—
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERY-DAY LIFE.
tures Which Show that Truth Is
Stranger than Fietion.
Spreran census balloting just issued
give some interesting facts concerning
pauperism in the country. In 18H)
there
pepulation in the almshouses of tne
country. There were 8,437 more males
then females, an excess whicl is not ex-
plained and which is not easy to under-
stand, especially so when the excess of
male paupars under the age of ten years
is 11.66 per cent, Here isa question
for students of sociocogy. Why is
there this disparity between infants of
opposite sexes in pauperdom?
males were found predominant. Bat
between twenty and twenty-nine, be-
tween thirty and thirty-nine, and
between forty and forty-nine, there was
For the next five periods the males are
again in greatest numbers, the percent-
aze of excess being between fifty and
fifty-nine, 11.02; between sixty and
sixty-nine, 22.68; betweon seventy and
seventy-nine, 27.44; between eighty and
eighty-nine, 19.52; between ninety and
ninety-nine, 10.24. When it comes to
100 vears and over the women again
reassert themselves and show an excess
of 12 82, there being in 1890 658 males
and 88 female paupers over 100 yaars of
age. or so alleged to be, as the persons
so quoted were all ignorant, mostly
neguoes, who possibly really did not know
their a:
not really include the vast army of poor
charitable
but it is a gratifving fact that the in-
crease of public paupers
than our in
argues well for our gencral
prosperity as a peoble.
Ther: are many
the hair turned a vear or a
months, and claim that it is
possible for a black head to grow gray in
one night. A
under the notice of a reporter
Of course this showing does
supportel by organizations,
has been less
an i
material
increase population,
known casos wh
gray in
novelists
'
very peculiar case came
rocentiv,
:
i
The physicians, nurses and those w
i to be about the Nutt Hotel
Ind., on the even
the late Monon wreck, were not a
mystified by the suit i
Miss Helen Lo
She is
chance
Crawfordsville,
of Worn
b(
pany.
On the me
1
Hens ana a
and a pronounced
morable afternoon of the acel
moment before the cars began their fear
ful desc Miss Love sat in the
coach reading a novel. From beneath
the sty lish hat she wore there prop d
dark. soft, ¢
the crash, the
hen cam
cape from beneath the timbers
aay
inring curls
shock and stragele fi
wy i
Iv a half minute elapsed until the girl
had secured a sare footing and was safe,
bat that hall minute, full of
mental suffering. had done its work
hour later sho lay with, 8 broken
on a hospital cot. Her pall
i
iramed
horror and
An
ank 0
id face wns
with ringlets of silver gray A
portion of Miss Love's hair retained
origina! color, and
of place with her white
unmistagkabie of
mental horror
dared until she was [i
debris. ;
seams strang
tresses th
idence of the
§
fi she mu
Iv
berated
does not appear
to mind the matronly appearance of
locks in the least.
her
Tur history of illus.
trate l by every means of
has ever been kuown to man, will be one
of the great features of the World's Fair.
The arrangements for the display are in
charge of Mr. Willard A. Smith,
of the Department of Transportation.
The transportation building, by the w
will have sixteen acres of floor
which 450.000 square feet will be
served for exhibits, OF this, 230.000
square feet are to be devoted to railways,
and the remainder divided between ma-
rine and land Some of the odd
and interesting things promised in this
exhibit aro: or Japanesé
passenger wheelbarrows; Andrew Jack.
son's carriage made out of the
of the old war-ship lronsides, carriages
belonging to and used by Lafayette,
Stephen Girard, Daniel Webster, and
Abraham Lincoln: models of such ma.
rine craft as the dabgsa of Malta, the
cwique of Turkey, the dahabeah of the
transportation,
locomotion that
chicos
ay,
space, of
res
vehicles,
“Jmrikshas,
timbers
South America, the kyak of the Esqui
maran of Ceylon, the banca and easca of
the Philippine Islands, the trabacole,
brazzera and chiozzota of the Adriatic,
and the sampano tek pais house, mandarin
palsenger and war-junks and leper-boats
“Rocket,” one of the original passenzor.
cars of the Boston and Prov or pon Rail-
road, a ‘Peter Cooper” locomotive, one
of the old “‘camelbacks,”” and, of course,
the ‘‘palatial ” travelling and sleeping.
curs of the present day. In add
there will be a display of sach modern
railway appliances as air-brakes and
switch and signal systems.
