A FALLINTO A CRATER. How a Tanrl.l Krll Into n (lfwr> t'rmter ■iml How lie Kn-nprd ThfrelYom. The Butte (Montana) Intn-Moun tain, of a recent date, nays: A party of four persona returned yesterday from a trip p> the Yellowstone Na tional park. Joo Y. Longdon, C. K. Kantner, J. E. Montgomery and Wal ter Watson are the names of the per sons, and they profess they have had. with one exception, a most delightful time. They were examining the era tor of a geyser, about two and a half; miles from th* Fire Hole river. Not withstanding it is forbidden to carry specimens away from the park, or } (despoil in any way the formations, | these gentlemen were desirous of so-' curing some mementoes of their trip, j and seeing in the crater some beautiful formations, Watson volunteered to j attempt a descent and secure a • piece of the beautiful colored work on 4he interior for each member of the party. He carefully descended a dis-! tance of probably twelve feet, taking care that each timo his hold was 1 secure. He reached tho formations, secured what he desired, and attempted : to ascend. Reaching overhead, he grasped a projection, and, putting his entire weight upon it, it gave way, and he was precipitated into the seemingly yawning abyss. His companions, who were watching his movements, shrieked as they saw him fall. They immediate ly procured a light and lowered it into j the crater for as great a distance as they could with tho means at their command. Nothing could l>c seen ; but by dropping pebbles and bits of wood they discovered that at a depth of about fifty feet the crater was filled with water. Tn their consternation at the disappearance of their comrade they had not heard his body strike the i water. They gave him up as lost, and ' with sad hearts left the scene. (Joing to the river they madecamp, intending to start for Bozeman at daybreak. Next morning they made preparations to start, hut were delayed by Mr- j Longdon becoming suddenly sick- They then concluded to remain where they were until he should be in a condi tion to travel. About noon another party from the geyser basin came in sight, and seeing the camp of the gentle men at once approached. Imagine the joy and surprise of 1 Longdon, Kantner and Montgomery | when they saw among the new comers their friend Watson, alive and well. They could not believe it was he until he had taken the hand of each and as sured them that it was none other than he, and gave them the promised speci mens from the crater of the geyser. How he escaped is best told in his own words: •' When the projection ii]>on which I had placed my weight gave way, I felt that I was indeed lost. I was not wholly conscious after I commenced falling. When I struck the water, feet lirst, I experienced a feeling of relief. I seemed to sink thousands of feet, but of course sank only but a short dis tance. I grasped around wildly, but nothing but the water could lie felt. I was rising to the surface and knew it. and a feeling suddenly came over me ♦hat I was to bo saved. How, I knew not, but still I was certain that I was not to l>e left in the crater. On coming to the surface I reached out and a friendly rock gave j me support. I heard the shouts of my friends, but could see nothing and was unable to rail out in reply. After what. seemed to ine ages the shouts ceased, and I realized that my friends had ven me up for lost. It was just after noon when we reached the crater; I suppose it was nearly 5 o'rlock when I heard what sounded like distant thunder. The noise grew more % and .more distinct, and the water surround ing me began to be troubled. I then rea lized that I was in the crater of an active geyser, and that in a short time the entire space would be tilled with water. I attempted to raise myself, but could find no support for my hands which would I war my weight. The walls of the crater were rough, and while in the water I could easily keep my head out by clinging to them. Suddenly I discovered that the water was rising. This gave me the hope that 1 might tie able to keep afioal until the surface was reached The water continued to rise more rapidly, and I at last found myself at the point from which I had fallen. Although well-nigh exhausted, I exerted my remaining strength in climbing to the surface. This I reached. I managed to crawl some distance away from the mouth of the crater, where I lost consciousness. When I recovered I was being cared for by strangers —the men who conducted me to my quarters." Upon being questioned further Wat son said that as near as he could Judge the crater at the point he struck the water was about twenty-five feet in diameter. 'Hie water was warm, hut not uncomfortably so until a few mo ments before he left when it began to he decidedly hot and to boil furiously. He was found by the party who res cued him about 7 o'clock in the even ing- ' Trades In I'aris. One ant merchant, whom the author knew, was a young woman named Blanche. She is described as present ing a terrible appearance. "Iler face anil hands are tanned as though they had been prepared liy some skillful tan ner. She is clothed in buiTaloskin, and in spite of this armor she is devoured by her stock in trade. But her skin has become so hardened and insensible, from long practice, that she can sleep surrounded bv sacks full of her mer chandise undisturbed by their stinging. Madamoiselle Blanche lias negotiants in the departments where there are ex tensive forests ; she pays her employes two francs a day. Her business extends even as far as Germany. She never receives less than ten sacks (millers' sacks) of ants daily. Tho ants lay eggs and these are sold for feeding pheasants. At the present moment Mademoiselle Blanche is on tho road to fortune." Another trade somewhat similar to this is that of tin- maggot merchants. These supply the fishermen with their bait, and number from eight to ten, doing serious business. They are well known to the fishing corporation, and three are mentioned as being celebri ties in their profession. >nein particu lar—Le l'ere Ver-de-Ferre—reckons that he sells from thirty to forty mil lion maggots every summer. This gentleman can never part witli one of his loads of maggots, whom lie calls his children, without emotion. A lucrative business is the cooking of artichokes. There are but three or four important retailers of cookisl arti chokes in l'aris. The information M. Orison gives us on the subject lie ole tained from Madame Pauline (}., one of the extensive dealers in that article at La Halle, the largest market-place in the city. "Togain anything in this business," says our informant, " it must he conducted on a large scale, for though tlie rooking of artichokes ap pears a very simple affair, it neverthe less demands considerable outlay in proportion to the price of selling. Be fore being put into the copper the arti chokes must be washed. Women em ployed for this work earn three francs a day. Others cut off the stalks. This done, the artichokes pass into the rooks' hands, who earn from four to five francs per diem. They first assort them. and then pile them in heaps according to their size in the coppers. Tlie layer* are separated by cloths. This work, of course, take* some time ; but it would not do to throw the artichokes all in together, as some jwoplr imagine to lie the ease. The largest traders in this line employ generally two cutters and sorters, three cleaners and Ave or six cooks. The boiling is done by night, and entirely finished by 7 o'clock in the morning. At 5 A. M. the fruiterers and street venders take their st<nk for the day. The price varus from n penny to three-pence per artichoke. The chief part of the artichoke one sees at the fruit shops, kept warm in large baskets by means of hot water, come from La Halle." Madame Pauline earns on an average l'l.<00 a year at t his business, and the season only lasts , four months. Itutthetrades mentioned I are the three rich ones out of the . mrtirrs. Among the less remunera tive ones there are the rat-catchers, egg dyers for Lent and Kaster days, soup I and coffee itinerant merchants, the scale cleaners, ami lastly, in connection with Li** Halles, the caller, whose busi ' ness it is to wake up the porters, car- I riers and all who have to liegin work ;at daylight. The callers form a large ; company and any one walking in the j vicinity of the market-place after mid night hears a variety of strange cries i and peculiar sounding notes proceeding i from whistles. Each caller has his j particular note, known to his client, j who opens his window in reply, fine of these men. well known in the market, ! is Peter, surnamed the 44 Blackbird." on account of the remarkable manner in j which lie modulates his cries.