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DARING BUNK ROBBERIES ', TWO OF THE GREAT HAULS IN ' RECENT DECADES. I OKK TIItT MtTTKD OVEB t20ft ? OtM) IK CAMI. ; Hew lb Corry, F, Bank Waa ' Robbed aud III Bloodshed Thai Followed A W lid baa bjr People, i Police, aad Finally the millila. rUOM THE year 1801, the opening year of the war, up tolK7.1,Uwhat In known to the great de tectives as the ':'-'." bank-robbing ; period. There were more bold bank rob berieH in the United Mates and Canuda during' those year, iiti the head of a private detect ive agency, . than for a hundred year previous. There was a great deal wire money in the banka during the period than at any other time during the present cen tury, which fact probably accounts for I the big raids. Then for part of the time the smaller towns and ' cities lacked protection on account of the heavy draught of men for the , Northern and Soutnern armies. It - was in the smaller cities that the bank robbers were the worst nui ances. In August, 1M14, Mose Lyons and 1 Abe Richards, with several aliases, drove into t'orry , Pa., behind a spank ' ing team of greys which they had purchased in Pittsburg. They had . driven from the latter place. In the ; bottom of their buggy was a box con taining a brace of six-shooters numer ous enough to defy a regiment of soldiers, so to speak. The Nutionul bank at t'orry had recently received a deposit of gold amounting to some fifty thousand dollars. It was tor the nse of the Pennsylvania regiments, en trenched near liettysburg, which fact had been published in the newspapers. -- It was about 11 o'clo k a. m. when they arrived at Curry. T ey drove at one to the bank where they were met bv two puis, Dave Willlums and Conn Clifford, who had beer! in t'orry for some days by pre-arranged plans. The two first named entered the bank and to'd the enshier they wished to depot' it a New York draft for a large amount for county purposes. While talking with the cashier. Wil liams, stepped in. In cither hand was a cocked seven-shooter. Lyons and Kiebord's seemed terribly frightened and jumped through the cashier's win- dow to get away. They drew revol vers and by mistake ahot the cashier. People rushed up in front of the bunk, but soon got out of reach of the bul lets, which seemed to be coming thick and fast. In two minutes the three robbers emerged bearing a box con taining the coin. Tlu'y drove away rapidly, but the police and citizens were soon in pursuit, on horseback, afoot, and in rigs. Three policemen were ahot down from their horses. Two citizens were also "dropped." and the chase was given up. Two days later the men were captured near the Ohio river by a company of volun teer soldiers. A desperate battle fol lowed but the robbers were finally overpowered but not until they were literally shot "fnll of holes." The quartette died the same day of their wounds. The money was re covered. Such was the result of the boldest robbery of the decade. Red Leury and Duve Cummlngs, now aerving time in different penal insti tutions Mid a neat piece of work" in 1873. Everybody will recall the rob bery of the "Falls City bink at Louis ville, in February of that year, which netted the robbers over $200,000 in cold e8"' ... i Cummlngs and Leary with two puis, whose names were never learned, ar rived from Cincinnati and were driven to a house where rooms had previously been engaged. To the landlady they represented themselves as Eastern cap italists intent on opening up branches in Louisville. An effort was made to secure an office in the Falls City bank building, but the effort failed. In look ing it over they got a "lay of the land. Then they made their headquarters at a saloon clrectly opposite and thereby gained a very accurate knowledge of the surroundings. When the bank was opened on Mon day morning everything seemed as usual until it was found that the vault doors could not lie opened. Workmen were sent for, and late in the evening the massive doors were opened. It w as seen then that a wooden wedge had been driven behind the bolt and pre vented the lock working. The inner doors had been similarly tampered with, and when they swung back the whole trouble was seen at a glance. Scattered over the vault floor were bonds Bnd securities of all kinds piled knee-deep, while the ponderous doorof the safe was scattered, one large piece lying propped against the wall. Boxes f rom the bank shelves lay amid the lit ter emptied of their contents. Three workman's blouses, a heap of burglars tools, pieces of candles, beer bottles, nd fragmentsof impromptu feast add ed to the debris. In the corner stood small safe which had not been to Tnt through the Iron lining in th. roof of the vault was a hole teen Inches square, which showed how the wbbtr.T.de-ntered. An ex.m.nat.o. .bowed that the th.eves bad taken sa the cash In the big safe. "sTJ nearly llOO.uoO, and hastily, but stibl xTy gone through the b.n. throwing sway all ad taking only Government and other bonds which could be easily The- amounted to private boxes in the Uken open and the -uWS and othsTvaluables taken. The) Dona- wus not responsible for these losses, which were estimated at $100,1)00. The burglars hud chosen Saturday nlirht to begin the Job, as it would thus give them two night and a day for uninterrupted work. They en tered the Ma onic teinp'e directly over the bunk, and after digging under the altar they cut a hole through the floor. Passing through this they dropped to the roof of the vault, altout three feet below. It was long and tedious work to remove the br:ck and cement which covered the Iron lining of the vault dome, and while people were passing by on their way to church that Sunday morning, the burglars, but