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Bi ecv a c aiit o. t to ulwreuonat-.CIufinniili. O. LUOWD, J t Scientifio American THE 1 C'y:. I l''aliis- Hll II I Mill 1IEK0. How Harry, the Cabin Boy, Atoned for His Sin. erylxxiy who knows anything about 1 la lli. Me., ami her ships must, neeessat ily, I-now the lieaT. Sht is one of those trilii-look:-ii"; erat't that l'e.i'inore CooK-r inifrht naturally h:ie pii-l uml for his Skimmer f the Seas. Ihilky of hull, shaiH-ti like a swonl tish, with whiffs of enormous sre:xl. I here was a time when the lieaiier hal more "Uiek work" about her fruine than the "twenty iwriafruas built i.:to a siiifrl- eraft," of whieh the great American author useil to tell. Few who were anywhere near lt.it ii on u eerlai.i Iay 1 u ri n jr the eenlen nial year esi'i ever forjfet with what i n tliiisiasni the KeajNT was eonsiriieI to her native element. She won listme lion on the hih seas from the very start, anil when it was not in winning raees or earryinpr nolable ear-joes it was in rseum"; some jKXr w retell eliri"; 'ntZ to a jii.-ee of timber. It is only a few years sinee the KeaMr arrivel Were the winner of a 1 5,(M)0-mile ruee aroiiiiil t'aM' Horn from Astoria, Ore. Her eoinpetilor on this oeeasion wmi the sturdy anil sin-eily bark Western Ik lie. The sum of $I,imio was staked on this event, anil the Reaper took the prize. l!ut the T?eaer is now in troub!e, 'and her maiy friends will Je fflad to learn that th." marine doetor entertains hoes of her reeovery. She is at l'oi t !anl, where fhe arrived the other day badly broken down in health a id spirits, after the longest and rouih !est Kis-safre in her experienee. from H-ean to oeean, and that is saying a rreat d'.al for a eraft that has iloubled the onie as many times as has the Reaper. t Xot only were lier hull and wing-s .badly crippled, but she lost a lit; le hero, ajid those who lemaineil on Hie , bat. tlintr eraft were a struir"iiiip;. emaei ateil, exhausted and starving: lot wm n the vessel final ly reached the head of Ihe Columbia river. The story mitrlit never have iM-en known on this side had not the nine-year-old daughter of ('apt. ; Voting-, the master of the vessel, wi lt ten brietly "uf the same to Mrs. II. Y. Morris, of J'.rooklyn. The little gill's name is Henrietta, ."lid she accompan ied her mother to the Pacific eos.st in the Reajier. Henrietta is a n-a ' nymph, if there e-er was one. She loves tin sea as she loves her doll, a ml not onlv can she spin a yarn as well as any of the fol-"sle hands, but she can vvrite an interesting- one, too. There ne- it was a toug-her lot of "hands" collected at the instance of any s",i:ppinir master than that which tumbled aixKird the KeaMr she lay in the stream off bilw-rty island last May. - Hardly had the ship got olT shore . from Sandy Hook when the mates dis- : covered that half a dozen of the sailor.-? . who had leen singed as A. l!.s were a:' i'reen as the sheathing- on the ship's liottom. Some masters lelieve in in- , t roducing a capstan bar on invasions of this kind; but ("apt. Voung is a human man. and. with a sigh, he simply logg-ed the men. and determined to put up with a bad bargain. The mess or cabin loy who went in the ship was known to the otlicers as Harry. He had never been to sea be fore, although he told ('apt. Vounr v. hen he came on Itoard that he h.i' inside a deep water i oyage in an Knglisn bark. He was a good lad for a time, am1 it was not necessary to ask any ipies tions to discover that atone time he had felt the influences of a gol mother's hand. He was only 15 years old. rat her tall 1'or his age, with a full, o-n face, light, curly hair and blue eyes thaf lixaled the clearness of the sea itselt. Somehow or other he eineeil a tond ness for that little water sprite Hen lietta immediately after she came aboard. It was one of those attach ments that an older brother forms for his little sister, and at the leg-im:ing-or' the passage he made frequent trips lie- " tween the cabin and the headquarters of Charley Noble to pet some dainty for his little queen. I!nt after the ship had leen at sea seven weeks it was noticed . that Harry was irreg-ular in his habits, and that his devotion "to the little woman aft" was not as marked as it should lc. The lad had had much oc casion to associate with the men in the usual course