SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDIINTS AND INCIDE v's OF
EVERY DAY LIVE
Thrilling Adven-
That Truth is
Queer Facts and
tures Which Show
Stranger
A story comes here from Tecumseh,
in the Pottawatomie country, Oklahoma,
that seems to be well authenticated. It]
is to the effect that between Tecumseh
and Purcell, on the bunks of the Cana
sian river, lives John James, a negro,
with his wife and hell dozen children, |
One day a seven-year-old son took the |
baby, aged eizht months, out for a ride |
fn his wagon. Soon after the boy rushed |
into the house naked and stated that he |
had gooe in swimming and left the baby
in the wagon on the bank. Suddenly |
the wagon started down on the bank,
sud it and the baby plunged into the |
viver and sank out of sight. The parents
ran to the stream, but could find no
traces of the baby. Help was secured
and the river was dragged,
the wagon was soon pulled out no baby
could be found, and aft tl
searchers gave up and
were held in memory o
A few days after the
and brother of the drowned
veeded in landing
that had swallowed
lines What their
they came to clean the fish, te
its ‘mains
chi ly was badly mu
The remains of the child were
in a coffin with some portio
from which they could not
rated, and another funeral »
Tue Duke
1 ‘ $s
QQ son, FLL Ver since nis en
but though |
three days
servic 05
little
the
child
1
funcral
f the
funeral
one
father
si
an immenss isl
the hook on their
was their horror,
y find within
n dir
stomach the h
ld. The boc
of 1
repla
Grand (reoroe
804
return,
tour has been
for pulmonary
Abbas Tuman
yrivate lett
is Imperi
rrr
forced
throt from
medical
», has bee
in the
from the pl
Hichuess is undergoi
atm
treatmet
( ieLiet
il
rkable course
furniture is
vithout upholsteri
any kind, and
he thinnest of mattresses
bet
$35.)
past winter only a very
n kept up, wi
nd Duke's 1
HAVE compe
o'clo
time
i
K It
is
parents,
fer
$ 3
iegoendas bye
}
1 F +} i
hill of a seventh Child
» for the King's evil
nan who lived in Br
I doctor til
happ ned
tion in Mitchell
fn our timo at least
{ the days when the buffalo roamed the
West ‘*At the junc
Ka he writes,
sandstone mix
Water passi
will be a reminder
Of
plains o
tics two «
bea of friable
COArse graves
ledge h 3
has
§ |
f the great
of ret
TAS
Lia
holes
are fror
realar, and fr
There are from
all filled with |
:
i
sandstone hole
tor six feet wide, ed
100 fort
cep.
nty of them,
By the long-continues
the gravel hay
1 or cistern-like, and in
some the wall dividing two
wells has been cut through This must
have been a favorite watering place with
the buffalo. In the ock is cut a
deep trail down to the water. And
where the steepest the foot
marks are over six inches deep, showing
that every animal passing there put its
foot exactly in the spot upied by |
those which had preceded it.”
ol) to
fifteen to twe
fresh
churning of
made jug-shap
instances
water
thes been
solid 1
descent is
iv
Ax extraordinary story about stamps |
has been recalled by the recent death, at
eighty-four years, of Miss Penelope |
Eve ry, of D why, Fuogziand About 1850
a paragraph went the rounds of the
press to the effect that a wealthy and
eccentric individual had announced his |
determination to send his daaShter to a |
punnery unless she could collect in a
given time an almost impossible number
of cancelled postage stamps. Miss Every
applied to a friend who had interested |
himself in the case, and by some misun- |
derstanding a second paragraph
published associating Miss Every name
with the task of collecting stamps towards |
the razsom. Immediately Eggintoan |
Hall--the residence of her fathor was
inundated with English and foreign
stamps to the number of 2,500,000. The
invasion was so great that Miss Every
wis obliged to ask in the papers that no
further supplies might be sent. The
letters which accompanied many of the
consignments were bound up into portly
volumes, and they might vet be seen in
the family library.
