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PUBLISHED IK CENTRE COUnTT,
How Hazing Was Stopped.
Sullivan's Appearance at " (fuaktr at Har
vard Collect,
Krora the Milwaukee tiuu.
Many have wondered why there has
not been a hazing at Harvard for the
past three months. Iu all that time
there has not been a ease of hazing re
ported, and some have come to the con
clusion that the haters have met with
a change of heart. It is not exactly
a change of heart, but a change of
clothes that ails them. We are in
formed that the hazing has been effec
tually broken up. dust after Sulli
van whipped Hyatt ho was called to
Harvard, and a plan of breaking up
hazing was unfolded to him by the
faculty and he fell into it readily. He
was to attire himself as Quaker young
man, and apply for admission as a
freshniau and let nature take its course.
On the tir>t day of April Mr. Sullivan
appeared at the college under the uatin
of Abija Watson, and was assigned to
a room and placed ou the roll of fresh
men. His appearance was commen
ted on, ami a- he passed through the
grounds with his peculiar garb, young
men shouted, "Shoot the hat!" "(Jet
onto his nibs?" and other collegiate
literature. It was all Mr. Sullivan
could do to restrain himself from w hip
ping a couple of dozen of the boys
then and there, hut he decided to wait
until the proper time, when he would
be able to get enough for a mess. That
evening he was approached by a young
man who pretended to be .his frieud,
and invited him to accompany him to
a room where a few boys were going
to open a few bottles of wiue. Abija
verily he didn't go much on this sinful
beverage, but to oblige his friend he
went with him to a large room where
seventy smart young fellows were con
gregated with all the appliances for
hazing. Sullivan savs there were -even
ly, but the faculty only found sixty
five smart Alecks when the door was
opened, but Sullivan thinks a few may
liave jumped out of the window and
took to the woods. It seems that when
they got the "Quaker" into the room
they locked the door, and the ringlea
der told the peaceful man to strip oil
his coat, vest and shirt. He objected,
but finally took them off.
Some of the fellow* who have since
got out of the hospital say they noticed
when he removed his shirt that he ■
put up like a hired man, and they
thought it queer that a (Quaker should
have an arm as big as a canvas-ed |
ham. They then told him to "prepare j
to meet his God," and got out the iron j
to brand him on the back. He then
told them that he knew he was in ;
their power and was willing to submit j
to anything that was right, but lie
asked as a favor not to bear on too
hard, as he was of a nervous tempera
ment and might faint Then they de- ;
tided not to brand him until later,
but would throw him up in a blanket
first. 80 they got the blanket first
and tipped .Sullivan over in it, nnd
about twenty of the smartest hazer
took hold of the aides und tossed him i
up. When he came down he knocked
lour fellows senseless with his fists,
kicked four more across the room ami 1
then got on his feet and began to
knock thrm right and left. He had
knocked down about twenty and had
tipped to spit on his hands when the !
rest of the hnzers huddled in a corner
and proposed to put an end to the
slaughter. One said : "Oh, good Mr. 1
<{uaker, please let its alone. We lie
long to respectable families, and won't
do so any more." Sullivan looked at
them and said: "Ft is hazing yez
want. Well, yez can have plintv,"
and he went at them, am) in nlx>ut
fifteen minutes he corded up the
whole gang, and hazing was broken
up in Harvard college. As he threw
his coat and shirt across his arm and
walked out of the room, and met the
faculty in the hall, he said: "Throw
water iu their face, and they will re
gain consciousness in from ten minutes
to half an hour," and he shook hands
with the faculty, receiver! his five hun
dred dollars and left for New York
with his trainer, Billy Madden, who
was sitting on the fence outside wait
ing for him.
"Fot kind of a time did yez have
wid de b'ys?" aked Mr. Madden, as
he helped Mr. Hullivan on with his
shirt and changed the (Quaker hat for
another.
"Verily, friend William," said
(Quaker Sullivan, as he county the roll
of bills to see that the faculty did not
above any counthrfeit* on him,"it was
the evint of the season."
And thev started for Cornell uni-
Tensity, at Ithaca.
The Virtues of Coffee.
