——— 0528 RS BH HAIL 5 EYERY-DAY LIFE. Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven- tures Which Show that Truth is Stranger than Fiction. Ox of the quaintest plants in this country is that recently started in Florida, the coral reef known as Key West, at the very end of the finger that the United States reaches out towards Cuba. The city of Key West now has a population of 23.000, chiefly colored sponge-fishers and Cuban cigar-makers, and has a corps of active American merchants who are making their energy toll in many directions. do porous and frinble was the coral when the excavations were made for the sta. tion, the water bubbled up all the time, and it was found necessary to place the heater, condenser, pumps, and hot well on a level with the rest of the apparatus, instead of in the pit dug for them. When the boilers arrived, they were taken through the streets on skids and rollers at the rate of half a mile a day. In some places the only way to get the poles up was to set them in barrels sunk in the ground and filled with broken stone. It appears that in Key West, as in China, kite-flying is a favorite amusement with adults; and as the kite-tails pulled the wires together, an ordinance was passed, in the interests of a higher imposing a fine of $5 on all kite -tiyers Then, when the plant went into opera. tion, torches were: ut the end of u long pole, so as to burn away all the kites and tails that festooned he circuits. on civilization, ied along the lines Ix a microscopical artic’e in one of the great German Pr. G. A. Lindner discusses the occurrance of “gels” which are so common in weak or impure vinegar. ‘The male of this inter. esting little species of serpent 3 1to 14 millimetres and the female from 14 to 2% millimetres } They move very actively in any fluid medium, bat in thick or sticky concoctions coil themselves in for days toget fed on an egy diet; will also li fruits and bulbs, They can survive tol crably strong vinegar, but die immedi. ately if put in pure ace of the most wonderful facts concerning the reproduction of the female reproduces vi ovipariously, accor ling to medium and the tempera flourish best in at gixty degrees and eight and are killed when the temperature rans up to above 107 dexrees, or below the freez. ing po nt. one of the unexy quarteriies the measure $ i : wer. They thri o ve ned Une vinegar eels is that iparoasly or nutritive mperature between Gegrees, How they get into vis ined mysteries mana how, they do not ex. to prove that they get in during facture; exactly plain. Avsoxa of extraordinary coincidences, not the least curious is the history of a letter for the accuracy of which the London correspondent of the J.eeds Mercury says he can short time ago a lady in to write to a friend address she did not means she had of proc was to write to 1 lived in America. did, and the letter was daly « The ship which carried the letter was wrecked, and the mails f They were brought be the le now much damaged by sea water, being retarned through the Dead- to the senders. The letter in was sent back t who naturally her sur ter had become the stories Youfd h Loud 1 Ondon wished { in America know. The only or on time lost and stters, re Covers d quest y the lady, examined it minutely. To she found that another le closely stuck to it, fold missive to the light, iphered the address on the one which was stuck to her own. Il: was a letter addressed to the friend to whom she had wished to write, and to discover whose w her own letter bad been Her letter thus literally its own answor. a STORY prise up the two. she de q hereabouts agespatched brought a corde enthusiastic sportsmen ot Gun Club at a recent meeting, says the Baltimore San. Hufus A. Brainard re. lated this experience: “When | boy I borrowed a flint-lock gun, and was tt Frog Morter shore shooting with my uncle. Early one morning | saw thou. sands of canvashack ducks close in shore I ran to the blind, and leveling my gun, banged away. The ducks in a masse, and not one remained on the water, My uncle came to me and scolded me for not waiting for him. | something strike the water, looked up and saw dead ducks falling through the air. You see the ducks were 80 closely massed that the live ones carried the dead ones up with them. Woe picked up 43 dead ducks when all had droppel. Some crippled birds which coald spread their wings were carried off by their fellows, There were lots of ducks iu those dave.” The claim of forty-three dead ducks showed that Mr. Brainard was up in shooting, as no gunuer, when telling a story, éver kills an even number of ducks or birds, telling was i f more save t WHR oO Brose Raw A rvanuer living in the northern pan of Mitchell County, Kausas, while dig. ging a well in ground that had never been broken, came across the skeleton of a small animal which those versed in such things declared to be that of a common house cat. The skeleton was found ut a depth of thirty-five feet in a bed of mag. nesinn limest me, There is much spec. ulation as to the way it got