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2 FLORIDA'S SAD TRAiJEDY NO DOUBT THAT BhOW NELL FIXED U-sDiIR A MISAPPREHENSION. He Thought a Mob Bent on Murdering Him Was Around His House—The Law Officers Blamed for Their Fail ure to Make 1 heir Mission Known at First. Tallahassee, Fla., Aug. 16.—Gov. Fleming offered a reward of $250 for the arrest of Joh i Brownlee, w o murdered In ternal Revenue Collector Weller in Wes: Florida Wednesday night, but Brownlee surrendered himself yes erdav. An inves i gaiion was held at Westville to-day, but nothing has been learned of the result. Col lector Weller was buried here to-day. ACTION BY THE FEDERAL AUTHORITIES. Jacksonville, Fla., Aue. 16. —United States Marshal Mizell recoiv and a dispatch to-dav from the Acting Attorney Goner i at Wa hington, stating ihat the department of justice would use every eff >rt to captuiv and punish Browi.e'l, the murderer of Dp - - utv Collector Weller, and auth rizing the offering of a reward f >r the appro ensio of the fugitive This was unuecessary however, tor Brownell surre adored last night to Sheriff Brown of Holmes count/. THE CONFLICTING STORIES. The accounts of the affair as told by the officers who were pres mt are very conflict iug. One says: "We aroused liro • nell an told him he was wanted outside. Brownell arose and walked out on ;he gallery, w hen he observed tue presence of the other men. He dashed back i it< the hous , and mad ) a break out of another door. Tnere he w - confronted by De uty Weller, wh > 3red bis pistol, woun .ing Brownell in th< shoulder. The latter then returned tho fire his bullet taking effect in Weller’s head. BROWNELL’S STATEMENT. Upon surrendering himself to the sherif! last night Br >wi,ell said teat be did not know what he was doing wheD h fired the fatal shot. He said h had been suddenly roused from his slum hers at night by a mob of men, who did noi explain t ,eir busi ess with hnn. He thought they inte ded to murder him, and he ran to save his life. Then he was shot and so badly scare 1 that he did nut gras the situation, so he fired in return. If he had known they were officers he w .uld no. have resisted. HIS STORY BELIEVED. Officers McLeod and Turner say they are confident tlia Brownell re-isteii under a misapprehension as to the real condition cf affairs. He was not told Ihe nature of their mission to iiis house. Brownell is lodke i upon at his home as a peaceable and law abidi geitzen. Public sentiment is against the officers f r their bungling, which re sulted in i he death of a good man and proba bly the ruin of two happy families. The treasury department has ordered Special Agent Chipmau from Atlanta to make a full investigation of the case. He left here for Westville t -night. CANDLER CHIPS. High Water in the Lake a—The Bishops Building a Now House. Candler, Fla., Aug. 16. Heavy rainr fall aim st daily, an i in consequence the lakes are up nearly to the high water mark of 1886. The Messrs. Bishop are erecting a neat residence on their beautiful property west of own. The handsome residence ot A. D. Moore is rapidiy assuming shape, and towers grandly ah wo toe and irk green foliage of li.g 1 vely orange grove. Rev. VV. VV. Jodos, pastor of the Methodist church hero, is off for a month’s visit a nong friends a. his old home, Lafayette, Ind. B. M. Rice, an o iuent citizen of North Lake Weir, died at his borne there vestor day morning of congestion of the bowels He was tiie party who shot J. M. Roac • last winter at Lake Weir. He was out on bond. Arrival of the Oasipee. Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 16.—A special from Key West says the U ited State, man of-war Ossr ee arrived there yesterday a id sailed for Hampton ‘roads early this morn ing. She was rigidly quarantined wmie in port, and no one was allowed to land or to goon board. All communication with the offleem and men wa str.c ly prohibited, A bailor’s Fatal Fall. Pensacola, Fla., Aug. 16.—This morn ing at 7 o’clock O. G. Petersen, a native of Norway, and a sailoi on board the Norwegian bark Sylva, fell from the maiuyard of tnat vessel, striking the deck and sust umng injurie from which he died this evening. Cotton Begging Ruled Out. Colvmbus, Ga., Aug. 16.—Hon. T. H. Kimbrough has been in corresprndence ■with John Roxburg, president f the Liver pool Cotton Exchange, endeavoring for twelve mo ths past to obtain n readjust ment of the tare on juto bagging. Mr. Kimbrough received an answer .his aftei iioon as follows: “The Liverpool exchange entirely condemns cotton bagging. \V, cannot see our wav to legislate on the sub ject.” ON TH 5 DIAMOND. Results of tin iJidh Bstwasa the Country's Lsallaf Team. Washington. Au,;. 16.