:E GREAT SETTING
t. OF EVERLASTING HILLS.
I)Y 1IAYDEN CAR RUTH.
SRI
.rt
VEN in theuncon
ventional West,
the freedom with
which the deni
tens of the place
came into the of
flee and pied tho
type was some
thins rather re
markahlo. Colo-
I CJ 1 ....
UVl D1UUUUI C A
; t , pressed the opiu
, Ik'J ion that we
. tie it together bo it wouldn't
i A touchy," and we really
' ggestion serious attention.
" ash did not often disturb
''It his conversational dis
''' sometimes rather disoon-
fl were forced to bear the
"ta nnmerous stories, most
residents being immune
,.' renetitions. His idea
. be that nothing was too
o-, especially after he had
r of paying something on
ition an adroit operation
(ted in turning in a quar
"' elderable flourish and bor-
a dollar the next day.
"' after having performed
!.rt of this transaction, he
.'..h Toot into the capacious
i t nail told a story of one
.-, a former moro or less
'i lident of the towui -I had
r stories of Hendershot
5 tr. Bush and Abner Black
' am inoliued to think that
''' Ime existed.
'"','jw, Hendershot was all
Mr. Bash on the occasion
! "You know about Hen
,Ul, Hendershot, who used
r:.,'eadqnarters Hotel? Hen
id l, yea; quite a mau, Hen
,m.t. Couldn't toll you all
irshot if I took n week ofT.
,,id all the money I lent
. . " and he heavod a sigh
lit. patlietio, as calmly no if
row that I knew he never
ley to anybody iu his life;
il lontrary, owod mouey to
(l,4 town.
Hendershot was, with
"jBeton some fool thing,
ay, or lose it, or anything.
igut of Hendorshot for a
m', last night when I was a
oti. item in your paper about
inilgg old Doacou Brown
of-eight inches iu diameter.
I eight inohes in circuin
"''( Mr. Bnsh never recog
'Liinor points of mere faot.
"bink of Hendershot's old
Everlasting. Everlast
I l her full name, 'cause she
,'.(,'601, of more so. More
, 'cause a yeurthqunke
' hill a good deal, but it
f,'er move that old hen.
eat any time laying eggs
"n'i, Lor no other size,
'1 ever hoard. Hor ob
i. is settins.
irred eggs to set on, bun
,ri:ft n t handy, wasn't above
iiJ:. Next to real eggs, of
iti take artificial ouob
d'lhiua uesteggs. Seemed
satisfaction out of 'em
' J,1d out of corncobs, or a
"" ,k, or a briokbat. Next
"j'lggs she cottoned to door-
j, fust, . brindle if she
irhite. Preferred 'em ou
but, if necessary, could
nko)he attempt to hatoh
t oa the door, bracing one
)o,iy, and squawking a good
j,,Jl her throat if anybody
,loor. Powerful hand to
.mijuawkl just like that
i mi' her throat, if sho was
It" ben she was sottiug.
"o the back platform of
u'': train one day and sot
Mki bright head of a bolt.
' itako at the seotion sta-
' lud como bsck on the
'g on a chunk of coal iu
Cyclone Mowed away the
x1 but old Everlastiug just
t; ground aud kept the
"'" sue was sotting on safo
n ost of tho feathers had
ti' jOff by the force of the
fln old Hendershot went
Jttlf.iu death to aoe her
jail to pat heron the back,
rK. Irked down in her throat
iiia dab at his hand which
Jd. Gamiest hen iu the
-ia b'iling volcaner had
,i.i.ie bank yard she'd ablis
iui4 seltiag on tho stones it
lii' old luia wasn't such a
t in fter all. When she had
'"( g three weeks without
h '.'egn to got suspicious,
' look hard with one eye
;aok on the nost. Then
wrli 5W8ek 'was up, she would
ui'dit d leave whatover it
,yl't around for something
Jgmeut was bad on tnak.
Ifi but, she knowod when
wuu along till that hen
HoHt about everything in
Inlue was getting pretty
W.setting material. One
ot was iu tho billiord
a game with Judge
,A ue Wfts o-uurting the
u(i"lko, down along the rail
, it'"1'. wc" suddenly that
;r 6 speckled heu up and
"dr with two squawks
.(i,ks, saatohed a dabattbo
u, fathered thera four balls
tin.? tid sot down on 'em,
lll(!iefos peaoeful, and be
ill. fu deop and steady, as
illy, 'Thank hoaving, at
I'V.iod:'
igM'ffnHt Hendershot was
w'Tjiluiu says he: 'Bovs.
