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IMA IS RICH IN
of Urn Harmless Hog-Nose
sad Coach
whips—The Terrible Bloat
ms Battlesnake.
£ varieties RIZONA States, ______ any ties other of deadly possesses and, region be serpents probably, of found more the United vxrie- than any- aa
as ean
in the world. It is the purpose
her* to mention the more dangerous
varieties of serpents that the writer
Immi coma across daring a residence
there. puff blow ad¬
Tx> begin with, the or
der is a misnomer, as the true puffer and
or blower ia e native of Africa, is
not found on this continent at all. A
correct designation is “hog-nose," of the so
from the odd formation
muzzle, whioh is turned up at the tip,
jot all tbe world like the snoot of a
hog. Still, hundreds of people in
Arizona call him puff or blower adder,
•ad tide incorrect designation will no
doubt eling to a harmless reptile for
*11 time to oome. Although absolutely
without power to harm any one—-for
he is Tte i th n> ‘ poisonous nor a constric¬
tor—yet the hog-nose pots whioh on he more imi¬
thaa a rattlesnake,
tates in actions, coils, and manner or
while making more noise
then • goose in furiously hissing at
aothing. He acts just like a veno
i serpent, and yet be has not the
least taint of poison in his whole
length. His high, defiant attitude is
entirely without excuse, for even when
fee strikes at anything he never opens
feis Jews, and not the slightest scratch
js tfe e result. His cousin, however,
the rad blow adder, after which he is
erroneously called, is one of the most
deadly reptile# in existence. His aoe
of dubs head is a fearful object to be
nld, and his tliiok, slimy body is de
idedly indicative of venom. Hog
oss are quite plentiful in the
Mountainous parts of Arizona. After
U the talk abont serpents hissing,
Ids is the only specimen of the heard ophi
family whioh I have ever
to utter a sound.
1 Thunder snakes are by no means of
won ia Arisons, yet they travelers, are
eaoountered by prairie after thunder
erially before end
rms. Flashes of lightning and
pe of thunder, which are terrifying
bipeds and quadrupeds, and seem delight to
m tfes greatest charm
ben of the ophidian
lly. Whenever a thunder storm
ee up these snakes have a peculiar
de. They oome crawling out of
m, from behind rooks and rotten
spa and eajoy tbe fan while it lasts,
hr character is fierce and they are
ressive ia • high degree, whioh
remarkable in being pos¬
ited fey * a serpent that ia both fang
innocuous. Their markings
leeatiful in the extreme. Alter
bends of blaek, white, and yellow
r their lithe bodies,
eblaoksnaka is to wall known to all
k America that it is hardly worth
lag him from this point of the
Id We have two species in Ari
whioh inhabits marshy
k ponds, and creek another bottoms, that lives ana in
spots, the rooks and in
onations among
sods, where dead, dry leaves are
mid young birds numerous.
boos. Nearly all striking loaded
mv* while fangs, the asaally oonstriotors
MB,
ever strike, preferring to
air enemies to de ath. Green
n, beadsnakes, like wiee milk,
ere entirely
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mJ 7 arm
slender * his
the boa,
is or
Uk* the hard
.with Oi poisofi«
t loco mo
A
Ha
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isvtssw tl
or a=a» :
l;
•long his body, and it covered with
beautiful yellow, xigzag lines on both
A s s^ralc poisonous and non-poi»oh
most deadly serpent we bare in Amer¬
ica is tbe rattlesnake. The most barm
lew of ophidians are the bull, black
and king snakes, all of which will
tackle and kill a rattlesnake without
the least hesitation. There is no more
deadly serpent in tbe world, sot ex*
cepting the cobr® of Arift, the h&ge of
Africa, or tbe fer de lanoe of Martin¬
ique, than tbe terrible bloated rattle¬
snake of the Staked Plains. On the
desert# of Arizona ere to be found the
most venomous, the largest, most
active and most dangerous rattle¬
snakes in the world. Six feet is an
ordinary length of these reptiles. Re¬
covery from their venom is exception¬
ally rare. In August they become
large, yellow, bloated things, and it is
at this time of the yesr that the
Apaebe Indians seek them out to ob¬
tain'poison for their arrows. A deer’s
liver, smoking hot, is torn out and
laid before the reptile. He is
punched and angered so that he strikes
it again and again, the morsel turning
a blue black from the poison even be¬
fore the snake has finished striking.
This is then placed high on a pole to
deoompose in the snn, after which it
is brought down and the arrows stnok
into it, they being afterward dried in
the snn to retain the poison.*—Ohicago
Record.
Recovering From * Broken Neck.
There is • remarkable ease of a bro¬
ken neek being successfully set and
the patient showing every sign of Hos¬ re¬
covering at the Post Graduate
pital in Second avenue and Twentieth
street. The case is that of Miss Abbie
McCully, of West Fifty-sixth street.
She is the seventeen-year-old daughter
of John V. MoOnlly, a piano manufac¬
turer in this oily. Miss MoOnlly lives
with her aunt, Mrs. Anna Smith, and
attends a private school? During the
vacation Miss MoOnlly visited another
aunt, Mrs. Harris, of Jersey City, and
while at this house ten days ago the
accident by whioh Miss MoOuUy’s
neck was broken ooourred. She was
swinging in a hammock with the two
ohildren of Mrs. Harris, when in their
frolio the hammook was overturned.
It was swung on the veranda, and al¬
though it was only two feet from the
floor where Miss MoOnlly fell, the
oontsot on the solid flooring broke her
neok. She had fallen on the back of
her head.
Medical assistance was sent for, and
after a careful examination the dootor
said that the neok was broken at the
fifth vertebra, and he pronounced the
case almost hopeless. expedi¬
Anxious to resort to every
ent to save his daughter’s life, Mr.
MoOnlly deoided to send her to the
Post Graduate Hospital in this oily,
and tha girl was taken there in an
ambnlanoe in charge of a physioian.
Oxygen was administered at frequent
intervals to snstain her nntil she
reached the hospital. Snmediately placed
npon her arrival there the was
upon tiie operating table and the
delioate and dangefons operation of
removing the broken vertebra was
performed by Dr. W. O. Plympton in
the presenoe of Professor* Dsna and
Kelsey. It was disooveted that the
shattered vertebra was pressing parti
against the spiral cord. Every carefully
ole of the broken bone was
removed and then her neek was ban
daged. All this time the girl had been
under the influanoe of an anaeathetic.
Soon aftsrwaxd she showed signs of
oonsoioaaness, and it was not long be¬
fore she entirely regained oonseions- complete
The operation W— MoOnlly was a has
sunfinis and re¬
mained at tte hospital under the oare
of the doctor and is rapidly ia recover¬ hoped
ing, so that in a month it
that she will be able to leave tbe
taMto, Tfa. dooior, ,r« hopefnl ot
*•* o° a P lat « recovery, although they
thfok the wfll always have a stiff
- Nsw fork Tribune.
a chemists have been expert
with Irish peat, and have ee
a
wmvsawnn^awB formed for the mem^w
of the various products that may be
•d from Ireland’s boglanda. One
Of these product* fo « antmeptio
“wool” for dreaming wounds. It pos
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FASHION’S WHIMS.
FALL AMD WINTER NOVELTIES
IN WOMAN'S WEAR.
Waist Trimmings Are GetHag TOab
orate—How to Wear Veils—
Style* la Jackets
and Capes.
W AIST trimming* are grow¬
ing more end more elab¬
orate, if that were pos¬
sible, until there is no
Idling where this extreme will end.
A new costume has an arrangement of
and drapery that illustrates the
to which this fashion is being
earned. A narrow section of tbe ma¬
terial extends over each shoulder from
the waist line at the back to the bod¬
ice point in front, This is laid in
plait# that are caught down or pressed
to hold them in place. From the
front ol this plaiting long tabs fall al¬
most to the hem of the skirt in front.
Around this and the waist section is a
plaiting made extremely full and
graduated. Over the shoulders it is
about eight inches wide and grows
narrower to the waist line, whero it is
bnt about an inch and a half in width.
The same order is observed in the
tabs. At tbe lower portion tbe plait¬
ing is very wide; a large, loose bow
is placed at the waist line in front and
covers tbe meeting point of the plait
ings that pass over the shoulders.
This arrangement is made of taffeta
■Ok and erepon, and ia large enough
to almost entirely cover the waist and
the tops of the sleeves nearly to the
elbows.
Another waist trimming has double
ruffle i of taffeta eilk on a wool ma¬
terial. These rufflee are set in just
over the shoulders, and are graduated
to tbe waist line, where they form a
surplice effect. Over these double
ruffles are very wide pointed revere of
the drees fabric. These reve» aie
opened on the shoulder like a lapel,
one point vanning in front of the
sleeve, the ether in the book.
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* NEWEST STYLE OF A FALL ANp WINTER COSTUME.