—Base ball games were played to-day with tbo following re sults: At Pittsburg— Pittsburg 0 1 010200 3—7 New York 1 1 0 1 0 1 00 0— 4 Base hits: Pittsburg 9, New York 12. Errors: Pittsburg 2, Ne t York 5. Batteries: Staley and Miller, Crane and Ewing. At Clevela .and Cleveland 0 0000000 o—o Boston 0 0 0 0 3 0 4 6 x—l3 Base hits: Cleveland 3, B ton 11. Errors: Cleveland 3, Boston 1. Batteries: Boutin and Sutcliffe, Clarkson and Bennett. At lidiauapoli —The Indianapolis and Philadelphia games were postponed on ae oouut ol rain. At Chicago— Chicago 0 1 2 0 0 0 2 5 x—lo Washington ...3 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 o—6 Base hits: Chicago 7, Washington 11. Errors: Chicago 3. Mas .ingto-i 7. Batteries: Dwyer and Farrell, Haddock a id Mae HORSES THAT ARE BPESDY. The Places They \V on In the Scram bles of Yesterday. Saratoga, N. Y., Au 4. 16.—T0-day’s events on the u f " ere as follows; First Race— Five furlongs. Nana, fillv. won, ■with Ga oga second and Fellowship' third Time 1:04U. Second Race—One mile Estelle won. with St. I.uke second and May laps third. Time Third Race—Five and a-half furlongs. Sun shine won, with Rebecca second and Ladv Reoi third. Time 1: i 1 1 4. Forsja Race —One mils and a sixteenth. Crown Princess won. with Laura Davidson second and Satisfaction third. Time 1:5314, Fifth Race— One mile aud seventy yards. Shamrock won. with Boccaccio second and Ofellus third. Time 1:51. A Fly Causes the Death of Sian and Horse. Punxsctawney, Pa., Aug. 11.—Mc*is Elvich, a ju k dealer, had a team of hordes, aud ho thought a great deal of them. he hail been engaged to haul a load of furni ture for a man who was moving from BrookviUe to this pi ce. It is a hilly read and the horses needed careful watching. Widle goi g down a steep hill, Motes saw a large fly on the neck of one of the horeoa. It annoyed the man a much as it did the horse, and the little nsect caused the death of the animal and also of MoSdS. Elvieb, in leani g forward to brusn awav the fly, fell to the ground and broke his neck. The horses took fright, and, running into tne fence, the one on which the 11 v was si ting brok is leg aud had to be killed. Ei. icu was picked up bv his father-in-law, who was following with another load of houte- I bold goods.; DETECTED 3Y DP.EaMS; Remarkable Instances of the Locating of Guilt. From the Globe-Democrat. Law r-ports of tue sixteoatu an l seven teenth centuries contain numerous refer o ices to sup-Tna’urul occureuces in cour: and on the scaff Id. One of t.e most re markable records of this ki.id i connected with a mur ter trial which took p ace iu E igland early in tne reig i < f the firs t’hailes. Sir John Maynard, o e of the first lawyers of the eentu y, i- the authority for the supernatural events f the tr.al, ai 1 in his quai t pre'aee to his notes he says he “thought good to report the evtde cs which was given, wkic i many did he ir that the memory thereof might not t>| lost 1 y misca-riage of paptrs or otherwise.” : fine Johan Norket , a farmer’s wife, had \ died, and at the co-oner’s ’quest evidence was given proving that the w man's 'nr at h.d been cut from tar to ear. At first the jury favored a verdict of felo de sc, and the bxlywas interred. But r imors L’came genera! pointing o foul play, aud the body was exhumed. Thirty days after the death the jury as sembled Itefore the body, and four sus p"cted oersotis were brought iu. The only evidence against tue prisoners was tha they had sept in a 1 adjoining room and that no ope had pas.-d tnrough tha' rot; “therefo e, if she did ti- t urder herself, they must bo the mur ierers.’’ What to k place at the roma kable post-mortem in quiry may best be described in the w irds of a wit ies at tie subsequent trial, who was describ and as “an ancient a :dg ave person mini ter to tle parish where this murder was -om nitted.” This estimable gentleman said: “They (the prisoners) did touch the dead body, w ereupon the br iw of the deal, w d< b was before a livid co or, began to haven dew or ge itie sw-at ariio upon it which l creasei by degrees till the sweat rati down in dro is upon the face, the brow turned and changed to a lively color, and the dead o; one l and shut one of her eyes and shut it again, which she did three several times. She likewise thrust oit he ring or marriage finger t iree times a id u.ied it ii again, and the fiug r dropped bl od on the grou a.” ISatur By e ough such remarkable evi lonce ns this wa) reieiveiwitusoinesus licion bv t >e court, athiugh the witness, o again quite Sir John Maynard, “w is a •evere and person, about 70 years of age, as could be guessed. His test ini' ny wis de ivered gravely ami tempera elv, but to the Treat admiration of the nulitory.” Ample confirmation of au obvi >usly impartial character was, however, forthc miuig, and the “admiration” changed to horror, so nuch so that the prisoners were convicted and two of them suffered death at the hand of the common hangman. Neither of the victims, o ie of whom was an aged woman, o uld ever be provaile 1 