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THE WILD BULL
rifKILLIMi FIGHT bet wee v
Bill-AM) AND SlOrx.
_ Daring ___... Imlians ..... With Bows „ nfl
Arrows Bring to the Dnst the
liing of the Herd—The
bast Charge.
" ‘ >a ; Emins m the sixties,”
, tf1e f or man. ’He did
*“ ' not
ok . but
over .orty, he must have
‘‘ u mor0 *Hau fifty, for the tales
f tend carried so much of the color
th" country that one found it difK-
ust to diso. liove them. He was nn
:;-im r noer of the Colorado Legisla-
ire, and had come to Washington to
iort. ior the passage of a bill to re-
lieve railway employes, and was now
-cited vilii a party of friends at one
,1 the small tables in the House res-
taurant. If is life had been varied and
interesting. He Lad been a cowboy,
an engineman, a railway postal clerk
and politician.^ had just finished Ihe Spanish interesting gentle-
man an
account of a bull tight whichhad taken
place at Barcelona, in which, by some
accident, the bull had the best of it.
“I saw a bull fight on the plains
once,” said tbe short man, layinn- h, g
tools down, “right out iu the open
with nothing to hide behind,‘nowhere
to stand but on, and nowhere to fall
out off,’ as the deceased bard of St
Jo would say.
“It was while wc were locating tho
me of tho Uuion Pacific—simply
driving across tho country and mak¬
ing observations. A couple of Sioux
fell in with our party aud wore riding
along looking for a chance to steal
something, when we came suddenly
upon a small herd of buffalo. The
-rear guard, a sturdy old bull, was feed¬
ing aloug in a sag between tho sand
hills, and, tho wind blowing from him
to ue. prevented him from scenting
our party until the two Indians dashed
;»y, cutting him off from tho main
herd. Lowering his head the great
brute bounded away up the little hill,
at the top of which the two Sioux sat
waiting to receive him. Each of the
Indians carried a rifle, but to our sur¬
prise they were left hanging at the
-addles. The bull made straight for
one of tbe horses, but just as he
seemed about to collide tho bron¬
cho sprang to one side and
au arrow from tbo Indian’s bow
was driven deep into the back of the
bull. We expected the animal to bolt
now, but he was enraged and scorued
to escape. Turning, he came straight
for the other Sioux, only to plow tho
a:r close—alarmingly close—to the
agile horse, which carried his rider
safely to the rear. The first. Indian
had by this time lived another arrow,
and wheu the charge was made planted
it deep behind tho bull’s left shoulder.
The fight had by this time become so
exciting that our driver, forgetting
the danger, had driven up to within a
hundred yards of the scene of the
battle. Having bounded by one of
the Indians, carrying another arrow
away with him, the infuriated animal
caught, sight of our wagon aud drove
straight for us. It was like standing on
the track iu front of a locomotive, and
every man of us, realizing the great
danger, was seized with a fear that al¬
most froze his blood. The driver was
no tilled with terror that he made no
attempt to avoid the collision, which,
from the moment the bull passed the
Indian, seemed inevitable. On be
came, snorting like a snowplow and
looking as formidable, and not one of
us had presence of mind enough to
reach for a rifle. We were too badly
scared to move, but not so with the
Sioux. Seeing our danger the bravo
fellows turned their horses aud came
galloping past the bull, one on either
side, and us they passed him each
drove an arrow into the mad brute.
These new wounds seemed only to in¬
crease bis rage, and on he came, tear¬
ing toward us, but bo lore they reached
our wagon, the Indians whirled their
horses, aud with arrows drawn stood
between us and the approaching
buffalo. Tho horses had barely time
to turn before the bull was upon
them. One of the broncos sprang
away, his rider emitting a wild yell as
he ft- nt another arrow into the bleed¬
ing buffalo. The other Iudian was not
so fortunate. His horse failed to clear
and one of the bull’s horns caugh^in
its side just behind the girth and
plowed a great furrow back to the
flank.
“Tbe buffalo appeared to appreci¬ and
ate the advantage of this thrust,
at once turned and charged the un¬
horsed Sioux. The Indian might
have ended the light by taking up his
rifle, but he did not. Standing erect
at the side of his dead horse he faced
the rapidly advancing foe and sent an
arrow deep under the shoulder blade.
