RAIS, INE AND SYO.
ONE WOMANKILLED AND TW0 BADLY
INJURED BY LIGHTNING.
MOUAWK VAL»
A BLIZZARD IN THE
LEY.
Burazin, Ind... Fab, 20 —A fearful
hail and lightning storm prevatled for
several hours here and adjoining cou»
tes yesterday. Johu Decker’s frase
residence, near this town, was struck
by lightniog about noon. The current
first passed down the stove-pipe, com-
pletely shatiering the stove and then
crossing the Hoor, on whieh Mrs,
Decker and Miss Florence Ball were
standing, it lore the floor from under
their feet, paralyzing their legs, Their
feet have mnce blackened and burst
and are badly lacerated. The girl is
seriousiy injured. The house is badly
wrecked,
TAMALGO, Ills., Feb, 20.—Mrs.
Ezell, wife of Milt ilzell, was killed
liere yesterday by a stroke of light-
ning.
Lox Braxcu, N, J., Feb. 20,—
The bluff frouting Ocean avenue was
badly damaged by last night's storm,
and the footof Chelsea avenue the sea
made a big cut into the bluff, The
artificial stone walk on the old mansion
property was demolished, Several
large cuts have been made into the
biufl between Ocean Pler and Simpson
avenue. The pavilions at Cooper's
old surf house, at the foot of Broad way,
are undermined.
BanyLoN, L. I, Feb, 20,—It is re.
ported from Fire Island that during
last night's storm the surf ran so high
that the life saving slation at Short
Beach was badly damaged, a portion
of it being carried away and the re-
mainder undermined.
Foxpa, N. Y., Feb. 20,—The bliz-
zard which struck the Mohawk valley
last night still rages. It is the worst
storm of the season. The snow which
feil last night is drifting badly and
rallroad traffic is interrupted.
SAN Francisco, Feb, 20,—Reports
fromm peints on the Central Pacific
overiand lines from Colfax to Truckee
— A freight tran jumped the track
at Pounding Mill, Tazewell county,
Virginia, on the 17th, The engine and
five cars were wrecked, killing Captain
R. D. Peck, agent of the Hull Coke
and Coal Company; engineer Sam
Clowers and a brakeman, name un-
known,
—Marcus Marx, s member of a
wholesale clothing firm in Chicago, was
fatally injured on the evening of the
17th, by falling 75 feet down the eleva-
tor shaft of their building.
-At the municipal election in Phila-
delphia on the 18th, a short vote was
polied, the total being 151,182,
Charles F. Warwick was elected City
Solleltor by a plurality of 36,199, and
Captain Jchn Taylor, Receiver of
Taxes, by a plurality of 34.155. The
fourteen Republican candidates for
Magistrate were elected by votes rang-
ing from 86,284 for Kochersperger to
01,727 tor Durham. The seven regular
Democratic nominees were elected by
votes rangirg from 08 2064 for Ladner
to 48 953 for McCarthy. The Inde-
pendent Democrats received from
3989 for Campbell to 33,528 for Eagan.
the Fourth District by a plurality of
8384.
-Thomns B, Evans, Democrat, was
on the 15th, elected aurwess in Norrs-
ristown. Thomas P Merritt, Demo-
erat, was elected Mayor of Readlug,
Pa,, on the 18th, by about 550 majority
over Mayor Kenny, Republican. Rob-
ert Clark, Democrat, was on the 15th,
elected Mayor of Lancaster, Pa., by
218 majority. The Democrais carried
the election in Allentown, securing
the Mayor and Councils, Fourteen of
the eighteen precincts in Chester, Pa.
give Coates, Republican, 593 majority
for Mayor. In Williamsport, on the
18th, FF. H. Keller, Republican, was
elected Mayor,
~The pension payments, so far this
month, amount to nearly $3 000,000,
and it is expecte ¢ that $10,000,000
more will be paid out before the month
closes, This large disbursement will
preveat any very ecided increase of
the surplus during be month of Feb-
ruary, and will als affect the usual
monthly decrease of the public debt,
show that a! othersnow storm prevailed
in the Sierra Nevada mountains
Tuesday vight, The train due bere at
9.45 A. M. Tuesday, and that due at
10.45 P. M., came in about midnight, |
baving been consolidated in the moun-
tains. The mcrping train due yester- |
day was at Truckee at noon. Yester-
day’s East bound 3.30 P. M, and 8 P’- |
M. trains were consolidated at Sacra.
mento. This practice will be followed
hereafter until the storm abates,
Yesterday's overland malls were de- |
spatched over the Santa Fe route and |
West bound malls have been ordered |
sent to California over that road until
the storm ceases,
QUEBEC, Feb. 20.—A terrible snow
storm rages in this city, The roads
are entirely blocked aud trafic is suf-
fering.
