THE MAGIC WIRIL
Elcctricitl Curronta R8 an Aid to
Agriculture,
"Wonclorrul Rosult3 of Experi
ments In Franco.
During the past yenrllrothcr I'aulin,
l)iriM'tor of 1 lie Agricultural Institute
of Hiuvnls, France, htn been making
electrical experiments, in tho promo
tion of horticulture, ntul, if they con
timid ft they liavo Im'kiiii, they iiiiint
lmvo a great influence on tliu fooit sup
ply of tho futnro. Professor I'aiilin'ii
experiment wos almost an Himilo in its
method an Franklin s appliances for
drawing lightning from tho clouds.
In tho luiilillo of the ground selected
for lii purposn, tho professor erected
a t:ll polo on which there was nn ordi
nary lightning roil, with a wiro brush
attachment to cittuh tho atmospheric
electricity nml convey it to tho earth.
Attached to tho rod wero wires which
carried tho ciirrnnt along tho ground
nd nndur the vegetables ho hud
planted. All tho former and wine
acres, who, liko their father, had been
carrying their grist to mill with tho
grain in one end of tho ling nud a
atone in tho other, laughed at tho pro
fessor, hut tho crop that followed thin
experiment fairly dazed and amazed
them, and it delighted tho man who
expected something from bin work,
but nothing no Htartling.
Turuipn treated ill thin way literally
clinked tho ground, ami potatoen not
only yielded twice tho quantity of
former yearn, lint tho tulicrn were of
extraordinary nize and sound to tho
core. All tho other vegetable and
fruits tionr tho mngio wire flourished
like the prophet' greed ; and today tho
farmers about llauviils, without lining
able to underHtaud tho reason, are
planting tho olectriu lightning roils iu
their fields, ami place wiren instead of
tho customary fertilizers under their
garden rows.
Tho KuppoHition in and it may bo
right, certainly no one in iu a position
to controvert it, that tho marvelous
efl'eet has been produced by tho vivi
fying action of tho electricity on what
re railed tho "nitrifying bacteria,"
that in tho microscopic organism that
supplies in noino mynteriouH way tho
essential element of nitrogen to plants.
As Franklin's simplo experiment was
followed by tho moot marvelous results
Mo wo may anticipate, with certainity
tli it in the noar futnro electricity, no
matter whero derived from, will bo-
omo an cnxcutial factor in farming,
and that hinds worn out and ahau
doned as worthless, under this new
and mngio stimulus, will again bios-
torn like tho rose", and become raoro
fertile than in their palmiest days.
Russia is not initially regarded as
land of progress, but iu that country
it was demonstrated threo years ago,
that even during tho long winters in
latitude tUty-scvon degrees north,
plants flourished under glass as vig'
orously under electric light as when
subjected to the direct rays of the
setting nun. By moans of this light
and artificial heat, it bus been demon
Bt rated that vegetables, fruits and
flowers can bo grown as luxuriantly
in cave up near the North Pole as
inside the tropics. Indeed, it is
claimed by some that the fertility of
equatorial lands is largely due to tho
greater electrical action between earth
and sky, induced by or manifesting
itself in frequent violent storms nc
compauiod by raiu and lightning.
Cotton for feint d Mines.
"Yes," said a man in a shoe store
the other day, "I liko that shoo first
rate; it fits well, it feels well and it
looks well, but I don't think it will do
me."
"Why not?" asked the clerk, some'
what surprised at the man's apparent
contradictory statement
"Because," replied the customer,
"the toe is too long. It looks very
nice now, but I have a short foot, and
in week or so the toe will have
wrinkled and caved in, and it will not
only look shabby, but will wear out
much sooner. I like the looks of a
long toe fact is, I hate a globe toe
or anything else in the stubby line,
Lut I have to wear them, that's all. "
"Beg your pardon, but you don't,"
eaid the clerk, knowingly.
This time it was the buyer's turn to
be surprised. "And why not?" he
asked inquiringly.
