1 1 THE REALM OF FASHION VTBAT. TO WEAR AND BOW TO MAKE XT. A Pretty Dress For a Girt Between Eight and Tan Other Novelties. IdTIlKD here is a very pretty little dress for a child of 8 to 10. It may he inii'li) up In almost nny mnti'rlal. Yon finish the skirt In front with bands of embroidery. Thcro la ulo nn embroid ered plastron ami foliar. The plastron Is framed with fold ed hrucos und the belt Is alio made in tho name style. While simplicity lioal'l always he the key lmte in l!iliions for chit ilren, for nothing looks more riilieii- A rtirTTvcyt.i.V iim:s. ,,, than im ovor. .drcssedchild. yet if tastefully applied mid ho tones he ki l t unlet and subdued, n cer A stampko rori..nn. Iain nmonnt of garniture la always to b onimended. ' For summer costumes, how ever, all appearance of heaving, all over weight effects should he riirefully avoided. Above all things should n child's costume 'lie in strictest harmony with Its coloring. Hoft tints should be chosen, such ns mcll Into the pink nnd white of the complexion, .match the soft golden of the hair or tho sky bltto of the eyes. A DAXIlNO COWX. Nothing enn bo prettier than u stamped foulard for a young person, and. nothing more appropriate for summer wear. The illustration pictures such a gown. The skirt lias three rutficsj made of bias stripes. The charming little puipuro llgrro is outlined with ribbons set olT with a duiihlc bow, as indicated. It is xactly tho same at the back. There is also a liblmn belt, the sleeves carry ii:;;-aut the same scheme of garniture. Tho Eton jacket has developed into one of the rages of tho moment, but very few of these garments aro Eton except in name. The true Eton bus small closo -yleeves, and should invariably be worn witli DKAnr.r sn for miti hum. sleeveless vest, for if you make its sleeves large enough to go over an ordinary gown ;you bave uo longer an Eton coat. The true Eton has tailor made turn-down collar and lapels. Nor should It ever be made use of us a wrap for mullllng up purposes. This is ridiculous. The correct summer girl never snakes such mistake. Her Eton coat is meruly a separate bodice which she wears -over different vests tnd aaWhes ber skirts, while the vests run in different materials, The coat must lit the figure snugly. To do this, the vests sboiild hare long openings for , .Alio strsi to tt fcrorjgh. In tut illustration is acburralug toilet for a Saturday night hop, which may be made up In any filmy, gauzy material, the cut out being trimmed with luce, as shown. The ribbon (orselet ends at the side seams. At the back there Is a Wattcatl bow with long ends. If made up In pale blue, a pas sementerie, band of silver crosses the bust and meets at the back under the bow. The lnced Swiss belt is a very pretty novelty In leather of various colors. At the back and front, the two pointed edges are lnced with a silk cord. On each side there Is a buckle. This belt goes with silk vests and blouses, so much worn at summer resorts. Tho lacing cord should be tied at tho bottom. In tho wnv of headgear for llttlo heads the mothers should be careful not to make choice of large (lowers for garniture, so that the child may not seem to be wearing her big sister's hat. In tho illustration is given a very good example of a becoming lint for a little miss n yellow straw ornamented with a garland of daiics and bows of straw colored ribbon. Certain flowers have a young look nhout them when full blown, and they are the ones to niiike choico of for children's bats. All wild flowers go well with youthful faces and are particularly becoming for such as have the wild wood land nir about them. No one would think of getting orchids or peonies or tulips or poppies or tlcr-lilicsin a child's hat. Would not daisies or heather or wild rosps or forget-me-nots or pausies or npple-hlossoms be more appropriate? Avery becoming bit of headgear for some children is the wide brimmed fancy straw with a Sicilian crown, which Is of silk or woolen stuff, striped something liko a liberty cap and bus a silk tiisel that fulls gracefully over the brim. Long skirts of the Kale (ireenaway style should he used with great discretion even In colli weather. Such gowns are really not fitted for walking purposes