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Mountain prmt Bullctiu ♦ MOUNTAIN HOME, IDAHO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1881). VOL. I. NO. 36. 6E0. M. PAYNE Prop. THE BALLOON BURSTED. Row tta* Moat Kxperlelir*d Aeronaut In tho World Met 111. Death. The coroner's inquiry into the death in Kssex, England, of the famous aero naut, Simmons, has brought out a sing ular feature of the accident by which he lost his life and his two companions were dangerously injured, and indi cates a now danger in ballooning. Tho evidonce shows the accident, which followed an attempt to land, during which tho anchor was caught in a toll, v. as causod by the bursting of the bal loon. The silk was unusually large and correspondingly heavy, but it was not ripped with one large rent, as would have boon the case hud it caught on a tree, but was found torn into several distinct pieces. Resides this the burst ingwas accompanied by a loud report, which was heard not only by thoso near by who wero watching tho bal loon, but by persons a considerable dis tance away, who knew nothing of the balloon until afterward. Mr. Simmons was an aeronaut of thirty years' experience, and this was his 495th ascension- When ho landed from his last previous ascent a fow dnvs before an old lady said to him: "You men can not have much care for your lives," and ho replied, ''1 have made 494 ascents and 1 don't feel vory An Will depths heart doto, briners uriugB his V,,, child one war erely had hospital, „d tored cer weighs tho v more. "I of weight Bwered His threats. suffered hls lie had he 1 much fear now. Tho balloon was tho Cosmo, one of largest ever made, holding G2.000 cubic feet of gas, and capable of carrying 2.400 pounds. The basket was of iron wire network, iustoad of wicker. Ho car ried a thirty-pound grapnel and ninety one feet of ropo —too light an anchor and too short a rope, some experts say. He went up about tho middle of the afternoon with VV. L. Field and Mr. Meyers, the latter of South Kensington Natural History Museum, both of whom had made previous voyages. It was intended to cross tho channel to F rance, but darkness coining on the party de The oown .-ttory ter, going he lier useless would as But of to. days room, dded to descend for tho night, country wus somewhat wooded, und two or three attempts wero made to land, but each time ballast had to lie thrown out and tho balloon sent up again. A field that seemed fairly clear was at last chosen and the grapnel let out. It dragged through a field of wheat and then caught in a large tree. In an instant tho huge balloon pulled up short, swung to tho ground, and be gan to bump up and down, straining at tho end of its tether. Simmons pulled desperately on tlie valve rope and shouted to Field to help him. Meyers held a bag of ballast awaiting an order to throw it out. Three times in scarce ly moro than as many seconds tho great balloon bounded up and down strug gling frantically liko some immense wild beast at tlie end of a long rope. Each time it sprang sixty feet in tho As -it .rose the third timo to that height there came a sudden report, the nth tho nearly room on littlo coin smile know with for nnd to day. and said once over for ing lie — air. silk collapsed, and tho car three young men in it fell to the ground. Mon from the fields running up, found it battered into a shapeless wreck nnd its throe late inmates unconscious. Simmons' skull was fractured and ho had suffered other injurios. He died in three 'fcours without gaining con sciousness. Mr. Field had a simple fracture of the right thigh and a com pound fracture of tho left leg, bosidos innumerable bruises. Mr. Meyers had internal injuries, and was covered with bruises and cuts. Aeronauts can give no satisfactory explanation of the bursting of tho bal loon. It was undoubtedly causod by the suddon stoppage, but why the strainof a quantity of gas should be come excessive on that account has not boon explained. It is said that there is one similar caso on record. Simmons, during his life as a bnl loonist, had made ascents in India, Egypt ami tlie United States, as well as in all parts of Europe, and it is said that no man in tho world hail had more experience in aerial navigation than ho. Groof, the Belgian "flying man," who to descend from a great height by of a parachute. Something went In 1875 lie ascended with Do uf was means wrong and tho Belgian was dashed to pieces. In 1882, with Colonel Brine, of the Royal Engineers, ho started to cross to France, but dropped Into the channel, and after a perilous timo was rescued by a steamer, later Si? Claude do Grespigny, as conding with him, was thrown out and badly hurt. Simmon3 stuck to the car, and after an exciting time mndo a safe descent. The next year Sir Claude and he succeeded in crossing the chan nel. and ho has repeated the feat since. —A'. Y. Sun. to A few months lo it Blew Himself Up With a Bomb. An extraordinary suicide has just occurred at a village noar Angers. A peasant