SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS ©F EYERY-DAY LIFE, Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven- tures Which Show that Truth is Stranger than Fiction. months among the Moqui Indians in New Mexico, tells a strange story of a certain family of the tribe, which is perfectly daughter of Mrs. D. Solomon, who lives in the fourth story of a tenement-house in Now York, was dressed for pupa’s home-coming from the factory the other afternoon, Mrs. Solomon stepped out of the room to attend to some Banos duty and cantioned baby to keep away from the open window, which looked out upon a network of clothes lines strung across the court-yard. Suddenly the mother heard baby scream. She rushed | into the room, but little Rosa was nowhere Two washerwomen who were looking over their washing in the court-yvard below, however, had seen baby Solomon lean out of the window white. Mr. Williamson says that he saw the Indians himself and knows that | thore is no doubt as to their color, but | he is of the opinion that they are Albinos. He says there is no doubt as | lo the fact that they are pure Indlaus, the only strange thing about it being | that they have none of the characteristics | of the ordinary Albino as seen in other ! places. The fauuly is known far and wide among the Indians themselves, but | as their place of residence is far from fhe usual places travelled by white men, ronsequently they are rarely scen by others than the race they belong to. | The Indians look upon them as being something holier than the rest of the | tribe and hence do not talk about them to outsiders. Mr. Williamson says that the head man of the family says there is a tradition among them that they orig- inally came from the North and settled among this people, but that they have been here so long that they have lost all the characteristics of the Northern tribe, If this story has any foundation it is probable that the original stock came trom the tribe of Mand in Indians, who are said to be white and live in the ox- treme northwest of North Dakota. Mr. | Williamson says he will endeavor to see if he can find the Mandans and see if the peculiar characteristics are the same in that tribe as they are in the freaks of the Moquis. Siras Borrox's old black-and-tan bear hound Scout makes his master's only cow his constant companion from the time the bear hunting season closes until it opens in the fall. Bolton's cow runs at large, and Scout stays with her trom morning till night. One day recently the cow wondered away to Brier Swamp, three miles of Skinner's Creek, Peon. Scout followed her, and along in the afternoon Amos Jennings, who lives on Maple Hill, three-quarters of a mile from the sw amp, heard the hound baying down there. He recognized voice, and in a moment he heard Bolton's cow bellowing as though she was in dis- tress. Jennings ran all the way to the swamp, and when he came in sight of t cow he found her and Scout giving battle to a bear near the f the swamp. Scout was nipping the bear from behind, and when the bear turned to strike sprang back, and the cow pitched the bear and gored him till he turned on her. ld jump out of west Neoat's ne edge © him into Then the cow would his way, and Scout would instantly bite the bear s flanks and foree him to wheel. The he did so the spunky cow would i plough furrows in his fur, bounding to a safe distance the instant the bear turned on her. Then Scout tackled him again, and botween the two they made the bem roar and plunge terrifically He failed strike the hound cow, but Scout seemed to worry him the most, and when ‘ at the dog the cow dro horns into bear's left 1¢ bear roared and raved to get at the cow, but Scout kept him at bay, and within twenty minutes the augry cow gored the bear to death. Aut the t moment $ into him with a bellow and - i a Of he ade a vi ne mace 4 vicious & one the sie A yiuffs along the river in the Marshall, Mo., are covered with mounds, which have always been upon as and bave been called ‘‘Indian mounds,” yet no one has ever attempted to explore any of them, as they were so small that it was thought they contained nothing except, possibly, bones of some departed red men. Some days ago, however, a young man named Leruae dreamed that ho opened a small mound which was on his father's farm and found that it con- tained a lot of money. He was so 11 small looked prehistoric termined to open the mound in question and sec what was in it. He was afraid termined to go about it secretly. He begau his work the day following the dream snd continued #& odd bours until last