.... PRESIDENT
H. V. V. JOHNSON. ..
vice - president
WM. D. STILLWELL
SECRETARY AND treasurer .
GEO. L. SMITH............
CLAUDE THAYER, )
?
W. II. COOPER,
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
L. II. BROWN,
WM D STILLWELL,
W. F. D. JONE8°.N’... ................ CORRESPONDING
SECRETARY.
9
gtF“ Meet« first and third Saturday eaoh month.
Col«»rsdo*B Mineral fslae«,
HERE’S A BRIGHT
LITTLE
BOY.
• REGARDING «---------------------
Tilletixiooit City cind
All about our Timber, Coal, Fisheries, Farming Lands and other resources
nificent harbors. Address
Board of Trade, or, .Tilla»moolc
I SPONGING
IN
BAD AMA.
Th* F.ni|***r«»r a* mu After Diixier SpeMkar.
A CHARACTERISTIC LETTER.
OCTSIDE OF THE WORLD.
Deep rivers, mag
I
Swsllowvil Fitly Knlvea.
There are several well authenticated
accounts of knife swalluwing, as distia-
guished from the sword swallowing
feats of itinerant jugglers In the Ediu-
burgh Philosophical Journal is reported
the case of an American sailor, John
Cummings, who swallowed at different
periods within the space of two years
about fifty clasp knives When die was
twenty-three years of age he was on
shore with some of his comrades at
Havre, where he witnessed the feats of
a conjurer who pretended to swallow
knives. When lie returned to bis ship
he swore that lie ciuld swallow knives
as easily ns the Frenchman had. and, be-
iug challenged, took his owu knife and
swallowed it. He then offered to swal
low all the knives they would bring hitn,
and eventually swallowed three.
This feat lie afterward performed sev
eral times, and in Bostou, in 1805, he
swallowed in one eveuiug no fewer than
fourteen knives, after which he was
taken so ill that he had to be removed to
Charlestown hospital
He was after
ward taken by the English ship Isis for
smuggling, and on Dec. 4, 1805. he swal
lowed twelve knives, which terminated
his career after a long and terrible ill
ness. He died in March. 1807, in ex
treme agony, at Guy's hospital
As an after dinner s|ieaker the em
Epistle from »lay Goald Written
peror has no superior in Germany He
MAINE COAST DWELLERS WHO ARE
Nearly Forty Year* Ago.
T he method of gathering and ajs-aks readily without notes, expresses
BEHIND THE TIMES.
About forty years ago the staid inhab
PREPARING FOR MARKET.
himself with vigor, never descends to
itants
of
central
New
York
took
a
great
conventional commonplaces, and, above
liking to an active young surveyor who |T„. Fisher M.1.1 ”»
Th® Profit« of the Work—Tli® I, m borer« all. gives the very best assurance that
his words are not prepared for him. 1 lived in Roxbury, a small town in Dela
Dlseour.g«a .. ............... !»'• •“ H“"‘'
Are Chiefly Hlaek« mih I Mo«t of Them
have heard conspicuous «¡leakers in Eng ware county He arose early in the
M.tlros Who »•»« 8«w '
*
Earn Pretty Ninall P mjt —The Sponge«
morning
anil
tramped
over
the
hills
aud
land and in our own country, and. if
T„ls, an ................ .. a Brien H«u--
Hell at m Good Price However.
vales
adjacent
to
where
he
lived.
With
comparisons are not in this case invidi
The residents of South Tlwmarton
Consul Thomas J McLain of the ous. I should say that the German em his surveying instruments he took meas
urements, made maps and found a ready
Onited States consulate at Nassau, in peror need not fear to meet such an au »ale for the product of his activity and ,re in common with other Maine coast
dwellers, rather behind in the march of
the Bahama island». in res^mse to the dience as even a New England society brain.
dinner assembles. One of the prettiest
progress, und it doesn't require much to
direction of the state department, has speeches 1 have listened to was delivered
Although he was a small youth he had
them. Th« other day a steamer
furnished an interesting pajter on the by the emperor in answering the toast to a vigorous way about him that pleased Startle
pacing White Hea«l blew very a long
■ponge trade of the Bahamas, in which his wife in the province where she was the slow going farmers and delighted blast from her peculiar sounding chime
the value of the industry and the meth born It was «luring the great combined even the loungers about the postoffice whistle, whereat the villagers marveled
ods of catching tlie sponges are given.
naval and military maneuvers of 1890, at and grocery combined, to whom he gave greatly, but at night
The veHwels employed in the trade are which the United States was represented "talks" on Saturday evenings.