i
i
WHS |
Ix Oldtown is a man who is making
money fast out of clams, though he is at
present feeding the clams to his pigs,
says the Boston Transcript. He Keeps
a hotel and has bonded a clam flat down
around Mount Desert. His clams arrive
each day. He keeps them two weeks,
feeding them on celery meal and Indian
menl. They laugh and grow fat. Then
he boils them, a bushel at a time. He
puts is a quart of water and takes out
eight quarts, The water is strained and
set e for a day in a refrigerator,
Then itis heated, seasoned with salt and
He has a biz trade. A bushel of clams
delivered costs 60 cents. He feeds them
40 cents’ worth, He gives a four ounce
drink, There are thirty-two drinks in a
gallon and sixty-four drinks are secured
from a bushel of clams. Net profit on a
bushel of clams, $2.20, and he sells on
some days six gallons. Many try to imi
tate him, but no one knows how to feed
the clams as he docs, lis pigs grow
fast, moreover.
Batney Hoover, a young min em:
ployed on the Curtiss ranch near Wood
lands, Cal., reports a strange experience
with birds. He was driving a single
from the Fair ranch
When about two miles from Knight's
Landing he was suddenly startled out of
a doze by myriads of birds which swarmed
down upon him, screaming angrily and
fiying at him. The air was literally
black with them, and they viciously
ittacked the horse, which was frightened
into a frantic effort to run away The
young man was scared beyond his powers
of description He fought the birds ofl
with his whip and, directing the hors
best he could, was soon beyond their
pursuit, He said they ly al
hla kbirda, although there appear
among the army
wore
be species
Cnemies,
amount of moisture
three
8 man, ‘Is
pages will carry,” savs §
¥
enormous and is fre
tly heavy enough to turn the scale
call pos A larg
1 of mail matter of mine was reported
id for not long
ng to the postoflice 1 found it
Il within the It was explained
that the mail was damp when
and that the i
the paper must be paid for, althougl
for more tage
postage ALO, and ou
weighed
Hmit
water soaked ug
as since evaporated, WH id ROCMms
.Ga., has a
a spider. The
or
small
bo ¥
the
Dinmixe
Eagland,
fol was
4
irms
Were
and that « shnis
Was pre {
He added
COWS
mae
ar
of NOV
has been
mddition
there 1s an ave
Revenesce
Or yw el « 1
fiers
Persons ]
investigation show s that ove
per cent. of the
Out of 312,766 familics only
in houses by themselves,
{ unde
to ¢
houses ay
families liv: the
other people
ten families each
apastments in a flat
whole house in
purchase of a house,
contain oves
Ret
are very high
the
even on the instalment plan, offers grave
New York has been called
“the landlord's paradise.”
A TRANSVAAL
fey achievements
paper says of Mi
1 “It would be casy
for President Kruger nam: 1,000
burghers who would have gone as far
for half the price as did Mr. Stanley
There are indeed many Boers who have
done as much as Mr, Stanley has done,
to
ation, whose names are anknowan, and
who themselves think nothing of their
The extraordinary suc-
cess of Mr. Stanley in attaining world.
wide renown is an cxeellent proof of
what advertising can do,
ot a concert in Vienna
performed a piece on the plano, com:
posed by a resident of the city, and was
enthusiastically applauded. She bowed
repeatedly, and then rushed off the stage,
to return presently, leading the com
poser forward,
the fresh applause greeted him, and
pointed to the lady, intimating that to
fer the credit was due. He could not
soe the audience, for he is blind,
Souvriixag wonderful in the
line has been constructed by a mechanic
in Warsaw, Poland, It represents a
railway station with a clock-tower giving
the time in four countries. Trains ron
into or depart from the station every
fifteen minutes, Station agents, tele.
graphers, ticket-sellers, with lines of
passengers, are seen fn action, and the
usual bustle and tumult of a station are
heard and seen, bells ringing, whistles
pepplr and sold for five cents a glass,
blowing, etc.
