AZCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS
EVERY DAY LIFE,
Or
Advens
is
Queer Episodes and Thrilling
tures Which Show That Truth
Stranger Than Fiction.
Arn the good people of Middletown,
Conn., who love romances are rejoicing
over one at home. The hero is John T.
Demme and the heroine Miss Julia E,
Love. When the hero was quite ay
he is now thirty-one years old —he was
afflicted with as many trials and tribula
tions as usually fall
the most romantically placed people
His family were poor and he himself was
afflicted with
time it seemed likely that he would
thrust upon the uncert:
town for support. At this critical period
the ministering prosaically die
guised as the family physician, stepg
in and advised the town
the boy to the New Haven Hospital for
treatment. He was and an
operation s performed which resulted
in his In
father
1
angel,
yeed
taken ther
meantime his
Mr.
recovery, the
Demme
rin New
had died,
ong A on fi
He beeame a commercial traveler an
gathered te
But th
antile su
Middletown i
emotion,
time was
is IS
USCS
that
has
WO
hospit
there
patient, an
this 1 nee. A
of it is tha De
ple
IIT
heeams
fluence
former
married i
wanted the
neighborhoos
3
leading
story
the
wh
tion as 1
time
tallest
stood in
ment's
fired,
ground.
abo
picked
of the numer
ity. It w
about half
make a go
family, whi
home Th
en 1
a M:
of a two-year
nose, bear ng
neck, |
$hort +
attention.
them
makes t
times
liver
river like
boat and
Peanett and his f
When Mr. Dennett ane
are Seen
at }
CRIN,
throng the |
sec him n
most
trip and several
capsizing have occur
the
adventurous
ike
6 plays er prank
hie at the Lindell Hote L,
“I was travelling througl
Ti ! i
and sought refuge from a thunderstorm
ina farm house,
to build a fire
my damp garments
his knees
when there was
and a bolt
stove into his face. He fell back as limp
as a wet newspaper, The lightaing tore
all his clothing off with the exception of
one boot and trousers leg. Ther
streak down through his beard
his breast and dow
made by a red-hot poker. [ supposed
he was dead sn door-nail, His wife
picked up a large crock of milk that
stood on the table and dashed
him, and in less than three minutes he
sat up, surveyed himeelf and mournfully
remarked : ‘‘Marier, you oughten to treat
me that erway afore strangers,”
S“Lionrsiy
said Wm. CU;
in 8t. Louis
Coles County,
*q Some au
et
IRON, SOM YOArs au
He
he coals
was down on
blowing vigorously
.
t
t
a terrific clap of thunder,
of blu
was n
Foss
« BH
ior aa
one or though
As
it over
Acconpisae to a story told by Leon
Martell, who has arrived in San Fran
cisco from Manzanillo, Mexico, two of
the persons who were supposed to have
been drowned by the capsizing of the
lost brig Tahiti, which left San Francisco
Inst fall, with 300 Gilbert Islanders,
bound for coffee plantations in Central
America, have been seen in Manzanillo,
Martell says that lic was told by Felix
Jolson, one of the survivors, that when
the brig capsized on October 10, Johnson
and four landers, including a woman,
succeeded in leaving tho vessel, They
were sixteen days in an open boat with.
out food and water. The woman died
on the fourth day and the rest ate a por-
tion of her body to keep themselves alive,
One member of the party became insane
snd jumped overboard, One died, hut
Johnson and the fourth Lslander finally
succeeded in reaching
cared for by fishermen,
Hair of
a few davs
shore, and were
St. Petersburg was laughing,
the arrest of the
son of M. Smirnoff, a wealthy state coun
fin, over
on the charge of st
me ople attended court to
He made no
e his innocence,
{ lor,
Many
the young man’s defense,
attempt, however to pros
but acknowledged his guilt,
that the had attacked him
he was going home, and had attempted
to his leg In him
wing a
ODA
LrOO8L
“hite” defending
Not
» finally decided to « ney
it for a Sunday
of the owner of the goons
Smirnoff had wilfully stolen the
s not upheld, as the learned
that he had “a rig
is life.” Many will
hear the the
and killed it
| with his prey,
it home nd
{ The charg:
that
Prop rity w
roast
judge declared
defend h
before
days
last
rise
he wi ol stolen
i
| rOOse
- { -
As Lire Cal Stephens, of Ossawato
{ mic, Kan., was playing around a well
vorked with
] ley he fell in,
bucket down with him
attention
two buckets, ar (
p
His screams at
lob L
v, who,
iN son
with
of
| out a moment's hesitation, sprang in the
wecident Of
bucket down wit
tribute
ries] w
town
RELIABLE RECIPES,
Mix Joat
, five table
anlt,
Flavor with
to and
ni would for any
quantity is suf
y Very tice,
mmnner may be
sour fruit
tarp Pig Wrrnorr
yor d } thorouchly five co
74
ye “
1
spoonfuls Of Pour
spices moat pleasin the taste
complete the frie
ordinary
ficient for two pics
)
and eustard
as
custard,
are
made
by
eaten after pickles or any
effect,
Hucknesenny Desrriso, A hackle.
