SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EYERY-DAY LIFE.
Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven-
tures Which
Stranger than Fiction.
A Fresca medieal journal tells of a
remarkable surgical operation performed
upon a certain Joseph Moreau, a soldier
his whole face was shot away by a shell
in the battle of Bapamune, January,
1871. Although he was left on the field
for dead, he managed to stagger to a
neighboring village, where he was cared
for by the doctors. Later on one of the
most distinguished surgeons of the day
applied to the head, which was left al-
most without human semblance, a wax
mask so cleverly adapted to the healthy
portion of the skin as to appear quite
continuous with it, This musk, as the
years have passed, has become firmly at-
tached to the head, the skin having
grown around the edges, and has permit.
ted the unfortunate wearer tonppear loss
an object of repulsion to his fellow men,
Moreau has got quite used to breathing
through the fulse nostrils, and by the
help of an artificial jaw worked by a
portion of the vriginal bone, he is able to
eat comfortably and masticate the tough-
est kind of food. His voice has regained
its natural quality and the sense of smell
has come back to him with even more
than patural acuteness. Of course, he
sees nothing through the false eyes which
look out from his waxen features witha
glassy stare, but it is long since he has
acquired the peace of mind with which
blind men ure so often blessed, and in all
the canton of Landredies, where he lives,
there is not a happier man or one more
fond of telling and listening to a good
story than he who is known as the “Man
with the Wax Face.” He lives modestly
on his pension, and adds t
by the sale of a little pamphle
scieutite account of his wonder
3 his resources
Russian Trans.
cngineer-
iron-bound
Taxes altogether the
caspian Railway is one of the
ing wonders *‘of this, the
century." t first it was considered imn-
possi to maintain a road through the
shifting sands of the Kara Kum desert,
but General Annenkoff, who
ten of
what was supposed to bean ins
Was super-
fant
ACNE
construction, overcame
Iron
able obstacle by ring
7, and ,
thicke ts of desert
But when this had
road bed assured, &
effect that the s
abandoned be there
fuel nor water along the line,
doughty (General solved the water pre b-
lem by bringing water in pipes from the
mountain, and his constructed a
locomotive which I for
fuel. But yet there was another great
obstacle in the wav, the «
which would have to be
bridge 1,000 feet longer than the Brook-
Jyn wonder. This d
«, and the ro
eperation.
with the
plants
bre en don 3
went
mo would k
anse was
Cousin
used petroleum
insxic fixus,
5
Cross d witli ©
is ft taal
uity was Dually
Overcom in active
Tug pearl hunters of Borneo and the
aljacent islands have a peculiar super.
stition. When they open shells in search
of i aris they take e i
very ninth
whether it be large
Or ama
into a bottle which is kept
dead man's finger. The pearls is
phial are known as pearls” or
**breeling pearls, native Bor.
neose firmly believes that they will ro.
produce their kind. For every pearl put
into phial two grains of rice are
thrown in for the pearls to
Some whites in Borneo believe as firmly
in the superstition as the natives do, and
almost every hat along the const has its
“dead finger” bottle, with from nine to
fifty scel pearls and twice that number
grains carefully and evenly
AWAY them. Professor
Rimmerly says that nearly every burial
place along the const has been desecrated
by breeders” 3a search of corks
for their bottles.
. 1
coraed
fegeed
"
and the
the
iF 1
food
" upon.
of tice
stowed among
pear
¥
Fruscn justice sometimes lags like the
English quality. A suit came before the
Paris civil tribunal about the heritage
of a family named d'Hatteaun d'Origny,
in Normandy, The Normans are said to
be the most litigitious people in France
and born lawyers, They are prompt to
appeal. and are up to all forms of pro.
cedure that can afford satisfaction to their
taste for litigation. The d Huttean
d'Origny case was tirst heard of at Caen.
Delays were so frequent that the three
judges who originally tried it died before
the venue was changed to Paris, where
it dragged on for six years. It was called
the other day for the three hundred and
tho face only excepted; he was then
| takog up by two men and thrown into
| the river, and after a good bath he came
out and was received bs the Brahmins,
| fully restored to onste fellowship. The
Brahmins informed the purified individ
ual that a great favor had boon conferred
on him in weighing him in copper instead
of silver.