"Because it is just os easy to fix a
long toe if your foot don't fill it out
as to take drink. Put cotton in it,
that's all. Fill up tho end of the toe
with a sufficient amount of cotton and
the shoe will preserve its shape per
fectly. Boo my shoa? Now, I'll wo
ger 'dollars to toothpicks that I've got
as short a foot as yours, but my shoe
looks all right beoause it ha cotton
In the end of it. Von any you linvn a
short foot. Wi ll, so do half the peo
ple that walk this earth, but they
either don't know this simple trick, or
nro too lazy to try it, nml so buy
shoes lliat thoy don't like or go around
with a shoo all crenned and broken in
at tho toe. Not only will cotton keep
tho shape, of your shoe, but it's a good
thing to liavo in them, anyway. It
keeps your foot from getting chafed
from too much crowding into a narrow
point, and, besides, it saves to A great
degree tho wear on your stocking
right at tho placo where tho holes us
ually come, you know, or, rather,
your wifo does. Yen, sir, cotton in
one's shoe is a big scheme it's a big
raoket." Washington Htur.
Senator Mill's NI017.
David 11. Hill never allows himself
to bo caught with an interview when
it doesn't exactly suit his convenience,
A newspaper correspondent who wnn
sent to interview him on tho political
situation found himself baffled, for
tho Henator kept him a full half hour
vithout giving him a word that ho
could use. Finally the reporter, in
desperation, said ho would liko to ask
tho Henator a single question.
"That reminds me of a story," said
Hill. "A genuino Yankee came to
Now York state many years ago ped
dling tinware. Ho met a man with
one leg and tho stump of another.
The peddler's curiosity was aroused at
onco. Ho determined to know how
that man lost his leg, and, after scrap
ing an acquaintance, and, pointing at
the remnant of a limb:
" 'Been in tho war?'
"Tho one-legged man wan sennitivo
and reticent. ' His reply wan simply:
" 'So.'
"Tho Yimkno then began to talk
trade, but the lost leg was uppermost
iu his mind. Presently he said :
" 'Mebbo you lost it iu a saw mill?'
" 'No,' ngain tho answer.
"The peddler talked trade again, all
tho tima keeping li in cyo on tho re
mainder of another leg. At last ho
said :
" 'I'd just liko to ask you ono ques
tion. ' 'Only ono?' said tho man with
tho crutches.
" '.lest a baro one.'
" 'Well, go ahead.'
" 'How did you loso your leg?'
' 'It was bit off.' "
Tho moral of tho story and the dis
comfiture wuro obvious. Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.
Tho (lenibi.
Tho seventeen-year locusts aro not
locusts, nor aro they closely allied to
tho family. They are cicadas, and un
like tho locusts they aro not Beriously
injurious to vegetation, nor are they
popular belief to tho contrary not
withstanding at all poisonous if
handled. Although so long in coming
to maturity, tho timo varying for
ditTorcut varieties from ono to seven
teen years, tho active life of this cicada
is only about two mouths, and it ns-
tially terminates near tho placo of its
birth. Tho female lays hor eggs under
tho bark of branches, and about six
weeks aftefward tho grubs fall to tho
ground, in which they harrow at
depths varying from ono to threo feet.
Hero they undergo six distinct
changos beforo after their long period
of hibernating they again como to the
light.
When the locusts or cicadas appear
on the surface they are oucasod in a
hard shell like a crab, and liko a crab
this shell is cast by a rent up tho back
from which the creature omcrgos. Al
though the development has boon so
slow, there are no wings apparent
when tho sholl is cast, yet so rapid is
their growth that three hours ufter
ward the long gauzo-like wings aro
developed and the creature cau fly.
The peculiar whirling noise that dis
tinguishes the cicada is made by tho
male only, and is produced by rub
bing tho serratod hind legs against tho
resonant wings.
The Eyes or the Hep.
