The Sully County watchman., August 04, 1883, Image 3

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MH1BS.
Mm Kate tiia.se, formerly Mm
Sprague, is in Paris.
Mr. Sargent. the
time
Senator
Senator
American minister
to Germany, will return
home some
during' September.
James H. Meverin. the legal advisor ...
of Lotta, the actress, denies the reiiort! ""V'l'iities and th
of her marriage to u Mr.
Iltiss, at
Washington. Mr. Selden
The King of Oamljodia. formerly a
province of Siain, has conferred the
order of General on John A Haider
man, United States Minister to Siam.
David Dudley Field has placed a
monument in the Williamstown N.
Y.) cemetery in honor of Rev. Dr.
Colvin Durfee, historian of Williams
College
caught up by branches of geraniums.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stewart Phelps is
living almost the life of a recluse at
West Gloucester. Mass., and working
diligently on a new novel
The widow of the late United States
Senator. .lames II. Lane, of Kansas,
died at Columbus. O., last Saturday.
The burial will take place at Law
rence. Kan.
—The Catholic Archbishop Bourget,
who is now completing his forty
sixth year in charge of the Set* of
Montreal, is 110 years old and still
has only two seniors in the world.
—Rev. Dr. Phillip
ton, who is now in England, was re
cently entertained at dinner by the
Baroness and Mr. Burdett Coutts.
patch, having on board I resident
Arthur, wno s accompanied by his
daughter, las arn\ed at e\\
from Cape May. Next Mouthy'the
ceed
Kansas City real estate -aU)r Koscoe onkling urging mm to
block of .v„.
which was purchased in common l»v 1
Spain will visit England at the end of'
August or early in Septemlier, the date
depending on the return of his Otieen ^""Jflder the ex-secretary o
from \ustria i state, are England on their bnda
Ex-Secretary of War Belknap leads Jour'
a lonely but correct life at Washing-1
ton
her
count
Mrs. Belknap
s,,ends
Lord Dutferiu. who is equally j)opu
lar in Canada, in India, and in Eng
land, owes much of his success to two
Irish women—his mother, a Sheridan,
and his wife a Hamilton.
Boyle O'Reilly, the poet-editor of
the Boston Pilot who started from the
The Prince of Hohenlohr-Langen
burg. President of the German Col
onial Society, is about to start on
a two months' journey through the
United States and Canada.
Justin McCarthy has been ordered
by his physicians to take absolute
rest and quiet for the remainder of
the session of the House of Commons.
The Princess of Wales wore pale
blue ami silver at tin-last state ball
much of I"1"1* "l.
partv will go to LOUISN ille. iy., to )m.
westward
Park.
maha. Neb., recentlx, to -Iiss -lollie
Harbach daughter of one »t "naha s
The Emperor William, it is said, is
vial effect uijon him.
upon
is sound and vigorous now.
son ami Carlyle,
who
in a New York court, with alimony of
•2.KMi jH*r year for herself, and #500
additional for each child.
The Prince Ibrahim Humy, brother
of the Khedive of Egypt, has just fin
ished a bibliographical study it (ton
the boo ks, manuscripts and jieriodic
als which relate to the history, the
and the political and
social life of Eg ypt.
J.
Womli
Her dress was draied with blue tulle, the cargo some remarkable specimens 7\.
strong and vigorous. He is the oldest anv elephant, shows the impression
wearer of the miter in America, and [of the toes very distinctly and uninis-
Brooks,
of Bos­
T..
-The I niu-d Mates steamer Iis- _and
ai fumiatiun
^L°^c
to the Yellowstone
T,
Captain John G. Bourke, chief of
(,*eneral rook
s
staff, was married at
shaggy
again in good health. The use of the wonderfully preserved. The slab xx*as
waters at Ems has had a very In-neti- ten feet long, and bore the cast
His apiwarance
The Em­
peror has continued to receive daily
civil and military business reports
and to transact the business of state.
