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WHOLE NUMBER 1,305.
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CORNER OF ODDITIES;
HAPS AND MISHAPS Of Uli
USUAL CONCERN.
A Satire ea the Xew Woman Hatband
sad Wife Reunite To Marry a
Second Tlaie A Remarkable Sara-leal
base.
F, THE NEW
fashioned womaii
there's much been
said
Of her wanting; to
vote and a' that.
And of her desire
to wear men's at
tire. His coat and his
vest and a that.
And a that, and a'
that.
She may wear trousers and a that:
She may even ride a horse as men
ride
But a woman's a woman for a' that.
See yonder damsel passing by:
She's up to date and a' that.
She wears a man's hat, likewise his cra
vat. Ills shirt and collar an a' that.
And a' that, and a' that
His suspenders and cuffs and a that.
But do what she can to imitate man
A woman's a woman for a' thai.
Hoahanri and M Ife Ununited.
Lexington. Ky., Special: A most pa
thetic reunion of husband and wife,
after manw years of separation, took
place here the other morning, when
Richard "W. Mackey found the woman
he deserted sixteen years ago domiciled
in a modest cottage supporting herself
and child by dressmaking. The wife,
although, overcome with joy, was
placed in a most peculiar position, since
she had thought him dead, and has
since he deserted her, been twice mar
ried. Her maiden name was Prescilla
Hearn, she being the daughter of a
wealthy Alabama planter. She married
David Spaulding three years after Mac
key deserted her. Spaulding lived only
a few months and after his death she
married Julius Roach of Sheridan,
Miss., whom she deserted after living
with him only a short time. Mackey
went to Lcadvillo, Colo., and afterward
roved over New Mexico, Kansas.
Arkansas, Idaho and Montana. Tired
of rambling:, he set out to find his wife,
and It was after much difficulty that
he located her In this city. He was sur
prised when she told him the varied ex
periences she had since she had given
him up as dead, and they are now liv
ing happily together. She had no chil
dren by either of her other husbands,
and her boy, born a month before Mac
key left her. Is almost grown.
Code of Elephantine Manner.
The following Incident may prove in
structive to some of your numerous
readers, illustrating the power of mem
ory in the matter of instruction in the
code of elephantine manners. While
visiting the Zoo some time ago I took
my children to see the elephant and
to give them a ride. After the ride I
wanted to give the elephant a bun, and
to make him say "Please" said "Salaam
kuro" i. e., make a salaam. The ani
mal looked at me hard for some time,
with the bun in my hand. At last mem
ory came to his help, and up went his
trunk, and he made a most correct
"salaam." The .keeper seemed very
much surprised and asked me what it
meant. I told him it was a point of
good manners for an elephant to raise
his trunk up to his forehead if any
one was going to feed him. and that
frequently elephants will ask in this po
lite manner for something when they
see any one pasB by who is likely to
feed them. The keeper assured me he
had never seen the elephant do this be
fore, and If I remember lightly he had
been in charge of the animal since it
arrived from India, and that It was
one of those which took part in the
grand procession to Agra when his
royal highness, the Prince of Wales,
visited India, and where I doubtless
saw it. For seventeen years this animal
had never heard these words. London
Times.
Thru I lie Fighting Began.
An old woman living some distance
from Manchester, Ky., was summoned
as a witness to tell what she knew
about a fight at her house several nights
before. In which three or four people
were killed. She mounted the stand
with evident reluctance and many mis
givings, and when questioned by the
court as to what she knew about the
matter, said: "Well. Jedge. the fust I
knowed about it was when Bill Sanders
called Tom Smith a liar en Tom
knocked him down with a stick of wood.
One of Bill's friends then hit Tom with
a. knife, slicing a piece out of him. Sam
Jones, who was a friend of Tom's, then
shot the other fellow, en three or four
others got cut right smart by somebody.
That naturally caused some excitement,
Jedge, en' then they commenced fitin'."
Courier-Journal.
Another lktrhrr Shop Innovation.
The latest things in barler shops Is
a musical box which the boss of the es
tablishment regulates to suit the times.
On Monday, for instance, he keeps the
machine up to light opera aire just fast
enough to keep his assistants shaving
customers at a nice, steady gait. Tues
day being a quiet day in the barber
business, "Home, Sweet Home" and
"You'll Remember Me." are good
enough. Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday the barber confines his musical
box to popular selections of a rather
lively nature. On Satuday he puts the
reels and jigs on top, sprinkles sand
on the floor, and every barber in the
house has to "shuffle -ound" pretty
lively or lose his job.
To Be Married a Second Time.
Rev. Murdoch McLeod, a divinity
student at McCormick Seminary, Chi
cago, and who will graduate within a
few weeks, will be married soon to Miss
Gratea L. Clark, of Richland Center.
