THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, JL892.
A NEW LACIAL FIELD.
What The Idaifl Geologist Has' Discoy
'.: -. erei in That State.
A SERIES OP GLACIAL LAKES.
The Richest Burial Casket Ever Seen
on This Continent.
A GOXDEX AKGEL DKCOBATION'.
Desperate" Fighting 'Among Tabor's
Family fdr the Filthy Latre Left
Behind.
Boise City, Aug. 17. J. Schemeiorn,
geologist and mineralogist, who is work
ing in the interest of the exhibit at the
worlds fair, writes under date of August
8th that he has discovered an immense
glacial field in central Idaho, beneath
which there is a series of glacial lakes.
The field probably covers an area nearly
as great, though not so thick, as the
gr. t glacial field of the Alpe. The
glaciers are located about 25 miles south
east of Shoup, amid a number of high
peaks not down on the maps. -
A Rich Hans Coflln.
Danbcey, Aug. 17. The body of
Russell Benedict, who died ut Maiicn
bad, Austria, July 25th, reached here
yesterday, in what ia probably the rich
est burial casket ever seen pn thi9 con
tinent. The box is of solid silver and is
-elaborately embellished with gold. On
the top is a gold crucifix two feet long.
The casket is carried by means of eight
gold handles, and is supported by six
lions' legs, and festoons of gold flowers
aro draped around it. On each of the
four corners is a golden angel six inches
'high. It is not known how much the
casket cost. Mr. Benedict was a very
wealthy man, who had lived many
years in Austria.. He was born in this
city.
The Terrible Tabors.
Hudson, Mich., Aug. 17. Miss Jennie
Tabor's arrest has caused one of the
most startling sensations. ' Twenty
dynamite cartridges were found in the
top of the parlor organ at the Tabor
homestead, three miles northwest of
Hudson. There was trouble over the
property among members of the family,
and the suspicions of the younger brother
being aroused, he instituted a. search,
which resulted in the discovery. The
Tabor family, one of the best known and
wealthiest in the state, a year ago con
sisted of Henry Tabor, his wife and
three children, Josie, Jennie and Harry.
Josie is now Mrs. J. II. Elmore and
lives in Hudson. Jennie, although
somewhat eccentric, has moved in the
best society and has been much sought
after. She was her father's favorite and
it was generally understood that she
would fare best in the division of bis es
tate. Her mother was opposed to this,
believing that all the children should
be treated alike. A family quarrel en
sued, which was suspended for a time,
about a year ago, when the widow was
adjudged insane and was sent to the
asylum for dangerous insane criminals
at Iona. The case will now get into the
courts.
Weather Report.
Portland, Aug. 17. That part Of
yesterdays bulletin relating to Eastern
Oregon says: Dnring the week just
closed the weather has been exception
ally propitious to all kinds of farm work.
With the exception of a few scattered
showers in Morrow and Gilliam counties
the rainfall has been rather less than
the average. The temperature has been
quite, high generally; the extremes
ranging between 55 and 101 degrees.
Generally speaking such crops as could
be improved by favorable weather have
shown a decided improvement. Wheat
harvesting is progressing nicely. No
change in the condition of the spring
wheat is noted. In Grant county fall
wheat is said to be yielding from 22 to
32 bushels per acre. Fall oats are heavy
and well filled. The hay crop is , being
harvested rapidly; in portions of Sher
man county it is the best cropn many
years. In Sherman county grapes are
plentiful.
Seasonable Advice
Milton Eagle. Now is the time of year
when everybody should be cautious in
regara ro aro. a. smau spars: dropped jJ-isowooD, W. v., Aug. 18. The ex
In the right place in our town would do citement throughout Preston county
nntold damage, and perhaps render over the depredations of the Cooley gang
many Homeless. Rubbish should be
cleaned up from back yards not only on
account of being combustible but as a I
sanitary measure.
The Chinese pay their doctor only so cnant Elliott, at Bruceton, was raided
long as he keeps them in health. They by the gang in the boldest manner, and
believe in preventing rather than curing goods to the value of nearly $1,000 car
disease. This is sound sense, and one riedoff. A number of other like depre
of the strongest recommendations of dations are reported. The sheriff is out
Ayer's Sarsaparilla, a medicine which with a large-Bized posse, and scores of
not only cures diseases but prevents citizens are standing guard on the roads
th6Hl , . nr n-var nrnrpa. flrwMra nnr? forma Tf K
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Fresh stubble pasture at Sharps, on
Three Mile A
Current Toples
The. treasure lost with the old British
ship Huessr. 200 years ago, south of
Port Morris dock New York, has . been
1tfd-' The d.reds rogh' n.p fK"ue
oi it last eaturaay. ine nrss piece wan
an English guinea of the time of George
in. It was in a state of perfect preser
vation, and only a little blackened by
the water. Half a dozen more were
found, and then two cold buttons from
the uniform of a British naval officer.
The next plunge of the bucket brought
ud a Quantity of copper coin worn very
thin by the water. Then the bucket
brought up two short bars tarnished and
pitted by brine. On being scraped they
proved to be of pare sterling silver. The
treasure is supposed to amount to about
$4,800,000.
Next to the eummer girl and the ten'
nis girl it will soon become necessary to
place the bicycle girl. The bicycle girl
always has it her own way, and her own
way, ia ever straight ahead, down the
middle of the boulevard.
Discussing the question of dudisliness,
an eastern contemporary desires to know
'what makes a swell." The general
verdict of an experienced public seems
to be that cruel fate is responsible.
Buszards Kay Poem.
New York Tribune. It is understood
in the literary circles of Buzzard's bay
that the failure of the yacht Fra Diavolo
to touch at that point has inspired a
local poet to the composition of a path
etic little ballad. We reproduce twp of
the verses of this poem, and hard indeed
must be the heart of him or her who can
read them without tears :
I wandered by the seaside,
I wandered 6ad and chill,
I could not see the yacht come,
Which carried David Hill ;
I had no heatt for fishing,"
I could not write a word,
But the beating of my own heart
Was all the sound I heard.
He came not, oh, he came not.
I watched the livelong day.
Prepared to fond embrace him
And show him Buzzard Bay ;
I paced tho beach in silence
I must have looked absurd
And the beating of my own heart
Was all the sound I heard.
Montana's Congressman.
Helena Independent. . The Butte
Inter-Mountain favors a public recep
tion to the Hon. W W. Dixon on his
return to Montana. He certainly de
serves it. On tbe question Montana is
most interested in, the free coinage of
silver, Mr. Dixon has been staunch and
trne. He never dodged nor paired with
another free coinage man and killed two
votes,, in order to curry favor with east
ern leaders of the partv, and he made
an honest endeavor to settle the mineral
land controversy in the interest of tbe
people. He has been in every respect a
model representative and has won the
esteem and gratitude of our people, re
gardless of party.
Washington's Mines.
West Coast Trade : The interest man
ifested in mining circles and by mining
experts generally regarding the mines
of Washington is very flattering, and
the extensive and valuable exhibit
which will be prepared for the world's
fair will awaken the interest in our
mining resources still more, and lead to
development which wfll soon place
Washington at the head of the column
of mining states. With the improved
machiney now being used and the com
pletion of railroads to the various min
ing districts, tliis development will be
more rapid than
country.
that of any previous
Beauties of Klamath.
Express. Alolph' Sutro, the Califor
nia millionaire who recently y'sUed the
scenic points of Klamath countv, has
told Dr. Harknees, resident of the
Academy of Sciences in San Francisco,
about the beauties of this country and
that scientific gentleman is organizing a
party to visit the lake region this fall
Mr. Sntro has given the San Francisco
Chronicle an article on the wonders of
this section and the account will prob
ably appear soon.
Mot to be Wondered at.