ut all, and many a cold gets its first lessons In stiff and awkward carriage by being rolled up in lhce so-culled picturesque costumes. Kvery child in good health has fur mora vitality than be or she has nny use for. and it must be worked off in swil'i motions and semi boisteriotis play, the limbs, particularly, be ing left freo and mitrumiiicled. Hhort skirts, therefore, should be tho rulo us the warm weather conies on, nnd gowns should he straight and loose nnd not loaded down with heavy sashes. Very pretty effects are attained bv trimming the skirt and cuffs with bands of velvet ribbon of a darker shade than the dress, the ribbon also being used to stimulatn the yoke. You will llnd a charmingly picturesipie little gown repre sented in tho illustration. It may be made up In various materials, but more appropri ately in crepon, si.k or printed goods. The blouse nnd tight sleeves should be of plain goods. Tho particular charm of the costume lies in the original use made of a fichu ef fect. Y'ou get here a buck viow of It, show ing how it discloses a round yoke. In front the two ends cross and tormina on the shoulders, where tho ends hook. There Is a straight niched collar. The upper sleeves are made very full and are gathered on the tight sleeve at the elbow. .THE NATIONAL QAME. Ahsox is playing a poor first for Chicago, Thb Baltlmorm have yet to win their first game from Brooklyn, t Hanlox is baolc In the field for Baltimore, but is not yet quite his old self, Muli.axk, Staley, Oleason and Weybing are tbe leadiug winning pitchers. Welch, late of the New York, Is pitch ing winning ball for the Troy Club, Hixck Decoration Day the attendance has materially diminisbe A iu every Eastern city. Glcasox is still pitohlng winning ball for Bt. Louis, and is easily tbe star of that tem, Wabd and Corcoran, of Brooklyn, make double plays wita wonderful precision and quickness. Thb year of a Presidential election is usually an oft one for baseball. It is the case this year. ItlCHABDBON'g work at short for Wash ington has been simply phenomenal. He leads the country. Foun opnouents bave outbatted Boston la their series, vis., Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and Ut. Louis, Many of the high salaried stars will bs asked to accede to a reduction iu their sala ries uuder tbe new order of things. Thb Bostons recently changed from the time honored red stockings to blue. No wonder they struck a streaa of bad luck. It bas been suggested that if tbe profes sional baseball uiunagers would set their men to playing lauroiws in the spring there would be less bellows-mending in running tbe bases. Clarksox. Nichols, Lowe, Qulnn, Stlv etts and Tucker, of the Boston team, have consented to aooept reduction of salary, Kelly was granted further time to say what be would do. At Washington, RIohar Json accomplished a very pretty triple play. He caught line hit, ran and touchsd second base, and then threw to first to cut oil tbe runner who was trying to return back to that point. At Cleveland, during a praotioe game of baseball, John Carey, while at bat, was struck in the neck bv a swiftlv nltchad bill from one Bells. He fell to tbe ground and died in a few inlnutas. Carey was twenty one years of aga and peddler by oooupa- UUIl. Thicks has been lots ot talk that the double championship season is not oooular. but there ia no such complaint from the company oi taru-enuers, lo tuem tne soo nd season is but tbe opening ot the gates to tbe promised laud from which thevhara bean barred on audbuut of hard luck, bad iuuiu RUM iusjva ftil i nun's oowx SOLDIERS' COLUMN. TORT FIZZLE.' One cf the Dsfenes in Ohio Intended to Btslst the Draft. Among tho Con federate forts nol down In the !il torlcal list it "Kort P 1 r. 1. 