A FRIGHTFUL FOE. TAN'S DEADLY SPIDER. Kills a Great Many Natives, or mor deadly one that makes in country it “If there ix a fierce animal on ife precarious in Yucatan I wou lives it days t to every returned re in Yucatan an animal, bel i awd Sri) 1 Luu earth than the certain districts } the 3 ns Yaiew ae, name f the Satanic Majesty this kind in his s more than one company of them to mar h forth and ther in th I sup post this spider IS 0 Le down ther ' If hus warriors of ouldn’t need country at large it keeps the within bounds the : people from whom burdens the State I don’t l It AVOTrng ret terior terror « that only bite of a raving m say that I was A Marvellous Clock. The Warschwskii Dui ww, Pe hi ublished in Wars int lesoribes * p wonderful clock w il x hibited in Chicago. 1h 8X earnest ClOcK 15 t vears of WOrk maker named Goldfaden in represents a failroad station, w rooms for travellers, telegraph offices, an outside promenade fountain in opemtion: station arc the ta h signal booths, switches and water reservoirs in fact, everything belonging to a Euro. pean railroad depot, alongside of seen noke, wit there is a clock respectivel” the two other giving the time fork and Pekin, LOWers ter are seen, Every quarter of an hour it gets lively at the station. First the telegraph oper- ator does his work ; issues the telegram to signify that the track is clear. Then the doors of the building are open, the station keeper ond his assistant appear on the platform, at the ticket office the enshier is noticeable and the guards leave the signal booths and hoist the jers, a long row of passengers 4 ob. servable in front of the ticket offic, bag- gage is hauled, one of the guards rings the bell and the train runs into the station. While the whistle of the loco motive is blown the train stops, a work man goes along the row of coaches and | hits the axle with a hammer, while an { other one pumps water into the water of the locomotive. After au third | | signal with the bell the train | starts and disappears in a tunnel on the | The station Keeper ated his assistant leave the platform and the doors of the depot and building the guards enter their booths | tank station opposite side Ed AC, d, et reigns After fifteen minutes the vin Net W trouble commences ng ommercial Advertiser Queer Facts About a Watch, Open your watch and look at the wheels, springs and screws, ¢ i dispensable machine wheel part of the whole wonder Notice the busy little balance ies to and fro $ y i Is us i unceasingly, hundreds of ye : ment. The watch carrie man is of { ni and its 1 Hoo distinct alone, while the The “4 nel neither so 50 important as the first wk all for the third wed and fed The Spectator, horses are generally Os st. and at 5 o'el gr Le tine Housekeeping Aboard Ship, | “Women complain of the troubles of | housekeeping,” said a naval officer the ! {other day. "We in the service have as much to contend with at times as any woman. When the «hip went into com mission threw months ago I had the ill | luck to bie chosen mess eaterer, All com- | missioned officers above the rank of en- | sign, except the captain, belong to the i wardroom ress, and I had a fine time of | {it for a while, Like keeping house | ashore, the difficultios vanish as soon as | { you get good servants, but it takes a deal | of worry ard effort to reach that peace. | ful conditiom, if you ever do. SCompetent service is as hard to get | aboard J | good wag: rare paid. It is the steward~ and cooks which bother. A steward gots bt and & cook 832 a month, with their ‘rations’ of thirty conts a day and a bonus mess fund, It is hard work to get good know their and if they are sober and won't steal they prob Httle they business, ably can't cook and have jdden about providing, “The only comfort | caterer was in the ‘boys,’ thi Jdupand s¢ and Chi n who wait at table and pick up They get E16 month and are fellows Nothing, indeed, well-trained intel of it juts it took as about, admirable cnn nh ard hip i industrious, complete ite co tents, betide the hardy Oo in search of John resents 1t as erie He I He even of ident equal ‘hoy He stateroom ( hing ue Hront takes charg ’ ind . rder, and wo who something cupant FOCUS rence " : y 1 tolerated Deen Kn finances se to takes one’ that the improv check his pr digal hand thro 1 his t suppiving And charge one is forced vant's careful forethought POSITIVE PEOPLE. vs, Characteris. ties of Leaders of Men. Strength also ia t, forthe defens question i€ never as strong who is obliged to combat sun. ' views Baltimore A Remarkable Stone House, The remarkable stone houses of Easter ee Mohician, and have been described in Museum for 1880, These houses are which in some cases forms the back wall of the dwelling. They are built of small slabe of stratified basaltic rock, piled to- gether without cement. No regularity of majority of them. The average measure. ment is as follows: Height from floor to ceiling, four feet six inches: thickness of walls, four feet to ten inches; width of rooms, four feet six inches; length of rooms, twelve feet nine inches; average wize of doorways, height twenty inches; width, nineteen inches, — {Boston Tran NOTES AND COMMENTS, | ——— i A Coxxecricui at «t calealates | that there ave 44.560, 000 mosquito to an acre of swamp land Rather hagule over a few thousand mosquitoes we are willing to 1 larva than neeept his count Tene are Japan's (8 oxtre fess than 10,000 pauper in population of 24%. difficult to enough to be a pauper in Orient tries. The who i t dollar can lve a nabo (HH) Ms, fe 1 Peis eC omo nan His months more or les Wirnriam M. BixaeEnRLy, the Philadelphia Hecord to make an exhibit of a gevoeral Mu stor of . teer in cultural Ix partment of the which for dition of steers weluh a i pot 2 is a probably weigh over that Tur Republicans have 1 nont, Phi § (W iH 812 y GON O00 Wi 1 56. 