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Attempted A bjurttoa—Two ChU4-
Wran la the Ha4i cf
the Udsapper*,
!UlMlWMti Enquirer. |
The little suburb of Dayton, lying |
just shove Newport, on the Kentucky |
aide of the Ohio, cubm to the front just
now with a remarkable Fegaatiou, being '
no other than a seeming attempt at ab
duction, the intended victim* being two
diminutive specimen* of humanity—
little women—who together occupy a
little residence in the western part of
the town. Annie and Katie King are •
the name* of the two little people. They
are amall, very small, Annie, the
Jo linger, standing about forty-eight
tnche* in height, and weighing iuat aa
many pound* as her height in inches.
Katie, the elder, is a trifle taller, but
about the same weight. Both are per
fectly formed, with shapely hand* and
feet, good figure* and attractive faces.
Annie, the younger, is especially re
markable for her diminutive size and
for her symmetrical figure, and long,
wary hair, which fall* in heavy ina**e*
about her shoulders, and reaches to her
doll-like waist below.
Their home, which appear* to have been
especially built for them, is a tiny frame
cottage on McKinnev-street, near Madi
son, comfortably and suitably furnished
with low easy-chairs, the tiniest of cook
ing-stoves, a snug little bed, which they
jointly occupy, and Is, with it* green
little furnishings and diminutive in
habitants, the veriest doll’s house that
one could find in many a day’s travel.
Here they live in comparative quiet,
seldom venturing out except among
their near neighbors and to the home of
a brother, who lives a block away. They
like entirely alone in their little home,
their simple wants supplied by a small
patrimony left them on the decease of
their father, formerly a resident of this
city. Their brother, Mr. King, is a
well-to-do citizen oi Dayton, and watches
over them with the kindly care which
a brotherly affection, strengthened by
their tiny he) piousness, inspires.
For some time past they have been
3ed with apprehensions as to their
Annie, the younger and
;r, had frequent occasions to go
up the street and had observed that she
was followed and closely watched by
persons unknown to her. For two or
three nights past they had heard strange
sounds outside their little domicile,
which led them to suspect that some
body was watching their home for some
evilpurpose. Still, as they arefrequently
annoyed by l>oys, who, attracted by the
novelty of their appearance, occasion
ally proved somewhat annoying, little
was thought of the matter, until on
Friday evening they became so alarmed
that their brother’s son, a boy of twelve
or fourteen years, was sent to speml the
night in the house with them. They
retired about the usual hour, and about
two o’clock they were awakened by a
noise outside the home, and by a bright
light in the room. Ismking toward the
windows, they saw three men in dark
clothes, with heavy black beards, one of
the nuinlier carrying a dark lantern, the
light of which entered the appartment.
At another window were two more men,
without coat* or masks. The helpless
little women were terribly alarmed, and
in their terror screamed for help, and
not knowing what else to do hid them
selves under the bed-clothes. A few
moments later they heard the click of a
skeleton key in the back door of their
apartment, and two men silently en
tered the room, creeping upon the floor.
The boy who was with them, as much
frightened as themselves, was unable
to render them aid, except to discon
cert the would-be kidnap|>ers by shout
ing lustily for help. Coming into the
room the men crept quietly to the l>ed
and were evidently preparing to seize
their victims, when Annie, the younger,
sprang quickly from the bed, and, with
her short, tottering steps, ran screaming
as fast as possible in the darkness--for
the villains had not yet* turned on the
light from their lanterns—to the door.
As she passed one of the men caught her
by the arm, but, by good fortune and
strength above that which her little
figure would indicate, she managed to
break from his grasp. She was followed
by the elder sister, Katie, who was
seized by the foot bv one of the men,
but who got away, followed by the boy,
all screaming for help. Being well
posted in regard to the location of doors,
nml, aided by the light from the mood,
which was still shining, they managed
to elude their would-be captors—whose
plans were evidently upset hy the pres
ence of the boy—and they shot out of
door bareheaded and shoeless, and,
scrambling hastily over the fence, made
their way as rapidly ra their little
trembling limbs would carry them to
their brother’s house, screaming for
help and terribly frightened. Mrs.