Tun oldest diary in the world, accord.
ing to a Japanese paper, is that of the
Hozaka family. landed proprietors in the
Province of Koschin. The diary has
been conscientiously kopt by the various
beads of the family for more then three
centuries. It was begun at the time of
the fall of the Takedns, who were
masters of Kaschin under Yoritomo, the
great Japanese raler,
ancient books fail to show that the
Hozakas were especially distinguished
either for intellect or prowess. There
is no doubt, however, that they were
conscientious in the discharge of their
duties, and lived the peaceful lives of
Japanese gentlemen. The state of the
weather was naturally a matter of great
importance to them, and each day they
chronicled its condition. But the books
have other entries as well, A short time
‘ago a dispute over precedence took place
between two branches of the same family
in Kaschin, each claiming to be the
nal line, The contestants appealed
to the Hozaka dinry and found the record
of a dinner given several hundred years
ago by the head of the family to the
founder of tho side line. The record
vim contained the names of the dishes
eaten at the dinner. and effectually
sottled the dispute. The various volumes
of tho diary now fill eight chests, and
Irom the chief treasures of the wealthy
Hozaka family.
Axoxc the personal effects of a thief
captured a few weeks ago in tho little
{ town of Remscheid, Germany, was a
{ complete record of his misdeads, The
| conscientions man, however, had no in-
| tention of lessening the labors of his
| future prosecoutor in the courts of justice.
| The book showed that during a ceriuin
| number of years be had committed
fifty-soven thefts, with a not result,
deducting all his expenses in planning
| and executing the crimes, of 1,088 marks
jand 44 pfennings. The accounts were
kept scientificully under the names of
| the varios victims. In explanation of
| his curious custom he said that he hoped
{ when Fortune smiled upon him at 8s. .me
future day to restore the money which
he had stolen. Iu order that he might
{do so justly, he kept the list of the
names of his victims and the amounts of
money he had taken from them.
Pav. Haok, of this city, savs » Pitts.
burg, Penn., special to the Denver, Col.,
Republican, has a kennel of wolf hounds
! at Greensburg, and he hus received a
letter from sn number of planters in a
remote section of New Moxico, asking
him to send five of his dogs to that
Territory.
of 1,000,000,
in the extermination of the pest, and
they request Mr. Hack to send a pack
of his hounds to them in the hope that
through them the the loss of eattle and
money may bao Mr. Hack
ordered his keeper at Gre nsburg to put
the hounds unler training for
the New Mexican planters. Mr Hack
ceriain any of his hounds can
and end kill the
largest and most vicious woul,
Ax Indian named William
Tyndall is about to ask Uno'e Sam for a
pension. His bome is on a farm near
Bancroft, hY b He Lins disc
showing that he was muster+l out of the
service at Omaha in 1866, at the age of
twenty. Hew
fortv-six years
(hnaha duting t i He was
sent to Fort Kearny and then further
west on frontier dats He served under
Capt. Griffin. ns not wounded,
CiRim oo 1On
Disability
racumnatism (i
lessened
five of
One
is
singly alone. tnokle
Omaha
Arye
nr
as born in Douzlas County
enlisted in
and
wer.
’ 11
Pyndall w
1 *
under ae
ile nears
tracted in the
' s
n for work Heo
HE the
avera
LUTresses
the
woman
canhold up her
three woeks nt
or thn
despite all she can d¢
keep the head erect on th thie
ort i a frame his
nine
1% fo sup]
affairs
day »
state of about
ought about by
3
steel »
1 . 1
CIV y 11 she wns ih
TONS, ne
she we
Although
thus gaused soon healed,
into the cal of 8 he hor
: i
thie
lost their power to hold
The woman went to Bellevas
the a ha }
firmly on her shoulders, |
ise r since have
head orvot
Hospital
other day
WHY
went a
on learning that a surgic operation
ould bu necessary.
