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'WlP TKSmm - ' - y . - ?& 1 r ' - -S . ; 5 " Ww1 t'i-Snst2.i'sc5s&- i fc&AY' &..' s, . i' h ift - K hT V !?.: -. - AROUND THE CORNER. CKrvi Oppressed with henry sorrow. Aadaotarayotheaei Tot There met mft one v-hoee i The saule of heaven leneeted; The fricedgreeUag she bestowed - Was wbcafr unexpected. -For I had thought her bard aad cold. Of lovers' arts a acoraer. Bat she ai taken off her guard As I tamed Yound the What cared I though the skies was Aad threatened atoraiyweauMrr What Battered ajqr grief at an If we two irare together? Tbebhnhes that were oa her cheek Did resaOr adorn her; Aadohl I bleat the fate that toned My steps around the oruer. And thai I fin 1 it is through Hfe So fall of wondrous iihaaas That when we walked naild the gtoan, Or press through tangled amass, Fcelins all frieadlea aad aioae, haiMVs3. hanles mourner. Some blessings snrer lie ia wait Forasaroaaauet I BETWEEN TWO HORNS. "I tell you, Susan Swing," said Capt. Bose, "there ain't a man that Jives be tween the Two Horns as would let his boy not bigger than yoor'n go out in a boat today. Don't you do it Tain'tno kind of weather for that slip of a lad to go foolin with, them big billows as sweeps around old Dull Head. Why, losk yourself, woman. You can see them more'n four miles away dashing and lashing the shore." As Capt. .Bose spoke he pointed with his right hand in the direction of one of the two headlands between which Dell Haven lay. "And no dory in the harbor," he con tinued, "could weather Bright Head (pointing towards the headland at the left),not if Cap'n Hezekiah himself was arownof it You'd better take them rowlocks out and hide the oars if he wont mind without you doin' it" "I can't bear to do it," said Mrs. Swing. "Bichard will be so disap pointed. He set his lobster pots yester day, and he hasn't slept any all night in liia Aairerneas to eo out earlv and haul them. Don't you see, Capt Rose, it's Saturday, and two whole coaches full of summer boarders came last night to the Bright Head house, and he can get a bur price for his lobsters today. My , poor Dick has worked bo hard making the lobster pots himself, and it seems like cutting off the boy's reward to say 'you shan't go' to him." "S'pose you do feel weakish 'bout it, 'Susan; but you don't want that ere boat to be picked up adrift and no boy in it, do ye?' "You know I don't, Capt Rose." she said. "If I hadn't loved him do you think Td get up before daylight to come down here to see the lad off? "Hush," said the captain. "Here he comes, and he's fastening his straw hat to his buttons. He sees there is wind enough ahead." It was a morning in June, and the sun was not yet risen, but the glory of his coming was in the east and on the sea. As he came down the pier, the oars on his shoulder, and securing his straw hat by a string to his jacket, the old captain said: "He's a find lad, Dick is, and well worth the saving." "He's all the world to me," thought Mrs. Swing, although her lips uttered no word. "Good morning, Capt Rose," called out Richard. "Good for lobsters, do you think?" "Better for lobsters than 'tis for boys," ejaculated the captain, removing bis broad brown hands from his pockets and laying one of them on the lad's shoulder ' as soon as the latter came within touch ing distance. "I say, Dick Swing, that you are not gjing out in that cockle shell of yonr'n this morning," he announced. "I certainly am, Capt Rose," returned the boy. "It's a little rough, but like as not the wind will como' right around be- - fore I get half way to the ledge, audi should think you would know better than to scare my little mother here half to death. See, mother," ho said gayly, "I have an extra oar and one thole pin, yea, two of them, in case a row lock gives way, and I've got a lot of extra courage about me that I can't exactly show you unless you come with me." This he said looking out to sea, for he did not feel liko looking either at his mother or Capt Rose. "Dick," said Mrs. Swing, approaching the pier's edge as the owner of the little boat proceeded to bestow his lunch bas ket and extras under the bow. "Well, mother?" returned Richard, looking up. "I wish you would not go," she said, her tones full of beseechingT "Why, mother? Do you want my seven new lobster pots to bo carried off to sea?' he asked. "How could you havo the heart to ask mc? If this wind keeps on blowing I shall lose them every one." "That's true," ejaculated Capt Rose. "I never thought of that It's just right, this wind is, to drag thorn off, but you never can haul them in alone. You'll bo suro to be dragged overboard." "No, 1 shan't Come along with me if you want to help," laughed Richard. "Humph! I should sink that craft be fore wo got out of harbor," said the cap tain, ''though if I wasn't so heavy I would go." Capt Rose weighed a trifle less than 300 pounds, and had left the sea after fifty years cf faithful service. Not another person was in sight Til tell you what HI