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JUMPING DOWN A MOUNTAIN.
Snowthoe TIiomjiHon'n Ilcmarkable Leap of
180 t c:L
The sport of '"ski," or snov. shoo run
ning, so I :i popular in the Sierra
Nevada mountains, is beginning to be
practiced in some of the northern of
the Atlantic states. An eastern cx-
changu says:
'Ski m lining1, a Scandi-
liavian sport,
Minnesota.
is becoming popular in
The performer slides
long wooden skates, or
down hill on
foot toboggans, and at a prepared jolt
makes a leap into space. Ninety-live
feet is the longest ski jump on record
in Norway.
JMnety-uve reet seems a immense
leap, but it has been so far surpassed
in the Sierras that no caste ner need
ever try for the championship. The
champion ski runner and leaper of
the world was John A. Thompson
better known as "Snowshoe Thomp
son" who did in Alpine county,
Cal., about thirteen years ago.
Thompson was born at Upper Tins,
Prestiield, Norway, April IiO, l.v.T,
and died at his home in the Sierras
May 13, 1S7G. He was the father of
the whole race of snowshoe runners
of the mountain counties of Califor
nia. He made the first pair of Nor
wegian snowshoes ever seen on the
Pacific coast.
Thompson's greatest leap was made
on the side of a steep mountain just
west of the town of Genoa, Douglas
county. Darting down the side of the
steep mountain he made a leap of ISO
feet. This leap is vouched for by V.
P. Merrill, postmaster at Woodfords.
in the high Sierras, and by several
citizens ol Genoa. Tlie leap was made
from a terrace half way down the side
of the mountain, and the leaper landed
in a drift of snow over lilty feet in
depth, where for a time ho was buried
out of sight.
C. P. Gregory (now deceased), who
was for som-j years neighbor to bnow
Khoe Thonm.ion in the mountains,
e.ii.l in siK-akincr of the feats of the
great ski lcajer: "1 did not t-ce him
make his gn at jump oh' the sideof the
mountain back of Genoa, but I have
often seen him make h-apsof lifty and
sixty feet at Silver Mountain, Alpine
county."
The people of Silver Mountain min
in ramp were wont to mum thcrn
sefves in winter by descending a Lig
mountain near the town ami then
darting- down to a valley below on
their snowshoes. They had a starting
point only abor.t half way up the side
of the mountain. Snowshoe Thomp
son sometimes joined these parties of
ski runners. lie was not xilisIioJ with
a run down half a mountain he
wanted its 11. .
119 would circle round till he had
reached the hightest peak of the big
mountain. He would then utter the
wild war cry of the old Northmen, and
then with his balance pole xied hori
zontally before him i:i both hands,
would come Hying down the side of
the mountain like a fiend of the wind.
"When ho came near to tho crowd of
townspeople standing midway down
the mountain, Thompson would stoop
almost to the gtoiuuL then suddenly
TI1K
WILL OFFEE ON THURSDAY, APRIL 4,
HE
a
;;r high above the men and wo::
atciikig the descent. At timea
he
of
several leaps, each
from fifty to eighty feet
descent, II is ski leaping
in a single
was not a
little Iiiio "sky Hying."
Suowshoo Thompson was a very
sinewy and powerful man. Ho stood
six feet in his stockings and weighed
ISO pounds. Ho had the blonde hair
and beard and the blue eves of his
Scandinavian ancestors, tho old sea
roving Northmen. Virginia City En
terprise. Moil?;- hi little Thing.
"One of the best opportunities for a
young fellow to make money quickly
in these days, said a sell mad 3 mill
ionaire of this city recently, "is to
rack his brains until he has invented
something useful or that tho public
wants. A genera impression prevails
that it takes a. skilled engineer or a ma:i
of phenomenal inventive ability to de
velop anything1 useful to manufac
turers in this age of machin
ery. But there is a wide field
op?n to shrewd amateurs, so to
speak, to supply littlo articles of con
venience to housekeepers, shopkeepers,
etc., and designers can be had at rea
sonable rates to execute the idea once it
is conceived. American women are so
accustomed to getting what they want
that anything which lightens their
labors in the household is sure to 'go.'
When I was a boy on tho farm at
home my mother used to mnke me
clean all the dinner knives 0:1 Sun
day with bath brick. Now. scraDinr
this briek into a tine powder without
lumps in it, used to be the most tadious
part of ilie whole work. The other
d::y I heard of a man who has made a
fortune by supplying the trade with
p nvdered bath brirrks in neat packages.
Von know how duhcult it is to pick
up small coins from a wooden coun
ter. Yet the whole civilized world has
growled at and endured it since coins
a'oiv tt i 1 n 1 wj ''oi'.Ti s nvde un
til the other day a 3 01m"' fellow in
vented a rubber mat with little bris
tles of rubber standing up thickly all
over it. - Coins thrown on tho mat arc
as easily picked up as if they stood on
edge. The public was quick to ap
preciate it and the inventor need not
work for a living any longer. New
York Tribune.
Seasick on Land and Sea.
Ceil. Horace Porter, in his eulogy of ,
Abraham Lincoln, said that tho great I
cr pres. dent wasn t much as a cham
pague drinker. The general recalled
a vi!t of Mr. Lincoln to City Point.
On his arrival the general said that
:Ir. Lincoln was suffering from the
gastronomic disturbances incident to
uioit fol!is who have sailed on rough
water. "A young stuff officer, very
previous he was," said the general,
"grabbed a bottle of champagne and
thrut it toward Mr. Lincoln, saying
iiiat that was tlie very thing he needed.
'No, ycung man,' Mr. Lincoln said, 'I
bars f-eii too many fellows seasick
ashoro from drinking that .very aili-
clo. Lc troi 1 1 ree f ress.
DAILY JIKUALD: I'L ATTSMOIITli. NEliltASK A. TUESDAY,
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&Siowii in the city at prices whlcli will be tlie very lowest
ASSORTMENT CONSISTS OF
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Sorrow to Mattel. lS"anisook JFoimcIaigs from
Fonncings. Marrow Swiss Embroidery. HlamfeMrgli
3Ei2ifoiMery5 in all widths.
E. G. DOVEY & SON,
ANECDOTE OF HANNIBAL HAMLIN.
How
a Vice President of the United States
Served as a Private Soldier.
"Did you ever know," asked a gen
tleman at the Union League club ban
quet, "that Hannibal Hamlin once
served this government in a dual ca
pacity, holding a position near the top
of the ladder and another near the
bottom at one and the same time?"
The reporter admitted that he had
never heard of the incident.
"Well, he did," said tlie club man.
""While he was vice president of the
United States he served for a time as
a private in the volunteer army.
Queer idea, wasn't it? I'll tell you how
it happened.
"You see he was an honorary member
of a little company of militia in Ban-
l gor. Me., and when Lancolii issued his
! call for troops it nromntlv responded
and came to Washington. There it
was ordered to tlie navy yard to do
guard duty, and to the surprise of
every one Mr. Hamlin announced his
intention to go with it. vThe officers
rather rebelled at the idea of having
a vice president under them, but Mr.
Hamlin was determined.
" 'Why not?' he asked. 'If I'm a
good enough man to be an honorary
member of the company I guess I'm
good enough to be a private.'
"And he shouldered a gun and went
with them. Well, at the navy yard
there were, of course, more complica
tions. The otlicers decided that it
would not do to put the distinguished
private on guard duty, but he objected
again, and pertinently inquired:
" 'What am I hero for to look
pretty 1
"And the result was that he marched
up and down as a sentinel in his reg
ular turn. Odd, wasn't it? Imagine
the vice president of the United States
receiving orders from a sergeant of a
milita company.
"Then when the company was mus
tered out he was offered the regular
pay of a private for the time he was at
the navy yard, but he declined to ac
cept it.
" 'Why?' he was asked. 'You served
with tho rest of us.
" 'Well,' he said, 'I don't think it's
right for a man to draw pay twice
from the government, and, taking all
things into consideration, I believe I'd
rather draw the vice president s sal
ary
" Chicago Tribune.
Toad and Snakes.
Toads in the presence of snakes x.ra
ally remain perfectly still; in this is
their only safety, for did they make
tne least movement tnev would im
mediately be caught,
hungry snake lie in
hour for a frog to
I have known a
waiting over an
move, and even
pusu with the nose
to stir him up.
This has been called "snake charm
ing," and indeed it looks like it, but
tho toad is the charmer, the snake the
charniee.
I remember one day I dropped a
toad in the midst of a nit of snakes I
had in mv back vard
lie at once be- i
:amo nerfectlv still, thomrh surround
1 W more than a dozen bunarv '
i
m
1
t-3
snakes. There was a circie or rrcTce
heads and glaring eyes around him,
but ho would not move. The circle
narrowed, until the protruding tongues
almost touched him, yet he was im
movable. Just then I was called away
for over half an hour, but on return
ing found tho toad, in grave dignity,
still holding the fort by most masterly
inactivity.
The senses of seeing, hearing and
smelling are very defective in garters;
they can see but a few yards at most.
and even at short distances of but a
few inches they are often at fault.
A snake was seen pursuing'a frog in
a saw mill yard. The sawdust and
open space were greatly in favor of
the snake- and against tho frog. The
frog made long jumps and tlie snake
made a direct lino to the spot where he
alighted, but before reaching it the
frog had again jumped in another di
rection, and so the hunt went on for
about half a minute; the snake quite
unable to trace tho frog in his aerial
progress, was directed only by the dis
turbance made in alighting.
At last tho frog, more by accident
than design, alighted on the flat sur
face of a rough board, which stood
leaning against a pile of lumber at an
angle of about SO degs., and sat per
fectly still, about ten inches from the
ground. The snake was quite puzzled;
ho looked, listened, sniffed and poked
about for several minutes, passingclosc
to the end of the board several times, but
the hunt was an utter failure, and he
slunk away toward the brushwood, a
very mad and disgusted specimen.
Forest and Stream.
Tlio Grand 3r:ifti.
ne is nominated by the sultan, but
lie can only choose 0110 of tho three
highest functionaries; these, again,
are nominated by the sultan, but
under a similar restriction; and so
progressively downward, the sultan al
ways nominating, but only from tho
eligible persons determined and pre
sented by tho hierarchical progression
of the body itself. It finally rests upon
tho students in the different colleges
who are raised the first two steps by
collegiate degrees. Tlie grand mufti,
the cazaskicrs of Anatoly and Roum-
eiy, the three cadis of the first cities,
and some other dignitaries from the
supreme council of Ulema, or learned
men. The ordinary functions have
reference to their own corporation,
but in all extraordinary or doubtful
occasions they are consulted by the
government; they are not invited to
join tlTe divan, but the case is sub
mitted to them. Thus, for instance,
beforo the measures against Mehemet
All were adopted they were appealed
to, and it was on their felva itself, re
hearsed in the firman, that he was de
clared an outlaw, or, according to
their expression, a "Firmanli." The
case is not presented to them in the
form of documents to examine, but as
a solicitor preiares a case for submis
sion to counsel. -It is said: 'M. or N.
has done so and so. Is his act lawful
or unlawful; and if so, what is
tlie nenaltv?" This is the form in
I which cases with foreign powers are
submitted. Tlie National Ke view.
AI'IUL 189.
E. G. DOVEY & SON.
TALE WITHOUT A MORAL.
Three i(My. irii.My. Ii; tic fiieK.
ffHin a Mimnit-r's ila.y.
I'i '11 to so the outside ivorlj.
Kt-.-j ii vi-d to run au'uy
Old tirumlpa Fly sut on a hov.o.
And overheard the scheme.
Quoth he. Cliildren, l"m old on.l w ioe.
Have had that self same dreani.
"Though life so KUtterinjr seems to youth.
And ?verythir.K looks Kraud,
The world is treacherous at the best
Be careful where you stand."
Now, when the little flies heard this
Their spirits 'gan to droop.
When Grandpa Fly s.'ipped on the edf.
And fell into thesou(k. life.
Offending an Anel I'tiantircs.
MabelMother. I have broken my en
gagement with Arthur. No woman
could be happy with such a brute.
Mother Horrors! What have you
learned?
"Last nrjht I asked him to tack the
covor on my workbox and he. hit his fin
ger with the hammer, and, mother, he
said damn."
"I see. lie danced around the room
and swore a blue streak a yard long, and
threw the hammer out tlie window, and
kicked the workbox to pieces, and called
you a gibbering idiot, and"
"Why, no. he didn't; be only said
damn, and went on tcki::g,"
"What? Is tliatall? Oh. you foolish
child! You have lobt an angel." Phila
delphia Record.
From n:i C.i!iajiy Mother.
Among the letters of condolence which
Lmperor Francis Joseph receired oa the
death of his son va3 one signed by the
"Mother of Oberdank." In 18S2 Ober
dank was arrested for having a bhell in
his possession when the emperor visited
Trieste. He was tried and condemned to
death. His mother sent an appeal to
the emperor for his pardon. So did ictor
Iiugo. His majesty refused the pardon
and Oberdank was executed. "Unhappy
father!" says the mother in her letter to
the emperor. "I regret that on account
of the tragic death of your only son you
are compelled to feel the same pangs that
I. a ioor abandoned mother, felt on the
morning of Dec. 20, 1S82." Detroit Free
Press.
Fashion in beds 13 returning to tlie
four oster with a rich canopy and, as a
modern innovation, a shelf between the
upper posts for bottles, glasses, etc. In
the simple days of our grandparents the
eye opener was kept under the pillow in
a green bottle,
boo called three knights before her throat
Ah fair was she, I ween.
Their rightful liege and queen:
And then quoth she: "A task behold
To each a choice belongs; ,
One teaiis my wars, one guards my gold.
And one shall sing my songs '
Then forth there stepped the goodliest knight
That ever couched a lance:
Dark was his eye. and darkly bright
The soul within his glance:
He was the bravest of tlie three.
The idol of the thrones,
"Oh. queen he cried, "this choice to me,
That I may sing thy songs.''
-Ernest MoOa2-t.
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