A New Leper Colony.
Five Chinamen, afflicted with the lep
rosy, were recently removed from Vic
toria, B. C, to Darceyi aland,, which wil
now be used exclusively as a lazaretto
The patients objected strenuously and
one of them attempted to commit suicide
but was prevented. Darcey island is
situated about twenty miles from Vic
toria, and is one of the San Juan archi
pelago. It has an area of about 20(
cres and is a beautiful spot. This island
was uninhabited and was reserved bj
the provincial government. It was select
ed by Mayor Grant and Alderman Hol
land, of Victoria, as an appropriate loca
tion for a lazaretto.
The building is a strong and substan
tial frame house, divided into six good
sized rooms, each of which opens on t
covered porch. Each apartment has
cooking stove and v table, an iron bed
stead with spring mattress and plenty oJ
bed clothing. Each of the lepers has a
room to himself, and all are supplied
with abundant utensils for housekeeping.
Rice, sugar, flour, meat, bacon, potatoes,
dried fish and every imaginable delicacj
dear to the Celestial appetite are piled
up in the apartment utilized as a general
storeroom. Nothing has been overlooked
even opium was provided, and when
the miserable wrecks of humanity found
out they would not be deprived of theii
-soothing drug they laughed and chatted
gleefully. San Francisco Examiner.
A Curious Twelve Mile Railroad.
In railroad circles there is considerable
interest manifested in the reported salt
of the famous "Rainbow" route of Ottt
Mears. The report serves to draw at
tention to what is undoubtedly one ol
the most unique lines of railroad in th
world. The road is not more thai
twelve miles in length, extends from Sil
ver ton to Iron ton, but, as a marvelous
result of engineering skill, deserves tc
rank as one of the wonders of the world.
No one was quite so near heaven on t
railroad as when traveling on one ol
Mears' "baby" passenger cars.
The trip from Silverton to Irontoi
leaves a vivid impression on tht
mind of the tourist. It skirts th
edge of unfathomable abysses, winds
over mountain peaks, through regions
of eternal snow, leaps cataracts, spans
gorges, and finally bumps right into th
solid wall of the granite mountain
How this obstruction is overcome is not
at first apparent, but by the aid of t
complicated set of turntables engines
and cars are turned around and sail
merrily down hill to their destination.
Leadville Herald-Democrat.
Koch's Lvmnh In Colorado.
Several Koch hospitals have been es
tablished in the United States, but with
varying success, except that in Denver,
which seems to have been an unquali
fied success. In fact, Colorado alone
appears to possess all the admirable qual
ities that are demanded in treating con
sumption. This proposition met with
the indorsement of the national conven
tion of Climatologists, which met in
Denver last year and reported in favor
of this state as the only safe haven foi
persons afflicted with pulmonary disease.
In view of all these circumstances, it ia
reasonable to suppose that a combina
tion of scientific treatment, healthy regi
men, and injections of the health giving
lymph should produce the highest per
centage of cures. Medical records col
lated since the introduction of the K'nnb
lymph go to prove that many patients
nave oeen curea, some or whom have
gone to their homes in lower altitudes,
where they enjoy immunity from the
. -disease. Denver News.
Thrones Occupied by Children.
Three thrones in Europe now are oc
cupied by children Queen Wilhemina
of the Netherlands, ten years of age;
Alphonso XIII of Spain,' five years and
Alexander I of Servia, a boy of fourteen.
Two of the little sovereigns are con
trolled by wise and capable mothers, but
the banished Queen Natalie is the mother
of the other. Mme. Natalie is a brave
woman, and just at present she is the
recipient of a great deal of sympathy
from her people. The woman instinct,
strong even in danger; must have
prompted her to leave the palace with
'her beautiful black hair streaming over
her shoulders." It is difficult to compute
the influence of those raven tresses, or
the potency of the spectacle of beauty in
distress. New York Sun.
Bear Creek's Mysterious Disappearance.
Bear Creek, a large tributary to the
Gasconde river, was quite high on ac
count of the recent rains, and had begun
to overflow many of the low bottoms.
