A FATAL EXPLOSION7. THREE MEN LOcE THEIR LIVES BY THE BURSTING OF BOILERS. The Anelclent Occurred at a Con I Mine Near Wllkeshnrra A Nest of Holler Hurst With rarely a Moment's Warn ing Only Two Min F.scape. Wll-.KKPAR1IR, Pa.,. Tan. t. Three men were killed hy the explosion of n tie it nf boilers lit the Law shaft of ths Pennsyl vania Coal company, In Avocn, mar here. They were: Thomas McDonald, machinist, M years old. Cortland Roll, cnrpntiler, HO years old. Alexander Young, pump runner, 118 years old. The Injured wore: Thomas Uottwli k, engineer; head badly out. John T. Blcas, Amman j ent about the head. A tirrlflo explosion stnrtled the res!- I dents of the town, and houses shook upon f their foundation. Windows wore broken, end the people ran nut of their houses. They saw a cloud of dust and steam near . the shnft, where they found the six boil ers, which hnd been used tofurnlsh steam for the engines, scattered m pieces. One of the pleura had pnocl lengthwise through the engine room, tearing away everything In Its pnlh and hnlf burying Itself In the ground aK feet awnr. .lust before the explosion Young, Mo rinnald and tho engineer, Thnnins Hntt wlnk were In tho engine houso. The first two were there to Temove a pump from the engine house and were preparing to commenee work, llottwlck was standing at his post one hand on the throttle and another on the reverse lever awaiting a signal from the men whom a moment, be fore he hnd lowered to tho bottom of the shaft. I Itnn For Thrfr Uvea. I Suddenly the door lending from the fireroom to the engine houso was opened, and the fireman, .lohn T. lileas, ran In, and In an excltid manner yelled: "There Is something tho matter with the hollers, boys! Hun lor your lives!" And he dashed out of a side door, llottwlck quickly made after hlin, and tho other two jumped up to follow. Then there Mas a loud report and the noise of escaping steam. The fireman was found with a slight cut on his hend a few yards away, and In an Incoherent manner told of bis companions j A hurried search was Instituted, and the engineer w.is soon found In cne cor ner of the englvio room, with an ugly pasli In Ms forehead. At first it was thought he was dend, but he was removed to his home, whero surgeons attended him and restored consciousness. At the opposite side, of the engine room from that where the engineer wns picked Hp the bodies of Young and McDonald were found. Itolls, who hnd been at work about loo feet awny from the fireroom. was found where he was struck down by A Hying timber. Mi skull wns rrushed. All the dend mon were married and leave widows and families. BURNHAM'S ADVENTURE. Stranded on an Island, He l!ecnmo Cracy and nail a 1'erilous Swim. Parties from Snake river, Idaho, Ml of a remnrkable experience of trinity Burnliani, a plucer ininer. Seotty was desirous of examining an island in the, middle of the river, but the water wns exceedingly treacherous around the is land, and lie pat it off for some time. Finally he made a bold resolution to reach the coveted ground, which lie be lieved very rich. He started for the island in a small bout, and ufter hard work succeeded in reaching it, but as he jumped out of tho boat he fell and tho boat was kicked backward into the current and went fly ing away with all of Scotty's blanket and provisions. He built a Are and waited, expecting some one to come along on the bank of the river, but he Waited in vaiu. He killed some birds with rocks and ate them almost ruw. How ho lived through the bitter cold night he himself, does not know, for he became crazed. For day ho remained on the island, and then, rushing wildly into the river, succeeded in sw imming to the shore, over 100 yards, through whirling rapids that it was believed no human being conld live iu for a minute. His mini n ess led him to the act which saved his life. He is now in a fair way to recover, bnt it will be some time before he will be able to completely throw off tho ej feota of his Crusoelike experience. Den ver Republican. A WHISKY OCTOPUS. What Mr. Little Fonnd In a Flask ot Georgia Moonshine. A Mr. Little, who lives near Chestnut mountain, some two or three week ago, while in Gainesville, bought a half pint cf blind tiger whisky. Ho and his brother, who was with him at the time, drunk a little over half of the stuff, and npou arriving at home hid out the remainder to get a morning nip. Next morning, bright and early, he went out there to whero he had left the flask, but when he picked it up to emp ty the contents whero they would do the most good he noticed a small gray sub stance, about a large a a pea, floating around iu tbe bottle. He eyed the con tents very critically, and wiih a pang of regret at being knocked out of his morn ing dram he corked the bottle and laid it away to await developments. Tbe thing begun growing, and grow ing rapidly. It is said to have grown outil it bus almost filled the bottle and is of toughness ukiu to rubber. Innu merable tentacles have grown at inter vals around the body, and it is assum ing a very eutaniclike appearance. Emi nent physician have examined it, but say they don't know what it is, except one, who maintains that it i a miniature devil, and further maintain that u.ll tbe liquor sold iu the city is full of the mine sort Gainesville (Ga, ) Eagle. Sensible