Another drees hoc the waist entirely
covered with ruffles of very finely
erimpled ohiffon or crop* lisse. There
ia a velvet collar and velvet sleeve#
and belt, thathin raffles veiling the
wide figure with the exception of *
box plait of velvet that
over tbe raffles and is caught in
aktfea waist line.
mov to wxab
y little details of
fashion that the world at large knows
not of, but of which it merely sees the
To tbe woman who is always
SEr says the New York Hex
little details n
Thera iia
dk should Thor an No
the face
flowing. A few plait or
the veil
mm mmm.
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JrtnnOt* rad & the C dS^oki«
preferred. Tbe white, with black
chenille dote, which has been to fo*h
ionable Mid ao blinding, is * trifle
passe, bat it is too becoming to go en
tirely out of style. long, to come
Veils are still worn much
below the chin, and are as a
part of a epstume as the hat itself.
The plain mesh is preferred both by admia* some
to the fancy dots, but are
gable. »
DAINTT CAKia
Wee capes that are not altogether
unlike those of last season are to lie
stylishly worn in the theatre and con-
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cert room, and it is a dainty example
of this sort of garment that it pre
seated here. Of white gros gram, it
is composed of a series of panels cut
into ,-irtred ooints at the lower ends and em
, broidered with With tinv tiny SDancles spangles^in in di- cu
agonal with lines. accordion The lower plaited edgo lB black nn
ished an
mousse __,,__. lin e de soio frill, ... ana a „ very „„
delioate pale bine silk lines the whole,
Around the neok oome* a fall raehe of
bluk -SS long bkak ribbon
ends. Hie aooompanying hat is of
fancy jet with coronet crown, ia
sis-? blaek plumes, * iUi and ?rsi is lined With the
pale bine silk. .
lUDoom
There teems to be quite a fancy fox
plaids of every description this season,
and they certainly do brighten up the
somber dark blues rad bro----- J
green# which so women
just now. Of coarse, the plaid is iu
trodueed in the way of thawing
and ! anything
A whole on a large w
a little
to
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too load tor a «of
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BILL ABB’S UiiTKlL
HE AND HIS FOLKS TAKE IS THE
EXPOSITION,
They Spent a Day at the Show and
Enjoyed it Immensely.
The world’* fair was a grind show. We did
not see i toy wife and I, bnt some of the
, and the talk and tell of it lasted six
familv did that
months. It was the greatest show ever
was on earth. But it was too big a show for a
day or a week. My folks say they nev.r what got
through with it and had to harry big over enough
they did see. The fair at Atlanta is
for me—big enough for my time and my com
prehtnsioo. My wife and I have been and it
has renewed her youth and now she has some¬
thing else to talk about besides the missionary
meetings and the grandchildren aud the flow¬
ers that I liavent put in the pit. Yes, I took her
down last Wednesday. It took right smart of
preparation, of course, for sho had an idea
that the people-would all expect her and ob¬
serve her ontfit, and she has great respect for
public occasions and for herself, too, and so her
paraphernalia had to be revised and remodeled.
She knows how poor I am and said it would
oost too much for her to go, but I told her she
should go if it broke me and all mv friends and
relations. These maternal ancestors, who, for
thirty and tarty years, have served the Lord
and their country in the infantry service and
toiled day and night in raising children, nurs¬
ing and sewing and caring tor offspring—
slaves to destiny and the curse that was put on
Mother Eve—never without a little child that
was too young and helpless to take care of itself
never with a day or a night that #as free from
anxiety, they should have a good time in their last'
days if there is a good time for anybody in this
sublunary world. They are like the heroes
who came from the war. They are like Paul,
who said, “I have fought a little good fig lit.” at>out But
Paul would have known a more
fighting if be had been a family man and bad
to get up in the night when he was almost
dead for sleep and walk tbe floor his in his night
gown witN a teething child in arms aud
singing, “Hush my dear; be still and slum¬
ber," or
“Oh where shall rest be found,
Best for the weary soul.
.
Paul had a hard O ne, but he never gradu
***
M y wife was almost afraid to undertake tbe
exposition—afraid she would get tired and
worn-ont tramping yohngeetoUM around, but like all mothers
^ leta thH persuade her. The
0 j^ er oneg have scattered and gone and some of
them we fear are weaned, but the youngest of
all the flock is here and she is not weaned. 8he
was twenty-one yesterdav and is married and
bM a child of her own, bur she is not weaned,
Oh, no; she is still oar comfort and of brings ns
sunshine every day. Just think it. Ten
SEKSh 23 a 2 ?ii* 3 S:iK!;
have gradnated and gone to work. One of th m,
who has my name and my birthday, is ao elec
trician at ibe exposition. Hs escorted os round
and when we were aske 1 to register oar names
in a book, I wrote mine in fnll and he took the
pen and just wrote “ditto," and we went on.
