A WEIRD TRADE. THlfi WORK OF THE FRENCH PUBLIC EXECUTIONER. M. Diebler, Who Handles the Na tional Guillotine, Talk* About His Ghastly Business. A great deal from time to time has been said about the public executioner of France, but still more remains to be told. He was always an interesting personage in the eyes of the Parisians, and jjerhaps this is why his post is so eagerly sougnt after. The last time it became vacant no fewer than 3,000 aspirants applied for it, i and when M. Diebler retires from the profession the number will no doubt be still greater. That there is a weird at traction about it is proved by the confes sions of all those wno have tilled it, and the attraction is furthermore increased by the official title of the berth, I'Executeur des Hautes (Euvres, which is high-souud ing enough to flatter anybody's vanity. Let it be recorded at once, however, that the present holder of it bears his honors with commendable modesty, and is not above being interviewed like any com mon mortal. Hence I was able to ap proach him after the last execution. Mr. Deibler never courts popularity by Earading himself in public. No sooner as he done his duty than, leaving his assistant to take down and clean the guillotine, he withdraws from the prison by a back door, and repairs, unperceived, to a small wine shop in the Hue Folie- Regnault, where he takes a plate of soup before going home to his family. His two aids, having carefully packed up les bois de justice and deposited them in a shed set apart for the purpose,also repair to the same wine shop, and the three to gether compare notes as to the way in which the condemned prisoner underwent his punishment and was put out of the world. M. Deibler then calls for a cup of coffee and petit verre, and, rolling up a cigarette, proceeds to chat with the customers, who are anxious to learn all i about the last moments of the departed ' criminal. This is the moment to observe him. He is a man who looks much younger than he is—a fact which shows that his lugubrious calling does not weigh heavi ly on his mind. He is on the road to 60, but nobody would think him to be more than 40. He is of rather small stature, thick set and muscular in spite of an in firmity from which he suffers. He dres ses in black with immaculate linen, and his whole get up would be most appro priate but for a heavy gold chain and big breast pin. At first sight his face has a savage air about it, but when you exam ine him closely he improves, and he then appears to you in the light of a typical bon homme. His eyes are soft and at times roguish. He is fond of his joke, but his laugh has a strange ring about it, and gives a kind of unnatural expression to bis countenance. One odd feature is a small rough tuft of beard or barbiche, into which a few white hairs have crept aud which clashes with his otherwise gentle mien. His voice, too, is peculiar. Sometimes it is j harsh, at others caressing. He talks ! slowly, and timidly as if he were afraid \ of compromising himself. To sum up he is a curious character, a mixture of the tender hearted father of a family and the j inexorable messenger of death, a man I who has two lives—his home und the j guillotine. "So you wish to know how Vodable behaved himself?" began M. Deibler. J "Well, very well indeed. I should like I to have such men always. He was one j of the pluckiest I ever had to operate ou. | He bore up to the last second in the most ' heroic style. Pity his courage was spent in crime." "What about Pranzini? He was the ' very reverse. The papers said he died bravely, but that was not true. He trem- I bled all the time, and when he reached the guillotine he nearly fainted away. Altogether he was a sorry fellow." Evi dently M. Deibler admires criminals who do uot show the white feather; this to j him is their crowning sin. Questioned | as to a female convict on whom he will 1 shortly have to exercise his skill in the I provinces, he said: "1 am fond of trav- j eliug; it relieves my mind and strength ens me to work: but I don't like to have j any thing to do with women. It is a disagreeable task. They cry so much, kick up such a noise and give themselves such airs By the way, I don't like you journalists; you are not always reason able. "For example, where you say I am too long about my job, whereas, in reality, I do all I can to get through it speedily. But I cannot risk losing my place to please you. Supposing I failed, and made a mess of the execution, it would create a scandal at once. lam not al ways sure of my assistants. lam obligod to watch them. When they have laid the condemned man on the sliding board I arrange his position in my turn, and it is not till I see that he is all right that I let the knife drop. It is a serious affair, you know, and I am bound to take pre cautions to avoid mishaps. I hope you will remember this in future and do mo justice." Having delivered himself of this mild rebuke, he returned to the im mediate subject of the interview. "I do not, as some people imagine, see the pris oner when he is woke up for the last time by the authorities. 