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THE positive man whose conscience
sustains whatever position he takes is
'Hot without honor, except when he
fiads himself opposed to his eleven as
sociates on a "stuok" jury.
THE preponderance of political pow
er is passing to the cities, which already
contain about one quarter of the pop
ulatlon of the Union, and are increas
ing more rapidly than the country.
THERE are sixteen negro jockeys in
this country who get between three
and eight thousand dollars a year, on
'account of the ability they have
shown in settling the race question.
PEOPLE who hire the best legal
talent they can find to tie up their
property must bear in mind that it
may become the interest of some one
to find legal talent equal to untying it
PARENTS who cannot control theii
own children and yet badger and
abuse the teacher who undertakes to
supply the parents' place are a public
nuisance that ought to meet with prac
tical discouragement.
THE questions of the end-men in a
minstrel performance are immensely
funny—or, at least they are supposed
to be. But the question of middle men
in trade is a very serious matter, find
nobody laughs at it.
IT is a curious fact that no man has
teen chief justice of the United States
.whose name contains more than two
(syllables. The chief justices have
•been Jay, Rutledge, Ellsworth, Mar
shall, Taney, Chase and Waite.
IT is very easy to make general sug
gestions for the cure of evils. Farm
ing, it is said, doesn't pay. Prices are
too low. But will the sudden chang
ing all around, "a shuffle and a new
deal," it might bs said, make any dif
ference.
IN is an interesting point in Ameri
can history, if as stated, the confeder
ate gray uniform was borrowed from
the First Virginia regiment, which
borrowed it from the Seventh New
York Regiment. The confederate
song "Dixie" was of northern author
ship.
IF
Chicago would get up a contest
between the swiftness of its enter
prise, the strength of its gall and the
pungency of the odors of its river it
would have the biggest thing to call
attention to its world's fair that could
jpossibly be invented. In those things
it has no rivals.
THE man or woman, who is blessed
with ordinary health, and lives a
quiet, decent life, eats plain food,1
.breathes pure air, and does not get
damp feet, wear wet clothes or sit in
a draught, will outlast half a dozen
physical culture cranks, and have no
worry or exertion in so doing.
A FEW days ago while Congressman
Perkins was making a speech in which
he scored some of the members of the
'house for saying that Kansas was hope
jlessly in debt, a Jay hawker in the gal
lery forgot the proprieties of the occa
sion and place, and yelled at the top
of his altitudinous voice: "Bully for
Kansas."
To ENFORCE obedience, except in
politics, has come to be regarded as a
crime. Officers are tried by court
martial for speaking harshly to their
men teachers who undertake to cor
rect the innate ruffianism of their
pupils are liable to arrest it is even
possible that a child who was sent to
bed supperless might bring a success
ful action against his parents for
cruelty.
ALL kinds of dangerous wild ani
mals, lions, tigers, wolves and even
•lephants are disappearing rapidly
throughout the old world as the buf
falo hag in this, ana they can
certainly be much better spared. The
demands of modern civilization and
the destructive agencies it furnishes
are making man's natural wild beast
enemies hunt their holes as nover
before.
A NEW Irench clock contains a novel
application of the magnet. The clock
is shaped like a tambourine, with a cir
cle of flowers pointed on its head.
Around the circle two bees crawl, the
larger one requiring twelve hours to
complete its circuit, while the smaller
one makes it every hour. Different
flowers represent the hours, and the
bees, which are of iron, are moved by
two magnets behind the head of the
tamborine.
MANY people have strong prejudices
against making a will. They can't
Separate the act of executing a will
from the beginning of preparation for
death. All such prejudices are utterly
senseless. Every man and woman who
has property should make a will at,
once, if one has not already been exe
cuted, and they should not hesitate to
change it just as often as changed cir
cumstances seem to call for it. It
Should be changed as freely as a lease
would be changed, and it should be
regarded just as much a matter of
plain, practical business.
|A special to the New York World from
Stockholm says Christine Nilsson ie a
monamaniac on the subject of gambling
and that she is constantly at the tables at
Monte Carlo, where she loses large HUTIS
Her health and beauty are rapidly declin
ing.