Uive the hen a
never stira for
iio i--1 ' e
pt ..n a day t get a
rshit. he oouldn't
i walkiug around
t"" a hi
,0 lht -
9t '
, io rig up some
on her. Offered
'in any other hen,
an might provide
tr nest and obina
Everlasting ag'in
tha others to fol
low eaoh other. Finally offered to
bet that the fowl would hatch out the
billiard balls, red and white ivory
ohickens, but everybody fit shy of
even this offer, 'cause nobody knowed
what the old spreckled thing couldn't
do. Finally he give up, and on id
he'd just make an exhibition set of it,
and chalked down tho date ou the
wall, and told strangers who dropped
in that it was a grand set ng'in time,
an attempt to lower the world's rec
ord nuder the auspices of tho Inter
national Setting Hen Association.
"Along toward night, when Hen
dorshot was standing aud admiring
her, and pointing out that she hndn't
moved a feather since she sot down,
in come a sandy-haired feller with a
red face, and wearing one of theso
fore-and-aft caps, and funuy-looking
olothes generally, and squinted his
eyes around and seen tho hen, and
said the feller: .
" 'Ob, I my,' soys he, just like
that 'oh, I say, you kuow, what's
the bloorain' bird on the table for?'
" 'She's a setting on four billiard
balls,' answers Hendershot, proud as
Lucifer.
"'Extraordinary, by jovo!' pays
the feller; 'does she think BUe cau
hatoh 'em?'
"'That's her ijeo. And I don't
know but she might you hear wot I
say?' says Hendershot, swotting up
with pride.
" 'Oh, I say, mow, sho'll soon get
tired of that you know. Hons cau't
hatoh out billiard balls.'
" 'Bet you twenty-five dollars sho
keeps trying for throo weoks anyhow,'
answers Hendershot.
" 'I'll go you on that, says the fel
ler. " 'Bet yon fifty dollars she keeps
at it the fourth week," says Hendershot.
" 'Go you again,' says tho feller.
" 'Bet you a hundred she holds out
the fifth week,' keeps on Heudcrshot,
getting excited.
'lake that, too,' comos Lack the
feller.
" 'All right,' said Hendershot; 'put
up your money.'
" 'Oh, I say. I'm not nsed to thnt,
you know. Don t do that way in
England, my dear sir. We're gentle
men 1 11 just record it in my betting
book, you know, and he pulls out a
small book and looks along down the
page and sort o' begins reading to his-
self, like this: 'His Ugliness, fifty
guineas on the sweepstake; Juke o:
Uluckwater, a pony ou the Goodwoou
cup; Lady Bink, box o' gloves,' add
then he scratched down something,
saying, 'Landlord, $175 ou hen.'
"Well, Hendershot be caught right
on, and he wasn't to be outdone, so
says ho 'Of course that's all right, my
lord both gentlemen certainly
I'll just put it down in my betting
book,' and he dragged out a copy of
the Smith Patent Pill ComnanT's
Farmers' and Meohanios' Acoount
Book and mns his Anger down the
page, sort o' talking to hisself 'The
president, live hundred ou hoss trot;
Chief Justice Supreme Court, $10 on
dog tight,' and then he scratched down,
'Stray Englishman, $175 on Everlast
ing Hills.'
"Then soys the fellow: 'I'm ont on
a littlo huuting trip think I'll just
stay at your house.' Well, Hender
shot was tickled to have him, and
put him iu the best room iu the
house, and gavo orders that nothing
was too good for him. Aud he was
just the kind that kuo wed good things,
and be went right in and mode his
self nt home had extra grub every
meal, lively teams eaoh day to eta out
hunting perahrio chickens, and all
that kind o' thing aud run up a bill
like tho national debt. But Heudor-
shot was ticklod to death over it, and
usocl to speud half his time ta kincr
with tho feller 'bout the Jnkos and
things he knowed iu England.
Ana olil iverlastinnr mst sot on.
Thsy left the wiudor opeu so sho could
got out when she wanted to. It was
aiways her way to hop off the nest
just at sunrise every morning, and
hustle around and pick up a handful or
two of gravel aud be baok ou in ten miu
ntes. Every morning before break
fast Hendorshot took a look at her,
aud during the day he had an eye on
her most of the time. Fenced off that
comer of the room so that she
wouldn't be disturbed, and put np a
shode so's the light wouldn't hurt her
eyes.
"Well, at tho eud of throe weeks
Hendershot couldn't hardly contain
hissoir, 'cause he'd won the first hot.
1 hat's og'in me, 'pou inv honor.
says the Britisher, notiuor. it down in
his book; 'but I'll win on the next
week's,' aud ho civo his bill another
h'ist. Once Hendershot presented
his bill, but the Britisher waved it
away sort o'graceful and said he'd fix
it whou thoy settled tho bets. 'That's
all right, my lord,' says Hendershot.
au gentlemen; you know,' aud the
Britisher boosted his livery bill again.
"When tho fourth week ended the
hen was still setting right along, and
the Englishman owued up beat ag'in.
"Sume way at tho end of the tifth
week. Hendershot wus so tickled
that he couldn't hardly talk. 'But I
say, you ought to give me a chance
for my reveuge,' says the Britisher;
'go you another weok for two hun
dred.' 'Ail right,' says Hendershot.
