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Tbo onftl-mininff Industry of Great Erituic lis a BeUt"m bad a mtM unsatis factory year than 1893 proved to bo. It is miit tbat in the event of war between England and Venezuela, 100, 000 Prazilians will join the lattor country. An Indiana Judge, in hi address to the local Qrnnd Jury the other day, charged them to hear certain evidence "with an unsparing hand." Since 1875 the marriage rate in Ber lin has derrcaped from 30.C to 20.3 per thousand. At that rate there would be to marriages nt all forty years hence. The famous Russian artist Verest Bohngin advises the people of Moscow to build all their houses on distinc tively Russian styles of architecture. TIo pnys that it would give the oity an original aspect, and attract thousands of tourists, with the accompanying profits. A heated controversy is now in pro gress between St. Paul and Minneapo lis, as to which eats the most mutton. St. Paul claims tbat" she consumes twice as ruaoy sheep as her sister city, nnd Minneapolis claims that the sheep consumed in St. Puul are very small, and although the may consume greater number of muttons that they nre so small as to osuse Minneapolis to lead in pounds ot mutton. The Scottish Farmer says tbat bar nefs borres are so scarce in that coun try that tbey must come to America to have their needs supplied. Not find ing what they wish, they take baok the best available, which is to their loss and ours. The French are bnying their light cab horses from ns, which they formerly obtained from Germany. They contend that they can bay their rhesp horses cheaper thau they can raise tbem. A greater number ot suioides was committed in New York last year than in any other oity in the world. The lift of suioides for the year comprises 438 victim, taken from all walks of life, and varying in age from children of less than fifteen years to men and wo.nen nearly ninety years old. This list is the largest oa reoord in New York, although the percentage of snioidos to tbe entire population is lower than on some previous years. During 1893 just closed the Utica (X. Y.) Herald tried to keep a record of all people reported to have died in tbe United States at the age of 100 years or over. Tbe total reported was curiously enough, iaya the Herald, just 100. Two-thirds of those were women, all but fonr being white wo men. Of the colored centenarians there were thirteen men. The oldest person to die was a colored man, who was 125. A white man died at St. Louis' who bad olaimod to be 140, but there was no proof that he waa over 121. Even at that age, however, he was tbe oldest white man to die during 18!5. The oldest white woman waa 120. There were fourteen people whose ages ranged from 110 to 125. Tbe New York Tribune says : Some little time ago a famous firm of Lon don solicitors found it necessary, in a case involving large interests, to have some detective work of difficult and delicate nature done in this oity, and instead of employing tbe regular agen cies put it in tbe hands of an American women of good sooial standing in pri vate lifo. She undertook thfl task, and has been so completely successful in the performance of it that the firm employing ber baa not only thanked her, bnt sent her a oheck for a hand some sum. The employment of women of education and position for delicate work has beoome common in England, , but thua far few women have beon bo employed in this country. If they go - jhio me Business, nowever, it is pretty safe to say that they will succeed in if From Vienna comes tbe news ot wonderful disoovery in photographio soienoe. It is no less than a means of photographing the interior of solid, opaijuo bodies. By the new system the bones of a man's hand were per fectly photographed, the flesh being invisible in the picture. Broken limbs and bullets in human bodies were also Buooessfully revealed, as well as ob jects placed in a wooden box. Pro fessor Routgeo, of the University of Wurzburg, is the inventor. The light he uses to photogroph by is produced what is known as a Crooke's pipe, viz : a vacuum glass tube with an induotion electrio current passing through it. The result is a light tbat appears to