The Loudou Athen«cum says: "Pro
fessor C. Eliot Norton, the scholarly
editor
of
the correspondence
of
Emer­
is
Americans
one of the many
have come to Europe
this Summer. Professor Norton in
tends to IHISS most of his holiday in
Switzerland."
The ]ortraits on the new postage
stamps that comes in use October 1
are: One-cent. Franklin 2-cent, Jack
son li-ceiit, Washington 5-cent, Gar
field (5-cent, Liucloti 7-eent, Stan
ton 10-eent, Jefferson: 12-cent. Clay
15 cent, Scott 3«»-ceiit. Hamilton 90
cent, Perry.
Eight oil-paintings of the late Sena
tor B. H. Hill are on exhibition iu
Atlanta. Ga., and several more are to
be sent in, iu competition for the
Legislature's offered prize of $1,000
for.the lest j»ortrait.
The Davenjyort Brothers
were once
noted as Spiritualist mediums. One
died a few years ago. and the othei
retired from the husincrs but now
the survivor lias started out again.
He will travel in a gorgeously paint
ed car.
The wife of George Osmond Tearle,
the actor, has been granted a divorce
'«,M, a Chicago
man. but his inner self also
General Thomas E. Eckert. the real
executive ofHcer of the Western Un
ion Telegraph Company, is an Ohio
mail who liegan at the liottom of
the ladder, and was once on a country
newsnaper His countenance is of a
boyish ca-st and his address pleasing.
Governor Rusk. ex-Governor Fair
Pendleton has just sold to !'hihl Vilas. of Wisconsin.
Vest his interest in a large
:h»velJ"»,wl
n
:l,
at*'c*l
the two senators some veai*s uro. address at the next IHCOUMUI State
t,
tX
it is announced that the King- of I „..,i
telegram to ex-Sen
'he invitation to deliver the
,, fair, and promising him a hearty
1
Sl"d
the
haw
bridegroom's family
%lv*n *°me *"tertain ....
K nnor.
time in Europe, but when in this "e^Mtiful American wife.
of
head of the Connecticut river to pad- i house, just presented to him byanum
dle a canoe to Long
Island Sound,
capsized, lost his paddles and took the Ave years ago for Judge A. O. Aldis.
cars. It stands in a fine position on a eor
Gener.il Sherman and party have
h,»
mtry lives in Philadelphia. Hon. "Sunset" Cox, the democratic I thousand sam»le
surmounted
attic. The
arrived in Yellowstone Park. They
expect to reach Missonia, in Montana, i
on the ^7th, where they will take the
Northern Pacific Iloud'for the Pacific ^ueen Victoria in making the jour
coast.
1
cliQon.
rot,irn Wlth
retire from politics if he is beaten for
speaker of the next house. Fare thee
forever, still
well, Sammy and if
forever fare thee well.
/teneral Sheridan's Washington
her of his Chicago friends, was built
ner'
aml
is.of
brick, two stories high
by a mansard roof and
interior woodwork is of
ney from Windsor to Osliorne yester-
Lee Childe, a nephew of General 's11M, ,' 'to have shown an»im- restaurant last Monday, ordered
R«lbert E. Lee, has fallen heir to the
estate of the late Baronessde Triquetv,
whose niece he married a few years
ago. Mr. Childe has been living in
Paris for several years.
provement iu health. Sin
to walk without assistance
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Jersey, Pennsylvania and other
States, probably represent a big lea,st
of the elephant sjecies, which once
roamed the Connecticut valley also.
Here', are his tracks in relief. One.
which measures fifteen inches by
eleven, and is larger than the track of
takahly, and also the reverse repres
entation of the impressions of the
inner muscular projections of the bot
tom of the huge foot. these tracks
there are three on a single slab five to
The guests included the Archbishop six feet long, and perhaps a yard or the mountains can carry on a conver
of Canterbury, the Marquis of Salis-. more wide and seven inches thick, sation without difficulty. The miner
bury and the Dean of Westminister, They are evidently the tracks of some may have some difficulty at times, in
rpi ...
