FOR TIIK FAIR HEX.
Th< BcaonU BBd Mtwll.
About two centuries ago a French
navigator named Begon brought from
Asia a now plant, which is still called
after him, begonia. Fow readers would
suspect the part this plant plays in the
production of the handsome shawls so
prised by ladies. The best by far of
these are made in Cashmere, a beautiful
district at the foot of the Himalaya
mountains. The material used in
their manufacture is the finest
down from the Thibet goat- Every
one has probably remarked the
singularly graceful patterns with which
they are ornamented, and perhaps won
dered whether they were studies from
nature or the production of the artist's
brain. They are the former. Nature
in the East supplies admirably graceful
leaves on which the sun designs delicate
ornaments, and the workmen of Cash
mere imitate them, as the Grecian
sculptors copied the curves of the ncan
thus in the Corinthian capitals. These
leaves are those of the begonia. When
the French arrived in Egypt, at the end
of the last century, they were surprised
to see the Orientals wearing costumes,
shawls, turbans,sashes, etc., of beautiful
cashmere work. They greatly admired
these dresses, which fell so gracefully
on the human form. When the con
querors of the pyramids returned to 1
France they displayed their rich booty,
which immediately came into fashion
among the ladies. From that petiod
they have constantly remained in high
favor. Their prices vary from S2OO to
S4OO. Underthecinpire.no lady with
any pretension went without a cashmere
shawl. The taste for these articles,
although not so great as formerly, has
not entirely ceased. However, it is
very rarely now that a person wears a
real Indian cashmere; the articles in
general use are the product of French
manufacture. ,
Fashion Solli.
Lace is not worn with the velvet col
lars and cuffs in the dauphin style.
The prettiest bags to wear with dresses
are finished with three tassels.
Puffings of white lace form the upper
half of sleeves for evening dress.
Stripes of colored gauze Ixirdcred bv
satin are made up into pretty ties.
Boots buttoned very far back at the
sides arc the next novelty, it is said.
Sultana shoes, laced on tho side to
show the stocking, are in favor in Paris.
Heavy black silk are preferable to the
satin finished stuffs for half mourning.
The Princess of Wales is wearing
waves instead of little curls on the fore
head.
Very few basques are left plain in
front. Somelare cut into points and
some into curves.
E.how sleeves arc now made with a
cuff covered with white lace and slightly
projecting.
Side draperies are very slightly puffed
when worn, and are fastened in a large
bow in the back.
Instead of alternating the satin and
cashmere plaits in a skirt, they are now
set in groups of three.
Brooches of tortoise shell and feathers
in the shape of fans are pretty and fash
ionable.
Kid shoes laced by ribbons embroi
dered in gold, are worn over bright
colored Lisle thread stockings.
Colored chemisettes with black
dresses,and black or white chemisettes
with colored dresses is the rule.
The large bows of satin fastened at
the left side of the belt supersede the
belt bouquets with many ladies.
Sets of colored silk cuffs and collars
trimmed with gold braid are sold to
wear with dark dresses.
The most fashionable fans now carried
in I>ondon have shell sticks mounts
of dark green feathers.
The new blue has a decided tinge of
purple in it, and is very rich in velvet
and plush. It is called Malctot.
Gold braid embroidered on blnck,
dark green and plum color is the trim
ming of many elegant costumes.
Embroidered Chinacrapcis a favorite
material for evening overdresses. It is
worn either with velvet or silk.
Brocade with velvet figures in lozen
ges, half moons, or vermicelli patterns
is liked as a trimming for black dresses
White gloves embroidered with col
ored siik and entirely covering the arm
have superseded the long black gloves.
PorcelAin buttons, with small land
scapes painted upon them, are used to
fasten the waistcoats worn with marquis
coats.
A Great Compliment t
Edwin Booth says that the most gen
uine compliment he ever received was
on the occasion of bis playing lago in
" Othello " for the first time at Grass
Valley, Cal., then a new mining camp.