do," said tho captain. "If you insisfon going Til stop on my way up and ask Capt Danf ortb to look out for you, and if he thinks - you're getting into trouble to sail after you." "Thank you, captain." "Dick," said his mother, "cant you let the lobster pots go?" "Couldn't possibly," smiled the boy. "Could you have tho heart to ask me? Will you cast me off, mother?" he called a second later. "Wait a minute," exclaimed Mrs. Swing. "Fetch your boat close up. I want to speak to you, Dick." The boat received the necessary im petus and touched the side of the pier. Mrs. Swing had seated herself on the topmost layer of logs forming the wharf, and leaned over as though to speak con fidentially to her son. "Dick," said his mother, "hold fast! I'm coining," and into the boat abe dropped before either Capt Rose on' the dock or Capt Richard in the boat had knowledge of her intention. "What under the sun, mother, " cried the boy, "do yen mean? "Im going with you, Dick, to keep yon from fiwMtir wriwwml when you haalisand abe seated herself in the tern, calling back as the tide floated the boat out, "We depend oa you, Capt. Rose, to sead after us if we-if it gets to6-Tosjgh,"she gaspelwithadatkof aajrayinherlacd;- - -Ay, ay r cried te captaiB, ana ne t and swung K, ue scarcely Of ia Dell Haven, from to the youngest, Mrs. String the sea. To live beside at, 4 As I west Toned the corner. sonny face t w iS4wrv aaood oVlighted her, Imb IKrlianl. lies mrr aon. to the treachery of the craters, but rather taaa. ' bis wua aeugns m wina sou waves this unselfish mother concealed as much as possible her anxiety for him. Richard was not selfish, aad had be imagined what his mother was at that moment suffering would have put the boat about and tied it forever at the stake rather than cause her this agony. Just as the boat got well into the toil of the waves the sun arose, shedding such brilliance on the waters that Mrs. Swing, who sat facing it, was dazzled and wall nigh failed to see in time a gill net into which the boat was running. "See any boat ahead, mother?" ques tioned Richard. "You must keep a good lookout for me. I've got my ranges right and can fetch the lobster grounds every time." "Is it far?" questioned his mother shud deringly. "Not very, just outside Dull Head. I reckon we'll fetch it," said the lad, dip ping his oars for a full stroke and then letting the boat slide up to the summit of a rolling wave, a trick he had caught from Capt Hesekiah Danforth, the master boatman of Dell Haven. The wind grew stronger and stronger, and the waves every moment increased in size. Even Richard glanced sideways more than once with ill concealed anxiety as the long billows came tumbling on, and just then getting a glimpse of his mother's face beheld it so blanched with terror of the sea that it seemed to him his mother was no longer in the boat with him. "Dick," she gasped, as his oar missed stroke and sent the spray over the boat, "Dick, I'm afraid to go on." Dick glanced backward. He had pulled about a mile from shore and was midway between tho two headlands familiarly spoken of as the Horns. Dull Head was Kirrounded by an even accumulating mass of breakers, and Bright Head caught the sea on its precipitous sides, sending it backward in fountains of foam, and all the four miles that lay between the two points were rolling miles of billows. Sitting with his face landward Richard had not fully felt the danger. Now, the lad could not repress a shud der as he said: "I don't believe I could find the buoys in such a sea, and nobody could haul in the pots. I believe I'll put nitwit-" "Oh, do! Oh, Richard, there comes an awful one!" and Mrs. Swing slipped down from her seat into the bottom of the boat and hid her face from the on- coming wave. Richard gave a mighty pull at tho oars to keep the boat head on, and it rode that wave in safety only to meet new ones, into whose depths the tiny 6hell rolled to be completely hidden from the sight of two men who were standing out on the Dell Haven pier. One was Hezekiah Danforth, the other was Capt Rose. "If there was only a tug in sight to help them," groaned Capt Rose. "Why didn't you dun a little common sense into the woman if she didn't take any naturally," scolded Capt Danforth, "or shut her and the boy up some wheres." "I told her, but I declare when I was young I could have brought down them oars in half tho time it takes Jim to fetch 'em. I say, 'Kiah Danforth, ain't that boat trying to put about?" "It acts like it, John, but it will get swamped just as sure as guns if no, it's going on. There's nothing else to do. I never in all my life saw a time when thero wasn't a sail in sight Tho boat's gone! No! Thero it comes upagainf' Suddenly a cry for a helping hand was raised among the bystanders, and will ing hearls went forth from tho land. "Every second tells. It's a race for lifer called out Capt Danforth. "Jim, you'd better get in. You're strong; if cao of us tuckers out you can take hold." All ready lay the boat, a dark green