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*/A. F. WORD'S:^
OF NEW AND DESIRABLE PRESENTS FOR OLD AND YOUNG, RICH AND POOR.
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Fancy Goods 'and Novelties, Such as! Dressing Gases, Manicure Sets, Work Boxes, Writing Desks, Shell Boxes, Shaving Gases.
Dolls from 2 l-2c up to $1.75. An Actual Fact!—CUT GLASS COLOGNE BOTTLES. °
Vase Lamps—They |[are Elegant—s3.so to $6.50. Oil Paintings, $2.00; Cliromos, sl.oo.—New and Pretty.
Piano and Banquet Lamps. Swinging Lamps, Big Stock, Low Prfces.
*a ntisie Bex re be given avay>
Just think of an Album for 10c, or you can get one for $5.00. Cups and Saucers, Shaving and Hand Mugs, Child’s Tea Sets.
Vases from 10c. a pair, to s6.so—Pay your Money and Take your Choice. Tin Horns, Musical Tops, Toy Guns, Whistling Toys.
UPWord wants to see you. Go and look and you will be pleased. He will
have a pleasant smile for all. No trouble to show goods.
REMEMUKIi THF, PLACE,
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERY-DAY LIFE.
Newsy St ories, Novel Facts and Queer
Happenings Here and There.
/I DRUGGIST, F.
B. Hubbard, of
iHTV\ Bridgeport, Ot., !
WNP.fW'r) i' a| l a battle with i
I I au <a ffl e < au< i af- |
fM | / ter a severe strug- i
I Jf -B|s"U(Y gle captured it. !
A il u bba r and was ,
’ walking out nt i
the West End, 1
j when suddenly
I he was almost
knocked down by the huge bird, which
lighted on his shoulder and buried his
talons in his flesh. Ho grabbed the
bird, which then fastened its huge beak
in his hand, inflicting a severe wound.
After a lively tussle the bird was made
to break its hold and was thrown to the
ground. In an instant it jumped tip
and fasten and its beak iu the fleshy pnrt
of Hubbard's log, just altove the knee.
Hubbard managed to get n firm grip on
the wings of the bird, and thus held it
a prisouer. He lias three bad wounds,
but lias the satisfaction of having oap
tnred a live eagle,
Thf.ke was great excitement in the
Omaha depot the other day. A noise
like the crying of a child was tra >d to a
closed trunk, and when the bystanders
put their ears closer they were sure that
something was wrong. “My GoiH” ex
claimed one; “give me a handspike or
something. There is a child inside and
it will smother.” No handspike was
at hand, and people began to pull keys
out of their pockets, and at last the lock
clicked. The cover was raised mid in
side were discovered an old maltose cat
and live new-born kittens.
Although the year 1900 will be divisi
ble by four without a remainder, it will
ifot be leap-year. Twelve years must
elapse before the interesting event takes
place, but is was just the same in 1800
and 1700, but not in 1600. for that was
a leap-year, aud the year 2000 will be a
leap-year also. Why this should be is
a problem. To explain in detail would
be a tiresome task, but it rests on the
principle that a difference of eleven
minutes per day exists letween actual
time and calendar time. Thus a vear is
computed at 365} days, three years be
*?B 365 ‘f*? 8 lon K a d the fourth 366
ways, hi fact, the yiar is 366 davs
, hour ® apd forty-five minutes
dwvs ° T 6 eVen miuule s short of 365}
a ßi of a female tamer
muT i^nl 8 16 r2p °l t f d Hohen
' ‘Si- 1 Bohemia, blie was a girl 26
Bertha Baumgartner
• P™* a P ub Jic performance in a stroll
.mg menagerie she an
and the door of au adjoining cage
was then opened to let a lion and a Ben
£ et J,f V The lion walked in
S3**? t, S er : a ferocious beast,
. Um t s mounded its
aeepers, crouched m the doorway and
Sudfor A? irl loßt Wve,
cried for help, and slipped. As she did
so tho tiger made a spring, bit her on
the shoulder, then in the throat, literally
rent her to pieces, and tossed her body
about. _ Half the audience ran to the
doors in horror, while the attendants
tried to beat off the tiger by poking hot
irons into the cage. But the girl was
I dead long before the animal was driven
1 away. The lion seemed to have been as
much frightened as the human specta
tors, for he took no part in the carnage.
The proprietor of the show lias sinoo ad
mitted flint this same tiger had already
killed two people.
John Trr.’Mi, u>n and private secrotary
of Preside- t Tyler, still lives at Wash
ington. Ho holds the place of “repre
sentative of the public” on the board
which superintends the destruction of
mutilated currency, to which he was
appointed by President Arthur and Sec
retary Eolger. Air. Tyler served his
father without any salary from the gov
ernment, the bitter political antagonism
of Congress preventing an appropriation
for that purpose. He fought on the Con
| federate side during the rebellion, but
[ this did not prevent General Giant from
1 making him Revenue Collector for Flor
ida, Postmaster at Jacksonville, aud Dis
trict Attorney. Mr. Tyler, atbough over
sixty years old, is active and erect, and
full of remiuisoonees of Washington
city.
Littlb Jerry Davis, a Georgia bov,
had lots of fun with a buzzard a while
ago He found a number of the birds
feeding on adi ad sheep, and thereupon
making a trap and baiting it with the
sheep soon captured one. He took off
his shirt and put it on the buzzard, cut
ting off the sleeves and sticking the bird’s
wings through the arm holes. Tlieu he
sewed the shirt firmly around the buz
zard’s body, leaving the tail of the gar
ment unconfined, This done he libera
ted the bird, who flapped its wings and
flew away, the shirt flapping in the
breeze, A flock of crows saw the strange
olijoct iu the air and attacked it fiercely.
Two or three days afterward little Jerry
found the poor buzzard a mile away hud
dled against a tree and dead.
Alexander James aud Edith Smvth,
of Alpharetta, Ga., weDt to Squire Lud
ridge's office to get married. While
they waited for the Squire to hunt up
the book containing the formula, Alex
ander asked to be excused a moment,
and, hurrying out, mounted a horse and
rode furiously away. As he was leaving
the room he whispered to the grooms
mau that he was ashamed to get married
before so many persons. The grooms
man told the bride, who promptly said:
“Vou helped to bring me here, and now
you must take his place.” The young
man said he was willing, and the cere
mony was jverformed. At its conclusion
the bride said: “When I make up my
mind to do anything I never let any
thing stand in the way.”
A middle-aoed woman weut to a
prominent physician of ban Diego not
long ago, and asked him to amputate
her two great toes. He examined them,
assured her that the re was nothing wrong
with them, aud said that lie wouldn’t
cut them off. She begged him to,saying
that if they were off she could wear No.
- shoes iustead of 4s, as then. Her toes
were her own, she said, to do what she
pleased with, and she woold give $303
to have them off. The doctor refused,
and the woman weut in quest of some
one with less conscience. A San Diego
newspaper says that she found seme one
to do the job successfully, for two Weeks
later she Went to San Francisco wearing
the best pair of No. 2s that could be
bought in San Diego.
Havkbhtll’s most noted citizen is
Capt, Costelloe, who is 106 years old,
ami probably the oldest person in the
United States. Recently he signed a
two weeks’ engagement with a dime
museum in Bostou, and then a day or
two afterward disappeared. His where
abouts Were unknown for twenty-four
hours, when it was learned that some of
the venerable Captain’s friends had ar
ranged to give him a reception, and,
fearing that he would go to Boston tiefore-
they could complete their arrangements,
had persuaded him to hide. When the
museum ag nt heard of this he promised
to allow the reception to take pine.) be
fore the centenarian’s departure, and so
the old man appeared again.
Eight sisters, who live with their
widowed father near Belfast, Me., c.irry
omtho farm work, including tbo care of
several cows, a horse, four oxen that are
never yoked, from three huudre 1 to five
hundred hens, hogs, a brood of ducks
aud thirl-en cats. They get up their
own wood in winter, at which season
only two of them are at home, the others
being employed in Bostou, where two of
them are teaoheis in the public schools.
All spend the summors at home, and en
joy themselves as well us carry on a
good farming business. The reason given
for the keeping of the oxen for which
there is no work is that the sisters raised
the calfs and hate to part with them for
beef.
It is not often that a lire is put out
with wine. This was done at Kreuz
nnch on the occasion of a tire which
broke out at night iu the house of a
large wine merchant, soon enveloping
the w hole building. Home 60 hogsheads
of wine in the store could not only not
be saved, but burst, and their contents
ran into a ditch in the garden behind
the house. Here theflreuicn placed
their engines, with whioli they poured
streams of wine upon the burning build
ing, aud succeeded in getting the fire
under control. The fumes of the wine
were so strong that the firemen had to
be repeatedly relieved.
In the collection of engravings of the
Ist > M wjor Bin. Perley Poore,re cently
sold at auction in Boston, were two rare
prints of special interest to collectors
L'hey were portraits of George and Mar
tha Washington, and their value lay in
the fact that they were the first por
traits of the Washingtons ever executed,
by a professional engraver iu American
The work was done by J. Noimati, and
printed in Boston in 1 iS2. It is thought
that there is but one other copy of the
George W asliington in existence, and no
other of the Martha Washington. The
prints fetched 8500, and were bought by
a Boston man.
Crows have become so abundant in
Maine that it is estimated that they cost
the State 8100,000 a year in com, pota
toes, young chickens, fruit, grain and
the like. The next Legislature will be
asked to pass a law giving a bounty of
ten oents for every dead crow.
WORD’S WEST MAIN STREET DRUG STORE.
NOVEL SPORT IN MINNESOTA.
Ski Running by Scandinavians—
.lumping Nearly 100 Feet
There is fio one who can appreciate
the exhilarating sport of ski running in
its fullest measure but a native of Scan
dinavia. To him it is the national game,
a movie of conveyance, the hygienic
treatment that stirs the sluggish blood
and brings a sparklo to the eye and color
to the cheek. Here in the Northwest
where so mahy Scandinavians live the
sport has become au establisaed one,
and every one who has seen the daring
feats of some gayly dressed runner on
a pair of skis, looks forward with int -r
--est toward the coming winter, when the
hills are buried in snow- aud there is an
other opportunity of seeing the sport in
dulged iu. There is a ski association in
this city with about fifty members, Hum
bered among which are some of the best
runners in the country. Last February
a grand tournament was held on the
hills at Keuwood, which proved very
successful. After the tournament a ban
quet and reception was given at Turner
Hall. The tournament proved so suc
cessful that it was decided to hold an
other one this winter on a larger scale.
One of the largest and brightest hills at
Kenwood has been secure I, whioli gives
a course of neerly half a mile. Work
will bo begun at once to clear away the
brush and trees, aud as soon ns sufficient
snow falls two jumps will be made. The
tournament will be made some timenext
mouth. Handsome and valuable prizes
and medals, including a Tribune badge,
will be given, aud the tournament will
be open to Minnesota, lowa, aud Dako
ta. It is expected that over -100 ski run
ners will be present. Among them will
be the famous Hemmelstred brothers of
Hedemarkeu, Norway, the champion
ski runners and jumpers of the world.
Michael Hemmerstledt, one of the
brothers, was present at the tournament
last winter and made a jump of seventy
two feet. His record, however, made
in Norway is ninety-five feet, the longest
jump ever made iu the world. The con
tests at the coming tournament will con
sist of running, jumping, and fust run
ning on the flats. There will also be
contests for local runners alone. Peter
Brensliolm won the handsome Tribune
badge last winter. This will have to
come up for competition again in the
coming contests.
In the old country, and even in parts
of this, skis are used to travel with, us
in some places where the snow is very
deep and the hills steep it would be al
most impossible to travel without them.
Experts can traverse the highest hills
and the rockiest ravines on their skis at
the rate of about seven aud eight miles
au hour. Mountaineers and peasants
in Scandinavia use them almost entirely
iu traveling about the oountry. It is no
novel sight to sea in some inland berg
hundreds of these peasants come in to
do their trading early in the morning
on skis.
A novel contest will occur here as
soon as sufficient snow falls. Four of
the ablest runners in the city will start
from the Tribune office at midnight on
skis for an overland trip to La Crosse,
Wis., a distanoe of 141 miles. They are
expected to wake the trip in twenty
eight hours without stopping or resting.
All four men are experts on skis, and
arc confident of making from six to
eight miles an hour. One of them is an
old sailor, and he states that there is
no danger of their getting lost as they
will have a compass with them. None
of the men have ever traveled the road
before, and the country is entirely
strange to them.
One inoident which tends to show to
what practical uses the ski can be utiliz
ed, is the fact of l)r. Nansen, crossing
Greenland, th s inland ice, from the
east, with five picked Norwegian ski
runners, t They landed with skis on the
eastern coast of Greenland on July 7,
and after a perilious march of forty-two
days arrived safely nt Good Dr.
Nansen is 27 years old, and conservator
ot the Zoological museum of Bergen,
Norway, —Minneapolis Tribune.
Protection for the Cruiser’s Captain.
The cruiser Charleston, recently
launched at San Francisco, says the
Maritime Htporter , will depend entirely
upon steam for propulsion, since she
will have only two short masts, carrying
a little fore and aft sail—merely enough
to steady the ship in a heavy s t a. Each
mast will have a military top, in which
a revolving Hotchkiss gun will be
mounted on a little railroad, so that it
can be run around the top and fired in
any direction.
The captain will be protected from
small shot by a conning tower of two
inch steel plates built on the bridge.
From this tower he can manoeuvre and
steer th 1 ship as well as direct the fire
of her guns. There will he an hydraulic
si earing gear. The guns are also pro
tected from small projectiles by two-inch
circular steel shields placed around the
guns.
The machine gun fire will evidently
bo very destructive in future naval en
gagements, particularly if two ships
come to close quarters.
It is very necessary that the captain
and the men who aim and load the gun
should be protected from the storm of
small shot, since the loss of the captain
early in an action woul 1 be severely
felt, and the depletion of the guns’
crews would silence the guns. Experi
ments have been made in France to de
termine the probable effect of machine
guns in future naval battles. Wooden
dummies representing the men at the
guDs were placed on board an old ship
and fire opened from a number of ma
chine guns at a range that would be
useless in sea fights, and an examination
after a few minutes’ firing showed that
few of the dummies had escaped.
Origin of Canada’s Name.
The name of Canada has been long a
matter of dispute among etymologists.
It has been supposed to have arisen
from an exclamation of some of the ear
ly Portuguese navigators, who, observ
ing the desolation of the country, either
cried out or wrote on their maps Aca
nada, aca-nada, "there is nothing here.”
It has also been supposed to have taken
it 6 name from the Spanish canada, a
canal, from the shape of the country,
forming the blank banks of the St. Law
rence; but the more received explana
tion is the Indian one, canata, a eollec
• ion of huts. Hoohelaga is the ancient
i<ut little known, name of Canada. i
The Gills of the Fish.
Lift up the gill covers and under them
will be seen a soft, dark-red mass, not
unlike a slice of raw liver. This is a
part of the gills. Leave them for the
present and open the mouth. To all
appearances it is rather a small mouth
in proportion to the size of the fish.
Nothing worthy of notice will be seen
at first, the only objects within the
mouth being the tongue, which is quite
small and hard, and a number of pink
projections arranged in successive rows
and looking like loug and very slender
teeth. By this time the water will have
become much discolored and must be
changed, a slight, dark red stream con
tinually oozing from beneath the gill
covers. Before placing the fish in fresh
water take it to a tap and nllow a
stream of water to flow into its mouth
and out at tliegill covers. How is this?
The scarlet hue of the head is rapidly
paling, and in a few minutes disappears
altogether. It does not belong to the
living fish, although most persons as
sume that the scarlet hue is the normal
color of the herring’s head. The living
fish is of a pure silvery white, ns I have
often had the opportunity of seeing.
The red hue only shows itself after the
ilsli has been removed from the water,
nud is due to extravnsuted blood.
Again look under the gili covers. The
gills are there, lmt so altered as scarce
ly to be recognized as the dark, red
masses which were seen before. They
have lost all their color, the water hav
ing washed the blood out of them, and
are now pale gray. Moreover, they
are evidently not solid mass* s, but are
composed of several layers, each layer
being formed of ft vast number of deli
cate plates, leaflets, or laminte.—Long
man'* Magazine.
Farmers in Denmark.
Young men are apprenticed to the
Irest farmers all over the Kingdom for
two or three years, under the oversight
of the Koval Agricultural Society. They
work for good farmers for one year as
learners, receiving a small sum beside
their board and lodging. At the end of
the year the apprentice is removed to a
farm in another part of the Kingdom,
and his third year is spent on a still dif
ferent farm in a district where a differ
ent kind of agriculture is practiced.
The society gives each apprentice a
number of agricultural books at the
outset, which become his property upon
the completion of the three years. The
apprentices report to the society at sta
ted intervals, and from these reports and
other records where they have worked,
the society judges of the progress and
grants diplomas accordingly. The
youug men thus get a thorough knowl
edge of all kinds of practical farming,
but they have to work for it, as they are
at hard labor from 4 a. m. till 7 p. m.,
except tbe meal hours. Tbe society has
started the syst -m of apprenticing young
men in the best diaries for three months
instead of three years. Nearly 1,000
youths have thus been educated anil re
ceived diplomas. The system has far
outgrown the societies control, and uow
nearly every large farm and diary ha#
several apprentices accepted aud trained
by private agreement.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Edwin Booth is only fifty-six years old.
Bronson Howard will begin work on a
new play in January.
Mrs. John Drew is to remain with the
Jefferson-Florence Company next season.
Mrs. Kendal. the English actress now in
this country, is the mother of eight children.
Forty-nine theatres are now delighting
Italian audiences with operatic performances.
M. Coquelin has had a brilliant success in
i Hamburg, where he played a star engage
-1 ment.
Mrs. Potter will begin a professional tour
in Australia next spring, supported, as here
tofore, by Kyrle Bel lew.
The gossips have it that Henry Irving will
retire from the boards a year hence, having
leeumulated a fair sired fortune.
Mme. Modjeska has never seen Lady Mac-
I beth played. Her conception of the role ii
| therefore said to be something remarkable.
Madame Anna Mehlig, the celebrated
I pianist, has once more appeared in public at
| one of the London Crystal Palace concerts.
One Berlin (Germany) piano factory,
during 1888, shipped 900 grands and 850 up
rights to Mexico, Brazil and the Argentine
Republic.
Constanze Donita, the American soprano
who won fame in Europe, has made her debut
in New York at the Amberg Theatre in
‘•Mignon.”
Miss Annie Patterson has been awarded
the first degree of Doctor of Music which
any lady has yet gained at the Royal Uni
versity of Dublin.
Marie Van Zandt, the American singer,
is at present in Paris, where she is preparing
for her winter tour, which commences at
Barcelona and finishes at Madrid.
Chari.es Wyndham and Mary Moore are
under engagement to play "The Headless
Man’ in Germany, and in German, after
their return from their American tour.
Siegfried 4Vagner, son of the famous
composer, has determined to devote himself
to music, and has entered his name upon the
roll of the music school at Frankfort-ou-the-
Mnin.
Mrs. Pemberton-Hinks is one of the few
professional singers who prefer to go before
an audience empty-handed. She hangs her
arms at her side, with her palms in and her
elbows out.
Hubbard Smith sold his song “Listen to
My Tale of Woe” to a publisher for #ls. A
few days ago a British house offered him
SIO,OOO for the exclusive right to publish the
song in Europe.
Miss Elizabeth Robins, a talented young
American actress, has recently appeared in
London with marked success at an afternoon
performance of anew play by Dr. Dobbs,
;ntitled "Her Own Witness.”
The union of Joseph Jefferson and W. J.
Florence as joint stars has proved so success
ful this season that these two actors have de
cided to continue partnership, and contracts
have already been signed between them for
next season.
The tire scene in “The Streets of London,”
as Dion Boucicault’s play is known in Eng
land, has been fatal to a theatre at last. The
Royal Victoria Theatre, Staleybridge, was
destroyed the other day by flames which
owed their origin to this realistic stage pict
ure.
The recent ovt'aordinary g owth ot
the organi at on known as tbe Young
People’s Societies of Chr:stian Endeavor
is among the m st interesting religious
phenomena of the times. 11 appears by
an o licial report just - ent out that there
me now
York State, and that their membership
is made up Of both sex. s. Cne of their
chie. objects is to promote “sociability
among their members and this is good
work when properly performed.