tively frightened. A steam yacht in the
When he left the township and moved barber displayed an electric
■mail, varying from five to twenty-five by Uoinmamler Ward, and Great Britain
away for good the local prophets saw light, illuminating the sea, sky ami land,
tons, sloop or schooner rigged, and are by Admiral Hornby
built in the local shipyards The con
Tlie emperor's words were "I desire great things in store for him, and pre ami not a few of the unsophisticated na-
struction and repair of these vessels con to express to you. my dearest sir, the dicted tliat some day lie might have tives, remembering the unearthly sin eks
stitute an inq»ortant industry in itself gratitude felt by the empress and myself been a selectman of the village if he had of the strange steamer, coupled the two
They have small cabins for sleeping pur for the kind words we have just heard remained, but they forgot him for years events ami conclude«! that the universe
poses The cooking is done on deck. At the same time our thanks to the and only recalled his presence when his was about to collapse.
About 500 of these vessels are engaged whole for the day we have passed and identity with Jay Gould, the famous
The innocence of these people will not
in gathering sponges
for the reception which the province has financier, was proved to their astonish seem so very strange when it is remeni-
The number of persons gathering prepared for us This day was, how ment.
bere«l that many of the natives of Mon-
sponges in the Bahamas, handling them ever, not ueeded in order to assure us
Robert Fullerton keeps an "old curi hegan and other coast islands have never
Devoted to Ono Book.
and preparing them in various stages for of the warm friendship we have found osity shop" on Third avenue near Eight seen a horse, a train of cars or a brick
Col. Fitzpatrick is a second W. H. H. market, is from 5,000 to 6.000, all of
eenth street, where almost any queer bouse, never having set foot upon he
Murray. He loves the fields, the brooks whom, except the shipowners, brokers here.
Happy i.ltlle Girls.
"The bond tliat unites me to this prov odd sort of thing can be discovered. mainland. There is a man on Monhe-
ami the woods for their own sake, and and shippers, are black people. Hands
An Interesting pair of cash girls go up
Among the treasures shown a reporter (
ince
and
chains
me
to
her
in
a
manner
sfiends all of his spare time among them. employed in clipping, washing, packing
was a letter written in 1854 by this same gan island who knows the Boston and Sixth avenue every evening ftom one of
Early last month ho went down to Main» and preparing finally for shipment different from ail others of my empire is young surveyor, who could now doubt Bangor, the New York and Bangor and the big retail stores. There are hun
the
jewel
that
sparkles
at
my
side,
her
on a fishing excursion. The result of abroad get from fifty to seventy-five
less cash iu iiis assets for a round $100,- all the other steamers that pass the dreds of such girls, but this particular
his trip lie hue not yet fully revealed. cents per day of ten hours The amount majesty the enqiress Sprung from this 000,000, if he felt so disposed. In spite island by sight, but although nearly pair challenge observation. One is a
One thing is certain, lie brought back earned by the men who go fishing de soil, the type of the various virtues of a of the fact that Mr. Gould spelled “tres seventy years old, lie has never been on stunted little blond slip of a girl of pen
very few fish, und ho had rather be laugh pends entirely on the number of sponges German princess, it is to her that 1 owe pass," "barometrical" ami “damage" in board of any kind of a steam craft, ami haps eleven or twelve, the other a bru
it if 1 am able to meet the severe labors
ed at than tell a lie. So he holds Ilia obtained
has not the slightest conception of an nette slip of a girl a trifle older and half
of my office with a happy spirit and a unique way and scattered capital let
tongue. He may have caught a large
engine.
, a head taller. Both are thin and rouud
The owner of the vessel fits her out at make head against them."
ters
to
suit
himself,
the
letter
looksthor-
number of fish. If so, lie is too modest his own expense, and the profits of the
It is not very long since a few acres of shouldered and bright eyed.
oughly
businesslike,
and
it
may
be
pre
The
words
of
the
emperor
were
unex
to tell about them.
rocky soil in outer Casco bay, known as
| voyage are divided up in shares among
The taller girl invariably carries a
"What did you do if you didn't fish, the owner, the master and the men. pected, and to no one more so than to sumed that.I uilge Sherman loaned the Basket island, was deserted by the only novel in her hand, from which she read»
I
“
level"
he
possessed,
and
that
it
was
re
his
wife,
whose
face
beamed
with
happi-
Fitz?" asked it friend.
peojile
who
ever
had
the
courage
to
live
They are never hired by the month, nor tn-ss at the compliment she so publicly | turned to him in proper condition.
aloud to her companion as they walk.
“I studied all the time."
do they ever get specified wages. The received. Nor did any one who listened
The fact tliat even as a young mau he there—an old fisherman, his wife and They go along at a swinging gait, keep
“ What di<1 you study?"
daughter.
