the head and legs. At a given signal
; body becomes limp, one of the phy:
gicians tears open the shirt and listens
muscular coatraction, more burning
flesh. This time the several physicians
| posed.
oL y may be exaggerated, but thore ean be
seeking to provide for the condemned
"of no reason except that the effects of
how best to set about it to kill a man
_ thrown new light upon the subject; but
. qumbersome a
taneous and painless. In no report that
Ein ae wid eke
A—
—— of
® REVOLTIN G SIGHT.
ia ——
80 SAYS PROFESSOR ANTHONY OF
ATH BY ELECTRICAL EXECUTION.
Sle Says Thst the Chief Claim For This
Method of Capital Punishment Hm
By Par Superior to the Char.
‘Tt is difficult to conceive of a much
more revolting spectacle under the old
‘yegime than is presented at electrical
#xecutions. A number of eminent phy-
gicians are g in the death cham-
Der not only to witness, but to take offi-
¢ial part in the execution. The con-
demned man is brought in, strapped se-
‘curely by strong leather straps into the
‘death chair and the electrodes fitted to
the current is turned on, there is a most
violent muscular contraction that would,
“except for the secure bindings, have
thrown the man from the chair. Then
follow a smoke and smell of burning
flesh. The corrent is turned. off, the
for the heart beats. He cxclaims that
‘the beart is still beating. The. wires are
again hastily conuccted, and the current
turned on a second time. There is more
in torn listen for the heast beats and
.proncuuce the man dead. - The body is
taken from the chair, laid npon a rough
table and cut up, according to law.
These are the details as given in the
daily papers, in one of which there nort-
er writes over his own signature. They
no doubt that death by electricity is
apything but the calm and peaceful
death that the anthors of the law were
murderer.
Why was electricity chosen as the
agent? Why not any one cf geveral other
means of causing death? I can conceive
electricity were least understood and
there was tho least actual knowledge of
by this means. No one even now knows
exactly how electricity kills. Recent
experiments by Dr. Bleile of Columbus,
'Q., remarkable for the ingenious and
thoroughly geientific methods by which
all the effects have been studied, have
‘even today we are very far from know-
ing, with the precision with which other
causes of death are known, just how
oath is caused by the electric shock.
Neither do we know how to apply the
current. Certainly if thére is no less
and no less clum-
sy method available than that in use at
Sing Sing this of itself is sufficient rea-
gon for abandoning this mode of execat-
en
is often claimed in behalf of elec-
trical executions that death is instan-
18 CAN CER CATCHING? ?
DR, BURNETTE'S CASE SAID TO
PROVE THAT IT 15
a ——
Sufbcient Evidence Adduend by an Autopsy
to Prove This Basyond Doubt, Dr. Curtis
Says—Evidence That a Medical Treat-
ment For Ahsorption Was Succeeding.
- The physicians who have been en-
gaged for some time upcn an examina-
tion to determine whetser Dr. Edward
W. Burnette, who died of cancerin New
York om Sept. 22, had contracted the
diseate by inoculation have come to
the conclusion that he did =o get it.
The patient from whom, it is said,
Dr. Burnette became inoculated is still
living. The doctor had shaved himself
in the morning when she called on him
and had accidentally cnt his cheek.
While he was applying nitrate of silver
in the month of the patient he pushed
‘the index finger of his other band into
her mouth and held her cheek away
from her tongue. - Before finishing with
the patient he thoughtlessly scratched
the razor cut, thus bringing the finger
that had been in the cuncerons month
into contact with an opes wound. With-
in 20 minutes afterward the part be-
came inflamed, and the poisem had en-
| tered the physician's system, it is fap
Dr. Roland D. Jones ind Dr. G. Len
ox Curtis were in charge of Pr. Bur.