named Bordereau waa.working in a field with his wife and brother-in ,-hen a trifling dispute took placo. law. Bordereau left tho field and returned to his cottage, whither his wife soon followed him. As she was about to enter the houso hor husband called to her to remain outside, and a moment afterwards there was a tremendous ex plosion, which sont all the glass Hying ami filled the air with smoke. The neighbors rushed to the spot and promptly extinguished the flames Unit were bursting out of the cottage. Then, entering Bordereau's room, they found him lying lifeless on the shattered bod, his body fearfully mutilated, while the walls were smeared with blood. He lm.d undressed nnd lain himself on the bed, placing at his side a shell which ho had brought home with him on Ins return from the military service. Ho had then ignited the shell and blown his bodv to atoms. Bordereau, though still young, was in very bad health, and when he wended his way to tho cottage Ilia wife had a presentiment of appruaching disaster. London * some Telegraph. WHAT A CHILD DID. An An Anecdote 111 u*trating Mr# Lincoln'* Great Tenderness of Heart. Will the world ever know what, depths of tenderness there were in the heart of Abraham L nco n.^ n an. i - ^ doto, which ha» never »con pu > is » , ^ briners out one more instance in which MUtl * uriugB uui uuo u though his sympathies, awakened by a Uttlo l, * uu *» V,,, v V a i, a V« t« are child nobly controlled hls action. In ^ one of tho first skirmishes of tho civil ,I < 8 war a young Union so dior was so so erely wounded in the leg that the limb had to bo amputated. On leaving tl o hospital, the young soldier by the aid „d Not 1. ho hml ... X tored upon bis duties, his superior ofli- > ® * r western cer said to hm: _ forests See hoie. Mr. * ^ weighs so much on these scales ; but to t tho Government it weighs so much | v more. "I do not understand, sir, that way of doing business. • I can entor but one weight and that tho correct one, Bwered tho young weigher. His superior walked away, muttering threats. Tho young man from that day suffered many potty persecutions for hls honesty, and it was not long beforo lie received notice that tho government had no further need of his services. cesses T I tho besides solemn ly be too, and the an ers he summary dismissal mndo him so hearted that when ho told the P ll on Often great 1 oown .-ttory to his family, ho seemed a man without hopo. "Father," replied tho eldest daugh ter, a girl of thirteen, "cheer up! 1 am going to soo President Lincoln. I know he will make it all right." Hor father and mother tried - to turn lier purpose, saying that it would bo useless to soo the President, as he would not attend to such a petty matter as the dismissal of a weigher of grain. But her faith in tho President's sense of justice w as so strong that sho went to. tho White IIouso, and, after three days of patient waiting in tho anto room, was somo owing antry. for have within tho wa what —that ovor jumps tlie after which down nerves Most have for stage l I lish to are travel hurd nary ing the lish admitted to Mr. Lincoln's prosenco. The hour for receiving visitors had nearly oxpired, and as sho entered tho room tho President, throwing himself on a lounge, said, wearily: "Well, my littlo girl, wliat can I do for you?" Sho told her artless story, coin listened attentively, and with a I smile asked: "But how, my dear, do I know that your statement 1 h true?" "Mr. President," answered tho girl, ' with energy, "you must take my word . for it." I "I do," replied the President, rising nnd taking her hand. "Como with mo ! to Mr, Stunton." "Stanton," said Mr. Lincoln, as thoy entered tho office of the great War Sec retary, "I wish you to hoar this child's story." "I havo no time," answered tho over worked man. "But you must," replied Mr. Lincoln. "I have not a moment to spare to day. Mr. President." "Como again, my dear, to-morrow, and Mr. Stanton will hear you then," said tho President, leading hor nwny. Tho next day she was admitted at once to tho President, who took her over to Mr. Stanton's office. The Sec retary listened to tho child's simple story and was so moved by it that ho indignantly exclaimed, before sho imd finished: "Tho infernal rascal!" Ho went to liis desk and wroto an order for the immediate dismissal of tho dis honest official, and for tho appoint ing tho littlo girl's father to tho vacant place. Mr. Lincoln novor forgot tho child; lie told her story to several Congress men, nnd through their influence hor two brothers were enrolled among tho pages of tho House of Representatives. — Youth's Companion. Mr. Lin ho by the be not bnl well said had who by went ho but, in my —if sist at blo ful, The African Elephant. In rrlermann's Mitteilungen Herr J. Monges raisos once more tho quostion | tea Do uf the possibility of utilizing tho Afri can elephant Herr Manges points out that there is strong evidence that tho 1 no elephant was used in ancient times in I l> Africa, and asserts