DO STRANGE THINGS. A TYPE OF PEOPLE WHO DO THE OPPOSITE. WEALTHY ill AN PKKPKKRED THE FOOK-HOUSK. A Sister of Chnrlty Who Loved, Slur ried mid ICepculed A North Caro Una .11 nil AtHlctcd With the Habit of Abductlns Ills Own Children. 1 H (HERE are three Btranije stories. depicting' three characters in life, now going the rounds of the newspapers. The first is of John Clark, of Hemp stead, Long Isl and, who died at the Uniondnle poorhonse last week. He had been living in the in stttntion a year, seemingly pre ferring that home to one with his family, t lark was a singular genius. He had a seeming ambition to earn only sufileient to keep him day by day. He was a mechanic. Until age weak' ened him, he worried through life in an eusy sort of way. Twice he was set up in business bv Ins children. Two or three years ago he practiced as a. veterinarian, liriugot this, lie asked to bo given a home in the poorhouse. His wife remonstrated with him. His ctiildren, one of whom is fairly well off, pleaded with him to live elsewhere. Ho would not do so. The poorhouse is where lie determined upon going, and there he staid until death. He devised a pipe-wrench for which a patent is now pending. It is described by tnose who nave used it as an ingenious ar rangement and very serviceable. Miss Elizabeth Ruczynski, of De troit, was found wandering in the woods near .lackson, Mich., last week. She was demented when first discov ered, but afterward her mind becamo clear and she told a strange and ro mantic story. In 1809 Mrs. Ruc.ynski arrived in Detroit from Russia and entered the House of Providence as Sister Eliza beth Chemp. She became one of the best known sister of charity in the city and was the tirst woman nurse that volunteered her services to take are of small-pox pa tients. She had a beautiful face and figure and brilliant intellect. While she was in the convent Ruczynski, who had just graduated from a European university, came to detroit to fill a position as teacher in the Detroit Polish school. Shortly after he met Sister Elizaleth and friendship culti vated clandestinely ripened into love. One morning the inmates ot the home awuke and found that Sister Elizabeth' had discarded the veil and run away and married the handsome Polish teacher, Ruczynski. who was one of the greatest scholars in Detroit, was compelled to resign his position and, notwithstanding repeated endeavors.he was unable to secure another place in any of the catholic institutions. He at last engaged in the hotel and reastau rantbusine s. For several years the couple prospered and tho Polo and his handsome wife moved in tho most select society circles. Roverses came, and soon the handsome and talented couple found themselves in very strin gent circumstances. Ruczj'nski be came a private teacher. The reverses caused him to become despondent and as a consequence ho plunged into dissipation. The fall from their former high social position and her husband's dissipation affected Mrs. Ruczynski's mind, and three weeks ago she disappeared from home. It is supposed that she walked all the way from Detroit to Jackson, living in the woods until found. About fourteen years ago a Dr.Copo.a man of handsome and dashing appear ance, of lino cultm'e and splendid med ical attainments, married a charming and beautiful girl of 10 years near Concord, Carrabas county, X. C. Tho wedding was the most brilliant in that seotion of tho State. It was the old htory of man's downfall. The Doctor took to drink and became an incarnate devil. In a drunken fit he drove hi wife away from her home, and whiUt she was keeping horaolf fcufu from hit violence he took their two children, both boys, one S years old uml the other wontlm, ana ned to Tennessee. The other child, for three had been the fruit of their marriage, had been nccidently poisoned by the father in the adminis tration of a dose of morphine for quinine. When Dr. Cope reached Ten nessee with tho boys ho settled at Edensridge, in Sullivan county, and prneticed his piofession. Ho aban doned his dissipation to a cer ain ex tent and in his sober moments was a skillful practitioner. He plnced his boys under the care of two families, and for six long years the distracted T)Y op- woman never heard of her husband or her sons. Last spring Dr. Cope made his ap pearance at his old home, in Cnrrabas county, as suddenly and quickly as ho had disappeared, but. gave tho heart broken mother no satisfaction con cerning her children. In the mean