i CHASING SWORD FISH. i AN EXCITING AND DANGEROUS | OCCUPATION. Haunting tue Fish on the New Ingz- land Coast. — Its Strength and Agility — A Terror to Other Fish. A sword fish, when swimming near tho surface, usnally allows its dorsal fin and a portion of its tail to project out ol water. It is this habit which enables the fishermen to tell when the game is pres. ent. The creature moves slowly under ordinary conditions, and the fishing schoasnor, with a light breoze, finds no difficulty inovertaking it. When alarmed, however, it exhibits enormous strength and agliity. Sometimes it isseento lop entirely oat of water. Its long, lithe, muscular body, with fins snugly fitting | into grooves, is admirably adapted for | the most rapid movement through the water. Prof. Richard Owee, testifying in an English court respecting its power, suid: The sword fish at fall speed strikes with the accumulated for fifteen hammers swung with both hands. lis velocity is equal to that of a swivel shot and the shock is as dan in its effects as that of a heavy artillery pro jectile.” The sword fish never comes to the sur- face except in moderate weather, accor 1- ing to Dr. Gi. Brown Goode. A 1 parsuing them has always aman stationed at the mast head, where, with the keen eve which practice has given him, he can easily descry the tell-tale back fins at a distance of two or three When the prey is sighted the watch gives nu shout and the craft is steered in the d rection indicated. The skipper takes his place in a sort of *‘pulpit,” so-called. ut the end of the bowsprit, armed with a harpoon which has detachable head. He holds the pole which forms the handle of the weapon with both hands, directing the man at the wheel by voice and gesture how to steer. There is no diflic approaching the inte nded victims with a vessel of some size, although, curiously enough, they will not suffer a small boai to come near them. Although there would be no in bringing the end of the directly over the fish, a skillful harpooaer never waits for this, When the from 6 to 10 feet in front of the is struck. The harpoon is never thrown, the pole being long eno igh to enible the expert to pun 'h the dart into the back of the animal close to th fin. When the dart has thus been to the fish the line attached to 1 out, the pole being retained the hand As soon as the rope has stricken creature will passed into a small boat ut the stern. Two boat and pull upon the is brought alongside, when it is killed with a whale lance stuck into the Then it is lifted ug the de vessel with tackle. There are any number of resenting the ferocity I h several well are said to have pies sels, projecting th of rerous yossol *p HIS, difficulty powsprit pr ¥ i% ! vessol it i i DRCK fastenod it is allowed tn in run as far as the men amp line until the copper she planks. ing of sacl of craft + the fishes whicl t I their instruments of offense man do without them can only be There does not seem to | for taking it for gra i grow others Attacks by included by ins sen risks, Such a large and for: the sword fish can § nists. Others mackerel and sharks are Doubtless the last ar 1864 there was exhibited to the Boston Society of Natural History the jaws of a shark in whose stomach nearly the whole of a large sword fish was found. It a tiger shark, the most ferocious of kind. and ten or twelve wounds in its | flesh gave some notion of the confict | 1 Dn 184 DeRrs, its worst foes wns its which must have occurred In 18S a | small mackerel shark was captured jn | (3louce ster harbor, and in its nostril was found the sword. about two inches long of a young sword fish. When this was pulled out the blood flowed freely, indi | cating that the wound was recent. “I're- | meadous combats have often been wit. nessed between sharks ani sworl fish, Sword fish are a terror to mackerel, blue fish and comparatively small fry. They rise among the prey, | striking to right and left with their swords until they have killed a number, | which they thereupon proceed to devour, Sometimes they appear actually throw the fish inthe air, cutting them in two as they fall Although hunting the sword fish is re. garded as a profitable pursuit on the New England coast, employing man) vessels, it 1s not likely to bring about any | serious diminuation of the game. One reason is because their habits are soli. | tary. [It is said that two are never seen swimming close together, Although no namber are apt to be found iu the same neighborhood, wherever the food they seek is plentiful, they never run in schools, Considerable quantities of sword fish are annually salted in barrels at New England ports, Being regarded i a delicacy they are in great demand in | certain sections, particularly in the Con. necticut velley, where a barrel full may be found in almost every grocery stors The fishermen have u theory to the effect | that the sword fish ean see nothing direc. | tly in front of him, owing to the peou- liar way in which lus eyes are placed, and it i= stated that these animals are sometimes approached and killed by hunters in skillfully mansgel skiffs, [Washington Star. Wearing Linen, i ———— “Ro vou have given up wearing flan. mel. Why is this?’ asked one Indy of another. “1 gave it up because 1 found something so much more comfortable. 