Olympia Tribune. The house, river
and harbor bill when passed up to the
senate earned a total appropriation for
Washington of $99,000. The Washing
ton senators asked for an increase of
of f 641,500; of this increase $500,000
was asked for the Seattle canal. In the
face of this record is it to be wondered
that Seattle is hot for the re-election of
its time-server or that a sharp revolt
has been made by eastern Washington
and the friends of an open riveri
cooiey outlaws.
of Pennsylvania outlaws has not been
equaled since the war. The people are
everywhere arming themselves for pro
tection and in the hope of capturing the
(outlaws. Yesterday the store of Mer-4
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SnccessM Spin.'
TESTING THE WINGS AND OARS,
I Dangers of Arial Navigation Reachlrg
The Ultimate Point.
"NOW LET HER GO, OISItEMBS"
A Memorable Event in The Art of Bal
looningVery " Successful" Trip
Above California.
San Diego, Aug. 18. Prof. Chares J.
Woodward has returned from his first
successful arial voyage. He sailed from
here at 8:20 a. m. Tuesday, in his airship
Windswept. The balloon has a capacity
of 2,000 feet of gas, but when the rise
was made she contained only about
1,600 feet. The aeronaut took along
provisions and water which in a case of
emergency would have lasted him three
days and nights, also six bags of sand
ballast, two heavy blankets, and instru
ments for taking the temperature; ele
vation, etc. This trip as be said on
leaving, was not to travel over any great
space of ground in a certain direction,
but simply to test the efficacy of tiie
wings or oars that he contends will in
some way solve the problem of naviga
tion. Tho audience was composed of
almost every unemployed person in San
Diego, the house tops and other eleva
tions being liberally patronized. First
a young man was let up by a rope to es
tablish the carrying capacity.
Woodward then stepped into his frail-
appearing car and said, "Let her go gen
tlemen." The balloon arose very slowly
until it had attained a height of about
2,000 feet, and for ten or twelve minutes
appeared to stand almost stationary.
Up to this time oodward bad not
touched the wings. All at once they
were stra:ghtened out laterally, then per
pendicularly lowered as far as they would
go.and with a quick turn to a lateral post
tion forced quickly up, catching the air
And preeeptibly causing the balloon to
move downward. The movements were
repeated until the airship had descended
several hundred feet. The aeronaut
now began experimenting on the propo
sition to force the ballon upward. It re
quired only a few reverse moves to
change the direction, and he was soon
bock to the original altitudes. The
wings were now allowed to rest.' At 10
he was just over National city, and at 11
o clock Dr. Powers, at the quarantine
station in Sweetwater valley, telephoned
that "the baloon is above me about 3,000
feet. The man is waving his hat and.
occasionally working some kind cf pad
dles." At 11 :50 the balloon slowlv des
cended to clear ground without a scratch,
about 100 feet in front of . the Bonita
school house, in Sweetwater valley. '
Despairs of National Uelp.
East Oregonian. The Dalles) Chkoni-
clb has come to the conclusion, which
the East Oregonian came to more than a
year ago, that if anything is to be done
Kthed?Ue? in the way of opening the I
Columbia river "it must be done by the
state of Oregon." That is truly the size
Lof it. To look for help from the govern
ment is to expect the politicians to be
honeBt and above trifling with the peo
ple, and that is impossible. The way to
open the Columbia is for the state to do
it, and Oregon is abundantly able to ac
complish the work. The legislature
meets next January. The people should
be ready to demand of it fitting legisla
tion for the purpose in hand, "an open
river." ...'
Imnaha River Takes the Cake.
xeiegram. judge j. u. Aloreiand re
turned from Union county this morning,
where for the past ten days he has been
whipping Imnaha river for the benefit
of the speckled beauties. - He caught a
five-pounder, too, of the mountain vari
ety, and after viscerating the distin
guished member brought it home with
him. The trout measures 25 inches in
length and weighs over four pounds. It
was somewhat faded on arriving here
and appeared to take but little interest
in current events as it lay on T. Cupid
Powell's desk this morning on exhibi
tion. Judge Moreland says such fish
are very hard to buy up, In Union
county.
