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The recent le:ith t.f C. P-thmie, the oiio;iilai ,m nTf th.' imisu-;il n,-o-r,, slave iHiykmmu as "Illiiul Tom," has ;troustl imicli putilu- curiosity as to the ilisap..araii.-- of Tom from view. The best in format ion I have 1m . ii aide to ohtuiu is that he is pas,iiio- the elosin"; lavs of his life in a lunatic a-vltim. his vagaries liavino-taken on too dangerous ! a form to admit of his jroino- freely j u)i nit as heretofore. j Tom was lMru in Museoo-ee eon nt v. I '.a., says a writer in Kate Field' j Washington. His father's name wan j Minjro. and his mother was ealle.l l.y ' her owner Aunt Charity. While l.e was still a loy. and suposed to lo a i mere iiliot as well as siirhtless. he u1 j to conceal himself in his master's house, ! and after midnight creep into the par lors ami play the same air- with which his youii mistress had enter tained her iru.-sts a few hours hefore. !n'iii'r cautious to suppress his notes hv liold'tiijr his f.M.t on the soft M-dal. lie was soon tleteetetl. however, and repri manded. A milder view was taken of his short comiiio-., when his master dis covered that the hoy's o-ift mio-ht he turned to protitahlc account: meau vvliile. the cliil.hcn of t!ie hotiseh.ild. .ieli'flite.i wit h his marvelous jmiwci-s. Iiad not iicsiiatcd to defy the discipline of their elders and encotirao-e him to play for them on the sly. llcsidcs heiiiir a remarUahh' laver of ot !u-r people's music. Tom was a com ser himself, lie was near enouirh to one of tlie hatt Ietii l.ls of tin- civil war to catch the sounds from it . and these he wove into a piece which his mana ger entitled, for popular elTect: " The !!:ittleof Manassas." In it the piano is made to imitate the music ot the tifes and drums, the charges of t hi' cavalry. I he thunders of a. hattcry. the (.rroans of the womi.led and ilv'mir. and all the iiicidi'iits of a o;reat lirIit so faithfully is to i-all up a panorama of the scene iwfore tin- mind's eye of tin- listener. me of the feats which Tom was ac-.-.I domed to pcrf.n-m in pu ll i- to t he :i iiia.emeut of his audiences was the .iiitatiou of any piece of mti-.ic r forined in iiis heariii'' hy a sti an.rer. some of these piece. , ma. I. so frc.it an ,::ipression on him that he carried them in his mind for a lono- period and then could reproduce them at will. A storv which seems somewhat apocryphal was told me liy a Teacher nt music 111 a you ne; latlies' seiniiiary in Maryland, represent iiife Tom as havino- carried in his memory for twenty-one years, note for note, u tlcrman waltz which had heen playi'd l'cfi ri- him hy my inform ant in order to test his aldlity .and which, as far as known, he never at tempted arain dni-iiitr all 1 hat peri. h1. When 1 sitesti'd that there was a possibility of Tom's havinir heard tlu- sa piece plaved hy other hands in the interval ami thus kept his memory refreshed, the professor assured me tiitit t his e: iiild not he so, hecaiisc lH-for phiyiii"; it to T i:n he had rew rit ten t he wal t .. ada pt -in"; it from its original lii-rinan form lo one which contained a number of varia tions and fancy touches of his own. Tom reproduced all these incidentals with absolute faithfulness. The theory that Tom must be of ji pent h disposition because so o-iven to music would be very misleading. Sound, rather than harmony, was what ap-M-aled to his intellect, such as it was. and his reproductions were jrovcriicd bv the rules of accuracy rather than inspired by artistic penius. It used to be said of him that the eryintr of a child afforded him keen dcl'o-ht. and when he could not draw forth as much sound as lie wanted from his younp companions by ordinary processes, he would bite and pinch them for the pur ose of hcarinc- their shrieks of pain. Ashe matured he developed a piwcr fill iMtiie frame and preat muscular strength, wliii-h he exerted to t he se rious discomfiture of anylody w ho op posed his wishes. If kept awry from a piano when he wanted to play, he would bamr his head apainst the wall and throw chairs around the room. Once, while staying at a hot -Ion one of his concert tours, he insisted on layiiifT a loud piece of music in the middle of the nipht. reo-artl less of the comfort of the other "-nests. Ilisaircnt attempted to check him. but was seized bv Tom and thrown out of the . in wit h o-reat violence. Ouattothcr . asioii in Washington he was visited 'V a man whose presence was distaste "til to him. and he manifested his dis- i'.ke bv pitching- the poor fellow down- j . .t a i rs. Poiblv Tom's present seclusion has other reasons Ix-hind it besides his in-.