SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EVERYDAY LIVE. Queer Fats and Thrilling Adven- tures ‘#hich That Truth Stranger Than Fiction, Show is Nor long ago an advertisement ap- peared in a New York paper offering £5,000 for a man who was willing to un- dergo a surgical operation that might be fatal. It appears that thesubject is de sired by two surgeons of of the operation of the gastric | They propose to cut a hole into the sub juices, observe what goes on there, and then ex food and .drink. The advertisement brought 142 replies, some of them writ hoax, but the large majority were in good faith from people who were willing to risk their lives to get $5,000, It is said that man who has figured as a pugilist for a number of years. He is a man of fine physique and vigorous health, and wants the money to start a gymnasium and a saloon, are about even, will not be missed much. He will go to Guayaquil at once, and af- ter being acclimated, will be operated upon. obstruction in railway building. The Tartar General in command at Monkden, the capital of Manchuria, when the sur vey was made for a railroad by the town, had the local sages investigate the mat ter. They reported that the vertebrs of the dragon which encircles the holy city of Monkden would be broken if the long nails of the railway sleepers were driven into the ground. Upon the strength of that the General ordered the engineers to carry the line away f city and over a very marshy route When the matter was brought to Hong Chang he commended the General for his i terest in the expressed an opinion that the Monkden roate was the best for both dragon and coun:ry. The affair would have to be reported to the Emperor. the General had a line laid down a few hundred feet from the former one, the sages pronounced it ali right, Nor so long ago a stowaway found dead under the main hatch of one of the National Line of steamers, He had concealed himself before the steamer left Liverpool, and died of suffocation. Cariously enough in his WHS found a novel “Doomed on the Deep.’ Another singular happened in America. A pleasure party was overturned and drowned in the Hud. Just before the accid in the Wreck.” and was pocket entitled coinctdend © son iver. had been singing **{. More recently a person was charged with from Meosrre, Smith's bookstalls, and sprested two volumes were found sion, one of w ih was entitled Out.” Perer Puinipes, a colored man, lost the power of speech in McDade, Texas, some fifteen years ago. He says he knows no reason jor it. The most curious part of all is that he talks away from town as plainly as any man. He runs his farm in an intelligent way, alwavs making as good crops as his neighbors, and even when unable to talk his trades with the merchants or others are as economically and sensibly made as the average man of his race. For years some have thought + se abstracting a book one of when i8 posses “Found ON people doubted his statement and he could talk if he would, but fur more than twelve years no man has ever heard him speak a word in any town or at any pub lic gathering Ir you wish to talk about absent mindedness you may instance the man in Lewiston, Me,, who, entered an office, transacted ness, and went out leaving a package desk. The tesant of the office saw it, let it lie. But the man came not back, and examination showing that the pack- age contained greenbacks, it was placed in the safe and a boy was sent to hunt up the owner. Then the man came back, hastily for the package, and said there was nearly $1,000 in it. Four thousand dollars in bills most men would not apt to forget in these days. i nw Oxe of the most curious plants in the White House conservatories is called by the superintendent ‘‘vegetable whisky shops,” because their pitchers distil in of insects, each of these receptacles, and it is said that the contents of three or four will in- toxicate a man. The bugs fall into the fluid and their substance is devoured by the plant. roaches, while another actually captures frogs that, once caught, are fa wn to escape because of the thorns extending downward which pierce them when they attempt to jump out, Mus. Parrt Lyre Convins, of Missis sippi, is an invaluable worker in the Dead: Letter Office in Washington, where she is koown as ‘‘the blind reader’—not that she is blind by any means, for she is wonderfully keen sighted. She has a remarkable facility lao ascertaining the intended destination cf letters that are **blind” because of incomplete or imper- fect or incorrect addresses, The Ladies’ Home Journal gives fac simile reproduce tions of rauny seach that she has deciph- ered. One is *'Rickbier Stiejt Kane. diks,” which she correctly read Roxbury, Conn. A straxor phenomenon is reported from Sandersville, Georgia. During a thunder storm a bolt