ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERY-DAY LIFE.
Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven-
tures Which Show that Truth Is
Stranger than Fiction,
Ax Indian boy belonging to the Sioux
fribe, at Pine Ridge Agency, in South
Dakota, has a pair of pets which are not
only strange and interesting, but are use-
ful as well. These are two large bald
eagles, The voung Indians at the
agency aro fond of huating, but are not
allowed to own or carry guns, and the re.
sult is that they are compelled to use
the bow and arrow, which they use with
great expertness. The boy shot an old
eagle and wounded it. It flew to its
nest, and he followed until he saw where
the home of the bird was. He then killed
the wounded bird, and waited till its mate
appeared, and also killed it, Climbing
to the nest, he found two young
which he took home with him and began
a course of training which has resulted
in his having the birds so fully under
control that they come and go at his com-
mand. He takes them out, and when he
sights any quarry he turns his eagles
loose, after fastening their beaks so that
they cannot eat the animal, and the
birds immediately give chase and bring
down the prey. The eagles
about a year and a half old, and are
large and strong enough to bring down a
fawn. The boy is the most successful
hunter of the tribe, and never out
without bringing home some game, from
a rabbit to a deer. The officers at this
place want the eagles, and have offered
the boy what probably appeared to him
to be fabulous sums for them, but he
steadily refuses all offers,
Tse other morning Frank Smiley, who
up to a vear ago in business at
Franklin, Ind., and who now resides
Indianapolis, dropped into the former
place. No one knew him. The Frank
Smiley whom every one knew wore a full
beard and mustache and had a very thick
growth of hair. The apparent stronger
had an entirely bald head, smooth fs
no He
proached several lif but no
recognized him. he
grocery whore for
years he asked the
him The looked
head. “Why, I am Frank Smiley,”
the caller, and he told this story:
long a had a severe attack
Erippe. My head 4
Ce morning w » sit rat the break-
fast table | saw tha
en into my plate
mustache and it fell
next put my hand 1
hair fell out in the same
a barber
head, but instead of helpin
every
are now
goes
was
RCO,
evolashes or evebrows, ap-
clong friends,
one Then entering t
dealt
if he knew
and
he had
grocer
store
grocer
shook his
ustantiv,
ana
I went to
and he rubbed a solution on my
ms
way.
remaining hair off.
eyelashes, and eyebrows came ont in the
same manner and I have not had a shave
since, But my headache
left me and |
never i "
felt better in
Pa
was def
srder Sm
Sessions in
ms
- fFUIREPPR
lawyer,
for Ree
MERI, a voung Italian
ling John Salmono be.
n the Qourt of Gen.
eral York. The 4d
fendant f saatching
from a friend in Mott street i
away. Th !
were :
him
been
for v
Rees
peri ne
thing
bef,
New a
Was acen Ri
inwver assed
re
and chai
both hs
His law;
that it was impossib!
have robbed the
fact that he had
was strongly ag
found him guil
him |
along
He abstracted t
chain with his teeth
Prison doing fn
scarcely
ury convicted Salmono.,
faired
RERIIMG
the
known
rt thief
sailor watch and
He is in Mote
long term Y
vater
HOW
Ol Sop
is imp sible.’ The
11g Baltimore
P'nion office had bee n k i
erators in New York and fo
Baltimore very busy
refused to work. Th
instruments available
with Baltimore was lost.
Messages were piling up on the table
and the traflic chief, whose business it is
to see that there is no delay to dispatehes,
was almost distracted. Electricians
were sent for and they began a thorough
examination of the instruments, After
half an hour's search the svurce of the
froble was discovered. It proved to be
& Croton bug. It stood vn the mstru
ment which regulates the passage of the
electric current from the dynamo to the
wire in such a way as to connect with
quad in the Western
eping four op
four more in
vhen it sudder
other
connection
gre wore
i
no
aud
p 1 t
Connie y
of
the negative currents
which are necessarily separated by ins.
lation. The bug was dead, of course,
and the current of 250 volts had fairly
glued it to the belt, thereby forming a
conductor and temporarily interrupting
business between New York and Balti
more for more than half an hour,
Mr. Tuowas Srevexs in his book
“Through Rustin on a Mustang” de-
Nt. Petersburg. He writes: The weird-
8 vault or cellar with a trap-door and
steps leading down into it, The sister
told us its story,
for offspring had been
a couple were finally presented with
a daughter in 1873. Three yenrs
later the new-comer died. The
unhappy parents had the body em-
balm and plwced in a coffin
: lass opening above the face.
The tom in sjusation was built and the
: n deposited in the erypt. Eve
day for Soartoen years fine 1 athor
had visited tho house, descended through
the trap-door, and spent some time look-
Ang into the face of the little one
sskrongh the glass. No change had taken
place in its appearance.
| place of burial.
Dx.
i
i Bawopwix, of St. Louis says:
He had
‘I am suf.
| my office in great pain.
bandage over his right eyo
my eyo. There is something in it. 1
| was running my engine at a
speed, with my head out of the eab wii
dow, looking down the track to sec that
there was no obstruction. I
through a lot of grasshoppers, and one of
them struck me in the eye.’ I examined
passed
ing him great
The saw-like legs had almost com-
I placed him
follow’s eve and wero giv
pain.
pletely filled up the eve.
the operation of extracting the grass.
hopper's legs. After a tedious job 1 suc-
ceeded in removing the impediment, and
affected.
Davio Ravpesavan, a prominent eiti-
zen of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, had a tooth
which caused him considerable pain. On
a recent night he retired as usual, with
the intention of visiting the dentist
the following morning and
xtracted. Upon awakening in
he was startled by finding
pillow and shirt-bosom covered with
molar e
the morning
his
blood, and an investigation disclosed the
tooth Iving upon the bed-clothing close
by. He had suffered no pain sullicient
to awaken him during the night, and how
the det from
his jaw remains a mystery which is not
A number of
1 fo be
tooth ever became ached
likely ever to be explained.
Spiritualists in the community «
furnish a key to the mystery
that they had knowledge that
{ing of the tooth would occur as
f.1
nhip
nl to
and Rav
the extra
it did.
Tur story told by Col. Knollys of the
he Kimberley Kath
; moke cigars
end i he month was
Travelers on the Isth
Punama and in Central and
Americn say that the same queer
smoking is i ite general there
Isthmus, however, i
, the native
' Women si
not
it is
it down
Man
in
DOraons
DOeTre 18 sO
without warning.
iis came into an
fron
opens
ee
were
fire,
h 2113 :
, was soon rewarded by
} his dead mate
3 ed to
OF
again
prentice. his
ated
employe
bor se for HM conts
. a} med $4
animal, ana sold
new shoes, for 75 cents.
prentice was so incensed at
work valued at only 20 conts that he took
am onth then
other horas
1 there never to rio
altho
an an-
has,
ksmith
and he never
he has been in
GeVer since.
Ths Zehner, of
Penn awoke sudde ny iroma dee ps
and found that his false teeth were miss.
ing. He theught he felt a choking sen-
fation. Two doctors sont §
They could g The minister
gnsped for breath, He bade fi
perl
blag business
the
Rev. BN.
it ep
were for.
ive no relief.
die,
the patient at once recov ere dl.
A coniovs dise Wry has been made ai
Halstead, near Cambridge,
{ to the cause of a fire which took place
there. On taking off the roof of the
house which had been on fire, it was
found that a quantity of straw stuff rnd
rubbish had been carried by birds be-
the roof and the ceiling of the
from a hole in the chimney. About two
sacks of rubbish had been accumulated.
Fleet Signaling by Balloon.
Attempts have frequently been made
both oun shore and at sea to travsmt
signals by means of a captice balloon,
and a system which promued exer Hent
results, has recently been tried in the
| German Navy. By its means an admiral
| ean signal | is fleet at night, or to ships
| passing by, at a far greater distance
| than is now possible, as, owing to its
{ height, the balloon gives much wider
range than a masthead. The code
adopted is the Morse; and the differvut
signals are g ven by means of incandes.
cent electric lamps fitted to the lower part
of the balloon, and worked by wires con-
nected with the batteries on shore or on
the fi ip. The balloon can also be
used fr lighting up the Suuntry round,
»
| lamp, with a strong reflector, is attached
i to the lower ring of the balloon. 1t is not
necessary to havo a man in the car of the
| balloon to work the signals, as the lamps
| are entirely worked by electricity, and
only come in contact with the cover of
the balloon when the electric current is
turne i off,
Justice Was to Prevail,
of the cirenmlozution
graphically discussed by
Charles Dudley Warner at a gathering
of story tellers in New York the other
night Thora was robber in
Cairo who fell from the second story of
8 house he was trying to enter and broke
Thereupon he went to the cadi
and complained. The man's window was
badly made and he wanted justice. The
cadi said that was reasonable, and he
summoned the owner of the house. The
that the was
poorly built, but claimed that the car.
penter was to blame not he, This struck
the eadi as sound logic, and he sent for
the carpenter. “The charge is, alas, too
true,” said the carpenter, “but the ma-
sonry was at fault, and 1 couldn't fit a
good window.” So the cadi, impressed
with the reasonableness of the argument,
sent for the mason. The mason pleaded
guilty, but explained that a pretty girl
a blue gown had
The
oflico
mothods
were
once n
his leg,
owner confessed house
passed the buildiog
while he was at work, and that his atten-
i had diverted from his work.
y endi thereupon demanded that the
be brought before him. “It is true
that I am pretty, “but it is no
fault of mine. If my gown attracted the
mason, the dyer should be punished and
not LL” “Qnite true,” said the
for the The dyer
brought to the bar and pleaded guilty
That settled it. The eadi
to tnke the guilty wretch to
from the door sill
ed that
pretty soon
been
snid she,
cadi,
“send dver wns
tenld t} ma
{oid the robber
house
and the
i lice hind been
the
1
iis
crowd re
y : 3 \ i. 3
turned to the Cadi s house, compile
i
tant the
th (ve wis 100 long fo be
Hy
from his door sill. Oh well
cadi, who by
from ennui,
hang him.
Boston He
rald
An Old-Time Clock.
g of Davi
fn prety wou
stening nt
When the of
benatiful Germ:
cession, and
dial twelve
Women
Tee 21 {
reinent for Mr
Ameri
Letter Writing.
Louis XI. «
0 The f
al system in
“harles 1.
ins for letters were
ret
Eagland was
first
the 4
erent de
temp be
axed in France in me of
Xiv..
ard
1840 the
'
rary
Lo 1:8
alters
In
and diff vice were
used in Mpa and Sweden.
postal reform
add,
in
was first put
ia operation in and
the [united i=47
values only were at first issued
used
Two
five and
FEugl first
in Slates
ten cents, bearing respectively,
Franklin and Wash
were withdrawn a
trails of
1845 they
and three cents introduced,
i one cent
now
i. a} wT ¢ 11 lott it
enjoy the privilege of sending a letter all
i
over the United States for two cents,
New York Press,
ne
and wo
Australia’s Size.
The size of Australia is not generally
appreciated. The en bee
tween thom cecupy a territory greater
fthau that of the | nited States, excluding
| Aluskn., New South Wales alone is as
| large as the thirtceon states. Tasmania,
the Rhode Island of Australia, is as large
ns that state, with New Jersey, New
Hampshire and Massachusetts added;
Vietoria, the smallest colony of the con.
| tinent, is equal in size to Great Britain,
Queensland surpasses the united areas of
Austria, Frence and Germany, South
Australinone- third greater than Queens.
land, is nearly as large as Western Aus.
tralia, which of itself has nearly four
times the extent of Texas, while the two
colonies together are larger than the
whole of Europe without Russia. The
total population is about 4,000,000, —
iNew Fork Press,
fos colonies
Conldn’ tStand Shrimps.
Ideas a= to what is “good for food”
come simply from use and habit. 1 re-
“the harvest of the wea” did not often
some far inland, my lather, who wa
staying at Woymouth, sent some Sheimps
to the parish clerk at homo in Warwick.
shire. But afterward, on being asked
how they were enjoyed, the old man
baghfully owned that ‘they looked so
liko crickets that none of the family
could bing thomeelves to oat them, so
they were buried in the garden." [Notes
and Queries.
|
|
THE LADIES,
A MARQUINE BEGGING BREAD,
Promennders along the Champs Elysees,
to Paris (France) papers,
could seo, until recently, a woman beg.
garments of the proletarian. Upon ex-
taken to the station, whero it was discov.
ered that the woman
do Laporte do (iran Isnic
rooms four dogs were found.
was the Marquise
In her
The noble
lady received a small pension from rela-
vase oblized
canine COL
panions,
ITEMA ABOUT THE HAIn,
Much has been said pro ond con as to
the effeet of salt water on the hair. Miss
Mantalini affirms thet when properly ap-
plied, sult water is not only not |
ious, but is an excellent tonic. She
injur-
BiaVs;
“If allowed to remain inn damp muss,
however, it will cause the hairto fall out
The strands should be carefully combed
after the bath and not put up till
fectly dry. Tar soap rubbed into
scalp before going in to ke Pr
hair light. A three-cornered
handkerchief of rub!
of keep ug the hair in ing
It should be tied turban {
as tightly as possible around t
The hair curled ¢
engenders n
up i
helps
$ :
blonde
ver is the only means
dry diy and
ast
ne head
bathing
Hon
mstantly in
fever, which causes
fail out It is wise, therefore , fo chang
from topknot to Psyche and thence to
Langtry as frequently us
{ possible.
st. Louis Republic
The fashi
ver knots inj
irimmings,
Jew nie d py iRECHIT?
lower ed
I's
4
ing trains,
Is made fo ma
HOCH Are Wor:
waist
The Is
e Willi
Ol
am
ost careful edocs
fo teact
and three
I'h
in Lerman
an
and
also taught how
a
to
ns
ing engaged
ildren——{our suns
i the
be Came re id
gn history and
linguist,
family is Queen
ite well
forei literature,
aocomplished musician
amateur artist, but was
to handle a bor i
pair of fiery
mention hor
and the winning
her to her future subjects
Mail and Express
how to drive
pone ££. nos
great personal attracts
Bohemian
which endeared |
New York |
wavs
SPEAKER COR
Mrs. Charles Crisp, wife of the new
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
is notat all well known to the country at
large or even to Washington. She is a
Southern woman of Georgia birth. and was
born and brought ap in Ellaville, near
Americas the Crisps’ present home. Her |
life was that of a typical Southern woman, |
Her father was a wealthy planter, When
quite young she was married {o Young |
Crisp, and the pair made a home in
Americus, where they have lived ever!
since. Four children came to demand |
Mrs. Crisp’s care and she devoted herself |
to them and to her home. While the |
Speaker's wife has an exclusive position
and ranks along with Cabinet ladies, it is
not probable that Mrs, Crisp will fee!
like assuming it unless hor health should |
greatly improve. She is very domestic |
in her tostes and is also a severe sufferer
from rheumatism, which prevented her
last season from even returning calls,
Although her choice would lead herto re-
main in Georgin, Mrs, Criep has always
spent the wintera with Mr. Crigp at the
Mettopolitan Hotel, where she is a fa.
vorite with the Southern contingent. She
is a wellinformod woman, interested in
her husband's career. {Chicago Post,
REVELATIONS AROUT FALAR MAIR,
Are the members of the fair sex likely
to be harrowed by the revelations mad»
by a French contempotary as to the
methods by which false hair is propased:
They may ox.
It is not probable.
1
i
pected to profess. In the first place, in-
credulity, and in the second —if it be re.
quired indifference. The story is that
artific’al chevelures are in most instances
furnished not by the “ coiffeurs” who
trade in human hair derived direct from
the head, bat by the chiffoniers who sift
out combiuzs trom the ** common or gar.
den dustbine, These combings, it is
stuted, are carefully cleaned, separated,
re-arranged and made up, forming the
basis of kone very elegant combinations
nily
be
It is poxsible that some more than usu
hair
sinclined 10 weur a dysthin product if
i help it i
ignorance js bliss,
squesnish lover of f: might
di
s kuew of it and could
nnd
fair Indies
ii
Ener
majority of ca irobably
do not
the source of the
Why should thev?
hair implies
to the
Boxides
BOR, |
Ton curiously into
4
Rapa
i
aire’ hair they use
I'he mere woiring
of such pierhi fA Cares
ch it is
ur.
lessens as monn
nail the hair
Cites
& DY
obtained, worn
1 i1 is
tihiciaily iri y aise; 1t is
it often
§ 3 3 & 3
lo the Lend
is nol n
not necessarily even purchased
belongs quite jira
which it
ry incredulity in respect to
hair | i ii
rof girls all over
i8 artist
thie
Lise justifiable
rnb the world who
Ure oreparod eration
with their lu
Keri rd
With many
her face
%, when she chooses She appeared
one of
one about a month spo in
daily drive
American
brown stra
which had
the smoke
thoroughly
with
§
3}
GHee Hween white ‘
London had just ae
as if it bad
d upon the head of the
Yoer yt
go
and
wralizod
bobbed and nod
lowliest of the Queen's subjects
in
new shades made for exening wear, which
include ficelle and heliotrope, and the
drab and beaver intended
Foremost among them are
The antelope
The chief novelty gloves lies in the
WOar,
imitation bockskin gloves
gauntiets are drawn in at the wrist with
elastic, and have pricked seams, which
means that the needle is passed through
the two edges, and the leather is not
A variety of pretty things is done with
An exampie is a dress of
white and orange striped moire, with
velvet is used. The skirt
front is of the moire, with the stripes
meeting in Va down the middle; the sides
and train are of velvet, The corsage is
a corselet of bias st: ox with a half
open drapery of white lace above; on
this drapery are short rounded Spanish
jacket fronts of moire. The lace sleeves
the elbow,
Queer Ways of Japanese Pupils,
When a Japanese pupil comes to a
Chinese charactor in his book which he
does not understand, instead of marking
it with a pencil, he tears off a minute
picee of red paper with his teeth and
places it alongside of the difficult char.
jute. Atior is neh bus Sapiained
the passage he brushes the or
——y A sheet of this paper called
hidoshi, “Chinese” or *‘foreign paper,”
into be found among the specimens of
i i paper in the Museum of the
University of Pennsylvania, (New Ur.
NOTES AND COMMENTS,
———
Ax electrician says the time is rapidly
approaching when a ship will be able to
telegraph to either shore of the rea she is
traversing without cable or any direct
Rus
rural sections in
numbers. There several
large colonies in the central and northern
gry TY
I'he chief crops
i
are flocking into the
Connecticut
RIAN Jew #
¥
Of great
are already
of the State
Jews age onions and potatoes,
isn {200
vi ernment proposes 10 as.
prietorsh p of the manufacts
Vichies, ths
[riidli
i
Ur.ous Works now
i» estunated that thi
F200.000 and the Government e
. § "pares
HinK fi an yaad prot of about 81320 (HR)
DUsin es,
On thie
A 14
figur
wen of the curious in numbers has
oul some interests
the city of Berlin,
iT sireeix,
ten da
or down the
1.400.000 in-
wilho groin up
If the
were to turn out at
is
4
sircet tw
tants
HEE,
grand
wuble they
FE PY i
march fa
an inquiry into the
course of storms in the Ara-
hese researches apparently
ow that the ¢ yelone & are formed on the
worthern limits the mon-
on When the northern limits of the
reach the land, and when the
1% monscon extends from Asia to
tx of southwost
MONSOON
ator, no great storm is generated
abian Sea. The results of this
are important in that
real cause of the evelones is to be
sought in the conflict of the regular
southwest monsoon current with the op-
posing northerly currents moving from
the Asiatic continent toward the Equa-
tor. According to the prevailing theory,
evelones are genernted where there are
reat vertical differences of temperature,
ving rise to ascending currents. There
are, however, no evidences of the exis.
tence of such conditions in the Arabian
Sea at the periods of the maximum storm-
inoss,
showing
Nexr to the United States, the country
to which there is the largest immigration
of Europeans in these times is Brazil.
Notwithstanding all the disturbances of
the past year in Brazil, ship-loads of
steerage passengers have, according to
the New York Sun, been put ashore
every week at Bahia, Rio and other ports
on the eastern seaboard. We judge by
the roturme thus far received that the
year's immigration will ran up to 200,-
000, mostly from Italy, portugal and
Spain. The republican Government
holds out even greater inducements to
mmigrants than were held out by the
Government of Dom Pedro. It pays a
proportion of their passage money; it
gives them land on easy terms; it
promises to provide them with employ-
ment, and it relieves them from mili
service for a torm of years. Over 80.
000 Italians have taken advantage of
these terms the past year, and the Gov-
crament, amid all the troubles and
© of the times, has striven to
keep the promises made to them, It is
a curious fact that while there were
many German
du the reign of