penetrate organio subslanoes just as ordinary light passes through glass. The inventor throws open a wide field for the deduction of new truths in tleotrioity and optics. sorics of; spring. Tbe spring time, O the spring lime! Who does not know II well? When the little birds begin to build, And the littlo buds begin to swell. When the sun with the clouds plays hide- and-seek, And the InmliB are bunking and bleating. And the color mounts to tho maiden's cheek And the cnokoo scatters greeting. In the spring time, joyous spring timet The summer, O the summer! Who does not know It well? When tbe ringdoves coo tho long day through And the bee refills his cell. When the swish of tho mower is heard at morn. An! wo all la the woods go roaming, And waiting Is over, aud love is born, And shy lips meet In tho gloaming, In the summer, ripening summer! Alfred Austin. WOUKAW. A TALE OF BRITISH GUIANA. ERY well, you fellows can believo it or not as you like," said Mackay, "but I tell yon that for a day and n night, I have known what it is to be dead. " "Ob, come. Mac. that's too much. The Major has given ns Borne pretty tall ones, but we can't quite swallow that. "Perhops," suggested the Major. "Maokay refers to a state of aloholio saturation. I have hoard " "Oh, all ritrht," said Maokay. "Only you said it wag my turn for a yarn ; but or course if "Fire away, Mao j never mind the Major ; be 8 an unbelieving chop when his own talcs are beBted. We'll believe you. Observe the childlike innocence of our countenance." "Very well then, you shall have the yarn. "It happened out in British Guiana. Phil Egerton and I had beon knooking aooui mat district in a yacht, Phil was a bit of a scientist ; had dabbled in tbe ologies when be was at Oxford, aud be found something to interest him in the shallow waters ronnd the coast. The buokets of mud and slimy mings ue nsueu np woren t very ex eiting for me, bo I put in a good deal ot time hanging round the billiard rooms of Georgetown. "I don't think I could mention tbe plaoe that I've spent more than a month in without contriving to make a fool of myself over some girl. She was a waitress thia time, aud, by ove I she was pretty. We called her The Queen,' and I never knew her by any other name. What nationality sne Doiongoa to x can t tell you. I think she had a dash of most of them in ber, but English, Spanish and In dian were perhaps tbe most prominent ingusn in business, Spanish in love, but pure undiluted Indian in hate. It was a dangerous mixture, but you've no notion how fasoinating. I wasn't by any means the ouly fellow who sncoumbed to her charms, bnt I believe I was the only one she cared a fig about, l'ou'll admit that the posi tion had its dangers. Of conrse I knew perfcotly well that I was making an ass ol myself, but 1 couldn't holo it. Tbe only thing for me to do was to bolt. If I stayed another week I should marry her, and then there'd be tbe deuce to pay. " '.Look here, EgertoD,' I said one night; 'you've got to take me away from here. Leave those confounded weeds of yours and let's weigh anchor and be off.' " 'What's tbe matter, Mao? said Egerton. 'Got the fidgets? I'm sorry, old man, but I've discovered a new species among these said weeds, and I want to work it np.' " Well, Phil, my boy, if you won't leave, you'll have to be my best man, that's all.' "That frightened him a bit. I told him the whole story, and he saw there waa no time to be lost if I was to be saved. Phil Egerton know me pretty well in those days. " 'I'll tell you what we'll do, Mao,' he said. 'You know Wilson, tbe sugar planter, lie tells me there is seme capital shooting to be had in the in terior; any amount of birds and a chance at a stray jaguar or two. He's going to have a month of it, and has asked me to join him. We can take the yacht's boat and go up the Dein erara until we strike tbe woods. What do you say?' " 'Anything you like, solong as you get me out of this Diets.' "We went in the morning and saw Wilson about it. He was delighted, and said be would start as soon as we could get ready. "Of oouree any sensible man in my position would have had tho common prudence to employ tbe intervening time in cleauing his guus aud looking