Had Never Seen a Horse,
THE DEMINGi GRAPHIC
BACK TO HIS OWN CHURCH.
NEW MEXICO.
Uncle Sam will Inaugurate the Pana
ma canal with a f lO.tmu.POO dig.
The revolution In Bolivia Is spread
ing. A lam dog Joined It yesterday.
Tlii American loo trust lost money
last year. Probably It had too much
watered stock.
At this distance we can gee a Pick
wickian flavor about that proclama
tion of the ciar.
There has been a break In the
whisky trust, but not long enough to
let the stuff out for nothing.
A New York jury has fixed the value
of a man's leg at $17,000. Would you
sell one of your legs for that?
Some way should be found to pre
vent Mount Peleo and old Crazy inake
from breaking out at the game time.
When you have known a hundred
women, you know Just about as much
about the sex as when you knew only
one.
The Mad Mullah's mother Is sought.
Now if they could catch his mother-in-law,
perhaps he'd quiet down and live
in peace.
The furnareman has appeared in the
Hurdlck case, but the milkman and
the plumber have thus far succeeded
in keeping out
When we remember what a fuss men
make about their 50 panamá hats
marked down to $1.98, we can have
charity for the women.
Ex-Mayor Ames of Minneapolis says
the newspapers are to blame for his
present troubles. This Is quite a
'ompllment to the press.
Compared with what the Buffalo de
tectives do not know about the Bur
dick murder the facts thus far brought
out are exceedingly meager.
"If your baby has the grippe don't
kins it," says Dr. Cyrus Edson. "If
your stenographer has the grippe,"
he adds "send her home till she gets
well."
The Rothschilds started in business
with a small art store. They knew
practically nothing about painting, but
soon had all of the old masters coming
their way.
A trolley syndicate has been Incor
porated in New Jersey with a capital
of $50.000,000. Hut a little bit of a
thing like that doesn't spill much
water nowadays.
Japanese labor lias been trlej In
Colorado and Utah and Is pronounced
to be a failure. The Japanese cos
tume fllls so easily with snow that
'.he laborer becomes logy.
Prof. Monaghan might have added
to his assertion that poor cooks make
drunkards the further fact that they
incite to profanity, assault and bat
tery, defalcation and suicide.
Tho man out West who wants a di
vorce on the ground that his wife
hypnotised him Into the marriage, will
not get It. That ground would allow
every husband to get a divorce.
Secretary Shaw isn't worrying half
so much about the prospective pay
ment of that $00,000 .ooo Panama canal
account as you may be about the
prospective payment of a $30 tailor's
bill.
Lances are to be discarded by the
British army. All the lancers and
dragoons will bo armed with carbines
and swords hereafter. Is this another
move forward toward universal
peace
That Tennessee legislator who
wants to make kissing a misdemeanor
must have passed a lonesome youth, a
'-eary middle life and now on the
. ;ge of old ago has no love for
(. Idren.
Mr. Tokell, the English bruiser who
as recently Jolted into the land of
dreams by tho American, Mr. Forbes,
has so far ."wow-red as to h able to
state that the pimple of this blaaled
country "lack elawss."
We are Informed that the Sultan of
Muscat has bren ruined by the ex
pense Incurred In organizing his cus
toms service on the advice of the
British. American and French con
suls. Too many cooks.
A Boston dry goods firm advertises
"Beautiful things in spring shirt
waists." We have them down here,
too, but we do not advertise them.
They speak for themselves, both as
display and solid matter.
DEMINO,
THE MUCH-FEARED CENTIPEDE.
Sight of One Full Grown Gives
Shock to the Nerves.
The sight of a full-grown centipede
Is said by travelers lu tropical lands
to be enough to affect the strongest
nerves. Ten to eleven Inches Is the
average length, although larger ones
have been seen. Lafcadio Hearn, In
"Two Years In the French West In
dies," says that the. vitality of the
centipede Is amazing. He kept one
In a bottle, without food or water, for
thirteen weeks, at the end of which
time It remained as active and dan
gerous as ever, Tbe hen attacks the
centipede wUh delight, and often
swallows him head first, without tak
ing tlfe trouble to kill him. The cat
hunts him, but !s careful never to
put her head near him. She has a
trick of w hirling him round and round
upon the floor so quickly as to stupe
fy him; then, when she sees a good
chance, she strikes him dead with
her claws. If you kill a centipede
you are sure to receive money soon
and even If you dream of killing one
It Is good luck at least so local tra
dition says.
THE ACME OF UNBELIEF.
"Close" Man's Reputation Must Have
Been Well Established.
One day last week three members
if the Stock Exchange, one of whom
Is generally reputed to be rather
"close," were on their way to luncheon
when they were met by three sisters
of charity soliciting alms. Each one
contributed something, but one of the
sisters Inadvertently solicited from the
close one for the second time. Natur
ally enough he protested politely that
he had done his duty.
