A MATTER OF DOUBT,
1 love to read of daring deeds.
Of clash and clamoring of war; "
To learn of one who bravely bleeds.
Defending what he's fighting for,
But Sonth America is much
Too mingled for my mind to hitch'— 1
The tangle they are in is such
, I don't know which is fighting which, I
They're skipping out with treasuries,
And blowing public buildings down,
'And every city quakes and sees
Some doughty leader's fighting frown.
The cable brings the thrilling news
Of men who die in some last ditch-
To grasp it must my mind refuse—
I don't know which is fighting which.
The clang of swords, the blustered boast.
Are ringing now both night and day;
The troops are battling on the coast;
By sea and land they run away.
I wonder if they know the truth, |
Or if to fight they simply itch.
I wonder if they know—forsooth,
If they know which is fighting which.
—W. D. .\ esbit, in Baltimore American.
| THE DEAD ALIVE, g
iv? A Drama of To-Day g
ly Hubert Cecil.
PESITTE the late hour, lights
shone in the library, together
with the glow and reflection
of a big, cheerful fire. Drawn
near to this was a round oitk table cov
ered and littered by documents of all
descriptions; while beside it with his
head resting on his arms, Horace Nor
cliffe, banker and broker, sat soundly
sleeping.
Outside the casement window, whose
curtain had not been lowered, was a
face sharp as that of any fox. The
6iiiall eyes, intense and glistening, were
fixed immovably on the slumbering
mnn, and the slim, dapper body quiv
ered with triumphant excitement at the
sight.
Cautiously inserting a clasp knife
blade, he deftly forced up the hasp,
■then stepped within, closed the window '
and dropped the curtain.
Gliding noiselessly to the door, he
turned the key in the lock.
Presently, however, he shook the i
banker smartly by the shoulder. A
disapproving grunt was the only re
sponse he received. But a vigorous
slap on the hack brought Horace to
his feet with a bound. Staring about
him, dazed and bewildered, he finally
perceived the amused intruder, at
Whom be gazed long and incredibly.
"Who are you?" lie demanded, when
his astonishment permitted. "What do
you want here?"
"I answer to Jedrey, and my business
here is—well, rather peculiar."
"Then state it quickly and begone,"
said Horace sternly, with his hand on
the hell, "unless you wish to he ar
rested."
"You may ring yourself blue, my
dear sir," returned Jedrey, "hut uo one
will heed you. It lias turned 12, and
the servants are all in lied. Besides,
you would be wise to hear me. A man
of your prominence should always
have a clear character, and not a mere
pretence to one."
"Why, what do you mean?" said Hor
ace sharply.
"Mean?" retorted Jedrey, "I mean
to tell your history better even than
you know it yourself."
He then sketched the banker's career
in an accurate manner. He told how
when a susceptible young man he had
married a woman who, older than him
self, afterward proved to be unworthy
of the love he had bestowed upon her
cither before or after lie had made her
his wife. As he had desired to avoid
the scandal of a divorce he had left
Iter to seek Ills fortune in a distant city.
Keports that came to him from Lis old
home told of the woman's downfall,
disappearance, and finally of her death.
Alter several years had passed he had
met and married his present wife and
was enjoying to the full tile happiness
of perfect love. Mueli as he regretted
to disturb this happiness, the visitor
continued, he was obliged to inform
him that his first wife was not dead,
hut living and anxious to see him.
"Heavens!" exclaimed Horace, nil
npathy vanishing iu sudden dismay.
"Alice alive? Alive? But no: impos
sible! It Is false—hideously false! Be
yond tlie slightest doubt she committed
suicide."
"Have yon over had absolute proof
that llic burled woman was actually
your wife?"
"Xo, but **
"Then don't be deluded any longer,"
declared Jedrey, literally beside him
self with glee. "She is no more dead
tiian you are. She has been craving all
these weary years to see her beloved
husband. And, by the way, capital,
and plenty of it, is the only thing to
quiet her!"
"If you do not instantly depart,"
shouted the banker, clenching ills
hands fiercely, "1 will kill you—l swear
it!"