As the arrow left the string the Indian
dropped beside the bofiy of his horse
and the buffalo passed over him with¬
out doing any damage, Now tho
mounted Sioux claimed the attention
of the wounded bull, and again the
Sioux on foot. By this time the buf¬
falo fairly bristled with arrows and
resembled a huge porcupine, We
oould see that the animal was getting
groggy, as they say of prize fighters,
but his sand seemed never to leave
him. With a roar that would send a
ehill down your spine, with blood
spurting from his nostrils, he would
drive like a hurricane at his tormen¬
tors, who, with the exception noted,
seemed to avoid him by about the
breadth of two hairs. When they had
fought five minutes the earth for
space of fifty eet about resembled a
plowed field. The one living horse
flecked with the Iroth of battle and,
like the buffalo, snowed unmistak¬
able signs of exhaustion. As the
tion of the bull grew slower,
horseless Sioux fought further
cover. At times he would stand
tn tho; very face of his lurious
•ary and after discharging his
leap brushed to one side while the monster
“We by.
ning were surprised at the begin¬
of the fight to see the Indians
using their bows, allowing their rifles
to remain at the saddle, but our sur-
prise was still greater now, * wheu the
mounted Sioux turned his horse about
left the field, leaving his compan-
ion to fight it out single-handed,
f he bull seemed to take new courage,
finding but one of his assailants, aod
for a time fought desperately. Of a
811 dden he stopped, facing the Indian,
With his front feet far apart he ap-
peared id rest, perhaps to collect his
i f a8 * failing strength. He was an ob-
e ct now to excite one’s pity, aud, al-
though it raay seem unchristian, I al-
most wished hecould win, for in those
‘Iftys there were nearly as many In-
diansas buffaloes and they were infi-
oitely more dangerous.
“An arrow bad destroyed one of the
Bull’s eyes, blood was rushing from
mouth and nostrils and trickling
from a score of wounds along his
s P*nc. His life blood was ebbing
awa J* now, seeing his tormentor
standing before him, he made a last
desperate effort to reach him. With
a hounded mighty roar the bleeding brute
forward, and it seemed to us
iie re ff ftinecl a11 his l^st
strength, for he went with the speed
and force of aa express train. The
tlann g >Sioux drew another arrow and
let ll drive into the buffdl °. raade a
feint of dodging to the right, aud
then, leaping far to the left, let fly
another arrow as the baffled bull went
by.
“The buffalo was by this time ac¬
quainted with the Sioux’s tricks, aud
tho moment he passed the Indian,
whirled and came back at his adver¬
sary with renewed vigor. The Sioux,
surprised perhaps by the suddenness
of tho charge, leaned back, stumbled,
and nearly fell backward over the
body of bis dead horse. Before be
could regain his feet the animal was
upon him. It seemed that in another
moment the Indian would bo tossed
high in the air, but the new lease ol
life the bull had was out, and in that
moment iu which we had looked to see
him triumph, the great beast stum¬
bled and fell in a heap at the Sioux’s
feet.”—Cy Wurman, in New York Sun.
Iit Which Teeth Figure.
Hippocrates, 4.10 B. C.,was the first
dentist on record.
Gold-filled teeth are found iu the
jawe of skeletons exhumed at Pompeii.
Wetting a brush and dipping it in
salt will be found efficacious in remov¬
ing tartar.
Dental science was utterly lost to
the world during the dark ages, or for
about 1000 years, aud was ouly res¬
tored in 1700.
Out of 100 teeth of adults that
twenty-five years ago would have been
ruthlessly diawn at least ninety-nine
are saved to-day by the progress of
dental science.
In China while the dentist pulls a
tooth an assistant stands by aud
drowns the lamentations of the victim
by beating a large gong.
The ancient Greeks used false teeth
of sycamore wood fastened to the ad¬
jacent sound teeth by ligatures of
silver or gold iu the way bridge work
is done to-day.
In aucient Egypt the art of surgery
and medicine was confined to the
priesthood and every priest adopted a
specialty. His proficiency was attained
in tho dental art.
