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THE SONG OF THE JOKE.
With hn’r all tumbled and tossud,
Willi brain top limivy with fun,
A funny man sat in his dingy den,
Trying to make a pun.
Write! write! write!
Half hid in tobacco smoko!
And still with a \ nice of dolorous pitch
Jle sang •’The Song of the Joke.”
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OLD HAYSEED.
How He Humiliated the Champion Sport
of a Proud Michigan Town.
‘‘Talking about sports,” said a Goth
amite to a Daily Kuiu man a few days
ago, “reminds me of an experience I
once had.' It occurred in Michigan,
and it happened several years ago. but
the boys haven't got through talking
about it yet. There was a great rivalry
between the town in which 1 resided and
one a few miles distant in all lines of
sport. In the athletic line I was con
sidered the best, and so whenever any
running, jumping or wrestling event
was to come off 1 was tlie one to make
the trial against all comers. 1 had no
trouble iu defeating my opponents in a
majority of the events, and as a conse
quence the sports o£ tin- neighboring
town lost heavily. It worried them
more than a little, and in order to get
even witli us they put up a job on us in
the following manner: While a man
who bad lost the most money by my
successes, a supporter of mine and my
self were lounging about the only re
sort in tlie town, a load of hay was
driven up in front of the plac e. A long,
lank specimen of humanity, dressed iu
a blue-cheeked shirt, overalls tucked in
his boots, and wearing on his head a
straw hat minus a crown, slid off tho
load and entered the store. Die new
comer pretended to have a severe pain
in the region of his stomach, and sought
a remedv as au excuse to get into the
place. When lie came in Dan, the man
who had lost money by betting against
me. was handling a pair of thirteen-
pouud dumb-bells, which attracted the
attention of ttie farmer. Dan asked
him if he knew what they were, mid lie
sai l no. He was told they were used in
jumping, when the granger volunteered
the information that tie could beat his
paw jumpin’. Dan at once ottered to
bet the drinks that the farmer couldn't
beat any one < f tho three in
tho room. Hayseed objected, sav
ing he didn't have lint ten vents. He
was forced into the trial, however;
despite his protests that if lie lost his
paw would lick lrm. mid in the contest
was beaten two feet by the poorest
jumper. Then he began to cry. Dan
wouldn’t let up on him mid asked him
if he could do any thing else in the way
of athletics. Through li s fear- he re
plied that he could run when Dan of
fered to bet twenty dollars against the
load of hay. which the farmer held at
the same price, that he couldn’t beat me
running one hundred and fifty yards.
Just then a liveryman came in and,
after giving us all a blowing-up for
abusing a green farmer boy, gave the
price asked tor the hay to the granger,
and went out. Dan snatched the money
out of his hand and told him that he’d
got to run, whether he wanted to or
not, and finally coaxed him to do so.
The report that a match had been made
spread through the usually quiet st reel
like wildfire, and it was not many min
utes before several men from the ad
joining town were eagerly taking all
the bets they could get, and they wa re
many, for my friends rallied around me,
and after a glance at the Hayseed read
ily offered odds of four to one on my
success. The distance was measured ofl,
but when I went to the starting point
Hayseed was nowhere to be seen. Fi
nally I discovered him sitting in a cor
ner of a field some distance away, and
on getting to him found him blubbering
away at the loss of his money. Sud
denly he checked himself, and, looking
up, asked if we would have a scratch
start. A greenhorn never would have
asked such a question, and then I knew
Dan had run in a ringer on us. While
I was thus thinking the farmer slipped
ofl’his suit of blue and displayed a beau
tiful racing suit. We ran. and I was
beaten easily fifteen feet. The alleged
farmer I found out was McFaul, a noted
runner from Canada, who had been im-
ported
purposi to down our gang, and
•torted purposely
be did
’t beautifully to the tune of
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$2,500. — Chicago Sews.
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—A Maine fisherman, who used to
sail the Southern seas, reports that he
law a sea-serpent the other day off
Wells. It was like one he once saw in
the Caribbean Sea, except that it has
grown considerably. It held its head,
the size of a barrel, high in tlie air; its
eves, as big as saucers, gleamed with a
marvelous light, and its huge, open
mouth was armed with triple rows
of teeth. The paper that reports this
says the old salt is not adictcd to drink. —
Boxion Journal.
