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ACROSS THE PRAIRIE.
Horses in a Plain Comparison of Speed
«Women Take Part in the Chase.
It is early morning.
and cool, blows from the
prairie is starred with flowers Far in
the distance rises a lonely butte, blue
and ominous like a cloud A line of
east,
edge, showing that their roots are
washed by a shallow stream that be-
comes a deadly torrent in the rain
The yellow-breasted fleld lark
carols keenly from the grass The
sparrow hawk cuts the air with zigzag
wing are in the party—five
men two women. They are well
mounted. The horses the small,
nervous, closely built t of the
They do not stride as far as
of the but they
with marvellous
They hardy
rry you at top speed
time,
Seven the
and
are
produc
prairie.
the horse
pick it up
swiftness,
big cities,
faster
are
in fact
t00 They shall «
until they drop nothing the
They ge
but all
ind be
worse for it in a day or two t
which is heating,
can eat of tl
1461
iittie
corn
they ie most . nutrition
grasses in the world
I'he
ful, beautiful
sleek
and their own
which
dogs couple grace
atures
er holds them by a stout cord
passes around heir
his wrist slender
vering and {
The
limbs heir eves
blaze with excitement
are qui
greyhound
Higent
when he
{s probably the least inte of ou
canine f knows
It is his
and fifty
right
riend
is wanted for the
hundred
dissipation
ahead and slightly to the
tremendous
upward. He is traveling
holding the otl
FOES DOW
t from a «
to get
kward
of his prom !
them and
tifa §
upon
ia closer
'
is desperately
speed. The
fast They are
vards of him —five—thyee
whirls at right angles
foemen overruns, but the
whirls with him
Ten more spas-
each shorter than the
b by the dog. a
pitiful sq and ig over Well
Maida! The other dog comes
up feeling ashamed and wants to take
out of the corpse The girl who
has lost her hat drops the reins to twist
up her tawny hair The other, with
flushed face, is laughing wildly at a
very small joke. Killed in a mile and
a quarter The girths loosened
and the men light cigarettes. Ever’
body talks dog and talks at once. A
half dozen chases make the morning's
sport. but there is an appetite for lun-
c¢heon in one such ride as that —Chi-
cago Times-Herald,
e makes jess
are gaining
within ten
Suddenly
One of his
other, 2n
and is hot after hi
r dog,
mi
olde
modi ieaps
last, an accurate bound
IP3K ail
done
it
it
are
The First Clock.
The first clock in our sense of the
word, seems to have been (for we are
fot sure as to what clocks they were
which. in 872. the Venetians invented,
sf which they sent a specimen to Con-
itantinople) one made in 1374 for
Charles V. of France, It was a very
big one, weighing several
weight, and made by a converted Arab
samed Henry de Vie, and those who
pre curious may find full details in
Yroissart.
the round tower of the palace and for
months vast crowds assembled to
watch the novelty's action ana details.
ft is not with this, fowever, or any
of the succeeding efforts of clockmak-
ers. that we are concerned, but at a
far interior date with the contrivances
by which men measured time and sup-
slock. And back to remoteSt ages
wus: we go.~London Standard.
No Children in the White House.
There are no children in the White
fiouse now. It is the first adminis-
tration since that of Buchanan where
there have not been children in tho
President's family. Lincoln had three
" boys when he came to the White
| House, and the Christmas fest{yal was
celebrated in the good old-fashioned
way, with a Santa Claus. Grant had
his three boys and the pretty Nellie
to make merry at Christmas time,
Haves had a complete domestic house-
hold, with romping boys and a win-
ome little girl, who has grown to
womanhood and has recently been
spending her honeymoon at the White
House, where she was a child,
Garfield and Arthve had children to
celebrate Christmas, and Cleveland in
the last vear of his first administration
had a baby girl to make Christmas
for. Harrison's children were grown
| to manhood and womanhood, but he
had his grandchildren with him in the
White House, and Baby McKee became
a more celebrated character in the
child history of the White House than
any since Tad Lincoln, In Cleveland's
second administration there were two
little girls to welcome Santa Claus
But there are no children in the While
House now. There are pictures of two
beautiful in Mrs. McKinley's
many fond remembrances
but they sleep in the old
at Canton, where they wera
babies
room and
of them,
graveyard
burfed many years
USES FOR TOADS AND BATS.