— ls>tul<m Statularil. A local English paper gives an ac count of a very Intelligent <log in Wiltshire. The animal was In the habit of going every flay to the rail road, anil as the train passed the guard threw out a Standard for a clergyman who lived hard by, which the dog seized in his teeth and carried to his master. One day the dog came back to the rectory without a newspaper. On Inquiry the guard insisted that he had acted as usual, but upon making a search it was found that a Daily Tele graph, and not a Standard, had leen thrown out, and the dog had refused to have anything to do with it. NIGHTS IN BELGIUM. Tk Kurd 1.01 of Ihf WIMIM and (ha !>•. Nolxidy in this region lecmito work any but women ami dogs, Hay* a cor respondent of tin* Cincinnati CofntTwi" rial, writing from Belgium. The 1 "hurvest hands," an thcv are called at ; homo, wero, with the fewest oxoop- J tiona, women. They were working J like oxen. In shape they are short 1 and wide cut. Centuries of carrying I heavy burdens upon their heads and shoulders have stunted their height and broadened them out. This min ute—in the morning—at Cologne ( I hear the measured tramp of soldiers j ; in the street outside. I look out. A squad of good-sized, well-formed young j soldiers are passing with a lieutenant. 1 They hold their heads up in a spirited j way and inarch along limber and elas. tie. Immediately behind them follow 1 three tawny, squatty women, carrying upon their heads loads which look awful. It is enough to crush their ! skulls in, one would think. The pic ture tells the whole story of life among the lower classes in this country. It | Jis a barbarism as complete as reigns among the Indian savages of America, 1 where the squaws do the drudgery and I the men tight and hunt. Men in uni form fairly swarm. They waddle about the country railway stations in rubs, green, white, red, blue and black fat, luzy-looking fellows while out in the adjoining fields women lug and tug at the bundles of hay and grain and bend their backs in the turnip fields, ! plying heavy hoes, horny-handed and stiff, with weary, weather-beaten, seamed, stupid fares. It is not an agree able sight or an encouraging one for the future progress of one of the most ( civilized nations in the world. Every where are soldiers, soldiers, soldiers, marching, drilling or standing sentinel. I told you of those we saw Ix-forc 6 | o'clock this morning. At 7 we went j out to look at some sort of ancient rule blah and a splendid cavalry company passed us full 100 strong. Horse and rider seemed all one piece, and the ani mals' feet seemed to move by clock ; work, so perfectly trained were they. It was a line sight. Hut the most magnificently disciplined standing army in the world is maintained at a cost which cannot fail to tell on those peo ple in the years to come. The men are drawn "ff to fight, and the women do the men's work. At this day in tier many women blacksmith's are not very uncommon. What is to Ismmo of the refinements <>f social life, the sweet sar red news <>f home? Hut I felt sor rier, if possible, for the |s>r little dogs than even for the women. They have a dog's life. Indeed. They are not very big—no larger than the common despised "yellow dog" of America— yet two of tle-m draw load* which -tis-m heavy enough for a horse. The little things are liarmssel underneath a sort of long, heavy harrow ujKin ! wheels; this holds the load. A tnan or woman holds the handles of the thing, and the dogs trot along lieneath. Their rihs stick out, ill-paddtd with flesli, as though they were not very well fed. Their panting sides, lolling t-ongues and sorrowful, appealing eyes w#uld touch the heart of a stone. Everything hereaUiuts, too, seems clone, by sheer, brute strength. There is no saving of labor, either by machinery or by the application of common sense. In the field we saw no American agricultural machinery, as in England or Scotland. Where in America a load of baggage, trunks, valises would Ix piled high upon a dray or great truck and transferred at one gulp for short distance*, here your jKirter takes it upon his head or arm, as the case may lie, and lugs it off , slowly and painfully, one piece at a time. We have had more fuss and trouble to keep from losing our liag gage, coming from London to Cologne, than we should have had at home In going from New York to San Fran cisco and bade again. Strange coun try this, where women and dogs do the hardest work, and where they have no checks for baggage. Stockings are knit by hand Instead of by machinery, and in Antwerp and Brussels the women are so industrious that they knit running along the streets going of errands. Ilnildieg • Big Hons* In Two Days. The rapid increase