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V0L XLV' 4 MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 29. 1891. xn
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job! me K.itle' rogue, u u throe,
"But tier eyes, like the sklea, are so blue,
Au' bcr dimples so awato
An tier ankles so uate,
Ihure dazed n' sue bothered me, too.
fill one niomin' we whit fur a ride,
Wain, demure as a bride, by iny aide
Like a darllnt ahe sat,
Wid I Lie wi.-kedest bat
CTmtli a purty girl's chiu ivcr tied.
Xa' me heart, arrau, tblll, bow it bate!
Fur me hale looked so Uuiptiu' auj atiua
Wid cheeks like the roses
An' all the red posies
You'd see la her garden so Date
Bui I sat ji't as mule as the dead
Till "be said, w Id a toss uv ber bead,
-If I'd known that today
Ve'd have nothing to say,
I'J have guue w ith me cousin instead.
Then I tilt myself grow very bow Id,
Fur I knew she'd not seold if I towh.
L'v the love at me heart,
That ud uiver depart,
Though I liked to be wrinkled an' owld
Ad' I said, ''if I dared to do so,
I'd let go uv the baste au' I'd throw
Bulb uie anus roun' jer waist,
Ad' be staltu' a taste
Uv tbiui lips that are eoaxiu' me so.-
TbiD she blushed a more illigaut red,
Au' rbe said widotit rnisiu' ber bead,
Au' her eyes looklu' down
'Neath their lashes so brown,
"Ud ye like me to dlirive, Mist ber Ted!"
- Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette.
ALMOST A GHOST STORY
I!V C. W. I.1NNLI.L.
On the broad, sandy oeaeh or a lono
ly Cape Coil village, close to the foiuny
fringe of the ocean and nearly covered
ty the light, wind-driven Band, had
for ears lain an old wreck. How long
it hod been there even the oldest in
habitant hud forgotten.
Tradition, always rampant in the
country, and especially along the sea
shore, had asci ibed to it the doubtful
honor of having been at one time the
ship of the famous Captain Kidd; and
It is even asserted that when she has
found her last resting place upon these
shores, her crew buried in the vicinity
their ill-gotten wealth of gold and jew
el'. Many had searched for this treas
ure but in vain ; and now, after fifty
years of such failures, few believed in
its existence.
One of the many stories, probable
and improbable, told of these searchers
for gold, has for its principals two
young girls who sojourned for a brief
ea-oii in a farm house near the wreck.
Ella Foster and May Holmes were
orphans, dependent upon their own
labors for support. They had boarded
iu the same city house, had been drawn
together by a lack of other society,
and had thus become close friends.
' Tbe first few days of their visit were
devoted by May and Ella to an explo
ration of the old town and its sur
roundings. They were much inter
ested in the weather-beaten, shingled
houses, with their sharp-pitched roofs,
and admired the many varieties of
strange sea shells that usually decorated
the sides of the garden paths and orna
mented the front piazzas, and which
Lad been brought from all parts of the
world by generations of 6ea-faring pro
prietors.
They visited the little harbor, and
uourned with the natives over its de
caying wharves; they arose early in the
morning to see the sun rise over the
oceutt, and to watch the fishermen
come ashore iu their boats after visit
ing their nets and weirs, and heap their
glittering, scaly cargoes on the beach.
The veteran sailors, too feeble for
active duty, were their especial de
light, and they enjoyed nothing more
than to coax some old sea-dog, who
was only too happy to be coaxed, to
relate to them the stories, or "yarns,"
he would call them, of his perils
and adventures on the deep.
The girls had oflen sketched the old
wreck, and one day, while engaged in
this genial occupation, they learned its
reputed history. It made a deep im
pression on their minds, and Mary,
who was quite an historical student,
remembered that a vessel of Captain
Kidd's had been supposed to be lost
somewhere in that vicinity.
The old seaman who related the story
told them of the belief that the pirates
treasure had been buried iu the neigh
borhood, and of the many fruitless at
tempts to find it. The cardinal rule
of euece.-s in a search for it, he said,
was the keeping of absolute silence by
those engaged in digging. It was an
undoubted fact, that when the pirates
''ere obliged to conceal a portion of
their st)oil thev nl wjivr killed nun of
their prisoners, or failing to havo one
in their possession, one of their own
men, in order that the spirit of tbe
murdered man might always watch,
over iu hiding place, and prevent the
gold from being taken away by any
save a pirate or his descendants. The;
ignal agreed upon was the keeping of!
ilence while engaged in digging, and
hould the silence be broken, the spirit
guardian would at once be made aware j
that the seekers had no kinship with
the unhallowed band, and with a
cream of demoniac derision, would
cause the treasure to vanish.