there, as it is perfect in every part and in excellant preservation, though showing the signs of great age. northwestern part of the State, a portion of the skeleton of some extinet suimal wus discovered thirty feet below the sur. face of the earth imbedded in stone. That portion of the skull remaining in. tact measured three feet across, while the other bones were proportionately large. John Warner, who unearthed the find, has not been uble 10 give a very definite description of the skeleton, but sent to the state university, It is sup- posed that they date to the glacial period. A vinvs strange history is connected with the discovery of dinmonds in Bahia. keeping his master's flocks in Boia, thought bo observed a sins larity between He sought, therefore, in the sand and soon found 700 curats of dimmonds. Fleeing from his muster, he carried these sale ina Such wenlth in the hands he would not betray himself. The mas. ter, to whom he was given up, tried 10 got his secret by cunning, but without avail until he thought of restoring to watching him. As soon as the secret was known numbers flocked from Minas. Geraes and other parts of Brazil to Ba. hin, so that the following yeur as muny as 25,000) people were occupied in sovk. ing diamonds there and the amount daily obtained for some time rose to carats, A snonr time age a Mrs. Samples, who resides at West Fork. Ark . wish. head of, after which she threw it on the ground, ‘The rooster had sirack the ground when it jumped up Ho paralyzed with amazement and astonish ment. Toe rooster ran down to the de. pot where it was caught by the station agent who took it in charge, and by care. ful nursing and attention, that Its food is administered and while it is per. k its grub, it np with as health. throazh a small tube, foctly helple ss to pic ently vise best of and swallows it did and the most remarkable thing of all is, it never forgets to crow. IT seem a little incredulous and fis yet for by a number of cals i 0s hefore being behead readers, its authentici our ¢itiz seen it. sry of the goose that res may have been a bet Test was discovered, but a story Mon., overfops if. davs ago J. A. McUonville, Montana street, kilied one of ’ ens for dinner, and was surprised to find i nuggets in its erop ond gizzard, Having thirty-one chickeus that had scratched in the same patch, he began post-mortem prospecting on them In each chicken he fo nuggets, ul the total quantity gathered hod a en val fOR7. te in the gonl ol times who li . his © Ke of roid n quantity ind ue of Fhe gold was sold t State National Bank and pronounced at hne. ckens scratch lle bought § 10 sor and out mining g his hencoop. Afte our days h { one chicken and mined ~8m 0 % 2ilis from ils crop. ought rred in a small § fexans s smetime in out witl d a dark room with his landio s pistol. The = until he thou was mistaken rtain the schuyier « ght his man w f w het ns | of ourgiar = Dine KR skin k VO Masks of her knife, two small koives SOIYers, several dozens of door no eml of kevs for safes and hosts, a rope ndder of remarkable make i braces £ iT or consisting of a large fish. a le ai i i an illustrated knight Dun Quixote nannies, A graox: man bas appeared at the Aquarium in London wr fastening to raiing s windows baleon es, t mation, onal of the va of La Mancha, mt of bri an! a library t add, edit on inant by Cort Saiivan by nam in the pres neeofala ge pross I he other day gathering of representatives of the and others, Sulli pound weight Bil round swung n suspended irom a two fifty six-pound weights in n Fhe athlete with way. then filled po inds, with the right hand, and brought his performance to a satisfactory cone by lifting an elephant. animal was said to weigh fifteen hundredweight. centre BIOL ine Peren Parnick, a colored man sixty. ive years old, living near Rutledge, Ga remarkable toa His skin is black, but is head bears a resemblance sheep with long. thick white wool, The wool on his body appeared when he was twelve years old and was perfectly white then He has a special fondness for sheep and with them. The his body grows so rapidly that he is sheared twice a year and his flecce old at Bron. often sleeps wool on A cosvicr made his escape ham, Texas, a few dave ago, in a sort of Count-of Monte-Uristo style. ith a namber of others he was working ona railroad embankment, When none the guards was looking the convict lay down in a hollow made by the spades, The gaug threw earth over him until he was completely covered. When camp was reosched ani the roll called, the es. cape was discovered, of “Vioners while you wait” will be one of the inventions of the near futare, and oar pretty, preconceived romances about the Pocahontas myth and the William Tell legend, for un unpoetioal man in Paris has sucoreded by means of elec. {of his first successes, four hours old, to 'ex-ompress Eugenie, who was always I surrounded by the (ragrant blooms in oe days of her glory, Ir a usually well-informed correspond. ent is correct this is how the famous | piature of Coosa: Borgin, sold