This will be the second time the young
people will have gone through the mar
riage ceremony. The first time was Jan.
21, when Mr. McLeod and Miss Clark
were married at the parsonage of the
Grand Avenue Methodist and Episcopal
church by Rev. A. Hunsberger. As both
are Presbyterians it is desired that they
be married by a clergyman of that de
nomination. On his graduation Mr.
McLeod will take charge of a Presby
terian church at Austin, Minn.
Here In a Remarkable Family.
The Bridgewater Democrat says:
Near Yankton is the most remarkable
family on this continent perhaps in
the world. It consists of father, mother,
and twenty-four children, and the moth
er of the brood is not yet 30. She is a
Xorweigan and her husband is a
Hoosier. The children were born trip
lets, and the oldest of the lot is under
12 years of age. All of them are boys
but three, one set of triplets being girls.
In 764 the Black Sa was frozen to a
distance of fifty miles from shore. The
Hellespont and Dardanelles were frozen
and the Sea of Marmora was passable
for cavalry.
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fefJILDINC A NEW EMPIRE.
Ho Rtisftla in Rapidly Developing the
Riches of Liberia.
4ri her Interesting letters to the St.
James' Gazette Mrs. Bishop1 draws a
striking picture of the manner' in which
the Russian government is opening up
the fertile regions of eastern Siberia.
Nikoloskoye is a place of 15,000 inhabi
tants, the center of a large government
flourmill and elaborate barracks. For
many miies on either side the' new Si
berian railroad passes through neit
villages and prosperous farms. "From
Spasskoje," says Mrs. Bishop, "and east
of the Hanka lake up to Ussuri, the
magnificent region is waiting to be peo
pled. Grass, timber, water, coal, a soil
as rich as the prairies or Illinois, and
a climate not only favorable to agricul
ture, but to human health, all await
the settler; and the broad, unoccupied,
and fertile lands which Russian Man
churia offers are capable of supporting
a population of many millions. Here.
Russia is laying solidly the foundations
of a new empire, which she proposes
to make a homogeneous one. 'No for
eigner need apply!' One thousand fam
ilies, assisted emigrants from Russia
of the best class, will come out next
year, and the number is to increase pro
gressively. Each head of an emigrat
ing household has to deposit GOO roubles
with a government official on leaving
Odessa, which he receives on landing
in Siberia, the emigrants, on reaching
Vladivostock, are lodged in excellent
emigrant barracks, and can buy the
necessary agricultural implements at
cost price from a government depot.
Already along the railroad houses are
springing up; and if security can be
obtained ther6 is nothing to prevent
the country from being peopled up to
the Chinese frontier, the rivers Sun
gacha and Ussuri, which'form the boun
dary from the Ilailka Lake to Khaba
roffka, on the Amur, giving a consid
erable protection from brigandage."
NEW SHIP FOR THE NAVY.
Amnliitritc Completed After Twenty
One Yeant" Work.
Another vessel was added to the
United States navy recently by the
completion at the Norfolk navy yard
of the armored coast defense monitor
Amphitrite. which has been under
construction for the remarkable period
of twenty-one years. A telegram
reached the navy department from
Norfolk announcing the final comple
tion of this job. which promised to go
on forever, like Tennyson's brook.
So great was the rejoicing at this news
that, while the spell was still on, the
secretary gave orders to have officers
and crew ready to put the Amphitrite
in commission at once. The Amphi
trite has literally been built on the in
stallment plan. In 1874 her iseel was
laid and work progressed for a time
until the partial appropriation then
available was exhausted. Other things
then occupied the attention of the de
partment, and a year or two passed be
fore more money was set aside to carry
on the work. When this was done,
work was resumed and 'ntinued in
earnest until this second appropriation
was exhausted. Then there was delay
again until more money was in sight,
and so it has continued spasmodically
ever since. In the whole history of the
American navy there is no other in
stance where the construction of a
vessel was carried on for such a re
markable period. There lias never been
pressing need for the completion of the
vessel, and it is probably a wise thing
after all that her construction went on
by such remarkably easy stages. From
year to year changes have been made in
the plan of the vessel to keep abreast
of the remarkable improvements in
naval architecture, and today the Am
phitrite is a modern ship of war in
all respects, just as if she had been
originally designed a year ago.
Nickname of the State.
Alabama. Cotton State; Arkansas,
Toothpick and Bear State;; California,
Eureka and Golden State; Colorado,
Centennial State; Connecticut, Land of
Steady Habits, Freestone State and
Nutmeg State; Dakota. Sioux State;
Delaware. Uncle Sam's Pocket Hand
kerchief and Blue Hen State; Florida.