-easino-ec. i nt rieii ics. The lejral c. m- ;-ol of hi , time ;ind services lias been ;r some years the subject i .f' ! liga tion ill the courts. Ccn. Hctlnmc : iirneil the care of the toy over to his vui at one time, ami tin- son's wife claimed her husband's rights after t he :::!ter"s death. I believe the else has never been finally settled, ami it may be that one or the ot her part y to the controversy has thoup-ht it w ise to keep Tom out of sipht until his fate can be decided. An OIl Jupanmf I tank. Japan has a banking house that has been in business without a break for over three hundred years. It liejran with Yechiffo No Kami, an imiHiverished feudal noble of the province of Ise, who broke away from the traditions of his caste and went into the 1'npior trade, manufacturing- saki from rice. One of his sous established a bank. whl :h two centuries ago was removed to T il-io, ihe present capital, and from the name of the. principal at the time took the name bv which it is now known, of the Mitsui bank. Like the Roths childs, the w hole family is engaged in the business, a marked feature of which is that the capital belongs to all in common, while no one niemler ran claim a separate share. The most competent individual is chosen presi dent. The bank lias now over thirty branches, and is the largest private bank in Japan. Gladys "I have a note from Charlie protesting against my treatment of him." Clare "Papa was right then.' tiladys "What duyrtu mean?" Clare lie said Charlie's notes were always going to protest." -. w . ' - " FOUl. AIR AS A GERM GARDEN. Ooocf Sanitation a l'rime Neeeaaity a. a llefeiiHe Against Ift.seaae (mthis. The development of the germs so fa tal to humanity w hen taken into the system isan effort of nature to destroy ami really cat up effete matter. The grub and maggot, disgusting as they are. an- true scavengers, and if sutli eieut time be allowed them thev will reduce to innocuous dust the most mis ouous of animal and vegetable matter. We regard the creatures with abhor rence because of their occupation; but they arc lalx.ring. allit unconscious ly, in th' interest of higher forms of life. When liseuse-gciicru.tiiig matter lias passed through the iligttire canal of tin- pupa -it is no longer infectious. In the un.lraiiie.l and riltliy jxirtioiis of a city the foul matter is constantly ac cumulating far beyond the corrective owcrs of unaided nature. l'cadly gases arc cast off from festering heaps. vajHtrs charged with microscopic genus which hatch fearful ailments in that weak mechanism, man's 1.m1v. lint even where the system is not directly a1lV ted by germ diseases, the inlluciicc of t he f.M.l gases why. w e do not fully understand as yet tends to lower vi tality to. such a degree t hat tin' subject isalways in good condition to take a fever of the typhoid class, sea rait ina. diphtheria, etc. Prof. Alessi's I'XjM-ri-iiicnts. says an exchange, show that a jM'fsonw ho has lived in foul air for a considerable time will get any one of the fatal germ diseases much more readily than one who has breathed pure air and only absorbs the ircrms by a. -. ill. -nt. Prof. Ah-ssi has proved that the same is true with animals. Hc placcd a number of dogs, pigs. etc.. in such a situation that they wi re com pelled to live, for some weeks, in an at mosphere sat n rat cil with the noxious vatMirs from garbage heaps. These he inoculated with the typhoid bacillus, at t he same time inoculating a similar number of animals which had been brought direct from the pure air of the rural district. The first lot died, some of them in thirty-six hours, with un mistakable typhoid symptoms, while not one of the second lot was affected. It was obsi rved. how ever, that when the rural animals began to breathe the in feet eii air t hey began at once to slu w signs of weakness and lassitude. They lost their liveliness and grew glassy -eyed, and though they continued to eat. t hey became p.". rill tlesh. There is a grim significance in these facts which should teach us a lesson that good sanitation is a prime necessity, not only as a defense against direct assaults of germ disease, but also against the lowering of the physical powers which opens the system not only to t he bacil Ins but to a 11 t he ot her foes w hich lie in wait to destroy life. TRAVEL IN OLD TIMES. Hnw Some SihiwIhiihi il futtcbern lfc;iiilot the Time with ock I i(.