THE SIOUX C UNTT JQMK1L I. 1. SIMMO., Proprietor HARRISON, XE! RAKA NEBRASKA NEWS. , There were 300 birds entered in the poultry show at Beatrice. Ihe citizens of Fremont are still agitating the canal question. William Kearviile, formerly a phar macist of Columbus, has taken a home stead in Boyd county. Orrin Able of Plat'e Center, caught his thumh in the elevator chain of a corn shelter. It is gone now. Nebraska merchants express them selves on the whole as very well satis lined with their sales for Christmas. The treasurer of Nance county has been ordered to collect all personal takes at the point of a distress warrant. A wagon loaded with corn ran over 7-year old Andrew Leisenmeyer of Beatrice and crushed both of the lad'u legs. The real estate men of Randolph have organized for mutual protection under the name of Randolph immigra tion bureau. The membership is four teen. The rain of tbe 2'th seems to have been very general ver the state. It is worth several millions to the winter wheat raisers. 'If there were far more irrigation ot the land and far less of the stomach," says the Elm Crt-ek Champion, "it would be a . blessing for which Ne braska might well be devoutly thank ful." Fifteen years ago a few Gerroat. carp were turned loose in a little Mer- rick county stream called I'rairie creek, and now the boys in the country are having a bushel of fun spearing, the great great grandchildren of the orig inal stock. The creek is fairly alive with them. Frank Connor, living about three miles northwest of Nemaha City, fell out of a hay mow and broke his leg. lie cried for help, but could not make those iu the house hear, but attracted the attention of a passerby, who helped him home. The injury is very serious and it is feared cau be remedied only by amputation. AUert Feltman and wife, living near Humboldt, were thrown from their buggy in a runaway aud badly bruised. Neighbors picked them up, took them to the nearest house and seut for a physi cian. The injured parties believe in Christian science and rejected the ministrations of the tleshy healer wben became. At list reports they were working the. ld.Ui act, on very severe abrasions with indifferent success. ' it is mighty meau, says the Neaoalia Advertiser, to patronize a merchant who will trust you until you get so fai in debt to him that yon are ashamed to go see hira.and then go and spend your cash somewhere els9 where you could not eet credit, but there are people who do it. The honorable way would be 10 sp Mid your cash with the merchant who trusted you even if you never ex pected to square up the old account. In commenting upon an accident that happened to a citizen of Garfield county, the Loup Valley Alliance said that owing to the man's intemperate opium and liquor habits it was doubt ful if he recovered. To which the Bur well Enterprise responded that "None of ns are angels and if newspaper men published half that occurs leaving aui all rumors and gossipings this world would be a realm of woe and a field of continual combat. No man will knowingly add a t horn to the already I thorny path of a fellow wayfarer in ! Cu-s vale of tears, much less would a! newspaper man do it. It doesn't be- ; Jmtrtothe fraternity, and a human I being, who because he happens to have 1 the appliances for so doing, will stoop to such work, should be boycotted ; li L.ncially, ostracised socially and ) damned eternally. The troubles gr iwing out of thb pas.-.aje by congre-s of the act allotting j lantih In severalty f" the Omaha Irriians haye been numer , but one fea u e j ot ii;e case has jus', been settled for goou in Jud','e Norr V court at West Point. W. E. Pee' -.'S of Pender was prominent in secur: the passage of the , c by congress ail.- ting the lands in severalty, and also iigmg the govern ment to put the ii.'t in force. This aroused the ire of Ed Farley, who had for a number of years leased the lands hi question of the Indians for pastur- ; ing cattle. Farley had secured a re- I uewal of bis leases, but the Indians j claimed that he did so by fraud, as ! uiey understood they were leasing their j lands for one year, but were for fire years, On tbis showing Peebles and others advised the Indians to bring suit agrinst Farley, and the red meat j accepted his advice. As a conseqnence of all these moves by Peebles and other friends of the Omabas, Farley brought suit against them for $8,100 damages charging conspiracy to in- i jure him by