The Fortunes of "Freaks."
Speaking of the savings of freaks of
nature, a prominent circus and museum
manager said recently : “They are
nearly all economical, and nine out of
every ten arc filled with a desire to own
a farm. Tom Thumb spent a great deal
of money and yet left a snug fortune.
Millie Christine, ‘the double-headed
girl,’ has made 860,000 or 875,000, but
she lost the greater part of it backing
the circus of a friend a faw years ago. I
suppose sbo is still worth 820,000.
Hannah B.ittersby and her skeleton
husband, who live in Philadelphia, are
worth 810,000. John Powers, the fat
man, accumulated $10,000. Captain
Bates and his wife, big people, are
worth $50,000. They have a fine farm
in the West. If Lucia Zarate, the
Mexican Midget, had received all the
salary she earned for her manager she
would be worth $25,000. As it is, the
manager, Frank Uffuer, has the money,
minus $4,000 or $5,000 he has paid to
Lucia’s father. Eli Bowen, the legless
man, has $6,000 in bank. Cooper, the
giant, has nearly as much, The dime
museums have raised the salaries of
freaks so much that they will all have
farms if the managers’ pocket-books
The fraternal feeling existing among
freaks is aptly shown by the oases of
Hubert Ferrer, long known as the To¬
ronto Giant, and Edward Skimeer, the
Armless Wonder. These two men, both
over seventy years of age, are now living
at a little cottage outside of Bridgeport,
Conn., where an old colored man and
woman, for many years a stableman and
wardrobe-keeper with circuses, tend to
their wants and look after the peaceful
decline of their days. The cottage, the
old colored people, the giant and the
armless man are all dependent on a
small monthly assessment taken up
from the freaks exhibited at every oir
cus, museum and Bideshow in the Uni¬
ted States.
Sentenced Lose his Eyes.
A Tangiers correspondent says: “As
an instance of what goes on in Morocco
in the present day, let me relate an in¬
cident which has just come to my knowl¬
edge. A man residing at Feronei, some
miles from Tetuon, was lately accused
of having stolen a bullock from one **
the local naval authorities, who, acting
as judge in bis own case, gave an order
that the supposed delinquent should
have his eyes ont ont. The horrid sen¬
tence was carried into effect and the
wretched victim was then led into
Tetuan by o rz of his relatives in order
to have medioal advice from a Enropelht
doctor, who has settled there. As may
be supposed, the case was beyond the
limits of scienoe, for no human power
can ever restore sight to those empty
sockets, and the poor fellow who suffered
this shameful oruelty and who has been,
np to the present time, the support of
a numerous family, is condemned to
hopeless darkness forever. This is only
one sample of a scries of brutal atroci¬
ties continually oco) rring in this coun¬
try .”—London Globe.
Spring Bonnets.
Small oapotes and slightly larger bon¬
nets with peaked brims make up the
bulk of the trimmed hats imported from
Paris as models for spring and summer
0B6. The fish-wife bonnet is most large¬
ly imported, as its pointed brim has
finally found its way into general favor,
though it is still considered appropriate
and becoming only to young faces. For
these bonnets fanciful materials are em¬
ployed in combination with straw, the
latter being used mainly for the brim,
while the soft crown is made of etamine,
or lace, or the tricotine mixtures of wool
with gilt, or of silk gauze. Velvet en¬
ters into nearly all the bonnets, and a
great deal of thin crape and of silk tulle
is arranged in puffed facings for brims,
and in lengthwise pleats or puffs on the
The Mirror of I.o*t Souls.
A good many years 030 a sleight-ot
baud performer with u small company
struck Valparaiso, Ind,, badly out of
luck. The curtain went up ou a $3
house and the professor wm at his wits’
ends, for there was had rent, hotel
bills and expense * to be paid of over $50.
He performed a few tricks aud then re¬
tired to meditate. Suddenly a brilliant
idea came to him. It lacked about tea
minutes of traiu time for the Chicago
express. A small mirror hang in the
little room off the stage. He seized it,
threw a peice of baize around its frame,
placed it on a table on the stage and
rang up the curtain.
“Ladies and gentlemen,” said he,
“this is the Mirror of Ahazarahbad,
the ‘Mirror of Lost Souls.’ Gaze into
it intently for a sufficient time and the
feature? of missing persons will appear.”
Then with a graceful wave of his
hand at the Mirror of Ahazarahbad,
the “Mirror of Lost Souls,” he and his
little company quietly skipped out of the
back door and got off on the train.
After gazing in the Mirror of Ahazarah¬
bad, the “Mirror of Lost Souls,” foi
about twenty minutes the audience
came to the conclusion that it revealed
to them one missing person, and he
very much resembled the professor. —
Pittsburg Telegraph .
A Curious Story.
