China has to-day twenty-6ix ports open to foreign commerce. Taking the whole land surface of the globe into consideration, there are twenty-two and a half acres for each inhabitant on this planet. The silverware belonging to Quean Victoria's table would keep her from starvation for the rest'of her life, if the worst came to the worst. It is valued at $12,500,000. The Chicago railroads have decided to elevate their tracks, and will go right at it. "They are tired of paying for the people they kill," explains the New Orleans Picayune. If Turkey should be wipod out, it would mean the loss to Russia of au annual sum of $7,500,000, which Tur key pays her byway of indemnity, and will have to pay till 1977. Rudolph Cronau declares that he has indisputable evidence that the re mains of Columbus still rest in the cathedral at Santo Domingo, Havti. Ho asserts that the remains transferred to Spain in 1795 were those of tho great discoverer's son, Diego. Tho Louisville Courier-Journal states that tho question of keeping down the cotton acreage for 1895 is attracting a great deal of attention in the South. The cotton exchanges are urgiug planters to diversify their crops and plant no more than they did in 1895. The Statemeu's Yearbook for 183>, an acknowledged authority oa statist iios, gives tho area of British Guiana as 7<5,000 square miles, while iu the issue of 1833 the same oonntry is creditod with au area of 109,030, No treaty is oited to aooouut for this in crease ef 31,030 square miles. This seems to the Pathfinder a matter for soientifio investigation. Of the in crease of speoies thero is definite knowledge, but the matter oE terri torial multiplioation is anomalous, in fact without explanation, unless it be duo to alliuvial deposits along the coast. The New York Herald says that "the cable despatch of congratulation addressed by the Emperor William to President Ivrueger, of the Transvaal Republic, whioh is worded in the cus tomary phraseo'ogy of messages from oue Chief of State to auother, is au liistorio document of far greater im portance than it appears at the first glance. It is the recognition of the absolute independence of the Trans vaal Republic and a repudiation of the rights of suzerainty which England claims to exercise over the South African Republic by virtue of the con vention of 188 i, which provides that tho South African Republic shall con clude no treaty or engagement with any State or Nation other than tho Oraugo Free State, nor with aoy na tive tribe to the eastsvord or westward of the Republic, unless the same has been approved by Her Majesty tho Queen. This passage is the sole foun dation for England's claim to suzer ain rights over the Boers, which is now denied in the German Emperor's message, issued alter calm delibera tion in council with his Imperial Chaneelor and with his Ministers ol Foreign Affairs and of the Navy." The Atlanta Journal says that •'Georgia is to have another immense colony of Northern and Western set tlers, if the plans of four gentlemen who are now in this State materialize. The names of the members of the party are: Messrs. W. W. Taggart, of Breck inridge, Minn., who was in the last Legislature; C. H. F.iirall, of West Broucb, lowa, and a brother of Julge Fair ill. of that State; John J. Gamble, of West Branch, lowa, and A. E. Sausburn, of Breckinridge, Minn. These gentlemen, who are all well known in their localities as busi ness and professional men of high rank, huvo been in nearly all of the States of the South prospecting for Miitable lands on which to establish the colony which they have in mind. They have about concluded to negoti ate for a tract of 80,000 acres in the southern part of this State, having been more impressed with Georgia than with any other State in this sec tion. It is their purposo to secure this land and divide it into lots of farms, which will bo sold or rented, at the choice of the settler. The move* ment which started some time ago and culminated in the great Fitzgerald colony in Irwin County, has caused a deep current of interest in the South to bo awakened throughout the North west, and in Minnesota especially there is a strong desire on the part of people to come to this section. The winters arc so severe in the Northwest that the people are growing tired of the •outttry," I THE FIELD OF ADVENTURE. THRILLING INCIDENTS AND DAR ING DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA. A ISaboon <Jlvcs a Life for a Life— Marvelous Kscapc of a Traveler— An Huniblo llero. WE had outspanncd in a lonely place, and were resting under the shade of a wagon, for it was midday. The oxen were grazing near by, aud we should not want them un til the sun had begun to deceud toward the mountain tops. Suddenly my two fox-terriers, which always accom panied 1110 when transport riding, be gan to bark wildly about a hundred yards away from us. On looking in their direction wo behold a lingo black baboon standing erect, holding on to a bowlder. Then it was, in my excite ment that I rose and, taking my gun from the