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CavendU^ooked up with a
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wqrfmbning Bob's apron,
itlr follpwlSPhlin About the room
fit frisked after the pat
"WhatP' said she, in a dismayed
^*•1 spoke distinctly enough, didn't
jjfi I—have—discharged—L ucy P"
"What (or, James?"
"Insolenoe that1* alL"
"But Lacy never could have been in
•olent" pleaded Mrs. Cavendish,
twitching off the last button from Bob's
apron in her perturbation.
"Oh, couldn't she, though? I just
#ishyou had beenthere, that's all."
"What did she say, James?"
"I told her she was half an hour be
hind with breakfast and asked her
What she meant by it, and she told me
•he was doing the best she could and
Couldn't do better if all' the world de
pended upon it."
••But, James, the poor girl is nearly
frantic with toothache this morning."
"I can't help that she has no busi
ness to answer me impudently. It
wasn't the words so much—it was the
"manner."
"Poor Lucy! And you have dis
charged her!"
"That's you all over," said Mr.
Cavendish, angrily. "I believe you'd
.tike anybody else's part against me.
Yes, of course, I discharged her. I
told her to have her things outside of
tile house in two hours or I'd fling them
Out of the window."
"But, James, what am I to do?" said
lira Cavendish, who had by this time
captured Ethel, the- second child, and
buttoning her boots with nervous
rapidity. "With one of my sick head-
Aches coming on, and Willie and Pen
iwd with tbe measles, and -not a soul
to lift a hand for me!"
"That's a pretty question to ask,"
(aid Mr. Cavendish, standing with his
Viands in his pockets. "One would
think you womep were made of sugar
Or salt nowadays. My mother had ten
children—ten—and did every stroke of
work for 'em herself year in and year
Out and here you make such a rumpus
because you happen to be left without
servant for twenty-four hours—be
cause, of course, I shall expect to stop
•t Wiggins' and send you up a Swede
Or Norwegian this afternoon."
Poor Mrs. Cavendish burst into
tears.
"James," safd she, "Lucy was the
bestgirl I have ever had. You should
|t have sent her out of the house in
way. How would you like it if I
I down to your wholesale boot and
place and discharged your
•writs?"
•'I should say jjou did perfectly
right," returned Cavfe'ndisli, "if they
answered you impertinently. Now
don't snivel! If there is anything I
hate it is a scene. I'll go down-stairs
and boil the coffee myself—any one
can make coffee—apd you hurry down
with the children as soon as you can.
There's plenty of bread and butter and
cold-boiled ham, anyhow. Nobody
ever starved on that"
Mr. Cavendish had "camped out" a
g6od deal during his bachelor days,
and succeeded in preparing a remark
ably good pot of coffee. The bread
and butter and cold ham were not bad
of their kind, but the children cried
•loud for milk. The Cavendishes
kept a cow, and the milk had not yet
been brought in.
"And that is what kept Lucy!" in
Toluntarily erled Mrs. Cavendish.
"Condensed milk is good enough for
anybody," asserted Mr. Cavendish.
But Bob and Ethel declined to drink
it on aoy terms.
"Starve 'em to it" said the father,
drinking his hot coffee In prodigious
gulps. "Healthy children have no
business to be dainty."
And he caught up his hat and ulster
and made a bee-line for the train.
Mrs. Cavendish looked piteously
around at the disordered table, the ash
choked fire, the general desolation of
the room. Her headache was gradual
ly working itself up £o the supreme
moment of desperation. The children
above stairs were crying for breakfast
Bob was sailing his shoe in the cedar
pail of water Ethel was feeding the
kitten from the can of condensed milk.
"Ma," piped up Rob, "there's a
tramp at the kitchen winder!"
But it was no tramp. It was Miles,
the stableman.
"Oh, Miles, I am so glad!" said Mrs.
Cavendish. "You have brought us the
milk?"
'1 haven't that mum." said Miles.
'The cow's lost an' it an't meself is
going to track her through the swamps
an1 bogs. If ths master wants his cow
took care of he's got to pay me a dollar
week more wages."
'•Got to, Miles?"
*Tis'mt" boldly retorted the man.
*•1 aa't to be put upon no longer. Dr.
Millar's man
"Very well," said Mrs. Cavendish
*^you.m*y got"
"Ma'm!" echoed the astonished ser
vant
"You are discharged," said Mrs.
Cavendish, firmly—"at once!"'
Miles slunk away and disappeared.
Mrs. Cavendish went up to her room,
aad after ministering as well as she
could to the wants of (he poor little
victim of measles she threw herself on
the bed with a wet towel bound around
htir head and despair in her heart.
