SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EYERY-DAY LIFE, Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven. tures Which Show that Truth is Stranger than Fiction. A curious spbeimen of linguist lives six miles east of Brenham, Texas. He is Henry Williams, a seven year old negro boy, as bright and quick-witted as any child of his age, but hespeaks a language of his own, or, rather, a mix- ture of langusges. He has grown up from a baby in the settlement, which is composed of Poles, Bohemians and Ger. mans, with a thin sprinkling of Ameri- cans. The children of these different nationalities have played together and learnad words from each other until all of them mix their mother tongues more or less, but Henry has surpassed them all. His own mother can't understand half he says, aud a stranger is at sea in his company, for he speaks an combina. tion of Bohemian, German, Polish and English, with the odd negro accent and inaccuracies. His home is not directly on the main thoroughfare, but off on a gin or third-class road, and Henry is always on bund when he sees a wagon or vehicle of any sort coming down the lane to open the gates in hopes a nickel may be given him for his courtesy. He gets more nickels, however, for his lin guistic feats than for accommodation in the opening of gates, for his attainments are known to most of the neighbors, and they nearly always stop a while to ea- gage him in conversation not that they are any wiser from his talk, but simply to hear the awful gibberish of which he is the original and only master. Ir is a well-known fact that engines of high speed expresses kill small and | large heavy flying birds, such as part- | ridges and grouse, in great quantities, | sometimes carrying their bodies long | distances. A locomotivesuperintendent | of one of the principal northern lines in England was recently given a dead bird which, though a very rapid tiyer, had met its doom through the agency of the iron horse. bird was a sparrow | | { | i i This hawk, and it is now stuffed and may be | seen in the Carlton Road Board School | Museum, Kentish Town.! The engineer | of the train relates that he was travelling between sixty and seveuty miles an hour | near Melton, when just on the point of | entering a long tunnel he observed flat. tering in front of the engine some object which he at first mistook for 8 rag, but when, on leaving the tunnel, h forward, he discovered, to his astonish- ment, that it was a sparrow hawk, which had become entangled between the hand. | rail and the smoke-box he engine, and was held there firmly by the pressure of the wind. It wasnotquitedead when taken oat of this curious death-trap. There is no doubt that it met its death accidentally, as a hawk can fly quicker than the fastest trains travel. 8 went oft Tne officers of Yankton College, South Dakota, hit oa u novel plan to get out of debt and raise an endowment fund. Dr. D K. Pearsons, of CGhicag i has offered to build the colle at a cost of $50,000, provi of the institution i raised an e order to do this the trustees ha issue the following pledge, which they are soliciting | ail er the state sign, * to le the trustee of Yankton College to the. ¢ ditional gift of $50,000 from Dr. D. Pearsons. 1 hereby to put in during mest season res of for Yankton College. I further agree gp sell this grain as soon as [ can do so, and to pay os sach person as the trustees may nate to receive the same Accompany - ing this form is a brief history of the institution, from which it appears that | Yaukton College was the first institution | for higher education established Dako'ns. It is now ten years old. It has accamulated property to the value of $130,000, but in maintaining itself and erecting its two b rildings, it has in. curred an indebtedness of 819,000. have pa ndowment of 0 to BODO { eo pie ’ t n order ona! secure Of K. a conveniently er the proce rds to ai desig A norse ran away with a buggy the other day, and smashed the window of a bank in Akron, Ohio. The story of the mouth and presently, after the manner of the crow story, it became a broken bank. Nothing was needed. By twelve o'clock that day there were hundreds of money-mad and frenzied men and women their deposits. citement, and all attempts by the bank officials to cxplain the sitvation were howled down. By the closing hour in the afternoon thousands of dollars had been drained from the vaults of the bank, and, but for other banks coming to the assis. tance of the unfortunate institution that night by distributing circulars around the city telling depositors that they (the other banks) would