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CAPRICE AND LAW.
The inconstaj t winds that rout the waves
And shake the forest wide
Seem shouting, “Foolish mortal, cast
Thy tedious rules aside.*'
The stars that calmly tread their course —
The same that Moses saw—
Trace on the skies a surer word,
“Conform thy life to law.’*
—James A. Tucker in Youth’s Companion.
THE WOODS’ GHOST.
Possibly General Fawncliffe was ec
centric because he could not help it,
but it is more probable that he did
things in a manner entirely different
from anybody else because he wanted
to be odd and wanted to make a sensa
tion. He was a wealthy man, and there
fore he could do very nearly as he
liked. He was haughty, overbearing
and irritable. I always thought that if
he had been the czar of Russia or the
shah of Persia he would have played
his role very well. He had built a fine
honse on the banks of the Delaware,
and at the verge ot the Block woods,
of which he was the owner. He was
not more than 45 years old and appear
ed to he entirely alone in the world; at
any rate, no one in Blockville ever
heard that he had any relations.
At the time of which I write I was a
young fellow of 16, of no sort of conse
quence whatever, and my name was,
but is not now, Pardon Sashwood,
though mother and everybody else call
ed me Pardy. My mother was a dress
maker in the town and did a big busi
ness. She never said anything about
my father, and I did not know anything
about him, and I concluded that he had
been hanged, or otherwise nipped in the
bud, and I did not press my inquiries in
regard to him. I was a regular resi
dent in Block Hall, as General Fawn
cliffe called his elegant mansion, and
my first duty is to explain how I hap
pened to he a dweller beneath its
princely roof. I was very fond of fish
ing, and my mother was very fond of
eating fish, for I caught very nice ones
in the river. One day I sat upon a rock
that projected out into the stream just
below the general’s mansion. Above
me was a sandy beach, and while I sat
there the general drove down upon it
in his buggy, with a high spirited
horse. I wondered what he was doing
there with such a turnout.
The horse was lull of spirit, and the
choleric driver seemed to be well sup
plied with spirits, though of the arti
ficial sort. The animal pranced and
oapered on the sand, and did not ap
pear to have learned that his master
was as impatient as he was ecceiitric.
The horse had a way of his own, and
so had the general, and as the two
way9 did not run in the same direction
it created an unpleasantness between
them. At last the driver used his whip
without the exercise of much discretion,
and the brute manifested himself in a
very decided manner. Then I decided
that he was trying to drive the horse
into the water, where he was unwilling
to go. But the general got the best of
it In the end and drove the obstinate
creature straight into the river, as
though he intended to cross to the other
side. In a few moments the animal
had to swim, but he struck out brave
ly, the general applying the lash all the
time; in fact, he seemed to be whip
ping him for his own satisfaction, now
that the brute had yielded the point.
In another moment the buggy, which
appeared to be floating, suddenly top
pled over and spilled the occupant into
the drink. He lost his hold upon it,
and then I saw that he could not swim.
The horse took a circle around the
spot and swam leisurely to the shore,
dragging the buggy after him. Just
below the rock on which I was seated
was a bateau, and I lost no time in
rushing to it. I had some skill in the
use of the paddle, and I soon reached
the general, who was floundering about
in the water like a grounded whale.
He was a large man, and I saw that it
would be impossible to get him into the
boat. I asked him to take hold of the
stern to support himself while I pad
died to the beach. He used expletives
and insisted upon getting into the boat. |
I told him I would leave him to his fate !
if he did not do as I directed. The
threat carried him, and he held on to
the boat till his feet touched the bot
tom.
'I will kill that horse!” he exclaim
ed when he reached the beach and had
recovered his breath. “He is the ug
liest brnte I ever drove. ’ ’
“He is not so much of a brute as
you are, general,” I replied. “You
acted like a heathen when you whipped
him, and I had half a mind to let you
drown.”
He looked at me in astonishment.