that no sorious at tempt has been made In modern timos | or as to of to the was as out the a to subdue It to tho uses of humanity. Ho maintains that it is quite as docile as the Indian elephant, and much strong er; nnd that, if it could bo really tamed | and trained to work, it would bo of im mense utility in. the opening of Africa. But, unless some protection is accorded lo tho Africun elephant, Herr Monges I believes that by tho end of next century ! it will be quite extinct. | "I am troubled with a slight sore I throat. Miss Clara, he said, "and I I d think it would be wise if J should but- I ton my coat tightly around my neck. | "I would, Indeed, Mr. Sampson, t o plied the girl with somo concern. "At I n tills season of the yoar a sore throat is apt to develop into something serious. | Aro you doing any thing for it?" "Not so far," ho replied. "I hardly know what to do." I U "I have often hoard papa say, shyly I suggested tlio girl, "that raw oysters j have a very soothing and beneficial ef fect upon such a trouble."— N. Y. Sun S' An Excellent Reme Thoy were returning from tlio thea just A ter. soon to to ex Hying The and Unit Then, found bod, the He the which Ins Ho blown though health, tho of London Bobley—Wonder what makes young I Feikins look so cast down. One would ïnnev ho had lost hls best friend. Wlegins—So he lias. His sweetheart ,rr » ». I b'unhlev Well it's really a blessing in lie has escaped a mother'd,, •isguiBo. r i law, any way. , 1 Wiggins—Oh, yon don t understood I I the girl w as an orphan iWtn/ÿfe. A Heart-Breaking Los*. THE LAND OF LAKES. TbM control, storm bo at sea. prairies was noon The an rio it cast fell. An Encll.lt Traveler'» Impression of the Province of Flnlnutli Finland is, in tho lnnguago of tho "the lund ol u ,™Uy the truth, as ^ tlmn one -third is under water, ^ 0 f t ^j g j 8 however, marsh land, MUtl * , , v though the lakes Saima, Ixxloga, En l, * uu *» u _ . . are etc., cover some thousands ol square ^ Tho surface of the country is ,I < 8 chain of low hiUs about tho w of tUoso , K , in g the t , "Aavasuksa." Tho coasts d auJ k . tu e , J/ lto cUt Ts standing clear X " «'h"" »rto A .TS > ® tv,.»,.». „ ri wi«„un western waters. Inland there are dense forests of pine, fir and birch, which have strange and enthralling influence up t tho { ' lma , rination . Notwithstanding | toag BBpecti thor0 J e innumerable pleasant glades in tho ro of thoso woods, where tho tall w ing ing more framed grew birds and closer of each er was flashes as hanks to and that and and somo in at lust from by ou one tho that of tho tho ern ing in of u cesses white-stemmed birch and great bould coverod with lichen crop up from I tho grass and form a pleasant picture; besides this tho lakes havo a beauty solemn and romantic—which can scarce ly be found elsewhere. Tho landscape, too, dotted with numerous windmills, and tho chureli towers, built apart from the p aces of worship, present strange From thoso towers the night ers P ll 'toros. . . watchmen sound their horns or play up on triangles as an alarm of lire. Often in the dead of night a great blaze on tho horizon will tell of forest fire. These are mainly somo owing to tho carelessness of the peas antry. and, combined with tho groat ex portation of timber and its lavish use for firewood and for building purposes, have caused a great riso in its value within the last fow years. Traveling in tho country, though cheap, is not al wa s pleasant. Many of the roads aro what would bo described as "corduroy" —that is, having rough logs laid across, ovor which ono's vehicle bumps and jumps in a manner calculated to make tlie bones sore for a considerable timo after a journey. The velocity witli which tho natives send tlie carriage down hills is also likely to try tho nerves of any not to tho manner born. Most persons posting through Finland have their own vehicles—wheeled ones for tho summer and sledges for the winter—and they change horses at each stage of about fifteen versts (ton Eng l I lish miles). Should you havo to trust to tho post-house fora conveys nee you are more likoly than not condemned to travel in a cart without springs and a hurd seat with no buck to it or an ordi nary work sledge. Tho charge for post ing is littlo enough, being ten Finnish pennies (Id English) per verst, and the driver is required by law to tako you at the ruto of one Sweedish or seven Eng lish milos per hour. — Cornhill Mag azine. I ' . I ! at ho Ho hor tho THE HANDSOME MAN. What Constitute» One According to Fanny Fern'* Critical Mind. Well -in tho first placo, thoro must ho enough of him; or, failing in that— but, como to think of it, lie nmsn't fall in that, because there can bo no beauty without health, ut least according to my way of thinking. In tho second place, ho must have a beard; whiskers —if tho gods please, but a iieard I in sist upon, else one might as well look at a girl. Lot bis voice havo a dash of Niagara, with tho music of a baby's laugh in it. breaking forth of tho sunshine