a few feet away, were working like beavers re moving the heavy masonry. When the dome was reached the burglars bored through the hard steel a parallelogram of holes and then broke in the piece with a sledge-hummer. Once in the vault they made quick work of the big safe. They bored a hole in the door and inserted a heavy charge of powder. A tin tube fitted over the barrel of the pistol wus then placed in the hole, the pistol was cocked and climbing out of the vault the robbers pulled the trig ger with a string. The powder in tlie hole was ignited and the safe door blown to pieces. The explosion occur red ! niiduy night and was heard faintly by people in the neighborhood, but no importance attached to it. A lookout had evidently been posted at a window in the Masonic Temple, as marks there in.licnted, and through their longsicge the burglars hud enjoyed several meals evidently in the vaults. Clambering out with the spoils of their rich haul ths threwd thieves carefully replaced the plank over the hole they had sawed in the floor aliove the vault, and then placed a large pile of books back over the hole. As the opening in the floor was not observed next day and the wooden wedges had prevented the vault being opened the burglars hud a day's start before the robbery was known. It wus some yeurs afterward before the Identity of the robbers be come known. They were never pro secuted. YOUNG BUT SLICK. A Kcntnrkr Kid Mho Could Have .lvru ieo. Parker Pointers. Robert, alias 11., Knight, recently ar rived in Middlesborough. Ky., where he succeeded in organizing "The Na tional l oan ana Investment company of Middlesborough," with ?I,(HK),0iK) capital. Knight got himself elected secretary, and shortly after committed several forgeries upon the banks of that eity, Cincinnati, Chicago, and New York. These foreeries were not discovered until after his somewhat precipitated departure from the town. As it is said that he is now trying the same tricks in other cities as those he played there, and as a reward is offered for his capture, his cunning features should become familiar to the public and espeoiully to the police authorities. Knight's picture here represented is in the garb of the con vict's costume worn by him In Joliet in 1837 and 183, where ' he served a term for the same offense. He has not changed in appearance excepting that he wears longer hair and a light mus- tache. He is twenty-five years of age, five feet eight and one-half incheshigh, weighs 140 pounds, complexion light .. ;). i.rnn-n fvo nnd auburn hair. He hus a plain scar on the left side above the abdomen, wears a No. 7 shoe and ..i....,i n 7 hut. He is slim and erect and has very cunning-looking eyes and a ratner poiniea nose, ue ..f ti.o slit-best shnrners in the I'll.. . , country and his pet scheme is to worlc loan and Investment compun es, um Just what part of the country be Is now operating in is not known. A Rare Combination. Certain society circles have lieen greatly :. i ,i.i. u.lr nvnr a novel sort of bever age introduced hy the w ife of a New Jersey Congnwtiuau at ner reeem reu.Tw.. . knnw irhnt It real It was, but even body, you may depend upon it, ii eager to lind out Quite by accident I am enabled to satifv this curiosity. The following con- versali u b tween the Hostess aim ouo u "assistant' at the refreshment table took place in one of those lulls when tlie stream of Incoming vi.-itors seems to have for eoine un-accoui:t.-!l ! reason been arrested, only to break out afresh with redoubled fury five .ft. rnr.L It is eiven upon the minute . authority of .i young acoiegraee, at the time an inmate of tlie Dnue: H(ts (turning to the refreshment table and pointing to a pot of bouillonV-Uary, dear if you ant to replenish that pot of bouillon, jurt ring xn ueo " ibe'U bring it up from the kitoben. Mary-1 that bouillon f Oh, heavens, and here 1 have b-en serving it all the afternoon with milk and ugr! Tableaul-New York Tribune. Be flad ' Library. MI believe you are great reader, Miel Quimbyr "Yes, I reed a great deal "Have yoo read any of ToUtoTs worb.r "No, but I sin dying to see some of his books." "There m no reason why yoo shoukln t thrtn. I can furnish you with them." "How delightful ! Yoo mat hare qoite a library, Mr. Longbeadr No, I cant say that I hare. But, yoo as-, I am a book aiant"- ft JOE LANNON TALKS. Me Telle a llrporler all John L. SuIIIvbk. Abaat I loe I.snnon, the heavyweight boxer and staunch friend of John L. Sullivan, returned t It.wt..,. i .. . a ago, after a long tour with the "lionet i llf.ni.tu u...l tt'm: .. ...-..,, ,,,, nanus company, l-cliig Interviewed by a Herald re- rter, Joe said that iiis trip with Sul livan did him an immeasurable amount of giHHl, and he is sorry that it is over. "Slltlivun u..:ia.l ... I.....-..H .. ui-t. mr .lusirana iroin Nin rranclsco, in company with Har rison, his manager, and Jack Ashton.on the sh of June," said Joe, "and about ' :'uo persons saw him off. When he went away he was looking I etter than j ever, and was sixteen pounds lighter i than when he started out on his theat rical venture about ten months ago. I I didn't go w ith him, because I am s ' family man now. I would like to cor rect the iin r. ssion that has I een sent broadcast that Sullivan and Jackson had a dispute that ended in blows in Jackson's saloon in San Francisco. Sullivan never saw Jackson till the duy bcfo-eJohn L. sailed for Australiti, and then 1 saw the big colored man shake his hand and w ish him good luck and a sul'e return from his jour ney, (in my w ay h une 1 met Jim Cor- , bett and sparred an exhibition with him at St. 1'auL I believe he is the cleverest man I ever met, but, of course, he hasn't the hitting powers of, Sullivan, lorliett is a tine fellow, and the man who thinks he is not a fighter is foolish. He is only twenty-four years old, and is not near as heavy as he will lie In a year or two; then he win ix lu It with the b.