THE HON. 11. W. GRADY. /' ORATOR AND EDITOR AND PROMI NENT MAN OF AFFAIRS. Sketch or One or tlio Kent Men or the Now South—ll in Uncollect lotm of tho War —IIIK Klt'orts to Obliterate Sectional Animosity. The late Henry W. Grady, of Georgia, editor and publicist, was one of the most f prominent if not the ablest of the leaders of the south. Unlike Gordon, Fit ah ugh Lee, ex-Governor Brown nud others of the Confederate survivors, who at the closeof the war accepted the situation and placed the selves abreast of the times to bring back prosperity to the south, Grady was a man of the young genera tion. lie was, therefore, clear in record and free from the prejudices of the great political contests of the past. The position that he occupied before the reading and ' thinking world wa. remarkable for one man at any crisis of life, and especially for a man of Mr. Grady's years. He was editor of The Atlanta Constitution, a strong southern organ, and contributor to many first class northern periodicals; he inspired if. in did not govern the • southern policy of The New York Her ald, and he could command an audience , composed of the cream of the people whenever lie chose to appear on the platform. And yet he was considerably under -10 years of ago. Grady's recollections of tho war, as he delighted to recount, were that he was a school boy, and, in common with his classmates, had the war craze, and by hook or crook got to the front just at the windup. Ilis father was a soldier in the Georgia contingent at Petersburg, and when young Grady reached thecom maud it was to learn of his father's death in Lee's last aggressive movement, the brilliant but disastrous night sortie led by Gen. Cordon against Grant's lines at Foris ;• . ;•■ ind Haskell in the spring of 1 . :i the troops scattered from A | ".d went home the bright jrn: ;lian found friends among hi . ;trades, and in the course of •• the protege of Gen. John B first soldier of Georgia. Du construction period Grady con n'.s school work, wrote and re por. Lille, and finally started a conn. ;• n • .vspaper, with the usual fe suh ' I! .>'t trials—failure. Ilis news paper ;•!. however, had made him cape' representing Tho Herald in the ' I 'ith this acknowledged por: ;an to rise. Ilis Herald con. led up the southern coun try r .. and it also developed in him I . i . '\v.s and the highest capa cities iif j Hirnalism. Grady entered the editorial rooms of Tho Constitution as part owner and editor in 1878. Almost his first great work was the manage ment of the wonderful political cam paign of 1880, that made Gen. Gordon (: governor of Georgia. Gordon, who had been United States senator, and had re signed in 188 0 ' V no,™ ~7! a- W HA con. was a Con federate veteran, V* ular Democratic nominee, with all cliinery and the \ unit 7ledged to nENRY w - ORAUY his support. Tho victory was credited to Grady, and it came very near making the young editor United States senator. Grady's national reputation was derived from his labors in interests pertaining to the whole south. He identified himself strongly with material and so cial developments, and in this depart ment he took a somewhat unique stand, and held it with boldness. He , said in 1877 that the young men of the south were ready to forget the war, although respecting its heroic southern traditions, and that slavery would not be re-established if the thing were possi ble. Industrial and commercial enter prises, he thought, would occupy the time and the energies of the young men, and as editor of a prominent paper ho threw himself heartily into the recon struction of business. About the time of his elevation to the editorship of The Constitution the articles by Mr. Cable on the status of.the freedmen were attract ing general attention, and in 1885, no strong voice having as yet arisen to speak for the south in reply to Mr. Cable, Grady published an essay in The Century Magazine, stating the negro question from a southern point of view. The article was entitled, "In Plain Black and White." This paper suggests, if it does not plainly state, all of the viewi upon the vexed question which Mr. Grady has given out iu his numeroui writings and orations since. He began by saying that the south should make a full and frank reply to the query, "What will you do with it?"