for 600,000 | franes to the Rothschild family by Prince Borghese, was sont out of e. A coating of wax was laid over the famous | Corwar, cud an artist painted the portit It was {then dispatched to its Purisian desti. { nution, the coating of wax carefully | peeled off, and the famous Cpsar now ornaments the Rothschilds’ great gallery of masterpicces, Davin P. Svrneniaxp, of Seymour Ind., is cutting u new set of teeth, He is seventy-four vears old and had all of his teeth extracted five yours ago. Since that time he has been wenring falso teeth, Some davs ago the old gentiomun's gums became very sore, and to his surpriso a ‘ooth broke through. Others followed and a new set is promised. tt quickly A DINNER IN MEXICO. An Astonishingly Good Meal and a Pretty Waitress, dinner astonishingly good, Just think of a meal in that semi-barbar ous piece down in the hot lands of Mexico equal to the best to be hind in the Italian or French restaurants that stand hig the favor of artists and other boheminns in New York! There were nine ful courses, served in excollent style, a total cost of three or thirty. ven and a half cents in Mexican money ¢ cents Am {ar Wis hin bounti. nt renies, hardly more than twenty-fis with exchange reckoned ns it was The w most dell erica, then was the itermelon served dons 1 u deep red puip of a firm texture and mealy crispness that almost melts i The n the » had ey the mouth, eons in this 3 are raised on indy beds of s reas in the dry season, where mature quickly in the intense heat. drink there was palque from ind, brought an i thence ha ONE COoantry. Apam Lei} the table-h DY raliway to the nearest station Course isitare tid rancheros with their fan } folk ti o #1 # ravi like farmer were undemo ir but awgEwardls ech, « hang it at ves and f he anace uf their repast tabie, orks, slomeq wd friend ng with ies} into a litte Maria, oa proceeding upon which a good ranchera, wi band, looked Drink! ber husban “Yes.” | tory glan Voor Pi with evi sasite with her hus o sat o fount disapproe : FTeipars 1 d, i, with a confirma. 1 f § wit hilteen type o was an exqui ments i ike he nhotog ¢ sh HT Don Ce'so, an he propositi Bunt eren Fostied Mi Wns PC CRIDOTHR and is SIRT, and she turned way unthinki Click went the shutter nd 1 had |} A shout of merri fr i #8 Of my | panion= greeted : ny or nent mn my come sirat- dismay oi the succor ngem, and the expression of 10 io nn that now Harn ter wav fs BAY was ul no great a Mag WZ he. An Odd Lurk Piece. known Vine A gentleman who is well Piffin, ©, bat who makes {requent to the capital, carries in his pocket a tor luck, us hie save. The screw has a head about the an button, and it was found in the old Presbyterian grave vard In lhe relic w shown to a Post reporter by it be came | whie in peculiar, old-fashioned screw i size of ordinary (reorgetown, ne 5 owner who told when and how it, “Last spring, fer. ing about the cemetery, | came across an open grave, and as | was peering down into its open depths I something bright iyiug at my fort in the tangled grass. | picked it up and the shining object to be the head of a screw or nail firmly imbedded in a piece of partly decayed wood, evidently the cor. ner of an od coin. ‘laking out my knife 1 whittled away the wood and found it 10 be a screw about two inches Hong. 1 placed it in my pocket and have earried it ever since. The grave near where it wa found was one of the old. {est in the burial ground, and the screw, {1 have since been told, is at least one i { hundred years old. Its brightness led i me to be'ieve it was made of gold, and | it hos since beon tested and pronounced to be 12.carat gold. «| Washington Vost. he sna, wai saw found “The Barrens'’ of Kentueky. That portion of Kentucky that has passed into history as the “Barrens” wus barren only in the sense of being, when the white men eames, unusually bare of timber. The present Barren County was o pari of that comparatively timberless section, and, with its rich soil and supe. In ull probability the main cause of t absence of trees on the “Barrens turned on the fires annually kindled by the Indians. Courier-Journal, ABOUT CANNON. {How the United States Compares With European Nations In Making. Mr. Edward W. Very, head of the Hotchkiss establishment ut Paris, and un { nuthority on snd naval stroction, was interviewed the other day ant Washington in regard to gan mak ing in Fur pe und the United States, the + WW hat | going on in ordpavsce in Europe?” Mr. Very said that there was little that is ordnance Con- in ansaer to question is sbsolutely new these days, he, “what may be called an era of antici- ation, since everybody is waiting to see what will be developed next. It is rasy mutter to suggest anything that can at that can be done is to no tevolutionize ordnance as it The upon present Xists, most improve found those : ! what has already tpproval among the experts, and | improvements are constantly going on, They may include no more exciting and ensutional feature than an interrpupted uread w, | but yi mt it contri 1h tiie