The honey bee is supplied with a
pair of compound eyes, with hundreds
of facets, each capable of sight by it
self, aud several ocoelli or little, aim
pie eyes more closely allied to our
own. How those eyes are nsed, what
are their separate functions, what
sort of images they can present to
their owners, all remain ques
tions as interesting and well
nigh unsolved as they were before
the days of our powerful microscopes.
Notwithstanding the fact that hun
dreds of eutomotogists has been aud
are interested iu this subject, we yet
are only at tho stage where we cuu
affirm that the houey bee sees a very
different flower from the oue in which
we observe bar in search for awoota
although of what that difference is
and how it is produced we can form
but little idea.
LIGA VASDOCILF,
Relieving a Circus Eloplmnt of the
Toothache
Tho Big Bruto Ate Candy whllo
his Tooth was Plugged.
A Parisian dentist linn just filled a
cave in an elephant's tooth. Animal
surgery in a subject which has received
soma attention In this country. A
lion was relieved of a cnrhunclo in his
neck in Philadelphia recently, and the
tusks of the Into Tip wero abbreviated
on several oucasions, but this last op
eration wan, of cours', ntt 'tided with
no pain, otherwise that homicidal an
imal would lmvo protested in a very
emphatic manner.
Iu Kurope, whero there aro many
moro largo public menageries than
here, the services of tho surgeon aro
frequently called ill to savo valuable
animals. Veterinary surgeons aro ac
customed to perform small operations
on horses and dogn, but tho surgical
treatment of wild animals is a very
different matter. It is attended with
difficulty mid danger.
Many a savage animal has, howover,
shown himself appreciative of tho ef
forts which are m i le to relievo him
from pain. Thero in thn old story of
the lion that unexpectedly confronted
a traveler in tho Afrienu forest, hold
ing one paw beforo him with an ex
pression of anguish. Tho traveler
was not unnaturally perturbed by tho
mooting, but the lion forced his paw
on his attention iu such a way that the
nisu could not but discover that the
king of beasts wan suffering acuta pain
from a largo thorn which was partially
buried in tho soft part of his paw.
Thelion detained tho traveler urtil ho
had removed tho thorn and dressed tho
wound, and afterward ho explained
plainly that he desired to livo with tho
man an his devoted sorvant.
Tho cl"pliHiit operated nn in Paris
bears tho tin mo of Liga. Ho is a gifted
animal, engaged iu performing at tho
Nouveau circus. He is nine years of
age. For a long time ho had suffered
torture of untold ext. 'lit from the tooth
ache. Ho endeavored to relievo tho
disturbed condition of his nervous nys
tem by chewing wooden li 'ams and
iron bars, and blew his trunk with
painful violenoo. Th:i diract'jr of tho
circus finally called iu Professor Vu la
don of tho Dentil) College, of Paris,
who diagouized Liga's case.
Tho elephant had scraped away tho
ivory aud dental pulp from a portion
of one of his molar tooth. Probably
he had bitten a stone wall in a fit of
passing irritation. Caries or decay
htul set in over a space tho size of a
silver dollar.
Tho dentist mado uso of tho largest
of his excavating instruments. Ho had
to cut a distanc of three iiiL'hj into
the diseased tooth. While ho drilled
with all his might ono of tho kuopers
fed Parisian confectionery to tho
giftod performer. II j, was it is said,
evidently awaro that tho object of the
operation wan to rulievj him from
suffering, for h j scarcely budged dur
ing the tedious operation. When tho
tooth had boeu prepared it was filled
with a wad of cotton soaked in iodi
form. This was renewed every week
for two months, until tho norro was
dead. Then tho cavity was filled with
composition covered with a tin cylin
der. The director of the circus inquired
what tho cjst of filling tho elephant's
tooth with gold would be. It was es
timated that at least $300 worth of
gold would be roquirud, and the di
rector decided that he could uot af
ford it.
It nood hardly be added that Liga,
is a very intelligent and docile animal
to have submitted paticutly to this op
eration. Brad lock's Sash.
