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THE
STORY 0F
6 romance AND
gower-nordica
ITS SAD END.
vordica Was a Maine Girt Known
Kme ; iiss Lilian Norton-Mr. Gower Was
“ from Maine—Sketch of His Career.
ninenal Success in Telephony.
His Fl> cn ° l
^f n Srof Campmeeting John
Pf S tom m Farmtagton,' Ms.
AB en i . w Edwin Norton, was a pros-
j.atllC , frtnm Rot.h hfvr
Ber fanner in that town. Both her
P er ,° US v .T 1 d mother’s families were ex-
father S t?1*
ceUent singers.
fcthe T risers.' Lilian attended the
ceUe ”L a torv' of Mnsic in Boston to re-
"f.'Seal eduction. The .exed-
* f her voice introduced her into
lence « . Qjimore, where she took
the concerts or ^ „ , TTQV TOQa
part. Thus a way was
pene! for her to visit Europe and a
a prominent
more complete musical Ration.
“Accompanied by her mother she went
0pb f!« of Europe. Having finished
wconrseof study and become notably
to Jer power of song, she received an
• Kkm with liberal salary to smg in
^ Royal opera at St. Petersburg. She
with her mother to Russia.
W The manager of the Grand opera of
p'“ was so pleased with her singing
,VT he gave her an invitation to become
£ pri^a donna of the highest seat of
and hy liberal pecuniary rewards
St to obtain her release from her
r Petersburg engagement, but the
Rnssir *- preferred her voice to the
money offered. After she had completed
to engagement in the north, she ac-
“ ted the overtures made her m Pans
and made an engagement to sing in the
Grand opera.
the makbiage.
During her residence in Italy her name
yas changed to Lilia Nordica to suit the
Italian style of pronounciation. It was
during her appearance as the great
American singer in the Grand opera
that she became acquainted with her
second cousin, Frederick Allen Gower,
grandnephew of Campmeeting John
AUen. He said: “It was not a case of
love at first sight, for it was full seven
minutes before 1 became enchanted with
' the lovely singer.”
The history of this young man is fully
as romantic as is the success of Mme.
Xordica. He was the son of the Rev.
E B. Gower, a Baptist clergyman, who
died in Farmington, Me., leaving a
widow and three sous, the eldest 10 and
the youngest 6 years old. As the fam
ily were left in destitute circumstances,
Frederick, the second son, was kindly
received and freely supported for a year
at the Abbott family school. He had
given proof of his activity as an infant
hy leaping from his nurse’s arms, before
he was a month old, through an open
window without breaking his neck.
As a scholar he was more noted for
vivacity than quiet study.
After a year’s sojourn at the family
school Frederick and his brothers, by
the energy and ability of their mother,
vrerg gathered, into a family h
Rmidence, B. I. Thi two elde
J ers were fitted by their "mother to enter
* - Brown university, and were supported
by her at college till they graduated.
George, the eldest brother, became a
lawyer, and has served by repeated elec
tions as clerk of the Rhode Island assem
bly,
Frederick entered upon the profession
of journalism, and became city editor of
Ike Providence Journal. He wrote to
Professor Bell, the inventor of the tele
phone, to deliver a lecture at Providence
on the new invention. By invitation
young Gower went to Boston to assist
fell in the preparation of his lecture.
MR. GOWER’S SUCCESS AND END.
His active and ingenious intellect be-
oame intensely interested in the new in
dention. He contrived to simplify the
machinery and to increase the intensity
of the magnetic power, using one instead
o two batteries, and introducing cir-
criar of horseshoe magnets, with
n ® devices now used in the Gower-
«11 telephone.
Haying obtained patents and estab-
n et ble Hell Telephone company,
wer went to France and formed a
KiephoM company there, of which he
Prudent,.with a salary of $25,000.
patents in Germany
- f n ” au , f ^ dn England a company
I aent wafu but tbe En S ksb govem-
I teW i' t le iPhone, as they had the
viw r*’' V 15 a l iar t °f their postoffice ser
in,, ^ rcksm 3 °t the company a mill-
Jdollars’ worth of telephones for their
blae { ‘Acquaintance these two
Barrio D ce l e hrities were united in
leased 3nd ^ me - Nordica was re-
SiaudonJ, 1 c? en o a S eme nt at the
bandtoAnie-'^ 10 Came ber ^ 1T1S ‘
■ tee, p InaiT * e d life was not a happy
sasd to fficient cause Mme. Nordica
I Sverfnr a ? epara t e maintenance, but
I hpro' Tf lv ° r< ; e - While the suit was
I. %re\ 6 eft su ddenly for Paris,
leg out =.:iiv„ be ! n deepl >’ engaged study-
isaiutto r-r. ; nt ' on to employ magnet-
“^dered ntT °l of baUoons. This he
age, to], e Sfratest invention of the
pnrpos es ' mi Itary and commercial
plansheVn’ ^® c iency 0 f some of his
Across the c|f rt0 ? k in a balloon, alone,
SSl Straits of Dover. Since his
^fatorswf fr ° m the view of the
^hasnerm. i° vn tnessed his ascension
er been seen. —Lewiston Jonr-
Tbo Only Case on Record.