A Drink That it ExhilaraSng ami Jimrfiaal
to the
Tram tb* Fhiliwielpbia Tins*.
The action of coffee is directed
chiefly to the nervous system. It pro
dnoea a warming, cordial impression
on the stomach, quickly followed bjr a
diffused. Strreeable and nervous excite
ment, which extends itself to the cer>
brat functions, giving rise to increased
-vigor of imagination aod intellect,
-without any subsequent confusion or
•atupor, such as are characteristic of
narcotics. Coffee oontains essential
principles of nutrition far exceeding
ill importance its exhilarating proper
ties and in one of the most desirable ar
ticles for sustaining the system in cer
tain prostrating diseases. As compar
ed with the nutrition to be derived
from the best of soups coflee has decid
edly the advuntngo and is to lie pre
ferred in many instances. The medici
nal effects of coffee are very great. I n
intermittent fever it has been used by
eminent physicians, with the happiest
effects, in cutting short the attack, and
if properly managed is better in many
casee than the sulphate of qui nine. In
that low state of intermittent, as found
011 the banks of the Mississippi river
and other innlarial districts, accompa
nied with enlarged spleen and torpid
liver, when judiciously administered it
is one of the surest remedies. In yel
low fever it bus been used by physi
cians, and with some it is their main
reliance after other necessary remedies
have been admistered ; it retains tissue
change, and thus becomes a conserva
tor of force in that state in which the
nervous system tends to collapse, be
cause the blood has become impure;
it sustains the nervous power until the
depuration and reorganization of the
blood are accomplished, and bus the
advantage over other stimulants in in
ducing no injurious secondary effects.
In spasmodic asthma its utility is well
established, as in whooping cough, stu
por, lethargy and such troubles. In
hysterical attacks, for which in many
cases a physician can form no diagnosis
coffee is a great help.
Coffee is op|>osed to malaria, to all
noxious vapors. As a disinfectant it
has wanderfnl powers. As an iu.-tan
taneous deodorizer it has no equal f r
the sick-room, as ull exhalations are
immediately neutralized by -imply
passing a chafing-dish with burning
coffee grains through the room. It
may be urged that an article pi -sing
such powers and capacity for such
engergetic action must be injurious an
article of diet ot habitual employment,
and not without deleterious pruM rtie- ;
hut no corro|K>miing nervous disar
rangements have been observed after
its effects have disappeared, as an si-en
in narcotics and other stimulants. The
action imparted to the nerves is natu
ral and healthy. Habitual coffee
drinkers generally enjoy good health.
Some of the oldest people have used
coffee froiu earliest infancy without
feeling any depressing react! n. such
as is prcduccil l>v alcoholic stimulant.-.
Scorching a Skull.
.1 Stnni<C<W ft' I IT-I. A'• thf
SkU • Dubuque rh "•
From h Dut.u ,<• T
There resides in this county. U-lween
Dubuque and 1 • kdui--, a g.rl ale ut
seventeen yean* of age, who bn- no
hair on the top of her head and never
will have. Tin- catic of this i worth
relating. About iitceii years ago
a well known piiv-ie.att of tlii- city
was called upon by a u -tnan with an
infant in her antic, ntid asked that the
tiabe I. • treatul for a pei-tiliur ailment.
Ihe top ot the i hild - In ad - mod to
becoming off; in fact the skull had
already parted at the sutures and was
liable in a short time to be entirely
10-'-e. 'lite pliysicsaii made sine in
quiries and learned the following
facts : the father and mother had gone
home from Dubuque one night with a
bottle of liquor, and after drinking
until they wi re stupid from the effects
of it. Ini'i down in front of the fire
place and went to sleep. The lire wa
(turning brightly, and threw out n
steady heat. 1 lie infant became rest
less during the night, but its move
ments did not arouse the mother
Finally the little one crept from its
mother's arms, ami laid down near the
hearth with its head close to the fire.
In this position it remained until
morning, when the parent*, .having
slept off the effects of the debauch,
awoke and picked up the infant, which
was in a stupor, and so remained all
that day and the inxt —then only ral
lying a little ami for a few moments.
