A——
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERY DAY LIFE,
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven-
tures Which Show That Truth Is
Stranger Than Fiction.
Ix the peninsula of Abeheron, formerly
belonging to Persia, but now a part of
Russia, there is a perpetual, or, rather
what the natives call an cternal sacred
lire, which is known to have been burn-
ing continually for more than 2,000
years, It rises from an irregular orifice
uf about 12 feet in depth and 120 feet
square. The flames, which are constant,
rise to a height of from 6 to 8 feet, un-
accompanied with smoke or disagreeable
smell, waving back and forth with thé
wind like a field of golden grain,
A MAN registered at a Madison (Ga.)
hotel a short time ago, He engaged a
room and retired, and after sleeping for
some time had a dream. He dreamed
that he was on a railroad train that was
going at a good speed, when he dis-
covered. that another train was coming
toward his on the same track, and a col-
lision was inevitable. The conductor
called out, ‘“‘Jump!” and at that mo-
ment the dream stopped, but the dreamer
did not—he jumped out of the second
story window. He fortunately escaped
injury.
A ountovs instance of the recovery of
« lost ring in a root of celery occurred
some years back in Sweden. A lady,
when planting celery in the garden in
Spring, aud while dibbling holes for the
small plants with her finger, uncon-
sciously dropped the ring into one of
the holes. A plant was duly inserted in
the hole, and Stats through the lost
ying, and as the root grew the ring must
have become imbedded in its substance
The ring had been given up for lost
until the following winter, when the
mystery was cleared up by the ring
making its appearance in the soup at
dianer in a portion of the celery.
M. Braix, a Paris bootmaker, has an
any of the roods exposed for sale out
side of his shop. Whenever Le goes to
his dining-room for meals he ties the
out-of door selection of boots and shoes
with an siarm.
thief! was caught i
annex a pair of *
alsrm sounded and
Recently
}
if
an
nt
‘elastic sides.” The
M. Brain
before he
ment.”
lost several pairs of boots
il arrange
tricd the “electr
ic be
Tam tiny village of Lamphey,
Wales, possesses a unique rallway sta
tion. Less than half a dozen trains stop
there during the day. There in
sufficient work to occupy the time ¢
station master and his assistant, a novel
arrangement has been made
the station house an
being in-
is hice where
station master Here one sces the
monthly time tables set up and printed
by the voung man, i
times every day, exercises also the func
ton porter. The work
from little office embraces
necessary printing for the Li
which Lamphey is situated,
who, three or {
of
all the
of rail on
the
ne
high, weighing forty-five
reads readily at sight the
passages in the
hook put before him, is creating aston-
ishment at Camden, Ark. His articula
tion is perfect, every word coming out
clear and distinct. He never saw the
inside of a school, and his parents and
gandparents are ignorant, full-blooded
Africans, He was born in Claiborne
Parish, Louisiana, November 2, 1887,
His powers were first discovered by his
father, whom he astounded by picking
up a Bible and reading therefrom to su h
an extent that the ignorant and super
stitious parent fled and has not since
been seen. Benjamin Franklin Coleman
is the name he bears,
pounds, who
i
most difficult
in any other
y
ible or
A youn man in St. Louis was recently
married, and among the wedding pres.
ents was a nice music box. His house
was entered by burglars the other night,
the parlor one of them tried to open the
music box, thinking, presumably, that
it might be a jewelry case, or something
of that sort. His efforts started the box
to playing, and the owner was aroused
from his slumbers by hearing the strains
of “Auld Lang Syne” pealing
from his parlor. He got his gun, started
to investigate the cause of the untimely
music, aud entered the parlor just in
time to see the burglars beating a hasty
retreat. Nothing wae taken from the
house, and he thinks that the music box
saved him from a considerable loss,
A vouxe lady of Wilcox, Penn. had a
beautiful gold watch of which she was
unduly proud. The timepiece was ex.
hibited on various occasions, and a few
daysago when some admiring friends
were examining it the watch accidentally
slip from their fingers, A ery of
dismay went up when the party saw the
watch disappear with a gulp in the
yawning mouth of 'a dog which sat at
their feet lovking expectantly upward
snd good naturedly wagging its tail.