pette’s case after. Dr. McBurney went
“ont of town, and their statement at the
time Dr. Burnette died that he proba-
bly had become inoculated from a pa-
tient immediately cansed great interest,
for it opened anew the sontroversy over
the possibility of contagion from can
oer, and under conditions favorable ¥ for
careful observation. While the prepon-
derance of medical authority here “and
in Europe has been against the theory
| that cancer can be #0 transmitted, it
has been held by some medical men of
Frange and Germany that it can be
Dr. Curtie said recently t that while
the examination mado possible by the
autopsy was not completed, asd he did
not wish to talk unatil it was over,
when a full technical report would be
made for the benefit of scientific study,
he would state that the case was one of
malignant cancer, and the examination
had shown it to be cane of excoeding in:
terest. ‘The details will be thoroughly
dealt with,” he added, “‘im the article
goon to appear in a medical journal
There is sufficient evidence to prove be-
yond question that it vas a case of in-
oculation.”’ :
- The work of Dr. Curtis on the ease is
looked upon, it is said, as being of es-
pecial value because he has for seven
years devoted himself particularly &o
the study of cancer and has pursued the
work a part of the tine at Berlin and
Vienna, where he might have the bene-
fit of Koch's and Virchow’s researches.
Contrary, however, to pursuing the lines
of their stndy and taking up the accept-
STORIES OF THE DAY.
The Anton! ashing Te stimopy of a Hleyelint
at a Meeting.
speak A well buult, seemingly pros- |
percus ge sntieman arose. ‘Brethren,’
was a bic vole rider. I traveled all over
this country, and naturally fell in with |
a great many bad young men. I finally
learned to play poker and shoot craps,
as many of the young men who are rac-
ing men do. I knew that I was doing
wrong, but it scemed 80 easy that I was
‘came an inveterate gambler. You may
say what you piease, but that was what |
I was. As soon ae the racing was over |
would repair tomy tent and there shoot |
craps with my evil companions until |
my next racc was called. After supper
1 would sit up all night playing poker. |
I Joved a beautiful and innocent girl, |
and my poor mother wrote me daily to]
be a good boy. I saw the evil of my
way and determined to stop it. I bad
been playing now for nearly a year, and |
my employers heard of it. The climax |
son.’ Again and again did I sav that,
only to break my promise. At lust the
eventfnl night camo. I plaved uuiil
morning, and then left the teble, Ihave
n< cor played a gamo of poker or shot
eraps sige. ”’ ;
“My poor brother! tha deacon said
sympathet cally. - “Did your gambling
Did you lose your positien on its ac:
eount?’
employer out, and I am now resting on
the interest of my business. ’— American
yheelman,
—
Quezns Up For Mr, Carroll.’
lives at 46s West Fourteenth street,
aided by his estimable wife, has done
shall be taken,
While Mr Carroll was
the other dav about 3:50 in the after
and sad
“Pat, it's a boy.’
Mr. Carroll did not think it necessary
to leave his work and go home to see
the little stranger. Soon afterward an-
other messenger arrived and said:
‘It's twins, Pat—two boys.”
““That’s a good pair to draw to," Mr.
Carroll remarked, with asmile. But bis
face assumed a mors serious aspect
when a third messenger came and au-
pounced that tho two boys had a little
sister. Then, to complete the astonsh-
ment of the worthy father, word speed
was fast approaching. ‘I will play: no |
more, * I said to myszif, ‘after this sea. |
“Won't the brother in the corner |
i
|
|
Jed on—on and further on. At last I be- |
{
SHE'S NO SAS LLVIALH.
But Mra. Coffsy, Atthougi 104 Years 01d,
Warts sn Husband.
A quaint little old woman, whose
gray hair, thicl as that of a girl, fell
in confusion over her broad and wrin-
he said ‘when I was a young man, I! kled forehe sad from under the scailoped
rim of an old {fashioned cap, landed the
other day at the barge office pier from
the Ellis island hoat. She way accompa-
.nied by her youngest daughter, Catler-
ine Coffey of Flainfield, Conn, who is
abont 60 years old.