MoxTREAL, Que, Feb, 20,—0One of
the worst storms of the season is now
in progress here, with a falling temper-
ature. Snow fell heavily last night,
and about ten o'clock this morni
heavy wind set in with thick snow,
Local traies are only slightly delayed, |
but it is believed that the full force ol
the storm has not yet become apparent,
Ol i
or
ig »
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
~— Kate Daveler, aged 16 years, ems
ploved fu the stocking works at Man- |
heim, Pa., had her hair caught in the |
shafting ou the 17th, and was fatally |
injured.
~The house of F, J.
Crestline, Ohio, was
evening of the 16th, by two robbers, |
who drew pistols and commanded si-
lence under pain of death, One of
them grabbed Frengle, and, when his
wife tried to assist him, she was caught |
by the other. In the struggle Frengle |
and his wife were thrown to the floor, !
Frengle managed to get his revolve:
from his pocket, but, being unable to |
Frengle, nea:
visited ou the
use it on the man who held him down, |
he leveled it at the one who held Mrs
Frengie and shot him through the
heart. The fellow reeled out of the
house and fell dead, and the one who
held Frengle ran away, The dead man
was about years of age and well
dressed, On bis budy was found a reg.
istered letter receipt dated February
13th, and the name of Mrs. Anna M.
Daviny, Beaver Falls, Penna. Fren-
gle was in the habit of keeping consid-
erable money in the house, and at the
time of the attempted burglary had
about $2000 in his possession.
~ A telegram from San Antonia,
‘Texas, says that late reports from the
small-pox districts along the Rio
Grande show an appalling mortality
list on a ranch In Duval county, where
147 out of 150 emplopees were stricken
with the disease and 65 of the number
died, There is a scarcity of physicians
and narses,
~The engine and baggage car of a
passenger train plunged through =
bridge over Chisholm Creek, near
Wichita, Kansas, on the morning of
the 17th, The passenger coaches were
left on the brink. Road Master Peters
was killed, and a unmber of others
were injured, The support of the
bridge bad been borned away during
the night, supposed by tramps,
~John Campbell, of Newtown, Con-
necticut, was (aken from his bed by
four masked wen on the evening of the
16th, tied to a telegraph pole and whip-
ped with rawhides until he was uncon
scious. Campbell has been lo the habit
of beating bis wife, and has been con-
fined in prison for threshing her. On
the afternoon of the 16 h be hit ber on
the head with some Punt iestrument,
waking » dangerous sealp wound,
«In Charleston, South Carolina, on
the evening of the 17, Napoleon Lave's
calied at the store of B. Feldeman &
Co. and asked to see his wile, who had
been s¢pira from bim for some
time, pen she came out Laval shot
her, abd then, entering the store, shot
Feldeman, Both are believed to be
mortally wounded, Mrs, Leval was
ur
we)
i8
of
~The Territory of Idaho, which it
proposed to bring into the Union
whieh il
13 estimated that 16 000.000 are meri.
10,000,000 torest and 30, 000, -
O00 grazing and mineral, The assessed
value ot property in the Territory, not
including miming property, is about
e actual valuation being
$30,000,000, The popula
estimated al a [ttle over 117.-
C00.
uring aprayer mesting in a house,
near Lebanon, Indiana, on the evening
fatally
No motive 1s
gnown for tie crime, —Near Compton,
on the 18th, a 16 year-old
named Booth, wayladd a mioister, ley
M. Whisman, and fata'ly cut him wit!
a knile, Wi lived two hours
after receiving his wounds and made a
statement about tre attack, Booth
accompanied Ly a man named
Sparkes, Whoisman had once punished
Booth while the latter wasa schoolboy,
threatened then to be
revenged, and never forgot his fancied
vouth
youll,
silishi
wus
— George Bailey, Norman Schorfie:
and Frank Fairchild, boys, weed
drowned in Silver Lake, at Port Dover,
on the 19th, by the ice Lreak-
ing whie they were skating,
l. a commercial
drowned in the Owasco
Auburn, New York. on
19th, The Lehigh
trmin stopped on the bridge
pear the New York Central crossing,
Davis, think.
ing the train was al the station, step.
off the placform and fell 20 feet
into the water,
— A portion of the ceiling In a school
Pa., fell on the
A number of children received
~0G rant Davis,
neal
19h.
