KlSlf STITE NEW3 CONDENSED COSTLY LAW SUIT. Hsintln Asks fortlSt snd How Unit Uj tl.OOO Com. A remarkable case wu concluded at Hi-aver the other day before JudKH "Wilson. David Simpson of Rochester was the executor of the estate of the late rapt. J. C. Irwin of the same town, and claimed 1125, for which he alleges he at one time held C'apt. Ir win's note, but In a Are, which con mimed, the household (roods, the note was destroyed. The defendants denied that the note was ever Riven. Tha rase had already been tried twice. The first Jury disagreed; next the Jury gave plaintiff verdict for 172 76. The de fendants appealed to the superior Murt, and that body remanded It back for new trial. This trial has been on all this week ,and the Jury brought In verdict for the defendants to the ef fect that they owed Simpson nothing. The costs will now run conaldeiable over $1,000. The following Pennsylvania pensions have been granted: Benjamin (). King, Vest Middlesex; John P. Shannon, Pittsburg; Joseph L. Caldwell, Bradens vllle; John Gardner, Franklin; Jno. A. Woodcock (deceased), Bellefonte; Joint Teurht, Sheshquln; James H. Connor, Latrobe; Jno. Fnrnsworth, Purchase Line; Samuel T. Hoover, Wlnslow; Ben jamin N. Akerly, Waderford; William WrlRle, Jennerstown; John A. dinger, Klttannlng; Marvin Champlln, Corls vllle; Margaret Shannon, Pittsburg, Kmeline McBride, Sayre; John Hicks, Dunranfvllle; Simeon Brings," Covert; David O. Shirley, Unity station: Chas. -A. Glenn, Bellefonte; Mary K. Sumner, Wllklnsburg; Kate Hoover, Center Hall; William D. Kendall, father, Fayette 'lty: Margaretha Tlshart. Allegheny; Benton Kirk, Clinton; Steven C.Johns ton, Tionesta; Thomas Keely, Butler; Kdward O. Greenfield, Beaver Center; Jonathan Tucker, Washington; Judson K. Wheeler, Corry; Jacob Sanders. In dian Head; William T. Kennedy, Had ley. Harry Clabaugh, a clerk In the Sec ond National bank of Altoona when It was looted by Cashier Gardner three years ago, and who was arrested at the time for having changed figures In hla books at the cashier's dictation, com mitted suicide a few days ago by shoot ing himself. He had been partially de mented most of the time since his un fortunate connection with the bank scandal. Of late he has been employ ed as a clerk In the Pennsylvania rail road storehouse at the Juniata shops. This Is the second suicide aa a result of the failure of this bank. Bank Ex aminer William Miller shot himself while trying to untangle the defaulting . cashier's accounts. Henry Grove died the other day at Cnlontown from a fall. He was help ing to thresh in the barn of Jefferson Breaklron and fell through a trapdoor, breaking hla shoulder blade and crush ing his skull. He never regained con sciousness. His son, David Grove, Is unconscious from a wound on the head received while he was dashing away on a horse to summon a physician for his fntiier. He is supposed to have been thrown from his horse en route. The assignee's report of the suspend d banking house of Gardner, Morrow & Co. of Hollldaysburg was filled In the Blair county court recently. The assets for distribution are $14,065. This showing Indicates that the 600 depos itors will receive 3 per cent, of the amount of their claims. When the Vank failed one year ago a notice post ed on its front door Informed the cred itors that they would be paid dollar for dollar. President and Mrs. McKlnley and party arrived at Somerset from Canton In a special car last Tuesday and paas d the week at the summer residence of the President's brother, Abner Mc Klnley. A reception committee of 20 prominent citizens in carriages met the distinguished visitors at the station and escorted them over the principal streets of the town to the McKlnley , home. ,, Chauncey Ames of Crawford county was arrested by Venango county au thorities for selling liquor without a license at a recent harvest home picnic held In the county. It Is claimed Ames sold whisky put up in half pint bottles tand labeled "liniment." Several shots i were exchanged between Ames and the authorities before the man was cap- . lurea. John Lancaster arrived at Irwin the other night from North Missouri. He and his family made the entire dis tance of over 1,600 miles In a prairie schooner. Mr. Lancaster started with two teams, but sold one while en route. He also swapped horses several times, but got here all right and will locate In town. Encouraged by the good prices of the year for wheat, the farmers of Frank lin county are preparing to largely In crease their wheat acreage. No less than a dozen farmers brought wheat to be exchanged for fertilisers. Local buyers paid 4 cents a few days ago, the highest price has been 97 cents. Lewis Salvatorl was smothered In a ewer trench at Scranton a few days ago. Salvatorl was a laborer and was engaged in digging at the bottom of the lt-foot ditch, when the sides caved In, burying him. It required over an hour to reach him, and then Salvatorl was dead. While on their way to school a few days ago a number of children were truck by a Pennsylvania railroad frulght train on the Everson crossing and Gertie Graff, 10 years old, wan in stantly killed and several others were seriously injured. Llxzle Fleehman, of Oil City, was drowned at Hoc k wood on the Alle gheny, three miles up the river a few days ago. She swam across the river and was about half way back on the return trip, when she sank in eight feet of water. Her body was recovered. A most distressing accident has been reported from Conemaugh. A 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Fisher fell into a vault and was drowned a few days ago. It was half an hour be fore the body could be recovered. Cyrus Carnahan, of Bandy Lake, has discovered a non-explosive compound by which a gas light can be produced by attaching a gas burner to any ordi nary lamp and filling the lamp with the compound. Marie, aged E, daughter of H. J. Steele, New Castle, ran a nail In her foot, had lockjaw and died after terri ble suffering. f During a playful duel with wooden words between Willie Davis and Charles Mayburry at Biiaron tho. other day, 14-year-boys, the latter received a thrust which destroyed the sight of one of his eyeB. Gov. Hastings has granted a respite for 60 days to Theodore Elsenhower of Pottsvllle, who was to have been hang ed October 7. Application has been made for a commutation of sentence. .A 7-year-old son of John Weppler of Latrobe is slowly bleeding to death from slight cut In the foot. Weppler has lost three children by bleeding to death, physicians' skill Is being baffled. Tbe hotel Marion, Jeannette, will be Mil ty to sheriff. i mm sen n. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR SEPTEMBER 19. Lesson Textt "Pant's Address to the Eplteslan Elder," Arts -3S Golden Textt Aets l an Commen tary on the t,eion by Rev D, M, Stearns M. "And now, behold, 1 go bound In tha spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the tilings that shall befall me there." Aftet the uproar at Rphesns Fanl went to Mace donla and Greece, then returned through Macedonia to Asia, and, aiming, lfpossibln, to be at Jerusalem by Pentecost, he tarried a little at Miletus and sent to Ephesus for the elders of tbe church to come and see him. Our lesson Is part of his address to these elders. He reminded them that, serv ing the Lord with all humility and In many trials, he had both publMy and privately taught both Jews and Greeks repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. 23. "Have that the Holy Ghost wttnessoth In every elty, saying that bonds and afflic tions abide me." The Lord had said to An anias, "I will show him how great things he must suffer for My nnmo's snke" (Arts lx 111), and He snld to the apostles, "In the world ye shall have tribulation" (John xvi,, 83). 24. "Tlut none of these things move me." He thought of nothing but of magnifying ('hrlst ( Thtl. I., 20), ready to be bound and Imprisoned and to die for the name of the Lord Jesus, If thus God would be more glorified (Acts xxl., 13). He wis Intrusted with the gospel of the grace of God, and he fearlessly lived It and spoke it day by day under all elreumstannes, not as pleasing men, but God who trleth our hearts (I These. II., 4). 28. "And now, behold, t know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more." The last we hear of Paul in this book he is In Rome a prisoner, but ho is fireaehlng the kingdom of God, and teach ng those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ (Ants xxvlil., 81). Thus he was one with Him who had chosen him, for in acts t,,8, we find that our Lord Jesus dur ing the forty days between His resurrection and ascension spoke of the things pertain ing to the kingdom of God. 26. "Wherefore I take you to record this day that I am pure from the blood of all men." He said In II Cor. Til., 2, "We have wronged no man,. we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man." Hehnd ought to live as an embassador tor Christ, In Christ's stead, beseeching men to be reconciled to God (II Cor. v., 20), and he tiad been, by tbe grace of God, such a faith ful witness that the blood of none to whom be ever testified could be required at bis aand (Esek. xxxlll., 7-9). 27. "For I have not shunned to declare into you all the counsel of God." All that Paul has on hand to pass on to others is of Sod. He preaches the gospel of the grace if God, and the kingdom of God, and the counsel of God, to gather out and to build up the church of God, and in It all he alms jnly to please God. He spoke tbe word faithfully and diminished not a word (J or. (xvl., 2). 28. "Feed tho olmrch of God which He lath purchased with Hlsown blocd." There a no redemption but by the blood of Christ, oy which alone we renelve the forgiveness f sins (F.ph. I., 6, 7; Rev. 1., 6; v., B; Heb. Ix., 22), and each one who truly receives she Lord Jesus, trusting only In His finished srork, becomes a part of the church of God, whether he ever becomes part of nny church n earth or not. Now, being saved, It is :he privilege of every saved one to unite with some company of God's people called l church, but they ought to be sure that It is a church where their souls will be fed with the word of God, for nothing else will irnly nourish the soul (I Pet, 11., 2; v., 2; fob xxiii., 12; Jer.xv., 16). 