Hit Overalls Nipped by n Anaconda. ;
ur. wena linger came la town irom up
-ue mcnmoDU nun Aiieguany rauroau .
With . dead snake jthat was a regular
monster, jii was iutee iees long ona (as-i
larcrein Drouortiou.,'and was' evidently'!--
anaconda .which had probably es
caped from some of the many traveling
ten cent fihows which have lately fre
quented this part of the world. Hi3
anakeship was left at the cafe of Mr.
Gus El. Delaware, where a nainber of
people gazed in silent awe npon the de
ceased gigantic reptile.
It was killed at Lorraine, on the Rich
mond and Alleghany railroad, abont six
miles from Richmond, by Mr. Lane, sec
tion foreman on the' road. It is stated
that it crawled out of the woods and
silently approached from behind a negro
boy who was working near the track.
It seized the overalls which the negro
bad on in its mouth and begau chewing
on them. Some one culled to the negro
to look behind hiin, and as he did so be
saw the snake and fell over paralyzed
with fear. Mr. Lane then seized an ax
and killed the creature.
Whether the reptile intended to get a
firmer hold on the negro's clothing and
then throwing him, and after crashing
him to jelly eating him, or whether it
was a tame snake that approached the
boy only with friendly intent will never
be known. An engineer of the road says
that he saw the monster abont two years
ago -aud reported the fact. Richmond
Times. " -
- Saved by a Mad stone.
William Southard is a workman at
Kingau's. Sunday, while walking in
Indianapolis, he was bitten by a dog,
which was evidently mad. He killed the
dog after a long" chase. Then he exam
ined his wounded hand and -found that
the bife was discoloring it aud that the
- member was swelling badly. Doctors
advised him to seek a mudstone, and
Monday he weut .to Whitestown, Boone
county, near which Moses Nease, a
farmer, lives. Neawe is a generous man,
who has a tuadstoue of great local fame.
Southard applied to hiin, aud is back in
this city satisfied that he is safe from
danger.
The fctoue, a square, white, ' porous
substance, was applied. "It stuck firmly
for nearly niiie hours, falling off once,
full of green poison. The ftone was
cleaned in boiling milk, which turned
green from the effect of the, poison ex
tracted from the wound by the stone.
- The stone stuck deep in the swollen flesh,
drew the muscles and leaders into strong,
knotty cords and "did its work" visibly"
The owner of the stone is a philanthro
pist, and has owned the stone for genera
tions. ' It is part, he says, of a Virginia
stone owned by an Uncle and broken
into several parts, so as to be of service
in many parts of the country. Indian-
- apolis News.
Kattlenitake Pete and His IV t Coon.
Rattlesnake Pete has had a pet coon
for the past three years that was as fnll
of tricks as an egg is of meat. One of
of these tricks was to throw back the
three bolts on his cage, let the other slni
tnalsoutand go visiting. His favorite
resort was the Exchange hotel, where he
would hide' in the cellar and chase the
women when they entered. - On one -occasion
he entered, the dining room and
frightened the girls' so they climbed, on
the table. He kept guard for nearly a
half hour, when the girls cried for help.
He performed his last trick at supper
time Friday, when he chased one of the
girls up the cellar stairs and caught ' her
dress in his teeth. She drew his head
throngh-tbe door, slammed the door shut,
and held him there until one of the other
girls brought a cleaver and split his head
open. . The body weighed twenty-seven
pounds, and the hide will be stuffed.
Oil City Derrick! . ' '
Stole a Hoc Stove.
"It was the cold, your honor, aud
I did not mean to steal," said Thomas
CNeil at the Tombs. He was charged
by William' A. Tompkins with stealing
a stove from the propeller Peekskill.
.The prisoner, who is a longshoreman,
wandered out Sunday night and went
aboard the Peekskill. The only thing of
value which he saw was a small stove
-valued at eight dollars, with a nice,
warm fire in it. He took it and was
arrested,' but failed to explain when
Officer McCarthy of the Leonard street
station found him carrying it up Canal
street. New York Advertiser.
lyartliqtiakes in 1801;
The record of earthquake shocks kept
at the Smithsonian institution in Wash
ington shows that there have been more
of them this year thus far than there
were in any previous year of recent
-times. There have been numerous slight
shocks in many parts of the country, and
there have been heavier shocks in South
America, Asia, Africa and the islands of
the Pacific. . .When the earthquake
record of. the world for the year 1891 is
made up at the end of December it will
be long and elaborate. Yankee Blade.