surf boat a boat that could stand heavy seas, and the two men and boy who had nobly volunteered were not long in start ing off. "Success to you. Fetch 'em back aliver called out Capt Rose. All at once the pier at Dell Haven seemed thronged with people. Tho news had spread that Mrs. Swing and Richard were out alone on tho sea. As they watched the dim, dark speck, now rising upon the swelling waters and as quickly vanishing from sight, not one of the little throng but knew the danger of thetinyboat With breathless eager ness they watched the surf boat as its two rowers stood at the oar urging it on ward. "It's down the harbor now. They're catching it It's an awful wind for June. Do you think they're gaining on 'em? That mite of a boat will never live till they get there," were some of the re marks heard as they passed on. As for Capt Rose, he went panting up the hiU into the town, climbed into the belfry of Dell Haven church, as far up asheoould go, and watched through a spy glass the progress of the mere speck m the distance and the toiling helpers so far behind. After a few minutes he realized that Capt. Danforth. although doing his ut most, could not reach the periled ones in time to save them, and he said to him self: "The boy is doing well, but he cant hold out I must do it" Capt Rose's little daughter had followed her father into the church and climbed the belfry stairs. "See here, Dolly," he said. "Can you lookrthrough here and keep sharp watch? No, you run you can go quickern I can," and the captain scribbled a mes sage on the back of an envelope, and, giving it her, bade her make haste to the telegraph office. "You tell Johnny Blake it's to save a life and it must go ahead of everything." Dolly Rose did notneedtobe told twice. She ran every step of the ways and, rush ing into the telegraph office flushed and eager, cried out: "Mr. Blake, here, send this quick. Richard Swing and his mother are going to drown, and it's to save them!" The operator took theold envelope and read: Capt. True, steam tog Good Heart. Cromwell harbor Steam oat at once ia search of sman boat woman and boy in it off Del Hsxea three mOes; going against the wind; can't last long. JoanrBosB. "All right" said the operator, clicking away at his machine for a minute or two, and then exclaiming, "It's done. Wait a minute, sis, and HI tell you whether or not he gets it; wire runs right down to the wharf." The minutes went by. Ten had passed when the answer came back: tjlMiaap; start at once; goayselt Tdbotbtt Taos. The operator did not stay to write it "Run quick and tell your father Capt True fa gone already," he said. Dolly ran, saying to every one she met, "They'll be saved! they'll be saved!". Thechildgotup to the belfry stair, and conldnt utter a word. She could only suuioandbowher head and try to get oat the asesaage, which' she did at last Capt Rose's eye was on the speck. He dared not take it off lest never to find it again. Meanwhile, the news got abroad that Cspt Rose had telegraphed to Corn wall for a tug, and the burden of fear In the little boat acaia and again had Richard tried to tarn sis head towards the laA bat with each trial it toaksp - ....I much water that he was forced to give up the attempt Nothing could be done but keep off and' face the boiling sea.. Very few words were spoken. Mrs. Swing kept bailing as fast as possible, with only the shell of the horseshoe crab to work with. At length came a wave like a small hfll, upon winch the boat rose gallantry, and then suddenly Richard shouted: "They're coming for us, mother. I see a boat just outsidethe harbor." Then the tears sprang to Mrs. Swing's eyes. She stopped bailing for a moment to look towards the shore. All she could see was a wall of water slutting out the land. "Courage, mother," Dick said. Every rise and fall of the oar was a prayer; every dip of She poor old crab shell was a petition for life. Out from Cromwell harbor, seven miles to the eastward, and hidden from sight by Bright Head, steamed thetugGood Heart Never had its captain stood watcliing the sea with more earnest gaze. Never was steam applied with more gen erous hand. Twas the woman and the boy in the boat out at sea that lived in the gaze, in the steam and in the fuel, and Good Heart bore away with cordial speed until Bright Head was won and weathered. " "I see it!" shouted the captain, "though how in thunder if s lived to get there's more'n I know," and he gave directions to steam outside. Richard's attention was so divided be tween the billows and the land and the friendly boat, and Mrs. Swing was so in tent on bailing, that neither of them saw the tug until it was upon them, and a bailing voice shouted: "Hold on till we pick you up." It seemed as if a voice from heaven had spoken. Even bluff old Capt Rose up in the belfry of the church ejaculated, "Thank God!" as he saw the tug come to. Tho shock of the call, the sight of the black, throbbing tug, friendly as they seemed, yet came near swamping the boat, for Richard let it turn, and the last strength he had was put forth in holding it up to the wind until a line was cast off, and even then he had no power to make it fast It was Mrs. Swing who tried to obey the commands that came but could not Finally the tug's boat was lowered. It was no easy task to get to leeward and board the Good Heart, which held its breath, bracing itself against the waves almost as a thing of life to do its kindly office. Richard and his mother Itad been saved. "Give 'em a signal! Give 'em three!" and the steam whistle blew three shrieks 'CubX cut over the tajind up the harbor and over against the meeting house steeple, until old Capt Ross fell down on his knees to utter the first prayer of tliankfulness his little Dolly had ever heard her father offer. Sarah P. Pritch ard in New York Graphic. Cesaaestte Photography. Photographic art, in its recent progress, includes no more interesting phase than that known as composite photography. It is six years since that Professor Gault, an American, began experiments in this direction, attaining results that have at tracted attention on both sides of the Atlantic. In brief, the process, which applies only to reproducing the human features, consists of super-imposing a number of photographs upon a negative common to alL The outcome, when this process is intelligently and skillfully done, is a photograph embodying the dominant facial traits of all the portraits placed before the camera. The last pic ture of all bears the same relation as to resemblance to its predecessor, as does the human being often bear a likeness to his ancestors through many generations. Fresh in the minds of many will be the magazine articles recently published, giving the results of composite photogra phy as applied to a chosen number of pupils in a seminary. The final photograph showed a type distinct from the score of photographs used to produce it yet revealed a face in which tho dominant characteristics of all were blended in a face of extreme beauty and power. In a similar manner a composite photograph made up from a succession of family portraits will yield a remarkable result, giving features in which the characteristics of ancestors are plainly discernible. By blending two portraits upon one negative a curious ef fect is produced. The possibilities of composite photography are full of deep interest, not only for the lover of the camera, but for the student of human nature.- Pittsburg Bulletin. Personalities la Books. It is the inborn curiosity we all have to know men in their inmost personality, that makes autobiographies the most in teresting books in the world. Of the countless memoirs that have been pub lished there are none that may be called dull, for even when there is dullness, and the self revealer is relating details common to humanity, the very fact that we recognize it as dull, and so class the hero of the tale with common clay, makes it interesting to the student No matter what his achievements, we per ceive that after all here was a man. He may have attained eminence in this line or that, have performed some great feat in war, in politics or in art, but after all, he had, as the French lady said, "his hours and his moments.'' Thero were times when dullness over came him like a fog, and the evidences lie here in the book before us. There fore, paradoxical as it may seem, there are no dull autobiographies, for the rea son that their very dullness has its inter esting features. The fact that all the novelistsand story tellers have put many of their stories in the form of autobiography shows the hold this method of recital has upon the mind. Robinson Crusoe is ten times more real than if Defoe had related the famous adventures in the third person; the same may be said of Marryat's sea novels, of Poe'sbest tales, and even of Frank Stockton's grotesqueries. The ap parently real narrator excites a personal interest that throws a charm around the whole story nothing else can give. Chi cago Herald. Paper frees Treed. Tl discovery of the value of wood in paper Tnirw"c fa credited to Dr. H. H. HiU, of this city. About forty years ago tho doctor visited the paper mill at Vas salboro, and after looking over the ma chinery suggested the feasibility of using wood, and asked why the manufacturers ilid not get a few bales of excelsior from Augusta, where it was made, and try the experiment of making paper from wood. "It cant be done," said tie manufactur ers. "Have not you as much gumption is the hornets, whose nests are made of wood paperr asked the doctor. There suit of tho conversation was a letter, some tfrn later, from the firm's whole sale agents in Boston, salting what they were putting in their paper to make it so much better than it had been. Itwas the woodthen first used in this way. Kennebec (Me.) Journal. A white tongue is said to denote a febrile disturbance; a brown, moist tongue, indigestion; a brown, dry tongue, depression, blood poanuing, typhoid fever; a red, moisttoncue. innanunatorv iever; a