A CURIOUS PRODUCT,
Shellane Is, and the Uses to
Which It is Pat.
What makes your Derby stiff? Shellac.
What Is shellac? It is the product of a
young twigs and branghes of the butea,
croton and other treeshat grow in the
of the east, Shellac is con
world in commerce and in arts, It is
kept in the shops and warchouses in
large housheads, Tt varies in color and
thinness and is transparent. It comes in
broken pieces of irregular sizes
it being very thin,
The crude mass from which shellac i
obtained is produ eed by
some of
u small insect
{Coears lacea) resembling
cochineal Thu
tures and dies on these
ber of female
mseclves upon the tender twig |
and the bark A
fluid exudes and envelop
insects feed upon this
nourishment from it
within
it. The
wings, and as soon as the females begin
somewhat the
hatched, ma- |
twigs, A num
few males,
insect ix
insects, with a
fasten the I
) tenacious |
Th
derive their |
and deg heir |
males only have |
pun ture
them,
juice,
yosit
oars
emales and the males go
After
gelatinous
to die a few f
other tre
main this
posited their eggs died. the
cges hatch voung insect. The
young burrow through the dead bodie
of their mothers to surface
mass and cover the nei branches
The bark, |
80
their
10}
that re
have de
the female
in Ass
}
and MRVE
out the
thi
ghboring
as are le posited close to t
that bn
mother's mass tha
has exuded enveloped the
Finally the voung twi
are protected
by the
they
bodies and
:
and femal
insects
complete Iv covered with x thick.
resinous substance
die the frames
1
cells th
like
result of decomposition th
ments of a beautiful purple dy
When
ciently load:
thos
i wit
natives of the
trees grow strip
and break them into small
i s are called stickla
ty {in}
}
He red
the hands to
welling to
I. 20M THM)
t
lac ins is
Burmah,
sticses «
The bes
mpletel
Th pr
toy 5 000
Ft
which app
Orange brown
fot
matter is
very often dark ;
different varieties, such
The
changed
As Orang
and liver, juice of the trees 3
3
$
w hat t
the Ins 8,
bry
ansonc tells you that shellac i
i= not correctly inforn
$s 1nd mL fh
(REEL uiee of the
the e of the
¢ of rosin
petion
tinon the Shell
swoveral peculiar rosins
]
Checking a Cavalry « aarge.
I shall never forget
was under fire said
Crenshaw, to a parts
their
of the La
+ battery and |
down on a stretch of ground as
t ballroom. The Confeds wie
rifle shot, but they opened
artillery, and they did 1
plough up the ground with shot and |
shell, Every old soldier knows (Jat ar
tillery fire at long range is not half
much to be dreaded as the rattic of musk
etry, which sounds on the field
like Chinese firecrackers in a thunder
storm, but it ix a good deal more ‘skeery
toa novice. There we lay for half an |
hour, never moving a finger, watching
the puffs of flame from a dozen cannon |
and the shells come tearing through the |
air with their fiendish shriek, apparently |
headed directly for our faces, { tell you, |
n position of that Kind tries the very
soul of your raw recruit, Give him a
chance to shoot back and he is all right,
but fighti= is one thing and waiting to
get killed without striking a blow is
quite another. But there was more
ahead of us, After the artillery duel had
raged for some time a regiment of Con.
foderate cavalry debouched from the
wood with all the deliberation and pre.
cision of a dress parade. They were
Mississippians, tall, athletic fellows who
wat their horses like centaurs. They
halted and dressod ranks while the bat.
teries behind them hurled a perfect rain
of shells over their heads, We could
seo their Colonel riding down the line
and pointing with his sword to our bat.
tery, which was plunging shells in
among them with frightful rapidity, but
little effect. They advanced a step or
two, every horsoman seeming to choose
his ground. Here they come, slowly,
steadily, like mn great gray wave, conscious
of irresistible power, e bugle rings
out sharp and shrill, they break into a
where fighting
in the rotunda
were supporting
on
'
everiastingiy
any
battle
quick trot, 800 sabres leap into the air
and the stars and bars stream out on the
smoky background like a portentous
meteor, On they come: B00 yards, 700,
600! Gads! has our battery gone silent?
