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A Burglar's Fruitless Work.
HE BLOWS OPEN THE WRONG SAFE AND
MISSES GETTING $10,000.
Mrs. George App is a wealthy widow
residing back of Macnngie, Lehigh
Go., Pa. She had some large real estate
transactions recently, and several days
ago placed $10,000, the proceeds of an
ore mine sale, in an Allentown Bank. A
few days ago, she was called upon by a
well-dressed elderly gentleman who
represented himself as a New York
lawyer who had come to pay her over
a large sum of money in a furnace sale
made by her deoeasod husband ten
months before. She had bu&ness let¬
ters from the same lawyer before, but
had never met him, He represents
himself as an old friend of Mr. App and
he was invited to remain over night.
He said that he would pay over the
money in the morning. Daring the
night the house was shaken by an ex¬
plosion, and the man was heard running
through the house cursing his bad luck.
No one was in the building except Mrs.
App and the female servants, and they
were too badly scared to investigate until
morning, when it was found that the
stranger had blown open the family
safe and taken some valuable papers.
But the money was safe in the Allen¬
town Bank. The stranger left behind
him a wig showing that he Was dis¬
guised. He fled du r ing the ni ght
A Nobleman In the Workhouse.
Theodore von Spreckelson, a German
nobleman, was arraigned in a police
court, at Chicago, charged with im¬
proper conduct. Ten years ago he was
known in good society, having the usual
prestige of a wealthy German. He went
to California and engaged in growing .a
large vineyard. Then he returned to
Chicago and opened a large winehouse,
but it did not pay, and after a few
mouths he lost his capital. Then he ob¬
tained a position in a large mercantile
house#.but betrayed the trust confided
in 1 him andjiecame a’d&faulter. After¬
ward he married a wealthy widow, but
they did not live happily together and
the disappointed man appeared to lose
pride and manhood and rapidly sank to
the level of a common tramp. He *«s a
man of brilliant education and ability.
The Justice imposed a fine, and Yon
Spreckelson will for a time associate
with the cosmopolitan society at the
workhouse.
A young couple who went to a
Methodist church iu Selby, England, to
be married, found to their great disap¬
pointment that the ceremony could not
be performed until two days afterward,
owing to the neglect of the Registrar in
not forwarding the required notice in
time. The young couple had taken and
furnished a house, the wedding break¬
fast was prepared, and all their friends,
many of whom had oome long dis¬
tances, were present. The mortifica¬
tion was increased when, after two days
the bride-elect and the bridesmaids at¬
tended the chapel and the bridegroom
failed to appear. When the minister,
sympathizing with the young woman,
drove to the residence of the young
man, he found that he had disappeared,
leaving word that he had changed hi*
mind and would not many
Billed by ms Own Gbb.
Sett Hoover, of Hanging Book, P^.
eame in from dock .hooting on Tue.
d^HeUidh, gnnon e hed in i,
“Why don’t yon hang your guu up
^^t^toTnder^^ngitup
yourself,” said Hoover. He was stand
ing opposite the bed combing his hair,
Mrs. Hoover took hold of the gun, and
in drawing it off the bed the hammei
and Cttgnt was in raised. the bed When clothe. released to .omc it »T fell j
^d the gnn di.cWged The l<»d
rnek Hoover under the arm, killing
him instantly. i
What a Sponge Is.
. "It is only the skeleton of
a sponge
chat is commonly used in removing
dirt,” Prof. Bickmore says. “ A sub
stance that in the animal sponge is an
ulagous to the fieger nails of the human
hand. portions The sponges the world, are foui^l *U.«*d m van- in
OU8 of
masses below the surfaoe «.f the water,
Theyouthful sponge first makes its ap
pear&nce on the outer border of the adt.lt
in th9 form of a cell, whion gradually
increases in size and complexity until it
bursts through the maternal tissue and
floats at freedom through the ocean. It
is very minute, and for a time has an
independent life. It is sowing its wild
oats, so to speak, but as it increases in
size it atUtches itself to its more ma
tnre brothers and sisters and develops
with them into adult form. Sponges
are gathered by means of grappling
hooks. They are floated to inoiosed
portions of the sea, where they are left
until the exposure of the sun and the
wash of the r a leaves nothing but th
skeleton.”
Jigging for Tomcoa.
Along the coast of Long Islaud Sound
are plenty of tomcods, called in Con
necticut frostfish, which run up the
Thames and other small rivers and
gather under the ice. The fisherman
who knows their habits takes to a hole
in the ice two sticks each as long as hir.
arm, a fish hook, a string and a bunch
of oak leaves. The oak leaves he ties
ou the end of one stiek and the fish
hook on the end of the other. Theu he
plunges the oak leaves a foot under
water and waves them gently to and fro.
