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-I. A 'FIERCE BATTLE. Jlow a VlrfflnU I II loiif Dive. I I'mlrr J)KIT Mllll Nllll)lrl II. Deer have not been ho numerous fur years, in the Capon Mountains ns lln-y are this seaon. Hy the help of legis liilion they have increased greatly. Spurttim-n from the Shenandoah valley, the nearest civilized country, rarrly get further than the North Mountain, the lirst distinctive range of hills west of the Illnv Ridge So the Mountain-j eers lutvf the fun ami the jirolit of the hunt to themselves. During Ill" win ter thev do little fle than hunt. Be tween the little mountain ranges am swift-running streams, the principal one being the South Fork, North Fork, Capon iiihI bst river. Miiskrats, otter and mink are fouml along the rivers, hin I 'coons, 'possums, wildcats, wihl turkeys and leer art! thick in the wooded hills. The most noted hunter in the Statu west of Moorliehl is (labricl Cooper, who.-e d Is have caused him to he known ly hin neighbors as Dan'l lJoonc. Dan'l keeps two dogs and A brown mare and he knows every ling path and deer trail in West Virginia, it in said that tlie wild animals know Dan'l mi well that when they see him mid hi lirown mare they lice the coun try. What Dan'l Boone cannot, tell in the shape of a hunting adventure is not worth hearing. Every stream in Hainp aliiro County lui hitraps set along it banks. With his trusty Winchester rille he has brought down twenty-eight deer this season. One day Dan'l was visiting his traps on Lost river. A mile above where this river disappears in the cnrf.h is a beml where the stream if) broad ami dcp. Dan'l keeps a little feather-weight skill' in the beml for his private use. While sloshing up and down the bank of the river he started a big buck with six prongs. The ani mal sprang from cover into the water and headed for the opposite side. Dan'l leaped into his skill' and n few powerful strokes brought him nearly alongside of the buck. His purpose was to secure him alive, but when with in ten feet of him the buck turned about and swam straight at the boat. The hunter, recognizing his peril, drew his sheathe-knife and caught, the creatine by the horn as hit made n vicious lunge at the boat. Dan'l held on to the horn, and the buck lunged and butted furiously. The hunter tried to get at its throat, and in the ell'ort the skill upset and Dan'l and deer were left to light their bat tin out in the water twelve feet deep. To escape from the maddened luick was impossi ble, ami instead of swimming from it the experienced woodsman dived under the water, and, coining up by the buck' aide, stabbed it in the belly again and again until he was force to come to the surface himself for air. The wild plunges made bv the wounded beast were terrillc. 'Flie river was dyed red with blood for twenty feet around w here the combat raited. As the hunter poked liis nose above the surface to get air the animal cut with its horn a long furrow iu his side. t was the buck's last expiring ctl'ort. With a gasp and a shivering moan it sank out of sight and the battle was. ended. Whirling ( II . Vd. ) linjmnr. A SUBMARINE VOLCaNO. Million lit l.tri'les I lh rinittliiK In Vet low Nriini mi tit- (iiilf. Captain Robert M. Lavender, of the chimin r Alice Montgomery, which ar rived at this port recently, with a cargo of iee from Kennebec, Mi'., reported nn interesting incident, He states that on the I i'tli of October, four days before arriving at New Orleans, and south ward of Kebcccti Shoals, in the extreme eastern portion of the (iulf of Mexico, he passetl through an extensive tract of limiting lish, dead and dying. As far as the eye could reach this spedac met the gaze, and the vessel sailed through it for twenty miles. Tin lish were of great variety, ami another curious feature of the phenomenon was that the sea was yellowish and streaked on the surface with a yellow scum. Theslipposition that these lishes were destroyed bv some sudden visitation of an epidemic disease is scarcely reason able. Of a variety of theories the most plausible appears to be that which attributes the destruction of the lishes to the breaking out beneath the sea of volcanic matter and poisonous gases destructive to the lives of marine ani mals exposed to tlieiu. Submarine volcanoes are by no means unknown. The fact of their existence has often