time, whilst 11 resident of Sullivan oonnty, he had filed a bill for divorce, and by adding perjury to crime, ob tained it. It was his purpose to marry another lady, but she was too wary for him. 1-oiled by her. he packed his grip and went back to North Carolina. Two mouths ago. goaded possibly by the tortures of a returning consience. and not having the courage to face his wife, he com mitted suicide by taking morphine. Tue deserted and maltreated .wife, who for six years had wept and agon ized in hopeless woe. now appears on the scene. In s me unaccountable way she found that her children were still living, and went to Allentown, Tenn., wliere she found the oldest boy and identified him by the clothing ho wore when he left. She identified the youngest child by the scar on his back and the clothing lie lind also worn. Tile lady, restored to her children, left for her home in North Carolina. ABOUT TIMOTHY HOPKINS. Sketch of the Youim Contestant 111 the Creut Will Cnwe. Timothy Hopkins, the adopted son of the late .Mrs. llopkins-Searles, is now in the East for the purpose of fil ing objections to the will of Mrs. llopkins-Searles, winch has been offered for probate in tho court at Salem, Mass. He is a San Franciscan, as are his lawyers, Russell W ilscm and Judge Jiralt, who are now with him. With them in tho case is associated Mr. Clioate, of the New York law linn of Evnrts, Clioate it Reman. Mr. Hopkins ;s a tall, athletic-look ing young man with a handsome face and a pleastnt expression. He was in Japan when his foster mother died. and the tropical sun has browned his com plexion, giving a pleasant eontrnst to the keen gray eye, while a heavy brown mustache gives a vigorous, manly look to the whole countenance. He was the son of Patrick Nolan, a i'ndtkfo'HKvrt.'5 . farmer, of Hallowell, Me. His father went to California and becamo tho gardener for Mark Hopkins the mil lionaire. After his parents' death young Nolan was taken into the. Hop kins family and treated as a son. Mr. Hopkins died soon afterward, leaving n fortune of $0, 0(10, 000 to his widow. Then Timothy was formally adopted as ncr son mid assumed tue lamuy name in 1871'. Mi's. Hopkins married Edward F. Searles, the architect, on Nov. 8, 1088. Mrs. Hopkins-Searles died on July 25 at her home in Methuen, .Mass. Her will was filed lor probate at tho Essex Registry, in Salem, July .'10. All her property, to the amount of about S30, 000,000, was left to her husband. Young Hopkins immediately instructed his lawyer to contest the will Among the other relatives interested in the breaking of the will are Nathaniel T. Hebbard, a cousin of .Mrs. llopkins- Searles. and Retsy and Hester M. Sher wood, daughters of another cousin. It la said that it will be claimed by the contestants thut Mrs. Hopkins-Searles' mind was unbalanced. A slimy Life. Sub-editor A dispatch from the penitentiary says tho convicts have struck and refuse to work unless they enn have pie twice a day. ureat Kdltor 1 busily iLounsei mod eration and arbitration. Little) Tllllica. It has been estimated recently by a shoe man that the people of the I'nltcd States spend H'0,0;k),(jo0 annually for shoes. A young lad.v in (iainesville, Texas, has the longest liulr in the world. It trails on the ground over four feet and is of a beautiful red-gold color. Iu a Minneapolis police court recent ly a iuuii who was arraigned 011 a charge of vutrrum-y win represented by a crlinlnul luwver. whom he hud re tained and puld to defend '"Nil. S j SCOTCH DYNAMITE WORKS. NITRO-GLYCCT.INE FACTORY ON THE SOUTHWES i COAST OF SCOTLAND. The Kxcesslvo Vrernutlon tlint Ik Neco anry A Delicate Operation Suscepti bility of ltro-C3l)corliio to Conclusion. How the ICxplmlvo Is Handled. Tho factory lies in tho heart of a great ex panse, of sandy plain on tho southwest coast of Scotland. On approaching it a visitor is bailed by tho mounted guard that patrols tho environment of tho factory; and ho will have to show very satisfactory credentials before he is allowed to go further. On tho way to tho manager's house a villngo is passed where live tho whole of tho operatives employed in tho manufactory of nltro-glycerino. It is merely a street of small tenements standing on tho threshold of tho luilismles which en close M. Nonel's houses. Some distance from tho manager's house is tho shed whero tho practical process of making nitro-glyeerino is seen at a glance. Reforo the visitor gets there, however, he is divested of his watch, chain, money, keys, and ovory particle of metal ho may have about him. This seem ingly excessive precaution is perfectly neces sary, for a fall of even a penny on a lloor containing a grain of the explosive might bo attended with disaster. Felt shoes have to bo worn. A HKLICATK OPERATION. In tho first shed reached there is a largo tank iu which aro two parts of oil of vitriol and 0110 part of tho fuming nitric acid A cistern above tlio tank contains glycerine, and when this is introduced into the acid the compound known as liitro-glyccrine isat oneo formed. Tho ojieration is, however, nn ox tremely delicate one. Tho tank is in charge of a workman upon whom tho solo resjKjnsi hility of an explosion rests. If too much glycerine is introduced into tho acids at 0110 time, tho temperature of tho mixture may rise above "i" degs. Fahrenheit, and a spon taneous explosion will ut once follow; so that tho oox-rativo's eyes aro never off tho ther mometer his own hoio of safety lies iu keeping down tho temperature of tho mixt ure to bomo 7 or 8 degs. below its explosive heat. Ho is nided somewhat by ice and cold water which aro otifcsido tho vat; but tho comiKHind is occasionally erratic and will gain heat notwithstanding all precautions. I For such a case tho only alternative is to . move a lover, which lowers 0110 sido of tho tank, and allow tho wholo of tho contents to run through a bluico into a pond, when it is about an even chunco whether it will ex plode ere it leaves tho shed or wuit until it reaches tho open. Tho second step is to wash tho nowly formed chemical combination in water, which very slightly absorbs it. It is then put into " Winchester (marts," and conveyed with tho utmost cure into wooden huts or dug-outs. As an instance of tho extreme susceptibility of mtro-glycorino to concus sion, it is related thut a man was onco seen to slip in tho act of depositing a bottlo in a hut; ho merely tripped, in tho ordinary senso of tho word, but there was an instant ex plosion and hardly a fragment of tho poor fellow was gathered for decent burial. Passing on through other sheds, wo see tho mixture of tho nitro-glyceriuo with a pecu liar foruminiterous earth, tho new substance being dynamite. This is then carried to a long shetl, whero it is pressed into cartridges by machinery, tho operatives being young women. MANY PRECAUTIONS TAKEN. Not tho least curious of tho many curiosi ties ut these works are tho ponds into which tho washing water is run. Tradition has it that tho detonativo property of tho water was not discovered, until an angler one day attempted to seduce tho fish with a May-fly. At his first cast, however, tho pond blew up, and ho found himself somo liundrciiof yards away, happily unhurt. To obviate a similar danger now, Saturday is reserved exclusively for cleaning tho works in every department, and amon,,' other things for deliberately blowing up tho ponds. After congratulating himself on a safe journey through tho various houses, tho stranger is upt to hurry from tho factory and only to breutho freely when ho is again at tho station. Ho will not have failed, however, to notico tho many precautions taken to insure safety for those who daily risk their lives in these vCry hazardous opera tions. Each section of tho operatives is distin guished by a peculiar canvas suit with a colored marking; no one may go on any pre tenco leaving his own department. Tho women work in felt shoes and buthiug dresses, and every slnglo workman or workwoman is striped and reclothed before going to their labor. Tho explosive, too, aro handled in tho smallest possiblo quantities, save in tho first room of manufacture, whero enough is mado ut ono time to blow up a city. Tho nitro glycerine itself is a transparent, colorless, oily fluid, slightly soluble in water, but readily so iu spirit, ether or fnt. Ono favor ite way of destroying it is by boiling it in otash, when it decomposes, glycerine and niter being formed. Perhajw tho most curious uso to which it has over been put is tho result of tho searching investigations of its medic inal procrtiea by Dr. William Murrell, who found it almost a specific for angina pectoris, neuralgia and many dovelopments of heart disease. St. James' Guzetto. Taken by I'ulr Photographers. Fuir amateur photographers liavo various ways of making their work ornamental. Tho pictures which they take in their studios or conservatories are mounted in odd fash ions. Ono girl showed to ino a white satin fan on which she had photographed a group of friends whispering to each other. Sho had a flro screen with artistically arranged groups clustered about tho fireplace-. Ono group was a Halloween jrty watching chest nuts roasting on tho hearth. This sceno might bo looked at by anybody, but in her chamber sho bad pictures that were destined for her own eyes alone, or, at most, for those of her most intimate friends. Around tho mirror was a circle of finely mounted photo graphs of her girl friends iu their prettiest robes do nult, "Hero they nro every evening to bid mo good night," sho said, "and I was so pleased with tho fancy that I mado this," showing a group of white robed girls with flowing tresses and ono with beautiful hands working at tho curl papers on her head. Circling around tbeso photographs was a long curl paper, on which the words "Good night" had been engraved iu a fantastic scroll. This picture stretches clear across tho headboard of her bed. On tho footboard was an assem bly of fair ones iu all stages of attire girls of tho garter and girls of tho cross ono but toning her shoes ami unotliur lacing her whalebone und wutchtpriug machinery, These were all nulling a "Good morning." 1 Ono Mere jKWbetuiIou of this versatile youug lady amused mo. It was a small card table to bo giveu as a prize ut tho uuxt pro gressive euchre iwrty, It hod a border of photographs of tho ehompiou players of the season all pictured In various attitudes of triumph. Now York Cor, Chicago Tribune, j Dcr kry men dat trim tr Idlu dsr trie tor show dr Vpcritmce, 1 WOODMAN, SPARE "1 HAT TREtt. He Remnmbprrit tlnppy Ctilliltionit's Hays on the Dear Old IIttntteiid. Ho was a stout gentleman, with a silk hat and a blue beaver overcoat, nnd when ho stopped to look nt a squad of laborers nt work in tho digging of the new city hall col lar tho other morning, a place was at oneo made for him on the heap of granito blocks that had once been n fence Ktse. Surveying the crowd, his eye fell upon two men who were engaged in reducing tho recently felled trees to suitable lengths for hauling away, lie at once gavo vent to a sigh and sadly re marked: "Ah, gentlemen, this 'reminds mo of my happy childhood on tho old farm!'' Tho crowd looked at him sympathizlngly, and one of tho number ventured tho question: "Does iti" "Many n time I havo shouldered my nx at daybreak, and gono out Into tho woods over near Mutkrat creek, and chopped until sun down. Yes, and I never felt it us much as I do a walk down to tho ofllce," "No times like tho old times," observed a little man in n faded overcoat: "old ngo makes us indifferent men." "I don't know my friend; I think I could swing nn nx with tho liest of 'em, dumed if I don't I" announced tho stout gentleman, as ho began removing his gloves. "I'm going to try if I can't get a chance." Ry producing a silver quarter, ho was nl lowed to take tho place of ono of tho chop i iers, nnd, removing his overcoat, spat upon j ln's hand?. Swinging the ax nrouud his head, he knocked his silk hat into a wash rag and brought tho edge down on a limb that en dowed it with enough elasticity to can) it to violently rebound, tho helve striking him on tho chin. "Goshl" ho gasped, while tho crowd fell back to a distance of fifteen feet, "1 forgot that hat." Settling himself, ho brought tho nx down again, with enough vio lence to break a steel ball. Rut ho under estimated tho distance from tho tree , nnd ho misMMl it by a foot at least, striking tho nx out of sight. Somo ono snickered nt this jioint, and tho stout gentleman got three shades redder. I 'I can do itf ho gasped: "I forgot tho old ' time swing." Then ho blazed away again, ' this time overreaching his work. Tho huudlu struck the trunk, and with a howl of pain, ho droped the ax. I "What's tho mutter i" demanded a boy with I a fur cap. j "Ouchl Gosh, all serpents! That stung 1 like bluzesl" I Here tho owner of tho ax suggested that perhaps he was tired. This insinuation had an irritating effect 011 tho old time woodman, and ho indignantly seized the nx. I "No, sirl I can do tins for two hoursl" ho j replied ns ho again went to tho onslaught. ' Amid tho applause of tho spectators ho buried tho blade in tho wood and then pre pared to cut on tho other side. Bringing down the ux, ho sent a pound chip into his face liko a rillo shot. Dropping tho ax ho stepped on a bowlder and fell liko a felled giant of tho forest into a heap of brush, from j which ho was dragged bleeding. A policeman and the little man in tho ' faded overcoat took him around tho corner, ! where they sat him on a barrel, instructing 1 tho little boy with the fur cup to tell him I when tho next Central avenue car cumo ! along. I "Much obliged, friends; much obliged," ! whispered tho woodman as ho mopped his bleeding ncse. "Hut that ax wasn't a bit like tho one 1 usod to havo. Must havo been 1 awful dull. Much obliged." Cincinnati Enquirer. A OiirloiiH CIukn of .Men. Slinking of barrooms, I have often noticed a certain curious class of men who appear tf spend their entire lives within easy reach of tho counter whero bottled inspiration is dis pensed. I do not mean the wretched class of hungers on who spend tholr lives waiting to Ihi asked what they will have, but men of means, to whom tho barroom soems to ios sess tho attraction thnt other men of means find in n club, i'hey ore always elderly or old men. Thoy always spend money liber ally, and they always nmko their apiiear- ! nueo on tho alcoholic sceno early in the morn ing, quite 6ober, and get so drunk by noon !. ..I i I .... I .. A t 1 1... mat. tue rest 01 iuu uiiy m unu ui siupui, 1111 becilic idleness with him. There is 0110 man 1 know, who Is very wealthy, a bachelor and a traveled and educated man, whoto entire life is, I think, spent iu getting drunk and being sobered up at n certain saloon that ho frequents. Ho must represent n sniull fortune to tho house, whero ho is cherished as ten- I derly, in his cups, iw u sick baby, fed, put to I bed and watched over as a gooso that lays ' golden eggs always should be. Now nnd then ho disappears for a few days or a weok or two, when you may know thut ho is straight ening up at his own house, which Is one of tho handsomest old mansions in New York, Rut ho 110 sooner gets on hip feet than thoy carry him to tho barroom, wliere ho drawa n cheek for tho expenses of tho last spree, und tho old gumo begins again. At a certain old fashioned and jiopulnr chop houso not a million miles from Madison square there are several of these topers to bo encountered dully. Ono of them I remember for years. Ho turns up overy morning, Sun day's included, at 0 o'clock. Ry 11 ho has had a dozen cocktails and is ready for break fast. By ') ho Is drunk enough to bo taken upstairs to bed, whence ho emerges at 8 o'clock in tho evening to eat his dinner. Ilia after dinner drunk carries him along well to ward midnight, when, if ho Is not too liopo lessly helpless, ho is bundled into a couch and sent home. Kor a long tlmo I wnu a dally visitor at tho chop house which enjoys his profitable favor and I nover onco missed liiiii. Lately, having visited tho place again, I found him there as usual, neither nioro nor less drunk than usual and looking none tho worse for tho sea of ulcohol in which tio has been floating himself these many yours. Ho is, I behove, a man of largo meuiiH, inherited from his father, and has never boon known to lead any other than tho degraded, selfish and useless life which first attracted my at tention to him. Alfred Trumblo in Now York Nows. I I.u lie hi 111; Im Trillion Theatre. Tho amount of eating nnd drinking dono In a first class London theatre would astonish an American manager. Peoplo cenno straight to the theatres from their dinners and Im mediately begin entering ices, cakes, coffee an', sweets. Tho privilege of furnishing re fro hmunts to n theatre is jwld for iu largo luti s by restaurant proprietors. The refresh ment room is one of tho largest sources of revenue of a theatre management. Waiting maids during the evening go about throughout tho theatre knocking at tho box doors hawking refreshments. Retween the acts peoplo cat and drink cotutantly to fill iu the time. Programmes also are charged for ilnnwly ull the theatres. The average price of a programme in a sixxucv, If an Ameri ca nudicuco in uuy theatre la tho United 8U U khould I) culled on to iay twelve cents for tho progruiunie there would be a riot. I An crh-aii mtniugers say thut It would bo liu , jxjfcilblu to Introduce tho feature ut uiklug eve 1 oi.o cent for programme, Loadou UiWT. 1 0 man wliut has do inos pksuan' 'quaint' sun m mighty olfmi Inn Uu fuvtnr ea frlun'. sKitiocs iiamiku Threatens every man, uotnnn or child llvlnc In n region of country whore fccr mul ukucN prev alent, Miieo the germs of lii.ilarlnl illi-ene are In liiilol from the nlr mid are owiilloueil from the water of Mich n region. 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