1 e.' Never having been Inside this wonderful strun. ture, I will not attempt to de scribe it; but suf fice it to sav thai uT)Vit was near Nil- ' - V , j- A. 1L. poicim, w., lor wiv -V rvowed nuronse of resistinir the draft of lSOo. ( 'itrrniit. fnrnirf Ifr&Vir tho time no- '" Vt-redited it with a defensive force of from 1,000 to 3,000 men. Its heavy artillery con. silted of an old Fourth-of-.liily cannon which had been perverted from its former patriotic courso to assist in striking terror to tho heart of the ruling despots who had tho audacity to demand of that rod brush section its quota men for the suppression of in surrection. Tho prime mover in tho erection Hnd ninnniiitf of this formidnblo defense was one "Col. (?) Cnl." W , who had previously enlisted in tho Ohio, but who had been so seriously indisposed on tho day nf that regiment's march for tho Kront as to bo left behind. While ho was soon able to attend to tho everyday affairs oi life, yet his health never would admit of his joining his. regiment, and only after the preparations for the draft wcro in progress, did tho full vitality nf former days return to Cnl. It had really been thought by thoso intimate with Oil., that his month or two of camp lifu had entirely cooled his military ardor, which really seems to have been the case, except so lar as a fixed determination to resist com pulsory measures to enforce his aid in the suppression of the rebellion. Hut on this idea oi tnnn s inherent right to "light or not to light" Cal. grew eloquent nnd fierce. Mounted upon n war-like chnrger, ho scoured tho adjacent ren brush in quest of kin dred souls, who, like himself, wore prepared to ofier up their lives on tho altar of tight or not theory. Tho result was a gathering of quito an nrmy of men who would rather bull doze tho Government than go to war, nnd the heroic Cnl. was raised to tho post of commander, with the doubtful titlo of Colonel. Now "Col." 's head wns a regular encyclopedia of military tactics, garnered from well, his two months' camping'Oiit, for in stance nnd ho it was who with all the pomp and parade of horriblo war and with appropriate military cere monies, superintended tho erection of "Fort I i..lo." From tho lips of those cognizant of nil tho movements nf this gallant (I) bnnd of personal liberty defenders, we hoard from day to (lay of the vast bod ies of dark 'faced, determined men who were taking refuge from the "L 8. Minions" behind this unhistorio struc ture. Great was the consternation which tho dully nows from "Fort Fi. 7.lo" spread through settlements even as remote as Knox county (which, by tho way, joins Holmes county). Many nnd grave were tho predictions as to local strife In tbe mcantinio, daily drills, stump speeches, nnd bloody predictions wero the ordor at the fort. "Col. Cnl." was in his glory. Huv ing lacked tho ntrvo to acquire opu larity by staying with his former regi ment, he had at last achieved notoriety ns the commander of Fort Fi.zle. Ae notoriety passes current in many places for popularity, "Col, Cal." was fed on the fat of tho land, I. e., razor-backed hogs, and would not have been thank fill at all had Prcsidont Lincoln ofior od him tho post of Commnndor-in-Chtofof tho Union armies. Hut all the whilo "Col. Cal." was mustering in his formldublo hosts, and urmlng them with rifles, shotguns, cheeso-knives, ty coon and lied-Juckct revolvers, there was a littlo counter scheme working up. A few of tho loyal citizens nf tliut neighborhood grow vory tirod of the ovcrluating repetition of bombast and threats, und in reality tho mutter had grown to such proportions that it was policy to put a quietus on "Col. Cnl." and his avengers. Tho grand nnd final display of mili tary zeal, courage, and prowess took place ono ufternnnn when n solitary detachment from Co. of the rcgimont of Stute Guards stepped oil tho train at Napoleon. A few of the invinciblcs chanced to be in town, and in their rapid skedaddle for home, one of them had tho cause of bis frionds and fcllnw-sufforcrs at heart sufficient, ly to go by the fort and warn his comrades-in-arms of tho prospect. Later in tho day when tho soldiers marched out to ecu the renowned fort, they found it abandoned by all except one poor fellow who had, in carelessly handling hit pistol, shot himself in the foot, and could not got away; and from the fact that his lute comrades had not takon tlmo to "bear off tbe wouuded," he was left at the mercy of "Lincoln's dogs," one of whom bound up his foot and assisted him to mount his horse. Bo ends the brief but tragic history of "Fort Fiezle." 