out various odds and cods for tbe ex pedition, but as I tell you, where women are conoerned I'm not to be counted in tbe class of sensible men. I went to see The Queen, and naturally she wormed tbe whole thing out of me. " 'Phil,' I said, when I got baok, 'if we can't start to morrow we needn't go at all. It would spoil the party if I took a wife with me.' "'We'll start to-night if you like, Mae. I'm ready; ami if Wilson isn't, he cau follow us. Hut what's the hurry? You haven't told her you're going, have you?' " 'Yes, I luive, and that's why it won't do for me to stay here longer.' "'Well, Mae, of all tbe thundering idiots it ban been my privilege to know, I do think you're about tbo big gest. Why on eurtli couldn t you vauish quietly aud luave her to tiud out about it alterwards?' " 'I meant to, but when I Marte.l talkiug to her, out it all caiue.' " 'What possessed you to go there at all to-daj ?' 'Ob, come, Thil, be reasonable. You couldn't have kept away yourself, if you'd becu in my place.' " 'Yon had a scene, I suppose?' ' 'Well, slightly. She accused me of wanting to get rid of her, trying to run nway, in fact; and as it was per fectly true, I fancy I didn't show np very well in tbe argument that fol lowed. ' '"Oh, yon great bearded infant; put your hat on and we'll go and see Wilson at once.' "We started next morning. I was feeling a bit hipped, of course, but the others were jolly enough. As I thiuk I told yon, Phil bad a weakness for pottering about in scientific messes, and he found a kindred spirit in Wilson, whoso hobby was birds. It was really to got some specimens tbat he bad originally proposed this expe dition. " 'By the way, Wilson,' said Phil, have you evor managed to get hold of any curare? "Curare?' said Wilson. 'I don't know what it is; what is it?' " 'Probably it has got some othor name out here. We called it curare in Oxford Indian arrow poison, you know. " 'Oh! you moan "wonrali." No, 1 oau't say I have, and I don't think I want to, either. It isn't a very safe plaything. " 'Safe enough,' said Phil, 'so long ns you haven't any cuts or scratches on your hands. " 'For heaven's sake, shnt np that scientific shop I' I exolaimed. 'We've come out here to enjoy ourselves, not to talk like a confouuded British As sociation meeting.' " 'Poor old Moo I' said Phil, J'what shall we talk about? Will billiards do or waitresses?' "'Drop it, Phil,' I said; 'I don't want to be a bear, but your jargon isn't very interesting to a chap who hardly knows an ology from an ism. Let s have something to eat. "We found a shady spot under some bushes to have our meal in. We were just lighting np afterwards, and I was holding the match to my pipe when something flashed oat of the bnshes and knocked the pipe out of my mouth, " 'What's that?' said Phil, starting np. " 'It's a dagger,' I said. 'Just Bee what's behind those bashes, yon chaps, while I tie my handkerchief around this hand. I've got a bit of a scratch. If it's "The Queen," let her go, Thank goodness she missed my face. "It waa 'The Queen.' They ;anght sight of her among the bnshes, bnt she got away all right. They didn't fol low her far, but came back to Bee if I was much hurt. 'It's nothing serious,' I said ; 'only a soratob, bnt I think my nerves must be a bit upset. It has made me (eel horribly tired. I'll go and lie down in tbe boat for a while, and let you fol Iowa finish your smoke. I ve got a bit of a head.' 'Mackay, you're crying,' exolaimed Wilson, 'and tbe sweat is simply pour ing down your face. You're pretty badly hurt. " 'Cryingl' shouted rail, 'Wilson, that daggor is poisoned I " 'Poisoned? You don t mean' " 'Yes, I do. It's "wonralia;" copi- ons secretion of sweat and tears, head ache, feeling of extreme lassitude those are tbe exact symptoms. Off with that bandage, Mao.' "'Good heavens I be s done for,' said Wilson. " 'Done for? Not a bit of it. Off with that bandage ; I'm going to suck the wound 1 'I had just got energy enough left to protest against bis doing this, but he insisted, and I was too feeble to prevent him. " '.Nonsense, man, he said ; Urn safe enough. The stuff isn't a poison taken internally, even if I do manage to swallow some.' He put b's lips