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TOOK 238 "DEGREES." 3
Some Maaonio Faota as to Which a Wife
Had Bets ViainfarmecL
Her Hasband Had Deceived Her Badly, bat
Hl» Game ii Up Forever—She Will Qlre
Him a Degree That Will Paralyze Him—
Hi* Skyfugle Story.
A middle-aged lady with a black
alpaca dress, worn shiny at the elbows,
and a cheap shawl and a cheap bon
net, and her hands puckered up and
blue, as though she had just got her
washing out, went into the office of a
prominent Mason a few mornings
since, says Peck's Sun, and took a
chair.
She wiped her no.se and the per
spiration from her face on a blue
checked apron, and when the Mason
looked at her with an interested,
brotherly look, as though she was in
trouble, she said:
"Are you the boss Mason?"
He blushed and told her he was &
Mason, but-not the highest in the land.
She hesitated a moment, fingered
the corner of her apron, and curled it
up like a boy speaking a piece in
school, and asked:
"Have you taken the whole 233 de
grees of Masonry?"
The man laughed and told her there
were thirty-throe degrees, and that he
hud only taken thirty-two. The other
degree could only be taken by a very
few, who were recommended by the
Grnnd lodge, and they had to go to
New York to get the thirty-third de
gree.
The lady studied a minute, unpinned
the safety-pin that held her shawl to
gether and put it in her mouth, took a
long breath, and said:
'W here does my husband get the
other 200 degrees, then?"
The prominent Mason said he
guessed her husband never got 200 de
igrees, unless he had a degree factory.
'He said he didn't understand the lady.
"Does my husband have to sit up
with a corpse three nights a week?"
she asked, her eyes flashing fire. "Do
iyou keep a lot of sick Masons on tap
for my husband to sit up with?"
The prominent Mason said he was
thankful that few Masons died, and
and only occasionally was one sick
enough to call for Masonic assistance.
When a Mason was sick, and was away
from home, or when his family desired
it, the brethren were only too glad to
sit up with him, but there were so
many Masons and so few sick that it
was only once in two or three months
that a brother was called upon to sit
up with anybody.
"But why do you ask these questions,
madam?" said the prominent Mason.
The woman picked the fringe of her
shawl, hung her head down, and said:
"Well, my husband began to join
the Masons about two years ago and
he has been taking degrees or sitting
up with people every night since, and
he comes home at all times of the
night smelling of beer and cheese. I
thought at first that the cheese was
the result of his going to the morgue
to help carry brother Masons home
after they had been found in the
river.
"I have kept a little track of It, and
I figure that he has taken 233 degrees,
including the grand skyfugle degree,
which he took the night he came home
with his lip cut and his ear hanging
by a piece of skin."
"Oh, madam," said the prominent
Mason, "There is no skyfugle degree
in Masonry. Your husband has lied
to you."
"That's what I think," said she' as
a baleful light appeared in her eye.
"He said he was taking the skyfugle
degree and fell through the skylight,
ii had him sewed up, and he was ready
for more degrees,
"After he had taken, I thir.k, about
150 degrees, I told him I should think
he would let up on it and put some
potatoes in the cellar for the winter,
.but he said when a man once got
.started on the degrees he had to take
them all or he didn't amount to any
thing.
••One time I wanted a hat to wear
'to church with a feather on it, and he
said feathers were all nonsense and
the next day he brought home a
leather case with a felt coal-scuttle
in it, and a feather on it that couldn't
have cost less than $10, the way I
figure millinery. And when he put it
on and I laughed at his ridiculous
appearance he began to throw his
arms around and I asked him what
was the matter, and he said it was the
grand hailing sfgn of distress, and if I
didn't look out an avenger would ap
pear from a dark closet and run a
toadsticker through me for a scoffer.
