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WEAR FALSE TAILS FASHIONABLE HORSES OWE MUCH TO DECEPTION. k wVl(Mk«n H<> tha Work—No Trouble to Match Horses Whan tha Tall* I>lf far—Artifice la Mach In r»»or la tha CUnto Boulevards From Chico go Tribune: "Hello, John! Un't that the mare I saw you drivlr.g til# morning?" "Yes. certain ly It Is. What of It?" "Well! She bad a abort tall then, and now she Ik carrying 4 regular waterspout; vvliat does It mean?” "Why, just this. I *‘%bad her tail cut off »o as to be In tho fashion, and when it wok done I didn't like It, and so 1 got a tall made, and ninety-nine people out of u hundred don't know the difference,” And this reatlon between two regulars in d boulevard opens up the question What may be called a horse's toilet, borse of beautiful conformation may may not have a good tall. If he not a full one to Htart with no amount of docking can disguise the fact. And more horses curry artifi cial tails than the everyday world Mtf ‘it.? Neither 1h It a recent loo. Old-time horsemen like Plshop or Dunn Walton will that as long an they can re member, and their memories will go b*ek half a century, the made-up tail bM figured In the furniture of a first class stable, and both of them have ned lots of money In netting up and lightening (alls, and know what, tey are talking about. Fifty years 10, when the harness horse world new nothing about class races, when fevery event was a match, artificial ^ tails were In use, not so much as an Mcdomment, but to befog tho betting Moment Those were the days of Mos ■B>w, Klpton, Flora Temple, Tacony.lJX jr Moscow, and Hero, the pacer, ana Oil of their kind, were horses with bobbed taila, aa any one who haa »«en picture* of Flora Temple, the Aral trot ter to beat 2:20, or any of her contem poraries, can verify. Well, now and Again a man with a feat trotter would make a match for a big atake, the aald trotter being disguised on the day of race with a false tall, and perhaps forehead mark painted out. All's Ir In love and war, and also In trot ting matches. And the cult has sur vived to this day. Leonard Jerome in New York had a *four-ln-bnnd team of line looking bays, Up headed, high steppers, and every one bad the crowning glory of a horse —a full, flowing tall. Old John llau doulne, another four-ln-hand whip of those by-gone days, had a team of clinkers, and was a road rival to Jer is. But one of his leaders, the best of the bunch, had u rat tall, and the appearance of his team was led. “Oct a tall made for that off ," suggested a friend, and ho did; |A taxidermist's cured tall, but a liar out-and-outer, made by a wlg aker. It cost a lot of money, but t didn't matter, and after that, on question of tails, the Jerome and dotilne teams were equal. That as about the time when all the oar age horses in Gotham were trotting «d, though many people seem to l&lnk that the use of the trotter as a heavy harness horse Is of recent date. The carriage horses of that day were for the most part big animals, sixteen ands or over and according to their reeding they bad good full tails or the everse, and It was then that the false tails were first used, Just as they are [today, though few people knew of It. !t was a date wheu breeding from old bdallah stock and from Star mares as close up, and almost every horse an of middle ago knows that Abdal uh bad a rat tall and perpetuated It, nd a Star tall was as narrow and at enuated as a Jupiter foot. Ou the question of horses’ tails, there are uny umDer or people wno nave an tmpres lon that the short flag, or bobtail, is a ecent adaptation of an English fash n. If it be an imported style, tt Is ot at all of recent date, unless sixty ®r seventy years ago can be considered , All of the old-time prints of fam s horses show them with short tails; d If the manner in which the said Is were carried means anything, ijr were pricked and docked. An old ie dealer, who used to bring many od load of horses to this city, al | „ s had every horse In the lot i pricked and docked and pullled. They ) would arrive with full tails, standing woU out, and purchasers could bavo thorn cut to auy length desired-eight or ten Inches or banged- It did not 5 matter which. In this city today there are many well-known road horses flaunting splendid full tails which do not belong to them Hut It la a deli, a!.- Uhje.