The story over and the sailor reward
d, the girls walked homeward, re
garding the old wreck as they ?ieare
t, with ati intei'ost they h:td never fel
before. j
"Ella," s:,id Mary, "wouldn't it b
Rood thing if we could find- nil
.Wonderful treasure? You could the
throw aside an idea of working for
your ureau, ana I should never have
to teach horrid, stupid children their
scales again, and oh I we could both go
V) Europe, and "
"There, Mary," broke in the cooler
voice of Ella, "what is the use of our
thinking of it? We might as well be
children again, and cry for the moon
as to dream that we should succeed
where so many have failed."
"I know it is foolish," replied Mary
lHT thn-i 5. 1 . ...
"- no uarm in wislnn"' we
might find the money or in guessin,
wnere 11 is, and I am going to think
Uie matter over.
Nothing more was said upon the
subject for a few days, as the weather
was rainy, and the girls were confined
indoors; but Ella noticed that Mary
was thoughtful and preoccupied, and
that she devoted much of her time to
reading such books iu the small town
library, as told of shipwrecks and
marine disasters
At last one morning, the shone out
bright and clear again, and after break
fast the girls started on a much desired
constitutional. Mary at once led the
way to the beach and wreck.
"Ella, I have been thinking over the
story of these old timbers, and I believe
I have solved the mystery. If this ship
was indeed Captain Kid's I beleive
that the treasure she contained, instead
Df being buried a mile or more away,
is at this very moment far down in the
sand beneath our feet. When this ves
sel was wreiked it must have been
during a heavy storm, and at a time of
mortal peril men always think far
more of saving their lives than their
money. Being criminals and pirates,
they naturally hurried away as soon
as they reached the shore to escape be
ing tried and executed for their crimes.
Of course the vessel was ransacked by
the people living near, and everything
of value carried away; but it isjust
here that my theory comes in. In an
old book I read yesterday that a favor
ite place of concealment among" sailors
was a hole hollowed out of the very
keel of the vessel itself. Now I be
lieve the treasure is hid there, if any
where, and I propose that you and I
shall go into the digging business, and
see what we can discover. If we don't
find any money we shall come across
some beautiful shells, no doubt, and
;he exercise w ill be beneficial to both
If people should be curious and ask
why we were digging, we can say we
re looking for shells."
Mary drew a long breath as she fin
ished her short speech, and then en
joyed the wonder and pleasure that ex
pressed themselves in Ella's face.
' Oh, Mary!" she said. "Tcrhapi
you have stumbled upon a solution of
.i ... ... j- ,f , .
uie mystery, aner am Any w ay, as
you say, it will do no harm to make
the experiment."
"I am glad that you fall in with nil
idea so readily, Ella. I was afraid you
would think it a very foolish one."
"Xo, indeed!" And we will make
i beginning as soon as possible."
The girls walked to the village that
morning and purchased two strong
wooden scoops, with which they could
quite easily handle the fine sand, and
ifter dinner repaired to the old wreck
nd begun operations. They worked
manfully, but soon discovered that they
had a larger undertaking on their hands
than they had anticipated. A short
Jistance below the surface the sand
lost its fine, loose character, and be
came damp and hard-packed. The
wind also annoyed them by blowing
the dry seaweed and surface sand into
:he excavation. But this difficulty
they obviated by making a canvas
screen.
They found it necessary to frequent
ly change their wooden scoops for iron
trowels in digging around the large
stones, and Mary showed her ingenui
ty in whittling a serviceable crowbar
out of a broken oar that had been
washed ashore.
They had several days of fine
weather, and made good progress in
their work. At last, after digging
twelve feet from the surface, they
reached the oaken keel, and at once
began to sound the portion exposed,
but with no result. No alternative
remained but to dig their way through
its entire length. This was a dis
couraging prospect, but both girls felt
that they had gone too far and worked
too hard to relinquish their search
now; and so, rolling up their sleeves,
with renewed courage, they begat
their arduous labor.
As they uncovered the keel they
sounded it with their wooden mallets,
and at last, at the close of an August
day, just as the sun was sinking below
the horizon, a etroke of the hammer
upon the oak gave forth a hollow
sound. Both girls started as the wel
come echo fell npon their cars, and Ell"
said,
"Can it be possible, Mary, that you
were right, and that we shall find the
treasure after all?"
Mary was now the cooler of the two,
and calling her friend's attention to
the sinking sun, proposed that further
labor should be suspended until the
morning, saying laughingly,
"If the treasure is really there, it
rt-on't be likely to run away after so
many years."
