A BLOOD THIRST. Abnormal Appetite Developed in a Texan Girl. Periodically Afflicted With a Craving for the Life Fluid. A malady of tho most remarkable and distressing nature has recently attacked the young daughter of Winthrop Davis ■who owns one of the largest saw-mills in this vicinity, says the Atlanta (Tex.) correspondent of tho Philadelphia 2'imet. The young lady is in her 16th year, and, when in her normal health, of nn amiablo, rather shrinking dispo sition, and possessed of no small claim to beauty, besides being intelligent and well advanced in her studies. About three months ngo she fell into a low, melancholy state, and displayed a sin gular aversion to all society, refusing entirely to converse at times and exhib iting a sullen, angry disposition when questioned or remonstrated with. All food was rejected for several days until a piece of freshly-killed beef was accidentally brought into her presence, when she threw herself upon it with all tho savage greediness of a famished ani mal, and began to tear and rend it with her teeth, sucking tho blood with a shocking relish for the yet warm fluid. Since then, at periods ranging from three to seven days, she is seized with the same thirst for blood, and when brought in sight of it will drink it with avidity, in spito of all efforts made to restrain her. Such efforts are attended with much danger, for during theso at tacks sho fails to recognize even tho members of tho family, and will snap and bite savagely at nnyone attempting to molest her. Her entire appearance undergoes a change, her usually gentle expression becoming inhumanly ferocious, her eyes bloodshot and glaring, while her jaws snap furiously and she keeps up a hideous snarling and growling. Her face becomes suffused with blood and her hair bristles on her heal liko that of an augry animal. Once satiated with blood she falls into a deep sleep, as if from intoxication, and in awakening seems to have no remembrance whatever of her singular attack and is once more her quiet, lady-like self, oaly complain ing of severe headache, which frequently lasts until her next seizure. Physicians who have seen her are at a I os 3 to account for the cause of her mulady and have, up to the-present, failed entirely to relieve her. By tho advice of several, attempts have bsen made to keep her from the sight of blood, but tho result is so distressing that it is now thought best to allow her to gratify her unnatural thirst. Unable to do so otherwise, she attacked her own flesh, tearing it without any ap parent pain and sucking tho blood with avidity. On another occasion, when seemingly at herself, her attention was attracted to a jounger brother, who, having cut his hand, entered the homo for the pur pose of having ths bbeding gash bound up. She instantly leaped across the room and without warning seized the boy's hurt hand in her mouth and bit him to tho bone. It was only with tho greatest difficulty that she could be mado to release him, and when finally forced to let go gave vent lo her rage in hoarse erica, or rather screams, like a wild beast cheated of its prey. Mr. Davis end his wife arc persons of education and refinement, and profess themselves entirely unablo to account for their daughter's peculiar aflllc:ion, as on both sides for generations there has never beeu any intemperance or mental disease. A Monkey Does an Heroic Thin?. A large ourangoutaug was very much attached to his master and to the baby boy, who was the pet of the whole family. One day a fire suddenly broke out in the house, and everybody was running here and there to put it out, while the little biy in his nursery was almost forgotten, and when they thought »112 him the staircase was all in flum.'S. What could bo done? As they were looking up and wondering, a large hniry hand and arm opened the win dow, and presently tho monkey ap peared with tho baby in his arms, and certainly climbed down over the potch and brought the child safely to his nurse. Nobcdy e'.so could have done it, for a man cannot climb liko a monkey, I and is not nearly so strong. You may imagine how tho faithful creature was praised and petted after that. This is a true story, and tho child who was saved was the young Marquis of Killaro. Fragile Steamship Records. •'lt's very strange 1" commented Mrs. Bnaggs, as she la d down the paper. "What is strangj? ' asked her hus band. "Every day or two I read about « iteamship'i record getting broken. It'* •trange tho/ doa't make them itwagei," FEABLS OF