SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS EVERY-DAY LIFE. OF ——— ’ Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven. tures Which Show that Truth Is Stranger than Fletion. Ax INTERESTING investigation is that being made by the Bureau of Ethnology concerning the great beds of oyster. shells that mark the sites of ancient In- dian fishing-villages on the banks of the Potomac, Susquehanna, and Delaware Rivers. These beds were found along tidewater by the first white settlers, to- gether with the ruins of huts that were often built on the heaps of shells. The inference is that the Indians depended largely upon the bivalves for food. In some places the beds extend over hun- dreds of acres, and in the debris imple- ments of the chase and the home-life of the savage have been found. Most of | these, of course, are of flint. Fragments | of the very vessels in which the oysters were cooked have also been brought to light, so that a conjecture that the In. diuns were familiar with the sieamed, broiled, and roasted ovster is not far fetched. No kind of implement for opening oysters hus been dag up, so the opinion may be hazarded that the red | men were unacquainted with the epica- | rean flavor of oysters on the half shell. A savant says that the preparation evi- | dently most in favor was that of steam- | ing, ‘the bivalves being placed on h t| stones and covered with moist seaweed, | It is thought alse that the Indians were masters of a process of which they di.posed of in barter to tribes | in the interior. The Lucullus would undoubtedly turn up his nose at a dried oyster. tho invasion the oy sterfishers of the Potomac and Susquehanna the Algonquins, and, as their guest, John Smith may have learned seductive style of preparing t for the table. Mes. Barnarea Su is in her 76th year. ten grown-up grandchildren and and she is well to do, living by herself and dent.” den, in whic permitted to From her twenty-fiy e barrels of rolled into her colla carried to ti tatoes, : four hogs, packed the yvielde iy Auticip 1 her house horse she keep the times eves dried 300 pound that it is oll pend on otl fident that drying ovsters, wrder modern Before white man's were poweriul ‘apt. a4 new he 1s v Of I erry, N Y., She has a tamily of THE, children and numerous ereat-grandchildren, Dut she sists on an orchard aud b it put a spad l P he one orchard butchered cat up and wi banked with the To pass boys have been om what they last time for pendent old not be alarmed of even thinki B good 1 say they ten ve Asoxa the professors of the Uni of Basel, in Switzerland, a higher plac e than Dr who died a few days ago, fortune and a will play an important the town. made by the dead man $ 00.000 the investigation of the na. ture of the soul. The of the money is to be used in paying the sala- ries and expenses of a ce scholars who are to live in the hous cupied by the professor, and study and reflect upon the properties and nature of the soa!. From time to ti are to, publish the results of their investiga- | tions, that the world may be the of their efforts to follow out the ions of the ‘The take the work, sccording to the testa. ment, must li and ie ine rally one un the history of i was of one for interest rian number ot Of. ne judge pros Ha nnder. will. men who devote all be heir nl oreign “Subjective,” They must be Christians, either Catholics or writings must be {re words or phrases. jective,” “‘national,” “transcendental” and similar words are also to find no place in their prospective works. With these exceptions Professor Hoppe placed no restrictions unon the duties and privi- lezes of the men who are carry out his strange wishes, from f » 5% ob. to Heme are two little anecdotes of Russian government in Poland: Not long ago Gen. Apukhtine was appointed Government Inspector. A student went to one of his receptions and publicly strack him. The next day a well-known physician, Dr. Nathanson, sent twenty five rubles to a loeal paper to be given to a reformatory as ‘‘a thank offering for some good news he had received.” He was soon afterwards summoned be | fore the police and asked what was the ood fortune which had befallen him. le could not give a satisfactory answer, and that evening was informed that he must remove to Vologda, in the north of Russia, and remain there for three years, Gen. Apukhtine received a Grand Cordon