aia abs SOMEWHA LCCIOENTS AND EVERY DAY LIVE, Advens ruth Is Queer Facts and Thrilling tures Which Show That stranger Than Fiction, A New York Tribune roptributor who spent some years at work ina powder miil describes an uncanny ex perience as follows: The lust explosion that occurred during my experience as a powder monkey had an uncanny inci dent, or forewarning, SOUe persons would call it, connected with it, that has always been a subject of much curiosity to me. 1 have never been a believer in the supernatural, but the case was ex actly as I will state it. One warm even- ing in early Junc I started out for a stroll after supper, and on my return, about 10 o'clock, I had to cross a bridge over a stream connecting two of the mill ponds. The corning mill behind a bluff about 300 fect from the road, leaving only the peak of the roof visible from the bridge The water as dressed and swimming around in the pond. After I had tired climbed out on the bridge and of was let mitl, a strange sight met my serched upon the peak of the x grinning skull, the bony conformatios lit up with a bright, phosphorescent fight, and the vacant cavities at the eyes nose and mouth perfectly black, gazing al me with its blank, unwinking s f looked at it for some time In ment, then finished dressing onze and within a short distance of it; but still remained, with the same steady, stare, I felt a cold, creepy pass over me, and frichtened, a feeling of awe took posses of me, and turning I went slowly home, looking back now amd then to se it still grinning after me About half past 6 o'clock the next mor ing mill exploded, followed 1mm diately by its near neighbor, mill. tt explosion had occurre i shortly after seven the been large, as it was the cust man who carted the powd will begin his day’ Te 2) ing mill, and usually there 811 the glazing thea «0 would have of from the + loss of life nm 1h s work nt the g were five Ol red the six. anid sometimes more, gath that hour every morning. minutes’ time all but the man who ran the mill. The pond, which I had bathing the night before, wements of his ull over the were rebuilt and re operations I handed in my resignation. saved t in and ir DOUY bottom. SErOWT ny near Texas, HAD an experience Swi in Nolan County, “ it st .. 88 hie f the Laclede House, a cowboy in those days. lone from Buffalo G ip to The second night | was ou camp about an hour by su wit my horse at the mountain, and while hun some fagots with which to maski i ran across an © in ti pon investigation Iv curiosity got copchuded that I I cocked both of veeded cautiously, : ten feet in the cave I was attacked by an army of ferocious bats. I a hasty ‘ of course, bu followed ie and flew at me from all striking me in the face with their sharp- wings and on the hands and cars. [ fought them as best I could aod ouly frightened them away by firing off my pistol several times, and the flash of the powder had the effect of driving them back into their nest in the eave. Of course [ mo night. The next day I met a sheep herder and related to him my strange ex He then told me that a few months before a rancher living near Fort Concho was traveling in that and had met with a similar z more serious than mine, He camped to the cave, aroused the bats and beat his eyes out with their wings was picked up days wandering around over the prairies, party of emigrants, He had been mad from his terrible fight, and two years later I learned that he had died in the madhouse at Austin, 1 understand that the cave was blown up with dyna mite about five years ago, Daan { 3 beat retreat, me opts sid 8, pointed ings biting me perience Vicinity espe 1 + wo inter, by a Toere was a sensation the other Sun day at North Derby, Conn , which the worshipers who had a share iu it will not soon forget. A dog and bull formed a combination which proved demoralizing to the codgregation of the Loong Meadow mocting-howse, otherwise known as the Church of the Freedom, as it was the first church in the state to take under its roof colored people on an equality with whites, ~The dog was dozing in a when a stock dealer drove a herd gattle by the mecting house, The dog van among the herd and stampeded the cattle dashed into the church and came stand in the centre of the cdifice, fon The As far as his hearers were conceracd th iiscourse ended then and there, as every body tried to get out at once and the steer place, remain and drive the animal out, le «came down from the pulpit to nadegtake the task himself, but he was not suecgss- ful, and had he not sought refuge ib a «w where the steer could not reach hi the infurfated animal would have maddy short work of him. The clergyman wa compelled to sit perched on the back of the pow and watch the steer demolish the church property. When the animal became tired