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EVERY 1>AV LIFE.
FaHs and Thrilling Adven
turns Which Show That Truth i,
Stranger Than Fiction.
A 11 oi i ai stoty comes resident from Bombay.
In August a Liverpool with proceed
inu to Bombay took out him a cat
which lu intended to present to a friend
in It:-:;:; Some days after the arrival of
the rtean r in Bombay pussy was missed,
and though she was searched for high
and lew, she was nowhere to be found,
Her • wiar had quite given her up lor
lost when he received intelligence from
England that the cat had made her ap¬
pearand at her old Liverpool home on
the 25th of October, as calm and col¬
lected us though atrip to India and back
was quite in the ordinary course of her
life. The facts are vouched for by a
Bombay paper, and there is no reason to
doubt their substantial accuracy, but it
.is rot made clear whether the cat was
not stowed away in the steamer in which
she went out to India, and carried back
on its return voyage in the ordinary
course Under any circumstances her
adventures are, however, sufficiently re¬
markable to deserve recording.
Thu jasperized wood of Arizona has
become well known by reason of the
many decorative cabinet specimens, paper weights,
aud slabs of it that are sent
to tin- Eastern cities, but this is by no
means the In only the petrified Iloodoo district forest iu of this the
•country.
Yellowstone many stumps of trees are
found converted to stone, some of them
showing knots, grain of the wood, and
bark us plainly as the living tree, and
the pebbly beaches of the Yellowstone
River are strewn with tons of fragments
of fossil wood. In the dreary desert of
the Dakota Bad found Lauds in leaf impressions hardened
are frequently the
clay, and at Little Missouri, at the point
known as the Burning Mountain, where
a coal scrim has been on fire since nobody
knows when, there are half a dozen tree
trunks about thirty feet long. This is
remarkable on account of the almost
total Jack of tree life in this region at
pr. sent.
A HUNTER and a wolf had an interest
ing mutual surprise party to themselves
in the hills near Helena, Montana, a few
days ago. The hunter, arrayed in a
heavy wolf-skin overcoat, fur side out
ward, war Examining sonic traps set the
previous night. lie, was stooping over
one, rearranging the bait, when there
was tbi sound of a fierce growl and a
bearing heavy weight him fell suddenly on his back,
to the ground, so that he
barely missed being caught in his own
trap.' free, lie managed to shake himself
and recovering his feet found facing
him a full-grown buffalo wolf. The
wolf seemed quite as much surprised as
the hunter, and they looked at each
other for some seconds before the fight,
which ended in the death of the wolf,
began. by The brute evidently was fooled
the overcoat and the hunter’s stoop
ing position, and mistook him for
anothci wolfj^
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| storm recently what they thought was a
human voice crying for help. searched The neigh¬
borhood turned out and for the
! supposed wanderer, but without avail.
and the relief party were forced to give
I up the hunt believing the unfortunate
to have perished in the snow. .Not un¬
til several days afterward. , when the
| cry the was sound repeated, caused did they by discover creaking that
! j was a
windmill,
j A club with a curious purpose has re¬
cently been organized in Philadelphia. will
It has a membership of five and
i meet but once a year, at an annual ban •
quet, except when a member dies. 'Then
the remaining four will act as his pall¬
bearers. This is the Club's sole object,
except the annual banquet. As soon as
one member shall have been borne to the
grave by his four fellow members another
will be chosen to take his place and its
membership always kept complete.
An ordinary kettle lid engaged the
attention of a Judge of the United
States Circuit Court and a jury for two
days at Chicago. The plaintiff had been
arrested for the alleged larcency of the
kettle-lid while lie was shopping. and sued He
declared that he did not steal it
the proprietor damages. of the The store to recover in the
$25,000 in case was and the
nature of a tempest a teapot, the
evidence revealed a tendency on part
of the pot to call the kettle black. The
verdict was for the plaintiff.
One of the curiosities of the recent
cold weather at Allentown, Penn., was
the freezing fast to the wet rails of three
long and heavy coal trains. One of them
suffered an accident, ready compelling it its to
stop, and when it was to move
125 cars were frozen fast and could not
be moved. One train after another came
along on the same track and, on stopping
for ihose in front to move, suffered the
same fate. It was several hours before
the blockade was raised.
There is a wonderful grapevine at
Gaillac, a town in Southern France.
Although the plant is yielded only ten years
from the cutting it lias as many
as 1287 bunches of line fruit in a single in
year. There is hut one other vine
cultivation that is known to excel this
prolific shrub, and that is the historical
vine at Hampton Couft, England., which
was planted in 17G8. In one year this
noted vine has borne 2500 bunches.
An Alamosa (Col.) newspaper, in a
hirth notice printed in its columns the
other day, affords an interesting notion
of the composite character of the great
American people in the West. The
child, whose advent iu the Holland
colony was announced, is the first. Dutch
child born iu the San Luis Valley. The
birth notice was written by a Dane, put
in type by a Mormon, the proof read by
«n American, the type placed in the
“form” by a German, and the paper
printed by a Mexican,
Tiif. sale of intoxicating liquors in
Scandinavia is controlled by municipal
communities—cities, towns, etc. All
the profits derived belong to the com
inanity, and are applied and to the public support in
stitutions. schools, hospitals hotel other rmitted
Only s arc pe to
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FOR THE LADIES.
A FAMOUS LITERARY WOMAN.
The Mme. Darmesteter whom the
French Academy has honored with a
pri/e lor literary ability is better known
to English readers as Mary Robinson, the j
girl who entered London Uuiversity •
before she was seventeen, and when j
offered publication a choice of her between poems a in party celebration and the j
of her twenty-first birthday, chose the
latter. Mine. Darmesteter is now the j
wife of the eminent Persian scholar and
member of the faculty of the College ol :
France.—[ Chicago Herald. i
AUSTRIAN GIRLS AND WOMEN.
The education of a Viennese girl in¬
cludes the regular school work until her
fifteenth year, after which she goes
through a course of teaching in the
kitchen under the instruction of some
member of the family, or a trained cook,
lasting from one to two years. As a re¬
sult ot this training Austrian efficient women wives are
said to make the most
and mothers. They are as accomplished
and capable as Englishwoman, as witty
iu society as Parisians, and are noted for
their beauty among’European women.—
[New York Journal.
HER PICTURE ON HER LINEN.
A young woman who has a weakness
for novelties has invented a new way
for marking her belongings. Indelible
ink she scorned as belonging to the dis¬
tant past, and embroidered initials and
monograms she voted commonplace.
Even the pretty device of embroideiiug
her possessions with her favorite flower
finally lost its charm, and her latest lancy
is to have her own face and reproduced,.. unflattering
She had some tiny not
photographs taken, and they are now
being transferred to the corners of Her
handkerchiefs, the bands of her skirts,
etc. Now, this is all very nice, but one
cannot help feeling that it will probably
all come out in the washing.—[St. Louis
Republic.
THE HUGE SLEEVE.
The great balloon sleeve is trying to
some figures, and women make a mis- I
take in wearing it, if it does not suit j
them, it is not well dressed to be m
the height ol lashion ll the fashion does [
not suit the wearer. A woman with a
room igu , . < ° ’
“ stuffed Sa'SJt! dummy. It requires height end
a long, slender waist to support those
exaggerated shoulders. They must look
what they are—a caprice of fashion
which one chooses to wear, and not a
physical deformity which one tries to
conceal or adorn. There are many,other
sleeves which arc equally fashionable, if
well cut. The leg-o’-mutton may be
arranged to the arm so that it will not
exaggerate the breadth too much and de¬
stroy all the outline of the waist.—[New
York World.
THEY WENT INTO MOURNING,
It is related of. a that^mheai^o^jt family jarominent in
New Y ork society
twelve hours (the men taking the night
duty), and they are paid at the rate of
twenty-five cents a day, being lodged
besides, the husbands earning ninety
cents a day. On the Holland railway
t ; |( , ;tV( . rM! r e hours of work are about the
the women receiving pay at the
rate of fifty-five cents a day, sixty-five
ct . n j s a week bein <r , however, deducted
for the l 0 d-un<>- allowed them, For
women with families the work is eon
s i l [ ( . 1 . e ,f trying, especially when they are
kept on duty as long as sixteen hours, as
is the case at cer tain points where the
traffic happens to be very heavy. As re¬
g ar( j s the general conditions under which
the persons in the employ of the great
Dutch railways carry on their work, the
testimony of the numerous witnesses ex¬
amined by the commission, with a few
exceptions, went to show that they are
well satisfied both as to the wages they
receive and as to the treatment accorded
to them. One witness was of opinion
that the wages of railway servants com¬
pared favorably with those of most
factory hands.—[New York Commercial
Advertiser.
FASHION NOTES.
Empire sleeves of velvet arc fashion¬
able for evening "owns.
Diamond butterflies of graduated sizes
are used to adorn the corsage.
Novelty handkerchiefs have edgings ol
open embroidery.
A trimming for dressy silks consists ol
narrow folds of bias velvet, dotted with
pale amber, beige, or red beads.
For house-wear for tiny girls there are
little shoes of blue, pearl, white aud
pink kid.
Handsome silks brocaded with tiny
rosebuds look quaint and old-fashioned,
but they are used to a great extent.
A pretty way of trimming band the bottom satin
of a skirt is with a broad of
ribbon tied here and therein a loose bow.
The coquilles trimmings, either in lace
mousseline de soie, or in a material simi¬
lar to the dress fabric, are fashionable.
Slippers are elaborate and dressy to the
very verge of absurdity. Embroidery,
beads, metal filagree and similar decora
tions are literally crowded upon them,
The f as h ion 0 f short socks for little
children, while it may be characterized
;lg somewhat cute by many, is a most
sense less and ridiculous one.
