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KEYSTONE STATE CULLINGS
EDUCATING THE RED MAN,
THE CARLISLE SCHOOL 13 ATTENDED BY 666
INDIANS.
CarrLisLE—The fourteenth annual report
of Capt. R. H. Pratt. superintendent of the
Carlisle Indian Training school shows 656
pupils at the schoo! at present, 397 boys and
269 girls. These represent 43 tribes. Daur-
ing the year 5 died, 240 returned to their
homes and 200 remain upon farms in
Pennsylvania for the winter, Six graduat-
ed during the year, making 60 graduates
since the school was established, The earn:
ings for the year were: Boys, $183 51; girls,
$5769 Their savings were: Boys, $11991;
girls, $3283. There are 5 Indian pupils
attending Dickinson college. So great was
the dea and for Indian boys and girls upon
farms this summer that only half the
requests could be met.
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CASH FOR TEACHERS’ INSTITUTES.
HarrisBurG—The State superintendent of
public schools announces that the teachers’
institutes throughout the State are progress-
ing finely. It is probable the money re-
ceived from the county treasurers to aid in
the holding ot th: iastitutes will not fall far
short of $14.000, while some $23,000may be
expected from cther sources. If the at-
tendance continues as heretofore there will
be over 40,000 spect” ors present. The cost of
instruction will aggregate something like
$33,000 and there will be other expenses to
the amount of $16,000. The members them-
selves, in dues, etc. give nearly $20,000.
——praet
TWO MEN KILLED.
Aazerron—Patrick MaLaughlin and Da-
vid Jenkins, two rock miners employed in
tha Lansford coiliery, were instantly killed
by a premature explosion. They had pre-
pared a blast, and the fuse burning slowly
they supposed it had zone out. Just as they
reached the place the blast went oft and
, the men were torn and mangled in a hor-
cible manner.
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WILL PROTECT THE QUAIL.
WasHINGTON—Quite a number of crack
field shots in this section have decided not
to bave any hunting this season and will
endeavor to induce others to do so. It has
been many years since quail were so scarce
asthey are this season, and these gentle
men desire to protect what is remaining in
order that they may not be entirely exter
minated.
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Tromas DuRkIN, of Scottdale, a bookkeep-
er for the Frick Company, died at Union:
town Saturday night of spinal meningitis.
A week before Durkin went to Uniontown
to marry Mary Beatty. While overheated he
drank ice water, became illand the fatal
malady developed.
Tur largest sheriff's sale of realty held in
Montgomery county for many years will
take place at Norristown November 22,
when 39 properties will be sold by Sheriff
Simpson. Quite a number of the proper-
ties are farms that are being sold on fore-
closure.
At Huntingdon robbers broke a large
glass in the show window of J. M. Laird’s
fiardware store and stoleguns and cutlery
valued at £100, Mr. Laird shot at the thieves
but missed them. This is the fourth time
hisstore has been robbed within a few
months.
EMMA BucHANAYN, the colored nurse girl
under arrest for murdering a baby by fore-
ing concentrated lye down its throat, at Un-
iontown, has confessed to the crime, saying
a Connellsville girl had toid herthat lye was
«ood to quiet frettul babies.
GrorGE McCREA, an oil tank builder, was
found unconscious with a gash in his head
beneath a bridge at Butler Saturday night.
He is alive, but still unconscious. He prob-
ably fell from the b idge.
Ox Wednesday morning the Sharon post-
office safe combination failed to work. The
safe held the street box keys as well as the
cash. Letters rea ained in the boxes. The
safe was drilled open,
Jacos BarGER, an old farmer of Shenan-
go township near New Castle was leading
a cow when the animal became suddenly
mad and attacked him, goring him soba lly
that he cannot live.
Rev. FATHER GEORGE MEYER, pastor of
St. Michael's Catholic church at Fryburg
near Clarion, accidently swallowed a tooth-
ache cure and neariy died Sunday.
At New Castle, a 5-year-old daughter of
James W. Clark was probably fatally burn-
ed by her clothing catching fire, while she
was bursing a pile of rubbish.
