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SNAKES IN HIS WHEEL.
An Ohio Bioyollst'B Terrible Race
with Reptiles.
lly Remarkable Presence of Mind the
Wheelman Finally Dlsposea of IIU
Dangerous Traveling Com-
to-
pahloas. ;
A most peculiar and interesting snake
story is told by a bicyclist who rode
one of the relays in the race across
Ohio from Sandusky to Portsmouth re
cently. It will be remembered that
the entire distance of tWo hundred and
fourteen miles was covered ic twelve
and one-quarter hours, and from this
it will be seen that at no time could
the speed have been slow.
The rider declares, aocordinp; to an
eastern exchange, that while wheeling
at a good gait he reached the top of a
long slope which gradually dropped to
the bed of a stream. When near the
bottom of the hill his speed must have
been nearly a twenty-five-mile gait.
While going at this speed he discovered
what he took to be a limb lying across
the road. As he came closer and when
too late to turn out he discovered that
the supposed limb was a snake about
ten feet long, and just beyond a second
reptile of nearly-equal length.
His wheel struck the hearer snake
and went over easily, but the reptile in
some way gave warning to its compan
ion which raised its head and struck
savagely at .the shimmering spokes.
The snake's head passed between the
spokes near the hub, and the snake
fastened its fangs on the spokes at the
opposite side of the wheel.
The effect of this was to slacken the
speed of the bicycle, and the rider was
almost thrown from his wheel by the
sudden stop, but maintained his seat
and kept his machine going straight
ahead. It was remarkable that the
knifelike revolutions of the spokes did
not cut the snake in two, but the long
body of the snake was drawn within
the wheel, and the centrifugal force
threw it close to the felloe, where it
lay curled arouud the circumference of
the wheel and was quite safe.
The rider dared not stop for fear of
being bitten and was afraid of increas
ing his speed lest the snake should slip
from the wheel and becoming entan
gled throw him to the ground. He no
'ieed. however, that his speed was be
coming gradually less, but attributed
this to the fact that he was now going
uphill and to the weight of the reptile.
Hut as he reached the top of the hill
he heiird a scraping and hissing noise
behind him and turned to ascertain the
cause; he was horrified to see that the
second and larger snake was also
caught in his bicycle and was holding
on by its tail.
The wheelman now decided to in
crease Ms speed, in order to shake his
second enemy, and strained every mus
cle to attain a higher speed, but the
dead weight of the snake dragging in
the du st lu iiiud proved too much for his
already t ried muscles. With two miles
to go before lie met the next relay, he
was in a quandary as to how he would
escane. but. frlanein" back, he saw that
the snake had twined its tail around
the little step by which a rider mounts
a bicycle
The step was of the pattern called
the "rat trap," because of its sharp
teeth on the upper side. The wheel
man, taking in the situation, reached
back with his left foot and brought the
heel of his shoe down forcibly upon the
snake's tail, completely severing it and
causing the snalce to drop off.
The reptile hissed and started in pur
suit, but the bicycle was easily kept in
the lead. A farmer came along and
being attacked by the snake killed it.
The bicyclist a short distance further
on finished his run. Arming himself
with a club, he examined his wheel,
and found that the other snake was
dead, and not only that, but it was
literally cut into small bits. The cen
trifugal d force had been so great that it
had forced the body of the snake deeper
and deeper into the apex of spokes,
and the rcptilo was cut into chunks
and had to be removed bit by bit.
Wizards of lllfth Draree.
Russian Fins or "Koosian" Fins, as
Jacky has it were, and are yet, wiz
ards of high degree, says Lieut. J. D.
Jerrold Kelley. in an article on "Su
perstitions of the Sea." in the Century.