Ix the course of his New Haven
{ (Conn.) lecture, Rev. Thomus 8. Dany,
{an educated Indian, made this singular
‘statement: ** The Indians nover cook
anything in the house. They always
cook outside, giving as their only reason
that if they cook inside the steam will
collect in their clothing and draw the
lightning. Whether this is truth or not
I do not know, but 1 do know this: No
Indian wigwam has struck by
lightning since the dawn of history, and
no Indian has been killed with lightning
for more than 100 years.” It scoms
quite possible that Indian wigwams are
seldom or never struck by lightning; but
why a whole race should exempt
heen
be
low habitations don’t atiract
tury is, to say the least, something re-
markable.
(s.
Mich
EnLLisGer,. 0 of
: performed the remarkable
cooper
working only eight hours per day,
beats all records of
United States.
and nail was, of course,
rately, and some of
three to five times,
rels Mr. Ellinger
between DOO and
heading, 60,000 hoops and
200,000 nails. Taken altogether hoops,
nt
y
loads 01
i
handled sepa-
these articles
To make 10,000 bar.
170.060)
from
used
IRL]
slaves,
pieces Oo!
staves, head-pieces, ete. —there was
least twelve common box-car
timber,
a train of
thom.
fifty cars would scarcely hold
ABLE of the
application
heen i i
made p
§
telephone has
Mount Bleyer.
Croup
Dy
Ina Case o
suce
re
al of the tube
intubation
to. When the remo
it had disappeared
attached by an
ie other end of
telephone receiver, was
throug i larynx.
4 to Da
performed, but the difficulty was to locate
was
sorted
became necessary,
A delicate
eieotrie wi
metallic probe,
re, tl which ter-
minated in a
passed down
Tracheotomy would evide
Con
As soon as it came in
ibe a distinet click was
wsition having thus
acheatomy wus per
extracted,
himself
and manafactured it,
ine
some old umbrellas. Recently he in
i some
friends to witness a test of
sine on the roof of his father's
Putting on his wings and Hap.
ping them vigorously, he boldly sprang
from the house, forty feet
earth, and flow straight
ground. His lez and
set afterward, but he
and thinks that there was some
culation in the
Ww jiviyWw
near Willi
over twenty
ahove
to
had to
resting
the
down the
arm
is onsy
mizcal.
make-up of the machine,
Bans
imsbhridge, Ohio, Bn go
nA LES wh ives
he
filer it
Voears ia, ‘ wns
plucked, five vears ago, its feathers
again, and every winter
from cold. Then certain
young upstarts in the flock poked fun at
it with derisi
of the food, ] nssaul
it with thei beaks After
during an unusual amount of this sort of
pond the
ice with
failed to grow
it suffered
g, stole its she
en-
insult it ambled o a little
other morning. broke the thin
its beak. and held its head in the
until life was extinct. The cause of the
rash act is obvious,
A nerengnr named Britt, doing business
at Wolverhamton, Staffordshire, England,
has from Wellington, New
south bullock with a wooden
leg. animal some time ago having
had it at the
joint, by an ingenious device was pro
vided witha made after the
style of the ordinary wooden leg.
received
Wales, a
The
v hind | 5
one of its hind legs broken
substitute
and to eat comfortably, and has
passed by a veterinary surgeon as being
free from pain.
Carr. Borreo
lery Regiment of the Italian army made
a wager recently that he could ride 150
been
ing the saddle except to change
i He
ing
ing bad covered 170 miles.
morning he was at drill as usual. He
changed horses five times during his
ride and thereby thirty minutes,
During twenty-one hours he rode at a
trot,
and ou 11.00 on the following
in
aven-
'
ost
postponed to enable
meet something in the nature of a de-
murrer, coupled with a demand for a
commission to be named to take fresh
evidence at Caen.
Heng is, from Chambeis’s Miscellany,
8 story which riva's anything told even
of the dog. In the summer of 1800 an
officer of Lyons was requested to inquire
into a murder,
of tho deceased, and found her lifeless
body stretched on the floor. A large
white cat was mounted on a cornice of
with his eyes fixed upon the corpse.
fared with fury, his hair bristled, and
ie darted into the middle of the room,
where he stopped for a moment to gaze
at them, and then precipitately retroated.
The countenances of the assassins were
disconcerted, and they now, for the first
time during the whole course of ihe trial,
felt their audacity forsake thom, and
gave evidence which led to the identifi.
gation of the criminals.