Perhaps he thought I had earned the
right to speak my mind, but whether
I had or not I expressed myself as
plainly as though I had been the gen
eral and he had been Pardy Hash wood.
Doubtless it was a new thing for any
one to “speak up” to him.
“Boy, I want you to come and live
with me,” he said, and I was amazed
then.
“I won’t doit,” I replied. “I would
not live under the same roof with such
a porcupine as you are for all your
money.”
He actually teased me, and he ex
pressed his obligations tome very hand
somely, but I stuck to my text. I help
ed him right his buggy, now tnat the
horse had cooled off, and he insisted on
driving me home, which I permitted
him to do. My mother saw me when
I got out of the buggy. The general
told me to think of his offer and come
to his house if 1 decided to accept it.
My mother, after she had heard all
about the affair in the river, insisted
that I should accept the offer. I argued
against it for a long time, but I finally
yielded to her wishes. The next day I
belonged to the general’s household,
and Mrs. Cashley gave me a hearty wel
come.
i General Fawnclitfe treated me with
Vjegree of consideration accorded to
Y~
bis accounts and papers, though I was
permitted to attend tbe academy. I
really came to like him after awhile,
and I know that I improved his man
ners and morals to some extent. His
narrow escape from drowning had
strongly impressed him, I discovered.
He was a victim to that malady of sed
entary and lazy people, insomnia. He
had been in tbe habit of drinking more
whisky than was good for him as a
remedy. He told me he could not sleep
until he had drunk at least six glasses.
I reasoned with him, talking flatly and
plainly, as I always did. 1 asked him
to stop it and walk one or two hours
in the Block woods after 9 in the even
ing. He tried it with good results, and
after that called me doctor.
After he had practiced this walking
for a couple of weeks, he told me be
had seen a ghost in the woods three
successive nights. I laughed at him
and asked him if he had been drinking
whisky again, but he assured me he ban
not. The next night 1 watched myself
in the grove. Sure enough, 1 saw a
figure in white, though 1 did not be
lieve it was a spirit from the other
world. I saw that the figure tried to
approach the general, but from fear, or
some other motive, he kept his distance
from it.
I had a revolver, and with this in my
hand, though it was not loaded, 1 went
with the general to the woods one
bright moonlight night. The ghost
came as usual, and the general was in
clined to retreat. So was the figure
when I showed myself. But I pursued
it. I held up my revolver and threat
ened to fire if the ghost did not halt.
“No, Pardy! Don't fire! I am your
mother, ’ ’ screamed the ghost, not know
ing that the weapon was not loaded.
She halted, and 1 went up to her, the
general following me when assured that
the figure was not a supernatural one.
She was dressed in white, as she was
usually in summer, and I wondered if
she was troubled with insomnia.
“Pardy, General Fawnclifie is your
father and my husband!’- exclaimed
my mother when the general had come
up with us.
“Emily!” he exclaimed, “I wonder
ed where Pardy got all his impudence,
for I thought he could have inherited
it only from me. ’ ’
We had a long talk in the moonlight.
1 knew that my mother had come from
California, but her former home was
one of the things of which she seldom
epoke. The general acknowledged her
as his wife before me. They disagreed
and had separated. For the sake of her
son she had followed him, hoping that
years had softened bis temper. She did
not care to call upon him at his house,
but when I became on such excellent
terms with him she had decided to meet
him in the woods, where 1 had told
her that he walked every night. He
had fled from her, but she persevered
till I brought matters to a head. My
mother is now the mistress of Block
Hall, and I still have to do a great deal
of plain speaking.—Oliver' Optic in
Philadelphia Press.
Packing a Trunk Well.
Do you know bow to pack a trunk
well? asks Rutli Ashuiore in The Lad
ies’ Home Journal. And if you don’t
how many people do you know who do?