JosepH SWEENY, 14 years old, tried to get
on a railroad train at Natrona and fell
under the wheels. He died in 10 minutes.
Rev. 8. F. Cort of Wyalusing, aged 83 and
the tather of 21 chil 4zen, was married again
Saturday. !
*‘ToppY'’ Pr1zER, a P. & L. E. brakeman
was killed by the cars at New Castle.
Smarzpox has been officially declcred
tpidemic at Reading.
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Translating It.
Baron Dowse once was judge where
the accused could only understand
Lrish, and an interpreter was accord-
ingly sworn. The prisoner said some-
thing to the interpreter, and the lat-
ter replied.
“What does hesay?” demanded the
judge. i
“Nothing, my lord.”
‘How dare you say that when we
all heard him? Come, sir, what was
it?”
“My lord,” said the interpreter, be-
sinning to tremble, ‘‘it had nothing
50 do with the case.”
“If you don’t answer I'll commit
zou, sir. Now, what did he say?”
“Well, my lord, you'll excuse me,
but he said, ‘Who’s that ould woman,
with the red bed-curtain round her,
iitting up there?”
At which the court roared.
“And what did yousay?” asked the
saron, looking a little uncomfortable.
“I said, ‘Whist, ye spalpeen!
[hat’s the ould boy that's going
0 hang yez!”
rr ell ren a
lot the Same Sermon.
“Your husband preached from the
same text that his father did the
last time he was in that pulpit,” re.
marked a good deacon to the wife of
a young minister who was revisiting
his boyhood home.
“Indeed,” replied the lady, at once
interested. “I hope,” she continued,
“that it was not the same sermon.”
“Oh, no,” sald the deacon, in ga
jeprecatory manzer; “his father was
a dreadful smart man.”
ELEPHANTS AND RAILWAYS,
Natives of India Have a PreWMiles
Against the Iron Horse.
Not, a few people in India have de-
sided objections to the railways,
which in recent years have been in-
troduced in that country. Among
these objectors are the elephants, tg
whom railway travel seems to be es-
secially hazardous. More than one
xlephant, even on the American con-
sinent, where elephants are scarce.
1as been killed by collision with a
jrain. The most famous of all ¢le-
shants, the great Jumbo, met his
leath in this way.
The Indian locomotives are more
'n danger of grasshoppers, it appears,
;hano they are of elephants. When a
rain runs into a great army of grass-
1oppers covering the track to a depth
if several feet, it is sure to be
topped, and in grave danger of being
lerailed. Accidents of this nature
ippear to be not infrequent in India.
But in a collision with an elephant,
t is usually the elephant which suf-
‘ers most. He can hardly get under
ihe wheels; and as the locomotive
1as more power within it than the
:lephant, the animal is generally the
me of the two antagonists who is
thrown off the track.
In the domains of the Nizam of
Jyderabad, an Indian potentate of
reat consequence and of extensive
lomains, the railway is so new a
hing that the people are oot yet ac-
ustomed to it. Not long ago the
Nizam, having occasion to make a
ourney, preferred to travel by a
ipecial train instead of on elephant-
yack, but he sent his elephants on
»efore him, over the highway.
As the mahout, or elephant-driver
1 charge of the herd, was proceeding
)n his way, he came to-the intersec-
sion of the railway with the public
toad. As it made a short cut, and
was level and smooth, while the road
was bad, the elephant driver thought
ae would take the railway. So he
conducted his animals upon the en-
sankment, and they went lumbering
on over the rails and ties.
Presently the Nizam’s special train
;ame whirling round the curve. The
>ngine-driver saw the elephants, and
reversed his lever and gave the signal;
out an elephant is a slow animal to
move. By the time the astonished
mahout had began to deliver his or-
iers to the elephants to get off the
track, the train was upon him.
The largest elephant in the com-
pany, said to te without a rival in
India, was overthrown, crushed and
killed. His mahout was also killed.
Another elephant lost his trunk, and
inother one of his tusks, while sever-
il more were badly damaged.
