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BY HOWARD FIELDING. .--S
Copyrfcfct, isx-b' Syndicate.! '' , ' '' "'s
SYNOPSIS.
Mr. X Coolbury Newcomb. an eldrrly
student of criiuinolosry, returning to New
York from Sing Blng prison, me-ta on the
train Frank Gleason, HiU Harris and Jack
llnney, convicts, who have Just completed
their terms of imprisonment, and who
mistake Newcomb for a fellow convict. To
draw them out. he assumes tho rharacti-r
and proceeds to ti ll them the utory of his
first crime. Frank Gleason then narrates
an attempted crime. In which fortune puts
Mm into the position of the rescuer of his
Intended victim. 'Bill Harris describes the
unsuccessful burglary for which he has
In-en doln time, and Jack Pinney re
counts an effort to steal the unlucky riii
of Alfonso XII., hunt,' on a statu in a
public square of Mudrid.
PART VI.
Jack" Tinney had barely finished his
utory when the train which bore the
party stopped with an unusual grinding
of brakes and rasping of wheels upon
the rails. So suddenly, Indeed, was the
speed arrested that the three criminals
who had been riding with their faces
to the front were brought to their feet,
and they remained for nn Instant stand
ing there in line as if they expected the
Angel of Evil Deeds to call the roll of
them.
"I thought we were all going over
board," said Pinney, glancing out of the
Window at the waters of the Hudson.
The place was a little to the south
Ward of Yonkers, where the railroad
runs for a considerable distance upon
an embankment raised but a few feet
above the level of the river.
There's been an accident of some
Idncl." said Gleason. "I can hear peo
ple shouting ahead of us. Let's go out
und see what has happened."
The suggestion was accepted, and the
four men hastily left the car. At first
their view was blocked by the throngs
of people that were pouring out of the
train, and mingling with a much larger
number that came down from the bank
upon the left. After a brief struggle
with (he press they came to a ppot from
whic h they could see what had barred
the way of their train. An express
hound northward had been partlnlly
.wrecked by the breaking of a wheel
under the car immediately following the
tender of tho engine. A coupling had
parted and tho car had been almost
demolished by those which come after
It. All the tracks were strewn with
wreckage, Hnd the exprcsa car had gone
Into the river, where a corner of Its top
could be seen above the water.
No person had been seriously hurt,
hut the rescue of the two men who had
gone overboard with the express car
had been very near to a miracle.
A telegraph wire had been tapped,
and nn olllclal of the road was com
municating wllh one of his superiors
In New York. The click of the Instru
ment was faintly audible to Newcombe
ns he stood surveying the scene. Pres
ently Gleason touched him on tho shoul
der. He turned and saw that his com
panion's eyes were burning with fierce
eagerness.
"Do you know what that man Is tel
egraphing?" demanded Gleason. "No:
you're not an operator. Well, I am,
and I'll tell you what that sounder says.
There's tSO.OW) lying there in the river
jtidiT our eyes."
:i don't understand you," said Xew
;ombe. "It was In the express safe," contin
ued Gleason, "and it went overboard
with tho car. They've sent for wreck
ing apparatus, and tlicy's going to pull
the car out or the rlvr. Now, the ques
tion Is: (Tan we get that mniiey'.'"
Newcombe wns astounded.
"How can we get it with a thousand
people watching us'.'" demniidud the
criminologist. "flow could we get it,
anyhow, while It's under water and
locked ui in a safe?"
"There's always a way to get money
If you want It. badly enough," returned
Gleasoni (sentontlously.
That was all that he would say on the
subject, but he remained for a long
time staring down into tho water, while
he listened to the spasmodic clicking
of the telegraphic: Instrument. At last
a train with the appropriate wreckage
appliances arrived, und, after consid
erable labor, a great chain , was fast
ened to the express car and it was
drawn out of the river. But the safe
was not to be found. It had been dis
lodged by ihe shook of the plunge, and
had passed out through the forward
end of the car like tut enormous, can-
IHMtE'S $80,000 I.TINCJ TIfERE."
nonball. Undoubtedly it lay In the
mud of the river bottom, and the task
of finding it would not be easy.