Everglade and Flowery State; Georgia,
Empire State of the South; Idaho, Gem
of the Mountains; Illinois, Prairie and
Sucker State: Indiana. Hoosier State;
Iowa. Hawkeyc State; Kansas, Jay
hawker State; Kentucky, Corn-cracker
Slate; Louisiana, Creole State; Maine.
Timber and Pine Tree State; Maryland,
Monumental State; Massachusetts, Old
Bay State; Michigan, Wolverine and
reninsular State; Minnesota, Gopher
and North Star State; Mississippi,
Eagle State; Missouri, Puke State; Ne
braska, Antelope State; Nevada, Sage
State; New Hampshire, Old Granite
State; New Jersey, Blue State and New
Spain; New Mexico, Vermin State; New
York. Empire State; North Carolina,
Rip Van Winkle, Old North and Tur
pentine State; Ohio, Buckeye State;
Oregon, Pacific State; Pennsylvania,
Keystone, Iron and Oil State; Rhode
Island. Plantation State and Little
Rhody; South Carolina, Palmetto
State: Tennessee. Lion's Den State;
Texas, Lone Star State: Utah, Mormon
State; Vermont, Green Mountain State;
Virginia, Old Dominion State; Wiscon
sin, Badger and Copper State.
Nutrition in Various Articles of Food.
Raw cucumbers, 2; raw mellons, 3;
boiled turnips, 4; milk, 7; cabbage,
7; currants, 10; whipped eggs, 13;
bets, 14; apples, 16; peaches, 20; boiled
codfish, 21; boiled venison, 22; potatoes,
22i; fried veal, 24; roast pork, 24; roast
poultry, 26; raw beef, 26; raw grapes,
27; raw plums, 29; boiled mutton, 30;
oatmeal porridge, 75; rye bread, 79;
boiled beans, 87; boiled rice, 88; barley
bread, 88; wheat bread, 90; baked corn
bread, 91; boiled barley, 92; butter, 93;
boiled peas, 93; raw oils, 94.
You Cannot Count a Trillion.
It is impossible to count a trillion.
Had Adam counted continuously from
his creation to the present day, he
would not have reached that number,
for it would take him over 9,512 years.
At the rate of 200 a minute, there could
be counted 12,000 an hour, 288,000 a
day, and 105,120,0000 a year.
The German Evangelical Presbyte
rian Missionary society has recently
opened a theological academy at Toklo.
Its library has 9,000 volumes.
A CHUD'S GRATITUDE,
I' ME A PENNY,
ma'am only a
penny!"
It was a profes
sional .beggar's
stereotyped whine;
neither louder nor
lower than she had
heard half a dozen
times before In the
course .of her morn
ing's occupation" pf
shopping arid the
weird, pale face that looked so intreat
ingly Into her own was in no wise dif
ferent from a score of other want
pinched faces.
Yet Miss Fortescue stopped, with one
foot yet on the step ot her cushioned
landau, and searched In her pocket for
some stray coin.
"My dear Miss Fortescue, you will
take cold," said the soft, measured
voice of Mrs. Vinton, her companion.
"Go away, child, quick, orI will call
a policeman." T t
"Don't speak so harshly to the poor
little Object, Maria!" chirped rich Miss
Fortescue. "It isn't her fault that she's
poor and forlorn, and this won't ruin
me! Here little one go and buy bread,
or meat or anything that will put a
streak of color into those tallowy
cheeks."
The child grasped at the money as a
famished wild beast might snap at a
morsel of meat.- But she caught at
her companion's silken rustling skirts,
as she passed forward toward the
plate-glass portals of a fashionable
milliner.
"Did you call her 'Fortescue,' ma'am?
Did you say 'Miss Fortescue'?" she
asked.
But Mrs. Vinton twitched her skirts
away from the child's hand, as if the
feeble grasp were contamination, and
passed on. Still the wild-haired elf
hung around the carriage wheels.
"I say, you!" she cried to the coach
man, holding her ragged garments
around her to prevent their being blown
bodily away by the merciless winds,
"does your missus live in a big stone
house just outside the park? Is she
an old maid?"
The coachman, deeply resentful at
being addressed thus familiarly by so
pitiable a specimen of humanity, lifted
his whip, and called out:
"P'leece! I say, p'liceman," in the
same breath, and little Jack Morley
shrank away out of sight.
"Jacqueline" her name was, but no
body called her anything but "Jackey."
She had no father or mother in fact,
no relative that she knew of, and, so
far as she knew, she had no earthly
business to live no excuse for existing.
Tnnr little .Taokpv.
Children and animals do not commit
suicide, yet there are some circum
stances under which we could scarcely
blame them if they did.