1 am going to turn the order Hf undergar. ments opagAnEry and wear linen in winter for warmth and wool in summer for coo'ness if I wear wool at all, which is somewhat doubtfal. © Why, my dear, schools of to SL —— do you know that I always take cold when I leave off my linen housedresses I had noticed this for several seasons and fin. warmer than wool, and so I am going to fly in the face of tradition and custom aid woar linen, nnl you will find that my health will improve. 1 entertain idons about the healthfulness of garments that +0Of course we know that n moderate degree of heat not only dees not destroy the germs of disouse, but is favorable to their growth, and it appears to me that flannels month to sometimoes from season to season, only warm baths between wust, in the nature of things, late impurities. Suppose there is an ill ness or exposure to disease, how could worn from QoCunIi- there be more favorable conditions for its continuance than the flannels as ut pres. BIG BILLS FOR FOOTWEAR. What It Costs to Shoe the Women of New York. Neat and attractive shoe wear is, characteristic of New women, and, it be believed, they do leather their sisters in the second largest city in the Union. But the bill that they pay cach year for boots aud shoes, when the whole thing ‘1 he York City has at RM) (KK), Now, allowing two] boots per vear for every child, girl it would ’ i ts ir a1 5 give a total of 1,640,000 pair, and aver. I be- York to much lieve, a the common report is not in proportion to their number as UR Os is summed up, almost staggers one, female population of New down, | been put believe rs of and woman, 35 cents for a cheap pair of g the £15 pair worn by the fair lady who habits ut <i ald in the It would nring the cost, which runs from : baby * boots to in brown stone find that we allow twelve months just £2, 400,006), be nearer the mark, perhaps, to say that the ve Mia paar, we sh Gir women our female population wear in ir from two and a half to three million dol- lars It would be interesting to know worth of shoes! how much of this huge sum should be charged of he twentiv-<five thous. to One of these dames m to the account and fashionable w be found in the city. her dainty Romeo slippers for the paid from five to ten her breakfast for which she b nen ist ave bath, for which she has dollars, and often more; and room slippers as paid the same price, tiring of a pair af has i couple of 3 i i Ooli-room ana it 1s not dollars worn them EL slippers hier to § sor lyon led walking.s} ten doili has wes that she can t ge than irs ifter she worn hor ien-doiiar tennis siu ever last thr ii the gr r Mats, 3 i her deft riding fitteen to tweed i A wR LO from tthe sins oO 1. It would a than would bu sper enough te in New York, and linen lining enough P Urposes, entten i to clothing to supply a conple of thoasaud women with chemises and 20,000 yards of satin. Lump Jaw, I'he results of a special investigation made by Dr. Simon J. J. Harger and Dr Robert Formad, of the University ol sehool, were presented at a meeting of the Philadelphia Society of Veterinary Medicine. The investigation was on the subject of actinomyecosis, or lump jaw, common in cuttie, an i which has beon declared to render the meat of The investigators find, iret, that disease ix a local vue, being rarely found outside of the head sud neck ; and second, the case has been transmitted to man by eat. the meat. The disease comes from a vegetal funczus, found on many plants, but especially in the husk of bariey and the germ probably finds a lodgment in the jaw o. the animal through a broken tooth or a slight oat in the gums, Tie e me ution at and Formud arrived disease which Drs. Harger t= therefore, that Or Tans pron. are found not to be affected, it is use the ment, the head and casses: and they see no reason why such be after proper inspection, Thess conclusions agree substantially with those of Drs, Uruikshanks ot don, Norcard of Paris and sold meat fron eattie affecte | with lump jaw only in the head is invariably sold. N w doans Times. Democrat, A Story of Greal