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NORTH W FST FUN N OTFS.
WISCONSIN.
The ice in Lake Winnebago broke up
April 9th.
The bodies of two men who were
drowned in Lake Monona near Madi
son,last October, were washed up by the
heavy gale of April 9th, and recovered.
The ex-city clerk of Racine, Areve
on, has mysteriously disappeared.
Nothing is wrong with his accounts, and
his actions are attributed to insanity.
The clerk of the municipal court,
Meiswiukel, of Milwaukee,charges hi<
predecessor, Charley Casper with em
bezzlement while in office. Casper and
bis clerks were arrested.
The gab* of April 9th broke up the
ice in the lakes around Madison, and
forced it upon the shore with such tre
mendous violence that boat houses,
piers, and boats were destroyed to the
value of at least $2,000.
Thescliool commissioners of Racine,
have reported as follows upon the death
of Richard Sheehan, a school boy in
the 4th ward: “ A careful investigation
of all tne facts in the case, and a full
consultation with the parties interested,
warrant your committee in saying that
no blame rests upon the principal of
the school, Mr. Skewes.
The semi-annual meeting of the
board of trustees of the Northern Asy
lum for the insane, was held at the
the institution April 10th. A full quota
of the board being present. From the
report of l>r. Kcmpster it is learned
that the number of patients now in the
hospital is 554, of which 280 are males,
and 274 females. Sixty-four patients
were received into the institution dur
ing the past six months,and forty-seven
were discharged. IVaths during the
tune, sixty.
Articles of association were tiled in
the office of secretary of state April
10th as follows: Robert Flliot, John
Black, Winfield Smith, H. H. Button,
Alex. Mitchell and Win. P. Mel aren,
as the Milwaukee Steam Supply Com
pany, for the object of producing, fur
n‘siting, and selling within the county
of Milwaukee, steam to be used for
heating, furnishing power or other pur
poses. Capital stock $150,000. Locu
tion of offices, city of Milwaukee. Wil
liam Wilson, John J. Corlis, W. C.
Pease, F. J. McLean, and S. 1). Kalian,
as the Menomonee Railway Company.
Object, to construct, maintain and oper
ate a railway from the town of Menom
onee to connect with ttie Chicago, St.
Paul Minneapolis railway a*. Menom
onee Station, a distance of four miles,
all in Ounn county. Capital stock SIOO,-
000. Location of office. Menomonee,
Dunn county.
IOWA.
A pluck of swans, forty in number
alighted in the river near Davenport re
cently.
The improvements of Pattersonville
this season will include a town hall and
a base-ball dub.
John J. Hamilton is the now editor
of the Dens Countu Republican. A. 11.
Fortune continues as publisher.
Thirty natives of foreign countries
were naturalized during the last term of
the circuit court at Davenport.
The immigration now passing through
Sioux City to Dakota never before
had a parallel in the history of Sioux
City.
The Des Moines militia an endeav
oring to perfect arrangements for a mil
itary exhibition and sham battle alWin
terset on the Fourth of July.
It is reported in Hock Rapids, ac
cording to the Review, that the work on
the Lyon county blanch on the Sioux
City and St. Paul road will commence
in a few davs.
At Sioux City the mayor lias been
notified that the appropriation of $lO,-
090 by tin- act of March .‘i, for river im
provements at that point, is now availa
ble, and instructions are given for work
to proceed at once.
The Ottumwa Weekly Conner has
completed its JJOth year. Thirty years
ago Ottumwa was a hamlet of 200 peo
ple and forty or lifty houses. Now it is
a city of 10,000 inhabitants, with busi
ness interests increased to match.
The OJebolt Reporter says that seven
young men, experienced farm laborers,
arrived there from Pennsylvania last
week, having come out logo work for a
farmer in that vicinity. Fifteen more
come out tiiis week, with jobs engaged
ahead.
Savs the Sioux City Journal: Perhaps
more persons have been bitten by the
purchase of the low swamp lands that
lie along the east margin of the Mis
souri bottom, in this anil adjoining
counties on the south, than in the pur
chase of any other ‘sight and seen’ real
estate. At a day not many years dis
tant this tract, by drainage, will he made
one of the best in our country. At the
present, like the most of Colorado min
ing stock, it has only a speculative or
trading value. William Herscher, the
third ward milkman, is the last victim,
he having found this week on survey
that his recently purchased stock farm
lay in this swamp Moral —survey
your land before yon buy it."
