Germany charge* Great Britain with ® trying to disturb the peace of Eu rope. Australia lmd last year 97(30 miles of railway open. The capital expended on them has been $337,000,000; the net revenue over working expenses is 2 j per cent. Belgium, like Italy, has adopted llio twenly-fonr-day method of murkiug tune lor railway, post and telegraph; and the old distinction of a. in. and p. in. is to bo abolished. Japan bus a practically inexhaust ible supply of coal, but it is not liked, because its combustion produces dense volumes of smoke and makes it disagreeable in factories and on steamers. Of the criminal population of the New York State prisons 2001 are now serving their first term, GIB arc serv ing their second term, 323 have served more than one previous term, while 117 are of confirmed and de cided criminal tendencies. A scholarship of American history lias been founded by the New York Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The snm ol $230 per annum is to be devoted to the purpose, and the student passing highest in a competitive examination will be entitled to pursue, for two years, the highest course in American history taught by Barnard or Colum bia College. Since IS2O, when immigration sta tistics first began to be kept, there have come into tho United States to live 17,311,092 foreigners, or almost exactly the present entire population of Spain and half a million more than the entire population of England in 1831, and over four times tho present population of Scotland. It might also be remarked that this i 3 1,000,00 C more people than there are in all Asi atic Turkey, aud about eight and cue- Half times the present population of Greece. A new idea in finishing railroad cars has just been introduced by tho Now York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, notes the Pathfinder. It consists iu covering tho outside of the car with a thin sheating of copper, iu stead of paint and varnish. The new ' finish is put on more quickly and is more durable than paint and varnish. The copper may bo oxidized before il is put on or le!t to the natural oxi dizing influence of the air, which soon develops a handsomo color. About 1000 pounds of the sheet copper arc- j required to finish one car. It is strange, marvels the Now York j Tribune, that American business men \ persist in packing goods carelessly and j unintelligently for export to Mexico j and South American countries, inas- i much as they are constantly told that they are thereby hurting their market. ! The United States Consuls in Mexico | have again called attention to this I matter, but their warnings will prob- j ably be unheeded. If the American merchants don't want tho market of the Western Hemisphere, very well. But if they do, then it is surely worth I their while to pay attention to the idiosyncrasies of the people whose ■ trade they seek. The latest thing out is the music cure, which is being exploited in Mun ich. A harp is attached to a rocking chair iu such away that when the pa tient rocks the harp twangs, and there you are. This may bo all very well in its way; but what is really wanted is a cure for the misguided people who think they can play on pianos, harps, ! flutes and things, though they really can't. The New York Tribune main tains that if the Munich music cure, by the way, should be attached to tho rockers of tho American summer j resort hotel, the summer hegira to Europe would be greater than , ever, though we don't believe that j Munich would reap much advantage i from it. A correspondent of a London paper laments tho "swaggering nomencla ture of tho British Navy." Another correspondent suggests that such names as Bouucer and Insolent, which have crewliile adorned the list, should be replaced by something in ft differ ent tone —the Ritualist, for instance, or the Thoughtful Radical. Some years ago a classical poet in England likened tho ironclad to a rhinoceros, and it is rather a wonder that tho Ad miralty have not before this adopted the nnme of that powerful and self-as strung animal. These arc his lines; O Concentration of brute force, Hbinoceros of the deeps! O ugly Dolos, on whose shores No soft Lalonn sleeps! Scant room in thee for birth or lovo • '3l bl Monster's furnace born, Tlio iron-throated iruns above, Bolow tho rippiug horn. EQUAL- AT LAST. Out of the world the beggar man wont To-night, when his quota of days was spent, Friendless, with nobody left to love hitn, Watched alone by the stars above him. The life that at birth had welcome and rest, That was lulled to sleep on a mother's