Ab A.tcni.lied ll.li.f-. King M'Bora of Butaritari spent t lours at the Olympic club, and wl probably more amused and surprise ihau by anything; else he has seeu t San Francisco. The member wli nrura nrmpnt oractising in th ... x 1 Wealthy 11 Descendiiiir to ut Insane. the first rioor the lin ked doors M the right of the parlor opened ujon the private suite of ;irt nients occupied by the insane Chicago millionaire, E. J. I-ehman. Mr. Io nian wa and is : 1 11 the proprietor of gymnasium gave an impromptu ei-1 Upge.st retail dry goods store in hibition, which interested his utb : Chicago. Sea majesty yery much, and he gave , jhman is suffering from a form nf Mini aliliouirh he is but evidence of this in grunts and uj gestures of surprise, and almost of fear, at some of the feats of the athletes. Thn tumhlinir was a surprise to him. and he could not understand. 41 ears old there is not the slightest hoe of his recovery. He lives like a king in n.i,tmor.ta ami liia funiilv liav for ...... -la 1,13 al'"' Li"- V ni.e ... i i.i...,!itn ' the luxuries W lU a ro;ai liiKr.aiiij. He has three apartments, which oc- i. ..-i,!., ,,f tilt, hmiw on CUJI OIL LUC si'.i. v. For these rooms and Professors Tronchet ana tnapius n: fn(intf how it was that they did not " " O) Ll .1 J U n-...wlr Kit ho f n ! prop ueau uCu BUu , , ower floor burlesque coxing conies euu...s ..., L eiM a wet.k. Then pell "faked" knockout was arrange V tor the king and his par y Pro esso, TJjMe PeWitt Van Court and Philip Boulc J7i,iiri..l. Were the boxers, and they gave an ex hibition which interested his island ttajesty more than the genuine light ie saw at the California club. At the md Boulo was apparently knocked out snd he was carried out of the room imp and motionless. Of course he im mediately returned, and as he appeared he king allowed a sigh of relief to es 3pe him, and remarked through ths nterpreter that he was glad the little fellow had not been killed, as he was ec lucky. After ths exhibition King M'Bora and his party were shown through the IJiympic club building. In the billiard room he had his first meeting with a piece of ice. His dusky majesty was given a glass of ice water m response tc ft request lor a drink. He saw the piece of ice floating in the water and :ould not understand what it was. He put his royal right hand into the glass md seized the cube of ice, but immed Btely dropped it and jumped back leverely frightened. After an explana tion he picked up the ice again and watched it slowly melt in his hand. He teemed to partially understand the philosophy of the thing and gave au order for au ice making machine, which he will take to liutaritari with him to tool his royal throat on hot summei days. In the ladies' parlor the glass chande tier was lighted by electricity, and the king immediately wanted to know where the oil tank was. He had had some experience with gas before. The first night at his hotel, after having seen the gas turned on and lighted, he nearly terminated his royal career by playing the Farmer Waykack act. lie turned on the gas and lay down wait ing for the gas to light itself. One of the members of the Olympic club who was going through the rooms with the party wanted the king to talk through the telephone. His majesty had already had an experienc and was so shocked that he did not care for an other. It was at Sutro Heights on his He keep his horses and carriages and rides out once a day. ( )ne of the at tendants does the driving, while the other two sit on either side of him. For the many other luxuries he enjoys Mr. Lehman pays out in all $100 a week. He pays more than any other in mate of the asylum. "W hile at times he is quiet and pleas ant Mr. Lehman is one of the wildest men in the asvlum when an irsane fit strikes him. It is because of this that it is necessary to keep three attendants watching him. He has smashed thou sands of dollars' worth of furniture since his incarceration. lie is a tall, athletically build man, and is possessed of enormous strength when he becomes wild. Although his three attendants are all trained athletes they have great ditliculty in holding him at times. "While lie sleeps in one of the small rooms an attandant sits at his bedside and watches all night, while the other two sleep in the large room few feet distance. In addition to the usual iron gratings on the windows several strong