A AEB NEWS OF THE WEEK. —~—Samuel W. Miller, Cashier of the American Bank, in Findlay, Oblo, was stubbed, probably fatally, by W. Stokes, his fatber-in-law, on the even’ ing of the 27th. Stokes has been act mg strangly for some time. and 1018 thought that he was ont of his mind, About two weeks a 0 u an named Bernier killed his wother-in-law in Lexington, North Caroina, and on being captured he was lyacbed. Gove ernor Fowle urged Sotieitor Long to discover the lynchers, and, on Long's aflidaviy, 20 of the lynchers have been arrested, Some of the ringleaders have fled. Frederick Moeanill, while drunk, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on the evening of the 26th, beat and chok- ed his wife ina savage manner. She died in the hospital on the morning of the 28th, Joseph Hoffman, a burg: lar, while trying to break into the house of William Kohns, in Mount Joy, Pennpa., early on the morning of the 27th, wasshot through the left lung by Kohns and 1s in the hospital at Lan- caster supposed to be dying. — Edward Blunt, a well-known young lawyer and owner of racehorses, was on the afternoon of the 28th shot and seriously wounded in a saloon in Washington by George Mantz, a politi- cal worker in Maryland, The men met by chance. and Mantz called Blunt away fromghis companions to the rear end of the place, Here a quarrel arose, and Blunt was seen retreating with = Jarge pocket knife in his hand, fol- lowed by Mantz. Blunt's friends in duced him to leave the place. As they were going out Blunt glanced back and saw that Mantz was still close to him. He told Mantz if attacked he would use the knife, and the next Instant Mantz had jdrawn a revolver and be- gan firing, One shot took effect in Blunt’s right hip and another in bis side, The cause of the quarrel is not stated, — Beyond the washing away ol the Cambria Iron Company's railroad bridge no damage has yet been dons by the flood at Johnstown. The only public bridge across the Copemaugh is in a bad condition and liable to go ln the event of an increase of the flood. Woodvale is ‘‘considerably flooded,” but no serious damage i8 reported, A steady rain and high waters on the 28th prevented the continuance of the search for bodies in Stony creek. —A train bearing the Rallroad Com- missioners of Massachusetts collided with another going in the same direc tion, near Ballardvale, on the 28th. Reveral cars were wrecked, but no person was injured. — A fast freight train on the Penn- sylvania Rallroad jumped the track ln Rahway, New Jersey, on the evening of the 25th, Several persons who were waitiug for the train to pass were ln- jured by the flying debris, three of them fatally. One car ran down Main street and Into the residence of John Weldon, tearing it away, and stoppliog when it reached the parior. Mr, Wel. don’d family narrowly escaped. FIf- teen loaded cars were wrecked, The tracks and road bed were torn up, and the accident, It was sald, would delay travel for twelve hours, ~—John Clements and Andrew Da Costa had a fight at Mendocino, Cali- fornia, on ihe 28th. Clements was killed and Da Costa fatally Injured. They were woodmen and used axes as weapons, In a quarrel among railroad laborers, at Pottsville, Pa,, on the 28th, John Attis was fatally stabbed by Bassalo Coffoni., Attis had just sent to Italy for bis wife and six children, — Rube Burrows, the noted desper- ado and train robber, at last accounts was still at large in Blount county, Alabama. The Governor on the 28th, sent the Sheriff 20 picked men to assist in the pursuit, and an effort is benig made to secure more bloodliounds, —In 1883, on May 9, awidow named Foreman, aged 75 years and her daugh- ter, aged 58, were ound murdered near Traders’ Point, ten miles from Indian- apolis, They were known to b: wealthy, and, a8 no money was found on the premises, robbery was supposed to have been the motive for tbe murders, There was no positive clue to the murderers, but relatives of the victims were suspected. Several day ago Mrs, W. H. Maybaum, whose husband has been for about three months in & lunatic asylum, said that he told her that he aud companions, whose names he would not use, com- mited the murders and that be bad got $450 for his share of the erime. On tho 28th the Grand Jory heard Joseph Cassidy, of Brownsburg who says that Kate Weaver and her aged father saw the murderers come from the house and recognized them. The murderers intimidated the Weavers, who have kept the secret for six years, ~—E,. D, Matthews, who says he is 4 Baptist preacher, and who has heen assistant tax collector of Pike county, Georgia, 1s under arrest in Atlanta, sharged with appropriating $1700 of the county’s money, which he asserts was