After awhile the skin on the top of her
head began to |>ecl off, and at length
the entire upper portion of the crani
um seemed to be loom-. Then it was
tlint the mother brought the child to
Dubuque and consulted a physician.
After hearing her story the physician
came to the conclusion that the child's
head had been literally baked by the
fire, before which it had slept that
eventful night. lie also discovered
thnt the child's life was in danger, and
that it would be im|*>n*ihlc to prevent
the upper portion of the skull from
coming off lie took the child under
treatment, and in a short time he re
moved a piece of skull three or four
inches long and over two inches wide.
The operation was very delicately per
formed, and in a few weeks a thin
membrane formed, which protected
the brnin. The child lived and thriv
ed, and is to-day a young woman, al
though she will always be compelled
to wear a wig. The parents feel un
der lasting obligations to the physi
cian, and to this day show their ap
preciation. The story seems almost
incredible, but is entirely true.
The Habit of Work.
There is scarcely anything of greater
importance to a young man than that
he should acquire early the habit of
regular application to some pursuit.
Many persons, who are not of an indo
lent nature live on, from day to day,
from month to month, from year to
year, without accomplishing anything
worth while.
They wonder that others are auocew- j
fill, and they are not; that othera pro-'
gross and they remain stationary. Tin
difficulty with them is thai although
they are not particularly averse to
lubor, tliey have never learnt how to
work to advantage. They have never
formed tlio habit ofregular, systematic
application. Desultory and merely
impulsive efforts are attended by verv
insufficient and unsatisfactory results.
The first requisite is to know what
you want to accomplish. Have some
purpose—some plan. Then see to it
(but the sun does not set on u day in
which something has not been done to
carry forward that plan—to promote
that purpose.
Have, so fur as possible, regular
hours of work, and let no light inter
ruption interfere with them. If you
take a day's reeeation, be sure on the
morrow you promptly resume your
work, and give to it the benefit of re
freshed strength and renewed vigor.
At the end of every week, regularly
review your wo,'k. Consider just how
much you have accomplished. If you
are satisfied with what you have done,
it will bring to you a feeling of repose
and content. If you find you should
have done more, tliun make sure that
the coming wn-k shall show nu iin -
provemet ton the. past. Finally, let
nothing —no matter what —daunt or
discourage you. (ilory in a resolute
ami invine hlo will!
If nil young men now coining on the
stage would scrupulously observe these
instructions, what an increase of sue
cess and huppincss there would !• '
Fiction I'owhere.
Truth ThftNH it Kir in fib Fjtult
<1 S <trr th it hr ,Y. - hn'tr l„ h/ /,
I >hn<l*n TfM.nn*.
Henrv Stenimer, of the Coal A" Iron
Police, is a young man well known in
these part-. Stenimer i-n't exactly hi
narnc, hut he has worn it for over
tweiitv--ix v< sir-, ha- never hi-honored
it, and it fits him just a- well as \\\ i
mer hi- r>ai name ever could have
done. Y'hen Henry was a mere babe
—say three months of ng<—his father
and mother died in Allegheny City
and left him all a'one in the world.
They also left a little three-old daugh
ter in the same woeful plight, but
Henry could hardly be expected to
know it at hi- tender age, and if the
daughter realized what was woing on
she soon forgot entirely The little
folks were both promising children,
and they had been orphans hut a little
while wi.cn Henry adopted hv
Mr. John A. Stemmer, now of this
plare, while his si-ter, Annie M., wa*
taken to the bosoms of Mr. and Mrs.
Kinanuel Myers, of Herlin, Somerset
county.
Time flew. Tliechihlren grew apare.
Henry's school dnrs were ended, and
one bright day he found himself so
near a man in stature that, giving wav
to the d'-ire which had been tugging
at him for years, he off to be a soldier
in the armv of the west. Reserved hi
time, was honorably d scharged.came
back to Johnstown, and after knocking
about for a wbile, got on the Coal
A" Iron Police force. Annie M. stayed
with her foster-parents until the right
young man en me along, < one Joseph
Hanger , and then, with tearful adieus,
-lie left them and went to brighten hi.
homc. We can now bring our storv
to a close to one month ago. Still
Henry was unaware of the existence of
a flesh nnd-hlnod relation, and his si
tcr did not know that she had a broth
er somewhere in the world.
