SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS EVERY-DAY LIFE. or Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven- tures Which Show that Tiuth is Stranger than Fietion. The French customs officers who are stationed af the gatos of Paris to guard against oxcisable goods entering without paying thé oetroi, or, duty, have ocea- sionally to deal with temipis at Last for id smuggling an which work, instance, attemnted fraud wus lk bare contrabandists the Menilmon £31 of 4 pony cart, { amo At ant in expodionts the fo de fficials. wooden boxes, barriers, attempted to “Have you anythin clare?” asked one the ‘Nothing.” said the man, ernment has put a tax on wreaths,” and as be spoke he drew the lid off one of the boxes, revealing a num- ber of the wreaths and crosses of artifi- sinl flowers so common in French bury- ing grounds, The man was about | puss on when something about aroused the suspicions of the chief offi. cial. He boxes and admired the beauty the flowers and their remarkable fidelity to nature. Lifting one casually in his hand he found it was remarkably Leavy, and closer examination showed that when stripped of flowers and it was a zine case filled with the finest brandy. The rest of the of the pass or oS i Of of INOSK8 contents boxes «confiscated. As frauds of the kind are thorities, the ingenious inventor of the trick will probably be allowed leisure enough in Mazas to design something i : Hove the m of Ohio has been scarce side a narrow local area. residence Joshua Kelly, at Landing, was torn down and tarned info a field. During the ploagh was started, and under the house stood a skelet was tamed up. The finder about and unearthed four more skeletons, four adults and supposed heard of Union its the work i derectiy of site where ton dug one chili first been to brought clear i the new an esca ion was in with astonishing res forty feet square an depth more than a score of found were il Was no one tow davs do Hits, af skelotons were and it was estimated at there y bodies in the space : piled the women and ¢ than that the the Ohio River. the wi beads, their fi implements wore one nes sut order other upon other ildren § 3 heads were generally toward Around necks of nen wind curiously wrought were nd stone and metal rings were igors. Many ne and and trinkets, and i 08 were {vencerally speaki bones and teeth were it ervation, y five and six feet > ellent state Som 1¢ strands of When a chief is King paramon Warrior led hunt for a tiger. ab snake This be coervinony at the « the King eating p the thres only being used. the nt of the Swazi nn impi large Wwause part g orountion OHIRI Rls of animals, r snake man rubs the oil on temples and the King, bewitched brea between the shoulders of to prevent aim being animal hearts are supposed to act on the liver and make bis royal Majesty brave indeed Daring the cere mony the Ning sits upon the skull of the buflale, has been place l upon heart of the In he three days. first ouly in in skin of the tig while thivd he nire ground EX Or he on inthe ¥ isos [ast tn the Ls the skin of t in clothed sd on thi tho see the of the who is In this sit he r vigratulati people, who hail him as ‘Great Lion, Tig 4 “NinvYer of Se Pp wits Buffalo ’ By ever after known to the « mis of hi and fie h mankind may avoid a re great ust iggaes of his for instanes, as that near the the last century, in which the locusts drowned on oae part of the Afri- can const wore washed up in a bank fifty miles Jong and four or iva feet high. or hat, early in the Clu aan era, which resulted in the death of 500,000 persons peti 4 § p11 0 HM Irie tory —such, close : lost their terrors. Recent alarm most serious visitation recorded for forty years, of being migratory seemed to have de veloped from eggs laid in the country last vear. y exterminate the creatures damage is done. While the locust plague in Algeria, a member of the French Academy, M. Kunckel Herculais, is reported to have fallen aslosp from exhaustion, when he was at- tacked by a swarm of locusts from which he was unable to escape. When his corpse was found the insects had com. pletely devoured his hair, board and necktie. — Trenton (N J.) American, The steamer Gothenburg City was wrecked on St. Mary's Island, near New. castle, England, A party, says