These
people
lived
in
an
old
most that can tie said is that the men
"Oil, I had u book 1 got in Boston, and make a tolerable living, and the sponge to the speaker at that dinner think to was “connected" with the Newburg aud tumbledown rookery on the little wind ing puce with the great, hurrying, t
o'clock throng, plunging over crossing»
question the siHintaneity and honesty of Syracuse railroad showed his early long
devoted all my time to it."
fisherman who earns over ijUiOO a year is the language. — Poultney Bigelow in ing for the business in which he has swept isle, and were veritable hermits. without apparently noticing anything or
“What kind of a book, may I ask?"
AN UNCULTURED MAID.
the exception
made himself known all over the world.
Century
anybody, though the little listener looks
"Certainly: it was a book of Hies 1
The man fished, while his wife and I out for both. The latter’s ear is in
HOW SPONGER ARK GATHERED.
“It’s curious,” said Mr. Fullerton,
bought hero in a gun store."—Boston
Two
IteniMikfible
.Marring***.
The method of gathering sponges is by
"but you will notice that he was not daughter carried on the farming opera- I clined toward the reader so she can
Globe.
Among the romances of the last cen only connected with one road, but he tions, which consisted in harvesting catch every syllable above the roar of
means of iron hooks attached to long
poles. By using a waterglass the fisher- tury is handed down one of a certain could uot rest until lie liad examined what little coarse hay the island afford the street.
A firm on Broadway lias hit upon a man can readily discover the »¡»onge» at nobleman who was making ready for his another route through West Settlement ed ami carrying it on poles to the cow
They seem to have a different book
now scheme for making money. Trans the bottom, and then by the pole and wedding ceremony with the lady of his and Puses Brook That ho did tilings shed. They hail no garden, notevena every day I tried once to get a glimpse
choice
when
lie
learned
from
a
frighten
patch
of
¡«Otatoes,
but
were
merely
toil
hook
can
bring
np
those
he
may
select,
atlantic* passengers have always suffered
thoroughly is evident. The handwriting
of tlie title, tint they walked too fast for
great inconvenience in buying steamer leaving the smaller ones untouched. ed messenger that the lady hail eloped is none of your offhand affairs, but one ers of the sea. Tlie wife had not visited me. This much I ascertained—there
with
another
lover
Not
at
all
discon
the
mainland
for
seventeen
years,
while
chairs at the beginning of a trip, and in Some sponges adhere firmly to the bed
| can see the exactness witli which every
was something about a duchess and an
getting rid of them at the completion of of the sea. while others are not attached certed. lie coolly continued ilia toilet, “t” is crossed and the care with which, the daughter hail ¡Hissed tlie entire six earl in the dialogue.—New York Herald.
ami
when
it
was
completed
he
asked
hin
MAY TAKE EXTREME MEASURE3.
the journey. Realizing that fact, the at all. these latter I wing known as “roll
after the letter is written, words were teen years of her life upon the lonely
housekeeper which one of his servants inserted to allow of no mistake. The spot, although the city of Portland was Killed by Preacher, Skinned by Deacon.
firm in question has arranged with near ers. ”
was
without
that
excellent
thing
in
life
Discovery of h Plot to Blow t’p » Prlaoa ly all the European steamshiim to pro
Aliout ten years ago an attempt was
politeness and anxiety in the last para almost in sight.
Dr. Harmon Junes tells a good story
witli DyiiHOillo.
The girl was bright, but untutored; which actually occurred in the early
vide steamer chairs with detachable ' made to introduce dredges, but it was —a lover Learning that the kitchen graph of the letter proper are also appar
The California »tate pri»on at San Quen
tables, which can be rented at $1 for the found that their use was likely to ruin maid was the only one. he sent for her, ent, such as an enthusiastic boy could pretty, but miserably clad. She wore settlement uf this county. During those
tin has been for some time the center of entire trip. The detachable table is so the
because in passing over the ba«le her don her Sunday frock, per- not fail to put in, knowing that a person no stockings ami knew nothing of hats. days the Osage Indians prowled around
rumore and partly authentic n lute mente constructed that a bottle, glass, cup and bottom they dislodged and brought up suadeil her to accompany him to the
of Judge Sherman's position would be The only relative she knew of outside in these woods, and liears. panthers and
plate can I n * fitt<*<l into it. The table is not only the good sponges, but the the church at tlie time apjiointed for accustomed to respect as a judge.
the family circle was a half sister, who wild cats were plentiful. It was ths
mighty convenient to people subject to young and unsalable ones as well, kill liis wedding, and brought the simple
“He was also careful to add ‘judge’ at she had never seen. Her father said custom to carry a gnu most everywhere.
seasickness, and there is every prosp *ct ing the spawn ami working great mis country tnaideu back a ¡iceress of the tlie beginning, sous to give the recipient that this other daughter lived “out There was always a few who carried
that the firm which has originated the chief Such an outcry was raised against realm
the thrill of pleasure popularly supposed west.” She lived in Kennebunkport,
The marriage turned out very hap to mildly shock every person with a York county This daughter of the sea, their guns to church on Sunday morn
business will make money, and plenty of dredging that an act was passed forbid
pily, like the more recent uiariage of an handle to his name. A postscript always much to the surprise of some yachtsmen ing. One Sunday Rev. Stephen Ham
ding it.
it.—New York Mail ami Express.
When brought to the vessel the English gentleman iu New York, who adds to the effect of a letter, for a man who «»nee lamle«l on tlie island, was able Wits preaching down on Lontrie. It was
A Remarkable Prophesy.
s|x»iig«‘s are at once spread upon the deck found a young emigrant girl of his own who might throw away a begging epistle to play several ¡topular airs upon an old way back in the 20s. While the Rev.
Mr. Ham was closing his sermon with»
A remarkable coincidence is related in ami left exposed to the sun for several nationality who had missed her friends cannot resist glancing at a postscript, accordion.
red hot exhortation he saw a deer paw
Connection with a blazing ball of mete days, during which time the animal and was alone in the street. He asked her and the offer of pay for the use of the in
She had picked the music out by ear the window
lie stopped preaching,
oric tiro which dashed across the stateof matter that covers the sponge gradually after a few moments' conversation if she strument finisheil tlie note.
after hearing it played by the bands of told his audience to keep still, picked up
Iowa almost in an instant Friday night. dies This is a black, gelatinous sub ha«l come to America to find a husband,
“He had evidently not intended to ¡Hissing excursion steamers. A party of an old rifle and went out and killed the
A man named William Npears, a prophet stance of a very low order of marine life, ami when she answered coyly in the af offer any money at first, but the thought picnickers who landed there found Bas
at Sioux City, had predicted in the after which, during the process of decay, firmative he took tier to the nearest of a possible refusal anil the need of an ket island deserted. The matted grass deer. He completed his sermon while a
couple of the deacons skinned the deer.
church, an«l they were wediled, ami are.
noon that a moon would go flying across emits a most objectionable odor.
other appeal probably settleil the matter. was alive with fiibl mice, anil gulls
Dr. Jones went home with one of ths
the heavens that evening, and that it
The vessels visit what is called the according to the latest re[>orts, happy It could do no harm, anyway.”—New perched boldly upon the rotting window
would mean that no more rain would kraal once a week to land the load from together.— New York Sun
York World.
sills of the old house, while in one corner deacons to dinner, and says lie never at»
full upon the earth A brilliant and re the deck The kraal is an inclosed pen,
lay the dilapidated accordion which had better venison in his life. Dock is now
A Mun Who Palms Things.
markably bright meteor appeared, and fenced in by sticks of wood so as to al
Man Is a Monument Building Creature.
long
been the chief consolation of the seventy-seven years old, and has been a
Two gentlemen shook hands in the
practicing physician and druggist for
the prophet was so impressed with what low a fre» circulation of water through
lonely
fisher maiden.
Mr.
Janies
Ricalton,
writing
of
the
fifty-three years. He practiced medicine
lie considered the fulfillment of his it. usually built in a sheltered and Bhal* street a day or two ago. and as they un
There
is,
perhaps,
uo
more
lonely
spot
wonderful
old
ruins
of
monuments
ami
iu East St. Louis four years and in Paris,
prophecy that he liecame insane and will low bay or cove, on one of the cays near clasped their hands a small wad of pa
on
the
whole
Atlantic
coast
of
the
United
per fell to the sidewalk. '‘What is this?” shrines at Anuradhapura, the City of
lie taken to an asylum. —Kingsley (Ga.) by
Mo., seven years. He istheoldest drug
SHOWERING A FK1SOMKR.
States
than
Isle
an
Haut,
which
lies
far
said one of the men. stooping to pick up I the Sacred Bo-Tree in Ceylon, says:
Mercury.
TjiK citor or 1890
gist iu the county, and came here when
regarding the existence of a plot to blow
seaward
off
the
entrance
to
Penobscot
The s|Hingea are placed in the kraal the wad “Oh. that is my five dollar bill,” I “From the days of tlie mound builders
this country was a wilderness.—Fulton
up the building with dynamite and effe< i Found h Centipede In Iler Strawberries.
and left to be soaked and washed by the said the other man “1 made a ball of down to the Eiffel tower man has shown bay. The name given to this island by (Mo.) Gazette.
the rvleiiwe of the 1.400 eon viuta there eon
As Mrs. W. N. Furey, of Paris, was action of tlie water from four to six days, it and palmed it when I left the bouse himself to l»e a monument erecting l>e- the early French voyagers is most appro
fined. Several days ago Warden Hale got
preparing some strawberries for dinner when they are taken out and beaten in order that I would not forget to stop ing: the Christians have their cathe priate, for it looks like a mountain half
The Antiquity of Geese.
an inkling of i he eon»pirn*’ . ami promptly
put seven men whom he thought to )>e the she had a very bad scare. The la-rries with sticks until the decayed covering iu at niv grocer's and pay a bill
But I drals, the Mohammedans have their submerge«! iu the sea. The ¡leople are a
There is much curious amusement to
ringleader* in »olitHry confinement on a were in a large vessel of water, into is entirely removed
Having been sub- forgot all about the confounded tiling." 1 mosques and the Buddhists have their simple, primitive set, ami few of them lie had iu tracing where tlie foodstuffs
which Mr». Furey <li|>|ied her hands, and j««'t«*d to tins course of ex|>osure. soak
diet of bread ami water. Thu »n»|>eet» re
"Do you mean to say that you have ' shriue tombs, designated differently in ever visit the mainland. The island, we use and the domestic animals we eat
fn»«*<l to (onfvsM. ami at the next, meeting on taking them out was horrified to see
carried that wad in the palm of your different countries as pagoda, tope and with its fish ami sheep and lilueberriee, is or use, originally caiue from Professor
ing
I
»es
ting
ami
washing,
the
a|s>ng<»
of tlie prison director* thu following rewo
a large cent ijiede clinging to one of them are quite clean ami are taken on b«»ard haml for an hour or two without realiz dagoba
their world, ami within its limited circle Max Muller, reasoning through his sci
hition was adopted-
A vigorous shake only served to make it the vessel, ¡utcki .l in the hold, conveye«l ing that It was there?”
"The pagodas of China are entirely they are content.
ence of words, finds that the goose was
IlviMilvtMl. By thin iMiHttl, after <lnv InvcNtl* clutch her h iml still stronger, ami it was
DISCONTENTED.
“Certainly; I fn-qnently carry small dissimilar to those of Burmah. an I the
to NasH.'iu. and ill this condition are sold
domesticated very early, or at least some
gHtion of the vvldrm-v iuliluce<l m I io * Ing n con*
only
by
a
hard
blow
she
succeeded
iu
Some
queer
specimens
of
humanity
articles in the palm of my hand for sev dagobas of Ceylon are quite unlike those
»piracy to *> wm | m * on the part off. it.'¡home,
in the local market
bird like it
Abrahaui Turvoli.C.('• Sullivan.<'barb« .Man* dislodging it Very fortunately it wa»
Of the larger sponges a catch of 5.000 eral hours They never fall out. ami in either country; yet all serve the one are to tie found on Isle nu Haut. Not
Goose in English, ganse in German;
nlng. II. W. Ilanlon, John Wood, alia* De so chillis! by the water it did not bit»
they don't bother me. I learned the purpose of relic sepulture. They are not long ago a yachting party went down dropping the g according to the laws of
laney . ami George
tliat tlie tu tlon of th* her and she csca|H*d uninjured.—Dallas or of the smaller ones 7.500, would be
.-..■isiileri-d a fair lot Oeeaaionally a trick of palming when I was a boy. and altogether a thing of the past; they are there on n fishing trip, ami after catch language, the word becomes anser in
warden In placing the *ahl convict* in military
conlluemenl I m hereby appitoml. ami Im lx fur News
cargo of from 13,000 to 15,000 large I have practiced it ever since. I can still erected near the temples, but those ing enough cod for a chowder went Latin and corresiiondingly in Greek,
ther dlrerte<l to inflict Much atltlUional pun-
Competition In the Aerolite Market.
sp«.iigea lias la-en brought in. but this palm half a dozen coins at the same of modern construction are small and ashore to procure some milk. The with the aspirate that marks the Digam
iahment aa may la» |M<rtiiille<i t»y the rule* ami
time and retain them concealed in my unimportant when compared with those yachtsmen soon fell in with a weather ma was dropped, and so back to ansa in
The meteoric shower that fell ill the success is exceptional
regulation* of the prison if iu III* <il<*4'retiou
that have withstood biennial monsoons beaten native who was looking along the Sanscrit. Our prehistoric Sanscrit
thenamu may lai deemed ne*'**»*ry ami expe country wont of Mason City la proving a
The principal varieties gathered in the hand all day if I want to
dient.
"I can eat my dinner, smoke a cigar, for 2.000 years; even their half buried the shore, ami lie informed them that ancestors of the Indian fable lands, bad
source of much revenue. Telegraph!» Bahamas are as follows: Boat, grass,
they could get plenty of milk, but that geese. Professor Muller, therefore, con
The law allow* the warden t<» flog, tries and mail order., pour iu for specimens, glove, hardhead, reef (while ami dark), read a paper, and do almost everything, ruins are stupendous."
up by tlie thumb* and cold ahower refrao
they would have to wait until his wife, cludes birds resembling them olosely,
und they are selling at from 25 cent» t» velvet (alaico ami cay), sheep wool, ami except shake hands, without disturbing «
tory prisoner*
It i* »aid tliat if lie timl* $1 |ier ounce. Counterfeit meteoric x|>e-
They Worship the Drum.
who had gone blueberrying, returned
yellow
of which th«* most valuablo is the | mimed coins. I find the palming
thousands of years the name baa
it necc.**ary lie will try the cold shower
and milked the cows. The native led though
knack
very
useful
sometimes,
particu
cimena
are
now
numerous,
made
by
burn
Among
the
Satnoiedes
and
the
tribes
sheep
wool
The
total
ex
¡»ort
in
1890
remained,
varying only according to th»
flrnt
When tin* puninhinent I* Inflicted
the way over rocky pastures to a dilapi known laws
the nubject i* *ti-.q>|H‘d, nearly nude, to ing common bowlders, which an- abun reaclieil «»ver 900.000 poumla, valued at larly when I want to conceal any small ' ! of northern Asiatic Russia the drum
of the change of pronuncia
Tlie crop of that year was article temporarily."—New York Times ■ passes almost to an idol. They address dated cottage, and ushered them into tion, and probably the Thingston
what i* called a “I.Mhlsr” and a stream dant on the prairie, iu a hot tire, and |:iiai.89tl
I it, erect it in their hut, and the priests the kitchen to await the return of "Ma throughout behind the mime. Such is
turned on linn from an inch ho*e with a dipping them in pn-pan*d liquid*.—tit above the average, being really the most
Why Ire Floats.
| of the superstition by the aid of the di ria."
one eighth inch noxxle
I'iie *rn*atiun it Paul Pioneer Pre»
valuable one in many years.
antiquity of geese.—New York Even
The fliM»r was «-rubbed as white as a the
■aid to be horrible, yet tlie water “doean’t
Did yon ever wonder why it is that vine instrument effect that magical
Uf that crop there were «hippe«! to the
ing Sun.
Kill, mnlm or mark ” The mo*t minute
Ingalls* Oddities.
Uniltsl States 708,000. valued at $236.000. ice, being formed of congealed water, ' ‘disappearance" which has puzzled all inau-o war s deck, the c«x>kstove was ’
»«•.«rch lia» *o far failed to reveal but a |a>r I
At the obs<M|uivs of the late Senator Bahama «¡«orges are not considered very flouts? And why. on some still lakes.it travelers from Sir Hugh Willoughby brightly polished ami a little plot before
The Blarney Stone.
tiun of the arm* ami dynaniitv thought to J lk*ck th»» picturesque Ingalls, of Kansas,
good, but a ready market is found for begins to form at the bottom before it downward to account for, and has given the windows was gay with marigolds
The village of Blarney is in the south
l»e Mecrvtetl alfout tlie priaon
Whether re ,
attracted wide comment and general at all that can tie obtained, and at con «lo«*a on the surface? Scientists explain [ rise to as much guesswork at its eluci and other hotnely flowers—all the re of Ireland, about four miles from Cork.
aorl Io medimval method» of torture will
tention by Hpitearing in the procession of stantly improving prices There are no these enigmas this wise- Ice is specifical dation as the feats of the Indian jug sult of Maria's patient industry. The i Blarney castle was built by Cormack
wring any information from the *mq»ect*
senatorial mourners with a high white indications of any failure of the supply ly lighter than water just alsiut to glers The Samoiede, after beating his lord and master sat himself down upon MacCarthy, the Strong, fourth lord of
I* yet ail o|»en question
hat and a mackintosh. Every other sen — Philadelphia Ledger
freeaa. and therefore floats in it This drum ami working up the senses of his the d«»orstep and thus ruminated while i Muskerry, about the middle of the
ator was attired m severe black. Cor.
is one reason why the formation of i<» spectators to a pitch of great excite busily whittling a shingle and sending ' Fifteenth century. The ruins of the
Why •* h * •• I ••••»« te M mi killing.
Philadelphia Build m
usually begins at the surface
As Aerolialla Kills».
ment. mysteriously vanishes into thin up clouds of smoke from a short clay j famous old fortress are visited by tho»’
The tiger is not the only East ludlaii an
Another is its peculiar law of expan air before the eyes of all. Civilized pipe.
