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SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERY-DAY LIFE.
Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven-
~ tures Which Show that Truth Is
Stranger than Fiction.
Tue Kansas “wolf-drive' isa great in-
stitution, for it satisfies the natural
eraving of man to kill something without
exposing himself to danger, und it is
therefore exceedingly popular. In the
and Crawford wolves and foxes,
mnltiply alarmingly fast, have been
boldness and ferocity, The farmers
have risen up and organized for the pur-
footed raiders.
engage in the wolf-drive, and they beat
over a tract ten miles square. The affair
discipline.
in turn picks out his staff and battalion
and company commanders,
for starting isa fusillade of shots fired
by the leaders of cach squad.
intervals of about fifty foet.
are supposed to move one mile each half
hour. Every man has a horn or a drum,
and his instructions are to make as much
noise as he can. Wolves are not to be
centre. They may be clubbed into n
run if necessary. Ata distance of one
mile from the contro the report of a can-
non announces that the battle is about to
begin, and the forces are aligned and put
in readiness. Only such of the hunters
as are designated by the general carry
firearms; the others are armed with clubs
to prevent the beasts from escaping. A
great number of wolves are often rounded
up, and when the word is given they are
picked off by the appointed i
shooters. While the *‘drive”
casion for a good deal of fun,
the business of the day, and
marksmen attend to this.
sharp-
is the oc
tHireer 3a
killing is
the best
A story of heroism is told among the
usually prosaic anwouncements of the
London Gazette inexplanat
. vices for which the Queen has conferred
' the decoration of the Albert medal of the
second George Hoar, boatman
of the Tynemouth Coastguard Station
On the occasion of the wreck of the
schooner Peggy during a sever
with a very heavy after
had the
means of the rocket apparatus,
tain of the Peggy inf
officer of the coastguard that
another man still on board the w
disabled state, he fal
ion of the ser-
1
Ciiss on
gale
son, four
Hw
been rescued from
reck inn
n out ol
the rigging deck of the
in attempting to ge’ into the bree
buoy. (reorge Hour immediately volun
teered to go off to the wreck and bring
the man on shore and hauled :
the wreck, a one
and fifty yards,
face of a tremendous gale from
southeast. He found on arriving at th
vessel that he could not the m
owing to the has
on #4
fourteen feet above
having fall
3 t
oa to vessel
ches
}
Wis off t
é
distance of hundre
through the heavy seq
reach
veer havi cured
he deck (whee thas
man lay helpless and in an unconscious
state’. He then signaled to be haul
shore again, to confer h the «
cer; shortly afterward ho
hauled hing
hawser was cased so as to allow
breeches buoy to
deck. As the man
ioss George Hoar. with
the man round the body
with both hands by his coat collar, and
this manner the two men
hauled on shore, the sea at times wash-
ing completely over them.
wil
again
off, and on reachin wk the
in
on
Hm
reach man
were
Tur Juniata Valley Sentinel says that
on one of the cold mornings during the
cold spell a large hawk pounced upon
one of Benjamin Haller's tame ducks
that at the time were in a pool of fresh,
unfrozen water in the canal bed a short
distance beyond the * third lock’ at Ma
cedonia, Penn. The hawk fastened its
claws around the neck of the fowl next
to its body, but the duck was in deep
water, and. true to its nature, it ducked
and drew the hawk with it under the
water. Again the duck dove, which was
too much for his bawkship. The hawk
released its hold on the duck and with
The weather was cold and froze the
feathers of the hawk together so that it
ness of the capture and escaps game be.
tween the hawk and duck, and when it
was all over he took a hand at the game
feather's being so frozen together that
it could not fly away. The bird meas.
ured 3 feet 6 inches from the tip of one
wing to the tip of the other wing.