wagon, inserted a bullet anil hurried toward tho spot. I called my boy to nccompny me, saying, "Let us kill him, Pahla." But when he saw tho animal ho flatly refused. "Whawl Nkosi," he said, "I cannot. I have made a vow." I was astonished at Pahla, for, as a rule, he was as eager as myself iu the pur suit of wild animals and game. But I proceeded alone. When near the baboon 1 shouldered mv gun aud shot him through tho chest. Ho rolled over, aud the dogs began to worry him. But he set up such a wailing, like a man in pain, that it went to my heart and I felt sorry that 1 had shot him. AH ho was expiring, Pahla came to my side. Putting his hand to his mouth ho exclaimed : "VYhaw ! Nkosi, that was not well done," anl walked away, I called off the dogs, anil we returned to the shade of the wagon. Being curious as to Pallia's vow, I asked him to tell 1110 all about it. "When I was a young man, Nkosi," ho said, M I was one day hunting for jackals on tho hillside, In time we oame aorosn several baboons, and I sot tho dogs after thorn, I had four dogs with me, On oatohing up with tbom they bemmod one of them round, cut ting it off from the rest, whioh con tinued their flight, Whawl Nkosi, how it did fight 1 It caught hold of one dog with its teeth and hands, and with one wrench tore it to death. As I came up the other dogs were worry ing it from behind, and one of them tore a piooe from its shoulder. Then it rolled onto tho ground, and I was about to kill it by hitting it on the head with a heavy kerrio I hold in my hand, when it lookod at mo so plead ingly, and oriod so piteously—just like a man who might bo dying in great pain—that I could not strike. J called off the dogs and let it go. It limped away slowly at Hrst, but in a few mo ments turned around, gave one stare at us, and thou hurried off to its com panions. "A few days later I was again hunt ing with my dogs in that neighbor hood. As we crossed the hill we came right into tho midst of a troop of ba boons. Tho dogs immediately set up on them and I ran after them. All at once a huge brute turned upon me. I struck him with my stick, but not heavily enough to knock him down. He caught hold of my blanket with his teeth aud hands and tore it in two , pieces. Then I felt like a dead man ! with fright. Again he got hold of me with his hands, and 1 knew that my end was come, lor ho was more nimble than I, and his teeth were horrible to see, ns ho fixed them again to .tho blanket on ray shoulder. But at that moment another baboon came up, aud, taking hold ot the first one, pulled him off with a big pull, anil they left me, running in the direction of tho others. As they ran away I : looked and Haw that tho one that had | saved me was wounded in the loft shoulder, aud I know it to bo tho same baboon whoso life I had saved a few days before. "It is a straugo thing, but it is true, Nkosi, aud I made a vow that day that I would never kill auother baboon. And from that day to this I have not done so."—New York Recorder. Saved by a Gold Belt. "Gold has a variety of uses." said Mr. Thornton Decker, au English engineer, to au American, who met him in Tlacalula, Mexico, "but I fancy my experience when I first went over this route between Oaxaca and Te hauhtcpec was rather novel. A lot of $2O pieces served very well as a coat of mail—so well that they saved ray life. "As I said, I was bound down to Tehauntepec for a look at the railroad across the isthmus. I had heard that the women there uso your American double eagles for jewelry aud paid a very high premium for them, HO I got forty of fifty aud sewed them into tho form of what you might call a porous plaster. When I hail them stitched into place 011 a bit of cotton, there were two rows across my back and a third row overlapping the other two. By putting straps over my shoulders they carried very comforta bly. "I got the gold up at El Paso, Texas, but iu some way one of the beggarly crew at Oaxaca saw that I was carrying something in tho small of my back, and tho result of that was I was followed when I set out for Te hauntepec. They allowed me to go on unmolested until I was within a day of Han Carlos, and then one of them seems to have taken a short cut through tho mouutaius and concealed himself in the brush until I passed. Then he gave it to me with a shotgun loaded with slugs of lend, aud I caught it in tho small of the back. "The force of the blow knocked mo down over the pommel of the saddle. When there I had presence of mind enough to keep on slowly, as if en tirely done for. Meanwhile I got one of your American navy revolvers in my hand vyskfd itt •'The beggar that had shot me, see ing me fall, came running from the brush, machete in one hand and gun in the other, while his partner ap peared around the mountain with his horse on the gallop. They yelled at my horse to stop and my guide to go on, and both obeyed promptly. I was still clinging to my horse's neck and could see them through its mane very well. "I let thorn get within ten feet of me, and then dropped to my feet on the ground and took my turn at shoot ing. They were BO close I couldn't miss, but luckily, as I think, one caught his bullet iu the knee and tho other in tho fleshy part of tho arm, while their horse was killed outright by a bullet in the head. "Seeing them both down and beg ging for their lives, I had a mind to kill tuem for their cowardice, but I lot thorn off with a good kicking apiece, and then called back the guide and had him carry water and wash and dress their wounds as well as pos sible. Then I gave tho man with the hurt arm a stiff horn of brandy and sent him back for help, while I con tinued my journey. The slugs had hit tho gold pieces—three of them. I had a lame back for a week or so, but I was otherwise unhurt. "What became of them? I after ward met the oue that caught it in tho knee. He was going about the mar ket in Oaxrca on a peg leg, peddling, and telling people ho had lost his leg in a fierce encounter with highway men. He said his partner was on a journey, but I fancy lie meant ho had been detected in some rascality and sent to prison." A Hero of To-Day. Tho other night in the cellar of tho New York Tribune J building the big engines were throbbing away with a potential energy that tilled the great structure with light and power. Suddenly, says tho Tribune, ft pipe was torn from its connections, and a rush of escaping steam swept through tho furnaces like a tornado. There was a panic, Nobody know just what had happened, and it was feared that tho boilers would explode at any moment. It was a soeno of terror and oonfu eion, and a brave man might have been forgiven for giving way to his fear. But Bill Fitzpatriok, tho assistant en gineer, never thought of his own safe ty. Ho hail but one idea: "It's the Tribune or myself I" 80 ho dashed into tho stifling steam, and rushed to what threatened to be instant death. Fitzpatriok found the spot, averted the danger and came out safe and sound. Half an hour later everything was moving along as usual, and few in tho building knew of their narrow es cape. The engineer went right on with his work, and never thought of claim ing any credit for his timely heroism. The Tribune makes tho iucideut tho subject of an editorial in which it says that tho human nature of to-day is as chivalric, as generous and heroic as it ever was in tho time of Roland aud Lancelot. It may not wear purple vel vet and glittering armor, but tho knightly metal rings just as true. Many of the heros whoso deeds have been immortalized iu song and story never showed more courage, loyalty ami devotion than this huuiblo toiler, Bill Fitzpatriok, who has spent his life in the cellar of a printing office. As tho Tribune says, "the world is better be cause of every such man, and every such deed, and tho knowledge of their existence comes us an inspiration to every true heart."—Atlanta Constitu tion. Fight With Wildcat. Peter Sokultz, Jr., was out in tho woods near Bascom, Ohio, and, while roaming about, was attacked by a large wildcat. The vicious animal jumped at his face, cutting and scratching it in a most terrible manner, and tearing his clothing nearly off* his bick. By hard struggling and a well-directed blow from Mr. Sohultz's list, ho freed himself l'roin tho animal, alter which ho shot and killed it. About oue year ago Mr. Sclinltz was iu this same woods aud was attacked in a similar way by a wildcat and he shot the animal, which ho saw limp away. Tho cat ho killed seems to liavo been lame, and is supposed to be tho sauio animal. Saved by a Passing Train Crcsv. A family living in an isolated farm house near Mareellus, Mich., were saved from being burned up with their home oho night not long ago, by tho crew of a freight train, passing 011 a railroad running near the house. The engineer of the train noticed tho house wrapped iu dames, and stopped his train and sent the brukeman on tho run to awaken the inmates. The brakeman kicked in u door and found that tho whole family were sound asleep 011 tho upper floor. Tho flames had gained such headway that in a few minutes more it would have been impossible for tho inmates of the house tc escape. A Ntne-Yenr-Old Heroine. Little Grace Golvin, nine years old, of Bristol, Conn., was playiug under a sand bank with a companion, when the sand caved in aud buried the other girl. Instead of running away, Grace attacked tho sand with her hands aud dug it away from her unlucky com panion's face so that she could breathe, thus saving her life. Chinese Artillery and Dinner. It is the custom of tho best Chinoso artillerymen to go to dinner punctu ally as the hour strikes, even in tho middle of au engagement. The bet ter-disciplined sailors do not leave their guns, but they growl horribly if their meal hour finds them unavoida bly engaged. The men are cool enough to eat leisurely with shell Hy ing round them. —Blackwood's Maga- SOFTENING BONES WITH LIME. It is not the lime that softens the bones when they are mixed with fresh wood ashes aud lime, and the whole kept moistened with water, but tho potaib. The potash in the water is in a mild condition, iu the foim of a car bonate of potash, but tho lime takes the carbonic acid from tho ashes and makes the potash caustic. The caus tio potash is very acrid, and eats the lime in the bones and so softens them that they may be crumbled with ease after a month's exposure to the mixed ashes uud lime in a pit; so that with out the ashes it is not possible to soften the bones; the wood ashes are indispensible. When bones are burnt d the gelatine—which has fifteen per cent, of; nitrogenj iu it—is destroyed, and thus the greuter part of the ferti lizing value of the bones is lost.—New York Times. TREATMENT OF FROZEN FLANTS. ''When the days begin to lengthen, the cold begins to strengthen," is an old weatherwiso saying which is so true that often the window plants which have come through December unscathed will bo frozeu in January, writes "S. C." When one rises in tho morning to find them in such plight making up the fire and warming tho room as soon as possible will bo fatal to all but tho most hardy. On tho other hand, if they are removed to a closet or the cellar and allowed to thaw gradually in the dark, many of them will be injured very little. I have frequently had geraniums come through the ordeal none tho worso for it. Many persons cut tho plants down at once, when they have been frosted, but this is not necessary with geran iums or shrubby plants, as thoy will usually put forth now leaves in a short time. Begonias thrive better than most plants in the warm air of the sitting room, and hence are favorite plants for tho window garden, but they are very susceptible to frost. A few va rieties, the Vernon and NVeltoniensjs among them, will sprout up from the roots after being frozen (lOWD, but my experience with other kinds has been that it is useless to try to save them in such a case. Last winter I had hyacinths in full bloom frozeu one cold night. The hyacinth before it flowers will boar considerable freezing, but it seemed scarcely possible to save tho waxen bells of tho llower spike. How ever, they went into the woodbox as soon us its contents had been emptied into the stove. A covering thick enough to exclude tho light, and also the air for some time, was thrown over it. After some hours I peeped in. They had thawed, but the spikes were drooping sadly. They were allowed to remuin in tho dark all day, and by the next morning scarcely showed the effects of the cold. As a precaution against freezing it is well to water sparingly iu very cold weather. Tho few "green things growing" kept in the windows brighten tho homo so much in winter that it is always a pity to lose them. —New York Tribune. CARE OF THE COWS. Ilavo you ever watched your cows on a bitter cold day sneak slowly up to the water trough where you have broken tho ice and stick her tongue in the cold water several times until she got used to it, then take a little sip and a little moro until she could stand 110 more of it. Theu sho will walk slowly over the frozen ground uutil the gets iu the shelter of an old wagon, aud there with her back bumped up sho will stand for two or three hours shivering until what feed she lias eaten has had time to warm that water up to a living temperature? How long ought it to take a sensible man to find out where all of his feed is goiug, no matter whether it is a milk cow or a dry one. Nearly overy pound she eats is needed to warm that water, and little is left to repair the body, much less to make milk or fat of. Tho simplest kind of a heating apparatus will cost not over ten cents a day to heat the water for a small herd twice a day. It will pay for itself twice over during the winter iu food it will save and tho milk it will allow the cows to make, and it will do the same in add ing flesh to the other cattle, especially the young onee. Then go a step further aud buy some boards to build a shed with that the poor things may havo a dry placo to stand and lie down under with a wind break against the cold piercing storms. These are not,only acts of humanity, but they appeal directly to the pocket book. They make the stacks of buy, the corn fodder and the meal bin go nearly twice as far, to eay nothing of increasing the profits of the milch cows. If a liberal allowance of straw, leaves or other trash is scattered under the shed tho amount of manure saved will far more than repay tho cost and trouble of collecting it, while it great ly adds to the comfort of the animals. If you are not too tired by this time, then get you a sharp butcher's saw aud take the horns off first from the boss cows and steers, and then tho younger ones. This is the best time of year to do it, when there are no flies to bother. .—Home and Farm. IRRIGATION OF GARDENS. Tho importance of irrigation of gar dens and farm lands is a matter of rapidly iatcrost to those concerned. Irrigation has been some what of a bugbear to farmers always, the idea being that it required costly works and much labor to accomplish it, and it has always been associated with the utmost aridity of climate and toilsome cultivation of the soil. But if there are in existence any districts where more than in others the profits of the farm are greater, and the ease of cultivation greater, too, with the certainty of maximum crops also greater, they ore the irrigated dis tricts of the far East. Indeed, some of the causes of the depression in East ern farming is due to the less cost of growing crops under irrigation, and the ability of the farmers to sell the products of their farms at a low price, such as other farmers cannot afford to take. In fact, the time has come when irrigation must be made a practice wherever tho water is available for it. For it is one of the laws of vegetable growth that this is in proportion to tho quantity of water in the soil. But it is in tho growth of grass that the application of water to the land may bo made tho more profitable with the least trouble. Tho myriads of rivers and streams that flow through this broad land down to the ocean may all be impounded and made to work for the farmer without cost, ex cept for tho permanent works re quired ; and some of these need only be of the simplest kind. Here low banks thrown up by the plow, or otherwise by the horse scraper, will re tain tho water of a stream when it is high, while it deposits its load of dis solved or suspended matters to add to the bulk of tho low lauds along its banks, aud to increase the stock of plant food in it, The water thus flows in at the higher end of the embank ment and, slowly moving down to the lower part of the stream, gives up its load to the greedy soil, and hastens 011 to the next farm, where it takes with it its newly gathered spoils, leaving thein bohind as it goes on and on toward its final goal, tho great ooean. Lands thus embanked are quite common all over Europe, and are so productive of grass and the related crops—all used lor feeding.—as to pay the interest on a value of $lOOO or $2OOO on acre. If the irrigated lands of the great West have lowered the value of the Eastern farms, why should not these take the same method of cheapening their products, while the quantity is increased, and KO restore the old values to them? Irrigation, wherover it is possible, is one way to effect this improvement. —New York Times. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Dairymen should always remember it is dangerous to use tho milk from a sick cow. Get a good churn. They are'plenty and cheap. Time is too precious to waste over a poor churn. If milk is properly pasteurized there is no cooked flavor present such as is noted in sterilized milk. In manipulating butter, never allow the hanils to come in contact with it as their warmth molts and injures the grain. As the conclusion of various ox?>er imonts, tho cost of keeping a dairy cow, without roots or silage, is put at $35 a year. Young trees should be cultivated for some years alter planting, as this is an essential condition of their making a vigorous growth. Now is a good time to cut out all useless, weak, or spindling wood in tho orchard. A twig that can bo cut with a knife now may require a saw next year. It is importaut that tho cow should be given a smooth surface for lyiug down. Dry bedding should bo pro vided and cold drafts of air exoludod from the table. When packing apples for market preserve uniformity iu size as much as possible. Select the largest and finest to form an extra lino quality to sell at a fancy price. Trees which are heeled in during the winter siiould not be eo\ered with hay or straw, us such material draws mice and other rodents, which gnaw tho young trees and destroy them. The colder apples are kept without freezing tho better. They will eudure a much lower temperature than will potatoes, but when stored in a cellar, good ventilation is necessary and as even a temperature us possible. All young hogs in the orchard should be left unringed and free to root the soil as much as they like. Ringing older hogs is sometimes necessary, as in a dry time old sows will get in the habit, if unringed, of gnawing the bark of tho trees and thus causing irrepar able injury. The appearanco of moss on apple trees shows that there is an excess of water in tho soil. The land should bo drained for orchards as lor other crops. Stagnant water is of no benelit. A system of underdraining shouid bo employed, so that the subsoil will hold more moisture for tho uso of the roots. Every farmer should teach his boys tho art of budding and grafting. Variety and quality of fruits in a small orchard may bo greatly improved by judicious budding, and such work may bo made a pastime which will add in terest to farm life and also increaso the satisfaction from the family orchard* An Ice Bicycle. The bicysle docs not go into com plete retirement oven upon the arrival of winter ice and snow. In fact, the bicycle will be one of the big things on ice during the coining season. From the suggestion thrown out by a boy who lashed an ordinary skate to the front wheel of his safety, and was enabled to make good time over the surface of a frozen lake, two enter prising young men in Chicago have invented and patented an ice bioycle, and formed a company for its manu facture. With the first perfeoted model one of the inventors made a mile in one minute and twenty seconds, and this can be improved upon, the skill of the rider being the only limit to the pos sibilities in the line of rocords. The change from the normal bioycle to the ico machine can be made in five min utes. The rear tiro is deflated and the toothed band of steel slipped over it. The tire is then inflatod until the ten sion is suifioiont to hold the band firmly in place. The blade is hollow ground, render ing lateral slipping impossible. The weight of the machine remains un altered. The device is quite cheap, costing less than $2O, and for that reason oycling on ice is sure to be come popular, if not the reigning fad of tho winter.—St. Louis Post-Dis patch, Most Unhealthy City in Europe. At St. Petersburg the average yearly deaths are from 2500 to 8000 in excess of the births in a population of nearly a million. In tho years from 18G8 to 1882 tho death rate varied from 29.7 per thousand to 38.6, while the births were only 31.1 per thousand. In 1883, 25,171 children were born alive, while there were 30,150 deaths, an excess in this year of about 5000. But these figures are apt to bo mieleading. The workmen who como up to tho capita) almost invariably leave their wives and children in the provinces. Thus, many births take plaoe in tho provinces whioh are not reokoned to the aocount of the oapital. Tho faot that about 78 per cent, of the population are over sixteen years of age testifies to the universality of tho practioe of leaving the children in tho country, The same fact is demonstrated by the presence of twelve men to every ten women in St. Petersburg, whereas in most towns this proportion is exactly reversed. It will thus be seen that though the deaths are in excess of the birihs, there is not likely to be any diminution in the actual population of the town, In faot, its population increased twenty nine per cent, between 1809 and 1881. —London Tit-Bits. Indinn Tents at Night, Pleasing as the tents are by day, with the waving shadows of the grass or the broad flecks of sunlight from between the branches of tho trees upon their white Bides, whioh shade into a dull brown at the tops, where tho skin-covering is discolored by the smoke ascending in lazy,blue]columns, the true time to enjoy the beauty oi an Indian camp is at night. Then the tents are illuminated by a central tire, and are all aglow under the stars, the silhouettes of the inmates creating an animated shadow world. Here one catches the picture of a group of chil dren watohing an elder twisting his fingers to form a fox ohasing a rabbit on the tent wall (perhaps some ono is telling a myth about tho little fellow, for suddenly.the shadow rabbit sits up waving his ears as though ho had out witted his pursuer) J yonder a woman is lifting the pestle, pounding corn in tho great wooden mortar ; nenr by art some young girls with their heads to gether, whispering secrets; old men reolino on one el'oow, smoking; and over there a young man isbiddiug the baby boy danco; whilo tho sound oi song and friendly chatter fills the air. The picture is of a life simple and con tented within itself.—Century. Mortality ol Physicians. Dr. Cortright, in the Brooklyn Medical Journal, has written a papei on the "Mortality and Causes of Death in Medical Men." This pnper is based on the records of 459 physicians who died in New York and Brooklyn during tho past eight years. The average age ol death was 54.6 years, and the mortality was about 25.23 ae compared with a mortality of 15.93 iu clergymen nud 20.23 in lawyers. There is a considerable mortality from the self-administration of drugs; that from consumption is about half the general rate, while that from typhoid lover is very high. There is a high death rate duo to arterial sclerosis and other degenerative changes. The practical conclusion deducted from Dr. Cortright's statistics, says the Medical Journal, is that doctors should take at least three weeks' com ploto rest aud change yearly, should be extremely moderate in the use of stimulants, should be regular in their meals, never worry and never hurry. This is the kind of advice that doctors give, but do not take. The further suggestion, however, that they all join some medical sickness and life nssur auce society, is a wise one.—Medical Record. An Elcclric Car Regulation. Electrio street car companies in Ta coma, Wash., are to be required tore pnir all damages to water pipes causod by electrolysis. In repaying ono of the principal avenues of the city, along which runs an electric car line, it was found that rnoro than one-half of the surface and connection pipes, running from the water main to build ings, had been so eaten away by the electric current grounded through the rails as to be useless. The (pipes were replaced by the oity at a cost of more than $lOOO. All franchises hereafter granted will oontain a olause that tho company shall repair damage thus eaused, —New Yvrk suu> AFTER A SLEEP. Night—and the strong will stiflod, Night—and tho fancy waned, Night—and tho memory beggared, Night—and the spirit drained Liko a stream with driftwood encumbered, O'er a dumb and frozen land; Liko a flower that pales in the shadow, A bird that swoons in the hand! Ilorn—and the faint will strengthened *™ , Morn—and tho fancy glows, Morn—and tho memory rich-laden, Morn—and the spirit flows Liko a bird with a carol upmounting, _ Like a luud in the showers of spring, Like a flower in the sunlight smiling, Like a slream when the floodgates swing! —Edith M. Thomas, in Ladies' Home Journal JIUMOR OK THE DAY. Girls and billiard balls kiss each other with just about the same amount, of real feeling.—Truth. With all his experience the barber had to employ another muu to shinglo his roof.—Boston Transcript. "Dootor, I work like an ox, eat liko a bear, and am as tired as a dog." "Consult a veterinary surgeou.New York Times. If it is true that women marry through motives of curiosity, as the men allege, why do so many oi them, marry tho second time?—Atchison Globe. "What! nothing but veal with green peas on the bill of fare." "Pardon; by looking again you will find also veal without greeu peas."—Journal Amusant. "There is nothing like our Houso of Lords," boasted the Englishman. "Still you can'! say that it iB without a peer." replied the American.—Pitta burg Ohroniole-Telegraph. "Is this a fast train?" asked the traveling man of the porter. "Of course it 13," was the reply. "I thought so. Would you mind my getting out to see what it is fast to?" —Tit-Bits. "How did you get Boroiy out o( your whist olub—did you nslt him to resign?" "No; we didn't like to do that; but we all resigned except Bore ly, and then we all got togotber and formed a new olab,"—Harper's Ba zar. "Taking one thing with another," mused the burglar, adding the sleep er's watoh and jewelry with the stock of miscellaneous plunder already in his oapaoious pocket, "business ill my line is pretty good to-night."—Chioa go Tribune. Mr. Crusher—"You don't think tho young man you are engaged to will bo jealous of me, because 1 am paying you attention, do you?" Miss Daisy (after looking him over deliberately) "No. I don't think there is any danger that ho will."—Somcrvilla Journal. Willing to Wake Up: "Wake up, little girl," said a Bellotield mamma to her small daughter. Tho latter opened her eyes slowly, and then replied: "Well, I supposa I might as well. There's nothing very interesting going on in dreamland."—Pittsburg Chron icle-Telegraph. Wile—"l mentioned to dear Kittie, in my letter, about the dear Duchess calling upon us, and how sweet she was!" Husband—"l suppose you did not say that her Grace called for a chority subscription?" Wife —"Well, no. I did not think that hounded in teresting. " —Fun. Not a hundred miles from St. Paul's there is suspended over a pile of dusty volumes iu a second-hand booksoller's shop a chart showing the human skele ton, and underneath the following: "This is all that remains of the trades man whose customers only looked."— Household Words. "X don't tUink it's fair, Jo3iah," said Mrs. Clingwater, us the attendants bathe.l her sprained ankle with sooth ing lotions and wrapped bandages about it. "you're the one that always carries the accident insurance policies and I'm the ono that's always getting hurt!"— Chicago Tribune. She—"No, Ned, it wouldn't bo ju dicious for us to marry until after you have had your Balary increased." Ho (pleadingly)—" But two can livo cheaper than one, you know, Nellie." She—"Yes, I know ; that's what peo ple say. As a matter of fact, they have to."—Somerville Journal. Arliona Oranges. Yesterday the first Arizona oranges of the new crop went on to Chicago. The shipment was from a grove of the Arizona Improvement Oompnuy, and comprised several boxes of Washing ton navels, sweet, juicy, well ripened and nearly fully colored, large in size, plump and without a sign of rust or scale. It was a shipment to bo proud of, and back East will without doubt crente a sensation among those who heretofore have waited till Febru ary to get the first oranges of the new California crop. Yesterday seemed to bo general orange day along the street, and ripe navels were to be seen in a number of offices. It was evident that Sunday had been made the time for an inspec tion of many orange groves and the result showed that the crop this year is over a week earlier than heretofore known in this valley. The crop will bo a heavy one. Of the 1200 acres or moro planted in the Salt River Valley several hundred are now in good bearing and the crop, for the first time, will be a matter of com mercial importance.—Arizona Repub lican. A Great Detective, Vidocq, the great French detective, had so excellent a memory for names and faces thnt after having seen a criminal once and learned his name, lie never forgot him, but would often identify him under tho most subtly Uisguisys, —iig Figure,
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