"He must have spent a fortune on
the last 150 degrees. One morning he
came home with his coat tail split
right up the back and his pants torn
jjustas though a dog had chewed him,
and one eye closed up, and a wad of
hair pulled right out of his head, and
said he had been taking the 200th de-
tappened,
ree, but he wouldn't tell me how it
because it was a dead
secret
"I tell you what I will do. The
next time he says anything about
Skyfugle degrees and Consistory non
sense I will use a washboard and
cause him to believe there is one de
gree in Masonry he has missed and
now good by. You have comforted
hie greatly, and I will be awake to
night till my husband comes from the
lodge with his pat hand and I will
make him think he has forgotten his
ante."
The lady went out to a grocery to
buy some bar soap, and the prominent
Mason resumed his business with a
feeling that we are not all truly good
and there is cheating going on all
around.
BEAUTY OF OUR GIRLS.
American Qlrls Beat the World In
Variety of Attractions.
The beauty of American girls is a
much discussed question. It is said
they have no distinct points, but it
seems t) me that any one who has
traveled must easily have settled upon
the salient points which go to make up
the beauty of an American girl, says a
writer in the Illustrated American. A
general delicacy of outline as well as
coloring are demanded. A woman
with very large eyes and no other
charms is never rated as a beauty
here. When a woman is said to be
beautiful in America it means that she
has a face molded in delicate lines,
features that are thoroughly harmo
nious, a figure which is neither pro
nouncedly athletic nor too plump, and
small hands and feet. In England if a
woman is six feet two, and broad
across the shoulders, she is invariably
spoken of in the society papers as
beautiful, though her feet may out
class the iron-clad and her knuckles
stretch wildly abroad.
In Italy and Spain a pair of big, ex
pressive eyes are enough, but in Amer
ica a thoroughly balanced series of
attractions must be shown to win the
title. American girls form a lofty,
gay, intrepid and dashing army, whose
audacity should be feminine. They
have ail of the athletic look of the E n
glish woman, without the ill-fitting
gloves and ponderous boots. The
assumption of semi-masculine attire
robs them of their greatest charm.
Wonjanliness is still the most attract
ive quality of woman.
Family Begemblance in Writing.
An expert says there is as much a
family resemblance in handwriting as
there is in face. Brothers and sisters
usually resemble each other in eyes,
hair, contour of brow or cheek or chin,
and in that more elusive quality we
call expression. There are some ex
ceptions to this rule, but not many,
and out of fifty families of children the
relationship in at least forty-five can
be readily traced. So in handwriting
the general outlines may vary ever so
much, yet the eye of the expert will
detect family resemblances hero and
there which cannot well be hidden.
One is bred to the law and falls into
the lawyer's beastly habit of writing
carelessly another may be an instruct
ed in penmanship, and may even fol
low the lines of Spencer with the fidel
ity of copperplate engraving another
may be a farmer, only rarely touching
a pen. Yet in the letters they write
when the restraint is off, in the lines
that flow from the hand guided by sin
cerity and masked from the common
scrutiny the kindred blood will tell in
cold pen and ink, and the brotherhood
is revealed.
The Pride of Hatrimony.
In his recently published "Trials of
a Country Parson," Dr. Jessupp tells
some amusing anecdotes picked up in
Arcady. As thus: "It is very shock
ing to a sensitive person to hear the
way in which the old people speak of
their dead wives or husbands exactly!
as if they'd been horses or dogs. They!
are always proud of having been mar
ried more than once. 'You didn't!
think, miss, as I'd had five wives, now
did you? Ah, but I have, though—
leastways I buried five on 'em in the
churchyard, that I did—and tree on
'em bewties!' On another occasion I
playfully suggested, 'Don't you mix up
your husbands now and then, Mrs.
Page, when you talk about them?'
'Well, to tell you the truth, sir, I
really du! But my third husband, he
was a man! I don't mix him up. He
got killed fighting—you've heerd tell
o' that I make no doubt. The others
warn't nothing to him. He'd ha' mixed
them up quick enough if they'd inter
fered wi' him. Lawk ha! He'd 'a made
nothing of them!"
Baisiag the Wind.