An.i he wou ag'in, I'll be hanged if
ho didn't. 'Double the hot and you
go ag'in,' says the Englishinau. 'Brit
ish pluck, you know never say die.'
Hendershot agreed, with some ro
mark about tho Amerioun eagle. 'Tell
you what,' says he to Judge Longs
dorf, 'old Everlasting is just making
the set of her life. Id's the billiard
balls being bo natural, you see. Be
ing nsed to oomoobs and chunks of
bricks so long that a billiard bull gives
her new hope. I'll go him one more
week at 8300 if sho holds out and he'll
do it.'
"Well, she held ont all right
enough, and the Britisher was ready
to try it ag'in. 'England expects
every man to do his duty,' says he.
'There you are, Mr. Landlord.'
t "The eighth week woe up at four
o clock a Thursday afternoon, and
they'd agreed that it was to be the
last. A few rainntes before four Hen
dershot was walking shout pretty
nervous, with one eye on old Ever
lasting. " 'She's n-going to do it,' says he.
'She ain't moved a feather. She's
right there. She's a-winuing money
forme. To-night I'll give her a nest
and thirteen eggs as her reward. Yes,
sir; thirteen genyooiue eggs, you un
derstand eggs that will hatch. She'
the greatest fowl in the United Slatoi.
I'll back old Everlasting Hills ag'in
the world.'
"J list then in walks the clovk, and
says he: 'That Englishman left ou the
ono o'clock train. Did ho pay his
bill?' .
" 'Great beeswax, no!' yells Hen
dershot. 'Two hundred dollars, il
it's a cent! Nor tha bet, ucithor! Yon
blamed old speckled fraud!' and he
rennhes over and gives tho hen a poke
with tho billiard cno, and she rolls
over with her fnet np.
"Then Jndgo Longsdoif picks hei
up aud she didn't weigh morn than
six ounces. 'Why,' say he, 'she's
got class eyes and wire in her neck.
That fellor must 'a' been a taxider
mist uud stuffed her about four weeks
age I' .
"Well, wheu Hendershot could
stand up without help, ho said some
things also without help but there's
no usn of ray telling yon whnt they
was, Vnnm thoy wasn't things you
could print iu your paper, r.nd there's
no sense iu your bothering with things
you can't use. Just go almnd and
make an editorial of this, and draw a
moral on the sinfulness of betting if
you want to, whii-h I've alwuy said
it was, ever since I bet ag'in my own
hosj and the critter got scared and
run away and como iu ten rods ahead,
which I'll tell yon about aomo other
time," and he went out and left me
to finish the articlo I was writing,
urging people to dig deeper cycloue
cellars. Saturday Eveuing Post.
SOUTHERN STEEL.
Heelnnlnff of mi Kiinrinnm Industry
SU-rl Hull Mills to Follow Cotton HI I 111.
The beginning of the manufacture
of steel at Ensley, near Birmingham,
Ala., recently is a striking and impor
tant fact of great aigniticance for
Southern inu'iRtiy. Three furnaces
out of the ten that liavo been under
oonstrnotiou began to make steel on
Thanksgiving Day aud the other seveu
are soon to be in operation. Where
pig-iron can bo niado most cheaply,
steel also can be made at least cost, so
that we are now witnessing thu tfrst
steps of a movement that means a vast
development.
Hitherto the South lias bcou pro
ducing pig for sale to steelmakers in
tho North. Mcch pig has ulso been
exported to England aud other coun
tries. The significance of tho event
at Ensley is that it points to a time
ot far distant when steel rails, armor
for warships, steel ships, tinplute,
structural shapes, etc., will be South
ern products. Other stocliuaking
plants are already, we are told, iu
contemplation and sovoral rolling mills
are building.
Low cost of production is nowadays
the controlling faotor in tho location
of new industries. . It is the breeze
thnt wafts the cottou manufacturing
industry slowly from Now England to
the Carolinas. It is tho beriuning
thnt is difficult. After the first cot
ton mills had shown tho way to suo
cess, others followed in quick succes
sion. So it may be expouted the suc
cess of steel making at Euslny will
have largo results. Baltimore Sun.
Agriculture In the Klondike.
Suoh of us as regard the Klouiiyke
as a cheerless, arid waste of ice are
surprised at the statement of -a resi
dent of Dawson City, sent to Wash
ington by Vioo Cousul Morrison:
"Grain has doue exceptionally well,
and I see no reason why it should not
bo extensively aud successfully grown
here. I see no reason why this coun
try should not bo ablo to produce its
own vegetables aud graius. The suc
cess I have had with flowers proves
tli at nil haroy auuttals will do well.
The coming year I intend planting
Beveral hundred hybrid roses; also
Hummer flowering bulbs, a largo variety
of other hardy and half-hardy uu
nuals, and some of the hardy peren
nials. Small fruits, suoh as straw
berries, currants, blackberries aud
raspborries, should do well. Currants,
raspberries, cranberries, strawberries
and blueberries grow wild here."
