“IT RUNS BOILING WATER. Little River Choked by a Meteor and Peo. | ple Badly Scared, The. flaming meteor visible at 9 o'clock on Wednesday night all over i Arkansas and west Tennpesses 1s the ® ! general topic of conversation. Its first appearance from Little Rock - was at a point ‘in the heavens about 50 degrees from the horizon in the west by 5 de grees north. Its course was to the south at an angle of 7 degrees from the me ~ ridian. The flame was from 15 to 20 degrees in length and 3 degrees wide in the widest point, and so dazzling as to hurt the eyes. The color had a greenish blue tint similar to the burning of a trolley wire by a bad electric connec. tion. Many thought that it must have landed within only a few hundred yards of them. Now, however, its location is definitely settled. Recently a man from the sonthwestern part of the state gave this account of an occurrence that made ‘the people prepare for the end of time: The other morning the farmers and fishermen along the Little river and the Red river, below the janction of the two, noticed a large number of fish floating down and that the water was hot. An investigation showed the fish to be cooked. Alarmiad at this, & party was finally formed to go up and inves. tigate the canse. Touching the river bBorseback, they noticed that the water was getting totter and hotter, and Inter they could truce the entire oof the river Ly the rising Steam grees had ail quit the cotton fie] lamber camps aod gathered around preachers wherever ore conld bo f And the preachers. with bulging : shaking knees and melting words, wera pstling with the Lord as did Jacob Ea with thé angel. On the party pressed, getting smaller each mile, a3 | some brother thought his final hours could best be spent under a preacher's fervent prayers and dropped out to join the negro impromptu camp meetings. Rounding a sharp bend, they came upon the white chalk cliffs of the Little river, in the county of the same name, ‘and just south of the junction of that county with Howard acd Sevier. There they beheld a sight so demoustrative of the power of God and the insignificance of man that every man in the party, moved by the same impulse, fell from his horse prone on the ground, while the animals quaked with fear and trem- - bling and huddled together. : The meteor had hit the chalk cliff, literally tearing through it a hole 100 feet wide from the top to the water's The exposed portions of the fis- sure had becn melted by the intense ‘heat and friction. There in Little river stood the lost starlet, anchored deep in bed of theriver, leaving barely room ‘the water to pass on the southwost and projecting 230 feet above the of the water. The exposed portion i still lurid with the heat of its rap- transit through the air, and the wa ter was boiling. Navigation beyond this point will be impossible until the Lit- tle river cuts a mew channel to the south. — Memphis Commercial-Appeal. JX Conjured Her With Reptiles. ¥Freedmanville, a little suburb of Washington, Ga., is in a state of great ~ excitement over the case of Fanny ~ Beard, a young colored girl. A few days ago there began to appear on the . girl's body representations of snakes, lizards, turtles and tadpoles. The girl she was ‘‘trickéd’’ by a neighbor had a grudge against her. On one he arms there is an exact representa- tion of a snake about as foot and a half Jong. It looks as if there was a snake under the skin. All over her body there “ave shapes of turtles, lizards aud crabs. ~ Dra. Hill and Simpson, who examined the girl, refused to give any opinion as * to the cause of her condition. ~The girl is a good looking wulatto of 17 or 18 years, apparently of a little above the average intelligence. She has “been ill for two or three weeks. She said that when these marks began to * appear her skin first turned white. That was the color until the shapes became welldefined. Then the skin began turn- ing until it became a good deal darker ~ than the other parts of her body. The girl says that the woman wh " her sent reptiles into her, tog ‘and that she can plainly feel them under Bo akin when they first appear.—New - York Son. “I'm Dying, Egypt, Dying.” Jt seems to be a pretty well estab- lished fact that General William H, Lytle bad the manuscript of his cele- brated poem, ‘‘I'm Dying, Egypt, Dy- Ins. !