THE BOWIE KNIFE. It* lßTtkllea .ad first Vse—A l>.tp.r mtr Coatwt A feud had existed for years between two parties of the parish of Rapides, Miss., on Red River. The principals were Ih\ Maddox, Mnjor Wright and the Blanchards cn the one part, the Cur rcys, the Wellses and Bowies on the other. A challenge had passed between Dr. Maddox and Samuel Wells.a meet ing was arranged to take place near Na'chez, Miss., in September, 1887. It was agreed that no persons should be present but the combatants, their seconds and surgeons. The place of meeting was a large sand bar, im mediately below the upper bluff, near Natchez. The sand bar at low water is of oonsiderablc width, bordered above and below with forest growth; on the oppo site side of this bar were stationed the friends of each party; one of these par tics was something nearer the combat ants than the other. Colonel Crane was the second of Maddox. Between him and James Bowie and General Currey there had long existed a deadly feud, and some months before this affair General Currey shot Colonel Crane with a shotgun, on Bayou Rapides, disabling one of his arms. The parties to the duel approached the spot selected for the combat from dif ferent directions. The preliminaries were soon arranged. The combatants took their positions and exchanged two shots without effect, and the difficulty was amicably adjusted. Bowie was just in the edge of the woods with Generals Wells and Currey, armed with pistols, Bowie carrying a huge knife. As the dueling party started to leave the grounds Bowie and party started to meet them. The friends of Maidox and Crane on the opposite side of the sand-bar seeing this, and being furthest from the party,started in a run to meet them as soon as they should reach the retiring coml-atants. General Currey was the f rat on the ground, closely followed by Bowie. Currey immediately adv.need upon Colonel Crane and remarked: " Colo nel Crane, this is a good time to settle our difficulty," and commenced drawing his pistol. Bowie did the same. Crane was armed with a brace of dueling pistols, and standing awaited the attack of Currey. At this moment Currey was seized by his brother and begged to desist. Bowie and Crane fired at eacß other, it was said without effect. There were those who said Bowie was wounded. This latter state* ment I think most probable, for Bowie stopped, felt of his hip and then draw ing his knife limped toward Crane, who was watching General Curran. Re leased from the hold of his brother Currey was advancing. At this moment Crane leaped across a small ravine cut through the sand by the rain-water flowing Irom the acclivities above and, resting his pistol upon his crippled arm, fired at Currey, wounding him fatally. He fell. Crne was cow disarmed and Bowie advanced cautiously upon him. Club bing his pistol he struck Bowia over the head, as he avoided his knife adroitly, and felled him to the ground. Crane retreated a step, as his friend Major Wright approached. Bowie, in the meantime, had risen, and was sustaining himself by holding on to a snag which the river when at tbx>d had left sticking firmly in the sand. Mnjoi Wright advanced upon him, and with a long, slender spear, drawn from a walking cane which he carried.attacked Bowie, who made a pass to parry the spear with his knife, in which he failed. Thespear was of cold iron, and striking the breast-bone, bent and went round upon the rib. Bowie at this moment seized Wright and fell, pulling Wright down with and on top of him and holding him strongly to Ids person. Wright wes a slender, and by no mra s a strong man. and WHS powerless in the bands of Bowie, whocoolly said ohim: " Now, mnjor, you die!" and plunging the knife into his heart killed him in stantly. This knife was made by Resin P. Bowie out of a blacksmith's rasp, or isrge file, and wns the original of the fnmous Bowie knife. When James Bowie received it from bis brother he was told by him that it was "strong and of admirable temper. It is more trustworthy in the hands of a strong man than a pistol, for it will not snap. Crane and Wright are both your enemies; they are from Maryland, the birthplace of our ancestors, and are as brave as you are, but not so cool. They are both inferior in sir. ngtb to your self, and therefore not your equal in a close fight. They are both dangerous, but Wright the most so. Keep this knife always with you. It will be your friend in a last resort and may save your life." After this conflict Resin P. Bowie carried this knife to Philadel phia, where it was fashioned by a cut ler into the form of a model made by him, and I presume the knife is yet in possession of some member of the family. There was no reconciliation between Crane and Bowie after the conflict, though Crare aided personally in carry ing Bowie from the ground, and Bowie thanked him and said: "Colonel Crane I do not think under tfio circumstances you ought to have shot me." A though immediately upon the attack of Currey upon Crane the fight between their friends became general, in which there were several wounded, but Wright and Currey were the only persons killed. Mi the men ongmged in this terrible af fair were men of wealth and high social position, and the two parties included almost every man of fortune ip the ex tensive and wealthy parish of Rapi es. All are gone save Maddox an i Wells, both very old and stiil residing in the samo parish.