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Bf county* (1 Story i if a Ji*g 5 an.! Arcowi to F.e tl> e ‘ t Thoiigh- 4 star; bug fitor ? (t { e lumber the camps trnGj >•’ in this couBfg* started rested parties lrave gg, the people of all this (horrified by the news that lumberman hr m S at sock, a and Potter te ar the Tioga of his ’had murdered four committed suicide by self in his bouse. The news tiosn by Hancock’s wife. absent from home on the >en [tragedy Her story was gone home and found the in lying dead, some in the Lein the yard. mutilate*. They hud fed and frightfully eldest hitcher knife- The [years old. A fifth child, a Beep and uninjured in a pool L side of one of its mu* pparently in the hand writ husband, was found in the Mi he confessed the terri¬ fying as his reason his de¬ ls wife of himself and the bse of her conduct, toner's ji inquest jealous it was do¬ of Hancock was p good cause and that ho for upbraided her for her fe. 1; was also shown that lire [acock the butchery at Blue [ter and John Coagley, [g husband had charged intimate. were nearly all ■ Bestigation in the woods. After the was over this Coag Bod and came to place Be I saw mills. he made no secret of the ■was in constant fear that Ire following him, and the 1 every stranger in Austin ■ the greatest uneasiness. Irew'on Suddenly him, and he finally I and his where never been learned. Airs. I left Blue Run after the I was over. She was soon fci abandoned hanger-on of [nips, inberman. living It with is not this known and [on [he fate she of made its brothers of the babe and B bloody night at the Blue [ago [amp a went messenger to Coudersport, from the f °f Totter county, with [story Bp, and that that Mrs. before Hancock ■ a confession dying ■ her husband which not ■pr of the kill and himself, but de and two of her B;'~' By- : , |h; tinrnwl, but whose 11, public, murdered ■T ■*®ct cmldn-n. The eon that she had be ■* ■r^t itt " threats her hus- 1 ft because of ■LV fulness, and egged h ' ; resolved, with Bf W'ptoMomfon.. 1 Hancock out of the Ice him aan & hi “‘ to a ■ him i°e te \ u ! i ls P° ckt *t as ■ f «de, stating and that he fffjW-ed why. in chloro he he was Bortha E - two men > who Ec entered th< k a rope, and were L *„ > ? et ! tlle eldest child fess she stabbed it oth I j fn four children, to bei™ ad been’+ to Wer sdence ? butchered ^ them. laereb to danger n°t harmed written to ts. gilt’s *9 made oxi W e n abroad »ot) a long “ OQl man 7 months. 1 to Italy)” **» no. We feared zee Sf '-'Oinprondy ht make ^aere did you tr spend *°*° Paris)** li *^9 thaire a ** hew doe» it n* ’ met it! India. O e-o! It? on the >e a more in India . ..ban either ind are v.-n more extensively, being raised .. ,- n Madras,in the south,to Rajputana. : tee north. They occupy about 83 cent, of the food grain area in •j. ay and Sinde, 41 per cent, in the ah’o, 3.9 per cent, in tbs central in ail about 30,000,000 acres. ’—Popular Science Monthly. When the Fish Was Caught, Gfmignoli, the son of a fisherman, a priest in a rich abbey in Florence, had net spread every day on the table of his apartment to put him, as be said, in mind of his origin. The abbot dy i n g, this dissembled humility procured Q ril ignoli to be his successor, and the Ijet was used no more. A friend who came to see him the day afterward on entering ids apartment said, “Where is. the net?” “There is no further occa¬ sion for the r.'et,” replied Gruignoli, “when the fish is caught”—Notes and Queries. The >irt of Pleasing, Wc are told that truth is the end of all art, but too much truth is not part of the best methods of the art of pleas¬ ing. If your host be a Liberal you should not point out to him the muta¬ bility of party battle cries. It is true that when Iasi the Liberals were in power we were perpetually told that it was the duty of every citizen to bow to the sacred majority of the ballot box, and that now that the ballot box had decided against Home Rule the Radi¬ cals will not permit legislation until Home Rule passes. All this is true, but it would be contrary to the first principles of the art of pleasing to em¬ phasize its truth before a Radical hose In some companies, however, you may treat Mr. Gladstone as you do the weather—abuse him for lack of another subject of conversation. Similarly, if you sit besido a soldier whose devoted breast is valorously deco¬ rated, it may oecui to you that the ac¬ count of one of tire actions tints com¬ memorated ran something as follows: ■We met with a stubborn and desper¬ ate resistance, Our troops behaved gallantly, and at length the enemy were repulsed. Losses on our side, a drummer boy of the One Hundred and Fiftieth regiment has a severe hole in his drum. Losses of the enemy variously estimated at between 100 and 1,000.” The report of the action may have been somewhat like the above, but it would not be in accordance with the principles of the pleasing art for you to point out to the soldier the infinitely greater dangers ol a day’s covert shooting.