THOUGHT. No one should so fear being egotistic mto avoid the society of thoir own conscience. It will make more difference to those who refute to see the truth, than to the truth itself. Information is the literal form of knowledge; if not derived from experi ence, it is deceit. It does not follow that a man should have more authority because of his su perior knowledge. A. man mistakes conceit for wisdom, when he cannot bear to liston to an idea at variance with his own. Progress is derived from honesty, while to be a successful deceivor, train ing is absolu'ely necessary. The man who mistakes a form for a facl 1 , is also ignorant of the mathod by which a success is achieved. Tho more one knows about tho past, and what tho future will be, the less they know about the present. If a man has an idea that ho can find no authority for, he should take cour age and hunt for another one. Gallows Point. Midway in the harbor between Kings ton, Jamaica, and Port Royal a tonguo of laud juts out from the peninsula toward the reefs that bou id the crooked ship channel toward tho north ward. Once this tongue of land was bouudcrcd by a strip of whito coral beach, and covered with a growth of wiry grass; now it is nearly smothered under a thick growth of mangrove thickets, pierced by narrow canals that run hero and there through tho tangle, and dotted by little lagoons, in thj lonely waters of which herons and peli cans and frigate-birds live an almost undisturbed life. Tho name by which that point of land is known indicates its history with a terrible brevity; it is "Gallows Point." There in the old days of seventy-five or a hundred years a;o a gaunt, hideous framework stood in tho sight of all, and almost always between tho upright posts one or more dead pirates hung in chains, swaying slowly to and fro in tho breez3, with hollow, sightless eyes turned now toward tho white-winged ships, and now toward the long neck of Cagawaya, whilst buz zards, tho '"John Crows" of Jamaica, sailed solemnly round and round in tho air above, their silent following shadow now and then flitting across tho gray stony brow beneath. Every one quites Tom Cringle's Log in Jamaica, and it is, perhaps, with all its exaggeration, the host guide-book that cin be fount of the island. Tho author lived in those days, and saw most that he describes with his own eyes. In one part of his story he de scribes twenty-live Cuban pirates strung up at Gallows Point in one morning. Why Silk Is so Expensive. To produce sufficient silk to rnako a dress requires mora time and capital than most pejpio would imagine. If we take one and a quarter pounds as the weight of pure silk required, this would bo equal to two pounds of raw silk. To produce two poun Is of raw silk would require the entire silk obtained from 7000 to 8500 worms, allowing a pcrcentagj for death by disease and other casualties. It may be interesting to stato that these young worms when nowly hatched would scircc'y weigh one-quarter of an ounce, jet in the cour-o of their life, which only lasts some 30 to 33 days, they will consume about 300 to 403 pounds of leaves and increaie in weight about 9000 times. Consumers of silk will not wonder at its high value when they cinsider that to raise two pounds of raw silk so much time and money is requ'rcJ. Besides tlio original cost of (he c:;gs or young worms, they require feeding at regular intervals dajjy with mil berry 'leaves, and consume the above weight of leavci during their life. This is a large item of expense if the cultivator docs not grow and gather his own lcavos, but ir compelled to purchase them. A Berth That It Avoided. If the Thirteen C.ub which made so merry at a recent banquet in London, wishes really to strike a blow at pop ular superstition, let it go recruiting for lady converts, and set them trav eling in the thirteenth compartment of the ladies' Pulltnau sleeping car of the Friday's Orient Express running between Paris and Vienna. The com pany rarely succeeds in finding a ten ant for this particular bed. The car riages ore always reserved beforehand, but the numbered tickets are only dis tributed at the last moment. In spite of this pieraution,. however, No. 13 of the lad es' tickets on that day of the week, is almost invariably returned, and the train, although otherwise crowded, lias to trarsl with oa« berth imp ty. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. Twins aged ninety years are living in Wixom, Mich. An autopsy on a Wisconsin man a few £aya ago rerealed fire jackknivei in his stomach. In Tork County, Penn., a party of tramps recently emptied a water tank and converted it into a bedroom. An lowa girl, Fiora Loak, shot a man dead for serenading hor grandfather on the occasion of his latest marriage. At Williamsport, Mi., is a maple tree that has a full crop of groen leaves, while every on# of its neighbors is dry and leafless. A smart little Pennsylvaniagiil living near tho Maryland line has trappsd enough fur-boaring animals to buy hor solf a nice gold watch. In Sevier County, Ark., Nathan Can non, aged 83, undertook to kick a dog. Tho dog dodgod and Mr. Sevier was l>:cked up with a broken log and wrist. O.ie hundred and sixty-seven bears were killed In Maine last year. The State paid out SS3S, or $5 per head bounty. Over SIOOO was paid as bounty for killing crows. A meteor of great illuminating power parsed over Forkston, Penn., the other night, and in a minn'o thereafter a heavy report was heard, and tho earth shook perceptibly. At East Lyons, la., a goose died very •uldenly. On cutting it open a silver thiiubie was found in its throat. It is thought the fowl choked to death while trying to swallow it. A petriflod moccasin was unearthed at Pendleton, Ore., by some laborers who were digging for the foundation of a bank building. It was seut to the S.nithsonian Institution. Tho belle at a recent dog feast on an Indian reservation in D.iko/a woro a j icket trimmed with toeth from 150 elks, which she borself had slain. She is the granddaughter of the chief of tho tribs. An espalier pear tree at Pollet, France, was planted in 158J, and is now the oldest in Europ3. It spreads 100 feet, its stem is three feet through, and it still bjars 3000 to 4000 pears yeaily. A petrified apple was discovered re cently at Harrington, Me., by somo boys. It had changed to the color of mnrb'e. The stem and blossom wero apparently ns perfect ns when tho fruil iell the tree. Shearing Geose. A curioui cue camo before an En glish court for adjudication recently, says Galeu AVilsou, in the American Ag. r.'eulturUt. A poulterer was charged with cruolty to 48 live geese by pluck ing them of their feather?,and tho own. or of the goose wa» charge i with procur ing tho commission of tho offence. The proceedings were taken by the Ssciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani mals. A witness sworo that "after the geoso were plucktd their skins turned purple color nnd thoy seemed to be in pain. They walke i abcut with theii backs up and shrank when touched." The practice was shown b/ defendant* to bj very prevalent, and the socioty asked for a nominal fine, to put a stop to it. Tho defendant) said it was the custom of the district to pluck the feathers every six weeks, and if they wero stopped from doing so many people would discontinue keeping goc-c, as much more money was realized by the sale of tho feathers than by the gece. Tho court imposed a dip of eighteen shillings each upon the defendants, and expressed the hopo that it would bo a warning to other people. Plucking live gaoie and ducks prevails all over the United States. Ii is a barbarous proceeding and the bird* are justified in "getting their backs up"' at the cruel practice. Should such case J be prosecuted, doubtloss the courts of this country would decide as did the court in question. There is a species of krge water-fowl whoso habitat in win ter is the open lakes of the interior, and their feathers aro so firmly set that they cannot bo plucked. Shearing is re sorted to, and many housewives have beds made of these feathers which al most equal those of eider down, as the stiff, troublesome quill-ends arc absent. Shearing geese and ducki could bt made to supersede plucking. What it Costs Must be carefully considered by the grent malorlty of people before buying an article which eeems absolutely necessary. Hood's Sarsaparllla com mend* Itaelf with special force to the (treat middle clauses, because It combines positive economy with great medicinal power. It Is the only medicine of which can truly be said "100 Doses One Dollar," and a bottle of Hood's Sarsaparllla taken according to directions will average to lost a month, while other medicines last but half or quarter a* long, Try Hood's Sarsaparllla and see for j ourtclf. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. »1; »l* for sl. Prepare! 