Ella was only too glad to suspr nd
work for the day; and so, after pick
ing up their tools, they went home.
They were a wakened the next morn
ing at daylight by the shrieking of the
"u i uc roaring or tne sea.
Both sprang up with the same thought,
that the wind and sea might undo
their work of days.
They dressed quickly and hurried to
the beach. The rain had so moistened
the sand that but little had blown into
the excavation; but the seal Great
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waves were dashing upon the shore,
each one higher than its predecessor,
and already jets of spray were plash
ing down into the pit, threatening to
fill it with sand. Only one thing
could be done to protect their work ; a
breakwater must be built.
They grasped the situation in a few
moments, and Ella proposed that they
should go to work at once, and il
possible finish what they had to do
before the sea rendered it impossible.
Mary agreed to do this. Rushing
back to the house they donned their
bathing dresses, and seizing a hatchet
and their scoops, returned to their
engrossing labor.
Du ring their short absence the wind
had increased terribly, and went howl
ing and shrieking over the wide beach,
driving the coarse gravel with cutting
force before it, and lashing the ocean
into still wilder fury.
The girls jumped down into tbe pit
and began clearing away with feverish
energy the fallen debris. After forty
minutes' work they succeeded in lay
ing bare the long keel, and to their
great joy easily found the spot which
gave forth a hollow echo. By sound
ing carefully they discovered the hol
low portion to be about a foot square.
A fortunate blow from Ella's scoop
exposed to their delighted eyes the
opening of the lid of a concealed lock
er. In the meantime, the wavce were be
ginning to pour into the excavation,
and the girls were standing in a foot
of water.
" Now, Mary," said Ella, " we must
not say a word if we Jo find anything,
until we have the treasure safely away
from here and in the house."
Mary nodded, and then Ella applied
the edge of her hatchet to the opening
of the Ud and pressed down upon the
handle. After a moment the rusty
lock gave way and the lid flew up, ex
posing to view a beautifully finished
cork casket. Ella lifted it from its
hiding place.
" O Mary I we have found the trea
sure!" With the words the pit gTew sud
denly dark, and both girls glanced up
ward to ascertain the cause. Just over
their heads was towering the foamy
crest of a monstrous wave, and as they
shrank in terror from the impending
deluge, a terrible, shrill sound, like
the wail of the lost, rang out above the
shrieking of the wind and the hissing
of the breakers.
Iu a second the curling wave broke.
It struck the casket from Ella's hand,
and after rolling far up the beach,
sending its spray dashing over the
coarse grass beyond, retreated ; and
the two girls, half suffocated, managed
to scramble out of the pit and gain a
secure footing. As they did so the
clouds parted and a gleam of the sun
shone out, lighting up the white, toss
ing sea and the storm-swept beach.
Ella grasped Mary by the arm and
pointed out over the wide expanse of
water. Far out upon the crest of a
wave the sun shone upon a dancing
mite that both could plainly see was
the precious casket. For a moment it
shone upon the lost cause of their long
labors, aud then the whirling foam and
flying clouds alone remained iu sight.
And now, at night, when the girls,
lying in their quiet beds, are awakened
by the rising of a gale, memory forces
upon them the never answered ques
tion; was that terrible shriek the
sound of the wind or a shudder com
pletes the thought.
The Tiger's Choice.
The Java "Bode" records a shigul.il
adventure which recently befel a Gov
ernment surveyor in the wilds of Su
matra. After a hard day's work on
a mountain side he passed the night
in the open air in a hut hastily run up
by his coolies. As lie was falling
asleep after long watching, the sight
of two fiery eyes glaring in at the en
trance of the hut almost paralyzed
him with terror. An enormous royal
tiger soon glided in, smelled him all
over, and then set to work devouring
the remains of his evening meal to tho
last morsel. Afterward his terrible
guest disappeared.
One of the Rules of the House.
'Then I sliall expect you, Alfred,"!
she said, "to call for me this evening
at 7:30 sharp."
"Ill be on hand unless the cable.
breaks, Dora," he replied. "I live on
the North Side, you know."
"No allowance for breakage," re
joined the pretty queensware clerk
with a glitter in her eye.
He was a young man on a small sal-
. . . i i
ary, but ne went out ajiu engageu a
cab. lie couldn't afford to run any
risks. Chicago Tribune.
John Bull's China.
According to a London paper, when
a wealthy John Bull goes into a china
shop they show him Minton for a
dinner service, Royal Worcester for
ornament, and Crown Derby for vases.
When Jon ithan goes into a china shop
he is not to be ruled and directed in
any such way. They show him all
that there is in it, and he buys what
he plenscs, and uses it when he p Isaa
cs, c
RATHER PECULIAR.
