SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EVERY-DAY LIFE. Gueer Facts and Thrilling Ad ventures Which Show That Truth is Stranger Than Fiction. fHE sextion of the chapel at Budd's Lake, N. J., was bad y stung bv bees recently. While the cha pel boll was ringing 011 a Sunday evening some time • ago, the bolt which held % it to the frame work broke, and tie bell clattered down the roof to the ground. The next day it was found to be right ride up and uninjured. When tho sexton pried it over to one ride, preparatory t > having it laised by a derrick, hundreds of honey bees flow out, surrounded him, and drove him in to the lake, whence ho was rescue.l when nearly drowned. Ilis head was covered with stings, and his hands and arms suf fered severely. The bell was found to be nearly tilled with the honey. The bees had obtained ingress and egress through a small hole in tho top. THE peculiarities of various nationali ties, as shown in the methods of com mitting crime, formed the subject of a recent conversation with an official of one of the New York city criminal courts. "The mo t common ch rges against Americaus brought to the bur here," lie said, "are swindling and embezzlement. The young men of Irish des ont who appear here are most frequently under accusations of robbery or assaults with the fists, or with pistols. The Italians are almost invariably ac used of assault with the knife or pistol. If a policeman lias cause to arrest an Italian of the lower class 011 suspicion of being con cerned iu an assault, he always searches liis prisoner promptly and can usually find evidence to warrant a conviction of carrying concealed weapons, even if the particular assault charged is not proved. The favorite weapon of tho Jtal an was formerly the knife or poniard, and that of the coloie.l man the razor, but now both weapons have been for tie most pa t superseded by the revolver. The Folisli Jews make a specialty of arson, to secure insurance money. The Ger mans, when they commit crime, are us ually guilty of embezzlement, forgery, or attempts at suicide. Tho Scandina vians and tho Chinese rarely appear in a criminal court as defendants. Most of the murders of recent years have been committed by young men of American birth and foreign ancestry, who belong to the ignoble order of 'roughs.'" JAMES OHADDOCK, living three miles ard a half south of Marshall, Mo., has had some experience with a blucksnake, which, no doubt, he will never forget. Pies Sandidge, of Marshall, who was with Mr. Cruddock, relates the following interesting story of the encounter be tween tho lntter and tho blaoksnake. We were cutting bean poles on Mr. Craddock's place, and while working in the thickest of the brush, I noticed, 011 looking toward my companion, that a huge blacksnuko was coiled about his leg, and tlio upper portion of its body 111 tlio iron grasp of Mr. Craddock. It was a very large snake, and appeared to be about 6 feet iu length. For a few seconds there was a fierce struggle be tween snake and man. The reptile, with its ugly fungs protruding, made a desperate effort to free itself from tho grasp of its victim and wrapped iis coils sti 1 I tighter about the limbs and body of the man. It was all over in a few seconds, however, the snake suddenly relaxing its coils, and with lightning rapidity swinging its tail arounu, strik ing Mr. Craddock with terrible forco on either side of the heud, bringing the blood and bruising him nil considerably. This, of course, caused Mr. Craddock to release his hold on the reptile, and the hitter made a hasty retreat, not even giving the men a chance to further in vestigate. Craddock does not care to engage in a "mill" such as he took part in that afternoon. Six miles from Petersburg, Vu., is Mr. | George W. Catling's farm, where a re- \ inarkable phenomenon, which is excit-1 ing widespread int rest, is to be seen, j This phenomenon is tho sinking of a portion of tlio farm. The sunken area lies within a ores -out t-liaped margin, I and its width at the upper end is from 500 to COO feet. The sunken territory I contains six or more acres. The decliv ity begins at a point about 200 feet in a straight lino from Mr. Gatling's dwell- ; ing. Land has sunk from forty to sixty j feet. The tops of trees which stood 011 the level with others are now stunding intact and come a few feet only alxne the level of the bluff whe.e tho sinking lias occurred. Tho sunken area is seam- | ed with fissmes of xarying lengths and j depths. The most noteworthy feature of tlio phenomenon is the formation of a bar in the river. This bar is seventy feet long, and in it, too, are many fiss ures. The phenomenon was preceded some weeks ago by