breaking up bis pasture, j The suit finally came to trial last week, I and there was an Interesting scene, j In court as witnesses were big Elk, White Horse, Surda-Ha-Ha and Henry j FontaneUe. comprising the Omaha i council. The testimony was exhaus- j uve, ana ine nnain? of the court was reached on Friday in favor of the de fendants, leaving Farley to pity about 11.300 in court coeU. I A taw lump of beeswax! wrapped tMkta abater oM Uoeo aad pat in E fettle ft white satin gowo will txy it tree- taming yCw. WanloXrriUI.Mn. Dallas, lex., Dec. 2H. I'nlted Staies Deputy Marshal Ikwley returned yirday from a trip to Hun' county, .'le says there is great consternation atm.-.g the negro-s in acd and about UaUjo Mills. Some of the white peo ple in that vicinity nve taken it into heir heads to run the negroes out They have addressed an anonymous letter to each negro warn ng him if be does cot leave before sundown on Fri iay, January 211, he will be Biiot The ethers assign as the reason for this ourse on the part of the senders that t is a white man's country and that .he negroes will not be permitted to re Tiain in it. The negroes were begin ning to pick up and quit the neighbor hood two da.vs ago. Wagons loaded with their belongings and familit-s are to be seen on ail country roads. Some of these negroes are old settlers aud own property which they are obliged tc dispose of at a sacrifice or leave behind Business men and other citizens of the town of Caddo Mills have armed themselves and declare their intention co protect their negro servants against any mob. They say these servants are faithful, law-abiding citizens and have as much right to live in the country as whitecaps. One night about a month ago a negro living near Caddo Mills was called out by masked men, who, after administering to him an un merciful flogging, riddled his body with bullets. The negro, howeqer, is said to have been a dangerous character. Why He in. Denver, Dec. 29, Richard Collins of this city recently wrote to (iovernor Waite, reproving him for usiug so much profanity in his public utter ances, to which the following charac teristic reply was sent: ''Dear Mr: It grieves me to learn that you ar& troubled ou account of what you consider my profanity. Permit me to ask if your sleep is disturbed any on account of the servant girls and industrious poor who have lost their little all by depositing in the savings banks of the city? Or those who have been sold out of what they possessed by the chattel mortgage fiends, or the starving poor of D-nver, who almost daily seek refuge iu suicide? Or are these matters of so little importance that they vex not your 'righteous spirit? We read in the scriptures of the men who are clean outwardly like an artistic sepulchre, but within are full of all manner of rottenness and dead men's bones. Very respectfullj yours, David H. Waitf, Bead of Kami I lea FaTured. Topeka, Kan., Dec. 2i. Gov. Lewel ling has issued the following circular to the police commissioners of the six , metropolitan cities of the state: "In view of the present financial stringency and possible suffering of oar people I would respectfully suggest that jrou give employment to the heads of fami nes in preference to single men, as far practicable. I do not urge the imme diate discharge of Bingie men without r-gard to circumstances, but when changeB are made I think it advisable that this should be kept in view. It is possible that there may be instances where it would be wise to make re movals in order to provide for deserv ing heads of families. Cruntnala Captured. Pine Bluff, Ark., Dec. 29. A tele gram received by Sheriff A. G. Thomp son states that Hans Hydrick and i laude Sheperd, who escaped from jail here August 15, were recaptured at Jackson, Miss., by Detective W. A. Oar of this city. After their escape it is charged they robbed the St. Louis & -an Francisco train at Mound Valley, Kas., September 3, and killed the Wells, Fargo messenger, C A. Chapman. a rewara or siu.uw by the express company aided materially in the re capture of the daring criminals. They are now being taken to Kansas. If the murder charge in Kansas against Hy drick should not be proven an effort will be made to have him returned here Took Herat Her Word roPEKA, Kas., Dec. 21.. Mrs. Mary A. Lease was removed from the state board or cnarities by Governor I.ewel ling. Mrs. Lase objected to tne ap pointment of a democrat in one of the state