breast, AIODO, unconscious, gaspe 1 away Its ebbiug breath >oni a bed of hay. Naught ca.i now distress hlru. Naught can joy or p'.ease. Naught can curse or bless him, Naught can soothe or tease. No more sad or merry, Done with tears and mirth; Take the spade and bury Him in mother earth! Out of tlio world the rich man went To-nighr, when his quota of days was spenh Many a tear for hira, many a moau, Not one moment they left him alon". Love and gold around his head Smoothed the folds of his silken bed; But little recked he. and little he cared As out of his body his spirit fared. Naught can now distress bim. Naught can pain or please, Naught can curse or bless hirn, Naught can sootho or tease. No more sad or merry, Done with tears aud mirth; T ike the spade and 'oury Him in mother earth! To night, on the edgo of the spirit land, Two souls, outgoing, loaesome stand. Neither has silk and neither has hay, Aud neither lias even his body o? clay. Equal at last, and each alone, Aad before tbern lies the vast unknown. They stretch out hands uutil they meet, Au.l together pass on to the JuJgmeat Seat. Naught can now distress them, Naught cau joy or please, Naught can curse or b!es3 them, Naught can soothe or tense. No more sad or merry, Done with tears aud mirth: Take the spado and bury Them iu mother earth! •Blanche Noviu, in New York Independent- Til 111 COLONS" WIFE. BY C. D. LEWIS. NE day a mail rider -/ nTr * v e a *h e frontier fort with sucll lgws that a sergeant and sis men nii-l an arabu lanco were ordered out within an hour 1 to escort and convey the colonel's 1 wife down to tho railroad. This was a trip of forty miles. For the lirst ten miles it was over a level plain, then tho trail ran through the scrub, i along the foothills, over live miles of desert, around the south base of the ' mountain and straight down to the railroad. It was a hard, rough trail. It took tho army wagons from three to four days to make the forty miles. We could make it in two if allowed to uursue our way in peace. It was queer enough that the colonel should come down to us in person as wo stood beside our saddle horses, knowing nothing of where wo were to go or the object of the trip, but stranger yet that all "military etiquette" should go out of his voice and demeanor a3 he said : ".Men, I am going to send my wife down to the railroad to go East. You are to be her escort. It is a case of life or death, or she would not go. I am afraid of tho Indiahs and yet I think you will get through all right. You are to make the best time possi ble. If attacked—" "Wo shall beat thorn off, sir," re plied Sergeant Gregg, alter waiting half a minute for the colonel to finish. , "I hope you can. I can only send the seven of you and a driver. Eight i j men ought to beat oil' a hundred Indi- I ans, unless taken in ambush. Be | watchful and prudent. Sergeant, you j are an old Indian lighter. Yon will know best wlmt to do. You will get away by 1 o'c'ock. Travel as fast as you can and as late as you can, so us to tiuish the journey to-morrow. If you are attacked—" The colonel did not finish. He looked at each man and horse, in spected the ambulance and its pair of mules, and with a half nod to us be walked away. His wife must go, and, owing to details and sickness, no com missioned officer could be sent along. If the Indian:- were out an escort of I twenty men would r.ot be too large. Only eight of us wore to go. Had he finished his sentence he would have saxl: "If attacked and you are about to tall into the hands of the red devils do ! not let my wife be captured alive." | We understood what be meant, though we said nothing to each other. No matter what he or auyono else feared, the little woman was almost 'merry as she took her seat in the am- I bulanca for the start. She trusted us to the fullest extent, and that feeling made every man worth three. Our hcrses were in line fettle, aud tho first ten miles were covered iu a gallop. Then the way became so rough that we could only proceed at a walk. We wound through the scrubby cedars and pines to the crest of a low mountain, and then descended into Little Valley at just 5 o'clock. A dash acrcss the ! valley to tho base of Blue Mountain would put us in camp for the night. We had progressed famously well, and had not yet sighted an Indian. Three different times we had to bridge chasms which mountain torrents had cut out within a week, and twico wc had to drag trees and logs out of the path before we could go on. Nothing had happened when we reached tho valley, aud as we looked around us and across it nothing could