the Newcastle Chronicle, went in a boat to the wreck. They had no sooner put foot on deck than they were attacked by an army of rats and had to make tracks for the rigging. Great hungry, lanky, lean. looking rats, many of them with their tails chewed off, swarmed along in never. ending thousands, squoaking and squirm- ing over ono another in a manner sicken- ing and horrible te behold, particularly to those up in the rigging. How could they escape? At last they cut off some loose ropes, knotted them into conveniont lengths, and so armed descended and at- tacked the rodents, eventually succeeding in beating a passage to the boat. The rats no sooner saw the mon over the side of the vessel than they begun to swarm be fe We down the ropes and try to enter the boat. It was with difficulty they were beaten off and, when the boat was clear of the vessel, they squeaked in a horrible manner in their anguish, many of them trying to swimafter it. But they wore too far from Innd to swim ashore. The different nations of the world, both uncient and modern, have employed various symbols to represent the fires that flash from the thunder-cloud. The Chaldeans symbolized it with a trident; the learned Babylonians used a human arm for the same parpose. Tha bas.re- liefs of Nimrud and Malthia, the work of | later and more refined Assyrian artists, i show the to a i the classic art sect trident doubled or transformed trifid iasciclo. This triumph of rod the ancient svinbol the advantage reprisentations the The Greeks represented { the stoerm-fire with the features of a bird Later on, when they had be- the the use of tha Asiatic form of symbol, they put it in the claws of an and made it the sceptre of Zeus. received the symbol from Italy, { but soon altered it to the familiar two. | headed hammer seen on the Gallo- Roman | inonuments | on amulets found in Germany, Scandina- vin and Brittany.—(8t Louis Republic. for | Mesopotamian other i thunderbolt. { over ail of | of prey. gun The same symbol is seen A surprisingly strong bit of evidence | in proof of a woman's inability to remain | ealm in the presence of a mouse was that j contributed by Bridget Colgan, the ser. { vant girl who was recently treated for a { broken ankle atthe Philadelphia Hospital. { Miss Colgan is a fine, strapping voung | daughter of Erin, who would give most men o hard inatrial of physical strength and her nerves are usually as strong as her muscles. Yet when Bridget wins cleaning the second-story windows tussle i of the house where she was emploved as { chambermaid and she saw n run from under the bed, instantly | turned and leaped into the street below, { at the same time screaming’ “*A mouse! Perhaps no more remarkable this strange fear has ever been recorded, and Miss Bridget's escape with only the injuries mentionnd the least curious part of her adventure HIOUsH out she i a mouse!’ instance of is not The highest clouds, cirrus and cirro to a height he middle 10 IKK) to the ea : seldom lower than 3, 7 KK) Fhe cu- h their lower sur from 404K) to 0.06) On an ay erage, stratus, rise, rly 30.000 feet neon uds ke en at fro : : wl m about f above the surface of clouds feat tiv ex. quent (EK tten Comps the third cls her classes are the ra STF Pe woelfel ing re tweillh y requires that the ns ww up into her i on three leg is in America of ORE 6 Bool and groxing a ity. Miss Annie st capt mick, besi and most 8 in the city, i rare musical talent with an exquisite touch She plays the piano she is able to play on six different instrume snd the guitar, tambourine, This unheard of; but what derful, is her ability to carry three sepa- rate distinct airs at the same time, playing with each hand a different upon the piano, and for the third singing {some familiar Ga.) Dispatch. The queer case of John Sousley, a farmer living near South Bend Ind. is | attracting much attention. Sousley fol lows threshing in season and quit last September with a badly inflamed eye. { It has pained him continually since, un- { til one day recently when an oculist found that a grain of wheat had lodged in his eve, sprouted in its grosth had forced a passage up between the scalp | and skull, and vad found an outlet near { the apex of the right eye. The nis that is a trinngie, harp and 1. ni band