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THE OOOD TIME COMINQ. bea't you know that thla heah country win be coming ter ae cratch Wen de peach Is on de peachtree en de melon In de oaten? Dat de barn'll bulge wld plenty, en you gwine ter lit ae latch Wen de peach la on de peach tree en de melon In de patch? Oh, bellerera, Happy on de wayl Gwlne ter see de sunrla ' At de breakln' er de day! won i you know dey aln t a country dat kin be dig country's match Wen de peach Is on de peachtree en oe melon In de patch? Oh, 'tin den I gits ter glory, en de angel lir de latch sW'en Ue peach Is on de peachtree en de melon In de patch! Oh, believers, Happy on de way! Gwlne ter see de sunrise At de breakln' er de day! Atlanta Constitution. WARRINGTON, V. C. 1.-ON THE FIELD, 'A pitch-black night In a rocky ralley Of Afghanistan; a few stars In the heavy, black, moonless sky only In tensifying the almost palpable dark Dtm. A mile or two southward, where the rocky valley swelled Into rocky heights, little flashes of light recur ring at Intervals, followed by sharp lit tle cracks, showed where the late skir mish and retreat waa fighting Itself out around the camp. Where one of the Innumerable bra ken ridges that seamed the valley made a darker wall across the darkness, two figures were dimly discernible (when you knew where to look for them), the Otse seml-recumbent propped against a bowlder, the other tall and straight beside him. "Clear out, Warrington please go, sir, the voice came faintly from the recumbent figure. "You can get back to camp and send 'em for me." "Not Ukely, young 'un," observed the other. "What says the great R. K. : When you're wounded and left on Af ghanistan plains. And the women come out to cut up what remains Just" "Don't!" said the wounded roan, and almost succeeded In stopping a groan between his clenched teeth. "Poor old Vlcary," said Warrington, bending over him. "Let me undo your belt. , . . Now grab yourself With both hands." "Fellows In books." said the weak Voice drowsily, "never get hit In the tummy. . . . Always head In a bandage or arm In sling. . . Those Johnnie that write books ought to come out with us." There was silence for a time; the far-off flashes grew more rare. The wounded man shifted himself a little And spoke again. "You're a brick, Warrlngtont" he said. "Bllghtly different from Piccadilly and the Strand this eh, Vic?" "I wish the mater could see us now, said Vlcary; "she's going to bye-bye Just about now, She'd stick you pret ty high up In her prayers if she knew." "The next time you start talking nonsense," said Warrington, "I shall consider you delirious and past hope; and I shall turn tail and make tracks for camp." A long silence. "It's getting beastly cold," said Vl cary, with a shiver; "I shall never pull through tonight." "Cheer up, lad," said Warrington, and pulled at bis mustache and glared at the darkness; "only a few hours till daybreak. . , . Pity you're six foot four in your boots and solid In proportion. I'm not equal to two miles with you on my back, my dainty mid Set." "Can't see how you got me this far. , . . Why don't you sheer off now and get bick and O, God! No! War tngton. . . You're not going?" "Another word like that, my son, and I leave you for Mr. and Mrs. Pa than and all the little Pathons to play with." "All right all right, I wont. . . . Let me hold your boot I can hardly see you. Oh, Warry, what a funk I am; all the bit of pluck I hod's run out of the leak in my tunlo and I am beastly cold." Warrington knelt beside him and cursed beneath his breath, and felt his head and hands. The former was very cold and damp, the latter were very wet and warm. "I must let them know they're want ad, Vic!" he muttered. The latter did not hear him. "It'll be In tomorrow's dispatches," he muttered: " 'Missing; Lieutenant Beverley Warrington and Second Lieu tenant Vlcary of the What's up, Warry?" His companion had touched his fore head lightly with his lips, risen to his feet, and, with his arm raised above his head, had emptied his revolver Into the silence of the night. "They'll know there's a British offi cer where that revolver is," he said, cheerily. "But but, you fool you dear old silly fool-so will those brown devils!" "Can't help that!" said Warrington, with a little laugh, "It s too cnuiy to top oat late tonight." Then in a lower