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THE MONROE
VOL XXXIX.
SOMEW* ,{AT STRANGE.
ACCI DEN* rs AND INCIDENTS OF
r VERYDAY LIFE.
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Queer F " el 4 * • ntl . Tu ThriHlnq .... Adventures n
WhG Jh Show that Truth is Stranger
1 n Fiction.
lv Oni. of the best pieces of" detect
work I ever saw,” said James (*.
tulter, of San Francisco, “ was dr >nc
In a private detective of little t r n0
:r< pufaiion a( (lie time in ouv city.
A sw<*)! restaurant was °°F,ipietely
(le/r »ra ized by a series of petty
th . Its plated warn, which had
j a high quality was i,.,,* ° *'!
fre-e'y, 'tin “ it freouer nJ.r- iii- 1 ,pp< a< (
Unit 3 »ck<ts of H °, n 10
rucks were pilfered, ti uir^ 1 ° r
recognizing Unit to Vu V »
stake, offered XC( rt f‘
ward for th .) f.* r t T
and tho ‘IcteH I ’
ive r. r ’n »"ri'es
look f lie J..h, II,. plnmmlout
of niirr, >n reversing -II,., do,!™ of
t he ( mi- mu-K*um man who makes
a portion of a figure invisible and so
•planning th.- ffi :i .,scs dial ho could
oVerbs t ],(. < mirr room while seated
U f little f Ji) > 1 in Hie far corner
f!i!ii planning involved some little cxl
pen a and -i mied ho far-fetched that
be had some difficult v in persuadin ,
the proprietor to adopt the idea. ip.
lmd lien his everything own way at last, and* tlien° ’
v. ranged have was ready h „
to a little mr ri , silver
ware than usual scattered around and
made his observations, Ho caught
t liree men on t he first lay, but right
ly supposing the v ork was being
done by u gang, wJ to were doubtless
operating oiher }• .ouses, . ho had the
1 hree shadow cd and continued his
obs< rvations i> 1( , following day. Ho
finally ea|>»,r, r( , fl gcv „ n uml irncod
their opo*;V ions fn nearly every hotel
and rest ii run I in the city, lie has
novo: 1 mndc public the exact secret
of hi 4 angles in t lie looking-glasses,
hot fins populnrized himself so much
ni’jong the hotel fraternity that ho
1 ms im> or lucked for work, and has
got i.? i be way of refusing jobs in
Of ho r line
A in;rii'K from Marseilles, Franco,
relates the dramatic suicide of M.
Htvimimu, a rich foreigner who settled
iu that town many yearn ago. He
ttas an extremely eccentric go ntl
man, w i hud converted the villa he
fowned i Ibu Prado Into a paradise,
’ where, in immense conservatories,
ho cultivated fruits and flowers in all
seasons of the year. Ho would have
:ilI the fruits on tho trees within
lviioli of his hand, and every branch
which grow too high was cut off.
Alreui two VI urs ago ho (leeldod upon
the manner f bis death, and by his
ciders an I under his superintendence
a lofty and spacious vault was con*
siructcd in ll\o corner of his garden.
Ibis vault, which could be hermeti¬
cally sealed was furnished with a
rei.'lining chair, two largo candelabra
find two inuneusc pans, which were
kept constantly filled with charcoal
ready for lighting. On several oeoa
• sions M. Seniaina entered the vault
after having had the candelabra
lighted bv his servants; but until
yesterday lie had done nothing but
meditate there. Yesterday, how
evoi*, ho waited until his servant had
withdrawn and then set lire to tho
<’h«r<*0(ii. He stretched himself on
the roelining chair, iu which position
he Was found dead soon afterward.
In Franco there exists an order
Df merit founded by the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
o f which the members nre dogs who
have distinguished themselves by
'deeds of bravery, A tastefully de
signed “collar of honor” is awarded
to the nominees of the order. Among
the animals already' decorated in this
way one of tho most decorated is
Bacchus, a large bulldog, whose
spocialty it is to stop runaway horses
Uy jumping up and seizing them by
< he hrid In. Bacchus's master resides
in the Rue Biscornot. It is ealeu
fitted that the intelligent boast has
already it not saved the lives in this of eight per
sons, more, way.
tand. another bulldog, received a
lar in lsSi for saving his mistress
fiv.n the attack of a footpad; and
lurk, a splendid Newfoundland has
had a similar honor for saving three
> oung children from drowning on
UUJOrent OOCliSlOllS.