VictorSmith, iu New Ycrk Press.
l'oM 11115 For Iog' Com it.
Seldom has a pug dog been buried
with so much pomp aud espouse ui
"Dude" Kogers, of Denver, Col.,
who had beeu Mrs. Jennie Rogers's
constant companion for seventeen
years.
Mrs. Rogers said ho kuow an much
as a child, that he had alwuys beeu
treated like one, and that ho should
be buried like one; so she sent for an
undertaker to lay out his remains and
measure him for a coffin. The casket,
for its size, was the most expensive
ever made in Dcnvor. It was of ma
hogany, lined with silver, finished
with silver trimmings, and cost $175,
The body lay iu state iu Mrs. liogurs'd
house for liulf a day, and lots of her
friends came to make a farewoll call
on Dude. Mrs. ltogers had Dude
buried in tho garden back of her
house. The gravo was terraaed up
exactly like that of a baby and covered
with roses.
Vhen a Man's a Mir.
Why do all uewspaper writers, wheu
writiug of a uiarriago, say that the
"oouplo were pronouucei'. inon and
wife?" I admit that tho bride was
not a wife until married; but was not
the bridegroom, a man before be en
tered the marriage stato? Siucerely,
QCEIHST.
No, no, no! Ask any woman. No
male is more than half a mau until
married. It requires matrimouy to
round out his being. Iu aomo parts
of tho country, when one man is in
troduced to another, the first query
is, "Glad to know yon; married mau
or dog?" And the auawer is "Dog,"
if the one interrogated is a baohelor,
and "Man," if he happen to have a
wife. Victor Smith, in New York
Press.
Boars Uava riantjr or Ammunition.
The quantity of ammunition stored
in the Transvaal is absolutely oolos
al, and would suffioe for ten years'
war, even at the present rate of usage.
SOME UNIQUE CALLINGS.
ODD PURSUITS BY WHICH MEN
CAIN A LIVINC.
Converted a Hump nn Ills llnrk Into a
. Ntpilnsstona to RuccAsft-klnttinnlly
nf tha Parisians In Adopting Unear
l'rofesslonsMat lllrml Out.
The complexity of modern civiliza
tion is shown in nothing morn strik
ingly than in the extreme multiplicity
of pursuits by which men to-day gain
n living. In a country village whioh
supports with difficulty a single baker
or tailor, only the old-fashioned and
indispensable trades are pursued; but
in the great swarming centres of
population like London and Paris,
not only these, but a multitude of
strauge, queer, out-of-the-way callings,
which, eveu in towns of half a million
or even a million inhabitants, would
not give employment to a single hu
man being, aro followed by scores
and oven hundreds of men who derive
therefrom not only the means of sub
sistence, but in some cases au inde
pendence aud even riches.
Persons who aro familiar with tho
history of popular delusions, which
Poison once said jestingly that ho
would write in a work of five hundred
volumes, will remember tho famous
stock-jobbing mania whioh raged in
Paris under the inspiration of the
Scotch projector aud financier, John
Law. During the mania the great
sceno of operations was the Hue
(Juinquempoix. The business was by
law confined to that spot, whither
multitudes of men and womeu of nil
ranks and conditions flocked to buy
shares in Law's bank and Mississippi
Company, which, though absolutely
worthless, roso to twenty times their
original price.
X IIVMP THAT MAPS ITS OWNr.ll RICH.
Desks and writing materials for the
transfer of shares were in great de
innud, but in street so deusely
crowded they wero not easily obtain
able. Iu this exigency a hunchbacked
man let out his protuberanco for the
infatuated speculators to scribble
upon, and so eager were they to use
it and bo liberally did they pay him
that he is said to havo liiado iu a few
days a hundred aud fifty thousand
livres. It was a happy thought that
led this man to convert an obstacle
into a stepping-stone to success; it
showed that though his person was
crooked, his mind was straight.
Hundreds of hunchbacked men would
probably have seen the golden tide
running by thorn for life without
dreaming of thns profiting by it.
Sinco Law's day Paris has boen
pre-eminent for the odd pursuits aud
callings of many of its citizens. Of
all the great cities of tho world, it is
the one iu which to-day the most ex
traordiuary and surprising modes of
gaining a living are employed. No
where is keener ingenuity exeroisod
in turning refuse to account than in
this huge hive of industry, where
literally notbiug is wasted. Out of
the very leavings of the regular in
dustries of the metropolis dirty rags,
half-gnawed bones, mouldy crusts of
bread, cigar cuds, parings and peel
ings of fruits, pieces of squeezed
lemon thrown aside by oyster eaters,
pieces of glass, clippings of hair, etc.
scores of shrewd men are continually
realizing fortunes, and thousauds are
getting their daily bread.
Among the articles thus transformed
by Parisian iugenuity aro faded flow
ers that liuve been flung aside by tho
benuties to whom they were presented.