"They'll have to send for a diver,"
said Gleason. "By the Lord Harry, I
.wonder if I could do It!"
"Do what?" queried Newcomba,
Gleason did not immediately reply.
He seemed to be engaged in some such
mental effort as one makes in trying
to remember a name that is cn the tip
of the tongue at one moment and far
away the next. So absorbed was he
that when Harris touched him on the
shoulder lio jumped as If he had been
wakened suddenly 'from sleep.
"Bill," he said, dreamily,"! want that
safe."
"You can't get it," replied the bur
glar; "but there are a number of arti
cles down the track that you can get.
There are two or three baggage cars all
smashed to smithereens, and the con
tents isn't being half - looked after.
They're Just beginning to cart some of
it to the station just above here."
"Never mind' that," said Gleason.
"There's a' better game going. Listen to
iknow another one. and he's as big a
lliscal as I am. He has an outfit right
hue in Yonkers, and In two hours I can
(hare it. He won't refuse me anything
V he can't Then I'm going to offer
myself to the railroad company to dive
for that safe."
"But you can't open it under water,"
Harris objected.
Probably not." said Oleason. "but
we'll get the money out of It some way.
Now, then, Woodbury, I will go and see
my diver. . You and Pinney stay hero
and keep eyes and ears open.' In about
m bour and a half you Join "us at the
longest pier of. the three that lie near
together about a mile above here. We'll
be there with the boat."
Before Newcombe could decide what
course he ought to pursue In such ex
ceptional circumstances, Gleason had
him by the arm and was hurrying him
away. For the next half hour he fol
lowed the criminal's guidance blindly.
His mind was alternatively busy with
two considerations. First, In his char
acter as a student of sinners, he rejoic
ed In this unrivaled opportunity for
observation; It was a demonstration
in crime an illustrated lecture by u
trio of eminent siecialist. Newcombe
could not afford to miss such a great
educational treat. Second, as an hon
est man, he was bound to prevent n
crime. Hut how would that be bst
done? If, at that early stage of the
proceedings, he denounced the thieves,
no one would believe his story. It
would be regarded as ludicrous. How
could these men commit such a gigan
tic robbery in the presence of thous
ands? It would be much better to let
the conspiracy progress to a point near
to success before Interrupting it.
Therefore Newcombe attended Glea
son in his visit to the diver, and listened
to the negotiations for the boat and ap
paratus. As the thief had said, the
diver could refuse him nothing. .It
was evident that Gleason helu some
disgraceful secret of the other's. Yet
the diver refused to take uny port In
the ndventure.
"I'll keep out of It," he said. "I'm
trying to live on the square now, and
this thing is too risky for mo. Steal
my boat, If you want her; but I don't
want to know anything about it."
He then proceeded to give certain
necessary directions, and he also fur-,
nished the keys of the lockers on the
boat In which tho diving apparatus
was kept.
Gleason departed In high spirits. He
nnd Newcomb made the best poslsble
speed for the pier where tho boat lay.
She was a rude craft, yet well adapt
ed to her work. Gleason prepared to
start the fire under the boiler of a little
"donkey" engine which the boat car
ried. Meanwhile Newcomb went up
to the town to buy certain necessary
articles which Gleason could not And
In the bout's lockers.
While he was gone Harris nnd Pin
ney arrived, Gleason had begun to be
anxious about them, and he wns over-
Joyed to see them drive down the pier,
one on each side of a geniul son of Ire
land, whose dray they seemed to have
hired for tho ocension. There wa3 some
thing like a big box wrapped rudely In
canvas on the dray. Harris and Finney,
with the driver's help, set he box down
upon the pier,
"What's that?" asked Gleason, when
the Irishman aud his equipage had dis
appeared. "The biggest thing on earth!" cried
Harris. "It's a safe of the regular ex
press patern, undoubtedly an exact
model of tho one In the river."
Gleason was positively dazed by this
great news.
"Where did you get It?" he exclaimed.