Herolsm, ——————— I recall to mind a story of an officer in a fortress, Their number was small, and n relieving army was coming up, It was of immense moment that they should know how long the fortress could hold put. If it must capitulate for want of supplies within a week they could stuy and win the eampaign for the Em. peror, A young Japanese nobleman volunteered to go into the fortress and ascertuin how long they could hold out, He disguised himself, and in passing learned that they had food and water for only two duys more, As he was going out with this proci- enemy said to him: **Weo ure going to ono condition-—that you go to the wall and tell your people that wo have sup- He eaid: “Very well.” und went to the wall, His wife and children in the besiegers’ camp saw Loh! up both his hands and e vid to them: “There are supplies for bus two days, Continue the siege and vou will tuke the place.” He died by a hundred points, but he had done his duty general. — Sir Edwin Arnold, sper to his A Woman Rauchers Out on 6 ranch in the Bruneau Valley, Idaho, lives Miss Kittie V. Wilkins, who is in partnership with her father and two brothers in the business of raising horses and cattle, It is a country where few would care to live, But Miss indicate that she is not as mach of a wo- man as upy of her sex that live down on 8 ane the fashionable avenues ol Chicago. Thero nothing about her manner, She Hors . ment of all that is noble 0, is masculine 1% guil- poss sued are the embodi- to her, but a horse trade. and practical, y slo seldom gets the worst of When she is at home she spends hes time in mounting spirits d horses, and un- attended er the she is apt to she gallops away os prairies, stopping wherever find a herd of horses that suits her fancy. The i nia and her herders dealers all know her Judgment on a horse is law ana gospel, Fhien she rides howe, dismoan without canrger, any assistance, ungirths and calls her partners abou to tell thein what she has done, mt attend to the rest When the season comes for shippi she le the mre Wil stock. is wves the ranch in charge of For the most part they known as wild hb I'he care such SUOUNGs genoraily gives man ail he can'do, but this vouug womas.fmakes troubde with derstand RUS, no compinint. She has no her Fhey seem to Jhiat they are under the care of 4 woman, and act DoOrses Arrangements havo the ! of these animals from a certain point on he railroad. leaving the with her stock. The train pulls out Miss Wilkins is in the railroad men know her, and no one could be treated more considerately than this No gocording. vy been made in advance for sl She has mapped out before | cities she proposes to Caboose, indy who is traveling sloue gs for her wi the ranch or in t is alwavs treated I'he rounder where the tratls hats to vOUnoe Young : or on the cor he centres whe consideration when they mes station ha for hot 0 wot Chica hen the anole or a person is thinking hard Sve rooms irom one ob and the hand Fhe the « are moving more hardest. workin taking mn 3 busiest, wniry insists on MOvn eral times a fore dropping off into one of these n tary naps 8 Just be. is the eve to fis itaelf thus head and Then the These little fF Beyer more than twenty seconds long, and the mind commands tipon ohisct and insuring the of the every part of the body quiet, some one stav, holding mind naps or flashes of rest me be vet they have been discoversd to do the mind a wonderfal amount of I'yey never come fo the derange Jd mind Lewy i. and it has also been discovered that the supposedly sound mind which does not tnke them is on the verge of juscnity, Sitomania, The most rare ax well as the most in- teresting food abnormality, or intemper- ance, fiom a psychological point of is that which for want of a better name | shall call sitomania. Some such definition nas the following may be ap- plied to it: “A mania occarring period- ically, characterized by loss of volition and an overwhelming desire to partake view, by remorse, depression, and tendency to suicide.” In many respects this form of disease resembles the now well known In both there are intervals, often prolonged, during which an entirely normal state prevails; there is no undue desire in the one ense for excess of food, in the other Then, often suddenly, there ensues a wholly uncontrollable de- sire in the one case for a food gorge. in the other for a drink excess: in both the ecasence of the disease is the secretive ness with which the orgy is conducted; in over, the same feeling of intense des pression and remorse, aud in some cases u tendency tosuicide. The sitomaniac adopts much the same means of gratify- ing his desires as those adopted by the dipsomaniae. When the attack is im- will rob his best friends, indulge in pett silfering, even sell the clothes off h ack, and reduce himself to absolute poverty to find means for this morbid is- ulfence in food.