to the wound, and then I closed my eyea and everything became blank. "It must have beon hours afterward that I began to regain, I can't say consciousness, but an indefinite sen sation of existence and horrible weariness. It seemed to me that I was swimming on and on somewhere in a vague, purposeless way, and I was very, very tired. I called it swim ming, but tbat isn't an exact descrip tion. 1 could feel my arms moving back and fore with a steady rhythmi cal motion, but the rout of my body was absolutely still. I was almost suf focating for waut of air, but 1 didn't seem to have strength to gasp. How long that sensation lasted I oau't say, but it must have been a very long time. I , wouldn't voluntarily go through another hcur of such uuutter- able aud helpless misery for anything you, could offer me. I tell yon it has given me my theory of what future punishment may be like. As consciousness gradually re turned, tbe feeliug of infinite weari ness became more and more unbeara ble. My arms were still swinging backwards and forwards like a couple of animated pump haudles aud I was quite uuable either to stop tbem or to move any other part of my body. Try and imagine the sensation; it was simply awful. hen 1 did finally come to niveelf so far as to kuow what was going ou, I did it pretty thoroughly. You know the theory that when a man loses the use of bis eye.", bis senses of touch aud hearing become unusually accute? From uiy experience that day I can quite believe it. I bai lost all power of mot ou, aud my perceptive facul ties became, to compensate, most un comfortably keen. 1 felt as though I could almost seo through my closed eyelids. i'bil tola me afterwards that tbe peculiarity of onra!i' poisoning is that if the dose is not very large, ouly tbe nerve of motion are paralyzed, while those of srm.itioa become ab normally eeu.sit re. 1 knew everything tuat a as goiug ou around n, a'jd 1 conld hear every word they said, bill I couldn't even wink to let them know I was alive. "They bad stuck a knife handle be tween my teeth to keep my mouth open, and tbe weariness in my arms was caused by the fact that for nearly a day and a night Phil and Wilson had been taking it in turns to practice artificial respiration on me. " 'Egerton,' I heard Wilson say, 'do you think it's any good going on longir? He hasn't breathed now for nearly twenty-four hours. I believe he's dead.' "'We'll go on as long as we can stand 1' said Phil, and I blossed him for it. 'If wo can only keep the arti ficial respiration going till the poison is eliminated, he will recover. For God's sake, keop it np as long as you can, Wilson.' " 'If you think there is the slightest chance of saving him, I'll go ou ; but I don't thiuk I can last oat much longer.' " 'He's still warm, Wilson, and I won't give up hope as long as that is so. ' "That was a nioe choerful conversa tion to overhear, wasn't it? Listeners never hear good of themselves it is said, bat I doubt whether the most persistent eavesdropper ever bad the pleasure of hearing a man pronounce him dead, without being able to con tradict tbe statement. If I hadn't begun to breath spontaneously pretty soon after that, I should never have had the opportunity of contradicting it. Phil and Wilson couldn't have gone on muoh longer. How they kept it np for tho length of time tbey did I have never been able to understand. The power of friendship is very much underrated. "It must have been about two hours after Wilson bad decided thnt I was dead, that Phil saw my eyelids begin to twitoh. "'At last, Wilson!' he oriel. 