Farmers were very anxious about their
crops for several miles above the mouth,
Imagine their surprise when at the
height of their anxiety the waters sud
denly and mysteriously began to sub
side. On examination it was found that
seven or eight miles above the mouth of
the creek a cavity had broken throueh
the bed of the creek and the water was
all emptying into this cavity. The
creek has dried np below. Hundreds of
people are visiting the scene. Cor. St.
lxrais Globe-Democrat.
A five-year-old boy fell into deep
water rrom a ondge m Seattle., aad it
was twenty-five minutes -before men
brought him to the surface with grap
pling irons, tie was rolled over a barrel,
and at the end of two hours was pro
nounced out or danger.
A Washinsrtonian cot in an now m-o.
dicament the other night. After retiring
mo loiuing oed -closed up" on nim,
standing him on his bead and rendering
him entirely helpless. His screams
brought assistance and he was soon re
leased.
From Oregon comes the queer story
that a five-year -old child at Eugene
grows faster' on the one side than on
the other without anv annarpnt rann-
Physicians there are reported to be high
ly interested in ttie case.
Charges and fees paid by the late Dr.
Magee to pass from the episcopate of
Peterborough to the archiepiscopate of
York amounted to $3,500. : '
21 en and Their Ties.
It is tolerably safe, in these days of
variety in dress, to judge a man by the
necktie he wears. It gives a glimpse of
character to the observant student of
human nature. Look around in a Ful
ton street car and notice the different
styles of men and the different styles of
ties. Without looking above the chin
of any of the men you can size him up
correctly nine times out of ten. If he
wears a very large and very red scarf
over a very loud checked shirt, with a
fourteen carat chandelier diamond put
ting the snnbeams to sleep all about it,
you don't hesitate in pronouncing him a
young man that would sooner fight than
eat See?
And if he wears a little bit of a black
ribbon, tied in a very tight and slender
sailor's knot that hangs straight down
over a soiled shirt bosom, from the meet
ing place of the two ends of a turn down
collars why, you know without looking
further that there's a thin, weazened
face above it, with bright, beady eyes,
whose glances glide stealthily and quick
ly from one point to another eyes which
are restless, hard, greedy. You know
that man is as stingy and ugly as the
tie he wears. In contrast with this is
the big, loose, white puff, with a small
gold pin shoved carlessly through it from
the side. There it lies on an immaculate
linen front, as handsome and careless
and captivating as the hearty, generous,
whole souled fellow whom it adorns.
Then there's the man who wears the
white bowknot in the daytime; look out
for him. He's a hypocrite or worse.
And the man with the same four in
hand that he's worn for a week, soiled
and crumpled he's either very rich or
very poor, head over heels in business or
slovenly and mean, one or the other.
The pale tinted tie is a sign of conceit
The polka dot is worn by the young
man who don't care much for girls, but
'who takes "to boating and swimming.
Solid black signifies a docile disposition,
satin finish means vanity of the worst
type, and a checked tie well, the man
who wears a black and white check will
steal chickens. Brooklyn Eagle.
An Admiral's Dilemma.
An old admiral, whose long sea service
had given his legs a decided outward
curvature, once had a singular adventure
on this account with a ship's pet The
crew of the ship owned a large black
spaniel, and took great pains in teaching
him to jump. A man, standing up,
would put one foot, against his other
knee, thus making a hole for Nep, the
dog, to make his leap through. The dog
always jumped through the aperture
readily, though if his trainer's legs hap
pened to be short, it was sometimes a
rather tight squeeze.
One day the admiral came aboard
from the flagship on a visit of inspec
tion. Happening t walk to the forward
part of the ship he stood there for a few
minutes conversing with the officer who
had attended him. Here he was spied
by the dog. Nep stood a moment sur
veying the admiral's bowlegs. Suddenlv
the dog made a rush at the legs and a
mad leap through the tempting gap. In
astonishment at the black tornado that
had passed beneath him the admiral
whirled quickly about to see what was
the cause. The dog took this action as
a signal for an "encore," and jumped
again. Once more the admiral turned,
and again the dog jumped. The bewil
dered face of the Admiral and the seri
ous attention of Nep to what he imag
ined was his business were too much for
the gravity of the bystanders, and, for
getting the respect due to rank, they all
roared with laughter.