been attested in disturbances of the ocean bottom, eases of the sinking of coasts and islands into the sea or of their elevation out of it beingon record. The opening of rifts in submarine rock through which poisonous sulphu ou.s or ai'seniurcted vapors are driven into the w aters above, would be entirely in accord with the rules of volcanic no tion. .V. O. Piemnne. Novel Clock Construction. Of the various novelties in clock eon atrnclion none have excited more gen eral Interest, perhaps, than those which consist of a plain glass dial, suspended by a tine thread or wire, having the motive power .'inordinary watch move mentconcealed in the central boss of the hands, or in the enlarged counter balance of one of them. Another con trivance in this line of note consists of two circular plates of glass, mounted in a metal frame or border, and connected by a slender column, or foot, to a ped estal. In these the figures are marked on the front plate, the bands being at tached to the back plate, which is ce mented to a brass rim, toothed as a crown wheel and driven by a pinion, the stem of which rises from the works in the pedestal. The necessary hour wheels, to give differential motion of the bands, are hidden between the center bosses of the hands and the brass washer on the back plate. Where Wire glass plates are used, the short and long hands am tixed to the second ami third plates, and two pinions drive thu toothed rims of these two plates. A'. '. Sun. m A kindling wood factory at Mount Tom, Mass., turns out over tea thou sand bundlej a da. CONCERNING PUSH, Wlit INi.li I a K.iMi I.- LI ft". I'ualiiiiir 1 ( ioiT,'ir.v. As wo have said repeatedly, th r ! nothing ill the world like cii'T.. In order to succeed, it is reipiile I tii lt the aim in view be pursued with unwaver ing determination. It is the pel's -, effort to advance which we commonly ip'signate by the term push. A bus' ness man without push might as wei shut up shop ami save his money, lie ..oner or later he will be swamped o . ire irresistible onward rush of progress. 'Juito different, however, from tliir faculty of push, exerted in a particular direction lor iiniiviiii.nl advancement, is the being pushed by others. He who is awake to bis own interests, who is possessed of push, needs no pushing from others, and, on the other hnnu. n amount of pushing will benefit trie weak and the laggard. Constant spur ring will only induce stubbornness and gulkiness, and wu all know how the mule will act if urged against his will. We believe that he who docs not feel that diligence and earnestness ami a constant striving for improvement (be it in his own business or in that of another, if lie is not his own master) will pay best in the end, can not be brought to it by compulsion. Compulsion, force, driving, more over, is unworthy of the spirit of our age. Let him who will not move bis arms ami legs to keep himself afloat go to the bottom, the sooner the better. It is a deed of charity to sneh a being and in the best interests of others. We have no patience witli men who are like tin mli, driven cattle, and who work solely because they must have their earnings in order to till the stomach, whose chief prayer is "Cninc (Ihv, iro day, linil semi ihv tiny." They are not wiei, but machines, and in the case of machines we expect a certain amount of work from the ex penditure of u certain amount of fuel and we take steps to get it. Hut a man, be ho employer or employe, will do his best; what he may lack to-day, he will make up to-morrow. He will have push, but will object to being pushed. I' unit is absolutely a requisite in this world; pushing is unnecessary, ami may result in the very opposite of that which it was intended to accomplish. Lithographer and Printer. A TRUE LOVE STORY. Airrrtlim Which Survived the Trials of I'livcrljr ami Cam. A young clergyman ami his bride were invited guests nt a large party given by a wealthy parishioner. In all the freshness and elegance of her bridal wardrobe the young wife shone among the throng, distinguished by her come liness ami vivacity mid rich attire; and when during the evening her young husband drew her aside and whispered to her that she was the most beautiful woman in all the company, ami that his heart was tilled with pride and love for her, she thought herself the happi est wife in the world. Ten