Poor doggie imagined that he had re.
ceived a choice morsel, and looked
plensed with his feat of catching it on
he fly, but it proved to be his death
warrant. He was summarily despatched,
sod at the post-mortem the watch was
trcovered none the worse from the mis.
Hap.
Tur sensation which Mary's lamb
caused when it followed her to school
one day was not a circumstance to that
caused by the recent visitation of a wild.
eat to a school in Hamburg, Conn. The
school visitor, an elderly gentleman
named Hayden Gray, had just finished
the duties which devolved upon him in
a wildest
of puss in the corner with everybody in
the corner but the puss and the plucky
Miss Griswold, who seized a Leavy iron
poker and dispatched the intruder.
A rrcULIAR case of ear-piercing was
accomplished at Geneva, Ohio, the other
day at the winter quarters of Walter
Main's circus. A large lioness called
Nellie has been suffering from what
animal trainers term *‘eye-shutters,” the
optics of the beast becoming closed from.
a scaly substance appearing just over
the eyelids, As the lioness is a young
and valuable one the circus owner has
employed every means to prevent Nellie's
loss of sight, but without avail. Asa
last experiment, the brute was securely
chained and a local jeweler, after cutting
a }-inch hole in each of the beast’s ears,
inserted two gold rings about the size of
a silver dollar, which it is expected will
exterminate the ‘‘shutters.” During the
brief operation the lioness roared loudly
and taxed the strength of the chains
that held her. The jeweler, who re-
ceived $100 for his rings and services,
was as nervous as a dentist's patient,
AssisTANT Postmaster Muller tells a
story about one of his friends on Price
Hill, says the Cincinnati Commercial
(Gazette. The man was very nervous,
and especially about crossing Mill Creek
bottoms, and one night, while walking
there, met a stranger, who in the dark-
ness apparently did not see him, and the
two collided. The Price Hill man had
zone but a few steps after this w hen he
missed his gold watch, and, drawing his
revolver, he rushed after the retreating
form of the man who had collided with
him. ‘Here,” he exclaimed, ‘‘vou've
got my watch, Give it to me.” The
stranger protested his innocence, but in
vain. The Price Hill man held up his |
gun, and the watch was handed over,
After admiristering a caution to the
stranger, and threatening to call the |
police, the Price Hill man continued his
way, and got home safely. There he
told his wife the incident, and she re
plied that he had left his watch at home
that morning. The man jumped up and
saw a face that he had never seen before
and returned the watch with a satisfac-
tory explanation.
the finest bulls ever
suid J. B. Esk-
prosperous farmer living near
Versailles, Ky. ‘He was the most
beautiful animal that I ever saw, was as
gentle as a lamb and as tame as a pet
About three months ago | walked
in the cornfield where he graz
zg, As SAW Came
y
i
unning
inning
“] owxeED one of
dog
out was
¥
it soon as he me he
towards his head
bellow ing
his lungs, |
and tried to os
Hd
all the
that he madd
but he caught me before I eo
the gate, The
he struck me [ got down
jis horns sldn’t
he
’
gtre
wns
cape,
between them, Co
began to cut me with his ‘ho
witl
animal |
An hour later the bull was found
He had gone y a creck that ran
the field 1 held his i
head
under the water us was strangled
AWAY.
dead,
hing geise,
Tue smallest mi vessel
onary
She
eet wide and 6
—1asted schooner, was built at San Fran
isco, and her na Hiram Biog
She was pai however, by
Joard of Foreign Missio
red in that cit
ymmands |
as a missionary, i
!
t¢ the
iS RE
the Americ in i
of Boston, and 1
Rev. J. Walkup,
her, is a capt sin, as well
ns,
$e
who
! life
ars of his
[siandas
il cabin
of
Internally
as the crew is
& 8 1
vessel
is 8
composed entirely the missionaries |
islands,
the vessel is designed for a sort of
tender to the big missionary brig, Morn.
