Wessun 0 NIGHT RIDE. DY LUKE SHARP. know all about you find there learn The on my bicycle You think then suddenly still things to evening 1 got you Eng friend of mine lives, leads to this village is one in which It trees on iong green ago. tunnel through ing rays down on the excellent making a sort of dancin cht and shade, low and sunshine the of the trees above there y a diteh with which ade acquaintance myself how to rid is, alas, along pieasant he hedge these exc L, I now » as if 1 were a pi 18 15 8 ’ Lr rose slowly lamp hung on a couple o flanges which apparently ated by springs and give y motion you lly over a stone. the machine, SUCCess, cely for when some y the lane seemed perfectly smooth and unobstructed; yet 1 suddenl against unseen obstacle that appeared to me as I alighted to be a boulder lying on the road It was in reality & about the size of my fist. The lamp had out, of simultane ously with my fall. I have whenever I joggzle over any. thing. Ihave been told that it was on account of the oil i using but I have since secured the most expensive the market. an oil with a beautiful name, but the lamp joggles out just the same. After going over the stone I saw that 1 had to do something definite with the lamp. I took out my hand- kerchief and tied down springs, #0 that the disk of light touched the front wheel. This wasn’t so bad, as it showed me plainly the stores in the road, but hardly in time for me to avoid them, although I did dodge some by performing acrobatic feats that usually led to the ditch, In my evolutions and anxiety about the lamp I had forgotten the existence of that ditch, but it was there, just , the same, lying low and saying noth- ing. I found it without the least trouble. The lamp went out again, of course, and I began to fear that | would not have matches enough to last until I got into the radius of street lamps. [crawled out of the } caine [ome stone gone course, J fall [his one goes out was Oil in the more applied a match to the wick. I had lost the handkerchief, but 1 tied the lamp down with the oiling cloth, I was bowling along at a rapid and satisfactory pace, through thesbright circle of light in front or me, when all at once, within an incredible short distance, there appeared before me a young maa and young woman, strolling along together with their arms about each | others waists, Their backs were to- ‘et them course, far enough ahead to | I was coming, Of | steered around them and passed on, { but they had become so suddenly silhouetted against the darkness, just as a magic lantern picture is thrown upon a screen, that the unexpected sight drove what had clear away from moe, and 1 gave one terrific yell fit to rouse any recently dead man and flung myself from the machine. I'ho girl complicated matters by wildly throwing her arms around the young man's neck and calling him to protect her, which he hi hance to do, because ti 1 stant the We three silent lane what had happene the lamp wont ou excusing myself, and thing conciliatory “What in t of Da QiGnH little sense | machine were bafore in ne FrKnNess are this lane in for?! » ~ 2 young man tur {i enounel ar harsh would Was as a rich 1 want to borrow You will he said. ‘Won't a cash payment ms the troule of magistrate?” “*No, it won't I must do my duty.” I detest a policem his duty, so 1 said “Oh, very well; I money out of my pockets You me I'm going to light my for it.”’ I lit ine up a bit, old as whom nave 10 come belore a apt eman, rho has to do v L. a ofl. took 80 the lamp and backed the ma- The policeman kind- helped me to oo for the t when his back was bent | pushed } 1 aprang cCQins my machine forward a bit an My lamp was lit. He blew his whistle, bat I managed to tu down a side street, then down another and #0 managed to get safely home. But much as I like bicycle I have made up my mind that nigl rides get a ht i 1 will on it 3 the are too excitiag for me until lamp that, like that policeman, do itsduty. Great Blast. Reven tons of gunpowder were emploped 8 great blast at Penrhyn Quarries Bethesda, North Wales, The object fo view was the demolition of 4 huge pinnacle of rock, which has been a picturesque ob. in familiar memory to the thousands who visit the spot every year. Some idea of the gigantic dimensgions of the place may be gathered from the fact that the rock face between the different terraces is some- where about sixty feet in depth. The peak rose in the midst of the amphitheatre formed by the quarries—it is estimated to have contained over 125 000 tons. Quite n crowd gathered to witness the effect of the blast, and certainly those present were not disappointed in the spectacle afforded. On the signal being given, the gunpowder was ignited, and amid the curling smoke the pinnacle was seen to totter, and then to fall in fragments to the bottom, [AFTER THE BEAR ATE KENNEDY A Story of Terrible Suffering by the Man Who Was Not Eaten, Ira PP. Smith, commercial agent of the north and round, returned yesterday morning from a trip along the line. He tells a story which veri- fies the saying that truth is stranger than fiction While he was going to Ash Fork a young man stepped aboard the train at Jerome Junction who looked the second edition Winkle The st l loubte Hy being fuce was pinched and drawn south like Rip Van and uncouth but with hag of rune was un young iis eyes largo and nim in HOWE I thes hung about sh that s dd nts was lacerated and young of the cite pity Mp bruised. wis aspe man tn ex th spoke to the young man and of 186 Art in Sign Painting made unknown man win Ruch’s Hill re had not fed ot said wad window 15150 an agent but after + liad to give was waiting for the nd enlored man wh t and he asked him nid man cable pnd made the « iiaint CF + Nore six i to the of 1 nte the Wis meres ns he CON. around the Queer Pranks of Lightning. The Paducah (Ky.) News says that lightning played some queer, pranks in good town the other day: “It wrapped itself around the spire of the Firat Presbyterian Church like a snake, and took off the slate covering in strips. It burned the hair from one side of Mrs, M. J. Williams' head, on Clay street, yet did not injure the