lasect Killers and Capable
Made Into Houschold Pets.
n F
fessor of phy
(reat
Hodge, assis
niversity
n dev
toad,
keep a hou
the waters
ocked
mosquito pest
sonable limits
1: ,
Before setling
i
ir i
LAT MIRE
small pen in his garden
¢
in apan ol water
To attrac
the
a female toad
he placed within
and bone
meat
4
pan i
and
go into another
le from the first
grubs in
tA colony
The owner of
doctor that
1¥8 from
aught a bat and off
{
1hs whict
free worms
af the ori
Of ine iT
epted The codliin
at night; the same is true
Putting the facts
Hodge thought there was a strong
flies only
the
Dr
case of circumstantial eviden
hat together
¢ that the
bat was a very useful friend of the ap
ple grower
Dr. Hodge took half a dozen
bats home with him and installed them
in his parlor At first they
of th
greeted
anger After a while they
entered the room they would fly to him
for food They never reached
point of allowing themf@@ves to be
handled, but they were friendly. ‘hel
home was in the folds of the lop of
the window draperies, and when niga
came. and sometimes in the daylime
they would spend their time flying
about the room, regardiess ~f the pres
ence of members of the family. Dr
| Hodge would occasionally feed them
with insects in the evening, releasing
net full after net full of ‘the night fiy-
ing varieties, and never a bug remain-
ed in the morning. They took every-
thing. from a spider to a polyphemus
moth. One morning the doctor count-
ed while one bat devoured sixty-eight
| house flies. He believes that the bai
| would be almost as susceptible to tam-
| ing as the monkey.
Observation of fish in his aquariums
| has shown Dr. Hodge that they are the
| natural enemies of the mosquito. They
| are very fond of the larvae of the sting-
| ing pest. He saw one sunfish no larg-
| or than a silver dollar swallow between
| sixty-five and ceventy wriggiers in a
i single hour. And it was also demon-
| strated to him that tadpoles, both of
| frogs and toads. are inveterate enemies
| of the embryo mosquito.
§ n——
. A grammar school in Ohio has been
| closed because of a free fght. The
{ superintendent and principal eama to
| blows, the scholars and townspeople
took sides, and now the people are so
busy fighting that they haven't time
to think of education.
the
ee
ud
It is said that 700 Chinamen in San
%
to the Salvation 4rmy.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Gold deposits have been discovered
in Labrador which are said to be
gearcely less rich than those of tha
Klondike. Gold and cold go together in
hoth of these great mining regions,
Referring to a paragraph about a
beach tree twelve feet in height grow-
ing on the tower of an Englsh church,
the Albany (N. Y.) Argus says: "One
doesn’t have to cross the ocean to seo
this more than duplicated, Growing
out of the wall in one of the towers
of a stone building in Genesee street,
Utica, opposite the Butterfield House,
the traveler may another tree,
which has reached a growth of about
twenty-five feet.”
Bee
In view the growing Importance
of Argentina as a farming country, it
is interesting to her increasing
immigration During 1891 the arrivals
ware 28 204, to
102.673 in taly
Spain and
of
note
increasing steadily
chiefly from
France in the order named;
18005,
other countrie represented to some
atay of agricultural
the
Italians
extent The main
most vigorous
Of
eventually
and
the
| immigration,
arrivals COUrss
of
are
OMe the
leave,
migrants
are not
named
try.
The the
{ evening has become
New Zealand
\ t drafted a
in
Very numerous
i
i
cliies, and
bill for
| late in
{| Rovernment as }
gsppointment women’
inspectors, powers
and girl
at a la are als
| thorized home
| her safely deposite n the
stop
out
and
parental
| boso girl is
hard case to an establish-
in ch
{ quiry.