Henry, in Ids wide rambles as an
officer, chanted one day, some two
weeks since, to strike a man who had
known his father, and in conversation
with him he learned for the first time
that when he was left an orphan a lit
tle si-ter shared the same fate. The
gentleman, however, could enlighten
him no further. Brotherly love and
the detective spirit burned in his breast
and at the first opportunity he started
on the hunt of his long-lost sister. He
first visited Allegheny, where, after a
tedious search, got on her track through
people who remembered his parents.
They said they thought the girl had
lieen taken to Myersdale, Somerset
county, and thither he journeyed, but
he could ienrn nothing of her there,
and was just on the |Kint of quiting
the place when he met Mr. Benjamin
I). Morgan, of Berlin, who told him of
of a girl that had been adopted by a
Mr. Myers at his home some twrnty-six
year* ago. Hope was again high, and
Henrv accompanied him to Berlin,
where he found his sister—married,
now, and fhe mother of children
older than himself or herself when
they were seperatcd, but overjoy
to aee him all Ihe same. This story
soon spread throughout the village,
and the good people marveled much,
while all declared they would have
known Henry ■id Annie were brother
and sister, but to look at them.
Wasted Eloquence,
Some time ago we (jot a new pi egg
for thiw office, and for a number of
week* it wag our chief delight to take
viaitora through the mechanical de
partment of the paper, politely and
cheerfully explaining to tnoni a thou
gand thinga that we didn't know any
thing about. The foreman uaed to nay
that we did pretty well, although he
uaed to goioetimea caution tin about
the uae of certain term* in certain
waya. You ee a man who ia not a
practical printer haa to txuat a good
deal to his memory and chance to help
him out, and he don't alwaya uae the
correct ecientiflc name.
One day Colonel Stanton, the chief
paymaster of the department, entered
the Boomerang office to puy hit* sub
scription, imd tell us Home blood-curd
ling anecdotes about different engage
ments in which the pay department
had waded in blood and came off
more than conqueror. After we had
ladled out a few lines to him relating
to our frontier life, we took him into
the press room and showed him the
new press, lie manifested a good
deal of interest in the thing, and ask
ed a good many questions which wis
answered iti our usual graphic style.
Then we went into this newsroom. We
could see by the frown on the fore
man's brow that we were making some
awful breaks, but what can you do
when you have a visitor who must In:
cutertuined and who keeps it-king
about these things that you don't know
anything about?
After a while the colonel scorned to
lose his interest in our description ol
how a newspaper was made. At fir.-t
in- would look surprised ami agitated
over some rash statement we would
make, but after a little while he seem
ed to i are very little about what
wo said, and acted almost rude; so w>-
braced up and went at it to explain
how tvpe wn- Het, and as we stood by
it casts jut vacated hy one of the
compositors, we told him w here ail tin*
letters were, and explained the whole
philosophy o setting a gaily, locking
it, proving it, making up, etc., etc.
fie re were a number of other officers
I present, and they all seemed gn-atlv
j pleased and tried to draw us out on
this subject, which pn -cnt- so much
that is of interest to the novice.
finally Colonel Stanton yawned a
little, stepped up to the vaeaut ease,
took the stiek in his left hand, and
gazed eariie.-ly at the "copy " <>f an
article on " An act to provide I r the
retirement of the armv w rm at the
age ot sixty-two. ' His then lit >tit
■ >r dear life like a man • ting liv the
thousand and hope* to niuk<-!*au Fran
•iseo betore the cold wlieath' r - t- in.
lie dumped hi- stick in the right
place, resumed hi- w rk rlnsrfully,
; and staid with it till the arti !•• wa.
• all up, and then said he gin 1 he'd
I have to go.
We lis iked around at tl e officers to
see how they felt. They m-crncd cheer-
I ml and pleased about something.
'i'uey knew that that meek and gen
tle fraud was all old printer nil the
titnc, and when we c were making a
courteous, self-forgetful as- of our- If
nil the time, explaining tin* opi rati i,
of a printing office, not only Stanton
but all the re-t of them were winking
| at the foreman, and even the devil wa
in the scheme.