of events, and preu-iitly his conferences w ith t he green ha mis 1m--came so frequent and pronounced that ('apt. Young was obliged to reprove him. It was like casting; water on a duck's back, though. These men seemed to have some unknown xwer over t In Im, but the extent of this power was not icarned until the .stewardess one day discovered that somclxxly was stealing the condensed milk. A watch was maintained, but still themilk continued to disappear, and finally the butter lx , gran to take French leave. Then th Hour followed to keep it company, and was sooir-joined by the sugar. Those w hise dirties called them aft lx-gan to susMct one another, but never for a moment was a. thought, given it th:- honesty of Harry. Little Henriett.i vouched for him. anil that was enough. He had told her rcxatedly that his an. -bition was to grow- up a prxxl. brave man tlutt he ring-lit command a majestic ship like ..the ReatHT, and on Snmlay afternoons, w hen he ixired over the ii: t le linger-stained l'.ible that some Chris tian mother had g-iven him as nn hi'ir loom anil read aloud therefrom to the .rirl, Harry was watched with envy. Hut the dreadful blow came at last. Harry was discovered redhanded one morning" stealing- a quantity of stores. To have the stores stolen bit by bit was sorrow- cnong-h. but to learn that Harry. i-steimil and loved by all. was the guilty wretch was a crushing- blow. The stewardess wept in -oncert with Henrietta, ('apt. Young- f-lt as if he had lost u dear friend and the mates shook their heads in sympathy. As for Harry. he told ?t nil. The green hands bud in duced him to bring- them a can of con densed milk one day, and when they asked for another and he had refused to gvt it they threatened to tell on him unless he obeyed. He thought too much of the g-iMxJ will of his superiors aft to let the men carry their t hreat into execution, and as a natural sequence he met their demands. And their' de mands grew larger as his duplicity in creased, until finally it was too late for him o mane ins ikxjk or conscience ever balance. After that ("apt. Yontig- and his mates did not trust him. He could not go anywhere without watchful eyes tqxHi him. for he had Ixen tried and found wanting. Hut he could count iqxm one friend and comforter, after all. Henrietta knew him when he was a good lxy, and she would not desert him wlv.-n he had fallen from grace. "Oh," she exclaimed one afternoon, as a sort of exhaust to her wounded feelings, "why did you tlo anything like that, Harry: why did you do anything- like that? It was dreadful for yon to teal for those bail, wicked men. Now we must ul! suffer for it. The ship has lx-eti making- such bad weather of it that papa says the pass-ag-e will hist more 4han six months, aud lieeause of your helping- yourself to everything we must run short of provisions lie fore we arrive. It was dreadful of you to do." There was no mistaking; the faetthat the craft was making- bail weather of it. Fifteen days had lxeii consumed in an endeavor to round the caje in blinding- snowstorms and g-ales that were deail ahead and as sharp as the point of a needle. Twice ("apt. Voung hud a conference with his mates on the advisability of wearing- ship anil putting- b.-fore it so as to linish the pas sage b way of the Catie of Cood Hope. When it was not blow ing great g-uns it was a series of calms with the ship fanning along-, as sailormen say When the canvas collapses every other min ute. In these light airs she was as slow- ;.s a blind man groping- his way. The topsawers of the crew said they never saw such weather before, and they were alxiut rig-ht. The g-ales had played sad havoc 'with the sails and spars, and the lusty seas which arose in their wrath ate big- chunks out of the decks, their fixtures, and the. hull itself. Then the food pave out, as was pre dicted, and dark looks were flashed at Harry. The butter, milk and sugar had lxen exhausted some time when the news was iassed around that the flour had given out. The prowling- le came general then, and even the preen hands turned up their noses every time Harry put in an apearance. Some thinp hud to lx done. The last few mu nils of flour had lx-cn used one Run day, when ("apt. Yoiinp thoupht of some old wheat, the sweepings of that famous cargo which was stowed in the lower hold forward. This wheat the