'^There's one comfort" said Mrs.
Cavendish, gfoomiiy smiling, "if he
discharged Lucy, I have sent away
WlGmf
Wk
Cavendish had an unusually
Ap he was hurt
Ttlfa/jletta 4*. the' aftcrA
station no buggj was in
'F%onder wfkat that lazy villain
Miles is about?** said Mr. Cavendish, a
dark frown gathering upon his brow.
"He may think he's got a snug place
of it but I'll teach him I'm not to be
trifled with."
When he reached Althea lodge
everything was disorganized. Ethel
was pulling the feathers out of the
peacock's tail Bob was galloping
around the barn-yard on the back of
Pounce, the pony.
such fun, pa!" he
hasn't been fed,
find the key of the
cow is lost Such
"We're having
cried. "Pounce
'cause I couldn't
oat bin, and the
fun!"
"Where is Miles?"
father.
"Ma's discharged him."
"What for?"
"'Cause he talked saucy to her."
roared the
Mr. Cavendish stood a moment
staring at the pony and the peacock,
the boy and the girl.
"Ethel," said he, "let that bird go.
Robert get off the pony at once and
come into the house."
Ethel obeyed reluctantly, Robert
with alacrity.
'•We've got company," chirped the
latter youth—"company, pa! I'most
forget to tell you. And ma's in bed
with headache, and there's no one to
get them any supper. Hooray!"
Mr. Cavendish hurried in the house.
The parlor was undusted, yesterday's
flower's were wilted in the vases, and
the fire had died into amass of feath
ery cinders. Through the open door
was visible the dining-room, with the
remains of the breakfast still visible—
as dispiriting a scene as could well be
beheld.
And there, in the midst of all this
forlornity, sat Mrs. Burgoyne, his sis
ter from the west, to whom he had fre
quently boasted of the perfection of
the wife's housekeeping arrangements,
and a Mrs. Ridgway, who once, years
ago, had been a sort of old, sweet beau
of his. Of all people, he was most
anxious that his home should appear
pleasant in the eyes of those two
women! And now
He made the best of it however*
He extended to them an ostentatiously'
hospitable welcome, hurriedly built up
a blazing cannel coal fire in the grate,
and hastened up-stairs to where poor
Mrs. Cavendish was deluging her fore
head in cologne and endeavoring to
twist up the wet braids of her heavy
hair into company order.
"Julia," said he, "what does this
mean? Miles gone
•'I discharged him," said she. reso
lutely. "You said I was perfectly
justifiable in doing so if he spoke im
pertinently to me. And he did so."
"But what am I to do?"
"Precisely the question I asked you
this morning."
Mr. Cavendish had nothing further
to say for himself. He simply muttered
some kind of an anathema between his
closed lips.
"Do you know," he said, "that there
is company down-stairs?"
"Yes but until this moment I have
been unable to leave my bed."
"My dear," he said, compassionately,
putting his arm around her shoulder,
"does your head ache so hard?"
"It is better now, James."
"I do believe," slowly observed Mr.
Cavendish, "that I have been a fool."
"Oh, James!"
"I wish I hadn't flown into such a
passion with poor'#Lucy. And all
about nothing, too, when one comes to
think of it"
Mrs. Cavendish laughed hysterically.
*"We all mafce mistakes, James,"
said she. "Wait a minute, dear. I'll
go down-stairs with you now, if you'll
give mo your arm. I couldn't ask your
sister and her friend up here with the
children sick with measles, could I?"
"Who is with them now—the chil
dren, I mean?"
"A handy young girl from the village
—Lucy's sister."
"Couldn't—couldn't she help us with
the dinner?" ventured Mr. Cavendish.
"She is too young. Besides, she ha9
had no experience. But, .James
"Yes, Julia."
"Open confession is good for the
90ul," said Mrs. Cavendish. "Lucy
came back to me about two hours ago.
She said you had sent her away, but
that she could not bear to leave me at
such a time. She is getting dinner
down-stairs now."
"She's a trump," cried Mr. Caven
dish.4
Scarcely had he introduced his wife
to the ladies in the parlor than the
folding doors of the back room slid
open, revealing a bright fire and a
well-spread table, decorated with
spring flowers—daffodils, tulips, and a
few purple spikes of lilac. A pair of
dueks had been roasted in the best
and most tempting style. There were
sweetbreads and chicken salad by way
of entrees a delicious steam pudding
sent forth its perfume from the kitch
en, and Lucy was just bringing in the
tomato soup.
Mr. Cavendish nodded good-humor
edly toward her. She courtesied res
pectfully.
"You needn't worry about the horse
and cow, sir," she said in a low voice.
"Peter Frink from the Low farm is
coming to attend them."
While the family were discussing the
steam pudding and prune pie, Lucy
slipped into the parlor, and, to use her
own terms, "straightened up" the dis
order there, and the last impression
taken away by the visitors was one of
neatness and comfort
Mr. Cavendish drew a long breath
as he watched the retreating footsteps
of his company toward the road that
led to the train.
"Julia," said he, turning to his
wife. "I've come to the conclusion
times have changed since my mother
did the work for ten children Vithoiit
any servant"
"I quite agree with you," saiAMra
Cavendish.
'And I was entirely wrong whi
tiithlr aisakMr('f$nt Luc/ away and'you were
'^tullainee
it when Njrou discharged lflll
aoeforward, my dear, w«'ll. trj
little common Mase wt
Sfrr*haU w.
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WORTH TRYING. Air
Nature Punishes a Cure for That Dread
Soonrga, Diphtheria,
It I» Simply ths Pars Jaiot of ths Pineapple
end Has Been Known for Tears by the
Hegroes of the South.
It is said that nature has her own
remedy for evqry ill| to which flesh is
heir. Some of her remedies have n6t
yet been discovered and some that
have been found out have not become
generally known. Medical science has
long sought for a sovereign remedy
for the scourge of childhood-diptheria,
yet the colored people of Louisiana, and
perhaps of other localities in the
south, have for years known and used
a cure which is remarkable for its
simplicity. It is nothing more nor less
than the pure juice of the pineapple.
Knowledge of the pineapple cure
was first brought to Chicago, says the
Tribune, by a native of Louisiana.
Though he has recommended the
cure to hundreds of his friends he does
not desire publicity in this connection
for roasons of his own. When question
ed in regard to the matter yesterday
the gentleman said:
"The remedy is not mine—it has
boon used by negroes in the swamps
down South for years. One of my
children was down with diphtheria
and was in a critical condition. An
old colored man who heard of the case
asked if we had tried pineapple juice.
We tried it anu the child got well. I
have known it tried in hundreds of
cases. I have told my friends about
it whenever I heard of a case, and
never knew it to fail. You get a ripe
pineapple, squeeze out the juice, and
let the patient swallow it The juice
is of so corrosive a nature that it will
cut out the diphtheritic mucus, and if
you take the fruit before it is ripe and
give the juice to a person whose
throat is well it will make the mucous
membrane of his throat sore. Among
those who have tried the care on my
recommendation I may mention Fran
cis J. Kennett the Board of Trade
man, whose children were all' down
with diphtheria. He'll tell you what
i.it did for them."
Mr. Kennett when seen at his office
in the fioard of Trade building, was
quite willing to tell of his experience
with the curt.
"A year ago last July," said he, "my
youngest boy, now 6 years old, had an
extremely bad type of the disease. He
had been doirn a week, and the case
was so desperate that the doctors, after
a consultation, told me that the case
was hopeless. The diphtheria mem
brane waa hlack and protruded from
tbe nose, his jaw was paralyzed and
set, his tongue was black, and every'
breath could be heard down-stairs. So
malignant was the case that when the
membrane came away bleeding follow
ed and there were all the worst symp
toms in such cases. His tongue was
drawn up, and he could not swallow.
Then Mr. mentioning the name
of the Dearborn street business man,
"told me about the pineapple juice.
As the boy was so dangerously sick I
was afraid to try it at first You know
there is danger of heart failure in
bad cases if the patient is gagged. I
asked 1«hc doctors about it and they
had never healH of the remedy. They
said, however, that it was so harmless
that it could't hurt him, and we gave
it a trial. I procured some ripe pine
apples, peeled off the outer.skin, and
squeezed out the juice wiftva lemon
squeezer. As the little fellow could
not swallow anything we had to rub the
juice on his tongue with our fingers at
first. Then we got a tube, filled As
with the juice, and by fixing a rubber
nipple on one end injected it into his
mouth. After a little some of it got
down his throat, and within four or
five hours at the most after the first
dose had been administered there were
evidences of its beneficial effects. He
continued to improve from that time,
but it was six weeks before we were
able to move hira. Ilis nock and spine
were paralyzed and he was almost
blind for six mouths from the effect of
blood poisoning ensuing from his sick
ness, but now he is as bright and
hearty a boy as you will find anywhere.
His recovery is complete.
'"My four other children had been
sent to the Hotel Richelieu as soon as
the boy was taken down. In two weeks
two of them—a boy of 13 and a girl of
11 years caught it but before it reach
ed an advanced stage we gave them
pineapple juice and they were out
in ton days. When they were seized
with the disease'I sent the other two
children away to Manitou, Colo.,
where within a fortuight one of them
had an attack of the common com
plaint We administered the usual
remedy and she was brought
tout
all
right in akfew days. By a timely ap*
plieatloh^of the juice a threatened at
tack was warded off and the other'
child sent to Manitou
this they jUst laugh at you. ,1
say that pineaple juim Issmw
remedy—a specific fittrcllphthe
I have the greatest faith ii/lt Vnd
should certainly try if in any suph
case. I would not however, adviio
anybody to dispense wfth the service*
of a physician in any casq of diph
theria.
4,1
"There has been a great change in
the theory regarding diphtheria within
a few years. Now it is recognized as
a growth of fungus.... If a diphtheritic
patient happens to burn his toe, the
fungus will appear on the burned spot
just the same as it is in the throat
Though heart failure is to be feared In
cases where the, throat and mouth are
choked up with fungus it sometimes
happens even after the diphtheretic
membrane disappears. I have known
one or two such cases. Of course
pineapple juice will not prevent heart
failure.
"A great many people have heard
about how my family suffered from
diphtheria and havo even got letters
from Denver asking for information.
I am always glad to give it, and think
the general public ought to know
what the remedy is within its reach."
Mr. C. L. Raymond, also aBoard of
Trade man said:
"My daughter who is 11 years old,
had a severe attact: last spring. I
heard of the pine apple-juice cure and
tried it She began to improve within
five hours after we gave her the first
dose, and recovered in about ten days.
She was weak, though, and has not
yet fully regained her strength so that
she is still out of school. I ascribe her
cure to pineapple juice, but the doctor
.didn't liKe to admit that all the credit
was due to it. Ho afterwards wrote to
a friend—a physician in the south—
asking whether it was a common
remedy there, lie was informed that
Creole physiciansh in te swamps down
there generally employed it regarding
it as a specific."
A Serloni Love 8pelL
A young lady sings in our choir
Whose hair is the color of phoir,
But her beauty's unique,
She has such a fair chique
That I always enjoy sitting nhoir.
Whenever she looks down the aisle
She gives me a beautiful smaisle,
Aud of all her beauxs
I feel that she sheauxs
Her preference for me all the whaisle.
Last Sunday she wore anew sacque,
Fur-trimmed atthe front and tne bacque,
And a lovely bouquet
Worn in such a cute wuet
As onl few girls have the knacque.
Some day I'll complete my design
And ask the fair maid to be mign.
It she's not a coquette
Which I'd greatly regrnette,
I shall wed her for whom I now pign.
FACTS WORTH KNOWING.
There are 2,750 languages.
Watches were first made in 1476.
A barrel of rice weighs 600 pounds.
The average human life is 81 years.
A barrel of flour weighs 196 pounds.
A barrel of pork weighs 200 pounds.
The first steel pen was made in
1880.
A hurricane moves 80 miles per
hour.
The value of a ton of silver is 137
704.84.
The first lucifer match was made in
1829.
The first iron steamship was built in
1840.
Modern needles first came into use in
1545.
Coaches were first built in England
in 1569.
The first horse railroad was built in
1826-'27.
Telegraph wires have to be renewed
One million dollars of gold coin
weighs 3,685 pounds avoirdupois.
Ofife million dollars of silver coin
weighs &&820.9 pounds avpirdupois.
Until 17^t^cotton spinniifg was per
formed by the'hjind spinning' wheel.
Albert Durer gave the Iworld a
prophecy of future Wood erfgravidg in
Glass windows were first, introduced
into England in the eighth century.
The first complete sewing machine
was patented by Elias Howe in 1846.
Measure 290 feet on each side, and-,
you will have a square acre within an
inch. —Worthington's Annual.
The Inner Man.
Flannel should always play an im
portant part in every adult man's cloth
ing as a protection for the stomach.
The eminent desirability of always hav
ing a thickness of flannel around the
bowels should be impressed upon every
man. A mere band will do—a cholera
band it is often called.