Imai that loves human llesli
At a recent
A pet kitten follows its mistress all
sands of tourists every year. This is
Found a Nbr|*ton In lht> Holler.
“Times ain't as they used to be in lie ■ largely on account of a tradition which
nu othly meetlna of th» liotnhay Natural
over the house when she ia at work. Re sion The gejieral law is that cold in travelers naturally hold that it is a
An
ofticial
boiler
inspector
in
Herrs,
History society Mr Heu'.ualrl t.ills-rt read
cently she was in an attic chamber, the due«*« expansion, this law holds good trick. The Satnoiedes themselves de er Holt (the native pronunciation). Time has been attached for some centuries to
an Interesting aewum of a .lie ts-ar which S. !>.. found the bleached skeleton of a blind of the w indow living shut but un with water only to a certain point clare that the power resides in the drum was when a man might get a living here- |
one of the stones used in building the
bad at lack er I and seriously injured tour or men in the mammoth boiler in the gas
fastened The playful kitten ran across When water hascoole«l down to within idol. The peculiar thing is that neither abouts. Fishin was good 'n farmin
Ave persons iu the staleof tiarain|>ore dur
work*. The boiler ha* I wen in constant the room and leaped against the blind, 7 4 «legs of freezing it ceases to contract one ¡»arty nor the other has been able to consid'able g«xxl, bnt that's all gone castle. This stone is said to common''
Ing th» I.isl year
Mr (iilts-rt ami Mr K
u*e Kince Jan. I. and the identity of the which opened, and the kitten disap as before with increase of cold and be explain liow the vanishing occurs.— now Use«l ter lie a good wharf in this cate to the tongue that touches it the
gift of gentle, insinuating speech, and
L Hurlou kiilerl tins Is-ar and her two
man and how he came there la a mystery peared. but came crawling back, having gins to expand till It freexes
Chambers' Journal.
here cove n a g<xxi fleet er vessils outer j that has given rise to the accusation
«-ill»« on a day when she Im,I. without prov
that
nobody
seems
able
to
solve.
—
8t
This
expansion
causes
the
colder
por
here,
but
that's
all
gone
now.
My
father
ucatlon, attacked and killed a man as he
turn«*«! in the air aud caught the edge of
when any one is of particularly sweet
Paul Globe;
When Woods
wkh lying on th« ground smoking
II was
used ter be m trade here—had a store accent that he or she ha< “kissed the
the gutter with its forepawa It waa a tions of the water to rise to the surface
The
formation
of
'ground
ice"
or
f<>uml, on examlulug lhelirar. that th» ls»ne
Te-ts have been made to determine th» down there n sold nigh a'niost every Blarney stone.”—Detroit Free Press.
feat of remarkable quickness and pre«-
An Ofllr* Worth Ila« Ing.
uf tier forearm had lieeu splintered etuis
"anchor ice, as it is sometimes called.
Gossip— I wish I couhl be a census erne of mind, as the little animal bad a 1» the only exception to the rul» given variations in the length of time that is thing. but that's all gone now." Hesaiil
lime before, and that the bullet was still
A Clever Retort.
very short linn- Io recover from its sur
required to produce decay in different that he had been trying to sell his place
In the flesh The wound had close.I, but taker.
kinds of wotxls when buried under the -house, bsni. land, cows ami all, for he
prise at being launched suddenly into above.—St Louis Ripublie.
An old lady brought up as a witneaa
as there was a goml ileal of Inflammstmn
Oom|»anion- Why?
surface of the ground. The birch and wanted to emigrate to Washington befor» a bench of magistrates, when
it must have given her much pain, and so
<h>Mup— Because the law would cumpnl space. - Portland «Me.) Transcript
Ns Wslghs*!
a-pen were both fouml to decay in three state He wanted $300 for the whole asked to take off her bonnet refused to
proiiably Uulu cert her to Iwhave in an extra every woman >n town to tell me her age
A very ft*w old Philadelphians who years, the willow aud th» buckeye in outfit, an 1 he stopped smoking long do so, saying, "There's no law compel
X*r, Tru*.
savage manner sud take to man killing.
—Chicago 'Films
Ther» Is much in knowing how to •*• were <*ntuiuer naitnr* to Milford, Pike four years, the maple and the red beech enough v» sw, .«r a great oath that b» ling a woman to take off her bonnet."
Rriidrr»«! a Krntathablv V»r*llrU
Mr Kerr of Yakima county. Wash., sights The discreet and skillful person county, fifty yearn ago. remember Lewis In tire years, elm aud ash in seven, while wonhln't take a cent less. This man “Oh," said one of the magistrates, "you
An
Indimi Jury rvceutly Lati ciiargs haa sent to Japan for a large quantity of when confronted with a variety of at Come I m*. who Kept the old Sawkill the larch, jnniper and arbor rit® were had loafed so long that he had forgotten
know the law, do you? Perhaps Joa
of a rub bury raat in which a nuiul*r of tea cutting*.
He intends to see what tractions. will carefully select those that Houne. and well thee may. for he was uninjured at the expiration of eight how to work He ammed to feel that would like to come up and sit here and
|mrl uf Whuiu h»«1 (NHifamae*!, wer« car. be done with that plant in his own ar» for him the l»«t. ami then will de one of the big men of Pike and of Penn
years.—SL Louis Republic.
somehow be had been cheated—that the teach ns?" "No, 1 thank you, air,"
iiiipiiralrti
mi », i wa*
“You *u country
vise means to see them with the least sylvama. perhap* the biggest of bis time
world owed him a living, but that th» plied the old lady; "there are old women
<i<> wiial you Ilk«* with lha men that have
or
any
time
He
weighed,
without
A» Aeeoiumud.ti,,,
Isle au Haut was a poor place in which enough there already."—Ban Francisco
wear and tear Bnt there are excitable
clo
the*.
545
pounds.
in
ea
*ured
<
feet
in
■hr
«ÄÄr*. - i* m ***«•*:
Charlie Youngnoodle (stock clerk)— to collect the debt—Cor New York Argonaut
Sun.
But lie W»» Abandoned and Hl* Hup-
posed Father DI mjwdi lliiu.
“Mamma, buy me that.”
Officer Dugan, of the Brooklyn police
force, who wax standing at the corner of
S mim I h and Wanhington Htreeta, looked
down. In front of him stood a mite of a
boy. He wan alone, but he pointed at the
patrolman'» shield and again »aid:
“Mamma, buy me that.”
It wa» long after dark and Dugan ques
tioned the little lad a» to how Lu chanced
to Ije abroad at
that hour. He an
swered that his
name wa» Walter
Van Victor, that
he didn’t know
where hi» mother
was and that ear
ly in the evening
“papa
r u u il e d
away
from
me
and I could uot
find him again.”
The four year old
was takeu to the
s tat I on
bouse,
where hi» confl
deuce, affectionate W alter van V ECHTER.
disposition and bright manner» endeared
him to all the club wielder» from captain
down to doorman
They petted him,
bought him »wee!» and toy», and as they
searched for the father who had "runned
away.” they took an extra grip of their
sticks and frowned ominously.
Filially, they had to turn Walter over to
the Society for I he Prevention of Cruelty
to Children. About that time one bard
thinking policeman »uggested that “maybe
the kid did not pronounce his name right,”
and that perhaps instead of Van Victor it
was Van Vechlen. The publication of this
surmise brought to the front, a .Mrs. Rol>-
ert«, who said t hat Walter Van Vechlen,
whom »he identified, had been left in her
care by a man of the same name. A few
days after ward—on the same day, in fact,
when the child wa» abandoned—he took
the lad away
It didn’t take the authorities long to get
a grip on Mr. Van Vechten.
In court he
denied that the child was his, and pending
further inquiry the charge of abandonment
waH dropped ami the prisoner was held to
answer an accusation of being a disorderly
person. Some year» ago Van Vechteij,
who is now aged forty, inherited FIO,006,
went on a big drunk in New York ami
awoke one morning to II ik I a dissolute wo
man lying by his si<l<>. She exhibited a
marriage certificate ami the man learned
on investigation that he had made her his
wife the previous evening. Upon a proper
presentation of the facts the union was an
uulled by a Brooklyn court.
The mineral palace now being erected
In Pueblo, Colo., will cost about «2-70,-
000. It will be of handsome design, the
exterior being a seri«?s of square columns
and beautifully polished stone. The
carving will be ornate. All parts of the
building wil I be made of the products of
Colorado's mines, the owners in all the
counties in the state having sent in their
choicest ami richest Hj>ecimeus. In the
interior will be seen every variety of
mineral production from stone and coal
to pure gold, tlie value of which will be
at least «750,000.
It is intended to be a permanent ex
hibit, ojien every day the year round,
an«l its originators desire to have the
choicest specimens of mineral wealth
from every state iu the Union repre
sented side by side with the resources of
Colorado. Building stone, granite and
marble are also desired. The building
will be lighted by 3,000 incandesceut
electric lights. It is the intention to re
produce this iu duplicate of design ami
brilliancy of decoration and display, but
somewhat reduced in size, as the Colo
rado mineral exhibit for the World's
fair in Chicago in 1892.—New York
Telegram.