CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. k Can* Showing: How Easy It Would Huvi Been to Convict the Wrong Man. A party of men had been discussing Hie Kemmler case, and from that had drifted into a discussion of the abolition Df the death penalty, and one of the number had just told of an execution by hanging of which he had been a wit ness, when John T. McDonougli, who is so well known by Albanians that he needs no further introduction, remarked: "I have seen jnst one hanging in my life, and I issued the warrant for the arrest of the man I saw hung. It was rather a remarkable case, and it taughf me always to look upon purely circum stantial evidence as not very good." "How is that? Let us hear the case," laid one of the party. "Well, it was like this. It was in 1872; I was quite young then, and had just been elected Police Justice in Dun- : kirk. One morning a German whom I knew came to me, bringing with him a Polander, and said: 'This man tells a very strange itory; either he is crazy or else a mur der has been committed over in James town.' "Naturally, I was interested at once, tnd questioned the German. The Pole could not speak English, but he spoke a dialect of German, and had made liis itcry intelligible to the German. The Pole's story, as interpreted to me, was about like this: "He had been working for a man named Marlow, a well-known brewer in Jamestown who stood well in the community. Some days previous an acquaintance of his named Bach man, had been stopping with him at Marlow's house. Marlow and Bachman had gone about town together considerably and had become quite well acquainted, ap parently, in so short a time. One even ing Marlow asked the Pole whether Bachman had money about him. The Pole replied that ho thought lie had. He thought Marlow's question a queer one at the time, but soon forgot it until subsequent events recalled it to his mind. "The next day the Pole was working about Marlow's place, as usual, when Marlow and Bachman came up from the village together, Bacliman carried a parcel. When fhey reached the house they went into the cellar together, and remained there a long time. Then the Pole heard what sounded to him like a shot. Boon afterward Marlow came out of the cellar alone. About that time some one drove up with a wagon to got a barrel of beer. Instead of sending the Pole into the cellar for it, as he usually did, Marlow went himself to Eetcli it. When lie reappeared with it the Pole noticed a spot of blood on it and another on Marlow's clothing. Then he began to think that something awful had been done. After the cus tomer had driven away with his beer, Marlow ordered the Pole to hitch up a team and drive to the woods after a load of wood. This order added to the Pole's suspicions, for there was no par ticular need of going for wood at that time. However, he went. "When he returned, one of the first ! things he noticed was that there had been a fire in the furnace under the brewing kettle. The embers were still smouldering. There was another strange circumstance. No brewing had j been done. There was a quantity of j water in-the kettle which had become heated, but that was all. The Pole, j who, though he could not speak English ! could think aud reason quite fluently in Polish, began to put together all he had heard and seen that seemed to liim un accountable and strange, at least; and drew from it a conclusion that was as yet vague, but suggested something horrible. "Then tho Pole went into the cellar into which Marlow and Bachman had gone together earlier in the day. After looking about for awhile, lie saw lying upon the floor a parcel which he recog nized as the ono which Bachman had carried when lie came with Marlow. Near it were spots of blood upon the floor and on the barrels that stood about. The Pole had seen enough. Ho rushed from the cellar, and resumed his usual work, meanwhile thinking over what best to do. To his employer he gave no hint that he knew as much as he did. "The next morning the Pole asked Marlow to allow him to take a day off. He said it was a holiday among his people and he wanted to visit some of liis acquaintances. Marlow gave his consent, and the Pole started off. In stead of visiting his friends he took the first train to Dunkirk and sought for some one to tell his story. For a long time he was unsuccessful, as no one could understand him. Finally he found the German, who brought him to me. "Well, you may believe that the story impressed me. It was told in a straightforward manner, and there was nothing nbrmt the man to indicate men tal derangement. Still I hesitated to issue a warrant, for Marlow, as I said, was a citizen of good standing, and it seemed impossible that ho could have committed such a crime. I went to an old Judge, to whom I frequently ap plied for advice, and laid the matter before him. He listened with great in terest. 