stolen from him. On the 25th, James Marr, jthe colored janitor of the Mercantile Bank in Kansas City, Missouri, was sent to the vault after a set of books, Since that time the bank's cash account has shown a de- fleit of $1500. On the 20th the janitor was arrested on suspicion of having stolen the amount, He confessed to the crime, and took the detectives to a Main street jewelry store, where he bad left the money, The entire amount was recovered, excepting $8, which the thief had spent. ~~At Belle Vernon, Pa.,, on the svening of the 28th, Jesse M. Bowells had his skurl fractured by a stone thrown by Captain Decatur Adams, a well-known steamboat man. The men quarrelled over a freight bill. 0, —A passenger train on the Ch Milwaukee and St, Paul Be ehieng col 1 — travelling engineer of the Milwaukee road; S. W. Stewart, express messen- ger; James Ryan and Greunio Coschg- nano were slightly injured, The engi- neer and fireman on the freight, and the fireman ou the passenger, jumped before the trains came together, and escaped with a few bruises, ~The great dam near Rockaway, Morris county, New Jersey, has been declared unsate by engineers, The owners are endeavoring to strengthen the dam, but the residents in the vi ¢inity demand that the water be drawn off and the necessary alterations be made in a substantial manner, — Two west-bound freight trains on the Erie rallroad were wrecked on the evening of the 20th near Otisville, New York. Both tracks were blocked. The wreck caught fire, cutting off tele- graphic communication, Samuel Sioa, of Middletown, was killed, and several others were Injured. While Mrs. J. Ellis was out driving in Denver, Colc- rado, on the evening of the 28th, the team ran away and collided with a cable ear. She was thrown completely over the car, landing on her head on the track on the other side, She was fatally ipjured. Simon Barney, engi- neer, and James Moyles, {iremau, w.1e Killed vn the 20th by the bursting of a mine boiler at Archibald, Penna. One of the large puip grinders in the paper plant near Appleton, Wisconsin, burst on the 28th and killed Frank Clark, superintendent of the works. — A second attempt to kill Deputy U. 8. Marshal Hager was made in Raleigh county, West Virginia, ou the evening of the 28th, He aitended a corp-husking, sud while eating supper a man named Boal shot him three imes with a revolver, One shot Look effect in his left cheek, another entered this breast about two inches above the ueart, and the third lodged in the left am, The shot in the breast will prob- ably cause his death, —A telegram from Barbourviile con- (rms the report that Judge Lewis bas full control in Harlan, Kentucky, and says the Howard outlaws, ‘who cou- stitute a small part of an exteusive family,’ are leaving the county, Lewis nas 65 men, who are pald $2 a day by the county, He was sent out unde: Governor Duckuner’s direction, le claims, and disarmed everybody he would reach, He says ‘he wil not stop till peace is fully restored.” ~1n the Seminole Indian Nation, a few days ago, Robert Reed and a Creek ludiap named Wiley were depa. ized to arrest a negro horse Lisl named Brunner, and upon his Oring at them shot him dead. Five of the dead man’s friends, all negroes, then lay in ambush for the otlicers and assassinat ed them. Sergeant T, C. Baron, 13th Regiment, U. 5 A., was shot and fatally wounded at Guthrie, Indian Territory, on the evening of the 28th, by Charles Taylor, a butcher, Taylor was set upon in a house of ill-repute by a party of soldiers and badly beaten, In escaping he drew his revolver and fired the fatal shot, -—The firstsnow of the season at Denver, Colorado, began falling on the morning of the 29.n, and al noon was seven inches deep. ~The train wreck at Otisville, on the Erie Raliroad, on the evening ol the 29th ult... was more serious than al first reported. The engine and 24 cars were wrecked, Samuel J. Sloat was killed, and Levi Brierly died on the morning of the 30th uit.; from his in- juries. Three other train baucs were badly injured. A pussenger train aud freight train on the Norfolk and West. tern Raliroad collided ou the evenlug of the 20th ult,, near Liberty Station, Virginia, Two train men were Killeu and two injured. Both engines and five cars were wrecked, —A freight train on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad ran into the rear of the Chicago limited express on the evening of the Juth ult., near jeaver Falls, Pa. A brakeman named Reeters was killed and Eugineer Dougherty and Fireman Carr were badly injured, Some of the passengers received slight injuries. A limited vestibule train on the Lake Shore road was wrecked at Wawaka, indiana, on the morning of the 3uth