of population in Manitolm has stimulated the inventive geniuses of the Dominion to contrive houses that may lie portable and quickly put up. L. Forest, of Belleville, Ont., has planned one that Is In throe-foot sec. lions and dovetails together. A house, for a hotel or Ismrdlng establishment, has been put up at Winnipeg, over 100 feet long, two stories high, and divided into apartments sufficient to accommo date 250 guests. The foundation was laid on Tuesday and the house was completed on the Thursday followliy —WorthwtaUrn Lumberman. CLIPPINGS FOR THR CURIOUS. A German scientist finds that the 1 true color of perfectly distilhxl pure water is a fine deep-blue green. 1 The New York, Chicago and Kt. Louis railway uses a steam shovel that lifts i i eighteen tons of gravel at one scoop. The ground burns through the shoes j on the feet of missionaries of Ceylon j when the mercury is at lfiO degrees in , the sun. The chamois is the only antelope , found in Europe, and the baboon, on the rocks of Gibraltar, the only quud | rumana. A statistician estimates that the people of the United States have to pay f2'l a minute for Congress while i in session. A petroleum well has been discov ered thirty yards below the surface of the water in the middle of Lake Cha , pala, Mexico. 1 here is an Indian professor who can destroy a corpse in twenty minutes with a patent chemical solution costing only one dollar and sixty cents. "The Natal Twin Association" of Nashville, Tenn., pays S2,'XX) to each j member producing a certificate of the' paternity of a pair of twin babies. A book that was a copy of the re port of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children imisoned a child in Trov. It had put the colored covers iu its mouth. I n some parts of Africa, where ants swarm, they are said to form, at tinu-s a considerable portion of the food suj>- ply. They are used in some countries in Europe for making formic acid, and .are subject to an import duty. It is a mistake to think century plants bloom only when they are one hundred years old. In their native climate, and under favorable circum stances, they will bloom when only nine years old. The plant then dim, but numerous suckers are already around its base to take its place. Coffee, as its name im|x>rts, Cofbra ' Arabiea, is indigenous to northern Afri ca, and was import-i-d into Europe as a curiosity. Not much more than 150 years ago a single layer of two slips was taken from Holland to Martinique,and , It throve so well that it furnish'*! a supply for the whole of the West Indim. * The "Nilometer," or instrument used in measuring the annual rise of the Nile, is situatisl on the Island of Ib>dn. opposite old Cairo. It consists of a, square well or chamber, in the center of which is a graduated pillar divided into seventeen cubits. The state of the river is prw-laimcd daily In the street.* of Cairo during the inundation by several cri'-rs, to <-a h of whom a particular district is assigned. The usual maximum of the rise is from twenty-four to twenty-six feet. Gould's Son. A New York roiresjondent of the Boston Herald Urns describes the mag nificent w ay in which young Mr. Gould j Intends to run the Grand Opera House: Jay Gould runs the Grand Opera House, and his son George is to he as- 1 soeiated with Mr. Abbey in the man agement. Young Mr.Gould means to ( make the business enjoyable, at all events. The right hand lower box, as you face the stage, is transformed into a sanctum for him. It has lieen isola ted by shutting off the passage to the next box above, which is now entered from the gallery. A d<<wi* cut through j the wall of the building into what for-! merly was a yard, but is now built up to contain a parlor, a dining room and reception room, all beautifully fres coed, and to be gorgeously fur nished. These apartments are accessi ble by a back way from Twenty-fourth street, so that Mr. Gould and hisfriends can get in and out without mixing with the audience, though they will be n danger of encountering the perform ers. It is understood that the dinners will not lie prepared on the premises, but will lie sent in from a restaurant. The box opens also on a passage leading to the stage, l>ack of which is the largest green room in the country. In j the festive days of Jiiu Fiske this apartment was gayly peopled by the women of the opera bouffe, who as | semhled there when not actually em ployed in the performances, and made brave show with their beauty) and cos tumes. The luUl. big enough to hold 200 persons, has since been devoted chiefly to the*storage of scenery and properties, until it was cleared and painted by order of Mr. Gould, who will have itearpetetfW decorated and fur nished dazzling!