tone, "For the sake of auld tang syne, Vic, my boy." He reloaded hie revolver. When the echoes had rattled away Into deeper silence they heard the distant shots suddenly recommence, and distant bouts and bowls came to them like Whispers. From the Invisible hills fac ing them came din and confused scuf fling and scraping sounds as of cats scrambling down rocks. A moving White blur appeared somewhere in the thtek darkness, then another, then an other; and a suggestion of low-toned guttural conversation, reached War. rlngton's straining ears. He shifted his revolver to his left hand and gently drew his sword. Then from over there where he knew the camp lay six re volver shots came in quick succession. "That's Welby!" he said to himself, Vlcary's hand had been grasping the heel of his foot tightly. Now he felt the grip relax and In a moment more the wounded subaltern slipped a little with a slight tinkle of steel on rock and groaned. In another moment a dozen howling hlllmen were blazing away at random toward the spot whence the groan seemed to have come. They aimed low and erratically, and Warrington held his Are for a few Interminable seconds. Then they closed In, and one stum bled over Vlcary's outstretched legs before they could realize that two Brit ish officers were within a yard of them. Warrington felt the man grab him as he fell, and fired with the bar rel of his revolver touching bare skin. After that he fired and slashed very much at random, and the darkness around him shrieked and howled and spat Are, and long, graceful knives suggested themselves to the imagin ation of the man who had seen them at work before. . , . For then long minutes Warrington waa busy won. derlng all the time what Vlcary was doing down there between his legs, and how he liked It, and which of them would die first. Then suddenly In a lull he heard faintly a sound that sent the blood to his head with a rush the scraping of of many boots over rock hundreds of yards away, and the dim echo of a word of command. He shouted and fired his last cartridge above his head that they might see the flash, and flung the empty weapon at a white eyeball that was too near to be pleasant, and cut and pointed and slashed away with renewed vigor. Down the valley and over the rocks came a hoarse, breath less cheer, and pith helmets gleamed faintly In the near distance. He an. swered the cheer with a croak, and went on carving and hacking as though his foes still confronted him. But they did not wait to meet his friends. They left All but five, to whom even Brit Ish troops were a matter of indifference new, as they stayed behind, huddled Into the grim seml-clrcle around Lieu tenant Warrington and Second Lieu tenant Icary. when his men came up to him they found him with Vlcary In his arms leaning against the wall of rock, "looking," as Private BIU1 more said, "as though 'e'd 'ad a nasty messy haccident with red paint" Vlcary opened his eyes as he entered the camp feet foremost. "Warrington, V. C," be said, and tried to cheer. But the others did it for him. ' - II AT HOME. An afternoon In early November, a cosy room, bright Are, big armchairs, piano, pipes, photographs and decan ters; a male figure extended to enor mous length In one armchair, with feet stretched out on the hearthrug; another male figure with back toward the room, gazing out of window at the unceasing rain. Thick clouds of to bacco smoke and silence. "Of all the brutal, filthy, miserable depressing days!" said the man at the window, suddenly. "Weather seems to worry you, old man," said the man by the fire, settling down a little deeper Into the depths of his armchair. "Third time In twen ty minutes you've got up to look at It and talk about It" "Sorry, VIc," said the other, and turning, he came slowly toward . the Are. "I must be lively company to day; but this weather seems to upset one altogether." "Not me," said Vlcary, blowing a cloud. "I'm pretty comfy, thanks. I prefer rain in St. James to straight In Chukundra." The other did not answer, but stood nervously opening and shutting his hands over the cheerful blaze. "Ry George!" said Vlcary, medita tively. "It almost seems like a dream now all but the souvenirs we carry eh, Worry?" Warrington's hand went up to the livid band that ran across forehead, nose and cheek, and almost bisected his strong face. "One comfort" Vlcary