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COOL FOR COOKS. THINGS STORED IN THE flREAT BIO REFRIGERATORS. unr. Ilulirr. OkMM mid tf , coed ron.llllnn All ths .. I 0mMM ' 8,,,r Vr II"""" , . ,h, let bsd of a gorge ,n Altal .misKilsrian f0,lni1 S" Thu nndwu """""Lit Tliep'-"","ere,'unry T''e3' fi famlt idea that this IMMM nm f""-"-buriod um)er i.ver of ice Wi ,or m"u-v ,oou' MJ vert-loSer l r"U th l"U J, ,uiin runneth. Ho they cut off I0? in. USSt ui'd "oiled It ovsr dr.. MJ ? ' o, t Sulswqueutly bin slices of L iiuifl" "ereeatou by other iuv ZZZmm M iWgta t!!et family roatta. " Iindar of the mastodon was finally !!2ttbtmM U)8t I'etersburg, JflJfcforW talAJ one of the chief attrac lo a murfUin. taown or the mm t make business of Preserving large ii.iesnf food rur the market by imam .uanlltiw j.f-in 1 in) tiling of rather recent date in it a rerter, who looked the matter 1 I ,umI Hi" Br tn"W1 alu'"'l" wn a? . nmi on Suite street by the Chi . . .!. I J1! Ui l tha Refrigerating "".,- .tnrUsJ on Michigan street, and ..o mil... IlUt lliui "tw ...It. iui ' ...Iui rimiillv that otliers ,M name I in to share liimort and emoluments ilutf ii, mid to'")' t'"'ru uro "VB lurk"u rt' ZnUi-ig concern! "i the city. The com ,m.v value of the articles of food awrvo and keep lit for human uw JJ,,B Jut now about tt.0U0.UU0. This '"lT. ..... Mill. r. elu . dry and gr.s-n i season many other perishable meat, (Kiultry, game and venison. TVWV employed in preserving differ . I foreut establishments. So do f ' . . As a rule, however, half a r'JT. ,lu u exacted for butter or '1' .'"ii 'i. I" case of eggs (thirty dozen), ?i t0 . ) i -in. !r barrel of apples and tCjiut ' "" trult. This SteWnilwP 11 ,Apr" 1 t"J""' l,lf i ut g, 'ally the season includes inoutlis, tV "" term for but (, cheiiw. e'c- u"' colu umo for 'irv, Ri"'"'. appta. As to the meth Jtul'priwriuti.in, th.' Western Uefngerat D..oiuiinv ii-esone willleh I' keeps a sue t while the Union, nt Si'xtee. .1 SUte, Mia aw of tho brine cv tlng iysKMi. nuliir to the one in vogu In breweries. H, Chicago llefrigerattag VflWimJ " yuptj the direct i,iauion system, all Ut- MUOUS llll't IIOll, oy ll ll Ullimuuia Jiiin4 right in the pile's while in the cooling rooms, jisorbing rti its expansion the heat lu the nrrouiicling air and changing luto gas at the nun; time. The gas again turns Into lique Jglorsnliydrous niiiuioiiia, and is thus BUI to Jo continuous duty. At Keppler's cold Htti bouses in St. Clair, Ills., and in thi cilj, therefi igerutiug is done in the simple ui old fiuhioiied way, usually Ice. Aj to the ttmptratnr to be milBMhmL thitis another ioiiit of difference. The cold Horage men reuiru from Ifci to 40 degs. to kwp their goods ill proper trim. To subject fruit, egg, cheese, etc., to freezing would in jure them. It is different with gnine and matt. To best preserve that it is necessary tu freeze it. A Dearborn street dealer keep ill the yaw round ubout fc!U,0UU worth ol pine, venison, etc., in a stiff uud lifeless con dition in his huge fi eeziug rooms below hh Sore The tWipsTrtni down there is so low that it is hardly safe for uu employe to ven ture into the man without having sheathed hituft'lf in n fur muffler. About ten below roist lie Hgure, winter and summer, und il b amusing to see in thosu cliiunliers of death whole rows of black bears, stiff us u ruuirod, awl imt, rnoonttltl slievp, autvloe mid elk, which give forth n genuine "dull thud," il thumped ever so slightly. The owner main tains that game ami venison improves in Harornml tenderness by this fUMlllg lifttt meul This, of course, must remain a mattei ifutste fur each one to judge for himself. millions or iuoa The egg, however, small as it Is, per se, it the uiggi'st item in tho cold storage interest The Western Kefrigeratiug company, for 111 stance, which occupies four large building! ou Michigan street, with J.OOU.UdO cubic feel of cold storage space, frequently holds at much as KHJ.LaiO cases of eggs or 3o,UUU,UU( of them at one time. Id Chicago, it apicurs, the eggs kept in tin refrigerating houses for mouths and inontlu aretruttiH) out during winter for fresh ones. "That cun t be helped," suid E. P, Baker, a cold storage man, "ki-auso during wintei the supply uf fresh eggs is never large enough to meet the deiuand. Tho coniinission men. for whom wo liavo kept these eggs all through the spring and summer und fall, new gel them from us, and they sell these preserved eggs to tho retailers at a moderate price. The retailers agai . have their customers ask for fresh eggs. They must sell (htm these, being the next best thing. But it is a fact that when sggi are kept carefully iu cold torago they have really remained fresli.se fresh that even uu expert could not tell tht difference by sight, smell or taste. As far us tho public at large is concerned, tbere can be no doubt that tut, cold storage business has achieved much gooa, and is con timing to do that every duy. It equalize K'ces all the yeur uround for a number ol "ttessary articles of food. Were is not foi cold storage, eggs would not bring more than tceuts par dozen in May, insteud of 10 to li Wits; und on the other iiund eggs would cosl tu 0 cents kt dozen in winter, instead of I" to 'Ju osoU Meats, too, have becomt much more even in prices for the same reason, "l so has cbet-su und butter. Time was ud that was but fifteen to twenty years ugc " butter ranged ius high as oil to iiOcenti p und during the winter months, whilt now hut:,.,, whii-li was originally the best tc WO, and which has but slightly lost iu ror un, nroina by reason of its cold stor e. can l. had ut'i cents. Chicago Herald. OF GENERAL INTEREST.' -Our vassclino Is used in .Japan to "Who the stings of tattooing. A fifty-year-old grapevine grows In lraiantotvn on a trunk which measures 'o bet six inches around. An BOOentrifl Detroit millionaire trot Into n argument with a woman, one of I tenants, and she snipped his mouth fi a dishcloth. -I'entist's advertisement in a Bead R Pa., daily: Teeth filled and ex Wtted without pain by the use of vital- air. und mude fresh every day and WneAj barmU ss. total Indian population is less 'bin isS.noo. Of these tLSM live in ues. and 1,611 families are engaged " agriculture And among these so 'AIW savages there are M,M1 church B'mbers. , wealthy Nevada man bequeathed "divorvisl wife one cent as a token of ttteen, In which he held her. His states that the amount is peatly in excess of the consideration tocujscrv.d. '' - ' curb, us fact, brought out by j Sear York Commissioner of Labor t'ics. that prison estimates of the ""nt ..f fmNj needed to sustain life nu.r.