———— soc SOMEWHAT STRANGE. "ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EYERY-DAY LIVE.- tures Which Show That Truth Stranger Than Fletion. Mrs. W. A. Apaxs, living on West fourth street, had an experience, says the Sedalla Mo., Democrat, that she is guite likely to remember whenever she bakes bread again. In her baking she that is hinged side and down like a lid, bottom, the lower one of which is usually filled with water for steaming purposes, Like all good housewives, made her bread and placed it in the oven, on one roasting hot, all right until Everything went along the hired girl began to wonder at the strange odor that filled the kitchen. An Investig Iu gun, and it was determined that some thing was burning. The opened and Mrs. Adams started to see if her bread was scorching. The pan was partly pulled out when the colored girl, who had been looking on, fell back with a scream that indicated a near attack of hysterics. A snake two feet loWy was lying coiled on top of the pan and was burned to a crisp. Its wide open, as if it had been repeatedly striking itself with its fangs in the death agony. Even though roasted snake is an unusual delice: vet the that jeauses the housewife to wonder is how the snake got into that stove. The rep Aile was too badly charred to identify A special search for snakes ‘henever bread is baked in t ation was oven was about mouth was 1 tht ACY, thing Species, ibe made house a wr nat AT THE Gloversville, N. Y ‘pany’s works the other morni trifugal machine, a heavy r concern used for waning hair, packed full of that material and running under great pressure at thousand revolutions suddenly exploded, filling of the mill with flying hair and pi iron and doing a great amount of damage. A man named Helwig had a narrow es cape of his lif He was sitting in an armchair i and picce of iron we flew closely his chair, and, building, buried H vir Com the ce evolving iron n- cle Wis the that portion 3 f oCes Of some distance away, 20 th i through ground. passing itself in the Ix Tue ir at Mountain View ( planted a lar the ranging in four to seven inches in reservoir borders Blair Park and the mena at the park consi a big “tom” cat. “Tom” is exper fisher cat. He me the margin of the reservoir up its nose int the lake to feed, carpship out and true cat and fish ste is considered Tue t Fisher, near Cape May, years ago, and wiil SCTIVO Cal., f German carp fr Oakland, * number s1Z¢ 8 ni length, the th on Teri An reeps al and when a carp pokes » grass at wom which str soon Ie vessel as deeply masts or ny the recent bones § vessel 1 not The « he f fect CY i clothing light, hour forty-nine tobacco wore crew. The cargo consisted o i of corn shipped at Duck riv bay, for N« Ww York. in the sand that the crew’ paraphe rnalia, went down eral of and the s to reach the at ust as i full load Delaware She HAs wu the crew wi ard drowned ma aw land. Fanuen Corseglia of South Je gent to the Philadelphia Record neat thing in the way freak ef woduction of of his Ci What the hen tried to do was to | egus at but she only partially ceeded, Having produced one com plete egg, correct in size and shape, she managed, in trying to instantly dupli cate it, to inclose it in a flexible sac of semi-opaque skin, which the complete ¥ egg. The effect of a hard egy and an egg that has been dropped out of its shell, both inclosed in a seamless bag about four inches long and two inches wide. After accomplish ing this very unusual feat Farmer Cor geglia’s Cochin hen raised such a disturb ance in order to eall attention to her achievment that she was set upon by half the feathered inhabitants of the barnyard and foreed to roost on the hen house roof to escape their jealous wrath, The row having attracted a farm hand's notice he investigated the cause and the Cochin's prize production was carefully placed in a cigar box fillled with bran and taken to Farmer Corseglia, one once, Twexty odd years ago Captain E. A. Marwick of Portland, late master of the bark Rose Junes, found a stowaway on board his vessel just after leaving a Ger. man port for the United States, Calling the ragged and halfstarved boy aft, Cap- tain Marwick, who never was noted for smiability, asked what he meant by coming on board his vessel, and told him to prepare for the soundest thrashing he ever got. The boy replied that a thrash- Jng was fust what he expected. This excited Captain Marwick’s curiosity and he questioned the boy who said that he had been accustomed to daily thrashings at home and thought that he could not | possibly fare worse as a stowaway on an tAmerican merchantman. At this Captain Marwick's anger changed to admimtion for the plucky lad, whom he soon after. ward adopted. The old Captain has now retired from the sea, and the poor [stowaway commands the Rose Junes, and thas a wife and children in a pleasant thome at Farmington, where the man whe gave him a start in the world instead of ia thrashing often vists, | Oxe of the keepers of the Philadel. arger animals has been quite varied, in speaking of the elephant, said: “While it has no fear of the powerful Bengal tiger or the Numidian lion, at the first sight from the most abject fear. I remember well, wears