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MADISON TIMES. D9VOTED TO THE WELFARE OF MADISON PARISH. VOL I. NO. 35 TALLULAH MADISON PARISH, LA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER II, 1884. TERMS: 82.00 PEl \T'EAI. Ia A. RAND. he shadows of a tent I san, " Iong the slpinl Sadd. i ýmt btltitrk bf the land. By day I hearthe campers laugh; And when the evening star Shone soft shove the se's dark rim. Like lighthouse lamps afar How Jubilant the sweep of song That bursts from out that tent, A song to whloh the roaring sea Its bass deep-sounding lent. Today that tent is gone It left No trace upon the sand, A lonely sky is overhead; lerlow, a lonely land. And yet the campers' song res on; it sounds along the shore,: hear It in the snowy surf That breaks in wild uproar. Islife a tent, a trsnsent tent, Ikt not we often say? A shadow on the stretching sand. 4tnswlft we pass away. To-night I sit alone and hear The songs my dead did sing,. And in mine ears their voices clear Will neveroess to ring. The song of deeds by souls that went Like saints in garments white; Of honest h. of highest alms. That sonugt and found the light. Oh, vanished tentsof pilgrim lives, So transient by the sea, What though the sinner must pas on? The song shall stay with me. TWO MYSTERIOUS CRIMES A IgiWs woeikThat Startled Even Paris. The Robbery at Madam kteals-Te Mar der of the Baroness De Beaace-lew the Strange Truth Came to Ltghtat Last. Mons. Paul Lebonis notified the Chief of Police of Paris at seven o'clock on the morning of February 3, 1868 that the previous night a burglar orburglars had entered the apartments of his bife and stolen a diamond cross, a necklem of brilliants, nd a solitaire ring, valued at over 70,)00 francs. There was no evi dence of any forcible entrance from the ontida but the door of the lady's bed room had been forced from the hinges. The operation must have been compar atively noiseless, as Madame Lebonis was not disturbed in her sleep. Fabert, a shrewd detective, who had been on the force for about three years, was immediately sent to Mont. Lebonis' residence to inspect the place and start a theory. It wa a large dweiling on the Avenue de Friedland, standing alone, with a carden around it. Detective Fabert went over the premises, and took notes of everything. He found that there was no . ark on any window or door that would indicate even an attempt to enter the house from the outside. As to the door of the bedroom, the screws mnet have been almost withdraw before hand, and rendered easy of removal from the outside with a slight pressure. ANOTHER CnRM. While Fabert was still occuiAed with his Investigation, three other detectives came to the house and informed him that a few lminutes after he left the office of 1 the Chief of Police with Mons. Lebonis the housekeeper of the Baroness de beaude, whose residence was next to ' Maos. Lebonis, had given the startling Information that during the night the i berones had been murdered, and her t -n6m-drotobed o large amount of men ey and jewels. Taking a hasty glance at the room of Madame Lebonis, and the a door asleft by the thief, the .our officers e went to the resideace of the Baroness de Beauc2 and examined the condition of things there. The hronees was an aged lady of eceentrie habits, and commonly reputed I to be a miser and enonrously rich. Her rsidence was old fasidoned withoat i ad within, and her only companion a rwas the housekeeper, bMadame Lange- . vi•, a woman of about fifty. i The detectives found the door of the baroness's bed-room had been forced in aPjarUr h.i mwai as thatof Mad ver, that in this :nstance a jack screw, well known to the police a aa val- t "sbl- tool in the fhands of .hefemlsil ; btrglars, had been .dsd. There were marks on the door jamb, showing where the teeth of the implement had been sUU AND oam. The heroaes was lying on the floor a dqd; gW knifn meed in her hree. I She was in her night lblhesad had edvidently sprwng out of bed and at tempted to reach the bellcord, when she I wasomesed by the bursting in of the door. Her bureas ad desk had been ransacked, and it was clear from the ab s-nce of anyvsluasbles that everything that was worth taking hod been remov- d ed by the thief or thieves. As in the case of Mon's. Lebonis, there was no indiestion of an entrance bhaving baeen efected from the outside. Doors and windows were intact and a seatrch of the dwellig failed to disedse any way by which the perpetrators of the crime could he made their'way into it. On I maklng a farther examinstion of the e shllr, a fant steak of light was observa- a ble, ad a strict inspection showed that close to the ceiling wase a grating, t covered on the inside with a wooden I shutter. The shatter was easily remov ed, being attached to the pling with two hooas. The graig ugappesredto be I trm, bat, by liing it slightly, it was t eadily pressed outward. Here, then, wmas;ameansoentrame to the