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FREIGHT CAR HONEYMOON.
One Of the queerest wedding
rney» I over heard of,” the
-ked, “was that of a friend of
m who was married in Canada
..:«r day. She lived in Ontario,
• >r husband had settled on a
o in one of the new provinces in
far west. After they were mar
j they set out for their new home
. u freight freight car car that that the the bridegroom
, r iccially fixed for the journey,
'I ,e front half of the car
trmngetl as a sleeping and They
and kitchen combined.
v. i ! i<H necessary tables
v » box cupboards for the
pplieg and a big oil
hung from the roof of
V> ~obked*pitrticuiarljr > fa hjo; ,1 the whole
■ coay
’ , ). a ; tlie work
icr husband
1 ‘-j. odd .j',, put 1 of /rar the outfit
me ;;f»ted ili<; iial f of
vl tVitVcW up a • a for
a part of limb
«.J '•hand i'hc V journey
lumpily 'Viter E hVe dd
me, s rom n<* Vo I
from die bride, 17 -drI who
huv. - private «'»<:* or would' n featn
lor u j r n ( ,, be
fi-ici'd-as
bet - -nor a nd unique honey
nmoi —New York P v e.-;s.
Our Unaiicial Fictlos-.
rough i'con-icious exagger
of d V temporer* trail*
*\ i thc VVVV,, ■ fiction of ' ail x
nc: . , n , v I
’ “ ' nrireiv*
P ! in- ‘ penuinc A
To mi
era n tin ,'^p* i coneiMl f wnv
‘
no olomd . wc.-rne , 08 , us
I thr IT," nffneSd
di hoi him
B ■ ftev uling a half dozen re¬
-i! i -.per us of American
iu .over, ou feel like a
i're. soi . >us commercial eol-
1, You ould fleece the good
CO ml anil vade jail without
the instv- ion A ilpzen such
hi ;s ns ‘ , Nabab’’ would not
e<! 1 - ‘ so intimate a knowl
e , ) of lOurse, yet Baudot's succeeding
g. -ratio r -ri enjoy sto
vy while, • k prophecy, will any
■ futur< thncHomsts •gis finB their
n - ant i w:i sor did tales of ra
piuj ?—M-r' iVL'-sn in Atlantio
A Tons." "ial Advisor.
An enter] ,.g barber in New
N rk has < ■ ■ business cards: “I
take ■ eat .!< at in announcing to
kin mu iithful patrons that
I hav- r i. a ,M. Brillouet of tho
Bonn vard li la Madeleine, Paris,
t-> i imam w me for the ensuing
ear as a , ’orial adviser. Ilia
rifputatie' h" el wide, their row hair men cut
know cant
or their •rimmed. Here w
ci isl to suggest the
sty!" jO’ d io improve the ap
pearanee ..J who do not shave
as well i. those who do. The
baik hair s of great importanco.
Mod bar 1 - mutilate it. A man
with his i ■ard tnmmctl fine way
may inn, mitlit look. Just th.o
touch of , hsors in the lumds of
an art. iav render him hand
some.”
Tho Rusnion Losses.
Some rikiug figures are pub
liriicu i.ii tho Novoe Yremya as to
< for. at the disposal . of , tno ,
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«WI» iUn.
ehuria ul ibe close of the late war.
Wticn in • e was concluded General
Lincv! eh had ut his disposal 12,500
officers, • U.iHlO men and 270,000
hor v I- t f rem the beginning to
the d of th« war there hail been
car- d to Urn rout .0,000 officers,
1,W 'On men, 030,000 horses and
me: 'mu :. an guns. Subtracting allowance
t!. Fur - w-d making
for " men already on tlie
f, ?; .t -.ben i‘ war broke out, the
l!m .in- s appear roughly 7,500
officers and K .’,000 men.
A Guecn’s Queer Position.
_ The legal position ol ... Queen Alex- „
and • I erv curious. So far as
bi”; it at" business is concerned she
is uof ,. led by the laws ami
t<>ms ' .bind as a married worn
an J of llu ’ h "\! s ? hi,t u! -
fair- ft > ue consume all the .
d ’ ■ therefore, no
Ky tor the queens
business rests uppn lnm. If
quo i out ’•acted debts in her
band’s name he would not be
spo’.smie for them, as any
husban , would. The king
he sue for debt, bnt the queen
can oe.
Taking ^ tho ^ German Emperor.