-st of them." I He an Artlal I John Al an Crofts is the name of one of the strongmen who recently came to the States from England for the pur pose of giving exhibitions of weight lifting and boxing for a fixed salary, agreed upon before sailing the seas over. He appeared at the ilarge Office at New York on Monday, July 20, and asked to be sent home, alleging that he was a contract laborer. He produced his contract, made at Dewsbury, Eng.. b.'twevn his managers, Harry J. Edwards and J. S. Stephens and himself, on May lit. They agreed to nay him 3 ids. a week and his expense for performing with their combination in the I nited States. He says that the show turned out a failure nnd that he wants to get back to Eng land. He doesn't want his former managers prosecuted unless that will cause him to be returned. ( hief Con tract Labor Inspector Miiholland said he' could do nothing for the weight lifter until the Treasury Department decided whether or not Slavin, the pu gilist, is an artist. If Slavin is an artist then Crofts is an artist. The Kpeoni Neellua; lor '91. Next year the Epsom sprimr meet ing is to commence on April 5, being 'luesduy iu the third week of the sea son. and the .Newmarket Craven meet ing begins on April 111, having been restored to its old position in Easter week. The Two Thousand will be run on May 4, and the Derby on June 1. 1 A scot t is to commence on June 14, ..n I..1 1 ...i n i on September 0, while the Newmarket October meetings ben in re pectivdy on Septeml er 27, October 1 1 una Octo ber J.i. The Manchester summer meet ing will occuny the week between Ep som and Ascot, instead of coming be fore Epsom, as it did both this year and last yeur. IV a iiu Hrewer Matched, John Hurkey, the backer of John L. Hrewer, the champion wing shot, writes: "I see.that (ieorge Kleinman, of Chicago, has been defeuted by a gentleman that Is unknown In pigeon shooting circles in the Eastern Stutes. I wish to ask if there is no man in the world willing to meet Cupt. Brewer? It is true fliat h s style of shooting and i his ability us a pigeon shot leave but little if any i nance for any one to de feat him. Ifinyclub in good stand ing in Chieugo will put up a purse of tM.ooo, and furnish a man to shoot 200 first-class birds, 1 can assure you that ! i npi. itrewer a presence can ue nau in Cln.ug.iat any time." They Want the Cup. English yachtsmen have made a number of attempts to wrest the America's Cup from us, but something more than sport impelled them. They know that its possession by us is the emblem of American supremacy in naval construction. As long as we de servedly retain possession of it there is a cloud on the claim that "Britannia rules the wave." English love a title of nobility as well as they love money, and the reputable commoner who de signs or brings a yacht to this country which will capture the cup is sure of a baronetcg at least. To Change Harlng Hulea. A convention of Western horse own ers will petition the Western Turf Con gress to make several reforms In the racing code. Amendments win be proposed to some of the rules. One will lie that In selling races, the whole surplus shall go to the second horse, instead of one hair, as at present. Another is to limit the power of the starter in the ma'.ter of finding and suspending jockeys. Pool and Bllllarda. Champion Schaffer and his bride are visiting in Chicago. Efforts are being made at Philadel phia to advance the price of brllliards to fifty cents per hour and five cents per bull for pool. There are fourteen entries In the handicap pool tournament at the Owl Club, St. Albans. Yt. A handsome silver cup, surim unted by a golden owl, is the prize, and is to be contested for annually. Carter aud Ives are practicing for their balk line match, which takes place in Milwaukee in October next. Jacob Shaefer and Eugene Day are be hind Ives, while John Callahan and Augi st 1'liess. of Milwaukee, are back ing Carter. The stakeholder la the Chit-ago house of the li., 11., C. Co. Frank C. Ives, "the Napoleon of I'etoskie." snd Martin Mullen, of Cleveland, Ohio, are again agitating their promised match, which was given life through the memorable four- i hande 1 game played in Cleveland last I May, when Shaefer and Mullen de ; fealed Ives and Shaw, after permitting the latter to win the first game. Forgot Ike Title. "Ilave you the er 'Waker of Ticks bnrgV " a man asked in an Austin book store the other day. His wife had sent him to buy the "Vicar of Wakefield," snd that was as near as he came to re membering the title of the book. Texas Siftings. A Carloae Fact. It Is a curious fact that Just twenty four Inches on the table is allowed s man at s large snd crowded dinner. Of course, more Is given when there are few people. New York Tribune. Klhlca of Kla-hla. It la a nnrer thlna that In the ethics of kinship a man usually rushes for his uncle after bidding good by to his ante. J Tid Bits. DIIIVKI! AND DROSKY. FACCINATI0H3 OF RIDING IN ST. PC TCRSBURC'S FAVORITE VEHICLE. Whirling Houeil a Klrwt Corner Ilka Mail Hie l.lini.luiilk ami III, Horwi. Mrilu llrtapvii lrlve I'rrullar liar-htm-The Itlglit of Way. Thedrtfrky iau institution tlmt Plight to lie iutnalmvd into the Males. There ia one in Wl.in"ton,o nil mid lined by Mr. Alex. Ore; ;er, tlie secretary of the ituin Icpitiuii, and it i a great curiosity ; but they would lie Very twful mid ulnr ill all our cities, r ticr.lai ly if they could Is1 drawn by ltuMiin horse. There is as much fascinatiuu in rid- in in a dnky as in a yuidola in Venice, and it U the ll.M thing the traveler wants to do when lie arrives in Petersburg. He will cud lu tiupi by the omnibus, and go to the hotel in a droky. It is a low vehicle, the floor being scarcely more than a foot from the ground, on four wheels not much larger than those of a ahecllmrmw a sort of iut:iiuUire victoria. The ishvoslitnik, or dri ver, sits ou a high iercb fur alsive the heads of the wssengera, who have a low, narrow, kick less sea; over the hind wheels. It in not uncomfortable, but the neiwilion at first is alanniug, particularly when you are whix iug around a corner, for the drivers always go like mad, and you w ish there iu anno thing to hold on to. You fasten your hand ou the scut w ith a good grip, and cling to j our fellow passenger, if you have one. The horse that draws you, and the driver w ho holds the reiim are both Russian institu tion, utid you won't find their like elsewhere. One can llnd poor horse in Russia I uoso, but very few In Petersburg or the other large cities. They are tall, long legged annuals, with slender bodies aud limbs, lougulkcn manes aud tails, the latter nearly always reaching to the ground, small heads, small fvt, large, intelligent eyes, and necks arched like the chargers one see in pictures of the Bedouins in the desert. 1 always thought that such horses were the rreutiou of the art ists, but Russia is full of them. The ish voshtuik is always proud of his horse, if ho has a good one, and treats him much better than he does his wife. Nearly all the time ho is disengaged the ishvoshtilik is either s-tling or rubbing hia horse, and at Inter vals he brings out a little uose luig from under the seat, to feed him oats or meal. Not one iu ten of tlu-so charioteers hus a home, mid not one in ten of these splendid horses knows the Inside of a stable. They live ill the harness, iu the ois-u sir slimmer and winter, being always on duty, eating when oi)iortunity offers, and sltvping iu their druskies between drives. Every hour ortwotho driver takes a nosebag full of oats from under his seat to ftcd his animals, and in the streets of the cities convenient ar rangements lmve been made for tho accoiu niodtition of this iiuiMirtaut class of the popu lution. Wuter troughs are erected at inter vals, small puckuges of hay, outs and meal are sold at the sho along the way side, and the ishvoshtnik gets his coffee and his meat at the smile places, feeding, as he lives, with his horse. Both horses aud masters seem never to tire, Isith are always on tho alert. The drivers are always cheerful ami good natured, aud the horses always ready to start off like a whirlw iml as soon as they get the word. Neither seem to care for the cold or rain, and the one is about as much an animal as the other. The huiuess of the horse Is as light as leather can lie made, none of the straj lie iug more than half uu inch in width, and most of them are round, not larger than a lead js'iicil. There is no breoohen becuuso there uro no grades in Petersburg; the coun try is (H-rfectly level There are no blinders on the bridle, for the liorso fears nothing; he will walk up to a locomotive with as much indifference as his master. Ho never shii-s, never gets rattled, never runs away, but is ierfectly ulwdient to the voice of his master. There are no traces, as the vehicle Is draw n by the thills, which are made fast to tho heavy collar wit ha high hoop over the horse's neck. The collar is a rt of the diiMky, not of tho harness, for w hen the horse is tuken away from the vehicle the collar goes with the luttcr. The hoop over the horse's neck, which con nects the ends of the thills and looks like an exaggerated, badly formed horseshoe, is called the "duga," and underneath the aiex, on eiiulwges in the country, is fastened a big bell sometimes two or three Isdls which jungle so loudly that they may lie heurd a hulf mile away. The purj of the Ml is to announce the coining of the horse man, to frighten away the wolves that infest tho country ronds, and to warn other travel ers Uioii narrow and dangerous highways against collisions. The droskiis iu the cities were formerly decorated with bells, but they made such a din that the government issued an edict to alsillsh them. Now, when the ve hicle is approaching a corner at a blgb rate of speed, and it never goes slowly, the driver announces his coming by s shout a jieculiar, prolonged tone like the gondoliers use at Venice. In the winter India are necessary, for their sleilgis are uolwdess and the ordi nary sS!ed is great. I did not see a whip during my entire stay in Petersburg, but the ishvoshtnik keesi up a continual one sided conversation with his fleet footed Mrtner, now encouraging him with tender, caressing epithets; now stinging him with sarcasm and taunts of scorn, aud again hurling at the horse profane expletives. The cffoctlvo of the driver's voice Is nculiar and powerful, and an observant rider will be interested in studying this odd relationship. Now tho stallion, and only stallions are used, "is precious to the soul" of the Ishvoshtnik, or is bis "tender dove;" a few moments later be is accused of being something entirely different, In terms that cannot lie printed here, and the horse seems to understand every word. When the reins are tightened the horse goes; when they are relaxed he to The drivers also use a queer sound made by roll ing the tongue, a sort of troll-ll-ll-ll-ll-U which means business. When the horse bears that he straightens himself out snd goes for all lie is worth. They never go slowly, but In the most reckless fashion, the drivers jeering and shouting at each other as they ss, with good humored banter, while the pedestrian takes the best rare of himself he can. People seldom cross th street at a walk, unless it is deserted. They give a look in one direction, then in the other, and gathering their skirts around them, run for their lives. Vehicles always have the risht of way, snd It is a popular tradition that the hospitals are established solely for the treatment of unfortunates wbo have been run over. William Eleroy Curtis in Chicago News. An Awful heure. Society Belle-Mother, Mr. De Brass has protKNKl and I have accepted. Mother What I Oh, you wicked, ungrate ful girl, afu-r all we've done for you. llr. Brass haunt a cent to bless himself with snd won't have until bis father snd grandfather die. "The Mr. De Brass I am referring to is the grand fattier." "Oh I Bless you my children." Omaha VTorld Wbta Age Orertakas Tbesa. A cynic, who is also s eritte, tells me he has discovered why adorable women si ways long to become an actress. It Is simply because actresses never grow old There comes s time, of course, when age overtakes them, but It comes like light ning out of s clear sky. like s flash, snd this ever to b Z year old star wakes up some fine morning to find herself In the hades of past youth, snd far down the home stretch. Time bss sUod still for them np to s certain point, snd then whls he roe, without reirsrd snd without re morse But It wss fun while It Lasted. Boston Dersid. IRISH GREETINGS AND PHRASES. Peculiar ICiproaslniM Hrard Among the Kailtt ol (he lima 1,1a. When an Irishman Is moved to gratl. tuile by kindness, bis praise snd thanks take the form of unbounded blessings, snd. when ths spirit moves him to curse, his objurgations are deep, picturesque and highly colored. "Ood save all here" la the common futm of salutation on entering a cot tags, snd "Ood ssve you kindly I" the answer Anything tbst Is admired by s stranger Is slways promptly blessed, to keep oil ths evil eye The friendly criticism. "Thsl's s fine slip of s pig," is always followed by S quick. "Well. Indeed, It s not a bad one, Ood bless Itl" Turning to the subjects of blessings snd of general asseverations, we shall find the Irish language peculiarly rich and fer tile In variety of Idea and adjective, and often In real beauty and poetical form of expression Few ran tell ths origin of such phrases as "By the powers of Moll Kelly I" though tradition speaks of s Isdy of that name being a potency In Dublin. There Is s One sonorous swing about "By this snd by thst but It bangs Bansghert" and we know that Bansgher was ours upon s time s seat of learning Tare an ages!" Is refreshing, If mys terious. "By all the books thst ever were open or shut!" has a vast literary sound about It. snd when It Is Intended to take that oath falsely the word "never" Is adroitly substituted for "ever," just as In the old trials a witness prepared to "do his best for the poor boy In the dock" would kiss his owu thumb, hut not the holy hook, with a sounding smack. Very fine and majestic Is the rylhm of "By the pir that played before Moeesl" though there is no authentic account of that emi nent Semitic musician, and there Is a deeply devout meaning In tbs curious ex pression. "Please the pigs." which Is a corruption of "Please the pyx," the sacred vessel that holds tho host on high at the mass "Wurra Dlieelish" means "Sweet Virgin," who Is sometimes Invoked In mo menta of danger as "(Jiieen of Heaven," and 'Saints In glory I" or "Saints sllvel" are expressions of admiration or wonder. As examples of richness of diction, toko the charm blessing to be said to an old woman "Oh, aged old woman of the gray locks, may 800 blessings twolve times over be on thoel Muyoat thou be free from desolation. Oh woman of the aged frame! May many tears fall upon thy gravol" A "wise woman," properly blessed after this fashion, will make you dream dreams of Importsnre, width dreams you must never tell fasting, and always tell thum first to s woman of ths name of Mary Again, there Is something touchlngly poetical hi the words of the western charm for love Three tlsios, secretly, over s drink to be given the beloved one, the girl will say "This s charm I set for love, s woman's charm of love and desire; s charm of Ood that none can break You for me and I for you, and for none elso, your face to mine and your head turned sway from all others '" So with the old Irish uames of animals, thoy are Indian In their descriptive power. Tlie sut waa "the slender one, " the trout was called "brae," the "one with the spots," the hedgehog was railed "ths ugly little fellow," and the wren was known ss ths "Ih-uld's bird." because If any one could understand Its chirrup, ss It darts from bush to hush, be would have s knowledge of coming events, ss foretold by the bird What vividly picturesque words snd 11 lustrations sportsmen with attentive ears can pick upl Concerning a rouiantlo rah bit run tho question was asked "Are there many rabbits sboutT" "Many Is It!" was the reply; "sure there are whole funerals of theml" the procession of rab bits suggesting the curious Ides. "Any trout In this stream?" "Trouts, Is It? Wait till the flood goes down a bit, and C honor can walk dry shod over their ks to the other side." London Tele graph. India's Muo Fating Tlgsrs, One sot of cages was very attractive to us They contained ton huge tigers, oil caught In pits sfter proving themselves man eaters Huge brutes which would spring at us ss we passed with such ferocity that they would hurt themselves against the Iron bars The tigers of our menageries are puppets com pared to these fierce monsters A few annas to ths keeper obtained for me the privilege of doing a little practice Looking s fierce follow steadily In the eye, and speaking In S stern but steady voice, I tapped blm sharply over the bead with my rattan cons. Ue blinked his eyes I followed uptheoctlon with a sharper stroke and made blm quiet down I tried another, and actually mads blm lie down on his side snd purr like a great cat I did not fail once The native looked at me sdmlsingly and evidently thought I wss accustomed to managing man eaters What on amount of nerve s brave man has when lis knows danger can not reach him Carter Harrison's Letter The World's (treat Itefraetnrs. Of the world's refracting telescoHa nine have aiertures exceeding twenty Inches, viz: Lick observatory, California, BtJ Inches; Pulkova, Russia, ill); Yale col lege, '.'8, Lltlrow, Vienna, 87; University of Virginia, 2(); Washington Naval ob servatory, 20; (iateshead, Knglsnd, 23; Princeton, N. J., 2:1, and Buckingham, London, Knglnnd, 21. Hlx of these In struments are the work of the American firm of Alvan ( lurk c Sons. Arkatisaw Traveler. Jtomeatle Anxieties. 1 "I feel so tired every night, John," said a farmer's wife, as she took up her darn ing sfter the day's work was done. "My Isuies ache, and I have fits of dizziness aud no apjietlte; and I'm worried, too, about ths heifer, John. When I was feeding the sunk to-night she acted very strangely aud refused to tat. I'm afraid she's going to die." "Ves,"suld John, "I'm worried about that heifer myself." New York Sun. A lllghtr Prised llcllr. One of Liszt's feminine pupils preserves ss a highly prized relic a handkerchief which the great master wrapped alsiut his Anger one duy when It wus bleeding. A few dim bloodstains still remain on ths handkerchief, and a correspondent who saw it recently was told by the fair pian ist with a sigh that "it has never been and never will be blundered." New York Kvenlng World. I'ra -ervatloa at Milk. One of our cousins In Norway Informs the department of state that there has been discovered a new, simple snd cheap Ingredient which neither changes ths taste of the milk nor is Inimical of health, for conserving milk In a fresh condition for months without being hrrmetlcslly sealed. Mr. M K. Meyer, of Chrlstlanls, Is the Inventor Chicago Times. A patent for driving vehicles by elee triflir Is said to havs been sold In London for iio.ooa Tbs thrones of esrth are few, and than l. I. .r Imt aua man ULKin each. I I IXSURIXG THE SICK.' WHAT HS BEEN DETERMINED BY BV VITAL STATISTICS. tan a Tr It lie sUrie In Inmrlng re lirslihy ve A Table of Comparative rrolihlllll TliMiretlrsI :iorlatlon of Hie IH.rd. The practice of the life Insurance com panies Iu Insuring only the ts-st lives has ofien Is-en the subject ol a grim kind of humor. "The people they Insure," It is said, "are those who apis-ar from a medi cal Fvamination to stand In no need of in surance, whil those who really do need It cannot get it." This is not altogether true, of course. A p"l many of the people who ran successfully pass the medi cal f xniuiners of the Insurance companies stand quite ss much iu need of insurance as those who cannot pass, but it is cer tainly unfortunate thst the latter, who rertaitily do siiind in neisl of Insurance, arc unable to get It. It Is not only un fortunate, hut seems to lie a trifle unjust; and the question is often seriously asked w hy, w hen I he Insurance risks are based on general mortality and not on the mor tality among selected lives, the Insurance companies should decline risks upou any lives but the selected!" The answer is, probably, that the In surance companies are not doing business ou philanthropic principle though their solicitors would fain persuade us to the contrary hut to make money. Hut even wlicu the answer has Is-eu given the ques tion may still be asked whether there Is not a pmllt to he made lu Insuring im paired lives. Tim i NltrAl.TIIT LtTR. An article lu The American Kxchange and Kevlrw Indicates the possibility that this question may yet be answered In the alllrmatlve. It isiliils out that while the unhealthy life is, as a rule, in greater peril of death than the healthy one, the risk lu Hie esse of the former ran, In all probability, Is determined with as much accuracy aud safety as it ran in the rase of the latter. This is certainly a reason able view. Tlie iiumlirr of years iism which a heulihy man of 20, or Hi) or 40, or any other age, run reasonably exiert to live, has Usui ascertained by a careful compilation of vital statistics. What Is to prevent the ascertainment, by a like rurcful compilation, of the age to which nn iiulifitllliy or unsound man of 20, HO or til, or any other ags, may expect to live? To a certain small extent, according to the article referred to, this has been done by the Institute of Actuaries In Iiudon, Knglnnd, In constructing a table of com parative prolmlillilles In the cases of healthy ami diseased lives. The figures, though not at all conclusive, are very In teresting, showing side hy side the sur vivorships at 20, 80, 40, 50, 00, etc., of 10.000 healthy and 10.000 diseased lives, starting at the age of 10. .Singularly enough, at the age of 20 the showing In the case of the diseased lives la the Is-lter, 0.071) of them surviving against 0,55-1 of the healthy lives. From that tltno for ward, however, the figures favor the healthy lives In a grudiinlly Increasing ratio. At III) the survivors In tho healthy 10.OIK) are H,lA against H.51H lu the dis eased 10,000. At 10 the healthy side Shows 5.51? survivors and the diseased only 4,Klj. At Oil they are nearly equal, hut the diseased lives have the ndvautiige by one, showing '.'II against 25 of the heulthy lives. TiiKoitrrtrAi kxi'kctation. The Kxchange and Itevlew concludes Its article with what It rallaatuhle of ''Iheoretleiilexissctallotisof diseased life," which might more appropriately be called a hyMithet!eul