. SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EVERY DAY LIVE, Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven- tures Which Show That Truth is Stranger Than Fiction. “Paene is a fellow serving a life sen- tence in the penitentiary at Joliet who owes his incarceration to a dream of mine,” said a Chicago detective to a St. Louis Globe-Democrat man. “In '87 a hackman was shot down on West Madi- son-st. by a& man with whom he had trouble about a fare. The murderer got away, and nothing was heard of him for 8 year or more. Finally we got a tip that he was in the city, and I was de- tailed to round him up. I soon became convinced that he was hiding on the North Side, but to save me I could not locate-him. I searched for two weeks without getting sight of my man or dis- covering hisretreat, One morning I left my room, walked leisurely down to the Palmer House, looked at the clock and noticed that it was just 9:30. I bought 8 paper and sat down to read, but was disturbed by a man who asked me for a light. I handed him my cigar, looked up, saw that it was the man I was search- ing for, and clapped the jewelry on his wrists, The snap of the handcuffs awoke me. I had been dreaming. The dream was so vivid that I the Palmer House. as 1 entered that it was just 9:30 o'clock. by the man I was in search of. tell me there is nothing in dreams. Ax artist, writing to the London News vith reference to an incident recently mentioned in that paper, says; thirty years ago I was sketching on the shore at Lochgoil Head, when a shepherd accosted me. He even looked at my | sketch, and drew my attention to u low- | lying mass of rock jutting out from the | shore that I had caught as faithfully as I | could. “Yes, sir,’ he said, ‘a curious | thing occurred there about three weeks | 0. Foxes, you well know, sir, are in | the habit of coming down at low tide and eating the oysters out of their shells, One day 1 found one lying dead, and on examining it closely, observed that its . tongue was held as if by a vice. The oyster was firmly attached to the rock, aud poor foxy's tongue to the oyster, so | _ the returning tide settled his fate.” | asked if he had ever come by this kind | of thing before. ‘No, though 1 believe it is not uncommon, He was a young fox, though full grown, and may be he was not up to the dodge of putting a stone between the shells, That is what I am told they, as do. Oh, they arecunning things, whatever!” 1 tell you the story as it was told to me, I believed it then, and I do 0 still.” “Tae prettiest throw of the lasso I ever saw was down in New Mexico last | summer,” said ID. C. Smith, a Western cattleman. ‘‘I had gone out to look at | a bunch of cattle 1 thought of buying, and was standing in front of the owner's house discussing the proposed trade. A two-year-old child was playing about | the lawn, when suddenly it clapped its! hands and cried out as though highly elated. 1 turned my head, and saw, to! my horror, that it was amusing itself | with a monster rattlesnake that was just coiled to strike. The ing its forked tongue out, almost into the face of the child, and it action that so pleased the little one. my side stood a Mexican cowboy with a | lasso on his arm. Quick as a flash it Sif, never before, a rule foxes, snake was shoot- At | “ as went whizzing through the air and closed around the neck of the serpent just drew its head back for the fatal stroke. The father of the child nodded his head, | remarked that it was a capital throw, and resumed our discussion with im perturbable gravity. Your Mexican is | nothing if notstoical. It is the result of his Indian blood.” A Cavrcurra paper, the Indian Gentle- | as it | story: A few days ago Atkama Yatury, flat seven miles north of Shuttezat saw, as be affirms, an enormous serpent float ing along in a fleecy white “tezarer” or “wind cloud.” The cloud and its scaly ssenger floated directly over Mr, peared from view, Over women and boys who were working along the flat at the time of the phe nomenal occurrence attest that ethereal flight. One witness describes ~ length and as big around as a man’s body. All witnesses concur in saying that the head and foreparts of the creature re sembled an alligator more than saything else. It was yellow and black-striped, according to all witnesses, and kept its remained in sight. The natives are said to be much excited over the matter, Tuenx is a young lady on Capitol Hill, says the Washington Post, who has a musical cat. After nearly a year of hard work on the feline musician, she says it oan sing the best portion of two well. known songs, ‘Home, Bweet Home" and “Auld Lang Syne,” but without the msual variations, When this young lady ‘wants pussy to sing She puts her on a velvet footstool and commands, “Puss, sing ‘Home, Sweet Home,” ” at the same time humming the air. Pussy always Eheaponds, singing the desired tune in a ithe pigh falsetto voice, a little broken, but su tly well to be recognized b the hearers. Sometimes when this cat is 3» a moonlight expedition her voice can 8 heard above those of her companions in the feline, out Soot, i con- cert, Yinging out “Auld Lang Syne,” or ‘Home, Sweet Home.” ns Sy lady nat her name mentioned, for she wil be besieged by freak col. or dime museum proprietors, who it to buy, beg, borrow or “teal her ie London courts will be called “pon to decide one of fiimont curious that ever puzzled legal brains, A ‘was seated a few weeks ago in the cal Gardens, snd for security's removed from her pocket to her lap containing six sovereigns. The elephant shortly afterwards came round, aud, m the brow Sracetully tansforred it §a4 to its trunk and thence into its stomrch. The management of the Gardens were of once appealed to, and emetics were aps plied, but no more than two of the sove- reigns and munched bits of the purse wore removed. The solicitors for the lady are now, therefore, suing the Zoo- logical Sociey for the missing four sove- reigns, and, seeing that the Society pos. scsses the elephant, and the elephant possesses the sovereigns, the plaintif claims to have a clear case.—|Londog Chronicle. Maverick County, Texas, killed a full. grown panther with an ax. She was out in the yard, when some animal rushed passed her, which she thought was a dog her. She called to the dogs, and they came running out, but one of them trail and ran off, beast, and made a dash for it. savage animal, Mrs, Neil seized an ax, i and when the dog attracted the panther's allowed her time to deal him a fatal blow, Mrs. Neil is much admired for her brave fight, Erecrriciry has become an important adjunct to the outfit of the modern dent | ist, but it is not likely that many will be called upon in the discharge of their pro. fessional duties to illuminate the cavern. { ous mouth of an elephant, as recently New York specialist, A large show was on exhibition in a town in Michigan, but was suddenly seized with the toothache, It was found that the trouble arose from tooth. None of the local practitioners fancied the job of filling the The New Yorker went on by first train and, after fiest chloroforming the animal, he braced the brute's jaws by two crossed hickory sticks, and from these suspended an electric lamp. This gave a light that enabled the filling of the tooth to be satisfactor va complishe i, and in he show was in full blast, the dentist with his fee in cket, was journeying homeward. onen his (+REAT excitement created at Chadron, Neb. the other day by the dis was fed man about two miles city. near Natural Wall, the regi und by Ed Rossi COvery of a petr north of thst The body was {i fs § 5s AS engaged in securing ti wails, | thought to be that of a man six feet t well developed and in a perfect state It was found clay and weighs over 500 pounds. teeth are plainly visible, and the skull, head and | those of an African The finder was offered $2,000 f spd ir 11 did, of buried ips are in cash f " A mvstacung is not regarded as a marketable commodity, says the Le Million, but a man disposed nt ¢ Us i envied don of his upper he other d AY tO a beardiess him I'he two men were sitting in a cafe, when vouth who its possession or “1 will gi you “Done.” reg $12 for lied the o said ; mustache,” ve Ta: young fellow pro tested that he was only joking, but his recovered it without mach trouble, Twesty-roun vears ago John Gilbert, a Pottstown, Penn., restaurantenr, had one of his index fingers mangled ina up the wound, and it readily healed, | Recently the finger got sore, and an ex. amination revealed the ends of several tnreads, They were the stitches that had been put there a quarter of a century The threads were removed, and the finger is healing. A currovs deception came to light in Paris recently in the course of a police raid on unmuzzied dogs. An old lady { whose pet had been seized among the | others complained loudly when her pug was captured that the police allowed that of her neighbor, a painter, to roam at will without a muzzle. Tne police i inspector assured his visitor that the | artist's dog was always muzzled and was { somewhat taken aback on learning that the muzzle in question was merely painted { on the animal's head, New Jersey comes to the {front with a strawberry plant which bears fruit all the