Detective Peter Groden saw the litle
old woman sitting on a part of her tag-
| gage munching an apple. Heo heard ner
| talking in (Gaelic, and he went over and
‘spoke to her. It i= not often that Peter,
| who is fluent in Gaelic, gets a chance
to exchange sentiments with a primitive
Celt. He was surprised when the old
woman, who is Mrs. Mary Coffey of
| County Kerry, told him that she ‘wa
{
§
104 years old. He asked her how she
fixed the date of her birth, and she raid
| from the invision of Jreland by the
French under/izeneral Humbert, This
occurred in 1/98, and Mrs. Coffey tags
| she was theif a girl of 7. She said she
did not renfe hy much about the inva:
gion excert Ike Words worth’s «lit
tie maid, sha vas T.
When Peter ae «{ her why ¢ha had
come to America, she said with a dry
smile and a twinkling of her shurp,
! black eyes that she Fad coma to find an:
other husband, Shy said she had teen
made a widow when she was in the hey-
! day of her youth, 50 years ago. She has
instincts load to the death of your poor |
old mother? And did the pure and good |
young girl whom you loved shun yon?)
four children diving, and she is ging
up to Plainfiell to live with her beby,
the Inss of £0, who went. over to Ire-
{ lund to bring per here,
“No,” the epeaker said, slowly ris-|
ing. *'I won enough money to buy my |
“She is probeoly us old as dhe HATE
she i=," said Detsctive Groden. “Sle
doesn’t understand a word of Eogiish,
like many of the other old folks of |
| County Kerry. Her Gaelic is not /las-
I gical. It is what tha Irish call ‘erabbed’
| =—wmnre of a dialect of Gaelic than the
| pura language.’ :
Patrick Carroll, a sewer mason, who
Mrs. Coffey does not’ look older than
| many women of 0. Her hands ave
| wrinkled and somewhat bony. bot she
yoore than his share toward bringing |
Chicago up to first place in point of |
population when the next faderal census i
knows how to gse them in kuitiing
Her eyesight, she says, is as clear a8 17
was when she was a yaoopg worpan.
: | She does not walk veell witho ut an arm
at work on a |
gewer at Loomis and Fourteenth streets |
to lean * She saw a part of the big
buildings\of the city on her way up 10}
{ the New Maven boat seated on her tronk |
ROON & Messenger came from his house |
» \s
in an express "wagon. — New Yark sun.
A PH NOMENAL CHILD.
Instead of Growing Larger It Becomes
r Aeptibly Smaller.
The physicians at the Postgruinate
hospital, New Jaork. have their attention
occupied just now by a remarkable aby,
made to keed this phenomenal child
alive. When born, tha baby was fully
developed ; but, strange to say, instead
of increasing ® weight and size the in-
fant became perceptibly smaller every
day.
Conard A a AAA chan
and extraordinary exertions have been |
STORIES OF THE DAY,
3 . ct ' -
DA Y OF AW FUL p ERTL
Many a Firm Woatd Like to Know This RI
Man.
A Foie tale ir going the rounds
among Chictigo business men of a man |
who voluntarily resigned a $25,000 sal-
ISTS CLOSES LOWELL CELEBRATION.
ary. A business had got into bad shape | Body of Uncemscions Aevemant Held on
throogh the owner being in Eorope| Swaying Pesch hy Fellow Passengers.
most of the time. The $25,000 a year| Many Hours of Hamedeus Adventure.
min was employed to put the business! Overcome by Pscaping Gus. :
on its feet. For a year or two he worked |
like a steam engine, putting in 13 hours The balloon trip of ‘merchants’ week"’
a day. When the manufactory was once | at Lowell, Maes, will always be re-
more on a paying basis, the manager | membered by the three men who made
posed to retire and handed in his resig-
pation to take effect at once.
“But we don’t want you to go. Yom
made the business what it is,’ said the
proprietor.
“Yes, but you can take care of a
“yourself now, and there is no use ini
being taxed $500 a week to Sapp it per- Allen, who had six carrier pigeons, sug-
‘son who isn't needed.’
told the proprietor that, as there was| the ascension, Professor James K. Allen
nothing further for him to do, ‘he pro- | of Providemee, Dennis A. Sullivan and
Dr. William L. Rombough of Lowell
They are safe at bome, but ten min-
ates after leaving the common they
When two miles in the air and over
Chelmsford street in Lowell, Professor
gested that one of the birds te let loose.