cash all checks, prop- erly certified, on the bank with the broken. plate window, the run would have continued the next day and resulted in “busting” the bank. for there is no institution that can withstand a run with. out a warning. “I was recently in Japan,” says an American, ‘and 1 met there several American and German doctors who wero gutting rich by straightening the slant n the Japanese eye to make it look like the beloved Cauacasian's optic. The Japanese, you know, show the traces to their Mongolian origin more plainly in the shape of their eyelids than in the color of their skin, and those who can afford it are ridding themselves of this unmistakable evidence of their despised ancestry by submitting to a simple. and comparatively painless surgical oper. ation, which consists in the surgeon slit. ting the outer rim of the eyelids ina straight line for the barest infinitesimal part of an inch. The wound is then covered with a thin piece of chemically. prepared sticking-plaster, the faithful subject of the Mikado goes on about his as if nothing had happened, and in a fow days the wound is healed and he looks on his envious fellows throngh lids ns straight as the Ameri. can's.” - One of the most ingenious specimeus of woodwork made in tnis or auy other sountry is the work of William Kelly, of Lenox, Massa., and is called ‘‘Sunset.” It would be a difficult task for a painter to do it better in oil and colors than Mr, Kelly hus in wood. At a distance of three yards the most practised eye cannot distinguish it from a painting, yet, on closer inspection, it is seen to be com. posed of minute pieces of wood The whole of this most remarkabe work is made up of 115,000 pieces—1,600 pieces to cach square inch, each piece being | but the one-fortieth of an inch square! The effect of colors is produced by the variety in the hues of the different kinds of woods, as well as in the masher of cu'ting the pieces, which was sometimes with and sometimes across the grain. There were forty varieties of woods used | in the mosaic, and Mr. Kelly worked seven years in completing it. Acconpixg to the statemont of a well. | known railway official, a fast express which was recently put In operation “is the best paying passenger train in the country.” ‘This remarks, the New York Tribune, is good news for all who be. lieve that better time can be made on our railways with safety. Where one road leads the way successfully the others are bound to follow; and when it is shown that faster trains poy well faster trains will bo in order everywhere. Thousands | of travellers would be willing to pay a higher fare for tho sake of saving a few hours’ time in a long journey. Safety | can be made to go hand in hand with | speed. In faot, it is asserted on bigh authority that no accident to a fast train has been due to nigh speed alone or | mainly. i Tuerr is a curious lake in Hungary, known th Neusi dler See, sixteen as the miles long miles in its and six wide broadest part, which has no tributaries, but derives all its water from the rain. fall that drops into it. Itis a very large lake to be supported wholly this way. There are no mountains very near it, but it occupies a slight depression in an Once in a while the and within the past | lake has dried up, two years it has loat half of its water, The Hungarian Government has decided to do away with this lake, and has com- | menced to dig a canal by which the pre. cipitation will hereafter be drained away from the lake bed acres of rich farming Jand will thus be some thousands of immense hospital Lariboisiere, at Paris, France, is reported to have winhabitable by immen the buildi hd beon at the hospital a paper: “A fortnight rat jumped at the thr of yaad the Ambroise. Pare hall daring then Poison was laid, and lays later a terrible odor filled the whole piace, I'he floors had p and dead ras by the hundreds were I'h hospital authorities made a contract wit a professiona catcher y starte Bat little f has ins itat I'he hat they conld almost 0 numbers of rats infesting 4 A patient that writes to ago n + ons a patient in t whit t ght a few to be taken u taken out @ } i w 3 i : rat wie relie ion. 1 a reporter t operations at ot + » the 100 tole the hospital authorities did reli were rather g come to Yi 3 ' he » nil f. but as yet prospes J i to obtain is pain in the anda 38K that thal organ rdor the - itd wn might be clearly av nonstrated ver dea is, has verformed, f stoma! ha wont so far a+ to 3 3 opened that : Hegatic a I'h operation | uiity and sentenced his was confirm court of B n 0 idge, hows H. IL “HAW is a queer old Eag- lishman who runs