'lssue the warrant,'he said. I took the necessary affidavits, filled out the warrant, and gave it to an officer, with instructions to go to Jamestown with it. When we reached the depot where the train was ready and about to start, we learned that Marlow's brother in-law, who lived at Dunkirk, was al ready aboard. Evidently he hud got wind of what was goiug on, and was going to warn Marlow. We had him taken from the train and detained, while the officer went on. To make sure, we telegraphed to the Jamestown authorities to arrest Marlow for mur der. In a short time we received an answer in the form of a question : 'Do you mean Marlow, the brewer ?' said the dispatch. 'Yes, Marlow, the brew er,' we replied. When our officer reached Jamestown, Marlow was under arrest nominally. The whole affair was regarded as a joke, however. Marlow's friends chaffed birn. and lie laughed loudest at their raillery. Our officer presented his pa pers. Tho deputy who had arrested Marlow looked them over. -Your pa ; papers are all right, but you're ah wrong; Marlow wouldn't hurt a fly,' he said. Then our officer told his story. A party started to examine the ashes in i Marlow's furnace. In a few moments ! some ono had found a kneecap. Bonos of fingers and other portions of a hu man skeleton were discovered. Then j there was no more chaffiug, and Mar | low was under arrest in earnest. ! "On the trial, the defence admitted the killing, but said that it was done by ! Marlow's wife, who struck Bachman on [the head with a hammer because he in sulted her mother while Marlow was ' away from home. But after the killing • had once been ndmitted, the iurv took Inp stock in that story, especially in view of the testimony given Dy the Pole. Marlow was convicted and hung. "I thought then, and I still think, that if Marlow had had any suspicion that the Pole suspected him and in tended to inform the authorities, he could have turned the charge against • the Pole without the slightest difficulty. ;If a man of Marlow's standing had ac cused the Pole of murdering Bachman 1 —he would have had his wife to cor jroborate whatever story he might bate j prepared—nothing in the world obuld have saved the Pole from the gallows. 'And ever since then I have thought •little of circumstantial evidence. banv Express. THE GENUS BOY. How One of Tliem Amused 11 iu Fnthei with His ClaKsiiieittion. The men of science, who spend much of their time in classifying the objects j of the natural world, are not the only people who feel the need of a thorough classification in their most important 1 affuirs. Unsystematic knowledge is only a kind of half-knowledge. There is classification everywhere, and boys, it seems, are "clas.sificationists" in tlieii way as well as botanists and zoolo gists. "You say," said Mr. Brown to his j son Jack, "that Mr. Perkins has a son j in your school. How old a boy is he?" 1 "Oh, he's only a young kid, papa." i "A young kid! About hew old is u 'young kid,' now?" " 'Bout six or seven." "What is a hoy after he is done being a 'young kid'?" "Oh, then he gets to be a 'kid.'" "What after that?" "Well, he's a 'kid' until he gets to be about thirteen, and then he's a 'young feller,' if he's pretty big." "None but good-sized boys can be 'young fellers, eh?" "No, sir. Then they stay being 'young fellers' until they're about nine teen, and then they're men." "Indeed! But how do you class them at the. other end of the Hue? Are they always 'young kids' after they are babies ?" ."Oh, no, sir. First they're 'cubs.' They don't get to be 'young kids' until they get out of dresses." "But when," the father asked, grow ing more and more curious, "when is a boy supposed to be a 'lad'?" "We don't have any lads nowadays, sir. We read about 'em in books, but we don't have any. I've always won dered about how old a 'lad' was." "But you have 'boys,' surely." "Oh, yes, sir. They're all boys, of course, until they get to be men. Only these are the different kinds of boys." Though the father was amused by this classification, and thought that some of the names were not quite elegant, he was compelled to admit j that slang terms were used in the same connection when he was himself a boy. He could remember how intensely he | disliked to be addressed as "Bub" by his elders,and how promptly he resented the application of that term to himself by any other boy. He had heard boys in those days called "brats," "chits," urchins,'' "youngsters," "younkers" and othei j such names. He never resented being j called a "youngster," and could even endure the word "brat," but to be called "Bub—especially when the per son using the word seemed to fancy that ho was honoring him—was an indignity which he found it hard to for get. Humming-Bird Nestling**. In the Auk Mr. William Brewster re cords some novel and interesting obser vations upon a mother humming-bird and her young. The two eggs were hatched 011 the 4th of July in a gentle man's garden in Concord, Mass., and Mr. Brewster was taken to the nest three days afterwards. The young birds were then almost as largo as the mother, although they did not leave the nest until exactly two weeks old. The little ones' bills were about a quarter of an inch long— not half as long as the bill of an adult bird of the same species. Mr. Brewster took a po sition of about ten yards from the nest, and with a strong field-glass watched it for about two hours. During the time the mother visited the nest about three times. At her first coming she fed the young, and af ter brooding them for forty-five minutes