A curious surgical case is that pre
sented byHenry Breen, of Fort Wayne.
±±e_ suffers from aneurism of the orbit
“f 18 tie only case of the kind re^
He ^ rece ived
many letters inviting him to appear be-
foremedical colleges, so they canexam-
nne and study aneurism of the orbit, but
as he fears that the blood vessel back of
the orbit may burst at any moment and
thus end his life he has preferred to re
main under the care of surgeons at home.
was a brakeman on the Wabash
railroad^ and while engaged in coupling
rars at Cecil O., he was caught.between
the steps of the caboose and the end of
saw log which extended over a flat car
and his skull was fractured. After alone
and painful illness he rallied sufficiently
to walk about, but it was found that
the cords of the left eye were paralyzed
and refused to perform their natural
functions. The affliction grew worse
and Mr. Breen went to Springfield, m?
where the Illinois surgeons were holding
their annual convention. He was ex
amined by 173 surgeons, who pronounced
his case “aneurism of the eye,” and the
only one on record.
He was put under the influence of
opiates and an iron collar was placed
about his neck, to which was attached
thumb screw which was pressed over
the orbit to stop the rush of blood. He
was thus kept for forty-eight hours, but
his case was pronounced incurable. He
is now at his home in Fort Wayne.
Breen is a man of strong muscular de
velopment, and would appear to have
more than the average man’s chances for
longevity. He is not disposed to be
melancholy over his condition, and says
that he may outlive the entire Spring-
field convention. At any rate, he has the
strange distinction of being the only man
alive who wears a collar made at a black
smith shop.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Boys Worry a Chestnut Vender.
The life of the chestnut and peanut
vender is a hard one, especially when
the street arabs of tough but tender
years hand together and swoop upon
him in serried array and compact sally.
A specimen of the “lately landed” order
stood before his caldron warming hi a
five digits and nursing the glowing
chestnut when a hand of young urchins
sallied by. One gave a quick kick at the
stand as they passed, which made it tot*
ter. The Italian in charge made an ef
fort to save it, but it went sprawling,
tossing out the luscious nuts upon the
street This was the grand strategic
effect sought for by the urchins, as it
put the’ vender in a hesitating position.
If he chased the boys he left the
stand, and if he went to the stand he
left the nuts. The vender hesitated
moment, and the little band of young
arabs waited to see what he would do,
prepared to scatter into complete indefi
niteness. ■ The vender chose to look
ta his stand, and hi a doing so was
a signal to the youngsters. Like crows
to the prey they swooped down upon the
nuts in triumph, and with howls and
hoots filled their pockets to the full, pay
ing little heed to the forceful ejacula
tions of the vender.—New York Times.
While extra train No. 671 was coming
east Sunday afternoon a few miles east
of Mass Hope, On the Delaware division,
Engineer Edward Taylor espied a large
deer descending the almost perpendicu
lar bluff on the north side of the track.
The deer reached the track a few yards
in advance of the engine, and those on
the engine expected to see it run down,
but instead it started down the track in
-advance of the train for a distance of a
quarter of’a mile, and then bounded
down the bank toward the river. The
men on the engine saw the deer until
the train went out of sight. It was a
buck with five prongs, and must have
weighed in the neighborhood of 500
pounds. It seemed to be greatly fa
tigued, and was probably started up by
a party of hunters in the heavy woods
back of Mast Hope. Taylor and his
fireman confidently expected to have a
saddle of venison for their Thanksgiving
dinner.—Port Jervis (N. Y.) Gazette.
The Farm Tools.
It would seem as if, after years of good
counsel on the subject, some farmers
would at least take the hint and look af
ter the farm tools—particularly after the
season’s work is done; but it will require
a good deal of preaching from the text
before “conversion” is accomplished. So
one would think who rides far in almost
any direction this time of^ the year.
Mowers and horse rakes still out in the
fields, plows astride a rail fence, barrows
leaning np against trees—these are some
of the not uncommon objects which one
may see on some farms. Get them in,
give a coat of paint where needed, and
save dollars.—Independent.
Wonders of the Deep.
Carl Boentjen, of Astoria, has on exhi
bition a marine curiosity. It consists of
an ordinary seaweed some 20 feet in
length, and at the lower end the cluster
of roots has a firm hold of an aggrega
tion of marine shells several pounds in
weight. These shells are occupied by a
curious inhabitant that has a beak that
resembles a cMcken’s, only it is divided
perpendicularly instead, of horizontally*
—San Francisco Call.
Better Than They Expected.
Some men who had lost an anchor
ppaT Linekin, in the town of Boothbay,
A Wonderful Piece of Mechanism That
Represents the Sufferings of Jesus.