— An explosion of dynamite car
tridges occurred at Wilham Taylor's
home, at Phillipsburg, New Jersey, on
the i9.h, The house was wrecked, the
farniture destroyed and Mr. and Mrs,
Taylor and their two chiluren seriously
injured. A boarder had placed the
Taylor, not Knowing they were there,
shut the oven door, the jar causing the
explosion. The boarder fled. A large
vat used for boliing cotion In the dye
house of the Palmer mill at Three Riv-
ors. Massachusetts, exploded on the
afternoon of the 10th, Three men
were severely scalded,
~Mrs, Giles Collins and daughter
were arrested in McKeesport, Pa., on
the 19th, for shophitting, A search of
their home disclosed at least $5000
worth of goods taken from various
McKeesport stores, Mrs, Collins is the
wile of a leading politician of Me Kees
port. and is well known, W. T., Case, of
the firm of U. GG. Case & Scns, general
storekeepers at Marcelius, New York,
was arrested on the 10th, charg el with
forgery, by D. McCarthy & Sons, of
Syracuse. It is sald the forgeries wil
reach $12,000,
~The heaviest fall of snow this
winter oceurred on the evening of the
18th throughout the Adriondacks,
The lumbermeu are in high spirits, as
it will enable them to get their logs to
water,
Thomas A, Brashears, owner of a
tobacco warehouse near Maysville,
Keutucky, was beaten to death by Gus
Sallivan and his son Samuel on the
18th. They used a shovel and a club,
Toney were neighbors and bad a grudge
agalost I7iashears because he had been
instrumental in bullding a turnpike
which took a portion of their property.
Thomas Lee, a colored farm hand, in
Bladensburg, Maryland, on the 19u,
cut his wife's throat and then come
willed suicide. Toe woman had sep
urated from him because of his violehes
while in liquor,
~Hey. John M. Lance was murdered
in Union county, Georgia, on the even:
Feldeman’s niece, aod Lad been living
with bis family for some time.
ing of thie 15th, it is believed by Moon.
~The dwelling of John Liston, In
Kingston, Ontario, was burned on the
morning of the 20th, Four of his
children were found dead in bed, hav-
ing been suffocated by smoke. Mrs.
Liston, after vain efforts to arouse her
children, jumped from a second story
window with a babe in her arms. Her
leg was broken by the fall, but the
baby was uninjured, Mr, Liston made
heroic efforts to save the children, and
only left the bullding after he had
teen so severely burned that Le will
prcbably die. The family numbered
seven children in all, three of whom
were rescued after being more or less
burned. Martin and Hugh Dralnered,
brothers, were killed on the morning
of the 20th, by the fall of a scaffold in
the Molhe Gibson Mina at Aspen, Col-
orado,
— Burglars entered the postoffice in
Rahway, New Jersey, on the evening
of the 19th. They drilled several holes
In the safe and used dynamite to blow
gpsn the doors, The safe resisted
their efforts, but was badly damaged,
and a large quantity of postage stamps
was destroved by the flames, The bur-
glars were driven off by daylight.
~During a fight In Gregory, Michi.
gan, on the evening of the 18th, Stan-
ley Marsh stubbed and fatally wounded
Milton Bailey. They are both boys
not over 12 years of age. Warren
Bloom and Warren Adkins, each 12
years old, quarrelled over a game of
cards in Hope, Indiana, on the 10th,
Bioom drew a pistol and shot Ad-
kins in the head, causing a fatal
wound,
BENATE,
In the U. 8, Senate on the 17th, Mr.
Fry, from the Select Commitiee on
Pacifie Railroads, reported back ad-
versely the [Pacific Railroad Funding
bills referred to it, and In lieu thereof
reported an onginal bill on the subject,
with two reports, one touching the
indebtedness of the Union Pacific, th
other that of the Central Pacific. Toe
Educational bill came up as unfiaished
business, and Mr. Blair spoke for three
hours in support of the measure, but
did not finish his argnmwent, A con-
ference was ordered on the House
amendment to the bill to include in the
next census the statistics of mortgage
indebledness., Adjourned.
