MINING IEOENDS.
TOPICS OF THE TIMES
A CHOICE SELECTION OF
TERESTING ITEMS.
IN-
i'wuiuiaals isd Critietui Based l'Mn
tti HappeuiUft toi tU Ila tlisturu-al
Masv people vr. they go away to
sret rid of their business letters hut
the summer girl leiies implicit.- i,n
the daily male.
Modern medical science has utilized
very many unpromising substances,
hut nobody would have prophesied
;hat the doctors would some day t-ave
a U.)"slife hy prescribing gum.
1'KINXE rilSMAf K has W-en cheering
the Kmperor. The old man docs some
funny things when the dinner lias
been tetter than usual.
Even in f; ton, rieh jieonle put off
their tailor biils for years. Iiitil
Uostoti adopts the ea-h system, what
other American city will make the
venture?
Rinsing tiowu the AH a is a gentle
The glory and greatness of Burns
as a poet will shortly be known
j throughout P-oheuiia. where we have
: no doubt they will go as swimmingly,
in spite of the report that Shaks
I jieare assumed to exert in that in-
land country, si nee Prof. J. V.
Shulek. the editor of a Prague news
; pajx'r, has translated some uneLiui
idred and Ilfry of his songs and hal
! lads into Czech. In every instance,
we are told, the Bohemian translator
' lias preserved the metrical lorm of
! the original, which, if true, is cer
j taiiily an extraordinary feat of skill
! and patience.
hint to Mr. Yaiiderhilt that though j KioiiTKEX-year-old Harry illiams
he owns a good section of 1 15 earth j of Chicago, has made two attempts
he is liable to get lx f gged if he 1- j on his life because a pretty and sensi
gins to crowd Die sea. ble serving-maid would not marry
. ! him. Jits latest effort nearly sue-
Kx-Qi EE.v Natalie has had a reeded. It is his custom when he
Hreak of the gieatcst luck j
which can befall an author anxious j
lo sell his work-, lb lxok has been
suppressed by the Servian Govcrn
ineut. Again the effete Old World has
been outdone by the New. Imperial
Germany personified caught a whale.
Chicago has caught the Prince of
them, and will exhibit him at the
World's Pair.
goes wooing, to court intoxication,
preliminarily, as an inspiration to
courage and elo iiience. Harry's idea's
are all wrong. One should not get
drunk when going to court an esti
mable woman, neither should he kill
himself because of her refusal. He
should learn that a good girl, lie she
servant or mistress, is worth lieiug a
man for, and that the only chance, of
winning such a prize is by a display
of manliness.
When the Kev. Sam Jones im ,
tilled the measure of his usefulness as I Al.r. the cholera news from Euro)
.... i; . i., i i i .. ,.,.M. i m:iv not he reliable, but so careful an
tic Vc confess we should like to
r htm in Congress Stirling up
animals occa. ionally.
' mil h,rit v a the I otidon Lancet savi
from
ny seemed to
Hi, life has been spent eM the .ui.nero us stales .bo u uur
.. the condition of his bummer,,' of which he had heard . n u Ik
When in livt lv conversauoii, .o-
bn-htencd wonderfully; hut if the con
versation flagged, his face assumed a
sad and sorrowful expression." General
Grant audi explained to him that my
next move from Gohlsboro would
bring lev army - increased to ho.'AW
men bv MhoCelds and Terry's rente
forceiueiits - in close communication
with G-neral Grant's army, then invest
ing 1 ee in lliehniond, and that, unless
I.ee could effect his escape and make
mm ho:: with Johnston ii. North Caro-
1 . . ...... .... :.. o:..l.
him. he would soon ie sum up m un.
the that
A DAi'i'EK little fellow, who is the
husband of a flue and well-developed
wife, was at Asbury 1'ark, and for a
bit of fun went out for a swim arrayed
in her bathing su t. He was arrested
for appearing in a nude condition.
Canadians seem to fail to see either j
right or reason in the retaliation hill, j
The proverbial British .ove of fair j
play appears to be slightly clouded in
the present loud demand of our neigh
bor that we should repay good for
evil.