sl.lh |n thjs dt m..u. |his vveAilw
tracks,
is a
stony
knmvn |a
shib
opeti the^exposition^Yitracks of some big three toed bird— en by Englishmen, native-lorn like
seemingly of the ostrich family, himself, nor make himself understood
These tracks are remarkable for be- by them. Wc have nothing in Anieri-
One hundred and forty varieties of ing almost jwrfectly in a straight line— ca to correspond with certain unintel
eorn have been planted at the New as if the civature had but one leg no ligible dialects sjuVken in England by
York State Experimental Farm, un- Indian could step straighter. The Englishmen. So I sav. that as a nation,
der varying conditions. The result' stride is alnmt a ft»ot and a half, the Americans sjwak letter English
cannot fail to lie of great value. However, it may be with some other
.,
supposed "fossil bird tracks" in the
C4!,|Il(Vticut
Yallev sandstones, these
ivl.taiuiy an no tl.:K.ks
,lf
t|lojon anv
t,|ey
the
,t^ ,,ird tnlcks
wealthiest citizens TIbex Jeft on the the impress, in relief,
afterntKm train for New "Wk, and
of the
will sail August 1 for Europe on a six- trunk, seetniuglx', according to most
months bridal tour.
THE HAWKFYE PLEASANTRIES.
BY ROBERT J. BURDETTB.
The youngest "boy preacher" in
this country is now about forty-one
veai*s old. Isn't it ab-nit time to set
another batch before the present stock
of boy evangelists mature
One-fourth of all the pineapples im
Bismark may give the American
hog the cold shoulder now, but he
will be glad to take it in next Christ
mas. The American egg-nog, that is.
That fits a little rough, but you can't
make a smooth joke on such a bristly
subject.
General Beauregard nays he observes
with grief "a gradual decline in the
negro race." Ah. yes: they decline
to invest in the I^ouisiana lottery.
Perhaps the general may have
observed a similar decline in the post
oftice department.
"What Iwuiks shall we take awav
for the summer.'" asked the Philadel
phia Bulletin. If vou're going to
Newport or Long branch, Francis,
we would suggest that you take a
jioeket lx»ok one about three feet
ong and twentv-eight inches wide
•hole week,
man compiled one
will last you a w
1
\ew York
joki-r of tl.'- nialvPK thnwwnd'amplwuf ypyrtry' fwmi »n
tressing announcement that h«* will
was able
visited her yesterday, staying to lun-
RELICS OF PAST AGES.
Trare« of Kiiormoua Animal* Found
In a Connetlrut Freontonr Quarry.
From ttw? Hartfnnt Time*.
A vessel just arrived at the dock
f»ot of Potter street with a load of
heavy stone blocks taken from the
Portland freestone quarry, has among
most
j- Previous was served refused to touch it or pav
to the Queen s departure from md- for it. saving that the devil had iii
sor Castle, the ex-Empress Eugenie
st
1
of the tnicks of fossil leasts and birds. ...
that once lived in this valley. These *»»ke that it was killed hefoiv
slabs were taken from a' stratum Mr Musselwhite s
about six or seven inches thick, lying feast. The snake \\a
at a depth of about eighty feet from j1!1!1.
the top of the quarry. The enormous
skeletons still partly preserved under!
many swamps in New York, New
lahvriu
other ancient frog
longitudinal half of a tree
'observers,
a hickorv tree~-for its
l.ark and its very texture are
of
by delirium tremens and
ness.
huge beast—and one of the elephant understanding some of collegian's sen-
not aMV 1Uereaccident-
bv other'causes. On one trouble, and he can talk down to his
the
tree all the wav, but this specimen is
but three feet long that part of it
having been cut off at the quarry. It
was evidently a large, full-grown
tree, possibly floated down the rix'er
from some place over which it cast its
shade in ages, much farther'preceding
the suposed birth of Adam than that
supposed to pedcede
modern
times.
It is siicl these stones will be pre
sented, like those given by Mr.
Patterson, to the Hartford
SclllMjl.
High
«Xr. MrKee was SnpplleC
From the B«»Utt Herald.
Some time ago a dealer came to J.
