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M Odd Methods of an EvaogclUt.
5 i i Thedeathof Miller Willis, the Georgia
Yvangehst. revives many interesting
1 ie. concerning his life and method.
"J J vas certainly the queerest haracti
A (. ' ever preached the Gospel at a camp
. If Wing, at which idacea he was evn-
O yfound- His pure and holy life,
rfj wever, was a model for all But about
inis metnods: He frequently stopped
siraLgars m the streets, and planting
himsolf in front of them would announce
some startling text and then disappear,
leaving the man or woman to preach the
sermon to his or her own liking.
For instance, he on one occasion
stopped a stranger and shouted in his
ears, "This ni?ht thy soul shall be re
quired or thee!" Willis vanished. But
a year afterward he met the man in an
other city. Willis had forgotten him,
bu' the stranger know hia man. Art
K'f Jiing him he extended his hand and
Mid: "That text you shouted out so
strangely tonne on the streets of Mil-
eville set me to thinking. It
was
i means of my conversion."
another occasion, a dark, rainv
night iri winter, he passed a crowded
hotel in the -city of Charleston. Men
were lounging ami smoking in the lobby.
tvuus oneueu the door, but the little
'VW in draping garments attracted no
ntion. Suddenly, after rapj;uig loud
n the floor with his heavy stick, every
rye was turned toward him, when Willis
aid, "There won't be a man in this
tiouse alive in fifty years from tonight!"
and ne slammed the door and went out
hnto the night.
Some time afterward he was an-
broached by a young man on a street
var, who introduced himself by saying:
i i nave long desired to meet you and to
thank you for saying what you did in
ne hotel lobby one winter's night. Your
oras nave been ringing in mvears ever
ince, and I am now a Christian man."
-Atlanta Constitution.
The Key or Death.
A'jout the year 1600 a stranger named
U'ebaldo established himself as a mer-
hant in Venice. Soon becoming infatn
ted with the daughter of one of the
jost ancient and wealthy families he
ked her hand and was rejected, the
oung lady being already affianced.
alf crazed and thoroughly enraged he
anned revenge. Being an excellent
'Kihanio he soon evolved a most formi-
looking key. The handle of this
e weapon could be easily turned.
; turned it disclosed a spring with a
le in the shane of a needle of ex-
V f fineness. With this weapon Te-
t i fiaiden he loved passed in on the
f ,"!ng of her marriage. When the
,ndegroom appeared the desperate lover,
operceived, sent the slender poisoned
.eedle into his rival's breast, and within
n hour he was dead of a "strange, baf-
jng disease."
Again lebaldo demanded the hand of
6,ie
Tiw
V
e maiden, but was refused. Within a
days both her parents had died in
very mysterious manner. Suspicion
ig excited, examination was made.
v' ihe small steel instruments found
. flesh in both cases. One day the
ten allowed lebaldo an aiuIiptk'a.
'j. bid him that she would never be
bi'de. Within an hour she was a
fam Tebaldo was suspected, the key
jscovered and the culprit hanged. The
unrated "key of death is still shown
the curious visitor of the Venice
useum. St. Louis Republic
A Convenient Ring.
The following incident happened at
-rwille, Cal.i It was a handsome soli
j'tb, and she evidently desired the jew
' r to know that it was her engagement
"I would like to have this ring cut
wn to Buit my finger," said the hand
me heart smasher, as she flourished
e brilliant ring before the eyes of the
weler.
'"ifc jeweler took the ring and smiled
e had seen It before.
'I can fix that in a minute," replied
Screwing a magnifying glass in his
and takiug a small sharp pointed
itrument in his hand, ne touched a
1 .ute button on the inside of the ring
d nwle it the exact size, saying, as he
tce&v on her finger, "You see these
gs are made in this manner for the
ison that tney are worn oy so many
flerent people; it is a great conven
ice.
The young lady sailed out of the store
rning with iudignation, and the rea
l she did not fly was because she didn't
ve the wings. What did she think?
1 u know, and it is only necessary to
te that she did not wear the rinor.
lot'.Ar girl has it now, but this time
i jeweler was not permitted to touch
button the young man did it him'
f. Jewelers' Circular.
A Deaf Hate Cow.
vlexander Skerkoff, the Russian vet
lary Burgeon, reports ine case or a
f mute sow. She is 12 years old, of
va breed, belongs to a Russian no-
and has never showed signs of
or been known to bellow. See-
other cows bellow, she tries to
fj f them, stretching out her head
i jfc 'muK uer muth, not, however,
tVCTig me teasi semblance to a
yud. Two of her offspring have been
lousiy maiionneo. une had us tail
ectly between the eyes; it lived but a
ek. The other is a full grown cow of
vears, with ner uauer in her flank.
ut eight inches from her backbone.
udon Tit-Bits.
Indian Name.
station not very far from Pitta-
g, on the Baltimore ana Uhio rail-
1, has the good old English name of
,o. in announcing it mere is no r
tunity for the brakemen to disguise
word, ns he is too apt to do with the
ie.vf other places.
i"Jmin neared the town not long
the word was distinctly shouted,
. a passenger was heard to say to the
l sharing his seat:
Bow many towns in this part of the
1'itry juave Indian names? Jnst thi uk
Ht-iolio, Monongahela and Dn
V'Tall near together. Youth's Com-
Ojitax TroipecU Are Good.
The rast few weeks have been bus?
ones with the oyster planters, and lovers
or the oyster will be glad to hear that
the prospecta of a large set are good, and
the bivalve should be rdmty the coming
season. It in estimated that over a mil
lion bushels of shells have been laid
down here, the lareest planters beimr H.
C. Row A Co., 130,000 bushels; Luding-
ton k.o., 73,000; F. Mansfield & Sons,
70,000; C. Parmalee, 40.000; Lanoraft
Bros., 100.000; Chipman & Co.. 95.000:
Bishop A Co., 85,000; B. M. Rowe & Son,
30,000; Guuu & Co., 25,000; Jeremiah
fcmith & Sons, 100,000; C. D. Parmalee,
4;,000; M. Coleman. 20,000; Isaao E.
Brown, 23,000.
Many of the large dealers here have
beds at Stratford, Korwalk and Bridge
port, and reiorts from these sections ar;
equally encouraging. The value of the
shells delivered Ht the beds is aln.ut
eight cents ht bushel, which gives smiu
idea of the importance of the ovst r in
dustry, a poor set meaning a sure loa to
the planters.
Clams are very scarce at the grounds
around bavin Itock, Oyster Point,
Crane's Bar and South End, and the few-
dug are small and lack sweetness. Large
quantities are being brought hero from
Martha's Vineyard in sloops. These are
planted in tho Qninnipiac river and duy
as required for tho trade. Lobsters are
very scarce and tho trade is so unprofit
able that but few pots are placed. Crabs,
on the coutrary, aro unusually plenty,
and large catches are made in all the
bays and inlets, New Haven Letter.
Wonderful Growth ut Electric Travel.
Only twelve years have elapsed since
the first crude suggestions of the prac
tical working of an electric railway were
made, and four years ago a list of a
dozen would comprise every such road
in the world in even passably successful
operation, whatever the method of ap
plication The first large commercial
electric railway was, after many difficul
ties and discouragements, opened in the
early part of 1838 at Richmond, Va.,
and since that demonstration was made
the industry has grown until there arj
now in operation or under contract, on
the general lines laid down at Richmond,
not less than 330 roads in the United
States, Europe, Australia and Japan, re
quiring more than 4,000 cars and 7,000
motors, with more than 2,000 miles of
track, a daily mileage of nearly 500,000
miles, and carrying nearly a billion pas
sengers annually. Fully 10,000 people
aro employed on these roads, and there
has never been au authenticated report
of death on account of the electrical
pressure used. Over f30,000,000 are in
vested in this industry in this country
alone. Frank J. Sprague in Forum.
Co Id In Summer,
To talk of guarding against cold in
summer seems absurd, and yet it is as
necessary as in winter. Where the cli
mate is changeable a hot day is often
followed by a cool evening or a sudden
rainstorm chills the air, or a cold wind
springs up, grateful after the heat but
dangerous to those who are thinly clad
unless they are protected from it by
proper covering.
Cotton is a good conductor of heat
and allows it to escape rapidly from the
surface of the body. As soon as ths
surrounding air becomes cooler than the
6kin it steals the heat which the body re
quires for its own needs. A fresh sup
ply of heat must be produced, and thus
the system is overtaxed to supply the
demands of the robber. Flannel is a
bad conductor and guards the tender
body more faithfully, retaining the heat.
Elizabeth R. Scovil in Ladies' Ilomfi
Journal.
Fifty Feet f Hattletnakei.
Charles Everitt and a party of frienls
were enjoying themselves in the woods
near Stroudshurg, Sunday, when they
suddenly found that they were in a den
of rattlesnakes. On every Bide were big
black rattlers, making the air ring with
the weird musio of their tails. Everitt
and the others pitched into the snakes
with clubs and stones and succeeded in
killing thirteen. Double that many mora
escaped. When the rattles were counted
on the dead reptiles it was found that
they numbered 112, while the total length
of the snakes was over fifty feet. Port
Jervis (N. Y.) Union.
Vlnltori to nurna' Monument.
The visitors to Burns' monument dur
ing the late Glasgow fair week fairly
broke the record iu point of numbers.
Fully 2,000 jwrsons paid for admission
to the monument during the week, being
about 200 in excess of any previous year.
It is estimated that about one in three of
those who go out to the Banks of Doon
go in to see the monument, and, accord
ing to this calculation, no fewer than
6,000 strangers made pilgrimages to the
spot during the week. Ayr (Scotland)
Advertiser.
Travela of a Needle.
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?ViTt I
right arm just above the elbow. Little
was thought of the occurrence until a
few days ago, when she suffered great
pain in her left arm. The family phy- j
sician made an examination and found .
the pain was caused by the needle,)
which was removed. During the twenty j
years intervening the needle traveled up .
the right arm, across the shoulder and
down the left arm. Philadelphia Press. I
U7 . Z Z . , 1
A West Chester (Pa.) man, who went
to his stable yard early the other morn-;
ing to investigate a queer noise, found
a norse nad broken loose and a doe
holding on to the halter to prevent the
animal leaving the premises.
Mrs. Thomas Maxwell displays a ripe
and well matured fig which was -grown
at her home iu Linneus, Mo. The tree
which bore it 18 several vears old. and
this is the second year it has produced
the famous fruit. ;
Owing principally to
amount of snow in the
j
the immense
inOUntaiUB Of
rvin.. i in . 7.
L-OloradO this VPsr tha wnfer hm tnr.
ni.i.H fniur i "i -i j
St- ifn ?vd P H4cer8a,ld Bllver deT
posiU will be utiluedtoa greater extent
than ever before.
Colonel Davie' I'eoull.r Lack al Ffttiltig.
Colonel J. M. Davis lately Mturned
from an extended southern trip. While
at Las Veg;w, N. M., he went on a fish
ing frolic with Ueneral Miles. He en
tertained his frieuds by relating nia ex
perience. Conservative men pronounced
hi narrative a trifle unfounded, but the
colonel swears that every word is true.
"Talk about trout!" he screamed
"You never fished unless yon have
dropped your line in the cold, swift Gal
linas river, about five miles north of the
Las Vegas hot springs.
"General Miles and I took out seventy-eight
speckled beauties in oneafter
nou there. 1 got one fellow that
weighed thirty-seven pounds, but it took
me four hours to land him.
"General Miles had gone back to th
spring for his luncheon and I was about
to follow hn when 1 thought a row
bont hail got on my hook. In a moment
I knew it was a monster fish.
'Td made books ou the fact that it
was a devilfish, but never dreamed it
was a trout I gave it all my line, and
the finoke was just pouring from my
reel. Presently the fish stopped audi
began to take in the line.
"This performance lasted nearly four
hours. I had a very small polo and line
and could take no chances, Once I got
the fish out of tho water for a second.
He frightened me.
"I'm not naturally a coward, but I
had a notion of running when I saw that
immense thing on my hook. 1 was well
nigh exhausted and was about to throw
iu my Hue when a terrilic hailstorm
came up.
"Just as a fearful blast came down I
jerked tho trout out of the water a few
inches and a huge hailstone struck him
between the eyes. He wiggled his tail
for a second as if in deep thought, then
turned over, stunned." Chicago Herald.
Savernitke and IU Noble Lord.
The Marquis of Ailesbury, who is ap
plying to the courts for ierniis8ion to
sell his estates to Lord Iveagh for 750,-
000, was better known to the public as
Lord Savesnake. The lands in question
came into possession of the family
through an ancestor who married the
heiress of one of the wealthy Seymours,
the Dukes of Somerset One of the Sey
mours had previously married a daugh
ter of Sir William Sturmy, of Chadham
in Wiltshire, the male members of whose
family had been bailiffs of the Royal
Forest of Savernake since the davs of
Heury IL Tottenham Park, so long the
chief seat of the Ailesburys, is situated
iu Savernake forest.
As things go in these degenerate days
750,000 seems a very fair price for 40,
000 acres. The marquis' reply, when
asked whether he had made any provi
sion for the housing of the valuable heir
looms in the mansion "Well, now it's a
very funny thing, but 1 only thought of
that myself yesterday" was just what
might have been expected from this sprig
of the aristocracy. His lordship has only
had the estate for some five years, and
yet he has succeeded in loading it with
incumbrances to the extent of some
350,000!-Pall Mall Gazette.
Hough on the Uudei.
K. H. Beckjord is the name of the del
egate from St Paul to the tailors' con
vention. He has made a veritable host
of friends here. "I was creatly troubled
with dudes and other fashionable young
men who refused to pay their bills with
me until recently, when I hit upon a new
plan which has caused them since to pay
their bills promptly when due, 1 got a
bulletin board abont six feet high and
placed it in front of my establishment
and on this I pasted all the bills which
the young bloods owed me. You can
imagine the result. The dudes were
furious. They claimed their characters
had been ruined, but at last they calmed
down, and after talking for awhile they
one and all paid their bills, and have
done so since, but nevertheless I still
keep my bulletin board like a sentinel
before my shop." St. Louis Globe-Democrat
No Cau Even for the Rlrh.
"It is the rich men who are apparently
suffering most from the stringency of
the money market," said a Wall street
broker. "There are millionaires here
who can't raise a thousand dollars cash
without borrowing. Now, that's a fact
Tliey may have plenty of securities.
There are loU of gilt edged securities,
but they don't represent ready money.
The ready money is not to be had when
everybody wants it most Then is when
it slyly sinks out of sight. Then is when
every mau and corporation with out
standing contracts gets stuck more or
lesa."-New York Herald.
Measagei from the Dying Meet.
M. Ragsdale is the Denison agent of a
northern brewery. He hits been serious
ly ill several days, and a messenger boy
was sent to the telegraph office with a
message to be forwarded to Mr. Rags
dale's sister at Whitesboro asking her to
come immediately as lw did not expec
to live long. While awaiting its Z
awaiting its turn
for the wire a message came from Whites
boro, directed to Mr. Ragsdale, stating
mat the lady was dying, and that if he
wished to see his sister alive to come on
the first train. Cor. Dallas (Tex.) News.
A Terrible Revenge.
Manville (very much excited) He
ruined me in business. He smirched
my good name. He filched from me the
girl I loved, but at last, ha! ha! I am
revenged'
jones-Good gracious! What did you
j0y
fnntrilla lilacniirv tliitirrli Ui
teethV - I recommended him to snnn.l hi.
: holidays at the seaside lodgings I had
' last year, and he's going to do it Ex
change. Killed by Lightning While Praying.
At the innnest mmn th hlv Mr
Catharine A. Cody, of Fifty-first and
Arch streets, who was killed by light-
ning during the storm of ednosday, it
was developed that immediately before
tho tf.rril.la r.r.r,rr lii,.h D,.,..r,.,;.l
urn wruuie rrnon wiucn accompa
... j . , .
ineaeauiy stroKe airs, uxiy, who was
in mortal fear of lightning, had been on
hpr knee. nravillJ LphilanVlnhi uL
ord.
Skill In a Canoe Raee.
That the skill of the canoe sailer tin
more to do with the winning of races
than sail spread or of hull U:a
bim proved aKHtfWk-vn. A c uioe
designed by W. pwiVlU fur the sec
retary of tlie New Vrhk Canoe elnb on
1 1. leu uitl'enng troiu anything In ;ore pro
duced has sailed in a number of tho lo
cal New York races lately. This canoe
U a erfect I'ieee of work, S' far as con
struction gi os Knootli, fair and well
p:oportioiie.!. Its poanli'ir feunv is a
"ery deep, thin underwater body aft.
Everything about the canoe xuggvats
Fpet.l, and yt t it lias not won a rice.
Perhaps it wi'l I iter on, when Shipper
Stephens has completed his "tuning up"
process.
In marked contrast totlrs result Is the
succem that some of the older canoe
have had by being well sailed and prop
erly equiped, notably the Nests, owned
by Daniel Goudsell, of Yonkers. The
Eclipse is also a comparatively old canoe
with a reputation, and it is sure of a
good place iu the rices when fairly well
handled unless something breaks which
has been a rather Ux common occur
rence of late. A strong and handy rig
in the hands of a clever sailor will often
land a-i old canoe e ver the finwhing line
far in the lead. The races during Juno
on Hoiulon lake, neur London, England,
illustrated this principle very clearly.
The winner was the only survivor of a
fleet of six in one race. All the other
canoes either upset or broke down.
Sail and Paddle.
A Itig Vear fur Km It.
Fruit has not been so plentiful and no
cheap fur many seasons as it is this year.
For the past month the fruit stands have
been laden with large juicy Bartlett
pears and delicious, rosy peaches, and
now grapes are making their appearauce.
All are unusually cheap, too, and tho
demand is larger than it has been for
years. A leading Fultou street dealer
said the other day that he was reaping a
golden harvest this summer. "How is
thatr I asked. "Oh!" lie replied, "fruit
is so plentiful that I can keep the prices
down; and so long as such splendid pears
and peaches and melons and plums as
these ar cheap everybody who can
afford it i going to enjoy them. Last
year the poorer class of my customers
didn't get any fruit, nor did they the
year before. They couldn't afford to
buy it, and they wouldn't have douo so
if they could, for there was no fruit
worth having at any price. This year
there's any amount of it, and it's all
cheap. Everybody is hungry for fruit
after being deuied it for such a long
time, and consequently, as I said before,
we dealers ure reaping a rich harvest."
Brooklyn Eagle.
Coat of Filtering Air.
The air of the house of commons was
filtered last winter at a cost of sixty
poundB for cotton wool, besides the two
or three hundred pounds originally spent
on the steam that worked the fans that
drove the air in. The layers of cotton
wool used were six feet thick, and had
to be changed three times, the outer lay
ers in a very fchort time becoming black
and full of an oily and sooty substance,
with the smell of a very bad fog, though
the heaviest particles had been removed
by passing the air through water.
On one occasion the filter had to be re
newed after only forty-eight hours' use,
a dense fog having lasted the whole of
that time. This information was given
to a parliamentary committee by Mr.
William Prim, consulting engineer to
her majesty's office of works. London
Tit-Bits.
Slept In Hie Collin.
There has just died at St. Joseph's hos
pital, in Chippewa Falls, an eccentric in
dividual called Andreas Lowea. He was
born in lf31 in Lower Bavaria. His
trade was a worker in woods, which he
learned in the piano factory in Munich.
Perhaps no man in the United States
has acquired like skill in renovating
woodwork and restoring its polish.
About ten years ago he built a repair
shop, in which he lived, doing his own
cooking, for he was never married. He
manufactured a beautiful coffin com
posed of different kinds of wood, in
which he slept despite the persuasions of
intimate friends. Chicago Herald.
Cant Iron Railway Bridget.
Sir John Fowler's rejiort to the di
rectors of the London and Brighton rail
way with reference to their bridges
states that the company has 171 cast
iron bridges altogether, and that eighty
one of these ought within three years to
be replaced with wrought iroa or ateel
structures. He does not state that any
of them are unsafe, and concludes his
report by saying, "The result of my in
vestigation does not indicate any unusual
weakness in the Brighton bridges, which
are neither bettor nor worse than those
of similar lines of railways at home and
abroad." London Tit-Bits.
Miss Antoinette EuagKS, a college ed
ucated young woman of Ohio, owns and
manages a farm of 200 acres. She car
ries ou her work according to the theories
of books, rather than by ancient tradi
tions, and, contrary to the usual impres
sion about book farmers, she is making
a success of her undertaking.
The land which the Jewish bankers
have bought iu 1'alestine contains 10,000,
000 square meters. The Jews are leaving
Odessa every day by thousands for Pal
estine. Baron Rothschild is expected at
Jaffa, and is said to Intend buying 5,000,
000 meters more of fertile land east f
the Jordan.
The other iiigiit at Retford Junction,
England, an immense swarra of bees set
tled in a lamp case on a signal, and the
lamp could not le placed in position
without considerable danger. Conse
quently the signal was abandoned all
night and fog signals substitnted.
Rev. Edward Beecher's adopted daugh
ter received at her baptism the name of
Voice Adams. She was one of a family
of fifteen children, whom her father, a
great-grandeon of John Qulncy Adams,
supported by lecturing ou "The Voice of
Nature."
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