But Jack did not absolutely vanish
into the cracks of the paving-stones
for when the two ladies once more re
entered their carriage and drove away.
Jack fastened on behind in some 11m-
4 kitfK,
MISS FORTESCUE'S FACE.
pet-like fashion, and rode too! Not un
til the carriage had stopped, discharged
its freight, and started again for the
stables at the rear of the gloomy old
mansion, did the small parasite drop,
like a caterpillar shaken from a tree,
into the road.
"I thought so," said Jackey to her
self. "They shan't no. they shan't!
She smiled when she looked at me
and she patted me on the head like I
was like other gals!"
And with these disconnected medita
tions floating through the chaos of her
brain. Jack pattered down the area
steps, and knocked softly at the base
ment door.
A plump cook answered the sum
mons. "Murther!" she cried, brusquely,
"what's a-wantln here?"
"I want to speak to Miss Fortescue,
please."
"Do you?" cried the cook, surveying
the bold petitioner in blank astonish
ment. "Well, then, you can't, so there,
now! Go along with you, do."
"But I got su'thin' very pa'tickler to
say to her. Please let me in!" pleaded
Jacqueline.
"Yes, and let out the spoons and the
table-napkins at the same time that
would be a smart speculation!" sniffed
the cook. "Clear out, I say, and there's
an end o the matter."
But Jack, who had not expected any
more favorable response to her ap-
MISS FORTESCUE'S FACE,
plication, and was quite prepared to
fall back upon strategy, made a- sud
den forward rush, and had left the
cook far behind ere that plump person
age had leisure to surmise what was
going on.
"Well, I never," quoth the cook.
"Here, John Thomas you man where
be you?"
But while she was crying aloud for
aid. Jack Morley had darted upstairs,
straight into the presence of Miss For
tescue, who happened to be standing on
the first floor landing, with her jacket
.and hat hanging on her arm.
"Hush-sh-sh!" she whispered, laying
her dlrt-incrusted finger on her lip. "I've
a secret to tell you. They're goin to
break into your house at half-past 2
o'clock to-morrow mornin Slippery
Jim, and old Joe, and Long Lyman
and Fm to be slipped through the back
cellar windy to open the doors, 'cause
I'm little an spry."
"What?" cried Miss Fortescue, star
ing. "I've got to go back now, 'cause if
I'm long gone they'll suspect some
thin'," went on Jacqueline; "but I
wouldn't see you wronged, 'cause you
patted my head, you did. Just don't
you let on, but have the p'leece handy,
and you'll see."
BwC.Sdfl,e.!JfCIa.HeSirov2r"
. Car tba first time aUfflClentlV OVer-
cue, for the first time sufficiently over-
coining iter amazement to speak, "stay
here with me". What do you go back to
these people at all for?"
Jack stared at her.
"I've got to see Daddy Lyman at 5
O'clock, and to let him know as Slip
pery Jim's back all safe." said she:
"and, besides, if 1 didn't go. Kitty
Emmons wouldn't get no supper. Kit
ty's sick. Kitty Is. and them as don't
work can't eat. Mother Jones says", so
I saves her a lick and a cut out o-" mine",
Lemme go now, and just you1 mind
what I says."
Miss Fortescue had opened'her mouth
to plead further, but almost ere she
knew It, the strange little apparition
had vanished'. . .
"Well, I never!" exclaimed Miss FoT
tescue, using unconsciously the same"
words that her cook had selected for the
expression of her great amazement.
And she went straight upstairs and
told the whole story to Maria Vinton.
Mrs. Vinton scoffed at it, as, indeed,
it was quite natural she should do.
"And you believe it all? aid she.
"I couldn't help it while I looked In
her face."
"But, my dear Miss Fortescue. Just
see how very improbable it all is. Pray,
use your common sense."
"At all event, 1 mean to have the
police," said Miss Fortescue, nodding
her head.
"You'll only get laughed at for your
pains."
"I'll risk that," said the little old
maid.
The gray-stone house was quite dark
when the clocks struca 2, the quarter
past, and the half.hour; but Miss For
tescue was wide-awake, sitting in front
of her fire, with a heart throbbing with
quick, uncertain beats. She would
have risked much on Jacqueline's truth,
yet now that the hour of test ap
proached, strange doubts crept over her
mind.
Silently rising, she stole downstairs
on tiptoe, and stood at the head of the
cellar stairway, with Mrs. Vinton at
her side, both trembling, partly from
cold, and partly from undefined appre
hensions. Suddenly there was a dull, scuffling
noise, the sound of hurried movements
and then the sharp crack of a pistol,
and then a child's cry.
"You'll blow on us ag'in!" snarled a
deep voice. "It's all Up now but you
shan't go scot free, you. Jackey!"
More smothered scuffling noise, the
sound of hurried movements, and then
a sudden upblazing of light; but
through It all Miss Fortescue's strained
ears could hear the low moaning of
someone in mortal pain.
"I can't endure this. Maria," she
whispered. "I must go down."
"And be killed in the melee!" cried
Mrs. Vinton, holding tight to her arm.
"No, indeed; you shall not stir a step!"
And at this instant the light flashed
i into brilliancy, and from her elevated
posltion Miss Fortescue could see the
whole startling scene. The rutlians,
bound hand and foot, with sullen faces,
and bloodshot, rolling eyes the trium
phant myrmidons of the law exulting
in the capture they had made, and one
little figure darkly cowering in a corner
little Jacqueline.
Heedless of the attempted explana
tion of the officers. Miss Fortescue
broke from Mrs. Vinton's detaining
hand, and ran to the child.
"My dear, you are bleeding you arc
hurt?"
"Yes'm." Jack answered, phlegmatl
cally, "I'm hurt. Slippery Jim mis
trusted as I'd blown on 'cm, and he
shot me. I think I'm goin' to die! I
somehow can't breathe easy!" and, thus
speaking, poor Jack fainted.
"Lawk! ma'am!" said one of the of
ficers, as Miss Fortescue tenderly lifted
the helpless mass of rags, dirt and blood
in her arms, "she's just as bad as any
on 'em, Mother Jones' Jackey every
body knows her!"
"I know her," said Miss Fortescue,
quietly. "It's to her I owe my preserva
tion from robbery perhaps assault,
and even murder this night. Hence
forward, she shall be my care."
Mrs. Vinton held up both hands in
amazement and wonder. Was the rich
spinster going mad?
When little Jackey came to herself,
she lay among soft, scented pillows,
with the odorous breath of hothouse
flowers filling the air, and a kind face
bending over hers Miss Fortescue's
face.
"Oh-h-h!" said Jackey, with a long
breath; "I thought I was dead and gone
to heaven, but I ain't, be I?"
"No, my dear." said Miss Fortescue,
her tears dropping softly on the little
fevered face, "not yet. We hope you
will soon be well, and then you will be
my little girl."
Jacqueline stared vaguely at her pro
tectress, whose kind eyes seemed so
dim and far off to her fever-weakened
vision.
"That would be better tlian going to
heaven." she said, with a long, flutter
ing sigh, and then she fell asleep.
Miss Fortescue wept as she pondered
over the words, which too plainly be
tokened the life the poor little waif had
led. And Mrs. Vinton, ever ready to
misjudge her fellow-creatures, thought
spitefully as she measured Jacqueline's
drops for the next dose of medicine:
"What a skillful little actress that beg
gar child was!"
Miss Fortescue kept her word, and
when Jackey recovered from the long
and dangerous illness consequent upon
the pistol shot, the child was her own
henceforward, loved with almost as ten
der a fondness as if some tie of actual
consanguinity had existed between
them.
The piece of silver which the rich
lady unthinkingly bestowed, with a
smile and kind word, upon the forlorn
street beggar had drawn interest.
A Milwaukee woman who Is a re
ligious fanatic- has been traveling about
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ILLS OF ANIMALS.
THEV HAVE physicians when
THEY ARE SlGK.
Cats, Dogs and the Xolile Horse How
They Act When tinder the Doctor's
Care Sotne Instrument That Are
t'sed -luting .Medicine.
ATS,"' said art fex
pert on the dis
eases of animals,
"are very hard to
treat, for the rea
son that they be
come homesick
and droop more"
from that cause
than actual ill
ness. Colds and
Indigestion consti
tute, four-fifths of feline (rouble-; and
if a cat is given chloroform it never ral
lies. Rabbits take cold very easily,
and have little stamina to resist dis
ease. Pigeons are brought to me some
times for sore feet, from treading on
sharp or pointed substances; or. .like
chickens, they sometimes get the pip,
which is but another form Of indiges
tion. You treat them by putlingg the
medicine in their food. If the roosts"
arc kept comparatively free from ver
min there will be less disease among
the feathered pets."
"How do you diagnose cases?" 1
asked.
"Much the same as in human beings;
listen to the breathing. If a dog or a
horse has pneumonia, which is as prev
alent among them sis with us, it will
have all the symptoms of a human be
ing; labored breathing, coughing, and
the various signs by which we know
exactly where the trouble lies."
"Do they make irritable patients?"
I queried.
"Not as a rule," he replied. "They
realize that you are trying to help
them, and if you go to them, and speak
kindly and pat them a few times, you
gain their confidence and can readily
manage them. A dog docs not get as
homesiek as a cat, for he will play with
other dogs as soon as he begins Id Im
prove. This is one of the most useful
of our instruments," he continued,
taking from the case a pair of blunt
scissors, curved at the end very like
the nail scissors used by manicures.
