facing each other, and begin a series of most discordant yells and screams, each feline striving to outdo the other in grimaces and. noise, while distorting their bodies and waving their tails in animated defiance. At Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven- |, yignal from their master they leave tures which Show that Truth is/| (heir chairs and, standing on Stranger Than Fiction. | hind foot, Tue London Illustrated News re-| counter, which generally ends peats the following story of a re- [ genuine cat fight unless prevented by markable cat in London, and adds | their trainer, who settles the conflict some remarks of its own: ‘To a by dist ributing a little food to them as four-storeyed brick building, occupied | the revenue for their tariff speeches, by eight families, a district messen- ger boy was returning very late at night. Directly he opened the door | nt, has inspired a novel applica- the cat sprang at him and began to}... ¢ ha ancient “sandwich man” pull and tear at his trousers with its ] ite a 8 Dig Now. claws.’ Had he been an ordinary | i He 108 quip 1 Ay oh 1 boy (one of whose abominable idiosyn- wy and | 0g wi of San. wh 4 ou n erasies is a hatred of cats), he would | RIC re se or he pe Ly . : { y © ots. » dog probably have kicked the cat; but asi. aunlly large and handsome. a district messenger his mind had | tened on’ his hack is 8 white oilskin doubtless been expanded. He en- coat, fashioned like an ordinary dog couraged the animal rather than ' . & otherwise, and ‘‘when it ran towards the kitchen door and jumped back again,”’ he thought, though the household had long retired, that ‘‘something mist be up.’ He ans ! his business, too, for he spends most tered the kitchen, when ‘the cat at of his time trotting up and down the once ran behind the and shopping district of Fulton streel began to scratch at the fire-board. | 10 Be o is ave H from which flames and smoke began | ¥ I : a h Pi rs tapnize ah to pour our.’ The house was I bo a aroused, but not till after many pails shop ra and ih of water had been used was the con- hit pj evi ation 2d thus an effi- flagration extinguished. But for that timsel{ conspicuous and thus an elf cat the boy would have gone to his bed and been in it—a fate | that would befallen two-and- thirty other people. It is no wonder, and little to their credit, that this truthful and intelligent creature now the hero of the neighborhood.” It was the only living creature that night in the establishment up,’”’ as it were, and looking after | things. The cat, it should be remem- bered, is naturally fond of fire and averse to water. which makes its con- duct still more meritorious. A great deal was lately made of ‘‘a fireman's dog,’' which used to accompany en-| gines and escap but that may have been from mere he never smelt out a conflagration for himself, as in this case. Ix Missouri there is a snake called the ‘‘spread head’ that plays sum.” An observer and struck it with a small whip snake immediately ejected a had recently swallowed, then appear- ed to bite itself in the side, promptly traditional ele turned on its back and stiffened, but “a 4 imal. but to did not become stretched straight out ' EE The y and lay perfectly still. The naturalis the turned him right side up. He was | 4 1. ente pris playing dead so earnestly that he from tho Ri was not content to lie in so life-like a de position, but immediately turned it on exhibition. himself on his ba weain. Then the observer withdrew to watch develo) ments. In about fifteen minutes the snake cautiously raised itd head and two or three inches of his body and looked around. In a few seconds he turned himself over and made off The same er afterward fre quently watched these through the same Sometimes, while if one be sharply ked with a needle ly stimulated, he | of ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EVERYDAY LIFE. Tue genius of advertisement, work- ling in the brain of a Brooklyn mer- device. is , he ground {to almost sweep the ground painted thereon, in vivid colors, is an { advertisement of the busi of the he dog seems to know IONS | dog's Owner, stove thickest accompany many ways makes nt advertisement Clin burnt that of young an Wisconsin na: { Chandler. For years his shown a tendency to grow up { years ago it feared he would was raised by neigh o Chicago, was