Ourtious Mexican Laws,
They have some ve. curious crim)
pal laws In Mexico. ‘or Instance, it Ie
twice as much of an offense to wnti
late the face of a woman as that of ¢
man. The law scoms to be based op
the idea that a woman's best posse,
sion is her beauty and that to mar ir
does her a govt lajury
There is anoticr curious law, “If »
person shou! wounded in an ep
eounter, the punishment to the offend
er is fixed by the number of days his
wictim Las to stay In the hospital or
under a doctor's care. A line Is fixed
at 40 days in the way of a general divi
plon. If the injured man occupies more
than 40 days in his recovery, the pen
alty doubles up.
An Impudent Fraud,
An impudent fraud was perpetrated
apon a Manchester bank by one of ite
eustomers, who opened an account
with some few hundreds of pounds.
The man, after a few weeks, drew two
checks, each within a pound or so of
his balance, and, selecting a busy day,
presented himself at one end of the
pounter, while an accomplice, when he
sew that bis friend's check had been
cashed, immediately presented his own
to a cashier at the other end. Both
pe
hs
|
Queen Cather ne obtained pins fro:
France, and, in 1548, an act was pass
ed: “That no person shall put to sal
any pinnes but only such us shall he
double icaded aad have the heads sold
ered fast to the shank of the pinnes
well smoothed, he shank well shapen,
the points well round tiled, cautul and
sharpened.”
At this tine 1108t pins were nu
brass, but maiy were also
wen, with a brs ss surface. France sent
a large number of pins to England
until about the year 1626,
{n thig year one John Tilsby started
pina 2 king in Gloucestershire, So sue
cessful was Ws venture that he soon
had 1.500 persons working. These ping
made at Stroud were held in high re
pute.
In 1636 pmmakers combined ané
tounded a corporation. The industry
was carried on at Bristol and Birming
bam, the litter becoming the chief
center, In 1775 prizes were offered for
the first native made pins and needles
in Carolina, and during the war in 1812
pins fetched enormous prices.
Pins vary from 3% inches in length
t the smull gilt entomologists’ pin;
£,500 weighing about an ounce.—~Good
| Words.
cashiers referred the checks to the |
ledger clerk, who, thinking the same |
eashier had asked him twice, said |
#right” to both checks. The thieves |
A Lueid Decision,
A correspondent, referring to a recent
article in Law Notes on “The Gram-
mar of the Courts,” calls attention to
THE PATTON COURIER, NOVEMBER 9. 1996
HE WON IN A CANTER.
LUCKY" BALDWIN MADE {ISJOCKEY
RIDE SQUARE
The Horseman Used an Avpgnment
That Made the Crooked Rider's
Teeth Chatter While He Got Om
All the Speed In the Animal,
mace of |
| In the lobby of a hotel the other
evening a number of men were discuss.
|
|
| somewhere
| He was not utterly demoralized
| there
tng sports and sporting men when the |
subject of nerve and grit came up. One
of the party, a well known Californian,
who knew “Lucky” Baldwin in the old
days id:
“Baldwin was about the hardest man
to be chiseled out of anything he set
his heart on getting that I ever met up
with.
put it on him in business and other sort
A whole lot of people tried to |
of deals, but none of these ever suc- |
ceeded in catching ‘Lucky’ Baldwin
sufficiently asleep to make thelr plans
stick.
THERE WASN'T ANY ROW
It Was Simply a Case of Spontanes
ous Combustion,
He was a very young man, amos!
too young to be out on the street at
that time of the night, 8:30 p. m., and
his generad appearance indicated that
he had been picked up by a cyclone
during his meanderings
but
was something in his manner
that would lead the close observer to
the conclusion that all had not beer
well with him.
“Gee!” he exclaimed as he spue
around the corner and went bump inte
8 policeman,
i" lo,” ejaculated that worthy, in
stinctively grabbing at him; “what's
the row?"