“Well, at any rate, let it run till the! One of the men reached toward Pro-
frst of the month. That's only three femor Allen to take the bird whet be
woels Ionger.
a4
y. Twin't take what I don’t earn.
I'm going to quit Scinrday. 1've been
working hard and ned a rest.
The man bas had his rest and wants
a job where hecan get. big pay and a
chance to earn it. —Chicago Tribape.
RLill Swearing.
"One season I brpavized a party of
wheelmen to go sonth in the winter and
take some dehphifol sonthern ips In
‘our erowd were 13 or 29; aud on the
i
game steamer with ne were an old couple
~an old winister and his wife. Dn
{5
the trip a storin sprung up, and for sey
eral hours we expected to feel the ship
toss and go under. We had some game
fellows, though, and they made things
as cheerfnl as possible by telling étories
and singing sougs. The old minister in-
sigted that we were sacrilezions and
‘begged ns to pray. He also begged the
captain te call all the passengers into
the dining room mil hold praver meet.
ing. The captain told him that as long
as the silos below were swearing there
was no danger. It seems to be one of the
strongest sentiments on the sea.
The old minister seemed somewhn
calmed. but both he and Bis wife were
‘badly frightened. After aboot four
hoars of tossing the old man though
that he would feel better if he tied him-
self to his bed and put out the ligbr,
‘but he was afraid. His wife, however,
was go sick that she conld not stand, so
she lay in her berth. The poor old man
was gradoally getting in the same con-
dition, bunt: before he sucenmbed hel” : ;
crawled to the head of the stairs and] Mr. Sullivan and Dr. Rombough con-
discovered that the professor was lifeless
apparently in his perch. :
The excited men in the basket only
had time to grab Professor Allen’s legs
as they dangled on one side of his perch
in season to save him from going head-
long thrangh space.
A minpte or two before, in answer to
an inquiry, Professor Allen informed
wonld suffer from the cold somewhat
when they reached a height lower than
they were when they discovered that
the professor ‘was insensilile, but to
oppon the earth.
They had occasion to remember it, as
wish they were on earth agein, and also
that they were not =o thickly clothed.
The mpen shouted to Professor Allen
from his stupor. It was a hopeless ef-
fort, and the men for a time thonght
Professor Allen might die without being
able to render him any assistance. They
held him in place for the purpose of
eventually restoring him to comscious-
pess and to get also the benefit of his
weight i11 keeping the balloon from go-
ing higher in the air.
%
t
from the earth was Professor Walcott,
Boston, where he saw the talloon.
tinued their efforts to restore Professor
listened. Cautiously making his way
i i Allen. Each could use bat one hand,
back to the berth of his wife, we heard and 1} inging of ) ™
him gay in the most sympathetic and
body, together with their uncertain foot-
yet grateful tove, * ‘Mary, thank God ing in the basket, ie thei ition
they are swearing yet. '——Americon
Wheelman. :
A Story of Zimmerman.
extremely hazardous.
It wae gas from the halloon, it is
thought, which partially suffocated Pro-
The story is told that when Zimmer | fessor Allen. Itcame upon him gradual-
THRILLING ADVENTURE OF BALLOON-
never expeeted to see their homes again.
