LOVE HAS fIS WAY.
"I'll nvor l for lov ;on,"
A linugli'v mntilrn sail. "
"Tlio mm who olulm me for his oira
In paths of fnmu inut triw!.
He must hftvi- saif.s upon tho main,
Anil l of jirou I dixrw,
Or I slmll treat with liluh itklaln
II in w.r! of love for tn-."
Ab, haughty mnl li'ii, v nciri
Lost wealth c.n l fit m rvc tut a snnrj,
A lovr nine tlil mill 1 t j w.i,
A ynnth quite f.iir t s :
Hi lv" wis trn.-, h: heart w.is tru?.
Hut y-t n. k-. In I If
V nk ti 'Wii t lortimt or t f ini",
In liiirnM path i li tr I ,
III- only w.'ilt!i mi 1ioU'"! livii",
Tim ti. tift f.: fio,.
Ah. haughty 1 1 ).. ivtiiin t re'.!,
Tlio power o' ! v :i t u .! o;.:i t !!.
Tim -rii I" n li! --ii lirst w.th ,-crii,
To ' I i!'" of . v,
II -it 1:1 !)..: .: i :t . 1 t.c n.cn
Mor.- Lrih! li.- -:.ir - ii' :.-,
ForlovK h i I I.I tin. tiny fl.iie-
That filii-ii.i r.-.i In I. i r I r.-.-i-f.
What e'lro I sin- t..v f.ir w.'.i't'i or f.l'T
S.u . ' x.' Ii'-r s,.ti' j-,.......,. -,
Tli.' haughty iii;ii. !n I .ini".l t . U..?:.
Tl lo.' til !t tl; U t " V'.V'T LTJW.
Th .11, -I. -jr
i! !t M.i .''it. tin1 J '
i.-iii !.". r I i;v.
Tru. I
An I v-viri'iri
li'.irt- nr. not e
llV 111!!,.
r I : i Ugh.
'Th I iv.. :ilo:i" th i? r t: !- t!
ii vir?
An.) s t a iII I .ihv iv .
Vll"'ll ( llpl l - Ti l-. Ills Kllillill
ir:,
I....' aiiv.ivi Will-. I !n !;..
An I li:i;...ri.. Is uhv iv . f . : i n I
love :i:il t-.-u I'Tii -s ua..
THE EARLY WORtf.
i v ai.;
it
W AV.
I- was always
rr earning (.no
li f fyy) '"'v.ug" fa'l.
lire.
lb- ili.l every
thing In' ought
just un h i m
fri !n'n Hilda. 1-vi-i
r-. would
hare wished,
Hlld Solllo un
expected Cir
cumstance de
prived Li ini (,f
liw ivward. So
lroverbinl did
the excellence of his deserts uml the
luioriiiss of his lurk lu'iviiiit' tlint sunn'
ronliuy .liil soplu r l'uiiilly ni-outiLti .l
fur it in this why :
"It niu't in wiint N".rt Willi 1
Pill. I tlio oruele ; "it jont hi. Hi I iirtvii
u t lie nuN for 'ini 1' win. V
'iiriN for 'ini f win. Yopi'e
ks ;iy tin t itV th.! i;triy lrl
h' fnt worm ; l.iit in tin t x ?
't win, tin' I take it hc' the
tlio liooki
't gits th1
two enn i
..rui.
(xilntiHlioQ
BppekleJ to the
us that side is well develojied, iUv inline '
und rcttutatiou stuck to Nort even
after hu hud, by strength nnd perse
verance, wrenched u few crumbs of
success from the clenched baud of
Tate.
He was managing the Half Moon
ranch, to get capital to stock one of his
own, w hen the niece of his next t.eigh
bor on the south, Fiovd IVtldletou, lit
tho l!ur '., came out to vinit her
uncle.