of lightning struck « well, shattering the covering sver it, and carrying the curbing into the bottom. In an instant dense vol. umes of steam began to issue from the well, and as soon as the vapor was dissi- pated sufficiently to make it possible to approach the spot, a bucket of water was drawn up, and found to be boiling, When it had cooled a little a man put his finger into it and received a powerful rlactric shock. A bottle of the water has been sent to the State chemist, A swans, boy in Maine, who brought home a mud turtle from a pond a quarter set free the turtle set off in a bee-line direction toward the pond. The boy tried to confuse tho turtle in every way he could devise, but the turtle was too smart for him and always started off in the right direction as if he knew where he was going and was bound to get there in the quickest time posssible. And now the boy has puzzled the whole town. ship by demanding to know how that turtle knew in what direction his ances. tral pond lay. Tur abyss Jean Nouveau is one of the inost interesting in the world, It oe curs in the calcareous plateau of Ven- toux, and the mouth is about four and a miles south-southwest of Sault, it is simply a vertical pipe, 3 i half i France, | down into the earth for about 500 feet, ends in a8 kind of chamber, { from which another abyss, constructed { by debris, descends for an unknown dis. | tance into the bowels of the earth, It | is supposed to be the vent of an ancient i geyser. A Le Mans (Towa) genius has in- { vented and recently obtained letters patent on a very useful device, It is a dog muzzle so constructed that he can { not bite and an attachment goes with it which prevents him from howling. A small rubber tube runs from the side his mouth to the center of his ears, and whenever Lie barks or howls the sound is | increased by a mechanical arrangement | similar to a phonograph. This multi- pled sound strikes on the drum of the dog's ear nnd frightens him so he ceases his howling. Tug Caliph of Khartoum is in a bad i way. He owns 700 watches, and not one In 1885. when the Msh- | dists invaded the town, all the European of watchmaking. not know the time—awkward, very The Caliph has sent a special messenger to Suakin to i engage a watchmaker, but he has been received very coolly, The Khartoum is said to be ruthe understand and the natives ruler of r quick and capable of cutting off your head if all his watches don't Keep time to the second, Ix a private boarding hou nati live two small fan two grown he 5 f yet these two {amie : peo ted ana one ‘ persons child io each family, ted that father, three m thers law, une there is among two are grana ire le (ie uncle, 0 {ies are 80 conned them one widows), voe mother-in two ther, aunts, one two ue brotoer-in two « nephew, one one sister-in niece, sins, Sisters, aw, wile iaw, one husband and one Ox John Kreutzer's Portsmouth, th iy a terrible fight on. The Iatter tore *'g flesl forty-acre farm re. a } : ¥ 8 Dull and 0, there was between ing chunks of his teet the ruction gq A sraxien belonging to a milkman om West Keene, N. H., caught a wood muck a few days ago for him the which in 8 rough-and dog dragged his a few feel away a match and until ame so weak ditch under the water he was nearly drowned aud bec thon tha : When Le that he could be easily dog made It Is pos tively Kaos raliroa « 28. iy tes were u fore the ean run i wn Savanoah to that themselves of the ning eity. and are Septem DY them, there in most apt ber or October, when they come by the thousand A ranven seventy-five Mich.,, had fish pond near Niles, trout in his 4 Wishing totransfer them to another poaa to have free access to the fish for a short time, upon his return cranes had visited the pond and killed and eaten every one He left and A peat from a remarkable eause oe county, Georgia, re. reached out her hand to pluck a sprig from the roadside and was bitten on the finger by a katydid Her hand and arm soon began to swell, and in a few hours she died in great agony, Tne * Rocking Stone.” in Sullivan York, weighs forty tons, by the pressure of a finger, yet so solidly inid the combined strength of 100 men without artificial appliances could not displace it. Jonx Boxsenr, a Georgia farmer, who died the other day at the age of 87 years, was the father of twenty-three children, all by one mother, and as they grew up and married all cettied on farms adjoin. - The Evil of Fretting, everywhere and by everybody underesti- mated and quite too much overlooked in valuation of character, It fretting; so common that unless it rises above its usnal monotone. we do not ob. serve it, minutes it wi ~~that is, makes more or less complain- ing statement of something or other, which most probably every ove in the room, or in the car, or on the street cor- ner, it may