— l'kilatlclphia Timt Population of the Earth, Two eminent German scholars, Di. Bchm and Herr Wagner, havo published an estimate of the population of our globe. To obtain an absolutely correct estimnto is n matter of difficulty, na but few nations ever have a census taken. Until 18&3 the only modern nations whose populations had been systemati cally counted were the United States, Great Britain, Prussia, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Greece. Since 1H53 many other countries have had censuses taken,do that at present we can ascertain, witli considerable exactness, the number of inhabitants in each of the leading countries of Europe and America. In estimating the population of Asia, Africa and Oceanica. Messrs. Behm and Wagner havo been aided by the whole literature of travel, as well as by certain known laws respecting the proportion of inhabitants to the square mile, as regu lated by climate, civilization and cir cumstances . Some of their conclusions arc of much interest. They estimate the population of the great divisions of the globe thus: Europe. 315.930,000; Asia. 834,707,000; Africa, 905,670,000; America, 05,445,000; Australia and Polynesia, 4,031.000; Polar Regions, 82,000; Total, 1,455,493,- 500 Increase since their last estimate, one year and nine months ago, 16,778,- 800. A few ot their estimates of particular countries may interest our readers. Tho Dominion of Canada, they think, has now a population of 3,830,470, about one inhabitant to a square mile. Tho popu lation of the United States, leaving out 300 fOO Indians, they conjectured from partial returns of the census of 1880 to be about 48,500,000, which is short of tho actual number by 1,500,000; Mexico, 9,485.000; Greenland, 10,000. In Europe they assign to the German empire of Frederic William, 43,443,300; the Austrian empire, 38,000,000; Gn at Britain and Ireland, 34,517,000; France, 30,905,788; Spain, 10,095,860; Italy. 88,. 309.680; Sweden, 4,531,863; Norway, 1,818,853; Switzerland, 3,793,964; Rus sian empire, 67,959,000; Turkish empire, 35,180.000. In Asia the empire of China presents to us the inconceivable population of 434.636 500. The British empire of India foilows with a total of 340,398,600. Japan is thought to have a population of 34.338,504. Fourteen hundred and fifty millions is a good many people to inhabit a com paratively insignificant ball of matter whirling through space; but the earth is not half peopled. The island of Aus tralia, eight thousand miles in circum ference. contains about 3,000,000 of peopie, which is one inhabitant to every square mile nnd a half of innd. I'ay ®r Circus Performers. A correspondent of the Boston Ilcrald, in reporting a talk with a circus mana ger in New Tork writes j " In the memorandum book I found that the highest salary paid to any per former was 9450 a week, and the lowest S3O. Thire were only two names in the entire list credited with getting the smaller amount. The biggest sum will be received by Mmn. Dockrill. 'We advertise,' said the manager, ' that we day her 91,000 a week. I'll tell you why. In addition to the 9450, which is set down there, we pay all h"r traveling and hotel expenses, and place at her disposal a carriage in which she rides from hotel to train and from circus to hotel. Beside this, we pny all the ex pense of keeping and transporting her six horses, and we employ a man to look after them. So ttiat she really does cost us I 100 every day of her life; and 91.000 a week is not muih of an exaggeration after all. Chang gets 9300 a week, and Tom Thumb 9335. Mmc. Cordova, the rider, receives 9300 for her services. The largest number of the performers seem to run, in point of salary, from $45 to 975 per wees apiece. The laborers with the show get from 995 to SSO A month and their board, and the bosses of the various departments each receive something like 9900 a month.' It will be seen from these figures that circus people are not so badly paid after all, and that the stories of their starvation salaries must, therefore, be campaign lies, gotten up with the intention of in timidating small boys who are bent upoh running awav from home." The Prsgres* ml t'rematlsn. At Zurich, Switzerland, where the Siemens crematory furnace has been introduced, there is a distinct itipnls tion that the ashes of the dead must re main in separate ami at the crematory for twenty years. At the end of that time the nearest of kin to tho deceased may take the urn to his dwc.iing and it this is not done the ashes are interred. Before a body is burned every precau tion is taken by the authorities to ascer tain that no crime has been oonimitted. Other furnaces of the same type are in use at Bresiau, I Dresden and Gotha. In