SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
INTERESTING NOTESAND MAT.
TERS OF MOMENT.
Which Show that Truth is Stranger
Than Fiction.
Tie smallest woman living to-day
is said to be Mlle. Pauline, of Hol-
land, of a respectable family, who is
18 years old, weighs ten pounds and
is 1 foot 9 inches tall,
Tug driest place in the world is
said to be that part of Egypt between
the two lower falls of the Nile. Rain
has never been known to fall there,
and the natives do not believe travel
ers when told that water falls from
the sky.
Maixe
that only a
the names of her
the tongue, but t
are
from the Can
tario; Lake
Kashagawigamog,
cambejewagamog,
is jusly proud of the fact
native can pronounce
lakes trippingly on
he names of Maine
besides these and others
adian Province
Misquabenish,
and Lake
cusy
THE conservatory of Washingtor
Park, Chicago, boasts of what is af-
fectionally called nH
is composed of growths that look
like three or four big geese and over
a dozen goslings. The plant is a rare
native of South America, known prop-
erly as the Aristolochia Gigas Sturte-
vanili, and issaid to be the only one
of its kind in the United States. It
was on exhibition at the World's
Fair. but was so small at the time as
to attract little attention.
“goose plant.
During a
south Florida,
oblirved to resort to uni
for obtaining fresh water.
not be surprised while
ter, frogs
pump, and one man
tied while pumping
two feet long i
and upon striking
crawled under
tiles crawl into
joy the water
vales.
Ix 1867 Dr. W
had been in the
and afterward in
seen his wife for
heard that was dead.
mained in Mexico until the
year, when he came to Kentucky to
pumping wa-
from the
rather sts
to see lit issue
was
to
Spo
a
nfe
xic
H. Ricl
Co
Me
five
she re-
He
pre sent
look up relatives. In
to land he wrote t
in Texas, and learned
living and had for tw
remarried. Husband
retired, and the pair wer:
ter thirty-two year
A GASTOGRAPH
movements of fo in ¢ stom:
a patient,
&
his wife's relative
was recently xhibited
action before the Medical So 3
the County of New York by Dr. Max
Einhorn. The s 3 records tl
motions on a
by
battery.
sient vw ot
§ vO
means of elec
The patient swallow
tie ball of brass c«
strument by electric w
details of the mechanism are given
snnected to the
ires, but no
The apparatus is expected to be use-
ful in
i]
ii
diagnosing
# oy
ments of the st
THE deathof ‘The
of Manzanares’ has
attention in Spain,
known from one end of the country
to the other. She was a poet and had
a remarkable talent for writing
gin g verses, describing her misery
Many of the poems are beautiful, and
the author enjoyed a large income.
She was said to be one of the best re.
citers in Spain, and many of the
men in that country
beg-
most famous
made pilgrimages to her house to
hear her. Queen Isabelln gave her n
pension years She left about
$60 000,
Prov. Pear, the ethnologist. re-
cently described to the Asiatic So-
ciety the condition of the
hunting Nagas on the borders of As-
gam.
the continuance of the practice ; they
taunt the young men who are not
tats oe |, and the lattergo out and eut
off heads to exhibit to them, fully
hall of which are those of women and
children. The area occupied by the
tribe is not more than twenty miles
square, but in it during the past 40
years more than 12,000 murders have
ago,
x ,
LER
ghastly trophies.
A STRANGE
with the work of clearing away the
debris of the recently wrecked bridge
at Louisville is related of the subma-
sults may be had.
than an hour. There was no response
when signals were made, and there
was uneasiness felt, At length the
diver who goes on as a relief reported
for duty, and he was at once sent
down to ascertain what was wrong.
In a few minutes both men came up.
The diver was found seated on a pile
of iron fast asleep.
Two queer cases of telepathy: A
lady in Maine, whose daughter was
a missionary’s wife in India, dreamed
of her on the 18th of May last. She
thought the girl called ‘mother’ as
if in agony. Long after the slow
mail came, saying that on that night
the daughter was supposed to be dy-
mg, but had recovered. A lady in
New Orleans fell to the floor during
a social gathering, crying, with han
at side: “Oh, I'm I’. Bhe
wasn't; but she felt that way.
Shortly after she bore a child marked
upon the side as if by two stab
wounds. Neri day came a
| saying that her twin
been stabbed to death in
Later it was learned that
{ land.