"It was In one of the wrecked bag
gage cats," replied Harris. "When I
sa.wi the vaiioiiB HilngM were being
carted around to the station, I hired
that Irishman nnd his dray, stole nn
expressman's coat aiud pinched the
safe. Of course the railroad men
thought it was going to the freight
house with the rest of the slulT."
"And now, Glenson, of course you see
my plan," 'he continued, "We must
hoist up the oilier safe, and then de
liver this one. before they can "get It
open we can kli with the Jxo.OOO. Am
understood?"
Gleason nodded. The three mtn
hoisted the safe on board the boat. Just
as they had finished: the tusk New
combe arrived with u high olliclnl of
tho railroad whom he had met on the
way to the pier where the boat lay. Tho
olllclal had heard that a diver's boat
was kept there, and was imxkmu to get
the use of It. The whole matter was
arranged between him1 and Woodberry
before they reached the pier. The
ciltnlnologlst hail mint shrewdly
played tho part of agent for the crimi
nals. As the railway olliclal tailed down
to the seeno of the wreck in tho boat,
there wns no opportunity for the crooks
to tell Newcombe about their acquisi
tion of the safe. Arrived upon the
seeno, the railroad man was set ashore.
Then Gleason, dressed In the diver's
suit, wont over the aide, and disap
peared beneath the water. ,
Harris and Pinney operated the ma
chinery which furnished air to Olea
son, while Newcombe wns stationed hi
the bow of tho boat, where he drew in
or let out the rope by which she was
anchored, according to directions
given by Harris, who Judged of the
diver's movements by the action of the
air-pipe and safety cord. "
After about twenty minutes Oleason
signaled to be drawn up. When his hel
met had been removed he held whis
pered conversations with Harris and
Pinney. Newcombe could not hear
what they said. Had he done so, the
events of the day would have shaped
themselves differently.
As a matter of fact, Gleason reported
that he had found the safe. It wns,
as they had supposed, Identical in pat
tern with the one which they had
stolen, but unfortunately It bore a let
ter A inscribed for some unknown
reason upon its side.
"We have to change our plan," said
Gleason, "and this is what we'll do;
I'll get ropes around that safe and we'll
hoist it up cn the side of the boat away
from the shore, and hang it In slings,
three or four feet under water. Then
I'll pretend that I can't find it, and as
soon as the sun gets low 1 11 give up the
Job for the night. We'll tow the sate
to some good place, and hoist It in."
The three mtn felt that this plan In
volved less risk than 'the other, and
they wondered why they had not
thought of it In the beginning, and In
tho course of half an hour,, his design
had been' accomplished.
It happened that the diver's1 boat,
which had been engaged by telegram
before Gleason and his companions had
appeared on the scene, arrived at this
juncture;" so the railroad and- express
officers made no' attempt to urge Olea
son to continue the' work. The anchor
was hoisted, and the boat slowly moved
buck toward the pier from which she
had been taken.
Newcombe felt that the ndventure
was at an end, and he experienced a
sense of disappointment. He would
rather havo seen a successful robbery,
Yet ho had enjoyed the novel situation,
and ho felt that he hnd gleaned much.
It was now time to say good-by to his
chance acquaintances, for pressing
business would claim htm on the fol
lowing day.- To keep up the decep-
tlon which he had practiced upon them
would do no good. He resolved to ap
pear la his true character, in order that
he might say a few words at parting
which would help these misguided men
toward a better life.
And bo, with little preface, he broke
the truth to Harris, Oleason and Pin
ney, as soon as the boat had started
for her pier. The surprise of the three
men could be imagined. They listened
to his story and to his exhortation in a
sort of trance which seemed to him to
be very respectful and encouraging.
"Mr. Newcombe," said Gleason at
last, "I believe that your words have
fallen on good ground, and have saved
myself and my companions from the
perpetration of crime. As a matter
of fact, Mr. Newcombe, we have stolen
that safe."
"Impossoble!" cried the criminolo
gist. "Yet true," said Gleason, and he dis
played to Newc-ombe's wondering eyes
the safe that had come out of the bag
gage car, and had been set into the
boat's cabin.
