SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EVERYDAY LIFE. Queer Facts and Thrilling Adventures Which Show that Truth is Stranger Than Fiction. Two subjects for Miss Mary Wil- kins live at Peterboro, N. H., says the Providence Journal, Elvira and Elmira Fife, who probably are the oldest twins living. Next August they will be 83. At the age of 14 | they entered the employ of a local | manufacturing company, and for | sixty years they remained on its pay | roll, the maximum wages earned be- | ing 99 cents per day, and the mini- | mum 71 cents for three days’ labor. | They have never ridden on a railway | train, although the Boston and Maine | road runs its cars within ten rods of | their door. They have neyer been separated more than seventy hours at any one time in their lives, and can- not endure the thought that death will summon them singly. Although living in the same house and from the same table. they have al- ways lived separately: that is, each has cooked her own meal. If one had # boiled dinner the other had a boiled dinner, and it was not cooked in the same pot either. If one had a turkey the other would have a little | one, and so in everything they vied with each other to see who would liv the best. Mrs. CLAspIa eating aro Herrera died in San Francisco recently at the remark- able age of 120 years. was ® Mexican. and for some time had made her home with her friend, Mrs. Petro R. 1. Richeri. Mrs. Herrera was porn in 1774 at Rial de Jesus Maria, Mexico. When Mrs. Herrera came to | San Francisco at the time of the gold excitement she was even then a man of 70 old. She had means, and her husband being d she had her own way to make in world. But with the spirit of a young girl she set about the task; she never wavered, years that living by doing da) city, especiall for she.could ly. She cor twenty +4 aie WO- years © 04 President of PHYSIOGROMIST ill ¢ an article in Blackw The cempressed often r says the writer rather than of perpetual cot Serves e1 strong will uous action the hour which call fo few to produc of this Kind commanaing tk ISIN men’s ob 1 } i KOeD iS 1p 1 i $ ti JAIOK NL i sion. 1 the most absolute m He carries authority and power face, but it confident assurance mouth. Whoever nanding a locomotive with aplain rth } NDAarch on earta. y es in his eye and of resia his easily f-war Mman-o GT the conte of a school usher Tue inded again. He had b story and decided to try t The first thing to do was to boil eéepg. How many minutes? he asked himself, and going to the an egy in one hand and his watch is the other, he dropped the i the hot water. Then on the table, he sat down to read the time was up. At the end of or six minutes he was find the egg lying but supposing that he taken it the kettle an it, he proceeded to crack and peel The consequence may be imagined Finally he missed his watch. The house was searched high and low, and it was not till the following morning that the cook found it in the is at it the egg « 3 i¢ rick 3 absent-m man cen reading h i iacing there from hours, “I ave a horse at home,” said a North Daketa farmer, veloped a great fondness for eggs, and who loses no opportunity to gratify his appetite in this direc tion. During the winter he has a corafortable stall in the barn all to himself, and, by his kind treatment of the hens, is often enabled to se cure for himself a freshly laid egg. To begin with he makes a cosey-look- ing place inthe hay with his nose and when a hen comes near he lifts his head out of her way, stands very still and by his quiet behavior invites her to come into his manger and lay her eggs. If she accepts his invitation he is always sure to get the egg, and it is immensely funny to see the look of extreme satisfaction in his face when he has eaten the egg. “Ispiaxs do not take scalps through cruelty,’”’ said Col. E. K. Grimshaw, a retired army officer, to a 8t. Louis reporter, "but just as eivilized soldiers fight for and pre- gerve the captured battle-flags of the enemy as trophies and proofs of prowess in war. During the years 1 spent on the frontier I was forced to witness many such sickening scenes, circle of slashes around the skull, and. then tearing off the broad patch of skin and hair by main force. Itis 8 dreadful operation, and one never to seen it, The sealp is supposed to contain many ion, powers, and is cured with the greatest care by him who takes it.” Bose extraordinary but well au- thenticated stories of the Bank of France aro related. One day a sheep ate up a hundred-frane note belong- ing to a butcher. into the house of a friend, He had no gooner done so than the owner of the gun rushed up. “That was an expensive shot of yours for me,’ said. “What do you asked the butcher. ‘‘Weil,”’ the other, “I had seventy bills hidden in the barrel of gun!” The sheep's carcass f the piece s of the notes re- covered that the bank redeemed them all, 80 A PorTraxp (Me.) woman hoasts of a cat with a propensity for playingin 1 » when she is washing dishes, by try- get into the pan. , after repeatedly driving the : 1 the sink, it climbed up and I itself on the two fui ther, and amuse fil he words are arps. j ing girls who meet One