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The small waiting-room at Professor
Pasteur’s laboratory in Paris presents a
curious spectacle during the hours of in
oculation against hydrophobia. There
are present Parisians, Provincials, Rus
sians, Austrians, Roumanians, Italians
and Spaniards. Some are elegantly
dressed, others are in rags. In several
cases the patients have brought their own
doctors with them. The variety of
languages ’spoken makes the little room
a veritable babel.
In the capitol, Montgomery, Ala., is
religiously preserved a large Bible,
printed by the American Bible society in
1851, and bearing upon a flyleaf this sen
tence: “The oath of office as first Presi
dent of the Provisional government of
the Confederate States of America was
administered to Jefferson Davis upon this
Bible by Howell Cobb, President of the
Provisional Congress, at the front portico
of the capitol in Montgomery on the 18th
day of February, A. D. 1801.” The
book, it may bo added, is still used in
•wearing in governors of the State.
Twenty years ago the chief feature of
the plains beyond the Missouri was the
countless herds of buffalo everywhere to
be seen. Now all have disappeared,
-WBbdore Roosevelt says there aro not
♦,OOO buffalos in America. It is said one
may travel 1,000 miles on the plains and j
feever be out of sight of a dead buffalo i
nor within sight of ft live one. But liar- I
ituxar lias the curious statement |
that a now species of Buffalo is develop- .
ing iy the woody precipitous regions of
the mountain ranges; ft shuns the open
plains, lives in small herds, is endowed
with groat activity, and is a clear caso of
the “survival of the fittest.”
It is often asked, when an ocean-going
vessel has been lost at sea, and it is sup
posed she has foundered, why none of
her timbers rise to the surface again and ,
“Viat, as submerged wood will nearer i
jiore. The explanation is that if the
vessel has been sunk in deep water the
pressure to which it is subjected will be .
so great that a certain quantity of water i
will be forced into the pores of the wood, j
and thus render it so heavy that even
when detached from the ship a piece oi |
the timber could not float. It is because
of this constantly and rapidly increadns
pressure, too, that a diver cannot de- :
Vend to any very great distance below ,
the surface.
In his new book telling of life in Corea j
Percival Lowell mentions this matter of '
interest for those whose curiosity is so ;
healthful as to run round the globe it- ,
self; Four little stars flash out upon the
brow of Nam San, the great South Moun- i
tain, within sight of the chief city, Soul,
“Poised so high in the heavens,” says
Mr. Lowell, “they might well be the ■
light from other worlds.” But in fact
they are watch-fires, a signal to the city
that all is well in Corea. They burn for
fifteen minutes and vanish. All thiough
the country a cordon of such beacons is
established, which transmits the message
of jwace and safety daily, or rather
nightly, to the capital.
Mr. Hasen, the third assistant postmas
ter general, makes the following sugges
tions to the public: .Write or print youi
name and address, end the contents of a
package, upon the upper left hand comer
es all mail matter. This will injure its
imme iiste return to you for correction,
if improperly a*ldre*se I or insufficiently
paid, and if it i* not ended for at desti*
nation iterate return#l to you without
going to the dead letter office. If the
patron-of the mails would avail tbun
•elves of this privikg - it would enable
the department to restore st least ninety
p>r cvul. cd all the undelivered matter.
Leite • would br return d free, and the
parcels upon payment of the return post
age.
The Cincinnati Cbin/nerzi al~ Gazette is
authority for the statement that ‘ ‘the affix
title of esq, is out of date, and its use is
in bad form. In addressing a gentle
man now you must prefix Jlon. or Colonel
or General as a compliment to his states
manship or military genius. Whether
I he is President of the United States or
president of a ward club, the leader of
an array or the leader of a clique of
voters, it is all the same. In a case of
extreme doubt you may address him as
Mr., but under no circumstances is a mil
itary title under the grade of captain al
lowable. Sometimes, in accosting a man
whom you hr.ve already met, the slipping
of his name from your memory may cause
embarrassment, but a little presence of
mind will save you. Address him as
General, and you are all right.”
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was
given an informal reception recently by
Dr. and Mrs. N. A. Hyde, at their resi
dence in Indianapolis, on the occasion of
the meeting of the Indianapolis Minis
terial association. Mr. Beecher made
some remarks in which he recalled some
of his Indian experiences, among them
the following: “The baptisms in the old
time wore interesting to the people.
