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QUEER 'FISHES.
".-'"i "wTJ'homThMJast '' 5'b'V" ?. "'"'V'" nb,U
ypn owned in Munich, Uerinany, witu TaWng flr9t the Ophiocephalus tribe, or
Dec" vl . ...;-,, nnmamffll WOrkincr- I .. i uA...l,llt 41e1ib fnnti' In Vn liwllnn
line u"j comforts of unadorned life, reglon,wo meet with singular exhibitions of
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UlCablllUg MWW1WJ "'" -r . --
son, F. It. S. E , P. L. 8., in Onco a "Week.
It 19 known or theso listics mat tney can
9Urvreo long periods of dryness, living ns
they dp In the semi-fluid mud of rivers and
usu-
The
Slontmyofthe reetralnts that
W. " ... ht such an enterprise.
'rS.ita. has a basement and four stories
of yellow brick, a granite entrance sur-
mnnnted with thoinscripuo.. , u wo
men's Home." and at mast, one w..uu
tor each of the 123 deeping rooinfl in it
Most of the rooms contain but one bed
, ,nrnr moms have two. Each
room' contains, besides a spring bed with
a hair mattress, a wardrobe, a wash-
stand, a writing wow, a -. -
land, stove, all or vnum . i- s
trim and clean oy mo luiui.""-- -
Its own expense.
m,Q ngt nf a siuu'lo room thus fnr-
,ished is between thirty and forty cents
I week. A room with two beds is rented
or twice as much. Somo of the best
corns bring as innch as sixty to seventy
five cents a week. woranguKu
Irish their boots cleaned and then
clothes brushed must pay two and one
kalf cents a week extra for the luxury.
lb addition to nil the sleeping rooms ami
kitchens, the new building nas rcaU..iH
room, a library with 4,uw :
";nnV.ir.a rnntll. il irTOlIlOSJUUl, . vunitiii.
SlW and a steam laundry, all of which
are lighted electrically. The summer
iSmlori behind the Duuuiug incmues
almost an acre, and has been laid out by
the most celebrated landscape gardener
Ifc Munich. The Society for the Educa
tion of Workwomen erected the new
Uome, and to do bo spent all its money.
out $o0.000. All members of the so-
Rcty have freo access to the bowling
Kuleys, reading room, library and gym-
I . mi i.i : i .
Hisiuin. ine jonyinjjs, uowevor, are re
Irved for the workingmen outside the
riety.
The Antlior of " Cienar's Column."
"Caesar's Column, a story of the
Twentieth century, was issued last June
iby a uew and comparatively unknown
pUUHBlUUS iiuuov.. .. . .v
,ntlo page was iiiumunu uoisgiiDert, in
JX, and it was given out uiai mis was a
udonym. The leading magazines anil
reviews, with one exception, and mam
of the great newspapers entirely ignored
Itie book, and everything at first w;is
against its success. It created the mo.st
.profound interest, however, among tnoe
Who read it, and soon oecame uiiueu
about. Considerable guessing was done
to the real name of the author, among
iiibse prominently named being Judge
,Tourgee, Mark Twain, T. V. Powderly
'Robert G. Ingersoll, Chauncey M. Do-
iw, Benjamin P. Butler and others.
The publishers, F. J. Schulto & Co., of
.Chicago, now auuounco that Ignatius
Donnelly, author of "Atlantis," "Itag-
rok and "The Great Cryptogram," is
io the author of "Caesar's Column."
Mr. Donnelly escaped general suspicion
ause his provions writings are more
laKes. Often they may bo found lying dor
mant beneath the "hard-baked crusts of the
bottom of a tank, from which every drop of
water has disappeared." Now, in theso
fishes; it is clear breathing must bo largely
suspended, and life goes on at very low
pressuro, so to speak; but so long ns the
mud is Boft enough, theso fishes can be
seen to rise to the surface at Intervals to
gulp in air. That is to say, when hard
pressed for water, theso fishes havo devel
oped a habit of using air taken directly
from the atmosphero for the purpose of
purifying their blood a function naturally
carried on by their gills. They have con
verted themselves, for the time being, into
land-animals. Nor is this alL Theso
"snake-headed" fishes of India, whilo en
joying their ordinary lifoin tho water, are
aro also seen to gulp down air from tho at
mosphcro. Dr. Day tells us that this habit
is to bo regularly observed in theso fishes.