—the negro problem. Making full and frank answer, the au thor said that the south has measured the difficulties and found them to be that of two distinct races placed upon the same soil in social and civil equal ity. The relations between the whites and the blacks in churches, schools, so cial organizations, on the railroad and in theatres had been fixed by choice in both cases on "the basis of equal accom modations, but separate." The conclu sions of the author, after stating all phases of the problem, were that unmis takable domination of the white races would be the outcome. This would be due simply to "the right of character, intelligence and property to rule." The new champion of the south gained a transient reputation by this essay, but the great question was then causing only a ripple, and had Mr. Grady been satis fied with this single pronunciamento the very ideas that have made him fame as an orator would have passed into obscur ity. Meanwhile the world giving the es sayist but a passingattention, the Georgia editor was forcing to the front in affairs of a more local character. The citj' or Atlanta undertook in 1885 to enforce lo cal prohibition, and Grady became an ardent champion of the "dry" element. Owing to u difference of opinion among the managers of The Constitution the paper was not committed to prohibit ; >n, but Mr. Grady waged the warfare of i • "drya" over his own signature, iinnj amusing things occurred during the campaign. Grady and souv- other edi torial exponent sometimes tool; opposite sides in the same issue of The Constitu tion, and The New York Sun, which al ways takes a humorous view of the ec centricities of the fraternity, called this 1 "double back action journalism." The prohibition excitement continued for ! three years, but The Constitution's posi j tion after the first campaign, which I made the city "dry," wasstrictly neutral. I As a local character Mr. Grady i won personal fame. lie was called the 1 autocrat of Atlanta, and was almost as ! hard to reach, when ho chose to be, !as the Grand Llama. One of the stories ' of his cast iron sway in the sanctum is ; that ho acted upon the Thunderer's motto i of never taking anything back. One day a man whose obituary bad appeared in The Constitution made his way to Mr. j Grady's room, and with fire in his eye demanded a denial in the next day's i issue. The editor, who was almost as I broad as be was tall, rolled careless | ly over until their eyes met and cool j ly declared that this would be impossi ble. "We have put you in as dead," said he, "and yet you come to us nlive and ready to kick, if not kicking; so I'll make it all right by putting you among the births." Mr. Grady's latest triumphs were in oratory. In responding to a toast at the banquet of the New England society, in 1880, lie gave speech to the sentiments he had long cherished and written about, and, fortunately for his fame, he was listened to and applauded by representa tive men of the whole nation. It was then that he stamped tho phrase "New South," afiil became tho acknowledged champion of southern progress on new lines. He awoke tho next morning to find himself famous. A year later Mr. Grady engineered a very successful southern exposition at Piedmont, near his home, and hero and at Augusta ho delivered two powerful orations on the problems of the south, industry and the race question. Now the south applaud ed, and in a sense responded to his lead ership. The recent effort of Mr. Grady before the Boston merchants was a bold summing up of the results of the move ments for progress with which lie was for the past ten years. Grady was a voluminous writer. His thought was clear, although tho language usedwassomewhat involved. Asaspeaker he was reaily and forceful. His stature was low, with a well developed figure,and his faco was full of expression. A smile played continually about his lips, and a pair of very M ight eyes lighted up his al most swarthy skin. Some neighborly critic, in a spirit of faint praise, dubbed him a "genial Irishman," his ancestry having been exiles of old Erin. The title was not a misnomer, for ho was brim full of geniality and fai too good natured to bo a partisan leader. Perhaps his greatest work was to prove by example that a young man of liberal and progressive ideas can rise to power in the south and have a large following among men of j his own generation. Dl* I'oimcTa. of llru7.il. The serious illness of President da Fonseca, of Brazil, came at a very inop portune time for the new republic, as j the first enthusiasm had given place to a | reaction, and there has been some rioting. President Deodora da Fonseca is a life long soldier and not much else, but he has shown good judgment in making just half his cab- inet of editors. San Paulo, his yL native province jlp jib and nominal wgy home, has al- "y ill ways been the wk stronghold of re publican senti iu en t and has elected avowed fSSte* rep n b licans to the Brazilian leg islative body, but Cv Fonseca himself DA FONSECA. has never been a member of parliament and has held no civil offices of import ance. He is of pure Portuguese blood, of fair complexion, with gray eyes and light hair, is CO years old, 5 feet 10 inches high, weighs about 160 pounds and presents a fine appearance. A Gtlhertaln Sketch. Here is a reduced fac-simileof a sketch made by W. S. Gilbert, of the opera pro ducing firm of Gilbert and Sullivan,show ing his method of indicating to the ooe tumer how the characters ahonld be dressed for the stage. The sketch was made in preparing the newest opera, "The Gondoliers," for production. They Le lt Together. "I haven't seen Jones lately. How's his cough, do you know?" "It's gone." "You don't say so?" "Yes, Jones went with it."