A Fyzavao Hindu who had been out.
onsted for the offence of eating cooked
food in a railway train while there were
8 of other castes in the same car.
riage with him bas been restored to caste.
The erring individual, although not a
wealthy man, had sufficient menns to pay
the gost of purification. He was ir
weighed in rice, and valued at 150 ru.
Jpess, aud after that in wheat, After the
ighing he was made to sit on a square
stone and his body was covered with dirt,
A most remarkable case is reported
| from Kentucky.
| prominent Baptist minister of Simpson
County, reared a family of six daugh-
{ters. He received all of them into the
Church, baptized them all and said the
{ and buried them all. He survived the
| last daughter several years.
{ City, Pa., is a great-grandmother at the
| age of forty-seven. >he was married at
| the age of fourteen and her oldest ohild
{ followed in her hymenial footsteps by
{ walking to the altar at the uge of fifteen.
The granddaugter came in duo time and
was wodded when sixteen, and now every
{lady in Tower City is wondering whether
the great-granddaughter will be married
when she is seventeen.
A meurnrui, down-East fisherman tolls
of u startling adventure that be had with
a whale near Grand Manan recently. Heo
and his dory were about to be swallowed
by the iris when, with great presence
of mind and steadiness of nerve, he throw
a quid of tobaooo, striking the monster
full in the eye. While the whale was
wondering what struck him the fisherman
escaped,
A Dexa Lene (Me.) man has a cariosity
in the shape of an egg, which had on one
end n cap-like excrescene, which, boing
lifted, showed a full-sized cranberry bean
between the cap of the shell and the in.
ner lining membrance of the egg. He
wants 10 know how it got there and if
anyone ever saw the like. It is a novel
way to raise beans, at least.
%
Grernvpr Lovie, a protty girl of 18
years who lives in the town of Aroostook
County, Me., has never been known to
laugh or even to smile. While intelli-
gent in other matters, she apparently
cannot understand a joke, and is un.
moved by the keenest witticisms.
TROTTERS AND PACERS,
ns
Miss Lola Grimes, aged 16, drove Riley
B., pacer 2.104, to his record at Terre
Haute, Aug. 28, 1801, and her sister,
Miss Wanetah Grimos, 14 years of age,
drove the pacer Arch White in 2.18%, at
Lima, Ohio, Oct. 16, 1891.
mother, Mrs. Gee Grimes, is an expert
with the lines, while their father, Mr.
Gen Grimes, i= one of tho first drivers of
the land. Like produces like.
A down-hill kite track is to be built at
Instead of the track cross.
ing itself at the starting and finishing
ponits, tho starting and
stretches will run parallel and about ten
or fifteen foot apart. By this arrange-
ment an easy down-grade will be estab.
lished, waking the finish at the wire five
finishing
At a California breading farm
has been built a swimming
is ninety foot long, twenty feet wide,
in the
tank
and
I'he idea is that
been knocked
road use or track work
anted to be got re ady
reasonable time it will
out by too much
for trotting within
their muscles hard by
the bath
work
§ ‘
DOs TO 86]
be } ible to keep :
§
: i
whereas i
they were given on the road or
track they would get sore and soon be of
no account.
In a recent letter from Chicopee,
MceFElwain, in answer to
rding the i he re.
i My for
sim was 220,000, but I had to discount a
efromit. I am glad he has gone
i is and feel nfi ¢
account of |
ox]
a qu ston reg
said:
ve a good
ka is a son of Nutwo
second i
nira «
purchnsed by Mr
tt, of New York,
stabie companion to Athel,
inm Jessie
He
k le
wns
nnd i
brother
a 3 1418
Arion, we dU13.
I'he |
ghtost vehicle
for trotters
this distance
ding
woirhing
FOIEnIng
stan sinrt
ey
ir wert
i ’ inde 0
tor two miles is 4:54
four miles, 10:05;
ing start and
ing at
i
all made with
irawine a sulky or d whik s
Grawing as sulky or droschks
least 240 Russian poun
3
report that
un, Sir Walter,
soason, has of
cky breeder to ont
ions for a return of Sir Walter
ackv, but nothing definite has
n determ
ined, ¢ may
stork
syle
1e 10 stand for wor "e § Shu
J. Hal nes & n Ho
Monmouth coun'y, N. J His son
Walter, Jr. 1 irt at the Bates
Farm, Watertown, near Boston, Mass
Hr
holds cot
Suffolk
Ww.