deed, throughout Germany the preju dice against disposing of the dead by burning is rapidly disappearing. The furnace named will consume a body In an bonr and a half without causing any odor or sound. It costs about 96.000 Th# weight of tbs ashes varies from thrse and a quarter to seven pounds. Criminals in Germany have increased from 34,889 in 1875, to 640,649 in 1880. TIMELY TOPIC*. postoffloe in the world which continues to be respected by pilferers is the letter-box in the Magellan utralte— a niinplo cask chained to the rock. A passing vessel sends a boat, takes what letters there may be and deposits its own. The postoffloe is under the pro tection of the navies oi the civilized world, and, although it has been estab lished for many years, it has never been robbed. A San Francisco woman partially lost the power of speech through a stroke of paralysis. Taking advantage of her incoherent utterances and grotesque visage, her hußhand sent her to un asylum as a lunatic, and took possession of her property. She was kept In dur ance several months before the truth was discovered. A jury awarded her SI,OOO dam ages. After a careful personal examination of the forest portions of Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee, Professor Thomas Melhan concludes that there is much more timber in the country than people generally believe, though at present in localities not con venient, as a general thine, to a mar ket at paying prices. He also notes the rapidity of growth of the trees of the regions examined as contrasted with the slow growth in Europe, and main tained that with proper care and cul ture good paying timber can bo grown in from fifteen to twenty years. The British consul of Shanghai, Mr. Davenport, eayß there is little doubt that the dreadful famine which has for the last three years scourged the north of China may be attributed in great measure to the spread of poppy cultiva tion. A very large proportion of the available ground in that region has been sown to this plant, which is found to be more remunerative than any kind of grain. Consequently, the granaries were left unfilled and no provisions made for a year of drought. The consul says that unless the growth of opium can be chocked by the government the evil will increase, and of course another year of drought will cause a more terrible fam ine than the last. Tb Norwegian poet, Bjornstjern lljor a son. has written a pleasant letter from Boston to the Vienna Few Frne Irene. General Grant was in Boston at ihe time, and the poet has words of ofty ndmiratian for the independent and decent manners of the crowd, com posed of the rich and poor, that sur rounded the state house and even thronged the halls during the reception in Grant's honor. The same republican qualities impressed him at a political meeting. The intelligence and maniy dignity of the audience electrified him so that " he never in his life feit strong cr or so filied with the joy of Ufc." He was surprised to find'society so abund antly sprinkled with men notaolc for learning and ability. It seemed wonder ful to him that "so many of the educa ted men should have a super-spiritual trait, and possess an ideal, even senti mental enthusiasm. It was the last thing I expected to find in America." A widow, wtio had withdrawn $5,000 from the safe investment of a farm mortgage, wrote to Kufus Hatch, the well-known New York financier, with whom she was not acquainted, for ad vice as to the most judicious specula tion in which she could engage. Her letter showed an eagerness lor rapid gains, considerable knowledge of the gossip oi the stock market, and an ex pectation that the ietter addcased out side the usnal business channels would gain her an advantago. Hatch replied, hardly after the manner of Wall street brokers, counseling her to reinvest her $5 ,000 in additional mortgages in Jeffer son county choose and butter farms. " By doing this you have the dowir ol your two little girls always under your own eyes." If, however, she will insist upon calling in the broker, let his in struction be to invest in governments. "Your profits will be small, but you will be sure of what you have " George L. Angell, of Boston, Las spoken before a congressional committee upor the subject of poisonously adulter ated articles. Among the subjects discussed by Mr Angell were drugs, poisonous articles of clothing, and wall paper. He offered evidence to show that from one-third to one-half of all the wall papers now sold. In a great variety of colors, contain arsenic to a degree that renders their use dangerous. He pronounced against the use of glucose and oleomargarine products, and gave numerous illustrations of the danger Incurred in using canned fruits, meats and vegetables when put up in tin. In conclusion, Mr. Angeil urged the im portance of providing a committee or commission to thoroughly investigate the subject. Subsequently tbc commit tee adopted Mr. Beale's bill " to prevent the adulteration of articles of food and drink," and instructed Mr. Reals, on behalf of the committee. to