Miss Kubi Pendleton had the uniipio ,
and as stie found hit rather un
comfortable position of the only girl
in llarter County. i
Its ten eligible bachelors were sio,h- i
ing for her before she crossed the
State line. As untie of the enterprising
swains saw nny individual profit in
standing back to see tho others make
the running, the l'cudlitou purl.r of
n n evening soou ciimo to look like u
jury room with an r.bstiuately hung
jury Miss Kula serving as the sheriff, j
who, apparently, held the recalcitrants
in durance vile. :
When the young woman was pleased ,
to attend u roundup, or t ride to nny '
gathering, she never weld with loss!
than a corporal's guard ; a crowd more .
like a sheriff's pos.to usually sur
rounded her while there, und accom
panied her home.
Such being the state of things, it is
no wonder that the report that the
Karly Worm, otherwise Nort Willis, i
had been seen all alone, except for the 1
presence of the two ponies and a
steer, lit tin' .south of the liar (i Corral
giving Mi-s F.ula le-uns in roping,,
iwakened scornful mirth.
"That's just it," said the store
keeper at Prairie City, who was bald,
fat and fitly, and hadn't roped a
iteer for ten years, but who was one
of Miss Pendleton's most devotid an I ;
obtuse suitors. "That'H just Nort '
Willis! Uunniu' over there because,
ho lives near and try in' to keep the i
yotiug lady nil to himself. Pesters'
her to death, of course, nnd hasn't !
sense enough to take n friend or two ;
doiig to tuketho cuss off the situa- i
ion when he gets left. They talk I
ut Nort Willm" luck ; but I tell'
a there's more iii his luck of com- I
ou, ordinary borso sense than there j
in his luck. Looknt 'imiiow, lixin' '
j git left ng'in by settiu' up to court I
i girl that hez her pick of llarter
Jouuty, u girl thut can huvo the pick
un choice of men of means, with
rauches an' an' stores, an' sich."
As uo more of these, lessons were
rd of, after tho first, and as Nort
never presented himself in the l'en
.lletou parlor of evenings when the
olemn gatherings were held, nor
'tempted to join Miss Euhi's little
urt ut any of tho roundups or ex
"sions, it came to be an accepted
uiou that, with his usual luck, he
gotten his "vamose" even sooner
might huvo been looked for.
as Pendleton carried herself as
sed to homage,
.cilcsjily, of her sw
de use,
Soin-
cm, Hnrnnmc.l 'Trettj-," beeause he
wbh nly rootih to Koare a team c(
Toxan MDtii into running awny, uncut
a week up in the liie&kn of the Cauti
diitn hunting; letting all the boys feet
ulu ail of him whi.e he was gone, aa he
.utterly rcnlizoil when he came home
with the tnoautft;n l.on'v ski a she had
expressed a wih for.
The boys brought be? so many po!-tf-hoil
BtoT honiK, drt'-hoof ink
ntands and ttuch like, that she mig'iit
liave net up a utore for the nnle of
Texas riitionitii's wlien nho went home,
ha. I nlic folt to disposed.
I'mrie City, the conntr ace; of
Ilsrtcr County, ronsisted at this t'rr.e
of n 1)1)1110 nnd throe buildings. Tlie
imtiii ciic, a inoilext Mobe structr.ro
witii a fr.inie poreh, rontaiuedthe
ntiro, pust'ifl'ie?, mid in the back room,
which was i1no the utorckeepcr's bed
rnoii liipiiirs wero dispensed with the
I'l'iiiiitivo ni.l of n tin r.ip.
This i-tore was tlio pitherinpr I-laeo
f.r the Kiiv and (.ulluit rloniont of
linrtor ('utility. (ne eveninp about
tin. o inniiths nftor Mh.i F.ula rtu.lli
t.iuV nrnv:il, its cirelt-o? loungers wai
! rtritic.l by nn announcement from
the fetiirrkccper.
Ho hail felt cf lute thai ho was fnllicg
behind the younger men in the race,
nti'l lie hpuke in a personally aggrieved
tune, nn tliouii the entire matter
lui'ht have been arranged to compass
his defeat.
J you know gentlemen," he snld.
"that Miss Kula's goiti to leave us!
She's ngoin' liotue next week."
"Well," Hiiid ft t.ill, thin man w-ho
rl limed to hail from Indiana, and was
MiMMorted of having been i) lawyer
biii'l; in the Hast, "f suv that is the
j fault of this crowd, nil and severally."