McKee a bibliophile of New Korfc,
xvith a bit of paper that he carefully
unrolled aiul lay before the collector,
"This," said he. with bated breath, "is
the programme of a theatrical perfor
mance given in New York during
the Revolutionary war by the British
officers. Major Andre was Stage man
ager. Then- are only six copies ex
tant. They are very scarce.'1 "Yes,
I knoxv they are," said Mr. McKee
quietly. "I have the other five, one
with Andre's directions and remarks
as stage manager written on it."
"Good morning," said the dealer,
"Go«xl morning," said Mr McKee.
Chief. Justice Waite is rapidly re
covering from the injuries he received
in his recent accideut.
1
album. Unlesslie receives
$10,HMi Iu* threatens to publish them.
Here: we'll have to borrow the mon
ey. but we'll head that subscription
with fr»(Ni. The wretch may hove a
"stanza" of our own.
A. I. Davis and Rose Kennedy
were married in a balloon, at Cleve
land. Ohio, on the 4th of July. Oh
well, that's all right. It's well enough
to stay up among the clouds for a lit
tle while when one is married, but we
can tell the Davis fani'ly they will
have to come down to the ground and
scratch, if they want anything for
dinner.
crazy man went into a New York
exjieiisive dinner, and when it
rueted
him not to eat the food. The
nmn mav
\H.
t,n,zv but },i, the HUmp
he should be grateful to his satauic
majesty as one of his best friends.
Now. it would be more in accord with
the devil's reputation, to induce a
man to board at a New York restau
rant.
William Musselwhite, of Savan
nah. Georgia, was bitten by a rattle
snake. At once the snake's head was
cut off and bound upon the wound,
and then Mr. Musselwhite ate a
pound of tobacco ami drank a quart
It was a blessed thing for
sick-
"The fact is.* said Dr. Weston,
chatting with the Jester a few (lays
ago, "that we speak better English
and more of it in America, than they
do in England. In America, where
ever you go. from Maine to Texas and
California, wherever you find an
American, you can converse with him,
readily, without the least difficulty in
understanding him. He may use slang
freely: often too freely lie may sjeak
with an utter disregard of grammatic
al construction, but you Know what
he says and what he means, and
a graduate of Harvard, and miner in
tenees. but the graduate has no such
comrade's comprehension, if he will,
heap of his ordure, But in England, an Englishman mav
^.ulo^v asVoprolites. go into certain l.H-alkies, where hV
bears the unniistakeable neither understands the English spok-
than dothe English peoph
ton (la. Hawkeve.
-Burling-
Some Bugles are Different from
Others.
From the HeraM.
A small party of young men xx-ere
standing on a street corner the other
evening. They were curiously ex
amining a bugle itelouging to one of
them, and. as a stranger came along,
an animated discussion aroae.
"I wish I could play on it,'' said
one.
"Play on it!" observed another, 4I
wish I could make a noise on it."'
"It's a pretty hard thing to do,"
observed a third, "if you haven't got
the hang of the thing just right.''
"Hani thing to do!" chimed in the
stranger, halting and regarding the
party with evident contempt. "Why,
could blow a bugle before I was *a
foot high."
"Weil, some bugles are different
from others," said the voung man.
"Giinmie that bugle," said the
stranger, excitedly.
11 w as inimediatcl v handed to him. i
and putting it to his lips, he made one
trial trip. There xvas a subdued
splutter, and the stranger lwgan a
kind of war dance, at the same time
holding his mouth in both bauds.
"Great Cleopatra's needle!" he yell
ed, with tears streaming from his
eyes. "Who in thunder tilled that
mouthpiece with cayenne pepper.' I'm
small, gentlemen, light auu fragile,
but I can lick the man who peppered
the horn."
i
A Singular Incident of the War.
From Uu- IVU'INIMHV Wo Index Appi-ul.
In the early part of 1804 a short but
spirited tight occurred at a place in i
East Tennessee called Dandridge, be
tween a part of Longstreet's corps
and
a considerable force of Federal cavalry. I
Many were killed on both sides.
Among the Confederate dead was a
man named Seaford, from North Caro
lina. WHO had leen a professor of
mathematics in one of the colleges of
that state, and who was one of the
finest looking men wc ever saw. He
was a private in the Washington
Light Infantry from Charleston. S. (\.
and would not except a commission,
though he was tendered one several
times. He was buried on the spot
where he was killed, and his comrades
returned to their quarters—several
miles away. About two weeks after
the light a letter came to his address.
The captain of the company opened
it. and it proved to be from a young
lady to whom Sea ford was engaged
1KJ married. It was written on the very
day the fight occurred at Daiulridge.
related a dream the writer had just
had. in which she saw Sea'ord
lying dead on the battlefield, shot
through the left breast --describing
the death-wound exactly as it was.
and even the topography of the field,
though she liad never seen it, and in
all probability knew nothing of the
battle. She begged him to send her a
lock of his hair as a sacred memento,
should anything happen to him.
Railroad News.
The California Railroad Commission
ers have prepared a tariff of fares of
railroad within that State, on the
basis of 4 cents per mile on all levels
and moderate grades, and cents on
heavy grades in the mountains. The
percentage of reduction on present
A MYSTERY SOLYKBl
Alter Tlir»*« lVt-ckn a Mlnfiliis Woman
1« Found Dead I'ndcr Tree,
PonsYILLK. Pa.. Telegram.—A
three-weeks' mystery was solved to
day by a p'/rty of hunters finding a
female corpse under a tree, to xvhich
it bad leen suspended, near the
County Alms-House. Mrs. Charles
Gensberg. of St. Clair, while on a
visit to some friends at Kaska Will
iams'. about the 1st of the month,
took the children out into the woods to
pick berries near by. After they had
spent an hour or so in that way, Mrs.
Gensberg told the children to remain
where they were until she returned.
The little ones staid until nightfall
and then made their x\-ay home.
Search xvas immediately made for the
missing woman, xvho, it was feared,
had met with an accident or had leen
attacked by xvild 1
leasts. The search
has been kept up constantly, since all
sorts of elexvshavebeen'followed with
out avail.
Just prior to her disappearance Mrs.
Gensburg seemed to he in perfect
mental condition, but from her wan
derings. in which her friends xveiv
able
to trace her. it xvas concluded
that her mind had become suddenly
unbalanced.
Scouting parties went out in all di
rections. When found, the remains
xvere lying under a tree, in an adx*anc
ed state of decomposition. Around
the neck xvas a cord made of strips of
an apron, by xvhich she had evidently
auspended herself from the tree ox*er
liead. The remains xvere in such a
state that identification by the fea
tures was impossible, but a diamond
ring on her finger and her peculiarly
made shoes satisfied her husband,
who was immediately summoned, of
her identity.
Proud of his Wife.
iMroit Kivf Press.
At a small station near Kalamazoo
a strapping youth boarded the train,
leading bv the hand a blushing rustic
maid. Taking his stand in full viexv of
everyIHHIV he orated: "Ladies and
gentlemen, this is my wife, Mrs.
Heutl'er. Ain't she a daisy He proud
ly exhibited his prize to the amused
observers through a fifty-mile ride
with an exemplification of the entice
ments lie had used to xviu her. Arriv
edat Buchanan, the happy pair alight
ed in the presence of a
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. .. .. _. s.. v
Paul Road now operate 4,530 miles of
road.
The President has accepted twenty
five miles of the Northern Pacific
Railroad in Montana, coming east
ward from the .'J7"»th to the 400th mile
from Wallula Junction.
It has leen decided that the open
ing on the Northwestern Pacific will
leave St. Paul the first week in Sep
temlier. The management will ar
range the details as specdly sus possi
ble, but will have everything coiu
plete at the proper time.
The Tee City Branch of the Chi
cago and Northwestern has been ex
tended from Headstern, Iowa, to Cor
rectionville. eleven miles. The Eagle
Grove and Sioux Rapids Branch of
the same road is extended west to
Centerville, I). T., twenty five miles.
The first railroad in Palestine is
being laid out, and the preliminary
survey is being complected as far as
the Jordan. It is run between Acre
and Damascus, and it is called the
Hamidle line. It is imined after his
present Majesty the Sultan Abdul
Hamid.
A TERRIBLE MEL.
Orl«an« Forty Year* Ago—44 ll
1N«I Bo to tlir Dentil,"
N*-«- 'iri.-aiif. Timi"»-lfc-:ii«-rnt.
A fatal but rather novel duel oc
curred in New Orleans over forty
years ago. The young nun were
Henri Delagrave and Alnhonse Riv
iere. and the cause of the duel was the
As he ncared Delagrave. the latter
turned to confront him, when Riviere
with a voice that seemed to come from
behind the door of a torn, said: "Del
agrave. we cannot live on this j^lobe
!im*
-f 2
The Chicago, Portage and Superior
Railway Company has brought suit isfied that there is n
iu equity in the I nited States Circuit difference l«'tween v»
Court at Milwaukee to enjoin Wil
liamT Chadse.v. of New York State,
from making or delivering to the
Chicago. St. Paul and Northern Pa
cific Company, or to anv other, con
veyance affecting the title of the com
plainant's road-bed, right of way and
other property.
Few )eople know wh.'.t sort of a
party it was driving down the shell
road bordering Bayou St. John. Two
carriages stop|»ed just on the bridge
leading to the island formed there by
the bifurcation of the bayou, and four
gentlemen alighted. Savalle. a well
known character here forty years ago.
accompanied Riviere, and" old Dr.
Rocquet was with Delagrave. Seconds
had met previously and arranged
everything. Delagrave, as he stepped
from the carriage, looked furtively
around for the cases of pistols, but
seeing none, he was a little disconcert
ed. After walking about a hundred
yards from the carriage the party stoj
ped, and the doctor motioned them to
approach closer. When they had done
so In- called them by name and said.
"Gentlemen, we have discussed this
matter nearly all of last night, and
l*th Mr. Savalle and myself feci sat
solution to the
oil but the death
of one." The two nodded. "There
fore."' the doctor went on. "we have
agreed to make the arbitrament as
fair as possible, and let fate decide."
He took out a black morocco case, and
from it produced a nill-Uix contain
ing four pellets. "One of these." said
be, "containsfa positively fatal dose of
Iess.
rates ranges from IS to 5 per cent.
Where the present charges are lielow muscle contracted.
4 cents they remain in all instances
unchanged. It is intended that this
tariff shall be tried for six months, Gentlemen." said the doctor, "we
by which time it can le determined i will toss for the first pill."' Savalle
whether the public interest demands cried out "tails. as the glittering gold
any further moditication.
large
crowd
assembled to greet them. Again the
gi\Hm announced: "Ladies and gents,
my xvife. Ain't she a darling.'" As the
train moved out the passengers
waved their handkerchiefs and ap
plauded, aud the happy-and-not
ashamed- for-everybody—to--know--it
pair were left to their rare and sin
gular felicity.
trussic acid, the other three are harm
Wc have agreed that each shall
swallow two of the pills, and let
destiny decide." Savalle inclined his
head, and said, as the
of Riviere, he agreed.
success of the former iu wooing Mine, street of a warn* 'fternon. assisted by a
Celestin. Riviere sought out T.)e!a- servant. Having a ba
grave and found him in a garbing
saloon.
together: it is not large enough
Delagrave, quietly putting his cigar
arette, iu a cold and impassive tone:
replied: "Yes you annoy me. It
would be better if you were dead.
Riviere's face flushed and reaching*
forward, he laid the back of his hand
gently against Delagrave's cheek.
The game was at once interrupted.
The slap, which was so light that it
did not even crimson the young man's
cheek, was enough to call for
blood,
and leaving the house he sought an
intimate friend: to him he opened his
heart: It must l»e a battle to the
death." Such was the enmity between
Riviere only a life could
wipe it out.
e me
representative
The two men were pale, almost
bloodless, but not a nerve trembled or
T,,SSIXA FOR
CHOICE.
niece revolved in the air. It fell in a
hunch of grass, the blades of which, i
V'ing separated, showed the coin xvitli
the reversed head of the Goddess of
Liberty uppermost. "Mr. Delagrave,
you hax*e the first choice," said the
doctor.