The Nizam was a sorrowful witness
»f this destruction. He wept with
grief, and is said to have lamented
the intrcduction of railways into his
iominions. The unfortunate man
who was the cause of the disaster
lost his life as the penalty of the of-
tense of traveling on elephant-back
n a railway track.
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The Ungallant Dutchman.
In Holland a woman is a secondary
consideration—and a poor ' considera.
ton at that. No Dutch gentleman
waen walking on the sidewalk will
move out of his way for a lady. The
latter turns out invariably, however
muddy or dangerous the street.
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ONE of the first repeals should be
that of lynch law.
THE RESULT BY COUNTIES.
Party Pluralities in Pennsylvania To-
gether With the Official Figures
on State Treasurer In 1891.
The following table shows the votes cast
in each county of Pennsylvania for the Re-
publican and Democratic candidates for
State Treasurer in 1891 and the pluralities
at Tuesday’s election upon thesame office}
In 1891 Morrison, Republican, had 54,377
plurality over Tilden, Democrat.
lo.
M’rs'n|Til’n | Rep. | Dem
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Adams. iil... : 2,508]
Allegheny. ...... 17.781120,000
Armstrong. ...... 2611] 2,050]
Beaver. 3,042) 1,400!
59]12,883] ...
4.419. 2.600.,....
2.885 3.500! ....
Bradford..
Bucks...
Clarion -.....5...
Clinton. i..0v. ve
Crawford... ..
Cumberiand.....
Dauphin.........
Delaware Pens lel :
Huntingdon.
Indiana...... ve
Jeflersoi. irvea ins
Juniata. c... sue
Lackawana......
Lancaster........
lLawrence........
Tebanon.. .......
Tehigh'...... 5
Luzerne... ....,
Yycoming........
McKean
Mercer .
MifHin
Monroe...ds..s x
Montgomery ....
Montour,........
Northampton ...
543 110,041] 1,000...
9,072 8.340 ..
Northumberland |
2.544, 450,.....
985(73,416,52,152.......
319] #66] ..... | 450
1,986) 400).....
10.345] 500]...
1.520) 800l.....
Somerset ........
Sullivan
Susquehanna ....
Tioga....v......0
Union ...........
Venango e
Warren... ..e:
Washington ....
Wayne i... .s..
Westmoreland....
Wyoming .
York... ..
4,909] 2,315] 2
2,201] 1,468]
SOLDIERS’ COLUMN
BRAVEST DEED OF THE WAR.
A Union Captain’s Death Ride Into the
Confederate Ranks Near Petersburg.
THE lines of tha
Union ariny were
closing around Pet-
ersburg like a
shroud of iron, when
Gen. Lee resolved
t break 284, dive
them back if pos-
sible. To that end
he ordered an at-
tack in force to be
made on Gen.
Grapt’s line of eir-
cumvallation on
July 19,1864.
The point select-
ed for assault was
in the vicintiy of an
old country in called
he Yellow Tav-
he order was that
GY iA... the gitack be made
~~ just efore the
Te? ML en of day, the
time most favorable for a surprise. “When
deep sleep falleth on' men.” It was the
experience, however, of many Confederate
officers. charged with the duty of attacking
in the gray of the morning, thatit was
d flicult to bring their troops into line at
that early hour, Although they were gen-
erally, ‘but in the gristle and not yet hard-
ened into the bone of manhood,’ they were
in one sense, at least, not of the rising gen-
eration.
Hence it was that Gen. Johnston Hagood,
whose brigade of Scuth Carolinains was
assigned to the right of the attacking force,
found that daylight had broken before he
could align his command. Gen. Hagood
was as true a soldier as ever drew sword in
b ttle; to him the path of duty was the
ath of honor, and although be saw ‘that
is brigade was in plain view of the Union
troops, who had already manned their in-
trenchments, he ordered it to advance to the
assault. It had to cross a space of about
250 yards in width, which had an undu’at-
ing surface, and the broken nature of the
ground atforded some shelter until it de-
bouched upon a level highway within sev-
enty yards of the works.