11. Biuttok, in National Tribune. UNWRITTEN HISTOBY. An Iowa Cavalryman's Experience tn Saoaptn from the Enemy. Not long ago an old comrado drop ped into my store and introduced him self. Tweuty-oight years ago we part ed on the battle-ndd back of Ajlanta, V. .1 1 It! I ' ttf y? mi Vhile on a cavalry rate). 1 was one of the unfortunates, as I was, with most of my regiment, taken prisoner of war. My comrade was more fortunate. Tie, with four others, succeeded in getting away. They gained the banks of tho Chattahoochee, he said, after mnny-hair-breadth escapes. This river is a very deep and rapid stream. Two nf their number could not swim. They nil stripped and tied their clothing on their backs, and the two who could swim helped the other two across. Dut this was not accomplished without trouble, for when they were mldwny in tho "ream a body of rebels appear ed on .n bank they had just vnento.l, and tried their hand nt sliarpshnnting. The rebels succeeded only too well, for before they hud reached the opposite bank two of their number were float ing with tho current, and to-day are sleeping in nameless graves. My comrado and his partner wero then nlono during tho hnbinre of tho Journey to our lines. Tho hardships and privations they underwent for the next two weeks could not bo realized, for it must be remembered that nil of their traveling had to be done at niaht, anil they did not ventnro into a house for several days, when nt last, over come by fatigue nnd hunger, they wero compelled to drop into the negro quar ters adjoining n plantation. They found ono of tho old-time Atintios (tho soldiers know so well) cooking her frug il meal In the fireplace. They remained out in the brush whilo their old friend got them up n royal meal. Hut what was their disappointment, nnd moroso that of the old Auntie, for when they sat down to eat they could not eat; they had been without food so l ing thnt their stomachs would not retain the food. , My comrade said to me that the old Auntie felt so bad for them tht she wept liko s child. This old friend gave them some bedding nnd ficd them up in tho brush ns best she could, and after two days of nursing them with broth, etc., they were enabled to eat a good square meal. 8ho then gave them a good bundloof provisions and started them on their way. Two or three times they barely es caped being captured, nnd every dnv would see scouting parties, which thoy evaded, nnd nf'ter 10 days of this kind of experience regain ed our troops in tho neighborhood of Kingston, (u. This is a few pages of unwritten history connected with ono of tho 2.000,000 of tho Union volun teers. What a largo book it would mako if all were written. II. T. IJiisd, 'n National Tribune. WOBLD'S FAIR NOTES. Homs! A will make a very extensive ex hibit at the World's Fair. Thk mineral exhibit at the World's Fair promises to be Incomparably finer than any errr before made either in this country or abroad. Ka.vTCCKV will make at the World's Fair a l exhibit ot tobacco in all its forms from t an seed up to the matured and manufac tured lef. Oiikat DitrrAlsr, France, Oermany. and in .let many other foreign Nations, are asking, and almost insisting, that more space he "ranted for th?ir exhibits at the World's Fair. Ax exact fao simile o' the San Lulls Riy Mission, perhaps the (Inset and most cele brate:! of all the fanisl ni l mission ruins In Hoiithern California, will be a-en at the World's Fair. It Is reported that Kinsc Aloxander, of Bervia, has decided to visit the World's Fair next year. He la sixteen ynura old and son of thi miiRh-talkad of ex-King Milan and ex-Queen Natalie. A HiTKrAT.o (N. Y.) man proposw to furnl.h the World's Fair with nn attraction in the shape of a collection ot saakes. He claims to be able ty show as many as 20J0 different varieties A onoor of Caribs from the lesser An tilles, descendants of the cannibal race dis covered by Columbus on hla second voyage, will be at the World'a Fair, engaged In mak ing baskets and in other native induatrles. Mors than one thousand men are now a work on tbe mammoth Manufacturers' building for the World'a Fair. The total number of workmen at Jackson Park now exceeda 7IX.0. It will probably bi increased to 10,000 or more. A x agent of tbe Turkish Government is on his way to Chicago to superintend the con struction ot the Ottoman