upon to confess any com i licity in the crime. Of much more recent date was tha record of the “Rad Barn Murder.” remarkable for the fact that tho murdor wa . discovered . hrough the means of mfor nation imparted n a drea n. The victi nof the murder was a rustic beauty named Maria Marten, who was a source of perpetual jealousy among the young men iu a village near the En glish east coast. Maria’s father was a mole atelier, but the girl was educated beyond ho average of village maidens. Her first accepted lover was a rich young tna i anied John Cordon, who led t e girl from the paths of vi tun and then abandoned he . A still more wealthy suitor appeared, who, in turn wns and splaced b,- Willia a Corde i, a l'other of John. Under promise of mar riage Miss Marte i was again led astray, and, when she found herself soon 1 1 become a m ith r, she i nportuned her betrayer to fulfill liis promise. Corden tired of this, and, going to tho house one evening, ar ranged witu great detail to run off wita th • girl to a neighboring city, where they were to be secretly married. The girl gladly c m ented, and agreed to meet her lover ~t a red barn on his mother’s farm. Corde i met her there, ad, in compliance with a prearranged scheme, shot and b trie 1 Iu r. He then disappear il, rotund ig after a few days ad explain! ig o tne mole catcher that the marriage h .a taken placi and that his bride was in lodgings at Ipswich, 'tooths passed away, the barn under which the body lay was filled with gr.ai t, and yet no tidmgs came from Ma ia. Young Cor den, however, explained that she had hurt her right hand, and c >uld not write. He subsequently left the neighborhood. oie ight Mrs. Marten drea no l that her daugh ter bad been murd red by Corden, ad that the body was interred u idor the barm Tiiedream was repeated so frequ uitly that she repeated it to the mole catcher. who, after many . refus is aid much ri iicule’, finally went to tue barn, got the grain ro ni ved, and commenced to dig at the spot indicated in the dream. The boly was im mediately discovered and identifi *d. Sus pieio , of course, p iutod to Corden, wh i was traced to London, where he hid m ir r ed a schoolmistress, and was living o i her earnings. He wasamsted, convicted, aid executed. It is remarkable p oof of the truth if this storv that Mrs. Marten applied to a J isticeof the peace for a warrtut agm ist Corden three m mths before she co vert’i her skeptical husband to a belief iu he drea n. In 1751 an Irish murd'-rer was convicted largely upon dream evidence. A Waterfor i publican named Rogers dreamed one night that he saw a m m murder another man on a green spot on tlio sum nit of an adjoining mountain. He v as abl) next day to de scr.be both men with pm feet accuracy, a id did so to many of his friend i. O.ieofthe men was exceptionally strong, the o ner weak an I puny, but it was the latter who, ii tue vision, committed the mu der' Rog rs pet s aded the parish priest to a" company him to the s .ot, which lie found witliout difficulty, but w ere tne e seeine 1 to be no traces of murder or struggle Henro Rogers got rather laughed at. Next day, however, t vo men entered the sale m, and Mrs. Rogers a once recognized them from her husband’s description as the heroes in the vision. Much alarmed, she fetched her husband, who was also certain they were the two man. Wnen they r ise to leave Rogers begged the one he expected t > bo murdered to remain, but without avail He nearly fainted with fright after the men hod i -Ii , a vi fi iallv pers ,adod a ueighb r to accompany him to the green spot on the hill, where, sure enough, tue tragedy of the dream had taken olace in real ty. The murderer was tracked an I caught and Rogers was the p i icipal witness. His re cital of his dream was so vivid tin the prisoner at o ce eoufe .-ed, ad ling that he killed his companion exactly as foretold i ] the dream. The weapon used as a knife, and as eight stabs were see 1 bv Rogers i ' his vision, so the murderer a imitted that he drove ids knife up to the handle in his companion's body exactly that number of times. A remarkable interposition of p’ ovidence is on rec rd in Fans. In 1766 a young peasant girl went Lo Paris and as hired ai adomesti servant by a tna i whose reputa tion was exco.leut, but vvho \v ,sa hypocrite a.id a libertine. He made improper po posals to the young giri, who refused to understand his meaning or give him any encouragement. This finally so enraged him t-ai ne nal her arresied for theft, an i secured her conviction bv bidi g s nue jewelry iu her trunk. The prisoner h dno trie ds to intercede for her and was hanged. Tne executioner was a novice, bungled over the work, and after repeated a. tempts to kill the girl, imagined he had succeeded, a.d handed the body over to a dissecting surgeon. The first cut with a knife sho e I that the giri liv and, and she