as consolation for the insult he had suf. fered, and an English clown, who was playing in the circus, thought he might make a hit out of the circumstance. So, | in the course of the performance, ho maltreated a brother clown most grey. | ously, and then ran out and returned, | bearing a decoration on a velvet cushion, | which he presented to him. Immediately | on leaving the arena be wae arrosted, but, on proving his naticuality, was os. corted over the frontier. while the pro prietor was fined 500 rubles. Ax eccentric lady named Chamberlain | died recently near Birmingham, Eng- land. She had considerable means amd kept herself surrounded with animals of all sorts. For this purpose she bought two cottages, one of which she occupied horself and the other she guve up to hor pets. She conceived an attachment for a donkey belonging to a aeighbor and which browsed in an adjoining field. attended to him. The owner of the the donkey I will make you a present of it.” She acoepted the donkey, which be. about. A favorite dog belonging to the hushand having survived him was, in ac. cordance with his previous directions, buried in his grave. When the widow died there was some disturbance, and difficulties arose, the result being that the dog was removed and after her burial replaced in the grave. is considerably over a hundred years old and who is growing young again. He now almost black again. He is in active business as a horse-trader, and occasion. ally he rides over ten leagues a day. He has been married three times, is now a widower, and is quite wealthy. ‘The paper casually remarks in the course of at one time with a tumor, “but this was cured by being gored by an ox.” A sew cause has arieen for a lawsuit brother's death. and ordered a handsome Her mother was so grieved at her son's death that the plaintiff had to give up situation to take care of her. Then tombstone, made on mistake and that vas After unsuccessful tempts at compensation she has the lum had brother at alive, gone court, claiming heavy damages and io for grief (Ing Portland, Me. very i Iury. of ars in bet l the most persistent beg is nn collie Ww shy is Hog The mistress, or nd of d lie, in ughnuts, col company visited a perc 1% } > ROme he lo i means of short, sharp The cle rk = dog, but for every day sino: SARE, a sal « CHOETOUSIY now wi : has appeared to beg fF the shop door 18 closed for more i tif someone opens in to got his regular fr f seasons is EVE ~F 0 Ince upon this earth once is i LJ) vears, due to the varvine i F enrth 8 nxis \ the temperatu entered i8 10 prevent, with remains of or tie yy ow two h f Kittanning er teeth drawn i remarked through ng pr 3 inter it was oi ok af $4 SL OF naa ho wn i When he The ch : appearing in t which in course of w % ge wi he form of whole body until there was no bi Both his Africans. be sean 1 LH pare is bloo A by Gia, RIOUS marr tom is record Dr. Post aa among some of in Southern In. he more prim five his fant, a tree nog- Arvan tribes, consists in wedding a girl toa p mal, or « an ani ven to an inanimate notion being that any ill luck which n follow an actual marriage will be avert by a union of this kind. abiect, tl Why Onr Feet Hart Us, Uight veins boois conceation of thie by the same process that produces great warts upon trees where there is an the sap as the result of i nna induce a at extremitios interruption of ident ghtly and far tet to be concealed and, worse, to be enduced OMe Boe bunches quite as uns more troublesome grow upon the formed is often valued for its prettily twisted grain and is carved into objects of bean ty, the guaris upon the poorly cared for or badly shod foot of man produce nothing but unmitigated misery, Fow persons take a daily plunge bath. and if they do it is seldom of suthicient warmth to soften the rough scarfekin that is apt to become too thick and erento unhealth. iness or discomfort. A quick daily sponging of the body is customary with the majority, but this does not afford sufficient care for the feet which are so tightly imprisoned the greater portion of the time. It is an ex. cellent plun to leave the feet as nearly uncovered while in one's chamber and while dressing us the warmth of the room will permit. At least twice a week the feet should bo literally soaked for ten minutes in warm water, tendency to excess of perspiration add a tablespoonful of household