hens on lxiard had previously re fused to eat, probably lx'cause of its bilgelike color. How to pet it was the thing that tro ibled Capt Younp most, for he knew that hunpry men would not refuse it even if chickens would. There was only one thinp to do. and that was to break out the carpo stowed under the fore hatch. It was a long and dillicult job, and the deck of the - ship was like a huge dry pixxls estab lishment w hile it was in progress, but it was pot ten at iast. the preen hands working- harder than anybixly else, their apjx-tites urging them on, jxr haps. Once on deck the wheat wa: prounil in the coffee mill and the stew ard converted it into what Henrietta descriWs as "pfxxl bread and jwin eakes." It could not last forever, though, and finally it pave out, too. Then the last remaining; stores were taken in hand. These consisted of peas and 1 icans. and Mate Harri; thought them so valuable just then that he hail them counted as a prelude to distribu tion. Harry, who was primarily responsi ble for all the trouble, did not suffer from hftnper as much as did the other men. A worse fate was reserved for him. The Reiqx'r was alxjut a month in the 1'acilie when she encountered a terrific storm that lasted three days and nights. There was an old man in the crew who had made several oycpes in the ship lie fore ami who was ;s capable a sailor as ever let po and hauled. To ward midnight en the second day of the storm this old man was struck by a sea which came on lxtard. and the ship Ix-inp well heeled over was lx-inp rapidly carried over the side, when Harry, who was passinp, pnlnVd him. In doing so the lad fell and a succeed ing wave caught him. and. pickinp him up much as it would a straw, tossed him into the dim. daik sea alongside. The cry of "man overboard!" brought all hands to the deck, and the roars of the mates could Ik- heard alxive tlr howling of the wind and the painful creaking of th sjiars. An attempt was made in response to an order to pet the ship around, ami though the helm was hard to weather, all efforts to get the vessel lx'foro the wind proved unavailing. Harry was never wen again. There was preat phxtni among the hands after that, and Mate Harris that night read from Itrainard, where h-- says: " At the piping? o' all lands. When the Jui,-niciU signal's spread Wlit'ii the islands anil the lands And the rwas Jive up the dead. And .ne south jiml Ihe north shall come, V,'li n tin: sinn:-r Is ilismai 'd, Ar.il Ine just man is afraid,. Then I ifavi n lie thy aid, I'oor l'om." The Reax-r was nearly 2(K) days on the passape. and was more like a wreck than her old self when she reached 1'ortland. N. Y. Mail and K.--: press. Komr'i Earthquake and Lottery. The earthquaku recently feltin Rome has already produced a result that to any except an Italian would seem in credible. It has augmented naturally the receipts of the national lottery. The occurrence was so unusual that paniblers saw their opportunity and quite a series of fipures lx-came popular. The first shock w as felt on Noveinlxer 1 at 4:3S p. m. One. four and thirty-eipht were obviously factors in the lucky series. And then the lottery manual heljxHl the pambler out by supply inp him with other fipures. chiefly 11, (N and 30, so that among the six success was certain. Eleven was most run on, as it was equivalent both for "Xovem lier" anil "earthquake and also repre sented the fete of St. Martin, a saint very txipular since the Iwittle of San Martino. In fact, the lotteries received such an impulse from the earthquake that the offices had to be kept open on All Saints day, contrary to all usape. When the winning numbers were act ually exposed to view not one of the pop ular six was in the category. I MIGHTY LONDON. MIGHTY LONDON. A Uroap of Facta About the Greatest City ta the World. London has a larger area than Xew York, 1'aris and Her I in all put together. Ten millons of eels are aunually con sumed in London. A London fop costs $35,000 for extra pas burned. In London 861 streets are named after the queen, besides which there are 167 Queen streets. A thousand piano organs are played in the London streets daily. This does not include common hand organs. Ten days of London fog cast 25,000 people on beds of sickness. About 1.250.000 articles are pledgee" with London pawnbrokers weekly. London consumes about 4,000,000 