uit. The whole train was thrown on ils side and had all the trucks torn off. The St. Joseph * cannon ball’’ train on the Rock Island Road, ran into the rear of the Denver express, at Seneca, Illinois, on the evening of the 2Uth ult, Severa cars were wrecked, Two passengers and an engineer were hurt, One of the boilers of the Bellaire blast furnace, at Bellaire, Ohio, exploded on the morning of the 30th ult, causing damage to the mill and adjoining buildings es- timated at $200,000, Two other bollers were cracked, the boller-room was wrecked and one end of the nall factory was demolished. No persom was in- jured, A portable boiler on a farm pear Hamlet, Indiana, burst on the 30th ult, killing Adam Mann and sev- erely scalding five others, — Five Chinese lepers were shipoed home from San Francisco on the 20th ult, on a Hong Kong steamer. Among thera wus Chin Tien, aged 20 years, who was sent to San Francisco from New York, where he had been em- ployed asa cook for laborers on the Croton acueduct work. ~—Thirty tramps were arresied on the 30th ult,, between Reading and Letanon, and sent to jall in those two cities and Harrisburg. For mouths past the Lebanon Valley has been overrun with tramps and numerous crimes have been committed, A large quantity of stolen goods was found in possession of the prisoners, ~The first conviction under the Kansas probibitory law for the sales of hard cider was secured in Topeka on the 20th ult, ~The bank of Abilene, In Abilene, Kan., which closed its doors on the 28th has begun to make settiement of its rs. On the 27th ult. $100,000 worth heaviest local depositors, who accepted it in full settlement for that amount claims, Heal estate to the amount of $60,000 was scoepted creditors upon similar ~ by foreign conditions, The Habilities are $420,000. The assets will not exceed the amount frst published, $650,000, mostly in real estate, ARTI -The Indiana State Board of Agri- | culture had aavices from many of the | northern and northwestern connties saying that hog cholera is epidemic, and that handreds of hogs are dying daily, and the disease is steadily in- | creasing. In Bteubsn county It has assumed such proportions that some farmers have lost every hog on their farms, and there are but few who have not lost from 90 to 76 per cent, of their stock. It is especially fatal In hogs that have been put up for fattening. No remedies appear Lo have any effect, and all attempts to stop the spread of the disease bave failed, —George Koch kept a bakery on River street, in Paterson, New Jersey, Passing the shop of a rival on the morning of the Z0th ult,, he deliberately picked up a basket of bread and tried to carry it off. Being pursued, he ran to the river, sprang in, and held his bead under the surface until he was suffocated. He leaves a family. ~—A telegram fiom Birmingham, Alabama, says: “The result of the chase after Rube Burrows and bis party | | in Blount county is two dead deputies | and one dead bloodhound. The out- laws have escaped, the chase has been | abandoned, and all hands have re- turned howe,” —A O-year-old deoughter of Mrs. | Sullivan was choked to death by swal- lowing a toy balloon in Cincinnati on the 31st uit, Early on tle morning of | the 31st uit., the Chicago, Santa Fe and Cai ornia vestibule tran was de- railed near Carrollton, Mssourl, bs the spreading of a rail, All the ¢ aches | except the dining ana sleeping cars were thrown from the track, Nearly everyoue in the smokii g car was in- | jured, An expressman i. the baggage | car was fatally hurt by belng crushed under a falling safe, Thomag D ck, of Kasas C.ty, was also fatally injured, About 15 olhers were ipjured, four | severely, Two coal trains on the Read- ing Railroad collided at Aramingo Station, on the morning of ths 31st | ult, Alhert Lord, fireman, was badly | hurt, Eighteen loaded cars were | wrecked, i -~A large brick dwelling In course | of erection in Passaic City, New Jer. sey, tumbled down on the afternoon of the 3lst ult.,, burying workmen, All were Injured, the following se. verely: Richard Cormick, John Nash, | Juo. Ellison, LouisFordridge, of Wash- ington, snd Simon Mackeits, of Balti. more. Cormick’s recovery is deabtfal, I'he boiler of a steam thresher expioded | on the morniog of the Jlst ult. near | Grafton, Dakota, killing Israel Shep- | pard, the owner. The engiveer, fre | man and another man were danger ously wounded. A coal train on the [linois and Indiana Southern Road! was ditched near Sullivan, Indiana, by | a broken rall,on the Jlst ult, Engi- neer W, Evans was killed, and an | unknown tramp was fatally hurt, ~While Adolph Rice and Louis | Heck were working on the dome of a | building in Evapsville, Indiana, on