Auvriovon Alfonso, the late King of
Spain, died six years ago, his body is
still unburird. Clothed only in a simple
linen garment, the corpse rests ou a
slab of rock near a running stream, in a
cavern of the mountain on which the Es.
from Madrid. There the body is des.
tined to r main until it becomes natur-
ally mummified; then it wiil bo reverent.
ly placed in the jasper vault ander the
Charles V., in niches. No body is placed
in this vaalt until all moisture
ated—until it is ns dry nas a mummy.
ears before it was sofficiently dry to
removed to the Escurial jasper vault,
Ture story of a capture of hibernating
comes from the State of Washing.
ton. Itis related by two citizens of
Skipanon who saw the beasts in eaptiv-
ity: Their owners said that in cutting
down one of the giant spruce-trees con-
mon to that region, he discovered that
one part of it was hollow, and, looking
into the cavity, he made out threo slum-
g bears. Thereupon he nailed
“‘slabs”’ of wood across the hole, and
sawed off from the main trunk the section
of tree in which the bears were housed.
‘This he started down the mountain-side
in the usual fashion, and the novel cage
and its contents arrived safoly at the
bottom. The bears, which ure in a state
of semi-torpor are now on exhibition.
Mur. Axastasio Reseavx, a French
woman, has died at the age, it is sald, of
one hundred and eighteen years,
near Kischenau, or Kicheney, a town of
Bessarabia. The venerable dame, who
had so long weathered the world and the
climate of Russia, had been for many
years Superintendent of a School for the
the Daughters of the Nobi ity, retired
with a pension from her position at the
of ninety-two. She had entered the
school as a teacher when it was founded
during the reign of Alexander I, For
the pust twenty-six years Mme. Reseaux
was in a home for the aged, and enjoved
excellent health despite her advanced
and exceplional ange.
A vavors English beauty, Lady Lon-
| donderry, has a peculiar and successful
system for keeping her youthful fresh.
Although she is perfectly well she
lies in bod one day in ten, sleeping in
| the morning of this day of rast until she
wakons naturally. After a hot bath and
a light bronkfast she goes back to bed
and rests quietly in a darkened room un-
til 6 o'clock, when she dresses in a poig-
noir, dines in her room, and sits nbout
idly until 10 o'clock, when she goes to
| bed again. No social event is considered
of sufficient importance tocanse the lady
to give up this periodical retirement from
the hurry and excitement of modern liv.
ing.
W. A. Horkixg,
while walking in
town ono day recently, found the snow
filled with myriads of small searlet
worms. Sevoral acres were covered with
them, and they were so numerous they
gave the snow a erimson tinge, Hopkins
brought a number of the worms to North
Adans. The wrigglers about
three.cighths of an inch long and as bril-
The
snow fall,
Ness,
of Blackinton, Mass.,
the woods above the
were
liant in color as cochineal.
were found after a brisk
it is thought to have baen
natural phenomena known as a blood.
storm
Worms
and
one of those
Tue little daughter af Rev. Mr. Hanis
of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, at Cattlettsburg, Ky., died a
short timo ago of spinal meningitis, A
series of meetings had been in
in which the little girl, en
age, had been taking active part. The
night her death told the
church that she had been gre atly blessed
during the meeting
little girl told her mother that sl
ve o'clock. The litt
sick, ond at 12:30 o'clock died. This
the thi
giving the
Tn
on top of a mounts
pastor
progress,
sey voars of
betore shoe
Next morning the
1 would
die at tw
le ono took
rd child that has died in
parents f i
perched
from
mE is in Missouri a lake.
1n, its
suriace
ot} to 106) feet be vel of the earth
OW LHe ie
rrounding it fed by no surface stream
untouched by the wind, dead as the Sea
wom. There is no point of equa
flow
vot it has
rioddiond ri of thirty feet Over
hich is in no wav affected by the atmo
the adja
t may rain for weeks in Webster
or
spheric conditions in country
and the return of fair
il's lake at I
yv reach its highest point
racted drouth.
woenther wil
its lowest
yi
Hi,
1,
aur
Pact
f Montana
ie of th
Lie OL She
four-in-hit
through the strects and parks of Chicas
at the World's Fair. A Mr.
fn
of Bozeman, Mont
which
will drive a
hirty elk,
The elk are
ol ‘ormick
i ,
park on his property at
very fine specimons
will establish a game
Fort Custer and
| will train the elk for driving.