29. 80. "For I know this, that after my lopartlng shall grievous wolves enter la tmong you, not sparing the flock." Hlnce she serpent slandered God in Eden there lave always been those who follow ulm, leeklng the destruction of souls; some ;imes they seem bent simply upon the ruin f people, and sometimes It Is to get follow ers for a person or a doctrine or a sect.' 81. "Therefore watch and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased tot to warn every one night and day with '.ears." Paul had no fear for the loss of iny soul that had truly received tbe Lord lesus; his words concerning them are al most as strong as our Lord's own words .'Phil. 1.. 6: 1 Cor. 7. 8: John x.. 27-20). but tie did tear lest they might have a knowl edge of Him without truly receiving II tin (Heb. vl.,4-6; x., 26), and also lest, having truly received Him, they might lose their works and wages (I Cor. ill., 14, 15; Ix., 27); hence bis earnest admonition to "take heed" and "watch." 82. "And now, brethren, I oommend you to God and the word of His grace, which is tble to build you up," When our Lord wai about to leave His dlsolples, he prayed th Father (as He said to Mary, "My Fathei and your Father, My God and your God" John xx., 17), that He would keep from evil those whom He had given Htm, and that He would sanctify them through th truth, His word (John xvll., 11,15,17). And when He said, "I have given them Tlij word, tbe words which Thou gavest M (John xvll., 8, 14), bo must have believed that these words were tne very nest tnraa that He eould give them. In nnothei place He said, "The words that I sneak unto you they are spirit, and they are life" (John vl., 63). 88. "I have coveted no man's sliver oi gold or apparel." The people testified ol Samuel, "Thou hast not defrauded us not oppressed us; neither hast thou taken aught of any man's band" (I Bam. xli., 8), To the Thessalonians Paul wrote, remind ing them of his labor night and day that be might not be a burden to any one (I These. H 0, 9). 84. "Yen, ye yourselves know that these hands have ministered unto my necessities and to them that were with me." He was very grateful for all gifts from the Lord's people Kt& speaks of such as "an odor of a sweet smell, a saorinue aooeptanie, well Pleasing to God." 85. "Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, bow He said. It is more blessed to ffive than to reeelve," DerhaDS referring to sueb teaoblng of our Lord as is found in IjUkevl., 80; xlv.. is. 14, or posslDly refer ring to some unrecorded sayings of oar liord, uoa so loveu tnat lie gave ms only begotten Hon; tne Hon or Uod so lovea that He gave Himself. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ was manifest In His be coming poor for us that we through His poverty might be rloh. The love that He manifested In laying down His life tor us should make us ready to lav down out lives for others (II Cor. vlli., ;I John III., 16). But most of us are more ready to re eelvethan to-give, and so John ill., 16, is much more familiar than I John 111., 16, and I Tim. 1., 15, than Titus ill., D.-Lewoa U el par, Time Purges Away the Alloy. 11T . I " attu. m nAJu,n ..lia. "an old coin, a silver denarius, all coated and crusted with green and purple rust. I called it rust, but I was told that it was oooner: the alloy thrown out from the silver until there was none left within, the silver was all pure. It takes ages to do it, but it does get done. Houls are like that. Home thing moves in them slowly, till tbe debase ment is an thrown out. some aay pernaiM the very turuUh shall be taken on"." Well, there is thin ullov. this tarnish, in all of us. and the education of life is to purge it all away by sorrows, by disappointments, by failures, dv luaameuis. "By llresfar Uercer than are blown to prove. Alia purge me silver ore auuiieraie. Canon Jfarrar. The harbor of Rio Janeiro has 60 miles of anchorage, and Is the finest in the world. MINING OUR BLACK I have just spent a few day at the United States geological survey In Washington, writes Frank O. Carpen ter, looking tip facts about coal min ing. The geologists know more abottt coal than any one else. They can tell yon juit how the world looked when ooal was made, and they describe how there were ages of luxuriant growth consisting of pine trees, fir trees and all kinds of mosses and plants, which, dying down year after year, became a great matted bed of vegetation. They tell yon how this bed was bottled up by being covered up with rocks and how it finally turned into coal. They can tell yon junt how this happened and how long it came to pass before Noah was n baby or Cain killed little Abel outside the Garden of Eden. Men lived for thousands of yenra npon the earth before they knew that eoal was good to burn. Alt the iron made before the days of the middle ages was with charcoal, and a fairy tale is told in Belgium of how a poor blacksmith discovered the first black diamonds. He found that he could