MINNESOTA.
The Klk River Nem has not suspend
ed, as reported, but is flourishing, and
bids fair to live always.
Uon. K. A Evans has been elected
mayor of St, Cloud, and John M. It sen
berger city treasurer.
The oldest son of Isaac Knutson, of
Grand Meadow, Mower county, was
killed last w eek, by the kick of a horse,
Wellington Kipper, a sort of a
wanderer, died in Windom on Monday.
He was from Boston where he has a
son who is a printing press manufac
turer.
Austin Peyitter: Mr. G. M. Cameron
has gone to visit his old home in Cana
da. This will be the first visit to the
home of Ins childhood since he left
there, some twenty-five years ago.
Ortonville. Big Stone county, had a
sensation, and ail because a Mrs. E.
Craig, who claims to have been a ten
ant, refused to give possession of u ho
tel to Cant. Cook, the owner. There
was a good deal of chin music, flourish
ing of an axe, drawing a revolver, etc.,
but nobody was hurt.
Rt. Rev. Abbott EJelbrock has con
tracted for the buildiug of anew church
at St. John’s college. The structure
will In' of Roman stylo: dimensions.
UV> by 62; material, brick with cut
stone facings. The tront will be orna
mented with two spires, each 126 feet
high. The edifice is to be completed in
two years.—>7. Uouti Timet.
Fits; following are the otli era elect of
Bloomington I’rairie, Steele county;
President of the council, Kd Morton;
trustees, J. C. Brainard, T. S. Morton,
C. D. Giddings; recorder, L. Ellington;
treasurer, C. W. Gardner; justice of the
p ace, IV, IHinton.
A (Genuine Heroine.
Mary Ann Wilson is a peanut woman
of New Orleans. She has a shabby lit
tle stand on St. Charles street, for
which, with all us contents, says a New
Orleans paper, “a $5 note would be an
extravagant price." "Granina Wilson"
h;us bent over the same little stand
nearly forty years. Nobody would
ever know to see iter, or to hear from
her own lips, that this withered, poor
old woman w as the most famous yellow
fever nurse in the south. Vet such is
the fact. In IS 17. forty-two years ago,
she faithfully nursed fever stricken pa
tients in New Orleans. Again, m 1856
she was at her post caring for the sick,
that whole sorrowful summer. In 1 855
there was a yellow fever epidemic at
Norfolk. Grandma Wilson went there
and nursed. Another year she went to
Savannah and remained while the
plague lasted, caring for the hapless
sullerers. Again she went to Memphis,
performing the same noble duties. Last
summer, on the outbreak of the fever,
she went to Grenada, and for thirty
eight days and nights stayed there, and
those withered hands were often the
only ones tc soothe burning brows or
close dying eyes. To her tender care
were committed their children by dying
parents. From Grenada she went to
Memphis, and stayed there, minister
ing to the sick and djing like an angel
of mercy till the frighllnl plague eeas-.
ed. Then, simple as she w.'s noble, the
heroic old woman went hack without a
word, to Per shabby little fruit stand in
Charles stieet.- Kichinu/e.
A Startling Statement.
Nfw Vnrk Oruplia . April t
Mr. Oolldean, a former president of
the Sun Francisco stock hoard, made
last night at the Hullion t'lnh some re
markable statements concerning the
Comstock lode. He asserts that for the
' last few years certain large ore bodies
have been discovered by those in charge,
the existence of winch has never been
made known to the public. One of
these deposits he estimates as being
over 100 feet in width. The accuracy
and definiteness of Mr. Col Id can’s meas
urements indicate that his knowledge is
based on something besides mere ru
mor. It is a bit of information fall of
meaning for holders of Comstock lode
stock. The practice of concealing the
existence of such deposits in mines,
depressing the stock, “ freezing out ”
unfortunate stockholders, and then sud
denly revealing an immense deposit,
which for months and years had been
known to the favored few, is one which
has been most successfully operated in
these mines. The Devil Incarnate of
i Mammon seems to possess some of
these men who are piling up wealth at
| the rate of millions monthly.
“laiyc Always finds a Way."
No: long ago a Michaclcse gentleman
saw at the theatre a young and pretty
donazetta with whose charms he was at
once smitten. The next night he man
aged to obtain the box next to hers, and
as there is no separation between tin
ners except a tbm railing of Huilieient
height for a man to test his arm upon
when silting, the proximity to his in
amorta was anything but distant. It was
the only chance that he possibly might
ever have, and there was no way to ar
range fur a better meeting; nothing was
left but to lake the present opportuni
ty and make the most of it. So polling
off his enll’he wrote bis proposal on it,
, detailing bis prospects, position, love
1 and other such things as might prove
I interesting. When written to suit he
(juicily placed it as nearly before tier
l as could be and waited until his eyes
could direct hers to this tale of a shirt.
i She read, she smiled, she nodded, and
the delighted swain knew that the how
drawn at a venture had told the mark.
, — l‘hiludelphiu I're**, SI, Mi< linn's, Azurn,
L> Itrr.
A Lillie Bit for Lienlimtv.
Paris Letter.
The rope of the hangman which has
broken in Um operation has special vir
tues for the superstitious. The other
day they tried to nang a negro in Amer
ica and the rope broke. In consequence
Hie poor sheriil' has since been receiv
ing letters every day from Europe ask
ing for pieces of the enchanted cord.
He has replied and the newspapers
have published his answer. It is this;
“Hereafter I will hang only with our
end of the Atlantic cable. You will of
course have the other end, and you may
pull it out and cut off as much of the
2,000 miles as you want.’’
An Obliging Man.
i tih o, ((;!.> Enterprlte.
Not many days since, at a hotel 1 ss
than a thousand miles from this office,
a mairied man temporarily stopping at
the house, upon retiring for the night,
found a note upon Ids table, evidently
written in a feminine hand, requesting
him to leave his door unlocked. He
did so. Upon rising in the morning,
the individual discovered that he had
been robbed during the night of $75 in
money and a watch.
The factories are generally resuming
or making ready to resume work, and
if the foreign market could be still more
rapidly extended by intelligent legisla
tion their prospects would improve at a
much more speedy pace. But it is all
certain to come right in time. Even
real estate, which is the last to raliy,
feels the effect of the reviving trade im
pulses and improves its figures and [ire
tensions together. We have reached a
stage, in fact, at which further move
ment is possible in hut one direction.
Everything must now go forward. The
country is evidently about to enter on
a career of prosperity whose splendors
have hardly vet been imagined.—
Pod
HOH.U K GREELEY'S IUIGHTERS.
1 11. ) Git s.*>7.o(H) for Money Loaned In
Their Father.
New York Times.
Some fifteen years ago Cornelius J.
Vanderbilt was somewhat in disfavor
with his father. Commodore Vanderbilt,
on account of his reek less hahils and
extravagance. “Young Corneel" man
aged to ingratiate himself in the favor
ot the late Horace Ureeley. The Com
modore had cut down Cornelius’s finan
cial resources to a mere living allow
ance. and was inexorable as to all fur
ther appeals on tin t subject. In the
course of the acquaintanceship aiul in
timacy which resulted between t irneli
us and Mr, Circe ley, the latter was in
duced to advance or lend considerable
sums of money to the young man, but
mum what representations, expecta
tions, or security is not now vety gener
ally known. The total of these loans
has been stated at Cornelius
,1. gave Mr. Ureeley Ins notes for the
amount. He has never since been in a
condition to liquidate the di bt, although
he was doubtless disposed to do so. The
Commodore and Mr. Greeley never un
dertook any settlement of the atfair, al
though they are understood to have,
had a brief debate on the subject on onb
occasion. Since the close of the Van
derbilt will trial, negotiations have been
completed by winch these long overdue
notes have at last been taken up and
paid by Mr. William H. Vanderbilt in
behalf of his brother, and partly, no
doubt, under a sense of equitable jus
tice to the heirs of Mr. Greeley. The
matter was finally closed at the HolT
I man House, in a conference held yes
terday, when Mr. W, 11. Vanderbilt
I caused to be paid to Mrs, Ida Greeley
Smith and Miss Gabrielle Ureeley,
Mr. Greeley’s surviving daughters,
the sum of sftlS.dtHl each, being
the principal of the notes, with
i accrued compound interest. There is
no legal liability whatever against the
estate of Commodore Vanderbilt on
account of this debt, and its prompt
and generous settlement reflects credit
upon tin 1 executors, and will no doubt
prove acceptable to the recipients.
lu connection with this ih Id a **tory
is told, tlmt when the Commodore heard
" Corned" bad bin’ll borrowing large
sums of inotu’y Irom Mr. lireeloy, be
became very angry, ami assuming that
Mr. < Ireeli'y bail loaned the money
mainly in the belief that lie, the Com
moiiore would repay it, determined not
to pay it, as a warning toothers not to
loan money to his wayward son. After
thinking over it, he set otl in high dudg
eon to see Mr. tireeley and ‘'give him a
pieee of his mind about it.” Mr. tiree
ley was very busy when the Commo
dore eanie, putting and indignant into
hisotliee. In his u-ual h 1 11 1 V. impetu
ous way the Commodore said; “Mr.
tireeley, 1 understand you have been
lending my son ‘t’lnnel’ money?”
Mr. tireeley, looking up ipiiekly, and
then almost instantly resuming his
work, replied, in his usual drawling wav,
“ Yes, Commodore, I've let him have
some money.” “Sou have, eh?”
bluffed in tile Commodore, “ you have
—well, 1 want you to understand that
I ain't responsible fur it and I shan’t
pay you a eent of it.” Mr. tireeley
ran his spectacles up on his brows,
stopped writing for a moment, and
turning a full face on the Commodore,
fairly yebedout, “ You won't, eh ? Well,
who the devil asked you to pay it ? I
didn't, did!?” tireeley dropped his
glasses over his eyes and bent again to
his work. The Commodore, nonplussed
and boiling over with fury, steamed out
of theolliee, and it was a matter of ru
mor that the two men were never after
wards on as good terms ns they had pre
viously been.
PnglMi, French and Herman Paper*.
The dreariest of newspapers arc the
London dailies. The editorials art*
heavy, and spun out loan unreasonable
length, while tin* foreign news is com
pressed into half a page of scant tele
grams, Occasionally there is corres
pondence from the seal of war, for Kur
land, of late years, is always at war with
civilized or harharian foes; hot even
this is so fidl of minute details, and so
destitute of granitic narration, that tin*
most patient readers find it a bore.
American all'.tirs occupy hut little space
in the English papers. We are regard
ed as a secondary power, worthy of hut
little notice, while the minutest events
in the royal households of the continent
and the family of tpieen Victoria are
chronicled at tedious length. Recently
even the Liberal organ—the Doily AW*
—gave several columns to a description
of the wedding of the Duke of Con
naught, and over two of its immense
columns to a catalogue of the presents
which the princely pair received. .John
Hull not being able to form his opinions
on the questions of the day until he has
read his favorite organ, he has a right
to expect perhaps that it shall give him
the best possible arguments to defend
his position. No wonder he finds it
necessary to fortify body and mind be
fore he sets down to the perusal of the
ponderous leaders of the "Thunderer”
and its satelites.
The French papers are, if anything,
worse than the English. Their con
t* nls are almost exclusively French.
The edit' rials are vindictive, and are
simply hitter polemic# against the ad
ver-e party, harsh in stricture and ex
tremely personal, Iml little attention
being paid tolhe outside world. French
men seem to think that Paris is the cap
ital of the civilized world, and that its
destinies depend on its social and polit
ical movements. The American in
Paris who depends on the French j air
mils of that city for news from the Uni
ted States would find himself as much
in arrear of the current of events as liiu
Van Winkle. It is only in Oulignani,
the and (.\mtinmtal Gaulle that
he can read in his own tongue what is
doing in the New World. The German
papers are much more cosmopolitan
than the English or French. They have
ample intelligence from all parts of the
globe, which is methodically arranged
under proper heads, and they are rich
in instructive correspondence of all
kinds from both hemispheres. The
editorial staff of the leading German
papers is made up of scholars, states
men and scientists, thoroughly posted
in past and contemporary history. For
this reason their editorial articles are
practical and full of information. En
glishmen and Frenchmen would have
a better understanding of the state of
the world, less prejudice against stran
gers, and mote correct am. liberal views
if their otgans of public opinion took
a wider and more impartial survey of
men and things. Their statesmen, also,
would make fewer mistakes in geogra
phy, in political knowledge, and the
constution and policy of other govern
ments than they do. A live American
newspaper in 1 melon w ould revolution
ize (he whole character of the pre'sa of
the English capital, and bring it up to
a level with the spirit of the- tune.
The I’niiishiiietit f " The Feather
tv hue.”
Kivm ‘Mv'nrm'v tn Monvvo.“
The govermir e>f Haha, the largest
and most inq orlant province m die
Empire, which long maintamad its in
vlcpeiuleuco of the Sultan, hail heredi
tary claims of the twelve Shellab tnlms
who make up the pe'pidatie'n, Al
though miserably fallen away from its
ancient prosperity -in the time v*l Leo
Afrieamts tlie sixteenth I'eutury)
there' were .ax or seven populous te'wns
where there is tie'w nothing but a vil
lage' -the province still furnishes much
agricultural produce and live stock.aml
semis hull's, grain, oil and either titer
cltamlise for exportation to the port of
Mogaile'r. The governor, at the lime of
e'ttr visit, hail long held bis ollice; by
liberal contributions to the Imperial
treasury he Intel kept himself in the'
favor e'l the* Sultan while amassing vast
wealth. I'owerful and feared, he might
have maintaiimel his authority un
broken. hut that by a contimums eamrse
of oppression aiul cruelty, 1m at length
stirre'el up the spirit of resistance
among his own pe'ople, Vengeance,
heiwever; atrocious, for acts of
revolt is so fully the admitte'd right e>f
men in authority in Me'rocco that tt
eiiel not see in t> e'ounl l\*r much in the
indictment against him that on eum oc
casion he* intluted on several hmnlri'il
some saiil a lhotisanel*-*pi'isoni'vs the'
ti'irihle' punishment of the "leather
glim'." A lump of cpiii'klime is plaeeil
m the victim's open palm, die* hand is
elose'il over it, amt hound last w ith a
tiieee of raw-hiele. The other haml is
fasteimei with a chain behind the hae'k,
while the bound list is phuige'il m wa
ter. When, on the ninth elay, the*
wrotehe'd man has tlie renminmg haml
set fre'i', it is to Tuul limiselfa mnhlrtli'il
ulyi e’l fi'r life, unless inoititie'iitiein has
set in, and elcath relieves him from fur
liter siillering. Hut, in ntldition to such
acts as tlie'se 1 , the* Kaiil of Haha was ae
ctisiui of e.t|iriciotis deeels of ferocity
that revolte'el the I'onsi'ii'iu'e's of his pe>o
pie. Among the other stories of die
kind, wo were told that on some oei'a
siein, when he was having a wall tuiielei
around his garden, he happened to sea*
a youth jump over the unlinisheel fence
Feeling in some'way annoyi il at this,
In* had the iinfeirtiiimte boy’s right foot
slrue'k oil' as a lesson not to repeal the
experiment.
Vanderbilt's Tunnel.
The people of Detroit are very iiiueb
concerned at present over the fact Unit
Mr. Vanderbilt seriously contemplates
constructing a tunnel under the Detroit
river at Oros.se Isle, anoint twenty miles
below the city. If Ibis should be built
—and it is probably a fact that the
plans have been agreed upon, and (bat
the sanction of the Canadian govern
ment is now awaited, it is evident that
the through traffic of the Michigan
Central, the Lake Shore A Michigan
Southern and the Canada Southern
roads would be cut oil'from Detroit,
and that other roads would naturally
seek that route also. On the other
hand, the (fraud Trunk and (ireat
Western roads would he placed at a dis
advantage by the necessity of ferriage.
To prevent these results it is earnestly
urged in Detroit by one party that a
tunnel should be built there, while an
other parly favors the construction of a
bridge. A few years ago, elaborate in
vestigations were made m regard to the
feasibility of a tunnel at (hat point, hut
the scheme W'as finally abandoned ow
ing to quicksand and sulphur gases, and
the great depth to which it would he
necessary to bore. A bridge is doubt
less practicable, but ibis is strongly op
posed by t lk* vessel interest. Mr. \V.
K. Muir, however, in a letter to the
Detroit pafiers, pronounces a tunnel
impracticable at Detroit, but favors a
bridge crossing the river from above
Windsor, and coining down on the De
troit side to the Michigan Central depot.
He adds:
"As to the Crosse Me tunnel, nature
seems to have iiueii led that point for
such a grand international crossing. It
is the shortest and cheapest place in the
river for a tunnel. The Canada South
ern railway was built to there on that
account, and I do not think the through
business that way would affect the in
terest of Detroit as much as some peo
ple imagine.”
A recent dispatch asserts (lint Mr.
Vanderbilt has let the contract for this
tunnel and that it is to cost ♦ 1,500,000
and to require two years for comple
tion. It seems most probable that froth
this tunnel and a bridge at Detroit will
be built, so that the traffic across the
Detroit rivi r will at leiut be divided be
tween the two points. lOUlwuy Agt,
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La*l Fry for Human S'liqmlliv.
Jixlttns)*liP Ihfald
“Ob, lam going to die. Won’t you
all forgive me? The grave will he so
lonesome," said Maggie Hi I vers, of
Zanesville, when her friends found her
in the agonies of self-inflicted death at
midnight. Hhe was 18 years old, and
bad some trouble, no one knew what.
At 2 o'clock she died. The world must
have looked very dark to the young
girl when it drove her to the grave
which she dreaded because it would be
“so lonesome."
Thebe has been an extraordinary
natural phenomenon at Ksppelsdorf, a
'ullage near Krfurt, a fortress in Prus
sian Haxony, A lake near the hamlet
suddenly rose with a violent boiling
movement and overflowed its banks. A
villager saw a column of boiling water
rise to a considerable height from the
middle of the lake, wheu it broke and
was scattered in every direction.
THE TERE I>o.
How tie Destroys Thousands of Hollars*
Worth of I’roperl*.
Ye>rk Sim.
Mr. Cage exhibited numerous blocks
e>f wend full of hob's. He also showed
specimens e'f the tereilo, ami gave a ele
seription of the te'e'ls w ith which lie per
fortued bis labor. His boring appara
tus. Mr. I'age said, is of a triple charac
ter. First and foremost, seeing that it
is a projection frei'u the front of his
sti el-like head, is his auger, with which
be makes an entrance mte' the pie'ce of
wood in which he proposes tv* dwell.
Siele by side' will* this is a gi'nge, anil on
the outer surface a tile. The teredo
can cut in any direction. He is sup
plied with a ili'itble sit'heui, with one
arm of which be helps himself to ani
maculie when be is at work, ami with
the either ejecta lus sawdust through his
hoely intv' the waters behind hint.
When he enters the wooel he is almost
in Unites! mat in length, breadth, and
thickness, but after he has livexl for a
she'rt lime among the' tibrous shades
that give him home ami hxni. he has
grown to the length of four inches, and
is stout emuigh te' warrant the supposi
tion that he has feasie'el upon farinace
ous food from birth. Tbeteredi'is pat
ticularly troublesome at the Mattery,
but much more so at Holtoken, where
| he has de stroyeel in six months the pil
mg e'f a pie'r that ee*st thousands e'f vle'l
, lavs. Among the specimens of liis head
work e'xhihite'il tiy Mr. Page, was a
block cut from a mahogany Toe in the
! harbor of Aspittwall. The eutraue'e'
I hob's tuaile by the little' pe'st and his
] fellow-borers were' hardly v.sihle to the
nake'el eye, but the perforations, on the
le'ppv'siie siele* gave* tlie block the ap
i pearauee of a targe-t that had I'i'i'ii
! honey-e'omhi'el l>y inillels. The te'ii'ilei
j was so destructive to tlie> j'iling e'f the
Mobile A New Orleans railroad that
I tile' company’s profits were' for a long
time eaten tit'm repairing the damage
lione by tlie worm; ami tl was not until
creosote oil was nst'el in impregnating
tin' wood that they were able to pay a
j iliviiletiel. This creosote oil, one of the
j many products of coal tar, is dm emly
substance known that will cheek the
| teredo. Ere'sh water, however, will kill
him, and every year seagoing vessels
that have been raide'ei upon by Urn
worm are lake'll up the llitelson, tei
Ivomleinl and other points, where, in a
few weeks, no trace of (he borers re*-
mains except dm hob's he has mailt'
ami the calcareous material with which
he* has lineil the walls of his tabular
dwelling. Two years ago, Mr. Huge
eouliiuieil, a vessel hub'll w ith marble
was wrecked oil Eire Island, Some
marine iinim.il, akin, perhaps to dm
(erode*, hut supplit'el with more tula
omnium, implements, attacked the
mnrbh' amt worked bis way through it
as though it was nothing hanler Ilian
soft pine. A piece of die marble was
shown. It was I'ompb'tely honey
eoiubeil.
line Opium Makes Him Peel.
i lin’l'.'nmi Kmpilrer.
Wall Sluing, llie Sixth street laundry
man, entered the ding store opposite
his dive yesterday evening, and throw
down a nickel, said;
“ Five eeutee opium.”
While the clerk was getting him (be
drug an h'lufuirer representative en
gaged ine Ciiiiiaman in conversation
“ Huy much opium, Wall ?”
“ Five, I. it, hfteeii centre worth a
day.”
“ I Ise it on shirts ?”
“ llelle, no! smoke it.”
“ lake it ?”
“ Belly good,” and a happy smile
spread over his mummy-like features.
“ Tell me something about it," said
the hnqninr man; "what kind of an
died does it produce how does it
make yon feel ?”
"Make Chinaman feel liken,"—and
here lie was struck for a comparison to
denote perfect happiness and content
ment; "makes Chinaman feel liken
likee Meliean man den. (Irani., aller
lime plenty money, no much workee,
laki e things easy."
" Makes yon forget your troubles,
does it, ?”
" Yes; forget troubles alien same
like when yon sleep.”
"See nice things in your dreams?”
" Belly nice. Everything big and
beautiful;” and be made an enrap
tured gesture with bis bands,
” Fveiything grand, I suppose?"
" Belly grand. Chinaman's cellar
look like Uioson Mouse.”
" Is it possible 7 1
" Smooth in-iron look like train of
ears and wash-tub like a steam boat."
" You don't say so! And what else?"
"Oh, beep else. Wall Hbiing feel
likee sold out and gone back to China
with |2,500.
From Opposite I’olnls In View.
A gloomy clergyman was once called
to llic bedside of a friend of mine who
was dying. The preacher prayed and
left the house. Next day I called on
my friend who despite Ids mournful
state had a merry twinkle in bis eye as
be asked me to guess who bad been to
set.* him. I named half a dozen ac
quaintances, hut foiled to bit the mark.
My friend, with immense relish in bis
tores, finally said: 11 It was Kev. Mr, J‘.
Me asked me if be might oiler prayer.
Of course I said yes. Would yon be
lieve it, the burden of this ball hour’s
supplication was that the Dud would
take me to himself at once. Now,
would not any reasonable human la-ing
[dead that I might be snared to my
family? You tell Dr, I’, for me the
next time you see him that I do not
want the lxrd to take me," —Dtirvil
Frrr I‘rru,
|{inming Hewn a Blink Mountain Belt.
Henry County (Mo ) 11-mocrM.
Mr. 8. L. Kirtley, the proprietor of
the hotel at Hrowniogton, Mo, on Fri
day last started out to summon wit
nesses who lived on Hillegras prairie,
in the southeastern part of Ibis county,
ami, while riding leisuiely along, he
espied a large black wolf in a whcal
lield close by. Kpurring his horse to its
utmost speed, he at once gave chase,
and for miles over the prairies and
through fields, will) here and there a
small skirt of timber, on they sped, the
wolf h: the lead, but the brave rider
and dauntless little horse always in
sight, and otun close upon the wolfs
heels. It was a reckless ride over
(dices and through farms, with never a
pause for breath. As they passed farm
houses, the rider shouted for help, and
other* joined in the chase, until the
number of pursuers was a dozen or
more. Still the little horse kept the
lead, while one after another ot the
fresh steeds fell to the rear. After a
run of twenty or twenty-live miles, and
when within a quarter of a mile of
Isiwry Oily, a small village in St. Clair
county, the race ended, and the little
horse ran directly over the woif, knock
ing it down. Kirtley was unarmed,
and, springing from lus saddle, grasped
the vicious animal by the mouth, pin
ioning its jaws as with a death grip.
Men came to his aid, and a strong
cord was K und around the wolf’s
mouth, rendering it. harmless. The
cords were unintentionally drawn so
tight that the animal died of strangula
tion and exhaustion shortly after being
captured. It pioved to be a full-grown
i black mountain wolf, fully three feet
; high, and weighing probably Itio
pounds.
KNOHJH TO KIM. I'IVK INKS.
\ Man Who Want* lo Fill Five Ounce*
of o|ilnni Km h Oiiy.
Nw Yi'ik Sur.
"Opium! opium! for heaven's sake
give me some opium! ’ cried nnour fol
low in 0110 of ilu< ward* of St. Vincent's
hospital last night. The doctor* mid
Sister's of Morov who surrounded him
kindly Iml firmly refused lo give linn
whnt ho wiuitoil. They substituted a
mild narcotic, which mitigated, hut did
not atop tho nuin’a craving*. Tim man
who was hogging ho piti*onsly for tho
drug wan Tliomaa Francia, once a well
known hiVHc hall player, and formerly
pitcher for the old \tlantic clnh, lie
had hot'u Ht'iil to lilt' hoHpital from the
Ninth precinct police elution, lo which
hint ht> had come an a prisoner, having
hocn caught by Mr. Henry Van Hus
kirk, of No. "1 Eighth avenue, stealing
inline crockery from the kitchen.
In the Htation-honae Francis Haiti that
he had Htolen the crockery, intending
to Hell it to gel money to hny opium.
He waa pul in a cell, hut he hail not
heen there long before he began to rave
like a maniac. Too police iturgeon
waa called, and he found the prisoner
trembling like an aapen leaf and suller
ing from extreme nervnnamss, The
man waa ao seriously ill that it waa re
solved to aeml him to the hospital. It
required the lliiittul ellortaof two atrong
nii'ii to hoM him in the ambulance on
tin' way, however, ami in hia paroxysms
hi' hit the hand of one of the surgeon*.
Hi' struggled when being carried up the
steps at. the porch, and fought when
taken into the ward.
In one of Ins more rational momenta
ht> gave the doctura a brief account of
Ida experieiioea aa an opium-eater. He
Haiti that while playing a match game
of base ball several years ago be was
bit in tin* aide with a ball, which came
living through the air at a terrible
speed, Two of Ins riba were broken
and be was injured internally. The
physicians who attended him gave him
small ibises of opium to allay (be pain
and secure him sleep at night. The re
sult was that Francis acquired a taste
for the drug. It was not long before lie
required an ounce of lluiti extract of
opium daily, The habit grew upon
linn rapidly, ami at last the large quan
tity ol live ounces was required each
day from one-half to one mince being
eiioiigli to kill an ordinary man. He
matte desperate efforts to escape from
Hie habit, but in vain.
Francis is a member of respcclab'e
family in Jtrooklyn. His opium habit
incapacitated bun for business, and bis
friends refused to give him money to
purchase the drug. In bis desperation
he resorted to theft. Al'hoiigb he is
only "rt years of age, the effects of the
opium have made him look like a man
of Deep lines are in his face, his
elieeks are sunken, and his eyes have a
peculiar glassy appearance. Ten years
ago he was one of the most popular
professional hall players in the country.
At one time he was paid a salary of
t-’.rsHi per annum, and a share of the
gait> money, as pitcher. He distin
guished himself in mulches with the
Atlantic club, played with the Hay
makers, Hie licit Htoi'kmg* and other
noted organizations,
•• • ♦■
Wlien Old the Tomato Arrlrc!
Ilmtim Trimcrlpt.
Noticing an article in your paper
containing an account of the first eat
ing of the tomato in this country, 1 de
sire to correct your correspondent,
‘'Seaweed." In 17'J.‘1 and several years
subsequently, (Japt, I'hinoaa F.ldridge
resided on Carpenter street, west of
Fourth street, I’hilailelphia. During
I7'.ik a Frenchman named Nicnlo left
San Domingo with his family, consist
ing of wife and two children, and oc
cupied the adjoining property. He
brought with him several varieties of
vegetable seed, which were planted,
and after a lapse of time grew and Imre
fruit. Among them was a tomato,
which ho dressed as a salad, and which
was relished by Mr. Eldridge's family.
The neighbors procured the seed and
raised them as an ornament, having the
impression that they were poisonous.
Tomatoes were used in New Orleans as
an article of food in 1812; they were
sold in Philadelphia markets ns early
as 1
Mu. N. F. Hilbert has sold his interest
in the Merchants’ National Hank of
Winona, to Mr. J. M. Hell, late cashier
of the M orchants’ National Hank of
Fort Dislgc, lowa. Tho reason assigned
by Mr. Hilbert for retiring is that he
finds (he confinement of tho place
injures his health,and ho desires to rest,
for a ii.rie at least, and recuperate.
Til* MUlrr, of London Eng., say* the
upward tendency in wheat has fair
prospects of being continued to long as
the continent of Europe can alisorb
120,000 iiimiters weekly; and Russia
apparently will not undersell America!
or home supplies in either England or
Franco.
Tiik Madison (La.) Journal says that
horses and cows have been selling at
Delta for $5 per head.