FCSXY FACTS ABOUT DI FFKIiEXT
ANIMALS.
Wly Eed" Angers the Ox Tribe-Odd
Stories.
The reason that anything of a red
color excites and infuriates the ox
tribe is because red is the complemen
tary color of green, and the eyes of
oxen, being long fixed upon the green
herbage while feeding, when they
espy anything red it impresses their
'sight with a greatly increased intensi
ty. The same effect is doubtless pro
duced upon all grazing animals by a
red color, but oxen, being more pug
nacious than others, show greater
excitement, and often attack that
w idth surprises them.
All animals which chew the cud
have cloven feet.
Sheep have no teeth in the upper
jaw. In some parts of the world there
are sheep that have most of their fat
in their tails. These tails weigh so
much that they have to be tied on small
carts, which the sheep draw after them
when they walk. The carts are made
of flat boards on two wheels. The
fat of the tail is very soft, and is used
as butter.
Whalebone is found iu tlie mouth of
the whalebone whale, where it forms
the substitute for teeth, of which
otherwise the animal is destitute.
In the hottest climates the animals
are found most to approach man ; those
iu each great zoological division pos
sess the organization the most complex
and the faculties most developed;
while iu the polar regions are found
only beings occupying a rank but little
elevated in the geological series. The
ape9, for example, are limited to the
hottest parts of the two continents ; it
is the same with parrots among birds ;
the crocodile and tortoise among rep
tiles, and with land crabs among the
crustacea all animals the most perfect
in their respective classes.
The owl has no motion in the eye,
the globe of white is immovably fixed
iu its socket by a strong elastic, hard,
cartilaginous case, in the form of a
truncated cone; but in order to com
pensate for this absence of motion in
the eye, it is able to turn its head i
round in almost a complete circle with
out moving its body.
There is no country in which the ra
ven is not found native. Tho margin
of the desert, of the jungle or of the
forest, in the hottest climates; the
heights of alternate cliff and copse iu
teuierate climates, or tho rocks and
heaths, aud even the lichen-clad mar
gins of the inhabited regions near the
poles, are all equally its abode.
Both mandibles of the parrot's beak
are movable, but most birds are able
to move only one.
The stork is partial to kittens as an
article of food, aud finds them an easy
and wholesome prey ; and the cats
reciprocate by a love for young storks.
The frog, owing to its peculiar
structure, cannot breathe with the
mouth open ; and if it were forcibly
kept open, the animal would die of
suffocation.
Fishes swallow their food hastily
and without mastication, because they
are obliged unceasingly to open and
close the jaws for the purpose of res
piration, and cannot long retain food
in the mouth when quite shut. j
Persoivs turn pale when effected by
fear because the respiration and the
alllux of arterial blood are diminished, j
The ticking of a watch may be heard
distinctly when it is placed against the
teeth, because sound is capable of be
ing produced by the vibration of solid
bodies without the intervention of the
atmosphere, and in this instance the
sound is conveyed from the teeth
through the bones of the face and
head to the auditory nerves.
The eyes of hares are never closed,
as they are unprovided with the eye
lids. Instead thereof, they have a thin
membrane, which covers the eye when
asleep, and probably also when at rest.
This membrane folds like a curtain in
the corner of the eye, and by an in
stantaneous action flies back when sight
is required, and leaves the eye imme
diately and fully open for the exercise
of sight.
Tigs are poor swimmers, their fore
legs being set closely uuder them, and
when they sometimes fall into the
water they cut their throats with the
sharp points of their cloven feet.
The horse has no eyebrows.
The appearance of much white in
the eye of a horse indicates a vicious
nature, because a high-tempered horse
looks constantly about, apprehensive
of danger, or desiring to do mischief.
The quick motion of the eyeball in
opposite directions exposes an unusu
ally large surface of white, which thus
becomes an evidence of the temper of
the animal.
The lump on the back of the drome
dary is an accumulation of a peculiar
species of fat, which is a store of nour
ishment beneficently provided against j
the day of want, to which the animal
is often exposed. The dromedary or
camel can exist for a long period npon
tails lump without any txher food. j
The deer is f nrnished with suppie- ,
mentary breathing places in addition
to the nostrils, and this would appear
to be An extraordinary (trovisioa of
nature, giving the beast of the chase
freer respiration.
Tortoises and turtles have no teeth.
The cuckoo deposits her eggs in tha
nests of other birds because she is the
largest of insectivorous birds, and re
quires a great quantity of food, for
which it must make constant search.
