Tillamook
CHARGED THE ENEMY.
ROMANCE OF A RIFLE.
It L nked a Soldier With Two Ware
Tw«nty-two Years Apart.
It Waarft BacauM Ha Waa Brava and
Defied Death, Though.
Headlight,
BURNED BY COLD.
Liquid Air Will Produc« a Worae
Wound Than Intent« Heat.
May
15, IÔ7-3
I
GOT DRUNK ON A BEEFSTEAK
And Also on Ov«ratrong Tea and Evan
on Cold Water.
SAVED HIS CABLE TOLLS.
A Clever R um at Homa Gav« Him th«
Information He Wanted.
CORK TREE BARK.
'
If Carefully Ramovsd a New
Grows In a Few Years.
A wealthy merchant in Paris who
As most (>eople know, cork la th
does au extensive business with Japan outer bark of au oak. This tree. kao«.
was informed that a prominent firm In to tbe botanists as Quercus suber «
Yokohama had failed, but the name of an evergreen, native to the Medltg.
the firm he could not learn. He could ranean region, ’and is cultivated lg
have learned the truth by cabling; but, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy. i(0lw
to save expense, instead he went to a co. Tunis and Algiers. If carehuii
well kuowu banker who had received done removing tbe bark does not i*
the news and requested him to reveal jure the tree, and a new supply
be obtained from tbe same sowing
the name of the firm.
"That’s a very delicate thing to do,” after a few years.
We are so familiar with the ui« <
replied the banker, “for the news is
not official, and if I gave you the name cork for the stoppers of bottles Ug
we seldom realize its manifold other
I might incur some responsibility.”
The merchant argued, but in vain, uses, though its connection with bog
ties dates back only about 500 yHrt
•nd finally he made this proposition:
“I will give you,” be said, “a list of We so commouly speak of tbe stupp*
ten firms in Yokohama, and 1 will ask of a bottle as a cork that we see m
you to look through it and then tell me. incongruity In tbe expression “a rub-
without mentioning any name, wheth b«?r cork."
Just as our word for stopper bu
er or not the name of the firm which
has failed appears in it. Surely you i been derived from the word cork, m
cork itself bus probably been derived
will do that for me.”
“Yes,” said the banker, “for if I do from tbe Spanish corcho, which in
not mention any name I cannot be held turn is derived from tbe Latin cortex,
meaning rind. Some authors, howevrr.
responsible in any way.”
The list was made. The banker looked would derive cork from quercus, tbe
through it and as be handed it back to generic name of all oaks.
Cork is present in the bark of all
the merchant said, "The name of the
trees, though in quantities too small to
i merchant who has failed is there.”
"Then I've lost heavily,” replied the make it useful in tbe many ways li
merchant, “for that is the firm with which cork from the cork oak is em
which I did business,” showing him a ployed. Tbe cork barked elm, tbe
sweet gum and a few others have
name on the list.
strongly developed cork.
“But how do you know that is the
firm
which
has
failed?
”
asked
the
bank
A DAINTY TABLE FEAT.
er in surprise.
BURIED ALIVE FORTY DAYS.
“Very easily,” replied the merchant.
Victor Hugo’a Wonderful Orange and
RIDING THE SURF.
“Of the ten names on the list only one Queer Teet a Hindu Fakir Is 8« id te
Sugar Combination.
I
—
T..E COAL SACK IN THE SKY
Have Survived.
In “My Autobiography” Mme. Judith, Riotous Sport In the Breaker» That is genuine, that of the firm with which
I did business. All the others are tle-
Dr. Konlgberger, a physician in the
the
great
French
actress,
tells
a
story
Lash the Coast of Hawaii.
Is Visible Only Btcaua« It Contains
Punjab, doubting the frequently re
of Victor Hugo.
1 “One of the novel pleasures in which titious.”
Noth ng That la Visible.
peated stories of tbe Hindu fakirs «be
At a dinner which Judith attended most travelers indulge while in Hono !