"The threat," ho said, "is both empty
and foolish. However, I will obey your
command If you promise to obey mine.
The sole object of this visit, on behalf
of Alice, is money. Money we must
have—shall have. The amount decided
upon is £20,000. Do you agree to pay
It ?"
"Twenty thousand pounds?" mut
tered tlie hanker. "Yes! I agree! But
1 cannot pay it now. or here."
"That is immaterial," chuckled Jed
rey, advancing and unlatching the win
dow. "Your word and my knowledge
are sufficient. Meet me on the other
side of the Dennon Arches, two nights
hence, after dark. Be sure to bring the
money. Fail to do so, and Alice herself
will call upon your wife!"
Shuddering at the appalling menace,
Horace fastened the window and then.
silently praying for some way of es
cape, be hastened to unlock the door
of the room, to find his wife, clad
only in a loose, flimsy dressing gown.
She had fainted away.
Lifting her tenderly in his arms, he
carried her hack to her own room,
where he successfully applied restora
tives.
She had awakened, it seems, in the
midst of a dreadful dream. She
thought he was in danger, that she
might lose him, that they would soon
he parted forever. And Horace, with a
cruel, aching pain at his heart, realized
how prophetic must the dream become.
To remain with his wife, should Alice
chance to be alive, was utterly out of
the question. His conscience and in
tegrity, the whole man in him, forbade
that. He would prove the dream either
true or false, even though the result
might break his heart.
The next day, therefore, he instructed
his valet to pack his portmanteaus, and
forward the same to him, directly he
sent for them. Then lie called on his
lawyer, an old college chum.
"George," he said, brokenly, gripping
his hand, "certain circumstances have
arisen which may necessitate my leav
ing the country. I shall know definite
ly to-morrow night. Everything is hor
ribly unreal, as yet. But there, ask me
no details, there's a good fellow. Only
pledge your word to take this explana
tion to my wife. Comfort her, George,
In memory of the old dnys. Let no
harm befall her, don't allow her to
grieve or fret, 6ettle ray affairs for
her."
And ere the astonished man of law
could accept or refuse the trust, Horace
had rushed away.
How the intervening hours passed,
Horace was never clearly conscious.
The appointed time, however, at last
drew near, and faint and haggard, he
quickly repaired to the place of meet
ing, anxious, yet dreading, to learn the
worst. Jedrey was already there, and
stepped forward from the shadow of
one of the arches.
"That's right," he said briskly, "I'm
glad I did not mistake my man.
Brought the money, I suppose."
"Why else should I be here?" replied
Horace, striving to conceal his trem
bling apprehension. "Yet even you
cannot expect me to pay until Alice is
produced alive."
"That is easily done," said Jedrey,
keenly enjoying his discomfiture. "Fol
low me; It Isn't far."
Dejected and wretched, with every
hope now shattered, Horace trudged
mournfully In the wake of Ills guide.
Y'et had they thought to look behind,
they must have Inevitably detected
three figures creeping stealthily after
them.
Presently a dull patch of light be
came visible. It shone from the win
dow of a small, square cottage, old and
dilapidated, whose door opened readily
to the touch.
The interior was a combined living
and sleeping apartment. A low, filthy
bed occupied one corner.
In a chair at tlie side sat, or rather
swayed, a woman truly Indescribable.
Coarse matted hair hung danky about
her head and shoulders. Her features,
clenn and washed, must have been
more than repellant; but, black, grimy,
bloated, grinning, tbey presented an ap
pearance shocking and repulsive in the
extreme.
"Hello, Horry, old boy," she cried,
"how are you? Come, give us a kiss,
dearie! What! Is my cherub shy?
Ha! ha! ha! Then let me give you
one!"
The hanker surveyed her silently,
dumbly, blankly. There bad been no
deception, no trickery.
"Are you satisfied yet?" queried Jed
rey, sardonically. "Perhaps you would
like still further proof. Alice," he com
manded, turning to her, "show him
your marriage certificate."
"Ha. ha, lia!" giggled Alice, fumbling
among the folds of lior tattered dress.
"Proof does lie want, eh? Protends
not to know his loving wifey, does be?