in 4 manor sch way, to There un- ity for ars Hing developments ln ordnance and io i es, in greater iency Mpon, in J i uoubtediy as great st 1 g opportun construction as there has The fact t un Enval nlwavs t steel rifled weapons pro advanced st ol ate have formids of formida RR very Fh $ t f. Joes nol 1 + existing syslem ang even uy entirely changing the most promising larger market and ip to ASO omoesti ter any where, ize sand limit Works and the ( vanis., “Ther 3] iat Lisa nroduction of war material orders Loan There can i EVeTY Your have devel popularly di cus beets Dic has United i He pre The fie race The runs as high as six-inch, States is sr a suitable smokeless powder. pavy bas a powder of its own for and 1 seems oo me that the certainty of smokeless powders for the higher calibres has been wi rated Certainly the records domestic was powder to be excel. in every ow about magazine guns?” Europe is armed with magazine Different countries have different types, from which the United States can t ie select the one that approat hes nearest the ideal weapon. | am free to say that I do not like the magazine gun. and that : thirty i i. with a better and more reliable weapon than he Springfiel + corresponding magazine gun, because as rapid a shooter, I have no to the magazine arm on ac its goosumption of ammunition, uo rapid fire, but I think that field rifle is in reality as quick fire as any magazige gun. It has, too, sin pler mechanism, and is a weapon that has the confidence of the soldier.” “*You favor a smaller alibre, thea?” wns suggested, It 1s a universal opinion that the cali. bre small arms should be smaller. { Starting with fifty, it decreased to forts. five, and is now thirty all over Europe, atid it is a question whether they will not get to twenty-five, but nothing has been positively done in that direction. Even if twenty-five is demonstrated as a suita- | ble calibre for arms, it would take a | great many years to realize it in Europe, | bresuse it would mean 8 costly chauge in | the existing weapons, France, many and Russia have just armed them. selves with the magazine gun, and the ie Spring of | 000 rifles will take time. They must next change the field anillery, and will proba. bly be 2ontent with the present intantry rifle for a few years. The effort to de. velop a small arm will go on as hereto. fore. however,” wo “Now that smokeless powder, the small arm, and the magazine rifle are in the bands of the developer, what will be the next step of the discoverer!” “The finding of a safe high explosive probably. Everybody is talking just now about dynamite guns, and the uni- versal desire seems to be to fire dynamite out of an ordinary weapon, regardless of the fact that dynamite is not safe to have around, It is unsafe 10 trunsfort. What is needed is u high explosive capable of that the action will demolish the CArTiers——n high explosive that will not become actually deadly until it meets an enemy. The idea of shooting nitro. § # $ a A glycerine is ‘equally absued, It be- comes valueless in warfare from its treacherous element, The ordnance soon begin to show the “As things stand at present gun cotton yet powder. You can drop gun cotton nut that so much wood would have, but if you drop us packaze of pitro-glycerine or dynamite to the pavement the shock and damage would be immense, Emnmensite bas met with some favor, That is an American invention, and although I am not familiar with its nature, it is success. ful from all accounts.” The solution of the problem of rapid- fire ordoance is a matter that requires great mathematical and engineering skill, for the troublesome questi of weights plays an important part in the produc. this useful A rapid-fire gun for field service must over T1200 or 7400 pounds in tion of type. not be weight, includ. ing gun, carriage, limber, and five weapon, The of being armunition, the be BIX NOrses, it ex. nath re. the en who operate entire grawn This limitation of weights difficult t« to sustain the of the t § t strength to a outhit must capable by Hakes tremely juisite CHRrges } sO piece, in extent oo tovetl 3 extent go tog aud it (ook some Lime 1o prepare a on which would meet all the meonts, The mens a good deal invention of a rapid more than the ishing of a rapid-fire mechanism. guns have a recoil, and ordpance it in, tie BCLS result 3 out of positi of gi weapon makes the gut rapid re piece, Lake of Ink. gt {snr ima vrai ms t ving volcanos quiet Be. tween these hills of lave ¢% and ie are a large namber of living, act r Wiscons ow ve in 3 : volcanoes, savs the Evyning From the sides of the hills, forth warm Wet, be $ $0 WM no it I hes Willer eral salts they contain with which they In the midst of ti of Ink re Oe in on hill jerRe Bins of « othe fo oh s oily. The a lake when its balf an in of the lake nol « or thie i nder i seems {o be 0 minute DlUck sastance, by the which the 1 in sgspension water ’ in i WRT, bather hie sen. water immersed waler i= grand, a wonderfal degr We, RO or fifteen min. wen much so that a bath ten utes makes one feel as if under fin of the a influence « very best brandy. . 