buzzed about in the tree—not once leav ing it— for about a minute. Then she returned to the nest and fed the young again, and one of them twice in succes sion. Immediately afterward she flew oft out of sight and was absent sixteen minutes. At the end of this time sho came directly to the nest, fed each young bird once, brooded both for six minutes, and then flew away again, and did not return while Mr. Brewster re mained. Her manner of feeding her offspring was as follows: Alighting on the edge of the nest, her tail pressed firmly ; against its outer side in the manner of a wood-pecker, her body erect, she first looked nervously around, then thrust at least three-quarters of the total length of her bill down between the upraised open mandibles of the young bird. Next she shook her head vigorously as if disgorging something; then, with their bills glued tightly together, both birds remaided for several seconds per fectly immovable save for a slight rapid pulsating or quivering motion of the mother's throat. The actual contact of the bills lasted once four seconds, once six seconds, and twiae eleven seconds, the time being taken with a stop watch. The father bird did not appear at all. The young were perfectly silent. The mother in brooding them kept moving restlessly about as if she wore trampling 011 them. The close and prolonged contact'of the bills, the shaking of the mother's head, the subsequent quivering of her throat, and, above all, the fact that af ter sitting on the nest for nearly an hour she fed the young a second time without leaving the tree, conviuced Mr. Browster that the humming-bird, like the pigeon, trans'ers partially digested food from her own crop to the crop of her nestling. Well, Well. His hair was white, but 110 was tall 1 and straight, a.ul looked strong and vigorous. While chatting with some friends the subject of his ago came up. Borne guessed that he was about 58, | while others thought him not more than 55. "Gentlemen, I am 7(5 years of age," he said, to their great astonishment. "You have never used tobacco?" queried one of those present. "Never touched the filthy weed," ho replied with a look of disgust. "And never drank a drop of whisky," said another. "Gentlemen, ever since I was able to swallow I have drank whisky, and don't care if I have a little nowl" Wycliffe's New Testament. Brighton is so essentially modern in all its characteristics and its associations that it would scarcely be the place in yhich to expect to find a rare literary treasure. By the courtesy, however, of Mr. Henry WHlett, the fortunate pos sessor of so many objects of archaeologi cal, literary, artistic and scientific interest —we have recently had the privolege of inspecting one of the rarest volumes we had ever liaudlcd, namely, a MS. copy of "The Newe Testamente," as translated into English by John WycliiTe. The volume, from its age, possibly over 500 years, seemed almost too precious to touch. It is of no great si/.e, but is in value "above rubies. *' It was long an heirloom in the family of the late Rev. Thos. Rooper, of the Wick, Hove, having been handed down through successive generations from Margaret Roper, the devoted daughter of Sir Thomas More, Henry VIII.'s famous Treasurer and Lord Chancellor, and the successor of Wolsoy. The intrinsic value of this remarkable volume is much enhanced by the national and historical circumstances which gave rise to its existence. In translating the Old and New Testaments into' English, the grand and fearless old ecclesiast, John Wycliffe, "The Morning Star of the Ref ormation," as he has been not inaptly styled, achieved a work for England which up to that period must be regard ed as altogether unique, and which in its far-reaching results became an irresistible and effectual means of reforming the fuithof the people. The occasion brings forth the man. Educated under Brnd wardine, at Oxford, Wycliffo specially devoted himself to the study of philoso phy and theology. He drank deep at the Biblical fountains, and was not slow to call others to them. The abuses then prevalent among tho monks and clergy of tho Romish Church lie fearlessly ex posed; and he took a leading part in the contests between the Mendicant Orders and the university and between the Crown and the papacy. He labored in cessantly as a preacher and pastor, ami his sharp sayiugs about the papal tribute and the Church excited much attention in high quarters. His opinions spread so among the common people that the Church became alarmed. The haughty Courtenay, Bishop of London, cited the bold preacher in 1877 to appear before a convocation at St. Paul's, where lie was attended by Lord Percy and John of Gnunt, "time-honored Lancaster." The cathedral was crowded; hard words passed between the bishop and the duke, and the meeting broke up in confusion. But Wycliffe was not silenced. Three months afterwards Pope Gregory XI. is sued three bulls against him, one ad dressed to the primate, who summoned Wycliffe to appear at Lambeth. "Men expected he should be devouredbut tho proceedings were stopped by order of the Queen-mother; Wycliffe was dis missed, and, like the apostles Peter and John, was warned not to say such things again. Still