Ii.uhedi itely below tbe lower stars
claimed to be nble to sustain life fori
REAL ROOF GARDENS
THE HUMAN FACTORY.
with Alexandre Dumas somebody quot lulu is surf riding at Waikiki, near
ef tbe group which forms the Southern
i considerable time after burial tn tbe
ed Alfred de Musset, and Hugo was led Diamond bead," writes John Bur
< r-ss there is a black patch in tbe sky. The Kind They Plant on Log Cabins
to express bls opinion on his illustrious roughs in the <’«*utur.v. "The sea, with Its Machinery Develops With the In- earth by the process known as “swil
. sack shaped uud mysterious.
In Rural Norway.
tellect That Directs It.
lowing the tougue,” determined to
fellow author.
a floor of lava and coral, is here Bhal-
S. lentlflcally accurate astronomers ex-
The log cabins of rural Norway are
“Yes,” he said, "he has immense tal low for a long distance out. and the
A human being is a kind of factory. make tbe most rigid tests and exeludi
p.ulu that It is not a patch, but rather built of heavy pine logs hewed square
ents. He even boasts that there are surf comes in at intervals like a line The engine and the works and all the all possible fraud.
something which becomes visible by and of equal size from end to end.
One of these Brahman fakirs allowed
some w ho consider him as good a poet of steeds cantering over a plain. We various machines are kept in tbe base
reason of the anomaly thut It contains They are usually stained or oiled, and
as I am.”
went out in our bathing suits in a ment. and he sends down orders to himself to be buried by tbe doctor ind
nothing that Is visible.
their rich yellowish or brownish color
Dumas Jogged Judith's elbow, and it loug. heavy dugout with a native them from time to time, and they do his suspicious colleagues In a well
The lay mind, preferring bald reality is In harmony with aluiost any sur
the work which has been conceived up fastened and sealed vault. Tbe burial
to abstract truth, is somewhat startled roundings. Their roofs are sodded, a was all she could do to keep from oarsman in each end.
laughing.
I
“
When
several
hundred
yards
from
in
headquarters. He expects tbe works lasted such a long time—for forty dayi
to learn that un object is seen because circumstance that adds pleturesqueness
“At the end of the meal," our author shore we saw on looking seaward the down below to k«?ep on doing these —that some corn planted upon the soli
there Is nothing In It to see. but no one to the general effect.
relates, “Hugo treated us to a very long, shining billows coming, where things without ills taking any particu above the vault sprouted before tbe
«an dispute tbe fact. The coal sack is
"I have come across roofs that were
visible be--ause it contains nothing that r. riot of wiki pansies,” says a writer strange exhibition. He put a whole upon our oarsmen headed tbe canoe lar notice of them, while he occupies his unhappy fellow was released. Then
orange, riud and all. into bls mouth toward shore and plied tbelr puddles mind, as the competent head of a fac the Hindu was freed, subjected by lb«
is visible.
in the Craftsman, "and I have seen and then managed to tbnist as many with tbe utmost vigor, uttering simul tory should, with tbe things that are doctor to restoratives and lived happily
In other words. It Is a vast hole In wonderful roofs where wiki roses bung pteces of sugar as possible Into his
taneously a curious, excited cry. In a new and different and special and ever afterward.
tbe stellar system In which there la not over the eaves or a daisy roof, the ef
cheeks. This achieved, he began to moment the breaker caught us and, in that bls mind alone can do: the things
Sir Henry I.nwrence, an English act
eveo a pinch of stellar dust to shed a fect of whos«* white, starlike flowers,
scrunch it all up with his lips tightly
flicker of luminosity. It is typically topping the dark brown structure, was closed. In the midst of this operation some way bolding us on its crest, shot which, nt least in their present initial entist who assisted the German savant,
us toward the shore like an arrow.
formative or creative stage, no ma substantiated tbe account Tbe chest
aud alsiolutely the quintessence of exquisitely picturesque.
he swn flowed two liqueur glasses of
"Tbe sensation is novel and thrilling. chines as yet have been developed to in which tbe fakir was burled wu
blackness.
"Some
roofs
produce-only
pasture
kirsch and a few minutes later opened The foam flies; the waters leap about do and which can only be worked out firmly sealed, and when the fellow wu
Because it is so and in contradiction I 1 grass, and tbe story rims In Norwegian
his mouth wide. It was empty! No you. Yon are coasting on tbe sea. and by tbe man up in tbe headquarters brought out he was cold and appaml-
of all preconceived notions the human
folklore that a lazy man led his cow on one made any attempt to imitate him. you shout with delight and pray for himself, personally, by the handiwork ly lifeless.
eye can see It without the aid of u tbe roof—the cabin was built against a
possibly because no one else had teeth the sensation to continue. But it is of bis own thought.
Readers of Stevenson will recall the
telescope or other instrument.
I hill Instead of taking her to the pas good enough for such a feat.”
quickly over. Tbe hurrying breaker
The more a human being develops Master of Ballantrae's fatal attempt to
Between the stars of the Milky way
slips from under you and leaves you the more delicate, sensitive, "strong nnd escape from bls murderers by thia
there are many little holes In the stel- ture. I have no doubt that the story is
I in the trough, while it goes foaming efficient, tlie more spirit informed, once trick.—London Family Herald.
On« Way to Cook a Snipe.
lar system—little by comparison. that true, for I have often seen a couple of
■ii
white kidlots gamboling on the soft
“American cooking,” said a foreign ou the shore. Then you turn about for all, tbe machines in the basement
< to say—but one must have telescopes
green housetops while the mother goat, chef who visited this country, “pleast-s and row out from shore again and are. As he grows the various sub
aud patience to find them, i One need
Burglars and the Law.
only cross the line to the southern grave and ruminative, was tethered to me very much. Your southern dishes wait for another chance to be shot to conscious arrangements for discrimi
Remarking that many members of
I particularly like. The French chef, ward the land on tbe foaming crest of nating. assimilating, classifying ma tbe public feel some doubt as to tbe
hemisphere and locate the Southern the chimney.
"Sod roofs are Just as water tight as whom we find in the large hotel all a great Pacific wave.”
I terial. for pumping up power, light and
Cross In order to see the coal sack.
precise extent to which tbe law will
others If they are laid correctly. A over the world, would do well to adopt
heat to headquarters, all of which can uphold them in using violence to defeat
board roof is first laid upon a house, some of your dishes. He would do
I
Turn to the Earth.
be turned on at will, grow more mas i or capture a burglar, the Law Journal
Annotated Mutio.
and tills Is covered with n layer of
You to whom the universe has be- terful every year. They are found nil i of London says: “A peaceful tres
The unmusical mnn if he takes a co birch bark. On top of this comes a well, for example, to substitute ’chick
rlou» Interest in music very often fa- layer of sod with the grass turned down en Maryland style’ for such a dish as come a blast furnace, a coke oven, a slaving away for him, dimly, down in passer, must be requested to departía
cinder strewn freight yard, to whom the dark while he sleeps. They hand
tors "program" music, Ami the rea- to the roof, then a rather thick layer poached ortolan brains.
"Poached ortolan brains—no exag the history of all ages is a tragedy him up in Ids very dreams new and peace, and only on his refusal caa
son is not far to seek, If the music of «-arth and Anally another layer of
force be used to remove him. but a
anys nothing to him the "program" sial, this time with the grass up. The geration." he said, "are of the sort of with the climax uow to whom our de strange powers to live and to know violent or an armed trespasser can ba
dishes
a
certain
type
of
French
chef
mocracy
and
our
flag
are
but
play
with.
—
Gerald
Stanley
Lee
In
Atlantic
dues. He thinks of the “program.” result Is a most exquisite and poetical
removed without such a request Al
loves to serve. Such a chef—the gour things of tbe hypocrite, turn to the Magazine.
therefore, as making music more hu covering for the house.”
a general rule, however, it Is not law
met
’
»
chef
—
cooks
fish
that
are
not
soil,
turn
to
tbe
earth,
your
mother,
man. connecting It with life, giving it
ful to kill even a person assaulting ons
cleaned nnd birds so rare they seem and she will comfort you. Rest, be it
The German Empire.
a >' :lnite message to men. As a mat-
or
stealing one’s goods. Unless one’s
not
to
be
cooked
at
all.
Indeed,
these
Work of th« Doctor.
ever so little, from your black brood
Tbe German empire was constituted
i "f filet, however, the "program" is
Dr. Stephen l’agel Imq some Interest fellows have an axiom that the way to ing«. Think with the farmer once as at present Jan. 1. 1871. After pre life Is in danger such an act Is at beet
never the essential thing (I mean by
manslaughter. Possibly in tbe defense
“|.r gram.” of etairae. the official liter ing ol«er\atlons on the doctor and his cook n snipe la:
■ more, as your father^ did. Revere liminary negotiations during the course
of one’s home the use of Brearme II
“
'Let
It
fly
once
through
a
hot
kitch
rewards
In
hiq»"C
‘
onfeaslo
Medici.