Wedenday, when he reached a flat rock, under which he found the remains of two skeletons, These bones crumbled to dust upon exposure to the air, show. turies, but there were some things there several gold ornwments which had un sons who had been buri:d there. These of heavy beaten gold. ‘The ends of the rings had been welded together and had beon rudely fashioned into the shapes of snakos' heads. In the cyes were small stones, which are evidently turquoises, and on the back of the head was a peca- liar mark, evidently the totem of the tribe to which the men belonged, Auxoxa the many enterprises in soath- wost Missouri there are probably none that attract more attention than does the snake farm located three-fourths of a mile due west of Chadwick. The farm proper consists of about five acres, half enclosed by a natural stone wall, ora ledge. On one side of this enclosure is a natural rock cave, and out of this cave runs an everlasting stream of the purest water. This spring beingon the highest spot of land on the farm it is casily con. veyed to all places where needed. Mr, Childs, proprietor of the farm, has been dealing in snakes and manufacturio rattlesnake oil for over ten years, a finds it quite profitable, as he supplies all species of snakes for exhibition pur. poses, all kinds of snake curiosities, rattlesnake oil to the drug trade, and charges an admission fee of ten conts to all visitors who come to the farm. He is now fixing up the place for the sum- mor trade, and will have large pens built for the snakes, with a living pond of water in each one, and a platform on the outside where visitors may stand out of danger looking at the hundred different hpacias, all Ja their natural sates bv ng, playing, swimming, ting, sleeping, #4 ing * Rosa SoLosow, the pretty two-year-old Island, New York Harbor, in the un. looked-for liberation of an immigrant through an unexpected event. A Rus. sinn named Zalinski was detained for return on account of his poverty. About the only asset he had was au pet dog and on pup, the latter having two bodies that join at the shoulders, one head and six logs. The agent of an uptown fancier happened to hear of the baby dog und bought the animal, paying such a high rice that, with the money, Zalinski will pr able to make a start in the New World, Avoxa the curiosities in the Maine State Prison is a dross that one of the and grasp a clothes line. Thon they saw the line break and toss the child | half across the court. There its little | body struck another line, which also broke and gave the baby another toss twonty feot further away. Still another | line intervened between the falling child and the hard stone flagging and bounced Rosa over into a corner of the court. yard, where she was picked up unhurt | save a scratch on her forehead. The | child's frock was tattered and torn. She fell fully sixty feet. un Solomon measured the distance broken clothes line. { with a Tur next sitting of the International | Railway Congress will be held at St { Petersburg, in August, 1892, Among | the subjects set down for consideration | are-—uniform techinal terms; frogs und | switches; maintenance of track: limit of wear of tires and rails; relation between track and bridges and track and rolling | stock; track for fast trains; control of | speed of trains; breakage and wear of | steel rails; maintenace of track on metal | and wooden sleepers; durability and pre- | servative treatment of wooden sleepers; track and stock curves; production steam in locomotive | boilers; high pressure and the compound system; high pressure and differential | valve gears; roliing stock for lines with light trafic; continuous heating for passenger trains; locomotive ruuniog, | double-crew system against first.in-first- | out system; locomotives, fuel con. | sumption, tubes, tires, lubrication, crank | axles, fireboxes, boilers, switch engines: lubrication of car axles journals, ete. The first sitting of the Congress was held in Brussels in 1855 supported by thirty two Governments $4 railway administrations, repre. ag 12 I'he iinese and Japanese Governments will I at the Petersburg rolling on of | he Congress is now and 2 sentis Cl be represented { 3,24) miles of railway. } i =i. Ongress. known hunter aud nmg in a g Mountain region smoking his pi he was swooped down upon by i (rams specto { r, Miris a we TO front of hi r pr camp tent in the Crai i inho, deni: flock of big white owls They was sit «, when sud clutehad him with their great talons and thoy gnashed at him with hooked Chey adfanced and retreated with swift. ness and regularity