And wouldn’t you gladly give $1 for a
large and 50 cents for a small trunk
that is properly packed? The packer
comes with dozens of sheets of tissue
paper and several pieces of tape. You
can sit where you belongings are. and as
skirts and bodices are taken down say
which you want. Then the bodices
have their sleeves stuffed with paper to
keep them in shape, the trimmings care
fully covered with it; the skirts are
properly folded; the bonnets and hats
have tapes pinned to them, and these
same tapes are tacked to the sides oi
the hatbos, so that no matter how much
the trunk may be shaken not a feather
nor a rose moves out of its place. Then
when everything is done there is laid
on the toil of the last tray a list of the
things that are in the trunk, so that you
don't lose you temper searching for the
pink bodice which isn’t there, or the
tan colored shoes which you expressly
requested should be left at home.
First Person Cremated In America.
The first white person lawfully cre
mated within the present limits of the
United States, according to wishes and
desires expressed by himself, was Colo
nel Henry Laurens, one of the Revolu
tionary patriots. He was lwrn in
Charleston, S. C., in the year 1724, and
died on his plantation near that place
on Dec. f. 1702. His will, which he
had requested them to open and read
the next day after his death, was sup
plemented with the following: "I sol
emnly enjoin it upon my son, as an in
dispensable duty, that, as soon as he '
conveniently can after my decease, he
cause my body to be wrapped in 12
yards of towcloth and burned until it
be entirely consumed.” The request
was carried out to the letter and was
the beginning of cremation in Amer
ica.—St. Louis Republic.
Nature's Nobleman.
One whose charity is as broad as the
earth, who is generous to a fault, who
is honest to a rival; who. becoming
a friend, remains one through thick and ,
thin: who, loving, loves with all the !
ardor of a noble, consistent mind: who. !
being convinced of the right, is as im
movable as a sphinx an yet is wise
enough to hold his judgment in suspense
and to change his attitude should su
perior arguments be brought to bear— ;
such a one is an ideal man and one of
nature’s noblemen.—New York Ledger.
A Sparking Watch.
W. L. Boyer, jeweler, of Chambers
burg, Pa., has in his employ a work
man who has produced a watch that
marks the hours backward. The figure
I means XI, II means X, and carrying
the figures out it is a great thing for a
sparking party. The young gentle
man, not ready to be kicked out. trium
phantly shows bis watch and stays until
1 o’clock in the morning.—Jewelers’
Circular.
A NAIL IN HER BRAIN.
—
Kansas Furnishes Wliat Is Said to Be the
Most Remarkable Case on Record.
For six weeks Mrs. Frank Roadson of
Abilene lived with a sixpenny nail in her
skull. Remarkable as this story may
seem, it is nevertheless true, and Mrs.
Roadson, who is in her fifty-ninth year,
will recover from this terrible ordeal.
About eight weeks ago a physician was
called to see her, she being apparently
suffering from paralysis or some kindred
trouble. One side seemed deadened, and
no amount of will power on her part
could cause normal action. Electric bat
teries were applied repeatedly, and ef
forts were made to induce the paralyzed
nerves to act once more, but with little
avail, until the physician, thinking per
haps better results might be attained, or
dered her thick hair cut off.
She objected, but it was done, and on
examination a sore spot was discovered
with the bead of a nail imbedded there
in upon the very crown of her head. An
operation was performed, and to the
surprise of the physicians present a six
penny nail 2 inches long was removed.
It had penetrated straight into the brain
its full length, and an abscess bad
formed upon the brain because of its
presence there. Two days later another
operation was performed, the abscess
was removed, and the patient is getting
along well, apparently about to regain
full control of her muscles.
The most remarkable part of this
strange story was the discovery of the,
cause of its being there. At first she,
stoutly denied any knowledge of it being
there, but at last admitted that she had
herself driven the nail into her skull,
pounding it down with a stone, for the
express purpose of ending her life. Phy
sicians say this is the most remarkable
case on record.—Topeka Special to St.
