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Tfca Mortb Wind. Tke surly north wiads Mow-tag Hia trumpet loud and ahi-fli, And piling high his snowdrifts Alone the naked hlLL fie's flying madly southward, - And soon his angry note Will soften, and Ue'U dofl his Icicle broidered coat. For then he'U be the sooth wind. And he will wander back With roses in his whiskers And roses in his pack. Ee'Il wave hia flower trumpet And. northbound, scatter free His pack of dewy flowers On mountain side and lea. Harper's Young Peopla. An ExpierimesUI Locomotive. The owners of what are called the Holman-Caldwell patents are bavin; fitted up in Milwaukee a locomotive to . M equipped with a new style of running goar, which its owners think will accom "piiHh great things in railroading. The new running gear consists of a trnc!i 'with ten wheels, three of which on each aide rest upon the rails, and are sur mounted by two others, the tires of which have frictional contact with the tires of the wheels below.' Then sur- 'Kxmntrng these two wheels is the dnve wheel of the locomotive, the wheel ar rangement on each side being that of a "pyramid, with the drive wheel on top. As the lower seta of wheels are of much smaller diameter than the drive "wheels which transmit motion to them it is claimed that the ordinary speed of a locomotive can be doubled by the use "of this gearing. A stock company has Been formed to exploit this invention. and as soon as possible a trial trip is to n made. It is proposed to first ran the engine now being equipped from Minne apolis to Boston. Representatives of the Holman -Caldwell company have been in Milwaukee for several days looking after toe construction of the trial truck and exhibiting models of the invention to xaoiroad men. Milwaukee Wisconsin. Saved by His Wife's Wit. The Rev. Dr. Clinton Locke, the popu lar Episcopal clergyman, of Chicago, made a . bad break the other day, but was helped out by the quick wit of his "wife. On the day in question he saw a lady about to call whom he was anxious aot to meet. So he said to his wife: "Now I'm off, my dear. IT1 run up stairs and escape till she goes away." After about an hour he quietly tiptoed to the stair landing and listened. All "was quiet below. Reassured he began to descend, and while doing bo he thoughtlessly but emphatically called out over the bannister: "Well, my dear, has that old bore gone at lastT - The next instant a voice from below caused the cold perspiration to bedew Ida ministerial brow and rooted him to the spot. There came a response which Bounded inexpressibly sweet to him just tken. It was the voice of his wife, who, , "with true womanly tact, replied, "Yes, darling, she went away over an hour ago, but here is our good friend, Mrs. TOank, whom I am sure you want to aaeetr New York Tribune. Ward and Her Aldiaaaa mt On. According to The Isle of Wight Guard ian, the island one day recently was the acene of a strange dramatic performance with a powerful "cast" There could be seen Miss Genevieve Ward, Dr. Dabbs, Mrs. Dabbs, and a dramatic vis itor, a Mr. Lumsdaine, together with a yotmg lady, Miss Ethel Goddard, and this powerful dramatic company were engaged in what? They were reading through a new play of Dr. Dabbs and Mr. Righton, entitled "Dante," to se cure the copyright. The admission was one guinea, which was paid at the door, and the audience consisted of one person! And so the qualifications of the copyright aw were complied with, and the right of the authors to the title of "Dante" is legally secure against all comers. But why not have given us all the chance of seeing it? for nights are dull and the atricals are quite in our way such is the lament of the paragraph writer. Death of a Jolly Good Fellow. Mr. Jerome's serious iHns recalls to any mind an incident which I noticed with some amusement at his brother's funeral. He was such a jolly good f el- . low that even when be was in company in a coffin he was not as depressing as an ordinary corpse. An awfully swell yoang girl, tailor made, with that aplomb which only nature can give, came into the room with a young man, walked with the hippy movement which was then the fin de siecle carriage for a girl over to the coffin, looked pleasantly at Mr. Jerome, and then turned and walked out again. As she reached the vestibule she said to her escort with a cheerful tone, in a perfectly audible ice, "Well, he had an awfully good time while, he livedr Could the king . of terrors have been treated with dain tier indifference? New York World. A Primitive Process. There is no government tag at the Norfolk navy yard now, and in moving heavy vessel, along the wharf front the hauling is accomplished mostly by the boll teams of the yard, a primitive pro cess, but the best available at present. It takes about four yoke of bulls to move a -vessel easily along, but when they tackle a big ship like thedoafcteinrreted monitor Ainphitrite the boils generally go down exhausted before the rmhng is ewer. In doing tag duty for the past year the bull team appears as a new fac tor in the economy of nary yard affairs. Washington Star. The late Duke of Bedford eat in the hoaee of commons for twenty-five years and in the house of lords for eighteen -years, in all a parliamentary career of forty-three years, without opening his Bps. BHs estate covered 118 acres in London, with about 8,000 residences or shops. - Two bandied and sixteen thousand