SOMEWHAT STRANGE ACCIDENTS AM) INCIDENTS OF EVERY-DAY LIFE. Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven tares Which Show that Truth Is Stranger than Fiction. THE American bark Ilesper arrived at San Francisco one day recently from Kobe, after an excellent passage of twenty-seven days, with a full cargo of teu and a graphic account of an experi ence with u submarine volcano, hot sea water, and sulphurous gases. Cnpt. J Sodergren states that about 6.45 a, m. one day, while lying at anchor in Kobe, the bark received a sudden shock that caused the masts to strain and creak. Some of the standing rigging snapped like a piece of twine and all hands were thrown from their feet. The vessel pitched heavily and caused one of the crosstrocs to break from its fastenings and full on deck. The waters became still an hour later and the bark put to seu. Early in the morning, two days later, when about seventy-live miles off the Japan coast, the bark was almost thrown on her beuins ends by the sudden eruption of a submarine volcano. The water becumo so hot that when a sea was shipped on deck the crow took to the rig ging. The heat becaino so intenso that the pitch in the deck was melted and the seams opened, "(ireat blasts of hot uir with a strong sulphurous smell," said the Captuin yesterday, "would come up from the breaking surfaco of the ocean and almost suffocate us for the moment. Then , tho membrane of the nostrils became irri- 'ted, causing us all to have a fit of sneezing. This phenomenon lasted for several hours. I have had all I want of the Japan side for some time to come.' THIRTY-SIX years ago, in 1855, 11. F. Dowell, then a resident of Cow Creek, in Southern Oregon, owned a mulo valued at S2OO. In that year some of Undo Sam's wards, tho Sioux or lianuocks, killed that mule, and Funner Dowell swore a mighty oath that Uncle Sam should pay for it. To their cost, con gressmen, senators and secretaries, not to mention department oflicials, know how well Dowell has kept his vow. '1 hrough eighteen congresses and nine administrations he bus been persistent, in season and out of season, in pressing his claim. Vigorous, aggressive and persistent, lie was never the typical dis appointed claimant, heart-sick with wait ing tho slow action of an ungrateful gov ernment, but rather a thorn in tho flesh j and an aggravation to tho dilatory pow ers. At last his reward came, and ho j stood a concrete illustration of all the adages whiclf foretell the triumph of | perseverance. Slowly tho opposition to his demand wore away under his constant attrition, and a few days ago Dowell stood with Uncle Sam's promises to pay the bearer S2OO in his hands, and that mule was paid for. "A CORRESPONDENT in the native dis trict of Waiapu," says the Evening Post of New Zealand, "draws a frightful pic ture of the condition of the Maories. Fever is very prevalent, and it is very saddening to seo how the Maories neglect to use the most ordinary precautions for isolation. They will persist in sitting iu a most stifling atmosphere in the pres ence of both dead and dying. In many settlements the population seems to have become fatalists, and are resorting to old superstitions and using incantations and a ridiculous travesty of spirit rapping. These influences are most depressing, and no comfort or consolation is offered the sick people, who uro sadly noglectod, preparations for the death feast often taking place before the eyes of dyiug persons. Harewera, an old man, ill with | fever, was ullowed to wander, and fell into a swamp. He lay there somo time, and ate earth worms to satisfy his hunger. 11c also actually bit a piece out of his own arm and sucked his blood. lie then crawlej into his own place, fell into the fire, and soon died. Nut a, a schoolboy, recovering from fever, was allowed to wander into the swamp, and died in two days of rolapse, and was buried without a medical certificate." I HAVE seen half a dozen recent in stances of lives saved by canine sagacity, writes u correspondent. Hassan, u Chi cago dog, was chained 111 a yard. His master was owner of a saloon, and six men, heavy with drinking, slept in a room ovor tho bar A fire broke out, and was creeping steadily ovor the roof of a shed into the room of tho sleepers. The dog by determined efforts broke his chain. He could not force tho door, and was obliged to dash through the transom. Then he leaped up the staircase and broke into tho room where his muster lay. j lie was obliged to pull him from tho bed | to tho window. The man was at last ! aroused, and iu turn aided in getting out of the house all of the occupants. But poor Hassan was so exhausted that he fell back into tho flames and perished. 