The audience, who had not seen a play
for years, were so mnch incensed at his
apparent villainy that they pulled out
their "shooters"in llie middle of the
third act, and began blazing away at
the si age. * Othello had the tip of his
nose shot off at the first volley, and Mr.
Booth only escaped by rolling over and
over np the stage and disappearing
through a trap door. A speech from
the manager somewhat calmed the
bouse; but even then Mr. Booth thought
it best to pass the night in the theater,
as a number of the most elevated spec
tators were making strenuous efforts to
induce the vifi lance committee to lynch
" the sneaking COM." ,
111 A LUFATIL"B CLUTCH KK.
A USr'i Itarlllaii Ad*tar> la a Slaw
Tork Murtlo.
A New York correspondent snys: A
few days ago, while a lady of our city,
of artistic tastes and hanits, was walk
ing leisurely along Fifth avenue, sho
noticed a sign of an artist's studio,
whereupon she entered an open door,
aacended one flight of stairs, rapped at
tho artist's door, heard tho words.
"Come in," and entered a spacious
room, oicga..tly furnished. Its high
windows wero richly draped with
heavy curtains, fine pictures were hung
upon the walls, and standing on the
floor was an easel, after tho fashion of
most artists. In tho room sat a man
alone, with overcoat and hat on, im
movable, and with eyes glaring fiercely
on his visitor, as if enraged at her in
trusion, but not uttering a word. A
few moments passed; she niadeacanual
remark in regard to some picture,
wiien he suddenly jumped Irom his seat,
rushed upon her, seized her by the
throat, his eyes glaring wildly and his
features indicating the fiercest excite
ment, and exclaimed, madly: "Now I
have you! I have been looking for you
for the last ten years, and now 1 have
got you at last, and I'll kill you." At
first tlio shock to her was terrible and
overwhelming, and she became quite
unconscious; but recovering herself a
little, she struggled, screamed, and en
treated, but to no purpose. He clung
to her throat with one band, and with
tho other tried to fill her mouth with
her clothing. Finally, having loosed
his hold, he rushed to the door, locked
it, seized a large knile, and began to
sharpen it on his shoe, telling her tnnt
her time had come and she must
prepare to meet her God; that
ho was going to cut her into
inch pieces. She fell upon her knees,
prayed, entreated, told him of her
husband ani child, and wept in the
wildest agony, fully believing that her
time had come, that she must die, but
with no avail. He continued to make
his preparations in the most violent
excitement. He told hr that lie should
put her body in the large stove in his
room to burn it up. Finally, overcome
by excitement, she sank upon the floor.
At this the ra n of the madman seemed
to subside a little. Still, he continued
his threat and preparations. AfUr hav
ing recovered :• little from her exhaus
tion, having now been in the clutches ol
the lunatic for over two hours, during
which time she had suffered untold
agony, sue now entreated him to give
her some food or something to
revive her. It was now about
stx oclock in the evening. He
then went to the door, saying that he
was going to get something for himself,
unlocked it, opened, went out. nnd
locked the door behind him. Alone in j
the room, she screamed, to the top of
her voice, hoping she might bring some
one to her rescue, but to no avail. He
soon returned, still threatening her with
instant death ii she was not silent. The
fiend seemed to have no other purpose
but to torment her or to tnke her life.
Finally he told her that if she wonld
take liia arm and go quiet lyjdown-staini
she could go. Hope now dawned npon
her. She told him she would do any
thing. He accordingly made her walk
down with him to the street. She felt
inexpressible relief, having got out of
prison. Here she strove to extricate
herself, • bat he threatened to
dr.sh her brains out against
the walls of the building
unless she went quietly. She told him
she wanted to take an "uptown car."
He said: " I'll go with jou. I'll follow
you to the ends of the earth. '* He
entered the car with her, sat down by
her side, and apparently perfectly aane.
He paid her fare, and never uitred a
word till she got out of the car. He fol
lowed her, and on arriving at her resi
dence, said to bor: "You must beat
my place to-morrow at eleven o'clock.
I shall follow yon. You can't live with
out me." She then opened the door and
closed it upon him with unutterable re
lief ; thus she was once more free from
the clutches of a maniac, and had es
caped impending death.
