Glasgow. Manchester and Birming- !
Hiarn are still.the foremost industrial
centers of Europe.
Out of the 400 young men graduated
from Harvard College this year not a
single one intends to take up the study
of theology.
Governor Black, of New York, said j
In Syracuse at a recent meeting of the
representatives of institutions em- ;
braced in the University of the State
of New York that if educators should I
enter politics there would be no harm
Co them, but politics would be much ,
|nore clean and pure.
A genuine hearty laugh is an aid to
(digestion, a stimulus to the circula
tion of the blood and a positive beauti
fier. The whole system is benefited j
by a cheerful, merry laugh, and one's i
friends are attracted by the bright, :
•wholesome nature that ripples out in
sunny music like a happy woodland
Stream.
f Says the Philadelphia Call: These
evidences of wealth, particularly the
irresistible fascination of gold, have
started a tide of emigration to Alaska
|that will cover her barren wastes with
Ihe evidences of civilization. Cities and
will spring up. Railroads and
-other means of transportation must
follow, and Alaska will not be long in
seeking admission to the Union,
■j The Florida Citizen says: A pretty
girt of sweet sixteen in Pennsylvania
peached for a flower and a snake on
the hough bit her arm. She fainted
and a young man found her, threw
water in her face and was hysterically
told she had been bitten by a rattle.
Bnake. He drew away the poison with
bis lips, and now there is the founda
tion for a thrilling romance. But
after they are married some crusty old
fellow will tell her that a rattlesnake
cannot climb a bush, and then she
will know that the blacksnake is harm
less. AVill there be a divorce? But
John has not told Bertha yet.
0! Statistics of the foreign trade of
Germany have just been published
Showing that its exports and imports
have both increased year by year, the
latter having more than doubled in a
decade, while the former have gone
ahead steadily, though in a less degree.
Caprivi's commercial treaties with
Russia and Austria have worked well
and, notwithstanding much initial op
position, their good results are now
apparent to everybody. Since they
went into effect three years ago the
Imports have increased '272,500,000
marks, and the exports 702,300,000
marks. The Agrarians fought the
treaties at every step, but in the face
of their prosperous effects they are
pow mute.
* There are in this country, states the
Newcastle (England) Chronicle, 180,-
000 families dependent on the bicycle
trade; and the trade is sure to increase,
as people will come to look upon a
bicycle as they now do a suit of
clothes, not as if it were an obelisk
designed to last forever. When this
time comes, says a writer in a contem
porary, a man will buy a new bicycle
every two or three years and be hap
py. This year persons in the British
Empire will spend about §117,000,000
on bicycles, and if the steel required
to make these hundreds of thousands
of wheels were converted into war ves
sels, the result would be a fleet of
ehips sufficient in numbers and power
to make any of the smaller Continen
tal Powers feel, distinctly uncomfort
able. One cannot cat bicycles. But
bread is the staple food of many peo
ple, and this year we shall spend more
tnoney for bicycles than for bread, and
nearly as much as we shall spend for
meat.
f The failure of Docker, Howell & Co.,
prominent brokers of Wall street,
Now York City, occasioned by the rise
in sugar, recalls the fact that this firm
(ailed in the "Baring panic" of Novem
ber 11th, 1890, with liabilities of $12,-
000,000. The New York correspond
ent of the Philadelphia Ledger fur
nishes the following interesting and
concise history of that event: "The
incident is notable in the history of
the street as one of the cases of phe
nomenally rapid recovery of financial
Btauding and for one of the biggest
fees ever paid to a lawyer. Decker
Howell & Co. were Ml'. Vi.lard's
brokers. The panic swamped them.
William Nelson Cromwell, their assig.
nee, succeeded in straightening out
their affairs, paying their^creditors in
full and getting them in condition for
u new start in business in sixty days.
Tho statutory fee received by the as
signee was $250,000, nnd so pleased
Were the creditors with his work that
they afterwards presented to him a set
wf silverplate, valued at $50,000, as a
[testimonial. It remains to be seen
whether so happy a result all around
prill follow the present complications-
GOLD DUST WITH LOVE.
NUCGETS AND ROMANCE IN THE
PLACERS OF THE KLONDIKE.
Clarenro .T. Berry, Only Recently i i'oor
Farmer, Now the Barney Barnato of
the Kiehln—Weildlna Trip of Fifteen
Months Was Worth a Million a Month.