cut tothe singular case is RY have m 1 ned mouth has Four 88 became =o it was fund he was gitting | gent mouth atural size and pieces of flesh grafted into the | hoping to prevent tl he cle i has been corners, thus psi overcome, and his rapidly growing ap again ing at not being larg anordinary goose quill nourishment present through whi he takes all his excitement = love of that he to death way of preventing the of thought starve Otherwise ANd is « mouth the SEY healthy pPOs- seems healthy Ww ing considerable irk ne Che ¢ of South Bend toad it 3 \ y . umpback wiaie ‘Ame Across ' iS pros ing a worse incuml pi whale { stranded mouth o fishermar by ¢ whi sone K and after a while it and the He tried and ker ee, The town is pervaded by ar fishlike zens are urgent f the t Ae vers ROp- can i Owner dispose as a last spent his pr but the whale = ancient ame obser snakes go tha retended Su fe his propert Vv playing dead, if ? . owner o whaie p in some expedit pr Fro Mar jie 0 doubt IArmers I to unususi, but perfectly unpre the part of | young Mr. W. McRinnel South Manitoba, relates tha ys farmer fryer young or otherwise acutely eof what. n will promptly resume his interest in | country will consider surrounding things, and either show fight or try to escape ie he not only adented, a litter of Me. his dues on % . 1a is the custom to give pigs. in the form Ix Belgium it certificates of marriage of little books with paper covers. These books, which are often pro | duced in the course of law proceed- wh ings, and are taken in evidence, are Hen Na. apt to become dirty and dog’s-eare i. | Pigs were about six weeks old he The Burgomaster of Brussels has ticed that ] therefore hit upon a new plan. milk them were quite dry Henceforward a charge will be made | NOt make out . for the books, which will be neatly time until he watched, bound in morocco and gilt-edged, | found that when the c They will be something more than middle of the day a mere certificate, A sum- s would go up and suck them dry mary of Belgian law on the marriage and the cows would not mind in the state is given in them for the use of the young couples, and among a mass A opisrure over a Belgiar of other miscellaneous information, | among disgruntled beneficiaries has are directions for the feeding and care | resulted in curious of infants. There are also places for | disuptants. A year ago a widow died entering the names and birthdays of | leaving an estate worth over six and the children of the marriage, the au-| a half million francs. The iminedi- thorities considerately affording | ate relatives to whom it was left dis. space for twelve such entries. To | puted over the spoils, and suit was poor persons the books will be issued instituted in the Brussels courts to free of charge. One of the Town settle their various claims. The cas Councillors was in favor of adding | attracted wide attention, and at the directions for obtaining a divorce, but | trial it was proved that more than his suggestion was not adopted. 3.500 persons were related to the testatrix, and relatives even twelve degrees removed were adjudged en- titled to some of the fortune. lita t nearest neighbor, with a litter of which he lets out has a sow eight Ones in the bush every day with his eattle the voung noe his cows when he came to He could the reason for some and then he laid down the voung = IWS the cutate y the disaster for WHILE crossing the ridge between Green Run and Rattlesnake Creek, in the southern part of Lackawanna County, Penn., a few days ago, Gay- Tee Army was drained of many of lord G. Crippen of Spring Brook town- | its good men last year under the pur. ship saw a pure white hare squatting | chase-of-discharge system. More in a hollow as though it was asleep, | than 1,000 soldiers took advantage of He was about to toss a stone toward | the right, and $70,000 was paid for , the timid animal to see it scoot, when | discharges. two wildeats sprang out of the brush | discharges, the army lost about S00 from opposite directions and pounced | men through discharges by sentence upon the hare at the same instant. | of court martial—a good riddance; so oy killed it in a twinkling, and | that all in all the army lost about then began to fight for the possession | thirty per cent. of its reported en of it. The hair and blood flew, and | listed strength