“TresLep to death” presses
the height of humorous effect, but it
one of those strange savings that some.
imes tarn oat to be grimly expressive of
a sober {act. Henning Peterson, a tailor
of Fort Do lge, is likely to die literally
of being tickled to death. Ilo was very
much amused at a comic songz ho heard a
few days ago, and he Inughed + ery hoarti-
ly. his laughter became uncon
trollable, and at the end of an hour he
was so completely exhausted that he be.
came insensible His laughing did not
resemble hysterics.
him wero vain, and at last re portsit was
thought he would die,
1
UEURIY ox
18
Soon
beon performed at Washington, D. C.,
by Surgeon-General Hammond. Two
i pieces of bone. each about two and a
half inches long by one inch wide, were
taken from the head of an imbecile, Dr.
Hammond holds that the man's imbecil-
ity is due to the fact that the brain is too
{ large for its receptacle, and that by giv.
ing it room for expansion reason may be
| restored. Some time must elapse before
‘the result will be manifest, bat so far
the operation has been successful, and
the patient is doing well. The doctor is
very hopeful of success.
A ranry of hunters in Colorado killed
| three mountain lions recently in a new,
improved, and comparatively =afe way.
Their dogs drove the lions under a lodge
' of rock and kept them there while the
hunters dug down into the eave from
i above. When they had an opening to
where the lions were a rifle was pushed
| through. The muzzle was gripped sav.
| agely in the jaws of one of the lions and
the gun was discharged. The other two
! lions grabbed the ritte in turn us it was
! withdrawn and poked in again, and each
was killed by bullets through the head.
| A nerineo farmer named Babeook, of
{ Roborough, England, killed his eat, and,
| having skinned it, cut off its head, tail
{and feet, sold it to a neighbor named
| Isnno ns a rabbit for sixpence, Isaao
had the animal cooked and he and his
family partook of it. On subsequently
being to'd that it was a cat, Isaac and his
wife became ill, as he said, from the
thought of it. He charged Biboook with
obtaining the sixpence under false pre-
tense, but the magistrate dism the
caso,
Exarxkens of railrond trains in Texas
and most of the Western States carry
revolvers, and often rifles, in the cab, for
various contingencies that might arise,
They amuse themselves by shooting at
tolegraph poles or any other marks while
runuiug at full speed, and attain a won.
derful skill in markmanship. A few days
ago an engineasr on the Denver and Rio
locomotive,
Mountain, Nov., from what the Coroner's
{jury facetiously termed “alcoholic sue.
| cos.”
{ not stand, Billings made a wager as to
{ the amount of whiskey he could stand.
He immediately tossed off four beer
| glasses full of the fiery liquid and fell
| helplons to tho floor. He died a fow
| minutes afterward,
|
Tuenre is an Indian justice of the
| peace in Stockton, Califernia. His name
is Charles Light, and within a few years
ho has not only learned English, but
taken a coarse in a business college,
studied law, boen admitted to the bar,
iand been elected to office. He has al
ready gained some fame as a political
orator. He is only in his thirty third
year,
| LORE ABOUT HORNS.
| Queer Facts About These Animal Ap-
pendages,
“Tteore are a good many queer things
to be told about horns,” said Osteologist
Lucas to a Washington Star writer,
“Take the horn of the rhinocerous, for
It is nothing more than n pro
tuberance composed of agglutinated
hair. You cut it in two, and examining
its structure under the microscope, you
{ find that it is made up entirely of little
| {1 course
example,
tubes resembling haic tubes.
thuse tubes are not themselves hairs, but
the structure is the same, The horns of
African rhinoceros sometimes grow to
the length of four feet. From them the
Dutch Boers make ramrods and other
You may remember that the
used by Umslopogans
articles,
handle of the ax
in ‘Allan Quartermain’ was a rhinoceros
horn. In old times rhinoceros horns were
employed for drinking cups by royal
personages, the notion being that poison
put into them would show itself by bub-
There mav have been some truth
the
acids and they
bling
in the idea, inasmuch
ancient
would
ns FIR !