Arge
| life in the gr
{ the only
something worse
CAlse
ind struggle
{| produce
here
{inhabitan
between two
exireme
mean
duces the ideal
has
great English
There
| the
| such
never
ago
wrgetown
3 i ¢} mathe
1d the 1
aken when only
A year
+ +)
I ue
1
| recaptured f ndiang by a foray
United infantry upon the
neighborhood of
found a foster-mother in
af th
NA
ie soldiers, with
waz old
ame
up hes
has
and
She
her mother through a persistent
which
bore her father's name, and they were
{ thus happily restored to each other.
until she
when
and
ghe bed
took
where
Ug
Orlando Bradt
| abode In Georgetown, she
ived with
i sons
daughters growing up around her
prospercusly,
| search of the pension records
Reports received by the Railroad
indicate that the building of
| new railroads in 1807 was a little leas
than for before and a few
miles more than the total reported for
though still far short of that in
and earlier years. Official re-
from the various companies
a total mileage built during tho
including second track and
gidings, of 1.604.1 miles. To this must
we added 222.75 miles, which the news
columns of the Railroad Gazette show
to be completed by the close of the
| year, giving ns 1527.02 miles pretly
! accurately verified. There are a num-
ber of roads on which it is known that
grading has been completed and track
laying is in progress. The exact
amount of track laying, however, it is
impossible to state, but it is just now
estimated to be not less than 110
miles. This makes the total probable
raliroad building during 1807, 1837.02
miles, of which all but 333.75 miles is
official.
1s thera a bunco syndicate? It be-
gins td look that way. One of the
king bees among bunco steerers and
confidence men was recently arrested
in Massachusetts on a variety of
charges. His anonymous friends put up
$28,000 in cash as ball for him in the
varipus courts in which he was ar-
raigned. The man has skipped and it
is doubtfal whether he will appear for
trial. The police of several cities be.
lieve that there is a regular syndicate
of these confidence schemers, who take
care of each other when in trouble and
divide their ill-gotten gains when in
luck. A surprising number of com-
plaints against this form of swindle
have come to light in connection with
this arrest, and it is believed that the
various forms of the gold brick swindis
and other confidence games are mors
commonly worked than is supposed, in
towns and cities as well as in country
Gazette
the year
| INE,
15503
| ports
show
ear, not
to play cards for money, or give you a
big check for what he has bought if
you will pay him the difference in cash
or who wants to sell you a gold bricg
or some nuggets-—these chaps should
be driven off the place with a piteh-
fork.
The extz rt of our mineral resources
is strikingly forth in the annuai
report of the United States geological
survey for the calendar year ending
June 31, 1=iMi. This report, which ig
somewhat behind time, treats the sub-
ject of our mineral resources exhaus-
tively According to this report the
value of our mineral products for the
year 1804 aggregated not less than
023,717,288 With respect to the pre.
metals it appears that larger
quantities of gold and silver were tak
en from the mines than usual, the total
value of the gold output aggregating
$53.088 O03, and the total value of the
output aggregated $76,000 206
the r shows a
amount
set
cious
silver
While
1 the
falling off
mined during
eport
of
con!
il
ii iY
1¢ Year, Me nEuUres nevertheless em
phasize the gig
industry. Including
and bituminous coal
110,390 tons 1»
the copper in
that istine i
antic proportions of the
both
there
anthracite
151%
nined during the year, In
dustry the report shows
were
1ins have been madd
$00,001,450 pounds
exported
quantiti
tinum
er ore
Year
abounds
ths
ineral deposits, mu
ar Gut has come from
Ve 3 i
South Witt developing pro
n the Sou
MOE on in
this 4
Hig @
which
i ng before :
a much larger pe
gs yearly oulp
country
*
When Death Comes.
investigation covering ove
lation 1o the hour
well-known physician
if a student of the
184
been ascertained t
» between ©
i the death rat
the morning
18 f
1]
the
per
hand
age
wit |
the
minimum
mean Average
10 a
¢
afternoon
Hoetwoen
GUring eariy
Wa
0 CI0CK
nun
pu
re about HK OK)
means
girls
#INg gener
rmy with forty
¢
i
regiments If ali the
y march in parade the
Broadway its entire widih
e of twelve miles, or fr
Fordham, The
ISK in the Borough
om
the teact
era’
of Manhattan
the night
FAN THM
jattery oO
salaries for
and exclusive of
5.-
sitors’ pay will call for
alone
gchools, will amount to
S40 (WMH ro i
amount to at leas
there i= single
repairing pianos
School supplies w
¢ £500,000, and then
a item of £7,000 for
A Pastorate 150 Years in One Family.