—As tlie Boston Transcript learns,
“Yankie Doodle” probnblv came from
Holland, where a song with the follow
ing burden has long been in use among
the laborers in harvest time, when th**y
receive as much buttermilk as they can
drink and a tenth of the grain har
vested:
Yankerdidrl dno.lel doun,
Didel. <iu<le! lantcr.
Yanks river iromsr v own.
Buttermilk anil tanih, r.
The tune was known in New En-
gland before the Revolution as • * Lydia
Fisher's Jig.”
Joke! Joke! Joke!
While the printer yells, “(’ep eel”
A ml joke .joke joke,
With never a sm<l<* of glee;
A nd it s, <», to lie a clam
In the restful mud to lurk,
Where American humor never comes,
If tills be Christian work.
—St. Louis Globe,
AN ELEPHANT HUNT.
IIow to Surely Bring the Monarch
Down.
An American Traveler’» Story of the First
On« He Killed—Manner of Trapping
the Beast for Showmen—Sagaci
ty of Elephant» in Labor.
“The day I shot my first elephant,”
i said an old British Indian, “willalways
be a red letter day in my sporting calen
dar. It was in the Island of Ceylon,
that pearl of the Indian Ocean, lying at
the foot of the great peninsula of Hin
dustan, tlie Lanka of tlie ancientsand
the Serendib of the days of Solomon
the Wise, ami sacred in the eyes of all
good Buddhists, for is it not there
where the tooth of the great god lies
upon the golden lotos leaf? Ceylon is
the paradise of sportsmon, tho beau
ideal of a perfect hunting country. All
kinds of game abound in the low coun
try and the vast forests of tlie interior
of the island, from the lowly and wary
til ing snipe to the lordly elephant.
True, there are no tigers as in India,
Imt they have an equivalent in tlie
stealthy anil fierce cheetah, which, in
strength and cunning very nearly, if it
does not quite, approach tiie ‘Royal
Bengal.’
“On the day in question Iliad started,
in company with a friend, from Trin-
comalee, tlie British naval station of
the island and perhaps the finest har
bor in the world, and after driving
some forty miles into tho interior we
left tlie ‘bandy’ and made tracks into
the jungle. IVe were both armed witli
express rifles, which in my opinion
are. hy.fart'ie best weapons for elephant
shooting, and we were in hopes that
ere long we would come on the trail of
the ‘ani,’ nor were we disappointed,
for shortly our attention was drawn by
tlie native guides to the young bamboos
on tlie side of the path, which bore un
mistakable signs that an elephant had
been feeding there,' Soon we came on
further evidence of his presence, and
on we wont, our eyes on the ground,
toiling through the jungle after tho ele
phant. And, oh, the heat! And, oh,
the thirst! Every now and then we
had to halt and wipe the perspiration
from our brows, and send a native
•shinning’ up a cocoanut tree for one
of the young nuts, from which we
eagerly drank the milk. We were
hours toiling after that brute and
thought we would never como up to
him. At last the trail led right into a
sorf of oasis of pallia, or grass land, in
tho middle of which there was an
island of jungle. The trail went straight
into this,
so we
woro sure
that we had Sir Jumbo at last. My
friend Jack P. went round to one side
while 1 remained on the other, and
then we sent beaters in at each end to
drive tho elephant out. Suddenly I
heard a crackling of brushwood, then
a loud trumpet, and Jack’s voice
shouting that the elephant had turned
and was coming my wav. I remember
well wishing devoutly tiiat he had gone
in any other direction, but I liad not
much time for thinking, as in a minute
or so out came the huge brute. He
was a ‘rogue’ and a big one to boot. A
“rogue’ is an elephant that lias been
driven from the herd for some miscon-
luet or other, and lie is generally
‘mini,’ wandering about tlie country
alone and doing all the damage he can.