ing Star. It is built, therefore, to run |
the channels and
large vessel cannot
go, and an odd feature about itis a ten
power gasoline engine and at
tached screw, so the vessel can navigate
where the
horse
Ar the head of the extensive wide
John's River, in Volusia |
Florida. that is kuown as |
islands, One of these has a few acres of
ground that stand high enough out of
the water to encourage orange trees and
other remunerative growths and also to |
afford room for a cabin. The cabin is,
occupied and the trees are cultivated by
a queer old fsllow who has built a long
ramshackle bridge from dry land to a |
to the main channel Here the steamer
stops on his signal to take oranges and |
letters or to deliver flour and
groceries. He is a hermit
ventures to the mainland.
on the river steamers occasionally see
him busied about the little shed on his
wharf, an extraordinary figure in a home-
spun suit of brown, with a patch of
startling white on the seat of his
trousers and an indescribable hat that
may have once been “plug,” but that
has been chopped and banged and
battered and unroofed until it resembles
the wreck of a Napoleonic chapeau more
than anything else. He is indifferent to
criticism, however, for he lives apart
from men. His nearest neighbor is a
lighthouse.keeper, who would have to
hunt for him with a telescope. Some
affect to believe that in his younger days
he was a pirate,
A novaw heart on the auction block is
the strange and gruesome = le
which will rouse even blase Paris into
unfeigned interest in a few days. It is
said to be the heart of the unhappiest of
all French princes, the dauphin son of
Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette, and
it has been preserved for ninety-seven
years in a jar of spirits, where it was
placed by the famous su Pelletan,
who nade the autopsy in the temple,
The history of the relic is authentic.
The only question is whether the boy
who died in the temple in 1705 was the
real dauphin or a child who had been
substituted for the prince.
the relic in a vessel of brandy until Louis
XVIII. became king in 1817. Then he
offered to give the heart to the king for
royal burial. Louis neither refused nor
accepted Pelletan’s offer. Pelletan then
sent the relic to the sacristy of the arch-
bishopric of Paris. In 1830 the people
of Paris sacked the archbishops palace
and Dr. Jules Pelletan, son of the sur-
geon, saved the royal relic at the risk of
his life. He has recently died. The
heart in its reliquary is to come to the
hammer,
RELIABLE RECIPES,
Gum arabic and gum tragacanth in
equal purts dissolved in hot water make
thie best and most convenient mucilage
you can keep in the house.
Ten or coffee stains of long standing
may be removed by rubbing the cloth
with glycerine, after washing once. A
second washing leaves the linen as clean
as before.
Kerosene is good for cleaning brass as
well as for woodwork. Moisten a cloth
with it, and rub the brass thoroughly;
then polish with dry flannel dipped in
whiting. Kerosene is also excellent for
the rubber rollers of the clothes wringer;
rub them with it occasionally, and you
will .not be troubled with them sticking
together,
Roast Turkey. —An ordinary turkey,
weighing eight or ten pounds, requires at
least two hours for proper and thorough
cooking, for which Poultry Yard
gives the following explicit directions:
if you are likely to have little time in
the morning, prepare your {fowl
night by singeing and removing pin
feathers, washing inside and out, and
rubbing both with a clean cloth until
Mix alittle pepper aod salt and
The
yey
putting in the stuffing, or dressing, as it
This should be made
about three cup-
to which is added a small teaspoon-
of pepper, same amount of pow
dered sage or sweet marjoram, salt,
and a little salt fat pork, chopped
very fine, or a piece of butter the size
of an ogg, if the Iatter is preferred. Use
warm water to mix the whole to the con-
beat up an egg
last, and proceed to
the
dressing. Sew up opening with a
coarse thread and needle, tying the skin
over the end of the neck If you have
skewers of wood or iron pin the wings to
the sides of the fowl cls , and pin the
back have no
the
ful
into it at
and stir
the
8
sely
I
down wings,
dressing is left into
vent, forcing the
ight.
neck onto the you
Lic '
et Pat whatever
the
ywn and them
a dripoing
and once a
baste the
very t
with a pint of
iz
pan
f
teen
’
tyr
r teontt mi
or twenty min
turkey with the gravy
I'he frequent basting is of great import
ance, as it Keeps it ii Juices
! withou
ny
meat Tan
he whol $
the last bastin
flour and but
ves the « isp, frosty lod
thorough cooki
burning or drying the
'
t
f
afte
alinws
to
hinv -
For
of each side, dredge wit
It gi
lesirable and
the
th
Lie
«n enough
brown when done
in
il in a saucepan and
1 done chop or mash the
fine and put
y, wash orning, and set to
liver gizzard.
