A TropUjr f lb Moody Anglo.
One of tlio happiest men who returned
tram theOeltvsburg memorlul encamp.
went"U C. W. Bishing, of Harvey'
Lake, this county. He wai a private
in Cant. races comiiany, r my -third
Pennsylvania volunteer. Dishing was
thot twice nl Gettysburg, hi wound
being ugly ones, a uiuiei shuttering an
rm and another entering near hi right
thigh. Thi occurred near the bloody
anele and not fur from the spot on which
the reglmeiitul uionunicnt stands. A
oon as lo received the wound he set to
work to bury hi musket He fell neur
t big rock, and, though suffering great
nain and bleeding proiuseiy, lie man
aired to scoop out enough dirt at the base
of the bowlder to idip hi musket into
the excavation. Afterward he carefully
covered it and wondered whether he
would ever see It annu
Dishing accompanied the surviving
members of hi old regiment, the rifty
third Pennsylvania volunteer, to Gettys
burg on the occasion of the dedication of
their monument. lulo there Bishing,
accomimnied by several old comrade,
started out to look for the musket he hud
buried twenty-six year before. The
bloody angle was easily fouud. and he
soon distinguished the huge bowlder at
whose buso he had fallen and where he
had hidden the gun. It took but few
moment to dig the eurth up, when, to
hi joy, lie struck the old musket and
quickly resurrected it. It hud the ap
pearance of Kip Van Winkle's fowling
piece. The stock hud fallen apart, but
wus still in a good state of preservation.
Tlio barrel wus hound about with a thick
coat of rust, and tlio lock and other por
tions were in the same condition. Hut
Dishing lifted the old musket tenderly,
and, as the'recollections of the past filled
his mind, he kissed it with the enthusi
asm of a father who has found a long
lost child. ISUhing brought the musket
to Wilkesbarre thi afternoon, lie says
ho is poor, hut no money will buy the
musket. ilkesuarre (ra.) Cor. New
York Sun.
A Queer Sect of Turks.
Among the lost batch of Syrians arriv
ing ut Custla Garden were three Druses.
Two were farmers and the third wus a
shoemaker. They went from Castle Gar
den to Baltimore.
These three men are the only Druses
who have ever route to this country. An
isolated and piculi.a race, the Druses
huve lived for generations near Mount
Lebanon. Their total number is about
40,000. Ilukem, the third Fatimite ca
liph, is claimed by them a their found
er. They honor him as a divine being,
and faithfully observe the curious re
ligious rites which he established.
They are divided into two classes the
elect and the ignorant. The elect are
the high priests, and the ignorant are
those who are too young and inexpert-
enced to be initiated into tlio mysteries
of their religion. The high priests guard
the mysteries of their faith zealously,
and tolerate neither Hebrews nor Chris
tians. The ignorant are fur less conserva
tive, and frequently mingle socially with
believers in their creeds.
The elect Druse believe that Jesus
Christ was merely an ordinary prophet,
and that ilukem was really God, mani
fested in the tlesli. They are conlldent,
too, that the number of orthodox Druses
can never decrease or increase,
Tlio three Druses in thi country are
fine looking men, and are evidently pos
sessed of unusual intelligence. New
York Herald
A llunlio Icon.
Mrs. George Kennan, the wife of the Si
berian traveler, is the possessor of a genu
ine Russian icon. The Russian craze was
epidemic in unusually severe form lost
winter, and the fur dealer are import
ing Russian skins, and modistes are
getting ready to make much of Russian
gowns. The modern young woman
thinks Iter den incomplete without an
icon, but as there are not for sale in this
country a dozen of these images which
ever saw the land of the czar it may be
guessed that Mrs. Kennnn's specimen,
w hich the explorer of Siberian prisons
picked up at the Nijnl Novgorod fair,
has a better authenticated history than
most before which priedieus are placed
and brass lamps kept burning. Some
hard wood, presumably oak, is the ma
terial, but like all Russian work it is
covered so profusely with white paint
and gilding as to make close examina
tion next to impossible. The features
are those of some saint of the Greek
church, and tho figure has brawny chest
and shoulders which fall off into an in
determinate block, the arms, hand and
all but the upper part of the body being
represented with a rude conventionality
that has not altered by so much as a line
in the hand of centuries of carvers, as
covered by a gold tinsel screen. Much
of Mrs. Kennan's table service is the
work of Russian silversmiths and is
gilded and embellished with old Russian
proverbs. Philadelphia Times.
Clfu to the Samoana.
In connection with the distribution of
rewards to the followers of Mataafa, the
Sainoan correspondent of a Sydney pa
per write: ' The American congress
having voted $5,000 in recognition of
the generous efforts of the Samoans to
save life during hurricane, the money
was received here last mail by the United
SUtes consul, $1,000 in gold watches and
presents, and $4,000 In gold. After a
careful consideration of the claims of
the chief and the men assisting, the
money and presents were distributed on
the lth.( Each of the high chiefs re
ceived a gold watch, and Mataafa one
of each of the other articles distributed,
which were clocks, barometers, ther
mometers, etc. A good deal of amuse
ment was caused by the efforts of the
chiefs to understand the use of the lat
ter articles. One of them to whose lot a
large wall barometer had fallen listened
attentively to the careful, desiription of
its virtues, given by an old sea dog pres
ent, and said at last he thoroughly un
derstood all about it 'Very flue thing.'
said he; 'but I want the key to wind it
ud .' This timely distribution of money
will go far to allay the distress among
Mutaafa's follower, for food ha been
very scarce lately, also the wherewith
to purchase it." London Tablet
Want Volapuk l tho Boston Sehoula.