be, knew before, and which probably nobody can help. Why say anything about it? It is cold, it is hot, it is wot, it is dry; somebody has broken an appointment; iH cooked s meal; stu. pidity or bad faith somewhere has re- sulted in discomfort. * There are plenty of things to fret about. It is simply as- tonishing how much annoyance may be found in the course of every day's liv ng, even at the simplest, if one only keeps a sharp oye out on that side of things, Even Holy Writ says we are prone to trouble as sparks to fly upward. But even to the sparks flying upward in the blackest of smoke there is a blve sky above, and the less time they waste ou the road the souner will reara is, Fretting is all time on the road, — {New York Advertiser, FOR THE FAIR SEX. AUTUMN JACKETS, English tailors are making autumn jackets double-breasted and straight in front, with the back slightly flaring below the waist, these jackets, though many are shorter, with revers and collar faced with white or eream bengaline edged with rows of {Atlanta Constitution. e— TRUNKS FOR THE LUXURIOUS. A young woman of luxurious tastes trunk in not only a lid that will open and turn baok as in the ordinary trunk, but opens also down the front, The various trays can then he drawn out without unpack- ing the entire contents. Young women who have many fine gowns usually have those in a long, wide trunk by them- selves, one gown in each of the many trays. go into the trunk of every one journeys away from civilization rubber bathtub, [New York Post. who SILLY, BUT FASHIONABLE. Fashions change very quickly nowa- days. Bearcely has the rank sod file adopted the whim of the high-lifted elbow in shaking hands, when suddenly it good form to give a hand- swing, rather, in this form of salutation, special to English-speaking races, hand is dropped low, as if you were trailing it through the water in a row It sweeps into the greeting hand of the friend, which is not but carried in the same way, and the two joined | are loosely swung from side. The pump handle shake of very old style, up and down, is entirely avoided, the palms are not closed or pressed, the flugers interlace, that is all St. Louis Repal becomes boat, also lifted wsnds side to sl Lae CAPES, BOSNETS AND on pes this generally the parasol and bonnet or hat to ¢ i, and bewitching 1 trimmed French bonnets o ace, have PARA Lace have SER8SOND very rrespond, ye with been a ed il Hmporiers of one without withstand capabi uxtapos: , and the purchase other shows a power youd the many Lie Lo temp ation ix w oman { ne Lanle For ex of cream silk ities of any and a long a sunshade silk of the same with a moth ast sevemnece w i French dress F IMEran § sO which peep out i blossoms of InK ne tiful withal, an welled ornam his charming the dress with another that Onses 1% 80 pre ity and yet in an inexpensive featu present fashion. It costs no more, th large or small, harmonious as to detail than it make it up of hs im New York Advertiser 8 I re of any of be ¢ sum i to have the toilet does to IrChasos A DRIVIRG-YRII The PINE Ot mask vel tite of fashion A small lace veil o must cl and wely than has been for the past few years, [Instead othly over the face it is p in folds at the side and the back of the head. Tissue greasdine uch worn g in colors to match the hats, IT will give ve ‘ ¥ wid ing-veil, # i cover it worn th io the veils will be m Sins spr ti un wrinkle for a Or one to in weather,” said a fashionable young Woman, which is the most com fortable thing going, as it is impossible to blow off, or get out of position. Bay a large squate of any colored grenadine you like, and fasten at each corner a small beavy button. Throw the whole veil over your hat, leaving two corners hanging behind, and two in front. Then Wear windy ‘one around the ned kK under the hair at the back, over the two back ends The buttons being heavy keep the whole ends back prevents all the unlecoming folds over the face, which are so ugly when the fulness is all gathered up at the sides. I got this idea from my mother, who teils me that when she was a young girl they sll wore their veils over their big hats in this way.” York Tribune. : THE SPIEL-TEPPICH. All German women are practical; the majority of families in towns live in a small way in flats and keep one raw re- cruit by way of a hand maiden, who the last baby. The life is not easy, but ) help When a baby begins to crawl and learn the use of his logs, he is twice teppich. the play carpet, which is reall a picture-book in bright colors painted, as it seems to the baby, oa the floor. The diversion carpet which I saw was made of a piece of gray felting one and & quarter yards square, faced with stout dress lining of corresponding color, and there were nearly fifty figures spread all over it in eaecgetic action. In