* on his person when the Confed- came across his body at Chicka- It has been smd that he wrote it at Cincinnati before the war, but it now ~ appears that he composed it at odd hours in the camp. It had not Leen finished the night “before the battle, and feeling, as he told _ his tentmate, a premonition of death on - the morrow he arose to finish it by the dull light of a tent lantern. Before morning he read it.complete to his friend, and before noon he lay on that bloody fiel:l pierced with two minie balls. He commanded a brigade in Bheridan’s division. — Maysville Repub- Te. Jan 1 . An Adamless tiindergarten. : ‘Some of the women of Allegan, Mich , have determined to have a kin- desgarten. The school directors would _ mot. "establish one in connection with the put! ic schools, so the. women appealed. to charity and secured enough money to - hire a teacher and rent a room. The roc; was not nice enough to suit them, so they papered and painted it, and it “fs waid they did their own carpenter work. There was not a man on the job. ~ These are all new women —Chicago aon Bre. Wen Pull the Lion's Tail. Sams begins to think he knows gor two about orioket. He will “ALL WERE SHUT OUT. Every National League fay Underwent § “Whitewash.’ Nea arly R00 games were pl: wed biy the National le age « clubs during the sea son just ended, and one or more runs were made by each team in every game excepting 44. Every olub was shut out in one or more games, and every club applied the ‘‘whitewash'' brash except- ing Washington. The Philadelphias took part in only two such games, less than any of the clobs, Washicgton was the only club that the Quakers *' white- washed,’’ while St. Louis was the only club to stop Irwin's men’ from scoring. The champion Baltimores led with eight such games, Only one c¢lob was shut out more than twice, the Clave- lands ‘Chicagoing’’ the Cincianatis in three games. Both games in which the New Yorks failed to score were played at the Polo grounds. Three of the six games in which the New Yorks applied the brush were played away from home, two at Chicago and one at Cleveland. The Brooklyns were the ‘f ers’’ in two games away from tha home ‘grounds. © Both were played at Louis- ville. ; Hawley leads the pitchers in the shut ting out process with five games. while t Rasie; Young and Hoffer have four L games each to their credit. Kennedy rion inte BS oo sae 16 wy accomplished the feat twice, and both varions points as they proceeddad on : to : { times the Pittshurgs were the opposing players. McMahon has shut ot three | 1di camp followers, baggage train ia : ; galdiers, camp followers, bagg: x { clubs, but his record is the bast, ashe |” oo Pp. fou a BRAK i and women, pushed in through the pite hed fewer games than the twirlers i who lead him —New York Sun A COSTLY PONY "i A ®1,000 Fight Over an Animal Worth 2 About $10. A case has just been called for trial in the southern division of the appellate court at Topeka which bids fair to sur- pass the famous Iowa calf case Some time ago, so long ago as to have become ancient history in that section of the state, Victor Catlin, a cowboy in Barber county, had an extra ony out on the range. It was a very | ; > pon i.they ever had befora or since. Winters ordinary Texas pony, worth thex about $10, and which any farmer in that |°® ROY Hi county would now refuse to take asa | iD the vicinity of Trinidad. gift. It was on the lariat while Catlin | was looking after his herd, bat broke the rope and wandered into a cornfield The farmer who owned the crop, John Rankin, seized the pony and charged Catlin $10 for the damage it had done. Catlin declared the damages excess- ive and repievined the pony. At the close of a series of suits beforo justices of the peace the case was tried before a jury in the district court, was appealed to the court of appesdls and will soon be disposed of there. The costs already amount to over $1,000, and as both men are stubborn fighters the case will not end. on the verdict in the court of appeals It is certain to reach the supreme court, and at the end of the long, bitter and very costly litigation both parties are almost | certain to be poor to bankruptcy, bo matter who wins in the court of last 1 re- sort. — Now York Sun. Fooled vy » Parrot. : A parrot belonging to an opora com- pany, and which figures in ono of the acts of the show, escaped from its keeper at the New York Central railroad sta- tion at Rochester recently while the members of the company were waiting for a train. As the train pulled nto the station, and there was a rush for th gates, the parrot, from the top of the | big clock, sang out: thing !" Several peoples hurried back fo their seats to look for satchels or parcels. As | 1 had 1 behind. Ti : ; : ! iC 3 a i f YY 1hé . the passengers came in from tas train- | people they had left behind. Thes nam ; i ed the little river Rio de Las Animas, | meaning the River of the Lost Souls, house they were greeted wath: “‘Hello, Harry! Hello, old hoy! All the members of the company | P y the expedition’s dark fate and repeat it | to itsel If in tho river language, which i the Mexicans do not pretend to under- joined in trying to catch the