SAVING LIFE AT SEA.
Lives Sometimes Put in Peril to
Make One Rescue.
Much imperiling of life is demand-
ed in the mid-vcean rescue of a drown-
ing man, and such an incident al-
ways furnishes intense dramatic in-
terest for a spectator. The Baron de
Malortie, in a recent interesting work,
recalls an exciting scene he witnessed
years ago while crossing the Atlantic.
The ship was several days out, when
one afternoon he was idly lounging
about on the upper deck.
“Suddenly,” he says, ‘‘I saw a man
approach the bulwark. He threw
overboard some objects—we learned
afterward that they were his Bible and
a rosary—and followed them with a
header into the foaming sea. ‘Man
overboard!’ I cried, but the storm
covered my voice, and I rushed up to
the brides to call the attention of tho
officer on duty to the acéident. Stop!
Half speed astern, and orders for the
lowering of the bout were the aflairs
of a minute or two. ‘Volunteers to
man the boat!’ shouted a young mid-
shipman, catting a lifeboat from the
davits, Ten forward for
every one wanted, and, selecting four
of the most powerful tars, the middy
was lowering the boat, when a young
doctor, q wickly pocketing i flask of
brandy for a restorative, let himself
down one of the ropes and reached
the boat as a monumental wave was
dashing ever it. The men pulled
with a will and the gallant little nut
shell fought bravely down the
mountains of angry
suicide, he wae
from time to time
something like a human
on the top of a white-cre
“Oh. the
watched both
Disappearing alto
when we feared
men came
ne.
Hp aia
waters,
sted wave.
with
and
which wi
its
ments,
y last of
1 § $4
these noble fellos A her gigautie
anxiety
} +
the boat goal!
wave would rain like a
It was
gaining 1
came, while we were slowly f
in 1ts wake.
“There! loctor throws a
belt. They only some yar 1s off
now. Bat no, a cruel i
them past the object of their
dous efforts. i are
ing round he
passe | the r
COrK.
was
lowing
1:
Mie
has tossed
tremen-
throw-
dy
Wave
master, and,
he and the d
tion.
1s hooked ; t}
perately
ere
critical
“But
board?
men
ment.
They hel
water ; an
has done
the
are busy
on board,
“The long
the proximity
fully
met
»
SO Dey i
whom r«
had driven to th
not require
him to,
venture in
sondemne
rest of th
punishmet
lives to this
treal Star.
The Parrot That Scared the
Cats
obwect to I
ina
any ners
parrot
{ireal
Baggage
of the
two mortal
coaxing
his log IRCILY
When the ore
large sleek cat
bagga
aoying the
to the cage ar
nose between
ting Poll
he woul
only out
an hour,
grown dense
by
Poll's direct
‘Ha!
The
conversation
lifted and :
like a feather duster
a gleeful smile, and t
back to trouble
aronsed
hin
ont
Fhe parrot smiled
he eat did not come
him
Modern Cave Dwellers.
Island, Behring
off Port Clarence
there
On King's
thirty miles
shores of Alaska,
the most
seen,
The island, of rock, they inhabit ia
about half a mile wide and little more
than that distance long, and the islanders
are cave dwellers and live on whale
blubber, seal and walrus meat.
Ou the southeast side, closely nestling
against the cliff, is a village of the cave
dwellers. One abode is built
under the other, and to the right and left,
presenting a most curious appearance.
These strange people are usually as
strong and vigorous as can be found any.
where. They have no government, no
chief and need no laws. Living
in families and setting forth every day in
their kinks for the whale, seal and walrus,
they return each night to their caves, or
pole tents, caring nothing for the outside
world. They are respected for their
sagacity, but that is all,
in Straits,
and the
200 of
ver
nre shout
curious islanders that « were
:
| A PECULIAR INDUSTRY.
