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HARRISONBURG. Va., June 12.—A
7 WIND, RAIN, HAIL, THUNDNR AND
LIGHTNING.
fearful storm of wind, hail and rain
passed over the eastern portion of this
county last might. Fences were blown
uns down, trees uprooted and the crops cut
by the hail.
P——
A CYCLONE IN ILLINOIS.
DAMAGE DONE IN THIS AND
NEIGHBORING BTATES,
MUCH
NORRISTOWN, June 12.—During the
terrific storm last night, while lightning
{lashes kept the heavens illuminated, 1
the barn of Ivins Walker, at Port In- |
dian, was ignited by an electric bolt
and was totally consumed, together with
the contents, except the horses, seven
in number, which were rescued while
the flames were raging. The loss is/
between $5000 and $6000, and is par-
tially covered by an insurance of $4500
. in the Montgomery Mutual Company
of Norristown. A ban on the same
site was struck by lightning several
| years ago and burned down.
Tue wind that accompanied thethun-
der, lightning and rain broke a wire of
the Conshohocken Electric Light aod
Power Company on Hector street, Con-
shohocken. Joseph Cochran, a roiling
mill band, who was returning to his
home, got in contact with the wire,
one end of which lay on the ground,
and was instantly kilied by the electric
current. When picked up the wire
was coiled about his body and the four
fingers of his left band burned almost
off and the right arm was severely
scorched. John MeDermody, who was
with Cochran, had his hand severely
burned by the wire. Deceased was a
single man, 21 years old, and came
from Ireland several years ago.
{ OTTSTOWN, Pa., June 12th.—A |
heavy storm passed over the town this
evening at six o'clock. It became very
dark, then a furious blast of wind,
a companied by a sighing sound, swept
down the valley. George 5. Krause’s
planing mill, on Fourth street, was
partially unroofed and seriously dam-
aged; Irwin Sassaman’s house had the
slate hurled from the roof, portions of
Portstown Cemetery fence were pros-|
trated, trees blown down and other in- |
jury done to property, the lightning
was vivid and the thunder tremendous,
LEADING, Pa., June 12.—The elec-
trice storm which passed over this sec
tisn late last night, lasting un.il this
morning, was in many respects phe- | trestle. All of the men were
nomensl. Thousands of small toads | seriously burt, but none were liled.
fell in this city. They were about half | Dr, L. W. Kead who was telegraphed
au inch in length, and covered the | for bas just returned from the scene,
street car tracks for half a square. | He reports that seven men are injured.
Lizhtning struck the Lutheran and | A man named Hortrustine, residing at
Reformed church at Penasburg. Be- | Hickorytown, sustained more severe
yond tearing off a part of the roof aad | injuries than did any of the others, and
he chimney there was no damage. | may dle, The injured are belng cared
Hail fell in various sections of Lan- | for by friends in the nelghorhood.
caster county, and lightning stunned | —
many psople.
Ivius Walker's new stone barn near
Jeflerscuville, Montgomery county, was
struck by lightning and burned. Loss,
$6000. Insured for $4560 in the Mont.
gomery Mutual. One cow was killed
by lighting A barn on the same spot
was burned down 8iX years ago.
A SCHOOL HOUSE DESTROYED
FIVE CHILDREN INJURED,
BrooMixaroN, 1, Jupe 11, —
| Specials to the Pantagraph give partic
ulars of a cyclone which swept DeWitt
county between 11 o’clock and noon
to-day. A school house was demolish-
ed near Birkbeck while school was in
gession. Five children were injured,of
whom it is feared two will die,
At Wapelia, the Illinois Central
Dapot and the Methodist Church were
wrecked. A man named House, living
near that town, was fatally hurt, Trees
and telegraph poles weie smashed Iu
all directions, The barn on Mrs, Ab-
bott’s farm, near Wapelia, was demol-
jshed and three horses killed. Cone
siderable damage w-s done at Waynes-
ville and Clinton. The storm moved
porthwest to southeast ina pathway
about half a mile wide.
AND
A TRESTLE GIVES WAY.
SEVEN MEN INJURED, ONE
MORTALLY.
Norristown, Pa., June 10.—A se-
rious accident occurred this afternoon
on the Trenton branch of the Pennsyl-
vanias Railroad, near Corson’s Station,
where that road parailels the Piymosth
Branch road, Complete particulars
are 1naccesaible from this point, Oue
statement Is to the effect that many
men were hurt.
The agcident was the result of a tres-
tle giving away. The trestle 1s 24 feet
high. Dirt taken from a deep cut that
is being excavated near this point is
dumped from the irestle, a temporary
structure, into the ravine below, which
will eventually be filled np to the level
of the road. While a train of cars was
on the structure this afternoon it sad-
denly collapsed, and the cars and the
men on them were precipitated into the
ravipe, together with one or two car-
penters who were at work on the
PERHAYS
—— - --— —
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
—Miss Belle Mitchell and her sister-
inlaw, Mrs. Edward V. Mitchell,
from a carriage Ly a
runaway accident In Oswego, New
York. on the morning of the 10th.
Early this eveuing Reading was visi- Miss Mitchell's sku!l was fractured and
ted by another rain storm, which, for | she was not expected to live until
the large rainfall in a small space of morning. Mrs, : Mitchell's injury Is
time, has rarely been equalled. severe, but not fatal,
Reading is practically without auy |
sewers, and in many of the streels the
water filled the thoroughfares from
gutter Lo gutter, even encroaching upon
the houses, and hundreds of cellars
were flooded, The floor of the Read-
ing Iron Works forge was three feet
under water, Hail, the size of hickory
nutes. fell north of Reading, and corn-
fields, which had only been replanted
after the storm of two weeks ago, will
again have to ba replanted, being en-
tirely washed bare, The storm was
accompanied by vivid flashes of light-
ning and heavy thunder,
DoyLesTowX, June 12.—The dam-
age done by the hall storm in Doyles.
town last night will amount to several
thousand dollars. The principal losers
are the owners of green houses, J. XY.
Smith’s damags is placed at $2000; J.
Y. Anders, $2200; Mrs, 8, A. Walton,
$800; BE. D Darlington, $500; Clemens
& Pa mer, $250. The corn and grain
flelds surrounding the town are almost
completely ruined, and many of the
truck patches presented a desolate ap-
pearance this morning. So far as could
be learned to-day only two barns were
struck by hghtning and destroyed. The
barn of Amos Krewson, at Rlchbor-
ough, was detroyed, with all its con-
tents, and the barn of Edwin RHeizer,
at Trumbowersville, was struck and
consumed. One horse was burned.
CARLISLE, Pa, June 12.—During
the storm this afternovn the barn of
Mr. Wilson, near Kingston, was struck
by lightuing and entirely destroyed.
The grain and part of the farming im-
plements were also consumed. The
loss is estimated at $5000 with a slight
insurance.
CARLISE, Pa, June 12.—During the
heavy thunder storm this afternoon
lightning struck the large barn of John
Launtz, in Silver Spring township,
pear this city, destroying the barn,
farming lmplements, crops, outbulld-
ings, &c. The loss will probably reach
$4000 to $5000, Insured. It is re-
ported here that several head of cattle
perished In the flames,
HARRISBURG, Pa,, June 12.—A se-
vere thunder storm, accompanied by
vivid flashes of lightning, swept over
this city this afternoon. The rainfall
was very heavy. The cable box on a
pinety-foot pile in front of the Western
Union Telegraph. Office, was fired by
the superfluous electricity, and, before
the firemen could extinguish the blaze,
was done.
LAMBERTVILLE, N. J,, June 12.—
This section wus visited between 5 and 7
this evening by one of the severest
storms known for years. Linbining was
very severe, striking the Union Paper
in New Hope, stunning four
McCue and Charles
—~Harry McBride and Frank Larue,
walters in Sana Francisco, guarreled
about & girl on the 9h, and agreed to
Zo to the Golden Gate Club and fGght
with three ounce gloves. A referee
and seconds were selected, wnd 12
rounds were fought, Atthe end of
the twelfth, while Larue bad not a
mark, McBride was unconscious, and
blood was pouring from his ears, nose
and fnouth, and his face and body were
terribly bruised and mangled. A
physician was called, who said a blood
vessel was broken in McBride's head,
On the morning of the 10th McBride
died. Larue is under arrest,
—An engine, wilh a crew of track-
men, ran into a wrecked freight train,
which they bad been sent out to assist,
near Plymouth, Wisconsin, on the 9th.
Two men were injured, Thomas Has
person, fatally, ‘Two freight trains on
the Burlington road collided at Naper-
ville, Illinois, on the evening of the
Oth, owing to an open switch, Emil
Huen, a brakeman, was fatally injured.
A construction train collided with a
freight train on the St. Louls, Keokuk,
and Northwestern road near Hannibal,
Missouri, on the 9th. Fireman Arthur
Taylor and Berry Nelson were scalded
to death, Several other train hands
were badly hurt, The train despatcher
made an error, sald to be his first in 12
years. He at once resigned.
—Maggie Baker, aged 10 years, Lola,
Alfred and Charles Leth, aged respect
ively 9.7 and 3 years, were drowned
at Rapids City, Illinois, on the 8th.
Their boat was capsized, Three French
boys, aged 6, 8 and 16 years, were
drowned at Biddeford, Maine, on the
10th. Four boys were out in a boat,
and the youngest, while reaching out
to grasp a floating stick, fell overboard,
His brother, the oldest boy in the com-
pany, jumped in after him, and in 80
doing knocked the other boy into the
water. All three went te the bottom.
The remaining boy paddled the boat
ashore,
—R., H, Caldwe'l, a prominent rail-
road contractor, was found dead in
front of the Ingersoll Hotel, in Phenix
City, Alabama, on the morning of the
11th, and it is thought he met with
foul play. Will Duffie, who was drink.
ing with Caldwell, and with whom he
bad a dispute about his money, Was ar-
rested the same evening with
the robbery. Caldwell had accused
Duffle of stealing bis money, and’ Daflie
was heard to reply angrily that he would
kill any man who charged him with
stealing.
—A young girl by the name of Clem~
mons, while fishing in the Little Miami
river, at South Lebanon, Ohio, on the
ht fell ine the water. Hot mother
unged In succeeded ng
her daughter to the Jb bringing
sadden excitement and deep grief was
too much for the mother, and too
dled shortly afterward.
~ By an eX plosion of natural
dwelling in Allegheny City.
11th, Kipp, 70
her hter, Lizzie,
The
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—Burglars broke into W. D. Nor-
ton’s jewelry store in Gloveravitle,
New York, on the evening of the 10th,
and stole about $20,000 worth of jew-
elry. Among the articles taken were
several hundred gold and silver
watches, chains, finger rings and many
pieces of molid gold. Twenty diamond
rings were also taken. The safe was
blown open. One of the participauts
in the robbery of the Northern Pacific
train at New Salem, on the Sth, has
been caught and lodged ino jail at Dick-
inson, North Dakota. The prisoner
says there were live raen in the band,
and that they separated immediately
after the robbery. Reny Casswell, a
young wan, was shot and seriously
wounded by Lany Post, a broker, in
Mill City, Penna., on the evening of
the 10th, Jealousy was the cause,
— While 2,000 people wera l'stening
to a concert in a tent near Jacksouville,
I" nois, on the 11th, the tent was
blown down by a gust of wind, A
number of persons were inlured, the
most s-riously being Mrs. W, H. Mus-
grave, wife of the Pastor of Grace
Methodist Episcopal Church, burt
about the spine, and Miss Alderson, of
Chapin, skull fractured.
—Morgan Lewis was killed and four
persons were injured by lightning near
Olyphant, Penna., on the afternoon of
the 11th.
—A severe ball and wind storm
paseed over the Cumberland Valley on
the evening of the 11th, doing con-
siderable damage to the growing crops.
—During a heavy storm at Corry,
fenpa., on the afternoon of the 11th,
Mrs. Albert Conrick, while running a
sewing machine near an open door,
was 80 badly shocked by lightning that
her body turned purple. Benjamin
Wright's house was struck and his
six-year-old daughter fatally injured.
OC. M. Chidestar, operator at the Pitts-
burg and Erie freight office, was
thrown to the floor and the instrument
in his office burned. Amos Heath's
house was struck, badly damaging It.
Many telegraph and telephone wires
were completely melted, During a
funeral near Darksville, Missouri, on
the afternoon of the llth, a severe
storm came up. A large number of
joined a barbed wire fence, Lightning
struck the fence and ran along by the
horses, 20 being knocked flat and four
killed outright. Mrs. Robert Derigue,
who was sitting in the church at the
time, was severely burned.
51s CONGRESS.~First Session
EENATE.
Committee on Finance, The Senate
agreed that after 3 o'clock
The debate was
Sherman, Reagan, Teller and
after which the bill went over
ington was agreed to. After an
In the United States Senate, on the
indefinitely postponed, Mr, Evarts, by
request, introduced a bill
York to Jersey City. Mr,
pack, with amendments, lhe House
Silver bill, and gave notice that he
would offer it as a substitute for the
Senate bill, The Senate bill to pro-
hibit monopoly in the transportation of
cattle to foreign countries; the Senale
joint resolution looking to negotiations
with Great Britain for the removal of
certain regulations against American
sattle, and the Senate bill for the in-
spection of cattle and beef intended
for export, were passed, A further
conference was asked for on the Pen
sion Appropriation bill. After passing
75 individual pension bills on the cal-
endar and holding an execuliye session
the Senate adjourned,
In the U. 8. Ssnate, on the 12th, Mr,
Edmunds offered a resolution, which
went over, appointing Edward K. Val
entine to be Sergeant-at-Arms of the
Senate from July 31. Two Senate bills
to amend the anti-polygamy laws, the
Legislative Appropriation bill, and the
Sapate bill to indemnify Pennsylvania
for expenditures for the militia called
into service in 1864, were reported and
placed on the calendar. The confer.
ence report on the Dependent Pension
bill was presented by Mr. Davis, and
after discussion went over, and was
ordered printed with the bill as agreed
to by the conferees, Messrs. Evarls
and Morgan spoke upon the silver ques.
tion, Before Mr. Morgan bad con-
cluded he yielded to a motion to ad-
journ.
HOUSE.
1n the House on the llth, the Con-
ference report on the Washington post.
office site was agreed to. Senate bills
were passed allowing beer to be car-
ried direct from the va!s to the bottling
department, and permitiing the ex-
portation of beer and fermented liquors
in bond the same as distilled spirits,
The Post-office Appropriation bill was
passed, Ad, ourned,
In the House the conference report
on the Senate Dependent Pension bill
was presented and agreed to—yeas 145,
nays 56. A conference report on the
Senate Anth-Trust bill was presented
and discussed, and went over, Ad
journed.
In the House, on the 12th, a vote on
the conference reporton the Anti-Trust
The being unable to count a
quorum, a call of the Honse was order-
od and a quoram secured. A further
conference was then ordered on the
bill, The conference report on the Mil-
Aeademy Appropriation bill. An
was
{The Lost Chord Found,
We stood alone in the choir loft,
Hy the organ tall and grim,
While over the keys her fingers
Followed her own sweet whim
1 spoke of the coming parting
nd pleaded one farewell kiss,
But her modest wish forbade me
Lest the sexton old might list.
Then I struck on the organ a strong, full chord
And ere its echops died,
In the twilight aitk of the 01d, gray ehurch
1 kissed my promised bride.
We stood again at the organ,
When many years had fled:
Put she thought me grown cold and heartless,
And I thought her old love dead,
1 spoke of our last fond parting,
Of the chord and its tender tide;
And bow, like the sound of that musie,
Our love had throbbed and died,
Then my heart leaped up with a great, glad
bound
And forgot its recent pain,
For she blushed and dropping her lashes, sald;
‘Could you find me that chord again?”
~ New York Meroury.
MISS DWIGHT.
‘Cash! Cash!’
I bad purchased a small pitcher in
the chinaware department of a large
city store, and the young woman clerk
who bad waited upon me rapped
sharply on the counter with a peneil,
and again eczlled out harshly, Cash!
Cash!’
No one came at once, and still rap-
ping with her pencil, while her voice
grew shriller and harsher, she called
again, ‘Cash! Cash—here you, Misg
Dwight, I'll tell the floor-walker on
you, if you don’t step along faster!
Why don’t you come along when I call
you, miss?’
The girl, who at last responded to
the clerk's strident calls, and who
received in
for her tardiness,
of age,
dressed
was about ten years
although the clerk had ad-
her as ‘Miss Dwight’
an old and worn look in her face, such
as one does not like to see in the faces
of children. She wore an old brown vel-
vet basque, evidently originally made
for one twice the size of its present
wearer. With the basque she wore a
thin and faded calico skirt, both gar-
meats much out of repalr,
did not seem to be mates; her halr was
as | had ever seen.
The pitcher I had
seventy-five cents, and I had given the
clerk a dollar bill
Miss Dwight came
jlald the clerk's
counter, and was hurrying
sponse
when
my purchase, said;
aaa
changer
back,
the
running
book down on
to a call from another clerk,
the clerk of whom 1 had made
Wait!
Tah As ?
it's in the book,
*No, ft isn't,’ replied the clerk,
y the cov-
eras, and shakin ‘Where is
that change,
‘1 put it
do.’
“Then fsn't it
You've either dropped it or —~—
‘Perhaps itis here on the door,” I
interrupted, quickly, waiting the
g iis leaves,
miss?’
in the book like I
why there, now?
s
not
saying.
Then began a search in front of the
counter. and while w8 were thus en-
us, ‘What's the
Miss Barnes?’ he asked
floor-walker came lo
matier here,
of the clerk.
Miss
ward the trembling Miss Dwight and
said:
dollar bill, and she ought to have
brought back a quarter, but she didn’t
bring back anything.’
the floor-walker coldly.
oJ sg'pose I lost it.’
‘Oh, you do? Don’t you know so,
then?’
nl —no, sir.’
‘Well, you'd better find out mighty
soon. Didn't you hear it drop any
place?’
N o=no--sir.’
“I'hat’s queer; you come with me to
the clerk. ‘This matter must be looked
into. Please wait a few minules,
madam, you shall have your change,
and if the quarter isn’t found it'll come
out of this girl's wages on Saturday.’
‘Oh, no,” I sald quickly. ‘Don’t
make her lose it. I would rather lose
it myself. I will come in again in a day
or two and see if the money has been
found, as I am sure it will be.’
1 hurried out, distressed by the sight
of the sorrowful look on the cash girl's
pale face and by the tears rolling down
her thin cheeks,
A dull, cold rain was falling when 1
reached the street, and as night came
or snot began to fall, while the wind
came up from the north.
It was just the kind of a night to en-
joy sitting before an open grate fire
with the last magazine or doing noth-
ing but delighting in the warmth and
glow of one’s ‘own fireside,’ as the
flames rose higher and higher and the
winds whistled without.
1 sat thus before my own fire, with
no light in the room but that sent out
by the flames of my fireplace. The
ternoon lay with uncut pages in my
lap, and Feat idly toying with my ivory
, Instead of using it on the
J could not dismiss the care-worn
| face of Miss Dwight from my thoughts,
I wondered what kind of a home she
was in that night, Poor enough I felt
sure. I hoped they would find the miss
ing money. I wondered- the heavy
portieres hanging in the doorway of wy
room parted suddenly, and there stood
little Mss Dwight herself.
‘She would come up, ma'am, though
I told her she’d best stay down in the
hall until she was bid to
ma'am,’ said June, my housemalid,
thrusting her head in over Miss
Dwight’s, on which there was a little
red woolen hood, while an old plaid
shawl was around her shoulders,
She did not offer to come forward,
but stood between the curtains timid
and trembling, as I could see even by
the frelight,
‘If you please, ma'am,’ she said,
suddenly and rapidly, ‘I—I--got your
address from the bundie girl who done
up the pitcher to be sent, and 1 came
around to say, ma'am, that I—I—dd
take the money, and I—I—told a lie
about it, but I never told one before,
ma'am. I've made the floor-walker
think I really lost the money, and some-
body picked it up, mebbe, or it rolled
through a crack in the floor, but I'm
going to his house to tell him I stole it,
and I hope you'll forgive me, ma'am.
see you,
—good-night, ma'am.’
She turned to go, but I called out:
‘No, no; don’t go yet, I do forgive you,
Come hege and sit down. You are a
good girl, and 1 :
‘I'm a dreadful wicked girl, ma'am,’
she saxd, ‘aod I don’t feel fit to sit
down in : our house,’
‘Now, tell me all about it,’ I said,
when 1 bad made her sit down on ®
hassock Uy the fireside. ‘What made
you take the money?’
“We needed it so much at home,’ she
said in reply. ‘There wasn’t even a
loaf of bread to eat in the house when
I came away Lhis morning, and mother
| and the baby both sick, and father out
| of work for a month; and I knew it'd
| be kept out of my wages Saturday if 1
took the money, and so it didn’t seem
like stealing, and I never thought
i about how 1'd have to tell a lie, too,
{ But I see it was stealing, the minutls
{I'd took it, and 1 was too 'fraid to
own up, and so I told a story, too. But
| I'm sorry ever since, and I've walked
from the store clear out here, and I'm
| going to Mr. Falkner’s house and tell
| him how it was, and
| discharged, but I don’t know what else
| to do—oh, dear! oh, dear!’
| and cried aloud. ‘There is nothing else
could.
ad littl
BE od little
gently as 1 ‘You are a brave
girl, and you are doing
Where does this Mr, Falkner,
the floor-walker, live?’
“Uh, on
at rept
Sees,
| right,
iv a block from bere,
I'm glad of that, but ivi
ots harder to tell him than it’s been
to tell you, les dreadfal cross.’
‘But 1 think you ought to tell him
just the same,’ I said, "and I will go
w.th you if you would like to have
fhe.’
Perhaps it was because we found the
| stately and severe Mr. Falkner with
his own little girl of ten years sitting
on his own knee, and two little boys
| playing around him, that he was not
‘dreadful cross,’
He did not look nor act in the least
| like Mr. Falkner 1 bad seen in the
store that afternoon. His face took on
| a thoughtful but kindly look as he list-
| ened to poor Nellie Dwignht’s story,
| told with tears and sobs, He stroked
the shining hair of his own wondering
little girl as he listened, and his voice
did not seem quite steady as be sald,
| when Nellie's words died away into
tearful silence: “There, there, child;
don't cry any more about it, It's all
right now. You'll not lose your placo
| as you have done Lad I found out in
| any other way what you have told me,
! You are a good girl, and I know I can
trust you hereafter. Marjorie, you go
{ and speak to the little girl. Her name
| is Nellie Dwight, and she is an honest
little girl’
The child on Mr. Falkner's knee
slipped down and went up to Nellie
with an outstreiched hand, while Mr,
Falkner assured me In an undertone
that Nellie should be the object of his
special care and interest in the future,
She came away with a basket of good
things for her sick mother and the
baby, and I was glad to add several
things to the basket, and to send her
home on a horse car with a beart made
happy and light because its load of sin
had been taken from it.
te
be
chinery,
One of the latest inventions in sani.
tation is machinery for personal wash
ing. A French colonel, according to
Mr. Edwin Chadwick, ascertained that
he could wash his men with tepid water
for a centime, or one-tenth of a penny
a head, soap included. The man un
dresses, steps into a tray of water, and
soaps himself, when a jet of tepid water
is played upon him. He then aries and
dresses himself in five minutes, against
twenty minutes in the bath, and with
five gallons of water against seventy in
the usual bath, In Germany, they have
an arrangement under which halla mil
lion of soldiers are regularly washed.
By an adaptation of apparatus to the
use of schools,a child may be complet
1y washed in three minutes.
|
NEWS IN BRIEP,
r———
~The government telegraph service
of Great Britain transmits, it is said,
on the average 1,588,270 words a day
to newspapers alore,
~The artistic arrangement of nate
ural flowers 15 part of every Japanese
{ady’s education—a much more satis.
factory accomplishment than the mane
ufacture of floral monstrosities in wax,
~The city of Philadelphia makes a
profit of more than $1,0)0,000 a year by
supplying gas to the cousnmers, besides
having the entire city lighted free of
cost,
~- About seventy-two million cans of
fy the demand for this vegetable, which
only fifty years ago was raised for orna-
went, and thought not fit to eat,
—Oll and gas have been discovered
in Johnstown, Fulton county, N. ¥.,
and the most flattering prospects for
hese industries have dawned upon this
quiet locality.
—1t 18 said that in london luncheon
is to take the place of lale dinner as a
social function, the fashionable people
recurring to the habits of their fore-
fathers, wiil take their heartiest meal
in the middie of the day.
—Trials of the latest express comn-
pound locomotive in England, with a
special train of eighteen carriages, de-
veloped the unparalled speed of about
ninety miles an hour. The highest
speed, as measured by a stop watch,
was just over ten seconds per quarter
mile run,
—~Stanley says his one aim now is to
get away from the crowds; uot because
he does not wish to see them, Lut be-
cause they prevent him from do ng any
work, He 0lé an artist at Carnes:
“If you were to offer me a thousand
pounds I eould not sit down and let
you sketch me: I am too busy.”
—Mra. Wanamaker, it is stated, has
| introduced a new fad in Washington,
{ and has a class of young ladies meet at
| her residence twice a week, where a
| professor of physical grace from abroad
| teaches them bow to walk, to go up
and down stairs, to bow, to smile,
make eyes and to dispose of the hands,
~There 18 said to be a plant in Aro
bla with flowers of bright yellow ani
with seeds which are like black beam
and these dried and powdered and
taken in small doses cause a person
dance about and behave like a :
he becomes exhausted and falls
asleep,
—A wealthy citizen of Osaka, Japan,
who is the owner of a rich copper mine,
has celebrated in a rather pecullar man-
ner the two hundred and sixtieth anni-
versary of the mns coming into the
possession of his family, On that occa-
| sion each of his 300 or more employes
received as a memento of the occasion
a swallow-tall coat,
~The Eighth Hussars of the British
Army have a gazelle for *‘chiid of the
| regiment.”” It accompanies the regl-
| ment everywhere, and is an especially
conspicuous figure the Sunday
church parade, when accompanies
the band, leading the line with
ly tread, apparently imitated from
that irum major,
—There comes from over the sea the
important announcement that of the
eight women who agreed to appear on
horseback riding astride, at London’s
next coaching meet, four have backed
The other four intend to appear
in costumes “blue redingote, with
skirts falling to the knees, tight buck-
skin breeches, long patent-leather boots
and a si'k hat.”
—A French statistician has been
studying the military and other records
w th a view of determining the height
of men at different periods. The re-
corded facts extend over nearly three
centuries. It is found that in 1610 the
average height of man in Europe was
1.75 meters, or say 5 feet 9 inches. In
1790 it was 5 feet 6 inches. In 1820 it
was 5 feet 5 inches and a fraction. At
thé present time it is 5 feet 3§ inches.
— What would appear to be a form
of telpherage system is al present being
considered as a meaxs of transporting
mail matter between Buenos Ayres and
Montevideo, in South America. Postal
commumeation between the two cities
is now maintained by way of the Platte
river, but the service is necessarily
slow and full of delays. The new pro-
posal Is to erect a small overhead elec-
| tric railway, on which will run cars
capable of carrying postal matter and
other light freight, The distance be-
tween the two cities isabout 180 miles,
~The biggest flower in the world
was recently discovered by Dr. Alexan-
der Schadenberg., It was found on
Mount Parag, which is situated on one
of the southeastern Philipine Islands,
The native who accompanied Dr,
Schadenberg called the flower “bolo.”
The bolo in bloom is a fine petaled
flower, pearly a yard in diameter, as
large as a carriage wheel. A single
flower weighed over twenty-two pounds,
The five petals of the immense flower
are oval and creamy whité® and grow
around a center filled with counties
long-hued stamens.
—A new “fad” bas struck the social
gircle at some places, It called
“spider web party,” and is oming
quite popular. It consists of running
as many threads as there are guests all
over the house, twisting them about
the pictures, over the doors, windows,
ete, At the end of each thread is a
number, and each guest is furnished
with a corresponding number to follow
by the threads through a!' their de-
vious windings and snarls to the end,
where a prize awaits him. The pure
suit leads to all kinds of complications,
and is very amusing to him.
~At present English is
Al UNKNOWN at the Vatican,
The Pope can
it. Cardinal Rampolla, the secretary
of state, 18 in the same plight. So is
Monsignor Mocenni, the under-secre-
Cardinal Simeoni, chief of the
who bas charge of all the
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