Hurricanes blew, calms beset, gales
roared as they willed, and their incan
tations ljegan to operate by the simple
sticking of a knife in the mast. If
they wished to drive the rats out of a
vessel, they shoved the point of a
snicker-snee into the deck, and every
rat ran for the sharp blade, and
willy-nilly performed hara-kiri. No
one ever saw, in sailor lore, a penniless
Russian Fin, for, by slipping his hand
into his pocket he can always pro
duce a gold doubloon why a gold
doubloon, no one seems to know, but it
is always that coin; his mm bottle,
often consulted silently and alone, is
never full nor empty a gentle plash
ing of tide half-tide bringing fat con
tent, and woe be to the incautious
mariner who bites the weather side of
his tkumb at him, for harm will urely
follow.
ROYAL ATHLETES.
Europe's NoM.,. Are I'.yLug Muea 4Ui.
lluu to l'l.j.itsl lvslouisiit.
Athletics meet with due anil r.ir,..t.
ful consideration from royalty. In
deed, it was a Drince or a cluU nr a
grand high functionary of some sort
maoi! uicyclinp the fashion in
E:ir-,p-j. Itt.yully led the wo.y. aod all
joined the profession. Almost every
cr jwued Ii a. I owns a cycle; some of
tUcia have several. Queen Victoria mn
pr-tibly tekcadallytour around Wind
sor Palace grounds on a safety, al
though no picture of her has yet ap
peared showing her in knickerbockers.
The khedive of Egypt has a bicycle of
the most gorgeous description, so cov
ered with silver plating that one can
hardly see the black enamel under
neath. A photograph displayed in a
London shop window is labelled, "Some
Royal Cyclists." and shows a group of
five very good-looking, well-developed
young men, each standing beside his
bicycle; they are Prince Waldemar of
llenmark, Prince George of Greece, the
Czarewiteh. Prince Xieoluos of Greece,
and Prince Carl of Denmark.
T' i latest royal convert to bicycling
is the king of the llelghins, who now
takes exercise for an hour or two every
morning on a bicycle in one of the
avenues adjoining Laeken palace.
The king of Italy presided at the
Rome cycle races on April 1, and was
the donor of the princip.il prizes, which
were won by the son of one of his sec
retaries. GARDEN PARTIES FOR CATS.
An Unreaaonuhlt N ela-lihor Objects to the
Feline Asaeniblnfros.
Luciana, in "The Comedy of Errors,"
says that a "man is master of his lib
erty;" but there is a lady in North Lon
don, says the Standard, more advanced
than the women of Shakespeare's time,
who claims the same right on behalf of
her seix that Luciuna handed over to
the other. "1 don't object to your
growing mushrooms and lettuces in
your garden," she said to her male
neighbor, "and you have no business to
object to my feeding eats in mine."
"Hut what right have your cats to eat
my mushrooms?" "Perhaps they like
'e m," answered the lady, and then she
added insult to injury by adding :"Cat
sup is made of mushrooms, you know.
Anyhow this is a free country and I
can do what I like on my own prem
ises." Under such circumstances the
neighbor applied to Mr. Lane, Q. C
the North London magistrate, for his
advice. The lady, he said, was in the
habit of giving cut parties in her gar
den, inviting all the stray tabbies mid
toms in the locality by laying food for
them on the grass. The ama teur garden
er would not mind if she provided suffi
cient refreshments for her guests, but
unfortunately the animals left the gard
en party with appetites so voracious
that on their way back to the high road
they entered his premises and ate up
his mushrooms, lettuces, beans, vege
table marrows, and flowers in fact, all
his spring delicacies had recently been
devoured, the damage done amounting
to about li. "The cats assemble in
your garden and fight and wrangle?"
asked Mr. Lane. "Yes," replied the
applicant, "and destroy my plants,
The lady will persist in inviting and
harboring them. What am I to do?"
"That," answered the magistrate, "is
an exceedingly difficult problem. The
cat. you know, is u domesticated ant
mal. If you think it worth your
while to go to the county court, vou
may; but you have no remedy in this
court. The judge, however, will have
to look up some law before he can set
tle it. ' For the time being, therefore
tho oats are masters of the situation and
the mushrooms.
A Terror to Criminals.