copies of "Black Beauty" are claimed to have been sold in America, and the Hu mane Education association is having "the work translated into French, Ger . man, Spanish, Italian and Volapuk. An Batcle Attacks a Farmer. i Thomas Shelby, a farmer, living eigit miles from Lexington, Kv.. on the Richmond turnpike, had a desperate en counter with a wounded eagle recently. He was out riding over his farm when he discovered a large bird perched on the topmost limb of a tree. At the first glance he thought the bird to- be a black buzzard, but as he drew nearer he concluded that it must be an eagle. He noticed that the bird kept eying his dogs, which were near the tree. Shelby took advantage of this fact and rode up close to the tree on the opposite side from the dogs. He had his shotgun with . him, loaded with small shot, When he reached a point about thirty yards from the tree he fixed. . The eagle came crashing down through the branches and Shelby ran to pick it up. The load of shot was too small to do more than disable the bird by breaking its wings. As Shelby approached the bird of free dom turned and dashed at him with the ferocity of a tiger. By rapid dodging he managed to keep out of reach of the bird's claws for several moments. He finally picked up a fallen limb, and each time the bird dashed at him he avoided it and struck and rained effective blows upon the vicious bird of freedom. It was not, however, until he had mashed its head almost to a jelly that the bird gave up the fight. Shelby escaped with a number of scratches and took the bird to Lexington, where it was placed on exhibition. It is of the species known as the gray eagle, and is the first one killed in this part of the country for many years. It weighed seventeen pounds and measured nearly seven feet from tip to tip. Cincinnati Ikiquirer. Modest Expectations. I have a friend who is in distress for want of "something to do." Not finan cial, but mental distress. He has an in come sufficient for his wants, but he de plores the inactivity that is forced upon him by his failure to secure a congenial and sufficiently remunerative business engagement. He has tried the profes sion of law, but no 4 clients came to his office, and that did not help him in his effort to busy himself. Then he tried journalism, but after a few weeks at that gave it up because it was degrading to a rich man to work for $40 a wee!:, which was as large a salary as he could command at the outset. "And think of it, too," said he in a plaintive tone in recounting his news paper experience, "I have invested in my education and in travel perhaps con siderably over $60,000, and upon all this investment in myself I was only able to realize about 8 per cent., and had to work pretty nearly all night and day for that" What my friend desires is a situ ation that will pay him for the actual work he does, and also a fair rate of in terest upon his investment in himself. My friend is modest. New York Star. -Mew York Girls on Fifth Avenue. Every pleasant afternoon the mwm. sions of school girls may be seen swing ing along Fifth avenue from Fourteenth to Fifty-ninth street. Thev are nnnilo in the various private academies along toat route, ana their outing is in accord ance with the latest accepted method of physical exercise. They are an robust and rosy cheeked girls, and they walk in a manner that invariably excites the ad miration of that natriarch of nvtefitri- ans, Edward Payson Weston, when he nappens to see them. .Low heels and broad soles to the shoes, their hands on their hins. heads err mnnthi nostrils dilated and eyes sparkling, they form pictures which go far toward con tradicting the oft told tale that New York girls, even those at school, are af fected with ennui of the worst type. There are usually a dozen of these high spirited girls in each nartv. and thnv accompanied by one or more teachers wno, aitnougn advanced in years, are usually fine, superb specimens of nerfetrt American womanhood. New York Times. An Intelligent Equine. The intelligence of the horse has iuat been demonstrated at Vesper, near Syra cuse, N. Y., on the extensive farm of ex Sheriff G. G. Burroughs. Among his herd of Hambletonian horses in a field was a brood mare and a suckling colt. A few days ago the mother partly pulled one of her shoes off. With a great deal of "horse sense" she jumped out of the pasture and went to EL E. Moon's black smith shop. The smithy started to drive the animal away, but finally discovered and reset the bent shoe. The mare then went contentedly back to the pasture, scaled the fence and was once more min gled with the herd. Cincinnati Com mercial Gazette. The Proverbial XJrety Cricket. Carpenters driUmor a mortiw into n heavy oak scantlintr at Cromwell, on r.ho Connecticut river, a few days ago, dis placed a soiia Knot ana round two crickets in a little round cavitv behind the knot.. The crickets were alive, but not very lively, ana were or a pale, waxy hue, with yelloW spots on their backs. They died within a few moments after they had been exposed to the air. How did they get walled into the little hollow in the Bcantlinz? TJnduestion&hlv ihv crawled into a knot hole in the stick years ago when it was a part of a stand ing tree, and the wood grew about them. iMUdiphia Ledger. : - . And Then B XMAnt. A Spanish author says in a serial story now running: "Then she looked Bp. Then he made a movement am it tn clasp her in his sons. Then then he drew a drett from his Docket, scratched a mxtnh n his kr and proceeded to smoke." ispamsu neroes are sensible. Detroit Free Press. A remarkable petition is on its wav from India to Qneen Victoria. It is more than sixty feet in length, and is sea Dy more than 10,000 women in bdia who are anxious to have the legal marriage age for girl raised from, its present Knrit of 10 to 14 years. ' Love Finds a Way. " Often a young man has written two letters at the same time and then placed them in the wrong envelopes, but the latest break of this kind was made by one oi tae prettiest girls in Louisville. She wrote a letter to her brother, who is at Knoxville, and at the same time a let ter to a well known young newspaper aaan. The envelope directed to the lat ter contained a letter beginning "Dear Brother. At first the recipient of the epistle did not think this strange, as the young lady, although living in the eitv. is boarding at one of the female school After reading a few lines he saw it was not intended for hiua. Looking at the end he saw the letter was signed "Your Little Sister." This alarmed him and he began to taink how he could get the girl out of tiie scrape. Finally he lost his head and did the very thing he should not have done. He telegraphed the brother not to open the letter, tiiat it was not intended for him This had just the opposite effect, and the brother opened it, read it through and then forwarded it to his parents. The young lady is being sent to school to keep her away from this aspiring young jAnm.Ko TM niL. " 1 , ' juiuiuuioh J- vim invuct J 'ctlLl inrq a Call and a stormy scene was the result. The young lady's letters have to go through the hands of the teacher now. In spite of this aha has managed to get a letter to him, and he has written an answer that has reached its destination, proving that "love laughs at locksmiths." Louisville Commercial. He Changes to Stone. One of the most remarkable human curiosities ever seen has been examined by M. de Quatrefages, the French natur alist. He is a provincial named Simeon Aiguier, and is 30 years old. Aicruier. thanks to his peculiar system of muscles and nerves, can transform himself in most wondrous fashion. At one moment, assuming the rigidity of a statue, his body may be struck sharply, the blows falling on a block of stone. At another he moves his intes tines from above and below and right to left into the form of a large football, and projects it forward, which gives bin the appearance of a colossally stout person age. He then withdraws it into the thorax, opening like a cave, and the hollow look of his body immediately reminds one of a skeleton. Aiguier successfully imi tates a man subjected to the tortures of the rack, as also a man hanging himself, and assumes a strikingly cadaverous look. What most astonished M. de Quatrefages was the stoppage of the cir culation of the blood, now on the left and now on the right side, which was effected by muscular contraction. Cin cinnati Commercial Gazette. An Eagle Trapped by a locomotive. While a Chicago, Burlington and Qnincy freight train was coming from Burlington here recently the engineer noticed an eagle sitting on the track feasting on a rabbit. The eagle arose when the engine drew near, but the locomotive was running so rapidly that the big bird could not clear it. One of the wings flapped into the wedge shaped space formed by the head light bracket and the extension at the front end of the boiler, and was held there as in a vise. The fireman went forward and released the wing and car ried the eagle into the cab, where it showed fight and made tilings lively for the engineer, who finally cornered it and brought it here alive. It is now the proo- erty of R. W. Colville, master mechanic of the Chicago, Burlington and Qnincy, and is an unusually fine specimen. Galesburg (His.) Cor. St. Louis Globe- Democrat. . Earnings of Bailways for 1S0. Bradstreet's gives the gross earnings of 128 railways for the year 1890. The amount realized on a total mileage of 85,678 was $484,239,134. This is a gain of 8.6 per cent, in earnings and 3.7 per cent, in mileage. The gain on 130 roads in 1889 over 1888 was 8.5 per cent. Hivery group of roads shows an increase for the year,' the smallest gain being that of the Mexican roads, seven-tenths of 1 per cent., and the largest that of the southwestern roads, 12.7 per cent. In addition to the latter three others show gains in excess of 10 per cent. viz., the eastern roads, 10.3 per cent.; the south ern roads, 12 per cent., and the Pacific roads, 10.9 per cent. The central west ern roads gain 9.5 per cent., and the grangers 8.7 per cent., while the trunk lines show the comparatively modest gain of 2.4 per cent. Wet Hair In Wlater. "What a foolish habit some men have of putting water on the hair in this kind of weather," remarked one of the Du quesne barbers. "Why put water on the hair at aQ? It is done, to be sure, to make the hair lie down, but it is more of a habit than anything else. The hair can be brushed dry as well as wet. ' You see mm go out of barber shops with the water running from behind their ears. In a few minutes it is changed into icicles. The next day they complain of earache, neuralgia, or pain in the back of the head. Do you won der why? The cause is not deeply hid den. It is not water on the brain this time, but ice on the hair." 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