not get along, for it took so much time to make his charcoal for his furnace. He was just about to commit suicide when a white-bearded old man ap peared at his shop and told him to go to the mountains near by and dig out the black earth and burn it. He did so, and was able to make a horseshoe at one forging. This is the Belgian story of the discovery of conl. The first coal found lu America was near Ottawa, Illinois. It is mentioned by Father Hennepin, a French explorer, who visited there in 1079. The first mines worked were about Richmond, Va. This eoal was discovered by a boy while out flailing. He was hunting for crabs for bait in a small creek, and thus stumbled upon the outcroppings of the James River ooal bed. Our anthracite conl fields have perhaps paid better than any other coal fields of the world. They were discovered by a hunter named Nicho Allen, when George Washing ton was President. Allen encamped one night in the Schuylkill regions, kindling his tire npon some black stones. He awoke to And himself al most roasted. The Btones were on fire, and anthracite was burning for the first time. Shortly after this a com pany was organized to sell anthracite coal. It was taken around to the black smiths, but they did not know how to use it, and it was very unpopular. Borne of it was shipped to Philadelphia by a Colonel Hhoemaker and sold there. It was not at all satisfactory, and a writ was gotten out from the city authorities, denouncing the colonel as a knave and scouudrel for trying to imposed rocks upon them as eoal. Still Philadelphia has largely been built up by anthracite conl, and SO, 000,000 tons of this coal were taken out of the Pennsylvania fields in 181)0. since then some of these coal lands have been sold as high as $1200 an acre, and the Philadelphia and Read ing Company in 1871 paid $10,000,000 for 100,000 acres of ooal land in this region. As a sample of the amount of business done in anthracite ooal, the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company paid $5,000,000 in one year for mining, and their eoal sales that year amounted to more than $10,000,000. It is hard to estimate the enormous amount of money the United States makes out of its ooal. We get more than three times as much out of our ooal mines as out of our gold mines, and the silver metal is not in it with the black diamonds. There is a little region in eastern Pennsylvania, about a hundred and twenty-five miles from Philadelphia and not more than two hundred miles from New York, which produces every year eoal to a greater value than all the gold mines of the Rookies, Canada and Alaska. It is our anthracite ooal fields which turn out betweon 50,000,000 and 60,000,000 tons of anthracite every year. We have in addition to this a hundred and thirty odd million tons of bituminous ooal annually. We have, in short, the biggest and best ooal measures on the globe. It is estimated that our ooal east of the Rooky Mountains covers 192,000 square miles, and within tbe past few years oonl has been found in many parts of the Far West. Colorado will eventually be a great manufactur ing State on account of its ooal. Utah has large ooal fields, and so have the States of Montana, Washing ton and Wyoming. We are now get ting something like 20,000,000 tons of ooal a year out of Indiana, Kentucky aud Illinois, and the great Appalach ian field prodnoes more than four times this amount. There is more good burnable earth in tbe Appal ach- ian Mountain, than anywhere else in the world. Tbe ooal is easy to get at, the veins are thick, and in some mines they are almost on tbe top of the 1 ground. They are better than any other ooal fields in this reepeot, with one single exception. This Is the new IN AN ENQLIBH MINE, DIAMONDS. ooal field of Alaska, which, one of the geological survey man tells me, comes right out over the water, so that the coal can be dug down and almost fall into the ships below. This Alaskan coal will probably be nsetl to supply the Pacific trade, and its importance will be appreciated when it is remem bered that the largest fleet that sails the Pari Ho is the ooal fleet. - Most of the coal from that region comes from Australiaand Japan. Much Australian coal is brought to Han Francisco. Dur ing my travels in Japan I visited one oonl mine which had fifty miles of tun nels under the sea, and I learned that the Japanese were making a great deal of money out of their oonl. They were shipping it to China, not withstanding the fact that the geolo gists say that China has some of the largest oonl fields of the world. I doubt the extent of the Chinese fields. The people are thrifty, and it is curi ous that they do not use the eoal if they have it. They are among the most economical of people, and in the different Chinese cities ooal is so valu able that it is ground to dust and then mixed with dirt, being sold in balls about the size of a biscuit. It is in teresting to know the coal fields of tho world, as estimated by the geolo gists. Here they are: China, 200,000 square miles; United Stntes east of the Rockies, 192,000 square