It then met with a terrible fire of artillery
and rifles, but it was not composed of sea-
soned veterans and it now faltered. Where
the dead fell, the livingslept and their lev.
eled bayonets soon sparkled within twenty
feet of the line of inirenchments. There
the brigade came to an involuntary halt for
before it lay a wide, aeep ditcn, half tull of
water, which it had no means of crossing.
Unable to advance, and yet unwilling to re-
treat without orders, every soldier delivered
his hopeless fire with the energy of des-
pair. .
As a me-cifulsuggestion, no doubt prompt-
ed by admiration for a oody of brave men,
doomed otherwise to certain slaughter, the
Union soldiers called out to them to sur-
render, but the call was unheeded. At that
deadly injuncture a mounted officer was
seen to emerge from the sally port of an
earthwork at a re-entering angle of the line
of intrenchments nearly opposite to the
center of the brigade. He galloped up to
the color-bearer of the -—— South Carolina
regiment and holding out his right hand,
demunded the surrender of the colors,
Although mounted, the uniform andshould-
er strapsof the daring Union officer indicat-
ed that he was a Captain of infantry. He
was, apparently, about thirty years of age,
with a nobie and handsome face, and tall
heroic form.
The Color Sergeant, seemingly dazed, or
perhaps paralyzed by thesublimeeffrontery
of the demand, surrendered the colors.
The flag was especially dear to the regi-
ment, for it had been presented by the
women of thedistrict in which theregiment
was)raised, and it had been borne aloft with
honor on many battle-fields. .1t was a State
flag, with the arms of South Carolina upon
it, and a counterpart of - that which the
famous Palmetto regiment in the Mexican
war had planted on the walls of the capitol
of Mexico, the first foreign flag to wave
there since the time of Cortez. That it
should have been delivered up to a single
foeman when there were a thousand men to
defend it, and the thrust ofa bayonet or the
pulling of a trigger could have disposed of
him, was past all undarstanding. I have
thought that perhaps,sorely perplexed with
their comrades falling fast all around them,
they may have thought at the moment the
delivery of the flag was intended as a signal
to the troops in the trenches to cease firing.
At any rate they lost their heads for the
nonce.
Not so, however, was it with Gen.Hagood
who was distant about seventy-five yard
and saw with amazement the surrender of
the flag. He was on 1oot, his horse having
been shot under him, and he came forward
on a run to intercept the officer, who was
riding slowly along the front of the regi
ment, obliquing somewhat toward his own
lines. Gen. Hagood, on coming un with
him, seized the bridie of the horse, and, lev-
eling his cocked revolver at the Captain's
breast, said to him: *“Gire m: that flag,
sir.” Tie answer was: ““Wi0:re ycu'’ Tle
General replied: ‘‘I commana nis vrigade.
I admire your bravery. Give me the flag
and you shall return unmolested 10 your
own lines.” The Captain, who had furled
the flag and was holding it upright with the
ferule of the stuff resting on the pommel of
thesaddle, responded: General, you had
better rurrender to me yourself. Look be-
hind you!”” The General looked to the rear
and saw that « large force that had sallied,
from the intrenchmentson his left were
moving to cut off his retreat, all othercom-
mands having retired from the fruitless as-
sault. Turning to the defiant Cap‘ain, he
exclaimed: ‘‘Once more, sir, will you give
up that flag?’ The answer was, in a loud
tone: “Never!” With the answer Gen-
Hagood fired and the officer fell, shot
through the breast. He still grasped the
flagstaff as he fell backward, anil it was
wrested {ron his grasp. The General then
mounted the horse and ordered a retreat,
which was effected with the loss of nearly
one-half of the brigade.
The captured horse was killed on the re-
treat by a shot from the Union lines and as
he fell he kicked out his heels and, as if ta
avenge his fallen master, 8'rack Dr. Taylor,
the brigade surgeon, in the head. inflicting
a wound trom the effects of which he never
entirely recovered.
Often within the lines at Petersburg,
around many a camp fire, Confederate sol-
diers discussed the strange incident of the
fiag surrendered at Yellow Tavern. How t
was that such a famous regiment should
have allowed the flag to be surrendered in
battle to a force consisting of but one man
was most puzzling.