cella. aLthe deer ...m the eealla to sthe 0l above was bolted on the inside when the deteetive; arrived. This dootf was sub. jected to scrutiny, and then it was found that the hinges had been recently re moved and replaced. A snlheequent search in the cellar of Lebonis failed to show any marks ofentrance having been procured in that way. ALIKE AND I:NLIKE. Here, then, was a condition of things in these two adjoining houses similar and yet dissimliar. From the garden the grating to the cellar of the baroness had been removed and entrance obtain ed. Then the hinges of the cellar door had been unscrewed, ahdflnally, the door of the old lady's bedroom had been forced open with ascrewjack. Thejamb bore the marks and the woodwork was rent where the screws of the hinges had been forced out. Then the floor and gratin's of the cellar had been replaced. In the house of Mona. Lelonis there was positively no indication how the thief had entered, and though the hin ges of the bedroom door hanl been forced, yet there was no sign of ajackscrew hay. ino been used and the woodwork wan not 'ent around the scres ., which seem ed to have been partially loo.ed ais though in preparation for the theft. Under these circumstance, it was no wooder that s.nisijon rested, on MoAns n ieur Leboni, and irqanirie- began to be made as to his antecedents. He had re sided in his present dwelling three yeara, and before that had lived in :nother part if Par a or ten years. He was en. a gaged in a reputable business, being the junior par: ner in a lanrre stationery firm. As a young man be had been exemplary so far as could be ascertained,and though the authorities felt in their duty to ar rest him, they were for awhile in grave e doubts as to the wisdom or justice of lihe act. It was shown that Madame Lebonis If had had the jewels which were missing; t but then, on the other hand, a hair of i. 1d boots belonging to Monsieur Lebonis were found, which corresponded exactly e with marksin the garden near the grat ed window of the Baroness De Beauce's t s. cellar. There was no one in Monsieur t Leboais's house on the night in ques tion who could be suspected of the crimes except himself. d The police were nonplussed. They a I searched the dwelling and the garden i and the outhouses for any sign of the plunder taken from the dwelhng of the baronee, but in vain. te A NIW HAND. 1 Monsier Lebonis way in durance, and t there was a strong probabihlty of his be- q ing convicted as the murderer and thief, tl when Durivier, a detective not hitherto employed on the case, took it in hand. o He made a caretl study of it, and reacn- cl r ed the conclusion the that person who A took Madame Lebonis's diamonds also . murdered the baroness and robbed her and that that person was not Mona. Le- ' bonis. He tearned these facts: Monsier a - Lebonis returned fromn London-where ii he had been on business for ten days- is on the evening of the crime. He saw in his wife, who was sick in bed, and retir- sc ed to his apartments on the other side of w the dwelling. During his absence a gel- - tieman in the employ of Monmiur Lebon a is's firm had called with a letter from ce him to his wife. Madame L'bonis hadl t been out a great deal. at Where? The .1 -tective an,-erd that h in a few hours-to the Mabille and oth- 1P er doubtful places, with a male friend. o0 Who was the male friend? Persons p who thought they could recognize him a identified him as the gentleman in the hI employ of tie firm who had calle-d upon di Madame Lebonia. Who washe? (:has. Bolette. Whence came he? He was di put into his position by Mons. Lebonns. at the request of his wife, who represent- to ed that he was a second cousin. So said de Mona. Lebonia. THE PLOT THICKEN8. Once on this track, strange facts came m to light. Bolette and Madame, before uj her marriage to Lebonis, had visited St. Nasmire together, ad passed as men and O wife. They had been to other places un de; similar conmditions. While the ofBcer eas thus making a b searching inquiry, it was diseovered that Madame Lebonla had disappeaed. Then it was ascertained that Bolette was ai. o mimssing. The beet detectives were a n their track at once, but their quest was vain. Nothing could be ascertained of i their wbereebets A month pssed. Lebonis seemed grea - Iv depresed, and smid he meat quit Paris Thim man Bolette was the murderer of the Baroness, without a doubt, and his iparamour, the wife of Lebonis, was a epfpderg. 