Soug
ito the phenomenal crops
North Dakota la
collected by the Commissioner of Agri
culture and Labor of that State for pub.
lication in his annual report. The ro.
port is very exhaustive, dealing with the
i counties in detail, and i
1890, Ne=th Dakota had 2,616,514,
SOW th wlieat, vield of
27.554.611 bushels, or ten bushels and a
i to the and that, in 1501,
acres were planted with wheat
fl regards
Cate In
sintialics
har
at soar have hoon
show in
4. acres
£1 a
raciion
2 865.0402
acre
the total vield being 61.713.52% bushels
ai average of Wo bushi is
and a half to
raised in the
Vvear are;
0.270.685;
over twentv-t
an acre Of other Orops
Sato the figures for Inst
Oats, 17.801 .528; barley,
flax, 1,214,018, and rye,
310.067 bushels, >
Tug remains of James Whitehead,
who was buried two vears ago at Grace.
from Augusta, Ga,
{ were disinterred on a recent afternoon,
to be reinterred in the family burial
{ ground. The coffin was opencd to satisfy
{ curiosity, and to the surprise of all
| present, the body was found petrified.
he form was as perfect as the day it
was buried, and there was no sign of de.
eay. It was as hard and as solid ns
stone. Even the clothes were in
i best of condition. This is the second
i body buried at Gracewood known to have
{ become petrified. Atlanta Constitu-
tion.
wood, seven miles
A nay was born on board the sleeping
ear Glyndon, attached to a Northern
Pacific train, a fow days ago, just as the
train was pulling oat of Hope, Idaho.
Two doctors who were aboard attended
the mother, Mrs. C. E. Brant of Seattle.
A meeting of all the passengers on the
train was held to raise a subscription as
i a present for the baby and to choose a
name for it. With the mother's consent
it was christened Ida Glyndon, Ida being
intended to stand for Idaho, the State in
{ which she was born. The mother and
| child were taken to a hospital at Spokane,
and a committee of the passengers
bought there a silver cup and a Spokane
sous enir spoon for the baby.
Tue late John Jay Hawkins, formorly
connected with the office of the First
Auditor of the Treasury, was notel for
his wonderful momory and for the fact
that he was one of the threo gustodians
appointed by Secretary Shorman in 1878
to deliver 100,000,000 in United States
bonds to the Rothschilds in London. As
an instance of the exactness und ncour.
acy of his memory he once, in dispute
whether aleortain man had been Licuten-
ant-Governor of Indiana, gave off hand
alist of all the Lieutenant-Governors
from the formation of the State, together
with their dates of service. :
Ax English miss who has recently per.
formed the 1oble ast of saving a human
life is Gwendolin Evans, of Birmingham,
ped thirteen Her opportunit’ came
while bathing on the seashore, and when
Cholmondeley Thompson, a London
youngstor of ton years, over-weighted,
erhups. by his name, was sinking in the
fore swell sho swam out nud saved him.
The Royal Humane Society has given
her a bronze medal, Miss Evans learned
to swim nt one of the Birmingham public
baths, and can swim a mile at a streteh.
A Musical Grove of Trees.
Hamburg is a musical grove of chestnut
and walnut trees on the
in New London County, Connecticut.
The spot is well known among local
Into these trees, which are old and nearly
their way through the’knots and stumps
of limbs that have decayed.
cases but the mere shell of the
from
nt the roots smoke issues
trunk. The peculiar sound caused by
{ given the grove the name of Singing
Trees, In the summer, when the trees
tare covered with folinge, the wind
no effect upon them, but in the fall the
it whistles and moans and hisses througy
the trunks and limbs until it
seems to one a short distance away that a
it f
i
i horde
hollow
demons are holding a grand
These ds are produced
tha blows the
It then SwOeps over the top
falls upon the grove,
trom th
a boy falls upon a hollow key placed
nt his lips, and the sound produced in
by
{ jubilee. sOun
{only when wind from
| southeast
of the hill
and
upparentiy, i
us the wind mouth
ot
many cases, is like that mad. 8 por
the nose of a bottle,
multiplied a million times Breaking
and then, a short
son blowing into
into these tones is, now
mouth of
sound, as if from the a thou-
sand pythons in chorus. Taken together
these ond and
shricks make a pandemoniam
doesn t care to listen to
moans and
that
Very long
hisses toots
one
The
can be heard five miles away, and
heard to the
Hose
itewanrd a dis.
