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PIOCHE ML! EECOI I Published Every Thursday. riOUHE, - NEVADA x he iraternity existing among lawyers Is sweet to behold. Whe one of the craft claims a $25,000 fee, getting others to swear that it is just ana reasonable is the least of his difficulties. For thrashing a New York police man trod. May spent six years in ex ilo and has just paid 1500 tine. Still, the policeman was well thrashed an Mr. May is said to have derived much pleasure from the occasion. Already base ball irossin is be ginning to ba numerous. America Is a great country for national camos marbles in the Bpring, base ball, tennis and croauot all summer long, yachting in the early fall, foot ball till Thanksgiving time, skating and ice polo in the winter and poker au tne time. I Hardly a day passes without the report of a train robbery Bomewhore. But the reports of the capture of the robbers are few and far between, Train robbory is altogether too safe a business in. this oountry. Any man wno win devise some means to make it more dangerous will gain the grat itudo ol the nation. ANiron chimnoy ninety foot long ana forty-eight Inches in diameter, constructed for a manufacturing es. luDiisnment in rrovidence, was raised by riggers' tackle the other day and set on end ready for use. Civilization will yet enable us to take down the chimney and clean it a wen as the stove. An Oakland man havlntr Vinnn bumped into by an electrio car de rived mucn pleasure from thrashing tne conauctor and motorraan. Then he suod for damages, and the fact of his prowess knocked out his caso. He now estimates the cost of this tleetlng ploasure at fl.000, and wishes he had refrainod. An eminent scientist, Profossor btarr of Chicago, says that the white race is doomed to extinction and that the Mongolians will over run the globo. Possibly true. But the Mongolian seems to want to bo- pin overrunning before the process oi extinction has reachod a stage to warrant it. if the earth is to be his, can t He wait a little? Mb. Bkown, of Bangor, having shot Mr. Peters, took the body to its late home in a wheelbarrow and dumped it in the front yard. If Brown intended this ant nf to mitigato his offense there is reason uj Deneve that lie will discover a Painful lack Of unnmnlntlnn ''ha world has not yet been educated up to numor so grim as Brown a. Mrs. Maverick, the fAmnrinnn woman who is serving a life term in an English prison for nntnnninnr her husband, doesn't lack stanch and Bieaaiast irlends, at all events. New evidence of a starll in IT n fit. urn na been disoovored, her counsel say, and ii is nopea mat oven English con- nervuusm win not long resist a mo tion for a new trial in the case. A Chicago soup house whioh had been feeding 2.00U rmranno rlallir n- clded to require a few hours' work as reiurn tor its Hospitality, and on the day following the announcement 1,500 of the patrons failed to put in an appearance, which would seem to Indicate that in the army of the unemployed are uvu reauy to lane out tnelr discharge papers. Tiiere is a very small herd of buf- aio sun in existence in Colorado, and now it is reported that auothoi small one has been found. Thi species of animal is almost nvt.iiw. and the government should take some action to prevent the few that Are still left from ho in or flUOiMn.-0,i If some precaution is not taken the buffalo will soon be as extinct as tho mastodon. The defensive measures taken by several senators against a New Jersey crank who has sent threaten ing letters will onlv stir lin nt.hni cranks, and the probability is that liuuiiu iuoh nf wasnington will bo bombarded with such missives. The prudent course for the threatened statesmen to have pursued was to keep the matter a profound and procure the arrest of the crank uy government detectives. Oncs more the annual complain! is made that there Is tory in congress. The elaborate ora torical splurtre. the rhnt.m-lnal T,., technics of an earlior day, is now uuuorei. as mucn out oi place as ureuruciters in a workroom. Con gress is a business body, and most of its work is done In the committee room, where the flamboyant rhetarl elan is given but little toleration. But congress does just as much work as it used to, when it talked more. A woman convicted of vitriol-throw- ing immediately burst into tears the chronicles of a certain coun relate. The act was hnnnm v. BO tv but tardv. Her tirtiA In Vmt , had passed when she had uucorked y Warren Ladd of New Bedford, mass., latner or ex-Governor Ladd ol Rhode Island, had the dubious pleas ure of reading a column obituarv o himself in a Boston paper. Mistakes win occur even In the American cen tor of culture. The Choctaw tribe hag developed a professional hue-par. whn k.. o ai v4A ii DbQO every woman he can lay his hands . uii, witnoui regard to race, color or previous condition of servitude. The feasibility of civilizing