King, who had been apprehensive for
their safety, heard their screams, and,
running down stairs, opened the door
for them, and then, with great prompt
ness, fainted in the arms of her husband,
who had got down stairs at alniut the
proper moment. By the time the ex
planations were made, restoratives ob
tained, for the fainting woman and Mr.
King ready for the reconnoiter, the
little dolls' house was silent, except
from the knot of excited neighbors who
had gathered round in remarkably scant
apparel to investigate. An examination
showed that nothing had been disturbed
in the house, thus showing that the olv
ject of the invaders was not plunder in
the ordinary sense of the word. Noth
ing was seen of them by any one except
those in the house 1 when they entered,
and it seems that they disappeared as
soon as the women escaped from the
house.
The object of the outrage is of course
unknown, but it is believed that the in
tention was to abduct the women that
they might be used as attractions iu
shows at some distant point where‘they
would not be recognized. They had
been frequently solicited to become
members of traveling parties or go on
exhibition at various points,
diminutive figures, sprightly appear
ance and intelligence, and the beauti
ful, flojring hair of the younger
making them valuable acquisitions in
this liue. No other reasonable theory
could be found, and it is believed that
the iutention was to carry the women
off. and by threats and persuasions, and
any other means possible, force them to
al'ow themselves to be made use of in
this manner.
Nothing is known as to the would-be
abductors. A man was seen to pass the
house several times and inspect it care
fully, and it is supposed that he was
one of the partv preparing for the
night'R work. The citiicns of Dayton
are not a little excited over the affair,
and it would not be healthy for the
would-be abductors should ' they be
captured.
Jeremy Taylor was the philosopher
who went off all by himself and forged
out the wise remark, that “ marriage is
the nursery of heaven." We have seen
a >uie nurseries, following marriage, that
did not exactly fill the bill of our
imagination as to what heaven ought
to br
SI range Haidde* A French Woman
Kills Meraelf Because her Dug Dies.
I*3 tb* BsStisunf* f rt!elt.
There have been some queer suicides
in Pari* lately, hut none stranger, nor,
to a certain degree, more touching than
that of an olu woman, a lace mender,
who hanged herself the other day lie
cause her dog, a beautiful little spaniel,
who had been her consthant companion
for over twelve years, had fallen sick
snd died. She was alone in the world;
she had neither child nor grandchild,
nog any near relsMke, and her dog had
been the only companion of her loaeli
ness, and so when UMkittle creature died
her courage and her spirits failed her,
and she slipped -out of the world to
which she was linked by no single tie of
affection. Next we have the story of a
married man, M. X , who was living
with a certain Madame R ,on the
Rue de* Martyrs. The peace of this
irregular menage was sorely troubled by
Madame X , who fancied she had
some claim on her lawful husband, and
threatened to resort to legal proceedings,
so the tender lovers determined to die
together after the usual French fashion,
namely, by asphyxiating themselvea
with the fumes of charcoal. Mr. X
persuaded Madame R to take a
dose or decoction of poppies before
lighting the furnace, and as soon as he
saw her stupefied by the effects of the
narcotic he slipped auietly o)jt f locked
tl.e door on the outside, and aunerea his
dearly loved companion Ur die alone.
But the law objected to such a vigorous
demonstration of common sense on his
part, and he has been arrested for
complicity in the unhappy woman's
death. Talking of suicides, I wonder
that no Parisian has yet thought of
making way with him or herself hy
lumping out of the £reat captive
balloon during one of its ascensions.
The feat would be an extremely easy
one to accomplish, and the effect would
he sensational in the extreme, a result
which your Parisian suicide dearly loves
to bring about. Perhaps the high price
of the ticket may have something to do
with the neglect of this very striking
method of self-destruction, for a
Frenchman is apt to study economy
at such a moment.
A Miner’s Superstition.
