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