ammonia or a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda to each gallon of warm water used in the footbath. If there in pain in the joints or swelling and reduess, paint the affect. ed parts with jodine, if there is a gon. ernl sense of pain and of aching weari- ness, to strengthen them rub the feet with weak arnica, or wipe them with a But while the tree when thus de slum. Many children and many adults as well, nro rendered sleepless at night by prindul or restless feet, and the trouble often extends into the daytime, and such unnatural conditions are the result of nature's protest against treat. ing these useful members with ignorant, or, ut least, negleoiful cruelty. {New York Herald, Curiosities About Be =. ——— It is estimated that bees, in order to 62.000 heads of clover of the average size. This herculean task (for the bees) would nec. ositaie 5,700,000 trips to and from the hive, Wax is a substance secreted by the bee, und is analogous to the fat of the higher animals. The wax of a species of bee common in Patagonia, Terra del Fuego and other parts of Southern South American and the adjacent islands, is a dark blue in color and more than arsenie. A hive of HOOO bees will produce aboot | fifty pounds of honey annually, and will { multiply about ten fold in five yoars. According to latest striisties the number of hives of in the United i bees { | annual product of honey | pounds. St. Louis Republic, Chinese Credulity, A returned traveler relates some euri- | ous stories about Thibet, says the China Mail. An old monk, about seventy vears | old, is said to be a god who hus come to | this world for a temporary sojourn, In his previous existence he was the head moth of the old temple in which he now. One day he called together his fol- lowe re and told them that his soul would { leave its abode, to be born | certain day ina certain family; that they should assemble at the hi ! birth at the hous rival with prayers an of musical inmon n Liane his new and welcome his ase 1 that hie woul them i bs lifting show his knowledge up a certain ligit ; y otf of 4 number fant Fhe event! lowers marched in ited: the Vers were read, HODES indi infant was brought strange, moved us pra nna true, the In pray “Hr the the pt i i wanders table, tou ments, al mus Sees His Own Heart Beat, 3 ight hi Or and a ron « ember 1 he » midn Nos he missed consult in dia seen the man s pt is elt lung azn went to making ie isating he work eT. i Of h ortie n 4 not ong not at orris holds a small mirror to sces his throbbing or E04 his side and in treated every kept covered by bandages. heart re flected His wound is hole i the ginss fow dava and the s Lntombed Alive. ——— Miners i A mine horror { 180. at the Hamilton Newenstle, New Soath Wales in occurred, which baffled the For davs siguals were heard swered, but new falls of ly blocked progress, enme faint and infrequent, and at last Finally, after more than a work, the chamber been confined was n sOOTre It was easy to see that the men had literally starved to death. Their flesh had wasted until the bones almost protruded some cases the skin had become and shriveled that it had cracked open. They had been nnable to get either food or water. In their agony they had paced up and down their little prison until a pathway had been worn into the rock, There was otily one tool among them-——an iron bar, With this one mun had tunneled forty feet toward freedom, and Lad then been cut off from his companions in misery by falls of rock behind him. The other men had pulled and torn at the unyielding rocks about them with their bare hands { until they hal literally worn their fin ters away.— |New York Press, occorred in August, near A cave rOSCUSTS., and an rock oconstant- The signals be. coal mine stopped : t month of ceaseless men had There badies in it where the found. were about of awn In an dry i i Reynard's Remarkable Leap. i | One day recently the Cottesmore { hounds drew the Stapleford coverts, and | a fine old dog fox was soon roused. He {took a turn round the deer park, but, | not likein tr the look of the railway, re- turned to the plantation. The scent, however, was too good for him to remain in this covert, and the hounds hustled him out. In leaving the shelter he met the wide siream of water that runs through the park. Being headed from the bridge he cleared tho stream of ran. ning water