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.