liver very
into the gravy and let it
up once into the tureen
Dish the turkey in
breast up, ready f
i OT
a large, warm platter,
the carving Kuife,
Catarrh and Its Care,
Most of our population have some
ideas of catarrhal affections
of the nose and throat, but very
few ex ept those who have lost
hearing from it have any
conception of its intimate causal relation
deafness. The popular idea of
s
general
less constant discharge of offensive
This is so only ir
§
wr
the disease, and fortunately is rare.
Properly speaking, catarrhal affections of
larged, swollen and thickened condition
of the lining membrane of the nostrils
This thick
in the nose
panied by an
of mucus
backward
is usually
increased
which
into the
accom
often
throat,
drops
and
ing cough to dislodge it and clear the
throat,
with complete closure of the nasal pas.
sages,
head are so severe is because a very slight
swelling of the inside of the nostrils,
which is always the condition in this acute
disease, occurring in a nose already
much narrowed by a chronic permanent
enlargement of its lining membrane, to-
tally obstructs the nasal canals,
water through the nostrils,
thoughtlessly recommended by family
physicians, If the habit is prolonged,
lution to use in the nose, and also ns a
5 chlorate of ay diam, is com-
mon baking , & teaspoonful
in a cup of warm water. What
ever solution is used in tho nose, it is
a great mistake to forcibly snuff it into
the nostrils {rom the palm of the hand
as is too commonly done.
too forcibly, it is forced into the upper
Jort ol the ual eavi , whore it is very
tating, often ca ig headache and
irritation of the eyes. best and sim-
FOIL THE LADIES,
CATR AND GOWNS FOR GIRL
Th: long-talked-of
whether or not the students of
Woman's College of Baltimore
wear caps and gowns has been decided
and the caps and gowns ordered, The
| authorities have selected the regular un-
{ dergraduate gown with the regulation
{ Oxford cap.
STUDENTS,
i
tho
matter ns
authorities desire the
{ them to any snd all college exercises,
while others prefer them to be
i only on special occasions, ~{ New York
{ Independent.
EX-EMPHRISS EUGEBNIE.
The beautiful Spaniard; the low-born
{ who would Emperor's lcve
the
Empress who cried, ‘“This is my war!
“This is my war!” when the
troops were marching for Berlin, iz de.
scribed by a man who saw her recently
as faded and utterly brokeu, carrying a
nad stumbling as she walks, She
sometimes
neceept an
cane
cannot remain long in the
Queen Victoria is still her
Ocherwise she seems quite alone.
York World.
Paris, but she
French city,
friend.
i Now
MASAT WOME
The
ing
Masai were very interest
They fairly loaded down
with coils of brass and iron wire, which
formed ollars, aad
women
were
earrings, leglots,
and
cannot
fifty,
who
forty, even sixty, pounds,
Thon afford to wear the
heavy coils, wear as many of the lighter
bracelets procure The
higher rank of the JAR, nore
of this sort of jewelry
het he fact that
in Africa.
Masai women are t gaunt, and bony,
but not weil developed, probably owing
to their wearing so much
while growing They are very fleet
and stron», and are the purveyors of the
tribe: allowed to pass unmolested every
i ‘oe | Demo
as they can
the the
which
Kens t
slaves
has her
even ne
Heavy jew elrv
where, oven in times of war
rest’s Magazine
TER
GOWNS
her banker 5, has
{
ins ihatling (31 COR
VERE QOWn he
ch was of dark
wer to the
WAN
13% 1s season
Pins, both
in €yery «
oriaaments wer
nor Ia
Irish diam
framed in gold, i r
iridescent met
heads of moths, grec
katydids, eyed ‘‘darning
needles.” June bugs and the like
Some of the delicate floral
are exceedingly beautiful, being mounted
fine gold and enamel and set with
eve
greater ely.
