GRIZZLY TRAPS. PONDEROUS IKON CONTRIVANCES USED BY BEAR HUNTERS. A. Grizzlj Caught in a Trap is an Ugly Customer. "There is more danger in trapping the grizzly than there is in chasing him with the rifle," said a Californian to a New York Sun reporter. "The traps are ponderous iron things weigh ing forty or fifty pounds. The jaws arc worked with springs so stiff that it takes two good strong men to set them. To the trap a long chain is firmly secured, which is in turn fas tened to one end of a heavy piece of timber by driving an iron ring on the wood until it. is six inches or so from the end, so it cannot bo pulled off. This piece of timber serves as a hin drance to the bear when the trap is sprung on his foot and lie retreats to. or tries to retreat to, his tangled haunts. "A great, deal of cunning has to be used in setting a trap for a grizzly, for Jie is as suspicious as a fox, and will frequently pass by a tempting morsel that has been used for bait for a tiup because he has made up his mind that danger is lurking beneath it. The grizzly never hesitates to risk danger that confronts him openly, like a hunter, dog or other enemy, but a suspicious-looking object, the nature of which he does not understand, will quickly start him oil' about some other business. "It seems strange to see a great bloodthirsty beast, weighing 1200 or 1500 pounds, hunting and devouring such insignificant things as ground or tield mice and moles, and even grubs end crickets, but a grizzly will do that all day long. It was his love for field mice that led Old Clubfoot to his end at last, and many a fierce grizzly be fore liim has been lured to ruin by the same means, after defying for years the efforts of hunters and trappers to run them down. Not long ago I was in a mining camp in Montana, and a big grizzly had been prowling around for some days, and was too smart for us to capture. One day L thought 1 would try baiting him with ground mice. After a long search I secured a dozen of the little squeakers. Cover ing my trap with dead branches, 1 tied half a dozen of the mice to pegs driven in the ground, just behind the trap. In less than an hour that smart grizzly hail succumbed to his passion for field mice, and had one of his great paws in my trap. He gave me a chase of half a mile, with the heavy trap fast, to him, but I got lead enough into him at last to end the race. "The men who make a business of flapping grizzlies set tli ir traps miles back in the great gloomy forests, where the animals like to have their lairs among the tangled fallen timbers, over which no one car. pass except on foot, and then only with great diffi culty. To come upon an ugly grizzly in such a region, an animal weighing as much as an ox and not only ready but anxious for a fight, is something that means business to the hunter. A grizzly bear will get out of a trap nine times out of ten if lie is not over taken within throe hours after he is caught. It. is to lessen the danger of this that the wooden ciog is fastened to the trap, and always with the chain at one end of the stick. Thus it fol lows the bear endwise as he makes his way, and clears obstructions that would catch and hold it if it were pulled along with the chain fastened at the middle. A grizzly is nearly always caught in the trap not far from the tip end of one of his forepaws. On being caught lie rushes with all the speed lie can summon, and in a tremendous rage, for the nearest swamp, which is never far away in a region where .successful grizzly trap ping is to be expected. The hold the trap has on him is not one that will withstand every resistance, and the bear's exertions to get away are great and persistent. He teems to know that his life depends on ridding him self of his incumbrance. As lie tears onward through the forest he mows great swaths iij the underbrush. He drags the tr..p Against trees, logs and rocks, and whenever it, holds fast to them for a few seconds lie jerks and tugs his imprisoned foot, trying to tear it loose. If Ihe clog were tied in the middle it would soon catch cross wise between two trees, and then the bear would tear loose with one or two lunges forward of his great body, and escape to the swamp. I have more than once come up to my trap with nothing in it jut the ragged and bleed ing half of some monster grizzly's foot, and such has been the experience of all trappers. It WII< an incident of thut kind, no doubt, that made the old m oc.rge ui Mittt'.u ','l ix'l; a clubfooied bear. "Tbe further a grizzly bear goes on his furious march without ridding himself of the trap, the greater his rnge becomes. He will rush against obstructing trees and tear them with his teeth, some'imes biting the trunk half away. I have followed the trails of grizzlies through the thick timber while the bears were endeavoring to free themselves from their traps, and have counted snppling after sappling chewed to the ground as completely as a chopper could have felled it,by theso infuriated monsters, and the trees were covered with blood from the wounds made 011 tlie mouths of the bears in their blind rage. To