poisons wero
decompose the hb ray material
very quickly
Visevoeral species of GOR TOSE, NOW
{ '
extinct and only found in a fossil
sed 10 exist winch hind i
The
Toad
anime, n=
meaning
15 rather a uisnom
two hort
Several
HRY
pair i
Many of
Add enormous ix
sw as the tricerato]
vig horn over eas Bye na on little
Of 118 nos :
inocoerns, gigantic mn
epoch, had thre
mi their he
ipported
pairs of pr
nds which are be
horns, However
f which hom is
largels
animal
ure
0 comy
quickly decoys, being
of gelatine and othe
that these appendages
the
are found
found absent when ossil bones
bensts which had them
some fishes have horns wh
length
Fhe ho
» the
camer
has a single horn
attached to its skall, springing from a
CArfiininous OAse nnd grow
Sam
It is re
true horn.
ing upward,
ally 8 mdified feat
Liz
commonly provided with
J]
Iie nty of re pliles have horns
Aras
them. There are chameleons with three
horns, like the ancient triceratops
Horned toads have a sort of crest of four
horns on the back of their heads. Thero
is a small African snake which has two
horus. No horned tortoises now exist,
but a fossil specimen was found a while
ago on Lord Howe's Island in the south.
ern Pacific which had four horns on its
and resembled a cross between a
horned toad and a snapping turtle.
Doubtless you have often heard of hu.
man beings with horns. Such append.
agos in their case are abnormal develop.
bone.”
Bre
vers
crest
ments of
Vermont maple sugar has an enviable
reputation and the management of the
Vermont sugar market is therefore of
interest. The subject of sugar making
is considered in a bulletin from the Ver.
mont station. From this it is learned
that an accurate thermometer is the best
guide as to the handling of syrup in the
pan. Fresh sap boils at 213 Fopecoe,
but, as it grows thicker, the temperature
| must rise to 240 degrees, or even 245 do-
| grees. Pure syrup at 230 degrees tests
cighty degrees, and at 2053 degrees it
| would be ninety degrees, a degree be-
| ing a per cont. of sugar.
{| The syrup naturally contains mineral
| matter, and, toward tho close of the sou.
| son, some glucose. At the beginning of
| the season the impurities are one-sis-
teenth the whole amount of sugar and
| these may increase, until the last run
| contains thirty per cont. The more the
| impuritios the higher the tomperataie of
| boiling point. The last run cannot be
| made into a sogar testing eighty degrees,
and ninety degroo sugar can be made
lonly from the runs of the first half of
! the season. [New York World,
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The Alaska Census,
Fifteon limber jawed natives live in
Abgomekhelanaghamute, and eighteen
told the enutherators in their own sweet
way, that Chekiohtoleghaghamuto was
their home. Kemnachananagamute is a
settlement somewhat romarkabie for
having more inhabitants than there aro
letters in its name, while Kochlogtopag-
amute boasts twenty residents and
therefore enjoys the same proud distine.
tion. The natives break the name of
Nunavoknakchlugugamute in the middle,
not that itisa word, as things go
in nak, but drow aut is aweotnoss
o little longer, In lonogamute
nineteen ohiniren of the soil have their
bout twice as man
abiding place, and a
are — or less proud to oall Yokokakat
Leader,
their home. [Cleveland
FOR THE LADILS,
IRIE LACK 18 POPULAR.
A great deal of Irish luce is worn just |
aranged in a fun about the neck and |
For |
i
None is put on the sleeve, however.
over the figure. The effect is very ar.
New York World.