~In the United Suatef Senate, on
the 15th bills were reported appropri-
ating $6,200,000 for the construction of
a deep water harbor at Galveston (not
more than a8 milhon to be expended
yearly), and providing for the admis-
sion of Idaho to the Union. After an
executive session, Mr.
an bour and a half in support of
Educational bill, A couterence
port on the biil to include In the census
an ascertainment of farm mortgage lu-
debledness was agreed
Lis
lo,
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1
ABOUT PUBLIC OPINION.
It Usually Follows Leaders Who
Triumeh In the Battle of
Reason.
3
It is sometimes necessary to have re-
gard to public opinion, and to rule
one’s conduct by the whims, prejudices
or superstition of the majority, but it
18 neither necessary nor right to always
accepl what passes for publie opinion
as being an infallib'e guide, It should
be questioned at times both as to its
suthority and its reason, and resisted
or changed on occasion, Public opin-
lon does not, as some people suppose,
represent a consensus of the opinions of
all the people learned and unlearned,
virtuous and vicious, If it did It
would be & compromise belween ex-
tremes, something inferior to the best
opinion,
leaders. Tne reason for this
public opinion is generally guided or
controled by the strongest of men,
though they may wot always be (he
beat, For one who thinks or reaso s
thousands who accept
judgment of their leaders,
tiiis reason that public opinion may
generally, In the absence of doubt, be
accepted as correct or better than the
individual judgment of
be questioned and resisted by thinking
lieve 1t to be wrong, for in that way it
way be changed and made right. Con.
sidering public opinion In this light as
the opinion of leaders of thought
subject
and the
extent
first
but
is obvious that some
noixbly literature, the drama,
fine arts—it must Le to some
fickle and changeable, following
one set of leaders and then another,
way direc
on
in a general ted aright,
quality of pubic opinion, being misin-
terpreted, has led some writers to treat
it with less respect than it deserves,
William Hazlitt ralls at
as he says hin
the pul
one of his essays,
“in good set terma.’’ Ie says the
lie “is 80 in awe of its own opinion
it never dares to form any, but
: ‘
very + Brat 111 sf
Up LOe GIrss Ie Tin
4
1 ils
M3
in theUnited States Senate, on Lhe
10th, the Li to remunerate
employes for time st in
of Injuries received
reported
postponed, ihe
ude
prohil
adulierated
d the exportation
reported favorably
Ln
adversely and
vill to the
importation of af
drink, &
weal,
of
Wan
ir. Culiow,
instructed to
rales
Cotimilles was
nto the excessive Tieight
railroads east of the Rocky
aud reported a remedy, Mr
sumed
his Educational bill, After an execu
tive ssasion Lhe Senate adjourned,
In the U. 8, Senate, on the 20th, the
Senate bil for the allotment of lands
in severally to
the Inoiwn Territory, was reported and
placed on the calendar. Mr. Chand-
ation calling on the Atloraey
General for informalion as to the as
sassination at lucy,
B., Saunders, U, 5.
was taken up.
Pasco, of Fioride; Hawley, of Connecti.
cut; Call, of Flora, and Chandler, an
amendment ofered by Mr Pasco was
tabled and the original resolution was
agreed to, ‘he Educational bill was
taken up, and Mr. Dair Onisted his
speech. Mr. Faulkner then obtalned
the floor, whereupon the Senate ad.
journed,
. Blair re
tarts setared
ler 's resol
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“
HOUSE,
In the House on the 17th, a confer
ence was ordered on the Senate bill to
increase the pension of soldiers and
sailors totally incapacitated by disease
mecurred in the service, Mr. Banks,
of Massachusetts, called up a ll for
the appointment of 30 additional med
eal examiners in the Pension Office,
When the vole was taken the yeas was
1¢9, the nays 19. No quorum, so the
House adjourned.