pavilion and a Turkish village for the World's Fair. Ac companying him are native masons who will build the pavilion. Tna Swiss National Council has appro priated $34,000 for an exhibit at the World's Fair o the Hwlsa watch-making industry. It also approved subsidies for exhibit of other industries, including female work In tbe manufacturing line. One ot the novel exhibits In Machinery Hall at the World's Fair will be a modal paper-mill. It will be in active operation and will show all the processes of paper making from the pulp to the finished carl, which will be in the form of a World's Fair souvenir. Tub Kentucky building; at the World's Fair will be a typical representation of a Hoiithern colonial mansion, one of the dis tinctive feature of which ia great pillared porches or veranda, (exclusive of these porcue tbe building will measure about seventy-five by ninety feet. ' Thk American Ostrich Company has sent to Chicago for exhibition at the World's Fair thirty birds from its ostrich farm at Fall Brook, San Diego County, California. The ostriches have been sent on thus early in order that they may become thoroughly acclimated by the time the Fair open and appear at their best. Tux, Washington World's Fair Commis sion has arranged to make a very complete fish exhibit, it will include all kinds ot deep sea and inland species of Ash, oysters, clams, crabs, lobsters and other orustaoaaua, turtles, frogs, snakes and other reptiles, specimen of acquatio mammals such as sea otter, seals, fishes, beavers, muskrata, etc.; nan-eating birds and their ueats aud egjs, and fishing boats and apparatus. Ths Jelly palace, whioa the women of California will prepare for the World's Fair exhibit, will be sixteen by twenty feet and twenty-nve feet high, with two open doora approached by three marble steps. The frame work will be of wire. On this will be firmly placed several thousand jelly glasses cups, globes, prisma, eto. tilled with jelly of many shades of color, arranged in artistio and beautiful designs. Tbe interier will be brllliaUly illuminated by electricity. The cost of the frame work and glasses alone ia estimated at J700. A DIsaordkBt Community. So many husbands and wives are living apart la tbe little town of Ken. ington, .Kan., that society U all broken up on account of It. Nobody dares to glvo a party, but fortunately there are two church. ... . .. PENNSYLVANIA . PICKINGS. 0 MB IMPORTANT HAPPENIKOS Of Inter eat to Dsrsllsra In the Keystone tats. CYCLONE AT HKTIlI.EHf.M. tUK maisj Biir.mxn ok tub. fAin onouxns KRSTHOYF.O. A cyclone from the southwest struck Retlilehein the other day. Tho mnin build ing of the llethlehem Fair and Driving I'ark association wns destroyed. After a moment's wrestle with the whirlwind the timbers collated and sank to the around. The liars is twm. Lightning struck the table tower of tho Pennsylvania Telephone Company and set the postofnee building in which it is situated on fire. The fire depart ment rushed out in tho storm and extin guished the flames. Tho storm ruined the bottling establishment of K I). Pawtclle, whose loss is H0.0.IO. Many trees were up rooted nnd electric light, telegraph and telephone wirrs wero blown down. The steeple of tho First I'resbyterian church was also blown down. Cut liny In the fields and growing grain near hero Is almost a total loss and makes the damage by tho storm al most beyond estimating;. Tho visible ruin in and about town is said to amount to about loO,uoo. IN 1SKHAI.F OfThK FARMER. TIIKSTITR ror.t.FOF ARRAXOK1 A COfPSI! Of IIO.MK IIKIMXU AXD WINTHR DAIRY School.. At tho last meeting of tho trustees of the Pennsylvania Stato College it was decided to ofTer a course of homo reading In agri culture, through which tho best nnd latest printed Information of practlcnl valuo to' tho farmer Is to bo brought to his very door without feo save the actual cost of the books, which need not exceed 'J a year. A win ter dairy school was also provided for to open the first week in January nnd continue li weeks. Every facility Is to be offered the student to gnin a thorough, practical knowledge of daiiying, either on tho small scalo or on the plan of largo creameries. An expert butter and cheese maker Is to belli charge