“There wasn't any,” responded the
youth.
“What are you running like that
tor?” persisted the policeman.
“I've just been up against a case of
| spontaneous combustion.”
“Horsemen still talk about a funny |
game
of the Chicago race tracks a number of
years ago.
magnificent string
in which Baldwin figured on one |
Baldwin had brought his |
of thoroughbreds to | see her.
Chicago to make an effort to annex the |
swell stakes that were then on tap on |
the tracks in the windy town, and he
got them home first or ia the money in | 7
many of the biggest events. Well, he
were never eaugnt |
“Ihe Devil's Tn: nip Pateh”
On the top of Bald Eagle mountain,
Just where the old turnpike breaks
over the brow down into Black Hole
vailey, is a queer field of rock, which
years ago was christened “The Devil's
Turnip Patch.” The rocks, which are
of a reddish sandstone, have a striking
peculiarity of ail standing on end, thus
forming a jagged, irregular surface, |
that won for it its queer name from
the early settlers.
In bygone days, when the stages
wheeled their way up from Northum-
berland to Williamsport, the four in
hands traversed the old pike that skirts
the turnip patch, and the strange gar
den of rocks was a constant Source of
wonderment to the traveler. Added
to its interest as a natural curiosity is
a hidden stream of water somewhere
beneath the standing stones, the noisy
flowing of which forms a romantic
gong beneath one's feet. Nobody
knowsswhere the source of this stream
fs, nor can anybody find where it emp-
ties itself into Black Hole valley.
the following lucid decision of Sir
| John Taylor Coleridge in the case of
Turley against Thomas, 8 C. and P.
103. 34 E. C. L. 312: “It has been sug:
gested as a doubt by the learned coun-
gel for the defendant whether the rule
of the road applies to saddle horses or
only to carriages. Now I have no doubt
that it does.”—Law Notes.
| -—
An Accident.
Little Bessie having been punished
for misbehavior, slunk to the other end
of the room. crying. Her mother turn-
ed to view her repentance, but found
ter engaged in making faces at her.
“Why, Bessie” said her mother,
“how can you do so?”
“Oh, mamma,” answered the little
girl, “1 was trying to smile at you, but
ny face slipped.”—London Answers.
| still Free,
| After two solid hours of moon'ight
and uninterruption she thought she
had him. “I admit that you are the
sweetest” —
| “Yes, go on,” she whispered.
| “But the doctor has forbidden me
The rock field covers an area of two | ts.” he added
or three acres, with its widest part to sweets," Le acded.
the north, then narrowing down V |
shaped to the south rowing the angle | aind a cloud.—Philadelphia Record.
fs lost in a fringe of stunted hemlocks |
and elders. Theorists have figured on |
the causé of this mountain freak, but | is in the state that our earth was 34.
the theory obtaining most credence 1s | 000,000 years ago. Those who can re
that it 1s a legacy of the glacial age, | member back 34,000,000 years will un
the rocks being a collection pushed | Serstand what this means.
into their present vertical position by
the moving ice.—Philadelphia Record.
An astronomer declares that Jupiter
A man ean walk a mile ‘ vithout mov.
|
1
And the sensitive moon retired be-
|
They Changed. ’
At a dinner party the osper day
well known and deservedly popular
dramatist took a lady down to dinnet, |
peither kmowing who the other was.
As a subject the theater was started,
as it is so often under similar circum- |
stances.
“I can’t think why they have reviv-
ed that piece at the King's,” the lady |
said. “I never liked it, and it's so
worn that I should have done better
than that?”
“Yes,” the dramatist replied, “‘per- |
haps so. It was one of my first pieces,
however, and I had not had much ex.
perience when I wrote it. Let’s change
the subject.”
The lady was quite ready to do so
and wished, no doubt, that she had
known who her neighbor was. He
presently said:
“Are yov interested in the Fenton
case?’ speaking of a cause celebre
that was in progress.