I Virginia Olty Olironlrle.J
A reporter was talking with an old
miner a few days ago, who imidicitly
lielicved that no death ever took place
in the mines without a warning of some
kind. “You see,” he said, “death
never comes of a sudden upon the men
in the mines. You reporters write up
accidents and how something gave way
or fell (juick and killed somebody. Now,
this ain’t so. There’s always some
warning. When I see my lantern begin
to bum low down and blue. 1 know that
there is danger ahead. If it keeps on
for a few days and then begins to waver
and flicker, I’ll watch it close trt se6
where it points. Now,you may set me
up for a find, but what I’m telfin’ you
is the gosjiel truth. When the flame
leans over (as if it was being worked hy
a blow-pipe), and points to n man,
death has marked him. Home years ago,
when Bill Hendricks was killed in the
Savage, the flame of my lantern pointed
right to him for over’an hour, and when
he moved the flame would turn juat as
if Bill wy a lodestone, and the flame
was a manner’s needle. I knew he was
gone, and told him to be careful about
the blast. Well, he got through thatall
right, and got on the cage. As we went
up the candle kcptacting stranguly, ami
at times the flames would stretch out
long and thin towards Hill. At length
it gave a sudden flicker and Bill reeled
to one side and was caught in the tim
bers. 1 heard his dreadful cry as lie
disappeared down the shaft, and while
he was hounding from side to side, dash
ing out his brains and scattering
his flesh down to the bottom, iny light
went out. I never lit that lantern again.
It hangs up in my cabin now, and it al
ways will. There’s more in a candle
flame than people think. I’d rather see
a cooked revolver pointed at me than a
candle flame; a revolver sometimes
misses, hut a candle flame is sure to kill
when it starts towards a man.
Ballooning ill Arctic Regions.
I New York Graphic. 1
Experiments made at Scranton, Ta.,
during the last few days are said to have
proved the practicability of the new
balloon gas generating apparatus of Pro
fessor S. A. King. The importance of
this apparatus depends uj>on its appli
cability to ballooning in the Arctic re
gions, and Captain Howgate is under
stood to be now satisfied on that jioint.
Professor King’s apparatus, which is
only sixty-six inches in diameter and
ten feet high, and can be easily carried
on a small ship, has the capacity to in
flate a balloon of ninety or one hundred
thousand cubic feet. Probably it will
he by the balloon that the discovery of
the North Pole will at last lie made.
Even a captive balloon, sent up from
the furthest available point, might ena
ble the observer in its ear, with a good
telescope, to solve the problem of the
open Polar Sea, which Dr. Kane insists
he saw so clearly. It is easy to under
stand that such a bodv of water as Dr.
Kane describes might be open in an ex
ceptionally mild season, and closed
again with ice when the winter was
mure severe; so that explorers, at dif
ferent times, would return with conflict
ing accounts concerning it. The open
water seen by Dr. Kane, and described
by him as tossing its blue waves, and
gleaming in the sunlight, might have
Been an ocean, stretching clear to the
pole, or it might have been only a lake,
opened at times and closed at others.
Explorations by balloons, either captive
or free, will probably erelong settle this
ami‘other questions hitherto in doubt.
Singular Suicide.
One of the most extraordinary at
tempts at suicide upon record is that
made by a resident of a little village in
Italy, in 1805. He was insane on re
ligious subjects and conceived the idea
of imitating upon his own person the
crucifixion of our Savior. He con
strusted within his lodging-room a
wooden cross, and provided himself
with nails, ropes, a crown of thorns,
etc. Anticipating that he could not
easily nail himself to his cross, he made
a net which he fastened over it, secur
ing it at the bottom of the upright
beam, so that it might partly sustain bis
weight. He then assumed Bis crown of
thorns, rehioved his cioihing and girded
his loins with a white cloth, wounded
his side with a kni e, and introducing
himself into the net. nailed his two feet
and his right hand to the cross. And at
the last he succeeded, by a series of in
genious prearranged contrivances, iu
swinging the cross, with himself upon
it, out at the window, so that it con
fronted the villagers as they came out
the next morning. He was, however,
taken down and cured of his wounds,
though not of his melancholy.
Til K Km press of Austria, the Duke of
• ‘oilnaught, the Princess Louise of
Prussia, and the Prince Imperial ol
France will attend he Warn hunt *t
Dublin this fall
Kervlag as a Soldier ia Three fasti
neat* and Meetiag Death at His
Own Hand.
’•* fork las t
Michael Ernst, with his wife, lived in
the house of their son-in-law, Jacob
Hues*, at 325 Hudson -Street, in the top
most story, in rooms fitted up with ma
hogany furniture. They were an aged
couple. Miehael was nearly seventy
years of age. He slept in the rear room,
and his wife ia the chamber facing
H udson-atreet. He usually went to bed
late and got up lata. Rudolph Yuenger,
the barkeeper in Hitem's lager beer sa
loon, who had gone up stain on an er
rand the other morning at ten o’clock,
rushed hack down stairs, and said that
the old man was lying in his chamber in
a pool of bis own blood. Mr. Ernst’s
body w* found sitting on the floor, with ,
his chin supported by his hand, and the 1
. elbow resting in a rocking chair. A
razor had fallen near the chair. His
| throat was cut from ear to ear. Mr.
| Ernst was partially dressed, and had j
evidently committed suicide while sit- j
1 ting in the chair, and then slid to the i
I floor. His wife talked a few minutes
' with him at about eight o’clock, and he
had given no intimation of content
plating self-murder. .
Mr. Ernst served as a surgeon in the
French army for twelve years in Africa
' and in Spain. A broad saber cut disfig
-1 ured his left cheek. He was born in
: Bavaria, was conscripted when be ar
rived at manhood, but ran away. He
found his way to Paris and enlisted
there. It was his boast that he was one
of the men who helped place Queen
Isabella of Spain upon the throne. He
spoke the Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, Ger
man, and French languages correctly
and fluently. On his honorable dis
charge from the French army in 1844,
he came to the United States, and not
meeting at first with success as a sur
geon, established a barber shop in Hud
son-street. He made money rapidly,
and in ten years retired from business.
Then lie took his family to Bavaria, to
have his children educated. Though
intending to remain in the fatherland,
he soon bqgan to long for his adopted
country, atHl came back in sik months.
A magia to speculate seized.him, and he
lost over ten thousand dollars in h con
fectionery manufactory. Then lip.-xe
sumed his'old business aa a barrier, and
retired finally in 1860.
At tho outbrea* df the, rebellion
Ernst enlisted in the Seventh Ttegiment
of volunteers, but wa discharged) with
out seeing active service, on account of
rheumatism. In January last hi* right
side was paralyzed, and in February an
other similar tflroek came. Hingularly,
the muscles pf his throat were also
paralyzed, and it was difficult fdr him
to swallow. His utterance was indis
tinct. At tithes he wandered in his
talk. Then he would say that there
was something in his throat that must
come out.. It is believed by his only
son that his father cut his throat under
the delusion that his troubles would he
cured. Haying heen a surgeon, he
knew jusl wherq to draw the razor.
The razor used was a present to Mr.
Ernst by kis son, who was a Union sol
dier, and who found tho implement irt
the pocket of a dead rebel offieer on
the battle-field. It was Mr. Ernst’s
custom to shave daily with it, and al
though the son wanted it for his busi
ness, as it was a remarkably fine piece
of steel, yet the old man refused to give
it up. lie believed that he was very
poor, and a few days ago took his gold
watch and chain to his son for pawning.
The son humored him, hut returned the
watch on the next day to his father. In
despondent moods Mr. Ernst had threat
ened that when he was stricken again
with paralysis he would put himself out
of the way, but his relatives tried to
laugh him out of the notion.
Spontaneous Combustion of Wasp's
Nests.
A correspondent to Nature from
Caracas, says: Some time ago the house
of General P. M. Arismendi fnow Con
sul of Venezuela in Port-of-Bpain, Trini
dad), in this city, had a rather narrow
escapo from being set on fire by the
spontaneous combustion of a large
wasp’s nest (a species of Palittie) in a
closet under the roof. The day was ex
ceedingly hot, but this circumstance, I
think, has a very slight connection (if
any at all) with the outbreak of smoke
from the uest. Roofs in this country
are constructed of tiles supported by a
thick layer of compact earth, which
rests on the usual lath-work of dry
canes (the stems of Oynerium taccha
roidee, or arborescent grass), both being
very bad conductors of heat. The
source of heat must, therefore, have been
in the nest itself. Iu beehives the tem
perature rises as high as thirty-eight
centigrade, about one hundred degrees
Fahrenheit (teste Newport as cited in
Girdwoyn, “Anat. et Physiol, de
l’Abeille,” p. 28.) We may he allowed
to suppose that something similar hap
pens occosianally in wasp’s nests. Such
a heat might he caused By an alteration
beginning in the wax, hydrocarbons be
ing formed, which, on being absorbed
by the paper-like, porous substance of
the cell-walls, must get still more
heated, so that a compartively small ac
cess of oxygen would be sufficient to set
the whole neat on tire.
I have been assured that the spoil- I
taneous combustion of wasp’s nests is a
well-known fact in the interior of
Venezuela, and, as I do not recollect
having found it mentioned in books, it
appeared to me worth while to inquire
whether something similar has been ob
served in other parts of the world, and
if so,’ whether my explanation will hold
good in all cases.
Brighton, England, has been startled
by the apparition of a man mounted on
a bicycle of colossal dimensions, who
glides along on a level with the tops of
the lamp posts, towering above the
height of ordinary carriages. The driv- '
ing wheel of this machine is nearly ;
eight feet in height, so that the rider’s
head is some twelve feet from the
ground. The courage required to mount j
on the top of a wheel of this height was
only outdone hv the dexterity with
which the machine was guided and the
velocity attained. A champion bicyclist
ventured to try a ride oil tbis monster,
and found it necessary to cling ignomin
iously to a lamp post in order to dis
mount. A man of ordinary size is ena
bled to ride this bicycle by" means of a
secondary treadle placed above the usual
crank, and connected by a rod. the ac
tion of stroke being what is termed reci
procatory. The wheel is two hundred
and sixty inches in circumference.
There is a sort of restful happ ness
about having a good, square, honest girl,
that you know will marry you whenever
you want her to do so, but when she
gets to kind of forcing the matter, and
coal keeps going up at the same time,
it robs the rainbow of the future of four
or five of its brightest prismntics.
Near Fort Osborne, is a
duelling house sheeted and roofed with
tin got from old oyster and fruit cans.
All the joints are perfect, and the houae
1* wt#rproof
Tfce Power of .Niagara.
Dr. Siemens, some months ago, in an
iddre*t which he then gave, referred to
tue immense quantity of power which
flowed ready-made over the Fall* of
Niagara. In his Glasgow address he
again referred to the subject, In order to
-how how this gigantic source of power
might be utilized to produce action at a
distance. When/' he says,* “little
m,, re than a twelvemonth ago I visited
the 1 alis erf Niagara, I was particularly
struck with the extraordinary amount
of force which is lost, as far as the use
ful purposes of man are concerned. One
hundred millions of tons of water fall
there every hour from a vertical height
of one hundred and fifty feet, which
represent an aggregate of 16,800,000
horse-power, producing as the effect
no other results than to raise the
temperature of the water at the foot of
the fall
150 1°
—=— Fahr.
• 772 5°
In order to reproduce the power of
16,800,000 horses, or, in other words,
to pump back the water from be
low to above the fall, would require
an annual expenditure of not less
than 266,000,000 tons of coal, cal
culated at an average consump
tion of four pound of coal per horse
power per hour, which amount is
equivalent to the total coal consumption
Of the world. In stating these facts in
my inaugural address on assuming the
| Presidency of fhe Iron and Hteel Insti
tute, I ventured to express the opinion
that in order td utilize natural forces of
this description at distant towns and
centers of industry, the electric con
ductor might be resorted to. This view
was at that time unsupported by experi
mental data such as I have been able
since then to collect.” . Dr. Siemens
then shows what had been done in con
veying the electric light to a distance;
and he states that “if mechanical force
is required to be distributed, the ar
rangements a*e in every respect similar
to those for the distribution of electric
light; and it has been proved experi
mentally-that the amount of power re
covered at the distant station is nearly
equal to half the power employed at the
central station.” Even as regards the
eon-umption of coal, were that
article used, Dr. Hiemans shows that the
magneto-electric machine is cheaper
than the gas or steam engine. But he
rightly says; “It would not be nec
essary to seek on the other side of the
Atlantic for an application of this mode
of transmitting the natural force of fall
ing water, as there is perhaps no country
where this force abounds to a greater
extent than on the west coast of Scot
land, with its elevated lands and heavy
rain-falls. You have already conducted
the water of one of your h : gh-levcled
lochs to Glasgow hy means of a gigantic
tube; and how much easier would it be
to pass the water, in its descent from
elevated lands through turbines, and to
transmit the vast amount of force that
might thus he collected, by means of
stout metallic conductors, to towns and
villages for the supply of light and
mechanical power.”
Don’t (juarrcl.
People talk of lovers’ quarrels as
rather pleasant episodes—because they
are not quarrels at all. It is half-play,
and they know it. Matrimonial quarrels
are another thing. We doubt seriously
if married people ever forgive each
other after the first falling out. They
gloss i| oVfer, they kiss aid make it up;
the wourre apparently heats, but only—
as those fcfirrible wounds given in battle
do—to break out again at some unex
pected moment.
The man who has sneered and said
cruel things to a lensitive woman never
has her whole heart again. The woman
who has uttered reproaches to a mail
can never, be taken to his bosom with
the same tenderness as before those
words were spoken. The two people
who must never quarrel are husband
and wife. One may fall out with kins.-
inen, and make up and be friends again;
but love, once banished, is a dead and
buried thing.
A fine illustration of the force and
beauty of the English language, as well
as the drift of youthful studies at the
present clay, may be obtained by re
marking in the presence of a seven-year
old schoolboy that liis teacher is a
“ brick.” Should this be unintelligible
to him, an additional remark to the
effect that he-is a “ tfump” will almost
certainly cause him to state that he is
likewise the “ best card out.”
Lizards are very useful for the de
struction of vermin in the tropics, and
when a house in Manila is hired, an
agreement is always made that the pro
prietor shall stock it with lizards, if not
already stocked. In some houses lizards
will remain, much to the annoyance of
tjio tenants.
Tliousti Shaking Like an Aaprn I.enf
With the chills and fever, the victim of
malaria may still recover by using the cele
brated specific, Hostetter’sStomach Bitters,
which not only breaks up the most aggra
vated attacks, but prevents their recurrence.
It is infinitely preferable to quinine, not
only because it does the business far more
thoroughly, but also on account of its per
fectwholesomeness and invigorating action
upon the entire system, Testimony is con
current, positive and ample showing the
decisive nature of its effects, and that it is
no .mere palliative. Physicians concede its
excellence,- feud there is a constant influx of
commuuicfcttons from persons in every class
of society avouching is merits, and bearing
witness tqjf**- superiority over other reme
dies for rawnTial disease. It is especially
popular throaghout the West, wherever fe
ver and ague prevails, as it does in many of
the fairest aud most fertile portions of that
vast region.
A Sadden l>*nth.
There is something terrible in the thought
of having onr friends stricken down at our
side, without a parting word of endearraent
or consolation —one moment at our side in
the Hush of vigorous life, cheering our
hearts with their loving sympathy; the next
at our feet, pale with death, deaf to our cries
and heedless ot our tears. Every excessively
Ist person is in instant danger of such a
death. Seven tenths of the victims of obesity
die of heart disease or apoplexy. Allan’s
Anti-Fat, the only remedy for obesity, res
duces the weight by regulating ihe digestion
sud assimilation of the food. It is perfectly
harmless, and its use will insure, in every
instance, a reduction of weight from two to
five pounds a week.
For upwards of thirty years Mrs. Win
slow’s Soothing Syrcp has been used
children with never-failing success. It cor
rects acidity of the stomach, relieves wind
colic, regulates the bowels, cures dysentery
and diarrhoea, whether arising from teething
or other causes. An old and well tsaad
remedy. 25 cents abe tie.
__ A corGH or cbld taken between now sou
Christmas frequently lasts all winter. This
is certainly tne case with people who have
weak lungs. The most convenient, reliable
and inexpensive remedy is Johipon’e
Anodyne "Liniment. It is to be be usad in
ternally andeztcrnally
Last winter we warned our readers
against buying (he larar packs of worthies*
bone and ckttie powders, aa-l w it
lim< to begin to use them, we again urge
them not to throw away their money.
ShenJan'j Pruden arc strictly par*, but w
know of no o'hars that art.
It in Astonishing with whit rapidity
ulcerous sore* tot trvptivc utaiid n trt
by Husky's Cauou< Salve, id ex
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THE GREAT REMEDY
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Refer by special permission to Rev. Dr. J. E. Rankin,
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