The discarded bouquets are collected
daily from the dirt heaps of the city,
are picked over, sorted, uud the onds
of the stalks dipped into water nearly
boiling, whtreby tho sap is made to
mouut into the flowers, and they be
come as brilliant as if .freshly picked.
They are then mounted upon rush
stems, arranged in bouquets, aud sur
rounded with fresh greou leavos, after
which they are sold by tidily dressed
littlo girls who peranibulito the
boulevards and press them upon the
Parisians.
FAINTINO AS A rROFESSIOJJ FOE WOMKN,
Tho following incident shows au
originality of invention rarely rivaled
even by the prolific brain of the Yan
kee. One day in a lawsuit before the
Tribunal Correctionnel a handsome
young lady, smartly drosEed, was
callod as a witness. Tho presiding
judge asked her name, and then her
profession or calling. "I faiut," an
swered madame in a very low tone.
The judge thoreupon directed an offi
cer of the court to bring her a chair
nud allowed her to sit down. "Don't
bo afraid, madame," said he; "and
please to toll me before you are swoi n
what is your profession?" "I um
fainting," agaiu whispered the pretty
witness in a barely audible voice. The
gallant Vice-President uow sent for a
glass of wator, whioh the lady sipped
alowly, then bowing to her inter
rogator she appeared to await further
questions.
Again, the third time, sho was
i. i i . . . ...
BH&eu uer proiessiou, wuen, witu a
look of wouder and surprise, she re
plied: "But, Mr. President, I havo
already twice had the houor to tell
you thai my profession is to faint. "
"To faint!" exclaimed tho astonished
nud puzzled Judge; "how cau that
possibly be a profession?" Tho lady
explained that Bhe gained her liveli
hood by going every evening in a
fashionable dress to a stall in the The
atre do la Porte do Saiut Martin, aud
there fainting, as though overpowered
by the powerful and vivid uotiug nt
the most critical and tragical moment
in the play. Sho added that hor ser
vices were considered iuvaluablo, aud
that thus far sho had givou to tho
manager complete satisfaction.
HIRED OUTLETS AND GUARDIAN ANGELS.
Wo have all heard of dross-ooats to
let, of hired jowels, and eveu of hired
wedding presents, but who ever heard
of meat to let? Yet iu Paris the flue,
appetizing joints of meat aud other
eatables which are displayed iu the
windows of tho cheaper restaurants
are simply hired to tempt the passing
epioure. There ore butchers who ro
nlize a considerable income from lot
ting out show joints, atuaotive legs of
mutton and nicely trimmed cutlets,
disposed with suoh Parisian art as to
oatoh the eye of thu plebeian boil vi
vant. Eveu clean liuen, also, is let
out on hire, and it you suffer from uu
exoess of blood, you oan hire leeches
and have them set biting for a trifling
sum.
Among other odd ways of gaining a
living in the French metropolis are,
making soap bubbles, painting turkeys'
feet, retailing lighted fuel, guessing
riddles, collecting samples,, and act
ing as g.iardian angel of only one of
which, the last, have we space for an
explanation. The guardian angel es
tablishes himself in the outskirts of
the oity near the wine shops, where
he does odd jobs during the day for
the shopkeeper, while in the evening
he assists iu getting home any ol the
sons of Bacchus who may have druuk
too deeply. In doing this be must be
deaf to all the oommands and entrea
ties of his charge to let him enter any
of the wine shops on the way; he must
keep him ont of broils, guard his per
sonal e (Toots, oven fight for him if
nocessary, aud when ho cannot be led
homo, carry hi.n ou his back or wheel
him on a barrow. The earnings of
these helpers of frail humanity are
ridiculously paltry, seldom exceeding
a frano or two a night.
TUB EXPKRTNF.SS OK WIVR -TASTERS.
One of the out-of-the-way modes of
getting a living in London is that prac
ticed by the wine-tasters of the Lon
don docks. These persons, who are
snpposed to havo palates of exquisite
delicacy, with much knowledge of
wiues, hang about the docks, where
j they are hired by both dealers nud
buyers to accompany thorn to the
vaults and give their opinions of the
various wiues submitted to them for
examination. Though they carefully
avoid swnllowing tho wine thoy taste,
yet their calling slowly saps their
health, and they become at au early
age physical wrecks. Tho sensations
which they cxperieuce in sampling tho
wines are of the most delicate and
subtle nature; it wai oue of these men
who deteoted tho flavor of iron iu
pipo of wino into which a shingle nail
had fallen. Saturday Evouiug Post.
Japan
hisni.
CURIOUS FACTS.
has fifty sects of Budd-
Tho watermelon grows wild all over
Africa.
Benares, India, was an ancient
capital before Babylon or Ninevah
were founded.
Rhinoceros meat is something be
tween pork and beef, and is not to be
despised when no other flesh is to be
obtained.
Iu Harrodsburg, Ky., there is n
mau who has a private coal mine that
he uses as his fuel supply and will
sell none.
Haw eggs, milk and plenty of fruit
are recommended for brain workers.