She places her eggs in the nests of
other birds with her foot, for if she
sat upon tbe adopted nest while laying
the egg the weight of her body would
disarrange the nest and cause it to be
forsaken.
The crocodile devours all kinds of
birds it can get but one, the zic-zac. It
is said that when the crocodile comes
on shore, he opens his jaws and this
bird enters aud swallows the leeches
which are found about the animal's
jaws and teoth, and which have col
lected there owing to the creature be
ing go long in the water. The relief
afforded by having the leeches with
drawn induces the crocodile to toler
ate the presence of the bird.
The faculty the chameleon has of
changing its color has been attributed
to the protective instinct of the animal,
by which it seeks to render itself less
observable by enemies by assuming the
color of the bed on which it lies.
Some naturalists attribute this change
of color to the distension of the chame
leon's body, occasioning differences in
the cuticle, affecting its relative proper
ties; others that the animal has the
power of throwing into its skin a
different pigment, or coloring matter,
from the blood, and others, to nervous
or galvanic action.
Striking- Capt. Kidd'g Treasure.
xhe incessant rain of the past week
has washed away a large excavation
on the south side of Long Beach,
Stratford, a short distance from the
Lordship Farm, and there is much ex
citement among the other residents,
owiug to the fact that several English
coins have been found in the trenches
caused by running water. Mr. Thomas
Fairchild, who is one of the most ob
serving men iu town and who has the
history of all the old residents at ready
com nand, says there is little doubt
tha'. Capt. Kidd's gold is buried some
where in the vicinity of the Lordship.
He has always contended that tho
wealth stolen by the pirate vesrels of
Kidd was brought ashore on Long
Beach, and the discovery of gold and
silver coins, laid bare by the heavy
rains, only strengthens his convictions.
Many years ago tho Spiritualists of
Bridgeport, Huntington and Stratford
gathered, a hundred or more strong,
and dug for thirty days in search of
Capt. Kidd's gold. Tho excavation
covered several acres in area, and is
now to be seen near the Lordship. A
medium of some nolo pointed out the
locality as the true one, and great faith
was placed in her ability to discover
hidden treasures. The restriction was
placed upon the company that, while
they searched, no one should speak
above a whisper. This stipulation was
rigidly adhered to until the thirtieth
day, when one of the party struck
another accidentally on the foot with a
shovel. The pain was so great that the
injured man uttered a terrible oath and
the spell was broken. Then all depart
ed silently to their homes, firmly be
lieving that they had been very near to
the coveted money.
The coins that have just been found
are of gold and silver, aud are very
old, dating some 200 years back. Tho
Stratford Land Improvement Company
have been for months digging a trench
and throwing up a dike to keop tide
water off the marsh in the rear of Long
Beach, and when they continue excava
tions near the washout, careful search
will be made not to overlook the mil
lions that are supposed to lie deeply
uried in the sand.
Wasted Argument.
A lightning rod agent spent several
fiours in endeavoring to persuade Al
fred Elliott of Malvern to have rods
placed on his farm buildings, but he
was unsuccessful. Two hours after
he had gone one of the buildings was
struck. The agent heard Uie news and
returned, but the farmer was still im
movable. "No," said he, "lightning never
strikes twice in the same place." Phil
adelphia Inquirer.
What Did He Mean!
A Chicago man last week was some
what astounded when he received the
following dispatch from New York,
signed by a Philadelphia friend:
"Telegraph my wife I will be de
tained in Chicago a week longer. The
deal hangs fire. Sign my name."
. The Chicago man did as requested,
but he cannot help wondering what
his friend was doing in New York.
Chicago Tribune.
Features of the Game.
"You went to the game this after
noon, you say. "What were the fea
tures." "Well, the features that made the
greatest impression on me were the
features of the man who went out on
three called strikes, when he looked at
the umpire." Lowell Citizen.
The Part-els Post.
The success of the parcels post in
England is demonstrated by the fact
that the number of parcels carried has
increased from 1,000,000 the first year
to 40,000,000 last year. The system
has been extended to other natii-na.
also with satisfactory result.
LONG-DISTANCE HEALING
A iA!f WHO STOPS BLKEDIJIO
WITHOUT SKE1XQ PATIENTS.
Ha Only Needs to Enow His Same
Strange Gift.
The publication of the stories of the
wonderful power possessed by a man
of Grand Kapids, Mich., to stop a
bleeding of any kind on his being
merely told the name of the party and
the location of the wound or hemor
rhage, has drawn attention to a simi
lar case in Cambridge, Mass.
William Wiseman, a resident of this
place, an estimable, industrious young
man, of excellent family, possesses a
similar power. lie has carefully
avoided all notoriety, and probably,
outside his immediate friends, there
are not more than a couple of score
who are aware of the gift he possesses.