the brave preacher went on zealously in his work. The country was over-spread by his " poor priests," evan gelists and missionaries, to pfopagate tho truth of the Gospel. The time was opportune for its reception, for in the same year, 1378, began the great schism in the papacy. But, in spite of ill health, Wycliffe's hardest blow to the | Romish Church was yet to be dealt, —by the completion and the publication of his English Bible, translated from the Vul gate, upon which he had labored be tween ten and fifteen years, and in which he was cordially assisted by disciples and by learned friends. Four times, we arc told, he went through the work, con sulting with grammarians and divines, and the last tune shaping the sentences so that they should be understood by simple men. A. recent writer in All tho Year Round, says that WyclitTe's friend, John of Gaunt, was the first to cry out for un English Bible. "We will not be the dregs of all," the duke cried, when some Churchman was questioning the good of Wycliffe's work, "seeing other nations have the law of God, which is the law of our faith, in their tongue." Wycliffe's prologue puts it on the same ground:—"Frenchmen, Becmers (Bohe mians), and Britons (Bretons), have the Bible translated in hire modir tonhue. Whi shoulden not Englishmen have the same in hire modir language, I cannot wite." It is ft trite saying that men are most eager after what is forbidden them; and 4 'all the world" was eager to peruse the "opcu Bible," —for copies seem to have been multiplied with inconceivable rapidity, seeing that each one had to be written, as the printing press was then undiscovered. The Romish clergy, too, took the very best way to make the work popular, by denouncing it. They would not themselves give the people an author ized version; but yet they found fault with WyclilTe's 1 The grand old reformer was more than ever persecuted. Yet fearlessly he went 011; and his public at tack in 1381 on "transubstantiation" brought upon him a sentence of condem nation from the university. The break ing-out in the same year of Wat Tyler's insurrection intensified the alarm which his opinions excited. A synod, under the presidency of Courtenay, de clared them to be heretical, and a Itoyal ordinance was subsequently issued for the arrest and imprisonment of the Lollards, his followers. WyclilTc himself, though subject to continual persecution, seems at this time to have retired to his cure at Lutterworth, where he died in 1384 of paralysis. WyclilTe's so-called heresies were at the period regarded simply as spiritual otTcnses, punishable only by s|£itual censures. The statute rie Hirre tico comb are ndo had not then been passed, or lie would assuredly have been burned. The statute was promulgated some twenty years later, declaring that all who read the Bible in English should forfeit "land, catel, lif, and goods, from ther hey res for ever." If, however, Wyclifie, in his lifetime, escaped burn ing, his remains were subsequently, by the order of the Council of Constance, exhumed from the chancel of the Church at Lutterworth, burned to ashes, and the ashes thrown into the river Swift. In later days, quaint old Fuller, speaking of the carrying out T>f this sentence, said, "This brook hath conveyed his ashes into the Avon, Avon into the Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of WyclilTe are the emblem of his doctrine, which is now dispersed all the world over." To return to Wyeliffc's "Ncwe Tcsta mente." It is an enduring monument of the patient industry and artistic skill of the clever penman who executed it; and it is a source both of wonder and ml mi ration to think that there must have been sent forth hundreds of similar manuscript copies of not only the "Newc Tcsta tncnte," but of the whole Bible! Where or by whom these well-nigh matchless volumes were produced is now past find ing out. It is possible that in the se clusion of some of the religious houses of the period there were "poor priests," skilled in the art of "black letter" writing, to whom the art of transcribing was but little effort. But, whether so or not, the fact remains that these copies of the Scriptures were issued, and written so legibly that "simple men," if they could read ut All, coulu understand them. If "The Newe Testamente" in Mr. Willett's possession i 9 a fair samjile of these works, and doubtless It is, writing at that period must huve been elevated into a tine art. The book is about demy octavo in size, some eight inches by live inches. It con tains some 200 or 250 leaves of parchment, and these are of such uniform thinness as to be easily mistaken for ordinary paper. The title page of the book is wanting. The contents do not run throughout in the same order as the mod ern New Testament, though commencing with the Gospels and the Apocalypse. This latter is entitled the "Apocalips of Joon," and the Acts as "Ye Dedis of . Apostalis." The divisions of the text : throughout the work are simply indicated by colored initial letters; and the verses are not numbered, ' the wilting being continuous. After I the Apocalypse follow some helps to re- I ligion, such as the tirst lines of the Ten Commandments and the Seven Virtues; j