His hand is against every man and
every man’s hand is against him. A
‘rogue’ elephant is the only kind you
can shoot, as the elephants in herds are
very strictly preserved by tlie Ceylon
Government. Well, when this gentle
man came out of the jungle he gazed
about him for a second or two, and
then, catching sight of me, raised his
trunk and gave a trumpet that would
have made tlie angel Gabriel green
with envy, and then charged right at
me. Now conies the difficult part of
elephant shooting. There is ontv one
vulnerable spot on a Ceylon elephant,
and that is a small oval spot, in
size only a few inches, just above
the trunk. You might fire a battery
of gatlings at any other spotand failto
bring him down, and once I counted
eighteen bullet marks in an elephant's
skull w' killed, and not one of which
had probably given him more than a
alight headache. When an elephant
charges he raises his trunk so that it
protects this vital spot, and trumpets
shrilly, hoping by this means, no doubt,
to scare the hunter. When lie is with
in ten paces he lowers his trunx and at
the same time brings hhihead down,
after the manner of a bull when charg
ing. Now is the time to fire. It is an
anxious moment, and for one who was
but a ‘Griffin’ at the game it was any
tiling but pleasant. There was no
friendiv tree near, and there was but
little chance of escape through the jun
gle if 1 missed, as it would require a
knit for me to cut through tho thick
undergrowth, while the elephant could
go through it like nack-thread. On
came the elephant, the ground almost
slinking henealn nis ponderous ireau.
Would lie never lower that trunk? 1
stood with my rifle at the ‘present’ as
motionless as a statue, and, just as he
seemed to be right on me, down went
the trunk. Crack! went my rifle, aud
I had to spring back a pace or two to
prevent tlie huge beast from coming
right on top of me as he fell stone dead
at my feet. The reaction was
great., my highly strung nerves
giving way when the elephant
came down as if cut witli a knife, ami
the rille fell from my shaking hands.
I have learned better manners since.
Soon Jack came up and we had a regu
lar war dance round the carcass. The
‘nigger’ was seut up the nearest cocoa-
nut and we quaffed a beaker to tne
pleasant passage of Jumbo’s soul to the
elephants’ heaven. Shooting au ele
phant in a herd and shooting a rogue
elephant are two very different things.
In the first place, as I have said, you
are not allowed to shoot . a elephant in
a herd under a penalty of two hundred
and fifty dollars, the Government using
all they can catch for the Public Works
Department. This is as it should be,
for, before the law was established,
there was wholesale slaughter among
tlie noble beasts. It was nothing lint
•pot’ hunting, as the hunter would lie
iu wait where tlie herd went to water
and then pick them off at his leisure,
and, as Cey Ion elephants have no tusks
it was done in mere wantonness.
Major Rogers, of tlie Ceylon Rifles,
was a famous elephant shot in his day,
and lie was credited with having slain
with his own gun over twelve hundred
elephants. This 1 believe to be a well
authenticated fact. He once made a
bet that he would kill two elephants
with one shot. The way he did it was
to shoot the mother when tlie youn
elephant was suckling her, and the
mother falling on her young one
crushed it to death
“Elephants are caught in what are
known as kraals. They are, caught
either for use in the Public Works De
partment, for service ia the native
temples, or for sale to some European
menagerie. When a kraal is to be
formed word is sent to the native head
man of the village near where the
kraal is to be built, and he, in his turn,
sends out hundreds of beaters. When
the herd to be operated on is located
the beaters form a semi-circle and begin
driving the animal slowly toward the
kraal. At night they build watch tires,
and between them the native patrol,
armed with white wands, which are
quite sufficient to keep the elephants
from breaking through. They gradu
ally work them up toward the kraal,
which is an open space in the jungle
with some stout trees growing within
it. It is surrounded by a strong stock
ade arid has onlvva narrow entrahce.
Into this the herd is driven. The herd
is generally led by an old bull elephant,
and before any attempt to capture an
elephant is made this old gentleman
must be shot. When the Duke of Edin
burgh visited the island a kraal was
gotten up for his especial benefit, and
H. R. II. entered the kraal to shoot the
bull, but ho missed and the bull very
nearly did away with young Guelph.