- Now York Sun. HELD FOR RANSOM. Wo had been out from Melbourne two days, journeying toward the new town ol Murray City, on the Murray river, and we were only Iwo miles from a pos; station, where a guard of mounted po lice had their headquarters, when the driver of the stage or wagon suddenly brought his horses to a dead stop. This was in the days of thirty years ago, be fore any part of Australia was half civil ized by the English, and before the big island had been more than half surveyed. There were plenty of bush rangers haunt ing every highway, and every stage was usually accompanied by a guard. In our case five of us had put together and hired a private conveyance. It was one of the usual stages, but making a special trip for our benefit. Of the five three were Englishmen going up to the valley of the Murray to locate land, the fourth was an American who had been in the country two years, and I had landed in Melbourne only the week before. My compatriot was named Davis, a widower, and he had his only child along—a bright little girl 8 years old. lie was going up to sheep ranch in partnership with a friend already settled, and he could not be*' leave his child behind him in the uiw. The five of us were well armed, and every hour since leaving Melbourne we had been ready to defend ourselves. As we had met with nothing to alarm us thus far, and as we knew we were close upon a station, no one was prepared for what happened. The stage had no sooner stopped than two men came up on a side, covered us with revolvers, and a gruff voice announced: "Now, then, the first move and off goes yer heads! Step out here one by one!" I was the first one out. It was just at sundown, and on a portion of the road between two ridges. The two men on that side were rough, unkempt, des perate looking fellows —fair samples of the other two—and the instant I saw them I knew that we were in for trouble. When we were all out they ordered the driver to turn into a blind road to th-" right, and we followed after the wagon As wo were ordered to follow the vehicle the leader of the gang said: "No foolishness, now! The four of us have got our pistols looking right at ye!" After going thirty rods wo were as well hidden from the highway as if we had gone ten miles, and were brought to a halt in a little glade. As there were five to four, you may wonder that we did not make a break. The first man who had moved to pull his revolver would have been shot in the back. Da vis could not have been counted on any how, as his anxiety for his child took all the fight out of liiin. The driver, if not in league with the rangers, was at least treated as neutral. While he was arm ed, he took matters so coolly that we saw he was out of the scrape. The five of us were placed in a row, and while three men stood behind us the fourth disarmed us and went through our pock ets. We were a poverty stricken crowd. The §3O they took from me constituted my worldly wealth, while Davis and the others had been too sharp to trust their money to a stage unguarded. The whole amount did not pan out over §l5O, and the bush rangers were furious. "Why, you bloody bloke!" shouted the leader, "you alone ought to have at least £2OO with you!" "Do you think I'm carrying my money about the country for sucli as you?" pro tested the hot beaded victim. "I'm a-wisliing you hadn't got a blast ed penny!" added the second. "The idea of it! You'll all be hung for this!" growled the third. Davis and 1 liad nothing to say. The lender, speaking to the two of us, asked: "You are not English?" "No; Americans." "I thought so. Where ye bound for?" We gave him our destinations. "Well, we're a bit sorry to take your money, small as it is, and so delay your journey; but we've got to do both. These three coves is rich, and we ain't going to let 'em off with shillings where we ought to have pounds." While we were held under guard one of the men went over to the driver and held a consultation with him, and the result was that he turned his team about and disappeared in the direction of the highway. We were then ordered to