THE PREY OF LEECHES.
SLEEPING ROOMS ATTACKED BY
FIERCELY HUNGRY WORMS.
A Leech Farm in a Populous Part
of San Francisco, Cal,
People in the Western Addition have
slept soundly for years in ignorance of
the fact that atany moment a plague,
worse than the locusts of Egypt, might
come crawling into open windows and
under looscly-hung doors—a plague of
fierce blood-hungry leeches,
There is an
1125 Bush street, where
10.000 of the
purchasers. The farm is one of two in
the United States, the other being
New York, and there at 50,000
leeches squirm ceaselessly about, over
and through swamp muck, constantly
searching for some hapless animal that
times
tin
Li
lidal.
cisco farm
a feast for the insatiate ann:
The leeches at the San Fran
very short time. Hundreds of
crawled up the walls and tried every
window and crevice, seeking an entrance
because of some instinctive knowledge |
that in the house they could find suc-
culent pasturage the forms fl
sleepers who rested without knowledge |
of the threatening danger. |
But a minority found their way into |
the sleeping-rooms - -not than a |
thousand-—but en t number
snaky, greenish-bl worms
sufficed terrify the occupa
into fits when they felt the ¢
of the leeches and awoke to tind them.
selves festooned with the n rly product
of the swampy ooze of Bordeaux.
The first to awaken was a voung lady
and she was not i y
distress and a
cupants of the house
ach of them had
from a score to
Brooms were sava
corner and nnder ove
ture. i
closely
dressed with
upon 0
more
© of
nt
creep Y
(21 k.
to nts almost
ager suction
long in announcing her
Ig 1 ftellow.00-
find
in}
ronsit
to
for
room oo Mnons
hundreds of the
t
Bed Hoth
GXial
premises an
and when the |
whe!
then
possib
at one
i» may |
HOTSes
hired whose
acceptany chance,
: Fa. x 5
Fovererns + el
iegred nto the
pt off into
counted 0
boxes of
hich they
rey
pan, which
Bre
poisono i8 80
nr
ir
Ta
J8
t $ 3 v y
BOS IN eomminon
oe hes of
fierce
France are 1
who
countries
worms
leeches,
that the
Tha 8S
by pi
eo
supplied
is formed
ooze of the Yor «
imported
with ticht {
nbout through
for sale,
for the jr id
0 Dore
wanted
i oul
washed
any living
are swollen
ordinary size. Th
Jie dormant until
been finished and
them.
n they drop off
assimilation shall have
hung: r
San Francisco Fxaminer.
HEIN arouses
Water Power and Electricity,
ah
or
gh
power to electric |i ing
purposes has been
A dam was built across 0 small mountain
burn some 800 feetabovs the lodge. The
water is lod for somes distance past the
dam in un open drain, snd at a point
about 650 feet nbove a tuzbine, to which
it is conducted in a closad pipe. The
waterfall thas made is the highest that is
used for electric lighting nthe British
Isles. The ecurrentis conveyed from the
turbine house to the various buildings,
the lodge about two hundred yards dis.
fant, the stables, laundry and head
stalker's cottage, four hundred
yards away. by moans of insulated con.
duetors laid underground in ‘arred wood
troughing and completely protested by
melted bitumen run into the troughs. In
all there are some 202 electric lamos in.
stalled.
some
the cellars and various other parts of the
buildings. Any one who has lived in the
mountains of Heotland and has had ox-
perience of their damp and inclement
climate can well understand what a god.
send such appliances are at times when
8 “Seotch mist’ is raling for weoks to.
gether. Chicago Nows.
The Swedish Capitol,
When does Stockholm present itself
fo its best advantuge ? Is it when the
hoarfrost, covering tho nuked branches
of the *=eas and shrubberies, seems to
transform the parka and gardens into
coral groves, while hor waters lio ice.
de
bound on every side ; when, in the frosty
winter evening, from the harbors devoid
of ships, flaming bonfires and pale eloc-
tric lights, stirring musie, dancing
gleaming skates, und the strong, the
graceful, the gay skaters entice you
down on the ice to mingle with the rosy-
checked girls, the sturdy boys, the
middle-aged, nay, even the old, in
friendly competition. Oris it on a sunny
day, in the lovely month of May, when
the radiant sunlight trembles on the
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ripple against the shore, and the parade
marching by with dram and
trumpet, filling with delight the hearts
Cones
summer oeve-—whon darkness steals away
ery shop door is decorated
with birch boughs, every ship, from the
Ww hen 0s
the tired cart driver
adorns his horse and his mean vehicle
with the fragrant bireh leaves; when the
heights, the still the
palace, all are suffused with the inde.
scribably soft rosy light of the incompar-
night of the Northland. Which
opinion the siranger may incline toward,
bheanutiful city all
the seasons are onjovable, and wherever
he may be his thoughts turn lovingly te
van
nohle
wnlers,
able
Ingenious Coal Oil Smugglers.
