A —————— 8, Anti ————
ACCIDENT AND
EVERYDAY
INCIDENTS
LIK,
Adven-
Truth is
Queer Facis ant Thrilling
tures which Show Thal
Meoanger Phan Fiction,
Ox of the most remarkable and puz
zling storica of somnambulism has re
«en ly como to hignt The subject was
A young cee esiustic at a seminary,
bishop of the was deeply
interested that he went nightly to the
young man's chamber. He saw him get
out of bed, seceure paper, compose and
write sermons. On finishing a page he
read it aloud. When a word displeased
him he wrote a correction with
exac ness. The bishop had seen a be
ginning of some ol these somnambulistic
sermons, and thought them well com-
posed and correctiy written,
ascertain whether the Young man used
his eyes, the bishop put a card under his
diocese 80
| other a monstrosity whose parents for.
i merly lived at Goshen, kod, UU. 8B. A,
{ and which waa born in Jui u ry, 1880,
A wipow living in the Rue Butte.
| aux-Cailles, Paris, would have had her
| house ransncked recently while she was
| taking her habitual Sunday promenade
had it not been for a faithful parrot |
{ which she regards now with particular
| affection as being a gift from her de- |
| parted husband, About 4.30 in the
{ afternoon the concierge of the houses was |
[roused from his siesta by a fearful |
serecoh from the parrot. Rushing up
stairs he met a man coming down the |
steps four at a time. He was a house. |
breaker, and upon meet ng the concierge |
the latter just escaped a
{ his head with a mookey-wrench. Pass. |
ersby succeeded in stopping the thief |
{ and dragged him before the Police Com- |
missary of the district. He said he was
disturbed in his work of ransacking the
| place by the parrot talking in the next |
iroom. The bird asked repeatedly:
| “Who is there? Are vou there, Etienvet”
| and, upon seeing the intruder, roused
{ the whole house,
blow aimed at |
secing the paper on the
him, but he still continued to write. Not
yot satisfied whether or not he could dis.
tingu-h different objects pliced before
him, the bishop took away the piece of
paper on which he wrote and substituted
ssveral other kinds at different times
He always perceived the change, because
the picces of paper were of different sizes,
When ua piece of paper exactly like his
own was substituted he used it, and
wrote his corrections on the places cor
cesponding to those ot his own paper.
kt was by this means that portions of his
His most astouishing production was a
picce of music written with great exacti
tude. He used a cane for a ruler. The
clefs, the flats and the sharps were all
in their right places. The notes
all made as circles, and those requiring it
were afterward blackened with ink.
The words were all written below, but
once they were in such large characters
that they did not come directly below
their proper notes, and perceiving this
he erased them all and wrote them over
again.
were
Bank notes have curious histories at
tacked to them in the way of human
comedy, tragedy and melodrama, says
the New York Home Journal. A collec
tor at Paris of such curiosities got hold,
some vears ago, ola £35 Bank of England
note which had somewhat of a trazic in-
terest connected with it sixty
odd years ago the cashier of a Liverpool
merchant had received tender for a
business payment a Bank of England
note which he held up to the scrutiny
of the light, 80 as to muke sure of ita
Fenuineness He observed some part
ally indistinet red marks or words traced
out on the front of the note beside the
lettering and on the marsin Curiosity
tempted him to try to decipher the words
60 inscribed. With great difficulty.
faintly written were they and
obliterated, the words were found to
form the following sentence If this
aote should fall i the hands of John
Dean, of Longhill, near Carlisle, he will
learn hereby that his brother is languish.
ing a prisoner at Algiers Mr. Dean,
ou being shown the note, last no time in
asking the government
make intercession for his brother's free
dom. It appeared that for eleven long
years the latter had Leen a slave
Dey of Algiers, and that his family and
relatives believed him to be dead. With
a piece of wood he had traced in his own
blood on the bank messare
which was to procure his release. The
government aided the efforts of his
brother to set him free, this being sccom
plished on payment of a ransom to the
Dey. Unfortunately the captive did not
long enjoy his liberty, his vo lily suffe
ings while working as a slave in Algiers
having undermined his constitution
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A wrurer of thrilling stories ad
venture for boys woud fiad a plot
veady to his hand in the charges brought
against two Frenchmen named Rorique,
brothers, who are at prescott awaiting
their trial at Brest. According to the
case for the prosecution, these men are
fatter-day piratesofa particularly dari:
description. On December 15, 1891, the
French schooner Ninroahiti, trading
with Tahiti, left that place under the
command of a native skipper named
Tehae a Tara The first mate was
Joseph Rorique, one of the accused, and
the crew consisted of an Eaglishman
aamed William Gibson, who was the
supercargo, four natives, and a half.
caste, who acted as cook. The vessel
carried 40,000 francs’ worth of goods, to
be exchanged in sme Bouth Sea islands
for mother-uf-pearl and other products
At one of these out-of-the-way ports
Joseph Rorique’'s brother, Alexander,
came on board, and the two then planned
the mutiny.