years later the same husband and wife were guests at the same house, where were gathered a similar gay company. The wife of ten years ago wore the same dress slut had worn on the previous occusion, and of course it had been altered and re-mad nnd was old-fashioned and almost shabby. Toil and care, and motherhood, and pinched circumstances had taken the ros 's out of her checks and the lithe spring out of her form. She sat apart from the crowd, o ireworn and preoccupied. Her small hands, rougnctie I with coarse toil, were ungloved, for the minister's salary was pdnfu'lv small. A little apart the ten-year husband stood and looked at his w ife, and as he observed her faded dress and weary attitude, a great sense of all her iialieiil, loving faithfulness came over liis heart. Looking up, she caught his earnest gaze and notici .1 that his eyes were tilled with tears. She rose and went to him, her ipiestioning eves mutely asking for an explanation of his emotion; and when he tenderly took her hand and, placing it on his arm, led her awav from the crowd and told her how he liud been thinking of her as she looked tell years before when she was a bride, ami how much more pre cious she was to him now and how much more beautiful, forall her shabby dress and roughened hands, and how he appreciated nil her sacrifice and patient toil for him ami their children, a great wave of happiness filled her heart, a light shone in her face thai gave it more than its youthful beauty, and in all the company there was not so happy a couple as this husband and wife, their hearts and faces aglow from the flaming up of pure sentiment that transtigiifcd and ennobled and glorilicd all the toils and privations they had endured. The llousehotd. FINE PEARLS. Kri'klttci't Hurli as Xnhndy Hut frlm-cssr I'aeil til Wear. The increased favor given by fashion to low necked evening dress has encouraged the jewelers to put together some very beautiful and costly neck laces. Three strings of pearls recently shown in this city were valued at S'.VJiH), V-V.'iH!, and $lWrcspeotivcly. without the pretty diamond clasps which fast ened them. The pearls were graduated, ami of beautiful color and shape, but as one must be a poet to love Spencer, one must be accustomed to jewels to appreciate the rctined beauty of pearls, and half the women who saw the three necklaces and some rival diamonds which blaed near them in another necklace would have chosen the dia monds if not informed of their com parative cheapness. The cost of this pretty bauble was $7."i0. and it was a single band of stones in a light gold set ting, but it bad a star pendant, with a great sapphire in the centre, which added two-thirds more to its price and was a beautiful ornament by itself. The combinations (if diamonds and colored stones are verv tine t his season, not only in pendants, Vut a No in rings. One of the latter, in w hich a turipioisc as big as a humming bird's egg is .sur rounded by diamond sparks, is pretty enough to tigure in one of Mrs. Spof ford's stories, Loston Transcript. A FIERCE STORM. I'll Kcinarkiililn I'lii'ii'inriimna Wllnr4 on I lie Nail Miguel Klvrr. "Some ten years ago." said a veteran prospector, "1 was traveling on foot from Ouray, in thu Sun Juan, across the country at thu head of tho San Miguel river. The time was in the forenoon of an autumn day, and a dense mass of threatened clouds were rolling up in the west over thu Western San Phillipo Range. I was in a lnlrry, to cross the Fish lakes, and concluded to go up through Hear creek, n stream putting in the San Miguel from the south. The stream headed in a semi circular basin bounded by immense precipices of basaltic rock, at whose base were vast quantities of broken rock, varying in size from the bowlder weighing a few pounds to masses of many tons in weight. How these rocks canto in thnt posi tion was a source of imptirv to me, but 1 had an opportunity of solving the mystery before I reached the summit of the divide I intended to cross. The clouds 1 spoke of seeing in the west had in the meantime come rolling up and accumulating in size and density, also becoming darker and more heavily charged with electricity. Thunder rolled and lightning Mashes plaved above and below, and it seemed as if all heaven's artillery wag concentrated nt tliisj p.w ticular point. Iustrad of rising high in mid-air the clouds rose just high enough to clear the tops of the dense forests that lined the approaches to Mount Wilson. 1 feared to proceed, and sought shel ter beneath u huge pile of rocks about the center of the area, and some half a iiiile from the south end of the semi circular basin mentioned. In less time than I have been writing these notes the clouds swept eastward with im mense velocity. The low altitude w hich they maintained was not great enough to clear the precipice on the cast side of the basin, and they swept against it with terrilic force. There was such a vast weight of water con tained in them that the concussion when the clouds struck the precipice was so great that immense ipiantities of rock were broken off, and fell with a shock like an eartiupiake to the fixit of the clilf. Like a battering-ram the body of clouds was thrown hack and again advanced until three distinct blows were strucK at the clilf. Hy this time the water was pouring over the mountain in a Niagara-like Mood, bringing down additional quantities of rock. The occurrence lasted only a few minutes, but in this time it wi.s easy to perceive how the masses of d hris were placed in the position tiny occupied. The storm was over, the HT cleared up, and I was able to iiirsui the projected journey. I) niri trs. j GRATITUDE TO A DOG. An Invalid l.mly'n Memorial of a KaUtr fill I'. l. The Society for the Prevention ti Cruelty to Animals recently receive the following letter from nn imalitl lady, who wishes to make her gratitude! of practical value: "Enclosed find a check for one thou sand dollars, which sum, through you, 1 oiler to the acceptance of the M:isa chusctts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, as a grateful me morial of my dog, who through four teen years of seclusion and pain has been my constant, faithful, devoted friend and companion." If all whose lives had been mflde happier by dumb creatures would im itate the example of this good lady, the Massachusetts society would have the means not only of vastly increasing its work in our own State, but also of reaching out a helping hand to stop the abuses by which hundreds of thousands of animals annually die on our cattle cars, and other hundrcils of thousands die in our extreme western and south ern States and Territories of neglect and starvation, and other hundreds of thou sands die in .slaughter-houses with great and unnecessary sull'ering. The sending of checks, or the calling at the rooms of the society and having without cost a legacy added to a will, or giving the society the use of money on condition that it shall he repaid, if ever needed by the giver these arc forms of prac tical gratitude which will give material aid to the men who without pecuniary reward are now giving heart, brain and energy to the protection of dumb animals. Huston VVioi.ven'.. RAPID TRANSPORTATION. rim factor Wlili li Il ls rroiliii'nl an Kr.t of CtieaiMicss. The economics brought about by cheap ami rapid transportation, as well as the invent ions which add to the re sults of human labor, is working to the disadvantage of the agriculturists of the hitherto favored nations. Time was when the "beef of old England" would command higher prices, but the killing of cattle in' distant regions, such as South America, Australia and New Zea landthe freezing of the dead meat and its transportation to western Europe in sw ift steamships --has ruined the markets of those w ho bred choice cattle at home, and the consequence is that the cattle of eastern I'nited States as well as western Europe, will not !. worth more intrinsically than the cattle at the Antipoles. In other words, the world hereafter will have all the beef, mutton and hog Mesh it can us, at steadily cheapening prices. What is true of meat has been true some y ears past of wheat. The old-time ligu'resof two and three dollars a bushel will never again be quoted during this fen eration. The w heat fields of the entire globe are at the command of the con sumers of western Europe. While these tacts are not cheering to agriculturists, they are very reassuring to the consum ing poor of all countries. There may be distress, but famines are at an end so far as the civilized and senii-eivilized world are concerned. Dammst's Monthly. m m An attempt to prosecute Portland Chinese for sawing wood on Sunday, revealed the fact that there is no law In Oregon against manual labor on Sunday. THE AiTHVIA. iVInit Camcd the liinil of tlie Only Asthmatic Who Kvcr !. Some folks say that asthma and the hay fever are one and the same. The folks are wrong. Asthma is an flec tion of the throat. Hay fever is nn af fectation of the mind. A man can have the asthma on a dollar a day ami bread and water. He can't have a genuine, lirst-class case of hay fever unless he has an income of twenty thousand a year. A three months' va cation will cure the hay fever. Nothing milder than a hypodermic injection of cold lead, introduced under tin- left ear, is a safe cure for the asthma. One of the symptoms of asthma is a tendency to longevity on the part of the subject, if lie is carefully watched. The good die young, but the man with the asthma lives to see his great-grandchildren married. It has long been a matter of much scientific speculation us to what became of asthmatics. They disappear, like mules, but you never hear of a dead one. My opinion is, however, that if coroners were more thorough in their investigations, much light would be thrown on this impor tant question. If they went deeper into the antecedents of parties who "get on to" the mysteries of the (Jrcnt Heyotid by jumping oft of docks, blowing out tin gas. making a luncheon of rat poi son, ami by other eolially cheerful nnd effective mediums, there would be very few verdicts of the regulation form: "Came to his death by his own hand. Cause unknown." Very few. Hut there would be many after the following form: "Came to' his death by his own hand. Confirmed victim of tiie asthma habit." A man with the asthma never catches any thing else, unless he sleeps in a Hobokcn hotel in the siuniiier-tiiiie. No asthmatic that ever grabbed for wind can scare the Jersey mosquito. Hut be can't catch small-pox, malaria, lock jaw, nor mumps, no more than an oyster j can catch the ear-ache. Hut he can i catch lish, for even the asthmatic can j lie. Except down. He can't lie down. If he does, his wind-pipe ami all and i singular his bronchial tubes inaugurate ! an early-closing movement at once i ami push it heartily. The luxurious I couch of the custodian of a thorough- I bred case of asthma is a gentle Mag- I bottom chair, with a high, straight back. There's one good thing about the asthma. You thiren't exert yourself any if you have it. If a man with the asthma laughs heartily, you've got to pump wind into him for ten minutes afterward. I had an asthmatic friend once, who was so constantly afraid that some one would tell him a 'funny story, or that something would happen on the Itrcet to make him laugh, that ho laved home all day, and in the evening stole quietly through back streets to the theater where the latct't comic opera was being sung. Carrying a scuttle of coal up the cel lar stairs, or a pail of water from the pump, is a direct alfront to the asthma, and it will howl like a saw being filed if it is insulted that way. 1 heard of a young fellow who got tired, once, of toting the coal tip-stairs, a' month or so after he was married, ami he worked the asthma dottge on bis innocent no i indulgent .ife. She couldn't bear to ice him sutler, so she carried the coal- iihI herself. One night my My young ladily-buck got home late after an j veiling with the boy s, and was just a rille elegant. His wife was a real nice wife and she didn't say a word. Next j morning she remarked, however: ! "Jack, I want a hod of coal from the j :cllar." "Now, my dear," said Jack, whiney- j like: "you know how it all'ects me lo carry coal up-slairs." "That won't do any more, Jack," said the innocent wife: "Any one who could get up-stairs with the load you arried last night, and never a w hee.j to show for it. can't play the short viuded dodge oil' on a little hod of eoal." And Jack has carried the coal ever unee I said no one had ever seen a dead asthmatic. I'm wrong. I saw one, once. He was killed right before my eyes, much to his great, joy and satis faction. He was a friend of mine. He started ill with the asthma fifty-three years previous to his death, and was as vet only an infant, as asthmatics run. He had tried all the never-failing asthma cures there are, and his asthma got fat on them, so to speak. He even took the advice of a friend, who said it could be starved out, and went to live in a Hrooklyn boarding-bouse to give the prescription the best kind of a chalice. Hut it wouldn't work, ami my friend had settled down with his'phthisie ami was indulging in the daily pastime of clutching for breath, w hen, fortu nately, a funny man went to board in the house. He was a "corker." My friend and the asthma had been having a week's picnic, and it had left him almost as robust as a shad in June. As he sat in his chair, one day, whooping and wheezing and gasping, the funny man came in. "How you feelin". old man?" he said. "Not very muscular," gasped my friend. "Asthma readily tie seen!" almost yelled the funny man, and he slapped me on the back. I glared at him. Mv friend fell back in liis chair. A smile almost heavenly plaved about his face. lie evidently had caught a glimpse of the .shining shore. "He's had a tough siege of it, this time." I said. "Phthisic-zactly so!" howled the fun-ny-mau, actually gloating in his in famy. The smile on my friend's face be came more angelic, and he settled still further back and closed bis eyes. "Do you know w hat I'd do if 1 had the asthma?" asked the j ker-lirnd: "I'd go to some momirchial count '.y, grow up with it. and become its ruler." "Why?" said I. "Hicailse, .inwhee.y lies the head that wears a crown!" he yelled. My f.'iend opened his eves, g ive one grstefui look at the funny-man, and w as at peace Ed Mutt, in Put k. FOOLING SMOKERS Ijior They Arc M ule l'f '"k'1 I'rlraa for "SiiiiikuIi'i'" Cigar. There are many people in New fork," said Colonel Hrooks, of the internal revenue .service, to a reporter recently, "who labor under tho impression that they are buying smuggled cigars, when they are really getting thu cheapest domestic cigars made. There are some very expert swindlers about town, and I have no doubt that they have found piany victims. As a matter of fact there are very few foreign cigars smuggled into this country. There are too many risks in tho lirst place, and then the penalty is nearly always en forced. Th majority of contraband cigars that are brought to thu United States come in the pockets of tourists, ami a man can't carry many cigars con cealed in his clothing. "You would be surprised to know how manv people in New York are in duced to buy alleged smuggled cigars, and in most cases they are badly swindled. "Aii operator in nlleged smuggled cigars displays considerable genius in his make-up for his part. He lirst stains his hands and then puts on an old suit of sailor's clothing. Ho buys a box of the cheapest cigars he can find, takes them from the box and rolls them in a newspaper. He then gets a good fifteen or twenty-cent cigar, which he puts in with the other cigars. Thus equipped, with "a fresh lot of imported cigars that have never paid miy duty," he starts out in search of a customer. To his victim he whispers the words 'smuggled, very cheap,' ami then pulling out tho good cigar, says "try one' Of course it smokes all right ami the victim is tempted to take the whole lot at ten dollars a hundred or a similar price, when they actually cost less than two cents apiece. ' "Swindlers make, a practice of hand ling a little better quality of cigars. They buy domestic grades for eight and ten cents apiece, and then retail them among their customers for from eighteen to twenty-live cents straight. These men have their regular custom ers anil furnish them with nearly all their cigars. They sell very fair cigars, but their customers pav them three times what they are worth because, as they imagine, they are smuggled. "There are large retail dealers who practice deception on their customers. One man, especially, has been reported to me a hundred times as violating the revenue laws, but there is not a dealer in New York who is more careful in complying with tho law. He is too sharp lo break it, but I will venture to say that there are a good many people in New York who would be willing to swear that he docs. He keeps a certain quantity of cigars tinder his counter. A customer comes in. gives him a wink, the dealer .smiles softly, reaches his hand down under the counter, takes a bundle of cigars out of a regularly .stamped box, wraps it up in a news paper, and passes it over to his customer, admonishing him to bo careful. The customer then steals out of t lit; store with the air of a man who has stolen something. There is no