hustled him into his tent, and they swooped in after him. le any purpose exceptas a club, Deals, rab self couldn't use his gap to aud used it thus so effectively that he soon routed the flock, but he was clawed and chawved so that he bled like a stuck Pig When he took an inventory of stook, he that he bad killed twelve immens with the butt of his gun Some of them feet from tip to tip. It sasa unusual occurrence, that ow! raid and It is a wound Craig Mountain yet, mind Wis were six moat on (sabes cCamD, favorite story out Tus onan rived in New York rec nah, the death shovel nosed shark, BAVA nausual teras Shoals, steaming alon f seventeen an hour, the steam. hip ran itwater the shark, riking the fish square amidships, so to enk I'he shark was unable to extri. te itself owing to the intense pressure of the water. In a few moments the sharp stem had cut the esh to the back- | bone, and this in turn breaking under the sgain, the shark assumed tha shape of an inverted V, hanging on either side of the bow like an old rope, the head and tail being still connected by the muscles of the back. Caught thus, the shark was towed along by the steamship for somo 300 miles, and until the stop at | Quarantine, when, released from the pressure of the water, the body slowly | sank. i ¢ i steamship Kansas Steamship Company, which ar- from Savan- ay ®t Sun, ina manner. Of Hat. = at the rate niiy ol the caused i atin somewhat 0 miles its « into t i n v 5 Rouaxcx in real life is quite as fre. quently a tragedy as it i» a com dy, and how a romance leaps inte view occasion. aly in real life—secmingly meroly to the proverb that “truth is | strange, stranger than fiction,” was never illustrated more thrillingly than in the composing room of the Cincinnati The board wes strewn with copy, and the | compositors were securing “takes,” | | into a heap on the floor. {away and sent home. | finished her “take.” Some one else | telegraphic account of a suicide in an other city. Nothing was thought of this tween the lines” was given, and it tran. { spired that the man who committed sui. | oide was the girl's lover. There were forty compositors being fed by that copy board, and yetthis particular bit of copy fell to this partioular girl. If a novelist had told the story he would have been accused by half of his readers of telling an improbable tale. A Marve paper tells of the queer pre. dicament in which a Biddeford man is. He owns fifty acres of ‘land in the suburbs of Biddeford, which his grand. mother left him, but he can't find it. The boundary lines haven't been run for generations. There is some dim record of the original grant at Alfred, but net clear enough to enable him to find out just what he owns, He has had a sur. veyor at work trying to run linos, but each time he has encroached on land to which others had clear titles. Now the property is advertised for taxes, and a possible solution has presented itself 10 the owner. He says he is going 10 let the city sell the land for taxes, bid it in himself and lot the city find it for him. The city, be argues, can’t sell anything it ean't deliver, and can't deliver any. thing it can’t find. A curious incident ocourred at Ellis prisoners, who attempted to eSCupe ro cently, had made as a disguise. At dif. small from which he fashioned a most remark. The buttons are and bits by way of adornment. A SAILOR'S BURIAL. A Simple But Impressive Ceremony on the Deep. When maritime Jack dies, ho is buried without much undue ceremony. A brief prayer, a shotted hammock, the lee rail, But on board a shi yf dignified simplicity. No muster of the ship's company is, naturally, so sad os this, and you can sve it on the faces of all "the of the bo'sw'n’'s whistle is followed by the long. modulated call of "All the dead!” The men come aft quietly, and take their nliotted stations, To leeward, if it be at sea, or upon the port side of the the seamen are ranged in the front rank; behind them are the ordinary seamen; and in 1ear of both, the apprentices and the lsndsmen. In the gangway forward of the mainmast, on such ships as still have senior petty otficers stand at Around the coffin, folded in ou ped POG when subdued shrilling and hands bury anil pow er, attention the jack or national ensign, are the usually the de ry Zr solocted irom or esting on arms, Nearest pall-bearers, wd mans and close ut lu marine guard coffin are the chaplal and then in order of att the other ofiicers of the ship The easign at the peak or staff flutters tremblingly at and fro erhond division, the th ine Hess un and, r is paraded, ana their + the capiain, rank, stretch