one time, bazs violin sae something almost is far more won and piece song. ~ in a hot-bed, where it is expected 10 grow. Sousley ia doing finely. A lumberman at Wytopitiock, Me., recently split open a ho'low maple log and found among rotten leaves twonty- six mice, all dead, species in the collection the long. tailed or kangaroo wouse, the white bellied wood mouse and the common short-tailed field mouse. The chopper thinks they crowded up into the hollow in order to keep warm, and the hole through which they entered having olosed up, they starved to death. Mice won't sat mice, evidently, although civilized men have been known to feed on one unother under similar conditions. A nine-year-old bey, in knee breeches, walked into the Wyandotte National Bank, at Kansas City, Kan., the other day and asked tho teller if he had any Ths hoy. FrEod & Dig PAO throu he the boy n thro the window and remark Hand a hand them out!” The teller did not re- spond so promptly as the youngster | deemed oonsistout, and he pulled the trigger. The pistol snapped but did not explode, and ether bank employees grabhad the boy, He the Jastice, who discharged him witha sound lecture. Charles Barber, who lives near to rise. Her household duites called hot nwauay, had rable canine the biscuits Bis terribly bloated, ani Mrs. Barber tried to reliove him, but the le tho doz caton WIR aven in the biscuit dough was pot nm its deadly work. Within loss ld for his hide, K and the dog was torn to picees has ocourrod be Mexico, andl Deming Mormon family. BB. driv A strange accident tween Potomas, Now-Mexico, R. Young ing another wagon whan a loaded gun in the front wagon accidentally fell and discharged. The ball piercing Mr Young's shoulder, then his son's hip, and then, passing through the baby, it struck Mrs. Mary Roberts, daughter of Mr. Young. The bullet seriously wounded the father and son, kil ed the baby instantly, and slightly wounded Mrs. Roberts. fo on wis 1 mong While gunning on Dog's Islan 1, abou! two miles sbove Anglesea, N. J., Capt. 0 MOSS OTrown, corked bottle. i long. necked, He found it to contain $15 in paper money, with the following words serawied on a piece of wrapping-paper: ‘The finder whosooy or it may be, will use this mon ¥ We are sinking; death stares us in Here the nu breaks off. There is no signature, nor is the name of any vessel given. The bottle had every appearance of having been in the water for a long time. and tightly broke the bottle and ns his own. no A unique triple wedding feast joyed in an Bohemis voung couple were married on the same wos en 11 5 ti viliaZe when a day that the parents of the bridegroom fis {hy celebrated their sily sdding and ndparents their golden wedding the came dav a diwmmond wedding celebrated } ag WARY Vienna. Ernest Russell of has long BE DOESN nour home the o ir day. r. alierw frontier and « i inims the ( IstOr massacre, A Devilfish Seizes a Boat, NOR UY itis Dapont raised his oar the water, and the fish came with it As thie §rovns or sirong raised above suriad monster s arms fastens an instant it we boat, and striking w Micha nster the boat into th the occupants i the out a Ki and in arm ov the me y and cut th tin for knocking killed the monster aciub the the mean we DD) Ipont sein d head Teleg aitnon on sft Neatiao Profits of Popular Songs absurd it soem savs the Pitts burg Leader 8 Now York letter. but thers money topical song than in a popular book, but most of it is made by the publisher A few song writers of may i= much more in a experience will not sell their songs outright, bat have them pub- lished on royalty. These make money, frequently several hundred dollars on one song that makes a bit and is sung in the theatres for a few woeks song writers who are compelled to sell i their labor outright for or they cas get for it have hard work to make a liv. ing. while the pablisher often £500 or more on one of their songs. Not all songs written are profitable, by any means, but when one does make a hitthe longer than n book Many popular topi- cal songs wero purchase of thousands. There is an £500 and very little experionce. He was acquainted with a fow struggling song writers and bought their best efforts out. right for $10 each. are still poor, but the enterprising young publisher has