Ho adds tho interesting observation that if
a net bo suspended below tho surface of tho
water of tho vessel in which they aro con
tained, so as to prevent tho fishes from ris
ing to tho top of tho water to brcatho in tho
air, they will actually perish and die by suf
focation. Bo that just as ordinary fishes
die suffocated out of the water, theso fishes
perish from a like causo if thoy aro kopt In
tho water.
Another and nearly related division of
fishes includes tho climbing perch of India
and its neighbors. In 1797, one Daldorf, in
a paper read before the Linntcan Socletjjof
London, detailed tho fact that he had cap
tured a climbing-perch (or Anabas) whilo
tho fish was climbing a palm-tree growing
near a pond. The fish had attained a
height of five feet above tho water, and was
proceeding to a higher level still. By aid
of tho spines in front of its gill-covers, It
held on to tho tree's bark. It then bent its
tail, and inserted into tho bark its hinder
tail-spines. Thus fixing tho hinder part of
tho body as a kind of fulcrum or support,
the fish then released its head, and made
further ascent by straightening its body.
In. the Malay tongue tho fish has been named
the "trea-cllmber:" and it is known to
walk, or rather to waddle, over tho land in
search of fresh ponds and pools. Tho gills
aro kept moist in Its land-journeys by a pe
culiar arrangement of tho bones of tho
head. Theso bones are greatly , twisted
and contorted, and servo apparently either
to retain moisturo for tho gills, "or to hold a
supply of air sufficient for tho breathing
operations of tho fish.
But excelling in interest, even tho curious
fishes just named, wo find tho Lepidosiren,
or mud-fish, of the Amazon and Gambia
rivers, and tho Coratodus, or "Barfamun
da," of tho rivers of (Queensland. In most
ordinary fishes, such as tho cod, salmon,
herring, etc., an organ called tho air-bladder,
swimming-bladder, or sound exists.
Tho use of this organ, is apparently that of
enabling the fish to rise or to sink in the
water, by releasing" or compressing tho
gases tho "sound" contains. This bladder
varies very much in shape nnd conforma
tion, and in some cases it is ncen to coinmu-
etinguished by laborious industry and nf Hunt nr tun. Tn rt., nn -,
de information than by tho qualities i gas contained in tho bladder is mostly
nv to vo uiMo mu creator or romances oxygen, wnno in iresn-water llshcs much
nitrogen with little oxygen and carbonic
acid gas aro found. Theso cases appear to
bo secreted or iormea dj tuo air-bladder
itself. In some ordinary fishes, In which a
dense network of blood-vessels exists in
connection with tho air-bladder, wo may
readily believe that this organ may assist
m purifying tho blood.
In certain fishes, however, not only does
tho air-bladder become lung-llko In struct
ure, but it also discharges the dutios of a
lung, in that it receives impure or venous
blood from tho body and returns it to tho
body in a purified condition. Tho Ceratodus
of Queensland has thus an air-bladder
which is a true lung. It rises to tho sur
face of tho water and fills this lung, then
descends and remains below water until
ho air it has inhaled has become ex
hausted. Tho fish possesses also fully-developed
gills, and wo may hold that these
lins and Industry Dou't Always Win.
Come with me to tho attic of a four
pKjry tenement, a back room at that.
ho is this porintr at midnicht over
IKpks and papers?
lis it a beggar?
K)h, no; she pays her rent.
hat is she doing here?
i it possiblo she is a miser, and the
hies represent her concealed wealth?
ot at all; she is a school teacher, and
is looking over the examDles of her
ills and correctins the comnosition-i
he girls uuder her charge.
hat, at this time of night?
riaiai) , mm for an hour or two later
ivhat is her pay?
en, it depends on her
to $7 a week, according to tho imuln
Joe Howard in New York Press.
4ft 1--1I
W7 ,,. V organs aro its natural breathing organs
f a j ear, some $350; that is from wml0 it inhabits tho water, although It is
equally obvious that tho lung-like air-bladder
must constitute its means of breathing,when
from any circumstances tho gills aro unablo
to perform their work. As Dr. Gunther
tells us, the Barramunda "can brcatho
either by gills or lungs alono, or by both
simultaneously."
Tho Lepidosirens, or "mud fishes," on
The Louc and Short Day.
flagman emnlnvpil hv i,n '...