Sami ei, Slo. :n, the railroad presi
dent, does all lii.s writing with a big
gold pen. If it doesn't suit him he
can throw it through the window,
which is more than lie would care to
undertake if the offender was a pret
ty type-writer.
the incomplete official returns
admit thai .V0 deaths from the dis
ease occur daily in Kussia. On the
same authority it is learned through
its l'aris correspondence that the true
cholera bacillus has been found in
twenty-nine out of forty-nine cases of
iilness reported in Paris as cholera.
The distemper is evidently greatly on
the increase, and there is increased
alarm and preparation in consequence.
But it is apparent that the French
authorities arc not talcing all the
steps necessary to quiet llie puonc
mind in Europe and America.
The Russian authorities are taking
sanitary precautions against the
spread of cholera. This is wc.l; but
with the advance of civilization meth
ods, Kussia will learn it is better in a
race with contagion to give sanitation
a good lead if it is to win with flying
colors.
The oyster commissioners of Mary
land and Virginia are making aide
and eloquent speeches on the boun
dary question, but they have yet
failed to do anything that would add
a single oyster to the Chesapeake sup
ply. Oratory is not oysers, and more
oysters is what the bay needs.
Two cases of drowning in a Chi
cago natatoriuui will make keepers
of such establishments careful ror a
little while. Young swimmers need
watching whereever they may be. If
the water is deep they are liable to
be drowned; if it is shallow they are
in danger ot breaking their necks by
diving against the bottom.
I.v their very zealous pursuit of
knowledge some of the philologists
are losing good manners, Following
Prof. Garnier'sstudiesof the language
of the ape, a French man has been
listening , at the, keyhole of a hen
house when the family was at home,
and placing a phonograph there to
gather in the cackle and catch all the
gossip or plain home talk going on
within. If he got anything there
that was said about himself it prob
ably was not complimentary.
Ax cm incut astronomer lias recently
written an article telling ''when the
sun must, din," and placing that in
teresting event not more than live or
six million years hence. Judging
from the weather rcixirted all over
the country the central orb of the
solar system has not yet lost much ol
his energy. He is pouring it out at a
fearful rate upon poor, sweltering,
suffering humanity. What he may
be live million years or so from now is
open to question, uut no one may
deny that if the sun is at present in
his old age it is a pretty vigorous one.
Surely the phenomenon cannot re
semble the struggles of the shark
near the end of his existence as
vitalized entity.
Thogeneral curiosity of onrentirc
towu was aroused by the appearand
cpon our struts of a native of India
who was born upon one oi l ie i iji
Islands, says ihe Atlanta Constitution
He wore a very red or cardinal-colored
suit of clothes, knee pants and jacket
trimmed with black elvet collar and
cull's. Over his shoulder he carried a
cloak that was tied over the left shoul
der and under the right, made of white
and red flannel. His head was cov
ered with a Mouse that fell down his
back, and slid over this a sombrero.
Hisi-hoos were tied under the instep
with a one-half inch white braid that
wound around the leg up to the knees.
His general appearance was very
gaudy. This native was converted when
twenty-three jfin old, and is now
seventy four years of age. His lather
lived to he oi.l hundred and three and
his grandfather one hundred and thirty-
years of age.
in lecturing on
iieople. lie speaks twenty languages
ilueiiliy. When live or six years old
he saw an Indian woman throw her
child to a crocodile that weighed l,Ow
pounds. The animal missed the child
and the mother caught it as it ran
back to her begging for its life, when
she threw il again; this time the croc
odile struck it with its claws, tore it
into two pieces, and ate it very quickly.
She then reported her acts to the pagan
priest, and he blessed her, saying to
her, "Co and sin no more."
lie also was a cannibal. When he
was seven years old there were
twenty-one ministers who were caught
wiiile traveling and prospecting for
places to locate churcho, and one of
these ministers was beheaded every
morning by their high priest and his
llesli cooked, and the natives were
made to stand in a row and each one
was given a part of the llesh rnd they
stood and ate it. This was continued
every day for twenty-one days iintu
all of the miuisteres were eaten up and
he ate part of twenty- one preachers.
He says the natives never do eat one
mother unless one is taken in war or
is a missionary. That jt is a mistaken
idea that they slay one another to eat
when this man and that is fat enough
to eat. I hat the beasts ot the held
never slay one of their kind lo prey
upon, and that Ihe savages have never
gotten to be lower than wild animals.
This man says lie remembers when
Calcutta had only tvyuM inhabitants,
and now she has nearly Jmm, Be
ing a member of t!.e Episcopal church
nf England, lie is extravagant in his
showers of praises upon the English
government for their civilizing work
upon his people, and being a preacher
he loves to tell the Christian effect up
on his people and how his heart goes
out to all efforts made lo civilize ids
poor heathen brethern. A mechanic
commands R5 to 810 per day there, and
he knows of a lady there from the city
:jf Indianapolis who receives $hJ
?very month for teaching, and says
there is a great demand for more of
diese teachers. He haa one of the na
tive women with him.
ml the t'aiuou Tre-
.l ".i :,.int and tiliermauv.
IU ,i,e North An:etica,
March api-ear some une f Ihe Ndn.dor.
iished letters of I ienerai , ,
of them describes the visit paid by h.n, (
rresiuem , j-- ,
Among the strange and w;-ird de- u)d the reporter
lie iook to ue me ni.
vessel was from. The H
that fie could not hear oriJ
went below. An ekt,i A
,.. i. iic aiim
i t -tiiin ire iiifini .... . -
nions anu oog ; - t.0n. inisman also ahoov
, t hnnot the workings tin- , """OK
re Iated
near
.,,,1 Oneral Crant to
, i.,.,r.l the 4Kean Oueen
I':;, Cva. on March 27,
f'ter telling how and where he found
(.H-eralCrant, General M.erman says:
-We had quite a long and friend
t,ik when he remarked that the presi
jrnt Air. Lincoln was near by, in a
steamer King in the dock, and he pro
.nwiith.v should oil at once. Wed:d
'o and Luiud Mr. Lincoln on board the
joani.en. We had met in the
Lv.-,rtof the war. and he recog-
i ie'l ice, and received uic with a
war-.th of manner and expression that
uusmostgrateiul. W e then sat some
time in the alter cabin, and Mr. Liu
... ,.).. nunc.- hmiiiries abwit the
l'i:;il in,. i.v ,
, ., i,,..:, Mo-mied the march
savannah to Coldsboro,
0(0(7
ted
"okkJ
Iderground not the least horrible is
ti. ! adder Dwarf.'" said a former
a niece of naoer on whi, ..
- " ii j
In a ery good hand, -ltj
want?" ' "A
The rerxirter wrote out hi,,
ana me answer wait writuu
inen tne reporter learJ
V.nt h .Qr.tlkll. and ...
" '"i""'" it were rt.
uuuiu, auu niai iiirjr WOtlC tM
vessel and make a living out!
Her captain is George EenuJ
he dwsu't have to shout at h J
No speaking trumpets are dJ
alioard thlx craft New hedfjj
cury. l
Alice Mitchell, the Tennessee
young woman who killed her girl
companion, Freda Ward, for whom
she entertained an unnatural love, to
prevent her marriage to a young
man, has been declared insane. The
verdict of the jury will doubtless
meet with popular approval, for it
is almost impossible to believe that
a cultivated and high-minded young
woman whose reason was not de
throned could deliberately cut another
woman's throat on a public street in
broiid day-light, and then detail all
the circumstances of the butchery on
the witness stand in court, as Alice
Mitchell did, without emotion or fear
of the consequences of the crime.
Nobody but a hardened criminal or
an insane person could have done
such a thing in such a way.
Deacon, the slaver of his false
friend Abeille, lias been informed by
the French authorities that he must
serve out his sentence in full, which
is no more than he had a right to ex-1 generally will soon come to think
. 1...1.. l.ll.! IU..