The affair occurred near the Fifth
Avenue hotel. The man was thin and
spare, above the medium height, of
sandy complexion, bald, wore a mus
tache—the thinks—was richly dressed,
wore diamond bosom studs, and nicely
fitting buff gloves. These Lc put on
carefully whenever he went out.
The Fnrspean I'laz.
He wasn't an old man, but be had an
ancient look aronnd the eyes, and the
moss bad got a good start on his back.
He put up at a down-town hotel on the
European plan, and was assigned a room
and forgotten. He came on Monday.
In the evening he took a few tarns
around the office, looked hard at the
clock and hungrily at the clerk, and
went to bis room with a pocketful of
apples. He was seen several times next
day with that same hungry look on his
face, and about seven o'clock in the
evening be carefully approached the
counter and said to the clerk:
"Bay! I'm gnltin' all-fired hungry.
Isn't it about time you had supperP"
"Supperf Why we don't have any
sapper here."
"Then I guise I'll square up and quit.
I didn't expect much on Monday because
It was wash-day, and I let you offto-day
because I thought the women folks
might have a big ironing; hut I've got
o hungry now that I must find some
tavern where they hain't o infernally
busy that they can't set (Hit at least one
meal a day V'—Wall Street Newt.
Chanel] by Bloodhounds.
Apropos of the death of " Old Mount
joy," a well-known English pedestrian,
a correspondent of a I/ondon newspaper
related a story lie heard from Mount
joy's own lips, a story so discr' ditahlo of
one of the chief actors that it were tc
be wished that the other labored under
adelußion. Hearing Lord W. boast that
his blood bounds would track any living
thing, by scent nlone. Colonel A. wager
ed a hundred guineas they would not
track a man, and asked Mountjoy to
win the wager for him, assur
ing the startled pedestrian there
was no danger of til'
dogs catching him, aa they were slow
runners, and ho would take care suffi
cient start was allowed him; the object
being simply to test their power of scent.
The trial duly came off over three miles
of ground round Hampstead Heath.
After the degs had sniffed at
Mountjoy's legs, he made his way
leisurely for half the course, when the
flag was dropped, and the hounds set
loose. They tracked their quarry splen
didly, but were six hundred yards
behind when Mountjoy reached the inn
at the end of the course, and shut the
door upon them, outside which they
howled their dissatisfaction until re
moved by their keeper.
Disbelievers in the bloodhounds'
scent were still unconvinced, averring
that they had sighted the man for part
of the journey at least; and to settle the
point beyond dispute, another match
was made, to be run at night, the dis
tance this time being but a mile and a
halt. Unsuspicious of foul play, Mount
joy went gayly on his wsy, but had not
accomplished more than two-thirds of
the distance allowed him by the condi
tions when his hair stood on end, as the
baying of the dogs, hot upon his trail,
reached his cars. They had been pur
posely slipped before the proper time,
without any warning. " For one
second," said he, " I stood stock
still as if I had been frozen, and
then dashed away nnd ran as I had
never done before, and have never done
since. I was in perfect training and
condition, hut the cold sw< at broke out
from every pore and poured down my
body, while my legs seemed like lead,
and trembled ail over. Still I kept des
perately on, while nearer and nearer
came the deep, hoarse bay of the hounds
as the scent grew warmer, and they
knew they were running up to their
prey. I thought I was lost. Those few
seconds were like weeks, and I wonder
ed whether they would grip me first by
the leg or fly straight at my throat.
Luckily, I did not lose my head, and
after the first mad hurst I settled down
and raced away at a pace which I knew
would last the distance; but still closer
and closer came the horrible cry, that
sounded like my drath-knell; and, in
sheer desperation, I put on ail the speed
I could. At last I saw the lights of the
lonely little inn. and my heart rose
within me, but at that very
instant the brutes broke out
into a fierce, savage yeil, that told me
that they had sighted me at last. There
was a small garden in front of the bouse,
and as I flew up to it I saw the gate was
shut. How I did it I never knew; but,
blown and exhausted with terror and
the pace as I was, I cleared it, darted
through the door, which fortunately
stood open, and slamming it to, stood
with my hack against it. The lock had
hardly closed, when bang! hang! agsinst
the panels came my terrible pursuers;
and then they lay down and yelled sav
agely at finding themselves baulked of
thrir prey."