these ugain are succeeded by a table of lessons for Sundays, Wednesdays, and Saints' Days throughout the year, an ex- I ceedingly beautiful specimen of arrange- ! ment and of black-letter writing. The j | pages of the Testament itself are divided into two columns, each containing about forty lines. These lines arc throughout equi-distnnt, and the letters are so ad- I mirably shaped and so uniform in size that, at a tirst glance, they might be re- j garded as ordinary printing. The writ ing was evidently systematically done; j and one gets a clue to this from the fact j that preceding the matter in the book is ' a page lightly but accurately ruled ready I to be written upon. The division between | the two columns in each page is about a quarter of an iuch in width; and this ap pears to have been made to afford space ] for the display of the beautiful initial j letters, which, drawn in violet ink I with red ink ornamentations, run throughout the work. And wonderful | specimens of penmanship these initial | letters are; each, in fact, is a work of art. I There would seem to be but few errors in 1 the transcription. In the seventh chapter ! of the Apocalypse, two omissions appear ; at tho side of the page. Possibly the transcriber, neariug the close of his work, | was a little tired; irso, his previous labors should secure for him absolution! There are no indications in the book of i its respective possessors during its long j existence. On one of the fly-leaves at the j end is written, in modern handwriting, "See Lewis's History of this Translation of the Bible, p. 0. See Strypc's Memori als. Ed. 0. b. I. c. 5." On another, evidently of earlier date, "Some of the ruder Papists have affirmed that the Scrip- | tures were not iu our mother tongue be- ! fore D. Luther's time, but this book tes tifieth on the contrary. Queen Catherine Tudor, the last wife of King llenry VIII., caused Erasmus' paraphrase to be trans- ! lated into English; Queen Mary herself , translated into English Erasmus' para- | phrase upon St. John."—[The Brighton Ilcrald, Eng. Toad versus Snake. I heard the latest snake story, yester day, and as it was about a Mexican . snake, and so far away that no one cau ' verify it, I shall venture to repeat it. i Come to think of it, the story is a toad story, although a snake was the victim, ! so it may be all right. It was told by j William Cooper, tho onyx miner, in about this language: "I have heard and seen many strange things in the forests of Mexico, and had heard of toads that | would light snakes, but never expected to see one, until one day I heard a rustling in the underbrush and saw a.small snake, : about two feet long, hurrying along as if in fear. Not five paces behind it a toad was making furious leaps to keep up with the snake. I stopped to wn f ch tliem. • The toad gained on the snake, and the latter suddenly stopped and coiled up, with its jaws wide open, while it shot out its tongue and twisted the head back and forth in an excited manner. Then I noted that it had a long head and was capable of swallowing a pretty good sized morsel. The toad did not seem worried by the snake's attitude, but kept right on, and I said to myself, as I saw it jump straight at the reptile, 'Good by, toad.' The toad's head went right down the snake's throat, and the suakc rolled out full length and gradually swallowed | the toad. I could see the toad's form in side the snake's skin as it passed down into the snake's stomach. Having pulled out a cigar and lit it, I had spent nearly ! an hour watching this operation when I ; noticed the snake beginning to writhe, 1 and on looking closer saw that the toad must be alive inside, for it was evidently kicking and distending its legs, nnd 1 presently had spread the snake's body j widely. I heard a little noise like a pop- i gun, and there was Mr. Toad and a busted snake. The toad had broken out | of his confinement, and the snake was ! dying. I was told by the Indians that | the sight is not at all an uncommon one." —[N. Y. Press. Relic of Serpent Worship. A huge serpent mound has been discov ered in the Carthage road between Quincy and Carthage, 111., by the Rev. S. 1). Peet. A clearly detined rattlesnake lies coiled along the ground following the line of the bluff. Its entire length is 1,450 feet. The ridge has been ploughed down until it is now only two or three feet above the surface, but the outlines are still plainly discernible. The mounds at the coils of the serpent arc ten or twelve feet. high. The specific dimen sions are six hundred feet from the head to the coils; the coils occupy a space three hundred feet in length and are made up of four distinct mounds 100 feet apart. From the coils to the rattle of the snake is 450 feet, and there are three rattles occupying a space of 100 feet. The serpent lays north and south, a straight line drawn through it showing a deflec tion to the east of fifty feet near the head and seventy-five feet near the tail. Mr. Peet explored one of the mounds, and a few feet below the surface found the re mains of five persons, but he does not think that these are the remains of the serpent worshipers, which he thinks arc buried deeper. lie will make further