The occult powers of hypnotism mieht
have furnished a solution, butit wus then
unheard of, and is still un¥nown to the art
of war,
All agreed, however, that no braver
deed was ever done than that of the
Jaren Captain who fell, stiligrasping that
ag.
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STATISTICS are sald to show that
young men do not, on the average,
attain full physical maturity until
they arrive at the age of 28 years.
Prof. Scheiller, of Harvard, asserts,
18 the result of his observations, that
young men do not attain to the full
measure of their mental faculties be-
fore 25 years of age. A shrewd ob-
server has said that “most men are
boys until they are 30, and little
toys until they are 25;” and this ac-
cords with the standard of manhood,
which was fixed at 30 among the an-
sient Hebrews and other races.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
A submarine trolley is talked of.
The first work on geology was
written by Mercoti in 1574.
A simple diet of brown bread and
fruits is said to be a cure for obesity.
Blinding daylight is the only thing
that prevents owls from covering long
distances as trained pigeons now do.
In 2 square iach of the human scalp
the hairs number about 1000 and the
whole number on an adult scalp is
about 120,000.
In mechanies, speed cannot be ob-
tained except at the expense of power;
nor power be obtained except at the
expense of speed.
Many species of bacteria are bene-
ficial, instead of hurtful, to man.
Many of them manufacture the neces-
sary food for useful plants.
Experienced engineers say that re-
versing the lever when a train is at full
speed when an accident is impending
only makes the train go faster.
The millers are greatly annoyed by
worms which appear in the flour from
time to time and then mysteriously
disappear without impairing the value
of the flour.
A stratum of soilin Eastern Nebraska
has recently been discovered which is
m¥fe up largely from volcanic dust.
It is about eighteen inches deep and
of whitish aspect. This is reported
from the vicinity of Omahsa, and is
farther East than the similar and
better known deposits elsewhere in
the sama State. Unlike the other
layers, however, this one contains
oxides of iron and carbonate of lime.
It is well known that sea water has
a most beneficial effect upon the ap-
pearance of horses, imparting a satin
gloss to their coats, a brightness to
the eyes und a generally refreshed ap-
peerance. It is no unusual thing at
Cape May, N. J., and various other
seaside resorts to see hostlers giving
the animals in their charge their see
plunge asregularly as the mostsystem-
matic bather on the beach. Some
New Yorkers while summering in
Europe send their stables to the sea-
shore for a fortnight simply for the
bathing.
Of the fourteen huge masses of
meteoric iron that fell on a spot less
than sixty-four square miles in area
near Fort Duncan, Mexico, the largest
is bee-hive shaped and is buried five
feet in the soil and rises four feet
above the surface. The second mass
in point of size has been moved to the
National Museum at Washington. It
weighs over 4000 pounds. The other
twelve pieces weigh from 974 to 650
pounds. The whole mass of frag-
ments as mentioned above are scattered
over an area of sixty-four square
miles, with Fort Duncan at about the
centre of the point of dispersion.
An elevation of the sea bed 100
fathoms would suffice to lay bare the
greatest part of the North Sea and
join England to Denmark, Holland,
Belgium and France. A deep channel
of water would run down the west
coast of Norway, end with this a
majority of the fiords would be con-
nected. A great part of the Bay ot
Biscay would disappear, but Spain
and Portugal are but little moved
from the Atlantic depression. The
100-fathom line approaches very near
the west coast, and soundings of 1000
fathoms can be made within twenty
miles of Cape St. Vincent, and much
greater depths have been sounded at
distances but little greater than this
from the western shores of the Iberian
Peninsula.
Sun Spots.
A Boston man living out in the sub-
urbs has discovered a fact that may in-
terest a good many persons during the
present sun spot period. @ What he
found was that it is quite possible to
see the larger spots that appear on the
sun’s surface without glass or lens of
any kind. It has long been known
that when these objects obtain unusual
dimensicns they can be glimpsed by
direct vision without smoked glass,
similar to the appliance used to view
solar eclipses with. But that sun spots
can be seen without assistance of this
sort is something new.