ask a sus pension of the rules at the first oppor tunity, for the purpoee of putting the bill upon its passage in the House. Much capital and energy have been devoted to establishing the silk manu facture in the United States, and with considerable success. There has always been one drawback, however, in com peting with European, Japanese or Chi nese products, says the New York Graphic, " and that was the great dis parity in the oost of the labor required in reeling the threads off the coooona. We oaa raise the silk worm here without any extraordinary cost, but the delicate [ operations to which the natural thread has to be subjected subsequently can be performed in Prance for less than one third what they cost here and in Asia for less than one-tenth. There is only ono way to overcome this drawback and this is by means of machinery. To invent machinery delk-ate enough for the performance of the work foemod well tigh impossible at first, hut per sistence, it is now reported, has had its reward at last, and an electric machine is soon to he nut into operation which will place the American silk industry ahead of that of all other countries." Betrayed by His Child's Love. The arrest ol B. Doyle Bryant, a se w ing machine agent, who was taken into custody at the Erie railroad depot, in Jersey City, on a charge of embezzle ment, was accomplished in a singular manner. Bryant was for veais mapager of the Singer sewing machine company's branch office in Albany. He had the implicit confidence ol the company. He had a family, and was reputed to he ol sober and steady habits. Some time ago he became acquainted with Allwxny, "sporting" men, and under their in fluence soon fell into baoat. Mrs. Bryant took her children to the waiting room ol the Erie < mi,road depot and sat down. A few minutes later a man walked into th waiting room and commenced to pace up and down. As he turned Mrs, Bryant's youngist child saw his lace, and [instantly exclaimed: "Oh, mamma, i there's papa!'' "Hush, child! For God's sake, hush!" exclaimed the dis tressed mother, at the same time trying Ito restrain the little girl, who was en deavoring to break away. Her efforts wen- fruitless. The child broke from her grasp, and, running over to the man, joylu.ly exclaimed: " I'apa! papa! here's mamma!" The man pretended not to recognize the little girl, but she was persistent. Detective Dwyer stepped up, ami putting his hand on the man's sliouider, sa'd: "I want you. Bryan'.." Bryant acknowledged his identity, and t lie was taken to a station house The Other Fellew's Sin. How easy it is to sec the sins ol other people. Even a child can do that. A Boston Kundsy-chooi superintendent tells of an experience of his in support | of this truth. One Sunday he found in his school a class of urcLins recently i gathered in from the street, without a teacher for the day; so he took them in hand. He came right down to first principles, and talked about sin and salvation. One of his pointed questions was, " Is there any sinner in this class?' Instantly the answer came from one of the brightest of the boys, who pointed to another boy at the end of the scat, and said, "Yes, that feilcr down : there.'* That boy was more outspoken than he would have Ix-en if he had been , iongr in the school; but his mode of judging was much that of those long under Christian training. There is no I sorrow like our sorrow; and no sin like—" that feller's down there."— Numioy-.SrAool Tims* She llnd Such Pretty WxJs Willi iier. " She iiad such pretty ways with her." That was the re.ison an uonest, hard wot king man gave for marrying a girl lof whom he knew little else, but who was really a professional bigamist, traveling about the country and marry ing husband after husband as a matter of speculation. It is the "pretty ways " ol woman which has ruined many a man of every age, including the great- st oi generals statesmen and philosophers. If the " pretty ways " come from the heart it is nil right. If they aro the result of cold, selfi-h, calculating art woe is to him who falls their victim. Nothing is truer than that women are both better and worse than men. A mnn could hardly be so bad as a woman is when she puts on the prettiest ways of her sex for mischief. Hrowth ef Trees. As the results ol observations and from the testimony of reliable men the following is about the average growth In twelve years of the leading desirable varieties when planted in belts or groves and cultivated. White maple, one foot in diameter and thirty feet high; ash, leaf maple or box elder, one foot in di ameter and twenty feet high; white willow, one and a half lect in < iameter and forty feet high; yellow willow, one and a hall feet in diameter and thirty five feet high; Lombardy poplar, ten inches in diameter and forty bet high; blue and white nab, ten inches 'in di ameter and twenty-live feet high; blank walnut and butternut, tea Inches in di ameter and twenty Inst high. A Jiother'* lafleeaee. Mr. Wendell Phillip* related the fol lowing in a recent address in Bo*ton: " In a railway car once, a man about sixty years old, came to sit beside me. He had heard me lectnre the evening before on temperance. 