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Newspaper Page TextIf you can’t sing, or recite, or play the piano, give thanks; you escape more abuse than the Sultan of Turkey. A little colored , boy, the grandson of an old servant, in a New England fam ily, Is a constant playmate of the boy of the house, whose parents are partic ularly anxious that their child shall treat his colored companon with gentle ness. They are so anxious, in fact, that the little negro has acquired a habit of run¬ ning to his playmate’s mother with any trouble which may have befallen him, 6ure of her protection. One day the two boys were snowball¬ ing, and in some way or other the ne¬ gro received an especially damp and “slosby” snowball in his face, though it had been aimed at his back. “You beter look out, William Perd val!” he cried, turning a snow-plastered face, from which gleamed two small but wrathful eyes on his playmate. “If you don’t say you won’t do dat again I take dis countenance right in and show it to your ma jes’ as it is!” Brave Men. Alex McClure of the Philadelphia Times says: “The two boldest men he knows are John Wannamaker of Philadelphia and Tilly Haynes of Boston. Both went to New York. Mr. Wannamaker took the Stewart property, the finest dry goods store in the world, and Mr. Haynes took the great the Broadway city; Central Hotel, the largest in But dry rot had crept into both of these magnificent properties and no one dared to grasp them, until John W r anna maker took one and Tilly Haynes the other. A complete and unqualified success has crowned the efforts of both. Verily a good reputation is better than riches.” Visitor (gruffly)—Are you the editor? Editor (without looking up from his work)—I am. Stranger (more gruffly)— Do you hold yourself responsible for everything appearing in the paper? Editor (rising to his six feet three inch¬ es)—I d-o. What’s on your mind? Vis¬ itor (meekly)—Ob, nothing at all, I as¬ sure you. I was under the impression that the little man over in the corner took all the responsibility.—Spare Mo¬ ments. JPrayer and Profanity are all right In their proper places, hut If yon have Tetter or Eczema, or Salt-Rheum, or Ring¬ worm, better save your breath and buy “Tetter Ine.” 50 cents a box at drug stores, or by mail from J. T. Shuptrlne, Savannah, Ga. A thief In Monterey, Mexico, threw a hook and line through an open window, and stole the bedclothes under which the owner of the house was slumbering. No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents. Over 400,000 cured. Why not let N o-To-Bao regulate or remove your desire for tobacco? Saves money, makes health and manhood. Cure guaranteed. 60 cents and $1.00 at all druggists. Few animals possess the sense of smell In a greater degree than the horse. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is a liquid and is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Write for tes¬ timonials, free. Manufactured by Toledo. O. F. J. Chenky & Co.. Military physicians in India soldiers preserbe in opium as a harmless tonic for fatiguing inarches. Just try a 10c. box ot Cascarets, th© finest Iver and bowel regulator ever made. A mine In Idaho last week shipped out three cars of bullion valued at $8,880. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup forohtltlren teethinE, softens thegmns, wind reducing colic. £>c.a inflamma- bottle. Lion, allays pain, cures Fit* permanently cured. No fits or no rvou« ness a iter first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and trea tise free Du. R. H. Kline, Ltd., ‘«iL Arch St.,Phila„ Fa. Pieo’s Cure for Consumption relieves the most Lexinr-ton, Obstinate coughs. Mo., i ebruary Kev. J). ,34,1891. Ki chmcci, sk, The year 1897 is predicted to be one of great note as a big crop year. JSgSSSlfi* Some how the wittiest girl isn’t the one a man picks out to marry. When bilious or costive, eat n 10c., Casearct, candy cathartic; cure guaranteed; &>c. The melancholy days for many office seekers are here. If afflicted wltl>*ore</ye«n.t; Dr. DaaeThomp a m, ........................ ........ ■■' 1 ~ Scrofula Cured “When three months old my boy was would ran. We began giving him Hood’s Sarsaparilla and it soon took effect. When ho had taken three bottles he was cured.” W. H. Gaeser, West Earl, Pennsylvania. Hood’s Sarsa¬ parilla [- the best—iu fact the One True Blood Purifier. Hood’s Pill? c'ir rair”Liver Ills and Sick Headache. ~5c HAY PRESSES! improved htjxter fell oircle "Ail Steel ' and Wooden isiee! linedi shipped .11 trial Bs- write JoiI^Ca'/alogiie Ash PRICES.' MPDI I; curpr Box a jieiiiiiu.'. mss. Onr Orr 4 i I V ♦* r ( ll n i n Write at once. Send 6 ets to pay postage. SOI '1 ll* EKN WA i t:. I co., X tWTOS, c. AGcnTS i nrMTP SSioSGperday. Outfit KREK. Da.L.W.' k.Tbacv.N ewport.Ky. _____ — ---* Am. X. U. No. 23 1337 PISQ-S CU B :43 v/ ,‘ , {A ANIMAL CUNNINC. A Fox Came to Life After Being Killed, Bit Its Captor and Escaped. , , , . Two cases are on record of foxes be ing discovered in hen-houses. In each ease the fox not only completely de ceived the finder, but allowed himself to be dragged out by the brush and thrown down. In each instance the fox then jumped up and ran away. Another example is that, of a fox which dangled across a man's shoulder as it allowed itself to be carried along a read for more than a mile. At last it bit the man and was promptly dropped. A c»t was observed to carry a weasel home in its month, the weasel dang ling helplessly. The door of the house was closed and the cat, in conformity with its usual habit, mewed to gam admission. To mew, however, it had to set down the weasel, which jumped up and fastened on its nose. rj '!* e following instance was observed by . the late Professor Romanes: Acorn crake had been retrieved by a dog, and, having every appearance of being dead, was put in a mans pocket Presently violent struggles were felt and the man drew the bird out. To his astonishment it again hung in his hand limp and apparently lifeless. It was then set upon the ground and watched from behind some cover. In a short time it raised its head, looked around and decamped at full speed. A singular fact that must, not be ove looked in connection with this phenom ndto^aSSjlTSfwlSS S the case with a squirrel which he had caught in a cloth and with which he " i,h " s “ j “ ’“IS“i T.raent .I.o i.lato, in Ms book on the “Natural History of Cey lon,” that the wild elephant sometimes dies when being taken from the corral IV <— elephajits. Further, he r. ; leashings taken off, he and a friend leaning against it the while to rest, Hardly had they left it when it rose hurriedly, and trumpeting vocifer ously, rushed off in the jungle. The fact, however, that a squirrel or an ele phant when captured unhurt will die is sufficient to show that a most pow¬ erful nervous derangement of some sort is induced. When the late Joseph Thompson lectured on his African experiences he related how the first buffalo he shot tossed him, and how, when he came to himself and tried to sit up, he found his antagonist glaring at him a few yards awav. He told how he recol lected that" a buffalo do/.\ not try. to toss a creature which shows no signs of life, and how he let his head sink slowly back, and lay shamming death, Pheasants, in Hying across wide stretches of water, have been noticed suddenly to fall. In this way they are apparently drowned. It is perhaps dangerous to assert positively that fear is bere the active cause of death; yet, we are apparently justified in believing that a paroxysm of fear can produce sudden death. The squirrel and the elephant may have died of fright; cer tainly death in man can be produced by sudden fear, and although man has a much more sensitive nervous mechr ; anism, the lower animals have an ex tremely active instinct of fear. ; Professor Lloyd Morgan mentions the case of a surfaceman working in j : the Severn tunnel who was nearly killed by a train. It is stated that J “his attention was so riveted that he he was unable to make, or rather I j felt no desire to make, that he the could appropri- not | ate movements;” kelp Mtcliing the train, but felt no j terror. With the greatest difficulty he ! managed to shake himself free of his fascination. In describing his feelings j when the danger was past he is re ported to have said: “I came over all in a cold sweat and felt as helpless as a bab y. I was frightened enough then.” qq ds ma y perhaps be taken ns a cataleptic condition without fear.- Scotsman. Eritish Foyal Pages. fio . called <w„. s „ f ] K) „ ( ,r.” The lat ^e r are boys of gentle birth, ranging in a<Te “ f rom twelve to, seventeen, who re ' salary of $1, 2 00 and c ive a a year, bear , the trains of royalty ; on state oc .. denTand troditioo'th’ev receive a nom ination to the militarvcollege at Sand hurst, and if they can pass the exami nation there, a commission in the army ou com pleting their term of service at court. The pages of tbe ordinary class a re grown men, and merely a super ior kind of footman. Thus it is the pages who do the waiting at tlie royal tables, to footmen conveying the di ties to them from the kitchen. The foot men likewise w ait at the table of the gentlemen and ladies of the royal household. The footmen wear scarlet coats and vests, blue plush breeches, white silk stockings and low shoes, while the pages wea coats of a dark navy bine, with gilt buttons, black velvet breeches, white silk stockings and gold garters. I may add, says a London correspondent, that at Marl borongh House over eighty indoor ser lante arc employed, ami uatti the two daughters of the prince and pri-crt» were married they, as well as still unmarried sister, Victor! allowed the services of two i ;meu each to attend exclusively to their ser yice> ’ ope man be j ng always on duty and tbe otber off. In addition to these j mftnv j ndoor serva nts, there are fifty ' employed at the Marlbor luen more borougb House stables, |n Search of a Hidden Island. A sbi set sa ji f rolu San Francisco ^ wegk in searcb of a hidden island, Her t . mises to be a long and re¬ mantic oue and before she comes back _ American flag ber crew expect that the ^ bg floating over a little coral reef elose tQ the uator that no man or nation hag plaime<b New Haldayo is (he Tlnni p iven to the island, but so far tUe moSt accur ate location that can be . yen for it is that it is in the north Pa( f ific ocean Tbe is ] ;iU d j s said to be covered with an enormous and won derfu] deposit 0 f guano, and for nearly vear8 nnme rous vessels have out in search of it, but they hflye fl , ret urned without being le ive its i oea tion. It was first £ rte( f as being in existence by Lord p * ton an eccentric English navi ^ natu ralist and discoverer, and who e bis name to Clip * ^ Is]and He sftid in his report hjg ^ ^ ^ is]and lay ap . ^ imate , in nortb latitude 16 and , , itude 187> but is described as low atoll and navigators say a vessel cQuld ^ y itbin a dozen m iles of it p- * * 1 T If southwestern THe^yea^nry Mmuesote^s a cele brated quarry where the Iudians have ’S: i* "'as ceded ‘'‘“f by the “ *f- United States gov Gottschall ernment forty says years this is ago the only JUx place A H. in , ; S.1 U « r «< *». »> »» ; formerly resorted to .he qwy, and the pipestone seems to hayebeen an article of commerce among ! them, for it has been fon d m Indian graves scattered all the ; way from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. It has also, been found as far west as the liocky Mountains, and in British America. Creek Beauties, Professor E. A. Grosvenor, of Am herst College, who has spent mar y years in Greece, says that the English language has changed more in a few generations than the Greek in thnty centuries. The ancient type is Se¬ quently seen, both in id women; the modern sculptor com . models almost fac similes of those after which the grand old masters chiseled their masterpieces. “The most beautiful "woman I ever saw in ull Europe, says Professor Grosvenor, “was a Grecian girl. She was only a servant, and to tally uneducated, but her beauty was almost divine. Slie died afteiwards, I learned, of starvation. Her einployei s circumstances caused it, I believe.” Dangers in Writing Inks. It sometimes happens, says Hie Lon don Lancet, that a trifling scratch or puncture made with a pen gives rise a dangerous septicaemia, due to the lia bility of ink to contain pathogenic bac term Nigrosin ink, taken from n freshly-opened saphrophytes bottle, was and lounrl bacte- to contain both ria. Red and blue inks also yielded numerous bacteria. In tw T o instances Dr. Marpmamn succeeded in cultivat ing from nigwosin ink a bacillus which proved fatal to mice within four days. This ink had stood in an open bottle for three months, and the inference to be drawn from the inquiry is that ink used in schools should always be kept cov ered when' not in use. The Ooglywoo. The London Mail says that a number of wealthy Englishmen have organized a n exhibition to come to the United States to shoot wild horses in the Rocky Mountains. they The gentlemen can, after get "loch is found in great numbers m that Vi( ’ init y* It inis six kgs am a very s ort “ ll1 Jen danger , appears, it at once stands on its tail and spins 1 rapidly T • around. . Of this . makes , hole, , course a into w hic,J ^ e ^f 1 ^ 00 r ^ id ' y out of . sight. The hole then dwap l> ears also.-I orest and Stream. The Electric Lucifer. The electric match is thenext import ant invention promised. Beiore very long the phosphor ns-tipped wooden splints now in use will be replaced by a handy little tool that may be carried in the pocket or hung up conveniently for striking a light when wanted. Twen tieth century people doubtless will speak of the “hell sticks” of the jires ent day ns primitive and absurd, just as we are disposed to look with forefath- scorn upon the flint aud steel of our ers. Already there is on the market a gasligliter which affords more than a suggestion of the electric match of the future, a twist of the handle generating sufficient electricity to accomplish the lilll VJat. “iitdakl-* IdJ JouiflUL. DARING FEATS OF A DIVER. Narrow Escape from Upath While Ex¬ ploring a Sunken Ship. One diver crippled for life, another made a raving lunatic, and still another escaping death by a mere shave—that is the record up to date of the effort to recover the treasure ou the sunken steamship Skyro. The Skyro, bound from Carthagena to London, struck on the Meixiddo reel and sank in twenty-eight fathoms, low water. The Meixiddo reef is on the coast of Spain, nine miles south of Cape Finisterre. The accident occurred In 1S91, nnd It was not until four years later, May, 1S95, that any attempt was made to re¬ cover the valuable cargo which the sunken steamship contained, the most tempting part of which consisted of eighty-eight bars of silver, valued at $45,000. This treasure was stored away in a spare berth in the cabin, while in the hold was 700 tons of pig lead, valued at $70,000. It was J. Iv. Moffat, an Englishman, living in Bilbao, who made the first at¬ tempt on the treasure. After four ot five months' labor aud terrible under¬ water work by the divers all Mr. Mof¬ fat had to show for his time nnd money was a grimy piece of the Skyro's brass cabin skylight grating, One of the divers went raving mad from his suf¬ ferings under water, and when con¬ fined jumped through a window in his delirium. A fellow worker was inca¬ pacitated for life ns a result of his ex¬ posure. Mr. Moffat let things rest at this until duly of the present year. During the two months following the beginning of these second operations a diver named Erostarbe descended for¬ ty-four times and recovered fifty-nine bars of silver, the average time of each descent being thirteen minutes. After the first thirty-seven bars had been got to the surface it was found necessary to use dynamite. The dynamite so cleared things that In three dives Erostarbe brought up $10,000 worth of silver bars. But even this adept at submarine work did not come off without some close shaves (lur¬ ing his career. On one occasion in com¬ ing up he fouled his air pipe vith a float attached to the buoy rope. He was as¬ cending with a strong Impetus and the Impact with a float turned him down¬ ward and his head slipped out of the helmet below the breast plate. Ha could neither right himself nor replace his head. But he never for an instant lost his presence of mind, but worked swiftly and deftly with his hands in this reversed position. He managed to free the air pipe nnd shot up to the sur¬ face feet foremost, where he was quick¬ ly reversed by his ass is tank) nnd re¬ stored'to the world after such a close call as it is the lot of a very few men to survive.—New York Sun. IIla Confession. Mrs. Dowley—John, It is really fright¬ ful the way you swear. Before wo were married you said you never gave way to profanity at all. Mr. Dowley—And I told the truth. I never was married before.—Cleveland Leader. For Herself Alone. She—Do you love me for myselS alone, dearest? lie—Of course I do. 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