In fact he was right on him when a
timely shot, fired by a native sitting
up a tree and armed witli an old
Hint musket, brought the bull’s
career to an end. The bull got rid of,
the next thing to do is to send in two
tame elephants, witli their mahouts,
who single out the elephant to be capt
ured, The tamo ones then ‘scuddie’
up, one on each side, and profess great
friendship for their wild companion,
gradually pressing him or her closer and
closer until they have him fast. Then a
native slips in underneath and quickly
makes ropes fast to the wild one’s legs,
and lie is dragged by the tame ele
phants to the nearest tree, where, after
being thrown to the ground, lie is se
curely bound and left there to starve
for two or three days. He is then quite
tame, and when lie rises up ho fj no
longer monarch of the forest but ele
phant No. 999 of the Public Works De
partment, or the great Jumbo of a trav
eling circus.
“The sagacity of elephants is pro
verbial, but few who have not person
ally witnessed it can imagine how use
ful they are to man in such places a«
Ceylon. Without their aid it would
have been impossible for tho Govern
ment to have covered the island, as it
has done, with a splendid network of
roads and railways. In some places it
would have been impossible to have
transported machinery, and without
hoisting machinery the great blocks of
stone used in the foundations and but
tresses of bridges could not hare been
moved—but here the elephant came
into play, and I have seen the
noble beast at work on tile
roads, moving a great block of
stone into position
,
, and standing
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back and eyeing it, and then giving it
a gentle push, now on one side and now
on the other, until the stone was
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cor
rectly placed. An officer of tile de-
partnient told me that the most sa
gacious tiling he ever knew an ele
pliant to do was on one occasion whim
they were unloading some steel piping
from a railway truck. The elephant’s
task was to carry the piping from be
side the truck to a little farther up the
track. This lie did hv seizing the.
piping with his trunk. But it so hap
pened that tlie piping had been oiled in
order to prevent it rusting, so that when
the elephant caught hold it slipped
from his grasp. Ho thought for a mo
ment, and then his elephantine mind
solved the problem. Near the track
was a heap of sand; the animal kicked
the piping over to this with his foot,
and then rolled the piping backward
and forward in the sand. The oil made
the sand adhere, after which the elc-
pliant took th" piping up and marched
triumnhantlv off with it. Could a
unman being reason better? No won
der the Government objects to such an
intelligent animal being indiscriminate
ly slaughtered.
“Elephants are also in griait demand
in Ceylon for service in the Buddhist
temples. Every temple has at least
half a dozen attached to it, and in some
of the larger temples, such as the one
in Kandy, where the sacred tooth of
Buddha isdeposited, they have as many
as fifty. The largest num' er of ele
phants I ever saw together was when
the Prince of Wales visited Kandy to
view Buddha’s tooth. They had a
grand procession, or Perahera. in which
over four hundred elephants took part.
It was a weird sight. It took place at
night and the rain came down in tor
rents. Every elephant had an accom
panying guard of about a dozen devil
dancers, hideously painted, who danced
round waving torches and giving utter
ance to the most unearthly snrieks,
while the Prince, arrayed in a gorgeous
uniform and surrounded by a brilliant
staff, stood on a balcony of the old
palace of the Kings o-f Kandy and
watched the antics of his mother’s ‘chil
dren.’”— Chicago Herald.
NO. 5
HINDOO MARRIAGES.
AN OPIUM EATER’S STORY
Girl» of Eleven Compelled to Marry Boy»
Fifteen Year» of Age.
Crawling Over Bed Hot Bar« of Iron in Hi«
Fearful Frenzy—A Scientific Investigation
From an article a Hindoo recently
and Its Results.
published it appears that marriage in
Cincinnati Times-Star.
the writer's country is managed entirely
“
Opium
or death 1 ”
by the parents. Courtship, he says, is
Tliis brief sentence was fairly hissed
literally unknown in India, and the
persons who are united in wedlock re into tlie ear of a prominent druggist
main perfect strangers to each other on Vine street by a person who, a few
till their nuptial day. and often for a years ago well oil’ is to-day a hopeless
long period afterward. Every thing is wreck!
settled to suit the fancies or caprices of
One caii scarcely realize the suffer
the parents. To the narties chiefly
concerned marriage is a pure lottery; ings of an opium victim. l)e Quincy
but, fortunately, Hindoo connubial life lias vividly portrayed it. But who can
is not generally a miserable lot, as the fitly describe the joy of a rescued
wife is unsurpassed in faithfulness and
devotion to her husband. The highest victim?