Varn
nds, tiny pearls and
jet, steel
patterns
birds, bees,
goid
ribs
mn
movement of the wearer,
dinmondse set in pins, dagger hills and
slender fillets for the hair are worn by
every wealthy woman, but these shed
no more brilliant rainbow rays under the
gas or clectric light than the popular
“brilliants.”
every
wiht
being of great moment, as in the case of
genuine jewels, Philadelphia Times.
A LOST ACCOMPLISHMENT.
The reasons of the growing infidelity
to needlework ax an amusement are not
far to seek. The nervous restiessness of
the modern temperament is one of them,
Our grandmothers knew nothing of nerves
and were content in the accomplishment
of one square of wool work in the span
of a labor day. Hour after hour sat the
mother of all, living at her spinuniog
wheel or at her tapestry frame, slum-
placid of face, while the world without
revolved in bliss or despair, recking
naught of her whose soul iny in the
evolution of an embroidered blossom or
the turn of a stocking heel. To-day far
other issues claim the energies and the
longer closed to the press of life nor to
its pain, for which kaitting is no sedative
nor crochet an anodyne,
Another reason for the disearding of
what is commonly ealled ‘fancy work™
the utilitarian spirit so characteristic of
these latter days. Life is less ornamen-
useful ns a whole. Butterflies may be
numerous enough, but there are more
bees. What is the use of embellishing
autimacassars! is a question which cer-
tainly never oceu to our fair ances.
tresses, but it rises naturally
the heart and also to the li
disturb their lethargy. Now these nc.
tivities are the rule instead of the excep
hours in which to take part in them, the
Modern life has no
longer thine for useless stitches, and few
enough minutes for necessary
{Clucinnati Enquirer,
OOK, om
WEARING WORK OF A TEACHER,
is one of the most wearing occupations
Fveu the hard
typewriter, journalist or seams-
tress, with longer hours and more drudge-
like employment, keeps her health and
continuous service than does the average
teacher, The girl
with erect carriage and rosy cheeks will
have lost both. Much of this is attri.
the regular routine of governing often an
ing the required studies.
that teaching hard
entering icto the
But allowing
work, without
reasons.
i%
physic al comfort to
honor, filled many
women who strive by
times by earnest
enthusiasm in their
example to make
It would seem to be
it is their right
which can ba properly heated
tilated, and
absurd to declare
occupy only rooms
and
known to
to
Ven.
yet a girl
attack of pneumonias to the
ture of her re
Hore or
low tempera
suffered
Be
FOL, 5 hile th “Is
less fr
there yuddit
the teachers themselves b
Calise are «
control, be all the more care
fully
they should
attended to
wh y (lo
For vyounyz women the fashionable
silks for evening wear are extremely
woolen dress skirts,
Golden brown und light reddish violet
shades form one of the striking com
binations of the season,
Ituthier elaborate braidwork in soutache
upon the revers, cuffs and collar is
noticed upon many nisters,
Among the fashionable colors {or veils
for the COMBE SCARON Are white, black
navy, gray, tau and brown,
simple cashineres
trimmed with dotted bands embroidered
in black silk are worn by little children
The
For simple dresses,
chief trimming used on the first
of little children is real Valen
lace or soft, hem-stitched ruffles,
velvet with contrast
tumes, and plaid velvet sleeves
ciennes
1
Shaded sleeves
ing cos
A corselet of the square Russian shape
shows four rows of jeweled gimp, and
but all kinds
with
hand
The Eton jacket prevails,
will be worn, The zouave jacket,
Square are exquisitely
braided.
