A 4 TELEGRAPH TALES. [Sidney (Neb) Letter in N. Y. Times.) Beveral old telegraph operators met hore recently, and in the course of a conversation told some of their ex- nees on the frontier, One of them by recalling the t bullion rob- ary at this place. It was at noon, most of the depot and stage hands across the yards to dinner, As the operator satin the telegraph office alone two men presented them: selves ut his door and demanded admit- tance. Both had revolvers. He jumped up and let them in, and they quickly bound and g:gged him. Believing that he was safe, tuey disappeared, and he saw no more of them, As soon ns they were out of sight he managed to got to his instrument; and by lying down on the table found that with one hands he could 1each the key, It was dittieult work, but by degrees he im proved his position untii finally he raised the Chevenne olice and conmu meated the fact that a robbery was in progress. The operator at that point sept him poited as to the proceedings there, and in a few minutes he was grat ified to hear the intelligence ticked over the wire: that the suoerinten lent and a party of detectives. were en route for Sidn:y on a spec ial train. The distance was 102 miles, but the run was mate so rapidly that the people of the town were hardly aware of the robbery before the train | The operator had by that | dashed in. tilne been released, and it was found that the thieves, who had been se reted - under the depot, had come up througi & hole in the oor made by removing a board. The billion weighed about 500 pounis, and. as it was thought that A they could not bave carried it far, a vigorous search was made near at hand Be.o=: night the greater part of the gold as found in a hole under the depot, and the remainder was discovered in an adoining cos shed, where it had been | dropped. The thieves got away with only about $13,000 in currency. Anot_er operator remaried was the man who discovered the Oga lalla train robbery. He was in charge of the little oilve at Kearny. He had badd a very stupid afternoon, and as the day was miscrable without, he dozed more 0° less. He tried to read, but after it became necessary to light the lamps he found this occupation distaste ful, and as no one came in he leaned forward, placing his arms on his table and his head upon them. “l must have slept soundly for a while,” he said, “for | lost mysclf en- tirely for an hour or two, but presently I had an iodistinet impression that some one was calling for as sistance. In my dream it seemed to me that I could hear the ery ‘Help’ Help!’ and that 1 was werless to render any assistance. ly 1 sat bolt upright with a nervous feeling as if something terrible bad hap- : Spened which I ought to have prevented. % bbed ! Boe my Sle and looked Sivan sleepily. The t was cmpty. It was dark aiaide ho 1 Bo rain was falling. 1 stepped tothe door and looked out for & minute, but heard nothing. Then | went back to my desk, filled and lighted my pipe, and began to read. My eyes had just fallen on the page when my in- strument sounded once or twice very I looked at it closely. It ticked again almost inaudibly, ‘Some- thing's the matter,’ thought I. 1 got up, and faintest click, as if a child might have been playing with a key somewhere While i listened, 1 began to comprehend the nature of the message that was be ing sent. I could not catch all the let- ters, but I got enough after listening to #t a dozen tune A jo'maky gut this much: ‘Ogalalia, Ugalalla elp, help.’ It flashed upon me all at once. Th over. land train was being robbed, or had been robbed. let everytody have it from Cheyenne to Omaba. There was some lively tele graphing there for a time. They sent en. ines out fom two or three points, and to Ogalalla in time to scare robbers off. You see [I was deal further off than a operators, but some- how | was the first one that caught on. The way it bappened was this: The roblers came into the depot at Oga- lalla about an hoyr before train time, and bound and gagged the operator. After they got him fixed they sat around and waited. When the train drew up they left him, and be imme- diately got himself in a position where he could use the key a little. The boys Who saw homsay it was a mystery how Be ever did it. His legs were tied twice, and hus srus were pinioned oehind him, #0 that it wes almost impossible to move even the fing: re. The fact that I could not eateh two consecutive letters until | fl hecrd the message ten or twelve shows how faint the stroke was, PIL was the queerest experience of my = A third man said he had seen a good al of serviee on the border, and had d a good many adventures, only one of which ever impressed Mim much own at Granada, on the Santa Fe road, mh it was fiest opened, be had bad a all one wight with a party of rob The country was then a very i ong, and the management in continual fear of desperndons, “1 was in the offies in the evening,” aid, “geting pendy to clos: four or five ha didn’ of his | that he | and leaned over the sounder | listened. | could just cateh the | sou!dn't A0ve head or foot. After they got me hore I began to think what sort of a scraps I had got myself in. The | train would come presently, and go fly- fing by, and then those cut throats (would murder me just for the fun of it. i 1 had thought the thing all over when I | heard a sharp whistle and a roar. The men ran out tothe platform with masks 1 on and revolvers in hand. One of them bad the lantern, which he swung vigor- lously. In goingout onthe platform { they had left the door open so that 1 { could see things pretty well. I began to hope that the train would stop, for 1 knew it contained men enough to do up that crowd if not taken too much by | surprise. The roar came nearer and : nearer, until at last I knew by the sound that they were not going to stop. With | the whistle blowing at full blast and the DAUGHTERS OF JOHN BULL, Bits from Max O'Rell's New Book About Love Affairs In Eugland, {Translated from “Les Filles de Jolin Bull”) Flirting is a purely English pastime. In France we do not flirt; we take our love affairs more seriously. It is a very in nocent little amusement, | have readin “confession books'’ belonging to very : well brought up girls: “Q. What is your | riously. favorite amusement! A, Flirting.'' The answer is not in very exquisite taste, I admit—even from the Eng- lish point of view: but no one would dream of taking it in any bad senso, particularly (I ought to add) as these confessions are not meant too se- Young girls who have drawn { upon themselves a few compliments i dust flying in clouds. she swept by like a | | streak with It was all The of lightn ng me, | thought. up robbers dropped the lantern and began to swear, | Then | could hear them talking, sand pretty soon | made up my mind that the train had stopped down the road a way, and that they were wateh- ing it. Before long they took to their heels, mounted their horses and gone. When the train men cune up to the depot, all armed with Winchesters, I was the only occupant, * They released me, and 1 told them what had happened ! A couple of them staid there wii and the train went on. ever came any If an express from their partners at a ball will tell you that they tri been flirting. Flirting is, in fact, to let a young man under- stand that he has been remarked and distinguished (as the grand duchess of Gerolstein says), to draw him on by a few pleasant smiles and pretty little | | ways to quit his reserve and push his { galiantry almost to the point of a decla- wore | ration of love. This little game would be very dangerous with a young Frenche man. Itisof no consequence with a | young Englishman, for flirting means attention paid to a woman without in- i tention, 1 me, i nearer being robbed | without going through the mill than that one did, I'd like to know it.” The last speaker was one who had no hair on his head, but who said in re sponse to an inquiry that no scalping- knife had ever taken it off. *‘It was ust s ared off.” he exclaimed, “down toward old Julesburg, One day | was at my desk when the man up at Hooper's siding, ten or twelve miles away, tele graphed down that he was surrounded by redskins and that they were whet ting their tomahawks on the wires. | thought it was a pretty good joke until he telegraphed that the station was in flames, and that a lot of Indians had | set out for my place. Then I began to prick up my ears. of us there just then, and we were in no condition to fight Indians anyway. We body who had a gun, =a is tol, a club, or a knife to [fall in. It was about snndown when we got all ready for them. were waiting nervously for the on- keeper, came riding up in road haste and s ions of them coming.’ all as good as massacred now,’ ‘There's only just one thing to do, and line for help. Put it strong, said to me. ‘Beg, implore, now,’ he begged for help. | was thoroughly scared, and 1 threw my whole soul into the work. After about an hour of ag yourself out, you big ealf! matter with youl" This cooled me off a little, and I looked outside and saw the poopis going and coming as usual. They put up a gorgeous joke on me just because [ was a tel ie tenderfoot. My hair fell out soon after that, and it has never grown since. ™' ; A FullsGrown Man. (New York San.) Huxley gives the following table of what a full and bow this weight should be divided Weight, 154 pounas. Muscles and their pppustemnces, sixty I grabbel the key, and | eight pounds; skeleton, twenty-four twenty-eight pounds; brain, three janes thoracic viscera, three and one- If pounds; abdominal viscera, eleven pons; blood which would drkin from uly, seven pounds. This man ought to consume per diem Lean beefsteak, 5000 grains: bread, 6,000 grains: milk, 7,000 grains; pota- toes, 3.000 grains; butter, 600 grains, and water, 22.900 grains. His heart al, | should beat seventy-five times a minute, and he should breathe fifteen times a minute, In