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, ..J I 1 , Bean* Groat tarsngth. Yea, the strength of grizzly heart it almost beyond belief. I have read about the powerful muscles in the arms of African gorillas, but none can compare with those in the arms and shoulders of big grizzly bears. I have seen a grizzly hear-with one fore paw shot into useless ness pull its own 1,100 pounds of meat and bone up precipices, and perform feats of muscle that trained athletet could not da I have seen grizzly bears carrying the carcasses of pigs that must have weighed 70 pounds several miles across a mountain side to their lair, and I have heard hunters tell of having seen cows knocked down as if by a toundqrbolt with one blow of the fore paw of » bear. i/ Three summers ago I spent the season in the coast mountains up in Monterey county, and one moonlight night I saw a big grizzly bear in the act of carrying a dead cow home to her cub. I had a position pn the mountain side where I could see every movement or the bear in the sparsely timbered valley below me. The critter carried the dead oow in her fore paws for at least three miles, across jagged, sharp rocks ten feet high, over fallen logs, around the rocky mountain sides, where even a jackass could not get a foothold, to a narrow trail np the steep mountain. She never stopped to rest for a moment, but went right along. I followed, and just about half a mile from the beast’s lair I laid her low. The heifer weighed at least SOO pounds, and the bear would have tipped the beam at about '450 pounds.—Chicago v Inter Ocean. - , , , , “V ’ General McDowell. I have never met any one who gave me a stronger impression of honesty and sincerity than Irvin McDowell. He was then in the prime of life—4o or 45 years old—powerfully built, but rather pon derous in movement, kindly and sim ple in manner, with a very pleasant, soldierly face, a water drinker and al most a vegetarian. After the cruel war was over I met him one day in some foreign city—Vienna, I think—and as we were conversing he said, “Strange, isn’t it, our encounter today?” “Why so, general?” “Have you forgotten? This is the 2ist of July—the anniversary of Bull Run. Had I won that battle I would have been one of the most popular men in the United States and you would have been another. I need not say how much it is the ether way with us now. ” But I do not think his countrymen blamed him after all. When I went to the United States some years ago, I found him in command at San Francis co—much changed, aged and sad. but courteous and kindly as ever. I -told him that l’ had in a place of heuoF at home the photograph which he gave me before he, left my lodgings the day he ’was looking for Barry’s guns. “And I suppose, ” he said, “your friends ask, ‘Who on earth was General Mc- Dowell?’”—Sir W. H. Russell in North American Review. A Great Screamer. More than 60 years ago Lachlan Mc- Donald left his home in Strathspey, Scotland, and went tetbe shores of Lake Winnipeg. He did not neglect to carry with him his beloved bagpipe, and an evening it spoke to him of the old home beyond the seas. Even in the daytime, when he was busy in the woods felling trees, he would have it by his side, and on one occasion he had reason to be glad that it was so near. He was merrily swinging his ax, when he was suddenly surrounded by a party of Indians, who looked very for midable as they drew nearer, gesticu lating in a particularly threatening' manner. Things began to seem ominous, when a happy thought came to the Scotchman. Seizing his bagpipe, he blew a blast so loud and long and shrill that the men looked upon him fqr a moment in consternation and then took to their heels, never stopping till the thick shadows of the forest hid them from the man who could give vent to such an unearthly scream. They did not forget that prolonged cry; from that time the Scotchman was known among them as “the great screamer of the palefaces.”—Exchange. A Famous English Inn. One of the oldest and most pictur esque inns in all England is the Crab Tree inn in Fordham. Here cyclists from all over Britain have congregated and here men famous in literary annals like Kipling, Haggard and Andrew Lang have “put up” for an hour or two to rest aqd quaff the ale dispensed by this ancient hostelry. The story runs that Robert Bums and Sir Waiter Scott once partook of the. hospitality of the place, and the queen herself, it is reported, once stopped by the wayside to partake of a frugal bowl of milk and crashers. The initials of men illustrious in Great Britain’s his tory are grave* upon the surface of its deal tables, and its very window panes are littered with the names of Macaulay, Dickens add Thackeray. It has been put in at least one book, and J. QniHer Couch has used it as the scene for one of his terrible tragedies. Too Big a Contract. “Doctor, V said a man to his medical attendant, who had just presented a small bill of 35 shillings for treatment during a illness, “I have not much ready money. Will you take this out in trade?” “Oh, yes,” cheerfully answered the doctor. “I think we can arrange that, but what is your business?” “I am a cornet player,” was the startling reply.