SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY DIPS.
Queer Episodes and Thrilling; Adven
tures Which Show that Truth is
Stranger than fiction.
THE workings of Russian bureaucracy
are well illustisited by the story of a
ruble told by Vildomosti, of St. Peters
burg. A litigant of the St. Petersburg
Circuit Court attached an internal
revenue stamp of one ruble to a docu
ment which did not require such an ap
pendix. The judge ordered the ruble
to be refunded to him. As lie had gone
to Moscow eight kopecks was deducted
for postage and the sum of 1)2 kopecks
was forwarded to him. Rut in the
meantime the owner of the sum had left
for Tver. The money was sent to that
city for him, with a new deduction for
• postage, which left a balance of 8G
kopecks. From Tver the man had gone j
back to St. Petersburg before his money 1
arrived. The message followed him'
further in the shape of 72 1
kopecks. But iho man had left
for Tliarkov, whence he went to
Moscow, theuce to Tver again. In
brief, he was always on the move and
his money was sent after him to nil the
places of his wauderiug, until at last, for I
the deductions of postage, the sum of
one kopeck was left of the fateful ruble.
As this sum could not be transferred by
post it was deposited in the Imperial
Bank for its owner to call for. "Imag
ine," says theNovosti, I 'themany official
inquiries that had to be made, the
amount of writing that was done, the
number of documents that were filed by
the authorities of the various places who
received and forwarded the ever decreas
ing sum of that ono unfortunate ruble.
D. P. LOVELAND, a Northern Vermont
farmer, recently bought a farm in Bhel
ton, Conn., and in removing from his
Green Mountain home he displayed great
economy, if not ingenuity, and contrived
to get the worth of his money from the 1
railroads. To sell his live stock, farming i
utensils, and household effects in Ver- ■
mont would have meant a great sacrifice, j
and the money realized by the sale would
go a very little way toward replacing
the goods in Conneticut. So Mr. Lovc-
land decided to move everything but the ■
* rocky land itself, and to do so without j
the usual expense, lie hired a freight |
car at the nearest village, and into that
he crowded all his movable possessions, I
like Noah filling the Ark. lie first put j
into one side of the car his household 1
effects, a farm-wagon and a horse-rake j
in sections, a plow and various farming !
utensils, 500 pounds of butter which he
was holding for a rise in prices, fifty
bushels of potatoes, and two barrels of
buckwheat. Then he erected board
partitions in the other side of the car
and put in three horses, five cows, two
pigs, and eleven sheop. On a ioft above
these animals he placed sixty chickens
and three turkeys. In the centre of the
car he had a little space left, and there
he slung a hammock for himself and put
up a stove with the pipe extending out
at the top of the door. For the stock ho
carried a bale of hay and plenty of grain,
and put in a stock of canned goods for
himself, and so he traveled. The trip
occupied five days, during which the
farmer enjoyed his travel, with nothing j
to do but to take care of his stock and j
obtain water twice a day when the train ;
stopped.
SOME time ago the household of a j
gentleman well known in tiravenhurst,
Canada, was very much upset by the loss ;
of a valuable diamoud ring belonging to !
a guest—a lady from New York. Sus
picion at once fell on a servant, who was
employed as housemaid, but upon her
continued and earnest denial of the theft
she was retained, as the gentleman, from
a sense of justice, did not wish to dis
charge her on mere suspicion. A few
days after the rin" disappeared it was
found under the lady's window with the
solitaire stone, however, missing, having
been pried out of the setting. It was
supposed that the thief had removed the
diamond to keep it from being identified.
The mystery was solved, however, re
cently in a most unexpected manner, for
in cleaning a chicken for dinner the cook
discovered a small round object in its
craw, which, on being cleaned, was
found to be the missing diamond.
THIS is how Auburndale, Wis., got its
name. When it was first settled its lead
ing citizen was an old miller named King.
The peoplo wanted to call it King's Mills,
but the old gentleman objected, lie
said he didn't want his name tacked onto
anyone-horse or two-horse village. Now
the old man was the happy father of
seven bouncing daughters, and the vil
lagers suggested that the name of one of
them should bo given to the new town.
The idea pleased the father as much as it
pleased the seven daughters, but which
one of the seven fair ones should be hon
ored above her six sisters! Tho town
could not be handicapped with all the
seven names. Finally a happy thought |
struck tho old man. Every one of his j
seven daughters was redheaded. lie de
cided to honor them all by christening
the town Auburndale, and Auburndale it
remains to this day.
TIIE theory that man can feel pain in
an amputated limb is still a subject of
coutroverßy. A physician who believes
it says: "Many of the nerves that furnish
communication between the brain are not
injured in their activity by the amputation
of their lower portion, and convey sen
sation as readily as ever. The brain
fails to recognize the fact that the func
tion of the nerve has changed, and that
tho part in which it formerly terminated
exists no longer. Therefore, when a
sensation is felt conveyed by a nerve
that in the unmanned body led to the
foot, the feeling is the same as if the foot
were still in place. If certain nerves in an
amputated leg be touched the feeling is
exactly the same as if the foot were
touched, and the seusation of pain is felt
not where it is applied, but where the
mind has been in the habit of receiving
communications from the nerve iu ques
tion."
A wniTEU in a scientific journal re
ports having recently heard a young girl
of 14 warble after the fashion of a bird.
She kept her mouth slightly open, and
the lips merely trembled, the notes being
formed in the throat, the centre of it
working as a bird's does when singing,
and the sounds produced were exactly
like those of blackbirds and thrushes.
She warbled suveral airs to pianoforte
accompaniments faultlessly, and most
beautifully modulated; and so powerful
were the notes that her grandmother,
who was excessively deaf, could catch
every one without the slightest eirort in
another room a little distauce oil. In the
same room some notes were deafening
when she poured them out at the forte
parts. She had been self-taught entirely
from "whistling" to her dog and sitting
in the window to "warblo" to the birds.
llf.ui: is n cat bird story told by the
Bt. Louis Globe-Democrat; Tho mother
was killed by a cat while her young were
still untledged. At first the husband
and father was dazed, but after a time
flew away and wus absent for a day and
| a night. Then he re-appeared with a
female catbird, who at once assumed all
the carea of the establishment, fed the
young and conducted herself generally
j as though she understood perfectly what
! was expected of her. Where the wid
! ower found his new wife, und how the
! bereaved husband communicated to her
the state of his affairs at home, are ques
tions for the philosophers to determine,
but the moral seemed to be that a widower
is able to look out for himself whether
he wears feathers or a Prince Albert.
DANIEL W. ADAMS, a deat mute, went
fishing at Notchaway creek, one mile
from Barnett's mills, Ga., and caught a
strange fish. It was an eight-pound
trout, with two heads, two sets of gills,
four eyes, two mouths, and but one body.
The heads unite just back of the gills.
Each head works independently of the
other. If meat be placed before the
creature both heads proceed to devour it,
the two mouths taking food at one and
the same time. All of the gills are in
good working order. The little pisca
torial rarity seems as lively and healthy
as any of his single-headed brethren.
A SINGULAR cause for the death of an
Indiunapolis girl is reported by the Sen
tinel of that city. She was Mi s Clara
Meredith, cashier and bookkeeper in a
business house. "About ten weeks ago,"
says the Sentinel, "she became ill, and
while the physicians were unable to de
termine the exact nature of her disease,
it was supposed to be blood poisoning,
the result of handling a large amount of
coin. Miss Meredith had the common
habit of rubbing her fingers across her
face and ear, and a8 an eruption appeared
on these parts which soon spread
throughout her entire system, it is
thought that impurities from the coin
were communicated to her system.
IN what was at one time a great bog or
swamp a resident of Kcndallville, lud.,
some days ago while running a ditch
exhumed several perfectly preserved
skeletons of deer just as the creatures
mired, possibly hundreds of years ago.
One head was found with outspreadiug
antlers of great size, the length of the
horn being forty-eight inches aud the
measurement from tip to tip forty-one
iuches. Close to the head the cir
cumference was twelve inches, from the
head fifteen inches. Tho horn is black,
glistening in the sunlight like polished
ebony. It is regarded as an extremely
valuable specimen.
As engine No. 21, F. M. Hopel, en
gineer, was going west on tho Kansas
City Railroad, iu Arkansas, she struck a
herd of three deer. One of them was
thrown from the track. Another got its
hind legs caught between the headlight
steps aud extension brace on the front
of the engine, and, not being able to get
away, it lay on the engine until L. L.
Lolmes, the fireman, went out and killed
it with a coal pick. It was a fiue 8-year
old buck that dressed 200 pounds. This
is the second time that engine No. 21
has killed a deer.
"WOMEN'S ways are past finding out."
This was the comment of a bereaved
husband on reading his wife's will,
which was recently admitted to probate
iu Kansas City. She generously be
queathes to her beloved husband the sum
of five dollars, with an emphatic request
that he refrain from spending it reckless
ly. The rest of her fortune, amounting
to over SIOO,OOO, she leaves to distant
relatives.
BROTHER ANSELM, who has just died
a monk and porter at the monastery of
La Grande Chartieuse, had been M. do
Brecourt, once well known in tho best
Parisian society. M. de Brecourt, on
coming home from shooting one day,
fired into a thicket, behind which his
daughter happened to be standing, and
killed her. In despair he entered La
Grande Chartreuse, where he ended his
days.
AN engineer on a Texas railroad found
a big flock of sheep huddled together in
a cut to get out of the storm, and iu
driving through them killed seventy
eight. Pieces of mutton were found on
the rear platforms of the last car.
JAVA'S DEATH SHRINE.
Awful Experiences in the Island of
Java.
"I visited 'the Valley of Death' when
on the Island of Java three mouths ago,"
said Lieut. Leon Bancroft when talking
to a Tribune reporter at tho Grand
Pacific the other day. Tho Lieutenant
is connected with Her Majesty's service
in India and registers from Calcutta.
"The place is called the Valley of
Death," explained the officer, "on ac
count of the deadly fumes there. But
the natives cauuot account for the
poisonous odors, nor has their presence
ever been explained. The deadly place
is about thirty-five feet below the sur
rounding ground, looks like the dry bed
of a stream and is about one mile in cir
cumference. As I approached the place
I noticed a suffocating smell and was at
tacked with nausea and dizziness. A
belt of this foetid atmosphere surrounds
the valley. I passed through it, aud iu
purer air was permitted to view the aw
ful spectacle, for it was awful. Before
mo I saw scattered all over the barren
ffoor of the valley skeletons of men, wild
hog-, deer, and nil kinds of birds and
small animals. The entire bed of the
valley is one solid rock, aud I could uot
discover a hole or crevice in any place
from which the poisonous fumes came.
Tho hills surrounding this desolate strip
are covered with vegetation, and
although the neighboring mountains
arc volcanic they do not emit sulphurous
odors or present any indication of a re
cent eruption.
"There is no apparent cause for the
strip of deadly fume surrounding the
valley. After I passed through it I be
came bolder and approached the edge
of the deadly place. I was anxious 7o
reach the bottom of the valley if possi
ble. but was afraid to make the attempt,
as I had been warned to give the place a
wide berth. I determined, however, to
seewhat the fumes smelled like, aud
started to descend. My pet Irish terrier
was with me, and as soon as he saw me
step over the side of the bank he rushed
down ahead of me. I endeavored to call
him back, but was too late. As s<son as
the little animal reached the rocky bed
below he fell over ou his side. He con
tinued to breathe for ten minutes. I
dou't believe I was ever nearer death's
door than I was at that time. Four or
five times I was tempted to rush down to
rescue him, but I subsequently learned i
that such a move on my part would have !
been certain death. For ten minutes I
suffered the agony of seeing my dog die,
and then turned and lied from the spot.
While there I saw a bird fall a victim to
tho deadly fumes. It evidently in
tended to lly to the bottom of the val
ley, but before it reached the ground it j
fell dead. I dou't believe it lived half
a minute after entering the deadly at
mosphere.
"No one has yet been able to explain
the cause of the foetid emanations from j
the earth, the natives say, and so many
live 9 have been sacrificed in attempting
to explore the valley that they have de
termined to keep away from the spot i
forever." —[Chicago Tribune.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
SINCE 18G9 only three successful coun
terfeits of Uncle Sam's paper currency
have been issued—one of them the $2
silver certificate, which has occasioned
such a disturbance of late.
THE most densely populated State in
the Union is Rhode Islaud, which has
820 inhabitants to the square mile. If
the population of Texas were equally
dense, that State would contain 85,000,-
000 people.
THE German Government proposes to
spend a million marks on its exhibit at
the Chicago World's Fair, when that
interesting event gets ready to occur. A
million marks sounds a great deal larger
than $250,000, but it isn't.
SUPERINTENDENT PORTER, of the
Census Bureau, says that within a radius
of fifteen miles from New York's City
IlnU now live nearly as many people as
there were iu the entire nation a hun
dred years ago, when the first census was
taken.
TIIE New Jersey farmers are to try
their luck at sugar-beet raising this sum
mcr, and if they succeed, sugar making
will probably become a Jersey industry.
The Somerset County Agricultural So
ciety has had four wagon loads of beet
seed for distribution and offers prizes for
the bc9t specimens of field-grown beets
from this seed.
A GERMAN soldier lias just died who
carried a bullet in his head for forty
years. The skull wliero tho bullet lay
encysted was four times as thick as at
any other part. When wounded a piece
of the skull as large as an egg had been
driven inside. Nature inclosed the ball
and made it apparently harmless. Some
surgeons would have insisted on cutting
out the ball and the soldier would have
died soon after. Nature, if left alone,
ofteu provides a remedy.
WILLIAM TELL may be a myth, as the
Swiss government now maiutains; but
the people of that republic keep on put
ting up statues of him. A fine one in
bronze has been offered to the city of
Lausanne by a Portuguese Hebrew now
living in Paris, M. Osiris I Ilia; but the
citizens are uncertain whether they ought
to accept itor not, as the would-be douor
does not enjoy the highest reputation.
The city of Nancy, in France, however,
took without hesitation last year his gift
of a statue of Joan of Arc.
MOST Central African explorers have
entered the continent from Zanzibar, and
have duly impressed all their readers
with the horrors of that first 150 miles'
march through terrible jungle and swamp
before climbing the highlands of Usagara
and L'sambara to a better atmosphere.
Burton wrote more graphically thau any
other traveller nbout these dreary
and dangerous marches, which are not
likely to be often described in the future,
for the German East African Company
has decided to spend $1,000,000 iu build
ing a railroad across these pestilential
regions to the uplands of Usambara.
THE village of Proctor, Vermont, was
named after the present Secretary of War,
and was built up of men employed iu his
marble quarries and mills, aud their
families. It is a thriving place a few
miles north of Rutland. Tho Secretary
and his family spend much of their time
there, when not in Washington, and iu
the seclusion of their pleasant home for
get that the man of peace has temporarily
allied himself with the arts of war. Sec
retary Proctor is now erecting a neat
stone library in the village, aud has en
tered into a co-operative arrangement
with the villagers for filling the building
with books.
"IT is a curious thing in the study of
the world's history," said a New York
lawyer the other day, "to see how the
commercial ceuter has shifted, from time
to time, iu a general course around the
globe. You can go back to a time when
Antwerp was the center of the world's
commerce. Next Amsterdam held the
threads of commercial venture. Then
the center was shifted to Liverpool. Now
it is in London. Next it will be in New
York. A careful study of the world's
commerce at the present time gives sure
indications that the power and prestige
of England in her commercial relations
are beginning to bo shaken, while the
commercial empire is drifting across the
Atlantic to tho metropolis of tho New
World. And, as indicating what the
powerful moucy kings of Europe think,
ex-United States Minister Noyes reports
that Baron Rothschild said to him
recently: 'The financial prosperity of the
United States is without a parallel in
the history of the world. You are draw
ing from all tho treasuries of the Old
World to fid your own.'"
JUDGING from the almost universal in
terest in tho subject of longevity, we
conclude that people generally consider
lilo worth living. The reviewer of a re
cent scientific work says: "From the
discussion of ' Oenteuarianism' we
gather that Kuropeans are longer-lived
than other men, and that Englishmen
live longer than other Europeans. The
statistics make the expectation of life at
sixty, in England, to be about eighteen
years for steady and sober field laborers,
confirmed drunkards having only hidf as
much; about sixteen years and a half for
the females of the aristocracy, and four
teen and a half for the males; about
twelve and a half for clerks, and eleven
and thiee-quarters for miners; while
sovereigns of all countries at sixty have
an expectation of less than eleven years.
' Distinguished men live a shorter
time than less distinguished, on account
of their harder work; married live longer
than unmarried persons, on account,
perhaps,Jof the measured tranquillity of
connubial life; women longer than men,
because tlicy lead an easier life; and the
clergy longer than other professional
men, for the same reason,'"
AN Italian of the criminal class has
stated in open court that it was the rule
among his people to carry concealed
weapons of some sort. The concealed
weapon, says tho New York Herald,
seems to be a condition and not a theorv
so far as our hot blooded races are con
cerned—a climatic condition in a sense
An officer at Police Headquarters says it
is the commonest thing in the world for
the Italians and Spaniards, Africans and
natives of sunny climes generally to go
loaded. "Tho chances of finding
deadly weapons on the person in such
cases is two to one. If we could "go
through " those fellows in New York,
sir, we'dtind enough revolvers, billies'
slung-sliots and cold steel to arm two or
threo regiments. A curious thing, too,
the man who is naturally sudden' and
quick in qunrrel is more apt to go armed
than anybody else. Talk about the law!
It ought to bo a penitentiary offense for
anybody to carry a deadly weapon with
out a permit. It ought to be accepted
as prima facie evidence when a man has
such a weapon on his person contrary to
law that ho intends to commit a felony
when he has n chance. The term of im
prisonment would depend upon the
character of the offender, but the lowest
ought to be a year in tho Penitentiary.
With such a law you'd see how quickly
unpopular the illegal carrying of
weapons would become. This is the
way to reach such people."
THE DUNKARDS.
Peculiar Ceremonies of a Peculiar
Sect of Christians.
The Dunkard Brethren, or German
Baptists, held the lirst of their annual
series of love feasts near West Hanover,
Ha., recently. There are at least 40,000
members of this peculiar sect in Dau
phin, Lebanon. Lancaster, and Berks
Counties. Fully 3,000 attended the
feast.
The season of holding these feasts us
ually extends from seed time to harvest.
One love feast differs but little from
another, but all are highly interesting to
a stranger. The service consists of
preaching, exhortations, old-fashioned
psalm singing, feastiDg, and the celebra
rion of the Lord's Supper, with commu
nion (distinctly separate from the Lord's
Supper), concluding with the ceremony
of mutual feet washing and the saluta
tion of the holy kiss.
The brethren and sisters, who were all
dressed in the uniformly plain attire of
sober gray, black, or brown prescribed
by the rules, came to the feast in all
manner of country vehicles, and the dis
trict roads for miles around were made
dusty with their driving. The use of
: buttons on clothing is not permitted, and 1
hooks and eyes are used exclusively in
' stead. The sisters wore their hair brushed
smoothly across their foreheads and knot
ted behind, underneath severely plain
bonnets of brown or gray. They wore
loose and straight skirts of the same som- |
bre tints, unrelieved by rutllcs or trim
mings of any kind. Gold ornaments or
feathers are to the sisters as sinful and
worldly as Paris bonnets or Worth made
gowns would be. The brethren wore
their hair long and uncut, parted in the ,
middle, with long beards and full mus
taches. They are mostly farmers, noted
everywhere for their honesty and thrift.
During the progress of the Conference
and lo ,r c feast the brethren and sisters
sat apart on dilfercut sides of the main
aisle of the church, took their meals sep
arately in the basement of the church
edifice, where it is the custom of the de
nomination to provide accommddations
for cooking, and at night slept in the
attic above, which is furnished with cots
and beds, and in the neighboring farm
houses and barns. In celebrating the
Lord's Supper, according to their custom
they ate soup, bread, and meats, pies
and cotlee. The ceremony known as the
salutation of the holy kiss concluded this
supper. Each brother imprinted a
smacking kiss from his bearded lips on
the bearded lips of his neighbor at table,
and each sister similarly kissed her sister
companion sitting nearest to her. The
communion service which followed con
sisted in the breaking of unleavened
bread and the drinking of unfermented
wine, according to the formulas modeled
strictly after a literul interpretation of
the Gospels.
Feet washing, which is considered the
most solemn and significant rite in the
whole service, completed the programme.
All the brethren, after dolling their coats
and vests, and girding themselves with
white aprons, took turns in washing the
feet of five or six of his nearest neighbors
in a bowl and wiping them with a towel,
giving each of them a kiss as the feet
were bathed and another kiss as they
were wiped. The sisters on the other
side of the aisle did likewise among
themselves, while appropriate hymns
were chanted by the remaiuder of the
congregation. A benediction, pro
nounced by a reverend Bishop, finished
the love feast, and the participants im
mediately scattered.—[New York Times.
The Dotlet on the Veil.
It is not such wretched taste, perhaps,
as the long skirt, but it is ridiculous all
the same, the black 4 'beauty spot" on
the veil. Why is it there? Simply to
say to the earnest spectator on the street
—Look at me. lam placed here to draw
your attention to my mistress's pretty
mouth or shapely nose. lam not a bit
of court-plaster, but I look like one, and
answer the purpose. It is almost incred
ible that women whose modesty is be
yond reproach can so plainly advertise
their personal charms on the streets.
When any article of a man's attire is de
signedly conspicuous he confesses to the
weakness of vanity or the misfortune of
bad breeding; and difficult aud distaste
ful as it would be to apply the same rule
to the sex, it is impossible to liud a valid
reason for not doing so. The restrictions
are fewer for women, of course, in the
selection of street dress, and in the mat
ter of color and cut, indeed, her freedom
of choice is limited only by the degrees
of fashion and the dictates of good
taste; but when fashion leaps the boun
daries of common sense and decency, as
she has a scurvy trick of doing often
enough, the woman of character and
modesty revolts. This is exactly why
the miserable dotlet on the veil should
be abolished.—[Philadelphia Press.
The First Umbrella.
It is generally stated that it is to Jonas
Hanway, the well-known philanthro
pist, that we are indebted for the valu
able example of moral courage in tirst
carrying a raised umbrella in the streets
of London. It is difficult now to con
ceive the amount of persecution which
this strange proceeding entailed upon
that honorable gentleman, whose object
was, doubtless, less the protection of his |
own person than that of showing his
countrymen how they might protect
themselves from drenching showers.
Long after they had come into occasional
use, a gentleman, accompanied by a.
lady, under the shelter of the new 7 style
rain-protector, was hooted at by grown
men as he passed along. A gentleman
who chanced to be elonc with a raised
umbrella on the streets of either London
or Liverpool was in constant danger of
assault from the howling mob that was
sure to follow at his heels.—[St. Louis
Republic.
An Ancient Butcher Shop.
The Museum of Antiquities at Dresden
has come into possession of an interest
ing marble relief from Borne, which
represents an ancient butcher's shop of
oblong shape, and divided by a pillar
into two unequal parts. In the greater
stands the butcher with a high chopping
block resting on three substantial legs
beforo him, while behind him hang tho
steelyard and cleaver, ho himself being
occupied in dividing a rib of meat with
another cleaver. On the wall above him,
just as with us, is a row of hooks near to
eachoth r, on which hang pieces of meat
already dressed—a rib and a leg of meat,
apoik joint and udders—a titbit of the
Romans—also luugs and liver, and, last
of all, tho favorite bear's head. On the
left, in the smaller division of the shop,
iho wife of the butcher sits in an easy
chair, with an account book on her knees,
engaged in assisting the business of her
husband by acting as bookkeeper.—
I London Tit-Bits
A Delightful Flirtation.
"My dear," said a Bociety girl to her
josora friend, "I found a gray hair this
norning, which I am sure must be the
osult of an adventure I had the other
light at tho Snooks party. If you will
jromise on your word aud honor not to
ell-"
"I promise."
"Well, you know voung Jimmy Trad
dles?"
"Used to light with him when we
•vere littlo."
"He took mo to supper." N
"A bad selection on your part, for he
dniost always takes too much wine."
"So l liavo heard. He may have
been lingering for more champagne, and
10 left mo longor than ho should in the
pornor of tho suppor room, after bring
ing mo some terrapin and salid. Any
how, I wanted a chicken croquette, and
I asked a young man whose face was
familiar to me to bring me one. He
did so promptly, and I engaged him in
conversation. I thought lie was rather
bashful, and his reply to my lirst re
mark was simply." Yes, mees." His ac
cent made me sure I was safo iu say
ing;
"I think I met you the other night ai
the French Legation?"
" 'No, mees; I do not think so,' he ro
plied. 4 But we had mot on other happy
occasions.'
"By this time I was convinced that
he was an attache ot ono of the foreign
| embassies. I have a weakness for
foreigners, you kuow; they do llirt so
I charmingly. So I giggled and said:
"It is very nice of you to say that
they were happy occasions."
P " 4 Ali, mademoiselle must know it!"
he responded with an air of ecstacy.
" 4 But you foreigners are given to
compliments that one hesitates to be
| liove auything you sav.
" 'All, mees,' he Haid sighing heavily,
'ze ladies of Amerique are so very beau
tiful.'
"Evidently he was not so bashful as
I had imagined. In response to this
galleut remark I ventured to inquire in
what respects he considered that Amer
ican women excelled as to loveliness.
" 'ln efl'ery respect, mees,' he replied.
'Particularly in ze beauty of—what you
call it—ah, yes, their hides.'
"I couldn't help giggling again at
that, but I checked myself and cor
rected him, saying:
" 'You must say skins—not hides.*
" 'But,' lie objected, with an accent oi
doubt, T have been told that it is not
proper to speak of young ladies' skins.'
"Then I giggled some moro, but, not
wishing to pursue the discussion fur
ther, I changed tho subject and said, as
I saw the delinquent Jimmy Traddles
making his way in my direction, that
my day was Tuesday, and I should be
very pleased to have him call. I per
rnitted the amiable foreigner to relieve
mo of my ompty plate—a courtesy which
he thereupon proceeded to bestow
also upon seven or eight other girls in
my immediate neighborhood, extend
ing with the utmost coolness a line ol
plates in order to avoid the vulgarity ol
piling them along one arm all the way
from his finger tips to his chin. Then
waving a napkin at mo with tho othei
hand, ho said as he turned away:
" Tt will gif me much pleasure tc
call upon you, mees.'
"Withinthe last thirty seconds the
situation had suddenly dawned upon
me. I had been conversing with o
waiter."— Washington Star.
Classified Sinners.
"Eight sinners came forward foi
prayers last night," said a gentleman
QOW conducting revival services in Cin
cinnati; "eight sinners, some of them oi
the very highest Rocial standing, and
tome of no standing at all." What
would John Wesley have said to such o
speech as that, or what his inspired
jrother Charles ? Social standing dis
cussed at the altar! A story is related
that when ono day theDnko of Welling
ton was kneeling at the altar to partake
of the communion a peasant knelt by
bis side for the same religious purpose.
An officious person standing by whis
pered in words the Iron Duke could not
but overhear: " Come away from there.
don't you know you aro kneeling by the
side of the Duke of Wellington?" "Lei
him remain," interruped the Duke
"there is no rank at this altar."
KewopHpor Kthics.
Great Editor —"Did you write a nict
article welcoming tho new paper, the
Daily Breeze , to local journalism?"
Assistant—"Yos, sir."
"Hope you said there was plenty oi
room for it, and it had only to deserve
success to achievo it."
"Yes, sir."
"Worked in somothing about 'the
more the merrier,'eh."
"Yos, indeed. Didn't forget that."
"All right. Tell tho foreman tc
double lead the article aud put it in o
conspicuous place; then tell tho busi
ness manager to quietly take advertise
ments at half price, and bribe all the
newsboys to refuso to handle the Daily
Breeze on any terms. — Street Smith T
Good News.
Tho French navnl authorities nro pressing
forward the const ruction of more wur ves -
ols.
EVlakes the
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The way In which llood'R Rarsnparllln builds up
peoplo In run down or weakened state of health
conclusively proves tho claim that this medlchn
"makes the weak strong." It does not net like n
stimulant, Imparting fictitious strength from which
there must follow a reaction of greater weakness
than before, but in tho most natural way Hood's
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bodily, nerve, mental and dlgestivo strength.
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Unl it B Ell We want the name and ad
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Under tfia Earth.
The workmen in the deepest mine?
of Europe swelter in almost intolerable
heat, and yet they have never penetrn
ted over on seven-thousandth part oj
the distance from the surface totbecen
tor of the earth. In the lower levels ol
some of the Comstock mines the men
fought scalding water, and could labor
only three or four hours at a time until
the Sutro tunnel pierced the mines
and drew off some of the terrible heat,
whioh had stood at 120 degrees. The
deepest boring ever made, that at Sper
enberg, near Berlin, penetrates only ;
4,172 feet, about 1,000 feet deeper than
the famous artesian well at Bt. Louis.
While borings and mines reveal to us
only a few secrets relating to the tem
perature and constitution of the earth
for a few thousand feet below the sur
face, we are able, by means of volcanoes,
to form some notion of what is going on
at greater depths. There have been
many theories about the causes of vol
canoes, but it is now generally held
'hat though they are produced by the
intense heat of the interior of the earth
'.hoy are not directly connected with the
molten mass thut lies many miles below
'.he (immediate sources of volcauio
energy. Everybody knows that many
rocks are formed on the floor of tho
scean, and it has been found that a
Iwentieth to a seventh of their weight
is made up of imprisoned water. Now,
these rocks are buried in time under
overlaying strata which serve as a
blanket to keep in the enormous heat of
the interior. The heat turns the water
into super-heated steam, which melts
the hardest rocks, and when tho steam
finds a fissure in the strata above, it
breaks through to the surface with ter
rific energy, and we have a volcano. We
fiud that these outpourings that havo
lain for countless ages many thousands
of feet below the surface are well
adapted to serve the purposes of man.
Many a vino-yard flourishes on the vol
sanic ashes from Vesuvius, and vol
cauio mud has clothed tho hills of New
Zealand with fine forests and its plains
with luxuriant verdure. The most
wonderful display of the results of vol
canic energy is seen in the northwestern
corner of our own land, a region of lofty
forests and of great fertility.— Gold•
lliicaile's Geog rap Ideal Magazine.
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or when the blood is impure or sluggish, to
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j awaken the kidneys and liver to a healthy
activity, uilhout irritating or weakening them,
use Syrup of Figs.
Mexico is to have the Continent's longest
tunnel.
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That
Contain Mercury,
As mercury will surely destroy tho sense of
smell and completely derange tho whole sys
tem when entering it through the mucous sur
faces. tiuch articles should never be used ex
cept on prescriptions from reputable physi
cians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to
l iK° you can possibly derive from them.
Hall s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.,contains no mercury,
and is taken internally, and acts directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces of the system.
Ju buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get
tbo t-cnuiuo. It is token internally, anil made
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Sold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle.
llev. Richard Penrose lias become associate
editor of the New York Christian.
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A; W
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