the Fist ult., the reps of the scaffold on! which they were standing broke, and both men were precipaled to Lhe ground, Rice was killed and Heck probably fatally injured, —f3eorge A. Brackett, who has just returned to Minpeapolls from an ex- tended trip in Bamsey county, North Dakota, says that he failed 10 find =» fam: v that was really in need of the necessaries of life, lle believes Lhat the jeopie in that seciton are sufferivg wore from mortgsee than fqou He is { pay from i6 ies Rituie a fies are compelled per cent. per annum for loans, proposes trust company, to woney at 10 per cent, pes aunum, hh Cups O10 Ji8) He Wan to “ - Alexander Harris, the absconder | fiom Miiford, Delaware, was taken bee fore Justice Prindiville, 10 Chicago, on the morning of the 3lst ult, His pariner ian the fight remained at the Central Station. When searched by | the police nearly $10,000 in cash was | found upon Harris He confessed | judgements in the Circuit Court for | sums aggregating almost that amount, Later in the day he was released on a habeas corpus. E. P. Smith, a cattle | broker, was arrested in New York on | the evening of the 31st ull, on the charge of stealing $2500 from Hubbard, Price & Co., of the Cotlon Exchange in Memphie, Tennessee, Smith claims that the charge against him is a Ltrump- ed up one, — While crazed by hunger Mrs, Mary Born tried to Kill her mother and | sa O-year-old sou in their museradle | apartments in New York on the morn. ing of the 21st ult, The intervention of neighbors prevented tne tragedy. For three weeks past the woman has been ill. She was 100 poor Lo engage a | physician and too busy to spare the | i My Lady Sweet. Oh you should see her whom I love My Lady Sweet, Such loveliness her face doth wear. 1 know iL is beyond compare, To me she seems one from hove. Rare Lady Bweet, And you should hear my dear one sing, My Lady Sweet, Such music from her soul doth swell, To learn its tone, from sky and dell, Come song birds, charmed, ou rapid wing, To Lady Sweet, And oh, so gracious is her mein, My Lade Sweet's, Rhee knows my heart is all her own, Yet so serene doth wear her crown Bhe doth disclaim she is My Queen, Dear Lady Sweet, ————————————— HOW MISS STRONG KEPT THANKSGIVING, MIS, A. M. TAYNE, Miss Matilda Strong sat in her prim little parlor one afternoon in late Oecto- It and the window was open, was quite a warm day, and The asters were fruit and late flowers, Miss Strong had seen forty-five Octo- tumn day made ber think of it. Bhe had been ‘little Tilda" among a family sisters, then “Miss rest had married and | “Miss Strong” | in her own rooms. | She had secured a tenant for the best | and gone, and now she was sometimes even ‘old Miss Strong” alone kept three rooms on the South side. In | her cupboard there and saucer, stood =a which plate | cup and wore used by her at her daily meals. 8 did not often ir lived alone whe was at home, but that was not De he ! have company f« she | n sho very L CRURE she much known the length and village fi } trouble, and old and young. But when the sick ha ed to, the brides d buried, Miss Str home Ly herself was very lonely ind She was thinkin ; all this, when a bright de fluttered window, and settled on her } a tree cuts her thoughts quite tion. “Thanksgiving i she said le leaves bef: How 1 ned Thanks- | se must gather some ] they are quite gone. wish 1} could have agood old fash giving.” Then she sighed, * question of in Flori in Colorado. 0) 4 with sido iho course,” and Will an dren da, be out of place here with no " it. rolled up ber 1 hade hb There was another ) Knitting . at was 80 wond happ« 1% brighter, Strong was ng thinking had to be thankful her duty io exXpre #8 in some way. N bureau drawer there dollars laid by from time to time, be- might want help,” turkey and cranberry | 1d | 3 gliver | Ww, upstairs, in an « wore some cause *‘somelbx sly and when the Strong thought of this. “I would like to make a real happy | Thanksgiving, for somebody,” she said | to herself, and then there was a sudden forget everything in a chase after them, | and half an hour later she came into | A few | days after this, she went over to the 3 ! been ill, and she found the boy sitting i in an arm chair by the window, *“‘the first time in six weeks,” his mother ex- | plained. The mother's face was radiant. You | spend Thanksgiving at home. How happy she was! The din of the machinery which she thought was never absent from her oars, was unheard, and she sat down to her solitary supper of bread and milk with a light heart. One day a week later, Miss Btrong, had & call from Jennie Adam's, the min- isters young daughier. Jeunie was al- ways a welcome visitor for she was merry and