As soon a? he felt himclf safe, rage
took the place of fear; and seizing ho.d
of a bottle, Mountjoy swore he would
braiu Lord W. it he entered the place;
a threat he would have fulfilled had not
those present got him out of the room
in time to prevent most justifiable homi
cide.
The Territory f Alaska.
The report of Ivan Petroff, supervisor
of the census of Alaska, gives the entire
population of Alaska as 30.140. of which
330 are whites. Of the total number of In
dian*. those in the northeastern portion
are estimated at about 5,000. Counting
white* and Creoles and all who mfaht
become Americans, Mr. Petroff esti
mates about one citizen to every I.WO
square miles of territory. The south
western portion of the Territory from
Mount St. K fas is about 300 miles long
and from fifty to sixty miles wide,
measuring in outlying islands. That
portion of the Territory is 18,000 square
miles in area, and has a population of
5,000 Indians and 500 whites and Cre
oles all combined. This, Mr. Petroff
suggests, is just about enough of popu*
lation for one smail county in a very
large area. It is also practically dis
connected from the western portion of
the Territory, which contains 550,000
square miles, and which latter portion,
immense as it it, contains only 139
whites, including four women and four
children. Of the white population of
Alaska about 900 are in Sitka
" Matrimonial agents" do a very good
business in Paris, and some of them
have accumulated large fortunes. It is
stated that some of these owe their suc
cess " liberal advertising." One, for
instance, sdvertises a " large selection
of widows" and "eligible maidens"
with fortunes varying from 940,000 to
figures well up In the hundreds of
thousands. It Is actually reported that
some of these brokers have feminine
attractions on hand with fortunes well
nigh a million, who have been obliged
to seek this method of getting husband*
All the year round—The earth.
"Johnny Tuesday."
A imrcheadud man, with his thicg,
gray hair matted into a tangled thatch,
dripping with wet, walked through
Fourteenth street. He had his hands
deep in the pockets of his greasy kneed
ragged pantaloons, and a tattered coat
wns buttoned across his chest, with the
tail of what had once been a dress coat
protruding from beneath it. Whatever
other covering his leet had was con
cealed under a pair of immense arctics,
which, ns he tramped along, sent the
slusli flying as the tread of an elephant
might. This character saluted the
policeman at lite corner of Fifth avenue
with a sharp nod, nnd the officer re
sponded: " How de do, John; and how
does this weather suit youP"
John moved on toward Broadway
without replying, and the Newt repre
sentative naked the policeman who he
was. To which the officer replied with
some astonishment: "Why, it's Johnny
Tuesday, to be Buro. Everybody knows
him."
The rejiorter humbly acknowledged
that he was nobody, and prayed to be
enlightened, whereupon the municipal
official condescended to impart to him
these curious facts:
Johnny Tuesday has for the past ten
yoars been a familiar figure of our
streets. He is demented, and believes
tiiat he is under bonds to a divine
power never to wear a hat, because our
Savior did not affect that article of
headgear. During all that time he has
been before the public here, in rnin or
shine, winter or summer, he has never
covered his crown with any but tije
hirsute shelter provided him by nature,
and which he never cuts or trims. It
is in odd contrast with this queer mania
that he is scrupulous in keeping his
face shaven, carrying a razor and a
little chunk of soap about with him for
that purpose.
Our station-houses occasionally pro
vide Johnny Tuesday with a shelter,
but as a rule he finds a place to sleep in
some stable or wareh JUBC, whose watch
man has a heart and compassionates the
wanderer. In the same way his food is
furnished him by the humble charity of
the poor, among whom he is well
known. He never asks alms, and when
money is given him, as it frequently is.
he accepts it and lays it out in candies
and cheap cakes, which he distributes
among the youngsters of the west side
—where he spends most of his time.