Boston Tran
it has been
tance of i mies
ight
wy ript
:
Lovage for the Gfip.
i
a benevol
voung fell
C uWo
Young
I'r
fishing
man
8 pin
in nis
waor it. nna
It is no ‘kill.o
s how it goes
man spuffed a tin
In five
'hat's wonderful
YOu ve md
minutes
Thess
a monopoly of
he sagne os a fort
The mi
“This is one of the commonest of herbs
ine to vou
$3 . 4 '
oid in smiled mduigently
said he ‘It is so cheap that it can b
the ton if you want that mu
ITO Ine Os
bought by
It «
is the best thing
‘What do y¢
*rerman
hare it Fo
powdered, fas £
§ 8 Rey Con
ked
fe
fen
enough re
it
alge hus been nverlo
large
family of the grip
its
it and vou tell all your
age is no sure cure
New York Times
i
Popular Doctoring in Russia,
Slovo of Kier reports some carious in.
t
stances of popular dectoring in
Fhe rural ds
pon n little stool and examines
south
Russia, ntist piances his
patient
him If an upper tooth ix to be pulled
he performs thie operation with a simple
air of tongs like that used by cobblers
a lower tooth
ie operation is more «
tooth is tied very skilfully
string. The other end of the string
fastened to a hook in the ceiling. Then
the stool is removed with a jerk from be.
neath the patient, who falls, his tooth re.
maining on the string, sometimes with
| the flesh around it.
| lutermittent fever is cured either by
live frogs or by fright. When the sick.
| ness breaks out the patient is sinde to
| carry about him hs many live frogs as
| can be put in his clothes. I fthat treat.
{ ment does not help the patient his fellow
| villagers try to frighten him. The most
| popular method of doing that is known
| by the name of Likaniye, A crowd of
| men and women come into the house and
| raise a quarrel with the pstient. They
| treat him to the loudest and most offen.
sive torms of reproach. That naturally
| irritates him, and he answers in similar
terms. The crowd takes offence at his
{rude expressions and resolves to lynch
A rope is put around his neck and
extracted
3 : wr
mplicated I'he
with 6 violin
be
i* {oo
i=
{ him.
he is dragged about until he is insensible
on aceount of fright.
Fifteen Shotis a Second,
A mine manager in Nevada claims to
have invente | u gun of remarkably rapid
firing capacity, the implement having a
Winchester barre! and stock, with a
fifteon-repeating magazine in the stock.
It is a tritle heavier than the ordinary
Winchester. but its great feature, us
claimed, is that the whole fificen shots
may be fired in one second, a statement
which has been fully realized in practice.
The shells aro thrown out, and st the end
of the firing the gun is as clean as
though only a single cartridge had been
exploded, It is stated that an instan.
taneous photograph was taken of the
gun in action, and, while the exposure
was made, five shells were in the air
tossed out by the inconceivabl pid
working of the gun, As Honoris, the
wonpon is one of extreme simplicity.
All that the man whe does the ng
has to do ia to fill the chamber with car.
tridges, cock the gun and pull the tri
38 many times as he ny has t
gun is accurate at s or range.
~={8t. Louis Republic.
8 cloth te used as a teimmir
jo anted ¢
& > ih
THE HORSESHOE
USE IN ANCIENT
MODERN TIMES.
ITS AND
The First Use of Iron Structure of
the Horse’s Foot—0dd Materials
Used for Footgear,
To the ordindry observer a horseshos
to fit the hoof of the horse and is without
any apparent further interest. But it
has its story, and a very entertaining
one, too, it is. The most careful inves.
tigation into the past history of horse.
shoes discloses no antiquity to the prac-
wore unknown to the Greeks, and if to
them to all other nations of earlier ages.
Xeanophon, the Athenian historian, essay -
ist and military commander, who wrote
the most complete work on horsemanship
of his day, some 400 years bofore Christ,
makes no mention horseshoes, but
on the contrary heis particularly explicit
of
toughen the hoofs,
in Egypt, Assyrian or Palestine.
latter country did not raise its horses,
but obtained them from Egypt. Aristotle
and Pliny mention that horses’ feet were
covered when stony ground was to be
crossed or a long journey to be made to
but it is certain that the coverings were
not metal shoes in the form and shape
horseshoe of to-day. but
simply bandages or kinds of boots. These
: j and the
hemp
und use of the
made of leather
plaited
together like a mat
the
ent tn
intter
bandarzes of
twisted
strengthened
in
DOOLed
were
straw or
and some
bottom by
the
times on
plates of iron
east Comaois
if the ow
and ostel
and
. a 4
ware vith leath
ners ot t
the
wore protected by a sheet
were
thie
op metal
3
ninnas
boots
In
and
the
stations soles
rare cases the precious metals, gold
1 it said that
nperor
in
Noro wors
Hie those o
sliver WErs used
mules of the E boots
§
prote ted
times, the
ITON SGOUE
the d
in
me the u
oe
fs il
te p tl 1 3 pring he
fac X cled at the
vent
gio of §
upp
' to pre.