went on, "mine don't show. Not but what that has Its drawbacks," he added, with a chuckle, "no one seems to believe they touched me think I got my sick leave on the bounce. And I can't continual ly strip to prove It." Still his senior was silent Vlcary edged round a little to look at his face. Then his eyes opened and his voice changed. "Warrington," he said, "d'you re member that very Arst dust up we had the second day out at Kir Wallah?" Warrington nodded. "That was my Arst taste of the walk-up-and-down-as-a-target buslness,"sald Vlcary, solemnly; "and I was in a blue funk. Couldn't help It, Knees all flab by and face all twitchy when those bul lets began whispering and pattering." Warrington laughed nervously. "I gave you the right sort of a dress ing down," he said. "It pulled me through," said Vlca ry; then, leanlg forward, and still more solemnly, "I say, what did X look like all drawn up and ghastly?" "A bit," admitted Warrington. "Look in the glass now," said Vlca ry. In an awestruck voice, for Warring, ton was senior officer and brother and AJax and Wellington and Lord Rob erto all rolled Into one. In the subal tern's estimation. Warrington started, and looked not at the glass, but at Vlcary. You're right, young 'un," he said In a moment, and dropped Into th other armchair. 'I'm In an awful funk at thla Ttry moment" "Oh!" breathed Vlcary, and allowed the amazing fact to sink Into his con- sclousnesa "Fact" said Warrington, and drag ged at his moustache and gnawed the end. "In heaven's name," said Ensign Vl cary, "what are you frightened of?" "Of one little girl I could pick up and carry under one arm," said Lieutenant Warrington, V. C. Vlcary drew a long breath. "You gave me quite a turn," he said, "It's serious, boy," said the other man, bending his long, gaunt body for ward, his grey eyes all alight "I haven't the pluck to face her." "Name?" said Vlcary, judicially. 'Rivers," said Warrington, with rev erence, "Catherine Rivers.' 'Petty Kitty Rivers?" cried Vlcary, "Old man, I congratulate you. 'Don't be a fool!" said Warrington, angrily, and walked to the window. "On your good taste, of course," said Vlcary, with a grin. "Is it a bad case?" "I shall ask her to be my wife," said Warrington, with a rush, "as soon as I dare call which I haven't done since we've been back more than a week.1 Vlcary whistled, rose, and started over to the piano. Well, I should advise you to go and have It out with her," he said, twisting himself round on the music stool. "Come back, when it's ever, and spar. kle up a bit" "Shut up!" growled his senior. Vlcary shrugged his shoulders and struck a few aimless notes. This sort of timidity was strange to him. In matters relating to the opposite sex his senior was a child compared with that good-looking boy at the piano. Suddenly Vlcary grinned, struck a chord, and broke Into a muslchall song, accentuating the twang of the Cockney to exaggeration: O-ownly one gurl In the world fer me O-ownly one gurl 's my sympathee; She m'yn't be valry pritty " "Shakespeare" between the shoul der blades cut his effort short He twisted round, chuckling and rubbing himself. Steady on, old chap! What's up?" I came here today for your help," said Warrington, and stopped short. "Warry!" said Vlcary, nervously. He had never seen him like this before. "Vic, I'm going to see her to say It! I've been longing for months and now I simply daren't call." "Bulldog heavy father comic pa pers, murmurea vicary, quite uncom prehending. If you're going to be a driveling young idiot," he said, Icily. No no! Drive ahead," said Vicary, It's just her I'm frightened of," said Warrington. "I'd rather go through a week of Chukundra than speak; but I'd go through a life time of them with her at the far end." "But Warrington," said Vlcary, puz zled, "she's not such a Tartar." She's the best girl in the world,' said Warrington, V. C; "and the only thing In It I'm afraid to face." "Why, what would she do?" said VI cary. Do?" sold Warrington, with both hands at his moustache. "Do? Why, she'll drop her eyelashes, or she'll curl the corners of her mouth, or she'll rliuice at me over her shoulder, with her chin up, and then and then" And then?" said Vlcary, twinkling. Then I shall sweat like a coolie, and stand gaping like a stuck pig," said Warrington, savagely; "and my knees will go flabby and my face