lovesble, but to-day she had very little to say. She came to bring a report of Foreign missions her father had sent, and them she sat down by the fire and did mot speak. “What's happened in your world, Jennie?" asked Miss Strong. «Oh, nothing much, but I don't see the use of living sometimes. Paps would say that was wicked, but if you can't have what you need, what is the good.” Miss Strong, with her kindly tact, wh ‘to Jennies young feet was as tremendous as a more serious difficulty to older people. Ii seems she had been taking a few tion of materials, tention to patient study, “But pa says it is quite impossible, to s first outfit and a half, BAYS, muglhit Vol I-books, and Lizzie's it is no use,” si; pa ret ge i ha which will be two ds He Johnny's s&h € after he and water-proof, Ars schoo ney eno breakfast, and nt on the ir vet 4 girl ¢ reitedly, we and papers, nice table linen, and warm { Ura, Jennie th {4 in aiter all t 4 itleriy, Lhat withh her; but the nes paint ng mater J sympathize uld have seen her next day turn ov F sid } i 1 3 uzzle, however, that the ed a great I concluded 80 she sent the two dol a distant city, for utfit of oil materials,” had "been to t of the Ww Missionary Society, which riant ss its long , quite AS 1TH mply, and she was hu early twilight wiul closely about he : 1 face was arrested by two HoOvs i s, if had n« ould have had a turkey, and Thangs the strike yot cause the strike. ht somehow.” be helped. next week. it cannot I am work "” 1 heard goes - 1 vv Any ionger, “There Jim got to give up school-ma cried about jt—but it cannot be helped.” Miss Strong knew the speaker. She had seen in the corner grocery was the mother who had eried, and she saw an opportunity for another Thanksgiving. So it came to pass that, Miss Strong's purchases at the corner store the next day were so extensive, that one clerk winked to another and asked him if he three ch ldren and their grand mother | to provide for. Her husband isin a | hospital, suffering from an incurable | disca e. Mrs, Born was taken to Belle- vus Mospital, where the husband sad she became a maniac through lack of of food. Mrs Bommis 27 years old. Her husband, who isa Frenchman, is 12 years of age. It is reported from Ploeville, Ken- tucky, that Judge Lewis came up with the Howard gaug on the 30th, ult. at Martin's Fork, “and killed six of the Howard gang without losing a man,” William Boston and William McCreary had a fight near Homesville Chester county, Pa., on the evening of the 30th ult, during whith McCreary was fatal- ly stabbed. Beojamin Strawler and Frank Nourse, aged about 16 years, went hunting for coon, uear Lima, O., on the evenng of the sith ult, They disposed of a half pint bottle of whisky and then quarrelled. Nourse hit Straw- ler on the head with an axe, inflicting a fatal wound. “Jesse M. Bowell, whose skull was crushed by a boulder thrown by Capt, tain Decatur Ab at Bel Vor nop, Pa, on the evening of the 28th ult., died on the afternoon of the Jlst ult, Patrick Hughes was fatally shot at Seranton, on the Slst uit, He entered money from his 12-year-old daoghter, called her father, who Lied to foree Strong, ‘‘she said,” to see him sitting there. It was bad encugh to have | Mary so far away, working herself to | half her wages; but when John took | sick I pretty near broke down. He bas talked about Mary all the time, and even now, before he can really sit up he keeps it up. I do believe if she could only come home for Thanksgiving, he would get right up agam. But that would take four precious dollars, so we must not think of it. “Ma is going to write to Mary, to- day,” said the boy in a feeble voice, “Yes, I told her I would write the very first day he could sitvp. I told her all about your kindness, and she said she would never forget it.” Miss Strong only stayed a few min- utes, for she had another call to make, and moreover a bright thought had come into her mind. Perhaps it would be more truthful to say, it had been sent into her heart by one of those messengers who bring such thoughts. “Why not make a Thanksgiving at the Widow Lane's, with four of the precious dollars,” She thought it over for several days, and so it happened that poor tired Mary Lane, returning to her room after Bat when the basket full was ordered to the Larkin's house, he changed his tone and told Miss Strong in a very deferential way, that it should be sent immediately, and everything should be cranberries and mince-meat for a pie. ‘There was just enough money left for a little chicken for Miss Strong's own dinner. But then her oven was not large enough for anything else, and she did not eat mince pie, #0 on Thanksgiving morning she put her little chicken in