{ man’s hallucination, and the place of
{ the wounds the same. These stories
may be taken with salt, if preferred.
| Ax unusual summons was received
over the telephone not long ago by
Dr. David Birney. of the University
of Pennsylvania, from a wealthy man
in New York, who wished him to go
to Long Island. Dr. Birney endeav-
ured to find out something about the
nature of the case he was expected
to treat, but the man, after securing
his promise to go, refused to talk
further over the ‘phone. The doctor
packed a case of instruments at ran-
dom and met the man in New York.
After dinner at the Waldorf they
took the train for Long Island, but
not a word was said about the opera-
tion. When they arrived the man
thanked the nd paid him
850: then in response to the look of
vonder from the astonished surgeon,
he said : I saw my sister bleed to
! death in a railroad accident for want
of a physician, i
have never trav
doctor an
¢
Because Captain
struck and made {
logwood laden schooner Net
don. from Falmouth, !
Philadelphia, was compelled to
Key West in distress.
Langdon drifted about in
condition for days after Capt. Bray's
sad plight, and finally drifted toward
the Florida coast, where a pilot bos
and Pile
was taken on board, and he
1 to Key West,
into
helpless
was sighted, James Sinelal
ted the vess
fortunate skipper's evesi
CRUSE
*h he
3
inve been
y whi
vir
ury
$
indictment
most
turtie is
1 1 »
ieast take advantage
of a certain specie
i
called Dy
‘meaning reversed),
18 the
its back
is usually taken for its belly. It has
an oval plate attached to its head
whose surface is traversed by parai-
lel ridges. By this plate it can firmly
lhere to any solid body it may
The boats wh
turtles each carry a
of these reves, the
turtles are they are
cautiously approached, and as soon
as they are judged near enough a
reve is thrown into the sea. Upon
perceiving the turtle, instinet
teaches it to swim right toward it
and fix itself firmly upon the crea-
ture by its sucking disk. Sooner
wonld the reve allow itself to be
pulled to pieces than to give up its
grip. A ring which was attached to
the tail of the fish, in which a string
was fastened, allows the fisherman to
pull in his prize. ly a peculiar
manipulation the reve is pulled off
and returned to the tub to be ready
for use again when the next turtle
sighted.”
vecause
Hl!
choose. ich go in quest
tub contain-
When
Sie}
of
ing some
sleeping
its
is
Tur present area is remarkable for
lized races of the world of kindlier
feelings toward the brute ereation.
and it is certain that animals have
ade of the nineteenth century.
tion was drawn in these
soldier for applying an insulting epi-
thet to a government horse ; to a suit
libelled a racer;
the Belgian Government that a dog
when once provided with his ticket
railrond compartment as a human
being. And now there is the Aus-
trian town of Baden, which has just
voted a credit of $10,000 for the rheu-
matic horses. The equine patients
are to have sulphur baths erected
for their treatment, in which it is
hoped that wonderful cures will be
effected, Elsowhere in Europe valua-
ble racehorses are got into training by
means of a course of turkish baths in
piece of the old-fashioned cloth treat.
ment, aud if matters advance at the
present rate the day cannot be far
istant when every well-bred horse
will insist like so many other de-
votees of fashion, upon an annual stay
at Homburg, Carlsbald or Vichy for
the saks of recuperating his strength.
Tose WesLey, of
Ga., came to Macon, recently to
buy a coffin for his seven-year-old
son, who was erushed to death by a
huge snake, The boy had gone to
the field with his father, and while
his father was at work wandered ofl
a short distance and climbed a mus-
cadine vine as was his habit, On be-
ing unable to find the boy when he
had finished his work about sundown,
the father went to the house expects
ing to find him there, but was in-
formed by his wife that the boy had
not been home since he left the
house with his father. Feeling no
uneasiness Wesley, knowing
habit of his boy, went back into the
field, which was the edge of a
dense swamp bordered with
dine vines, and began searching
vines where he had last seen the boy,
the hoe
not long in finding him
on
By looking up in vines
hut
called the boy failed to answer.
ter calling two or three times
receiving no answer the father shook
Af-
the vine, and 0 his horror saw what
had of the
branches of the was sup-
he supposed to one
he
vine that
his son. begin to uncoil
the
i
sO was In
Wesley
and before he
the snake
the boy fell
Realizing that his
oil of a huge soake
ited to the
ould r y i G1
complete
y the ground, on
1e or ton feot,
iid up and
ww to the
rst fears were
On being
house and further examin
frstry
ey
HOW
ly uncoil
Ww
was dead
it was
ARG Deen
AMINER'S ORDEAL
Lights Four Fuses of Giant Powder
and Finds Escape Cut Off,
Frank Bagley, a miner, had m
nee the
heir way to as many
His
i sot alarm
powder.
i
tempt die
Ls
and *ach
ck to the bott
that |
He
thie narrow confines
had blown out his light and in
of the shaft there
was not a crevice or a projecting rock
big enough to shield even his hand.