In the House on the 18th, on motion
of Mr. O'Neill, of Penusylvania, Sat.
urday, March 15, was set apart for the
delivery of eulogiss on the late Rep-
resentative Kelley, The Senate bill for
the appointment of an Assistant Sec.
rotary of War, and the Oklahoma bill
were respectively debated In committee
of the whole, The conference report
on the bill to collect farm mortgage
statistics for the census was agreed to
and the House adjourned,
Inthe House on the 10th, the bill
for the appointment of representatives
of the United States to the Interna-
tional Industrial Conference at Madrid
was reported favorably, but Me. Rog-
ers, of Arkansas, chjecled to its cone
sideration. The Senate bill authorize
ing the Presideut to confer brevet rank
on any officers for gallant services in
Indian campaigns since 1867 was
paged, The Senate Will authorizing
the appointment of un Assistant Secre-
tary of War was reported from the
Committees of the Whole The Okla-
homa bill was considered, pending
which the House adjourned,
~1n the House, on the 20th, a con-
ference report on the Senate ill to in.
crease the pensions of helpless soldiers
was agreed to, Mr. Morrill said the
bill volved wn expenditure of $400,
000 or $450,000 for this year, Ad.
Journed,
Tue great mistake of the American
life is that we discount
everything--all
our happiness, all desires, ui
expectations. var i
nally get the
Leese who generally
116%
i from resting broad
as the aggregate of
a community,
allow Yara.
thie ie of the
¥ say the
oy
is pusillanl-
is weak,
on a
Asis
and
bubl
moment, so that we may safel
1 is the of pul
pot its parent,
mous and cowardly
wy
public dupe inion,
[he public
because it
1
iunce, 1
It knows itself to be a great « and
that it | but
gestion, iwiili
as Upon = 1g
Yetlit
strings, and
00 OpInIons
su ng to Appear
n leading
thought that its decision are
I'he
ight lies
of
in iis failure to
that as
has **no opinion but upon suggestions”
it must get suggest and opinions
from thinkers who are constantly en.
tending with each other for supremacy
in the control of public thought, No
guide can lead the public very far
wrong, for there areother guides present
to correct his errors
follows the leaders who triumph
battle of reason, It is fickle
they are weighty.” mistake
this whole thot
appreciate the fact
on
ina
and while the debate is going on.
not and cannot be a fixed and
able decree as to questions that have
been in disput since man entered the
world, It is obvious from this view of
public opinion that thinking people
should not reject it in a spirit of Hazlitt,
tion, but should take part in correcting
it whenever they concelve it to be
wrong.
——————
Edisonas a Newsboy.
‘At the beginning of the civil war,”
early selling papers, but, to tell the
truth, I was not making a fortune. 1
worked on so small a margin that 1 had
to be mighty careful not to overload
myself with papers that [ econldn’t sell,
On the other hand, I eonld not afford
to oarry so few that 1 should find my
self sold out long befdre the end of the
trip. To enable myself to hit the happy
mean, I formed a plan which turned
out admirably. I'made a friend of one
of the compositors in the Free Prem
office, and persunded him to show me
avery day a ‘galleey proof’ of the most
news article. From a study
of ita head lines I soon learned to gange
the value of the day's news and its
selling ospacity, so thet 1 could form a
tolerably correct estimate of tho num-
ber of papers I shonld need. Asa rule,
I could dirpose of about 200, but if
there was any special news from the
sent of war, the sale ran up to 300 or
over. Well, one day my compositor
brought me & proofslip of which nearly
the whole was taken up with a gigantic
display head. It was the first report of
the battle of Pittsburg Landing —after-
wards called Shiloh, you kunow-—and it
gave the number of killed and wounded
as 60,000 men!
“I grasped the situation at once.
Here was a chance for enormous sales,
if only the peopls along the line could
know what had happened; if only they
could see the proof slip I was then
reading! Buddenly an ides occurred to
1 rushed off to the telegraph ope-
rator and gravely made a proposition to
him, which he received just as gravely.
He, on Lis part, was to wire to each of
our route,
me,
bosrd—ua«d for
announcing the times of arrival and de-
cut
ympauying slaughter
do once;
agrecd in return, to supply him
bulletin
parture of trains—the news ofthe gr
battle, with its aoc
This he was to at while 1
‘free,
gratis, for nothing,’ a Harper's Weekly,
next six months from
that date,
“This bargain struck, I began to be-
think me how | was to get enough pap-
ip I intended.
I had very little cash, and. I f
grand o«
eared,
I went to the superin.
tendent of the delivery department and
for
copies of the Free Press on
1 was not much surprised when my re.
ly | grufly refused.