half mast 0 the shij Hickers of |} to leeward like ind the backed and! i" i he passed gently, and while the the burial are he hush of the ing by the low accompaniments is —by the rumple of eager HOI Nw retliing topani # murmurs funoover beautiful order to in lirge words of service Deng entu. é Of in I road, uted sen B00 eddy : walers the bis OY thie hol ing sternward, ana surging the breeze in CRnvLas a d through and go When the clo said, the i He fackels are inanned i Haws of s ow ing pr s ar. svar is ast given 8 ut fitstl Tr ppea OL and slowly, reve the rail and clear of the ship. the . , fire —in all three ratiing oo of the skij “taps” tenderly and : newer meaning of sleep and rest; the and and ap os and siung ntiy, i= hoist Over billows fond, awaxen nit spaces co is lowered fin swings further out, the foam wondrift moistens it: the tackles are detached with sudden jerk, in an instant the weighted box shoots downward, bedded in over until until gently and foam and bubbles, and all is the sea gives up the dead In a little while the cheery whistles trill out a eall to duty, the half masted ensign climbs to the dasher block, the ship is brought to her course, and dazed- ly the men take up the wearying routine of the lives so sadly broken. An unusual quiet rests upon the vessel and around ered to smoke during supper hour, and after the hammocks are piped down, the virtues —those heroic and honest sea virtues —of the dead sailor are recalled ship closer than any other men except parte may know. —| Lieut. J. D. Jer. rold Kelly, U. 8. N Washington's Favorite Dish, Mrs. A. J. Dauds of Canton, Ohio, re. lates an aneodote of General Washing. ton, ns told by her grandfather, Nicholas Fringer of Tarrytown, Md, who waa owner of the mill in question, and which illustrates the plainness of Washington's diet, | During the administration of Wash. ington, he found it necessary to take a business trip of a few days’ turation, | accompanied by his staff. It having | become known to the citizens of Tarry-. town that he would pass through there, | arrangements were made to give him a | royal reception, amd the proprietor of ithe village tavern, at which he would | take supper, prepared to serve a menu | fit for a king. Everything, almost, in | the lime of satables that one could think | of was secured and placed in readiness to be served on short notice. About four o'clock in the afternoon of the eventful day, the distinguished Jon arrived and was driven to the tel. Upon being told when to inve supper ready, the host sent word fo Washing. ton’s room asking him if he would state what he would like best. He was greatly surprised to learn that Washington de. sired only mush and milk. In the at tempt to have everything convenient, those in charge had not thought of corn. meal. The nearest place where it could be obtained was at the mill of Nicholas Fringer, some distance from the village. However, one of the villagers, a friend of the landlord, offered to go after the monl, and a minute later was a borse galloping towards the mill. The much desired article was quickly secured, and the horses Joan was soon back 30. the tavern. t supper was a litt lat:, Washington Bad” hie mush and milk, and later the party resumed its journey .—-{ Detroit Free Press. { GRAINS OF GOLD. PEOPLE IN EUROPE ACQUIRING A TASTE FOR CORY. ——— is Teaching Europeans Corn—Maize for China The maize crop of this country is val ued at 800,000,000 annually. If be created ly rise, and it {+ reckoned that an increase of b cents a bushel would in ten years put one thousand million do lurs into the pockets of American farmers. “Corn has come to stay in Germany,” writes Colonel (0. J. Murphy, agent for the maize propaganda, from Beriin. Al | roady two corn-grinding mills have been at Hamburg, two at Stetiin, FA 5 {i at Biberstein., Othors put into operation. Stettin, the m important port of the Baltic sea, has im- ported this spring from the ['nitod States ’ Imports of corn | from America into Germany have taken are about to be | int | 20,000 tons of maize, Most of the mills are working night and day, and the demand for great that it 1s impossible for fill their ord: rs * The German government ting a corp.grind plant into one of its mills at Magdeburg. This is the first step toward the contemplated introdue- tion of maize into the rations of the army Such a departure, however, cannot be cormmoenl is so them to is now put ir taken suddenly, because it would be in to force the food soldiers, inasmuch as that would be likely to render it distasteful to them. Aecordingly the authoritios will ' : go slow In the matter, their pressutnotion judicious to the appear apon ¥ : being to make the miitary | read eventu- ally two-thirds aud one-third « Th SnOrmOus owing 16 the comparative the yellow grain, of D006 hundred » ii iri 'Ye is would signity an £1 che npness ol whioh not less than would be | Grermany snnu weight yY ol { wl Fary § SL TITY quired Ior ue arm ally. In the numerous bakeris in Berlin and other German citios ¢ windows nf window # are to Ho bearing in “Murphy third corn Former cents.’ gsoen lo huge sinus red paper Dig hig ietters the words Bre Two thir Ve; 1 loaf for 14 cetitn is One. pound loaf 11 2.3 Une } } houss has see Amer 1 Corn nen: 3 ering carta + {rerman coms ¥ the for 1 nen bef has Sates fast eno ie He maize arm been to get the corn fre ighto Murphy b bread pp! vi sent o " one s wri or with a sample of ach of the 400 moerabers of the The magazine representing cake in its next number i { nine rr ommeLding is of fseorman pastry and bakers will include an article 1 corn to the trade. One of wn greatest problems which uropeasn : ion of maintain confront F statesmen to-day ng the présent Hitary establishments at the f efficiency with the lowest fi the tax! is m irdened peonl Into at d peopl i i rations ents for nutritious e, question the matter re th i V. the demand being t ing concentrated, highly neiently varied stuff, beh muscie and at the same time st Maize affords just such food especially valuable bard labor are part the : armies of the South during the Rebellion was corn, and likewise a large portico: Fey of bread consumed hv of d to the Federal here is no other food which is y cookery in yf that which was « 1p] troops. : » isceptib © of pre parat i h a variety of palatable forms Murphy has “published in a ely circulated pamphlet 13) different rocipes for dishes to be composed with it. Many of these he has prepared him. self in public, serving them free to all comers, such hominy, Hoston brown bread, Indian pones, Johnny cakes, corn sie wid ns - grean corn pudding, corn griddie cakes, crampets, oorn waffles and gophers, croquettes, corn fritters, canned corn, succotash, pinole, samp and corn grits. "inole is a preparation of the vegetable . iow served outasa ration in the Mexican rmy. . Com was first cultivated by white men m the James river. Virginia, in 1608 the seed was obtained from the Indians, rho claimed to have received the plant irect from the Creator. Whatever the etual origin of corn may have been oodern botanists and naturalists are greed that the earliest species was the | tind known as ‘‘zea tunica” or “‘clothed wm.” That is, each kernel on the ear vas inclosed in a separate husk, like trains of wheat in the head, Descend. ng from this type vurieties bave become dmost innumerable, each country, clim- de and soil producing their own modifi. mtions. No other plant thrives so well n all latitudes. There are five distinet | pecies of corn--dent, flint, sweet, soft md pop. No fewer than servonte.five arieties are grown in Nebraska alone. The different varieties of maize have ween ao determined by cultivation that moh will invariably produce ears true to yi when kept free from others, It is mis that the Fadia have produced such veidefined mixtures of the kernels on the | ars as to make it possible to describe wy what tribe any particular ear has wen grown. For example, one tribe has | Jl red and white grains, and another all | iro black, and so on, even to the ar. . angement of the different colored grains | m the ear. The adoption of these dis. inctions is said to have been originally | ‘or the purpose of detecting thefts of worn by one tribe from another. The great “corn patch,” embracing Indiana, dlinois, lown, Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska, produces enough of the cereal fn one year to load a string of wagons, | slaced end to ond and each carrying | lorty bushels of shelled corn, extending | sround the world six times. The line | vould stretch in a straight line 154.870 niles, Loaded on freight curs safrying oO ng #0 bushels each, the same quantity tholled corn would require for oarryi t four trains stretohing continuous! from New York to San noisoo, wi + train 2,500 miles long left over, Trav. sling at the usual rate such a train rou ire a whole year to Trough Ohioogo. ” Puan i Col. Murphy asserts that corn can be, landed on the const of Cliua from the United States in thirty days by stemmn, at d can bo sold for one-half the price of rice, which, ax everybody knows, is the principal food of the Chinese When pig-talled orientals long to learn how 10 They are so poor that they will sustain life, fruzal dict once intro- d sider the quantity of the cercal that Processes are fact that the population of country in 400 06) O01) said to have been recently sy ul can ba preserved good conditi & year or even more At present 20,000 4 HH) bushels of the maize produced in this country are annually used for of tivg, devised by n bro: on oy purposes [W ashington Star. INHUMAN OCCUPATION. Children Crippied and Hired to “Beggar Farmers.” The Foire au Pain d Epice, or bread fair, which is held every spring, in the Fauborg St. Antoine and the Place de la Nation, Paris, and which is potorious for the number of artificial gaudily natural and exhibited in its raps d boot Yenr much enhanced by the pearance | fore the pubiic of twenty to thirty cu phe nomens i a hs, was this ap ihe in de-jatte, whose aspect id pitiful that they reaped a truly en harvest. Thess shriv elled boards on who ab ut the anid of their hands, remind one of the horrors which used to be in the Cour des Miracles of bygone years. In Spain, and WAS BO Wieliched ni rol gos fortunate are they wit erippils } i 8 wi cur.ed PD onthe und ut O88 legs which go opel] ng themselves by seen more especially in the neighborhood of i lTolosa there are a num of monsters called noble and § 88 innumnan whose m it i» who ure “begrar-farmers philanthropic 1 the cul juently in France, Whe never girl of the peasants in districts the the parent roca to mano met so fre even Belg weakly boy or It the torn in the aly, and x re 0 inmiiles ned the ab mentio “oegger-farmer’ & to hire infant diem When the child they begin the d eruel which persuades it the to him at 2G mu nave Lenrtioss ance they obtained at end in making creature thus The we 1k, pl able legs fig tly { unyield I Press: ug iBJeN wt prevent the circu ation little by little the and become curled atte Wald away orthod x cul.de In 1887 M Minister of the rashion Ho Fad k introduction of nish ties into France . Gg 53 I80TO8 SOO year cri came a dead than more $K) of C88 misor @ BHIes : : ia ah Have crossed Lhe ¢ I'he “be farmers’ pay the the wretches, Gay MIar parents or relatives of . poor €n to twenty cents a for their hire, Twenty cents, how \ ever, is only pal ar sum atte ve " those districts personal i - attractions me olher niirmity DOS, 0 Missing ent and hideo ouths of the “trade arm Or some is skin i's ers ter y fav rabio i are aware that he can bet d a periect mine 3% prof {1 perly aged, and they tims with an OF [New York Tr ae fully into man their vie. a better cause. A Baboon Switchman. A baboon is a well-known character in the Cape Colony, South Africa, but more particularly in the neighborhood of Port Elizabeth. The history attaching to him is a curious and probably unique one The signal man, his was, through no fault of his own, run over by a passing train and had to have both legs owner, pacitate him from work, but the idea him to do his work after the levers and done the hand work of his afflicted master. The animal possessed of extraordinary iatelligence, and has never made a mistake, Of course, the human servant works the telegraphs, and the baboon the lev. ers, according to instruction; and tak. ing into consideration the fact that at the station in question, Uitenhage June tion, and about twenty miles from Port is a large volume of trafic, the sagacity of the creature is really wonderful. At first the passengers raised a strong protest against the employment of tho animal ou the score of risk or accident, but the baboon has never yet failed dar. ing his many years of work, and on more than one ocea<ion has acted in a manner simply astounding to those who never had personal experience of the intelli. gence of these brutes. One of his most noteworthy perform. ances was the correct switching of an un. announced special train on its correc: line in the absence of the signal man. The latter lives about a mile up the line, home, morning and night, and is the sole companion of his logless master, —{ Chris. tian Intelligencer, —— What Are Diatoms? The plants in question are so small as to be seen only with the aid of the microscope; those of ordinary size. when magnified about three hundred and fifty diamotors, appear about quarter of an inch long. Others are much ir. They are curious little plants with a sil. fon shell, which, in oertain places, is provided with little apertures throu which living parts of the plant protra In this way they ses enabled to move about freely in the water by which the ly surrounded, for, ed all strictly water plants, ics on Mos 3 on. er —- A AAA SAAS able thom to