————————— ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EVERY-DAY LIFE. Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven- tures Which Show that Truth is Stranger than Fiction. the Cape Colony of South Africa, but more particularly in the neighborhood of Port Elizabeth. The history attach. ing to bim is a curious and probably uni. que one. The ‘signal man, his owner, was, through no fault his own, run over by a pussing train, and had to have both legs amputated, which would natu. rally incapacitate him from work, but the idea struck him to secure a baboon, and train him to do his work. has successfully accomplished, and for many yeurs the one in question regularly looked after the levers, and did the hard work of his atflioted master. is possessed of extraordinary intelligence, and has never made a mistake. Of course, the human servant works the telographs, and the baboon the lovers, according to instruction; and taking into consideration tho fact that ut the station in question, Ultenhage Junction, and about twenty miles from Port Elizabeth, there is a larze of traflic, the sagacity of the creature is really won- derful. At first passengers raised a strong protest against the employment of the animal on the score of risk of ac- cident, but the baboon has never yet failed during his many years of work, and on more than one occasion has acted in a manner simply astounding to those who never had personal experience of the intelligence of these brutes. of his most noteworthy performances was the correct switching of an unan- nounced special train on its correct line in the absence of the signal man. The latter lives about a mile up the line, and the baboon pushes him oat, and home, morning and night, and is the sole com- panion of his legless master. Ax old feature of the Harmanus Bleecker Hall at Albany jwhere the New York Republican State Convention held its meeting, is two large seats in the or. chestra chairs, a third from the stage to the family circle, which are a and a half in width as com pared with the other chairs in the audi torium. The delegates from New York county occupied the space about these two chairs, but no person was wllowed to sit in them, and that fact drew out the curious story of their ownership. Har. manus Bleecker was a citizen otf Albany who left many ago to that city noration to be used for the public good when it had been by the interest accretions of vears to the sum £100,000. When it was deter- mined some years since to build the great hall which bears its patron's name more money required to carry the plans of the architect than the $100,000 Une of the citizens of Albany who con- tributed a large for this purpose was Mr. Avery Herrick, a mer- chant, who is a very large man. His good wife is a very large women, and the one stipulation which he in his subscription was that two seals should be placed in the ha i and in the best which should always for occupation at any gathering which might structure. His proviso having been ac. epted, every the hall for any gathering contains the stipuiation that these are not i are subject to the presence of Mr. Her rick snd his wife. Yiovixs made great artist of Cremona have been sometimes bought at fabulous prices, but it is rare that an old guitar becomes almost as valuable as». genuine Stradivari M. Uhlmann, a nativeof Luxembourg domiciled in Paris, bas, however, inherited from h deceased uncie a rather dilapitated guitar which has proved to him the source of a small fortune. The uncle itinerant singer, and M. Uhlmann wishing, no doubt, to keep up the family connection with the fine as in the habit of going round wine shops with his inherited mstrument, with which he accompanied himself as he intoned popular ditties, One evening a semi-inebriated person, who abhorred music every kind, snatched the guitar its owner's hands and cracked it on his (the artist's cranium. M. Uhlmann was assisted by the police in the unequal encounter and the drunkard was carried off to the sta tion house. So, as the broken guitar, as a piece do conviction against the unmusical aggressor A police offi- cial while examining the damaged instru. ment noticed that in its interior there was a roll of papers. These, being pulled out, were discovered to be stock certificates worth $2,200. The sorip was handed over to M. Uhlmann, as it had belonged to his uncle. The wandering of volume tine of the distance size a legacy Yeurs increased os Wis out of money sum made large i for hit wife, possible location, be at his command entertainment or take place in the vase ol sents to be occupiad hut i : ' by the us. was an arts, w of out of too, joyed at his good fortune that he with. drew the charge of assault against his aggressor, following up his act of mag- nanimity by inviting the latter to sip re. freshments with Lim ot the tavern, Taxes altogether, the Russian Trans. caspian Railway is one of the engineer. ing wonders “of this, the iron bound century.” At first it was considered im. sible to maintain a road through the shifting sands of the Kara Kum desert, bat General Annenkoff, who was