institutions and said be would have to be removed or she would have to go. The governor promptly wrote an order removing her from office, ii has created big sensation in the popu list party and Mr. Lease says she will see to it that tlie leaders are shown up before the people. She says her re. moval was made because she opposed fusion with tbe democrats. tirlef Drove Her Mad. St. Pall., Minn., Dec. 2H. Coronet Wbitcomb was summoned to 371 Fort street, where he found that Miss Ella O'Rourke of Council Bluffs, la, had just died. Her sister, Mrs. Dougherty, said she had found her in a dying con dition a short time before, holding in her rignt band an empty carbolic acid bottle. Miss O'Rourke was twenty years old. Two weeks ago she lost a sister at West Superior and her grief over that sad event had been so polgn ant as to unsettle her mind. Failed to Kiplode. Lancaster, Wis., Dec. 29. At 4 o'clock yesterday morning burglart tried to blow open the vault of the East man bank at Montfort this (Grant, county. The doars refused to yield and the eiplosion awakened a boarder in s hotei near by, who quietly gave tin alarm. Ah armed poese attacked tht robbers and cbaeed them a mile beyond the town. A fusillade waa kept up by both pursuers and pursued. One of thi 'robbers waa oarsued and captured. I She will mot Inuit. Des Moinim, la.. Dee. 2S. E. H. " Gillette has sued for a divorce from liii wite, Sophie S. Gillette, on the ground of desertion. He at one time repre sented the district in congress as a green-backer. He was for years Gen eral Weaver's partner in the publica tion of the Iowa Tribune. The trouble between Mr. and Mrs. Gillette grows out of the famous Chester Turney case. Turney, when eighteen years old, was sentenced from Jackson county to the peuiteutiary for seventeen years for a series of petty burglaries. Just before going out of office in I&'JO Governor Larrabee par doned biin. Mrs. Gillette immediately gave him a home. She conceived a very great friendship for the ex-convict and treated him with the utmost kind ness. Mr. Gillette objected to taking a convict into the family on such inti mate terms, and he and his wife drifted apart. She lived at one place with her daughters, aud Turney and he at an other. It is understood that Mrs. Gillette, who is a highly cultured and beautiful woman, will not seriously contest her husband's application for divorce. A Oectalou ASlriued. AniiLANJj, Wis., Dec. 28. Word has been received that Secretary Hoke Smith has made a decision in thb con test cases involving 1,000 acres of land within the city valued at pxi.O 0. The 1 land has beeu claimed by Col. J. H. Knight, the business partner of United States Seuator v lias, under the inno- j ceat purchaser act, and those opposing him were six home-steaders who had settled on the laud three years aeo. Knight bought the land a number of years (i go from the Wisconsin Central and claimed it as an innocent pur chaser. When the else came before Secretary Noble he held that Knight, a receiver of the land ollice here, was aware that the central company did not have a title to the land and was there fore not an innceut purchaser. Knight made a motion before Secretary Smith for a new trial and the latter denied the motion. The attorney who con ducted the case at Washington for the six settlers was Gen. E 8. Bragg, Col onel Vilas' opponent in the sensatorial contest at Madisou a year ago. A Hlrlke Enjoined. St. Pai l, Minn., Dec. 28. docu ment was delivered into the hands of United State3 Marshal Donahower which may have the effect of deterring the engineers, firemen, conductors, trainmen and telegraph operators of the Northern Pacific from striking. It was issued by Judge Caldwell of the United States circuit court, and is in effect an injunction to restrain the men from striking. The 150 delegates here from the various unions are in an any state of mind. At their couferelee they ere told by General Manager Kendrick of the Northern Pacific that no modification of the January schedule cou:d be given them. They claim this is an injustice to them because they have been kept here since the ISth to await the movements of Mr. Kendrick, only to meet a rebuff. They also claim that the company's action in issuing through the courts such an order was the plainest possible indication that the demands of the meu were never seriously considered. About the Hruleera. Havana, Dec. 28. In all probabili ty a weality syndicate here will secure Mitchell and Corbett for a fight In this city sometime during the weeks follow ing January 25. it is composed of the high class sporting men of the island and will offer big money for the two pugilists to appear here with their com Wn Uloiis. The men have recently sent $33,000 to Madrid for the purchase of two of the finest bulls to be found iu Spain p.nd the animals are now on their way here. A big bull fight is to come o;T within ten days of January 2o, and the scheme is to get the two pugilists to appear during the same carnival. S'. w Yrif.K, Dec. 26 William A. Brady, who is uianag ngtheibusiness af- fairsof J. J. Corbet', is in Jacksonville. ' Before leaving Br.idy said: "There will surely e a tight, no matter whether i it takes place in Jacksonville or at j some other place. Corbett will lorce i Mitchel to fight. If It canuot be pulled j off in public it will have to take place in pnva'.e." Riif land Makea a Grab San Fkancjsco, Dec. 21. The Helen Almy, which has just arrived from Gilbert islands, brings news that j England bas determined .to seize the whole group, and this has in all pro-! babihty been done before now. Sir J. j B. Thurston, British high commissioner j of the Western Pacific and governor of j Fiji, recently completed an inspection ! of tbe Gilbert islands and reported I that tbe British flag should be hoisted on an me isiauus, as it. was over a year ago on Butaritari, the most northern of the group. His report dwelt on the richness of the islands and the pros pect of developing British trade. When the Almy left the islands on November 20, the steamer from Sidney was exacted in a lew days with tht! new commissioner to take charge of the islands. Keleaeed Jail lllrda. Cattanisskta, Dec. 2. Furthe. details have been received here of tbe rota at Valguamera. For many hours tbe town was in the hands of the law. leas mob, who, after an attempt to in vade the barracks, stormed the prison and liberated all the prisoners. The lat ter profited by their unexpected release to rob many private residences and hops. A number of private houses were sot on fire bf the robbers. Tbe troops Anally enforced order. I at the Bottom at the Sea. New Yobk, Dec. 27. The steamship Set -ea, which returned to Havai a Sunday morning with (ire in her for -bold, was sunk in the harbor at th X . port in order to save her. Mauar r Hughes of James E. Ward & Co., r 1 113 Wall street, atrenta for the line, said I that the tirra had received a cable dis- patch which conveyed the information i that the Seneca had caught lire in the lower hold just after leaving Havana. She was about seventy miles from port, and the crew were startled by an ex plosion. When they reached the deck Uie vessel was in flames, and the cry went up that a dynamite bomb had ex ploded. The Seneca was immediate!? headed for Havana. The crew worked against the fire until daylight. Then, having become exhausted, they ap pealed to Captain Stevens and asked bim to abandon the ship. According to the dispatch the captain stood on the bridge and commanded the crew to return to their duty. Twice this action of the crew was repeated before the steamer made the seventy miles whi.h brought her back to the island. Tne rigging was then ablaze, and the efforts of the crew having been unsuccessful in subduing the flames, the order w ts given by Captain Stevens to sink h r. The seacocks were 0ened aud the v4. sel filled in a short time, and lies, so far a3 the information of the Ward line agents goes, at the bottom of the bay near Havana. The cable says the crew and passengers are safe on shore. Commodore Hughes says that he be lieves the vessel to be in a position so that she can be raised without mucb trouble. Tha Call foran hxtra Seealun. Denver, Dec. 27. Governor Waite's call for au extra session of the legisla ture is dated December 20, ih'Xi. As Christmas is a,legal holiday in this and all orther states of the union the ques tion is being asked whether the call is legal and binding. The courts will probably be asked to decide the matter at once. The Republican calls Governor Waite a fool for calling the legislature together, and asks that oody to adjourn immediately after it assembles. Following are the comiueuts of the newspapers on the governors' action: Republican (rep ;: "The mere fact that tne governor has made a fool of himself and a laughing stocks of the state in this matter should be a suili- i cl-nr reason why the legislature should repudiate his folly in the most striking way possible :is soon as it can do so.'' News 'pop.): "The call has been i ued in defiance of an overwhelming public sentiment, and embraces almost every convelcable subject for legisla tive action. The governor craftily pits local cupidity against state honor and state credit, and hopes that honest con viction, heretofore recorded with great unanimity, will surrender to the bait." Times i.rep.): "The governor lias undoubtedly called the special session in direct opposition to the wishes and sentiments of the great majority of the citizens of the state " 'Made a Confrailriii, Barcelona, Dec. 27. -The anarchist Cere.uelo, who was recently arrested at Hussca, has made a confession in which he acknowledges he himself threw the bomb in Liceo theater. The bombs found beneath the theater seats were placed there by an Italiau named Saluini, who is also un der arrest aud has likewise confessed. Anarchist Codina inauufac tired the bombs from mould? prepared by Sive pot, the printer, who was arrested the other day for implication in the dyna mise outrages, aud who confessed he had made these mould. The eight-vear-oid child, whose statement first gave the clew by which the culprits I were detected, lived in the house where I Codina lodged. This child savs the bombs thrown at General (Jampot were concealed in pots of flowers. Md m ltciae;b Time. Ldnixjn, Dec. 27. The Times in publishing further particulars of the experience of the battleship Resolution, tinys that while the gale was at its height the mess rooms and the cabins of the ship were knee deep with water. The vessel strained and rolled heavily and It was feared she would capsize. Her boats were smashed, her doors broken, and the rivets loosened. Then the vessel began to leak badly. Several of her crew were injured. Captain Hall remained at his post throughout the storm. The steam pump, however, was kept busy. The Resolution with her heavy armament showed seagoing qualities of which her crew speak in the highest terms. They iot Conalderabte tiaotf. Sr. Lot is, Dec. 27. It is now pretty definitely known that the robbers who held up the Mobile & Ohio train a few miles from here Saturday nle-ht not ' considerable booty. Tbe local was well j filled with packages wrapped and sealed in the way money is usually done, and the bandits carried off forty of these bundles. It is not kuown bow much money they contained, nor will ! the southern express agent furnish nny Information ou that point, but it Is no longer denied that the robbers obtained considerable booty.' Will Strang. hen Kelallona. ItoME, Dec. 27. 'He French ambas sador congratulated Baron Blanc minister of foreign a flairs, upon . the victory of the Italians over dervishes nearAgordat last week. Tbe British charge d'affairs called upon Baron, Blanc and congratulated him and the Italian government in behalf of tbe queen. In diplomatic circles the opin ion is that the victory will strengthen the relations between IWtly and England for some time in the Egypt ian Soudan. Baeeeaafnl Trala Rubber?. Coffeyvilif, Kas.. Dec. 2C South bound passenger train No. 32, on the Iri n Mountain division of the Missouri ; Pacitic, which left this station at 6:10 o'clock Saturday evening, was held up and robbed by five masked men at Seminole station, in the ludian terri tory, five miles south of Coffryville. The lock was broken and the train run on the siding, on which a box car was standing. The point of the robbery is a small station iu the open prhrie. The engineer, James Harris, was carefully guarded by one of the men with a Winchester, while the rest proceeded to rob the mail and express car and every passenger on the train from the smoker to the sleeper. The leader, a ' tall man, went through the cars and relieved the passengers of their money ' and values, whilri the party kept up a i fusillade with their Winchesters and :t revolvers. They evidently secured a large amount of booty. Members of a party of young people from Cotieyville, who were out driving, atin their conveyance close to the scene and witnessed the affair, and were the first to bring the news of the robbery to town. Several gentlemen of this city who do business in the ter ritory were on he train and were the victims of the brigands. Fortunately no one was injured by the shooting, which was all done by the robbers. One young man who waa in the smoker got up as the robbers came in and walked ahead of them through the different cars in the hope of evading them. When they got to the rear of last car they caught him, took his watch and 817 and made him jump off. He walked back to offeyville, but is too badly rattled toj.iescribe the affair. The robbery held Hie train about an hour and a half an i the rear lights could be seen from the Missouri racmc yards uere wtnie ttie tram was being robled. conductor jsrownell, the engineer, fireman and porters were relieved of everything they had, even to their pocket knives. The train continued on toward Fort Smith after being robbed, and the desperadoes mounted their horses and left In a westerly direction. They were dressed in cowboy fashion and were all young men. They are a remnant of the Starr gang, and from the description given by Conductor Brownell the leader Is Jim Wooten, the folio w who led the raid on the Mound Valley bank. Klllrd by the street t'ara New Yokk, Dec. 26. Ktta Hanson, lix years old, while on a visit to ber grandmother, Mrs. Annie Hanson, at 101 Twenty-liret street, Brooklyn, yes terday morning, was struck by trolley car 320 of the Hamilton avenue line and instantly killed. Tbecar was on its way to Hamilton ferry and was in charge of Motoman Alexander Mc Givny and Conductor William Adams. The little girl left her parents home In Fifty-ninth street, Brooklyn, yesterday morning, telling her mother she win going to see her grandmother. She ar rived at her grandmother's house at about 10 o'clock. Mrs. Hanson had durchased a number of toys, which b)i gave to the child for her Christmas. The latter, after amusing herself in the house, asked Mrs. Hanson's consent to go outside and show them to some girls across the street. She left the house and had started to walk across Third avenue at Twenty-first street with the toys in ber arms when a trol ley car came dashing along. The child became confused and excited when she saw the car approaching and could not get off the track. The car was going so fast that McGivny could not put on the breakes in time to save the child's life. One of the wheels passed over ber neck, severing the head from th the body. The I'o'e Succeaaor. Paris, Dec. 2fi. The liome corre spondent of Gaulois newspaper sayt that the clearness and vibrating force of tbe pope's voice when he spoke ue i fore the sacred college Saturday sur prised all hearers aud must put a btop : in immArtiafA aTsMl't inn bis successor. "This speculation hsi been centering upon Cardinal Moncaco ' : vef continues the correspond- j ent. "but the confidence of bis sun. porters weakens with tbe sustained health ot the pope, for the cardinal seems to be on the verge of a decline. Cardinal Vannutelli is becoming first favorite among those interested. Next to him comes Cardinal Parocchi." Knorked Iidki and Robbed. Marshall, Tex., Dec. 26. At 8 o'clock yesterday morning Pacific Ex press " Messenger WcCullough was knocked down oy a burly negro on tbe station platform here and robbed of biB Pouch containing an amount est! mHUa Bt lten 5,00) and 18,000. '"m'aieij auer anocaing themes- tenger down tbe negro grabbed tbe pouch and made his escape. The scuffle and robbery was witnessed by at least I60 P80"1 about the depot, but it was all done so quickly that no one had time to recover from their astonish ment and Interfere until the negro bad scaped. Pat oat Bath HI, K'et Denvkr, Dec. 26. Minnie Draver, i iove-erazed waitress, threw a bottle of Tltriol into the face of Thomas Delaney bead waiter of the Western hotel, whlli be was at work in the hotel dtnln room. The Hery corrosive ate Delaney i right eye completely out, blinded tbs left eye and burnt his face and neck In ft way that will leave bim marked fot lift. Tbe vitriol throwing Ii tbe out- on of a Ioto affair. PETER COOPER'S IUlUSTRATIOM Uw Ma tared a Mmaaai at te HaMa erf Morrovlaa; at Halaioaa Mat Mr. Cooper was always a careful and prudent bu ness man. He wan always opposed to the methods of many merchants, who launched out in extravagant enterprises ot bor rowed money, for which they paid exorbitant pr ce of nterest. Once, says tbe New Vorn Kvening I ost, while talking aliout a project with an acquaintance, tbe latter said be would have to borrow the money for six montDs, paying interest at tne rate of 3 per cent. "Why do you borrow for so short a time?" Mr. Cooper asked Iiccause the t roker will not ne gotiate bills for longer." "Well, if you wish," said Mr. Cooper. "I will dlcount your note at that rate for three years." "Are you in earnest?" said tbe wouid-be borrower. "Certainly 1 am. I will discount your note form.ooo for three jean at that rate. Will you do it?" Of course I will," caid the mer chant. " "Very well,'t said Mr. Cooper, "just siirn thlt note for lli'.ooo, pay able In three years, and give me your check for j"0v, and the transaction Is complete." "But where is (he money for nie?" asked the astonished merchant. "Vou don't get any money, " was the reply. "Your interest for thirty six months at '! per centum per month, amo'.nts to ) er centum, or tin, K00; therefore, your check for M)0 hist makes- us even." The force of this practical illustra tion ot the follv of paying huch an exorbitant price for the use of money was such that the merchant deter mined never to borrow at such ruin ous rates, and he frequent iy used to say that notnlng could have so fully convinced him as this rather humor ous proiosal by .Mr. Coojer. The I, nr !.( I'hoionraph on Itccorcl It Is seven feet long and fifty inches high, ;md is a photograph of a rnlier mapof the I'uiU d States show ing tbe oil-I.earing districts. Pho tographers stand before the colored transparency In the north gallery of the Mines building and declare It to le the bik'Kest thing in the Kx posi tion, and so it is from their stand point J. K. Hlliers, of the I'nitcd Mates Geological Survey, Is the man who made the wonderful photo graph The model relief map was started three years ago. It is made of wood veneers one thirty-second of an Inch thick, each thickness representing 1 no feet of elevation. The map was built up of these veneers, and then carved In relief and a plaster cast taken. With the light striking It from the noithwest it was photo graphed, the livht" and .shadows giv ing K. a beautiful tone. When the -negative was transferred to paper, the states, lakes, ana na'nes were drawn in, and a negative was taken from it twenty Inches s.uare. Tbis negative was enlarged to the size of. the transparency, i by In In hes. No ordinary camera could do the work, so the photographer made a camera of a room twelve by fifteen feet in size. Tbe room was black ened Inside, and made light and even air-tight The shutter wa inured In the window and the lens In the shut ter. Mr. Millers had three exrjert photographers assist ng him. The work was focuss'd on a around - glass plate the same size as the pho- tograph. A Having of HIiih-. An experienced shoemaker aavi that the stretching of shoes out of shape arises entirely from dampness, and that once damp, nothing can pre serve them. The only thing which keeps them In good condition at first is the finality and stiffening of the lining. This lattcrotico destroyed by the moistuie of the foot, the. hhoe is sure to go. It is suggested by some one as a measure of preservation that as soon as the shoe Is taken off, it be filled with dry oats. These absorb the moisture and In so doing, swell and keep the shoe In shape, thus serv ing a double purpose. Au ingenious mother P , V 5 iuM': of ru.r , tnVm"?,U!lrhl,r l'" h?? olla 1 " ITul m,F... n" " ncnija 10 1)6 no means of turning a rubber boot lnniae out to the b-at. but like Mahomet and the mountain, she contrived to bring the heal to the Ux.t Thlssug. gestlon will be found of value during the coming stormy season, wben the little fellows like Iifif liiricf lu. (than tramping through drifts higher than their boot tops. Ihe I'lnicer or Mrr ury. "'Adepts In palmistry assert the length of the fourth or that little i me mom important sign In the hand. There is no great rrian-. no mar, who ri, In IniiK.rtancc In any line of life.-wlt'iout a long ,nfi Btra ght little flnger. The t m of finger, whether Hpalulate, pointed, or very nearly ,uare, causes the ca pacity to 1 directed inU very difTer- iiMuunm, wnn the lorn? spatu- at..- niuiir linger SiK Crtss In buslness win result, while the long Pointed one denotes tad and the run.n. ...... . jujjic. jmRi in,ec1 the finger of "wh cdio." The I'lllW.n .M ...... " nmnt i.t ...... .... , . Is old .. to luin people round little finger" Is, like most old verbs, the result of continued your pro- Rloee ;oier-ation, and In the case of and ...- iJoiiiMju Mercury as Ben Jonson, In ihe "Alchemist" calls he fourth Oiiger-i. undoubtedly tlrclytruc ' " A wiiale'n throat Is so small ,. fou could choke him with vou, r.t nd he feeds on the smallest, um . lo the sea