Englishman were shot, and the crow, all
but the cook, were killed by means of
poisoned fond : whereupon the brothers
took command of the vessel, painted out
the name, substituting that of ‘Le Roi.’
and making a descent om a little island,
forced some of the inhabitants to come
and man the ship. Possibly they might
have remained undiscovered, but Jor the
fact that some time afterward they
thereupon went and gave information io
the authorities of one of the Caroline
Islands.
A cuiLp has been born at Birmiog
tuum. Eogland, which bears a strong re-
semblance to mn frog. Its skin is warty
and cold and clammy to the touch.
When it cries it is said to make an un-
earthly squeaking noise, sounding mach
more like the cronking of a frog than
the erying of a child, Its form in gen
eral, ns well as the contour of its limbs
and the expression of its eyes, also sug-
gests the genus Batrachin. It has but
three fingers on cach band and four toes
on each foot, both toes and fingers being
“‘webbed" or joined one to the other by
a thin membrane. Besides the points
already enumerated it is said to have
several other characteristics of the frog,
even to the huge, knotty-looking, lidless
eyes. The mccount says that the parents
are almost distracted over the affair and
hourly pray for their uncanny offspring
to die. A prominent medical journal in
waking a record of the ocourrence sava:
“There are two other ‘frog-child’
cages on record, one the offspring of a
Pinte squaw in Nevada, which was born
some twelve or fourteen yours ago; the
Ix Florida Life, a new monthly maga
zine published in Jacksonville, is an ar-
ticle from the pen of B. W. Partridge, of
i Monticello. In it he describes the effect of
| thedrought of 1891 on Lake Miccosukie, |
one of the largest lakes in middle Florida,
when about 6,000 acres of water
dry land for a spell. The rainy
of 1802 filled it with water azain
Partridge conceived the idea that
lake could be drained by boring holes in
its bottom, and organized a ¢ wnpany to
try it. Experts were engaged to examine
and report on the plan, and the result
was that the company has bored a num
ber of holes in the bottom of Lake Mic
cosukie, and the water is rushing down
through them via a subterranean pas
sage to the gulf. In a few months they
expect to permanently drain Inke
and thus recover 10,000 acres of valuable
land.
became
Season
Mr.
the
the
A cornEsposprxr of the North China
Herald gives an account of a
industry carried on in Chica
manufacture of ‘‘cheat
buried with corpses
morial it has been the
curious
It is
money, to
From time imme
pious
the
In
custom of
the Chinese to bury with their departed
friends a sum mone;
that they might find themselves
paupers io the other world This cus
considerable of ey,
not
’T
tom they have found rather costly, and
having nion of th
shrewdness of spiritual shopkeepers they
have taken manufacturing a very
cheap counters of Mexican dollar
fo off in Ie wer world It is
simply a bit of pasteboard with tin {
surfaces stamped with a A hundred
of these dol a for 34
cash
fo On #
pass 0
i
die
Mrs In DOX retails
1 Mr. Hyde has
tered ife in .
f the famous chara
were t
the ground that
brutality was im sible, even under the
imag louble exis
e the world was
hie human brute nth
isk Edwards, at Denison, for
» murder of Mrs. Hattie G. Haynes
as told when she charged
tha prisoner with the crime, he answered
‘Yes: | don’t care any more it kil
yman than a dog ‘hat in the
ng
case of the hero of the story
EVEXSON 8 Daen het
In the case
fiction there
ion
1 glory in
in real Toaxas
ta
sant}
: en
ROM Wao Cr
Bary coo
ence in which the man of
{
wnbined with ¢
ial of
» witn how
aha
2 WwW
:
was the superinduced «
was the normal coaditi
} i
ern burziar
A Ti
cab io the streets of Paris the other day
won old soldier was rut
Jean Louis Leclerc is his name He
was born in April, 1792. aad served
Napoleon at Waterloo When taken to
the hospital he seemed to be
and to be suffering terribly,
his great age, the do
must succumb, but the old
rallied, and on the dav after the
dent was able to go baek to his home in
the Bue du Rhin. So lightly did
treat the affair that he willingly ae-
cepted an offer from the driver, who was
to blame, of one dollar, by way of sola
tium. “You see,” he said, *‘l hate
going to law at my age, although [ do
not despair of living to be 120.”