The fruit corrects the bilious tendency
of the milk and eggs.
Tho largest tree in the world lies
broken and petrified at the end of a
defile in Northwestern Nevada. It is
said to be 6l6 foot loug.
With plenty of water and without
solid food, a.horse will livo twenty-five
days; with solid food and without
water, he will live only five days.
In the King of Saxony's museum at
Dresden there is a cherry stone upon
which, by the aid of a microscope,
more than one hundred faces can be
distinguished.
The Indians of the interior of Bolivia
wear shirts and hats made of the bark
of a tree, which is Honked in water to
soften tho fiber, nud then bealeu to
make it pliable.
Among tho Vosgcs peasants children
born at the new moon are rupposed to
have bettor hung tongues than others,
aud those born at the last quarter to
have keener reasoning powers.
In all these years of tea drinking,
tea has not beeu druuk at meals iu
China. The wuter from which it is
made is always freshly boiled and
used as soon as it reaches the boiling
point.
Iu loelaud horses aro shod with
sheep's horn. In the valley of the
upper Oxus the antlers of tho moun
tain deer are used for tho same pur
pose, the shoes being fastened with
bom pins.
Dauoing eggs are Raid to be abundant
iu Shasta County, California. The
egg is laid by an unknown insect, on
thu oak leaves, and whou it is mnturo
it drops to the ground, where it
dunces about as if aui nnted.
Natural gas conveyed in bamboo
tubes was utilized in China years bgo,
aud ouo of their writers mentions
boxes which repeated the sounds of
(ersons' voices that were dead a
machiuo similar to tho phouogrr.ph.
' A great many things that r.ro now
used for food were onco considered
poisonous by the Bomaus, who used
them to scatter among their clothes
aud keep away moths. It wan a bold
man who first dared to cat a tomato
or cook au eggplant.
T:u;lniiit.'s Fiag In tho Snncttinry,
A striking ceremony, liko those of
tUn days of the Crusaders, was wit
nessed at Canterbury, England, when
a large company of tho East Kent
liegimont, knowu as tho "Bull's,"
marched to the Cathedral escorting
the regimental colors, which wero
placed in the sauoluary.
Dean Farrar accepted the onstody
of the oolors, conducted tho impres
sive ceremony aud addressed words of
sympathy and encouragement to the
soldiers, who wore about to sail for
Africa.
British regiments uo longor carry
their precious colors in foreign wars,
bnt deposit them iu thoir ' home
churches. New York Journal.
L'ntanltary Vomlltlun of I'aklii.
The throo ohiof ' uhnraoteristioii of
Pokin, thu Chiuaso enpituf, which
most impress the newly arrived visi
tor are dust, stench and dogs. There
has beeu no rain fiucn Juno, and tho
hideous tracks thnt nro dignified by
tho titlo of streets nro nnkle deep iu
black dust, much of which is pulver
ized filth. A loug tho macadamizod
streets, of which thoro nro throo, are
opeu drains. Tiioso toi ve as sewers
from which tho nownga is dipped and
tho highway sprinkled. Whou it
dries tho pulvoriziug la resumed, and,
iu addition to the original compound,
tho residuum of tho tainted wator is
breathod into tho lungs. Correspon
dence Now York Tri'ouno.
Htray Iob la Xetr York Clly,
The Sooiety for the Prevention ot
Cruelty to Animah in Now York City
picked up '23, dO(J wandering dogs in
13U8. Of theso 1511 wero restored to
their loviug owners, and almost every
one in a healluy oondition was
adopted. Thousand wero killed be
cause of disoaso.
POPULAR kCIENCE.
iio me recent tests bave brought lo
light the fact that iodine occurs in cer
tain articles of human food in small
quantities, and as it occurs in flab
and shell fish, it has recently been
suggested that this fact may be the
reason why fish is so valuable food
for invalids. Traces of iodine have
been found in eod-liver oil, and it ii
possible that it, together with the
bromine and phosphorus, contribulei
to its tonie effects.
Light travels .'ally 6,000,000,000,
000 miles in a year, and even the moKt
modest guesses as to the parallax of
Polnria make it thirty-five light years.
Pritchard's estimate in 1887 was ninety
light years, bnt he has sinoe modified
his rlgnrM. Hence, if one will write
two hundred and ten and add twelve
ciphers thereto he will have the num
ber of miles which the most conserva
tive authorities believe intervene be
tween the earth and the pole star.
The deep sea is in total darkness,
and plant life, according to Sir John
Murray, is quite absent over ninety
three per cent, of the ocean bottom.
Fishes aud invertebrates, however,
nro scattered over the floor of the
ocean at all depths. The majority of
these deep sea animals live by eating
the mud, olay or ooze, or by catching
the particles of organic matter falling
from tho sarface. It is probable that
three-fourths tf the deposits now cov
ering tho floor of the ocean have passed
through thu alimentary cauals of
niariue auimals.
CHRISTIAN jip TOPICS-
JANUARU 14.
In the Far Country. Luke xv. 11-24.
From a recent investigation on the
influence of pressure on milk, it ap
pears that milk under a pressure of
ten tons could be shipped a live or
ten days' journey without fear of
spoiling, but the cylinders capable of
carrying such a pressure wonld prob
ably weigh more than the milk. Great
pressure applied for a short time
greatly delayed souring. After a
pressure of thirty tons for eight to
twelve hours, milk will usually keep
sweet three to five days, and after a
pressure of forty tons at 123 degrees
Fahrenheit for an hour, me.it kept iu
good condition ior three mouths.
Dr. E. W. Scripture described be
fore the American Association for tho
Advancement of Science the method
of producing an KBtheBia by tho di
rect application of an electrical cur
rent without the application of drugs.
An alternating current with eqnal
positive and negative phases was made
to traverse the nerve. At a proper
frequency ot about 5,000 complete
periods iu a seoond it oan be made to
out off all sensatory communication
by this nerve. Needles can be ruu
iuto the part of the body supplied by
this nerve without any pain being felt.
As to the distance of the preseut
polo star from the earth, it may be
mentioned that its light requires about
41. C years to reach the earth, notwith
stading the fact that light dashes along
with such inconceivable speod that it
will oover 185,004 miles per secoud.
The light from Vega, the next pole
star, requires eighteen years to tra
verse the distance between it and the
earth. As a consequence, we do uot
see the present pole star as it is at the
preseut time, bnt as it was 44.6 years
ago. Indeed, if the pole star were
blotted out from existence to-day, it
would still continue to shine out as
vividly as ever for 44.G years. So it
is with all other Ptars, aeoordiug to
their distances.
Home Circa Statistics.
When Barnura'e "Greatest Show on
Earth" traveled throughout the United
States on its annual tour, visiting
every city of 40,000 inhabitants or
more, it covered an area of nearly 3,
000,000 square miles, and even then
appealed to a population of less than
00,000,000. Tody Hamilton once told
me thnt over 1)0,000,000 tickets had
been sold for this show. Of Barnaul's
autobiography and his "Humbugs of
the World" and "Lion Jack" it is said
a million copies have been sold.
Though not a humbug, Barnum was
the Prince of Humbuggers. He began
his career as tihowman by exhibiting
Wasniugtou a nurse, Joyce iietb, set
ting her age down at 1C1 years. Who
else would have had the nerve to do
that? He made. .$1500 a week out of
this piece of humbuggery. Wheu
Toyco died a post mortem proved that
Burnum had added eighty years to her
age. Victor Smith, in New York
Press.
Srrinfur Verses. Job xi. 1,1, 14
Isaiah t. irV8; Ps. xix. 7; John vi. 441
Ps. li. if-l.l; Matt. iii. 1. 2: iv. 17; Acti
ii. 38; Jas. iv. 8-10; Ps. Ixxx. 7.
l-efsnn Thoughts.
As soon as we lose our trust and con
fidence in God, and feci independent ol
his care and protection, wc become
prodigals in a far country and will soon
he in sad want.
Our worthiness to be God's children
depends upon our willingness to be hij
servants.
What an encouraging truth is this,
that we nerd not plead with God for for
giveness, for he is even more willing to
forgive than sinners are to be forgiven;
he waits and watches eagerly for their
return and receives them to himself at
the first expression of true repentance.
Selections.
Repentance without amendment has
been compared lo continual pumping iu
a ship without stopping the leaks.
When a Russian soldier, heavily in
debt, wrote out a list of his many obli
gations and exhibited it in a public
place, adding in large letters the ques
tion, "Who will pay these debts?" tho
Car happened to see the whimsical no
tire, and quietly wrote bis name after
the question: "Nicholas." The soldier
knew that he was free from bis credi
tors. As simple as this, absolutely as
simple, is the soul's way to iM rid of
its sins.
There is one heart that is filled with
generous kindness toward every man
who wants to rcnent. The voice of God
is calling you. The sound of your Fath
er's voice is in your heart. . . . Trust
God. . . . Remember that he is ou
your side. . . . arid does not desire
that any man should die, but rather that
all should turn and live.
Many persons who appear to repent
arc like sailors who throw their goods
overboard in .1 storm, and wish (or the m
again in a calm.
C. E. Gospel Hymns. 66, 198, 340,
214. I.10, 65.
Gospel Hymns, 1-4 237, 3, 94,
33S. 424. 21 1-
RELATED TO TAM O'SHANTEB
Oreat-Uraaddaochtar of Rolwrt llurni
atlll LlTlug-.
Relatives of great men still crop up
out ot the silence of neglect, A gpeat
granddaughter of the Immortal Scotch
bard, Robert Burns, is a resident ol
Nevada City. She la Mrs. Susan El
eanor Andrews, the wife ot Samuel
Andrews, an old Callfornlan, halllrf
from Londonderry, Ireland. Mrs. An
drews Is the daughter of Robert Burns,
one of the two sons of the poet. Robert
Burns, the younger, bad five children,
four daughters and a son, named re
spectively In the order of their senior
ity, Mary, Susan, Elizabeth or Betty,
Prudence and John. Betty married a
Scotchman named Lamon and emi
grated with hlra to America In 183S.