"That is to take a bone from the throat.
You hold the dog's mouth well open,
and the instrument reaches down into
the larynx; then you can easily loosen
it and remove it. We have many cases
where a dog is brought almost choking
to death, and a very few moments suf
fice to relieve him."
"Do dogs really suffer with tooth
ache?" I asked.
"Very frequently. For that reason
we always examine the mouth fir3t.
A dog will submit very patiently to
having a tooth, drawn": it is the only
remedy." Continuing, he called a silky
little Skye terrier, and, opening its
mouth, he showed me, on the outer gum
on the right side, a kind of little sack,
or perhaps it might be called a fold of
flesh: but it looked like a little pocket
in the gum. Into this the medicine is
put, and the mouth held tightly closed
until Mr. Doggie has to swallow the
noxious dose.
"These poor creatures have rheuma
tism, and all the diseases of the eye
and ear even that humanity is heir
to. and the purer the breed and the
i more delicately they are reared the
wider becomes the range of these trou
bles. At times they become the vic
tims of chorea, which corresponds with
our fashionable nervous prostration.
There are dogs that become absolutely
dyspeptic wrecks, with colic, cramps,
and all the varieties of indigestion.
"Now, tell me about horses," I said.
"Can you set their broken bones?"
"Very rarely," he answered. "If a
horse meets with an accident of that
kind it is more humane to kill him at
once; and many people, if they love a
dog or a horse, prefer to have us kill it
with anaesthetics. If a horse could
be suspended long enough for the bones
to knit together, recovery might be
successfully accomplished; but a horse
has very little vitality in proportion
to its size, and would not live under the
heroic treatment necessary. If he did
it would leave a lump or blemish that
would detract materially from its value.
With a horse, as with a dog, we first
examine the mouth. When an animal
refuses its food it brings on indiges
tion and attendant ills. A horse's teeth
often become very sharp and cut the
tongue when masticating. He then
swallows his food whole, which, as we
say, of course, does not digest. When
we find this to be the trouble we file
the teeth." He took from the case an
instrument about eighteen inches long,
having on one end a file about an inch
wide and about three inches long,
which, he said, was used for that oper
ation. Then he explained another instru
ment, with a handle like a corkscrew,
only instead of the spinal screw it had
a round, open knife about three-fourths
of an inch in diameter. "This," he ex
plained, "is used when a horse has had
a fall, and a portion of the bone lead
ing from the eye to the nose is indent
ed. We take this, and by a quick blow
cut a hole through fiie lower section
of the hone. Into this orifice we insert
a probe, and gently raise the injured
part into position; then the piece first
cut out is reinserted. In a week or ten
days it is reknit and the horse is as
good as ever."
"How do you give them medicine?"
"We fix it into what we call a bolus.
It is cone shaped, about three inches
long and round in proportion. We open
the horse's mouth and put the bolus
deep into the throat. You must be sure
that he swallows it, for if he gets the
chance he will eject it" Washington
Star.
WHY DON'T IT WOBBLE?
The Earth' Balance MiihI Have Changed
Since C'olumhu.
A New England scientist says there's
going to be dickens to pay if the rest
of the United States continues to cart
away granite and marble from the land
of the Pilgrims and Puritans. "It is
not unlikely," says he, "that the equil
ibrium of the earth is already consid
erably disturbed, and that we shall
shortly feel a pronounced wobble. Of
course, if there is to be a wobble any
where we would prefer it in New Eng-
nd, but perhaps the outlook Is not so
'
desperate as at first glimpse. The tm
mef ftish ot people to the Thite moun
tains. Bar Harbor, Newport, and a
thousand other fie England summer
resorts must in a very grU degree
restore the weight which existed before
there were quarries in New England.
Add (MefS Is another thing. It is com
puted that there ireYe in the Western
hemisphere, when Cofambus set foot on
it, not more than 1,000.06(J human be
ings. There are now, at a very low
estimate, 101.000,000. These lOO.OOOr
000 of additional persons have in
creased the weight of the western hem
isphere some ,OO0,OOO of tons, in the
roundest of roUttd numbers. Surely
there is an opportunity (or a wobble
in this state of affairs, and we ought
to be conscious of it br this time. If
there has been no wobble an explana
tion should be demanded. Some men
of science should rise to tell us why
we don't wobble. Nothing Is more
dreadful, says the Buffalo Courier,
than the uncertainty when anil .where
tho commotion will begin. Probably
only tliose who are holding to the car
straps at (he time will keep their
feet.
A MIXED-UP FAMILY.