'I am master ol a ship,' said he, ' sailing out of New York, and have just returned from my fiftieth voyage across the Atlantic. A bout thirty years ago I was a lot; shipped, while dead drunk, as one of a crew, and was carried on l>oard like a log. When I came to, the captain sent for roe. lie naked me: 'Do you re member your mother?' I told him she died before I could remember anything. "Well, "said he, " I am a Vermont man. When I wsa young I was crazy to go to sea. At last my mother consented I should seek my fortune in New York.' He told how she stood on one side the garden gate and h stood on the other, when with his bundle on his arm, he was ready to walk to the next town. She said to him: "My boy, I don't know anything about towns, and I never saw the sea, but they tell me those great towns are sinks of wickedness, and make thousands of drunkards. Now, promise me you'll never drink a drop of liquor." He said: " I laid my hand in hers and promised, as 1 looked into her eyes for the last time. She died soon after. I've been on every sea, seen the worst kinds of life and men—they laughed at me as a milksop, and wanted to know if 1 was a coward. Hut when they offered me liquor I saw my mother across the gate, and 1 never drank a drop. It has been my sheet-anehor; I owe nil to that. Would you like to take that pledge?" said he. My companion took it, and.hc added : 'lt has saved me. j I have a fine ship, wife and children at j home, and I have helped others.' How : far that little candle threw its beams! j That earnest mother saved two men to virtue and usefulness—how many more ■ He who sees ail can alone tell." Thrilling Scene In a Lion's Cage, An undcr-keeper in a menagerie was recently attacked by a lion in Birming • ham, England. He entered the cage in j order to clean it. To separate the ani- I ma s from that part of the cage that was 1 to be Cleaned a wooden panel was used. | It reached from the top to the floor ol ; the cage, and was about two inches in thickness. The undcr-keeper, Harris by name, does not appear to have abso ! lUteiy closed the panel as he entered. 1 The largest lion—a powerful animal named "Wallace" —sprang toward Har ris, the sliding panel gave way from the pressure, and the man stc od un protect d j in front of the lion, who with its mouth seised the poor fellow by the shouidcr. Harris, who had a broom in his hand, j piuckiiy defended himself for a few mo ments by striking the lion with the | handle of the broom. Hut the lion, I clutching him with one of its paws, dashed him to the ground and began gnawing at his body, from which the blood was freely flowing. The lion tamer, Alicamousa, who was at the op posite side of the hail, hearing the ram motion. ran to the cage. With the ut most courage and coolness he entered the den.and twice tired his pistol, which was loaded with biank cartridge. All j the time Harris was still beneath the j lion, who was tearing his flesh. The nistol-nring had no tiivt whatever on 1 the animal; and seeing this the lion j tamer, wLo had with him a loaded whip. Itegan striking the animal with the butt-end of it on the head. He dealt the lion four or five blows, and the at, hitting the animal with terrific j force between the eyes, appeared to stun [ it. The lion loosed Harris, who was in stantly dragged out of the cage. He was bleeding profusely, but was not S quite unconscious. Ward* af Wisdom, Fortune doe* not change men; it un masks them- Jealo tsy is the homage that inferior ity pay* to merit. He who know* hi* incapacity knows something. Commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for hi* honesty, and they will re ceive you into their bosom. The moat delicate, the most sensible of all pleasure, consist* of promoting the pleasure of other*. Human nature is so constituted that all see and judge better in the affairs of other* than in their own. It is with youth as with plants; from the first fruits they bear we learn what may be expected in future. A head properly constituted can ac commodate itself to whatever pillows the vicissitudes of fortune may place under it. ___ Preserved Peuiaes. The great drawback In the past in the way of an extenaed export trade oi potatoes from this country has lain in the fact that in ocean voyages the vege table is susceptible to sweat and rot, and on arrival the 1 oases from this cause are often found to counterbalance the profit made on the intact part of the cargo. This inconvenience seems to be overcome by the resent Invention of a machine for pressing and preserving potatoes in such a manner that they may bo dried and kept for a number of years in any climate. No man can accurate , y prophesy the events of ths tutors, but hsosn make a pretty good guess at one of ton when be seed a cat and a bulldog starring to go. around the corner of a bouse op posite direction*. >i i " LlinllK (• Uti. One reason given by a German in Bm Francisco (or committing suicide