"I'l.n't see how you make that go."
I crowlod 1'nt Soiners, from where he
i lay on the counter. "She's hnd her
I I icl; .f Il-irter County, and none of
i llarter Count v don't suit her tli .'
' all I see in it." ,
"Now r.-iilly," said the Indiana nnn
:ir'4nm'iitiitivi ly, "do you think t-he
has hal her .ie!t? I'm uot a marry
ing mini inysi If, but it really seems
to tne that you gentlemen fell over
each other nnd Mopped on each other,
nnd naturally stood in each other's
lit: lit in trying to pleiiMthe lady. Can
didly, have any of you iisked her to
stay?"
There was nsonienhnt blank silence,
i "Ah." Kaid the Indiana man, "I
thought ns much. I thought as
mue'i !
"Voit see, each oue of you has been
so afraid that some oue clue would get
nhead of him that you've done more at
trying to defont each other than at ad
vancing your cause."
j "Looks so," suid the storekeeper
; dejectedly.
I "Ii might be, now," said the Indiana
man insinuatingly, "that if the lady
I was asked she'd settle here."
j The company looked furtively at one
! another, iih though ench ono were cov-
i rtly calculating the chances of being
j the first to slip away and get a chanee
M : iu..itoan 11'
uHiuc-ieu.
The Iiidinua mun
laughed. "No,"
lie suid, "you're all in ono boat now.
You're rll watching ench other and
nobody's going to get the chance to go
out to tho liar !' nlone."
"Tho best thing for this yer crowd
t'do," said old Hank Pearsull, from a
back seat, where ho had been quietly
smoking, "is to come 'long 'ith me iu
a body up to the Par 0. Most all tho
iivnilable matrimonial timber 'o llarter
County's hyer. I'm well 'quaintod 'ith
the lady tin' I'll engage t' ask her, free
an' eonlidoushull, it there's eonything
in the lot she can make out with."
"We really ought to go ever to say
good-bye," said tho htorckier anx
iously. "You boys can cJme in niy
room here and lis yourselvil up."
If the storekeeper fuvoredthe plan
because he thought it might elp him
to dispose of a curious drift oW'gents'
furnishings" on his shelves,which
sccmcu to liuve aecumutnteil mncre
some time during the pliocene ptTlod,
he was highly successful.
Purchases were solemnly and
eiitllv in ado.
The basin, towel, broken mi
aim i.iase comi m tno corner were.
constant and violent requisition,
for half an hour the rear end of
store looked like the green room of an
amateur theatrical troupe. Then (ho
shutters wero put up, the lights oit,
pomes mounted nnd the cavalctdo
took its way, with courage that ebbed
at every step, to the Dar 0. 1
Miss Fuhi seemed somewhat aed
uud astonished, uot at the visit stch
calls had been common during her
stay but at the manner of her vis
itors. Thev might, had tho uumuer
been sutlh-ietit. huvo been read1
lukc'i for the pall bearers goiug in a
body to a fuucral.
i'hen tho uirty was finally seat 'd
tin re fell a solemn hush. Old Iluik
Pearsull, who seemed to eousi. or
himself ileeted chairman of 1 ic
meeting by tho silent suffrage of t le
eye, deemed this a fitting time o
spen k.
llisiug, he waved his hand tswi d
his companions like a showman
hibitiug n collection of curious a i
mals. "We heerd, Misi," ho said, "tl t
you wuz thinkiu' o' leaviu' us II r
ter County'U miss ye. They ili't
nothiu' llurter CNuiuty wouldn't diJto
try to keep ye. T seemed to om J o
us thet c f ye wuz pervided weta a Jut
isfactory pardm-r, ye might le more
iu ther notion t' settle hyer.
"Now, this," with another cmpre
hensive gesture, "ez tho layout" lie
spoke with some depression, as ihough
the goods, ou the whole, did tut look
us good as ho had expected.
"You know ther tricks an gaits by
this time, ma'am, an' whet he- there's
anything in the grove t 'would do ye.
Some's old, but p'r'ans they're stid
dier; none o' 'em don't laudsome
very much, but they're all tollable
sound an' kind, an' if th' out y' pick
don't travel jist to suit ye, here's th'
rest o' us to wnllnp him into shape fef
ye can we trade?"
Seme year ago all well-eonducteil
females were reputed, in literature, at
least, as fainting upon receiving a pro
posal of marriage. It is to be recorded
to the credit of Miss F.ula's nerves
thai in lecciving a round half-dozen
at ore blow je neither fainted nor
oj.'eaincd.
"Why, the fact ir, gentlemen," said
e'ia, divided between amusement and
srni. 'thi yor.rjroposil overwhelms
me; i'.'s so so Texan If you'll per
mit the expiession. i really think
loo much ol all of you collectively to
acfpt nn7one individually."
This sounded well, but someho-r it
wa rather iinsatisfnotory. The band
of suitors looked one at the other to
I see if any comfort might be extracted
from it, r.tnl muling none, looked
gloomily dowu and twirled their hats.
Seeing unrelieved depression. Miss
Ku hi tried again. "The fact is," she
said, "that your kind oTcrs or offer
conies too late anyhow. I'm en
gaged already ; in fact I'm going home
to be married."
Deeper gloom on every face. "Horn
tenderfoot chump." ci.ulldcd 1'ret
Soiners to toe depths of his sombrero:
"come feller t' M run from n cow and
couldn't ride n live horse or rope a
steer if his life depended on it."
"Why, in, nns.vered Miss F.ulrt
w ith some embarrassment, ' I'm going
to marry n gentleman that you all
know right well; a a a fellow
citizen of yours. "
They looked lit each other in con
sternation nt the mention of n dark
horse. They hud thought that nil the
eligible bacheloi hood of Harlot
County was then within thofo four
Willis.
"It's Mr. Norton Wiliis, our neigh
bor on the north here," she added,
blllshingly.
The worm I
The company r.is? with solemn
uluenty, shoo., their hostess' hand
nnd tiled out.
"Well," remarked Hank lVarsall.
cheerfully, "you'll hev f let up talkin'
'bout Nort's luck alter this ; I reckon
he ain't no curly worm in this trade."
"I don't know," said the store
keeper, w ith thiil acrid cynicism which
one Aesop informs r.s a certain foN
once displayed in a matter of grapes;
"mebby she's the early bird!"
Wtibhiuglon Star.
Stories til the ( orsicun Ilanililll,
Two brothers, Cucchi by name, vil
lains of the deepest dye, found th
neighborhood of Ajnccio too hot to
hold them, nnd resolved to take refuge
in Sarteue. They foiiud a small bout
upon tho bench and desired the owner
to put out to sea. "Impossible," itnio
the mar, "the bont is too small fot
such a voynge, and would certainly
foundtr." "Do as you are bid," said
the Cucchi, covering him with theit
guun. Under these circumstances the
.man had uo alternative ; so he s. t
iu aud they pushed out to sea. Uut
the waves were high, and by a littk
dextrous management he contrived to
make his boat rock iu such a fashion
that the bandits became violently sick,
"You see I was right," he coolly re
marked, when his passengers seemed
sullieieiitly reduced, "you will cer
tainly bo drowned if you go on thus.
You had much bi tter let me put you
ashore, and go back for a stronger and
better boat." "So be it," gasped the
baudits. "Oh, nuything is better than
this!" They were put ou shore, and
in due time the bontm.iu returned with
a larger bont, but ut the bottom of it
lay four gendarmes disguised us sail
ors, and the brothers Cucchi were
taken before thev had time to discover
the trick.
The second story is of a notorious
bnudit of the name of llastauasi. Ho
was a man of considerfible erudition,
had been educated at Pisa, knew Latin,
nud had belonged to the medical pro
fession. On ouo occasion he also was
going to Sortcue ou a vessel which
stopped ntAjuccio. Knowing that the
gendarmes were after him ho did not
attempt to laud, but us he had a line
voice and could also play the guitar,
io beguile the time of waiting lie got
out his instrument aud begnu to sing
und play. A fisherman in the port
recognized tho voice, nnd likewise re
membered tho song. He went nnd in
formed the authorities; and it was
thus through his love of music that
Hustanasi was arrested. "I enw him
hind," savs M. Levis. "The handcuffs
wero on his wrists, and the guitar
was slung round his nock." Contem
porary Heview.
