Only iwenly per cent, o? the mur ders committed yearly in America aud Europe aro ever found out. In order to assist in sretting fallen horses to their feet from slippery streets, tho Department of Public Works, New York City, is placing boxes filled with sand upon the side walks within a few inches of tho curb, where they may bo opened in an emergency and tho sand carried to where it is needed. This is an excel lent and humane idea, and will be wel comed by all drivers iu wet weather. "Some idea of the formidable char. ' •cter of our pension expenses may be gathered," notes the New York Inde pendent, "from the fact that the total payments, including expense of ad ministration, etc., amounts to $2,178, 753,270 in the past thirty-two years, from and inclusive of 1806. Thest enormous expenditures were ou ac count of the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican and Indian Wars and the Civil War. The cost oJ modern wars is truly prohibitory." The falsification of wine, for man} years a growing industry iu Germany now is to be made a legalized industry as well, writes W jlf von Schierbrainl. Tho product is to be known under the name of "Kunstwein." The govern ment is to get a t'.x of twenty marks for each hectoliter, and the stuff,prop- . erly labeled, is to be sold opeuly. The Federation of Husbandmen stands sponsor for this queer attempt to make ■ tho wholesale defrauding of the public j a legal act. The bill already has beeu drawn up. Cattle, wheu killed in Massachu setts, as a precautionary measure, sost somewhat more than the animals would fetch at the butchers. In tho auuual report of the State Cattle Com mission, made to tho Legislature yes terday, it is shown that the number of cattle paid for as tuberculous during the year was 5275, and the amount paid for them was $179,867.52. Over &5500 was paid for 100 animals in which no lesions of the disease were onnd. Quarantine, killing, and burial expenses and arbitration brought the average amount paid for condemned eattle up to $3-1.12 per head. The War Department is busy nowa days over the problem of condensed diet for tho starving Ivlondikers. The3e investigations have elicited the information that beef tea and extracts in capsules are of no use for rations for the array or for the Klondike suf ferers. They are palatable and stim ulating, but contain practically no nourishment. A quantity of Hour will be sent to Alaska, but not wheat flour. Whole wheat flour and dry rye flour will bo preferred, because they lire more nourishing. Amoug the most | interesting of the foods selected are concentrated vegetables, especially carrots and onions, whih have addi tional value as antidotes to the scurvy. , There aro carrot chips, cooked and evaporated to absolute dryness, which come from California, while Germany sends onions in compressed tablets, four inches squaro ami one-third of • an inch thick. One of these tablets makes six ample portions, expanding in bulk greatly when boiling water is i poured over it. The material is used like fresh onions. The New York Journal preaches an editorial sermon on "The Danger of Getting Too Big," saying: A boy, ap parently unusually robust aud vigor ous, died suddenly in one of New York's suburbs tho ether day of a curious complaint. He was nineteen years old, six feet two inches high, weighed about 200 pounds and enjoyed unusual muscular strength. But, strangely enough, ho grew too big. En proportion as height and weight increased the vitality which animated his enormous frame decreased. He became bigger and weaker. He died of too much size. The instance is a sad one aud it teaches its lesson. Other bodies than mere individual human bodies disintegrate when they outgrow the vital spark which gives them force aud animation. The parry which has an overwhelming majority in the Nutional House of Representa tives, for example, seldom holds it be yond one Congress. The party which carries a State Legislature on the eve of a Senatorial contest usually is rent in twain by rival ambitious created by its very bigness. The biggest major ity in a city election doesn't neces sarily insure the longest domination of the party winning it. Tho trust with the most enormous capital ; s not infrequently the one which goes most quickly to the wall. In brief, it is nol well to devolop a body too big for the •oul. One cannot rely upon mere size in politics, pugilism, financiering or tuy other phase of human endeavor. DON'T WORRY, DEAR. Don't wnrry. dear; thebl<)ake9t years That clog tho forward viow. Each thins to nothing when it noar3, And wo may sauuter through. Tho darkest moment never comes, ! It only looms before; Tho loss of home is what benumb" Not trouble at tho door. Dou't worry, dear, tho clouds aro black, But with them ootnos tho rain. And stiile l souls that parch uud orao u May thrill with sap again. Tho burdeu bear us best wo can. And there'll be none to boar: Hard work has never killed a