amassed a fortune esti mated at £100,000, A Story for Campaign Years. Congressman John Allen told a good story at Chamberlain's last night. Re- forring to election days down in Mississ- ippi, Mr. Allen told of an electioneor who graadiluquentiy reforred to the old saying: ‘The office should seok the man, not the man the office.” A few days afterward, the speaker was noticed eloctionvering In old-fashioned style with drinks and cigars, oto. Being called doyn and askod about his assertion of a fow days before, that ‘the office should sock the man.” he replied: “I still maintain my position. “I'he office should seek the man, but, by George, sah! the man should be around when the office is looking for him." Washington Post. { i i FOR THE LADIES. EPYICIENCY OF WOMEN IX VISE WORE, A watchmaker friend of mine surprised me with the information that there were no womoen watchmakers. I told him that the delicate manipula. tions required in watchmaking, it would soem to me, could be best performed by women, but he said they cient in such fine work as in the manu- facture of the single parts, but when it came to the assembling of the pieces and the minute adjustment and general horo logicn igment, they had proven them think it 4 4 ' y ventilate the =ubiject wore very efi salves incaunble | Ww id elves incapnblh would to whethes v frie well and axcer tain nd is mistaken or not engerin the Open Court. NOT POPULA women do not seem atiracted At the there have women students, but foreign birth, At women have studied These for the inost part The Russian women dentists unusual suceess in their own their example is being In Stockholm founded for women students desiring to study dentis. try, and this has been recently awarded to Miss Elena Le School of DD ntistry. American by the profession of dentistry. Philnde Iphin Dental School heen a number of these are generally of Zurich a number of deutistry, Russinns, have had country, and followed by the Swedes, ure n scholarship has been in of the Gothenburg [New York sun. HOW MAKE UP THIN MATERIALS, dainty pink chiffon toilet just CO - Heted has pink moire ¥ i WO bordering the foot, with finest for a bridemaid sidery of A wide pink moire sash is Accord. ion plaiting is effective on chiffon or tulle skirts flo bric is Arrsone mb ezinntines above Li border tied behind in girlish fashion. 4 in long straight breadths or foot 1100s, espe y when the plaited fa. tall of the rain in e them Fa vejied with one hiimy Hems and tucks are ¢ HIBNOUS skits, ik y f.gowns 11 nile idence ondin makin than formeriy, wear with tulle Jenn low velvet io skirts nre very simply fi bodies nishad I't are ory sii i trontand O rounded neck and made Fhe ww without 1 sige neck on the {doors of rowvins fo the sha pe the dav or the | nese are learn. sone things not 4 ther 1% ' waicrht hai might beg molhors trem tvies have the mally long waist, and short skirt barely reaching to the knees: but of fact, girls in Paris now wear tha Fag. with short waist up under the arms, and long skirt almost touching the floor, and alse the English Greenaway gowns that have long been familiar here, In selecting styies. however. svery. thing depends on the child, a plain short frock suiting one best, and an elaborate picturesque gown being Sore becoming to another Mothers eisirvative taste are slow to accept tho extremely short skirts, preferring those of medium length extending halt way below the knee and the top of the high shoes, All skirts for small girls are straight and full, monsuring from two vards and a half to three yards or a trifle more in width. A hem of four to six inches is at the foot, The top has usually two rews of gathers, with mu h of the {alness thrown towards the back, an! is sewed to the waist with a welting cord. Rows of insertion and of velvet ribbon are the trimmings pre- ferred ; tucks nnd ruftles are also used. {New York World. 