No Fun 4uout Hucklnj lironcos.
"Many people have an idea that t
ride a bucking bronco is the cowboy's
delight, but they're badly mistaken.
There's no fun in it. When a thor
oughbred rears and pranees there's no
jar iu it aud I rather like to have one
do it if I am t itling. Uut when a
bronco bucks aud jumps int tho air
and comes down stiff-legged, with his
feet pluuted together, that jars every
boue iu the rider's body, especially the
backbone, aud is apt to muke him feel
pretty sick iu short order.
"My first experience with a bucking
bronco cured me of the idea that there
was fuu iu it. I had read that the cow
boy ulways locks his spurs under the
bronco's body ut such times, aud so I
did the same. Well, the spurs went
through the horse hair cinch, and tho
bronco kept bucking so long as they
siaid there. I couldn't get them out
till two men came to help me.
"Tho proper thing to do when a
bronco bucks is to keep your spurs
away from him, balance yourself for
ward or backward iu the saddle, ac
cording to the way he jumps, aud
grip him well between your knees.
You have to lei re him buck till he
gets tired of it) or finds he can't get
you oO." Sar " neisco Bulletin.
IfflUlX'S TRAITS.
SOME QCEKII THIXiS AIJOUT
TIIK IJh.U K IJKAU.
He Coos Into Yinter Quarters Cor
pulent and Come Out Mo In
the Spring Then lie Loses
Flesh Kapblly.
7T MAJORITY of tho people who
have found time to give some
thought to the great Ameri
T can bluck bear hnvo got the
Idea into their heads somehow and
naturally, perhaps that when ho
comes out of his hole iu the spring,
after his long winter sleep, ho is lean :
nnd scraggy and of a generally used up
appearance. Such people will doubt
less be surprised to learn, on the best
of backwoods authority, that just the
contrary is the fact.
The bear, when he seeks his winter
quarters, is about the fattest thing on
lour legs. He doesn't swill up with
fat like n pig, but seems to go fat all
over. When he starts in to ucctimu
late this fat the bear can i at a bushel
of chestnuts nt a tnenl without giviug
nny si.n that he could not cat another
bushel if nny one insisted. As he gets
fat his stomach gets smaller and
smaller, until, when he Ls in proper
condition for wintering owr, its
capacity is insufficient for n handful
of food. Every part fd the bear has
made room for fat, and this fat sticks
right to bruin all winter and keeps him
warm.
H you nre after a bear for bisgTciiRc
you want to kill him either just before
he goes into his hole tn the fall or im
mediately after he conies out of it in
the spring. In ten days after tho bear
wakes up ami crawls out after his win
ter's nap he will bo almost us leau us a
razor back hog, although he has beeu
entiug everything eatable he could get I
his paws on since he woke up and
that is a good ileal.
H" keeps lean until he begins to get I
ready for winter again, uud then rolls j
lip his fat as before. It seems odd that j
n bear shoivld keep fat for mouths '
Without eating anything and lose his
flesh as soon ns he begins b tuke in
victuals, but that is the way tho bear j
is made, and I don't see how we nre
going to help it.
For this habit of the bear biting,
pnrtieular trees while he is traveling
even backwoods authority has no sat- j
isfactory theory. The trees may be ,
two roils, or they may be half a mile I
or more uw ay from his line of travel, j
but no bear passing that way ever fails
to sheer off to them uud bite u piece '
out of them, unless ho may bo too j
closely pressed by dogs und the dogs
have got to be very close if the bear
cannot take time to indulge iu his
bite from these trees.