red, glased fa icrrer, jobs OE OJgsstion; a - - I THE WEATHER PROPHE1. Who is it teek us, when the aaa Is bright, - Tell BosKiTeir rata before tls ajghtr .lad when the eight aaa oooe, yet i Who Is aad boldly cries again, Jly Meads, era morning dawns, 1 We shall be baried deep hi saowr Who is It? would yea Mke to heart 8peaksofUy-bark! he's often near; That the world over, always Jest the i Is weather prophet-AnaaJas is his ai On, for Ananias soon will come a time When I predict he'll suffer for his crime la that or.tataomabfe pit I dare not i Where temperature is always jest tae a Hem sit and wsJt-alasl ia rata For signs of sunshine, snow or rata. And while he's studyiagtMUometersbal Howfaapiwesbsttbeaboretokaow That f or a time, at least, we're free From one false jit ophet aad bis porpoarii. WHATEVER THY HAND F1NDETH. nsd. red the Tae black, black elms aad hedges. All through the But crickets haaused and beetles whJrrea- Now conies a breath of trash. From silent pools aad sedges. AB through hot noon the reapers i Aad toO. with jests sad Isaghfr. Beneath the bkstagsUes that bare. Then, leaching stui, I By threes aad fours; sad hand to head Go two that Aad here we linger, bead ta hand. jLmA m n. Msrrraiing i Had we been bora to reap aad i To wake when swaBows stir, aad go Forth B cam dawa to plow the lead. Or mow the i Had that been noUerT Lore of mine. We still had only striven. As now we strire, to no oar best; To do rood work and earn good An work that's human isdtrtae, AD life, bred well, msras aesfeal -K. The Mneaalto's Peleea GlaaSs. The bloodthirsty musquito is not ma levolent as he is commonly described. If we may accept the mvestigations of Professor George MacLoskie. He has been able, by staining and dissection, to show that the poison gland is one of three minute glands (the others being ordinary salivary glands) on each side of the head, and connected with a minute duct which traverses the length of the long pointed piercer which forms an im portant portion of the mouth parts of the' musquito. The writer maintains that this fluid is intended mainly to prevent the coagulation of the proteids of plants which the animal sucks from the tissues, and that its poisonous effect upon other animals b only secondary. If so, it would perhaps follow that it is not in troduced into the human flesh as a poison. It is difficult to see what purpose the ir ritating effect of the bite upon other animals can serve the musquito. since it must make the chance of its getting nourishment from the blood of other j animals many times less than it other wise would be. It may be worthy of in quiry whether the irritating effect is not incidental and perhaps only occasional, and due to other causes than the fluid which seems, by analogy, to have an other distinct purpose. St Louis Re public. Imitative Eaters. Did you ever notice how strong the mimetic faculty of human nature is, how prone to follow an imitable example in some tilings? I have noticed and watched it for several years while in this business. A regular patron will come into the restaurant, and not until he is asked what he wants does he give the I matter a single thought He picks up the bill of fare. It is old to him. He has seen it before, and it does not con tain or suggest a single thing he thinks he would like. He turns to the waiter, and tells him to bring out something good to eat The waiter does so, and what is set before the patron is some thing he did not think of, and he eats it with relish. Other customers come in, and, like the first, they do not know, what they want They cast their eyes about and see what the other is eating,' and orders the same. This is a rule, and if you watch you will notice it No matter what tho first one is eating. It might be a piece of pastry or a large meal, but the sight of it arouses the ap petite of the others who como in later and they want the same. St Louis Globe-Democrat Declined. In an amusing sketch of Prince Henry of Battenberg, the husband of Princess Beatrice, recently appointed governor of of the Isle of Wight (greatly to the dis gust of the islanders), an English paper gives along list of the ladies who had declined the honor of the impecunious princeling's hand before he finally suc ceeded in his matrimonial designs. Among the number was one whom it will not be difficult to recognise and who is described as "the daughter of an American inventor who has since be come the wife of an Italian premier.' Several others are mentioned, including an actress or two and other women, an alliance with whom would not have been particularly creditable. San Francisco Chronicle. ., Street Tramways la Hew York. During the year ending Sept 80, 1888, tho number of passengers on the street railways and elevated railways of New York city was 376,013,586, an mcresse of 18,000,000 over the number for 1887. This, at the uniform fare of 5 cents, represents a total revenue of $18,85, 670.30. There are nineteen "city rail way" companies, eighteen of which are