Mrs. Andrews Is one of the issuea of
that marriage. She was born at
Nesquehontng, Pa.. In 1844. John
Burns remnlned with his father until
the time of his death. In 1840, and after
the death of his wife, In 1870, he like
wise crossed the Atlantic to Join his
sister. He died four years ago, leav
ing four daughters, two in America
and two in Ireland. Mrs. Lamon died"
in 1883, and four children survive her.
"All that remain of the Burns family,"
writes Mrs. Andrews, "are my two
brothers, one sister and myself, and
four of Uncle John s children." Mrs.
Andrews takes great pride In her rela
tionship to Bobble Burns, from whom
she has Inherited a talent for verse
vriting.
MARKETS.
rM.TiMnna,
I'olson In I'otaloep.
The Sanitary Home is authority for
the statement that potatoes contain a
poison kuown as solauin. New pots
toes contain comparatively littlo of
this poison unless they grow above
the surface of the ground aud have a
green skin, when they are generally
knowu to be poisonous.
It is not, however, generally known
that old potatoes contain much more
of this poisonous principle solanin
auu many cases of serious poisoning
have occurred in late summer wheu
old potatoes are nsed. In 1892 and
1893 theie was almost wholesale poi
soning among the troops of the Ger
man army. The symptoms were frontal
headache, colic, diarrhoea, vomiting,
weakness and alight stupor, and in
some cases dilatation of the pupils of
the eyes. Meyer investigated the
case, and found in old potatoes, kept
iu a damp place aud beginning to
sprout, tweuty-fonr times as muoh
solanin as in new potatoes.
An Ancient Huuii,
A great curiosity is a honse 1,100
years of age, and yet fit for habitation.
This old dwelling, the oldest inhabit
ed house in England, was built in the
time of King Offa of Meroia. It ia
nutagoual iu shape, the walls of its
lower story being of great thickness.
The upper part is of oak. At one
time the house was fortified and
kuown by tha name of St. German's
gate. It stands close to the River
Ver and ouly a few yards from St.
Alban'a Abbey.
ClirWtanlnc Olft.
Christening gifts are of ancient
origin. Formerly sponsors presented
gilt spoons to the ohild, whioh were
called "apostle spoons," beoause the
figures of the apostks were carved ou
the handles, A rich godparent gave
the complete aet of twelve, while a
less opulent one contented himself
with four, and a poorer sponsor con
sidered single spoon a suitable offering.
nsAiw ari
FI.O0I! JVIto. itwtrat
H(nh Grade Extra
WHEAT No. Sited
t.'OUNNo. i White
tints Boutheru Pmin...
HYE No. 2
II AY ('linl.-i. Tlinnthy.
Ooml to Prime '.
M'ftAW live in nir Ids.
Whost Illocks
Ont Blocks
TOMATOES
No. a
1'EAS Standard
Heconds
COHN-Dry pack
Moist
t'lTV&TEEllS.
Lily (.....
73
Sfl
9
54
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14 50
M f.fl
flfid
1100
C1NNED noons,
stnd.No. at
Enr.
49
1 10
live
101
POTATOKH-O.NJOXS
lurl'iinkn. . t
riioviKioxs,
HOO rnf)DrCT8-lila.t
'"lenr rllwlilua
Ilnins
Mew Pork, tier liar....,
LAUD Crude
Uet rallued
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Under Fine . .,
Creamery liolui
Burns,
10J
21
27
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or mns.
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n. y. nam ;.,
tkiiu CheH
anas.
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North Carolina
I.IVB VOtTLTRl
CHICKENS
Ducks, ur lh
Toiuono.
TOBACCO Md. Iufer's..
Hound common
Middling
fancy
UTS STOOK.
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BlllClil
Uok
13 4
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17
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71
87
55
15 &9
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7 t0
9 60
79
6
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70
12
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4
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14
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19
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8
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169
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4 30
8 60
4 40
IDaS AND SKIMa,
MUBKBAT....
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Bed Fox
(Skunk Illiu-k...
Opoiwuui
Mink
Ottur
10
40
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in
460
1(h)
JiO)
470
400
4 60
II
43
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FLOUB Southern 0 86 t'M
WHEAT No. Kited 7)1 74
RYb Western w HO CI
COltN No. 1 89 4D
OAT No. m 1M 31)
BUTTKit -Htate !l SS
KG UH mute 38 34
CUihhK atata IV. i li
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FLOUR Southern , . ,
WHEAT No. Ked..
COKN No.
OATH No. 1
BUTTKit 8lat
tOOB 1'auna ft
(85 4 30
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37 7j;
81 Si
3M 80
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