The word "gift" may be criticised,
but the mode he pursues hardly per
mits it to come within the range of
what may be legitimately called "faith
cures."
Mr. Wiseman makes no boasting ot
his peculiar power. Indeed, he is
loath to use it at all save in the cases of
personal friends, in which event, of
course, nothing either in the way of
fee or present is ever under any cir
pumstauccs accepted by him. He is
rouug, probably not more than 23 or
24 years of age, and frequently laughs
when people suggest to him the possi
bility of his being able to enrich him
self otherwise tliau by the sweat of
his brow.
"I have no idea," he said "as to why
,1 should be able to stop a bleeding. It
is simply one of those facts which I
accept as a fact aud don't bother my
self about questioning. I have never
made a cent from it, never hope to,
and never will. I am not the only one
who can do it."
"Have you always had that peculiar
power?"
'Well," ho answered, as he laughed,
"I can hardly say I had, and yet you
will laugh if I tell you when I first ac
quired it. I was only a youngster at
the time, a mere bit of a boy, probably
not more than eight years of age. I
was living then with my parents in a
small Canadian town. In the place
was an old lady whom circumstances
had reduced to practical poverty.
Somehow or other she seemed to
have an attraction for me and I fre
quently brought little things from our
home to her. The woman was very de
serving, though too proud to beg, and
my mother encouraged me to bring
her little luxuries. Iu this way we got
to be great friends, and many a tale
she used to tell me in return.
Finally her strength grew weak and
one day she told me she was going
away forever, but before she died she
would give to me all she had, and that
was this power to stop the flow of
blood. She told me the story of its
origin at the famous battle of Lepanto,
where the Christians checked the Turks
when the latter became demoralized,
finding they could toward the close of
the day draw no Christian blood. Her
tale could not Ite vouched for, but she
believed it firmly, and said from the
descendants of the participants of that
battle and their friends it had come
down to the present day. A strange,
and I confess, to me inexplicable part
of the story, was that the power could
be transmitted by a woman, but not
between those of the same sex. Well,
she told me, and "that is all there is
about it that I know."
'Is there positively no charm about
it?"
"Positively none that I am aware
of."
"How often have you had occasioe
to exercise your power 2"
"Probably twenty-five or thirty
times, and on one of those occasions I
did it without the knowledge of the
subject, which knocks the bottom out
of the faith part of it. It was on
Bromfield street, in Boston. A little
lad was bleeding very freely from the
nose. He was a newsboy, and per
haps a half dozen were about him.
My brother was with me. He in
quired the name of the lad, and
coming to me, said: Will,
is bleeding at the nose. Will you stop
it V I replied that I would, and I did.
Now, that youngster couldn't have
any faith in it because he didn't know
it was being done. Remember, I claim
nothing supernatural about it, for that
would be utterly absurd. I may have
been able tc do it before I saw the old
lady who professed to give me the
power, and was simply in ignorance of
it. You may be able to do it, and so
may any one or every one else. There
is no laying on of hands and no hum
bugging of any sort. But now I have
told you all I can. I'm not in tbe bus-,
iness, merely having done it a few
times for friends or those in need simJ
ply as an act of duty."
An Electrical Fire-Eagine.
An electrical fire-engine, which can
be tapped for service whenever want
ed, is the latest invention. The advan
tages claimed are that it can be started
at full speed ; that it is much lighter
than a steam fire-engine of equal pow
er; that it costs one-third less ; that it
is noiseless in its operation; makes
no smohOp sparks, nor ashes; that it is
safer and easier to control, and ia c-aomic'V-
- "AFatalSapcrvUtloir"'--There
is a superstition among- tis
tower classes that whoever posseses
himself of a rope with which a person
has been hanged or has hanged him
self is certain to come in for a slice of '
good luck. A young woman living in ;
the Montmartre quarter, Paris, com- '
mitted suicide a short time ago, aud a j
neighbor helped to cut her down, but
she was dead ; so he consoled himself
by putting a bit of the hemp with
which the deed had been done into his
pocket, with a firm conviction that he
would hear in a day or two that he had
come into a colossal fortune. He ,
would be a millionaire aud would de- I
vote his life to enjoying himself instead '
of carrying bundles on his back for a
few paltry francs per diem ; but the for
tune did not come. He came to Amer
ica and to Louisville to seek it. Per
haps it is even now ou the way, but the
man was impatient. Then there was
the lucky piece of rope. He would not
take his eyes off it. He kept it in his
pocket, and in the intervals between
his errands he pulled it out and medi
tated upon it. From the fortune his
thoughts at last began to dwell on sui
cide. The memorv of the deceased
girl haunted him ; and the other day,
as his wife returned home, she found
her husband hanging in their room dead
with the fatal bit of hemp in his pock
et. He had kept it by him to the last.