Although the German
aur.-i >i)ilc is the only one without
a ’ w in Prussia, and
not % XHX f: n(n irtheless
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r ee V. w.Mch reads us follows:
* ■ icyear. Twelven
Fl . " : r his rr.a .stv
• - eg living at Berlin
“■ t T Nov. :v),
chief of
Berlin.”
THE DEVILFISH.
A Battle With One of These Repulsive
Marine Monsters -
Devilfish grow to great size in
the Pacific ocean, and most uncanny
are some of the stories told of them,
The keeper of the Avalon zoological
station says of an adventure he
himself had: “I was fishing at the
time with several partners out of
San San Trancisco. Trancisco. It It was was our our custom custom
i to go out to the banks around the
! Farallonea.and try place, for deep sea fish,
j It was a rough ... nearly . always
blowing half a gale, foggy and dan
I gcrous, and often we had to let our
lines go and run in to lie in the Ice
the rocks. One morning I was
I hauling in the trawl when it stop
pud coming. I thought I was foul of
a rock, so I pulled hard, and after
,
i awhile I felt it give and begin to
come up, but very heavy. It’s slow
work hauling in a trawl, taking off
a fish and killing sharks that get
hooked, and it was some time he
fore I got what I supposed was about a
i rock. I had just taken a turn
’ a rowlock with the line to rest when
| it great sagged, mottled and, looking ball, out over, of which 1 saw
j ! 11 shot long that took hold of
a arm
the gunwale and held on.
I “We often caught devilfish, and
: there was a demand for them in the
i market, so I tried to pull it up. But
| I another arm came up, as big us my
own, while another crept over the
near my partner, who started
1 I U P> shouting that it was coming
aboard. I looked over and saw a
great red, mottled mass hanging to
' tho ,)ottoni of t,ic 1>oat - Then I
reached for a knife—a kind of
cleaver—my partner doing the
same. The devilfish was caught tried by
seVCTtt ] 0 f ^j ie trawl hooks and
t( > fas<f ' n io t,1C h ° >lt to F ct rid ° f
them. Its arms shot out of the wa
ter like fingers, and when I saw
one the size of my arm and grow
ing bigger near the base f didn’t
wait, but slashed at them right and
left, cutting them on the rail.
“Some of the tentacles near the
body looked as big around feeler) as my leg,
and the whole arm, or was
j nearly twice as long as a man. The
I arms were probably twelve feet long
and the body two or three times the
size of a man's head. The whole
mass was so big that we were glad
to chop it to pieces punch as it it came
aboard and then to nwav
from the boat with oars to get rid
of it. It was too heavy to take
aboard, especially in a seaway.”
Off the Beaten Track.
Thc old captain whose
days were over looked from the
easel to the artist and hack to the
easel again with a tolerant smile.
“Hanging around the wharf as I
^ t 8(ie a good many o’ your kind,”
ga[ j j n u fx-jendly tone. “Going
the sea, 1 take it. Well,
j> m , r ]'ud to see vou setting down to
“Don’t the others sit down?”
od the artist.
“Most °’ ’em do,” said the cap
tain, “but there was one
w]l0 | » wn i kjl p ar0(m(lf | !0 idi n i U{>
a . )( .neil un > squintin' her
ici n;l U V she got where the view
secnie d to please her, but she kep’
steppin’ back'aril
’aril till at last she stepped off.
“No great harm done.” added the
captain, stooping to look more
lv at the picture on the easel. “W
g j d her out \ gMC88 after
Ih:d shc „,, s M mm .
mon.”—Yo’uth’s Companion.
Gonuino Repose.
It is good to be strenuous, but
p, u ]c 0 g 00 ,] ) the poet tolls us, to
p i av the fool or, at any rate, to bo
idie at the right, time and in the
ri ,,„t way. This is just what the
strenuous man forgets, and the
sequence is too often premature
breakdown, a common event in the
storm and stress of modern life,
The strenuous life is helping to
overcrowd our asriums. The senai
M" Olins ,»i in a clamgc
ot oacttolnmt or in h:tr,l work
gmsed us a game, but in that “gen
nine repose of which Charles James
j Fox, strenuous as lie was in politics
ami in play, was thinking when he
said there was nothing so pleasant
f b> lK ' »->dor a shady tree with a
book except to do so without
book. - Practitioner.
New ~T7”~ Yorks Oddest G~ street. »
One of the Granges streets m
New \ o k ,s 1 atehen adey s tuated
about at tlie entrance of (.reen
widi village. The alley is conduct
od upon the principle of a building
fSL
•
tv»o . story r houses x of ,•. ordinary
size.