something like an explosion, the noise of which was heard for miles. The interest in the phenom enon is so great that crowds of people go to view it every day, a privilege for which they pay a fee of tweuty-five cents. Mr. Gatnng has leased tho priv ilege of landing excursionists on his farm to a party in Richmond for SI,OOO. HAID an old railway engineer the oth er day: "There are three kinds of trains that I do not want to have any thing to do with. Ono is the nay train. You never know when you will overtake the seotion hands. You will begoiugat the rate of forty miles an hour, aw ay you go around a curve, and t vou will dash by tho boss and hands, and have to go back to them. There is always a good deal of talk over the wages, and much tme is taken up. Tho next unp'onsant train to handle is an excursion train. Every one living along the line of road knows you from seeing you come by every day, and they think you know them as well. When on an excursion they presume upon their friendship to endeavor to ride on the engine. No other place will do them. The engineer has to refuse them, as it would amount to docking his wages from thirty to sixty days, if he complied, as it is positively against the rules of the road. The persons denied the privilege always feel hard about it, and look upon the engineer as unaccommodating. The last and worst of all, however, is the of ficers' train. If you run slow they say you ore scared and fear to run fast" If you make good time they say you are careless and reckless, anil want to kill somebody. You can't suit them. ABOUT two centuries ago an old citi zen of St. Ives parish, Hants, left in trust to the vicar and churchwardens an orchard, the rent of which was to be de voted to the purchase of bibles. The testator further provided tluit the Bibles should be raffled off with dice, in the church, and sin je then the prescribed ceremony has been carried out every Whit Tuesday. Last Whit Tuesday, after a shortened evening prayer, the vicar delivered an address telling those present that they must look upon what was going to take place reverently. He was sorry they had to observe tho cus tom in a place sail citified to the service of God; but it had been observed for 200 years. Then the proceedings began. A table covered with white cloth was brought forward, and the boys and girls < aine up as their names were called and threw the dice, which were provided by the church. Fa ill had three throw s, the highest numbers winning the Bibles. Tho ceremony closed with a hymn aud the benediction. THE little village of St. Helena, on the Nebraska side of the Missouri, ten miles below Yauktown, Dakota, is in a state of excitement over a ghastly dis covery made there. Parties who were prospecting in tho chalk cliffs of that neighborhood fo.- material for manufac turers of cement, came upon a small opening in the Missouri River face of the rock. It was found to be a large apaitment carved by nature in the soft, chalky substance, but tho startling fea ture of the incident was tho discovery within this cave of eight human skele tons. These were lying about the cav ern in such disorder us to discredit the theory that the cave might be an ancient burial place. Tho age of the bones can not be determined, but they have un doubtedly been there a long time. The belief prevails that these are tho skele tons of eirlv 8611161*8 who sought the shelter of tlio cave when attacked by Indians years ago, and that they were either killed in a body or starved to death. THE Singapore (India) Free Press asks: How is this for an alligator story/ About two months ago Mr. Hare, chief engineer of the steamer McAlister, was presented with in Sour abaya with two alligutor eggs. Not 1 knowing exactly what to do with them 1 at the time he put them in an old tin ! tobacco-box under the seat of the sofa lin his cabin. While the ship was at i New Harbor dock, he had a look at them J and found them all right, and he then : made up his mind to give them away. | To carry out his beuevolent purpose ho | went into his cabin ono morning, ac- I com] auied by tho intended recipient of tho curios, and to their surprise they j found two remarkably healthy young i specimens of tho alligator tribe running ' about 011 the floor as lively as crickets. : After considerable trouble and some ; snarling and biting they w ere picked up j and placed in one of the bathrooms. | A SAN FRANCISCO newspaper offered I S2OO to the one who would correctly guess the number of types in a jar ex j hibited in the exposition there. Two men were successful, naming the correct j number, 34,200. How tlicy came to hit on that number is interesting. One of ; them once guessed the number of shot j in a jar about the same size as the ono ! containing the typo. There were 95,000. Ho thought there were one-third as ' many tpye as shot, and so divided 95,- I 000 by three, and he said, "added a lit tle to make it even." The other man saw a crowd around tho jar, and felt in | his pocket for a pencil with which to ; write a number. Ho couldn't find one, , and moved 011; but afterward, feeling | strongly impelled to make a guess, felt ! again for a pencil, and found an old lot tery ticket, on which was the number ! 