Tho Baltic Ouiial is the outcome ot a ! project formulated .">OO years ago. When the Siberian Railway is com plete one can go from London to Japan j in sixteen days, and girdlo tho earth ' in about forty. _Jji Uh ir jubilnukdclight in their fino ' crops Western Kansas and Nebraska ' arc already proffering to send "relief" to flic effete East. Tho mortality among cattlo at sea, r- -u:tiug from cruelty, want of water, etc., wns formerly slated at sixteen per eeiii., whiio at tho present tunc it is one per cent. "Health," said Miss Arnold in Bos tou, to the Cliauncey Hall kindergar ten graduates, "is tho first requisite of success. The 'now' woman has none of the oid-fashioncd belief in nerves and notions." A colored man and a Chineso woman WHO married in Lawrence County, ffoutli Dakota, a few days ago. The < icrk 01 the Court hail serious doubts as to whether they were u good legal match, nnd postponed granting tho necessary license until lie was fully 1 Ui.--licd that such a union was not forbidden. Tbo tit. Louis Post-Dispatch says this year w ill go into history asbiorcle year. Tho growth of tho wheel's popularity has been so amazing that it si cms as if all tho world had suddenly discovered that the wheel is a good thing an I is trying to get on ono as soon its possible. The roads nro alive with cyclers. the factories cannot Meet the douinnd. Tho supply of tubing is exhausted. Economy in small things is tho rule of life among lite poor of France. In this country wo wnsto enough in 11 week in the way of food to supply a trench family lor a month. They uti lize crumbs nnd scraps and bits ol food which we seemingly regard with 1 .nlaiu, and all of which is perfectly healthful and suited for food. It is 1.0 wonder lothe San Francisco Chron icle that under such conditions that I the people of Franco have moro avail able property and wealth than anv people in the world. Tho common cotton tail rabbit ap pears to bo continually pushing its way northward and replacing tho Northern hare. Mr. Bangs finds that too latter is rare in Massachusetts, has almost wholly disnprpoared from | miiry parts of New Hampshire, though it still abounds in Maine, New Bruns- ! wiolc and Nova Scotia. Ho accounts for tho spread of the cotton tail to the northward as tho result of tlio de struction of tho pino aud spruco for ests which nre replaced by a scrubby second growth of shrubs. "Tho hare poos into tho coniferous forests and (he cotton tail como3 in with tho sec ' ond growth." The now impulse lately giveu to ■ gold mining has brought now lifo into ! many deserted towns nnd abandoned I camps in the 13 est. Ono of Em most J notable of those resurrections—revival does nut accurately describe tho situa- j lion—is in tho case of tho camp of ' Florence, Idnho. In 18(31 this camp ! had a population of 30,001 people, I with hanks, saloons, hotels nnd every- | thing that goes to the making of a | city. It was a placer camp, and gold j wns plentiful as gravel,while it lasted. ! But it didn't last long, and in those ! bonanza days miners would not stay ! to work quartz. So tho population ' deserted Florence as quickly us it ! c.uno, and for many years tho town I wns absolutely deserted, an 1 ns much 1 n ruin ns ancient Carthage. Recently : several good quartz ledges have been j discovered at the old camp, and Fior- j incc is building up again. Sheep farmers, tho world over, have \ hcen very busy during tho Last thirty five years. In that period tho St. ! Louis Star-Sayings estimates that tho j increuso has been ten-fold in the I Argentine, nine foi l in Australia nnd 1 five-fold in South Africa and tho 1 United States. At the commencement • of the Civil War tho clip was two pounds pvt head of our population;' now it is five. New sources nro nl.