J , acobs > a carpenter, of Bunz-
T 1 ’ PpsMa, has been credited with con
tracting a wonderful piece of mechan-
^ representing in several.successive
Jw® Passion of the Saviour. AH
the actors in the grand but beautiful
arama are carved from wood, and are
each about, six inches in height. The
machinery runs by clockwork, and enacts
toe various parts three times in each
winding. The panorama first unfolded
is a beautiful garden, with a figure of
“ Prajer under.one of
Too Good to Sell.
In his life of Horace Greeley, James
Parton tells* of an old newsdealer whj
could not be persuaded to sell "the last
copy of The Tribune remaining on his
stand until he hadtoad time to read it.
A similar meastutobf independence ap
pears to lie in the character of the Ital
ian who trundles his fruit truck to the
curb in front of The Sun building every
night. For a week or two he has been
selling the California imitation of Tokay
grapes, and his boxes are emptied very
soon after dark. The other evening
three customers stood at the curb wait
ing their turn. One asked for half a
the trees, figures of the three sleeDinn pound > and the Italian snipped a cluster
apostles being plainly discernible ™ two 80(1 placed] it in a brown paper
distance.
As the
in the
paper
deftly over bis
machinery warms np the
wheels and the figures move more rap
idly, quickly unfolding the last scenes in
toe earthly career of Jesus. The last
supper the betrayal, the remorseful
look which comes over the face of Judas
when he first realizes the extent of his
crime, toe examination of Jesus before
Caiaphas, the dialogue between Pilate
and the Jews—all flit before toe gaze in
a manner so astonishingly lifelike and
real as to make one almost believe him
self at Calvary. After the sentence has
been pronounced a figure of Jesus with
the cross appears.
The cross is mechanicaUy erected while
toe little figures busy themselves himlmg
the figure to he nailed upon it. Ladders
are run np to the arms of the cross, a
httle figure quietly slips over toe rungs,
then there is a sound of hammers as two
figures hold the one that is being nailed
to the cross by the figures on the ladders.
At last, when all is thought to be fin
ished, a figure on horseback slides across
the platform, draws his sword and
thrusts it into the side of toe figure on
the cross. The last scene shows Jesus
in the sepulcher, with angels guarding
the remains.
Mr. Adams in his “Letters on Silesia”
says: “It is toe most remarkable piece
of mechanism I have ever seen. The
traitor’s kiss, the’scourging, the nailing
to the cross, the sponge of vinegar and
every seeming pain inflicted occasion
feelings which cannot be felt at mere
description.”—St. Louis Republic.
horn which he rolled
hand.
The second customer also took a half
pound and got the second half of. the
eluster. That cleared the cart—save for
one luscious, heavy cluster lying against
the back rail. It was perfect in form,
richly ripe, and untouched by decay on
even a single grape. The third customer
reached over and picked it np. He was
about to say “How much?” when the
Italian angrily exclaimed:
“What are yon doing with that? Put
it down!”
As the customer was not speedy in
obeying the vender seized his arm and
took the cluster away, after w]jich he
laid it gently upon a piece of brown
paper.
“But I want to buy it,” protested toe
customer, feeling for his silver.
“Yon can’t do it,” said toe Italian
bluntly. “Think I no want any grapes?
That’s for me.” And he pushed his truck
away from the curb and started down
Park row toward Mulberry street.—New
York Sun.
How Frank Leslie Died.
Mr. Leslie was physically strong and
hearty to the very hour of his death, all
his life Ijeing singularly free from aches
or pains. His death was caused hy a
small tumor in the throat; being just
beneath the jugular vein, the tumor
could not be touched hy the lance The
day of his death Mr. Leslie took a long
walk, little thinking that in a few hours
he should be numbered with those who
have gone on ahead of ns to the un
known country. They sent for me in
the heart of the city. I hastened to his
bedside with all speed. When I arrived
he lay sleeping. I spoke to him. He
did not know me, or appear to take
much interest in my words. StiU, I felt
hopeful. I could no.t believe that he
must die. Those about the bed were
wiser.
One said to me: “Do not deceive
Queer Seed from a Crane’s Craw.
A truly wonderful plant is at the Alle
gheny conservatory. No one knows to
what class it belongs or anything about
it. It is the subject of much specula
tion among botanists, and they anxiously
await the development of a bnd that is
forming. Then, they say, they can
place toe plant. The botanists have a
suspicion that the plant is a tropical
one, and Superintendent Hamilton is
treating it on that supposition.
The history of toe plant so far as
known is a unique one. During the
summer one of a party of gunners
brought down a crane. It was a beauti
ful specimen, and the taxidermist of the
party set to work to mount it. In the
bird’s craw were found several seed.
With a view to learning if the seed was
kiUed by the bird eating it they were
placed in water. In a few days the
seeds sprouted. They were planted in
loam and kept in a warm room. Ed
ward Y. MeCandless took charge of it.
The plant was an object of interest to
Mr. MeCandless and his botanist friends,
andits development was closely watched.
Last week it was transferred to the con
servatory. The leaves are long and
broad-and heavy, not unlike a species of
palm.—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
Wonders Under a Marsh.
A remarkable* discovery was recently
made in the town of Oneonta, where a
company is engaged in digging phos
phates from toe depths of a swamp. In
one place the marsh is underlaid at toe
depth of twelve feet hy an impervious
stratum of blue clay, above which are
found three successive and distinct eras
of forest growths. The bottom layer is
of deciduous trees that grow only on up
lands, such as beech, oak and maple.
The second layer is of soft swamp woods,
such as elder, basswood and dogwood.
The upper layer is of coniferous trees,
such as pine, hemlock and spruce. The
puzzle to the naturalist is the finding of
upland trees at the bottom of the marsh,
with the trunks and larger limbs and
abundant specimens of leaves and beech
nuts in a good state of preservation. An
other wonder unearthed by the excava
tions is the finding, at a point five feet
below the surface and among the trunks
of the coniferous trees, of a flat stone
about five feet square which had been
utilized as a fireplace.
The blackened stone, the large coUec-
tion of ashes and cinders, and the bits of
crumbling bones of animals indicate
that long ages ago somebody cooked food
there. That somebody must have been
man in the strictly primitive and savage
state, for no trace of any utensil or tool,
not even a sharpened flint, has been
found among the debris of toe fire.—Al
bany Journal.
yourself;, this means death.” I pn
eer on the’Track.'*-'"' ’ ^aarms^ver the dying man’s :
ders and looking into his face asked mm
to speak to me. He opened his eyes,
smiled faintly, then said to me these
words: “Yon are beautiful and I love
yon!” He had thrown all his life into
his voice. Ills head dropped back—he
was dead. Yet even in the face of death
this man had time to turn aside from
the deep Plutonian shadows of eternity
and consecrate his expiring breath to
the love and tenderness of wife and
home. Ah, sir, such a life as this could
not have been entirely jn vain.—Inter
view with Mrs. Leslie in Detroit Free
Press.
Charitable.
A gentleman has been complaining to
the papers that he has dropped a florin
by mistake for a penny into the slot of
an automatic machine and cannot get it
back; no, nor even the piece of chocolate
bargained for. “Boo, hoo, hoo!”
Why, that’s nothing to what happened
to me when I was a much smaller boy,
and yet I did not cry about it. I was
taken to “call” upon a most exceHent
clergyman who had a missionary box
upon his drawing room table. The po
lite function hung rather heavy on my
hands, and I was amusing myself with
trying whether a five shilling piece—all
the money I had in toe world, invested
in that gigantic coin for safety—would
go into the slit in the box. It was a
close fit, but unfortunately it did go and
slipped out of my fingers. There was a
terrible metallic splash—a rock of silver
falling into a sea of coppers—and then
knew no more.” When I came to
myself I found my family and the cler
gyman in raptures over my charitable
act.—James Payn.
Dangerous Bags.
I have noticed with some surprise the
of people who have been bitten
riders, and 1 the case of the
Leath of a girl in Jersey City from 'this
cause is fresh in mind. Within a week
I have met three acquaintances suffer
ing, as they told me, from spider bites,
and one of them had a hand so badly in
flamed that he was afterward obliged to
have it lanced. In this connection
housekeeper has shown me two speci
mens of “thousand legged” bugs that
were found in his house.
They were each over an inch in length
and had twelve legs on a side and two
long feelers. The body and feelers were
striped, zebra like, in black and white.
I suppose they wiH he given to some en
tomologist for examination, and while
these particular varieties may not be
closely enough related to centipedes to
be poisonous they are at least unpleasant
companions for a lady to find running
about the house, and make her think she
has seen a centipede or tarantula.—New
York Star.
The Ballot Law Helps tbe Printer.
One of the most appreciable effects of
the new Australian election law is the re
markable boom it has given the job print
ing business. Never before in toe history
of elections have the printers been called
upon for such vast quantities and vari
eties of campaign cards and campaign
literature generally. Under the new
system the personal canvass is the most
likely to teU, and hence the use for cards
of all dimensions. The confusion exist
ing as to boundary lines of wards and
districts has been of benefit to the
printer in supplying cards with maps on
toe back, and best of aH is the rage
among the candidates to have their
portraits printed on their cords.—St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
Spectacle Cure for Headaches.
A New York physician who has for
several years been studying the relation
of the eye strain to headaches, etc., in
children has published the result of his
labors. He finds that cases of short
tight, far sight and irregular sight often
go unrecognized until the continued eye
strain results in a chronic headache and ,
lassitude, or even more serions nervous
disorders. The most approved modem
treatment in certain cases of headache
to order toe use of spectacles.—New
York Journal.
Full o f Enterprise.
A hoy with a mowing machine called
at a house on Second avenue toe other
day, and asked the woman if she wanted
toe grass cat.
“Mercy, no!” she replied. “Noonecuts
grass at this season.”
“Til contract for next spring,” contin
ued the boy.
“But—I may be dead by that time.”
“ThenTU contract to see that your
grave is kept green!”—Detroit Free
Moslems Alilior Bolls.