Five hundred, 400! charge! Every spur
sinks deep, the ‘rebel yell’ rises from
every throat and the column leaps fore
ward like a thunderbolt, into the face of
which crashes the canister from our four
G-pounders, Great ragged holes are
torn through the four-deap column, but
they close instantly and if comes on un
cheeked, Now it is our turn! We ar
in front of the battery, in the pathway
of the avalanche We pour a volley into
it at cighty vards! A hundred
men reel out of their saddles, a hundred
horses go plunging to their knees! The
Another volley and another!
ined suedede nly retreat
brave
line wavers!
The
while
breaks
Foreign Paper Money.
Bank of England note
by dimen
printed in black ink on Irish
cight in sion
with
Banque
need ¥ fog
paper,
The
France are nn
Fr note ’
Smerican currency
and
seep!
1% nbout the siz¢
lis, ¢
fEiIr
red
sirainm
t}
from the
The game hou
th
round and
¢ the finest meat in tie
killed the
1
SHOOK
world,
youngest and
er the
ined
would
fohers
of thi
anid as soon as they
THO 00S that ngs
$51
al
had a feast t
furn
this
cooked
spit, lik
meat had a
i palatable,
think of it pow, and it was so
that we could pull it apart in
strings But it kept us from
ving, and I. therefore, can heartily
recommend pony meat to people in dire
ts." =! American Farmers
essed
ina ie
we
f.acullus
lived
it
green with
on pony meat
WHS without
over a
The
awoert taste, not at a
oon 1
Hen
fibrous
AiAr
ra
An Under Valued Product,
The origin of maize, or Indian corn, is
unkoown, but it was first cultivated by
white men on the James River, Virginia,
1608. It is, says Mr. C, J. Murphy,
about the only Produc of America that
is not appre fated in Europe American
wheat, cotton, fruits and meats are pow
well known in the world's markets, hut
maize is still shunned for use in the human
dietary of the British Isles and most of
the Continent, Yot analysis proves
that the nutritive value of maize
cannot be less than fivesisths of
that of wheat, This food is,
moreover, of remarkable healthfuloess,
and dyspepsin was hardly known in
America fifty vears ago, when maize was
the principal food, A surprising number
of delicacies and inexpensive dishes is
now supplied, not less than 130 recipes
for Woling, baking and cooking this
great staple having been tested and
approved, The annual surplus of maize
in the United States is enormous, It is
used for feeding eattle and hogs, maki
glucose, starch, beer and whiskey, an
recently for producing oil, No part of
the plant is lost. The fodder is valuable
food for animals, and has been used as
fuel in treeless of the West, while
the husks are made into paper, or em-
vioyed for filling mattresses, packing
ruits, and wrapping cigars.
THE SONG OF THR PEARTRER
{From the French.)
i
A pear-tree stood at the end of the
village. In the springtime it seemed
ike a nosegay of flowers, The gardeners
back from the road: the
mrdener’s daughter was called Perrin
We were lovers
odge stood
Il
What roses in her
there
She was sixteen
Many
pear-treq
heeks! As blossom
mm the It was
pear-tre that 1 said to her
Perrine, mv Perrine
beneath th
111.
sintled about her
ind pinyed
feet
which
¥ 10 bh i
flow
byrne
hands
Vis more than
Virgu
rend be pradsed |
you will be proud of
nye
s ended and | have my le
Ring, bells, for our wedding
ong. Hm
here
tw travels
behind
The
1 the belfry.
Xi
the
month of lowers has come, t still |
the flower laden branches, |
afar. That
down the tree of my earls
had
but
bat pear treed
%
og Qo
HL SH had
always seen them from
wed to come on
tad
he
ah
scattered on the ground,
cut
COM A
branches
blossoms
br hlossoms, its
NI
“Why are the bells ringing,
thie”
“For a wedding, Monsicut La
taine.”