He does not talk much, and what little
he does sny no one can make much of.
But he is always cogitating profoundly,
and conversing with himse.f on the
grave topics the vulgar world could not
comprehend if he did lay them befotejit
Where he comes from and what his
real name is no one knows. When be
made iiis debut as a metropolitan curi
osity some newspaper man wrote a
squib alsiut him, and christened him in
it Johnny Tuesday, the name being sug
gested by that of George Monday, a
historic I'liilaielphia eccentric now de
ceased, who for many yeari traveled
about the Quaker city without a bat,
proclaiming some B-dlamite doctrines
about the regeneration of mankind.
Johnny Tuesday accepted the name con.
ferred on him, and it has stuck to him
since.—AVte York Newt.
A Change of Opinion,
While a New Yorker was at Mt.
Clemens, Mich., last fall to try thecftSct
of the mineral waters on his rheuma
tism, he was one day npproached by a
young man who asked:
" Are you not Mr. , of New York
city P"
" I am," was the reply, "but I do not
rcmemlter of having met you before."
" Probably not, I am ftmitb, the
comedian."
"Smith—Smith."
" Oh, you needn't try to remember
me. Four weeks ago I flattered myself
that all the world knew roe and admirer
my acting. I came West with a com
bination that busted in Wisconsin, and
walk of 610 miles across the
country I have come to the conclusion
tha'. I never amounted to two shillings
as an actor."
" I presume you desire my aid to reach
horocP"
"Naturally I would, but If you will
see that I have dinner I will let you off.
Fact is, I h-ve been bitten by dogs so
oiten, chased by farmers so frequently,
and been outrun so many con
stables that 1 have lost all ambition.
Once I wanted thunders of applause at
every hit. Now, when 1 do a good
thing in the way of eluding a sheriff and
his posse, I'm perfectly satisfied with
even pancakes and thin coffee as a re
ward ." WaJJ Street Newt.
The I'oein Kept Him Warm.
The French Canadian poet Frechette
tells a story of how a single line of one
of his early poems kept him and his
chum warm during a cold Canadian
winter. He and his friend were living
in the attic of an old Quebec house, and
depended on a stove-pipe passing
through the floor from a lower apart
ment for artificial warmth. It was not
strange that a short poem written in this
apartment should contain the due,
" Shivering in my attic poor." But
when bis landlady saw It in a local
newspaper her good heart got the better
of her pique, for when the young men
came home on the following day they
found a stove in the room, and were lec
tured as follows: "Gentlemen, we are
very Indulgent, oorsidering your noisy
meetings. We are not very particular
when rent day arrive*, and if you shiv
ered In your room It would have been
better to have said so privately than to
have complained of it in the newspa
pers."
A Fearless Miuike Catcher.
Signor D'Albertis, a recent explorer
in New Guinea, is a remarkably bold
seeker after snnkes. In an account of
liis travels he says I bat at Yule Island
the natives had found a large snake
onib-r a trc, and all ran away from It,
crying out. "At last I went to the
natives," he continues, "and tried to
ascertain the cause of their conduct, and
they made me understand why they had
lied. I then returned to see the snake
myself, which in foot I did, although
two-thirds of its length were hidden in
a ho!e in th earth. His size was such
that I concluded ho could not \ c poison
ous, and I at once grasped him by the
tail. While dragging him out of his
lair with my two hands I was prepared
to flatten his neck close to his head with
one foot the moment he emerged, so that
he should not have the power of turn
ing or moving. While my plan suc
ceeded perfectly, and while the snake's
head was imprisoned under ray foot, I
grasped his body with my bands, and,
as though I bad vanquished the terrible
monster, turned toward the natives with
an air of triumph. They, struck with
terror, had looked on the scene from a
safe distance. I must confess that tte
snake offered little resistance, although
it writhed and twisted itself round my
arm, squeezing it so tightly as to stop
the circulation and make my hand
black. I remained, however, in posses
sion of its neck, and 8001 secured it
firmly to a long thick stick I had
brought with me. I then gave the rep
tile to my men to carry home." This
serpent was thirteen feet long. It was
kept alive and became quite Uirne, and
when tho natives saw D'Albertis kiss
its head and let it coil round his legs,
they howled with amazement and ad
miration. Six week* after the capture
he writes: "My snake continues to do
well; it hoa twice cast its hkin, is well
behaved and tame, and does not attempt
to escape, even when I put it in the sun
outside the house; and when I go to
bring it in it comes to me of its own ay
con!. It never attempts to bite, ev<n
when I it or tease it. While I
am working I often hold it on my knees, i
where it remains for hours; sometimes
it raises its head and licks my face with :
its forked tongue. It is a true friend
and companion to me. When the
natives bother me it is useful in putting
them to flight, for they are much atraid
of it; it is quite sufficient for me to let
my snake loose to make them fly at full
speed." He kept this serpent forneariy
six months, and latterly another of the
same species with it. till at last both
e raped, and he mourned their loss as
of dear friends, adding. " for I lavrd
them and they loved me. and we had
passed a long time together."
