SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EVERY-DAY LIFE. (Jueer Episodes and Thrilling Adven tures Which Show that Truth Is Stranger than Fiction. A SAVAGE battle took place recently in the suburbs of San Francisco between August Whitemore's valuable horse and his bulldog. The horse, in going out of his stable, kicked the dog, whereupon the latter bit the horse. Then both animals became infuriated. The dog jumped and got a good hold on the horse's Hank. Ho took a mouthful and set his jaws hurd. and his hired man rushed to Wie rescue. The horse, however, wus in the fight, and not at all afraid. He shook the dog loose and then sent him Hying in the air with a well-directed kick. As soon as the bulldog could pick himself up he made another savage rush, jump ing at the horse's throat. His sharp teeth found lodgement in the throat of his foe, and in a flash he hud torn it hor ribly, partly severing the horse's wind pipe. The horse scmimed with pain and terror, and fell to the ground, while the dog kept on tearing at his throat. VVhitemore and his hired man had made several vain utteinpts to sepa rate the animals. Whitemore got a pitch fork, with which he struck at the dog and finally drovo him from his victim. The maddened brute then turned on his mas ter and caught him by the thigh, White more, aided by his hired man, beat the dog off', escaping without serious injury. The bulldog then returned to his pros trate adversary and began to chew his throat. Finally, seeing that the horse "wks nearly dead, Whitemore procured u rifle and sent a bullet through the dog's head. Astho brute was dying he fastened his teeth again in the flesh of the dying horse, locking his jaws so tight that the teeth had to bo broken before the bodies could be separated. The horse was a thoroughbred roadster, and cost his owner $1,200. ONE of the most remarkable inmates of the New York institution for the Deaf and Dumb is Hichard Clinton,who, though deaf, dumb and blind, has in the four teen years he has spent in the asylum acquired an education and a self-sup porting trade. He was born in Dublin with the sense of sight and hearing per fect. One eye was destroyed in child hood by an explosion and an attack of scarlet fever cost him the other eye and his hearing. He was for a time in a school for deaf mutes in Ireland, but it was not until ho entered the Jew York institution that he derived benefit from the instruction given him. There he has hcen taught the ordinary branches of education and has acquired the trade of bottoming chairs, lie learned to write by using a rule to guide his hand. Of late he has learned to use the type writer and has discarded the pen. Clin ton uses the sign language in conversa tion and reads the replies of his com panions by touching their hands. His touch is abnormally sensitive, as is often the case with the blind. By touching the hand of a friend he recognizes the person, and he recalls an old acquaint ance from whom he has been long sep arated by feeling his face, hands and form. The other boys in the institution treat Clinton in their play as roughly as if fie had sight. He never resents such treatment. Ho is only angered when he is pitied. When he is pushed, he recog nizes the persons attacking him by the manner in which they touch him. Many %deks have been played upon him, but it rarely huppens that he gets cuught twice by the same trick. AN almost incredible story of Russian brutality, in which Gen. Gourko of Plev na Pass fame, bears a prominent part, comes from Warsaw. Last May the little daughter of Gen. Pouzereft", while playing in the Suxo Gardens, hit a ten-year-old boy named Winter with her ball. The lad threw it back, whereupon the nurse in charge of the little girl, began to beat him. He and called her by sev eral unpleasant Polish names. A full report of tlve incident was sent to Gen. Gourko, who ordered that the boy should receive twenty-five lashes. According to the law, corporal punishment can only be administered to children by their parents, but Winter's father was dead. Tho police, therefore, ought to have ap plied to tho boy's mother. They pre ferred seeking out Mr. Olchefski, his tutor or guardian. They told him that if he did not carry out the sentence they would close his business house, a cafe and con fectionery shop. The tutor reluctantly consented. The preparations were then made in due form. Tho prison doctor was cabed, tho boy was brought from his cell and stripped, and the flogging began. •At the seventh stroke the sufferer fainted [ and the tutor rof used absolutely to con | tinue the barbarous punishment. In this dilemma the police telegraphed to Gen. Gourko for instructions, and received peremptory orders to complete tho execu tion ot the sentence. The flogging was finished by the police, and the boy was sent back to his mother, insensible, bleeding, and in convulsions. The Lon don Times gives the story great promi nence, and ascribes it to " a correspond ent." "TEN years ago," says a big million aire, "I stood without a nickel in my pocket outside of a restaurant door in San Francisco. I was indulging in an optical feast and wondering how all those good things in the window would taste if they were sliding down my hungry palate. I was trying to think how I could get the prico of a meal, honestly or dishonestly, it mattered little. Before I had evolved a plan of action a prosperous-looking man, who was dipping a half-dollar in his hand, droppod it through an iron grating, and it fell into the suhwuy below, lie gave an almost unconcerned glance in the direction the coin had gone and then walked away. It was a "ground-hog" case for 1110, and I determined to secure • that coin, so 1 walked into the restuurant and asked the proprietor if 1 might re trieve a |5 gold piece which I had dropped into the cellar. He replied, "Certainly," and gave me a hatchet with which 1 might remove a wooden bar that hud been nailed across a door leading from the basement to the opening under the grate. There was much litter and dirt down there, and in searching for the coin 1 found many others, which had been dropped in a similar way. I cleaned up $8 from that dirt, an amount sufficient to completely dwarf an able-bodied appetite, sccuro a clean shirt and a proportionate amount of self-esteem and reliance. 1 visited men of influence, whom I had not sufficient courage to visit before, and 1 have not been seriously insolvent since that time. Thus you may see 011 what a slender thread often hangs a chance in life." IN the Smolcnskay Cemetary in St. Petersburg, liussia, a lady was recently buried under peculiar circumstances. She had been subject to attacks of lethargy for several years. She would often lie for five weeks in succession, without a sign of life, and then wake up and recover all her faculties. The last time she fell in a longer stupor than he fore. There was no sign either of life or of decay in her. Her family physician at last allowed her to he placed in a coffin and put in a vault in the family sepulchre with the following precautions: A string was tied around her body, with the other end attached to the bell of the steeple, that stands over the family sepulchre. A sounding-board was placed over the sepulchre, and a metallic pipe led from her coffin into it. Thus the least movement that she makes if she awakes will ring the bell, and the leust l sound that she utters will be heurd I through the sounding-hourd. A guard is stationed by the sepulchre, with orders j to open her grave immediately if she gives any sign of life. As her death could not be uttcsted by her physicians, no funeral services were performed at her grave. Such services will be per formed when the coffin is opened and unmistakable signs of decay discovered on her body. The grave meantime is visited every day by physicians and members of her family. THE gigantic skeleton of a man, meas uring 8 feet G inches in height, was found near the Jordan river, just outside Salt Lake City, last week. The find was made by a workman who was dig ging an irrigation ditch. The skull was uncovered at a depth of eight feet from the surface of the ground, and the skeleton was standing bolt upright. The workman hud to dig down nine feet in order to exhume it. The bones were much decayed and crumbled at the slightest touch. They were got together ; with groat care, and the skeleton was j found to measure 8 feet G inches in height; the skull measured 11 inches in diameter, and the feet 19 inches long. A copper chain to which was attached three medallions covered with curious hieroglyphics, was around the neck of the skeleton, and near it were found a stono hummer, some pieces of pottery, an arrowhead, and some copper medals. Archaologists believe that the original owner of the skeleton belonged to the race of mound builders. THE Dilman Cave, near English, Ind., which has awukened much curiosity among the lovers of nature's wonders, was the scene the other day of the wed ding of Arthur L. Betzinger and Miss Cora Montague, in the upartment which shall hereafter be known as the "matri inoniul chamber." Notice had been given two days ago that the ceremony would be performed, and nearly 500 guests met to witness the wedding. Tho chamber where the ceremony was performed is upward of eighty feet long and tbirty-ono wide, with a ceiling not less than twenty feet high. .Stalactites and stalagmites lighted up by three dozen Japanese lanterns and a num ber of pine torches made a scene never to be forgotten. After the ceremony was performed the cloths were spread und an abundant lunch was set for all visitors, by whom various toasts were delivered eulo gistic of the scene and congratulatory of tho happy couple. ACCORDING to the Memphis Commercial the oldest horse in the United States is owned by Major Robert Maas, of Louis ville, Ky. lvanhoe, as he is called, has done duty in this hurd world for almost forty-seven years. Ho is a large bay, with a white spot on his forehead. Dur ing tho civil war lvanhoe was stolen sev eral times. He succeeded in escaping from his captors, however, and mudo his way back to the fields of his owner. The old horse, which is the pet of the children of tho neighborhood, bears on the right flank the scar of a gunshot wound re ceived in tin? Mexican war, at the battle of Buena Vista, while ridden by Major Maus's grandfather. The horse lives upon boiled corn and other soft food, as he has lost ull of his teeth, lvanhoe wus the chief attraction at the cattle fair held in Lexington last fall. A FEW days ago a farmer of Hanover township, Ohio, while in the field at work noticed a hawk which suddenly flew up near him -with a weasel in its talons. The hawk sailed up to such a height that it looked like a mere speck to the farmer's eye. As he watched, it suddenly began to fall, and it came down flying in a circle until it fell near his feet. The far mer, wondering at the cause of the sudden fall, walked over to the huwk and found it dead, with its throat cut by the weasel. The weasel lay beside its late adversary, completely exhausted, but while the farmer looked the little animal summoned all its remaining strength and escaped to a neighboring stone pile. AN eccentric man named George Bump, living in North Lyme, Conn., attempted to put a head in a cider barrel, but could not make the head stay while he tight ened the hoops. So he pet his five-year old son, who is deaf und dumb, in the barrel to hold up the head, and soon the barrel was headed up. Bump went to work in the field and forgot his son, until his wife nsked him where tho boy was. Bump ran to the barrel, knocked out the head and found the boy breathing through the bung-hole, but so frightened that he went into spasms. Bump was arrested, but was afterward released. He has al ways been noted for his absent-minded ness. QUITE a novelty in the way of a balloon ascension occurred at Reed Lake in Michigan. Mr. Charles Godfrey, pro prietor of a lake hotel, owns a big mastiff', weighing one hundred and fifty pounds, which has always evinced a great interest in balloon ascensions, and a double para chute was arranged, one for tho dog and one for the man. Both went up, and when at an altitude of about two thou sand feet, the dog was swung oft'. His parachute was slow in opening, butcame around ull right, and he fell in the mid dle of the lake, from whence he was rescued by a steamboat. He howled, but was not hurt. A MAN lives in Turknlin, in the province of Livonia, Russia, who cuu euro the worst cases of hydrophobia. Ilis medi cine for the disease consists of bugs of the size of a firofly, which he gathers in the month of May in sandy places. He keeps them in clean bottles until they be come perfectly dry and shrivelled to the size 01 the small common fly. Only one dose of two such bugs kneuded in bread is sufficient to cure the worst case of hy drophobia. When the patient tukes the dose his temperature begins to rise. In about three hours he has a fit of raving madness, after which he falls asleep. When he awakes his disease is gone. UNTIL recently the royul palace at Bcr lin has been lighted only by candles. Both the father and the grandfather of the present Kaiser were opposed to gas and would not allow it to be introduced into the palace. Emperor William has had gas put in and is now arranging for electric lights. Taxation in Cuba, Says a Picayune writer, is simply enor mous. We were thunder-struck when in formed by a prominent gentleman that the rate of taxation was about 10 percent. In addition to this there is a stamp system which is enforced against of business. Even the traveler who lands in Havana and registers at a hotel must pay for a stamj displaying the Baby King of Spain and place it opposite his name on the register. Similar stamps are used on all advertisements, docu ments, receipts, checks, etc. And there j are many other abuses of power, the narration of which would simply horrify and disgust the reader. The church in Culm has practically abdicated its spir itual functions and rejoices in un advo cacy of kingly supremacy and colonial slavery. ZULUS IN SHAM BATTLE. Even the Imitation Warfare of the Savages Is Horrible. A sham fight among the Zulus is an impressive spectacle. The dusky war riors are fine, muscular fellows, athletic, and highly trained. The rank and file, untrammeled by ornaments and dress, move about with grace and freedom. The officers, chiefs and head men wear coro nets of ostrich feathors, which rustle freely with every movement of the body; circling their brows are rolls of tiger skin, from which descend fringes of coarse hair; from the neck and should ers to tho knees their bodies are covered with the tails of monkeys and tigers and stripes of various hides strung together in girdles; their waists are girt about with tufts of lions' niune and cowhair. Forming into line, their variegated shields are so close and regular that they appear interlocked, whilst above them bristle rows of gleaming assegai heads. The foe is imaginary, as even among their own tribes they are roused to such a pitch of excitement that, had they any opponents, though only in mimic wurfare, they would be so far carried away by their feelings that at close quarters bloodshed would inevitably result. At the word of command they advance in precise order, first slowly, then at a quick inarch, then double, and with a shout of "Chiela !" (imaginary ouomies) the battle becomes fast and furious. Brandishing their assegais, stabbing and lunging with strength and dexterity, each stroke ac companied by a fierce gruut of satisfac tion, stamping, gesticulating, and gnash ing their teeth, thoy work themselves into a mad frenzy, in which their features are distorted, and their eyes glare with a fierco lust of blood. Suddenly the command is given to re tire, and, as victors shouting triumph, they march from tho field. Then appears upon tho scone a horde of wild-looking creatures, running and leaping from place to place, screuming demoniacally, and frantically beating tho earth with thick, heavy clubs. These are the wo men and they are engaged in the horrible atrocity of killing the wounded. After a sham tight the night is spent in feasting and revelry.—[Detroit Free Press. The Sun's Rays. A very striking illustration of the power ot the sun's rays is afforded by a simple lens used as a burning gluss. No very great burning lens has been con structed for a long time. During the last century an enormous one was made in France, all the heat falling upon it being concentrated upon a smaller one, and tho smaller one concentrating it in turn, until at tho very focus it is said tliut iron, gold and other metals run like incited butter. In England the biggest burning glass on record was made aoout tho same time for the British Government, which de signed it as a present for tho Emperor of China. It was three feet in diameter, and beneath it even tho diamond was re duced to vapor. Tho Emperor, when ho got his lens, wus much alarmed lest pos sibly it was sent by the English for the purpose of injuring him. Byway of a test a smith was ordered to strike it with his hammer, but tho hammer rebounded from the solid glass, and this was taken to be conclusive evidenco of magic in the thing, which was immediately buried, and probably is still reposing under the soil of the Celestial Kingdom. Many attempts have been made to utilizo the sun's rays for running ma chinery. The idea ought to be in some way practicable, inusmuch as every square yard of earth receives enough en ergy in the shupe of sunbeams to repre sent one horse-power. Evou on such a small area as Munhattun Island tho noon tide heat is enough, could it all be util ized, to drive all the steam engines in tho world. Sun machines have already been made to go, though not success fully as yet from the economical point of view. However, tho day is not un likely to arrive before long when tho thing will be done, and tho orb of day fairly harnossed for working all the en gines on the earth. —[New Orleans Times- Democrat Rat and Tortoise in Battle. One of the clerks in a Market street clothing store in Parkersburg, W. Va., captured a land tortoise a few days ago and turned it loose in the yard in the rear of the store. On Wednesday after noon tho clerks wore attracted to tho yard by an unusual noise. On repair ing thither they were surprised to find that a big gray rat had attacked the tortoise und that a battle royal wus go ing on. In a few minutes ouite a crowd hud gathered, but tho combatants wore so deeply engaged that they paid not tho slightest attention to tho men. The rat, being much the quicker, would dart at the tortoise and bite at it, jumping back each time to avoid tho vicious snap made by the tortoise. The rat at last appeured to realize that the shell was an impenetrable armor, and then turned its attention to tho feet of the tortoise. Tho fore feet wero too near tho scaly mouth of its enemy, and in endeavoring to bite them the rat got several savage snaps. It then begun to uttack the tortoise in tho rear, seiz ing its hind feet and logs and then springing away as the tortoise reared up and endeavored to throw itself upon its enemy. Tho tortoiso soon learned that, it wasn't quick enough to catch the rat by the head or neck, but per ceived that when the rat made a snap at its legs the rear of tho rodent would bo within easy reach. It now became a question whether tho rat would bo able to disublo one of the tortoiso's legs before tho latter chewed off* tho rat's tail, which hud already boon severely bitten. They had fought for half an hour; both wero bleeding from wounds and both apparently more determined than over to conquer. At this point, to the disgust of the onlookers, Eldridgo Warth en's rat terrier got into the yurd and made a dart for the rat, which saw its heredilary fc enemy barely in time to make its escape through a hole in the fence. —[Washington Star. The honey crop this Benson will be the lightest California has ever known JUMPED OVER THE BEJlfc. An Adventure of Captain Juek Craw ford, the "Poet Scout*" Captain Jack Crawford, the 44 Poet Scout," tells this story in the Detroit Free Press: 44 1 wus stationed at Fort Cruig, on the* Rio Grande River, and on the 12th day of August, 1880, received telegraphic instructions from Gen. Edward Hutch, commanding the district, to proceed at once to the Sacramento Mountains, scout them thoroughly and report the presence there of any hostiles to Gen. George P. Buel, a# Fort Cummings. The ilisputch wus received late in the evening, und ut 3 o'clock the following morning 1 wus in the suddle. Fording the Rio Grunde 1 set my face eastward across that dreary desert the 44 Jornado del Muerto," or Journey to Death. 4 'Shortly after noon I reached the Drip ping Springs, und halted for a rest and to graze my horse. Wearied with my fifty-mile ride across the desert, I lay down in the shade of a huckberry tree and slept for an hour. "After leaving this point I rode up a sloping mountain side, and while scan ning the hills down the range with my field glasses wus somewhat startled to see a band of about twenty Indians mov towurd the springs, und less than a mile distant. Hastily entering an adjacent gulch, I descended the mountain to the trail leading toward the Sacramento, and rode rapidly onward. A few miles irom Dripping Springs 1 entered a narrow pass which leads out of the San Andreas range to the level plain beyond, the precipitous walls of the canyon rising for hundreds of feet on either side of the trail. I was still push ing rapidly ahead, fearing the Indians might have seen me and were in pursuit, when a monster silver-tip bear appeared on the trail but a short distance uhead of; me. Taking a position in the trail, the savage brute stood there looking at me, evidently determined to dispute my pas sago through his haunts. I could easily have dispatched him with a shot from my rifle, but the report of the gun would have revealed my location to the Indians, and 1 dared not fire. My thoroughly affrighted horse was rearing and prancing in terror, and utterly refused to move forward and attempted to pass the savage beast. Dismounting 1 threw stones at the unobliging animal which so persis tently impeded my course, but all my efforts to induce him to vacate his posi tion resulted in but eliciting from him a series of savage growls and a display of gleaming white teeth. Realizing that further delay might bring about unplea sant results, I determined to force my frightened horse by the inouster if it was in the power of steel to do so. At every prod of the spurs the animal would rear and plunge until goaded to desperation by the cruel rowels, he gave a snort of terror and pain and sprang forward with terrific leaps, swerving aside to pass the shaggy obstacle. Evidently divining his intention, the bear sprung angrily in front of the horse, and ere I could realize what was risen on his hind legs, sprung clear over the astonished brute aud sped like the wind down the echoing canyon. After riding some distance out in the level plain I slackened my speed, know ing if the Indiuns were iu pursuit I could see them when they emerged from the canyon, and when, at a distance of sev eral miles, my glass yet failed to reveal their presence, I felt satisfied they had not seen mo, and had gone into camp ut Dripping Springs. An Old Cache. The other day, while looking for a camping place on the bluffs adjoining the ralouse river, J.Y.Walker, William Hillman and N. D. Mullinix made a strange discovery. While walking along under a bluff Mr. Walker, of the party, was surprised to feel the earth'give un der his step, and called to his companions. They all stepped upon the spot, when they could feel it spring up and down as a floor without center supports. Led by curiosity they began to dig and soon came to a board floor. This led to further investigation, which resulted in the dis covery of a circular pit six or eight feet in diameter, ten feet deep and carefully braided. The pit was almost full of a varied collection of articles, consisting of clothing for men and children, beads, beaded goods, harness, farmers' tools, cooking utensils and money. The money, a large amount, was in an iron tea kettle in the very bottom of the pit and was in silver and gold nuggets. The contents of the pit would make more than a load for a four-horse team, and whilo some wore well worn, soino were entirely new so far as usage is con cerned, many of the articles still having the retailers' cost marks plainly visible. The discoverers think the pit was made perhaps a quarter of a century ago, as the ground above was all grown over with bunch grass and no signs of dis turbed earth were visible. The location is a peculiar one, being on a flat, over hanging whfch was a high bluff, and it hud been so carefully made that not u drop of water had ever penetrated it. | The bedding and clothing were all in a good state of preservation and there were several boxes and jars of herbs as if put away for medicinal purposes.—[Waits burg (Washington) Times. Baby in Various Lauds, In Spain the infant's face is swept with a pine tree bough, to bring good luck. uarlic, salt, broad and steak are put into the cradle of u new-born bube in Holland. In Ireland a belt made of woman's hair is placed about a child to keep hurm away. in Scotland it is said that to rock the empty cradle will insure the coining of occupants for it. The Grecian mother before putting her child in its cradle turns three times around before the fire, while singing her favorite song, to ward off evil spirits. Welsh mothers put a pair of tongs or a knife in tho cradle to insure the safety of their children; tho knife is also used for the same purpose in some parts of England. Tho London mother places a book under the head of tho new born infant that it may be quick at reading,and puts money into its first bath to guarantee its future wealth. Tho Turkish mother lends licr child with amulets as soon as it is born, and a small bit of mud, well steeped in hot water, prepared by previous charms, is stuck on its forehead. At the birth of a child in lower Brittany tho neighboring women take it in charge, wash it, crack joints and rub its bend with oil to solder the cranium bones. It is then wrapped in a tight bundle and its lips are anointed with brundy to make it a full Breton. Vegetation in the Alps recedes downward from yeur to year A Life Saved Mr. Geo. Raymond, of Srnoca Fall*, X. Y„ I* t pomp setter lb the emptor *>t Romany * ,h well known pump maker* of that placu. He 1* a member of Kanmay Engine Co. He *ay: -My wife without aoubt OWN her life to Hood'* SarvaparllLa. A few year* ago nhe wm at death'* door, due to Wool poieonlag, or a* phy*lolann nay pyaemia. After ererrthlnz fallal Hoot'* KareapariUa brought her out of ths crisis all rl<ht. Since then *he haa suffered at time* with numbaesi and headache, hut continue* taking Hood's Sarsaparilla and 1" gradually getUng over these troubles. She Wings to Hood's, take* nothing els;, and we beliere it wUI effect a complete cure." 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"How we Make the Fruit Farm Pay." Sample Copy Free. Address (!, A. G H KEN, Itorli estar, N. 1. POOR, MAD KING OTTO! Hl* Lot luUnitoly Worse Than That of tUn Meanest Subject. Rumors that the mad King of Bava ria is failing rapidly iu physicial health have directed attention receutly on the Continent to the habits and misfortunes this most pitiable of European sov ereigns. The violeuce of his insanity and its curious manifestations are being discussed at length by dailies outside Df Germany, and all the details of his wild, dark life are being laid bare with relentlessly painstaking care. King Otto, of Bavaria, is the brother of King Louis of Bavaria, who drowned himself several years ago. He is ol the same remarkable physicial devel opment as his dead brother, tall and broad and muscular, with a tremendous reach of arm and an immense stride. His hair is long, shaggy, and uncombed. His umkempt beard reaches below his waist. He dresses in black broadcloth, of which he gets a new suit every week, for he has such a strong idiosyn oracy against napkins and towels and handkerchiefs that|he refuses to carry or use any of them, and makes his coat tails and sleeves do for ail three. Only occasionally, when his 60-year old nurse, Mme. Marie, approaches him, does a gleam of intelligence cross his blurred features. Sometimes he de votes hours to disjointed discussions of all sorts of questions with purely imag inary persons. Ho thon gesticulates furiously, and often becomes beside himself with rage over the supposi tious obtuseneness of his opponent. Twice weekly he sinks into a state of almost unbroken lethargy. During such a fit he smokes cigarettes con stantly, sometimes as many as a hun dred a day. With every cigarette he uses a whole box of matches, for, hav ing lighted his cigarette, he carefully sets off with the match all the matches. All the doors of the magnificent apartments of the crazy monarch are on the ground floor, and the doors in them are always kept wide open, because a closed door throws the King iuto tho wildest fury. He throws himself on the floor with all violence, and without touching knob or latch beats it with his list and head, aud finally fails on tho floor before it in a fit The King re fuses to go near water, even for tho purpose of bathing. He is terrified by the sight of an open carriage, aud can not by any means be persuaded to enter one for a drive. At table King Otto eats pretty much as other high-born Germans do. He consumes vast quan ittiesof champagne and speaks during the meal only to shout for more wine. An Kluctrlc Pile Driver. Electricity has been successfully ap plied to a pile-driving machine in put ting down the foundation of an annexe to a paper mill near Paris. As the old section of the mill was provided with an electric-light plant lying idle "during the day, it was decided to use the power for operating the pile-driver. An Edi son motor was mounted in the lower part of tho pile-driver frame and trans mitted power to a chain drum fitted with the fast aud loose pulleys. By means of a suitable cut-out the current could be diverted from the motor to a resistance box when power for hoisting the pile-driver was not needed. The machinery weighed 1,100 pounds, and the'height of fall ranged from sixteen to twenty fjet. A current of sixty-three amperes and 100 volts was employed, and the generator was about 330 feet distant. The conductor was a copper wire. 0-2 inch in diameter.— lron. limuruuoo Cripple*. A. N. Lock wood, president of an ac cident association in New York, says that since tho accident companies of fered an indemnity of $2,500 for the loss of a hand or foot there has been a great increase in tho number of accidouts to the left liaud; so many, indeed, that it was found that pooplo wore maiming themselves to get the insurance. Fi nally the companies were forced to offer a loss sum for the left hand than for the right, since which time there has been a decrease of 80 per cent, in this variety of accidents. Now tho com panies contemplate eliminating the leg and arm iudemnity clause from their policies for self-protection. Mr. Lock wood says there aro more insurance cripples "in tho country to-day than war orinulea. SATAH is buoioat when other people are resting. tlo Hart a Grievance. In Boston, says Art in Advertising, lives a gentleman whose name the whole country has been made familiar with in advertisements of M 'a $0 shoe." Now, this gentleman belongs to the Boston Club, an organization hav ing among its members another man of the same namo, but differing from him in this reapect, that his aristocratic ten dencies considerably exceed his # finan cial strength- so muoli so, in fact, that every month his nume appeared on the bulletin-board as postod for dues, eta This very much provoked the moneyed man, whose friends lost no opportunity of twitting him on the fact that he was behind in his payments; and so he wrote to the gentleman really at fault to this effect: "I am tired of seeing my name displayed all over the bulletin board, and will give you choice of one or two things; you must cither resign from the club or allow me to pay your dues every month." To which our swell friend repfied: M I am tired of seeing my name displayed all over the country on $0 shoes, and will give you one of two things to choose from; you can either resign from the club or go to h 1." The Japanese Dallot Syitem. Voting day in Japan presents some curious sights. The voters have to don their best garments and proceed to the voting counter, there to ballot without any parleying, as soon after 8 o'clock as possible. After casting their ballot they make a bow to the assemblage present, in which their head nearly strikes the floor, and retire as silently as they oamo. The Indian Territory is certainly en titled to the blue ribbon for an exhibit of unadulterated nerve. Two citizens of auat highly original land engaged cars and then stole horses to put in them Cor shipment. GRATIFYING TO A Ob. The high position attained and the universal acceptance and approval of the pleasant liquid I fruit remedy, Syrup of Figs, as the most excel lent laxative known, illustrate the value of the qualities on which its success is based and are abundantly gratifying to the California Fig Syrup Company. Berlin has just decided that wooden pave ments are u failure. Ilow n Student Vlnken Money. PEAK READERS—I am able to pay my T>oard and tuition, wear good clothes ana have money in my pocket by spending my odd hours and vacations plating jewelry and tableware and selling platers, i have made SSJ per (lay; never less than $4. I paid $5 for ray plater to H. K. Delno & Co., Columbus, O. Any one can profit by my experience by writ ing there for circulars. A STUDENT. England consumes GSO ton® of ivory annuuliy. Cauiefi no Nausea. Dr. Iloxsle's Certain Croup Cure is univer sally conceded to )>e the only suro and Safe remedy for croup sold. It speedily allays In flammation to throat or lungs. Sold by drug, gists, or address A. P. Hoxalo, Buffalo, N. Y. Price 60 cts. Germany's cuvalrymen are now taught liow to swim. FITC stopped free by DR. KLINE'S GREAT NERVE RESTORER. NO fits after first day's use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2 trial bottle 1 free. Dr. Kline. 031 Arch St.. Phlla.. Pa. The Sheriff of New York receives f12,000 a year and his chief deputy gets $5,000. We will give SIOO reward for any case of ca tarrh that cannot be cured with Hall's Ca tarrh Cure. Taken Internally. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Proprs., Toledo, O. Columbia College, New York, is the richest college in America. ÜBB HOW TO GET WELL is a question of vital importance, but it is equally important that you use some harmless remedy; many people completely wreck their health by taking mercury and potash mixtures, for pimples and blotches, or some othel trivial disease. S. S. S. is purely vegetable containing no mercury or poison of any kind. And is at the same time an infallible cure for skin diseases. Treatise on Blood and Skin diseases free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. Atlanta, Ga. 50c. Pruggiats or by mail. ELY JiUOS. t 60 Warren fit., 2s.\.^m f" CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH, RED CROSS DIAMOND BRAND , bl^V| r^n* ,e *TaUr no ot'hei kind. Re/tu, Subititutims m f" V **•rtl?uWw* raonhStf'and""tuff*™** TuAieZ^O^ (eff 'r ,' u rn "ftulL IV „ Liw. Testimonial*. Name Pnptr. CHICHHBTCR CMIMICAL CO., Sjimrt, -A _ V Hold hj' nil I<oool UruntUU. I'IULAOKLIMUA, TA. nip I'AGE BOOR, the simplest and fairest / I h .-ver written on the tariff question, for I 2c u"I U Htituijw. I. IV 1.1 Villi.l.water St.. N. P33WTOIONia-e all *<>I.I>IF.Wt 'A disabled, fl tee for increase tt yearn ex perience. Write for I.aws. A.W. Met ORMICK BONH. WAMHINOTON. D. C. <FC CINCINNATI. O. A||AR V> KAK. .NKRVOPH, WRJCTCHKI) mortal* get wvJJB.H well and keen well. Health Heljtar Vy 1 B tells liow. 50 eta. a year. Sample copT free. Dr. J. 11. DYE. Kdltor. IluTalo. N. Y. LADiESiiSB^H ei.velonc. MiksMILDKEL) MIU.EK, St tilh Eeuil, Ind. rftEwssow^K?^ EM? Succ.e j? n r ° UpS ® J? 1 B.f a ■ ltM - WttUiudloatiiieelwm#. ttv ainoa HAY FEVER KiS drcssof every sufferer in the & ASTHMA P. Harold Hayes,M.D., Buffalo, N.Y. I CANVASSERS WANTED. BAKER AND ROASTER. M 111A1Vn:icl"("AK'K RAKING? six vjlSnf ofS'i.OO. Circulars free. Address ■ Al. Koeiiiu & ('On lloxletou, l'a. Agent* wanted. KSPYKIOHTItai A ringing noin in the caw, headache, deafness, eves weak; obstruction of nose, dis charges falling into throat, some times profuse, watery and acrid, at others, thick, tenacious, bloody and putrid ; offensive breath ; smell and taste impaired, and general debility. Not all of these symptoms at once. Probably only a few of them. That's Catarrh. A medicine that by its mild, soothing, cleansing and healing properties has cured the most hope less cases. One that will cure you, no matter how bad your case or of how long standing. A medicine that doesn't simply palliate for a time, but produces perfect and per manent cures. That's Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. A cash payment of SSOO, not by you, as you might expect, but to you, if you eau't be cured. It's an offer that's made in good faith, to prove their medicine, by responsible men, the proprietors of Dr. Sage's Remedy. That's the kind of medicine to try. Doesn't it seem so 't "August Flower" How does he feel ?—He feels blue, a deep, dark, unfading, dyed in-the-wool, eternal blue, and be makes everybody feel the same way —August Flower the Remedy. How does he feel? —He feels a headache, generally dull and con stant, but sometimes excruciating— August Flower the Remedy. How does he feel? —He feels a violent hiccoughing or jumping of the stomach after a meal, aising bitter-tasting matter or what ne has eaten or drunk — August Flower the Remedy. How does he feel ?—He feels the gradual decay of vital power; he feels miserable, melancholy, hopeless, and longs for death and peace— August Flower the Rem edy. How does he feel ?—He feels so full after eating a meal that he can hardly walk — August Flower the Remedy. e G. G. GREEN, Sole Manufacturer- Wnn'ltuirv, New jersey. U. S. A. PATENTS SaSSS* I'I"""', of Advntura r ( r.*2ic A licit cms I.INKtiVII.LK, l'A Semi postal no.e— rnt mmmm ■ u.M xv r.i- MCM vlx m .v.rx MjCKiJlw,-. | " I AM^ This is a daily event in mills, shops, factories, etc. When those distressing weaknesses and derangements assail yon, remember thatthers is a Remedy for all of them. We have on record thousands of such cases, that have been restored to vigorous health and lives of usefulness LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S Compound hnsßtood the test of many years, and is to-day the only Positive Cure and Legitimate Ueiaedy for those peculiar weaknesses and ailments of women, all orgaulo diseases of the litems or Womb, and Ovarian Troubles, hearing down Sensations, Weak Hack, Debility, rtcrua Tumors, Displacements of the Womb, Nervous I*ros trat ton, etc. Every druggist sells It us a standard article, or sent by mail, in form of Pills or Los enges, on receipt of SI.OO. Plnkhau*. hook,"0ul4 Co Hrslth Mill IJr brssttfdlly Illmtr.Cpd, HQCOII r.folplofmo 2c. Lydia E. Pinkham Mod. Co., Lynn. Mass*
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