at one bound. Two couple of hounds attempted to do the sume, but, jumping short, tell into the lock and had to be rescued. When measured the next day, the distance clenrod wus found to be fifteen feet, which is considered a re. markable jump for a fox to make, It forms another instance of the cou and power that foxes can display, 1 hunted fox no doubt returned to bis com- fortable quarters in the roverts at Sta. pleford, and will without doubt be highly amused to find that his Yeap has ud CHILIAN BEAUTIES, Coquettish Daughters of the Pugna- clous Republie, While the general thought of to-day in regard to Chili has a bellicose ten- dency, it is pleasant to turn to a more puaceful subject in connection with the ittle republic. It matters not how rough the heart of man may be, he is generally susceptible to beanty, and thoughts of a more gentle conquest may reign when we forget the men in the con- templation of the women of Chili. The races of the North, who are for the most wart fair, are prone to acknowledge the wauty of their dark-eyed Southern sis- ters. The standard of beauty may not be so high-—that is, it may lack the reg. ularity of feature that is so charming, thio classic simplicity which possesses a grace of its own-—but the women of the warmer Intitudes have no certain coquetry thot is more or less irresistible. Espe. cinllyso is it in the case of the creole and Spanish types which are found in Chili. The women all affcet the black shawl, or manta, and this is the regulation morn. ing and church attire, no woman ever going to mass without this simple wrap. Nome travelers go so far as to assert that itis this mauts much charm to the wearer, and makes her at. tractive, while without it she might pot receive a { This may be true: bu beautiful Car. men might be, there would be something which lends so ROOT ginnee, no matter how lost throughout the entire opera did she not wear her manta, Those who have {hie in whose eon armen can ap- preciate charm of women of i veins runs the Spanish 0 juetry 3 sly exchange of notes under the In Chili, howe he blood. There is « in every mo- tion, suggests at the churel the watchful the chapero oven of r, reROmi duennn, Wore suffer t saps tha Pudi » i Week! oer’ s Jealous of a Pet Lion. northwest « hatin for his stranze a dis posit lion were | : Ihe wring day the slank into the house but was 8 illen. kopt its eyes constantly fixed upon master. Mrs. Lops so nervous that she prevaile i to the brute promised to do the Hirst time town. A few days later Lopez § el to town to When he returned late at night his house dark and apparently ed. Groping his was indoors he = i § : upon str k- to find Ivins 1 sYing on wife. Folie an wife of ifs husband sell curry out his um bled ell ing light bleeding bh floor. ‘the 3 upon the woman when her back turned and broken her neck, afterward tearing her limbs from her body hw animal then escaped to the woods and has not gave way and be is now a raving mau.a 1 ‘hicago Post fn upon something. and horrified his wife had i n was hiss b wis ol i ion evidently jumped was hoaen seen since, Lopes # reason Chicago's Manufactures. Chicago has become the third manufac. turing city in the Union, and she is draw. ing manufactures away from the East faste thas most persons in the East im- agine. To-day it is a great Troy stove. making establishment that has moved to Chicago; the woek before it was a Massachusetts shoe factory that went there, Many great establishments have gone there, but more must follow, be. cause Chicago is not only the centre of the midland region in respect of the dis. tribution of made-up wares, but also for the concentration of raw materials, Chic. ago must lead in the manufacture of all goods of which woud, leather, and iron are the bases. The revolution that took place in the meat trade when Chicago took the lead in that industry affected the whole leather and hide industry Cattle are dropping 30,000 skins a week in Chicago, and the trade is confined to Chicago, *t. Louis, Kansas Clty, Omaha, and St. Paul, It is idle 10 suppose that those skins will be sent across the Alle back ngain. and factory towns where hides are turned into leather goods. The West still gots its finer goods in the East, bat it is mak. ing the coarser grades, and to such au extent as to give a touch of New England color to the towns and villages around