"And now," Oleason continued, "let
me prove that our repentance Is sin
cere. Although we might easily over
power you and continue in our wicked
way, we prefer to take your advice, and
undo what we have done. Mr. New
combe, will you help us? Will .restore
this safe to its rightful owners? And
will you plead for us with them?"
"I will," cried Newcombe, promptly.
No sooner had the boat reached her
pier than Newcombe rushed off for a
dray in which the safe could be car
ried back to the place of the wreck.
The safe was put on the dray, and New
combe took the reins.
It wns agreed that the three crooks
should wait for Newcmobe's return,
with such answer as the' railroad men
might make to the prayer for forgive
ness. Great was the sensation when New
combe appeared with the drny and the
safe at the scene of the wreck. The
divers had Just announced that the safe
was not on the river bottom, and suspi
cion had begun to dawn upon the blue
conted ofllclals of the line. They
pounced upon Newcombe, who, smiling
agreeably, sat upon Iho driver's seat of
the dray.
"I return to you your treasure quite
unharmed," he said. "I desire no thanks,
but only mercy."
"The man Is crazy!" exclaimed one
of the officers. This Is not the right
safe. Why, it hasn't been wet. And,
besides, where Is the letter A?"
"Nevertheless, this is the safe," said
Newcombe with so much calmness that
he Impressed all his hearers. "Open it
and be convinced. But first tell me
what was in the other safe."
"Nothing but the package of money,"
said one of the men. "All tho papers
and books were In another car."
As he spoke he worked the combina
tion of the lock, and, being nn expert In
that matter, he soon succeeded In open
ing the safe. Throwing back the doors,
he plunged in his hand and drew forth
a sealed package. He broke tho safe
and drew forth eighty-one thousand dol
lar bills!
"It's all right." he said. "This must
be the safe. But how you got It, aud
how It escaped going overboard, Is more
than I know. You will have to explain
that to the police."
"Willingly," said Newcombe, and he
submitted to arrest.
At that moment Harris, Oleason and
Pinney stood with staring eyes before
an empty sufe that stood open In the
cabin of the diver's boat,
"We're dished!" Bald Oleason. "But
how? How?"
"Woodbury has done it," responded
Pinney, "Iteformed I don't think. Why
"WETiK DlSIIF.n," SAID GLEASON.
"BUT HOW?"
I knew when my eye llrst lighted on his
face that he was a conlldence man."
"Well, I suppose there's nothing to do
but skip," growled Harris.
The others muttered assent, and un
mooring the boat they sailed across the
liver, and vanished Into the wilds of
New Jersey,
Newcombe endured St captivity of
about ten days, at the end of which time
the mystery of the whole affair was ex
plained and Newcombe was vindicated.
But he had lost a pound of flesh u day
und wus really far from well.
The mystery of the transference of
the money from one safe to tht).other
was black nnd deep for many days, but
at last It was elucidated. The safe had
been robbed by a dishonest express
agent In the depot In New York. Fear
ing to keep his plunder with him he had
concealed It in the other safe, which
was being shipped to an express agent
in Albany, a friend whom the thief
could trust, and with whom he had of
ten divided the proceeds pf robberies.
The scheme would undoubtedly have
succeeded but for the strange chance
by which the three crooks and the crim
inologist acted as the agents of provi
dence in returning the $80,000 to its
rightful custodians. t
(The End.)
DRINK OVAU. NATIONS.
Beer the World's. Universal Cheer
nnd Inchriant.
From the London Mall. .
What Is the drink which at this time
of the year, at all events, reigns over
nil others? Ask a Frenchman, a Ger
man, an American, a Ilusslan or an
Englishman, and he will respond:
"Beer."
In France it has supplanted wine in
general consumption wine the French
drank for so many centuries, but
which, as a French writer has just
pointed out, is more apt to "begay than
to refresh." Probably to none of the
readers is the fabrication of beer a se
cretthat is to say, they know the
constituent elements of the drink,
which, according to Sir Walter Besant,
"made Britain great"; but they will
perhaps be entertained by the follow
ing facts:
.We cannot gro back to the epoch of
the deluge In order to find the first
mention of beer. Wine alone, accord
ing to the Bible, can boast so remote
an antiquity. We must leave to the
pedants plunged Into the night of time
the pretension of placing the birth of
beer at the ero of Osiris, twenty cen
turies before the Christian era. Yet
we may mention that the famous his
torian, Tacitus, speaks of It as the or
dinary drink of the northern tribes,
whose climate does not foster the grape.