the center #tood a white robed angel with a golden crown on his head ; around him daneed Kate Greenaway children in scarlet gown aud mob caps, and sailor boys in lue. A larger set of figures formed the outer ring; there was a clown in brilliant red mad yellow ; a roaring lion in vivid orange; old Father Christmas ang oo chimney sweep carryin, emblems of his sy Mi pS Pothat, ladder and broom, The Sslection of res for such a carpet a on what material is et hand aod ah strikes individual taste as preferable. German women spend many hours of labor to create a hand. some spiel . them on; or kunitking an entire figure such as the elown, to stitch it on after. ward, The main thing is to have a diversity of figures, und to keep them in { gny eolors always, with the exception of the chimney sweep, who should be en- tirely black if ho is to be a good German, a8 the gentlemen of his trade all wear | velvet coats and cork their face and i hands, [I saw a practical demonstration | of the usefulness of the diversion carpet when 1 took tea one afternoon with n { busy German frau whose baby boy i nearly eighteen months of age occupied i himself during the entire period of my visit, sitting very contentedly in the middle of his pieture-book rug and { pointing out to himself the various ani- {mals and dancing ficures and trying to call them by name.--[Courier-Journal, FARHION NOTER, Yellow straw hats are trimmed with | white satin rosettes and blackbirds or | wings Ombre surah gowns have a plain or accordion plaited silk muslin vest, { New sailors are trimmed with | bow of changeable ribbon holding tiny | black wings. strings. {| Some of the French | now have trained skirts. ia little long. The have been | growing smaller and the puff falls in stead of rising the shoulder. A brunette wears yellow satin with gold net flounces: a blonde Appears in black and white satin and magnificent dia- monds, with two large black wings in her fair hair, evening sleeves on A picturesque wrap for a small child is a full red cape, Over a white frock it very effective sucgests Red Riding Hood Hed are greatly in favor with as well, and there is no is and cloth { apes grown-up pm opie prefitier extra at the seashore brilliant garment for the carriage, sing than one of these bits of eolor Or mount Spangied brocades are among the new | silks, silver, , mourning sliowere fsray, is exec i New rings have th covering the to lated atest I'he FOVen as 11 aries Fhis ¢ wavy Bp Arne The latest thing noets The low, close.f fing Cr This is set Then feather wing rinkled with fine bonnet in the most un IWh is made of vari colored beads in a frame o flowers two beads » ate bonnets is cht ready in shape and in parts the bang may be ribbon, with {ull is fastened to hat of and can be boy rather | two Between arranced J bow oops and P si paris sinted ends, ver frame in it +h 2k WAVY hh the pin, the er front by a jeweled s placed right back « These #i'ver bonnet i T™ i r $4 I'hey are an eco- nomical purchase, be: : ap i pear as the fo bonnets WHA ae FOR ydation for Beige.colored trimmed with guipure lace and a girdie of two or three bands of satin ribbon, is a favorite dress this season. It has a Figaro Jacket slightly beaded with jet, and the ribbon passes through the back of the Jacket. More often it is a simple round corsage, the lace forming epauletics, a fichu or a deep cape collar falling over the siceve tops, the ribbon girdle having full rosettes in back and front. crepot often | Shot effects have been introduced in | hosiery as well as into all fabrics for | feminine attire, and may be found to | match or contrast harmoniously with the gowns of many colors now popular. The | prettiest evening stockings have lace | insertion over the top of the foot and the instep, Some have pieces of colored i baby ribbon to match the dress rua in { and out of the lace, but the prettiest as | weil as the most costly bave medallions { or insertions of real lace over the instep. The inevitable navy-blue serge con. tinues to be an important dress in every wardrobe, and here is a model a little unusual in style, which may prove an ac- | ceptable change, The dress is of serge, trimmed with white braid. The blouse waist, with the exception of a narrow yoke, is made of alternating rows of red and white checked ribton and white guipure insertion, while the yoke is of | serge, striped with braid, and the Bolero Jacket and full sleeves are also of serge, trimmed with two rows of braid. Wonderful Plece of Engineering, Modern skill and facilities permit won. derful things to be done by great corpo- rations without interrupting daily busi. ness. The Frankfort (Ky.) Call says: “The more one thinks of the underta. king the more wonderful it looks. The L. and N. Railroad spanned the river with an entire newbridge eight feet higher than the old structure that has been en. tirely removed, without even so much as retarding any trains over the old or the new structure so long as five minutes at a time, and without a casualty of a serious nature ha ing during the of the ty This, in peach wor is ns t a piece of work as can be singled out in this country. This work has done so guietly and with so little purads that many of our people do railroad bridge that is sight foet higher t than the old re She--1 will keep those roses you seht me forever THE BODY AND 11'S HEALTH. Lessex tng Nenve Straw, —Nerve by very For instance, by a sand Simple MEANS, 1 or a glass of milk when one feels a wic bite to eat, and you will feel lots more like going about your business, throbbing headache may sometimes be can be borne. and the whole body weary with overex. a lounge or bed for half an hour's rest will frequently insure a very comforts ble state of both mind and body for the remainder of the day. Over Eatine.—Half of the people 1 know have violent attacks of indigestion, because they will persist in eating hearty meals when in an exhausted condition, says a contributor to the Journal of Hygiene, ing to realize that there are times when the system is in no fit state to grapple with a full meal, They come in tired and hungry, almost ravenous, mot think- ing that maybe a good deal of what they consider hunger is gosiric irritation, then sit down table with the substantials of go to work to overtax strained vital powers, eat heartily when very tired, The wisest thing to do is drink a cup of hot water with three tablespoonfuls of milk in it, sit down for five minutes, and then begin slowly to eat, masticating thor- oughly. In a little while the the stomach will come back, and a be well, If this course were § there would not be one « where now there sre a dozen. to be the most of all prox rly to appetite, seems to be their will power to get When once mastered, » ton covered the already to vigor ol i Will wed, ase of dyspepsia L seme things it Gdiiicuit Coutrol the master it under co trol mething hed self tant has been accompli cipline, Is Tue Best Tne question is asked in an article Was American Household September number of the zine, says a the Philadeiphia Press The one of vital terest Lo a majority of pie, and titnes as these Curarest? Of {te in Forum in writer in BUD ect in American peo eR eCia i3 i such depressed bere is no such shame less waste in any Ame rican life ) sults partly fre this frui i largely from the lack of a koow how to handle food in CooXing and bad judgment io selecting it. 1 the American people woul the French nat ) And yet Americans are neither r 50 well fed as the Frend ¥ other de partment of it re Diesses tful country, b on wi the workingmen of ¢ larger bank accoun r scale of wa yuntry have th it results from the high and the greater abundanoe of work prevail here. One of the causes for wasle the popular beliel that ‘‘the best is always the cheapest.” This is a “fad” that has been strengthen i by { principle and practic ER that this ix generations of The maxim has passed from of mother to daughter one of the i living. Concerning Forum article the ways in ple are uneconomical needlessly high priced error, prejudice, the pals cooking are mainly responsible is a prevalent but unfounded ids costly foods, such as the tenderest the finest fish, the highest priced | the choicest flour and the most t vegetables posscss some peculiar virtue whieh is lacking in the less « Lpensive materials, Many who have comes and really wish to think it beneath them to use the che aper meat and inexpensive but substantial groceries. People pay for flavor rather than for nutriment, and in many house. holds high prices are depended on to make the table attractive when it mao has £3 ii i is oome » ii For this poor and del small economize, be far better if they were practiced.” The truth of this passage has been made evident to every observer of the Ameri- can standard of living. There is a qualities, the muscle producing, life sus. taining elements of different kinds of foods, materials shows that fo use scientific terme, the protein grams and energy producing calories, or real life-giving in the coarser foods than in the finer, at 25 cents a pound contains sixty-eight at 8 centsa pound contains 218 protein and 2.595 energy calories bas 127 protein grams and energy ealorvics, and salt cod protein grams and 1,105 energy Comparing wheat flour and Comparing 345 protein grams and 9,190 energy cal erica, while the latter has 163 protein grams and 7,690 energy catorics. These are technical terms, but they are used to show the proportion of muscle-pro-. ducing, life-sustaining qualities in the different kinds of popular foods. How can we remedy the evil which is “born of false