HOW THE CHINESE OP BHAMO OUTWITTED
THE BURMESE COMMANDER. .
From Pangoon,,he capita! of British
Burmab comes a curious story of the
msurreotion in the Bhamo district
During the reeen siege of the fortified
town of Bhamo the Chinese residents,
who form a large part of the population
and lire largely by themseWes, were
reduced to famine. They sent an envoy
to make terms with the Burmese com
mander. The latter offered the Chinese
6^000 Bhamo Rupees condition hnd permission that they to would loot
on
evacuate the town and deliver up the
two leaders of the place. The Chinese
answered that they would accept the
Burmese commander s terms if he would
simply so alter them as to allow the
leaders to be delivered dead, the reason
given being that the men oonld not
possibly be taken alive. To this the
commander assented, and not long after
ward he received the bodies of tvo dead
he had expected. It soon Iran
spired that the ohmese took their pay,
bnt made no attempt to carry ont their
oontract. They stole the carcasses of
two fever victims, and after hacking
them np with knives sent them to the
Burmese commander, who paid for
them as those he had contracted for.
Keeping the Pledge.
“In early life,” says “Camp-meeting”
John Alien, “I used to drink. Bat
sixty years ago I signed a pledge.
That one, though, I didn’t exactly keep.
It was a pledge of my own, and after I
signed it I hid it away in a drawer;
didn’t let anybody know I had signed it.
Afterward when 1 was with some friends
who wanted me to drink I took a little,
and spoilt my pledge. Bo I went right
home and rubbed out the date, and just
changed that over. Then I signed a
Booiety pledge and never drank liquor
as a beverage afterward. Fifty-five
years ago I throwed out tobacco, and
haven’t touched a particle as big as
a mouse’s ear aince.”
A Mb. Giubs, of South Carolina, was
very much with earache. He
some alcohol in it to deaden the
which failed to have the desired
effect. He then went to the drug
and asked for something to relieve
of the earache, when the druggist
gave him a mixtnr^^ and
sweet oil, so^fl
into the r
mg find
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PEOPLE OF TIIE UltfTED STATES.
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General Francis A. Walker, in his
lecture ou “The Occupations of the
Aiuericau People,” at the Lowell Insti
tute, said that the census of 1880 gave
llie total number of persons engaged in
occupations as 17,892,099, being 34.6U
per cent, of the entire population and
47 31 percent, of the population of ten
years aud upward, the total number oi
the later being 30 761,607. In 1870 the
number it those in occupations was
12,505,923, being 32.48 per cent, of the
total population, aud 43.50 percent, of the
population above ten years of age. The
division of the grand total of 1880
among tho four principal classes of oc¬
cupations was as follows :
Total number of occupations. ...17,392,091)
Agriculture .................... 7*670,493
Professional and personal service 4,074,238
Trade and transportation....... 1,810,256
Manufacturing, iniuiug and me¬ 3,837,112
chanical industries...........
The number of persons of ten years
of age and upward was 30.23 per cent,
greater in 1880 than in 1870. Through¬
out the country generally the increase
of occupations was largely in excess
the increase of population. This
due to the extension of the factory sys¬
tem and the increased employment
young children. In great
States the tendency was to restrict
number of bread-wiuners; in
raising and manufacturing States
number tended to enlarge; in
“ To markld “ ““
h(J lectnrer thrown npon the
at tho back oI the laWorm ,
Bt 1 ticou view o( a taWe Bhowing ® the
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^ pnlation State ttnd Terri .
tor / etween 1870 and 1880. The nun.
per8011B engttged in meohan
M au(i matmfaotctiug occupations in
1880 waB 22 per cent. a n occupations
the 0CMU3 of , hat r . Xhe larg( * t
artlsan3 o! „ ne class were the
nt and they numbered, in 1880,
373 Q00 The numbor of ooopOTB ja
90aroel _ , , now than in 1850 . A
, advamce had been made in the
numbmof tho8e engaged in mining and
mechanica , purB uits. The number of
lawyet9 had not differed 4.000 from the
numbet of doctorB Bince I860. The
nambcr o( teachers and dentists has
^ „ inoreaBed . Tho 6t ati8tios of do-
8tio BervioeB were m0Bt i nlereBting;
wilh aU tho iaorea9e 0 f luxury throngh
mt , he oountr „ though the population
ha8 mcrea8ed thirty per cent., yet the
number of do mestics has increased only
U)n This was probably dne to
the fac t that much of the work formerly
done by domestics is now done by out¬
siders, such as bakers and others, with
machinery and skilled workmen, who
supply the home with all necessaries.
The domestio service of this country and
that of Eugland were compared. In
England not less than one in every three
girls between the ages of fifteen and
twenty years is a domestio servant.