—Landon telegraph. Poor Baby. Unsophisticated Parent—Hello there, nurse, what’s the baby yelling that way for? I can’t read at all. Nurse—He’s cutting his teeth, sir. IT. P.—Well, see that he doesn’t doit any more or you lose your place.—Har lem Lisa ' DIAMONDS IN AMERICA. Half » Billion Dollars* Worth Owned Hero—Amount Rapidly Increasing. In no country are there more dia monds to be found than in the United States, according to the population. It is estimated by a leading Maiden lane (New York) diamond dealer that there are upward of |6OO,OWjOOO worth of diamonds in this country. this vast amount is increasing year by year. Until quite recently diamonds were rarely cut in this country, but Amer ican inventors have developed a process for diamond cutting which is vastly su perior to that dona abroad. The loss in weight through cutting is sometimes fully one-half, but the value is increased probably mofe than two- fold. The Dutch city of Amsterdam has been the great diamond cutting center of the world from time immemorial and up to a few years ago over 18,000 peo ple in that place were directly or indi rectly dependent upon this trade. i- But if.was not reasonable to.suppose that Amsterdam should continue tahold a monopoly ofdiamShd At one of the greatest importing cities of the world, New York gradually* offered in du'cements to diamond cutters, arid an industry has been graduaUy*btafa up here that is now very flourishing and profitable. In 1&58 Henry £>. AWrre dt Bouton invented a machine far cutting and polishing diamonds, and since then improvements have been made upon it that avo very important. The foreigners continue to polish their stones-tiy hand, butinthis country machinery is large ly used. A famous gem expert places the total value of all the diamonds in the world nt over $1,000,000,000, of which 000,000 woith are in the hands of deal ers, carried as stock. All of the other diamonds are in the hands of private in dividuals, and the question naturally arises, who owns them? This is not so easily answered, exoept in the case of large and world famous gems.—Godey’s Magazine. PAYNE’S DESERTED TOMB. Remlnlscsness of the Author of “Koine, Sweet Home.* The old Christian cemetery at. Tunis is one of the strangest sights'in that strange town. Just oft a busy thorough far*, finder an ancient archway, is a heavy wooden gate, much worn by the lapse of time, thickly studded with fan tastic nails and provided with a prodi gious knocker. The latter, how.ever, is nut needed, for the gate yields -to an Wotfe push, and you find in j», wajtwi ineloaure, Ifiif gjsiSAi, half graveyard, where an Italian Wom an is. hpagiqg out elothes swonr the gaunt Wane tqpAs. It is IB jjilvßßM day eue-was buried here, and th/,place is beginning to look neglected. The modern cemetery is now outaf&e the walls, and its guardian told me that many people cpme to him to inquire for the monument of “an American poet” or “an Am&iean consul, ” arid h’e had to send them to the old graveyard. The monument in question is that of the anther of “Home, Sweet Homo,” and it bears the following inscription upon fts sides: “In memory of John'Howard Fayn, author of ‘Tfoxae, Sweet Homa’ Born June 8, 1781; died April 0, 1852. Erected A. D. 1855.” [Atqerican Arms—eagle surmounted by motto “E Pluribus Unum. ”] “Died at the American consulate in Tunis. Agpd 00 years v and 10 months.” “In the tomb beneath this stone the poet’s remains lay buried for 80 years. On Jan. 5, 1883, they were disinterred and taken away to his native land, where they received honor and final burial in the city of Washington June 9, 1988. ‘Then be content, poor heart. ’ ” “Sure when thy gentle spirit fled To realms beyond the azure dome Wtth arrfSMutstretched God’s angel said, ‘Welcome to heaven’s home, sweet home. ’ " These is a certain appropriateness about the fact that the author of the exilo’s most pathetic anthem should have died so many thousand miles away from home.