fICIAI. PIRECTORY STATS. Silas Holcomb . ..R. E. Moore Jornor. j A Piper at®."'.'.•■J-8' Bartley .Eugene Moore , ...A 8. Churol.ni ! Ii.;iminir's ....o. U. Russell itruetum.. «• R ^orbelt ; ;i(i overseer dist. 26, Allen Brown Dim Enright. E RELIEF C0MNI8SI0N. eeting first Monday in Febru year, and at such other times as iceseary. Itobt. Gallagher, Page, Km. Bowen, O’Neill, secretary; Atkinson. JCK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH. every Sabbath at 10:30 o’clock, .assidy, Postor. Sabbath school following services. DI8T CHURCH. Sunday ps—Preaching 10:30 A. m. and 7:* No. 1 0:30 a. m. Class No. 2 (Ep no6:31) p. m. Class No. 3 (Child M- Mind-week services—General ■mg Thursday 7:30 P. m. All will icoiue, especially strangers. E. E. HOSMAN, Pastor. POST, N°. 80. The Gen. John No. 86, Department of Ne •win meet the first and third suing of each month in Masonlo S. J.Surm, Com. *s„vALLEY LODGE, I. o. o. .N.li. :,'D CHAPTER, R. A. M «*on)cahaVhlrd'rhur8d,y of eaoh ns Sec. j. c. Harnish, H. P ^-HELMET LODGE, TL D. SwY Monday at 8 o'clock p. med°W8 Vl8itlng brethem Gtriioo Chas. Davis, C. C. 'u.aoher. K. of R. and S. mee£^PMKNT NO- 80.1. such mouthYn 80ddnFeliows'°Hl5L Scribe, H. M. Utti.ev. Skkai? S-,1* “AUGHTERI Adams, Secretaryl,BItJHT’® • «■ 0. L. Bright, Sec. E 14 D°°n' Benedict’, W. M. ^iStVd7 JftM.W. OF J 's;Vb,eS‘«“ic hiiT Tue8dajr b-L A). U. Cronin, Cler >urth Tutiadav ^,9* M®ets «>coi s ball, ay of each month lT- Kec. T. V. Golden, M. W. fc*sti luoiub ®ry Ursl and thli lfiess, Sec.K°' McCbtcran, G. m Ard»«UfMaU1 ■•WiSr-iSSS®*"® 1 ,-l*aCv"«.^,eBT line. ssves 6;0. ^>a.m. Arrli o’^sday.'1*' Arri' DDbs'Iwed*0 ch*Mej 0> —°-«uia Bat. ?n?£*IK8vi on, Friday*■ ,W,,d-»ndPrtdVy^ 5 tC >" a 5 HU tsolileu Opportunity* ••What’s the matter, Gerald P” ex claimed hla horrified wife. “The matterP” shouted the young doctor, turning a handspring on the parlor carpet, dancing a jig, throwing his hat violently against the ceiling, and stamping on it as it came down. "The matter?” he repeated, catching her round the waist and whirling her in a mad waltz about the room. "Oh, nothing—only my bottle of anti toxine has just got here, I’m the only doctor in fifty miles that has any, and I have a lovely case of diphtheria over in the next block!” Wage* In Kouthorn Florida. Remarkable stories are current ot wages in Southern Florida, and it is true that a skilled orange packer, boy or man, can earn $1.50 a day, but the employment is not permanent. It is true, too, that $150 an acre has been made in a single winter from toma toes, but here again a little capital and considerable knowledge are re quired. It is unsafe to seek employ ment in Southern Florida without some sort of guarantee. Musical South America. Handel’s “Messiah” was recently performed at Buenos Ayres, for the first time in South America, with a chorus of 300 and an orchestra of fifty performers. Special trains were run, the house was sold out an hour and a half after the opening of the box office and the proceeds were $7,600. __ satisfied. The form of the king shook slight ly as he received the courier in the anti-chamber. “And what says she?" he demanded, anxiously. The cour ier prostrated himself. “She says, your majesty, that she can cook, but she's no laundress.” The cloud on the royal brow lifted as he waved his hand to the secretary. “Engage her,” he commanded, “and I’ll have my collars and cuffs sent out.” GenlaL “Does Slopeigh get angry when yot call on him with that bill?" asked the merchant of his collector. “No, indeed,” was the disconsolate reply. “He’s as polite and crafty as he can be. He says he has taken a great liking to me, and he's afraid that if he pays me I’ll stop coming to see him.” A. MUIBH eVIH JUftW. In Switzerland there is a law by which railway and steamboat compa nies, factory establishments, etc., are liable to idemnify their employes in case of accidents, or their widow or children in case of their death. Short line Time Card. Passenger leaves 8:35 a. m., arrives 9:07 p. x.; freight leaves 9:07 p. m., ar rives 7 p. x. Daily except Sunday. Heart Disease 30 Yrs! Short Breath, Palpitation. Mr. G. W. McKinsey, postmaster of Kokomo, Ind., and a brave ex-soldier, says; “I had been severely troubled with heart disease ever since leaving the army at the close of the late war. I was troubled with palpitation and shortness of breath. I could not sleep on my left side, and had pain around my heart. I became so ill that I was much alarmed, and for tunately my attention was called to Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure I decided to try it The first bottle decided improvement in my condition, and five bottles have com pletely cured me.” G. W. McKINSEY, P. M., Kokomo, Ind Ih*. Miles Heart Cure Is sold on a positive Ivxteg&gaafcf Vor Sal. by all Dranhta i <• J' , ^ v ^ QUICK RBBCUBi Bmylng a Hu Oiirboard la Sanaa ■- Minnie*. The story of the prompt rescue of a “man overboard” at sea, in which a prominent seafaring man of Philadel phia figured, is told by a correspond ent as follows: Nearly a quarter of a century ago, the steamship Yasoo, under the command of Captain L. D. Barrett, of Philadelphia, was slowly feeling her way down the harbor of Havana Lighters were towing alongside, and sailors and stevedores and lightermen were hustling to get the last package on board and still get past the ‘Mono* before sundown. Q The quartermaster was in the act of striking eight bells when a shrill shriek from aloft, followed by a bounding body and a splash in the sea, gave notice of a man overboard. The captain promptly signaled the engineer to reverse the engines. A big white life buoy, always ready, was well thrown by the long Purser Metcalfe, and a rush was made for the purser's gig. which was still hang ing by her falls, the gripes not hav ing been secured. As the drop of the boat from her falls was heard, a shrill whistle came over the waters, and the men buckled to their oars, shouting encouragingly to the swim mer. By ’this time the powerful en glnes had overoome the headway and the ship was backing as fast as the boat pulled, so that when the man and buoy were picked up they were almost alongside, and the boat and crew were lifted to the rail by the run. “Oh! I am all broke to pieees,”were the first words from the sea-soaked man. “Well, we’ve got the pieoes, go ahead with the ship,” was the cap tain’s answer. “Seven minutes, sir,’’ was reported by the quartermaster. “Seven minutes,sir,” from the engine room, and the crew went back to their duty after Beven minutes of the sharpest work ever done under the circumstances. HIS NAME IS “O.” Another Frenchman’* Surname Ie “E. F. G.,” Hothlnf More. A young soldier in the French army, who lately volunteered in the service, rejoices in the distinction of haring what would appear to be one of the oddest names on record. The unlucky lad is named Adolph Maximilien E. F. G., these three letters of the alpha bet being all he can boast of as a sur name. The recruiting Bergeant severely reprimanded the young volunteer for disrespectful joking when he spelled out his abbreviated patronymic, and was only convinced that the appella tion was bona fide when the lad showed him his papers. It seems, however, that there are queerer names than & F. G. For instance, a wine merchant living in the suburbs of Paris is called Mon sieur O. The name, by the way, is met with in Normandy, where a family was once known who bore the name d'O, with the title of marquis A member of the family, Francis d’O, was super intendent of finance under Henry III of France. One-letter patronymics, however, are not so uncommon as might be sup posed. There are said to be five per sons in Paris whose names are of this abbreviated type. SHE WOULD NOT TALK. After Eighteen Months the Lawyers Bad to Give Mrs. Meyer Up. Mrs. Henry C. F. Meyer, who was discharged from the tombs in New lont recently, is u living euutruuic tion of the theory that “women will talk.” She would not talk. Able lawyers and sharp men whose busi ness in life is to trip up the guilty or the innocent with equal facility, have tried to get her to make disclosures with equally discouraging results. Her husband is in Sing Sing on a life sentence for poison ing Ludwig Brandt, and she has spent eighteen months in jail in the hope that evidence could be procured to prove her an accessory to the crime, but through it all Mrs. Meyer has been as stolid and as im passive as if .she had never heard of the case. She has not even defended herself. During her imprisonment her 4-year-old boy was brought to see her at regular intervals. She was ever ready to talk about him and ex patiate on his beauty and his wonder ful knowledge of French, bat on any thing else evenly remotely eonnexsted with her husband’s imprison me nit and her own custody or the causes which led up to them she was as stoical as a Japanese idol. A Hint Jiot Well Taken:, A precocious and talkative boy it Tioga, who always places himself ia. evidence, no matter in whose com pany, received a motto from his father, which bore the legend: “Little children should be seen and not. heard.” The boy was not particularly pleased with the gift, but finally con sented to have it hung on the wall of his room. Recently his father had occasion to visit the room and the* motto was missing. The youngster was carefully interrogated, and with an air of conscious well doing, he answered: “I gave it to the deaf and dumb children in the asylum at> Mount Airy.” Thirty-Six Tons of Caterpillars. Thirty-six tons of caterpillars and & large number of cocoons were de stroyed in the effort to drive the pest: from the young plantations of trees: on Heng Kong island. They ap peared on the pine trees with which: the government is [trying to re-forest, the island, and lasted for two months. Stations were established where the> caterpillars were received and paid! for by weight. This method seems t» have been successful. It is estimated, that 35,000,000 insects were killed. « HA* a HARD HIAtk .„4„u 1h» mnWi Dam* at Those lit Is Ilk# a Sleds# Dammar. "Speaking of knockers," said Ed Coyne, who for the last ten years has been keeper of Daisy, the giant gi raffe at the Cineinnati soo, "do yon know that the giraffe U the original and natural knocker? Look at that long, slender neck, and the lumpy, bony head at the end of it. It re minds you of a sledge-hammer, and that is what it is In fact When Daisy gets excited she begins knocking; that is, she throws her head from side to side, using it like a hammer and dealing fearful blows with cer tain aim. If any other person beside myself should enter her stall he would get a blow from her head that would knock him senseless, anu then she would trample and kiok him to death. The animal has but a small brain and can not be reasoned with. The only way to get along with her is to be quiet and not got her excited. I can do about as I please with her. I enter the stall at all times, feed her, and brush her oft every day. She is a clean beast, and gives but little trou ble. A new keeper would have a hard time with her, as she knows me and will not lpt a stranger do any thing for her." The observant beast was standing at the other end of the stall, looking out of the window at a man who was walking on the hotel poroh, but on hearing her name called out, she came over and stuok her head out of the wire lattice and looked at the keeper with a bright look in her face. Daisy is the largest giraffe in captiv ity. She and her departed partner were bought by the zoo fourteen years ago. There was one offspring, but it died a few dava after birth. IT WAS AN AWFUL SHOCK. Not 10 Mach the Coincidence m the Ac tant Return of the Fifteen Dollar*. "Here is one of the odd coincidences of this life," said Williams. "Some time ago an acquaintance came to me and told me he was in great need of 915, and at considerable trouble to myself I let him have it He promised to return it in a few days. “When three weeks had elapsed I mentioned the matter to him casually and he was profusely apologetic— would send it to me the following day sure. It didn't come, though, nor did I get any word from him. About two weeks after I met him in Broadway. He declared it was a shame I hadn’t got my money and vowed he wouldn't let another day pass without paying me. It went along, then, for a week or ten days, and as my expenses were very heavy, I was considerably em barrassed and needed the money badly. One night, when I was feel ing particularly discouraged, I sat down and wrote him a note. I said: “My dear sir—About six weeks ago I loaned you $15. Lest the paying of it should occasion you any inconven ience allow me to hereby make you a present of the money.’ “That will bring it if anything will, thought I. Judge my surprise when by the next morning's mail I received a letter from the man inclosing the 915. By the same mail exactly he must have received mine making him a present of it, and by the dates both letters were evidently written at ibout the same hour." A Case of Spontaneous Ignition. The fact is well known that petro leum spirit, or benzine, is largely used in the silk and wool industries ana in cnemicai cleaning1 worus as a solvent for greasy impurities. It is extremely volatile and inflammable, and has often been suspected of being the cause of those mysterious fires which occasionally break out in works and factories where it is much used. One who has studied this phe nomenon declares that the ignition of this spirit is spontaneous, and is caused by electrical excitation—that is, in certain states of the atmosphere, particularly when it is cold and dry, the spirit becomes excited and ex hibits sparks and flashes of lights to the accompaniment of crackling sounds, and the ignition of the spirit may take place at any moment. He Loved Doe*. Monsieur X called the other day at a house where the love of dogs was carried almost to a mania. 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