Reposing, iu the little box. the four
little globes seemed the counterpart
of each tit her. The closest scrutiny
would not develop the slightest differ-!
ence. Nature alone, through the
physiological alembic of the human
stomach, can tell of their properties.
In one there rests the pall of eternity,
the struggle for breath, the failing of
sight, the panorama of years rushing
in an instant through the mind, the
silence and jieace of sleep forex'er
more, the cerements, the burial case,
the solemn cortege, and the close, noi
some atmosphere of the grave. All
these xvere contained in one of these
little pellets. Delagrave, having won
I the first choice, stepjied forward and
took a pill. With a calmness xvhich
i xvas frigid he placed it on his tongue,
and xvitli a cup of claret, handed nim
by the doctor, hashed it down.
"And noxv. 3J- Rix-iere," said the
doctor. Riviere extended his hand
and took a pill.
Like his opponent, he swallowed it.
This wius the fatal choice. Both
men xvere ready for the cant of the
die. Savalle tossed the gold piece
aloft, and the Dix'tor cried out
"heads." "Heads it xx*as. and Dela
grave took a pill from the box, leav
ing only one. "Noxx*," said the
Doctor, "M. Riviere, the remaining
one is for vou. You xvill
PLEASE SW.VLLOXV THEM TOGETHER
The two men raised their hands at
the same time, and deposited the pills
on their tongues and took a draught
of claret.
One second passed, anil there was
no movement. Then—"Good God!"
exclaimed Riviere, his eyes starting
from their sockets. He turned half
around to the left, raised his hands
above his head, and shrieked a long
wild shriek that belated travelers
even to this day say they hear on the
shell road, near the island.
He fell prone to the earth, aud save
a nervous contraction of the muscles
of the face, there was no movement.
Delagrave took him by the hand as
he lay on the damp grass, and said,
in a tender voice, "I regret it, but it
xx*as to be."
The funeral was one of the largest
ever seen in Nexv Orleans, and for
weeks the cafes were agog with the
Tlie two men stood looking one an- couraged her by telling her to keep
oilier in the face. There was not a
quiver to the eyelid, not a twitch to a
muscle. Each xx-as thinking of him
self as well as watching his adx'ersary.
One minute passed. Txx'o minutes
passed. Three. Four. Five. "Now,
gentlemen."
I
story of the duel. The beautiful wid
ow, horrified at the affair, would
never see Delagrave afterward, and
is now a happy grandniere on Bayou
I.«tfourche, having married a wealthy
planter two years after the fatal
event.
Delagrave. weighed down with the
trials of an unhappy life, wrinkled
and tottering, strolis. along Canal
+i,« «i,r" i«.
*, "What trouble was that paw?
The old doctor, who had grown up
askct,
S1,TT
Ins shoulders and remonstrated, but that'
at last acquiesced and said: "Very
well, then: it shall be to the death."
TO THK UI KLINU OK »UNI.
ing a
latency, he lias never actually suffer-,
ed from want: but he shows evidence
of great mental anguish. The sight
of a pillbox makes him shudder, and
the taste of claret will give him con
vulsions.
A Trill) Strange Coincidence.
From the Chiefly« Herald.
"Speaking of strange coincidences,"'
said Dooflicker. "lam reminded of a
thing that happened to me once. I
was standing on the breakwater here
in Chicago one day in the summer of
IN42, when one of myelitis dropped
oft" into tin* lake and a big fish came
up and swallowed it. I mourned a
good deal over it. because the sleeve
button in that cuff was made of gold
that I dug myself in 1S40. Well,
time ran along and I forgot all about
the sleeve button. Soon after that 1
had the trouble with my hair and had
to doctor for that
Theophilus-
"Why. didn't I ever tell you alout
Well, you seel found that I
was losing my hair. It didn't come
out by the roots, but it seemed to l»e
broken off near niy head, and yet,
although I lost considerable every
night, there never was any loose hair
in the bed iu the morning. I finally
got a friend to sit up and watch me
one night, and in the morning he ex
plained the whole thing. 1 had
bitten it off and swallowed the hair.