—{The Lancet, an A ——— Summer serge will be worn trimmed with rows of narrow gold or silver braid, jn which a thread the color of the goods 8 woven. NOTES AND COMMENTS, Tun statistician of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. R. R. points with wide to the remarkable fuet that on the Pe Res veais branch of this railroad not i single pussengor has been killed since the road went info operation, twenty yours ngo. It is also n matter for con- gratulation,’”’ he says, “that during that that division-~two twins.” All four are alive, and them is an employee of the company. Ax of them one of French sinti sian nukes o clever and graphic presentation of the thrift of the French people. He says that a duplicate of the Eiffei Tower, which weichs 7,000,000 and 8,000,000 kilogrammes, built of silver, and with two additional eminent hetween added, stories netaal . . ' ts : i renci peopie deposited in i banks, The kilo- gramme is 2 pounds 3.26 ounces, BV ings of the Tue new Reading terminal station in Philadelphia is to boast the largest train- What is termed the work of the great arch has al house in the world. false been begun. ti from the 120 feat and height ground The length feet in le truin-house is ¢ Ohl he st wrth, making the terminal in tion proper build fect long. I'he train house be laid out with thirieen tracks the Market Street end, which will be redased by switches to nine tracks ot the Street end. The roof will be constructed yf iron, & and ing 663 ut PPT, WO i Tur turning of the bed of the Feather River at Oro for the . po as woul of astonishing piece © thie {hagres River and convert make an estimate on cost the ing its bed into a canal channel, with the aid of five locks. The theory be that Fre in American skill may Frank Mc Laughlin, the intor “Xa. i Wl nou turning ReGms 1o snaineering failed i at Col Rive: and mo tai (Hf , has thank what sehond New Yous would, had he old f Clarence, ha i those that have not with English sovers turies, As Edward the seventh of that name, Fdward having followed Henry VII, bu Clarence he have been the first of Dukeo king reviveaq gus He Woille wonid hut name to red nrences never avi reached tl Ir . Now brother * t i the i { father was the tigorge 111. the 1. Mary, Dues back through pots to WN wan attend Weare {tee | tinhorn ROO 1 £1 2 remarkable from the § 3 ur town nas no mune ment, and the rales of lately bed the camp have bat not known are and of i adopted, i fo a large number I he our people saloons and gambling -bhonses are orderly the State can i ence a higher degree of and manhood than characterize the peo. and quiet, Nov « anp in § boast © intelli been pushed into prominence more rapid. Iv or systematically as the result of such intelligend Propanty no city in the United is a0 well known to army officers as St Louis, As carly as 1826 Jeff. reson vous for tr be ordered to the West, During the war armies were recruited and equipped for the field there. the war, and Sherman for many years after it. Sheridan left St. Louis asa captain of infantry under General mo.. in 1861. General John M. Scho. Generals Grant, Han cock, and Eugene A. Louis belles, In short, our army officers have many pleasant as well as tarbulent memories of St. Louis. Bat when de- partment headquarters were remov ed from the city last autumn, St. Louis's ing-depots for the army, and the only garrison left is a single company. A reeraitiog office is still maintained. The quarters ut the barracks are old, and in some cases dismantied. But the reser. vation on which the barracks stand is one of the most beautiful in the possess. fon of the Government, consisting of 1,200 acres of grass and park. Tur people of Cochise County, Ariz, Of tha da islature the county asked but one thing that a company of ran- gers be organized to’ protect settlers. A Lill omjwwesing the Governor to issue a call and equip a company, when, in his opinion, its services were needed, was ; but, although several murders ave been committed by the Apaches since the adjournment of the Legislature, Governor Irwin has done nothing. The citizens have now taken the matter up themselves in grim earnest. Four blood: hounds have been imported from the Tosas penitentiary at Huntsville, and it in nroposed to track the Indians and ex- terminate them with the aid of these dogs. The hounds are to be taken into the Chiricabun Mountains in Arizona, where Masse and Kid, the leaders of the band of murderers, have their head. quarters. At iotervals they sally out, swoop down on unprotected settlers, kill them, seize their stock, and return to the mountain fastnesses, If hard pressed, the Apaches sometimes cross the border Moxico und make for the wilder Madres The bloodhounds se. lected by the Cochise citize with fox hounds, an l their to be superior to thint of the pure hound, Irwin nsked to eo-operate in the work of ester mination by into Sierra nu are cressed snid blood. be wo qrt 1s BUHL 18 (sovernor will now organizi rangers. LINCOLN’S DEATH BIER. A Dilanidated Relic Crypt at the Capital, in a Secret hich the lias been An interesting national relic w World's Fair will probably want preserved in Washington, writes a corres. pondent of the Pittsburgh Dispatch, for many vears in an unusually carious hid- It is the bier itafalque sted me they he Capital irty red ing place, El or ¢ in state in the rotunda of t remains of th tion m Thaddeus Stevens, , » coln's Secretary ard Chief Sumner Wilson niterw Ci Hy aries ury 1 design by B. B sioner of Pabiie of a pla with fine black broad: tastelal iH these 1 od at the sides with When not in #ix years since it bier has been kept i or tomb inside Gown snder ground in ti : af the building, remote from all sc f legis. i This d in the funeral trim enty- the i stone erypt oe awny intive { subloeree strife anc NnEan ory first vear of thi nagus Guinn Washington, u early to receive a 8arcdap remains of (roorye nder resolution of LETTER "passed T ution of HETeRs paseo ie 1d i as i him i the 2a. 3 . 2 1.4 tol and accord his du INK wu to 1 h of ' sronosed 4 i s waaiid statu rotunda of the Capi ulture underneath sed never Martha W presents a ‘oth covering Liroadg bry braid remains stro nd Bat Architect Clark, who has custody if the treas ired relic, now | keeps it ander strictest lock and key in | its narrow cell. | Allow three pairs of laces for each pair the 1,600,000 shoes, and set the length of ouch lace at two feet; then tie these | together, and you have a string 3. 50 miles long. or just doable the length of the first Atlantic cable. Take the sost of the laces alone, putting it at three | cents a pair, and you find it is very near noth, and ons « Hin nr 11 one © and one sido. of § will Aft thousand dollars. The cost of bution- hooks for the same time will not run less than sixty thousand dollars, Gaiters or ‘spats,’ as they are the old country, are in the very fever fashion now, especially the dead black | or navy blue. Indeed, from all that 1 | can learn, over half the women that | make any pretensions to “'sty le” or fashion wear them; so that we may pot | down the total number these worn here in the year at one hundred thousand, | costing about two hundred and fifty to three hundred thousand dollars; so that | the total for outside foot-wear aliogether | somes close to 83,400,000; perhaps the full three and a halt millions, 1 need hapdly add that but a small proportion of “kid” boots are genuine —{Unce a Week. callea in of of A Disastrous Yawn. I —— One of the most pecalinr misadven- tures on record recently befell William Davis of San Francisco. Ouse morning he awoke after a very sound night's slumber, und was seized with an uncon- trollable impulse to yawn and streich himself. He had stretched his arms out to their fall length when snddenly he felt something suap, and discovered that he was unable to restore his left arm to its natural position. He groaned with anguish and friends came to his nesis- tanoe, bundled him up and took him to the receiving hospital, wheve it was found that Davis while stretching himself had dislocated his left shoulder. Dir. Somers alled the joint back into its socket. he doctor says he has frequently heard of jaws being dislocated in excossive yawning, but this is the first cnso re. corded, so far as io knows, of a shoulder beiog yawned out of joint. Ho thinks it would have been impossible but for the fact that Davis’ shoulder had been dislocated before, some years ago. PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS, : EPITOME OF NEWS GLEANED FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF THE STATE, Jacon Priskry, a Fayette county farmer, was swindled out of #2 (00 by a stranger who bosrded a few days with him and represented that he was employed by a railroad company. The stranger (old the farmer that be dreamed repentedly that a quantity of silver was buried tree. Upon investigation near the root of a the silver, to the amount of £4,000, was found which the two men equally divided, Then the stranger exchanged the silver witl Prin~ key with greenbachs, and departed, Prinkey afterward found that the coin we organization of iron and stock Ti manufacturers proposed 10 take