1 do not believe him to have been less moral or less worthy of immortality than the people ho rescued. IT appears, from a letter from ono who knows, that the black fellows of Aus tralia knew long ago of the home-loving instincts of the bee, and made use of tho knowledge thus; They used to wait till they spied a bee sucking honey from a flower, and then gently dropped upon his buck a piece of swnnsdowu. Tho bee, immediately feeling something was amiss with him, started for home, perhaps to seek a bee doctor's advice as this strange malady. Owing to the little bit of white upon his back, the keen eyes of tho na tives were able to follow the insect in his homeward flight, running, of course,their hardest to keep pace with him. At last he reached his desired haven, and then the natives knew where the honey was hidden, and, of course, uvilod themselves of t.iis knowledge to help themselves to us much us they wished for. AARON NASH, tin eccentric character has died at Wiudemer, Conn. He was 75 years of age. For years he had re sided iu an old house with his sister. The house was much dilapidated, being with out windows and doors, uupnintcd, und with very little furniture. The other occupants of the bouse wero cats and dogs, rabbits, white ruts, two hogs, a calf and innumerable chickens. Mr. Nash was arrested a short time ago for neg lecting his stock, und it cost him several hundred dollars to settle tho caso. He was worth SIOO,OOO a short time ago and invested a largo amount of it in property, but not taking cure of it ho lost it. Ho had no faith in banks and ulways kept arge sums of money in the house. THE delicate operation of transplant I I ing the cornea from the eye of a rabbit ' " to that of a woman, ws successfully i performed at the Polyclynic Hospital in ■ Philadelphia a few days ago. A woman applied at the out-patient department of F the hospital, whose sight had become in |f i jured by a burn. She was immediately placed under the iniluonco of ether and rl y the operation begun. The injured cornea was cut nwuy, and that of a rabbit graft ed in its place. The woman is now rest ing easily, and the success of the opera tion is believed to be assured. DR. LENZ says that when he went to Fez, one of the capitals of Morocco, he found a most unlooked-for custom among the women. Moliumnieduns are not sup nosed to drink spirituous liquors, but Dr. Leuz says the women in Morocco are universally addicted to the practice. Brundy is made, for which the customers are almost exclusivly Moorish women. While the men are strict prohibitionists, the women drink brandy in large quan tities. Women who came to Dr. Leuz's house to see his Moorish servants nevor failed to ask him for a glass of wino or cognac, and he was surprised to see the I quantities they could drink. A BIG red-whiskered Irishman pre empted an island near Minneapolis, Minn., built a shanty, and defied any body to removo him. lie was known us tho King of Boom I slum 1, and ho gained considerable notoriety by his venture. He sleet in the shunty at night and hired a small boy to watch the claim during tho day, but in the course of time tho loneliness became oppressive, and ho has resignod tho claim and deserted the shanty. IT is said that there is something in the soil of the Catholic cemetery on Iron Hill, Pittsburg, Penn., that petrifies corpses buried there. Last week several bodies wero exhumed for removal. They had not beeu buried very long, two of them but five years, yet it is said that they had turned completely into stone, und wero as natural in appearance as though just buried. The soil is com posed of limestone and clay, and tho bodies when . exhumed wore found sur rounded by water, which is supposed to have exerted the petrifying influence. THE camera is to be crodited with sav ing life. Mr. Littiedale and party wore lately exploring tho panior with a con siderable body of natives and a Chinese guide. When tho time came for tho lat ter to leave the explorer learned that he had made preparations to plunder tho party in tho Boroghil Pass, lie hud tho man brought to his tent, told him that 110 had taken his photograph, and declared that 110 should send it to tho Chinese Governor of Kashgar, with tho request that tho original bo crucified. The guide confessed in terror, und the plot fell through. JOSIAH CARPENTER, tho oldest inhabi tant of West Virginia, died recently at liis residence in Preston County. Esti mates of Carpenter's age varied, but none placed him under 120 years. 