A oaxo of ruffians, which has just
fallen into the bands of the Paris police,
rejoice in the title of “Les Mangeurs
des Nez,” a name that fitly describes
their outrages. Not content with gar.
roting and robbing a!l the unfortunate
people whom they could wayiay at night
in deserted streets and dark corsers of
the great French metropolis, they also
bit off the noses of their vietims, which
t hey carried off and attached to their
caps in imitation of the red Indian
sca’ pers Several persons waylaid in!
the early hours of the morning in the
lonely suburbs are now ian the hospitals
wilh
very weak
#11
in View sf
tors thought he
fellow soon
RCC
ne
Ix the courtyard of the palace of Ver.
sailles 18 a clock with one hand called
“L'Horloge de la Mort da Roi.” It
contains no works, but consists merely
of a face in the form of a sun surrounded
by rays. On the death of a king the
hand is set to the moment of his demise
and remains unaltered till his successor
has joined him in the grave. This cus.
tom originated under Louis XIII, and
| continued till the revolution, It was re. |
| vived oa the death of Louis XVIII. and |
the hand still continues fixed on the pre
| cise moment of that monarch’s death.
Osx of the strangest Supaititions of |
| Chinamen is the awe with which they
regard the cockroach. John hoids the
fugly black pest as something sacred,
claiming that it is specially favored by
the gods and a particular favorite of the
great Joss, The most unfortunate mis-
hap that can befall a Chinaman is to step
on a cockroach. lustantiy visions of
terrible disasters and calamities arise be-
fore him. In some instances the super
stition has been known to prey so on the
minds of the Celestials as to drive them
insane,
A vew days ago a tramp at Pacific,
Mo., $pisd a railroad tricycle, belonging
to a telegraph lineman, standing near the
track. He stepped around under cover
of the station house, seized the machine
pat it on the track and mounting it s
away down the line at full speed. He
had gone but a few miles when sudden -
ly the fast express tore around a sharp
curve and bore down upon him. Before he
could even. slacken speed the train strack
him, and there was one less tramp in the
country and a tricycle gone,
| AFORTIN THE AIR.
Barometer,
lived the life of a
the New York
Press, was forced upon him by a circum.
stance that happened when he was about
“8 years old. At that time Powell was
He had been two years married, and his
ant. While attending the county fair
that was doing a heavy business in the
fakirs' corner of the fair grounds, The
men tried the machine, and a good-
vatured dispute as to who was the best
arose between them. Powell's
claimed that he could hold the
electricity, and he started in
prove it. He sent the needle around the
dial to the 320 mark. Powell pulled of
friend
operator sent a stream of electricity into
and cagsed him to stand on tiptoe. Still
Powell called for more and got it. The
needle swung around eighty points, and
yet Powell howled for more. The charge
was sent into him, and, leaping into the
air down flat on his back. He
had put the needle up to the 410 mark,
but nearly killed himself io doing it
He was dazed for several hours, but
finally came out of it appar
he came
nily all
int
ii
In less than six months after this ex
trouble in the Powel
left her
with him
perience there Wis
house, Mrs, F
wind refused to live ret
that but
there was something about the man that
epelled her, and the strange powe
whatever 1 was, seemed to be
on him. Powell told his f
that he hadn't {elt like hin
day that he tried his hand at
He said that he «
ad he no
It was evident tha
i somehow been seriously
husband
any io
S kind to her
he sala he w
ns
growin
ther inl
machine
lites wile,
claim her
made
Expert medical advice
0 i de ald
SCART
he st
inge power
$4
$V DeECame
and
Powell in
3% or
RO 8iron
i L218 touch
pian of past
A tree near the
rex t
Daring
medi
In
Wil Dower.
istered to him is as 80
lief
is Lhat
tached to hi
iffering «
ing
Appear
m i
% MID
fhe cals,
is greatly lease ned
A Rem
arkable “Agetist™
£0
three waeks
ago by the tursiog up of a counterfeit
treasury for $100 it was th
of check letter A, with the
head of Lincoln on the face It was the
latest contribution remarkable
artist, who has puzzling
thorities for more than a decade
all of his other productions in this
it wax done entirely in pen and ink It
was actually accepted genuine at a
United States sub treasury and was sent
thence to Washington for redemption
One of the experts in the redemption
division of the treasury, Miss Alma C,
Smith, discovered it, and the teller who
took it in at the sub-tressury will lose
$100 by the transaction. The counter
feit will not bear close scrutiny. the imi
tated iathe engraving being only a mass
pea scratehes, but it has the danger
vus quality of a good general appear
ance,
This pen-and- ink artist is
traordioary individual
has produced ahout twenty-five such
counterfeits. They all reach the treas
ury eventually, snd several specimens of
his handiwork are on echibition at the
office of the secret service hers. Four
out of five of his notes have been twen.
ties,” and there have been two fifties,
The new one ic the only one for $100
He makes
them at the rate of two a year, appar-
ently, and it must take neariy all of his
time to do the work, which is evidently
executed under a high
ing glass,
The feelings
were
of the government de
tives much shocked
nots
SETI08 1 8%
from =»
been
ine,
Rs
of
a most ex.