-I, the mention of names would be naive. Hut, for inatsuce, a year or ■Ince a member of the tuner ring film bought a roadster for a good _ figure. In conformation and col or be was a perfect mate for one al IgiMMly In the stable, llut the stable had a full tall; the latest pur had a thin one. Today he car as good a tall as his mate, but Ifh net. not uatur# In New York there are many examples of the false tall. The trotter Hugh McLaughlin which Th« trotter Hugh Mclaioghlln. which |j> fjbarlry Moser used to drive for a | well known llroohlynlts, was a rat* tailed horse, but few people knew It, ■ for he had an nrttflclal tall that wm ■l a triumph of the wigmaker * art. Me r laughlln was by Aberdeen and IIIIM ran be said of Aberdeen's tsll, just be cause there was little of It One of the most natursl looking tails ever seed la New York wee made f»r n roadster owned by the late William Johnson be who was warden of the ‘T stubs iu dharksy'e 4e> Johnson • •• a trotter aired by Conklin's Star, and, like all the Stars, he had a thin tail. At that time Darker, tke theatrical wlgmaker, was in all his glory, and Darker made a tall for Johnson's road ster that was a dream. It waa so nat ural. It was one of your tails cut off a dead horse, boned aud cured by a taxidermist. It was made hair by hair on a black net to fit on the road ster's caudal appendage, ami when on It floated out full and free, us any well regulated tall should do. And that tall goes through Central Park to day on the little mare first mentioned, and that In spits of l he faet that It was made more than twenty years ago. A tall such a* this Is easily fitted. A cloth is wrapped around the stump, an end left loose. This Is passed down the net, on which the artificial tall Is built up. The loose end Is pulled through nt the bottom-the net Is Just a long, narrow bag the cloth removed, the artificial appendage buckled on tho crupper, and there you are. And If any driver geta tired of u short ling tall can be accommodated toduy with a regular waterspout. THE RED FLAG. A llangsr Niguel Was lloliiail Omr Mia Blslun I'alrli. A man was out driving one after noon and went beyond the limits of Westport, says the Kaunas City Klar. He wan Jogging along the road taking things easy, more Interested In hi* fair eompanlon than in the landscape. Sud denly he pulled his horse In. Down the roud he saw s red flag fastened to a pole stuck In the fence post. He stared at It silently for some minutes. "What ki It?” asked his companion uneasily, "I can’t make out, Perhaps It's a rifle range. Maybe they’re blast ing. Anyhow, It's a danger signal,’’ he replied. He drove forward cau tiously, stopping now and then to look at the red flag. Thera being no vis ible evidence* of danger, he proceed er, and saw, hitched to the fence post by a Ion* rope, the meanest mule In MIsHourl. It woe humpbacked and skinny. Its loose hide was scarred and worn bare in patches. Its ears were ragged and Its eyes were red. Its hoofs were abnormally developed. The rope by which It wae tied was short euough to keep It out of the highway —beyond that was evidently danger. An old farmer sat on the fence In the shade of an apple tree across the road. "What’s that flag for?" asked the man who was driving. "That flag means keep away from the mule,” answered the old man. “Then why In thunder, "don't you tie him up In your barn or In a field?” asked the driver. "That mule,” replied the farmer, “Is better than a constable or a bulldog. See that patch of muskraelone? The boys 'round here use to skin that patch most reg ular, an' I couldn't keep 'em out. They'd win every dog I set to watchln’ 'em, but they can't win the mule. I lo*t so much sleep watchln’ the patch that I got nervous prostration. Then I thought of ole Bill there, and we put him out. It took six neighbors to do It. He didn’t want the Job. I don’t know how we’re ever goln’ to get him back again—shoot the rope In two, I guess. But every one about, here knows Bill, an’ you bet them melonB Is safe while he's there, You see, his rope Is Just long enough to cover the patch. Well—so long.” Dlrkeii* and III* Cat. Charles Dickens was a lover of rats, jle owned a large white one named Wllliarnlna who Delected a corner of hie study foi her kittens and brought them In from the kitchen one by one. Dickens had thorn taken away again, hut Wllliarnlna peculated In bringing them bach. The third time of their removal