'Go and get some water from the river.' "They dashed the oold water over me, and it caused me to gasp slightly. They carried me to the boat, and as soon as they saw the danger was over, they, both of them, sat down on the bottom boards and fell fast asleep. In a very few minutes after tbem, I was asleep too. "Nearly fifteen hours after that, I woke, feeling rather weak and faint, bat otherwise as right as a trivet. The other two were still asleep, and I didn't wake them. "Tbat is the story, and I don't think I was guilty of an exaggeration when I told you that for a day and a nicbt I had known what death wa. A man who remains for twenty-four hours without drawing a breath may fairly olaim to be dead. I think." Cham- berg's Journal The Deadly (,'rapo Seel. I Tha grape seed, having been relieved of tbe charge of causing appendioiti?. seems to have taken a new tack and is trying to do its mischievous work in another fashion. An official of a New Jersey county is in a critical condition from the ef- feots, it is said, of a grade seed. He ate some grapes and took great care not to swallow the see, Is, but by eotne aooident managed to inhale one, which lodged in the upper portion of his lungs. Himself a physician, he real ized the necessity for care and rest. and supposed he had given the seed ample time to become eneysted, which However was not the case. There are a number of cases on reo ord where small artioles of various sorts have been drawn into tbe lungs with tbe breath. In several instanoes irritation ha I begun tbat ended in death. Sometimes, though, the articlo beoomos ooated with exudations from the surrounding surface and is gradu ally covered up, foiming a lump that one may carry through the remainder of life without serious injury. Post mortem examinations hava disclosed several of these cysts wbiob bad noth ing to do with the death of the subtest. New York Ledger. A (Jreat Dogr. "That pointer of mine is a ereat dog," declared Howard Vernon, us he petted his 1000 dog Gleubeigh. "I can always depend on him. When he makes a point I kuow that he has scented a bird and I know tbat he will not move a muscle while I have a chance at that bird. "I was hunting quail up at Point Reys last mouth when I lost Glenbeigb. knew he must be pointing in tbe brush somewhere, but I looked every where for him and oould not find him. The next 'day I resumed the search, with no better success, bnt on the third day I found him iu a dense thicket, standing perfectly rigid, with his tail sticking straight out behind aud oue foot up. A quail had run in to a hollow tree, and the dog stood at the opening pointing. The quail dared not come out, ami the dog, true to his training, wouldn't move. He had been slauding in that position, without so much as moviuz a foot, for sixty-five hours, and when I tried to eail Uiui away be oould not walk." San Francisco Post. Railway Travel iu Alrlca. Discontented passengers by the Loudon, Chatham aud Dover should try South Africa. A pathetio story comes from tbe Transvaal of a traveler who, at Kaapuiuider, asked a railway official to direct him to a train for l'arbertou. He was shown into the down Delugoa traiu, aud at Hector spruit was fined $j for traveling to a plaoe other thau that mentioned oa his ticket. Next day he went back to Kaapmuider, inquired of another offi cial, aud fouud the right train. But bis welcome at Barberton was no warmer tbau that at Heotorspruit. Tbe authorities promptly fined him another i'j for traveling with a ticket ol tbe previous day. London Ktalm. THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE 6TOJ" THAT ARB TOI.D Jj'f THE FONtfY MEN OF THE PfiE.33. Ills Career The Difficulty A Cruel Fate By Indirection An Author ity A Rllirht Mistake, Kit ., Ktc. H pays he Is pursuing Art. With paint he trie to make II ; But, hero Is where the troublo lies; He can not overtnko It. A ORrEIj FATE, "Lushington fell iuto tho river tho other day." "Was he drowned?" "No, bnt he was badly diluted." Pick-Me-Up. THE DIFFIcrrLTY. Flazel ".Say, haven't you and Jack been engaged long enough to get mar ried?" Mabel "Too long. He hasn't got a cent left." Truth. by i.NBinBcrnov. "Why, how frit you hove grown iu the country I" "Yes, I have followed the regimen which the doctor prescribed to muko one grow thin." Punch. CONSOLATION-. "Poor Dylkins, made despondent by years of sickness, took his own lifo last night." "Poor fellow ! But then, you know, he didn't have a great deal to take." AM AITIIORITY. First Citizen "I am taking a conrso of lectures on the Monroe doctrine. " Second Citizen "Who is delivering them?" First Citizen "My barber. Puck. A SLIGHT MISTAKE. "I beg your pardon, madam, but you are sitting on my hat," exclaimed a gentleman. "Oh, pray excuse me ; I thought it was my husband's," was the unex pected reply. London