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BARNABY RUDCE AND CHRISTMAS
8TORIES,
OLIVER TWIST AND CREAT EXPEC
TATIONS, THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP AND
THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELER,
A TALE OF TWO CITIES, HARD
TIMES AND THE MYSTERY OF
EDWIN DROOD.
JUilge StouliV .iui.etiu I'tni.
Rather an interestiti; contest is in
progress at tho Santa Fc Laud office, en
titled the United States against O. P.
Perry, and involving the latter's entry
of 100 acres, which includes Monument
rock, and is said to cover tho Brecnden
mine, upon which .1 M. Breeden has
been tit work for the jKist sis years. It
is the old conflict between agricultural
and mineral lauds. Judge Sloan on tho
witness statu! said lie originally located
the Breeden mine in 1SS2, anil afterward
it was located by Breeden in ISSo, who
has since worked it almost continuously
Attorney Seward wanted to know if tho
judge rode his "old roan pony" when he
first discovered the mine, and was an
swered in the ufHrmutive.
The case will be on for Severn! days
yet and is being warmly contested on
both sides. Reference to the "old roan
pony" is of local interest becauso of tho
"magnetic influence" as frequently in
times past claimed by Judge Sloan for
this humble- repiv.-eiitative of the equine
family , now supposed to be dead.
It is related that this pony was n veri
table magnet for the discovery of gold,
silver, lead or copper deposits; in fiict.it
is said that whenever, in going along
tiny street, road or mountain path, hu
crossed ground beneath which was pay
mineral, his hair would immediately
stand erect, quite on end. "like the quills
of the fretful porcupine," and that his
rider, Judge Sloan, would receivo a
shock which warned him of tho pres
ence, of mineral wealth beneath that
ground, and this, it ii said, is the secret
of tho judge's numerous mineral loca
tions all over northern New Mexico.
Santa Fe (N. M.) Special.
Curious Instinct ot the Home.
It is not an uncommon thing in the
Ai-gentino pampas I have on two occa
sions witnessed it myself for a riding
horse to come home or to the gate of its
owner's hoti.se to die I am speaking of
riding horses that aro never doctored nor
treated mercifully, that look on their
masters as an enemy rather than a
friend: horses that live out in the open,
and have to be hunted to the corral orin
closure, or roughly captured with a las
so tis they run. when their services aro
required.
1 retain a very vivid recollection of
the first occasion of witnessing an action
of this kind in a horse, although 1 was
only it boy at the lime. On going out
one summer evening 1 saw one of tho
horses of the establishment standing un
saddled and unbridled, leaning his head
over the gate. Going to tho spot, 1
stroked his nose, and then, turning to an
old native who happened to bo near,
asked him what could bo the meaning
of such a thing
"1 think he is going to die," ho an
swered, "horses often come to tho houso
to die." And next morning tho poor
beast was found lying dead not twenty
yards from the gate, although he had not
appeared ill when 1 stroked his nose on
the previous evening, but when 1 saw
him lying there dead ami remembered
the old native's words it seemed to mo
tis marvelous ami inexplicable that a
horse should act in that way as if some
wild creature a rhea, a fawn or dilo
chotes had conto to exhale his last
breath tit the gules ot his enemy and
constant persecutor man. Longmau's
Magazine.
An Ifuliapiiy 1'aiiiily.
John Regan has among iiis collection
of animals two most remarkable speci
mens, viz. ii cat and a dog. Tho latter
is a .small fox terrier, and some six
months ago gave bit lb to a litter of pups
which are now well grown. Puss somo
five days ago gave birth to three kittens.
All went well the first day, but on the
second Nellie, the dog, seemed to take
an unaccountable fancy to the kittens
and very calmly took possession of them,
driving puss away
Nellie watches over the kittens with
jealous care, and snaps aud snarls at
their mother wheianer she approaches.
The dog is taken aa from tho kittens
in tho evening to give pii&s a chance to
become acquainted with iier offspring.