"I believe him," said the first mem
ber in the ear of the second, "but I did
not see It."
"Well," said tho second, "I saw him
do It, but I don't believe It." New
York Times.
An Early Skirt Dancer.
Kate Vaughan, who died recently In
Johannesburg. Is aneged by the Eng
lish to have been the originator of the
skirt dance. She was an all round
actress and had been on the stage
from early childhood, the parts of
Little Nell and Little Era'ly.ln "David
Copperfleid," being among her pre
liminary triumphs. She first attempt
ed her dancing In the "tempestuous
petticoat" so long ago that few living
exponents of the art will care to con
test the claim that she was first. It
Is said that the manager of the Lon
don theater In which Miss Vaughn
first gave the dance cheerfully paid
a weekly bill of $40 for the renewal
of her skirts.
A Puzzling Calculation.
We all like to puzzle our brain over
things which give certain and strange
results, but which we cannot explain.
Here's a puzzle that puzzles every
body: Take the number of your liv
ing brothers, double the amount, add
to It three, multiply the result by five,
add to it the number of living sis
ters, multiply the result by ten, add
to It the number of deaths of broth
ers and sisters, subtract l.'iO from the
result. The right-hand figure will bo
the number of deaths, the middle
flgur.e the number of living Bisters
and the left the number of living
brothers. Canton Saturday Roller.
Brains Cost Money.
This Is the opinion of a large retail
merchant on wage-earners. When an
Irate customer complained that tho
store was full of Insolent chumps who
did not understand the first principles
of waiting on a patron he said: "If
my clerks had brains enough to
amount to anything they would not be
working here at $7 or $8 per week."
"Why don't you hire clerks with
brains?" asked the customer. "Be
cause brains cost more money than I
can afford to pay," was the reply. "In
our business we pay large salaries
to slave drivers and nothing to the
slaves."
Ill Omen at a Wedding.
A curious story is told by a person
wha was present at the marriage of
tho much-talked of Princess of Saxony,
who was divorced the other day. By
some Inexplicable error the box sup
poted to contain her wedding boquet.
sent by a celebrated flower artist in
Vienna, was found when opened to
contain Instead a largo cross of white
flcwers, destined for the funeral of a
well-known Austrian general Just dead.
The mistake was not discovered until
within half an hour of the wedding,
and the consternation of the supersti
tious Austrian court may be Imagined.
To Encourage Tree Planting.
There are many historic trees in the
country, and It Is believed by the De
partment of Agriculture that Interest
in tree planting can be stlmiilmnit h
J distributing a limited number of these
i c uuuur piuper airection. The
seedlings, when grown, will be sent
to schools In various parts of the coun
try, and there will accompany each
tree a concise statement setting forth
the historic events connected with trie
tree Itself, and the gruwlug of the
seodlina.
Youth Had Gone Rounds of the Others
and Wss Satisfied.
Young Stanley McMlnneman of
Rumtord Falls, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. George McMlnneman, Is sup
posed to be an attendant at Father
La Flamme's church.
For the past few weeks, owing to
necessity, he has been sent to church
alone The other day he startled bis
mother by announcing, as he but
toned his collar under his chin:
"Well, I guess I'll go back where I
belong today."
"What do you mean?" his mother
asked In surprise.
"Why," the little chap answered
calmly, "I've been going round to see
what church I liked best. But the
1'nlversallBts and the Baptists are no
good. The Methodtst church's on the
bum they have't got any altar, nor
altar boys, and I'm Just going back
to where I belong!"
His mother took pains to assure her
self that he did. Lcwiston Journal.
TRAINING THE HUMAN EYE.
Wonderful Possibilities of That Organ
Arc Little Known.
Unless we are color-blind we all
can see the seven colors In the rain
bow. That Is ordinary eyesight,
which may by careful training be
wonderfully developed. The tapestry
workers of Fiance, for instance, by
continued practice, learn to distin
guish different shades of tbe same
color In a truly marvelous way. Some
of these men and women, by actual
experiment, can perceive 1,500 differ
ent shades of a single color, and com
bine them in wonderful harmonies.
Their eyes are ordinary human eyes,
like those of other people; but they
have trained their Right until it be
comes almost unbelievably perfect.
Their work is priceless, because they
ha-e raised an ordinary possession
Into an extraordinary endowment.
Unusual.
A captain of an English regiment
stationed at Natal, while paying off his
new recruits a Transvaal half crown,
which bears the Image and super
scription of Paul Kruger. The fellow
soon returned with the coin, and
throwing It on the tablo, declared it
was a bad one. The officer took the
coin without looking at It and rang It
on the table.
"It sounds all right, Atkins; what's
the matter with it?" he asked.
"Well, sir," replied Atkins, "If you
say It's all right It's all right, but it's
the first time I've seen the Queen
with whiskers on."
Guards Secrets of Letter.
An American has luvented an en
velope which records of Itself any
attempt to tamper with its contents.
The flap is Imbued with some chemical
composition which when operated
upon by a dampening process or any
other means of penetrating to Its in
closure, records the transaction by
causing the words "Attempt to open"
to appear. It is thought that the In
quisitive will think twice before pur
suing their researches in face of such
an Invention.
Argument Against Early Marriages.
"Do not," said the little man at the
club, "do not marry too young."
"And what do you call too young?"
Inquired the young man to whom the
advice was so solemnly tendered.
"I married my wife," replied the lit
tle man, "when she was but 17. She
was a petite thing, and hadn't got her
growth. And now," the little man
paused to sigh, "now she's two feet
taller than I am!"
And he sighed again. Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Judge Shlras In Luck.
Judge Shlras, who has Just retired
as a Justice of the supreme court,
gains $2,500 a year by the passage of
the bill Increasing the salaries of tbe
members of that tribunal. He wished
to retire Borne months ago, but the
death of Justice Gray delayed the ac
ceptance of his resignation. Mean
time the Increase of salary became
effective and he will receive $12,500
a year during the remainder of bis
life.
Election Thinned Committees.
There are sixty-three committees In
the house of representatives at Wash
ington, and only one of them was en
tirely exempt from the effects of last
fall's election. That Is the commit
tee on expenditures In the treasury de
partment, of which "Rob" Cousins of
Iowa is chairman. Every other com
mittee lost from one to five members
through defeat In convention or at
tbe polls.
Grateful for Prosperity,
While liord Charles Beresford wss
In New York be told of one of bis ten
ants who conducted a small under
taker's establishment In Waterford.
One day he met her and asked bow
the business was getting along.
"Grand, me lord!" she exclaimed,
"I now have the luckiest little hearse
you ever taw. Glory be to goodness
--It was never a day Idle since I cot
IL"
Wanderíag Alaskan Indian Astonished at Beasts of Burden
in Prospectors' Camp Dog Teams' the Only
Traffic Carriers Known to Him,
"It is hard to believe that there are
perrons living In the western hemi
sphere who never saw a horse," said
Quartermaster John F. Rice at the
Norm an die, "but such Is the rase. I
well recollect when with the Aber
cromble expedition in 1899 we found
ourselves one September night several J
nunared miles from nowhere. Just as
the sun was sinking over the Alaskan
range the camp was startled by the
report of a rifle.
"We sprang to our feet, prepared for
any emergency, when our native guide
discovered across the narrow valley an
Indian who had Just brought down a
caribou. By the use of signs and sig
nals he was Induced to come Into
camp. After we bed tanked hlra up
with strong tea and loaded him to the
guards with pork and beans his tongue
limbered up and. through one of the
guides, he informed us that he was a
Matanuskl. by the way, the fiercest
tribe in Alaska, and that he was hunt
ing caribou. At the time we discov
ered him he was 150 miles from tho
encampment of his tribe, which shows
that the fellow had his nerve with
him, He had never seen a horse and
our pack animals excited his curiosity
and wonder. He declared that no
member of his tribe had ever seen a
horse, all transportation In his coun
Where Cow Bells Are Made,
Colh'nsville, a Little Town in Connecticut, Produces Supply
for Nearly Entire Country Many Sets Made
to Ring tn Musical Chime.
Cowbells that melodiously chime on
the western plains, sheep bells that
dingle on tho big American sheep
ranches, bells for grazing horses and
mules and all kinds or bells for the
farm and ranch are nearly all made
In one factory, which stands on a hill
side street In the little town of Col
Unsville, Conn. The factory turns out
from 10.000 to 15,000 bells every year,
and they are shipped to ail parts of the
country through the wholesale hard
ware houses. To several great cattle
ranches of the West were sent recent
ly a lot of the bells tuned In sets of
an octave each, so that the bell bear
ers among the shifting herds answered
each other In musical chime. Ranch
men say that bells echoing In tunes
across the plains deter wolves from
attacking the herds.
The metal for the bells Is received
at tbe factory In large flat sheets of
thin iron, direct from the rolling mills,
and is passed under a steam-driven
cutter, which turns out the properly
shaped pieces like patterns for a dou-ble-bloded
ax. Then a ring for a clap
per is fastened Into the center of each
Some Old Cures for Rabies,
Powdered Crayfish and Laying Hens Prescribed by Physi
dans Old-time Doctor Had Various Methods of
Dealing With This Dread Disease.
Dr. Stephen Bradwell In the earliest
known English book on first aid to the
Injured, called by him "Helps for Sud
den Accidents" (1(533), endeavors to
shuffle out of the serious discussion
of mad dog bite by pooh-poohing It.
His method Is familiar even now.
"Although," says he, "In this our
country of England I have neither seen
nor heard of any such terrible dan
gers happening to people by a mad
dog's biting as in other regions, yet I
have seen dogs mad."
Cure, according to him. Is easy and
frequent. Ills own method of pro
cedure partly follows Celsus. "Labor
to draw the contagion out of the
wound by cupping glasses."
He also advocates the use of the
cautery and of sublimate, but departs
from the common sense of antiquity
when he suggests an "application of
pullets or pigeons that lay eggs," scar
ifications, leeches and drawing medi
cines. From the days of Galen to those of
Rhazes and onward powdered cray
fish wan recommended as an antidote.
wvwvwwwvwwv.
Islands Built by Oysters.
Dr. Grave of the United States fish
commission haa recently been study
ing the Islands found In Newport
river and Beaufort harbor In North
Carolina. The islands, which are in
various stages of growth, are shown
to be built up of generations upon
generations of oysters, and appear to
grow in very much the same way as
the coral islands of the Pacific. The
original reefs grow across tbe river,
because the swift current keeps the
edges clean, and thus makes a favor
able surface for the attachment of
the young spat. In course of timo, by
action of wind, waves and vegetable
growth on tbe accumulating genera-
try being conducted by dog teams
hitched to sleds In winter, and by
pack dogs In summer. What amused
him most was to see the animals cat
grass, and every time they would grab
a mouthful of forage he would almost
go Into convulsions, he thought It so
funny. Iu air ethnological sense the
Matanuskls resemble the Apache In
dians of our plains. They subsist on
the flesh of the caribou and brown
bear, the counterpart of the Rocky
Mountain grizzly, and quite as fero
cious, and are greatly feared by the
other tribes In Alaska because of their
fierce disposition and warlike nature.
Our guides, who were shore Indians,
seemed to be afraid of the newcomer,
and .he treated them with haughty con
tempt. Whenever he would shoot a
fierce glance at them they would quail
like whipped curs, and slink away from
his sight.
"We found the shore Indians quite a
Jolly lot of fellows. Compared with
the Matanuskls they were quite so
ciable and Inclined to be obliging to
white people. When cam pod on the
Yukon quite recently I heard a small
band of them singing the familiar
song, 'There'll Be a Hot Time in the
Old Town To night' and that other ten
der ditty, 'Goo-Goo Eyes.' "Washing
ton Star.
piece and It Is spanned with a llttlo
Iron strap for a handle.
Finally the piece Is bent down Into
the familiar bell shape, and Its sides
riveted together on the anvil. The bell
Is In shape then, but It still lacks tone
and color. These are gained by a
coating of brass and a bath in a fiery
furnace. In neBts of four or five each
the bells, ranging In size from the
little three-Inch sheep bells to the seven-Inch
cow bells, are placed with a
mixture of charcoal and brass filings
between them, In plumbago crucibles,
whose lids are held In place by a plas
tering of wet clay. Then these are
Immersed In the fire until ready for
the final touch.
Within the crucibles the brass
spends Itself In a thin coating over the
Imprisoned bells and the bell obtains
Its clear note. All that need be done
afterward Is to burnish the bells,
which Is done by throwing them, with
a few leather scraps. Into a big re
volving cylinder, in which they polish
themselves. Tho bell tongues are made
In foundries and come with wire at
tached ready to bend on.
The crayfish were to be gathered when
the sun was In a certain house and
were to be cooked alive.
There are five general remedies for
the bite of a mad dog in Thomas Sen
dall's "Manuscript" (KÍ59). Two rec
ommend strong ale as a chief Ingred
ient in the medicines to be adminis
tered. One mixture Includes ale. garlic,
sage, treacle and two ounces of
scraped pewter, and Is to be adminis
tered thrice dally "by nine spoonfuls"
at a time. Another consists of pow
dered claws of crayfish and a suffl
clency of treacle, milk, pine roots and
the like, aud is to be given to man or
dog for the dog was then also treat
ed. Madness In dogs, the same author
opines, "proceedeth from black chol
erlck Juices wherewith a dogge more
than other beasts aboundolh," but of
the actual fear of water he can give
no better account than that drlnklijg
may produce convulsions In the bitten
and may so come to be regarded with
horror, Lancet.
tloilS Of Oysters, tile reef i-.mfilL
becomes established us an Islán i
says tho Minneapolis Junior Journal!
No More Tie Counting,
"Do you favor a theater under the
patronago of tbe government?"
"I do." replied Stormlngton Barnes.
"I should like to see government own.
ershlp of the theaters and govern
ment ownership of the railways, and
then hope for cooperation between
these two great branches of our na
tion system."
Many a man reserves the kind words
nl wife is entitled to for her tomb-stone.