table, Inasmuch as it is not put forward as even approximately ac curate. It Is useful, however, In the sug gestion It furnishes that stable may be constructed anllliicntly accurate for prac tical purMscs. Whether any of the ex isting companies will take up the sugges tion is very doubtful. Ths iscst of them are doing quite well enough on their present basis not to lie tempted to embark lu any new Held, and It la earnestly to lie hoped thai the worst of them, which srs not doing well now, will not injure the business of Insuring lmwlred lives by giving It s had send off. A fortune, however, awaits the com pany, old or new, which shall, with sound judgment and suftlcletit capital, enter upon that business. While the price to lie charged would necessarily be higher than lu the case of healthy lives, the risk, if the business were conducted on a sotiud basin, would probably be no greater. Ths cost would probably lie less, esieclally In the Item of commissions or salaries to so licitors. If anything can swltlvely be predicted as to an utterly untried scheme, It can be predicted that men of impaired lives would need much less soliciting to Induce them to Insure than the men of healthy lives do. Detroit Free Press. (letting Things Hoiuewhat Ml led. A newly elected Justice of the peace, who had been used to drawing up deeds .nd wills and little else, was called up to niarry a couple lu basts. He moving his bat lis remarked! "lints oft In the pres ence of the court." All being uncovered, he proceeded: "Hold tip yer right hand. You, John Muiiklu, do yer solemnly swear, to the best of yer knowledge an' belief, that yer take tills woman to havs an' to hold for yerself, yer heirs, execy ters, administrate and assigns, for yer nn thlr use an" behoof foreverf" . "I do," answered the groom, promptly. "You, Alice Evans, take this year man for yer Imsliaiid, ter have and ter hold forever; an' yeu do solemnly swear that yer lawfully seized In fee simple, an' free from all encumbrance, an have good right to sell, bargain and convey to said grantee, yerself, yer heirs, administrators and assigns?" ' "I I do," said the bride, doubtfully. "Well, that 'er's wuth a dollar 'n fifty cents." "Are ws mnrrledr" asked the bride. "Yes. Know all men by these presents thit I, bring In gsid health and of sound mind snd disunion, In consideration of a dollar 'n fifty cents, to me In hand well an' truly paid, the receipt whereof Is here by acknowledged, do su' by the presents have declared you mun an' wife dtirin' good behavior an' until otherwise ordered by the court" Omaha Bee. A Iilaappolnted Poppy. The most disappointed looking man to be met with In a day's Journey on the ele vated roads Is the flirtatious whipper snapper who discovers that he haa per mitted a pretty girl to stand, and who only makes the discover; after soma other man hss given heraseat. The scorn with which she receives any attempts on his part to attract her attention adds a double barb to his fond regrets for what might have been hail hs had his eyes open In time. But It slways does take puppies s long time to get their eyes open. Nsw York Press "Kvery Day Talk." Helalive Valuoe of rood. Professor At water grades tbs relative vol ie of various articles of food, according to tbelr cost In producing a given amount of muscul energy, with the following re sult A mixture of wheat flour and corn meal, being tbs most valuable for this purpose, Is Uken ss tbs unit, and costs, ssy, 1; oatmeal sod beans, lj; eight cent cheese, If, potstoes at seventy Bve cents a bushel. 1 J, fst salt pork. 2J. fifteen cent cheese, 2(; lies and eight cent beef. 2; wheat bread. 8. salt codfish. Si; smoked ham. 8L eleven cent mutton. 4; salt mack erel and seven eent milk, 4. sixteen cent beef, 6, fresh codfish, Sg; fresh mackerel Chicago News. MASTER OF THE "CUNNERY." A Hehmilmasler anil Ills Kovl Methods of Healing with Iteliarlorr I'uplls. Ntthlng suems to have ty-en more cbarse (eristic of Mr. Frederick W. Outin as a school master than his punishments. Tbey were so original, to good humored, they never wounded si!f-resavt They taught their hsuon, but they left no sting of humiliation behind. A boy who had been guilty of rude iicm was told to put ou his best clothes In the evening and muke a call upon a family of gentle ladies in tho villugs. They were In the secret aud would entertain him graciously, and he would go away, after a delightful evening, feeling the softening Influences of rixsl breeding without having been lectured by anylssly. A too noisy boy would be scut tiff to take a five mile walk, ordered to bold a chip in his mouth for an hour, or to run a dozen times around the church on the green, Sounding the tin dinner horn at each corner. If two small tKiyi were caught fighting they were made to take turns sitting iu each other's laja for one or two hours. If a boy were too lively in the sitting room bu was sent out to pound s log with a heavy club. Once Mr, Ounn caught a boy sprinkling a dog's face with water at the tank behind the "Gunnery." Ho was very fond of dogs, often having one on his lap and the other at his feet as bo sat at the head of bis school. Ho eniied the boy and ducked blm, just to let him know bow the dog felt. A boy's birth day was always a holiday for him. When Mr. Ounn found that one of the scholars had been celebrating three birthdays within s year ho kept his counsel, but the next time tlie genulno anniversary camo round the boy celebrated it by hugging a tree for several hours. Once one of tho scholars was found bugging a sign post at the fork of two roads, and saying in response to all questions: "I'm a Mir, miserablo sinner." Everybody knew this was under orders from the "Ouunery." Bome boys