At the commencement of the thir
teenth century an ' English monk
brought to -John I., King of Flanders
and Brabant, a keg of brown, October
such as Friar Tuck was want to extol'
and from that moment beer began to
assume an Importance' on the contin
ent. King John was an amateur brew
er; and he was not content until he had
produced improvement upon improve
ment in the art of beermaking. then lit
tle known among his subjects.
Before the eleventh, century nearly
all beer was made from barley. Hops
were first employed about the year 1065
A. V.
The Germans, who were among the
first to make beer wholesale, began to
cultivate hops In great quantities.
The hop plant came originally from
Russia; but it is more than probable
that nature Intended It to fluorish in
Bohemia, Bavaria and Kent; hence the
reason why It has acquired In those
soils and at the hands .'. careful cul
tivators such exceptional qualtles as it
has attained.
In the fourteenth century the Ger
man breweries began to export beer
made from hops. They sent beer to
Kngland In large quantities, and it
soon became the court drink. But these
Gerninn brewers had the misfortune
(for them only) of adding to each bar
rel of beer a little ball containing, as a
sort of trade-sign, hops, and this in
troduction was fatal to the German
monopoly. Our Kent furmer got hold
of the hops and put themselves to cul
tivate the plant with such assiduity
that our breweries soon began to make
and export for themselves.
Beer, heretofore, has been normally
a characteristic of certain races. While
the Latin people drink wine at their
repast, the Germanic, Anglo-Saxon
and Scandinavian races take beer as
In he case of the English, the Ger
mans, the Norwegians and Swedes,
and the North Americana Among
these people wine is a luxury. Yet,
strange to say, beer seems slowly but
surely forcing Its way among the mass
es of Franco, Spain and Italy, like a
river whose tide will brook no barrier.
If all the beer brewed now In the
world dally were to flow In a single
stream It would equal In volume the
River Thames. We call the one "Fath
er Thames" we would term the other
"Mother Beer."
In this country we call beer by three
names, "ale," "porter" and "stout." In
Belgium there Is "lambrle" and "faro,"
and In Germany the "blere de garde,"
the "bock bier" and "salvator bier."
But the different types of beer are real
ly to be divided Into two types called
"high fermentation" as with us and
"low fermentation" as with German,
French and Austrian beers.
The method of high fermentation Is
the primitive manner of making beer.
Low fermentation was first employed
in Munich In the fifteenth century. Its
chief recommendation Is its lightness,
coldness and ease with which large
quantities may be drunk.
But there Is no danger of British beer
losing Its prestige. That Immortal pro
duction which has earned so many mil
lions and created so many peers still
holds Its place in the heart or stom
achof the the average Briton, wheth
er he be at home, or In India, Africa or
the colonies. We brew within a mil
lion or so of Germany's output, but a
bottle of Bass has twice the strength
of Pilsener so perhaps we ore yet the
greatest beer makers and drinkers on
earth.
RARE BONES, THESE.
Skeleton of the Me.alonyx Jefferson!!
Placed in the Museum of the Ohio
State UnlvcrsltyNamed by
and for President.
Columbus, O., Letter, Chicago Itecordl
One of the rarest specimens of post
glacial life ever found is that of the
"megalonyx jeffersonnl," which has re
cently been placed in the museum of
Orton hall of the Ohio state university.
The specimen enjoys the unique dis
tinction of belngk the only animal ever
named by and for a president of the
United States. Thomas Jefferson In
vented the generic name "megalonyx,"
while the specific name was given by
Dr. Harlan at a later date in honor of
Jefferson's discrimination and Interest.