wear, ol Arkansas with a three. year-old negro boy who killed a rattle. snake just twice as old as himself, inside of which were found a water-moceasin over four feet long, a black snake of the same length, two dead toads and one live one, besides a large bullfrog. Amin it is proper to remark that this is a great country. ——_ AI Hydraulic Ram. A hydraulic ram can only be operated by a running stream or fall of water, The ram is operated by a stream oarried intoit bya Bike ten or twelve feet long; this stream lifts a valve as soon us it has gained sufficient velocity, and shuts the pipes. The flowing stream, being thus suddenly stopped, is changed ita course into an air chamber, in which fs a valve that is opened by the diverted stream As soon as this stream exhausts its force this valve closes, and the pres sure of the condensed air in the chamber Jorecw fhe wakes which jute entered from the fecd pipe into t schargi ' Then the valve in the feed pipe, oda longer by the st pressed streams, drops, snd the stream begins to flow again, and the process is thus repe soveral times every minute. In this way about one. seventh of the water in the drive pipe is raised to any desired height, the quantity of water being in proportion to very, less as the height is greater, (New York Timo : ‘FOR THE LADIES, BBOWN TINTE BOOMING, Cinnamon brown is the most favorite color just now both for gowns, mantles and hats, In the latter it is almost in- variably trimmed with black, whether fur, feather or velvet, The mantles arc made with one cape or three, each being bordered with a band of jet some inch or two in width, The dresses are hemmed with astrakhan in brown or black, or trimmed with black galloon, in which jet may or may not appear. It isa be- coming color, this cinnamon, with bru. nettes, but is a little trying to those blondes who have any inclination toward sickly sallowness, It is well to avoid it unless the tints of the complexion are clear and soft, —{ Chicago Herald, FEET IN PLASTER, The latast whim of the Ban Francisco girl is a fancy for having her feet im mortalized in plaster or marble. In the studios of the fashionable sculptor the artist and his adsistants are busy reproduc- ing the pedal extremities of socicty’s swell matrons and maidens at $10 a head, or rather a foot, for plaster, and from £70 to $100 in the flawless marble of Carrara. And this is how it is done: The woman with the pretty foot removes her dainty shoe, and daintier stocking, dips her feet in oil, delicately perfumed, of course, and the sculptor forms a mold dry. A plaster replica is cast from the matrix thus formed, and if the fac simile is desired it is chiseled out the [New Journal, e ulptor’s assistants, XEW The prettiest al te, curled up in a crisp : feather threads, so fine and delicate that the aigrette looks though ie of mane of spun ginss, These spun-giass ai FEATHERS, new feather is ne One such has brown wings made of two flufiv brown chicken feathers, and a head us glass, A big head that i an eagle's but that it is a vivid ve as mie be has neither body nor wings, but ha green and vellow-shaded athe this and right angles to the osprey fe curl WAY that, after 3 head Small square wings . i them, are orange tan color has a bord around and is of purple in magenta : ft d tu no one side breast bas Colors of Hac ribs Times, with tria WOMEN IN At Hyde rabad, studio has been opened PROTO A India, an photogs in whi The Koran { the maki portraits the have declared that photography « be included in the prohibition, Prophet kuew nothing about it, woman f ng ol operators are : Hut 1" the since 18 } 4 x 5 wd 4 Dome * fa © ¥ ihe a riety good wi ograph by four hundred, man receives the is % TOVaLLY . Bh ANN from count 32 has two making a handsome living ¢ ALA] MANY iris are oarni salaries | stots photogs {New Yo ips : A POll. FOR BEAUTY. One of the most embarrassing positions in which a woman can be placed at the ble is when she is pouring the teas and coffee. These adjuncts to the meal an usually given to the guests at a time when there is a lull either in the eating or conversation, and naturally the atten- pretty ‘ong ago recognized this fact and made a very pretiy provision for it. It consists of a neat woven wire or metal frame work about eighteen or twenty inches which is placed on the of the tea tray, enclosing it on either side, thus partially hiding from view the fair one who is doing the honors, Gener ally speaking, the frame is ornamented with little draperies of light flowered silk or somo oo po flimsy material, and thus she is shut off from the gare of the guests, and can pursue the even tenor of her pouring without ex periencing the slightest degree of nervy ousncss, These knowledge, very well known in this coun- outside would doubtless become very They could be trimmed with wows of ribbon or draped with’ Ince or satin. Suggestive snd appopriate mot. toes could also be woven in the centre or in any other manner that might suggest itself to the maker. This would greatly enhance their beauty and make a very ornamental addition to the furnishings of the table.