A Tars in Ferliae.
Down on a small truck-patch in the
neighborhood of Sixteenth and Dickin
son streets, Philadelphia, a family named
Glen have had as much as their hands
could do to support themselves. A short
time ago the wife received advice indi- j
eating that she is the heir of a fortune |
of 91.500.0n0. The man whe died pes
sessed of this large sum of money, and
yet who could not find his daughter to
enable her to enjoy his fortune with him
while living, was named James Boyle,
and thirty years ago he was a peasant
farmer in oounty Donegal. Ireland, un
able to support his family on the
meager yield of the poor soil.
When he emigrated to Australia, s
baby. Mary, was left with the grand- |
parents. Boyle prospered, and, after
the death of his wife and child, gave up
farming and prospected for gold. Pros
perity attended him in his venture, and
when he died in 1880 be was worth
£985,000. The baby left in Ireland had
in the meantime grown into woman
hood, corresponded with her father,
married and moved to America. Owing
to both herself and father moving at
about the same time and a miscarriage
of letters, they lost trace of one another,
and as letters sent to the old address
were not answered, each person thought
the other dead. Mrs. Glen was in
formed of her good fortune some months
ago by an uncle living in Ireland, and
steps were at once taken to secure pos
session of the money.
Winter Pickerel Fishing.
Winter fishing through the ioc on the
different ponds in Kennebec oounty. Me.,
is growing in importance every season.
Hundreds of pounds of pickerel are
taken weekly by the local amateur fisher
men. Holes are chopped through the
ice, little steel rods, with red signals
flying, are placed by the sides, with a
line attached. A great fire is kindled
by the shore, which sends iU crackling,
flaming columns up agai st the dark
evergreens. The anglers sther around
and relieve the monotoi. y of watching
their lines by telling etories and an
oocasional nip from pocket flasks. It has
already become quite a business to
supply these disciples of Isaak Walton
with " lire bait." Shiners, chubs and
red-fins are the food to attract the far-
Udiou* and voracious pickerel. These
diminutive fish are caught by the peck
in Ballard's Brook, and in the river
above the dam. These ather in boles,
generally where a live spring gushes up
from the bottom, and are captured with
dip-nets and kept in half hogsheads in
colisrs. One store has over 5,000 shiners
in two capacious labs in the basement.
A stream of running water flows con
tinually through the tubs, and the flab
tire fed regularly with a flour paste.
Three or four ounoes of oil can be ex
tracted from one hundred pound* of
water
forgotten Officials.
A writer who tine been giving remin
iscences of Jife in Washington says:
Before this house (tbe one occupied by
Mr. Be ward when he vu attacked by
Payne) for several years afterward a
•■■ntry paced night and day, even when
Mr. Seward had moved away and gone
out of office. The same building waa
once uaed as n club house, and from
it Key just issued when he was shot by
Sickles. This lonel sentry, still at hi*
post long after he had been forgotten at
the war department, and allowed to re
main, I suppose, because no one thought
it was his duty to relieve him, remind*
me of several similar incidents that are
related in Washington.