a hotel at Paol Khan At each mealt at the head of a wonderiaily |] ime he appears long table and assigns guesis to seats at bis right and left He wears a moastrous white apron, standing. gets a reign of silence rap the handle of a huge carving knife on the table. Then he savs grace, asking the blessing in a tremulous makes the wildest think a little. Then he carves. Hecan call each guest by name from seeing them register, and he asks them what portion of fowl they prefer. It is refreshing after ordinary hotel life. his and, by 0 § 03 You's Tur debt of the world on June §, 1893, at 830,000 000.0000, This gives a per capita debt of the people of the civilized world of £32.35 for each individual. The National debt of the United States is $401,950,104 ; which makes the percapita fifths as much as the average for the | entire world. Another gratifying feature {is in the fact that the per capita of our’ National debt now is less than one-half | ago. In | | 1880 the per capita of our National debt was 838.33; in 1890 it was $14 24. { Two or threo weeks ago, according to {the Gastonia, (N. C.,) Gazette, Jack | White's boys brought home two baby | flying squirrels. Mrs. White directed | | the boys to give them to the eat. It so | happened that the cat at the time had a | | nest of little kittens. The boys put the | | squirrels in the nest with the kittens and they are with thom yet. The squirrels | | boarded right along with the kittens in | | peace and unity, the old eat concurring. | | They have grown and flourished on their | | diet and are shy of surroundings only | when frightened by unusual noise. t ! 3 A coumtrren of the English house of | commons in the course of an inquiry | regarding the hours of work in shops | has discoverad cases in which shop as. | i sistants, or clerks, as we should call | | them, are compolled to labor ninety-four | hours u week, or nearly sixteen hours a | day, six days in the week. The average | working hours in the shops of the poorer | districts are about eighty-four a week. and this at excessively low wages and | under the most unsanitary conditions. Mrs. Mosnrox Axpurws of Tariffville, Conn., captured a tremendous hen hawk in a pooulinr manner. Her canary bird was kept in a cage near the window, and, the window being clear, the hawk saw the bird. Ho made a dash for it, smashed the glnss and missed the cage. It was so stunned that Mrs. Andrews had time to recover from her fright and throw a blanket over the hawk and hold it until she could got a cage to put him in, Wir 300,000 Russian troops quar. tered in Poland and more on the way to the frontier, the European war cloud ap- Cookrxa CanBace.—Almost every one likes caulitlower if it is properly cooked, while few admit a fondness for eabbage. Yet it belongs to the same family, and oun be made to taste much like Ii- ocnul flower. It should be first parboiled for then drained and cooled, and again put in fresh water and cooked until tendon, Sorved with a cream sauce in the same woy that we have cauliflower or aspara. gus sent to the table, it is Wwe cannot free ourselves too soon of the idon that this vegetable must be boiled with corned beef and eaten with vinegar, delicious. Brorus. 1 i Curekry axp Morres Here are two receipts for chicken snd mu‘ion broth for invalids. For the former cut a young fowl into four paris, wash these well in cold water, and put the pieces in a stewpan with one quurt of water and a little salt. Let it boil on the stove, skim it well and then add the heart of a eab. Boil the broth for an hour if the is tender, but proportionately i bage. chicken Bn strain into For mutton broth take thre« the scrag-end neck of in ses pounds of very fresh oral pieces, wash them in cold and put them in saucepan with a quart of water; place it on the fire to boil; skim and add a couple of turnips cut into slices, a littie parsiey and a little salt; let it boil slowly for an skim off the fat from the strain through =i of a water n a fine sieve inio lemalns of a Hage Animal, Some weeks ago, savs an Irish contem porary, the workmen who are ged in making the ns on the County the ti if at present NOCCSSAry Cxca- Antriu water wile « valid brand h Lor jaw deen § for He d the greater In go animal, which has been ide srt @ AT DOT Commission ck fou of the skull of portion iti ad ond all doubts by experts as that ny the gigantic A Irish deer ently part of Museum, his interesting disco of p $ nn as un Hl » sum ord nary low water Lagan, which i tore, not jess than stratum of 13) wi side f the 1 go County Alexandra (irs structed on ng fow years ago It may be of ariety Lo (wv Tious