’We got safely into the grounds, my wife and
I and onrvoungest daughter, who was celebrar
'to* ^® 9 r o’clock birthday, and began tbe grand "tqoped rounds
about in tbe morning. Wo
long enough to take a turd’s eye view or the
situation—to look at the panorama and to locate
the f particular buildings. I was and the chaperon, I
for had been there befor?, so pointed
out ‘-There everything b -fore we building," began the perusal. L “I
is the government said
wish yon eon id spend half a day there. That
Smithsonian exhibit is Just maguiflcsnt. There
isihe woman’s building; there is 'he liberal
arts; there is the agricultural building and
ST S'JEiiiSESS
IS dm time We Started on the grand rounds.
I had two shawls and a basket of lunch and
some other traps to carry, bnt that was all
right for a while. I I will carry anyihing on
sttch occasions carried thoae paraphernalia
until could.eat 1 o’oiock, when we got to a places shawls where
we up the lunch and leave tbe
and the etoetera. We took it in by slow de
grees. Sometimes I was in the lead like a pilot;
sometimes I was behind like a shepherd dog.
I am very doolie on such oooasions. Sometimes
I would sit down somewhere and wait till they
got done looking. I bad no trouble anywhere
white folks snd the ptaawav i* marrow. “Gen¬ -
tlemen,” said I, "please don’t crowd thi* lady
—•he is my Wife, but they paid no more at¬
tention to me than if I was a common man and
I reckon I am. If 1 could have called back
twenty years I would have knocked one fellow
a rad and taught him some manners. Thoae
fish are jnst beautiful, but I have seen sheeps
head down at Clear Water just ike them. I
have reen them all around a palmetto post
sucking tho barnacles and they were so thiok
yon oouldnot see through them. They wouldent
notice a hook wi<h the most tempting bait on
it. but I oould take a grain or a gigpote and
strike it down amongst them and kiu half a
dozen at a stroke. It took ns an hour to get
through the government building and we did
not see it all to onr satisfaction That alone
is a great-show. Our paternal government has
been good to ns and the MmitbaonUn iustitn
tkm carried out the will of that noble Engiish
man who left a million dollar* for tbe dttfakn
^ knowledge myslhev men. The preface Wit to the
catalogue would have h. much
more if we had bad room tor it. Since Smith
ia various.urns, from •5,000 up to a quarter of
rssiaartsrja&iast a million. Say what you please about the
them to some chasny thk or some beneficent
eawaa. Juat think hr-*- Sasithacaian iasti
tntion has gr own. They have now a library of
87,000 votum • on schntiflc subjects A museum
of 90.00U niator&ral collections of eoins sod
medals. 1,819 mariosi iitotnnueot,, $.500 -perf
sees of pottery and porcelains. 1,309 cbemksal
products, 8,300 which textiles, 428,900 ofthinrs specimen, osod of
et huologr. means aU sorts
sad invented by barbaiem nation*; 83,000 epee-
78,000 hWoW,000°hSSr WBkUOO fi-hrs. sm
a*. M.000 rt-pdisa, 910
is, 610.OUO loiMa.
erSvSiaSMs; mils, aU the wild American asksk it is Mi with s*
in tbe world.
Ovsr*remillion tadwi is the lost psorishav«i
tvsns ream
fas*
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bin'll iln‘ »xqiii-tt music
ami »omlere ' jf li re c uw
inUMO l besren. p „ m , j, ai:? sweety *<Ho
tbe apiiiui nwl and maimfJtnrL ere ’ nn l<T
% am ml bnikiiii and tnrre *, ami dere.1 |, V ;b g t j", ^ *"' , 1 W*!*! te
oocb upon the *t e m h*4 ***
seen e> b or cine The d.y, * t ,d «i .i “*«
she *»<»' me. mind ha* kh
»o die out ihniK- ju«t like tlie .£* 'i«e
her o go up to the Midway aid
cliutcs and ndeon tbe scenic *£i , bnt 'k
she and «kl wonhi .be wait had shot for enough othe^f^gh !2Z *>.
“Won’t some nVn! ^
rest. you take a i^h^ boat *** &e
Mew?'’ went back But to uo, Coma the Bica coll, sa^d e ,°" C,4t W *
toned mniic and theeWwJ^ , {«■ «
to mor*- and saw
turned on »Dd were happy. n» !l sht*
sassraarttsdS o’clock we wer* b»ck to the' ritv L fi i "P Mt 7
ters aud both b mmd efeteak and and body. delicious o ff«/£Y ,* oy Te *
upon hbme 10 o’clock thaVnight We ai . U *
at J, aud t h
light, in tbe -iodow for **>
Senf there on tbe h children’s W ^ day ama and wln eii ^ Z 0
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NEWSY CLEA \liMC3.
Business keeps on boomin'*.
Florida has 2851 pensioner?.
England has an Anti-Puritan Lea-m\
^The Socialists poil 1,8W,0 J3 vot« i n
ta ] Rwi| 01Pteffta ^ tUe h0tle3t Jn 150
*•***“■>« **>«'*•
Prance is a very heavy purehaier <>•
Ban wines this year.
An enumeration just compiutod
827,072 voters in Indiana. •
Cholera is snroa liiij?seriously in fu n sout'a
western provinces of Russia.
The Atlanta Evoosition will have „ Cuban
Independence Day during November.
The interference of the Mormon Ohurah in
polities had created exeltam-nt in Utah."
1 fo-more*® 8
Montana wool and bidding
Oysters have been discovere i on the bot
tom of the United States battle ship Tonus,
» estimated that 700 Armenians wets
th ® WC ° nt r ° to 1U Cjustuntino P le
>
The leB R t Bridgeton. . & N. J. T now contains
prisoners ,
twenty-two charged with chicken
stealing;
They say that the Atlanta exposition
medals may bo issued before those oi the
Ohicago Mr.
The crop of pampas plumes around Santa
Barbara, Cal., will aggregate little over
m iiit 0 n this year.
Spanish Government has ordered 60 -
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the army in cu un.
If to proposed to establish at or near Kan
sas City, Mo., a home for superannuated or
worn-out preachers,
The St. Paul (Minn.) School Board reoent
ly decided school to prohibit teachers. married women from
becoming
A Parte syndicate substantial will probably eairy furnish
Spai]1 ^Tn a loan to on the
Cuba a little longer,
0r _ ^“! . 8bur . ?’ 00,0 ? 0 hu3b6 , b
of , potatoes to market this fall n and can only ,
get ten cents a bushel for them,
The America’s Gap contest of 1896 isprao
tically arranged, accepted and by under Dunraven. the same terms
that were Lord
The Bev. P. P. Stanford, who wasoncea
slave, Garrison has Memorial been installed Church. as Boston, pastor of the
Mass.
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P“tor. . ;
None of the Central or South American
Governments will take the initiative inree
ognizing of the belligerency of the revolntion
tots Cuba.
The United States battleship Maine has
been put into commission. She was begun
in 1895, knots and cost hour. *2,409,030. She can de¬
17.75 an
The United Slates Government has made
application to the Fisheries Department of
Canadian Government for a supply oi fish
ova {or the Great La kee .
that A dlaprtob from of Albany, incorporation N. T.. announces has b«en .
a certificate
filed with the Secretary of State by the Kid
ney Stew Club, ol Htu-iem.
President Wilson, of the Health Board, of
New York City, reports that anU-toxioe has
reduced the death-rate fn eases of diptherla
and eroup nearly forty-four per cent.
Five tracts of land, aggregating 420,000
aores. in Southern California, colonization have just boea
bou gnt by a syndi ate for pur
poses, — The ‘laud consist mostly of big
ranches.
The first moose of tbe season in Maine wss
riiot by Benjamin Taft, of Riston. It wai *
flue bni-k, standin? fully six feet high and
weighing nearly 1W0 pounds, with antler*
showing a spread of forty inches.
Eltvtric motors, may soon replace the en¬
gines at present used in "shunting” trains at
the terminals of the Brooklyn Bridge, and if
the electric system entirety of supplant propulsion tho is a success present
there It will
inble.
Tbe chain gear on safety bicycles is to be
supplanted hentieforth by a metal ribbon
mode from a steel analogous to that used
In piano wire. Orifices are cut at regular
Intervals fn the ribbon which engage
sprocket wheel.
_
the PWriEBJOIBB MUDDLE.
As a result oi tbe legal differences
feetwewtt Mr. Joseph PulRzer a ndOd
JTtU^"lS‘nti°pSt-Dto^lE existed n be
which
The Hew York World
•d last Tfefc^
of
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togs
BO *
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of
D.
Maaager a Strighen i
ward Buttell dropped ia
to r
AamwA’mf jail
tismimx j
mm