barr have been placed. .Several times a week the Chicago millionaire tries to break out of the rooms, lie has almost wrenched the iron gratings from theis places, and on one occasion almost suc ceeded in climbing up the wall to the glass transom above the top of the door and breaking through. To guard against a repetition of this the glass has been removed and wooden boards have been nailed in its place. About once a month Mr. Lehman's wife comes on from Chicago to see her husband, (ometimes she brings one of her four children with her. .She is not permitted to speak to him or allowed him to see her. "While she stands in one part of the grnund he is driven past her in ids car riage, and in Uiis way she is enabled to catch a glimpse of his face. In his rational moments Mr. Lehman talks to his attendants about his wife spent sometime on the Gilbert islands, went to the stables on the place while the king was in Mr. Sutro's house When the telephone connection was made King M'I5ora was asked to put the receiver to his ear. As he did so he heard words in his native language, and he dropped the instrument as if struck by lightning. A long explana tion could not fully satisfy his mysti fied majesty. The king and his part remained at the rooms of the club un til nearly midnight. San Francis? Chronicle. l" pud His Mind. Several men were in the drug story And were relating incident where- visit Sunday. W. Lauterback, who and children. He says that he has the sweetest family in the world and that they all love him. In his parlor Mr. Lehman has a hand lomely carved organ. He is very fond if music and as a musician of no insig nificant skilL lie plays upon the rgan at times half the day and com pletely enchants the other inmates of the house. Xew York Journal. a i Hi Shadow n the ! road. ing up a I Anasagunticook. A Snake in the Water Tine. n incident bap;--J in The Tri bune building which may be an Uct ual warning against drinking water from ojien faucets or from any vessel in the dark. Mrs. Finn, one of the women who clean the offices, was draw ing water from a faucet at a sink on seventh floor when she was startled bv the sudden appearance of an extremely lively snake alout two feet long. Mrs I'i.ni a-its n't tookins for snakes or think- in? about them just then, and when just rising and this one emerged from the faucet she dr. p ed her mop and pail and fit d screaming through the corridors and down the stairs. The janitor finally caught her and ob tained a somewhat incoherent explana tion. Seizing a stout stick, the janitor hurried up to the seventh lloor, where he found the snake crawling in lively fashion over the tiled floor. The jani tor was not frightened, and he soon crushed the reptile's head. It wa3 a common water snake, not poisonous, but a decidedly unpleasant thing to across in water used for drinking pur poses. Xew York Tribune. tural phenomenon is re- of How to Measure AYlieat. About the time that Daniel Drew be gan his Wall street career he was up i the country one time to visit some friends, and two farmers called upon him to decide a case. One had sold the other live bushels of wheat, and pro posed to measure it in a half bushel and sweep the top of the measure with a stick. The other objected, and I'ncle Daniel was asked to decide. "Well, legally speaking, a bushel is only a bushel," he answered. '-And can the measure be swept oil" "I think it can." 'Well, if I was selling wheat I should probably use half the head for a llour barrel." "Which edge of it? "Gentlemen, that is a point I cannot now decide on," sighed the old man. "I f I was selling to a widow or a preacher I am certain that I should sweep the measure with the straight edge, but if I was selling to a man who pastures his cows in the road and his pigs in his neighbor's corn I'm afraid 1 should nse the circular side and scoop a little to boot." Wall Street Xews. The Servian government has decided to do everthiug in its power to develop the pig trade, and a contract has just been signed by which a well known English firm are bound to slaunhter 100,000 pigs at Xitsch during next year and 150,000 in lV.ri, and the number is to go on increasing until ls',1.5, when 300,000 are to be killed there. Itegiiiuing Young. The Xew Y'ork Times says at a re fent Gilmore concert at Manhattan beach was a baby who, on account of ber beauty was taking the attention of the audience in her immediate vicinity from Patrick Sarsfield and his musici ans. The child so several of the in druggists had sold poison by ( women said, and the men evidently mistake. One of them dwelt at length ' thought was too lovely for anything, upon the mysterious force that seemed Her chief beauty was the golden ring to impel men to do just the thing they lets that reaped from under her hat and fully intend not to do. It was this made a regular halo around the chub. great sense of caution on the part of druggists that led them to administer poison when they least intended to do so. The young drug clerk behind the counter was listening to the conversa tion when a lady entered the store and asked to purchase some salts. A cloud of uncertainty, born of the stories he bad listened to, seemed to be over the clerk's mind as filled the prescription. The lady had been gone but a few min utes when something startling dawned on the clerk's mind. : "GentlemeD, watch this store for me till 1 return," he said, as be dashed out af the door and up the street. They ere sure something serious had ccured. Presently the clerk returned (is hands trembling and prespiration in his brow. - "Gentlemen," he said, in explanation of his absence, " that lady who called wished to purchase salt;, but your itories so upset me that" "you sold her sugar of lead," said two men the same breath. "No, I sold her salts, but 1 got to thinking about it and thought I had made a mistake, and not till I had overtaken her and examined the drug was I convinced' that 1 had not."-. Ifaicago Times. Countryman What's the good of all Itese stone pavements ? City Man Up town the pavements iccomodate the crowds who wish to itand and gaze at shop windows Down town the pavements are for the lonvenlenee of draymen who wish to tnload. New York Weekly. Some one hai written of "Ten Min utes with a Tiger " Firs minutes Is long eons. by face. Baby had climbed by the aid of the seat back to a standing position, and was cooing lovingly at an old gentle man behind her. The old gentleman pulled one of the golden ringlets. With a quick movement the little one drew her hat off and held it out to him. All the beautiful ringlets went with the hat. They were sewed around the edge of the hat, The lovely child stood there an ordinary looking baby with turn straggly locks of a different hue from the golden curls. From lican and Beef. i . i ..... .I i . . . viivci iLiicucix-n, u.e 1'arK row ocans and beef man, has made more money from the sale of the two articles of diet mentioned than any other man in the world. His fortune is estimated to be .o0,000. He is said to own con siderable stock in the Xew York Cen tral railroad and to have a large sum invested in Donas ana mortgages. He is a remarkably sturdy man for his age he being 74 years of age. Every day unas mm ueinna ins counter, at the corner of Beekman street, slicing the juicy cornbeef pt ladling out the Bos ton vegetable. ' lie works only four hours a day now, Mr. Hitchcock began selling beef and beans forty years ago, and he has been at it continually ever since. Some of the most famous newspaper men of aew xork city nave dined at his hum ble restaurant. Horace Greeley was one of Hitchcock's regular customers. Hitchcock cannot remember why he made a specialty of beef and beans, but he has tangible evidence that If these articles are properly.cooked and decent ly served they will bring a handsome ! d meeting, jemuneratlon. New York Journal ' Free Press. Nature's Htitnulauttt Emerson, remembering the habits of conviviality to which some under graduates succum , once said: Did you ever think about the logic of stimulus? Nature supplies her own. It is astonishing what she will do if you will give her a chance. In how short a time she will revive the over tired brain! A breath under the apple tree, a siesta on the gras3, a whiff of wind, an interval of retirement, and the balance and the serenity are re stored. A clean creature needs so lit tle and responds so readily. There is something as miraculous as the gos pels in it. ' Later in life society becomes a stiiu ulnt. Occasionally the gentle exci tation of a cup of tea Is needed. A mind invents its own tonics, by which, without permanent injuries, it makes rapid rallies and enjoys good mood'!, Conversation is an excitant, and the series of intoxicants it excites is health fuL But tobacco what rude crobar is that with wlfch to pry into the deli cate tissues of the brain:" it. must not ue interred from this passage that Emerson himself was a total abstainer from tobacco, thouirh he smoked but rarely, but never until he was 50. Pittsburg Dispatch. . Warping ofAVood. As lumber is now sawn, every board but one will warp and curl up ju the process of seasoning. The reason for this is plain, if the board be t from the side of the log the grain rings of the wood lie in circles, which have a greater length on one than upon the other side of the board. A board put from the very center of the loir has grain circles of equal length upon each side, and will lie perfectly flat when seasoned. When selecting the lumber for a tool chest or some other fine job. Dick nut boards that show they came as near as possible from the center of the kw a. miciuuu is in use which compensates for this tendency to curl in seasonm This is known as quarter sawing, and quarter oan, oi wmch so much is said at present, is sawn by this process. ii consists or cutting out boards rarfi.i. ly from the center to the outside of th. log. Suppose a log to be split in four pieces, eacn, or these pieces is sawn diagnoally, so that the main rinn mn u i ... . . mruugii, i.wieau oi uie circles running into it, partway through and out, upon u oi me board. Wood worker. Kiinru'iir naturall ported by Sui-rintendent Uiw.u. t i,.f,r Kiillsand lincktield ra. 11JC UUUI"" Ui foSCT morning l . a.- hill on the ea t side ol i-a-e As he tieared the .. 1 summit he came into clear auiio.r. and could look upon a wa of a.r us it lav over the lake and valleys, with now' and then a mountain t..p t.hwi wtl,H m-neral leveL The sun was I i,.t risintr and. as in usual under such conditions, a rainbow was seen in the fog. But what attracted Mr. Lincoln's at tention in particularly was the pretence of a bright spot in the center of the circle particularly described by the rain bow. This was so luminous that at first Mr. Lincoln thought it might be farm buildings on lire some Utancv j away in the fog. This supposition was soon disK-l!ed by further developments. The bright central spot was sur rounded by circles of radiating light composed of tl.e many hues of the rain bow, forming a beautiful halo. J 'us, ing along Mr. Lincoln noticed a dark sjMit on the surface of the sun's rt fact ion, and was soonwhat startlod to dis cover that it moved across the circle in the direction he wai walking. Hemm ing to the point where the shadow came in the center of the illuminated circle lie began movements of the arms, and found that they were distinctly imitat edbythe thadow which apieared in the bank of fog a mile away. As the sun rose higher the reflection sank 1 wer, and was finally lost in thewaiers of the placid lake.-Cantou Telephone. The Robber's !;; Was Tag l- Chief of Police SM-ers received a let 'er from the chief of police at Kokonio. Iml., stating that a daring burglary had r cently been committed in that town. The robbers who did the work, the lett ter stated, had a dog w ith them and there wasalso a dog on the premises of the man whose house was burglarized. The two dogs got to fighting, and the robbers' dog was killed and its owners left its carcase in tho yard w here it fell. Around the dead animal's neck was a collar;and fastened to it was a Kan sas City dog tax that showed that it had been issued in IW. Chief Speers urnul Hie letter ana me number or the dog tag over to the city clerk, who by looking over the records for 1HV.I found the name of the man to whom the lag had been issued. His residence was given as East Seventeenth street When the city clerk looked in the directory to see if the man still resided on East Seventeenth street he found opposite the name in brackets the words, "Removed to Kokonio, Ind.' The authorities at Kokonio have been notiiied. Kansas City Times. Ton 51 uch Nbade. In a nx-ent number of Ths Sanitari .n Dr. W. T. Parker protests against thick planting of trees very near the house. Not only do they prevent the free ac cess of air and of sunshine or even li'dit, but they also injure the character of the soil as suited for jieruiaiielit oc cupation. "A soil," says the writer, loaded with roots and densely shaded is unlit for a man to live constantly upon. Vegetation produces a great effect upou tl.e movement of the air. Its velocity is checked, and sometimes in thick dusters of trees or underwood the air is almost stagnant If moist ;.nd decaying vegetation be a coincid ent condition of such stagnation the most fatal forms of malarious disease! are produced. "A moist soil is cold, and is generally lielieved to predispose to rheumatism, catarrh and neuralgia. It is a mattei of general exeneiice that most people feel healthier on a dry soil. In some way which is not clear a moist soil pro duces an unfavorable effect upou th lungs. A moist soil influences greatlj the developemeiit of tho agent, what ever it may be, w hich causes paroxy suial fevers." A Knowing Iog A gentleman living in this city tells this fer a true story: I have a little dog that stays in the house at night This morning he came to my room about the time I usually get up, but although wide awake 1 did not stir. The little fellow tried to attract my at tention by rolling on the lloor in front of the bed, and by so doing spread wide apart the folds of the mosquito net whether purposely or accidentlly I do not know, but this is what followed- He got up and faced me for a moment, but as I did not seem to be awake he quietly took up one fold of the net with his teeth and carrying it past the other as far as it would go let it fall to !t place, and then softly went down stairs. I lie dog had never been taught any thing of the kind, and if he did not tea- son what shall v,e call it V SL Autrim- tine (Fla.J Xews. A CliiiK-M' Incident. There is a small family named Chang consisting of a mother and sou ol elevan .summers, living in a place tiortl of Peking called "The Old Tiger Cave.' The old lady was suddenly struck dowr. with some inclinable malady one daj and grew worse from day to day. The) were to poor to call in a doctors to givt her proNT treatment, and her f iitlifu son, who had constantly attended hir seeing his mother's severe illness ant their abject poverty and lawlessness took a knife and sliced oil a big picc of ll'-sh from his thigh, and after in voking the blessing of heaven boiled and gave i' to her as medicine Hm,' food. Heaven was ho much pleased with such a child full of filial piety, that it granted his earnest prayers, and hit mother, from the day human flesh medicine was administered, rapidly re covered, and was up in ten days. Whci that medicine was given to her the boy did not inform her of its composition until she was well, when a big wound, from which the mixture was made, was shown her. It is alleged that the boy suffered no pain or inconvenience from the wound, for heaven must have rdi( ve I him from the otherwise great pain and bleeding for this so noble a filial act, which i j not to lie found everywhere. When it was made known to the public he was held up as an example of tme and gamine filial piety which was taught by the Great Sage. The otlicials or that district w ill memoralizo the throne to erect a (ablet or an arch for lis noble and bravo deed In rescuing lis mother from death by enikingerer ing his own life-Chinese Times. Getting Sea Temperatures. Ilerr Luders, of Gorlitz, has recently nit emeu a inermomeler for accertain- ing the temperature of the denthn of the sea. Its action depends on the dif-J icicui. en-en u; conuucuvities of sub stances at different temperatures. In- Biue a glass lube are fixed a spiral iron "u w oi carwni, which onlv vuuu ai iuc lower encis. Their other enusare connected to copper wires which constitute au electric circuit, and in this circuit there Is a galvan- uuieier wnicn indicates the differences in the current due to varations in the temperature of the contents of the giass iuoe.-ew York Journal. A Olrl'i C.mMtT, He(reading)-Then their lips met, and Bie (internipting)-Was It a protract. i wonder 7-Burlington Price of I'eanulH Going Up. Hani daps are coming for those who love to crack and munch tlmsavorv peanut, and the small boy especially can prepare for misery, for the price of )eaiiut is moving skyward. The high 1 rice is due, it is said, to the short crops of last year isud the year bofore. The best grade of Virginia hand nicked peanuts is now selling ot nine and a half cents a pound, and it is stated by dealers that soon the price will be ten c Ms a pound. The peanuts coming to mis market are mostly from Virginia. I he lrgima nut is medium sized, with a well defined aud pleasant flavor. The North Carolina nuts are smaller tlia.it ll, a v;-..;. ;.. t ... , ... t nK'"ia, urn. nave auout Hie same kind of inside shell.-Xew York Times. wealthiest down a A Coincident- Those who are interested In .i cideuces will find this nuit able. Our beloved friend, the ltev huii .y. draper, died on the 8th dav OT uecember, ISM), whea on Tl, his son in Yokohama, Japati. The day ....,. JI1B ,lner i; ,i,.nn Tr,. per, Sr. died on the same davnf.i. same month and the same i.,fti,i,. week In IML The grandson of the Ust named, who writes us tho tu rrom Japan, tells us that thi. fL!!ed"0,.the "andthe . i iuuiiui, ne believes, occurs 0niy once in twenty-eight vears Christian Advocate. Little Girl- Luck. -"Ppa, IlnV tr. X horse shoe, and I found a fourleaved clover. Which of u. are the lucktr PracUcallWDicku, Horse trs worth money." An English A ceo ut. vne oi .New fork's fairest, nnd was walking unattended fashionable thoroughfare when a man whom she did not know walked beside her, raised his hat and spoke to her. Without a second's lies! Uition the young lady dealt the shiny and carefully brushed chapeau a right onuuur uiiii, sent it rolling into the muu, ana planted a left bander between herinsulter's eyes that tumbled him n ft .-- .1 . . a . . .-ranuou top or his hat.. Then, "with scorn depicted on her features' anu conscious of her own sonerioriiv ' this fair one marched nlacidlv on the applause of a few onlookers, while the uufortuiiate individual who had re ceived unexpected chastisement picked himself up and his bat.ered headgear aud slunk away. Aud now n,r i. o legion of girls anxious to attain the ability, and to (ind an opportunity, of uung uKewise. It is just possible that this thrlllim, story is only the invention of a pugilist whotakesladvtiimii. . f-r...., mm lure saw what a stimulus the publication of such a uie would give to hi. business, but whether true or not it had in Uie word, of a feminine aspirant for pu gilJitlo honors, "open the evM nf ,!... autothepossibiltyof her being able to meet man on even term, anywuers Ann AVAraui .... ft ' 'viJn,1CQ . aythlsUdytohcr associates Tour are Insulted down." Xo doaot thatlsaveryrlBhfand r.. to teke; but should women become as proftclent .nd handy wiu. their lists as some of them .Ppeor to b tint 'ace end, ... fcround ii.. irt " u coolest ' mi formal tatiding colUfv -I he most f; hite itn monogram of t on one ide. niuai eccentric and i'c,ai,,.. , -..nil r, h.I fashions arequij 'ray undre with stocking ,1, the same tint, accompanies toilets. ' t'harminj )tJ tMQ toilets. Some of h ocu uouncinj vciuw me waist. Sleeveless Eton it white tenDUsa:i,( of white orTir atriped China nit; fit- irt tw.... 1.... ' ....... liisnuuj the bell fkin ,i,J Soft and prttti with ntinydutiiuJ pieuy WIluU, win,, I or corscict-sluiM J vest or gniniof J of the color of M Led and whiu J waists accompm costume, of admin The skirts at the W with biasbmidjoiiij each side with bisi silk. Machine made las; the poor women t hand arc thrown lint the d.iy will mei l.ice will ajain be is will give wort toaf A new fancy fsi the use of oauliK suggest the Untitle The brims are oJe sprays of oats it ii :itid brown wlttfe uie euge. Many white iA made uyonr yeftl yellow ii1.. giriH. ribbons of eidier i used as s ramitiwif wool gowns ot tlx A tiny import! tat small crown of tin wt bbick rice itra,i4i'.l red velvet around tttdt of old white hit-i'l two of w peacock's eye ittn4l Little girls hare sailor hats win crown of opMUMiK a straight brim cow navy blue cloth. Tu chic, and the open delightfully cool toil Nightdresses B &w or dotted percale, of v as of silk. Often i given to a night it au embroidered to be simply finished iS1 elaborately trimnw. taste. J ' Another thing 1 In again is "i There was no comfJ girl with a whale-H starched dicky, I.I nftf 11 you woum ,,v rumpled the polis! shirt bosom. i New rersiii" palms and gemefj beautifully coiorw r fabric, summer dwi wool, or v'KJj !wlth Jacquard favored, alsodi! Th. fashion for i- Ml '1 i.nir verv elaborate?. 1. .1 la uie new u"i hark of the head the front hair; . , worn level on l Kokiuir un PWP1 A pretty f "f iigut ...rr .thre i with two r": filial il wUtandth.tV '" , the same i "J llchulsarrangdsJ hlch .hows h- One of the neJi' duced in n.il"J American laurel. too. Hunches MndBwprefr'tf.J of berry IwsA green ofthelJI Maid surah l jf. umboi uautu, Mlsteosti plaids ars