H. C. Wilson, of Loveland, O., for
age at which a Hindoo girl is married
—with rare exceptions—is eleven merly with March, Howard & Co., man
years. The bridegroom is in his teens ufacturing chemists of St. Louis, and
and his bride has hardly seen ten cum
mers when they are united for life. of the well-known firm of H. C. Wil
Many girls have been married when son & Co., chemists, formerly of this
they have barely learned to feed them city, gave our rejiorter yesterday a bit
selves.
of thrilling personal experience in
Tlie boy inmate of a Hindoo houso this line.
finds himself betrothed by hisfather'sor
“ I have crawled over red hot bars of
THE CHECKERBERRY.
grandfather's command to some girl— iron and coals of fire,” he said, ‘‘in my
A IVi il P.ant Which Lately Has Been perhaps an infant of six or seven years agony during an opium frenzy.
The
old, whom he has not seen; nor does lie very thought of iny sufferings freezes
Given a Place in tlie Garden.
see
her
till
at
the
age
of
fifteen
or
Among the uncultivated plants may
While he is yet at school my blood and chills my bones. I was
\>e named the cheekerberry. Why has thereabouts.
.ie is sent out to fetcli her home to his then eating over 30 grains of opium
not this little evergreen plant, with mother’s or grandmother’s zenana. daily.”
‘•¡low did you contract the habit?”
its delicate wh te blossoms of mid-sum There the child-wife takes the lowest
‘‘Excessive business cares broke me
mer. and its attractive crimson fruit of place, and becomes at once tlie toy and
m d-winter, been given a place iu tlie slave of all the women. She has to down and my doctor prescribed opium!
ornamental garden? It is because of learn her domestic duties under the That is tlie way nine-tenths of cases
the bel ef that it will not take kindly strict eye of her mother-in-law, and commence. When I determined to
drudges on; unless indeed, (as is gen
to cultivation; or it is because its erally the case,) there is a widow in stop, however, I found I could not do it.
You may be surprised to know,”
beauty and usefulness is unknown, If the family to have all the work heap«! lie “ said,
“ tiiat two-fiths of the slaves
the former, we are glad to be i able to upon her; for a Hindoo widow is the of morphine and opium are physicians.
say something from practical expert* cursed of gods and men. However, Many of these I met. We studied
even if this be the case, the child-wife our cases carefully. We found out
ence.
must learn to do her work, which is
This plant, when properly treated,
I
what the organs were in which the ap
grows well in the garden, but it often menial, and must absolutely obey petite was developed and sustained;
will not do to set it on i culti- her mother-in-law. The husband and
vated land and surround it with hot wife pass their lives in two almost en tiiat no victim was free from a demor
pulverized earth; under such treatment tirely different tracks, and are brouglrt alized condition of those organs; that
it burns and becomes an unsightly up in ideas and associations widely the hope of a cure depended entirely up
plant. To have the cheekerberry do different from each other. Beginning on the degree of vigor which could be im
well, it must be given s milar treat as wife at so early an ago, and enter parted to them. I have seen patients,
ment that it has in its natural home. ing by tho door of marriage cer while undergoing treatment, compelled
Those who are familiar with this plant emonies the little girl passes from to resort to opium again to deaden tlie
well know that, when found growing on infancy into the duties and trial of ma horrible pain in those organs. I mar
laud that has had a crop of white pine ture life, or at any rate into the seclu vel how I ever escaped.”
timber cut from it within a few years, sion and imprisonment whu-li are the
“Do you mean to say, Mr. Wilson,
the plants are strong, and at tlie proper grave of childhood. This dreary life that you have conquered the habit?”
season will be found well loaded doom is appalling and most incon
“Indeed I have.”
w th fruit of very large size. This ceivable to English readers. There is
"Do you object to telling me how?”
teaches that it is a plant that does uot no divorce in the Hindoo law; and,
“No, sir. Studying the matter with
ilo ucotiu the.shade, although fre |Uently even when she is cruelly treated or
found growing there, witli no fru t on mercilessly neglected, the Hindoo wife several opium-eating physicians, we
it but that it is a plant that needssun- patiently submits. Still, tlie only became satisfied that tlie appetite for
sliiue.to bring it to full perfection; it thought occupying her mind is the opium was located in tlie kidneys and
also teaches that it needs to have the welfare of her husband, whose wrongs liver. Our next object was to find a
soil covered with decayed leaves, to and injustices she religiously forgives. ' specific fcr restoring those organs to
make A loose and light for the roots to
Yet this cruel treatment from her health. The physicians, much against
run in.
husband is preferable to widowhood.
code, addressed their attention to
After having repeatedly tried and The Hindoo widow is never allowed to tlieir
failed to make this plant grow and marry again. She has no one on a certain remedy and became throughly
fruit in the shade, an effort was made whom to rely; .she is subject to unkind convinced on its scientific merits alone
to imitate nature as near as possible. ness from every one, and is liable to that it was the only one tiiat could be
A small plot of land was prepared by be driven to despair. She has to put relied upon in every case of disordered
first covering it with a rich vegetable on the plainest dress, to live only on kidneys ana liver. I thereupon began
mould made of decayed leaves, then, vegetables and fruits, frequently to ab using it and supplementing it with my
early in the spring, good healthy looking stain from all food, to use no articles own special treatment, finally got fully
vines were taken from among the pine of luxury. She. is expected to harbor over the habit. I may say that tlie
stumps, and at once set in rows about no cheerful thoughts—to pass her life most important part of tlie treatment
eighte n incnes apart; when set, the immured within the four walls of the is to get those organs first into good
ground was covered all over with pine zenana, with grief for her only com
leaves, or needles, to the depth of one panion. Thus tlie widow drags through working condition, for in them tlie ap
or two inches The plants did not her wretched life till welcome death petite originates and is sustained, and
in them over ninety per cent of all other
seem to realize that they had comes and relieves her.
It oft-
been
removed,
but
when the en happeas that a Hindoo wife human ailments originate.”
“For the last seven years this position
growing season opened the new loses her husband
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after
shoots came up very thick,
" ‘ ‘ , and on marriage; and then she is initiated has been taken by the proprietors of
most of them there were numerous
I
I into the horrors of a widow’s life ere that remedy and finally it is becoming
blossoms, which produced a good crop I she has passed her girlhood. An old an acknowledged scientific truth
of fruit. Nothing was done but to man of sixty will not scruple to marry among the medical profession; many
keep the grass out. The i ¡ties lived a girl of eight, though he knows that of them, however, do not openly ac
well through the winter, and produced
a second crop of fruit. It was then she will be an outcast in his house all knowledged it, and yet, knowing they
thought be-t to try to grow them by her life after she lias been deprived of have no other scientific specific,
cultivation wbhout covering the ground I her husband. Out of the total popula- their eoile not allowing them to use it,
with leaves, but the third year under | tion of India there must at least be six they buy it upon the quiet and pre
this treatment was a failure, the leaves millions of women suffering iu this scribe it in their own bottles.”
“As I said before the opium and mor
of the vines sun-burn d and most of way. The last census of Calcutta shows
them dropped very little new growth that there are fifty-five thousand widows phine habits can never be cured until
was made a d but a few blossoms ap in that city.
The more enlightened natives of India the appetite for them is routed out of
peared.
are
strongly in favor of tlie abolition of tlie kidneys and liver. I have tried
Next spr ng a new plot will be started
infant
marriage and the introduction everything,—experimented with ever-
and the leaf prote tlon wiil be con
of
widow
marriage; but the enlight tiling and as the result of my studies
tinued. with the fee ing that it is neces
ened are very few. and custom is om and investigation, I can say I know
sary.— Max.ah net's I'louahinan.
nipotent in that land. The only im notliing can accomplish this result but
provement that has taken place in Warner’s safe cure.”