34,200. He borrowed a pencil, put ; down the number, and won SIOO. I CHIEF CLERK BAKER, of the Superin tendent of Prisons' office at Albany, N. Y., recently exhibited a unique tobacco box. It was made of sheet copper and tin by a convict in Sing Sing, the exe cution of the work being something ex | traordinary. The box is octagonal in ! shape. It has the appearance of open ; ing through tho centre, the bottom being ■ exposed by pressing on this button, a 1 sharp needle comes out of ils centre, j The opening is on the top of the box, tlie hinges being set at two 'of the angles, and the cover dips I when it is opened. Tho whole thing 1 is very ingenious. | MILLIONS of sand flies precipitated | themselves upon Dubuque, lowa, 011 a j recent evening. So vast was their num ; her that people were compelled to aban ! don the streets, and men at work in tho | morning newspaper and telegraph of j flees were compelled to close doors and I windows to escape the torment. "Along | the levee," it is stated, "the buildings I were covered so thickly with them that ; nothing could bo seen but a writhing mass of insect life. The stench from 1 their bodies was unbearable, and tho j health authorities hud several wagons ! employed removing the offensive mass." | A REGENT close inspection of the comet discovered by Mr. Barnard, of I Lick Observatory, in September last, ! shows that its body is evidently becom ing disintegrated and the fragments are to be seen streaming behind the comet 1 in the form of a tail, directed not from, 1 but tow ard, the sun. The comet, which ! is 165,000,000 miles from the earth, is i still fairly bright, and were it not for the fragments which are seen to follow it, would seem to be in perfectly normal | condition. GENERAL BATES, a retired English of ficer of means, on a tour through Wash ington Territory a few days ago, sat down to a dinner at a hotel in Seattle. He was surprised to recognize in the waiter who took his order his own son, who ran away from home to soulp In diuns seven years ago. Prize Farms. The National Agricultural Sociotv of France has awarded a gold medal to Ar thur Brandin, of Seine et Marne and to M. Tetard, of Saint et Oise, for the ex cellent management and cultivation of their farms. The Brandin farm has been in the family for upwards of 200 years and its records since 1820 wore produc ed. Just 100 years ago it grew an aver ago of twenty one bushels of wheat or oats per acre, which rose to 20 bushels in 18f0. Shortly after, commercial manure was for the first time employed, and the yield of wheat went up to 32 j bushels per acre and of oats to 41 bushels. Subsequently the land was drained, gu ano was applied and artificial grasses were grown and fed down, but the aver ago of the wheat crop dropped to 30 bushels, though the quality was better. This system was followed until 1870 without improvement in yield, when tho soil was analyzed and found to be rich in potash but deficient in phosphor ic acid and lime. These elements were then supplied, tests were made to se cure the varieties best adapted to the land, and the yield per acre for the last seven years has risen to 9GI bushels of wheat and 02 bushels of oats. M. To tard's farm of 812 acres, half way bo tween Paris and Chan till v, has 310 acres in sugar beets, the yield per acre of which, as well as their sugar content, lias steadily increased. The average yield of wheat on 250 acres in 1887 was 35 bushels per acre. A large herd of cattle is kept during the winter to con-, sume the beet pulp, in addition to whicl| < the cattle get some cottonseed meal a# cake, with obout six pounds per head of! wheat straw, chaff or corn fodder£ [Amerjow*' Agriculturist, FREAKS OF LUCK. TWO PECULIAR CASES PROBED BY A SCRIBE. A Bank Clerk Stopped From Stealing by a Peculiar Arrangement of Mir rors—A Strangely Deliberate Sui cide. The greed of gold, writes "Durandal" from New York to the Cincinnati En quirer, is quite as remarkable us the whimsicalities of its expenditure. Did ever a man, 110 matter how good, luive another man's money in his possession without at least the thought of stealing it coming into his head i "Conscience