3 Silk Cultivation. It is said tha «ilk ns a fabric was known to the people ancient Rome or to the Greeks or Hebrous authorities deny that it has any mention the or Bible, although the word appears in tle trans. The Chinese ¢ ifs of us the best original writings of im to have be. worm and the abt 4.600 nd tained a of the fabric gun the rearing years ago, or 2.600 1B. ( Rome panaged reward offered utinian. to smuggle the silkwam from some missionaries from jor the sake of i by the Emperor J i f some of the egas o iiberal a description of the process Hf caring that the breeding of the worms wud mak. ing of silk developed very npidly in where now it is lurgely carriedon, It is # tid that seven different insert: are bred for their silk, while more thin twenty because of dithoalties in widing the ¢ilk off the cocoons, or by reasn of dif. It is not tkely that it will prove successful here npn a large scale, as the cheaper wages in those countries where it is grown ould en able them to produce it at les cost, as jong as so much of the labo must be done by hand. Perhaps it might furnish vocupation for a certain class (ho could not perform work requiriig mach strength, but who have plent! of time and patience. Bat then a trols would be to find enough sach ones tgetber to | make it profitable for others t¢ extablish the plantation: needed for raring the worms and find a market for the silk. Perhaps when Southern Eure, India and China become #o advance in eivilic gation that the rate of wages there ad. vances to the sundan indte don silk growing ma woime a profitadle indus. try here, but we would not aaise any one to enter into it under prdent con: tions. {Boston Cultivator, a RA PENNSTLVANIA ITEMS EPITOME OF NEWS GILEANED FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF THE STATE. James Vai, of missing wife Hing Pittsburg, discovered Lis with George Baker in Johnstown snd agreed not to molest ber if she gave up her two little sons, which the wonisn did. Tur trial of Charles Law, secused of murder of Francis Hershey in the West Manches ter, York cosmy, during a at York. JOHN fi. ht, wes GUEey, while siek in Pitsburg, io cut his west with a knife and Lied death. Wine workmen were repairing a Pennsyl vanis Hail fifteen railroad dircovered in the via commercial traveier, vas # fool pads near Pittsburg and rolibed of n watch } Tins Hya ated victim of the typhoid epi Chester, is {the neademy b Seplember Tine bo ininers « avered, ander man to where the rush ported Tus ngrezation 10 inve yew slruciure « gt Manh pregsive orremonies of Pi iladeiphin, J sheets of eld ary ol Interna ist many of rporatiof ored 1oughs broke in Bentley, st Hollida that resulted Bentley ader of ihe gang fifth annoal convention of the Harris- Tus burg district of the Young Men's Charistisn Association at Gettysburg closed afler conse. eration services in the Methodist Church. Mes Jan Vat vife of the superinten. serted COoXTIN Henry to commit sui >cho Tue building of 1} Mill Three men were is I. E. Kiorz ef Mauch tnountsin was wrecked by {town snd was Kills Who lives mt I ry, Was severely po red ( t a cadet of the Penn syivania Military Academy, die® cf grpboid fever at { homter SII sss sess Ber I vliow Cres grees, neat, ry and she went im disappear ch issued al HK. conspirators,” mid. ACCOII Dick $ ti wi OOK ed And he cameo, looking obiee She wats breaking the staal! fragments, No So with them The woma called alot He Ho good vitties to feed a dog.” ‘“Oh, marm.,” humbly, ‘‘he's more hungrier than me an’ he's Kin lelicate-like in appertito fthere's somethin’ tells me, mar fin’t got long to live : mind, marm, doyer, if 1 out to give it to my pard?” The woman slammed window, sniffed a minute, into the pantry and gathe the loose of breac and meat and cheese and pie she could find Then she called to the tramp “Take these, and what you eat you can carry along. 1 dont much on dogsas a general thing, but Jou might in worse company. Anvhow, I'm not going to see two of my fellow creatures starve before. my eyes” And she resumed her interrupted work with a blessed consciousness of having done the duty that nears est to hen —Free Press, ‘hed and hi said the my pard, his hen red up pieces £0 be lay cn —. — Footprints on Ancient Sands, There was recently received at Dene wer a piece of a rock which was once dramped on by several pairs of small and well formed feet. The rock must have been soft at that time, for the impress of two sandals is plainiy watlined, just as if a cast had been The rock was found near the brickvards at It scoms to be of an the surface where the prints are, ‘which resembles sandstone which has been worn smooth by water. One ine dentation is particularly noticeable. Although similar in sige and contour to those made by sandals, iv has a heelanark which is sharp and deeper than the others. Cam = III 5 talking about money will do! toward curing ‘deafacss in! EE To TR
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