Matthieu did not know me
A wedding! He told the truth
vide and groom ascended the
the church,
The bride was Perrine, my Perrine,
and more beautiful than ever,
Jean, my brother, was the bridegroom,
The
stops of
HOYOS
NiiL
The people around me
“They love each other.”
“But Pierre,” 1 asked
“What Pierre?” they answered
had forgotten me,
were saving,
They
X1V.
I knelt at the church door. 1 prayed
for Perrine and 1 prayed for Jean: all
that 1 loved on earth,
The service over, 1 gathered a blossom
from the pear-tree—a poor little with
ered blossom and went on my way with-
out looking back,
God be praised. They love each other.
XV.
“Monsiour 1"
“You are back already, Pierre?
HY"
“You are only two-and twenty, You
will be a General, and you will be knight
ed, If you wish I will give you a countess
for a wife.”
Pierre took from his breast a withered
flower, p Wkel from the fallen pear
Lice,
“Monsicur. my heart is like this. T
wish a post in the vanguard, where | can
dic as & Christian soldier,”
The post in the vanguard waz given
him,
At the end of the village there is the
grave of a Colonel killed on the day of
victory —two-and-twenty
In place of a name there are thess
throes
aod be praised |
words
THE CHILKAT INDIANS,
heir Strange Character and Change
of Customs,
Pioneer Packhorses
J i
ollowine quotation aie
dressed in
Kin
obtained from inland trily
frie
a yd won
the
garments picturesq
i, ami bea .
. He wore brace.
rricd copper spears,
fie
it to perish in
WHR 8 Warrior,
battle In
complete vo
Cremony was
human sacrifice; execu-
frequent occurrence,
{ disaster
i1¢ deemed
14 spirits
widkding of
re and hand-to-
fromm the slightest
hen for sll the
LO plunge each
er, into th
Cy asters ti)
“
then to thrash
maed whips
ion were $hor-
| appre ntice
effect of
they
yand
Crormandizir
their
ATL
tow ethbwegded Int
& Iwiween
wi re
fol
then
OY
POTS
on
eciared the
i condemn
hamcter the
COM POs {io
unsympathetic,
nt to desth
rior which they
I noticed
ot witl
that
I asked of one
Koosh'
‘Blake
n't know I
Then he explaine
ae ( hief for three
mountains
fog;
» for a tine by calling
aher, but finally the
grew fainter
ould no longer
same breath with this ex.
anal Indian asked me, ‘Have
the salmon started to run up our river?
mored his question, and asked agsin,
is Kienta Koo h?' As if dis
sted at my interest in such a trivial
the man answered quite soap
I don’t know : cither he has been
i by a bear or drowned crossing one
swollen streams,
Kienta
| 3} » yh’)?
s
$
LI
a dense
and
3 f
Hed
then « be
1f where
Friday Not the Most Unlucky Day.
A statistician of the German Govern
com? to the rescue of those
persons who da not shar the wide-spread
superstition that Friday is the most un
lucky day of the week A short time
determined to make a scientific
investigation of this question, using for
most fatal or unfortu
nate week day, according to the investi
Six.
seventy. four hundredths per
teen and
day, the same per cent. on Saturday, and
2.69 per cont. on Sunday. Comment upon
the small percentage of accidents on the
first day of the week is unnecessary, The
compiler of the table, however, attributes
the large relative number of accidents on
Monday “to the excessive amount of
liquor consumed on Sunday.”
Origin of the Liberty Cap.
When the Romans manumitted a slave
his head was adorned with a small red
cloth cap. As soon as this was done ho
was known as a libertinus or freedman,
and his name was rogistered among others
of the city's *‘tribes.”
In the year 263, when Saturninus in.
vaded the capital, says the New Orleans
Picayune, ho hoisted a cap on the Join
ves
af is sea, to indicate that all
who around this standard
be free. This was the origin of the liberty
cap, still used in art as a symbol,