Mrs. Bettie Taylor - Dandridge,
only surviving daughter of President
Zaohary Taylor, now an ne;ed woman
living at Winchester, Va, has discov
ered among the relics of her father
the long-missing sash of Oeneral Brad
dock. This sash was sent by Oeneral
Gaines to Ooneral Taylor just after his
brilliant achievement on the Bio
Grande, iu 1810. A historian of that
time says: "General Taylor took the
sash and examined it carefully. It
was of unusual size, . being quite as
large, when extended, as a common
hammock. In the meshes of the tplun
did red silk, that composed it. was the
date of its manufacture, '1707,' and
although it wos 14) years old, savo
whore the dark spots that wero stained
with tho blood of the hero who woro
it, it glistonod as brightly , if it had
Just coiue from the loom. Upon the
unusual size of the sash being uotioed,
General Worth, who had joined the
party in the tent, mentioned suoh was
the old-fashioned style, and that the
soldier's sash wan intended to carry, if
lieeensnry, tho bearer froi.s tho Held of
battle.
"it wan mentioned in tho conversa
tion that after General ltipley w.11
wounded at Lundy's Lnnn his sash,
similar in form, was used ns a ham
mock to bear him from the field, and
that in it he wan carried several miles,
bin body swaying between tho horses,
to w hich the ends of tho sash were so
curnly fnstened."
Mrs. Dnndriilgo found tho valuable
relio rnrefu My rapped up in linen and
labeled "Hraddock's sash." It wan
found with her father's two military
sashes. Mm. Dandridge wan formerly
Mrn. Itlinx, and presided over the
Whito House in the short year her
father was president. On tho death
of General Taylor what remained of
his personal effects were placed in his
army cliest, and remaiued there until
nt tho death of his widow, they were
sent to Winchester, Vs., tho homo of
Mrs. Dandridge. The nanh in of very
dark rod silk, somo twelve feet long
by four in width, and near tho centre
there aro three dark, black stalns,aeh
as largo as a woman's hand, tho marks
of General Itrsddock's life blood.
Atlanta Constitution.
He rniinla's Brilliant Coloring
Tho attention of tho traveler is at
first attracted by the colors of tho
waters as ho approaches land, and in
tho i:iiiumernldo bays and inner
sounds. Tho blue reminds him of tho
Moditerranesn, when tho Mediterra
nean is nt its best ; but among the
islands tho bluo changes to omernld an
vivid as tho Pope's ring, to Tyrinn
purple and maroon iu the shallow
bays, while if ho lookn acrosn any wldo
stretch of it thero in an irridesocnt Bp
pcaranco, a shimmering of shifting
colors liko changeable silk, only tho
colors seem moro solid, and one
doubts whether they aro sky reflec
tions, and not solid colors of tho bot
tom seen through tho transparent
water. For tho water at a great depth
is absolutely npparcnt. On tho east
ern coast of Hicily, below Taoriuinu,
are seen just 'such wonderful colors
along tho shore, just such sparkling
bluo in the sun. an 1 there it is asso
ciated with ages of romance and ad
venture, with suggestions of trcnsiiro
wrecked along the coast iu the galleys
of I'lurniciii and Greek voyagers. It
is hero difliuult to believe that these
brilliant colors nro tint inherent in tho
water, and tho fancy is quickouod by
somo of tho fish that sport in thoso
halcyon seas. Ono of theso is tho
angul-llsh, flat un 1 ov.il iu form, of a
cerulean bluo, with two long steamers
udgud with yellow, apparently ono of
tho happiest, as ho is one of tho most
graceful, of all marina inhabitant.').
Another is tho parrot-fish, a larger an
imal, so called from biscolursof greeu
and brown, who moves about vigor
ously with his long fins, that imitato
iu their motion the stroke and recover
of tho Yulo bust crew. His houd is
brown, his back is vivid grcon in shin
ing scales, and his tail is brown again,
with shadings of groou. Ho kuows
that ho is ono of tho handsomest of
swimming things. Harper's Maga
zine. The Danish Idea of Order.
Tho Duuish peasantry have a nota
ble lovo of order and symmetry in
household arrangement, placing their
furniture wherever possible in pairs,
and inexactly corresponding positions.