}'. He evidently lie- Uevesin a revival of the green room, whatever may lie his ideas about the est of the drama. Butter product of the United States —777,215,597 pounds annually, THE FAMILY TKMTOB. SCIATICA. Sciatica is one of the most distressing and obstinate of nerve pains, and any effectual way of afford ing even temporary relief during the severe paroxysms is thankfully received by the sufferer. A French physician thinks he obtains the combined influ ence of heat and electricity by cover ing a hot flatiron with a woolen cloth wrung out in vinegar and applied over the seat of the pain. For many years it has been his custom to employ this method in eases of neuralgia and sci atica, and by repeating the application two or three times a day, not only tem porary relief but permanent curative results have often been brought alxjut Or. Foot*'* Health Monthly. VKOETABLK POISONING. —In a ease of vegetable poisoning, emetics (the sulphate of zinc, if procurable) should he used at once, the back of the throat tickled with a feather and copious draughts of tepid water taken to ex cite u-d promote vomiting. Where these measures fail, the stomach pump must Iw used. ■ Neither ipecacuanha nor tartar emetic should be used to cause vomiting, as during the nausea they produce before vomiting is excited, the poison is inoro read ily absorbed. Vinegar must not be given until the jxiLaonous matter has l*en removed, but afterward it maybe given in doses of a wineglassful, one part vinegar to two parts water, onoe every two hours in mild caigw, but oftener—to half hourly doses—in cases of gnater severity. Where there is a .stupor the patient should lie kept walking about, and if the stupor is great fold water may be dashed over the head ami chist. Strong coffee may lxr used where the narcotic effect of the poisoning is very mark's!. It is all important that in raaesof vegetable |*>i*onirig a tnedieal man should be sent for at once. Why the Minister I.aujrh'd. "Is this the Hey. Mr.'Mulkittle?" said akind ofout-of-reason man. entcr ing the library of a well-known Little Rock minister. " Yes, sir; have a seat." " I have called to transact a piece of business which to the world inav seem ridiculous, but which, viewed from a spiritual eminence Is of importance." " What is it?" " I want you to love me." "Love you?" gasped the good man, regarding the jietitiom-r and inwardly vowing that he had never before met a more repulsive human Ix-ing. " Ye*, sir. I want you to love me,'* and he sat down and closed his eyes as though h" intended to await the an nouncement of the decision. "The command is to love one another. I con fess that I love you;" and opening his eyes he leered at the preacher. " Well, sir." said the minister, "your demand after all is simple. I suppose that you have l-en lost for many years, and have just tasted grace, and that you especially want the love of min isters. Yes, I love you." " Thank you. Now, when wo love any one we are to help him Gimme a dollar, sir, gimme a dollar. Out of the love you lx-ar me, gimmo the dollar." The minister arose, took down the liox and handed the visitor a dollar, •' Good bye. I hope you will always love ine," and the lover was gone, "llow did you make it?" asked a rough-looking man, when they reached a street corner not far away. " Fine, Never met but one preachei that got away with me, and he was an old Baptist tha insisted upon ducking me into the river liefore he could lovo me. Preachers like something odd. The old stylo of striking 'em Is re pealed." " I/et me see the money.** " Here she is; a new dollar. Let's go take something." "I guess not The thing is coun terfeit," It was a vile imitation, and the two thieves looked at each other in silence. The minister poked his head over the fence and laughed. The dol lar had coffie to him in a contribution box.