berry dumpling. made of biscuit dough,
steamed the same length of time an
apple dumpling, is a favorite New Eng.
land dessert A cup of huckleberries
a
The huckieber
sweetened with a little
i a good luncheon dish
| ries should bx
Iie
twenty
+
after
ford recipe which may
Put
water
set
recommended
into a half-pint of
|
them oy :
when the shells
y are Take them off the
remove the heads and le ithoery paris
the clam, hie
dive
they
uone,
and chop remainder
all the
the clam
six
clam-juice in the
hells, when are taken out,
Peel and slic potatoes, and mince
iii
MraGing
| it to
$<, 81x sea biscuit, pepper and sa
and one water, half a grated nutms
or
|.of tht
hous
SIH
of
: )
seed,
minced fin
slowly for
celery
conk four
wld the clams, with tw
Worcester sauce, and half a ci
omato catsup When the of
it is ready.
y ton
fuls of
ful of t
i boils
up once,
add two table LPO Is of
not st ! i
thie
does
eed lemon
it
or
ed in
sometimes sers
ABOUT WRINKLES,
1
ane
How They May Be Averted
Smooth Face Malntained.
i
whose
to the fu
iy in very
Ww lea
cup of
rit C an
or without a
of
spoonfu & Of
1
Cle
spoonfuls
off the horrible exhaust?
its accounts on waking
water with one drop of
14 tormtin
2 famous reat:
weakness after lat
Choo
w hi
is:
of
An
ir
carefull
tist's rule as to color
y only those
tinta h aj
the
eyes, or the complexion, says the Fancy
Goods Graphic. A woman with blue
gray eves and a thin, neutral-tinted com-
{ should be sprinkled over them,
| as they are done, dredge them with sugar
| A variety io the familiar griddle-eake is
{ made with a pint of flour, a pint of milk,
| a teaspoonful of cream of tartar, half a
tesspoonful of soda, a heaping table.
spoonful of butter, one beaten egg, and
a pint of hwckleberrics. The batter
should be quits thin, apd positively ac.
| flours thicken more than others,
Wene-sanpe Craw, Coowpen A
well-made clam chowder is n very tempt.
ing dish, especially if it is eaten by the
seaside after a long tramp on the sandy
shore. Almost every housckeeper who
has lived by the sea has a slightly differ.
ent rule, The fallawing is » New Bed.
i
than in the blue shades in which gray is
a certain delicate blueness, A brunette
is never so exquisite as in cream color,
for she has reproduced the tinting of her
Put the same dress on
and she will be far
from charming, while in gray she would
be quite the reverse, The reason is |
plain. In the blonde’s sallowness there |
are tints of gray, and in the dark woman's |
pallor there is always yellowish tones,
the same as predominate in the cream. |
colored dress, Women who have rather |
florid complexions look well in various |
shades of plum and heliotrope, also in |
cortnin shades of dove-gray, for to a |
trained eye this color has a tinge of pink
which harmonizes with the flesh of the |
face. Blondes look fairer and younger |
in dead black, like that of wool g a or
velvet, while brunettes require the sheon
of satin or gloss of silk in order to wear
black to advantage,
— i
Museum of Natural
History Enriched. i
She American
o thousand
colle thi
tion of
has heen purchase
y the American Museum o
* Mor
price
toe throug
prof
+f AM
v in
the
f
Museum
ne truste
i, Mr, Edwards
country in the
i
riv marked
&
+ +}
shan
« on the
uo hie
from differe.?