is a curious thing," said one of Byrnes' best detectives. "Let me tell what I once saw. I was shadow ing a bank clerk 011 a Western railroad train. He had a kandba? containing his employer's treasure, and was tempt ed to vamoose with it. The cars rolled along down from tho Rocky Mountains height of Denver for hours. Tom took to studying a time-table, in which ho saw that a westward train would meet j and pass this eastward train at Mirage. ! What of it / He put the question men- j tally to himself, and answered that it j meant nothing whatever to him. But I lie went 011 to think that, if he wished j to steal the gold, away to do it was to 1 quit this train at Mirage and get aboard tho other. I watched the whole mental process. Ho pronounced the idea preposterous, but be did not get rid of it, and when tho stop was made ho alighted with the lag in his hand. He seemed actuated by some impulse which got its for. o out side of himself. He had the opportuni ty to use the speed of two locomotives to put distance between tlio gold and its owner, who was on the same train. He walked slowly toward tho further end of tho platform, wondering at his inability ( to ceaso plotting a crime, and debating! whether there was any likelihood of his ! changing to the westward train when it | came. The most resplendent things in Colorado are the drinking saloons, and) a new one at Mirage was to be paneled i with mirrors. The big plates of glass bad been delivered at the station. They were unframed, and some of them were : out of the boxes in which they had been j transported. The owner of the groggery : had discovered that if the edges of two j mirrors are placed together at right, angle, with 110 frame or anything else to separate their surfaces, a person sees himself duplicated in the corner thus 1 formed. Half the imago is on one glass and half 011 the other, but the juncture j is not visible, and a singular optical effect is that, 110 matter where the man i stands, or how he changes his place, his reflection will not budge from its place ( in the mirrored angle. Tho numc of Mirage has boon derived from the fre-; quoncy of the visual illusion of mirage in the rarefied atmosphere of the ele- I vatod region, and it may be that the i whiskey-seller meant to startle his cus- j torams beyond anything known to tho Fata Morgana as they drank at his bar. As though impatient to foresee the prac- 1 ticability of his plan, ho had set up a dozen of the mirror plates in right- i angled pairs against the b ixes and the side of the freight house. Toward them | Tom walked unexpoctantly. To his | sudden amazement ho encountered him self in multiple. Each Tom had a vil lainous scowl and a skulking air as he grippod the bag of gold. Notwith standing the absence of frames from the looking glasses, ho would have conipro bended them at a second glanco but for the behaviour of the reflected images. They did not stir from thoir separato glasses as ho advanced, nor change their positions in tho least when he moved aside, but stared I aok at him like so many thieves suddenly halted 111 their flight. He WAS shocked and bewi.der ed as though by a supernatural vision. "'That's a curious effect, sir.' It was my own voice that oausod Tom to turn abruptly, with a quiver of fright. " ' What d' you say {' lie brokenly ro- | sponded. *Do you mean the effect on me i' " 'O, no,' I carelessly continued ; 'the queer optical otl'oei of such an arrange ment of mirrors.' Certainly—that is—yes, I was ob- ; serving it myself.' "To Tom it remained an uncertainty whether a flight was prevented by the encounter of tho errors, but I shall al ways boliovo that lie was thereby saved from a crime." I shall put that true and curious in cident into an episode of fiction. And let me go from that recollection of a de tective to a real occurrence here in New York, co show how curiously one man treated himsolf while under a trifling niisfortuno of a pecuniary sort. Carl Werner ro turn od one evening despond ent to his apartment in the wilderness. of tenements which shut the sun out from West Fortieth street, in tho neigh- ! borhood of Ninth avenue. He was a j man between 50 and GO, shaped like one of those quoer, long-bodied and short ; logged dogs which arc sent into holes j after woodchucks. His toes turned in,' and ho rolled ponderously and ominous- \ ly as 110 walked. Ilis face was as round and placid and vacant as tho moon. No one could ever guess from its express ! ionloss surfaco that Werner was sorrow ing, and it is possible that, being a de li lie rate man—his sorrow at that period had not obtainod much headway. To his wife, a gray-haired, pluintive-looking woman of about his own