One of the Princes of Baden bad a
curious experience in Rome a few
weeks ago. Ho was invited to a gar
den partv bv King Humbert, and
thinking to ht get to the palace sooner’
the tht T-i palac. door.
p.iiiUo did not know him, how
ever, and declined to admit him when
he imosted upon the right to pass by
her. fo make matters worse, he did
not speak Italian, and the convierge
ImallycnlK'il Iwo-uanlstoarrost him.
As they were in the act of conducting
the Prince to the miardhou^e King
Dumb,,-, happened to see
on "of h »io" J“ m“ S':
Of eout.i ubjeet apologies were
but the l’rince enjoyed the adventure
and laughed heartily in recounting
it to his friends that afternoon.
concierge and the two guards he
dined io allow to be punished, as the
Kim* had proposed
\ regent issue of the Medical Bui
let in printed the following
aide offer. ’Physicians desiring to
obtain a subject on which to observe
the process of digestion or other
workings of the vital organs, or on
whom to try the effects of poisons
and their antidotes, may probably do
SO by communicating with the editor
of the Bulletin. Subject is unmar
ried and not prevented by any ties
or responsibility lie s from acting in this
matter as ch, ooses, and does not
object to a probable fatal termina
Don of th. affair,”
FORSYTH. MONROE COUNTY, GA, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 10, 1891.
Nearly every month ir, the year In
represented among the surnames of
In several ^ S ar lrepresented T *’° V*™
of O ' ° r
‘ Aha whose names
suggest . hnose
largely of human beings arc
Novembers, represented. There arc many
three or four Julys, an
April in English and one in French,
plenty of Junes, and a name that
would be the French for February
hut for the substitution of “ b” f or
“v." September, October and Do
c °mbcr are unrepresented.
X. F. Hill, of Bark City, Ky., is
bragging of a novel feat in chicken
raising. He got some eggs of blooded
s rom Massachusetts and one of
uni was broken. He pasted a bit
° pftper over the cracked shell and
*\ A U f ‘ iV’T h ck r n ram<! un ^ cr 5n f]uo setting tiln0 hen. He
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says he lias saved the shell with the
P a i H ‘ r patch intact to prove the state
lTnot oiila'lned ®°‘ ChiCkC " ° Ut
L|,I)IE Harmeb, afreJ six years, is
, Prodigy of the
s , op °* Vl livos in Oakland, Cal.
°
H ‘‘ cai> ro P eat the preamble and Con
H,it ut ’ ion °f the United States to the
fif, , ’ section, has read all of Shelley’s
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v,orkH and is now engaged in study
in « ° 8sian - The child has an abnor
nm ^y large head, but his body is well
nouriBhod and his extraordinary pre
cocity does not appear to have af
tectod health,
A Frekch engineer, named Lerozal,
has recently discovered in the district
of Gurrero. State of the same name,
an immense cave, which, with four
Indian companions, ho explored for
a distance estimated at fifteen miles.
He claims to have found in one cham¬
ber the bodies of over eight hundred
petrified Indians with many articles
of pottery in a good state of preser¬
vation, and a number of images, sup¬
posed to be idols.
A hoy of fourteen committed sui¬
cide at Alfortville, near Paris, under
extraordinary circumstances. A de¬
cree of divorce which had just been
pronounced between his father and
mother gave the latter the custody
of tho boy, who had for some reason
conceived a violent dislike to her.
On hearing of the decree he first of
all made himself intoxicated with
wine, and then blew out his brains
with a revolver.
The Shah of Persia is superstiti
ous. He always carries with him
when lie travels a circle of amber,
which is said to have fallen from
heaven in Mohammed’s time, and
which renders the wearer invulner¬
able ; a casket of gold, which makes
hinf invisible at will, and a star
which is potent io mal e conspira¬
tors instantly confess their crime.
What is said to be tho largest shad
ever caught in the Delaware was re¬
cently brought in at Salem, N. J.,
near the head of the bay. It weighed
eleven pounds, was twenty-seven
inches long, eight inches wide and
eighteen inches in girth. Another
shad weighing nine pounds two ounces
was fisherman brought in a few days before by
a from Salem.