—[House Furnishing Re view, HISTORY OF THE POLICE MATRON, Prior to 1888, Portland, Me., Provi- dence, R. 1., and Boston had each one police matron, who served certain hours of day and evening. In that year Chicago had ten matrons day and night for all arrested women, Now it has twenty. three in divided districts, In 1887, Massachusetts, after repeated defeated efforts, encouraged by the result in Chicago, passed a law providing for Jolice matrons for all cities having 30, or more inhabitants, Philanthropic women in New York next took up the work, hindered and discouraged ns women in other places have been, but with like success in the end. Buffalo has two women matrons, and one in the jail for which, one woinen writes, “we had to t hard and long." women to be humiliated by such associa tion." But these are the very women who most need the help of their own sex, Massachusetts has twenty-two police matrons, ten in Boston, two each in Cambridge and Fall River, one each in Lawrence, Lyon, Lowell, New Bedford, Worcester, Springfield and Holyoke; but a number of the larger cities ignore the enactment which requires a matron where there are 30,000 inhabitants, A GIRL'S FIRST LONG DRESS, There is nothing—no, not even worldly wisdom —that so completely metamor- phoses a girl of fourteen or fifteen as the donning of her first real long dress. She may have heretofore worn gowns to the shoe tops, yet in their childish simplicity they were as suggestively youthful as though the regulation garb of babyhood, But just change the even all-round full skirt to the bell shaped drapery, with slight train, discard the guimpe and simple little waists, and what have we? a young lady pure and simple. don these sweeping gowns many a season too soon, and in after years regret that womanhood, for, strange as it may seem, her first real long sown. this style must needs make a change in her demeanor, for no how coltish one may feel, the environ ents of long cloth breadths will effect puts on course, {ually early girlhood ; therefore a pew deport ment comes with the lengthened skirt, The hair likewise from being allowed ito flow ly acts in inverse ratio tothe on the head, of yesterday becomes loom: | skirt and is taken up higher il the little girl voung lady it be any where «one, Girls, on long dresses vou will have to wear them, and cling to th and all possible, : the of to day, whos | might twenty 1H put nge seventeen to be io a hurry {5 irom don't its necessories as long as at the vou is gone t to Ix n, who have so best it 3 Yous desire i wi jovments from which you, ¢ debarred, HEL owing YOu cannot such a sta BWaY : * ji:% C5 Win Princes shuped and a wilh a Desa gimp, } - Ort Sacket i § ktout t § Ous i iosl bonne the whole network of the ing beads hion flowers ney th ny Wa pot lavishly, of velvet king, but 3 ] silk when the evening i& COO! A blue” is linen known as “butcher's in vogue for those blouses made ted closely to the ORTSH with flat figu plaits and nt re. The double-breasted pique waistcont is very popular, though a+: a shirt and meket are necessary with it, it is not i very cool 3 With the prine res gown, has come the fancy for striped silks, and they are noted in black with pale blue, black with rose, and black with mode, The old-fashioned guipure lace has re turned It i= used in | broader for trimming | while for gkirts, several ruffles of the | narrowest width are most fashionable, to vogue, widths | With the tailor gown will be worn the | new russet leather glove, Light shades, especially white, in suede, will be chosen evening, and for dressy day wear pearl or light tan will be preferred to the dark tints, Among { heavy calf, laced, which will be worn by | every fashionably right-minded woman { with ber tailor gown when she walks, { For rainy days, oddly enough, russet | for | choice, | common sense flat heels, In bonnets there is little new just now, {except that they are increasing in size, | especially at the sides, and are heavily { ornamented with jet and rich galoons of { different kinds. Hats have superseded bonnets very generally, even for elderly Indies and matrons, The efforts of the