proceed in a northerly course through the scrub, one man leading and the oth ers bringing up the rear. Not a word had beer, addressed to little Eva by any of the men, although all had looked at her with softened expression. She real ized what was going on, but went through it bravely, and when we started through the scrub her father carried her on his shoulder. We traveled for six or seven miles before halting, and then came upon a camp fire, with a fifth bush ranger sleeping beside it. He was rudely awakened, and I then saw that he had his right arm in a sling, having been wounded or meeting with an acci dent. The camp was a thicket, with a temporary shelter of brush to sleep un der. The five of us were ordered to sit down under this shelter, and then every man's feet were tied together at the ankles and a guard took a seat before us. Then the fire was replenished, and the bush rangers gave us such a supper as they could afford, which consisted solely of roast mutton and a flour cake baked in the ashes. When we bad eaten this and been offered a drink of water all around, the leader sat down before us and said: "Now, genu, business is business the worid over. We have got to make money. We want it to convert these 'ere natives from the error of their ways, and it will take a heap to do it. You first gent, who was so 'ready with your' tongue, how much are you worth?" "It's none o' yer blasted business, you scoundrel, you," was the hearty reply. "Well, inebbe not. Being as you is so poverty stricken, I'll put you down for only £3OO. Now, you second gent." "I could raise £IOO if in Melbourne." "That means £2OO for you, then. You'll lie a half or more. Now, you third gent." "I'll see you hanged for this day's work." was the reply. " vteObe you will, but not until after 1 bi-to your money You also go down for £3OO. Now, the fourth gent." "You've got tuy last dollar," I replied. 'I landed in Melbourne only a week ago." "That's bad for all of us, but I guess you tell the truth. Now, you fifth gent." "I might possibly raise £5 if up at the ranch," replied Davis, "but that would be all. I am poor and just making a start." "Is that your little gal?" "Yes." "Where's the mother?" "Dead." "Shoo! That's too bad. What's the gal's name?" "Eva." "Mighty sweet Say, gal, come and kiss me." She went over to him and kissed his bronzed and bearded cheek without the slightest hesitation, and ho held her for a moment and looked her over and said: "Sweet as honey! 1 wouldn't hurt you for all the gold in the big world!" She was allowed to return to her fa ther, and the leader then said: "We shall hold you three peppery gents until you raise £BOO for us, and as these Americans might give the alarm we.shall be obliged to hold them as well. Sorry to do it. but business is business, and if we don't look out for ourselves no one will." Eacli one of the Englishmen swore by all that was good and great that he'd never pay a cent, but the busli rangers only laughed at their words. At a late hour we were ordered to go to sleep, and the last thing I saw before my eyes closed was the guard sitting on a rock at my feet. The night passed quietly, and as soon as we had breakfasted in the morn ing the leader took pen, ink and paper from a box and said to the Englishmen: "Now, then, here's the chance to write to your friends to raise the rocks, and I'll see that the letter- reach them." Each one of ti " refused point blank to make .apt to rain money, although n uu they had a desperate lot to dea. tn.unnd that they would suffer for their obstinacy. "Well, some other day will do just as well." laughed the leader, "but 1 want it understood that each day of delay odds £25 to the ransom." We were then untied, given a few minutes to get over our stiffness of limb, and then we all set off over a rugged, scrubby country toward a range of hills. We traveled steadily until noon and then came to a v cry secure stronghold among the hills. By placing us in a natural inclosure of about an eighth of an acre we were surrounded by rocky walls on three sides, and on the fourth the bush rangers built their fire and made their camp. As we were penned in here the chief of the bush rangers announced to the Englishmen that he would give them two days in which to make up their minds to send for the money. If they held out at the end of that time he would take his own measures to extort the money. One of the Englishmen was a large landowner in Australia, another was a civil officer at Melbourne, the third was fresh from England and was intending to start a manufactory of some sort at Melbourne or Sydney. Davis and I both labored with them to make them realize the situation, but they were pigheaded and