docks nmen gray = : peat, in which ti was lo another thin aver of ne clay, h estunr apritios « ti bus w hid fonsnils } TY i are: of i Wi u ave How sand of yi clay and sand of Fall Mail Budget. Transmitting Yonr Autograph, of, M. Mare Hallei wha th CoOL i trician exhibited 30 mans marvels at the late Paris Exposition, | aking einutograph machin at { will Fa'r electric arratngementia to put 114 £ a before the grits ic The machin : be the great Columbia is reckoned ns a wonder, « ul experts, who ought to what vs in that line Fhe is sai to be or vutgrowth of a similar vented by our Edison five or six years With a well-ragulated little in. strument of the character named one can sign a check or other document, although he be a hundred or miies m of te hicaco jE LF at in 3 shown en bY know are offshoot § i at cusiositi really iaveniion an machine Ago. an thousand from the point where his autograph is desired Ihe modus operandi is d age scribed thus : The writing to be trans. vith an ordinary stylus This in turn is mounted on a cylinder, which, ds it re. volves, makes and breaks the electri current by means of the varying depths of the indentations on the paper. At the receiving end of the wire a similar eylinder, moving in accurate synchronism with the other, receives the current on a transcribes the signature in black letters on a white ground. —{5t. Louis Republic. Writing With the Left Hand, From the St. Louis Globe-Demo- oral; THE BODY AND ITS HEALTH, A xew TreEatMeENT or Hiccovans— by a sudden spasmodic con- traction of the diaphragm, produce. ing a brisk jar of the abdominal and thoracic walls, and accompanied by a hoarse and inarticulate sound caused bration of the vocal cords, Up 10 ment of this difticulty has been very uncertain; at one time directed against disorders of the digestive res. piratory and other organs on which it seemed to depend, and at another, following merely the symptomatic indication, muking an akong usa tisafies, cupping, bleeding, untispas- modie drugs—in a word, of the so- called resources of empiricism. In one of the last meetings of the Academie des Sciences de Paris, M. Leloir ealled attention to a method of treatment by compression the phrenic nerve to which he re- Of ’ 3 had Hoe was shown a tle girl, twelve years of age, who had been hiccoughing incessantly twice a minute for a year. This infirmity in f very | condition of health, The little patient's father had consulted a large number of physicians, who had in vain prescribed a great variety of forms of treatment. The idea « o M. Leloir compres the phrenic n OOF ¥ 188 rve at the neck, a little above inner extremity of the collar | The action of the diaph: nds on this nerve, the t of which puts a niraction This com. « with the flugers, wa three iu and lasted inin- time 1 I €Q U ion of . gion of f the Ham # section of paraly S18 stop to its A pression, m quite pain! utes, but at SYmplotl i. Das QoL ow M. Leal i ¥ il ! i of that the LIE ena of { entirely disappeared an nun acute * 48 sel ’ 11 4 iesignated by dif- the agual abundant a outspread surface for s that we have not niy ion of the mu sorption apparatus relation to the entire irculatory system. and more reason to believe that mat y diseases are local before they are constitutional, and that the implanting and development | begins io the tonsils or other parts of he buceal cavity ~in other words, that the disease is local in the mouth aud 8 BO ETE fi $i : at iish oa rtine ‘3 watiil, ™ 118 he gecretive fu t glands, but an a n most intimats ymphatic and « There is more us w fact of being ambidexterous is not appreciated at its full worth, Edwin Arnold remarked while in St, Louls that in Japan every child is taught to write with either and both hauds, and he hinted that this was not the only evidence of sound com- mon sense he met with while in the kingdom of the Mikado, I learned to write with my left hand soma years ago, in consequence of the impression created in my mind by reading the arguments of Charles Reade on the subject, and now I change my pen from hand to hand on the first impression of weariness, There have been many remedies suggested for what is known as writ. er's cramp, and many writers alters nate between the pen and the type. writer; but the simplest plan of all is to aequire the art of writing with ei. ther hand and change from one to the other on the first suspicion of fatigue, It is quite easy for a child to learn to write with the left hand, and al- though after the muscles have got set with age itis more difficuit, al. most any man can learn to write with his left hand in a week, and to write about