the
being to have only th
rest thereon
to
or
is hes Ger ods
the
the parpose
Craft og
Horseshoes
gist
te font resting on
iron
the fool
known
characteristic
feature, such racing, nailless,
jointed, elastic, tread, ete A bar shoe
is one in which the heels of the shoe are
horn of
Rie noecor ling
&me aishinz
ns bar,
continuved around beneath the heel of the
foot and united together at their ends.
It is used on hoofs liable to contraction
at the heel, its object being to keop the
heel open. Horseshoes have also boen
made of rawhide. Several thicknesses of
hide are emploved and compressed
shape and then chemically treated to
preserve the hide. But the latest shoo is
of paper. A number of thin sheets of
parchment paper satarated with oil and
turpentine are glued together and then
subjected to great pressure. Itis stated
that the German cavalry horses are shod
with them. Another wellknown shoe is
or some other yielling substance for the
trond. The part of the foot to bo shod
is the horn or crust. The horse walks
upon the lower edge of this horn, the
frog, sole and bars. The frog, sole and
left in their natural state, but the horn,
from ite more brittle composition, can-
not do so. It is evident, therefore, that
it 1« only the latter that needs to be shod,
in fact ought to be covered.
The foot is automatically constructed
with direct reference to two important
objects, viz.: great firmness and great
elasticity, the former to sustain the
hoary weight of the body and the latter
to diminish the impact on the ground of
rapid and vigorous action of the foot.
This crust or outside covering, though
horny, is not solid, bat fibrous in texture,
its design boing to protect the sensitive
foot within from blows an: by its elas.
ticity lesson the concussion when the
foot strikes the ground. The greatey t
wear and strain is at the toes of the front
foet and quarters of the hind feet, and
nature has made extra provision at these
points by there imeroasing the thickness
and Bardnoss of the horn. Curiously
and interestingly the human
nails are similarly so
nails being thickest
ris
tune
best results, that the different
should be frae to perform their
tions. lluture having
highly seusitive interior parts, it is in-
#0 ignorant as to cut away these safe.
guards to actual mutilation and believs
it beneficial instend of positively injuri-
ous to the foot, [It makes one turn away
sick at heart from the thought of the in.
noble animal in being subjected to such
treatment, When one is a daily witness
to a horse's drawing londs, their fect
shod, the frozs and
use than if their feet were the
scooped-out ends of posts instead of liv-
ing, feeling parts—he wondersat mans
much skill and intelligences in the
simply regar led as a means of earning a
profession.
DOG MEAT USED IN PHTHISIS.
The Flesh of Cannies Tried hy Ohio
and Indiana Consumptives.
from
and Indiana are just now excited
Sufferers consumption in Ohio
Over a
new consumption eure, which, although
repugnant at first thought, is
being eagerly fried by man
ery known remod
al fad, forsoit may be called,
i lard
Gog
from
it secs
vel
have vainly used ey
The med
f ¢ dog flesh and
fOr
cure q msumption, dates
publication of an article in
Bo nw
weeks
wate a young lady
0 cured of
sumption Ly
flesh.
article was given with such
abuncance of detail feslimon
und onthe
that It
sensation among consumplives, and
§
35 BO i
many Witnesses Chitin
copied far and =»
and Indiana
down the paper
4.4 of
of eating dog
d that
ide in tho press of Hy
Invalids who at first threw
with a shudder at
s. on second thou
worth a trial
Keep if on ou
little loss than two weeks
HES Doel oF
KR Woetor
$80
‘ Ring prota
3 :
il 18 applied fo
while the meal 1s ser MAN SOT
fried
Pf gonuerany
sjace be Lill
M af Jones resorts that
the of the
tion has vastly improved and she is
practically a She
that several ladies in the city who care
fully watched its effect upon her are now
ning se meat hor physical
cond
weil woman BAYS
texting the same remedy, and with fine
results f carefully preserved the meat
continues good for two weeks,
I'he regular physicians pooh-pooh the
idea of there being any virtue in eating
dog meat, but many of their patients are
eating it on the sly. Several members
who are not very strict members of the
medical schools have even gone so far as
to prescribe dog meat for some of their
patients,
The good effects which follow the use
of the dog meat are undeniable, as there
have been too many well authenticated
craze began, Old physicians attribute
the improvement solely to the effect of
imagination. The patient thinks he is
The proportions which the craze has
in fattening dogs for the dog-meat mar.