of the practical instruction In the dairy. Tho course is freo and no entrance examination is required. THREE PERSON. DROWNED. ATKitiuiir.E roi RTit or jui.y accimcxt os KRKXCH CREP.K. ArthtT Haieltino, wife and Nellis Narra more of Corhrunton, started In a skiff from t'ochranton Monday afternoon to snil down French creek with Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Hood to their homes in Utica, five miles below. The creek Is very high from the recent rains which probably account for tho skiff strik ing a bridge pier at Coalton anil capsizing. Mr. Hood was able to save himself and wife, but Mr. nnd Mrs. ll i.eltinn and tho little girl were drowned and their bo lies washed away, probably Into the Allegheny rivor. THE STATE NEARLY ff 100.000 AHEAD. Pennsylvania is richer than was supposed by 373,2.V). The auditor of the United States treasury has notified the governor (hat he has discovered that thnt sum was erronou.sly deducted on tho settlement of the state's accounts under the act to reimburse Pennsylvania for money paid the militia. It will bo paid when the general appropriation act is pa-sed. DKSTRrcTIVR HAIL NEAR IIARRlSBinO, Farmers from tho country southwest ot Harrisburg reported that one of the heaviest hail storms in many years passed over a narrow belt, doing great damage to crops. Hail fell to tho depth of several inches. A similar storm passed ovor part of Carlisle and surrounding country, beating crops to the ground. POISONED 11Y ICE CREAM. Martin Eppley, his wife and two daugh ters, of Carlisle, wero poisoned by eating ice cream. During tho night their condition became dangerous. Tho father will prob ably die and the othors are lying quite ill. Okoroe O. Qi'ioi.ey, tho Democratic, rep resentative from the Eleventh legislative district, died suddenly of heurt disease ul Philadelphia. Bv his own carelessness in handling a crowbar. Philip Emil had the lile crushed out of him by a full of stone at tho Jlolle fonte limo quarries. ' After loading a cannon at Altoona several young men hammered a wooden plug in tne muzzle to make a louder report. The explosion broke the plug into many pieces, ami a number of persona were injured by Hying blocks. Samnel Kimmel hud ono eye torn out and bis skull lractmed. Ho can hardly recover. At Mercer John Burns' 15-months-old child died of strangulation Friday, having been given u piece of bone to chew at. The Republican conferees of the Forty, seventh senatorial district met at New Castle und nominated James 3. Fruit, AV'iiii.k drunk a few niuhts ago, it Is said a prominent dreenslmrg merchant lost $1,000 at poker, and gave his check for the amount. He sobered up in time to forbid payment. Stats Theasi rer Morrison reports that at the close of business June .10 ha had SX.2.VJ, 4hI Hi in the State's cash box, Western banks holding the following minis: Allegheny Na tional, Pittsburg. l,0.Vi,2!i5 3!i; Economy Hunk, Heaver Falls, aioo.imo; Enterprise Havings Bank, Allegheny, IH7,000: Second Nutionul Hank. Allegheny, tSO.000; Beaver Deposit Hank, lo.oon: Second Nutionul Bunk, Pittsburg, JU0,0U0. Harry Fry. a 0-year-old boy, was jump ing on and off a movingelecrtic street car at Altoona, when he aliped und fell under the wheels. Two cars, both beuvily loaded, passed over bis boey. His head wua severed und be was budly mangled. At Mt. Carmol a row of 10 framo houses owned by John Monthlies was burned; damage. flO.OUu. A careless explosion oi firecrackers is beliuved to have been tlx cause. Near Huntingdon tbo tannery and bark shed of Witchett, Baugh & Co., of Manii'i Choice, Bedford county, were burned. Loss, (00,000; partiully injured. Oferator Haves, Engineer Kelly und Fire man Brown, who are charged with being the cause ot the recent railroad accident in Harrisburg, gave lull for their uppeurunul at September court, A cable attuchud to a dummy used to steady electric cant going down l'otts's Hill, east of Lancaster, broke. The cable squirm ed up the hill like an immense snake, and ut grout velocity, and wound itself around the una of Frank Mussv-r, a young man, tearing the limb from bis body. His condi tion is very serious. V. F. McKerna was run over and killed by a train in tho Cambria Works at Johnstown. fitlEXTiriC SCRAPS. Lettuce is said lo produce langnorV A case It reported of a somnambrj-a list who ( walked flftcon ml lot tn hi sleep. A recent invention It a shoe with at hingod solo for tho purposo of facilitating- putting It on or off. There are two eclipses of tbe sua every year, and some times five, though usually tho obscuration It only partial. A single triple expanse exhaust en gluo rccontly succeeded in drawing 250 loaded enrt ou the Philadelphia A Heading Railroad. If a well could be dug to the doptb of forty-six milos tho donsity of the air at tho bottom would bo as groat at that of quicksilver. Men with cleanly shaven facet are leas likely to lake the grip than those who wear full beards. The board, II Is declared, all'ords a lodgmont for the grip microbes, C'oko mtikes tho holiest fire known, since, It contains 97 1-2 per cent, of carbon. Charcoal made from wood It supposed to bo nearly pure carbon, but it contains only 79 per cent, A Frenchman has succooded, It i said, in producing an excellent driving; belt by pnrchtnentiiig tho luathor lu etoad of tanning It. The bolts have greater durability and do not stretch. What will bo the largest cloctrie lo cornotivo In tho world is being con strnctod nt Il.iden, Zurich. It is to de velop loOO to 2000 horse power and will inako its trial trip in a fow months. A yellow fish, called Alaskan mack erel, and fully equal to the mackerel of the Atlantic const, found at tho west end of the Alaskan Islands. Thoy movo in lai'o schools and are) finely flavored. A new lightning arrester cunslsltof a discharging device having separate) points, between which is an insulating liquid, to tliut when a disruptive dis. cliaiga takes place, a destructive aro if prevented by tho closing in of ths liquid. Tho height ot tho human body I gonerally ten timet tho length of tho face; the face is as long as the hand; the arm it four timos tho longth of,th face. Tho solo Is one-sixth tho length of the body and tlx times tho thick ness of tho iinnd equals tho tliicknost of the body. A recent Knglish invention ro'atet to obtaining motive powor by tho ex plosion of a charge of gunpowdor, cither as a meant for starting ordi nary gas engines or of wholly driving what may bo termed ' "explosion en glues." The power 1 omployod iu the) form of cartridges. Horrors of tho Sea. Many ascortuinod facts of woll-ntgb Incredible horror would seem lo sug gest that the soa communlcatos some thing of its own cruoitf to those who live on or near It, Was there evor & talo inspired by tho imagination of tho romancer more droadful than the) true story of tho "Palatine," whlcl left Holland for America in 1749, car rying at passengers many rioh Dutch poople who Intended to settle neat Philadelphia.- For tlx wcekt in pleas aut weather the ninply-provlsionod vessel suilod up aud down the Dela ware coast, whilo tho oiUcort and crew cut ofl the food supply of the passengers, the pangs of hunger com pelling the unarmed and starving wretches to buy at exorbitant price the miserable fragmont which their tyrants choso to deal out to them. Twonty of thuin died of slnrvntioa before the storm came up that wrecked: tho ship on Dbck Inland. In 1825 Congrcst made it a feiouy punishable: with ten year' imprisonment and $5000 flue to show f also Ugh ta for tho purpose of causing slilpwrock. Boston Transcript. A ilreat Sturgeon. W. II. Viancn, the pioneer fisher man of tho Fruzer river, bad on exhi bition today a sturgeon fourteen feet long aud weighing ulno hundred! pounds, which wns caught in an oola chun net lust night. Notwithstanding; the size of this fish and tho interest it created ilv. Viuuon did not at all feel proud of his catch, for the reason; that it cost him Ilia tldv littlo llmira nf $200. Tho tturgeon got tangled la the ooluchan net aud ripped It into -piecot In a very few minutes. Thai net wat a new ono and probably tht best oue on the river. Sturgeon tell at three conts a pound and tbe 900 ponnder It valued at $27, which leave Ihe lota almost total. Though glad at) my time to make a heavy catch Mr, Viuuon hopot he may never again win, Bshermau'a honor at such a price. Westminster (British Columblul Co luiublan.
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