The old peasant who had accumlated
a little money, and had been prevailed
upon to buy his daughter a piano, se
riously considered buying another to
place aguiust the opposite wall. Their
bedsteads consisted of great boxes,
generally painted red or green, and
heaped with feather beds, between
which they insinuate themselves win
ter and summer. If unable to afford
so many feathers, the under bed is of
straw, aud receives so little attention
that mico build their nests in it and
race back and forth, squealing shrilly
without disturbing the peasant slum'
hers. The bedding is not washed
ofteuor than once or twice a year.
Detroit Free Press.
A Persian Itof Diet.
After sleeping for two months with
a Persisn rug ten feet square in his
stomach, the big boa constrictor in the
Adelaide (Australia) Zoological gar
den, said to be the largest iu captivity
has disgorged the remarkable meal and
appear none the worse for the expe
riment. The rug does not appear to
have suffered cither in texturo or tone,
except that there were stains where
the gastrio juices had striven to oper
ate. It had, however, taken the form
of the reptile, being rounded to a thiu
long poiut aud twisted liko a wet blan
ket hard wrung out. The snake, oust
the garden $10,000 and great anxiety
has boeu manifested for fear fatal re
sults would follow ths meal. San
Franoisoo Exatuiuer.
SOLDIERS'COLUMN
THE LAST SHOT.
A Slsarream nt as to Who Find IU
On May I ths rM
ram Webb lisil a
li'i-pound hnll put
through her assho
ran past Now Or
leans after she
pulled down tho
Htsr sti'l HI r I pes
and hoisted the
ttlt Uikj. Hint
1 think, wan thn
last actual shotted
gun llrnd nt the
rebel wlthlo tho
limit of tho I nl
ted Hint, hut
them run a blank
Bred much latter.
Which
illfl
somo good senrlriif (or
Hhcrman's armv iismflml
a short
time.
through WiishhiKton on May U. On ths Mth
(layof Jul lollowliur, at a few nilnutos he.
torn 111 in,. Itolwrt liiik'hes, of llnttcrv M, 1st
I.. A., at Chnrlnstnn, 'inn., Just ns ths uln
Wfro holiiK onlel fin thn enr to start tot
Ood's country, loailisl uw of thn guns with
a Msnk ami nn shiiri'taiH-not waiMfngto glvs
ton to thn sfTnlr nnd flrnrl It, lust to Int thn
MastMil rnlmls know that thny IxiUnr tmhavs
thnmsnlvnnnrinr wn hs'lonf,or wnwlll corns
hack and Mow you all to .' For the
Johnnies who had ftum-l to thnlr homns
thnrnahout hail suddenly Imnomn very Inso
lent when thny Innrsml that tho t'uloa sold
l irn wi-m koIiik to Inrivn thnm.
"After f.o's ami Johnston's surrnndnrn
thny wsn comlnir In dally on old, Jsdmi
horwis, singly, Iu pairs, or In lots of hall a
dosnn. Thny worn vnry tnnnk, and walknd
around liko somo mangy cur that had tmnn
caught trying to dlnpom of an ogrwl ngg that
had made a report hit hsd not Min.t7, and
H thny spoke It was alwsys In a subdue!
tonn, and they acted as though thny full thny
wnrn i-xpnctnd to look upon a blue ooat as a
Utile god. Hut thn Instant thny rwwlrod ths
word that thn soldier wore to Inavn, lllehard
was himself again, and they could hoast and
thrnnten a hoidly as nvnr. They assured thn
negroes and Union people aro jnd thnm that
as noon as thn Yanks had gone, thn Confed-r.