Customs officers at one town recently
gling coal oil over from Dewrait,’’ said
H. A. Peiter, of Windsor, Canada, at the
Leland. ‘There is a stiff duty oa kero.
sane imposed by { ing ia, You know . and
the in
our trathic scheme
evading
to
Detroit
would buy a
about
nd haul them down
Belle Isle.
astened torether
f them would by
of string to the
harmless
Then tho
to the ri
smugglers take delight
The latest
this was devised by
At Detroit they
couple of barrels of Kerosene at
inws,
do SOM
boatmen.
saven allon, i
tot
The barre
coenis a ©
shove
bo f
th ropes, and to one
Ti i
he river oank iL
is would
oO
ong plece
which was tied a
y OF DI10CH Of 8
dpanite
zo H
era
be sure on risked some
0 ortune Wis ever wrung
tthout re of some sort,
ventu
ron 1807 to 186% was the go ol
iden era
| there are men now
roads, alwe
Mr
centlemen
Raskin,
engnzed
stage coaches have been
from the field or forced fo turn the
tention to the valgar holdin
beggariy express trains. I to
such an extent that Mr. Bret Harte has
been forced to leave the country for nck
Lom
wearing
r at
f the
v Oo
-
i
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8 38 True
of material, and is now situated in
don, and at last
white Such incidents as the
foeounts was
shirts ono
{Omaha World-Herald.
Queerest Animal in the World,
Of all the ereatures that God has made
under the sun,” as Ecclesiastes would
say, the most remarkable, as well as the
most useless, is the tuatarra, a species of
lizard known to exist only in New Zea.
The tuatarra grows to be from
“
bo said to nccept life's hardships with
more indifferenco than any other known
representative of the animal ereation.
existence, and does not seem to care in
the least whether tho sun sets at nine
o'clock in the morning or stays up till
midnight. Heis almostinvariably found
clinging motionless to a rock on the sen.
const, wholly oblivious or indifferent to
the drenching spray or the blinding sun.
He has no ‘thought for the mor.
row,” and to all intents and purposes
years in a sealed glass case, his lothargy
but slightly aggravated through lack of
air. A recent writer on antipodean od.
dities says: “He makes uo noise and
moves so seldom and so slowly that many
persons have watched those confined in
casos for a long time, and then left thom,
under the impression thatthe creatures
were only stuffed specimens after all,
Yet the solemn blinking of the golden
eyes and the slow, heaving motion of the
leathery aides bore sight witness of a
sluggish vitality. (St. Louis Republie.
A ASAD
Girdle belts of seal leather and kid
are studded with steel.
01d Aunt Peggy.
When the war was over, old Aunt Peggy
went to Monsiour, and said: :
“Massa, 1 ain't never gwine to quit
yor. I'm gittin' ole an' fevbls, an’ my
days is few in dis Leah lan’ o' sorrow an’
sin.
on’,
touched at this murk of
fidelity from Aunt Peggy. in
goneral reconstruction of the plantation
which immediately followed the surren-
der, a nice cabin, pleasantly appointed
was sot apart for the old woman, Ma
dame did not even forget the very com.
fortable rocking chair in which Aunt
Poggy might *‘set down,’ herself
touchingly wait
fu de en’
She has been rocking ever since,
At intervals of about two yours Aunt
Peggy hobbles up to the house
livers the storeoty ped address which has
Na, the
s
ns sha
oxpressed it, ‘“‘an
and de.
become more than familiar:
** Mistress, 1's come to take a las’ look
at you all. Le’ me look at you good, Le
me look at de chillun—de big chillun an’
to ehillun Leo’ me look at de pic-
ters and the photvgraphts an’ de piany
an’ eve'ything fo’ it's too late
is done gone, an’ de udder's a-gwine fas
Any mo'nin yo' po’ ole Aunt Peggy
gwine up an fin’ he
bline. I"
After such nn visit Aunt
ably returns to her cab
ously filled apron.
The seruple which Mousicur one time
ae il
wake ree § stone
r invari
in with a gener-
por for so mans
folt in supporting a woman
i idleness has entirely disap
Of late attitude
Aunt Peggy is simply one
astonishment ut the surprising
that
atiain
Aunt Veg
YOArs In
peared his towards
of profound
wonder
ne sn old black woma
when she sets her mind n
a hundred and
1
nye, sO si
t mn
3
«0 old ine ie
He ago
appar
mitly suspended by a «lender wire tied
nbout the ase handle nbort «
i no other
ible, and how inthe worl! thut thing hung
there with seven-eighths of its length on
one side of the suspension cond and only
ven-eighths
rom its ond : ERpport was vis
Neo? It
Fone firm in this
ticles and we can now get for our homes
decoration, for cabinets, for
facsimile of the genuine article. Here
too, is a war club of the oth eentury cop.
.
of
a
The Upholsterer.
Fox Against Bull,
Farmer Otis T. Burbank of Lenox
fox trottirg toward the
other noon. In a momest the fox eropt
under the barnyard fence, punted as
close to the bar,
Durham ball was nosing in the straw,
and he began to paw — tallow the mo-
ment he caught a glimpee of the tired
fox. Reynard paid no stiention to the
noisy bull at first, but as the bull camo
closer, bellowed louder, and pawed up the
straw until it flew all over him, the fox
began to watch him. Suddenly the bull
lowered his horns and divol at the fox,
and the fox sprang vp end snapped vie-
iously at the bull's nose, He didn 1 catch
dash at the fox. This time the fox set.
tled histooth in the bull's snout with the
ferocity of a panther. I(astantly the bull
threw his head up )
{and the fox lost his bold on the bull's
|
{ twenty-three feet from the ground.
Then the angry bull looked all around
| for the fox, bellowing, snorting and paw.
ing, as before, and the fox
minute or so,
foot
jum
yard and
{ side of the barn were only a fow
from the ground and the fox
down ran around to the
down on the straw again
the bull dashod at him, and
| his nose till the blood came.
minde the bull
rushed at the
Reynard sna
i
lay
the fox bit
The pain
urions, and he
for the fourth time.
pped at his snout again, but
| he failed to reach it, and tho mad ball
| forced him against the barn and drove
his horns cloar through the plucky fox's
body Thon the bull ran the
yard with the fox on his horns, and Mr.
Burbank clubbed the bull into the stable
where he pulled the fox loose. ‘The
but he soon died,
the ball had a sore nose for more than a
} ‘New York Sun.
more |
fox
around
’
fox
was still kicking, and
Week.
Fun That Didn’t Pan Out.
smart
t. Leal
came
1
nn real
VOung
. he
io
young ladies
started Next to the
I'he smart young
man began to nod toward the blue-bloused
mon came abo said (
the El (
chat with myself
before the
ladies sat a China
ap
i he
two
dapitan, "and up
and
int
man
heathen and make n
He kept
time
i grimanees
his aantomim for
showing off ' iris it
reputation
BOING
the
far
(1
Pirectors®
of the
the other day that
octor in
18 foes nino
“1 know one
from do
EY
on Pars
pel ne
rect res from $X,000 to
BION a voar
Ne
re foes
ittend
roll, nnd ia
indi ns He enters
ne cases the
at each
¥ 3 Hi)
: 3
ded among the directors
Hn
WW here there are fiftean
board of directors 8150 in
10 gold pieces oF Crisp new notes js
siaced on a plate in the centre of the di
rectors table ati the
present when the meeting is called to
If
there are but five members they ench
take £30 from the Fhis method
stimulates prompiness in attending the
meetings. — New York Times.
members who are
order ut once divide up the amount.
plate,
A Lucky Whip.
Charles Marvin, the famous driver who
broke all world's trotting records on the
stockton track, attributes some of his
good luck 10 1 n old whip which be bor-
sowed from Willis Parker and used in
all his great races agninst time. Marvin
had good whips in his stable outfit, but
he found one in Parker's stable that
suited him exactly, and ho used it in
driving Sanol in 2:08}, That event
made the old whip lucky and Marvin
called for it every time he drove against
the world’s records,
gave Avion his wonderful mile of 2:10%,
{and also when Palo Alto made his mark
| of 2:08.
| bogged Parker to let him carry with him
| the lucky whip, but the Stockton horse.
man promised to send it to him before
the opening of another trotting season,
Parker now has the whip ready to send
East, nud he will express it to Marvin at
Frauklin, Penn, There isa warm friend.
ship existing between Parker and Mar:
vin, and the owner of the whip decided
to have a proper inscription on it before
lio sends it from Stockton. He had the
| handle covered with solid gold for a dis.
| tance of soveu inches from the butt, and
| the engraving on it gives the names of
| Bunol, Arion and Palo Alto, with their
| rocords and the dates of the world-beat.
{ing performances.
iieein will highly prize the whip, and
it will ploiso him to receive another
token of esteem from his old Stockton
| Sxisma, Parker. = Stockton (Cal,) Indo.
pendent. :
THE JOKE
OF THE PRESS.
A Prudent Society Mother Nothing
Will be Lost One View of ii
Advantage of the Seasons —A Good
Plan—Ete., Ete.
A FREUDENT
Ma, Mr.
it
YOu
MOTHER.
Dauahiter Blank propos ul
ni
to me lust i
Pid
Mother
ter?
“Yes, mamma
“Hax he any money,
“Uinly BL B00 11 ve :
“WW oll, i suit
Ivy till summer.
nece him, de
)
pt
daughter?
ir.
er, handle
I bly
ossibly
up something better during
"Texas Siftings,
NOTH
Young Man
objects to the girl of his choice
whose mother
vou sav how much |
ing i girl so
Clar:
much she
standing us
of how wi
be in the family
ONE
“I don't think
teacher to ke ep mein beoause she can
read i said Willie, ‘It isa’
MI IY
Know hon
my fault if she doesn't
ar of that « Man
Uptown to Mr
Phird
said Mr
a
inquired Murray
said
the
family
Why,
there
the
funeral yesterday
“By gracious!” said Hill, “that's an
: Why didn't they bury him
suporstition?
town, "a man
nine days before
him. Had the
%
ny
in house
wonld bury
outrage
before
““No; not exactly that,” and Uptown,
drawing Hill's ear down and towards his
moath, said: “That wasn't it. He was
not dead. {Texas Sifrings,
FIXING
THE RESPONSIBILITY.
“I'm no fool.”
“The man who
one,”
told you that was
A BLUE LOOKOUT yoR min,
“Jones has got into the social swim at
last, 1 see.”
“Then he is a goner.”
“Why sa
“Bocause he told me the other day
that he never had been able to keep his
head above water since he got married.”
(New York Press.
HE'D FORGOTTEN THAT.
“This coat is too tight across the
chest.”
“Well, it won't be long.
cigareite smoker, you know,”
You are a
TO HIM THAT Wits,
“All things come to him who waits,”
"Tis true as sages say;
I'm waiting for a million, and
There came a dun to-day.
{New York World.
A BALE SRCURED.
Friend What is your idea in calling
your new book “A Neoret?”
Author 1 expoot the women to buy it
and give it away.
TO MAKE A WOMAN,
Mrs. Smythe—-I never could under.
stand why it takes ten tailors to make 2
man,
Smythe (unwarily Why?
pga Aamde SIRT
made with just one dressmaker.
|
KILEXCY I8
Luviduy--Why are you so
Before we were mar-
the hour;
a word to
GOLDEN.
Mrs,
ried vou used to talk to me by
How you scarcily ever have
Mr. Luviduyr—8psech, dear, wns
ris to man fo thoughts,
Being my wife, vou know, | have nothing
ou. The Jester.
my
oi conceal bis
to conceal irom y
A MATTER OF DOUBT.
ink I shall call on Mise
16 sud refloctively.
don't th
“1
{af
me in
me or the
hat hotel cle
fo
0 COmnes In his wny
okition
ceond Drummer —1 can accovnt for
diamond breast.
equently been mistaken
that ho
That's why Le
‘You see. he »
pm that lax sO {
torn hi wa-ignt «
really thinks he
Fins over
i
Bora-—In drink
YOu must be vi ry
Why so?
i
Jake
"
|en
Was
and
and
fo worry
against her
know
gesire not
trugeled
t
t
sasing ANd no one
of her condit
She had been helpless and in consider.
narsing lor some
f night had
with
through
for their eyes, appeared
Almost fainting from ter-
ie a frantic appeal for mercy,
t with a low murmured re-
‘ did reassure her.
‘inaily the stretcher which they brought
ras placed at her bedside, she was
lipped on to it, a cloth was thuuvwn over
abl neq ! 03 carefal
ne evening a
er
SurTes,
$
t
ck-robed fig
only holes cut
ana
$
y sombre cloth
which not
Ei
tho sirects,
But not to a terrible dangeon, as her
fevorel imagination supposed. When
she regained consciousness it was to find
on hoe learned that her case bad come
Al ranks and conditions of Florentine
society hold membership in this order;
sarvice without ostentatiin may be ren.
doted, It has existed for hundrods of
years. |New York World.
A Bootblack’s Odd Sign.
The United States once claimed the
“Loarmed Blacksmith,” but it has re-
mained for Liverpool, England, to come
forward in these latter days with a
* Learned Shoeblack,” who displays the
following as a sign as well as a proof of
his eradition:
“Pedal teguments artistically illumi.
nated in ebon hues and lubricated ina
workmanlike manner for the infinitesi.
mal remuncration of two pence. Ane
tiquated teguments (pedal or su )
expurgated judiciously and resuscitated
with exceeding expedition for a nominal
compensation. Of the innumerable
foretastes of heaven and a
which every patron is permitted to
take, | would simply ani brief i.
that from the eventuation of the opera.
tion to its ultimate successful comple.
tion, the patron reclines superincumbent
on cushions which a sy might
enty. In this superlatively luxurious
attitado my customers will find that the
horizontal and the ; ular are
gracefully blended. =|; : Re-