See," she added, drawing forth a
crumpled document, and lurching to
ward him with It; "there you are,
dearie, hi black and white!"
Suddenly, however, the door flew
wide hack, and George Grlmmell, dart
ing inside, hastily snatched the paper
and scanned it eagerly.
"Hurrah!" lie shouted, throwing
aside the drunken woman, who
stumbled across the hod and passively
lay there, half sobered by surprise.
"As I imagined! before she met you!
Mixed the certificates! Officer, officer,
catch that mnn! Quick; don't let him
escape! That's it; slip tlie jingles on
liiin! Horace," lie continued, shaking
ills hand excitedly, "you're a fool!
Don't you comprehend, man? Jedrey's
her husband—her real and first one!
And Lucy's your wife—your Recoud
and true one!"— New York News.
The Fay Authors ICecclro tu 7npnn.
Japanese authors receive so litilc pay
for work iu Their own country that a
native writer says there is 110 hope
for any remarkable Japanese work to
be produced. A Japanese man of let
ters, iu order to live in bare comfort,
bus to produce at least four or five
long volumes a year, and it is seldom
lie receives as much as two hundred
dollars for a voluminous novel. In or
dor to live decently be must earn at
least seven hundred dollars a year. It
will lie seen rroui these figures Hint ho
can scarcely be expected to do any
fine work at that rate of production.
The only professional Japanese author
iu America at present is Onoto Wa
tatina. Miss Watnnna's striking suc
cess iu 1 ills country ought to encourage
other Japanese novelists to learn Eng
! lisli and come to America.—Harper's.
Of those sentenced by English courts
a3 habitual drunkards more than one
third are wemeu.
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xWbrn^ii>oi>j
.lupnnese auctions are conducted on
the silent plan. Each bidder writes
Ids name and bid upon a slip ot paper,
which be places in a bor. When the
bidding is over the box is opened by
the auctioneer and the goods are de
clared the property ot the highest bid
der.
Dooley, a dog owned by a St. Louis
woman, travels on a Pullman pass.
The dog recently rode from New York
City to St. Lottis, with stop-over privi
leges at Atlantic City and Hot Springs,
Va., on the same style of pass that
furnished transportation for his mis
tress and her husband. The pass bore
the name "Mr. Dooley."
An old Spanish war ship lias been
lately discovered 200 feet under water
off Messina. She was probably sunk
in some naval engagement in the sev
enteenth century. Six guns were re
covered, including two sister guns,
seven feet long, bearing, under the
royal escutcheon of Spain, the date
1632.
According to tradition among tho old
villagers, the ground on the west shore
of Canarsie Landing, New York, upon
which stands to day a stone, shingle
covered farmhouse, was bought by
"old man Schenck"—pronounced Skank
by the natives—for a small quantity of
schnapps from the Canarsie tribe of
Indians. This house is said to he
more than 200 years old, and the deed
for the ground on which it stands was
scribbled on a clam shell, which shell,
according to the same tradition, Is now
In a museum in Washington.
Curious marriage customs certainly
prevail in China. Thus, a charming
lady was not long ago married with
great pomp to a red liower-vusc, rep
resenting a deceased bridegroom who
died a few days before bis wedding.
His inconsolable betrothed declared
that she would never marry any ono
else, but would devote herself as a
widow to the dead man's family. So
the ceremony with the dower-vase was
gone through to enable tile girl to enter
the family, and the town proceeded to
baild a granite arch to commemorate
her devotion.
The addresses in Persian upon letters
which go through the postoifice at Cal
cutta are often quaint and puzzling.
An Indian paper recently translated
one as follows: "If the Almighty pleases
—Let this envelope, having arrived in
the city of Calcutta, in the neighbor
hood of Calootolnh, at the counting
house of Slrajoodeen and Ilahdad, mer
chants, be offered to and read liy the
happy light of my eyes, of virtuous
manners, and beloved of the heart—
Meean Shaikh Inayut Ally, may liis life
be loug. Written on the tenth of the
blessed Rumzun, Saturday, in the year
12G0 of the Hegira of our Prophet, and
dispatched at Bearing. Having with
out loss of time paid the postage and
received the letter, you will read It,
and having abstained from food or
drink, considering it forbidden to you,
you will convey yourself to Jaunpoor,
and you will know this to be a strict
injunction."
Uniform* In Hospitals*
The decision that every orderly and
attendant in a hospital under the con
trol of city authority shall "wear a
neat and suitable uniform has every
thing in its favor, and there can be
no valid argument against it. Would
nny intelligent person now advocate
n return to the old, unsatisfactory sys
tem of many years ago, when the con
ductors and brakemen on railroads
wore clothes not different from those
of the passengers? What endless con
fusion and trouble were caused in
those days by the lack of a distinguish
ing garb on the part of the men who
had charge of tho trains! And the
employes of hospitals should, of course,
be easily recognized even at a distance,
by doctors, surgeons, superintendents
and patients. Indisputably rules cau
be enforced, discipline can be carried
out, the standards of the institutions
kept up and peace and quiet main
tained in the wards more effectively
and with less friction by orderlies who
wear uniforms than by those who are
clad in tho ordinary attire of private
life. Hospital uniforms must be adopt
ed wherever they have not yet been
insisted upon.—New York Tribune.
She Probably Know.
Wlicn Ml'. Goodlieart camo home to
supper be found Mrs. Goodlieart in a
state akin to despondency, wiilcli was
quite unusual with her.
"Why. my dear, what is the matter!"
he anxiously inquired.
"Matter enough," said she. "Our ser
vant lias loft us, and here is a letter
from Sarah Armatige saying she will
be here to-morrow, and expects to stay
over Sunday with us. What on earth
is to be done?"
"Oh, that will he ail right," said Mr.
Goodbeart. "Harold can act as dining
room waiter. Millie can be maid of all
work, and yon can be cook. Yen know
you arc a good one. We shall get along
swimmingly."
"And wliat will you do?" inquired
Mvs. Goodbeart.
"Me? Oh, I'll be a gentleman," he
replied.
"Very well, we will try your plan,
Edmund," she snid, cbeerfu'ly, "but I
am afraid wc shall all feci rather awk
ward in our unaccustomed roles."
Mr. Goodlieart says she was as cheer
ful as a lark all the remainder of the
tveviing.—New York 'Li nes.
MOLASSES AS CATTLE FOOD.
Horses aixl Mules Have Thrived on It In
Louisiana For Two Yenrs.
Molasses has for two years been in
general use in Louisiana fog the feed
ing of horses, mules and all stock, and
probably nine-tenths of the draught
animals in the sugar district get tills
food, either alone or mixed with oats
or corn.
The animals like it, and are kept In
splendid condition by it. "Sugar
mules," which are fed on molasses
mainly, are worth from twenty to
twenty-five per cent, more than the
mules on cotton plantations, which are
fed generally on cottonseed and cot
tonseed meal.
Molasses has been a waste product in
Louisiana ever since the improved
processes in the manufacture of sugar
have extracted more of the saccharine
from it than formerly. It has been a
problem how to get rid of it The dis
covery therefore that it could be used
as a food for stock was of double
value.
Six months ago n factory was erected
for the manufacture of cattle food
from molasses. The process is very
simple.
The molasses Is mixed with corn or
oats in nearly equal proportions. The
mixture is pressed into a solid mass
and dried and then ground into a fine
powder.
It is like the cottonseed meal with
which cattle and horses are fed
throughout the world. The horses,
mules and cattle are very fond of the
molasses, and they do better on it
than on any other food fed to them.
They keep fat and are capable of ex
traordinary work in hauling heavy
loads.
Tills one factory turns out 150 tons
of molasses preparation a day; and
the stufT Is being rapidly substituted on
the plantations for the raw molasses,
not because it is any better, but lie
cause it is more conveniently handled.
So far the use of molasses for feed
ing horses has been couflned to New
Orleans and the sugar districts, but
by this process, which enables it to
be handled ensily, 1t is likely to be
shipped elsewhere.
Only a small part of the Louisiana
molasses crop, which runs to from
30,000,000 to 50,000,000 gallons a year,
is used for horse and cattle food or in
any other way; and a large proportion
of it Is thrown away or burned in the
furnace with the bagasse and other
waste and refuse.—New York Sun.
Old Bridal Customs.
There used to be a custom of strew
ing dowers before the bridal couples
as they went to the church and from
the church to the house.
"Suppose the way with fragrant herbs
were strewing,
All things were ready, we to the church
were going,
And now suppose the priest had joined
our hands,"
is a quaint old verse that refers to
this custom. The Persians Introduce a
tree at their marriage feasts laden with
fruit, and it is the place of the guests
to try to pluck this without the bride
groom observing If successful, they
must present the bridal couple with a
gift a hundred times the value of the
object removed. In Tuscany brides
wear jasmine wreaths, and there is a
legend that a once reigning Grand Duke
who at great expense procured this
dower for his own particular gnrden,
gave orders to his gardener not to part
with any dowers or clippings; but the
gardener, who was in love, took a
sprig to his sweetheart as a gift. She,
being shrewd, planted it and raised
from it several small plants which she
sold to the Duke's envious neighbors
nt a great price. In a short time she
had saved enough money to enable
her lover and herself to marry and
start housekeeping, and so the Tuscans
have a snying that "The girl worthy of
wearing the jasmine wreath is rich
enough to make her husband happy."
Cupid And tho Coal PAiiilne.
However loving and trusting two
young hearts may be, says the Phila
delphia Saturday Evening Post, it is a
foregone conclusion that they can in
no way affect the price of coal this
winter, and it is a brave young man
who would take his fair young bride
by tlic band and face the whole world
with coal nt S2O a ton. Therefore the
weddings are being postponed by hun
dreds of thousands until more auspi
cious times, and everybody knows
what that means. That there is many
a slip is nowhere more truly spoken
than in reference to engaged couples,
and a wedding postponed has but one
chance in five of ever coming off.
Worse than that, the coal strike and
the consequent boosting of prices arc
going to have a similar blighting effect
upon next spring's crop of engage
ments and weddings, since only the
fabulously wealthy can afford this
winter to allow Cholly and Araminta
to hold down the sofa in the warm and
cosy parlor until all hours of the night.
Stern papas will enforce the early clos
ing rules with unheard of rigidity when
S2O coal is being consumed in the fur
nace. Parlor ducts will become an un
known quantity, impecunious young
men will have to go to bed immediate
ly after dinner in order to keep warm,
and there will be no engagements fol
lowing the winter season of tete a
tetes.
ltorn, MarrleU and Hurled at Sea.
The body of Captain Richard Mars
den, who was for nineteen years Har
bor Master at Gi'avesend, England,
was committed to the deep off the
Goodwin Sands tho other day. Cap
tain Marsden wns born and married at
sea.
I Deep-sea water for study is procurea
by means of specially prepared bottles.
Some Men Who Bide Hobbies
* Good Thing For a Farmer to Know How to Do One Thing Well *
* —Some Examples of Success in Specialty Farming. *
* LYNN BROWN. OXFORf OHIO. *
IN this day and generation it seems
necessary for every one to have a
specialty, no matter what his occu
pation or profession. While in
farming it is necessary to raise at least
a little of a good many tilings, and. In
fact, do more or less general farming,
It is the man who learns one particular
branch of the business better than any
one else in his community, and then
pushes it for all it is worth who makes
the most money out of it.
This specializing becomes more and
more pronounced. Each doctor lias Ills
specialty, and many refuse to treat
anything outside of their own particu
lar lines. The farmer, however, eanuot
be so exclusive, as a farm must have
stock, and it takes various crops to
raise stock, and it requires the use of
horses to mnke crops, so his line of
work must be somewhat general. This
need not keep blm from learning his
favorite branch to perfection and put
ting the main part of bis energy and
thought in that direction.
I should like to introduce some of our
best men and their hobbies in this lo
cality. I speak of them as hobbies,
but, of course, they amount to more
than this with them, because they have
become the most successful part of
their life work.
One man, Jones. Is known to all as
the plum man. His farm was never
much good for cropping, so some years
ago he put out a large plum orchard
containing all the best varieties and
many kinds that people here had never
seen before. He then made a complete
study of spraying, pruning and plum
growing in general until lie bad bis
business down to so fine a point that
he is now as sure of a plum crop as arc
his neighbors of a wheat or corn crop.
And what a harvest lie has reaped this
year, with all other fruit very scarce
and his trees full of perfect beauties at
$3 a bushel! Surely ills plums are bet
ter than the proverbial political plums,
which occasionally drop to a favored
few. He has worked for his.
King is the honey man, and people
often wonder why his frames of honey
are filled so evenly and are always so
clean and white that they have the ap
pearance of being sand - papered, and
how he gets the bees to put so nearly
an even pound in each one. Ask Mr.
King and he might say: "Spend as
much time and work on bees as I have
spent, and you may find out. It is too
long a story to tell, and has cost too
much to give away."
Some men with hig, rich farms pre
fer to make some of the general crops,
like corn and wheat, their specialty,
and there must be as much to learn
about these commoner crops that most
farmers do not know as there is about
the more rare ones. That this is true
Is proved by friend Smith's success
with wheat. All of his neighbors like
to get their seed from him. and I un
derstand that he shipped two carloads
down into Virginia tills year, so far
reaching is his reputation for good va
rieties and clean seed.
But then It is easy for him to raise
clean wheal, free from weed seed, for
he has clean land, rorliaps that clean
land is part of the secret of his success,
nnd who knows what time and labor
It may have cost him to get and keep
his land this way? I know that he al
ways cuts his stubble over once, and if
necessary twice, so that no weeds may
mature seed; neither are his fence rows
devoted to the production of fancy
weed seeds, to be scattered whichever
way the wind may blow.
Wilson, the corn man, lias some very
peculiar ideas about the time of plant
ing and manner of cultivation, and In
the spring you will find his neighbors
laughing at him, but later in the sea
son they begin to think that maybe ho
is "onto" his job after all, ami perhaps
they will try his plan—as far as they
know It—next time, for he surely docs
get corn.
But I must not fail to make Mr. nan
kins known to you. He is the man
with the small, rich farm, that looks
like a patchwork quilt. Little piles of
queer looking stuff that we don't even
know the names of may be seen all
over the place, and very little corn or
wheat or other crops that go t.o make a
farm look substantial in sight. What
has come over Hankins these last few
years? He used to be a sensible man
and raise good corn, wheat and oats,
but he must have got mixed up with
some of those chaps who run the ex
periment stations and turned ills farm
into one. He is another mail who is
laughed at, but he simply turns his
back nnd laughs with liis neighbors, so
that they cannot see his satisfaction
at their mirth, for his secret is also too
good to give away. If these neighbors
who think he is wasting his time 011
foolish experiments will go to his house
and look in the lower left-hand corner
of the old walnut bookcase, between
the family Bible nnd Webster's Una
bridged they will find several papers,
contracts signed by some of the most
prominent seedsmen of the land, and,
yes, down below is John Hankins'
scrawl. What can It mean? Only
that John is going to raise 2000 pounds
of kale seed at a price a pound tlint
fairly startles them, and if they run
over the other contracts they will see
that If their lucky neighbor fulfills his
contracts—and lie generally succeeds in
doing so—he will make twice as much
money over his eighty acres as they
ever have made over twice the amount
of laud. They also used to laugh at
him for raising a great deal of sor
ghum, as he was never seen hauling
any to the mill for molasses, but when
they found that be could dispose j
forty bushels of seed from an acre at a
price close to the dollar mark, and Jit
the same time have lots of good feed
left, they began to imitate him some
what.—New York Tribune.
Snow Mushroom*.
Dr. Vauglian Cornish in the Ceo
graphical Journal treats of the snow
waves and snow drifts of Canada.
From Montreal as far west as Port Ar
thur, that is to say, for 1000 miles, he
found the snow moderately dry, as in
the Pentlands and Highlands of Scot
land, but from "Winnipeg to Medicine
Hat it was dry, granular and rough on # '
the surface. Parts of the prairie were
swept bare of snow in the neighbor
hood of snow banks, and the landscape
resembled a white desert. In the Rock
ies the snow was nioister, and at Gla-J'
cicr House in the Selkirks, a stump ot\
tree two feet thick supported a cap or
snow nine feet across the eaves pro
jecting three feet six inches all around
the pedestal, and the whole resembling
a gigantic mushroom or toadstool. An
other broken tree four feet thick bad
a snowcap twelve feet across, the eaves
projecting four feet all around. Some
of these "snow mushrooms" must have
weighed a ton. The layers of snow in
them bend with gravity downward,
leaving a hollow about the trunk.
Paris Under Arms.
One night last week there were font
organized battles in the streets of
Paris, where the revolver was used and
the pavements littered with empty car
tridge cases. No value was set on the
life of a passer-by The roving bauds
of scoundrels bad issued challenges
and come Into the very heart of
city? within sight of the Comcdie Fran-'
caise. The consternation that prevails
in Paris is noticeable, and to this is
added the fact that the street lamps
are turned out a little after 1 o'clock.
There Is not a soul on the terraces of
the cafes after midnight, and people
walk home In the middle of the streets.
The leaders of the different bauds, who
bear the most fantastic names, kindly
assure the public that they have noth
iug to fear, that the warfare is purely
between one clan and another, and all
i they have to do is to keep out of the
line of fire.—Sketch.
Cuvier'* Collection Doomed.
. Tlie splendid cabinet of Comparative
anatomy in Paris begun by Cuvier,
the distinguished naturalist, in 1790,
and the completion of \yliicli occupied
twenty-one years, is to be demolished
by the authorities of the Jardin <'jtb
Plantes. Among the numerous valu
able specimens gathered and classified
by Cuvier are the embalmed remains
of the huge ,rbinoceros brought to his
Versailles menagerie by Louis XIV.
and which the gay monarch used to
visit each week attended by his Court.
The carcass thus honored by the King
and his sycophants was saved with
difficulty by Cuvier In 1793 from the
incensed revolutionists, who desired
to burn it because It had been one of
their "tyrant's" amusements.
Three-Toc.l Hor.c. Foniul.
Fossil horses of (he three-toed type
have been discovered by the exploring
party supported by the William C.
Whitney fund now in quest of the re
mains of these animals in the West, ac
cording to Professor Osborn, of the
Museum of Natural History, who said
that the fossils included a herd of flve.L
One skeleton is nearly complete, bun
dle others ure fragments. Hitherto
only pieces of skulls and limbs have
been found. Tile fossils have been
shipped to tile museum, and will. Pro
fessor Osborn says, add an important
stage to the history and development
of tlie horse in America.—New York
Times.
Doctor** Incomes In England.
The British Medical Journal ventured
sn estimate of the average income that
might be expected by the general prac
titioner in England, and put'it at S3OOO
to $3500. The estimate was copied Into
several daily papers, and lnis produced
a large crop of correspondence, teem
ing with ridicule and indignation. The
general practitioners, who ought to
know, declare that only a small pro
portion of their number earn so
even after years of arduous work. The
competition brought about by the over- I
crowded state of tiro profession is, they
declare, so great that it is a cruelty to
induce men, by inflated estimates, to
enter it.
Olil linman. Uueil Tablets.
Stamps have been found in England
which have been shown were used by
the Itomans to stamp remedies for pro
ducing clearness of vision, or for doing
away with dimness of sight. The ob
ject aimed at by tlie medicament was
specified in the stamp. It is notewor
thy that the sunups so far discovered
were designed for remedies for ocular
diseases. The preparations were hard
ened with gum or some viscid sub
stance, and were thus ready to be
liquefied at any time. Thus our sup
posedly very modern device of trllur- .
ates or compressed tablets is only a re- 1
vival of an auclcht Roman custom.
In Hie Courtroom.
"Your Honor and Gentlemen of tlie
Jury, I acknowledge the reference of
counsel of the nlher side to my gray
hair. My hair is gray, and it will con
tinue to be gray so long as I live. The
hair of that gentleman is black, and
will continue to he black so long us he
dyes."—New York Times.