“Yes. I’ve read all the evidence,”
was the reply.
“He'll lose it, of course,” the drama-
tist went on. “He never could have
had the faintest chance from the first.
It’s a marvel to me how any lawyer
could have been idiot snough to allow
such a case to go into court!”
“Well,” answered the lady quietly,
“my husband was the idiot. Iets
shange tlre subject.”
The Wrong Text,
“Very few good specches are really
mprompty,’” said a New Orleans law-
yer, who has a reputation as a clever
offhand talker, “but it is generally
easy to produce that effect by simply
‘leading off with some strictly local al-
Jusion. Of course that's a trick, but
It's a trick employed by a good many
eminent orators. I was broken of it
myself by rather a peculiar incident.
“Ope day some years ago I happened
#0 be in a town where a large commer- |
pial college is located and was invited
by the president to make a few re.
marks to the boys during the noon re-
cess.
on the subject of energy, and as 1 was
going into the main hall I chanced to
notice the word ‘Tush’ in big letters on |
the outside of the door. ‘By Jove,” 1
said to myself, ‘that’s the very thing I]
need for localizing my opening sen-
tence! So when I reached the platform |
» I launched out something like this:
“ ‘My young friends, as I approached
the entrance to this room a moment
ago 1 observed a word on the panel of
the door that impressed me as being an |
appropriate emblem for an institution
of this eminently practical character. |
It expressed the one thing most useful
to the average man when he steps into
the arena of everyday life. It was’
«pull? yelled a dozen of the boys on
the back seats. There was a roar of
laughter, and I was so horribly discon
certed that 1 was unable to take up
the thread of my remarks. The con-
founded door had ‘Push’ om one side
and ‘Pull’ on the gther. I had taken
my text from tvTODZ side.” -~New
Orleans Times erat
I mentally framed a little talk |
no mora than a ceunle of feet—Chica
BEAUTIES OF A GLACIER.
| Scenes That Are Likened to Visions
of a Glorified City.
The fascinations of a glacier are as
witching as they are dangerous. Apos-
tolic vision of a crystal city glorified
| by light “that never was on land or
sea” was not more beautiful than
| these vast ice rivers, whose onward
course is chronicled, not by years and
centuries, but by geological ages, says
| a British Columbia correspondent of
the New York Post. With white dom-
{ ea show’ coruices wreathed fantastic
as arabesque and with the glassy
walls of emerald grotto retiecting a
willion sparkling jewels, one might be
in some cavernous dream world or
among the tottering grandetc of an an-
cient city. The ice pillars and silvered
pinnacles, which scientists call seracs,
stand like the sculptured marble of
temples crumbling to ruin. Glittering
pendants hang from the rim of bluish
chasm. Tints too brilliant for &rtists’
brush gleam from the turquoise of
crystal! walls. Rivers that flow tarough
valleys of ice and lakes, hemmed in by
hills of ice, shine witk an azuce depth
that is very infinity’'s self.
In the morning, when all thaw has
been stopped by the night's cold, there
is deathly silence over the glacial fields,
aven the mountain cataracts fall noise:
tessly from the precipice to ledge in
tenuous, wind blown threads. But with
the rising of the sun the whole glacial
world bursts to life im noisy tumult
Surface rivnlets brawl over the ice
with a glee that is vocal and almost
human. The gurgle of rivers flowing
through subterranean tunnels becomes
« roar, as of a rushing, angry sea, ice
grip no longer holds back rock scree
| loosened by the night's frost, and
there is the reverberating thunder of
the falling avalanche
Sod a
“The office ot the state autliurities is
an impartial one. The state troops are
sent to the scene of disturbance for the
| sole purpose of protecting life and
property and preserving order when
the county authorities are unable to
| cope with the difficulty. The owner of
a mine claims the right to stop work
at any time. The miner claims the
right to stop work at any time, if cap-
ftal can shut down. labor. can shut
| down. If capital can strike, labor cas
strike. No greater right is cla 2d 1
| one than for that for the other and ne
right can be withheld from one
that ‘is not conceded to the other
But neither has the right to® resort
to public violence. No one, under any
efrcumstances, has a right to con:
Plocaaiiy.
