{ THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : SUNDAY , MABQH 9 , 1890.-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES ,
HOW EDISON MADE A BUG ,
A Wo.idorful Contrivance for
Threading a Gas Plp3 with Wire.
ELECTRICITY AND THE CENSUS.
rliu-tVorlc Grcnily Uodiiccd liy Us
Use Thrcshlne by Klooroly :
A Homnrknblo Ynnr la
Telephony Spnrks.
Counted by Elrotrlclly.
The facts in relation to population
And vital statistics , upon reaching the
census bureau hero , are all counted by
electricity , which doett the work almost
without assistance , writes a Washing
ton correspondent of the Denver Re
publican. It is estimated that in the
compiling of tables the machine em
ployed saves throe-fourths of what
would otherwise bo the labor involved
and three-fourths of the timo. To begin -
gin with there Is a little pencil of stool
on the and of a metal arm n foot or so
long , which is BO arranged that you can
push the pencil in tiny direction above
n celluloid plate that is full of small
round holes just big enough to allow the
pencil to bo thrust into them. Each of
the holes has a letter or figure close by
it , to distinguish it from the othorp.
Now , the operator Inserts aa mnilla
paper card in n holder just back of the
movable arm , and taxing one of the
original enumerator's ' schedules , holds
the stcol nciicil in his right hand and
proceeds to business. The name of the
person on the schedule is Peter Fish ;
nut that is not worth counting , for Mr.
Fish Is henceforth to bo rogardcd'from
the statistical point of view
merely ns a unit. Ho lived
in Ward 1 , and accordingly , the
operator jabs the stool pencil down into
n liltlu hole marked " 1" In ono of the di
visions of the celluloid plate. Also ho
was white another hole punched
male another hole fifty-eight years of
ago another hole born in Germany
another hole his father likewise an
other hole his mother ditto another
hole hio occupation was that of u la
borer another hole and ho died in
January another hole of malarial
fever another holo. That is all there
is about Mr. Fish ; BO the card previ
ously inserted is removed from the
holder and it is found to bo punched
with a number of round holes in differ
ent places.
I wonder how many over hoard the
wonderful story of how Edison mndo n
bug'i1 It happened away back in 1880 or
1881 , before the electrician hud become
n count and known in the most remote
corners of the world , savs a contributor
to the St. Louis Republic. . There had
boon two or throe persons killed by the
electric wires , and people wore seriously
, contemplating some plan to cot them
out of the way and still keep the now
; vondorful white light.
Edison proposed that the wires bo put
in the gas pipes ; but how on earth wore
the pipes to bo "threaded" with the
electric wires1 }
After studying the matter ono night
Edison said to a foliow-eloctrician :
"Why , see hero , Johnson , I will make
a bug that will drag a wire through
every foot of pipe in Now York city , if
it becomes necessary. "
' MnUo a bug ! " exclaimed his com
panion , thinking the inventor had lost
nis mind ; "what in the world do you
inonnV"
"Well , I'll make a bug , " said the in
ventor , confidently , "that will go where
I send him and drag a wire , too. "
A few days afterward ho laid a curi
ously-constructed thing on the table in
the office before time to go to work ; it
was hl gas pipe bug. It was con
structed thus : A mlnuto electromagnet
net , carrying behind it n line insulated
wire-pawl. Now observe every time
the circuit was closed through the mag
net the armature WHS attached , the
pawl clutched the sides of n piece of gas
t/f pipe pro.vided for the occasion , and the
\ magnet behind was drawn toward the
> . . armature about the sixteenth of an
> . inch. When the circuit was opened the
armature reached forward ready to
take a Hocond stop. Thus , at every
closing'of the circuit the little bug ad
vanced ono stop , dragging the wire be
hind. No doubt this description will
bo hard for non-exports to understand ,
but as everybody knows something
about electricity nowadays a tolerable
comprehensive idea may bo formed of
how the bug traveled , even though the
reader never saw an oloctrle motor of
nny kind.
An Electrically Knd Ilnrsp.
Electrical Export Wheeler was toll
ing n story yesterday to a party of ue
quintnncos about what ho called an
"electrically fed horso. " A citizen of
n western town , of an inventive turn of
mind , concluded that it involved too
much labor On his part to rise early
o'-ery edld morning and trot out to the
barn to feed the family horse , so ho
purchased two tons of oats , had them
placed in a bid over the horso's stall
and connected the mnngor and the
bin by mean1) ) of a ehuto terminating in
n hopper , says the Now York Star.
To the hopper ho attached a valve con
trolled by electricity , and so arranged
that , when operated , a single food of
oats would run into the mangor. Ho
ran his wires into the kitchen und con
nected thorn with u push button. The
family was charmed with the arrange
ment unit quite envied him the pious-
uro of feeding the family pot. After
a few days peculiar noises began to is
sue from the barn , anil , upon investiga
tion , poor Pegasus was found to bo
swimming in two tons of Al oats. Ho was
dug out , and the valve which worked
BO well was consigned to oblivion.
Kloolrio Eols.
These creatures are well known as
among the curiosities of the streams of
tropical South America says the Youth's
Companion. A moro particular ac
count of them , by an English naturalist ,
who had much experience of their
nature and habits , will bo of intercut.
They am of nil sizes , from a foot to
six feet in length , and are frequently
caught on lines which Are set for other
fishes. They are sometimes oaten , but
not qfton , though their flesh is said to
bo good.
Horses , ns well ns men. on coming in
contact with them in the watur are not
unfroquontly thrown down by the shock
They uro called by the inhabitants
"tromo-troino. " In rainy weather
those who fish In those rivers often re
ceive a shock , which is communicated
along the moisture upon the rod and
line , when onoof them happens to seize
the hook.
I saw ono in a state of captivity. It
was about six foot long , and was so tame
that it would allow any ono to nut his
nnnd upon it. and would oven slide for
its whole longtl ) through the fingers.
If it was irritated in the smallest de
gree , however , by no matter how slight
n pinch , it instantly communicated a
smart shock.
Kxptoulon at nil Oat Troo.
On the incorporation line southeast
0) tiO city , near Prospect street , yes-
terday stood an oak tree which was a
giant among its fallows , says the In
dianapolis NOWB. It was four foot in
diameter and towered far above all
other trees near it. This morning the
broken nhd splintered branches and
trunk of the great tree were scattered
in fragments over four acred of ground.
Where it stood , defying the wind and
rain nt nightfall yesterday , is now only
a riven and ragged stump three or four
feet high.
The most terrific crash of thunder
which has disturbed the South Side
citizens for years accompanied the bolt
which wrought the destruction tit 11:30 :
last night. Pcoplo half n mile away
awoke in terror and fled to their collars
in unreasoning foar. Windows were
shattered in the residences of William
Harmon ing , William Earlo and
other persons living within a
square of the point where
the lightning struck. The trco
had n defective heart and the bolt
seems to have run down the center and
exploded llko dynamite , as the frag
ments are scattered In every direction.
A hugo chunk of the trunk , weighing
not less than n ton , was thrown n dis
tance of moro than half a square , and
splinters were driven into the walls of
barns and houses in the vicinity as
though they had boon stool.
A heavy rain storm swept over the
country south of the city last nlght.and
in loss than four hours the crooks wore
full to the banks. No extensive damage
was done.
This incident of the queer work of
lightning recalled another to the mem
ory of Secretary Heron , of the state
board of agriculture. In the tower of
the main exposition bulldlngnt the fair
grounds , ho said , there was n forty-
barrel tank. An engine pumped water
up into it , and pipes from it carried
liquid refreshment to all parts of the
ground. Ono night lightning struck
the tower and knocked it all to pieces.
The tank was left standing uninjured.
except that the bolt had broken a small
hole in the bottom. The thirty barrels
or moro of water in the tank at the
time Hooded the building from the roof
to the ground. To break that hole the
lightning must hnvo cone down
through several feet of water.
A Gront Via ? Tor Electricity.
