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Here’s the Idea Of the Non~pull*out Bow The great watch saver. Saves the watch from thieves and falls—cannot be pulled off the case—costs nothing extra. The bow hn3 a groove on each end. A collar runs down inside the pendant (stem) and hta into the grooves, firmly locking the bow to the pendent, ? * that it cannot be *T'U:*ccl or twisted oif. Can only he had v-iiTi cases -jpsif/ shunned with this trade mark. ■jgjfjjl Jas. Boss Filled Watch Cases lire now fitted wiili this greet how (ring). They look and wear like solid gold cases. ' bst only aliout half as much, and are guaranteed Sold only through watch name PHILADELPHIA. f A STRANGE CASE. How an Enemy was Foiled. The following graphic statement will be read with intense interest: “1 cannot describe i he numb, creepy sensation that existed in my arms, hands and legs. Iliad to rub and beat those parts until they were sore, to overcome in a measure the dead feeling that had taken liossession of them. Iu addition, I had a strange weakness in my back and around my waist, together with an indescribable ‘gone* feeling in my stomach. Physicians said it was creeping paralysis, from which, accord * ing to their universal conclusion, there is no relief. Once it fastens upon a person, they say, it continues its insidious progress until it reaches a vital point and the sufferer dies. Such was my prospect. 1 had been doctoring a year and a half steadily, but with no par i icular benefit, when I saw an advertisement, of Dr Miles’ Restorative Nervine, procured a liottle and began using it. Marvelous as it may seem, but a few days had passed before every bit of that cneepy feeling bad left me, and "there has not been even the slightest indication of its return. I now feel as well as I ever did, and have gained ten pounds in weight, though I had run down from 170to 137. Four others have used Dr. Miles’Restorative Nervine on my recomen dation, and it has been as satisfactory in their cases as in mine.”—James Kane, La Rue, O. Dr. Miles’ Restorative Nervine is sold by all druggists on a positive guarantee, or sent direct by the Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind., on receipt of price, SI per bottle, six bottles for $5, express prepaid. It is free from opiates or dangerous drugs. t * d >> 0 C 3 s- M — « a e 3 •> £ “ •c o X B g « O "« 5»S5 5d 3 T3 03 “■ r ^ C O 0 <»*C >» Uj £ u u u o ,c p o •* i- — t; • ~82:a O 0) 5 *“ 5 m ® h 2 ^ rr 5 W J I vJ j- V H >Tr 0 O 2 0i (C-. sssi W ' sr CQ < c U* DJ Id z .0 o-*g: 20 58°-; J Z*CJ < 2°qo ^ oi£ < 2 m o < o .5 “■ s^m- G ■o o a o ■; =^5 s s ft a o 6“ E 2 ^ S a g-5 ** £ 06 3 " ‘“£51“ Q 0 — ., w ® J £ " *J C Id 5r m au o.o 5 = Sh 2 -r i 'C s§ £ 71 EXPERIMENTS ARE DANGEROUS. DEI/AYS ARE 1 DANGEROUS. TRY NO experiments. ^ MAKE NO DEE AYS. VISE QREGGA1 S<SDiNEYyEA, IT WtUL. CURZ YOU Of Back-ach<\ Iml iramniion of the Bladder a or Kidneys, Diabetes, I^ssof Flesh, Drcp=i- t cal Swellings, Constipation and all comnlaints ’ arising from a morbid condition of t.;e L*:: nary Organs. w - if® - , -%\} fo&ifc oJ-— TJjSGEKTia&VSFB.'ENa.**^^ ^^“ssrisrssrsJ^saSfS Corel GOKOKBBSA ond OI.EET la O«o to Eoorn d»JS A QUICK CUBE for LEUCOBHHIBAor WHITES. Bold brail DBUQGISTS. Beni to OBJ A ddraM tor fluO. (UUfioi MAHUEACT8MSO CO. bAHOKSH* OOUk THE MAN YOU CAN HELP. There are plenty of nu n who will grasp your lmnd With a pleasant, cordial smile; There are plenty of men who will pass you by In the most indifferent style. You may be “cut” sometimes by those Whom in boyhood days you knew. Butxl man will always treat you well When ho wants a favor from you. How glad is he that you look so well, And how do your children do? Your wife is In good health, he trusts. And your business prospering too. He struck a new brand of cigars today— By the way, just try a few! Oh, yes, a man will treat you well When he wants a favor from you. When the favor’s done—alas! alas! How suddenly he forgets ' How he loved you when he needed, perhaps, Your help to pay his debts. But the fact remains, and every one knows That this assertion’s true— A man will always treat you well When he wants a favor from you. —Somerville Journal. A LIFETIME LOVE. My sister once related to mo a love story, which illustrates the peculiar in tensity, especially in matters of the heart, which marks the Breton charac ter. The tale was related to her by one of her friends, the daughter of the hero ine, whom I will call Emma Rosilis. She was not perfectly beautiful, but her face had an indescribable charm. Her eyes had the most exquisite softness, and her