Telograph. AN EASY REMEDY. "Ob, dear!" sighed Mrs. Cumeo, aa she tossed about in bed, "I'm suffer ing dreadfully from insomnia." "Go to sleep and you'll be all right," growled Mr. Cumeo, as he rolled over and began to snore again. Judge. SATISFACTORILY EXPLAINED. "Well, of all the impudence! Ask ing me to help you because you have three wives to support 1" "They don't belong to me, mister ; nothin' of the sort. They belong to mo sons-in-law." Indianapolis Jour nal. ANXIOUSLY WAITING. Tommy "Johnny Jackson pays you're a Presldentiol possibility, nud Lave got your lightning rod up. Are Presidential possibilities afraid of tbe lightning, pa?" "Yes, my boy, they're afraid it won't strike 'em." Truth. IN HARNESS Husband (airily ; they bad just re turned from their wedding trip) "If I am not home from the club by ah ten, love, you won't wait " Wife (with appalling firmness) "No, dear 5 I'll come for you !" He was home by 9.45 sharp. Pick-Me-Up. FOR COMFORT. Mr. MoCann "I am building a house and am only using lumber from tbe zero forests of Michigan." Friend "Why bo?" Mr. MoCann "Because trees that can stand zero all winter ought to make a warm house, so they ought." Truth. A MONOPOLY. Mrs. Jackson "Ef I'd only bin pnsson'ly 'quainted wit Lord Dun raven at de time ob do yacht-races I cood hab got rich." Mrs. Johnson "How's dat?" Mrs. Jackson "W'y, didn' yo' read in de papahs dat his yacht got all do wash from five hundred steamboats? Dar's business fob yo'." Judge. BARD LUCK ALL AROUND. First Crook (sadly) "I'm de on luckiest mug in der world I I sand bagged a feller coiniu? out of a bank ter find out he'd jist beon in and de posited all his dough !" Second Crook "Why didu't yer sandbag one goiu' in, den?" First Crook "I did. He wos goiu' in ter draw some money." Puck. SURE BIOS OF A OKVTLEMAX. "I don't know who you are, sir," said tbe red-haired mini iu tbe restau rant, turning to the guest with tho chin whiskers, "but you're a gentle man." "How did you find it out," inquired tbo other. "You have sat by me half an hour aud haven't looked once to see wli-it tbe figures are ou my cheok." Chi cago Tribune. A WEUilir OFF HIS MIND. "I presume, Mr. Hiirkus," said ouug Soireltop, who hail lately mar ried iuto the family, "l'.tbel will take her piano with ber when wo go to keeping house?" "Indeed she will not," answered his father-in-law. "That piano belongs to her mother." "Thauk you, Mr. Harkusl - Thank you I" exclaimed the young man, grasping him fervently by tho hand; aud the light of a ereut juy shone iu his eyes. Chicago Tribune. Tho eleven cables now iu operation across tbe Atlauti have cost upward of U70.000.000. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Microseopists and entomologists say that tho flea's mouth is situated ex actly between his fore logs. Folding wooden or wicker crates for bicycle transportation can be pur chased in Paris for twenty cent1. Commercial travelers who do not require to carry many samples are using the bicycle out West, as tbey do not have to wait for trains between towns. The Grecian Government has issue 1 permits allowing the American School of Archaeology to conduct excavations at Corinth for historical and scientific purposes. A Frenchman has invented an elec trio plate washer, designed for hotels and restaurants. The machine will wash 2000 plates per hour aud does its work perfectly. In tbe human snbjeot the brain is tho one-twenty-eighth part of the whole body's entire woight. In tie horse it is not more than one-four-hundredth part. Chalk slabs are now converted into marble in the workshop by an imita tion of nature's processes coloring with mineral stains, and hardening and crystallizing in a suitable batb. The new type of passenger 1 000 mo tives just turned out of tbe Altoona (Penn.) shops of tbe Pennsylvania, styled class L, are said to combine the latest improvements both in design and parts. For his method of photographing colors Professor Lippmann has re ceived the prize of $2100 awarded by the French Government every six years to the author of the most useful discovery to French industry. Electrolytically formed seamless copper steam pipes, made by an Eng lish firm, have been carefully