-llt. Of course the railways have done away with much of the dillicult it's of travel in snow time. When a train is :.:iowed up now there are no such in conveniences as happened ill the case .f the mail coaches. There is delay, bu! there is generally enough to eat n nd 1 1 ri nk . plenty of companion ship. a lid a much larger area to live and breathe in. A friend of iniiie. much my senior, however, once told me w hat occurred lo him in a snowstorm l-twccii Edin burgh and London. He was a mer chant of great position and ipiitealMive Uic tempt at i m to exaggerate matters, like a mere story teller, and his narrative-impressed me tin- more according ly. Three limes on their way south both otitsi.lc ami inside passe Hirers had t o tret on' t he coach a nd push t he w heels through t he drifted slu.u. and when crossing Miap Kelts it he bleakest, spot on the road i they got st uck . .lames Pay n writes in the London I Must rated. After fruitless endeavor to move the coach the guard rode off with thcmailhags ami tin' pa .sciigers were left to their fate. There was known to be an inn at Siiap if t hey could only get there, and after many hours t hey cont rived to do so. Fortunately t here were Iio Women passcmr rs. or it is iossih!e they would !cive succumbed. They were shut up t that inn for eight days, during w hich Ihcv had no I'ommunicat i. n. either north or south, with the outside world. '"And I siiptMise." I said, "you hail no ltioks'.'" "'It.Miks! Think of lNtoks at .Shap in those dnys!" No. not even a pack of cards." "What did you do with yourselves-.'" "Well." said mv respect able friend, "it seems tpieer t say so at this time of day. but t he place was fa mous for its game cocks and we had cock tight ing from morning to night." That is what they did for eight days list ead of t ell ing st i ries to one am t her, is would have been thecasc ill a Christ mas number. WHY THE TRAMP WEPT. Itut the I ml) Wlio ilroppcil tha llotlle Nail Never -a Woril. A large crowd of spectators, the ma jority of whom were Women, were standing in front of a show window- on 1 '.road way one day. says a New York I'Xi l. a:. ge. watching the movements of a muscular young man. who was busily ciic'iccd ill demonstrating the useful pia.:t ics of a new exercising :i pparatus. While the eyes of the crowd were fixed on the graceful ben. lings and twistings of the exhibitor, there was a sharp report, as though something fragile had fallen upon the sidewalk. Tin woman from whose hand the pack age had fallen, and wlm ivasa picture of respectability, stooped and picked up the paper, which was dripping wet, and. cast ing one despairing glance at it. droped it ijuietly in the gutter and hastened up I Iroad way, as though she had an imixirtant engagement which demanded her immediate attention. In the meant ime the contents of the package had been spreading over the sidewalk, and us the odor of good old rve insinuated itself into the nostrils of the crowd a broad grin spread over the faces of everyone except an old tramp, who s;it down on t he edge of 1 he gutter and wept bitterly at the sad sight of such a waste of good material. KANSAS PHILOSOPHY. Don't give a lecture with your char it v. Somk people's idea of getting ready for company is to make a marble cake and open a can of peaches. A woman imagines she has given proof of her aiiect ioti for a man w hen she tells him she dreamed of him. CoNsilKlt the lilies; how much toiling a man has to do In-fore he can buy one; Atchison Ulobe. WEIGHT OF THE WORLD. I How It la Calculated by an Eng lish Professor. figure. Which Are Hewllderlna; In Their ImnieiiHl ty The Scientific OmtU ouui 1. loubtle. Safe from Contradiction. When Newton set himself to find the law by which an apple falls to the earth and the planets revolve at vary ing sjieeds along their orbits he con structed a formula which would ex plain these pheunoietia, says the Lon don Graphic. He laid it down as a law that the force with which the earth at tracts the apple or the apple the earth, or the planets one another, is eiual to the mass of the one multiplied by the mass of the other, and divided by the square of the distance between them the whole multiplied by a constant called G. G is the Newtouian constant of gravitation. It is of all the con stants the most iiujHirtaut to physical science; it is a constant for the more accurate determination of which lrof. ISoys, who lectured upon it recently at tiie London institute, lias been willing to spend live years of the most arduous and minute observation. It is one hun dred years since Kev. Mr. Mitchell first devised an instrument by which it would be jMissil.'le to obtain, by actual observation, the attraction which two ImxIU's have for one another. Cavendish improved upon Mitchell's observations, Cornu carried it on. Prof. Koys has, so to seak, carried it two decimal places further. Now- let us