1Jt was a deeply-laid scheme ' The robbery ef Madame Lebonis and al the robbery of the baroness were to ibe so alike that every one woul sayv. "It was the work of skill fn, thneves, who were bn) o dolP go stroke of bnus- a ines n m one nightl" d Lebmia was a wrouaed and innocent ' man, and be was set at liberty, of course. The whole eumtry was ecomed for B lette and hisaccomplaie. Belgium, Eng-a land, SwhtasrLand,7Psa, Austria, all w were searched, but the search was fruit- a less. AT V5AILLEBI March 17 followmin the crime, was a miserhable day. Night came down early and damp. Durivier was at Verandles on spmcial kbien. A ose arrige ly drew up at the depot and from it alight eda tall, egtdy-dreased man and a comely woman, They spoke a moment it to some one who remained in the car- ta ri~and then entered the depot. I vier caught a glimpbe of the occu- ii lt ofthecarriageas itturned andthe at Ih of the lamp fashed on it. Itwas w Lebonsa. I "Who are your friends, Monsieur Le- m bonis?" the officer sid to himselt He entered the depot. The lady and gen- fe tIeman were taking paessae for St. Nasza i rlne. St. Nasire? St. Nasaire? How had the name reenstly interested him? To w be narel Bolette and Madame Lebonia. fa He stood where he could see the wo- m man distiantlry. 8he was mfled and n rvalled and disgulsed in a score of ways, a but there was no doubt it was she. And i the man? Al, that was the question. I Thek man? Why, it must be Bolette, of w And in mother maomet Durivier hiad th. two in ~ody--o politely, .o quiet- h I y, that t.o one knew it but themselves There were few Words when they reach ed Paris-for the journey t) St.Nalsaii was postpored-they had a story to tell THE SEQSEL. Briefly, Bolette and Madame Lebonis or rather Madeline Bolette had beer mar. and wife for years. They wen miserably poor. Lebonis took a fancs to the woman and she became his mis. tress while her husband was raised to respectability. Lebonis was not rich He was always lamenting his poverty He was fond of women and spent law ishly on them-on the sly. He had be come deeply involved. Madame Langevin, housekeeper of the Baroness de Beauce, had related to Madame tebols the enoentricities of her tistress or friend, and told of her immense Wealth -piles of money and boxes of jewels, all kept in her bed-room. Le onis:s greed was roused. He laid a plot to get her wealth. He patiently ob served and thought, t tout. Then he ier petrated it, having first induced his sulp posed wife to aid him. But his inten lion was to rob, not to murder. When the deed was done, and the hand of the law upon him, h twever, he did not quake He was a man of re sources. He conceived the elopement of his supposed wife and Bolette. That would be a stroke indeed. It was easy to manage them; he would give them half of the plunder, and when all wa's safe they could enjoy it. But whithet should they go? Now'ren'l stay here, in this house, until the police have given upilt looking for you, and then, we will get you away to a safe place. And so they remained in Lebonis's house for weeks, the suspicion of the po lice never once centreing upon that place. Lebonis is paying the penalty of his crime. The woman asnd her husband were inipnsoned as access ,ries, and then discharged. What Ibcame of Lebonis's piunder? That is a question which cannot he ans weredl. But the dead lady had no rela tive-, and the expenses of"the depart ment" were heacy. And-it is perhaps nobod 's business. P. raisest Grase. Pete 4ilvester and Gordon Lane, two very old men with p iinful convictions of religious propriety, established a small hotel near a sulphur spring in a moun tain district of Arkansaw. The taste that permits of sipling, with pretense of relish, a dipper of sulphur water, has un doubtedly, after much practice, been acquired; and, it was amusing to see old Pete and aged Gordon, arrayed in open warfare against the sulphur of the world to come, complacently drinking the sul plhur of the world which has arrived. People did nrt rush to the famous watering place, and it was evident that the old fellows would not grow rich in one year-not, however, that their charges fell short of such a possibility At mral time, the old fellows would take -'turn about" asking a blessing. Nothing seems to be more insincere than grace at a boarding house table. It is in ill keep ing with the growl of the dys., eptic who is'in search of health, or the muttered imprecation of the fat min who sees the soup "slosh" against the knuckles of the waiter. - Ome day old Pete and old Gordon be came invol ,ed in a quarrel. The board ers stood around in keen enjoyment of the scene, and when the dispute culmin ated in blows, no one felt regret that he had come to this "out of way" place. While the old men were pounding each other with a liveliness which no one ex pected to see exhibited by such old citi zens, the dinner-bell rang. The com batantsceased fighting and entered the dining room. "We are not likely to have grace to day," said a drummer. A gouty man from St. Louis was about to reply, when old Pete, in a voice of deep reverence. said: "Brother Gordon Lane, ax a blessin'." Brother Gordon lane complied. Im mediately after dinner, old Pete rushed up to old Gordon and exclaimed: "Now, you old scarecrow, we'll settle our little affair. The engagement was resnmed with _eal. A separation was effected by the boarders, but a kind of guerilla warfare was kept up until supper time