was quick y restored. When she < penal her eyes s e imag ned herself ia another world," ad it was ome time before she could be convinced of ber escape. Her description of what she saw during her apparent death was listened to with wonder and amazement by her new found friends. She told of lovely part rres with beautiful streams flowing through and aro it and toem, of flora and fauna of dazzling gorgeousness, of perpetual sunshine and im measurable liappi ers. The young girl ha t lived a prosaic life, was poorly iducated, and had no imagination at all, if he cLiromeier is to bo credited, and her revela tions are the more remarkable iu conse THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY. AUGUST 17, 1889. quence The s rerunJrvl woo compassxl her i uin was arre-t -a. Put acquitted on techni cal gr >u - is, bit the p-sopie ‘ 1 jaded him with Wfil-merited reproaches " Ii 1770 o man vi< .-rested at B rdeaux, Franre, for highway robbery. A coac.i was dragging it- e*r- wav al mg the u -or roa i of the neighborhood, when suddenly a man spra g oat tr a . —-tii id a ire *. and before t ed.ive >• u and rec ver hisself-pos seasiiin tb- h i -■>* :..yb ail been hamstrung. I was the work of a moment to hurl the driver from hi* *->*: and to terr.fy the pas sengers, three women ard a boy, into sub mission. Every article of vaiu* in the vehicle was stolen, and the thief then disapi are! An alarm le n; given, a ttiai namel He: ri Pouckari was arresed on suspicion. He was p isstively ide atified by the c achman and the passe tgers. and vvas speelily onviclsl He begged to be al lowed to call witnesses to prove an alibi, an 1 averred that ha was fifty mTes off when the r lobery was c minuted. Bat no ad journme it of any kind was g-sot-si. mil death on the wheel was the horrid sentence pron uneei. Bouchard was tiiei to the wneel. which was set m motion, and one after aa ither his limbs were broke i. There war • many others to be tortured to death, aid tho • x -cutioner was in a hurry. So as soon as he thought tne man to ba deal, he loosed him and so It him t> a surgeon of anatomy. The surgeon found tnat tho bruised anl broken mass before him still lived. Ho exer e 1 all his skill, and re storel Bouchard ti comparative h-alth, though an arm and leg ha i t > be amputa ted. Bouchard at once set übout to prove his inno e ica, which he di l to t os satisfac tion of the court, which rather stultified itself by g nnti g iiitn a pardon. A 6TRAN(;E OSaZB. A Youth Who Wii.ita co be a Woman and Dresses in i-emala Attire. From the Atlanta (Ga.) Journal. There are n any strange crazes, but the strangest that has turned up in Atlanta for sometime now occupios the attention of the police. Wednesday night Charlie Witt was ar rested iu his room on Broad s reet, and locked up in a cell at the police station. Ho was clad in female attire. For several weeks past the p ilice .have been notified of the aim st daily appearance on the streets of a youth dress 1 in woman's garb. As tha young man had every appearance of a woman, it was difficult to spot him. List night Capt. Couch learned of his where abouts, and young Witt was soon occupying a cell at police neadquartors. He declined to take off bis female attire before leaving his room. MAKES A GOOD-LOOKING IVOMAN. When the reporter stood opp isite Witt’s cell, Tbuta lay morning, he -aw yvhat appeared t > be a remarkably good-looking woman. The youth was rigged out ad out in the togs usually donned by the fair sex, and his face was fair and smooth, with not even the suspicion of beard. His hair was not very long, and straight, aud bangs foil upon his forehead. His voice was effeminate, but not as soft and sweet as would be expected ftotn a young lady whose part the youth otherwise s admirably played. He spoke rapidly and the intonations of his voice an i his gestures were those of a woman. There wa. a strange light in liis eyes, which was indicativoof auu ibalanced mind. “o, yvHY yv.AS i made a man?” The youth, who is 18 years of age, is un doubtedly craze 1. His mania is to be a woman. “VV iy do you and ess in female attire?” he yvns asked by a reporter, aud liis reply was; “Because L dou’t want to be a man. O, why did God make ine a man, anyway? When 1 was a little biv I us ad to ste and my sister’s clothes and put them >n, and I used to wish and wish God would turn me into a gh'L. The boys at scuool called me ‘sissy’ f r a lo ig time, and nothing pleasol me better." “What in the world do you want to be a woman for?” was asked. “O, I don’t know, I just hate the idea of being a man." WHO THE STRANGE YOUTH IS. Charles Witt is the son of H. H. Witt, a railr ad engineer, who is now liv.ng at Oxford, Ala. He came to Atlanta a year ago clad iu female attire, and called himself Miss Minnie Witt. For awhile he tried to tn ko a living by coloring photographs. He soon learned th it a man