ales would rule, and won be to any cms who
might oppose: and so llob Hughes thought
he would 'takn thn starch out of them for s
few minutes, and he did." O. E. Dollon, Id
National Trlhune,
H. T. Illrd, nth lown t av., Sit. Pleasant,
Iowa, writes an follows: ''rtometlmn ago i
made clnim that our f.ont Mrlgsde fought ths
last hnttln of thn civil war, which occurred iu
thn middle of April, isr,5. Thn history inakert
will soon havn told their tale, and being In
terested In having this matter settled beyond
a doubt for thn Iwneilt of future generations,
I uuote from Uio July Chnutnuqunn of thii
year In thn artlclo entitled 'Ovnrlauil by tin
Hoiithnrn I'aellln i
" 'Just beyond fainted Cava wn cross th
Pecos lllver by a high bridge, and soon sftel
P-ave the Itlo Oraiidn del Norte behind ua
This stream Is connected wllh recent histori
cal events, for It was near this river, on Texan
soli, that thn last battle of the civil war waf
fought, May 18. lswV "
A Tale of Two Capitals.
A friend of mlnn. recently deceased. toM
me, II my memory serves me correctly, that
ho had the following facts from llnron llauss
mann himself: Ordered by Napoleon III. to
submit plain for thn renovation of Paris, tho
linron was for some time at a loss to meet
the twofold requirements, as thn contemplat
ed Improvements for the new streets hnd tc
bn at once Imnutlful and so laid out as to to
readily commanded by aitlilery. Huddenly
hn bethought him of modern Washington.
He secured a plan of that city, and this seem
ed on examination so niactly to meet th
necessities of thn case that be Dually submit
ted It to thn Emperor.
Tho result was that ths plan In tho main
was accepted, and modern Paris was built
upon thn lln-s of modern Washington. Thus
Is explained a certain similarity wlilch strikes
every ono who Is familiar with thn two
capitals, although ono might naturally sup
pose the American city, being the younger.to
be tho daughter Instead of tho mother. litit
Oeneral Washington morn than half a cen
tury earlier had onlered L'Enfant to design
him a I'lsn for his seat of government In
much the same manner as Napoleon III bad
commanded Jiaroo Haussrnann.
Now, L'Enlant was not only a Frenchman,
but a resident of Versailles, nud bo undoubt
edly derived his inspiration from his earlier
surroundings) consequently Washington was
an enlargement of the Hoyal Park, with Its
alleys extended Into avenues and Its numer
ous flower-beds and parterres enlarged Into
circles nud quadrants. Thus by a trans
oceanic leap Jlnrou Haussmann took from
thn Now World what be could havn secured
at his own gate. Ho much for a merely cur
ious artistic coincidence.
Hut In light of recent developnment In out
capital, a singular Inquiry suggests itself
namely, whether lien. Washington, In laying
out tho city, di'l not havn In mind rhn same
two-fold object that Napoleon tbo Third had
when laying out Paris. To be sum the pres
ent Industrial movement now bids fair to sod
In ridicule. Hut at soma later date a more
desperate ons may require to be controlled
by artillery, and then tho broad avenues and
straight streets of the capital mav bn appre
ciated for other than merea-sthetlc considera
tions, and, on the contrary, serve as an ad
ditional proof of far-sightedness on the part
of the Father of bis Country North Ameri
can Review
C h 1 or ofnr m I n g tn Sleep.
It is becoming fashionable foi
burglars to chloroform their lii-tlm
In tho hope that their work wl.l lie
more easily and e'ec-ually done. As
the plan U to administer the unaes
thei.e while tho patient tlceoi, It 1
no woocle tbat failure attends the
effort Happily, It li one of the most
difficult feats to accomplish, requir
ing the greatest care and the highest
dcgiee of skill, riy many good ob
servers it has been claimed to be im
possible. Tbo latter may be looiced
upon as the rule, especially witb
novices. lie Tore p. lmarv insensibility
is obtained, the vli.-tini awakes from
the Irritation of the inhaled vapor,
when force is necessa y for the com
pletion of tho purpose. In the mean
time the aiarm may be sUea and tbo
assailant may ' be captured. Fortu
nately, tho chances are always
ugaiust the burglar, as bit victim,
facing the horror of strangulation, li
Instantly and almost instinctively
roused to desperate resistance, lak
all the chances, however, chloroform
in the bands of a burglar should be
considered as dangerous to his vic
tim as a club, un ax, or a bullet, and
its admin siration should be pun
ished to that extreme limit of pen
alty which is due to the employment
cf other murderous meisuris. Med
ical l;ecsrd.