through retirements, in the rough and tumble battle the | deaths, desertions, expirations of en- fierce animals worked away from the | listment and discharg»s. hare several feet, when a fox stole out of the brush, seized the hare in the middle and trotted oY with il One of the wildeats finally licked the other and sent it whining into the bushes. Then it turned and began to sniff for the hare, and while it was doing so Mr. Crippen hurled a stone at it and it went limping away with a broken hind leg. Jurivs Horpisoron, agent at the Dillsboro Railroad station, in Indiana, whiles away the loneliness of his iso- lated abode, when not engaged in of- ficial duties, by training squirrels, coons, cats, dogs, and other members of the four-tooted family. His best ee are two huge cats, and to for n Two MEN uprooting peach trees on the farm of Mrs. Richard Diehl, Chestertown, Md., on the Eastern Shore, unearthed the other day an iron pot containing $150 in old coin and an open-face silver watch, doubt- less the forgotten treasure of some one who buried it when many persons were hoarding coin during the period of inflated currency. Querx Victoria is in possession of a curious needle. It was made at the celebrated needle manufactory at Redditch and represents the Trajan Column in miniature. Scenes from the Queen's life are depicted on the needle, so finely cut that they are only discernible through a micro. scope. Mus. Surrw, of Willimanis, Me., their training ““Huft’’ will call iscussion on t riff, and at once eack cat will ges upon a chair, has the repu swat with a board about as hard ns any oue in Néw England. The other day, seeing a good-sized deer in her back yard, she seized a board, and | going out, managed to swat the deer { hard enough to kill it. Ix tHE old days Daniel Evans, of Wales, ordered a coffin for his wife, who was dying. Then he got drunk. Next morning he was dead, and his wife, recovering, buried him in the coffin he had ordered for her, received in Dexter, Me,, had paid $3 New York to Bangor; £4 from to Dexter, thirty miles, Bangor HORNBLOWER AND BANGS. A Story About Two Noted New York Lawyers. William B. Hornblower for Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States by the Senate Judiciary Com- | mittee Washington reached general discussion in the affair comments as to name Hornblower lawyers in an office this law were origi i in ‘ity, in the office there the $s Over ul in the Iding were debating w name was of German or when a well-known th gray hair and gray side i cannot nein to Bove | the antiquity of the word Hornblower 1 + illustrate its application on CHNION. thus 108iLY adroitly of his wed him t { with 4 Process ie lawyer contis You st the public tos if ire and in which ereditors sought m the ued may remember the kK in the Grants subsequent Wreck a od Ba: + and Rs $ 3 mngs, who h put « ns far: nis onar the table, leant toward Mr. Hornblower on fe, and said ina bh was h site side ard all ove I say, Hornblower! Mr Hor: bi TWH hat ower rai 1) Mr nblow or Hy would thi id be heard ou on Broadway, « dn’t you? A shout laughter at ¥ ook the edge from the si thorée was m™ rewed w Hes Hornblower m™ Join We'd make a good German tor band y and I =» he and the turned gravel) their work. "= New York Herald Lr $i ehter a edd sii with the bass drum rombpone Or witness arrive Sword and Bayonet Forms. The Nintes fod tha aed cavalry Is copied cimotor { the i the most effective sabre by the 1 from Saracens, which was for cutting PUTPOSsER ever devised. It will be re- membered how to the story told in Sir Walter Scott's ““Tal- with such a weapon the pa- gan Saladin chopped a soft in two at one blow, to the amazement of Richard Cour de Leon. With a straight sword one can make a hack or a thrust, but to slice an adversary one muxt saw with it. The cimeter, g curved and wide and heavy to- ward the end, slices by the mere fact of striking. The kind of bayonets chiefly used by the Federal troops sword according isman cushion be the old triangular pattern. Sword bayonets were also employed on guns imported from Europe, last ten years the regulation bayonet has been of the “‘ramrod’’ | with the knife bayonet, which some: | what resembles a butcher's knife—is | twelve inches long with one edge. It | is quite as effective and much lighter | than the sword bayonet. The latter | is