Ribbon either of silk or velvet) is
much liked for dress trimmings. Wide
*“* ft*— otyraSuaM width ttta
01 »'« sk,rts -
Muffs are said to be growing much
larger, but those seen on the street vary
very little iu size from the styles hereto¬
fore approved.
Black silk and velvet, in all shades
and patterns, are in favor, the latter
being especially noticeable in dinner
gowns for young women.
Old-fashioned shoulder /TT handkerchiefs
of very thin silk or creir
again ‘to be woni^f I J ) jP £ {_ 1, 1
and tucked ir ; ' ->
A pretty Ueaveix.-}
is the skM SJTi
worn passee.^B 0 {fl
POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES.
A Watch That Talks. —It is said a
watch maker in Geneva. Switzerland,
named Casirnir Livau has just completed
a watch which, instead of striking the
hours and quarters, announces them by
speaking like a phonograph. The mech¬
anism of the watch is based on phono¬
graphic conditions, the bottom of the
case containing a phonographic sensitive
plate which has received the impression inserted
of the human voice before being
ill the watch.The disk has "forty-eight con¬
centric grooves, of which twelve repeat
the hours, twelve those of the hours and
quarters, and twelve more those of the
hours and second and third quarters. If
the hand on the dial shows the time to-be
12:15 o’clock, one of the fine needle
points of the mechanism crosses which the corre¬
sponding groove and the disk, turns
simultaneously, calls out the time just
like a phonographic cylinder. The lower
lid of the case is provided with a tiny
mouthpiece, and when the watch is held
to the ear the sound is all the more
plain.—[Jewelers' Circular. —By
To Prevent Jars and Jolts.
means of a simple arrangement, lately
brought forward, it is found jars practicable and vibra¬
to prevent the jolts and
tions common to vehicles that are driven
over rough roads or upon street rigid pave¬
ments when ordinary wheels Surrounding of con¬
struction are employed.
the outside of the periphery of the
wheel, and in close contact with the tire,
are a series of independent springs,
which form the outer tread of the wheel:
these springs are with so arranged other, as to work and,
in conjunction each load, their
when moving under a heavy the rim,
free ends are sprung in toward
coinciding with the true or working
periphery of the wheel, the springs not
coming in contact with the plane until
the spring is nearly under the centre of
gravity. In this way the spring resist¬
ance is used in sustaining the load, and
not in retarding the movement of the
wheel—the springs, after passing the
centre of gravity, exerting a force against
the plane over which they are making, passing to
force the wheel ahead, thus as
is claimed, a wheel that is not only easy
riding, but easy propelling as Can well. Do.—
What a Pound of Coal
“The day is not far off when we will
get heat and power without the inter¬
vention and assistance of fire,” said
Civil Engineer Marston McGrath to a St.
Louis Globe-Democrat reporter. “The
solution will come when we get elec¬
tricity direct from coal without the loss
of any part of the wonderful energy that
there is in the fuel. I never knew fully
the value of coal as a power producer
until I saw it exemplified the on a recent
trip across the Atlantic in steamer
Majestic. The-vessel carried 2,400 tons
of coal—almost enough to give a half
bushel to every family in St. Louii- "d
it used.qp A 290_ tons a daj£
There Are No “Jfc'mMi” Stars.
The term “fixed,”'as applied to th»
slajs, is now known to be a misnomer,
for it has beefa proven that there is not a
stationary or “fixed” etar in the whole
heavens, and no such thing as absolute
rest in aoy of God’s monstrous machin¬
ery. It is hardly necessary to say that
all the stars are constantly in motion,
some of them whizzing through space at
the rate of 250,000 miles an hour, more
than thrico the velocity of our earth on
its orbital track. This constant motion
brings about some startling changes in
our stellar relations in the course of
scores of centuries. But, however, Jthe
visual effect on the generation or half a
dozen generations presents the planets in
a seeming unchanged aspect.—St. LouU
Republic.
This country is one-third the size of
the British empire, nearly one-half as
large as the Russian empire, a fourth
smaller than the Chinese empire, a fourth
larger than France and all its colonies,
twice as large as the Turkish empire, and
nearly as large as Brazil.
You Needn’t Live in a Hwaui|>
To havS malarial trouble. It is as wide spread
as it is insidious. But you do need Ho-t ettor’s
Stomach Bitters to get over it speedi y and
sionally completely. Persistent use ot tics profes- / r
commended remedy and preventive
will floor it, though you have tried other med¬
icines in vain. Tackle it at the outset. The
same advice should be taken in cases of dys¬
pepsia, rheumatism debility, and liver and kidney complaint,
neuralgia.
It.is rumored that Queen Victoria will leave
no part of her large lortune to the prince of
Wale-.
For impure or thin Blood, Weakness, Mala
ria, take Neuralgia, Brown's Iron Indigestion Bitters—it and Biliousness,
making old feel gives strength,
persons pleasant take. young—and young
persons strong; to
Our annual hen product is S.OOO.OOO.OOO
eggs.
Sufferers from Dyspepsia
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