Sunday ionia in r.elgium.
In Belgium when a person posts a
letter he can d otate whether it shall
be delivered on Sunday or not. The
Government issues postage stamps
with a narrow coupon attached. It
this Is torn off tht letter or package
will be dellvored it It arrives at iu
destination Sunday; U left on, it will
QOb " ' ' - -
KEYSTONE STATE CULLINGS
tOUNClLMKN AltllEHTtD.
4 LIVr.l.T TISS IS THS TIM.All Of USIIKIS
OKT. Ilnowssviu.r. There was a lively time st
the HrldgeHrt Council meeting. I). M. Hart,
whom the regular council don t fncogiilr.o as
a legal member, was ordered arrnsted by
llurgi-as I,. Waggoner, taken before
'Hqiilrn Moorehousn and pln'-nd under f WIO
ball for having violated an ordinance by dis
turbing and breaking up a meeting. Hart
claims to havn been nlwtod, but thn memlw-rs
ol thn coun' ll say ho was not. Tbo president
ol Council Nl,. u Was also arrested for swear
lug In the council chamber.
A sot's Hiissisi.t br.kin.
PiTTssesa. Chester (.'. Ilrown, 5 ynsm
old, was killed on thn Allegheny Valley rail
road near his home at thn foot of Fortieth
street The child had followed several other
boys from tho street to thn river bank to play
ball, in crossing thn tra- k on their way homo
the boys crawled under a freight train, which
started Just ns tho Ilrown child got under.
Tho Hum fellow's body was cut In two at thn
waist. Hn was a s jfi of Presslny M. Ilrown,
secretary-treasurer ol thn Arsenal Foundry
Company.
ASAriKSS or STATE INSTITUTI05S.
llASRisni.no. --The following appointment
wern madn by Oov. Pattlson-Hay Walker,
Jr., member of thn Hoard of Managers of thn
Hlxmont Hospital; Andrew J. Maloney,
Philadelphia, truslen of the Eastern Peniten
tiary: llr. J. li. Hea waiter, Chlcora, trustenof
thn hoinn for training of speech of deaf chil
dren! f)Vls Htreuber, Erie, and T. U. Mtlll
well, Hcrnnton, members of the Htate Flub
Commission.
TWO CASUALTIES.
Chicora. At Troutmsn, thn 5-ynar-old
daughter of A. Oodfrny was firing shooting
crackers, when her dress caught Prn and
burned her so badly that she died. At ths
Catholic pkiil.i nt i learltcld township nkettis
derrick lamp, whi'-h was lied to lllumlnato
thn iilallorm, fell Into thn lap of Miss Mv
llride, setting fire to her clothes and burned
her In a frightful manner.
ffiv aonnsn ash Mi;Bir.ssn.
TiTrsvii.i.a. John MnAndrews, a lad IT
ears old. was robled and murdered near his
ims. The body was found shortly after
midnight, with thn throat cut and skull
crushed. Two arrests ua suspicion bin
been msde.
FATHER III.I.Hi, SOH rATALl.T HI ST.
Ilrnrosn.-In attempting to drive across
a railroad hero Oeorgo Carhnugn was In
stantly killed and his son probably falally In
jured by a freight train. One boran was
killed.
A attnmpt was madn Friday night to
wreck a passenger train on thn llonch Crook
railroad nl Hurnmlt, 1.1 miles east of Clear
field, by placing a railroad tin across thn
track. A freight traia running at a low ratw
of spend nlKiut thirty minutes ahead ol a
passenger train, discovered the obstruction
before striking It.
Fits men were buried by thn fall of a
portion of thn roof thn Husquohanna f-'oal
Company's mine, at Nantlcokn. Haturday.