$30 Hy #
much s
mulier |
y
dirs
A maguificent series of obircts in
ire tl i imens of the
sty
collection great
Seubvnxida One
a male and female, cost £25. and
present ito Ms Edwards by a
friend. The {female monsures
nd ti
if
moth vi
RIT,
were
eight inches
BOTs the Wings,
Ww
silin body is
The male
# ¥ :
ix in the wings, and the
than the female
male are of a rusty
are mottled white
have a transverse
There is an cye-
as big #2 an old silver |
three-cent piece, alittle beyond the mid
die of the wing, When the wings are
folded they take a triangular shape and |
the insect looks like the head of a large
snake, and the spot is strikingly like the |
serpent’s eve, The female is almost ax
britliant as the male in this instance,
There are many specimens of the beau
tiful, delicately-colored lunar moths,
They came from Natal, the Himalayas,
India, Japan and New York, Some of
them have pale green wings with a pur.
lish border on the fore wings, and all
fave the long, tail-like appendages to the
hind wivgs
Among the beetles are very many {rom
Australia, some of them collected in 1889
and 1800, when Me, Edwards was last at
the antipodes. There is a long series of
Hgolden” beetles brilliant with metallic
lustre, A specimen of the Callosdes
mastersii ix a beetle incased, back and
selly, in a groenish-brassy mail, smooth
and hard as glass, and shining lke the
polished brass on a man-o'-war,
There aro many long -horned beetles
about three inches long.
measures about
body is 5 little smaller
The hind wings «
red, and wings
and brownish red and
band of salmon pink
like spot, about
f th
ith
the fore
i
i
(Cerambyeideey from
118 | ne hig F108
n The
n
leaf-eating In
won
REY Chess ong, i
sands of :
die, n
1
Mey
ony
¢ a frazmen
to th
Ther
fire
JR THE CHILDREN.
nay
If a
visi put
spot
ot
few dro
and
And, girl {
with a quartof milk, and bv
nt the simple cosmeti
n ‘
thi thi sn
if
be a ipo Dettering of
And if you pour him into
of glycerine and rub your hands with the
mixture before go bed and then
draw on a pair of roomy kid gloves,
which | night —w
vour hands will rival the snowdrops
whiteness
Besides all this, the doctor
doubt you have already essed tn he a
lemon, is always ready te #8 yifice him
hing
Detroit
an cqual past
i '
Hug so
VOU must wear iy,
in
whom, no
refres
old-fashioned summer drink
Free Press,
A Country for Crazes.
“This is a great country for crazes,’
at the Laclede
“A few years ago the entire country was
In
wearily tramping round and round a saw.
dust circle, while thousands of specta-
tors applauded the dreary exhibition,
Nobody walks now that can ride. Next
we had the roller skating craze, which af.
fected both men and women. [It too, has
bones in its wake, The bicycle craze is
chronie disease, The men have had the
red necktie oraze and recovered from it in
time to laugh at the suspender craze of
their big sisters. America soon loves her
fads to death.” (St, Louis Globe -Demo-
omit,
Ee
Black and crosm muslin dresses are
very fashionable, printed with a spotted
A PIG NEARLY CAUSES WAR,
Stirring Incident of the Earlier History
of Washington Territory,
are t recipitate a contest
i there, and so he went back to Vi
toria empty handed
The
jurisdiction on the
attempt of th 0 exercise
used the
wrath of Brig. Gen
\ ent of the
Mekett with
the in
an residents on San
plied bey dispatc h
ing three to the the
In Jess thu en minutes the men
were in line «ix paces apart on the hill,
every settler on the «land volunteering
to ro-inforee the regulars. The boats of
the English vessels were lowered, but
the sailors and marines were not landed.
For several days the Americans slept
on their arms, but the English made no
attempt to land, and the affair was final
iy adjusted peacefully. In 1861 the Em
peror of Germany. as arbitrator, decided
that San Juan belonged to the United
States,
Capt. George E. Pickett afterward be.
came a Major General in the Confederate
Army. With hat and sword in hand he
led one of the storming columns till he
fell, shot through the right side.
A Storm of Flies,
About nine o'clock Tuesday night Bat.
tle Mountain was infested with a cloud
of tiny flies that drifted into the saloons
on Front street in myriads, in many in-
stances darkening the rooms and putting
out the lights, says the Coatral Nevadan,
When the pests had passed away it was
found that the tops of the lamps wore
covered =n inch and a half deep and
the lam «© cumneys choked, It would
appear that these minute flies wore at-
tracted by the light in the saloons, and
in countless mi perished,
then comman
wt.
rotoect
Coiumbia, and he sent Ca
a «
terests
ompany of
he
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