thrive, and so found in wet places. Owing to their freedom of motion they were at one time supposed to be animals. Now it is known that they are plants, as they can perform all the func. tions of plants, and no animal, with all his saperiority, high natu ete., is ab to do this. in inhabited countries, and in all over the sens, so it may be readily granted that ‘ and wide 8; read quite fF. be are always sie every where fuet res They are found : ail i“ 80 CoOminon be pliant “ ns th should siniliar to every ou Again, not only are the living plants Coviggmon, but nain intnet fs the wr localities so wide spread and the dead ong yours, and | these tiny shells are shells of » many certain numerous as 16 roma “8 ure #0 i form a large of the best known o of the soil. th the sites of Richmond, Va portion ; { we localits und Derlin in rermany. — [Popular Science Monthly. Queen Bess's Mead, . —- Comparativel WwW PEOpIe nowt | know fp | mead is Darsonai £ Xperiend © A sweet, sickly, honev drink 2 4 : 3 “2 othe « coiled mead, was tou country i om onee ylace {| B8 OB SOVery) the 6 Cold, but of Iwo Fhe iy Anau 1 the losser make ad in any yet article i 4 | evil SOC Ins remote of the to t in the nga appro.z Only th re vinities “an parts ol Eng I drink of the Nor had. The writer | Manchester Quarterly mentioned with very old ba met with wanderings, and it t would gain Queen Elizabeth and her grace's recipe for been carefully mixturi i sr . $ 1 ieaves nud thyme each one bushel se O ye of 4 BOING time enthusiastic 3 which he some rura’ nt that a like mea i BOING ntled mead in the irse of pit is conce Ewe luscious beveray nna immeasurably by ge was a mead drin the beverage It seems i ake of Has press rved oa frazr sat swoet. ry half a bushel, bay leaves one Seethe these ir i i water ‘contsl t 0 gallons boil for nn pour the whole pro fon ve degree s Fabr., § ad to e 107 1 MG Work ihe mais | iT. Rep a sou suspen inghnoie ths it dgpazine Far Out Upon the Waters. The er world, New South Shoal lightship is far- off than ight in the being twenty-six miles from the nearest lana. It ve stationary human habitation seen by passengers on 1 shore any i is 11 iast Transatlantic steamers bound from New York, b first and Mark ot far the d 1 is beyond human help » phantom ship of fabled up No. 1, New South ovage without an end, ith an iron cable, an mtinual storms. | Twenty-three times she broken | from her moorings, freq such | occasions drifting out igto the middle of | the ocean, because she is built for riding out gales and goes to leeward like a crab. Accidents of this sort are apt to happen to lightships The one at Cross Rip. in Nantucket Sound, was once jost for more then a month, fetching up in the Gulf of Mexico, and being towed in finally to New Orieans with all hands sate aboard. By using her propeller, it is believed that the proposed steam lightship for the New South Shoal wil be able to ease the strain on her chain ard 80 avoid breaking away. Nhond, being i w is © has ently on ss—— The Bahama Wreckers, It is said that the people of the Bahamas used systematically to lure ships upon the reefs of those islands, | imitating a revolving flash-light by ty- ing a lantern to a horse's tail and walk. ing the beast around in a circle. Many ascertained facts of well-nigh incredible horror would seem to suggest that the sea communicates something of its own cruelty to those who live on or near it Was there ever a tale inspired by the imagination of the romancer more dread- ful than the true story of the “Palatine,” which left Holland for America in 1749, carrying os passengers many rich Dutch | people who intended to settle near Philadelphia. For six weeks in pleas. ant weather the amply provisioned ves. sel sailed up and down the Delaware coast, while the officers and erew cut off | the food-supply of the passengers, the pangs of hunger compelling the unarmed | and starving wretches to buy at exor- | bitant prices the miserable fragments | which their tyrants chose to deal out to | them. | Twenty of them died of starvation | before the storm came up that wrecked | the ship on Block Island. In 1825 Con. gress mado it a felony punishable with ten years’ imprisoment and $400 fine to show false lights for the purpose of causing shipwreck. - CAA SL Panis nt for Slanderers, In the Kingdom of Poland there was formerly a law according to which any person Bony guilty of = or was oom« pelied to walk on all fours t the sirools of the twa where he lived, ao- com y beadle, as a that he ape, unworthy of the name gy In olden
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