ns well with oue hand as the other in less thao a vear. » I'his is now very fully recognized as | to diphtheria and not unlikely is true | of most of the contagious diseases, | Nor is this begiuning accidental. | Iinere is not only this local progress and distribution of disease, but the soil is fully prepared by the condition f the mouth strovtures, It is, there. fore, most important that minute at. | ention be given to the mode of weathing and to the condition of the nouth and the breath, First of all emember that the nose and not the nouth is the chief organ for the in- areathing of air. The nostrils are the avenues, the | By their | moisture, their minute hairs or cilia | snd their tortuous course they are ad. | mirably fitted to warm and to help to | urify the inbreathed air, It is no | aseless preeaution to warn those ex. | posed to concentrated contagion to | keep the mouth closed and do all breathing through the nose, Nextto this, cleanliness of the mouth is a most | mportant consideration. The sweet, pure breath, and the perfect condi. ton of the mucous membranes, the follicles, the teeth and of the entire buccal cavity is not easy of attain. ment. Init lodge particles from our tood which easily become septic, and to it both from within and without is too often furnished an atmosphere which in iss worst forms declares it- sell us bad breath, The foulness of alr and the need of ventilation is not so much because of the carbonic acid n the air as from the organic matter in #& mobile or decaying state. Es. pecially where there are assemblages, w in schools and public rooms, thé oad breath of a dozen persons is more polluting than that of « hundred whose mouths are in a perfectly % healthy and normal condition, Hence we cannot too much insist upon mouth rinsing and frequent cleansing of the breath as indispensable te young and old. Often there is need | to add the use of some pleasant dis. | { Infectant, as thymol, borax, ete, Th: | subject is a most important one, not jonly in relation to the health of the { Individual but to the prevention of disease, It is now well understood by physicians that in those who are posed to disease we are apparently able sometimes to prevent contagion | by early and close attention to the mouth and its secretions. Topical application to the throat and the quent administration such | stances as the tincture ferri chloridi | quinine, potassium chlorate, ete, are | for this purpose, | Thus not only are the exposed sur { faces of the mouth and throat pro | tected, but the liability of transini? { ting disease to others is greatly di { minished. The care of the mouth ane teeth should be an early subject o instruction in school, Spitting on the floor or in handkerchiefs is 1 be avoided, and where there is the least disease all expectoration should be received in a disinfecting solutior or burned, In addition to this, breathing through the nose insisted upon, as well as the mouth breathing and exce ing in very cold or damp air Now that so much is said prevention of disease by isolati are also to study what can by systematic cleanliness, especial reference Chil ex of ench tn ions, ¥ iren i 5 Foo ONBO UOT mouth f need of i more rigi conditions, and ibiect of nn impressed pendent tha tiie 8 out uj Of CARYING THE TEA ROOT, A Curious Industry in Which Many Celestials Are Empioyed. there has populous | vork and interlace is Fools of that i things of beauty celost the ial point wr en western Loli (nlone. Hyson and Sou Ita rsmoth rugnts Wi si ti Lo n trees vears to it aloes, cow darins, priests Cers or myt cannot be worked it is con i: sfiapes erie i 6 plattorm fora figare pie iperation consists i This is done with 4 fine the clean od remo ng them on tiles or bricks, sawing it it shane shinpe : cut. and ra - a 31 steam or boiling water it in any desired direction Now comes the hardest task The most piece that shows no art and seems perfectly nat ihe Carver goes over the bioek, of ali. whieh ital removs ing here a fiber and there a set of roots, here thinning out one on the under side snd forcing it down, and there burning another and expanding it at the bursed point. I have one in my drawing-room which is a capital figure of a dragon, rearing and opening his jaws as if to spring upon his prey. Careful valued in iw iv cxamin. nation shows that nothing has been added to the mass, but that hundreds of fibers, knots and corrugations have been skill. fully removed. In nearly every instance a human figure made in the same madber or | carvel from a wood of the same color or partly from carved wood is added 10 the first piece. The designs are endless in | this field. Learned men lecturing birds, | maundarine standing on dragons, boys | riding cows and other ridiculous quadra. | peds, dancing beggars, men hghting | each other, are the commonest groups, but of the more uncommon there are | One famous artist in Foo. | chow claims to have produced, with the | aid of his apprentices, over fifty thousand | different designs, and, judging from his stock on hand, his claim seems reasons. | ble enough. The tea-root carvings are seldom very | costly, running from DO cents to $100. | Nine-tenths bring less than 82 each. A | handsome set of a dozen can be pur. | chased for $20, which will decorate a drawing-room or hall better than bric.a. brac many times more expensive. The figures are strong, durable and in no danger of fracture by Bridget or Ah Sin. Outside of their msthetio value they are of interest in showing the wonderful in. genuity and economy of our Chinese cousins. A pnoumatio tube connects Paris with Berlin, It is used for postal purposes, and makes it possible for a letter mailed in Paris to delivered in Berlin in thirty-five minutes. If the tube could bo enlarged sufficiently. it might bo used by either France or Germany to surprise the other with an army. nud so setts the quarrel that has existed between the two nations for so many years. THEY FOLLOWED COPY. How a Space Writer Lost a Chance to Try Married Life. “Horrors! what an obscure hand you write!” said the literary editor to the new space writer as he turned in a bit of ) * Oh, it's plain enough,” | riected the poet, ha atily. “The rhymes and the meter will help the compositor out, and there'll not be the least bit of trouble if they jus follow the COPY 2 And the manusce up the tune to Bug a the Cinein Cid? Pp etry ue * W 15t] h ing “ing-room, Commercial Ga * w “Bu-ay, whi Las been sendin’ dry bill for 3 * » chump laun- velled «t Of and glar- sn’t make HBL his Chir i Hy + 1 1.¢ $racl L i ¥ SRE py?’ slug 10, wiping a sudden bug gpiration from his forchead ing at his take whatever It up in mighty short on late now.” And the the case into t » * “Good Cassar! reader, ny eyes tion he rubbed h the as! “+ AZIOTS OF At that ust proof ‘* Are noni Then oF Ww this a pre: clutenin failing of nervy (res ” And the Brings the sell #3 ve 2 From willy the shudderin bilan ks When the 3 Ah ssod dian i ably teresting. The ernment building is ordinarily a barn-like structure, sur- rounded by a platform, on which the BUAWS form in line. each with her ticket. As they pass through a door, in single file, a clerk looks at each 's card and shouts the number of rations to which she is entitled Supposing that thore are three in the family, she is entitled to twenty-one retions for the week, of course. Hor card shows that, and every timeit is presented the clerk punches it once. After it bas been punched fifty-two times, being g To any on the distribution the srency pe 4] Go 3 : won good for one year, it is exhausted, says the Boston Transcript. The squaw passes on to another clerk who distributes corn. He bas a number of scoops of different sizes, cach holding #0 many rations. The amount of corn due the woman ho promptly dumps iu her shawl, tied up for temporary uso as a receptacle. She then passes to yet an. other clerk, who gives her the flour or sugar due her, and so on until she has portion of everything. whon she passes out at a door on the other side. Usually the squaws omploy tho corner of their shawls to hold the various kinds of provender, but at some agencies they obliged by regulation to bring sacks for the flour. Covxrisa Dust Morn: Who would think that science could devise an appa~ ratus or instrament for counting the number of dost motes that dance in a bar of sunlight? No one would imagine that such an unheard feat could bo car. ried out with any degree of accuracy, but, if we are to believe official reports, that and much more has recently boon accomplished by the microscopists. At the Ben Nevis Observatory, Scotland, an attempt has been made to determine the relative purity of the atmosphore. The maximum number of dust particles ia a cubic centimeter of nir examined with a high grade microscope at the Ben Novia Observatory has been foundto bo 12,968, from a “specimen” examined on March 30, 1801. The minimum is fifty-4wo particles to the cubic centimeter from an examination made on June 15, 1801. At one time a difference of some thousands of particles was noted within a fow hours. Observations were taken at 12 m., and Again at 6 p. m. The first Shawed but 26,780 particles, the last 13,
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