horse car surface lines, and the other is the elevated railway system, with its four parallel lines. The equipment consists of 8,054 cars and 13,586 horses. The ele vated lines have 921 cars and 281 locomo tives. The number of employes is 11,725. Scientific American. Letta's Age. Few of the people who see Lotta kick ing her heels and playing all the tricks of a little girl on the stage, would place her age at the correct figure. This littls mite of a body doesn't look it but she was born in Nassau street Nov. 27, 1846. Her father, John Ashworth Crabtree, was an Englishman, and kept a book store, which he abandoned to go to Cali fornia during the gold craze of '40. Lotta has been on the stage since 1858, and she is credited with the largestpileof dollars of any woman in the profession, the greater part of which she owes to her mothers business slirewdness. New York Press. Not Desirable for Suicides. The EuTel tower is such a blot on the artistic beauty of Paris that it offers no temptation to the would be suicide as a jumping off place. The true Parisian is nothing if not consistent in his art in stincts. To throw one's self from the top of the Arc de Triomphe is one thing; to plunge headlong from a structure so de void of beauty as the Eiffel tower is quite another matter. The authorities need have no fear that this eighth wonder f the world will to utilised for any such purpose. Boston Herald. Some information has just been ob tained of a remarkable case in Birming ham, a series of ciraunstaaces having been brought to light from which it is expected that a laboring man in the town is likely to come into possession of s fortune of something between 90,000 and 25,000. Some years ago the bor ough wss noted for its hat sasJdng. Among the hatters was one Wilbam Taursfield,andayoung man in his em ploy became attached to one of his Jsighlwr They al sneceaarauy m 1 silted from the i the couple msssnrt a large fortune. Mr. Thmaisld died at a rips old age, and soon after Lofts, bis son-in-law, died. HedirWedtheluemterestin hat Mrs inuneUt to his widow, at death it was to go to the next of km the ThursfieM side. About three go Mrs. Loftus died. Afterward efforts were made to obtain faioraaaoa as so the next of km, botthettsnaladTwrtise wants did not yield tho desired informa tion. A Yorkshire gentleman has been at Newcastle and has obtained valuable information. The man for whom search was mads proves to be Alfred ThuTstlald, who is a bricklayer's laborer over fO years oia ana wno nssagrownup zam ily. ThursfieM is believed to be the heir, and if that is proved b will pass from poverty, in his little house in Salter's lane, to riches and ease. Boston Herald. Why is it that every one wants to write poetry? This instinct leads to some droll incktemnewspsperofnees. The waste basket heaped with effusions from young persons is a matter of course, butthe malady does not in all cases end with youth. Middle aged bustoess men-c-cessful men, too have not infrequently the weakness. It is an odd spectacle when a dignified old gentleman comes in, and, with some hesitation, but with nniimitAd confidence of what he has written, offers "a few lines" for consid eration. It is almost pitiful to see his interest in the thing and to note his ill disguised sorrow when informed that what he has presented cannot be used. HedoesnotresJia,norcantheinajority 'of people, that rhyme is not necessarily poetry and that" a jingle is not all that is necessary to make verses worthy of publication. It must be the mere sense of rhythm, unaccompanied by the sense of what is new or strong, tho mere tickle of the jingle on the ear, which makes so many people think themselves poets. Even in Chicago, ma terialistic, money making, "get there" Chicago, the value of the white paper spoiled annually by so called poems which are never printed would equal the proverbial prince's ransom pro vided, of course, the ransom were not unreasonably high. Chicago Tribune. ! The alaUee se lf all the threats made of contemplated vengeance of convicted criminals were carried out, the mortality among officers of the law would be astounding. No thief ever felt the halter draw with good opinion of the law, so runs the ancient chestnut and it is equally true that never yet was there a criminal who had philoso phy enough to give the onlcer who sends him up credit for doing his duty. They imagine themselves the victim of a pri vate grievance, and when they are on their way to the penitentiary they hon estly believe that they intend to get even with the officer at the expiration of their terms. A year or two in the prison hasa wonderfully calming effect, and when the prisoner is released he is not inclined to seek readmission to its walls. No little scheme of revenge will tempt him to tak ing the chances of another term. I do not recall a single case in my police ex perience where a returned convict has attempted the life of a prosecuting offi cer. Police Official in Globe-Democrat Doles ef Fish. Doles of fish are very numerous, and with particulars of a few examples we dose our paper. John Thake, in his will, drawn up in 1537, left his house and land on condition that his heirs, annually on Friday, in the first week in Lent gave to the poor of Clavering, in Essex, one bar rel of white herrings and a cade of red herrings. At Dronfield, Derbyshire, in 1577, Richard Stevenson left half a hun dred of herrings, and as much bread as could be made from a "strike" of good wheat The doles were to be distributed every Friday during Lent forever. At Farnbam Royal, Buckinghamshire, in 1684, David Slater gave money to pur chase bread and herrings and a pair of kid gloves annually for the parson of the parish for the time being. The gloves were to be purchased ready for the first Sunday in Lent At Newmarket in Suffolk there was a bequest of fish and fagots.-Chambers Journal. by the Dr. Pmel, of Paris, is said to have suc ceeded in hypnotizing several subjects by means of the phonograph. All the commands given through this channel were, he declares, as readily obeyed as those which he uttered directly, and "suggestions" of every possible sort were as effectually communicated through the medium of the machine as if made viva voce. The conclusion which he dedu ces from his experiments is that the re ceived tbeory of a magnetic current pass ing from the operator to the subject is entirely baseless, and that the real cause of tho phenomena of hypnotism is ner vous derangement on the part of those subject to them. New York Telegram. What Is XtghtasareT What we call a nightmare was by our forefathers supposed to be the Saxon demon Mara or Mare, a kind of vampire, sitting on the sleeper's chest These vampires were said to be the guardians of hidden treasures, over which they brooded as hens over their eggs, and the place where they sat was termed their nidus, or nest Hence when any one supposes he has made a great discovery we ask if he has discovered a mare's nest, or the place where the vampire keeps guard over the hypothetical treas-ures.-Det,oit Free Press. HEAT AND HEADS.' Is Sappessd That the) I One of the most interesting things men tioned by Professor Vsrchow in his little book, entitled "Medical Remembrances of an Egyptian Journey," in which he describes an excursion up the Nile as far as the first cataract is that the broken skulls on the first great sepulchral fields, dating from Roman times, are as thick and hard as Herodotus says those of the slain Egyptians were in comparison with the brittle ones of the Persians. The Greek historian explains this by attribu ting it to the early exposure of children to the heat of the sun; and in many parts of Upper Egypt the German travelers actually found young children thus ex posed during their parents' absence in the fields in immense clay bowls, resem bling in shape a champagne glass with a stem, into which they were put without shelter. This discovery by Professor Vircbow is interesting, because it at once suggests the question whether the proverbial thickness of the skull of the negro has not been caused by exposure to the sun, and whether it k a peculiarity of savages of tropical countries that their skulls are thicker and harder than those of the jiiiMti of temperate and colder oountries. Students of craniology have never made any investigation to asoer tain whether the skulls of different races vary in degrees of hardness. It would be almost impossible to make such an inquiry As it well known, the human skull increases in hardness from child hood to maturity and age. A aaiacel laneous collection of skmUsof any given peoptewoaJdtheTeforabecaTnovahiein tucnaateTestigstion. To obtain a collection of skmOf of a .-- awawuoiB wsm wm v rotufcire town, where tney ssanDwaaea Uisssssl i m siii i issfsllj In mawissi 116 oUldren resulted from tiwnisxrahffAaawl of seHnnsWHsi. that ahonld be taken from sabjeots sal of tiie same age, to have them aB aeaBMartyfawpsredaiM msnmcieatnwmberasasaakelt possible to draw any gasMtwTcoiicrasione from their comparator wain each other, would be snaaifeetly tmssasAle, Mors atten tion has been given to the relative thick nessoff drn'srent skulk, or rather to their weight from which their thickness may be'inferred. Of the large collection of crania in the Army Medical museum at Washington the thickest are those of negroes and Alaskan Indians. The skulk of other Indians, both of North and South Amer ica, in tropical or tempersto climes, and of the Eskimo, do not appear to be par ticularly thick. Amoagthe ancient Peru vian skulk recently received by the mu seum, and the ancientcrania collected in Arisona last summer, there are frequent individual variations in thickness, but no tendency to unusual thickness. The conclusion from these facts k that expos ure to the sun probably does not cause thickness of the human skuU. In con nection with thk subject, it k interesting to note that among the Australians the sinus frontalk k generally found to be solid in the males, instead of being hol