age, he briefly confided tho information that he was out of work. Tho pieklo factory in which 110 had labored for thirteen years had suddenly discovered that it was no longer in need of his services. Mrs. Werner burst into tears, and two father less and motherless grandchildren, 4 and 0 years of ago, respectively, cried to keep her company. Werner filled a pipe, and, seating himself, calmly con templated his weeping family through a cloud of smoke. Finally he "preferred a simple roquoff. " L eschen, lie said to the older of tho children, "pringyonr grandfardor some poor." The child obtained a brown pitcher with blue stripes übon it from the table, and went forth sobbing upon her errand. When she returned Werner took the pitcher from her, eyed for a moment the foam rounding from its top, and empti ed it without faking breath. Having done that he set tho pitcher carefully down, wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, and observed: "I ti'inks 110 more peor." That was threo weeks ago, and for fif teen days Werner, who had boon accus tomed to consume a largo quantity of ! bera daily, drunk none at all. It seem ed to mnko 110 difference in his physical person or his spirits. Ho smoked with 1 equanimity, and his face lemainod as round and placid and vacant as boforo. On the sixteenth day, however, ho re , garded Lieschen with unusual fliought | fulness as he sat down to tho breakfast table. He was still out of work, although ho had made application for employ- I ment at all the pickle factories in the I city, and 011 tho evoning provious Mi's. Werner had consulted him as to the nd ! visability of drawing, for the defray- Iment of current household expenses, a small part of the uiue hundred and odd dollars which lay to their credit in the savings hank. After he had regarded the elder of his grandchildren uninter ruptedly for tho better part of a minute, his little family were mildly surprised to hear him say, in the words which he had employed on the day of his dis charge from the pickle factory: "Liesohen, pring your grandfarder . some peer." The child obeyed with alacrity, and Mrs. Werner seemed cheered by this re newal of a habit which her husband had followed during more than thirty years. Werner took the pitcher from his little | granddaughter when she returned, look | ed rette lively at tho beer, and then ! j emptied into it a paper of paris green 1 j which he took from his waistcoat pock- , et. Having so done, Werner softly agi ■ I tated the pit her, in order that the pois , | on might bo well stirred up, and calmly j drank the contents, j I For the re tof the day the discharged , | pickle-maker sat smoking at tho win dow, while tho family wept. Mrs. Wer- I ncr would have given notification of her husband's act, ami would have summon- I ed medical assistance, but he command ! Ed her to the contrary, and she had I I long been accustomed to acknowledge ' | his will as law. The poison sickened I him, but seemed unlikely to produce ! any more Fer.ous result. Werner waited j paitently until 4 o'clock in the after | noon, and then once more summoned i the little Lieschen, whom he instructed ! to procure for him another pitcher of beer, and to stop on her way to the i pa nt store and buy five cents worth of paris green. " You tole der boss dot was for rats," said Werner. Mrs. Werner went into a paroxysm of sobbing, and the child was frightened and unwilling to do the errand, but the authority of Werner prevailed, and Lieschen brought the beer and the poi- 1 fon duly. Werner drank tho beer, all but a single glass, without admixture. | Tnto the last glass he poured the pow- | ] der. Holding his pipe in ono hand i and the deadly dose in the other, he was j about to drink, when his wife struck the I mixture from his grasp and it was spill- ' :cd upon the floor. Werner contem- I plated his wife in placid sorrow, and I | then turned his attention to the glass. I A thick green mess remained at the hot- ! | torn of it. He took up the glass and j swallowed the poison at a gulp. ! It was then about 4.30 o'clock, and j Werner stretched himse'f upon the i kitchen floor and closed his eyes. Mrs. ; Werner sat by him, torn by conflicting emotions. Whenever she or the cliil i dreu moved as though to summon assis i tanco ho commanded them to desist, j j None of them dared to disobey him. It I 1 may be that a man less obstinate would have died more easily. This one died j ! at last. At 10 o'clock that night the ; spirit left him, and his wife and grand- ; ! children went sobbing with the story to j the police. No Checks Cashed or Money Loaned. I " You have probably observed in your travels," said tho hotel clerk, " the sign i hung out at the cashier's desk in all leading hotels; 4 No money loaned or checks cashed hero !' Those signs are ! hung out to protect tho hotel from dead beats, and they serve the purpose to a certain extent. Wo make a mistake now and then, as was the case here a couple of weeks ago. An old* codger came along with an old-fashioned satchel, and lie looked so hard up and rusty that I gave liim the poorest room in the house, and asked for a deposit of five dollars. , He made it, and 1 gave him 110 further attention. At the end of a week lie , came up to settle his bill, and when I . gave him the figures he pulled out a chock book and filled up a check for the , amount. 