When the guests had assembled at the table, old Gordon, in a voice somewhat shaken by exercise, bwed low over an old plate. "where the lion and the unicorn is fight ing for the crown," and said: Brother Pete, ax a bleuin'." le StrI eof s Umbretlta. Gen. H. F. 8ickles, the Colorado com missioner to the New Orleansexposition was telling some friends a few dave ago about hs frst glimpse of a mountain "oax.: He said: *We were living up in the mountains and'ad quite a herd of cows, among hfim one, an old cow, who wore a bell. The cows had been ,laning for several Jays, and the boys were out searching, and one &dternoon I thought I would try what I could do. So I mounted a pony an, rode quite a distance, when I thought I hbeard the old cow's bell. I dismount el and started to prowl around among the r"cks and oushes. "I h d been rainingt during the ear. ly part of the afternoon, and I had an ambrella. I tied the gouy to a tree and started. After Ihad gone a short dis tace I aught a glimpse of the cows. As I started towar'them, Luddenly they lifted their heads crooked their tails and started away on a dead run. I was just wondering what frightened them, when I heard a rustling in the bushee behind me. "'I turned around, and there not ten feet away. was a big mountain lion stand ing on a rock staring at me. I assure you I never felt so bashful in my life. I hadn't a gun or even a knie, and there was that beast staring and getting ready for a spring. All :t once I thought of my umbrellas, and as quick as thought I rased that much-borrowed article, and spremad it riKht in Mr. Lion's face! He didn't stop to examine, but made one great jump clear across a gore, and whenine lighted gave a yell that shook the hills. "I stay o more of him. When 1 got bem the cows were there." res. A POM TO THE sOI;TH. ch- - ure Maurice Thompson, in an apostrophe "To ell. the South," published in The Independent of September 11, thus declares a noble sentiment Which Wll fnd a responsive echo in the breast bis;f litany another dotlthernet. en I ll a Sdutheroe,; are I love the South I dared tt her To fight frm Lookout to esea, y With her proud banner over me; li- But from my lips thanksgiving broke, to As God In battle-thuader spoke. And that Black Idol. breeding drouth ch. And dearth of human sympathy ty. Throughout the sweet and sensuous Sv- outh. Was, with its chains and human yoke, Blown hellward from the cannon's mouth, While Freedom oteered behind the hle smoke! to ter DIET FOR INVALIDS AND ClIIIIDREN. nd in. I a ome Nggl stieoa tLhit it will do No I )larm to Collde r. Pr Demnorest's Magazine. . I)yslpeplics should avoid anything which they (not others) cannot digest. a lie There are so manny causes for and forms he of dyspepsia, that it is impossible to pre of scribe one and the same diet for all. at Nothing is more disagreeable or useless a sy than to be cautioned against eating this or tlat, because your neighbor "So au-.o"' ca:not eat such thing. If we C rel would all study the natiue and digestion Ce, of food, and remember that air and ex n ercise are as emential as food in promot s* ing good health, we could easily decide o- upon the diet best suited to our individ at ual needs. is The diabetic should abstain from sugar id and anything which is converted into n sugar in digestion, such as all starchy r? foods, fine wheat flour, rice, mnaccaroni, li is tapioca, liver, lp,taloes, beets, carrots, a* turnips, parsnips, peas, beans, very old u t- chleese, swept omelets, custard , jellies, P ! starchy nuts, sweet sauces. wine and liq- e iors. He may eat oysters, all kindls of fish, meat, poultry and game, soups with- d out any starchy thickening, lettuce cu ro cumbers, watercresses, dandelions, y(.ung I of onions, cold sLbw, olives, cauliflower, a il spinach, cabbage, string beans, ripe fruit n. of all kinds without sugar, cream, butter, If milk sparingly, gluten, flour, oily nuts l freely salted, eggs, coffee and cocoa. The corpulent should abstain from fat as well ii n as sugar and starch. A diet of whole "i Id wheat, milk, vegetables, fruits and lean ft n meat will produce only a normal amount a 1I of fatness ; while an excess of sweets, n - acids, spices, and shortening keeps the e system in an unhealthy co.idition. s Those who can di.est fine flour, pastry, A ' sugar, and fats, become loaded with fat, A n but are neither strong nor vigorous. P ir Thin people with weak digest'on should v also avoid such food; for thin people are 'e often kept thin by the same food whicl t g makes others fat. If they cannot digest 0 t the starch, butter, and fine flour, the sys- t Stemn is kept in a feverish,dyspeptic state; b 0 they become nervous, or go into con- cl d sumption for no other reason than ei that the life is burned out by a diet a, e which only feeds the tire and does not renew the tissues. ".en dig their grave with their teeth, not only by drink. in inc whisky and using tobacco, but by w eating food loaded down witi: inflamma- of tory niatetials. e Mtk should enter larger into the diet W o: children. It contains caseine, orflesh- to forming material, cream and sugar, which to are heat producers; mineral salts, for the bony structure: and water, as a solvent for all the ether materials necessary in e nutrition. It shold be used with dia- V cretion. however ; not taken immoderate- ce lyv but taken slowly as food after the pat tern given by nature. Milk as taken is ta fluid; but as soon as it meets the acid e of the gastric juice, it is changed to a ar soft, curdy, cheese-like substance, and tw then must be digested, and the stomach A is overtasked if too much be taken at once. A large glass of milk swallowed sud Sdenly will form in the stomach a lump in of dense, cheesy curd, which may even prove fatal to a weak stomach. Under B the aetion of the stomach this cheesy t mass will turn over and over like a heavy Sweight; and as the gastric jules can only Im attack its surface, it digests very slowly. in But this sane milk, taken slowly, or with dry toast, light rolls, or soft. dry s porridge. forms a porous lump through in which the astric juice can easily pes, and which breaks up every time the hl stomach turns it over. Milk should be shlightly salted, and eaten with bread - stuffas or sipped by the spoonfal. Cow's in Smilk produces less heat than human milk; a child would grow thin upon it fe i unless a little sugar were added. Whest Sflour has such an excess of heat-produc- an inc material as would fatten a child un- de duly, and should have cow's milk added to it to reduce its fattening power. STo prepare oatmeal mush for children . and invalids: Take one cup granulated su I otmeal, half a teaspoonful salt. and one scant quart boiling water. Put the meal d ' and siat in the double boiler, pour on t the boiling water, and cook two or three Y hours. Remove the cover just before th t serving, and stir with a fork to let the , steam escape. If the water in the lower on boiler be strengly salted, the meal will 4 S cook more quickly. Serve with sugar or salt, and cream. Baked sour apples, ap- b pie mus, and apple jelly are delicious , eatenwith the ostmeal. Theyshould be , served with themush, and the cream Sandsugar poured over the whole. They 'g give the acid flavor which somany crave to i in the morning. Coase catmeal is not a i suitable for any form of water brash, ed i acidity, or bowel irritation. It often t cases eruptions on the skin in hot ch i weather. e I in eroges sLe mlam Freature SArkansaw Traveler. is] S The other day while Maj. Dodridge fo was sitting in his door yard, the gate b Sopened and a strange looking man bas- , r tily approached. ri "Is this Major Dodridge?'" re I ac "Yes, sir." a e "Of the Eighth Arkansaw, during the d( e war?'" ac S"Yes," beginning to look with interest s k at the stranger. i S LDon't you remember me, major?" ta "No, I can't place you;" gc "Take a look at me," shoving back hip o hat. "Don't remember that I ever saw vot before." "I am Hank Parsons!" exclaimed th man, bracing himself as though he ex. peted the major to rush into his arms "Don't recall the name," said the ma, jor. "Is it possible? I did not think veo would ever forget me. I'll refresh you. memory. At S .iloh, while the battl s was raging in murderous fury, I found you lying on the field, shot through both legs. I took you on my back and car eried you to a'sprin: n the shade. Now don't you recolle.t?' "Let me see," mused the major, "I re member having been wounded, but I can't recall the fact, if it be a fact, of any one taking me to a spring." "This is indeed strange," said the dli, appointed man. "I1 looked forward to meeting you with such anticipations of a warm greeting. Well, well, the world has indeed reached an ungrateful age. The occurrence is as fresh in my mind as though it had taken place yestenlav. I cave you a drink of whisky and-" "Whast!" exclaimed the major, sprin-, Sing to his feet. "Gave me a drinnk of wlhisky! Oh. yes, I remember now," seizing the man's hand. "Oh, I'll neve forget that drink! The whisky was sn new that corn meal was floating round in it, but weenjoyed it. Remember you! Why, I should cavort. Why didn't you guard against possible embarrassment by mentioning some of the main featurem of the occurrenlce?" LOVES OF NATUlRt FRKAKS. Some Odd Connablal Ventures by Abnor mal Huuanatly. Buffalo Times. "Yes, sir, the freaks have hearts just like the rest of us, and lose tnem, too," said Prof. Ryder, the custodian of Bun nell's cash box, as he added $127 to the profit column in the msuseum lele er and closed the books for the dlav. "You remember Maj. Littlefinger, don't you? Well, he's living with hi:: - second wife now and the first Mrs. Little finget, a dwarf like her husband. : fa-t asleep under the daisies. "While the Zulus who were hete a few weeks ago were in New York, at Broadway Museum, a pretty F,'ench girl came to see them one