I- that we don't even dare to
, -how a young lady how a printing
pre** works, and tlieotter day a man
who was born without arms, and who,
therefore, wouldn't make much of a
I compositor, wanted to sis- how a pajn-r
' wa< made, but we put him off on the
foreman and excused our-elf from be
i ing a pfofi'.ioiml guide to the median
it al part of the Boomrrnnj any more.
Once we allowed ourself lo art a*
guide for He v. Mr. Hall of this place,
tiecausc it wn nothing more thin
right that we thould l>e civil to a
cl< rgyman. After wo hail told him a
great di al about the in* and out* ot
the printing business, and Mr. Hall
had gone, the city editor -aid ; "You
are the most genial newspaper directo
ry and specimen catalogue and price
li-t of printera'aupplv 1 ever caw. You
thought you pin veil it on that gray
haired clergyman in gocl cha|c prob
ably. You fooled away an hour right
in the middle of the day showing oIF
how to print a p*|>cr. when you don't
know a lowrr-cae roller-mold front an
italic shooting-stick. Mr. Hall atuck
type all the (ir-t part of hi* life for
Sam Howie*, hut he has go te 1e oe
without telling you ao because he was
afraid you might feel had. Now, if
you don't quit acting a* guide to thia
paper I'm going to reign. | can't
stand it to be humiliated thia way. It
is wearing toy young life in sorrow
away."— Hill A'yr.
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An Old Story Kevi-ed.
Mr. Sehwt and thr Xorthrm Pan Ac 11. >,!■
road (Sww pony.
The New York Sun Washington
correspondent writes na follow* : On
Saturday last we quoted from the
Washington eorreapondencc of the
Now York Sun n atatement concerning
a certain transaction of Mr, Carl
Schuri with the Northern Pacific
Compaur. The article seems to have
ottraetcii mncli attention, and no many
application* have been aent for copies
of the paper that we republish the ar
ticle, our Saturday'* edition being ex
hausted. It i* as follow*:
" A most remarkable caae of the in
fluence of a certain railroad corporation
upon Carl Kchurx ha* just been un
earthed. In Oct I*Bo, a commission, at
the head of which was Maj. Clarke,
Deputy Commissioner of Pennsylvania
was appointed to examine fifty miles of
the Northern Pacific railroad just
finished, and report whether it was
constructed in accordance with law.
By one of those mistakes which ;
sometimes happen in the beat regulat
ed families, thia commission was com
posed of men who honestly discharged
the duty assigned them. Of course
Carl rtchurr. never contemplated such
action. The commission examined
the road and, in December, 1880,
made a report recommending the re
jection of the fifty miles, because it
did not conform jn it* construction to
the requirement* of the law, some of
the rail* being old ones taken up from
other roads, the bed not being pro|Msr
ly constructed, etc.
" Almost simultaneous with the fil
ing ol this report came a letter from
Mr. Hillings, president of the North
ern Pacific, in which he inclosed a
private contract agreeing that if the
Secretary would accept the road and
issue the certificate which entitled it
to 2000,000 acres of land, the corn
puny bound itself not to u-k for a pat
ent until the road was rebuilt in ac
cordance with law.
"Mr. Hillings statd that this cer
tificate was necessary to enable the
company to borrow money. Secretary
Schurz issued the certificate in the face
of the fact tliut a report was on file in
his department declaring that the
company was not entitled to the land
li.ii au-e of its non-compliance with the
law in building the road. Thus the
company sold its mortgage bonds on
that land and road when the road was
not completed and there was no title
to the laud.
"< nti you point in the history of
this country to another transaction of a
-imilur character? Wa- it not just
what was to be expected from an ad
ministration conceived in fraud and
living in hvpocrisy ?
"In IHHI, after Arthur became
President, thi* fifty mile* of road wa
re-examined and accepted. An exam
ination of the records of the Interior
Department will prove the truth of
what I have stated unless they have
have been changed within a week."
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Robert Toombs' Tailing H-altb.