M. Itcrtillon's recer t successes in the
identification of anarchists have drawn
much attention to the Anthropometric
department of Paris, over which he
presides. He is the official of whom
the habitual criminal is most in dread,
for he has brought his system to such
a state of perfection that five minutes
sometimes suffices for the discovery of
the photograph taken perhaps years
ago, and to which are appunded varr
ous telltale details, including tho dates
of the condemnations which the culprit
has already undergone. The ease with
which this is done is all the more re
markable owing to the fact that the
department contains upwards of one
hundred and fifty thousand similar
documents. Everything is so well
classified that photographs which may
not have been looked at for years are
promptly discovered. Nine measure
ments of prisoners arc taken, and the
men employed in this work are so ex
pert that it is done in a few minutes.
After undergoing this process the cul
prit is photographed. Occasionally re
sistance is offered, but this is rapidly
overcome. There is no deceiving M.
Hertillon, who is said to be the special
horror of pickpockets from the Ilritish
side of the channel.
THE SUNFLOWER OF SIBERIA.
A riant That Is Kemarkalila In MoT.
Hays Tluiii One.
"One of the greatest curiosities I
ever met with in my travels." said Prof.
Philip L. Newman, of Cincinnati, to a
St. Louis Globe-Democrat man recent
ly, "is the sunflower that blooms in
the northern portion of Silivriu, where
the earth is continually covered with a
coating of snow and frost. This won
derful plant shoots forth from the
frozen soil on the first day of the year
and reaches the height of jibout three
feet; it blooms on the thTrd day, re
mains open twenty-four hours, and
then returns to its original elements.
It shines for a single day, then the
stem, leaves and flower are converted
into snow. The leaves are three in
number. The flower is star-shaped, its
petals about as long as the leaves and
about half an inch wide. On the third
day the extremities of the leaves show
little glistening specks, like diamonds,
about the size of the head of a pin.
These are the seeds of this queer flow
er. I was told that on one occasion
some of these seeds were gathered and
hastily transported to St. Petersburg.
They were there placed ill a led of
snow . where they were kept until the
first of the follouuif year, whea the
sunflower burst forth aol wag greatly
admired and wondered at by all who
saw it."
So..ih triD. ;;, f Xorth American In
dian punched matricides by hanging
thern by their hands to the limbs of a
tree at a he'-ht just sufficient to per
mit thr wolves to reach lbem from
to, cround. Thy tv;rt teft t fce taten
ahv.
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ARGENTINE WHEAT.
The South American Product
Hurting Northern Trade.
Some facts About the drain Export of
the Country Which Are Not Qen.r
all7 Known Throughout the
United States.
Few even of the best informed of our
people have a thorough and precise
knowledge of the extent to which the
growing volume of Argentine exports
has been cutting into the American
wheat trade, says the Providence Jour
nal. The great majority among us. in
fact, would doubtless be fairly startled
to learn that, omitting all considera
tion of flour, the wheat exports of
Argentina are already actually greater
than those of the United States. That
is the fact, however, as tho latest sta
tistics on the subject conclusively
show. Thus in February last our
wheat exports were 4.000,yii9 bushels,
those of Argentina, 4,:i'.'U,0K) bushels;
in March we. exported u,53f,H18 bush
els, Argentina, ,13tf,000 bushels; in
April American exports were ft. 078,340
bushels, Argentina, U,3U2,000 bushels.
Nor is the whole story told in these
figures. Not only has Argentina al
ready surpassed us as purveyor of
wheat to Europe, but she has attained
to her present superiority by strides
whih. if kept up, must presently leave
us very far behind. The course of the
export grain trade of tho two countries
is an interesting study in comparisons.
Our exports of wheat have been dis
tressingly falling off during the very
time when the Argentine have been
marvelously increasing. In February,
181)4, American exports were less than
half what they were in February, 1893;
in March the loss was about 10 per
cent., in April about S3 per cent. On
the other hand, Argentine exports, in
February showed a gain of lfl per cent.,
in March they more than doubled and
in April tho gain was 86 per cent.