day. It was not iced that she lingered about the barbar ians for a long time, apparently unmind ful of the other curiosities. She came again and again, and one day Mr. Bun nell was amazed when Charlie, the larg er of the tw'o Zulus, stopped him and aid they were en,aged to be married. And the match came off despite our ef ourts to paeveut it, but IL proved unhap py and a separation soon followed. "Beauty No. 56, at our New York con test of beauty, married the living skele ton. The wedding took place at the mu seum, and was talked all over the coun try. They afterward took a triumplha bridal tour through the whole museumn chain, and were received by vast crow.Is everywhere. As far as I know they are still living together. "Miss Louise Colton of Brooklyn fell in love with Cite Mah the Chinese dwarf while he was on exhibition in the City of Churches, and her affections were warmly reciprocated. She followed him to Chicago, and while there they went to a priest to have the marriage ceremony performed, but as she was a Catholic and her abbreviated lovera pagan the prie-t very properly refused to perform the ceremony. "A daughter of John O'Brien, the cir aus man, married Walter Stuart, the armless and legless freak. They have two children, both perfectly formed, and find much happiness in their connubial relations. "Jessie Walden, thIe giantess, who died in this city a short time ago, married a man of ordinary size and each thouglht the world of each other. "Walter Payne, the armless wonder, married a New York lady in good stand ing. She accoopanies him on his tours, and they frequently drive out soiretier in the morning. 'Col. qoshen, the big grant. ,ave his heart and hand and half his fortune to a woman below the average stature. "Mlle.Christine, the two-heade. ni-lt ingale, has had four or five good offers. She is a colored woman, but has a pre ference for white men. She sayc she will marry sonme day. when de receives =n oiler she believes to be inspired by a - deeper feeling than the love for lucre 1 wonder if the court will cll it a case ofI bigamy! 'Baon iUttlefinger, the Italian midget succumbed to the fscination of a woman .early six feet igh. He has threechil dren each larger than himsel. His wife r~nks the babies. His brothi-r, Count tosebud, tried to make a match between t.e Baron and one of the Adams sistjrs, but it was no go. -He had his heart set on a large woman, and would have no other. '"Col. Bates and Pat O'Brien, thegiants, both married gntesses. Neither couple have any children, so the prospects for a rae of giant are eery slim. "A well known loneahaired lady was 'mashed' on Capt. Co.stantine, the tat toned Greek, and wrote him several let ters, but her affections were net return "As for our tattooed ladies, snake charmers, Circassian woman, beardedl women, etc., they are all the whil hav ing their rmiances, and sooner or later nearly all of them sucnumb to matrimon ial temptation, and exchange the plat form for the hearth. "One of the mst iaexplicable love af fairs that I ever larned of in all my mu seum experiences, however happened right here during the past winter. YMi remember Zip, the 'what-is-it?' Not ex actly the kind of a man to captivate a woman's fancy, in my estimation. Well, do you ielieve it, a little t16-year-oll schnoolgirl became so fascinated with something about him that she visited the museum a dosen times a day inm sccts ion. She would sit on the latform and talk with him while the stage show was going on, sal acted so peculiarly that kis Enally word was sent to her fa.mi, - very estimable people living on We it Avenue. I do not know wh' t they ldid, °U but she never came again. Zip .seeumed qpite despondent for two or three days, he and kept an anxious wat'lh oif the d,:or, x- but he watched in vain. is. "Lucia Zatate, our four and one-hall a- pound midget, is engaged to a distin guished ('hinaman whom she first mee ai on exhibition in Paris. No date has ur been fixed for their marriage, but both le consider the compact binding. Lucia is id found of her Celestial lover, and unlike hi manv larger girls, regards any encour r- agement extended to other admirers as w Ierfidy to her plight,il troth. She is of age a.nd I suplxnse is entitled by Irw to e- select her own husl~nd." I y Ahbent Mtndednee*. Detroit Free Press. o The other day several acquaintances a of a Detroiter, who is noted for his ab d sent-minitednes*, determined to see how far they could i. in playing off on thin trait of his without dlisc.overv. One of them carried in a petition asking the r- conmmon council to alilasint arndi Jane , Blank a city physician, Sarah being the ar alsent-miiindel nan's wife. ii "Petition-j-Itition," he replied as he d was askedo t a sign it--"). certainly. Sar ah Jane lilank-coninon council-- city it iih sician -- of course." The netxt who entered h:adl a di'n ment it his haud saying: "May, Blank, here's a petition to the board of public works to shave the front -steps of the house at No.