In telephony the pist year has boon
remarkable for some very startling in
ventions , or rather improvements. The
event of the year , of course , was the in
vention of the Hammer apparatus. By
this a speech recorded on a phonograph
in Now York was immediately repeated
by a carbon transmitter , transferred
over a line to Philadolphiaand received
in a second phonograph , and repro
duced before an audience. The loud-
speaking telephone of Soldon , not yet
fully completed , increases the volume
of sound by causing a receiving electro
magnet to net upon the cylinder , the
motion resulting causing the rarefac
tion and condensation of the air in the
cylinder , which , acting an a dia-phram ,
gave increased sound. The "hedgehog"
typo of transformer , the Edison marine
dynamo , the Puget transformer and the
alternating transformer of Thomson are
among the prominent inventions made
during the past year.
Elrctrlo til his Tor Chlnn.
The unexpected arrival of two distin
guished Chinamen among their coun
trymen in Now York has created a sen
sation in Chinatown. They are Wong
and Fong , both middle-aged men , and
they wore sent here , it is said , by a
wealthy syndicate of Canton merchants
to buv electric light plants for the empire -
piro of China. Wong and Fong told a
reporter recently that the syndicate lias
secured n ninuty years' contract with
the imperial government to furnish all
the public buildings and offices with
electric light. It also owns the exclu
sive right to supply the rest of the em
pire with the light , says the Electrical
World. Wong and Fong are stock
holders in this now enterprise and came
hero to purchase the necessary machines
to supply only the largest cities of
China , Hong Kong. " Fee Chow , Shang
hai , Nanking , "Hankow , Ning Po ,
Tientsin and Pokin. They brought a
largo , bill of credit with them to the
rich firm of Wing Wall Chong & Co. ,
importers. _
Tlircslilnii by Klcctrlolty.
MM. Dumont , two farmers at Chas-
sart , Belgium , have for some time botin
performing some interesting experi
ments ns to the transmission of power
by electricity in a direct manner , that
is to say , without the intermediary of
accumulators. Bv means of the electric
current a threshing machine was
worked in the midst of- wheat without
the aid of an engine. There wns > neith
er lira nor steam. The sheaves wont
into the thresher to como out ut ono
end in the form of straw , at the other
in the shape of corn , whore it was re
ceived in sacks and was ready for the
market. The source of electricity was
a dynamo placed about 1.000 yards
away. _
Electricity In an Indian I'nlncr- .
Perhaps no moro significant evidence
of the onward march of civilization
could be afforded than the lighting by
electricity of the palace of the guikwar
of Buroua in India , that , too , on a scale
of unstinting splendor. The intorloris
Ut with 215 sixteon-candlo power incan
descent lights. The largo hall is illuminated -
natod with two largo twolvo-light oloc-
trolloJS , made in bronze and lacquered
work , while the light is softened and
diffused by dTbptrio shades. Single
lights are also pendent from the ends of
the columns of the gallery. In the
numerous rooms are three and four light
oloctroliorfl made in a variety of designs
to suit tlio surroundings.
Women ToU'Kpnpar * In UusHln.
Really the Russian powers that bo are
too hard on the young women employed
in their telegraph offices. It appears
that on entering the service they are
only admitted on the condition that
they will marry only such men ns are
employed In the same work as them
selves , and that if the husband should
happen to bo 111 she will take his place ,
besides retaining her own. A few days
ago the young ladles made up their
minds to 'bear such tyranny no longer
and sent in a humble petition to the
heads of the service demanding n ra-
lease from the law which condemns
them to odllbaay If they do not choose
to marry ono of tholr male colleagues.
An answer to the petition has not yat
boon granted , and if the matter is taken
in hand with the elaborate sluggish
ness which distinguishes Russian
officialdom , a good deal of water will
flow down the Nova before the matter
is settled.