4 lopte i for thot : sn-calle | Freuch dress, with abnor as Bn nailer TH HRD gown i ol in Paris. These are made ‘0 match the of white kid, red kid with fli. bronze | ends and gray suede with cut steel, Jot suspenders crossed in the back and tipped with ornaments ars worn. In one of the new plays gilt suspenders adorned with colored jowsls, but not crossed in the back, are worn on a tan-colored cos. The French without darts, spy ¢ those in the very snug waist-lining, will be very generally adapted for thin summer toilets COTRaEe only two : : It has usually under tl Hh Bens visibiu ti 18 Arms JE \ : 4 but when the figure is stout a gracelully arched side seam is added in the back. Linstic wool, like ladies’ ¢ i finer ri cloth of a sinoath qual v, iz being used as a thie figured goods at multitude of corded sent offered in to find among well. dressed people for street and wetion from and ur the shoves, an! promises favor i carriage wear The fashionuble new sashes fo be so next se very wide, considering Five vards are often used where the wearer is tall and elects for the Louis Quinze sash, the ends of which reach quite to the foot of the dress skirt, of the new Russian blouses for young girls are made of the gray Persian sash ribbons, with a trimming of the same at the hem of the dress skirt or showing simulated petticoat the s'ashings of the outside skirt, with a sash of the same at the back of the blouse, or nreferred. and not so very exy their quality and device SOme AS 0 between looped ut one side if At a maids wore silk. The bell-shaped skirts were fin. shed with a n | ruching at a the foot and the Louis contin opened over recent wedding tho three bride. g dr { KROR O fustrous corded irrow ring vests of cream lace Lond om trimmed ostrich tips and pink POSER, dainty them cream I hey each of Worse hats of vel od psy et with lace, short wy wid to the traveling Lrrent nttention is now ina oration Fhe VOTE Passe suits were gomi ol Costumes, idea formerly obtained that half. enough for a journey. but now the stylish outfit to be Warn oll ear or steamer red part of Harris terial sia a8 nny tweed # just now LOF traveling coslumes Brete | be much COMING SeRion es wi vening 1 ‘ ning able corsgoe t} 31 waist that ne finished pri woenn the tw ond the Back whist the I The Anvil and the Bear Henry and low, Wyoming county. Jarvis Cam Vean 0 One morning recent ¥ r tracks ] ard fence They t1 ne where they lost the I her slones, Dio] outside acked the west of ana arly two miles track in a hole bits of won! on the sdges of the and the ng certain that they had holed the sheep Killer i in the rocks were young went home and drew a wagon They loaded one of the anvils with pow. er, put the anvil on it, laced them on a plank, and pasted them a far into the bear's den as they could i of her top of hen Jars pow der, and he is applied a slow match to the and his brother ran to a safe distance Presently the anvils boomed, the rocks shook, and smoke poured out of the hole Henry was resdy to shoot the bear with a rile, expecting that the noise would drive him out In a moment the bear dashed out of another hole a few yards up the gorge, ran along a sholving rock, and dived into a mass of brush just as Henry fired at him. He didn't hit the bear and the frightened old brute made tracks the hill toward the north. The Camp boys followed him inte High. riters swamp, where they gave up the chase in an hour or so That night the bear returned to his den and stayed in it for eight days. On the eighth night he came out, walked around for awhi e, and went back. over every day and they came to the wonclu. sion that the bear had devoured sheep and was getting haugry again. He gave them no chance to shoot him, and they made up their minds to trap him. FARHION NOTES, Slippers and stockings should now match the evening costume. It is noticed that the high heeled Fronch shoes are in fashion again. As many silver bangles as the wristean accommodate is the fashionable thing. Shaded chrysanthemums, vellow and brown are fashionable bridal bouquets. One of the novelties for 1892 is the now chamsleon India twilled dross silks. Gold and silver hairpins are the rule. They afford every possibility and oppor. tunity for “foolish extravagance.” The girl of the period does no\ appear at Fir in the new three-cornered “gocked” hat of the continental period. Patent loather shoes are no fastiiounbiu for grout vounsions, Satin, cloth, suede and bronze are preferred. Heart-shaped purses of kid are carried in such a way that the anvil would drop to yank at the bait. Jarvis went to the gorge the next morning, and from a distance he saw that the anvil had fallen. He oarried