-.o being opened up to us daily by now ! railroad , and clothiug should go down in price at u very brink late. Parts , even of Asia arc now sending wool ' v.ei.twnrd. Tho Afghan "doomchee" , —a sheep with a tail tho lieighth of the animal and as broad as its hind ' quarters, furnishes good wool, as also j do some of the Persian and Thibet i beep, but India, China and Burmese sheep cannot do so. Tho sheep there /. row hair instead of wool, nnd another peculiarity they pof BOSS is that no one ever saw a purely wliito native sheep iu India or Burnish. i i THE FIELD OF ADVENTURE. ' THRTLLING INCIDENTS AND DAR j ING DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA. A Lendville Sheriff's C.rlt Bluffs a j Mob—Suved When Death Seemed Inevitable A Brave Girl. I ££ T 1 YHE bravest net I saw during I my residence in Leadville, C 01.," said Peyton R. r Hull, who spent upward of ten years in tho carbonate camp, to a Washington Post reporter, 41 was on one occasion when a mob triod to lynch a man and tho Sheriff protected him. 4 'A lawyer named Early was tryiug a case before Justice of tho Pence Do Long. A dispute arose between him and tho counsel on tho opposing side, and the latter palled is gun and at tempted to shoot Early. Before ho could pull the triggvr—or, at least, before lie could hit Early—tho latter, whose marksmanship was eomowhat better, fired across tho table aud killed his opponent. Tho shooting was altogether justiiiable, but people wore sick of such tragedies, and in less time thau it takes to tell it a mob formed aud an attempt was made to lynch tho lawyer. Among tho crowd wero several policemen, who, instead of trying to quiet tho outbreak, were as loud us tho rest iu shouting for Early's blood, and tho situation was critical to a fino point. "Early had not yet left tho court room, auCl nothing on earth apparent ly stood between him and u horrible ileutb, when a man appeared on the scene whoso nerve was sufliciont to paralyze the clamorous mob aud save the lawyer's life. The courtroom was but a short distance from the county jail, aud tho outbreak had been wit nessed almost from its starting by tho Sheriff. This officer was a big Ger man named Peter Becker, who, boforo ho was elected Sheriff, rau a saddlery shop on Chestnut street. Becker, as soou ns he saw the mob forming, ran over to see what tho trouble was, and darted upstairs into the court room, where ho found Early and tho dead mau, and was briefly informed of what had transpired and the danger to which Early was exposed. " 'Do as I tell you,' Backer said to Early, 4 and I'll tuko you to jail and no mother's sou shall touch you.' "The mob was just about to rush up stairs, when they saw Early aud tho Sheriff coming to meet them. Early was in front and Becker behind, both arras around the lawyer's waist and each hand holding a sinister looking six-shooter pointing straight at the crowd, his eyes watching every move-' inout tlioy made over Early's shoul der. lie was using tho lawyer's body as a breastwork, while at tho same time he was protecting him with his revolvers. When they reached the foot of the stairs Becker told tho mob to fall back. " 4 l'm going to take this man to jail!' ho cried out above tho confu sion. 4 lla is my prisoner and is going j to be protected if it takes my life, j You can't kill him without killing me, j and if any man lays a hand on him ! while ho is iu my custody I'll drop 1 hini in his tracks ! Now c!car tho way!' "lie pushed Early before him and passe i into tho crowd, tho Sheriff' walking step by step bohiu I his pris oner, and tho two moving like ono man. 41 Tho foremost of the mob found the Sheriff's gun barrel frowning them i right iu the eyes and mado room, as j did tho men next behind. And one af ter another, while tho revolvers wero i pointing right and left and straight ! ahead as though on a sensitive swivel, ! the crowd pressed aside and formed a : narrow lane through which tho Sheriff i and his prisouer passed into tho struct I and finally reached tho juil uumolest ed." "It was the grittiest piece of busi ' ncss I ever saw and it won with the ; mob. Early was tried and acquitted j by a uuauimous verdict aud at last uc -1 counts was practicing law iu Kansas j City." A Lumberman's Miraculous Escape. I "Wo wero rolling logs down a bluff • into tho St. John River, below Grand j Palls," said a lumberman. 4 'Tho bluff I was about forty rods up from tho river, steep and woru pretty smooth by tho log-rolling. A log started over : tho brink would roll with a tremon : dous velocity down that sharp des- j | cent. Toward tho foot of tho hill there was a slight ridge, and now and ! Ihcu a log would strike it nud go ! bounding into the air aud land well out iut > the river. | "It was a dry time that May, nud | the rolling logs mado dusty work. Tho dust was so thick some times that wo almost lost sight of the logs boforo i they reached tho bottom. If a log I was started right it generally followed I a pretty straight course dowu the bluff, | but once iu a whiio a crooked one | went slewing, or another would got 1 the advantage of the rollers and start ! oil' end first, and so roll on n curve, and generally not reach tho bottom, j but lodge purhnps half way down. Homo one would then have to go down aud dislodge it. "Ono day a crooked log slewed and 1 lodged. Tim Field went dowu to 1 straighten it and send it on its course. ; While ho was engaged two men came up with a log. They stopped on tho hriuk and waited for him to got out of tho way, bulanciug their log with their ! 'pccvics.' ; 44 'Tim! Ob, Tim ! Look out.' I "There was no time for tho poor folio.v to jump aside, and no human power could save him from being crushed by that huge descending log. , Wo stood, horror strickon, peering over tho edge of tho bluff. "Downward rolled tho log, a cloud of dust rising in its wake. For a . dozen rods it rolled, gaining velocity us it descended, unci tlion suddenly it struck n rock or some obstruction, and fjavo a loud bound high over Tim's bead, and Gtruck to the ground below, whenco it rolled and tumbled to the foot. "Tim was uniouehed. "Although we rolled thousands of logs down the same bluff, I never saw a second log bound into tho air lilto that one. It seemed to ns that the hand of Providence had interfered." Gallant Rescue by a Girl. Few more gallant feats" liavo ever been performed by women that tiiat of Miss Evans, tho daughter of Dr. Evans, of Ilythe, 011 Southampton Water, in England. Walking on the the pier with a friend, she heard tho cry of three persons whose boat had been capsized near tho pier. P.uu ning down the steps, slio sprang in tho water and soon brought the ono near est, a woman, safely to the steps. Then she swam off again to tho others, n man and a girl. Waiting her oppor tunity she managed to seize them both, and supported them until u rope wns thrown to her, and she was then able to get tho mau to tho pier. The girl wns going down for the third time, when Miss Evans dived, brought her up to tho surface, and took her also to tho pier, thus saving three lives. It is difficult to know which is tho more remarkable tho courago displayed, or the skill with which, hampered by her clothos, she succeed ed in avoiding the drowning grip that is so often fatal to those who attempt rescues, nud so brought tho throe per sons, one nfter nuother, in safety to the pier. It is a feat of which the best male swimmer, unhnmpored by gar ments, would have every right to feel most proud, and, executed as it was by a young lady, was almost, if not quite, without precedent in tho annals of deeds requiring presence of miud, skill aud eoiirnge. It is iudeod extra ordinary that a swimmer, however strong, should bo able to support at oueo two drowning persons and to avoid beiug caught in the grip of one or other of them. Never was the ltoval liumauo Society's medal better deserved, and there can be little doubt that the act will receive the highest mark of distinction at tho society's disposal. Rare Presence of Mind. Miss Maud Johns, of LO3 Gatos, Cal., tho brave youug woman who but a few woeks ago swung beneath tho ties of tho high railroad bridge span ning a yawning chasm seventy-fivo feet in order to escape death from an on-coming express train, has been the principal in another sensational oc currence in which her raro presence of mind proved for tho second time to bo her salvation. Miss Johns was carrying a lighted lamp through tho hallway of her resi dence about lb o'clock when sho sud denly tripped and fell. The lamp was dashed against tho wall and krone in to a thousand pieces. The blazing oil ignited Miss Johns's clothes and also set fire to the woodwork. Quick as a flash sho dashed into her bodroom near by aud leaping into bed succeeded after a few luiuules in smothering the fire by means of the bod clothe.-, after which the girl turned her attention to the house. The flumes by this time wero rapidly run ning up the woodwork and side walls of tho hallway. At this juncture help arrived and tho fire was put out. Miss Johus will nurse a badly burned hand and arm for some days as tbo result of tho accident. A Kentucky Ruby's Plaything. Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Martin, who livo on Cat Creek, in Powell County, Ken tucky, have a bright little hoy, two years old, who, whiio undressed for a hath, desired his mother to allow him to run and play. lie was sent into a carpeted room where the curtains were drawn, nnd after a few minutes, with an exelamntiou of surprise and delight, tho littlo fellow came iuto tho hall holding in his hands a huge cop perhead snake. He had grasped it near tho tail, and tho reptile was writhing and twisting, its head nearly reaching the floor and moving about tho feet of the child. Mr. Martin, who had just entered tho house, was struck for a moment. Ho called loudly to tho child to drop it. Tho little fellow obeyed, nud rnn fright ened to his father's arms. The rep tilo immediately pursued the child ami endeavored to strike him, coiling aud darting its poisonous tongue in tho most threateniug manner. Mr. Martin despatched tho snako in less time than it takes to tell it, to tho great distress of tho littlo hoy, who seemed to think ho had found a beau tiful plaything and was being deprived of if, aud was inconsolable wbeu it was removed from bis sight. Mexico's bake ol Ink. Thoro exists in Mexico ono of tho most remarkable phenomena of which we have any record. Tho surrounding country is literally studded with vol canoes, and in their midst is the "Hako of Ink," which covers about ono aero of ground. Tho body of water, or ink, or whatever it is, is so coverod with ashes from the adjacent volcanoes as to appear part of tho sur rounding ground, which is nil tho eamo dull grny tint. Where this liquid comes from, what its chemical proper ties may be, where or what the supply is, nro matters of conjecture.—New York Dispatch. A ltcmarknMc l'omncc. At Home, tho other day, an enorm ous crowd assembled in tho square of St. Peter's to watch two womeu, dressod in black, who crept across tho equaro to tho church doors on their knees, brushing tho ground with small brushes, and repeatedly kissing the stones they had cleaned.—Now York Post. | FLASHLIGHT FOR TIGERS, ELECTRICITY APPLIED TO A NO ! BLE SPORT IN INDIAN JUNOLE3. I When the Light is Turned On the Startled Animal Allows the Sportsman to Take Deadly Aim. Electricity has now been applied to tiger-hunting, and the sportsman in tho Indian jungle, before ho pulls tho . trigger of his gnu, touches a button, which throws a flood of light upon his prey. This may rob tiger-hunting of much of its romance, but it is ef fective, and thus far several large, woll-developed tigers have been gath ered in as a result of tho clever ar rangement. It has been found almost impossi ble to draw tigers into tho open (lur ing tho day near thickly settled parts of India. But at night this is easily accomplished by placing a dead car cass in some convenient place, where tho huntor may lio hidden in ambush. But after tho tiger lias scented tho blood of tho dead animal and has begun to tear tho carcass, it is diffi cult for tho hunter to take aim with out seeing him. This has now been obviated by hanging an electric light directly over tho carcass. At tho instant that tho light is turned on the tiger is so startled by its appearance that ho does not move. Tigers are not in tho habit of looking up, and it takos several sec onds before tho animal realizes where tho now, strange light comes from. This pause, which ho makes before en deavoring to escape, is quite sufficient to enable the sportsman to bike aim and place a large, substantial bullet iu a vital part of the tiger's body. "At present," says tbo inventor of this system in a letter to tho Scientific American, "I use a battery of six largo cells, filled witli sal ammoniac. It is very heavy and cumbersome, and the light .only a five-candb power lamp. Its recommendations are that tho battery is good for tho next ten years and only wants nil occasional tilling up of tho cells with water and sometimes a little fresh sal ammoniac. As I can only go shooting during six months of the year, this is a groat ad vantage. Tho method of using is as follows: From the box containing the cells I havo a lino of wire (double of course) say thirty to forty foot long, slipped onto each end of tho box by butterfly nuts, the lamp, which is tied to a branch of a tree immediately over, say twenty feet liigb, the bait being at the other end. "At about two yards from tho bat tery there is a connection, 1 think, called a male switch. A short lino of wire, about threo or four feet long, makes tho connection to tho fore en.lot" my rifle; at one end of this short length is a female switch to fit onto the above male one, and at tho other cud two small rings are mado of tho wires. These rings are fastened by two big beaded screws to the head of tho con nection. On nearing tho tiger at tho kill, I aim as nearly in tho direction as I can, then a slight pressure of tho thumb makes tho electric connection and tho light opens right over tho tiger." This scientific sportsman also cm ployed accumulators, but they did not seem to be adapted to such rough work. Ho is now fitting himself with a battery which may be carried in tho belt liko cartridges. Thirty such batteries carried in this way would, it is estimated, bo suffi cient to provide a sixteen-caudlo power light. This system of night hunting, it lias been suggested, might well be employed in hunting big game in the Rockies. A Bra Li in Your Throat, Did you know that tho throat has a braiu of its own? I suppose few peo ple aro awaro of it, but it's a fact. There is a small gauglion which exer cises direct control of the muscles of tho throat and acts as its braiu. Of course, it is sub3eivient to the genu ine brain, but, at the same time, does a good deal of independent thinking for itself. It i 3 very timid and sus picious of nuy straugo objects that come uear tbo throat. For this reason it is very difficult for a physician to operato on tho throat. Before anything can be done in this direction, it is necessary for tho operator to gain tho court louee of tho little brain that dominates it. It frequently takos weeks before this confidence-can be secured, and until it is secured it h impossible to per form any operation. Woo to tho man who attempts rough treatment to the throat before gaining tho little brain's confidence. His operations will be resented with violent paroxysms, first of tho throat, then of the diaphragm, an 1, if the operator still persists, tho patient will bo thrown into convulsions. Still more curious is tho fact that this little braiu has a memory, aud if once frightened in this way it is impossible to ever gain its confidence, no matter how gentle tho operator may be.— Pearson's Weekly. Hugo Starrs ol Cash. A friend informs mo that one of tho downtown sale deposit companies car ries in its vaults over night nearly $70,000,000 in wealth. In a couple of big vaults aro $36,000,000 in bright gold coin belonging to tho Clearing House, and Russell Sago lias u cool million of yellow coin in his strong box. And yet some peoplo complain that money is scarce.—New York World. _ _ Jlosquilus Cure Salt Rheum. An enthusiastic friend of the mos quito has arisen in a Gardiner (.Me.) inan. Ho claims the stings of the in sect have cured him of salt rheum and declares ho will never kill another 'skeeter. NOTES OF THE DAY. There are 2,954 persons in Great Brit ain who pay tax on an income of more than $25,000 a year. In the royal palace of Servla lights are put out invariably by 11 o'clock by order of the King. There are no fewer than four Euro pean banks iu Yokohama and in Japan 120, all with large capital. In the gardens around London there are more specimens of the cedar of Lebanon than on Mount Lebanon itself. In Norway a law provides that no person shall be permitted to cut down a tree unless he plants three saplings in its place. The coronet worn by the Countess of Aberdeen on state occasions is distin guished by five emeralds, which are the largest in the world. According to a Connecticut statisti cian there are 96,000 crazy people in the United States, of whom only 6,500 are under sufficient supervision. An eccentric farmer who died the other day in Connecticut directed that his body should be inclosed in an iron casket and thrown to the bottom of Long Island Sound. It is a remarkable fact that the actual cost of the Kiel ship canal was below the estimates. They amounted to 156,- 000,000 marks ($87,440,(MM)), and the cost was 155,878,000 marks ($37,290,- 720). A colored man was recently shown a skeleton by a Portland doctor, lie had never seen one before and was greatly interested, lie examined the skull closely and finally asked, "Where are the ears'/" A family in Knox County, Maine, that sleeps too soundly to he awakened by a chanticleer lias a novel alarm. A big cowbell is attached to the neck of the dog, and at a certain time iu the morn ing he makes a tour of the chambers. A Boston paper which has gone daft on abbreviations thus reports a news item: "Ilis Hon. the Lieut. Gov. of Mass. returned from N. H. yesterday with J /a doss, other citizens of Mass., and expects next wk to go to N. Y. byway of Frov." People of middle age can remember when the only use for India rubber was to erase pencil marks. The im portance of the article now is indicated by the fact that in the first three months of 1595 this country paid $6,660,230 for its Importation. Massachusetts may not grow as rap idly in population as some of the larger States, but its wealth continues to pile up steadily. It carried a lire insurance last year of $980,000,000, or about live times that of other States with about the same population. For one person who cares about thea ters there are a thousand persons in England wild about cricket, and if the ministry had given G. W. Grace a knighthood among the birthday honors It would probably have been the most popular act of their existence. Statistics have been accumulated which reveal that in respect to color blindness there Is a remarkable differ ence between the two sexes. About 3V£ per cent, of men are color-blind to a marked extent, while not more than 4-10 of 1 per cent, of women are thus afflicted. A store at Tempo, Ail., is about to in augurate n novel cash system. When anyone desires credit he is referred tc the office, where, if he be solvent. Ids note is taken for the amount needed, the cash is advanced him, and lie goes into the store and with the money ac quired does his buying. Lord Rosebery will this year exhibit no fewer than twenty-four head of cattle and sixty sheep at the fat stock shows at Birmingham and Smithtield. His lordship will thus be probably the largest exhibitor. Ills exhibits will in dude many noted prize winners at last year's Scottish shows. The first horse on record whose pedi gree can bo authenticated was bred by Charles IF. and called Dodsworth; and, for his amusement when he resided at Windsor, lie appointed races to bo run in Datcliet Mend, and at Newmarket, where, it Is said, he entered horses and ran them in his own name. "Charley's Aunt" has reached Portu gal and is attracting large audiences tc nn Oporto theater. In its Portuguese guise it is "A Madrinha do Charlee." With the exception of an original play of Shakspeare's, this is the first time in years that an English drama lias been performed on the Portuguese stage. William Scrubby, Trenton's official clog catcher, tendered a pail full ol dog's tails as vouchers for tho numbei of canines he laid low in tho perform ance of ids duty and on which lie based his claim for payment. The officials refused to count the tails, but agreed to accept Scrtibby's statement of the can dal tale ns correct. John Simpson, the veteran St. Regis prospector, states that the kangaroos on Blue Mountain are increasing In number and will soon furnish good sport for local hunters. Joe Reece came across a wounded one the other day and killed it to end its suffering. He is having the hide tanned and will make a hunting coat of it. Tho fisli commissioners of California recently storked the two largest rivers) in the southern part of that State—the San Joaquin and the Kings—with 50,• 000 black bass. It is expected that not only will the bass flourish and a little later afford fine sport, but that they will also clear these rivers of the small fry of coarse and low grade fish. On the roof of a building in Philadel phia a sparrow trap is in full swing night and day. The trap Is one into which the birds hop to get the grain and bread crumbs plainly in sight. Once inside the birds do not know enough to come out. The sparrows Iced more on a cloudy aud windy day than on a bright day, btfc no matter what the weather Is it is a poor day when the trap will not yield fifty spar rows. v Austria gives prizes to farmers to encourage them to recover wastelando and lay them down us pasturage, and also to erect shelters or stables for cows in high altitudes. The importance of this may be seen from the statement that one-quarter of the total fodder re quired for cattle and horses in the em pire is derived from Alpine districts. In the front of a house in the Fauborg do Slinerbuch, in Brussels, there is to bo seen, half buried in plaster, a can non ball which was fired from a Dutch cannon at the period of the revolution of 1830, and lias ever since been per mitted to remain. Recently it was de termined to restore and refront the house, and it was decided to make the repairs without disturbing the cannon ball. At Portland, Me., one of the crew of a fishing schooner went out in a dory to haul up some trawls which were set oIT Pemaquid in thirty fathoms of wa ter. The usual number of cod and had dock were found on the hooks, but the niau received one of the biggest sur prises of his life when he hauled in a forty-pound salmon. What in the world the big fish was doing out in deep water no one can explain. Henry Elliot, who has written numer ous papers on the fur seals of the North ern Pacific, teils how the Eskimo, with a frail skin canoe, when the craft, heavily laden with furs, had to land its freight 011 a graven beach, put a row of inflated sealskin floats in front of the umiak (their skin boat) and rolled her high and dry. Without that precau tion the thin skin bottom of tlieir boat would have been torn. Of all the varied changes in the Yale commencement exercises, the most im portant is the last step which places tiio scientific department on a clear footing with the academic. The Intro duction of a class day, a senior prom enade and n high stand scholarship so ciety are, perhaps, only symbolic, but they have broken down the last bar riers which separate the academic from the scientific departments. In 1880, Tampa, Fla., had 720 inhnb i tan to, and in 1894. 15,(588. Five lines of steamers run regularly between Tampa and New Orleans, Mobile, Ha vana, Key West and local ports. Its hotel property is valued at $3,000,000. The city lias twenty-two miles of dec trie car lines, three electric light plants, about seventy-five cigar factories, and is supplied with pure spring water, through eighteen miles of mains, to the extent of 3,000,000 gallons daily. One of the sections of the Constitu tion for Utah provides that the State's indebtedness shall never exceed SIOO.- MO. Another forbids the giving oi loaning of State, county, city or bor ough credit to any business enterprise. Another fixes the salary of the Gov ernor at $2/(00 n year. Another pro vides that trial juries shall consist of eight persons, and that In civil cases the concurrence of six out of the eight shall be sufficient for a legal verdict. In Los Angeles, in a jewelry store, a three-horse power motor Is used in the cutting of precious stones. The ma chine worked by the motor is said to be the only one of the kind In the coun try. The stone is held by a quadrant, which is adjusted by a set screw to its required position on the lap. As many as sixty stones can be cut at one time, and the method of adjustment is so accurate that in no case would there be tlie slightest possibility of over grinding. From tlie registry of visitors kept at St rat ford-on-Avon, It appears in the past year there have been In round numbers 14,000 visitors, of whom 4,000 were from the United States. Slinks pea re's plays were among the first pre sented by regular theatrical companies in the American colonies, and the visit of Washington Irving to Stratford, with his charming description of it, did more than lias ever been done by any othei single person to turn men's minds to ward the quiet old town beside the Avon. TWO-STORY CARS OF PARIS. Run by Electric Storage Batteries and Arc Called a Success. There are no trolley or cable cars in Paris. The storage battery electric cars seem to have been made a success there. They are much larger than those which for a time were in opera tion on the Madison and Fourth ave nue liue in New York, being literally H" - L |,i ,i i j .imfa— A PAItIS DOUBLE-DECKEII. two stories high. The outside seats are roofed and are protected at the ends by glass screens. Tito approach of a car or omnibus Is not heralded hy gongs, as It Is In America. Each of the big, lumbering vehicles is provided with a horn, which the driver can sound by pressing n rubber bttlb. These toot anil toot and toot, wherever one may go. Suppose One Can't Sncoze. Chinese dentists rub a secret powder on the gum over the affected tooth and after about live minutes the patient Is told to sneeze. The tooth then falls out. Many attempts have been made by Eu ropean dentists to secure this powder, hut none have ever succeeded lit doing so. THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. A Pastoral—A Victim of Circum stances-—An Unpardonable Error —191)5, A. I)., Etc., Etc. The fishing season safely yields A joyfu', restful caln: — And the city (log take* I: tho/udd* To catch a mess of lamb. —Cleveland Plain Dealer AN UNPARDONABLE ERROR. Miss Gotham "I believe she is very highly educated." Miss Backbay—"3he can't be ; why, she pronounces tho 1 in golf."—Brook lyn Eagle. EXPLAINED. Sympathetic Friend—"How did you corno to bo so horribly mangled?" Victim—"The trolley car that hit me was equipped with the very latest improvement in fenders. A VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCES. Mrs. Jones —"Jt is strange that a strong man like you cannotget work." The Tramp—"Well, yer tee, mum, people wauts reference from me last employer, an' he's been dead twenty years."—Fuck. A LONELY WOOD SURE TIHNG. Jonesley—"Where do you think this 'ere new well you want mo to dig ought to be, anyhow?" Mr. Commuter (confidently)—"la the cellar. I know we can strike water there."—Judge. 1995, A.'D. Visitor "Got uuylhin' worthsooiu' in vour show?" Museum Manager —"Wo got the man what never rodo a bicycle." Visitor (with excitement) "Gimmo a ticket I"—Chicago Record. NOT FREE ENOUGH. Wobbley Wiggles - "J)o you belicvo in free silver?" Wiggley Waggles—"Yes, but I don't see much of it; whenever I make a brace on de street do most I ever gets is a nickel."—Brooklyn Eagle. TOOK IIIM AT 111-i WORD. Brace —"I like a joke, but printing a fellow's death notice is carrying a joko too far." Bagley—"Didn't you K ay you would pay mo Saturday night that live you borrowed, if you were alive?" —Fuck. THE DIFFERENCE. Mistress (to her domestic) "I sup pose you girls talk about each other just the same as we ladies do about persons in our set?" Domestic—"No, mum, wo mostly talks about the mistresses."—Boston Transcript. WHAT SHE NEEDED. Madam—"No, we do no cooking in the house here. I only drink milk. I take a cup of milk every two hours." The Newly liirod Servant—"Well, madam, I do not see why you need me. What madam requires is a cow." —La Vie Farisicnue. NO LONGER A CRIME. Tourist (in Oklahoma) "Horsesnro pretty cheap hero nowadays, aren't they?" Alknli Ike—"Cheap? They are BO blamed cheap that when wo capturo a horse thief wo send him to the lunatic asylum instead of lynchiu' him,"— Fuck. COULDN'T BLOW ir our. "I am the Oboerful Idiot," remarked tbo now arrival. "I am sorry, sir," sai 1 tho hotel clerk ; "but we are lighted with elec tricity throughout." "Never mind," rejoined the other, as ho registered; "1 thall manage some way."—Puok. UN FLATTER IN"3. Little Johnny—"Mrs. Tulkcmdowu paid a big compliment to mo to-day." "Mother—"Did she really? Well, there's no denying that woman has sense. What did she say?" Little Johnny—"Sheijiii J she didn't see how you ca-no to have such a niej little boy as I was."—Good News. A RETURN FIRS, Conceited Dude—"l am looking for Farmer Huckleberry's. 11-ivo "you sen so enough to tell mo where ho lives?" Irish Boy—"lt's mcsilf who has since ouulF tor toll yoz; but it's moighty doubtful I bo whether yea have sinco eimlT ter uudorsthau I." Harper's Weekly. A CHANCE FOR A DARK HORSU. Sister May—"l think it yon should propose to Grace sho won 1.1 accent yon." Brother Jack (eagerly) --"Do y ou ? Has she said anything?" Sister May—"No; but t know Rha was deeply iu love with ll,irrv Max well, ami his engagement has ju st bcou announced."- Brooklyn Life. UNABLE TO OBLIGE. Excuso mo, Kir, said tiio man in the row behind, "hut would voiuniu l asking your wife to remove her bat? I nssuro you that I cauuot sec a thiu-'-- on the stage." "I'd like to oldigo you, sir, but it is impossible," 6 uul the mau ad dressed. "',Ve live out of town, aud we must get homo to-night." "What has that got to do with it?" "What has that got to do with it? \? nr lr ?' u K ° es *- werit J minutes after the end of the performance, and it takes her an hour to put that hat on. —Harper's Bazar.
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