1 wait in the adjoin ing cell, which is called the salle dc toi lette. lam not curious to see him. If I were not in the profession I should never dream of going out of my way to witness an execution, for it is not a pleasant sight by any means. When lie first began to operate he felt a triflo uneasy, but has got quite accus tomed to it,"and thinks no more of it than of smoking his cigarette. He has now taken part, either as chief or assis tant executioner, in 300 cases. He med itates retiring on his pension, but not yet. "When one has children," he remarked, "one is in duty bound to make a position for them. But for that I should retire to-morrow. I hope, whoever may be my successor, that he will be as attentive as I have beeu toward the criminals placed in my charge to undergo tlieir final expi ation." At this moment a man entered and saluted M. Deibler. "I say, young fellow," said the executioner to him, "you must look after the zinc pail; there is a hole in it and you must get it mended." This was the pail into which the head of the executed offender falls as the knife separates it from the body. By this time Pore Deibler, as the wine-sliop keeper calls him, had finished his coffee and cigarette, and rose to return to his family. The interviewer wished him un bon sommeil. "Ah, I am much in need of it," he replied. "On these days I try to sleep a little before beginning work, but I find it impossible." So putting on his hat and raking his umbrella, which he car ries in all weathers, he left, but not be fore exclaiming, with a malicious look at tlio journalist, u Au revoir!"—[London Globe. A PORTSMOUTH (Ohio) man named; Kingslcy has a well-developed apple. growing on an ordinary grapevine, the I result oi skillful grafting. ] CENTRAL AFRICAN COOKERY. Queer and Palatable Dishes Eaten Without Much Ceremony, As a rule, only one principal meal is eaten in Central Africa, in the early part of the evening. It usually consists of parrot soup, roasted or stewed monkeys, alligator's eggs (also well liked by Euro peans) and birds of every description. They also have moambo, or palm chops, and fish. A great delicacy, so consid ered by Europeans and natives alike, is elephant's feet and trunk. These have somewhat the taste of veal. To prepare thein the natives dig a hole about five feet deep in the sanu and in it build a large fire. After the sand is thoroughly heated the fire is removed, lcavin, only the ashes in the hole. The trunk and feet are placed in this hole and covered with leaves, and afterwards with hot sand. In two hours they are done. All carcasses of animals which are to be cooked are placed on a block of wood und pounded until every bone is broken, care being taken not to tear or bruise the skin. They are then boiled or roasted iu an open wood fire or in hot sand or ashes, without removing the hide or feathers. The cooking is of a very in ferior grade, the only spices used being salt and pepper. The kitchen utensils consist of common earthen or wooden ware. Very little time is taken for set ting or decorating the table; knives, forks and napkins are dispensed with. Africans have several vegetables well liked by Europeans. N'gutti-n'sengo is a dish eaten all over Africa. It consists of egg plant, small fish somewhat like our sardines and the roots of the cassava or inanioca plant (called d'gutti), which have a knotty appearance and often weigh as much as twenty pounds. As the latter contains poison, the manioca is soaked in water for three or four days to extract the poisonous sub stance. It is then cut and sliced and small tomatoes are added. All is placed in a vessel with water and seasoned with salt and pepper and boiled. Moambo, or, as the Europeans call it, palm chops, is also a favorite dish. The palm nuts are first boiled in water until the pulpy substance loosens from the pit, then tne shell, which contains a very delicious oil, is placed in a wooden mortar and crushed to obtain the oil. Whatever the meal consists of, meat, fish, mussels, is put in a vessel, adding the oil and the pulpy part of the palm nut, also red pepper and salt, and is boiled. Roast or boiled squash (loenge) is generally eaten with it. Sweet potatoes (m'balla benga) are more farinaceous and sweeter than ours, but do not taste so good. They are boiled or roasted. Bananas (bitaebe) weigh about half a pound each and are about 15 inches long. When half ripe they are cut in slices and boiled in water with salt and pepper. N'sensi is a little red bean, which is boiled iu water without salt or pepper, and is freely eaten. For peanut bread (chisulu) the peanuts are first roasted and then crushed. This mass is then rolled and put into the skin of a banana, add ing a little pressure, forming it into a body. It readily retains this shape from the pressure of the oily substance in the peunut.—New York World. NEW YORK'S HORSE MARKET. Wonderful Improvement in Trotting Blood in Recent Years. New York has come to be looked upon as the great mart for blooded equinos, and instead of colts and fillies being dis played, as of yore, in their ancestral pad docks, they are transported to that city and exhibited in the American Institute building. The dangers of travel are more than offset by the larger attendance of rich buyers secured in the metropolis, und the consequent increase in prices ob tained. The smallest man and the shrewdest inspector of horses at the sales of last spring was Robert Steel, of Phila delphia, the introducer of the happy meuium strain into the trotting blood of the United States, and one of the first men to largely engage as a business in the breeding of fast trotters. As he looked with kindling eyes upon the glossy skins of the youngsters being paraded before him on one occasion, he said : "How marvelous has been the im provement in our trotting horses withiu the Inst ten years, and, more wonderful