A sailor, however, had enough pres
ence of mind to break from the crowd
and catch the dog by the collar. He led
him off, and as he did so Nep seemed to
wonder why he did not receive the praise
due to such spirited efforts. The ex
cited admiral got but an imperfect ex
planation of the affair from the specta
tors, for they could hardly tell him that
his legs had been used as a kind of circus
hoop by a forecastle dog. Perhaps to
his dying day the occurrence was a mys
tery to him. San Francisco Argonaut"
The Japanese Wax Tree.
"Japan wax," as it is called, is ob
tained from a tree, Rhus succedanea,
which is found in Japan, China and
throughout the East Indies in general.
In the Japanese language it .is called
haje or haze. The tree commences to
bear fruit when five or six years old,
and increases its product every year,Ntdll
at the age of fifty years a single tree will
produce 830 to 400 pounds of berries,
from which seventy to eighty pounds of
wax can be obtained. ' ' -
The wax is formed in the middle of
the berry, between the skin and the
seed, like the pulp of a grape. It is ex
tracted by boiling the berries in water
and allowing it to cool, when the wax
separates from the skin and seed, sink
ing to the bottom of the vessel in a solid
cake. The specific gravity of this wax
is 0.970, and its melting point 131 degs.
Fahrenheit It is largely used, either
alone or mixed with tallow, by the Chi
nese in the manufacture of candles.
This tree should not be confounded
with the "tallow tree" of China, which
has a pith of solid tallow in all trees that
have fully matured. St. Louis Repub
lic. The Host Was Absent.
After a dinner given by Stephen Price,
of Drury Lane theater, all the guests but
Theodore Hook and the Rev. Edward
Cannon retired. Price was suffering
from gout, but as they disregarded his
hints to retire, he stole off and left them
in high talk. ' On the following morning
he inquired of his servant: "Pray, at
what time did those gentlemen go last
night?" "Go, sir?" replied John; "they're
not gone, sir; they have just rung for
coffee." San Francisco Argonaut.
: A Far Sighted Citizen.
Wiggins How is this? You said a
year or so ago that you intended to move
to Chicago.
Diggins Since Chicago got the
World's fair I have changed my mind.
"Why so?".
"Too many relatives." New York
Weekly.
. Story of a New York Hank.
Mrs. Jones' death suggests the story of
the founding of the Chemical bank.
This institution is in some respects the
most famous of American banking
houses. A good many years ago certain
shrewd and wealthy . Welshmen under
took to start a factory for the manufac
ture of chemicals, and as a branch of
this undertaking they proposed to have
a little bank, more for convenience than
for money making. The -chemical fac
tory was started, and the little bank got
agoing at the same time, and one man
was able to act as president, cashier and
teller. By and by it began to dawn
upon the stockholders that the little bank
was the most profitable branch of their
undertaking.
A hard headed Welshman named
Jones, who had married the daughter of
Mr. Mason, the founder of the chemical
factory and bank, began to teach the old
New Yorkers what banking was. The
capital was small, and the profits were
constantly charged to the surplus ac
count, until by and by the stockholders
found that they had a bigger surplus
than they had capital. The business in
creased, and so did the surplus, and the
directors kept on adding the profits to
the surplus, (satisfied to see that pile
grow rather than to take the dividends
in cash.
Out of this kind of banking has grown
the modern Chemical bank, on a capital
of $300,000. It has made a surplus of
many millions of dollars, it pays fre-.
quently semi-monthly dividends of 4 or 6
per cent, its stock is quoted away,up in
the thousands and is only obtainable
through the death of some stockholder
and the subsequent closing out of hie
estate. New York Cor. Chicago Herald.
Look Out for Her.
Maude went shopping recently, and
although Maude knows the interiors of
the big mercantile emporiums almost as
well as that of her own home, she met
with a brand new experience. Said she:
"I had made all of my purchases ex
cept one. 1 It was a neglige gown, which
the shop girl vulgarly called a wrauper.