The place was black as midnight
darkness itself, and his only way of
was through the agency
that slippery and treacherous
He knew about the time the
eseane
i
roe,
i
explos.
desperately did he attempt to make
the ascent, but all to no purpose.
The first shot went off, scattering
rock in every direction around him
and hitting him in various places on
the body. Tha third and
fourth followed in rapid succession,
but with less serious results to him.
The injuries he sustained were most.
ly received from the first shot. He
is lacerated and bruised from head to
second.
While they are serious
and quite painful, they are not con-
sidered dangerous.~{Prescott (Ari-
zona,) Journal.
- —- OP HL 5
Habits of the Walrus,
Although the walrus is a formi-
dable<looking animal especially when
he rears his huge head and gleaming
tusks out of the water within a few
feet of your boat, Mr. Elliott says hs
is not only timid, harmless, and in-
offensive, but not even given to fight-
ing in his own family. liis tusks,
which vary in length Zeom twenty to
thirty inches, and in weight average
given him to dig clams with, and are
of precious little use to him either in
fighting or defending himself from
attack.
He sleeps comfortably in the open
sen, floating bolt upright in the
water, with his nostrils out and his
hind flippers hanging a dozen feet
below. Nature purposely built him
in the shape of a buoy, so that when
sleeping or resting at sea the buoy
ancy of his huge, blubber-cased fore-
quarters bring his nostrils out of the
water without the slightest effort on
his part. He nts and bellows a
ment, apparently, and many a time
have vessels been warned off danger.
rocks in thick. weather by
gruntiig of the walrus lying upon
WALLS OF
PIERRE LOT! DESCRIBES HIS
JOURNEY THROUGH THEM.
PEKIN.
Wondrous Word Painting of This
Early-World Metropolis, with Its
Walis Upon Walls, Its Grotesque
Architecture--Ete., Ete.
The crowning ambition of Japanese
patriotism war was declared
against the Celestial Empire is to
emuiate the prowess of the French
since
is likely therefore, to occupy the at.
tention of the onlooking world for
coine,
Its sights have often been depicted
by travelers who had the fortune to
in its normal, workaday state
in the piping times of peace, but by
French
Acade-
Pierre Loti
terateur, and
iit
iil
mician,
Subjoined is a
of AM.
translation
En route for Pekin! Clie! Clae!
“Ia, Ia ta!” eries our
conchman, and
two
start off with a tot.
ta,
pigtailed
thin mules
nur
ht from each othe
Lie ge
ind us is
of Heaven;
top of its
palace of
the Son one perceives the
within
which no European has ever been. It
in inconceivable
splendor, and at its feet the Lotus
mysterious walls
still slumbers its
f Ani
ji
Ral yer
FIR EF Ti
NTT !
” oh 118 0 5 ls
=r
A SW ,
Lake lie® tarnished and dead under
the January ice.
One experiences a sort of indefin-
immensity of this city, awaking in
the bright morning; one feels op-
pressed, as it were, by this cramped,
confused, inexiricable dedalus one
makes out around one, covering a
greater extent than any of our capi-
tals of Europe.
The dogs bark furiously at us
and make menacing charges at the
legs of our animals, whose move
regular. These dogs issue from all
the allies, all the cloacae, and the
troop pursues us, showing their
sharp fangs, eager to bite,
The countenances of a few young
Tartar girls, who have just got up,
already appear at the doors of the
little, low, gray-brick houses. Their
broad, full-moon-like faces, befarded
with white and vermilion, peep curi-
ously after us, like a lot of kittens’
h ; they have little airs of tim-
idity ; blankness and astonishment
at the sight of the Western carnival
y. Their larg nes and
bright, raw colors against the gray
walls of the houses; they
themselves awkwardly on feet
are too small, in the pretty poses of
poise
These images defile rapidly on each
again encounter an interminable
series of deserted strects,
Weare in the Yellow, or imperial
town. and all these old. dead districts
bear an aristocatic Wal
walls without end ;
character.