one of the men that they were then two
miles In the air. The men expected
when they left the north common they
their surprise the air wis as mild il ix
their exertions for the next hour in keep-
ing the professor in his perch made them
repeatedly, in the hope of arousing him
Strange to relate, the only man in the
vicinity who appears to have noticed
an aeronsut, who was on a train from
have there 3 ily came that there wore twee bg und
BHA aver seen RE Evidence ed methods of treatment, he has worked | tWO girls. a :
_ that can be gathered from reports of ac- upon a different hypothesis, and he has} Ww a 5 that? : gos ved
| eldental shocks goes to show that resus- attained a number of cares, ho believes, Queer oe =p! I mast
_ egitation is possible if the exposure to by Sadr of medicine, pis hot the lve hes, : on a
current short . Curtis was in ‘California whe atrick Carroll was nw Ts AicYi tanh § mi
is of Gaption. Dr. Soo i for iby A en, ago in County Mayo, Lioha with | Paif f senles The lightest Jmereqse mM jpg, Zimmerman was apxions to ac-| Who have repeatedly engaged him for
less no doubt it is, but so would on as soon as he could and take ap Dr. yesteray 's adelitian he oud t OF Id Powerit os thus perce; ribo In magent. cept, £0 he determined to present. him- ascensions, be had but little appetite at :
be the effect of a pistol shot through the Coprodl avd bears oid me | AL the chilis bead 10 8 thermometer 80 | golf in person and thank the gentleman the breakfast hoor. The balloon in the
A very novel method was then tried | man was abroad last year he received | ly, and thereport is that a nearly empty
to preserve life. The infant was Wrap-| through an interpreter a very friendly stomach made Professor Allen an easy
ped in cotton wool and laid in an new | maegsage of congratulation from a well | victim to the vapor. : :
bator, its comth beng a tray that is ac- | gpnown French statesman, with the re- In his desire to make an ascension on
taaily one of the baianees of a large] anest that he dine with him that even- time and to please the people of Lowell,
ssp SS AA HAT tO
3
Ho . Sortiome, or burning the flesh, or muti-
- ed with the fames of burning charcoal.
’. ‘mammer for him. It is assumed that the
_ should be by a method that is swift and
“doubt as to the result, and no reason for
. wexcuse for a repetition of au operation.
§ its effects in the human organism. If
rant its use, I believe an instrument
mal.
Buinette's case. Dr. Burnette had been children. }
brain. And why not use a pistol shot | ; Chicag:
for executing a criminal? He might be
strapped to a mattress, & semicircle of
J. Mstols arranged around his head termi-.
mating at the temples, and, if desirable,
. smother group could be placed over the
region of the heart. If electricity must
be used, arrange to fire the pistols si-
* multaneously by pressing a button. Why
pot? Would it be more uncertain?
~ Wouid it be less humane? Would it be
more blood curdling? Would it be less!
“Instantaneous?’’ But perhaps there
_ would be too little mystery about it and |
too little complicated apparatus requir- }
ofl. There would be no need of cutting |
| S- up to see what killed him er
.he was really dead.
It we must inflict the death penalty
and wish to be really bomane about it,
fd are surely many ways by which |
~ death oan be brought swiftly and cer-
tainly withoot inducing muscular con-
lating the body. The criminal could be
a sleeping draft and then laid ont’
# glass case, which cond then be fill-
1 see po reason why we should seek
10 make death particularly easy to the
' eriminal Ilook spon the whole scheme
of capital punishment as a hideous blot
* upoa our civilization, but if a man must
"be punished with death it is certainly
_ mot upon the theory that he must be put
out of the way in the easiest possible
dread of the death pemalty will pre-
vent crimes that otherwise might be
committed. The penalty, if it is to be
iced, should come in a form to be
feaden, 1° there is no excuse for tor-
or tho semblance of torture.
The a] should come to his fate
with a full knowledge of what awaits
him. The execution. of the gentence
sure, without mystery, and about the
~ effect.of which there is no uncertainty.
There should be no opportunity for |
Electricity does not fulfill these re-
irements aud never can until we
far more than we do at present of
we knew all ve ought to know to war-
that could to» carried in the pocket
would accomplish the results as surely
as the hundreil horse power engine and
dynamo now employed. —Professor W.
A. Anthony in Chicago Electrical Jour-
Awrin — Treasures.
Among the treasures of the Austrian
treated by Dr. McBurney and knew at
the time Dr. McBurne) went away that
his case was bopeless. Dr. McBurney
had removed a cancercns gland irom
his jaw. 4 roette asked Dr. Jones
as a friend to do\what he could for hin,
cnstlted with Drs
is / abot his case. He
the fate of {he drugs and their ac
tiof and apyroved of the trea‘ment,
“only * ke said to Dr. Curtis, *'do not
| hesitate to ase the knife if you believe
it will be of use.
Dr. Curtis’ belief is that he can care
{ cancer by « -ausing the gystem to absorb
it and eliminate it. The progress of Dz.