A HORRIBLE DEED.
respect to marriage is among the Brali-
“Have others tried your treatment?”
“Yes sir, many; and all who have
A Black Crime Illustrative of the Use al mos, the new theistic body in India,
the Knife in Sicily.
who do not marry their girls before followed it fully have recovered. Sev
they
attain
their
fourteenth
year,
and
A horrible deed of blood committed
eral of them who did not first treat
who have also introduced the marriage their kidneys and liver for six or eight
near Girgenti gives an illustration of of
widows. But their head, the late
the use of the knife in the island of Sici Baboo Kesliub Chundcr Sen, married weeks, as I advised them, completely
ly. Two butchers, father and son, of his daughter when she was only a lit failed. This form of treatment is al
the name of Indelicato, who kept a shop tle over thirteen years of age to the ways insisted upon for all patients,
in that town, not long since took two Maharajah of Gooch Behar. For this whether treated by mail or at the Love
land Opium Institute, and supplemen
brothcio named Alfonso and Giovanni breach of faith he was severely blamed
ted by our special private treatment, it
bv
all
his
educated
countrymen,
and
Cannetoni into partnership, Before the whole of the native press turned always cures."
long the Cannetonis began to trade in against him.— St. James Gazette.
Mr. Wilson stands very high wher
lambs’ carcasses separately on their
ever known. His experience is only
own account, and disagreements arose,
—A very curious device for assisting
which ultimately led to a collision be defective hearing has been invented bv another proof of the wonderful and
tween Baldassare Tndelicato and Alfonso Dr. F. M. Blodgett, of New York, which conceded power of Warner’s safe cure
Cann: toni. They drew their butcher’s lie calls the micro-audiphone. The in over all diseases of tlie kidneys, liver
knives ' aim their belts on each other. strument is made of hard xylonite or and blood, and the diseases caused by
Alfonso timed a well-directed blow at other suitable material, and is formed to derangements of those organs. We
Baldassare. He parried it with his left fit the ear in such a way as to be hardly may say it is very flattering to the pro
arm, which was cut to the bone, and at noticeable. In the tube of the audi prietors of Warner’s safe cure that it
the same instant drove his knife into phone is a diaphragm of very thin skin lias recieved tlie highest medical en
the heart of Alfonso, who fell dead on or rubber, which vibrates when struck dorsement and, after pertistent study,
the spot. At that moment a young son by sound-waves, and augments the it is admitted by scientists that there is
of Alfonso, aged nineteen, came up waves, anil thus renders them more nothing in materia medica for the res
with a bludgeon t< his father s assist audible.— N. Y. Examiner.
toration of those great organs that
ance. Baldassare struck him to the
—Frank Boling, rff Cherokee. Kan.,
ground, ami then cut his throat across, threw himself on a feather bed that lay I equals it in power. We take pleasure in
"as he wopld have slaughtered a sheep.’” 1 on the floor during a thunfler storm. publishing the above statements com
Mad with rage, Baldassare then rushed He neglected to draw up his legs, and ing from so reliable a source as Mr.
into the shop, and Liking Giovanna, the his feet were touching the floor, when Wilson and confirming by personal ex
brother of Alfonso, by surprise, killed the lightning struck the house and perience what we have time and again
him with a slash across the abdomen. played about his feet, burning them published in our columns. We also ex
Turning then to leave the shop, he in and knocking him senseless. That tend to the proprietors our hearty con
dicted a serious wound on a person just . part of his body that was on the.te’d gratulations on the result wrought.
srtering. All this occurred within the was not hurt, and a child lying by his
«pace of four minutes, the result of the j side was uninjured. All of which may
>«• w Myle« of Johnson Type Found,
collision being three persons killed and i be used to »bow that, feather beds are are kept in stock by Palmer Sc Rey, *
iwo wounded.—zV. Y. Sun.
and
111 Front St., Portland. Oregon.
| <mnd nieces of refuge in thunder storms.