The abhor bells, which they
A search for toe oldest clergyman in
England shows that the Rev. John Elli
ott, vicar of Randwick, will be 100 in
three months. He preached np to toe
age of 95 regularly, and occasionaUy last
ft IS a „ r , f r f " V< ' S,,s l>i«ion.
l hat tteir 0 lTvl yiusfee,in :
Vmauv lv „ esai ' ( -’ a lW
fi rcD ®stanti9?° d peo Ple
*>o f unjust Ulr ° Unf,i '
among many
move suspicion. Yet
on account of
fundings have had the
jj?®; Carbnn!!^ 1)icion directed toward
"'‘.yielding sores,
er "ptive anJ LC ’ rou gh skin having
etc -> are in toe
Me., grappled for it the other day and "^. aw ' evil gpnits together. In place o __...
thought they had it. Twenty me a |y,Am they have men called Muezzins year. He goes to church now regularly
ged it ashore and upon _ the _ ® r 5ta tioned in their minarets who caR out | every Sunday, and occasionally visits
’ — - - i- parishioners,
come to prayer. Their cay is, “'IMere is
no God but God, and Mohammed is his
prophet.”—St. Louis Republic.
at iflR the'* suspiciously as
-° Us Mg-.of" some'“conta-
tov.i ^ed that, au , d Ppmted ques-
aw 6 ann °yauce *'i ) , l ' oducti . ve of consid-
td^Kive t ', IHese skin blemishes
ffitoBin lw°,T ea course find
tefrk result nf ’ but not neces-
become C® 100 * Thebk >°d
exposing 1 ? 1 ^ ure on »accounfc of
evi •‘°. a , uiinai y di™ P j° per food > weak
tOMm ls Well to dlsor ders, etc. How-
°f the hi em . ove toe unnatural
«ll a apt T u se of ]> °? d and the flesh by a
^“lull’s Sarsapa-
Ss'
"y,'beauHfi affa ll s eternally and
."upaired or b a CS - t l le skin and re-
Stre "gth aud activity. i0nS t0 th6ir
pun y little
be en restored to robust
them by kind and
tents.
but the upper jaw of a whale. Ht was
13 feet long from the bow in from to
either end joint, and 7} feet across from
end to end.—Philadelphia Ledger.
One of Jaekson’s Servants.
Ann Grimble, colored, died in New
Orleans list week at the reputed age of
102 years. She was at one time a servant
in the employ of Gen. Andrew Jackson.
The Washington body guard are rap^Ey
giving way to the army of servants em-
’ by distinguished statesmen of
date.—Philadelphia Ledger.
Lots of Old Folks at Home.
There are now living in one Louse jnst
outride the village of Sfc ^
ily of four persons whosec^bmed fges
ceHent health.—Kennebec Journal.
Tiny little, sugar-coated granules are
what Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are.
The best Liver Pills ever invented; active,
yet mild in opeaation; curqsick and bil
ious headaches.
Guided ArigUt.
Father—I am very much afraid our
daughter will elope with that young
'^Mother—No danger. I reminded her
last evening that girls who doped got
no wedding presents, 1
that my words sunk deep into her heart.
-New York Weekly.
The 5th of November, which, even in
the memory of those who do not con-
rider themselves old, was generally ob
served in England as “Gunpowder Day,”
is said to be now almost ignored, even in
London.
After exhaustive experiments toe
French postoffice has decided to substi
tute a copper coated steel wire in place
of the ordinary iron wire for telegraphic
and telephonic service.
The epoch of bigness has i
Three little boxes of Ceylon tea, each eVQry phase of neckwear. Some of the
•anriehintr five pounds, were sold by ano- (jj-ess bows even are of unusual size,
tionin London recently at the^xtraordi- | w hile the big ascot butterflies simply
break the record.
6ma ll,bnt literaUy
tipping.
“When
and goes out in the snow
Perique tobacco, which, it is said,
grows to perfection only in St. James’
parish, La., will he hut a scant crop this
year, owing to toe late floods.
Ahoy of 17 and a girl of 13 were mar-
One a dose.
3es uuu - Tiflr vuy ui x# ouu a gui uj. j-w
India rubbers, the only art t0 cp | ried toe other day at Columbia, Mo.
to buv one bottle of Dr. isuu s ^ mon g the wedding gifts were a doH
Coih Spapat25oents OT dtakei.. ' and a faotart lifle. .
America the Bourne of the Emigrant.
The degree to which America offers
prominent advantages to the emigrant
is just now shown strikingly by the ex
isting conditions in Iceland. It is said
that that country is gradually becoming
depopulated owing to the constant emi
gration of its. people to the shores of
Canada,and toe United States. These
emigrants send hack sucU favorable ac
counts of their new home that others
quickly follow. It is estimated that 20,-
000 natives, nearly one-quarter of the
whole population, have left the country
in toe last year.. The emigrants are said
to be chiefly from toe northern and east
ern districts, where labor is carried on
only under great difficulties, besides
which recent harvests have been very
bad and have entailed much suffering.—
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Climate and Health.