One of London's most famous streets
ia Plcecadilly, which consists of shops
the ruffs, or “pickadills,” worn by the
and fashionable dwelling houses. The
name is said to have been derived from
gallants of James 1 and Charles I, the
stiffened points of which resembled
spear heads or pickadills. Some years
before the introduction of these collars
however. “Piccadille” is rceferred to,
| and it is surmised that the collar may
| have been so called from being worm
| by the frequenters of Piccadilla House
|
had one of his finest horses entered in |
a valuable long distance event, and
Baldwin was particularly anxious to |
win this race, not so much for the
purse end of it as for the glory of cap-
«uring the stake.
His horse just about |
figured to win, too and Baldwin in- |
tended to ‘go down the line’ on the ani-
| mal's chances, not only at the track,
erably more than $100,000 on the horse
if the brute got under the wire first. |
Baldwin's regular stable jockey was |
taken sick on the morning of the race,
| and the old man had to hustle around
| for another boy to ride his horse in the
| big event. From another horseman he
| bought for a big round sum the release
of a high grade rider, who was to have
| taken the mount on a thoroughbred
| that didn’t figure to get near the money
| In the stake race.
jockey his instructions as to the way
| he wanted the horse ridden, and then,
| when the betting opened, his commis
| sloners dum sed Baldwin’s money inte
| the ring in such large quantities that
the horse became an overwhelming fa-
vorite.
“A quarter of an hour before the | its tercentenary, and crowds of vis
horses were due to go to the post a
well known bookmaker, to whom Bald-
win nad often exhibited kindness im
less prosperous days, ran to where the
old man was standing, chewing a
straw, in his barn.
« ‘Baldwin,’ said the bookie to the!
old man, ‘there’s a job to beat you, and |
you're going to get beat. They wanted
me to go in with ‘em, but you've al- |
ways been on the level with me, and I
wouldn’t stand for it. The ring had |
bought up your jock, and your Lorse
1s going to be snatched.’
“ ‘Much obliged for telling me that,’
replied the old man. ‘I'll just make a
stab to see that tne boy doesn’t do any
snatching, though.’
{ “Baldwin borrowed another gun
| rom one of his stable hards (in those
|
| days he always carried one of his own
| about as long as your arm), and with
| his artillery he strolled over the infield
| and took up his stand by the fence
i at the turn into the stretch. He hadn't
| mentioned to anybody what he was go-
| Ing to do, and the folks who saw the
{old man making for the stretch turn
| simply thought that Baldwin wanted
| to watch the race from thar point of
| view. IIe did, for that matter, but he
| happened to have another end in view
“Well, the horses got away from the
Baldwin gave the |
post in an even bunch, and then Bald- |
win's horse went out te make the run-
ping. The jockey's idea was to race
the horse's head off and then pull him
in the stretch, making it appear as if
the animal had tired. Baldwin had
instructed the jock to play a waiting
game and make his bid toward the fin-
fsh. The horse simply ou‘classed his
company. however, and he 4 n't show
any indications of leg weariness what
ever as he rou:ded the backstretch on
the rail a couple of lengths in front of
his field. Baldwin could see, however,
that ‘he crooked jock was sawing the
horse’s head off in his effort to take
| him back to the ruck. When the horses
were still a hundred feet frem him,
Baldwin let out n yell to attract hig
jockey's attentien, and then he flashed
his two guns in the sunlight and baw
ed at the jock:
“ ‘Laggo that horse's head, you mon-
key devil, and go on and win or ru
ghoot you so full of holes that you
won't hold molasses!