pride, carelessness and ig- norance!” More attention paid to the subject in the education of men is one method » are oa a he pit a t DEWSpApEr press, opr lectures yi health foed © tions are practicable remedies. But as this ignorance of foods and consequent waste is much greater among the than any other class, the influence oollege settlements and missions can exact is important, The establishment of a model kitchon and coffee house in connection with the Hull House settlement in Chicago is significant in this way. Miss Jane Addams, the head of that enterprise, said in a recent letter thar “it is part of to recognize that ly & question of the stomach,” ard that in the buying and preparing of proper foods *‘there is the chance of more saving than in any { other item of living.” With the im- | portance of this subject recognized the | responsibility of every person, who has | pertinent knowledge on it, of importing it to others becomes apparent, PULLING A SNAKE'S TOOTH, i { The Amateur Dentists and the Eleven. Foot Boa Constrictor, Edward Schmidt, the proprietor of the bird store on Twelfth street, the other morning enjoyed the of piayi f dentist to constrictor, His royal pythonic st sixty I is usual privilege eleven-foot boa highoess weighs vislued at #1 One of the most remarkable up is bis mouth, It hear of the jaw” in mo- but Mr. Boa can sunt of consterus- he gets ready by ping about six inches of lower jaw, measuremn He can an equal amount of upper jaw at the same time, and his no is provided with a | convenient lateral hinge arrangement by | Which It can be prea sidewlise snd pre- sent a total about the size of a bandbox It was this mouth, with a good, ser teeth, but uo puison into per pound, fentures of his make is a common “dropping of one's lower plarase Lo ments of consternation, + tiie largest am i! ut up in L6S line when cut, raise receptive surface of | viceable set of igs, that got Mr, Snake soon alter his arrival in the ital He was wire cage and {« trouble national ¢ ap- id an lew Digeons dged in a go strong I hen, gorged with pposed to be the habit of Constrictor amused him- was of wire netting ree ead of going to sieep at hes master, who reement his springs, exaust fb ieel of is ng himsell “#1 h up As a for a decikied i to handle his choice res as-caleh Lira Can man itherner on 4 Will 8 sii} last foot out of the length, ful is power at 8 riunity his he Mr mix up that was inconvenient came t out 8, lay Liead on Lhe top vy in an un- at 10 came 1a his neighborhood, wl ington Post intelligible ! th J an dialect every one ~! Wash A Wife-Choosing Ceremony. N iples lies the little Annunziata, “Day of Our a brief life and row belore the high sitar kneel ti 5, all in black garments, with folded hands snd eves which, onon Ear, on 30 La iy.” excitement. { fore those who fixed on the picture of the Madonna be. them. These are orphans from the | neighboring foundling rium, and once ia year all have reached the | age of eighteen are brought here to the church, and may be chosen in marriage | by any honest man whose papers are in order, and whose chara is good. At {the door leading to the sacristy leans a gray-headed priest, the head of the asylum. Byand by a young man makes his way from the back of the church, and hands him a little packet of papers, These the priest reads carefully and, be. ing evidently satisfied, he gives back the { papers and leads the candidate towards the row of girls. All their eyes are fixe! more steadfastly than ever on the altar, ail their hands are clasped tighter | together, their faces turn a shade paler, | their hearts beat quicker as the young man walks slowly along the row. At last he stops, His choice is made, He stretches oat his hand with a little smile. thanks, half entreaty—at the picture of the Madonna, puts ber hand into that of the stranger, and together they disap. pear into the sacristy. The ice being thus broken, other suitors come forward, {New York Mercury. Varieties of Woodpeckers, The imperial woodpecker is an exag- geration ~ the aS rol horny woodpecker. [tis nearly two feet long, its plumage biack and white, with a gorgeous soarlet crest, its bill white, It lives in Mexico and in the Sierra Madre mountains. These birds are always found in pairs and are destroyers of trees, ms they devote their entiree to ene tree UF 44 long 90 & Sureaight, iu. Jani 1 50 gremly hat the tree dies. Europe and there is a - beaded woodpecker. The largest Eu. ropean woodpecker is seventeen inches loki, ines with scarlet crest. It is called the great black woodpecker, The little brown woodpecker wf Ceylon is not five inches long, i ng little crea wood ie : ture lives in the pine woods of the ‘woodpeckers, snd they inhabit fio ¥. nt every art of the globe. [Chicas
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