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
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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
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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,