Sometimes the ministers united for a pub
lic immersion. On one of these occasions
I had a big carpenter on hand. He was
nearly seven feet tall. We walked into
the water together, and when I was in
nearly to my shoulders my friend was
hardly wetting his knees. I turned to
him and suggested that either this thing
would have to stop or I should have to
swim. Being a carpenter, he said he
would double up like a rule. When he
was on his knees I got on very well.
One evening lately a herd of Arizona
gcats, which were being herded by Miss
Teresa Tallcrt, on Lost river, D. T.,
came home early and rushed for the
corral, a heavy log concern, eight feet
high. The gates were opened and the
herd let in, after which the little lady,
dashing over the prairie, mounted on her
fiery bronco, scoured the foothills, but
found no cause for alarm. In the night
Miss Tallert was aroused by her dog
whining at her ear, and, getting up, dis
covered some wild animals in the corral.
She went in and found four mountain
lions, and, without a moment’s hesita
tion, attacked them with an ax. Two oi j
the lions jumped the corral and fled. ■
The other two rushed toward her. She
dealt one a blow with the ax, laying its '
head open to the bone; then both fled. ■
The next morning fifty of the valuable I
goats were found dead and thirty ;
wounded, fourteen'of the latter dying :
as t erward. _______
The New York elevated railroads have i
'some 4,000 employes, including about ;
500 repair mon, constantly on duty. Thi.‘ I
is an extremely large proportion of labot '
for repairs and track inspection, which
is necessitated by the peculiar character
of the road, and it is a kind of work
where the men are particularly exposed
to accident and to injury to th «*ir eyes, t
The managers have, therefore, estab- |
lished a regular medical department, ,
with one doctor for the eastern and one j
for the western division of the city lines, (
with facilities for prompt communication :
with any portion of the track. The com- |
pany pays where men have to be taken to ;
the hospital, bit its own doctors attend j
to the slight injuries, which are very j
numerous. A large satchel, with instru- ■
ments, bandages, etc., stands reidy foi ■
emergency, and is carried by the surgeons |
on duty. Among other functions dis- j
charged by the surgeons is the examina- !
tion of employes for color blindness, j
sight, and hearing. Those not considered ;
in sound condition are given other and ■
le-s important positions, where these ;
physical qualities are of less consequence. :
Thismedical attendance is without charge i
to the employes,
Alfred Krupp, the great German gun '
founder, own* probably th® largest bust- .
nets in the world dependent on one in- i
dividual. The work® within the town
of Essen occupy more than 500 acres,half
of which are under cover. According to
a census taken in September, 1881, the |
number of hands employed by Mr. Krupp ;
was 1P,603,the member.! of their families,
45.776, making 65,881 persons supported |
by his works. Os the laborers, 11,211
were engager! upon the works in Essen, j
the rest being employed in the surround
ing mines, the branch works at Neuweid
and Say n, and the mines in Spain < Bilb. a) j
from which, though less extensive, the
finest orcs are brought. Mr. Krupp
owns 547 iron mine* in Germany. He
owns four st a steamers, and there arc con
nected with his Essen works forty two
miles of railway, employing twenty-eight
locomotive and 881 cars, sixty-nine
horses with 191 wagons, and forty miles '
of telegraph wires with thirty-five sta- ,
tlons and fifty-five Morse apparatuses.
The establishment possesses a grand
chemical laboratory, a photographic and
lithographic atelier, a printlogoffice with j
three >t am and six hand presses and a
bookbinding reorn. The establishment
even runs a hotel in Essen.
Ago d housewife in Ridgeway. Mich,
say s that for a family of six she has ia
the last xeir bikvd 4,905 cookies, 592
pi s. 20.1 cakes 987 donghauts, 698
loaves of brtsal. not counting johnny
<*ak ». short? tk x puieak-s and pud
ding*. And the family s’ill lives,
I Chines' idols are the latest umbrella
acd cane bandits f »r idle young men.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
FROM ALL POINTS.
EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES.
John O’Brien, Chairman of the New York
Democratic State Committee, has been ap
pointed receiver of the Broadway Railroad
Company, of New York City, in a suit
brought by the State’s Attorney General to
wind up the affairs of that corporation.
Three thousand barbers paraded in New
i ork a few days ago in favor of shorter
nours and advanced wages.