occasion for him to feci badly. He has only paid two prices for an oi'dinnry dou"j-t' cigar. X. Y. World. QUARTER CRACK. A Common Ailment Anionic tinmen anil How to Treat It. Quarter crack is a common ailment among horses kept much in hot staid and standing on a dry Moor, it is nls tar more common in not climates am where the horses are driven much on sandy, tlrv roads than in cool ones where the roads are wet and muddy There is first .some fever in the fi and legs, then the hoof becomes dry ami nam, the horn shrinking or con trading, as it is called; then cracks follow, I'ithcr at the heel or toe. Tin cracks usually extend completely through the thickness of the hoof, ex posing the sensitive parts underneath ami in ire or less iiillaiuniation follows The oily cure for such cracks is to b sought in a new grow th of the hoof, or. in other words, the crack must be obliterated bv n growth of horn from above downward, as the horn, when once Ivoketi or cracked, will not grow togetlnr or unite at its edges. Tin most ciininon practice is to completely cieau on me crack with warm watt ami reik've all loose shreds of horn and thct cross-lire the hoof with a hot iron, tulyavcry slight burn will be needed s the coronet, merely slitlieicnt toexciteinew growth of horn at this point, lie edges of the horn at both SltleS Of tlV crack Its entire lemrtli m.,. be liurncd;but not tleep enough to in jure me sensitive parts underneath. A ft.., iii!i..it:u .1 i. .. .. i ni,i 1111111111 me chick wiin tar or pitch and iid the hoof with waxed thread. Mnime the hoof freouentlv and see thaU,he new growth of horn of tne coronet u't.s solid ami without a crack. It it ties not do this repent the imng at m point until the new growth is satWactory. A bar shoe will oc necessary wen the crack, extends to the bottom of tie hoof. It will take months for the ruck to grow out under . I ....... I mi iiiiim i.oin.1 i- couumons; conse quently coiisidcrile patience will bt required in treat jg the animal. Tin hoots may ne oil occasionally with ucaisiooi on ainiMTOsene, about two parts ot the lornf to one of the latter. .. I. un. A member savs that Salt ijhe geological survey 4'' "111 UC Of irr.Mil value in the lit iuture, not onlv 0R hioti salt it will "pro he sodium sulphate ittcr is separated in account of the duce, but also I it contains. Tl a Mocculcnt pr pitate by the cold weather of nufnter and anntiilk- thrown up on shoro in enormous quantities. The iiro many other lakes in the far west supply of conufeial alkalies ruav be nee an inexhaustible obtained at cost. .Mono Lake, titnated to hold over Cal., alone beinl 7LHK.lX.K) tons sodium carbonate. L'hii-ii'jo Times, A rittsbui woman, suing fr her husband Lis.,.i divorce, savs tj her in 1SS2 ant lie hasn't scph k;, since, ome wien never are satis- noil. ivtVn lUscnpt, THE DOG'S TONGUE. An Alli-ifeil Indian Niiertllln u-M Hotli Old and AlisnrU, kk A correspondent from Waskt.- makes a statement (said to have bj obtained from an Indian chief) gaining wide publicity, may bo the k direct cause of much needless cruf to that most faithful of our iom ....tj ilia Jon. 1,,. !,..:: persons or idle experimentalists to dertakethe removal of thu siipp. lOIlL'IIK .1 our semper fidelis canine friends. Xf Indian ventured tho information toy! correspondent that under the ton!, of every dog there is a worm siiimfJ which ordinarily does no harm, but if tho animal bo placed under favorabl, conditions will bo the cause of uucing rames or iiyuropiioimi. Jj (i "worm" be cut out the disease till never bo produced spontaneously inti dog, neither will ho contract the 4 case from the bite of a rabid auim IJIIS lll.lll untune. 'PI... .,......!.... 1.1 ... , 1 uni linn Bciiscicss mea ti)l4 uqj originate with tho chief, or his triho j aboriginals, is evident from the fact ol 1110 vurjr peiicrai Kiiowictlge of fh( practice 111 iiiiiereni pans 01 the jri0,. (icorgo Homing, a noted YawWa veterinarian, in his work on hpilrophj. ma, say s uiai me poeiijri-aiiusrali.scm, 01 tne nrsi century 01 our era, gp of tho fable of tho worm in the oV, 1 . it . , .. tongue iieing tne cause 01 tne uisordet and that Plinv, in the same centim' writes: "If the 'lytta.1 or small worm' be removed from a dog's tongue, h( will never become mail or lose his ap. petite," and "if tho worm bo carried thrice around a fire anil given