CIEPONE FOR YARIOUR USER,
The handsome crepons of the season
for choice evening toilets, They are in |
There
ive,
that make
art toilets
They aro
softly
charming tea
bridesmaids’
Cronons very
and
charming
the
bocause
crinkled
dresses,
fail so und
A silk foundation skirt
greatly improves the appearance of the
dress, but it 1s by no means essential
These erepons do not soil quickly, nor {
do they show aggressively any slight
Ar upon their surface. Pretty ribbous
to match the color of the floral pattern,
ndd sleeves of silk to corre.
are alse effective adjuncts, but
ost.
spond
are entirely optional. {Chicago
bib or napkin is often not
sufliciont to protect the dress of a child
if the child has
to perform at the
ng the
: CON
The lar
nt meal times, especially
SOMo i
in
butter
tact w
est and mos
a plate or se rvi
“
Ys SUS
He, i ites
er from the
the
t orderly cannot always pre.
Mid
ith the food, which even neat-
vont
* i { 11 lanrad abro
Fhe « 1-31 Bionoed, ong sieved aprot
iis this respect, and while
ti sant
ves their
I ADTOus ough
Artin ¥
ns artisiid 1% iL 3TH
and no sled
dresans
Hiers,
i on the held
yiRENiE
af two Yan
riors ol
French wor
$
arged across
ks and fell
{ § ww wy Fort
iil Ot i Wissen Tors
in
The Amasz
aglit to seorn danger and
ins of
Dahomey are t
to know no pain
which form a part of their discipline
any i's According
to Major Ellis, thes sorambio
over he aps of thorny brushwo vl as high
as a house when they are storming an im-
aginary town. and the first bloody hero
ine to reach the other side is handsomely
rewarded by the king
Fhe military maneuyres
ara
but chil
thing piay
women
PEST FOR DRESSER,
The question »f how much money
New York society women spend annually
for dresses and whether they wear costly
gowns more than once induced me so ask
the best known man dressmaker in this
city and London what he hat to say on
the subject, writes Foster Coates. He
told me some interosting facts
“The richest people, as a rule,” he
said, “are more economical in dress than
those in moderate circumstances. The
ber gowns made over for her children.
She pays
Often sho
wonrs the same dress half a dozen times,
but not at notable royal functions. Her
dresses, all told, oost over 20,000 a
yoar, possibly £30,000. This does not
include laca-trimmed dresses,
“Queen Victoria 1 the most economical
of tho royal family. aud from year to
style. Lady Dudley isa splendid second
to the Queen.
“In New York the most expensively
dressed women are not the very richest.
When Edith Kingdon was an actress she
onred less for expenses than now, Then
sho would order a dress and never ask
the price, but now as Mrs. George Gould
she always asks the price, and often re.
marks that because she is Mrs. Gould she
does not wish to pay any more fora dress
than the regular price. Ada Rehan is
more liberal and seems to care loss for
expenses than wany ladies whose hus-
bands are rated as worth millions. Mrs,
Astor is not extravagant at all in dress.
Mrs. Coleman Drayton and many others
matter of dresses. Tho average society
woman of wealth never spends over
£5,000 a year in drosses, for very
Nuun that they woar onch dress many
ros,
“ Ball dresses nro the cheapest, and
altho~gh usually the most frail, they are
often worn four times, The telle skirt
is changed for oanch ball, but the skirt
remains the Reception dresses
cost more than ball drossos and are used
many times by simply :
part of the trimming, Even wedding
dresses were oocasionally used again for
grand occasions. All the big prices re.
puted to be paid for dresses are largely
fictitious and never deceive knowing
The handsomest velvet dress that
could be devised could not cost over $250,
und a cloth dress is worth only $150 at
the highest price. Old lances or some.
thing exponsivo in trimming might make
the whole $100 or $200 would go a long
ways toward getting the finest kind of
material for dresses, A woman whe
spends £15,000 a year on dresses alone
is more liberal than many roval domes.”
I closed the conversation by asking
him what finally became of the fine
dresses of the rich. He said that had
His guess was
poor relations, {New York Mail and Es-
press,
VASHION XOTES,
Enamelled ribbons gathered into
scttes are used as lace-pins,
Velvet girdles are very fashionable for
evening dress worn by voung girls.