TJuder the Mosaic law of an eye for
an eye ana a tooth for a tooth the re¬
gime was practically carried out and
the lord high executioner numbered
forceps among his instruments of
penalty and torture.
Weight Before and After Meals.
Why is it that a man does not weigh
a pound more after tating a pound of
food than he did before? A little re¬
flection wfill readily explain this ap¬
parent mystery. During the process
of mastication, degiutation, etc., cer¬
tain muscles are brought into active
play. Now, it is a well-established
fact in physiology that tho exercise of
any muscle or set of muscles necessi¬
tates a temporary waste of tissue, and
that a certain amount of carbon is
eliminated and passed off in the course
of a meal. This loss, however, is tri¬
fling as compared with thatof respira¬
tion and perspiration, both of.which
functions are increased during the
operation of making a meal.
The length of time one may take to
consume a pound of foo l makes but
little difference iu the losses. If it be
eaten very leisurely.there is but slight
increase of respiration or perspiration.
Whereas, if it be hurried through both
are abnormally accelerated. Hence by
the time the meal is iinished the con-
sumer has lost appreciably in both
moisture and carbonic acid.
The above explains, in a rough but
olear manner, why it is that a man may
eat a pound of food and yet not weigh
but from one-third to live-eighths of
a pound more than he did before the
meal.
A JuJge of Grand Opera.
It is customary at the opera house
in Mexico for a judge of the perform-
anco to be appointed, whose duty it is
to see that other artists are not sab
stituted for those advertised ; that the
waits between the. acts are not too
long and that things generally are
managed to the satisfaction of the pub¬
lic. It is said that on one occasion,
when Patti wa* singing in a company
managed by Mr. Grau, etrtet or lers
had been given that no one was to he
admitted behind the scenes. It hap¬
pened that the son iu law of President
Diaz had beeu appointed juflare and he
was refused admittance. On leav ug
he gave orders to arrest the man who
had opposed his entr m -e. Not find-
i ing him the soldiers arrested another
man, who, not being able to speak
| Spanish, was marched off to prison, and
j it was several hoars before the matter
was explained.
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE NOTED DIVINE'S SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subject: “Divine Cliirograpliy.”
Text: “Rejoice Because your names are
written in heaven.’ —Luke x., 2l>.
Ch rography. or the are of handwriting, .
like ihe science of acoustics, is in very un-
satisfactory state. While constructing a
churcb, aud told by some architects that the
voice would uol be heard in a building shaped
iike that proposed. I came in much anxiety
to this city and consulted with Prof. Joseph
Henry, of the Smithsonian Institution, about
the iuw of acoustic®. He **Go ahead
and build your church i:i the shape pro-
posed, and I think it will be all right. I
have studied the law's of souu i perhaps more
thau any man of niv time, un i i have come
so far as this - Two auditoriums may seem to
le exactly alike, and in one the acou-ttcs
may be good aud in the other bad. Iu tue
same unsatisfacierv stage is chtrography,
to although science. many There declare tney those have who reduces they it
a are say
can rea l character by handwriting. It is
said that the wav one writes the letter T
decides his egotism or modesty, and the way
one writes the letter “0 decides the height
and depth of his emotions, lt is declared a
cramped hand means a cramped nature, and
an easy, flowing hand a facile and lU.-eral
spirit; but if there beanythingin thisscteuce,
i here must be some rules not yet announced,
for some oi the boldest and most aggressive
men have a delicate and smud penmanship,
while some oi the most timid sign their
names with the height and width and scope
of the name of Johu flaneococ on theirnmor-
ta! document. Jiui wnile the clnrography
or the earth is uncenain, our blessed Lord
'■! ? Ur «n 'Yhuraddwasiugtlw Xt l’ re f entli currography celes-
ua . seventy disciples
*
standing . before Him, He said: •'Rejoice be-
cause your names are written in heaven.