delicate eyebrows almost seemed to possess a soul, while her skin was so fine that it betrayed the slightest agita tion by fugitive blushes. Little Emma Rosilis went regularly to church with her book of hours, and the truth is that toward the age of 16 or 18 there was no place in her little soul but for one young man, of about 20 or 22, whom she saw often, and whom I will call Emilien. Emma had known Emilien ever since she had known herself. Moreover, she dreamed what she did not think, until it happened one day that she found Emil ien was occupying the entire cavity of her little heart. The young man whom she loved had a good, though not a strong, nature, but his simplicity, his absence of all pre tense, were most pleasing to Emma. She had not known any young man su perior to him, and indeed in the little world where she moved she had not met many young men of any kind. This love of Emma’s soon became most absorbing. During entire days she would remain motionless, almost as though she were in a trance, dreaming of her be loved. Naturally she said nothing of what she experienced either to the one she loved, or to her relations, or to her companions. Her discretion was so ab solute that no one knew anything of what filled her. While Emma lived only in her love for Emilien, he thought little of her. He found her pleasing, as did all the world, but he never thought of telling her so. He was a commonplace and passive be ing, and then, after all, was he to blame? Emma was so modest that she could scarcely be distinguished from her friends—you would have said she sought only to hide herself. One day, while she was talking with her c'ompanions at a little reunion at the foot of the garden, many things were | spoken of. The news which had a fresh ness for all was of the approaching mar ' riage of Emilien to Anna M-. It was spoken of as a certain thing. Emma heard it all. Such was the control which she' had over herself, however, that no one suspected that a poniard had en tered her heart. She was quiet, arose a little while after and retired without giving any sign of the frightful wound which she had just received. Anotner bit ot news was circulated a few days after, in the company of the same young people, assembled in the same garden. Emma had entered as novice into the community of Ursulines of the little village of L-! As she was very pious, this surprised no one. Her secret had belonged so exclusively to herst-lf that no one reproached her. The idea occurred to no one that the marriage of Emilien was the cause of her consecrating herself to religion. The convent of the Ursulines admitted divers degrees of religious vocations. By the side of the sisters bound to the order by a perpetual vow there were pious per sons wearing a costume which was like that of the order, minus the veil. These practiced the same observances without assuming any permanent obligations. The greater part took the vows at the end of some years, but there was more than one example of devoted sisters who 1 re-entered the world after years spent in the convent. It was into this class of sisters that poor Emma entered. Everything was as usual in her admission, in her novitiate, ' in her conduct in the convent. I She became a devotee of the most per j feet regularity, pious as the others, never i in fault, esteemed by her superiors. Her pale face in the white linen which sur | rounded it had the beatific calm char acteristic of the sisterhood. Assiduous j in prayers and in all other pious exer cises, she yielded quickly to the religious habits of the cloister. At the end of j some days the slow- and monotonous ! routine of the regular convent life had dulled her sensibilities, and her ordinary j . state became a kind of gentle sleep. I Had she succeeded in driving from her ' heart the image which had captured her 1 whole being? After a fashion—yet she had not even 1 tried. The suspicion came not to her for an instant that her love was culpable, j It was, as in the canticles, “a bouquet of i myrrh in her bosom.” She would have doubted God rather than her right to ; this sentiment which filled her. She distinguished not her love from her piety nor her piety from her love. She even tasted in her austerities an addi ; tional charm. She found in wounding ' herself a sort of delight. She experi I enced an intense joy in believing that she suffered all this for the one she loved, j and in saying that she saw no other man but him. Such were the innocence and purity of her imagination that never a scruple came to her for her dreams ot love. She was «o certain of being right