woman nor the child which she held in her arms at the time. It knocked Abe Stone, colored, senseless, as ie sat in a stable loft, and when he re. covered he found that it had removed nearly all his clothes, It jerked an um. brella from a young man's hand and left iris arm paralyzed for an hour. It scared 4 negro into convulsions ut the People's Electric Company's plant on Second street. The erratic bolts performed all REMEMBER THE ALAMO. Heroic Defense of the Texans Against the Mexicans. Soon Santa Anna approached with army on of the town, and invested the fort The de- fenders knew there ily n chance of rescue hopeless to expect that 1: hind defenses so weak, co §.000 ‘trained soldiers and provided with heavy but they had no thoueht of fli and made a desperate defense. by and n while Santa Anna and began a furious cannonade. gunners § and he had te e the ns distance when tl nearer the forward under tha ar vil I {ook DOBEENS Was Scarce y help cameo, got ready his lines His ) inskille however {r MI Almost i were overthrown with ter Santa Anna himself was cap tured, and freedom of Texas was 3 won at a o f the yoy "STAATSBURG PUSHER." Novel Feature of the New York Cen- tral Railroad. betwed the HT and that of on the edgeo Midway town of Staastsburg { the Hud- River bank, a yvered arge enough to contain a los and a cabin square. It comprehends ne of the most novel features of the New York Central Railroad any other, At this here stands, thine on small, « ‘Ou gine perhaps seven feet or of point begins a heavy up sharp curve, while it offers no special diffienity to passenger trains~thotugh these some- time# comprise as many as eight or ten sleepers and drawing room Cars works differently with regard to the enormous freight trains that come in from the West. For a single engine to draw such trains up the Stauts- burg grade is almost impossible. So the “Staatsburg Pusher’ was devised and put into operation. It lurks in the little shed, a pow- erful, sixty-ton engine, No. 80, de- signed to pull out on receiving the proper gignal from the engineer of a down freight train. When the latter is about one hundred yards from the “pusher-house,”’ and slowed down to a speed of ten miles an hour, the “pusher” scurries after it. After being attached to it by a brakeman on the rear platform, it ‘‘pushes’’ the train up the grade, which ends at Staatsburg, where it is unhitched and returns to its house again. Of course great care, skill and judgment are necessary on the part of the en~ gineer of the pusher to catch the retreating freight train before it loses way on the grade, and, equally, to whic i avoid striking it with too much force. The Btaatshurg ‘‘pusher’’ never seeps day and night, Sundays holidays, it stands always with steam up, ready to its errsnd. When the ¢ mado by N Heving nying start off on un approunching freight train r and fire weir engine for the is heard, enginee endy by tl i may, mun stan d 2 enil ar upon them for blasts from who ene Wien neat blas headlight is now nan are Ena Continuous Rails A Remarkable Family Group aroun group A remarkable family people was gathered at McDonald’ Point, New Brunswick, recently, celebrate 104th birthday of the oldest member. This was Mrs Blizzard, and rest of were her ten children. was born in 1792 in Queen's county New Brunswick, her from New York. The present was Oliver, who 81st birthday The next ohn, aged 7S; the next Sarah, i, and they tapered gradually to the youngest, Lucy, 18 58 years old Mrs. grandchildren and 103 grandchildren 1} a. She ugile and has no organic ailment the the the . Mrs oldest chi is was his J i then who 34 Vin is The Snake's Criticism, Vancauson. the clebrated mechan. joian who constructed a duck that could walk, eat and drink and was all but nature itself, was invited to make an asp that would prove eflect- ive in the famous death scene of Cle. opatra. He produced a meehanicnl asp that was a marvel of ingenuity and which seemed to be endowed with life. When the actress was about to raise the snake to her bo- | som, it ran out its forked tongue and | hissed. In the midst of the dead si- | lence of expectancy that fell on the house, a man in the orchestra re- | marked in very audible tones: ‘I am | of the same opinion as the serpent.” i The Government of Mexico is not yet quite freed from the traditional policy, according to which British influence and British capital had the upper hand in the affairs of the Gull For instance, it appears that the Mexican Government has purchased recently in England five gunboats for the navy. FASHION NOTES. items of Interest to the Fair Sex. The coming seezson will be a lace gon, just as the last one stm AA, has been. nor . orncob pn pe, ig the warrant f States back porcl and commenced readis ‘The President of the sends greeting’ } barrel of a muzzle Was shoved out of the kite and aimed at my head. [I saw a nervous little gray-headed woman at the other end of the gun with her finger on the trigger. | 3 he bright gray eye twinkling through the buckhorn sight as she remarked ‘You git, and don’t you come snoopin’ roun’ hyur agin. The Presi dent sent greetin’s onst before when the ol’ man cut some timber on gov ment land, and it cost him "bout a hundred dollars an’ mighty nigh a month in jail. Then he the President didn’t know nothin nbout it. If the President wants to be friendly with the man he'll have to come right hyur without sendin’ no greetin’s. pro Mn he long oading rifle loor hen his found out ol’ Crit! A Thorn on the Bioyclist's Path, Bicyclists in the region round about St. John's, Mich., have a queer, but substan. Hal grievance. The fields and farms thereabout are bounded and guarded with guickset hedges instead of by fences, At this time of year the farmers trim their hedges, and as a consequence all the roads in the region are strewn thickly with boughs full of briers, sharp slivers of tough wood, and short snippings of hedge points, which puncture bicycle tires as readily and perhaps more seriously than steel tacks. The Eoglish government im India col. fects #35.000,900 a year from the sale of opium,
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