Louis Republic.
EXHIBITS HIS HEART.
This I. What the Subject of a Peculiai
Surgical Operation Does.
Physicians of this city are receiving
visits from an unfortunate citizen of Buf
falo who has had a peculiar experience.
Recently he called on a professor in the
College of Physicians and Surgeons, who
explained to a reporter yesterday the con
dition of his visitor as follows:
“The man had a disease of the chest
some time ago and was operated upon by
a physician in Buffalo, who found it nec
essary to remove a part of the chest on
the left side, exposing the heart. The I
wound healed, but the opening remained,
so that now there is a considerable hole
in his chest. There is of course some
covering of skin over the heart, otherwise
the man could not have survived, but the
action of the heart is observable, and one
can put his hand through the opening in
the chest and feel the heart at work.”
The professor was unwilling to say
much about the case, which he said was
of special interest only to medical men.
He said it was an extraordinary case
and was worthy of being made the sub
ject of a medical treatise. He under- j
stood that the man was traveling about
the country exhibiting himself to physi
cians for a small consideration.
“He came to me,” he added, “and 1
examined him and gave him a small
sum. He then went away, and I do not
know where he is now.”
Another physician said that the hole
was about 3 inches square and that three
ribs had been cut in the operation. He
said also that an opening similar to the
one in the chest existed in the man's
back, under the heart.—New York Sun.
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A Chinese Exodus.
Prominent Chinamen on the Pacific
coast are predicting a big exodus of their
countrymen from this continent and all
other lands to the Celestial empire within
a year -or t wi i. They will go to be pres
ent at the big fair which occurs there
once iu 60 years and at which every sub
ject of the great emperor tries to be pres-1
ent. “Hundreds of thousands, maybe
millions, of Chinese from all parts of the
empire and the world will be there,” says
Interpreter Pon Se of San Francisco.
“All nations will be invited and every-!
body ought to go, for it will be the sight
of a lifetime.” The fair, he says, was
founded many centuries ago and has been ■
held regularly since. He is not sure of j
the exact date, but it is within two years.;
Great preparations are being made for it
all over the empire, and announcement
of it will soon be made to the world.—
San Francisco Examiner.
Wiiat Was It?
A dispatch says a curious phenomenon
was seen in the heavens by citizens of
Wilmington, N. C., from 6:30 to 7 o'clock
the other morning. It made a grand
sight, but no one seems able to deter
mine just what it was. Some describe
it as a meteor and others as a comet.
One eyewitness says it had the appear
ance of a large star with a tail, which
to the naked eye seemed about 100 yards
long. The end of it finally- burst, leav
ing a trail of fire of many beautiful
colors.
A colored astronomer says he saw the
letters “W. W. W.” distinctly outlined,
while another avers that the word “Pre
pare” was there as plain as day.
Business Depression In Berlin.
The Berliner Zeitung enlarges upon |
the present condition of starvation in
German industries. Workshops which
usually furnish employment to 20 men
have been obliged to reduce their forces
to two. The depression is felt most se
verely in the building trades, including
carpenters and cabinetmakers, but it also
extends to others. The Christmas sales
are reported by the shopkeepers to be
small beyond parallel, only the cheapest
goods finding buyers.
Fall of tlie White City.
Fifty carloads a day are now being
moved from Jackson park by various
lines, and at this rate three months more
will be required to remove the World’s
fair exhibits. The railroads derive no
revenue from this traffic, having agreed
that exhibits brought to Chicago at full
rates should be returned free of charge.
—Chicago Mail.
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PORTUGUESE IN NEW YORK CITY.
_ I
Of the 16,000 In the United Staten the Me*
tropolin Han but 76.
The other day John Gubbins, a Portu
guese, was held for trial by Justice
Grady at the Yorkville police court un
der charge of stabbing a policeman.