firat
bred in
Leonard
Her
hore
Lads
county,
Ni was
Lo Island,
and foaled in 1533
“ as Bio
race was at Baby
by
lon, in 1X30, w
trotted for a purse of eleven dollars
won it, going 5:45. Later
under saddie at two miles in 5:15,
beating Lady Victory, Black Hawk
others t 1849 was her great vear,
trotting Wititail
twelve,
she
in
jut
nineteen races and
sting Pelham, Trustee, Gray
Sutton, Mac and others of
that taking =
22% and a 8 wddlo record
The old mare died at Bridge.
port, Vt, in 1855. The first 2:30 trotter
made of stern stuff, She left
tre
Eagle, Lady
the cracks of day, and
of 2:26.
Was Bo
progeny »
The Great Trees,
—
Both were named from
sempervirens,
written language, his nan
was as far above his fellows as are the
other countries. The lan.
although he himself died in 15843, at the
age of seventy-three years. It was in
1852 that the big trees were first discov.
Lindley to describe and name them.
The soquoin sempervirens is very like its
giant brother, It is as large as all but
the most ingmense specimens of the lat.
tor. It grows in the same way, that is,
with clean, uplifted trunk, clear of
200 fet, with a long, beautiful, droop.
ing crown of folinge for a hundred feet
or wo above. It grows in groups of
200,000 trees, and it has the saw. tiny
cone, so out of proporticn to its immense
wize, in which the seod tases some four
yours fo mature. I confines itself to
the coast, howeves, being found all tho
way from its heunts in the Santa Cruz
Mountains of California, up vorth to
great Humboldt redwood forests, It has,
too, n habit of throwing up smaller trees
in a circlo about its own roots, so that
cach treo is surrounded by a group of
younger and smaller ones, looking like
tral tower. The beauty, therefore, of
these redwood forests is indescribable,
far exceeding that of the wonderful
groups of the gigantea upon the moun
tain slopes. [New York [ribune,
One recommendation to buy white on
they can be dyed
THE JOKER'S BUDGET.
JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY MEN
OF THE PRESS.
A Smart Boy—Proof Positive Held
His Head High—A Burglar in Lueck
Knocked Out—Ete,, Ete,
4 EMART BOY.
Dick
Little Johnny
smartest
There goes
He's the
Father—How go?
““He got himself a rich father.”
“Humph! I don’t understand.”
“Why. his real father died, an’ then
like Johnny; so
was sick on
goin’ to die; und then, after the rich man
married his mother, ho got well."
{Good News.
didn’t
PROOY POBITIVE.
Jack
So you are engazol to Maud
now’ :
Tom-—How do you know?
Jock You were the only
didn’t flirt with last
Herald
man
Now York
ba
night,
HELD HI HEAD HIGH,
Friend
happy f
i Any Is 4 regular
but I don’t soe why 3
he ad q ite so high.
Young Father
Gropping asieep
I know you area proud and
snd I've no doubt that
cherub, and all that;
hold your
sther,
Ou net d
I'hat's to keep from
1 w York Weekly.
Smith was aroused from a sound sisep
night by a noise. Thinking that
b irgiars were in the ho
and
one
186, he arose, Pp it
his slairs,
other
ho ro.
wont down
hand, the
Oi frousers
Ar in on
ing
holding his eo
empty, Find
turn
ately asked:
“op i
instead of Tour revolver’
“Why rather
brightening
Mrs. Smith fell «
a lucky thing the
{Detroit Free Press
one bolow
nn. of cours
thinking it was
1
CRCa peg,
Twents
Why
ATAWAHY Wi,
that?
nn fanndad
the confoundeq
wine
i t i :
sont 1t hone espress and i had {o pay
the freight HBrovklyn Life
DessImieti
“Yes: and
3
ast
the
has to wait
before
he pessimist is
that comes in and who
shaved
fare
six other
turn «
men
and the «
: fy .
ped bry h
Ne¢
es, is the
: 1 {
cGistingui euation
ng
next.
e api
w York Press,
mamma, my dollie fell
Little Girl Oh,
down and broke her nose
Mamma-—-How di
“Khe fell all by |
‘How could sh
**<he was standi .
“Then you must have stood her
“Yes'm.'