•vx* ant.a J
Among the eminent lawyer* in at
tendance u|Kiti the Western A' Atlan
,t c Hailroad bn-eca-e the nn>-t cor
'-l ieu> u- wa- (ten. Robert Toombs,
who appeared a- counsel for one of the
It Pn -i'l'-M ('. H. Pbioixjr, "J the
Georgia Railroad. He was most con
spicuous because tif the great change
which ha- recently taken place in his
physical condition. Within the past
few months h ; - eyesight ha- nearly
failed him. and his once full face ha
gr wn thin and wrinkled. Amid thi
wreck of the physical man can be
-•■ en trace- of u loss of mental power
also. Y<-t, to the eye of hi- friends
an 1 admirers, lie is great even in ru
ins.
A glance at his stately yet feeble
form reveals what he must have been
,at his let, and there are still gleams
of intellectual fire from his now slug
gish hrnin that remind as of his ri|s-st
mental efforts. (Ine thing about Gen
i eral Toombs i- worthy of enmuu nda
; lion. He is frank and out-spoken,
and nil the world knows how he feels
inwardly. He ha- a kinder heart and
a more generous disposition than i
generallv assigned to him. His loving
and tender devotion to his estimable
wife, who i- nl-o in feeble health, is
the one bright and beautiful feature of
his character. It in possible that her
influence may yet bring to hii closing
hours of life the sweets, ('hrislain faith
and triit that made Senator Hill's
death-bed so peaceful and radiant.
Lawyers and Editors in Japan
Society in the Japanese capital ha
lieen much |>ertnrbed hy a hitter feud
bet wen ihe newspaper editor- and the
native lawyers. In an evil hour the
; editor of the leading journal, the Nichi
Nichi Shimbun, delivered his soul of
a diatnlie against lawyers in general.
He aspersed their motives, declared
i them selfish and mercenary in all their
: dealings, and, in short, held up the
profession to public reprobation. The
I gentlemen of the long robe nothing
loth, accepted the challenge, and for
-IX long months the battle raged. Mo
tions and tountermoeion were made in
court after court of the empire. By a
tour de force the editor, who was at
first unable to obtain the services of a
-ingle lawyer, brought over to his own
-ide the individual who led the van of
his opponents. The flight now became
more even, and was ultimately settled
by the editor explaining that his words
were understood in a Pickwickian
sense. In the course of the contest
another editor a-sailed one of the
lawyers, and was rewarded for hi*
pains by an action, in which the plain
tiff claimed £.'1,000,000 as damages,
with the alternative of a letter of apol
j ogy in every newspaper in Japan, or
1 that the defendant, arrayed in a peni
j tent's garb, should kneel for 100 days
liefore the plaintiff's house or io a fre
quented thoroughfare. The court de
clined to accept either of the plantifTs
suggestions; it found (he editor guilty
of libel and fined him £l, with twen
ty days' imprisonment.
Bbort Guide to Bankruptcy.
t.,n.| i Triumph.
While one of the Boeniac delegates
who waited ujxin the Kmperor Franz
Josef al the llofburg, a few weeks ago,
was staying in Vienna, the owner of
the hotel in which he lodged became a
bankrupt. Hearing ofhia host'* mis
hap, the worthy IW sought an expla
nation of the term "bankruptcy," and
having thoroughly mastered its mean
ing, proceeded, on hi* return to his
native village, to impart his informa
tion to sundry of the Faithful,his near
relatives and close family connections.
"This, O my brothers," he observed,
"is the true and proner way to be
come a bankrupt. First you must
hire a shop. Then you write to a
rich merchaot*, in far distant cilias,
inviting them to forward tbeir wares
to you for sale, and pledging yourself
to ]y them within a few months. As
soon as you shall have received suffi
cient merchandise you must sail it for
cash or hide it carefully away. Than
must you go to the judge and *av to
him: 'Beloved of Allah ! I am a
bankrupt. Here are JLo. They afl .
all I have in the world.' The judge
will keep ill of the t-i and pro'laou
you in bankruptcy ; the other JLI will
he divided among those who supplied
you with goodf". Later on you will
remove to another town and begin thin
good and cosy business (JV er again.
Tlitm may the panning bitterness of in
solvency he converted into the abiding
sweetness of u comfortable indepen
dence. Buchesm! Upon mv head IM
it!"