who had been robbing the apple trees of the neighbors were compelled to draw up a formal awlogy, boar it in proces sion to each owner snd read to these ss toniahed ieople on their knees. A boy wbo bail atoned a cow was made to deliver a peni tential oration to the whole herd in the barn yard for half an hour. One day was a very buy one In school Finally the laxiest boy com plained of being sick. "Any boy who's sick holdup his hand." More than half a dozen of them did It "in fun," which ended when the master sent them down to Mrs. Ounn to receive a strong dose of boneset tea. One Biinday morning one of the boys cou'd not go to church because he could not find his shoes. One shrewd glance from the master's eye told hiin the whole story. "Take off those stockings," said bu; "go down stairs aud blacken your feet aud go to church at once." Tho boy wont to church In his shoes, New YorkTribuue. Farts Concerning Inherited Diseases. In the realm of disease, the facts of in heritance aro most numerous, and are daily accumulating. Hers they are no longer, alas, curious and amusing, but terrible, fate ful, overwhelming. No fact of nature Is more pregnant with awful meaning than ths fact of the Inheritance of disease. It meets the physician on his daily rounds, paralyzing hia art, and filling him with sadness. The legend of the ancient Greeks pictured the malignant Furies pursuing families from generation to generation, ami rendering them desolate. The Furies still ply their work of terror and death; but we havo stripped them of the garb which aus.ratition threw around them, and they now spsssr to our eyes In the more intelligible but not less awful form of hereditary disease. Modern science, which has cast illumination into so many dark cor ners of uuture, has shed a now and still more lurid light ou tho wonts of the Hebrew Scrip ture: "The sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation." Instance of hereditary disease abound on every hand. Fully 50 per cent, of cases of gout are Inheritisl. The proportion is not much less In that fell destroyer of families, our national scourge, consumption. Cancer and scrofula run strongly in families. In sanity ia hereditary to a marked degree, but, fortunately, liko many other hereditary dis eases, tends to wear itself out, the stock be coming extinct. Nearly all defects of sight are occasionally inherited. Hir Henry Hol land says truly that "uo organ or texture of the body Is exempt from the chance of being the subject of hereditary disease." Probably most chronic, diseases which permanently modify ths structure snd functions of ths body are more or less liable to be inherited. Popular Science Monthly. The Itiile of Thumb, When, during the lata war, a story was told of s contractor's wife having bee u seen with a big diamond ring Usin hor thumb, It was thought to be a malicious invention of the enemy, few people knowing that 300 years ago it was the fashion to wear a ring un the thumb. Several of Queen Eliza beth' rings that ars still extaut and well Identified are so large that there can be no doubt that tbey were thumb rings. It waa at about the same ers tbs cuatom, Indeed, not only to wear a ring upon the thumb, but to wear the wedding ring there. The customs In relation to wedding rings hsve, however, always been as itruugs ss countless, ever slue there have been wedding ring at all. Mary Htuart was married to Lord Darnley with four rings, one not being sufllcieuL Twelve wedding rings were not considered an extravagant number among the early French nobles. Tb Or k church still uses two In Its ceremonial, and In some parts of ths (lenliuula three rings srs used, each being put on with an adjuration to a separate menitsjr of tbs Trinity. W s do not know that this is any more singular than a practice prevalent anywhere among ourselves tor a woman who has been twice married to wear the wedding rings of both husbands, quite regardless of the possibility of the first husband's apparitlonal return to claim her by means of the slgu manual be had once placed on her finger, aud by which he might still hold her as bound to himself. Harpers Bazar. a " Growth of ths Catalpa Tree. A curious examplo of the rapid growth of ths catalie tree Is to be seen In Independence square, Pbiladelphls. Several years sgo labels bearing the scientific and common names of ths trees were affixed to all the trees In the square. Tbs labels are rectangu lar metallic plates, each attached to a staple driven Into th tree from which it was su pended. As ths trees havs increased in girth the staple has been gradually buried and the platos tilted up Many of them srs stsn sngle approaching tbs horizontal, but tb plat on a catalpa tre is buried an Inch or mors under the bark, snd Is firmly fixed in that position, The astonishment of ths arch eologist of one of the future centuri who, In seeking for traces of the cradle of liberty, comes Umiu a tree with its scientifla nam Imbedded In its trunk may b Imagined. Chicago Herald. Hor root "Asleep." Bb sat upon the floor at play with her dill, with her foot bent under her until It be come "asleep" (a it is culled). Looking up suddenly she said: "Oh, dear, my foot feels as If I wss going to sneeze." Boston Glols A Gradual of Hi Tape Counter. "Verwy propsh In Mr. Simpson to de clnre that he didn't weab socks," re marked Dickie Dillington. "What any gentleman wears would b w ferred to as hose." The new freight rates established by the Oregon Railroad Commission ore a reduction on an average of not les than 3 1 per cent, on grain and millstufls and about 15 per cent, on horses, mules, etc., in carload lots. The Union Pacific will, with the Southern Pacific, contest the matter In the courts. "X.