BLOOD VENGEANCE. LAW AND CUSTOM CONCERNING BLOOD-FEUDS OF PZPS'A THE The “Square of Some Pecullavitios of the Law of the the Gun" Tohernne- The in Results Tlme-Hone ered Practiod, Fore i i gt) f In thie conte dhe Saat the aing of Universe 8 the Square of the ¢ piece of ordnance that the place is very-like one of the cannon h stand behind the horse guards. Clustered round it are a group of weary iook men. They fe for the time being from the law generally) een from the i i of the town of Teheran vussir Deen, the Asyium of the called of government ol nL ES, C8 uan Tlic gives its na Lo Wl ing Are murderers hit svenger of blood onee leave this rei yards, ind the erimi of the law or the 1 let blood in the murderer has so much tol laws of his coun the venyg al , t Vi hands hh ol ip Or not trv as of hs ims rice, aud the pr crimina must own I'he | xed at so much for ¢ price for a woman, an Nominally, and according wus law. even the Bairs of a price (in cameis) if violence And within the N years we have known a case of a Mus ul- man who sent in a regulur nccoun? fn y § form t ak urpean; A Feat . Lilaan aur trom th price | hac a i ; «i this hal néal equivalent bel.g fiitren k ra 1,05) koreans (43 poualds sterlis pay bearer, Seal of High prie This document was guite in legal form [Ld i 3 produce 40 ar the aggrieves et ws unable to any hairs. a tri ing present satis Bed hin So much for a touth for a ) y much ¢ ty mu h foreach drop of go much for And pers | nobis OW ruily al Lhe mel ence are principally Persia. There, where to the tecth, blood feuds = ymmon. “1 must ve you he "exclaims quite of a blood i my life Someti unavenged many 1 wisely Keeping course for VEears where the othe face on account of t him also in that particular district Time sometimes, though ely, these feuds. A man gets tired ol hunted, of feeling that he m be shot or stabbed or poisoned at any and he compromises, he gi the family of his victim a horse or money or so many bags of dates, or perhaps even the hand of his daughter marriage Or perhaps a youth of 20 will shoot down an aged man, the derer of his grandfather, whom perhaps he has never seen; and, fleeing to the arms of hisdelighted mother, will exclaim: “I have avenged our blood!"-thus bringing a “blood-feud” on his own head. These are some of the results of the practice, in the south of Persia, of carry- ing arms, It must be remembered, too, that the murderer in these cases is not locked upon with horror; he is simply a man who has done his duiy. North of Shiraz these blood féuds are uncommon; and an Ispabani would certainly prefer | the price, or, falling that, a decent sum in cash, to judicial revenge. Asa rule, in the present day, a murderer is executed, aad never handed over to the tender mer cies of his victim's friends, but legally the relatives can themselves take the guilty man's life, i viiiage 3) moment ves in in mu Kabyle Savages. , on the isthmus of | goeonsine i United | corn they fin India: of 'inoney they | I toward OC | y | exampie | mediately | the universal | 0 | might living prisoner.” ] [San Francisco Chronicle | The Kabyles are un indigenous people living in the mountains in the south of Algeria, who retain many of their savage habits, The most disgusting sight I ever witnessed was the devouring of a snake by one of these savages probably living when the process com menced. The reptile was apparently of the garter kind and about two and a half feet In length. He began at the head and swallowed inch by inch, as the boa.con strictor devours an ox, wandering around meanwhile among his company, who were on the levee just ready to embark for Sontay, followed by a crowd of his comrades, apparently half strangled, but allowing no one to interfere il the tail was finished. Then he gave the signs of satisfaction that usually follow a good meal and received the congratulations of bis friends >» - The Laco Weed In Kansas Dodge Cowboy The laco weed, which his appeared with frightful rapidity on the hansas range within the last eighteen months, to the dismay of stockmen, will doubtless disappear within the next eighteen 0 Two years ago this singular plant had free swing in the Texas Pan- handle snd New Mexico, but now it Lins nearly disappeared in those sections. The devilish plant has not come to stay It is a tramp, and, like other nuisances of a similar 1k, it makes itself mighty disa greeable to the localities where it edec’s a emporary lodgment. This plant does not have the appearance of guile, for chemists have failed to detect any poison | Sunday. | faithful It was raw and | ous qualities therein, but it isan estab lished fact that horses and catti mad by eating it, and tha. it po abortion in cows mre mn NJ ,oAauces I efranding by Ww antl wth ngton | The V ated States treasurer i= still in sional receipt of pieced legal tender otes and silver cert. ficates It is evident