11c claimed to have been born in London County, Virginia, in 1732, and was therefore, 159 years old. lie claimed to remember Braddock's defeat and to have served as a teamster ut that time. Carpenter had a son who died ten years ago ut the ago of eighty. Until recently his health has been fairly good. He has one daughter still living who is over eighty. AN English exchango bus recently called attention to the destruction of birds and insects by railway trains in motion. Tho front of a locomotive is frequently covered with dead insects and sometimes one can seo upon it the marks of blood from birds which have been killed. Partridges and grouse, startled by tho noiso of tho approaching train and whirring across tho lino, arc occa sionally killed, and fall either 011 the en gine or between tho tracks. Til EKE is now said to be no unimal or bird in tho Central Bark menagerie, Now York City, that does not eat peanuts. Many species of tho cages wero at first much averse to peanuts, but the persis tence of the children in forcing them up on overy creature there has had such an effect that even tho lions and tho pelicans and everything excopt the snakes have felt obliged to acquire the peunut habit. A WILL that will stand as among tho briefest on record was udniittod to pro buto by Rogistrar Gratz to-day. It is that of Caroline S. White, a toucher in the Palmer Street public school, and it reads: 44 Don't forget that everything that 1 possess must go to Emily. She is to bo my solo heiress." Emily is tho daughter of the decedent and will in herit property valued at $(>,000. A REMARKABLE family of eight old wo men is living 111 tho same house at Vexio, Swedon. Three are widows and five are old maids. Their ages aggregate within a year or two of 700 years, each of tho women being nearly 90 yeurs of age. To Bring a River to Yickshurg. Since the Mississippi river has decided apparently to abandon Yickshurg, Miss., finally and forever, the wide" awake citi- I zens of that burg have set a motion on j foot to bring another river there. It is I the Yazoo that they are wooing now. ! Their plan is to divert that stream through Chicksaw Bayou into tho lako | that lies along their levees whore once ! flowed the Mississippi. It is thought that ' tho plan can be realizod at no very great | expense,and tho merchants already in the ( imagination see nqble fleets of steamboats lining their beautiful waterfront as in the good ull days.—[New Orleans Picayune. Giants of Olden Times. In one of his recent lectures Professor .J. A. Williams alludes to the discovery ,of an enormous lizard eighty foot in length. The Professor infers (us no living specimen of that magnitude has been found) that the species which it rc | presents has become degenerated. The ! verity of his position he endeavors to en force by an allusion to the well-knowto existence of human giants in olden times. The following is tho list upon which this singular hypothesis is based: • A giant exhibited iu Rouen in 1830, Professor Williams says,measured nearly 1 eighteen feet in height. I Gorapius once saw a girl of twelvo ■ years who was ten feet high. Tho giant Galubra, brought from Arabia to Rome during tho reign of Caesar, was ten feet high. Funnurn. who lived in the time of Eugene 11., measured eleven feet six inches in height. Chevalier ocrog, while exploring a cavern in the Peak of Toueriffe, found a skull which must have belonged to a man at least fifteen feet high. It contained sixty perfect teeth of monstrous size. The giant Ferrogus, slain by Orlando, tho nephew of Charlemagne, was twenty eight feet high and so heavy that 110 horse could bo found that was strong enough to bear him. In 1814 tho tomb of a giant was opened at St. Germain who must have been at least thirty feet high during life. As late as 1850.a human skeleton nine teen feet long was discovered at ROIIOII, France. The skull, which was perfect with tho exception of the under jaw, hold over a bushel of wheat. In i 824, near the castlo of Dauphinc, a monstrous tomb was discovered. It was thirty feet long, sixteen wide and eight high. The inscription, "Kinto loclius Rex," was cut in the hard, gray stone. The skeleton was found entire, fifteen and u half feet long, ten feet across the shoulders and five feet from I the breast-bone to tho back. The vicinity of Palermo, Italy, has yielded three remarkable skeletons, one jn 141(1, ono in 1516 and the last in 1550. The first was twenty-one, the second thirty, and tho third thirty-four feet in height. In 1815 a skelton was dug up near Muzrino, Sicily, tho skull of which was as large us a common wine Cask. Each of tho teeth weighed seven ounces.