Plaid gingbams made up with
ribbon sashes will be popular styles for
misses,
Narrow bracelets of solid gold or silver
have succeeded to the bangle bracelets
and only one is worn
Riorm kings and bright finished rubber
boots with square tops for bovs are meet
ing with a large sale,
(sreat vogue has bean given thi
son to little hoart-shape d lockets.
are worn on fine chains
4 . y
rold and heart jewelry
suver
favor the high school girls
weart is usually worn impaled on a
fsimnony
have a fancy
uous pi %
who
muking their foot
Fo ’
bunch if Vio els
SOme women
Consnid
é
or forget-me-nots or
full-blown rose
the too,
instead of a roscite
ry *1
Swallow-tng i
bie, and the tails are or er ang
jonrer F'kev are becon « Bien
Ger women, snag ard
. ¢
siiluT-
isteon
As to
IMBKCS Are
Wii is on
boots, |
Well Ooniy
i i
eRRnyed nies
formed and
Pointed corsag
i are therefore
ai
to cmbon
bow
jroint
Hest dis p18
ad 100 large.
ribbon strings
«1
and the ten
those of vels
round hats
to the
the
on
i faahiion of tvis
oid fashion of (ving
{
the dress waist,
nowest thing in cloaks is the loose.
THhiICH ©
It is worn
, sack.shaped coat Hes in
sth
nari ngth
q re le
hat in London by women who lead
procession in fashionable cir
§
fall,
ana
les
it may reach us another unless it is
hurled out.
black
silk just fin
Jot is still very much us d on
silks. A rich black faille
ished for a reception dress has © crossed
bodice, pointed back front, a
ery rich trimming of cut jet edge. the
in front, and borders
basque, which also has a jet fringe
and and
t
Cross pieces
The Freoach slipper of patent leather,
large silver buckle and high red heel in.
dicates a return to the style of 100 yoars
ago. Itixin high favor just now, dis.
| puting its hold of the popular fancy with
{the “skeleton slipper, designed to dis.
i play the elaborate hosiery now the fash.
{ jon.
A novel feature in the latest equestri-
enne dress is the black silk skirt. It is
loose and comfortable and gives the
appearance of a jersey fit. The front is
einborately embroidered. Only the vest
front shows with the loosely fitting
zounve jacket which accompanies the cos.
tame, but the whole effect is decidedly
picturesque.
Curiosities from Mounds,
Hundreds of skeletons, many of them
| wearing copper masks, are among the
curiosities that have been obtained from
a group of ancient mounds near Chili-
cothe, Ohio, forming the most remark:
able find of antiguities ever made in this
country. Notso much on account of
their value and beauty as for the im
mense quantity have the treasures excited
| astonishment, demonstrating the exist.
lence in form r times of a great aborgi-
| nal population in that vicinity. Among
| them arc pearls, not merely by scores
and hundreds, but by hundreds of thou.
sands dozens of them as big as English
| walnuts, and fit for crown jewels, were
| they not spoiled by decay and blackened
| hy fire,
The Boss Snake Story.
A farmer of Marion County says he
has a snake which swallowed an eight.
day clock in August, 1887. Until the
clock run down it strack regular and its
ticking could be heard. short time
ago the farmer found some eggs which
had been deposited in a hole by the rep.
tile, and on breaking them open found
that each contained an opon-face watch
in first-class ranning order. He sold the
watches at a big profit and has now given
the snake a post auger, in the hope that
it will produce sufficient cork-screws to
ennble him to start a wholesale drug
store. —{ Dubuque (lowa) Ledger.
———————— HS,
ALL'S PAIR,
i Io ay tien hat
n ’ com
Miss Boauti has? :
Rival Bello You.I don't see how she
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS,
LITTLE SUT PEOFLE,
1d Mrs. Chestnut once lived ina bur ™
Vadded and lined with the softest of fur,
Juck Frost split it wide with his keen
silver knife,
And tumbled her out at the rizsk of her
life.
Here is Don Almond, a grandee from
Npain
Some raisins from Malaga came in his
trnin,
He had
leaner
When
‘ i '
Philopena’
in twin brother a shade or two
both come together we shout,
Little Miss Peanut, from North Carolina.