There is nothing strange or peculiar
about the arrest of a man charged with
stabbing or attempting to stab a police
man, but the oddity connected with
Gubbins is the fact that he is a Portu
guese.
How many Portuguese do you think
there are among the 2,000.000 inhabitants
of New York city? Just 76. Thereare76
of them, and it is said in police circles to
be a fact that Gubbins is the first Portu
guese ever under arrest in this city. This
would be a very creditable showing if
there were more than 76 of them. As it is,
the only wonder is that there are so few.
In the whole United States there are 16,000
Portuguese. Nine thousand eight hun
dred and fifty-nine of them are returned
by the last census as residents of Cali
fornia, 3,051 as residents of Massachu
setts, 833 as residents of Rhode Island
and 76 as residents of New York city.
They are a maritime people, most nu
merous in such seaport cities as San
Francisco, Boston, Providence, New Or
leans and New Bedford, but curiously
enough almost unknown in New York,
the greatest center of commerce in the
western hemisphere.
Emigrants from the lands of Camoens
and the Braganzas are famous as sailors
and navigators, and their descendants
are scattered in many lands, notably in
Hawaii, where the Portuguese popula
tion is considerable, and the East Indies,
where the Portuguese colonies are nu
merous. New York is a cosmopolitan
city. Men of every race and nationality
are to be found here. The total immi
gration to the United States through
Ellis island from Jan. 1, 1893, to Dec. 15
was 233,597, and toward this total Por
tugal contributed the almost infinitesimal
total of 79 persons. The Portuguese are,
generally speaking, thrifty, hardy, in
dustrious and matter of fact. They have
little of the sentiment of their Spanish
neighbors. They are law abiding and
undemonstrative, and Gubbins appears
to be a backslider, stimulated perhaps to
deeds of unruly violence by New Jersey
whisky or Medford rum, both poor sub
stitutes for the fine wines of the Oporto
district shipped from Lisbon and famous
the world over.—New York Sun.
TERRIBLE DEATH OF A HORSE.
The Costly Animal Goes Mad ami Tear?*
Itself Almost to Pieces.
J. E. Sechrist of this county lost his
fine stallion Fleetwood in a peculiar and
terrible manner. The animal was a very
fine one, an inbred Hambletonian, both
powerful and speedy. A few days
ago it was taken with blind staggers,
and its sufferings were terrible. The
climax of the disease was reached on
Tuesday morning, when the animal went
crazy. He was tied in his stable, but in
his agony he broke the strong rope hal
ter as if it were a thread, and driving
his head against the side of the barn cov
ered everything with blood.
Finally he made a desperate effort at
the door, and tearing it from its hinges
went at a run through the field. His
speed was terrific, and he stopped not for
paling, board or wire fences, but took
everything in his mad run. He ran
through a paling fence six times and
through a four wire barbed fence 18
time3, tearing his legs and body in a hor
rible manner. It was just before day.
and Mr. Sechrist says that every time he
struck the wire the fire flew, and the
ring of the wire could be heard a long
distance. Finally, from exhaustion and
loss of blood, he fell and died. Mr. Se
christ valued him at $2,000 and brought
him from Kentucky.—Oklahoma Special.
She Died Witli the Cat.
Mrs. Allie Spencer of Stillwater was
found dead in her house there recently.
It was at first supposed to be a case of
suicide, but later developments showed
that it was the result of a strange acci
dent. Mrs. Spencer had said she intend
ed to chloroform an old house cat. The
cat was found lying dead in a box, which
also held a large sponge. The strong
odor of chloroform in the room told the
rest of the sad story. Mrs. Spencer,
while chloroforming the cat, must have
been overcome by the fumes of the vola
tile drug, and having a chronic heart
trouble had expired there alone.—Lewis
ton Journal.
Exposition Relics.