super. intendent of construction, what was supposed to be an insurmoun- table obstacle by covering his railroad with clay and planting the sides with thickets of desert planis and shrubs. But when this had been down snd the roadbed assured a cry went up to the effect that the scheme would have to be abandoned because there was neither fuel or water along tho line. The doughty General solved the water problem by bringing water in pipes from the moun. tains, and his cousin constructed a loco. motive which used petroleam for feel But yet there was another great obstacle in the way, the classic Oxus, which would have to be crossed with a bridge 1,000 foot longer than the Brooklyn wonder. This difficulty was finally overcome and the road is now iu active operation. SEA captains were yarning about ships which never returned and various dan. gers of the deep, when a Thomaston declared, made his hair rise every time { he thought of it. He said: | | made from New York { my mind. We had in a general cargo, { including seventy tons of gunpowder and some railroad iron. We had a very tossed about preity roughly for a week or so. I could hear the vessel straining and the cargo groaning and grinding, and it made me pretty nervous, I can tell vou. When we cisco and discharged. 1 found that thirty tons of the powder hud been stowed on the railroad iron. Some of the packages had been broken open by the working of the eargo, and the iron was covered with powder. We swept up sovoral barrels of it and — well, 1 felt sick to think what might have happened.” A Sax Fraxcisco gentleman is the owner an black cat which hus devel. oped an extriordinary fondness for veg. etables. ‘He is extremely fond of veg- otables,” said the owner of the cat. “He will be two years old next July. We first noticed that he liked green peas when he was but six months old. Then my wife ciught him eating some that had been left on a dish after dinner, and he was stealing them. After that] tried him on string beans, cauliflower, aspara- gus, and green corn. He rolishes them all and cries for any of the vegetables when they are set on the table and he does not get his share, but what he likes asparagus. [ have known him to eat eleven plain boiled ones, one after another, and he only eats that portion which is soft. No, he seems to draw the line at potatoes, but he fills up on b iked bo 11s, He joy them as much as does u Bostonian, Avoxac the in the Maine State prison is o dress that one of the srisoners, who attempted to escape re. had At different times the man, who worked in the carriago shop, small bits of flannel, gether remarkable gown, with a big bow at the back by wav of adornment. The buttons made from harness trimmings and bits of leather. He alse made a hat. I'he whole outfit chal face powder, and a thirtyv-foot ladder found the Another prisoner had con. un old vise sksorew, and had carr ed it about of most is Potatoes? uppears toy One i curiosities made as a disguise trimming secreted which he sewed to- which he fashioned a most from wore with a razor, made of waxed ends, was in man's cell verted into a 3 approaches Chincoteaguo : to * . , the Virginia gunning and hshing resort. are aa shallow that it is sometimes necessary lor passengers upon the Htti \ 5.3 at plys ucross Uhincotes £ carried ashore on WAS OUCe Very ily performed by one stout fellow i : party Bavard, ex.Congressman Martin, and consisting of ox-Seecretary several other Delawareans weighing con. siderably more than Mr. Bay wird wns interested he sioner of the ¢ t $ JM} pounds each to earn that who came to rescan ii WAr Was 0 pen. but u little aston that the man at the information ension on the ished drew h back. . sore of a weak bled the somewhat At vear the foliage is so bright that atic bay tree of the on the ria COrinin seasons n be plainly seen at a mile, whil light at tent to admit the reading nt. The isn gummy matter on the outside darkest distance o what Be night it « i one the the tree is suthe of the finest pre luminous sun. stance of the leas property to whatever it is rubbed on ea, which imparts the same in very and It size Turn is at the time Georgia, a child eleven years old, little larger than when it was born, without any bones in its entire body. has never grown to any appreciable It bes vever talked, and consequently takes surroundings Necessarily it is difficu’t to kesp it alive, but its parents sre very devoted to it, and someone stays by it constantly to feed it on milk and water. It is neces sary to give it this mixture every filteon minutes, present no notice of its A Dovcrassvinue (Ga. paper tells of a quick courtship. A man stopped at a house and asked a country women fora wl When he had quenched his thirst he asked her if she was married or She replied, {On which the man said that he was a widower in search of a wife. “Walk in, answered the widow, “and we'll talk the matter over.” Ome hour latter the twain were made one by the nearvst minister. Ix Rockland. Me., is a dog that isa born thief. lis favorite plunder is cloth. ing, and in daily excursions about the neighborhvod during the past winter it has pilfered enough to stock a shop. Last week it went into an open hallway, | picked up a costly muff and started for home, hotly pursued by a min and two excited women. The owner got her ! muff and the dog got a beating. 