A Man Whoc Hon Is JIU llrother-ln-Law.
Here are the raw materials for a
heartache. Dr, fcing, of Adelaide, a
widower, married a MIbs Norris. Short
ly after the doctor's honeymoon, the
doctor's sod married a sister of the
doctor's wife. Then a brother of the
doctor's wife married the doctor's
daughter. In other words, the doctor's
son became his stepmother's brother-in-law,
and the doctor's daughter be
came her stepmother's sister-in-law.
The doctor, by the marriage of his son
to tho Bister of the doctor's wife, be
came father-in-law to his sister-in-law,
arid the doctor's wife, by the marriage
of her sister to her stepson, became
stepmothcr-in-law to her own sister.
By the marriage of the" brother of the
doctor's wife to the doctor's daughter
the doctor became father-in-law to his
brother-in-law, and the doctor's wife
became stepmother-in-Iaw to her own
brother. What relations, asks Pica
roon in Pall Mall Budget, are the chil
dren of the contracting parties to each
other?
The Most Dreadful Earthquake.
The most dreadful earthquake on rec
ord is that which, November 1. 1775,
destroyed the city of Lisbon, Portugal.
The only warning the inhabitants re
ceived was a noise like subterranean
thunder, which, without any consid
erable interval, was followed by a suc
cession of shocks which laid in ruins
almost every building in the city, with
a most incredible slaughter of the in
habitants (60,000). The bed of the river
Tagua was in many places raised to the
surface, and vessels on the river sud
denly found themselves aground. The
waters of the river and the sea at first
retreated, and then immediately rolled
violently in upon the land, forming a
wave over forty feet in elevation. To
complete the destruction a large quay,
upon which great numbers of the peo
ple had assembled for security, sud
denly sank to such an unfathomable
depth that not one body ever after
wards appeared at the surface.
I.ikes Our Women.
During the stay of the Prince of
Wales at the Riviera his partiality for
Americans, especially for American
ladies, was again remarked with many
ill-natured comments from expectant
Britishers hovering near.
BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN.
Sin feels safe as long as It can hide its
head.
A fool has to find out for himself that
fire is hot.
No fish gets away that bites at the
devil's hook.
The devil's favorite pew in church is
near the front.
We may kill God's man, but we can
not kill his truth.
The man who deserves riches can be
rich without them.
It is a waste of breath to talk any
louder than we live.
The older the Christian, the newer he
will find God's book.
No man Is fit for heaven who wants
somebody else kept out.
If you want to do something, find one
who believes something.
It Is better to be a mustard seed than
a mountain of dead rock.
Our lives please God when they make
sinners want to know Christ.
It never hurts God's work any for
people to get mad at bis truth.
An extravagant man loves to lecture
his wife on the beauty of economy.
God can see jewels where we would
see only common sand and gravel.
How small God's army always seems
to be when we take upon ourselves to
number it.
Next to hearing a hypocrite pray, the
devil loves to hear a stingy man talk
in church.
An opportunity to help the poor is a
chance Christ has given us to do some
thing for him.
Open the door of your heart to Christ,
and he will open the windows of
heaven for you.
God will give us strength to resist
temptation if we will use it to walk
away from bad company.
WOMAN AND HER WAYS.
The Czarina Is an expert swimmer.
Rochester has an organization of wo
men called the Fortnightly Ignorance
club.
It has been discovered by a German
scientist that thinking is one of the
j chief causes of wrinkles.
Among Hindoo women there are in
stances of the highest attainments. Cal
cutta can boast of several that have
taken high degrees in medicine and
science.
The "Six of One and Half a Dozen of
the Other" club is reported to be the
latest addition to the society organi
zations in Gardiner, Me. It is a ladies'
whfst club, and the name is very appro
priate, inasmuch as six of its members
are maidens and six are matrons.
In making tea in Japan, the hostess
pours the powdered tea from the caddy,
and the water from the kettle simul
taneously into a bamboo dipper, as a
French waiter pours hot milk and cof
fee, and stirs it carefully with a
"chosen" bamboo, one end of which Is
split into small slivers.
A New York paper says that eggs are
the latest fad among the women of that
city. "It has become a common sight
at leading ladies" restaurants in the
shopping districts to see whole regi
ments of women file past the man at
the counter busy breaking eggs in wine
glasses. The beverage is then rossJed
down in a single swallow."
AN IMPORTANT CASE.
IT
COMES UP BEFORE THE
UNITED STATES COURT.
A Suit for an Eatoppel The Kareka
Chemical Company, of t Croaae Makes
the Trouble.