twitchy, as you elegantly put It Good-by." Eh?" I'm going there now; I mean to go there now." "Yes," said Vlcary; "and directly you're outside you'll stand still for a auarter of an hour and then cut off home and spend the evening practicing profanity In solitude Warrington stood In front of his Junior and dared not contradict. Unless" said Vicary, and stopped and grinned. Unless," said Warrington, with pain ful eagerness. Unless," said Vlcary .coolly, knocking his pipe out In the gTate, "unless I come with you." "Thanks," he said shortly, and watched Vlcary putting on hat and coat and pulled his mustache violently. As they left the room he slipped his hand through Vlcary's arm. This la my Kir Wallah," he said, gravely. Vlcary laughed roundly at him. ' There's a whacking big balance on the Chukundra side," he Bald. Needn't say goodby to the mater," he went on, as they descended the stairs, "you'll come back to dine." To be cheered up," said Warrington, with pathos. Vlcary did not deign to reply to such an absurd remark. He hailed a hansom. "Hadn't we better cr walk?" said Warrington, nervously. "You Jump in," said Vlcary; "don't be frightened. I'm coining to hold your hand." He gave the address and they bowled away through the grey wetness. War rington was trying to see the whole of his person at once in a slx-tnch strip of looking-glass. "Now, I ask of you, VIc," he said plaintively, "Is It likely she'd have an object like me?" "Fishing!" said the subaltern. "You're not an Adonis, but a V. C. covers a mul titude of sins." "PoohJ What does a girl care about that?" said Warrington; and Vlcary laughed aloud at him. To himself he said; "The girl who gets you will get ' "Why, we're there," said Warrington, flushing and fidgeting; "how thai horse has been going!" "Three doors down the square," said Vicary to the cabman through the trap. "Tell him to drive once round Arst, said Warrington, pulling a glove o and then beginning to put it on. "I'v got something to say to you " "It'll keep," said Vlcary. "Out you get." , "No I say half a minute. Vicary Is my tie straight? I ought to have changed my collar. Hang It all right, I'm coming. Wait for us, cabby we shan't be Ave minutes. Vicary, don't ring. I I don't think I'll call today, after all It's a bit late, don't you think? You have rung? Dash It! I I let me ask?" The door was opened. "Is Mr. Rivers In? No? Oh, thank you. It don t matter I'll call again Good " Vlcary caught him as he turned and held htm fast. "Is Miss Rivers In?" he asked. "Tesslr," said the man, who knew him well. "Say Lieutenant Beverley Warring ton wishes to see her for a few mo ments on most Important come here, you old idiot on most imrortant business." Inside the house Warrington mopped his face and rehearsed speeches In a low monotone until the man reappeared. "Will you walk upstairs, sir, please?" "Walk up," said Vlcary, sternly, and marched him out of the room. "Right half face! Quick march! Go on, you conquering hero, and good luck attend you." Warrington did not answer, but he breathed stertorously and Angered tbs balustrade. 'Up you go!" said Vlcary. "There's no retreat. She's waiting for you." 1 I wish you could come, too," said Warrington, In a loud, hoarse whis per. Vicary grinned, shaking with Inter nal laughter. Warrington glared at him, groaned, and went slowly up stairs, where the man stood patiently waiting to announce him. Vlcary heard him say breathlessly. "Wait a minute!" but the man pre ferred not to hear htm, and opened the door with a most portentlous "Lieuten ant Beverley Warrington." Vicary waited in the library. He smoked one cigarette and another, and another. He tried to read, but he gave It up. He tried to laugh at the scene In which he had Just taken part, but he gave that up, too. After all, he waa In no laughing mood where Waning ton's happiness was concerned. J Aft at last, when the hands of the clock showed three-quarters of an hour gone, Warrington's voice from upstairs called hoarsely, "Vlcary!" He paused a moment, breathless. Then another voice, far clearer and sweeter, but with Just a faint tremor In If. repeated. "Vlcary!" And then he flew upstairs as fast as his wound would allow him. Harms worth Magazine. WORKS POR HIS SLAVE. Apples as Medicine. Chemically, the apple is composed of vegetable fiber, albumen, sugar, gum, chlorophyll, malic acid, gallic acid, lime and much water. Furthermore, the apple contains a larger percentage of phosphorus than any other fruit or vegetable. This phosphorus Is ad mirably adapted for renewing the es sential nervous matter, lethlcln, of the brain and spinal cord. It Is perhaps for the same reason, rudely under stood, that old Scandinavian traditions represent the apple as the food of the gods, who, when they felt themselves to be growing feeble and infirm, resort ed to this fruit for renewing their powers of mind and body. Also the acids of the apple are of great use for men of sedentary habits, whose livers are sluggish In action, these acids serv ing to eliminate from the body nox ious matters, which If retained would make the brain heavy and dull, or bring about Jaundice or skin eruptions and other allied troubles. Some such experience must have led to our cus tom of taking apple sauce with roast pork, rich goose, and like dishes. The malic acid of ripe apples, either raw or cooked, will neutralize any excess of chalky matter engendered by eating too much meat It Is also a fact that such fresh fruits as the apple, the pear and the plum, when taken ripe, and without sugar, diminish acidity in the stomach, rather than to provoke It. Their vegetable salts and Juices art converted Into alkaline carbonates, which tend to counteract acidity. A ripe, raw apple Is one of the easiest vegetables substances for the stomach te deal with, the whole process of tht J digestion being completed In eighty, five minutes. Gerard found that tht pulpe of roasted apples mixed In a wine quart of falre water, and labored together until It comes to be as applet and ale which we call lambswool never fatleth In certain diseases of tht rallies, which myself hath often prov ed, and gained thereby both crownei ! and credit," "The paring of an apple, I cut . somewhat thick, and the Insidt whereof Is laid to hot, burning, or run- nlng eyes at night, when the part) Chicago, 111. (Special.) Te save tht life of a former slave, with whom la boyhood he played on Ms father's plan. tation, William E. Belt of 18S2 North Albany avenue has gone to Frederick, Md. John Alfred Brown, colored, who Is the youngest son of Mr. Belt's old "black mammy," Is there under sen tence of death for a murder, of which he avows his entire Innocence. The story of the flght being made for mas ter by man Is of particular interest, as an Instance of the regard still main tained in many cases by former slave holders for their one-time chattels. William E. Belt's father owner a large plantation and kept many slaves at Dlckerson Station, in Montgomery county, Maryland. On this plantation William Belt and his brothers were bom and brought up. Following the custom that always prevailed in the slave states, the care of the growing youngsters was Intrust ed to a slave woman, with a family of her own. This "mammy" en the Belt plantation, was Aunt Eliza, whose son Is now In danger. As each of the owner's children grew big enough to toddle around he was given a pickaninny as his especial pro perty and playmate. It was the duty of this little slave to look out for his little master, fend for him and serve him as he grew up. To William Belt waa given John Alfred, the youngest son of Aunt Eliza. Together the two youngsters ran- sacked the plantation. They fished in the little stream that runs through the grounds, ran away to circuses together and weathered storms In comradeship. The war and the freeing of the slaves Interrupted this companionship, when each was about 9 years old. After the war the Belt plantation was leased and the family scattered, but William Belt kept track of his termer playmate, who had adopted the name of Brown. - A short time ago, while on a visit east, he made a trip to Mont, gomery county to see him, and found him In jail, charged with murder. The crime was the killing of an old couple named Rosenateln, storekeepers, for their money. A negro named Taylor had confessed and said that Brown had killed one of them and he the other. Ihis Brown denied. Mr. Belt called on the Judge, and he says was refused permission to see his old playmate, being told that there was no doubt he was guilty. Brown had not then been tried. He waa later conviot ed. After the trial Taylor, who had ex pected to be let off for turning state's evidence, made another statement in which he said his confession was wrong o far as it implicated Brown, and that the latter was Innocent. This statement Mr. Belt will lay be fore the governor of Maryland, In the hope of gaining a respite during whloh Brown can procure evidence) Is prove n alibi. He has yet had no opportun ity of making up his oase. Brown Is aid to have borne a good reputation, and had saved his money and bought him a home. This he mortgaged to pay the lawyers who defended him. Letters from the other members of the Belt family have been sent to thef Maryland authorities, and strong hope Is entertained of saving Brown's life. NOTES OF THE DAY. Has a Solar Furnaoe. Chicago, III. (Special.) One of the,, argest glass reflectors In the world la loused in a little wooden shack on the prairie near Kedzle avenue and Fulton, itreet. Its area Is 84 square feet and llameter 124 Inches. The mirror or re flector Is the invention of Knute C. WU Seen, a young Swedish olvll engineer. He claims to have generated a greater legree of heat already than ever before bos been produced, and his apparatus Is still in a crude condition. A reporter who visited the workshop with Mr. Wideen saw strips of anti mony and other metals shrivel like dry grass in a flame and disappeared in gaes when held beneath a lens In the focus of the big reflector. The Idea is an old one. but the value of the ln- ' ventlon lies In the cheapness of the ap- paratua Wideen claims to be able to manufacture such reflectors for the market at $500 each, and with a group of them he says It will be possible to concentrate such a degree of heat on any desired point as will revolutionize all Ideas of welding and the use of heat for generating energy. The process by which the huge glass plate is curved to form a reflector is sold to be extremely simple, but the secret is closely guarded. The glass Is mounted on a huge casting, and behlng It is a cavity several inches deep. It is here that the apparatus for curving the gloss Is contained. At present the morror Is hung by chains and blocks from a cross beam In the roof of the shed, and by means of braces can be placed at any required angle. When In use the front and top of the shed are thrown open and the mirror Is placed In position to oatch the sun's rays. A broad path of brill. Innt white light shoots from It to a focus in which the weeds and grass shrivel. In this focus a reducing Ions Is placed and the point of the second focus Is the solar furnace. The Inven tor Is handicapped at present by lack of a large reducing lens. He has been goes to bed, and Is tired or bound tt able to secure one only eight Inches In mc n4iiic, uuiu nciy itiv vi vu wic speedily, and contrary to expectatlon- an excellent secret. "Why, darling," exclaimed the pret ty bride of three weeks as she rushe to embrace her husband, "how good N waa of yon to skip baseball once anl just tot diameter and has sent to Germany for one of larger size. With this he ex. pects to secure a heat of 10,000 degrees over an area a foot square. Mr. Wi deen Is confident he has more than doubled the advantages of the else trio furnace. A man from Wisconsin, aowtsig of attempting to poison a resident of Coio- tbe bravest, cleanest, best man that I come heme early! Tou're wears the queen's uniform; and the 1 tweet ' And ho accepted It all wlthool rsdo Springs, has been acquitted on tho girt that w. refuse yon dcotn't . a TrtT " iXVlhaTh ' game. iww irree itiss, I hih .iih.,4. w About half an average crop of apples and plums la expected In Iowa thla year. The lifeboats around the Brltlah coast during' the last year rescued 680 people. Projectiles for modern big and raptsV flre runs require about half their weight in powder to fire them. Thirty years ago there were only two dosen explosive compounds known; now there are over 1,000. Of tho world's annual yield of petro leum, amounting to 5,000,000,000 gallons, the United States produces half. In St Paul recently a boy fell from a wall sixty feet to a railroad track be low, and escaped without serious In Jury. Baltimore has the largest negro pop ulation of any city in Christendom. Tho census is expected to show at least 126,000. At tho imperial court of Austria tho chef of Emperor Francis Joseph esti mates that of $250,000 expended on tho tables every year, tho "unused" repre sents about $100,000. India Imported 2,836,298 gallons of beer In 1897-98, and the product of too breweries In that country amounted to about 6,000,000 gallons. The coal production of Great Britain amounts to 190,000,000 tons a year; of Germany to 100,000,000 tons, and Franco to 28,000,000 tons. Telegraphic communication Is to bo established between the Scottish Isl ands Rum, Egg, Canna and Muck, and they are all to be connected with, tho mainland through the Isle of Syke. The Oklahoma wheat harvest, which began last week, promises to yield 18,000,000 bushels. The territory will have its greatest crop of corn this year. In six of the largest cities of Switzer land foreigners make up 40 per cent of tho population; but of these all but 1 per cent were born In Switzerland. It Is calculated that during the Lon don season the average amount of money spent daily In flowers is $25,00, most of which goes to foreign flower growers. The secretary of the Massachusetts board of health has Issued the state ment that codfish Is as nutritious as sirloin steak or oleomargarine. It Is plain that locality sometimes Influences even the scientific judgment An expert has arisen to explain that stage fright really comes from a disor dered stomach. He argues from thla that persona meditating public appear ance should be careful of their diet and adhere to regular habits. The British army on January 1 num. bered 233,560, of whom 107,000 were sta tioned at home; 74,500 in India, 49,000 In the colonies, 1,800 in Crete. There are 18,000 cavalry. Last year the deser tions in round numbers were 4,000. The law of lese majesty has been ap- . piled by the Berlin courts to the verses "Me und Gott" recited by Captain Caghlan at New York recently, and the edition that had been published for sale in Germany has been confiscated. M. Sec re tan of Paris, the owner of the famous Secretan college, which was dispersed some years ago, is dead. After having made a large fortune In copper he lost his fortune, and his collection was sold. He was the owner of Mil let's "Angelus," which sold for $110,000. At Aetl, In California, last year, a cis tern 104 feet long by 34 feet wide and 24 feet deep was formed in a hillside for the storage of wine. The immense tank was lined with concrete two feet thick, and coated inside with a glass am Impermeable as glass. The capacity of the tank is 500,000 gallons. An association of London women ducts the congenial business of caring for window boxes and growing flowers for balconies and small gardens. It will take the contract for filling a bow window, a conservatory, little or big, or will look after the half dozen or mora drawing room plants that one may poesesa Thomas Carleton of Watervllle, Me., has a decided novelty for this sectlonln the shape of a shamrock which he raised himself. It is thought to be the only one ever cultivated In the state of Maine. He started to grow it last (De cember, and his efforts had such suc cess that he now has a full-fledged shamrock. A dispatch to the London Graphic from Sebastopol says that a Cossack ex-officer, who has Just returned from Teheran, Persia, declares that tht Shah Is mentally and physically Inca pacitated and that he suffers hallucina tions. He finds his chief amusement with the telephone, which la elaborately Installed throughout the palace. There Is no part of the world which has such a black record for wrecks aa Ue narrow Black sea. The number In some years has average mere than ona a day, the greatest number of wrecki recorded in one year being 426, and tht smallest 134. About 60 per cent of these vessels become total wrecks, all tht crews being lost A Minnesota man captured a king fisher When the hlrrf waa iil wmma. . and made a pet of him and trained tht ! bird to capture flah and lay them at hit I master's feet In summer the bird If " taken to tho river, where flah art known to abound, and set at liberty. The bird poises high In the air, anl suddenly dropping grasps his victim land promptly delivers tho flah to tht i master. I A Russian inventor utilises coal dual by mixing it with a coarse molasses and a little reatjfi,' and working the mixture. These artificial lumps burn wall, and an being made In Increasing auaatt ties. Tho "briquette" Industry Is car ried on to asms extent In western Bs rono also, tho cheapness of the oat -dust enabling maker te sell their pr In competition with the tats