There was a dainty pink garment and
one in pale blue. I couldn't decide
which one would best suit my style of
beauty, so I just sat there thinking it
over. Before I could make up my mind
a well dressed woman rushed up and
saluted the girl behind the counter with:
'Don't you remember me? Fve bought
several of these wrappers, and a lot of
my friends have them too. We are. all
delighted with them. The pink ones
are so becoming, and I can't see how the
firm sells them so low. Do you know I
put a little extra trimming on one and
use it as a tea gown. Oh, they are a
bargain.' Then she moved on.
'By - this time I had decided to take
the pink one and ordered it sent home.
As I was leaving the store I heard a fa
miliar voice, and there in the glove de
partment was the same woman declaring
that those suede gloves were ridiculously
cheap, and a customer who was hesitating-
bought two pairs at once. I played
detective after that and saw the woman
help other doubtful customers to make
up their minds until I was convinced
that she was a fixture in the establish
ment "Now I am sorry I didn't take the blue
wrapper." New York Recorder.
An Honest Boniface.
A college graduate is now telling en
thusiastically a story about the honesty
of a tavern keeper in the old college
town. The graduate had not visited the
place since his college life ended until
the other day, when a convention of his
secret society was held there. He went
around to the old tavern where he had
had many late suppers, to see if the pro
prietor was still alive and to take a look
at the room where he had toasted every
one and everything connected with his
college and his class.
"Halloa, Mr. X -," said the old inn
keeper, "I'm glad to see you, for I owe
you six dollars." "Owe me six dollars?'
said the graduate in astonishment "I
shouldn't have been surprised if I had
owed you, but I don't see how you can
owe me. Certainly such a condition of
affairs never existed when I was in col
lege." The old man took out his ledger.
"There you are," he said triumphantly.
"Just before you went away you settled
your account, and you overpaid me six
dollars. There it is to your credit"
There was only one thing for a college
man to do in his old meeting place, and
this was promptly done a debt washed
out just as others had been washed in, if
one may say it New York Tribune.
We Cling to Early Ideas.
Naturalists are now telling usthat the
opossum does not play 'possum, but is
merely paralyzed with fear for the time
being. Articles are published every day
in our ornithological papers and maga
zines which go to prove that owls can
see equally as well by day as by night
It is still an undecided question whether
snakes "charm" their prey or not. In the
western backwoods these old stories are
still believed in, the ignorant classes
cling with fondness to them and will
not learn anything different, and down
in our own hearts do we "not cling to
them, more or less?
- Do we not hate to give them up, and
is it not with a little regret that we are
forced to acknowledge that the porcu
pine does not shoot his quills, that the
bird of paradise really has feet and legs,
and that our national bird, the white
headed eagle, is far from the noble bird
we once thought him to be? Forest and
Stream.
' The Test of Greatness.
When EHiston came down from Lon
don to his own theater at Birmingham
he was known to scarcely a member of
his own company. On reprimanding
one of them sharply the irate actor
threatened to kick him off the stage.
He rushed to the stage manager and
asked who that man was. "Mr. A ."
"A great man a. very great man," said
Ellis ton; "he threatened to kick me, the
lessee of Drury Lane. Such a man as
that must go to London: he mustn't
waste his energies . here." And he en
gaged the actor on" the spot for Drury
Lane. San Francisco Argonaut.
"Monte CrUto" Outdone.
"Monte Cristo" may hide its diminished
head. What was the "find" of Edmond
Dan tea compared with that of the dis
covery made by the contractors who en
gaged to demolish the castle of San An
tonio, at Rio Janeiro, for the Brazilian
government? In the cellars of that edi
fice they successively dug up twelve iron
clamped chests and sixteen sacks, con
taining 70,000,000 old Spanish dollars in
gold, plus a leaden box filled with papers.
One of these documents was a receipt
given by a Father Anton Desarte, supe
rior of the Jesuits' college at Rio, for
20,000,000 gold dollars, to be paid by him
as a tribute to King John V of Portugal
when he visited Brazil. .