“The jock gave one look at those two
guns that Baldwin was pointing
straight at him. Then he gave Bald:
win’s horse his head, sat down to rida
for al) that was in him, and the horse
under him cantered in ten lengths to
the good on the bit. As long as ‘Lucky’
Baldwin was on the eastern turf after
of his horses.”—Washington Post.
The Right Word,
ished artist?”
profession.
be’s finished.
~Chiaon Post. «|
The Point of View.
The squire
very sorry to bear that your husband
but you must try and be cheerful, as
you know it will ve all for the best.
Mrs. Hodge— Ah, yes, indeed, sir;
it'll be a blessing when ’'e’s gone.
I'll be able to live in comfort then, as
I ’ave ’im in four different clubs.—
Judy. :
(sympathetically)—I'm |
that no jockey ever tried to yank one
“You look too green to burn.” hue
kled the bluecqat.
“It’s on me, just the same. My gin
lives around the corner, and I went to
I thought it was all”—
“Where does the combustion coms
in?” interrupted the officer.
“Come out, you mean,” corrected the
youth.
“Come off!” exclaimed the officer.
“Tell me what the row is before ¥
ehase you.”
“Well, that's what I’m trying to do,*
pleaded the boy. “The girl’s old man
and I don’t harmonize a little bit, and
when he met me at the door he fired
me so suddenly that I had vertigo. if |
you don’t call that spontaneous com:
bustion, what the dickens do you call
| but at all of the big poolrooms in the | it?’
| country. He stood to clean up consid: |
| iceman, “you run along home and get
“Qh, excuse me,” apologized the po
into your trundle bed!” and the biue-
soat gently wafted the remnant on its |
av Nutrait Froe Press
tKISH TURNS AND TWISTS.
The Unconscious Humor That Crop
Out In the Green Isle,
The author of “Irish Life and Char
geter” says truly that one has only
| to mix with an Irish crowd to hear
many a laughable expression, quite in
nocently uttered. As the Duke and
Duchess of York were leaving Dublin
In 1897, amid enthusiastic cheering, an
old woman remarked:
“Ah! Isn't it the fine receptior
they're gettin, goin away?”
1n 1892 Dublin university celebrated
itors were attracted to the city. Twa
laborers, rejoiced at the general pros
perity, expressed their feelings.
“Well, Tim,” said one, ‘“thim tar
cintinaries does a dale for the thrade
of Dublin, and no mistake.”
“Oh faix they do!” sald the other.
“And whin, with the blessia of God,
we get home rule, sure we can Lave as
manny of thim as we piase.”
An old woman, seeing a man pulling
a young calf roughly along the road,
exclaimed:
“Qh, you bla’guard! That's no way
to thrate a fellow crather.” i
“Sure,” said a laborer'to a young |
lady who was urging him to send his
children te school, “I ' do anything for
such a sweet, gintlemanly lady as
yourself.”
Again, the laborers on a large estate
decided that it would be more ton:
venient for them if they could be paid
every week instead of every fortnight |
One of their number was sent to placs |
their proposition before the land agent |
and this was hig statement:
“If you please, sir, it's me flesire
and it is also .very other man’s desire,
tht¢ we resave out fortnight's pay
{very week.”
An exasperated sergeant, drilling a
squad of recruits, called to them at
ast:
“Halt! Just come over here, all of
It's a fine |
ye, and look at yourselves.
me ne’re btoarvin fan’ 4% |
King Richard In » Fitcien |
#Actors of the old school did mov |
nave the gorgeous stage settings of the |
present,” said a veteran stage manager |
the other night as he gazed at the stage |
In Iord’s Opera House while in &
reminiscent mood. “I remember once |
we were playing southern towns with |
Edwin Booth and wanted to put on
‘Richard II” No special scenery was
earried for this, and I was told to look
wver the stock at the theater to see if
there was any that could be used.