Any experienced North Pennsyl
vania woodsmun can take you t trees
of this kind that are tdmost bitten in
two by bears that have stopped and
chewed them iu accordance with this
peculiar ursine custom, 'the bear bus
some reason or purpose in picking out
trees to be visited and bitten whenever
ho passes thnt wav, but whnt it mnv
be no one has ns yet had the courage
to say that he knows. i
When the black bear is serious ho is I
very serious. No living thing has,
stronger affection for its young than a
mother bear has, nnd no nuimid will
defend them so desperately against'
harm. Hut she is a strict discipliu- ,
nriiiti, nnd does not hesitute r. second
in resorting b'tho most extreme of
heroic mcasur'c iu dealing with her '
yoiuig when it seems to her that the
circumstances require it. i
The most striking illustration of ,
this trait of bear character that I ever
kuew was given once on the Siunema-.
honing Creek, iu Potter County, Peun. j
Larry Lyman, the famous woodsman,
and two other men were standing ou !
tho bank of the creek when ubigshoj
bear, accompanied by two small cubs, 1
came down off tho hills ou the same
side of the stream, n short distance be- i
low where tho men were standing.
The old bear stooped for a moment
and gazed ut the men. Then she i
plunged into the creek. The cubs
followed her nnd swum boldly toward :
the opposite side with her. One of'
the cubs was evidently stronger than j
the other, und swum well up with its
mother, keeping aliuo.'-t head to head
w ith her. The other cub fell u little
behind, but swam bravely on. I
The old bear climbed out of the !
water when she reached the shore aud
clambered up the bank, which was i
quite high, and obstructed somewhat j
by the projecting roots of trees. The
stronger of the cubs followed her
without difticnlty, uud trotted along
in puce with its mother's sweeping i
strides. Hut the other little bear I
could uot clear the obstructions ou tho
bank, and, lluding that its mother nnd i
brother or sister, whichever it might
have been, were going right ou with
out noticing its ubsence, it began to
cry piteously.
Tho old bear and the strong cub had
gone a couple of rods from the creek.
When the mother heurd the cries of
the fulteriug cub she stopped and
looked around. Not seeing tho cub
she tlew iuto a fearful rugo She
snapped her teeth together aud growl
ing savagely hurried buck to the bunk
of tho creek, keeping au eye on tho
threo meu who were watching this in
teresting proceeding.
When she camo to tho edge of the
bank where the cub was struggling
und whining, she reached dowu with
ono paw, grabbed the cub, jerked it
up to her and with one blow killed it.
She then tore it to pieces and threw
the fragments of its little carcass into
the creek. Hhowiug her teeth and
snapping them suvugely nt the men,
who were amazed spectators of the
tdd bear's maternal fury, she turned
nud strode rapidly back to where the
other cub was awaiting her, and the
two disappeared into tho woods.
The presence ul tho meu on the
bank of the creek bad caused the old
bear to fear pursuit. Hh was en
deavoring to place herself and off
spring beyond danirer. Tho weakling
cub was delaying hr flight. So its
mother not only removed it as a me
nace to the safety of herself ami tho
other cub, but put it beyond the possi
bility of its falling into tho hands of
the foe by promptly tearing all tender
maternal feelings from her breast and
tho cub to pieces at the same time.
New York Herald.
Wonders ot Littleness,
Mat Kaufman, a Derlineso jeweler,
lias made a perfect ivory chariot with
movable wheels, tho whole weighing
but two grains.
Mark Scurliot, a blacksmith of the
time of Queen Eliinbet'j, made a per
fect brass and steel padlock that
weighed but one grain.
One of the prize curiosities of the
old Mechlin Museum was a cherry
stone basket containing fourteen pairs
of ivory dice.
Oswaldus Forhingens, Cue nrtist. is
said to have maile 140.) dishes that
Could nil be stowed away in n common
thimble I This must lie true, for r,
are told that Pope Paul V. counted
them with the aid of a pair of specta
cles made by tho dish artist.
Turriauus is said to have fashioned
tniiiiuture mills "thnt would rati f
themselves" so minute that u monk
could carry oue in his sleeve, yet so
powerful that they would grind enough
wheut iu a single day to make bread
for eight men.
Pliny tells of a copy of Homer's
Iliad known in his day that was ss
small that it could be entirely hidden
in the shell of a hen's egg. In late
years Professor Schricber, the inventor
of the new "microstercographic pro
cess," translated both the Iliad nnd
the Odyssey into a volume so small thnt
it could be hitldeu in the sh'dl of tin
English walnut I At the lute Paris
Exposition an ingenious Tyrolese daily
exhibited u trained Hen that was made
to operate a miniature of thr great
fifty-ton hrupp hammer. Ihis model,
which was of puro gold, with its up
rights, levers, etc., weighed but two
grains ; the hammer itself, perfect iu
every detail, weighed but one-third of
a grain.