York Court,
A new industry was brought to
light in the Jefferson Market Court
this morning, when William Hansche,
eighteen wears old, a resident of
Brooklyn, and Richard Ferner, nine:
teen years of age, 880 Eleventh ave-
nue, were arrmgned for disorderly
condnet. The complainant was Will
iam Cunningham, 603 West Forty-
third street, who 18 employed as a
watchman on the stock yard dock at
the foot of West Fortieth street. Po-
liceman McAnnany, who made the ar-
rest, opened the case. He said:
“Your Honor, these men are profes-
sional pig rescuers. It is the custom
around the stock yards on the West
Side, where a pig falls or jumps into
the river, to pay the man that fishesit
out 81, I'he prisoners here have res-
ened innzmerable pigs, but of late the
pigs have been cautions and
many have fallen overboard. To make
up for the loss of rewards, these
have recently been driving the pigs
into the river, and then pulling them
They made so much noise doing
disturbed this watch-
: l canght them in
night. That's the case.’
Cunningham then addressed
“Jud Ie,
these men a number of t
disturb the pigs, At 7
dock, and
very
men
out.
this that they
man here, and
act nat
warned
to
last
conrt as follows: I've
not
o'clock
Bo
overh i.
s too
nere, who
the
was lay for
1 don't kn
Maybe
some other
them.
poor pig.
grabbi i
of the
or
m out.”
them,
what became
i dro
144 A mavoe
puzzled
ning to the prisoners,
i
3 visibly
x Of
board from
ry prej
and the Magistrate said
‘Well, 1 don’t bla
not a ve
7's fault,”
id that inasmuch
iocked
ible to bring the
i out whether it had
ard,
Mag
wn his
ip all
thrown over he
the compisint.
pth theredap
rs, with x ‘warn
somehow respot
Dundee
ints out that this is an
The creator of
wa® Thomas Morton,
born 1704, died 1538),
the author of "Box and
e¢ is referred to in his
‘Speed the Plou which
performed in Mrs
character in that
merely a mysterious
personage whom Dame Ashfield, the
farmer's wife, constantly quotes
much in the same way ns
Gamp alludes to Mrs, Harris,
tér in the
wr
real
8
8 not a
he is
Ripening by Electricity.
By lighting his hot-houses at night
with electric lights of 5,000 candle
power, all told, Dr. Werner von
Siemens, an eminent German electri
cian, ripens raspberries in seventy
five days, grapes in two months and
a half, ete The expression ‘in
geason’’ may soon lose significance
in this connection, since by the ap
plication of electricity fruits and
the year. The fruits thus producad
are remarkable for brilliant color and
fine aroma, but are not as aweet ns
those ripened by the sun. The pro-
cess may serve to amuse wealthy
scientists, but it is not likely to
| come into universal use.
oy
Lead Mining Declining.
The United States geological sur.
| vey report says that the lead mining
| industry for 1504 was one of except-
| lonally low prices. Mining declined
{and It was necessary to draw on for.
| eign sources to supply deficiencies,
| The production of refined lead in the
| United States was 219.000 short tons
{in 1894. The production of 1898 wes
220,000 short tons.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Tae total yicld of cereals this year
18 placed at over three and a half
billion bushels (8,600,000,000), or
1,300,000,000 bushels more than the
production of last year. If he had
70,000,000 people in the country this
would give 250 bushels to each family
with 100,000,000 bushels to spare.
The figures are large, but no larger
than the problem of marketing the
surplus so as to get an-approximation
to its real value.
Tue Chicago News tells of a queer
case that will come up in the
Minnesota courts, In that State the
moose is protected game. While out
shooting a man named Phair
attacked by a moose. Owing, he says,
to the fact that shooting WAS
prohibited by law, Phair did not at-
tempt to his gan. The
quence was he was seriously injured
by the animal. Phair is now institut-
ing damage proceedings against the
animal
soon
Wis
Noose
use COnse-
is a ward of the State, and that he was
thus handicapped from d
himself.
delending
Oxce when Pasteur was dining with
his daughter and her family her
home in Burgundy he took eare to dip
lass of water the that
for dessert to
arcfally napkin
His
4
ii
cherries
and
his
inagg
were servi d
wipe th
before puttin
fastidious:
the table,
them jor
at
aen
m ¢ with
8 month.