Burnette's case for several weeks before
Ye died aud the examioation of the or
gans since have convinced Dr. Curtis
that his belief is founded on fact. He
says that absorption was produced and
that poison was eliminated. Dr. Bar-
petite had cancer of the liver, and the
swellings of his face vrere caused by it.
During the weeks of his treatment by
the medicines intended to prodoee ab-
sorption Dr. Curtis suys be got better,
that within ten days the external tu-
mors and the swellings on his face di-
minished, and that the tumors of the
liver diminished also, as is now found.
The doctor says that the immediate
cause of the patient's death was exhaus-
tion due to the heat, nnd that if those
| three days of extremely hot weather
had not come on Dr. Burnette would
_have continued to progress toward re-
covery. .
If the case is shown to have been one
of inoculation the public will be con-
cerned, for it will show that cancer is
a contagions dijease.—-New York Sun.
Must Pay the BIil..
A curious case carne up for trial at
| Sturgeon Bay the other day. A saloon
keeper sued a patron for a liquor and
cigar bill. The defendant put in a coun-
terclaim, asking damages for impaired
health, on the grourd that the liquor
centained all kinds of vile and unwhole-
some ingredients, apd that cabbage
leaves had Leen libeled by caMing them
tobacco. - The court decided that inas-
much as the patient had ‘‘velantarily
taken his medicine’ he must pay the
doctor. — Milwaukee Wisconsin.
A Truthful Epitaph.
A cook who had be:n with ore Mana- |
yunk family for five years died last |
week, and the bervaved family has
erected a tombstone cver her grave with |
the inscription, ** Bridget, who departed |
this life Oct. 1, in tho fifth year of her |
)
ii
iI ils Iasi
A Rai round Curiosiiy.
5 AT aad ¢
nian o of the state of New Y OrK, DAS COH-
road made entirely of material used in
Niagara Falls (strap) railroad, with the
exception of two tie€, which are old
str
130s
be va iarA 0.1 lack though not least, tha
in Fade , di sas tnong y nat east, iho
iron strap rails spiked down to the wood
Falls road was the second road built in
the state of New York, having been
completed in 1886. Mr. Salt was the
gapcrintendent of its construction and
was connected witha it - during its entire
originally built can go and see this relic
of ye olden times. —L.oc] kport Journal
It Was & Hoax,
Several scores of white men willing
$100,000 business tarned up in answer
to the advertisement recently printed in
a San Francisco newspaper that Hip
Sing Lee of San Jose wanted to find
next morning, San Josa's Clnuatown
with bids and specifications for the of-
such person in San Jase as Hip Sig
Lee. and uo such snap offering. The
its fietitions chaficter cu its face, for it
A Problem Solved.
The cute solonz of Counecticat |
polved a knot rob! !
While he
been trying fo
oath on business by
the saloon keepers, Connecti
ped it by punizh \
goes into a saloon ¢
This is a bright
| extended. Why nat
| feuse for Any p ron
to a gaming 1
wy where an un
San.
Mr. Stephan Sul, tim veteran railroad | | :
| ized milk awd two parts barley water, 18
structed in front of his residence, 139 Seis : i hour, 240 deci be
: ; i ing given dio ever Sm
Favatte street, a section of a strap rasl- | ng g n p by drop y himc.-a
tedions process, but it would be injudi-
LOY of ‘h 5 ye
and taken fram: the iid La kport and cious to foed him m the ora linary way.
. Pivevmra Tha og Frm e501 Nica |
en strincers, The Lockport and Niagra |
i Earopean toar. © When he. got back, he
life, or until 1852. Any cne having the |
curiosity to know how railroads were |
such a man for his danghter. The story |
of the adverti- - .ent was telegraphed all |
over the country, and, beginning the |
| posed to havi heen about 108 years old,
adjusted as to record ts temperature. | gor his invitation.
i Other 1nstrotoents record 11s pulsations |
{ and Si atin.
