MARVELOUS PHENOMENA.
Blood~Red Hains and a Deluge of
sSarpents.
At Rome, in 1222 it
mixed with blood, for three days, and
when the heavy clouds drifted away it
looked as if the sun was swimming in
a sea of fire, says the St Louis
public. Four years later, 1228, a
snow fell in Syria, which presently
melted and flowed in carmine rivers of
blood, or some fluid much resembling
it in every particular. Many of the
old writers record a three day shower
of blood-red rain. in ibe Island
dust,
rained
in
0!
in 1236. A monk, writing in
tells of a loaf being cut out of which
blood flowed as freely as from a fresh
wound, In 13458 there many
tempests. Several and
t of people were swallowed
ap and the courses of r
or stopped. Seme chasms inthe eu
forth poisonous fluids as red
carmine ink, as at Villach, in Austria.
Ponderous hailstones fell in man)
parts of Germany the same year, some
of them weighing from twenty to
Bal J
1201,
were
towns
sf
i
th
ivers change
r
sant
seventy pounds.
At Lamech it r
ets and meteors; lire
ont
ained flesh, dust
rands and corru
ions were in the air: mock suns
tails, sail through
+E
Hes
after £
at Lat
£
i
it b
i ensany
: id in
found all wheat he:
In 1558 bre
154
blood.
Nu
with a bloody swe
taken out
at. Wurtem
a shower of brimstone and :
In 1695 Limeri and Tipperary, I
land, hid many showers of a soft, fatty
substance It was
of.a dark yellow color and always fell
at night. The people gathered it and
used it as an ointmeat, reporting maoy
astonishing cures. i
remberg was
ashes 1634
Fa
resemdé g butler.
i
Casar and Rome.
The Roman
of Julius Cesar, or
Mr. Froude has well pointed out in
his sketch of Caesar's failed to |
supply lunds and homes for the neigh- |
boring Italian populations which had
become truly Romar, and for the sol-
diery, who disbanded and had to find |
work or starve. The ancestors of |
Caesar undertook to establish and en-
large an agrarian law and to take into |
the merely urban rule of the Roman |
eity the general and intelligent popu- |
lation of Italy and make a peninsular
Rome. Cwasar saw that the Roman
empire was getting too large to be
governed by tbs 1 million who lived
within the city of Rome and another 3
or 4 million who
adjacent. But the Roman senate, a |
patriotic body like the ruling and re- |
spectable families of England, refused |
to admit these associated Italians into
Roman rights and powers. Coesar |
thereupon, having spent ten years to
!
:
republic up
p to the time
a little before, as
1if
ie,
)
i
i
3
coaquer Gaul and Germany, returned
to Rome demandiag something of a |
federation of all those who maintained |
the Roman arms. Being threatened
with destruction he marched upon |
Rome, and his enemies leaving it, he |
was obliged to follow them; and when
he reconstructed the senate he put into
it not merely Italians, but Gauls and
barbarians, as they had been called,
from all the better provinces. In this |
way an enlarged Rome with a broader
basis of representation lasted several
centuries longer ; and without that ea-
largement Rome might have expired
anterior to the birth of Jesus Christ,
from her civil contentions. —Gath.
—-——
Masculine and Female Apparel
Itis a popular thing nowadays to
women's We
however, no sympathy with the im- |
plication that women :
men in this respect. Men wear all
they can without interfering with their
locomotion, but man is such an awk-
ward creature he cannot find any place
his body to hang a great many
fineries. He could not get around in
Wall street with eight or ten flounces,
and a big-handled parasol, and a moun-~
tain of black hs Men wear less than |
women, not are moral,
but because they cannot stand it. As
many of Ur young men are
padded to a superlative degree, and
have corns and bunions on every sepa
rate toe {rom wearing shoes 100 tight,
with collars so high that | wonder why
so much good linen is wasted. —<Ladies’
Home Journal
ison I A -
The Main Polat.
The small boy had a dog that was
rough, as most small boys’ dogs al-
ways are, and a young girl who lived
next door had a kitten, sly as all cats
are. One day the boy came nonchal-
antly into the girl's presence, and af -
ter some
suid:
“You know my dog Barca and your
cat Darling?”
Yap"
**Well, my dog had a piece of meat
and he thought your cat was going to
take itaway from him."
“Thought!” exclaimed the wise little
girl. “What makes you say that the
dog thought? You know dogs don't
think —they instinet.”
“Well,” said the boy, “I don't care
whether he thought it or instinct is,
but any how he killed your cat.”
——————— en
Three-quarters of a Century on the Stage.
It is very rare, that an actress cele-
brates her seventy-fiith year of con-
secutive service on the stage of the
same theater. This event perhaps
unique lo dramatic annals, has mo
occurred at Buttars, where Frau
Louise Schmids, the Royal Court
theater, has now completed her three-
quarters of a century of uointerrupted
gagements with that house. She
in 1814, belog then 9
{
i
criticise dress have,
are worse than
on
air
because they
is,
if 0
Hang.
teaced to Death, and the Murdered Man
Fined for Contempt
and
10 come
One John Poters, a sober
falled
This
unusual that his wile, becoming alarm-
dustriods man,
one night.
home
gcCurence was
and
turned out
The next day John Peters’
neighborhood;
4
children
+h
Lae
ed, aroused
in search.
CLI
10 declared that he
that ti
Wi
SW aenr
1 WO men
4 justice
their iono-
: lawyer declared that
not be held for the murder
was proven that a murder had
nmitted.
for a
information that he haa
Peters. The
and
eded, resulting not only
that White and
Miller swore that they would kill
Peters, but that they were overheard
to declare that they would drown him.
They were held over and indicted by
grand jury.
en
wed
bean of
ing,
rived with the
found the ©
was identifi
trial proc:
the circait court of the
the state were in
and Miller were not
friendiess, and, moreover, they were
fler more than a week of ‘‘skir-
j was impaneled, and
then the great trial was begun.
of the people, including the
press. a four-column folio set in small
F. B. Whitson’s cross-roads store, be-
rendered, and bets were made
persons who believed that th
with
prison-
the jury might be *‘culvered.”
The trial had not proceeded far when
was convinced that White and Miller
were guilty. This jurist was some-
He was a decided character, and so
and
we
BO
ed that argument no
could change them
“Gentlemen of the jury.” said the
iS necessary
concerni
heard, “’I don't think it
go into an argument 2
this case. he guilt of these men is so
waste the couniy's money in prolong-
ing this trial. Now, prisoners the
best thing you can do is to
your guilt and throw yourself upon the
mercy of this court Have any
confession to make, Mr. White?"
“No, yo that I
confess
you
ir nonor, except am
i 434] OCT '
‘Have you any confession, Mr. Mil-
ler?
“None, except to
had
yf
say
ue
i that |
or $55 © with # it
g 30 G0 Wiki § Hing «
Pp + <1 =
alors.
“Al right
All right,
that you do not
if
i
nothir
friend
said the jadge, *'I
desire any mercy;
to escape punishment
making a prolonged fight, let me
you that you with nothing
but disappoint I am here as the
of justice. [ have made
up my mind. I have determined that
you are g and nothing on earth
san change me. Gentlemen of the jury,
ou may retire and agree upon a ver
. #
w
vO!
you
will meet
ment,
tise
1ILY
d
Wh
“GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY.”
The jury without leaving the box
rendered a verdict of gullty.
“Gentlemen,” sald the judge “to ex-
pedite matters and thercby save ex-
pense to the county, I will sentence
these men now. The law may be in fav.
or of delay, bus justice is not. The law
i
|
|
the bar,
sentence.”
venient tree. Prisoners at
stand up and receive your
The prisoners stood up, and just as
ft
> 5 f
pronounced the last words of
f
the
wife Mr. Pat
uttered a shout, and bounding toward
door, threw her arms
| man who had just entered
{ room. A wild eommotion followed,
I “What's the matter?” the judge
manded. “Who is the man that
{| bereaved widow is hugging
| «J ain't no bereaved widow, jedge,”
{ the woman answered, **furthis is my
! husband, safe and well,”
i «Silence, woman,’
| manded. “You ought
the judge
¢
the sentence, Oi
the arouna =n
the c¢ourt-
do.
the
pre
1
the judge de-
“
fy
the lawyer,
now gO {ree
**Your honor,” said
suppose my clients can
“And why so, sir?”
“Can your honor ask
stands
such a question
here belore
y ON
“Who is Mr. Peters?”
“Your honor. l cannot understand
“Bu The Mr.
into
tv s00n
nas taken
that str
“Yes, L
“Hold on The
taken fr the river
your remains.’
“But I am h
fication.
in
ere to rely
THE JUDGE KNEW THE LAW.
*‘Ah, you are here to throw an ob-
struction in the way of justice,
I have heard on several occa
sions that you are a mao who bas very
the decision of a
court. And you have come around here
to bully me, aod that too in the face
of the strongest evidence that was ever
brought before a court of justice. Mr.
Sheriff issue a bench warrant of arrest
for this man on the grounds of
contempt of court, and then
proceed with the hanging. This court,
blind as it is to every thing but justice
and the true formof law, is getting
»
Orie P. Rean.
AMERICAN ENERCY.
Not in Contended Fields of Leisure
is Fama Maintained
and
in America,
Mr. Stantley explained to Emin Pasha
and Captain Casati, says a New York
“thal you never
know whether the millionaire and the
bootblack not changed
places with one another since we have
in Africa. The peculiarity of
American life is that no one can affors
to bait and say: ‘I've done enough
If you stop you're done and done for
In America no man can afford to rest
on his laurels If he attempts it he
trampled under by new men and for-
gotten in no time. Now in England,”
he continued, addressing himself more
directly to the young Englishmen, “in
England it is different. A man may
accomplish some great thing and the
fame of it upholds him for years, if not
till death. But in
to keep on doing:
moving, pushing,
along in the swim,
“Men and measures coma
go
rise and fall so rapidly
World correspondent,
may have
ean
is
keep on working,
striving, hurrying
or he sinks despite
take his remains in hand for an
or a day and pursue the spirit that
has gone with a parting volley of obit
uaries'’,
a————————
Whea the Sun Goes Dawn,
Though the morning may be dreary
And the day be long and weary,
Though the clouds may darkly lower
And the tempest flercely frown,
We shall quite forget the shadows
That have lingered {io the meadows
If there be a golden hour
When the sun goes down,
What though fate our hope opposes,
What though thorns shut out the roses,
nd the cross is borne in sorrow
That we carry to the crown.
By and by we'll cease to wander
And we'll rest forever yonder
If there dawns a bright to-morrow
When life's sun goes down
- Boston Traveler,
———
The Tramp's Diplomacy.
Tramp Please can you give a poor
man a little something to eat? But 1
don't want no bread, please.
Woman You don't want no bread,
eh? I guess you ain't starving. You
can can jist get along out of here
“Wait till I explain, madam. You
see the woman next door just now gave
me a plece of paving stone for bread,
and as she she was the best bread -
maker on this street...”
“The best breadmaker on this street!
Jist you come tin here, poor
my
man, sod I'll w you what good
bread really is. Tord how
A
TALK OF THE DAY.
The glazier's occupation is a pane-
ful one.
It is natural for a
to impose the yoke.
I'he
silyl
cattle king to try
accordion skirt has
It was too loud.
proj
should never
gone out of
rietor of a
abuse his
gaming-house
betters.
is run on the course
as a general thing.
The human race
{ true
of love, g
When young men idolize young ladies
they are apt Ww tell a
lies,
All those who pass through th
Lo success will find it
Oil Clty Blizzard.
a
-~
s door
a} b esraraate 1?
labeled *‘push.
The reason why a ben lays an egg is
on end.
work on Wall
‘It won't hold
Munsey 8 Week
Jones
pari
‘Your scheme won't
Witter ivr
wuler. iv.
badge
11g
8 young
15
began visiting
lamp the
st thing out
rown, the inl
Brow
y
“ t} any i }
47 S12 CEASA
1 AOmMICUEe |
3 Dank, was 106 re-
Ho's Washington
“M
me
DOL marryin
“Here's a Connect
ore
ings
SIT {end
moged ng
Papa says he
Shaw them
3
OL
“Pre
a year than any
New England."
fer
: "
hoa
nen, Ba
he
tan *
iis
’ $y
of 1hal
:
t
I shall like to k
“Very well, exclaimed,
!
fa Husband,
my
No doub
what they are.
A Connecticut girl
and pro-
from a young man, and then
the poetry out of him by
“Now let us talk
pathetic
about your
A Gentle Hint— Book agent—*Here
Piano." "
book.
and
didn't order
the
ny
“*No'm, but neighbors did,
it Lo you »
Etymology—*How do you do, my
ou know! “What's
“Wall, ‘neigh’ means ‘sigh’;
is. ‘pear,’ and" *Oh, thank
you. [I know what ‘bore’ means!
His Precedent —The Peacemaker
“Don't you know it is very tw
fight little boy ?W hat does the good book
Tommy (who has just polished
I dunno. 1 ain't
and Ger.
bor, § neigh-
bor?
that
»
wrong
“Yes, gentlemen of ‘the jury.” urged
i ———————— I ————
FARM AND TIOUSELOLD.
Negleot aad Carel wi Result in
d to The Farmer,
Land Is Human in the Respect That It Moods
Rest—A Mistake About Fermenting Secs
—Farm Notes, Choice Rec pes and Ctier
Interesting Firesids Reading.
Negleet Breeds Loss,
"
Ihe average furmer loses more
3 §
the course of a year from neglect ti
he M. E Bunk-
ard. One of the fir ioses Is in nd
hay
nas nuy idea of, writes
i
ing a4 goo on all
tended for pasture
4
Wore i
the fence
bours'
rou
save many doll
a good deal of »
out of corn or wi
morning alter :
Cattle
A Way
Land Needs
» word “rest” has mean-
this
EP
Livalor.
D restless
Amer.-
Mean ia.
says
not
but rathe
of
@iminaled
it
meaning
needs time
tr
Mae
’
Of
change with the ele-
worry and strain
applied to the lan
entirely of this ne:
The rest
10 recuperate, and get back
elements and strength which ve
iitivation have
rest
is change of
1 anxiety
When
i# not robbed
land needs
ars
BUOCOssIvVe taken
kind of which
the needs
wi
of
DUsY man mos
)woeupation, and
they need a chang
i
h
th
piant
¥
*
0 Our sols,
"
growih.
soil year alter year such
strain on it that wil
come barren and unproductive,
If some crop had been sown and
harvested, but t inder, the
better it. Or again, |
the land had been plowed in the spring
cultivated to
iown the weeds and then prepared
winter wheat, this crop would
had a good chance to grow. The land
hed by the ac-
moisture, whic
is 3 1
SAY y
i shortly t
it PO
not
urned land
for
Keen
have
tion of the sun and
fallowing, as this process is called
my
be paid the sum of five
off sale-maker
able 10 force open one
Judge
hundred dollars
0 anyone
his strong
ered by the
of
boxes.’
on 134 ur it
7 ps uj ,
ff oiud - Any
Leis COUN 3
#000 De 80 thal a man will not
+ white shirt on the
account the work
rusade
will
allowed 10 wear
Sabbath day on of
ting a tion
small but
Newly accepted suitor
by. you will have a new uncle
am vour Aunt Mary's choice for a hus-
band.” Bobby (surprised) “Well,
that's strange. 1 heard her tell mam-
only yesterday that you were Hob-
Life.
ton-hole
soon: 1
ma
Mra Secker
in society this winter, and I'n
Your daughter
out much, 1 believe?’
“Oh, no. You see she got en-
last October and she doesn't
the
isn't
on
“Well my dear madam and how are
you to-day? +0, doctor, 1 have ter-
rible pains over my whole body and it
seems impossible ww breathe! of
course, I can't sleep at all; and | have
I" «But other
wise you feel all right, don't you™'
She-—*Are you fond of music, Mr.
Snell? He—""Well, I don't know
tell you the truth, we've had a piano
in the house so long that I really don’t
remember; but | think that is to say,
I have a faint impression—1 was fond
of it a great many years ago." —Boston
Transcript
itis one of the wonders of the
world that a young Iady can sit
around the house all day with a viece
of red flannel rapped around her
throat, nursing her influenza, and in
the evening dress up to soe her beau,
the healthiest woman in existence. —
Texas Siftings.
While passing a farm in Virginia the
figure of an elderly man, whose attire
was noticeable for the utter absence of
an decorative efforts, was seen leaning
ainst the fence. “How are you get
ting along down here?” ‘Jes’ gittin'
‘long; nomo'h" “Good farm?” “Fa'h.”
“Can you raise anything on it?" “Con-
sid'ble. | jou raised seventy-five dol.
Ish's on ii; fohth mortgage, 100."
Washington Post.
A AI RTA,
Disconraging.
Miss Chicago—'*And you are the
artist wie painted thas beautiful pie
ns, Bavion (proudly) —*Yes, Miss,
“Now, do teli me what it la
aa
1
beter crops would be obtained, and
pur soils would not continue to deteri.
orate. Give the land a rest occasi
ally. but do not be misled by the
that simply a change
of pianis
Fermenting the Weed Seeds
idea that fermentation al
The
or even generally Kills weed seeds is a
ways
Some
it is
OmMMmMon error. Kinds may be
not much of a
gotten
Some kinds of weed seeds
after being gently heated manure
The fear of drawing out weed
en as the
manure as made,
thus killed, but
grow betler
i»
if
he Ps
¥
seeds is often giv PeRsor or
not appiying
but
Charcoal for Feeding.
Grain-fed and
especially coru-fed
It corrects the acidity
which corn causes, and will often bri
a cloved animal back to its feed. Uh
goal is also good for fowls. Iu winter,
when snow is on the ground, it fills the
gizzard and helps to grind the food.
Slightly charring corn before feeding
mukes it better for producing eggs,
though it is better still to substitule a
partial ration of whole wheat which
gives material for both the albumen
and the shell of the eges
ag
are
Household Notes,
To freshen salt fish soak them in
sour milk.
A red hot iron passed over oid pulty
will soften it so it can be easily re-
moved.
The more even temperature in the
cellar the better what is stored there
will keep.
A piece of sponge fastened to a stick
is a good thing with which to clean
lamp chimneys.
Great improvement will be found in
ton and coffee if kept in glass fruit
jars instead of tin boxes.
Beets should be boiled one hour in
summer; one hour and a half, or even
two hours, if large, in winter.
The Department of Agriculture sta.
tistician says the total acreage in pota-
toos last was 2,600,000, and the
average yield seventy «ix bushels,
The theory that when trees are
afted on wholes roots they will be
arder than when gratiod on the
young stock is claimed to be errone-
ous and a delusion.
Kerosene applications to the skin of
animals, are remedied for lice and skin
ailments, are too severe. One gill of
kerosene added to a quart of cotton
seed oll Is better.
The money expeaded on roads,
wear and
Many good
foundere®
iO
Maus
HAV
WaZona
Killed
A road can
Horses areannuaily Gr
Hol be
ana
We know this to be RO0a,
or
hog
inrge
a cow,
roducing
irom nogs
pounds aressedq.
Heclpes Worth
Mock Mixce Pu
rand
niik, i « ANG
Saving
: : 0050
Baxep Havisvr —Lay
alt and 5a $n fra tans
sail and walter jor two UL
over. shake 08
the piece in
ours, wipe on
score the skin;
prinkle over it some dripping. Have
the oven Wwierably hot and bake about
an hour. Melt a little butter in hot
water 10 baste the fish with from time
to time. Bir into the gravy some
boiling water, the J of a lemon,
and either walout ketchup or Wor-
Let it boil once
in a sauce boat
Bagep Arrie Savce —Core with
a little tin implement as many juicy
appies us will fll a large bDakiog pan.
Put two table.
the bottom
Set io the apples, filling
with brown sugar
and grated lemon. Bake in a moder
until the apples can be easily
mashed. This makes the best apple
sauce. Rose walter is a fine addition,
but it is best defer putting in the rose
water until just before the apples are
mashed.
Boiep Covrisi —FPut two pounds
of in slightly salted boiling
water; put in also a bit of lemon peel,
a few peppers and cloves. When the
is that the fins may
readily ve pulled out, it is done; re-
move from the fire and arrange tempts
ingly on a folded napkin and garnish
with parsley. Make a sauce with a
dozen oysters; scald them in their
liquor, add salt, pepper, a piece of
nace and two tablespoonfuls of butter.
smoothly
add to the
add to the
boat and
a clean wel cloth and
w
i
cestershire sauce
and serve
of the pan
il
codfish
80 tender
a teaspoonful of flour
into hall &
is 2
wigs fF f +n ,
Cupiul of mix,
githmer a moment.
oysters: pour inlo a sau
serve with the fish.
- PR Ra
A Glance at Nature.
blades of « to and fro
re stalk
As the green Dull ra
And the grasses stool as they
shes by,
see it go,
s
And the sweet polaltoss eye
Then would like to ear
WW hat the cabbage heal 10 say
But the slippery elim bark so clear
That they ramse ii celery
the corn declares it
The wheat is shocked and
For it goes against the grain
When a strawberry runner tries to fir
With a dandy sugar cane
a —_—
He Took me Risks,
said § fond wile
her feelings hurt,
“Charlies, dear,
is this flask of
for?”
“That,” said her husband, suddenly
looking from his valise, *O, that's wo
be used exclusively in the case of
snake bites”
“But, my dear,” remonstrated the
little woman, *‘there are no snakes ia
the cara.”
*(), yes there are, at times. You
ses, when they stop to wood up, or
take water at some way station out in
the woods—some gloomy swamp or
bayou-—the snakes board the train
and crawl around the passengers’ legs.
It's mighty annoying, and dangerous,
100. And then, Wo, I've seen men on
cars with their boots full of saakes—
real serpents—nous of your circus
poster reptiles, ‘but the genuine artis
cle. Yes, 1 shouldn't consider my
life worth ten cents if I were to leave
that bottle of whisky behind."
A]
Outlines For a Novel,
A sevsational piece of news appears
in a Mobile paper. It is said that
some two years ago Mrs. Fanny Cole.
man, a northern lady, went to John
Moulton's house in Baldwin county
for the benefit of her health. Mp.
Moulton found that his boarder
authorities interle
outline of Jia su
conse. there
is boats the a