practice under the gu of a drum major from a Guards Hegiment. What with these fair Irummers and Miss Ethel women volunteers, there no lack 3 lish woman, at and houses ance Stoke's SOME to be A Graxp Haves (Mich.) man “ays three turtles, cut off their heads and sot them free. He asserts that a fow creatures which had a fully developed around the throat. White Arnold Landgraaf was shoot ing at turtles in a pond near Rome, Jeflerson County, Wis, one of his bullets glanced from the back of one intended victim and put out the eye of a little girl who was standing near. The shooting was regarded asan unas voidable accident, and Landgraf was not arrested. The life of H-yenr-old Mary Gusen- berry was saved by a dog. She had fallen Into a pond, when a Newfound. land belonging to a neighbor jumped in and pulled her out. Now her mam- ma forgives the child for stealing tid- bits from the kitchen to feed Fido, whose friendship is at a premium in that family. Hexny Mantis, of Bonham, Tex. is sald to own a horse that has an ime moderate fondness for live chickens, eatching them for himself and enjoy ing them as ordinary horses enjoy onts. He has destrayed the reputa- tions of all the colored people in the neighborhood, Porioemax Steel, of Manchester, N. H., weighs 150 pounds, During a “ | of stairs a sick man who tipped the | scales at 800, He was loudly cheered { by the crowd. | Wirrniad A. Haw, of Worth, Ga. { has a team of mules that are 27 years old. He has been driving them for twenty years, and they ean be worked | as hard as evé}, Tere United States 50.564 870 Of over wenty years of age, six per cent. are unmarried and fourteen per cent, are widows, are in the women. thos te RIGHT-HANDEDNESS, ov the Muman Race. Professor J. of been per forming a series of experiments upon one of his children with a view to find- ing the g Ther apparent scientifie why a man should use more than 3 cles of one Baldwin, sity, has Mark origin of ight handedness, is no reason one hand any another arn of the or why should be stro other, have Iu 1 those theori to 11d f/ecot of according ove writing either arm being th Household Hints, cellent cer and most h Shetland shaw! very carefully | boiled soap, gentl) the hands. | water and pin on { Engravings an trated papers and mag effectively framed ting paper—in light or in light colored Tar spots may carpets by applying tity of spirits of ing with a flannel ¢ fly-specks ly with a soft sponge wet in warm water, Woolens should never be rubbed on | the washboard, process stroys their pliability.” They should be squeezed or pounded, after t having been washed in strong suds, | and rinsed in warm water, Muslins should be washed in a lather of | water, and should never be put into warm water, not even in rinsing. In r yoard eo be ret v remove rom oil paintings, gent as this doe soft | a very small amount of sugar of lead. For green muslin, add to the rinse | water a wineglass of vinegar, and for lilac and lavender a wineglass of am- monia, pe Co i sn Skipping- Rope Danger. The announcement of the death of n little girl in New York from excos. sive exercise with the skipping rope enlls the attention of parents to a real danger. This exercise in moder. ation is healthful to the child and en couraging to the shoemaker, but ex. ceodingly dangerous when it comes to trials of endurance or when little girls exhaust themselves in an effort to achieve n record and make a great number of jumps. Deaths from this cause have occurred before, and in many cases where the result is not fatal the health of the child may be greatly impaired. It would be well, therefore, for parents at this scason of the year to exercise some wabch- fulness in this regard.~{Baltinesne Sun. MADE BEAUTIFUL BY A DAINTY COLOR SCHEME AND A SEA VIEW. Hints on Window Draperies and Par- nishing a Narrow Hall. “It seemed most discouraging to think of spreading the contents of 4 seven-room flat over a ten-room house, I must confess,” sald my friend. try, and one day, shaking the dust of unfinished copy that ne to her air closing my eyes to the manuscript and unedited littered my desk, I had ge for a breath of country day's rest. The parlor was so dainty and so pretty that 1 could not help express- ir It was a mite of fi room, wt more than 11 by circular » in i ig my admiration. lect not window : Low, wide wis rudest framework riend ran he windows and were so construc that a single row of large be be This saved cost of a tapestry curtain falling the floor, besides furnishing a store. i¢ ii rere herself, all around JI 8 OO id stored underneath cushions on the seats were covered olive and old red and harmonized beautifully with the tones of the rag { and woodwork, The pillows were many, of different sizes, and all covered Ensterr shu ffs~J ava squares nr and the like. An fretwork, stretched proved to be only & moveable | for curtains, and from this depended | a curtain of Persian ehintz. | In the centre of the floor stood » | muhogany card table holding a lamg of golden glazed chi { dish brown was of golden paper, in whose folds feathery golden with Persian apparent piece 1 rors the arch fits in ol CTRTIe na, with ri eh rod decorations. i