On the subject of chest protecters,
one physician who was interviewed
said that he did not like them, but that
since some need a great deal of extra
cohering for their chests he was in the
By a timely ap*" habit of recommending the wearing of
a 8impie pieoe of
"The doctors wtto had ngver heard1* ^changed and washed.
of this oure, now all'uW it in their
practice I, understand, and have
known of a deoth-whfere. it was ty^
in time. The patient ought ib, gtirglb
the juice lyjd jhen swallo^it and the
dose ought to be-rspeated frequently so
as to saturate the system th it To
keep the stuff fresh and revent fer
mentation I used to keep if on ice con
stantly. Of conrse it is ah ays easy to
obtain fresh pineapples h^re. In the
south I have heard that th^y keep it
bottled, when the pineapple is out of
season, and It answers the purpose just
as well, provided it is not sweetened.
One thing is certain, you can always
get a pineapple at my housi by asking
for it for we are never out of them
now.
"When, the children were sick the
servants who waited on tjiem showed
symptoms of diphtheria. We dosed
them with the juice anc
around all right The! j,-,.-,,,
tUsoure Peo
ple like to be hnnihug|a»d by some
«md, h*T«
7
r:m
fjanneL This
at
least, the one advantage over a chest
protector that it can be frequently
,i:'
&* APatieatMan.
"Say, here, sheriff, I can't serve on
this jury. I've got a felon on my
thumb."
"What of that?" answered the sheriff,
I've got half a dozen under mine, and,
yon don't hear me kick."—Brooklyn
Eagle.
Enough to Puzzle Anybody.
We heard a darkey say Saturday
says a Wisconsin paper, that he owned
a pig and one day gave it a bucket of
mush. Said the darkey: "He eats de
'whole bucketful of mush, and den I
put de darn little cuss in de bucket
and ho didn't fill it up half fulL" The
question for philosophers to settle is,
what became of the mush?
Sasy ant lafe.'
—A
'New York lawyer estimates that
they came one.irttness out cf every fifteen put on
iblc with the. #and that
tbe number of pCtjuers averagies fifty
P.day ^e^Dah^^Btatea: -'it- is
iriiia. for
NATURALHIj|TORY.
The Spider and the Ply Socially.
and Intellectually.
Th£ sflder is an animal of the fami
ly araueidse, while the fly is only an
insect Musca dobestica is the class
ical name ty which etomologists and
other big-headed bipeds know him,
but the single word,, fly is suggestive
enough to people with an ordinary
tingle-decked brain. The fly is a na
tive of every civilized and uncivilized
country on the globe. Of all animat
ed beings the common house fly seems
to have the smallest share of every
day common sense.. His one object
in life seems to be to feed, and of that
pleasant occupation he seldom grows
weary. He is not in the least bit par
ticular a* to how the table is set or
what kind of dish you happen to give
him, so that he has plenty.
The ordinary fly can't distinguish be
tween a fly-trap and a bee-hive, and
doesn't know the difference between
arsenic and wheat flour. He will eat
any thing, dead or alive, from baked
dog to raw crow, but seems to be
especially fond of sweets, and can eat
between meals such things as sugar
plums, ice-cream, molasses candy and
corn salvo without a single cramp
or symptom of dyspepsia. A fly
wants plenty of light, and will even
desert his dinner to seek it if the room
be darkened. The fly belongs to a very
numerous family, and the killing of a
few thousands seems to mako no ap
preciable difference' in their numbers.
He lives only for to-day, and never
stores any thing away for future use, as
he is quite content to take thinsrs as ho
finds them, and no doubt believes man
to be made especially for his use.
Every fly is a tramp, and each lives as
best he can off the general public, and
iu a general way they make out better
than the average tramp, perhaps on
account of their having wings.
The spider is a very curious little
animal, and, although he has no wings
and can not fly, yet he is classed high
er than the fly because he feeds mostly
on them. The spider when intrenched
in his own home is not afraid of any
thing, living or dead, and should a
beetle five times its size, or even a
snake become entangled in his web, he
doesn't hesitate to go out to it and
make an attempt to further secure it
The spider carries a life-preserver
with him all the time, consisting of an
immense coil of elastic rope, with the
necessary machinery to work it In
case of fire he can, with this contriv
ance, instantly let himself down from
the top floor of his dwelling, and if the
alarm should prove to be a false one
he can use the same rope to conven
iently hoist himself up again. In
constructing his web he is quite inde
pendent of hired help or alien labor,
and not onlyfcdoes the work of construc
tion himself, but also manufactures all
of the raw material he uses. In poli
tics he is a high tariff protectionist, and
uses only home manufactured products.
Every spider is the proud possessor of
a domicile of his own, none of them
ever becoming tramps. Their chief
occupation is the manufacture of nets
and the trapping of game. Many of
them become expert trappers and all
excel as rope-makers. Socially he is
a miser and a recluse, seldom going
abroad, but always at home to receive
company.