A curious illustration of woman’s
tendency to lose things is furnished by
the collection in the lost and found bu
reau of the Columbian exposition. There
remain in it GOO women’s wraps, 520
gloves, 25 veils, a score of portmanteaux
and handbags, to say nothing of 800 um
brellas, a good share of which were left
by women, and 200 pairs of spectacles,
most of which no doubt belonged to wo
men. They lose things when away from
home because they are more likely than
men to be carried away by new scenes
and to forget everything except what in
terests them for the moment.—Pittsburg
Times.
A Coincidence.
One of tiiose coincidences that are as
mysterious as they are interesting oc
curred in connection with the death of
John Nolan, an officer of the superior
conrt of New York. One day recently
he “took a notion" to make bis will, and
as he was in excellent health was chaffed
by friends whom he asked to witness it.
It was signed and sealed that afternoon,
and the next day he died of heart dis
ease.—New Y'ork News.
Grand Wolf Hunt.
The farmers of Kossntli county, I».,;
had a grand wolf hnnt on Chrisdpf|j
day. They have lost hundreds of sheep
this winter through the depredation* at,
wolves and propose to exterminate. M«»*
pests. The county was scoured bjrj
ties of horsemen, who swept th*J
Moines valley from one end of th<H*
ty to the other. The scalps are
|5 each, and hundreds of them wi
cured. .
A BRAVE WOMAN. j
How She Rescued Her Husband From th*
Vengeance of a Pams.
Jabez English, a sheep herder of this
neighborhood, was engaged in bnilding
a cabin home, his former one having
been destroyed by fire a week or two
ago, and was busily at work on its roof
when he saw an animal steal out of the
woods bard by and fling itself upon the
pail containing his dinner of cold boiled
bacon and bread.
He recognized this animal as a puma,
or mountain lion, but thinking he might
frighten it away threw his plane at it.
The tool struck the animal on the bead,
cutting it badly and rendering the crea
ture furious. It rushed at the structure ,
on the peak of which the herder sat and
tried to leap up to him. But this was
not to be done, and after several at
tempts the lion abandoned it and pro
ceeded to patrol the spot, growling furi- j
ously and showing its teeth.
The man, having no weapon and being
outof reach of any one to whom he might
call, could only sit still and wait for the
puma to become tired of the watch or
for deliverance. Night at last came on,
and still he did not dare venture to quit
his perch, though it was so cold that he
feared that he would freeze before morn
ing. In the meantime his wife, who was
in Santa Anna, a little mountain hamlet
of the valley, grew uneasy about him,
and with a lantern started to look for
him. It was too dark for English to see
her, but the lion did, and made for he.
with a scream of rage.
As the great beast came leaping at her
out of the darkness she dashed the lan
tern full in its face. The puma, startled,
gave way, and English, guessing who the
newcomer was, shouted to her to run
back to the village. She turned to do so,
but the puma was after her, and she was
obliged to wheel about every few feet
and shake the lantern in its face again.
The animal would recoil at this, and each
time gave her a few moments to run on.
In this way she made her way to Santa
Anna, screaming as she neared it, “A
lion! a lion!” until some of the men of
the village, hearing her, armed them
selves and came out in time to see the
lion break away to run hack. They pur
sued him and killed him and then went
on for the half frozen herder. His wife,
a bright eyed, chatty little Mexican wom
an, claimed the skin of the puma, saying
that it was rightly hers, as she alone had
brought the lion into the village, and it
was presented to her for the new home
in the valley.—Tombstone (A. T.) Special.
WASHINGTON’S BIRTHPLACE.
The Government Improving and Making
Accessible a Historical Spot.
A contract has been awarded for the
erection of a $10,000 wharf on the Poto
mac river, near Wakefield, Westmore
land county, Va., General George Wash
ington's birthplace, and the steamer Sue
will probably make it a landing place.