bird, but did not succeed for a long time, during which the parrot kept up its chatter. At least 25 people ed their drains iv coming back on Poll's remurk that spmething had been forgotten, --Pitts- burg Dispatch, = Labouchera's Little Joke, Notice. —Several influential dlowagers have combined together to charter the steamship Frisco, 6,000 tons, for the purpose of conveying a cargo of ~disap- pointed British girls to Americ; with a view of disposing of them advanta- geously in the States. Attention is earn- estly requested to the circumstances that presentation at court is desirable, since importance is attached to this formality across the Atlantic, and ladies who have attended a drawing room may therefore be expected to obtain more satisfactory | terms than those who have not. The steamship Frisco, according tc present arrangements, will sail from Sonthamp- ton for New York on. Oct. 15 next. All inquiries as to terms, etc., should be ad- dressed to the secretary, 225 Balgrave square, S. W. Office hours, 10 a. m. to g 2 m. upon weekdays; Saturdags, cldse 2 p m.—London Truth. Yes, She's a Genius. Sarah Bernhardt is a born genius in advertizing. Jast as news comes that Mrs. Langtry has been robbed of ber dia- monds, Sarah has sent twe young goril- las to the zoological gardens in Paris. As for losing her diamonds. Sarah has visdained to do it since she was a clit of a girl —8*. Louis : Globe-Dernops: it Nineteen Men to Make a Cont. It used to be ga Proverd that it took nine. tailors to m#%e a man. Henry White of the Garment Makers' union rays that nowadays it takes 1 men to make a coat. —New York Telegram It Looks Like It. Is Cuba to be freed in the sarae way that succor has been given to the Arme nians7—Chicago Post. The Office Seeking the Woman. One-third of tha appointive offices in Kansas are held by women. ~-Topeka Copii). whitewash- [A COLORADO STOR Y WHY THE RIVER AT TRINIDAD BEARS. THREE NAMES. A Queer Kink In Nomenclsture Explained by a Rocky Mountain Editor—The Ro- mance of the Lost Mexican Soldiers Who Were ound For St. Augustine, “Some nueer kinks in nomenclatare are discoverable in this country of ours,’ said Colonel Willim@ Stapleton of Trinidad, Colo. ‘“‘R¥imning right through the town of Trinidad, in which 1 live, is a littleriver, which familiarly and indiscriminately does its muddy, flowing business under three names. It. is called variously the Las Animas, the Purgatorio and the Picket Wire The names came about in this way : “Santa Fe claims to be and is about the same age as St. Augustine, Fla. Both towns are considerably over 300 § years old, although I forget the exact date of their settlement. “Back in the middle of the sixteenth century the Spaniards at Santa Fo made np a military detachment to go overland to St. Augustine. The old dons didn’t know anything. of the country which lay between. All they were posted on was the distance and the general divee- tion, as they knew the latitude and longitudé of both places. Rather late in | tha fall some 700 of them, steel clad Raton pass over the trail now followed by the Santa Fe railraad, and at the be- ginning of winter made a camp at what is now the site of Trinidad; which sits fairly in the mouth of the Raton can- yon, looking ont on the plains: ! ‘““There they were on the very thresh- old of the Rockies. To the east of them, over which their course must ‘trend, lay an utfer waste of plains, ap- parently without limit. All that win- ter the Spaniards camped in the mouth of the Raton canycn. With wine, wom- an and song, they put in a hilarious time, and probably had as much fup as are not rigorous and spring comes early “With the first coming of the early grass the adventarers banished their ar- { mor, fitted up their honses and got ready to move. Thecamp followers, the wom-. cn and the extra baggage they sent back to Santa Fe. When last seen, the party bound for St. Augustine, numbering several hundreds, were marching down .the valiey of the little river by which they had camped. *‘That was the last ever heard of them. Not a feather ever floated back to tell the story of their fate. With the last flap of the last banner and the latest sun glint on the rearmost steel cap they disappeared from the earth. To this day no one is able to make a suggestion even as to whut became of them, éxcept that it is supposed they were butchered by the Indians. “Fifty 3 years ago there was an old Co- manche chief named Iron Shirt, because of a rusty old shirt of chain mail which he wore, but wveither he nor any of the other Comauches knew anything of the origin of the gmrment nor where it came from. It had been in the tribe farther back than the short Comanche memory could reach. Many have supposed that it was a rele of this Spanish