still, with breeders increasing in num bers and consequently fast horses also, the good horses have grown enormously. Less than ten years ago a brood mare which brought $1,500 was a phenomenal animal, and the announce ment of such figures astounded people. Now such horses range in price from SI,OOO to $15,000, and a man who possesses a brood mare, one of whose progeny has made a great record, owns enough to support him, unless his ideas of living are extraordinarily lavish. "Why is it that the price of blooded horse-flesh has increased so rapidly? There are two chief reasons. The first is tlmt horses to-day, as a result of addi tional knowledge on the part of trainers, and owing to constant experiments in crossing strains, are finer bred than ever before in the history of the world, so that from the expression of twenty years ago, '2.40 on a plank road,' being an expres sion of superlative swiftness, we have come now to a condition of equine affairs in which if a man's every-day roadster cannot trot down in the twenties he is sneered at by the drivers he brushes with upon the road. "The second reason is that men who drive horses for pleasure keep more now than they did ten years ago. Then few men who enjoyed this most delightful pastime kept more than one horse, but they found that a lameness to-day, a soreness to-morrow aud cough the next week doomed them to frequent disap pointments, and so now gentlemen drivers who can afford the luxury rarely keep less than three fast horses."—[Turf, Field and Farm. Queer Beliefs. The Fijian cannibal's emotions have reference for the greater part to food. He worships the god Matawaloo, who has eight stomachs an I is always eating. The Tongans have a very curious dog ma to account for a day aud night being twenty-four hours long. It used to be less; the sun used to go down too quick. So one day a man caught it with a noose, and it had to go slower thereafter. The ancient Peruvians believed that the sun once came down to the earth and laid two eggs and then went back agaiu. From these two eggs men sprung. The American Indians had a dogma that the sun was the one supreme god, and the moon was his wife. One tribe inhabiting ft fearfully hot district wor shipped the moon alone, saying that they had no use for the sun. In the days of Columbus scientific dog mas asserted: If a ship should reach In dia she would never get back again, be cause the rotundity of tlio globe would present a kind of mountain, up which it would be impossible to sail even with the most favorable wind.—[Chatter. Ths obelisk in London cannot stand tin climate NOTES AND COMMENTS. ONE evidence of the economy prac ticed by American railroads during the jmst year is that the percentage of the in crease of steel rails in the track was less in that year than in any year since 1886. THERE is a prospect that somebody will make a mint of money out of Stan ley's lectures in America. The lecturer and his wife will be carried from point to point in a palace car now building for that special purpose. ONE of the most amusing of the many grotesque blunders which English news papers continually make in commenting upou foreign mutters occurred recently in the Spectator, of London. It spoke of "Mr. John De Quincey Adams." MRS. MARY MII.LON, of Madison County, Ky., was the first woman in that Stute to be elected County Superinten dent of Public Schools, and her adminis tration was so successful that at the re cent election there was no candidate in the field against her. Her example had proved somewhat contagious, as there were at that election women candidates for that office in eleven counties in the State. EIGHTEEN words have come into the j language—probably temporarily, most of them—to denote the act or state of elec tric killing. They are are as follows: Electromort, thanelectrize, thanatelec trize, thanatelectrisis, electrophon, elec tricise, electrotony, electrophony, elec troctony, electroctasy, electricide, elec tropoenize, electrothenese, electroed, ; electrocution, fulmen, voltacuss, and electrostrike. THE announcement that a machine has been invented which will gather cotton ' balls from the plant is causing a great j deal of talk umong New orkers who deal in the Southern staple. Some of the members of the Cotton Exchange believe j the machine will do the work success j fully and supersede hand labor. If the i | hope of the inventor is realized, the cost j of preparing cotton for the market will j I be wonderfully diminished. I AN lowa judge has given an interest | ing decision. A man was brought be- j fore him charged with drunkeuness, and five witnesses swore to the truth of the ■ charge. But several other witnesses had i seen the prisoner an hour and a half be • fore the time at which he was said to i have beeu drunk and he was not drunk i then. The judge rendered the remark- I able decision that an hour and a hulf was 1 not time enough to get drunk in, and I the prisoner was therefore discharged. I THE Shah of Persia became a father at : the age of sixteen years, and all his chil ! dreu are well advanced in life. He has I ! eight daughters, all married. His eldest | : daughter is called the Glory of the Kings, j , the second the Light of the Empire, No. 3 is the Pride of the Empire and No. 4 the Purity of the Empire. All these daughters have married rich husbands, ! and the Shah has promptly seized the I i possessions of his sons-in-law, with one I exception. This son-in-law is chief priest of the Teheran, and