148 of water single. widow | ham, Tex., in a curious manner. With | a number of others he was working on a railrond embankment. When none of i the guords was looking the conviot laid down in a hollow made by the spades. The gang near him threw dirt over him | until he was compl-tely covered. When camp was reached and the roll called the { escape was discoverad. | Sanven Lase of Gardner, Me., onzht | to know something ahout rural justice, | for ho has been a Justice of the Peace ond Quorum for fifty years without a day {off. He received his first appointment from Govenor Fairfield, and at the age of gighty Le has been reappointed to deal out more justice. —— R—— Fortresses on Wheels, The big express companies have at last gecured burglar-proof cars. Dozens of | plans to bathe the desperate road agents sve recently been submitted to the officials of the American, Wells Fargo and other companies, and as a result of their labors money will henceforth be ' carried with absolute seourity. | The precautions to bo adopted against roobery are pronounced perfect by es. ! perig.. The highwaymen who attempt | to hold up trains in the future will bit. terly regret their experience, *“T'he cars in which the money is to he carried are fortresses on wheels,’ said | Secretary Flag of the American Express Company ton New York Journal repre. | sentative, Their construction is such that they are almost invulnerable, They are gar- risonod with brave and resolute men, who have a small arsenal on hand for any emergency. The curs are the property of the roads over which they run, but they are buil: after desizns furnished by the express companies. Iron and steel are the ma. torials of which the oars are constructed. The houvy motal doors nre provided with bars, which it would require hours to saw apart. Catches which oan be opened only from within and pondeious chains give additional security to the door fastenings. Nothing but the power of dynamite or the connivance of a mes. senger can possibly effect an entrance to the vehicles in which the shining gold and crisp bank notes are transported. But even after a ear has been broken into by the highwayman, another barrier stands between him and the treasure he covets, The precious freight is inclosed in safes which years of scientific study rendered ulinost burglar proof, These safes are built into the framework of the car. so that they cannot be rolled into sn wagon and opened ut the robbers leisure. hey are provided with time and com. hination locks, which even the messenger himsolf is powerless to open, as the num bers of the combination are unknown te have him. DEALING IN DRIED FLIES. A Central American Inseet Whose Bite is Often Fatal, “I import anything under the sun thal I can see any money in,” said a down, town commission merchant in answer 19 a New York Tribune reporter the other day. “Brought in anvthing curious lately? asked the inquisitive visitor “Well, no briec-a-brac or cariositios of that sort, i homely products of nature, but I have I deal in the plain, every i which wil What do vou say Ie of hay, filled : bodies f dried something bere that. gas prise You i ton with flies?" Fliea!” exclaimed hat kind? Spanish flies?’ Not particul i Amer ing: wa oa bale box the as Oi comp seid . the reporter, Ny tet 18h and James! fon those dried ing man to write about James wen wareho IRC Define hh a shining thin inspecti i ra, with wings and detache What are they for? porte r People buy them to feed to their sing. and ing birds. | sell them retail to the de ors, who tell me th ‘ some birds Or 7 others at certain ti { 14 I should sas ot and labor spent in oat I flies. SLDensiTe od man, that 5 Mex of Law ‘You forget, 1 an Indian is not a young hnight « is about ns valuabl hen. Fi in the tropical His time ns that of joa are thicker, too, fF Mexico th as thick a settling have blanks in a lottery?” Mexican Indian whe can no longer sleep hut on account of the f racted by the ilih which accum- alates about Lis front door, sometimes is a desire on his Hevenge issweet, and sweeter vou any continued the speaker, in his swarms of Hies att stung into for reveng CHrINIes, if there is any mooney in it. He goes to ! ber of green twigs of a certain tree These he lays floor of his hut, with some dry twigs under them Then from another tree he gets a which he boils into a thin syrup an i spreads on the walls of his hut flies are tracted by its fragrant and far-reaching odor They gather to feedon it. When the hut is black with them the Indian seta fire to the twigs on the floor and closes the apertures from the outside The twigs emit an aromatic smoke which kills the flies, and they fall to the floor in thousands. Then the natives wife dries them while he goes to sleep again “Here's a find for you,” continued the merchant, os he singled out a bigger fiy than usual. *“This is a specimen of the man-eating fly