The house in which Washington was
born was destroyed by fire during his
boyhood, but in 1815 a stone with a suit
able inscription was placed on the spot
by George Washington Parke Custis. It
was while living at Wakefield that Wash
ington attended the neighboring schools,
where instruction did not go further
than reading, writing and spelling, with
the addition, which must have been
somewhat exceptional, of bookkeeping
and surveying.
In after years, while Washington w.ts
surveying the vast estates of Lord Fair
fax, the birthplace was burned, and the ,
family moved on the Rappahannock riv- j
er, near Fredericksburg. The new wharf j
will be built by the government as a
means of access to the ruins of the burned t
house, and congress is to marl: the place ,
with a monument. A steamboat land-!
ing will make the historical spot, now j
somewhat difficult to reach, of easy ae-!
cess for tourists.—Baltimore American.
Death Among the Duke..
Including the Duke of Leinster, whose !
death was recently announced, eleven
dukes have passed away within the last
three years—the Dnkes of Buckingham,
Cleveland, Devonshire, Leinster, Man
chester, Marlborough, Roxburghe, Som
erset, Sutherland and two Dukes of Bed
ford. Three years ago there were 29
dukes apart from those of the royal j
blood, and it will be seen that more than ;
a third of the number have died. As one j
result of this mortality the dukedoms
have been reduced to 27, the titles of
Buckingham and Cleveland having be
come extinct. Only 24 dukes can vote,
however, as the new Dukes of Leinster, |
Manchester and Roxburghe are minors.
—London News.
Girls as Pallbearers.
Six young ladies, each wearing a white
chrysanthemum, created much comment
by serving as pallbearers at the funeral
of Mrs. James McGiven, manager of a
local shorthand school. The girls’study
class of St. Leo’s Catholic church had
charge of the funeral services, and the
pallbearers were members of it. On the
way to the church the young lady pall
bearers walked behind the mourners and
continued in charge of the remains until
after the interment.—Tacoma Letter in
Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Hanged Himself to Live.
A Paris beggar has been living very
comfortably by hanging himself. He
would choose- a tree near where young
children were playing, string himself up
and groan to attract their attention, so
that they would run for help. He would
be cut down and restored, and a letter
in liis pocket would explain his attempt
ed suicide by a statement of his destitu
tion. He knew how to attach the noose
sc as to avoid strangulation.—Paris C'or
re*!pondent.
Ruried I nder Hi. Slid. Bouse
^Charles Prendergast, aged 11 years,
Was playing recently in a snow houa
liar his residence, 116 St. Martin street.
Montreal, when it collapsed, and he was
limed in the snow. His companions
Bm away and left him. When he was
Bug ont. after lying there for eight hours,
lie was nearly frozen, and besides a bro- .
pen leg he was injured internally. He
Vied from his injuries.—Toronto Globe.
CAN'T GET MARRIED AT HOME.
A Situation Which 7* Cunning Betrothed
Couple* Considerable Annoyance.
A young man and a young woman
came over the line from New Brunswick
the other day and were married here,
says a Calais correspondent of the Bos
ton Herald. They had no difficulty in
finding a minister to unite tlwin, al
thougt- tney very frankly explained tliat
they couldn’t have got married in their
native place in New Brunswick.
The reason for this seeming anomaly
lies in the fact that Governor Boyd of
New Brunswick is dead, und that every
marriage license must be signed by the
governor to be legal. It is true that it
was Governor Boyd’s custom, as by
statute he was authorized to do. to sigu
quantities of these licenses in blank and
to distribute them to the various officers
throughout the province whose business
it is to attend to such things, to be filled
in as circumstances required.
Now, there is a very fine legal point
involved. The question is whether, dur
ing the interregnum caused by Governor
Boyd’s death and until the Dominion
government appoints his successor, these
marriage licenses signed by Governor
Boyd are good. Can they be used until
a new governor is sent down, or are they
useless as not bearing the signature of
the actual governor of the province?
This is what is agitating the minds of
the New Brunswick lawyers, and es
pecially of the betrothed couples. They
may indeed adopt the old fashioned
method of calling the banns, but that
takes time, and time counts when the
wedding day is set and the invitations
are ont.