tested by the marine department of tbe Board of Trade and declared to be acceptable for steamships under tho Board's survey. Acetylene, the brilliant new gas, can be easily liquefied and stored until needed. When it is to be used tbe pressure is lessened, and it becomes gaseous again. It gives more than ten times the light of coal gas burned in the best burners. One noted physioian, Dr. Adolf Muller, assistant at the Pathological Institute in Keil, beaame a victim of Bcientifio research tbe other day. While performing an anatomical dem onstration he overlooked a slight abrasion. Blood poisoning set in and carried him off. Lithium, which was recently shown by M. Guntz to absorb nitrogen when heated to below red beat, has been proved by him and M. Doslandres to absorb it also slowly when cold. Tho action is analogous to tbe slow absorp tion of oxygen by phosphorus, and is unique as a reaction of nitrogen. In two pole dynamos the proportions of ring armatures vary from a length equal to one-half the diameter to a length equal to one aud one-half diameters. It is common to 111 ako tha length equal to the diameter. For drum armatures tbe length sometimes equals one and one-half diameters au I sometimes throe diameters. It is common to find the lougth equal to two diameters. The Latest in Thieves' CoaK Piokpookets who rob men and wo men in street oars have adopted a new device to esoape arrest one whioh at the first trial proved successful. De tective Sam O'Neil of the central sta tion saw a piokpocket at work in a Wentwortb avenue electric car last evening, and when tho thief ha l ex tracted a pooketbook of a woman pas senger O'Neil sprung towaid tbe of fender. The car was moving south over the Madison street intersection and was heavily loaded. O'Neil's baud closed on the ooat collar of the thief, who dashed toward the rear platform. Like a shell tbe coat of tbe offender fell from bis shoulders, and tbe former oc cupant bad no difficulty iu reach mg the street and getting uway from tho detective, who, with the empty ooat in his baud, stood still and astouished. Attempts to follow the thief were in terfered with by the crowd ou the car and in tbe street, aud the coat wan tho only evidonce O'Xeil conld produce wben be entered tbo central station. Au examination of the garment showed it had been slit down tbe arms aud sleeve holes, under the shoulder blades, and in otbor places, so tbat tbe wearer could get out of it without etopping to take it off'iu tho regular manner. Chicago Tribune. True Lore Wins Even Iu ltuslu, A Russian girl had her way "at Kbarkhow recently. Her relatives forced ber to oouseut to marry a man she disliked. Wben the wedding party appeared in ohurcb, however, au.l tho priest asked her if she would take the man she said "No." She would not yield to remonstrance, so tbe party returnod home and argued with her. First her parents beat her, tbeu tbo bridegroom's friends beat ber. SU) was tukeu baok to the church weeping and tbe surviee was begun again, lint she again said "No," and this time the priest saved ber from her rela tive'. A Policeman's Wonilei lul Strength, Police Captain Edward Coonsu, of Madison, X. J., is tweiity oight years obi, and stands six foot two inches iu his stockings, without an ounce of tuperlluus tlesb ou bim. He never eairies a pistol, aud seldom a club, depending ou his owu wonderful btreutu for every cuiergeuoy. His great specialty is obukiug. It is nu every day occurrence lor him to lift au ordinary n.o.l drunken niau en tirely off his feet with one baud and shake him sober. PROORESS. New occasions toacli new dutie! Time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still, and onward, wh would keep abreast of Truth: Lo, before us gleam her campflres! Wo our selves must pilgrims be, Lntinoh our Mayflower and steer bodily through the desperate winter sea. Nor attempt the Future's portal, with tho Tast's blood-rustei key. LowelU HUMOIl OF THE DAT. The Eastern Question How much will the Sultan have left when they got through with him? Puck. When we come close to a giant, he ofton turns out to be only a common man on stilts. Ram's Horn. Hope is believing that some stranger will saw your wood while