Had m ire showing to make money in the world than a woman, and with soma regret he cast aside liis dresses aid put hi nself into trousers, coat and waist coat. He secured a pi isition in the dry g iods house of I). H. Dougherty & Cos. and clerked there several m mths. Even then h > would put on woman’s clothes in the afternoon whe i not at w irk. His repug nance to the garments of a an final v compelled him t > give up bispositi m in the dry goc ls store, and he wont back to his dresses and phot grapn painting. WHAT WILL THEY DO WITH HIM? The charge against young Witt is “im moral conduct,” but such a charge will douotless not be sustained. There is an ordinance agai ist people putting on the a tire of the opposite sex when oii he street but Witt was in his room at the time of his arms . A negro boy was arrested with Witt, and he st ites that the young man employed him as a servant. The lieg o called his em ployer “Miss Witt” by the young man's o ivn request. Witt is simply a lunatic, and his mania to be a woman is something unusual. He will doubtless be se.it to his parents in Ox ford. Hednesnot appear to be humiliated at his arms aud was pe fectly willing to have his story published in the papier. “1 am glad,” he said, “to let the world know that I hate b ing a man.” Later in tne da. Wit: employe 1 Mr. Rob ert L. Libloy as his at.orney. Ho says h int -uds to sue s.-veral persons for slander, nd will institute against the city for false imprison cent and cruel treat neat. HE TALKS OF HIS ARREST. “What was th disorderly conduct for which you were arresied?” Witt was asked by i he rep rter. “Well, I’ll tell you,” he said, in a quick petulant manner. “They rented the room uext to me to an oil salvation army mo ma i aud her daughter; and do you nelieve it, they got up at 5 o’clock in the morning and sang till dinner time.” “L ist night,” he continued in a rattling way, “they bega t yelling “Pa’ms of victo ry. crowns of glory,’ and I just like to died. I bate to near a lybody say pa’ms. It grates on my nerves, and makes my flas:i craw l, so I just climbei up on a chair.au’ piked my head through the transom an’ yelled just as loud a- I could.” Pa- s of biscuits, Bawls of gravy,’ and you can just bat they shut up, but they had ma arrested for it. "Tie-eoll poll emm would climb up six flights of stairs any day to see a boy iu girl’s clothes, and they like the arresting part all right.” ' Sang in nis sleep. The people who walk in their sleep are numer ous, the p -ople who talk in tlieir s.eep are prob ably more S I, but tho p- iple who sin; iu ih->:r sleep are few and far between, or if they are not. t .ev are very s -Id mi heard of. There lues no in Harlem, not far from West One Hundred and Twenty fifth street, however, a voun? nun who nas accomplished this feat very recently His business requires his saving up until an earl,- hour in t ie morning, and in conseque ce he sleeps well ou to 10 or 11 o'clock in the fnre neon. His sister, an accomplished pianist was playing on the piano in the parior, near bis bedroo u, tho other morning. Sue n.are 1 a uu nber of pieces that did not in the least dis turb the see per. Finally she picked up the music of a hymn which she and her brother were very fond of singing together a few years before- che played the introtuctory bars and just as she reached the beginning ot the hymn sue beard her brother’s voice chiming in from the next room. She played along and her brother sang every note and everv word cor rectly in a iair baritone voice. After tle son-- was done tne sister called out to ber b-otber to ass if her playing had awakened him There was uo answer aud n ) sou id ex -opt the regul ir breathing of nan in a doe ■ sle m. W ien he wascalDdl o uo protested that he ha 1 heard no playing anu was not conscious that ho hai been singing. 3A31-S, QUEER OR REMARKABLE. To Start With, Here's a Double-Bodied Female Prodigy. From the Tipton Advocate. On Monday night, June .’4. birth was given these twins. Dr. Coer of Groom - ville, Ind., being the atte nling physician, and thr ugh his skill their lives were saved, and there i3 n i r *ao i o.i earth why they s iculd not live to maturity, as there is no deformity that conflicts with the natural organs or to interrupt the natural growth of the babies. They are female babies, and there is but one boiy, conuolete from the armpit of one I aby to the arm it of the other. The union of the two bodies is formed m the center. Ti e lower limbs (legs) are located on the sids of the tiody and are opposite to each other. The legs of each child are on opposite sides, an 1 not on the same side, as declared by some Kokomo doctors. Each child is supplied with a heart, a pair of lungs, abdonuial organs—in fact, the iiaLues aie perfect to where the union is mad*. It is not yet certain whether the blood assimilat 's from one child to the other or