he trotted ow’, The pastor re-entered the pulpit, and when his con: gregation had returned he tock up his sermon at the point where iv ond Deen wo rudely interupted. Avi the poetry and gun play has not yet been eliminated from life in she far West. A Cheyenne paper tells of the killing of seven men in the vicinity of Hystivitls, Wyo., on onc recent day. Two deputy United Etates marshals, James Haff and William Nauteher, hunt. | ing for outlaws swho killed another | deputy some time back, came upon a camp of the folk they were after Hull and Nautcher were killed, but they ended the lives of three of the cnemy, It ap pears Nuutcher was a ‘hard case,” al rustler in the late cattle troubles ont that way, but Hufl ‘‘was not a bad fellow Both were made deputy mar shals because of their grit and their knowledge of the other hard characters of the region. This is the principle on which the British, centuries made Morgan, the boldest buceaneer of the Spanish main, 8 Knight and Governor of the Island of Jamaica. This worthy im- mediately set to work to clean out all the other pirates in the interest of law and order. On the same day that the two | marshals had their deadly fight with the outlaw band two rustling geutlemen, setting out from the neighborhood of Hyattville with sixty head were overtaken by ‘professional who came upon them on Biz Horn river, ‘shot them from behind, | and left their bodies for the coyote 8.’ Heo, of stolen horses, How much of method there is in mad ness sometimes was startlingly illustrated a lunatic from the Priends' Asylum, who the other day broke away from his keeper while the two were walking in Frankford, savs the Philadelphia Record Wildly gesticulating and looking as i termined as if he were about to leap over Nisgara, the maniac ran like a deer to a point a little way ahead of the Reading d's Frankford bran “dinkey’ » which hauls es ads of earth LO I which was g too fast than a cars ngineer | ho expe tend mancled body of that self-same Inoatic leap to hi ot too cle . n Passe 1 man i back with they : oking where a suicide 1 na Lo ow his h carefu wave moniacal had nn as quiet As possible midway be him back to the cOoultl DE jearnt are @ «dd by restaurant K £50,000 to at + w beaten lost legal appeased All his interest vanished ision. Now the entire purchasing « the csect dee devoted ers for 2,000 Par to designate the diners d sen be invitation. A wemp and Government Rev, Joshua i ful i i with dium the of the dained Presbyterian the Indians have become the treaty, and | Lately ssatisfied with ile it three weeks ago held a v blame of its Abo of medicine men and ites they produ several meeting, after performing several mystic od on skin picture of Given drawn on it. an with a d one of them shot an arrow through the breast Ti more mysten ev then went through atic i i to Given that after of the picture 4 performances, bleed uid begin to at the hemorrhng =i] hia th followed As the a grew near Mr, Given was v ppointed Gin ery much de. and when the time sken iil wmorrhage, Several i oil sreswed came had a others have was violent fol suddeniy and Ax Italian Inborer was paid some money the other day, in all, and took it home to his wife, After counting the money over together they laid it on the table for a moment while they adjourned to the corner gro- to celebrate their wealth, Return. ing in nn few minutes, they found the money gone. There was nobody in the house but a mangy yellow cur, and after looking high and low for the funds they concluded that he must have stolen them, especially as on examination they found a bit of green paper adhering to his teeth, Accordingly the dog sacrificed and a post mortem held on his remains, with the result that all the money was found in his stomach. It was tora into pieces, but these were care fully fitted together and forwarded | through a bank to the Treasury for re- | of Detroit, Mich, ey ii cory Whs of the govern- | have a way of | Tue young peasants of Kiev, Russia, appointed love. If one of them woos a | girl and she refuses to accept him as her suitor, without explaining the resson | why she rejected him, the fellow assem. bles all the young men of the village! around her house. They bar the door and windows from without, so that no ! one ean leave the house or enter it, and make a fiendish noise the whole night through. This is sometimes repeated for a whole week in succession, and the Re snd her folks are deprived of their berty and their nights’ rest, Or all the extraordinary scientific ex- periments, surely the most extraordinary 14 that reported by the London Times’ correspondent as having been made at St. Petersburg. Bome trials of armour plates were going on, and ‘this trial was made use of to enrry out a very curious experimegt to decide the effects of heavy