length
and
inter,
1 ¥
4
ag
ra the Persepol
mer famed for th
3 mistiaps s
But sine
sian (Governm has aoquire i her aud
fitted he hhguns and with =a
which,
her bow, has a )
rings and diving d
un very
ram,
to
its
insecurely fixed
ol f slippiz
wnward,
powerful and mag-
that
Persians,
Tue old Minnesota,
which figured with the Congress and
the Cumberland in the Monitor-Merri-
mae fight at Hampton Roads March,
1862, 1s, to a Washington
dispatch, to be turned over to the
State of Massachusetts at once for the
of the naval militia, This dis-
pomtion of the Minnesota is in ac-
cordance with the act of Congress of
August 3, 1804, authorizing and em-
powering the Secretary of the Navy
to loan unserviceable naval vessels to
the naval militia organizations for in
shore armories for purposes of instroe.
tion and drill. Under this act, the
New Hampshire {{rigate) is loaned to
New York, the Wyandotte (monitor)
to Connecticut, the Ajax (monitor) to
New Jersey, the St. Louis (frigate) to
Pennsylvania, the Nantucket imonitor)
o North Carolina, the Dale (corvette)
to Maryland, and the Minnesota to
Massachusetis,
mo she
has become
nificent man-of-war 1% to say, In
» eves of patriotic
war frigat«
in
according
Re
“Frw people,” says the Philadelphia
Record, *‘have any idea of the enor.
greyhounds in shipshape. It costs
the International Navigation Company
nu an average 810,000 a month for ro.
pairs to the varions vessels. They aro
thoroughly overhauled every month,
Tae work of gathering statistics of
the loss of life and property from light-
been done with care
| and comprehensiveness that seem to
be demanded. The Weather Bureau
began in 1890 to keep a record of
deaths from lightning. For the four
years 1890-"93 these numbered 784, an
average of 196 a year, Prior to this
the United States was kept by Mr. H,
F. Kretzer, of St. Louis, Mo., his
sources of information being 192 news.
papers, daily, weekly, and monthly.
He found that for the five years 1883.
‘87 there were 1030 deaths eaused by
lightning, an average of 206, Bo far as
the records show, and there are no re-
turns at all from several States, thers
tere in the United States in the eight
years ending 1892, 3516 fires
by lightning, and entailing a loss of
812 663,855, or
than 400 a year, with a yearly loss ex-
Of the builldings
were 2335 barns, 664
and 104 churches,
caused
An average of more
ceeding $1,500,000,
strucl
dwellings
there
I'ue Parisian police are now
much speculation
among the
It walked into
3 the other day,
form of a man, This |
the
chemist by
is a source of
won de
the
pol
the
bears
int
mens
members
f
force. one of
and is 11
to destroy hin
cientifie |
chloride of
ons oocurrea
next largest in July,
hind. Thel
is
large nnt
un Jannary explained
: New Year drinking, while
expinpation given of the numbers
and August are the holidays and
sonths, February, June,
November the
figures in the admission of
ma . The majority ot the
on the other hand, were admitted from
June to October, the earlier part ol
the year showing a decided minority.
Some curious facts appear in Dr. Gil
July
trips in these:
October and show
3
lowest
females,
lespie’s statement regarding the ocen-
pations of the drinkers, Of the 329
168 were housewives,
lanndresses, 21 charwomen, 20 sbop-
girls and 19 beguars,
tramps, ete., 18 servants, 18 factory
hands, and 10 girls at home.
Among the others, five were barmaids
and two teachers, Of the 935 males,
461 were of the laboring class, eom-
prising — Laborers, 89; skilled labor-
ers, 172: trade laborers, 161 ; factory
workers, 16, and railway employes,
13; 119 were of the shopkeeping class;
108 were of the professional class, in-
cluding 49 clerks; 84 belonged to the
liquor trade, and 26 were beggars,
tramps, ete. The months of January,
April and July were the months in
the laboring class generally
women, 33
seamairesses,
were
The Bicycle Led Horse.
——
necessary wonld astonish even the old
voyager. In the shops at Jersey City
there is a duplicate of every bit of
machinery used in the makeup of an
ocean liner, from enormous pieces of
shafting down to the smallest bolt.
The crowning insult to the horse
went unresented the other day. Down
avenue rolled a man on a
aged horse, in the prime of life and
usefulness. The horse jogged along
ontcher, who clears the ship of the
little posts. He baits his traps with
the core of a head of lettuce and places
a rat in each one, his experience being
that the others will then more readily
enter. On an average, fifty rats are
enught in this manner after every
voyage.