Nellie keeps up a constant howling dur
ing the night, and when released in tho
moruing is with the kittens in an in
stant, and puss is obliged to vacate tho
cherished post of wet nurse and betake
herself to a chair, which she occupies all
day with the air of a policeman olT duty.
San Francisco A!ta.
()nr mill Over iilli II U I'aracliute.
The most thrilling balloon ascension
over given in southern Illinois was that
given at Ditqtioin by Professor Ned
Hathaway Ten thousand people wit
nessed the start, which was made in tho
face of ii strong wind Fully 2,500 feet
high did tho balloon go before the nervy
professor cut loose, and down ho came
tit a mile a mtnuto gait, the parachute
not working at all. The lad turned over
three times. Gaming a frenh hold, he
btraighteiied out TiOO feet from tho
ground, whiult he struck with terrible
force. livery one thought him deud.
He was taken to tbe Tingley House with
only a severe shaking up. Cor. St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
It is reported that tlio observers at
Mount Hamilton have lately kept a sharp
eye turned ujwti the shadow of one of
the moons of Jupiter. This shadow
teemed double, indicating that the tiny
moon which cast it is also double. Since
tho first hint of tho discovery many ob
servations have been made through tho
Lick glass, nil tending to confirm the
original impression, to wit' That this
particular satellite of tho greatest of
planets is double a dot of a moon re
volving around the main moon
During tlio six months from May to
December lust 1U.OO0 tOruigu immigrant
entered London with an intention to re
main, and out of 4.000 arriving during
tho course of lust year by the hue plying
iHitween Hamburg and Tilbury bO per
cent, ware entirely, lUstitiite.
The spats aro now worn to match the
wuisluoiit by Hie bwusgaruat men- A
btilf colored ia ami wtiititOPUt U jutf
about the tnupptMt thing tbe owuuu hm
yet divulged.
BARNUM'S BILL STICKEUS.
Tltey Surprlno The rnglMimiMt hy th Rap
idity or Their Work.
Opposite to this house is a boarding
thirteen feet high by over one hundred
feet long, and in a few minutes 1 was to
see a feat in bill posting such as seems
hardly credible, now that 1 sit calmly
down to write of it. A wagon having
driven up, five men got out of it: one I
recognized tis Mart Ready, Barnmn's
boss poster, two were Americans in their
neat duck overalls, and two were Hug
lish bill stickers whoso appearance 1
would rather not describe. In two min
utes sifter their arrival the duck over
nllcd men bad out their tin cans full of
paste and their eight foot long poles with
brushes at the end. and were hard at it
covering tho hoarding with paste from
top to liottoni, from end to end. The
Knglifihtiieii stood by with something
like sneers on their faces, as who should
say: "Well, there ain't much in that;
wo can cover a boarding with paste,
too." Another minute passed and Ready
began handing out some carefully folded
posters. The (Englishmen's faces relaxed
a little, as who should say: "What aro
they goin' to do now?" and they lcgan
to whisper together.
The two Americans seized one of tho
folded posters, gave it a shake, ran the
brush end of the long poles under It,
raised it, gave a sweep and another
sweep, and there on the boarding was a
sixteen sheet poster, containing a fac
simile of an open letter from P. T. Bar
nuin, headed ".My Greatest Venture."
Then followed a twelve sheet poster
portrait of Bariiittn, a forty-eight sheet
depicting the show tents tis they travel
in America, a twenty-four sheet picture
of Jumbo, a forty-eight sheet representa
tion of the gallery of human freaks of
nature, a thirty-six sheet portrait of the
fair Indian snake charmer from tho
Bowery, New York, a forty-eight sheet
picture of tho menagerie, a thirty-six
sheet portrait of the Mexican rider, a
forty-eight sheet representation of tho
elephants performing, a twenty-four
sheet picture of the clownsanda twenty
four sheet portrait of MissCIara O'Brien,
tho Roman knife thrower.
All along the tops and the bottoms of
tho pictures "streamers" were pasted.
Tho most remarkable fact, however, was
that every one of these huge posters was
slung up into position whole they had
been pasted together befoto starting.
The 100 by 1!1 feet was coveted in exactly
fourteen minutes aud thirty seconds!
There! That is something like bill stick
ing. You ought to have seen tho faces
of those linglishiiien. They were a study
for Dickens. Of course a crowd gath
ered, and, as the omnibuses stop at tho
Cedars, you may guess there were some
quaint remarks from the drivers aud
conductors. Pull Mall Gazette.
Almost as Good it .11 an us Her Itnilliei.
There is living at a point on East bay,
near Pensacohi. a remarkable family of
four bovs at.d one young woman. The
I boys consider their sister to be ono of
themselves, she being in nearly every ro
spect as handy as a boy should be, and
sharing the labot s of her brothers. They
can draw the lines of a ship, hew tho
I timbers, build and launch her, and then
I sail her around tho world. The sclioon
i or Axel, a line little vessel which they
have built, is at present somewhere- on
the gulf under command of Capt. O.,
ono of the brothers, who is a most expert
navigator.
The other brothers and sister aro now
engaged in building another and a larger
vessel, which is well under way, and
which, when completed and launched,
will bo one of the stanchest crafts sailing
tho Mexic sea. The draughtsman who
furnished the lines upon which she is
being constructed is one of tho brothers,
the carpenters who are building her aro
the draughtsman and his brothers and
sister, and the master who will sail her
will bo one of the boys, who will take
tho remainderof the family for the crow.
For miles and miles in all directions from
the homo the hoys have scoured the for
ests looking for natural crooks to bo
used as timbers, a great many of which
they have found and used its such. Tho
work has so lar progressed that the stem
will bo put in in a few days, when plank
ing will bo in order. The vessel will be
fashioned after the most approved pat
tern, and she will measure, when finish
ed, 80 feet over all, have a beam of 21
feet, and has now a keel of 71 feet in
length. She u ill be rigged us a schoon
er. Savannah News.
dnpmor l?co.
Emperor Ego is tlio nickname Will
iam II has won for himself here, writes
a Paris correspondent, "1, me, my,
mine," being pronouns that crop up con
stantly in his speech and letters. His
telegrams to Prince Bismarck, published
us soon as they arrive, are models of
the egotisticti I style. There's nothing
pleases him more than to find himself
repeated in print. The first Emperor
William iiad served up to him in his old
age, along with his breakfast every
morning, two papers, of which special
editions were cooked up exclusively for
him. He was not aware of this. No
journal was ever u cause of sharper cab
inent bickerings than this one. Each
minister wanted the lion's share of
space, thus to influence the august read
er. Bismarck eventually managed this
special issue himself. The copy which
met with his apptoval was known as
"pap for tho emperor," who, long before
his death, hud fallen farther into second
childhood than any one suspected.
Mote to ft.itti Ilia ItiitlJilnes.
The next legislature of Wyoming' will
pass a law making the killing of a buf
falo a misdemeanor. An act to this ef
fect is not required to protect tho buf.
faloes as game, for the hunter would
hunt the mountains and plains for wild
btiiraloo in vnln It Is Intended to Im
ply lo the mtm who lie In wait and shoot
down the buirulou that hupeii to stray
olf the itorvuuoii in Uio Yellowstone
park, whureu fvw rvlie of Hie bygone
ruoo are pronenud. The dead buff uio
bring Iu sluyer $800 and (lie tempta
tion lo L them Is u itrong one for Uio
hunter, -Exuiuii(;e.
A I'len for Cltj I'liijKiuuiiiU.
City children are undoubtedly happy
in their play, but 1 cannot watch them
without sadness and a regret that tho
fuller pleasures of a country life will
never lie theirs at tho time they aro best
itted to enjoy them. The earnest plead
ing for a leaf or blossom from the flower
laden tourist as, returning from his out
ing, ho passes up tho street; the eager
band of merry children in pursuit of a
wandering butterily fairylike visitor
from a strange land tell of a formless
longing for the unknown freedom of the
woods and fields. What can wo do to
add to the joys of a youth which is nil
too brier' As you enter your high school,
, these boys and girls enter on the serious
duties of life Then follows tho strug
gle for existence, and a severe ono it
usually is.
We cannot give all theso children
homes in this country, we cannot give
them till even an outing there; but wo
i can give them playgrounds in the city: a
very little plot hero and thero will do.
Wo have reserved great parks and
(squares which wo permit them to look
at and sometimes to venture on. But
as playgrounds theso aro practically use
I less; they are accessible to eomparative
I ly few. A vacant building lot in tho
1 proper district is far more to tho pur
, pose. Happy is tlio boy who lives near
one! Notice the evidences of constant
use it shows, the small baseball "dia
j mond" clearly outlined, every smooth
place pitted with marble holes.
What better investment could our
cities make than to purchase small plots
like this at intervals throughout tho city,
tear down tho buildings, fill up tho cel
lars, and leave them, with no forbidding
sign, open to the children. Their little
feet would soon grade and harden tho
ground. In giving tlio nation's futuro
workers such an opixirtunity to lay tho
foundation for stronger and healthier
bodies and brighter wits the city would
reap abundant interest on tho capital in
vested. Frank M. Chapman iu St. Nich
olas. Honest Now York Shop Girls.
A gentleman who lives in Cincinnati
returned homo a day or two ago after a
fortnight's sojourn hero deeply impressed
with the honesty of the Now York shop
girl, On the day af ter his arrival in town
ho went into a largo retail shop in Four
teenth street and made somo trilling pur
chase. The next day he missed a pockot
bosk containing fifty dollars in currency.
Ho thought that he had mislaid it iu his
room at the hotel, and a diligent search
was made for it. He gave it up us lost,
and would have dismissed the matter
from his mind had not the clerk of the
hotel suggested that ho might possibly
have left the pocketboolc in somo storo.
Tho gentleman attached little impor
tance to the suggestion, but about a week
afterward he stepped into tho Fourteenth
street shop and laughingly asked one of
the floor walkers if a pocketbook coti-
, mining fifty dollars had beeu found
.there. Much to his surprise, an affirma
tive answer was given, and in ti few seo-
I mds his property was restored to him,
Ho learned that the saleswoman from
whom he had made his purchase found
tho pocketbook on tho counter after ho
had departed and promptly turned it in
at tho office.
"Are all your clerks as honest as that?"
, jikod the Cincinnati man,
"Certainly." replied tho superintend
prt of the store. "We have never yet
failed to return property lost in this storo
to claimants who could provo their right
to it."
"Well, that beats souio towns." said
tho westerner. "Hero's a 'V for tho
saleswoman." New York Times.
Those Wires on thn l!rilj-i.
Thousands of people cross tho bridge
overy day, but comparatively few of
them know much about tho wires that
aro trained across tho big structure.
They aro thero iu great numbers and of
almost ondlesss variety Their resting
place is on the girders. Through them
countless messages telephonic and tele
graphicare transmitted at all hours of
the day aud night.
Somo of them resemble ropes, but they
are not, for each contains 000 telephone
wires Of theso there aro livo, Besides
them are many other black, suakeliko
j strands, which are other means of com
munication with Brooklyn and points
beyond. Of courso, nearly everybody is
aware that tho laud ends of the Atlantic
cables of the Commercial company also
cross the bridge, but their location is
generally misunderstood They aro se
curely fastened to tho under sido of tho
promenade flooring, in plain view of
passengers on tho trains. New York
Herald.
.Mucnlflcent Tubneco Crop,
Good news for smokers comes from
Havana. It is expected by the best au
thorities on the subject there that the
present tobacco crop will even surpass
that of ten yeara ago in quality aud
quautity. It promises, moreover, to
"cure" early enough to onnblo it to bo
sampled by July Tho interior harvests
of tho last nine years with tho excep
tion of 1888, which was a comparatively
good ono had all been late iu arriviug.
For instance, that of 1800, iu spite of the
most careful treatment, could not be got
to "cure" fit for smoking until last Jau
uary. The crop is roughly estimated at
u quarter of a million bales, each of 100
jiounds weight. London Telegraph.
riuniirl Hlilrl, No WuUtcout.
The washable waistcoats that como in
many well chosen designs will bo worn
with tho coats and trousers. They may
be worn with the cheviot, but not the
ilanuel shirts. If it iu so warm that the
flauuel blurt must be donned for comfort
it is too warm to add the weight of the
dressy waistcoat. Clothier and Pur
uisher,
No lllili for tlio House,
The undent house at Judburg, Hi which
Mury Q,ueou of Scots resided for several
weeks during iiur visit to the Iwrdur
counties lu tint autumn of IA0U, was of
fered for ualo at IMlnburgli liutt week,
but there were no bids for Hie quaint ami
liiterustiriif dwelling, wlileli vtvt reteryed
tl,!W0,-Jiu4M Truth.
A MtAN MAN.
How Ha Kxnrclsi'il Ills Talent
on m Cht-
eiiKo Culile Car.
"Do you know 1 believo I saw tho meanest
ninn alive Inst night on n south street grip,"
said n friend of mine. "You can bet your
winter's coal Hint the mnn who uronkotl some
thing about honesty being tho best policy
don't live in the suno block with him. I
was coining in t rum a way out south when a
ninn got on nt Thirty-seventh street and
took n nut near the front part of the grip.
After he'd gone a block or two he seemed to
get nervous and said to tlie grlpninn:
" 'You'd Is'tter enll out your conductor. 1
get off nt Tuirty-'hird street.'
"The gripiiuin said, 'All right,' and Jerked
his rope. Well, Thirty-third street enme
but no conductor, ami tho honest mnn got
very much put out about not being ublo to
put up his little nickel. Hight here is where
the priae- menu man got in his work. When'
he cmigtit sight of that nickel he held out his
Iminl. The mnn w ith u conscience recog
nized tho net, tlmnked him courteously,
dmpjssl the nimble nielt In his pnw and got
oil'. The tueati tiuui rixlo on till ho heard tlio
conductor cotnuig for tlio nickel, wlieu ho
Mild.
" 'Well, sorry I enn'tstny with you nlwnys
hut tln is my street. ly-hy.'
"Then with a graceful wave of his hnnd ho
slid otT tlio cur. Tlio force of what tho grip
iniiu said would bo lost iu tho necessary trans
lation. Hut 1 think if tho grip coming from
tlio upKisito direction hail scattered that mim
nil nlong the block, everybody on tho cor
would have been pleased. It wasn't that ho
hail robbed tho cuninny that mndo overy
ouo mail. It wis tho small, low down way
ho took of doing it." Chicago MniL
Duly or Kontlcmiui wimtctl to represent asso
ciation of portrait painters, l'eriuiincnt posi
tion, l'or particulars- address I-cominlo Associa
tion, 101 West Jlst, New York City.
Uo KuaraeUno Htovo Polish ; uo iltift, uo smolL
Tnv Gkrvka for breakfast.
ALWAYS TaKeS
SMOKING ToBACCC
Packed in patent canvas
pouches, which retain the natu
ral moisture of the tobacco and
insures a cool, sweet smoke to
the end. More solid comfort in
one package of " Mastiff" than
you can get out of a dozen
others.
J. II, l'ueo Tobacco Co., Iliclimoiict, Virginia.
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We have selected two or
Croup. three lines from letters
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En. L. Willits, of Mrs. Jas.W. Kirk,
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Fully one-half of our customers
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A medicine to be successful with the
little folks must be a treatment for
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hood, whooping cough, croup, diph
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