Let's All Try This.
A man was sitting on the third scat
in an Allen 6treet car yesterday when
a short, fat man climbed aboard and at
once began fanning himself with his
hat. "Well, this is a hot day, ain'tit?''
said he addressing his neighbor.
"Beg pardon?" said the first man.
"I say it's a pretty hot day, repeat
ed the short, fat man, raising his voice.
The other put his hand to his ear
and answered; "I didn't quite catch
that ; please repeat it."
The little man's ears grew red as he
shouted: it's a hot day, I tell you!"
and people iu the back seats began to
titter.
I'm a little deaf," responded the
first man. "If you will raise your
voice "
"Confound it, sirl" howled tho little
man, perspiring like a sponge. "I say
it's hot! hot, I tell you! hot dayl
D you hear that ?"
The other shook his hoad; and the
little man, casting a look of wrath on
him, alighted. Then the first man
looked around on the passengers and
chu.-.kled gleefully. Buffalo Courier
The Kentucky Mosquito.
The mosquito is here again, and the
crop promises to be large. The little
ubiquitous animal is finoly developed,
and on examination it was found that
his "flip" was much more gaudy than
last year. His wlugs are broad and
large and have the appearauce of is
inglass. His legs are also well fixed,
more active for business, and there is
no fear but that the insect which does
no good in the world will commence an
attack on the human race with much
zeal. The bill well, it looks like a
polished rapier. From now the aver
age man or woman can cease to be re
ligious to a scantified degree, for when
ever you may go the active mosquito
will be waiting to give a warm recep
tion in his most polite manner. Hen
derson Journal.
The Educated Boy's Error.
The trouble is that a boy who gradu
ates from our public or high schools or
colleges would feel it a disgrace to be
come a tip-top carpenter or cabinet
maker, and so chooses to be a counter
jumper, sell pins by the penny's worth
and tape by the yard, bow and scrape
to his lady customers, and delude him- j
self with the idea that he is in one of
he gentlemanly callings.
When he was sitting there after his
metwjage had gone on its way, she
leaned over and handed him a pepper
mint drop from a package in her
pocket.
The Ladiersns ia OtUr Hunting' i
Hunting the otter is not altogcthet
flevold of tho ludicrous element, toi
In the excitement of the chase many a
bold follower has lost bis foothold on 1
(be slippery- rock aud hat found him
self not landed on terra firms, bnC
soused Into an adjoining pool, amid
Che shouts of laughter from his mere
fortunate companions; then. agair,-Isj
these days of barbed wire, used by tha '
farmers to keep their cattle from wad
ing across the stream into their nelglu
Lor' land, the on wary sports ma flad
himself hooked up, and in trying fa
extricate himself from tbe first grasp!
find that ha ha hopelessly got hlmsehi
entangled by a farther and a strongs
bald. Commercial Advertiser.
Price aI4 for Wild Aalm'al.
la Jh European market even wild
beast bars their price. The chjsf
centre of tbe wild beast trade (say a
Continental contemporary) is Ham
berg, where the price list is as follow;
Lion and tiger average 9380 apiece;
leopards, $00; spotted panthers, $150;
while black panther range from 1700
to 9750. For cpottcd tiger the large
nm of f 1200 is paid. Tbe market
value of a rhinoceros varies from
91750 to 94600; African elephants
average 9250 ; Indian elephants 9 1500.
The prjee of monkey range from
fi for a (mail monkey to 9500 for
chunpauieet and orang-outangs.
KEW3 IX BRIEF.
Eiectric ty runs spfudlea.
Sleeping car safes are new.
Orange pie is s inietning new.
In Japan la grippe Is known a
Uose.
Americans are the greatest meat
eaters.
Blonde hair is tbe finest and red tbe
coarsest.
Pennsylvania es'ablished the first
hospital iu America i.i 1751.
P. T. Darnum's family motto was
"Love Ciod and be Merry."
H takes a s-iUng v sse.1 125 days to
sail irom I'ulUoelphia to ban Francis
co. A Kansas fnrmer has a cornfield the
rows of which are three-flfihs of a tulle
long.
A. b'g ocean steamer consume
about, o00 tons of coal in twenty-four
hours.
Cows will give one-third a sain as
much milk If they are allowed to drink
hot water.
The majority of scientists say that
the top of a wheel moves faster than
the bottom.