obstinate, ri< claring that it was all a bluff, and thr, the rangers would not dare proceed to extremes. We believed differently. They were escaped convicts, each one outlawed, and a more villainous gang one in \ t looked at. O morning of the third day, with n.i , annoyed us in the least dur ing l val, tlie cliief called for their dec/ -; Each Englishman curtly re plied that he would never get another dollar of their money. The civil officer was the leader and the most independent, lie was seized, lied hand and foot, and after his boots and stockings had been re moved he was placed with his feet to a fire. He stood the torture until we could smell the odor of his burning soles and then gavo in. The other two followed his example without waiting for the tor ture. Each one wrote a note to a friend in Melbourne worded by dictation. While the chief was a rough looking fellow, he proved to have a very fair education. When the letters were ready he took them and started, presumably to find a messenger to act as a go-between. There were four left to guard us, and after the chief had gone one of them bruised some herbs and kindly tied up the English man's feet. Our three fellow prisoners rather shunned Davis and myself during the afternoon, seeming to be put out be cause we were not called upon to ransom ourselves. But wo afterward recalled that they made much of the child, and had her with them a good share of the time. Each outlaw also had a good word for her whenever she came near, and she was permitted to run about without re straint. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon this was the situation: Three of the guards were asleep beyond the fire. The fourth sat on the ground, w'th his back to a rock, reading a novel, while he had a rifle acroes his knees. Davis and I lay close together, talking matters over, and the Englishmen were ten steps away. Little Eva was running about, shouting and playing. All at once we heard the pop of a revolver, followed by a death crv, and as we sprang up two of the English men, each with a pistol in hand, dashed past us. In sixty seconds more every one of the bush rangers was dead. They had coaxed Eva to bring them the pistols, which were lying on the far side of the camp, and she had passed behind the guard and made two trips. As soon as they had the weapons one of them shot down the half asleep guard, and then the others were slain before sleep was fairly out of their eyelids. The smoke was still hanging over the camp when we began the construction of a litter, and within half an hour we were headed for the highway and carry ing the victim of torture along with us. We kept going all night, as we had to go slow, and about daylight came out at the Btage station. A squad of mounted police Bet off for the camp, and on their way to it came across and killed the leader of tho bush rangers, thus wiping out the last of a bad gang.—New York Sun. SOME WONDERFUL WELLS. TRIO THAT PRESENTS EXTRA ORDINARY FEATURES. Koarxnl, ISI.Mvi-ra and Gushers—Well. from Which (lie Wind Whistles, nml One I'us sessl iijj ■ Uemiirlfiilile IClectrlcal Proper flea, Today's > tpursion among wonders and marvels •• taken beneath the sur face ol :e i, in a description of the locate.' . i lurncter of "wonderful well.' Tli. ' ;.*•<• well, with its long "swyi : gle rope and bucket at tache'! i.i.'.re modern windlass, withe.- ... -. iving device of two buck ets atL:,.'.ieil i i a single rope, wound around a eyliiider in such a manner as to let one bucket down while the other one is coming up, the same that was known to and so graphically described by the author of the "Old Oaken Bucket," or even the present wooden or iron pump with its manifold attachments, are com mon objects in every small city and in the rural districts. It is not these, but others dug on similar plans, which it is proposed to describe under the above caption A BRITISH FREAK. One of the most remarkable of the many wells, which the reader will be willing to dub as "wonderful" before he has finished this dissertation, is on the edge of the Bridlington harbor, in York shire, England. This well was dug in the early part of the present century and was first described in a paper read by Dr. Storer to the Royal society. The bot tom of the Bridlington harbor is com posed of a gravelly, porous clay. In bor ing the well this stratum was penetrated and bored through its entire depth and into a bed of other and more solid clay below. A copper lining was provided and the sides of the well properly se cured. When the first tide arose after the well was finished it flowed to within fifty inches of the mouth of the boring. This was nothing singular within itself, it having regularly so flowed during the four weeks that work on the well was progressing: the well itself furnished the free show. Before the tide had reached within thirty yards of the well the water began flowing from the mouth and by the time it had reached its maximum height, was gushing out in torrents. Tho water from the well was perfectly fresh, ali 1 Ii the sea water flowed to within 1 n live feet of its mouth. As the r des the fountain gushes v ui I i less impetus until at last it disappt'ai • from view in the cavernous depths of (lie well, only to reappear and form a perfect fountain when the next tide flows Til ib.RRA BLANC A ROARER. An A :i wonder, similar in many respei :iv Bull's Yorkshire mar vel, a • was fully described in the ci ilie old Republican 6ome three vi. is the Sierra Blanca mag: ' .: the Texas and Pacific raiiro ■ \tso county, Texas. The well v . d on the artesian plan in the s| ■ ; summer of lbsv. Some little obtained and prospects were I ; , d adefith of over 600 feet had 11 mil, when the tools sud denly i.: •>> a cavern; the bottom had in r . : len out," and they were treat; I ■; niuh of cool—not water, but ail < : respondents by twos, l>y singles, . and by scores visit ed it ; graphed the results of their of - to the leading papers of the 1 : of these, in speaking of the . : of the ebb and flow of air to r phenomena as exhibited in i c •;>! i: ' says: "It ti . 5 it. m. to 10:15 p. m. a cur rent in , • i. m out of the pipe with a sound i tn.iing the noise made by a locomotive blowing off steam, and so loud that it can bo heard for forty or fifty yards. At 10:15 p. m. the overflow of air ceases and a strong suction sets in which lasts for the next twelve hours, this ebb and flow continuing day after day, and it has been observed by horse men that whenever they get in the neigh borhood of this well strong magnetic forces are felt and sparks given off if the horse's mane is touched." THREW STONES. Mr. Peter Taylor, of Sarnia, Ontario, was more fortunate than the Texas Pa cific in getting something tangible from his roaring well, which was sunk some years since in the suburbs of the city above lueeii.. --.1. The well, which had been drillm; n> :> depth of about 150 feet before it d- • oped abnormal propensi ties, vas pi: noted some 800 yards south of his hou ■< 'dch is one of the largest and finest i - -nia. As soon as • ,ie cavity had been pene trated the rush of air, which, by the way, was expelled with much greater force than that from the Sierra Blanca welf? was accompanied by millions of pebbles and bushels of sticky yellow clay, the pebbles varying in size from about the bigness of a hickory nut up to some which were almost as large as a man's head, the latter weighing from eight to fifteen pounds. That these stones were expelled with great force may be guessed from the fact that they were thrown hun dreds of feet high, many of them going entirely over the Taylor residence,w hich, as above mentioned, stood 300 yards north of the w II During tin* time of this remarkable display there was a constant, ever in creasing roar issuing from the bowels of the earth through the well, the small ness of which seemed slowly to check the pent up forces in the subterranean lioiler and save the whole town from a coating of clay and n bombardment of rocks. It was about 4 -.DO o'clock in the afternoon when the tirst premonition of coming trouble was noticed in gurgling sounds proceeding from the well, and for about an hour and a half, or until 6 p. m., Taylor's home made geyser was the won der of all that part of Canada able to get within hearing or to catch a glimpse of the cone shaped column of mud, stones and water that were being shot into the boreal atmosphere.—John W. Wright In fit. Louis lb-public. I Wonderful. An Englishman, traveling in Durinak, gives a langhahle account of the astonish ment with which the natives regarded his air pillow. The very ignorant, like the very wise, find plentiful occasion for wonder in what to people in general seem only commonplace objects and occur rences. I began blowing up my uir pillow. The Burman nearest my comer, who had been watching my preparations for bed with sleepy interest, sprang to life with a start as he saw the pillow increasing in bulk, and sat upright on his mat. "Ahuiay!"