ago, one of the largest and most brutal elephants we had in Zoological Garden, while feeding one day in its quarters, discovered a mouse to look at. The mouse seemed enfirely composed in the presence of such a mas and satisfied its appetite fully before retiring, The elephant gave its lilliputian visitor a wide berth during its Wirniax R. Vavens of Ilwaco, Wash- ington was supposed to be afflic ted with catarrh of the stomach, and after vainly } n tube stoma to wash out the diseased organ. One day recently while using the tube, there was ejected from the stomach h or snail about an inch and a half long, and the body back about the thickness of a lead pencil. Two horns protruded from the head. placed in a bottle of alcohol and sent Dr. Carter of Fort Canby, Mr. Vaughn's physician, The only manner to account for the presence of the thing be the fact that ago Mr. Vaughn was engaged loge the lake near town, and often drank brooks running into the 1 fn led Was to may about three vears 1 on ir it + +h til urious fae it not hundred who h thi 1s had any any put the 1 : 3. y powder into his bootlegs ng but t al 1t AiOus need ¢ receive knows powder he will } during tl before he enters down. Then he or of his boot, 1e shift, and these » re go shafthouse to and in this manner conveys it into the mine, The miners have stopped the fulminating caps with f late years, : ti ide of the Anarchists be hanged with gw exploded one andl ma jori his 1s due, 10 suid at Chicago of Ling who was sentenced nies and the f the of the caps by his head off blew most of of th i the e miners crimp the ap on the heel of their boot w ith a Kui pl ire] the olutl th { po mn dden The 4 aone many with a su ness the glass broke work pieces fim Lispox Faris Me, | Id girl who rhs wel When she t 250 pounds, was 1: Scientists have estimated t t aver I to fourteen feet of the entire the to f flow back into the taken up into itmosphere shape ot vapor, xl] as rain and 08, Bricks made of plate glass superior quality A glass is forged into a mold sand of under several thousand pounds pressure: it is then sub- jected to extremely high heat, sand firmly i y¥ to unite, perfectly white », and causes glass and The bricks are stand both {frost and acid. will in is to The new bridge Paris, Pant Mirabeau, constructed sothewhat the cantalever principle, since it will rest upon two piers and meet in the centre, Its stability, however, will depend upon an adjustment weight like that of huge crane, Iw on of a Heht construe tion, and to compensate for abutment will be especially heavy, Herr Weismann, a distinguished Ger. man biologist has pointed out that the average duration of the life of birds is by no means well known. Small singing birds live from 8 to 18 years, Ravens have lived for 100 years and parrots still linger in captivity. Fowls live from 10 to 20 years, while the wild goose lives over 100 years, The long life of birds has been regarded as compensation for their lack of fertility and the great mor- tality of their young. Orriciat Tig, — Notwithstanding the fact that standard time has been adopted animost everywhere in the United States for the last seven years, there still remain some cities who subject themselves to the inconvenience of a double standard, Among these was Augusta, Ga, which, however, on March 1, formally adopted eastorn time as Ms standard. There are now but two places of any importance in tha Union, says the Railway Guide, where mean solar time, or as it is popu- Inrly called, ‘sun time" is used, In both of them attempts have been made to adopt standard time, but the conserva. tive apirit has been too strong and has brought about a return to the old state of affairs. In one cass the effort vas made in the winter when the days were short, and the difference in the hours of { daylight soon made itself apparent and | the attempt to readjust the working hours was a failure. If, however, a trial should be made during the spring and | summer it is doubtful whether any one would be sensible that the change had taken place, Both of the towns referred | to are on the line of railways leading to {| Chicago and it is to be hoped that they will try to bring about the reform before { the opening of the Columbian exposition, otherwise they may figure in the eyes of the visiting foreigners ns the only cities {in the United States whose inhabitants use the system in vogue in the days { of Christopher Columbus, | atid Mii Disaserenr oF A TnusperporT. — ‘Did lightning geologist, n ©x vou ever see the diameter of a flash measured!” asked a “Well, here is the case which once | | closed a flash of lightning, fitting it i actly, so that you ean ji how it was. This is called a ‘fulgurite,’ | ‘lightning hole,’ and the material it is made of is glass, I will tell vou how it was manufactured, though it took only a fraction of a second to turn it out, When a bolt of lightning strikes a bed of sand it plunges downward into the sand a or transforming simultancously inte in the material through Thy by its great heat, it {forms once a glass s17¢ big or Ist seo greater, distance, lems glass the silica which it passes its own . knowt aug up. tube of pred isely then such a tube wl and followed