to a per son who has been bitten by a mud do? it will prevent his going mad." In opposition to this worso than use. less practice I can make no stronger argument than quote from Flcniinv'i "Rabies nnd Hydrophobia," London, 1M72: "This removal of the worm from the dog's tongue, or 'wortuing,' as it u popularly termed, has been practiced from the day of Pliny to our own time, and is, ns might be expected, a per fectly useless, nay, injurious and pain ful operation. Beneath the organ, in the middle, is a somewhat loose, ten dinous looking fold of membrane, which constitutes what, in technical language, is oalled the 'iridium,' or bridle of the tongue, nnd is designed to assist the animal in lapping. When in its ordinary relaxed condition thii fr.'cnuni looks like a small worm, and the resemblance is perhaps even more complete when it has been torn nut; hence the name of the operation, wliich is a cruel one ami gives the poor dog a verv sore mouth for several days, in adifition to redering the tongue less capable of performing its important functions, flic supposition that this procedure will prevent a dog from be coming spontaneously rabid, or liable to infection if bitten, is excessively absurd, as the presence of the imagin ary worm has no inlltieneu whatever in the production of the malady, while its absence must bo a source of incon venience to tho dog, and far more likely to induce rabies than to prevent its occurrence. Tho operators justly deserve the punishment which will he awarded them should they come within the cognizance of the Uoyal SocifVjtQt the prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Dr. Samuel Johnson, who was never at a loss for a definition, when alluding to the opinion prevalent ill his time with regard to this worm, called it 'a sub stance, nobody knows what, extracted, nobody knows why.' "Cor. at. Imii'h Globe-Democrat. A CURIOUS DREAM. The Strlllii(; Milliner In Which It tt'11 Vcrilled. Mr. Charles Knickerbocker, a New York broker, who is given to practical jokes, is at present in Europe. He is traveling for his health. He is spending the winter in Rome. A few nights ago his wife, who lives on Madison avenue, dreamed that he was dead. The dream was so natural that it made a profound impression on her. She felt sure that soinethingserioushad happened to him. She was tilled with dismal forebodings, although she is not what may be called a .superstitious woman. A few days afterward she received a cablegram. She tore open the envelope, and holding one hand to her beating heart, she read: ItoMK. Jan L'l. isstl.-lii an hour from now I w II nn lotiL'er he with the lviiir. hut with the (lend. Iletoru you read this 1 will lie under the soil She gasped for breath. Every thing swam before her eyes. The cablegram dropped from her nerveless hand. "I knew it! I knew it!" she shrieked, ns she sank in a swoon on the Moor. A moment later her faithful niaiil rushed in. and with the assistance of some of the family, who had been startled by the heavy fall, the prostrate woman was raised from tho Moor and Iter ni.pnrcntlv lifeless body olaced on a sofa. The family ohvsiefan was sum moned in hot haste. Dr. Salts applied restoratives, and in a few minutes the unfortunate lady regained conscious ness. loll must not excite vonrself. Try she and be calm," he said, soothingly "I will try and bi p.'ilni."' said, gaspinc 'f,,r hrcnrli mi, I iei mg her hands over her face, she exclaimed itl heart-rendiii!r accents, "olense read the rest of that cablegram." The doctor's hand trembled ns he Picked up the cablegram. He managed low ever, tocontrol his voice suflieientlV to road: ItOMK. .llin "1 1SSATn V. nn I ., -". , i, nil iniiir iiiiiit will no lllllirftr hn u-itl. w rh the dead. Itefore you read this I w it I under thu sod "lice more the noor n-nmin wis con vulsed with anguish. Her grief was so iistressing that tho doctor was ob i'e to pause. 'Charlie. I'll soon meet rnu nn the other shore." nnd tuminir to the doctor, she added, "Read the rest. M rue know the very worst," she sobbed- The doctor ele.-irnd hia thr.elt and began to read: 1 iliY1- J,nn- 2I- m -Tn n hour from new 1 will no longer be with the llvimr, hut witb the dead. I will he under the sod. 1 hitve nia'le ar ranin'inenin with ,,tn who It comlnif to take me through the Catacnmht IHAHLCS kSU'KKKHDt KLK- Texas SijUngs. i I