It is
fad.
parts of the country, it must be that he
from city to city.
tery. —{ Washington Star.
How A Swordfish Can Fight,
Captain Amery, of the schooner Origin,
which has arrived at Plymouth from Lab-
rador with fish, reported that while on
the outward voyage from Eagland the
vessel was attacked by a swordfish,
whose sword penetrated the hull and
broke off as the fish attempted to with-
draw it. The fish then turned several
somersaults and disa red, as if
either stunned or killed by the
force of the shook. The sword
left in the side of the ship meas.
ured eighteen inches. Before Newlouna.
land was reached the vessel made over a
foot of water, and the crew are of opinion
that if the fish had succeeded in with.
drawing it sword the vessel would save
foundered. [London Daily News.
PLAN OF A GERMAN CAPTAIN
FOR REVOLUTIONIZING WAR,
Many Ascents
Seience of
Military
Realm
by Balloons. The
Aeronautics Part of
Kducation in the
of the Kaiser,
Ty ARON MAXIMILIAN WOLF
| —de Von Stolberg Schroeder is all
) at Kearney street hotel,
6 For the convenience of friends
the gentleman is content to nd -
dressed as Captain Wolf. He is a re-
tired officer of the German army, a
typical of the Faderland. The
Captain does not speak English fluently
but employs gestures with the free-
dom of Frenchman, and a
similar sir. He 1ssolid, black-bearded,
spectacled, a student by the very look
of him. The only picture he had was
taken some four
that time he has visibly matured.
The German navy,” says the Cap-
tain, ‘has about 400 balloons designed
for and dropping
The bomb is released automatically
by clock work. It !
a
be
AO
Hn
years ago, and since
CRrrviIng bombs.
5 easy to drop
bombs into a city studying cur-
rents, but to hit a ship wonld be ex
tremely difficult, A land foree attack
ing a thus
Dy
naval foree would be at
[loons sailed out of Paris during the
siege and reached the banks of the
Rhine. The airships so-called have
{ been failures. None of them
{ been any better than the old-fash-
tioned silk bag, whipped hither and
{about at the mercy of the wind, and
| sore have been much worse,
“There are so many things to be
| considered, power, lightness, strength,
{ susceptibility to control. Now, my
{ airship must have an engine. It ean-
inot be heavy, or it defeats its own
purpose, All the material of the ship
{ must be durable and yet it cannot have
great weight. I think an engine of a
[single horse-power will be sufficient,
and yet Here the Captain shrugged
his shoulders.
‘“The principle of this airship,” he
{ continued, *‘is possibly better shown
by the pictures than by anything I can
say. The engine occupies the centre,
| The air paddles are worked by an end
less chain and will revolve with
speed. The well body will filled
by the employment of ammonia.
{ Equilibrium 1s secured by the wind-
like fans.
great
be
‘Since a boy of seventeen I have
studied the balloon,” went on the Cap-
tain, getting guttural in a fervor
observed before, ‘1 studied him
school, I studied him in the army. and
I did for of the
Faderland first. Then 1 did it becanse
the subject bacame an
un-
in
ever since it 1 love
ngrossing ox
ns
trips
Once | was
floated irom der
tostairs twelve
i
nvented i .
does not mants,
Hi
sire
Tike
nnbounded
thinks it
that the §
the mechanism
other
But it will take much
out. The Government «
to him, to take an
portant a matter
There is a Deutscher Balloon Sport
Club that bas among its members the
finest army engineers, the best chem
ROT
faith noi
Hq
correct and that
superior to any
the purpose,
money to find
sug ht, it seems
interest
ain
pice
will tw fA RNC
i
mincipie
i
1a
is
ever devised for
in so un
LS
SOF
SL
fo
~
Sa
SN
8 OK AN ENEMY
lhink what a ma
finy 5 fleet of
fsresent
air-ships |
methods of Army
voitutionized
iad
iil Im
i rn ot
at the g« af a
ry
ns
Wise men have
it, and
think
men who
Mavbe
I have
3 The
ship will
812
i
aiid
model full
wonid « doliars
{drew German ( ap
tain gave a French shrug
/
HARON YON STOLBERC SCHROEDER
But for all Captain Wolf was so as
sured that the picture of his air ship
would be self-explanatory, it would
not thus strike the average beholder
ignorant of the mysteries of sky-sail-
ing. A side view shows an elongated
body, stoutly but lightly ribbed, set
upon a plane, being upheld by four
slender legs. Beneath it are pipes in
some manner responsible for
maintenance of buoyancy, and the air
paddles not unlike the screws of a
small boat It must be confessed
that the air ship in its present stage
does not suggest a spin through the
clouds, but Captain Wolf donbtless
knows more aboat this than the
secret
his hopes.