”
"if
with
the
farmer
our
centuries
old
of
the
Franco-l
’
russlan
war
the
par
ar. explanation). The "program" doe»
rural civilization, however little it liament of the north German confeder justifiable, even If no violence to the
not .merpret I he mii«lc. It Is the mu- medicine is a trade why should the en.’ ’’
meets tbe city’s trouble. Revere the ation (with which Baden. Hesse-Darm person is threatened, but this la very
a'c Ihnt lends something of itself to doctor so often work for nothing?" h«1
English Literary Consuls.
niral customs that have their roots in stadt. Bavaria and Württemberg bad doubtful.”
«o' >r and emotlmiallz«- th«- "program." asks, "if It Is nn art what works of
art
does
he
produce?
None,
says
tbe
Immemorial benefits of nature. recently allied themselves) in an ad
If
America
is
famous
fov
its
ambassa
A.lisle is tin- universal native It Is
A Lost Chance.
u i er the foreigner with the literary I'lande Bernard, 'le iiieiltnlu artiste dors who have been men of letters. There is per|>etual balm In Gilead, and dress dated Dec. 10. 1870, requested
Years ago a man named Saltzmans
p.-r-on for Interpreter. Glasgow Her tie cive rlen.' But surely hi1 Is wrong. England can boast of her literary con many city workmen shall turn to It King William of Prussia to become
The doctor, so frr from creating noth suls. G. P. R. James, probably tbe and lie healed. This by faith and a German eni|>eror. All tbe sovereign owned an estate In Grlqualand. Soutl
ald
lug. creates Ilf«*, for lit* saves or pro- most prolific English novelist (except, study of tbe signs, we proclaim!— princes of German states,and the three Africa, and adjoining his property was
lotl'ZM life, «rentes more life. If Miss perhaps. Miss Braddon). wrote three Nicholas Vaeliel Lindsay in Earm and free and Hanseatic towns having Join an old. rundown farm that had not
Couldn't Fool Him.
ed in offering the imperial crowns, tbe been worked on account of its poor soli
' wltm-ss from the country had been X. is seventy, and tin* din'tor by an op novels a year for about forty years Fireside.
proclamation of William 1. as enqieror and lack of necessary water. The owt*
.'■worn and had taken the witness stand, era'Ion «‘tuililes her to live till she Is and died in 18<S0 as consul general at
Practical Piety.
was made at Versailles Jan. 18. 1871. er of the farm met Herr Saltxmannone
and the prneeciitlug attorney, settling seventy-five tn* has not prolonged th«* Venice. Sir Rlchnrd Burton likewise
The goodly minister saw^Mie of bis The first reiebstag was op«*ned at Ber day and otTert-d to trade the farm for
down for the examination, asked ss a seventy years, for they were ended tie wrote most of his travel books an<1
for«* he cam«*, but he han «*reiit«al five translations of eastern works when p.irishlou«r» running rapidly down the lin March 25, and the imperial consti an old waistcoat he bad seen him wean
starter:
brand
new yenrs. If he hail not la*en consul in various part« of the world nnd. trying to keep In sight of a re tution was adopted April 14, 1871.— Ing As Saltzmann did not wish to
"What is your name, sir?"
burden himself with a piece of worth
Philadelphia Press.
The old mini Inatautly lieennie angry. flier«* they «-«mid not I m * here. That Is At his last consulship at Trieste, treating form ahead.
which he held from 1872 to 1800. he
less land, he kindly refused tbe offer.
crentlou." l.oiulou Chronicle.
“Ah." called lhe minister, "whither
!a-auing far forward, he exclaimed;
succeeded Charles Lever, the Irish away, my brother?"
A few years later big. clear diamond»
"Now. nee here; you can’t run any of
Not So Serious.
novelist, who had occupied the po«l- I Seeing the race was lost anyway, the
were found on this waste stretch, and
Velocity of Light.
tuts monkey business in on me! I
A doctor wbo had been summoned
Tile velocity of light ns determined tion for fifteen years. But is there a chaser stopi>ed and pantingly replied:
board you tell the clerk to call my
hastily alighted from his carriage to now thousands of pounds could nrt
"That confounded thief stole my find a woman awaiting him on the purchase It.—Ixmdon Mail.
name, and ao I know you know It all by Simon Neewotnb is 2W.8UO kilome famous Euglish literary consul at tbe
coatr
right. blame you anyhowf’— Chicago tern, or 18(1.327 miles, per second re present time?—Exchange.
doorstep, but without the anxious look
News.
“Ah. and you were following the he expected in the circumstances. “I
duced to a vacuum or space specific
Not Very Reassuring.
Scriptural admonition to give him your understand," he said, “that your boy
At th« Minstrels.
a|>eed Time required for light to come
He—Your father called me a timber
here from moon. 1.3 seconds; from
"Mr Interlocutor, if a baby swal- clonk also, were you?”
Looking Forward.
has swallowedd a sovereign. Where wolf. What did be mean by that! Sba
“Aud. darling.“ says the bridegroom, suu. s minutes IB seconds: from near low«-d a key what would you call it?"
"No." said the parishioner frankly, is her
-Ob. that’s just one of pa’s political
"1
don't
know.
Mr.
Bones.
What
“you are going to put your bridal «v<t star. 4.35 years; from Sirius. 8.7
"but I Intended. If I caught bitn, to
“Oh. sir," was tbe reply, “I’m glad expressions. He used to live out "eat
«->•>« away In a trunk in the attic, I years: from Arcturus, not less than would you call it?”
give him a belt!"—Judge.
to tell you we made a mistake! It you know, and nothing ever pleawt
"A key in A minor."
aup|Ms«e?’’
40 years, and from others vastly more
wasn't a sovereign; It was only a half him so much as to shoot a timber wolf
“Yeo. Indeed!" the bride says, remote, from 1.000 to 3.000 yearn.
"Mr Baker will now oblige with a
i before breakfast Of course, he didat
Italy’s Marriage Brokers.
penny!”- London Mall.
“Mamma always said if you saved
recitation entitled ’Ragtime.' "
In Italy marriage brokers are a regu
mt-an auytblng by It—Cleveland Plate
Rags make |>aper.
anything for seven years you would
Schoolr««m Humer.
lar institution They have pocketbooks
Dealer.
A Good Excuse.
hate use for it again.**—Chicago I'oat
I'n|>er
makes
money.
The following st lioollmy “howlers'*
filled with the names of marriageable
"Now.
then,"
demanded
I.uschman's
Money makes banka.
come from Ne« Zen la nil
maidens In various ranks of life and wife the next morning, “what’s your
Papa’s Fault.
Ranks make loans.
Getting U««d te It.
"GrtMs darkness la 144 tluiM darker
go about trying to arrange match««. excuse for coming home in that con
Fnther—1 have Just beard that that
Loans
make
poverty.
than
onllnary
darkness
"
“How ar» you g»tttn* on in »octety?"
When they are successful they receive
Incorrigible son of mine has just mar*
Poverty makes rags -Cincinnati En a commission, and very likely some dition last night?"
“Pretty well," n-ptled Mr. Cumrux.
"Man oni Is the stuff you use to make
ried a well known actress. Daughter—
“
Well,
to
tell
you
the
truth,
m'
dear.
”
gutter.
"I siu much tuor» at home in iny own d»U«'ioua puddings.”
thing extra as a voluntary gift from he replied, "none of the hotels would Well, you have yourself jo blame, te
huuM- than I used to be. When we
“Charon wa« a man »ho fried soles
their customer.
ther. Father—How do you make that
take me In.”-Philadelphia Press.
A Matter «f Measure.
h»'» a receg-tlou uow gaegle very ael- over the stick»."
f out?
Daughter—Ha ven't Too oft*«
I
Flicker («bu has a «-«>w to sell'—Of
tluui ilr«a nr up and try to Intraduee
• V
- - ■ n
,
_
told him to bitch his wagon to a star?
Hood's Bit of Fun.
coil
roe
ah«-
hasn
’
t
any
of
those
A
II
A
Big
Difference.
"
“
v
v
«
llllifft
A
.
I».
au- tu luy wife attd daughters.
A Mars Bagatelle.
English in-er vender wrote over
"How rejoiced tbe knights of old
Washington star
Gabe—1 '*'**■ where a waiter tn St. ¡ O « attaclMMl to her name, bnt she’» his An shop
door:
All Over.
were when they got their lady's glove!" 4
Lotti« has piirvhas««l a hotel out of the got her giHMl p lots, all right Milcher
-i„.
------ they .....
“Bear sold here."
"Well, de«r, 1 guess th« boneynMO*
“
And t K..„
how mean
look n<)W
An Invitati«*«.
tit« he received In live years. Steve- — Yeuh. bnt 1 want one with a reconi
Tom Hood, who mw It. said It was when tbelr girl gives them the mlt- la over."
“I auppuaw. ' be venture«!, “that yo» What dkl he do with the rest of tbe • nd some go«id daughter«. You can s|>elle«l
right.
"Why do you any that?" pooled tb«
Judge
them
by
their
quarts
and
gala.-
ten!”—Baltimore American.
woiiki never «peak to ma again if I money? t'tneliimitl Enquirer
'
Ext
The
fluid the man sella." Hood ex-
bride.
»era to bias y«m?"
plalmsl. "Is bis owu bruin."
I
”1 bsve been taking stock, and 1
Nover a Near Relative.
"Ob. George"' «he oiclalmeil “Why
Neeoeasry Knew'edg«.
that I am down to
tK.”-Waablngteff
"Pa,
who
Is
Mrs.
Grundy
?
’
OvarconAdenc«.
ilon’t you «et o«er the hatiit of always
"Why are you tenrnlng French?"
Herald.
Spoils It All.
“
»be
is
an
old
lady
who
Is
always
Pmhably
the
beet
thing
about
over-
Kukina at the worst «Illa of thing»?“—
"Why? Heeniise I've Just got a dog
"Speaking of the thenter. I like plays supposed to belong to some other
Iiundon Tit Rita
tram Fram-e. ami th«- silly beast can't confiilenee la that If a girt didn’t have with
s happy ending "
Wasted Advte»
mans family.“-Chicago Record-Her
undirstsod a word of English.“— Lon It «he wouldn't ever marry.—Galveston
Father-My son. remember tble-a*
News.
“»> do I Rut my wife almost al- ald.
don Tit Rifs.
R«th«r Ambigwwwe.
man ever acvomplishgd much "be
gay« |««e« « handkerchief or a glove."
Mother (idmuwlahlugl- Don't let tta
talked
at his work Son-How about«
-Washington
Herald
His
Mistalt«,
No
ln«ult
offered
t«»
a
man
can
ever
men <v>me two near you when court
Whst men want Is uot talent, it is
Fng«^.I understand Dohson married lecturer, dad?- Boaton Transcript
tn« I la tighter t'harlea and I have a piirjK«.-; I»>t the power t« achieve; but J vkt . u W him The only real degrada
tion I« w ’ mhi he d«-grade« himself. —
The enlargement of man's powtew- a rich widow. Fend-rwn— So he un
chair between ue Judge
tbe will to lai««- Hulwer Lyttoh.
Dinah Marte Mukxk i»tk
rtons is very often the contracting of derstood. too. but It prove« to .be ■
Tl>e dread of rMIcul* «itingul»h*fi
bia heure-Uob.-ruoa.
«nisundersUntling - Boston Transcript originality tn its birth- Blackwood. ,
Vi iuie Mr. Frederic Martyn was
••’vdig in Africa with the French For-
Ligkiu there came under bls uo-
Ct • au lueideut that be records in
“Llie lu tbe Legion." Tbe legion hud
advanced against tbe Da human army
i s! '.»us in pursuit of tbe black wurri-
or«
. Dnboman warrior was killed In
tbe act of leveling bls guu at Captain
Buitreau of tbe legion from behind a
i-uiton tree on tbe side of a neiirby bill.
As be fell hts rille clattered down at
'■fficer's very feet. Captain Bat-
r i <• u saw that it was an old cbasse-
nd picked it up out of curioaity.
<*nly be became very much inter-
e»*- d. He examined it carefully aud
a*
■ exclaimed with u gasp of aatou
Uuuent:
"Well, this is a miracle! Here is tbe
i«.y rifle 1 used lu 1870 during the
v.i.r with Germany! See that bole lu
lue butt? That wits made by a Prus
sian bullet at Satut-Prlvat. I could
tell the gun from among a million by
taut mark alone, but here's my uum-
'
.«tamped on It as well, which Is
i
<iice euuugb for anybody. Who
«
d tune thought it possible that I
, .ml pick up ill Africa, as a captain,
u >."e that 1 used in France im a »ei
g.-*int twenty-two years Hgo? lt la In
i.* tiibie.*'
< lptaln Battrenu was able to prove
that tbe rifle bad Indeed been bis, and
h ecelved permission to keep it.
I
General Basil Duke of Louisville,
,-ummaiider of Morgan’s cavalry fol
lowing the death of his hrotber-in-law.
General John Morgan, told thia story
st a reunion of tbe survivors of the
battle of SLilob.
tie said that during one of the Ten
nessee campaigns Morgan’s men sur
prised and drove back a regiment of
Federal troopers, in the midst of tbe
retreat one of the enemy, who was
mounted upon a big tiay horse, sud
denly turned snd charged the victori
ous Confederates full tilt, waving his
arm uud shrieking like mad as he bore
down upon them alone. Respecting
such marvelous courage, the Confed
erates forbore shouting the approach
ing foe. but when he was right upon
them they saw there was a different
reason for bls foolhardiness.
He was a green recruit. His horse
had rim away with him. Tbe bit had
broken, and. white ns a sheet and
scared stiff, the luckless youth was be
ing propelled straight at the whooping
Kentuckians, begging for mercy as he
came.
Jeff Sterritt. a noted wit of the com
mand. stopped the horse and made a
willing prisoner of the rider. Sterritt,
who bad not washed or shaved for
days nnd whs a ferocious looking per
son. pulled out a big pistol. "1 don t
know whether to kill you right now,”
he said, "or wait until the fight is
over.”
"Mister.” Iiegged the quivering cap
tive. "don't do it at all. I’m a dissi
pated character, nnd I ain't prepared
to die."—Philadelphia Saturday Even
Ing Post
1
Whoever has applied a moistened
Anger to a piece of frosty metal In
winter well remembers the painful ex
perience thereby gained of the fact
that cold as well ns heat can blister
the skin.
During some experiments in tbe pro
duction of excessively low tem|>era-
; lures Rietet, the French investigator,
burned himself with cold several times,
and tbe offer ts were so remarkable that
he deemed them worthy of description
to a body of scientific men.
It appears that there are two kinds
or degrees of cold burn, in tbe ease
of the less severe “burns” tbe skin at
first turns red. but becomes blue tbe
next day. The inflamed spot swells.
aud a period varying from a month to
six weeks elapses before the wound
heals.
When the contact with the cold sub
stance is longer and more complete a
burn of the second degree Is produced.
A malignant and stubborn wound is
formed, and the process of healing is
very slow.
A drop of liquid air falling on Pic
tet’s hand produced a cold burn which
did not completely heal in six months,
while a scorch from heat accidentally
inflicted on the same hand and nearly
at the same time was healed in ten or
twelve days.—Harper’s Weekly.
According to a bouse surgeou in a
Loudon hospital, it is uot uecessary to
take strong drink nt nil lu order to lie
drunk. Cases have been known in
which patieuts have got drunk on a
beefsteak after having tieen for many
weeks on a very light diet. The in
toxication in these cases showeil it
self in a slight dizziness and drowsi
ness and indistinctness of speech.
Similar cases have been kuown in
which the only intoxicant lias been
strong tea. In fact, there are instances
In medical books of exceptional iieople
In whom the constant use of over-
strong. overdrawn tea has brought
alsnit distinct symptoms of delirium
tremens.
Perhaps the most curious sort of in
toxication on record is that in which
the only intoxicant is cold water drip
ping from a water tap into the ear.
In Germany a few years ago quite a
number of morbid people had a crav
ing for this curious way of inducing
drunkenness, but it seems to have been
stumped out.
The drip of the water is said to
cause a painful boiling sensation at
first and then to cause a pleasant drow
siness. etiding in deep sleep. When
the victim is roused lie is dull and stu
pid in manner, like a lieavg* drinker.
This craze makes its victim a nervous
wreck in a very short time.—Pearson's
; Weekly.