"Breddern," said the old colored,
pastor of a church in Georgia, "de
chu'ch am like a ship, an' de pa'son,
which am yo"umble se'vant, am like
de sails dat propels de ship, an' de
congregashun am like de sailors on
board de ship. Now, breddern, w'en
yo' have de ship ready, an' de sailors
all in dere places an' de sails all up,
what does yo' need fer to makes de
sails fill out an' scoot de ship right
along into de hebbenly ha'bor? Huh?"
"Wind," said old Deacon Topknot,
in a low sweet voice.
"K'ect jesso," shouted the pastor.
"Brudder Topknot will, please circu
late wid his high hat an' raise de
wind."—New York Herald.
Caucasian Oirli Lost Too.
New York is horrified over the sale
of a Chinese girl by her husVand, who
had gambled away all his substance.
When the police were notified they
promptly arrested the purchaser and
had him committed for trial. Thou
sands of Caucasian girls are lost at the
gaming tables of this city every year
by their husbands or fathers, and the
misery and degradation of their
slavery is worse a hundred fold than
that of their Mongolian sister. But
the authorities cannot be induced to
enterfere.—N. Y. Sun.
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SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
Alluminium bronze is coming into
extensive use in Germany for pro
pellers. and other fittings for boats.
The alloy consists of 90 per cent of
copper and 10 per cent of aluminium,
looks like gold, and has the same
weight as iron.
In experiments on the Italian man
of-war "M.essaggiero," the maximum
speed of 15 knots an hour was in
creased to about 17 knots by the use as
fuel of a mixture of coal and petro
leum. The intense heat was found to
be injurious to the boilers, but an
attempt will be made to lessen this
difficulty.
The Imperial Telesrraph Depart
ment, of Berlin, finds that under
ground wires are much less affected
by#atmospheric electricity than aerial
wires, 338 interruptions from storms
having been recorded in 1888 for
underground wires and 2,375 for
aerial wires. In cities telephones
seem to be protected from lightning
in some degree by the network of
wires above the house-tops.
The latest French submarine boat—
the "Goubet"—is cast in one piece of
bronze, is 18 feet long by 6 feet in
diameter, and can carry 4 men. A
heavy mass of lead on the keel insures
stability, and in emergency can be
detached by the turn of a screw inside
the shell. The boat is driven by elec
tricity, but the currents are so pow
erful as to effect the compass and make
submarine steering uncertain. Oxygen
is drawn as needed frotn tubes into
which a supply for many hours is
compressed.
A little railway just opened between
Lynton and Lynmouth, in England,
has the steepest incline in the world—
a uniform gradient of 1 in 1 8-4 The
line is only 900 feet long, and was
built to give passage over a cliff nearly
500 feet hisrh separating the two
places. Water is brought from a dis
tance of a mile to the summit of the
cliff, and is drawn from the reservoir
to move the cars, two of which are
connected together by a wire cable
and sufficient water-load applied to
the descending one to drag the other
up the incline.
If there were no other reason why
a chair of hypnotism should be estab
lished in medical colleges, it would
seem desirable for teaching students
the simple method of treating inebri
ates tried by Dr. Bernheim. of Paris.
This physician created a distaste for
liquor by simply suggesting, without
actually hypnotizing the patient, that
drink should be given up, and the ef
fect seems permanent. Aside from
other medical value of hypnotism, the
cure of drunkards—should even a few
per cent prove so susceptible to hyp
notic suggestion—would justify aa
effort to bring this mysterious agent
to the aid of the profession.
It is estimated that persons walking
on the sunny side of the street are in
light more than 5,000 times stronger
than are the occupants of an ordinary
darkened room of a town house, while
strollers on the seashore in sunny
weather enjoy the influence of 18,000
times as much of the same health-glv
ing agent. These facts are revealed
by the action of the different degrees
of light on photographic plates, a lens
and plate of certain speed taking a
bright seaside view with an exposure
of 1-10 of a second, an open land
scape away from the sea in one of
'a second, a fairly lighted interior
such as many ladies prefer, especially
in summer—in not less than 30 minutes.
In order to lure specimens of the
deep-sea animals to a trap. Prince
Albert Monaco found it necessary to
sink an incandescent lamp with a pow
erful battery attached but, the water
pressure at a depth of a couple of miles
being several hundred pounds to the
square inch, he was unable to make a
battery box of sufficient strength to
resist crushing. This difficulty was
finally overcome by the curious device
of connecting a rubber-coated cloth
balloon to the box. On sinking the
apparatus, the increasing hydrostatic
pressure forced air from the balloon to
the box, keeping the internal and ex
ternal pressure exactly balanced 'at
whatever depth was reached. So suc
cessful was the arrangement that not
only were deep-sea fish snared but a
camera was sent down and negatives
of the ocean bottom under eleotric il
lumination were brought up.
Why He Didn't Stay Out Weit.
A young man who went "West," fill
ed with enthusiam and desire to '•grow
up with the country," surprised his
friends by returning home after an
absence of several weeks. He said
that while he was out land hunting la
what he thought was the garden spot
of America he came across a boarded
up claim shanty. On the boards nail
ed across the door he found this in
scription, "Fore miles from nayber.
Sixteen miles from a postofls.
Twenty-five miles from a raleroad.
A hundred and atey from timber. Two
hundred and fifty feet from watejv
There's no place like home. We've
gone East to spend tlj^ winter with my
wife's folks."—IJew York Ledger.
Finding a Season.
Smith—"Why is it that when an
.engagement is broken off a return ot
Ipresents is always asked for oq both
|sides?'' Jones—"I'll tell ^ou w\iy. ft
|is becouse it is expected the presents
will come }n handy wheh another en
gagement id made. See?"
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CARDINAL MANNING'S LETTER.
He Makes a Most Touchlns Refer
ence tothe Condition of l?elan£
The oil painting which Cardinal
Manning seat to William O'Brien, the
noted Irish patriot, on the occasion
of his wedding a few weeks ago was
not the only tribute that, the vener
able prelate paid to the bridegroom.
A few hours before the ceremony
was performed Mr. O'Brien received a
letter over the signature of the^cardi
nal and which he prizes more than if
the letters were set with precious
stones. It relates to his novel
"When We Were Boys," and in ?t the
cardinal says: "In my last letter I
promised you that I would write you
again when 1 had finished reading
your book. But when 1
got to thl
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I forgot the book and could only
think oi Ireland, its manifold suffer
ings and its inextricable sorrows*
For years I have been sayinR these
words. 'The Irish people are the
most profundiy Christian and the
rnost energetically Catholic people on
the face of the earth.* They have
also be9n afflicted by every kind of
sorrow, barbarous and refined. All
that centuries of warfare, and race
against race, and religion against re
ligion can inflict upon a people has
been their inheritance. But the day
of restitution is nearly come. I hope
to see the day break and I hope that
you will see noontide, when the peo
ple of Ireland will be readmitted, as
far as possible, to the possession of
their own, and shall be admitted, as
far as possible to the making and ad
ministration of their own local laws,
while they shall still share in the legis
lation which govern and consolidates
the empire." The publication of this
letter^ which has been by the cardinal
archbishop's express permission, has
created a profound impression
throughout the country.
A Chicago Riot.
Excitement bordering on a riot was
created in front of the ticket broker's
office of Arthur Webb at 151 C'ark
street, Chicago, 111., on the 28th ult.
During the night or early in the morn
ing six detectives of the Mooney &
Boland agency had forcibly taken
possession ot the office and thrown
all of the ticketmen's property into
the street. The cause is a controver
sy over a lease between Mr. Webb
and Mr. Wyman, another broker.
The former held on under an old lease,
while the latter sought possession un
der a new one. Constables, armed with
warrants charging riot, demanded ad
mission to the store. This being re
fused them and the door being locked,
they concluded to oreak into the
place by smashing the windows. Con
stable Ahern led the attack and as
soon as he disappeared through the
opening he was struct a violent blow
on the head with a hatchet, inflicting
a gaping wound. This angered the
great crowd that had congregated in
front of the building and a dozen citi
zens followed the constables. The de
tectives drew their revolvers and
threatened to shoot, but they were
afraid to pull the triggers and were
finally taken into custody.
A Preacher Whipped.
A special to the Cincinnati Evening
Post from New Albany, Ind., says:
"Information was received that White
Caps of Crawford county, on the 25th
ult. entered the residence of Willis
Strain, until recently a United Breth
ren minister near Leavenworth, and,
taking him and his paramoui into the
woods near by, beat him with switch
es until blood flowed from 100 wounds
and he was unconscious. The woman
was tarred and feathered and both ot
them were abandoned. A notice was
posted upon the door of the house to
leave the country inside of two days.
The husband held religious meetings
in the school house near the county
for a time and was highly respected.
The couple quarreled frequently and
the woman divulged the fact that they
were not married. The people became
incensed and a visit from the White
Caps resulted."
Jumped the Track.
The locomotive, baggage car and one
passenger car of the south-bound ex
press train on the Philadelphia &
Reading railroad jumped the track on
the morning of the 23d inst. near
Tuckerton station, about five miles
above Reading, Pa. Louis Heller, en
gineer, was killed and Fireman George
Heller, a brother of the engineer, was
probably fatally injured. George
Hamilton, baggage master, and Jo
seph Burnbaum, the express messen
ger, were severely bruised. Robert
Cotton, a parlor car conductor, was
slightly injured. All the trainmen
named resided in Pottsville. No pas
sengers were hurt. Their escape fron?
injury was miraculous, as tne bag
gage car and one passenger coach were
badly wrecked.
Relics of the Pharoahs.
The large circle interested in African
affairs in Berlin is greatly excited oyer
the discovery by the American Egypt
ologist, Wilbour, of the record of the
existence in ancient times of canals
around the Nile cataracts. This dis
covery, of the authenticity ot which
there is doubt, suggests the possibility
of the reopening of the Soudan by the
British by the restoration of the can
als, whereby the possessions of Ger
many in Southern Africa would be
come practically valueless as com
pared with their present promise of
revenue. With an uninteruptedly
navigable Nile and an undisputed pro
tectorate over Zanzibar, England
would be enabled to control the trade
of the most fruitful portions of Africa
with marketing facilities which would
throw the German companies hope
lessly out of competition.
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SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.
The mayor of Plainfleld, N. J., has aa
umbrella that he has carried for thirty-flv
years.
Riohard Vaux, Randall's successor, it
not a poet, but they say he looks like Ten«
nyson.
Southern California fruit growers are
importing orange trees from Cuba in large
numbers.
There is a time for all things. The pru
dent man steals an umbrella when no rain
is falling.
The beech is said to be crowding out all
other trees ia the struggle for existence in
the Danish forests.
Immense quantities of trout are now
being caught in the Stillwater 'R^jrer near
Djftnersville, Mont
The sweet potato crop on the eastern
shore of Virginia is expected to be the
largest ever known.
Margaret D. Sibley, of Rochester,
daughter of the late Fletcher Harper, is
the soU heir to his estate.
Someone has remarked that there is
nothing remarkable about a man fallinj
1,000 feet unless the man lives.
Ezra Leech, a farmer of Newton county,
Miss., discovered $10,000 in go while
ditching in his field a few days ago.
How is this for the mother country?
There is a pauper ia every thirty-seven
inhabitants in England and Wales.
Sedentary drunks ara not unfrequent in
Boston. A man can get ineoriated sitting
down as well as in an erect position.
A house at South Fairfield, Mich..'was
set on fire by the rays of the sun reflected
from tin pans that were set out to dry.
Miss Ethel Chase Sprasjue did not give
up the stage. She made he: debut at Buffalo
the other evening and scored a success.
It is said that 3),00tl strangers remain
over in New York every night, furnishing
plenty of business for the 125 hotels in the
city.
It is estimated that there are 16,000 flour
mills in the United States and, unlike the
mills of the gods, they grind exceedingly
fast.
