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i The Talk of the Town! ... */A. F. WORD'S:^ OF NEW AND DESIRABLE PRESENTS FOR OLD AND YOUNG, RICH AND POOR. GREAT OPPORTUNITY. GREAT VARIETY. GREAT BARGAINS FOR att, 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.