-Woodward avenue. Wiil you sign it?" "Of course-of course. Boar. I of pub it lie works - projecting steps-ever pray there she is." It was the fr.ont step, of his own house Ibut he was ready for the third man who idropped in and olbserved: "Say, Blank, we propose to open a new street to strike Woodward avenue, he r, tween - and -- streets. Will you amist us?" "Certainly-certainlyv-ought to he a new street there -of course I will," was t the reply, although the projecting road would run plump through his house. In the course of two or three days he ( ` signed a petition to have a pest house I t built on the rear end of his lot-to have I 1 his son appointed a chimney sweep-to have a guardian appointed for his chil dren, and to penz it him to establish a rambling-house in his residence; but a when an acquaintance came and asked hint to sign a confession that he (Blank) I was a fugitive murderer from the state of Ohio, he looked at the namoe several times, scratched his head in a vigorous t manner, and replied: i. "John Y. Blank-John Y. Blank-let's - see! Why-why that's my own name of noure at ise1' 'tter leave it for A tew days and I'll try and remember who it was I murdered!" New York Sun. A genteel-looking tramp, with a fair c 1 load for Monday morning, stood on Chat- e ham street corner yesterday in a medi- t tative mood. He nervously twirled a dime in his fingers and finally tossed up 0 the coin, saying: "Heads for a break fast; tails for a cocktail !" I He looked at the coin after it fell to the sidewalk and scrrowfully exclaimed: "Heads ! that's for breakfast." Flipping it again in the air, he said : "Twice out of three times." It fell tails. The tramp's thirst was neck and neck with his hunger. "I e mush' give she breakfast a chance. S, a here goes serd and last time," he said. y He tosed the coin again in the air. It fell in the gutter and bounded into the h sewer through a hole in the rounded curb-stone. A Petnae Devll Flah. A genuine devil fish was caught in the 1 Potomac last week, near Cedar Point, by a fisherman by the name of Watson. It ti was entangled in a net and was brought n to shore by oyster tongs. A young man who saw one of the tentacles says he tU was told that the creature had eight al arms, and from tip to tip measured about h fifteen feet; that in the stomach was found an army pouch lettered "United States First Infantry," a pieee of bark end a broken silver watch, together with a number of other small articles, and that when caught tihe devil-fish seemed to be in puIrbuit of a school of porpoises. This is said to be the second fish of this sort that hl-s been caught in that neigh borhood this year. A Wateh ThaLt daved a Life. There is now a hunting case watch at b Frank Holler's that was instrumental in ci saving a man's hife by stopping a pistol n alrm entering a vital part. Somela days ago there was free tight at the tunnel between the Italian, and the , Irish, the former accusing the latter of stealing their beer. Taking it all in all it was a drunken row and pistols end guns a were used indiscriminately and three of a the Irishmen were shot-at least such is a the report. The only important incident in connection to the riot is the one men tioned above. The watch was so badly n impaired by the force of the bullet that m its working parts will nearly all have to I be restored. The watch had been pur chased from Mr. Hollar only a few days before the riot occurred. Shippensburg tr News. or oreely pedl Uon Reeet. in Life. it. The principal scientific fsarts aiis,-over ed are the following: of 1. The North Pole lies due north of Il New York. It was not discovered, but its general direction was pirelty well es- i tablished. c 2. That the North Pole lies in the sL Arctic regions. 3. That it is an almiihty cold neigh borhoowd. d 4. That nearly all the animals there I wear sealskin jackets the year round. at 5. That chief signal officers are some- lh what unrrliable ira:erers. t 6. T''hat 'lhen men cannot get fo'l al I they starve to death, b 7. That extresLs cold produces frost- q Sbite. S8. Thatthe getting back is thechief fun and difculty of the expedition. ITEWIS OF INTlFIt.ST. ItI i r. IFnt.'- Healith Monthly. r, I aeenio that llenry .. Rllehle, w..s awal ded the Medal -if Merit ib \ I e 1f American Institute. n the tlll of I8:i fT~o his patent Eajrth-.