pints ot txjriwinkles each year. There are 2(Mi periwinkles to the pint. Total, 500,000,000 periwinkles. What becomes of the shells? About 2,500 dress suits are hired out in London each night. It is estimated that in London fully 3,000,000 people never enter a place of worship. There are 90,000 paupers in London. There are more than 4,000 pledged al etainers among the London cabmen. The London jam trade provides em ployment for I6.OO0 people and 65,0M tons of sugar are used yearly in the trade. More than 1.OO0.O0O ready made cigar ettes are smoked in London each day. Twelve thousand people are employed at the Loudon theaters. London has nearly 320,000 maid serv ants. Only one person in four in London earns five dollars a week. In the year 1S94 seme 13,000 pewter beer pots were stolen from North Lon don public houses. They are used to make counterfeit money. A Londou confectioner says that he is often called upon to furnish wedding cakes weighing 1,000 pounds each and puddings of a size sufficient for 500 hearty appetites. A single firm in St. Paul's church yard once received an order for 1,000., 0)0 ladies mantles from a retail cus tomer. London contains 250,000 working single women, whose individual earn ings do not average more than 25 cents a day. On an average every London K)lice man arrests but seven people a year. Ixiudon streets are very long and each one is crossed by an unlimited number of other streets running at right nnples to it or euttinp it diap onally or otherwise. From this it n sults that there are an unconscionable number of street corners, each one the junction of two streets, or three, or four, as may be. You may stand at any one of them without being told to move on and take in the vista of that fxrtion of the town in which you haptx-n mo mentarily to be. In this way the eye may grasp the perspectives of two, three or four streets successively, al most simultaneously, without as much as changing the position of one's body, in fact, by simply turning one's neck. These streets are composed as follows: A row of houses to th right is paral leled at a distance of 15, 20, 30, 40 or 50 feet by a second row of houses to the left, or vice versa, the fronts of each row of houses facing the fronts of the opposite row of houses, unless it be the backs which face each other, when it is a mews. long and comparatively narrow space is thus left between the lows of houses, the center being a road way for vehicles, and the edges being for the safe assape of tx'destrians. This is the street. "When you get tired of walking on it you can call a cab and drive back to your hotel. It is stated that London drinks every year 45,00O,(H;i gallons of malt liquor, K.O00.0O0 gallons of wine and 14,500,()0 gallons of spirits. It is estimated that the great smoke cloud which sometimes hangs over London weighs 3(K tons. 50 tons of which is solid carbon and 250 tons of which is hydro-carbon. It is calcu lated that the smoke of the year is worth $10,000,000. London pays nearly a third of the whole income tax of EngLutd. There are over 12,000 artists in Lon don. In winter as many as 40,000 per day of dead larks frequently find their ay into the Londou markets. The cow population of London is 18, 000. On an averape rain falls in London on 1S2 days of each year. Over l.OOO.OOO pawn tickets for sums tinder ten shillings are issued weekly in London. One million eggs are brought into London daily from Italy alone. Chi cago Tfmes-llerald. BRIEF BUT WEIGHTY. Nothing multiplies so much as kind ness. W ray. Discretion of sjxech is more than elo quence. Ha con. A servant has two purses, his mas ter's and his own. Monod. Philosophy, if rightly defined, is nothing but the love of wisdom. Cicero. What king so strong can tie the gall up in a slanderous tongue? Shakes txare. Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to lie. (ioethe. That virtue which requires to Ik ever guarded is scarce worth the senti nel. Goldsmith. The morning of life is like the dawn of day, full of purity, of imagery and harmony. Chateaubriand. Take my word for it, the saddest thing under the sky is a soul incapable of sadness. Countess de Gasparin. If a lvook conies from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and authorcraft are of small ac count to that. Carlyle. la a Hurry. Gent Gee Whittakerl You've spilled that coffee all over me. V. aitcr Very sorry, sir, but I was hurryin to get through. ' Guest I'm in no hurry. - W"aiter No, sir, but it's most time for a gent leman to come in wot always fees me, sir. X. Y. Weekly. The largest reflector for a telescope was that made for the Lord Kosse in strument, 72 inches in diameter. MENTAL MARVELS. Some Men Who Have Wonderful Memories. The Remarkable Ability of Three tea IrraacUoaiM to Remember Dates. Name aud locldenta Ater a Ung 1 ay. tr ot Years). Probably the three most remarkable men who have ever startled San Fran ciscans who knew them with their feat of memory were "Count" Smith, clerk of the Palace hotel.Timothy llain bridge, of the tiolice force, and 15ob Nor al, known all over the United States as the "boy preacher. Count Smith was for some years chief clerk of the Palace hotel, and he died alxnit seven years ago. Horn in affluent circumstances in Australia, he met with financial misfortunes earlv in life and came to America, w here he changed his unpronounceable name to Smith, and other years thereafter added the prefix "Count. Finally he drifted to San Francisco, where he lie came chief clerk of the Palace. Though many stories concerning this man's achievements in memory are exagger ated, there is no doubt that the organ v hieh recalls the past wasdeveloH-d in him far beyond that of most men. It is related that some names and faces of puests were so indelibly en graved on the tablets of this remark able man's memory that when he saw a guest who had probably lx-en absent for j-ears, and whom he had met in the most M-rfunctory manner, he would say: "Why. how do you do, Mr. Valen tine? Do you still want 516 w'ltli a Lath? That is the room you had iu 1SS1. Such thinps astonished travelers from every land, but it is not to lx in ferred that his memory of every puest was equally clear. Such feats were re served for the special cases of xrsons whose characteristics were so marked that when once recalled by visual sen sations every circumstance connected with the former mcctinp tiassed before him like a panoramic view. "Count" Smith was a marvel to man y thousands from all quarters of the plolx". yet in some matters his memory was only ordinary or even indifferent. He said it was no effort whatever for him to reinemlxT names and faces, if he recalled them at all. He attributed the gift to birth rather than cultiva tion. Tim nainbridge's memory is even more marvelous, and he is to-day one ot the most active little men in the city. Though his eyesight is so im paired that he uses glasses, his memory is so actie that he readily recalls the name, face, history, and prison record of the thousands of convicts w ho hae jK.ssed lx?fore him ill 2(1 years. liainbridge is always the standby of the jKtlice department in matters of identification. He is at t he jxiliee courts whenever suspicious prisoners an- on trial. Often he will say, for example, when"Jolm I'rown" ison trial forprand larceny: "This is not .lohn l'.row n, but Tim Collins, who is wanted in Tennes see for burplary. He served a term at Folsom for arson in 1879." The mi st striking thing about liain bridge s memory is that he sees the old self of men through the changes of time. Beyond the fat face covered with a full lx-ard and furrowed with lines of caie and crime, Hainbridge sees the pic ture of ten years Ik fore, when the de fendant w as slender, young. and smoot h faced; and he often startles the crim inals themselves by vividly recalling their crimes and describing them as they were in older days. Hob Norval, known as "the lxy preacher," used to startle the residents of the mission b rejx-at inp. after hav ing once heard read aloud, entire arti cles from newspaTs. He was an ec centric genius, win formerly traveled and lectured all over the I'nited States on religious themes. It was his habit to sit down on the grass, close his eyes, place his hands over his forehead, and then have slowly read to him the sx-eeh cr article he w ished to reprtxiuce. after which it seemed to photograph itself on his mind, so he could speak it with rare precision. Norval said it was no effort, for hiin to do such things. San Francisco Chronicle. PERSONAL GOSSIP. Yvette Guillxrt, the French celebri ty, is resixmsihle for the latest fashion of wearing long black gloves w ith even ing dress. It is all the go in Xew York. Mrs. Heed, wife of the sjx-aker of the house, does not go oi-. in six-iety this winter because of the death of her mother, which occurred last summer. Mr. Heed's daughter, wh is a sweet looking blonde, wos "out" last w inter and is among the gay set thisyear. Prince Henry of HattenWrg, who goes with the Ashantee exjKdition, has taken the precaution to insure his life for rrSOO.fiOO, so that if he is struck down by an African assegai, meeting the same fate which lx-fell the prince imperial of France, his family will not be left in destitution. Lord Salisbury is a vastly rich man. lie received $l,0OO,iKM for his proierty iu the Strand, he derives an immense income in the shape of untaxed pround rents in London aud in the country, and while in office as prime minister he receives the iay attached to the office, and while out of office the jiensionof an ex-cabinet minister. I. T. Itarnuni, the late showman, owned some -property in Venezuela, which durinp one of the revolutions there several years apo was confiscated and destroyed. Through the l'nite.1 States poverument Mr. Uarnum made a claim for comtxnsatioii and was awarded $l,40i. The Venezuelan gov ernment was not able to pay a lump cum, but agreed to pay it in ten annual installments, with interest added. So the executors of the ltarnum estate re ceive from the republic of Venezuela now each year a check for something like $150. The Servant Qoeetlon. "Maggie, did you hear the door bell ring?" "Vis, mum. "Well, whv don't you open the door, then? "Sure, I don't know a soul who'd call an me at this time of the day, mum. It must be some one to see yersilf. Truth. - WORTH A GLANCE. T 1 ic new x-ean greyhound under con tract for the North German Lloyds at t he Vulcan works, Stett in. is to make, an ax-erape of U knots on her first trip from Southampton to Sandy Hook. The highest price ever aid for a tooth is supjxyed to have 1-een 3.5UO. (KM1 trade dollars. In a small Asiatic war the Portuguese captured the tooth of sac ret 1 monkey fiom the Siamese, anil this was the ransom agred iinh. The Moody ta'x-rn-icle at Atlauta, which cost a little ov.r S"-.!oi. has lieen Fold f-"r J.'l.Vl to i local clergyman, who w ill retain it as a meet inp plat e for re ligious assemblies. Sam Jones will shortly bepin a svrie of revival serv ices w ithin its wa'ls. It brings back the days of the Al-r-ine corsairs to read that th. cardinal prefect of the propaganda distributed 200,1m. Ml francs lst year for the ransom of shs'es from cpptiiity. The m.vney was Sxiit by Catholic missionaries in the interior of Africa. lVx-tors at Montrcuil. near Paris. r f use to pive their sen ices to he munic ipal disjiensary, Ix-cause a woman has lxeii appointed to scre in it one day in the wck. Their grievance is aggra vated by her Wing paid, wiiile their servh-es are given free. At l'.laekwell. Knplantl. the largest battle ship in the. world is nearly ready fur launching, and will le called the Fuji, instead of Fusi Varna, a; oriffiual ly intended. It i a battle ship of Har vey ized steel armor. 40n feet long, 73 feet broad and 44 feet deep. FOREIGN CHIT-CHAT. Tolstoi's "Patriotism and Christian ity" has lxen tranr.'atcd into German. He condemns atriotisni as unchristian lx'cause war is made in its cause, and makes fun of the Cronstadt and Toulon incidents. Prof. Guiseppe de Leon, rector and professor of history in the I'niversity of Padua, died recently. He was the author of a life of tiiulianodella llovere (Pox Julius II.) and of a history of Charles V. in his relations to Italy. Several works by Margaret of Na varre, the. author of the Heptameron. have just been discovered in the Nation al library at Paris. They comprise poems written in the last four or the years of her life, amounting to 12.immi verses; two dramas, letters, dialogues and songs. Three volumes of the memoirs of Marches Giorgio Pallavieino have lxen published in Italy. He was a fellow prisoner with Sil io Pellieo and Maron celli in the Spielberg, and was later Garibaldi's adviser. He brought alxiut the plebiscitum in sen by w hich Naples aud Sicily voted to join the kingdom of Italy. Quinine in Italy is very expensive, costing to the public $oo a kilogramme, and is often adulterated. As pood and cheap quinine is needed in the malarial districts. Sipnor lloselli. minister of finance. projxses