Plainly the growth of the grain trade
of the Mouth American republic is
nothing short of marvelous. The
United Kingdom alone, according to
the recent statement of a well-known
English importer, is now taking 8,00,
(HMI bushels a month from a country
which a year ago sent out only'4,400,t)ou
bushels, and which a few years ago
sent abroad no wheat at all.
When to these portentous facts it is
added that, notwithstanding the large
quantities already shipped, Argentina
still has left of this year's crop at least
40,000,000 bushels for export, we begin
to get some idea of tho meaning, for
our farmers and for all of us, of this
new competition. We can begin to un
derstand better, too, why it is that the
total wheat twports from this country
for the ten months ending with April
were only 7u,073,218 bushels, against
07,105,047 bushels for tile corresponding
ten months of the preceding year. We
need not stop now to Inquire just why
Argentina gets the better of us in this
trade; the fuct should lie fully appre
ciated first. And the fact is that Argen
tine exports are likely to increase still
more in the near future. They would
increase, no doubt, under natural con
ditions, but they will be specially stiuf
ulated by the present peculiar situa
tion in that country. The payment of
interest on the foreign national debt
and on the English capital invested in
private enterprises is taking 8"0,000,000
a year out of Iluenos Ayres, and the
government is at the same time con
tinually issuing new paper notes. The
circulation, already excessive, is thus
becoming more valueless and the gold
premium has risen toKfi. This decline
in the purchasing power of the cur
rency tends, of course, both to check
imports and to increase the volume of
exports, l'aying thu cost of produc
tion in depreciated paper at home and
selling the product abroad for gold is
always a rather profitable operation,
and the Argentines are likely to try to
make the most of tho opportunity
while it lasts.
Russia's Population.
The population of Russia at the be
ginning of this year numbered about
124,000,000 souls. These are distributed
in the following manner; In the 50
governments of Russia in Europe there
are about 8'J,00O,0O0 inhabitants; in the
Vistula country, 8,WX),000; in the Cau
casus, 8,000,000; in Siberia, 4,750,
000; in Asia, (1,100,000, and in
Finland, 2,:i80,0OO. These figures,
says Vanity Fair, are worthy of note.
The Russian army in time of peace
numliers aliout 820,000 men, which,
compared to tho population, is but a
small number. Other countries, such
as Germany and France, have already
more than 1 percent, of their popula
tians permanently with the colors.
Should the tsar one day, by a single ,
stroke of the pen, choose to follow the '
example of other European powers, he
would be in command of by far the
largest number of men, under one sov
ereign, in the world.
CONFEDERATES IN CONGRESS.
Only Twelve Men to He Found In Doth
ftreiieheeFasslnt' Away.
The mcu who enjoyed prominence in
the Lutlilaiy uud civil service of the
coiiicdaracy are rapuly pas:;ic,f from
the arena of national polities, says tho
Augusta Chronicle. Below is a record
of such as are still in active life at
Washington: The senior United States
senator from Alabama, John T. Mor
gan, was a brigadier general in the
confederate army; and her other sena
tor, James L. Pugh, was a member of
ths confederate congre- . Ji-t-ph
Wheeler, who attained tho rank of
lieutenant general in the confederate
service, has for twelve years been the
representative in congress from the
Eighth Alabama district. The senior
senator from Georgia, John B. Gordon,
was likewise a. lieutenant general in
the army of the confederacy. Edward
C. Walthall, of Mississippi, a major
general in the confederate service, and
of late the junior United States senator
from his native state, while not now in
active politics, having resigned for the
balance of his present term in the up
per house, has been elected for and is
confidently expected to take his seat in
that honorable body in March, 1895.
The senior United States senator from
Missouri, Francis M. Cockrell, was a
brigadier general in the confederate
army; and the other senator from that
commonwealth, George G. Vest, held
positions in both houses of the confed
erate congress. The present senior
United States senators from both North
and South Carolina, Matt W. Ransom
and M. C liutler, were major generals
in the confederate service. The repre
sentatives from Tennessee in the upper
house of congress lire Islunn (I. Harris,
the senior, and William H. linte, who
is the junior senator from that com
monwealth. The first mentioned was
a war governor of his native state and
the last named was a major general in
the confederate army. And lastly,
Eppa I Ion ton. who saw service as brig
adier general in the confederate army,
at present occupies the position of
junior senator from Virginia in the
congress of the United States. Thus
do we perceive that of the multitude of
those who distinguished themselves in
the military and civil annals of the
confederacy only twelve remain in na
tional halls.
HOW TO KILL CROCODILES.
Shoot Them or Cateh Them on a lne and
Take an Ax.
There are two ways of killing croco
diles, writes an ex-resident of India.
One is by shooting with a rifle, but the
most satisfactory way of dealing with
them, besides being far the most sport
ing, is to bait a good large hook with a
bird or small animal and fasten it by a
chain to a good long rope, tho end of
which is firmly picketed, tho rope be
ing coiled and the bait lain in shallow
water. There must be lots of slack
line, as the crocodile does not swallow
anything at once, but seizes it anil
takes it into deep water to gorge. A
number of lines may be laid and looked
up in tho morning or cool of the even
ing. When hooked it will take a good
many men to haul a crocodile out, and
as he resents the operation and can use
his tail as well as his jaws, one or two
sportsmen will find considerable enter
tainment in dispatching him with
spears.
Some crocodiles grow to enormous
size, and their maws always contain
round white stones and often trinkets,
the relics' of inside passengers. The
writer assisted at the death of a not
extraordinarily large "snubnose" which
had six women's rings in her. .
ARMLESS NIMROD.
Hags More Game Thau Any Other Hunter
In the Name County.
An armless Nimrod is the wonder of
the people and the envy of tho sports
men of 1 lucks county, says the Phila
delphia Record. He is John Simon, of
Zion Hill, and his prowess is some
thing marvelous. Simon's arms were
ground off above the elbows in ma
chinery a few years ago, but his love
of hunting spurred his ingenuity, and
he overcame his seeming insurmounta
ble obstacle. He straps his single-barrel,
breech-loading hammerless gun to
his right arm, and when he sights
game he swings the piece over the
stump of his left arm, takes quick aim
and fires, generally with telling effect.
His mode of loading is as uniqo as his
shooting. He carries the shells In his
hat, and when he wants ono bows low,
drops his hat on the ground, pulls out
the empty shell with his teeth and in a
similar manner loads, then pushing
his head into his hat to re-cover his
head. Despite his affliction, Simon
has done some of the best shooting in
Rucks county the past year, his record
standing; Sixteen opossums, five
pheasants, five dozen blackbirds, thirty
seven rabbits and twenty-one quail.
MOTORMEN DREAD BICYCLES.
Dangerous Itlaks Taken by Some Klders of
the I'npular Wheel.
Ricyeles are a source of dread to elec
tric car motormen on account of the
risks the wheelmen fake. "The dan
ger," said a motorinnn lo a Louisville
Courier-Journal reporter, "is when the
streets are wet and slippery. I have
seen the bicycle wheels throw the ma
chines upside down as quick as a man
can be thrown by a banana peeling.
Only a day or two ago I thought sure
that I was going to kill a boy. My car
waa coming pretty fast, and the boy,
who was coming out of another street
at a clipping gait, not only tried to
cross in front of tho car, but to make a
sharp curve around in front of the car
to go up the street down which the car
was coming. Just as he made the curve
the svheels Hew from under his machine
lad threw 1dm Vvitu his LaJ, riht
shoulder and right arm on the trt..k
I shut my eyes and tried to stop the
car, though knowing it could not be
done in time. Py wonderful chance the
boy In throwing up his arm to ward off
the blow held it just right for the car
fender to strike him on the muscular
part of the arm and hurl him to one
aide clear of danger. A bruised arm
was his only injury."