"1 railroad, iu an interview with u
rtwof The Brooklyn Eagle, said:
'lUai are 111 V Iinnr? Wrtll iltnv'ru I !, AtV,nM TinnH nA mAin HnnMaln ltmn
W all hours. Thiit'n nlvm it W.J hronthnrs thun tho Ceratodus. For their
a loug day, a short day and a day oil air-bladder is really a double lung, purify-Prdnerhe&ivstholon'-dayisfortv-
Ing impure blood, in tho absence of water,
it hours, the bhortdivia'twf.ntvfmirlnwluchmeuium alono their 6,ll8CIln oct
.i ', : u" U'V 18 IW ent -IOUr 0a.:nnti.. in tho 1rv RP.imnns nf thn vpnr
kinl,f T?3! 13,dldayOU- But theso mud fishes appear to bo dried up
iiiliirt i m 3" v ijmiu wua l.no iiiuu ui iuo jjuuiu ur macs muy
"idSUiat. Ve iroes nn n.t K n'cliwlr Inhnlilt Thm- mil hnail nnil tnll tntrethnr.
and stays on till midnight on our i and oxist thus Insido a cavity or receptacle
,". We trets off .it 7 nViru.li-,.,. i hollowed in tho mud, which may communi
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Pn days; aii' then on our davs oil cat0 witn th0 outer airby an aPervtur0 or
l0'9&ndflaKfrom7unt:, ,o"vi "," channel. Theso fishes are dug out of tho
Lm.v ? lfUm UntH l-O ClOCli. ,,. ..J.. , ..nttnP.nrnnAmnlrr.l
Ctb, . th8 l0DS da-" nnd the d)' as It
K to 3 or 3 o'clock before we gets vest,
mud, and are often sent to Europe packed,
us it were, by nature, within their mud In
vestments, and existing thus insido a veri
table ball of dry clay, whenco they are ro-
ity vmn u leased ny steepingtno ciay in tepiu water.
'j ttS "Oars of workwero 'in this stato it is evident tho breathing
""Ba were less, but work must oo oi a strictly aimospnenc type.
r6 and certain; industrv meant There can bo no use or gills in a fish whilo
ITWCMa rp . . . ' "44.l JI. .- I,. Ilfn In n J-ln, ov.
- iuuay work is uncerUiu. " s ,DTT",b ;
315 Peradventnro. ,,' i -.. dessicated state.
WoftherichanT r T Hcnce' tho l"0 air-bladder must
" twrfnrm nn me iunciions oi ureaimni. ino
1 rich an j p,.
BffD-l .l-Jl Z . . IT"
r lose it ono a own ' B1"8 "eumln tnoir Hutiost doubtless,
thf PAr-i "."ngiii for nobler I when tho wet season dissolves tno ciay aim
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j'renunuj., . cj-
from ntt7w to 8ave civiliza-
n .Vew w u r,trnction. Labor
u-wHrk World.
S&--ations of Tpw.
BT"auabiil fm.t" - ," .
-nz th ti : " r.r . b ? ::
a. r-'n .""k -uonuay in ep- ' lu
mtndr ?r kpor, as it his'
taruT-, A?w Yor. New Jer-
.11 , u. cuua is tauffht to YwQ when tho fish returns to its native waters.
CISO ffll U. ,. w - - -- - ...v. - !. -nrtrt- U
- m0 UOllar, A ChJlHL'O 0Jinu iu bulu u tuow wo BMKua u
......a.. .... ... rw ....1.AM il... .n n no nn.i
tVlllUU IUU i JA3 Ul I V4 ..." .. WW, mmu
probably has been, modified into tho tjpo
of land Ufa Anyone whp bees a frog be
gin lifo as a tadpole, breathing with gills,
and ending its existenco as an air-breathing
frog, may think of the mud fishes, and note
how lower lifo often suocessiuny asmre-s
attain a higher stage of existence.
Uncla MedfU and the Itenorter.
;nJlv&nia unri t ' ew 8r" ' They tell in Chicago a story about Uncle
"" other proire8sivo jminnh Mtniii. tym owner nf the Chicaeo
. . Tribune, and a now reporter of that paper.