Papers have been filed ia the Unite
States court of the western district of
Wisconsin, by Tarrant & Kronshage,
attorneys for the Sterling Remedy com
pany, of Chicago and New York, ia a
suit for estoppel and damages against
an imitation of Xo-to-bac, the tobacco
habit cure. The action is brought
against n concern called the Eureka
Chemical company, of La Crosse, Wis.
The principles involved in these pro
ceedings are of the utmost importance
to tho proprietary interests of America
in general, and form in many respects,
a test case, the outcome of which will
be carefully watched by the many oth
er important concerns similarly imi
tated. Not only the question of imita
tion of name, trade-mark, form of
preparation and package, enter into
the case, but also the proposition
whether the actual advertising litera
ture used in establishing the publicity
of a preparation can be stolen with im
punity, word for word, by an imitator.
The decision in this case will settle one
of the vital points in the United States
trade-mark and copyright law. Madi
son (Wis.) Democrat.
IN THE BEGINNING.
Combs are found in the earliest
known graves.
Buttons were used in Troy. Schlie
mann found over 1,800 of gold.
mps were used before written
history. Thousands of ancient lamps
have been found.
Curtains were employed for bed
steads in the eleventh century; they
were afterwards transferred to win
dows. Tea pots were the invention of
either the Indians or the Chinese, and
are of uncertain antiquity. They
came to Europe with tea in 1610.
Dishes of gold and silver used in
table service in 900 B. C. were found
at Troy by Dr. Schliemanu. One of
these was about the size now em
ployed. Outer blinds for windows were un
known until the fourteenth century.
The Venetian or interior blinds are so
called because they were first used in
Venice.
Pepper casters were used by the
Athenians, pepper being a common
condiment They were placed on the
table with the salt in England in the
sixteenth century.
Kocking cradles for babies were
used by the Egyptians many cen
turies before Christ. Among the pic
tures copied by Belzoni is one of an
Egyptian mother at work with her
foot on the cradle.
Tumblers of nearly the same shape
and dimensions as those employed to
day have been found in great num
bers in Pompeii. They were of gold,
silver, glass, agate, marble and other
semi-precious stones.
Lucifer matches were patented in
1831, while friction matches preceded
them by thirteen years. The im
proved machinery by which matches
are now made by the million at a
trifling cost were the inventions of
comparative' recent years.
Coffee pots are an oriental inven
tion, and are supposed to have come
from Arabia in A. D. 1400. About the
same time they were used in Persia,
but they did not come to France until
1CG2, and made their appearance in
England with coffee in 1650.
WOMEN AND THEIR WORK.
Margaret Allen fell overboard at
New York and would have drowned
had not an intelligent pig on board
the same schooner raised an alarm
that saved her.
"Did you hear that Mrs. Smith is
having her picture painted?" "You
don't say! That old thing!" "Yes, in
deedpainted in oiL" "Well, I never!
In oil? If she ever wants a good
likeness she'll have to le painted in
vinegar."
"This is my last birthday," said a
handsome girl to her adorer. "What
do you mean?" he exclaimed, clutch
ing at his heart "You are not going
to die, are you?" "Well, I should
hope not I'm 21 to-day, and a wo
man never has a birthday after that,
you know."
A young ISath. Me., couple, New
Year's eve, at a company, joked each
other on the fact that neither was
wedded. The young man went home
with the maiden and proposed that if
neither of them found anyone he or
she liked better during 1895 that they
become engaged to each other next
New Year s eve. She agreed, and the
result is awaited with interest
A piece of evidence in a Quebec
breach of promise cas.e was a cuff
with an offer of marriage written on
it One night while the defendant
was holding the plaintiff's hand and
whispering fervid words, he popped
the question in manuscript on the
smooth linen at her wrist She was
sentimental or shrewd enough to
keep that article out of the wash.and
now it is of practical value.
Mm. Eliza A. Leach of New Boston,
N. H., recently gave a friend a silk
quilt, made by herself, of a "crazy"
pattern, that is decidedly unique in
colors and design, intricate in needle
work and complicated in the arrange
ment of its more than 400 parts. Each
piece is distinct in its shape and ar
rangement, no two pieces resembling
each other in outline and vcrv few of
like color. Mrs. Leach is 84 years
old. '
EXAMPLES OF LEVITY.
"Does Illykins understand horse
races?" "He must I never see him
at the track."
Caller Is your daughter learning
to speak French? Mamma No; she
is only studying it
Editor Somehow or other I don't
see the sen.c of this thing. Poet
My dear sir. that's poetry.
"I'll tell you a tale that is positirely
hair-raisinir in " "For Jupiter's sake
tell it to Gibson he's bald-headed.
"Docs your father object to my
suit?" Miss Jewell No, indeed; he
said he thought it was much better
than you could really afford.
It i e'Rirned that Lake Erie produces
j more fish to thesminre mile than any other
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