The importance of climatology is grad
ually becoming recognized. No one can
doubt that of the many factors which
contribute to help or hinder physical well
being, a very large share must be at
tributed to climate, understood in its
widest sense—i. e., to those conditions
of atmosphere and soil which are con
stantly operating upon ns by day and by
night. The air we breathe, its temper
ature, humidity, pressure and purity,
the amount of sunshine we receive, the
character of the winds to which we are
exposed, the na&re of the soil on which
we reside, aH these factors have a po
tent influence upon the organism in
health, and still more potent influence
upon it in its more unstable and sensi
tive condition when the subject of dis
ease.
While few wiH care to question such
obvious considerations, climatology is
stiH comparatively neglected, and does
not yet rank where it wiH probably
some day stand—viz., alongside hygiene
and dietetics. The reason for this com
parative neglect is probably the vague
ness which has hitherto for the most part
surrounded this subject, and the paucity
of accurate-and definite data relating to
it. It is also unfortunate that the avail
able information is so often obtainable
only from interested persons, whose
natural bias in favor of certain localities
wiH often, in spite of the most upright
[.intentions, lend a more or less unreal
coloring to their statements.—New York
Ledger.
A Frog Child. ^
A child was bora in Birmingham,
England, on Sept. 20, which bears
strong resemblance to a frog. Its
is warty and cold and clammy to the
touch; when it cries it makes an un
earthly croaking noise. There are three
fingers on each hand and four toes on
each foot. Besides the points enumer
ated it has many other characteristics of
a frog, even to huge, knotty looking, Hd-
less eyes. The parents are almost dis
tracted over the occurrence and hourly
pray for it to die. ,
There are two other “frog child” cases
on record, one the offspring of a Piute
squaw in Nevada, which was bom about
ten years since, the other a monstrosity
which first saw the Hght of day at
Goshen, Ind., in January, 1889.—St,
Louis Republic.
Curious People.
It doesn’t take much to attract a crowd
in New York. Let two gamins start
across Fourteenth street on a run any
afternoon, and before they have gone a
block there wiH be a hundred people at
their heels, aH running. No one but the
boys know what’s up, but the crowd
rashes thither without any inqniring.
Let a man stop on a comer in plain view
and gaze intently at the sky. and in ten
minutes fifty or more people wiH have
gathered about him and directed their
gaze heavenward. Only New Yorkers
would do this. Curiosity is the common
failing. I witnessed a noteworthy inci
dent of this character the other evening.
It was at the comer of Sixth avenue and
Fourteenth street.
A man halted at the foot of the ele
vated station and pointed bin umbrella
toward the rear of the corner house.
He did it to demonstrate the extent of
New Yorkers’ curiosity. He stood there
half a minute, when a second man halt
ed. Then a third stopped, and within
five minutes the street was blocked and
the street cars couldn’t move. Several
policemen were there, too, and aH gaz
ing at the. rear wall Some one said
thieves were climbing over the roofs,
and other stories equaHy ridiculous were
bruited about. FnUy 600 people stood
there, not knowing why they did so. It
was half an hour before the streets were
cleared.—New York Star.
Fields of Peat That Are on Fire.
“Hunters who go to the middle divi
sion of Roberts Island ought to be
warned to be careful of their horses,”
said Mr. Ditz.
“What danger are their horses in?” in
quired a newspaper man.
“They are liable to be burned so badly
they will have to be shot,” said Mr. Ditz.
“Already this season two hunters have
lost their horses in that way.”
“How did that occur?” was asked.
“It was due to the burning peat.” Mr.
Ditz said. “You see, the land over there
is made ground and the peat is easily
ignited. What makes this fire danger
ous is that it gives off no smoke, and
hunters may ride through the peat with
out being aware that it is scorching the
legs of their horses. When they turn
off from the road they go through a long
stretch of this peat to reach the water’s
edge. The horse’s legs sink down in
this soft ground and he suffers as much
as if he were walking through a'furnace.
The peat may be burning where the
hunter ties his animal, and there the
horse’s leg3 wiH continue to be roasted
until his owner returns and sees the
agony he is in.”
Mr. Ditz went on to say that it has
net yet been found out how the peat was
ignited.
‘It may be dne to spontaneqps com
bustion,” he said. “The. heat of the sun
beating down on such dry and inflam
mable stuff is liable to set it on fire.
Some people say that the hunters have
caused the fire, and others that it has
been caused hy burning up the stubble.
No matter how it was caused, though,
horses have been killed by it. They
have not been roasted to death, but have
been so badly injured that they have had
to he killed, and hunters ought to be in
formed of the danger.”—Stockton Re
publican.
The Age of Indian Outbreaks Is Fast.
There is not the smaHest danger of a
serious Indian outbreak in the north
west. The conditions existing in this
region have been entirely changed by
the building of railroads and the estab
lishment of means pf rapid communica
tion among posts. It is quite impossible
to organize an Indian outbreak under
the eye of the agent on reservations
without the conspiracy becoming known.
With existing means of communication
and transit an outbreak could be crashed
in its incipiency hy a rapid concentra
tion of troops'. There are elements which
might once have' been dangerous in the
situation at Standing Rock—a heaven
sent prophet and a meddling woman—
but the age of Indian outbreaks is past.
Portland Oregonian.
Dead in the Saddle.
A special from Payson, U. T., says
John Bolton accidentaUy MHed himself
while going horseback from Payson to
Salem. In the middle of the forenoon
he left town to visit his sister in Salem,
taking with him a double barreled shot-
gnu, with which he shot himself. He
was found on horseback with half the
right side of his head blown off. He
was sitting in the saddle leaning his
head over the horse’s neck. Apparently
the horse had not moved since the gun
exploded. It is beHeved that he had
been dead in the saddle two hours.—Cor.
San Francisco Chronicle.
Cigarette Smoking Increasing*
“The laws against cigarette smoking,'
said a member of one of the largest fimin
that manufacture that. article, “which
forbid their sale to minors and caH, in
New York at least, for the immediate
arrest of every youth under sixteen who
is caught smoking them in pubHc places,
have not had the slightest effect on the
cigarette market. Despite these laws
and the thnnderings of the medical press
the cigarette business has grown steadily,
and the entire output of the factories to
day is fully one-third greater than that
of two years ago. Even if the laws
against the cigarette smoking minor
were strictly enforced, which they are
not, it would not at aH influence the
trade.
“The reason is found in the fact that
the average little boy who affects the
paper wrapped weed has only a very lim
ited capital at his command. As he bays
only the cheapest brands the big dealers
wont waste time in selling to him. He
rarely invests in a whole package, and
deals almost entirely with those queer
little shops in side streets where cigar
ettes are sold in broken lots at the rate
of two for a penny. As yon can easily
see, the entire suppression of this branch
of the business is not liable to exercise
much influence upon the trade at large.”
-New York Tribune.
This Convict Was Homesick.
A negro escaped from the convict camp
in Montgomery county, Ga., recently.
He had served one year of a term of fif
teen. His escape was discovered almost
immediately after he left the camp, and
every effort was used to catch him, but
without success. The rale in such cases
is that if the escaped is not captured
within twenty-four or thirty-six hours
his arrest after that time is a mere acci
dent. Everything that could be done to
find the negro was done in this instance,
but at last hope of ever catching him
was given np, and the hunt was aban
doned. A few days ago the negro walked
into camp dusty and travel worn.
The act was entirely voluntary. “I
jes got homesick,” was his explanation,
‘and I wanted to see the folks.” “Did
yon remember that yon stiH had nearly
fourteen years to serve?” he was asked.
‘Oh, yes; but I didn’t mean to leave for
good. A111 wanted was to see the folks
once more.” He seemed, in fact, whoHy
unconcerned about the future, and now
that he “had seen the folks once more”
was entirely satisfied with his lot. The
negro Hved in Washington comity. He
had walked nearly the entire distance
there and back. He is working today,
in stripes and shackles, with nearly four
teen years ahead of him yet.—Atlanta
Constitution.
A Nct* Craze.
While strolling through St. Paul’s
churchyard a few days ago I noticed
that the edges of nfttny of the crnmbHng
old tombstones had been cHpped as if
with an ax, and on inquiry I found
that the clipping was evidence of a new
craze that has broken out among curi
osity seekers. Only the very oldest tomb
stones are selected by the curio seekers.
The craze in its latest form broke
out during the summer, and in spite of
the close watch kept few have been
caught in the act of defacing the stones.
Nearly aH the old tombstones in the
yard are brown stone, and many have
been split and seamed by the storms of
a century or more. With these the work
of getting a piece of the stone is easy, as
a knife blade inserted in any of the
seams wiH dislodge a piece of the stone.
Close watch is being kept to prevent the
spread. of the craze.—New York Tele
gram.
Pronounced Hopeless, let Saved.
From a letter written by Mrs. Ada E.
Hurd of Groton, S. D., we quote: “Was
taken with a bad cold, which settled on
my lungs, cough set in and finally termi
nated in consumption. Four doctors
gave me up saying I could live but a
short time. I gave myself up to my
Saviour, determined if I could not stay
with my friends on earth I would meet
my absent ones .above. My husband was
advised to get Dr. King’s New Discovery
for Consumption, Coughs and Colds. I
gave it a trial, took in all eight bottles;
it has cured me and thank God I am now
a well and hearty woman.” Trial bottles
free at S. J. McKnight’s Drug Store, reg
ular size, 50c. and $1.00.
Palled n Tooth for a Princess.
Dr. William. C. Boswell, a young and
skillful dentist, who, coming from Balti
more, located in London last spring, had
the honor of pulling a tooth from the
royal mouth of the fair Princess Maud
of Wales last week. It was a wisdom
tooth and it hated to let go. The prin
cess screamed like a locomotive. Dr.
BosweU got £10 ($50) for the job, and of
course the advertisement is a priceless
one. As for the royal tooth, the doctor
has mounted it and enshrined it in a vel
vet case.—Eugene Field in Chicago News.
An Odd Occupation.
There is a little gnHd of men face
tiously caUed “The Early Birds.” They
rise in the summer before the sparrows,
and though they do not go to work
themselves it is their vocation to caH
other people to work. On dark winter
mornings they are out before the snow
birds are awake. They have regular
routes, and every morning between 4
and 6 o’clock they stop at houses, ring
door bells and teU people it’s time to get
up. Their clients, are butchers, barten
ders, car drivers, restaurant keepers and
car conductors, men who have to go to
work very early in the morning, and to
whom it is a serions matter to be fifteen
minutes or half an hour late.
Some of these early birds have from
fifteen to twenty customers. They get
from twenty-five to fifty cents a week
from each. The bartenders usnaHy pay
half a dollar a week for being called.
The fact that their business is a success
ful one shows that they are more relia
ble and effective than an alarm clock.
Their day’s work is finished in two
hours.—New York Journal.
Underground Treasure in Indian Territory.
Rich veins of gold, silver and copper
are said to have been known to the In
dians of Indian territory for many gen
erations, but to reveal the secret of these
to the white man was made a capital
crime by the tribal law. Two experi
enced miners who had heard rumors of
this wealth lately set out to investigate
for themselves, and succeeded beyond
their wildest expectations. A company
of nine white capitalists and thirteen
Indians has been formed, and the devel
opment of the new El Dorado wiH begin
at once.—Kate Field’s Washington.
Marshal McMahon’s Memoirs.
Marshal McMahon is stiH on his estate,
La Forest, completing his much dismissed
memoirs. He wiH not return to Paris
tiH the work is done from title to finia.
A few of Marshal McMahon’s most inti
mate friends have enjoyed the privilege
of listening to his reading of many of
the latest pages of his hook. For the
rest of tho curious world the marshal
has made no provision. Only six copies
of the memoirs wHl be printed—one for
each of his four children, one for himsnlf
and one for Ms wife.—Paris Letter.
A Joke 'Saves a Life.
George Busch, of Newark, N. J., was
overcome by coal gas a few nights ago
while in the cellar attending to a fur
nace. Two friends who called at the
house for Mm the next morning could
not gain admittance. Thinking that he
had overslept himself they concluded to
get in the hack way and play a joke
upon him. They opened a cellar win
dow and discovered Busch lying in his
night clothes on the floor. He was re
suscitated with difficulty.—Philadelphia
Ledger.
Enpepsy.
This is what you ought to have,
fact, you must have it to fully enjoy life.
Thousands are searching for it daily, and
mourning because they find it not.
Thousands upon thousands of dollars are
spent annually by our people in the hope
that they may attain this boon. And yet
it may be had by all. We guarantee that
Electric Bitters, if used according to
directions and the use persisted in, will
bring yon good digestion and oust the
demon dyspepsia and install insead eu-
pepsy. We recommend Electric Bitters
for dyspepsia and all diseases of liver,
stomach and kidneys. Sold at 50c. and
$1.00 per bottle by S. J. McKnight, Drag
gist.
The Craze for Tapestries.
There is a present craze among coHect-
ors for old tapestries. Six tapestries
wMch were sold some fifteen years ago
from the old Livingston manor house for
$100 have just been resold for $20,000;
and five large old Flemish specimens,
which Mr. William C. Prime, the weH
known archaeologist, paid $600 for in
1872, are now valued at $5,000 apiece.—
Harper’s Bazar.
Keep the back, especiaUy between the
shoulder blades, weH covered; also the
chest weH protected. In deeping in a
cold room establish the habit of breath
ing the nose, and never with the month
open.
A Maine Man's Unique Fence.
A man at Small Paint is to have a
fence next summer that would please
Rider Haggard. It wiH not be made of
elephants’ tusks, but of the swords of
swordfish. The man, Mr. Sylvanus Wal
lace, of the life saving station, has
enough of these swords, gathered fish
ing, to build a picket fence forty feet in
length.—Bath Times.
At the age of thirteen my son became
affected with chronic diarrhea, caused by
scrofula. I gave him Bull’s Sarsaparilla
and it cured Mm. I recommend it es
pecially for scrofula, fever, sores and
general debUity. The cures I have
Bonis Fagan, master of prints in the
British museum, is on his way to this
country on a tour of the world. He wiH
lecture on the treasures of the British
museums while on Ms travels.
The Handy Man.
Wife—That pane of glass has been out
aH summer, and now a freezing cold day
has come and we need it in. I’ve told
you forty times to send a man here to
fix it. Why in the world haven’t yon
done it?
Husband—Because I can fix it myself.
—Good News.
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Benton Barracks, Mo,
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Mfem
A tunnel to Prince Edward island
n _ across Northumberland straits, a dis-
known it to make in some case seemed tance of six and a half miles, is the next
miraculous.—Jennie Johnson, | great engineering feat talked “ 111