twenty-four hours he would vitiate 1,750 eubic foot of pure air to the extent of 1 per cent. A man, therefore, of the weight mentioned ought to have 500 cubic fect of well ventilated space. He would throw of by the skin eighteen ounces of water, 300 grains of solid matter, and 400 grains of carbonic weld every twenty-four hours, and his total lo<s during the twenty-four hours would '« six pounds of water, and a little a’ ¢ two pounds of other matter He Got Trough the Crowd, [Foreign L tter.) A gol story of the Viennese earni. val 18 current in the Austrian capital. At a ball given by the Viennese Choral society, which is always sure to be so thronged that it is the work of hours to reach the entrance, a member of a well. known financial house hit on an origi nal but successful mode of conveyance, He arranged with four bearers to earry him through the crowd on a hospital stretcher. Of course the crowd made way, and great was their astonishment when he threw off the covering and Jumped out alive and hearty. (Chileago Michela in Italy has constructed a ma- ehine by which oSrpehding. in be. teleg ap Yarious pam can g. us we have practical a telegraph 4 + | seit of word bas a kind of rustic perfume in it | : , i | covered himself and went on with his | “Sweethearts” is the name for two Joung peopie who bave declared their | ove and have mutually accepted each | ¥® | with the rubber gloves for that purpose. | as betrothed, with or without the con. their relations. The English { and corresponds to our expressions bon | ami and bonne There was not many | amie. bdweethearting could not exist in France, where the best- engaged lovers may only reliearse their vows of love in the presence of a future | | mother-in-law, land means to pay court openly, to take | To sweetheart in Eng. one's betrothed among one’s friends, to concerts, to balls, to go sentimental walks, more or less solitary in her com- pany, to take many little becoming lib erties with her—in a word, it means playing all the comedy of love, only leaving out the fifth act, It is a very strange sight in a country | where reserve, prudery and decency are While we | { driven to desperation, to see the couples threw up breastworks and got every. | of lovers walking at nightfall, helding ench others’ hands, waist, or necks and, in some little-froquented roads, forming veritable processions. The couples walk along slowly, looking | languishingly at one another and with- slaught one of the citizens, a saloon- | houted that there were just ‘mill. | “You fellows are | he said | exhort | them." Well, I could rattle a key pretty | well in those days, and 1 everlast ngly | | this little out speaking a word. As you pass by and look at them, they seem to say: “You know what we are and what we are doing; you have gone through | the same thing, sir, haven't you! We i heats need not embarrass each other.” that is to telegraph up and down the | 1 ha ve never much admired the way in which dec'arations of love are made in France, With us the foolish animal has to go on his knees at a woman's feet With her eyes modestly drooped on us emon of observation makes | an inventory of all our smallest defects { of this { —of our hair, growing sparser: of our ony Cheyenne broke in with, ‘Oh, turn What's the | languishing eves, turned up and show- ing their whites; of a little wart which we thought concealed. I put it squarely that in this little scene it seems to me we have to play a supremely ridiculons part. Hf any one of my readers is not inion let him put this question | to himself: “Should | ever think of being | photographed in the attitade above de bould | much at your ease, grown man should weigh, | wdoped object of your dreams at your Su i side or at your feet and you ean mur Made up thus: | F d scribed?” | await his answer. manage these things different! land. You sit down comfortably, very You have the They mur your sweet whispers of love into | her ear without ever dislocating your wands: skin. 3 3 ‘one-half ds: | vertebral column. You may even smoke » ‘ IN: SL, TCA ANG ONE-DAL Pounds; | your cigar without any fear of giving { offense all the time you tell your love and build your castles in Spain. “Then you are something of a pasha,’ 1 can imagine some emancipated woman ex- claiming. Not at all, madam; it is no question of master and slave; it is a matter “not of slavery but of exalted duty.” Her (the wife's) mission is to cheer her husband in the comfort of his home and make him forget the worry, annoy- ance and heart-barnings that beset him out of doors in his professional or public life; to provide for him a retreat, in the soothing atmosphere of which he can find rest and renovated strength; to do the honors of his house with that liber ality, that provident and large headed hospitality, which is only to be found in Engiand-—-soch is the mission of the Fuglish women. The companions and helpmates of John Bull are beautiful girls, petha w a trifle too bold; virtuous wives, a trifie too mush respected; excellent mothers. a trifle too much neglect above all, women whose ingenious atten tion to all the minor comforts of exist enee can turn the humblest cottage into a little palace of order, cleanliness and well-being A Chinese Orchestra. (Chicago Herald.) For discordancy the nese band which came over to Lon. in Eng. | concert of the | Electricity Will Not Always Kill, {Interview with Dr, Ottmar Kern.) “May uot the greater use of electri | city introduce new elements of danger to human life?’ { “Perhaps so, But it is, after all, dif- ficult to say what amount of tension is , actually sufficient to destroy life. Lasé eur | witnessed some experiments at * Nurenberg, which were conducted by Bchukert for the Bavarian government, in response to the suggestions of philan- | throp:sts, for the purpose of devising a i speedy and painless method of executin feriminals, A current with the hig i tension of 4,000 volts, which is probably | | & greater power than any likely to be | | brought into practical use, merely burnt | | the skin of the animal slightly ‘at the | ponts of contact, and the sheep skipped | away as though nothing had happened | | to it, the reason being that the current | which | merely passed over the skin, proved a better conductor than the nerve system of the animal. With rab bits and other animals, some were killed i and others were not, {| “Now as to human beings. Last year, during their discussion, members of the institute deprecated the practice of ex | perimenting with these high tensions as dangerous to life, and in reply M { Corbu, a member of the institute, stated | that shortly before that time, while measuring a tension of over { 8,000 volts, he picked up the two ends of the wire with naked fingers, inad | vertently omitting to protect himself | He was thrown back by the shock and dropped the wires, but immediately re work, the only inconvenience being a | | slight burn on the tips of his fingers, | | caused by the spark produced by the | forming of the arc as he broke the cur rent Ly dropping the wires. “In this case again the current must { have used the skin as a conductor; so | that while there is no doubt that under | { some conditions death might be pro {duced by a powerful electric shock, | electricity as a means of inflicting capi- tal punishment must regarded as unreliable. As to an underground sys tem of telegraphy be with. Iu Paris our sy tem enables ns to carry our wires underground while | they are suspended practically in the same manner as if they were in the air, | ou attempt to carry the wires but if bunched in masses in trenches or tubes I doubt much whether any method of | insulation yet discovered will provent | tan induction which will be so great as | ! to render the wires wholl useless.” Miack Eyes and the Future, (8: ince.) i. As the outcome of sexual selection, | blue eyes are to disappear, at least from Europe. So predicts Mr. Alphonse de Candolle, in his paper on hereditary color of the eyes in the human species, recently published in the Archives des | Sciences. In investigating the subject of heredity, it occurred to De Candolle | that the color of the iris offered the best ontward and visible sign it conspicuous; jt cansot be masked by artifice, after early childhood it does not vary with age, as does the color of acter is, on the whole, distinet, { eordin | ~black, or rather brown eyes, and blue; gray eyes being reckoned as mere varie. | ties of the blue. for the purpose, it appears that color, #5.4 por cent. of the children fol low their parents in this feature: and of | the 11.6 per vent. of children born with | eyes of other than the parental eojor, a | part must be atiributed to ativism, that is, to mtermittent heredity than males have black or brown eves, in the proportion, say of 49 to 45 or 31 to 86. Next it re that with different colored eyes in the two parents. 53.09 per cent. of the progeny follow the | fathers in being dark-eyed, and 55.00 per cent. follow their mothers in being dark eyed. An inerease of 5 percent. of dark-eyed in each generation of discolor ous unions must tell heavily in the course of time would scem hat unless specially by concolorous It bred marriages, blue-eyed belles will be scarce | in the millennium Plamond Experts, [Detroit Post. ) “Are there many expert judges of diamouds outside of men who make it a | business!” a leading diamond dealer was naked, “Not in reality, although there are many who fatter themselves that they or your large cities, | you have great dilficulties to contend | CB the hair; and the char! For, ac- | to him, there are only two sorts | From the working up of the statistics, | in part from series of observations made | when | both parents bave eyes of the same | But the | curious Tact comes out that mote females | Po AA AA to, Took" | To Your Interest. | WUNPALNG WEDY guemag DISEASES TER, ITCH. SORES. 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