A very young married couple, perhaps
the youngest in the country, have their
abode in Sterling, Conn. . They are Mr.
and Mrs. C. Fennet, who have been mar
ried five months. His age is fourteen
: years and seven months, and she is ine
months older than he.
A new explosive called terrorite has
been invented. It is a gelatinous com
pound,' the ingredients being a secret.
It is said to be safe to handle,, very pow
erful and can be fired in shells
The fruit and potato crops of Califor
nia are so great that a large percentage
f them will not be brought to market
owing to the price being so low that it
-will be unprofitable. .
i ' :
A French engineer has asked permis
sion to blow up the famous rocks known
as the "Iron Gates" of the Danube with
a new explosive he has invented called
fortis. :-
While the West Indian' sponges bring
in the wholesale market as ' low a price
as twenty cents, the finest Turkey varie
ties are often sold as high as eight dol-
1
RB Jiierair un tne lnllJml ri. 7
. a.u juruuauuiu iu :4ucuiau
uuj u iv ;
the Vorld"s jir, paying their expenses j
't-; :: - i
-A membership -fee of live dollars
is !
charged fo paj'. the running expenses of
the sock'ly. The remaining payments
are iu installments of, say. one dollar a
! wwlc for fifty-five wqpks.
j To provide against loss of the people's
' savings by accident or frand, all moneys
! so deposited ara turned over to the New
1 ork security and Trust company. Un
der the deed of trust the society gets uo
money from the Trnst company nntil
the members have been given ihcir
ticket and coupons providing for their
transportation and board. Each mem
ber then signs a receipt, and on prcseuta-
tion cf a number of these to the Trnst i
company it releases a corresponding !
amount of money. The benefits, to be j
furnished at any time after the opening !
of the World's Columbian exposition, on j
fifteen . day's' notice, up to -twenty days !
preceding its closing, are: . j
A first class railway ticket from a
designated point to Chicago and return. I
Transfer in Chicago for self and usual
allowance of baggage from, station to
hotel or lodgings and return..
" Seven days' hotel accommodations in
Chicago.'
Six admission tickets to the Columbian
exposition. - - ... " ,
Dinner at a restaurant on the grounds
for six days..
An accident insurauce . ticket in a re
liable company for fifteen days, com
wencing on date of departure from
home, paying $3,000 in case of death by
accident, or $15 per week in case of acci
dental injury. New York Wwrld.
Outer PhcnomeuwH at Sea.
!:ii)teiin .1. Rnhpii. commander rtf t.h
Lloyd steamer Neckar, has written to !
the German marine observatory in Bre
men that . when be was off Sakota, on
Sept. 1, at 9 p. .in.", the sea suddenly be
came an even milk white luminous color,
which at times seemed to flame up from
the depths of the water, like the in
creased glow of an electric lamp when
the current grows too strong.
No bottom was found when the lead
was sunk, and at 10 p. m. the sharp edge
between the bright and the dark water
was reached. After twenty-five minutes
quite bright water again appeared, and
after lip. in. it decreased.
- The next night the phenomenon was
observed to be still more intense, but
after that it was not again -met with.
The appearance had nothing in common,
with the usual phosphorescence of. the
sea.
During its presence the horizon was
everywhere distinctly 'visible, except
where at various changing points on the
horizon the light seemed to shine bright
ly, at which time a thin haze seemed to
lie on the water. London News. :
Why Coffee Is Adulterated. " -
The main reason for the adulteration
of coffee is that there is not enough of it
to go around. Mocha now sells at the
highest price ever known, which is about
25 cents a pound in large quantities for
the green bean..,. Pure Java sells for S3
cents a pound and pure" Rio for 14)
cents a pound. -These are very high
prices and the supply of the best grades
is limited. ".The temptations to adultera
tion ' are ' now therefore at the highest.