'' Cmnl.. .: .. Tho renortor was sent tho other evocini to
h' rre credit frfrtVlK "'?? UP n reception, He KM along all right
4 W the livKr. Vti -v""" until no met a nno-iooiong gray-Bearuu
IW Ji . "lUa Pndin5 Jn old gentleman, the cenWr of a group of
u of LalirT , ,aBsem "Jy o. 00, ladles and gentlemen. As is customary,
in thijr0' aaa )een eepecially apparently In Chicago, the reporter entered
O-lrecUoa. the group and got the names of those pw-
u,n , (jnt, but when ho asked for the old gontio-
ntui report of State Faetorv In. "n's name he was answered by a loud and
AH of New Jersey, shows that nd as'Pa---K-' "Bhl" "I sbomd hie
yendWffCtoai i vour name, please." "Ehl What! Bpek
rlerecl 1 VVi ini i ' "wider!" yelled the old gentleman, jwltiflg
fibSE. Children ander 8e I"1 b-"! " nis ear The reporter fiKed hi.
iee ana 6ent them to iungswitn air and then yud: "Iamare-
jportar, -.ul would like your name!" "Oh,
ol a. . . ' reporter, ehl What mwri'i rfrh thk.
tCni? tmTh New York e; J1 Please give e your namef"
l,' 'wbert T. Pine has of- nieoMwaa lcokd at tU- young Mas kindly,
j,-- - w fiw each ror the ;"""" "rw1 ana saw. vwUy: "Jotef
2ftiIfrr,LrU diversity to. Uwl- '
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I Will Sell my Kiitire Stocl of Dress Goods, Consisting of Fine
' ALL WOOL
CASHIMERES, SELIGES, HENRIETTA CLOTHS,
TRICOTS; BItOADOLOTIIS, LADIES' CLOTHS,
PLAIDS, STRIPES AND FANCIES,
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At ji jxrosit reduction for the next
15 Day
Only 15
To make r? om for n luiW invoice of new SPRING GOODS TO ARRIVE.
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Cor..Comlikricir5tate Sts; Opp. Ladd & Bush's. Bank, Salem, Or.
Furniture
Boom
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Th. Tozn sseited
Money- on
ssmsn Delig'lited,
the Roll,
And it will not stop until it reaches tlic'Mammoth Furniture Emporium of KELLER & MARSH. The
Latest Gossip tho popular tone of conversation all centred on our stock. We cater to ali classes
hence we do business with Everybody. We operate with a system, and have a fac
ulty or selling goods every hour in the day. Every family needs furniture
It is an indispensnble article. KELLER & MARSH are known
to have the largest and best selected variety of goods.
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LL OF
FARE;
Paklot. Sets,
Divans.
Easy Chairs
Plush Rockers
Bed Lounges
Single Lounges-
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Hair Mattrasses
Moss do
Wool cIq
ExpaLSIOR)
Spring do
Box ; . do
PILLOWS !
Easels '"' -
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Uplibltriui; and
Chiffoniers,
Ladies' Writing Desks,
Sectretary and Book
Cases combined
Wardrobes
Parlor Tables
Office Desks
Office Chairs
Newest Wall Papers
Mouldings
Picture Frames
Pine Art Goods
Window Shades
Cornice Poles, E)tc. Ktc.
PICTURE FRAMING.
KFLLESR. & MARSH,
ODDS AND ENDS.
Theroaroiiow 11,(X,(KJ incii In Europe
ready to be called into the Hold.
Tho maximum speed which French pas
senger trains nro iermittvd to make is
about seventy miles an hour, and this is
uncommon.
The only part of tho worl I in which no
native pipes and no unlive Muckers havo
been found is Australia.
Geologists hnvo proved that tho diamond
mines of South Africa aroriituated lu vents
or chimneys varying from seventy to 1,500
feet in diameter.
Dr. Jiinu'i Croll, tho first to explain the
movement nf the gulf stream, has died at
the ago of (V), u distinguished follow of the
Hoynl society.
Kiibinstclii says that fi0 percent, of the
Germans understand music; 10 pur cent, oi
tho French, and 2 per cent, of the English.
In doing up tablecloths there should nl
ways bo a suspicion of starch used, but
there hhotild bo none in the napkins.
Persian women hnvo little education,
and are reared in seclusion and lgiiorntiu
knowing nothing beyond tho walls of thelt
house.
Mr. Frederick Hoyt, of Skowhegan, Me.,
now 75 years old, is one of a family of
seven brothers and sKters, all of whom are
living, tho eldest being 87.
Two quarts of water with two ounces of
gljcerlnu scented with rose, ns a dressing
in the bath, will impart freshness and del
icacy to the skin.
The man who lately refused to aid n
British policeman struggling with a party
of roughs hft boon lined "20. The law ro
(u ires that a citl.eu shall reader help
under such circuitiitance.s.
lluldefonl Peel, Mo , has lieeu Invaded
by a troop nf snowy owls from tho Arctic
wilds. Thirty were captured and sold in
Boston for abota $1 each.
A grain of carmine or a half grain of
auallue will tlnj;o a hogshead of water so
that a itroug microscopo will detect color
ing matter in every drop.
The elTective force of the Argent Ino army
has Ik-en llxiil for IR)1 nt fi,5l!U men. Of
these -,;'i,') eompose the infantry, 2,5 tho
cavalry, 7h!) the artillery and iUO tho cons
of engineers.
"If tlicrc-lHono time more than another,"
says nn experienced married man, "when a
woman should be left alone. It is when a
line of clothus comes down iu tho mud.''
The Lar'et Furniture House in Salem,
Cor Oommerciul and Chuiuukotu Stn-etH.
.VriAllctlltlllllN llf Willi llorHPH.
Life in societies Is ii'Miit the rule with
tho larue family of hor-.es, which Includes
the wild horses nnil lonkey.s of Asia, the
zebnm, tho nuistanis, tho imarrones of
the Pampas, and the half .. ild horses of
Monuolla and Siberia. They all live iu
numerous associations made up of many
studs, each of which consists of a number
of marcs under the leadership of a male.
These numberless inhabitants of the Old
and the Now Worlds, badly organized on tho
whole for resisting ImiUi their numerous
enemies and thu adverse conditions of ell
mate, would soon havo disappeared from
tho sin face of tho earth were it not for
their sociable spirit. When a beast of prey
approaches them sovenil studs unite at
once; they repulse tho beast and sometimes
chiiso it, and neither tho wolf nor the bear,
not even the Hon, can capture) a horse or
even a zebra as long as it Is not detached
from the herd.
Wheli n drought Is burning the grass in
tho pniirii'H they gather In holds of hoiiiu
times 10,000 Individuals strong and mi
grate. And when a snow Htonn rages in
the steppes each stud Uccps close together
and iv. nil . to a protected ravine, llut if
conld"ncv disappears or the gro'ip has
lns!ii seized by panic and disperses, the
horses perish, and the mir Ivors are found
after the storm half dying from fatigue.
U'linti h their chief arm lu tho struggle
for life, an 1 iiiuu Isthelrehief enemy, lle
fnrc his increasing numbers the ancestors
of our domestic horse (tho Kepi us przowal
skll, so named by Polyakoll') havo preferred
to rt'ilrtfto the wildest and least lu'tessjule
plateaus on the outskirts of Thibet, where
they continue to live, sm Minded by car
nivores, under a climate us bad as that of
thonrrtlc re'giniiH, but in n region iimccewd
hie to lliail. Nineteenth Century.
KiiNn fU'iiHiitiiiliH nf Colli.
The "TniiiHactlons of the Association of
the American Physicians" contains a ro
port by Dr. S. Weir .MltU hell of a numlxir
of curious cases of false .sensation of cold.
In some Instances the feeling of cold was
accompanied by an actual rlsa of temper
ature In llio part affected. This peculiar
sensation of cold liiouocaso followed an
injury, but iu others tho causation wax ob
scure. One rr'her remarkable case was that of
a law) nf, 57 years of ago, During tho last
few years ho has been annoyed by subject
ive sensations of cold, which aro Increased
by mental application, To relievo these
sensations he wears three suits of thu
heaviest kind of woolen undvrwcur, thris)
pairs of tho heaviest woolen socks, felt
IxmjU of the heaviest material over his or
dinary hoots mid shoes, ami a flannel bund
age around his body. At night ho wears
two of the above mentioned suits, a Man
uel liiinclwe, woolen socks, and sleeps un
der live woolen blankets on a feather mat
tniM, with n Imlroiirt under It, I lu always
keeps the night tempeiHturo of his room
at W, and a'ter a hnrcl day at court from
00 to Oft. The tMHisHtloii of cold Is KMltlvely
painful, though Ids surface tempuratiiru Is
normal.
('uulilii't Uiiiluratuml.
".S'nvr, never oould undersUind Itl" ho
grow Iw I, as ho went slipping and skating
End crawling over the ley llagstoiKM of thu
Circus park. "Here I am, aliuiMt ft profes
sional Hlhlutx, wIumI with new riiblMim, and
yot I am In niorul terror of a fall every
moumiit, while thttre 'n-s a woman sailing
along as suftmuly am you please without a
rubier on hr foot."
