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miftiirz 5mm tACffML &.
Havinii" iiuhIc; some extensive ini
ovnncnts in the;
OLD SHENKLE MILL
r are now prensircf to turn out
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.icr-. Nliifm a nortion 01 vour
LUDWl,
A Quick PtLiEr for every Type of
HtAOACME.
Fluk CAnniNAi. Points ResECTina
HEADACHE.
fo. -rt thnt all i 13 v
very headache Is a
i 1 1
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t illv n. rv..iis I'.v min t- i i.il nervi-s for KK.T.
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the hcailji-Lc.
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A LINK.
Shoulil vur hf .il.T-h-!m-
n-r"iis, sl' k. p--rioiliL,
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caused 1'V wirry. anxi
ety, excesses ft any kiml
or l.rain wcanucss. ur
Withm children stitle;
V with headache, or
any one else tor that
matter, use Koi-falink,
the- hest remedy ever ol
1. red. Safe, sure, won
derfully quick 111 action.
K.iif.uvi! rures everv tvpc of headache, espec
ially that distressingly painful type peculta. to
ladies suffcrini; from irrew-ulanty or uterine irri
tation, or hoe duties require them to stand lor
long periods.
KOPFaLINE cures
Nmous Shock.
NCMVOUS MltHI
HINTAL WOW mr.
Hmvout oait.iTV.
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fltTATION
wix cicuvtion,
ALCOHOLID A O OIHM IXCttSll. MMCt U.
ailments aud conditions win re lirrvc waste (ucs on.
KOPFALINE
Is invaluable for Tearli. rs. Scholars, rreacher
Students Merchants. Kditors, Men. women
and hil.lren. Kverybody hoe nerves are
at all likely to p-t out ot order.
It is absolutely sale under all circumf tanccs and
conditions. Price, 15 cents.
Soid by druuttists generally, or sent to any U.
dress on receipt of price.
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AX EXILED QUEEN.
Madagascar's Lata Monarch Now
in Dura-.ioo.
l'uip-llr,l by Kranee to Leave Her
Much Loved Ialand and Hetlr
to llroalon Her de
thronement. To all who have follow! the course of
't-nts in Miulafrajicur tlie dc-throiieiiient
and exile of tjueeu Uanavuloita 111.
'vas no surprise. Already deit. (iallieni
had informed the colonial minister of
l In- hostile attitude of the Malairasy
u.Miility, who, it is said, w ere I ry iii-r to
form an anti-French (tolitical jKirty
i-otind her majesty. Although tlejried
of her title of tiueeiiof MaUao-asear, anil
redueetl to a sovereignty niiTe nominal
1 ii.tiii-iTeetieover the tril-sof Imerina.
ICanavalona, thanks to the prt-stire of
the dynasty to which she Vx-lonjed,
mio-lit have hecome, in the opinion of
the I'reiieh, a serious danger tt them in,
limes of trouble and reolt. It is true
stu-h is iut the ease as present, but it is
the .July of a prudent chief to lieon his
fiiiard. ami prepare for possible contin
gencies. ( Jen. (iallit-iii, on assuming the
supreme coinuiaiid at Antananarivo,
I oiiiU-d out clearly to Kanavaloua the
line of comluct which France inioscJ
n Iter, ller iiiajeNty proiuistNl toolny,
and toassist t he French in the economic
h- elopment oft he island and the civili
of the people. Kvents have
I tovt-d, say the French, that she was
unable to kei-p this eniruirc iiieiit- The
situation U-ciune more and more dilli-
lilt, itnd ultimately fien. (iallieni was
fore-l to take the severe measure al
liidtil to. iu the irroimd that the name
of Kanavalona was Ix-iiiLT made us of
to disturb the country and atUtck the
French occupation. The iiieeii was
forthwith banislied to Keiiniim, where
her uncle, aunt and sister had prcce-ilel
her. The det hronement of Kanaval.ma
is considered by the French as the final
continuation of the retfime of annexa
tion proclaimed at Ma-lairascar alxiut a
xear apo. Henceforth, they say, 1 liey
ill lie sovereign liiast-rs of the island,
and nolxxly will venture totlispute their
rifrhts.
The iieen's depart lire, accord i lie; to
the latest news from French resources,
tiid not (five rise to any incident. It
took place under a suitable tsi-ort, and
with the ceremony due to a sovereign.
She, however, wept bitterly as she left
her kinirdom. A certain sum of money
will Ik- raisel from the btidiret of the
i-lan.l to pension her aiul enable her t.
live in a style siithcient ly sumptuous.
Iler deposition, say our lieitrlib.rn, is
not likely to iirnusi- the susceptibilities
of any foreie-n xiwer, her case lcini
identical with that of the celebrated
I'.chanziii. As rcirards the native jrov.
ernor-p-eneral. whoiii (li-n. (lalli. ni has
instituted at Antananarivo, his name
has not yet Iveen iriveii. It is suppos-d,
however, that the choice of the resident
general will fall on K;L.aiio-i, who is
said to have irreat. inlluence with the
people, and who has always been a
warm partisan of Franc1.
lianavalona (., it will l-e reium
"oercd, mounted the throne of Mada
gascar in ls:i, and is now 3'J years tif
ape. lie fore l-'omiii"; ipueen, to thj
detriment of her eldest sister, she was
iu a very humble condition, and, in
spite of her royal rif in, .lived almoat
in poverty. Mie of her uncles was a
butcher at Antananarivo. As every,
lxxly knows, the ijueen of'.M.id.-tir.isi-ar,
according to the custom of the country,
did not fovern; the prime ministers
alone directed the atTairsof the island.
The last premier was Ifainili.tri vony,
who was exiled to Alpcria, where he
died recently. For some time ast
that is to say, since the annexation of
Madagascar the post of prime minister
has Urn abolished, and the direction of
alTairs is now in the hands of the
French. Kanavalona rarely left her
palate, perhaps not rnore than live or
six times a year. The laws of t lie kin o--tlom,
h'.-wever, prescribed that sh
shoiild pass a month every year in the
sacred city of Anihosiiim:tnp;a, where
t he remains of her ancestors are buried.
She was very clever in needle-work of
all kinds, but she preferred the amuse
ment of ilyinp kites, which is said to )e
a national -ranie, and tlid not tletest
cither cards, dominoes or lotto, at
which she played with the women of
the court. Henceforth, in her land of
exile, she wil! be sible to resume these
innocent amusements, if she can re
cover from the loss of her crown.
The. ipieen reigned 12 years. It was
diiritio; the French expeilition in Ins;
that the caprice and political calcula
tions of the late prime minister placed
per on the throne, which had become
vacant by the death of Kanavalona II.
She was then youn- and hantlsome,
and the. widow of one of her cousins,
and never dreamed of the fortune in
store for her. She was only a very dis
tant relative of the deceased tpieen. and
oiifrht. to haee piven way to her ehTcst
sister, IJasendranora. Hut the latter
was set aside for special reasons. It
apcars thaWdte was friven to drinkinp,
and. on the whole, le! a very irrcpvilar
life. This reason a!one was sufficient
to make the prime minister reject her
claims to the throne, and to choose the
youni widow referred to. l!ut liana
valona III. was not. happy in her niar
riaire. llainilaiarivony was jealous and
desjiotie. Hut all is now- chanped. The
prime minister is dead and buried, nnd
Kanavalona will no longer wear the
crown and purj-Ie, or conspire to upset
the French, ller rei-fn is indeeI over,
and in her exile fdie will have time to
reflect on the vanity of human wishes.
London fllolie.
Chneolate I Me.
Half .NiKi.re chocolate, one anil one
Iwnlf cujw milk, two eys, one-lialf cup
iitirar, two te-asoons cornstarch or
three of flour, one teuson vonilla.
Mix .the cornstarch or tlour smooth
with a little of the milk anil heat the
rest. Heat the yolks of theep-trs ami the
supar totrether. Melt the choeoia,te in
a cup set in lioilinp; water. When, the
milk is hot stir in the thickening- and
add the cpTc and siir. When smooth
remove from the lire and add t lie choo
o!ni atwl vanilla. When cooled a little
ha!:e vv-th one crust- Heat the whites
of the el"'!- t; a stiff froth and add six
tcrispoons suirar anil spread on the-pie
when vl.jne. Krwn in the oven. Hos
ton filobe.
FIRt-ALAHM BOXtS.
The Meehanlans That Summons Help
In C'nae of Klre.
An. article in St. Nicholas, in speak
ing of New Vork fire-alarm Imxes, says:
This Ihx forms art of a lamp jnist,
the iost heinjr ko construct til tluit the
lox is inserted in the mid-He. The lo.x
is painted a bright res.1 and the lamp
at nip-ht shows a rel lipht, thus mak'me;
it easily iliscernible either by lay or
nig-ht. The wires from the Ux areeou
veyel tlow n through the center of the
potot. to conduits buried in the street
anil thence on to fire headquarters.
White letters on a rrl pane of p;hiss
in the lamp over tJie lox pive direc
tions hivv to send an alarm. The same
direction in raised letters are found
tin the face of the box. If we turn the
lartre brass handle on the ouside as
far as it will tyo, a louil ponij will rinp
itisitle. This is not the alarm, hut sim
ply a warning bell to notify tJie police
man on the Iteut tliat the Imx is be-inp-
oiened ami to prevent the seniliup
in of malicious or false alarms of fire,
an o (Tense that is punishable in New
1'ork state by a fine of $100 and one year's
imprisonment. Turning- this handle as
far as it will tro ojtefin the outer door
anil we find inside another door, with
a slot at the left hand side, ami at the
top of this slot a hook projecting-. By
pill line; down this hook once aud re
leasing it we set at work certain clock
work mechanism inside, and this sends
in the tilarm.
When the first officer arriving at a
fire discovers that it h not of enough
iniortance to warrant his sending for
reinforcements he opens this inner
door with a key and semis in a second,
t.liinl. fourth, fifth or sixth alnrni, as
I he case may le, or a call for any spe
cial apKiratuv that he may need. The
inspectors of lioxes can also carry on
a conversatioa in the Morse alphabet
with the operator at headquarters on
this kev and sounder.
ABOUT PEOPLE.
Alfred Nieol, the ipventor of dyna
mite, was an author is wi-.ll as, a dis
tinguished engineer, tfd it is saiitsome
of his Knglish mm- rise to a very
high plane. Snortly before he died he
wrote a Swedish drituia, "Beatrice
tVnci."
After thas Allgiast llt-lrnont will race
his Inrs-s under his own name. Here
tofore his stable has been known as
Hlemton stable. Hleiutoii was the nick
name given Mr. Hclmoiit by the Hasty
I'liddin-- club when he was in college.
Ari'hduke Francis Ferdinand isotieof
the crack shots of Kurope. He shoots
wit.h smokeless jiowder, handles his
weapon quickly and is credited with
killing- 4 so head of game iu au hour
and a half. To perform this feat he
kept three loaders constantly enijUoyed.
The two brass-bound otiken dispatch
Imixcs wlh-ch stand pn he table dividintf
the two front Wnches of the Knglisli
house of commons bear indelible rec
ords of (Hailstone. When speaking it
was h'-s habit to bring hus list tlovvnwit.it
violent emphasis on one or the other of
these two lioxes, ami his signet ring
has made great indentations in the oak.
MEN OF THE DAY.
Prince tieorge of (iriwe is regiirded
as an exert in toricdo work. He is
a very large man, fully six feet tall aud
strou-ly built.
It is reHrU-d that, beginning next
Octolier, Kxplorer Nansen will deliver
in this country a serifs of fifty illus
trated lectures.
Iee Merriw ether, one of the candi
dates for the mayoralty in St. Louis,
came into notice a few years ago by a
lively little ltook telling how he saw
Kuroe on 5t) cents a duy.
It is said that Kan Alula, the. great
Abyssinian chief whose death may en
courage Italy to another Abyssinian
campaign, Ingan life as a groom. He
ei-ded it by freeing his country.
It is rumored in Paris that Prince
Henri d'Orleaus, who is now on his
way to Abyssinia, lias other than sci
entific objects in view, and that his
journey is made in the interests of a
great cijuniiiertii(4 and. mining syndi
cate. Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, is
said to le one f the best read men in
the senate; liesides, he has a prodigious
memory, anil can quote in an instant's
notice the particular verse or iass-age
of prose which he regards fitting for
any juirticular occasion.
THE WORK-A-DAY WORLD.
There are in this cnmtry nearly 20,
doo.ooo ieopIe w ho live on wug-es, and of
tliese nearly 3,0U0.OOU axe women.
The proposal to altolish barmaids
after the year 1MH was defeated in the
South Australian legislative council by
nine votes.
President Malum, of the National
Street Railway F.mtJoyes association,
it? authority for the statement that
street railw ay men receive higher wages
in cities where three-cent fares prevail
than in t hose municipalities where five
cents is tli ruling price.
For the first time iu several years
every department of the Idi-kawanna
Iron and Steel company, Scranton, Pa.,
steel mills, furnaces and rolling- mills
are miiiultaneously in operation. In
all. over 3.UOO men have found work)
since the works tefran to rets tune.
The I'lixir In lloabar.
The buttonic pl.vgue, a disease closely
nkin. if not identical with the "blavok
death" of the middle ages. Is raging In
Jkmlay to an extent which occasions
Treat alarm. Up to the first of the
year the number of cases was over 2,000,
and death w as the result in a large
proportion of the cases. One-half of
the population of Itomlmy is reported to
have tied from the city, and there is
grave danger that the disease will thus
le spread. Comparatively few Eu
rojeans have been stricken with the
plague, bnt the unsanitary conditions
in which the native xpulation live pro
mote its spread among them, and their
tenacious observance of the principle
of caste makes it difficult to secure the
Federation of the sufferers in such a
way as to check the spread of the con
tagion. Youth's Comiutnion.
F.lKht-Uae Below Zero.
The lowest temperature ever recorded
was on Decemlier 30, 1S71, and was ex
perienced by Prof, (iorochon. He was
at Werchojairsk, Siberia, and the tem
perature was 81 degrees below zero.
Chrcajro Record.
ALL SORTS.
In tlie last 25 years, as indicat.-d bv
1 9 . i it wii ru i . I . I i ... 1.a . . l : r
- - ..U.K..I. a, fciii u.vi.i-r Hie 1
of woman has increased from 42 years
to 46 j-ears, an increase of over nine r
cent.
Near Iakewood, N". J., there is a ferret
farm, where these useful animals are
raised. The chief service is to cair
ture rats in dwellings and storehouses,
last year 2,000 ferrets were raised on
the farm.
A M'rilous performance is witnessed
nightly at a London theater. The jier
former is tied up in a sack soaked with
kerosene. The sack is then set on lire,
and when it is all ablaze he leaps into
a tank of water,
L'nuna McCue, Ml years old, w ho mar
ried lieorge Medic, three years older,
at Franklin. Intl., last lecemler on his
promise to supKrt her in case and
comfort, has sued for divorce In-cause
she has had to do farmhouse drudgery.
A citizen of Suffolk, Ya., has of
fered a factory site free to anyone who
will establish a manufacturiiif' indus
try there, and one of the iiiduccment.s
held out by a local paper is that "the
morals of the eiplc are equaled in few
other places."
Farms in Kngland are selling at a
ruinous reductituof tllfir former value,
aud in many cases cannot lie sold at
all. In many cases farms have been
sold for Ies6 than one-tenth of their
value 20 years ago. Well-to-do farmers
are attandoning- the business and go
inp U the colonics or to cities to start
life anew.
A IxiiHlon court has recently done
something to settle the social status ol"
artists' models. A young woman
brought suit for breach of promise
against a ma.n who had promised to
marry her, lut had been alarmed by
the discovery that instead of sitting for
the head alone tdie had also sat for the
fig-ure, though not w ithout drapery. The
decision of the court was that the pro
fession is res actable, and that she was
entitled to damages.
MILLIONS IN PAINTING.
The Hertford-Wallace Collection la
Worth 7.300,000.
The celebrated Hertford-Wallace col
lection of pictures bequeathed to the
British natiou by Lady Wallace is esti
mated to be worth $7,S(iU.oou. Her mag
nanimity, says the Hoctou Transcript,
U all the moie noteworthy la-cause she
was struck on the queen's visiting list
many years ago.
Sir Kichard Wallace died on July 20,
IV-mi, leaving bo hind him the most fa
mous art collection of any Knglishmau.
The whole of Sir Kichard's great wealth
aud the peea-less collection of pictures
(which includes I'J examples of Mcisson
ier and 15 of (ireuze) were given to his
wife for her own free disposition. Prior
to his death, however, he expressed his
wishes to his wife that after her death
his su-rl collection of works of art
ediould iro to Knglaud'a national gallery
and that his wish in this respect should
bo carried out she arranged several
years ago.
The magnificent Hertford collection
comprised when it Hissed into Sir Kich
ard Wallace's hands a splendid assort
ment of paintings, itorcelains, bronze-,
decorative furniture, jewelry ami othei
works of art. His own purchases dur
ing the past oil years included many of
tln choicest examples, of old Japanese
urt, which he was one of the lirst to
bring- to the at'emjun of F.uroiean
connoisseurs; of t tie. masters of t he
Italian renaissance, notably the produc
tions in silver of Bcnvenuto Cellini and
his immediate followers and of modern
French painters.
IN A LONDON THEATER.
A Klrat Muht aa Seen by an Artlat
Kvery One In Kvenlau; llrena.
A London audience is brilliant. I'.vcrv -cne
is iu evening- dress .a nd the audience
is often more, entertaining than the
play, says Scribnet's. This is csjm
cially true on the first ti'g-ht. At such
times the pit is watohed in.ist anioi-l-by
the management, us the success of
the pieise generally ilopends on its ver
dict. It lias often occurred to me w h-n
1 have seen people on a storm night
forming a line on the iKivemcnt out
side the pit entrance, taking it nil seri
ously enough to fctaud there for hours
Wfore the doors were ojtened, that by
letting them inside the management
mig-ht improve their spirits and they
in their turn mig-ht be more gent.Ic.
And it has also occurred to me when
I have seen a stout man standing- in
the aisle fumbling for a sixpence or a
shilling- in jiockets that probably only
contain a bank note and a gxhl piece
that the rraanngement might further
improve the spirits of its audVnee by
doing away with women ushers and by
selling the programme at the same
time it Fells the eat. for it is hanlly
fair to the first act of a play to make
it overcome the fret fulness' caused by
annoying attendants Wfore it can hope
to amuse. But the Pexind act :s sure
to have a fa.ir f.tart and if the play is
pood from there o-n it will have no rea
son to complain of its audience.
Xew I'roteetlea front Uallrla.
The committee of tlie Fideral Shoot
ing association of Switzerland, while
taryvt-shooting at Winlerthur recent lv.
riotic-d that targets at the left side
of the range rvsn-ived a majority if
bullets to the left of the bull's-eye.
while the reverse was 1 1- case on I In
other side of the range. Some quick
witted member of the com in. t tee su
ested that this ap4ireiit deflect ion of
tite missiles might be due to the elect ri.
telephone wires which chajweil to lie
strung on cstch side of the range. The
exerimental committee found that all
projectiles tlwat hail leen lelbi-ted
from their course were magnetized.
The theory of electrical action lieing
thus supjiorted, ex jierimeiits were un
dertaken to put the question to a final
test. The conclusion was rvuehed that
it would be fexusible to protect an cut it e
section of troops from hostile rifle fire
at a distance of 300 yards by nieaixs of
aji electric current generated by a dyna
mo or accumulator at one side; and
that at WM to 1.4UO yards even artillery
would lie thus rendered harmless. San
Francisco Argonaut.
A Itoaaeatle M heel.
Jinks I uraleretand Stor-her lia de
signed a new style of w heel.
BiiLks Where did he get tlie idea?
"Out of his ow n. head." N. Y. Com
mercial Advertiser. -
WASTED liY WAIL
Devastation of Cuba by the Oon
tendiny Armioa.
Hula of the Tobacco Trade and
Deatruetton of llouaea and
1'roprrt) of All
Klnda.
A Kjieeial dispatch from Havana to
the Kveniug; World gives a detailed ac
countof the devastation which haslx-cii
wrought throughout the island of Cuba.
It contains a statement made to the
corresjiondcnt by Adolph W. Wal.lma.tin,
of Chicago, a very oliscrving arid con
scientious tieriiian-Amcricaii, who has
just completed a trip through the prov
ince of Santa Clara.
"I came to Cuba on January 1," said
Mr. Waldmanii, "to buy tobacco. I
found only Ml bales in Havana, all poor
stutf, and decided to go to Santiago de
Cuba direct by lauit ami return slowly
by traveling through I he country where
1 could, so as to pick up toUu-co
if there was any. Let me say there is
none.
"The trade in the states is utterly
misiiifornied on this fxiint. I have la-en
two weeks getting 4-J bales and have
searched the island from one end to t In
other. The crop coining up has liccn de
stroyed. '1 here is a little patch lu-re
and there around a town, but the lie-Ids
are laid waste. I can safely say that
cast if Havana there is not enough to
bacco g-athen-d or in sight to keep a
Miiall factory in the I'uiled States go
ing for it month. The rcorts of plantei s
to the west of Havana are such that it
would lie useless for me to go there.
There is three times as much Havana
tobacco in the states to-day as there is
cut or growing in Cuba.
"As to the revolution the situation
l.N.ks to me after studying it with mv
eves to lie this: '1 he Sjiainards seem to
le satisfied if thex can hold the towns.
All the country lich.iigs to the rel!s.
And the relx-Is are slowly destroying
the towns. If they had a few 12-iii;,l
cannon only the big cities would 1H.
i lauding in a month. Nothing could
Mop that.
"As it is neither side can w in. I'n-h-ss
a t-hange comes Cuba is certain to
be math- a waste. It is pretty close to
that now. I did not see a farmhouse,
except there were soldiers in it for a
fort, standing in my whole trip. I saw
hundreds iimui hundreds that had lnni
hurried down as I passed tliro rli the
country, often with half charred SeVV
in.'r machines, cradles, furnit lire and im
plements slrewn alaiut. Th-Te is not
a hi ime xvith the familx in .caceahle
.o.-,session iu the country so far a I
could see.
"When I was in the city of Sant iago
de Cuba I got acquainted xvith some of
the Spanish oibcers there. 'I hex were
xi ry polite and nice to inc. They t.i.k
in.; up in a tower and with a, glass
showed me the earthworks and fortifi
cations of the reU-1 strongholds. When
I askol tht-m why they did not attack
thet-e places in plain sight they said the
troops could not leave the small forts.
If the soldiers go out they are shot d.ixv n.
'1 his xx as the reason they did not go out.
"tine of the officers xx ho seemed to
le an inspector examined the guns w hfle
there and told me that the xx hole xvar
xvas on a rotten lasis and was an out
rage upon SjKiin. Another oilicer. n
geia nil. aftcrxvard expressed the same
views, lie said he xx as disgust.-.) and xxas
going to resign and go home. They art
angry U-cause the other ollicers sit
uround cafes in Santiago and did not
lead the trooii to the field. It xxas just
the same iu Trinidad, Cienfuegos and in
excry large city.
"Between Colon and Matanzas the
whole country is burned up. All the
villages on the line are destroyed ex
cept txxo. and they have double stone
walls around them and are xvell pro
tected by troops. Kvery farmhouse xvas
a ruin. Tltere is not a thing groxving
nor planted. On the ride from Matau
zas to Havana it was just as lad. There
was only one town, Jaruco, standing,
and a port ion cf that is gone.
"Around the ruins of every town were
lots of soldiers and a crowd of Mvertv
stricken country jK-ople. Some of tlw-m
were absolutely naked, all were nearly
so. I saxx any quantity of men xvt arinp
only breech-cloths. I wondered w hx
these men did not go anil join the reU-ls.
I would rather die fighting than starve
to death as they are doing.
"I can give you no adequate idea of
the wretchedness of these a-ople. Weak
and naked, they are living, or. rather
dying, under pieces of Irnrk phu-t-d
leaning against trees. They craxv I un
der this and lay in the in u.i and dirt
men. women and children. Huts in
Africa are palaces to tliese holes. It
xvas the most horrible sight I ever saw
and there were miles upon miles of it."
N. Y. World.
GOOD ENOUGH TO FOOL A FOX.
A Shooter' Kaperlenee with Kane y
ieeoaoa Albemarle Sound.
KIdridge Caringtor, a New- Yorker
wlw went to Allemaiie sound duck
hunting a fexv weeksago. tells a curious
story of a fox, renits the Nexv York
Sun. He bail his decoys off a rounded
aint of land one morning, at.d was
xxaitit.g- for it to get light enough to
shoot. The decoys were fancy ones
made of iron anil ruhlier, painted to
represent the birds the hunter was
after, and looked xery natural.
At daxxn it !iapa-ncd that for ilout
ten or fifteen minutes no birds cauie
xxithin range, so no tdtts were tin si.
While the hunter x .-is wondering at this
he heard a rustle up-wind from t:.c
blind in the grass of the point, lxxik
ing cautiously oxer tlie graxs. he was
just iu time- to see a fox douched for
a leap at a decoy which was alaiut four
feet distant. The fox gaxe n qiiixt-r as
he gathered hij muscles ft r tlie jump,
and then sprang ahead and graldied tlie
decoy xvith all has might. Thcreujain
the fox was the moot astonished lieust
that ever hunted ducks. The rtib'-er
)ac with au iron, frame was hard and
soft iu -ts. The rubler xxas pierx-cd
by tlx- teeth of the animal, letting the.
air ot.t with a op like a firecracker.
Hie iron, however, hud a serious effect
tin the fox's jaw. breaking sexeral teeth
ami cutting the lips ia a way that made
the f.x squeal. The fox turned three
soniersaults in the xvater and then
heudi-d for shore and got to the brush.
In spite, of two sJiOl.
DU MAURIIR AND MORRIS.
Iloth Horn In Mareh. Is.".l.,uirdn
tlrlolirr, I s'ki.
One of the most et ra.r ;,ary par
allels in chronology i- ilu .-.imost ex
act coincidence of th- Cn..- s i,; i
the world by txvo men w ho J, a, J c,, , ,..,
t.i do xx it li the molding of tl;, literature
and art of their day as Ceoio-e du M.I(J
rier and William Morr's, sivs the N,-w
Orleans Tiiiies-lVeiuocrat. Ilu Mai.ri. r.
the elder of the two. x;is b..rn exaetlv
It.tlays liefore Morris, t.n M.,lv), is ;J
ami he died but four davs after 1i:im
s.i tluit these two great me::, xx ho llxe I
more t.h:tn f.2 years, xxt-rc on thecaith
for exactly Ihe same t line, xx i . h t!,,-.x-cetion
of h-ss than three weeks. Ko: It
ln-ing Urn in March, ls.il. and dv'mir
in Ot -.to Iter. Wirt. Similiai Ix . botli s.r
Jt.hn Millais cuid the ar. hl.Nh,.,, , f
Canterbury, xvhodied xxithin u ml.i.tl,
or two of each titiher. xvere born ::i s-i.
It is one of the most striking- ex.-nts
in the long history t f the areM.ish. .ps
of t'antei bury tUit the late .-irciibishop.
vx ho xvas one of Mr. Oladst one's nipoint
ments and -afterxxard dixeived from
him in xiliticil opinions, should have
Weu stricken while sittin-r in t li.
squire's pew of his t Id friend at II i
xxurden. It is a most merciful tliin.
that Mr. i;i:iiKtone dil itt happen t
be in church. To a man of his xe.us
the shock mu.st hat- Im-cii titosf e?:ii,L.,.r
ous. What an archbishop .f fani.-r-bury
Mr. (iladstone xxoul.l haxe mad.'
himself! He xvmil 1 haxe rixal.-d even
Munstan or B.-cket and not improinhly
proved the gresitest tirelate of tiiem
all.
DON'T VERSUS DOESN'T.
l.raiiintallenl tltlltiea That t.rntel (
oit f la- r.ari. of lalueale.! tte.l.-rs.
'Ihe sulij. . t of irotiuneiat ion has
leen up ..t .1 isi-iisj-i.ni a 'fc deal of
lale. '111-.- toll. xx inp- i-ep:irdi up "don'i"
and "do.ru'i" should le -f inti-ie-t.
cominp lion, the l-st authoritx. sax s
an evcl.a i.
loi."l l.ke dropping th- fii::il p of
the pi. elit participle, a vulparitv ot
ptoplc of cultxire. Tliackei.iv :iii-l An
thony Troll. coitiiuiU j.l.u-e it.
along with ain't for "am not." or "i
not." in the liiouthsof their hiei.N -bred
ciiaracicrs. 1 lie late pii:e,- .
Used it. I recollect- tpiot ii.'
i . 1 1
f :-im
ui. moi y from his "Life." I.x Sir 'I". Mar
tin that, sjieakiug of Princes- ,;r.,--as
an infant, the prince xxroie: "Si,,
doesn't like it."
Other corruptions are. or xxere. ". n.
for "tli. ni." Haw y ut f..r II i r t i.-, t."
chavxyet for "chariot." yallow for"xcl-h-xv,"
tossel for "tassel." Liir.ii.ni f..i
"lailirloll." II f,,r ";,,m,.." j...
for "gold." ohh-fpt- f.r "oi.ii.',.." - i.
tirst duke t-f Wc;it:pton. as I haveU-t !i
told, always saitl ..l.hcue. It e, !ia:i,
ly d.ies prate upoi, the car to hear .i.-n't
ustsil f,,r "doesn't." and yet xxe tin 1 it
useti in "Pickxxick Pars" in ih, s.,ili:
which Mr. W ardio sings m li: ;t n.a-
ve at the Manor faim, Olnplcy ,-!1;
"Atnl lve that's too strctii; x !,y. it .i-..:i't
last lotiir.
As many have foun I to tb.-ir t'l i: "
111 i:as.t Auplia they say "v.-u don't
otipht" and "'he didn't nilit." which.
thoUL-h true, is slightly tniir, :in, m;: i. . .
TAUGHT HER A LESSON.
After That the Ke Iisi,I,hII I'uoada
Xevs ll,inM finer.
The tithc-r tlay a ery estiniabie l.i.iy
came t ttixxu to tl a little stropping,
says the Atlanta Constitution. o;
course the key xxas put uin'cr the door
mat that her sou could p'-t in. Inhcr
aluseiicc a tramp, xx h- 1-a.I l-n hanpinp
aniuiid the place :i numls-r .f .lay s -.ml
had caught on. laddly ui i t into the
house, pot some .f the choicest xiainls.
out cf the I antrv. p-it t hem ..i, the table
and pitehetl in. Ilo :iii f.n:-i.l a L.tt'c
of w iiw- that rev ivet' h is spirits, lb-did
not exjH-ct anyone ticrx- for a nuiiilcr
of hours :.iwl so t k it i a.-y.
I it t he In. -ant ime t he lady 1 he hoi, sc.
haxinp tlnisliisl her shoppinp. ret tirneal
home and se-itip the front door un
locktsil ciectct to find '.ier sj-ii in-ide.
Iii.apinc her horror vx tien she:n-msl
the ditiiiif.'-rootu d.axr ami saxx sitt'mp
at her table tlie rust iest-hokiup-t raiup
that ever x ii-d xvith his coiiijianioiis in
acctimul.itinp dirt on his epidermis.
The lady x as diimfotindcd. In 1 he
silence that folloxvcd the It. imp t-oollv
remarked:
"Madam. I shall lec;iTne scaur iioxx-.
ez Fxe eaten entilT. All 1 kin civexer
lrtiek fer this p.l meal and xvat I want
ter say ter yer is that yer ought to find
a nexx hi.Iin" place fer y cr key . I won't
charge yer liothin U-r this adxicc."
ith that the tramp departed.
The l.ri-.trr loltril SWIM.
The ilistance across the 1'i.itcd States
is found to it L..l'5.2 geographical
miles front the lighthouse six miles
north of 'aj- May. X. ,1.. to the light
house six miles south of Punta
Arenas. folloxxinp the i iiirty -i.int h
parallel if latitude as closely
as jwissible. - This is comt-dc.l tt
1m- altotit the mean breadth tif the
country. A planet- at the map will
show that the I'liited States is milch
wider toxxard the north and much uar-roxxi-r
toxxard the gulf coast, but the
thirty-ninth ar:illel is alxnit as fair an
average as can lie drawn. 'I lie meas
urements xxere made by trianrulat ion
that is. by 'akinp obserxat ions from
fixed landmarks and verify ii.p them by
astronomical tests. The distance
across the continent thus obtained is
14' feet lomrt-r than that rert-.tl by
Bessels in 1 -;.". and lis f-et lonper than
that reortcd by Prof. Clark in l:m.
Chicago Kcconl.
A I'ropoaed Monniuent.
A nieetinp wus hi-hl in Washington to
orp-atiie a Soldiers and Sailors Na
tional Maniimeut association. Its ob
ject is "the erection of a luoi.titiieiit j,t
the capital of the natiitm in h. .n. r and
nieioory of I he .5V:cei s :m l eiil i- . i lii. li
of the army ciml navy of the I'nile.l
States xx ho fell in tlie war of ilu- ri-U-l-lion.
xx 1 1 -eh sh:il serve as a i-rpetual re
minder to the present and future peu
cratiotis of t.he setilinieiit etiletta lied
bi' all loy al ieopl-.- for t he s., Idlers and
sailors who risked their llxes in the
defense of their enuntrv."
Many writers. lot h sM-ctil.tt ive arid of
military art and science, haxe c.tMed iu
question the value of rrma netit forti
fications, but excry rrt-al soldier has
regarded them of the highest utility
atnl necessary to the defense of a coun
try. Philadelphia Press.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Ail.-i-is, bri.-ks. with a holl.iw c.-nt-r
ire f..,,,.. .,;,,. ,..;r;li.,. ia i.ruiAuy
i T the .-oust ruction ,.f eoiiserx atot ies.
It i- said tiiat bake.1 1., nan. is. xx !1
n fallua-Iv ,
tn.n a;Mi weak ld;.-s i., eniidithe
bh-.l. They should be baked about 1M
ill i li ll tes.
-Shipbuilder assert that an iron
-hp ha.s a carry iic'cai. it i of ll.. ton
for every Lhi t. Us ciri i.-.l by woolen
vessel ,.f ,.;,,,. ,:m,.,,;,,n- xxhile
tiie vvcieht ,,f the irx.n .-hip i- per
c. lit. i."-s.
-I"p to the a-,- of L'u a youth needs
r -iie hours' s.V..- and au. r that ..o-e
a I- l-wM needs- e. -,t. Ne-I.ct of this
ride causes eh iu ti.ui and i rrl t a 1.1 1 ir v
and retards int. ll.t t u.d and phv sical
prow th.
Iji S.i n 1. 1 B.siii. to!., ih.-ee is a
lUiptlst church built entirely of the
X-..M..1 of a -ili-le r.-l-.x..i tree. Flen
the r...f vva.- male .f the same tice.
i.i.d t li.-re en- '.ii.ikm shingles left. The
chur.-h seat- oo pe.
c-i l.i!,:, - in mnuiital-i-i of
Su.sie,,. , .... ay :.,,. Lapland suffer
L-i-.tnly fr..m th- Norway rat.s. Farm-
;" 'I d -tret- would X.-IV
tii.prolital.le were it not for the vxhit.x
foes. which pr.-y larpvlv t.pon the
rt-.
- I li Sa.-i-niei:t.i i- a --ii. m ill., .v xx li.
V. il h e l-e -
tiinnt.-i t.. in. I,, ,r l.n.iran.1
t.i.Ticuit i, -S..J.S. ei nies learning
p:.--s:ig,-s ,,f hi-t.,rx fudx xx . r Is in
h-ligtli. P.lit the l.-M .1 ,y he 1...--- ,1!
r.-e., ,, i ;., ,,f ,,r.-xious day's a,-
iiir-mei!-.
A churt-h in ( l.-Xela lid H.-.-1 up :
mill :sr, r agr.--d t. li-teii to a 1 1 ia ! -cr-n.
-n from a x i-': i g , !,., gx ma n. The
t-!.a;rinatii-f t i-1 i-xi-t.-e. f.-i! a-.- p dur-'-'
its .1. !:x.-ry . end -i: l.-.-.piei,t ly d-j--.-t..l
to h:l:i U-. au-e. as he sal i! "11.-th-t
n'f m ike ii.ii , n. nigh"
I lie friend , ,f i man in K:in-;i-( itv
v-1 o Iu 1 ls-u .li-c'ared nii,i.,!:x un
- a. u 1 s, -ciirts I t !,.- .ri-Tci .mm jt t a I pa--crs
an-l p-it tli.-m in t h- h.::-l- of.-
-l;. :uai-. who xva- to tak - h'm to an
a ilaiii. The otV -. r .1 i-n-.v ere.l h'm
-.-rv i g .,ti a jury n la.- e'ren It court.
.! s W;.rt-n. x-. 1... . -1 retmix in
Col p;a. xx .is th.' It.. t U-:'. T.tial I .-gr..
p-.-jc'.er ill 'he - .U'h. V. hell ; In, mU-r
of h - .- !.' . :-a i 1 ;, xxas Very bid ali-l
coi. Id ii..' be ii.proxe i by mora1. u.c'ort
Mr. W.-irr-n t hn-.x ..'T his co-tt ai-d xx lt!t
111- t;.a, thra-h.- ! !ihu 'nt.. - ui, mis-ion.
VICTORY FOR THE LITTLE ONE.
. Vh-K lilir llnnl.oii oeU hi .a a Itlir;
11 1 tioto 1 1 K.M-fc, lit,t..tt-r.
A cock tight . ! u-i n i ,-u-ix ca use t if 1 he
J.i-j'.ii.ty .-!' -..- i:, t! - x t . x--,-r iiiii-ha':.i.t-.
.iiljiK a i-i.'Uil :ie re-, iit
ait. i n. ,,.ii ili cori.tr ! I bird and
ii.e -: leel -. . t U:.- bit ,1- .XJU- A
t Hi i-liit. ,i vx, igtol i ii' 'lie ticii.-i.ie
i ot n re ! iia n I -4 j ,i xx lill.- it- a n-lajniii-!,
a I, ii.-. I ') inoiit h Lock, xt as
tledited l-y t lie In. li XX h" W lied Is. til
xx it ii v.ci- hiiig ! t,uii,t. . ).--p.1e
thi- a.lvant.ige in vxfipht and coii.-t
U- nl "i.a. I,."" 'li.- big r.s-t. r w j.,
ii ia-1.- to - : vx k .
1 he tight star ! d. it appears, through
the I'iymo i'h K.n k inti uding lo- pic
elict- a moi g tli.- 1 U' t.i in".-. 1 . k ' k . .f hens.
til X' . ils f.lliey foxx Iw-ilig r i-Ml-c.1
from :h.-ir c..p durii.g certain hours
of the i ai,d ai!,.x,-d the freedom of
the sTr.t-i. Mr. I'-ai.lam n--cni.-, this
iiitru-i.n. and xxith a i roxv t.f ii. ti.iin e
x:diai,tly 11. xx at 1 he big rooster's head.
"Ih- I iy riiouTh sc. ::-.tl 1, hav.- no re
spc. t for t lie eh ix a irie lan: "lit. n't hit
a fellow -lnalVr than your if." but
lui i;.-.! Itack fiercely a", t hi- kml.iin. i-r
fully ten minutes the k,ulc w.nt on.
t t t he t'.i . tica t ion t f a crow ) e v ,-ry in i li
ne growing thicker. Then the supe
rior science . .f t he bantam li'.ni t.i tell
on hi- vx.igiit i.-r opponent. Willi lire
little fellow it xxa.- hit and gel awax,
but the 1"! y t!i. i' h xx "m t he air a !i t he
I ime. -T rik ing biintlly xx h.-n 1 he Itanium
vva- a yard removed.
1 hi- ciTn:t of throw inp !'. .Mii,.i-..f
lle-h and feathers -hvxvat.l aid then
iipht inp out xxith Ifc.th feel at la-t le
pau to till on the big too la-r. and he
sijuatt.-l for a tiioinei l i. cat. h his
xx in. 1. l'.v i.l. Titl v ihis xxa- xx hat Ilu-l-iu'.ini
liii.l Ih-cii waiting for. for. gix
ing a th ri-lx crow . he tlcxx ;it thexxii d-
I Plymouth, xx h. king the big bird
right and 1. ft ai.mt the head, until,
xxith a squawk, the P. p. inn. h-r picked
liii!i-. !f ur from the sid. walk and
.-. 'in-lit -ecurit x i hin. iiu :i.' i.n-t-nt
oop. Thai " he i row d's, v m pat h ie- xxere
ci. t ire! v xx ii h t he 1 ant ! ill xx a- .-!.. vx n in
tin- appl.iu.llrp reward- 'hat f.;!..x-d
t he PI x rnout h's t-.tt.at. It is i,,.t proi.
able that the g.illint lltth- ban am un
d r-l ;.;d the app'a i-c. but at !.-1 he
seemed to -how his appm-ci.it i -n hv
fa-ing th :, ud etice and giving vent i,
a shrill crow, enpha-icd bv a luslx
slappingof xx ing-. P. u t ! a nd Tehanti Hi.
MIDAS HAYSEED AT THE PLAY.
H e M il aa Hit I'r.aic ra naiut ! the l.lxhl caf
s.i ra nte aad Milrhrt.
He was iiiid.lle-ape.l. puilchs- of as-ft-t.
sllphtly pray, vxoic -to;.- tloth, s
a r.d si lx cr -ct aides and had xx hi - kei s.
says the St. Louis Post-1 i- att-Ti. It
rtquiic.l n.i sign on his back It. r sun- to
discern he x-.;is ftomout of txxn. Tiie
o.ilx urban characteristics he jk.s-. s-ed
w.-tc an independent air and a nerve
- t iiat air U-i n of money in t he s -kt t
ai-tl that lierxe t he o-'.iteonie of lacing the
wliolc thing in n.oi.nlix town.
lie xxent t-a the tin alcr the t.t her
right, pot tin-re I .I.- and had a -cat in
the rear t.f the house. For a time he
xxatched t i:e ant ics of the I. i ppi r dcppcsl
i iMU. d an and t he "I ri v tiling" soubre'.t. .
lie had never seen them U fore ar-d he
liketl tht in. He xx anted to see w bo 11m y
xxerc. but the theater xxas ttvidalk for
leading tiie programme. Then he tiid
something r:o city-bred man xvou'd
haxe tlHiught of doing in a t!i(.u.-in.l
year.-, lie siriick ha 1 f a tloeti match.--;
i:nd reatl the bill of the play lioiiitn i
to t lid.
It xxas all over by the time the 'a-h rs
had nolle, , xx hat th.-x Thought vx;,s
prix.-.te bin. fire and reach..! his seat,
lie had scttl.il 1 at k comf.t.rlal.1 y arid
lookt d ssa iiitto.-cnt the Ii-anger
wouldn't h t. him be dislurlacd xxilh a.
xx am inp.
Yourgh-v Yes. xv e love each ttler,
::i:d have mat i lies n ! xx ay s t ti m tint b:ia
plly. Vyiii ktioxv of? single instaiw-e
xx here t.li.-y haxe not done .-iT
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ones. Tit-Bits.
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