Catching Game With Steamboats.
Chelan Leader. On the down trip of
the Eiiensburg on Wednesday, a coyote
was Been swimming the Columbia river.
me steamer .immediately cave chase
and captured him alive. Pursuing deer,
geese, goats and coyotes by steamer is
getting to be a regular thing in this sec
tion.. '
Ayer's Ague Cure is an antidote for
malaria and all malarial diseases.
whether generated by swamp or sewer.
Neither quinine, arsenic, nor any other
injurious drug enters into the composi
tion of this remedy. Warranted to cure I
fever and. ague. - '
A PABTT Or KNIGHTS.
Making a Long Trip . from- be Interior
of tho Continent, for a Dalles
Steamboat Ride.
' This morning Messrs. E.' J. Carter and
Geo. W. McElheny, of Columbus. Ga,
W. J. Price of Cleveland, Ohio; and
John A. Wlnscle. of Brooklyn. N. Y.
left The Dalles by steamer Regulator for
Portland. , They are .; last . from tbe
Knights Templar. Conclave at Denver,
and have crossed the balance of the con
tinent almost purposely for the trip they
are taking today.
One indication of the attention which
the northwest is attracting through- the
east is given by the large number of
tourists who yearly visit this section
For years eastern visitors were deterred
by the difficulties to be overcome and
the long roundabout 'journey necessary
in reaching the northwest, and even
after the completion of railroad lines
affording direct communication with the
east it" was 'some' time before the tide of
travel turned in the least toward the
west from its. eastern direction. Now,
however, sufficient time has elapsod to
allow the glowing accounts of the many
wonders and beauties to be seen in this
section to take root in the mindB of
listeners, and while the summer travel
mj Europe ana o points oi interest in
T.1 1 . . ... .
the east continues as of old a large pro
portion of tourist are attracted toward
the newer and wilder lands on the
Pacific shores. -
These gentlemen have not the time at
their disposal to take in Alaska. En
joyable as that trip is, and as full of
wonders even to a confirmed globe-trot
ter, it is not the only trip worth making
in the northwest, nor does it comprise
all the majestic and beautiful scenery.
That along the Columbia river is rapidlv
attaining a world-wide reputation, sur
passing in majesty and grandeur that of
the St. Lawrence, Hudson .or even the
famous Rhine,- and. yielding the palm
only. to the Colorado, another western
stream- .
The Knight's conclave completed all
work last Saturday evening. On Friday
evening the triennial committee tender
ed an elegant banquet to the officers of
the grand encampment. Over 350
knights were present. During the fes-
ivities Sir Knight T. McF Patton, of
Salem, presented Grand - Master Gobin
with a gavel made of Oregon oak, and in
the center of it was the form of a Mal
tese cross. The oak was a solid block,
taken from a tree just as it grew; and
the cross formation was the work of
nature. "-' After having installed the
newly elected officers, Grand Master
McCurdy madc the following additional
appointments, which, with the - officers
elected, make up the full list of officers
of the grand encampment : Sir Bev.
Joseph McGratb, D. D. Illinois, prelate;
William B. Mellish, Ohio, grand stand
ard-bearer; Sir George C. Connor, Ten
nessee, grand sword bearer ; Sir M. Ora- j
hod, Colorado, grand warden, 8ir John I
A. Sloan, Missouri, grand captain of j
guard.'-
Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers
does its work thoroughly, coloring a uni
form brown or black, which, when dry;
will neither rub, wash off, nor soil linen.
West Chester, N. Y., Aug. 18. A
report from Mamaroneck confirms the
death of millionaire J. H. Bostwick. ; A
fire broke out in his handsome stable at
his summer residence on Oriental Point,
shortly after midnight. It spread to the
9tabIes of Arnold and Constable, and
both were destroyed, together with a
number of valuable blood horses, entail
ing a loss of nearly $100,000. When the
fire was discovered Bostwick, who has
been in poor health some time, ran out
on the porch in great excitement and
dropped dead from heart disease It
appears the dead. man's coachman and
footman were out boating and leturned
at night under the influence of liquor,
and probably through careless handling
of matches set the barns on fire. Both
were burned to death.