miles; Canada, 00,000 square miles; India, 85,600 square miles; New South Wales, 24,000 square miles; Russia, 20,000 square miles; United Kingdom, 11,500 square miles; Spain, 5000 square miles; Japan, 5000 square miles, France, 20HII square miles; Austria-Hungary, 1790 square miles; Germany, 1770 square miles; Belgium, 510 square miles. From the above table it will be seen that the English coal area is small Still England has for years been the centre of the ooal production of the world, and for years it mined more than half the total amount used by the world. The United States is now probably ahead of it, and we are in creasing our product every year. The English coal veins are thin. The miners have to lie on their sides to work many of tbera. They have dug out tne surface ooal ana they are now working at great depths. One English vein, fourteen and a hull inches wide, is already down over twelve hundred feet. Such a vein would not be woi ked to any great depth in America. The Newcastle ooal field, which is the rioh est in England, has veins from three to six feet thick, while the Wales ooal veins are less than three feet in thick ness. Some of our Pennsylvania an thracite veins run from thirty feet to sixty feet feet in thickness, while the Pittsburg bituminous ooal veins are from eight to sixteen feet think. At the present rate of mining it is esti mated that all the English ooal will be exhausted in 212 'years if it is worked down to 4000 feet, and this will be 113 feet deeper than any of the English mines now worked. Notwithstanding the enormous amounts of oonl which we have taken out of our anthracite region it is eutimated that we oould go on at the present rate for 610 years. As England goes further down her ooal mining will becomo more expen sive, and her days as a manufacturing Nation are, consequently, numbered. Already we surpass her a great deal in manufacturing, and there is no doubt that we, with our vast supplies of ooal and iron, are to be the chief manu facturing Nation of the future. Our Appalachian ooal fields alone oould supply the world with fuel for centuries. They are the largest and richest known, and they are so situated that the coal can be shipped from them long distances by water. From Pitta burg ooal can be carried for eight- een thousand miles on navigable streams, and the, grate fires of the South blaze with the rays from tbe blaok diamonds from Pennsylvania. The Ohio River is the great ooal obnte for the Mississippi valley. The ooal U carried down it iu weak barge BELGIAN MINERS. pushed by little steamers, and so fast ened together that a single steamer ill push acres of ooal. Loads of twenty thousand tons are taken. , A vast amount of ooal is carried on the canals and the great lakes form one of tbe chief highways of the eoal trafflo. The amount of coal carried on the railroads is almost beyond conception. The Philadelphia and Reading has more than fifty thousand ooal cars, which are dragged by nine hundred AN EXPLOSION. coal locomotives. These cars are kept busy in carrying anthracite coal. The Pennsylvania Railroad employs more than seventy thousand cars for the movement of its oonl and coke trade, and te Central Railroad of New Jer sey carries about five million tone ot anthracite ooal every year. More ooal Is bandied at New lork than at any other place in the world except Lon don, more than fifteen million tons be ing used or transshipped at that point annually. Ona would tnink that there would be a lot of money in coal for tbe miners. There is not, and it is a question whether the present strike will materi ally better matters. As far as strikes have gone in the pant, they have been against the working men. Some years ago Carroll D. Wright, tbe United States Commissioner of Labor, figured up tbe profit and loss of ten years of striking in all branches of labor. He estimated that the employes during this time lost fifty-nine million dol lars, an average of forty dollars to each striker involved, while the employers lost a little more than half the amount, or thirty million dollars. Tbe coal miners live as poorly as any other class of workmen in the country. For the most part they are in dirty villages, with narrow streets, their houses blackened by ooal smoke. In many mining districts the houses belong to the company owning the miues, and the miners pay rent for them, so that when a strike ooours and they are out ot money they are given orders to kave. Many of the houses have nothing more than two rooms and a kitchen, and in some places tbe only stores at which tbe miners can trade are the company's stores. With all this the American miners are far better off than the miners of other countries. The ooal miners of Japan reoeive only a few cents a day. Both women and men work in the mines, and the foreign ships, which get coal at Japan are always loaded by women, who pass tbe ooal up the sides of the ship in baskets. Women are still nsed in the eoal mines of Belgium. They dress itr trousers, just like the men, and they do mnoh the same work. They help load the coal, and