that the sulphate and hydrochlorate Ik sold by the povern ment at a uuiform price in all stores dealinp in the state nionoix-lies, tobacco and fJItlt. FACTS FOR FARMERS. A preat deal more honey would lx consumed in the cities if the unadul terated article could le procured and its purity vouched for. If you don't think the lxst stock pays Itxk around through your neigh borhoixl and see. if the best farmers don't k-ep the best st.x-k. It is estimated that prain fed to suckling lambs designed for the butcher at an early day iavs at the rate, of two dollars a bushel for corn anywhere in the eastern and middle states. Knglish sheep owners lifter tin' pens in which sheep are housed with burnt clay as a preventative of foot rot. Ihe clay acts as an absorlx-nt a..ul li.akes a gixxl fertilizer. IVm't try to hatch chicken with hens ill midwinter unless you are w iHiiur to devote time in carinsr for the bnxxls. Hens cannot raise chicks in winter un less kept in a warm place. When sulphur is given to animals in winter it is liable localise them to take told, as it ox'iis the xres of tin' skin. It is said to also cause rheumatism if giien during damp weather. One reason why cattle w ill go out in the liarnyard during inclement weather and endure cold and dampness in pref erence to remaining inside is that the stalls are Ux dark and cheerless. FOREIGN MOTES. Mascaglii has taken up the duties of director of the I.icco musicale. found.il by Kossini in his bin h place. Pcsaro. and v ill give up ooi osit ion for a t inie. Mine, .lea nil. Hugo, the granddaugh ter of Victor Hugo, who was recently divorced from her husluind, Alphonx I taudet's son. is alxjut to marry a young d.x-tor of Paris. Stanley and Mountcney .Tephson. the only white survivors of the cxix-ditioii for the relief of F.min Pasha, have just erected a brass tablet in Kilmorcchurch to the memory of their comrade. Sur geon Park. French footlmll is improving. The Lacing club of Paris recently Wat a 15 of Oxford men at the Kugby game at Wvailois-Perret by one t ry to nothing, while theOIympiquedub Wat Ihe same 1." in the Hois de Iloulogne by a goal to a 1 ry. Three hundred and eighty-six dis tinct liWI suits have lx-en Ix-gitn by as many priest s against the Paris .loiirnal ot, account of an article reflect ing on the t-Iergy of Ihe Halites Pyrenees. I'ach priest asks for ?2U damages, and if they win. the result of each lawsuit will lie printed ill five IievvspaxTS of Toulouse, as many of Hordeaux and in 12 news papers in thedepnrtment. FLASHES OF FUN. A current topic electricity. .lack Frost is painting noses. Grass widows are seldom green. Sells like hot cakes maple sirup. A rattling old time throwing dice for d rinks. Some men are lxrn tired, and others pet run down by bicycles. The pugilist may get himself arrested but it is a hard matter to shut him up. Kven the stingiest man will some times give himseif a weigh, if the scales nre free. Kacheller. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. The biggest ni.xise ever taken in the ArtxtstiMik region of Maine, the state's Wst hunting ground, was killed recent ly by Col. A. A. I'.aker. of New xrt. li. 1. A game official measured ihe animal, and his figures are: Weight, dressed and including hide, w ith the bobsled on which it was hauled. 1,"M pounds; spread of antlers. 4'. inches. The an tlers have 15 prongs on one side and li on the other. The addition of 75.f"iO acres to the Adirondack park is a cause for satisfac tion. The laud purchased f roni Ir. Webb make the largest single block yet ac quired in furtherance of the pnrx -of extending the park to include the il.-oT,-7i.O acres li-d Uhii as a proHT reserve for the maintenance of the forest and St reams so necessary to the state. With this addition the public domain will amount to ".75.iki acres. The prosjM-ct of another Ashantee war recalls Sir Wilfred I-avvsoii's sum mary of the Knglish campaign of IsT.J. He asked in the house of commons w hat Kuirland had gained by her victories over the Asliautees. "An old uinbrv lla anil a treaty," he made answer to his own question. He was remind. -d that there had Ixt-n no treaty. He remarked that he was not sorry, as the treaty would have Ihtu worth no uiore than tin- umbrella. One of the smallest men and one of the biggest gills in the country live down in Gcoipia. The former is Mr. Tom Coster, of Hazclliurst, who is L'4 years old. is thr-c feet nine inches hieh. and weighs ;.r, pounds. He has two younger brothers who are each more than six feet tall. Mr. G. W. K.