—Murray’s Mag azine. adventures, with Lions. Gerald, tits famous French lion killer, says in his “Adventures” that teething is an important crisis in the life of the lion cubs, and that a large number of the young die during that period. When the cubs have finished teeth¬ ing the lioness leaves them for a few hours each day, and on her return brings mutton, carefully skinned and torn in small pieces. The Arabs, on discovering a litter of cubs, watch for the departure of the lioness, and then rob her of the whelps. They post themselves on a high cliff or a tree overlooking the lair. As soon as they see the lioness go down to the plain, and are sure that the lion Is not near, they creep to the iair, wrap the cubs in the fold of their burnoose in order to smother their cries, and carry them to the edge of the woods, where men are waiting with horses. One day sixty Arabs surrounded the woods where there was a lair, and by shouts tried to rouse the lioness. She, however, remained in her hiding place. Several Arabs then crept into the thicket and brought out the whelps. The Arabs, pleased at their success, were retiring to their tents, thinking they had nothing more to fear. Sud¬ denly the sheik, who was on Horseback and a little behind his men, saw tfco lioness rushing out of the woods di¬ rectly at him. He called, and his nephew, Mecaoud, and his friend, Ali, ran to his aid. The lioness sprang at the young nephew, who, facing her with his gun at his shoulder, pulled the trigger when she came within six or seven feet. The cap only exploded. The youth threw the gun away, and presented bis left arm wrapped in his burnoose. The lion seized the arm and began crushing the bones. The young man, without a cry, drew his pistol and fired in her breast. She dropped the arm and bounded on Ali, who fired a ball •lown her throat as she sprang at him. He was seized by the shoulder and thrown down, but the lioness, before sue could injure him greatly, expired on his prostrate body. The nephew died the next dag • A HELWHO MAK*. A TRAPPER'S STCRV. um t } m patty die oth -r day, “ana L ha a dreary time of it up in Hunt-: Tde. We gathered around the fire in the rain, and tried to shorten tin:. 1 i.y tolling stories »f the woods chiefly, as mos’ stories are ih the l ack <• One old trapper, a character in 1. way, but not of a romancing disposition, told us a story something like this: I . ( A good many years ago, when trapping was a be tor business than it is now, I did a good deal of work in the district back of .Feneion falls. One summer I built a camp—really a wigwam like an Indian’s—and stored away my traps. It was on the bank of a stream and In the course of the sum¬ mer when I passed up and down in my canoe .1 sometimes stopped over night and slept there. One night, as dusk was changing into dark, I came down the stream on the way to Feneion falls, some twenty miles away. 1 felt tired and decided to sleep at the camp and see that my traps were all right. 4 « i As I came up to the wigwam I no¬ ticed something white inside. It was so dark that I could not tell what it was, but I concluded it was some ani¬ mal that had crept in and made a den lor itself. In that wild country the thought never struck me that it could be a human being, and, besides, it lay stretched along the ground just as a wolf would be. I bad my revolver in my belt, and raised it to shoot, but lowered my hand again. A second time and a third I took aim, but some¬ thing seemed to keep me from drawing the trigger. Then I lit a piece of bark and went up to the camp. i i l A woman lay there with A white dress all torn to shreds, with one shoe and stocking gone and the other in rags, but with three magnificent rings on her fingers. She was almost dead, and though she looked in my face gave no answer to my questions. She was dying of hunger I saw at once, and running out I started a fire, While it kindled I gave her biscuit and other re¬ freshments that j, had. Then I cooked some fish, and the first sign of life she gaw* was to point at the fish and to her mouth. She was ravenous and ate till I was afraid to give her more. But what to do with her? She could not stay there in the woods and was fast becoming delirious. I tied her feet to¬ gether and did the same with her arms so that she could not move or jump up and upset the canoe. 44 4 Laying her down in the bottom as comfortably as I could I set out for Feneion Falls, and you may be sure I paddled that night at my best speed. She was recognized at Feneion Falls as the daughter of a wealthy American visitor and carefully tended. After¬ ward we learned that she had been out boating, and landing, had wandered into the woods and lost herself. Her boat was found and it was supposed she was drowned. She had been six days in the woods when she found hei way to my camp.’”