i
ferns, Jehind them are immense
parks, where a nature artificial
whimsically Chinese hay
loned ut great expense,
been
Occasionally entrances are opene:
do
pil:
entrances with heavy oanken
worn by time, and
ters, They have ex
these entrances
CHoOrmous
yellow roofs whose
extreme angles are raised skyward in
in
forms of drazons and monsters,
are guarded by two
capricious crooks grimacing
marble
{ chimeras
one clawed paw posed on a
half lions, | whi
DR
gard the passer-by with a myst
rictus,
And over ¢
desert has placed
dust
11 1.2 $
iil this the
its
OF WALLS
wa
yw foil
‘ k
bot
ned horses
beg
comi
boul % ard
with people: it is be
tumult tiders come
coded by Mafoos in |
all of a heap in the
and look as though squattin
colors and gilt, the strange medleys
painted upon these Yamen by the ar-
| tist of long ago.
In the direction of Sitchemen, the
| Western gate, which will give us ac-
{high saddles. They are attired in
| garments of silk trimmed with pre.
{i cious furs, and black velvet boots
| turned upat the tips, with thick, im-
Cmaculately white soles, made of lay-
‘ers of paper. Among them are phi-
, siognomies that, while very Chinese,
{are stamped with a kind of distine-
| tion peculiar to the upper classes.
They eye us as we pass with a cor.
| tain expression of astonishment, with
‘an imperceptible shade of irony,
| though in their deportment there ia
| nothing but benevolence and courte-
ay; but the Asiatic rictus is always
| there, even in the kind and distin-
| guished physiognomies of the upper
classes, ere is an im le
abyss between this antique Asia,
which still lives in spite of all, and
us, who, born yesterday, have chang.
“srarvihing
A cloud of dust; children scam.
pering about and ; as
piercing as a steam whistle; dirty
lanterns
end of
ita
long
out of breath, carrying
broad daviight, at the
lictors dressed in’ black and puffed
out doublets and breeches, and lofty
hats bedecked with plumes, shaking,
with frantic whips
weighted eat-o’-nine-tails, chains and
of torture: and then,
he same headlong man-
dravons,
Imonsiers
feel £3 1%
gosticuintion,
instruments
advancin
ner, people earry
red screens
di on the eo
ing green
chimeras and
i of
long poles
1:3455%
the great personage thus ¢s-
1a splendidly capari-
He is Li-Hun
of Petehild, who is going
isi «, the Pri
ail ] His b my
i
o mu
wl hang
nee-Be-
qe tie
' Way
Crossings
ulevards
Igies, we
s forced 1 “10 { low intermi-
ble , enor-
beasts iti usky zzies and
rougl i hich ambie along
vd legs like
es out of gear.
» fellows leading them are Mon-
gols from the Northern desert Their
large, flat faces have something
vial and hardy about them, which
contrasts agreeably with the perpet-
They are dres-
olored robes, with
waist belts bristling with poignards,
and are coiffed with a kind of cur
15
ornamented with a tuft
We trot along on a sort of high
embankment, reserved for horses and
vehicles, which occupied the middle
of the boulevard, while on either side,
on a lower level, is a road reserved for
pedestrians. Around us still are rich
cavaliers, befurred and begowned;
blue carts without number: ladles of
quality in black sedan chairs, shaped
like street lamps, and burgeois of
placid mien, mounted on hired done
keys and followed by donkey boys,
who flog the animals with sticks and
shout: ‘Ta, ta, ta, ta!”
And shops upon shops, always
gilded and splendid, wherein are sold
Mongolian furs, gold and silver bro-
cades, priceless stuffs embroidered
with fantastic things in dreamy
shades, enamels and beautiful pot.
tery, all the relics of an inconceiv=
able past, extravagant in richuess
and color.
Then there are fortune tellers
doctors operating upon dummies laid
on trestles, There are also banking
houses swarming with a whole papu-
ination of sheep-faced employes fevers
ishly manoeuvring the strings of balls
on the calculating machines with the
tips of their long, sharp, Chinese
claws,
At last, at last, we come to a large
donjon, perched on a high gray wall,
and a black gull. It is Sitchemen,
the direct western gate. Let us pen
etrate slowly and prudently into this
cavern so as not to break our horses’
legs between the old, disjointed fag.
stones, dating from the time of Kha-