explorations. Dangers of Dirty Finger-Nails. Seventy-eight examinations of the im purities under finger-nails (the British Medical Journal says) were recently made in the bacteriological laboratories of Vienna, and the cultivations thus pro duced showed thirty-six kinds of micro cocci, eighteen bacilli, three sarciurc various varieties; the spores of common mould were frequently present. It is sometimes said that the scratch of a nail is poisonous. There is no reason to sus pect the nail issue; it is more likely tlio germs laid in a wound from a bacterial nest under the nail. Children arevei v apt to neglect to purify their nails when washing hands; and this matter is not always sufficiently attended to among sur gical patients. A BLACK PRINCE ASTRAY. lie Toll* of 1118 Country and His Uiiwill ling Voyage to America. I met a tall, lithe, fine-looking Afri can about a week ago who has some thing of a history. He was quite as black as the typical ace of spades is sup posed to be, with a high forehead, high cheek-bones, and a clear, intelligent eye. He spoke English with some dif ficulty, and French rather fluently, but when he used his native dialect the words rolled out with a peculiarly soft, musical sound that caused the gentle men grouped around him to express their surprise that anything so melodi ous should exist among the languages of Central Africa. He is a student in 1 the grammar school at Sierra Leone. I In English his name is Francis N. j Smith, but his native or real name is! Apirapiti Akuuueayo. "I am a native of tho Uryoruba coun try, a district about four huudred miles square, situated north of the Congo, and about a month's journey inlaud from Lagos, on the west coast ol Africa," he told me. "It is governed by a King named Ondesse, who is my uncle, and my father, Akakin, holds a rank there corresponding to that of the Prince of Wales in England. His title is Argaraogun. We have a society there something like the Free Masons, , and they have a temple called Eghalo M' Babalawo. Ido not belong to the society, though my father is at the head of it, because I am only twenty-five years of ago, and they allow no person under thirty years of age to enter the temple. Whenever any stranger ooines j t to our country in distress, whoever he M may bo, whether a trader or a mission- j ary, this society helps to feed him till l he can get a chance to go to his friends. No, I never saw Stanley, but I heard a great deal about him at Sierra Leone. We have a good many white visitors, missionaries and traders principally. 1 They buy ivory nnd other things from ; our people, iu exchange for ornaments | and cotton cloth. Since I have been in America I have seen some ornaments in the store windows like those the traders bring out to Africa. I saw a funny little negro boy, made of pasteboard and hung on a wire so that he danced in a box, in a store the other day, and 1 shall take it home with me when 1 go.. That will make everybody laugh there, i You must not think that my people | , are all savages because they live in Central Africa. The missionaries have been among us for a good many years, and many of our boys have been sent to school nt Sierra Leone. Of course, some of them are in the same state that they used to be, but there are a great many who have become Christians, and the missionaries, with the traders, have taught the people a great many things. They have always been well treated when they came, and there has never been any trouble with any of them. Yes, I know what you mean by the word 'cannibals.' Our people have never been cannibals. Some of the, tribes fight among themselves, but 1 never heard of cannibals ilk* Uryoruba, I don't think there are so many canni-! bals in Africa as some people 1 have talked with seem to think. "Why did I come to America? Be cause I couldn't help it. I have been to the school at Sierra Leone several times, aud the last time I started from my country, about a year ago, and trav eled by caravan for a month to Lagos ; , then I wont on board a steamer, the St. Anne, for a trip to Sierra Leone, 1 which takes two or three weeks. Well, the steamer sunk, and several of ue were drifting about in a boat when we were picked up by a ship sailing to America, They were landed in Boston. I nearly starved, because I thought white people here would help me just as in my coun try they help the white people who are strangers, but tlioy didn't help me, and finally I met a man whom I had seen in Sierra Leone, and ho helped me. 1 tried to lecture, but couldn't speak English well enough, and now lam going back to Sierra Leone. Yes, 1 suffered from the cold. My country is healthy, but very hot, and the first time I ever saw snow was in Boston. I did not know any better so I went out to . see what it was, aud I was sick for sev eral weeks afterward." Mr. Apirapiti lias left for home. He was sent back by a missionary whom he knew in Sierra Leone.