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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.