A petition was received by the schoo.
board from the Volapuk club requestin?
permission to use a room in one of the
school building of the city proper tor
the purpose of teaching Volapuk. in
club offers to furnish teachers free or
charge for such pupil as shall attenu,
with the unden.Und.ng that themlm.
of the school shall be under tbe "Pf r
vision of the school committee.
Riving the club the permission ed ioi
was assigned to the next meeung.--ton
Record.
THE TEMPLE ROBBERY.
Mvaterlou nUappearauc or a large Do
pmlt or Mints T feature.
It Is by no mean surprising that the
strange case or the now famous Tirupati
Temple treasure should have excited
such an exiruordiimrv feeling of indiir
nation as it upear to have done among
the Hindoo population of India. Tirupati
is the Mecca of llindoostun if, indeed,
the comparison is at all allowable, seeinir
that the temple which has just been so
grossly denied wa erected, in the first
instance, close uioii 5,000 year ago.
The trial In connection with tho robberv
of tho Tirupati treasure is probably the
most remarkable which has ever coiuc
before a British court in India. The
sacred temple stands on the Tirumulul
range, some 2.000 feet above sea level,
and commands a tract of about 100
squure miles, tho whole of which, up till
quite a recent eriod, w as regarded, iu
the strictest aeiiM!, as holy ground, no
body but a Hindoo Mug allowed to as
cend the ghauts.
Even at the present time the collector
and the superintendent of police are the
only Europeans whom the government
permit to invade the sacred territory,
excepting, of course, on special occa
sions, such as that which arose the other
day, when the services of i civil engineer
were required within the precincts of tho
temple, to siiiH-rintcnd tlio excavations.
The temple itself has, in reality, never
been entered by a white man, and all its
available entrances are jealously guard
ed by armed men, who have instructions
tuastrike down, and, if necessary, to kill
any unauthorized person who attempts
to invade, the sauctunrv.
The sacred edifice is inclosed by three
stono walls, of which the outer one is
twenty-three feet in height. From the
devotee's point of view the sacrednessof
the place is centered in a great flagstaff,
which penetrate from floor to roof, and
is 07 feet high, 3 feet ill diameter at the
base and 1.1 inches at the summit The
stuff is incased in copper overlaid with
gold, and set in a slab of granite nearly
three feet in thickness. In the immedi
ate neighborhood of the flagstaff the
image of the god is preserved, while the
stuff itself is uctually supposed to bo the
abode of the temple god of its "mantric
essence."
Some seventeen years since, it seems,
certain coin treasure, valued roughly at
two lac of rupees, was discovered in the
temple, and was duly handed over to
the mahunt as manager and trustee of
the edifice. In 1880 tho Mahunt Dhur
ma Doss died, and was succeeded by Sir
Hathiramjee Muttatu Bughavan Doss
Jee. The new mahunt appears to huve
discharged his sacred and responsible
functions to the satisfaction of every
body concerned, and in 1877 it was re
solved to replace the old dwjastumhum,
or sacred flagstaff, by a new one. Be
fore the work was completed the idea
appear to have suggested itself to the
mahunt to bury the treasure the two
lacs of rupees to which he had succeeded
under the foot of the flagstaff. This
wus accordingly done, the proposition
having met with general approval from
the adherents of the temple. The treas
ure was placed in six copper vessels, the
covers of which were duly sealed up, and
they were then buried in the receptacle
prepared for them. Now it is found
that the gold has all been removed from
them, and copcr coins substituted.
Four temple servants by name Nara-simha-Kiisitl,
Gopalaro and Huribhnjun
were, in 1887, intrusted, after being
duly sanctified by divers mysterious
rites and ceremonies, with the burial
of the treasure pots, and a fact that ap
pear to interest the police and others a
eood deal at present is that two or mem,
Kusal and Huribhajan, are now each
worth a lac of rupees, although the
whole four were discharged some time
ago, and none of them are known to
have what is sternly known as lawtui
visible menus of support." On the other
hand, an astonishingly clear looking case
made out against the muhunt himself,
who, it is asserted, allowed liis cupidity
to overcome the scruples of his sacred
calling, and "collared the swag himself.
The question as to who has really a uj.ro-
nriated the treasure seems a diiiicuitone,
as far us the inquiry has proceeded, to
determine, and it is possible that tho af
fair may never be satisfactorily cleared
"P
Probablv tlio most notable leature in
connection with the affair from a Hin
doo point of view, at all events is the
neculiarlv apathetic demeanor or me
Tirupati god, who should have been
deeply interested in the proceedings.
The "mantric essence," which lias exer
cised such an otnniotent power over the
Hindoos for centuries past, appears to
have lain dormant while the temple was
defiled and the mean trick of substitut
ing a few hundred rupees worth of cop
per money lor two lacs worm or goiu
coinage was dope right under the pillar
of the Tirupati sanctum sanctorum.
Colonies and India.
Lore and Law.
When two fellows are in love with the
tame girl, and one of them happen to
boa postmaster, wnai a uig uunun;c
tho latter has over his rival! A Maine
postmaster recently found himself in
this situation and made the best of Ids
opportunity-or the worst, just as you
may Hunt, ine k"' " ucw
through the postofflce. The seller
of stamps thought all was not right, and
upon investigation uiow. .. -
iii the paper was a letter written to his
I r;unate rival The postmaster reported
the rase and the girl was fined $10. The
line was subsequently remitted. And
now the query is, doesn't the postmaster
wish he hadn't done it'-Lewiston Jour
nal.
Eating Soup and Salad.
In the matter of eating soup many
nersons are at fault The spoon should
not be shoved into the mouth, but the
liquid ought to be sipped from the sido
quietly and without any sound what
ever. 'j',e mincing of salad into small
bite is not to be tolerated. Lettuce
should never be cut. although the co
operation of the knife is needed to as
sist in rolling the leaves around the
fork, in order to convey them success
fully to the expectant mouth. Jen-
ness-Miller Magazine.
A Wonderful A gala.
Pliny, a well known writer about the
time of Clirist, mentions Laving seen
an agate, the hues and markings of
which formed a perfect picture of Apol
lo and the Nine Muses. Pliny say
that little children recognized it on
sight In thi wonderful natural pict
ure, as well as in artificial drawings,
Apollo was represented seated in the
midst of the tnuiA with harp ia Land.
St Louis Republic
AN AMAII VIOLIN.
Ohm Sold for .1.1, Now lha Rum of II,-
OOO U OflVml for II.
Mr. Frank B-ll, a well known young
man of thi city, has in hi possession a
violw nearly three hundred years old,
and which is believed on good authority
to tie a genuine Amati. A Unit three
years ago Mrs. Dell, who is a widow,
and her family went to live in Richmond.
Her son Frank went to one of the public
school of that city, and at home took
lessons on the violin from a local teach
er, a German musician, Professor Teiloe.
As the lad progressed in his study he
grew dissalialied with his fiddle and de
cided to buy a better one. Talking it
over with a schoolfellow, young James,
that boy bethought him of an old fiddle
at home and offered to sell it to Frank.
This was the famous Amati. The boy
knew but little of the history of the
fiddle, but when it was fitted with
strings and keys the wonderful tones
which the German professor evolved
from it decided him that it was an ex
traordinary insx'rument, and he sold it
to young Bell for what seemed to him
at a great llgure $33. By Professor
Teiloe's advice the fiddle was sent to
New York to a firm w ho make a spe
cialty of repairs. In cleaning the inside
of the violin they discovered a scrap of
paper, yellow with age, on which was
given in Italian the exact record of this
Cremona.
"Do you know what you have got?"
the New York firm wrote, and when the
instrument had been thoroughly refitted
and restrung the musical cople iu New
York went crazy about it, and offers
ranging from $100 up to $1,300 were
made for it.
On its merits as a violin before return
ing it to Richmond, Professor White, of
New York, and the late Professor Beuf
fette, of Washington, both well known
artists, gave a recital to a party of seventy
or eighty musicians, in which the Cre
mona was tested for nearly four hours.
The old violin discoursed to the musi
cians iu tones mellowed by two and a
half centuries of age. Amid plaudits
they named it the "King Amati."
Then canio offer after offer, and the
fume of "The King Auiuti" crossed the
ocean and tho virtuosi heard of it Sig
nor Spighemie, of Rome, offered $3,000
for the violin, and after his death his
son, who won celebrity as a violinist,
made the offer $10,000. The latest bid
mailo for the fiddle is by Wadsworth &
Co., London, dealers in antiques and cu
riosities, who have the refusal at $15,000.
Montgomery (Ala.) Special
Mystery Suited and ratrimoujr Won,
Over thirty-three years ago Washing
ton Tucker, then a resident of this city,
lost his wife, who left him two very
young daughters. Soon after he myste
riously disappeared, and it was com
monly believed that he wus murdered.
The girls grew up to womanhood and
were married.
Last full a letter strangely cume into
the possession of Mr. P, W. Armstrong,
husband of ono of the girls, which 8Kke
of the disappearance of a man in Edgar
county, Ills., fully twenty-five ycarsago.
The letter further said the man had left
a great deal of property. Mr. Armstrong
engaged a detective, who went to the
county and discovered that the man was
the missing Washington Tucker. He
had come to that section, married, and
lost his second wife, by whom he had
five children. He then married again.
About a year after this murriage he dis
appeared. A year later, in clearing new
ground, the remains of a man were
found, which, by some fragments of
clothing, were identified as Washington
Tucker. There were five heirs by the
second marriage, who were in jiossession
of the property by inheritance.
Suit wus brought, which resulted fa
vorably for tho Columbus heirs, who
will receive their patrimony. Columbus
(O.) Cor. Cleveland Leader.
Ilottled Chlrkeu.
A resident of Marion street, Charles
town, is a great fancier of fowl. A day
or two ago, when he turned out hi lust
brood to scratch for themsclves,.one of
the chick ran across a pickle bottle and
squeezed itself through the neck with
some difficulty, and could not get out
again. When morning came the old hail
missed her chick and went in search of
it Having found jt, and not being able
to extricate it from iu imprisonment,
she flew around like mad. and finally be
came so violent that her owner came
from his breakfast table to learn the
cause. The old hen was then rolling the
bottle over and over with her feet In
breaking the bottle the chicken's throat
was badly cut The wound was sewed
up and the chick is now able to grub for
itself, although its neck is still done up
with a white rag. Boston Herald.
A Swindled Emigrant.
An old German peasant arrived at
Castle Garden one day last week whose
errw.ripncA la an exauioleof how foreign
ers are duped by tales of American
wealth. Ho had been told by an emi
gration agent that gold was so plenty in
this country that the people gave golden
trinkets to the children to play with, and
trimmed the carriages, buildings and
street lamps with golden ornaments. He
accordingly sold his little place, ana
efrr hnvinir ticket for Nsw York.
spent the remainder of his money, with
the exception or a rew francs, in givmg
hi neighbors a banquet On his arrival
here he had iust seven francs left The
old man was deplorably ignorant, but
when it dawned on his mind now ne nad
been duped, he wept like a child, lit
will be sent back. New York News.
Carious Retail of Cigarette Smoking.
Two vouns men of our town addicted
to the constant smoking of cigarettes are
singularly affected, not so mucn in minu
a n hod. The are becoming snotted
all over their bodies, giving them the
appearance of leopards, ner minus,
ihnncrh now annarentlv sound, are in im
minent danger, for their nervous system
are so affected that neither of them can
sleep without smoking several of these
abominable cigarettes after retiriug.-
Harrodsbure (Kf .) Marines and uoinm.
Ta Oulnl.ine About Ancient
Clark Brown exhumed at Fish's point,
on the Upper Mystic road, the other day,
what are believed by some persons to be
relics of the first American man, ante
dating, possibly, the age of mound build
ing. There were parts of a human skele
ton that crumbled at the touch, two
rough copper vessels, mostly corroded, a
smoothly rounded pestle and ts-o pecu
liar! ehnrrftl etas bottles with crooked
necks. Skeptics, howevesj profess to
think that the things oeiongea to a pre
historic apothecary that was swallowed
mi in an earthquake. Mr. Brown may
submit them to the inspection of an an
tiquarian. Stouingtou Telegram.
RESURRECTING OLD WRECKS.
periihitnr Kalalng Hulks of Mi I pa Sunk
oa Ilia ratal Toast of Jutland.
There is erhaps no const known to
navigators of the present day more dan
gerous than that of Jutland. More ships
have been lost on that little treacherous
stretch than on any other in tho world,
not excepting foggy Sable Island.
The w hole coast is strewn with wrecks.
The bottom of tho sea off tho coast is
covered with thn decaying carcasses of
hardy vessels, blown to their destruction
by hostile gales.
The Dane are a thrifty set of people,
and, on the principle that it is indeed an
ill wind that blows no one any good,
have gone to work to reclaim the major
ity of these old craft. Many seculator
arc in tho scheme, and ure now engaged
iu raising the old wrecks and recovering
their curgoes and machinery. The (list
thing w as to purchase the old wrecks
and the privilege of raising and selling
them. The owners were found without
great dilliculty, and were only too glad
to get anything for tho wrecks. Expe
rienced divers were engaged and the
work begun several months ago.
Twenty-one years ago tho Russian
frigate Alexander Novsky stranded off
Jut land. She had a cargoof 20,000 pounds
of bras. Several years after she went
down the greater part of this cargo was
recovered. Tho frigate was one of the
first wrecks to be bought and examined
by the speculators. She wus found to be
free in twenty feet of water. Uer ma
chinery is in a fuir stato of preservation,
and tho old Russian will before many
months sec the surface of the ocean. The
machinery, if unlit for tho ships of the
present date, is still tit for the market
If the speculators find it unprofitable to
rebuild tho ship they will still be able to
sell her at a good profit
Two of the other ships purchased for
resurrection are the Britishers Helen and
Westdale.
Tho Helen was sunk years ago. She
carried a cargo of copper, none of which
ha ever been recovered, and all of which
Is now in a very good condition, cousid
ing tho rears it has been in the water.
Divers who recently went down to her
found her free and her machinery in
good condition. The ship will be raised
and sold.
The Westdale went to the bottom on
Dec. 24, 1888. off Thornsmindo. She car
ried 3,000 tons of pig iron in her hold.
The simulators have recovered all of
this and will also recover the ships ma
chinery, fittings and trappings. Other
wrecks are being negotiated for and will
undoubtedly lie recovered, with their
curgoes and machinery. New York ship
ping men think that this would be a good
way to rid our coast and waters of the
many dafferous derelicts which are a
menace to safety at sea. New York
Eveninp Sim
Earning Ilia Cnllrge t'miree.
Speaking of snobbishness, the Listener
It glad to have occasion to note a case of
old fashioned manly absence of that
unpleasant reality Spending Sunday
recently with a friend in a very delight
ful summer resort not far away, where
good many pleasant cottages have been
built on a cliff commanding a fine view
of the summer sea, the Listener happen
ed to bo sitting on the veranda with his
friend as a milkman's wagon drew up in
the street The milkman, a sturdy young
fellow, of pleasant face, dismounted,
rang a bell by way of warning to the
maids of the vicinity to get their pitchers
ready, and then started around with his
cans and his pint measure. A he passed
around to the back door of the cottage,
the Listener's friend snjutcd him as one
gentleman salute another. And when
the milkman had gone the other said:
"That young man is a member of the
class of '00 at Harvard college."
"Indeed?"
"Yea He Is carrying himself through
entirely by his own exertions, and lie
takes this way of helping himself out I
dare say ho makes enough money selling
milk at a good figure to the people here
In the summer time to pay the greater
part of his expenses for the remainder
of the year at Cambridge."
"Does he water his milk?"
"Not perceptibly. It is very good milk,
and I have no doubt he Is as honest as
the business allows."
There was a young man In the house
who belongs to the class below the milk
man's in college, and he testified to the
excellent standing of the young man at
Harvard.
Such an Incident Is one of a good many
which go to prove that Harvard men are
by no means all idle swells. Perhaps
there is not nearly so large a proportion
of students at Harvard who earn money
in the summertime by table waiting at
the mountain and seaside resorts as at
Dartmouth or Amherst, but there are
certainly a good many men there who
earn every cent of their college expenses
Boston Transcript
A Live Rattlesnake In a Depot.
A colored waiter In the new Central
Railroad depot restaurant in Jersey City
saw a rattlesnake crawling along the
floor near a party of ladies. He yelled
"Snakes!" and the ladies ran out into the
car shed screaming. The waiter bad an
armful of dishes. As the snake was
heading for him he dropped the dishes
and ram Two men who had been eating
at the lunch counter followed him. One
of the ladies who had run out told John
Van Pelt, a conductor, about the snake.
Van Pelt got a stick and a friend of his
got another, and they went into the res
taurant Half a dozen waiters, a cook
and three passengers were sitting on the
lunch counter. They were treed The
snake was crawling toward the door,
shaking iu rattle savagely. Van Pelt
and his friend made a combined attack.
Van Pelt's stick was pointed, and he
speared the snake through the neck, pin
ning it to the floor. The other man beat
the reptile to death. Then the waiter
and cook and passengers came down
from the counter. The snake was about
two feet long. It had four rattles. How
it got into the depot is a mystery. Pos
sibly it had been shipped as freight, and
had in some way escaped from confine
mentNew York Sun.
A Lad' Idea.
Mrs. Charles Carleton Coffin has sent
to the war deptrtment a new design for
the forty-two stars in the flag. It has
thirteen of tin stars made into a six
cornered star fcr the center to symbolize
the thirteen original states. The rest of
the stars are to I arranged ataut thi in
straight rows The device is much ad
mired by army cfllcers who Lav seen it
New York Htme Journal (
The manuscript cf Barns poem, "The
Whistle," bas recently been purchased for
283 by Lord Kcaeberj.
THE SWEET CLOVER.
A Remarkable Growth That I lha Delight
ul fouiwll 11 1 u (ft.
No one know jusi how or where It
came from n why it came, but a snowy
and sweet breathed Intruder has come
into the city to dispute with the lordly
sunflower his lonn and undisputed title
of milliliter sovereignty to all the vacant
lots and blocks in Council Bluffs, Iowa
And the mock little blossoms on the sum
mils of the sweet clover plant are look
ing Umiii the swift and certain destruc
tion of l he pioneer sunflower Over one
third of the Uutoms, where a year ago
nothing but tlio gigantic resinous ween)
turned its black and yellow face to the
sun, and where it grew in such luxury
that even the noxious cockle burr was
choked out of existence, the fragrant
tweet clover has appeared and holds un
disputed dominion over every other green
thing. Over hundreds of vacant lots in
the new additions the tiresome yellow
has given place to the dark, rich foliage
and fragrant perpetually blooming sweet
clover.
Local botanists who have examined
the new plain with a good deal of in
terest and cure say that it Is positively a
new sMH'ies, produced by some unknown
and accidental cross, and that its vigor
and spreading proclivities are the most
wonderful features of its nature. The
old fashioned sweet clover wus a frail
and ghostly plant, that loved the friend
ly shade of the groves and the longest
moonlight summer nights, a character
istic w hich made it a proper love em
blem, but this new and thrifty product
of Council Bluffs spurns the protection
of the trees anil goes out boldly iu the
field and meets and conquer the sun
loving sunflower in his chosen grounds
Asa foliage plant It is perhaps one of the
most remarkuhlo in existence for its lux
uriance. In ninny respects it resembles
the alalfa clover, but it is stronger,
thriftier, and of much more rapid
growth than that remarkable plant that
furnishes three crops of hay a year in
western territories.
It grows to the height of four or five
feet, with a dense leafy foliage and a
perfect brush of sweet scented blossoms.
The leaf I small and juicy, of a rich
dark green, very much resembling the
red clover. It is so new and its habits
so little understood that it is not known
what its value may be as a forage plant
for stock. In its present rank character
stock will not eat it, but, tamed by re
peated clipping and cultivation, it may
become ono of tho most valuable plants
to the stockmen and farmers.
But whether it has any value or not Iu
the development of beef and horseflesh,
it is of inestimable worth to the people of
Council Bluffs as a swift destroyer and
fragrant substitute for the ubiquitous
sunflower, that lias furnished provoca
tion for so many sad reflections upon the
city, notwithstanding enthusiastic ws
thetcs have sought to popularize the
meek yellow crowned weed by puinting
it on panels and wearing it on their bo
soms. It is a lovely and lovnhlo plant,
so sociable that It will come right up to
your door and crowd it white head into
your windows, and so determined upon
having the company of its fellow that it
makes a covenant with the soil that where
one plant grows this year thousands
must grow next. A year ago there was
perhaps not enough of the plant in the
entire city to cover half an acre; now
there are hundreds of acres densely cov
ered with it. The odor from the acres
of white flowers fills the air, and after a
midsummer shower the peculiar and
delicate fragrance Is indescribable, and
as sweet as the breath of poris. Omaha
Bee.
A Hlg Steamer's Twin Screw.
When Capt Watkins, of the City of
Paris, left Queenstown on tho 2.th of
last month and started on a course fifty
nine miles shorter than his famous run
shorter because he ran northward where
the world grows smaller and came down
over the shoulder of "the great globe
we inherit," taking any possible chance
there might be of fogs and ice In cross
ing the banks of Newfoundland at this
season the engines were put at full
peed, and for something over four duyt
they were driven at the average rate of
ninety revolutions of the scrows per
minute. There was a variation from
eighty-six to ninety-two revolutions.
When the furnace were opened to be
cleaned the intensity of the steam would
be diminished for a few minute and the
speed of tlio screws reduced to eighty
six turns in the minute. It will be noted
that the average speed wa three revo
lutions in two seconds, and the screws
are twenty feet in diameter, It is aston
ishing that this velocity can be main
tained duy and night without a second's
waiting and avoid developing excessive
and crippling heat
The fact that thirty men are employed
to pour oil upon the bearings and all
parts where the friction Is severe will
perhaps account in part for the phenom
ena, but certainly ouly the greatest per
fection of material, and the most deli
cate adaptation of one part to the other,
could provide for such a strain without
disaster. I doubt whether so startling a
test of integrity and absolute exactitude
in manufacture can be found in any
other machinery. During the late run
of the City of Paris thn wind was so
strong from the north one afternoon as
to give the ship a decided lift, elevating
the larboard screw so that at each turn
the blades threw shower of spray with
a dazzling rush far behind the vessel.
There are four blades in the screw, re
volving three times in two seconds so
there were six white surges per second
dashed to the winds, and a fine reminder
of the snowy rapids of Niagara. M,
HaUtead ' "On the Bounding Billowa"
The Cotton Worms.
That one drug house in Vickshurg
should receive orders for fifteen tons, or
80,000 pounds, of paris green in one day
demonstrate the extent of the appre
hension felt by cotton planters concern
ing the cotton worms In the large area
of country tributary to or trading with
that city. With the cotton worms ap
parently so formidable in their second
generation, the third generation, which
form a vast increase over it progeni
tors, may do very serious damage. It ia
extremely unfortunate, if it be true, that
the available supply of pari green has
been already exhausted. It is likely that
far more than the amount already used
will be needed. Where these pests are
unchecked by poison, in their third gen
eration, they have been known to rav
age cotton fields and leave the stalks as
bare of foliage in the hitter part of Au
gust and September as they are in early
February before being pulled up and
burned, preparatory to the planting of a
new crop. New Orleans Times-Democrat
LITTLE MAIDS A3 COOKS.
Hrhnolglrla Tmtht In Horn Their Finger
In a Tralnln ( lsa.
A group of bright eyed, pink cheeked
cirls camo tripping down tho steps of
the Kilward ShipM-n aHiool on Friday a
few minute before noon They wereof
assorted sizes mid styles of U-nuly, but
their nges nil clustered closely aliout
sweet rixUHMi. There was ono little
flaxen haired .Miss whose lisp ami mien
lctokcncd that she had hut recently en
tered her tiH'iis, and close behind her a
tall, diguilliil maid of dusky hue, who
looked ns if she would be eighteen some
of these days. These cro the extremes
Fifteen years may hsvo mailo a fair
average.
Tho absence of tho usual bulky bs-s
of books, and the character of tho girl
ish chatter, which was all about butter
and burns hikI blisters, instead of prep
osition anil logarithms, evinced that
thi wus no ordinary bevy of school
girls. There were twenty of them, all
told, and they had been to cooking
school.
The quantity of edible turned out by
these two score fairy finger during the
process of (ho first lesson would scarcely
tulllco to satisfy the craving of a lusty
apK'tite; but then Rome wa not built
In a day; neither can un chilxiruto menu
be concocted in un hour. A crockful of
crouton or sippets and a faultlessly
baked potato were tho only tangiblo re
sults of yesterday morning's practice.
Several little maids, however, treasured
up a precious little cut or a glistening
burn ns evldonco of hard work, and all
had their craniums just chock full of
knowletlgo as to the best ways and means
to run a kitchen.
"IIousckooier No. 7, 1 appoint you to
take care of tho stove for this morning.
No, 11, you must look after tho sink, and
you, No. 4, will bo iu general chnrgo of
the room." These were Miss Stone'
words as she called the class to order,
She wore a tiny cap of soft white lace
and a wide spreading apron, and moved
and talked with a grace and case that
would Invest tho meanest kitchen with
the diguity of a drawing room. The
somewhat unpoelical task of fire-building
was the first duty of the morning,
and into this work the teacher entered
with such test and understanding that
the "little maids in school" who looked
on and learned thought it great fun, and
just as easy as flirting. After a few
moments' instruction they knew all
about removing the ashes, arranging the
kindling, applying the match and start
ing a blaze, all w ithout a drop of kero
sene or begrimed lingers.
The big, brightly polished range stood
in (lie corner of tho room; the spick-and-span
sink, surmounted by a row of dip
per and dishpan, stood opposite, and a
far end, apportioned off to serve as the
laundry, was set forth with boiler, clothes
horse and tho other necessary accoutre
ments. Along the center of the room
were ranged the five tables which repre
sented the scenes of maneuvers of the
twenty cooks. These were bedecked
with spoons, knives, forks, plates, chop
ping boards and scrubbing brushes, and
every article, a paragon of perfection.
Euch pupil was furnished with a seat at
table, and after work was over each wus
required to polish her resective corner
with soapsuds and scrubbing brush until
it dazzled.
Against the cast wall stood a big cup
board, shiny and crochety in its newness,
provided with Innumerable nooks and
crannies, each devoted to its particular
utensil. "A plnce for everything, and
everything in its place," suggested Miss
Stone, as she pointed out to her group of
open mouthed learners the way of the
Dover egg benter and the wherefore of
the glass lemon squeezer, "The rolling
pins must bo piled right here, the cullen
der bung just there and the dish towels
placed far back in the right hnuJ corner
of the third drawer from the top, on the
left hand sido, between the tea cloths
and the dusters," she went on. "We put
the matches In this covered crock so the
rat won't nibble them and set tho house
on lire. The bread we must stow away
In a tin box for fear It should grow stale.
We must always keep the butter well
covered, a it absorbs strange tastes so
easily," and so on through the whole cat
egory of kitchen ethics.
Then the little maid were set to work
cleaning potatoes. Of course they KiNed
their knives aloft for the purpose, and
of course Miss Stono gently but firmly
bade them to drop them instantly. The
best authorities on cuisine never pare
potatoes nowadays; they scrub them,
Each girl was supplied with a small
brush, which she applied to the earth
apple's cuticle with such vigor that it
was soon as white as her own fingers.
Then housekeeper No. 8 was bidden to
place the potatoes in the stove for bak
ing. "Ouch!" she cried, as she lifted the
oven door and ran back in dismay.
Housekeeper No. 7 was delegated to try.
"Oo, ow, owl" wo the result of hor first
trial, as she hugged a tender little en
gagement finger and fled iu consterna
tion, The other girls ouly laughed and
Miss Stone flew to the rescua Beneath
her "open sesame" the door started open
likeadream. "You'll learn after awhile,"
the remarked smilingly. And the burned
maidens sighed and said they hoped so,
and once more the chorus giggled.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
A Mouater Smokeataek.
The monster chimney of the new
Fall River Iron Works mill, the largest
in America and the fifth largest in the
world, was completed recently. It is 250
feet above the ground. Tho bottom of
the foundation 1 seven feet below tide
water and sixteen feet below the ground,
making the total height of the chimney
300 feet The base is square for a dis
tance of about thirteen feet from the
ground, then tapers up gradually for
about eight feet, and from that up the
chimney is cylindrical In form. The
diameter at the base is thirty feet, at the
narrowest part it is fifteen feet Thi
flue has a uniform diameter of eleven
feet The wall at the bottom are thirty
two Inches thick and in thethinneat part
twelve inches. It is built of brick above
the foundation, the number used being
1.700.000. N. Y. Telegram.
A Weatera Inveutor.
Edgar F. Lincoln, of Topoia, Kan.,
has taken out more patent during th
last two years than any man In the coun
try. Hi invention cover all fields, and
be has patented almost everything, from
an improved electrio light to a celluloid
toothpick. Like a great many inventors
be finds it difficult to make money out
of his cleverness. Other men reap the
profit of his brain effort His latest de
sign is a toboggan brake. It enables a
toboggan to stop in the middle of the
steepest incline instantly if any obstruc
tion suddenly appears on the chute.
New York Telegram.
ATTACKED BY A BEAR.
4 Kenlm-klsn Una a llanl Time with a
lt tioite IVIhl.
Frederick Seifried,Jr.,tho pork butcher
tt Thirty-1, fib nud Bank streets, is the
owner of two black Is-ars in w hich he
lakes great pride, Tho animals are kept
I'll, lined in mi outhouse, and have been
furnishing a great deal of amusement to
tho men, women and children of the
neighborhood. When Henry O. Uiubreit,
of 3,428 Bank street, was knocked down
and clawed by thu big nialo bear about
two ueeks ago snino of tho neighbors
ympathized with him in his sufferings,
while others ileclareJ that ho deserved
what he pit and wus served rixht for
leasing the Im ar, in which the whole com
munity took such an interest L'mbreit
is still t-oiitihcd to his bed from his
wounds. Yesterday afternoon the bear
claimed his second victim, when Frank
htaab, the engineer at the pork house,
missed dculh by n narrow margin.
The two lieiint were bought by Seifried
when small culs a year ago, and now
they are uIkiiiI twenty months old. The
male weighs !T0 pounds, and has a very
savage and quarrelsome disposition. Hie
smaller is the female, a 200 pound ani
mal, very disile and tame. The pair of
animals are destined for the sawdust
ring, or as a means of livelihood to some
poor blind man, and for the past six
inout lis their educat ion has been progress.
Ing very favorably under tho tutelage of
"Professor" Freil Utzey, who has taught
them quite a numler of difficult and
comical tricks.
At 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon the
animals were going through their gaits
and accomplishments, much to the edi
fication of a largo crowd which had as
sembled to witness tho entertainment
After tho performance half a dozen men,
with Staab among the number, stood
about discussing the points of the bears.
Staab w as caressing and playing with the
little one, mid paid no attention to the
savngo animal which was moving rest
lessly up and down tho length of his
chain. With a rush the bear sprang uon
the stooping man and seized him with
his paws, Staab attempted to get away
slid seized a Hst, to which ho clung to
prevent tho U'ar dragging him away.
All the time the bear was clawing him
with fore feet and hind, and at every
scratch blood poured, and the man's cries
for assistance wero pitiful Hi conqian
ions wero so astonished at the assault of
tho liear that they seemed to have lost
their presenco of mind and were slow to
act Fully two minutes passed before
any aid wns given Stiuib, nud then John
Young and Fred Schillinger seized Staab
and lore him from tho clutches of the
licnr. Weak and fainting from loss of
blood and pain Htaab was laid upon the
floor, while, hurrying messengers found
Dr. Charles W. Parsons und Dr. John S.
Douglas. The physicians examined the
ma a und found that his right leg was
horribly mangled. The skin was lacer
ated, and in many places the animal's
claw had dug furrow in the flesh, leav
ing the bone exposed. Hi knee cap wns
torn from tho I sine, and his body wa
also scratched nnd badly bruised.
The doctors worked on the man's In
juries, and after they hud taken forty
eight stitches iu different purtsof the leg,
Htaab was placed in a meat wagon and
taken to his homo at 2,210 Duncan street.
Muah is 27 years old, with a wife and
family dependent upon him for support.
While his injuries are not fatal, they will
keep him in lied for several months to
come. His sufferings nre very acute.
Lnuisvillo Cornier-Journal.
An I'mlrrhleil I'lililng Mutch.
A fishing match recently took place on
tho lake between Bontkeepcr Allen and
Dave Johnson, a veteran angler, for a
purse of $00, raised in the ofllce of tlie
Forest house. Tho men fished for an
hour, stopping at noon. Proprietor
Rich of the hotel, who acted as referee,
found that tho collection of bass, pick
erel and perch in Allen's string num
bered twenty-six and on Johnson's twenty-five,
Ouo of the hitter wa a black
bus welching four pounds nine ounces.
When the strings were weighed Allen's
tipped tho scale at eleven pounds ten
ounces, tho baby perch and pickerel
counting for very little. When Dave's
string, big bass and all, were balanced,
the sculo indicated the same weight ex
actly, without the variation of a frac
tion of nn ounce. Referee Rich declared
the mutch a draw, dfcluring that he hud
never before heard of a tied fishing
match in Jersey. Budd's Lake (N. J.)
Letter.
The Secret of Aerial Travel,
So Professor Hognn swells the long list
of tho balloonatic martyrs, and so the
latest flying machine proves as worthless
as Its thousand predecessors. When hu
man ingenuity can match the product of
nature when It can muke machine
possessing as much power and endurance
to the ounce of weight as that of the
homing pigeon which last week flow
from Detroit to Buffalo(223 miles) in less
than four hours when it can so arrange
and nutomal Ically shift a series of vanes
like the shifting feathers in a hawk's
wings, which suspend it in the air for
hours almost, without apparent motion
when it can solve the problem of how
this same hawk drops like a bullet from
the dizzy height of a half mile and
checks Itself unharmed above it prey
then it may learn to travel in the air.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
fhrlatian Young Men In Scant Attire,
The conduct of some of the Y. M. C A.
delegate at Muhtouiedi in appearing at
the hotel table recently In rather scant
outing costumes is not approved by lead
ing racmlK-rs of the association, notwith
standing the defense set up by Secretary
Horton that at summer resorts such vio
lations of the conventionalitiesshould be
expected and admitted. Of course, a
strict compliance with the conventionali
ties of life nt such a place is not usually
Insisted upon, but when a young man
appears at table among strangers, includ
ing many ladies, in simply a pair of
trousers and an undershirt, it is simply
carrying the mutter to an extreme tliat
would justify people accustomed to the
ordinary ways of living in entering a
protest. St. Paid Pioneer-Press.
llora la 17SO.
A Buenos Ayres paper affirms that
there is now in Bolivia a surgeon, Luca
Silva by name, whose age is not less than
121) yea. He wa born in Cochabamba
in 1760, and devoted, himself, after grad
uating in medicine, to the practice of
tdrgery. Lately he was taken to the
house of Senor Josa Ramallo, president
of the Dramatic College of La Paz, and
gave a lucid account of the revolution in
1800, which resulted in the emancipation
of his country from the Spanish yoke,
Chicago Tribune.
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