be seen to alarm. We had just taken the ropes off the blocked wheels of the ambulance when the warwlioop of the hostile Indians sounded behind us, and wo looked back over our trail to catch sight of u hundred mounted warriors bearing down upon us. They had picked our trail and run down. "Mount! Now, straight across the valley! Fall in to the rear of the am bulance." The voice of the old sergeant was hard and Arm as he spoke. The cur- j tains of the ambulance were up, and I ■ glauced at the colonel's • wife. She ' had seen and heard. Her cheeks had I puled, but she was removing a repeat- j lug rifle from its hooks as we fell in j behind the vehicle. It was a clear i live mile dash. Tho prairie was as j level as a floor, and the mules needed no urging after hearing the yells of tho Indians. The soldier driver wound the lines about his bauds, braced his feet and away we went. We had a start of half a mile. N.o man looked back. The pace was not a hot one, and there was cover five J rnilus awuv. Tho Indians gained on us, but only inch by inch. Tho mules took up such a gait that our hoisos had to lie right down to it to keep up. Not a word was spoken as we rode, but every ear listened to locate those coming up behiud us. If tboy came too near we must bait and open tiro while tho ambulance pushed on. We had almost reached cover before throe or four rille bullets came singing over j our heads. Three minutes lacer we were among the trees and rocks and j the race was endod. As the ambulance halted and we flung ourselves off our horses I looked back and saw a band of at least seventy Indians almost within rifle shot of us. Tho road struck the hills at a gulch, and they dared not follow us into that. They gave veut to their disappointment by shouts and yells and a waste of am munition, and for a few minutes they had no plau in view. " Well, we beat them in a fair race," said the colonel's wife, as she descend ed from tho ambulance with tho rille in her bauds. "Sergeant Gregg, what are yon going to do now? ' "Take cover, ma'am," he replied, as he gave her the military calute. j "Yeq of course," she said, as she looked about. "Did you ever see a pair of mules run faster? I might have got a shot but for you men behind. | There must be nearly a hundred In- i dians out there, but I guess we arc ! safe enough now." She rattled on in that fashion while we tfero taking the mules from the ambulance and unsaddling our horses, and it was a great weight off our minds to realize that she would not be a burden on our hands. It was idle to think of pursuing our journey iu the darkness which would soon close down, j aud before more morning there would | be plenty of Indians on the trail beyond | We must take cover and hope to stand j them off until help arrived, or they j grew discouraged at the siege. As we !, were cousultiug about location aud i defense the colonel's wife came back' to us from tho mouth of the gulch aud j said: "There's the place, over to the left, j men. There's a spring on that hill, with a good growth to shelter all, and you can see plenty of bowlders lying about." The sergeant had selected the same spot, and in the course of a quarter of an hour we were occupying it. We got the horses and mules up there,but tho vehicle was left behind. It was a cone-shaped hill amid half a dozen such, but it commanded the others. It was covered with pines and cedars of small growth, aud there was u splendid spring right in the crest. If the Indians had been flerco in their pursuit or crafty iu their plans, wo could not have reached it. It was the outbreak of war again with them, aud they were overcautious. They drew back into the valley to consult, thus giving us a fair show, and wo were snug enough when night tell, and they made a dash for us, which wo easily I repulsed. Darkness found us occupy ing a circle about forty feet across, with stones aud bowlders and trees for shelter, and though tho situation was an anxious one and full of danger, all were in good spirits. We made a tire between two rock and cooked our sup pers,and by the use of blankets we put up a tent for tho colonel's wife,though against her protests. Alter the one single effort of the Indians, which was doubtless more of a reeonnoissauce than an attack, we wero left in peace, though all through the night we heard sounds to prove they were taking up positions on all sides of us and making ready for the morrow. None of us except tho woman slept an hour all night long. We used levers to loosen bowlders aud roil them into the circle, and with our knives we cut oft' limbs