441 Can't take it,' I said, as I shoved it back. " 'Why?' 44 '(lot beat too often.' 44 4 But it's good.' I 4 4 4 Maybe.' j 4 4 4 Well, I have no currency, and must pay you by chock; very few people ro | fuse them.' i 4 4 4 Look hero, old fellow,' I replied, Imy mad coming up, 4 if you think to i beat this house you will get left! Either | come down with the bill or you'll go to i jail!' i "He tore up tho check, filled in an other for $200,000 on a Chicago national hank, and handed it over, with the re mark: 4 4 4 Please stop over to tho hank and ask them to assure themselves that this would be honored in Chicago.' 4 'l went over to a national hank, and inside of an hour Chicago had answered that a check signed by the old man for half a million dollars was as good as gold. I hod made a mistake in sizing my man up." i 4 'Rut who was lie ?" I "Ho is familiarly known as 4 Old : Hutch,' king of tho wheat ring."—[New i York Sun. The Rattlesnake a Coward. I I "A rattVsnako i.s the biggest coward in the world," said John Kent, of Swamp 1 Run, Clinton County, Penn., a profes ( bional hunter of rattlesnakes for their ; hides, grease and rattles, in tho sale of I which to city and country dealers he savs ho has built up quite a big trade. "The rattier would be scared at his own . shadow if ho could seo it, and would ' try to run away from it, until he found I that it stuck right by him. Then ho i would stop and try to fight it. When ho made tho discovery that ho couldn't sink a fang into the shadow he would | settle tho whole difficulty by turning i his poison on himself and committing suicide. Some people say that the rat- I tlosnake won't commit suicide. I say I ho will. I've seen rattlers put an end to themselves do/en of times, but never 1 i when they wore in captivity. Why that lis I can't say. If you have a rattlesnake 1 caged up you may put all sorts of iudig -1 uities upon him, and, while ho will ( \ | work himself into a rage that is more than j terrible to seo, somehow ho won't lot ; ,! his feelings so far overcome him as to ■ bite and kill himself. It is different ' | when he i.s met with on his native bar ren and cornered up. 110 won't, as a 1 general thing, put an end to himself un ' til he has exhausted all means at hand ; I in trying to get out of the trouble he is [ I in, when his rage seems to get beyond j . liia control, and he twists his head | around ami sols his fangs in his body j right pvor tho hoart, and in less time than you could kill him ho stretches out i stiff." Watermelon Vinegar. I The latest story of Kansas productive ness comes from Ford county, where a Mr. Sternberg planted twonty acres to ! melons, and sold tho seeds to an Eastern | seed house for $-100. From the melons ho manufactured 1,000 barrels of vine gar, which ho values at $lO per barrel, j This melon vinegar he claims to bo fully ! equal to, if not better than, tho cider I vinegar. If this story is true, this State ! will be principally devoted to the pro- I duotion of watermelons in a short space |of time. Just think of it! $10,400 for j the product of twenty acres of laud. — I j Emporia (Kan. j Democrat. AN EXTRAORDINARY SCENE. How the Shah of Persia Travels in His Own Country. It was pitch dark as we approached i the royal camp, and tho appearance presented thereby was very cxtraordi- I nary. There appeared tous to be miles | of white tents, each with a camp lira j burning before it. There were camels, ! mules, and horses in every direction , that our eyes penetrated. It was as if we had suddenly been plunged into the midst of a vast army, and well it might be, for the following are roughly the statistics of tho retinue which accom panied the Shah from his capital to the ! frontier: Four thousand quadrupeds, I including mules, horses, and camels, ! for carrying the luggage and drawing : tho carriages; 3,000 tents to accommo ! date 7,000 to 8,000 individuals, 25 car : riages for the royal suite alone, 3 royal wives, and their 40 female attendants. ! Tho Shah's tent arrangements cover