-Clarence T. Berry is the Barney Bar
nato of the Klondike. Ho took $130,-
000 from the top dirt of one of his
claims in five months. He kept it all
but $22,000, which he paid to his min
ers. He did not have to give his
wife even so much as pin money. She
had a pan of her own. She would oc
casionally get time from her sewing
and mending to drop around to the
dump. She sifted out SIO,OOO or so
in her spare moments. This was her
amusement in the strangest year's
honeymoon that is recorded. The two
started fifteen months ago as bride and
groom. She was the devoted sweet
heart of a poor Fresno farmer. They
have returned to San Francisco with
all kinds of gold dust, nuggets and
coin. They have millions in sight, and
behind the millions is a pretty romance.
Berry was a fruit raiser in the south
ern part of California. He did not
have any money. There was no par
ticular prospect that he would ever
have auy. He saw a life of hard plod
ding for a bare living. There was no
opportunity at home for getting ahead,
and, like other men of the Far West, he
only dreamed of the day when he would
make a strike and get his million. This
was three years ago. There had then
come down from the frozen lauds of
(As she appeared on lier wedding trip to tho Klondike gold fields.)
Alaska wonderful stories of rewards
for men brave enough to run a fierce
ride with death from starvation and
cold. He had nothing to lose and all
to gain. He concluded to face the
dangers. His capital was §lO. He
proposed to risk it all—not very much
to him now, but a mighty sight three
years ago. It took all but §5 to get
him to Juneau. He had two big arms,
the physique of a giant and the courage
of an explorer. Presenting all these
as his only collaterals, he managed to
squeeze a loan of S6O from a man who
was afraid to go with him, but was
willing to risk a little in return for a
promise to puy back the advance at a
fabulous rate of interest.
Juneau was alive with men three
years ago who had heard from the In-
CBAEEJiCE J. BEERY.
(The poor California farmer who found a
fortuno in the Klondike.)
dians the yarns of gold without limit.
The Indians brought samples of the
rock and sand nnd did well in trading
them. A party of forty men banded
to go back with the Indians. Berry
was one of the forty. Each had an
outfit—a year's mess of frozen meat
and furs. It was early spring when
this first batch of prospectors started
out over the mountains and the snow
was as deep as the outs in the sides of
the hills. The natives packed the
stuff to the top of Uhe Chilcoot Pass.
It was life and death every day. The
men were left one by one along the
cliffs.
The timid turned back. The whole
outfit of supplies went down in Lake
Bennett. The forty men had dwin
dled to three —Berry and two others.
The others chose to make the return
trip for more food. Berry wanted
gold. He borrowed a chunk of bacon
and pushed on. He reached Forty
Mile Creek within a month. There
was not a cent in his pocket. The
single chance for him was work with
those more prosperous. His pay was
SIOO a month. It was not enough,
and, looking for better pay, he drifted
from one end of the gulch to the other,
always keeping his shrewd eye open
for a chance to fix a claim of his own.
There was a slum in the prospects of
the district and he concluded to go
back to the world.
The slump was not the only reason.
There was a young woman back in
Fresno who had promised to be his
wife. Berry came from the hidden
world without injury and MissJEthel
D. Bush kept her pledge. They were
married.
Berry told his bride about the possi
bilities of Alaska. She was a girl of
the mountains. She said she had not
married him to be a drawback, but a
companion. If he intended or wanted
to go back to the Eldorado, she pro
posed to go with him. She reasoned
that he would do better to have her at
his side. His pictures of the dangers
and the hardships had no effect upon
her. It was her duty to face as much
as he was willing to face. They both
decided it was worth the try—success
at a bound rather than years of com-
mon toil. Berry declared he knew ex
actly where ho could find a fortune.
Mrs. Berry convinced him that she
would be worth more to him in his
venture than any man that ever lived.
Furthermore, the trip would be n
bridal tonr which would certainly be
new and far from the beaten tracks of
sighing lovers.
Mr. and Mrs. Berry renched Juneau
fifteen months ago. They had but lit
tle capital, but they had two hearts
that were full of determination. They
took the boat to Dyea, the head of
navigation. The rest of the distance
—and distances in Alaska are long—
was made behind a team of dogs. They
slept under a tent on beds of boughs.
Mrs. Berry wore garments which re
sembled very much those of her hus
band. They came over her feet like
old-fashioned sandals, and did not
stop at her knees. They were made
of seal fur, with the fur inside. She
pulled gum boots over these. Her
skirts were very short. Her feet were
in moccasins, and over her shoulders
was a fur robe. The hood was of
bearskin. This all made a most heavy
garment, but she heroically trudged
along with her husband, averaging
about fifteen miles each day. They
reached Forty Mile Creek a year ago
in June, three months after they were
married. They, called it their wed
ding trip.
Klondike was still a good way off,
and it was thought at first that the
claims closer at hand would pay. One
day a miner came tearing into the set
tlement with most wonderful tales of
the region further on. His descrip
tions were like fairy tales from "Arab
ian Nights"—accounts fitting actually
the scenes in spectacular plays, where
the nymph or queen of fairy land bids
her slaves to pick up chunks of gold
as big as the crown of a hat. Berry
told the tale to his wife. She said she
would stay at the post while he went
to the front. There was no rest in
the camp that night. Men were rush
ing pell mell, bent on nothing but get
ting first into the valley of the Klon
dike and establishing claims. Mrs.
Berry worked with her husband with
might and main, and before daylight
he was on the road over the pass.
There were fifty long miles between
him and fortune, and he worked with
out sleep or rest to beat the great
field which started with hin- He
made the track in two days. _ He was
among the first in. He staked claim
forty, above the Discovery, which
means that his property was the forti
eth one above the first Aladdin. It
was agreed that each claim should
YUKON MINER IN WINTER GARB.
have 500 feet on the river—the Bon
anza. This was the beginning of
Berry's fortune. He then began to
trade for interest in othei* sites. He
secured a share in three of the best on
Eldorado Creek. There is no one
living who can tell how much this
property is worth. It has only been
worked in the crudest way, yet five
months netted him enough to make
him a rich man the rest of his life.
There are untold and inestimable mill
ions where the small sum from the top
was taken.
Berry wanted to bring his bride to
him from the settlement and he pro
ceeded to built himself a house. It
was of logs. He built it solid and then
sawed holes for the door and windows.
This was late last summer. The ther
mometer was getting accustomed to
standing at forty degrees below zero
day in and out. Mrs. Berry trudged
through the nineteen miles of hard
snow and took her place in the hut
with her husband. There was no floor,
but the snow bank. It cost the couple
S3OO a thousand feet to get firewood
hauled, and there was but little chance
to uke fuel save to thaw out the moose
and caribou which the Indians
peddled.
This new gold king and queen made
the first strike of a year ago in Novem
ber. They were working along El
dorado Creek, a branch of the Bonan
za, which empties into the Klondike
about two miles above Dawson City.
Their site was the fifth one above
where the first discovery had been
made in this particular region. It
took nearly a month to get into paying
dirt, but when the vein was opened it
was simply awful. The first prospect
panned $2 and $3 to the pan. It grew
suddenly to $25 and SSO a pan, and
kept increasing. It seemed they had
tapped a mint, and one day Mr. and
Mrs. Berry gathered no less than $595
from a single pan of earth. This they
have saved in a sack by itself, and the
people who have listened to the strange
stories of the young man and his
young wife have no fear that they have
been mistaken. They have left no
room to think they are not telling the
truth—truth which seems probable in
the face of sacks and lumps of gold
which they have not yet had time to
send to market. They have it piled
up in their rooms in the hotel in San
Francisco.
Berry and his men worked five
months at this claim. They thawed
and washed thirty box lengths of soil.
This brought him $130,000, out of
which he paid $22,000 for help. He
then put fifteen miuers at work in his
best diggings and started home to get
some coin. He has acquired five
claims, all of which are being worked.
He has not the slightest idea how
much he is worth. He guesses that
he has at least $1,000,000 more ready
for him by this time. It may be twice
or three times that amount. He has
a good wagon load of the yellow stuff
in the safety deposit vault. Mr. and
Mrs. Berry have one of the best rooms
at the best hotel on the coast. They
have leaped from poverty to wealth in
a single twelve months.
Mr. Berry is going to leave in a few
days with his wife to see the farm
where he used to raise plums and
peaches. He is going to buy the place,
just for memory's sake. Mrs. Berry
wants it. She will live there the rest
of her life. The pin money she panned
out—slo,ooo —is to go for a new house.
She has had enough of the Klonkike.
THE LARCEST WOODEN BUILDING IN THE WORLD.
- —*" 1
The chief feature architecturally of the Swedish National Exposition at
Stockholm is the Industrial Hall, shown above, which is said to be the largest
wooden building in the world. It is constructed of wood because lumbering is
the greatest industry of Sweden and Norway. The hall is built in the middle
of the exhibition grounds, adorned with a large cupola arising to a height of
about 100 meters. The cupola itself is surrounded by turrets resembling
minarets, in which lifts ascend to the uppermost platform, from where an ex
tensive view is to be had of the exhibition grounds, the capital and its en
virons. so much renowned for their beauty.
Her new king and the new gold king
of the coast will go back in the spring.
There is no chance that his property
will be jumped or robbed. He has
left it in trusted hands. Berry talks
in immense figures. It is possible to
deduct half as a tribute to blinded en
thusiasm, and he will then have enough
to rate him among the very richest
men of the world.
Berry gives all the credit of his for
tune to his young wife. It was possi
ble for her to have kept him at home
after the first trip. She told him to
return—and she returned with him.
It was an exhibition of rare courage,
but rare courage rarely fails. The
wedding trip lasted fifteen months.
Berry says it was worth $1,000,000 a
month. This estimate is one meas
ured in cold cash —not sentiment.—
Chicago Times-Herald.
WORLD'S YOUNCEST CYCLIST.
A Seventeen-Months-Olfl Chicago Boy Who
Hides a Wheel.
This is the picture of Harry'W. Slin
ing, the tiniest cyclist in the world.
He is only seventeen months old and
rides what is probably the smallest
wheel ever built for practical riding.
His mount weighs 5J pounds, has a
frame 7} inches high, and the diame
ter of the wheel is ten inches. It is
perfect in equipment, all the parts
having been made especially for the
diminutive machine. Even the lamp
is a midget.
Under the guidance of his father or
some friend of the family the little fel
low pedals along Chicago boulevards
with a solemn and dignified air, tak
ing no heed of the attention he is at-
HABBY SLINING, YOUNGEST WHEELMAN'.
tracting. Occasionally observing a
scorcher flash by crouching over the
handlebars, Harry tries to do likewise,
to the huge delight of the spectators.
He is learning tho pedal mount and is
already making feeble tries at simple
tricks.
Incident of Travel Abroad.
Chauncey M. Depew tolls this char
acteristic incident of the difference of
travel on railroads in Europe and
America: "It was at the station of
Bingen on the Bhine. I said to the
Btution master, 'Why is your train a
half hour late?' The station master
said, 'I don't know.' 'Well,' I said
to him, 'I am the President of the
New York Central Bailroad, and if
you wore a station master at Peekskill,
on our line, I would discharge you in
twenty minutes if you did not know
why the train was a half hour late.'
'Yell,' said the station master, 'I dell
you vat is de matter mit your railroad
men over dere; you are always going
chook, chook, chook; over here ve let
dings take care of demselves and ve
live forever.'"
But Mr. Depew adds that, so far as
the handling of trains, safety and
speed are concerned, the American
railways are far superior to those of
Europe.—New York Herald.
X.ong-l>istance Electricity.
It is proposed to deliver electrical
energy equivalent to -1000-horse power
in the car house at Los Angeles, Cal.,
from Santa Ana, a distance of eighty
miles, under a pressure of 83,000 volts.
The power station is in Santa Ana
Canyon, twelve miles from Bedlands.
The current will be generated at 1000
volts and transformed up to 33,000.
Tho Santa Ana Biver furnishes the
power. Tho water is to be directed
from the stream by a canal flume and
tnnnel work along the side of the can
yon to a point where suddenly it falls
through 2200 feet of pipe a distance of
750 feet to the water wheels.
| THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
j STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.
i Anticipation College Confidence His
Choice—The "Git Thar" Faculty—As
He Understood 11—Reasonable Prefer
ence—Too Inflammable— A Precaution.
They say the airship's coming soon.
Right welcome will it be.
To all mankind't will prove a boon,
But specially to me.
I'll only have to get on board,
('T will take me anywhere,)
Merrily then I'll steer it toward
My castlo in the air.
—ruck.
His Choice.
"What, in your opinion, is the most
■ pleasing decoration for a wheel?"
"A pretty woman."—Judge.
The "Git Thar" Faculty.
Groober—"Was it Joglin's ability
that got him that SSOOO position?"
Hoover—"Yes; his ability to get it."
—Roxbury Gazette.
Too Inflammable.
| Jack—"She used to be an old flame
'■ of yours, did she not?"
| Arthur—"Yes; but that was when I
had money to burn."—Puck.
As He Understood It.
The Count—"l have been invited to
a tin wedding—"
The Baron—"Ah! The girl is being
j married for her money?"— Puck.
College Confidence.
| Miss Girton—"And do you like
Browning?"
| Oxonian—"Well, to tell the truth,
jl'd as soon read a time-table."—
Punch.
A Precaution.
I "I know why the proprietor of this
i hotel makes our board-bills so high."
[ "Why?"
"So that we can't jump them."—
; Harper's Weekly.
A Poor Specimen.
i Friend—"Does your town boast of a
| baseball team?"
j Suburbanite—"No. We used to
boast of one; but we have to apologize
I for it now."—Puck.
I , An Illustration.
! Thacher—"What is meant by "in
consistency?"
i "Pupil—"That would be if a person
was to ride one make of wheel this year
! and a different make next year."—
Puck.
Reasonable Preference.
"I am told your wife would rather
cook than eat."
The other man glanced nervously
over his shoulder. "What she cooks,
yes," he replied in a hoarse whisper.
—Detroit Journal.
Inured to Hardship.
Wife—"Here's a wonderful case of
endurance. A fellow sat in the rigging
of a wrecked vessel throe days and
, didn't seem to mind it."
Husband—"He had probably been
used to riding on an anatomical biey
: cle saddle."—Truth.
Easy to Cure.
The Wife—"Doctor,cau you do any
thing for my husband?"
Doctor—"What seems to be the
: matter?"
' The Wife "Worrying about
money."
Doctor—"Oh, I can relieve him o'
that all."
Obvious.
j He—"Where have you been?"
j She—"Downtown, looking over
j some bonnets. '
; He—"Looking over some bonnets,
I did you say?"
[ She —"That's what I said."
He—"Then they were not theatre
j bonnets?"—Yonkcrs Statesman.
How He Hot Around It,
Chaluuieau has just returned from a
fishing expedition.
"Well," his friends ask him, "did
you catch anything?"
"I missed my twelfth fish!" answers
Ohalumean, who thus spares himself
the humiliation of telling that he
missed his first as well."—Le Figaro.
Time Serving.
! Bridget has a kitchen full of her
company.
j Mistress (from the head of the stairs)
| —"Bridget!"
j Bridget—"Yes, ma'am."
j Mistress—"lt's 10 o'clock."
j Bridget—"Thank ye, ma'am. And
will be so koind ez to tell me whin it's
12?"—Pick-Me-Up.
Paired Off.
I Bilkins—"l hope I'm not in the way,
j Miss Tompkyns."
; Miss Tompkyns—"Why, Mr. Bil
kins, how can you suggest such a
j thing! You know I believe in even
| numbers. Polly and Charley make
' two; Jack aud I make four; you and
! the dog mako six. We are all paired
off nicely." —The Yellow Kid,
He Knew His IVorth.
J Young Lady—You are a wonderful
j master of the piauo, I hear."
I Professor von Spieler (hired for the
occasion) —"I hlay nggompanimeuts
zometimes."
Young Lady—"Accompaniments to
singing?"
Professor von Spieler—"Aggom
panimenta to gonversations."—Tit
j Bits.
Untrue.'
She —"Harry, you said something
j last evening that made me feel so had."
He —"Why was it, dearest?"
She—"You said I was one of the
sweetest girls in all the world."
He—"And aren't you, darling?"
She—"You said'ono of the sweet
est.' Oh, Harry, to think I should
live to know that I have to share your
love with another.'!— Boston Tran
script,
BICCEST YOKE OF OXEN.
Stand Seventeen Hand. Hicti and To
gether Weigh 7000 l'onndl.
The greatest yoke of cattle ever seen
in this country is owned by J. D.
Avery, of Buckland, Mass. They ara
named Joe and Jerry. Their age jis
eight years and they measure ten feet
in girth. They stand seventeen hands
high and their measurement from < tip
to tip is fifteen feet eleven inches.!
There is not a difference of ten pounds
in weight between them, and the two
together tip the scales at 7300 pounds.!
They hold the world's record for ona
pull, having drawn 11,001 pounds of
stone, loaded on a dray, on a level,|
just eight feet in one draw. They are
models of Symmetry in build, are ex
tremely kind and docile aud beauti
fully colored. The best of care is de
voted to them, one man spending sev
eral hours every day in grooming and
oleaning them.
In speaking of his handsome yoka
of oxen Mr. Avery said: "The oxen
have not by any means reached their
limit; they have gained in weight
some seven hundred pounds the past
year and are capable of carrying an
other thousand pounds. Unlike
other large cattle, their flesh is dis
tributed very evenly whioh adds very
much to their looks, and they stand on
their limbs as straight as a pair of
calves.
"They are remarkably intelligent
and well trained. They are very ao
tive and can easily walk a mile in
thirty minutes. They are colored,
like all pure Holsteins, black and
white. Their coats are as fine and
glossy as a thoroughbred racer's.
They are still worked moderately
when at home. Their yoke was made
to order, and probably is the largest
yoke ever worn by any team. It is
seven feet in length and weighs 200
pounds.
"Their crowning glory is their mag
nificent set of highly polished hornß.
For size, quality, mating and beauty
combined their equal does not exist in
the world. It may be of interest to
know that their feed consists of eight
to twelve quarts of corn and oats
ground together, two quarts of flax
meal and from six to eight quarts of
bran each day, with an occasional
change, to suit their appetites,"—
Philadelphia Times.
WISE WORDS.
Tact is very often the knowledge of
when it is better not to tell the whole
truth.
The shiftless man is always away
from home when a good opportunity
knocks.
Some men learn enough in six
months' travel to bore others
lifetime. SiS™
Do good and cast it into the sea; if
the sea does not recognize it the
Creator will.
Nothing can make people go blind
any quicker than filling their eyes
with gold dust.
A man likes to refer to himself as nn
idiot at times, but it makes bim mad
if anybody else agrees with him.
Slander has a buzzard's eye, a
wolf's nose, a viper's tongue, a bat's
wings, a leopard's claws anil a raven's
voice.
Genius sometimes seems to be that
sort of gift which gains unmerited
sympathy for recklessly disregarding
itself.
We learn wisdom from failure more
than from success; we often discover
what will do by finding out what will
not do.
If people could see their obituary
while they are still living, it would en
courage them so much that they might
live longer.
Besentment seems to have been
given us by nature for defense only; it
is the safeguard of justieo and the se
curity of innocence.
It is strange that, of all possible
tasks, simply to be what wo are
should prove not the easiest, but in
finitely the hardest.
There is a class of people who think
they are too poor to buy flannels for
the winter who will spend their last
cent having their fortunes told.—The
South-West.
I European Murders.
Italy takes the lead of European Na
tions, with an average annual crop of
murders of 2479, a ratio per 10,000
deaths of 29.4; Spain follows, with a
ratio of 23.8, and 1200 murders; Aus
tria, ratio of 8.8, and 600 murders;
England, ratio of 7.1, and 377 mur
ders.
In England, in the reign of Henry
VIII, there were 71,400 persons hanged
or beheaded; in one year 300 beggars
were executed for soliciting alms. In
1820 no less than forty-six persons
were hanged in England for forging
Bank of England notes, some of which
were afterwards asserted to be good.
Capital punishment was abolished in
Italy in 1875, and murders increased
forty-two per cent.
Appendicitis Is Conlugions.
The observations of Professor Golu
boff, of Moscow, have convinced him
that appendicitis is not only a con
tagious disease, but that it sometimes
occurs in epidemics. It was unusually
prevalent in Moscow last year. To il
lustrate, Professor Goluboff mentions
that in a small boarding sebool where
in several years there had not been a
single case of appendicitis, he treated
seven cases within two months.
The Chicken Was Loaded.
A few days ago the family of Ed
Fay concluded to kill a chicken to
cook, and found this invoice in- its
gizzard: Twenty-four BB 22-caliber
cartridge shells, two gravel stones,
two glass beads, a bit of glass, aud a
pin. The shapes of the cartridges had
undergone .modification while in the
chickens I —'Topeka (Kansas) Journal. V