tirat the same partied are mutilating notes with the intent to defraud the public, The method pursued is to tear from a note so much only as will not exceed two. fifths of the note, (three-fifths being re- deemable under the rule at full value), then to ‘oin the picee detached with other pieces obtained in the same manner, and thus obtain one full note composed of the several pleces.” The public are again cau tioned against taking any pleced note un- Jess it is evident from the number on the two ends and other appearatces thal the two pleces are of the same note tied Notes, of By cousiaitiy looking Jud Lafagan 3 been “tesco, ed” in : back many bave front ————————————— Many live as if they wo in suall and the world their eha!! INDIA THE EXCITING CAUSE f Almost Everything Warlike Has Taken Place Lately, Gath’ Whieh in Cincinnati Enquirer, The prince of Wales has been to India on a tour, and Iodia is at this moment the exciting cause of glmost every thing which has taken pli ¢ avery where Tho Panama, which burnt Aspinwall the other day, was revolt f the tow. 9% +4 by nothing but displacement and rivalries over whe Panama cana which has been attempted French in imitation of the British canal to India in Fgypt The civil war in Cenira America, where Barrios was killed, caused by th {sturbance of un treaty to make I hit hh 'ncitic ocean and wuother India The fight Canada arise ing of a to the trad hy tl oy ae Wis American to the route to kalchewan country of it the build railre gh that wilderness Pacitic wilh Fu f ralnst the Slates il monopoii’e cotton they begin to ris j if we made too 0in ain much } n wheat at In to raise v dia Cn the « LH only peopic who are 0) tions directly from tix Ind American €u road system of exe | have incipient them far toward which must ul the St terprise much Which now Caspian and they roads bevond it car ng India overland by a te timately be preferable to AUSe grain Sea, le rz routs IANS and walter route have to pas pics and must spoil A Hussian Officer's Coolness. New Orleans Tim «-D ira Col, Ivanoff—one of officers who conducted paign still a young n, very tall aod high Russian Khivan cam with a fair complexion and & beard. This beard has won hin ura "and the tation ol i low bearded Chief Turkestan him dress him, by any other name, n teial meetings, The following incident faculty SAra-Daxal natives SPOeax of his and ca Once, 1 CK k) i { O08 Lives [ | surroundes least | In to and opened fire { revolver; he sixth in r enemy when this PINSCIVEeS close reinforcements arrived ful of Russian troops was sas ri wounded, haa veen amp, somebody ventured t him at he had reserved hot “Why, for myself, ” replied Ivanoff, very coolly “1 kept watching to see if the Turkomans had lassoes If | had felt touch of a thie Turkomans have had my corpse, but never a i eq, ANG severe. y 0 w } wh } thal » lasso, London in Brief (Exchange ) About 8 000 horses die each week. About 129,000 paupers infest the city. About 11,000 police keep good order. About 120,000 foreigoers live in the | city. About each day. About 9,000 new houses are erected an nually About 700,000 cats enliven light nights About 2,000 clergymen hold forth every 10,000 strangers enter the c'ty the moon About 620 churches give comfort to the About 125 persons are added to the pop ulation daily. About 25 miles of new streets are out each year About 500,000 dwellings population of London laid shelter the The Formidable and the Inflexible Petrot Free Press | The Formidable, which has just been launched in France, and which is classed #8 she most powerful ship in the French WAVY. BS a stoel vessel of 11,441 tons, with an estimated horse power of 8.500 and a speed of 1ifteen knots, Shc draws twenty: five nnd three quarters feet of wa'er and carries armor ranging in thickness tror seventeen and three quarters to twenty on snd one half inches. Her armament con ~f three seventy five ton and twent Tha oply completed ship i | | slain | light guns | British navy which is her equal in size power or armanent is the Ioflexible which is of iron and which has not exhib ited the speed which the Formidable is ex | pected to attain, a» | Covers the Case, | Mobile ( Ala.) Register Col. Tom Saffold said: “1 was with Gen. Toombs the other day said: ‘Saffold, the greatest vier the human family is a dic and yet do you know in the Bible in Toombs i= talk o | “wad he « to which «ls gambling nore Is not a word sademuation of it” Gen merror. The tenth command ment overs the case. “Thou shalt not Lovet” stares, or ought to stare, every gambler in the face. At the bottom of every species of gambling is the covetous desire to get the money of other people without just recompense The Great Balletin Panacea. Chicago Heral “Doctor, how do you think I am doing today?” “(nly fairly, sir. In our bulletin med at noon we said we change almost any moment “Then you are issuing bulletins on me, are you?" “Yes, air,’ “Then plense send out and buy me a ticket to Liverpool. 