— Arkatutaw Traveler. Bird Sextons. It is so rare to find a dead liird un buried in a field or meadow that the question naturally arises: What be comes of their bodies? It will be found by watching carefully, that the orange-spotted beetles are the little sex tons that bury sparrows, mice, squir rels and even the larger creatures which die in the woods or fields. They shovel out the loose earth with their broad heads, push the Iwdy into the hole thus ni.ule, and even climb upon It to push It more firmly into itsgrnve. Some naturalists think that the beetles 1 an drawn by the odor of decay, an< we ought to be very grateful that ti air la kept pure ami sweet for us i these intelligent undertakers. Don't Take It to Heart. There'* many a troubla Would break like a bobbin, And into the water* of Jwthe depart, Did not we rehear** it. And tenderly nurae it, And give it n ix.-ruianent place in the lIMIC Tliere'* many a sorrow Would vanish to-morrow, Were we not unwilling to furnish the wlngni Ho sadly intruding And quietly brooding, ft hatches out all sort* of horrible thing*. How welcome the seeming Of look* that are I •earning. Whether one'* wealthy or whether one'e poor* Even bright a* a berry, Check* red a* a cherry, The groan and lite curse of the heartadb* can cure. Resolved, to be merry, All worry to ferry Across tlie famed water* that iiid us forge*M| And no longer tearful. But happy and cheerful, We feel life lias much that's worth living tat yet. rtWOE.NT PARAGRAPHS. The thermometer, like a mason, riaa* by degrees. A Philadelphia man has invented m shirt with a aand-paper back. One rub against a rail fence cures the wunt case. There is a dog in Georgia that weigh* only fifteen ounces. Whenever he gets lost his owner knows that he is inside of a pound. "Great I'ains Taken" is the head* ing of an advertisement in one of the dailies. Probably some man ate a whole watermelon. The pr<*ent fashion of using young colored hoys as ladies' pages is ccrtain ly not a new one. Everybody has heard of "the dark pages of history." " Heat the bread knife very hot whets cutting new bread." This will pre; vent crumbling, and probably suggest something to say to the next person who picks up the knife. When Fogg heard of a boy who wm terribly injured while playing with fire, he quietly remarked: "Oh, that's nothing; he w as only a little son burnt." Fogg ought to be tanned, the hearties* wretch. If you have a fight with a fellow alxiut a girl make it a jtoint to get walloped and badly hurt. Girls am sympathetic creatures, and she's Ix.tmd to pity you and think the other fellow a horrid brute. Archibald Forties, the English war correspondent, is to get #5,000 for his proposed work on the United States. We had no idea the United Statea needed repairs so bad that the work on them would cost #5,000. "Just taste that tea," said old Hyson to his 1 >ettor half, at the supper table the other evening. "Well, there doesn't w<Si to Ik- anything the matter with, it. I can t taste anything." "Neither can I, and that's what I'm growling at." The remark, "There'sa point where endurance ceases to lie a virtue," was originally made by one of the old mas ters—one of the old schoolmasters, when he sat down u|>on a simple little contrivance invented by the bail pupil. yorrUtotrn Herald. " Men's night-gowns are made wills pockets in them." Thus in case the wife of a man's txmom calls for a new bonnet in the middle of the night he ran immediately pull out his picket book and furnish her with the funds A great saving of sleep to the hue. bands of the land. Scientific men in Japan are said to lie discussing the possibility of utilizing the internal heat of the earth. If some of these learned Japs would find away of utilizing and carting off some of this summer's external heat, we should Im* glad to use our influence to get them the contract. Even the poor despised tramp make* his mark in this world, lie usually makes it on the fences with a piece of chalk for the guidance of some forlorn, disheartened brother tramp, who, see ing it, may take heart again, or any thing else of value the careless farmer may have forgotten to take into th house, " DEPOT." Haiti Master J one*. " Now we moat go Without dels)- to the deepo." langbed sweet Mis* Jones. " 1 should say euf I jet's start at once for the dajrpo." Smiled Mrs. Jones, " In qnick step, oh. We'll all ran down to the deppa." 'lroaned Mr. John**, " It's might? hot To drive yon all to the deepot." These conflict* of pronunciation Would not he if the? called it " station." Six of the roost popular It alia* journals are owned by Kignor Olilicght, who came to Milan in 1830 with th* Austrian*, founded an advertisiag agency in 1865, which he transferred to lbune, and by degrees farmed tit* advert lament portions of no fewer than 120 papers, amassing thereby * large fortune.
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