—Toronto Globe. Wliere Perfumes Come From. Ambergris comes from the sperma¬ ceti whale, and is generally found fioat ing in the waters where these leviathans disport themselves. An ounce of this precious product costs twenty-five dol lars, considerably more than the same weight of silver. Neroli is an essential oil derived from bitter orange blossoms. The vanilla bean comes from Mexico and Central America; oil of lavender from England and France. Patchouly is imported from China It is largely used to perfume shawls. Sandalwood is from a tree indigenous to India. America is not behind the Old World in producing some scents used by perfumers. The best pepper mint oil in the world comes from Wayne county, N. Y. Long Island \a noted for its tuberoses. Florida and California coritrihurt great quantities of orange blossoms. The opoponax blossom, used for cer¬ tain combinations, comes from the southern states.—New York Evening Sun. A Short Way with Duns. In former times, when the Highland chieftains were not so prompt in their payment, a tradesman from the low country, impatient for his money, found, with some difficulty, the way to one of their castles. Arriving at night, ho had his supper and was put to bed. iriirruio tu the iliddle A?® 1, fn the Middle Ages, when gteel and silver mirrors were almost exclusively used, a method of backing glass for the same purpose with thin sheets of metal was known. Small convex mirrors of glass were made in Germany before the Sixteenth century, and were in demand until comparatively modern times. They were produced by blowing smai 1 glass globes, la to which while the, were hot woe plowed through . pipe . mirture o t tin, untimon, »nd nwta. When the globe was coated inside it — allowed to oool and t~a attewwawi into oonvex leases, whh* formed r } v! ren. iie su i one which d Some fcovet ‘ the se r. general rale, but t v i a ceptior It is an undeniab some of them mo: wild ,1 A.K a n c accustome I to many even old can safely take, and are much ben efited by. the juices of sweet, mellow fruit. Children also frequently suffer from habitual constipation, and these juices act far better than medicinal remedies. Notwithstanding all this, the giving of fruits to children before they are two years old should be very guarded, and limited to the juices of those which are positively fresh, known also to be easily disposed. of in the system and not likely to cause diarrhea. As a child approaches its third year, its al¬ lowance of fresh fruits may be more generous, due care being invariably used in their selection; still, modera Mon should be the rule, for intemper ate indulgence in even the most digest able fruits is quite sure to be followed by unpleasant, if not serious conse quences. These fruits which are very acid, and require much sugar to make them pal¬ atable, should be withheld. Oranges, apples and peaches, if perfectly ripe and sound, may be occasionally allow¬ ed, unless, of course, there is an irrita¬ bility of the stomach and bowels. Pears are less digestible than these, but if thoroughly ripe can do no harm if not toe freely indulged in.—Boston Herald Do YVe Teach Geology? The cultural aspects of civilization are due to geologic structure, but in how many of our institutions are rtu dents taught to appreciate the topog¬ raphy or configuration of the earth’s surface and its relation to structure, or to observe with inquiring eye the forms und contours of the landscape? The jrudent usually learns the chemistry of certain nicely arranged hand specimens of hard rocks and memorizes the names of leading fossils or the crystallography of minerals uudez the guise of economy geology. As a result, the study is sup posi to be merely the study of hard rocks and curious fossils. Although the student knows these by sight lie cannot trace a rock sheet above t! le ground or below it, or see the great ioft terrenes void of fossils and rocks which make up the larger area of our country, and cannot appreciate the broader relations of structure to agri¬ culture, hygiene, climate and civiliza¬ tion. Hence the great unfossiliferous terrenes are unknown; for example, the nonmountainous regions of the west and south, over which in places one may travel from the Rocky moun tains to the Gulf of Mexico without finding a fossil, a crystal or a building stone.—Robert T. Hill fu Popular Sci¬ ence Monthly. Too Many Lanffuageg. There is undoubtedly a good deal of advantage in learning foreign tongues from a nurse in childhood, but it is easily possible to do this at the ex¬ pense of English. If the child is not to know its mother tongue ♦ ■ re is not a great deal of advantage in having a smattering of a foreign one. On I he piazza of a summer hotel were observed nos long since a group of overdressed children who were about setting out for a v* \lk under the care of a governness who was unmis¬ takably French. “Maudie,” a small boy of the party said to ills sister, “ain’t the fraulein a-goin to come ?” “Nong,” the girl answered, “elle est nein gut, and I be awful glad she ain’t well this morning.” These children had a French and a Borman governess vt the same time. When Leather Was Money. Leather