—London Sketch. Rough on Solomon. The following incident happened at one of the “ca teehee sms” which are held periodically in Scotland for all the members of thfe kirk of a certain dis trict '■ . ' -A ■ ” * 'The lesson was in Ecclesiastes, * ’ says Mr. Johnston, “and one day they had been discussing the verse in which Solo mon says, ‘Among a thousand men I have fouqd one, but among a thousand women wive I«found not one,’ meaning one just and good and upright And an old Scotchwoman, when she had listened in silence and heard thereat aocept it as present and gospel truth, got her dander upjhnd rose to her feet “ ‘Hpotl* she said indignantly, her eyes blazing. ‘Do you find why that wars It was because nae decent woman wad be seen In his company. ’ ’’—Mil waukee Wisconsin. Bow, ladoed? She—Do you believe in platonic love? ? He—l hardly know. Do you? She—W.ell, of course there mOT.be such a thing, but—but —well, between two sueh people as ydu and—and— He—No, not between you and me. Ah, Helen, platonic love would not do $r me! I must speak. Can yoar-oan you— ’>* •1 * She—Oh, Alfred, how did you guess m y News. Xfl r ~1 T A new invention is ano to make tele graph wire out of paper. The interior cable is lead covered, and thin spirals of paper are wound around each interior wire. The cost is said to be one-fiffeenth of rubber insulated &tla Beware of the man who smiles when he’s angry; he’s dangerous. And be ware also of the man who looks glum when>e’s glad; he’s probably a hximor j st.—Exchange. ■ % WILLING EXILES. She English and Americas* Ara I—per famt Facto™ In Paris Life. “On and after this date,” wrote Napohsen I to Fouche, “see that the English are expelled from Paris. ” Such an edict would seem a very large order at the present, day, but it was by no means a small one in NSpo leon’s time. What woulH t be, Paris al today be without its’Rnglish oolong? From Sir Edmqnd Monson, dur enibaa sador, to the pale boy, who files she English journals at Neal’s library in the Rue CastigMone the Englitti are very important factors in Parisian Mfe. There has been an English colony In the French* capital for many centuries, ■ yet one might search in vairi for a sim ilar French colony in London. The Leicester and Soho square districts, al though owning to a large French popu lation, possess hardly a trace of the flavor or mien that distinguishes the quarter the English frequent in Paris, and it is not a fifth the size. To speak broalHy, Paris has within its Walled borders a little London of many thousand persons—npt squalid and impoverished, but boasting splen did mansions, fine shqps, hotel?, churches, fiospitids and libraries, and all these to sucn an extent that it is difficult to believe one is not in*the British capital itself. The inhabitants of this colony might rofighly be catalogued' as follows: Re tired people and gentlefolk who have seen better days, those who desire to have theih children educated in the lan guage, business people, authors, artists, students, jqurnalista. and professional men, those who have the best of private reasons for living out of England and cranks, which term includes certain in dividuals who for some cause or other have developed a feeling of hatred for the land qf their birth. Nearly all are exiles of their own accord. On Sunday the elite of the English colony turns out to the Church of the Embassy in the Rue d’Aguesseau. Here for a number of years Dr. Nayes, who was formerly a Leytonstono incumbent, has preached, and here a collection bag goes regularly round, and is as regular ly returned in a condition of compara tive emptiness. For your Englishman of the English colony is either in a con dition to help largely support the churob and does or else gives nothing at all. - One thing mpst be said about the English and Americans who go to Paris. They support the oity. Without their patronage there is scarcely a big shop on the boulevards that would not close its doors within a few months. —Loudon Mail. •FAtN’S L<aiNfi eiWE. Thing. WMyh fazpe Slfayhe* From Het L Grao-Iw ■qaAre* Teara. A drew this pictawe of the power ofllpain 3no years ago: The empire es Philip H was undoubt edly one of the most powerful and splendid that ever existed in the world. .Ifrjs no exaggeration to t»y that during several years his power over Europe was greater than even that of Napoleon. In America his demimonS extended on both sides,of the equator into the tem perate zona There is reason to believe that his annual revenues amounted, in the season of fits greatest power, to a sum ten times as large as that which England yielded to Elizabeth. He had a standing army of 50,000 troops when England did not have a single battalion in constant pay. He held, what no oth er prince in modern times has held, ths dominion both of the land and the sea. During the greater part of his reign he was supreme on beth elements. His sol diers inarched up to the capital ol France; his ships menaced the shores of England. Spain had what Napoleon de sired in vain—ships, colonies and com merce. She long monopolized the trade of America and of the Indian.oeean. AU the gold of the west and aH the spisea of tub east were received and distribut ed by her. Even after the defeat of the armada English statesmen continued to look with great dqpad oa the mari time power of Philip. >-* * Whoever wishes to be well acquainted with the inorbitl anatomy of governments, who ever wishes to know hew great states may be made feeble and wretched, should study the history of Spain.