on a spring morning. As to his figure, it should bo strong enough to contend with a man, and slight enough to trem blo in tho prosenco of tho woman ho loves. Of courso, if ho is a well-mado man, it follows that ho must bo grace ful, on tho principle that perfect ma chinery always moves harmoniously; therefore you and himself nnd tho milk Let his smile bo liko tho J. | pitcher are safe elbow neighbors at tho tea table. This stylo of handsome man would a out tho 1 no moro think of carrying a cano than in I l> e would use a parasol to keep tlio sun at- out of his eyes. Ho can wear gloves, | or warm his hands in his coat pockets, as ho pleases. He can oven commit the suicidal-beaiity-act of turning his out sido coat collar up over his nock of a Ho as | stormy day with perfect impunity. 1 ho tailor didn't make him, and ns to his hatter, if he depended on this hand some man's patronago of tlio "latest im I spring style," I fear ho would die of ! hopo deferred; and yet—by Apollo! | wbst a bow lie makes, and what an ex pressive adieu ho can wave with his hand! For all this tie Is not conceited —for he hatli bruins. But your conventional handsome man of tho barber's window-wax-figure sore I head pattern; with a pet lock inthoinid I I d j 0 of his forehead, an apple-sized head, but- I and a raspberry mustache with six | hairs in it; a pink spot on its check, t o- aa( j a little dot of a goatee on its cun "At I n j n i. littlo chin; with pretty blinking is liulo 8tu( j 8 in jtg shirt-bosom, and a | ucck-tie that looks as if he would faint were it tumbled, I'd as lief look ut a poodle. I always feel a desire to nip it I U p with a pair of sugar-tongs, drop it shyly I g en t]y j n to a bowl of cream, and strciv j pj nk rose-b-aves over its little remains, ef Sun thea Finally, my readers when soul mag netizes soul, tho question of beauty is a dead letter. Tlie person ono loves is always handsome, the world's arbitrary young I rules notwithstanding; therefore when would you say, "what can the handsome Mr. Smith see to admire in that stick of a Miss Jones? or "what can pretty Miss I T see in trial homely Mr. Johns? you in -imply talk nonsense, as you generally do talk on such subjects. Still, the par i g e jg ) lls fees, and tlie census goes on 1 ,ii j) u . sl imc. —Fanny Fern, in the N. Y I all tnc same. j Ledger. A PRAIRIE STORw. TbM Picture of a Terrible Put Eutr: li»S''y"Orontl Scene. There is one thing beyond man's control, and the grandeur of a prairie storm can only bo imagined by those bo have seen it or witnessed a storm at sea. prairies in August last, was noon there came an indefinable change The sun still shone, but its rays threw an altered light, and brought the prai- i rio (lowers into brighter relief, while it cast a darker shadow where shadow s fell. IIunion Lesson the uro "I that How orama ed! "For away I driver. ear Sho cloak, detains utes." w Such a storm swept over the The morning arm aud bright, but shortly after Away toward the horizon the waver ing glimmer that curtained the meet ing place of* sky and plain became more tangible, and a thin black hue framed tho landscape. Gradually it grew broader aud higher, and us it overlapped tho bright blue sky the birds flew hurriedly from before it, and such cattle as wore in sight drow closer together for protection. Gusts of wind that shook tho train followed each other at intervals that grew short er and shorter, and the frame of black was once in awhile illumined witli flashes of summer lightning, which, as thoy came nearer, throw heavy hanks of sulphurous-looking clouds in to bold relief. Still there was no rain, and tho thunder of tho train was all that broke tho stillness. For nearly two hours tho clouds maintained tho same slow approach, and left tho spectator to run fancy-froe and imagine tho outstrotched lingers of somo groat ghoul to bo slowly closing in to crush him. So strong did the feeling become that the moro nervous passengers drew back and shuddered at each succeeding gust, while others clustered round windows and gazed, fascinated, at tho coming storm. At lust it came. One liugo cloud shot out from tho approuching bank, and for a moment poised in mid-air. i Fleecy clouds, that looked ghastly by contrast, hung round it like fringes ou a funeral pall, till with a crash that outweighed the roar of tho train it seemed to bo rent in two with one streak of fire that turned tho entire cloud into gold. From that on und for nearly an hour it was one continuous rumble, broken occasionally with a sharper crash, and accompanied by tho patter of the rain that fell in torrents. Both sheet and forked lightning played con tinuously. and, while tho former turned tho clouds from blackness into light tho latter seemed to rend them in frag ments and stand out in lines of lire for seconds at a time. At last it passed away and tho flick ering flames that illumined the south ern horizon seemed like tho volley fir ing of a rotroating army; but so great was tho expanse of prairio that they wore novor entirely lost sight of, but again grew more and moro vivid until eighty miles further west tho storm again crossed tho track, moving northward with diminishing foreo. Slowly as it appeared to move, it had in live short hours traversed tho hall of a cirelo not less than one hundred milos in diameter, which would give it u rate >if upward of thirty miles an hour. — Gjr. Omaha lice. iness?" which an She sure. now lire are man for 'em u only leave tiis linen tailed for with this soon and and lint ties and to a the at tlie fall to in look of a it ho ma milk ble FOUR DECADES AGO. Only Sixteen Millionaire* In Boston In the Karly Fiftie*. No longer ago than tho yoar 18/51 ♦50,000 made a largo estate and |100, 000 made its ownor a rich man. Only sixteen residents of Boston in that your were millionaires. The Appleton fam ily made three of this number—Nathan Appleton was worth ♦1,500,000, Sam uel Appleton, his brothor, tho sumo, and William Appleton, his cousin, ♦500,000 moro. poor, Samuel with 6} cents, goods businoss and manufactures gave them fortunes, which thoy used most generously, William appropriating his entire income beyond his family ex benevolent tho us All throe began lifo The dry ho tho to purposes. penses John Bryant made a million and a half in the Northwest coast and Chinn trade. Ebonozor Francis, who also began lifo poor, made throe millions in tho East India trade; John L. Gardner and Thomas Wiggles worth made half that Bum in tho same way, and Joshua Scarf as much in West India trade. Those wore the days of commercial prosperity in Bos ton. Abbot Lawrence, then Minister to the Court of St. JarUcs, had three millions, and his brother Amos half as much nnd thoir houso was tho heaviest than sun the out a he ho his hand of ex his head, six check, cun a faint ut a it it strciv so American goods houso in tlio country. Thomas H. Perkins, familiarly known "Long Tom" Perkins, began bis mercantile lifo in St. Domingo, and when driven away by a revolt of tho slaves came back lo Boston, began trading with China, and acquired a very large fortune. David Sears inherited 1800,000 from his father, the largest amount ever inherited in New by a single individual. U. Shaw was callod in one of the load ing newspapers of that day "the old est active merchant in his city, as he is the piust opulent ono. Sturgis was another Cape Cod sailor who commenced life poor; he arose to the command of his ship, finally mo nopolized the northwest coast trade, ■ind became rich, tho only example of a broker who ilso v us a millionaire, and John Welles ot a laud speculator. There no lawyers in the above list. In ited, the returns in tho profession have never been so large as to make a lawyer a millionaire, though tho Bos ton bar has held a most distinguished place, not only in our commonwealth hut in tho country. Several, however, were then numbered among the rich men of Boston .—Boston Globe as England up to that timo Robert William mag is a John E. Thayer is is when Mr. of a Miss you par on Y ire THE NEW FIRST READER. Hob "You useful so, dross' shoos, takes cloantng, seven section think Con stylo your after Can carry and the wiutor? of you out of the IIunion Noli a. Ill.plnveil on Car* and Str«*«t Corner*# Lesson 1.—"Shall wo make a trip on the street car and study human nut Str««# uro "I os, let us go. They run so swiftly that it is like flying through the air. How exhilnraling! What a moving pan orama of human life is here represent ed! All! tint wliy do wo stop?'' "For that woman a block and a half away who is waving both arms at tho driver. Now that sho has stopped the ear she isn't in so much of a hurry. Sho feels for her purse, rearranges her cloak, draws on one of her gloves, am? detains twenty passengers for two min utes." a it fir but it an "She must have very Important bus iness?" "She has. Her neighbor got a cloak which she says cost f:i(5, but this wom an thinks she saw >ne like it for fill. She is on her way down town to make sure. There -she is on—and we will now fly again." so it thing can? Nora true men Can and a in tho you kitchen? Lesson II.—"Street-car conductor» lire great students of human nature, are they not?" "They are. Thoy can pick out n man who will take a three-cent piece for a ton almost at a glance." "Are they often annoyed?" "Very often, but the company pays 'em for it. It is vory annoying when u conductor helps a woman and seven children on and off to find that she is only a wash-woman and cun novel leave him a legacy." "Is a conductor expected to bo a gen tleman?" ••Certainly. lie 4's supposed to lift tiis lint to every lady, wish every pas senger good-day, and to indulge in tall linen collars, kid gloves and swallow tailed coats." "Why does lie have to ring up a far« for each passenger?" "To prevent his changing places with the owners of the lino. Rut for this wise provision of nnturo ho would soon lie seated at the cashier's desk, and tlie cashier would bo on tho roar platform of a car." Lesson III.—"Why does tho pas senger put Iiis hands in his pockets and stretch his legs across the ear?" "Because lie liasses for a genius." "But it looks louferish." "It might, in ease of n poor man, lint this one is wortli ♦7/5,000 and any tiling ho does is credited to eccentrici ties of genius." "Ho seems half-drunk." "So he does. In tho case of a man earning two dollars a day he would seem all drunk, and the conductor would give him the collar, but money and genius are big excuses, my boy.'' houso, any mo, girls flies wives you and if love, tho her fore own Eaijle. A A a Buries the tlie must of This tho tlie upon a by tiou but sho of was tlie ing "Why did the lady give Lesson IV. such a sudden start?" "Because slio realized the fuet that tlie conductor had boon holding out his hand for two long minutes for her fare. '' "But didn't she notice liiin collect ■?' "Oh, no. It wouldn't bo fashiona ble to notice any such thing. Her mind lias boon far, far away, and now that it has returned she fools in differ ent places for her purse—rises up, sits down throe times, shakes out her skirts and unbuttons her cloak, and finally produces a car ticket from lier glove?" "Didn't sho know it was there all the time?'' "Sho did, but if sho hadn't gone through hor performance tlio rest of might not hnvo noticed her new hat and sealskin." the his ex tlio oer us Lesson V.—"Is tho man mad?" "IIo is." lifo dry "Why is he mad?" "Because he says ho whistled for the car last evening and it didn't stop." "Didn't the dtiver hear him?" "That's a question. Tlio man says ho couldn't have been over half a mile and the night was very still, and a and in the Bos as away he wants it understood that if it hap pens again he will go to headquarters with his complaint" "But ho got tho next ear?" "No. ho didn't, and that's what hurts Ho was standing on the curb him. stone, kicking tho heedless driver of tho other car in imagination, and was deeply interested that ho let two ears and a good-looking seamstress pass him without seeing them."— De troit Free Press. so TRAIN MANAGEMENT. Lantern sign its. Taken from tlie Ameri can "Slamlard Code." A train while running must display two green flags by day and two green lights by night, one on each side of tho rear of the train. After sunset, or when obseeured by fog or other cause, must display head light in front and two red lights in rear. Two green flags by day and two green lights by night, displayed in tho places provided for that purpose the front of an engine, denote that tho train is followed by another train run ning on the same schedule and entitled to tlie same time-table rights as the train carrying tho signals. Two white flags by day and two white lights by night, carried in tho same manner, denote that the train is an extra. A blue flag by day and a blue light by night, placed on the end of a car. denotes that car inspectors are at work under or about tho car or train and ust not bo coupled to or removed until tlio blue signal is removed. bis and tho Sears load old he sailor to mo who John There In a Bos rich timo on is -— « — —Short accounts make long friends. Use not credit too frequently without ailing with currency. THE WOMAN TO MARRY. Hob Hurdett« Tskf* » Hand In lh« t)tc* russlon of Ihn Marriage Qneatlon. "You any you demand a domestla, useful woman as your wife. If that Is so, marry Nora Mulligan, your laun dross' daughter. Sho woars oowhide shoos, Is guiltless of corsets, novor takes In washing, goes out houso cloantng, and cooks for a family of seven children, her rnothor and throe section men board with hör. I don't think she would marry you, bocauso Con Reagan, the track walker. Is her stylo of a man. Lot us examine into your qualifications as a model husband after your mntrlmoniul nions, my boy. Can you shoulder a barrel of Hour and carry it down collar? Can you saw and split ton cords of hickory wood in the fall so as to have ready fuel all wiutor? Can you spade up a half acre of ground for a kitchen gardonP Do you know what will tako the limo taste out of the now cistern, and can you patch the little leak in the kitchen roof P Fashionable It was fashion birds as was Is doomed tho have creatures their use to from with them. tho also and, tho ing soft it to mother and of crying mother birds die men so it will not swag? Can you do any thing about tho houso that Con Reagan can? My dear, dear boy, you see Nora Mulligan wants a higher typo of true manhood. You expect to hire men to do all tho man's work about the Can you bring homo a pane of glass and a wild of putty and repair damages in tho little sitting room window? Can you hang somo cheap paper on tlio kitchen? Can you fix tho front gate n is lift tall for roar pas any man boy.'' those ho How taste i.o they selves they reflect really, selfish, fueling, even that •ulorn At I'lie ier pered, longer the iio-s stern ladies mind people lii'iiins houso, hut you want your wife to do any thing any woman can do. Belie va mo, my Bon, that iilno-tonths of the girls who play the piano and sing so charmingly, whom you in your limited knowledge set down as moro butter flies of fashion, are bettor fitted for wives than you are for a husband. If you want to marry a flrst-elass cook and experienced housekoopor, do youi courting in tho Intelligence office. But if you want a wife, marry tho girl you love, with dimpled hands and face like tho sunlight, and hor love will teach her all thoso thin fore yon havo learned one-half of your own lesson. — Jlurdette, in Brooklyn Eaijle. my boy, long be RAISING A BLOCKADE. A Good Story Told Ml tlie Expellee of an Artfuii-Eycd I.Mily Teacher. A certain educational institution not a hundred miles from Albany has a Buries of very rigid rules relative to the conduct of its students outsido of school hours. One of thoso rules is to tlie effect that no young lady student must go out after dark in tlie company of a man, be he of high or low degree. This rule is enforced very strictly, and tho young ladies are much in terror ol tlie penalties alleged to bo inllietod upon any unfortunate creature caught violating the rule. Recently, however, a young lady student attendod an en tertainment upon tho invitation of a gontleman other acquaintance and was unfortunate enough to bo discovered j* by a grim-faeed teacher of tlie institu- The tiou in question. Tho teacher was evi dontly not sure of tho girl's identity, but decided that ou lier way homo sho would wait for a while in front R of tho girl's boarding-house, which was directly on her route, and confront tlie culprit in tho very act of disobey- or ing the east-iron law of the school. The it young people wero just behind hor, howover, and saw lier pauso beforo tlie u> boarding-houso. They retired to tho c d. shadow of the trees and waited. Tho grim teacher never stirred. It was n al growing late, but sho evidently in- The tended to secure her victim. Tlio young people wore just beginning to grow uneasy, when a brilliant thought struck I d With tho fair student an A An give that ures his her Her now differ sits her and lier all gone of hat tlio young man. upon his arm, he did what is usually deemed impossible—ho found tlio ofil oer on that boat. A short explanation and a glanco from tho bright oyes of the perplexed maiden sottlod the mat ter, and the stalwart "copper" walked the says mile and a er back to where tho lone watch stood and said roughly: '■Como, now, you've been hero long enough; I'll pull you frightened, the poor woman stood for a moment, and then walked on as rap idly as offended dignity would permit When sho was out of sight tho BiniliDg youngsters made their appearance, and with a demure countenance the young lady bade her friend good-night and entered tlio house. The teacher, some how, nover reported the cas o.—Albany Erpress. _ move on, or in." Thoroughly hap hurts curb for ii of was two De The Effects of Opium. Opium-eators take the drug in every In tho crude state the In tho liquid j variety of form, gum is oaten or smoked. preparations tho tinctnre Is tho most ' popular; but paregoric is a favorite form, especially with women, while tho 1 elixirs are also largely used. Morphia holds sway over a largo proportion of RO consumers, either by tho stomach ot 1 hypodermically. Tho amount of tho ; sulphate of morphia that can bo toler ated by a confirmed subject is enor mous, sometimes reaching as high as sixty grains in twenty-four hours. ' Every physician has seen in opium habi tuos cases illustrating, to a greater or n iez extent, the stimulant action upon tho intellectual centers. There are j cases of society women spent most of tho day in bod, will flash j most brilliantly in the evening under j the influence of the drug. And the fascination of literary and œsthetic conversation, so captivating to the , habitues of salons, is not unfrequently tho inspiration of tho potent stimulant j Whcn tho habit is given up. the mind | usually is restored to its normal activ ity; but when indulged in for years, opium may produce a permanent ener vation of tlie mental and moral faoul Ameri display green tho by head in two tho tho run entitled the two tho is light car. work and on who, having ties, and this deterioration Is no doubt due to organic degeneration of without the cerebral centers.— Popular Scùnoê Monthly. A MERITED REBUKE. Fashionable Women ana Their Victim*, the Innocent I*lr«l*. It was hoped some time ago that the fashion of wealing tho dead bodies of birds as trimmings for bonnots and hats was going ouL Such a hope. apparenUy, Is doomed to disappointment. Perhaps tho day may come when people who have a little regard for such helpless creatures as birds will give them up to their fate. It really soems to be of no use to try to protect them. Tho loafer from the east end of London goes forth with his cages and his lime, and catches them. He, howover, mostly retains tho nmles. Tho other bird-murderer also goes forth on his cruel errand, and, by profurenco, cutehos and retains tho fournie, llo takes her in tho nest ing