that she never felt obliged to accuse her self to her confessor. Thus five years rolled by without a trouble, without a storm. Did the pos sibility of recovering Emilien ever pre sent itself to her spirit? Dreamed she at moments that it was Emilien and not the church that she had really espoused, and that she whom he had espoused was in very feeblo health? As nothing that passed in the little town was unknown in the convent, she knew that Anna and Emilien had two little girls. Did Em ma’s heart never whisper to her, “Thou shalt be their mother some day?” Anna had a sister in the convent, One day, according to the custom at such times, prayers were requested by the women of the community for a relative of their number, who was dying. The ' name of this dying person was repeated that evening to Emma. She was Anna. The two little girls, who soon had no mother, were confided to the care of their aunt, the nun. Emma assisted her in attending to them. From this time Emma experienced a change. She could scarcely pray. She tried to reclothe her- i self in her haircloth, and she found it! insupportable. The austerities which i were familiar to her became revolting, j She denied herself the communion for j eight days. Her peace was at an end; j her profound piety extinguished. She i believed herself morbid, selfish—almost wicked. At this time she felt obliged to tell all' to her confessor, the chaplain of the con vent. He was not a great man, but ho was very sensible. He advised at first that she should wait; then he saw the gravity of the evil. After all, Emma had pronounced no vows. She had not worn the whole costume of the order. The veil had not shadowed her forehead. The chaplain had a benevolent heart. The sacredness of the confessional for bade him from consulting his bishop. He formed his opinion from his own reasonings. Convinced that it was for the salvation of Emma, he confided the two little daughters of Anna to her per sonal care. He hoped also to give an outlet to the restlessness which began to disturb her. On these orphans she might outpour the fullness of her heart. The father came to see his little girls, and Emma conducted them to the parlor. The shock of seeing him again was ter rible. She burst into tears. He was just the same as she had always seen him in her dreams. As for her, she was sadly emaciated. Her excessive weeping de prived her of what little strength she had. Herself control entirely forsook her. Gazing into her tear dimmed eyes, Emil ien discovered there her love. The good man, commonplace as he was, at last comprehended the situation. He had a very tender heart, and he was profound ly touched. Some months after Emma and Emilien were united in marriage. What no one j had suspected all the world now saw. The entire community married them. For the rest of her life Emma tasted without a moment’s intermission the most perfect felicity that one can dream of. During 40 years she drifted, as it were, in a Pacific ocean of happiness and love. Emma and Emilien had eight children, from whom they never separated the two daughters cf poor Alina. They brought them all up well. Some speak of the “storms of love.” What childishness! Passion has its in equalities, but true love has no storms. The happiness of Emma after she had won her lover was as a full sea without tides. Even death was hardly for her. Life went out because the hour of fin ishing had come. She died at the age of 70 years, without sickness. My sister found this a perfect example of love as she comprehended it. She es teemed Emilien the happiest of men. For him an excellent woman had con demned herself to a life of austerity, giving to him the most complete guaran tee of the exclusiveness of her love. During five years she saw not a single man. She had accepted with innocent joy the expectation of an external exclu sion. In all battles that come in life 1 there is a recompense for those alone who dare. Happiness is like glory. To obtain it, it is necessary to play high. One day I hazarded the observation to my sister, “It was a great deal of devo tion to bestow upon a mediocre man.” “Oh, that was no matter!” she re sponded. “Emilien certainly did not merit so much happiness, but who does? See the false idea of the Parisian men of | letters, who assume that great men only ! are worthy of being loved. What child- i ishness! You will see some day the j ridiculousness of all that. Ah, the heroes who have saved their country—I acknowl- : edge they may reward affection, but the daubers of canvas, the blotters of paper, | what have they for the heart? What is a husband who belongs to every one?”