“I have never
been any place else,
ists, mathematicians reckoned among
the scholars of Germany. Of this
organization Captain Wolf is a mem-
ber. While, as the name implies, the
object is partly recreation, there is a
deeper and more serious side to the
gatherings. The design is to keep
abreast of aeronautics, und, in conse of
war, to be ready to offer a balloon
corps, ready equipped, to the service
of the country. Most of the club
members are ex-army officers, who
have never become wholly reconciled
to a life of peace,
“Really, not such a great advance
has been made,” continned the Cap-
tein, in a vernacular quaintly beyond
representation in type, ‘‘since bal-
PARTY.
{said the seronant, ‘where the con.
| city where there could be found a»
panorama of nature so magnificent;
the ocean, the Golden Gate, the bay,
the mountains beyond, and then San
Francisco scattered over her hills
Wonderful! I would like to remain
private military —the balloon arm of
the service. Germany priges it
highly.”
tain Wolf is so different from the
acronaut who ventures to the
Coast that it is diffienlt to realize that
he is one of the eraft. The ordinary
balloonist is a foolhardy fellow who
BRL
limbs, but with no idea of any
his calling. He usually dubs himself
“professor.” a ease of pretense that a
good look at him exposes. Captain
Wolf, on the contrary, is a student
and scholar, nnd wonld be aceepted as
such on his appearance alone,
While the realm of clond and sky
Wolf he has not neglected
other lines, Among his inventions is
bomb, that sinks when hot, rises
when cool, and rising blows any pass-
from the water, or, as the
vesterday expressed, *‘Poofl
Captain
nu
Captain
There You are.
In his collection of pictures are sev-
eral showing experiments by the Ger-
man Balloon Club, the different shaped
the methods of securing
them in storms He has drawn up a
plan for a balloon shelter, in which the
extended bap may it is
flanked by music stands and refresh
ment booths Altogether the Captain
18 aeronsut,
the bomb that
id is likely to
balloons,
housed
iy
enthusiastic 150
indeed, that
blows hot and blows ¢
a most
much 3.
suffer from neglect
“They
Captain ?
had a great fair in Chicago,
Yes, shade
hinlf
with a
of ‘a great but not
the chance for ballooning tha
San Francisco Examiner,
responded he,
loubt, far
her
Hen Against Hawk,
was an interesting ornitholog
the doorvard of
near Bavmondrville,
a few day Au old hen and
brood, parties if the first part,
wandering about the vard in search
RYassii when a speckled
hawk, party of the second pare, sailed
ring and
The old hen
a terrific bat-
sppeared to be
in 8 paroxysm of rage and hes ded not
the approach of the party of the third
art in the Cow
Ther:
ical exhibition in
(seorpe Benefield
her
were
of
PPers, Dig
feng hab ORK
pounced upon a chicken
down from a
flew to the rescue, and
+1
tie ensued The hawk
person of Miss
10 was standing but a
“the
hawk by
wring its
few steps
war began. She
: and
but it
hawk it turned
efforts to
beak
oom
i"
neck,
{ T
3
wasn | that Kind
upon and made
in th
lesperate
her face with its
There is
bat would
% os §
sirike
$
telling how long the
3
3 s
have continued "wr DOW
A TERRIFI
would have terminsts
had not come 4
the hawk
The bird
eet Irom
measured
fous tip to
A Deer
While “
driven from the ranch to
throug
Wash. ,
Among the
Dig herd f atile, being
market, was
Snohomish
immense deer, the
over in parts,
ont of the woods and joined
Partly because of the
of cutting out the apimal
from the middie of the herd. where it
quickly ite way, and partly
through cariosity as to what it wonld
do, the cowboys did not molest it.
The deer remained quietly walking
with the nerd for cight hours, sad
finally entered into a coral with the
cattle at Snohomish, were it was cap-
tured
rh tine
passing
Valley,
largest
bounded
the drove.
difficulty
an
seen those
worked
. ——
The Fashionable Pelisse,
This model for winfor wear
shows one of the forms of