not. At its birth there was but oie umbilicus, and tue natural presump tion is that life was sustained to both babies by one cord, but it is possible there were two nourishing veins in the one cord. It ice tain that tho blood does not circulate in unison, and it does not seem reasonable that the heart could perform the double function of disebargi ,g and receivi g bloo lat the sane instant. The latest coiclti-i >a is that t .if hearts’ actions are independent of each other. Uu fo tuna oly the placenta was not preserved, or this problem could have bee i solved. At birth their weight 'sas twelve and a half p muds a id measure 22} J inches long. They are u usually bright and see n to notice ob jects around them. Oueappears to be a lit tle healt ier than the other,though both are as lively as crickets. T e complexi >t of o ie is rather ligut while the other is dark. Both have a luxurious growth of uair and have handsome features. Tneir respiratory organs act independently, and the bowels and kidneys perform their respective func tions. Oie is a.-deep while the other is wide awake. Tuey nurse at the breast and take to the bottle like trailed Children, They aro of different dispositions, for while one is inclined to laugh tne other will cry. A NEW YORK PRODIGY. In the Ninth ward, or Green vich village, as it was called many years ago, is a re markable little bub He is 9 mouths old, and yet uo is big enough aud knows enough to be twice hi> age. Tne name of the little fellow is Charles N. Waterman, and he first opened bis big gray eyes to the light of day at 2o Carmine sireot. Charles’father is "a newsdealer about 60 years old aad has been a resident of the ward for a number of years. When Charley was born he weighed 12% pounds, discounting tiie average baby bv 100 per cent. Charlie is about 30 inches long and at the present time weighs 32% pounds. He has large gray eyes, pink cheeks and sandy hair and eyebrows, lie is a great at racti ii and has drawn many customers to his father’s store. His power of percep tion is something remarkable. On Sunday morning C at ho is uri bright and ear!and is seated in liis high chair behind bis father’, news stand. Charley can pick out a Press from t eutv different papers wjtnout any hesitation. Ho is brig ,t in everything else. He uever cries or gives his parents u iy trouble. Although only 9 months old Charley can dance an Irish jig to perfection while his father whittles an accompaniment. One of the most remarkable babies that over gazed on the blue sky of heaven is the 14-months-old daugnter of Mrs. Anna Fet tilan, wno arrived in this cit>- about three weeks ago ou the steamship Sorvia. The baby is tne offspring of Finnish parents, and weighs 68 p>unds. To carry it the mother tia i a basket made 3 feet lo g, 2 feet wile and 18 ioh -s deep. The head of the baby is 15 inches in diameter, aud hasa bust 34 inches in circumference. The baby en joys the best of health, and never cries. The many medical me i who have been con sulted are unable to explai i why the child is fat. The other me uners of the Fettilau family are average beings, and possess no physical peculiaritie% A SMOKING BABY. From the Rochester Herald. A report/! - a few days ago heard of an in fant prodigy such as most families woald not care to posses-, however muc.i they ay think of pnenomenallv-deve oned children as a rule. The precocious infant in this case is a little girl aged 17 mouths. She dors not play the piano like Ru lenstein, or sing like P.itti. or talk like a Boston schoolma’am or read Chaucer and Browniug; her ac complishment consists solely in smoking a pipe aad exhaling the smoke through her nostrils. She dot-i not swear yet, because the onlv word s ie can speak is “Moke,” and sue has not learned to chew or drink verm uth and absinthe; but those who mignt be inclined to chide ner for lack of knowledge in these directions should remember her tender years. This is not a fairy story, but a plain statement of fuels. Tue litttle giri is tne dauniiter of a woman who sang at the Ca inn summer girdei last week. The mother ami child boarded at the Atlantic hotel, ou North S . Paul street, and the statements in t iis article are given upon the auth rity of reliable persons who saw them at that (dace and at the theater. The mother makes the following statement in regard to the depraved taste of the child: AN INHERITED CRAVING. “My little girl inherits 1 her abnormal appetite for tobacco from her father, who died on act- unt.- f his excessive use of the weed shortly after the child was born. Nearly a year ago tne child’s tendency iti this direction was first brought to my no tic/ I hid her with me on the street and c iunc -d to stop near a man who was sm ok iug a pipe. Tne baby, as so >n as she per ceived the odor, readied lout her little ha ids toward tne stranger aud so; i egan to crv. All my efforts to calm her were useless, and she s ion went into convulsions. I took her to a doctor and toM him t e circumstances. After i quii ing iuto the habits af the child’s father he told me that tho taste for tobacc i hail been inherited and must ba gra ified unless 1 desire! to lose the ehi.d at once. I wish I had let the baby die. Since I took the doctor’s advice the child has never been a day wit iout pipe and tobacc >, ami she hai tiec me a i expert smoker. She cries for her pipe as a other baby would cry for its nursing b ttle, and I haven’t the hear; to rfu ,e he '. She s nokes awhile package of tobacco a day. I don’t suppose she cat! endure it lo ig, but what can I do? The child has learned to wait, but her senses appear to be deadeae 1. I don’t suppose she can ever be bright even if she should live. The little hing would be hotter oif if she were dead.” CAN YOU BEAT THIS? From the Buffalo Express. Undoubtedly one of the largest babies that Lai visit and Buffal o iu many years came ver the Erie yesterday noon from Ne v York. The little one is a girl 5 mouths old a .and tips the scale at the remarkable point of 85 pounds. This was hard to believe at first, out the scales were handy, and it was proved satis.actoniy to tho incredulous ones about. The child lay in a large market basket, crowing contentedly. Its little but fat legs and arms seemed a* broad as thev were long. The inoche of this remarkable child is an immigrant from Finland. She is u little woman who does not appear to weigh more tha i her offspring. Sue cannot speak a won of English. It is said that wnen in New York several managers of dime museums offered he large sums if she would remain there, but she was determined to proceed on her journey, which ends at Duluth. She, with asm ill pany of immi grants, was stopping over the day at McCabe’s hotel m Excianga street, oppo site tue Central dapo , and it was said that since her arrival over 590 people had called to see the remarkable baby. A MARVELOUs LACE-WORKER. A Study of the Spider as It Spins Its Web—The Legend of Arachne. From Public Opinion. Everyone has noticed the cobwebs which hang upo i each shrub aid bush, and ere strewn in profusion over every plat of g ass on a fine morning in autu un; and, seeing, who can have failed to admire? The webs, circular in form, and then strung thick with tiny pearls of daw that glitter in the sun. No lace is so fine. Could any be wrought that could equal them i.i their filmy delicacy and lightness, it would be worth a prince’s ra com. But for such work man’s touch is all too c-oarse It is possible only to cur humble garden spider, known to scientific people bv the core im posing na ne Epcira diadema. These spiders belong to tue family of Arachnid or; aud the ancients, who were great lovers of beauty, observing th -ir webs, invented the pretty fable of Arach ie. Arachne was a maiden wffio had attained to su -ii export ness in weaving and embroidering that even tho nymphs, leaving their groves an 1 fou itains would g .taer to admire her work. Tuey whispered to each other ti.at Minerva her>eif must have taught her; but Arachne had grown vaia as she grew dexterous, auff overhearing them, denied the implication with high disdain. She would not acknowl edge herself inferior even to a goddess, a id finally challe iged Minerva to a trial of skill, saying: “If beaten, I will bear the penalty.” Minerva accepted the challenge aid the webs sere woven. Arach ie’s was of wondrous beauty, but when she saw that, of Minerva she knew that she was defeated; and in her despair, went and hanged herself. Minerva, moved by pity for her vain but s iiliful optionenr, trail-for ned her into a spider; ands e and her descendants siill retain a portion of her marvelous gitts of spinning a id weaving. Now let us see how the garden spider uses us inherited talent. Eacu iudivual is endowed with a spinneret, or natural spin ning machine, through which can be drawn innumerable strands, so fine that they can be see i only under powerful microscope (Leeuweahoeck claims tnat it takes 4,000,- 000 of the*e s rands to make a thread os thick as a hair from a man's head). First, our spider begins to draw from out he spinneret a cord of as many of these strands a-see ins to her good, and fastens it to some leaf or twig, then runs on a mther leaf, pinning ali tne while; fastens again otha ; ad to an ither and another; continuing until a circle is formed inclosing as large a space as she designs for the outer boundary of her web! Tneu she passes back and forth over her work, adding fres l threads, and strengthening this outer line, which she secures to every possible object. Finally sne stops, fastens her thread witn special care, and begins to run round the circle, spinning as site goes; but now car ry* g Iter fresh thread carefully raised upon one hi and foot, thus keeping it from touching the older strands and becoming glued to the n, When h ilf-way round she stops, pulls her thread, tight, fastens it very stro igiy.and a firm line is drawn stra ght across the center of the circle. She runs down this center line t > the middle, fastens anothe thread to it there, carries it to a new point upon the outer edge, faste is it, ad we kno w see that sho is engaged in caking thoso linos in tho wen that look so 'like the spokes of a wheel. She repeats this operation ugaiu and again u .til all the radii or spokes are formed. When the y are done she carefully tests each thread by pulling, to make sure that it is fi in and strong; and if one proves unsitisfact ry she either strengthens or re uakes it altogether. Now that the main lines are built, oar spider goes once mo e to the center point and begins to spin again—this time in cir cles—fastening to each radius as she passes. At first these circles, or more correctly spirals, are placed quite close to g t or, but sho leaves ever a wider and wider -pace between as she approaches the outer edge. The outer circle a,d tae radii were spun of a silk which becomes dry di rectly after leaving the spider’s body, anil is of great strength and very firm; but those spirals are formed of a substance wnica dif fers essen ially. When first drawn from the spinneret it is oxtreiuely glutinous—a m ist important property, as by this it is e ablel to adhere tenaciously to the radii—aud it is, besides, so highly elastic as to be capable of being pulled iar out of place without break ing. When the spirals are finished, tue solder returns again to the center, and proceeds to bite off the points of all the radii close to the first encircling line, bv which she much increases the elastic ty of her web. It is in or beneath this cent, al ope i g that tiie spidar usually sits and watches for the c uning of her proj-. But while these circular creations are perhaps the most beautiful, thev are by no means the only cobwebs. You have Drobabiy seen, or rather felt the long gos samer threads that so netimes draw the face as one walks beneath the trees ou a summer evening. At certain seasons they are very numerous. They float in the air, they fall upon the grass, thev gather on the trees. These are all cobwebs. Tuey are made by spiders, and in a manner so marvelous as to be al ao-t incredible. The spider spins the sil,; from its -piuu.eret, pushing it off iuto the air. It is so light that it does not fall. It l'fither rises in the air. It grows . longer and longer tlire id until it is carried by somo current against an object, often at a sur prising distance, to wuich it attaches itself, ibis spider’s slack rope is quite str ng enough to serve the little spinner as a bridge over which it can pass at its pleas ure. Indeed, in tue tropics spi ler.’ web are found of giga ltic size, some itnes even spanning streams, and of a strength so great that uu u ning birds are caught aid Held by th ni, as flies aro by the cobwebs of our own land. A Peeress Singing ;in ths Streets. From the London Star. Now that the aristocracy are taking to trade they seem de;er tf-d to let no in dustry escape. Even t,.e street-singer has titled rivals, for the other night the Mar chioness of Bristol, the ladiesjriervev, and a few of tneir friends went th-ough tho streets and squares of Belgravia, singing aud playing on guitars and inando.ius? They tried to suit all tastes, aad sang “O bulla Italia” and “On dem gold m slip pers!” wich equal vigor. The proceeds of the night’s work are to be given to the Hospital Sunday fund. MKDICAx., The Chief Reason for the marvellous suc cess of Hood's Sarsaparilla is found in the fact that this medicine actually accomplishes all that is claimed for It. 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Stssios ej Growth ice-, e Enrolled iai ' Wa Boarders . ..... 40 14 ’ 179 Music Pupils -. . . w _ RUFUS W. smith't Euler B, Smith, Secretary ‘"'Orient UNIVERSITY* Annual Session of This School for '„ v Th : • 1 tue first Monday in Octob-r t *>' begin, rations for University of Virginia i u l h , * gmeering School and United stat v 1 "’- ‘-a Naval Academies; highly recomm. ?“l ar >aci ulty of University of vS 'S’b.v f. structors; situitmn healthful l- ' i,afr ' A tion advised, as number of boimw ■ spp!l *■ limited. For catalogue! adur -ss e ls Stn '--'J W. GORDO;, McCABE B--ad Master. ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE. VSPp I This College enjoys the powers of , , sity and is conducted by the Jasui* p..i Cll - r is situated in a very York County, between the lUrier Sound. Every facility U g ven L 1 Classical. Scientific and Commere al tM, * Board and Tuition per re.r " - reopen W ednesdav, September 4, jssr; Boys from 10 to l/is under tho'sau, ’ l ' fc’ULLyfirr^S" 1 " apply t 0 ffeimliillj macon, ga. 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