Some low grade Brazil coffee was recent
ly sold ' at 11 cents 'a pound and, when
that comes to be doctored by the grind
ers, the coffee part of the ' product will
be small. There is a wide difference
between 35 cents, a ' pound and 10 cents,
It is" a difference between the best and
the poorest, and generally represents the
difference letween the pure article and
the adulterated. New York. Sun.
- A Maori Son. :-
The youngest son of the earl' and
counters of Onslow received as one of his
names in baptism "the Maori title of
"Huia," in compliment to the Jand of
his birth. The child has just been re
ceived into Maori kinship. Lord and
Lady Onslow, Sir Walter aid Lady But
ler, and other friends visited the Ngatia
hnia tribe near, Wellington, -tho New
Zealand metropolis. The hereditary
chief of this tribe rubbed noses, with the
child, ; the women accompanying the
ceremony with a plaintive lullaby. AH
the chiefs then came forward and cast
their offerings at the child's feet worked
Rax, greenstones, carved boxes, etc.
Manchester (Eng.) Times.
- -
The. City Won't Pay for the Trousers.
There was quite, an audible smtle in
the board of aldermen when a communi
cation was received from Officer Milton
C Morse, ;isking for five dollars damages
for a pair of pants while arresting a
prisoner.- Alderman Watson moved that
the claim be allowed, but Alderman Ar
nold jumped np and remarked that he
thought that the policemen earned salary
enough to pay for their own pants, and
moved that the request be refused. A
minute later he withdrew his motion,,
but the request was hot granted. -'-Haverhill
(Mass.) Gazette. .----
A Hen That Lays Golden Bscs.
There is danger of a breaking out of
the gold fever in West Stockbridge. A
-thoroughbred hen up there laid a few
days ago an egg with a shell that fairly
glittered - with tiny specks cf gold. If
the place where the hen found the laetal
can be found there is a party already or
ganized to seek paying dirt. Newbury
port (Mass.) News. :
- The Whipping- Deserved.
Miss Susie Gardner, teacher- in tin
Pales school, near Roachdale, Ind., whip
ped Albert Coonkright, an unrnly pupil
and his mother- prosecuted the teacher
for assault. . The defendant. was tried by
jury and acquitted, the jury holding the
punishment well deserved. Exchange
.The Reward. ir Virtue.
V.-v i, J". iiic-nsi- - I'm afraid there
Iu.- been tittle' in j .. present festive
season for you, my good wumau
Mrs. McGinnis True fur -yea. ?i,rr.
Me son in the pinitenchery wuz tho only
one of . the family to hev turkey fer
Thanksgiving. Life. - " .
STEALING A.. CROP OF -BARLEY.
, .-.
Exciting Battle la the Dark
with
Dangerously Armed Thieve.
A daring attempt to steal a whole field
of barley that bad been thrashed has
been made at the farm of J. M. Mum
ford, on the line of the Burlington ditch,
nine miles northeast of Denver. The
barley had been bagged, and the bags
stood piled up in a field some distance
from Mnmford's house. - Just at dusk a
young fellow wh5 was taking a short
work loading the sacks of barley into
two wagons that stood outside the field.'
Two of the men were carrying the sacks
to the fence and throwinir them over
' and the other two were loading the wag
' ons.- He soon saw that they were not
Mumford s farm hands. Mnmford's
men would have driven the wagons into
the fields, and besides, they would be
very strange farm hands indeed that
would work with the desperate haste
with which these men were working,
.The young fellow went at first to
Mumford's house and told him of what
was going on. J. S. Foster, a neighbor-
ing farmer, was called in, and soon six
men were got together, all armed, and
they started out on horseback to catch
the barley thieves. . .
The night was dark and cloudy, and
it was impossible to see any distance, but
they rode in the direction of the place
where the barley was stacked, and soon
they could hear the voices of the men at
work. It was impossible to see any
thing, and a consultation was held to. try
decide the best way to go about the
capture. While the six horsemen were
gathered in a group, talking in low
tones together, a flash of lightning from
the cloudy sky lit up the field. It dis
closed a man with a barley sack upon
his shoulder not fifteen feet away,, and
close at hand tho two wagons, with the
other three men at work. One of the
horsemen, almost as quick as the flash
ing lightning, pulled his weapon and
took aim, and before darkness once more
hid the scene a shot from his pistol rang
out upon the air. This . was. the signal
for a general fusillade that filled the
dark night with flashing pistol shots. ,
The- thieves returned the horsemen's
fire, aud the horsemen kept it up until
their ammunition was exhausted.. The
only aim for either side was the flashing
pistol shots of the others, so that not
much damage was done'. None of tho
horsemen were hurt. While the firing
was going on the wagons were heard
driving off, the - drivers whipping np
their horses- in a furious way. It was
evident that the two men outside the
fenco bad fled and left their companions
to take the consequences of their acts.
When the firing ceased, the six horse
men made a search for the remaining
men, but they could not be found. They
had fled in the darkness. An examina
tion of the barley bags showed' that a
great many of them had been taken, and
tne norsemen at once went in pursuit of.
the wagons. ... - ,. : - . ;. .
' About half a mile away they,, found
the wagons, but the horses and men were
gone. -The wagons were half filled with
sacks of barley, and a number of empty
bags were found with the marks of a
Denver firm upon them, so that it seems
probable that the thieves came from this
city. The wagons are now at Mr. Horn-.
r 1 1 :u
" b iibvo wsiuiig iui an owner. j ..
. Iu the . morning an examination .was
made of the field where the shooting took
place.; A trail of; blood was found lead
ing to the fence, but there it was lost.
The . attempted ; robbery alarmed the
neighboring farmers, and an examination
was. made, which resulted in the discov
ery that' seventy-two sacks ' of wheat
which one of the farmers had stored in a
distant field had disappeared. It is sup
posed that the thieves were' the same,
ones who tried to steal Mumford's bar
ley. Denver Republican. "
The M Utreataoent of lianas.
Doubtless it was the daily spectacle
of theabuse of horses which stimulated
Henry Bergh to the great service which
has. justly made his name renowned.
But the guilt of the abuse is hot confined
to draymen and teamsters. The' igno
rance and indifference of wealth and.
fashion to the treatment of horses are
quite as conspicuous, and for obvious
reasons much more unpardonable.
The horse, which is one of the most
sensitive " and . delicate of -animals, is
greatly to be commiserated as he ap
pears in the fashionable drive of Central
park. He is treated as a part of the
show of the parade, and he : is' at the
mercy. ef the owner, who buys horses
not because he likes them' or knows
anything about them, but because he
must have an equipage, and he "aban
dons them to the care of grooms and
coachmen, whose sole aim is to produce
a more "swell" effect thau their rivals!
For a "stylish" effect the horse is robbed
of his natural ornament and defense,
and is checked and trussed and tortured
by a harness which encumbers his na
tural action and forces him into an arti
ficial "gait." -
Human knowledge and skill directed
to an auxiliary animal like the horse
should aim to develop his natural apti
tudes. He should be treated as a hu
mane and skillful gardener treats a tree
in pur modern landscape gardening; not
as a tree was maltreated by the false
and morbid taste of two centuries ago. ''
Such remarks do not apply to the lov
ers of horses who care for them with
sympathy and intelligence, who compre
hend their practical helplessness and
acknowledge their faithful service. Such
lovers permit in" their stables no "fash
ions" invented by ignorant and inhuman
grooms to produce "stylish action" to
impress similar ignorance and folly.
Harper's Weekly. '.;. ' .'';
Tha IJttla Ghost.
- "The Poplars" is the name of the old
Revolutionary homestead. It is a great,
square, white, stone ho q&e, built in the
center of a thousand acres. The master
of it was childless.' His little boy had
died a week before, and he bad gone
away. Every night a little figure in
white with a light - was seen flitting,
from window to window in the old
library. When the servants, led by the
gardener, assembled at the library door
the light and the figure would disap
pear noiselessly and simultaneously. The
light and. figure were never, .seen iu any .
other room of the old mansion, and now
it was remembered that the dead heir
had spent more time in the library than
in any other room in the house. .,yr.
When, the master returned, . toward
the end of autumn, he was informed of
it all, He hid behind the tapestry night
after night, . and one night he was re
warded by seeing a little white figure
glide in, light a candle, climb up to one
of the highest shelves, take down a rare
old book and begin to pore over it. It
was the gardener's son, and he is now
the lord of "The Poplars," and the no
blest landlord in the west of England.
New York Herald. ..
Set Upon by the Gang;.
One of the Italian exhibitors of per
forming birds lost a green parrakeet but
of his cage the other afternoon on Park
street. The bird flew up into an elm
and chattered at the distracted Italian..
"Seenyore, seenyore, climba ze tree," ho
cried. But no one in the big crowd vol
unteered to climba ze . tree." , it was
the English sparrow that .finally settled
the business both for -the parrakeet and
the Italian. A solitary English sparrow
spied the green bird, and set up a loud
"cheep. In three minutes' time ntty
Bparrows were mobbing the parrakeet.
He took wing with the noisy pack in hot
pursuit. Boston News. ",''" '
A Happy Family.
A happy family dwells in an engin
house iu Madison, Ind., and the antics
of the members afford amusement to the
fire company. The family is composed
of a coon, a cat, a pair of rabbits, twe
white mice and a shepherd dog. ; Thej
iiscupy the same apartment, sport to
gether and eat from "the same vessel. --
Yankee Blade. . .
.-"
Just
la just 2i hours J. v. 6. relieves constipation
and sick headaches. After It gets tho system
under control an occasional dose prevents return.
We refer by permission to W. II. Marshall, Brass
wick House, a F.; Geo. A. Werner, 531 California
St, S.F.; Mrs. C. Melvin, 136 Kearny St., S. F.,
and many others who have found relief from
constipation and sick headaches. G.W. Vincent,
ol 6 Terrenco Court, S. F. -writes: "1 am 60 years
of age and hare been troubled with constipation
for 25 years. I was recently induced to try Joy's
Vegetable Sarsaparills, I recognized In it at
once an herb that tho Mexicans used to givo as
in the early SO1! for bowel trembles. (I came to
California in 1889,) and I knew it would help me
and It has. For the first time in years I can sleep
well and my system is regular and In .splendid
condition. The old Mexican herbs in this remedy
are a certain euro In constipation and bowel
troubles." Ask for - "' -' : -----
q Vegetable
V Sarsaparilla
ForvSaJe by SNIPES A. KINERSLY
' - --'. '.-::J.F?lOEfciI- & -.
Say the : S'ff:3bugIi;C, tne best
thing they everX'- 'a.,;i 'We are not
flattered for we known Real Merit will
Wis. AH we ask is an honest tiial.
For eale by all druggists. -.
''".-' ." '' , S. B. Mkdicixk Mvg. Co.,
-'",' ': Dnfur, Oregon.
A Severe Law.
- The -English peo
ple look more closely
'to the genuineness
of these staples than
Tf e do. ' In Iscf , they
have a law under
'Which they make,
eixnres" 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 then wholesale adul
teration. - Tea, by the way; Is one of the most notori
ously adulterated articles of commerce. , Not
' alone are tho bright, shiny green teas artifi
cially colored, but thourandj of pounds of
substitute for tea leaves are used to swell
the bulk of cheap tea-; ash, floe, aod willow
- leaves'belnj thosb most' commonly" used.
Again, sweepings from tea warehouses are
colored and sold as tea.' Even exhausted tea
leaves gathered from the tea-hooses are kept,
dried, and madaoYerniwl nud.thcirw-ay into
the'eheap teas. -r
y The Euglluh government attempts to fctamp
thht oat by confiscation; but no teais too
poor for u, and the result. it, that probably
the poorest teas need by any nation are those
Consumed iu America.
' Eoeeli's Tea is presented with' the guar
anty that it Is uaeolored and unadulterated;
In fact, the sun-curca tea leaf pare and sim
ple. Its purity .Insures superior strength,
, about one third lets of it being required for
an infusion than of tbearilficial teas, and Its
fragrance and exquisite flavor Is at once ap
parent. It will be a-revelation to yott. In
order that It purity and quality may be guar
anteed, it is sold only In pound packages
' bearing this trade-mark:
BEEC
'Pure As
Price eOe per pound. Tor sale at -
Xieslle Butler
Joy
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phenomenal support it has received is accepted as the
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Commencing with the
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