Still the Vllllan is Pursued.
visai.ia, uai., Aug. 18. What ap
pear to be well-authenticated informa
tion was received by Sheriff Kay to the
effect that Evans, the train robber, had
appeared at a house twelve miles east.
Several parties furnished this informa-
pion, and a posse immediately started in
tnrsuit of the villian. ,
Waiting to be Koined.
John Day Sentinel. The men who
think that a railroad is going to ruin
this section are not quite all dead yet
Fortunately, there is a large majority
who are willing to have the country
that way. We are among'the number
and are eagerly awaiting the snort of the
iron horse.. ; -
Cabinet photographs for $1.60 to $3.00
per dozen at Hunt's gallery on Court
street, this week only. . , -
Stock Holders Meeting.
Notice is herebv given that the annual
meeting of the stockholders of the
Wasco Warehouse company will be held
at the office of French & Co.. The-Dalles.
Oregon, on Wednesday September 28th,
1892, at 3:30 p. in., for the purpose of
electing directors for the ensuing year
and the transaction of such other busi
ness as may come before it.
xne dalles, Oregon, Aug. mn,
U.J. JT ARLEY,
Secretary Wasco Warehouse Co.
Wtd8.12
negus nnaamesv .
u laying in your winter msok ox
mummies pe careiui to puy . omy wieu to a Boulevard car going up town. Th
genuine." '' . ' .
- The habit of making imitations of ar
ticles has extended even . to the produc
tion of counterfeit back'number subjects
of the deronck Pharaohs. Now, ordina
rily when one buys a thing he wants it
fresh; but this rule does not hold good
in the mummy trade. The staler they
are the better, from a commercial point
or view,
The high price of authentic mummies
in a good state of preservation has led to
the practice of manufacturing them to
order, and the man who contemplates
the purchase of a dozen or as of these
cheerful objects should see that he gets
what ia left of something which once
walked and talked in Egypt 8.000- or
4,000 years ago.
The mum my trade has been very ac
tive of late. Ordinary Egyptian citizens
who have had no further use for them
selves for thirty or forty centuries can
be bought for about fifty dollars at Cai
ro, but a bettea quality of individual a
prince or a '-high priest,-for instance-?
comes as high as $500 or even more,
If yon should find in a mummy for
which yon paid $100, say, . a lot of gold
and jewelry worth about $1,000, you can
be confident that the thing is genuine.
An Egyptologist named Mosconasonce
made a small fortune in the purchase of
one mummy which had once contained
rich man s vital spark. The chest.
which had been separated from the vital
organs before embalming, had been filled
again with gold and precious stones.
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
Explaining a Shower of Blood.
No phenomena of nature have excited
more widespread consternation in an
cient and even in comparatively modern
times than the so called rains of blood,
stones, fishes and reptiles.
The peoples of antiquity regarded such
occurrences as dire warnings and por
tends, and at the present day their occa
sional happenings gives rise to much
wonder and actual fear. Nevertheless,
science has been able to ascertain the
causes which produce these remarkable
precipitations, which are accounted for
by reasons entirely commonplace.
In 1670 a "rain of blood" fell at The
Hague. The citizens got up in the morn
ing and found that a shower of crimson
fluid had fallen during the night. There
was great excitement and the occurrence
was looked upon as foretelling approach
ing war. One level headed physician
got a little of the strange water from
one of the canals and examined it under
a microscope. He found that the fluid
bad not really a red color, but was sim
ply filled with swarms of Bmall crimson
animalcules.
Further investigation showed these
animalcules to be a species of water flea
with branching horns. Presumably they
were brought from a great distance by
wind and deposited with the rain. How
ever, notwithstanding this explanation,
the Hollanders persisted in regarding
this affair from a superstitious point of
view, and many declared afterward that
it was an omen giving warning of the
desolation which vus subsequently
brought into the country with fire and
sword by Louis XIV. Washington Star.
The New Club Member.
I read conscientiously Sunday after
noon at the club the weekly rules and
regulations laid down in the newspapers
concerning .the details of life, that I
might regulate my behavior thereby;
and I notice that "initials are not con
sidered good form on note paper, i
even monograms." This did not particu
larly interest me, as I have for years
used a firm, plain and unruled paper-
though I do not delight in two sided let
ter writing, and tbe only notes I stiu
punctilious in answering are dinner in
vitations and the good wishes of Miss
Porphyry sent to me at the beginning of
each world s year And mine own.
But looking up and across the hall I
saw ydung Spriggles busily engaged in
tbe consumption of club paper and en
velopes. Letters stood in high stacks
upon the table. And I formulated this
maxim: The newness of club member
ship ia in direct proportion to the
amount of daily correspondence. The
clubling parades the club stamp as the
newly married man his wife. And I
should regret this thrusting of such dan
gerous weapons as pen, ink and paper
into the hands of the wise ,and the fool
ish, were it not that club paper had oc
casionally its uses; as when Thackeray
wrote that delightful Roundabout in de
fense of Lord Clyde. Boston Post.
The Kiss in History.
What a fleeting, intangible, evanes
cent and altogether delicious thing a lass
is! No savant can analyze it. The
genius that fathoms star spaces cannot
measure it; the science that weighs the
fraction of an atom cannot determine its
specific gravity. And yet what an im
portant part it has played in history as
well as in romance. It has been the re
ward of genius for was not Voltaire
publicly kissed in the stage box by the
beautiful Duchess . de Vulars in compli
ance with the demands of an enthusias
tic fit to thus reward the author of
"Merope?"
-It. has been the bribe of politics, for
when Fox was contesting the hard won
seat at Westminster the beautiful Duch
ess of Devonshire offered to kiss all who
would vote for the great statesman. And
the inspiration of patriotism, for did not
the fair Lady Gordon turn recruiting
sergeant when the ranks of the Scottish
regiments had been depleted by Sala
manca, and tempted the gallant lads by
placing the recruiting shilling between
her lips for all who would to take it with
their own? New York Sun.
Equine Aristoeraer.
"That fellow is awfully stuck up,"
remarked the cob to the polo company.
as he wagged his ears in the direction
of the new tandem horse. "He refused
to recognize me today in the park. He
may be a society 'leader' now, bat I re
member when his mother used to be
driven by the grocer's son. " Harper's
Bazar.
I n. rtt .
I n, nth Ut , wnll AnA ma
day Fas cold, the car was full an to
Ksoal" "discomforts of surface transit
were tprnod en. The man mentioned
was the observed of all observers. H
carried a common black muff on. his
knee, his hands thrust in either end, and
had a far away look in Ids eyes. Th
ladies exchanged amused glances. Tha
gentlemen regarded the muff with vari
ous degrees of wonder and contempt.
'Newest style, suggested onegenUo-
man to aaother.
'Yes; it's going to be a cold; day to
morrow, when you see tarn pigs carry
ing straws"
"That beats iner came- in a stag
whisper from across the way.
"Wonder if he wears corsets, said "
another. ' n '
" What is it, snyhowT
"Sorry I forgot my muff.-
"I'll steal my wife's sealskin asoque to
night"
Poor fellow! Somebody ought toeea-
him home safely."
Amid the&e remarks the man with' tho
muff sat quietly looking out of the win- '
dow. He must have overhear1 some of
them; he must havo known that he
the object of universal curiosity
ridicule, but he gave no sign. It ap
peared, however, that he was only col
lecting himself for some final effort, for 1 -when
he arose to leave the car at Sev
enty-second street he suddenly confront-
ed his fellow passengers.
This is my wife's muff, he said ,
bluntly. "She left it on the bargain-
counter. I had to go back and get lb '
Vm taking it home. If yon see anythinr '
fanny in that I'm blamed if I da '
New York Herald.
An Interesting ase Salt. "
A law suit over a meteorite has stirred
tho usually tranquil life of Kirchberg, .
in Wurtemberg. Some time ago every- '
body there was startled one night by m
loud report, and a ball of fire was seen
to fall near the Bennecker sawmill. On -the
next day a stone weighing a ton waft
found among the logs by a laborer in
the mill. News of the occurrence was
published far and. wide. Among tha
scores -of' pilgrims to th stone among;
the logs were wise men from Stuttgart
and Tubingen, who believed that thetr
had a rare specimen of celestial geologi
cal formations. Their competitive offers
for the stone bred, a quarrel between tha1
laborer and the owner of the mill aa to
whether the finder of the stone or tho
owner of the land on which it fell could
claim it rightfully.
Tubingen professors-had it shipped to
the university, after having agreed to
pay $500 for it if it proved to be a duly
tested and accredited meteorite. Tho
laborer thereupon - enjoined the mill
owner from receiving the money for tha'
stone, and the mill owner got a lawyer,
who is trying to raise the injunction.
Meantime, the Tubingen professors hava
said that the stone has few attributes of
a meteorite, and have refused to reship
it; so laborer and mill owner are about
to begin proceedings to compel them to
return it, both, maintaining that the uni
versity is trying to get the meteorite for
nothing. .
There are four lawyers in the case al
ready and nothing has been decided, so
the costs bid fair to exceed the value of
a dozen meteorites. New York Sun.
Something Kev In Canoe Baaing.
In the last conplo of seasons we havo
noted the growth of tha war canoe, pro
pelled by paddle entirely, and the sport
bad by a few races with them has created
something of an interest in paddling
races generally, which were giving away
very extensively to the sailing events.
There is now some talk - of building en
larged war canoes, to hold from a dozen
to thirty or so, and racing them. There
are a few fairly large paddling canoes
now in existence, but they have served
heretofore on moonlight and other
nights as mediums for the - introduction
of the gentler sex to the fascinations of
the sport. These may be manned for
racing, and, per contra, the ones con- '
tomplated for racing may, on 'occasion,
be sacrificed to love and beauty. In
either event, it looks as though the re
gattas of the summer would be made
doubly interesting by these large canoo
races, each boat with a crew of probably
twelve to fifteen paddlers. -Harpefa
Weekly.
Swallowed an Oyster Shell.
The Rev. W. D. Shea made a narrow
escape in Macon Wednesday night. He
went to a restaurant for some oysters
and swallowed a piece of shell, which '
very near cost him his life. Tbe shell
lodged in his throat, lacerating tha
membrane and causing hemorrhage and
strangulation. The several present were
attracted to the minister, who had gone ,
into convulsions.
A physician was immediately dia- -
patched for, but in the meantime the
shell became dislodged and was thrown
up during the convulsions. The Bbell
was about the size of a quarter of a dol
lar, with sharp edges. After being re
lieved; of the difficulty the Rev, Mr.
Shea soon revived. His throat was con
siderably, lacerated, and altogether the
minister had a narrow escape. Colum
bus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun.
Felled by Dead Geese.
While a Hutchinson (Kan.) policeman
was standing under an electric light the
other night, he was startled by some ob
ject striking him a heavy blow on tha
head and then fall at his feet. As he
stooped to examine the object he re
ceived a second blow, this time on tha
back. When he recovered sufficiently
from his fright to gather himself to
gether he found he had been struck by
two wild geese that had been killed by
striking the electric light wires. Phila
delphia Ledger.
Dug Up a Fortune.
While digging a foundation for
house in Wichita, Kan., recently, it Is
reported that $35,000 in gold were ex
hume''. Tbe money is said to have bee
the fortune of the grandfather of Un
present owner of tho ground, who is
supposed'to have hidden It