expedition’ of threes ceuturies ago, which had ap- - parently marched off the earth that far- away spring day in the mouth of the Raton canyon. : ‘“‘But now fer the kink in nomencla- i tnking o Nie. disanvaar ‘Hello, yon have forgotten some- | ture I was thinking of. I'he disappear ance of these Spanish soldiers seemed so eerie and witchlike that it made a pro- | found Jr pression on the saperstitious and it is fevpecd to hold the story of gtand. : “When the French fur traders under ‘Sublette and $t. Vrain came trapping in those waters from St. Louis, in a French efiort at translation they made out that the River of the Lost Souls must mean the Purgatory river, and so gave the river its translated name of Purgatorio. “Later, when the American bull- whacker marched through on his way to Santa Fe, he accepted the French name, but ealled it the Picket Wire. To this day the river wears all three titles, as the reader would soon learn by turning to the Trinidad newspapers, where he would find cattle brands ad- vertised as having their ranges variously on the Las Auvimas, the Purgatorio and the Picket Wire. ‘“Every man picks out his name for himself, but they all mean the same river. It isn't much of a river either, only about 20 feet wide at Trinidad. The Mexicaus, however, loyally stick to the name of Rio de Las Animas, i and Mexican mothers tell their children of the soldiers who, hundreds of years | ago, marched from there and were ‘never heard of again.’’'—Washington Star. Just Like a Woman. A young andl well dressed woman en- tered Charing Cross telegraph office the other day and wrote out a dispatch te be sent to Manchester. She read it over, reflected for a moment, and then dropped it on the floor and wrote a sec ond. This she also threw away, but was satisfied with the third and sent it off. The three telegrams read: First. —* ‘Never let me bear from you again. Second. —** No cne expects you to re- turn.’ Third. —*‘Come home, dearest. Alli 18 forgiven.” '—Peason’s Wee hly. : Luc Ky. A reporter, in describing the murder of a man named Jorkins, said, “The murderer was evidently in quest of money, but luckily Mr. Jorkins had de- pueited all his funds in the bapk the day before, so that he lost nothing but his life. ’—Loudon Tit-Bits TOO LATE NOW. Bloomers Will Aiwiys Be Bloomers and : Not “Smiths.” Do you wear ‘‘smiths?"’ If you ara a woman and ride a wheel, the chances are yon do, but don’t know it, aud call your smiths by the popular name of bloomers. The trousemd costume which bears the name of the late Mrs. Amelia Bloomer was not invented or evoluted by Mrs. Bloqmer, and she herself hus said so in a rumbher of instances and has placed all the credit where she ba- lieved it to be dune, with her friend, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Miller, who when | sho was plan Miss Smith first brought out and wore in public the strange gar- ments, which was the first attempt in America to make the trousers and short skirt popular. It may be tco late now to change the name, but it will always be a mat r cf regret to the great and strong eof 8miins that tha family was not perpet- | nated in the costume that now runs rict over the country. Mrs. ‘Bloomer, however, had a very | good idea of why the costume was called after her, and Mrs Elizabeth Smith Miller vas very willing that tho | credit should gro to her. Mrs. Miller iy] still alive and lives with her danghtes | and family at Lochland, Geneva, N. Y., within a stona’s throw almost of the | spot where so ranch of the bloomer his. tcey was fashioned. -=New York Jone. | nal. They L ke Petug anoed. Most people who go to the country in | the summnier aré not avarse to getting & | little tanned, and many youths sit ont | in the sun for the express purpi.so of ac quiring a good color. Few, however, would go to such an extreme as some | college students who camped out on | Shelter island. Perscns passing in boats | could ses them on tha beach stripped to the waist, so that not only their faces, necks and army should be sunburned, | but - their entire backs as well. The | | tographs which will not show the bald- [-pess of his head, as car agent promised. young men wanted to show in the gvm- nasitmi this winter what a thoroughly outdoor life théy hal been leading. — Now York Tribune. She Would Marry a Marderer. “In Havre lives a woman who is will- ing to marry tho millionaire murderez, Arthur Duestrow. She heard of him through the newspapers, and from the tone of a letter received by Governor Johnson it appears that she is willing to love, honor respect and obey the slayer of his wife and child and to take the chances of i1neeting the same death | which Duestrow' dealt ont to Albertina Duestrow Feb. 13, 1884. The letter is in French and was re- ceived by Governor Johnson during the trial at Union. ~-8t. Louis Republi. Electric lights For Tigers. A sportsman of Calcutta has employ- ed the electric light with success in hunting tigers by night among the jun- gles of the Sundarbunds. It is usual to set a bait for the tiger—for instance, | the body of a co'w cr other animal—and .watch for him from a raised platform or manchan close by. Instead of the blue light hitherto burned to illuminate the tiger in order to aim well, the gen- ‘tleman in question has rigged up a 16 candle power e ectric lamp, fed by a portable battery of 380 capo farad ceils, carried in his elt. The lamp, fitted with a reflector, is suspended from a tree over the bait. A switch beside the hunter enables him to start the Nighy dled and bridled him ne ow bids his when the tiger i: engaged in devouring | his prey. =i mdm Globe. Bafied. The. word baffled now has a meaning entirely different from that applied to it 300 years ago. It is now nudarstood- to mean thwarted, foiled or disappoint- ed, but then it was applied to the proc- | ess of degradation by which a knight was disgraced. A baffled knight was one who had been provcunced guilty of ‘conduct unbecoming one of his order and had accordingly been shorn of his plumes, his sword was broken before his eyes, his knightly robe torn away, his spurs cut off with a cleaver, and after being publicly chastised he was declared to be baffled. The word is used in this sense by Shakespeare and other writers of that time. Sacrifice of Sight. : Said a well known optician: ‘Yon have no idea how many people come in here daily who want cheap glasses. Af- nicest and most scourate adjustment to correct, and whick cannot be done with- out good glasses, wre deemed of less mo- ment than other so called human neces- yities.'’ While hy was speaking a man entered who parchased a pair of spec- tacles for 25 cents. ‘‘There is an exam- demand. (Cincinnati Tribane. ee Sir John Macdonald and the Kilts. Sir John Macdonald was at a recep- tion in the west, aod a bishop from Bel- ginm was present. As the party werd being escorted by a body of men in high- land costume the foreign bishop, seeing | the bare legs and ii'ts, asked why these | men were withont trousers. ‘It's just a | loeal custom, ’’ gravely replied Sir John. | “In.some places people take off their hats as a mark of honor to ditinguisbed © | guests. ‘Here they take off their trou- sers. '—Canadian Gazette. Keasonaolo Expectation, Mrs. Dix—I woader what present my | husband will bring me tonight Mrs. Hicks—What makes you one? Is it your birthday? fection of the eyes, which require the BALDN ESS NO o8J ECTION, | How the Enterprisiog Photoginpher Over- comes the Fears of Hairless Sitters, An agent soliciting trade for a Broad- way photographer recently called at the Park avenue home of one of New York's best known physicians and tried to con- vimce the doctor that he should have his picture taken. He was selling ——'y photograph coupons. The physician has a terribly bald head. Nothing but a fretful fringe remains on an erstwhile | lnxurious head of hair. On that account | he had long ago given up having pho- | tographs of himself wade, 80 he replied: **No; thank you. 1 want none of your cot pos. I have broken myself of | .the photograph habit... My head is too bald for the business.’ finally the pbysician said: ‘I will make | you a fair proposition. I will take a| double dose of your conpons if you w il | promise to fix my pictures so the bald spot will not show. ”’ ‘“All right,’ said the agent after a range that. Such things are done every | day in our husiness. Here are your cou- pons. Come to the gallery for your sit- ting next Saturday. When he went to the photographer's | | studio the following Saturday, the doo- | | tor was met at the door by a lad who, | | when the customer removed his silk | hat, said: : “Oh, this is Dr. —— is it? Pass | | right along this way." Curious to know { | i § moment's reflection. ‘‘ Mr. ean ar- | | { why this Jal had been forewarned of | | his visit, the physician passed in and | was finally met by a young lady, who | glanced at his head and said: { who wishes to have photographs which i will indicate that he has a full growth of hair on his head?” operating room. ‘Ah,’ said the man in charge of the cameras, “this is Dr. ——, 18 it not-— the man for whom we are to make pho Just kindly step over to the other end -and hat down. Keep the overcoat on your arm and kindly place your hat on your head. That's right. Now look pleasant, please. Thets, your picture's taken!’ “Well, I hope 1 can get home with- out being taken in by a gang of bunko -steerers,” said the physician, after he realized that he bad been made the vie- oe i a ——— ———r es bo i tb AN INDIAN BOY'S PONY. It at a Buffalo Hant. gala dress, riding their decorated ponies, older ones leading the pack horses; lit- tle children in twos and threes upon the backs of steady old nags, or snugly stowed away in the swinging pouch be- tween the tent poles, and the dogs trot- ting complacently everywhere, ‘Here and there along the line of the cavalcade is a Jad being@initiated into individual responsibility. He has been upon the hunt before, as ane of the fam- ily, but this is the first step toward go- ing independently upecared for as child. The father has lassoed a vid horse, sad- | son mount the animal. The boy hangs | back, the colt is a fiery creature and al- ready restive under restraint.’ The fa- ther tells his son that the horse shall be his own when he has conguered it, buy the lad does not: move. The lockers on are smiling, and the cavalcade does not wait. ‘‘Get up,’ says the father. qnickly recedes, but the boy, grasping his mane, swings himself into the sad- dle. The father lets go, and so does the colt—rears, jumps, wrigsles, homps his back like an infuriated cat, stands op his fore legs and kicks at his own tail, paws the air and staffifps the earth, but the boy clings to him until, with a sud- den jerk, the saddle girth is broken, and he is landed over the head of the excited creature, which runs for dear life and liberty. Brought back, protesting by twists and shakes of his head, he is again mounted and again frees himself. After two or three repetitions of this sort of thing the boy becomes angry, and the mother grows anxious. She runs ‘to her son as he is scrambling up from the ground, feels him all over and moves his legs and arms to see if he is hurt. He ia impatient at the delay. He is going to master that pony now or die for 1. This time he stays on. In vain the animal lashes himself into foam and ple,”’ continued the optician. ‘That | fury. The Loy stick to him ike the man's sight will probably become worse. | eh Fitri I Yale But there's a large demand for cheap | leads the indivisable pair between the S868 ‘6 ars forced to supply that | glasses, and we ars forced to supply the . ticated family horse, and there, fenced i in, they journey all day, trying to get . used to each other. The pony does not | zee his way out of the poles and is tore- ad to keep up with the procession, — j ~ Century. shirt of Nessus, and the father at last tent poles which trail behind a sophis- Just the Man Wanted. Applicant—I understand that you want a reporter? Editor—Yes, I an in want of a man to do the verbatim work. Are you a shorthand writer? Applicant—No, sir. But I ama rapid writer. * I used to be an actor and hava iad experience in writing stage letters. Mrs. Dix—No.0 We quarreled this | i frogs. morning. — Loudon Answers. His Vreasnre. The Count (whe bas had a little tif with his fiunces, the heress)-—But, my trea-ure—. The Hrrcs: —Your treasure’ Yon , investwent, you mean.—London Tit- Y Bits : | Editor—Ah, you are just the man we ‘want M~DBoston Traveller, et mamas a peat Sains ———- Beer In Atlanta. Smith-It is understood that the | lreweries have engaged a carload of Brown—For what purpose? . Smith—Becagse they're s0 full of hops. — Atlanta Constitation. A mean landlord raised the rent of one of his houses because the walls have bulged cut, and therefore made the bourse larger “Ob, Dr. ——, I believe—the man | “I'm the man," perplexedly replied! the physician as ho went on out into the | tim of a clever trick. —Now York World. | The boy slowly advances, and the colt | { of the room. * No; do not lay yoar coat | a He "Tells His Tale” Everybody remembers the line Milton's ‘‘ Allegro:'’ * And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. What kind of tale do shepherds tell; beneath the shade in summer dell? ot love, be sure, the shepherd sings, and lovely ways and lovely things; of muid- en coy and wooer shy, oY word and speaking eye, games at Christmastide, when mums . mers mock and hobbies ride; of may- : pole mirth and Whitsan ale, ‘of dark December’s ghostly tale, and kisses | matched, love's daring theft—the more | yon take the more are Jeft. Such things the poet saw and heard; snch songs, such simple tale, such word ; what time : ithe hot sun overhead made welcome But the agent was persistent, and | { all the hawthorn shade, and while the | swain in sunny June beguiled the sum- { mer afternoon. I believe the above represents accu | =ately what we understand by those two | .ines. A friend, however, whom I call the Destroyer, becanse he takes a flend- ish pleasure in shittering these pretty | looking visions of fantasy, tolls me that Milton meant nothing of the kind. He | simply alluded to a custom common in | some parts of the country of driving ‘ the flack through