The second scene called for the en
trance of the izing and ail his couriers |
‘nto a voyal hall. I picked out a set
of scenery that I thought would do
for the palace, but cautioned the stage
hands not to get it on wrong side out. |
Well, the first scene was finished, and |
when the stage was disclosed for the |
second there was the typical old Kiteh-
en scene, the one with hams hanging |
from the rafters, a candlestick on the |
mantel and all that. I was horrified |
and snked Mr. Booth if we should |
change it by ringing down the curtain
He said no, he would go on, but he |
sautioned the other players to ‘keep
your eyes on me; don’t under any con-
sideration look behind you at the sce |
ery.’ |
|
“Well, the scene went off, and after |
| ward, when I asked some of those in |
“Why do you speak of him as a fin |
the front of the house, they made nc |
| comment, and T was convinced that in |
|
|
|
“Because he told me he was utterly | the intensity of the acting they had not |
discouraged and was going to quit the | noticed that the
If that doesn’t show that | en instead of the palace’ —Baltimore
I don’t know what does.” Sun.
king was in the kitch- |
|
|
recular musical Instrument.
A peculiar musical instrument 18 |
used by the Moros. It consists of a |
{s at the point of death. Mrs. Hodge | hoop of bamboo, upon which are hung i
by strings a number of thin pieces of
mother of pearl. When struck with a |
small reed, these give forth a sweet,
tinkling sound, a combination of
which sounds is developed into a
weird, monotonous fantasy, very pleas-
ant tH the ear—for a short time.
~ADUGL & A0ZEN years AKO, AS oeariy |
| as 1 remember, this young man went |
| on a visit to a relative in a neighbor |
ing city, and one afternoon, on the
third or fourth day of his stay, he
startled a lady member of the house
hold by remarking that he ‘had a feel
Ing’ that some misfortune had over
taken a wealthy planter whom they
both knew very well, and whom I wil
eall Colonel Jones, The colonel was &
prominent resident of the doctor's
home town and had a large outlying
estate, which he was in the habit of
visiting once a week,
“On the day of Smith's singular pr.
monition he wa I" those tours
of inspection, but tailed 10 come ba
and the fol i mori his corp
was found iviug in a corufield. He |
had evide: about 24
hours, and irom thy uppe nce of thy
body seemed to have hoon seized with
some sort of Gc or convulsion.
“Of course the affair created a great
stir, and the police made a pretty
thorough investigation, but the only
thing they found that merited any
special attention was a small, round
| vial in the dead man’s vest pocket. It
was about the diameter of a lead pen-
ell by four inches long, and had orig-
nally contained a couple of dozen
85 on e
been dread
| medicinal tablets, which, lying one on
top of the other, filled the little bottle
to the cork. A few still vemained in
the bottom.
“Upon inquiry It was learned with:
| out trouble that the tablets were #
| harmless preparation of soda, and tbat
| Jones himself had bought them at a
| local drug store. That ended suspicion
| in that quarter, and, for lack of any-
thing better, the coroner returned s
| verdict of death from
| There was no autopsy.
| “Some time after Jones had been
buried,” continued the police commis
gioner, “I learned accidentally of Dr.
| Smith's curious prophecy, and it set
me to thinking. Eventually I evolved
| & theory, but it was impossible at the
sunstroke.
| time to sustain it with proof, and for |
| ive or six years I kept it pigeonholed
tn my brain, waiting for something to
happen. Meanwhile, to everybody's
surprise, Dr. Smith went to the dogs.
He began by drinking heavily, grad
| ually lost his practice, and finally
| skipped out to avold prosecution for
cashing a fake draft. After his flight
I learned enough to absolutely confirm
my theory as to Jones’ death. What
aad really happened was this:
siderable sum of money and had given
a note, upon which he had forged his |
father’s name as indorser. The plant- !