There are small balconies
each row of windows, and the-e are
vino clad. If vou ring the bell and
y kf r r J. 1 ' 0 i:un ; nr vm ; ,y l! | t0 ld
•
] 0
you will l >e having a glimpse into
the '■ arrowest hallway in New York
out into about the smallest and
greenest back vard. Patchcn alley
Has it was some htmdred years ago.
^ been no changes.-New
CROWN OF THE HOOPOE,
Legend of the Origin of the Bird's
Golden Crest -
.
The hoopoe is found in Europe,
Asia and Africa. It continually ut
ters in soft, rapid tones a peculiar
note resembling “hoop, hoop, hoop,”
whence its name hoopoe.
It is really a harmless, useful bird,
| but it is the subject of many super
etitions, etitions, being being regarded regarded as as ominous
of evil. It is about the size of a
thrush, is very elegant in
ance and is greatly admired
of its handsome crown or
This crown is composed of gold col
ored feature of unequal
j having a white bar and black
| which it can expand and depress
j pleasure. According to pretty legend, the t
j a
j hoopoe received its crown as a
j ward for a kindly service. One very
J hot day, the story runs, King Solo
j mon was journeying from one part,
| of his vast domain to another, lie
j had no covering over his bead, and
j the sun’s scorching rays became un
bearable. At length he came up
with a flock of vultures and said to
them:
“Vultures, do me a kindness. I’lv
very close together above my head
and shield me from the sun for a
time as I journey.” refused outright to
The vultures
thus favor the king, and he then
said to them: .
'“Vultures, because of your selfish
ness your heads and necks and the
heads and necks of all your descend
ants shall from this time to the end
of time be bare of feathers, and
thus you will be exposed to both
heat and cold.”
Solomon went a little ^ farther and
overtook a flock of hoopoes, and
thtlS ‘ l,!<jrCSScd thcm:
“Little hoopoes, my head aches
from having been exposed to the
sun’s fierce rays for several hours,
Won’t you hover above my head in
a body to shield me from the end sun of
and fly along with me to the
my journey?” consented,
The hoopoes readily
und so they hovered almve the
head, dovetailed themselves togeth
er and made an admirable sun
shield. Thus they flew along until
the end of the journey was reached,
and then the king said to them:
“Little hoopoes, what favor may
I confer upon you for your great
kindness to me?”
One hoopoe, acting as a spokes
man for the others, answered:
“If you wish to favor us, O King
Solomon, ornament our necks with
a circlet of beautiful golden feath
ers.”
“Would you not rather have
heads ornamented with a beautiful
golden crown?” the king asked.
“Much rather, much rather!” ex
claimed the hoopoes in chorus.
“Then,” said King Solomon,
“your heads and tin* heads of all
your descendants shall to the end of
time be ornamented with a crown of
golden feathers that shall ever be
remarkable for its beautv.”
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Why l-lo Hesitated.
Why does this man stand upon
the pavement trembling with
ror, afraid to enter his own home?
Listen and 1 will tell you:
This afternoon at J o’clock he
received a letter from his bank
ing him to step around and pay a
note that was due. Ho scribbled
followw nswer upon a slip of
,, a]10r “Gan’t : possibly do it. Got io
another little thing this
noon that won’t he put off.”
About the same time n messenger
boy brought him a note from his
wife asking him to meet her at his
office at 4 to go with her to the
dentist’s.
Of course he got the answers
mixed, and lie is wondering wheth
er he had better attempt an expla
nation or set out for Australia.—
Strand Magazine.
Out
About:adokei, poopre .leopped m
unexpectedly at a country house host- m
the evening, and the fluttered
css did her best in the limited time
at her disposal to make a good show
at the supper table.
But she had onlv just begun to
flatter herself that things
pa^.ng off swimmingly when her
yonn^t daughter aged six.
marked to the gentleman next to
her:
’ Arent these nice tumblers
we vc got. Mr. Brown? Thev
came from the grocer’s f<dl of mar
malade. Didn’t they, n a?”-Lon
d ” &P
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A £. DpHinrAA Hwd.grec.
A gentleman talking to a friend
about the antiquity of his family,
which he carried up to Noah. ^
t0l .f 8
“MTi'y," jeplied the°^ther,^“when
Ivas in^ay a pedigree of a P ar
tmular family was snown to me.
It filled about five large skins of
parchment, and near to the middle
of it wa- a note in the margin,
the world was ere-
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ABORIGINAL HUNTERS.
How Native Australians Mount Tress
In Pursuit of Game.
One of the old customs of the na
tires of Australia is described by
j the author of “The Coming of the
j British to Australia.” It is one of
their methods of hunting when in
,
j search of food and is practiced only
| by " the Australian aborigines,
j The _____. natives ... catch the opossum, ,
kangaroo rat, flying squirrel the
other animals which live in
j trunks of hollow trees by cutting
notches in the trees and
j after them. Most of these animals,
i being nocturnal, sleep during the
1 day and therefore become an easy
| prey to the hunter, who can tell by
i the freshness of the scratches on
| the stem of the tree when the ani
ma l ascended it.
j What expert climbers the aborig
jnes are may he guessed by the
height of the trees, the blue gum,
j measuring sometimes over sixty feet
in one smooth shaft.
Unslinging his stone hatchet
from his belt, the native
to climb the tree, cutting notches as
he ascends.
The first and second notches arc
cut as he stands on the ground, the
first notch being level with the
thigh on the left hand, the second
opposite the right shoulder. The
two cuts are made with the hatchet,
J j to form each notch, one slanting,
the other horizontal. Into these
: the big toe of each foot is inserted.
j while the climber, stretching hie
j arm around the tree, makes the as
cent" to the uppermost outlet, where
he waits until the rest of his party
have set fire to the dried grass or
reeds which till the lower part of
the trunk. Then the animal in its
endeavor to escape from the smoke
rushes up the hollow trunk through
the hole at the top, to he promptly
killed by the native watching for
him.
While the climber is cutting the
notches he rests his whole weight
j on the toe, and in moving
he holds the hatchet between his
teeth.
j The hatchets used before the
coining of the white men were of
stone, but afterward steel ones took
their places.
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Nosebleed.
When the . is bleeding
nose never
I hold lf ovc r » basin or hold the
j head down in . any wav. This only
causes further rush of blood ^ to the
broken tissues iu the nose. The
head should be held up and back,
the flow being caught in handker
! chiefs or cloths. One of the most
effective and simple means of
checking a nosebleed is to press on
j the upper lip. Near the under
face of the lip runs the artery that
supplies the interior nasal passages
"here the ruptures occur. If this
,rt pressed the flow of blood is me
chtinienl'y checked, thus allowing
the blood around the broken tissues
congeal and seal up the opening,
merely pressing with the finger
docs , not succeed place a wad of pa
i per or elotu under the lip and fold
1 *; 10 *'P OV( ‘ r >K houhng it down
light. Again, if this does not sue
coed and n drug store is near get
[ some cotton adrenalin, wit.i it and saturate apple a to piece the of
j in
ia0 nose from whore the
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no hil ,’ and from’that mrt
h then? were manv eemeteries.
,. jr „ ghe ^ looki ^ A h
t k(J Stf of ?r ^ D hi!1 and
Vards! there’s no m-ave
I euess that not very manv
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/^j^rin'r , F
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: m a hearse -4 than “V on mv feet.
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Th« Dre^d of Rirh^ A
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he
: pleaded to have the case reopened.
j lv ‘j week'or
a re3 ‘ wi A n on j $jo ^worthv a lees and
1 1 , d o'l f r!, ril to be the
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CUTTING THIRD BASE.
-
How Miko Koliy First Worked the Fa
mous Trick in Boston,
The trick of cutting third base in
a game of bull was originated member by
Mike Kelly when he was a
of the famous Chicago champions,
The first time be tried it success
fully was in Boston. There were
10,000 persons present, and when
the last half of the ninth inning be
gan the score was tied. Kelly, who
was the first, man at the bat, turned
to the crowded grand stand before
taking his plate and shouted:
Jfg “Open all over!” the gates Kel and guyed go home!
was un
mercifully, but he merely laughed
aa fi cracked out a safe hit. As he
crossed first base he fell and rolled
on the ground in apparent agony.
“It’s me ankle!” cried the king,
an( ] the Chicago players fifteen took minutes’ off
pj s <,] 10 e. After
delay Kelly got up and seemed to
ho very lame. The Boston battery,
believing that he could not run,
p a j ( | little attention to him. until
suddenly he dashed for second like
a real sprinter and slid around Bur
dock in safety.
“Never touched me!” yelled Kel
] v , ami timn all eves were turned to
c U pt a } n Anson. The hitler finally
p^ftvd n * slow gr.hmder toward
, John Morrill, the first baseman,
an( ] Eugene Van t'ourt. the umpire,
rnn down tlie base line to see who’ll
C r Morrill got to the bag ahead
Anson. He believed Kelly would
go onlv as fnf* as third, so he did
”»> '"" k « m».
The moment the ball was hit bv
Anson Kel ran as far as shortstop,
then turned bokllv into the infieri
and cut across at least five yards
from third. He reached the base
linc before the umpire turned to
see what lie was doing and fairlv
flew across the plate m a long slide
'
with the winning run.
‘’He didn’t touch third!” scream
ed thousands
“He cut the bag five Yards!”roar
cd Sam Wise, the Boston shortstop,
But the «*' umpire was helpless, La as he
the trick. s o tva.
cotnpcllerl to allotr the run. Tiro
big crowd; at first enraged at the
in* trick, a* leaned down upon the field
threatening manner over’by but Kel
soon won evervbodv shout
* ' '
j * n „.
“It’s all over! The game’s won!
You can’t get it back! Open the
t ^ r Thon there was a great
cheer for the trickiest ball player This
who over walked the diamond.
trick was original with Kelly, and
manv plaversAave tried it since.-
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Intellectual Birds.
siring . A ° certain to see *«**%£%£ a birdcatcner exercise
. . impioimen , . w v •
ua , aecompame m
e e h S S 1
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The birds took 'the alarm. Tlie
ve’w plaiifterm* ’
“MV My ^ood -ood mend, friend” exclaimed exclaimed the the
dwt 1 .°. r “ ^ aston^hment, ‘ T ho
W tba * b ^ rds
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AN EGYPTIAN MUMMY.
It Poses as a Modern Oracle In the
British Museum.
Can an Egyptian mummy render
first class service as an oracle ? Can
tbe spirit of the dead return and
answer yes or no to the questions
of the faithful ? Some people in
London believe these things are pos¬
sible, right and the they British have the mummy
in museum to
prove it. A writer in the London
Mai 1 tells all about it: “This
strange sibyl is the mummy of
Katebet, a priestess in the temple
Amen-Ra at Thebes. It lies on the
top shelf of case P in the first
Egyptian room. It is one of the
most complete and interesting speei
mens. The painted cartoonage head,
with its gilded face, is inclined to
one side, giving a look of life. On
the breast is a hawk headed orna
ment containing a scarab, the sacred
beetle. On the wooden models of
the hands are rings made of carne
lian and precious stones, and an
tempt had boon made to imitate
bracelets by.pointing. The system
of swathing is unusual.
“In wall case No. 10 stands Kate
bet’s painted wooden coffin. It
again is singular. On the foot the
feet and sandals of the deceased are
painted in an unusual manner, and
the face is evidently intended for a
likeness. The Lady Katebet died
in Thebes 2,700 years ago. The
measures taken to preserve her body
in its full beauty were evidently
carried out with more than custom
**J in this later "Mtty. world of U miracles « T™**
m
mechanical law that a miracle of
natural law is manifested here—
f bat Katcbet’s spirit is in touch
with her body?
“The peculiarities of the mum-
1T1V make jt oas,er lo bcheve , bnt
the way in which answers to ques
tions are given affords a
«mse mechanical explanation. The
process gone through hv the various
^otees at this queer shrine is as
follows: They approach the ease
with reverence and lay a hand upon
H. face Look,;- ot the cantctly pneeten, m they the (.Mn put a
<J"* s tion tbat permits a plain af
urinative or negative reply. If the
priestess moves the answer is‘Yes.'
sho makos no sign it is ‘No.’
Thev assert that she does nod some
times and that the advice she gives
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The explanation .... is severely . mod- .
e ™- tirst >. in tbe Winter 15
* ot great power pounding
away below to supply electric light
he f t ’. Second, the movement
of people in the room would he suf
ficient to cause a vibration which
wauld m °7 c tl A, case ™ thc
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elastic, .. , . . easily
answering ana giving
throughout through vibratory if mo
tions wherever generated, the
official opinion were given this is
Undoubtedlv trhat jt wol,!d be ”
M'ss H.—It was simply wonder
what the '
knew mind reader did - Ho
all my thoughts g bv J iust look
Ktg i’iss mto my face '
V.-He probably read be
***** the lines-New York Life.