- liiierai than estimates for per Vj,1 '' 1- i.d-m un public charities. AMTlM "n of Cullman, a thriving 1,'n' village, makes the boast that P H not a negro within ita borders. It Jned after a rich (ierman who "e to found a colony of his own einthe Alabama fruit growing re- It has a iMBulttiuBiiU; MO PULLMAN ADVENTURES. ANIerplnK Or CMMltMtW fttttt One of Ills 0Mltl Rgptft e. I hve seen quite a number of sturlet In print aa U) tht adventures of old fashioned individuals riding In sleeping tars for the first time, and I expect every conductor on the road could nar rute one, If not more. The most coml al experience of the kind that I re member, happened In looti. I was run ning on tho 'Frisco road, and at Pelrcu City a gentleman put his father on the .ar, and telling me It was the old fel low' first railroad trip, aa well as his first experience in a sleeper, aked me to take good care of hltn and see him nafely to St. Louis. The old gentleman wm very talkative, told me he lived away off the road and ha. 't left homo any distance in his l b-. His son was well fixed and hu'' sled on sending him to St. Lon It to mi Mm relatives there. Every tin. stopped he hunt ed me up tfjj n.seu bother he had to get Off, and Wbon left Springfield I pertuadts. him to : o to bed. He had a lou i ber i and settled down very com forts dy after extracting from myself and the portei solemn promises that he thould not bo allowed to oversleep himself. At about mid night a drummer, who had exgaged the upper ulxive the old Mlssourlan, de cided to turn In. lty some mischance ho woke the latter, and then the fun commenced. The old man caught tho young one by the leg, and shouting "murder" commenced to struggle. Both rolled on the floor, the drummer coming down very heavily, with his assailant jn top. There was aaaos and pande monium in no time. The old fellow was an excellent wrestler und it took three of us to Ubtnktt the iH'wildered drum mer, who fortunately had too much sense to Insist on having revenge. Hut nothing we could say could convince tho infuriated farmer that there had been no improperdeslgns on his pocket book. A t last under threats of arrest ho promised to let the "assassin" alone, but he insisted on dressing, and at the next stop he disappeared in the darkness. I leurnt afterwards that he took the train homo the next day, and I doubt whether he will ever try to reach St. Louis again. St. I,ouls (llobo-Democrat. HOW TO USE MONEY. Kvery Wasted Dollar Is a New Mnk in the Chain of lloinUce. Tho highest value of money Is not its value exchangeable for luxuries for houses. eutiiDaire. urt. service, and so .' rth. It. 'icily prized for the power whieO.tt givi - oi or others for tho old potcnev, irkd j 'ong ago, which mBkes t; R boifuwr servant to the lender. Hut II ii.-"- -t Tt'ntc Is to free the horrowe frirm l.indago to the lender. The highest value of i-voney is in its power to purchase persona (. lilerty and independence. There are t ri ways In which men gain emancipation from personal servitude to other men, but they are open to but few. A man who has exceptionally fine talent in literature, art or applied science of any kind may be a free man; but the great mass must purchase themselves with money. Hv this we do not mean free dom from dependence upon our fellow men. No man run escape that, and it i one of the most beneficent of the fund amental laws of nuture that it can nol be done. Mutual dependence is essential to the development of all the finer vir tues. Hut we do mean personal servitude, the necessity of obeying an individual master. Ordinarily this may not be in itself a hardship; but emergencies do come, and come not In frequently, when this servitude Involves the sacrifice of sacred rights and man hood often the sacrifice of conscience. Luck of knowledge of the highest value of money leads to a very general sacri fice of its best use to inferior uses. Peo ple buy luxuries letter houses, living, etc., not knowing that they are selling their liberties for present gratifications. Every young man ought to start out with this one main object In life In view, to win his freedom. It is an in spiring struggle, and one in which tho high motive will lift him over many hurdships. Be may win it as a scholar win it by the highest possible develop ment of his mental and moral powers by any thing thut gives him superiority in any kind of work. Hut in lieu of special talents, money will do it. Every wasted dollar is a now link in tho chain of bondage. Interior. m m Told to Dickens lijr Longfellow. To Wilkie Collins from New York, under date of January IS, 18S, Mr. Dickens writes; "Being at Hoston last Sunday I took It into my head to go over the medical school and survey tho holes and corners in which that extraordinary murder was done by Webster. There was the furnace and all the grim spouts and sinks and chemical appliances and whatnot. At dinner afterward Long fellow told me a terrific story. He dined with Webster within a year of the mur der, one of a party of ten or twelve. As they sat at their wine Webster suddenly ordered the lights turned out and a bowl of some burning material to be placed on tho table, that the guests might see how ghostly it made them look. As each man stared at the rest in the weird light all were horror-stricken to see Webster, trith " rJM round hit tttrk, holding it up over the bowl, with his head jerked on one side and his tongue lolled out, representing a man being hanged." Philadelphia Record. . - A curious accident which happened recently In Paris points out a possible danger In the wearing of combs and bracelets of celluloid. A little girl sat down before the fire place to prepare her lessons. Her hair was kept back by a semi-circle comb of celluloid. As her head was bent forward to the fire this became warm, and suddenly burst into flames. The child's hair was partly burned off, and the skin of the head so Injured that several months after, ., L .1 In ua healed the clca- IQOUgll lilt "ui" trix formed a white patch on which no bail would grow. The burning point of celluloid is about 180 degrees, and the comb worn hv the gin nau auameu m. beat as it was held before the fire. (taaitau il for Dividend. mad X Cl'IlU Ii' l1'1 " u"ww-. i who failetl to put a poor woman off his train because she could not pay half fare for a sick child 5 years old. ; was promptly discharged aa toon ai the affair was reiorted. The amount would have beeuoiuyuiiny-uvc u anywav. but the company wanted it to make a dividend for the stockhold ere. Detroit Free Press. Julian Hawthorne, in deacribinj ome unpublished manuscript or nil father that he it at present editing ..ii ,n a hand thai auys: nc ive be would put 1,500 worda on a page of ordinary letter paper. iu had written a word or a line that dis pleaaed him. be rubbed it out with hu finger and wrote over the inky tpet thut mad" WEDDING SUPERSTITIONS. furlou. OattatM nkltk Have llren In fgM Many Yrsra. As long as there are fuir women ami brave men there will continue to Is weddings, and as weddings are the fash Ion there will still 1m- plenty of persons on hand to suggest to a young bride just what she thould do to avoid bad luck, and also what she should not do for the same reason. I'eople who are ordinarily sensible about most things let ull their supersti tious notions creep into their deas re garding the preparations for a redding, and these whims are made the subject of discussion at as early a stage In the pn- ei-dings as urban the young lady is considering what she prefers for un en gagement ring. She is told to avoid opnls, as no one ever was known to have any happiness who owned one of them. In spite of this, however, dealers say that there always a demand for rings set with this beautiful stone. I'earls. the siiH'rsti j tious say. are trail worse, but eventually I the little circlet Is purchased and tho I time for the wedding discussed. Then ' more complications arise us certain days are unfavorable und some months arc to ; lie shunned. May is said to lie an especially unlucky month, why no one 1 can tall, but many u rhyme could lie ! quoted to show that this notion has pre ; vailed for centuries. August is also I looked upon us n disastrous time lb I which to wed. und those who marrv in Lent will "live to tapentt" according to very old authority. Winter seems to lie the favorite season fur wedding belli to chime, in ourcoiintrv ' at least. In Scotland the last dav of the year is regarded with great favor, and should I)( mlier :ll full on Friday so moot the better, us thut lithe favorite Jay of the week for a wedding. Sunday weddings are common in Knglnnd. au.i in the early history of ourcoiintrv ntBJI couples were mude one on that duy. but rocentlv such a thin;? is seldom heard of. In Norway and Sweden Thursday murriages are forbidden by the Church, it being culled pagans' day. After much consideration the day is decided upon, und bravo indeed Is the girl who will consent to chunge it. for thut Is sure to bring ill-luck which nil the rice und old shoes of the country could not drive away. The time arrivesan.. i. 1th it much ad vice in regard to tr-- color which she shall wear und the nuttVWfo! arraying herself. Probably no girl in her teens is ignorant of the rhyme which urges young brides to Is- careful to wear "something old and something new, something borrowed and something blue." in order thut she may live "happy ever after," as the storybook lays. Misfortune is sure to follow the bride who has a speck of green in her costume. Sin Mist never array herself in ull her ;r ' robes until dressing for the cere iny. She must never read the mar riage aerwee quite through and she must nol stand before the mirror one second ..'tor s!i" is ready, no matter how pleusing thl I leetion of the happy face and graceful g. wn. Journal of Ameri can b'olk-I.ore. THE BLUE GENTIAN. It Is One ol the Most Baantlfa of I all Autumnal Flowers. Among the most beautiful of the late autumnal blossoms tuny be mentioned several species of blue gentian. The gentian is one of very few flowers which may Is- described as a true blue- most of those generally culled blue being in re ality more of a purple order. The band some bunches of deep azure, tube shnpod flowers seen on the streets with in the lust week, were principally com posed of the soap-wort gentian, or gen italia laponarla. This grows quite abundantly "down Jersey," and is brought to market by the colored (H'o plc who sell quantities of botanical treusures the whole year lound. The stalks of the soap-wort gentian are tall and straight and the blossoms are borne in upright clusters in tho uxils of the leaves that is In the joints bet ween the leuf-stulks and the main stem. The flower might be called tube or truniis't iheped, but if it ever fully opened it would be lsdl or funnel-shaped. 