His f oud, ¢ snsisting of one part steril-
When a foriright old, tia « Lild wag hed
ai ; a si 3 2 insides Vis
i 2g pt ands 2nd was 3 inches RIIR, ——
New York Central ties, hollowed out in |
the censor ta make a path for the horses,
In this relic are the original planks and |
+ in slots cut in the ties, the |
wooden vwodgoes or keys to hold the rails }
| education, with a degree, all the fon to |
Cincinnati. Enqaoiier.
He o oried fis Way Tp.
The proprietor of a factory cu the
South Side has a son who has bad aboat
everything there was going—a college
{ be had on a liberal allowances apd a
| told his father he wanted to settle Jown
and anxious to marry a Chinese girl for |
$5,000 cash down and an interest in a
was besieged by hordes of messengers |
and get ‘and sou” on the signboard.
The next morning the proprietor broaght
him to the fyreman, saying, ‘Got any-
thing for this young man to do?’
“Sorting sarap iron—g§1 a day.
**All right. Pur him at that. I want
18
. to give him u chavee for the sake of his
mother. If he's any good, he'll work
ap.”
In two years the young man had
worked np to be manager and juniar
partoer, and the proprietor began to
hava his torr. at a good time. —Chicago
Tribune.
Drowned Drunk at the Age of 108.
A famous Chippewa Indian chiof, fa-
miliarly known as Little Pipe or Bunga
Powagan, wus drowned at Cumberland,
Wis, in Beaver Dam lake. He i: sup-
but was still iu robust health. He was
| out with his squaw- in a canoe when 1t
fer. Bat it was a hoax. There is no |
story ought tod ave carried evidence of |
didn’t state that Hip wanted a title for
his daughter aud his cash. —New York |
* | lon the nam» of Miss Agnes Hillman;
capsized. His squnaw swam to shore,
but he was too drunk to swim.--—Chi-
cago Times Herald.
A Tuscions Melon.
John B. Bannew of Youngstown, O.
recently found pasted on a Georgia mel
Benovolenes, (3a. He at once wiote to
| the soung Indy. As ti
result vif the
e engrmzed.
r
e Atlanta ex-
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ie
rdeuce the of up * A
annen will visit th
” and may return with a soudh-
inna
" Florida's Crowing Industry.
Florida's possibilities as a tobaceo
i
growing staf: are exeiting
i Cuba, A namber
came ta Jacksouvw
| ten vears ago and
“and these have heen suecessfind
| many of the planters have d
Pulling out his*‘ French at a Glance,’
meantime with its freight first passed
over Andover and when over Hagett's
he built up a pretty little speech and | pond the men, who were watching every
made his way toward the apartment of | opportunity to save their lives, were
the statestaatn
somewhnt alarmed lest the balloon
© Monsioor the American might drop into the water
champicn suid | after clearing hi
s| This would have made it hard work
throat, and then he began his long for one of the men, as the other man
speech. The Frenchman sat in his chai
with the faintest smile on his connte.| Wind chunged the course of the balloon,
nance, and when Zimmerman had quire | and it passed over Bedford aud toward
finished he turned, aud in pore En lish Lexington at a Iively paca It is not
said.
known by the men what made the bal-
“1 am delighted to meet you, Mr. Joon descend. They believe that Pro-
Zimmerman, and I hope that you will | fessor Allen in his struggles in the air
be able to accept my invitation. Tam | may have touched the vulve which al-
sare I would like to hear something |lowed the gas to escape. They noticed 2
abont America from an American
1|the descent only when the trees and
am very fond of the country and bave people come again in plain sight.
many friends there.’’
1" When they saw people on the earth,
Zimmerman looked at his hest for a | | they yelled and only wished that their
moment and then ejaculated, as his face | lungs would give them the power to
flashed, ‘*Giosh durn, be can talk Amer- | bring tbe many strong men they saw
ican as good as I can.”
Wheelman,
— American working i in the fields to their assistance.