Thhre are many “show” houses in
New York, being tho homes of the
rich, where casual strangers call to
see tho furniture and decoration.
The servant that answers the bell ac¬
cepts a tip, and for such considera¬
tion shows the house to the caller.
The tips of the curious are a source
of considerable revenue to the ser¬
vants of the rich.
A strange and fatal disease has
Lawrenceville, for a year raged in the vicinity of
Ind. It does not ap¬
pear elsewhere, and is known to the
doctors only as the “black tongue.”
The patient suffers terribly. The
body becomes spotted, and the ton
gue, becoming black, swells to an
enormous size, producing suffoca
tion.
A prisoner in the Manchester jail
amused himself by writing verses in
microscopic characters on small
pieces of paper, which he pasted on
the backs of the roaches that infested
his cell. The poetry eventually
killed all the insects that carried it,
not because it was bad, but because
the paste fermented.
j OHV ihcLix’s wife attempted to
keep hhn at } lorae< near Indianapolis,
by hiding his clothes and shoes. He
wrapped I I himself • in a red blanket,
put on rubbers and inarched forth
only to be gored by a vicious bull,
Biglin has brought suit for damages.
The defense alleges contributory
negligence.
3SSE.?art2A JESS
of February last Madam Buenviaje
Carillo, wife of District Attorney Don
Luciano Jimenez, of Remedios, gave
birth to four robust children.
doing well at last accounts; the little
omvs soon to be b»pUzed.
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JiTt'" ‘XhfcUkrt t’"7 TT ,T WinS *’*“ *' ”" “ d T ,he
ghb hoo<1 -_
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Dismasted in a Calm.
The TM 11 nlad , ? , lph,a , ship , . C lareace
Bement „ I has been towed . into Fayal.
Azore Islands, dismantled while in a
calm. The Bement was hound from
Liverpool for New York in ballast,
While the vessel was to the westward
of the coast of Spain, on a
day. she fell into a heavy sea. with
swells of enormous height, which
rolled in all directions. An effort
was made to steady the vessel by set
ting sails of all kinds, but she
tinued to roll in the heavy swells,
and three masts, with sails attached,
snapped off and went by the board.
The vessel lay in a helpless condition
when fi«ld.-[Philadelphia she was sighted by the Rother
Record.
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MILITARY BRUTALITY.
The Poet Heigel and an Old Man Cut
Down By Austrian Officers.
In _ Germany and Austria every week
, hr!n " s witfl Instances of military
brutality toward civilians. Most of
r,lcse instances are forgotten after
tho publication of a few indignant
paragraphs in the Radical journals
and a Radical or Social Democratic
interpellation in Parliament. One
that occurred at Riva, on Lago di
C\rda, two weeks ago, however, was
so remarkable for such exceptional
brutality that it has had more serious
consequences.
Carl Heigel, the German poet, was
sitting with a friend at a table in the
great concert garden in Riva. His
friend was 65 years old and somewhat
decrepit. At the next table sat sev
C rul officers of the Imperial Chas
geurs, who are garrisoned at Riva.
frt«ml, who had been wearied
b > ,» ™ th « r lon * ' v “ lk - M 1 »“ lw P'
and the officers began to poke , fun at
They were so loud that they
woke the old man up. When he
hoard them cracking jokes at his ex
P^nse he remarked to Heigel:
“Persons who make fun of an old
man can hardly be gentlemen, even
if they do wear uniforms.”
Heidel nodded assent. All the offi
cers heard the remark and saw the
nod. One of them sprang up, faced
Heigel, and ordered him and the old
man to leave the garden. Heigel’s
answer was a stunning open-hand
blow which sent the officer reeling
back on the table.
Then followed a scene with features
painfully familiar to persons who
have lived in Germany or Austria.
The officers drew their swords and
started forward to run through the
two unarmed men. The old man fell
at tho lirst onset, but Heigel stood
his ground, dealing blows right and
left until cut down. Blood was flow¬
ing from three wounds in his head
and he lay half unconscious. A young
lieutenant aimed a sword blow at
him, but the bandmaster, Brunolli,
who had hastened from the platform,
caught the sword with his baton and
pushed tho lieutenant back. Several
other men gathered in front of Heigel
and his companion and threatened to
make short work of the officers in
case another blow should be struek.