She's nut 'ristocratic, but nuts is
a
ahier,
ho
s is roasted and burnt to &
»ometin
Miss
4
Huzelnut, in her best bon.
Is ivel ‘ § .
& lively enough mit in a sonnet ;
R
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Aud young Mr. Filbert has journeyed
from Kent,
k her to soon after
marry him
1 Hickory, look at him well:
named tor him, so I've
Lim, he KROMOC
a hard nut to
‘hineapin, mod
ext and neat,
isn’t she sweet?
eal ’
as a little boy's
Mise
chatier of
Salt Lake Herald,
EBACE.
¢ in Chicago,
for riding on
hich he has
well “Th
hind feet
the collar
1.
a0H
id to be
a fondness
a
rian horse, s
remarkably 0
with his
wr where
ont 1eet,
mount
BEMAT , €
one ahead
of the
: Hits in
narrow ridge
ws clatcehed In
horse
aud hero-
p among
I's heroes,
ull honor shou be given.
{
%% ol vO
them
m we call the
up
example of this cla
the person of Miss
Norwich, England.
is only fifteen vears old,
testimonial
Society at Lon-
hat would have
} years.
ang
found in
Marion Bes eriy, of
his little lady
TKS is
has already won a
he Roval Humane
3 act of heroism
it to ong older
nw fol-
lad
in
near
DOTS LTe, of
circumstan
honas Cross, fn
was bathing
(werstrand,
1S, 4% many
n 1 bivams am 3 ond hi
resome disposition, oot bevond his
Miss Beverly, who was in bath.
the youth s
danger and promptly swam to his rescue.
d him as he for
it the same time, saw
sinking |
difficulty
Her
brought to the
was
ashore and saved his life.
was
i
1 #
Instead of a medal,
however, the littlo miss was given a band-
some vellum album, it being the custom
of this society to bestow a book of this
kind in lieu of the medals usually used.
[Chieago Herald.
FANOUR DOGE.
A French paser, the Petit Journal,
has published a »3ll of honor of cele-
bratel dogs which have distinguished
themselves in war. This is not inap-
propriate, considering that the dog has
been pressed into military service. For
instance, there was Bob, the mastiff of
the Grenadier Guards, which made the
Crimean campaign with that gallant
corps; and also White-paw, * Patte
Blanche,” a brave French ally of Bob,
that made the same campaign with the
116th of the line, and was wounded in
defending the flag. Another, Moustache,
was entered on the strength of his regi.
ment as entitled to a grenadier’s rations.
The barber of his company had orders
to clip and comb him once a week. This
gullant animal received a bayonet thrust
at Marengo. and recovered a flag at Aus.
terlitz. Marshal Lannes had Mous-
tache decorated with a medal attached
to his meck with a red ribbon. Corps
de Garde, a marvel amo dogs,
followed a soldier to Rurongy
was wounded at Austerlitz, and perished
in the retreat from Russia. The Sixth
of the Guard had a military mastiff
named Misere, which ware three white
stripes sown on his black bair. We
have also to name Pompon of the Forty-
eighth Bedouins, the best sentry of the
baggage train; Loutonte, a Crimean
heroine; Mitraille, killed at Inkerman
by a shell; Moffino, that saved his mas.
ter in Russia, and wae Jost or lost lime
solf, but found his way along ir va Moa
cow to Milan, his first dwelling place,
The most remarkable, however, was the
last an English harrier named Mustapha,
which went into action with his Eaglish
comrades at Fontenoy, and, we are
seriousiy told, “remained alone by a
field pisce after the death of the gunner,
his master, clapped the match to the
touch-hoie of the cannon, and thes killed
seventy soldiers;” and it is farther added
that Musta was presented to
aatied
King
George 11. with a pension
alimentam, —{ Court Journal, ‘
A PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENT, 3
Greone-—Come and dine with me at a
table d'bote this evening.
White—1 should be delighted, only
that | have an engagement to Gll. °°
G With whom?