consider how it would be possible to as certain, by observation, the attraction which two liodies have for one an other. If Prof. Hoys were to hang a couple of lifty-Hund lead balls by two libers he would find it as impossible to measure the inclination of the two libers to one another as to weigh a stinbeam. Hut there is a possible way of measuriug the attraction, and Prof. Hoys has made it more possible -or, let us say, more practical by the employ ment of quartz libers to suspend some of the balls he uses. He uses in all four balls two gold balls, a quarter of an inch in diameter, weighing forty or iifty grains, and two lead balls, four and a half inches in diameter, and weighing each sixteen pounds. "Now, suppose these four balls in their first position suspended in one olane. The two little gold balls are suspended by quartz fillers on cither side of an oblong mirror, to which they are .attached. If any force were to pull one gold ball a little way forward, and at t he same time to pull the other little gold ball a little way back, it is .bvious that a twist, an oscillation, would Ik- imparted to the tiny mirror T.ow so beautifully is this mirror, with its gold bulls, hung on its tube, that a force equal to the hundred-millionth p.irt of a grain will set it swinging. With this degree of sensitiveness at tained, we l'giu to get near some means of measuring influences umh it. The influence we can measure is that of the two lead balls. We imagined them to lie, in the first instance, in the same perpendicular plane as the little ;rold balls. Suppose we move them coiitemoraneously and coequal ly. s. that one lead ball moves in front of one gold ball and the other lead ball moves, exactly in the same way, Whiiid the other gold ball. If the hanging of the mirror and its gold balls is delicate enough it is obvious then that the force exerted by the attraction ln-twccn the gold balls and the lead balls will give the mirror to which the gold balls arc attached a little twist and will set it oscillating. The instrument is iel icatc enough. Seated eighty feet awaj- the observer can time it. He therefore can measure the force which t he lead balls and the gold balls exert upon one another; he can measure the distance which the balls are aKirt; he can measure the balls. Therefore, knowing the force, the masses and the distance letwcc. them, he can determine the great con stant G. and. knowing G, he ran deter mine the specific gravity of the earth; he can find its weight. Prof. Koys. after years of experiment, has found the specific gravity of the earth to Ik' fi,.VT. ltcfore this time we wen con tent to regard it as S.5. He has taken five years or more to establish Wyond cont rovcrsy these other two decimals. People with a taste for large figures may be interested to hear that, taking this as a basis, the weight of the world may be taken as 5,bs2,0Hi,0lM,OiMl,iMKl, UilU.IHMI tons. That, as far as the present writer is concerned, is the most lucid explana tion which can be given of Prof. Roys" method. P.ut it has left untold the ex traordinary minuteness of the observa tions and t he sensitiveness of iiis in struments. The instrument which eon- tains the system of gold and lead balls is put in tin- corner of an underground i rypt in Oxford. There is too much tremor of the earth in hondon. It is IhixciI up in a thick octagonal wooden box. It is separated from the observer bv a series of felt curtains. He sits eighty feet away and examines its movements by means of a telescope through slits in the felt curtains and in the wooden 1kx, and in the metal tules holding the gold ball system. The mirror reflects a nine-foot scale with o.iKhl divisions placed liehiiul the observer's head. In order to avoid cre ating currents of air, Prof. Roys has the scale illuminated only by a little traveling lamp. In order to avoid tremors of earth he works at dead of night, for a train shunting a mile away will move that tiny mirror; and once an earthquake in Transylvania, on the other side of Europe, was marked by it. And then as to the measurements the distance of the lead balls from one another is calculated by micro meter ami microscope to the IiftOth part of an inch, the distance of the gold ball quartz lilH-rs in the 10.000th part of an inch, and a force equal to the millionth of a grain would lie suliicient to send the reflection of the mirror right off the cale. "This servant you have now seems very nice and quieL" "Oh. yes; she doesn't even disturb the dust when cleaning -lip a room." Inter tV-ean. Not the Peruvian Kind. He had just come from the dog show: "Ugh! The horrible bark!" he