The lnmg erinkied nestie! shade clive | crepe | great | mums, chyryganiho- i | room-—4 great easy chair for i ter of the hopes Ww Wis i to hide the wear and tear of i a Bagdad rug striped in deep ¢ 1a COTE ream red and dark and light blue w rocker had ed deep terra cotta and was enshion olive, old been stain loth in di rs ¥ NE EN 1 6x4 t Real Madras was whe nio! kaw th 1d we virias f pr 201 it was n« window ball fol rove Was a (RY chrysanthemums Old red silk hung flows, A hall, of fretwo a bamboo a Ihkara., i 3 4 iong fascinating l t in the embroidery draped elessly above this portiere, while ath the fretwork jutted a narrow on which stood quaint pottery. was something fascinating | about the arrangement and furnish- ing of these two rooms which could | never have been produced by any combination of correct mogquette car- pets and costly furniture, let Here Copying from Nature, That the designer who copies from nature is the one who attains success most readily cannot be doubted. The days of copying from old designs are fast going, and now the designer who would keep up with the times must be as original as possible. This has beoa sald many times before by many writers. The most unique method of designing from nature, thus assuring originality, is a way which your cor- respondent has had explained to him recently by one of the designers in a Lawrence mill. This man has designed fancy figur- od effects for intricate shawl patterns for many years. Since the advent of the demand which calls for u closer imitation of nature in designing, this man has found it to be advantageous to copy from flowers. His ability to copy offhand from a flower model is deficient ; so he does like this: He gota & bunch of roses or a twig of eaves and buds, and places these upon his design paper. A light press- ure with the hands flattens the ob- jeets upon the paper sufficiently to permit a true outline to be made of each leaf or flower. This outline he makes by the use cf a pencil, Then he is sure of get. ting the correct forms of the figurw. After he has made the outline of each leaf and flower the bunch is re- moved and be proceeds to fll in the shapes. Then he checks off vhe risers and sinkers according to the outlined forms, and thereby is sure of getting the correct shapes of the objects into his design. This appears to be quite a novel way of copying from nature, Any one can do ghis.~{Commercial Bulletin. Disconcerted the Fakir. A novel story of the late S8ir Rich. ard Owen is just going the rounds. A snake-charmor at Cairo, reckoning without his host, appeared before Sir Richard to go through a deadly per formance with a cerastes—the horn. ed asp. The reptile was placed on the ground. Owen looked at it a moment then stepped forward and picked it up. Before the luckless performer could interpose the savant lucked from its head its projecting orng, which, on closer inspection, proved to be fish bones. The fakir was somewhat disconcerted at the rapid unveiling of an actually harm. jess animal, and the entertainment was withdrawn,~| London Figaro. Seorgia sends out every year about 1,000,000 bales of cotton. ye TALE OF A WINDMILL, And Mow the Agent Sold it to the Meanest Man on Earth. A number of years ago I was sell. ing windmills ir lilinois, save a contributor to the Chicago Record. One day I struck a counts where people despised windmills, and I did not sell a a week, 1 got mad at and concluded to try a “biufl game I inquired for the meanest man in the county. My iat ing toa gists : 3 i Bouthern last f £1 ry ¢ i #, { informant grinned, # house, said b gosh } Tobogganed Down a Mountain. mpactiy bull The block was put or ofgthe incline, the i and the horns of the ho on either side. Then th heavy glove his right g on the block mountain without more ado held his feet crossed straight him, and rested them on y rail. For a few feet the little oneswheeled car moved slowly, and then the speed increased, until it and its human freight were going down the moun tain at a rate that made the specta- tors hold their breath. When a curve was reached the coaster slowed up slightly by pressing his heels against the rail and steadying himself by touching the cable with his gloved hand. Finally, when he reaclied the very heavy grade, just above the en. gine house, he took off all his brakes and came down like a shot out of a gun, Arriving at the bottom he put on the “heel” brakes and gently came to a stop just in the depot. Coolly rising from hig queer vehicle he placed it under his arm and walk. ed quietly away before any of the as. tonished spectators had a chance to recover their breath or ask any ques tions, an sittin started down before $1 “ey 141€ IM0Y ARs a a Sl. Ture preservation of the carcasses of 12,000 sheep for eleven months on shipboard is the extraordinary achievement in refrigeration claimed by the ship Wellington, which sailed from Picton, New Zealand, May 12, 1838, and arrived at Plymouth, Sound, April 6, 1804 She passed through terrible storms, narrowly ese eaped destruction at Rio, struck an leeberg, had two men killed and one drowned, but landed her mutton
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