man. But worry did its sharo. Don't worry, dear; don't blanch, don't yield. But daro tho years to come; Nor give tho enemy the Hold Beeaus) we beat Ins drum. These little woes that hover near Are nothing, though they gall: Wo know that life is love, my dear, ' And life aud love are all. Morwin, in Youth's Companion. | THE OTHER GIRL. I An HEN I arrived If ftt 011 * ? * ou ' rtU( l <\\ *h o French w\n\"'fe r f'M mail had col lecto't their chattels and stood round the immense heap j in attitudes denoting various degrees of impatience. I apologized. "It is of no consequence," said Lady Mauuiugton, in a touo signifying it was of the greatest. Mollie shook her head at me and smiled. I looked at the two ladies and the French maid, and then I looked at the I miniature mountain. "Tho brougham is only seated for i two," I hinted. "Celeste can walk,"said Lady Man- ! nington. "I shall be glad of her company," I ; responded, politely. Lady Mauuington glanced at me ; doubtfully. "Perhaps sho could man.*ge by the coachwau," she sug- ! gosted. "His wife is most particular," I in terposed quickly. "I should prefer to walk, mamma," said Mollie, with an air of much good- ! nature. "Perhaps that will bo best," Lady j Mauniugton conceded reluctantly. "I am sure of it," I indorsed hearti- | •y --"If only your aunt had sent the omnibus "Lady Mauuington began aggrievedly. "It was most careless of her," I admitted iictautly. I caught Mollie's eye. She has a curious way of smil ing at nothing. So Mollie and I started to walk over the crisp snow. Just outside the station I helped her over the stile. "Wo may as well take the short cut," I observed; "it is not so very much longer, and I have so inuoh to say to you." "What about?" asked Mollie. I hesitated. "It is about a friend of mine," I replied at length. "Oh!" "Ho is in tho deuce of a mess," I began confidentially. "I want your : help." "What can I do?" asked Mollie, ' opening her eyes. "You can advise mo," I replied, taking courage. "A woman's wit " Mollie was pleased. "Go on, Mr. Trevor." "I fear you will think my friend particularly foolish," I said sorrow fully. "Very likely," replied Mollio, in differently. "I assure you ho has many good ' points. But it happened a girl want- j ed to marry him." "What!" exclaimed Mollie. "I can't think what she saw in ! him," I replied uncomfortably. "I hope," said Mollie, "you are not ; going to tell me anything that is not i proper." "Oh, no," I replied earnestly. "The girl was quite respectable." "She could not have been quite nice," said Mollie decisively. I stopped to test the strength of the ice over a pool. "I have seen her look quito nice," I remarked thoughtfully. "You know her?" asked Mollie quickly. "Oh, yes. It wasn't really the girl 1 who wauted to marry my friend; it was her mother. I woau tho mother wauted the girl to marry my friend, I hope I make myself clear." "I don't think that improves mat ters," retorted Mollie. • '.Sho had a largo family of daugh ters,' I explained. "Ho on," said Mollie, with a se verely judicial air. "My friend was in love with another girl—a really nice girl. In fact, a quite splendid girl. One of the very best," I said, kindling. "You know that girl, too?" asked M<llie, a little coldly. "Ye-es." "Well?" "My friend was staying at a country house, and so were both the girl aud her mother, aud she—" "Who?" asked Mollie. "The girl whose mother wanted her to marry him. I do Lope lam clear. She got him into a quiet corner, and somehow or other my friend found out ■he had hold, of his hand. I—l don't know how it happened. It just oc curred." "How clever your friend to find it out," said Mollie sarcastically. I went on hastily—"And then ho saw her head coming nearer and near er his shoulder, and ho didn't know what to do." "I wonder,*' said Mollio, "ho did not call for help." "You see," I went on, "ho was afraid she would propose, or—or —the mother might come. Ho guessed the mother was pretty near. Then he thought of the other girl, and he got into a dreadful panic. In fact, ho lost his head." "It could not have been a great loss," observed Mollio disdainfully. i "Xo-o. But it was the only one he ! had, and ho was accustomed to it. | lie didn't know what to do. So he said j ho was already engaged." "Did he say already?" "Yes." It was a cold day, but 1 mopped my brow with my liaudker- j chief. Mollie uttered a peal of silvery i laughter. "I am really almost sorry ; for that girl, but it served her right." | "The girl didn't turn a hair. She j simply straightened herself up and . asked to whom he was engaged." "Well?" "He blurted out the name of the other girl. He couldn't think of any other name." j "To wLorn, of course, he is not en- , ! gaged?" j "Xo. And I don't suppose she j would have him. She is far, far too | ! good for him." I "Is that your wholo story?" | "Very nearly. The girl went away I and told bar mother, who came up | gushingly and congratulated him. She !is a true sportswoman. After that she went about telling everybody of tko engagement, and my friend has had to receive congratulations ever since." "How awkward!" said Mollie medi tatively. "Has the other girl heard of it?" "Xot yet. This all happened yes terday." "Yesterday?" I nodded. "And the worst is the other girl is expected to arrive at the Towers almost immediately." "Dear me," said Mollie. "So your friend is at the Towers now?" "I didn't mean to let it out," I ro plied, a little abashed. Mollie began to laugh. "It is most amusing; but why did you tell me about it?" "I want your advice." "Who is the other girl?" asked Mollio curiously. "Please don't ask for natnos," 1 implored. "But my advice must depend on the other girl's disposition." "She is everything that is perfect," I replied fervently. "Xo doubt," retorted Mollie satiric ally. "Yon might almost be the other girl yourself," I went on with careful carelessness. "Roally?" said Mollie. "I believe that must be considered a compliment. Thank you very much." "What," I asked, with elaborate in difference, "would you do if you wero the other girl?" Mollie stopped and broke off a sprig of red berries. They were not so red as her lips. "Of course," sho said, "I iihould bo very annoyed." "Ah, of course," said I, forlornly. "At any rate, I should pretend to be very annoyed." "Butreally ," I began, delighted. "Oh, that would depend on the man." "Supposing, for the sake of illustra tion," said I, surveying tho whito ex pause of a neighboring field, "I was tho man?" "This i 9 nonsense," said Mollie. "We can't make believe to that ex tent." "Why can't we?" "You would never bo so foolish." "But if " "Let us talk about something sensi ble," said Mollie, with decision. "But my poor friend is depending on me for advice." She thought. "Of course your friend must get away from the Towers before tho other girl arrives." "You are quite clea: he ought to got away?" I asked mournfully. "There can be no doubt of that. Just fancy everybody rushing to con gratulate the other girl, and your friend being present at the time. There might be a dreadful scene." "I can picture it," said I, repress ing a groan. Wo had arrived at the entrance to tho avenue. I stopped and held out my hand. "Goodby," I said. "Whatdo you mean?" she exclaimed, i "I—l am going away. I am the inau." i Ido not think lam mistaken. Tho I color faded slightly from her face. | "And the other girl?" she queried j faintly. j "You are the other girl." j The red replaced the white. She stood quite still, with her eyes bent downward; ami then she began to trace figures in the snow with tho toe of her tiny boot. "Goodby," I repeated. Sho looked up. "Of course, lam very angry," she said. And then she smiled and held out her hand. I took it humbly, and forgot to relinquish it. "Mamma will be getting anxious," 9he remarked. "We must hu— But we did not hurry.—Pic\-..*^-Up. Women as Clerks. Of the 20,000 Washington Govern ment clerks, nearly one-third are wo men. who receive from SOOO to SIBOO yearly. ■Frozen Crenin. New Zealand farmers now send frozen cream V> London, wliera it ie churned for butter. FIELDS OF ADVENTURE. THRILLINC INCIDENTS AND DARINC DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA. A Clowe Cnll—Nip nnd Tuck Between Two Miner* and a Mountain L.loll—An In dian Girl's Daring; Hide—A Long; Count anil a Cold Plunge ly a Bicyclist, A number of sportsmen were re cently talking over the good times they bad had duck shooting last fall, when the conversation turned on hunt ing big game in the West. Some thrilling adventure was related by every one in the group but au elderly man, and he in turn was asked for a story. "I don't suppose," began the silent mnu, "that any of you young fellows ever ran across a mountain lion, as they are becoming rather scarce now in the West. But early in the fifties, when I first went to Colorado to hunt for gold, these animals were quite numerous. I recall on one occasion having a little adventure with a lion that almost scared me out of my wits. Wi th a partner I was working a claim in the mountains near Ouray, and one day before the very cold weather of the winter sot in we both wenttotcwu to get some supplies, leaving our little cabin on the mountain side alone. "It came on to, snow so hard soon after we arrived in Ouray that we did not get a chance to return to our claim for three days. On our return journey we noticed as we were climb ing the hills the tracks of a mountain lion leading toward our cabin. Pres ently, however, as we got nearer and nearer to our little home, we lost the track of the animal, and the sight of an open window, which had been care fully closed on our departure for town, caused us to forget all about the lion and its presence. "Well, 1 had reached the window and was just about to put mylieadinto the apartment when there came a ter rible growl and the next instnnt a great yellow body sprang through the open ing right on my back, its claws catch ing my buckskin coat and ripping it open to my waist, turning me com pletely over and into the snow. My parner took the dangerous situation in at a glance aud whipped out his gun. Then the infernal lion turned on him, making a fearfnt leap in his direction. Before he could ffire the infuriated beast was upon him, and, seizing him by the tdack of his coat, shook him as though he were but a rat. I was on my feet by this time, and drawing my revolver, I sneaked up and put a bni let right through his head. The ani mal groaned and fell back dead and my partner drew his breath freely once more. It was a close cnll, but neither of us was hurt, and the lion's skin in another week was serving as a rug at the foot of my bunk." An Imlinn Girl's Daring; IMdf. An Indian romance which almost rivals that of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith comes from Pine Ridge Agency. William .Tacobson, a young fellow in charge of one of the classes at Carlisle, eloped with Julia Beallard, an intelligent quarter-bred Sioux. The couple rode from Pine Ridge to Chad roil, Neb., on their ponies during the night, pursued by the girl's relatives all the way. They arrived in Chadron in the gray dawn of the morning, thoroughly exhausted, aud at once proceed to secure a license. Then, ill the presence of frionds of the bride, they were made man and wife. The couple met about two years ago at Carlisle, where the young woman was attending a private seminary, and became enamored of each other." They beeamo engaged, when the girl re ceived a letter ordering her home to Pine Ridge. The young couple kept up a correspondence, fearing that their attachment would become known to the parents of the girl, who were very much opposed to her forming an alliance with other than a thoroughbred Sioux. A letter to the girl was finally inter cepted by a young Sioux admirer and laid beforo the mother. Thereafter not a letter was permitted. Becoming alarmed at not receiving an answer, Jaeobson decided to go to Nebraska and investigate. Upon arriving at the agency he contrived a secret interview with the girl and arranged an elope ment. One dark night the girl stole forth, and procuring a saddle horse from the corral, slipped a halter over his head and led him to the outskirts of the In dinn village, where she was met by her lover in a lonely canon, near the his toric battle ground of Wounded Knee. Mounting their ponies, they started on their journey to Chadron. The echoes of the hoof-beats awakened the village, and a thirty-mile chaso was begun over the roughest country this side of the Rockies. The journey was dangerous and hazardous. The road at times winds around precipices aud rugged cliffs and through rough canons, where a misstep might plunge the riders into eternity. For four hours they rode on their ponies, expecting at every mo ment to hear the cry of their pursu ers. When the lights of Chadron ap peared in view the pursuing party in creased their pace, hoping to overtake the fleeing couple before they entered the city. They failed in this attempt, however, and the lovers managed to elude them. A Truln-ltohhini* Rtorr. The drummer bad just finished rend ing a story of a train hold-up and let his newspaper fall into his lap. "I had a rather romantic experience once with train robbers," ho said, "which I think I won't ever forget. I had been laid up sick for a week at a tavern in a Kansas town and my at tendant bad been a very sweet aud gentle girl, who was a relative of the landlord's. She was such a nice girl , that I was in no hurry to get well, and while I was putting it off all I could I was as industriously putting on the i chains of love. At the end of ten days I was able to take up my sample case again, and when I left the town my gentle nurse was on the same train, in my charge, bound for Kansas City, where she was to be met by friends. I had never talked love to her, and I fancy she didn't suspect me of any thing except a desire to flirt a little, but I had made up my mind to talk seriously to her beforo I let her friends take her away from me. "I fooled along, as most men ds under the same circumstances, wait ing for a real good chance to come in, but before I reached the proper con dition the train came to a sudden stop in a lonely place, and by the time we had asked what the trouble was a half masked train robber stood in the aisle of the ear with a revolver covering the contents. The girl turned as white as a sheet aud I thought she would faint, but I told her she wouldn't be hurt, and she sat there staring as if she had turned stone. As it happened, I kept my *wits, and when a shot and a shout rose on the air on the out side and attracted the robber's atten tion for a moment, I whipped my re volver out of my overcoat pocket and would have got him sure, but as I brought the gun around the girl at my eide caught my arm and stopped me. I looked at her in amazement. " 'Don't,' she gasped, 'it's my father,* and then she fell in a faint, while the robber hiurried out iu response to the calls from his partners. "As for me," concluded the drum mer, "I thought probably it would be just as well for me not to add to the poor girl's troubles by trying to get into her family." Took a Long Coast and a I.ncky Plnnj-e. George Maybury, the son of a farmer near Old Bridge, N. J., bought a bicycle the other day and went for a spiu along the New Brunswick turn pike. At the Old Bridge end is one of the worst hills in New Jersey. It starts at the hamlet of Summer Hill and finishes in the heart of Old Bridge, a mile away by the read, but consider ably less in au air line. George had never tried coasting, but had some sort of on idea that it would save time if he let the pedals alone. So at Summer Hill he took his feet from the pedals and the wheel did the rest. At tirsfc everything went well. Half way down the hill the road makes a suddeu turn aud around this George went at a speed that would have made Michael green with envy. A couple of wagons were coming up the hill but got rapidly out of the way when they heard Maybtirv's hysterical bell. The young man's hat had gone and his Imir was making desperate efforts to follow it. At the foot of the hill are the tracks of the Camden and Amboy Railroad. There was a train only a few hundred feet from the crossing as Maybury ap proached, but the farmer boy was going at a rate of speed never at tempted by a Camden aud Amboy locomotive, aud the agony wa3 over before the train readied the crossing. From the railroad the road slopes gradually down to the bauk of South River, where it turns and follows the river's course. Maybury was past thinking. All he could do was to shut his eyes and cling desperately to the handles. Straight on to the river he went. The wheel caught iu a heap of brush and stopped short. Maybury didn't stop. He went straight on over his handle bars and took a neat header into the icy waters of the river. Like a true wheelman the first thing George did after he climbed up the bank was to look after his machine. There wasn't a thiug broken. "Thank Heaven 1" said George. Afterward There Was Light. An old fanner, well known for his miserly habits, in order to save the caudles, was in the habit of giving the farm hands their supper in semi-dark ness. The laborers at first grumbled at this, but the farmer took no notice. Things went on iu much the same Avay for some little time,till the farmer had occasion to hire another farmhand uaiued Tarn S . Tarn, who was well known to som of the other laborers as a wild and reckless sort of character, and always ready for mischief, was informed as to how matters stood, and Tarn vowed ho would alter things somehow. That night at supper, which con sisted of porridge, Tarn took his seat on the righthaud side of the farmer, aud, watching his opportunity,quickly plunged a spoonful of the hot porridge into the farmer's mouth. The farmer jumped up, with a roar of agony, and demanded an explanation. "Weel, fairmer," replied Tam, "it's sae daurk Ah couldna tell whaur Ah was pittin' them; Ah thocht it was i* ma ain mooth."—Loudon Telegraph. A Marvelous Machine. machine ha 3 been invented which is composed of exquisitely grad uated wheels, running a tiny dia mond poiut at the end of au almost equally tiuy arm, whereby one is able to write upou glass the whole of the Lord's prayer within a space which measured the 294 th part of au inch in length by the 440 th part of an inch in breadth, or about the measurement of the dot over the letter "I" in common print, says the Philadelphia Record. With this machine any one who under stood operating it could write the whole 3,556,480 letters of the Bible eight times over the space of au inch —a square inch. A specimen of this marvelous microscopic writing was enlarged by photography, and every letter aud point was perfect, and could be read with ease. Keport by Phonograph. A municipal council iu France has ordered its proceedings to be reported by phonograph. Should the expedient prove successful, shorthand writing will be dispensed with. | A FAMOUS OIL WIZARD. JACOB LONG'S UNERRINC FORKED STICK POINTS TO THE FLUID. Recent Discoveries Made His Reputation National—For a Long Time Before tne Oil Fever Occamo Epidemic He Was Generally Known as the Water Wizard. At Jefferson, Ind., lives a man who has been famous because of his uner ring prediction as to the location of oil streams iu the bowels of the earth. His name, says the St. Louis Post- Dispatch, is Jacob Long. He does the trick with a forked stick. Twenty years ago, when yet in his prime, Long was sought after l'ar aud near. He was known as a water witch, and whenever a saw-mill or place of residence was selected it was then that Long was called upon to see if ! nature had made provision for water. J By means of a forked stick, one prong of which he held in each hand, aud the single prong pointing upward, Long would begin bis search for the vein of water. As he passed over the vein the forked stick would turn in his hands and point downward. . So unerringly did Long perform his work that no one thought of putting down a well in his vicinity unless the water witch was consulted. Once, about twenty years ago, while Loug was searching for water his forked peach limb performed such an tics that even the diviner was amazed. When seeking to locate water the stick always turned outward from him and pointed down, but ouly when stand ing directly over the \ein of water, aud losing the strange power when it was "crossed. But on this occasion the peach limb turned both inward and outward and on any place within a several-acre tract. This phenomenon was more thau Long could comprehend. He studied about it several weeks and Anally went to J. 11. Dowell, a man of learn ing, and inquired what else could be found in the earth. Dowell, after enumerating many natural products, stated that in some parts of the coun try oil and gas were also found. Long then aunouueed to his rural neigh bors that under their farms lay vast | reservoirs of gas and oil. So absurd did this seem that he was laughed at and suspicions cast upon his sanity, i He tried to induce some of his ac quaintances to aid in proving his as sertions, but without success. By hard work lie had secured a little farm, and when confronted by finan cial difficulties lie deeded it to a brother, who subsequently refused to deed it back. Long naturally resented this injus tice, and after a stormy interview with his brother ho decided to try his for tunes in another State. He went to Crawford County, Ohio. During his stay there the county experienced an oil boom, in which Long and his forked stick cut quite a figure. Finding few who would believe in bis strange power and hav ing no money of his own, lie gave his services for little or nothing. He worked hard to accumulate money to put down a well for himself, but for tune was reluctant to smile upon him. He claims now to possess the secret of a pool of oil three miles wide and a little over a mile long in the Ohio field, which he hopes sometime to test aud of which he Lias told no one the location. While in Ohio lie learned that his prediction mado to a neighbor in this county twenty year? ago had been verified, and be returned here. His predictions since then have been ac curate and precise, and ho is now be ginning to enjoy the local fame he has so long sought. Long is sixty years old and a bach elor. Although he was born iu In diana, he cau speak English only brokenly and prefers German. He admits that aside from being able to ! locate oil wells lie is the most ignor ant man in the country, being unable to read or write, aud knowing little of the outside world. Always Paid Promptly. I Two teachers of languages were dis cussing matters and things relative to their profession. "Do your pupils pay up regularly on the first of each month?" asked one of them. "No, they do not," was the reply. "I often have to wait weeks aud weeks before I get my pay, and some times I don't get it at all. You cau't well dun the parents for the money." "Why don't you do as I do? I al ways get my money regularly." I "How do you manage it?" "It is very simple. For instance, I mm teaching a boy French, and on the first day of the month his folks don't send the amount due for the previous I month. In that case I give the boy the following exercise to tiauslate and | write out at home: 'I have no money. ; The month is up. Hast thou any money? I need money very much. | Why hast thou brought no money this ; morning? Did thy father not give thee any money? Has he no money I in the pocketbook of his uncle's great aunt?' This fetches them. Next ! morning that boy brings the money.'' The Unforjcett ns Dojj*. A story showing tlie lovo anil devo tion of dumb brutes comes from Mil ford, where two little white dogs, whose master, Edward McDade, was drowned more thau a year ago, still may he seen every morning trotting through Milford and Oldtown to the ferry Janding where their master wont into the river, and then going back the four miles home, after satisfying them selves that he has not returned.—Lew ißtou (Me.) Journal. Powder Mill Bricks. Bricks made of plaster-of-paris and cork are now ased in the construction of powder mills. In case of explosion they offer elight resistance and are broken to atoms- FAST FIRE HORSES. The Quickest Ones in the World Are in Kansas City. F. S. Dejlenbaugh writes of "The Quick Horse" .in St. Nicholas, his ar ticle telling of the training of horses for the tire department. Mr. Dellen baugh says: The quickest horses in tjie world were at one time in Kansas City, at the headquarters of its tire depart ment, directly under the office of the Chief, Mr. George C. Hale. To Mr. Hale's genius, more than to any other factor, the quick horse owned his first development; for Mr. Hale is the in ventor of the earliest swinging-har ness—which made the quick horse possible. When Mr. Henry M. Stan ley and his wife were iu this country, they witnessed an exhibition drill of Che Kansas City Fire Department. Che drill so impressed the visitors that an account of it was published iu a London journal, and this Euglish article brought au iuvitation to Mr. Hale to visit Englaud as the represen tative of the American Fire Service at the International Fire Tournament. Mr. Hale and a picked corps went to England, taking with them the re markably quick horses "Joe" and "Dan," and they became world-fam ous. As the quickest harnessing time of the Loudon Fire Brigade is one minute, seventeen and one-half sec onds, aud the Kansas City horses were harnessed iu one and three-quarter seconds, and were out of the eugiue honse in less than eicht seconds, there could be no competition. Iu Ivausas City, four tine bays were harnessed to the hook-and-ladder truck almost as quickly as even Joe and Dan could jump into their harnesses. It was a pretty sight to see these four well kept horses spring to their places at the stroke of the gong, and in two or three seconds stand ready to run with the apparatus. Joe was killed by au accident; but Dan, with a new mate, is still in service, aud us quick as ever. The record for quickest time from the engine-house to the throwing of water on the Are is held by a Kansas City company. In this instance the horses were harnessed, a run of 2194 feet (a little less thau half a mile) was made, and water thrown from the hose in the wouderfully brief time of ono minute, thirty-one aud one-half seconds. How To Drink Water. There arc few people, who thor oughly realize the value of water as a beverago, or who know how to obtain the greatest advantage from it. The effects produced by the drinking of water, as pointed out by Ilcaltb, vary with the maimer in which it is urunk. If, for instance, a pint of cold water be swallowed as a large draught, or if it bo taken in two portions with a short interval between, certain de finite results follow—effects which differ from those which would have resulted from the same quautily taken by sipping. Sipping is a powerful stimulant to the circulation, a thing which ordinary drinking is not. Dur iug the act of sipping the action of the nerve which shows the beats of the heart is abolished, and as a conse quence that organ contracts much more rapidly, the pulse bents more quickly, and the circulation in various parts of the body is increased. In addition to this, we find that the pres sure under which the bile is secreted is raised by the sipping of fluid. And here is a point which might well be noted by our readers: A glass of cold water, slowly sipped, will produce greater acceleration of the pulse for a time than will a glass of wine or spirits taken at a draught. In this connec tion it may not be out of place to mention that sippiug cold water will often allay the craving for alcohol in those who have been in the babit of taking too much of it, aud who may be endeavoring to reform, the effect being probably duo to the stimulant action of the sipping. The Reward of Valor. Perhaps the most dramatic reward Lord Charles Beresford ever got for valor, was a few years ago. One bit ter cold night, when his ship was off the Fauklaud islands, there was a cry of "man overboard." The sentry had disappeared beneath the floating ice. Though clad in heavy garmeuts, Lord Charles instantly seized a coil of rope and leaped into the sea. "I went down and down and down," said Lord Charles, whan relating the incident, "until I began to think that the other end of the rope was not fasteued to anything. At last I grasped my man, the rope became taut, and I began to ascend. The ship's corporal helped us both out." Fifteen years after ward Lord Charles was speakiug at a political meeting in support of Lord Folkestone's candidature. The hall was packed, and suddenly there was a scuffie at the back. "Chuck him out!" cried some one; but Lord Charles invited the man to come up to the platform, and they would listen to what he had to say. The man struggled forward in great excitement. He only wanted to shake hands with his rescuer. He was the sailor ho had been saved by Lord Charles from the icy sea off the Faulkland Islands. —St. James's Gazette. The Modern Shark. The modern shark is deteriorating. In ages gone by there were ferocious sharks, such as would make a mouth ful of you without blinking, seventy feet in length. Pleuly of their teeth have been found which are Ave inohes long, whereas the biggest of the teeth belonging to sharks that exist at the present day are one and a half inches long. They Think In Millions. The London Bankers' Clearing House was established 125 years ago, and last year nearly Si, ooo,ooo,OGf passed through it. London's daily ) bank business averages 8125,000,000.
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