of Central America. | This is a fly which inhabits the low-lying coast regions of Central America, and is much dreaded by the natives for the fearful results which follow its sting. Naturalists call it Lucilin Hominivora. the woods and collectan no in a pile on the gum, he at of an inch long. you see, with the eyes on 2, 3 black, its wings uvusually big. and they produce a continuous and loud buzzing when in motion. | “The person bitten by this fly gets a | diseass called myiasis. [It generally be. | gins with an itching of the nose, then that organ swells and bleeds, next it be. comes ulcerated, and in these uloers may | be found the larvae of the fly. The | whele fooo becomes swollen, erysipelas sets in, followed by meningitis and death. | One man, I knew, shot himself after he bad been bitten, rather than face the tortures he know were certain. Cure is | difficult. Subcutaneous injections of | chloroform sometimes do good, but as often fail. One man I heard of was cured by lemon juice injected into his blood.” AA ‘the Larks of Manitoba, AAA A Winnipeg paper says that Mani. toba is one of the most delightful places on the earth in the spring. “Thousands of prariie larks,” it says, “salute the day by bursting all together into a splendid explosion of song, pouring out their rich, strong voices from every little height and perch, singing with all their might. They sing ail day, and at night joyously the moon.” - THE BODY AND ITS HEALTH, Prem rong Baroness, —Wrldng on the subject of bulduess, Dr. W, Joseph Tyson remarks that it is much more 1nsuf- influ. mental to be of the hair, excessive fleient exposure cause cannot 1eadily be estimated. The treatment recom. mended is the use of a light head cov- washing only about once a week, with of simple grease or oil, Goop or Yawsine.~To yawn is to open wide the mouth through drows weariness, '’ as the tell us, The yawns is an untary exercise which nature gests to us when, in consequence of sleep or drowsiness or ennui or cold or hunger or indigestion, something is needed to restore the system to a state of general activity, Through it and the movements wanich acecom- pany it the whole body, beginping with the muscles of the throat and face, is stimulated and successive motions extedding them selves throughout the entire frame and 1eaching finally to the feet, “A good yawn, "says an eminent author- ity, "is always slow, and the best ues every articulation in the body probably every muscle —possibly re- ireshes every nerve, Not all or in jerks, but slowly, in perfect suc cessions or rnythms, with the best pos sible breathing. Certainly no nust, with the siugle exception of Francois Delsarte, ever arranged the same expenditure of force, ve ous and muse equal amount upon the system informed that yawning ** the laws of ments that growth and re the laws which are higher growth, s tions and inte invol at once gyn wy si g iar, i ¥ sf growth need nie io freshment, [iv rn y Called, o lHicot * the Corp axp Heavrs North America, writes Oswald A paper on cure,” have progress of a dividual tery’ '--the not more enterprising lation. During the conters of ii oa 51 iil the balanos ial power Kome and Mt. Pete wi Within the | ting the | 0 tabie-lan« out North i border he ove ulation « i intitudes not explain i s re ORY ©] MA race land ies than the fur myste lating inf Frostis an : ilies the glass agninst enables made dis Vive fs : of the 4 iit Hil fies eXoesers Ll counteracts exhausted markable : in Yarousiy nouniain eq} influen nooary diseases decreas northward trict of the Ei pastoral regions of gi and next to the natives o bia, where indoor work is almost known, the Norwegians, Icelanders, and the Yakuts of Northern Siberia, enjoy the most complete immunity from consumption. The frost-cute doctrine « a logical, and practically, by far the most important correlative of the ** germ theory of disease.” In a modified form the motto of a Hot Springs sanitariam * Warmth is life; cold death” may become the keystone-principle of sanitary pbllosophy. Warmth is life ; cold, even moderate, is death not to man—but to myriads of dis ease germs far more sensitive to changes of temperature, mile from the factory dis rder to ths Seotiand, Nenoegam un- nglish Iw ow ¥ ow iv s 2 4b son -rirt ) f ort is indeed in Social Power of the Astors. At Newport, several yeams ago, a young woman maneuvered rather obyi- ously to eapture the attentions and pre. sumably the affections of young John Jacob Astor. Mrs. Astor had certain views about the future of her son matri- monially, and these views were not met by anything that the young woman could offer, either in the way of family, wealth, or social position. Mrs. Astor thereupon disapprobation of the young woman's sentimental J ucsadigs. The dropped her name from her list, and ove day at the Casino, cui her dead. The effect on the young woman's social for. tunes was immediate. Within a few days she found nearly all the good owners of these houses knew that Mrs. Astor would not coms to them if they were visited by a young woman whose acquaintance she had declined. If Mrs. Astor would not