Robin
cloth
fronts
red is 8 new eolor in tailor
and is pre‘ty when combined with
for which they themselves are re
and that is the gpidday luncheon,
is very apt to be a
eaten as rapidly
bile,
whic basket
ns order i
school
She
go on with
senchier
as
sand, LOOK while
correcting papers which ha
the
hour's
The f
BERBION "
s}
When possible, a breath ol
walk will
afternoon
rest at noon
fresh air and
make
we ¥ Yona’ 3
minutes tht
HOME-MADE BEAD TRIMMINGS
«se dave of passementer
amd taste
naitheads, and
with mora
miume
a smart Frills
he bottom of dress skirts and flounces
new ©
ices may be edeasd with parrow
i a, on which are sown square
3 beads; effect is charming. A
beautiful bodice may be made of pinkish
mauve velvet, sewn all over with jet and
amethyst beads The zouave ckets
now so much in vogue lend
easily the art of the embroiderer
Lovely effects are made with gold and
silver cords and tiny gilt sequins. White
pale.-vellow and pale-green
jot
themselves
to
wr
it
wet,
FASHION NOTEHR,
There are still many smock dresses,
Every shade of gray is fashionable,
Pointed cape collars and
capes are stylish.
rounding
Winter ulsters appear in a variety of
attractive guises,
Dark green and bright red mixtures
are much fancied.
A sash of soft nainsook or ribbon is
worn at the waist,
Flowers have superseded feathers as a
trimming for bonnets,
Flowered and striped flounces, make
handsome house wrappers,
Brocaded India silk is much used to
make indoor blouse waists,
Bonnets remain small, with close sides
and tiny old Dutch crowns,
There is less hemstitching and drawn
work used than last season.
The Empire puff is still seen on sleeves
that are otherwise close-fitting.
There is little change this season in
the first dresses worn by children.
Satin slips are preferred for the trans.
parent gowns now so fashionable.
Box cloth, is becoming a fashionable
material for ladies’ jackets and cloaks.
The bell skirt, with a graceful Sraptty
in front, is very becoming to stout
Ruchings for the neck are very popu-
lar. but are rather smaller and narrower.
Pretty and inexpensive ovening dresses
for young girls are ered nuns
vailing.
Hats are muoh more worn than bonnets,
and may be large or small, to suit the
wearer.
vho like flannel bodices in
the
is the
ar cotion ones, vers
f fi:
of flannel Host
Poplin forms a pretty,
¢
saan
and at present
able, material for a house gown,
y
sudden fancy having developed itseil
{favorite color for
ie of chiffon or
which is laid
C8 nn
1B,
{for wear st
are made to match the
the ames, or in black, kaden
black plumes
are favored
continue the order
joths and
off with a
Capes ana peicrines
the day, and many raing
nts are finished
ne black
ruffle
als
wi with deed
iace, They
t £
sitable for rainy days,
shed the
having a single
w 4 pes
CADOS show a small one
a to mated
Eyeless Fish in Bolling Water.
arkable discover.
ur species of
nt was that
in 1876.
Norcross
1 10 what
level
lake
This acc:
mines to a depth of
After this water had all been
t that which had gath
in the inaccessible
rks, and when the
128 de
2 many queer
king little blood-red fish were taken
out. In appearance they somewhat re-
sembled They seemed
and eportive enough when they
were in their pative element-—boiling
water-—notwithstandiog the fact that
they did not even have rudimentary eyes.
dP SRVALY
&« Known s
When at that depth ¢
f boiling walter was t spped
0
» 1 1} 1
ent flooed DOLE
{ert
Frye
iy rattan
il had
— NEATLY scalding
ol
ier st
CTOeS
hot
the gold fish,
uvels
water and put ioto buckets of cold
water, for the purpose of being trans-
ported to the surface, they died as
plunged into a kettle of water that was
if it had been
as
Eyeless fish are common enough in ail
ing found in boiling water.-—{5t. Louis
Physical Execcise.
Dr. Sargent estimates that the pursuit
of outdoor sports is limited to probably
jess than one per cent. of ,our vigorous
young men. Even among the members
of a hletic organizations only ten per
cent, are really alive. Dr. Sargent at.
tributes the increasing lack of interest in
athletics to the growing tendency among
Americans, as a people, to pursue s :
to an end. In making excellence in the
achievement the primary object of ath.
lotic exercises they are robbed of half
their value in various ways; for instance,
by increasing the expenses of training:
by the devoting of too much time te
ractice; by reducing the number of act.
ve competitors; by relying u natural
rsa rather than ae iy
by depriving the non-athletic individual
of incentive to physical exertions: by de-
priving the ox of their
as a means of health, Dr.