A crowd invaded the garden, began
jostling the officers and demand¬
ed that they be disarmed and pun¬
ished then and t here. The police w r ere
obliged to interfere to save the offi¬
cers from violence, although no po¬
liceman had found time to interfere
when Heigel and his companion * were
beaten down. . ' *
H-'igel has received calls daily in
his sick room from all the most con¬
spicuous persons in Riva, excepting
of course the military. Throughout
the whole district round Riva there
was a unanimous demand for the
punishment of the officers concerned
in the fight. A high railroad official,
who was with them in the garden,
was discharged. A Lieutenant-Col¬
onel, who struck down Heigel’s com¬
panion, was called a coward by a Cap¬
tain in his own regiment. In the
duel which followed both officers
were wounded. The rest of the officers
will be tried by court martial.
Heigel and his friend nre recover¬
ing slowly.—[New York Sun.
A Thief-catching Parrot.
“A maiden aunt of mine,” said
“George Everett, of Syracuse, N. Y.,
has a parrot which she could not bo
induced to part with under any cir¬
cumstances. This bird is an excel¬
lent talker and his cage hangs in the
bed-room of his mistress. One night
a burglar got into the house, and
after ransacking the lower part of the
bouse ascended to my aunt’s sleep
ing apartment and proceeded to col
lect all the jewelry and valuables he
could find. While engaged in this
manner the parrot who had been
watching him intently all the time,
cried out, ‘Halloo: what’s your
name?’ The burglar was so startled
by the sound of the voice that he
dropped his dark lantern, and in try
ing to recover it fell over a chair,
The noise awoke m >* aunt, and she
be S ftn to 8cream at the of hei
voi2C - The thief, now thoroughly
olovmnfl flkirmed, f took AAl' Cl a flvimr flying loon leap fs\r* for 4- the r.
stairway*, intending to make his es
F a P e ;,. ba ?*. e ke slipped,. and
* n falling broke , his leg, so that he
was captured by the servants,
who - 011 wearing the screams of their
to tb0
The Falls of Labrador.
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pineal , , Club ru of that city, V detail n , the
narrative of Henry G. Bryant’s
&*» 1891 “ “
Iir -'' a '‘ t ,oani main
,alls **' »«* »”■<*. and are
the greatest waterfalls of the
world. The noble rixer. about a
quarter of a mile wide some distance
above the falls, is pent up at the
brink between rocky banks that are
more than 150 feet apart. The river
plunges into the chasm from a height
nearly twice that of Niagara, with a
roar that may be heard for twentv
miles. Then the great volume of
water shoots for twenty-five miles
through a canon whose vertical walls
are 400 feet high in places. In its
scenic aspects this canon, as it ap
pears in Mr. Bryant's photographs,
strikingly resembles that of the Zam
besi just below the Victoria Falls,
The Grand Falls are among the
world’s natural wonders, and if they
were not most difficult of access they
would attract thousands of tourists.
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CHILDREN’S COLUMN.
A DEPARTMENT FOR LITTLE
BOYS AND GIRLS.
Something that Will Interest the Juvenile
Members of Every Household—Quaint Ac¬
tions and Jlrlght Siiy’ngs of Many Cute
and Cunning Children
Master Lcutent.
It is a lovely day In spring,
And happy children flowers bring
. Their parents to delizht.
Among them is a little lad,
Who, with the other children, had .
A nosegay sweet and bright.
With It ho to his mother ran
And straightway^like a little man,
Proceeds it to dispi iy;
“For you I’vo pathoi 'X mother, dear,
The lbvely flowers I '•‘S' vc bore—
I wish ’twere alwa vs A y>y!”
When summer came it w;.,sffiot tho same,
Ho one day to his mother came,
Eager as any drummer;
“A pleasant time I’ve had to-day,
Tumbling in the yellow hay;
I wish ’twere always summer.”
In autumn came tho golden fruit.
Hanging among the leaves so cute
It tempted passers-by.
“If only we had always this,
It really would not come amiss,”
Was Harold’s daily cry.
Then he enjoyed the winter’s sport
For sal 1 he at that, one’s snow court
The oft repeated thought —
‘How pleasant could we always sleigh,
And with the downy snowballs play,
Which winter now has brought.”
What think you, my dear little friends,
To what Ibis little story tends.
But that ho was content.
Was ne’er heard of tho cold complain,
Or others for the heat to blame,
However wrong things wont*
—Sophia M. Hansen.