It is supposed that when the Jesuits at
Rio learned how, in the Eighteenth cen
tury, the Marq lis de Poinbal was expell
ing their order from Portugal, they hid
the treasures which have been discov
ered. A list of the wealth so concealed
has been found in the leaden box. It
mentions the $70,000,000 just brought to
light, 2,800 pounds of gold duBt and 20,
000 pounds weight of gold ingots. To
whom, it is asked at Rio, does the treas
ure belong? Is it to the republic, the
king of Portugal, the Jesuits, or the peo
ple who contracted to cart away all the
materials of the castle they were em
ployed to demolish? Paris Cor London
Dispatch.
Where Becket's Bones Are Buried.
Thomas a Becket's bones are to the
fore again, and this time it seems as if
the matter were really settled, and that
the saint's remains might henceforth be
left in peace. It will be remembered
that when the skull and bones were dis
covered, which gave rise to so much con
troversy in the antiquarian world three
years ago, there were several objectione
urged against their being those of the
murdered archbishop, the principal one
being that the contemporary pope spoke
of a "double sacrilege" having been
committed by Henry, in that he had not
only murdered the saint, but had also
burned his sacred bones.
This argument has now been met by
the discovery in the British museum of
some notes for a sermon to be preached
at Paul's Cross some time after the mur
der, in which the preacher jots down
that he was by the king's command to
contradict the statement that Becket's
bones had been burned. Then come
some lines which are crossed through in
the manuscript, but which have now
been deciphered and read as follows:
"They (the bones) are buried beneath one
of. the central towers of Canterbury
cathedral." This should be conclusive!
Pall Mall Gazette. .
Australia ships large numbers of eggs to
the British markets. It takes six weeks
for them to reach the markets.
Alcohol and whiting is recommended for
cleaning windows long begrimed with dust
and rttioVa.
Old
Peon! e.
J. V. S. is the only Sarsaparllla tlis.C old or
feeble people should take, as themir.wiil potash
which is in every other Sarsaperilla that v.-eknovr
of, is under certain conditions known to be
emaciating. J. V. S. on tho contrary Is purely
vegetable and stimulates digestion and creates
new blood, the very thins tor old, delicate or
broken down people. It builds them up and
prolongs their lives. A case in point: -
Mrs. Belden an estimable and elderly lady ot
610 Mason St., S. F. was for months declining so
rapidly as to seriously alarm her family. It got
so bad that she was finally afflicted with fainting
spells. She writes: " While In that dangerous
condition I saw some of the testimonials con
cerning J. V. 8. and sent for a bottle. That marked
the turning point. I regained my lost flesh and
strength and have not felt so well In yean.'
That was two years ago and Mrs. Belden is well
and hearty to-day, and still taking J. V. S.
If yon are old or feeble and want to be built up.
Ask for
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Severe Law.
The English peo
ple look more closely
'to the genuineness
of these staples than
we do. In lac, they
have a law under
'Which -they make
seizures and de
stroy adulterated
products that are
not what they are represented to be. Under
this statute thousands of pounds of tea have
been burned because of their wholesale adul
teration. Tea, by the way, is one of the most notori
ously adulterated articles of commerce. . Not
alone are the bright, shiny green teas artifi
cially colored, but thousands of pounds of
uiit,tl-ute for tea leaves arc used to well :
the bulk of cheap tea;; ash, sloe, and willow
ttaves being those most commonly used.
Again, sweepings fr.:ni tea warehouses are
colored and sold as tea. Even exhausted lea
leaves gathered from the tea-houses ore kept,
dried, and madeoverr.nd find their way luto"
the henp teas.
The LiiylUh xovi-.romFnt attempts to btamp
thU out by to!if'i3f-.-.!i .u; but no tea is too
poor f x M ; the result Is, that prub:tily '
the pooru.t te&s used by any nation are Ihj&e
ionsumcd iu America.
leech's Tea is presented with the guar
un y that it is uncolorud and unadulterated;
in fact, the sun-curs.! tea leaf pure and sim
ple. Its purity ir:;.ures superior strength,
about one third teis of it being required for
an infusion than of fhea-tificiel teas, and its
fragrance and exquii?e flavor is at once ap
parent. It will be a revelation to you. In
order that its purity and quality may be guar
anteed, it is sold only in pound packages
bearing this trade-mark:
TireAs2hTdho.od:
Price 60c per pound. For sale at
Leslio Sutler's,
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we ask that you give it a fair trial, and
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