— Translated From the French of Ernest Renan For Romance. The Conscience Fund. Every little while conscience stricken individuals refund to the treasury de partment certain sums of money con fessed to have been ill gotten from the government in various ways. It is as tonishing that notwithstanding the thou sands of dollars that have been sent to the treasury on this account no special record has been taken of them; that there is never proof to those who have thus “squared themselves” that the money ever reached the proper disposition. Treasury officials now recognize this dereliction, and separate accounts will be kept in future, if for no other purpose than to enable public officials to vindi cate themselves from anonymous assail ants who may impugn their trustworthi ness.—National Tribune. Diplomatic. Porter of Sleeping Car—Your berth is the top one, lady. Passenger—What do you take me for, a bundle of old fashioned dry goods that you want to put out of sight on the top shelf? Porter of Sleeping Car—No, madam, only an angel, who ought to be as near heaven as possible.—Boston Gazette. AfAR IS IMMINENT. The Grow ng European Crisis Greatly Af gratated by ltaly*s Condition. It is the Italian situation which most directly threatens in this growing Eu ropean crisis. France has shown sur prising an<l most creditable restraint during the past two weeks. Her ambi tious purpose has not been misjudged by those who have seen tho sinister designs behind her protestations of peace, but she is wise enough to know that the hour for the execution of her plans has not quite come. But if Italy assumes an ag gressive part she will play into French hands. France is ready, and with her new ally at her back will rejoice if one of her adversaries will assume the Re sponsibility of making the attack. The situation in Italy does not im prove. It has become intolerable, and some violent result of the crisis seems inevitable. There is some truth in the statement that the trouble is caused more by moral than material decadence Patriotism has waned. The country is bankrupt—not because it cannot pay its taxes, but because it will not pay. The reply of the Marquis di Rudini to Pre mier Giolitti is justified when he says it is useless to impose additional taxes, be cause they will yield no more than the ! old ones. The people best able to pay will, the marquis asserts, evade pay ment with more ingenuity and persever- J ance. Giolitti’s government recognizes the truth of this observation, and it is this fact which gives color to the reports that the present ministry has been con sidering a war with France as a desper ate remedy for the solution of its dilem ma. The people would willingly sup pi}' the sinews of war, but they refuse long- 1 er to be victims of the thieves in high places, whose guilt is notorious, but who 1 are protected by all the resources of the i government and crown. If winter were just ending instead of approaching, it would be a question of days only, in the opinion of many people, when Italy would fire the first gun in the greatest of European wars. Meantime the crisis is a most embar rassing one for the present rulers of the : peninsula. It is difficult to see how the ' winter can be passed without a crash of some sort. Already the popular discon tent is at the point of revolution in some parts of the kingdom. The government continues to pour troops into Sicily, and its newspaper organs virtually admit that the aim is the suppression of sedi tion rather than the extirpation of brig andage, although the latter laudable work is proceeding incidentally. It has been ascertained that the Fasci or asso ciations of revolutionary socialists have a membership of 300,000, embracing all classes in Sicily. Even some regiments are tainted, and severe disciplinary measures have had to be taken against a regiment of artillery at present in the garrison at Palermo. The Sun corre spondent says that serious disturbances may occur at any moment.—New York Sun’s London Letter. THE LAW’S DELAY. A Persistent Boy's Fight For Personal, Damages Against a Railroad. The suit of Dennis Spillane against the Missouri Pacific Railway company is again on trial before Judge Slover. It is the third trial. Dennis is a 13-year old boy, who, in the summer of 1888, ; while crossing the track at the foot of Grand avenue, was run over by a Mis- , souri Pacific train. He was knocked to 1 the side of the track, his scalp was fairly ; torn from his skull, and two fingers were cut off his left hand. The boy’s head was sewed up by Dr. Iuen, and to the surprise of every one he recovered. ; Ever since the accident, however, he has been subject to epileptic fits, com plains of pains in his head at all times and is unable to attend school or per form any work. Dennis at once brought suit for $20,- ! 