Heo
| evidently realized his degradation,
to resent it. And lovers of the horse
man’s intelligent friend and compan-
ion, looked after him pityingly and
wished he would back up, pull the
man off the wheel and dance on the
machine~but he didn’s.
SIBERIAN RAILWAY,
it Will Shorten
the World
The works tion
great BSiberias Are
pushed along with much energy, and
there can be little doubt but that this
extended line silt bee plete ! earlier
than was anticipated. Before six, and
perhaps even before five, years
elapsed it will be possible to complete
in ten, twelve or fourteen
way journey over a vast
a few years ago
known, and the irip around the world
will probably have been shortened by
some twenty days From 8t. Peters-
barg the journey via Moscow and So-
mora to the Ural Mountains can
done in three days. The d from
St. Petersburg to the Siberian frontier
by rail 18 about 1700 mil At Tsehet
commences } West Siberian
which
the Journey Rourd
by Twenty Days.
the
being
with
in Lonne
intlway
have
ia rails
which
1
paratively
days
region
Hnn-
WHE COI
He
stance
900 miles, This
maonotonons intry,
rivers, lob
d.
rection,
the Siberian
Petty Economies
ground rents
hod &
have 8h
enturies to com
favorite
and that
the
the
hat he once took his
pair in person to a «
them
EAWwW
like since I've heen 1¢e business
You either the great pauper
in England, or the Marquis of ===
‘1 am the i
pauper,’ said
from being offended
amused To mount
shoe-strings, even
to him, and a new pair of shoes
ways brings on a violent fit of
are ont
marquis
his lord
gou %
sad necessity of donning them at all
Lord Eldon was a peer of this pat
tern, only he proceeded to the other
extremity, and would never allow his
wife and daughters but one
between them. One wonders what
pretty Betty Surtees saw in him to
induce Her to elope with him, cost
what it might
There is a Frenchman whose ec~
centricity in respect of a pet mean
ness is very often commented upon
in Paris, for, though he has a model
establishment and positively rolls in
money, he cannot bear to use towels
freely —his own or his neighbors’. It
is said that upon staying at one of
the old castles of Brittany fora week
he took his hostess aside privately
and showed her over three dozen
towels that he had been gloating over
for days. ‘‘All these, madame, I
have saved,” he remarked, with great
delight. ‘‘ Your servants put them in
my room, it is true but I and ny
wife have only used one between 18
Servants are careless, wast "ul
ageatures., [return tho rest.”
it Rained Popped Sparrows.
of the men J ever
slickest
it
One
up to all the dodges to advertise his
He happened to strike one
town in which English spar
rows were a great nilsance, and the
ad offered a bounty
The baking powder
y to give
and of-
goods,
on
his goods i
big
xtern the Bpar-
rows in town |
His proposition was gle dly accept~
ed began He
Beene
weeks,
80 he Bo
a8 the
evening
Long ~-Sufliering couple
about the room
two or three nu
ns be
hen she
Ww
with a litt
and 1
Sometimes a
hunters mnst
stopping when it stops
bons hen th
marel
and startang
After a certain
are m pared The
one who ha largest number wins
the first prize, while the booby
prize is fittingly awarded to the one
having the fewest
again when it starts
time the finds
& the
Some other
sport are often
to see who can
nuts in one hand from one table
another. A boy ought to win this.
Forty-two is a good number.
trialg that are great
vdaced Ofie ie
Tie ~
to
intr
carry the most
1
Shot by a Morse.
A peculiar accident occurred in
East Monmouth, Me. Aman by the
name of Prescott was leading a colt,
when the animal whirled and kicked,
striking Prescott in the region of the
hip pocket, where he carried a loaded
revolver. The revolver was dis-
charged, the bullet lodging in the
calf of Mr. Prescott’s leg.
A ENA
Where Tobacco is Grown,
Tobaceo is grown in forty-two
States and Territories, but nearly
half the crop comes from Kentucky,
Virginia, Ohio, North Corolina, Ten
nessee, Pennsylvania and Connects
cut.