Kloutrlu
An electrical paper recently pub
lished a carefully compiled list of the
electric railways in operation in the
United Slates. The table shows a grand
total of 170 roads , 1,270 miles of track
and ll,8Sl cars , some 111 ! being nctuallv
at work. Considering that ut the and
of 188. > there was only ono electric rail
way In operation , the growth of oloc-
tno traction has boon something nho-
nomonal , oven for such n go-ahead
country as America. An English oioc-
trical paper , commenting on this un
precedented boom , says :
"Not content with this brilliant rec
ord , our enterprising couulns are turn
ing their attentions to this country. If
they succeed in infusing the English
tramway companies with some of their
, 1 0
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SILK
IN
WE NEW IN
ARE SHOWING SOMETHING LATEST NOVELTIES IN
GRENADINE SHOES 48-inch Black Silk , Prussian , La Tosca , Figured and
48 INCHES WIDE , BEAUTIFUL STYLES , , Dotted Nets values . .
Draping , exceptional , 850 , 51.25 , $1.35 ,
CHINA SILK , CHINA SILK. The best and latest stylos. Monday and Tuesday we will $1.50 , $1.75 and $2.25 a yard.
SPECIAL SPECIAL sell [ Reynolds Bros' make ] fine Bargain sale all week of Hand Made Torchon , Mc-
Dongola Kid hand welt Shoes , cllci and Smyrna Laces at S c , IOG , i2.Jc , 150 , aoc , 250 yd.
Our $1.25 Colored Faille Francaiso Monday at 81.12 } .
broken lot , for $2.50 , regular 50 Real Spanish Lace Scarfs at $2,25 , $3 , $3.50 , $4.50 ,
Novelties in Dress Goods.
price $5. $5.50 , about half value.
Come and examine the last shipment of our Paris Novelties , in ele Ladies' ' fine French Dongola
gant Dross Goods. They eclipse anything yet shown this season. Hand-turned Button Shoes for Special Sale of Embroideries
Exquisite Broche Effects
$3 ; very low at $4.
Representation of Rich Guipure Lace Ladies' fine Pebble Goat 45-inch Fine Swiss Skirtings , Grecian Designs in Hand
The Latest in Leather Work Effects Button Shoes for $2. These Drawn open Lace vVork , hemstitched inlaid back work ,
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English Cheviot Cloths Ladies' fine Dongola Kid fects , very latest novelties , only $1.25 , § 1.50 , $1.75 , $2
Scotch Tweed Suitings. Button Shoes for $1.35 , all and $2.25 a yard.
CHECKS , 'STRIPES , PLAIDS. BOURETTE EFFECTS , in Light solid , low at $2. . 45-inch Fine Hemstitched Lawn 4oc yard ; worth 6oc.
Weight for Spring Wear. Each Dross Pattern being without Duplicate.
of Hemstitched and Tucked Lawns
Great assortment Spring 48-inch only 900 ,
Plaids Plaids Plaids Slippers and Oxford Ties of $1.15 , $1.25 and $1.40 a yard.
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CHALftJ D'LAINE , Superb Colorings and Effects 45c and 55c. ,
BRILLIANTINES , All Colors , SOc , GOc and upwards. Remnants of Embroideries
HENRIETTAS. Wo have just received a largo Great sale of Men's White
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Over Thirty Shades Unlaundried Shirts at 390 , 500 , Made on bias cloth , unequalled for hard wear , will not
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Extra Width
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OMBRE CASH.MERE , This New Production for Summer Dresses , a strip. a strip. a strip. a strip.
We have received a
has found great favor. The Shadings and Effects aiVEquisito. just very
SATEENS , Now Colorings and Effects , Choice Stylos. ' > ' . large assortment of Boys' Flan Ladies' Muslin Underwear
SCOTCH GINGHAMS , Largo Selection of ' ' ' \ nel and Percale Shirt Waists.
OURWH1TE GOODS DEPARTMENT Fashionable Stripes , Plaids amKChecks. ' i Sale prices 25C , 5oc , 700 and Will be continued all this week , don't fail to look
IS NOW FILLED WITH SEASONABLE'GOODS. throughourstock before purchaseing , it will repay you.
Corner Dodge and 15th Streets.
own innovating energy there will not ,
wo venture to say , bo a close scrutiny as
to who brought about the desired re
sult. ' '
Stainnliiir Licttors by Kloctrlolty.
A now letter-stamping machine has
been put on trial in the Philadelphia
postotllco. It is run by electricity , will
cancel 125,000 letters an hour , and has a
register that keeps count of each letter
stamped. This machine may do away
with the service of a few stampers.
Phonographs are to bo put in thts
postolllcos of Mexico to be used by per
sons unable to write , in order to send
messages to friends through the mails.
Sparks.
The fastest recorded time made by an
electric railway is about twenty miles
an hour on a street car system.
Four telegraphic messages con now
bo transmitted over ono wire at one
time by using the quadrunlex system.
It is estimated that 250,000 persons in
the United States are engaged in busi
ness depending solely on electricity.
Over 1,000,000 miles of telegraph wire
are in operation in the United States-
enough to encircle the globe forty
times.
More than 170,000 miles of telephone
wire are in operation in the United
States ; over thoho 1,0:25,000 : message's
are sent daily.
Five hundred volts of an electrical
current is considered dnncrorous to
human life , but death depends largnly
upon physical conditions.
In the Cape do la Hoguo lighthouse In
Franco a windmill is used to drive two
dynamos , the current being stored up
in accumulators.
C. Benedict of Jacksonville , Fin. , has
invented an arm rest to bo attached to
the telephone sots. With this inven
tion the arms enjoy perfect Yost while
ono is receiving or sending messages.
A part of tlio device takes the place of
a daslc so that the messages can bo
written down as they are received.
The electric cars in use in various
cities are said to bo a great help to people
ple alliictcd with chronic rheumatism.
Riveting by electricity has boon suc
cessful .y accomplished. The cold
rivet is placed in the hole , and wnieh
hoatoa to the proper temperature it
can bo closed by any of the ordinary
apparatus now In use. The toatjngof
a half-Inch rivet of two or throe inches
in length takes about half a minute.
Electric lights-have been adopted to
such an extent In the cities and townn
of Guatemala that the importation of
mineral oils has largely fallen off. At
the capital the use of oil has diminished
ono-hulf.
The now Talmago tabernacle In
Brooklyn will bo lighted by electricity ,
and there willbo special illuminating
effects in. connection with tlio organ ,
which will bo surmounted by a crown
of electric jewels , while on the hugo
sounding board will bo either a lamp
or n star in incandescent lumps.
A wonderful electric invention is an
automatic stamp to control the pay
ments and receipts In faotorios , banks
and hotels. A company has boon formed
with a capital of 3,000,000 francs. It is
stated that orders have already boon
received for about 2,030 stamps in
Brussels , Belgium ,
The Danish government is moving
actively in the question of electrical
communication with light vessels , and
has in many cases established connec
tion with isolated lighthouses and lifesaving -
saving stations.
A novel euro effected by the use of a
dynamo at Wostgato-on-Soa , England ,
is reported by an eastern journal. A
Mr. Brown , while trimming a grate to
make a tit , detached a vary small splin
ter of iron , which flow off and struck
him iii the eye. An electrical engineer
who mot him shortly after took him tea
a dynamo that was working nearby.
Brown placed his eye as oloso as possi
ble to the machine , and the magnetic
attraction was sufficiently intense to
withdraw the splinter of'.iron from the
eye , which was instantly' ' relieved and
which gave no further trouble.
A novel electrical contrivance for the
announcing of approaching stations was
experimented with on apasSongor train
on the Lohigh & tiusquebanna division
of the Jersey Central railroad. Over
the door of each passenger coach is at
tached the name of each station on the
line. By the pressing of a button in
the baggage car the name of the station
is changed to the next ono to bo stopped
at , and : i boll is rung to attract the pas
sengers' attention to the change. The
names are sufficiently largo to admit of
tnom being easily road at the furthest
part of the car.
The newly invented electric snow-
sweeper consists of a platform car ,
mounted on a four-wheel truck , two
Thomson-Houston motors of liftoon-
horso-powor each being attached to the
axles. Underneath each end of the car
is a largo cylindrical brush made of
rattan , sot at an angle of about 45 de
grees and reaching across the track.