— New York Star. ' A Lost Opportunity. He look so glum and down in the mouth that the half dozen of us con cluded that he had lost his wifo or met with some other distressing calamity, and so, after leaving Elmira, one of the boys slid into half of his seat and be gan : "My friend, you appear to be ill." "No, not exactly ill," was the reply. " Wife dead?" "Never had one." "Heard any bad news?" "No." "If there's anything our crowd can dc ' for you we shall be glad of the op'por tunity." " Will you ?" "Of course." "Well, then, I wish you'd begin on me and kick until the last man can't swing in his leg for another lift, for ol all the born fools in America, I'm the biggest!" "Why, what's the matter?" "Wo had an accident on this road about three weeks ago, and a lot of us lost our baggage. Wo wore tohl to file our claims, and I've just been down to get my money." "Well, wasn't that all right?" "All right! Why, jab my eyes, if 1 wasn't fool enough to hand in a true list of six dollars' worth of old duds, while a neighbor of our'n who lost two pairs of socks and a box of paper collars stood up and bluffed the railroad out ol $74.25, and they even asked him to take a drink after lie got his money! That's mo to a dot. I hain't got no brain in my head. I can't see through a fish net. I'll never know anything until it's kicked into me, and I'm ready to be booted the whole length of York State and give my only pair of suspenders to the last man who lifts me!"— jVeiu York Sun. THERE is nothing like a steady mm in lite, particularly when you are ro uuirod to shoot a burglar Cood As Gold So enthusiastic ro thousands of people over tho benefits derived from Hood's Sarsupirilln that they can hardly Mud words to express their confidence in and km! It tide for this medicine. "Worth It* weight In gold" IK a favorite expression of those warm friend*. If in need or a good medicine to purify your blood aud build up your strength try Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD A CO., Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar Not a* It Should Re. The moral that one had better stick to his own tongue unless he is thoroughly familiar with another and even then un less there is some especial need of his going abroad for his speech, is one which is enforced every time some persons try to appear wise. A young lady who was much given to airs and affections, was not long since talking with a gentleman upon whom she was very anxious to make a good impression. "Oh, your sister," she said, "is so very charming! She is so pretty, and so perfectly comme it faux pax." The gentleman looked at her aud saw that she was perfectly in earnest. I "I will tell my sister that you say so," : he said, smiling; and ever since it has | seemed to the young lady as if the • gentleman's sister was somehow amused at her, but she cannot seo why.— Youth's Companion. BEECIIAM'B TILLS euro Sick-Headache. A revolution in conl mining is expected from j the use of u machine operated by electricity. | Iluirs Catarrh Cure is a liquid and is taken internally. Sold by Druggists, 75c. There is a great demand for metal furniture of all kinds in Australia on account of the I ravages of the white ant. FITS Stopped free by lJrt. K LINK'S GRKAI NERVE RESTORER. NO Fits after Ilrst day'i use. .Marvelous cures. Treatise ami S2 trial bottle free. Dr. Kline,'.Ml Arch St., Phfla.. Ta Galvanized wire netting is being largely sold for lawn, garden and shrubbery purposes, for which it is admirably adapted. Six Novel# Free, will bo sent by Cragin <fc Co., Phila.. Ph., to any one in IT. S. or < anada, post - age paid, upon receipt of £"> Dobbins' Electric Soap wrappers. See list of novels on circulars arouud each bar. Soap for sale by all grocers. The coldest spot on oartli is Verkoyansk, in Siberia, where the mean winter temperatuie is 48.tidegries below zero, Centigrade. Plcnoe Don't Forget It. That Dr. 11. James'Cannabis Indiea is pre nared in Calcutta, India, from the unrest an., best Native ilemp, and is the only remedy either in that country or this that will posi tively and permanently cure Conmnwtlon. Ilrouch.ti#, A llium. Nasal Catanh ami Nervous Debt it)/or break up a fresh cold in twen ty-four hours. H2.FA) a bottle, three bottles for J0.50. Craddock Co., Proprietors, 1X132 Race street, Philadelphia. In the Atlan'ic Ocean there arc about <ighty-threo pounds of salt to every ton of water. U 28 OXE ENJOYS Jloth the method and results when byrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches aud fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in ite action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities com mend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c and 81 oottl-sby all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAU LOUISVILLE FY St W YORK. N.i. WM. FITCH & CO., 10*2 Corcoran Building, Washington. D. c. PENSION ATTORNEYS •if over \!."S years' experience. Successfully prose cute pensions mill claims of nil k mis In shortest l.Mssih • lime. Jf*-No I KK im.KSS m< - i.->n i . rl Plso's Remedy for Cntnrrh Is the |H ■ Best, Easiest to Use, and Cheupest, RJ teßaaa, 9M Sold by druggists or sent by mall. EM , H| 50c. E. T. liuzeltine, Warren, Pa. Pftjj ' PENSIONS .°A PENsVonV Invalid, Widow's or Minor's, or are you drawing ' less than u 18.00 per month 1 Have you a claim pending but wnut relief—noir f Write us and receive by return mall npnroprlute blank and full instructions for //owrea-e, with ,-t copy of the new and liberal Law. LONOSHAW ABA 1.1.A HI), ! References giveu. L'ox 40, Wasbingtou, 1). C. I Y'S P n l*h ah a. ch arm is . co „Zs,,;~*d-I --~*-Try il- inyournexthouse-clee.ning-*-* Even the little pig in the picture is a more agreeable companion than a man with a dirty collar or a woman who presides over a tawdry house. But nobody wants the reputation of being a pig under any circumstances. EVERY WATERPROOF COLLAR'" CUFF BE UP Not to fa-rant 2 T _? to X>isßooloTrs THE WAnR ■""" ■" BEARS THIS MARK. NEEDS NO LAUNDERING. CAN BE WIRED CLEAN IN A MOMENT. THE ONLY LINEN-L.INED WATERPROOF COLLAR IN THE MARKET. SURE CURE. A CLEAN AND PERFECT CURE OF HURTS AND BRUISES. A Doctor SAW I U N r. , I ' AWREI '/E. Kansas. Aug. O, IS*AI George Patterson B A L'MM H 2d-storv window, striking a fence. I louut him using St.. Jacobs Oil freely nil over his liur: 1 him NEXT nioriiing at work ; all the HI ">IS LIAD gone, leaving neither pain, ur nor £. K. Si EL*I -V, If. D. A T DRPORJISTS AND DEALERS THE CHARLES A. VOGELER CO.. Balllmwe. MS. PATENTS END ' K "if'' "IKTV'^HL (18)11111 IIA HIT. Only CERTALO an. IJF*|l I FV ( I IT Eln THE World Dr. V 1 ■WIYI J. -TtrilENH. Lctaoan 9 FIENSI 3 vr* HI Inst war, 10 ADJUDICATING claims, atty niuce. NEW PENSION LAW 1 siou list. Reject d and Delay, D lalms low<*d. Technicalities wiped out. .lav - v.NI ••-lalm SETTLED w.thout delay. Patrick U'Farrc.L, Washington. D. <;, DETECTIVES Waa.td iu ttty Coaaly Shrewd met. la Ml uiiJpr nUuciioww ,n our Sere. Servier. Exweripnc* a-a*rr PartUulara rr*. Graaaaa Detective Bureau CO-14 Areati.CllC.auU.^ PENSION Bill I LllOlUria is Passed, era and Fathers AN' en titled to sl2 U IN.' I• • ■ ,> I. II V.lll GET your money. Blanks free. JOSKIII It. 11l MKK, AUjr, lYaahiutftoM, U. T FRAZER^M BEST IN THE WORLD URLNOT IF Oct the Genuine. Sold EverrwUera. nrni 01 AAIA 940.000,000 <•> I PAID M? 1 SJ MFLLWN " UT this year under the NEW I IBIIUFI WEVTL DL-abl :ITY Pension A L Le ery soldier Included who served 00 days aud is now disabled, no matter what the cause; or hi case of his death his widow aud minor chlldreu. Dependent parents also benefited. Write at once for blanks and advice to GEO. I). MITCHELL, Solicitor of Pen sions and Patents, Box 253, Washington. D. C., Clerk Committee Oil Pensions of the U. S. .Senate for THE last seven yours. 7"l, tO 8"l, INTEREST S I (HI and upwards. Securities I rat-clans, and in terest guarantied. Hoferencfs furnished on appli. cation Correspondence solicited. Address, FIRST STATE HANK. BRUMNM. NEB. DEPENDENT PENSION BILL has become U law. H\ PER MONTH U> all honorably discharged Soldiers and Sailors of the late war, who are Incapacitated from earning U support. Widows the same, without regard to CUUM- OR death. Dependent Parents and Minor Children also loter ested. Over 20 years' experience. Reference* IN all parts of the country. No charge IR unsuccessful. Write ut once for "Copy of Law," blanks and full In ! tractions AI.L. FREE T" IT. i>LC A El.l ST Eit DK TO. (Stiecessors to Win. Connrd & Co.), I*. O. Hex 71 G. \% aahlngton. P. C. /or I EWIS' 98 r t . LYE L Powdered and Perfumed. The strongest uud purest LJ A uut ].'. Will make tue best per •FUMED Hard Soap iu 20 minr FLV ufces without boilinu. Ft is the best for disiufecting sinks, ■V closets, drains, washing bottle®, AM barrels, paints, etc. 11l PENNA. SALT M'FG Ca trrfh YFl/RM Geu. Agts., Pliilu., PU. WALL PER BARGAINS! We will guarantee all these clean new gMds Jut made, and full length —B yards to the roiL An J*. yd. roll White hack I'npcr. 3 IOO. AN roll (Git Paper. 3 to 10c. • \II 8-yd. roll Eiiibosaoil F.ilr Paper. Hto I.LA. Gilt Border*. I to IS luche* wiile, 'Z NOD .'Jc. per YNRIL. Border* without Gilt -to FL iiiclic* Ic. per yard. Send 4c. In stamps for samples of the best and greatest bargains in the country. F. 11. CA33Y, .'{.! IIIGII STULET. Mention this paper. Providence. If. I. WHAT IS SAID ABOUT , DR. TOBIAS' Mai Lint "\\ lint A grand nrtiele it I*.' "I cannot be without it." "It i* the king OL pain reliever*." "No other liniment eiiiuil to it." "I consider II N great remedy." "Not liiug could induce me to travel with out It." Thousands of certificates can IK? seen at 40 Murray Street, New York, with similar expressions, att**- ing to the wonderful curative properties of Dr. Tobias' Venetian Lluiment. Sold bv all DruggMa. Price &> and 50 cents. CHICHESTER'S ENOLISII PENNYROYAL PILLS " TL-N. RED CROSIJ DIAMOND BRAND Safe *od alwaj* reliable. Ladle*, A a/ |||[ Drugaiit tor Diamond Brand, u NA red, metallic boxee, n aled with bine iW\\ Take no other. Bh paau-huar.l hoxoa. pink wrappers, ara \y l T t flr dancerou* counterfeits. Send 4. Y I / W (ntat>>i ■ for particular*, UaUmonlnla IM 11, M "Belief for Ladles," tn Uttar, by rMmrm I , V J? mull. Aamefaptr. I •■N —R CKIHUr Ititm'L Co.. HADLSU •.. RWBKAF J| 1 PFUCRI'JB SNO ruuyma. dorse BIG 63 FCI the only T MEFC Cnrwla gpeclflc for the certelouare JNXT T0 6 DATS, WI 0 F THIN disease. O.H.INGRAHAM.M.Epn ■GF WIWJBMICEAW. Amsterdam, N. Y. E9 MRSAEL/HYTHE We have sold Big G for MSIXUBI CkAmloAl OO M *P Y T R T A HD it bu the best of 01netnn*U,iHH FACTION. £>. R. DTCIIK 4 (X).^ TRADV^B^J^BGA,AL9I.OO. MOLD HY Drtig'ls>T
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