she did not leave them In the corner, but instead placed them at her mauler's feet and taking her stand beside them, looked Imploringly up at him. Most of the family were finally given away; only one remained. The little creaure followed Dickens about like a dug and sat beside him while he wrote. Ono evening the author was reading at a small table upon which was a lighted candle. As usual the cat was at his elbow. Suddenly the light went out. Dickens was much Inter ested In hla hook and relighted the candle. It was only when the light be came dim again that he turned sud denly and found the kitten deliberate ly putting the light out with her paw. She was lonely, she wanted to be pet ted, and this was her device for bring ing it about. “Obey Tour Order*.’’ In Franklin's "Memories of a Hear Admiral," a good story is told of » naval officer whose tact enabled him to obey orders and to do as he pleased. Commodore Truxton distinguished himself during the war of the revolu tion. and subsequently commanded the naval station at lialllmore. Commo dore Stewart commanded a brig which waa titled out there, and had been or dered by Truxion to proceed to sea on a certain day. Stewart reported on that day that It was Impossible for him to sail, as he had uot u*t hoisted In his mainmast. "Obey your orders." replied Truxion. Stewart sailed forth with. towing lux mainmast astern. Fortunately the wind was fair, and when ha reached a point beyond the limits of Trtitton’a command, he an ehorsd. hots'ed In ID* mainmast, com pleted hi* preparations for sea. and then sailed UUeeee i* !<>•'.St ill order to prevent the spread of dtsesae by mesne of library books, a slerttutng apparatus has tieen brungh' out In New York It consists of a don Me welled box u* iron, la which are I ■ helves fur the reception of the bouk*v OUR FRIENDS. THE GERMANS, Honda That Connect la with tha Fatherland. To war against Germuny would be to war against our own flesh and blood. No European country, with tto»» exception of Great Jirltaln, hat ao large a reprcaentatlon In our citizen ship »s the fatherland. In the decade ending with 1890, over 1,400,000 Imml grantH came to ua from Germany, more than a fourth of the total Immigra tion from all Europe In that period. Feveral of our lurgn cities, Including Cincinnati and Milwaukee, have a larg er percentage of German-horn cltlgen* than of all other foreigner* put to gether, And theae people are among our moat loyal, substantial and valu able citizen*. They are not wanting In love for the land of their birth, hut they love the land of their adoption •till more. They are true Americana. A common love of learning la an other strand In thn bond uniting us with the German people. Nowhere tn the world la the leadership of Germany in various fields of scholarship so fully and frankly recognized as In the Unit ed States, We send many of our bright er young men to alt at tho feet of her great teachers and to drink deep at her springs of learning. W'e glory in her unparalleled achievement* In the do main* of aclcnco and philosophy. To ward the country of Goethe and Hchll ler, of l.uther and Humboldt, we can never he aet In hostile array. Hut stronger, perhaps, than any oth er strand In the bond that unites u* with Germuny Is our common trade in terest. The shuttles of commerce, fly ing swift and fast across tho *eaa for a hundred years, have woven ua to gether by golden threads that may uot easily be severed. Lost year we sent Germany breodatuffs, manufactured products and other articles to the val ue of fit23.784.4G3. Germany sent us back In exchange chemicals, cloth and other needful thing* to the value of fill,210,6it. With no other country except Great Hrltaln doe* our volume of trade reach such proportions a* tbla. W'e export to Germany more than twice as much as we do to France, and more thau twelve times as much a* we do to Hpaln. And the volume of trade between America and Ger many Is more evenly balanced than between ua and any other country In the world. We take nearly as much as we give. A friendship baaed on such considerations a* these will not bo lightly broken. Leslie's Weekly. WASN’T AWED Uy tlm Kngluct-r'a Ar<-<>m|>llnliin*nl« — On* Tiling I'm/li-d lllm. One of tbe delegates attending the recent convention of civil engineers In Detroit left th 1m story, says the De troit Free Press: "Just an wait atutcd l»y the president In his opening ad dress, the Importance and accompllsh nientH of civil engineering are nut held In the popular appreciation they de serve. it la simply because the greut majority do not understand. They ap prove of our works, but do not com prehend the knowledge required In pro ducing them. When considerably younger I was up In the northern part of our state surveying the route of a proposed railway. An old farmer with whom 1 had stopped for a time ad mitted one day when ho saw me fig uring in the Held that mathematics ul ways seemed u wonderful thing to him. Being young and enthusiastic, I began to enlarge on Its wonders, telling him how we could measure the distances to different planets and even weigh them, how we could accurately foretell the coming of a comet or an eclipse years In advance of Its actual occur rence, determine the velocity of the fiercest projectile, ascertain the height of mountains without scnllng them and many other things which 1 meant should astonish him. You can imagine how he set me hack when he replied to this brilliant array of facts by say ing: 'Yes, yes; them things does seem kinder cur'us, but what ullus bothered me was to undorstan' why you have ter carry one fur ev’ry ten. But If you don't the durned thing won't cornu out right.’ ” L'npUuianl tliiili r, icurnrt many thing* from hiM guide caution nmonx the rent. One man, no ticing; that hU guide tapped with hla foot each hollow log and ittump lu a certain pathway, before atepplng on or paat It, Inquired the reaeon, "looking out for snakes," waa the reply. "What kind of anakes?” asked the traveler, with an unpleasant sensation along hit aplne. "Moccaalua," returned the guide. "What make* you wulk on the loga, or ao cl oho to them, then?" demanded the uneaxy traveler. "Why don't wo walk off there, where the ground la ■olid?" "Well, you can try It," said the guide, launching a vlgoroua kirk at a atump and then mounting It. "You mougbtnt Mink below yer walal, and then agin you (nought." I nr ill tnaealhnta. An Kngltah phyalclau ha» dUcmeted a way of produrlng local unantbrala without the lues of cousrlou*ne»s nr the un# of ethi-r or chloroform. H# uses moderate currant# of electricity frequently Interrupted. Taking lit# M#a«aia. I Midair tgh I aw, would Ilk# Mime eollaba. Hal##wan Yea air. What i ■ lie. plraee? t'lldelrlgh | aw. gue«4 fowtiwii Inchea In about the p wop pah thing MaUainau Yea, air. Height or langtk?" wmu • t uiidiM Willi# May. pa ara you a s*lf made man? I*» Yea. my wn, and I'm proud of it, Willi# llut, pa why didn’t >uu aae a looking glaaa* FEAR OF DEVIL FISH. MARINE MONSTER DREADED BY SEAMEN. Onychiil«u(lil« to I,»llg» Not On* gperla, but Knaral, Karh I’oeullar to Soma Olfforant fort of tho World tillor.' Horrible Adrouturoib Among mtch primitive people* an •till exist, not the leant curious or no table trait which tin I veritally obtain-'* la the manner In which all thlugs un canny, or which they are unable to comprehend, are by common content ascribed to the devil. Not to a devil a* one of a boat, but the devil par ex cellence, as though they undnrntood him to be definable only an the matter and orlglnutor of whatsoever thing* arc terrifying, Incomprehensible, or cruel. Many eminent writers have copiously eurlched our literature by their re searches Into this all-prevailing pecu liarity, to that the subject has, on tho whole, been well ihraibed out, and It It merely alluded to rn passant as one of the chief reasons for the epithet which forms the title of this article. Now It will doubtless bo readily ad mitted that sea-folk retain,even among blgbly civilized nations, their old world habits of thought and expression longer than any other branch of th« population. This can scarcely be won dered at, since to ull of us, even tlio least Imaginative, tho eternal mystery of the ocean appeals with thrilling and cver-fresh effect from time to time thut we come Into close personal relations with It. Hut when those whose daily bread depends upon their constant struggle with the mighty marine forces who are fumlllar with so many of Its marvels, and saturated with the awe inspiring solemnity which Is the chief characteristic of the sen arc In the course of their avocation* brought suddenly In contact with some seldom seen visitor of horrent aspect arising from the gloomy unknown dept ha,with one accord they apeak of the monster ait a "devil Ash,” and the name never faiIn to stick. Ho that there In not one aperies of the devil tl*h, but. sev eral, each peculiar to Home different part of the globe, and Umpiring It* own special terror In the he art a of mariner* of many natlona. Of the devil Huh that wo In this country hear moHt about, and In Indelibly portrayed for uh by Victor Hugo, the octopus, #o much haa been written and wild that it la necessary now to do much more than make passing hllunlon to the family. But the cephalopoda embrace ho vast a variety that It ncema hardly fair to single out of them all the comparatively harm lens octopus for opprobrium, while leaving severely unmentloned the gigantic onychoteu thls of the deep sea, to say nothing of many Intermediate cuttle Ash. From the enormous mollusc Just mentioned which Is, not unreasonably, credited by seamen with being the largest fish In the ocean to the tiny loligo, upon which nearly all deep water fish feed, hideotisnesH Is their prevailing feature, and truly appalling of aspect some of thp larger ones are, while their omni vorous voracity makes them veritable sea scavengers,to whom nothing comes amiss live or dead. When a youngster I wus homeward bound front Halm Ana with a cargo of mahogany, and when off Tape Campeche was one calm aft ernoon leaning over the taffrall, look ing down Into the blue profound, on the watch for llsh. A gloomy shade tame over the bright water, and up rose h fearsome monster some eighteen feet across, and In general outline more Ilka a skate or ray than anything else, all except the head. There, what ap peared to be two curling horns about three feet apart, rose one on each side of the most horrible pair of eyes Im aginable. A shark's c>e us he turns sideways under your vessel’s counter and looks up to see If any one Is com ing are ghastly, green and cruel; but this thing's ejes were all these and much more. I fell that the book of Revelation wu» incomplete without him, and his gaze haunts nio yet. Al though finite sick and giddy at the Night of such u bogey, I could not move until the awful thing, suddenly waving what seemed like mighty wings, soared up out of the water, noundloea ly, to a height of about hIx feet, tail ing again with a thunderous splash that might liavo been heard for miles. I must have fainted with fright, for the next thing l was conscious of wa i awakening under the rough doctoring of my ahlpmate;i. Kibe* then I have never seen one leap upward In the daytime. At night, when there la no wind, the sonorous splash Is constant ly to bo heard, although why tboy make that bat-llke leap out of their proper element Is not easy to uudtr gtand. It doea not seem posalhle to believe such awe-inspiring horrors ca pable of playing gamboling. At an other time, while mate of a barque loading In the Tonala river oue of the Mexican mahogany ports I fish ing one evening from the vessel's deck with a very stout line and hook for large fish. A prowling devil tlsti pick ed up nuy Imit, and feellug the hook, as J suppose, sprang out of the water with It. I am a I meet ashamed to say that I made no attempt to secure the thing, which was a comparatively small ape i linen but allowed It to amuse Itaelf until, to tuy great relief,the hook broKe and I recovered the um» of my line, my evening's sport quite spoiled These ugly monster* have as >«>i no cummer dal value, although from lheir vast extent of (tat surface th*v might he ftvund worthy of attention for their ahtna, which should mske very exeel* lent shagreen A closer acquaintance with them would alao moat probably dlv net them of mu. h of tl«* terrer in which they are held a* present. Torn hill Magxalae HOME-MADE PHILOSOPHY. The mtn with a crook'd knee has a hull lot of upa nn downs in Ufa. Halvnahun un patent me.dlseen al mernaeks are free, tin ore aeldum ap preeheoated. If sulvaahun was aold at one thousand dollars cash, every body wild be laylu' up ruunny to buy a supply ov It. A bear U aller* lean durln huckle berry barvem. There Is u time fur awl thin**, even fur hearse lie un hu< kJeberiles, A hornet thinks It le cheaper to blit) a new house every spi Ing,than to clean up the the old one. A hornet makes bits own paper, un anupa hlz stinger at the American paper trust, laiv Is no more than a selfish desira to moke >oor own aeleekshnn In *« lecktln u wife or husbiint, If she has got mutiny, yoor luv aeuma to grow more abundant. Wen two ant colonies go to war over the prwsoahun ov a werm, Uod seam# lo be on the side ov the strongest, Jls* the same as In humun affairs. Thure are sum things during sum llmze that pay better un morepiompt ly than prayer. No contrary cow wux ever ylt known to gft her tail twist ed In answer to prayer, I .If** I* like a game ov checkers— It takes * ken min and dcweevln to git Inter the king row, and skeamln and deseevln to keep the other feller out er the king row, soze yoo kin Jump hirn easy. Awl witz rot gold In Alaska that glittered In the nootn paperze, but mutiny a man hudter go awl the wuy ter Dawson City to git the dazzle took outer hia late. Men who him supposed to drink In lh«> miislck wen the alngcr has a Ilk - wld voire, but the mowt ov 'em go out between rertH to drink In somethin that la more eatlsfyln to the stom mli'k, Witdiim eotire un sobers a man down to lookln the naked truth In tho fare with painful awe; but It la posslbull for a fool to be merry over tho Urn ov brains. The plan ov Halvaahitn Iiuh been made to plain that no two preacher* kin vie the aamo color at tho bot tom; but they do scum to ugree on the point, that there really must bo a bot tom to It aumwhere, ov some color, If It wuz poMibull for n man to rum hark from the grave after bcln dead for u thousand yrente, what a grute liar we wild cull him If he told ua ov it. People never git, to old and tooth Inaa to chew the rag. If old ago wii7. aa full ov wladutn us It U full ov ur viimlnt, the IT. H. Kcnnte wud do sum thiii more than agitate her jaw. The grasshopper la a grate jumper, but never knozc ware heese goln to light till he git* tliare. Home good people jump inter dot Jiat uz blindly. The rooslerzo rrow In a boastful threat throwd out for tho benefit ov other nearby roosters; but the Indus trIonh old hen simply brags ov wot shcoza already dun. When yoo meet a man hooze very r-ralle seta your teeth on edge with a desire to shuv In hl« fare with a brick, don't have anything to do with him. The averldge man Iz jUat as mean az he looks. A great many preple have a hull lot ov rcllgyun stored away so carefully that thay can't llnd It at awl wen some poor son-ov-a-naddueees cumze along bcggln for old klozo un cold grub. A grate many people believe In a devil, un art like one. as neur as thay kin without a tall.- Flnnlckey p'lnnu kln In Pa. Grit. (irsnt's rrloailililp for > Turk. When (lenernl Orant visited Jsritsa lent, he found Keouf I’arha In the po sition of governor of that wonderful city, hay* Sidney Whitman, F. H. 0. S„ In Harper's Mugaslne. A strong friendship eprank up between the thin-lipped taciturn general and the suave, courtly, and yet most simple mannered pacha. It la many years ago now, hut lleouff Mill loves to talk of his meeting with Orant as one of the few truly grent men lie had met In hla life. And as for Orant a opinion of Reour, 1 understand from a good source that. lw*for« leaving Jerusalem. (Irani ai.mred him that If he were again elected president of the Foiled States he would ask the Hulian to send him ss Turkish minister to Washing ton. i|l|a9 for Alice—Oh. dear! I wish I knew wbrther Jack really love* me as much as he »aya he dose' lless I wouldn't worry about It. dear. Alice I can't help It! If he dies Ini afraid he Is foolish, and If h* doesn't he Is tie reiving me t*eo Verses *««a , The warriors shout, the swotd leaps out. And glory close attends It. | Th.y iuatui, they hill, they ft«t»t until A |*t» scratch quickly ends It. Clrveiand IMsln l>mlef NO "CRIMINAL SUGGESTION." IlnMiMlIiU IIUiiom of iht M*a ik»l There I* Any Hnrh Thing At a recent meeting of the British Aim! I ml association. held In Kdln hurg, the of hypnotism was a principal topic of discussion, and many Interesting statement* war* made by physicians and other •den ude Investigators concerning IL That It has been usefully employed In cur ing some persona of the morphine habit and of the drink habit seemed to be established, but us to It* gen et al value as a therapeutic agent there was much difference of opinion, and no conclusion waa reached. An Inter esting point that was left unsettled was: "Docs the hypnotlzer Infuse pow er Into the mind of tho patient, or merely evoke It?" Instances were given of rase* wher* there was actual transmission of power from the hyp notlzer to the hypnotised, but In the large majority of cases no such trans mission occurred. Naturally the "criminal suggestion" feature of the subject was most debated, and Ur. llramwell, an eminent Ismdon physi cian, stated that he had not during his nine years' eiperlence with hyp notism ever seen an Instance where a patient had received the least sugges tion of an act that would he repugnant to him In his normal state. To a question by one of tho members, "Whether the hypnotised patient could ho got to elgn a check for 4!f>0O under the statement that It was only for £5," Ur. llramwell replied: "Absolutely and certainly not. A hypnotized sub ject did not lose one single p6wer which lie had In the normal atuta; on the contrary, he gained othera." This Is unite Interesting and goes far to dis prove the sensational stories that hav i appeared In the newspapers from time to time ronrernlng hypnotism us a de fense In erlmlnal cases. Novelists have also been active In dlaaemlnat Ing the belief that persona can be In fluenced by hypnotic suggestlona to perform arts they would not perform when In a normal condition. Dr. Dratnwell and other scientific Investi gators have now quite effectually ex ploded this delusion. A SIRDAR'S BULLET. Uaa- Hltahaaar'a RlaiuUr Kaparlaaaa fa* tha l'*ni|Wl(* of I UNA. The Sirdar of the army in Egypt, on whom the rye* of Englishmen are now turned from every quarter of the 'empire, has had a very extraordinary experience, having swallowed a but* let with which he had been wounded, und which lie now preserves as a me* men to. During the campaign of '88 Major Kitchener was hit in the side of thn face by a bullet, during a eklrmlsh near Susklm, and was taken down thn Nile, and thence to the Citadel hospital at Cairo, where, de* spite all the efforts of the surgeons, the bullet could not be located, the X-rays being then unknown. On the uuthorlly of Brrgeant Hilton, late of the medical stnff corps, who Is now In Ixindon, and who was then special* ly detailed to look after the Injured officer, the wound wu* a healthy one, Hnd very soon healed, and the roedl* cal officers came to the conclusion that the bullet had worked Its way out without being noticed on the passage down the Nile. Itllon one day tempt ed his patient's appetite with a tasty beef steak, which thn major had no sooner attacked than he put his hand to his throat exclaiming: "Hilton, If there’s no bone In the steak. I’ve swallowed that bullet; I felt It go down.” This proved to bo the case, the bullet passing through the ali mentary canal without Injury to the distinguished officer. llrlblng Spurgeon. The recent autobiography of the late Rev. Charles II. Spurgeon contains au account of what may be termed an early business venture, and lta Influ ence on hie character. Spurgeon wa* brought up on Watts' hymns; but not altogether willingly. His grandmoth er coaxed him with money to learn them. At flrat she gave him a peuny, but when she aaw how eoatly it was earned, the old lady reduced the prlie to a halfpenny and then to a farthing. There is r.o telling how low the amount per hymn might have fallen, but just at this time his grandfather made a discovery which seemed more desirable to Spurgeon. He discovered that his ho use was overrun with rats, and offered his grandson a shilling a dozen for all he rould kill. The oc cupation of rat-kllllng gave him more mouey than learning hymns. “But," Mr. Spurgeon characteristically says. “I know which employment has been the more permanently profitable to me." a lllg Hulled mutter. Cook.i tu large hotels and boarding housea may think they get up meals on a big scale, saya the Portland Tran script, hut when It comes to whole sale cookery the little village of Use, ou the Isindun A Southwestern Hall way, Kngiand, surpasses them ell. At a barbecue held there not loug ago au us was boiled not roasted whole; end this Is how It a as done; A large hole was dug In the gruuutl and lined with brick. Inside this a tank large enough In hold the ug wee bntlt. The rereesa was then lowered Into the tank, having ttral been placed In a caee formed b> heavy cron..-bare, to which chains were atlas-bed. I'utleye from n scaffolding above were used to raise and lower the u« Many vegetable* mi - h as carrots, onions, cabbages end potatoes, were hulled with the meet, 't he bulling repaired it van hours. late at Ural sig.it often caoeee tbs victim, la aUb !b*t had Stmewlled an ecu Hat,