being dispensed with by most of | the European nations in favor of the | knife bayonet. The bayonet was a | French invention. In the early days lof firearms soldiers used to carry both guns and pikes, but the notion of attaching the pike to the gun in such a manner that both could be used at the same time, was the be- ginning of the idea of the bayonet. {Troy Times. HE COULDN'T BING. Wakely-~Why, at one time I could have bought the most valuable prope erty in the city for a mere song. : e Crowd--Why didn’t you buy t? Wakely—I couldn't sing. ~{ Elmira Gazette, Th le dogs in China are ¥ wioste in ism wee buuws by HUMAN CLAY EATERS. STRANGE DIET OF NORTH CAR- OLINA MOUNTAINEERS. A Valley in Which, at Times, Clay Is the Only Food of the Inhabitants. The correspondent, who was at- ogists and naturalists who were mak- ing a tour of investigation through the wilderness of the Smoky Moun- tain region of North Carolina several years since, when near the watershed into the New River in West Virginia and the head Was in about twenty miles away there was a be by mountain guide was said to Ace un f clay eater, Captain Denton, and a negro servant after a ten-mile between Here we in a strung-out fifty fami- a little valley mountains. two 1 struck parallel settle. or lies. Every clay © proached fu the door of faci: & the stream A tall man of 40 PUBRON OF said rude low -roofed low which sallow or Ho) stood ener from whichon our approac! nearly a dozen footed child Of IS vears age coarse hempen + the children wl barefooted he's Our guide spoke to the mar him by name, "Dinker ly inteoduced tl ine and abrupt- stihiect of our call aid he, thev-u have » mount n jes ciaN wett hegan preparing putty i it h } Er unti t came Then he separated boluses from that of an or three as large almost aller 1% 4 : balls or pills 41 the +3 fhe size ordinary marble ns a wa He gave the =n dren several of the smallest ] balance the ones the of larger himelf two clay The and th put the balls of clay in t when, by bovs girls constant chewing they gecretions SOON them into soft, mucils masses, which, with no apparent dif- ficulty, they swallowed. For fear that sleight-of<hand the affair | determined to try myself. | size of a bullet mouth. In a without chewing or manipulating it at all I found that the saliva had completely 1 here gritty particles apparent, but, on the contrary, the stuff left an oily feeling but without semblance of taste I didn't swallow the stuff, but could have easily done so but for the repugnance I naturally felt toward eating dirt. After the clay had all lowed by the man and verted there might be some about the clay bout hocus-pocus took a and put it short piece the into my time dissolved the mass Were no been swal- children 1 “Does this stuff satisfy your hun “Sartin: they's why we-uns eet it. A feller kin eet nuff to las’ three or foh days, but this yer bunch’ll only last till to-morrow.’ “Doesn't the stuff make you sick? Doesn’t it affect you some way when you make what you call a meal of it?’ “Never heered uv nobody gettin’ sick on it, but thar's some ez say it makes they-un weak.”’ “Does anybody else in this neigh- borhood eat clay?’ ** Bout all of they-un do. don’t eet it all uy the time. Weauns thar's no game. Summer an’ fall thar's plenty uv grub, an’ then we don’t tech the clay.” our ascent of the creek to another eabin, a prototype of the first, even to the appearance and number of the family. They were all lank, cadav- erous ond blueish looking, with dull, leaden eyes and a physical appear- ance of partial paralyzation. They were slow in movement and obtuse, and to my mind apparently mentally deficient. At this cabin the same questions were asked and the same admissions made as to the custom of clay eating, and the same process of manipulation was gone through with in preparing the stuff, We tried three or four other cabins and found a family of clay eaters in each one, and not one appeared to think anything strange or unusual in the custom. They said that the habit had been inherited from tion to generation, extending so back that the origin of the habit was unknown to them. [I found by inter- rogution that wherever one clay enter gener far Ww was found there were always “others in the same neighborhood They were generally found in little com- munities, like the above men- tioned. The explanation