Tlio brushes are revolved very rapidly
by power from a tiftoon-horse-powor
electric motor which is on the platform
of thacar. The sweepers are propelled
precisely the same as the electric cars ,
the long polo reaching the trolley wire
being ( ixcd to a post on the platform.
The prevalent opinion is not well
founded , it seems , that an electric car
cannot run in the snow , says the Hart
ford Courant. Yesterday morning Mr.
T. B. Stewart , master car builder of the
_ 'Hartford ' & Wothorsliold horeo railway
I company , made some experiments with
I some now steel scrapers on the electric
cars in Wothorsfiold. The scrapers ar
rived some time ago , but yesterday's
snow storm gave the llrst opportunity
for a trial. They wore attached to the
axle boxes of the cars and clea.rod the
six inches of snow and ice away so
effectually that the car moved smoothly
and without diminution of speed.
The applications of electricity are becoming
coming bewildering in their number
and variety. A recent' affair of some
local importance in u western town de
veloped the fact that a young woman
had purchased a four-light chandalior
specially designed to contain a detec
tive camera , arranged to bo operated by
the closing of -electric circuit , con
cealed pushes of circuit closers being
l/lacod at convenient points , while a
miniature reflector directed . a portion
of the rays of light from one 'gas jot directly -
roctly on the plate. 'Eho apparatus
worked to perfection onHho fourth even
ing that the victim , a wimlthy old gan-
tloman , called on the y8\nlg \ woman.
11' '
Ilnndllni ; MamiHOripts witli Olovo * .
I was railroading a few days with the
editor of ono of the popular magazines.
After some convorsation''wo both turned
to our reading , ho occqpylng himself
with a bundle of manusqrjipts which ho
carried in his valise , saygn Now York
letter to the Chicago Journal. Before
settling himself to reading ho donned n
pair of gloves , which IjjU'tp thoromark
thatthis was certainly handling authors
avlth gloves. "Yes , " hoi replied , "you
may construe It that way , but there Is amore
moro practical reason for my wearing
gloves whenever I handle a quantity of
manuscript at ono time. The fact is , I
do it as a self-protection to health. Wo
naturally receive manuscripts from nil
kinds of people and from all sorts of
homos and places. No ono knows what
sickness may bo in some of the homos
from which these manuscripts come.
And so , some time ago , I made it a prac
tice to don a pair of gloves whenever I
sat down for manuscript-reading ,
There's nothing like being careful in
all things , and in this case I think care
is exorcised by not having a miscella
neous lot of manuscripts come in con
tact with my hands. "
Dr.Birnoy.practlcolimited to catarrhal -
al diseases of nose and throat. Boo bldg.
DREADFUL WOMAN PANTHER
Sequel of a enlthy , Maiden's Love
for a Mountebank.
ANIMAL HIDE ON HUMAN FORM.
Surgeons Find the Cnse' Be
yond Kcaoh or Their
Skill A Crime With
out n I'urallol.
Now York Mercury : The sequel to a
romantic elopement of some years ago
has just leaked out through a case now
being tried in ono of the Parisian
courts. About six years ago , one fine-
summer evening , ono of those nonde
script characters who hang around the
outskirts of the profession a'monte-
bank juggler , or whatever ono might
call him--.entered a charming village
in the Department of Charonto. After
refreshing his inner man with a sound
meal , washed down with a bottle of
wine , the stranger wont out in front of
the hostelry to perform some of his
tricks for the amusement of the vil
lagers. The moniubnnk was a tall ,
muscular follow , iiud when rigged out
in his spangles looked a very gay blade
indeed , with his long curled mustache
and self-satisfied smile.
TJIi : THICKS UK SOON ItKOAX
to perform with iron bars , rings and
the usual routine entertainment soon
brought the people out of tholr houses
and a crowd gathered around him.
Presently a young girl , evidently not
moro than ilfteon or sixteen , but very
pretty and well dressed , approached
tlio grouu. Many of the people paid
their respects to the young lady by
doffing tholr Jmts and HO forth , making
room for her so that she could have a
good view of the procooaings. The
young lady was the daughter of a rich
wine-grower who owned all the princi
pal wine fields thereabouts und who re
sided in the line old chateau about a
quarter of a mile awav. For some time
the girl observed the tricks of the
mountebank carelessly. Few of them
wore now to her , but still she remained ,
interested by something. It was the
powerful glances which the mounte
bank was stopping every now and again
to concentrate on her In the pauses of
his performance.
SHORTLY AFTmnVAUl ) TUB GIUL
turned and walked away up the hill
toward her homo. The eyes of the
mountebank followed her. The girl
walked along in u dazed way , us if aho
was droaming. Once or twice she
turned back to look nt the herculean
figure of the mountebank outlined
against the village inn. She entered
the chateau quietly , and instead of
going to the salon , whore her family
and some friends were gathered , she
wont directly to her own pretty bed-
chumbor , where she sat down to revel
in some now and not unploasuntsensi-
tions. She was in love with the mounte
bank. The full chest ana splendid
limbs of the mountebank had fascinated
her. She could not see beyond his
splendid physlquo the low , cunning
trickery of the deceitful mouth , the
roving predatory glances of the eye ,
the general worthlessness of the In
dividual. It was a silly young girl's
first taste of the grnndo passion. The
mountebank continued , somewhat to
the surprise of the villages , to
tarry day after day at the vil
lage. Ho hud exhausted the purses
of his patrons the 11 rat day , but that
DID NOT 8K15JI T0 CONCKftH Hill.
Finally the secret leaked out. A vine
dresser who had boon at work later
than usual , coining along under the
trees which clustered round in the
neighborhood of the chateau to give it
greater seclusion , discovered a couple
of lovers promenading in the shadows.
They wore the mountebank and the
wine-grower's daughter. How the two
had become acquainted was a mystery ,
but they wore evidently very well ac
quainted with each other from their be
havior. It is probable that the mounte
bank had detected the girl's admiration
in her glances , and had determined to
make the most of it. The news soon
spread through the village , and before
it was many hours old had traveled up
to tho'chatoau. There was a stormy
scone between father and dnughturand
the following morning the mountebank
was hustled out of the village with scant
ceremony. The sardonic grin was still
on "his face ns ho wont , however , and ho
hummed cheerfully to himself as ho
shouldered his load in obedience to the
village authorities. Three or four days
later the wine-growers daughter was
missing , together with several thousand
francs from her father's chiffonier and
n quantity of jewels , which belonged in
part to herself and other members of
the family. It was evidently a flight
out of Egypt , for everything available
was taken.
TIIH ATTKMI'T TO TUACKTIIB FUOITIVKS ,
made by the girl's family was a failure ;
but a fo\v weeks afterward a now circus
was added to the traveling attractions
of the continent , and the proprietors
wore the Bolphogor and his bride from
the department of the Charonto. They
opened first at Belgium und from there
wont all over the continenttho girl act
ing as cashier and clerk , because her
husband was too illiterate , to perform
those functions. After a fairly success
ful touring season the circus put up in
one'of tlio principal towns in southern
Germany for the winter , and there the
mountebank , evidently untsblo to stand
the success which had raised him to the
dignity ol a circus proprietor and given
him a wine-grower's daughter for his
wife , took to driuk and wont headlong
to ruin , In a short time the circus was
sold , and the infatuated girl was loft to
face beggary with the dografcu mate
she had chosen. The pair became
tramps , and from this point their his
tory does not appear to bo traconblo.
They disappeared from public notice.
LAST WINTKH A TKU3IUNDOUS SIIXSA-
T1ON
was caused in Paris by a creature which
was at first exhibited in a small tent nt
Montomartro , but which afterward ap
peared at some of the loading shows in
Paris. The monstrosity was known ns
the femme pan there , and was supposed
to bo the joint offspring of a panther
and a human being. Itwas _ , In fact , a
panther in ovorj particular except the
faeo , which was undoubtedly a woman's ,
wearing a very tortured expression ,
but , nevertheless , unmistakably human.
The proprietor of this unique show
made money rapidly. The mysterious ,
animal was examined by a num
ber of scientific men , who nnponrod to
be puzzled over it and unable to explain
its existence on any other ground than
those sot forth by Its proprietor. After
the uliow had nutted its proprietor a
handebmo sum for some months und
while ho was absent from the'front of
the cage for n short time a circum
stance which seldom occurred a visitor
who was standing m the vicinity of the
cngo was astonished to hear a low ,
plaintive sound like that of a woman's
voice coming from the cago. The man
who was n rustic and had road the
TALK AI10UT IIALA'AM'S ASS
Thought that there was something un
canny about the proceeding and made
his way from the vicinity of the cage as
rapidly as possible. It appears that
several people heard a similar noise
coming from the cage , but , notwith
standing It , walked away , probably un
der the Impression that the "fommo
panthoro" was n modern incarnation of
the dovll. But two weeks ngou * medi
cal a tudont from ono of the hospitals ,
who was eyeing the animal very close
ly , was surprised by hearing a vor. dis
tinctly enunciated appeal for help from
the occupant of the cage.
Tlio student communion toil the facts
to tlio police and a detective was sent to
obtain a corroborat'on ' of his story. A
few days later all Paris know tiiat it
had boon tricked by a clover swindler
and atulo of the most inhuman barbar
ity was unfolded before ono of the po
lice tribunals. The "fommo panthoro"
was a woman , though a very much mu
tilated ono and with a very pathetic
story to toll , exhibiting the utmost bar
barity on the part of a fiendish husband.
Iii THIS COUItSU OK TUB 1NQUIUY
into her case instituted by the court it
was discovered that the woman was the
runaway daughter of the wine-grower
in the Department of tlio Ohnrontoo ,
and her husband no other than the
mountebank whoso wiles had lad the
foolish young creature away from her
sumptuous homo. Afto11 years of misery
and tramping about from city to city
the mountebank , who scorned de
termined to nmko the most out
of his wife , conceived a scheme for
the rehabilitation of the family for
tunes. By some moans ho managed to
possess himself of a largo panther's
skin , which was given to him , ho
claims , by the keeper of a monngorio
while yet warm after it had .boon taken
from tlio dead animal.
IK OHD15U TO MAKK HIS BCIIBMK
a thorough success the mountebank
believed that it would bo necessary to
ingraft the skin on to his wife , whom
ho had determined to transfer into a
woman , panther. For this purpose ho
drugged her with some cheap brandy ,
and taking her to a lonely spot in the
woods proceeded to May her while she
was In the state of stupor and to lit the
panther's skin onto her body immedi
ately afterward. What tortures the
poor woman must have suffered through
being the victim of his brutal sohomo
is not known , but it is certain tlnit pur IB
of the skin of the panther at loiist toolc
roots the woman's and
on body pre
served all the nppcurnnco of life. So
successful was the montobank in ar
ranging the skin and fixing up his
monstrosity that when the woman
recovered consciousness she was
almost persuaded that she had been bo-
wituhud and turned into a panther , aa
her husband said she had. For months
the pair remained in seclusion , the
mountebank meantime compelling hit *
victim to got accustomed to outing raw
moat and to adapting horsnlf to tlio gait
of a panther by walking on nil fours.
FINALLY TUB BIOUNTKIIANK FIJLT COX-
V1NOUO
that it would bo impossible to detect
what his curiosity really was , as the
skin suomud to have grown in place of
the cuticle on the woman's bodv.Jand to
huvo fixed itself firmly all over her.
Ho informed his wife that if she
attempted to betray her identity
ho would at once kill her , and then
put her on exhibition In the next town *
they arrived at. In the journey to 1'aria
ulono the showman made u largo sum of
money by exhibiting the "woman panther -
thor , " and slnco his arrival in Paris has
acquired a small fortune. The unfor
tunate victim of his Insuttiito greed IB
now in the hospital , and an attempt In
being made to reduce her once again to
ordinary human shape , but the doctors
do not find their task at all an oiisyono.
The husband has not boon sentenced ,
hut a good deal of stir Is being made by
the Parisian press to bring about his
conviction.
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