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Gen. Tom Jones—Look out, fel¬
lers! If the enemy tries to scale the
walls, get ready to work the machine
gun!
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The captain of artillery worked the
machine gun. and the invading ene¬
my had a wet time of it.
Girls’ Correspondence.
Here is a good suggestion for the
girls. It relates to an ingenious
scheme devised by a class of young
ladies at school together a few years
ago. One uf them, an English girl,
thus explains it:
“There were nine of us in the class,
and we were all promising to write to
each other continually, but in our
hearts we knew that such a corre¬
spondence could never be kept up.
Finally one of the girls suggested a
circular letter, and the idea pleased
us all.
“At the expiration of one month
from the time we parted the first girl
wrote a letter telling what she had
been doing and everything about ner
self which w vuld be likely to interest
the others. This letter was sent to
the second girl, who, after read
ing it, wrote her own letter, and sent
the two to the third.
"The third, fourth, fifth, and all
the other* <n t, urQ ^ded thair lev
ADVERTISER.
ters, until the ninth on the list sent
them all to the first. Then the cir¬
cuit was complete, and we had the
circulating letters fairly under way.
“Now, of course, the envelope al¬
ways contains nine letters, and each
girl, when it comes to her, takes out
her own letter, writes a new one tell¬
ing what she has been doing in the
meantime, and starts it on its travels
again.
“You can have no idea how inter¬
esting it is to receive the letters, and
how anxiously we all await their ar¬
rival when our turn comes. We have
kept it up for nearly four j r ears, and
each time the letters come round the
pleasure of reading what all the girls
have to say seems to increase.”
R3partee.
Teacher—When I was your age I
knew a great deal more than you do.
Boy—You probably had. a much
smarter teacher.—Hallo.
A Boy’s Composition tin Breathing;.
Breath is made of air. We breathe
with our lungs, our liver and kid¬
neys. If it wasn’t for our breath we
should die when we slep*b. Our
breath keeps the life a-going through
the nose when we are asleep. Boys
that stay in a room all day should
not breathe. They should wait till
they get out of doors. Boys in a
room make bad, unwholesome air.
They make carbonicide. Carbonicide
is poisoner than mad dogs. A heap
of soldiers was in a black hole in In¬
dia, and a carbonicide got in that
there hole and killed nearly every
one afore morning. Girls kill the
breath with corosits that squeezes
the diagram. Girls can’t holler or
run like boys, because their diagram
is squeezed too much. If I was a
girl, I’d rather be a boy, so I can
holler and run and have a great big
diagram.—Washington Star.
“Let There Be Kittens.”
Jenny and Ned wore discussing the
beauties of Tabby’s new kittens.
“Now, Ned, why are they all born
together? Why aren’t some older
than the others, like you and me, you
know?” asked Jennie.
“Well, it’s" easier for the Lord to
make a lot at once.”
“Well, how does He do it?”
“Oh, lie takes dust and covers it
with fur and-”
“But He don’t make babies like
that.”
“Well, babies aren’t kittens, are
they? The Lord takes more pains
with a baby. He only makes one at
a time, but when He wants kittens
He just says ‘Let there be kittens!’
and there are kittens.”
Jenny was satisfied.—Exchange.
The Three Sieves.
“Oh, mamma!” cried little Blanche
Philpott, “I heard such a tale about
Edith Howard! I did not think she
could be so very naughty. One- ”
“My dear,” interrupted Mrs. Phil¬
pott, “before you continue we will
see if your story will pass the three
sieves. ”
“What does that mean, mamma?”
inquired Blanche.
“I will explain it. In the first
place, is it true?”
“I suppose so. I got it from Miss
Wbite, aud she is a great friend of
Edith’s.”
“And does she show her friendship
by telling tales of her? In the next
place, though you can prove it to be
true, is it kind?”
“I do not mean to be unkind, but
I am afraid it was. I should not like
Edith to speak of me as I have of
her.”
“And is it necessary?”
“No, of course, mamma, there was
no need for me to mention it at all.”
“Tbeu put a bridle on your tongue.
If we can’t speak well, speak not at
all.”
Bobby Goes to Sth^ol.
“Come, now. Bobby,”says mamma,
at the breakfast table; “it’s time you
were off.” Bobby leans back in his
chair and eyes the front windows
gloomily.