was very early used as a cur rency, the Romans employing it for this purpose before either gold, silver or brass came into common use. His¬ tory is full of references showing that leather was used by the ancients as s> xort of circulating medium of exchange ^ j s sa j f ] OI1 good authority that so j ate ^ q ur i n g the reign of Louis XH p rance the country became so ini p OVer ished, and as a consequence moue y wa s so scarce, that little piece* Q f [gather, with a small silver nail q r j ven through each, were in general use as money. Some few specimens of t jjj s Jeather money are still in existence, ^ ut are only to be found in the pcs of numismatists, by whom they ar0 highly prized. — New York Adver- 4 ^ 1 *. To Kamemlrdi" When Od» *h»ke« Hands. Those learned in palmistry and kin¬ dred sciences tell us that when we grasp a 90 tv speak boneless hand, a band «ni. ***•«»«<** »land w«h » *' no ruu, apparent ‘j^^^ "taht, 7^' tw aft ha **“*![: W. h^ d I. *■ h’K ilsrs concer IK mm ’•hi a j)i scientists na Ills peculiar color. Perceiving that the waters were >f «n unusual color, he had some • a up And examined it with his micro: -opo.. To his surprise he found that ?oloi was due to the presence of minute animalcules, each so inconee >ably small that a single drop of the water contained upward of 30,001) of thelittU creatures! At that rate a pint of the water would show 170,000,000, each sporting about in his place without dia» turbing or crowding bis neighbor.--St, Louis Republic. Ho Changed His Mind. “Jack—Is it true, Harry, that you have given up all thoughts of making Maud your wife? Harry—Well, I should say so. Jack—-That’sstrange; l thought you were so anxious to get her. Harry—So I was, but I’ve changed my mind in that quarter. 1 tried to get her to give me a kiss, and she re fused, but in less than ten seconds after refusing to kiss me she kissed that pug dog of hers at least a dozen times. 1 tell yon what it is—when a woman prefers the wot nose of a dirty pug to the tidy month of a live man there is a screw loose somewhere, and I congrat¬ ulate myself on my narrow escape.— London Tit Bits. The Pepper Vine. The most common and widely used of all spices is pepper. It is a native of the East Indies, but is now cultivated in various parts of the tropical belt of this hemisphere. The plant is a climb¬ er, nnd has a smooth stem sometimes twelve feet long. The fruit is about the size of a pea, and when ripe is of a bright red color. In cultivation the plant is supported by poll's. In some localities small trees are used instead of poles, for the best pepper is grown in a certain degree of shade.—Foods an* Beverages Slurried His Gram!mother. Jft the village of A rreton, in the Isle of Wight, many years ago, there lived a young man who was betrothed to a young woman. Both were poor and in humble life, but the grandfather of the young man had money, and he fe.t in love with the young woman and proposed marriage to her. The girl naturally made her young lover ac¬ quainted with this offer, with renewed assurance of devotion to him alone. lie wins vexed, but having pondered over the same, saw a way to extricate him¬ self and his sweetheart from the di¬ lemma. “Marry him," said ho to the girl; “he is rich; lie cannot live long; when he dies you’ll have his money and I’ll have you.” By the marriage she became the young man’s grand¬ mother. Not long after the old man died and then she wedded her first be¬ trothed.—London Tit-Bits. i vi» Peculiar S»#rlni;s. In Corea there are two springs, situ ated at a considerable distance from each other; in fact they have the breadth of he entire peninsula be tween them. They have two peculiari¬ ties: When one is full the other is al¬ ways empty, and notwithstanding the obvious fact that they are connected by a subterranean passage, one is bit¬ ter and the other pure and sweet.—* North China Herald. iiriipr Heifer in this part of the country means lumber, rubbish, litter, but more particular!v worthless lumber which is in your way riibbis.ii that you may kick against ->r fall over. That is how 1 have heard il \'sed all my life. It is quite a eomiuoi. word. Old boxes. packing cases and /-ueli like in the courtyard would be k*-ii.. Old gears, broken buckets and such, drugs about the stables or in a farmyard »**- v-bo*. ■( went tn tha saale, but thur nowt wofli buying, thur woz nobbud a lot o' kelfer. " That is Lincolnshire.— Notes and Queries When » I .oil liter Drops HI* Tl»e lobster is greatly in dread of (hundf and when the peals are very loud n z iibers of them drop their claws and swim - away for deeper water Any great fright may also induce them to drop their claws. But new claws begin at once to grow, and in a short time are as large as the old ones and covered with hard shells. The lobster often drops its shell, when it hides until the uew shell is hard enough to protect, it. -Exchange Carry „ . hi . lea, , t bees tallow jour war, etc, to Osborn. He’ll pay \ you moro ^ ^ j|I( ^ JOU ook happy* ■: