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ever tested their out-of-date traction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.