Boys in the fields first saw the balloon.
ents to the balloon. Girls in North Lex-
A suit for divorce was filed in the| ington said when the ‘hilloon was safe
Louisville courts a few days since by a | with its occupants that (hey easily fol-
firm of Lawrenceburg attorneys. The! jgwed itu course for twa miles. As it
plaintiff is C. H. Jelf, and the defend-
descended Professor Allen began to re-
ant is Malinda Jelf. The petition recites gain conscionsness, bat not enongh to
the fact that the coupie were married in be of any assistance to his companions.
New Albany April 13, 1889. They lived | He muttered incoherently, but the only
together until last August, when the| intelligible words understood by his
plaintiff left his wife.
Jelt charges that in August for the ballast.
first imo he ascertained he had been de-
As the alleen: approached the last
ceived Lv | “= wife as to her age. He | apple tree before reaching an open field
says before Lis marriage to her she ren.
resented to him that she was about ns
Dr. Rombough leaped to the earth.
own age. He says he was married when | ton the rope was passed twice aboat the
15 years old and is now a little over 32.
He alleges that at the time he married
trank of the apple trea.
‘Men and women piled rocks | into the
defendant she was 40 years of age and | pagket to make up the weigh lost by
not 15, as she repeatedly had represent-
ed herself to be. He alleges that by rea-
Dr. Rombough leaping to the earth.
The weight of the balloon caused the
som of these facts the marriage was pro- | rope to cut off the branches of the tree.
enred by fraud, and he therefore asks | The balloon went up in the air abont
the court to grant him a divorce. —8t.
Lonis Globe-Demoerat.
"Mr. Cleveland Growing Temperate.
100 feat, and the strain upon the rope
was terrible. It held, however. The peo-
ple on the earth were greatly alarmed
by the struggle which was going on in
A piece of gossip that comes from a | the basket.
favorite vicitor to the White House is
that the president has been cating down Dess, and getting into the basket caught .
Professor Allen recovered conscious-
his allowance of beverages until nowa- | My. Sullivan by the neck. It was a ter-
days his visitors have a very dry time | rile sight to witness. Professor Allen’s
of it. “*Even at state dinners he permits | cravat had been torn off by his compan-
but one glass to be filled, and that
‘ions to aid respiration, and he had the
havisad wi all nu} PC pio o> ; ;
charged with half and half proportions | appearance of being momentarily jigs.
of water and claret,’ says this {riend.
The struggle lasted but a moment,
His German cronies from Buffilo— | Professor Allen again became uncon-
sturdy old hail fellows—must wonily
“vot. has habbened by der olt ma
when thev escape from the White Honse,
a
earth. Mr. Sullivan landed, 1d Prifess-
or Allen, with the assistance «f people
+ | who was conscions could not swim. The
| They called the attention of their par-
companions were not to throw cut any
With the assistance of men of Lexing-
gscions. The basket was drawn to the
A 1
Sn gc
Foy
transfer theis ops
on \ Ee parched and dazed, to compare present | who assembled, was removed from the ;
orida. —Jg oi na : a 3
| i
experiences with the old days in Buffa- | pasgket.
lo. —New York Sun :
ow CTOWRD are some religicus relics that | reign.’ '— Philadelphia Record. | dac ted on “sua. 1¥
i make the fortune of a church. mr But, on the other
Ts ey include a nail from the Cross, a ; An Iraperial Journalist. the Atlanta plan, and 5 1} Bit Coele Sum's Exeuraion Cruiiers. em
of the cross itself, a piece of Emperor William is to have a news- polica regulation of tha saloons? No-} ot je altognther holy And Now He's on T to conscionsness. He was told of the in-
ot from the manger at Bett lgem, paper of his own. He will now have an body ever heard Of a persoh entering i fain will inl a good many excuision It is to be observed of General Miles eidants of $8 remarkable trip. After se-
ts of the apron worn the | adequate field for Iris activities. —New =aloon on Sunday in Aslanta. —Atlanta | poats crowding upon her Venazuela J that he began at the foot. = Posted Her curing his balloon Professor Allen was
the York Telegram. Constitution conse - - Detroit Tribune. ; taken to the honse of a Lexington resi-
Virgin and a tooth of Joba Bape | Son Lo gn ‘ ite ald. dent. — Boston Globe.
It required some effort to restore him
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