he holds his avaricious father-in-law in check through 1 religious influences. | ACCORDING to a gentleman who has re- ' ! cently spent some time abroad, the two ! Americans best known outside their own | I country are Mark Twain and Dr. Tal 1 mage. " Every sermon Talmagc preach es," said he, "is published in journals in Scotland, England, South Africa, Austra lia aud New Zealaud. You meet very few people in those countries who haven't heard of the doctor and who don't take a great interest in anything you can tell about him. Mr. Clemens is even better known. His books are to be found in all the libraries and in all the bookstores, J aud any information you can give rcgard , ing the man is listened to eagorly." j MRS. MARY E. BEABELEY, of Philadel- ! phia, is the happy inventor and patentee j of a barrel-hooping machine which gives j her an income oi $20,000 a year; her ! machine, it is claimed, being capable of . hooping twelve hundred barrels a day. ; i It is not, perhaps, generally known, says 1 Harper's Bazar, that the invention of the cotton-gin, which revolutionized the cotton trade, and established African slavery on so firm a foundation in the ] United States, was really due to a wo man. the widow of the famous General Greene, at whose house Eli Whitney was visiting when she explained her idea to him, and showed him how to make the model on which to claim his patent. | BRUSSELS, not content with having more beautiful public buildings than any other European city save Paris, has now determined to rival Paris itself. King , Leopold has just laid the foundations of an Arch of Triumph one-third larger ' than the celebrated one in Paris, and it isunnounced that this gigantic work will be completed by the close of the century. I Brussels already has the most mouumon , tal court-house in all Europe—a magnifi cent pile, which cost vast suras of money, 1 and which contains some superb halls. The Paris Triumphal Arch cost two mil lions of dollars; that of Brussels is to cost three millions. It will bo ric lily ornate with sculptures, some of which will be of gigantic proportions. THE reign of William Toll as an his torical character must now bo considered at an end, he having at last succumbed to the vigorous attacks of the iconoclasts. By order of the Cantonal Government of Schwyz, he is henceforth to be religious ly excluded from all school histories pub- I lished by authority, and it is offiicially I proclaimed that the Tell stories are | neither more nor less than fanciful, if I patriotic, legends of German origin. The despair of the Swiss who kept and ex hibited Toll's chapel, pointed out the exact spot where lie made his famous shot at the apple, and who owned and navigated the steamboats that brought credulous travelers to the shrine, may be imagined. THE gross debt of counties has de creased since 1870, but increased since 1880. Throwing tables aside, it is found that the Middle States show a decrease of debt of 8 per cent., the Southern States an increase of 15 per cent., and the Western States an increase of 31 per cent. The increase of county debt in the West (over $27,000,000) is easily ex plicable by the sudden growth of that region requiring, or seeming to require, an increase in county expenditure. It ought to be observed that while the gross debt of counties, so far as reported is $145,603,840, the net debt, after de ducting the sinking fund, cash in treas ury and total available resources, is only $115,344,654, with an annual interest charge of $7,318,374. It is expected that the increase in local indebtedness will be counterbalanced by the decrease in State indebtedness, and that the final showing will be gratifying in view of the rapid progress of the couutry in wealth aud population. THE question of child insurance is comparatively a new one here, but it is an older one in Great Britain, where it is said that at the present time 600,000 children have their lives insured. The amount of insurance is small, equal usu ally in our money to about $12.50, with whioh it is understood the funeral ex penses arc to be paid in the event of the death of the child. The ordinary pre mium is two cents a week. The law, as it stands at the present time in England, limits the insurance of a child at five years of age to thirty dollars, and of a child between five and ten years of age to fiftyjdollars. It is asserted in England us in this country that this small insur ance fund is not a direct incentive to in fanticide, but there are so mnuy reasons to suppose that parents do neglect their children even unto death for tne sake of getting the insurance that a select com mittee of the English Parliament has been appointed to consider the question. It seems incredible that the desire to ob tain a small sum of money would be sufficiently strong to overcome those parental instincts which are found even among animals,and yef there seems to be good evidence that such is the effect of this system of insuring infants. SAVED BY AN OILED TRACK. A Railroad Man's Account of a Thrilling Episode. 44 Talk about fast time." said a rail road man on the Missouri Pacific truiu I the other day to hie companion, 44 but I have never heard of a trip that would beat one I made myself some years ago, nor of any half so exciting. I formerly lived at Garrett, Ind., the terminus of ' the central division of the Chicago di vision of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail road. I had little to do, and made the railroad yards my loafing headquarters. At that time the 'Billy-O' had an arrange ment with thd Wabash to transfer all New York freight at Auburn Junction, nine miles distant, to the east of us. This was done by the old switch engine, the 642, which made two trios to the Junction daily. Well, one day I climbed aboard a box-car when the engine left with a few cars of merchandise to trans fer. There were six of us in the party— four yardmen, another fellow and my self. We had a jolly time going down; made the transfer and were to come back 4 light,' that is, with nothing but the en gine. We had all crowdea on the ten ter, the signal was given, and Gent Pot der, the engineer threw himself forward, pulled at the throttle valve, and the en gine jumped forwurd as if shot from a catapult. We did not think much of I this at the time, as Gont was a fine en- I gineer, and handled the engine to suit his fancy. We were tearing over the rail road crossing and frogs in a manner that was frightful. The tender rocked as if on hinges. Something must be wrong, we thought, as Gent was placing our lives in jeopardy. Climbing over the coal we found the cab full of steam, and Gent and the fireman hanging at the side of the engine. 4 4 4 Jump, boys,' said they; 'jump, for God's sake! The throttle-valve is pulled clear out and the engine is running wild.' 44 T0 jump would have been death. As one of the boys said afterwards, the telegraph poles looked like a fine-tooth comb. The mile posts flew by with un seemly rapidity. The yard foreman claimed that a mile was covered in thirty-eight seconds, and not one would I doubt his word. St. Joe was in sight. | Would the track be clear? Only three miles to Garrett, with its network of tracks, switches and spurs. The steam gauge registered ninety pounds. There were no hopes of the engine dying out in five or six minutes. With presence of mind the foreman dashed off a few words: 4 4 4 Engine wild. Telegraph Garrett to clear track.' 4 This he dropped as we passed St. Joe, and the operator, clear to compre hend the situation, sent it to the de spatches on the east end, without a 'call,' as we learned afterward. There was Garrett in sight, with itß tall chim neys belching forth smoke; there were the yards filled with freight cars and engines. As we got closer we could see men running hither aud thither. The other yard engiue was rushing madly to the west end of the yard. The main track was clear. We passed the depot like a pursued victim. Pale faces watched us in our mad flight. We pussed the railroad shops, aud hundreds came running to see the cause of the commo tion. The engine was in a quiver, the bell was ringing wildly with each sway of the engine, the escaping steam whistled as if demented, and tire blazed from the hot-boxes. Then we saw some thing which made us think we were doomed. The switch in the coal chute was open, and the long ascent could only end in our destruction. We looked again, saw men working on the track, aud then we knew we were saved. What were they doing? Why, bless my soul, friend, those fellows were oiling the track of the chute. We struck the ascent and slid up about 100 feet, and then the old 642 stood still and the wheels flew around; sparks came from beneath them like from an emery wheel. Gradually the engine slid down, the wheels still in the forward motion, and thus the engiue died out. We all suf fered a severe shock to our nervous sys tem, but had it not been for the presence of mind of the master mechanic, who ordered the oil poured on the chute track, I might not have been here to day." 44 110w fast did you go?" 44 We11, the first six miles were made in less than five minutes; the last three were made in much slower time, as the steam was exhausting itself rapidly."— [St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A Giant Talks of Giants. James Roberts is a half-breed Chero kee, seven feet and four inches high in his stocking feet. He is straight ns an arrow, weigns 825 pounds, and is well proportioned. He has great strength of bone and muscle, and his power of en durance is something phenomenal, lie is twenty-seven years of age and lives with his parents on a large tract of land owned by them in Benton County. His father is an American and his mother is a Cherokee. He is a great reader of history and literature, and withal is a pretty well eduacted man. Speaking on the subject of giants Mr. Roberts said: 44 The giant as a curiosity has been seen by almost every American boy. The stories of great giants of the past ages are more than interesting. Og, King of Bashan, was 11 feet in height. The great Goliath of the Bible is re porter! to have been nine feet and nine inches high. The Emperor Maximinius was nine feet in height, while many other Romans of equal stature are said to have lived during the reign of Augustus. Skeletons have been exhumed in Eng land measuring eight and nine feet in length. M. Theves of France, in his de scription of America, says that he saw a skeleton in South America tlmt measured eleven feet and five inches in length. Walter Parson, who acted as porter to James T. of England, was seven feet, six inches in stature. The Chinese claim to have had among them in the last century men who measured fifteen feet in height, but this is hardly probable."—Chicago Sun. A REDWOOD GRANT. Plan for a Public Park that Will Bo Unlike All Others. The newspapers have got hold of a ! story that our townsman, Col. Arm strong, is to present the State with a tract of redwood land in Sonoma county for a park. We made inquiry of the donor and found the rumor correct, only that he does not intend to give it to the State or to any particular municipality ! or society, but to trustees, for the use of I the people, for posterity and for all j time. This magniticeut gift of 600 acres j lies in Big Bottom, near the extremity of • the branch of the Sau Francisco and North Pacific Railway, about one mile from the river at Guerneville, in Sonoma county, and accessible by rail from San Francisco, which is seventy miles dis tant. It is the last considerable tract of these big trees in this region or so near the city. Of course there are other scopes of scattered timber in the hills, scrubby in giowth and out of the way. But this is a grand forest of monstrous trees, much on level land, bordered by the side of the Mount Jackson range, with tree trunks from five to fifteen feet in diameter and more than 800 feet high, intermingled with various other sorts of growth, occasional firs, laurel, and other j woods adding to the beauty of the spot, j The donor says the gift will not be | fully appreciated for the next fifty years. ! Then, when no other spot like it can be found in reach, his motivo will be under- j stood. The trustees will be selected about as follows: Perhaps the Chairman [ of the Golden Gate Park trustees of San j Francisco, the landscape gardener of ! Central Park, New York City, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Cali- I fornia, and a local trustee in this county. | Those gentlemen and their successors I forever will have control, under but few ' restrictions in the deed of trust. One j will be that no timber shall ever be cut or trimmed, unless it be blown down. I Another condition will be that the park ' shall not be a place for encampment, for j fear of fire, and shall only be visited in daylight. There will be drives, paths, and the like, as well as many ornamental struc tures, and a gateway and fountains in keeping with its purpose, for which a sufficient endowment is to be placed in I the hands of the trustees. The details ' cannot be given for publication, nor, in j fact, are they completed. But it is un derstood that some of the work will be ' done in the time of the owner, and that ' he will retain control for the present and as long as he lives. Out of the 600 acres, about 200, with valuable improvements, orchards, buildings, &c., are being put into condition for yielding a consider eble income, and much of it is as fine land as lies in Russiau River bottom. \ Aftor its income may no longer be re- j quired by the family, it is provided that j it shall become part of the park, and the trustees will be directed to use such por- i tion as may be convenient to erect glass houses for propagating strange plants, flowers, trees and shrubs, to De used in bordering the drives and ornamenting the ground. It will be seen from the sketch that ! the plan is for posterity, aud it will take j a long while to work it out, though in | the main the natural features of a wild forest are intended to predominate al ways.—Cloverdale (Cal.) Reveille. Hard Fight With a Vicious Stallion. A terrible conflict with an ugly stal lion occurred recently at Castle Hill, j Prosque Isle, Me. During the winter j Harvey A. Smith drove a team in the lumber woods, one of his team being a large stallion of such vicious disposition j that no one but Smith could handle him. J At the close of the winter's operations : Smith took the stallion with him to his home iu Castle Hill. On this day he harnessed him and his mate to the horse-hoe and began work, when all at once the stallion became vicious and frantically attacked his mate with teeth and hoofs. Mr. Smith quickly unhooked the traces and succeeded in uncoupling the horses. Then the stallion attacked I his master. Smith is a powerful man, I aud after a fierce stuggle, in which he was severely wounded in the hip by the | animal's feet, he succeeded in subduing ; the horse and led him to the barn, where ! he hitched him. He removed the har- I ness and was taking the horse to his stall, when the vicious animal violently attacked him again. The wind blew the barn door shut, and Mr. Smith found himself imprisoned on the burn floor with the frantic brute. For nearly half an hour he fought him with no weapon j but his fists, leaping aside to avoid the assault as much as possible, but being often knocked down and fearfully bruised. He found his strength failing, and was just making up his mind that he must be killed when the horse in some way disengaged a sled-stake from the side of the hay-mow and Smith saw it rolling toward him on the floor. Seizing the stake he swung it with all the strength of desperation, and, striking the stallion just behind the ear, with one blow laid him dead at his feet. A re porter drove out to see Smith and found him baJly bruised in all purts of his body, and in a sadly crippled condition. The physicians iu charge say that he will recover.—[New York Tribune. A Troublesome Dead Elephant. The recent Indian papers describe the difficulty attending the disposal of the body of an elephant at Nowsaree, in Barodu, which illustrates the Indian saying that an elophant must be buried where it dies. It appears that a tamo elephant, which had been kept at Now saree for many years past, died. The news was at once telegraphed to Baroda, aud sanction for expenses incidental to the burial of the animal was obtained. The local authorities then held a council as to how the remains should be removed to a distant part of the town, where j they could be interred without endan gering the health of the inhabitants. It was suggested that the dead body should be cut up into pieces, which might then be removed aud disposed of, but this idea was rejected. It was then resolved to drag the remains out of the town, and with that object to pull down one of the walls within which the animal had been j confined. Hundreds of coolies were 1 pressed into the service, and u number of carpenters, ironsmiths, and other ar tisans were engaged to construct a huge car on wheels to convey the dead animal. But the body, which weighed several tons, could not be lifted, much less re moved from the place where it was. Various attempts were made for three days, bet they failed one after the other. When the authorities saw that they were baffled in all their endeavors to remove the body, they resolved to adopt the suggestion made at the outset, and event ually caused it bo cut into pieces, which were then buried at a short distance from the place. When the body was sub mitted to the operation it emitted such repulsive odors that Raauc Jumnubai, the adopted mother of the Gaekwar, who lived in the neighborhood, had to move into anothor bungalow.—London Times, An Interesting Experiment. A number of men were talking of the wonderfully fine teeth presented by dis criminating nature' to her sous and daughters of Africa, when Dr. R. O. Himlett, recognized as one of the most observant physicians in the oountry, re marked : "Yes, the negro has the finest teeth in the world, but do you know that this distinction will not long remain with them ?" " Why not ?" some one asked. "Education." "What has that to do with it?" "Everything. So long as a negro i 8 ignorant, his teeth remain sound, but so soon as you begin to educate him, his teeth begin to decay. This fact is now attracting the attention of the American Dental Association, and several inter esting experiments have been tried. A negro boy, 18 years old, and possessing remarkably fine teeth, was selected. He could not have spelled out his name hau he seen it printed in type a yard long. He was placed in school, and J being of naturally bright mind, learned rapidly. Every day or two a committee appointed for the purpose would examine his teeth. For a time no change was apparent, but after a while, when the youth had learned to parse 'John found his hat in the road,' a black speck was discovered on one of his jaw teeth. The boy was urged to bend himself to his studies, and the more he strove the larger the speck became. Well, the fact is that the day after he had mastered that grammar, the tooth hurt him so badly that ho had to have , it pulled. In order that the experiment should be perfect, he was withdrawn from school, and a slight speck that had appeared on one of his front teeth soon faded away. About a month later he was again placed in school and was given the study of philosophy. His I progress was so rapid that within two weeks the speck reappeared on his front tooth, and two months later, when he had almost committed the book to memory, the tooth became so painful that in his agony he snatched it out himself. To make a long story short, that boy was graduated with a fair j harvest of honors, but he hadn't a tooth in his mouth."— Arkansaw Traveler, It MUNI HE S! When an article has stood the test of puhlio trial upward of forty yeurs, like Or. Tobias's Venetian Liniment, there can bo no doubt about Its pottbeHsiiiK real merit. t oitvince Sow-selves ot the fuet if jou have not already one so. A single trial will bo uuftkU-uL to render you the knowledge that tt la a superior article,axid the best in the world for puins and aches of all descriptions. For internal as well as external use being warranted perfectly harmless (oath to that ef fort accompanying each bottle as well as direc tions far use). Truly reliable.it is no wonder then that thou sands state they would not be without this preparation even were the price $lO per bottle, i Instead of only 2ft or 60 cts. hold by all druggists. Mrs. Windom, wife of the Secretary of the Treasury, is the possessor of a sofa which eame from Washington's headquarters at Valley Forge. Confirmed. The favorable impression produced on the first appearance of the agreeable liquid fruit remedy Syrup of Figs a few years ago has been more than oonflrmod by the pleasant experi ence of all who have used it, and the success of the proprietors and manufacturers, the Cal ifornia Fig Syrup Company. Every fool knows how often he has been a rogue, hut every rogue does not know how often lie has been a fool. Rev. H. P. Carson, Scotland, Dak., says: "Two hot lies of Hairs Catarrh Cure complete ly cured my little girl." Sold by Druggists. Better one's house le too little one day than too big all the yenr after. If afilloted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaao Thomp son's Lva-water. Druggists sell at 25c. per bottle A slip of the loot may be Huon recovered, but that of the tongue perhaps never. FITS stopped free by Da. K LIMB'S GRRAI Nhkvh Rbstokkk. No Fits after first day'i use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and S3 trial bottle free. Dr. Kline, nil Arch St., PblTa.. Pa He that line never known adversity is hut half acquainted with others, or with him self. Why not stue yrnir einthes, by using the >ost, 1 purest, rruttt economical soap, Dobblns's Klec tric. Made ever since IWV4. Try it once you will use it ako<iye. Your grocer keeps it or will get it. Look for the name. Dobbin. Most of our misfortunes are more support able thun the comments of our friends upon them. ÜBS I'm So Hungry Says Nearly Everyone After Taking A Few Doses of Hood's Sarsaparilla TeechamTPlLT^l (THE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY.) H Cure BILIOUS and H Nervous ILLS. I 25cts. a Box. I OF Ai-ii. DHuaacrs. |j MBUHIT nyMC4 J .J ArilOlfiilO ®W! CLAIMS HKTThKU PENSIONS for blank application)* and Information. PATIUCK o*Vajuuuju Pension Agent, Washington. D. C. UOME rpfo'cr: I DCUCIfIiS 2ffSß\S!Br, rt N 51U M d : plication. Employ the old reliable firm, J. B. C It A 1.1. K A CO., Washington, D. O. nniliaa mnir, oii,e,nu ,n. IIfMIInhI easy < I ItE In the World Dr. Ul 11*571 J. STEI'HENH. Lebanon. 0 jCQu NCHTsays# bo be done ? — w *—* sb&nds fornothind! house bo be cle&nech 4T c envi wibh Sapq//o.Tryowce.ke inyoup nexbhouse-clee>.nins|&nd be convinced "IGMOEAHCE of the law excuses no man," and ignorance is no excuse for a dirty house or greasy kitchen. Better clean them in the old way than not at all; but the modern and sensible way is to use SAPOLIO on paint, on floors, on windows, on pots and pans, and even on statuary. To be ignorant of the uses of SAPOLIO is to be behind the age. it was Ben Johnson, we be* ■ieve, who, when asked Mal lock's question, " Is life worth iiving ? " replied " That do pends on the liver." And Ben Johnson doubtless saw the double point to the pun. The liver active—quick—• life rosy, everything bright, mountains of trouble melt like mountains of snow. The liver sluggish—life dull, everything blue, molehills of worry rise into mountains of anxiety, and as a result—sick headache, dizziness, constipa tion. Two ways are open. Cure permanently, or relieve tem porarily. Take a pill and suf fer, or take a pill and get well. Shock the system by an over dose, or coax it by a mild, pleasant way. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the mild means. They work effectively, without pain, and leave the system strong. One, little, sugar-coated pel let is enough, although a whole vial costs but 25 cents. Mild, gentle, soothing an <f healing is Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. Only 50 cents. CALIFORNIA" EXCU RSIONS Weekly. Lowest rates and best fcooimiiodations to all i>oiuts West M.WALTERB&CO..B47 Broadway, NewYorkCity f%riLicinsy ,oHN w.jtiorris, ntlialUll Washington, D. C. W*Successfully Prosecutes Claims. ■ Date Principal Examiner U.B Pension Bureaa ■ 3 vra in loot war. iSkdhuiicatiu* claim*, attv sine* FRAZER A* l s e e urn IN TIIK WORLD UntAvt tew Oat the Qeuuiae. SoUL Bvarrwhera. WM. FITCH & CO., 1 O'l Corcoran Building, Washington. D. C. PENSION ATTORNEYS of over '23 yeurs' experience. Successfully prose cute pensions and claims of all kinds in shortest possible time. CJr.No FEE CNMtaa SUCCBBSFUL. / X JONES\ I l TON SCALES \ / OF \ ( S6O BINBHAMTON \ Ream Box Tart Beam J V& N. Y. <.J or fU*iNITu J w. wS9iSL< mkvlmaU/adory | —°" 1 PRPP ES *amnfarCiu. TO UIB* UJMDIte MJFM. CO.. 14* ttTTth Sa.PUUaZjV IBBBBWWrt 1 Bast Cough Syrup. Tastes good. Use R9 We offer you a ready made medicine for Coughs, Bronchitis and other dis eases of the Throat and Lungs. Like other so-called Patent Medicines, it is well advertised, and having merit it haa attained to a wide sale. Call it a "Nos trum" if you will, but believe us when we suy that at first it was compounded after a prescription by a regular physi cian, with no idea that it would ever go on the market as a proprietary medicine. Why is it not just as good as though costing fifty cents to a dollar for a pre scription and an equal sum to have it put up at a drutr store? HOY If you are thinking of building a house you ought to buy the new hook, Fiilllerr'e American Arch itect lire, or every mail a complete builder,prepared fcylVllWr, I'alliser k Co., the we.lknown architect* There le not a Builder or any one Intending to build or otherwise Interested that can afford to bo without It. It Is a practical work and everybody buy® It. The host, cheapest and inoetpopular work ever Jasuod on Building. Nearly four hundred drawing* Ai|6bookitiKl/.oanu style, nut wo uavedeteiTuini'dto tnoke it meet the popular demand, to milt the time* aothatitom be rosily reach.-d by nil. JHU. book con til us let pages 11x14 Inches In siz* Sid consist# of large 9x12 plate pages,giving plan* orations, perspective vl-ws. deecrlptlons, owner# nam -a, actual cost of constmotion. uo jrueHM work, and instructions How 10 II u lid TO Cottage*. Villa* Double House#, Brick Block Houaos, suitable fol city suburbs, town and country, houses for the farm and worktngiuen's homes for all Mictions of the country, and ooetingfrom $200t056,500: also Barn* Stables, 8 hool House, Town Hall. Churches and other public buildings, togother wltn specification* form of contract, and a tar-*e amount of Information on the eroction of buildings, select.on of site, eta. ployment of Architects. It Is worth $5 to any on* but wo will send itln paper cover by mail. po-tpaiiL on AKCMTECT TO.. 15 Var.dewator St., New YoA lliie I'arer._jtl ■ I prescrihe and fully e* dorse Big ii AM the only if •** "1 u II ISimiHAM.M.B., Bs| Amsterdam, N. T. E9 gre-nir by tk We have sold Rig o fr CkeakalOe many years, and It haa be ' l <" D R DYC ctT' * °°i\ Tr *'* SI,OO. floUl by Drugglsta
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