The shutters of the observer’s house
happened to be closed, and through a
tiny hole near the top of them a beam
of sunlight found its way to the floor.
There it left an image, clear and
round, tinged at the circumference
with a fringe of blue and orange. The
whole appearance of the beam as pro-
jected reminded the spectator of the
image of the sun taken on paper
through a telescope, and he at once got
a sheet of white note paper in order
to test his surmise. = The result con-
firmed it. A beautiful round image
of the sun fell on the paper, and near
the center thereof could be seen a
bluish spot, which moved about with
the image whenever the paper was
shifted. The bluish-colored object was
a veritable sun spot, and the observer
watched it by the single means de-
scribed for several days until the
revolution of the sun had carried it out
of sight. —Boston Herald.
— et Reem
The Ocean Telephone Possible.
Professor Silvanus P. Thomson is
one of those who believe that ocean
telephony is not only possible, but
that the means of attaining it are
within our grasp. Telephone cables
for the deep sea will, however, require
to be made on a different plan trom
the existing telegraph cables; that is
to say, a single conductor of stranded
copper insulated and surrounded by
an iron sheathing that comes between
the outgoing wire and the water which
serves as the return part of the circuit.
The going and return wires will have
to lieside by side within the sheathing.
Moreover, the whole circuit will prob-
ably have to be broken up into sections
which are capable of acting upon each
other by mutual induction. —London
Globe.
First Person Ever Photographed.
The University of the City of New
York, in its exhibit at the World's
Fair, had a daguerrotype so faded as
to be almost invisible, but in a certain
light the picture could still be seen to
be that of a fair woman quaintly
dressed and wearing a huge poke bon-
net, the inside of whieh is filled with
roses.
Information regarding the picture,
given by Chancellor MacCracken, of
the University is as follows:
‘The daguerrotype is a picture of
Miss Elizabeth Draper, and was taken
by her brother, John Draper, in 1840,
when he was a professor inour univer-
sity. Previous to that time the French-
man Daguerre had made experiments
in photography, or sun pictures, as
they were then called; but he never
got beyond landscapes and pictures of
still life.
“‘When Professor Draper first tried
to photograph a person, his idea was
that the face should be covered with
flour, that the outlines might be more
distinct. After many failures he de-
the face, and this picture of his sister
was a success at the first trial. De-
lighted with his victory, Professor
Draper sent the picture to Sir Will-
MISS DOROTHY CATHERINE DRAPER.
(First sunlight picture of a human face.)
iam Herschel, the great English scien-
tist, that his achievement might be
known on the other side of the water.
Sir William acknowledged the gift,
and sent congratulations in a letter
which was fortunately preserved in
Professor Draper’s family.
“When our exhibit was being pre-
pared for the World’s Fair it occurred
to me that this picture, if still in ex-
istence, would be a valuable addition
to our display and a worthy tribute to
Professor Draper. 1 wrote to the
present Sir William Herschel, a son of
the one to whom the daguerrotype
was sent, asking if it could be loaned
to the University. A reply came that
no trace of the picture could be found
or record of its ever having been re-
ceived. I then had a copy made of
Sir William’s letter and sent it to his
son. Seeing the acknowledgment
from his father, Sir William renewed
the search and the daguerrotype was
found among some long-forgotten
papers, still in a wonderfully good
state of preservation.
¢‘Miss Draper is living, and sent her
photograph, as she looks at eighty-
five, to hang beside the one taken so
long ago in which she has the honor
of being the first person ever photo-
graphed.”
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A Life-Saving Contrivance,
This breeches buoy is simply a round
life buoy, such as are seen on vessels
everywhere, with two canvas legs drop-
ping below like the legs of a pair of
breeches. Here at the drill the boy,
who has all the time remained below,
is now made to climb the spar into the
rigging, where the surfman lifts him
and slips him into the breeches buoy.