Father: **Oome, young man, how
long do you propose to keep my daugh¬
ter waiting on your slow movements
If you don't intend to marry her,
her; if you think of marrying her,
marry her at once and have no
nonsense about it.” Young man:
my dear sir, I’m engaged to her.
wouldn’t have me break the engage¬
ment?” “No.” “Well, if I leave
I break it, and I break it if I marry
And there I am between the horns of
dilemma.”
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A max called on a druggist for some
thing to core headache. The
tion clerk promptly clapped the ammooia
1 Kittle to his nose and nearly stilled him.
On recovering his forces he made »
wiokea pnnch at clerk’s head,
i*Hold on,” remar fekudividnal, ■Wu’t
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Wincr 1786 there havo been sold lo
private persons Maine. 402 of the islanda along
the coast of They range in nine
***»m 1.000 to Ift.fW' nnr»«
Bernard Morphy, Champion Youth
Walker of Australia, says in the Mel
bourne ‘Sportsman’: On Monday previ
on* to the match with Orwos, of Sydney,
I was attacked with the ‘stitch . I could
not walk another yard, aud gave up all
hope of winning. I was advised to try
st Jacob’s Oil. I did so, rubbing a
little on my side. I have not been
troubled since, andjwon my match.’
Turkey is so absolutely Impotent and
apathetic that half the world forgets
that it owns Egypt, and that British
troo P s aw doing its lig hting.
Pi«*rei‘’* “Pleasant Pormtlvi* Prove
Positively Popular; PruvrJca Praise;
Priceless; Peculiarly Prompt; Proflv; Fetreptihly Pre¬
Potent; Producing Permanent
cluding Pimples aiul Pustules; Promoting
Purity and Peace. Purchase. Price, Petty.
Pharmacists Patronizing Pierce Procure
Plenty.
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Potatoes never grow larger than marbles
in Greenland.
“Sho tried her prentice hand on man,
And when she formed the lassies, O!”
“What is woman’s worth?” asked a fair
damsel of a crusty old bachelor. He did not
know, so she said: W. O. man (double you
O man.) But a woman fee's worth little if
disease has invaded her system and is divrty
napping her strength. For all female weak¬
Dr. It. V.Picree’s “Favorite prescription ’
ness, unrivaled. It the complaint and
stands cures Bend two letter
builds up for pamphlet the system. to Worlds Dispensary
stamps Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
The seed of the Petunia grand)flora is
worth $500 an ounce.
The purest, sweetest and best Co t Liver •
Oil in the world, manufactured fro n fresh,
healthy livers upon tho seashore. It ts abso
lately pure and sweet. Patients who have
once taken it prefer it to all others. Physi¬
cians have decided it superior to anv of the
other oils in market. Made by Caswell,
Hazard & Co., Ne w York.
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skin CnAPPKD cured bv hands, using face, Juniper pimples Tar Soap, and rough made
by Caswell, Hazar d & Co., New Y ork.
From R. F. Idepsuer, A. M. Red Bat*If*
N. J. 1 have been troubled with Calami so
bally for several years that it seriously
effected my voice. I tried Dr.-’* remedy
without the slightest relief. One bottle of
Elv’s Cream Balm did the work. My voice
is fully restored and my head feels better than
for years.
In regard to Ely’s Cream Balm for Ca¬
tarrh, my answer is, I can recommend it rg
the best remedy I ever used.—Du. J. B.
Vaughan, Dentist, Muskegon, Mich.
udv’t.
An Item of Interest.— “Beeson’s Aro¬
matic Alum Sulphur Boap” softetwand prevents, beautifies turns
and heals skin diseases, Druggists, by
face aud hands. 85c by Dreydoppel, or
mail. Address William Phila¬
delphia. Pa. „
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Use the gieat spec Hit- lor "cold in head”
apd catarrh —Dr. Buge’w Catarrh Remedy.
Theyellow tulip is a great favorite for the
dinner table and is worth 25 cen ts a bud.
Heart Pains.
Palpitation, Dropsical Swellings, Dlrdness, cured by
Indigestion, Headache, Renewer.” Sleeplessness
“Wells’ Hea lth
_ for offloe in
There are 30,000 applications
Kentucky alone.______
“Hucliu Paiba.”
Quick, complete curs, all Kidney, Bladder
find Urinary Diseases, Scalding, Irritation,
Stone, Gravel. Catarrh of bladder. $L Drug
gists. _______
In England the New Testament oaa he
bought for a pen ny.
“Hough on Rato”
Clears out rats, mice, roaches. gophers. Mss, 10a
bedbugs, skunks, chipmunks,
Dragfpsts.________ famili IMS
The average size of American es
decreased one-tent h sines 1850.
“Rough on Coras,”
Ask for Wells’ “Rough on Corns.” 15*
Complete cure. Hard or soft corns, warts,
bunions
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The steeples m Cmutwe dues ai e on pawn
hsogg instead of on churches.
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