exclaimed. "It's ringing in my head yet!" "What? Quinine?" "Xa Canine," WINTER IN THE SIERRAS. Twenty Fwt of Snow Irtf t. Higher Than the llouaea. Julian Ralph, writing in Harper's Weekly, thus recounts some of his re cent experiences in the snow regions of the Sierras: "Tired of the ears, which were then tied up at Emigrant Gap. I left them under a great suowshed. and plunged down a steep hillside into the village Ih-Iow, which was but faintly indicated by a few chimneys that here and there broke through the Ix-autiful undulating blanket that lay high and thick uimui the mountains, the knolls and valleys all around nie. The trees, cumbered w ith deep w hite snow upon every pro jection, rested their middle branches upon the soft liedding of snow, sit that they looked dwarfed and misshapen. In places great granite Injwlders sat in hollow wells scooped out by the w ind, and on the tops of such stones rcstisl nightcaps of snow that were taller than the rocks themselves. Iirifts rose in eork -screw shapes that ended in fan tastic curls upon their tots. The way to some of the houses was by tunnels, but looking straight down from alove them there could only 1h seen a little white-walled shaft opposite the door, as if a hole had been dug there to let in breath to the people indoors. The snow had banked against the houses up to the roof-line, and then had mounted ujton itself and grown in weight and depth until there was dan ger that the roofs would lie crushed in. That was why I saw men on Norwegian snow-shoes walking over their own roofs and stopping there to shovel suow into battlemeuted walls leside them. Thus they walled their houses in each day, only to find them submerged on the morrow, as the snow continued to fall. My short walk to the nearest tavern was a chain of lively adventures. Safe inside the tavern door. I saw a row of Norwegiau suowshoes dripping against the wall. I found that upon them the villagers travel in the winter, and that without them they would lie jailed in their homes. Canadian net-work shoes would not serve. The snow is too fine and dry. Therefore the shoe in use is a tMiard four inches wide and from nine to a dozen feet long. The women go shopping and visiting upon them. The doctors travel twenty -live miles at a time upon them on their rounds. The girls coast upon the roofs and smaller knolls upon them. The venturesome Jouug men actually race down the mountain sides upon them at twenty miles an hour, and even jump ravines and leap over cabins and houses with these shoes in the course of their w agers aud their dangerous fun. That and nightly dances in the snow IhiuiuI villages are all the fun the peo ple get. There is too much winter in the Sierras for carnival frolics such as are had in Canada. .Winter on these California terraces is too severe to In trifled with or turned into the basis of a long roll of sports. In the larger tow ns the people dig tunnels from house to house and house to store, and at one station I went into supicr by way of a tunnel from the cars to the depot restau rant. I saw no horses or sleighs, but I was told that when the snow depths cease to deepen and the trails are pressed hard down, horses are often used. When they step aside from the trails and sink all but out of sight, their owners find that they tire of struggling and desire to resign themselves to death. Then the plan is to choke them with a slip-noose around their nit-ks when they tight so frantically for breath that they can lie led back to tin trail. It sometimes hapiM'ns that a horse that sinks In-side the trail slips down through the snow upon the roof of a buried house. Then there is great danger that he will continue dow nward through the shingles aud into some one's parlor or In-droom. In all the United States there is no other winter and uo other snow fall like this. Five years ago it lay twenty three feet on the level in these moun tains. INTERESTING SCRAPS. Aci'oitl'iNu to the StM-iety for the Prevention of Cruelt y to Animals, then has ln-en but one mad dog in New York city for twenty-eight years. Hknkv Avkkv, of Springfield. Mass.. has a complete set of New England almanacs. The one for ITsil contains a sketch of George Washington. St-oKKSof Quaker families in southern Pennsylvania have preserved the mar riage certificates of their ancestors for many generations, signed, as is the Quaker custom, by all the guests at the ceremony. Amkricans that know Italy come back w ith painful memory of the Italian cigar, and especially of the sc-called 'Virginia." This last is now produced by Italian cigarmakers of New York city aud sold at eight or ten dollars per