of this lay probably in ostracism by whom the habit was disgusting What there is in the stuff port life I donot know, and, although I have with formed people One those to to sup talked many persons who know of these not one has vet been able to give a scientific explanation, Rome well-informed hel thnt the clay containg some highly nutri- tive ¥ {form but an ane alysis of these supposed properties, In all of tl spied persons ove in condensed ere unable to give y projpx ries they w fact th fhe Gries Opinions wien separates wm Waig nd of Nos worted tha ir alien a Zoemb + #1 had expecially had beer ¥ xed le : ‘EY river received thirty oal supply had not He the wrote inter bag ward he reached River There waiting for | ing provi Islands along along along the he intended the as far as September Fram would g and would drift vard. which would carry him a erable bef the spring opened. —{ New York World west ng there in that the the ice teach I ected i! distance ore The Cook Gen. Shelby Captured. (den. Joe Shelby, who has been here for ten days called on Gen Schofield at Army Headquarters Monday. Shelby commanded a cav- alry brigade in Price's army during the raid in Missouri, and often came in unpleasant contact with the troops commanded by Gen, Schofield. On one occasion Shelby swooped down on Schofield like a Western blizzard and carried off his colored cook. When they met Shelby asked his old- time adversary if he remembered the joss of his ook “Yes, '' said Gen. Schofield. ‘‘He was the best cook I ever had in the field, and 1 was greatly vexed over his loss,’ Louis,” I thought I had struck your cook,”’ he added with a laugh. “Yes,” said the musingly, “he was a great member, I got even with you for that act the next day.” “Well, you rather did make things even,” remarked the Missourian, “Did he punish you much?’ asked a friend, addressing Shelby. “Did he? Great Scott! he wiped the earth up with me,” exclaimed Shelby in a candid enthusiasm at the recollection of his own defeat, — [Washington Post. PLEASANT BLEIGHING. I put my arm around the maid Ax o'er the snow we Hew; She blushed and then she softly said : “Please let me drive for you.” «New York Pross, i i SCREWS FOR ALL CORMHKS. One Factory Makes Enough to Give One to Every Man. Newark is the birthp! of the corkserews of ¢ «1 that A ——————— — ¥ £ ow Ohie id ache 160 000 (6K) cork- bs looy ath 43 sick Y ong i from would } DOD ar. HEY EK) Ar, —i NOW is ret: ces by a As a matte for the iter nductor 10 Xe. a car load- wpper upon the al- CLs ing his wei ways more or le abused The 1 sub-Treasury, at Wall and Nassau makes, and pra for years, of for United denomination has man regsyiar passenger nite hag made it a exchanging States mone) and it customers who are so served are a number of things about ce as they come to the Sub-Treasury. In the first place, they are quite extensively counter. feited. This strange, as the profit a counterfeit cent is nec- It true, however, and is supposed to be the work of Italians, who, more largely than any other nationality, to favor the imitation of our minor and subsidiary coin. The Brooklyn and New Jersey ferry companies, the elevated railroads of both New York and Brooklyn and the various slot machine companies are regular customers for the exchange of cents for other money at the Sub Treasury. At times they turn in enormous quantities, the slot com- panies alone ranging between $125 and $700 a day. As might be expected, all sorts of oddities in the way of coin come in OT There CUuUMoOus nis may seein in i arily amall CESAriiy smal = nevertheless seem chines. In addition to the counter- war times, metal discs and foreign ing. As the copper cent is merely a is, it ia redeemed at par if it can in any way be identified as United States money. The popularity of the slot machines a year or so ago brought about s curi- ous condition of affairs in the country. This was nothing short of a ‘cent famine.” The headquarters of the company is in New York, and all agents sent their cents here for re demption, which drained the country of its supply and overstocked the minor coin vaults of the Bub-Treas- ury here with cente.~{New York Herald. —————y company alone uses pth gon Ay 0 A One London 2,000,000 tons of growing upon the n— of cocoanut trees of Ceylon, !
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