you sit in tbe shade. Atchison Globe. "Didn't yon tell me tbat Miss Design was on artist ?" "Oh, no ; I told you she painted." Detroit Free Press. Jaspar "Vokes has no relatives." Jumpup "Then what a splendid chance he has to make friends." Trntb. Shopping "Aren't those beauti ful?" Exquisite "What are tbeyr , , buttons or desert platos?" Chiosgo Record. "Which do yon prefer, fact or fio- ' tion ?" "Oh, the former by all meaus. Fiction nowadays is much too matter of fuct. " Judge. "That new baby of Yonngfather's is a remarkably wide-awake child." "So I've heard. We live next door to it." Detroit Free Press. Dr. Glade "Do you know anybody who has a horse for sale?" Drover "I reckon Hank Bitters has; Isold him one yesterday." Truth. . "Hobbs, your little boy is getting horribly rough." "Yes; I must stop his going around with his mother 02 . . bargain days." Chicago Record. - Mr. X (who has bow legs, to tbe pho tographer) "For mercy's sake hurry np. I ean't bold my knees together any longer." Fliegende Blaetter. He (significantly) "I am my father's only child, you know, Miss Blood." She-"Well, yod can't blame him, Mr. Sappy." Brooklyn Life. He --"I'm afraid tho coming woman will swoar." She "Oh, u-; she in tends to run things so well there won't be anything to swear at." Chicago Record. Murphy "Finnegau, yez owe me $2." Finuegan "Oi know it, but Oi'm goin' to kape it ns security for the fifty cents yez borrowed from me a year ago." Truth. The Professor l(awakening) "la there anybody in this room?" Tho Burglar "No sir." The Professor "Ob, I thought there was." (Falls asleep again). Life. Miss Elderly "I am sorry to say no. I should think yon could read my refusal in my faoe." The Rejected "I am not very export at reading between the Hues. " -Tit-Bits. Awellknown politician remarked the other day tbat tho Imperial Institute was a wbito elephant, and that tho County Council must decline to take it under their wing. Household Words. "No," said Mr. Wheeler, "I have my doubfs about the bioycle being able to displace tbe horse. The time I tried it tbe horse and buggy carao out of tbe collision without a scratch." Indianapolis Journal. She "Why do you start so?" He "Did I understand you to eay that your father is failing?" She 'Tbjsi oally, I mean." He (settling baok) "Oh, all right. I was afraid it was something serious." -Pick-Me-Up. First Young Lawyer "I don't see hnw you happened to lose you case. The law was plainly on your side." Secoud Young Lawyer "Yes, I know it was, aud that was what 1 depended on. But I forgot all about the jury." Souierville Journal. ' "Tbat was a very fino speech you made the other night," said one Pitts burger to another. "I didu't make it tbe other night," replied the latter. "I delivered it the other night, but it took me a month to make it." Pitts burg Chrouicle-Telegruph. Lady (a widow) "Do you know my daughter is quite smitten with you, llerr Muller?" Gentleman (feeliug Mattered) "Really now?" Lady "A fact ; she was ouly sayiug to-iluy : 'I should like tbat gentleman for my papa.' " -Dentscher Soldutenhort. "Why did you breik off your en gagement with M'ss Bertha?" "Be cause her parrot was always ssyiug '.Stop that, George.'" "But what difference did tbat make? Your en gagement was not a secret." "But my name is not George. " Flienondu Blaetter. Situuious "What is the matter with you? You look as if some oue had made youaugry." TiiumotB "Some one bus. 1 asked tbe editor of the Buijlo what be really thought of my poetry, aud be told me tbat if tberj were such a plaod us tbo luiireatesbip iu this sDitutry I would bo sure to get it." ludiunupulis Journal. Oldest Medical Keeil, A Trench medical paper prints what is believed to) be the oldest kuowu medical recipe. It is 11 tonic for tbo hair, uud its date isl'liltl II. (.'. It was prepared for an Egyptian queen, and required dogs' paws ami asr-ca' hoofs to bo boiled with dates in oil. A ICed-Hi-adeil Mummy. Among mummy remains from ibe pit ut .Mauraluiit, Egypt, recently re ceived at Itocheater, was a beud th hair ou w hich was unmistakably red. It was not suppo.-e,! ibat any Egyp tians had hair of that color.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers