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SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS
EVERY-DAY LIFE,
OF
Queer Episodes and Thrilling Advens
tures Which Show that Truth Is
Stranger than Fiction.
tle village of Godarville, not far from
Charleroi, in Belgium, besn
pended from his official
most remarkable irregularity in office.
He and his wife own a goat, which gives
enough milk to satisfy most of the
family's needs for milk. ‘I'he goat has
the peculiarity of allowing only Mme,
Marchand to milk her, and whenever the
station master approaches the goat kicks
and bucks. A short time ago, Mme.
Marchand went to market before break.
fast. The station master was in haste
to begin his daties of the day, and there
was nothing in the house to eat. He ap-
proached the goat with a pail on his aru,
and the goat, us usual, began to kick and
buck. In despair, he decided to
masquerade as his wife and humbug the
goat into being milked. He pat on his
wife's skirts, waist and bonnet, and re-
turned to the The goat wus
docile, and he began milking her. All
his preparations, however, had required
more time than he had realized, and
fore the pail was half full he was aston.
ished by hearing the whistle of the first
morning express, which it was his
important duty to meet. He dropped
the pail, ran to the house, exchanged
his wife's bonnet for his red and
cap of office, and ran with flving skins
to the station platform. The sight of
individual with a full beard
skirts and a station master
everybody on tho train, and gave the
porters at the the idea that
Marchand had gone crazy. So a police-
man was }
master was marched of to jail. I'o the
railroad authorities at Charleroi, who
began an investigation of his conduct,
Marchand explained the
of the obstrep. rous goat for his unprece-
dented performance. He
by temporary retirement from office.
has RUS.
shed.
bee
most
"
blue
n flowi
cup dazed
station
summoned mm station
3
responsibility
_— EYE bs i
was punished
Presioesr McLrop, of the Philadel.
phia and Reading Railroad, about whom
the whole country is talking since
consummation of the gigantic coal deal
is, like many another American who has
attained success and fame, a self-made
aman,
reer he
the
During the early days of his ca-
in very ire
stances. It is now related
before bis connection with the
business he was the proprietor
tery in Texas, and that after a har
struggle for several vears he w
out by the sheriff. Theu he w
with unbroken
his fortune,” if possil
time Alexander Bryden
Penn , n
Colorado with ¢
lands there an
ate them if practic:
he met Mcleol,
“flat on his back
bettering his cor
Bryden for en
East agai
generous
money, McLeod
in a position son
ness, and 1
trae to his word.
railroad king was pla
Philade
was straitened « Hie
that
atiroad
r
of
ap it
08 So
W
boss, wis
mine
TesH
den, who
offer hin
company s
tries, one of
$1
Bid
tious in
most cov
attached to
the reins for
duties wer: {
signed and returne
Pittston. It is i
Bryden takes the Reoaest In
McLeod's lutest
and that he hopes for |
plete SUCCESS,
and
Mes, Tansxey, wife
Tarsney, has h
with
them are so vivid that wh
a threatening sky
“] have becu through twe.’
“and in one hud a terrible fright. Word
reached me that the schoo had
been blown down and the children killed.
My little son was at school, and to my
ideas just then there was only one school
house in Kansas City, 1 started out. No
cars were running and everything seemed
rained. I found my boy's school had
been dismissed and he had started for
home just as the cyelone came. Then |
was more than ever scared. I sethalf a
dozen policemen hunting for him and
went towards the wrocked sechool-house
riding in a mule car that had finally found
the truck. Everyohild they brought out
from the ruins was mine, but still Lhe
didn’t appear, and after setting more po.
licemen on the hopt, I started home.
more dead than alive. When nearly
there I looked akead, hoping to dee him
Playing somewhere. There the little fel.
ow was, trudging along whistling and
with his hands in his pockets. When he
looked across the rowl and saw me he
simply shouted, ‘Mumma, is dinner
ready?’ The revalsion of feeling was a
never-to-be-forgotten sensation. A next- |
door neighber told ne afterwards that
she and a number of ether women wore
in the car when the cpolone struck them
and they wero great'y terrified, when my
little boy piped oul sbove the disturb.
wnoe, ‘What yer 'faid of? Don't be
seared. God's hore,” nnd kept it up till |
they became quiet. But I hope 1 shail
never see another oyslone.”
of Conzrressman
experience
cyc.ones nhran es of
GVer sho sees
she | nervous,
she ” ys
House
{
Tuenr must be a varticularly hot spot |
in the earth ander Wheeling, W. Va. It i
is hoped to sink the well now being |
driven there at lonit uw mile, The well is |
a litde leas than five inches in diameter, |
Its peculiarily is that no vein of water |
hus been tapped, and being porfectly
dry, scientific men nave an unesnmplod
opportanity to conduct their investi.
gations. The temperature is being taken
at various depths. At a depth of 1,860 |
feet the temperature is G8 degrees; at |
2,375 foot, 79 degrees; at 3,370 feet, 92 |
Sogreaa; at 4.370 feet, 108 dogrees, and
ot 4,462 feet it is 111 degrees. Thus the
g
Bt
tomperature is incroasing faster and
fuster the deeper the boring, For in-
# ance, the increase in the 1,000 foot
370 feet to 3,370 feet is about 13
the nost
i
{ from 2,
{ degrees, while the merease in
1 1,100 feet is more than 16 degrooes.
| the heat goes on increasing in
1 progression, 0 dopth will be reached be-
{ solid sobstance
bo
{ fore long whore
| will be melted.
| no indication
i things exists
earth's crust, for
parts of the world have shown very
feront rates in the increase of heat.
Lucy McCrurg, a girl
eighteen, living in Lincoln County, W,
Va +
her already romantic career by eloping
with James Adkins. The two met and
the young woman, who is masculine in
many respects, proposed the elopement,
They rode across the country to Milton,
where they the Chesapeake and Ohio for
Ironton, Ohio, where they were married.
They returned home, Lucy ap
very proud of her husband, who
more effeminate of the two. Luey's
career as a moonshiner has given her
fame. She is now under 31,000 bonds to
appear before the United States Courtto
Her
avery
That, however, will
that the same of
evervwhere under the
walls driven in other
dif.
stnte
young of
noted as a moonsoiner, has ad led to
wearing
is the
answer the charge of illicit selling.
plan was a unique one. Her sales wore |
made pringipally to the workmen on the |
Norfolk und Western extension. She |
had a fleet little pony, two |
For more yoar |
evaded the officers
i
|
i
jugs and uo |
than
who
smull revolver, n
shu were after
ia
all.
her. She knew every road the coun- |
try and had friends them
Whenever the officers were in pursui
! notified and
she either 4 t
upon her fluet pony or was shiel i
along
woul | bo
{
i
her frien =,
and the officers being
he surrendered.
wh . ¢
i of San Franei
war unon the Hizhbinder
re 1 )
inal Chinese societies hay
f 1
Finally Ee Was surp
00 ino
to Invade
The murd
meet
So
the othee wl
down as
Are
he saw a dog dashing
the
to land, one hy one, thr
The Grand Duke approached
the dog, and the animal's
oTerel Black to him, ref
any payment
vith angry
Bringing
rows
Darks into vater, and
ee Urowning men
to
master
Caress
then
i8in: to ac epi
story comes from St
of the roscue of
Fdwarl Island
She was driven on
A THRILLING
Johns, New Foundland.
the erew of the Pence
schooner Avenger,
the rocks twenty miles from St. Johns |
in a blinding snow storm. While she!
was pounding to pieces the boat was |
launched and immediately swanped
Murdock Mills volunteered to swim
ashore with a lifeline. He was carried
ashore on a big ware, but could not
land, the coost being se precipitous. He |
wus drawn back on board the vessel, |
where he rested ag hour, and then tried |
again and successfully, He drew him |
solf up from one point of rock to another |
until he reached un place where be could i
fasten & line, Then he drew ashore al
inrger line, by means of which the cap.
tain anderew all got safely to shore.
Tur Empress of Gormany is in the
habit of writing, for a few minutes daily,
in her diary. Nobody ever sees the con-
tents of the diary, not even the emperor
oponed, and the old one, which has a
locked clasp, is corsigned to the iron
safe containing her majesty’s domestic
gems she is in the habit of wearing when
state ceremony does not require hor to
deck herself with the publis jewels of her
exalted station. The samo key serves
for all the diaries and the emp: ess
usually carries it attached to sa chatelain
at her waist. As hor majesty is a keen
impressions and some weighty secrets,
Mr. E. Purnrs, of Shreveport, La., is
a regular customer of a well-known St,
Louis shoe merchant, His orders vary
in wome details, but never in the size of
shoes, To an ordinary St. Louisian the
sizes between 12 and 17 are unknown,
They are never seen in the show win.
dows, and no citizen ventures on the
street with shoes of this calibre,
colony
would put themselves in agony to wour on
of colored people in Shreveport
no inconvenience whatever when
their feet are ensconsed in shoes No, 17.
The last order called for a dozen, and it
was filled from a special department
ectablished for this grade.
A mig
under
exciting wildeat chaso re.
cently took place at Will's
three miles southwest of Livingston, Va.
The cat, which was of gicuntic propor.
tions, in the
morning by Mrs, Gabriel Johnson and
her two daughters, and they immediately
set three large grevhounds on it. The
animal ran but
finally treed by the dogs, and one of the
ladies summoned up tue
au double-barrelled gun
monster. Her bravery
Cove, about
was seen about Y) o'clock
for some distance,
courage to get
was repaid by
the
their
of
the tree at the first report
The ladies are very proud of
gun.
BUC
Css.
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James MoCanry of Gaski
one of the most unique characters ot Jet-
Penn the
lied on a recent Friday, aged 79
His death
heating himself dancing in the open air,
f MeCarty could
ferson county, perhaps of
Slate,
YOurs. was caused by oves
for, old as he was
keep siep to atdne ina
on,
rv id
the vi
an hour at a
He would often play
ance to the music for half
greatly to the
For
hunting.
i
minokers,
been
7
Hs inst
his occupation
bias thon ¥
the time of
HAS
lliness Lubiy
s timo, sud
Mark Twain's Pipes and Tebarco,
least a
How do ¥
Poy
the man with the
OF We gelore thes
nage
wear them
n couple can be
it on J
‘ No,” said
n
amount
we i or
i
Mork wi ‘I alwivs
geap en Hn nan who doesn't
ho would be
bottyr I, and let him
break in the pipe for me. I get him to
smoke the pips forn couple of weeks,
then put stem and continue
operations as loug as the pipe holds to.
£
to much, Lavhow
de 3
mn
in 0 now
gether
Mark Twain brought into Franee with
him a huge package of boses of cigars
tabacoo which he took person 1
charge of. When he placed it on the
deck of the steamer crossing the English
whila le lit a fresh cigar, he
put his foot on ths package 50 as to be
sure of its safety. He didn’t appear to
care what became of the rest of the lug.
gage, so long as the tobacco was safe,
“Going to maugg'e that in?’ asked
Jerome.
‘“ No, sir. I's the only man on board
will say to the customs officer: * Tax me
what you like, Lut don’t meddie with the
tobacco.” They don't know what tobac.
co is in France. "=~ The Epach.
A A A550
What an Eye is Worth,
A——_——
Representative O'Neil says that one of
the first pension cases he worked through
under the Cleveland administration was
for a constituent who hid become en-
tirely blind, The rate of compensation
was 872 a month. Immediately he be.
gan to get letters from other constituents
who had lost an eye in the military ser:
vice and were getting #18 a month, in-
sisting that their pensions be raised to
$36. They argued that if the loss of
two eyes entitiod a veteran to $72a
month it was 0 plain and simple mathe
matical verity that the loss of ono oye
should be rated at half that sam. —[Mil-
waukeo Sentinel,
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Twilled China silks show stripes that
have a slight bourette effver,
ba
FOR THE LADILS.
DRAPED PILLOWS,
lntest novelties is
A silken cover for the
outside is made very large and loose,
When the pillow has been placed in this
covering two bunds of ribbon are passed
around the pillow, dividing it into halves
through length and breadth. The
ribbons should be held rather tight and
mude into a full bow on the upper side
of the pillow, A pretty draped pillow
recently seen had drapery of chrysan-
themum-vellow silk banded with ribbon
shading from vellow to silvery white and
brocaded with gold-eolored
Ribbon an inch and a half wide is used,
~-{Chicago Post.
of fashion's
draped pillows
Ono
its
Howers,
BHADESR FOR EPRIN«
Light-green and pale chamols-yellow
felt hats for the spring will be trimmed
with black and a great
quantity of handsome satin ribbon. The
Rubeus bats will be favored, us the brims
ure The English
sailors will have
ostrich tips
moderately wide
rulki hint nid t) “
wiiking-uat and the new
rol
models
ling brims. Oneof the square-crowued
like the
it
i% very mucn old
shapes,
pot hat
Few heliotrope shades appe mn
the
t
shiown to
ry
““heelfentor
English
HEeW ELiring coin
the and pale
brown dyes; India and begonia are the
finest shades in red, und the four leading
IT
Clmois,
Evens are sag Russian
LUigaie,
ga ‘New York Post.
Peon, ang a
here
oliar faced with silk,
pointed Inpels are
The coat fits tightly at
double. breasted
Riso
ni
ons
in
nt
large smoked pe arl buttons.
rimmed flat, biack felt hat,
trimmed with ostrich feather tips and jet,
will be worn with this dress and coat.
MOO Herald,
fastened one side with
Ts
. ¥ s
wide
A MARVELOUS GOWX,
Great big sieeves are very fashionable
for house dresses The bigger the
sleeves the more fashionable the gown.
A very well known literary woman re.
cently gave an afternoon at home, or
more properly speaking, she recently
stayed at home of an afternoon and per.
mitted her frionds to come and gaze upon
her gown. lt was a marvel as far as her
sleeves wore concerned, and the ambi-
tious literary woman posed and poised,
walked and talked, giving all the while
the most careful attention and study to
big-sleeved gown, By tho way, the dress
was all white, and have you ever noticed
that it you wish to make a geunine sen.
unadulterated white. You will be notice -
you dress in colors you will be swal.
lowed up in the general gavety of tho
socne {New York Advertiser.
*
RIE RUNS A RANCH.
Mra. Emin Porry is a quiet, refined
little lady, who for somo yours hus been
successfully conducting a Inrge cattle
ranch near Marens, Kan. In 1887 Mrs,
Perry was left a widow, after less than a
our of married life. During her hus.
ands illness she intrusted his business
te hors, the resalt being that the ranch
a rs wore founl to bo ia a most deplore.
ubie condition and bankruptey stared
bet in the face when she took possession
of her ropuety, Pur ly to save some.
thing from the impending wreck, and
after ne
great loss, she assumed cmirol the
{« ute and became it active manager.
Owning a section of land, seveuly-five
head of cattle and a few ponies, Mrs,
of
Perry commenced her now life, bearing
in mind the many wrecks all about her.
Rising early and retiring lute, much of
her time in the saddle, she soon had or-
der restored and her business affairs well
in hand. Of she has suffered reo-
verses, but she has passed through them
COUTTS,
all with such good judgment and manage
ment that to-day wealthy
prosperous her delice
Les
she is and
Horses nr if, and
there is seldom ao of
her ranch in
Hot
vithin
of her
usually first
race
vhich BOrses is
and
brought to her as the result of her judg.
{ ment and her knowledge horsefiesh
She is a daring and nceomplished rider
one
entered, Money is
of
and ean be seen almost any dav, fair or
otherwise, riding rapidly over the plains,
followed by several favorite grevhounds,
- Chicago Post
XOTER,
Modistes now charge extra not to d ip-
leate the costumes they mnie
Black for slipper wear have the
4
tep in new designe of lace work.
hose
ins
It
Of bridemaids 10 co
is noticed that the English fashion
Ors now obtains hare
Venetian hand ‘arniture is the
Die peceptiation
HE and pe
io
wer ec.
somelim
with a
aigre
fine Venetia
teas and inforn
rale, with artistio
(reek drap ries. which give them their
title ‘picture : Beautifal
India cashmeres and camel's. hair fabrics
for
Are in princess sivie,
i
i
of dresses
are also made up in charming style
visting and evening concert.
The newest invention for bonnets is a
kind of a clasp which is inserted through
the hat or bonnet to fix it the hair
The outer part is made of chiseled gold,
steel, or silver, and can worked so
that it opons a small steel clasp in the
inside, which pinches the hair, As many
as four of theso can be worn with a large
hat, and with the present hats and bon
nets, which have hardly any crown nor
anythink to fit to the head, they are very
usefal.
Soft undressed satins with lustrous
sarfaces can now be found in all the
dry goods houses, and are being sold at
just half their former prices. ‘1 hey ap-
pear in all the delicate and beautiful
evening tints found in higher-priced
textiles, and the paler dyes make charm.
ing toilets for young girls when fashion.
ed with rather full skirts and bebe waist,
{ with chiffon frill around the neck. and
velvet girdie with loops and ends of the
samo.
ohn
be
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Extraordinary Pranks of Rabbits.
Rabbits have been playing some most
extraordinary pranks in aud ne.r North
Lyme, Coun. The other night at a bean
supper, while dishes flied with this de.
lightful vegetable were cooling on the
porch of the old Sill house, a drove of
On the
| Sunday evening following they crowded
into the vestibule of the church in such
numbers as to int.orrapt the sermon. It
took the pastor and five members of the
congrogation nearly a quarter of an hour
to clear the room and fu doing so they
killed eighteen rabbits. M ni
the church society gave a rabbit ple
tival,~ [Chicago Post, :
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EPITOME OF NEWS GLEANED PROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF THE STATE,
Epwarn A. B York
was kicked by 8 horse and
CEI, a New horseman
Prririoss addressed 10 Governor Patilson
were circaisted for sigostures in the Behul-
kill Valley asking him to frosiraie the plans
of the Headipg Ballroad « ompany in carry-
ng
ond deal and fore
FT nopoly olthe conl terest,
iden, near
A
He al i
lied aud four
BY an explosion in a m
Wilkes-Barre ; three men we ki
'Y 8 Fayette Cliy
worker, poured carbo
i then
i: GYer
set fire to her
ghbo
was lying in bed, an
ag rescued by ned ra
suiciie LY
niterwurd committed
thront with a Barlow Knife,
AX ugly row between Poles and puiice took
piace st 8 Minersville buardiog house in
which a Pole named Shelshice was probably
: others on botl
Nevers i nides
from t
Hine been i
feared
Tus
bH Add
Harrist
1
jer met at Pitsburg for
Order
arged with perjury, @ in
made by Alderman Reilly by James W
a newsdealer, on the Noath side. Soot
recently arrested and fined at the
McClure, who testified that he had pers
purchised a paper from Scott on the Sab
Day.
Wine Samuel A.
preaching in Trinity Church, Leesport, Berks
County, a 32-calibre buliet crashed through a
window, passed ciose by bis bead and fell on
the head of one of the deacons. The neigh
he person whe
13 4 Leinback was
borhood was searched, but
fired the shot was nol found.
A Gas explosion took place at the Meri jam
Colliery, at Ashland and Aogust Wohler and
Michael Colgan were very badly burned and
cannot live, The cause of the explomaion
not known, as neither of the jared men
were able to spesk.
A BILL in equity to guash the Reading deal
was filed by Mr. Arnot, a banker of Elmira, a
stockholder in the Lehigh Valley Road al
Williamsport,
Lava ALiexpeR, of Allentown, was an
rested on the chargeof polygamy. Itis known
that she has three husbands living
ie Ih
Points About January.
Dianus, or Janus Bifrons, was tha
old party for whom the Romans
named this month. He was origin
ally the janitor of the gods, and
opened the doors of the morning for
Rosyfinger, or Dawn, after whom
came the Sun in his chariot; but later
he was put at the head of the wan
office while Mars was the acting god
of war. The old party was repre.
sented with two faces looking in ops
posite directions, to indicate the une
certainties of war, whence he was
named Janus Bifrons, which may be
freely translated Holy Two-front.
This just suits January, which opens
the year, looks both ways in time
and is as uncertain in weather as wap
is in results. The most confident
Wiggins seldom claims foreknowledge
of January's weather, while the goose
bone and the corn husk are equally
at faults Sn :