vm, "My youth hi over." This u at tha age of forty-fire, a period of life when one should realise the fullest and ripest development of maturity. The German was but one of many who m*lr" them selves old by thinking themselves old. These discouraged and hopeless views of life exf rt an enfeebling influence oil the body. Youth is not all that ofttime callow and unfledged period from twenty to thirty. A man then may be out learning to live. Fifty years to-day finds more men than every in every way better fitted to enjoy life than at twenty five. The race is gradually progressing in this respect, and it is safe to predict that the man of ISgll at seventy may be a much younger man at that age than he of threescore to day. Bodily and mental deeay may be arrested. It Is not ail of life to eat or to drink, but as well in wbat a man thinks, how much his sym pathies and interest may cover and how far his spiritual eye may see. The fuller the man of ail these various sides and shndee of life the more of life is there La him, and the longer the better, the healthier will he live.— Neva York drapKin; A Funeral Among Ike Ants, There are ants which bury their dead —fact which was discovered by acci dent. A iady had been obliged to kiJl some ants, the bodies of which lay about on the ground. Presently a single ant found its dead companions and ex amined the m and then went off. It soon returned with a number of others and proceeded to the dead bodies. Four ants went to each corpse, two lifting it up and the other two following, the main body, some 100 in number, following behind. The four bearers took their office in turns, one pair relieving the other when they were tired. They went Hlraiglit to a sandy hillock, and there the bearers put down their burdens and the others immediately began to dig holes. A d< ad ant was then piaoed in each grave and the soil filled in. The most curious part of the proceedings was that sr me six or seven ants refused to aseist in the grave digging, upon which the rest set on them, killed them, dug one large hole and tumbled them unceremoniously into it. An Intelligent Canine. Baroness Hurdelt-Coutts is usually ac companied by a beautiful oolley dog, which is a gift from Mr. Henry Irving, and which has a little history. The actor was one day driving over the Hracmar mo r when he lost his Skye terrier, which had been trotting along behind his trap. He got down 10 look for It, directing the driver to goon with the trap. On the moor he met a shep herd wilk a col ley, and the man, when told ot the an'or's low, offered to find the terrier. At a word from him the colley dnxud off. and after an absence of ten minutes returned. " Where is heP' a ked the shepherd, and the dog, lifting one paw, pointed in the direction of the road. "He has gone after the trap,** the shepherd said, and Mr. Irving mar veling, and. in truth, incredulous, re turned to the read, and coming up with the trap, found his little tavorite await ing his arrival, lie bought the oolley at the moderate price of fifteen guineas, and on his return to town presented it ( to the baroness. An llxart itr production. The short-hand reporters of Sydney, 1 X. S. W ~ having been found fault with I for their method of rerorting the I speeches in the legislative council, re taliated by giving the speech of one of their adversaries exactly as delivered, as •follows: "The reporters—ought not to—the reporters ought not to be the ones to judge of what is important— not tossy what should be left out—but • the member can only judge of what is important—. As I—as my speeches I —as the reports—as what I say is re ported sometimes, no one—nobody caa understand from the reports—what it is—what I mean. So—it strikes me— it has struck me certain matters— things that appear of importance-are 1 sometime* left out —omitted. The re porters—the papers—points are re ported—l mean wbat tbe paper thinks of interest—is reported." This was taking a very cruel revenge, but Lbea | even a reporter is human. Made Bald by Fright. Terror, it seems, caa take off the hair, ns well a* torn it. The (iamtU tUs Hvptlaum gave aa account lately of a singular case of alopecia. A girl, aged seventh ea, who bad al ways enjoyed good health, had one day a narrow escape from being crushed by a floor giving way beneath her. She was very much frightened, sad tbe same night began to complain of bead ache and chills. Tbe next morning sb# felt restless, and had itching of the sanlp. During tbe few following days she steadily Improved, with the exception of tbe itching. One day, in combing her hair, she noticed that it came oat la great quantities. Three days late- she was perfectly bald. Her general health was good, bat hr bead continued bald, and was still so when seen two years later by the re porter. Tb financial dish we In Gknaany is eery great. Selling prices and land routs are falling frightfully low. The result Is that debtor*, a mortgage can not pay the interest of thstr debts and are dispossessed end their properttss sold at half tbe valne they had some time ago.