The great fails of the Potomac ar
about sixteen miles above Washington,
and during the war there was a station
for the collection of provisions tor the
army on the bank of the canal near these
grand cataracts. The road between
Washington and Great Falls was sev
eral times raided by the Confederates,
and a block house was erected by tbe
federals at a point three en* four miles
above Georgetown to prevent parties of
Southerners from passing up and down
the road. At the close of the war the
defences about the capital were one
after another deserted, but nobody
seems to bave remembered the corpo
ra*' guard stationed out there on the
Aqueduct road, and they remained on
duty fora year or two. After they were
relieved, the block house was set on fire
by tramps or boys, and only a few
blackened posts now mark its site.
A still more remarkable case was tlrnt
discovered by General B. F. Butler,
about ten years ago. He was nosing
around among the appropriations, one
day, when he discovered an officer in
the oapitol whose duties he dfd not un
derstand. Ho was " watching crypt."
An investigation showed that many
years ago it was proposed to df>[osit the
bones of General George Washington
beneath the capitol.and a crypt was pre
pared for that purpose. When it was
completed a public officer was appointed
whose duty it was to watch this crypt
and prevent its desecration, and there
he had been ever since, growing gray in
the service, and wliLe Congress had ap
propriated money to pay his salary year
after year, nobody had thought it worth
while to inquire how he earned it.
Men With (oats of iiair.
A short time ago a man a little over
orty years old went into a New York
museum and asked for an engagement.
He said that he was a native of War
saw, in Russian Poland, and had been
condemned to the mines of Siberia for
being a nihilist. A peculiarity of the
atmosphere in the Redan gold mines,
near Tobolsk, where he was confined
for fifteen years, he said, was that it in
time caused a thick growth fof hair on
Uie bodies of tbe exiles, who, in the
warm temperature, fifteen hundred
eet below the surface, worked nearly
nude.
Nihilists being now somewhat in
vogue, especially when hairy, he was
engaged at a small salary, decked in a
fanciful meriiwval costume, and seated
on a platform with Barnum's veteran
" What Is It," and the Spotted Boy.
He gives his name as C. Ivanovics, end
ays that while a medical student in
Warsaw in IBA2 he was sent to Siberia
for disaffection toward tbe Russian
government. After a weary march of
several months he and his companions
reached their destination, and were re
quired to labor eleven hours a day, with
black bread and salt for their food
and water for their drink. To avoid
scurvy, onions and other vegetables
were sometimes given them, but
meat was allowed on'y once a year,
on the birthday of tbe emperor.
Rude Cossack soldiers were their guards,
who spoke with invariable roughness,
and freely used the lash if offended.
Silence was enjoined during working
hours, but not strictly enforced. When
ae leisure they were not allowed to col
lect in groups for conversation, lest they
should hatch schemes for escape, and
when not eating they generally found
refuge from their weariness in sleep,
lvanovics found over two hundred
medical men in tbe mine, together with
a number of Russians with titled fam
ilies.
The hair on his body reached its
present thickncaa, he aaid, in four years,
but others did not acquire a growth so
speedily. He and eight others escaped
in IKJ7, on the birthday of the emperor.
The guards on that day were supplied
with liquor, and they became intoxi
cated.
Restating the Dead.
Professor Fort has presented the ques
tion of premature interments to the
French Academy in a paper on artificial
respiration. One (act he mentions is.
that he was enabled to restore to life a
child three years old by practicing arti
ficial respiration on it some fonr boors,
commencing three boars and a half
after apparent death. A similar case is
reported by I>r. Fournol. of Billanuonrt,
who reanimated a nearly drowned per
son after fonr hours of artificial res pi ra
tten. This person had been In the water
ten minutes, and the doctor arrived one
hour alter asphyxia. Profet'or Fort
advocates also the utility of artificial
respiration in order to eliminate tbe
poison from the longs and glands. The
length of time it is desirable to practice
artificial respiration in any osse of ap
parent death from asphyxia msy be said
to be several hours.
| North Carolina has filty-seven cotton
factories in operation.