—"mother!" he exclaimed. "Ho Moung Gyee! Oogvaw! f'ohgine!" —"Ili, you fellows! Look re! Look here, all of you; look at this: Slumberers were rapidly awakened by 'the noisy scrambling of the wakeful members of the party; and I was soon surrounded by a crowd of squatting figures. Ko Cliaik and his family, roused by the scramble and the loudly murmured "Alnnuysl" as the pillow slowly swelled, glided quickly in, by twos and threes, and by the time 1 had screwed up the nozzle the entire household and all the visitors were among the audience. "What's that for'.'" asked Moung Oyee. a little, wizened up man like a dried monkey "A pillow for the bead," I replied. "A wind hem) bag," said Moung Daw, promptly, and bis remark elicited a uni versal murmur of "Houltbah! houkbah!" which might be freely translated, "Ah yes: of course, of course." The pillow was now gently taken from my knees and passed slowly from hand to hand, patted and pinched, squeezed, smelled, tasted and bumped on the floor. Eyes were applied to the nozzle, but they could make little of that, and after the pillow had passed about the entire room, receiving as much criticism as a new fossil in the bands of a learned so ciety, it was respectfully placed by Moung Daw at the top of the spread blankets, balanced on one end against the wall, where itcontinued to receive silent admiration. "Show us how it is done," was the n< >• demand. I yawned widely, but unscrewed the top and returned the curiosity to Moung Daw, who forced out the air in the faces of his friends, to their great satisfaction. —Youth's Companion. Wllere tho Wild Fowl Nest. Until tho acquisition of Alaska by the United States it was a wonder where cer tain wild fowl went when they migrated from the temperate climes on the ap proach of summer as well as snow birds and other small species of tho feathered tribe. It was afterward found that their habitat in summer was tho waters of Alaska, the Yukon river and tho lakes of that hyperborean region. A reporter lately interviewed C. J. Green, of Nor ton Sound, Alaska, and lie confirms the statement of Dall and others. People wonder where the wild fowl come from, said he. They see tho sand hill crane, wild goose, heron and other fowl every spring and fall pursue their unwearied way, but, like the wind, they do net know whence they come or whither they go. Up on Golovine liny, on the north shore of Norton sound, is the breeding placo of those fowls. All the birds in creation, seemingly, go to that country to breed. Geese, ducks, swans, and thousands upon thou sands of sandlrill crane-, aro swarming there ail tho time. To lay their eggs in the blue stem grass i:: tho low lauds, and if you go up tho river a little way from tho bay. tho noise of tho wiid fowl is almost deafening. Myriads of rob'oins and swallows are there, as well as mill ions of magnificent grouse, wearing red combs and feather moccasins. This grouse turns as white as snow in winter. You can kill dozens of juicy leal ducks or grouse as fat tut butter balls in a few moments. Tho wild fowl and bom's live on salmon berries and huckleberries, with which all the hills are literally cov ered. —Asteriau. A (tanner of Kattlesnativ Skins. A lady residing on the west side has perhaps tho most unique banner that has ever been seen in Kansas City. It is as beautiful as it is unique, and is prized by its owner for its beauty and oddity. It is made of the skin of an enormous rattlesnake, with a background of plush. The snake skin was sent tlie lady by a friend who lives in Texas. It is beauti fully tanned, the back being colored and covered with spots resembling small scales, which on the background of plush look for all the world like mosaic. The skin is over five feet long without the head and tail, and fourteen rattles denoted its age. In the widest part the skin is nine inches in width, thus show ing that in life the rightful owner of the skin which now adorns the lady's parlor must have been an ugly customer. A letter which preceded the present, states that bolts made of rattlesnake skins sue much woru by the young ladies of Texas, and are a common article of a belle's ap parel.—Kansas City Times. A Good Advertisement. It is customary to say that when a man survives three score years end ten he is living on borrowed time. Some men at 75 consider themselves very youthful, and instances are not uncom mon of hale and vigorous men who lack less than a decade of touching par. They had an old Indian from Monterey at the state board of trade not long since, who set up a claim of I>eing 150 years of age. He might have been younger—perhaps older —but at any rate he was a tiptop advertisement for the "glorious climate,'* : although his complexion was a trifle off \ color and his skin looked like the tanned 1 hideof an alligator.—San Francisco Alta. The Act of a Friend. Wittix—l did you a great favor while i I was waiting for you. ! Critix —Much obliged to you, old man. i What was it? ! Wittix—l cut the leaves of Gusher's 1 book, which you slashed up so in your last review column. Critix—Thanks, awfully. Harper's Bazar.
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