In J7JI6 some bones of an extraordin
ary nature were found In a cave in
Greenbrier county, Virginia, They ex
cited a great deal of curiosity and dis
cussion nnd In some way came to the
knowledge of Thomas Jefferson, soon to
be made president of the United States,
whose interest in all that pertained to
nature was generally recognized;
One of the most striking features of
the cave relics wus the enormous claws
of the animal, which Jefferson, by an
error that was readily pardoned, mis
took the clawB of a carnivorous animal,
and upon them he established the name
by w'hich the animal is known. The
"small Latin and less Greek," with
which William and Mary college had
equipped him was enough for the oc
casion. Two Oreen words, in fact suf
ficed, and "megalonyx" (great claw)
emerged into tho world of letters and
science.
President Jiifferson acquired possess
ion of the remains und presented them
to the newly establisher American
Philosophical society, Phlladedphla,
which was, at that time, tho most au
thoritative scientific center of the coun
try. These bones still remain In the
possession of the Academy of Science
in the same city.
Subsequently study by the natural
ists of Philadelphia soon established
the fact that the great claws and asso
ciated bones belonged, not to a car
nivora, but to some representative of
the strange and wandering group In
which the sloths of South America are
included. The specific name "Jeffersonil"
was very properly added at a later date
In honor of the president.
The Philadelphia specimen was never
set up, many of the bones being missing
and the Ohio specimen Is the only com
plete one In the world. The university
museum has this great distinction: It
contains the first and only complete
skeleton of one of the most interest
ing animals of post-glacial time.
HISTORY OF THE SPECIMEN.
The history of the skeleton Is as fol
lows: In the fall of 1890 a number of
farmers In Benton township, Holmes
county, combined to dig a ditch which
would drain a swamp of 300 acres, more
or less, In which they were severally
Interested. In December the ditch had
reached the land of Abraham Drushell
and the cutting was going on success
fully through four to six feet of black
peaty earth, which covered a foot or
two of shell marl, when the workmen
were greatly surprised by unearthing
some large bones of unfamlhar pattern.
The greatest Interest was awakened
among the fanners engaged in cutting
the ditch and among their neighbors
also. Some of the bones. Including
sevral claws, (were carried to Millers
burg, and right Interpretation was at
once put upon them there by W. S.
Hanna, the prosecuting attorney of the
county. He pronounced them the bones
of a "megalonyx."
Extravagant ideas of the money
value of the discovery took possession
ot the farmers' minds and nothing
could be done for soma year toward
raining possession of the bones for
science. At last, in the summer of
1895, Mr. aud Mrs. Drushell consented
to the transfer of their rights to the
university. They received a fair price
for the bones, but it Is only justice to
them to say that it was the public In
terest oT. the transaction that com
manded their assent at last
They would not have parted with
the wonderful remains of which they
had come into possession except to
place them where they could interest
and instruct a larger number and be
preserved for the years to come.
The bones were shipped In September
last to Wards' National Science estab
lishment in Rochester, N. Y., to be
mounted. While the Holmes county
find contained a larger number of
bones than any other single discovery
on record, the skeleton iwas still in
complete. To complete tho restoration the re
sources of the museums of the country
wer put under requisition and the skel
eton was completed and now stands
In the museum of tho state university
In this city, the size being 7 by 11 feet.
A MIJSE'S COST.
It Depends Vpoa the Way the Prec
ious Metal Is Hidden.
There are no hard and fast rules in
regard to making a mine from the time
It passes Into the prospector's hands un
til it. becomes a dividend payer. Many
mines are such, as the miners say,
"from the grass roots," and turn out
large quantities of ore from the be
ginning. J. B. Haggln, the millionaire mine
owner, took J3,000,000 from the Custer
mine. In Lemhi county, Idaho, before
It became necessary to use a candle,
saya the Spokane Spokesman-Review.
This mine was known as the Mineral
Mountain. A man came along one day,
and after looking at it remarked: "Why
the hanging wall is gone." This was
true. Nature had assisted the miner in
this case; the mountain side had been
eroded, leaving the mineral standing
there. Mr. Haggln also spent $3,000,000
In developing the Anaconda mine be
fore it was on a paying basis.
Mines have been discovered contain
ing fabulous wealth, although a pros
pector would starve to death In trying
to work them. This was true In regard
to the Homestake mine, in the Black
Hills. The prospectors who made the
discovery could do nothing with it, and
it passed into the hands of Senator
Hearst, and other California capitalists.