000 damages. The cause came up for trial in 1889, and the jury awarded him $8,000. The case was taken to the su preme court on an error made by Judge Slover in his instructions to the jury and remanded back for trial. At the second trial the jury failed to agree upon the amount of damages, and the case has since hung in the courts.—Kansas City Times. Ise First of Its Kind. The first wedding of colored people that ever occurred in the gubernatorial mansion of Virginia or in a similar man sion in the south took place in the dining room of the executive mansion at 1 o’clock on a recent afternoon. Winston Edwards, the governor’s chief butler, who has served faithfully in his position under both Governor Lee and the present ex ecutive, and Jenny Leigh, an attractive maid, who has been in the governor’s service for several years, were united in marriage by the Rev. Dr. Hunter of the Third Street African Methodist Episco pal church. After the ceremony, which was witnessed by several of the gov ernor’s household, the happy couple left on a bridal tour, which embraced a visit to the World’s fair.—Richmond Dispatch in Baltimore American. A Sign of the Period. “Circumstances have changed in deed,” said a down town merchant yes terday. “I had a load of coal thrown in front of my store this morning. Usu ally I have had to hunt up a man to carry the coal to the back part of my cellar, but today that pile of coal was a sign—like a want advertisement—which brought no less than 12 men who wanted to carry it back for me. When I told them I had hired some one to do the work, then they wanted to know if they couldn't do something else—anything.” —Pittsburg Dispatch. A Novel Sight. Our citizens were treated to a novel sight this afternoon. Anderson Apple, merchant at Helix, six miles southwest of here, drove a flock of 1,200 geese through town for shipment to the city from Helix, and as they crossed the pub lic square each particular goose seemed to be squawking against time.—Paoli Dispatch in Indianapolis Sentinel. INDIANA WOMEN SLUMMERS. They Visited Chicago With tlie 15est of Motives ami Were Shocked. The Indianapolis members of the Chi cago “slumming” expedition have re turned home. The ladies who joined in the expedition are recognized leaders in W. C. T. U. work in Indiana. All of, them are reported as excessively cha grined over the publicity given their visit to Chicago slums, which was under-: taken with the best of motives. “There are some falsehoods which should be corrected,” says Miss Ayres. “We left our lodgings at 11 p. m. and returned at 1:15 precisely. We did not visit the worst resorts either. We1 aimed to inspect the more decent va rieties, but the Lord knows for that matter they were all bad enough. The detective who guided us said it was no uncommon occurrence for parties of religious ladies to visit these resorts for j scientific purposes, and our visit would j never had leaked out if it had not been I for a Judas Iscariot of a newspaper man,1 who gave the whole affair away. “We had hut one simple, solitary and laudatory purpose in making the visit,” ! continued the lady. “Wo wanted to find some practical means of elevating fallen women. Our object was to ascer tain what relationship the tobacco and liquor habits hear to this unmentionable ! vice which we are seeking to cure. If we can strike at the root of the disease, it will ho a comparatively easy matter to cure the disease itself. We ascer tained that there was a very close rela tionship) between the three vices, and that the latter is superinduced by the tobacco and liquor habits. Now we know whatever we do to lessen the! amount of tobacco and liquor sold, by | just that much will we lessen the vice ' which we are aiming at.” Miss Ayres was asked if what the la- i dies saw was calculated to lessen their estimation of humanity in general. “They were simpily shocking. 1 had never dreamed that so much evil exist-1 ed. Most of the resorts were like gilded j palaces and were always accompanied by liquor and tobacco attachments where the girls indulged as freely as the men. I never want to see the like again. We were not prompted by morbid curi osity. We were working in the inter ests of social purity, and our motives were of the highest character. We be lieve that we did a good work.”—In dianapolis Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer. CHARGED TO A WOMAN. It Is Said That the American Wife of Bar rios Has Caused the Guatemalan Trouble. A woman again. We learn that the prompter of the recent revolution in the republic of Guatemala, through which a dictatorship has been set up, was an am bitious woman, the American wife of General Barrios, a lady whose name Is not unknown in New York. The ene mies of Barrios in Guatemala declare that it was she who induced him to pro claim himself dictator, and who is the author of the arbitrary policy under which the country is ruled at this time, and under which the deputies are kept in prison and the army is held ready for action and suspected persons are ban ished, and the people are compelled to keep as quiet as they can. The enemies of Barrios say that he has neither the pluck nor the brains needed for a dic tator, and that he is merely the tool of the determined American woman whom he took to wife. * She may yet rue the day in which she conceived the dictatorship. The an ti-Barrios Guatemalans are aroused against her. They denounce her in whispers. They condemn her in pla cards, which are stuck up in the night time on the dead walls and fences of the city of Guatemala la Nueva. They get out circulars, which are surreptitiously printed and secretly distributed, in which she is characterized as an “Amer ican interloper.” There is no doubt that she is in danger. If the Constitutional ists who are lurking around the capital and on the Salvadorian frontier, stealth ily preparing to take the field against the dictatorship, shall overthrow Bar rios, we cannot say that she will not suffer as hard a lot as she has been charged with inflicting upon others. We are surprised at her course. Amer icans ought to be the champions of dem ocratic freedom and republican institu tions everywhere.—New York Sun. The Oldest Soldier In the World. Russia proudly claims the oldest sol dier, if not the oldest citizen of anyrank, in the known world. Her claimant for this distinguished honor is Colonel Grit zenko of Pottawa near Odessa, who, if he lives until Feb. 7, will celebrate his one hundred and twentieth birthday. Grit zenko entered the military service in the year 1789, 104 years ago, and received from the hands of Empress Catherine herself a gold medal for conspicuous bravery at the assault on Ismail. This trophy, of which the aged warrior is justly very proud, bears the following inscription: “For exceptional bravery at the assault of Ismail, Dec. 11, 1789.”— St. Louis Republic. A Fortune For Mrs. Drayton. Mrs. Coleman Drayton is once again domiciled in her former home on Fifth avenue. She has just engaged her serv ants for the winter, and is.well equipped as to comfort in regard to housekeeping and ease in entertaining. For all this present and prospective luxury she has her brother, Mr. John Jacob Astor, to thank, he having settled the house on her for life, as well as given her .f1,000, 000 outright. Society commends Mr. Astor for making this very liberal gift to his sister.—New York World. Testing a Ducking Stool. An ancient ducking stool for scolding wives is still preserved at Fordwich, England. The other day some anti quarians, anxious to test the apparatus, found a youth who was willing to don female attire and go through the ordeal. The apparatus speedily ducked the lad into the river, but refused to pull him out again, and but for timely assistance he would have been drowned.—London Letter. THE NEW CHINESE LEGATION. Tlie Minister ami Klis Suite I.ive Royuliy In Washington Regardless «f Expeitno. The new legation has taken three houses for which the Chinese govern ment pays $20,000 a year. They now occupy the ohl Sumner house, which is an annex of the Arlington. The United States paid $200 a day for the board of the infanta while her suite occupied these quarters. Yung Yu is paying $100 a day and says he thinks it is very cheap. While the women are kept in seclusion, the men have the run of tlie house and make themselves thoroughly at home. A part of the delegation were once in England and speak the English language fluently. They have the free and easy manner of the westerner and show a disposition to talk to any one who will listen. The minister himself is as dark as a sunburnt mulatto, In i rig at least three shades blacker than the other members of the delegation. Yung Yu says he is very well pi'*oscd with American cooking, hut ii has taken the precaution to provide him It with a Chinese cook and has ii. , d him in the hotel kitchen. The legation eat but littlo meat, dining chiefly on vegetables. Yung Yu has never been out of China before. He was not a man of the highest rank in China, hut like Ko-Ko, though in a different way, rose to distinction. lie was an official in the province of Cliiu-Kcnr.g which cr re sponds there to the position of collector of the U -toil port here. 1* was strictly on his merits that he was chosen by the prime minister to represent the emperor in this country pending the delicate re lations belwi: a the two nations in con sequence of the Geary act. As long as there are any strained relations existing no member of the legation will bo al lowed to accept tho hospitality of an American, that being the law of the em bassy.