many churches which
distinction of having
are not
the
There
an claim
had five pasive pastors members
of one family Such, however, is the
proud boast of the Selkirk United Pres-
byterian Church, for ever since its
opening day. moore than a century and
a half ago. those ministers there have
been related one another The
Rev. Andrew Moir was the first pastor,
and his great grandson, the Rev. John
Lawson. has occupied the pulpit now
for forty-seven years, the connecting
links between the first and last hav-
ing all been members of the same fami-
ly.—~Westminster Gazette,
SUC
to
Polarity and Railroad Iron.
Prof. Berton has just published an
interesting collection of statistics
which prove the influence that mag-
netism is exerting in producing phe-
nomena, which otherwise would be in-
explicable. Among other things, he
shows that in making a railroad run-
ning east and west, as many as thir-
teen steel rails will become crystalized
and break, before one rail on a north
and south track is similarly affected.
This is due to the generation of mag-
netlam by friction, and to the fact that
in the former instance the polarity of
magnetic current ls resisted in the
rush of the train; whereas, in the lat-
ter case it is undisturbed —Tit-Bits,
A LINAS 008
A Momarch Who Balieves in Omens.
In common with most of the Siamese,
the King of Siam is a firm believer
in omens, and nothing of importance is
done without reference to the Brahmin
soothsayers and astrologers who are
attached to the palace. As an example,
it may be mentioned that on June 205,
1804, his majesty returned from Koh-
sl-chang. his seaside residence; but
as the day was considered unpropitions
by the astrologers, the vessel anchored
pear the mouth of the Meinam until
the next day.
OUR YOUNG PEOPLE.
CHILDRER AT
Bam it in, cram it in,
Children's heads are hollow;
Slam it in, jam it in,
Still there's more to follow;
Hygiene and history,
Astronomic mystery,
Algebra, histology,
Latin, etymology,
Botany, geometry,
Greek and trigonometry,
tam it in, cram it in,
Children’s heads are hollow.
BCHOOL,
Heold it in, mould it in,
All that they can swallow;
Fold it in, hold it in,
Still there's more to follow;
Faces pinched, sad and pale,
Tell the same unvarying tale,
Tell of
Meals untasted, studies deep;
the
woments robbed from sleep
' :
wlio ve passed
through
With
How
Bammed it in,
Crunched it in, punched
Rubbed it in
Pressed it in and caressed
hose
{1 $a)
Willi Tei:
aching brow
the teacher cramime
mmmed 1
clubbed it 11,
’
Rap ed 1t 1m and
When then
Rp ad is
heads were
1.1 ON
A young
nigh ro« f
toward the
one heel!
carpenter we
suddenly began
edge Press har
CAME tLe Cry ©
“Wh
above
heel
one of the
4
evangelists
ithered and «
0 LORrse
y :
ie JAG Was
nig
© Paes!
a int
ht afte
e girl
% eh
He did so
but as she
dipper
had changed to one of beautiful silver
Reaching home as possible,
she handed the water ¢ the servant
to give it to her mother
““Oh."” said her mother, “*I will not
take it I shall not live an
Yon are vonnger and stro than I
vant the dipper
ining = i The
about to ve each
of the
precious waterwhenshe saw a stranger
at the door. He looked sad and weary
and she handed him the dipper of
water, He took it, saying
“Blessed is he that gives a cup of
cold water in His Name.’
A radiance shone ail about him and
immediately the golden dipper became
studded with seven sparkling dia
monds,. Then it burst forth intoa
fountain, which snpplied the thirsty
land with water, The seven diamonds
rose higher until they reached the
sky, and there changed into bright
stars, forming the ‘“Great Dipper”
telling the story of an nnselfish act.
yh w
For
As she gave the
into sh
ser
%
it changed
servant
was Just
person in the house a spoon
HOW HIRAM SPENT HIS SHRIMP MONEY.