the Indian is no longer a mooted problem. When footpads get so bold that they will rob a lady of her sealskin Back it is time for an active defense. Sorao husbands would doubtless go to the extreme of advocating a ces sation of the purchase of sealskins wherewith to tempt the highwayman. ASKED TO SURRENDER. Reporta That Minister WUIIs Bad Asked the Hawaiian Government to Abdicate, A dispatch from Auckland says: Advices from Honolulu tn TWomlmr 22 have been received here by the steamer Alameda, which has just ar rived from San Francisco. Tho officer of the vessel stated to an Associated Press man the excitement in Hono lulu over the political situation was growing in intensitv. The member of tlio police force of the island have been notihed that they would be ex pected to take arms in defense of the government, and a number of them had been dismissed from the service for refusing to obey this order. lhe officers further stated to the in terviewer that the minister of the United States had written to the pro visional government, renueatinsr that they surrender office, as the United States government had decided in fa vor of the restoration of the queen. Tho minister, in his communication informed the government that the queen had agreed to grant amnesty to all who had taken part in thn rnvnln- tion, to ratify the obligations of the present government, and to govern faithfully in accordance with the pres ent constitution. The government was preparing a long reply to the min ister. MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL. Now Open for Use by the Largest Steam ship. The Manchester ship canal is nrtw open for traffic. It is a remarkablo ntcrpnse which will make Manches ter a Bcaport from this date, as the largest seagoing steamships can pass through the canal. With the use of electrin liirht steamers will bo able to navigate by aight as well as by day, and the wholo cngth of the canal will be traversed in about ten hours. Some notion of the canaeitv of the canal may be drawn when we compare its depth with the Suez and Amster- am canals, lhe minimum width nf the bottom of the Suez is seventy-two tcct and of tho Amsterdam cighty- lght tcet, seven inches, while that of the Manchester canal is 120 feet. Tho minimum depth of the Manchester and Suez waterways is twenty-six feet. and that of the Amsterdam canal twenty-eight feet. It is believed the auantitv of irrain carried over the canal will be at least one-half of that now landed at T.ivpr. pool. It is estimated that at least 105,000 tons per annum of fmit, nii vegetables will at once be imported to Manchester by this route. With regard to raw cotton, firms in tho district, owning 18,000,000 spin dles, declare that nearly all the cotton they use will bo brought by the canal. Of outward cargos there will bo no lack, and textile manufacturers have testified to their belief that abnut. 500,000 tons per annum will bo dis patched by the new cana . The finan. cial success of this enormous under taking seems to be assured. The pro moters ot tho canal are confident nf their ability to Becure a large and re munerative traihe and the estimates of profit based upon the capital, an nrir. inally proposed, were very favorable. lhe original capital of 40 000 nnn has, however, now grown to nearly double that amount, and the anticipa tions of profit aro not now ro aanmiinn ns they formerly were. That thero aro, however, enormous probabilities of traffio cannot be disputed. Eg Against State Elevators. Judge Mitchell has hand ful down a decision of the Minnesota Supremo court declaring the law providing for the building of a state elevator at. Tin- luth to be unconstitutional. Kdward luppey brought an injunction suit against the elevator in the Ramsey county District court, hut .Tud V;i. - , - o " ' ' . liams dismissed the case, which was taken to the Supreme court, that body deciding that the state had no right to go into tho elevator business. A Boon tu Humanity. A number nf our crvpnf on1 mct ! vcterate tobacco smokers and chewers havo quit the use of the iilthy weed, lhe talismanio article that does tho work is No-to-bac. Tho reform was started by Aaron tiorber, who was a confirmed slave for many years to tho use of tobacco, lie tried tho use of No-to-bac, and to his great surprise and delight It cured him. Hon. C. W. Ashcom, who had been smoking for sixty years, tried No-to-bac, and it cured him. Cnl. Rm.i w..t who would eat up tobacco like a cow ieu tnis wonaeriul remedy, and even Samuel, after all his years of slavery, lost the desire. J. C. Cobler, ;illlS iwans, r ranu Dell, Ueoriro B. nett, Frank llcrshberger. John Shiun and others have since tried No-to-bac and in everv c&ka thn n,i a cure of the tobacco habit, but a won- iiiiprovemem in their general physical and mental condition, all of which goes to show that the use of to ducco bad been Injurious to them in more ways than one, au oi the abovo gentlemen arc so well pleased with the results that we do not hesitAtja ii tu i mending it to suffering humanity, as ... . . , . uutfy investigated and are satisfied th.t v.-i.... j it . work well and is a boon to mankind. The COSt Is trlfllni i and tho makers, The Sterling Remedy nnmnniio I,... . 1- a . . . . - . l-ji ' u mucn laun m INO-tO- oao that thpv KGr.ii.i . - i u .j, guarantee threo boxes to cure any case, or refund monev. One box in every instance in tllO aoOVH. otTfiptArl a ,,.. .!.u a .Tin i une or two exceptions. No-to-bac has a won derful sale upon its merits alone, throiip-hmit 1K TTnitorl fif -j - . ."".n, uu can ne secured at almost any drug store in muiiirj ur uunaaa, ana it is mada bv Th Rtprllnn. Chicago office, 45 Kandofph Btreet; York office- 10 Spruce street From The Press, Everett, Pa., Deo. H9&C0RD; II! what beautiful apples!" said she, stopping sudden lv. The tree whose apples she stop- pcu to admire. was a fine one, anu us Dranelies hung full of delicious reu iruit. "1 dearly love apples," she resumed i win unci tne owner of the or chard and ask him for some," I said. "I prefer stolen applei," said she, quietly and a little sharply. This cry of lhe heart, and of the stomach, which revealed the natural fancy of the woman, recalled to my mind the temptation sevpral thnuaanH VPai'ft lllTfi Wtllmnf u.l.lilnnt. A Mother t,ve s beauty, I must say that uc tuuiu not uy any possiointy have Lon sn flplinlniiclir ni-pttt, en .'j, ... D t ix chantlngly lovely as was my fiance as Klip Rtrtftil tliaxn niiiiniT ... 1 in"u a'JiL'. "The dilcli is not wide and the wall Is not very high." said my temptress, who looked as demure and innocent as a nun. J his was plainly an invi- tation directed to mv ohvsien.1 aliil- ' It. wns ns if cltn UA c.t.l. i.v.. nW . - - - - " "''. UU iave long legs and strong arms; go ami (j'vuici auiue (inpies ior mo. I cnmnrA miwlrtd h.tt l once, and I also comprehended that I nus innueu in a very ooneato situa tion, tipr.nisp. If 1 nm nn ntH.. 1 , . M u... mi willful KJ L Chasseurs, I have distinct ideas in re- ffUl 11 LO tllft nwnirshin n r n.nn.i-f.. After rlun rptlp.ittn,i T .n.t.nAn... 1.. informed my fiance that I would not 1. oiciu itiiy upjitr ior ner. "Vnil nrA vrw rrfill.nt ' .n!.l I. ! v Hu..u.tii, aim in a tone which plainly signified that I nu ijuiLo liiu reverse. I S1IW nf nnpp tlint. F wno in V,-. islied for this disobedience. She turned her black eyes upon mo, and crnvp tup A. mnst ll la1 .j i n f 1 closed her rosy lips tightly together'; ...iiiwioi. uci arui iruia mine; and, in fact, she brought to bear upon me au tne cruel machinations that a lovely woman knows how to employ In such cases. On our wav tn t.hp hone T H,i M best to soften her, but without suc cess. The dinner rinrinrr wltt..!, cl.n glanced in my direction, was a dull affair, and as soon as it was finished she started to leave the room without showing the least sign of forgiveness. I precipitated myself toward the door, however, anil evtpnfWl m-n l,wi the usual friendly clasp; but though one uiiuwuu mo 10 taijo ner hand in mine, her fingers did not respond to my warm pressure; her little hand lay limp and cold iu mine, while her man ner indicated that she would have re fused me even this, but for the people present. "Henna!" T murmiirpH In n e,1ni: v, .U u BUJ.UU- eating voice. "hir," sho replied coldly, "I 0ve apples stolen apples." After pronouncing those words my cruel love left the room and I at onco took my departure and returned home. Arrived there, I throw myself upon a lounge and enjoyed the pleas- ul "i ru"i!,r into a terriDie rage. May the Lord pardon me, but I be lieve f RWnrn lilrn n iani,c-ntnn. , uirioiis was I against my fiance, against myself, against those apples and against everything and every body. How could a promenade begun so happily pud so disastrously? Is the caprico of a pretty woman of so much importance? Hut was she alone culpable? Was I not equally to be blamed for having surrendered myself in such a servile manner to her despot ism that it was sufficient for her to assume a little displeasure in order to torture me to this point? I felt that I was a miserable coward. It made no difference in my estimation that I had displayed bravery on tho field of battle. I felt that I was wanting in true courage, especially tho kind that would nromnU iniRiisnil Invn. A .A volt and shake off tho tyranny of two 'cuutiiui eyes in uiuming of these things I evoked In spite of myself the face and form of HprthiL l.'ool . cation! How beautiful! how she nppearedl The dear littlo girl, she had had a caprice, a simple caprice, and 1 had brutally refused to gratify it. And all of this trouhln tvk nn count of a few apples. Would It be robbery to get those apples? tine does not steal apples, he takes them. One steals wnt.phocnn.l And then, where would there be any proof of love on my part unless I made an occasional sacrifice or did something besides agreeable and pleas ant things in order to gratify my loved one? 'She shall haVA thnsn nnnln. c.i.l ...w", hj.ilo, CIllU I, at lust, risiug to my feet, ami since she wishes it they shall be stolen ap ples. It Was an UnuSUftHir llnrlr niirlif o,l tho wind blew in violent gusts as I started on my errand. In a few moments T sinnl In n, street opposite tho nnnln trn Win,. out a moment's hesitation I leaped the ditch and clambered over the wall into tne orchard. At the Instant I raised my hand to grasn an apple a verv near voice Tied: "YOU thief! Tlipra rrnn o.n las'!" ' i at As I peered into thn ilnrlmx whence thn volpn ess shining barrel of a gun pointed at my breast Instinctively I th row mvto! f at mv t v mo nitiiiu imy- nuMit, and I bore him to tho ground. i ui unee rciaxca my nom upon his throat anfl Rnrtmrinrr t.i fat I t-oD j n ty '"J -vv, ' about to fly, when to my horror ho uuereu a aeop groan, loiiovred by a SOtind vhii-h. ivhpn rnn. Ikiih-.I n never be forgotten tho death rattle. I lis 4, I. .1 t I 1 nb u lumen anu, iuiung on my knees, held it close to tha prostrate man b face. Great God, what a Bpeitaelo! i ll O fiinn an ii mnn n 1 1 V nnnn - v s wu uausa, 1 til UJ't II, staring eyes, his long white hair uukuvu iu uiuuu, wjiicn Dowen irom a gaping wound near his temple, was what I saw by tho flickering light of I1JV UlLllCIl, I aKn RntV Pinna ltnslH. Til. linnrt 41. sharp anl ragged point of a large stonu and tho cause of his do.ith was at once revealed to me. The moviug lights of several lan terns In the distnnco warned ma that the report of the old man's gun had aroused his family and neighbors, and, at once losing all control over myself, I fled, like a madman, straight before me. At the end of a few steps I brought tipt-uddenly against the door of an out-house, and, pressing on the latch. I penetrated into a region much darld-r than the night outside I hastily lit a match, and looking about I saw a lantern hanging upon a nail directly in front of me. 1 lit the lantern tit oiuc. mid by means of its light discovered a lud.ler, which led to u lolt above. 1 scrambled up the ladder and found myself in a large room filled with hay, containing a single window that over looked the fields that skirted the lawn. I had scarcely time to glance about me when I heard my pursuers with shouts and yells approach the barn, and in a moment they had gained the room beiow. Cornered and desperate I threw my lantern aside and, rushing to the window, sprang to the ground below. I fied like a deer through tho field and, completely exhausted, I gained at last a piece of wood about a mile from town. As I lay panting upon the ground 1 heard the clanging of a bell, then several, until in a moment the air seemed fil ed with their brazen peals. Springing to my feet I looked toward the town and I was horrified to see great sheets of fiames issuing from the barn, where, in my mad flight, I bad overturned the lantern. In a few moments the fire spread to the adjoining building and soon the whole street was in a blaze. Above the pealing of the bells I seemed to hear the words: "Assassin!'' "Rob ber!" "Incendiary!" shrieked in men acing tones. And well I knew that I merited those infamous epithets. Yes, I, who had dreamed of a life of honor, had committed three terrible crimes in a few moments, by an en chainment of circumstances all pro ceeding from my weakness before the caprice of a pretty woman. I held myself in horror and detesta tion, and I resolved that in place of trying to savja life of so little iyilue to yield myself up to justice at ones. With this object in view, I started for the town, aud upon my arrival I went directly to mv colonel and confessed my crimes This accomplished, I fell Into a state of unparalleled torpor. I had no perception of time, neither of the hours nor tho days, and lived as one crushed by the weight of an inex orable fatality. Two terrible shocks, however, drew me for a short time from this letharev. Tho dav when condemned by a council of war, I stood uetore the comrades of my regi ment, to undergo the horrible cere mony of degradation, I asked myself how it was possible to suffer mien shame and live. Then came my trial uexore ine civil authorities, who hastily condemned me to death. The decree of death was a deliver ance; but I dreaded the mode of execution, and 1 recoiled in horror irom the scaftold. -'Not that! not that!" I cried and strutrarlcd madlv against those who tried to place me under the noose. Suddenly I felt a sharp pain in mv right hand; I heard the crack of break ing glass and, opening my eyes, I found myself in my chamber on the lounge, where I had fallen asleep while think- THE PATH ni? A V dm 1 w ing of llertha and those detestable apples. In my struggles I had broken a iroblot which stnoil nn a nt.nnH no, by and one of tho fragments had cut ui.v nana. The nextdnv 1 tnlrl Tiprtnn nil nl,ni my agonies, real and imaginary. "It seems to me," I said in an impressive manner, "tuat my uream conveys a solemn warning and " "lie trannuil. mv ilpnt- " 1ia cnil T shall never ask you to steal apples' for Oh, thanks! I cried. "No." she resumed, "if T wnnf. n apples I shall know nnmifrli nnt. trt octr you to get them for me; I shall steal ,i i mum Iliybcu. I do really think I shall have trouble with that girl yet A CURIOUS COMPOSITION. Written Wllh a Needle by a Mallet Danoor Who Know no Muslr. Kamonu, tho celebrated French composer (1683-1761), is responsible for a very curious composition. Tho famous ballet dsucer Salle, with whom he ontortained very friendly relations, askod him one day to give hor soma instruction in the science of composing that she might immor talize herself by a composition of her own. Half ironically, half eallantlv. Kamcau repliod that it was unnec essary for him to givo her any les sons, as all sho would have to do was to wield tho noodle with which she producod such delicate embroid eries, ilo took some note nauor from his pocket and direoted her to place stitch upon stitch within the start or near the same. The beauti ful girl did as sho askod, and when sho had finished Kamoau took tho sheet and. transformed tho stitches into notes. Not one was omitted by him, wniie no changed their value, etc. and prefixed tho elof when ho had finlshod. Ho then played tho com position, greatly to thedoliirht of tho charming dancer. lho outcome of this littlo pleas antry was au exceedingly peculiar and piquant molody which Kamoau lator on embodied In his opera "Las Indes Galantos." It was played and sung with groat success and bocame very popular. Undor the title of "Les Suuvagos" it was for a long time one of the most popular melo dies of the ago. A Drr fteyser. Thero is a hole in Yollowstono park supposed to bo a "dry geysor," which is believed to be. "bottomless." Three thousand foot of lino, with wolght attachod, has boon let down into It without meeting with obstruc tion. Cost of Milk Varies. The Xcw Ilampshiro experiment farm finds that milk from the best cows costs ono and a half cents a quart; from their poorest, four and a half cents, as it costs just as much to feed tho smaller producer. No lllsputlng; Her. Lawyer I'm sorry, but hearsay won't do hero. Wo must have evi dence which no ono will dare dis pute. Client Ilcavons, man! My mother-in-law saw it! 1'uck. Ills Aflel'tlons. First, lioy Which do you liko best, your fuihci- or your niothor? Second lioy Well, I llko my father best, mostly, but 1 liko my mother best at mcaltima. CHOLERA'S ENDEMIC HOME. Not Iadla, Bat Arabia, la the Baal Breeding Place of tbe Plague. Shocking as are tho statistics of mortality among pilgrims to Mecca reported in the Sun from Tunis a few days ago, where of 9,000 who set out but half the number returned, tha death rate of last season is but little greater than that of ordinary years. The health officials of Bombay and other Indian cities have for some timo been collecting facts and sta tistics to show that India docs not deserve the ill reputation it has of being "the endemic home of cholera" but that Arabia is tho homo of the plaguo. and they are preparing to make strenuous efforts to arouse the Arabian authorities and convince them of tho fact, and to have them apply a remedy. Some of the statis tics printed in the liombay Gazotte reveal a terrible state of affairs. According to the official returns of tho health officer of Bombay, of 91,000 pilgrims who left the city for Mecca during the last eight years only 60,000 have come back. Thirty pilgrims in every hundred have per ished in every year of that period, and very many who survievd to re turn home have come back only to dio of disease contracted on the pil grimage. Tho facts adduced go to prove that tho pilgrims do not carry Jiseaso with them from India. There is a rigid inspection atCbmbay be fore embarkation, and every pil grim is required to pass a medical examination, to undergo a certain quarantining process and to possess a certificate of good health. The mortality on the voyage from Bom bay to Arabia is very small. It is after the pilgrims have entered tho holy cities and during the return that the mortality is groat. A record is kopt by tho British consul at Joddah of tho number of pilgrims arriving at and departing from that port, with such particulars as will insure identification. Tho figures of this record fully corrobo rate those of tho Bombay officials. An average estimate of a mortality of ono-third among the Indian pil grims in each year, when thero is no genoral epidemic of cholera, is clearly established, and tho boliof is ex pressed, founded on such corrobora tive statistics as aro obtainable, that fully one-third of all pilgrims to Mecca perish in every year. Tho Indian officials assort that tho cholera plagues which periodically sweep around tho world "have their origin in the filth of Mecca and Me dina." Tnore is a groat scarcity of water in these places, and tho qual ity of tho littlo obtainable Is bad. The famous holy well at Mocca offers the most complete conditions for spreading disease. It ordinarily contains but littlo water. One of the most essential devotions in the pil grimage is to bathe in and drink of the wator from this well, and its brink is always crowded with pil grims, some drawing its water and pouring it over their persons, others dipping it up in cups and gourds and drinking it. Tho wator used for bathing runs directly back into the well and thus diseases are directly spread. Tho authorities did for a time this year close up the well. Drainago in the city there is little or nono, and the most ordinary sanitary precau tions are utterly disregarded by the choked crowds of pilgrims. Not alone cholera Is thu3 bred and spread, but tho holy cities ure hot bods of small-pox and other like ter rible disoasos. The same conditions are true of El Tor, Jeddah and Camaran, and tho Indian health officials will, for the protection of its people as woll as for the sako of the country's reputation, make strong endoavors to induce tho authorities of the holy places of pilgrimage to take an interest in drainage and gen eral sanitation; to have more scaven gers, even If they have to have fewer priests. They think that the West ern nations might profitably take an Interest in the condition of things in Arabia, and tho result of thoir in vestigations will be offered in the hopo that stops will bo taken to crush out the cholera plaguo in what they assume to prove is its real en demic home. Novel Method of Electrio Lighting. A novelty in electric lighting is being practically tested in a large building in New York city. Instoad of arranging the incandescent lamps on one circuit and feeding them con tinuously from the same source, they are arranged on a number of sepa rate circuits, say four and the cur rent Is alternately switched from one to tho other in regular succession, the idea boing that the current, hav ing heated each successive circuit of lamps to Incandescence, will be re turned again to that series before tire, lamp filaments have time to cool. The means by which this Is accom plished is tho employment of a special interim ptor or rotary cylinder, on which the (segments are so ar ranged that a system of brushes, with which they make contact, car ries tho current alternately to each series of lamps. The periodicity of tho current in this device la about seventy per second. Notwithstand ing the loss of enorgy in tho inter-1 rupting mechanism, the inventor claims that botween two and three; times as many lamps can bo opor-' atod from a given source of energy by his system as by any other systom now in use. i Growth of Trees. In tho earlier periods of llfn t increase much faster than when adult the oak, for Instance, grows more rapidly between the twontieth and thirtieth vnn.ru unit whan nl.i the annual deposits considerably di minish, so that the strata are thin ner and the rings proportionately' closer. A Knorlfloe. Mr. Sourly I'm going to have my pictures taken to-day. Mr. Sourly's Wife You will have to make a great sacrifice if you do. Mr. S. Why? Mr. S.'s W You'll have to look pleasant for a moment or two. Mast Have a Ilralu. Charlie I havo outon brain food for six months without apparent ro sults. F.dith Yes, I am told the brain Is the only organ upon which it has auy effect. Truth. THE TRAVELING TKAMP RAILROAD PETE HAS LUCK WHEN ON THE ROAD. Accidents Had no Terror for Hiui lie Could (Jrlu and Hear Anything That Turned t'p liad Come Out of a Dozen fciu.tsh-1'ps Without fcratcb. "Yes, a tramp is killed in a rail road accident now and then," said tho freight conJuctor, "but it may bo set down as an act of Providence. In other words, it is the tramp who seems to have nineteen chances out of twenty of coming off without a scratch." "You carry a good many on the deadhead list, I suppose?" queried the Detroit Free Press man. "I don't suppsse that a freight train enters or loaves Dotroit which hasn't from two to ten tramp passen gers on tho bumpers," he replied. "The last thing before pulling out, we go along the train and drive them off, but they are tack in place again before the train is under way. Now and then I've had a tramp killed on my train, but he was a second-class tramp and now to the railroad busi ness. Thero are two species of him, as you probably know tho railroad tramp and tho highway tramp." "No, I didn't know that." "Woll, it's so, and tho railroad tramp feels himself head and shoul ders above tho other; one rides in his carriage, so to say, whilo tho othor sloshes through mud or dust. We woro speaking, however, of tramps boing killed on the roud. A weok ago I saw by the papers that a well known tramp called 'Kuilroad Peto' hf.d been killed down near Dayton. I didn't believe it, and it wasn't an hour ago that I mot him down in tho yards looking for a Chicago freight." "Did you over carry him on any of your runs?" "Did I? Well, I should whistlo for a cow on tho track! I'll bot monoy l'cte has traveled 25, 00 J milos on my trains, and I'll bet moro money that he goosout with mo. to night. Ho is a caso in point. He's been in at least a dozen smash-ups and never got a scratch. Fivo years ago, when I first mot him, wo struck a fanner's team at a crossing and had fourteen cars pilod into tho ditch. About tho last tiling tho wrockinj crow came to as they cleared away tho debris was Railroad Fete, but lie didn't even havo his nose skinned whero four of my crow wcro killed. Six months later my train wont through a bridgo and two men were killed and eight cars smashed to kindling wood, l'oto was down at the bottom, as usual, and I beliove bo got his foot hurt that time. Do you remember the big accident down near Monroo ville two yoars ago?" "I boliovo there was one. " 'You can bo sure there was! I was running a train of forty-two cars, half of them 'empties,' whon tho engine struck a car which had rolled on to the main track from a siding. That was what you might call a jim dandy accidont. Twenty nine cars left tho track and the kind ling wood was piled thirty foot high. Tho engineer was killed outright, the fireman fatally injured and throe of my brakomon novor know what hurt 'ora. I got off light, but it was threo months in tho hospital. Railroad l'oto was right in the centor of that wreck, and it was eighteen hours bo foro they got him out. II0 hadn't oven a bruisa oo him!" "But ho can't always escape." "I dunno about that. I know of his having boon thrown off a train twice and landing right sido up. Two or threo times ho has jumped off at stations whero ho didn't stop, and after knocking down fences and uprooting troos, has escuped ovon a busted suspondor. Ono night, down near Toledo, ho got to fighting with another tramp on tho roof of a car and was knocked off by a bridge. The other man was run over and cut into strings, whilo l'oto landed in a Bnow-bank and reached town only forty minutoi behind schodule timo. Down hore at Trenton ono ni"-ht about a year ago ho was mamruv ring around to get a ride on my train when tho oxpross picked him up. Say, if ho wasn't thrown twenty foot high and a hundred fout out into a gardon you may call mo a liar!" "And ho wasn't killed?" "Killed! Why, whon half a dozen men wont aftor his budy thoy couldn't find it! As soon as ho struck he jumped up and mado a half circle to strike my train and got a front seat I believe he com plained that ono of his knoos was a bit stiff for a week or so, but that was all. Kill old Hailroad Poto! It might bo dono with a gun or nxo, but ho can't be gathered to his fath ers by any Bort of railroad accident we know anything about in this country." 8 itlsfnctorr Reason. So you'ro editing Slappingor's Weekly, are you, Jrobinson?" "Yes." "Control all tho departments, don't you?" "Yes; I rim tho wholo thing." "Why don't you chango its r.amo, then . to something with a more clv lllzod sound about it?" "Why why, you see old Slappin gcr owns sevonty-five per cont of tho stock." The neggar's Journal. The most curious of all class jour nals is suroly tho Beggar's Journal of Paris, which is published daily and gives its subscribers a completo list of baptisms, woddings and funor als to take place tho same day. Bogging letter writers are provided Ior by a special soction, which gives the arrivals and doparturos of pot sons of known charitable tendencies. educational Item. Teacher You wore not at school yesterday. Tommy No, my father needed mo at home. Teacher Why? Tommy To give me a licking. loxas Siftings. Chinese IllrthiUys. In computing tho ago the Chinese always reckon back two years from the celobrutlon of the first birthday or, In other words, as though tho person had been a year old at the time of birth. RALPH OR RAPE? Which Way Should This Kama Be pJ nouoced. Antiquaries or philologists from, nearly all parts of England hav favored the papers with their views respecting Lord Tennyson's pro nunciation of the name Ralph," and they appear to bo equally propor tioned for "Rail." "Raff" and "Rafe," according to local proclivities. Cus tom and literature aro equally un certain. Writing from Brompton Ralph Rectory, Taunton, tho Rev. If. C. Launder gives an Interesting account of what may bo rogariod as the evolution of the word. , He says: "Since the discussion has beon raised respecting the word' Ralph,' it may interest many of your, readers to know of its spelling in the' registor of tho parish of Brompton Ralph, and of tho pronunciation given by tho inhabitants. The register dates from 1557,aiid is called tho register of the parish of "Bromp ton Raffe.' Thero is no change in tho spelling, as far as I can trace till 1652, whon 'Half displaces 'Raffe.' In 1665, and from then to 1716, 1 find Ralfo.' In 1717 a new registor is begun with the word as we now hava it, 'Ralph.' The younger generation pronounce the dobatod word as though it ought to rhymo with 'chaff. Tha very oldest inhabitants use the. pronunciation which rhymes wi'h Ralph. "It is curious to notice, howeverT" when a child is baptized 'Ralph,' af ter tho name of tho parish (cases havo occurred within tho last few years), tho parents invariably give 'Ralph' tho 'safo' sound." -Hudibras" affords another ex ample of variety of pronunciation. Butlor says ot tho doughty knight that A 'Squire ho hari, whose ntme waa Ralph, , Thai in til' nrlvunturd wont his half. TbotiBli writer, for moro tone, Do oull him Kiilpio. 'tl's all one: . An 1 whon wo cun with moter aao ' We'll cull him so. If not plain Kalph. From all which tho conclusion of tho matter would appear to be that it is wrong to be dogmatic ono way or tho othor, and that each man may . pronounco "Kalph" as it may sound good to his oars. In the (iroat Year 1000. It is reported that a movement is on foot, with its headquarters at Pittsburg, to girdlo tho oarth with a series of religious conventions on tha 1900th anniversary of tho Christian era. A great expedition will Blarfc out, numboring it is thought, somo 1,000 persons, who will go entirely around tho world holding rousing rollgious sorvicos at ovory important stopping place. Tho first sorvico will be hold in San Francisco and tho last in Now York. Bombay, Jerusa lem, Komo and London will bo taken in on tho way. Tho services are to bo entiroly nonsectarian. Several wocks will elapse bctwoen each sor vico, and it is calculated that the ex pedition will tako a your in making its rounds and that it will cost eash of tho crusaders about $1,000. Miti Took tho Compliment. "Whero is the othor pretty girl' who used to bo hero?" he askod the girl at tho candy counter. "She's away on a short vacation," sho answered', with a charming smile. And whon sho camo to weigh his candy sho gavo him double weight. SORTED AND SELECTED. The most disastrous flood was that of Holland, 150; 400,000 persons drowned. An op vl, weighing 000 karats, in tho posse Rion of E hvard II. Fleming of Opalville, Idaho, is claimed to bo the largest of its species in tho world. A West Virginia man has become insane on the subjeet of tho Ferris wheel. Ho rode on the wheel and on his return homo endeavored to mako ono on a similar plan. (iorham Abbott of Winsted, Conn., has surprised his friends by beginning to talk utter being dumb for thirty yeais. He was made deaf and dumb by an attack of scarlet fever In his youth. After two years' trial with pine, oak and greenli-ait in tho Suez canal works it b is been found that whilo pine and oak aro destroyed by tho borer worm tho grconheart, which comes from British Guiana, was un harmed. Miss Anna Gio'i, nged 40 years, ha brought suit against her father in a New York court for 10,010. She says that she has been his housekeeper for nearly twenty years past, and that ho owes her at least tho amount sho has sued for. Hans Schliessmann, a Vienna carica turist, hns been Bonding letters to bis friends Inscribed with "Mr." and a sketch of tho person intended, and a designation of the quarter of tho town in which he lives. They have all. reached their destination. ' The Chinese are tho most expert smugglers in tho world. Contraband opium has been found in their queues, the soles of their sandals, in loaves of bread, and even in banana i on tho stalk, dofying the closest scrutiny. Somo of their shrewdest schemes aro discovered by accident only. The idea that chess was Invented by the ancient Indians or by the Chineso is Bhaken by tho discovery at Sakkara, in Egypt, of a wall painting showin; two chess players belonging to the government of King Tota of the sixth dynasty. Profossor Bi-ugseh put Tota at 3,300 B. C., or 5.20J years ago. A young couple aro getting married. Suddenly somo absurd idea enters tho head of tho bridegroom and ho burst out laughing. Thereupon tho old priost who is officiating pauses a mo mentand says gravely: "Do not laugh, iny son. You will have little occasion for mirth in tho state into which you are now entering." Admiral Avelan of tho Russian uavy encountered while he was an en sign an officer who for some grave offenso had been dogradod from a cap taincy to the post of common sailor, and who despaired of ever finding an opportunity to exhibit tho gallantry that alone would restore his rank. The ensign secretly arranged with him to full ovorboard and bo saved by the man. and the plan v.-as carried out on tho first rough wee.thor that oc curred. The man was so Indiffeiaaiit a swimmer that he would have drowned hiui not the young ensign been an un usually good one, but the desired end was secured.