1 1 does not open, however- only u slight bright break at the top shows the scalloped edges of the corolla. This is regularly striped, on the inside, with blue and white. The closed gentian, or gentlana An drewsii, does not open Ws blossoms even at much aa doet the toapwort gentian. The flowers of the closed gentian might be described as like those of the bare belli only turned straight up Instead of drooping. The tip of the blossom is n much rounded in the flower us it is in the bud. the opening being no bigget than u pin's bead. The flower only de velops from a bud. it would seem, by growing a little longer and taking on u shade of cobalt blue. These flowers are arranged in a close cluster at the top ol the flower stalk, not along the stem as in the soapwort gentian. Moreover, the loaves are not nurrowed and grooved, but are broad, smooth and glossy, some what like those of the lilac. The closed gentian Is the species most abundant in Pennsylvania, it grows along the edges of woods and shady roadsides. The fringed gentian is the species commemorated by Bryant It is ran here, but is abundant further north. It closely resembles its relatives, but th flowers are few and the stems and leaves simple. Its chief claim to distinction II its fringed lobes, not petals, as thi flower Is all one piece like a trumpet. The corolla is open anil the lobes an developed so as to resemble S'tals of a deep blue with fringed border. Th( gentians form an interesting family ol themselves and include a great numbei of foreign species. Chicago Herald. An Indian on the Cheyenne agency preferred to die rather than suffer am putationofan injured leg. until a mar with a wooden leg was brought in U show his agility, and then the savagi expressed a desire to have both leg taken off as he was troubled with cok feet every winter. . Attorney " l nat if yent trcupa tion?" Man summoned as juror "I am employed in an intelligence-office." All the attorneys at once "Your honor, we rhallenge this juror for cause." Chi cago Tribune. Dog fancier "Yes. madam. I have all kinds of dogs here. Is tbere any particular breed you wish?" Old lady (who reads the papers) u. any sus that's fashionable. Lemmeaeeanocean rreyhound." N- Y. Weekly. "Shall I vind the clock, vadder?" isked young Jf jb Isaacstein. at they were about to close the store. "No."' pid the old gentlemsn. with s sigh. Pimets was too pad. Choost let It ilone. Jscob. snd ve vill save the rear nd tear un the veels."-NorristoD Times. . . fm i CR.TS' ffRrYiS AftD LEus. I Ii. 1 1 I'n wit nr ol mi l r A inputs! Un y.x- pii i ii an old Gun tit sasa A funny-bsiking old gentleman, with a blue cotton umbrella under his urm and goggles to match. stops'ii tt a Washington fish stand yesterday after noon uud attentively examined a lot of healthy crabs, evidently just out of the Water, which were scrambling alsiut in a shallow box with the crackling noise peculiar to this interesting crustacean under such circumstances. Selecting for particular notice the biggest of them all, the aged person deliberately began to tickle It with his forefinger nail on the second joint of the left large cluw, taking care at the same lime to avoid being seized by the rather forniidnble nippers. This he continued for a few seconds, when the cluw suddenly dropM'd off un.l the animal scrambled sway for a bort distance, out of reach, while the old gentle man coolly picked up the aban doned member ami put it in bis i Then be stepped around to the nth T 1 side of the box and begU to tickle thl ! same crab just as ts'fore on the Other i claw; presently that fell off likewise and was promptly pocketed. It l inked as though the old gentleman was going , to repeat the operation on others of the ; crabs, but he was cut short at this point by the unexpected appearance of the , fish nan from behind the door. "What yer doing?" the latter in I qnired. Without exhibiting the slightest db DotnposuTe or embarrassment the aged stranger waved a polite greeting to the proprietor with his umbrella ami put himself in the attitude ol learned 4ie OMtfas, evidently rendered instinctive by Scholastic habit. "My worthy friend," he said. "I buve just been performing an experiment of the utmost interest, illustrative of a curious physical function which, so far as science is aware, is possessed by the crab alone among animals. If yourotvn leg is injured so badly as to render amputation necessary the operation must be performed with a saw und knives. Likewise with any other living creature surgery must be resorted to for getting rid of the limb. Thecrab is the solitary exception to this rule. If it concludes that for any reason, a leg or arm is no more desirable, it simply cuts off the member by a single effort of its own and goes uwuy without it. Catch a crab by the cluw. und. us quickly us It perceives that it is not likely to escape otherwise, it will exert the simple act of volition necessary, und dropping the imprisoned limb, goes off rejoicing." Huh!" suid the fisherman. "Yes. my good mun." went on the old gentleman. "And. furthermore, this act of voluntary amputation may be Caused by simply scratching or tickling the cluw. The crab is doubt less annoyed by It, und being a creature naturally subject to fits of ill temper, the limb is 1 angrily dropped. The amputation, which : is truly such and not a tneredisurticula latlon of the joint, may also be induced I by the application of an electric current I That the crub's power t- accomplish this curious feat depends upon the centra! nervous system Is proved by the fact I that w hen the crustacean is rendered in sensible by an anesthetic or the nervous I system injured the act of amputation can not be performed. I am very fond Of crabs' legs myself. They ure deli cious eating." "Indeed." replied the fish man. "And I so, you ihad'bollied old beat, you come around to my stand and tickle my crabs for a supper! Two or three of my cus tomers have complained lately that the crabs thai bought of me hud lost their blgolaWS. I suppose you have been do ing this thing right ulong." "I'ruy. be culm." interrupted the old gentleman, with a deprecatory wave of the blue-cotton umbrella. "Your speak ing In this Impolite miinner makes me fear that you have no regard for science 1 nor interest in the wonders of physlol' Ogy. It Is worth remembering, how lever, that tl rub has another great advantage over other animals it can j renew the legs and arms it loses by ! grow ing others, although the fresh ones never get to Is1 us large us the orig inals." "Well. I'd have you know, my bloom ing old fossil, that I don't keep crabs on my stand long enough for them to grow new arms and legs In the plat f the ones you steal; und If 1 ever catch you banging ubout here uguin PI bund you over to the police." And the old gentlemun. without ven turing u response, shuffled off. muttering to himself the while and fumbling with the two crab legs he had secreted in his pocket. Washington star. A Vsluablt I'nir or Brssthss The owner of a very valuable pair of trousers was lately advertised for in the French papers by the honest tinder of the same who allowed the individual to whom they belonged fifteen days In which to come forward. After this delay he stated he would consider him self justified in profiting by this strange windfall, which, as be was in (Hior cir cumstances and uixiut to bo married, would Is- very serviceuble to h i in. On the Pace de la Concorde, Paris, he saw one evening a dark object on tin ground, which he first took to be a sleeping dog. On closer inspection, however, he discovered his mistake and picked up the garment then in his xs eealon. Be took tha trousers with him on board u liout which he owned, und on passing them In review noticed that the buttons seemed different from ordinary ones. Prompted by curiosity he undid the cloth that covered them anil found. In stead of wooden molds, gold pieces. Carrying bis Investigations further bt came across some nana noies suic nou ' into the waistband with other papers of value. - -Chambers Journal. Mr. Mason "We's kirn t' git mar ri'd." Kev. Mr. Dixon -"Why. Sam', how yo' gwine t' support a wife?" Mr. Mason-"We's gwine inter d' laundry biz." Mr. Dixon "Yo' calnt wash!" Mr. Ma-.on "No. sah: but I's gwine t funnish d' I'lled clothes." Judge. A St. Paul jury, during a wei , ting on a ns ent case, ran up a bill of for Turkish baths and for shav ing, shampooing and haircutting, whirl bill of Ti wa-i presented to the county jornmissioners tor payment "tiooU heavens, man! your head is laid open, your nose is smashed on the back of your neck, one arm is fractured, and your jaw disbsated! How did it appear "Ah. doethsfi Hiddy rlst her Bowl lamiiH-d me wld a motty led llless Our Home, Schwate Home.' " N. Y. Herald. -Yellowly "You've married a rich j wife, I understand." Brownly "1 have." Y.-"Wc!l. then. I think you ought to pay me that 830 you borrowed a year ago." tt. "I'll have to pay by Installments, then, my boy." Y. "Why so?" It.- "She never allows me more than a dollar at s time." Boston Qaantjr. DUEL WITH POTATOES, llow nsoRsvsrend Mr Bowasaa in.Mned a llraprrsdo. "This seems to lie a year of duels," laid Dr. Morrison, of we Pirst Meth- sdlst Church, "hut I notice there's far Dion1 duels than blotsl. It reminds me ofa famous duel fought In Kentucky In IMS. "Hill Bowmn was a noted preacher srho lived nsar Millersburg. lie eras t typical Ketttuckian. tall, angular and muscular. I.Ike Sam Jones, he a hi ays suid w bat hi' thought. In the midst of s revival meeting a well-known desMr ido Dams into the church und begun making a disturbance. With eyes flash ing with Indignation mil Bowman arose und in a ringing voice publicly re proved the desperado, who at once re tired from the church. "The next morning tho desperado sent a challenge to llow man to light him s duel. Bowman accepted the challenge, and then was no fourolumn newspaper jorrespondenco, no railroad trips to un adjoining State, nothing but two little notes one a ohellsnjN and the other uu scceptance and then ull was ready for the tight. The town was terribly e.x rited. for such a thing us u preacher fighting a duel hud never been heard of before. "Old Bill BoWmSB being the chal lenged man bad the choice of weasns. Ho selected A half bushel of Irish pota toes as big as bis list for each man and stipulated that his opponent must stand fifteen paces distant and only one potato tt a time to be taken from the measure. The town was wild with delight, for every tssly knew thut Hill Bowman rould throw with his long muscular arms as straight snd? almoai us swift us s rifle could send a bullet singing be ward the target "The desperado was furious at being thus freshly insulted and made an in dignant protest against such a tight, but Hill Bowman insisted that he was the challenged man and bud a right to shoose his ow n weapons .m.i threatened to denounce the desperado as a coward If he failed to come to time. As there was n0 way out of the lhix but to tight, the desperado finally consented to face the preacher. "The tight took place on the out-skirts of the town. Kvery body in Millersburg was present to see the fun. The sec onds arranged the two men in position, by the side of each being a luilf bushel measure tilled with lurgo Irish potatoes us bard as a brick. "Hill Bowman threw tho tlr-it potato. It struck his opponent a central shot and flew into a thousand pieces. A veil of delight went up from tho crowd, which rattled the desperado and his potato flew wide of the tall, boav preacher. "Bill Bowman watched bis chan.