0l course, tne Bible, for the most part,
. speaking of the heavenly world speaks
wnen
flguraii\el> while talking anout books an t
about trumpets and about wings and about
gates and a *out golden pavements and nnout
orchards with twelve crops of fruit—one
crop each month s.-u n »o\u the
hor*es of heaven <t cavalry; but we do well to
fouow out these inspired metaphors and reap
trom them courage and sublime expectation
and consolation and victory. We .ore told
J'l l n 'f, library ^ tuereisaBook
of Lne. rerhap;: there aro many volumes in
it. When we say a book, we mean all writ-
ten by the author on that aubjeoi. I cannot
tell how large those heaven v volumes are,
nor the splendoi o. tlieir binding, nor the
number o: their pages, nor whether they are
pietorialized with some exciting scenes of this
world. I only know that the words have not
been impressed by type, but written out by
some hand, and that all those who. like the
seventy spoken, disciples to whom the Lord text was
repent and trust llie for their
eternal sal vat on. surely have their- names
written m heaven. It nuj not be the same
name that wo earned on earth. We may,
tnrough tha inconsiderateuess of _ parents.
liave a name that »s uncouth, or that was
afterward dishonored bv one after whom we
were called. I do not know that the seventy
entrances of the names of tho seventy dis-
tuples correspond with the record in the
genealogical table. It may not be the name
by which we were called on earth, but it will
be the name by which heaven wih know us,
an 1 we will have it announced to us as we
pass in, and avo wnl know n so certainly that
we w ill uot have to be called twice by it, as
iu the Bible times the Lord called some peo¬
ple twice by name: “Saul! Saul!” "samue,. „!•
Samuel!” “Martha! Martha!”
In examination of your name in the
heavenly all. archives, it you flu tit there at
you will find it written with a bold han \
You have seen many a signature that because
of sickness or old age ha i a tremor in it, vet
it was as bold as the man who wrote it.
Many an order written on the battlefield aud
amid the thunder of the euunona te has ha t
evidence of excitement in every word aud
every letter and in the speed with v/hieh it;
was folded and handed to the officer as he
put his foot in tho swift stirrups, and yet
th it commander, notwithstanding his trem¬
bling hanL gives a boldness of order that
shows itself in every word written. You do
not need to be told that a trembling hand
does not always mean a cowardly hand. It
was with a very trembling hand Charles
Carroll, of Carrollton, signet his name to
the Declaration of American Independence,
but no signer had more courage and when
some one said, “There are many Charles
Carrolls, and it wil uot be known which one
it is.” he resumed the pen and wrote Char es
Carroll Carrollton. ~ Trembling
of hand no
sign of timidity. The daring and defiance
seen in the way your name is written in
heaven is a challenge to all earth and hell to
come on if they can to defeat your ransomed
sou!.
Again, if according to the promise of tho
text, you are permitte l to look into the
volumes will of find eternity it written and in see lines, your in name words, Jh£re, iu
you
letters unmistakable. Some people have
come to consider indistinct and almost un¬
readable penmanship a mark of geiiiu-!, and
so they affect it. Because every paragraph
that Thomas Chalmers, aud Dean Stanley,
and Lord Byron, and Rufus Choate and
other potent men wrote was a puzzle, imita¬
tors make their penmanship a puzzle. Alex¬
ander Dumas says that plain penmanship is
the brevet of incapacity. Then there are
some who, through too much demand upon
their energies and through lack of time, lose
the capacity ef making the pen intelligible,
and much of the writing of this world i.s in¬
decipherable. We have seen piles of inex¬
plicable chirographv, and we ourselves have
helped augment the magnitude. We have
not been sure of the name signed, or the
sentiment expressed, or whether the reply
was affirmative or negative. Thr ugh in¬
distinct penmanship last wills and testa¬
ments have been defeated, widows and
orphans robbed of their inheritance, railroad
trains brought into collision through the
dim words of a telegram put tuto the hand
of a conductor, aud regiments, in this wise,
mistaking their instructions, have been
sacrified in battle. I asked Bishop
Oowie, in Auckland, New Zealand, the
Bishop having been in many of tne wars,
what Tennyson, in his jmmortal poem.
“Tne Charge of the Lig t Brigade,”
meant by the wor s, “Some one had
blundernd,” and the Bishop said that
the awful carnage at Bulaklava was the
result of an indistinctly-written and
wrongly-read military erder, “Some one
ha>t Plundered.” But your nanm-, once
written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, will be
so unmistakable that all heaven can read it
at the first glance. lt will not be taken for
the name of some other, so that in regard to
it there shall come to be disputation. Not
one of the mil ions and billions and quad-
trillions of the llnady save t will doubt that
it means you and only you. Od. the
glorious the rapturous eertitu le of that
cm ranee on the heavenly roll. NM saved in
a promiscuous mob. No, way. No: put iuto a
glorifie l no! Though you came
up, the wer.-t sinner that was ever saved,
and somebody woo knew you in this world
at one time as absolutely “I abandoned and
itissoiute should say: never heard of
your conveision and I do not believe you
have a right to be here,” von coulA just
laugh a laugh of triumph, and. turning over
the leaves containing the names of the re-
deeme.i, sax: “Read it for yourself. That
is mv name. writt«i out in full, and do you
not recogn ze the handwriting? No voung
scribe of heaven entered that. No aunony-
m- us writ -r put it there. Do ymi not see
the tremor iu the lines? Do you not also see
the boldness of the letters? Is it not as plain
a* yonder tbron-, as plain as yonder gaie?
Is it not the nam9 tiumistak tble and the
lift'd writ ing unmist kable? The crucified
Lord wro e it th^r- the day I repented and
turned. Hear it! Hear it! My name ie
written there! There! ’
T mre is not ou earth an autograph letter
cr .-it-uaiure of Christ. The ontyLmeHs
wt-' te out a word on »arih. thouch He knew
t-o wed how to wriite, He wrote with refer-
**nee to having it soon shuffled out by human
foot, the time that He sitooped down aud
with His linger wrote on the ground the
hypocrisy of the Pharisees. But when He
write- your name in the heavenly .archives,
as I believe He na.-, or hope He may. it is to
stay there from age to aeje. from cycle to
cycle, from <*non to eaon. And so for all you
Christian people I do what John G. Whittier,
the dvlncr poe? - . said he wanted don® in his
home. L >voly man h“ was! I sat with him
in a haymow a wholo summer afternoon. and
heard him tell the story of his life. H«* had
for many years been troubled with insomnia.
aQd W!t> ;i very p » *r sleeper, aud he always
h ad window curtain of his room up so as
to see the first intimation of sunrise. When
he wns breathing hi? last in the morning
hour, i a his Ik- me iu the Massachusetts vil-
th „ mir ^ thought that the light of the
rising sun wa< too strong for him. and so
!(U!le J the win low -urtaiu down. The lust
t liin^ th** Quik^r poet did was tv* wiiv^
j,j s band to have the curtain up. He wanted
to depart in the lull gush of the me ruin?,
All(1 Ithou ., ht it m ^ ht be Helpful and in-
gpj r j n <j to nil Cbri-tian souls to have more
light about the future, so l pull up the car¬
tain in the. glorious sunrise of my text and
say, “Rejoice that your names are written iu
heaven.” Bring on your doxolog'es! Wave
your palms! Shout your victories! Pud up
all the curtains of brieht expectations! Yea!
hoist the window itself aud let the perfume
of the “morning glorias" of th i King’s gar-
deu C0:T j ? j nt iia d the music of harps all
a-trembie with symphonies, and the sound
G f surf of seas dashing to the foot of the
throne of g.k! and the Lamb,
But there is only one word on all tins sub-
jeet of Divine chirography in heaven that
oonfuses me, and that is the small adverb
which St. John adds when he quotes the text
j U Revelation and speaks of some “whose
narnP , p aro no t written in the Book of Lifeof
the h%mh s | ain .M oh. that awful adverb
j}y f U ll submission to Christ the
L or< ] > have the way all cleared between you
an q the sublime registration of your name
this moment. Why not look up to see that
„ re u ji ready to put your name among
the blissful immortals? There is the mighty
volume: it is wide open. There is the peu-
it is fr0Bl th „ W ing of the ‘-Angel of the
New Covenant.” There is the ink* it is red
; rom tho Calvarean sacrifice. And there is
tho Divioe Scribe: the glorious Lord who
W rote your father’s name, and your moth-
er * s URm „ there, and your child’s
name
there, and who is ready to write vour name
there . W iU vou consent that He do it? Be-
forfl L Siiv ’ «Xmen" to this service, ask Him
to (io it> i wait a moment for the treraen-
dou3 action of yosir will, for it is only an
!lt .tion of your f will. Here some one savs,
.« Lonl j 0S ls with pen plucked from angelic
winj;t !md dippe , , rl & th * red iuk of Golgotha,
wr jt B there either that which is now mv
earthIy name Q r that which shall be my
heavenly mime.” I pause a second longer
lhat aU raay consent. The pen of the Divine
Scrib o iA iri , he lingers and is lifted aul is
lowered, and it touches the shining page,
and tha , vord is tracet, in trembling and
bold and unmistakable letters. He has put
it down in the right pla -e.
And if there be in all this assembly ahope-
ies , case , so-called hopeless by yourself and
others, 1 take the responsibility of saying
that there is a place in that Book whore your
natne would exactly tit in, and look heauti-
ful, and you can, quicker than I can clap my
hands together, have it there. A religious
me eiing was thrown open, and all those who
could testify of the converting grace of Grod
wero asked to speak. Silence reigned a tno-
aud theu a man covered with the
marks of dissipation arose and said: “You
<>an gee f rorn m y looks‘what I have been, but
j am now a saved man. When I left home a
thousand miles from here 1 had so disgraced
ra y father’s name that he said, ‘As you are
K°ing away I have only two things to ask of
you, first! That you will never come home
again, and next, you will change your name.’
I promised. I have not heard my real name
lor years. I went the whole round of sin,
until there was no lower depth to fathom.
But I am by the grace of God a changed
mail. I wrote home asking forgiveness for
my waywardness, and here are two letters,
one from, my father and another from my
sister. My mother (Hed of o broken heart.
But these two letters ask me to come home,
and boys, 1 start to-morrow morning.” The
fact was that his name was written in
heaven, where I pray Clod all of our names
may be written though so unworthy are the
best of us, and all of us. If you have ever
been in the thick woods and heard the sound
of village bells you know tho sound is hin¬
dered and muffled by the foliage, though
somewhat sweet, but as you come to the
edge of the woods the sounds become clearer,
and more charming and when you step out
from the deep shadows into the sunlight you
hear the full, round, mellifluous riuging of
the bells. Oh! ye, down in the thick shadows
of unbelief and who hear only the faint
clear notes sunlight of this Gospel pardon bell, come out into the
of and peace, andhear
the full chime of eternal harmonies from all
the l owers of heaven. Oh! Come out of the
woods!
BESSEMER ORE DISCOVERED.
A New Roily, Carrying Mach Iron, Foaml
in Michigan.
Water has been turned into the new chan¬
nel dredged for the Michigamme River,
Michigan, for the purpose of reclaiming the
Mansfield Mine, which was flooded several
years ago, drowning twenty-33 von men. The
enterprise has proved even a greater success
than the projectors anticipated, for a large
body of Bessemer ore lias heen discovered in
the old channel.
Fix inches below the sand covering on tbo
river bed was a bed of ore. A system of
trenching was instituted, and tho body was
traced nearly 300 feet. A sample of the ore
has been analyzed lor iron, lt is very rich.
While the chemist's figures arenot available,
it i.s stated that no other mine in file district
produces ore that approaches it in the vol¬
ume of iron carried it is Bessemer ore of
the finest quality. The depth of th 1 d<*j. y-it
has not yet been tesie I.
ENORMOUS CAT.'.I OF HERRING.
Nearly 30,000 Bane's of Fish Taken Th:*
Month 0.1 t «>*e Ok!.
Between 40,000 and JO,000 barrels of her-
ring have been taken in Cape Cod Bay since
the 1st of October,which has not been equaled
in twenty years. The canning factories are
running overtime and salters arc putting the,
fish in barrels. Only G000 barrels, however,
have been used, the fish that are unavaiiaole
being turned loose agaiu.
Fish traps, empty in the morning, have
had in them at night from 500 to 700‘barrels
of herring, and the catch of three gib nets
has been known to load a doiy. The fish
are ot large size. Fe w mackerat have beeu
seen, but th<-« catch of pollock has been good,
Flounder fishing has also be^n profitable,
Tairty boats are engaged in it and the men
are each earning from *2 to per day.
HOUSES OF REFUGE DISCONTINUED
No Further t'ie lor Those oa the East
Coa*t of Florida.
Secretary Carlisle ordered the discontinn,
anee of the houses of refuge on the eastern
coast of Florida, at Chester Shoals, Bither
Cree.c, and Orange Grove. These houses of
refuge, ten in number, were established years
a S° on that coast, when along its entire
length of 250 miles there were not more than
seventy-five inhabitants. Now there are 10.-
000 from tne la3t report of the District Su¬
perintendent. Six of these houses are stilt
in operation. The distance between these
houses averages tweDty-six mites, and at
each mile along the coast are piaoed guide
po-ts, indicating the distance and direction
to the nearest station. The houses are sup-
pfied with cots and provisions sufficient to
succor twenty-five persons for ten days.
Injuries to Express Messenger*.
The Iudiana Supreme Court decided that
railroad companies are uot responsible for
injuries to express messengers.
CURRENT INFORMATION.
Potatoes in Greenland never grow
larger than a marble.
The human brain, according to Cu¬
vier, is the one-twenty-eighth part of
the body ; that of the horse, but the
one-four-hundredth part.
Horseless carriages aro admitted to
all the privileges of the ordinary Paris
fiascre by a recent decision of the pre¬
fect of the Seine.
English is now allowed to be taught
in the public schools in the Trans¬
vaal. This removes one of tho griev-
ances of the Uitlanders.
Bread as a daily article of food
used by ouly one-third of the 1,500,-
000 people that constitute the present
population of the earth.
The central airshaft of tho great
Hoosac tunuel, Berkshire hills, Massa¬
chusetts, has a depth of 1,000 feet and
is 27 feet one way by 15 the other.
A return of suicides in England,
Wales and Ireland during 1895 has
jnst been issued. They numbered
2,764, an increase of 83 ou the previ-
ous year.
Every ton of Atlantic water when
evaporated yields 81 pounds of salt; a
ton of Pacific water,79 pounds; Arctic
and Antarctic waters yield S5 pouiids
to the ton aud Dead tSea water 87
pounds.
By actual measurement of fifty skel¬
etons, the right arm and left leg have
been found to be longer in twenty-
three, the left arm and right leg iu six,
the limbs on the right longer than
those on the left in four and in the re¬
mainder the inequality of tho limbs
was varied. Only seven out of seventy
skeletons measured,or 10 per cent,had
•imbs of qual length.
Romantic.
Holed her to the bcechen grove where
they bad curved their imtiuia on . tree
years before. The letters hail crown
together aod formed a knot. “Shall
Wo not follow their example?” he asked
■ • .
l~i fill anxious tone.
“I will knot—if you will.”—Detroit
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■won’t. Their name is legion. The name of “the
pill that will" is Ayer’s Cathartic Pill. It is a
pill to rely on. Properly used it will cure con¬
stipation, biliousness, sick headache, and the
other ills that result from torpid liver. Ayer’s
pills are not designed to spur the liver into a
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FLOATING FACTS.
One thousand deaths have occurred
from a virulent plague in the district
of Bombay, India.
The deposition of the sultan of Tur¬
key is being very seriously considered
by the six powers.
A line sixty-pound specimen carried
off first houors at the annual water¬
melon show in Louisiana, Mo., tho
other day. Another one weighing
fifty-eight aud one-half was second.
1 wo editors of Arabic comic papers
. ^" t have been
' n a * ro sentenced to eigh-
* cen roontbs imprisonment aud a fine
f° r *“’eling grossly Queen indecent \ ictoria and pub-
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A four hundred-thousand do! !ar
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wood cemetery, Brooklyn, N. 1\, as a
memorial of the son of John W.
Mackay. It will ba externally of gran-
interior of marble and onyx.
That Joyfnl Feeling
With the exhilarating sense of renewed health
aud strength and internal cleanliness, which
follows the use of Svrap of Figs, is unknown
to the few who have not progressed beyond
the old-timo medicines and the cheat) substi*
lutes sometimes offered but uever accepted by
the well-informed.
Goodness and knowledge ought to go to¬
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Just try a 10c. box of Ca-carets, the finest
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feminine organs. Maybe it
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to the dangers and tortures of dragging
weakness, bearing down pains, nervous
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McElree’s lYiue of C&rdui, is a home
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