—[St. Louis Republic. A Bull Kills a Bear. Although two men wore at work cut ting underbrush within a few rods of tho spot, a bear invaded a field on William Barker's farm near Galeton, ono day recently, his intention plainly being to capture 0110 of the sheep that were pasturing in tho field. Barker, who was one of tho men cutting brush, saw the bear, and hurried the other mun to the liouso to get Barker's gun. Barker him self started 011 a run for tin; pasture for the purpose of protecting his sheep from the bear, but neither the gun nor the presence of Burker was necessary. Be sides tho shocp some cows and a two year-old Jcrsoy bull wore pasturing in the field. The bull 110 sooner saw the bear edging and slouching along toward the sheep than he charged upon him, and caught him with his horns square in tho side. Tho bear did not have time to defend himself, tho bull's rush was so quick and sudden, and ho was lifted clear oft* tho ground, and thrown sovoral feet, falling heavily to tho grotind. The bear quickly regained his feet, and not relishing tho reception 110 had mot witli in the pasture started to run away. But tho bull followed hi in liko a tornado, and struck tho bear again ut full headway, tumbling bruin heels over head. The bear made up his mind to fight, and got 011 his feet before the bull charged on him again, lie received the bull this time standing on his hind feet. Both of tho bull's horns penetrated the bear's broust their full length, and at tho same instant tho boar sank a claw in euch of tho bull's shoulders. The bear ripped tho fiesh from tho bull in long, deep strips 011 each side, but tho bull's horns were in the hour's vitals,and bruin foil to the ground and died almost in stantly. All this occurred while Barker was running to tho scene, and before tho hired man had roaehed tho after tho gun. Tho injuries tho bull received were not soriouß. The bear was a very large one, and is believed to have been the one that has boon stealing sheep and pigs in the vicinity for several weeks.—[New York Sun. Water-Tight Cars. The Mobilo and Ohio Railroad Com pany has putin sorvice a line of improved ventilated refrigerator cars designed ex pressly for their service for transporting tropical fruits, strawberries and other delicate fruits and vogctables.also perish able merchandise of all descriptions. This car bus been designed and built at a great expense and all the improvements are covered by patents. The cur has ventilated end doors that may bo partly ventilated or the insulated doors may be shifted cleur of the openings, sumo as tho side doors. Tho cars may be loaded and given as much ventilation as required, aud should tlicro bo any atmospheric changes that would endanger the goods by frost, tho doors may bo sealed absolutely water-tight, if necessary, without hroaking the seals on tho ear. This is an important consideration that cannot bo overlooked when goods are consigned from a hot to a cold climate or vice versa, and at the sumo time it allows the shippers to regulate the teinperatiye and ventilation to suit their own iuous.— [New Orleans New Delta. Startling Statistics. At the Hygienic and Demographic Congress Mr. John Coode presented some statistics respecting tho metropolis which wero startling even to the most enthusias tic Londoner, observes the Tit-Bits. For instance, he says that the population of London greatly exceeds the combined population of fourof the largest European capitals, Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Rome. If tho metropolitan highways were formed into one continuous line people oould walk along it from London to Land's End and tlienco across tho Atlantic Ocean to tho mouth of the St. Lawrence, or iu the opposite direction could cross Europe and drop into Asia fur beyond the Ural Mountains. He affirms that every Londoner is daily supplied witli nearly twenty-five gallons of water conveyed through pipes of a united length of 4,760 miles. '1 he London sowers measure about eighty miles in I length. The mortality of the metropolis I has decreased from 80 per thousand in | 1600 to 10.8 per thousand in 1800. The Treatment of Dogs. In reference to tho number of valuable dogs that have died during the past your, James Watson, kennel editor of Outing, says: "Tho sooner American owners recognize the fact that dogs are just as 1 much in need of pleasure ami comfort as ! they uro themselves tho better it will be for tho health and longevity of their ; dogs. Men without love for dogs and who simply go into tho business for what pocuniary gain they think is in it cannot, perhaps, understand that dogs are intel ligent, thinking animals, and it is little wonder that, not being treated in a rational muniior, they succumb to disease. I Confinement without companionship is ! as irksome to dogs as to human beings, i anil they are bound to suffer froin it bodily as woll as mentally. Treat your dogs us you would yourself he treated and they will live long and die happy." New System of Water Storage. In Antolope Valley, Los Angeles County, Cal., a system of water storage has been adopted which will probably be j imitated iu other counties. The water | will be used for cultivating the fertile lands in tho valley as woll us for develop ing pluccr mines which are found in u bolt ton miles wide by forty miles long. Near Bakersvillo, in Kern Countv, water in a largo irrigating ditch is to be used for running a woollen mill. After it lms served this purpose, it will bo returned to the regular irrigating channels. These , two schemes are noteworthy as showing j t ho importance of flowing water in inanu | factures in a State like California where coul is costly.—[Now York Tribune. Wood patterns seem to take, viz., stalks with tiny brownish-green loaves thrown upon a narrow striped or plain ground. THE LAIHfcS. TO MAKE OM SLIPPERS NEW. I)o you over gild your slippers? Sil ver. gold and bronze footwear is the proper thing for the evening at present, and all the kid or satin slippers that have been rubbed spotty or have grown dirty are candidates for transformation, liny a bottle of gold paint, or bronze, if you prefer it, and give your footwear two coats. A twenty-five-cont bottle will Inst all winter, and it will not be two minutes' work to mako your whole stock of slip pers like new.—[New York Press. POPULARITY OP BLONDES. It is interesting to know that tin in telligent hairdresser claims that blondes cannot be done away with; that blondos are essentially the beauties of chiliza tion, ami that they cannot bo driven away, say the Ladies' Home Journal. lie says that tho blonde can dress more effectively, and that a well-kept boiide has ten years' advantage in the poilt of youthful looks. You cannot oxpunce her in favor of the brunette even in 1 tera ture, for in the novels turned out during the the past year there have booi blonde.* to eighty-two brunettes. GIRDLES FOR CLOTH GOWNS. Girdles for cloth and silk gown: are made of bias velvet in a single ficcc, about eight inches wide. The edge, are narrowly turned down and hemmed with blind stitches. Three rows of sh'rring draw tho front down to a width of only five inches, and two supple whnlekmes are set in casings between these shir rings. Tho fastening is inado h the hack by four hooks and eyes hidd*n un der two little mooting frills, each m inch wide, of the velvet doubled at tin ends of tho girdle. Shirring and whal-ponos similar to those in front arc do\u the hack, each side of tho frills. Sucl gird les of all kinds are so much in favor that they are often seen on basque and coats, as well as to complete found bodices.—[Detroit Free Press. ALEXANDRA IN MARBLE. The statuo of the Princess of (Vales which was being executed at the .me of the death of M. Chapu, and whin was his Inst work, has been completd by those who took tho statuo in ohrge at tho time of the death of the desigier. It is life size and is a present o Herr Jacobsen, a wealthy Copenhagen lrewer, i to tho public gallery in tho Dauisi capi tal. Her Royal Highness is sot od on the chair of state. Tho four legs >f tho chair rest fantastically upon sou! turod lions. Tho princess wears a coron t, and from the back of tho coronet than de scends a veil. Tho innumerable Dedalß and orders which belong to tho lrhieess are all upon hor bodice and the bailee is cut very low to show the poise of tho head and tho shape of hor shudders, which uro so peculiarly boautifu. Tho dress worn in tho statue is a thoroughly modern one and is close fitting in tho front, while it extends out on citior side and in tho back, showing tho richsss of the material from which the sta'ir was modeled. In hor right hand the lrnicess holds a bouquet, in tho center of which j there is a large rose, which is the florite flower of tho lady delineated.—[Cficugo , Post. COI.I.ARKTTKS AND CAPOTKB. Collarettos and oapotos to inn h the mult'are to be quite the rage this waiter. 1 Very beautiful but expensive ouej&re of 1 very thick-piled velvet triimm* with sables with pathetic little claws aalheads and tails. One of the nicest of t eio sets 1 have soon was a rich chestnu colored volvet, the pouch-shaped muff Dung a dear sable boustio crawling rqud the middle, the small pointed head, ill two claw-like feet, clasping the velv t 'olds. The collar was a double-docked !oking affuir, the soft velvet being plea id high in the back, sloping down touud the front of the throat, and the low r part, coming from beneath the eicrcling sable, assuming almost the pri xrtions of u cape falling quite to the sWldors in heavy pleats. The capote U natch was turban-shaped, with a scft low crown, the sable resting on the Jai* and the tail and head arranged higj it the back. I can't say I quite ijk- this "heads-und-tuils'' fever. (hie lienor re alizes the cruelty of these expenjiie furs till one sees the pitiful sizo of thmc poor little crcuturos. What murderous bar barians we women are!—[St. LoUi lie- , publican. MARRIAGE IN SUMATRA. Civilized women will rejoice th.t fate has not made them Oeleon maid* if Su matra. The marriage service of t e Su- ! matra women so resembles that lo sale ! and exchange that it would be dh dedly unpleasant to women of other cmntries unaccustomed to bargains of tlto sort. In front of the bride's house a hnpe bal ance is erected,with large wooden .-Miles, all the apparatus being docoratcd with leaves and flowers. One of tlx jculcb belongs to the parents and one d the bridegroom-elect, and forthwjti the mother and father of the girl locoed to put in their offerings to thebrid.l pair —fruit, rice, fuel, cocoanuts ami i little kid. Then, before sunset, coins the future husband, and places in the other scale such presents as ho wishes tomako his intended, the girl apparently match ing—l suppose behind closed windiws— till she sees the scale turn in the zoung man's favor, his gifts having pro\rd the heavier of the two. Directly tl/.s has been done, and ho has thus firnished outside evidence that he means ;o give j her moro of the good things of his life j than her parents have done, th bride : emerges from the house, approu'hes the bridegroom amid the acclamations of the j friends around, and the ceremoiy con- j eludes with a meal in common, vhat we should call a wedding breakfast, and a dance of a very monotonous r/thm. — [New York Commercial Advertiser. FASHION NOTES. Dahlia shades on black form exquisite ' brocudes. Scrolls of lace unite sprays of flowers heavy with foliage. Satin remains the favorito material for i elegant wedding gowns. Lace and chiffon fichus arc becoming- j ly worn by elderly matrons. Rod cloth driving c&pes are trimmed with black and jtft nailheads. "Incandescent" is the latest nainc for a changeable or glace surah. Laco-trimined dinner costumes of silk are finished with a border of fur. Fan-shaped sachets of hand-painted gauzo servo for gloves and handker chiefs. Throutlots of sablo fur are in high favor, and many imitations are in the market. Long trains of reception toilets are covered with laco flounces set on di agonally. Lace bodices uro worn with colored silk skirts, and are lined with the same silken fabric. Transparent enamel is used for the mauve marsh mallow, pink acacia and wallflower pins. The magpie stocking lately appearing in England has white feet and tops, and the rest is black. The multitude of colors shown in floral patterns, printed and woven, for next spring are wonderful to an amateur. Hlueball brooches of translucent enamel are mounted in couples for the neck and singly for hair and bonnet pins. The newest bonnet is the Marie Stuart of black satin with the brim pointed above the forehead and trimmeu there with soft choux of satin —stem green, heliotrope or pale rose—holding straight and slender black ostrich tips. The low, smooth crown is of black velvet banded with black satin ribbon, and bright choux are set low at the back. At present there is no indication of skirts being made shorter in the back. The demi-train will remain in vogue just as long as tlie three - quar ter coat and the deep basque bodice prevail. A competent authority on dress de clares that the coloring of a gown should always harmonize with the hair, that the latter is always the keynote of the whole arrangement, and whatever blends agree ably with its tints is sure to be becom ing. Added basques arc open in the back as they are in the front. This has a good effect when they part at the point of the panel,in some different fabric introduced in the immediate back; but when the corsage is plain it presents an unnatural and inartistic ett'oct. Some of tho new princesse drosses are mado with tho waist portion buttoned di agonally, tho buttoning extending down the entire length of the skirt on the left side. The edge which laps is sometimes finished with a very narrow roll of fur, or is cut into tabs or points, with a hand some button in each point. The latest importations from Worth shown by leading modistes are visiting dresses of silk trimmed with cloth in most original fashion. The gowns aro of the satin-striped silks or moires that rival flower brocades this season, and tho cloth is used for a flounce instoud of lace and also for coat skirts, brotolles or a Fi garo jacket or as side forms on princesse gowns. The daintiest at homo dross of the sea son is a pale gray orepon with a fes tooned flounce of white Mechlin laco about the bottom, gathered to u beading run with blue velvet ribbons. The long coat bodice has a broad flounce of lace at the finish of the nock, which falls in deep opaulets on the shoulder, and tapors to tno edge of the coat, lioncath this coat is a folded surplice-liko bodice of pale blue velvet ending in a long sash at one side of the front. The sash is lined with blue satin and broadens toward the ends to about six inches in width. Let it not bo understood that this delicate creation is designed for any but a bru nette. The Wages of Superstition. ' To kiss the black stone which, accord i ing to all true believers, foil fromheaven, and to drink from the well Zcinzen, the waters of whioh are daily replenished from the fountains of Paradise, are the main objects of the 100,000 pilgrims or so who annually visit Mecca. I'n ; fortunately, those who aro responsible ; for the health and good government of the lloly City rnuko no manner of pro vision for the periodical intiux of the de -1 votees, who have to hqrd like cattle in the fields and opon streets. In spite of the prosenco of the holy well the water is filthy and thousands of pilgrims who reach Mecca in good health either perish there or return with the seeds of disease and death in their frames. As far as tho pilgrims from Bombay are concerned twenty to fifty per cent, of those who leave the port for Mecca never return. In tho year (1888) out of 13,970 who sailed from Bombay 7,465 wero reported "missing." They had, in fact, either died at Mecca or on board tho pilgrim j ships. During the past six years, out of i <14,038 true believers dispatched from Bombay to tho Bod Sea upwards of j 22,000 perished.—[London Lancet. The Black Walnut as a Shade Tree. The planting of black walnut trees around one's house, with the double object of shade and profit from the nuts, is not advised. While they are easily propagated from tin* nuts if planted he fore they have become dry and bear abundantly in a few years, they make undesirable shade trees, for the reason of their liability to be infested with caterpillars. Then the nuts are by no means popular as a marketable com modity, and tho limited demand there may be for them in towns is always fully supplied at low prices from the trees found growing alongside the roadsides and in the fit Ids and forest. In certain cuses raising them for timber may bo profitable, and where that is contemplated it is best to plant the nuts in the fall whero tho trees are to stund, otherwise the)' must bo preserved in a moist con dition until spring. This may be done I by burying them a few inches holow the j surface of the ground soon after they havo fallen from the trees, or at least be fore they have been kept in a dry con ! dition so long that the seeds will not j germinate. —[New York World. Feeds Pigs on Clams. In Oldtown, Me., is a man who is mak ing money fast out of clams, though he i j at present feeding the clams to his pigs. lie keeps a hotel and has bonded a clam ' flat down around Mt. Desert. His clams arrivo each day. Ho keeps them two ; weeks, feeding them on celery meal and i Indian meal. They laugh and grow fat. Then he boils them, a bushel at a time. I ile puts in a quart of water and takes out eight quarts. Tho water is strained 1 and set aside for a day in a refrigerator. I Then it is heuted, seasoned with salt and ' popper and sold for five cents a glass. He has a big trade. A bushel of clams j delivered costs sixty cents. Ho feeds | them forty cents' worth. He gives a four-ounce drink. There are thirty-two drinks in a gallon and sixty-four drinks are secured from a bushel of clams. Not profit on a bushel of clams | $2.20, and ho sells on some days six gallons. Many try to imitate him, but j no one knows how to food tho clams as he I does. His pigs grow fat, moreover.— I [Boston Transcript. Do you want to act a lie? Then flirt. Do you care to lose the modest charm of manner which is woman's best heritage and man's too infre quently found attribute? Then play at love. Do you want your future life em bittered by memories which will stall you where your heart is beating with happiness? Then cheat some one into giving you true regard for false ness. 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