Great Britain controls twenty-0110
out ot' every 100 square miles of the
ear ill's surface.
Only twenty per cent, of the mur
ders committed yearly in America and
Europe are ever found out.
Tli? funniest story of the result of
prying bounties for animals' scalps
conies from Kansas. Sumner county
ottered three cent-: for every rabbit's
scalp brought in. The farmers loaded
up their double-barreled howitzers,
sallied forth, killed 158,514 rabbits,
and broke the county.
One hundred and sixteen thousand,
four hundred and ninety humming
birds were sold at a recent sale in
England, and a corresponding num
ber of other birds. With regard to
the lyre-bird an eminent ornithologist
says, "This wonderful bird will soon
become a thing of the past, and with
it will disappear the sole survivor of a
very ancjent race before even its
habits and structure are wholly
known,"
There has been a great and general
improvement within fifteen years in
the phrasing of obituary resolutions,
maintains Harper's Weekly. Persons,
still pitiably may remember
when almost all the obituary resolu
tions that appeared in the newspapers
began: "Whereas it has pleased an
inscrutable Providence to re nove our
late neighbor,.!ames Smith, Resolved,
that we submit," etc. This form
seems no longer to be in general use.
The resolutions of the day take some
things for granted, and are a good
deal more tersely and simply con
trived.
In a western town the otlie • day a
man committed suicide on being ap
prehended in the act of stealing a
dictionary from a street bookstall.
He had just purchased a bottle oi
laudanum, presumably for the tooth
ache. He drained the bottle before a
hand was raised to save him. What
makes the trage ly more pitiful is the
fact that the dictionary was a Latin
lexicon. It is hard to find an expla
nation for his rash act; possibly be
knew tlie people with whom he had to
deal, and feared the mad-house more
than the prison cell. He might have
been a stranded wanderer from Bos
ton.
The following surprising story is
tol I—is illustrative of one phase of
tli i character of the Russian peasant
—in areeo.it magazine: During the
last Russo-Tu: kish war, a Russian
regiment inirchinjfroui Philippopolis
to Adrianople overtook the Turkish
refugees; whereupon th 3 terrified
Turkish women threw down their in
fants in their flight. The Russian
soldiers, while pressing on as rapidly
as possible, stooped and picked up the
babies, until nearly every man in the
regiment was carrying a child, and
the general was absolutely obliged to
stop the march and find carts and men
to transfer the children to a place ol
safety.
The New York Tribune estimates
that our pension list exceeds all Ger
many's army costs by more than $40,-
000,000 a year, and is $30,000,000 more
than that of France. Duly Russia's
military expenditures upon her giant
army, patrolling Europe and Asia
from the Baltic to the Yellow sea and
tlie Indian ocean, exceed the sum
which, thirty years after the close of
the war, we still annually pay over to
our pensioners. Russia's military
burden, nil told, is $17(5,942,000; our
pension list is not quite equal to this,
but, wi h the cost of our small army
of 25,00) me i added, the aggregate
exceeds i . Our military expenditures
are thus greater thin those of
country in the world."
An interesting exhibit at the Ten
ne oe Centennial was n library oi
five thousand volum -s written exclu
sivity by women of eery country
where th re is a liter.itn e. There
were four books wiitteii by a Chinese
woman, A. 1). 25. T!i y were sent
by the empress of Chin.i. The Chine <
woman wrote about the manners am"
customs of wo ne i, and re ■ommended
obedience to husbands. The emperoi
of Japan sent one hundred am
twenty-six books written by tin
women of his realm. There wen
twelve modern Greek books sent In
Queen Olga. There were books fron
Armenia, Persia, Hungary, Roumunia
Russia, Germany, France, Italy, Aus
tria, Portugal, Spain, England, Ire
land, Scotland, Norway and Sweden
All of the South American countries
were represented. Many of thes
books were the o.ily ones by womei
ever published in the eouutn
from which they were se.it. Thi
was the case with the v l;i nus frou
Honduras and Guatemala.