(:!oset Attaclhinint, spoken of by The Health Monlthlv. is iI L.ondon a man fell in a dnr k il tit h and broke his neck. The jury finnd ,it is that his grandfather had diedI of a I,rok e en neck, and brought in as Ithcir vetrlic't, r 'l)iel by the b, nmrlitary visitla in fr isGod." o The P'ortlaizl ( eg iiat i, oil author itv fu,; thte slat no lit that a JphI-iian there has Ieun pr:iseitel i itt a stinme imlple.ineit wit, a ldolhle-ljointe, Ipr, jectiin, said t", be : ce ri : :s Inlian relic, i purpose beit to Iuncth eut the eves of Indian de orN wih. rne; eatedly failed - to lit ure tieir paItieilt:. S An old! lady brought back a plaster to is the drutlggist, a) ing that it was of no aic ,f count and wouldn't blister. lie explain e ed to her that .he plastcr was not intend ed to bli ter, but simply to retain the e back in its proper place and let the ipin e crawl iut tl,lull the holes. She told the druegi-t lie was a wor e fraud that. e the plaster. Amron_ the great advances in the treatmient ot the insane, is the fact that tron-restraint is now the custom. (One it was considered that brutal treatmewnt I- an I severe restraint er.- the ncc:ssar part- of the treatment ',f some ,ltaraes of e insane. But, fortuna ely, it has been found that more humane methods w I, suflice .-, that at the present time here are m:any asylums in Great Britain and America where the non-restraint systenm prevails. Sir James Paret, of London, made an address at the Health Exhibition there. in which lie estimated that the whole e popu!ation in England l:etween fifteen ard sixty-five years of age, lose yearly twenty e. illion we eks of work owing to sickness. He said he wo lid like to see a iermonal ambition for renown and health as keen as that for bravery, for beauty, or ,or success in athletic Rames, as for national renown in war. in the t arts or connllllere. Many of us have had experiences in e dreaming which go to -how that a very long dream may really occupy the mind r but a very br ef instant of time. Te Ledger relates an experience of an en giueer which proves this to be true. He t tell asleep and had a dream and awoke t again while th' train had trave ed only 1 250 feet. and this space the train would have covered in less than four seconds f of time, but all t';e incidents of the I dream could not have transpired in has a than many hours. Our medical exchanges report two in teresting facts in Heredity. A boy who had suffered eighteen fractures during t the first eighteen years of his lift was the son of a man who suffered broken b nes fourteen times, and the nephew of one who had suffered twenty-one fractures. The boy's father's uncle was aiso a bone-breaker. This illustrates a a constitutional family tendency to brok en hones. But the other case is, we think, more remarkable if true. Name ly, a case of a tattooed woman on exhi bition in Baltimore who gave birth to a boy baby bearing marks upon its skin tsmilar to those upon the mother's body. Sweet Sixteen with a XMrgem. Denver Opinion. "I wonder what my daughter is about,' exelinmed Mas. FAsesnfeather. jumping up and starting to go and inform the young lady that young Crimsonbeak was getting tired waiting for her to make her avpearance. "You needn't mind, Mrs. Fussanfath er; I know what she is about," replied the caller, rising and reaching for his :hat. "What do you suppose my dear six teen-year-old danuahte is about, then, Mr. Crimsonbeak?" 'What I suppose your sixteen year-old daughter is about"'came from the young man. "Why, I suppose she is abotut twenty-two!" is what struck the horrified ear of Mr.. Pusmanfeather as Crimsoibeak vanished through the rick ets of the front fence. THg DYING I)OLFPIIN'S 8KAULIY. Taut. That Give VPle, E.e by Use. Af er she Fish Is C(aeght. John T. Birge. formerly of this eity, and who acco npanied a party of Trcans on a fishing excursion at Fire Island b*ach, says in a letter to a friend in this city: "Butto-niuht we still hold the Ihn ner as the Champion fishers of Fire Is land, having caught to-day, about seven miles from the light-house, a dolphn weighing between fourteen and fifteen pounds, the first one that has been caught here by any beat in five years. We had it broiled for supper, and sent around to the tables whe re we had ac quaintances. It la a rather dry fish, by no means equal in flavor to a Spanish mackerel, but very good eat ng. Now, I am going to tell you ho wwe caught it, and though a fish story, it is literally true. Harry (H. B. Danchy) had the outrigger and had omittled to fasten the stick. The line is wound on so the loop in the end of the pole was all that held it. Suddenly came a big strike. bending the pole so the looplipped of and away went fish and tackle. A general ashout of d!smay-when in an instant Mrs. Dau'hy, who had the inside line en the same s deofthe boat, sid: 1 have a fish.' We let t.e ,oat come to and began pull ing in. L ,! and behold-her squid Lad c~ught thIe stick of Harry's tackle and she hal saved both tackle and fish. Joel pulled him alongside of the boat and landed him with a gs-h ok. "Talk of beautimful colors. The 'dying dolphin' is no vision of the poet's fancy. In the water an exquisite blue, a moment after ,coming out a rich gold color with black spots, then in another moment turning to silver with Dine spots, and fin - ally to a perfect mother-of-pearl with blhe spots, the great back fi being an ex quisite peacock blue." Troy T met. SProf. Moseley has discovered a i.rat or mollusk, which has 11,000 eye'.