in some of tbe mines they drag the oars from the tunnels to the bottom of tne shaft, lu. Bimonin, a Frenchman, from whose book on, un derground life the illustrations of this letter are taken, describes the horror of their life in the mines. For a long times women were used in this way in England and Scotland, and it was not until twenty-five years ago that parliament passed an aot keepingtbem out. Children are employed in the Bel' glum mines to-day. The English and Scotch used them for years. They were taken into tne mines at seven, eight and nine years of age, and were kept there until they grew up. The English ooal veins are very thin and the tunnels are not more than a yard high. These children were used as beasts of burden. They were har nessed to little carts filled with eoal, and had to crawl along on all fours with belts about their waists and ohains between their legs dragging the ooal carts to the surface. Women became deformed by this work. They were dressed in trousers and shirts like men. They learned to fight And swear like the men and became bad characters. At the age of fifty they were usually worn out. In Scotland young women were employed to carry the ooal on their backs out of the mines. They dragged the coal to the foot of the ladders and then loaded it on their backs, holding it there by a strap around the forehead while they climbed up tbe ladders to get it to the surface. They worked from twelve to fourteen hours a day, and would do work, it is said, which the men would not do, tramping through tbe water with their loads of ooal. Aooording to law women cannot be employed in our mineB. Boys, however, have been largely used. They drive the mules, and iu the anthracite regions they pick over the ooal, taking the slate aud refuse out ot it. They get from fifty to sixty cent a day for bending over the dusty ooal, roasting in the summer and al most freezing in the winter. They are frequently hurt, though it is by uo means as bad witn our omiaren ai with those of Europe a few years ago, when in one investigation it was stated: "That they seldom slept with whole skin, and that their backs were out with knooking against the roof and sides of the tunnels, and that the walking in th water covered their I feet with f ering torts." Have yon ever been down in a eoat miner If so, you can appreciate soma of the dangers of mining. A ooal mine is like a great catacomb. It is city underground, the walls of whioh in many cases ate npheld by timbers. Now and then yon come to rooms out of which the ooal has been ont. The coal is taken down with blasting pow der, and there is danger of the wall falling and of the minora being ornshed. There is also danger from fire damp. or the union of the gases of the mine brought together by the light from, a lamp or candle. This causes a great explosion. It comes like a stroke of lightning, and with a clap of thunder. As the explosion oconrs a roaring whirlwind of flame goes through t he tunnels, pulling down the timbers and caving in the walls. It burns every thing within reach. Miners are blinded, scorched and sometime burned to cinders. Hundreds have often been killed at a time by such explosions, and by the flood of ear bouio sold gas which follows them. The statistics show that even in tho United States one miner is killed for every hundred thousand tons of ooal mined, and those who are injured number many times this proportion. TWO FOWLS WITH SEVEN LEGS. A New Terfcer Has a Three-Legged Roos ter and Uuadrnped Ben. Two freak fowls are owned by C. Stern, of the Third Street Market, East . River, New York City, whioh are believed to be unique in their way. They were bought by their owner in Washington Market. The rooster. which is a year old, has three legs. FREAK FOWLS. the extra "scratoher" (which, by tha way, is useless for that purpose or any other) sticking out behind, between) the other two. The hen, whioh is about a year and a half old, can boast of four legs,, two which she walks on, being in their natural places, tha extra two growing out of her left side. The strange feathered creatures have been seen by hundreds of ohioken fanoiers. America's Oddest Bock. Near West Superior, Wis., on ft steep, rocky bluff stands one of tho most freakish objects to be found in the world. It consists of a ledge of solid granite, whioh bears most gro tesque resemblance to a human head. Its cavernous mouth is partly open and its features are distorted with a hideous grin. This monstrosity is DBVIIS RBAD. known as "Devil's Head." Frospeo tors rub a spot above the eyes, whioh is said to bring them luck. The In diaus have a legend concerning the "skull rock" to the effect that it ia nothing more or less than the petrified head of a great warrior who came front . their "happy hunting ground" to pro tect the tribes of the Northwest against extermination by the whites. Tbe largest mass of pure rook salt in the world lies under the province of Oalioia, Hungary, It is known to bo 550 miles long, twenty broad nd 2G0 feet la tulokuess.
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