0040, 000 . Origin of the Name America. Mr. Jules Miurcon of the (300 graphical Society has Intely spen deal of time in making into the origin of the name ** America The popular notion that America was so called from the Christian name of Amerigo Vi spueci ix, he says, wholly unfounded, the name really being taken “C Amerrigue the Indian name of the mountaing between Juigalpa and Libetad in the provinces of Chontales, w hich sep Paris t a great searches const, The name in the Maya signifies ** the windy country,” language " The Christan name of Vespucci was and Albericus in Latin, but it is subject to a great number of variations, and conse. meoerigo is an adaptation of Amerrique, Gordon " to distinguish this particular feats. Vespucel's claim to the discovery of Americ is put out of court by the fact Seville He YOVRUES Columbus however, whe n did, to the New in voyage that he was made his muke two or thre being # nap-makers, he nothing loath to see hi n gr on, and acquainted would bu i“ Yin finn and ye swocluted with the vague splendors of Pearson Weekly The Number of the Stars, tunes i : Bas Been gracuaiis tling down, untii now it is ighty feet lower than that of it« near neighbor, the Black Sean, whic h also lies far the level of oceans, The clusion all along has common that On - bhieen evaporation, but recent Soubd ings made and compared with the records soundings made over 100 years ago reveal the astounding fact that there is the case This leaves but one hy withosis that would seem at all tenable: bottom of the sea is actually sinking. There is much speculation in scientific clreles as to what will be the final out- come, —| Bt. Louis Republic. A Double Lamb, Talking about freaks of nature, 8 ewe belonging to William Pickens, near this city, performed a feat the other day that takes the wool, She gave birth to a lamb that had eight legs and two tails, From the navel forward it was a perfect! formed lamb, but the hind end doubl up on nature. Louisiana (Mo,) Press, : PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS EPITOME OF NEWS GILVANED FROM VARIOUS PARTS GF THE STATE, A Mon of ermed Italisus visited Heading in search of the contraeior for the new Head- ng and Linea ter Heilroad, The contrecior i owes then $4000 wn weg-u, The men were fin. ally induced 10 retire alter s promis that they sou d be notified of the arrival of the con~ tracior, Ly us fall 0” vos), in uth Wilkes-Barre Wilkes-Barre Cempany shaft of the Lehigh & John Will amv, age i 20, a recent graduaie of st ohish Univesity; John MeCuff rt 23 { Philadelphia, a civil engineer, and Willism Fovans, sged 45, = § killed, mberman, were ustanuy Jonux Brrzen, sged 20 yours, of Faston, uiited suicide by shooting himself in the head, at the house of EK izx Madle Sitzer Madle yman, and her husband hed sent him Jeg] notice to quit calling Lizzy was a friend of the Toxma¥, angel 10, of Fheus oah, p uced a torpedo iu her moutl ploded blowing out some of her Leelh ner net sienling lie was arrested ot Cyuth 1 sey " HiLE fowmn shooting at Dt. Sten, : dentally hesitz or, mos 33. son of Dr leg. He bone was badly A snapper at Myer. shot Harry { Lancaster He was maker © in his ga: rett, srer.oo beiween the manufacturers nmittee of the Amalgamated The ie The awOoCislion men. ls signed Associstion ended wit 11 agresment. big mills at Homestead are idie and 1 chanics have joined the Another of Carnegic’s Pittsburgh mi the scale. Theo lore two Faden lads, were drowned while bathing in the L A npok ux axle on a Philadelphia & Bend ing freight tra 0 near Douginssville piled five coal cars on top of each other. Another freight dashed into the wreek, throwing the locomot ve down the crnbankment and wreck. ing about twer ty cars. No one was injured, Cospreior Ronan, of the Jenkintown Citas. ¥CUABE and Kinney, hizh liver, was released on bail at Norristown, He is charged with eriminal negligence. Tue situntion at Centralia is growing ee rious, Four more large cracks bave been disveovered in the surface of the earth and peop e ure abandoning their homes, Hox Jas Fruit has been nominat 4 for the State Penate Ly the Lawrence Mercer distriot. PRILADELPIIIA enpitalists are negotiating for the erection of a tinplate mill in Coat. ville More fake TL Snaggs—It is claimed now that Deeming is a moral idiot. Shingiss—He's an immortal idiot, more like. — Exchange.
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