The wonderful miniature watch of
King Oeorgo III., which was kept for
years as a curiosity iu the Kensington
Museum, was about the size of one of
our silver dimes. The compiler of this
"note" has seen a dozen infinitesimal
timekeepers which, taken collectively,
would not weigh as much as Oeorge's
wonder. Some of these were set in
shirt studs, some iu place of the usual
rubber tip on lend pencils, Bud still
others as settings for rings; yet nil
were in perfect order uud keeping
time.
An Electrified Sidewalk.
Teoplo in tho neighborhood of tho
corner of Maine and State streets had
so mo excitement yesterday shortly
af"- non. A trolley supply wire iu
si ab v. jie uway from the insu
lator nni came in contact with the iron
pole. The electric fluid soon reached
tho sidcwnlk and filled the icy bricks
so that several persons received severe,
shocks. For a while, ns the first vic
tims watched for the ones who might
follow, there was lots of fun.
A man would come along, und ns ho
reached the limits of the electricity's
force, would stop suddenly and look
down to see what hud struck him. A
step forward and another severe
shock and he would grow pale and all
sorts of awful things began to rush on
him. Dire diseases which begun by
such awful syraptonic.the victim would
reason, must be shortly fatal, but soon
the laugh of some watchers or tho
sight of another victim would reassure
him, and soou the causo was fouud.
Hut tho funniest of all was a little dog
who came running joyously down tho
street and on to tho charmed walk.
Then came a howl of wild unguish
and surprise, and the dog tried to
leave. Hut lie couldn't; tho hurder
he tried the closer he was drawn toward
tho pole. He lay dowu ; worse yet
every hair formed a wire, as it were,
to conduct the fluid to his body. At
last a desperate jerk, nnd he fell into
the gutter, where he found relief,
Soou after the wire was fixed, nnd tho
fun ceased. Springfield (Muss.) He
publican.' Human Organs Seen in Action,
Donald H. Farquahar, of St. Louis,
has invented a lamp by means of which
the human brain may be examined.
The construction of this powerful aid
to surgery is quite simple. A lurgo
globe contains un electric light of (SOU
ciiudlo power, und from one side of it
exteuds n sort of tube or nozzle,
stopped at intervals with lenses, whose
character and order of arrangement
are technically described us follows:
Pluno concave piano, convex, double
convex', double concave, double con
vex, piano concave, and direct acting
lenses. The purpose of all these glasses
is to gather tho light nnd concentrate
it in u direct horizontal stream, form
ing, as it were, a solid bur of light of
intense brilliancy. Tho cud of tho
said tube is arranged to accommoduto
mouth pieces of various sizes with
pieces of non-refracting Hohemiau
glass. When tho light is turned on
and concentrated the desired mouth
piece is put on. If it is a brain trouble
the mouthpiece is clapped to tho sido
of the head and tho workiugs of the
brain can be tbservod. Tho heart can
be revealed while pumping away at its
ceaseless task, nnd what the patient
had for dinner can be learned by put
ting a larger mouthpiece against tho
region of the stonach.
Sympathy.
Rnpet "I think I'll pour somo
cologne in this medicine bottlo. "
Mamma "Why?"
ltapert "Why, to take the tasto
ont of its mouth. "Harper's Young
Feople.
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CUKI0US FACTS.
Texas has a petrified tree.
Spinach is a Persian plant.
Filberts came from Greece.
There is no J in the Hawaiian alpha
bet.
Sage is a native of the sooth of Eu
rope. Tricycle cabs are a Milan (Italy)
novelty.
Tho average trip around the world
comprises about 22,000 miles of travel.
One county in New Jersey sends to
New York ten carloads of lettuce a
day.
France and Italy raise 33,000 bush
els of chestnuts for home uso and ex
port. A German at homo cats an average
of sixty-eight pounds cf beef and pork
per annum.
On somo parts of the coast of France
when the wind is east the mist that ap
pears bears with it a very noticeable
perfume.
Since December 2, 1032, our globe
has traveled exactly 5ot),0;)0,():)0 miles,
w hich is only at its usual gait of 1000
miles a minute.
Ltitreiila once cut off tho aatennro
of nu ant, aud its companions, evi
dently compassionating its suffering,
anointed the wounded parts with
drops of fluid from their mouths.
Tho oldest fire eugino company in
the count rr is claimed to be located at
Mount Holly, N. J. It is called the
Relief Firo Company aud has hnd a
continuous existence of 1 11 years.
The Dank of England destroys nbotit
S.jO.000 of its notes every week to re
place them with freshly printed ones.
Oue evening in each week is set apart
for the making of this expensive bon
fire.
The largest building stones aro those
used in the cyclopcau walls of Dual
bee, in Syria. Some of theso measure
sixty-three feet in leugth by twenty
six in breadth, aud are of unknown
depth.
A new way to serve raw oysters is in
tall, handled tumblers. A dressing of
pepper nnd salt, lemon juice and Wor
cestershire sauce goes with them, nnd
they are picked out with the long oys
ter fork.
Mrs. John J. Aikens, of Philadel
phia, has the pen with which Robert
I'nrkcs, of England, inscribed the
kiames of the children who attended
ke first Sunday-school in the world,
113 years ago.
Canon Forrnr snys that the present
statistics show that tho number ol
births in tho richest districts of Ken
fcington, London, are twenty per 1000
cverj yonr, while tho number of births
in the poorest districts of Fulham is
forty-eight per 1000.
The woolen carpet which hat
covered the coiner's room in the San
Francisco Mint for several years wat
recently taken and cremated .
precious aucs we f iIomurf
gathered together, ana by io elaborate
refining process tho Government re
covered 279 ounces of gold, worth
$5000.
Strange Faculty in Reptiles.
Reptiles and bntrachinns usually
possess what may bo termed the water
location cense.
My attention was first called to thii
by my brother, who, while engaged io
a natural history expedition in South
eastern Texas, had what at the time
wo both considered a unique experi
ence with a largo sea tortoise.
This tortoise had been surprised
some distance from the water, among
the sand dunes that lino the Gull
shore, and on being overtaken had iti
head chopped off preparatory to serv
ing as a very toothsome addition to
our diet. Much to the surprise of the
party the beheaded animal continued
on its way toward tho water.
Several times it was turned around,
entirely or part way, but every time
it was ablo to right its position per
fectly, and again make directly for
tho water.
At the timo it was narrated to me I
was of tho opinion that there must
have been something in the contour
of tho land that enabled tho tortoiso
to regain tho correct direction in each
case.
liinee then I hnve had numerous
proofs that this ability belongs to a
number of spoc.Vs of these animals in
tho West Indies, and that the loss of
eyes and nasal organs, of the entire
head aud neck in fact, apparently
works no incouvenienqo to them in
this particular. This is n family char
acteristio which, so far as I have been
ablo to find, is uot alluded to in any
work concerning them.
The same singular ability may be
observed iu certain species of water
frequenting snukes. The common
water snake, often erroneously called
tho "wuter moccasin." utmost invari
ably finds its way to tho water, if not
too fur away, w hen its heud is cut off.
St. Louis Republic.
A Farm Run by Electricity.
An interesting example of electricity
as applied in farm work is now iu
operation at a Scotch farm. Tho
whole of the usual farm machinery,
such as thrashing, sowiug, corn thrash
ing and the like, is hero driven by an
electric motor. The electricity is
generuted by water power, the turbine
wheel which drives tho dynamo being
about one thousand yards from the
furm.
The electrio current is conveyed by
underground wires to the house and
farm,iu each of which a storage battery
is placed. These supply the electrio
current for lighting aud motive pur
poses wheuthe machinery is not work
ing. The whole of the mansion is
illuminated by electrio light, an 1 au
electrio motor iu provided for puvnp
ing tho water for domestic- purposes.
ovieuviuo Amer.cau.
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