One of the most surprising things
in connection with railroad travel in
the "Western States and territories is
the frequency with which trains are
boarded by robbers and the valuables
in the express and mail departments
are captured. Why do not the com
panies arm their o!tlcials,and also em
ploy special police, for the protection
of life and property? It would cost
far less to do this than to make good
the losses by robbery. The people
nect. He neliberately violated the
law of the land in which he was liv
ing, and thus rendered himself Wabic
to punishment. No fault, therefore,
can be found with the French author
ities. They have done only what they
ought to have done, and Deacon
should patiently serve out hisscritence
and ask no favors.
Chewing gum, usually regarded as
the most useless and annoying corn
modity in the world, has at last served
a good purpose. Jimmy Devlin the
Wisconsin lwy, whose throat was
closed for forty-flvc days, managed to
swallow some of the moisture ex
tracted from a piece of chewing gum.
The doctors say that his case will
now progress rapidly toward recovery.
manv are already so thinking that
the risk- of traveling over those lines
is altogether too great except at times
of urgent necessity. It seems to lookers-on
that passengers and property
might easily be protected by the ex
ercise of nerve and the timely use of
powder and ball. If the present order
of things goes on much longer the
suspicion of some, that train hands
tire in collusion with train robbers,
wiil grow into a belief that will not
down at the bidding of road man
agers. ' " -
Making a Homo.
It seems a pity that the young worn
m who is about to establish a home
and has a sum of money to spend for
its garnishing cannot be persuaded
from laying it out all at once. .She
robs herself of so much future enjoy
ment. The spick and span sets of
furniture which are carelessly ordered
from an upholsterer, and carried home
and stood around her parlors by his
men, will never afford her half the sat
isfaction she can get in n room lor
which to day she buys a chair, and
next week, seeing there must be a
table lo accompany the chair, she starts
on a fresh shopping excursion, and
linds a table which is exactly what she
is looking for; and in another month,
discovering the need of a bookcase or
a screen, she has again the delight of
the hunt, and the gratification of ob
taining the prettiest scieui and Look-
case in the city.
Such a room is a grow th, a gather
ing together, of household treasures
little by little, and piece by piece. Lack
article, bought only when the i:eed
arises, or when something is happily
found to just meet the need, will have
a family history which makes it an en
tertaining as well as a Valuable poss
ession. Each couch and footstool is
an achievement; each rug and curtain
represents a triumph. Such a lionie,
built up gradually, with careful plan
ning in each part, with thought and
loving consideration in all details, ac
quires a meaning far deeper than could
be purchased by the longest purse from
the most fashionable cabinet maker.
Harper's Bazar.
, i
nioiid with no possibility oi suppiy.aim
won il have to surrender,
'Mr. Lincoln was extremely inter
ested in this view of the case, and when
we explained that Lee's only vhanci
was lo escape, join Johnston, and,
b.'ing then between me in Virginia, he
could choose which to light. Mr. Lin
coln seemed unusually impressed with
this, hut General Grant explained that
at Ihe very moment of our conversa
tion (ieneral Sheridan was passing his
cavalry across James river from the
north to the south; that he would
with this cavalary so extend his left be
lo'.v Petersburg as to reach the South
Shore road, and that if Lee should 'let
go' his fortilied lines, he, could not pos
sibly fall on me alone in North Caro
lina. In a like maimer expressed the
fullest confidence that my army in
North Carolina was willing to cop
witli Lee and Johnson combined till
Grant come up, but we both agreed
that one more bloody battle whs likely
to occur before the closed of the war.
"Mr. Lincoln repeatedly inquired as
to General Scholielu's ability in my ib
s?nse, and seemed anxious that 1
should return to North Carolina, and
more than once exclaimed: 'Must more
blood be shed? Cannot this last bloody
battle be avoided ? We explained that
we had to presume that General Lee
was a real general; that he must see
that Johnston alone was no barrier to
my progress: and that if my army of
80,000 veterans should reach Burkes-
ville. he in Richmond was lost, and that
we were forced to believe he would not
wait that inevitable conclusion, but
make one more desperate effort. I
think we were with Mr. Lincoln an
hour or more and then returned to Gen
eral Grant's quarters, where Mrs.
Grant had prepared for us some colliee
or tea. During this meal Mrs. Grant
inquired if we had seen Mrs. Lincoln.
I answered, 'No; I did not know she
was on board.' 'Now,' said Mrs. Grant
'you are a pretty pair,' ece... and went
on to explain that we had been guilty
of a piece of unpardonable rudeness.
I5tii tne general saw, 'never mmd, we
will repeat tli9 visit tomorrow, and can
then see Mrs. Lincoln.
orosp-ctor to a Washington Star man.
I never saw the creature myself, but
he is described as hunch-backed, with
a short 1-odv. large head, and enor
mously long and powerful arms. In
fact, "he resembles an exaggerated
eo.'illa. Hi favonte trick is climb
ing the ladders i y means of w hich
the miners leave the mines, raising
himself with his long arms, and, as
he j asses the rungs kicking them out
one by one. He is supposed to al
wajs do this just l-efore an airident
of some kind in the mine.
In the mines of Mexico formerly
the descent and ascent of the shafts
were made by the aid of tree trunks
with notches cut out of them, in which
the laU.rers rested the great toe as
they stepjied from one to the ouier.
The demon in such place was lie
licved to have on each big too a huge
nail or claw, with which lie would
gouge out the pieces on which the
fe-t of the miners rested. According
to either legend the fiend always left
the ladders or tree trunks after hav
ing destroyed their usefulness to tan
talize the unfortunate men who were
thus imprisoned. Another Mexican
superstition very common among
miners in that country relates to the
fold snake.' This sjiecles of serpent
is jiei fectly harmless and very hand
some, ln'ing gncn in color, with a
golden iridescence in its scales. Faith
Is entertained that wherever a gold
snake makes its nest there is a ledge
containing the precious metal, and
there are many miners who will lo
cate a claim at once if (hey tt rut a
gold snake.
'The story of the fainou. treasure
of Ihe Madred'Oio" is an old one. It
comes from the A .tecs of Mexico,
somewhere in south-eastern Arizona
I here is a small valley about live miles
long and two miles wide, walled in by
toweling mountains. The sides are
so precipitous that it is impossible to
climb down them, and there is only
'Hie entrance, through a cave, which
is Gtrcftilh hidden by Indians, who
euard the treasure for t lie M-coml com
ing of Montezuma. Il is said that
even among them the entrance Is only
ki.own to the thiec most aged men.
Land is never communicated except
when, on the death of one. it is nee
"ssarv to give the knowledge into the
keeping of another. The valley it- ; scssed of a high degree of ru!
self, though surrounded by inliospit-1 icllnemriit, though in very r
able rocks, is a paradise. Watered rumstaDec. Well, sir, 1M
bv the stream which (low through il. i thing Mike did was to go lo It
its soil Ij covered with Mowers and I and I argaln for an education
beautiful trees, through the branches placed himself alisolutely unii'
f which flit bright-hued birds. The , dictation, lived In the Kainehcicsl
ury.
Kiml Fats,
iieai i ne sometimes furnlsbrf
oi iuue which
remarkable as the storr 0fJ
Cristo. Some years ago, said,!
1 l u 1 1
cm man, i nu in uiy employ j
man. a clever but totally unedJ
H. IIU", "ii'J umwiu JOOS atxtm
I, 1'wo in ITejn'.l V...
what a feverish state thai Ti
was in about that time oer
finds In gold in the country ad
.iy jrisnman caugnt the fug
astonisneu me one day )j
me to loan him lot
which lie wanted to buy a
or's outfit Well, I let him
and awav be went In atxjuttJ
he came back with a muleloai
richest of ore. He Ijoutfn
more mules, hired three mo
back to the hills aud ruct
shoit.y afterward with four,
mules loaded as the first
oeeu. . representative of n
lish syndicate hapjiened y,
Helena about this time on tl
out for mining investment.!.
the irishman's little puckiiijj
took a stimpie ot llie ore, hail
sayeu, went out and e xamlrxd
claim and then offered the I:
tl.ooo.Ooo for his .-lain
twenty-nve per rent, of tfe
profits. Mike asked iiiyaihui
matter, and of course I told h,
sell, which he did. It proved
investment for all coiicern4.
Englishmen have taken iiilllJ
dollars out rif the mine. Hi;
comes my point. Instead oltJ
iug the usual follies that mti
dulge in wlien they become i,d
rich, Mike wt about to get tin
est lioneftis of his wealth
lived In Helena an English lah
or an J,ngiisii omcer who if
When a woman tells a man that
his offer of marriage is a surprise to
her, she docs It to be "coy." A man
never surprised a woman yet by tell
ing ber be thought a great deal of
he.c
Krra far llie hick-Room,
A sick-room screen should be made
very light, so it can be moved easily
A clothes-horse will answer for the
frame. l!uy a couple of tubes of dark
est green, thin with linseed oil and a
little turpentine, and with a flat bristle
brush paint the light wood frame
Dark green selesia tacked on one side
firmly to the wooden frame will shut
out light. I f it is a child who is sick a
bright picture pinned on the screen
aud replaced occasionally by another
Will serve to. make the weary hours
Spinner's Signature.
The signature of the late General
Francis F. Spinner, ex-treasurer of the
United States, was one of the worst
stumbling blocks for forgers andcoun
terieiters that ever was devised. He
originated it when a harness-maker's
apprentice in Amsterdam, N. V., at
seventeen, practiced on it in later years
when he became a congressman, and
perfected it as treasurer of the Lrnited
States. The writing of the signature
involved considerable labor and when
(Ieneral Spinner affixed it to many
Treasury notes in a day it Is said that
his wrist became so swollen and pain
ful that it had to ba swathed in wet
cloths. While treasurer Mr. Spinner
earned the gratitude of the women of
this country by being the first man to
admit members of their sex to the gov
ernment service, lie was eighty-eight
years old when he died iu Fbrida from
the cancer that had been slowly eating
away his life, lie was born hi what Is
now known as Mohawk, X. Y,and his
father , who had left the lioman priest
hood to become a protestant clergyman
educated him carefully first and theu
had him learn both the trades of a con
fectioner and a harness-maker. He
followed neither, but became a mer
chant and then the cashier of a bank
holding various town, county and state
offices in the meantime, and wintilna
Ids military title In the state militia
General Spinner was elected to con
gress as an anti-slavery democrat and
served on the committee that investi
gated the assault of Prestou Brooks on
Charles Sumner. He was re-elected
as a republican President Lincoln
called urn to the United States treas
urership in and he held the pU
for fourteen years, when he resigned
The general's precision In even tin
most minute matters was shown In hit
last official act when hvin hi....
wed a deticieucy of 1 cent in tke mouei
in the treasury, be ordered a ewfttat
rrensnrv Imlamuut hi. V. 1 it'7
11 rTrZ" oun?
tirl. -- - hi ii n t
jidv reptiles seen are the gold snakes,
with their glittering greenish yellow
vales.
"Stretching across the valley from
ue side to the ot her is a ledge of pure
iold, its masses- of virgin metal
,'ieaniiiig and glistening in the sun
light. It is said to be live feet, ten
feet, II fly feet, loo feet wide. The
:old lies in il in great veins and nug-
,'ets imbedded in clear quartz, the
sharp angles of which glitter in the
unlighl like gigantic diamonds.
Across the ledge the stream flows,
forming a little waterfall, below which
the nuggets of gold can lie seen in the
water and out. Gold in the ledize.
fold in the scales of snakes, gold In
the stream, gold in the birds, gold,
old, gold, gold is the refrain of the
olden story.
"The fearful precipiees which sur-1
round the. place, the strange ceremo
nies and horrid banquets which have
ierved to keep the secret safe, the
tribe of a.tecs living only to preserve
for their mysterious ruler this treas
ure houst of nature, have all aided in
Hiving to the story a strange Interest,
stinall wonder it is that the pulse
should quicken and the eve grow
bright as you hear the tale from t tic
ii) s or men who mote than half be
lieved it. The lonely desert surround
ing you, with the tall cacti looking
like ghosts In the half moonlight; the
long-drawn melancholy of the coyote's
howl, the prospector's lire of grease
wood, the men with their rough cloth
ing and quaint language, all vanish
as you listen, and in imagination vou
are transported to the wonderful val.
ley in which Is the 'Madred'Oro .' the
.'louior oi uoki. '
"Nor are they content to tell the
tory as an Indian legend. Theveite
instances of white men who have seen
the place, who have descended into
the valley in some way and returned
'ith a'l the gold they could carry.
ore lucaiion oi tne KKt is always In
i dangerous Indian country. 1 hi
been toh twice that it'was In the
thircaliua mountains. It is always
said to have .,.n fouiul merely by ac
' ident by men who were either hunt-
mg or litosnoctintr for ledges. :i)r.iit
the only two occupations which will
make unscientific men climb the
mountains. H ran onlv lie seen from
the upper end and after the morning
mists in the valley havecleared away.
men, as one stands on the ruiied
IH'aks and looks down he sees Dip
great ledge siianninir the v.illev ).
ow nmi, the virgin metal glittering
n the sniilight, and he knows that
he has before him the place of which
U(. lias Heart &o much nod dreamed in
often."
she taught him how to hold)
' uml forV hnw fri roifpr !ltid ffVlA
room. Then followed tho rotaq
of a literary education and aw
so of IraveL I met my Irish la
in the parlor of a London hotel u
six months ago. You never
more iicrfect gentleman in y
He has acquired a classical edual
is as easy and graceful in mama
a courtier, and, above all, ME
true Instincts of a man aud art
man in his heart And could il
I anvthina but a gentleman
had evidently made it ihedH
ills 113 to be one at Ihe first ow
mty
Tenacity of I.ire In Snk.
The tenacity of life
snakes Is very wonderful. Ufl
ter Koiop men were d ItfililK 3 M
ill the country and close to the
mac In Missouri, when theycai
a cavity in the ground whl
tained a nest ot snakes. The H
was bitter cold and the snake
unn-ironllv flnMil 'I'tlPV W
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blacksnakes and harmless,
men loaded them Into the
and sent them to the top, j"1
curiosity. They were thrown A
the ground and in a little wnm
fro7en n at Iff as SO many
Their bodies became so hriltl'
the frost that In hauling then
eral wer t.niken like icicles.
the men when he went M
night took two or three of the 4
along to friirhten his
ceeded very well, ucconlhig
Gloljc-lk'uiiirriit. and. !ca,lS
snakes on the floor in the kiKM
fore the fire, sat dow n to em K
IKT. fortfeltlni all about
the meal was In progress M
wrio n,K eft thfi room, suuuo.
a terrific Mwam that, made ni:
up iii aiMolo and run to 1
was the matter. As he ii
kitchen door she fell again
most fainting with fright'
badly scared to tell what
lie toon rounu oiu, uruii
oi. Ht-ut ihnoohl tie "had
for the room seemed tu'
. . . . i fllW
warmed by trie genw'- vj
i.l. II ii.. .rfll sl
Kuvnen me, uic ..
... I llf ..A OD"1
Willi, i.i in-auu ...lin,
tho room with nouVW h.
He did not care to tac"- '
killing them there, sone
outer door open and they
their way out, and had no
yards before they were
' i.i n W nff,
wnninecoiu. ji
and finished them
lit
ilth 7.
tni
4
no matter how h,
says ho win never
again,
Miiiiim-iI lr a Itoal-Mule frw.
There Is little two-masted schooner
lvlng at anchor in the. stream which,
ucsmes iK ing a funny-looking craft,
Is manned by n strange crew. Tho
vessel is the Mary and Hclle of New
port, It 1., having arrived from New
port with a cargo ot fish oil. Tho
schooner has a square stern and a
blunt bow and only one topmast
When aMcrcury reporter went along
side ht asked a man oil deck, whom
A officious little doff. bi
exceeds his prudence, 0( i
the pet of Fred Schulti ,ki
Pa., espied a large .
row
his master's house
Without waiting
dog rushtd at the
n I. J ItCI ICIIll , i.
moment the shiny P,a ' iDii
foll
mi.nL wern nboUt the
whose barking f re
fainter as the roi ;r. pet
Mr. Shuluarrm,tM
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