-e, and every time his opMnent stooped for a potato another one hit him in the side, leaving a wet spot on his clothes, and then scattering ilself to the four winds of Heaven. Old Bill hit tho desperado ubout five times, and then the sixth po tato struck him in the short ribs, knock ing the wind completely out of him, und doubling htm upon the grass. "The people were almost crazy with luughter. but Bill Bowniun looked us sober us if be bad just finished preach ing u funeral sermon. The desperado wus taken home und put to lied, uud there he staved for more than a week be fore ho recovered from the effects of his Irish potato duel. "The old men In Millersburg still talk alsiut thut celebrated duel, but it wus the means of breaking up dueling in that section."- Atlanta Journal. A RUST-RED DADO. llow It Astonished aa American Visitor so ii Wretched Sllicrillll Prison. The first thing thnt particularly at tracted my attention after I entered the kamera (of the convict quarters of Al giu bi. Siberia), wus n brouil baud of dull red which extended uround the dingy, whitewashed walls, just above the Bleep ing platform, like a spotty iludo of iron rust. Noticing that 1 wus looking at it with curiosity, I.letenunt-Colonel Salt Stain (wurden of the prison) remarked, with a half-humorous, hulf-cynicnl smile, that the prisoner's bud been "try ing to paint their wall red." "Whut Is it, uny wuy?" I Inquired, and. stepping to one end of the sleeping platform, I mude a closer examination. The dull red band at onco resolved lt soU into a multitude of contiguous or overlapping IiIoimI stains, with here und there the dried und fluttened Issly of a bedbug sticking to tho whitewash. I had no further dllllculty in guessing tho nature and significance of tho discolor ation. The tortured and sleepless pris oners hud been "trying to paint their walls red" by crushing bedbugs with I their hands as high up as they could reaoh While lying on tha nures, und In this way had so stained the dingy white wash with their own blood thut ut a little distance there seemed to be a dndo of Iron rust uround the three sides of the kamerS where they slept. How many years this had been going on, how many thousand convicts hud helped to "paint" those "walls red," I do not know; but I bad suffered enough In Siberia myself from vermin fully lo understand aim appreciate the significance of that dull red band. George Kennan, in century. Milwaukee's Poof Vanilerhllt. Quite a fumillar figure on the streets Is a little old man who wears a straw hat that once had a band, but longslnco parted company with it, and now slouches down over Its wearer's shoul ders, almost covering bis head of curly gray hair. He Is so round-shouldered that be apS'urs to lie hunchbacked, and bis face Is covered with straggling gray whiskers. He earns meager wages as a collector and lives Bobodj knows where. Yet this poverty-stricken man Is a first cousin of Mrs. W. II. Vanderbllt. the widow of the millionaire railroad mag nate. His father and Mrs. Vanderbllt's father Vets brothers. When In an ex tremity he appealed to bis rich cousin for aid. he received a very polite note from her pri i ate secretary stating that Mrs. Vancb rbilt bad so many Belli for charity that she was compelled to refuse some. Milwaukee News. A new mixed drink Is called a "business brace," but It practical ten dency is more of a business suspender " Baltimore, American. A NewYors" saloon wasToYie ojH'ned tnd the proprietor applied to a well kaown florist to furnish him with stands uf flowers which thould lie appropriate for the occasion and yet have some alle gorical meaning. The pieces when comph ted reprcaer ted Columbus dis covering the land of mixed drinks, Bal boa refusing to take water when he ame to the l'aclfle, and I'once do Ix.-on pouring water from the fountain of youth in s glass held above bit bead, like a bartender making a gin flu. For tome mysterious reason one of the big gest floral pieces waa a scroll bearing ' the words; "Ibjb I'resa." THE OAK LEAF. far ii li.ii ill.-, of It. Shape, Slniiluro and I sen Ably DIm-usm'iI. Kir John Labi Ml read a pa r on the ihtk' of the oak leaf U'foni the Briiisb u- ss'iation recently) iu mo Sonne ot winch bt asi.1. We are so accustomed Initio form of the itt leaf that It docs not Strike 'is as any thing peculiar, and )ininrativelv few, per hups, hnvu ever Inked them!w, why it thould ls iu il is. Ami yet it ! s-ulinr, uu like that of any of our forest SfSSS and tOOM of tho svargrsen oak abend ant in hot countries. In Invtanictl phraseology, they are decidll ous, oblong oblaiicoi let", or oblong elliptical, dnnatsdi with liluul loUs extending not in 1 1- than hallway dOWH to tho midrib. Tho sinus I vii tho loin is generally roundsd off ut the bottom. Again, though I have not found this mentioned in UwbntaB) icai works which 1 navs consul tsd Dray ure rarely wmuctii -al, tho lol.es of tht two sides not s"rriininillngi Tho tbret points then, Which give the oak leaf Us pscnUar form ure: Kir-t, the dssp POPttdtd SUIUStti second, the want of siininetly ui tho I WO aides; third, lheoblou or ohlaiicvoluto out line. I do not know of any al tempt to explain this psottllar form, as rtfsrdt tht tin urns. Kernel- MggSStS Unit Ih. v me IttttOdtd lo ruiil tho passage of h;iit to the lower leaven I w ould not den . that the vaceba1 twesn lbs iois may bt of some advents rt m the mannsr suggested by ttsmsr, but i greet ly doubt whether ibis is the main nrunar explanation. That which I suggest is as foi low The IsnVSSOf the SVSTgrOsn oak are entire snd small in ootnpsriaoa witii the Bnglitta oak. During the winter and early ipting lbs) are protis-te by a mtu-. of brow n scale, m slds Which they lie, and with which they form I he well known liases which uro so familiar to us snd which are both small and abort iu proportion to tbosbwof thelsnvai themselves. In cooler mid mnlsttr Ngiottli on tht contrary, thsft i. SS we know, a ISO ilency for leaves to become larger uud de- eMuoua I will not now enter into the rta son for this, bill the tin t will not, prol .ibh, bo denied. Tluno lltHotOOM do not, bow ever. uff -cT the outir is'aK's, which remain as before nltbont soy locrsaet of ttse But si the leaves buve InerSOSSd ill si.'.", ninl the scales have not, the lea vos can no longer re turn their original arrangement in the bud. If, tor instance, we couqiare the hudsof tile oak und of the bssehi we sie that) while tbs leaf of the oak is longer than thai Of the bseehi tbs bod of tin. onh Is, on the eontmry( shorter than that of toe hstch. Dndertbsss circumstances What must haps'nf The leal grows and Ihssjuics longer than the bud. Il is therefore necessarily Is-nt Into a curve. Hut an satire leaf, if thus thrown into n curve, would nSCSMSfily fall Into fold., tht nnmbsr being determlnsd by the number of ribs or veins. For inch folds, however, there would u no room within tbt narrow limits of a bud; or, rather, psrbapi thev would bt InOOnvenlsnt, tss'auso thev leave more or less empty sinus's. This may lie rendered more clear by biking a piece of cloth or ol sisr, folding it up and then throwing it into n curve It will then necessarily fall into one or more folds. If it were strengthened as an oak leaf is, by three or four side rile., there Would lie n fold be WeM each two i ilis. As u matter of fuel, bOWOVSr, from tbt sbsSUOS ot space tbl ni' iu brans white tbs told woold be is nol actually dsvslopsd Wo may iaiitato this by tvinov- ingthsnV H this Is' done, the result will U tho formation of sinuses rounded ut tht bins', closely rSIStllhliug those so charuetei-i-tie of the oak leaf. These sinuses uro due, then, u I Isdievo, lo the curvature of the linf, living lo the short ness of I he laid ill OOmpsrbxn With the length of tho leaf. I in- young leaf Is not out ourvedi it is wrnppsd round the intsrior leaves. The result of this Is that one side of the leaf is folded within ti e other. Tile one, therefore) is ing on the outer side, has more ipaOS than the other. Tin- twosniesof the liaf are, In fact, differently situated, uud this, 1 believe, iiceoimts for the second point - namely, the want of symmetry. Tho ob long form is uu advantage, from the wuy the leaves di vcige iiotn the si.ilk. Iu this mun ner the bltsrSSting peculiarities of the oak leaf may be accounted lor. I'nni Prs uaaptlse. One of the bulling I 'carl street merchant was uu no witness le-terday to the utter demolition of uii prsviom rsoords Is tbs wuy of oold nerve. Ho wus busy nt one of bis counters uud did not look UD SS tbs quick stepof a woman was hsard m the front of tlie store, nor as its owner pat.scd liiiu, going toward the reer of the place. Ho even thought it might m his wife, who b)U fro quant visitor ut bar buebendtpli f bn i nets, A tninUtl later bt WSttl bnck himself lo his little private olllce in the rear, unci reuched the door just us u well di e c I mid eminently rcqicctuhlc woman, whose mime is in the recently published list of Albany "ws'ioty," und whom lie knew (.lightly, but only slightly, closed his cash drawer with n bang, anil looking up a. hu ttOpptd. IhUnd r struck on the threshold, said cisilly; "Well, you haven't got SUOUgh ChsngS to change my 0 bill, mi I won't botberyoa.'' Thsn aht swept out of the store, li avin g the iiieichaul iiiustatoof nmtal and physical ooUapss from which bo has not yet recovered. Al buny Kxprcss. Did lie Play? Tho following ms'iih to Iki tho latest "thin j OnS would nil her bnVC left unsaid:" A pian ist rsowUy i-the evening al the house of ii lady. The company w cs ngneablo and be stayed somew but lale. As be lose to take Ins departure the lady said: "I'ruy don't go yet, Mr. Jones, I Waal yon to play something for me." "Uh, you must excuse msUMUghtj it is very lute uud I should disturb tho neigh bors.' "Never mind tho uctghlsirs," an swered the young liuly, quickly; "they poi soned our dog jesteiduy." - Musical Courier Ciin-uiiipllou of Oleonnirgni lue. There bus baWI quite an lie lease in the oleomargarine trade since the enforeemsotof the law requiring it to OSSOld by its prOptC name. "Male find it more palatable than .oo dairy bultcr, and it can bt kept much longer without the offensive smell. It I . rne ally taking the place of tho lower grades of butter iu private I cuilics, as well us in chcup boarding houses und restaurant. I'rudwe Ueuler in St. Liuis UlolMi-Deiuocrat. Tho I'ssful C'amrl. Camels can go eight or ten miles nu hour, if their load isn't tix heavy. The Arab-cut Maaark meat and drink camel's milk. They nuke clothes out of tho camel's hair and b ather out of the camel's skin. Ho, you see, the cuniel Is a very useful uniuial. Little Men and Women. A Morning ( all. Mrs. findd-I'm m arly tired to death; wit. St Mrs. Nubls pari v last night. Mr-, liable I didn't go. in luct did not got an invitation. Were there many thsfol Mrs, fladd Ob. Ml it was very select SelV York Weeklv. Near WuiiTeenah. Kla.. stands an A. M. K. Church, known aa the "old Springfield Church." It was built by a former generation when Indians were numerous in I'loridu. The savages were very hostile, but gave no trouble till the house was up and the celling placed overhead, when they furiously came from a swamp and massacred three or four of the mis'hanlcs engaged in the work, and while the remaining two escaped and fled for assistance, the In dians dipped their hands In the blood of their vicims and entirely covered tho celling. Although this occurred many years ago the prints of the red men's hands a.v still plainly to be seen. Municipal OaW Works. ta It better for a town to own its gas w irl.-' Mr. Brpjatpd Keeler discusses iliis question in Tho Forum i !n Eurosjlt Is us i-'immoii for cities to own go plants n i it is for tbeiu to be the owners of water works in America. Without exception, the result is favora ble Sight citiei in iho United State own their gaa plant Poor of them am in VirgwutfUchnxiodi DanvillOi Alex andria and Charlotteevillei Tho others ure Philadelphia) Bellefontalnai O.i W b-. ling) W. Ya. .tiiul Henderson, Ky. The prices range from the highest. Si .13 st Alexandria, to the lowest, at Wheel ing, " cents per tllOUSand cubic feet Tbi pi works it Wheeling the w riter considers ;i iiio.b l of excellence. What t citv nan do with her own plant is well shown bare The muniotpaj authorities : hi the gas worka of Wheeling in (8 fat I1T0.OOO, Qai was then S.'.oO a thou .i.i I I I. in tbe profits, under city management, debts were paid and tho works rebuilt with modem Improve ments w illuuit laxiiig the H'ople a dollar, rbo plant is now- worth half n million. I'Im' piod.ii t I. i- been lowered lo seventy live certs per thousand, utul tho streets, (be markets, school and engine bonaaai all the public buildings and the young Men's Christian StrHfltW are lighted free of charge. Vol the VV heeling gas works In 1888 liirncd iiit.i the city treasury n net profit of ST, 160, The Wheeling rate for gas is the lowest in the Union, it is Us-uuse the Works are OUl Of debt, and there are un diviib mis I" pay to sbs'kliolders. Wiib modern discoveries and improve ineiiis the manufacture of gas is booom tag constantly cheeper. The prodlotkM is iiunb' flint in a few ie;:ts it can I? manu factured to sell for In oentsper thousand. i'lu ii, or l ien when it conies lo Is' a low as AO cents, it can i used for fuel the COUntry over Mr. Keeler Dials tbere can ha no such thing as competing gas companies Customers who do not liko one company, in the nature of tilings, cannot change lo another, unless they move llicir QOUMOi Moreover, a gns company never ct w-a started to oompete honestly with anothar. The now i puny is always foumltsl to blackmail die obi company tato purchas ing It, Just aaa parallel railway lino is constructed. Wniking Clnba. BOW can nature take care of us if wo never go to sec herl She cuiuiot; thai is plain. It is a thought that is at lust be ginning to ereolnto tbe brains of many town people. We lie,, and thrive by the workings of nature within us. Unless w e go out now unit then to sojourn has noath the tun and sky. and to Ik in touch with mother earth herself, we can have no long oontinued wall being M soul or body. Mindful of this, city and town pisiplo are form lug ralking olnha, They tako what I boy call cross country wnlks. A party of pleasant ncquuinlanccs, w hoso days arc doomed to be spent behind desks and a Itllln walls, meet at un early hour of the morning at a designated iot ami lake n train to a Station n few miles beyond city pavementa There they leave the cars and itart on their walk. Ii is nn v m 'icre from ten lo twenty miles long. Iliiinor is taken at some pretty HI tic Inn. where cream, fresh eggs and mUk are plentiful Sometimes a lunch Is carried along. In every case the Croat country walkers provide nbumtaiitly for Inward refresh msots. Men and women both go In the walk ing parties sumeajiiise. though often each m . hies il nlolio. Hundays and holidayi are chosen for the walks usu- ullv The ionic is selected beforeliaiul, nmftbnef on level roads, again in a hilly country. The walkers gain a knowledge of aganory and kutdsoapai und health, praccl illness and good hxikt besides. Who n. the negro? A colored col ony from the I oiled Slates have been preparing to settle in Mexico. They ob tained nece.sury concessions from tbe Mexican government! hut the p.. .pi.- of the vicinity made strong objections to having lie colony in their neighborhood. Under the circumstances tho best thing for the negro to do is to stay right where ho is. work bard ut anything ho can llnd till tomothldg better offers, try with all his might to sduoate himself and accu muJate property. and bean honest, moral man Tb.it i . what white H'ople have to do who make uny permanent success, and In- une road is upon to tho block man in iii'i t parts of this union. The smoke nukance In Chicago has gradually made life a burden almost in le to bt borne. The tame it true of Cincinnati. Hut Chicago now turns with j"'. ful Ii"m.' of relief to tho natural -i. wells Of Indiana. In half a year, if all goes well, tho pcoplo in the great town by the lake will bo warming their boom with natural gas, brought in pipes from a Beld ISO miles away. Then Chicago will bo a beautiful and splendid city. It i. ill give her a better chance for the World's fair. Oaring to -ontinued emigration and to I,, pel leni efforts of philanthropists, pauperism ill Great Britain it diminish ing nt lu-t. Tils i hopeful. It showl than an Imprtvekm can bo made on the poverty and crimo of a nation. Until i centbj "in- person in every thirty-three in du al Britain waa apauper. Now the ri ally turned the other way at i aht The I int Id England. The iirst chrysanthemum, so faraa is known, wus introduced into England about li.'t. and was flowered for the Unit time in November of the follow ing . ii in tiie lauuius nurseries of Mr. Cabi 1 1, King's rood, Chelsea, from which place many plants were lirst scut out, which have since be ainiliur varieties, among them I n g i be comolia. The first woesome ol n deep crimson color ape bad a (lower of but two inches in diameter, und tin' petals were tw isted like a por cupuwquiii. ualuugtou Tost