acerpt inviiations to certain houses, the people in those houses could not, as a logical result, expect to receive invitations to Mrs. Astor's house, and the ambitious maiden who desired to marry into the Astor family and who persisted in the desire when Mrs. Astor signitied her opposition to the scheme, was sacrificed promptly on all sides and her social career came to an abrapt and unpleasant termination, * Deo Married Folks Look Alike, I Whether you remember it just now or not, at some time, 1 doubt not, you have articles or short items on the 8 curious theory advanced by some psy- come to resemble each other. Some ar- gue that it is because they are exposed | 10 the same conditions in life; others go { further and say that the influences of minds react upon each other, which, in tue case of mu und wife, brings about a | facial resemblance after yeurs of close contact, The Photographie Nocioty of Geneva, Switzerland, with a view to de. termining the truth or falsity of this payvehological oddity, made, during 1801, photographs of » ‘enty eight couples, These were examined by expertsin phys. iozrony, who decided that in twenty | four of the seventy-cight cases the facial resemblance hushand snd wus greater than that of brother and sister; in thirty cases it was equally as great, and in only twenty-four cases was there na total! nbrence . (St. Lo .is Republic. of ha wife f semblance. of r 111s Ashes Under a Rosebush, the late C. Jerome Cury, whose body hus been eremated at Detroit, will find lusting and beautiful expression if what are said to be his wishes are carried out by his family. It was his oft-expressed desire that his nshes should be given to his intimate Whitnall, the well-known florist, to be buried ie neath Oo rosehash of a varicty of fond. ] i friend, C, C which he was particularly very friends Cary ly | fond of flowers, and of roses in particu- lar. He was in the habit of spending a great deal of time among Mr. Whituall's Howers, und the Intter wus well nequaint. ed with the poetic side To him Mr. Cary freq his thoughts, and he will know how best to carry out his wish, if jeci to GeCi x . have it done, (Only his intimate kuew that Mr fond passionat was | his nature ently confided it is ped A definite statement as to whether or | not his wish would be respected, could not be obtained that if it ¢ within ntl to-day. but it was stated be, it would be dune If it is Mr. Whituall will place the urn «outaining i : should ew days done, Mr. Cary’s ashes in a spot which he will polect iu b it a rose! roots will strike down into it sink other roots from striking the roscbush ii reach Whitnall will 4 a small 1x ; Mr. Cary it carefully until is pr enhouses, and plant over that the He will i pround it, fo Xeep in such position yvush Hn } a brick wall it, so that only the Mr. March WHE Very Helcs y of rosa feet and blossoms profusely i id that fi tie year a lu ( to SG AEM) This + ight of fen or ire it H grows to a he MNOS a Treg STOWE It is los that th rose Wine Arniea pehoes will sinle ish as onsin The Scarcity of Giraffes, ity of ath at the Londo gical Gardens of its last daring the last vear there he miv two. and now these haves disappe red. Wi species an i tl Soudan, owin the ORUTE oO aren in to the « Mahdists soc f the of these animals ha and t markes Hong Imporfo CUrs for the only an a asked fiftv-five years we have is Daring the past fift had the whic h se reared there, 1846, lived nearly twenty-one our gardens hese prove this animal (one of the most extraord in gardens thirty giraffes, of enteen bave been bred A male, born on April "i YOArs fac i= recent mammals nary jorms among well fitted for f the carred on its ke Pr and is snd trouble New York Sun auite captivity, i ” p 1 is worthy of a in- expens Genmine Sky Signs. Y.oundoners are threatened with a new horror. A paper says that genuine sky signs can now be produced for enterprising advertisers by a le arrangement of mirrors, reflect. A sort of giant magic lantern can be set up by which ftnages can be throwd upon the clouds. Thus ““a pill” may be advertised in let- ters a hundred feet long, or the name of | the latest galvanic belt be visible in the | heavens above a dozen counties But | this is notall. These sky signs can be | made luminous, so that they will blaze away all night! Heine, in one of his rhapsodies, said that he would like to | snatch a burning pine from its Norway mountains and write with it the name of “Agnes” m lotters of fire ou the skies, but whether he would have cared to adorn | the firmament with a biazing description of “How Agnes took Mother Seigel's | Syrup and Got Well." — Man of | World, scientific The Thiel Had the Drop. Smith was trailing a horse-thief, had been on his track for two weeksand AND COMMENTS. 