a rifle, and hurrying to the tree he found a wildeat lying under the anvil erashed to death. He got Henry an son as he could, and the two pulled the anvil np again and reset it. On the third morn. ing Henry found the boar lying dead with his nose against the tree. The oint of the anvil bad been driven three nches into the bear s skull. The bear's throat was finned to the roots of the Jee, and the nl shosp thiel und died in his tracks. He weighed pounds. New York's death rate is 25 a thousand; London is 18.2 a thousand. a NOTES AND COMMENTS, Ir seems strange, slmost {neredibla, John Hogan, who died in St, or fifty six years ago; and the eves of the world are now turning to front rank with giant strides, Tue Arkansas building nt the Colum- i Fair is to built by Lough suzh has been not inn of the building hus and thnt will be made f 118 construciion bian bu a Woman (or wii supers ieRirii i ELV ;e eviith rench the ground Hoo fountain « tad pored oryste ort in the | great pains His i to collect that greater tnken per of facts ss evidence Wine with that men swoon in the de much Cou ire pain Linn mon, women nore ‘hair more frequently than the ompl inevitable suffering un 5 : il : $3 3 singly and patiently, all of which dentist and most women knew be . to 4 phy Bic aver tha nen £4 gonks ure and do not fore. And 1 he raw that OAR sensitive onciusion women i han men feel pain so acutel) ause they make thousand re . the 1 'nited intion of over three Nona of mon Ones © Teng are is papers neariv one published in stutes, having « million each issue these are and the ach weck 4 sligrics religi niles Notne are thiies, ity are issued represent wil but largest oir baptist, Catholi shinces o us cuigtion = Metho Protes um 1 hie t ts Presbyteri are ns, nBrosany 1 . ongregationull in New En 10 is paper 91 Zand faliow ippear Khow that there | SO e families in the | ed that this lea the population unsupplied DE GnReT i of ris the exam torturs shows dern He more nz er the m 11 has not vel © Iv BLE passenger Massy of the La noress had i war days with nterior prisons Fr list of a dozen 1 at pre-ent life at the national capital who confined for a time in either Federal or Confederate d Crisp, Wheeler, > (srady, Kilgore, and Tarsney wers the Parsney's imprisonment is especially He soldiers to be ns ¢ arpentes Arpenty Were ingeons among these unfortunates, and story of nteresting N Andersonville, be first ncarcerated that was befom the discipline at that place. he evaded his guards in many ways, particularly by assuming several names and drawing five rations in addition to the one to which ho was entitled. Con. sequently he waxed fat. and when he escaped from Milan, whither he was transferred from Andersonville, he wae in excellent physical condition. His es. cape he effected by impersonating a dead man. was one srthern in y and establishment o A xEw invention called the submarine poutry is atiracting much attention in with an illustration, in the London Times. It is an inexpensive device, simple in ac. tion and to look at, bat it seems to con- tain a potency for good which it would be difficult to exaggerate. A written description would be difficult 10 under. pieces of thresquarter-inch board screwed together nt right-anglos and sharpened atone end, To the sharpened end a cateh and bar are attached. When this contrivance is suspended at a oer. tain angle froma wire attached to a ship in motion, it immediately takes a header towards the bottom and follows the course of tho ship at any desired distance below the keel, according to the length of wire given to it. Supposing, for in. stance, that it is set at twenty fathoms, it goes quietly along uutil the twenty fathom limit is . The sharp end always travels first, and as soon as the bar attached to it touches the bottom a spring is released which detaches the sen.ry and permits it to rise to the sur. fuce, while at the same instant a warn. ing bell is rang automatically on deck. The invention has been tried under vari- ous conditions and has always worked to perfeation, and itis claimed that no ship rovided with this apparatus could get nto shoal water wit the officer of BE Eh Sos portance true, is some. thing that can be Fy | io ’ appreciated by
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