—Washington Cor. Boston Adver tiser. A CLEVER SWINDLER. A Fx-enchmaii Wearing tlie Uosetto of the Legion of Honor a Sharp Scoundrel A really clever thief is engage.! jo--;, now in robbing people in Paris v. i.o pos sess securities payable to be,-ire-. His plan is to <lo u little bia im ss with some of the Parisian b ulks in order 1 hat lie may have an excuse for hanging tho counters. He then watches tho bank’s customers, especially la.::- ,:al when he sees one of them receiv.-from the clerks any bonds or other scrip to bearer he quietly makes a note of the person’s name and tlie number- tin* documents. Having .•.-vvit.uned i i-- ad dress of his proposed victim, he <• 1 there later in the day or early the n. morning, and representing that he is a clerk from the bank, asks lor the securi ties, alleging that there is some little in formality in them that has to be recti fied. As he is armed with the numbers, in nine cases out of ten the customer gives up the documents quite unsuspect inglv. So far this ingenious swindler lias eluded all efforts to detect him. He is described as a gentlemanly looking man, who wears the rosette of an "officer'’ of the Legion of Honor, the little bit of ribbon of a plain “chevalier” apparently being thought not sufficiently imposing now that such decorations are so plenti ful.—London Daily News. His Last Fencing Lesson. A dispatch from Lyons announces that a sad accident has occurred at the Mili tary Medical school there. M. Jourdan, who was just about to take one of tho highest medical degrees in the school, was liaving a fencing lesson from the maitre d’armes, when during a vigorous attack by the pupil a short piece broke off the end of the master’s foil. M. Jourdan, who was making a lunge, liter ally spitted himself on the blade. He went up stairs to Ms room, fell on the bed and died in about an hour, in spite of all efforts to save him. No blame is attached to the fencing master, as the accident could not have happened but. for the violence of Ms pupil's attack. M. Jourdan took the first prize for fenc ing last year and was training for a coming assault at arms.—Foreign Ex change. The Kat3’did AVas a Ra’.tler. There was a decided commotion at the home of J. D. Wells, in East Sedalia, re cently. For several days Mrs. Wells had heard a peculiar buzzing in the closet where wearing apparel was kept, and was of the opinion that the noise was made by a captive katydid. Several times she was on the point of making art investigation, but household duties dis tracted her attention and she failed to make the search. Saturday her husband went into the closet to secure a heavy pair of trousers which he intended to don on account of the cool weather. Taking them from the hook, he gave them a vigorous shake, when out dropped a rattlesnake 3 feet in length, the reptile being what the occupants of the house had mistaken for a katydid.—Sedalia (Mo.) Dispatch. Railroad Traffic During the Fair. So far as the figures at hand go they show that the numl -r of people brought into Chicago by the 21 passenger lines entering here during the fair period were in round numbers 3,335,000. This allows 330,000 each for the five leading passen ger lines, 300.000 each for the five next following, loU.OOOeach for the next group of five, and 50,000 each for the six weak lines. Allowing each of these passengers to have visited the fair five times would account for an attendance of 16,755.000, which would be a good proportion of outside visitors. It would leave but a little over 5,000,000 visits from Chicago ans.—Chicago News. Champion Cotton Picker uf Texa«. The best day’s cotton picking by any one in the county this year, to which our attention has been directed, was done on Friday on Turkey Creek by Will J Daniel. On that day he picked 804 pounds. During the present season he picked 9.514 pounds, and says an aver age day’s work for him is 400 pounds. — Taylor Dispatch in Galveston News.