** And then vou went off and loft her?”
“Well. don't want their
mammas around all the « (rood
i she fall?
up.’
nkeild
ChHarens
time.”
ONE OF RER PETS
Sho-—I always have a great many pets
Am I one of thom?
You are my pet aversion,
He (tenderly
She Yea.
IT 18 STRANGE.
Driggs—There is one thing about a
foreigner | don't understand.
Figgs What?
Driggs—He brags about his country
APPROPRIATE.
Cumso—What are you going to do
with that mouse, Johnny?
Johnny Cumso—Use it for bait,
Cumso (astonished —For bait?
Johnny—Yes; I'm going to try to
catch some catfish. — Jester,
GOOD DEFINITION
“It's but a stop from the sublime to
the ridiculous.”
“How so?’
“Here's on man offers 21,000 for a bird
dog. That'ssublime. Here's the owner,
who won't take it. That's ridicalovs,
{Brooklyn Life.
NO SLEEP.
“There is pour Robinson—hasn’t a
place to sleep.”
“What, Robinson?"
w Yep "
“*He hos a home.”
HY os~and twins two wooks old.”
THE REIGHT OF BLISS,
Hojack-Did Tom look happy when he
stood up to got married?
Tomdik-Yes; hecouldn't have looked
happier if he had been “next” in a crowd-
ed barbor shop.—{Judge.
PLENTY OF AMMUNITION,
Tom-1 am not surprised that the New.
weds have quarrelled; it was to be ox.
Jook-—Why?
Tom—~8be always would
0 was always
Jaf shot. Neath.
TWO FEATURES OF
Mrs. Newliwed
day.
day.
Miss Spinn—It was
a walk or a drive.
Mra. Newliwed
ing of the wash,
I do so enjoy a bright
Now lust Monday was a superb
a perfoct day for i
Yen: but I was think.
[New York Sun,
i
JUDGING VYROM APPEARANCES,
““ Bo, Jones married the widow to whom
he was paying atiention?”’
“Yes. How did you know?"
“I saw him this morning on the street |
{and I noticed that he had lost all that
{ jaunty air he used to have about bim.”
—— New York Press,
A LEAP
YEAR PROPOSAL,
She said: “I'm crazy with delight,
I've a camera that's brand new,
I'll photograph the things I like,
And will begin by takin
BE you."
MARRIAGE VOR SPITE.
‘“ She
bolieve.”
married to spite
; somebody, 1
“* Whom?
“1 don't
were her husband.
Do vou know
but it looks as if it
1
Rhow
or
URE
Little Johnnie—Say. Ma. d
ister really need all the sii
mn
ppurs that are
we n
f given him?
5 » r
Mrs. Brown-—Yos, inde
generally so very bad.
His son is
A CL IDEBAY MARTER,
“Who
nis’
‘Ye know Mulcahy
sthable?”
‘Is it him!
er fur now, Din.
hat has the livery
int work lor
Share woul
8 man ss mane as him.
he has?
“A '
‘Al
It's a hard name
ver mistaken in
Mulcahy is one ev the
mses
his hand
do a day's work in
consigerate
nitch wan as
He is
‘Is there anything
inGeeq
ees im’
“(. ves. he son
rT or
You wil
reads
His first publi
FEON THs
Happiness is but a caks
Which the Wise and
Sorrow is a lamp of de
Merry tal
yagh
Fools and cynics seek it
Mrs Bree 20
Danes Tor me, ne
Mr
hereafter | shall
Hree; oY
THE 1
Though I'm a poet of the
Belore no editors |
Bocause I've |
And send my rhymes to them
i
learned a thing or
two
3 +1
OV mail
A Persian Horse.
“ Persian horses,” =
in “ Journeys in Persia and RKardistan,’
‘are to admired and liked. Their
beauty is 8 source of constant on joy.
| ment, and they are almost invariably
| gentle and docile. It is in vain to form
| any resolution against making a pet of
of them. My acquisition,
{ * Boy, insists on being petted, and his |
| enticing WAYS are irresistible. He is al-
wavs tethered in front of my tent, with a
r pe long enough to give him considera.
bie liberty, nnd he took advantage of it
the very oirst day to come into the tent,
| and make it apparent that he wanted me
to divide a melon with him. Grapes
wore his preferenc . then came cucum-
ber, bread, and biscuits, Finally, he
drank milk out of a soup plate. He
| comes up to me and puts down his head
to have his ears rubbed, and if 1 do not
attend to him at once, or if 1 cease at.