Boon frostfiBh gather about the leaves,
when the fisherman lowers the stick
Witt the fish hook and yanks them out
The absentees are not missed, and u, e
7 fish hang uaug around muxiu the bush k u OU y as long -I*, as if
* waved. The s^vt is called Jigging
for tomcoti.
.
FURTHER* COMMENT UNNECESSARY.
A Washington hotel keeper was Doast
ing of the amouut of money he had made
during inauguration week.
“What do you think of that ?” he said,
turning to a stranger.
The stranger lifted his shoulders, but
made no reply.
“Don’t you think that's doing pretty
well persisted the hotel man.
“My wife’s a rnnnin’ a boardin’ hooee
in New Orleans,” said the stranger sea
tentiously, and then the Washington
man was silent.
Nottoway County, Virgin, -he re¬
gion inhabited by the first settlers, and
made interesting by reminiscences of
Capt. John Smith and Pocahontas,
fast returning to its primeval condition.
“In twenty years it will be a wilder¬
ness,” prophesies a visitor. The reai
dents are old and sad. The yonng have
gone to more promising regions. Deer
browse where cattle fed, and the oak
and pine cover great plantations where
the negro once cultivated corn and to¬
bacco.
A MOTHER'S POEM ON BABY.
A young mother sends ns a poem
upon “Baby.” It is oertainly a gem.
The only fault we have to find with it is
that of sacrificing melody to hard sense.
The third stanza is a striking instance
of this:
Doxerjdoodle-nm dinUe-umdon,
>«
-——
a 1^/^the^ma^ ttL m^!
ing —” “The man ought to be hanged
who would strike a lady with the
rheumatism,” interrupted a voice from I
the other side of the table. The person
who lud tt. .ttj to WI looked «onnd,
became confused and collapsed. Tbs
iotcrrnptkm --«-dto thrt it
knocked the rest of the talc oat of km
head. •
f AmiYiran War
Materials
II . . formally 1
j is denied in the House of
Commons that contracts for cartridge*
have been awarded to an American firm.
But this is a topic on which Asyiiala are 1
to beei,woted. and thaw familiar with
the methods of this peculiar trade will
| isteuce not bo the of these first to contracts credit them. might The be de- ex
J nice, for instauoe, if they had been dis
charged ; and if war material in mid to
au agent 5f a government, it is clear—
for the purposes of a denial—that it is
not sold to the government itself. Some
times such a cargo is actually shipped
unmarked and unpaid for, the title pass
ing only when it safely may. There is
nothing improbable iu the size of the
alleged order, 150,000,000 cartrides, al¬
though it certainly id a large one. In
1877, it will be recalled, three cargoes
of exclusively war material were shipped
hence within a fortnight or so. The
Lotus, #
for instance, of 2,152 tons bur
j den, took 70,000 rifles, 10,000,000 cart
ridges, 15,000,000 shell*., 15,000,000 bul
\ lets and 50,000,000 wads, the whole
! valued at $1,709,100. Altogether, the
war supplies sent from the United
States were estimated at $15,000,000 tc
820,000,000 in value. It might be
thought a risky trade, but there is little
risk in “cash at sight,” and those
were the terms even Turkey satisfied
when she was utterly bankrupt for pur¬
poses of peace. Those who think war
is now improbable because of Russia’s
lack of cash will do well not to push that
theory too far. Ware may stop from the
exhaustion of a treasury, but that has
Hot been a sufficient reason for prevent¬
ing wars.— N. Y. Time a.
The War Question.
_ P , Sampanlla _ Hunter , then .. offered ~ ,
thefollowmgr^ouUou: k ? ’
“ d “ f af > gle ^
Eng ^ and an’ <!e Arabs, ^ de Bym- ^»
^ goout lfttt
offer Ao^ou Y* queried the
President, as he looked from the paper
to Sarsaparilla and back,
“^ eB » ’
“ Y ; ,u ^nipathize with de Arab, do
J ou '
bau *
* *A.uy pertickler reason V
‘‘ A werr * S' 8 ** rK ““ n - Bah - De
am Boekin « *° » bolisb “ lBTOr y lu
England. > ,
“ d P» m «“ ' nl •***?.^, thut ..... ^ md, « 61 Watkmablw- ™“."° d * e P
tered his heel , ou the hot <tove without
realizing it. Brother Gardner finally
said:
“Giveadam Jones and Pick lee Smith
will take de Professor to the aunty-room
an* rub de back of his neck with a cold
brick. If dat doan, effect a cure we*ll
send him to de idiot asylum .!**
The Professor acted like one who had
been knocked down by a brick house,
and after the rubbing process above re¬
ferred to had been completed he ex¬
plained that the resolution had been
drawn up by a tin peddler, who bad
promised him a new tin pan lo present
it.— Lim r-KHn Cfu h .