Perhaps they had best do as the afore
mentioned couple did—go to Calais, and
thus make assurance doubly sure.
BIMETALLISM IN ENGLAND.
Lord Salisbury’* Itecent Speech and AVliat
It Is Thought to Forecast.
Lord Salisbury's speech in the upper
house during the debate on Indian finance v
is regarded as a definite pronouncement
in favor of international bimetallism. It
is possibly destined to have momentous
consequences. Sanguine bimetallists pre
dict the early inclusion of their currency
scheme as a plank of the orthodox Tory
platform, but: that is scarcely probable
until the numerous Tory monometallists
have been converted.
The subject acquired considerable
prominence 5a the Accrington election
contests, but that is scarcely to be won
dered at, because Lancashire has long
been the stronghold of bimetallism.
Even the Liberal newspapers of that
county arecompelled, owing to the pres
sure of local opinion, to keep an open
mind on currency matters, and some of
them at present are giving considerable
space to the discussion of the silver prob
lem.
The Liverpool Post, an influential Lib
eral organ, gave prominence the other
day to a letter advocating the adoption
by England and her dependencies and the
United States of a second, or silver, in
ternational standard, without relation to
the first, orgold, standard, “allcontracts
made through gold currency being set
tled by gold Currency and all contracts
made by the international dollar cur
rency being settled by the international
dollar currency, the latter being the sil
ver dollar divisible into 100 cents.”—Nev'
York Sun’s London Letter.
Draiuetl a Lake by Boriug Hole*.
In Florida Life is an article from the
pen of B. W. Partridge of Monticello
with the above title. In it he describes
the effect of the drought of 1891 on Lake
Miccosukie, one of the largest lakes in
middle Florida, when about 6,000 acre-*
of water became dry land for a spell.
The rainy season of 1892 filled it with
water again.
Mr. Partridge conceived the idea that
the lake could be drained by boring holes
in its bottom and organized a company
to try it.
Experts were engaged to examine and
report on the plan, and the result was
that the company has bored a number of
holes in the bottom of Lake Miccosukie,
and the water is rushing down through
them via a subterranean passage to the
gulf. In a few months they expect to
permanently drain the lake and thus re
cover 10,000 acres of valuable land.
An Artist In Snow.
A young artist of Boston, after the re
cent snowstorm in that city, made a
snow model in one of the public squares
that attracted much attention. It rep
resented a girl dressed in the height of
fashion, standing with her arms folded.
At her feet crouched a bulldog. The im
age was modeled in elaborate detail,
and though the thaw destroyed some of
the fine lines succeeding cold weather
preserved the figure. A young Swede,
•John Jepson, was the sculptor; he spent
about three hours on the work. He is
hoping for another snowstorm to enable
him to put up a snow statue of some
prominent Bostonian on the Common.—
Boston Corresp- indent.
Mixi*<I tiif* Hridfs.
While two wedding procession- were
fighting for the road at one of the gates
of Hankow the ■ 'hairs holding the bride
got mixed and each lady was taken to
the wrong bridegroom. The gentlemen
never having seen their brides before,
according to Chinese custom, knew no
mistake until the mothers of the brides
■tame to call upon them. Then it was
found that one of the brides, who was
rich and intended for a rich husband, be
fallen into the hands of a very poorman.
The problem remains unsolved.—Him
kow Correspondent.
lohii J. Ingalls.
Ingalls looked more attenuated than
over when he made liisaddressin Kansas
City the other day His long frock coat,
closely buttoned, accentuated the gaunt
ueso of his figure, and this, with the
streaks of white in his hair, made him
appear to be a compromise between an
illuminated spook and an animated
moonbeam." The ex-statesman is said
also on this occasion to have resembled
his cartorns more than bis portraits.—
New Yo«k World .