the stove, and went off to church, But she was waylaid by Mrs. Lane at the end of the street, who was hold. ing her apron up to her eyes and ory- ing for joy—the way all women do— for Mary Lane, had just got home, and they would never forget it, and Jim was 80 bright this morning, and as the weather was mild he was going to try to walk a short distance with Mary, and Mary was 80 happy. But Miss Strong could not stop for more as the bell had ceased to ring, but she took a warm heart with her into church. No sooner had she taken her seat, than a hand was slipped into hers, and she found the happy eyes of Jenny looking into hers. “It came last nignt her day's toil, found a letter there with Miss Strong,” she whispered, “You are 8 dear, good woman.” ‘Nobody else would have cared.” “Hush,” she said, for the minister wus beginning the service, but she found thst the happy face beside her did her as much good as the sermon. “Now,” said Jennie, as they rose to leave the chnreh, ‘‘you are going with us.” “Going where?” “Home mother sent you a note.” I did not receive it Jennie, and my chicken is roasting said Miss Btrong. “Then I will go and take it out, while you walk over to our house,” But Miss Strong wished to do this herself, Miss course; demanded Strong, to dinner of and Jennie went with her. When she reached the door Joe Larkins stood there. He touched his eap. Strong,” he said, “‘mother know what to say, she is so glad.” “Never mind, Joe, it 1s all right,” re- plied Miss Strong laughing, ‘go home and get your dinner.” “But please, Miss Strong, mother says if she can do anything for you any time, to let her know,” “All right Joe, I am glad you sre Minn nok “Please, does Tell your mother she deserves jut Jennie stood still. “How many ng coming home for a holi- there LE tfit, an i now 8" “Jt didn happin ng. “It took I nie Miss Strong, dined ‘ ot and because she hia y VAL HLA, eM Girls Who Paint. | the face be de aught { to be well done, pa id Lialiy 1 radials r $m % » i | painting has to stand the test iat | ight, 1 never saw faces wor An child American girl hood upward, and by the time | that she goes over to London to be pre- { sented at court and to take part in such | other functions so dear to the young re- | publican, she has acquired a mastery of | her art, So again with French women, They know how to paint. But Eng- Kn tit assav- “ sh orivd y in & - giris little about it e aub on isd BT ages, 1 WAS white that they d their faces 17oks blue in daylight re roug Mas black line that sy draw round vives 1) gives Lhe their the their ¢, eXpres- ris #i becomes uta: pale eves y put on tint and allewpis ows generally end from the other, s———— A Novel Equipage. M. frist Juss L USSEeis the Belgian author, trip fn haeton drawn by 0 i 3 m Ba Paris | He was seven days on the road, | 4 Sade 22 ream | thinks his dogs could inaj two dogs. ut he make the He drove casily journey in much less time, the unless when there was a | steep hill to climb. At a place called | Louvroil the Mayor heard he had come | into the town, and informed him that tl reach of wie P sot 'e rolecilion all WAY, | his equipage came within the Grammont Law for the of Animals “Very well,” answered the Belgian, whe was preparing to start, and he ordered the dogs 10 get in- !to the phaeton and sit on the seat, while be drew them. They obeyed and stayed there until they were beyCnd the bounds of the commune, when they de- | scended to be harnessed, These in- dustrious animals are of average size and strength, Wh nat an inn thek master used to unharness them and take them with him into the coffee room, where they rested at his fect His Own Surgeon. An old man in Biddeford, Me., has suffered much from what seened to be | an outgrowth from a bad corn on the bottom of his foot, but which the phy- sicians say was dry gangrene, The foot would have been amputated long ago had the doctors not feared that the sufferer, who is 80 years old, would die under the operation. The pain, howe ever, became 80 intolerable that the gritty old gentleman decided to do the amputating nmself Accordingly, while alone in the house, he took out his knife and cut four of the toes off, Later, finding that the remaining tos bothered him in bandaging his foot, he cut that off also. A few days later, his sufferings not having abated, he cut into the foot, below the instep, with a razor, broke off several bones, and pulled them out. A doctor has since relieved him of the offending member, and he is now able to walk about with a eruteh, From recent experiments it appears that the use of welted coal causes a loss of 14 per cent. This is contaary to current su tion that welling In creases the heating power of coal.