{ tending to him he gives me a gentle
| but adwonitory thump. 1 dine outside
the tent and he is tied to my chair and
waits with wonderful patience for the
odds and ends, only occasionally rubbing
| his soft nose against my face to remind |
{ me that he is there, A friendly snuffe
| is the only sound he mnkes. He does
| not know how to fight or that teeth and
| heels are for any other uses than eating
i
sve Mrs Vishop
be
one new
and walking. He is really the gentliest
| and most docile of his race. The point |
| at which he draws the line is being led; |
then he drags back and a malish look
comes into his eyes. But he follows like |
| a dog, and when | walk he is always with
me. He comes when I call him, stops
when [| do, accompanies me when
1 leave the road in scarch of flowers, and |
| usually puts his head cither on my
shoulder or under my arm. To him 1
am an embodiment of melons, encumbers,
grapes, pears, peaches, biscuits, and |
sugar, with a good deal of petting and
are rubbing thrown in.”
The * Oregon Boot.”
A decided novelty in footwear, more
suggestive of utility than of comfort, is
the ** Oregon Boot,” so called, with one |
of which a train robber who lately as
rived in St. Louis was maneclod. The |
boot weighed sighteen and a half pounds, |
and a d vo spent fifteen minutos in
opauing the combination by which it was |
soon to the prisoner's foot. Thus
hobbled, there would seem to bo small |
chance for a malefactor to effect his
flight from custody unless he should |
somehow learn the combination. Prac.
tically, he
res
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS,
WEARY MOTHERS PLAINT,
HO weary motpers, mixing dough,
Don't vou wish that food sould grou?
Your lips would smile, 1 know, to see
A cookie bush or ua papeike tree,
No walting to get the vven hot:
If vu sould send sour child tv see
{ths pies bad baked on the cherry treo.
‘A be inte; bah won'd be quite fine,
Srend be plucked trom the tender vine
A sponge rake plant our pet wou'd bi
We'd read and sew neath the muffin tice”
THE
There is’ a
told
far
PIRET PAINTING.
very pretty little legend
the origin of painting. In
ao frrveces, bie fore
Of the
off mythical
hiselod
ngs
his wonderful marble
ie mighty Homer sang of
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site side, and thus in
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victim and left him where he had fallen
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uttered a loud
ory, which was responded to almost in
one unbroken chorus, and when they had
destroved their encmy that a loud cry
was uttered by them as they dispersed.
There 1s every reason to credit the state.
ment that these little creatures unite
their forces to attack a strong foe, and
that their preconcerted plans are intelli.
gent and unique and differ in detail as
tiie conditions differ.
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The Author Waited in Vain.
Colonel John Hay tells an interesting
story that be vouches for us true. It is
like Harper's, Lippincott's, and others,
accumulate manuscripts for future use
and file them away in vaults until needed.
A friend of the Colonel's wrote a story
called “The Brazen Android.” locating
the scene of the story in England, in the
time of Roger Bacon. The author's
name was William 1. O'Connor, who for
years lived in Washington. The story
was a long one, and ran through three
numbers of the magazine when published,
in 1801. The singolar part of the inci.
dent is, that the story was written and
ncoepted by the Atlantic Monthly in
1861, and paid for. Month after month,
and year after year, Mr. O'Connor
watched the magazine for the publica.
tion of his story, and it finally did ap-
poar within & short time after his death,
more than thirty years after it was aoe
copted.—| Washington Post.
To Dress Ordinary Hides.
To dress ordinary hides, such as coon,
skins, it if onl
with the hair or wool side down, and
then smear the upper surface with a
paste made of equal parts of alum and
salt dissolved in a weak solution of
sulphuric acid and water, adding suffi.
cient wheat bran to thicken the paste.
The proportions should be about two
ounces of alum, two of salt, and one
drachm of the acid to ench pint of water
used in making the paste. Spread this
nasty aver the flush side of the skin and
eave it in two or three days, then sera
off, and work the skin until it is soft. #4
for dressing skins with the hair removed,
it depends somewhat upon the nse you
are to make of the dressed hides, and
their kind, whether thick or this. If
ant the skins to ent up Sur strings,
drosscd differently