I over an acre of ground. The huge red tent inhabited by the still slumbering ; monarch was visible from afar. It was pitched in a grove of poplars, by the side of a tiny lake, and surrounded by a wall about eight feet high, made of Keslit embroidery—that is to say, an 1 embroidery of chain stitch, uniting lifc | tic bits of colored cloth, which wo know well enough in England in the shape of table covers and anti-macassars, and for which I have never really felt any i great affection; but still, when it decor* j ates a high wall inclosing an aero of ground the effect is startling and mag | nilicent. Finer fable covers of the same I material were spread as saddle cloth? I ovqr tho many gayly-caparisoncd horses around us, and just as we approached quantities of mules were on the point of starting with royal and other baggage, with bright red palls cast over their burdens. All tho carriages were wait ing ready before tho grate into the royal inclosurc, which was formed of poles painted red, looking not unlike gallows. Anisi Dowlet, the Shah's favorite wife, was just going to start in her gilded carriage, drawn by six gayly-eaparison ed horses. She is a remarkable woman, who has held lior position of favorite for thirty years. She has no children, sho io not young, and I am told not beauti ful; but licr intellectual qualities are : such and hor manner so bright that i tlioy have placed hor far ahead of tho I other Indies in the royal harem. Sho I always started an hour or two before his | Majesty, presumably acting as a good j wife should, to sec that all was in order i and tho slippors ready at the other end. There, too, was tho Shah's own horse, called "Boost Satoun," or "Twenty Pillars," with its beautiful and neat gold bridle and its saddle cloth of very lino liesht embroidery partially cover ing its glossy flanks. From the bearing rein two straps of gold lay across his chest; ho is a splendid animal and al ways held in readiness for his Majesty to I ido when tired of driving in his car riage. Close to "Twenty Pillars" stood another horse in readiness to carry his Majesty's pipe beaver; the pipe is a luxury indulged in by all Persian gran dees when traveling. His Majesty's own kalyan or water pipe is carried in a drum shaped case, covered with purple velvet and gold, and strung from tho saddle. At the other side are suspended tho firebox and tho water gourd, simi larly decorated and all ready, so that at a moment's notice tho pipe can bo pre i pared when the Shah expresses a wish I for a whiff of tobacco. Among tho i horses were the body guard with their j silver and gold batons, tho running j footmen clad in red with hats not unlike i fools' coxcombs, any number of gener als, officers, and soldiers. Tho scene j was one of tho greatest animation and j brilliancy, lit up by tho rays of a Per sian sun.—[Tho Fortnightly Review. A Desperate Mother's Ingenuity, From a gentleman who resides in that vicinity was obtained la t night tho do tails of a most renin k ihle rescue from death that took place at the farm of Wendell Russell, about three miles from Venice, 111., Monday afternoon. Mr. Russell, had removed the pump from the well to make some repairs, and had I partially covered the aperture with ! boards. A little four-year-old boy play ! ing in the vicinity got on these boards I and fell through, one of the boards going with him. His mother heard the cries and rushed to the rescue. There , was about twelve feet of water in tho well, and tho distance from tho I top to the surface of tho water i was about fifteen feet. Sho could seo the little one clinging to tho board and floating on the water. No assistance was at hand and sho was thrown on her own resources. Her wits worked quickly and sho acted with great promptness. Securing a stout ropo which was near at hand she fastened one end of it tightly about the body of her nine-year-old daughter and then let her down to the water, where she grabbed the little one and shouted to her mother to pull her up. Her mother could not do it. While it was a comparatively easv matter to lower tho girl steadily and to hold her, it was quite another thing to hand licr up, and tl e mother's strength was not equal to the task. She, however, found aw ay out of tho dilemma. With a few words of encouragement to her loved ones clinging to each other just above the surface of tho water, sho made tho ropo fast above and ran to get a ladder that was le tiling against tho house. This sho let down tho well, but it reached but little below the sur face of tho water, and there was nothing for it to rest on. Sho secured a stout piece of timber and placed it across the top of tho well between tho top rounds of the ladder. Sho then went down horself and helped the children up.—[St. Louis Globe-Demoorat. Revolutionizing the Steel Industry. A firm in Chicago, engaged in the manufacture of tin cans and japanned ware, has patented an invention which competent judges say will revolutionize the iron and steel industry of tho world. Patents have been secured in tho lead ing countries of tho world. It is, in brief, a process by which molten metal may l>e rolled into any desired slmpe, thus saving all intermediate processes. It was invented originally to roll molten solder into thin plates, but tho process is pronounced by experts to ho equally applicable to iron and steel in its various forms of plate structural iron and rails. It is believed that tho cost of manufac turing stool rails can bo reduced to tho extent of ton dollars per ton, and that thin iron plates for tinning can bo made much below tho cost of production of tin plates in Wales, thus making a new j industry in this country. Tho molten metal is passed between rollers, which I is chilled as it passes, the rollers being ; kept cold by a stream of water which | passes through them. Another advnn j tiigo is that iron and stool so rolled will j bo much more even and closer in texture than that mode by present methods, I being free from the air holes which result from tho intermediate processes. I —[Times-Democrat. Save That Nweet (Sir!! Don't let that lxMiuliful girl fndo and droop into invalidism or sink into on carlv grave for want of timely earo at the most critical stage of her life. Dr. l'lorco'a Favorite I'rescrip'ion will aid in regulating iter health and estab lishing it on a firm Impend may save her ycare of chronic suffering and consequeut un happinese. A more pleasant physio You never will lind Than l'iercc'a siua'l "Pellets,* The Purgative kind. ''Judge a man by his eves, but a woman always by her lips," saiid Benjamin Franklin. Now wo understand how Benjamin happened to get so deeply interested in the study of electrical phenomena. Taking It altogether tlice never was a time v.-lien our country was enjoying greater pros perity than at the present moment, and yet there aro thousands of people lu the land who aro fussing and finning about hard times. No dount but what many of them are honest in | their complaints, and it is oiten because thov have not found the right kind of work or the right way to do It Now, if business is not moving along with you satisfactorily, take our advice and write to B. F. Johnson ..tl.ewe 1 known architect* There Is not a Builder or any one Intending to inlhl or otlu rwir.e intern t*-d that can afford to be without it. It i* a practical work unci everybody bc> 't. The best, cheupu-t and meat popular work ever Issued on Building. Nearly four hundred drawings. ; A $6 book in hl/i'and style, hut we hav • determined lo make it meet the popular demand, to miit the limes, so that it can be uslly reached by all. 'i Lis tiouk contuiiiH ii 4 pugt'B l'xli inches in si/#, and constats of large 9x12 plat pages giving plane, elevations, perspective vi. ws. descriptions, o\vn.*re Sam* s, actual cost of construction, no uiici.h vv nrU, u.d instnietions IJow to Build nM'ott -g* s. \ dliia, Double Houses. Brick Block Houses, suitable for ntj suburbs, town and country, houses for the farm and worklngiueu's homes for all sections of thi country, aim costing from $ tn> to ifo.soo; also ltarne, St .l ies, School House, Town Ball. Churches and 0 her public buildings, together with siwctOoatlon*, form ot contract, and it lar.e amount of information on tho erection of buildings, selection of sito, *id iib.yment of Architects. 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Tho San Ft u neisco Pont is of the opinion thai tile ptililii limn who draws himself up ami "litis not liing tu suy to /leivspttpor men" hasn't nnyt liing-to relate to his own credit as a general thing. AU who use Dobblns's Electric Soap praise it as the bent cheapest and nuitt tconoiitiral fam ily soap made; but if you will try it once it will tell a still stronger talo of its uiortts itself. Fieone try it. Your grocer will supply you. W it is the light ning of the mind, reason the sunshine, ami reflection the moonlight; for as the bright orb of the night owes lis lustre to the saa, so does rolleetion owe its existence Old smokers prefer "Tjinsill's Punch" 5c Cigar to most 10 renters. , The seepfer of on Egyptian King has been examined chemically by Prof Uerlliclot, and proves to he nearly pure copper, with otily truces of lend. 11 is supposed to be about MOO years old. ! SSJJ Clironic Nenralgiii, Perma n tci.w. Juo, 11, 16ST. 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