Dennis gives small sums for all the
market as he would
chickens or turkeys. (San Francisco
Examiner,
In Case of Croup.
While waiting for the doctor, in cases
of croup. quickly apply several spongus,
squeezed out in the hottest water, to the
child's neck for about twenty minutes
and place him in a hot blanket. If the
child is choking, give a teaspoonful of
iproacuanha wine every five minutes
until violent sickness takes place. It is
n good thing for the child to breathe
over steam. Pour boiling water into a
basin or on a hot brick or iron, and
let him inhale the vapor. (St. Louis Re.
public.
———
Janes Doxxueny, a lad of 16 ,
Lock I Fd of a
4 »
mmc —
SHOCKED BY AN EEL.
A Doubting Selentist is Rudely Dis
illusioned.
A few yoorg ago the stand of Mr.
Blackford, the widely known fish dealer,
in Fulton Market, New York, had a spec-
ial aitraction in the shape of an electrical
and many were the stories of its
nneanny powers, These wera so highly
1
©,
went to see the fish, none could be found
who was ready to put its reputed shock-
ing powers to the test. It happened,
hioweser, that an electrician, incited by
curiosity, found his way to the tank in
which the fish swan about unmolested.
The ec] looked so harmless and so quiet
in his movements that the electrical man
began to think that as a means of pro-
ducing an electric shock he was a base
deceiver. The more he pondered over
it the more he became convinced that
the innocent looking inmate of the tank
had no more electric power than a yard
of underwriter's wire, and he secretly re.
solved to put his suspicions to the test at
he first opportunity .
The opportunity soon presented it-
self Flectricity., fhe evening
he was one of a party who were return
fron the theatre to Brookls 1, where
Making a detour to the
they recaled themselves
{or which that old land.
Aftertt
in
electric
relates
ing
they resided,
Fulton Market
with the ovsters
; :
1anous ¢ refreshments
mark in
were disposed an offered
to take his friends in to see the wonder-
It 80 happened that one of
1 3 “l
ho electrical
i cel,
those prose fil was
#0 the proposition wis sed
| and cars : nousiy. fter the
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in the Franco-Grerman war
hlans in particular plaved ba
French On arrit
village they would ride uj
the
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the enemy
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of eighteen. was director of the telezraph
station at Pithi with
when Prussians entered
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vitted
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took
her mother
town. Th possession of the
station. and. turning out the two women,
confined 1 their dwelling on a
higher floor. It happened that the wire
from the office in raaning to the pole on
the roof passed by the door of the girl's
room. and she conceived the idea of tap-
ping the Prussian messages. She had
contrived to keep a telegraph instrument
and by means of a derivation from the
wire was able to carry out her purpose.
Important telegrams of the enemy were
thus obtained and secretly communicated
to the sub.prefect of the town, who con-
veyed them across the Prussian lines to
the French commander,
Mile. Dod and her mother were both
arrested, and the proofs of their guilt
were soon discovered. They were
brought before a court-martial and speed-
ilv condemned to death, but the sentence
had to be confirmed by the Commander
of the Corps d’Armee. Prince Frede-
rick Charles, who, having spoken to Mlle.
Dodu on several oceasions, ordered her
to be prodaced. He inquired her motive
in committing so grave a breach of what
are called the “laws of war’, The girl
replied: *“Jo suis Francaise.” (lama
Frenchwoman.) The Prince confirmed
the sentence, but happily, before it was
executed, the news of the armisteie ar
rived and saved her life. In IXI8 this
telegraphic heroine was in charge of the
post office at Montreuil, near Vincennes,
and on the 13thof August she was de-
corated with the Legion of Honor by
Murshal Me Mahon, President of the Re-
public. {Chambers's Journal.
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