In th
che ky boy, and I felt
saw a small f
we days, though, I was a pretty
desparate,
prospect
telegraph operator had kept his word—
rtune in if my
was still trifle
{
a point on which I “
Nerving myself
stroke, 1 marched stairs into
office of Wilbur F. him
asked to see bh A few minu
in to hun
and that I wanted
up
Storey
was shown
was
sopies of the paper ot
smber 1
hippers, and sto
in
left in meeting
1 the Parson, were
badd:
3 %
fea
£5 vue
pas i
ten seco
Te Waa not a son
1 of them,
clustered around me,
each other for
copies precious
paper.
“You ean understand why it struck
mo then that the telegraph must be
the telegraphie notices on the bulletn
boards that had done the trick, 1 de-
termined at once to become a telegraph
jut if it hade't been for
Wilbur F, Storey I should never have
fully appreciated the wonders of electri.
eal science.” Harper's Magazine,
35
A Steer inthe House,
A drove of Texas cattle were being
driven scross the railrosd tracks near
the Martell House. One of the drove,
n large steer, became separated {rom
the others and ran down the tracks iuto
by William Little, the driver, the steer
mounted the outside stairs of a two.
story tenement house situated close to
and entered the
Nrs. A
round house,
“>
child. The infuriated steer upset the
the chairs and other furniture, and
overturned the stove. The driver
mounted the stairs, and, after some
difficulty, managed to get a ring in the
animal's nose, bat it broke and was use
less, The animal, after having com.
pletely wrecked the room, leisurely de-
soended the stairs and was captored.
slats LR
of doing
Tuung 1s always n beat way
everything, if it be to boil an egg. Man.
ners are happy way of doivg things
each one a of genius or of love
now repeated and hardened into
Ir the peacock could see his feet
wo ald paver brag of his tail he
A WOMAN'S FOOT,
What Ite Gimensions Should be,and
Hew it Should be Used,
A woman's foot should be in lengia
a little less than one-seventh of her
beight; it should ve arched on the top
80 that the line is thet of one-half of
Cupid's bow, and underneath so that if
itis wot and set on the floor it will
leave in the middle only a slender water.
murk, broadest across the ball; the rosy
toes, of whieh the second should be the
longest, should spread flat upon the
ground st every step. The heel should
be rosy and desend almcst in a straight
line from behind, the ankle delicately
rounded. The soft and cushion like in.
step should be marked by faint blue
veins,
The foot, says the New York Jour.
nal, denotes character, as well as the
face,
Ladies of Spanish descent have the
smallest feet, For a long time Spanish
elsquette forbade s woman's foot to be
he old adage tha! “to
length {oot
enjoy of
Henes
the
to
&acn
know of a woman's
was & great dogroe
Women
the
that
BLO walk from tho hi
waist still, except
gentle willowy
the
motion
for.
LE
which
10nd afl
BOCUIN panies grac
ures,
One of the best modes of sitaining
1 fo
Pp
Hind FD
this walk from the hip practice
walking with something ised on the
head. The graceful girl cin
parry a pitcher on her head nasupport-
#d by her hand, because she ives
not from
m
the waist or
Most American walk badly
A peculiar fact about many New York
women
they
thumping siep, as
This
tags sh
Wen
CRvY
| walk with a i ’
{if they were eclub-footed
0 the of
is almost invariable
of
due fact oes,
it an
" wll - 1
with nsturally soa
members
ladies
tho e
er-
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bind." Helena (Mont, ) Herald,
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This story of the loss ofa d
comes from Cincinnati: T
valued at 850, belonged to a pawnbrok-
er, and was mi sing from the winlow
He was positive he had seen it there
late Saturday night, and ealling bs son
the two searched the shop high and low
buat could not find the diamond. After-
wards a neighbor, talking to the pawn-
broker, incidently remarked: “Had
quite a time last night watching a rat
in your show-window."”
“Rat in my window! What's tht
The neighbor then explained. A
number of us were sitting in {rout of
the St. James* Hotel abpnt 8 o'clock
The electric light was burning br ly
in the window, whea slong cine a
woman who, stopping a moment, oak
ed in and shrieked, ‘A rat!” Wo all
rushed over, and sure emouzh there
was a big gray fellow, at least x foot
long, skipping aronnd among the dis
mouds ani breast-pins, smelling the
silver spoons gud listening to the ticks
of the clocks.” This iuformation gave
the pawnbroker an idea, anl, quickly
returning $0 his store, he went op
watch for the rodent. The Iatier came
out on a foragisg expedition, an { being
oanght killed, was out open and the
missing diamond found ia its stom.
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