His body cannot go through, any more
than it can go through a pair of trou-
sers. And if it could, there is the
buoy up under his arms; and he rides
back to the shore as safely as if he
were in his bed at home. Indeed, he
cannot get out if he wants to. When
he is finally hauled ashore one surf-
man has to lift him, another one tilt-
ing the buoy to get him out. The con-
trivance has been used with excellent
results in a hundred wrecks. It is not
fitted exactly for transporting women
and children, nor can sick or wounded
persons be conveyed from ship to shore
LANDING THE BREECHES BUOY.
with it as comfortably as might be de-
sired. But women, children and in-
valids have been saved with it, and
will again. For no quicker method is
known to the life saving service. —Chi-
cago Herald.
cided to try one without anything on-
Mushrooms.
As there are many kinds of poison-
ous fungi which closely resemble edi-
ble mushrooms, great care should be
exercised by all who attempt to gather
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the latter. Twenty-four cases of toad-
stool poisoning have attracted publie
attention of late. It is more than
doubtful if any of the many tests so
often recommended for the detection
of poisonous mushrooms are reliable.
The idea of detecting the difference
between the edible and non-edible
species by means of 2 silver spoon is
not admitted by scientists, nor will
they subscribe to the statement that
salt sprinkled on the spongy part will
cause the latter, if of a poisonous
variety, to turn yellow.
It is much safer for persons ignorant
of the different species to keep to the
ordinary mushroom, Agaricus campes-
tris. This species 1s most readily dis-
tinguished, when of middle size, by
its fine pink of flesh-colored gills and
pleasant smell (like fresh meal). Later
the gills become chocolate-colored,
and it is in this stage that it is most
likely to be confounded with the poi-
sonous varieties.
The skin of the edible mushroom
also peels off very readily.
Mushrooms are now quite an im-
portant article of commerce, and well
repay those who understand their cul-
ture.—New York World.
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Fashions in Hairdressing.
One of the most noticeable changes
in fashion this season is that which af-
fects the dressing of the hair. The
‘“fringe” has been gradually giving
place to softly waved bandeaux, and
the bandeaux are creeping gradually
lower down, until thereturn seems im-
minent to the puffed and waved ban-
deaux to be seen in the portraits of
Jenny Lind taken along in the ’50s.
To young and delicate faces the style
has an agreeable piquancy and quaint-
ness, but to women past their first
youth, or with strong, coarse features
the bang has a softening effect much
to be desired
Another style now gaining favor,
and one becoming to round faces with
low foreheads, is that of turning the
hair back from the forehead loosely in
a twist that is lost in the light coils
and puffs arranged in the middle of
the forehead. In this style of coiffure
the front hair is parted off on either
side and twisted in the old fashioned
way into rolls. —New York Sun.
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A Canny Trick of Trade.
Hundreds of men look back upon A.
T. Stewart's establishment as both a
primary and a grammar school for the
dry goods trade in this city, and one
of these hundreds told this story the
other night: ‘‘Stewart’s store,” he
said, ‘‘was opposite City Hall Park.
Ball, Black & Co., jewellers, and Leary,
the hatter, had stores on the block be-
low. Stewart noticed every day that
there were private carriages standing
in front of these stores while the occu-
pants were inside, and there seldom
were any in front of the store. Private
carriages were conspicuous in New
York at that time, for there were very
few of them. Stewart wanted them to
stand in front of his place as an ad-
vertisement. It would give the im-
pression that the occupants, who repre-
sented the wealth of New York, were
inside buying goods. He hit upon a
scheme that kept a row of private car-
riages in front of his store all day. He
paid the driver of each carriage a shill-
ing a day to drive up to his door and
wait there until they were wanted.” —
New York Sun.
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Millionaire Huntington's Economy.
It is told of C. P. Huntington that
recently, upon his receiving = small
package, a relative discarded the paper
and twine, throwing them into the
waste-paper basket. Mr. Huntington
arose, and, continuing his talk with
some gentlemen present, apparently
unconscious took the paper out of the
basket, neatly folded it, and taking
care of the string, placed them both
in a drawer for further use. One of
the party remarking that was close
economy, Mr. Huntington replied that
between that and extravagance there
was a wide gap. But Mr. Huntington
in 1849 ran a hardware store in Cali-
fornia and paper and twine were not
readily obtained, and he probably ac-
quired the habit of closely saving those
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