gun-firing upon the nervous system of animals, A gumber of rabbits were slung up in bags on frames close to the fe line of fire, and dogs and cats were also tied up under cover beneath the muzzle of the gun.” The result is not given, it is easy to imagine that the ner vous system of the poor brutes suffered ther severely, Tie following described device is in use by the mill: peddlers in Berlin, Ger from the milk, through the motion of the wavon, A large copienl shaped pie 0 of tin, perforated with holes ns large as holes at the larger end, is inserted, point upwards, in each can, It the Berlin milkmen that by the use of this simple contrivance the milk at the bottom of the can, after a day in tho wagon, will be as rich as the first draw. ing in the morning. Milk in Berlin is sold for 54 cents a litre (a litre is a small fraction more than & quart. i= claimed by latnway experts in Chie given out the very curious piece of in formation that when the bulk of heavy traffic moves Eastward, and the cars re turn practically empty, the whole road bed shifts to the cast about three feet a When heavy moving the other way the tracks are tionary. This true, and apparently contrary to reason, for when the (reight is toward would think that freight is ' 3 soul sta a very curious fact, if 1% moving the east, one the con stant push of the locomotives would have a tendency to shift the track in th opposite Tue ported iro was accomplished by 8. E, jowa aire iatest rcapital City fa common $134 Prayer in its | proper th th Omms 1s in sily read wi per In commenss Ce Phe general make reigious ud greatly Huprove ee and tea drinkers.” STRANGE char y thi majority A marriage iv sopular Paris, wking to-do manufsctus ndsome dowry to his hs MUS marriage. ang mArriage, going Cafe de Ia { yes otitside The the coachmen 5. invariable While a drink, the cortege visits the case ade, that little arty ficial Switzerland which the programine is take genius of M. i two hundred The he bridegre 5 ares, wn, the bridesmaids, : the and the guests climb up the steps and pass Mjunre 3 rice, the Zroomsmen, parents, gallery under the cascade, form a liguid crystal cur. tain through which is seen the magnifi- panorama of the plain of and the soft hills of Then fol in the fine avenues of the Avenue des Champs Elysees, and boulevards, and so to the various rq rants of different grades that make cialty of wedding | delay, Vefour, or t ris taurants of the environs and of the fan bourgs. The table has a joyous aspect in all these establishments ; it is laid with art and served with apparent abundance, whatever the price may be; and the wed. ding guests are joyous and noisy until order is called for the speeches and songs, in a popular Parisian wedding the bride has to sing her little song like the rest, The pout of the family recites some verses, and everybody has something to v, to sing, or to do, insymuch that a wedding dinner is often merely a pro text for eloquence and amateur histriouis along the whose waters cent Long- Surcsnes and dri the the stan champs Saint Cloud ving lows further bois, Bd casts Gillet, Lemar lav, i mon lest 3 Or ENY., RELIABLE RECIPES, Paxcaskps, Two cups of milk, one egw, two spoons of sugar, two teaspoons a stiff batter: fry in hot lard. Rye Baeagkvasr Cakes Two capsof soda, a little salt. Mix very soft, and rings, Saver vor Prov Puopise, - Two table- spoonfuls of butter; one cup powdered sugar; half cup boiling water and wine- glassful brardy. Cream the butter and sugar, add the brandy and bailing water, and beat until very light, If you object to brandy you may substitute the juice of one large or two small lemons, Crupny Baap. Cut your celery into inch lengths, lay {i in a bowl and put it on the ice until needed. After it is brought on the table pour over it a French dressing co of three tablespoon. fuis of oil, two of vinegsr, a valtspoon. ful of salt, a half teaspod sugar and three or four dashes of black pepper. : FOR THI LADIES 1 VARHIONS IN Fashion favors the round waist and the one that is slightly pointed 8 front equally. Some corsages are mnde in natural length and others with o tens dency toward the short empire style, | and again others arcin direetoire fashion, | with long tabs front and back and velvet | hretelies that spread ont wideiv on the shoulders and taper poiut at the waist, [New Orleans Picayune, CONBAGES { mek and fo a the skin, she » few into the water, on 74% a drops Hie have an extended run fashion and s beautifier witico both Atlanta Constitution, they act in I economical na perfume A CHINESE HYROUINE We sory, do not look for heroines in Chinese Init there are ple itv to be found, The most famous of them was Hwakee, who has been DARNING AB A FINE ANT 1 Do vou know that darning really is » fine art? It is not as it is usually