Chicago has the biggest lime kiln.
Six thousand barrels of stone and lime
are crushed in a day.
The force required to open an oys
ter appears no be 13191 times the wiight
of the shellesa creature.
It has ben calculated that there
are about 200,000 fain dies living in
London on about. $5 a week.
There are more suicides in Kw
York in a week ttian In Pekin, China,
a much larger city, in a year.
The thickness of the human hair
vanes from the two-hundred -and-uftieth
to the six-hundreJth part of an inch.
A fine puy cat in a Chester
iPrnn.) famlt) jumped for a rat caught
Its necit ribbon ou a nail and strangled
to death.
The s ma' lest known in-ect, tbe
Pteratoinut Putnamii. a paiaite of the
Ichueumon, ia but oue-uinetleth ot an
Inch in length.
The Seattle Post-Intel! icencer baa
a long article about an otdiuauce in
Tacoma, Wash., directed against the
"leniale newsboys."
A man In Kansa glories In tbe pos
session of a calf that weighs only lx
pounds and has to be placed on a" box
m order to reach the "maternal foun
tain' An Effingham (Kan.) woman avoids
the expense of keeping a nurse girl by
lariating her children out, after tbe
manner or cattle.
One of the curiosities of Nashua, N.
H., ia a twin tree made up of a maple
and an elm, which have grown together
st a point about ten feet from the
ground.
The Prince of Wales Is a direct de
scendant of King Alfred, being tbe
thirty-third great-grandson thus the
English throne has remained in the same
family for over one thousand years.
Manipur is supposed to contain a
most valuable literature, and a large li
brary has been found already in a tem
ple within the palace walls, which es
caped the fire on the rebels' depar
ture. In each respiration an adult Inhale
one pint of air: a healthy man respires
sixty to twenty times a minute; while
standing the adult respiration is twenty
two times per minute; while lying down
thirteen.
Di molds have been found In
Briikh Guinea, where a eold mine
owner recently collected 638 stones.
An expert In Londoc declared 633 of
the specimens to be diamond of the
purest water.
Besides keeping dogs to watch over
camns the German aimy Is training
them to hunt for soldiers hidden In the
woods and Del is, so that after a battle
tbe wounded might all be found and
brougnt in.
A farmer near Bloomfield, Conn.,
awoke one morning tbe other week to
find that a hill 12 feet high on his land
bad sunken during the night several
Inchen. Since then the mound lias en
tuely disappeared.
Cleveland was tbe only President to
deliver his inauguration address extem
pore. Fillmore made no Inaugural.
GarBeld w.is the first President to make
any political speech iu a foreign tongue.
German was used.
When the postal officials sent to
Adrian, Mich., tbe pay due a vouug
man who was killed In tbe recent Lake
t-bore accident near Cleveland, they de
ducted tweuty five cents for unfinished
part of the run.
An English army officer says that it
has rained only twice in twenty-nine
years in Aden, Syria, and then cdy
enough to lay the dust. "The last time
lr. rained, that was three years ago,
after twenty-six years of drouth."'
It is estimated that a hone can pull
twice as much on a macadam road as on
a drift road; three tttues as much on a
road paved with granite blocks a on a
macadam road, and two and one flfih
times as much over asphalt as over gran
ite. Tbe Malay kites are very curious.
The Malays a-e famous kite dyers,
scarcely second to tbe J panese In the
art. Their kite is a triaugie bent Into a
concave form. It is tailless and dies flat.
Two stout threads from tbe under side
meet the kite string.
A Mussulman bavin? served hi
term In prison Is regarded almost as a
saint, no matter as to the crime for
which he has been condemned. For a
Moslem to say that he has been confined
In prison is to make a claim npon the re
spect and admiral ion of his fellow be
lievers. Something or a cnrio'lty is on ex
hibition at Casper, Wyoming. It is an
Imprint of a monster palm leaf, caused
by tbe leaf falllug into clay, afterward
petrifying. The rock was found on
'Salt Creek and indicates that ag?s aito,
when the big coal lda were being
formed, Wyoming posjessed a tropical
climate.
A woman appeared at Co.iepe
Point, Lorg Island, recently, with a
beautiful collection of birds, whiou
Bhe called Australian warblers. She
sold them rapidly at $1 each. The
birds turned oni to be common EDpl'sh
sparrows with their leathers art:ticaUy
painttd.
A large and curious fish was caught
in the creek near Ca houn, G., recent
ly. It's bead resembled that of a snake,
and it had teeth like a human being.
It U of a variety unknown to the oldest
fishermen.
Don't under-rate modest ability. The
needle nas only one good point; but we
couldn't get along without it.
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