Australia is to the front with a musical
wonder. Elsie ill, a 13 year-old piantiste
from Australia, is attracting attention in
London.
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It is a wise child that knows its own
home—in Chicago. One Sunday recently
the police of that city picked up 200 lost
children.
It has baen observed that man who
goes to sleep in church is always wide
awake at a base ball match. Every man
has his tendencies.
A coupe for two persons is the fashion
among London oabs. Lovers prefer it to
any other vehicle. They know how many
make up a company.
The rascal who succeeded in craoking so
many safes at Peoria, 111., bas at last been
captured, and turns out to be a son of a
local millionaire distiller.
The Ceylon pearl fishery, It appears, was
a failure last year, the number of pearl
oysters collected not more than covering
the cost of obtaining them.
It is aald that the province of Araucania,
in Chill, Is infested by horde^ of bandits,
and atrocious orlmes are succeeding each
other with alarming rapidity.
A dentist of Kingston, N. Y., recently
pulled eight of his own teeth. He says he
found It somewhat inconvenient, because
he couldn't keep his head still.
Judge Gornte, of Perry, Fla., has a cam
phor tree on his place. The cold has not
Injured it in the least, and he believes the
trees can be successfully raised.
A deposit of black slate 1,800 feet wide
and two miles long has been found near
Pine Grove, Pa., on lands belonging to the
Gettysburg & Harrisburg railroad.
There has been discovered in Augusta,
Ga„ a wonderful spring which cures any
kind of nausea and other stomach troubles.
Its cures are pronounced immediate and
remarkable.
Yueng Lung, a Traver, CaL, Chinaman
of more than ordinary intelligence, had his
cue cut oft recently, and Sunday was
baptized in the Christian faith by the Rev.
Mr. Hawklhs.
The Australian wine which was expect
ed to find a great market in Europe will
have to wait until they can get some wood
in Australia fit for casks. All that they
have injures its flavor.
Prof. Hebra, of Vienna, used often to
express himself in this wise: "It is ne
cessary that there should be surgical
geniuses, but don't ever let a surgical
genius operate on you."
Pineapple juice is the latest discovered
domestic remedy lor diphtheria It is
said to be usod with great and unfailing
success by the negroes of Louisiana and
other parts of the south.
The street cleaning department of New
York has apnointed three physicians to ex
amine all applicants for positions on the
force, to determine whether they are phys
ically fit to do the work required.
Chris Magee of Pittsburg has given 810,
000 towards the erection of a newsboys'
home in that city. Mr. Magee is a prac
tical politician and his left band always
knows what his risrht hand is doing.
The Emperor of Germany has a swelled
foot and will be kept in his room for some
time. It was Bismarck who intimated that
the young man was afflicted with a swelled
head. He seems to be in trouble at both
extrimltlea.
An officer sent from Washington to San
Diego to look into the filibustering story is
reported to have said: "Thoss who'ifiade
up the yarn have been unable to produce a
single man who was recruited for the so
called filibustering expedition."
A man who died recently at Williams
burg, Pa., leaving a large fortune for many
years in his store, refused to reduce the
prices of his goods, for which he demand
ed war-time prices, and they became dusty
moldy and covered with cobwebs.
It is said to be a common sight in New
York to see well-dressed men runnlni or
skipping the rope in Central Pari. Excer
cise is the ohief aim of these simple diver
sions, which are practicel mostly by brok
ers, lawyers and club nm who are becom
ing stout.
Cyrus W Field is said to wear twl
watohes. One, an elaborate affair valuM
at 12,500 is worn to please a frienl w^
presented it to him, and the other, an ordi
nary gold watch, is worn to tell the time of
day. He does not use the fine watch fnr
(fear of being thought too "showy."
Church ushers in Boston have annar
ently got the business down pretty fine
One of them the other day remarked to a
pretty woman who had asked Mm
,seat "Certainly, madam, if you wuiaiTow
me I should like to give youTselt on the
broad isle. We put the handsome ones
thereto decorate the churoh."
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