9*l/ by C. I. HOOD * Co., ApotteoariMi fcowtll, Km lOOJBotM On»_P9llur re is a plague of rats in Lincoln* i England, and the more there art k the more there are to be killedv a >ntly. The cause of this redund* a of rodents is said to be the largd s cnt of weasels to New Zealand) v they were wanted to dispatch thi i a. _ The Excitement Not OVer, rush on the druggists Still continues and t scores dt pbople call for a bottle of I * B&lsam for the Throat and Lungs for t re of Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, Asthma ( jnsumptlon. Kemp's Balsam, the stan < family remedy, is sold on a guarantee i ever fails to give entire satisfaction. ] 50c. and sl. Trial size free. _ ATOR STANFORD has given to Susan B. any $."00 to help along woman suffrage. E or OHIO, CITY or TOLEDO, I LUCAS COUNTY. F , ANK J. CHRNKY makes oath that he is the »r partner of the Arm of F> J. CHENBY « Idolng business in the City of Toledo, My and Stato aforesaid, and tn&t said firm Vay the sum of ONts HUNDRED no I. LARS taeli and every case of Catarrh that cannot kretl by the use of HALL'S CATARRH CURR FttA&K J. CHEKEY; orn to before me and subscribed In my price, this oth day of December, A. D., 1889. I A. W. ULEASON, \t, I Notary Public. firs' Catarrh Cure Is taken internally and wllrectly upon the blood and mucous sur ft oi the system. Bend for testimonials, 112 I F. J. CHEXBY & CO., Toledo, O. ~ Sold by Druggists. T6d.. k Ca »r gets about MOO pounds of pure gold t • j ear from his gold mines in Siberia. The Old, Old Starr. A little cough; a feeling till A headache oft; a dally chilli A slower walk: a quickened breath; A frequent talk of coming death. No strength to rise from day today; From loving eyes he fallen away. Now lifts no more the weary bead. The struggle's o'er; the man Is dead, oh is the fatal progress of consumption, ■often is repeated the same old, old s-tory. not half so often as it was before the Pledge enmo to mankind that there was a i jvery in medical science by which the , 1 disease oould lie arrested In Its early es and the patient restored to health. ' wonderful remedy Is, Dr. Pierce's Golden leal Discovery. lousands of cures follow the Use of Dr. . ! :'a Catarrh Kemedy. BO cants. IK annual orchid show In New York city ' open at tho Kden Musee February 18. ibbins's Electric Soap does not chap the 1 18, bolug perfectly purr. Many ptvtple af f Ml with Salt Hlleum have bee i cure by its i Preserves and whitens clothes. Have 3 ■ grocer order it and try it "'"f. Its. MAYNK RKID, wife of tho dead novel » writing a life of her husband. rily nnil Farm Mortgage*, a and upward, with insured title, for sale ilitnnesota Title and Trust Company, Mln ißOlls Minn. Capital, $5'«,000. Guaranty HI «a»,ajo. Stockholders' liability $1,000,00). ibix wind matches free to smokers ol "fculll's Punch" Cigar. Iflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomn ft Kye-water. Druggists sell at2sc.per bottle ONE ENJOYS 3otb the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant nd refreshing to the taste, and acta ently yet promptly on the Kidneys, .liver and Bowels, cleanses the sy» 3m effectually, dispels colds, head* chesand fevers and cures habitual Dnstipation. Syrup of Figs is the nly remedy of its kind ever pro need, pleasing to the taste and ao* eptable to the stomach, prompt In ts action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most leaithy and agreeable te many excellent qualities com nend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 500 »nd $1 bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro sure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept my substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FKAMCISCO, CAL. avtgmiE. kv new row, n r. N Y N U—o ily's Cream Balm Is worth SIOOO to any ■ CpLO^iH AN, WOMAN or GEILDpKmS/iU * tillering Irom K|' 3ATARRH.|^gfI Apply Balm Into each nostril. I.Y 8K0.5., M Warren St., N. Y. If you have a j COLD or COUGH,! nrute or leading to ; CONSUMPTION, ( SCOTT'S 1 EMULSION! OF PUKi: <;<>■» LIVKK oil.; AND HYPOPHOSPHITBS ! OF I.TUK AND SODA ! IS StTRSI CUBE FOR IT. I 1 'l'hls pro|Mirnti«n contains tlio stlmula- 112 1 ling properties i>t (be Ihjpuphtutphltrt J and Ono JVo rirrglitn i'tnl Llvrr Oil . Used | by physicians nil tUo world OTHr. It Is as ) palatable an tnille. Tliroo times as efflca- k Clous na plain Co.! Liver Oil. A perfect < Emulsion, bolter than nllotliein made. For ( all forms ofMuilHD Z>i»a»e», Bronchilit, S CONSUMPTION, i Scrofula, and as a Flesh Producer ( there Is uotlilns like SCOTT'S EMULSION. J 'it Is sold l>jr nil Druggist*. 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