They concluded that unless it was
worked on a large scale it could not be
made profitable. An 80-cent stamp mill
was ordered and shipped In from Chey
enne at a cost of $135,000 as an experi
ment. The mine has paid in dividends
$37,500 a month for 17 years.
It requires a large amount of money
usually to put a mine on a dividend
paying basis, and, as a rule, this the
prospector cannot do, although pros
pectors have made fortunes with their
properties.
LONGEVITY OF ANIMALS.
Interesting Informotion I'pon Thetr
Ages, from Squirrels to Elephants.
The life of man is proverbially un
certain In Its span, but In the animal
kingdom, on the contrary, the duration
ot life Is almost equal for all individuals
of the same species, observes "House
hold Words." But we can know" with ex
actness the real duration of life only for
animals in servitude; we do not know
whether It is the same In the savage
Btate. Rabbits and guinea-pigs live
seven years; squirrels and hares, eight;
cats, nine or ten; dogs, ten or twelve;
foxes, fourteen to sixteen; cattle, fifteen
to eighteen; bears and wolves, twenty;
the rhinoceros, twenty-five; the ass and
the horse, twenty-five to thirty; the
Hon thirty to forty a lion In the Lon
don Zoological gardens reached the age
of seventy years; the camel, forty. The
length of life of the elephant is uncer
tain. According to Aristotle, Buffon and
Cuvler It lives two centuries; some au
thors say even four or five. After his
victory over Porus, Alexander conse
crated to the sun nn elephant that had
fought for the Indiun monarch, ud
gave it the name of AJax; then, hav
ing attached an inscription to it. he set
it at liberty. The animal was found S50
years; later. The ancient attributed to
the stag a fabulous length of life, but
Aristotle observes that what is reported
on this subject has no good foundation,
Buffon says that the stag takes five or
six years to attain full growth, and
should live seven times this period; that
is, thirty-five or forty years.
Coal Consumption,
Westminster Gazette.
An industrious triflcr, writing til a
Frenh review, has been at the pains to
ascertain what is the annual consumption
of coal on railways and steam compa
nies of the country, and he has worked
out a total ot 3,7S2,8.V) tons. This, he tells
us, would make a pyramid 511! feet high
and Silt feet at the base, or nearly 10 feet
above the height of the Great Pyramid.
Then ho goes on to calculate that if all this
coal were loaded in trucks the train would
be 1,25 miles, or as with a nice feeling
for the Franco-Russian alliance he put It
the distance between Purls und St.
Petersburg. Jf this train had to travel
at the rule of lSVj miles an hour, It would
take between three or four days to pass a
given point. The railways of the whole
world consume, he asserts, on the faith of
statistics which arc doubtless fairly ac
curate, nearly (K!,(HK),000 tons of coal, which
does not draw any moral from these fig
ures except that a great deal of carbonic
acid is thus precipitated into the atmos
phere. adway's
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Dyspepsia.
Observe the following symptoms result
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Constipation, Inward plies, fullness of
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PIANO
At a time vrhen many manu
facturers and dealers are making
the most astounding statements
regardingthe merits and durability
of inferior Pianos, intending pur
chasers should not fail to make
critical examination of the above
instruments,
EL C. RICKER
General Dealer In Northeast
ern Pennsylvania,
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I New Telephone Exchange Building, 115
p.
Adama Ave.,
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2,000,000 BARRELS
Made and Sold in Six Months, ending flarch 1, 1896,
Total Product of
I
HifWflJtJ
The A Mill Alone produced 1,000,000 Barrels,
Largest Run jon Record.
Washburn, Crosby's Superlative ia sold everywhere from tha
Pacific Coast to St. John's, New FoundlanJ, and in England, Ireland
and Scotland very largely, and is recognized as the best flour in the
world.
MEGARGEL
WHOLESALE AGENTS.
EVERY WOMAN
BomeMsMnMiKlibl,anth1y,riraUUii( medicine. Only htmlejsfjel
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For sale by JOHN H. PH5LPS.
Sprue Street Serantoa Pa
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