a firm stand new workmen. i be Assotintion i the question of the wages of the Changes in the seale of wages wij resisted by the Amalgamated and a big hit is probable in the Pittsburg section, AT Big Mountain colliery, Centralis, Frank Chesus!, 8 miner, at while walking al he breaker slipped and fell headiong to bottom, a distance of 300 feet. TH strike at the Springdale Colliery, New settled by the operators, % fiaen what WHI®S are Cue them, and pouncing that they will con- tinue to pay sen monthly sx before, DerisG aquarre]l Edward Posthill, flagman on a pu Killed Michael Niland, near Sol Wiis engine, snot anaQ instaniy fireman on the same en © erset. r retur eral at frie. fensburg, near Head) rae aitsehed {08 Carrisge contains Sehiwariz, took fright snd foot embankment into | a canal, of the carriage escaped, Tig residents of Pricebarg, ne the Lhe ar Scranton pxeiled over a Hungarian grant fron alr alipox. IXGDOX County for President Supreme Court, x eral Harrison Dean for the The anti-Quay peopie Tm 3 begun ut Harrisburg, 5 nto the Leading deal what wes No malier may w the outomne of this investigation the Eg. preme Court will be called upon to pass on the legnlity of the combinaton, A meeting of the Executive ( ymmitiee of m the World's Fair was : The he State Cor held at Harrisbur meeting was visited by the Joint Special Committee of the Philae delp in Lounciia. i of who by making a prophesy Macoiy BEADLING, Backeville, created a sensation while in s trance, which came true, will shortly marcy Ambrose Metler, a graduste of Michigan College irl claims that she paw the face of Metier while in the trance, W. A. Love, of ri, filed a bill in equity at Pittsburg of mpany, 8 Westmoreland charging the officers the Saltsburg Coal ( County concern, with fraud, and asking that sinted, B. K. Jamison, of the a receiver be app Philadelphia, is presides COmpany. The allegations are denied by an officer of the company in this city. Press nc tin plate manufacturers say that 8 s ark the wages of the workmen must come down, EK It is thought that the Amalgamated Associa tion will not agree to the proposed reduction without a struggle. h Church ( ¢ Evangelical yi ference at Bishop Bowman ssid there be peace in ade y puiting MAN presched i i at Norristown { newiy ordained ministers. In an timated that the Dubs faction » 10 sue for pesce if they wanted to mise the existing diffienities in the relion]l Chuarelu is said that the vacant place on the Lan. Her wwernor but raster County i y was tendered to A the ofier wes declis Tur Willinmsport Lumbermen's Exchange has app inted a comp ry y visit Washing. ton end protest against the proposed removal of the tarifl on Inmber. maich sf Wilson shot Francis The injury may prove Wilson claims thet the shooting wae WniLe returning from a pigeon M1, Piessan!, Thomas Kilrain in the back. fatal accidental Lizzie Josue of Miner's Milp near Wilkes Barre, attended a ball the other night. On her return she fell into a sleep from which she has pot awakened. Doctors are puzzied by the CRSP. A KECRET meeting of the employees of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company was held at Harrisburg to discuss certain grievances relia. tive to the hours work, Representatives from the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engin. Couductors, and Firemen of pers, Traine, were present. Tne Trinity Reformed Church, pleted at Potteville, was dedvoated church has a senting capacity of G00, JORNSTOWX people held a mass meeting to protest against the granting of anmerous 1 quor licenses, AT Shenandoah during a fight between Hons end railrosd wen several persons were just coms The new TV. Powprrry forwarded a letter to Mr. Powderly present furnish 1o affidavit about the come bine. lle did not think that he was not bound to appear before the Attorney General} Mr. Hensel replied that the General Master given further opportunity to do so. Joux Ih Donoxey was elected chairman of Harrisburg’s Democratic City Committee. Tig Cambeo- Amerion League, of Schuyl. kil county held a basquet at Mahonoy City in honor of 81. David's Dad, Heavy rain and snow storms were reported from Williamsport, Pottsville, Reading, State. Telegraph and telephone wires were broken and considerable damage was done, | Tas Siste Tressury statement shows the fund to contain $6,703 286.80, as against $5,566,023. 54 a month ago, The Sink* fing Fund has $525,080.04, os against §761,. 308.54 on Vebruary 1. The total amount of the Febowary, 1 loan outstanding is $140,000, Ex. Mayon Janes G. Wymax, of Alles gheny City, who was recently convicted extorton, was refused a new trial, >
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