ducted, but as it may be it is. A three | cornered tear, that worst of all breaks to | repair, may be so finished that it will need the closest inspection to where it All woolens are after a regular fashion, Find what it ia by looking carefully at the cloth, Under the rent | Take the goods, a fine and durn just as the the goods runs Cnt the thread each time the has come to the other side. Trim smoothly and press, You will be your fine work. —{8t, Loui con- | show | is, Woven baste a pect of cloth, ravelings of need! Weave of needle HOW A Here is is wonderi 4 living stating mendin VOMAN CAN MAK] + scheme for some she shall do to make get up a business card aii { rk to he ealled kinds gr fi for and returned, with BOIne the knows of, cards, iv of to be PRUNAresses landla house she Gistrinnte MGA men tl ar nt i darn § whos mend she does reason up enougl swirls ¢ handker welled it bh ippen in New out, bo § or r Innocent and neerned, lic's Paris hit pon fhe Imuatlos ex sithough : nlexion con) it riz and warn wentl th wie (eR dave of rin rost and winds, the correct thing for cot wenther being FASHIONS CAPR MAITRDRS of } od te went Mr ressing OwWnwan aden Ys and many smart women now hair thre p nr The #0 as to inches belo thing most of sirable the 4 COAT it ink widitional 15s hair vse off, purchase of many It mav « ward times, and women friends of it. The hair should aver the head, fi pro 5 100 does always make, 1 be attained by the use of The long dressing the hair is not as the round, when | this is caught in to show the lines of the head, orks je c about it at get to know be waved all which nature it which can caring jue Ons Lie asked not tongs, wt 80 becoming and coat collars, too, but is ai for the evening. Indeed, one smart lady says it furnishes the back of her The only hat which suits comfortably over | such an arrangement is a flat felt pan cake. like affair, may be puljed about with impunity. Even has a | tendency to slip gently down one's cra ! nium unless a comb is put in the koot of hair at the back to keep it up Chic ago Herald It rather ruins dresses | very well 3 BECK, which hig small by She was queen of a allied, like so many others ¥ but independent. V hen had established maritime provinces, and threat itself, in 1552, peror, in enced Pekin Hwakee visited the Em proclaiming a divine mission for his deliverance, He had the wit to re ceive her gratefully her dispossl which terrible : before leading tt} neainst After many dele themselves the nis “lie Bevery Jem the for its the wat U4 Col they and though the tinted of had but chance afterwards 3 a moGe no Chinese women occurs to us guarantee, at least, of an imperisl « it Putung. el 5 Liu and a memorial arch nbsurdly she ran to . pareuts, wi reason to $31 I MECSEIOn tended YEUrS Bie supportin household by her thew and buried them, | rebels marched upon Putus she might have es she had no wish to | id costume Tortoise shel > we #44 § $94 * ¥ gragamoliner wraps, style of garments, There is a charming display shot and striped silks, sating, and French muoires for evening wear, Handsome silks are brocaded with tiny roschuds, and have old-fashioned look. 8 sory Same of the new sleeves are formed of two or three puflings, and finished with a deep frilling. The bell skirt is now superseded bay many others, but they all bear a family likeness to that once popular skirt of winter overgaiters and the 3 a Tan colored seal brown are career. Ai destined {« Milliners must lie awake long hours at LEMOX PERFUMED BOUDOIRS The not of woman whose purse strings nre who enjoys A {ragrance in her own particular snuggery has resorted to the use of sliced lemon, which hy the by is a particularly sankening and refreshing odorizer, Upon the toilet table stands a tiny jar, | within which several slices of the goiden- | fruit repose, these diffusing | throughout the apartment the most pan. | gent and fascinating of perfumes { Fancy runs riot in the matter of lemon | jars; anything and everything goes, pro. | the longest, but £ is the grotesque Japanese jar, mounted | on three fantastically twisted legs, which | may be picked up at almost any curio | shop. The bright carmines, rich blues | and old golds that decorate it lend a dash | of charming color to the room which it | adorns, Then there is the commonplace | lined with brush and paints a branch from which droop miniature lemons aud their leaves, In fact, soft-hued speci. mens in chion of all shapes and sizes offer this novelty perfume a home; but it remains for a bright young woman to esclipse these everyday affaire by a piece of her own handiwork. Six sections were cut from lemon-tinted celluloid, alike in shape and size. These when laced together formed the sides, The lower ends were turned under, and attached with a few stitches, to a pastebonrd