•
The Hew Explosive-Vint*.
I'lU'lon M*n< hat*r fliMfilitn.
A consular report from Sweden i--
sued by the Foreign Office gives n de
scription of a new explosive called
schiiatine, which, it is said, has compe
ted most favorably with dynamite.
Sebastine appears to be an explosive
based U|*>n nitroglycerine, but safer
to handle than the ordinary dynamite,
while more powerful in effect and
cheaper to purchase. The greater
"iifetv of sclm-tine depends on two cir
cumstances—first, that the explosive
oil is more completely ab-nrlx-d and
bound by a specially prepared kind of
charcoal and other ingredients, and,
i secondly, that in ordinary cases it re.
quires no percussion cap to explode.
As to use in mining, it is reported that
j the new selm-tine exploded simply by
the fuse, providing the bore hole i
j properly secured by a stronger wad
| ding, as in an ordinary charge ofblast
' itig powder. According to offieial
statements there ha- not lus n out -ing
le itislaure of accident lmpjwning
when u-ing the ti< w sebasiit:*. The
Swedish (iovcrnment having or'ered
trial- of- hastine agnitist dviiaruite, it
is said to have been proved that s*-bas
tine was far superior in effect and
als.ut equal in force to Kuglish gun
cottou when used in torfiedoes. The
Consul at (iothenburg adds: "As an
explosive of great power, and offering
-uperior security, particularly for min
ing and similar purposes. I would n
corumend the new -abanine, or, more
pr perlv, its improve*) form, virite. to
tin- notice of Her Majesty's (Joverti
-1 nient."
An Old Veteran.
Wall so.et a-wft.
"Hid you ever worry over your stock
transactions?" wn a-ked of an old
veteran who bad made his pile in
< alifomia"
I "Never."
"How large a sum did you ever
have at stake ?"
"Kxactly $232,000. I bought that
much stock in the High Flyer mine
when the stock was selling at par.
One day the stock Ix-gan to drop, and
in four hours I saw it fall to If."
"And what did you do?"
"Went home and went to bed."
"\\ hat! could you sleep with such
an anxiety on your mind ?"
"Never slept sounder in my life."
"And how was it the next day ?"
"Hock dropjK"d to 13. and was
wiped ofT the list before night."
"And then you lost your all ?"
"Oh. no, mv friend. While this
stock was going down on me iny 5,000
shares iu the Diamond ran up to 52' I,
and I cleared so*o,ooo in one after
noon. I was intending to donate the
$232,000 to the church anyway, hut
it so happened that our congregation
-truck a gold mine in digging the
cellar for an edifice, and so everything
I turned out for the best."
A FtOATixo FiKi.il.—lll Colorado
is a ten acre field, which is siniplv a
; subterranean lake covered with soil
about eighteen inches deep. On the
soil is cultivated a field of corn which
rroduces thirty bushels to the acre,
f any one will take the trouble to dig
a hole to the depth of a spade handle
he will find that it will fill with water,
ami by using a hook and line fish five
or six inches long may bo caught. The
fish have neither scales nor eyes, ami
arc perch-like in sha|>c. The grotiml
is a black marl in nature and iu all
probability was at one time au open
body of water, which accumulated
vegetable matter, which has iucrca-ed
from lime to time, until now it has a
crust sufficiently atroug and rich to
Kroduce fine corn, although it has to
e cultivated by hand, as it is not
strong enough to be-ar the weight of a
horse. While harvesting, the hands
catch great strings of fish by making
a hole through the earth. A person
rising on his heels and coming down
suddenly can see the growing corn
shake ail amuod bim.
A WAMIXOTO* clerk who had a
keg of sjiecie drop on his fingers is one
of the few people who ever had too
much cash on hand.
IT is said that the war in Kgyrt has
raised the price of mummies. People
who have not yet bought their winter
stock of mummies will regret to learn
this.
THE most exaggerated dispatch* *
come by the fish line.
IT is a man with • swelled jaw who
realises that silencw is golden.
THE spectacle of a lot of bald-bead
ed men In bathing is said to rejiemb.'p
an animated game of billumb.
jfMiSfe&r Aw.