"But to get back to my first story.
One day about seven years after I
lost that cuff 1 was walking on Mau
hattan Beach, arm in arm with Mr.
Seligman, when he picked up some
thing that was buried in the sand.
"Why. that's silver." said he. "So it,
is." said I. and sure enough it was
solid silver. But what is funnier, it
was the identical sleeve button I had
lost thirteen years before in l^ike
Michigan. Now, what puzzles me is
to know how that fish got away
around to Manhattan Beach from
Chicago."
There was a short silence, which
Theophilus interrupted. "What puz
zles me, paw, is how the fish changed
a gold sleeve button into a silver
one."
Dooflicker thought he heard one of
the hens cackle and went out to see
if she had laid an egg.
The (Juiet Matt lit the Corner.
From Draki-'s Tinvelfr'n Mairarjiu'
All bauds had been telling stories
of what they had done and xvould do
in the event of a smash-up on the road
xvith the exception of one little man,
xvho had listened attentively to the
narratives, and taken them all'in with
out a xx*ord.
"Ever lieen in an accident asked
the patriarch of the party, noticing
the little man's silence.
"Ko," replied the little man quietly.
"Then you have no idea of xvhatvou
would do in the fracas?" continuedthe
patriarch.
"No. i don't," renlied the little man
sadlv. "With ail you big heroes
blocking up the doors and windows in
your hurry to get out, I don't know
exactly what show a man of my sice
xx'ould hax-e."
And then there was a deep silence,
so deep vou might have heard a pin
drop, and the little man xx-as troubled
no more about the poaaibilily vi acci
dents.
Both Showed (ood Nerve.
Krmi the Augutta Nov*.
Miss Hudson came to toxvn with her
brother and after getting ready to re
turn home, and xvhen in the act of
starting, after Miss Hudson had taken
her seat iu the buggy, the bit tame
out of the horse's mouth, and before
her brother could replace it the ani
mal started off in a xvild gallop. The
ladx* kept her seat alone iu the buggy,
xvitli no control xvhatever over the fly
ing animal. Mr. Tabb, xvho happened
to be near and on horseback, put out
after the buggy, and having a fleet
horse himself, succeeded in overtak
ing the lady, and began trying to
head off her: horse. Failing in this,
he kept pace xvith her. and as the fly
ing couple xvent over the rmd he en-
her s«iat, and for the xvorld not at
tempt to jump out. The horse, for
tunately, kept in the road, and after
running in this manner for three
miles it began kicking, and after an
other mile aud a half the animal,
xvorn out, stopped still, and Miss Hud
son xvas taken from the buggy, en
tirely unhurt, by her gallant rescuer.
A tracer Epitaph.
The folloxving epitaph is'trauscribed
from simple shaft in a Kentucky bury
ing ground: "To my beloved consorts
Sarah A., Sarli Y., Sarah Ann. As
xvix'os dex*oted, as mothers affection
ate, as friends ever kind and true, I
have loved them on earth, 1 xvill meet
them in heaven.'' The bereaved man's
fourth spouse did not bear the charmed
name: so the spell xvas broken, and
she survived him to commemorate
her grief in a stately monument, and a
memorial xvindoxv in the village
church, bearing the ineription. "Oh,
tell me no more of this world's x-ain
store: the time for such trifles xvith
me noxv is o'er.'' The lit ness of the
lines is appreciated xvhen you learn
that the old man was noted for his
miser lv character.
The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk,
who are traveling in Germany, con
template visiting the shrine of Cara
vaggio on behalf of their blind son.
the Earl of Arundel, whose ailments
have unfortunately not been allevia
ted by the pilgrimage, which
parents recently undertook to Lour
ues.