come up with a half-ton grizzly bear while he is in such a temper is like standing on the edge of a cyclone. The trail of a trapped grizzly generally le».ds the trapper a long way through the for est, and more than likely a mile or so into a swamp where he can see but a few feet in any direction, lie is con stantly expecting the bear to rise up somewhere about him and charge upon liiin like an avalanche. There have been times when trappers have come up with the bear at the very mo ment when it l.ad succeeded in tearing loose from the trap. I knew one man —Jim Carter by name—who happened to reach his grizzly at such a time. The bear made one rush, and before the companion who was with Carter could realize the situation the bear had torn Carter to pieces. The companion shot and killed the bear, and carried the dead trapper's body back to camp. I have heard of several similar in stances, but this one I had personal knowledge of, for Carter and I were in the same camp. When you have Irapped a 1000-pound grizzly you haven't caught a bear at all, but simply the devil incarnate. 1 have trapped and killed twenty-four of these mon sters in my time, but as 1 have some thing of a wish to die in bed, 1 think I will rest on that, and let some one else have it out with the grizzlies that are left." A (Jneer Way of flaking; a Living. Talk about queer ways of making one's bread and butter, there are two men in the City Hall who manage to make a very substantial living out of their schemes. It is not generally known that the average number of marriages in the City Hall every year reached the large total of 1,200. Most of these marriages are devoid of ro mance, being contracted by the poorer class of Italians. A good many, how ever, are hasty unions, where the bride and groom have reasons for hurrying down to the Ilail to have the knot tied. These persons generally come without witnesses. That is just where the two men 1 speak of come in. They can tell a couple who want to get married when they see them ap proach the hall. Twenty-two years' experience and observation has made them infallible in this respect. In a minute they make themselves known to the groom, and before ho knows it, they hav : the blank certifi cate drawn and ready for signature. 1£ the Mayor happens to be away, they hustle around and get. an Alder ma-: to perform the ceremony, and, in fact, cverthing connected with the marriage is done by them in a syste matic way. Of course the groom generally testifies his appreciation by a tip ranging from .<"> to $25. In one case a fee of s.">o was obtained. When the Duke of Marlborough was united to Mrs. llammersley by Mayor Hewitt, the two matrimonial "fixers" expected a big fat fee. They were somewhat chagrined, however, when they were left out in the cold. They have no use now for aristocrats.— [New York Star. Heath aiul Burial ol a Hank Note. There is a certain ceremony which attends the death and burial pf a Bank of Kngland note. It is only three days after its cancelling that it is car ried to its last home in the Banknote Library. Its first dark day of noth ingness is spent in the inspector's office, where severe judges sit in judg ment on its virtue. During its second day, it and its thirty or thousand fellows, done up into parcels, arc counted and sorted; that is to say, each parcel is dealt out like a pack ot cards, according to dates and denomi nations of value. The third day, they are pos'ed ir. ledgers, which are kept as indexes to the paid notes; and then, on the evening of their last day in the upper regions of light and air, they are carried down with scant ceremony, in huge bags, to the Banknote Library. [Yankee Blade. The Safest Side. Milkman (to applicant for situa tion). •'You have bad experience, have you?" Applicant. "Oil, yes, sir." "On which side of a cow do you sit to milk "Tli« ouuivle, rir."—[Buzar. SCIENTIFIC' SCRAPS.* The rate of increase of population la iho United States is a little wore tliaii tliree per cent. Philosophers of our own time assert a connection between the spots 011 the face of tho sun and terrestrial weather. Boston scientists have discovered why trees do not flourish near electric lights. They need the repose of dark ness. The heliograph is used to flash sig nals between stations in New Mexico tmd Arizona that are seventy-five miles npart. A man with a penchant for statis tics has computed that, more than 4,000,000 miles of blood pass through the veins of an ordinary human being during the lifetime of 70 years. A Russian inventor seems to ques tion the vaunted perfection of the human body, and has patented an ar rangement of springs and harness to be worn to facilitate walking, running and jumping. A prominent English electrician af firms the value of lightning conductors all hough they are not always reliable. He said that there is almost as much danger of being hanged for murder as being struck by lightning. In Northern Africa has lalety been discovered a river that has worn a bed through the rock !