111 go to Kurope this summer and sec you later. That Ulesaod bulletin gives me renewed life and strength. ” is feared a fatal Coneoralng Nonps A family doctor, in Cassell's Magazine leclares that clear soups are not whole: some and have too much refluement in tlwsir composition to ho more than trifled with. Hesays that all green Nogetutiios ste hotter mashed, and should be eaten | misery which {18 guint L FL MM make up onc eighth of al | AD | become a student, PA ACE CATTLE CARS. The Transparintion of Live Stock from a | Shipper's Point of View, | National Car Builder.) A writer fe & recent number of Tae | Age of Steel, published in St. Louis, de scribes from personal observation the cruel treatment to which cattle are sub Jee ted while being driven from Texas to Kansas City, and from thence transported by ran wo hg arn wird eli Tha description, ajth ue h written fn the ref erator Gir beef traffic joterest is 10 doubt substantia ly true, if, indeed, it does not fall ort of the tru hin de picting the abuses practiced in live stock tran { The det need ne It is « | | | ri seabo “4 } parent]s nourn 10 every humane nn reproach to civilization not Deca iitnbile car cannot be built, or that ttle cannot Ix wntered, and rested while ourney; but esults from the nes © cost of tra Not uble i m many cattle as pe ad saving them they have now of these cars was thirty half wide ud ont Pe tition wii ¢ | going 10 Cat | packed 10 a d and trans; that will carry Texa The best Oorter s the common Ki | per = i585 Olu pal rl of foot without kill reaching their des Bla ng ti ination Childish of the Frame Pullet many respects the Japar Be BX youta diather father Amusements Japanese In pucrie poopie the child and father snl rs a thie are i The and ot 80 marked UCSLOW as mm | though it wa | sights are not u mim i | their dolls for a call A German University Stadest. Americans ¢ students at German universities I: is casy for American, or any other foreigner, to He has only to present his passport, or a line from the minister or the nearest consul representing the nation to which he belongs, and to pay a few marks, in order to get his matricu lation papers, printed in rotund Latin, and a card vouching that he i« responsible in case of misbehavior to the university authorities, and not to the local police His status as & “student” gives him many | privileges, and at the same time he is pot | required to attend any lectures or do any thing else that a young man in good health | and with a fair appetite for beer does not wish to do The statement is made that th the Effects of the Lmagzination. (Chicago Times | Some years ago a woman applied ata | London hospital for treatment for a nervy. | ous affection After listening to a recital of her symploms, the | doctor made her shut her lips upon a clinical thermometer Upon | removing it the patient exclaimed: * Why, | I declare, it has done me good already The doctor humored her delusion, and re frained from any other treatment than a | few more o=s Heations of we magical glass tube. She was soon cured. A pa rallel case is now cited by The Philadel phia News, an hysterical patient having | been cured by magnetism. The magnet | was of wood, but capped with metal, so | p¢ to seem cold to the touch i —— A Dangerous Han-Trath, London Truth ] Doctors often say to you, “Be sure you | com,e to me at once. | can arrest discase ~c an early stage; but delay hesitate! | hesitate! —and you are lost!” This is just | one of those dangerous balf truths Woere | our doctors do suck no small advantage If you call the doctor in for every little | ailment, you will get into an artifichyl state. Nature will strike work, and yeu | will never be well without the doctor por with him either. If you always tak opiates, you will never sleep withou them: or tonics, you will never eat with out them: or stimulants, you will neve work without them A Hint in Oratory. Henry B Dr. Beecher once sald to us at the sem inary when giving a lecture in oratory “Young gentlemen,” said he, “don’t stand before a looking glass and make gestures Never mind your gestures Pump your. self brim full of your subject till you can t | hold another drop, and then knock out | the bung aud let nature caper. i Flanton Lent. Greely's Vision, Lieut. Greely is said to be haunted day ard night by visions of his long period of starvation in the arctic regions, and his physicians assert that the only way he | can preserve his sanity is to mingie freely with others Philadelphia Call world revolves around them as a are drunk with conoeit Men who taink the center The Russian government is about te experiment jn belloon stecring by elee tricity. wparately and not with the meat. Reasonable Prices TAKE NOTICE. 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