into the nearly thirty r diameter thre wore of the 5 ferry is 10 inches flash produces . : 3 : ti 1 ound also in solid !f ! f alicrht of slight « rally Urasiy ir SIN mere ly surface, in astonishing abundance of Little Ararat in Armeni and so porous that can be obtained, directions ono ng bottle-green gl There is Museum rock aderangemenst and are at cryous lise Res cling breath they aff cannot the ed suiier snd one remain in 48 a rule pect than the rich, fi i ir teeth « arly attended to by $ former allow head until they tooth of ot bs the AT Som to have them time for the ex a difficult | matter to determine. If the back teeth are abscessed in any way they should at | once receive skillful treatment, and if the discharge of pus cannot be controlled in time they should be extracted. Chronic | abscesses in the teeth discharge pus con tinually, and the stomach is forced to as | sithilate this septic poison along with the { food. In the of time it must | poison the digestive organs, and eventu- ally impregnate the whole system. Too much attention cannot be given to poor teeth in this way, There is a dry rot in some teeth which does not discharge pus, and a great amount of injury may not be done to the system by letting them re- main, but the majorijy are harmful. The | question of pain should not Keep one from the dentist's chair, for when gas is administered the work is comparatively painless. In taking gas, however, it should be taken only on an empty stomach, for if taken immediately after a good meal nausea and vomiting may be caused, P cess, and the owner hates pulled out, The proper traction of a tooth is really course French Army Bileyclista, The French War Office has just fssued regulations for the employment "of bi cyclists in the Army. The present or- anization provides for the enrolling of Bet ween 6,000 and 7,000 ““‘wheelmen” in ease of war, They are, curiously enough, provided with a double armament; for, according to the regulations, they are to carry a cavalry carbine and thirty-six cart. ridges in their belts, Their chief use is to be that of messengers, and old-fash. foned grumblers say that the first result of n gener! having a crowd of SY hanging about his headquarters will be that he will send far too many directions to his subordinates. —[ Vanity Fair, A WONDERFUL CLOCK. BLETE IT. Fashioned Out of Over 34,000 Small Pleces of Wood From the Four Quar- ters of the Globe, This is an age wishes to be somebody must thing that nobody else ean do. do some Feeling ymbition in some thing, Charles BR. Hurlbut began sixteen VOUrs agro the construction of a wonderful which hus reached to BUTrpass not yet com pletion This clock now contains over thirty four thousand separate pieces of wood in laid, and includes 350 different vi It stands three feet high and has been de igned and executed entin ly by Hurlbut Aricties, of One Hundred It is the first and o1 er attempted by D 3 color of and Twenty ily piece him NO deseriptic ] inlaving eo stain or any mn the natura t..1 ue u brut woinls ine WOT copting biue strikes the hours 3 4 Hi 1 ont ic h Fath ire COs an eon ime and Satan o« juarter « siripes io no have been iAsN 2 Opposite this onderful other, showis ene in Past his h % A palm tro crimson and standing rzling growt of coarse grass {iver his head stretohe ite leaves bye In untains wiond thie an irregular chain of in ¥ 1 SUTTON oad 1 44k utlined eral borders rey four different patterns, all of which an original «ave the Grecian fret The clock, as the artist a lady's gown that finishings or decorations may attached It was practically completed six months ago, and vet he has since ad ded at the top a specimen of Klosir, cut from the handle of a butcher knife owned by a Russian Jew, some German ash from an emigrant’s trunk, a piece of Siberian hemlock cut from the stick carried by an exile, and a cane made in Greenland “When I first began to collect my woods,” said Mr. Hurlbut, “1 had no particular interest in the different speci mens, but when I learned that there were 200 varieties in Florida alone [ grew ambitious to introduce a few hundred in- to the clock. 1 became a crank at once and talked wood, dreamed wood, begged wood and sawed wood until my friends all brought me wood to get rid of me, I haunted the docks and sought acquaint. ances among the sailors. Many an old tar has made me his friend for life by fishing out of his locket a stray bit of wood from Hong Kong or Shanghai. 