored preacher u ho
told his dock that it was ""easier for a
camel to go throuirh the knee of an
idol than for a rich man to ciiU r
Ilea veil."
Not so in the case of the courtly and
cultivated lleorge William Curtis. ho.
it is said, was so overcome with stage
fright when he commenced his first
lecture that instead of the reference
to the iMit toiialess pit which he intend
ed to make, he astonished his hearers
by beginning tremulously:
"Ladies and gentlemen, the pittom
less botl '."'
The crowning specimen of ludicrous
helplessness ill the face of elusive
syllables is that of the unfortunate
sH-aker who. at a pathetic point of his
Uihiress. In n his hero was almut to
undergo a heart rending parting from
home and friends, uttered, in his most
In. 1 1 in;"" voice:
"Biddy, di l ly"
He stojiiK-d confused; flushed, set
his tiiou h and tried again, with a
difficult resumption of the interrupted
aliios:
"D.'ddy. biddy"
Soiu.-thing was'wrongstni. lie grew
scarlet. jJt-rspircd. and gasjied fori h a
third attempt. iiiore intelligible, r
H is bearers could none of them inter- 1
pre t it. It might Ik- II i-h I it rt;;i p. or
it might lie a Mot her 1 : e refrain:
"Did.iy. biddy, biddy d.'."' I
The situation was dcsjK-rater but the-
persistent orator rallied, pat-.i-a-d unt'l
he had fni ly recovered bis self-control,
and try ing once more, with slow utter
ance and distinct enunciation, con
quered Ht length the simple phrase
which bail overllir.inu liitu. He said:
"Did he bid adieu".'"
MEXICAN HANDICRAFT.
Wonderful Sk III In Isahlnaing l.rai. Into
Curious Shapes.
It isrecorded of the Mexican lapidary
to whom was intrusted the fashioning
of the exquisite wedding gift of t'ortcz
to his w ife in 1.VJV that he was a work
man "unusually gifted with a delicate
sure touch, wonderful skill and unjsar
allclcd ingenuity."
The first of tbe five famous emeralds
forming the ring was in the form of a
r-sc; the second, t hat of a born: the
third wa like unto a fish with eves of
gold; the fourth was like a little lell.
with a fine pea:iforthe tongue, on
the rim of this tiny ls-11 was inscrilied,
in Latin: "Blcs-d is he who created
thee." The fifth emerald, the one of
greatest value, was fashioned like a lit
tle cup. with a foot of gold, and four
delicate gold chains were attached to
a large jN-arl as a button. The edge
of this cup was of L'ol.l. on which was
engraved, in I-atin: "liiteniatos mti
licrum noil surrexit major"' -Among
those Imtii of woman none greater has
arisen.
It is recorded that for just oin of
these precious gems the almost fabu
lous sum of forty thousand ducats was
offered, and declined by Col t-.
The sole relic tthat can be identified I
now ill existence of th.- incredible
wealth of ancient Meviisi is a gold gob
let with the sides rujely rciwmsse.
with the representation of a human
head. UHin one side in full fan-, on the
other in profile, ai-1 on Ihe third the
back. This wonderful piece of ancient
handicraft fxt ins to be of pur.- fold.
It was brought from Mexi.-o aud pur
chased at Cadiz by Edward llarl. of Ox
ford. It is stated that it was once the prop
erty of Montezuma.
This goblet stands four and a half
inches iu height; its diameter of lip
mcasur three and a quarter iucbes.
Its weight is said to be a liltic over five
ounces. .