“Dr. Smith owed the old man a con-.|
|
ARMORED COFFINS.
men
They Were Once Used In nu Churele
yard In Scotland, 3
In the earlier half of the nineteenth
century the practice of stealing bodies
from the churchyards for the purpose
of sale as subjects for dissection, which
was known as “body snatching,” was
for a time very rife
Varions plans were made to defeat
the nefarious and sacrilegious proceeds
{ngs of the “body snatchers,” or “resus
rectionists,” as they were sometimes
called, a very common one being the
sroction of two or more small watchs
houses whose windows communded
the whole burying ground, and In
which the friends of the deceased
mounted guard for a number of nights
after the funeral.
A usual method of the grave robbers
was to dig down to the head of the
cofiin and bore in it a large round hole
by means of a specially constructed
center bit. It was to counteract this
maneuver that the two curious coffins
fike relics now lying on either side of
the door of the ruined church of Aber,
fosle, in Perthshire, were constructed.
They are solid masses of cast iron of
enormous weight.
When an interment took place one of
these massive slabs was lowered by
suitable derricks, tackles and chain
on to the top of the coffin, the grav
was filled in, and there it was left f
some considerable time. Later on tb
grave was opened and the iron armo
plate was removed and laid aside
ready for another funeral. /
These contrivances still lie on the
grass of the lonely little churchyard,
objects of curiosity to the passing cy:
eiist and tourist.—Scientific American
The Explanation.
One morning the readers of a certaln
newspaper were perplexed to see in
type the announcement that “the Sco
tus handed down an important deel
sion yesterday.” The afternoon papel
of the town, with which the morning
paper for years had held a bitter con-
troversy, interesting nome but them-
selves, laughed that day, as the poets
say, “in ghoulish glee,” and it was up
to the morning paper the next day to
axplain that “the types” made them
say that the Scotus did so and so when
the telegraph editor should have known
that that word was merely the abbre-
viation of the telegrapher for suprems
court of the United States.
Loevusts Good to Eat,
All native African races eat locusts
With many it takes, and has to take,
the place of the British workman's
er was pressing him for payment and | beef and mutton. In a good many vil-
had threatened suit, which meant it | lages sun dried locusts are an article of
evitable exposure. One day,
they were conversing, Jones pulled out
a little glass vial and swallowed one |
while | commerce.
The Sudanese are particu-
larly fond of them.
Before they are eaten they are toast.
of the tablets it contained, remarking ed. The wings and legs having first
that he took one daily, after dinner. | been torn off, the long, soft body and
for sour stomach.
“That suggested a diabolical scheme |
ceeded to put into execution.
tablet of strychnine, and, encountering
the colonel next day, asked him to let
him have the vial for a moment, so he
| the crisp »ead form the delicacy.
1 determined not to let my European
of assassination, which the doctor pro- | prejudices influence me, but to give
Repair | the dish of grilled locusts a fair trial,
Ing to his office, he made up a duplicate | I thought how John the Baptist had
enjoyed them plus wild honey.
The one 1 was eating was rathes
pice. I agreed with my Arab servant
could copy the address of the makers | that, should the meat supply fall short,
from the label
ly, and while his attention was briefly
diverted elsewhere Smith put in the
prepared tablet. He placed it under
“Jones handed it over unsuspecting
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the top four. thus making it reason-
ably certain that his victim would take
it on the fifth day from that date.
Next morning he left town, so as ts
be far away when the tragedy was |
consummated. and some mysterious
uncontrollable impulse evidently lec
aim to make the prediction that first
| excited my suspicion
“When | made certain of all this, 1
tocated Smith in Oklaboma and wus
on the point of applying for an extradi
tion warrant when he anticipated me
»y contracting pneumonia and dying
1 thereupon returned the case
mental pigeonhole, where it has re
mained ever since.”
“Pardon ine for asking,” said one of
story. or are you entertaining us with
Interesting fiction?”
to its’
| behind you.
| a dish of locusts would be a very good
substitute.
By the time I was eating the seo
ond locust it seemed to me absurd
why one should have a sort of lurking
pity for John the Baptist’s daily menu
unless it. be for its mcnotony, and 1
felt convinced that I should get tired
of honey sooner than I should of lov
custs.~Current Literature.
An eccentric clergyman inf Cornwan
had been much annoyed bythe way
the members of the congregdtion had
of looking around to see late comers.
After enduring it for some e he
said on entering the reading disk one
day: “Brethren, I regret to. sd that
your attention is called away} from
your religious duties by you vely
natural desire to see who co; in
1 propose henceforth to
| save you the trouble by naming each
the listeners. “but is that really a true |
person who may come late.”
He then began, “Dearly opeloved,”
| but paused half way to interpolate.
“It is absolutely true,” replied the |
aarrator.
“But how did you learn the particu:
ars?’
“Well,” said the police commissioner
smiling, “Smith was like most clever
epiminals--he had one weak spot, He
“Mr. S., with his wife and daughter.”
Mr. 8S. looked rather surprised, but
the minister, with perfect gravity, re-
sumed. Presently he again paused.
| “Mr. C. and William D.”
was fool enough to tell a woman. She
plabbed.”—New Orleans Times-Demo- |
erat.
Sach Great In Ais Own Way.
fighter. During his triumphal tour aft-
er he had downed Corbett the great
gladiator was in Washington
called at the state department.
| some newcomer.
The abashed congregation kept thelr
eyes studiously bent on their books.
The service proceeded in the most or
derly manner, the parson interrupting
himself every now and then to name
At last he said, stil
| with the same perfect gravity:
They tell a story about John Sher. | ] 2 y
man and Bob Fitzsimmons, the prize- |
“Mrs. S. in a new bonnet.”
In a moment every feminine head im
| the congregation had turned around.—
and |
Then |
was seen a contest between brain and |
brawn, head and hands. Fitzsimmons
looked sheepish and ill at ease, but Mr.
Sherman evidently tried to make him
feel at home.
“Your recent contest was a severe
one, I believe, Mr. Fitzsimmons?” he
said.
Mr. Fitzsimmons uttered a couple of |
tnaudible words and grinned.
“It seemed to have pretty thorough:
ly aroused the country, the rontest,
did it not?”
Mr. Fitzsimmons scrutinized the
brim of his hat attentively, blushed,
grinned and said:
“The United States is a fine country,
your honor,” and backed out of the
office, responding with short, sharp
ducks of the head to the secretary of
state's farewell bows. When the doors
had closed upon the then world’s cham-
pion, the wrinkles at the sides of Mr.
Shermau's eyes contracted into a
smile.
“A great man that, Babcock,” be
said dryly to his secretary, and went
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on with his work.~Cincinnati Commer |
«ial Tribune.
Millinery Trade Review.
A Mystery of the Sea,
One of the most curious finds ever
made from the sea was that which
came to the Azores in 1858. The is-
land of Corvo was then in the posses:
gion of two runaway British sailors,
One morning there drifted ashore a
eraft which had evidently been frozen
In the ice for a long time. It was an
ancient and battered brig, without
masts, bulwark or name, but the
hatches were on, the cabin doors fast,
and the hull was buoyant. She had lit-
tle cargo, and that consisted of skins,
and furs in prime condition.
No papers were found in the cabin
but it was figured that she was 2
gealer or trader, carrying a crew ot
10 or 12, and that she had been pro-
visicned for a year. The
spoiled, but ‘the beef was perfectly
preserved. She had heen abandoned
when frozen in an iceberg and drifted
for gears. I'he date of the letter found
in the forecastle showed that the brig
had been abandoned nearly half a
century before. The two sailors got
out th¢ furs, which eventually brought
them $4,000, and two barrels of beef
and then set fire to the wreck. No trace.
was ever found of its name or owners
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