1 have destroyed all the pipes, canes, elegant fans and bric-a-brac that fell into my clutches, in order to insert a square inch in my clock. If all the scraps employed were got together again they would make a respectable cord of wood.” The big and curious chronometer can never be duplicated, and its value has been estimated at $15,000, New York World. walnut NOY i panel and include ti 3 resembles additional always be NAVE, in ROTM scrap of a Ammonia for Electric Shock. An ingenious dentist has been makin some interesting experiments or Roi —————— 5 i ly killed by ¢l which have been near y electric shocks On Wednesday he was standing on the street and saw a sparrow in a small pool of water left by the The bhirk BOON wire overhead, Thu to the ground, dentist picked move his wings. street sprinkler went up and flew toa it him the shock went whore him The mouth and let Ones ne lay until abie to thed him go. the nan up, barely i gentleman bre As the shock was not a very bad one, returned to a dangerous locality, and the result another mu than the first When the bird fell to the he was parently | i i wi Was shock cll Worse ground the dentist too i gan un experiment He at first resorted to artificial tion ns bird's before, and then injected in flesh aromatic § " 11t then put ROMe Cle When placed | « nearly cold MEDICAL LAKE. It Cures the Maladies of Men and Ande reads, irresistible of my tent, * } to give him 1 rope long enough iit , and he considerable liberts of 1t thu Vers and make to divide A meio the that he wanted me into tent it rape s« were his pre forence, then came bread and Finally, 1 biscuit ¥ i he drank milk out « “He comes up to me and puts down his head to have gis cars rubbed, and if 1 do not attend to him at once, or if 1 ceas ittending to him, he gives me but admonitory thump “1 dine outside the tent, and he is tied to my chair and waits with wonderful pa tience for the odds and ends, only ocoa sionally rubbing his soft nose against my face to remind me that he is ther A friendly scuffle is the only sound he makes. He does not know how to fight or that teeth and heels are for any other uses than eating and walking. He is really the gentlest and most docile of his race. The point at which he draws the line is being led; then he drags back and a mulish look comes into his sweet eyes, But he follows like a dog, and when | walk he is always with me, “He comes when I call him, stops when I do, accompanies me when I leave the road in search of flowers, and usually puts his head either on my shoulder or under my arm. To him I am an embaodi. ment of melons, cucumbers, grapes, pears, peaches, biscuits and sugar, with a good deal of petting and ear-rubbing thrown in." a soup plate a gentle Tur Turkish Government is contem. lating the building of a great suspension Bridge over the Boagitutons, which divides Europe from Asia. It would he ulmost as ntic an undertaking as to bridge the Hudson river at New York, And yet it would probably cost less to make this great improvement than it would to duplicate the useless pyramid of Cheops. The Bosphorous bridge would not be so great as the famous Forth bridge in Scotland. hg LREEDING IN CAPTIVITY. | rds Mating in 8 Zoological Garden ss ! Never Befors. The condors, vultures and eagles of 0 Philadelphia Zoo have begun to lay | eggs, which they have never done be- | ‘ore while In captivity. These birds have sil bullt huge nests of branches of trees {end bark, and a wholly unwonted ac ivity possesses them, The Zoo has Leen filled with persons looking at the i »rds and watching their bulldiogs. | vio keeper of the Zoo explains us hy it is that the birds have never mated sefore. *The secret is this,” he said, "The nearer you approach a sfate of na- the better it for birds in every NAY In that st the first thing vul- ures and e when they pounce 1pon their prey is cut into the head snd dig out and devour the brains, The birds had always been fed here, as they everywhere ¢ horse meat, during the past month we have arrangements with poultry and h dealers by which the heads of pouls # dire is alo ages JAvVe on ut He xy and fish dressed for market and all t damaged thrown are little Aare in to the change from have been i They are now devour natural food in their natural end are that much nearer state. They became less ok more int t in each wasn't long bef hey wero doves I 8 ¢ HOB nat a Jrought up Is birds, 1 wreeflesh leome birds : their HE t I nanner, just hi | Bit ari if 4 Huugish ana 1« Cres 14 % it ther, re furtie 1 an eagle ze wire screen, 1 it with a stick, same fate, Lark were Xperunent, and id nests and lay in wh raising buzzards and ducks in a in captivity: any pretense We shall fish brain are needed in every what they have ac- A an e the vultures mii De Ors, : hi and agies 10 N iid these young {f layir ie can swim excel for ently and it often nks rater to drink wells the purpose of otaining Poisoned Mrs. Mary EK. O' Fallen, Hey OD YeRrs ag. An terrible ulcers broke head, Arms, throat, She but 78 ihe w nd Mrs ME. 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As to the reliability of our com. pany, we refer you to any leading wholesale drug. git or business house in Toronto, All premises will be awarded sirictly in order of merit and with perfect satisfaction to the public. mail post pai When pri Eingly mention which vou mw | tin Addrems THE FORD PILL PANY, Web | finetan © Tasnnbn, Pew yOue Can Af make ‘German Syrup My niece, Emeline Hawley, was, taken with spitting blood, and she secame very much alarmed, fearing ‘hat dreaded disease, Consumption. 5he tried nearly all kinds of medi- sine but nothing did her any good. “inally she took German Syrup and the told me it did ber more good than anything she ever tried. It ito the blood, gave her strength wind ease, and a good tite, I wad it from her own lips. Mrs. ary A. Stacey, Powmiebo Conn. tlonor to German Syrup. ° S——— A li
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