>OO feet deep, and then makes a perpendicular leap C>i>) feet, while all around arc deep, yaw ning chasms and gigantic peaks. It has been proved that fish that live nrar the surface of water can only de scend to a comparatively slight depth: under an increased pressure they die, and—this is very remarkable —the water being forced into their tissues, their bodies become rigid and brittle as glass. Lake Chelan, in Eastern Washing ton, never freezes, although in latitude 48 degrees north. The reason given is that, it is so deep and tho warm wa ter always rises from the bottom to supplant the cold, which goes down to warm itself. The Indians fish in the lake at all seasons and use salmon eggs for bait. A professor in the University of Klausenburg claims to have com pounded a solution which completely neutralizes the poison introduced into the system by the bile of a mad dog. This solution consists of chlorine water, salt brine, sulphurous acid, permanganate of potassium, and eu calyptus oil. Mr. Stejneger of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington in 1882 found on the northwestern extremity of llehring Island the bones of Pallas's cormorant, tho extinction of which in the North Pacific corresponds to that of the great auk in tho North Atlan tic. The eggs are unknown and only four specimens of the skin are to be found in museums. Massacre of ( hlr.ese in Forinosn. 'I he las; mail from Chiin brings news of the massacre of a force of Chinese troops in Southern Formosa by the aborigines now in revolt there. The natives, or savages as they are called, aided, it is said, by a number of half castes, planned an ambuscade. Putting 011 their sandals reversed, they made a number of tracks connected with a particular spot. Messengers were then dispatched to the nearest Chinese post, with news of an outbreak and an appeal for assistance. Tho troops went out, the commanding offi cers, it is said, being considerably in the rear. Pretended sufferers by tho raid appeared from time to time. On reaching the tracks the soldiers fol lowed thein up and fell into the trap, when all but a very few were killed. Out of 200 which left tiie only ten escaped. .t is reported that, for the first time in the history of For mosa, all the aboriginal tribes are, banded together and act on an organ ized system. Thus the eighteen tribes of Ithotans in the South, numbering about 5000 warriors, were concerned in this am bush. Shortly after the disaster the Chinese issued proclamations offering SlO reward for the return of each of the guns lo*t on the occasion, and sub sequently the Chinese general began negotiations, in which he was greatly hampered by the had faith shown 011 many previous occasions to the na tives. At last, and with many pre cautions on the part of the latter, a meeting was arranged,and a peace was patched up for the time by means of large presents and larger promises to the chiefs. The past is to be forgot ten, and the savages are to live on terms of friendship with their Chiness neighbors. From subsequent infor mation, however, it appears that the disturbances in the south of the island have broken out with more violence Umu A Curious Submarine Vessel. A curious French submarine vessel,th« Gymnote, much interested President Carnot during his recent visit to Toulon. The little boat looks merely like a sub merged rock causing a slight ripple in the water, only its lookout apparatus rising above the surface. It appeareu suddenly by the side of the Presidents steamer, then struck the water sharply with its screw, aud plunged down to a depth of from five to fifteen metres, re appearing in a few moments at a consider able distance. The Gymnote is manned by one officer, Lieutenant Darricns, and six men.— New York Telegram. A Financier's Polyglot Autobiography. Mr. llcnry Villard, the eminent finan cier, is writing his autobiography for the use of his children alone, lie was born in Germany, and the story of his earlj years is written in German, while, having been educated in France, his school days are described in French, and his business and social life in America will be record ed in English. As his children speak French, German and English with equal elegance and fluency, this polyglot method of book-making will doubtless commend itself to them.— Washington Star. The Size of Jtoyul Heads. The Prince of Wales wears bell-shaped silk hats, lie pays twenty-live shillings each for them. He has a remarkably even-shaped head, the hatters say, and his size is seven and one-eighth. Prince Albert Victor only takes a six and three quarters. The brim of his hats are enor mously arched, to take off the effect of his long face. His brother, Princo George, takes a six and five-eighths. The Emperor of Germany,who has a very un even head, takes a six and seven-eighths. So does the Duke of Teck.— Pall Mall Gazette. In New York city, at the last census, 2220 persons were engaged in agricul tural vocations, and 4774 111 Philadelphia. KITS stopped free by Dh. Ki.ink's Oheat NKIIVK HESTOHEH. No Kits utter lirxt day's use. .Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2 trial bottle tree. 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