low, as in the skulk of other races. Thk bone in the male Australians generally extends straight across the head, the lower side overhanging the eyes so that they seem to look out from under it, while in the North American Indians a modification of shape deprives them of that heavy look about the forehead. The heavy sinus frontalk of the Australians, of course, tacrcascs the weight of the skuU. American Analyst Barbers. I suppose on an average, for a week or a month, I shave as many men as any barber in St Louis, and yet by any of the teste of speed usually employed 1 would prove a slow man, or at best only onlinary. But you will notice I am al ways busy; customers wait for me while other barbers in the shop are idle. There are two reasons for this tricks of the trade. You will notice I have the front chair 'in the shop; that is, I am nearest the street door. In these busy times men begrudge even the time they have to spend in idleness while being shaved, and they will want to see what is going on and who k passing. I frequently have customers jump from the chair half shaved and rush out on the street and drag in a friend, or a man they want to see on important business. Another trick of the trade I employ is simply to wipe every man's face perfectly dry. Nine barbers out of ten, after shaving a man, go over his face in a mechanical sort of way with a towel, leaving the corners of his mouth, under the mus tache, the eyes and the ears wet I never do thk, and the consequence k that my customers come back, and many of them wait for, me, even at the expense of loss of time, confident that they will feel comfortable when they leave my chair. Barber in Globe-Democrat Charity Begin at Home. Said a prominent physician yesterday: "Talk about gall; here's a letter I re ceived clear from London, England, so liciting subscriptions for a Home for Destitute Children, and inclosed was a little book detailing how children could be bought for 6s. 7d. for purposes of begging, and setting forth that the com pany had 3,000 children feme, halt and blind that they were taking care of. While the cause may be a good one, it appears to me ,that Americans have about all they can do to take care of their own poor, abandoned, orphaned and crippled waifs without going across the water to dispense charity." Cincin nati Enquirer. Dlcheas Wett. Dickens used to tell a story of meeting with a clergyman in a railway train who held forth to his fellow passengers ever so long upon the novelist's private fail ings. "Dickens k an atheist, sir, as I happen to know; he k also a gambler, and I regret to say drinks;" and so on. "Dear me, how sad. Have you ever seen him drunkT asked Dickens. "Well, not exactly drunk, no; but certainly overtaken by liquor." "Have you ever seen him sober?" "Well, that k too much to my. Oh, yes, I have see him sober." "Often?" "Yes, often." "No, sir, only once You see him now for the first time." Curtain.) 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Ask for the ORIGINAL ABITINE OINTMENT Sold by DowtyA Becher at 25 cents per box by mail 80 cents. msrTy Mrs. Eliza Clark of Cleveland gives $100,000 to the Woman's college of the Western Ikserve university. fgiieb Spavin liniment removes all hard, soft or esBoused lumps and blem ishes from horses; blood spavin, curbs, splints, sweeney, ring-bone, -stifles, sprains, sll swolsn throats, coughs, etc. Save $60 by use of one bottle. Warranted. Sold by G. B. Stillman, druggist, Co umbus. 6-ly Mrs. Amelia Bives-Chanler's husband has returned from Europe and joined her m Washington. Sfcertaa4Lea;Cew)aJea. Daisy Dandelion, Essex, Ct, k per plexed over the question of short and long courtships, and wants our advice. WeU, Daisy, it k hard to make a rule to fit every case, but in general we will say that long courtships are not sdvksble. Many women, pale, haggard, wan and wasted from long continued uterine ail ments, are forced to bankh all thoughts of marriage. 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ON SALE PRINCIPAL POINTS EAST, WEST, NORTH and SOUTH -A.V TJ. P. Depot, Columbus. ISroitrtf bytae proprietors ot M lAtri CATAIM KME1Y. Sv-aaacaaee ef CatarrM. Headache. obstruction! of nome1JnnrtJngtato throat, sometimes profuse, watery, and acrid, atotnera. thick, tenacious, mucous, puroteat. ekwdraad putrid ; eyes weak, risen in ear. SasnwmanlcuKy 5r cleertaajhroat. expecto nSoaof offensive isattnTtaeath oSeaalve: aawUi sad taste impaired, and seoeral debility. Shaofaympto eotatooce. Thousaadsof cases result to coa- sumption. and end in the7yrg... BywnSild. soothing, and neaitog proeerUee. iw faM'a RMMdr enrea the worst cases, ssc. iWw's.uSr1 uunu. LasT wn!rrte- Kl UoeqtaUedesaUverFllL JBmmaef.chm cl easiest to take. SMse scenes m awww 5reaeemawwiZ35nesaJJaWeSle)Bit SBUtMsa"aSBaeka.aad all deiaaaywiewtaot HBWBh v vis. v Ceasaatptiea Surely VareJ. To the Editor Please inform your readers that I have a positive remedy for the above named disease. 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