50TES Tur American notion of the 3aitan of Turkey is that he ives a lifeof perpetual | him. | was in a saloon, and he started in after | him. find his horse.thief was prepared for { him. With his gun pointing directly at | his pursaer he called out, “I've got the {drop this time, Mr. Inspector. Don't reach for your gun, but come and take a drink.” Smith laughingly accepted the invitation, but two days afterwards he got the drop, and that same horse-thief is mow over in Deer Lodge. It is be. tween such men as Smith and the rastler that the war is waging in Wyoming, and no one can doubt it will be to the death. «| Helena Independent. A vovxa woman in Blaine, Me., whose father died in Andersonville prison, draws a Government pension on that account, and she npeeds it. 8be is onl 28 old, but her chest measure is G1 od be ud she weighs 415 She proche pop Phi or A iden ever entering his royal ain is quite by nn receut impossible; but, judging report, hie must posses sone ability that few of his Oriental It is stated that hie 18 the inventor of a telegraph instru- It city to sec a tele. graph instrument invented by a Turk. will indesad be a no A 1ocan paper tolls how Miss Lena Woodard, of horn Creek, Wash ’ sowed the seed from one head of barley sour years ago. She harvested the crop ved th 5 next harvesting it with her shears. amount recel year, again The third getting enough barley from this crop to sow forty last spring, which averaged forty busheis to the acre when total vield of 1,600 from one head of barley in {our J Heres maxing a bushels years. Axoxa the striking sights of New York are those to ve seen at the docks It is as interesting to look at a steamship load of Americans bound for Furope as to look ut a steamship load of European immigrants coming into port Th ward-bound Americans are apt to be picturesque in their garb than the in coming ners, It is the ngents of * it ) less toreig estimated by he steamship : that more than 100.006) Americans visit Europe this year, and that at Six times as many i to the | nited Sate comp nie Europeans w Mr. bi fore iftingz ut London re. terrible fact that the ordinary time of girls and boys behind the coun- I ak*man, fact. the ug testimony Ory luspector. commities on the store-hours bill & sled the ter is from eighty to eighty-six Week, or hours a i iy \ ut i fourteen hours a day. knows of neighborbivods where the stores are Kept open for week any ninety-lour hours a erage of sixteen hours a or i pre re ning at » nigat I'he lower the neighborhood ionger are 1 & nre « xpected be » whole dav, | asting till daring which in some parts res will be open a. m. till midnight. tha flores o #11 where inh #11 = ond Mr. Lake aturd t ans mit tvs + ansmia, avs aricose veins were teen to eighteen 11 stores Em y recent iri wes 84 8.2 ight of 20.000 candle the Nuremberg ele irope in its constrooc. ow at work on a i # Fair at Chio- i one-half feet, Ihe yd ie power seen plamiy tortv-hivi n which the At md a height 1 he tw ind Jackson t mplishe sheets of allel, converging ' liverging wi out parallel clearly defin i be suspended in 1} ing the reflector a iorus at long distance station. These buildings and al lake heavens or ou! Acros ¢ duce brilliant electrical ¢itect issue of beef to the Indians on ration day at the Darling. ton Agency, Oklahoma, was much shocked by what he saw Fifty thre © beasts be slaughtered for the benefit of the Cheyennes and Arapuhnes. No one but an Indian would have cared to eat a steak from one of these steers, so gaunt and unwholesome was their appearance. After they had been weighed, the Indians were alowed to brand them in order to identify the hides. The branding was done in a most brutal fashion, the irons often being thrust clear through the skin. Then came the slaughter. The crest of the bluff was lined with Indians, rifle in band, some standing and others iving on the ground As a dozen of the cattle were turned loose on the plain, the rifles began to crack-—and such marksmanship! The idea seamed to be to cripple the animals, so that they might range to a further distance and ofir a mark for fanc shooting. Then began the firing to kill, and aboutftwenty shots rang out before a steer fell, mostof them being bad misses. One big steer. after stumbling for 200 feet, went down, thrashing the ground in mad a ony. The United States lieu- tenant in charge remarked: “1 wish I had a rifle to put some of the beasts out A srecraron of the were to shoot better.” The closing so ne is thus described; “Before the shooting at the last bunch had ceased, several Indians slipped out from under the bluff with big knives, and made a run for the nearest beeves, Turowing the head back, hey cut out the tongue with a few quic slaskes. When the crowd on the bluff suw the braves plying their knives, a wild break of men, women, and children was made. They threw themselves upon the dead meat. A pack of wolves could not have been more ravenous, Hot, juicy, bloody tid.bits were out from the cattle hardly dead, and caten as dogs eat. The little babies seemed to like the raw, hot ment as well as their elders. Foran hour the banquet and the skinning went on together, Then what was loft was cut up and loaded into the wagons. There was ons beef for each twenty-five people, bat there was no trouble about the division of the spoils, g in the peths Movh of foam, methine & provw of pees, f thom " raw beef or an 1
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