-ld. n Wrry, of Okeufcnokce. has a girl i:i years old who weighs ITT. pounds, and a Ixiv seven years vv ho weighs 1 In pounds and wears a numWr six shoe. One big firm of ranchers near Miles City. Wash., employs all the year round two hunters and a pack of 13 Russian wolf hounds to keep the range f n-c of wolves and coyotes, w hich are a jx-st to stock raisers all over the region. Solar this year 1lie hunters have taken the scalps of 22. '1 wolves and many coyotes. Whenever any traces of wolves or cov otes are found the pack is taien out . and put on the s-etit. and usuallv the jx'sts are quickly run down and kill.nl. This methiMl is the only one that has proved effective, as the vv oi v es rcf use to take xiisoiit.-d bait. Another queer happening a11ril uted to the recent earthquake that shivered up through the middle stales from the gulf to the lakes is that many vclis have gone dry. and not a few cis tcrns and rescrv oirs have Itccomc nipt v since t lie slunk. In t he case of the lat ter it is probable that the cement iiai-k.-d or t he const ruction was other vvisevveakeii.il, but this explanation dix-s not cut - rely explain the case of I he wells. The ImiUoiii of a well in l.r.cro township, near Wabash, Ind.. dropel out entirely, and not hing that has lx-en used to sound 1 he dept lis of t he hole has touched the 1m.ii torn. To all apjx-aranccs there is an immense cavern under the well hole. HER FATHER'S OWN DAUGHTER. Even in the Matter of Iroal She Id Kisle.l I Kin Court Kulis. She was the laughter of a judge and she listened with languid interest to his plea. "I love you devotedly, he cried, pas sionately . -I am prejiared to devote my life to y on." "He sKi-irio in your pleading." she cautioned. "IK not st ray too far from the jK'itit at issue." He hesitated ami then asked, earnest ly . "Will you W my wife? "Ah." she said, "now I see. the txjint y ou wisn to make." "I am not I ich." he urged, "but I have enough to give you a comfortable home, and my prospects are bright. I oiler you the love of an honest man. who will do all in his iwvr to make you h.ippy. I " Siie stopped him by a gesture. "It is useless in continue at present. she said, firmly but kindly. "There are sevr.il cases ahead of yours ou the I. xkct." "Hut." he pron-st.il, "I want " She stopxil him again. "I must in.-ist that these matters W taken up iu their regular order." siie said, sharply. "Put your profxisition iu writing and tile it with my maid, and it will recive due attention when it is i cached iu the regular course of business. I haven't time to listen to oral arguments iu a case that call be as well pn seutc.1 in briefs." With a sigh he left, and put in his time until tale that night preparing a. petition for a rehearing. Chicago Post. NEWSPAPER WAIFS. Not Literal. "Teacher "If a boy smites you on the right cheek, what should you lo?" Dick Hicks "Give it to him with me left." Puck. IMith "I'm in a quandary!" IsaWl "I1..W is that?"" Kdith "Tom prom ises to stop drinking if I marry him. and .lack threatens to Wgin if I don't. Tit-Hits. Miss Pert "Is Miss Strait I-ice cir ciimsct ?'" Miss Caustic "Circum-sK-ct! Why. she won't accompany a VMing man on the piano without a hax-ron." Salem Gazette. In Chicigo. Visitor "Where is it that man lives? Must W outside the city limits, isn't it?" Kesident "Out side the w ha.t ?" Visitor "The city liuiits." Kesident "We haven't any." - Puck. A French confectioner, proud of his Knglish and wishing to let patrons know that their wants should lx- at tended to j;t oni-e, witlu.ut any delay, put out the sign: "Short Weights Here." Harper's Drawer. Parson "I married Smithers to his first wife and he gave me $50. When I married him to his second he gave niu five dollars." Wiggles "He kuow more alxut matrimony the m-conJ time. I guess." Harjx-r's Ttazar. "Have a apcr".' lawlcd a. newshoy to an old pent leman from the country on Austin avenue. "No hurry, sonny, l'eihaps after you have read it I'll glance over it." and as he passed down the street he muttered: "Nice folks, these Austin iople: so polite to j stranger." Texas Siftings. ! 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