_____
The Duke of Buckingham, who has
no heir to his dukedom has just mar¬
ried the daughter of a Sootoh baronet.
He is 63.
A firm at Albany, Go., is selling large
quantities of bacon at the rate of a
pound of meat for a pooiid of cotton
next fail
wSk”*of AnetSfii’ T Jl«£
trU^ On’ Mond“ tte pre^i
. Sp
,.ofc walk another jard, and gave up all
S^V^e. and 1 ^bave m-tch.’ no^b^n
troubled since, won my
Potatoes never grow larger than marble*
»■ Greenland.
r»*r*-'e “Pie»<*a*t Pevaauvc I’e’tru."
JggW Permanent Profit; Pro
Potent; Producing
pharmacuu* Patrooi/iru Pun* Procure
Pleatr.
Winch 178<i there have been sold to
private persons 402 of the islands along
the coast of Maine. They range in sine
'“^ra l.OOrt to *o*mi
« 8he site on man.
And when formed fiio l&Mie*iQI" if air
*^S!JcS‘“id SSStotj IfodidS* a
know, so sho said: W. O. man (double £%£ you
'"ami
sapping her strength. For all female weak
ness - Dr.RV.Piciue’s “Favorite prescription’’ toSS?
S pamphlet
stamps for to World’s Dispensary
Medical Association. Buffalo. N.
The Rood of the Petuuiu. grandiflora is
worth #500 an ounce.
Thk purest, sweetest and bent Cod Liver
Oil in the world, manufactured from fresh,
healthy lutely livers upon the seashore. It is abso¬
pure and sweet Patients who have
once taken it prefer it to all others. Physi¬
cians have decided it superior to any of the
other oils in market. Made by Caswell.
Hazard &Co., New York.
Chapped hands, face, pimple* and rough
.jin cured bv using Juniper Tar Soaft, made
by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York.
Prom B. F. Liepsuer, troubled A, M. Catarrh Red Bank,
N. J. I have been with so
badly for several years D at it seriously remedy
affected my voice. I tried I)r.-’s
without the slightest relie*'. One bottle of
Ely’s Cream Bairn did tho 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 es
the best remody I ever used.— Dr. J. 8.
Vaughan, Dentist, Muskegon, Mich. See
edv’t.
An Item of Interest.— “Beeson’s Aro¬
matic Alum Sulphur Soap” softens prevents, and beautifies cure*
and heals hands. skin diseases, by Druggists, by
face and 25c or
mail. Address William Dreyaoppel, Phila¬
delphia. Pa._ _ , ,
Use the great specific tor “cold in head*
and catarrh —Dr. Kago’s Catarrh Remedy.
Theyellow'tulip is a great favorite for the
dinner table and is worth 25 cents a bud.
Heart Paine.
Palpitation, Dropav ‘al Swellings, Dirtiness, cured by
Indigestion, Headache, Sleeplessness
“Wells’ He alth llano wc
_ for offloe in
There are 3t),OUO applications
Kentucky alone._
“Ruch* Pntba.”
Quick, complete cure, alt Kidney, Bladder
mm Urinary Diseases. (jjatarr4 Scalding, Irritation,
Stone, Gravel, ot bladder. |L Drug
In England the New Testament can be
bought for a penny. _
"Hough «n Halo”
Clears out rats, mice, roaches, gophers. flies, ants, 15a
bedbugs, Druggists. skunks, chipmunks,
The _ American families has
average size of
decreased one-tenth sinee 1850.
"Hough on C'ornfi,”
Complete Ask for Wells’ "Rough on Corn*” warts, 15a
cure. Hard or soft; corns,
bunion*
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The steeples in Chinese Cities are on pawn
hso ps instead of on churches
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THAT
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bearing a red tin tan! Lorillard’s
Re se Leaf Sue cut; that Lorillard’s
Navy Clipping*, and that Lorlllard^Sn a If*, ar*
CONSUMPTION, I bare * poaitlwe reraedr tor the above dlM«M; br !»
ih thonseaueof CMtiof the worst kindsiidof loug
tUodlDtr bare be*n cured. Indeed, »o strong i* tnrfivUh
miuefflcecT.tbet I.UABI.ETREATISE I will #endTWO BOTT1.K8 tble diMUt FXSa,
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