In mathematics and chemistry France leads the world at present. Speaker Reed pronounces it "Ar kansaw," wlieu he recognizes a Repre sentative from that State. The United States raises moro to bacco than any other country on tho globe. British India comes next, pro ducing nearly as much. Tho largest decrease in the number of deaths from diphtheria last year occurred where the serutn euro was most generally adopted—in New York City. It is reported that the constant vi bration, caused by tho heavy steam and traction cars iu Paris, has caused great damage, especially to tail build ings, and mauy of them arc in an un safe condition. South Carolina has passed a bill, which puts tho life of any and every dog iu tho State at the mercy of any person who may catch it away from Jhorao. Dogs oil their owner's property may be killed for committing any sort of a "depredation," and tho killer is judge nud jury. It is affirmed that a poem offered in a contest for a prizo to tho Chicago Times-Herald, and which took tho prize, wa* a bold plagiarism from a poem which was first printed iu a Chi cago paper moro than twenty years ago. The "author" was a twenty year-old girl of Indianapolis. Andrew Carnegie Ims aroused British wrath by saying that it would pay England to burn up her railroad equip ment ana replace it with American models. Andrew is undoubted!y right if conveniences and comfort of travel nro considered. "Ev ry American who is not an Anglo-maniac that Ins ever tested their out-of-date traction and 1 ram way equipment will heartily indorse Andrew," adds tho Atlanta Constitution. General Traveling Agent Slcne, of the Georgia Southern Railroad, told a Georgia man recently that he had dis covered an electrical process for con verting wood into stone, lie could, he said, petrify wood at a moment's notice, and he proposed to make a for tune by converting tho plank walks common in Southern cities into etoue pavements. lie also said that there ought to be lots of money in turning frame buildings into stone bouses. His statement was printed in some of the newspaper?, un.l now Mr. Stone is kept busy telling his friends that he was only jolting. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, in his address at Kadcliffe College the other day, said: "One of the requirements "for admission to college should be a physi cal examination, as it is at Amherst, and during tho college coarse the girls should not be allowed to negleot gym nastic work, since regularity of exer cise is of the greatest importance. But it is a mistake for women to think that they can keep up to tho standard of work that men set for themselves. It is this disregard of their natural limi tations which causes so many women to break down. Two very important results of a college training are the cultivation of the power of quick per ception and tho habit of using the English language carefully in every day life. There should be a chair for daily English in every college. A most deplorable result of spending four years in college would be to lose all interest in tho world ontsido of books, and to let dressing the mind keep you from giving care to dressing tho body. May this never happen at tladclifl'e." Treasury officials were greatly sur prised at the c.ueiessness of many bond bidder . writes Walter Weliman, in the Chicago Times-Herald. In ad dition to the -1010 bids received there were several score of olltrings which ha I to be thrown out because the men making them had neglected to sign their names or till in tho amount they were willing to take or the price they wished to bid. Most of these blun ders were made by bankers ami busi ness men, and there were so many specimens that the Treasury officials who opened the bids were forced to wonder if their correspondents had not been laboring tinder some excite ment when they tilled out their blanks. One bidder, a Western banker, would be in a pretty fix if the Department were to accept his offer. He thought he was going to bo smart and so start ed out to make his bid for a million read "at tho lowest price offered." But by some curious mental lapse no wrote "highest" instead of "lowest," and a greatly surprised and embar burrussed man be would lie if Hcci : tary Carlisle were to alio, una Lis million at 1 JU, DON'T LEAN OUT OF PLUMB. Did you ever observe in your rambles about The political scenes of tho day How often reformers engender a doubt By their overpunctilious way V Their censorship always reminds me of those Wh< beneath my inspection have come, Attempting to strike a magnificent pose, Have o'erdone it to lean out of plumb. They lean too far back and, in fact, bo come bcrt, Most foolish the posture they take; And instead of expressing their upright intent They lead you to fear they may break. They wish you to feel that they're honest and wise And not at all crooked or dumb, Yet there they will stand with their eyes to the skies And unconsciously lean out of plumb. In trade or religion, in politics, too, If our rectitude we would disclose, Stand modestly forth to the popular view And don't try to strut or to pose. Cor oft times our eagerness may be too grcn t, At least it lias happened to some, And our efforts to tower in matters of Dwarf all chance as we lean out of plumb. —New York Sun. TROOPER JA PTISTE Jean Baptiste was a Canadian Frenchman, and his proper place in life would have been the woods of Now Brunswick or Nova Scotia: but, through drink and the devil and women, or a woman, he was a trooper in troop B of the Seventh United States Cavalry Regiment, which company was station ed at Fort Conejos, iu Colorado. Now, the meaning of conejos is plainly "con eys," which are not, again, to be Biblic ally rendered as rabbits, but as prairie dogs; and Trooper Baptiste was, when sober, just as mild, and even milder, than any prairie marmoset iu the whole sage brush country. For prairie dogs will "bark," or rather whistle, at one, and Baptiste only looked at a man with great round, foolish black eyes, which could be very fond of a friend and show it most pathetically. But, In spite of this gentleness, there was a terror hanging about him, for he was superhumanly strong. His voiy hand, nay, liis forefinger, was something to beware of; he could break clny-pipo bowls between two lingers; he could smash a cocoauut with his fist; he could shoulder a great hi ass howitzer that commonly took live men to handle without being "fazed." He was a very devil of muscle, and when he was drunk his mind went wrong—he got mad. The whole troop was seared of him. Yet, not all of them literally, for one. Jack Robertson, the Englishman, could oven handle him like a child—for Jack didn't drink, himself. But how It was that tin? whole troop didn't take to liquor, and having got drunk, didn't cut its universal throat, was a puzzle. For the fiat plain was sngo brush and alkali, anil when it didn't lain it froze, and when the freez ing was over a norther blew tit to per ish a whole squadron, man and horse, and when the northers "petered" the southerly winds en me up from the low lands. ami across Texas it was like a recreation ground in hell, with dirt and heat and tiles. Some of the men got ophthalmia and went blind or saw double or blinked vaguely through a ruined life hereafter, and some desert ed and died of alkali like the bullocks of a tram on the White desert or the great Mohave, and others got into ditll eulties and were knifed by Mexicans, or some border rutiian, even worse to handle or reckon on; and some, like Judas, went out and hanged them selves, for they had sold their own souls for an American eagle which struck its claws of iron through their hearts. <)h, it's not good to be a soldier in peace time anywhere, but to be one at a I'ni ted States outpost in a sage brush des ert, where the devil reigns in the ofti cers' hearts at being in such a hole, is worse than all. For there is no chance of glory or of lighting. At the very best a man rarely gets the chance of reddening his hands if he spares his own carotid and is delicate about his own jugular. So they drink and gamble and die—and the fools don't desert. About three-quarters of a mile front Conejos on the roail to Chama there was a Mexican shebang—a log shanty, a grog shanty—and in It most people got. rid of their cash very promptly— ; itmo got rid of their lives, too. It was a favorite haunt of Raptiste's, though they did not much like him there. For. being a soldier, they had a natural ten derness about finishing him in the usual way. They were afraid of his com rades. Rut one day word came to the camp that trouble was brewing (it Mex ican Joe's. Raptiste was drinking, and his rage was rising like a cyclone that (omes quickly and bursts all at once. "Where's RobertsonV" said the Cor poral of the guard, and they roused the young fellow out. They knew he was the only one who could handle the Frenchman. They ran down the road, live of them, and the dirt rose in clouds. They choked in ten yards and each strove to he first. Then they spread out like skirmishers and left dirt be hind each, instead of smoke. "What's this'.'" said the Corporal as ihev came within fifty yards of the shanty. For out of the door there canto a man's body. It rolled over and over, and then it appeared to he alive. Just as the owner of that apparent corpse (lis proved t he Inference of his (denial limp ness, another body dropped on him, and then a third came, and the three rolled dustily, and rose up white and voluble when they got their breath. Then Rap tiste en me outside, roaring in French and Spanish and good round United States a polyglot mass of oaths; and lie rolled them until they were almost iusensible and dropped their drawn knives. Then Robertson ran in and took Baptiste by the arm. Jean's face was purple and tlie veins in his forehead distended. His teeth were set in a kind of trismus; he could not speak. Rut out of his mouth came foam and out of his eyes lire. He caught Robertson by the body and lift ed him up. The Englishman stared him full in the face. "Von arc hurting 1110, you damned fool!" he said in a quick, sharp voice. And Jean's face cleared up. He put Jack down quite gravely and began to dust the alkali oil' him. Then he smiled and looked foolish. Jack put his arm in Jean's arm and marched him off to tin? guardroom. The others came be hind without a word. They locked the two friends up together, but in half an hour Jack knocked at the heavy door of his adobe prison. "He's ail right now, and fast asleep," said Jack as lie went off. In the morning Jean's penitence was heartbreaking to see; a child could have whipped him. He almost cried when the young lieutenant bullied him, and 110 swore to be a good boy for ever after. This he kept for quite a long time—almost a month. "Jean," said Robertson one day, as they sat outside when the sun had gone down, "you are a thundering thick headed, goodhearted idiot, and one of these days you will make me mad, and I shall just talk to 3*oll as 3*oll deserve." "Yes," said Jean with a smile, "1 ought to be kieked." "But who's to kick you? We shall have to hire Mexican Joe's mule. He's u kicker, and will kuoek the stuffing out of you too quick." And the youngster laughed. It pleas ed him curiousty to be the 011I3' one who could speak to Baptiste, or handle the man when he was drunk. For he had good grit, and it gave him a certain re sponsibility and duty that helped to steady him. "How did you ever come to enlist in this cursed army?" said Jack. "You are about as lit for a cavalrj'iuau as I am to be general." "I came Into Santa Fe dead broke," •aid Joan, "and I hoy askod mo, and I said 'Yes,' because it was so difficult to get work, and I was hungry. And peo ple down hero are so hard." "They are so," said Jack. "I know it." "And why did you join?" asked Bap tist©. "Beenuse I was busted and a fool md hungry and disheartened," said Jack, angrily; "and I've a good mind to got up and got right now." "Xo, no," said .loan. "I would lie very lonely here. You arc my only friend." And he put his enormous list on Jack's shoulder. The boy turned round JII liiin with a smile. "You're a bully good chap. IJaptiste, mil I'll stick it out with you till our time's up. And then, Baptiste, will you go home?" Jean got up and leant against the wall >f the store. They were sitting at the back of the building on a log. lie turn id his face away. "No," he said, "not yet. lam afraid." "Afraid?" "Yes. I should kill them." lie meant the woman he had loved ind her lover. Long ago he had told Jack the story, with the tears running lown his face. For this man had cheat ed him out of his father's inheritance, uid thereby of a girl, too. who had been bought, so Jean said, with his own money. "I should go ba ;*k lo do it," said Jack somberly. For he had a vindictive uiind. "I cannot," said Jean, "for I love her still." "Then I would kili him," was Jack's suggestion. "But she loves him." "Likely she has got over that by now," said the youthful cynic of 2.". "Anyhow, it would be a good thing to do." "You don't understand," said Jean. "If 1 hurt anyone 1 loved I could not live." "You're a bully good sort, Jean," said Tack, and they relapsed into silence. For these two in that hideous, unnatur al hole really loved each other. When that long, dry, somber month of August was over, and the alkali dust was thicker than ever, Baptiste started in again at the drink, and Jack couldn't keep him away from it. But lie escort ed him to the guardroom three times in the month, and thereby saved some lives, and then Baptiste got a letter from Montreal that drove him wild. Jack found him out on the plain roll ing in the dust and tearing up the sage brush with his hands. The man looked terrible and ludicrous, for lie bad been crying bitterly, and the dust marked his red face in patches till he looked like a circus clown who-had not touched his paint for a week. And when he saw Jack he shouted to liiin: "Keep away, Jack. I shall kill you, I shall kill you." So Robertson sat down thirty yards offend watched him. Baptisto kept his face turned away, and Jack heard him groan. Presently IK* rose and began hunting for little bits of paper, lie called Jack to help him, and then, with the tears running down his face, Bap tisto cleared a space on the ground and tried to piece tlieni together. As lie did so lie swore in French, and then he groaned. Presently be began to rend what ho could. "My sister wrote to me, Jack. And she says—yes, she writes that Made line had a baity—oh. it kills me! And then the beast was cruel to her—and yes, it is true, he struck her until she cried out and the neighbors came in. And she is miserable, and he makes her miserable. And I would have given her my soul, and let her beat me if she wanted! And now I am going home— I will kill him! To-morrow I must go. You must help me." And the poor devil burst into a pas- ■don of tears until he shook, and Jack went, half Mind himself, and the hot prairie danced and biassed in his eyes, lie took Baptisto back to the camp. And tint, night Bnptlste went tip to ! Mexican Joe's. They gave him drink out of sheer terror, for he seared their white souls with his eyes. And lie talked and muttered and the tears ran down his face. Then one of the Mexi cans, known as Pete, thought he had softened and was chicken-hearted, and he began to fool with him. Just then the round moon got up on the white plateau and stared at the plain, which j was so lonely save for the military post and the place where they sold drink. And as tho lights began to blink against the moonlight Pete be gan to laugh at Jean. Then Mexican Joe sent off to the fort, and the guard came out at the double, with Jack among them. They were just in time to see murder done; for Jean caught Pete and broke liis black neck with his hands. And back-handed he struck Mexican .Joe in the mouth; lie fell chok ing with teeth, and his own knife cut him, and Jack came in running. But Jean was insane anil blazing, and when poor Jack took him by the arm he looked red to Jean and the Frenchman caught him by tlie waist and dashed the boy's brains out on the log wall. Then the Corporal, who was white as a dried alkali lake, struck Jean on the neck with the butt of a gun and felled him. But Jack and Pete were dead. They had to carry Jean to the guardhouse, and it was dawn before he came to. He knew nothing, and lie asked for Jack Robertson, and lie was so down and so sorrowful that it made the men pity him. "Who shall tell him?" tlioy asked each other, and no one would. But as Jack wouldn't come Jean be gan to think, and a dull, stupefying ter ror came crawling into his mind. Was it true, or a bloody imagination of a j dream? lie asked himself, dry-tongued. I And presently he wept out aloud and j hung at the heavy door and shook it. I He asked them whet lu r it was true—oh, was it true? "Are you there, Winter?" he asked of one of the men. "Yes, yes, Jean," said Winter, chok ing. "Is it true that—that I killed Jack. Winter? If it is true, don't answer." And Winter sat on one of the guards' beds with his face down. He nevei spoke, and Jean groaned like a man in Ids great agony. He neither ate nor drank, nor spoke again that day, anil then the night drew on. and the moon got up again, and she looked down on two new mounds—one was out at tin? hack of Mexican Joe's and the other was in the little, white railed military cemetery where men wore buried who died of hanging and bullets and cut-throats when they were tired of Uncle Sam's outpost duty. But Jean was locked up close in hell. But at Mexican Joe's there was a great gathering, and they drank to Jean's hanging and told of Black Pete's exploits at thieving and the knil'e— for the news had gone abroad, and Joe corralled the half dollars that night until it was close on 12. Then there was a change in their entertainment. I The devil entered in. About 11:50 there were only two men in the guardroom, and they were lying on the benches dressed and asleep. ' Jean was walking up and down his cell. Once or twice he came to the door and felt it. Then he went back and meas ured the distance from the wall. It was only nine feet. It was enough. That long day had torn hint in bits; his eyes were ringed with black cir cles; his cheeks wore sunken; he had a gnawing pain at the back of his head. He could stand it no longer. lie rushed i at the door with his shoulders and car ried it into the middle of tho guard room. As the men started to their feet Jean seized a carbine and a belt of cartridges and disappeared through tlic open door leading to the main fort, and ran down the road to Mexican Joe's. He hadn't got time to go to Montreal. The light in the shanty shone through the windows and tlie door—the one door. The Mexicans stood up against the bar. He saw Mexican Joe standing there toothless. He shot him dead through the door as they turned, lie killed six as they stood or wavered, two more as they dropped for sheltei or ran. Two more lie struck down with his riilo clubbed. And then, with twr, I bullets in Idm and a bowie-knife in lib breast, lie went slowly to the cemetery. When tlu> guard hunted lilin tip there he tvns lying dead upon Jack's grave.— London Graphic. A ii: ! auttrul Black Diamond. Henri Moisson recently exhibited at tlie French Academy of Science i black diamond as large as a man's list, which is valued at about $40,000. It is said to be the largest black diamond ever found, and was picked up in Bra all by a miner working in private grounds It weighed .0,000 carats, or about twice as much as the largest stone of the kind hitherto discovered. Within a short time after its discovery, about live months ago, it lost nineteen grammes of its weight, evidently by the evaporation of water contained In it. but this loss has not ceased. Its crystalline form is nearly perfect, re sembling that of tlie artificial diamonds formed by tlie crystallization of car bon in silver crucibles.—New York Tri bune. Mi Yarns, Xo War. A French governor of the South I'a cilic colony of New Caledonia, who was also 1111 admiral of the navy, assumed his authority (says an exchange) while tlie natives were still cannibals. There had been rumors of an insurrection, and the admiral called before hint a native chief who was faithful to the French cause and questioned hint as to their truth. "You may be sure," said the native," "that there will be no war at present, because the yams are not yet ripe." "The yams, yon say?" "Yes. Our peoples never make war except when when the yams are ripe." "Why is that?" "Because baked yams go so very well with the captives." j SCIENTIFIC AN!) INDUSTRIAL. Scientists declaro that the cathodo light will penetrate steel half an inch thick. There are 2137 different varieties of fire escapes and ladders to be used in emergencies. The Chicago Academy of Sciences proposes to dredge the rivers and ponds of Cook County for snails. Afghanistan is going ahead. The Ameer has decided to light his capital city by electricity, and ran his fac tories with the same. Scientists who have made a study of tko eye say that a flat h of light lasting 40-1,000,000,000ths of a second is quite sufficient for distinct vision. A bottle with a message and tho date was thrown into Boston Harbor July 27. On October 17 it was found on tho coast of a small isian I in tho Car ibbean Sea, 2500 miles away. Among Dr. Donaldson Smith's dis coveries in the region of Lake Ran dolph is that of the existence of lifteen new tribes of Africans—one of them dwarfs, none over live feet in height. Tho Grand Jury at Chicago has in dicted a man for obtaining money un der false pretense. 3 , who, it appears, hypnotized his victim, aud while in this condition made him give up SI9OO. Professor A. C. Totten, of New Haven. Conn., has issued a calendar good for 07,713,259 years. It is 6aid to have a very simple key, and is evolved ou a cyclo of 1,600,000 years. After about a year's experiment with an aluminum torpedo boat, tho French naval authorities havo decided the aluminum is unfit for shipbuild ing, unless soma non-corrosivo alloy, or auti-corrosivo paint can bo discov ered. Dr. Sel!o, a practicing physician of Brandenburg, Germany, claims to have contrivod a photographic instrument which will in minute details reproduce the various colors of objects, persons and landscapes brought within a speci fied range on the camera. American scientiests are sceptical concerning the reports of this process. It is stated that diamonds become phosphorescent in the dark after expo sure to the sunlight or electric light, and when rubbed on wool, cloth or metal. This is an important proper ty, as it enables the amateur to distin guish between paste and real. This property is no- cleciric, as is clearly shown by ifca being visible when t'ao gem is rubbed on metal. There arc as many laughs as there are vowel". Those who laugh on A (the broad sound) laugh openly and frankly. The laugh in K (short sound) is appropriate to melancholy persons. Thai (as in machine) is t'no habitual laugh of timid, naive or irresolute people. The O indicates generosity and hardihood. The person who laughs in U is a miser and a hypocrite. The fifteenth annual report of tha New York State Board ol Health states that the typhoid fever epidemic at tributed to infected oysters which were freshened in water contaminated by sewerage at Port Richmond, led to a caroful investigation by Dr. E. C. Curtis. His opinion is that not only typhoid fever, bnt cholera and diav rhoeal diseases may thus be transmit ted. Spite Pontes. Millionaire Crocker maintains n fence tweuty-fivo feet high ou one side of his place on Nob Hill, San Fran cisco, fencing off all the view from a lot owned by the estate of an under taker named Yung. Yung, who lived there at the lime, didn't want to sell his lot, but after the fence was put up had to move hia house. The fence cost S2OOO. Bight iu the middle of George Van derbilt's princely domain iu Ashoville, N. C., nn old colored man owns sis acres of laud, which Vauderbilt fenced in. The owner says: "Yds, tab, 1 been waitin' 'stceu yeahs fo' good neighbohs, an' now I got one, I don' move. No, sail I" in Saco, Me., two families are on spito fence terms, and one of thorn has ereotod an ugly barrier of brush to darken the windows of the other. A fence six feet high is just a feucc. Make it sixteen feet and it becomes o spite fence. At twenty-six feet it is just—foolishness.—New York He corder. Wampum. This is the English name for the shell beads used for ornament and as currency among the northern tribes of Indians previous to tbo settlement of the country. They were made chiefly on Long Island and around New Yorx Bay, and were of two kinds, one made of eouok or periwinkle shells and the other of hard clam shells. Tho mak ing of wampum, to lie sold for orna ments, has been carried on for nearly a hundred years by the Campbell fam ily at Pascaok, N. J., aud they are now said to be tho only persons who know how to bleaoh and soften the couch Bhells used iu making white wampum or to drill holes through the still harder calm shells that are made into the more valuable black or deep purple wampum. The conoli shells are brought from West Indian ports by schooners. The clam shells are of the largest size obtainable, the small er ones being too thin for the pur pose. Waste ! Energy. Country Sam Kiug owned a clock which ho wound daily for fifteen years. A short time ago Mr. King and all the members of his household went away, and were absent from home an entire week. When they re turned King noticed that the clock was still running and concluded some body had been iu the house. Nothing was missing, and an investigation proved that it was an eight-day in stead of a one day clock.—Atchison (Kan.) Globe. THE FIELD OF ADVENTURE THRILLING INCIDENTS AND DAR ING DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA. A Kroiich Hero Honored—A Girl's Queer Experience—Fair Bear Hunters—Fight With Alligators. THERE was unveiled last week in tho village of Cliatou, hard by Paris, a monument to one of the most daring and suc cessful dispatch carriers through the enemy's lines while the city of Paris was ringed about, twenty-fivo years ago, with German bayonets and can non. His name was Brare and ho was n clork in the Paris Postoffice. Ho ac complished five of these perilous jour noys and in the last ono lost his life. Much of Braro's success was due to his cleverness in assuming various disguises. His first four trips were highly successful, and though he had many hairbreadth escapes, be wn3 not caught. His fifth and last journey, which had a fatal ending, was tho most eventful, however, and somo of its details are worl h recording. It was when ho was outward bound from Paris, after he had passed tho first lines of inveßture, that he fell into tho hands of a German p >st. Ho was taken by them to tho forest of St. Germain, whore, despite the bitter cold, they stripped him of his cloth ing, and, tying him securely to a tree, began flogging him with a heavy strap. While this was going on some of the soldiers searcliod his apparel and suc ceeded in linding dispatches in ciphor. "What do they mean?" demanded the ohief of tho detachment. "I do not know," replied Brare, "and if I did I would not toll." Jle was again flogged nearly to death, but it was found impossible to extract any information from him. Ho was later tried beforo a coucil of war and sentenced to confinement at Versailles. Ho made his cscnpo in three days, however, and at once reported to tho French officials outside of Paris for dispatchs to carry through the lines. It was on a December night that ho reached tho Seine, whioh was filled with cakes of floating ice. Ho decided to swim down and across tho river, and told his companions that if he reached tho other bank safo and sound be would give alow whistle. Then ho plunged into tho water and disap peared. No signal came, but a few moments later there was a cracklo of musketry from the opposite bank. Two months afterward they found Brare's dispatch bag floating in tho heme and not far away his corpse. His head was pierced by a rifle ball and both arms were broken bv bullets. Much adverse comment has been raised of late by tho i'aot that Brare's widow, after long petitioning, has been awarded a pension of but COO francs, or less than SIOO a year, by the Government. A tSirP3 Queer Experience. One night in 1801 a little girl about ono year old was deposited on the steps of tho foundling hospital at Brest. She was dressed with much llnery and a note attached to her skirts told that her unmo was Solange, and that she would bo reclaimed by her father, says an exchange. The claim was never made, however, and in duo time tho child was trans ferred to tho orphan asylum to be edu cated there. As sho grew up 8110 de veloped a most extraordinary beauty ; but her intellect appeared to be very weak und she suffered from frequent nervous fits. When she was twelve years old she was sent out into tho streets to sell flowers, and her beauty uud her mod esty attracted many people's good will; but she grow weaker and weaker, and at last sho died, or at least it was thought so. According to French custom, she was buried in nu open basket, and, as it was winter and the soil was frozen, sho was laid into tho gravo coverod only with a thin layer of sand. Dar ing tho night she awoke, and, pushing tho sand away, crept out from the grave. Not exactly understanding what hail taken place, alio was not so very much frightened, but in crossing tho glacis between tho cernotery and tho forti fications she was suddenly stopped by tho cry: "Qui vive?" and, as she did not answer, tho sentinel fired and she fell to the ground. Brought into the guardhouse her wound was found to bo very slight and she soon recoverod. But her singular history aud also her groat beauty had made so deep an impression on n young lieutenant of tho garrison—Kramer— that ho determinod to bo her protec tor and sent her to ono of tho most fashionable educational establishments in Paris. During the next fow years Kramer was much tossed about by the war; but when, in 1818, ho returned to Paris ho found Solnngo a full grown woinnu, not only beautiful, butaocom plished aud spirited, with no moro traoo of intellectual weakness or ner vous fits. Ho married her and for several years tho couple lived happily iu Paris. Fair Bear Hunters. It is tho custom of the Manchester girls to attend church at Cahto (Wash ington) Sundays, aud they aro in the habit also of carrying a rifle with tbom, whether from fear of rob bery or for the purposo of killing game, has not beon explained. Never theless, ono Sunday recently, as they wero returning from church at a turn in the road they fonud their passage barred by two monster bears. It was but the work of a moment for these cool-headed young women to stop tho horse and prepare for notion. Turning tho carriago a little, Mis?. Addio guvo tho brute nearest her one of thoso unerring thirty-eight caliber pills. The carrioge moved at the time of firing, destroying partially her aim, but tho bear was seriously wounded. The wound fearfully enragod the an imal, so that ho made direotly for tho carriage. Not at a loss what to do un der the circumstances, (Miss Addie commenced to pump lead with an un erring aim [into tho enraged animal, and had tho satisfaction of seeing him drop dead just as ho reached the car riage. Not wishing to leave tho ani mal in the road, the young ladies took a rope from tho buggy and tying it to him, dragged him to tho side of tho road. They then proceodod to Mr. Clark's place, wher6 they related their exploit with less concern than the or dinary hunter would [of shooting a squirrel. After dinner Miss Ollio took Mr. Clark's dog and wont hack to look for the other boar, which she know would not he far off. This proved to bo tho case, and in a very short time, and with a great deal less trouble, tbis ono was oapturod. Both of these bears wore very large. One on boing drosscd weighed nearly 700 pounds. Tho Manchester girls aro not afraid of either bears or panther, and they ought to be crowned tho queen hunt resses of the State. Those make lour beais they havo killed this season.— San Francisco Examiner. Terrible Flglit With Alligators. J. B. Lovering, who lives near Winfor Haven, Flu., drove to Lako Winter to fill barrels with water on a recent afternoon. While Lovering was at work his horses began to scream in agony, and the driver realized that alligators had attacked them. Soon tho horses wero down, their legs hav ing been broken, and tho saurian*, rising to the surface, began to toar chunks of flesh from tho bodies of the animals. Lovering had aWinohester rifle with him, and began firing at tho reptiles, whon they loft tho horses and inado a . rush for tho light wagon and over turned it. Lovering fell into the water near one of the alligators, which seized tho man by tho thigh, toaring out tho flesh. Loveriug, who still had his gun, thrust the muzzle iuto (he al ligator's month and fired. Mortally wounded, the saurian mado a sweep with its tail which knocked Lovering up on tho beach, twenty feet away. .T. A. Dalton, who was liuhing near, had been attracted by tho noise, ami reached the scene as Lovering landed on the beach, dragging him away, as the alligators woro again rushing for him. Loveriug's groin was lacerated, sev oral ribs wero broken and ho was frightfully torn about the body. Dal ton, who knows the lake, says Lover ing drove his team into a placo where alligators made their winter homo. Saved by Singing. Tho Wiusted (Conn.) Citizen relates au odd experience of Georgo O. Hill, of Burrville, while driving homo ono night. Ho was driving along at a rapid gait, - when suddenly his horso stopped and stood stock still. Mr. Hill, wondering what made his horse act in such a manner, got out of tho wagon, when a terrifying sight met his oye. It was a large wildcat, stnudiug in tho mid dlo of tho road, his eyes gleaming in the darkness. After Mr. Hill had somowhat recov ered from his scare, ho made au nt toraiit to get into his wagon, but tho cat growled when ho moved, and Mr. Hill staid where ho was. 110 could devise no means to get away, and tho more he looked at tlie oat, tho inoro he wished ho was hooie by his own lire sido. AViien he compared his own predioaraaut to tho comfortable situa tion of his own home, ho began sing ing "Home, Sweet Home" in a man ner that would excite much merriment if the situation was otherwise. Tho sound found its way to tho oars of a party in a neighboring farm-house, who came to tho rescue, armed with guus and sticks. Tho eat, when ho caught sight of the rescuing party, ovidently thought discretion tho bet ter part of valor, and "vauioosod." Aa Eagle Steals a Balic. Before the eyes of his mother, Har ry, the two-year-old son of Mr. aud Mrs. J, L. Morrison, of Gaiusville, Fia., wns'eurriod forty feet in tho air by a pet eagle and then dropped. The child wauderod out to where tho eagle makes its home and watohes over one youug eagle. Mrs. Morrison heard Harry scream ing, and, rushing out, saw him in tho grasp of tho bird. As tbo mother ap proached the eaglo rose. Then the young eaglo began to scream, and tho mother bird slowly descended. When some distanco from the ground the bird dropped tho child. It lodged in a thick cedar tree. Mr. Morrison quickly rescued the child. Tho boy was stunned, but no bones wero broken. Hl3 faoo and body, however, were terribly torn by the eagle's talons. A I'ftjicr Restaurant. Au eating-house made of paper has been erected in tho port of Hamburg. Its walls are composed of a double layer of paper, strotched ou trames and impregnated with afirenud wuter proof solution. A thin wooden parti tion affords further protection against the inclemency of the wentlrer. The roof and walls are fastened together by means of bolts and hinges, so thac the entire structnre may bo rapidly taken to pieces and put up again. Tho dining-room itself measures thirty meters by six meters, and is capable of accommodating about 151) persons. There ure twenty two win dows aud four skylights, aud tho heating is effeoted by a eouplo of iso lated stoves. A side erection contains the manager's offices, kitehou, larder and dwelling rooms. Tho total cost of tho construction in said to havo amounted to 1000 marks. —[ScUorers Fauilienblatt.
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