Chicago. Harper's Magazine. A SA AA AOA SAA. Santa Cruz, West Indies. ——_ Ro far ae production is concerned, St Croix, or Santas Cray, as it is more popu. larly know, is the most isn gartant of the Danish Islands, It is well populated, fairly well tilled, and pretty, as it lies i— ————— RP low in the sea. It is tropical only as Florida und Louisiana are tropical-—that | luxuriance and magnificence of vegetation | which the popular mind associntes with southern countries do not appesr in the | Lesser Antilles. Equatorial heat is | necessary for their development. Still, the flora of Banta Cruz is impressive. The trees are grand, lofty and noble in all their proportions. The flowers are wonderfully rich in color, Such yellows and reds are never brought out by a temperate climate. Vegetable life sustained under the most surprising con- ditions. Immense vines grow from roots in the cleft of 4 rock that a knife-blade cannot enter. more than 2.000 different varieties of plants growing at nature's call in the lit. tle island of Banta Cruz. In half an hour's walk around Frederickstad | counted over 200 common forms. The glorious banyan tree, which the natives call “evergrsen,” for no reason that they could give orl imagine, since everything is evergreen here, towers aloft and spreads around -—the king of the forest. From great branches hang hage bunches of fibres —graybeards-—reaching after the soil to take root there and start another tree, Hundreds orchids, ineconceivably in the k wl its of exquisite rich in © sor, k wherever it is suffi. ciently ind to give their roots a hold. Ferns, green, silvered and golden, ns tiny as m i i nestle bar ented ’ 1 bet stard seed and as DIg as no fr : 3 snbanl irom every embank- and Lady of the vines and Od kspur, filane 3 FHAROS BiG herever it house, s pri up ment. Indian Shot Night. sweet potato bachelor's b ition, four-u'clocks, greet your eve w happens iol i LTE CRDE jasmin, i irn supreme vy beau sight of ' he ‘ Ki ISILL Crowned dgainst the = thing quite ; proportions ol mahogany, for in Or on much greater spy { f Hi i the horse-choestnut noblest yi 5p § » nazar . intestines ow, and eaten as 8 suusaDs : what Liarness, rop i i skin of This ; the hard in excellent covering fo are and po strong and lasting thread 1% FiIWSs dried ite hoes soaked in sen oil and burned for fuel horus are made house into varous kinds hold imple nents-into pois fo hunting and war iin mnufactar i" Under favo a sw. ft reindeer of af sleds pmstanees 1% miles ina day i} mil per dav f barden it Phila { is easly made, cnn draw a load of ¥ a Bulletin, ig English Oaks, The largest osk now standin land is the “Cownthorpic, ures se ventv.eight feet at the At one time this tree and its branches covered more than an acre of o Eag- whi in oir fleas. imicrence ground space. The giganiic old “Parliamentary Oak’ in Clipsione Park, Loudon, is be. lieved to be 1.500 vears old The tallest oak on the British Isles is called the Duke's Walking-stick. It is higher than the spire of Westminster Abbey. The onk of which felled in IBID, realize | $4300 for the owner; the bark was sold for £1,000, and the truuk and branches for 83.3050, Oo {releomon, WHE An Ancient Case, The oldest unsettled law suit in the United States is, it is suid, on the records of the Supreme Court, Pennsylvania. The action began in March, 1814. It originated in an assignment for the ben. efit of creditors, the assignee bringing the suit on a claim held by the assignor The claim was collected, and xix years later there remained a balance of R].327.23. held in trust, grew to SIX J02.51 State, old lawsuit has taken on a now lease of life ~~ [New Orleans Picayune, Pussy Among Glassware, {of glasses ono shelf behind abar? Ina | certain local saloon they had a member (of the feline tribe that owns the place. | At closing time every evening Tom (climbs up on the counter and sats the Cernckers and cheese which the free {lonely fiends have left behind, In from | of a large mirror a number of fine wine | glasses are arranged in the form of a py- ramid. The counter, for that matter, L full of fine glassware, but the way that | nt willelim aver the ie, on the top © eo pyramid and down ; ion ng a piece beats the Skill wis SL SA AIS en A AA AIS SESM PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS EPITOME OF NEWH GI EANED FROM VARIOUS PARTE OF THE STATE. TAR remnins of Adjutant Genersl MeClel- { land, after iying in state at Harrisburg, were | taken to Pattsburg and buried. | IN the case of Mre. Corn Frey, at Carlisle | secused of disfiguring her husband with vit | riol, the jury rendered a verdiet of guilty of | sggra ATthe ne sting of the executive commitiee of the Cheutasgua, held sat Laneaster, July 12:h was fixed as the date of opening the summer assembly at Mt. Gretna. vated assault. Pennsylvania Tug jury in the 8. Clair Joeomotive explo. sion ease, by which five men were killed, ren. dered p verdict attaching responsibility to the Beading Railroad Company Brcavsy Mary H. Lavek Jarguisky, of Wilkesbarre, he told ber that A stretcher igy was placed in front of the rejected Joseph her brother had been murdered. £1 H CoutRining an « woman's Louse. rhe was badly frightened. Jarguisky was arrested for trespass. THR report of Dr. A. Ib. Dundore to the Board of Hes Many the heating, lighting ake ¥ eriticisms upon ventilation and general bygenic defects in the ety school buildings in Beading. cludes that impaired vision o Lhe most « mn injury met with asa di. rect result o in school life, Apxien United States nilary conditions S71 an, sifending the ool at Carlisle, war (uarier Bessions of the lar thes from a fellow pupii. of the school’s IST of patents granted thi re, Fran spparsiu W. Cans nD t Chios ger, Sunoery, nut lock ilkesbarre lo placer; B ile, water mechs ers: J. Fort joret canopy frame Jayes Mansparl and David Bank Harris ot ttarted a fight in a barroom in Last pol Dore 8 race of two cemen and a crowd a d gave iw n sgl miles befors were capiy ’ red. y attended mw of hemlock held st Willian es and restrict « was agresd of H. J. Hort, the { a filed his report of BEE INee nic € Appraise nit. i liabilities are not thought the creditors will than 15 0 cents on the Ing Alleghe ny, rendered a sealed ict. He is secused Clearfield W. H of the Houtzdale of embezzlement. idl, form Bank, was guilty of embezziement STa1iA REESE, aged 1 easter from rich nos raw pork. This is the Leese family from the same disesse MAURICE FELDER gomery counly, Was driving & pair « { young { Lower Merion, Mont horses slong Gulf load when they took fright spd ran away. Farrell was thrown out, his foot eatehing in the spring under the wagon, hold ing him inst. He was dragged 1wo miles sua Kilied, BY the explosion of dynamite in Slope, at Hazleton, one man was killed and Yorktown others were thrown fifly feet and bruised. HicuwayMES halted John tut he koocked one of them senselews and escaped Tie Coroner at Erie held an inquest on the body of Charles Iwtri, Jr., who that city. The of Mrs Piotr pecuse her of poisoning her husband. \lderfer, near Norristown, Giedd in mother and sislet IX St, Mary's Polish Catholic Church at Reading, the Father Mark Januskiewicr tosk public exception from the altar jo a letter written him by a member, Martin Boroski, and called the latter a chicken thief, Boroski replied to the priest and the latier ordered his removal from the church. A fight took place between nearly 200 mem: bers, in which Boroski was severely handled. Thirty Polanders were arrested, Tux house of Mrs. William I. Shaffer, who lived in the mountains thirty miles from Kingston, was destroyed by fire. She and | four children, dressed innight clothes, walked one mile through snow an inch deep toward the house of a neighbor. Withing sight of the house they sank exhausted, but were res cued by neighbors, Jonx KASE, aged seven years, living st 107 Wilkine street, Pittsburg, was abducted by a1 nnknown man, EVAN Reso, a Denver, Col, man, claims, | with other heirs, to be the real owner of the greater portion of Patterson's Heights, a sub. urb of Beaver Falls. A big legal battle is expected, . Josern Kevren, aged seven years, while skating on the Lehigh River, near White Haven, Lroke through the ice and was droweed, By falling between a conl ear and a chate al Ridge Colliery, Mahonoy Plane, Frederick Smith, aged 19 years, was killed, Howard Yarsurt, aged 30, while walk. ing acroms the Dinmend Valley Railroad Bridge at Barre Station, mised his footing and fell through the trestling inte ths water below. He was so stunned that he was drowned before help reached him, sss IOI A girl in Nashville, Tenn., giggled because pastor, Rev. herself to death the other day
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