and cut down small trees to further strengthen our fort. We got tho horses into a sort of gully below U9 and made the position as safe as possible,and when daylight came there was nothing more to be done. We had about 000 rounds of ammunition, food for three days and water was at hand. Daybreak found us ready for an at tack. The colonel's wife took her place, ritlo in hand, between two men, and for half an hour we expected a sudden rush. At tho end of that time a single warrior appeared to view at tha base of the hill, and, iu broken English, demanded our surrender. The sergeant answered him that wo were ready for them, and at tho same tune tired a shot which rolled tho red skin's pony over. Three minutes later thero was a circle of lire about us. Indians had mounted into trocs to tho right and left of us to get a plunging tire, aud from tho tops of two lower hills they poured iu their bullets at i random. We simply crouched down behiud tho rocks aud smoked our j pipes, pleased that they were throwing j away their cartridges. At the end of ! at* hour they ceased tiring. Not a I man of us had been touched, but stray bullets bad killed one of the mules ! and wounded two horses. There would be a rush now, aud as we made ready i for it the colonel's wife sank down be side me and quietly said : ' "I've tumbled over sage hens and i jack rabbits, and 1 ought to bo able |to bit an Indian. Do I look fright ienod?" j "You nro as white as a ghost, I ma'aru," I answered, as I turned to her. •'But I'm all right," she smilingly : said, "and here they come." So they did. With every painted ' warrior yelling at the top of his voice, I the entire baud charged us at once, [ taking in the whole circle. It was not I until they got close up that we could i see anything to shoot at, and every ; few seconds the sergeant cried out to us to hold our tire. It was over in a minute. They did not expect to find us intrenched, and we knocked thorn over like ninepins. 1 believe wo killed or wounded a full score, and it took the light out of them so thoroughly that not a ride was tired at us again uutil afternoon. Then, soou after two o'clock, and without the slightest warning, we were charged again, and'for three minutes it was a wild melee. Wo fired into their very faces as they sprang upon the defenses, and two warriors were shot down inside our fort, and both by the colonel's wife. It was their final and supreme effort, aud well it was for us that it was thus. Wheu we had beateu them off Sergeant Gregg and another man lay down, four men wer<r badly wounded, and they had cut our animals out of tuo gulch and run them oft. Had the attack lasted a minute longer, or been renewed, two meu and a woman would alone have opposed it. And among the queer thiugs of that last dash was the be havior of the colonel's wife. With my own eyes I saw her shoot down the two warriors who leaped the breastwork, and I believe she killed two or three more outside of it, and yet. when th 9 attack had been repulsed, the little woman fell over ia a dead faint, and for ton minutes we believed her dead from a bullet. When she came back to life she had a fit of weeping, aud when that was over she turned to and attended our hurts an 1 was ready for another brush. We put in another nighl right there, ' not knowing that the Indians ha I drawn oft", but soon after suuset next morning were relieved of all anxiety by th.9 appearance of a scout, who passed on and sent us aid from the fort. The colonel's wife did not get down to the railroad, for that was tho opening of a war which lasted for mouths, but there was no blame at tached to any of the living who re turned with her. On the contrary, tho old martinet of a colonel took each one of us by the baud, breaking over "military etiquette" once more in his iite, anil said: "You did well, ray inan, and here's my hand on it, and I won't lurget you!"—Bullalo Times. A Fatal itutt*n. A strange malady has broken out among the lower classes in portions of .Mexico and in tho State ot Guerrero. Doctors of tho city have been entirely baffled in their diagnosis and are pow erleps to alleviate the suffering or to prevent the spread of the disease, which has proved fatal in a large num ber of eases. The symptoms are described to be languor, followed by the appearance of a bright yellow button upon the forehead, deathly sickness and vomit ing, accompanied by exhaustion and | collapse. Tho disease is not allied to yellow fever, uncording to tho physicians, and its symptoms more nearly ap-' proach the mysterious malady known in Asia Minor than any other. It is | stated that the people of Aleppo, Asia | Minor, are all attacked by the disease at least once during their lifetime, and all newcomers to tho city are attacked within a few days, but the disease, curious as it is, is rarely ever fatal iu the far East. Iu Mexico it assumes a malignant phase. The State and National Boards of Health are bestowing much atten tion upon it. Dr. Deinetrio Majai," of the City of Mexico Board of Health, is iuvestigatiug tho epidemic.—New York Journal. Artificial silk. So pronounced is tho success of ar tificial silk that English mills are tak ing it up, and a large amount of machinery now idle is to be put to work weaving it. There has been a good deal of question us to the rela tive strength of the natural aud arti ficial product. Experiments Lave been made which show that tho latter has about eighty jier cent, of the for mer, but tho mauner of working is quite different. Those who have worked with* tho artificial fiber are surprised at tho exquisite colors pro duced. They take dye much more readily than the natural silk. Another peculiarity is the extremely rich and high luster of tho fabric. Of course, the cloth made from artificial fiber will bo less durable tbau tho genuine thread of the silkworm, but it is promised iu much less expensive grades, aud when onee tho factories aud mills are fully at work, it is I claimed that prices will be wonderfully reduced, GO much so, indeed, that everybody can afford to wear silk. The Ci tr's Likings. Tho Emperor of Russia do9B not care much for the bicycle, but his sisters are devoted to it. He likes lawn tennis better and devotes much time to it iu summer at Peterhof. He 19 fond of art, and emiueut Russian painters are frequently iuvited to briug their new pictures to his palace, where he gives much tirno to thoir in spection. Ho is uo. talkative, and usually expresses his thanks with a smile or u gesture. Verne is still busy writing two | romances a year, though he publishes ouly oue. He goes to bed at 9, is up j at 4, ami from that hour until noon he i ! is at work. THE FIELD OF AUVENTWiK. THRILLING- INCIDENTS AND DAR ING DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA. An Interrupted Wedding—Saved by i\ Human Hope—Death on Kitlier Side. Ktc. PURING the preFent very se vere season in Northern Min nesota the wolves, which abound in the swamps and scantily settled timber lands, have be come very bold under the pressure of hunger. A recent incident illustrates this fact very well: A young Norwegian farmer,who had "bached" during the five years it re quired to make good his title to his farm, built himself a substantial house during that time, and then came to the conclusion that he had lived alone about long enough. So he induced the blooming daughter of his nearest neighbor, a thriving farmer of the same nationality, to accept a half share in his farm and a whole interest in his affections. The wedding cere mony was to take place at the resi dence of the bride's parents, some five miles from the farm of the prospective bridegroom. The guests assembled, the wiuister was present, aud the only thing lacking to a perfectly successful wedding was the fact that the bride groom tarried. Hour after hour passed, and he came not; the young lady's perplexity passed into grief, then tears, aud finally hysterics. The father, a lineal descendant of the Vikings, who had set down his prospective son-in law's non-appearance to bashfulness, be came enraged when it began to look us if bis daughter bad beeu deserted. ►Summoning his grown PODS aud a posse of the guests at the wedding which had not materialized, they went to the bridegroom's house, and found it dark, locked up, and with a broad trail of ckis, or Norwegian snowshoes, leading straight into the woods, which confirmed the father's suipicions that Oiaf had turned traitor. He paid nothing, but hastening home, took down his Winchester,ami accompanied by two of his sons, similarly armed, sot out for Aitkin in pursuit of the recreant. 11l would it have fared with O'af had the old man caught him, but ho did not, and for a very good reason. Olaf was having trouble--, euough of his own about then, and no doubt would have been thankful for the chance to relate them to any one, having fallen victim to a tailor. The tailor, after the fashion ot his kind, had failed to send homo Olaf's wedding garments as he had promised, on the day before that set for the wedding. Olaf waited, "nursing his wrath to keep it warm," till alter dark, and then dunning his skis, started for town. The distance across country is only a little more than two miles, and being an expert ski-walker, Olaf bad no doubt of his ability to reach towu, get his garments, and return in ample season to reach his bride's residence in time for the ceremony. That he did not was no fault of his, for he reached town all right, found his garments waiting for him, donned them, and set out for home and happi ness at racing pace. All would have been well if tho wolves had not put in an appearance. Hut they did, and a lew of them catch ing sight of the prospective Benedict fleeing over the enow, took after him at ouco. This was ou a clearing, and Olaf had to strain every nerve to reach the timber before the wolves could reach him. Kicking off his skis, he "shinned" up a small tree, leaving the wolves at the loot of it, frantically trying to climb after him. About every wolf in the township, hearing the bowls of his brethren at tho foot of Olaf's perch, connected the sound with the idea of a free lunch in prog- ress somewhere, and came ut top speed to take n hand. On this perch poor Olaf remained until the old Viking came to his res cue, at just about daylight the next morning. The old gentleman, who had reached town with his wrath at boiling point, heard that Olaf had been there, found what his errand had been, and promptly "sized up" the situation correctly. Beating up a party of expert ski-men and rilie shots, they took Olaf's track, aud finally came within hearing of the concert which was being played at the foot of the tree for the benefit of one very un willing auditor. Tho rescuers en deavored to creep up near enough to secure enough wolf scalps to repay Olaf for his tribulations, but the ever suspicious brutes took the alarm, aud got away with the loss of but two of their number. Luckily, the night had not been extremely cold, and Olaf escape with POIUO pretty severe frost bites. The wedding came oft the next day. Saved by u Human Rope. Actors who "do" "spans of life" and "human bridges" might have re ceived valuablo instruction had they been in tho vicinity of the Passaic Falls, in Patersou, N. J., on a recent afternoon wben Frederick Billsou was saved from being carried over the roaring cataract by the ellorts of four men who formed a living life line. Billson is a member of the Excelsior Boat Club and an expert oarsman. The Excelsior club house is situated just above the Passaic Falls, and when Billson entered his shell the water was high and swift, and swept toward the Society Dam, which is about one hun dred feet above the falls. With diffi culty Billson turned the shell's bow up stream, aud, after pulling some dis tance, turned about. Ho had mis calculated his strength and soon re alized it. He was uuable to gain a foot. Inch by inch tbo frail craft was swept back, notwithstanding the al most superhuman eflortsof the desper ate oarsman. The slender sculls, which flashed iu and out of the water,bent in curves with the strain. Gradually the stroke became moro feeble, and the oarsman saw the pap between boat and dam prow less. The lost inches grew to feet, the feet to yards, and finally, with aery of de spair, man and boat were swept over the dam and on toward the Passaic Fails. BillsoD, seeing the futility of bat tling with the current, sprang from the fragile shell and struck out for the rocky shore. To counteract the eilect of the current he swam up stream, and, struggling hard, was able at last to clutch a rock aud cling to it, thus finding temporary safety. He was by no means saved, however. A sheer doscent of eight feet of rocky wall was between him and terra firma. Cap tain Stewart Taylor, of Truck No. £5, saw Billson's danger, and, calling to William Kinnane, Foreman Kearney and Engineer Nichols, of the Pump Hose, hurried to the assistance of the exhausted man. Billson was fast losing strength, and how to get at him was a problem. Finally Taylor suggested that they form a humau rope aud reach oat to him. Kinnane agreed to be the salva tion end of the rope, and he was ac cordingly lowered. Kearney and Nichols came next, and Captain Taylor acted as anchor on the wall. Kinnane seized the helpless oarsman and cried "All right !*'Slowiy Taylor backed away, pulling with all his strength, while a number of spec tators who had arrived on ttie scene, lent willing hands. It was risky work, but Billsou was gradually pulled up, and after being wrapped in a blauket was taken to his homo. Death on Either Side. Patrick L. Fennel, who recently left his home iu Montgomery, Penu.. to work in Susquehanna County, has had u thrilling adventure, Fenuel, who is an engineer, went up into the lumber woods of Susquehanna County to run an engine in a sawmill. When he ar rived in camp he found that the saw mill had been in disuso about teu years. Among the machinery left io the old mill were a boiler and station* ary engine. They were in bad shape, but Fennel got them ready for busi ness. The other day Fennel fired up to test the boiler aud engine, and then went away to another part of the mill. Ho was delayed some, and returned to find the boiler was generating steam with sturtliug rapidity. He rushed into the boiler house, the door, closing after him with a bang. The door fas tened on the outside with a hasp aud j drop hook, aud the jar caused the the hook to drop iuto the staple, mak ing Fennel a prisoner. Although tested to only 100 pounds tho steam gauge showed the boiler had already ! generated 110 pounds, and the quiver ing hand on the steam gauge was mounting higher and higher. That the boiler was liable to explode at any moment Fennel well knew. He glanced at the safety valve aud was startled to see that it had become fastened in some manuer and refused to work. He was about to climb up to loosen tho refractory safety gauge when his eyes beheld a sight from which he drew back. Arouud the safely valve, just whore ho was about to grasp it with his baud, was coiled a big rattle snake, while two other reptiles of tho same species lay on the floor of the boiler house. They had evidently been drawn from their hiding places in iho wall or lioor of tliG old boiler house by tho heat. The quivering hand of the steam gauge told Fennel only too plainly that the pressure on the boiler was becoming terrific. But ho could not pass the serpents and reach the boiler, neither could ho get out of tho door. •The only means of exit was a small window, and to reach this he would have to pass tbo snakes. Near by stood an iron bar used in clearing out tho tire, and grasping this he crushed tho head of the serpent nearest him. The other suako coiled about his leg aud struck viciously, fastening its fangs into his rubber boot. A blow with the bar crushed the snake on the safety gauge, and then came a struggle to remove the one around his leg. Quick as a flash ho snapped the snake in two, and then, with the irou bar, knocked off the safety valve. Rescued From Heneath Thirty-Five reet of Earth. John Gamble, of Montague, will have H thrilling story to tell to his great-grandchildren of an experience that befell him Saturday. At 9 o'clock that forenoon Gamble was at the bottom of Mr. Clapp's well cleaning it out, when, without warn ing! the walls caved in. A force of men at once rushed to the spot and began digging. No one over expected to see Gamble alive again, yet each man wbrked as if his own life de pended upon his efforts. Along through the darkness of the night they toiled, and one by one the rocks and spadefuls of earth were lifted from above Gamble's resting place. At 2 o'clock a. m. they were down thirty-five feet with the digging when the man at the bottom of the excava tion was astonished to hear groaning from beneath his feet. With a shout the men renewed their efforts and tore the stones away. Gamble was found in a crouching position against the lower stones of the well. The falling walls had formed a low arch just above him, thus saving him from being crushed and furnishing him space for breathing. He was alive and conscious but very weak, and was taken tenderly up and restoratives applied. In a short time he recovered and was placed in bed. The bruises on his body will disable him for a few weeks. The village was never so awfully worked up, and many wept with joy when Gamble was found to be living. —Lewiston (Me.) Journal. AUKK ULTCJIt VL TOPICS. GOAL TO BOIL SAP. Under the old methods of tapping trees enough were killed by the se vere gashes made to keep the fires supplied that are needed to boil tho sap. But in most places coal 19 quite as cheap a fuel as wood, especially if thrifty maple trees have to be cut down to feed the fires. A wood .fiame is sure to be uneven, not furnishing the steady regulated heat which is needed to make the best product. NEWLY THRESHED CHAFF. Farmers who thresh oats by hand in winter find that the out chaff is much more readily eaten by stock than i 3 the same straw aud chaff threshed by the machine some mouths before. It is uot altogether because the hand threshing leaves more of the grain with the chaff, though that is quite likely to be the lact. The chaff new ly threshed is in much better condi tion than old chaff can be, especially if it has been exposed to the weather. There is probably no part ot the straw stack so sure to be wet into as under tho .carrier, where the chaff mostly remains. It is apt to be tramped solid in stacking, aud as the chaff is more porous than straw, it takes the water from rains and rots quickly. PLANTING BRANS AND POTATOES. The rule to plant beans with the eye down may answer with very late planting, but it is not to be recom mended while the soil is cool ami moist in the early spring. The bean is very impatient of wet or cold, and is moro likely to rot with its eye turned down thau when the eye is turned toward lighr, air and warmth. On the other hand, potatoes which somebody has advised to be planted with tho cut side down ought Always to be planted exactly the other way. The potato likes cool aud moist soil, and its roots grow all the stronger while the shoot starts trom uuder the cut piece, and theu lurus upward to tho light. Twenty years or more ago we made a careful experiment iu planting potatoes, liaviug four rows, two of which were planted cut side up and the other two tho reverse. The rows were close logo her, and the po tatoes which had to start and turn iu the soil betore coining to the surface had all the .season stronger vines aud in tho fall yielded more marketable potatoes than did the others. Tho vines also kept green longer, because tho roots starting under tho potato set got firmer hold on the soil than when they started nearer tho surface. SALT FOP. HORSES. A story "with a moral to it"—with I two morals in fact—is told by F. B. ' Terry, grunge lecturer, as follows : j The horses iu a certain place were many of them ailing. They were not doing well; hair looked rough, and still they didn't seem to have any dis ease. The doctor was puzzled for -omo time. At last ho happened to find out that they did not believe in salting horses. It was a common cus tom not to. Theu the mystery was solved. But, of course, he did not tell the truth, and to go homo and give them suit regularly, aud tliev would bo all right. That wouldn't have gone down. So he quietly fixed up a pound or two of salt iu a package and colored it with red clay aud told a mau just how to feed it daily, and how much to a horse. Soon tho horse was better, aud tho doctor's famo rose, and he ofteu took iu $3 to $5 a day lor his medicine, and hundreds of dollars in the aggregate. Actually, one muu offered him §2OO for the recipo for this "condition powder 1" Perhaps noue of our readers helped the doctor to got rich, but thousands of them, probably, do not salt their horses properly to keep them healthy. This doctor friend has a box iu one end ot the mnuger with salt always in it. We use a lump of rock salt. The horses lick a little, perhaps, soveral times a day. They should have it al ways before them. Although a small matter, it is a large matter iu helping to keep the horse in perfect condi tion.—Tho Silver Knight. Pianos Catch Cold. Half tho pianos of this country catch winter colds exactly as we do. Thoy get hoarse or have a cough or a stiff note or some similar complaint which cannot be cured by home reme dies, but which requires tedious and expensive doctoring. In order to pre vent these avoidable ailments a piauo should be kept in a moderately warm room where the temperature is even, say sixty or seveuty#egrees tho year round—not cold one day and hot the next. The instrument should not, however, be too near the source of heat. It should lie kept closed aud covered with a felt cloth when not iu use, particularly in frosty weather. Always place the piano against au in side wall, and a little out from it.— Philadelphia Telegraph. First English Book. Tho first book written iu the Eng lish language l —that is, after the Saxon had assumed a form we now call Eng lish—was "The Travels of Sir John Mandeville." This book is remark able fiom the fact that it shows a clear and correct idea of the shape of the earth, and that it is possible to travel round it and return to the starting point from the opposite direction thus anticipating the discovery of Col umbus by nearly a century and a half. John Adams's Home Restored. It is designed in restoring the old homo of John and Abigail Adams at Quincv, Mass., to preserve for future generations a good example of the New England cottage of the Jaßt conturv. The house is a little loss thau 200 years old, and iu it more than a century ago John Adams and his bride began their housekeeping. John Quincy Adams was born there in 1767.
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