The Bpider is methodical in his hab
its and attends strictly tcHbuftiness.
He never puts off until to-mOTrow what
can be done today. The spider, although
not a criminal, commits a grave error
in the eating of the nasty fly. and finds
some way of purifying him before
lunching on him. He has the instincts
of an artist and his web is deftly woven
geometrical in form and pleasing to
the eye knows all "the ropes," and
keeps himself in daily practice. To
see him swinging at the eiyl of a lonar
silken web, looking symmetrical as a
bullet he seems to be dancing a horn
pipe on tne ragged edge of nothing
but although he may seem to be 'amus
ing himself, in reality he- is manufac
turing and carefully testing'thg,t eojl of
elastic web, which he keeps stf myste
riously conce.iled in his little1 rouild
body.
Fighting an Alligator.
"A few days ago," says aloe il hunt
er to the Apalachicola Times, vl was
wadiug through a swamp up near the
•Horseshoe,' iu water as high up as
my waist I spied an alligator some
distance from me. Having already
passed several, I paid iio attention to
this fellow but presently he dived and
came up within a few feet of me, com
ing at me with open mouth. I raised
my gun to my shoulder and fired. The
shot did not take any effect nor did it
stop him. I then raised my gun, and,
using it as a club, struck at him and
missed him, and came near losing my
balance. Not having time to shoot
again. I jumped behind a tree, and just
as I got behind the tree! the 'gator
struck at me and hit the tree so hard
that it was turned completely over,
and the waves from his fall came near
upsetting me.
"As soon as he righted he came at
me again. I again eluded him by
jumping behind the tree. We indulged
in this practioe for some littl^ time,
when finally I caught hold of an over
hanging limb and drew myself up into
the tree just in time to miss the'gator's
jaws. When I got up the tree I loaded
my rifle and shot the 'gator.| He was
one of the largest 'gatorS I ever saw in
this section. He was all of 12 feet in
length. I never before thought an al
ligator would attack a m."
Sympathise With Your Chili
One can not estimate the effect ola
cold rebuff on a sensitive child. The
world, a moment before glowing with
beauty, and alive, with agreeabta aug-.
gestions, grows suddenly dark fcad
•till, faith, dies and every thinjg ieeiiis
against hint A httie sy mpathV jbheevs
thq prese
bered wii
scheme eJtbuf
mm.
It is said that whisky, is worth|M5 a gal*
Ion in Apska.
King Kalakaua has designs oa literature.
He has written agplay.
An imperial edict forbids applause in the
theaters of St Petersburg.
Florida is making preparations for an
other sub-tropical exhibition.
Kate Field says her paper can not tel
lie. That is. probably why she calls Tk
Washington.
In Japan there are thirty-one schools ov
medicine, one of dentistry and two of
veterinary surgery.
The three hundredth aaniversary of the
invention of the microscope is to be cele
brated tn Antwerp in 1390.
Jane Detheridge, of Kingston, Jamaica,
has refused thirty-seven offers of marriage.
She has $1,000,000 and is an orphan.
Patti, the critics say, has not the voice
of long ago. There has been no decadence,
however, in the price of admission.
A hog that weigetl900 pounds was recent
ly butchered near Laurel,' Del. It was
heavier than one of the farmer's horses.
The rapid decrease in tho number of kan*
garoos in Australia is beginning to attract'
the attention of scientific societies there.
The largest incandescent circuit In the
world is forty-five miles in length.. The
company working it is located at Ottawa.
This-country is getting along with one
office bolder to 157 adult9. The civil ser
vants of Uncle Sam draw about $1(55,090,090
yearly.
A citizen of Warren, Ohio, claims that
two gho9ts met him on the street jOne
evening. He 'Vecognized both as frifhds
long dead.
Gladstone has not universally been suc
cessful. "Proverbial Philosophy" Tupper
once defeated him in a coatest on a theo
logical essay.
A Wheeling man, who recently moved
from one house to auother, found in a clos
et of his new residence a coat with 8)5 in a
roll in the inside pocket
There seems to be a good deal of wildhess
up in Maine. The game commissioner- of
the state estimates that there are 30.000
wild deer in the north woods.
It is said that at least six novels by gipular
writers of fictiou are to be written^ this
coming year, based, like "Ben Hur/' oa
s'cenes and incidents of the Bible,
"True love never did run smoothly."
Mrs. Langtry is said to have made up with
her "former" husband. If this be tfde^he
will probably soon be the boss of the box
office.
The new official report of the condition of
the English beer-brewing industry. sh'ows
that Great Britian's breweries-pro
duced 33,044,000 barrels of beer io^he last
fiscal year. -^r'
A bibulous individual of York, l»a», went
to sleep while soaking his feet in hob|frater,
aud when he was awakened in tha morning
by his wife the fire bad gone out and thin
ice had formed in the tub.
Electric lights have been adopted' to
such an extent in the cities and towns .of
Gautemala that the importation of mineral
oils has largely fallen off. At the '.capital
the use of oil has diminished one half^f
The Prince of Wales has a large lot of
garments. When he visits he makes it a
point never to be seen in the same suit
more than twice. The prince is more mo
notonous in his speech than in his dress.
Physically, Speaker Reed is tt& largest
man in the house. He weighs asginuch as
ex-President Cleveland and Is taller.. He
is an accomplished French scholfg&an&
reads every new book published in
The latest recensement figures srffj
the population of Berlin at 1,173,891, and
Vienna at 1,110,764, a steady advance being
made by both canitals through additions'
from small towns throughout the two em
pires.
A bowling craze*has broken out-ln Troy
N. Y„ and all the young men who enthusi
on baseball during the summer'are now
devoting their energies ana sparefmtsh to
bowling, which is an excellent g^me and
will do them good.
M. Alphoad tells the ParlsiansiluU the"'
can now have an exhibition evewiijrear one
the Camp de Mars in the permwMlt build*'
ing left over from the great exhibition, anifjjF
they think strongly of holding annual
"festivals ol industry."
An exchange says: Poar one tablespoon
ful of clear solution of tannin (a Imped
teaspoonsul of tannin to a gill of rain
water) into a tumbler full of the suspected
water. If no turbidity occurs within one
hour thj v^ater is. decidedly unwhotcsomi
The Chinese are fairly overrunning: tho
Sapiwich Islands. They number one-iifth
of the population und nearly monopolize
many branches of mercantile business,
while the retire six Chinese mechanics out
of every seven of this class on Ihe^islaud3.
The bastinado is still in use in Hungary
to. make refractory peasants testify aboAL
accomplices or as to.their o.wn misdeeds, Inu
the ^Hungarian prfe$». Has 'recently eugaged
in a campaign agaiuat this, relic cf barbar.
ism.
William Allingham. the Irish poet al-t
ways wanted to be a'frisnd of Carlyle, butt,
the crusty sage could not well tolerate hlmil
Once he said: "Allin^ham, ye're no, a bad!!
fellow, but I'd just have ye to know that a'
man can never get in a word of sense for
your everlasting jabbering."
The queen of Itily recently found a
streak of ugly and indelible green color on
her favorite lap dog, and on inquiry to
that King Humbert, for who^ci she had pi
cured from Pari
•he desired hii
had sensibly
the dog.
Daniel Dougl
thafwhile a boyi
store, in Philadei
arrested for murdei
mm-
5
According to official statistics lftarMil
traffic has no&rly doubled since 18^j.
King, the aeronaut in thirty-ei]
years has made 803 balloon ascensions.
aliforn
at their
bottle of tugr dye whl(j
eon hisg^y must
led to have'it tried
of New
Maricet
came near
for attempting
declaim the last part of "Richard ift,"
when a western man, who had never heard
df ShakApeare wasin the next room listen
ihgin hoirror.
A maiden lady who lives in New York
Jately. visited two sisters who live at' Dan
^ury, Conn., staying with each two days.
•M assuring them that she had loiit all her
money. After she went back taNew York
her maid returned and informed one of the
sisteira that her mistress had hidden $%CJ0
in an empty butter jar in sister Na' a's
cellar. Investigation showed the statement
to^e correct and the 3.090 was. found, all
in $1 bills.
A friend of tho lazy in Bangor, Me., has
invented a device by means of which a'man
can catch a fish without fishing. He at
taches a small sleigh belt to a pieoe of barrel
hoop, one end of which he inserts into a
crack in the rock. After baiting his line
and throwing it overboard he fastens it to
a hoop, puts his bands in his pockets and
awaits developments. Assomai the bell
is jingled by a Jerk on the line he tails it
in and lands the fish.
The Old Bnrnslde mansiod' in N«ip^ Or
leans, erected at vast expense by the.fat*.
ons millionaire banker, James Robb, &ths
time of tbe marriage of hip daughter
himto that
Sad subsequentljf aoid
»"*•*.rtpliBg,
Inst been, aold sit
laterMtedih th*%rofp
'hings motit hav»?goae
br: Purnid, the
ntala* Testify. t» aSglUj'
-day Vlew.i
a here and th^re
",th-.anii
dUtrt
At so
vo
aho-wis^liudded
volciuioegand ovei
of gigantio
ursed tfp^ugh the inferni^
i^doubUess past the .villages
iple -long sino^Hjjtoad.
imemrinmghis remote period
lOes buratTSifcwtlyiti. Tty»
must have iKjmone of inoom-
parablSPlrruideur. W lace of th*
earth ^s tiorp apart Down the sldp"
of the volcanoes ran streams of burning
lavaft whi|fc afevAd thei^poniempt for
mighty rivbra by chawingjhejir course
au« spreaofeig their the four
points. Some volcano!
anwnountalu
diyopeared in the ffand upheaval.
Others were made to take their places.
dver evqgy thing hung a cloud of vapor
and the poisonous air was filled with
Ahe hissing of the molten streams of
lava as they tumbled into the river
bods and tho rumbling of the earth as
it made ^pd^de&oyed mountains
children bftild card houses and the
triple them over. Not a vestige
vegetation tAtsfieft ?/:.
Every living thing wafi destroyei
When the {tfeat upheaval was ovi
Idaho was Mnlackened deaort Th
spreading water^had cdpled the lav
»d
thep^Bought othpr channels to flo'
the jm. The plotute of the coun.
try wa|k|pubtless like man's ^ptvsent
idea ofjtpe inferior bf^'iheftioon the
vivid tmnker'a conception of tU bot^
tomless pit Without stw and
moon, which in this country bM often
made glorious by refraction, as with
outvfhe sun and blue aky thaountry
have boe^oblivion itojL The
.jre vlcioui of '|me voic«wi had
'en shattered to euch.*u e*|t %hat
iir ragged Hnd-iseamed crat rose
arcely .one hundred foet ab the
6fJ^«aat^ feet
ta^ghty vent tjhe
#'J"
were
demons
black
far as
York Sun.$|pl!pi.
Wtura
a
-fires wi the
so aant
and iked
sulphi
slnoe tl raind
re. Bi ef
irmlli
the
•pet of
iktbhes
eso
prms
the
as
'lava:
can s^ei Som/it is
heaps,, from
^rpents^-^wl
^er- .jjii^'.
(effect'
ejfrtetqplr fjjwhedupo
aus.-V.^j|s mountains
jwe n$ Jorigei$ black.
hOrizi
great pe^, mimy|bf them restin,
they 9^. to be a pai,
wfei? them, st^L
^Jhelr crymT.1
fftiio, black and
I$-
V:
stands in the
gruesome
[uei surrohnd
'laste^n toMn,
fhorsemen*W
citizens
oga sniffing
&eatltying Xr. Jehnson.
'Is there a Mr. Johnson in this
ar?" called the conductor as he enter
on a Lehigh Valley tr&in
and held up a telegram to view.
."There is," replied three me$ iu
chorus as they rose up.
Pi "But this dispatch is for John John- I
Son." -.
•That's me,?! replied two of
on, while the'' thM&|£poked relieved
.and sail ,«$-•
"Which:i^r"
tinucd the cdindiiii
•I am\'''both|^s^redi
a
coa®h
ried?"4 con-
"Well, I thi^jk|pi^jdisjiateh relates
to the birth ofUwihs 'at homo,
congratulatory."' 'flty
"That lets me out» thank heawnlH
exclaimed one Johnson as he sat down
Jo wipe his brbwh while the other
^flushed red 'and white for a moment
and then received the dispatch.—New
the Oyster Grows.
The second year after hatching thj
oyster has, if conditions be favoniible
attained a size puffl^|«jiit to warraqt^
gathering and sale,-and theq,the most'
begins,
oyster
to boat!
of the^
unpleasant harvest on
Without regard to weMhsp
fisherman must UMd tn h!
and grbpe along' the bott
shallow water with^tongs
ble notiiuig so mi|teva
den rakes cross^^ A dozi
oysters may be
again .an hour's
•bout
ew Siglan
•ying some'
w«obseryejP
"In
beds the rule
tho gleaners is
days when Kuth won scanty/
come supper in the wh
Boaz
A teaohSr in one
•chooto of Detroit waii
on patriotism, The
to knonf v«ry little
except the hatchet
Fhkh't)M^: MA
1^-
vr-'
man
-"II
I
offeri
it.resem-
or mor|P::
lift, an
..jlng along
the bdd of the ohijmqd^jlBbt yttld
shelL As a rule, hUvever, ,the fish«r
men confine their affiaru tp «inW
localities
plan
the own
In good
make $4 or
and cm wi
yee|f.
don't
jwicec