Farmers. The reports from the corn districts in dicate that the farmers propose to hold a large portion of tho crop for higher price. It was expected thut the market would be flooded as soon as the fields were gathered, but so far the shipments have been comparatively small, and the product is being cribbed iu great quanti ties by those who are not willing to let it go until they can realize a fair profit ou it. St Louis Globe-Democrat. The Farainouut Uuestioa. Speaker Reed was aektd the other day what be considered the most important problem now before the public. "How to dodge a bicycle," was hi quick retort. "At least I judge so from my own experience niuco I came tu V ashing ton. " WaMhiugtoa Pout. THE OLDEST OBELISK. It Stands on the Hanks nf til- Nile Not Tar I mm Cairo. The oldest of all t!in obelisks is Hie beautiful olio nf rosy gtenite which stands ulono nmoiigihn stroll fields fin I!ir banks of llin Kiln not far finm Ciiiro. It In (hp gravestone of n great city whicli Iiiir vanished mid left truly this relic ! liind. That city was llolli-1 ihemcs of Scripture, the famous On, I wlif h is nioinornbln lo nil Bible renders lis (lie residence (if the priest (if On, 'ajtiphertih, whoso daughter Ascnnth Jnsiph married. The Greeks called it Hcliopolis, the city of tl'-in, because tlx re the Vorship tif tlit'-run lind ita chief renter i?nd ils most sacred shrine. It was tho ."; at of (ho most ancient uni versity in tlio world, In which youthful students ciiinc from all purls of the world to learn the occult wisdom which tbe priests cf On nli hp could teach. Tlmlcs, Solon, laidoxns, Pythagoras nnd Plato nil studied there; perhaps Moses loo. It was also the birthplace of tliti sacred Jit c:':'.l urn of Fgypt, where were w -itlen i n papyrus Icnvcs the orig inal chnplcr of tho oldest book in the wm Id, gourmlly known lis "The Boole of the Dead," giving a most striking; account of the ronllicts mid trinniplis of the life lifter dentil, -a whole copy or fragment of which cvrry l.'gyptian, rich or j i .or, willed to linvo l.tirhd with li i in in Lis ci fiin, mid portions of which mo found Intel ila il on vciy iiiiiiiiiny case mid i Hip walls of every tomb. In front of one i f the principal tnnplos of llie urn ill this, lnegniiiccnt city stood, along Willi n companion long since de stroyed, tho f olilary oliclit k which wo now In hold i n the snot. It nlone has survive d (lie wie( k of nil tho glory of flip place. It wiih constitu ted by Vett tcscn I, who is supposed loliavo reigned 2SIH) B. C, mid has outlived nil the dy nastic changed of tho land ami still slam's where it originally stood nearly 41 centuries, ago. What appears of its 'In'ft above ground is IIS feet ill height, I, at itH ba:e is bul led in the mud of (ho Nile, mid year utter yeartho inundation of tho river deposits its film of soil mound its foot mnlbuiics it still deeper in itssucrid grave. Pall i'all Gazette. LONDON'S GREAT PARK. The I. lit. i el l!ie Metropolis Penetrates It Willi l:e,T Varying C'nilcnre. Tim !)'.;! --t iiiliactii.it of Hyde pink is one V. Iiii I; 1.' lalonors noil must visit ors lail to (li.-cnvi r mid hi piccinte. It is a unique and unlit le charm v. hose mean ing only I hose can know who have fall en undi r it spell. Hyde pails. I n it re nietubeicd, is llio only gnat plot of veriHno in llie world set in the vciy center of n gn at city. Huston Common is but ii garden compa'-ed with it, Cen tral park may soon be lieniincil in by New York's teeming million, but not yet. Ilyilo park is a irrafeful refuge of silence in the midst i f turmoil. Only upon its outer holders dues the rest less mob infringe. Within, away from Rut ten row, away from carriage diivo nnd fashionable lomeiiade, there is always rest, tinnqirillity, silence no, not si lence, but in its place the thing which is tho mysterious charm of tho spot. Find n scut upon n bench in the midst of the w ide, sweeping, open grern where the eye sees only grass nnd trees, with no sign of the vast city on any side, bit for a few moments nnd listen listen, ond there w ill come to your ears the most wondeiful sound in nil the world. It is tho voieo of London an ever changing, inarticulate, pregnant solil oquy. One day it will bo the gentle murmur of a sea shell. Again it is the harsh grinding of tho mill of the gods crushing human grain beneath its upper and nether mi list ones. The mighty but distant revi ll eration ii sometimes a triumphant harmony, soV.etinics a minor note, melancholy and despairing. The myiiad longucd voico w hich comes from the cast is sullen, protesting, enduring; that from the west is a careless clioins of pleasure nnd prosperity; that from the north is a hopeful strain of patient progress; tli1 from the south is a ca dence of struggli) and sorrow, nnd the w hole is a symphony of human life, ma jestic, inspiring, infinitely pathetic. Nowhero save in this spot dues the greatness of London impress itself upon me. I lost mi Transcript. A tidllns For Fanning. MissAniiioDdinisi f Tulbottom, On., is a fine looking young woman of !'.", who seems to I uve a renins for farm ing. According to a Georgia paper, tlio ow ns a handsome, estate of 1.000 acres, which she cultivates with great skill and success. Upon it she conducts a dairy, a stix-k farm, a cannery, a pre serving establishment, a vineyaid and wine distillery and a piggery. Each of these is pro-perous to a high degree. Tho owner is public spirited and ex hibits her products ut every fair and exposition. .She began this work iu 1SSH ami in seven years bus curried off nearly 100 prizes. She ascribes her success to a good edncat ion anil careful reading. Hhe makes u sp cial sludyof tho application of science, particularly chemistry, to her fields of industry and utilizes every new idea which appears. Ws.4tel Energy anil Kxpcnsp. A new advertising' wagon introduced in New York is lilted up with two cyl inders which V""" revolving, givin;; a momeiuaiy view of various Imsine s announcements. Thoro are people who would rulhcr spend 10 to catch the eye of a, 000 or S,0u0 people w ith a ccntrap tiou of this kind than invest CO cents to reach 100,000 readers in a good news paper. St. Louis Globe De mocrat. A Little Iiucourajeinent. J. L. Toole was ome eiileitained by a parly of Edinburgh gentlemen ut din ner. After the cloth wus removed a lit tle sociability was indulged ill, mid Mr. l'ool,) was uskc,l to give a recitation. Thin the veteran comedian Hcruiy de clined to da A worthy baillie, whose iuowledgo of things theatrical was douicwhut primitive, approached Toole, patted hun on the buck and said iu a fatherly way : "Come uwu'. my man; dinun be bushfu'. We're no ill to plcx-e. " Huatchold Words. What Other Kind? "What a nasty eiuoll burned powder bus '." said Johiiuy. "Powder?" exclaimed hi elder sis ter. Miss. Maud, looking up. "Why, it hasn't uny urnoh, yoa iueun gunpow der !" I And she turned a lovely, creomy hu:j of vermilion and became ab lorbfd in b'ir faehiou magazine uguiu. I Chicago Tribuue. A (UilvVi1 INVKXTI0N, IT PUMPS AIR INTO THE LUNGS SO DYINQ ME"i CAN BREATHE. A Bellows Wnrhcd ly tlte Tent Invented by Ir. O'IIwtit An Autlirtii lentrri In stance nf Its Complete Kucccr In a Mew York lfospltnt. Keeping up breathing in A patient who is unable to breathe, for himself is llin latest triumph of medicine. The dis covery or invent ion of this method was made by a New York physician, Dr. O'Dwyer. It has bepu possible, with Its aid to maintain the respiration In the case of patient who must otherwise have sorely died. The apparatus in very simple. It con sists of a foot bellows, a rubber tubing and a metal tube, ending In a conelike attachment. This attachment is Insert ed into the throat, or, as the physicians put it, Into the laryngeal socket. The lop end of the metal tube has two open ings, one receiving the air from the bel lows through the rubber tube and the oilier closed by the thumb during the time the air is being forced into the lungs. The thumb is removed during expiration, or the collapse of the chest. It will be seen that by this arrange ment the fresh nir is pumped through the tube into tho patient's lung. When the lungs lire full, the chest collapses, nnd the "used tip" oir is forced out. This used up air consists largely of car bonic acid gas, which is a poison, and , hence it ought Co be carefully kept out of the tube. The arrangement of the opening controllM by the thumb at the top of the metal tube allows the bud air to escape. Therefore none but fresh air can enter tho lungs. It is easy to insert the end of the tube into the larynx. A mouth gag is used, the tonguo drawn out, und the epi glottis (which covers the opening of tho windpipe) held buck by the first finger of tbe left hand. The tube is put iu with tho right hand. When the tube lias bem adjusted, the operator begins to work the bellows with his foot. The chest immediately expands, und no air escapes except when the cone is too small. In such a case a larger cone can bo put in. This iirtineinl breathing is kept up 12 times u minute, mid water is forced into the tube from time to time in order to l.eep the pa'saf:es moist. The nppiiiutiiH is especially useful ill eases where the heart action is going on, bnt where llin patient lias great diflicul ty in hi iathiiig. A typical condition of this sort, is lint resulting from taking too much morphine. At tlio rrcshvlcriai) hospital in New Yoik recently an instance of th s kind occurved. A German conk, 117 years of age, bail taken grains of morphine mid was brought to the hcspital ut 0:)i0 p. in. in a condition of stupor. His body had that blue or cyimosn appear ance which is characteristic of persons who are suffering from morphine, poi soning. The pupils of his ryes wero very small, mid he breathed but four times in each minute, und very feebly at that. His pulse wus very high, registering 1 50 a minute. He wus immediately placed under tho charge, of Dr. Walter B. .Tunics, and various drugs were adininisteivd for the purpose of counteracting the effect of the poison. The stomach was also washed out. It was seeu that the man's condition was such that, unless some means could be employed for keep ing up the breathing, he must die. It was, therefore, resolved to use one of the O'Dwyer tubes. The tube wus inserted at 10:80 p. in. and respirations were forced into the man's lungs at the rate of 13 evory minute. The patient's whole condition improved at once. Tbe pulse became al most normal, and the blue color of the face and hands disappeared. The stom ach pump wus once more inserted along side the tnhe, and the stomach was washed thoroughly, after whioh more medicine wus administered. At 1 1 :80 p. m. the patient was aroused, hut hi pulse was not good. At mid night lie became restless, and the tube wus removed, and he was made to sit up. But iu spite of the diligent effort made to keep him awake, iu about ten minutes his face and hands again began to grow blue und his pulse rapid aud feeblo. The fubo wus replaced, with the result thut his condition immediately changed for the better. At 2 :t!0 a. m. the tube was again re moved, but once more the blue color made its appearance on the bauds aud face. It was put buck again and kept in place until nearly S .!10 o'clock in the morning, when the patient became so restless that its removal was a neces sity. After this, until 7 o'clock, tba patient was kept awake by the slapping of a towel, for when left alone his res pirations would go down to eight or teu a minute. At 7 :4o o'clock his respirations were 10 a minute und his pulse 1'iO. At the f ud of flvo days he was discharged cured. The tube bad remained in 7 hours and 1.) minute, during allot which time its use wan necessary, for during all of thut time tho patient wus quite unable to do his own breathing. New York World. Y.'l.j I irrybmly Smiled. nini'.sinjj seono was witnessed by An many penes' ruins one (lay ut the ciirner of Thirty x cinh street and Broadway. A fence, ubout !i0 feet high, covered with theatrical lithographs, incloses a 1-jt ou that corner, where the founda tions of a new building are being laid. It was the noon hour, and six brawny tons of Eviuwiiu seated on a slightly raised platform, restm;i against the fence. They wero eating their luncheon and were jokiny nnd laughing to their hearts' content. Thoewho btopptd to look ut the group could not withheld a smile, for directly above thin jolly group of Irishmen, in bold, lurid letters, were the words "Tho G.iy Parisians. " Here indeed wus a pleasant satire, the result of accident. No wonder the work inguieu wondered why people, smiled at them so much. New York Huruld. The Iuqulsltlve Small Boy. "Father," said the little boy, looking up from hi picture book, "if I ask you a quest lou, will you answer it?" "Certainly," was the affable reply. "Aud not get ungry?" "Of course not. " "Nor suy it's time I was iu bed?" "I won't do any of thoca things." "Well, what I want to kuowis where doe a snake begiu when it wags ita tail?" Washington Star. THEPB IS NO NATIONAL HOLIDAY. Not l:ven the I alior Ust Art Creates Ons, Psy the Lawyers. There would seem to be no such thing in this countiy us a national holiday. Lawyers asset t that pven Labor day, which was set apart by act of congress in 1N04 in such mnniier as to lead the confiding layman to suppose it at least : to be a national holiday, is not such otitsMc of the District of OohiEibin un less by state enactment. The creation and regulation of holidays have been left entirely to the legislatures of the individual stutes. The act of congress concerning Labor day was approved Jnno 1SH4. It pro vides "that the first Monday of Septem ber in each year, being Die day cele brated and known as Labor day, is hereby made a legal holiday, to all in tents nnd purposes, In the siitne manner as Christmas, .Tun. , Feb. 22, May SO and July 4 are now mnde bv law public holidays." Clearly the proper construction of this statnte can be arrived nt only by refcrenco to the provisions bearing upon the other holidays named. The act mak ing holidays of Jan. I, July 4, Christ mas aud "any day appointed or recom mended by the president of the United ftates as a day of public fast or thanks giving" was passed in June, 1R70, and was restricted in its effect to the Dis trict of Colnmbia. These days are holi days iu the various states ouly as I hey are made so by the various stute legis latures. The act of Jan. 81, 10711, makes Feb. 22 a legal holiday, and the net of Aug. 81, 1HHH, does the sunie for May 80, and both are restricted iu their applica tion to the District of Colnmbiu. The act referring to Labor day says nothing abont tbe District of Colnmbia, but it does say that the first Monday of Sep tember shall bo a legal holiday, "to all Intents and purposes, in the sumo man ner as Christmas. Jan. 1, Feb. 22, May 80 and July 4 are now made by law public holidays. " The intents and purposes for which and the manner in which those days are made holidays mo expressly limited to the District of Columbia, und so, by necessary inference, is the act referring to Labor day. The misleading langnageof theLnbor day act has. led ton prevalent statement thut the first Monday of f-'epteniber is n holiday thiouL'liout the l'n (I Stales by congressional enact meut. New York Tribune. PRANKS Or SCOTTISH FAIRIES. A Firm Keller In (lie 'T.ilr Folk" Still Lingers. There still lingers a widespread belief in the north ot i-col land that the "fair folk, " or "gweed ikcIioib, " us the fairies lie culled, still live in the hills, and during the first days of convalescence a mother must be zealously guarded lest ono of the "v.eo people" come and rob (lie thild rf its nourishment Some times I hey succeed in cimying off the niuther. ilr.ro is ono of the superstitious legends: A mirth country fisher hud a fine child. One evening n beggar woman entered the hut ond went tip to the cradle to gaze into tho eyes of tho babe. From thut time good health left it, and a strange look came into its face, and the mother wns troubled. An old man begging for food passed thut wny. When he caught sight of the child, he cried : "That's Hue a bairn. It's an image, and tbe gweed folk has stoun his speerit. " Thereupon he set to work to recall the fisher's bairn. A peat fire was heaped high ou the hearth and a black hen held over it at such a distance that it was singed snd not killed. After some strug gling the hen escaped up the him. A few moments elapsed, aud then the par ents were gladdened by the sight of a bappy expression once more on the child's face. It throve from that day forward. Scottish Review. A Doa Parse Bnatcher. Pointer dogs can always be trained to steal. Many of (hem are natural thieves without training, and any of the species can be taught. There is a dog of this kind in northwest Washington. He will pick up anything he can find around a yard or outside of a store, but his spe cialty is ladies' pocketbooks and hand bags. When he sees one of these, he grabs it and runs, always succeeding in getting out of sight before he can be captured or followed. No owner has ever been seeu, hence no complaints have been made at police headquarters, but there is bnt little doubt, if it were possible to follow the unimal, that it would be found that he has been care fully traiuod as a purr- -lntcher und that be takes his boo M me to hi master. He seems to beuwure that he ig doing wrong, jumping fences and dodg ing nrouud houses when running away. Washington Star. Aa Old Colonial Blockhouse. Among tho attractions of the town of Bourne, Muss., are two historic cellar. I One was dug by the Plymouth colony j aud the other by the Dutch traders. ! These cellars lie side by side, and the structures built over them were filled with goods so necessary for the comfort of the early pilgrims a well as the Dutch. The pilgrims needed niannfuc tured goods such as the Hollander hud for sale und the Dutch required prod ucts such us tl5 colony could supply. Governor liiaiifoi-i, in his diary, stute that this bk kottsn wo built a early as 1 037, only ( ven years ufter the land ing of the May flower. St, Louis Globe- LVlU'S-TUt. How Fast the Earth More. Everybody kuows that the earth makes one complete revolution ou its axis once iu each 24 hour. But few, however, have uny idea of the high rate of siieed at which such an immense ball must turn iu order to uceoinplish the feat of uiuking one revolution iu a duy and a night. A graphic idea of the terrillo pace which tho old earth keeps up year after year muy be bud ly comparing its speed to thut of a cuuuou bull fiied from a modern high pressure gun. The bight est velocity ever attained by such a mis sile has been estimated at 1,U2(I feet per aecoud, which is equul to a mile iu 8 2-10 seconds. The eurtb, in making one complete revolution iu the short apace of 24 bours, must turn with a velocity almost exuetly equul to that of the cuuuou ball In short, its rato of peed at tbe equator is exactly 1,507 feet per second. This is equal to a mile very 8 6-10 aecoud, 17 miles a miu oW. St. Louis Kepublio. AimiTOX'SLUCJOAOE. ATTEMPTS OF AMERICAN IMITATOR3 TO INTRODUCE IT HERE. f'omlrrnns Itrltlsh lint Bores, Pnrtman- trnti and II"M Alls The ItnactKe on a Kt, aniHlilp Wharf Is a Utiiilr The Trav- j elrr and Ills llnthtnb. As the traveling Briton is known In Ihln connlry by his litj.gagc, so the American woman was once hnted iu Kuropo lieciiuso of l.( r saictogn tiunk. The worlil has escaped the general udoptioii of the Saratoga, trunk, bnt a worse tiling sc ms t oss; hie, r.9 British luggage threatens to become i.itema tionuL I ven now yon may buy in this town all the impedimenta wi.Ii which the traveling llrilou cumbers himself and bedevils llie re:,t of mankind. A Broadway t rnnkmal.cr l as for some years past undertaken to lix the thral dom of these things r.pon his fellow country mm mid women, and many traveling Anericnns, especially the wealthy mid fashionable, are to be rec ognized by the multiplicity of British impedimenta that they carry to nnd fro in their frequent journey lugs between the old world and tbe new. More curi ous still, those clever and imitative Jap anese havo begun to produce British luggage identical with the original in the minutest details, even down to band sewtd straps on leather trunks, port manteaus and the like) bat, d roily enon; h, the whole outfit is merely a pa per coun'erfeit uf the real thing. nor (mi imitators of things British, lacking the line humor of the Japanese, luivii made no snlistitntinu of light ma terial for heavy, but have taken on the full Itn den of ponderous British lint boxc, portmanteau, rngs, bags, hold nils mid eveu bathtubs. It was a travel ing American who gave to the world nn account of a lefreshing scene on board a Mediti mincnu steamer bound to Tan gier or some such Mohammedan port of north Africa. A British passenger with his bathtub had nearly pestered the life out of a merk, coffee colored Moham medan, who accepted the Briton's curses without a sign of reproach, but when in the (curie of getting the luggage ashore Hie precious bathtub fell over hoard and sank like lead, the harmless follower of tho prophet was seen to pause in his work nnd dnnce gleefully upon the dick, exclaiming in triumph, "Oh, Mr. Goddam, Mr. Goddam I" It Is since that incident that traveled Americans in their aping of British ways have accepted even the burden of the buthlnh. A sluily of baggage nt a steamship w harf or even nt n large railway station in New York is nn instructive lesson ns to the cosmopolitan character of the city. There is one article of British luggagn that seldom survives more than one jonrmy within the limits of tbe United States end Kimrtinies gets no farther inland than the New York hotel tit. which tho traveler makes his fust stop. This article is the littlo trnnk or box of japanned tin much used by trav elers in Great Liltain. Tho flimsy trifle hurdly survives tho first encounter with tlio American bagriago handler, nnd uft( r the fir.st joiuney of 110(1 miles in this country is battered out of all re S( mblance to its original rectilinear self. It is an article of luggage not suitable to the exigencies of American travel. A palhrt'o feature of the baggage ut the railway stations that are doorways to the west is the immigrant's luggage. Sometimes it is a mattress from tiie eteprugo win ped ubout the few belong ings of the new made American. Again it is thecorihd box of the Irish, English or Scotch immigrant. It w ill lie recalled how Important a preliminary to Char lotte Bronte's journeyings out into the great world from her Yorkshire home was tl e cording of her box. The corded box is as rare nniong the luggage of an American traveler us the old hair trunk, though bolh are occasionally seen. The seumuu's locker, rectilinear for a stable stowage aud strong against accidents, figmcs in the luggage at steamship wharves. One knows instinctively its contents of old clothes, protographs, curios, tobacco aud long treasured let ters from home and the array of pic tures from the illustrated papers pasted tin the Inside of the lid. The eluborute dresslug cases that some American and all well to do Englishmen used to travel with are go ing out of fashion. It is almost a neces sity thut the traveler with this pretty piece of lugguge tuke along a valet, for the thing weigh like so much lead and is ton precious to be trusted to the ten der mercies of the bnggufji department The traveling desk also has nearly dis npenrt'd, though some ingenious trunk' mukers now produce trouks that open so as to form desks. The luucheou hamper that used to accompany every traveler across this ooutinent iu the day bofore diuiug cars came into use has almost eia'irely disappeared. The California millionaires of early trans continental travel carried enormous and richly liidcu hamper and dispensed of ten a princely hospitality to their fellow truvelers. The dinner hour on board a transcontineiiliil train was a picturesqne incident of travel in those days. Tbe traveling Briton in Kurope still some times curiics his luucheou hamper, and it is often one of the nuisances of Kuro peau travel. Some of the English theatrical com panii s have bccouie so used to traveling in America that liny have adopted our methods with baggage. They accept wiih grace tbe great American trunk, dispense with the hutbox, the bathtub, "lie lugs, iJ'iWl straps and the rest and ialinly ice iluir belonging curled off hy a stranger, who leaves behind us evi dence oiy a bit of brass bearing a few lciuis ant! nuuil cis. New Yoik Sun. At It fchuulil Be, Tho curtain w ill be rung down on the Atlanta opositiou by the same bells that wi',1 ring out the old year und ring iu the new. It is well thut it should be so; that the south should close the year ISOo with au unparalleled record of progress and achievement, and open a uew book of facts, clcau cut and in aepcudcut of the past. Kansas City rime. An Old Miracle Worker. Barney Moibers, an old citizen of De lator, Ind. , bus surprised hi friends by, performing miracles. The other duy he publicly removed a cancer from the face. it Geoige -Uartiu, au old soldier. Tbe ;uncer wus oue that bad bothered Mar- tin for year and would soon have, proved fatal. ' A SUNBEAM BROKE A BANK. Tlie Faro Dealer Thnngtit Its Knd Was White Check. "That piece in jour pnper 'bout llie g iy that cleaned tip tho faro bunks out in Seattle," musirl Helium High, the Chicago gambler ns be told the waiter to "bring on three for a half," "ain't in it with my pi ts nal ( xperiencp. Tips was out iu Cripple deck when the loom was way up nn a good pluy rgin n right bank, see, was wnth moio to the banker than a split in the best claim you could git if lluy bn,,o even. Do yon know Lutein Up Jul-? Thut wasn't Irs name i f cou bat the gang give him the handle .ic e ho could chew so fast, ne? Well, IV cm Up got hold of trfeVcpof money in hicago ho win out n n llotT'ii sh, rt money, ton, an be goes ( I, to (Vipp'c ( n ek an stm ts tn dentin. Do i;youtwta in a littlo frame, pine beard j nut bout's big s a dry goods box. .Take gets a good play, yon know tuck a lniiiiite to cettlc after evory turn, see' lint, I didn't tell you 'bout tho l:iu tholi. Yon sip, there's a knothole in a bonid right, buck of the dealer. Jul;p, lip's in thn lookout chair, ner Jako don't have no clock theie, Fee, so nobody mil'ds tho daylight, only it makes the dealer a little sleepy, an Jake, he's kindu dopy. "Well, there's a tin horn from over in another joint n pluggor in the stud game, sier He blows iu nn buys two red checks, waits fer cases, fergits the copper tip play nn gets wbipsawed, see loses bolh bets. Thru he bny half a stack of whiles an keeps the seat, piny ing mostly cases. Ho keeps his checks in his bin ds, an Jake don't keep enses on him. Well, he geps broke, but Jake doesn't know it. "The jack' s tl case, see, an the sun light's coming through the knothole over the dealer's shoulder, hits the jack right in the center, an it looks liloi a white cluck. Hie jack wins. Dealer pays a white check on the jack. Tin horn pus-lira tho sleepir over between the queen an the king, an it wins again, see? An, on the level, the gny win nnd win, an lint li in pun stop him. Five deals ntterward ho bus the check rack out, nn Jack says: " 'I can't deal fer yon no more. Mo roll is gnnp "Nest day I stake Jake in tho poker game nil tell him how it happened, an ho says : " 'Well, v.iilyetink of that? Wouldn't that skin you? I'vo hcerd of guys win ning out do bunk roll olT'n eat money, but I never heiod of winning out on a shudder.' " Klmira Telegram. PERCENTAGE OT POOR EYES. Only Onn !rnn In Fifteen Hns Until -yct In Good Condition. Only ono pnti on in 15 has both eyes In good condition, and in 7 cases out of 10 ono eye, generally tho right, is stronger than llio other. It is found that just nn people mo right or left handed so they am ri;ht or left sight ed, nnd while anpnreiuly looking with both (-yes i hey ( I.eii really use only one. Gut of !!0 jiers ! whose ryes wero test ed by a German doctor two only were found to be h ft sighted. The reason of ti e greater sfrpiigth generally posses; i d I y iho tight rye is not altogether niuler.-;o:il, bnt probably tho natural tendency to l.o greater use of the right side of thu body lias some thing to do wi'.h if, In nsii.g wenpons, for instance, mankind has been taught to nFsnme fir c irs attitudes in which Iho right hand and side bae most exer cise, nnd this discipline has undoubted ly had its riled on llie eye. Old sea f uptains after long nse of the telescope find their right eyes much stronger than Iho left tho direct eflect of exercise. This law is confirmed by the experience, of uurlsts. If a person who lias cars rf equal hearing power litis cause In nse one ear more than the other for a long period, the car brought into requisition is found to be strength ened and tho car not used loses its heur iug iu a coin sponding degree Pitts burg Dispatch. lie Wanted a number. "Man yon sent to fix that laiigo of our'u a poet?" asked a rural looking customer of the proprietor of a down town plumbing establishment. "J I really, I don't know," re ponded the startled pioprietor, with a look of sober inqniry. " 'Tain't as I got anything particular agin poets," explained the customer suavely as lie took u chair and cleared his throat, "but i'vo hearu tell of folks uiissin their "ocations them us ought to be li'iein pointers and buskin corn gittia into pulpits and lawyers' offices, for instance. Corrse I ain't sayiu as I roelly seen any of yonr young man's poetry 1 jest sort of s'picioued a leetle that lie monght be one of them kind, 'cunse thut there range won't draw or bake since he tinkered with it. Poet may be all right enough in their plane, aud I reckon there's nicks in the world for every sort, but when a cisikiu range is nut of geur one wants a plumber." New York Sun. About Girl. "Girls, " remark?!! the small hoy In bis couijiosilsou upon thesnbject, "i ot several thousand k nds, and sometimes one girl can behave like several thou sand girls. Some kinds of girls is better tliau sonio other kinds, bnt they ain't any ( f them up to boys. This is all I know ubout girls, mid father saya the less I kiiow about Viu the better." New York Advertiser. A bright girl in Maine recently begun a comp-i.sition thus: "Tho Puiitaus fonnd a lunatic asyh m in the wilds of America." She had l 'ad in a book that the Pi'e'itans f. nnd an usyluiu ill this country, and to make the statement more vivid the uilded (he word "lunatic." Tbe Apache, Navajo and Utc war be gan iu ihi'.t und ended iu IHj'i. The total number of regular troops employed during this war wus l,oU0. while the volunteers und m liria numbered !,0(J1, lie grand totul being 2.&01. North Carolina ha risen rapidly iu the line of manufacturing stales. At present her fa'toiies employ till, 214 hands und ram out $ 10, ,1 15,4."0 worth of product. It is not true that equality is law of natuie. Nature has uo equality. It sovereign law is suboidiuutiou und du pen deu o. Vuu v en argues. Dram ouce meant neither more not leaa thun a handful. , a T- f LIQUEFIED HCNEY. The Flavor of Candled Honey That Has Been Llqncnrrt by Heat. The following query wns answered not long ago though the colnnms of The American I5ee Journal: "After candied honey hns been liquefied by heat, Is it inferior to its former qnnlity?" This anery elicited 25 replies. Four of these Wns a plain "no" withont any qualifi cations. Two answers were to the effect that tho quality is Injured somewhat by leafing. The majority seemed to think that if the liqncfaetioti Is cnrrfnlly done 1 1 the lowest possible teniperiirnre it does Hot nffect tho qnnlity of the honey. Will Burnvmi said, "I hnve never de lected nny difference in the qnnlity, but it is qnito probable that too mnrh heat would bn detrimental. " J. M. Jenkins replied: "No, unless overheated. It Is not necessary to cook or boil it to Iiqnefy honey, and cure should be taken to use only enough heat (hot water) to attain the desired result. " C. H. Dibbern said, "I think not, unless the bent is up to about the boiling point." J. M. Hum bnngh'R answer was, "No, not neces sarily. The fluvor is often injured hy allowing it to become too hot. " H. W. Dpnuireo wrote: "Thn honey will not be injnred if melted under glass by tho heat of tho sun. . Put y nr rundird honey in small, bright tin buckets. Set Ihem in a shallow box, rovered with glass (like n solar wax ex tractor), put the lids loosely on the bnckets. In this wny yon mny melt 100 or more ponnds each clear day, nnd the delicious odor of new honey will appar ently be restored. I nse mv solar wax extractor to melt enndied honey, nnd it does the work well." Allen Pringle expresses the opinion that honey is at its best a few days nfter being extracted, when it is fully ripe. No matter how ripe tho honey is when extracted, ho thinks the taste is im proved somewhat by allowing- it to stand exposed in n warm, dry place for n short time. It Tofcs the pungency to some extent, without deteriorating in flavor. "On the contrary, when candied honey is liquefied, it should not be left Pxpos?d nt nil, but sealed up tight nt once while it is hot. Thn e losnre in the one case improves it, other it deteriorates it. T has been properly ham start, and is liqnclicd ri, -at once, as nbove, it, wi i 1 good as ever, but not qui . may be nbt.nt lis good, bn: il aroma is paitially lost." the ney thn up v as vor ant f Top fussing Winter ;r.--in. A grrat many sow the v, inn : v !:"at nnd winter ryn iu the fell, mul then lcavo tho manure, for a wino i irp dress ing, and llie results are so goi.il ihat tlio Hie1 Hod is well justified. The woik of eveiy grain raiser ill such times us theso is consequently to increase tho yield per acre. Wedneo the ncm go, bnt increase the yield. By giv ing a liberal top dressing of manure in tho fail or winter to the grain we make doubly certain the chances of u higher yield. There nro several other advantages from top dicssing. Not the least of tlit to in llio protection that the manure affords the plants. The top dressing will frequently prevent the sharp frost and Kiibspqiu'iit thaws from throwing the roolsof the pl.misout of the ground. It shelters them from tho cold winds, nnd during storms, when the snow i drifting badly ic ross the fields, if catches u great deal if it und buries thn plants underneath. As a fro.t protector, the niiinuro top dressed over the field in wintir bus consequently no equal, says a writer in Tho American Cultivator. A Cnrlona Fertiliser. Bisulphide of carbon has long been successfully used in France ns a remedy for phylloxera fn grapevines, and is coining into use iu this country as an effective treatment for chili root in cab bage, smut in onions, etc. It has been proved in France that the use of this substance has considerably increased Iho yield cf all ciops, while soils that were "clover sick" or that failed to produce good yields of a crop that had lieen grown upon them year after year were made to give gisid crops by tho applica tion of bisulphide of carbon. Have such results been observed in this country? They are important in showing thut this substance is beneficial I the soil, so thut its use as an insecticide, germicide aud fertilizer is likely to be governed by it cost. American Agriculturist. Asparagus la Winter. It take very little heut to sturt as paragus into growth, and occasionally it is desirable to replace beds of old plants with young one. Iu this case the old roots can be taken up and plueed in cellar or even a frame where they can be protected from fiost, and tho as paragus sprouts will come into use a month or two before they can ho obtain ed from the open ground. They cuu bn set very closely together, so that a lurge amount of apari.gus shoot:, ' in be ob tained from acomparat ivelv bnt, explains Median's ! roots usually are not cons: I t value after one crop has , ,, from them in this way. 1.1m can be made to produce t in : much the sume manner. ill i nee, - acne i edi i..!cu loot !.- iu Farmer's Icehoii-e. If the farmer would have any , f the luxuries which ure possible in tin. o uiio live iu cities, there is nothing that will insure them so cheaply as a gcd ice house, says Prairie Farmer. A suitable building for holding ice muy I.e built wholly above ground, or partly lwlow Ind partly above, but in either case it (lion Id have good drainage, und tight rooting, und ample arrangement for ven tilation. There should be a space of from 18 to 24 inches between I he wall and the cube of ice. This space is best tilled with sawdust, or iu the absence of this with fresh leaves or chopped si raw. Tho opeuiug should be ou the north side of the building, and it is best if tin building is not exposed to the sun or wind. Tho Westing-hull, u AirOiaku rcmpany ha tiled a suit iu Unllnnura against ihe Bftydttn Airbrake company, asking for an tiijuuutiun to re Irani 'be latter (rum fur soar allegud Infringement of a fluid praa ura automata brake uiaohanlua.
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