season, bocauso tho feathers are soft and beautiful then. What matters it to him that his victim is often tho mother of a nostful of helpless young, and that they are loft in tho nest to die of starvation, to die while piteously crying out hour utter hour for tho mother that nover comes? Tho mother birds are killed, and the young left to die of starvation, because certain wo men Insist that it shall lie so. Yet how llnd sympathetic, and tender those very women can pretend to bo ho when it suits their convenience! How correct and nice is their taste in every tiling that relates i.o good manners! How shocked they are by vulgarity, how horrified by coarseness! If they could see them selves exactly ns somo men see them, they might for one moment pause and reflect upon their worthlessness. Is it really, then, como to this, that a nine teenth-century woman is so utterly selfish, so hopelessly without brains or fueling, and so incapable of learning even tho very elements of humanity, that slio must and will hnvo birds to •ulorn herself witli at whatever cost? At bottom it really is want of intellect. I'lie idle modern woman of tho wealth ier classes is so self-indulgent, so pam pered, ami so Hpoilt, that she can no longer lie counted upon to exercise a reasoning faculty. No man can con template without the deepest anxiety the gradually Increasing mental woak iio-s among the prosperous, stern necessities of tho poorer class of ladies develop in them true strength of mind und sternness of moral fibre, most people will think poverty and necessity blessings, though in disguiso. Hardly any price is too great to pay for lii'iiins mid a moral faculty .—London Hospital. If be an not a to of to and ol en a was j* required, and there The rocket takes tho form of a metal evi- cylinder, in tlie luise of which is tlie propelling charge. Abovo this is a homo charge of tonite, and above this again front R star composition, The rocket is plncod in a phosphor bronze socket, which may bo screwed or let into tho rail of the ship. When The it is required to flro it, a firing tube is hor, placed in tlio center of tho rocket, and tlie u> tho top of tills a lanyard is hook tho c d. The propelling chargo is fired by Tho simply pulling the lanyard, and the slg was n al is propelled upward at one impulsa in- The wire fuse by which tho detonating young chargo is exploded is at tlio same timo grow ignited, and this burns until tho rock struck I d has reached the maximum height, which is six hundred foot Tho stars are thrown out giving a brilliant illumination, and the tonite charge then explodes. The noiso of the explosion is equal to tlio tiring of a six iound gun, but being high, is hoard at at distance; indeed, in one in If the an NEW DISTRESS SIGNAL. -entloii Which Will Probably Have the I,Ives of Many Seafarers. A description Is given below of a new distress signal which lias recently been brought out of this invention are that no stick is no buck fire. An Ii Tho distinguishing foat ures ofil of mat a gri stance a disabled vessel brought anoth er to lier assistance from u distance of stood you've for rap and young and some twelve miles. These rockets aro so portable and i'tisy to fire, no match or port fire being are vory suitable or required, that they for boats, and doubtless many lives would havo been saved had they been in cases where shipwrecked havo hud to take to tho boats. ii use crews I'lio Board of Trade has authorized its surveyors to pass these socket distress signals in lieu of both guns and rock ets, so that many lines of steamships have landed their guns and use these signals instead. The National Life-boat Institution is every the also introducing them with red stars. liquid j which is the distinctive signal to sum A further ad most ' mon a life-boat crew, favorite vantage in this form of rocket is that a tho 1 combination of colors and number ol stars can bo so arranged as to form a of RO de on the principle of the Morse ot 1 alphabet, a feature which may prove of tho ; great importance in naval maneuvers, toler- and for topedo boat operations, enor- Tho full-sized rockets aro seven inches as long and two inches in diameter. A hours. ' smaller size, which iscalled the '•socket habi- light signal," is also made. This has or n o explosivo charge. Another modifi upon cation of tho idea consists of a sound • are j signal, which lias no stars. This takes flash j under j the knew when people were talk about hls œsthetic fellow Hebrews, whether the latter the , were rich or poor. Upon being asked to explain how he knew that, he replied: j "Why, you see, when people are talk mind | ing about a wealthy man of my creed activ- they call him an Israelite, but If ha i> years, poor they call him a Jew." ener faoul having the place of a gun.— Engineering. —Rothschild Baid one day he always said the fly, as it crawled I have passed — •'Ah, around the bottle, through the hatching age, the creeping age, and now I am in the mucilage"— then it stuck. _ no of Scùnoê