“Can I have some more griddle
cakes?”
“Nq, Bobby, l eaa’t elffiw you V?
be greedy, aud you’ve had eight or
nine.”
“Can I have some plum-jam, then?”
“No. There is none on the table. ”
“Did sis get my new copy-book?”
“Yes, and it’s with your other books
on the window sill. Come, hurry up!
I suppose you are trying to be late,
aren't you?”
“No, mom, I’m not; for pop said
he’d whop me if I was late again this
week. Now, I’ll just run out in the
yard and see if any mushrooms have
come up in the night”
“Bobby! Bobby! Come back here!
You know very well mushrooms don’t
grow at this time of year.
“Well, they might, it’s so warm.
Anyway, I must go upstairs and see
if that chameleon has changed his
skin.” He is absent about five min¬
utes and comes down the basement
stairs with what novelists usually de¬
scribe as a “nervous tread.”
“Come! come!” says mamma, exas
peratedly. “How can you dawdle so?
Here it is ten minues to 9! Tho
other boys have all gone past. Now
be off, I tell you.”
“All right, murnsey; but where’s
my cap?”—Judge.
The Neeil of Sleep.
It is difficult for one who has had
uo occasion to familiarize himself
with the subject to appreciate the
consequences which attend depriving
the body of the necessary amount of
sleep. The symptoms which follow
such a deprivation afford a striking
example of the Intimate relation of
every part of the body to every other
part.
It may he that the sufferer, has
been placed in circumstances under
which sleep, owing to the demands
made upon his time by other matters,
is practically prohibited; or perhaps
he has nerved himself to perform a
certain task in a specified time, and
does not obey the dictates of nature.
In either event the result is the
same. The unhappy victim suddenly
finds that he does not feel the need
of sleep. He may at first be inclined
to congratulate himself, but this
period of excitement does not last
long, for, try as he may, he cannot
bring back sleep to his now worn out
body.
From this point the trouble rapidly
increases. Especially is the fact
demonstrated that the need of sleep
is felt by the entire system. It is
true that the nervous symptoms pre¬
dominate, and that, if the condition
of the patient is not ameliorated, the
case soon becomes one of nervous
prostration. But every organ of the
body suffers equally with the brain.
The stomach is upset, the appetite
impaired—and emaciation and debil¬
ity follow.
The treatment of a person suffer¬
ing from lack of sleep is unfortu¬
nately much compromised by the
efforts of the patient himself. Un¬
der the impression that au opiate is
required he begins the systematic
administration of some sleep-pro¬
ducing poiYder, Nothing could be
more pernicious, as is seen when,
after having tried in turn every rem¬
edy, the sufferer finally finds it next
to impossible to obtain any rest ex¬
cept by such unnatural means.
Healthful sleep is needed, and this
is to be obtained only by careful and
prolonged treatment under the guid¬
ance of a skilled medical adviser.
Opiates should seldom be adminis¬
tered by the patient himself, and
never with the object of directly pro¬
ducing sleep.—Youth’s Companion.
The Bullfrog’s Stolen Dinner.
Here is the queerest bullfrog story
on record: A youth who lives at
High Shoals says that his father’s
cows frequently came up at night
with the appearance of having been
milked. His father got tired of it
and sent him to the pasture with the
cows to catch the thief. He spent
the day near enough to the cows to
watch them, he thought, but at
night it was still evident that the
cows had been milked again, He
was scolded and sent back with them
the next clay. About 11 o’clock, he
says, this cow went into the canes
near a small lake and lowed. He
crept through the brush and caught
the thief in the act, and he proved
to be a bullfrog as la r ge as a hat.
The frog was hanging on to the cow’s
udder and seemed to he enjoying hi 9
dinner immensely.—Savannah News.
Color Cure for Insanity.
In the hospital for the insane at
Allessandria, Italy, two special rooms
have been arranged, one fitted up
with windows of red glass and rtd
paint on the walls, the other in blue
throughout. A violent patient is
first taken to the “blueroom”and left
to see what effect that color will have
on his nerves. One maniac was cured
in less than an hour; another, raving
and furious, was at perfect peace
after passing a day in the calming
shades of his cerulean surroundings,
The “red room” is used for the corn
monest forms of dementia, especially
melancholy and refusal to take food.