—Ex ehange. ' ‘ - - A Famous Apple Tree. The American Cultivator says that the original greening apple tree is still standing' on the farm of Solomon Drowne at Mount Hygeia in North Foster, R. 1 The tree, was a very olfi one when the farm wi» sold in 180 h The seller informed the purchaser that it was a pity the old tree was going into decay, as it proceed the best fruit es any tree in the orchard. The pur chaser determined to see how long he could keep it alive, and-it still survives, after almost another century has been added to its venerable years. But 'it shows signs of final decay, and the. par ent of all th6 famous Rhode Island greenings, which has set, its graft* on the orchards of almost w all the world, will soon be but a neighborhood memo ry. It is doubtful if there is a more’fa mous apple tree to be found in all Po mona’s groves from end to end us the earth. Keene’s Quarter .i*ar. TenuKeene was a .cod story teller “fem fa* •» czfa < hft tales, all’ fccateieal ct* trines from one dealer, and a* daring much ofrfrfrh tip*- 1 wqb "any new parts m the old Gfamornia theater ste*k oenpaar at San FripeiW W trade was a matter of considerable im portance. Whan I was about to leave the slope and come east, I went to make a final order and bid my costumer good by. ‘l*m very sorry you2re going, ’ ™ said. ‘Here, Jake I’ calling to a clerk. ‘Run out and get Mr. Keene • good quarter of a dollar cigar. ’ “As Jake started my costumer whin pered behind his band, ‘Two'for a quar ter, Jake; two fcr a quarter.’ ” 1 DANCING DOWN DINNERS. Kzpodteat by Which Gor.-nandlstac U Greatly Facilitated. Ono of the most painful facts in life H the apparent iuipoeaibflita of recone»|ng fashion and aanse. One may be lons on stylo and abort on comfort, or he may have oomfort to burn’ and givdfashion the shake, but there teams th bo fit all around good thing so one mar be swell and rfcmfortablepit the tame tune. You must chooef between them. There tone good reaaon for thle. It la an arbitrary and unzeceaaary inffioMon laid on a aufler 14j world, and one lajoroed to the ooncTu aion that Bottling abort of utter roafignity could have inspired many of faahionw under wbieh We groan. There la not aven the excuse of beauty, for which one might well endnae many pouga of discomfort. There la nothing artistic in a IfiieH collar ao high and atiff It loo‘.s like pn .under study of a fam cotta oMmney fine. But It la full of tuff-sing r. nd style. Noone since the days of Aleph i copheles ever had feet built after the ai.j’tecJure of fee pointed toe shoes. There Is no'beauty in but aches and ccvnsand fashion. When nature made lovely wom an, It wrote beauty In every soft carve jof her body, but fashion never raated until it squeezed and cSmprewod b« into tbs shape of an boasglass. Bha.was too com fortable in flowing draperies that ton;in looss gwwe, and shoWas girded up In ttaya and*Binotbered In frills andj^ipiited dWtn with onutajents' in the iTOreat of the theory that style and comfort could not be afmalgamated. Such being the case, it gives great pleasure to notice that a new fashion has been introduced which happily combines the very latest wrinkle of fash ion with the most admirable common sense. It Is noy customary among the suqirt set In New York to have dancing'betwoen the courses of elaborate din nerg. The swell dancing Is varied with cake walks, skirt dancing and other edifying aids to digest tiofi. The possibilities this opens upto people of epicurean taste are simply lirfift less, and it is also beypnd praise aa a kind of lite saving m'easure, as everyone at a long dinner must have some time felt that the next course wj»uM bo the death of him. Then, tea this soon* heavily for us as showing tho advancement In refinement - that has been made since the days of the banquets of Lucullus and other swell din ner giyers of antiquity- When their jaded appetites gave out, they took a disgusting, if simply, means of refreshing them, so aa to be able to take a fresh ritart all over again. Now, we will simply arise and exe cute a short but vioUfot dance, and be ready to d‘o justice to the further triumphs of the chef. No more dishes served with sauce plquante or sauoe but with an accompaniment of Virginia reel or a cake walk or a highland fling and good digestion will wait on appetite.' Another aavantage It offers Is the sup pression of the after dinner crater. Fel lows like Chauncey Depew will no longer have a monopoly on a ’good thifig because they cap faTk, don’t you know. On the giving has every thing’ to winmeid it and VrtM fatA m a monument'the, genius who devise* it.—New Orleans Picayune. The Runaway Engine. In cleaning the fire a spark had ignite* tho waste on top es tbo back driving box. The blaze attracted the attention of my old friend Pop, who was oiling his engine end talking with a couple of firemen as she passed. Thinking that the hostler was taking her out to the coal pockets, he shouted: “Beyl Yer back drivln box la afire!” At no eno answered, they all looked carefully at J>or and saw that she was alone. A shout went up, “That en gine’s runnin away!” The fireman of a nearby switch engine leaped to the ground and sprinted after hqr. id tho meantime old Oft, having passed' all the switches and gpt upon tho main track, was gaining speed' with every revolution of her big drivers. The fireman touched fee back of her tank with tfie tips of his outstretched fingers, and then with a derisive wriggle of her drawhead she glided away. A Ho was directly, in front of the telegraph office when he realized tha’t the race was lost and rushed into the office, told the operator what bad happened and advised hijn to tell Wilson, eight miles away, to side traek her. Wilson "got the message all sight and started ea the rUn. As he opened the door a meteor shot by, and, glancing up the line, a faint gllmijM'of the back end of.a tender with a big yrilow 96 on it disappearing rouad the curve In a cloud of dust told him she had-gone.— Herbert E. Hppablen, in “Firing a Loco motive,” in McClures. Rain and Hxay.iy. Mr. Frederick VJlllem,The well known war correspondent, tefis—w- charaoteriWio anecdote of Sir Henry Havelock-Allan. During the siege of Plevna he was riding with a colleague toward from a little fight which' ha* taken place on the east of Plevna. Both were tired, and their horses were jaded with a hard day’s work. But Sir Henry kept up a steady trot in spite of the heavy, roads. Presently his comrade’s hone stumbled, throwing the rider to the ground. The general drew rein at once an* shouted to his prostrate colleague: “What are you do ing there, sir? Great heavens! Get np at once! Do you hear, sir? This is simply disgraceful. Mount at once!” JbelaUen man. half stunned, struggled to nis feet. ByAbls time Sir Henry had taught his bone and brought it to him. His compan ion was reeling like a drunken man, *nd, not -quite certain whether his nook was broken, he was mopping his bleeding head with his pocket handkerchief. “Great heavens! And you eall yourself an English man. Mount at onoe, sir!” shouted Allan. His colleague instinctively obeyed without a murmur; but, aa be was reeling a Mt, Sir Henry rod* by his side murmuring: “You dre hurt, I know, but don't show it before three Cossacks. We are Englishmen, <nd we oan’t afford to let Rusatans aee that we feel pain.”—St. James Gazette. - ; ..., ■,, • The fiternaan peapta riip in itfl’fl num* b«ja <ngy B«,9Op ( CWO, are now more than aitffeefr present path sf*in orease la greater than'tbatof shy other European natfon. They tad yeariV llflto every 10,000 of their population? while the Unite* Kingdom adds 101. to the tame number and France only 26. ' „ ' Travelers agree that of the wheelwomen the world over the English woman puts in the worst appearance. Not on* woman oycligt in 80 in the liteio isle locks well mounted and the fault is all bar own. Two-thirds of the English women ride with their saddles too low, handle bars too high and skirts badly cut ■ fl fl flflM ■■■■■■■■■■l(MM y\N EN LE I I To MOTHERS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA," AND ► “ PITCHER’S CASTORIA, ’ AS OUR TRADE MARK. 7, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER. V Ufanni9, Massachusetts, 908 the originator of ‘ 4 PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same that lias borne and does nou on bear the foe-simile signature of wrapper. This is the original M PITCHER’S CASTORIA,’’ which has ban used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty gears, LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the hind you have always bought sis? 1 '*2""* and has ihe signature of wrap- per, No one has authority fmp me to use my name ex cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fldcher is President. , J « March 8,189?, Do Not Be Deceived. 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