““I wish my mother had a ring like
those the ladies wear at the hotel”
said Hiram Green to himself one day.
“There isn't one of those ladies as
pretty as my mother: she ought to
wear rings 00.”
Hiram was the son of =a fisherman,
but the father had died when Hiram
was a little boy. Hiram’s mother
took in sewing and fancy work toearn
money to support herself and her son
achool hours, and in wacation,
had two uncles who had tanght him
bow to catch shrimps. With the
money he earned by selling them he
could buy things for his own use or
pleasure.
his money until the bank was full.
Now Hiram loved his mother more
than anything else im the world
Whenever he dreamed of being rich
some time, as boys often do, it was
not for himself he wanted the money,
but that the dear little mother might
drive in a carriage, drawn by a pair of
horses with clinking chains.
The sight of the Es gems on
the hands «f some of the summer
visitors at the Sabing village in which
Be lived had added a mew article to
the list of beautiful things his mother
was some day to own. He had heard
that just one single diamond was
sometimes worth five hundred dollars
or more. This had discouraged him
very much. But ome day happening
—————_
lo pass s shop in the neighboring
| town Le saw a number of rings dis-
| played in the window. Diamond
rings which flashed and sparkled, it
seemed to him, just as those worn by
| the ladies in the hotels. He stopped
fascinated, aud pressed his face against
{the glass, eager to see if any prices
marked upon them. Imagine
his surprise when he saw upon the
largest one a tag marked $4.75, He
looked again to see if he had not made
| a mistake. Perhaps it was 8475.000,
hut no, he knew enough about figures
| to see that he was right the first time,
Home he went as fast he could
{get there, and ran up into his bed-
Then, for the first time since
to “‘shrimp-
he opened his bank and
contents, ‘Three dollars
and two cents I” he cried, *‘al-
most enough. 1 10 buy
something for myself this time, but
I'l before another
week
Hiram worked early and late
days, He caught
shrimps than he had ever
f in
| sold them res
{ were
as
| Yoo,
ne had
money
Degun save his
| connted its
nd twenty
WES going
have that ng
for the
more
be-
next few
caught
+}
the pame i€LELL
the
Buop
ng, before
bad
he
stv. al-
the window
[£5
it was
sho iid
tose
Petrified Body of 2a Woman.
#
ShHacKel ol,
a
kelford's
Hazel
svered the
While
of the
Mo 1541
waler
he
a perfect
liscovery
where it
viewed
id is
mo ;
five and
200
face
could
was
in
the
Was
iree
body,
the burial
in the settle-
» county, if not prior to our
vilization who have
ected the petrification critically say
The only ab-
or marks on are a
the right protrud-
sw head on the left, indicating
resulted from the wounds.
itizens from this city have
the body, and claim that it is
as perfect as the work of a sculptor,
the toes and finger nails being as dis-
tinct as those of a living person. It
will be brought to this city and placed
exhibition. —8t. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat
weight
perfect
aimed
any
anda
ognized one
known her
owned
no
had
a 1 yw
ackelford
who
anda
spot
one
The
the
Years
over
» date of
emote period
Those
is not an Indian
the
and a
body
side
ing arr
that death
Several
viewed
on
New Use for Sawdust.
It is sald that the present generation
may witness the extraordinary spec
tacle of dredges being employed to re-
claim the enormous deposits of saw-
dust at the bottom of the Ottawa Riv-
er. By a new process sawdust, slabs,
bark and all refuse from sawmills can
powdered and mixed in
with limestone, and
carbon is
guantity
to an intense electrical current, stroag
enough to convert irom into a boiling
The result is calcium carbide. Calcium
jene gas is made. The process of the
manufacture of the gas is being so
cheapened that even now, it is said,
a 25-candle-power acetylene light costs
only 1; cent an hour. If the public can
this gas for domestic use there should
be a great future for it and Ottawa,
remarks a Canadian exchange, with its
unlimited water power and supply of
raw material, would possess unrivaled
advantages for its manufacture,
A Useful Oil
Few people know how useful oil of
peppermint is as a remedial agent. A
little rubbed over a sensitive coryg
eliminates the soreness in a miracu-