The first patient was one who had
fasted seven days. After only n
three hours’ stay in the red room he
became quite cheerful and asked for
food. St Louis Republic.
Fuss Made About a Half Inch.
j A Maine man from regions where
j land is tolerably plenty, and an acre
does not seem a very large piece, re¬
cently invested in a lot in the sub¬
urbs of Boston, and set about grad¬
ing and arranging his fences much as
he would in Maine. He covered up
one corner bound, and then built his
fence “about” where he thought the
line was. Imagine his surprise when
the adjoining owner appeared in a
great flutter over his proceedings.
The line was relocated by a
veyor, when it was found the Maine
man’s fence encroached one-half an
inch on his neighbor, and he had to
set it over. As much fuss was made
i over it as a ten-acre pieo* would cause
io hi* Maine home.
NO. 26
ON THE OCEAN'S BED.
Perilous bat Hl-jliiy ■ .*' * of a
Diver.
Exploration in the bed of the ocean
is ono of th' most interesting of oc¬
cupations, for the waters abound in
all kinds of the most 1 euutiful and
incredible of animal and vegetable
life, and the study of those queer
formations of animals and inanimate
nature is one of intense pleasure.
Around the diver, now generally fur¬
nished with Incandescent lamps, to
light up tho caverns of tho deep, all
kinds of fishes swarm. Strange creat¬
ures peep into th windows of Ids hel¬
met, grinning and blinking in a hor¬
rible manner; huge eels boat against
bis legs, aud crabs and lobsters snap
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at his diving suit. Some of these
queer creatures of the deep have
horns and wing-shaped fins, and
many are variegated in color. Some¬
times the dreadful otopus or the
sword fish is encountered, and then
the diver abandons all hope. In places
in the ocean there arc many squaie
miles of peculiar vegetation; in other
places the bed of the ocean is as
smooth as that of a lloor. It is when
a diver works on the wreck of some
submerged vessel, bringing to tho
surface the bodies of tho dead, that
he is face to face with scenes that
send a shudder through his heart.
A SUMMER HOUSE.
An Artistic Ono Can Ho Built at Small
Expense.
It pays, even in dollars and cents,
to make one’s home attractive, but it
also pays much better in the increased
comfort and enjoyment that is af¬
forded every member of the family
when the home is attractive, says the
American Agriculturist. An attrac¬
tiveness, It may be said, that can be
secured at small expense, if one has
a little taste, and will devote some of
his extva moments to the work of
beautifying his home and its sur¬
roundings. Directly in this .line is
the construction of such a summer
house as is shown in the illustration.
Such a house will make a magnificent
play room for the children, a cool
summer sewing room for the mother,
and a place to rest and read for any
member of the family. It is built in
the form of an octagon, and lias a
dishing, shingled roof, and matched
siding where the sides are boarded.
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If vines are made to grow over the
sides the beauty of the structure as
an ornament to one’s groan Is will he
greatly enhanced. The whole build¬
ing should be stained to secure the
best effect, the roof being of a darker
color than the sides, and a color to
contrast harmoniously with them.
Such a building could have window
sashes fitted to it, and Covers made
to put over its lattice work, wlei it
would serve as a pleasant play room
for children on sunny winter days.
An Oversight.
At sea, as most people know, time,
Instead of being reckoned by hours,
is divided into “watches” of four
hours each. From lour o’clock to six,
and from six to eight, there are half¬
divisions, nautically termed “dog¬
watches. ”
jn an insurance case the counsel
asked au o!d sailor at what time of
(j a y a certain collision occurred, and
received the reply, “About the mid¬
di e of the first dog-watch.”
jn summing up the case the bar
rister enlarged upon the information
thus imparted, as follows,
“You can imagine, gentlemen of
the jury, the care which existed on
this occasion, when, as appears from
one of the plaintiff’s own witne ses,
this valuable ship and her cargo, and
the lives of passengers and crew,
were intrusted to what, gentleman?
—why, to the mere watch of a dog!”
Oilcloth.
Oilcloth cannot be saved from
cracking when exposed to the sun.
Any desired color in ground paint
mixed with boiled linseed-oil will re
new the surface when worn or
eked,
Brown Paper,
A brown paper lining will make an
ordinary coat as serviceable as a top
coat; and an under waistcoat of the
same materia! is equal to a flannel
shir*.