a gap in the hedge on the other side of which the shepherd { counts his sheep—i. e., ‘‘tells his tale.” PI hope the Coord is. not right, bud there is his theory. — Walter Besant. — sm eon mn anarevet Tonsyom Gets. Snubbed. - He (Tennyson) desired to be intro- duced to her, or perhaps—for his ways | were somewhat regai—desired that she | might be presented to him. In which- ever way it was the ceremony was trans- acted, and Tennyson's second remark was this question, “Oh, Lady , do I know Lord ——7'" The person about whom he thus inquired was a peer, who, though young, had wen much distine-- tion in public life and was widely known in private. His wife, as it hap- pened, was devoted to him, and jealous of any word which sounded like dis- paragement of his position or indiffer- ence to his renown. She looked Tennyson in the face and answered, with perfect composure of ‘manner: “‘I am sure, Lord Tennyson, I {can’t say. I never heard him mention ‘your name in my life. ’’ For a moment the poet was staggered by this straight hit from the shoulder, but he had the good sense and good témper to take it well. —Smalley’s ‘*Studies of Men.’ A Yueer Siow. One of the vegetable nivrvels of July | 18 the fraxinella, or dittany, an old fash- | ioned flowering plant, native in souti:erm ( Europe and. Asia and much cultivated An Account of His First Attempt to Ride in the gardens of our grandmothers. | The plant has showy fowers—white, Thus led by those dedicated to re- | ligicus service, the tribe leaves its vil- | lage, the people by families dropping | into line—men, well mounted, bearing | their weapons ready for use; women, in | red and rosy—and an odor that belongs to the leaves as wéll as to the blossoms. ~The plant, if visited at night with a lighted match, is suddenly enveloped with blue flames, as is the hand thas bears the match. The flames are harm= less and are caused by the combustion of a volatile oil that is secreted by the plant. This oil, in the form of vapor, impregnates the air immediately about | the plant and is ignited at the approach of a light. The plant blooms abundant- ly, and the pyrotechnic display may be repeated night after night, especially i it the condition of the atmosphere is fa- vorable. The plant obtains its name of dittapy from the fact that it grows wild npon Mount Dicte, in the island of Crete. It is by no means so well known now as it onc was, since the gay flowers of old fashioned country gardens have given place to more wsthetic and less showy blossoms, —New York Sun. An Indian Son Serpent Legend 4) The red men of the west have many curicus legends concerning the rivers, lakes and mountains of that region, none more weird than that which is told con- cerning Rock lake, Washington. Since time out of memory the Indian tribes of that vicinity have believed the lake to be inhabited by a sea monster, which never grows old, and whose chief diet is Indian flesh. According to the legend, no Indian ever entered its waters and returned therefrom alive, no matter whether the rash act was committed by approaching its margin for a drink, for a plunge and a swim, or for a canoe ride upon its placid bosom. ~All of the In- dians of the northwest know of the ter. rors ¢f Rock lake, and each and every one would prefer death with a poisoned arrow rather than to touch its waters. . The last Rock lake horror, according to the iegend, was in 1838, when a whole band of noble red men were sent to the happy hunting grounds by the monster. —8t. Louis Republic. Moliy Maguire Warnings. President Andrews, in a Scribner his torical paper; gives the following exam- ples of the Molly Maguire Ware iags One admonition ran: “Now men i have warented ye before and i willnt warind you no mor—but i will gwrintee you the will be the report of the revolver.”’ : A rude drawing of a revolver was subjoined as the author's sign manual Others were : '* Any blackleg that takes a Union Man's job while he is standing’ for his rights will have a hard road to travel and if he don't he will have to suffer the consequences,’ . This *'Notice’ was followed by @ picture of a dead man in his coffin and. signed ‘‘ BeacQer and Tilton, ”’ : At Locust Summit, March 81, 1875, was posted the following: ‘‘Mr. Black- legs if you don’t leave in 3 days time you meet your doom there vill be an * open war—imenteutly. ’ Not’ His Turn to Laugn Stranger—You are the only gentle- man in the room. Gdest—In what way, sir? Stranger — When I tripped in the dance and went sprawling on the floor, tearing my fair partner's dress, you were the only ore in the room who did not laugh. : ; Guest—The Mdy is my wife and I vaid for the dress. — London Tit-Bits. whispered songs and Ay om or rt A —_
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