bottom covered with yellow silk. The slightly curled tops of the celluloid see. tions gave a tulip-like finish to the re. Sepia e. A small glass bowl placed within this fetching trifle was the rest. ing place for the lemon. is toilet dainty does double duty, as a scent and complexion aid, for when now worn by the girls of the period. Evidently Gotham has gone maul on plaids, Such a run of the ma terial has never before been known there, Imported green carnations are a fad just now ; so too, are the brown chrysan themums. Jewels of all kinds are now stuck on the bonnet, hat, aod yarious parts of the COn Rov n. Women these days who do not wear a cape of seme kind are in the rear of the crowd. Nobody ever saw such “loud,” gaudy snd grotesque fashions in dress as now obtain, of robin’s eg and white hand of gil at from £7 hod TA ~torel fiower-pots are green with an inch wide They con china, upwards Quills | an important part of the rimming on this season's hats, and they w effec, biack being h they come i how, deny the exeeptions, imported bonnets this cannot be duplieated at like an inheritances thing worth having.” Orin in =» lore of the No beaut ana of They amd velvel tlogues are trimmed and iti pure lace and alge tte of herons or mink, lnces, mmbles’ {ails { clustered inst ati ON are + together on one hat, Cut crystal pepper mills, mounted ir the grinding of whole pep are exceedingly acceptable the unpadulter pers at table 10 thos ho appre inte ated flavor of that spice, n-shaped teak wool an inlay of mother of » in excellent taste for hold the delicate ts in wood are made for youth nt and pretty fashion i with a cing 4 favorite, and rosetted in it i's London angler, not erent Commer is and dart long nnd as frantically as ppent the sh pauses De In the appliance HE nay, Lie i A sc gy # i « "ge % himsel{ drawn In long run inechan eal bound 10 ur 3 é \ in, SOT in (Hf cours automa with } i The applian LE proved i rodsters who Ladies ' and m simple ind certain In have tried it now indulge Working from Habit, Chest dely hia, stands an old i ; He al stands there, or shine, © come blow, mud or dust, and bh stood there six in the morning till pine at night {or the last six years. His is white as snow, and lus beard is thick and grizzled. His are shaded by gold rimmed glasses His language {in a most nut Street, minent corner of ye rs. Ways ne ak i NOW, from at hair full blue eves his clothes are n is that of a cultured gentleman, And that is just what he is. Thirty years ago he wasone of New York's big He speaks with pride of the of his handiwork still standing, and which do snot ad vertiee their insignificance even by the i { the noble etre tures of this modern day. Now he seils newspapers on a street corner in Phils delphia. He is fond of talking of his voung son, an artist of some ability, I am told, and his highest desire is to send him to Rome and to Paris. The young man has been studying under a pupil of Gerome, His great wish is to take les sons directly from the hand of the great master. It is a charming thing to hear his father, the newsman, huddied in a corner out of the drifting snow, talk of “my son, the artist.” He just glories in the subject, of which he never scoms to tire, I asked the old man once why he sold papers. He said it was because he was eat and build T's nauy © vide BOCs i i of some Kind he must do or he would What a story of life such a man “ sppenrance, some ‘just from Paris, rule at the afternoon tess that there showld be a silver tea bell in every cup. Shadow or mirror velvets are used for dregs bonnets for afternoon recep. tions, Cream, beige and pink felt bonnets are trimmed with piece velvet, in dahlia, violet, green and pinkish tan. The Maric Stuart bonnet with its arched brim is revived, buat this is a special shape designed wholly for special faces and particular ocoasions. The jong, crinkled white Mongolian fur is dyed in various colors, and used for the full boas that arc now so fashion. able, White gloves with black stitching are worn with evening dresses in which black enters as a trimming, and also with all black toilets, : just completed is made of | : AROUND THE HOUSE. Fugs covered when frying will cook much more evenly, If you heat your knife yéu can opt hot bread as smoothly as cold? A convenient substitute for a cork. screw, when the latter is not at hand, may be found in the use of a common screw, with an attached string to pull the cork. To clean bottles, cut araw potato into small and put them into the bottle with a tablespoonful of salt 10 two table. spoonfuls of water, and shake well to. gether until all the marks are removed. In cleaning a badly soiled t great precaution mould be ed, Prsseis Wiltons or velvet carpots may poe pink to a
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