"Ixik at her now I" Iih continued, as he
skfttwl up to a shade trot to nmt a inouiHiit
I si fort taking ft now start, "hhe ihswu't
even sH-em to know' that Iheru in any le-o '
'here, while I go thunder look out '
inah:"
And hu lay stretchwl nt full Uugtli on '
the bnuul of his Kick, the soltM of his now
"gums" upturned to the north wind, Ms
Imt In thu ditch and a fevling lu every Imiiiu
ami stiMW that tho uurth had klolcd up ,
iHWiiiHi nuu wirown nun on. iwiroit r rvo
Pros.
Horvlcu lu tho HweilUli Army,
A plan for thu rworgaulifitiou of the
BtvuUUh army has Jiut Immiii luUl Uiforu thu
SwudUh parllamuiit. It projKMtM tho mil-
venuil luibilliy to fcurvluu nn uudunslood in
iu w UMnt suv evury one aniu io istar i
arm mutt survu. Kight4ji thousand imni
nna rwjulrwl by It auuually to eulUl. fur
torn himI a half inuntM. Alter tho mil ,
year1 Mtrvkv ttury soUllur would Lk eulUd
out to enmp fur forty-live ilayn evtiry ye.tr ,
Tho plan has bran submitted to n oommlK
lon oompoMil of tb highest olllcers In tho
bwtJUh uriuy. Indou Letter
A TRAMP'S RIDE' OF TERROR'
III CI ml mill Forlorn, He Slolo a Plucfl oil
u Cow cute tier In Zero Weather.
A poor, half starved tramp stole a rldo
on tho cowcatcher of a Now York and New
England railroad locomotive last Christ
mas night, nnd ho is not likely soon to for
got his trip. As Engineer Potter, of tho
limited express, drove his long train from
tho west nnd halted his panting engine nt'
the station for a few minutes preparatory
to beginning tho long run to Boston, a
slight uinn, shabbily clad in a short, thin
coat, light trousers, shoes and felt hat,
came timidly across tho network of iron
rails to his cab mid asked if ho might rido
on tuu engine to Boston.
"No," said tho engineer, "therulcsof tho
road expressly forbid it." Then tho tramp
wanted to get aboard tho baggage car, but
Mr. Potter was not nt liberty to permit him
to do so. He shivered and went away. Then
tho locomotive bell clanged, tho passengers
(who hud alighted and gone into the depot
restaurant forsupper) hurriedly got nboard,
and the train moved oil, quickening its
speed rapidly. It was a still night, with
the mercury almost at zero, and tho moon
was very bright. The engineer let his steel
horse go at the rate of more than fifty miles
an hour, and, though all the Cab windows
wero tightly shut, so cold was tho air that
rushed Into tho engine thiit even tho en
gineer and llreiuau felt chilly.
As Putnam was passed the fireman fan
cied he heard an untmunl sound nbove tho
t'barlng of Hying wheels, and he hastily
drew aside one s;ush in a cab window. Ho
glanced along the curved sldo of the great
boiler mid Instantly uttered a cry of aston
ishment, llo s?a tho wretched tramp,
who had bogged for a rldo nil Willimantlc,
clinging like a fly to the froilt of tho en
gine, and whoso face, now turned toward
the Jlromau, was wlilto with hopeless ter
ror. Ho was shaking like a leaf with tho
trembling of thu locomotive, his clothes
fluttering lu the hurricane like rush of thu
engine, nnd it was evident to thu fireman,
nt his first glance, that tho poor fellow
could retain his grip on the engine only a
few moments longer.
Tho cry of tho llivmau brought Engineer
Potter also to thu side of thu cab lu an in
stant, and oven ns thu two muu stared at
thu wretch, tossing on tho cowcatcher, tho
latter niiulo a desperate effort to climb
higher upon the pilot to thu hot engine
front. In doing so hu grasped a live steam
pipe. Tho pipe was blistering hot, but tho
tramp dared not let go, for ho would havo
f'.llen to tho loadbed or been ground under
the great driving wheels. Still ho uttered
no cry, though thu look of agony in his faco
told what hosulTered.
Tho train was still thundering on ntllfty
miles an hour, and thu engineer daru uot
apply tho brakes, for ho lcuuw thu sudden
Jar and jolt that would te.siilt from that
net would fling the wretch under tho
wheels. Theru wits only ouu way In which
the man could bo saved, a id Engineer Pot
ter saw it at onco. Bo hu went out on tho
locomotive, the ilrcman following htm.
crawled along its side, and yelled to tho
man to hold up Ids hand. Thu engineer
then fairly pulled tho tramp, with the aid
of the fireman, into tho cab. Tho man fell
on the floor of tho cab completely exhaust
ed. Hu received kind treatment) during
the rivtt of tho rldo to Boston, In which city
he was provided with food and lodging and
medical attendance. Cor, Nuw York Sun.
A Wuinmi on thn Indlun.
Miss Sickles, who for fo'ur years was a
teacher among several tribes of 'Indians,
and who is now out west at the suggestion
of Secretary Proctor, said to tho writer
just as she was leaving for her now pest:
"I confess that I am ono of those who ho
lluve that thu Indian has not been trcatrd
falily, and 1 am also ouu who bdluves that
kindness to tho Indian U thu surest way to
i' solution of thu Indian problem. Of
course, this Is a broad statement. I do not
mean that thu Indiaus can be mado good,
for I am not ready to believe that. I am
talking about thu Indians as a whole.
During my four years among thu tribes I
never knew ono Indian who was uot what
hu pretended to bu, and I never knew onu
who was discourteous. Several times I
have been so situated that I was thu only
woman nmoLig a number of Indian men.
I havu had occasion to usu them for
guides and to travel with mo for somo dis
tance, and I never saw onu of them do or
mtv anything that was not lu accordance
with stiict propriety. I am not so un
gracious to my on n countrymen us to draw
a comparison between thum and Indians,
but when I was coining from Washington
to Chicago recently I was so much annoyed
at thu action, of somu pnjo aces on thu
train to wanl women who were alone that
I was forced to remember tho courteous
attention I hail received from a people who
had nuver had any of thu advantages of
society."-Chiuigo Tribune.
A Itiiro Hpeclmcm.
On his return from a Journey a Ham
burg merchant found that his bookkeeper
hod quitted his post, leal, lug a letter in
which hu Informed thu principal that ho
had at dllfureut period appropriated sums
aui'jiititlng lu nil to 4,000 marks, and that
hit had taken COO marks out of thu safe Ihj
foiv sotting out for At.ierlcu, where hu
hoped to mnku his fortune. If he sue-
C(s led, as hu had no doubt hu would, ho
intended to make complete restitution.
Iu thu mean time hu asked his late em
ployer to look after his futility, stating that
Ids wifu was Innocent. Thu merchant
Hindu Inquiries, and heard nothing but
what was fuvorabluas to tho character of
thu woman, whom he found iu utter de
tqmir after rending a lettur similar to the.
onu ho hud received. Ho gave her a check
for 1,000 marks, saying that ho would as
sume that the man had dwfraudod him to
thu exttuitof ),000 marks, which he would
place to the debit of his account. Thu wifu
is thus rtlluvtul from any Immediate want,
and the inuruli.w.t has offered to Interest
himself further on Iwlmlf of the family.
Hamburger Nachrichteu.
l'lipulHllun uf C'uilkd-
Tho census, which will bo taken next
year, Is eXUl to show a opulatiou
somewhat In ixctws of 5,000,000 In the Do
minion of Canada. Its public debt at thu
end uf October, 1HHU, which Is the latest date
at w Mud it vim Hindu public, was In round
figure- MCT.OOO.OOU. According to estimates
Montreal has -jOO.OUO Inhabitants, Toronto
170,000, Hamilton 45,000, nnd Ottawa and
Halifax ulKdit 4,eu) each. These are the
largist towns fu thu Dominion. St. Lout
OloiDcmiKruL
Trunk of tliu llojri.
Thu night befuru Junior dayiOme Unl- '
vemlty ktudeiiU at Berkeley, Cold., took a
number uf cement barrels mid placed them'
on topbf thu library building. The work
man in the grounds were detailed to r
move the eontplouous dreoratlons. They
uuoewjdvl lu taking all down except one
barrel, width U plaeod on top of tbeciupola.
ThU is nut of their reach, and they say
that It otunot bu removed, as no ono can
gu-. within Oft ceil feet of it. -Philadelphia
Lodger.
iv ubor question!.