Evans Adams was taken out dead. Joseph
Nnidtehy, Ooorge Haney, Antony Z'lll'-k and
Oeorgo Van Arsan wem badly Injured.
Haney and Zullck died Haturday night.
Two masked robbers entered thn residence
of Philip V. Coojer, of .Moon township,
Ileaver county, Tuesday night. Intimidated
.Mr. Cor.ier and his wife with revolvers and
took Hl' In g'.od money and s roll of bill
amounting to of a wild'-at Issue of a
long drtuu'i Ohio bank.
A riot took placn at thn Central Coal
Works, near Oreeusburg. Haturday. A num
ber of families attempted to move Into
bouses from which strikers had been evict!
and the former occupants gave battle, Thrne
men, Ave women aud 10 children were ar
rested. A number of Italian strikers beat a man
named Thorp, who was working In thn nnw
I.arlmnr mines, near Oreensburg, Haturday
night, and left him for dead. His friends
found Kim lying In the woods late Muaday
afternoon.
Andrew Melermltt was arrested at Prospect
Kunday night, for stealing (JO from Edward
Mitchell. McDcrmltt was permitted to sleep
In Mitchell's room and it Is alleged he took
tbo money out of his trousers pocket.
Thn reunion of tho I.uthern church will m
held st Idlewlld, Westmoreland county, Aug.
. and thn reunion of thn lteformnd churcn at
thn samn placn on August s. It Is expected
20,000 people will be at each gathering.
Tho residence of Joshua Long, in Mt,
Pleosent townhlp, Westmoreland county,
with all Its content, was destroyed by Are.
Loss, (1,200, with a small Insurance.
Walter Wortman, a fireman at Jones' sewer
filpn factory, got caught in a belt and was
ustantly killed. He was whirled around ai
the rata of 100 revolutions a minute.
Adah HvvnsR, a merchant of Manordaln.
bad his pocket picked st Htnwart station, and
txOO was taken, which bo had witb him to
buy goods In Pittsburg.
Mas. Jos Brows, a colored woman, was
found murdered at Washington, Haturday.
Ambrose Asbury, a colored man, ha beea
arrested on suspicion.
James McElwell, aged about 35 years, a
resident of Petersburg, Huntingdon county,
was killed by a Pennsylvania railroad train at
Johnstown.
R. I.axo, a laliorer in the tube work at
Oil City. wa Instantly killed by coming la
contact with on electric light wire carrying
3,:o0 volt.
Burglars entered the resldenc of Dr. R. B.
Kennedy at beaver, early Hunday morning.
One of the men shot at the doctor, but mused
blm.
Edward Hunter, of West Newton. whils
engaged in painting thn Presbyterian church,
fell from the swing and was almost Uuunlly
killed.
Ths resilience of Simon Sadler at Deimont,
was burned and (310 in money consumed.
The loss will be (I, SCO with a small Insur
ance. David McCcllocoh, of Jacktown, West
moreland county, was fatally Injured by Do
ing thrown from a d g cart on bis bead.
Ella Watt, aa attractive looking girl shot
herself In the Pennsylvania railroad station
at Wllllamsport, Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. Catherine Trauger, of Oreensbarjr.
died suddenly at her home Hunday n!-ht of
paralysis. 8 he was aged "i year.
Tn Beottdale Iron and steel company at
Bcottdale made tarms witb its employes an4
the plant will be started at once.
Ox arSDRED aid Twsrrr-rrva miner at
thn Export eonl work near Uraensburg, re
turned to work at old rate.
The store of John Kells, at Derry station,
was robbed Hunday night of a considenbla
quantity of good.
The "Industrial Vindicator." a working
man paper published at UalUuia, ha sus
pended. John Itittnr. a brakeman, was struck by a
train and killed at Parker, Armstrong oouuty.
The miners at Walston.noM Punxwtawawf
bav goo to work again.
now is Dykios getting on with
the farm be bought? lretty welL
He tells me he saved money on it
last year. "How?" Ll It to o
Hher mtaj TM-Blt. . , t