silk producers to in- trodduce vivid and startling colors in men’s neckwear have met with but a tepid indorsement. Embroidered and tinted full-dress bows are still very bad form, It seems strange that every year this remark must be made. The necessity for it is caused by the few who wish to appear eccentric or independent in their dress and the many who ape their fashions, The moth and the dragon fly—demoi- solle is its loss formidable F de. nomination--are favorite forms for brooches and lace and hair pins, and are always largely represented in every show collection of wedding presents. a fluffy knot upon the crown, after the fushion of the girls in Gibson's drawings. In cancs and umbrellas the tendency this season is toward the use of natural sticks without metal tops. The sticks are of a smaller size, and made of smooth wood, White suede gloves and slippers are the choice now for c/ening wear, with all colored toilets, The soft clinging kid is becoming. 3 rhinestone buckle is zet in a small bow of moire ribbon on cach instep, The useful shirt waist has taken new hold upon popular fancy, and some very dainty ones are in blue silk trimmed with ruffles of the same, buttonholed in white or red. These are espeoially pretty for wear with the skirts of Eton jacket suits, Very beautiful and dressy are the new capes of plain or changeable velvet, They are half long, very full and trimmed with passementeric and fur or feathers, Some are longer, and have three gradu ated capes, each edged with fur, An Eton jacket of black Astrakhan, as fine and lustrous as moire antique, skins of still-born | lambs, is one of the pretty youthful gar. It a turned-over ments for winter has Small sleeveless bolero jackets of black velvet that may be worn with almost any dress are stylish additions to youth ful toilettes, They from $7.50 to neatly wrought with a silken bor Cont and short tours-decou of and tucked into shape, Long boas chiffon, shirred Mir: house, They come in manve, pink, finished with baby ribbon, plaited frill of fail of white lace, mic vellow, briiliant red, of IDOps of accordion black /ana long Z tasse cise with 1 iN or al i \ $2 ow Cy he chiffon a rather the chilion, or a gathered two ruffies of silk but } edges, and Collarettes of ton-holed | ps on the 4 s gt tev) i TARIQ yr sit joined together, ar 1 mae in an ont brighten quite long, and evening colors Ww They nro passed closely around Ur dark dresses nre the neck, then taken diagonally across the front, and fastened on the left side The Tullp Mania. 11 to bo m made Gessper, NYA from which Henry in the tulips t I started ot financial 1 son y engenaenng B sey d BAA “tulip allowed went ihe The *littie the “tulip ma or Hollanders land” 10 be staid dige-locked { | Come center of this curious species of and for three vears i speculative frenzy, 1645-47 —the re | and the disastrous results of the ‘mania’ | can only be Com par: d with the “South { Sea Bubble.” When the craze was at { height some of the bulbs sold for ten, twenty, and even 100 or 500 times their weight in gold. A single bulb of the Semper Augustus, ** not much exceeding the bigness of an onion sette,” was sold ! on the market for 2,000 florins, But this was not all. The gentleman who pur chased] it did so with the mistaken idea | that it was the only known bulb of the | kind in existence, but no sooner did he | regrister purchase than another, ** larger somewhat but not big.” was announced, | and the poor victim was compelled to pay | 4,000 floras for it or sce it go to another { This he did, and became the owner of two of the highest priced botanical speci mens ever purchased, (St. Louis Re public, kicssnoss of the dealers $ ils A Story of a Turtle. A dead turtle, a turtle with a history, was found the other Sunday at the fool of Alderman Donnelly’s yard, No. 416 | Bast King street, says a Lancaster (Penn. | paper. There is an authentic record that | this particular turtle was more tha fifty years old, He had been an iomato Dounelly's recollection goes, and old peo se in the neighborhood say they knew Rim or heard of his presence there when the property was owned by the Rodgers family, would emerge until late in the fall. For the past ten years the Donnelly household has watched these appearances with much in. terest, and the turtle became known te the whole neighborhood. Soveral years ago a board was placed at the side of iy ol trough at the foot the turtle crawled each moming drink of water. One time he fo sidan A SORIA 2. RAS SCIENCE NOTES a. POPULAR Maoxerizep Warcnes.~ “There is of Inte years more or less talk ghout the ef. fect of electricity upon watches,” said as well-known jeweller, “and it is quite true that occasionally a wetch will be thrown out of its regular tims by becom- ing magnetized. It is the siviplest mat. ter in the world, however, to ascertain whether a watch is thus affected, Watch. makes and electricians all knyw that if a common pocket compass is placed shove a live electric wire the needle will deflect in one direction; if placed beneath the wire it will deflect in the opposite di- rection, while if placed under erossed wire the needle will vibrate, The spring of a watch is made of the finest steel, and is, therefore, sensitive to an extreme degree, If vou want to ascertain whether your watch has become affected by eloc- tricity, take a little toy compass and place itabove the spring. If the needle moves the watch affected and should have expert attention; if it does not move there is no magnetism jn it,”-—{8t, Louis Republic. is Loxcesr axp Suonresr Dav.—The | days in New York are rapidly shortening, | and ere long will have what we call the days in the year. When speaking of the shortest or longest guys in the year, however, it is quite impor- we shortest tant to mention what part of the world we speak of, For instance, in New York { City the long is fifteen hours, Were it not y hills, which | hide the sun from Gotham as it recedes | in the Western horizon, our days would i The in any part of the world is it Tarnea, Finland, when Christmas Day # than three hours in length, while ] 21 is nearly jut this of davs itzbergen, Nore three and That is for + 18 no night, longest day < one day interruption, 1 Tobolsk, Si- long and very gest day is nineleen five hours. The Bweden, is in length, Dantzie, Prus. hours of day- ongest day in but the fogs of much of day appear loners really lay The ry is also sixteen ntreal, Canada, has one New York to the fact wih, but that in its light is Palisades or Jersey mos £ ¥ + OF Al least twenty minutes ionyger. shortest day 1 i8 108 Hi twenty-two vi bs Lik f 18 ¥ # fiery 5a, Ours are, an due Lc wend inobsceured by juitoes A pari.—One of the rinting tele has been the They have all 6 on a narrow band "and a press dispatch be many to kinks, breaks rs of the tele. content fo re a ribbon, and arainst that form to file it was impossible, and ¢ to preserve it intact in Any way was source of har- assent A compromise has been ef. fected in European practice by tearing off all dispatches received by printing telegraph into short lenghts and pasting them on ordinary delivery blanks, This is a clumsy makeshift, and the aanoy ance of making 8 backward search for a particular item of news in the tangle of an ordinary “‘ticker” basket is familiar all, With a view overcoming these and other objections to the printing telegraphs . hitherto known, an American type telegraph machine has been designed by means of which the delivery isin the form of a { printed paper, eight inches wide. All the letters, numerals, fractions and othet | signs used on the ordinary typewriter are provided. The receiving instrument is | entirely automatic in its action, requiring | no skilled operator to watch or adjust it. {| The transmitter is similar in form, as far as the arrangement of the keys is con- cerned, to the typewriter, and can be worked by any person familiar with that instrument. The transmitting operator, { by menns of his kKuvbo ined, has full con- | trol of the machine at the distant end of | the line, and can vary the length of a printed line or space betwenn two items of news or {wo telegrams at will, Type writing: by wire and by ordinary type- writing methode have been the objects sought to be obtained in the American type telegraph. The width of the paper, | the form and action of the keyboard, as well ax the manipulation of the machine generally, are mude to conform, as pearly as possible, to the practice with which a | typewriting operator is familiar, Wairise Tei i ords would graph have nev ceive their dispas { have always prot of record, asserting that yf gy d lant to io ae A —————— RELIABLE RECIPES, i Caxxep Rarwox.-If you fer it | heated, immerse it in a kettle boiling | water until heated through, or it in | the steamer over a kettle of boi | water; open and drain off all the liquid, then remove to a platter, taking out any skin or poor pieces, Garnish with pars- ley. VARIATION oF APrLe Pr. —A deli ful variation of apple pie, baked in a : i ade with apple-sauce, flavored w juice | Tt of a loin and a little nutmeg, it is baked without an upper crust half an hour. The crust must be nick at the ffeitt E iz p FET
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