thousand. Only two New York clubs are almve fifty years old and of these one, the New York club, is only a few days past its half century. When a club reaches such an age it ceases publishing its necrology entire, and contents itself with the mortuary record of a single year. An authority on bridge architecture says that the longest bridge in the world (not taking into consideration the famous Iake Ponchartrain trestle work ) is the Saratova bridge across the Volga, length 4,S72 feet. Re ra(. After Twenty Yeara. He was asking the old man for his daughter in marriage. He was talking tremblingly, hesitatinglj-, says the. Springfield Union, as you read of in story books, and the scene was full of color, so far as an irate father and a nerveless young man could make it. It came the old man's turn to speak, and aa he began his face was white with passion and his voice shook with ex citement "You want to marry my daughter?" he said. "Ah, now is the time for my revenge. Twenty yea: 8 ago your father crippled me in a sto; k deal and I swore to be revenged. And now my time has come." He pausfd for breath, and the aspirant for the maiden's hand was almut to In-at a hasty retreat in the face of supposed defeat, when the father broke forth again: "Yes. sir, I swore to In re venged, and now I'll strike the father through the son. Want my daughter, eh? Well, take her, and may she prove as expensive to you as she has to me." The old man dropped into his chair, worn out with the excitement of his plot, aud the young man fainted. MYTHICAL F0IIT TINTS. Improbable Stories of Groat Eng lish Legacies. An OIt 1-ettcr That llomh the Kenrrll oiu Srhrnie KniployeU by Shark. In Till Country for Unplug Cred ulous .tuirrirani. Some recent romantic tales almut im mense English estates which In-long to American heirs suggest republication of an opinion w rit ten by .1 udah P. ln-n-jamin twenty-six years ago. says the Chicago Herald. Follow ing is the great lawyer's letter: "itmb Huilding. Temple. In.lon. Feb. X. 1n-,;i. Ilitor New OrU-ans Times: Will you permit me through your e 1iiiiiiis to send a word of warning to the public against a scheme of swindling which is now extensively practiced in the United States-.' "Since mv call to the English bar hundreds of letters have reached uic from Ixuisiana ami other paits of the union, written by persons, many of whom are educated and iiitelligwut. making inquiries relative to estates represented as existing in this count ry unclaiuicd and awaiting the appear ance of heirs residing in America. In every ij-staiicc that has come to my kuowledge the statements are false, and evidently made for the purjnisc of defrauding parties out of sums, large or small, under pretext of iaying the costs of records, copies, etc.. said to In necessary for the assertion of the pre tended claim. "tine claim may ln selected as an ex ample. A hunker by the nam. of James Wood died in Gloucester in the year ls:;r,. leaving a fortune of almut SIH).(HHI. His will was the subject of much lit igat ion. but finally decided to In- valid, and the estate was ordered to lie divided among the legatees under a decision of the house of lords in ls47. Anyone desirous of having particulars of the litigation can trace it through the different charts, as follows: 1. In the prerogative court of Canterbury iCanterbury) rcnorted in - Ciirteiss. p. Si. i. On apjn-al to the privy coun cil in "Moore's Privy Council Cases.' at p. :i:;5; and It. In the house of lords, in the case entitled "The Corjmrat ion of Gloucester vs. Oslmrne." 1 "House- of Iorils Cases." p. -JT-i. Although his es tate has thus ln-en finally settled and distributed for more than t wenty years. I do not at all exaggerate in stating that not a month jiasscs without my re ceiving one or more letters from jn-r-sous who are approached by some pre tended agent of some imaginary great linn of Loudon solicitors engaged in seeking heirs of the great intestate banker, James W'ood. whose fortune, amounting to 1'Io.ihmi.ikmi. is lying in the Hank of England awaiting a claimant. "The usual mode of proceeding ado .t -ed is to projM.se to undertake the busi ness free of e.H'iise. tin- proposer to receiver only a share of what may In recovered. This s-ems so reasonable that in most eases the dii'H- readily swallow s the bait. A short ti.ue after ward he is informed that all inqtiiri--s and researches have resulted favorably, and that nothing is wanted to insure success except the cost of a few copies of records and other paj-ers. and that the prop. scr. having already incurred great expense in conducting the nei-cs-sary inquiries and researches, is h ft without resources at the very moment when a few jmuiids would suffice to secure the fruits of hislalmrs and expen diture. Many an- the victims from w In .m sums varying from i'Jii to Sjrnni have been thus extracted, and t he iiiimln-r of persons engag-l in this system must In very great, and the sums receired liy them very considerable, if at all in pre portion to the liumlnT of letters re ceived here on the subject. Many thousands of pounds an-known to have In-i'll exn'iide.l by flues.- who could ill afford to bear the l.tss in the pursuit of the great Jennings estate; and some of those who have sjn-nt money in this way have actually ln-en deluded into writing to me their convictions that they were entitled todishnlge the pres ent duke of Marllmrough from the lilclihcim castle, by virtue of their de scent from th- famous IVuchcss Sarah Jennings. Most of the persons w hoare tiiipcd arc ignorant on two -.mints, which, in nearly every instance, would satisfy them at once of t he ut ter folly of the hopes they indulge. The first is that an alien cannot be an heir in Eng land when there is no will ami that lie cannot take real estate even if left to him by will. The second is that in England estates devolve upon the eld est son alone, and on his eldest son in succession, and are not divided in shares among all children as in Luisiana ami other states. Yet not hing is more com mon than for persons to assert heirship to the supposed shares of younger brothers and sisters, or to claim as na tives of the United States heirship to Englishmen who had left no wills. "In the hope that this exposure will le of some use to my fellow citizens, in whose welfare I retain the deepest in terest, and may protect them to some extent from the sharpers who are plun dering them. I remain, very respect f ul ly, your obedient servant, "J. P. P.KXJAMIN." ABOUT BOATS. I.N all particulars, save size, the Vcne tin n gondola, the Siamese barge and the old Scandinavian Viking ship are very much alike At Portsmouth, the Majestic, sister hhip to the Magnificent, has just ln-en launched. It holds the record for speed in construction, having taken five days less than a year to build. Tiik hay barges on the Sw iss lakes, rowed by women standing, and the saillmats. with tall brown sails- stand ing very high to catch fickle winds, are among the most picturesque of craft. Miss Ihika Wki.I.s is owner and purser of the Puget sound steamship Delta, which runs from Whatcom to the San Juan islands and Victoria. 11. C, tri weekly. Miss Wells collects fares, makes contracts for freight, aud also assists in navigating her steamer. Oneer Chinese Itellefa. The Chinese In-licve that the water from melted hail-stones is isoiious and that the rain which falls on cer tain feast days is a sure cure for ague and malarial fever. They once In lieved that they could whip thejajv anese. but this notion hasln-cii thrashed out of thciu. HUNTING THE J ACKRABBIT. Story of a Famous I lav's Sport In a Col orado Town. When the special train bringing the visiting hunters reached Lamar there w as a brass band at the stat ion, and the brass band was there, when they left. The merchants clos-d their stores and the people threw open their houses for the entertainment of their gu.-sts. After the hunt In gan the ir regular discharge of the ritles ill the sand hills arouud Ulnar reminded one of picket tiring. When a large party of gunners found a stretch of prairie w here the rabbits were thick the re jmrt of the guns sounded like a general engagement. Though the rabbit hunt is a fixed annual event in 1-itiiar. and rabbits are killed by thousands, there seems to In- no decrease in tin numln-r. They multiply so rapidly during the summer months that it Uiimies ii-ccs-sary to make some such organized at tack on tli.-m. for they are ln-c. lining as great a nuisance as they are in Aus tralia. The rabbits breed on the grassy p'.ains almve the canals, where tiny stay until their forage fails them. Then thev gather in the alfalfa fields, which accounts for their In-ing si numerous at this K-ason of the year, says Harper's Weekly. At the In-ginning of the hunt the wagons In-gan coining in at four o'chn-k, and continued until nine at night, with he-aping loads of the slain furry ene mies of the farmer. The cleaners ln gan their work with the first wagon load, and worked bravely, but the odds wen- against them, ami they were soon half buried in the mass of rabbits await ing preparation for shipment. At the first day's hunt fully two thousand were killed. No wagon brought in fewer than one hundred rabbits, ami one went as high as four hundred and fifty, almut three thousand jmuiids. A great number of rabbits were slain which were not brought in. All rec ords were broken at this hunt, and not a single accident occurred to mar the pleasure of the participants. When the spring comes and the fresh gr-en grass comes up the jack-rabbits appear in large iiumln-rs ami ln-gin to nibble on the bark of the young fruit trees and the vines. Whole orchards are dest roved by t hem. If you w ere to walk through a large vim-yard you might not see .me rabbit, although hundreds might In- around you. They secrctc themselves very cleverly in the grass, and. In-ing so nearly the- color of the grouud. are hard to detect. Tlicv lie close, with th-ir large .cars flat ujmn their backs, until disturin-d. ami one can almost walk over thetu In-fore thev w ill nn ve. ORIGIN OF TICKET SCALPING. Starved In V heeltne. W- Va.. a Ou.rtrr of a Century .tea Campln-11 Hubbard, a nail traveler. of Wheeling, recently said to a Gloln Ilcinncrat man: "I have just ln-en reading the decision of Judge Nash, at Iiallas. in the ticket broker case under he new Texas law, intended to do away with the s-aljn-rs" business. It strkes nie as ln-ing an exceedingly clear and a forceful exmsitioii of t he subject matter iiirnlnsl in the Traxler prosecution. It is closely in line w it h decisions in favor of the s-alpers in Minnesota. Illinois and Pennsylvania. The gravamen of these decisions isthat an uniiMil railway ticket, or an unu-cd jnirtioii of a ticket, is legitimate prop erty. and any law which interferes with its ilisjnisitioii by sale is contrary to public jmlicy. if not in direct conflict with the constitution of the United States. This decision of Judge Nash w ill help the scalpers, not only down in Texas, hut all over the country. The extent to which the ticket brokers help t he weak roads against tin strong ones is but little realized, and without their aid many of the lines would go under. It is their method of cutting rates secretly to stimulate business, and the brokers are really regular agents of these coiiijianics. llv the bye. perhaps you don't know that the seal mt business originated in my town Wheeling. It was almut twenty-live years ago. We had a couple of bright young fellows there Upton, W. Irscy aud another chap named Frank. They took a not ion to speculate on a small beale in tickets of the llaltimorc .:. Ohio, and the first scalping transaction that ever occurred in the history of railroading took place there in Wheel ing. The l.altimore - Ohio company inade a big light Ujmn it. and the case went to the supreme court of the United States. The result was that the supreme court handed down its famous decision to the effect that when a man buys a ticket for so manv miles of transportation he is entitled to travel th.se miles, regardless of the limit dates stamped llxni the ticket by the company s agents, r rom t hat t ime on the scalper's business flourished, and spread w it h amazing rapidity all over tin untry. It is now as safe and as legit i mate a line f business as bank ing or insurance or manufacturing, and is, moreover, a mighty help to the travel ing public." A SAD ATTEMPT. The I sua, I Kate of the Letter-Writer at a summer I iesort- Iid you ever try to write a letter at a summer hotel? If you have you probably will never make a second at tempt. The exercise you get mentally is nothing to the pedestrian feats that you indulge in. You can't write in your room, be cause it's too warm there, and, ln sides, you don't want to lose a mo ment of outdimr fun. So yon make a pencil and pad and hammock combina tion. You start with: "My dearest dear." and bv that time vou are sur- rour.ded by a huge crowd w ho come to assure you that a minor that ice-cream was to be served at dinner had ln-en proven f-ilse. Gradually you sneak away to another hammock, but the crowd follows. Then, in desperation, you plunge into a dense wood, where you are sure panthers ami polar In-arn reside in company with rattlesnakes and African crocmliles. No sooner do you get that (H-ncil fixed than you hear something like this wafted over your head: 'You are heartless. You know I love you!" "Te-iie-he! 1 don't 1-elicTe it I snje pose you've said the same thing to every other girl here." T swear I haven't! I care for no one but you. I love " Then you exps-rieuee a queer feeling and tramp olT with the t nought that two winnleu dummies ora pair of cigar stre sigi.-t would sp-mu at a summer rcaorL. Chicago KecorJ. t I - r c k V. t t I t - C . c r - a . r f i r c t r- f . k I I t I I t t r a f r IT -t f f I r t I t r. f c i 1
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers