i earnestly
frhttc wlnjjs Uy.
Tr tho younir can jrazc.
ihd Joy. and hone.
q sail, liiiniiir u little, showed
f of "Samson's Soap."
FJect still light- another sail
last and over falcr.
ribo motto, liritdit, thnt It loro aloft
i "Dixlson s Porous rUstcr."
Inil fnrthprnT. Ii:it hurrvintrnn
(Fierce roars the urf a:id louden,
Cmtio n ill wit li thi uvc.f fiilfrfrettnn in
' Use MffhtnliiK Uaking Powder."
" How sweet," said tho maid, "it Is to sit
At Nature's feet, and adore her,
teadln;rand le.trnini? the virtues of
The Thunder Hair Jlestorcr"
Yes " paid the j'outh. and he dropped a tear,
' Juch Joy one nex er funrets,
1 lo u to 1hj tnlil. In this irnicious way.
Of 'Teeuinseli's cisurettcs."
Scribncfn Jlric-oUrac
THE FRENCH CKOWX DIAMONDS.
A ritETTV piece of news comes to us
from France. M. Turquct, the Minister
who has charge of the Department of
the Tine Arts, proposes to turn to ac
count the jewels of the French crown
for the increase of the public collections
of paintings and sculptures.
His plan is to divide these jewels into
three classes. The first class, which
will include all the jewels having an
historical interest, he wishes to deposit
at tho Museum of the Louvre, open to
the inspection of the public The sec
ond class will comprise the stones
which have a value as mincralogical
specimens, and these he desires to have
deposited at the Museum of Mines. Tho
third class, which is much the most
numerous, consists of tho jewels which
have only a commercial value. These
he proposes to sell at public auction,
and invest the proceeds for the annual
purchase of works of art. Every ra
tional being in France approves this ex
cellent scheme, and there is reason to
believe that it will be adopted by tho
National Legislature.
The crown jewels of France wore re
nowned for centuries, and it was
thought to be a great concession to the
people wlien, m liM, tiic gallery in
which they were kept was opened to
visitors once a month. Before that
time, it was a sort of distinction in
France to have been allowed to inspect
that wonderful collection, and even aft
erwards it was not an easy matter to be
one of the crowd of monthly visitors.
From an inventory taken in 1791
(which employed twelve men three
months), we learn that the collection
comprised the following gems: 0,517
diamonds; 513 pearls; A'W rubies, of
which 115 wero not mounted; G8 to
pazes not mounted; 150 emeralds, of
which Di3 were not mounted; 131 sap
phires not mounted; and a largo num
ber of other gems of various values and
colors. The jewels were arranged in
eleven cases of large size, in such away
as to exhibit their splendors to tho
greatest advantage.
Among the diamonds thcro were four
which were celebrated throughout tho
-world, each of which had a history.
First, there was the Regent, brought
from India early in the last century by
Thomas
las Pitt, and sold in. 1717 to the
Recent of France, the Duke of Orleans.
for S 100,000. It weighs a little over
13G carats; and although not t lie largest,
it is considered the lincst diamond in
existence. The Duke de St. Simon, who
persuaded the Regent to buy it, describes
it thus in his Memoirs:
"It is of the size of s. Queen Claude
plum, of a form almost round, of a
thickness proportioned to its volume,
perfectly white, free from every spot,
shade and Haw, of an admirable water,
and it weighs nioro than live hundred
grains."
St- Simon adds:
" I applaud myself much for having
induced the Regent to make so illus
trious a purchase."
It is, indeed, a most beautful object.
The reader may be amused with the
arguments used by St. Simon to per
suade the Regent to buy the diamond.
When it was offered for sate, in 1717,
the finances of the French Government
were in groat disorder. Tho Regent,
though ho coveted tho possession of
tlio jewel for the crown, was dismayed
at tho price, and refused to buy it; as
the King of England had done "for the
same reason. No one could look at it
withont wishing to put it in his pocket
and carry it home; but two millions of
francs was a very larjrc sum in those
times, not less, I think, in purchasing
power, than tho same number of our
Id dollars of to-day- The Kinir of
.trance then was Louis XV., a littleboy
seven years old, and not very robust.
St. Simon, however, saw the child with
the eyes of a Duke of tho old regime,
and he reasoned thus:
"I agreed with Law (who also advised
the purchase) that itdid not become the
grandeur of the King of France to
allow himself to be frustrated by the
price of an object which was unique in
the world, and inestimable; and that
the greater the number of potentates
who had not dared to think of it, the
more we ought to beware of letting it
escape us. xhe Regent feared to be
blamed for making a purchase so con
siderable at a tinio when we could
scarcely meet necessities tho most
(ircssing, and when we were obliged to
cave so many people unpaid. I praised
this sentiment; but I told him that he
ought not to act for the greatest King in
Europe as he would for a private in
dividual. It was his duty to consider
the honor of the crown, and not permit
the chance to escape of procuring a
diamond without price, which ob
literated those of all Europe. I main
tained that it would be a glory for his
regency which would last lorever."
He said, also, that the finances wero
in so bad a condition that two or three
million francs more or less would make
no difference. He prevailed at length,
although the Regent was obliged to buy
the gem on credit and give the mer
chant a pledge of two million francs'
worth ot smaller crown jewels until the
price was paid. The prediction of tho
Duke de St. Simon, that the Regent
would be remembered chiefly through
the purchase of tho jewel, appears to
have come true. The fact that this
splendid object is called the Regent
does more to perpetuate his memory
than any other act of his careless and
bad administration. People in general
wjpuld scarcely know that Franco had
ever had a Regent butfor the diamond,
which to this day retains its rank as
the finest jewel in the world.
Another of the great diamonds was
called the Sancy. It resembled a pen
dulum in form, was very pure and
brilliant, weighed thirty-three carats,
and was valued at two hundred thou
sand dollars. Another was styled tho
Mirror of Portugal, oblong in shape,
extremely white and clear, weighing
twenty-one carats, and was valued at
fifty thousand dollars. The fourth in
value, called the Tithe of Mazarin, was
square in form with rounded edges,
splendidly brilliant, weighing sixteen
carats, and worth ten thousand dollars.
There were also some wonderful pearls
and rubies. The most noted pearl
weighed twenty-seven carats and was
valued at forty thousand dollars; and
there was a necklace of twenty-five
pearls, valued at two hundred thousand
dollars. 'A ruby of fifty-six carat and
another ot twenty-two were greatly"ad
xnired; not to speak of a bewildering
number of very fine gems of less im
'Portance. Such were the crown jewels of France
1US
be
rancs.
terror
y were already
i? to think of utilizing thoso
iftnrintr treasures, and wero nuita do-
tcrmincd that the King and his Austrian
wife should not carry them off. The
royal jewels were much in people's
minds in those terrible days, and there
were rumors afloat of the arrest of
fugitives with trunks full of gems, ami
of ooats floating down the Seine loaded
with the most magnificent diamonds.
It was, indeed, tunc to look after these
treasures. During the day of riot and
confusion following the tenth of August,
1782, when all authority was suspended,
the whole crowd of pickpockets.
burglars and tramps of Paris surrounded
the Repository where they were kept,
and stole nearly every jewel of any
value. When order was restored, this
wonderful collection had nearly disap-
C eared; the few smaller htones left
eing worth about forty thousand dol
lars. Proclamation was made, and pro
ceedings were instituted. In tho course
of that year, about a million franc1
worth were recovered by the police;
and, four years after, thesupcrb Regent
was found, as it is said, buried in the
beam of tho attic of an old house in
Paris. At least it was recovered by a
noted detective, who was aftarward
promoted to be Chief of Police. Such a
diamond would have been of no value
whatever to a thief, as it was a familiar
object to every person in the world
able to buy it-
During the reign of Napoleon, the
Regent was inserted in the end of the
hilt of his sword of State. Upon his
return from Elba, Louis XVI II. carried
off the crown jewels, but brought them
back again after Waterloo. The value
of the collection at the present mo
ment, according to tho estimate of M.
Tunpict, is about four millions of dol
lars; of which he proposes to sell six
hundred thousand dollars' worth. This
large sum well invested will yield about
twenty thousand dollars a year for the
purchase of works of art.
A curious circumstance is that most
of the fifty-nine sapphires which dec
orated tho crown worn by Louis XVIII.
and Charles X. have been discovered
to be false. One of the ancient crowns,
which is to be preserved for its historic
interest, is composed of five thousand
live hundred corns, and there is a
sword which is decorated with 1,509
gems. James Farlon, in N. Y. Ledger.
MInce-PIc and Destiny.
With the appearance of tho oyster
the mince-pie evolves itself out of the
vasty deep, and its old familiar name
again decorates the menus of our res
taurants. Justice never has been done
to this dish, and this is probably why it
wreaks itself upon tho human race. " It
is a triumph of eclecticism, a cosmopol
itan dainty which has chosen its sub
stances from the four quarters of tho
globe, and which is graved with a re
spectable richness, an oily, sleek fat
ness redolent of high living, dyspepsia
and gout. Everybody makes fun of tho
mince-pie, even those who eat it most
readily, and it is currently believed that
all possible jokes about its make-up
were exhausted before the war, but
nearly everybody eats it. Some appar
ently happy in the possession of copper-bottomed
stomachs thrive upon the
pie; others are simply pale and sicklied
slaves of a habit as hard to break oil' as
tho use of opium. When a man or
boy gets tho custom fastened upon
him no is gone. No one knows
tho amount of mince-meat daily assimi
lated into the St. Louis system, but an
idea of the quantity can be gained from
the fact that it is invariably the first
article exhausted on the bill of fare in
every restaurant where it is sold. The
waiter will inform you sadly that tho
mincc-pio is all out in nine cases out of
ten when you are late for dinner. No
body ever heard of the apple-pie being
exhausted, or the sago pudding. This
fatal mania for mince-pic has a queer
history, and is working out a singular
dcstiiry. In two or throe centuries it
will have utterly changed the American
character and person; it will alter our
civilization, weaken our morals and
diminish the calves of our legs. It is
even now our National dish, as poker
is our National game and politics our
National business. And it need sur
prise no one if our harmonic equivalent
for the roast beef of Old England fifty
years from now will be tho nimce-meat
of Old America. Wo arc gradually
coming to this, and there is no use in
dodging the issue. St. Louis Post-Dis-
palcJi.
--.
A Sharp Boy.
At a late hour Friday night tho po
lice found a boy about ten years old
sitting on the steDS of the City nail,
and when he had been stirred up he ex
plained: "My name's Johnny Stewart, and I
live near Grass Lake. Tho folks u ent
home last night and left me on the Fair
Grounds without a cent. That's just
the sort of man dad is. If we don't
keep tiffht to his heels all the time
he'll leave us in a strange town dead
broke."
"And now what will you do?"
"I'll make the old man sick."
"How?"
"Never you mind. Pve got a plan
laid to fix "him for going back on me."
He walked down to the Central Sta
tion and slept in an arm-chair the rest
of the night. At an early hour in tho
morning.ne walked into the American
Express Office and asked:
"Do vou run to Grass Lake?"
"Yes"."
"Then ship me there C. O. D."
After a few inquiries he was accepted
and duly tagged, and when tho wagons
went down ho was among tho parcels
to be carefully handled. To an in
quirer at the depot he answered:
"Dad is counted tho sharpest.man in
our county on a horse trade, but 1
guess he isn't a great ways ahead of mo
on this transaction." Detroit Free
Press.
A Xovel Theory Regarding Insanity.
A Gekmax physician has started a
? leasing theory with regard to insanity.
t is, ho thinks, a mistake to look upon
it as an unmitigated evil. It is in many
cases a boon rather than the. reverse to
the person immediately affected. The
loss of reason lands tho sufferer from a
sea of trouble into one of comparative
calm often into one of decided hap
piness, and attempts to restore such a
person to sanity would be cruel rather
than kind. Moreover, ho insists that
without a certain amount of insanity
success in life, in the ordinary accept
ation of tho term, is quite impossible.
All "eminent men," ho contends, are
decidedly more or less mad. Many of
them are dangerous monomaniacs,
whom it would be desirable on public
grounds to shut up, but who neverthe
less achieve grand careers, and are cred
ited with doing a vast amount of
good. This false notion he attributes
to the fact that the greater mass of
mankind are also insane and quite un
able to distinguish between good and
evil. Whole nations arc, he says, oc
casionally seized, like individual per
sons, with attacks of madness, and led
by eminent "madmen either de
stroy themselves or their neighbors.
These paroxysms are, he admits, un
doubtedly dangerous, but when madness-is
blended with just sufficient self
control to keep it within bounds and
prevent it from betraying itself, it
displays itself in nervous energy and
enables the lunatic to exercise im
.senso influence over ids fellow creatures.
The Andre Centennial -The CnnUr
r the. DbitlBsnl-fd
Different accounts of Major An
dre's capture appear to vary in details,
but the importance of the event has
never been over-estimated. Arnold,
who probably began his treasonable
plot in Connecticut, in the spring and
summer of 1780, declined the charge of
the left wing of the Continental Army,
and on August 3 was assigned to the
command of West Point, fixing his
headquarters at Beverly, tho county
seat of Colonel Beverly Johnson, a firm
lovalist. He beiran hts treasonable cor
respondence with Sir lienry Clinton,
ami the plot for the surrender of West
Point advanced so far that a jHirsonal
interview was necessary. Andre, em
barking on the British "sloop Vulture,
was brought in a boat to a point about
six niilesbclow Stony Point, where he
met Arnold, ami, the interview being
prolonged until daylight. Andro was
induced to go to the house of Joshua
Hill Smith, a loyalist. Then the Vul
ture, alarmed at the guns of Colonel
Livingston's shore battery, dropped
down the river, and Andre, abandoned,
hid in the Smith house until sunset of
the 22d.
With Arnold's pass, in the namo of
John Anderson, and with tho papers
describing tho works and troops at
West Point hidden in his stocking, An
dro started out with Smith about feun
Kit. Stormed hv an American natriot.
they spent the night at Andreas Miller's
cottage. The next morning Smith left
Andre near Pino Bridge, assuring him
that he was safe from scouting parties,
but advising him to take the White
Plains road. Andre, however, had beep
informed that there were British parti
sans on the lower road, and he there
fore went by the old Sleepy Hollow
Church, across the bridge, and then up
a little to a small brook that crossed the
road. It was down this stream that the
three "Skinners," Paulding, Van
Wart and Williams, came on the morn
ing of September 23, 1730, leaving their
companions on the top of the hill now
called Mount Andre. Hiding in the
bushes in order to watch the road now
Broadway for "Cow-boys," the three
rustics lounged comfortably, chatting
in low tones and playing cards, while
Williams leisurely hung his stockings,
wet with dew, upon a bush to dry.
Suddenly the tramp of a horse was
heard, ami a figure appeared at the turn
of the road. "Hush!" and everything
was still as death within tho bushes, as
tho unconscious horseman rode slowly
down to the brook and paused, where
it widened into a pool on crossing the
road, to allow his horse to drink. But
the quiet of the scene was suddenly
interrupted. Paulding sprang from the
bushes anil seized the horse by tho bri
dle. Paulding, lately imprisoned in
British jails anil robbed of his clothing,
had been given a Hessian yager's coat,
and when Andre's eyes fell upon it ho
smiled.
"Ha, you belong to our party."
"What party is that?" was Paulding's
exclamation.
"Tho party below."
"Yes'
"Don't detain me, then, I'm on im
portant business," and the unfortunate
young ollicer betrayed himself so fatal
ly that he was unable to recover him
self when P-iukling announced that he
belonged to the Continentals. Then,
after a little parley, Andre was led from
tho spot where tho msnument now
stands to a large rock which occupied
the sito of Mr. Wheeler s house, and
the base of which is now visible in the
cellar. The search that followed, the
discovery of Arnold's treasonable cor
respondence in Andre's boot, and An
dre's futilo attempts at bribery, arc all
familiar. Ho was met with Paulding's
stern answer: "No, we won't let you
go if you offer us ten thousand guin
eas." And the handsome young ollicer
bitterly exclaimed: "1 had better have
blown out my brains than fallen into
vour hands." Refusing to mount his
horse, Andre was led through the bush
es to tho summit of the hill, not far
from the spot where the pavillions now
stand.
Mrs. See, an old woman living on the
iScdford road, about two miles from the
Tarrytown depot, tells a picturesque
talc of succeeding events as it was told
her by the participants. Mrs. See
(familiarly called "Aunt Betsy") says
that a party of "Skinners," with their
prisoner, went directly to "Mug Tav
ern," near White Plains a hostelry
presided over by Aunt Polly Reed.
Strange to say considering her sex
Aunt Polly was notorious for her curi
osity and inability to keep a secret
While ham and eggs were sizzling in
tho pan for the hungry "Skinners,"
Aunt Polly was struggling to ascertain
tho identity of the melancholy stranger
who was so haudsomcly clothed in a
blue overcoat, claret-colored coat and
nankeen waistcoat and breeches. Fi
nally Paulding seized her by the wrist
and drew her close to him.
" Can you keep a secret?"
"Yes," stammered the old woman,
with hardly suppressed eagerness.
"We've got a British spy."
In three minutes tho old woman had
intrusted household cares to her
girl.
saddled her white horse and
was gal-
loping off to the next house, in a place
then called " Twitchings." But the
fences and brush proved an obstacle,
and Aunt Poll- was forced to make a
long detour by the road. The "Skin
ners " finished their meal and depart
ed, making a straight cut across the
country toward "Twitchings." As
they approached the house they caught
sight of Aunt Polly Hying up the road
on her whito horse, daylight showing
between herself and tho saddle at every
leap. Her hair streamed out behind.
In one hand she swung her huge poke
bonnet by the strings, whilo she
shrieked in a shrill, quavering voice:
"They've got tho spy! They've got
the spy!"
There are several persons in Tarry
town who knew Andre's captors. On
Broadway is a quaint, whitewashed
stone house, half hidden amid vines
and trees. It is the old Van Tassel
mansion, where trim and coquettish
Katrina flirted with Brom Bones and
Ichabod Crane. Mr. Mott, the owner,
when a boy, heard Van Wart tell the
story of Andre's capture substantially
as given above, except that Van Wart
declared that tho captors were not
playing cards when Andre appeared.
"'Squire Capron, who in his youth
sang in the choir of the old Grcehbure
Church with Van Wart, never heard
him mention the capture. Both de
scribe him as a strongly-built, highly
respectable farmer, living upon the
land presented to him by the Govern
ment, and enjoying- the esteem of his
neighbors, W. C. Williams, a grand
son of David Williams, one of Andre's
captors, arrived at the Cliff House in
Tarrytown yesterday, bringing the
elaborately-engraved medal presented
to his grandfather by Washington, and
a cane presented by an army officer,
made from wood sunk in the river by
the British to obstruct navigation. Mr.
Williams has often heard his grand
father speak of Andre's capture, and
while he as well as the others, acknowl
edges that the party had little idea of
the importance of tho papers discov
ered in Andre's stocking, he is positive
that British gold never caused one of
them to waver for an instant inhis loy
alty. K. T. Tribune
m
A Bey Dies ef Hydrophobia.
Another distressing case- of hydro
phobia, the third that has occurred in
this city during the past seven weeks,
terminated to-day in the death of the
victim, little David Ziegler, the six-year-old
son of Frank Ziegler, a labor
ing man, residing on Manor Street.
About the ,1st of last August the little
boy was severely bitten in the hip by a
dog belonging to his father, which wat
lying upon the porch in front of tho
house, and which the lad playfully
struck in the face as bo was pawing.
The dog had exhibited no signs of the
rabbles. Although the wound was an
uglv one. the hip being so badly
lacerated that it was necessary for the
attending physician to sew it up, no
serious consequences were anticipated,
and tho injurv healed satisfactorily. On
Wednesday the boy complained of
feeling unwell and was alternately af
fected by severe chills and high lever.
He was unable to eat, his eyes becarao
reatly dilated and he strenuously re
sisted taking the liquid medicine which
the physician prescribed and which it
required some force to administer, the
little sufferer shuddering visibly and
and frequently screaming. Yesterday
afternoon Dr. "Foreman, who was tho
attending physician, pronounced the
case to be one of hydrophobia, and his
diagnosis was confirmed by Dr. Atleo,
who had been called in consultation. A
Scuth American vege able poison called
"curare," claimed to be a specific reme
dy for the disease, was administered by
means of iuje -lion under theskin of the
arm and appeared to produce a beneficial
effect, but the relief was only tem
porary, for during the night the spasms
inrrea-ed in force and number, and
from midnight on till five o'clock this
morning, when death relieved him. ho
was in continuous agony. The sufferer
imagined the room to be full of horrid
forms, and the most trilling objects as
sumed shanes that were menacing him
self and his mother, for whom he ap
iiPimil to manifest the utmost solici
tude, imploring her to flee from
the danger to which she was
placed and shrieking with ter
ror. At oneUine he jumped as high as
the headboard of the bed. and toward
the end it required the united strength
of two men to hold the suffering child
on his couch. Lancaster (Pa.) Special
to Philadelphia Times.
A Poetic Story.
There is a quite singular fact in con
nection with Stiles' Hill, in tho town of
Southbury, known to the country resi
dents living within sight of that emi
nence. For six decades two tall elm
trees stood side by side, a little distance
apart, upon the topmost point of the
elevation; these trees were visible for
many miles around, and from this fact
they became noted landmarks. More
than sixty years ago two littlo girls
were wont to pass over the summit of
this hill daily, during the summer sea
son, to drive their fatlrer's cows to pas
ture. They were impressed by the
sightly attributes of the elevation, and
olten tarried to gaze at the wide-spread
landscape. One day they conceived
the idea of planting each a tree upon
the hill summit, which should be to
them a reminder of their childhood
days in the years to come. They put
their idea into effect, and two slender
elm shoots soon waved their green
branches as solitary sentinels in tho
open space round about. Years passed
by and the shoots grew into tall, stal
wart trees. The girls grew to woman
hood aud passed out of the parental
home into the great, wide world. Oc
casionally they would meet one another
aud allude to the living reminders of
youthful days, and oficn they would
visit the familiar haunts of their girl
hood and would sit beneath the wide
spreading branches of the mammoth
eims. About live years ago one of tho
girls died, an aged lacly of almost
eighty. Scarcely had the intelligence
of her death reached the neighborhood
of her youth than tho residents ob
served that one of the old elms was dy
ing. Its leaves wilted and withered as
though scorched by flame, and although
midsummer, yet the foliage fell to the
ground, leaving the naked, lifeless
branches and stock looking dcsolato
enough. Decay quickly followed in
the great tree trunk, and during a high
wind one night the following winter it
fell to the earth. The other girl,
though an octogenarian, still lives, and
the old elm which she planted in her
fresh young girlhood still lives. But
the people to whom the above circum
stances arc known watch it with inter
est, feeling that a subtle relationship
exists between the two lives, and that
tho one will cease with the other.
Walcrbury (Conn.) American.
.
A Remarkable Expedition.
The Berlin papers state that early in
October in the present year an ordinary
sailing-boat, well known on the River
Spree, will start from the Jannowitz
bridge for New York. The route will
lie along the Spree, the Havel and tho
Elbe to Hamburg, theuce to Liverpool,
and from Liverpool across the Atlantic,
whilo the boat will return through the
West Indian archipelago to Lisbon, and
thence direct to Hamburg, the Elbe,
Havel and Spree. Four months have
been determined upon by the sanguine
adventures as a sufficient period for tho
daring voyage, which is for the first
time to connect as sister ports the great
cities of Berlin and New York. Tho
first thought of the undertaking was
due to a conversation at dinner of the
Berlin Sailing Club, on the successful
ocean voyage of two Englishmen or
Americans in a boat of sixteen feet in
length. A Berlin banker, a leading
member of the club, ventured the opin
ion that no German would dare to
undertake such a voyage. The man
ager of a great place bf entertainment
in Berlin, who wasformedy the captain
of a German transatlantic steamer, pro
pounded a wager that he would find
German sailors and sportsmen who
would not shrink from the attempt to
journey all the way from Berlin to
America in a little Spree sailing boat.
The wager was accepted by the banker,
and the sum fixed at G.000 marks,
which is to be paid on the day on which
the boat lands its passengers after the
completion of their voyage at the Janno
witz bridge. There seems to be no
lack of volunteers for the extraordinary
adventure, and the National Zeitung
states that a naval lieutenant and a
Berlin journalist are accepted as two of
the companions of this Prussian Odys
sey. Boston Advertiser.
Remarkable Presence of Mind.
A lampltghtei: in Leeds, England,
while making his rounds, at half-past
four in the morning, noticed flames
bursting from a bookseller's house. He
gave the alarm, but the firemen arrived
too late to save tho house, two stories
of which were already blazing. The
bookseller and his wife, who slept on
the third floor, appeared at the win
dows in their night-dresses and called
upon the firemen to rescue them. The
husband ran down the stairs leading
from the bed-room to the second floor
to ascertain if it were possible to escape
through the shop iuto the street, but ho
found that the stairs leading from the
second floor were on fire, and he was
severely burned. Hastening back to
his wife, and closing the bed-room
door to prevent the dense volume of
smoke which now began to roll up stairs
from suffocating them, he tied a num
ber of sheets and blankets together,
and fastening one end round his wife,
lowered her from the window into the
street beneath. When she was still
some distance from the ground he was
compelled to let her drop, but she was
caught by the firanien and escaped un
injured. He then leaped on the coping
of the shop, and thence into a blanket
held out to receive him by those below.
All this time the fire was raging fierce
ly in the small shop and the room
above, and a few minutes after the in
mates had been saved the flames burst
through the shutters. Few men in so
great an emergency would have shown
such presence of mind.
Tlmelj HHp.
There are few parent who are nt
willing to give their oos a tart in life.
if they can to cl tfceru up in oasmc.
to brood and foster their ecunfcirr in
terests until they can rana for tbcra-clvci-
But moit parents em to fcul
that when daughter hare finished their
education and become of age there If
little nnro to bo done for thetn. They
must marry or become domestic
drudges, or mere stay-at home, looking
for no wa,j for scrriccs rendered, and
not expected to rentier any stated scrr
ices or to receive any fixed or regular
income. If they prefer to et up for
themselvei they'tnutl enter upon mjoio
oc.tipatioa which L Lkely to auord
them a present support, without aar
outlook for the future other than a life
long hand-to-hand struggle for dady
brotd.
Sovr. there are a great many girls
who are eagerly looking toward the
professions ojwn' and opening to wom
en, and longing to enter upon fields of
activity and enterprise for which they
seem to themselves jeculiarly fitted. A
young woman who aspires to a place as
a lawyer, a phviiciaa or a writer, and
expects to atta'm it by her own uuaidod
efforts, has a long and weary way lo
make before she can reach her goal. If
she will only teach, or loarn teleg
raphy or some other tradu which
requires comparatively short prep
aration, or is supjxsoti to uo so.
and exsilv yields a living, it is all well
enough. What is the use of bestowing
elaborate training upon a young woman
in art and science or literature or med
icine or tho law, when in a few years,
more or less. ho will in all probability
marry an I go to housekeeping? To
reply immediately. If she marries, her
training in art will enable her to make
her home beautiful, her training iu
science to make her home healthful,
her training in literature to keep her
from sinking into tho mere domestic
drudge, her training iu medicine to
rear her children with hygien't wis
dom, her training in law to manage her
affairs with discretion, anil to be her
own lawyer in case of her husband's
death. Doos not the success of a man
depend as much on his wife as on him
self? A m.iu married but not mated
cannot achieve tho full, rounded, per
fect success that is possible to him
whose wife is his companion and equal.
Every talent, accomplishment, capabil
ity she possesses is so much capital
for her in tie marriage partnership,
and many a woman is compelled to
draw on this capital for resources
during her husband's life and to de
pend upon it entirely in tho event of
his death.
If girls were trained to depend upon
themselves for support, anil were not
socially compelled into ineligible mar
riages," the number of unhappy mis
called homes would bo greatly dimin
ished. If girls were permitted to choose
their professions and occupations as
bovs are. and aided in doing so as many
boys are, tho title of "old maidsr'
would soon cease to be any more of a
stigma than that of "old bachelor" is.
Aud tho number of purposeless, mor
bid, sickly, sour, selfish women would
be vastly diminished. No human being
can remain normally healthful and yet
live a purposeless, idle, unoccupied
life. Our girls should be encouraged
and aided to be and to do whatever
their native instincts and talents qualify
them to do. The young woman who
aspires to a position in the art world
should have every facility given her for
attaining it. She who espouses litera
ture should be encouraged to devote
herself to literature. And women who
have courage and perseverance and
faith in themselves are well worth help
ing because they will not rest till tho
goal of their ambition is won, no matter
what difficulties or discouragements
stand in the way.
As cases directly in point we give two
or three right out of the Home Inter
ests family, showing in turn the right
way and the wrong way of treating up
grown girl3. Some time since a West
ern mother wrote us that her daughter
hud a pas-don for modeling, and that
she aud her husuaml were disposed,
subject to our advice, to aid their
daughter's high ambition. The case as
stated was clearly promising and orders
were sent to this city for models and
primary instructions. Tho next year
the daughter wa3 ready for New York,
and entered a studio here where she
has done such good work that her mas
ter, a sculptor of reputation, writes us,
"She has a great deal of talent, and if
sho progresses as she did last season
will make hor mark."
Another daughter of Western parents,
and of the same age, has for years
cherished honorable aspirations toward
the profession of literature, but her pa
rents, amply well-to-do, insist that sho
shall enter "immediately on the life of
a teacher, aud mako good at once tho
investments they have made in her im
perfect education. It matters not that
the peculiar strains of tho schoolroom
make her an invalid for months after
leaving it. or that the whole bent of her
mind is in another direction. They
will neither give her time nor sympathy
in her chosen vocation. Is this wise.
jut, reasonable? But even they are
wiser than another parent who wouldn't
let his daughters after they left school
do anything toward making themselves
an occupation, toward choosing a life
work, even toward perfecting the edu
cation they had received, but has left
them purposeless, objectless and love
less. If a girl is poor she needs of all
things lo bo aided to do what she can
do best, and at the same time bo hap
piest in doing. If she is rich she must
nave an object to devote herself to and
bestow herself upon, or she becomes
morbid, spiritless, selfish and inane.
X. 1". Tribune
Something About Poultry Breeding.
Poultrt has its place upon the farm,
in the village yard, and in the hands of
the fancier; but the fowl for the breeder
or fancier are not generally the kinds
for the farmer, and those for the small
quarters of the village lot are not the
varieties for the wider range of the
farm. And from the great interest in
poultry-breeding during the past dozen
years have come many advantages
which the farmer and " villager m3
claim and turn to useful account. For
instance: patient, careful breeding of
many years' trial has been necessary
to produce in so great excellence the
many different breeds of poultry which
we now have, adapted to different pur
poses; and these results could not have
been reached otherwise than through a
careful love for tho business, as mani
fested by those whom we term " fan
ciers," or lovers of a particular variety;
and no breed, however undesirable fbr
general purposes, like the Houdans,
but has its "fanciers;" and these fan
ciers, producing with care different
breeds, having distinctive character
istics, have been of great service, be
cause farmers, villagers, and all who
keep hens, or love fresh eggs, or roast
chickens in August, are reaping the
benefits and advantages of their pa
tient labora. The "best breed for all
purposes has been obtained through
this careful breeding and selecting the
best mothers; the nest layers those
yielding the greatest number of eggs in
a given time, or the best table fowls;
and how could these have been pro
duced had no one shown more interest
in hens than the common farmer, who
is not particular about the number of
serrations ia the comb, or the pencil
ings of the neck hackle? There has.
undoubtedly, been much folly exhibited
by many breedera devoted to a class,
bit generally it may be said that po5i
live benefit has come to oar poultry in
terests through their efforts. Neva En
gland Farmer.
rKRMSAL AMI LITERARY.
Ax Atapricaq. MU IUrkr.pi, h
woo tb Ioaj;-Mrl.for pne for xcl
Icnce on tho Twlla. at th Pn Coo
crratory.
iROsBY tbo oldet copy of U Bi
ble in thu country i owa4 by WlUUra
K. Clay, of Camdra. N J- It was pub
lished m 1oadon in 1SW-
EcoKscScmrrLKR's "Lifaof Peter th
Great." TnllbeimultneoutTpoblihJ
In tiv different antrte itnmr4atolT
after it completion in malaria form.
Jcx.cs VnuNK, th norHt. ha nvto
32JO.CO0 from hi writing U lifty
one-years old, enjoy gvK4 health, and
works a hard a if he hada'l a cent
laid up.
Jotix Batoirr. the great Eattth
statesman, ha m gtvat an adnitratxjn
for Mtltoa writing that h carr.e
with him wherever he gvos a copy of
Paradise L,i."
TlIK City of Caen I enjoying aa ex
blblt'oa of" rare book printed in Nor
mandy, arranged lu celobratlou of tbo
four hundredth auniverarv of tho In
troduction of the art into l&e city
Jusnrit PAimr. of the Umvcrmitv Col
lege of Wales, has cowKed a Wnlh
opera called "Bkxlwen. or th? White
Flower," which i to lx prxdueed la
Cleveland and Cincinnati thi month.
Mk. Lmikin J. Mr.it. in Florence, I
engaged upon a coloal figure- whtoh
will symbolise the MuiI.Mpm River, and
which, it Is said, is being done on Mr.
Elliott F. idiepard's order for Central
Park.
Jamm IlfsELL Lowell, iay tho
london lunify Fair, "t a 'oarned.
kindly, strong. p!eaanf, honel man.
He writes with great quickne and fa
cility, and ahvay with graat correct
ness", that English language of n hich ho
i fo proud and o fond, anil hv I per
sonally altogether one of the most de
lightful of men."
Hkuuekt Si'exokk. the dilingulnhed
philosophical writer. U described as be
ing of medium statue, shinty built, long
legged and a great walker. He n a
bachelor, living in a quiet Iwardmg
houe in the et End of Loudon. He
talks witli the same force and perspicu
ity as he writes.
Thk Bradford (Yorkshire) Oiurw
says that Adelaido Neilsun, while nur
sery maid at Mr. Padgett's, llawkhill.
Guiieloy, iu that county, was most at
tentive to her duties, and very active,
nuver requiring prompting In an thing
In her spare time sho learned accurate
ly passages from Shakespeare So di
termined was she to go on tho stage an
intention she often announced to tho
faintly she served that one ovetiiug
after leaving her employment at tho
usual hour he started for London. She
slept the tir-t night under tho trees in
Hyde Park, and subsequently got work,
in" answer to an advertisement, as a
seamstress.
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IIUMUKUUS.
Pkaikie chickens are game to the
last.
A v.c, says of a topur: His nose has
passed the rubicund. Chicago Tribun
Pakahdxi;ai.: The poron who with
es to stay in this world will avoid tho
deadly corset, lloston Courier.
Almost time for husking bees. Itha
ca Journal. We'd jiLst like to see you
husk a bee once. .V. Y. Graphic
"YuL" can't play that oil met" waid
the piano to the "amateur who broke
down on a difficult piece of music A.
'. Acu.
II k who has ridden in a country
stage-coach knows how cream feels
when it is being churned into butter.
Jlo-ton Transcript.
Tiikke are hundreds of entertaining
writers who would be god historians
if thev did not kuow m many things
that Lave never happcued. S. 0.
li'cuyune.
A Calikounia woman seven foctLall
and weighing two hundred pounds
broke her heart for love of a little runt
of a man. wearing number four boots
and leading a poodle by a chain.
" What is meant by the power be
hind the throne?" asked the teacher.
"The ace," replied the suiirt. bad boy,
" which is greater thati tho king " P.
S. The s. b. b. staved in after school.
Ilawkcyc.
Even a deacon won't saygracu when
he steps into a mil way eating house.
Ho knows that it would" bo asking too
much to request that he be tnado thank
ful for anything he will get there.
Boston Post.
That Spanish baby over which such
a great fuss was raised is pug-nosed and
almond-eyed, and we can't help but
feel glad on' U One baby ought to bo
as good as another the world over.
Detroit Free lYcss.
"Ikquiuer" asks: "Is tho Great
Eastern the largest vessel ever built?"
An impression has got abroad that sho
is, but such is not tho case. Tho May
flower, in which the Pilgrim father
came to this country, was the largest
ship that ever plowed the waters. J'he
old furniture scattered over this coun
try brought over by the Mayflower
would fill the Great Eastern a dozen
times or more. Sorrisiown Herald,
The Hyena and Ihc Ja-ka'.l Fable.
One afternoon a hyena met a jackal
in a lonely path in the woods and thus
began at him:
"Dear mo! but how your breath
smells! You must have been eating
some old bones picked clean by a
lion."
"A grave robber shouldn't be tho
first to cry stop thief,' " saucily re
plied the jackal.
"You have to feed on tho crumbs
which fall from another man's table!1'
sneered the hyena.
"But I am "not detested hy man and
hated by my own kind."
They thus continued their insults un
til both were ready for battle, when
along came a hare. Under other cir
cumstances he would have been
Eounced upon and eaten, but in this case
e was appealed to by both to decide
which was the most worthy. The
frightened hare well knew that he
would be the sufferer, no matter which
way he decided, but he did not lose his
wits.
" While I must admit that both of
you have points of advantage." he re
plied. " I am forced to say that I am
too low and humble to be made judge
between two such superior animals.
Hack here is a wood-chopper, and I
have no doubt he will speedily settle
the dispute."
The disputants agreed to leave it to
the ax man. and at once set out. When
they came before him, the hvena stated
the case and asked for a decision.
"When two men go to law," said
the chopper, as he lafd both hearts out
with his ax, "it is not the boaine of a
lawver to inquire which is right, but to
proft bv the loss of either."
Moral Don't pick a foss with a hor
net because he wasn't born for a horse
fly. Detroit Free Press.
A Penwtul Skatiag Pni.
Tbeue is a lake on the Saw Tooth
Mountains that has probably no equal
in the United States. It is about sixty or
sixty-five miles from Bonanza, and at an
altitude of nearly twelve thousand feet.
The lake Ue3 in a basin among ths
sharp crags of the snowy Saw Tooth,
and is a sheet of perpetual ice. It was
discovered in Angust of last year by s
partv of prospectors, and named the
Ice Lake. The sun seemed to have no
effect upon it except in places adjoining
the shore. It is simply a great bowl
in the hard mountain rock brimful of
solid ice, upon which the rays of the sub
descend with no power to penetrate-
Yankee Fork (jCaL) Herald.
Our Young Headers.
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MXVS LETTER TO HKR MOTHER.
Mr tVMfcn Msa
Pata at I mr writ and tell you
that wo a.4 all wd xd Jtnl mtwt rnoy
yourself aod not worry atvnit us for wo
Ir. milling sjirf tdctldldU
That's rut what ho WM W to wrlto.
und he hv directed a inTkp
readr for me to put tho tetter a. l"
I don't mx what ho mwu by saytnr
we are alt writ, for lher n hh
thing the mattrr with u. TbiT .
mea-lc, and mump, and malaria, and
if there ck any more tekne that ,
bwgau with il. l irueM www .
them. too.
t;rndma-he. got tho malaria,
tht th tirvttie.it name, and I thinV
lt the prettict-loAln;C skeknos. H
makes her faro yellow, but it don't puO
her out like nuimpv Kdlth and me
Ihink U make her ctom. l grown
folks get cruM when they am iA juU
like children? She takes guocarrn Ui
hrr.iV un chills, she say, but t U
afraid he will br.wk Ut) fierxslf, for she
shakes as If she would fly to pice"
rume days.. I think shes got all the
malaria there Is in th house fur noue
iif tliH r..t of u hire hail anv. but '
1-W -- - --- --- - - W.S.a - M - - - - W
there was tneasle. enough to go round. iirrad. and it was funny t - ns
and wo'e alt had 'em except me I i jpypts at helping htmtf W -M
nuppoe l should have had some of , ,jV ftU oljl Mtj, ih bread a 4mm
them. too. but grandma siys I had 'em jmn., Kask us if It bad lurnwt K"
nine ears ago when I was only a year , j (,aVtf rj ,nne gralhMrH
old. I a-s helping and ea"Un?. and U r r-
Itiltv thn IkrtV lh.it e.irrie news- ! ...,., .-, .i.Hv l.ktkitd thlu aud wswrs
i paper, brought us the mumps, and we j
j ami much obliged to him I asked him
wnat lie wore ins iare. in unimi -iii- 4
ferable for. an he said 'caused he'd
got a corn behind his ear, and then he
asked me if I saw atn thing green, but t
of course I coulda t" through his big -
comferable. Anyhow, 1 don't believe
it was green corn in tho middle of
winter Hinnah ssld. the next to
morrow, when "ho saw him, that 'twas
uiumns. mi he 'had no buines to come
here, and she .-aid. "You'll eateh it,!
Miss, for talking to that naughty txiy j
in the hall when you was told not to' ' j
I did eaU-h it, loo, and I wish 1 hailn l
talked to htm. for my mumps was awful,
but thev are mot better now. Oneo I
Micezei! while I hadlhem.and I thought
1 had torn off bolh cars and turned my
nose wrong side out, it hurt so; but 1
hadn't.
This is a picture of Edith, with both
her mumps.
KIUTH ANI UK It Ml'UfS.
Sho took them from me. grandma
.untiu.-t 1
flav.x. but 1 don't see how she could, for
f t. ... . .til I ... !.... t ...
1 Kepi em .lit iunj; nnui uni -ji.
1 uey sain sue m.vs umj f;imi iu imu
'cm on one side, but sho was most
through with the measles so she had
room enough to have 'cm on bolh sides
just lifce me.
You know I can't draw as well as
nana, because he is a celebrated artist.
but I thought it would bo a comfort Ut !
you to Me how she liwks. .
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Jimmy and .Josey have each got a
niumii apiece, and they arc dreadfully
iiieasti'd too. Their face am as red as
red can be. and the little spots on them
arc redder Mill, ami their mumps aru
all red and speckled too. Isn't it fun
ny? Perhaps it's because they are
twins. I've drawed a portrait of Ilium,
and if I had time I'd paint it, too. soy ou
could see how bright their measles Li.
JOSET AM JtMMr ANITHEIIl TWO BICK
NKSSES. Your canary bird isn't well, and we're
took him out of the nursery. It can't
be malaria because he is yellower than
grandma, anyhow, and couldn't get any
worse; and I don't supjioso it measles,
because tho feathers take up too much
room; and if it's mumps, it will have to
be a very small kind or else they will
be bigger than he is.
TUT. BAST.
This is the baby's birthday. She is
eighteen months old. and she sgot two
mumps and lots of measles. Grandma
says they've come out splendid. I
should think they had. I don't believe
there's half a one left inside of her, and
she's as cros as cross; she goes yaou,
yaou, yaov. vaou, icaou, tcaou, and she
keeps knocking her mumps axfdentical
ly. all the time, and then she just holler
my, how she boilers!
The picture a little way back is a pict
ure of her. The dot is her cose, sne is
so swelled up that it looks like a little
red button.
Pre made up some poetry for yoa to
put in your Ortograu" album. It be
gins: We are sll In tbe dumps
ICvaue of tbe inutaps.
Tbst swefU up Is botnp.
An-1 rirts us Uig aamps.
As-i wiU not bear -ejri&ufsps,
... trass ps
jramps
.... Sump
. erussps
That's far as I could make up the
lines, but I know lots more words that
rhym, so Pre written them down for
you to make up some Kaes to your
self. Grandma sends lore aad mts I am
cot to write anything that will worry
you, so I guess I had better stop bv
for fear I snalL I hope your cough is
better, aad you don't have to take
Drover's powders to make yoa sleep.
Your verr uXcctSoaxUlr daazMer.
Mate JlcscEJtrosa.
P. S. Hannah say the canary is go
ing to moult. I don't kacw as that is
any better than to mump, hut I dare
sa.y we shall all moult it he does, be
cause it begins with 31 like osr other
complaints and I sappose it's catching
erythin? seem? to be.
2. P. S. r forgot to y that the
pots oa the twiaa legs is t eaat tor
measles it's button? 01 theirooot.
3. P. S.lt I dida't ewill all the
word right it is becacse yoa wum
here to tell me hovr. aad "grandma's
btzzy, and Hannah uon't kao'w. liarc
you learned ho.r to speak M-xrcillea
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an-ther, and ouH Xh rMM
from cab olhor- uuMrth km 7
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cat a hit most JlVetr UV s. m
K.-i mi. nxv Xowailcrk r
.Lin n,i LHArd tfrrd. at lt t
thin and loV.rd tlrrd.
M. v,he J,w off with a W f
a ,mamck tre nr y '
js;v. but lhni grsiy MM
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an,j jmb-lnd. Irwm uruigUll Miffct
ym wjjj heartu hpsiUons a " U.rtr
where Is my lilsitir r '.um
Tu sow otimy !uxvbutUin?' -Mwtfcr.
won't vou sew a button on My ).'. r '
&a' voU put up my limehooi.. t mr
.,.'. hurry?" Krr one f i!mm
Ihiiigs the twiys and girls nwfcl kasi
done tiulU as welt for tbm4-- It
they had only thought Tkrw W no
reason whv a Ikv shoutd not Vaarm t
sw on a a ket Wum well a hi
sister. It i not half so hard tnn.
ing to skate or whittle. lUns juvl jftri.
if vou wish vour beloved mU-f U
j,ro ollj. ,,,1 happily with you. si
oncJ the "Help
Yourauu jyKittngr, s
Paptut HViy
I.ertist in lIlferHla.
TilK looust neourgrt of Kastnnt CM
fornla continues uunbilod. Ih w he
sale detntclinn of erups w ftA.-ttalty
exhibited In Sierra Vnllwy fr tr
yenrw past Is tvpralod in Jiri tW s
son. and alo extended oVnr n Utn
area of country north or soutli N
ty all the vatbiys tlaukin lh Hmmto
the east, ami ntenllg iru ,iisi'
County to Mono, arv tnuniorbsss atfevv
ed. and contiguous regions are fright
fully menaced.
Thu hiioctnce of tho sublet im
pelled the writer to vUli the lomhty
nuu mane n enr-mi rswmii'ivrmi. r-
j rived at Keiio. the wildest storios win s
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mill 01 mrj iiieei (iinuc, nini Tin"
cottfliollng theories were ndvaiwod as
Ut tho laws governing lis present aj
pearaneu ami Its future destiny. HM
zens kindly aided In getting alnrnt thu
country and In prosecuting rosmreh.
Wo drove over the fatuous alfalfa
flnMa if TmrVurt Meniliiu'n Hi iitien U,sv
.,-,,.,,,. agricultural wealth of NnrtMtn
aIj ttu, pp.pho-y f its future, to Slid
many of the wide-stretching Noldf-
ahoni 01 every gren
leaf, na by lU
uiual noisy wowing
machine, but -by
mtlliona 01
t t rw 1 talf tt l.iVifl4ii
Insects. Tho extent of the ilistruatlott .
can be appreciated when we consider
that tho annual yield of alfalfa fur this
one valley la 'O.OOO to M.0O0 tons.
This year, though a flnp one, owing to
abundant snow last winter, the erwp
will not exceed Ift.OOQ'tons, At 7 kt
ton for standing crops, the loss exceed
f0.000. In Sierra Valley nt year
the loss was J1O,UO0. and for thw threo
years of tho scourge It was over $72.
000. The orescnt year's loss la nut jot
estimated, hut It will bo miiah lis than
formerly, owing lo the marked diminu
tion of locusts in the north ond of tbu val-
ley the part first attacked nud. htj-Vf
pily, wheru the Insect first !lnipar.
Tiding from trustworthy ierons
show that the locusts are nhumiattl m
tho bottom Land of Pit lUver. and ari
busily dupos ting eggs there again I
certain localities rejKirted nil aJottg th
rcglon mentioned egg-dciiosUing 1
tiitirvri .' -.Mi-t ij 1 A
going on at a rate that is sniftr, ',', t
menace with heavy los the wheJe
Pacific coast, provided it is found that
the present courgi is composed of
species of locusts that are migratory hi
their tiahiu - ami such is th pMaltsl
fact. Ilils is no Idle statement crimi
nally uttered lo create alarm, but saUy
true, as the specimens collected otooriy
prove.
Upon careful examination with jow. j
crful microscope, and critical compari
son wilh authenticated speirnons troo
the interior, tho scourge this year j
cot alone caused by the tntn&la al'nx.
or "astrocious locust' a comparatively
innocent species, but he is now rea
forccd by at least two specie of the no
torious and terrible migratory locnU"
of the interior, but, happily, found too T
short-winged for extended flight-
Tbee specie belong to one fasofly
and are the "red-legged locust
(GitefAcniu femuraubrum). so cnMad
from the usual color of iu hind shank.
and the "lecr!ocut" (CaJopOinu at
lanu).Mnamcil from iU aniaH '&
about three-fourths of an inch long
These two pecles, with the "hatrd lo
cust" (Giloptmus tprtltu), called a! '
the "Kocky Mountain locust," from
it place of origin, constitute the grat
scourge ot the interior. The last mo
tioned is the tnoit nunvrrott and is
principally responsible for the appall
tngviaiution daring the rears 173 to"
18?7, whea the damage b'calcntated at
the enormous mm. of fr&WMJ.VJL
nearly equal to the total obliteration dr
baa 1 1-rascUeo, with Iu amassed weaiih
of 217.000.CCO. San Frawco Bui-letin.
Is the rlkr part of the hut eeatunT
there lnred fc Scotland a' OilonA"
aowasfeesil, who coald apparently k
at will. 11 a franae wmiM . rtT.f
aad cold, hu eyes dull aad gbastlT.aad
hw features flhnsalc and waxy "as ia
death. Ia this Mate he would remahx
for several hours, and tfcea would
slowly rerive. He oace performed tAfr rf
straage experiBjeBt m the prncaT'
taree physician, who, perceiving bo
pulsalwas of the heart aad Borespira
tiOB, cooviaeed Uwawelve that to w,
reallrdead. B. ooa atg- u, ieft
hist he reTired- It h beea asserted .
that he died actually whihs repeatise
the ghatly perfonaaBGe.
AGtosfitt widow, while dririar a
load of hay. was iaselted by a tramp
coaceraiae her bonaet. She jumped
from the load aad gaTe the fellow a
oaad thrash iag. aad a less thaa. a
week had three offers of n8arria5V
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