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE,
STORIES TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN
OF THE PRESS.
Lore's Martyrdom—A Pointed Inqufrr—
Appropriate—Business With Pleasure
—A Living Torture—Time, 2.30 A. IU.
Natural—Easily Ascertained, Etc., Etc#
He stood beneath her casement,
Knee-deep in sncw and ice,
AnJ tunod his harp and sang of lovo
With every soft device.
Of love ho sang and gladness-
All joys his heart could hold;
He thought to catch her fancy,
But only caught a cold.
—Chicago Record.
Appropriate.
Prohibitionist—"l attended tho
dinner of the Cold Water Society last
night."
Friend. "Yes? I suppose all tlio
toasts were dry toasts?"— Puck.
Easily Ascertained.
He—"Do you know wlieu you (jet a
bad coin?"
She—"Why, certainly, I do."
"How do you know?"
"Why, the man I offer it to refuses to
take it."
A Pointed Inquiry.
Stern Father "Henry, havo yon
and your new watch parted company
already?"
Henry (laconically)—" Broke."
Father "Which?" Jewelers'
Weekly.
Might ITnve Been Better Expressed.
The Widow (weepingly)—"Would
it be too much trouble to you to ask
you to call in the undertaker?"
Cholly (sympathetically)—"No in
deed, delighted, I assuab you!"— New
York Journal.
Costing Enrmgh.
"Do yon thiuk that your son's col.
lege education will amount to much.
Mr. Flashly?"
| "I've just had my bookkeeper
' figuring. It amounts to about SuOOJ
a year, so far."
Business With Pleasure.
Zim—"The doctor prescribed a fiva
mile walk for me everyday."
Zam—"Of course you enjoy it?"
' Zim—"Oh, yes. You see, Ido tho
walking around a billiard tabic,"—
New York Journal.
A Modern Necessity.
"So you're broke," said the indul
gent father to the son he had started
in business, "but I'll put you oil your
feet once more."
"On my. feet? The first thing I
want is a '9B wheel."
Time. 2.30 A. M.
Admirer—"Has your father any ob
jection to my paying you visits, Miss
Maud?"
j Miss Maud—"Oh, no—but—er—l
| think that he'd rather you paid them
! in instalments."—Brooklyn Life.
A Living Torture.
Attendant—"This patient imagines
he is at a comic opera all the time."
Visitor—"You have him pretty well
tied up."
Attendant—"Oh, yes! If he got
loose he would kill himself."—Puck. !
Willing to Consider.
She—"lf you were worth the mill
ion and I was poor, would you marry
me?"
He—"lf you feel like transferring
the fortune to me and taking chances,
I will give the matter my serious con
sideration#"
Natural.
| "Where has Freddy gone to,
Aunty?"
I "Gone back to tho country, dear."
"What for, Aunty?"
"Why, his health, dear!"
"Why! he leave it behind him?"
—New York Journal.
A Hidden Mine.
Mrs. Biggs—"You call a ship 'she,*
don't 3*ou, Ferdinand?"
Biggs—"Yes, love."
Mrs. Biggs—"Well, then, why do
you call them 'men-of-war?'"
Biggs—"Urn—because they get
1 blown up."—New York Press.
Good Sleeping.
Little Oscar liad received a train of
; cars for his birthday, and lie insisted
on taking them to bed with him. His
i mother protested. "You should not
i take the cars to bed with you," she
; said.
"Why not?" asked Oscar. "These
are sleeping cars."
Pinches the Milkmnn.
"Oh, mamma, cried Willie excitedly
upon his return from a visit to the
count y, "I know now where grandpa
gets his milk. He just pinches the
cow."
"Where do you suppose we get our
milk?" asked mamma, mischievously.
"Why," returned Willie, thought
fully, "I 'spose Bridget just pinches
the milkman." —New York Journal.
The Caunc of the Trcubie.
"Hello, Central," said young Ti.ldi
onm, "what is tho matter with the
line? I was trying to converse with
a —er—er —party just now, and all the
time she was talking to me I was both
ered by a perpetual, monotonous
'chug-chug' sound in my ears."
"Tell the young lady," was the re
ply, "not to chew her gum so vigor
ously while she talks to you over tho
wire. Good-by."—New York Journal.
March of Science.
"Alfred, you are late this evening.
What detained 3*011?"
"Something I ate at a downtown
restaurant disagreed with me. I made
1 a bet with the proprietor that 110 was
i using unwholesome chemicals in his
, cooking, and in order to prove it on
him I had to leave my stomach at a
chemist's shop nearly all the aftei
j noon. I won the bet, but I am fenr
-1 fully hungry. Have you anything
good to eat, dear?"— Chicago Tribune#
FOR DYSPEPTICS.
CYhat Sufferers From Indication May Eat
and What They Should Not Eat.
By the following list, telling what a
dyspeptic may eat, a variety of menus
may be arranged that canuc. ail to be
beneficial to the sufferer, writes Mrs.
8. T. Rorer, in the Ladies' i Honie
Journal.
WHAT A DYSrErriC MAY EAT.
D?e!, broiled, boiled, Prunes, dates or flgs
baked or roasted. stewed without
Mutton, broiled, sugar,
boiled, baked or Celery,
roasted. Cream soups,as spin-
C hie ken, broiled, aoh, celery or let
boiled, baked or tuce.
roasted. Raw cabbage.
Birds. Carefully cooked
Venison. cauliflower.
"White-fleshed fl9h, Roquefort or other
broiled, or boiled. ripe cheese in small
11 gg s, soft-boiled, quantities,
steamed, poached; The early spring
yolks hard-boiled, mushrooms,
pressed through a Now turnips cooked
sieve on milk toast. below boiling point
Sweetbreads, cream- in unsalted water,
ed or broiled. served with cream
Olive oil. sauce.
Butter. Stewed cucumbers.
Whole wheat bread, Stewed squash.
w*dl baked. Baked banunns,
Bread sticks; mush cream horseradish
bread. .sauce.
Boiled rice. Very young pens
Rice pudding. pressed through a
Cup custard; junket. sieve.
Soft custards. Cress, chicory, ea-
Whipped cream. dive.
Koumyss. Hygienic coiTeo.
Lettuce. Very weak tea.
Green vegetables, such as lettuce,
spinach and onions, are supposed to be
great cleansers to the system. But a
person whose digestive viscera is irri
tated cannot eat these without dis
comfort, unless they are carefully
made into cream soups. These soups,
of course, are made from milk, which
softens down the vegetable matter so
that they are easily borne. The vola
tile principle of the onion is quickly
dissipated if it is cooked in unsalted
water until tender. Allow two ounces
of onion to each pint of milk. Press
the boiled onions carefully through a
sieve; add them to the milk, heat in a
double boiler; thicken to a palatable
thickness with arrowroot, about two
level teaspoonfiils to tho pint; season
with a very little salt and just a grain
of red pepper. This may be taken at
a comfortable degree of warmth.
WHAT A DYSPEPTIC SHOULD NOT EAT.
Boiled coffee. Beets.
Boiled tea. Corn, green.
All sweets. Potatoes.
Fried foods. Pickles.
White bread. Bplcod foods.
Crackers. Gelatine desserts.
Cakes. Bed or dark ilsh.
Acid fruits. Salt foods.
Pork in ull forai9. All the crustacea.
Veal. Clams.
Turkey. Oysters,raw or tried.
Duck. Iced drinks.
Cooked cabbage. Acid drinks.
Flavored soda water.
A Dun ForCh moh Members.
After careful consideration the Cen
tenary Methodist Church, of Port-,
land, Ore., has decided upon a novel
plan of raising funds necessary in con
ducting the affairs of the congrega
tion. It was suggested by tho Rev.
J. J. Waters, who has determined to
run his church as a democracy, giving
everybody opportunity and induce
ment-to contribute. At a meeting of
the influential members lie explained
bis plan. Ho showed a large roster
with all the members of tho church
on it. Opposite each Lame are fifty
two spaces for credit marks. The ros
ter is placed iu the vestibule of the j
church, where it remains, in plain
view of everyone entering the church.
At the close of every month the ros
ter is taken down and all who have
contributed anything to the current
expenses of the church ai o checked up
in the spaces opposite the names.
The amount paid is not given, but the
check indicates that something, how
ever small, has been paid toward tho
support of the church. The contribu
tion comes into tho hands of the
clerk by means of envelopes, and the
amount and name are obtained iu this
way. The roster will show just paid
anything and who has not. It is
claimed for the system that tho de
linquents get tired after a while see
ing tho row of blanks after their
names, and begin tb pay something in
order to fill up the blanks paces. It is
a sort of ever-present dunning board.
It looks down with significant silence
on every member who enters the
church door. The delinquent cannot
escape its all-seeing eye. Whether
present or absent, he knows it is there,
and the blank spaces seem constantly
to say, "Pay something." The meet
ing adopted the plan unanimously.—
Chicago Chronicle.
Now York'* Population 3,438,809.
The official estimate of tho imputa
tion of Greater New York just given
out by the Health Department is us
follows: Number of persons iu all five
boroughs, 3,438,899, of which 1,911,-
755 are in the Borough of Manhattan;
137,075 in tho Bronx; 1,197,109 in
Brooklyn, 128.042 i:i Queens and
04,927 i-t Richmond.
Londoh, by the census of IS9I, had
4,231,000 inhabitants, so that New
York is about a million less. In 1891
Paris liad 2,447,957 inhabitants, while
in 1895 Berlin had 1,677,351. then
comes Canton with 1,600,000, Vienna
with 1.304,518 and Tokio with 1.214,-
113.
Another ilolic of Pompeii.
Another Roman villa has been dug
up at Bosooreale,on tlie slopes of Vesu
vius, near Pompeii, where tho great
find of silver ornaments was made two
years ago. The walls are covered
with beautiful frescoes, chiefly land
scapes and marines. One represents
a bridge over a river, with an angler
fishing with a line. Four wine jars
were in the cellar and seven skeletons
have been found in the excavation.
Man lluns Better Than Animals.
For a short distance a lion or p.
tiger can outrun a man and can equal
the speed of a fast horse; but tho ani
mals IOBG their wind at the end of
about half a mile. They have little
endurance and are remarkably weak
in lung power-
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL
Tho French solAier will shortly
carry aluminum, cooking utensils.
The depth at which seeds should bo
planted depend-) on the texture of the
soil.
Harber, the great authority on fish,
says that every square mile of the sea
is inhabited by 120,000,000 fish.
It is estimated that tha amount of
water precipitated on the globe annual
ly in the form of rain, snow, etc., is
29,000 cubic miles.
The front end of tho great glacier
of Alaska presents a wall 500 feet thick
aud its breadth varies from three to
ten miles, while its length is 150 miles.
The plant in Bombay, India, for th
production of chorine from sea water
has in thirty-four days produced 748,.
000 grammes of chlorine, or about
three-fourths of a ton.
Ball bearings are to be used a new
roller skate, which has the runner cut
out at intervals to hold three small
balls in the bottom of the recess,
which decrease the friction of the
larger ball, which rolls on the pave
ment.
Some astronomers hold it that sun
spots are caused by n violent contrac
tion of the sun, while others believe
the spots are caused by the feeding of
the furnaces of the sun at irregular
intervals by showers of meteorio
matter.
All the observed phenomena of Le
Bon's so-called "black light" are found
by M. Becquerel to be attributable to
ordinary red and infra-red rays.
These pass through ebonite and ex
tinguish the phosphorescence of
sulphide of zinc.
The diamond making process of Br.
Q. Majorana, an Italian experimenter,
causes crystallization directly without
a solvent. The carbon, heated in tho
electric arc, is subjected to a pressure
of 5,000 atmospheres by the action of
an explosive on a small piston rod,
minute diamonds resulting.
It has been demonstrated that while
there is no especial difficulty in using
petroleum as a fuel for locomotives,
thero would be trouble in obtaiuiug a
supply of tho fuel. It has been esti
mated that the entire petroleum sup
ply of the country would not furnish
fuel enough for tho use of the locomo
tives employed on the Pennsylvania
and New York Central systems alone.
After a long experience of typhoid
pationts, Dr. Ussery of St. Louis re
gards the banana as the best food for
them. Tho intestines are inflamed
and sometimes ulcerated in this fever,
and ordinary solid food is dangerous
in his opinion. The banana, though
a solid food, is nearly all nutriment,
and of a soft nature. It is almost
wholly absorbed by the stomach, easi
ly digestod, and very strengthening.
Newfoundlands For Klondike.
Vancouver's streets have been en
livened during tho past few weeks by
two teams, consisting of twelve New
fftuudland dogs each, engaged in haul
ing sledges containing heavy loads
abont the streets of the city as an ad
vertisement for a firm engaged in the
business of furnishing outfits to min
ers. The dogs have been trained to
the work of hauling in Newfoundland;
they have also been accustomed to a
very cold climate, and it is believed
they will render exceptionally good
service in hauling miners' outfits.
They appear to bo tractable, and pull
together in a manner that must be very
satisfactory to thoir owners. They
aro part of a carload of about 100
trained dogs brought from Newfound
land for use in the Klondike regions.
The dogs are to be shipped to Ska
guay, to be sold there for use in haul
ing goods over tho snow.
From persons who havo returned
from the North, the United States
Consul at Vancouver learned that dogs
command a high price at Sknguay and
Uyea. The Newfoundlands aro much
heavier than the native dogs of Alaska
and tho British Northwest Territory.
If they are able to endure the climate
and the conditions of service there,
they will prove extremely useful to
the persons who are moving forward
in such increasing numbers to the
gold regions of Alaska. —New York
I'icss.
A 31.U) Bator Shaped Lilco a Skate.
A curious lisli is 011 exhibition, an
enormous electric ray, caught off the
Newfoundland banks. The fish is
about five feet long anil three broad,
weighing about 130 pounds. Its
shape is much like that of a skate or
flounder, while its tail resembles the
propeller of a steamship. The fish is
much disliked by fishermen, who re
gard it as a man cater. Its mouth,
which is 011 tho under side, is tooth
less, but tremendously powerful. The
fishermen say that the ray wraps its
body, which is very soft and pliable,
about its quarry, whether fish or man,
j and stunning it with its electric bat
tery devours it. On top the ray is
! liver-colored. The under side is white,
| aud its general appearance is very
! wicked, it is unusually large, fish of
| this species not usually weighing move
than eighty pounds.—Springfield Ile
publicau.
A .Japanese lllrth Custom.
At the birth of a Japanese baby a
| tree is planted which must remain un
' touched till tho marriage of the child.
; When that hour arrives the tree is
i cut dowifand a skilled cabinetmaker
transforms the wood into furniture,
i which is always cherished by tho
! young couple as the most beautiful of
' the ornaments in.tho house.
As Told by Mark Twain.
■ "Benjamin Franklin was always
proud of telling how he entered Phil
j adelphiu for the first time with noth
: ing but two shillings in his pocket and
! four rolls of bread under his arm.
i But really, when you come to examine
it critically, it was nothing. Anybody
i could have done it."
A FOREST OF ICEBERGS.
IMPRESSIVE SICHT ON NEWFOUND.
LAND'S COAST.
Blagues or Ice Drifting Hither nnil Thith
er—Northernmost Lighthouse on the
American Continent—Hard Lot of the
Hardy Natives of Newfoundland.
While cruising along the coast of
Newfoundland, says a writer in the
New York Herald, I came on deck one
morning, and looking seaward saw
what can only be described as a per
fect forest of icebergs. They were
drifting slowly down from the north,
those mysterious regions whence they
are borne by the Arctic current, which
flows close by Newfoundland and
largely accounts for the rigor of the
Newfoundland climate.
Stopping to count these icebergs I
found there were no less than 135
huge ones in plain view and innumer
able others so small that I took no ac
count of them. Far beyond the line
of icebergs there was a curious white
glare on the horizon. The skipper
told me it was a "loom of ice." When
I asked him to explain his meaning
he said it was an atmospherio effeet
produced by large masses of floe ice
in the distance.
Nor was all the ice seaward. Ice
bergs had drifted in between us and
the shore, and some large ones were
stranded, and the waves beat against
them with a surf-like roar. In the dis
tance was the sea-circled heap of rock,
which is called Belle Isle—why, it
would be impossible to say, for a more
grewsome, weird, uncanny object is
rarely disclosed to view. Lying
atiiwart the entrance of the Straits of
Belle Isle, ice dashes against it, fog
hangs around it aud sea gulls, crying
shrilly, encircle it. Upon its craggy
summit stands the last lighthouse,
north, on the American continent.
Beyond it the navigator steers into the
unknown for Greenland or the unhos
pitable shores of Labrador. To add
to the desolation and uncanny sugges
tiveness of the scene, thero is, half
way up the rock, a shelter for ice
crushed or ship-wrecked snilors.
All this I saw on a summer's day,
and you may imagine how far more
rigorous the scene is in winter. From
September until June the straits are
ice looked, but the lighthouse keeper
on that loue outpost of civilization
must stay where he is all winter long,
completely isolated from the outer
world, with storms howling about the
lighthouse tower aud snow and sleet
beating against it. Ho cauuot leave
it, for it is impossible to tell what mo
ment the ice may break up. He must
be there to light the entrance to the
straits the instant navigation becomes
possible.
The shores of Newfoundland are
deeply indented by bays, and in these
bays, in turn, are many little islands.
The narrow passages between these
go by the curious name of "tickles,"
but after you havo sailed through
them the word does not seem a mis
nomer. You have a feeling that at
some remote epoch the sea nyist have
run out its foamy fingers aud havo
tickled the rock ribbed coast until it
split its sides with laughing. Some
of the scenery around these "tickles"
is pretty enough, but even in the fairest
weather there is a sense of desolation
in the rockiness of the scene and the
sparseness of the population.
Often yon will pass many islands
without seeing a sign of human habi
tation, and when you do see it it will
bo a little hut or tilt, as it is called,
made of upright logs, driven into the
ground, the chinks tillod in with moss
and the roof often covered with sod.
I have seen a nanny goat contentedly
browsing]on the roof of a Newfound
land tilt. Sometimes the island on
which the tilt stands will be so rocky
that the fisherman will havo his patch
of n garden on a small island near by.
It so happens that enough soil is col
lected there to make it worth while to
plant vegetables, yet the island is too
small for both garden and tilt. So,
while the men are out fishing you will
see the women rowing across from the
tilt island to tho garden island in order
to till the sparse soil.
In winter the misery which prevails
along the coast of Newfoundland is
terrible. It is not too much to say
that every winter many of the dwellers
on this rocky shore nro brought face
to face with starvation. Almost the
humblest American would turn up his
nose at what these poor peoplo con
sider luxuries. Outside of St. Johns
every place in Newfoundland is called
an outport. The interior of the island
is absolutely wild. There are no set
tlements of any kind, save some small
Indian guide villages in the hunting
district. The entire outport popula
tion may be said to live from fishiug
in summer and sealing in winter.
When a Newfoundlander says fish
ho means codfish. Fish is tu him
money. It is to Newfoundland what
cotton is to the South. The fisher
man goes to his trader in the spring
and practically mortgages his entire;
catch for the season for his summer
outfit, which also includes provisions.
He considers himself lucky if after a
hard season's fishing he can lay in
enough Hour, ten and molasses to last
him and his family over the winter.
You might suppose that he would put
in a stock of fish. But no, ho can't
a.Tord to eat fish any more than we
could afford to cat money. Small
dried herring are about the only kind
of fish ho lays nway for the winter,
and he keeps these on hand as much
for his dogs as for himself. Molasses
is the great luxury of the Newfound
lander. Give him "long sweetening,"
ns he calls it, for his tea and his bis
cuit, and ho will consider himself in j
the presence of a feast.
Eut in winter, the lisliermnn-s life is
even worse than when lie is working
for his outfit in summer. 100 is piled
up in the hay's and tickles, mid lie
will often have to haul his boat for
miles off the ice in order to get to
clear water for fishing. Then, when
the seals come in he goes out with
spear or club, and all day long, and
often far into tho night, ranges the ice
in search of seal. An off-shore gale
springing up when the seal hunters
are on the ice means death to many.
The ice is apt to break up, and before
the man can get ashore they find
themselves drifting out to sea, with
all the horrors of a death by freezing
staring them in the face.
A priest whose parish work extend
ed along a coast lino of some one hun
dred and fifty miles in Notre Dame
Bay told me that in winter he mnde
all his visits by dog sled, and that
sometimes he would be overtaken at
night by so severe a snowstorm that
further progress would be impossible.
Then he and his guide would dig a
deep trench in the snow and light a
fire at the bottom of the trench. The
gas from the flames would keep the
snowflakes out, and tho men would lie
in this snow trence until they jour
neyed on in the morning. Such is
one of the vicissitudes of parish work
in Newfoundland.
EVERYBODY RAN.
Strange Peculiarities of Life in Port-au-
Prince.
When a fire breaks out iu the town
almost all tine stores close, the troops
stand under arms, and few except the
firemen and the people near the place
of conflagration venture out in the
street, the reason being that most
revolutionary movements are started
in this manner. While fire draws the
attention to some remote part of Port
au-Prince, the "conspirators," as they
I are always called, attempt to storm the
: arsenal and the prison, liberating and
arming its inmates, litany a danger
ous criminal owes his liberty to an in
cident of this nature.
Another peculiar feature of tho con
stant excitement is the so-called
count—derived from courir.the French
word for run—when everybody in the
street starts to run. I remember well
one that happened in Port-au-Prince,
the capitol, about five years ago, wheu
the situation was comparatively quiet.
Two young men who quarreled about
a woman met near the market place,
drew their revolvers aud fired at each
other. This caused a panic in the
market halls; everybody commenced to
run, iu order to get home. Nobody
knew what had happened; nobody
knew what was going to happen ; those
who had not heard the shots, seeing
the others take to their heels, also ran
for the shelter of their home The stores
closed; strong detachments of troops
patrolled the streets, headed by the
Chief of the Police, the commander of
the port, the town and the "arron
dissement;" and finally the President
himself, being in doubt as to tho out
come of the affair, left the palace aud
rode through tho streets at the head
of about 250 cavalry, with their car
bines 011 the thigh and their fingers on
tho trigger, who wero followed by a
battalion of infantry. Only one mau
of the party besides the officers was
j without a rifle; he carried on his head
! a soap box full of cartridges. * All this
| had beeu caused by a few shots cx
j changed between two men! They
j were promptly nrrosted, but the ma
j jority of people did not know until the
I next morning why they "ran." It is,
, indeed, quite natural that they should
look for shelter at such a time; for
justice (and sometimes injustice), al
ways summarily dispensed, is particu
larly high-handed at tho timo of a
couru.
A similar march which President
Hipolyte made through the streets at
the head of his troops to quell the May
insurrection of 1891 cost a good many
lives. However, had the revolution
been allowed to spread, thousands of
Haytiaus might havo fallen.—Leslio's
Weekly.
An Orjjun Builder at Twelve.
Robert Burr, whoso experiences a1
tho hands of the unspeakable Turk
have filled so much newspaper space
of late, is the father of two very re
markable children. Though neither
Mr. Barr nor his wife has any special
tasto for music, yet their only son and
daughter are prodigies in the art. The
boy, a iad of twelve years of age,
spends all the time he can steal from
school iu building pipe organs. He
has already constructed, unassisted, a
big and handsome instrument at his
father's now country place at World
ingham, England, and while doing so
introduced many innovations that he
claims are great improvements upon
the old siylo of construction. The
daughter is a gifted pianist, who prom
ises to take as high rank among the
instrumentalists of her day as her
father now holds as a novelist and
short-story writer.—Kansas City Star
Consolation 021 the Scaffold.
Upon 0110 occasion Charle3 Dickens
was upholding tho theory that what
ever trials and difficulties might stand
in a man's path there was always some
thing to bo thankful for.
"Let me, in proof, relate a tale,"
said tho great story writer. "Two
men were lo be banged at Newgate for
murder. The morning and hour ap
proached, the prisoners were pinioned
and the ropes adjusted about the poor
men's necks. Thousands of morbidly
curious spectators stood watching in
front of the scaltold, when at that in
stant an infuriated cow, passing in tho
street, broke its rope and charged tho
mob, scattering the people everywhere
with its horns. Whereupon one of
the condemned men turned to his
equally unfortunate companion and
observed quietly, 4 I say, Jack, it's a
good tiling wo aih't in that crowd.' -
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Ivory Used by the Ancients,
The earliest recorded history—we
might say prehistoric, the hieroglyphl
cal—that has come down to use has
beeu In carvings on Ivory and bone.
Long before metallurgy was known
among the prehistoric races, carvings
on reindeer horn and mammoth tusks
evidence the antiquity of the art. Frag
ments of horn and ivory, engraved with
excellent pictures of animals, havo been
found In caves and beds of rivers and
lakes. There are specimens In the Brit
ish museum, also in the Louvre, of the
Egyptian skill in ivory carving, attrib
uted to the age of Moses. In the latter
collection are chairs or seats of the six
teenth century, B. C., inlaid with ivory,
and other pieces of tho eleventh cen
tury, B. C. We have already referred
to tho Nlnevah Ivories. Carving of the
"precious substance" was extensively
carried on at Constantinople during the
middle ages; combs, caskets, horns,
boxes, etc., of carvtd ivory and bone,
often set in precious stones, of the old
Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods, are
frequently found in tombs. Crucifixes
and images of tho virgin and saints
made in that age are often graceful and
beautiful. Tho Chinese and Japanese
are rival artists now in their peculiar
minutiae and detail.—Popular Science
Monthly.
Turkish Army Rations.
Correspondents who accompanied the
Turkish army during the recent war
with Greece refer oiten to the dietary
habits of the Turk*. Pilau, or pilaff,
the national dish, receives great praise.
It is what we shoUd call a chowder,
composed of lamb, rice, butter, alm
onds, raisins, allspice, powdered mace,
cardamoms, cloves, saffron, onion, gin
ger, salt, whole black pepper and dhiey.
The butter and onions are placed In the
bottom of tihe earthen pot; then a layer
Of rice, over which are distributed more
onions, raisins and almonds, sprinkled
with saffron in water; then a layer of
meat, and so on alternately until the
vessel Is filled. Butter is then poured
over tne whole, and the cover of the pot
Is closed with paste so that no steam
may escape. It Is placed in an oven
and cooked fc-r three hours.—New York
Sun. a
Rig Pear Yield.
A single tree In an orchard near Cor
vallis, Ore., has yielded this season nine
hundred poynds of Bartlett pears.
The trouble with a great many men
is they are never satisfied with wasting
their own time.
Japanese women wear neither cor
sets nor stays of any description. Their
costumes are doubtless worn with real
Japan-ease.
The first thing a' girl does when she
has mastered a kodak, is to put the
palm on the piano and take a picture ol
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horse. He is trained to step high and
act showily by being driven along a
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he steps high to avoid stumbling, and
In time always steps high.
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