Plinn” IV hite, the most notorious confi
dence man in the country, died a few days
RjO at his brother’s house in Reading, Vt.
f>y his oily tongue and gentlemanly manners
ne succeeded in the last twenty-two years in
fleecing business men, gullible farmers and
confiding women out of more than 51,500,001
He was a venerable, clerical-looking man.
highly educated, and dressed with excellent
taste.
1 wenty-two Troy (N. Y.) collar and cuff
manufacturing firms have locked out their
employes, comprising about 8,000 girls and
women The cause of the lock-out is a strike
tor higher wages of the 750 employes of one
nrm. About 16,000 persons are affected by
the stoppage.
Maine fishermen are greatly excited over
the seizure of the schooner Ella M. Doughty
i *2 e , Canadia n authorities fox- violatimi of
the fishery laws. They talk of arming their
vessels and resisting arrest if thev are not
protected by the Government.
The New York Legislature has adjourned
for the session.
Alderman Jaehne, convicted of taking
a bribe of §20,0J0 for his vote in aid of the
railroad charter, was sentenced in
New York, on the 20th, to State prison for
nine yearsund ten months. The highest sen
tence possible for the offense is ten years and
a heavy fine. Application for a stay of pro
ceedings was made by Jaehne’s counsel to an
other judge, but refused. Jaehne utterly
bi oke down after sentence was passed.
LO ‘T.? L *J? nN ®- Folsom, grandfather
of Miss h rankle holsom, the young lady en
g?ged to be married to President Clevelan d
died the other day at Folsomville, N. Y.
President Cleveland was the law partner in
Buffalo of the Colonel’s late son, Oscar.
A fishing schooner heavily armed is re
ported to have left Boston for the Banks of
Newfoundland, determined to resist any at
tempted seizure by the Canadians.
Louis Willett was hanged at Kingston,
N. Y., for the murder of Edwin Kelland, his
employer, the motive being robbery.
SOUTH AND WEST.
Another Chicago policeman has died of
wounds received from the bomb thrown by
Anarchists. He is the sixth policeman dead.
More than 20,(Kk) striking tailors and
tailor®M®s have returned to work in Chicago
on the basis of nine hours’ work for ten hours’
pay. "
Nineteen men have been indicted and
arrested in Milwaukee for taking part in the
recent labor riot which culminated in a fatal
collision with the military.
?Z a . rni fi ro a theatre at Wester
ville, Onio, resulted in a panic among the '
«vo people composing the audience. The fire !
vas caused bj r the ignition of gasoline from
one of the foot’ights. In the rush to escape :
about twenty-five parsons were burned or I
crushed, several with fatal result.
Ihe Ohio Legislature has adjourned to
January 4, !88 7. The Democratic .Senators, I
who left the State so they would not be com
pelled to taKe part in the proceedings, did ;
not retuni, but went direct from Kentucky
to then- homes. J
. Margaret Donnan, a widow living
m Lincoln county, W. Va.. cut the throats of
. r ,?“ rco daughters, aged twelve, ten and
eight years, and then killed hurself. She had i
become insane from religious excitement.
A warm personal canvass for the Gover- I
norship of Georgia is going on between Gen- \
oral John B. Gordon and Major A. O. i
Bacon. The two candidates have been hold
ing joint discussions on the stump, and con- 1
siderable feeling has been displayed. ’
The Grand Jury at Belleville, 111., has re
fused to indict the Deputy Sheriffs who fired
upon a mob in Ea<t St. Louis during the recent !
railroad strike and killed six persons,
WASHINGTON.
The President has vetoed the bill to estab
lish a port ot delivery at Springfield, Mass.
The Senate has confirmed Mr& Thomp- i
son's renomination as postmistress at Louis- '
ville, Ky. Os th j two Kentucky Senators ,
Mr. Beck favored and Mr. Blackburn op- |
posed confirmation.
Among recent confirmations by the Senate |
of the President’s nominations are: General ;
W. S. Rosecraus as Register of the Treasury;
S. W. Burt, to ba Naval Officer for the dis
trict of New York; United States Con
suls—Peter Straub, of Tennessee, at St.
Galle; Victor Viouain, of Nebraska, at Bar
rauquilla; John M. Buck, of West Virginia, j
at J<aga-wki: and Postmasters—C. C. Youge,
Jr., Pensacola, Fla.; D. W. Gwynn, atTaJla- '
hassee, Fla.
The re jection by the Senate of the nomina- i
tion of C. W. Batton to ba Postmaster at ‘
Lynchburg, Va., has Iwen officially an
nounced.
A bill is before Congress to prohibit own- i
en-hip by foreigners of lands in the Terri- ’
torits.
FOREIGN.
A great banquet is to be given in London
to Oliver Wendell Holmes, the American j
author, by the authors and artists of Eng
land. •
Queen Christina has given birth to a son
—the heir to the throne of Spain. The event
was announced to the yieopie of Madrid by I
the royal standard being hoisted on the j
Kilace. anti by a salc.te of twenty-one guns, ,
ad the child been a Princess a white Sag ;
would have been displayed and fifteen instead :
of twenty-one guns fired. ,
Mount Etna. Sicily's celebrat’d volcano, |
is again in a state of eruption.
Sixty-eight I’arneihtes. members of the i
House ot Commons, desired to sjieak on ,
Gladstouo's Heme Rule bill, but, in deference i
tn the wishes of Mr. I’ame.l, they have i
agi-eed that only a limited number of tnem !
should speak-
A coNsriRACY against the lives of Prince
Alexander, the Bulgarian ruler, and M.
Karavelef, the Prime Minister, has been dis
covered.
United States Min-step. Cox has just
had u three hours’ interview with the Sultan ;
of Turkey in Constantinople. The American ■
Minister presented to 'ha Sultan gifts 1
sent by President Cleveland, consist- j
ing of a thousand views of seen- s
ery in different parte of the United >
States. porU ats of celebrated and typical |
Indians. i-o.<ies ot the last census reports, 5
etc. The Sultan was well pleased wim the :
presents and requested Mr. Cox to thank
Fi'esident Cleveland for the “unique and
valuable gifts.”
Advices from China state that one of the
imperial palaces, laiilt at a cost of $2,600,000,
ha- been de troyei by fire. Dur .ng April
persons died of small-pox at Jassam. 1
Not Entirely Hopeless,
Job-dock —“1 feel very gloomy. I
can't make any progress aid I feel like ’
givinjr up’’
Bagley isympithizlngtyj—“lt is true, i
mot»y b very dose. ”
Jobstork {bngnteiiftg up)—“li it? I
Then p _*rha>»« it will get close enough to !
me after awhile so toot I caa clutch some
of it.”
ARTHUR’S ILLNESS.
THE EX-PIIESIDENT SUFFERING
FROM BRIGHT’S DISEASE.
A Prominent Physician Says That He is
Gradually Passing Away.
The New York Ccmrrarz',-al Advertiser
publishes in its news columns the following
about the serious condition of ex-President
Chester A. Arthur:
“Mr. Arthur is improving." Such is the
answer that every oae receives from ex-
President’s Arthur’s attendant when inqui
ries are made abrat the health of that
distinguished citizen. There is no
variation to this assurance, day after
day. Sometimes the domestic servant de
clares that Mr. Arthur slept an hour longer
than he did the previous night, or that his
appetite is slightly better. Dr. Peters, of
No, 12 West street, will not
say a word one *ay or the other. The ex-
President is constantly attended by his sis
ter, Mrs. McElroy, who gives him his medi
cine and prepares his food.
A reporter for the Commercial Advertiser
has tadkel with a distinguished physician
who has more than ordinary means*of learn
ing General Arthur’s real condition. “Os
course,” said this physician, “Mr. Arthur
has his ups and downs. There is no doubt in
I my mind, nor in that oc m >st physicians w io
■ have taken any interest in the case, that he
I has Brights disease of the kidneys,
I This is a very treacherous disease,
i To-day the patient is about his
I rooms and to-morrow he may be iusensi-
| ble. La situde, troubles of the stoma ?h aad
; a general feeling of worthlessness are symp
tons. The kidneys do not prove good filters
an i blood poisoning set; in. Coma or dropsy
is the result. There is congestion of the
brain and ths sufferer gradually sinks awav
to wake no more. One of the peculiarities of
the disease is that the patient may appear to
I be in the best of health and his spirits high.
“General Arthur, I am quite sure, nas
■ Bright’s disease. If he has it, his end is not
i far off. He may live for six months. He
| may live for nine. I see no hope for him.
I The pleasant weather will probably retard
I the development of the more fatal symptoms
! until autumn. But Bright s disease is a
| mortal foe, and the victim never escapes.
“You cannot learn the truth except from
i General Arthur’s own physician, Dr. Peters.
; That gentleman, for reasons of his own, and
they may be very goo 1, keeps the secret to
i himself. He cannot prevent the more prom
! inent physicians from expressing an opinion.
| Thesi concur in the opinion that
| I have expressed. General Grant
I had the cancer a long while before
I his physicians had courage enough to
; stick their fingers down his throat and tell
! him his disease. In the same way with Gen
, oral Hancock, his physicfan was actually
I afraid to ask permission io examine him.
I know Dr. Peters and he is assuredly doing
a’l he can for General Arthur. To stay the
deadly consequences of Bright’s disease is im
possible, and the patient sooner or later must
succumb. lam glad to see that General
Arthur is no worse, and truly hone he may
live for six or eight months more.* As soon
as insensibility s-ets in his death is only a
question of a few hours. Watch for that."
A gentleman who was permitted to see the
sick ex-President a few days ago told a friend
subsequently that he was startled by Mr.
Arthur’s emaciated appearance. The once
portly form of the invalid had shrunken
pitiably. The gentleman said that General
Arthur had lost more than sixty pounds in
weight since his confinement in the house.
The ex-President took a drive on the 18th
in Central Park. This was his first outing
since his illness assumed an alarming char
acter.
The nature of Mr. Arthur’s complaint, the
physicians say, will necessarily lead to alter
nate periods of depression and exaltation of
spirits—“good days” and “bad days.” The
recent genial weather they regard'as in his
favor, and they sav that there is no reason to ■
believe that fatal consequences are, to say |
the least, at present imminent
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION.
Hany JLivea Dost and Mach Property De- ;
atroyed by a Cyclone.
Rain, hail and furious winds have swept i
down upon Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, ■
part of At est Virginia and part o.’ Pennsyl- ■
vam’a with tremendous fierceness and calam- i
itous effect. The storm in these States broke |
down to egraph wires, washed away rail- !
reads, flooded rivers, destroyed homes, busi- I
ness hous’s, public buildings and live stoek, i
and resulted in the loss of many human
lives.
At Xenia, Ohio, 100 houses, consisting of !
dwellings and business blocks, were com- :
pletely wrecked by the storm. Tho loss of
human lives is estimated at between twenty- 1
five and thirty-five. At least one bundle 1
persons suffered injury in some form and no
nope was entertained of the recovery of many j
of these. The storm began nbout 9 o’clock j
P. M. Xenia contains 10,000 in- i
habitants. It is in the midst of a i
rich country, and its residents are, as (
a rule, well-to-do. The path of the flood,
however, was through a district in which
working . en had built small trams houses. 1
The pecuniary damage in the city and sur- ‘
ruunumg country is also heavy.
At Daj-ton, Ohio, and vicinity th j Mis
souri river be-a ne a mighty fl vid, in mdating I
fifty acres of houses, drowning live stock, j
sweeping away bridges anl demolishing i
farm buddings. Two trains were wrecked
by washouts anl a number ot train hindi
injured At bhaker Village, three miles east I
of Dav ton. many building w r> unroofed, i
barm blown down, and cattle kil e I. George :
Miller, a pi eminent fainer, was killed by !
lightning.
From Cincinnati, Hamilton, Springfield,
and other points in Ohio came reports ot I
.-cores of railroad bridges washed away,
miles of track ruined, farmhouses and barns
totally destroyed or partly demolishxi, aul
hundreds of cattle killed.’
In Indiana a waterspout waihedoutall the !
culverts betwmn Newcastle anti Mes- i
sick, resulting iu the wrecking of a train an I
the death of three train hands, three more
being injured. At Logansport, Ind., the Lail i
and wind storm unrooted hundreds of houses i
and blew down almost everj thiug in iti way.
The High Schoo! and American Normal Col- j
lege were severely damaged. Thousa-ids of :
trees blocked the country roads.
In and around Pteru, Ind., the damage i
done is estimat xi at 4350,000. At Attica, Ind.. j
200 houses were d-stroyed in five minutes and
.seventy persons injured, several fatallv. An !
express t-ain was ditched and totally
wrecked. Other points in Indiana send s:mi- I
lar rep -rt« of devastation by the storm.
In Vermilion county,HL.the h >u-e of John
A. Shaw was struck and Mrs. Shaw, who !
was sick in bed, and her week-old babe were
picked up and carried fifty yards. The babe
was instantly killed, and Mrs. Shaw was
probably fatally injured- Mr. Shaw's
lour-year-old boy was fatallv injure!.
The ho-is; of Joe Miller, three milei
east of Ros-viile, Jit, was struck,
and Mrs Mill *r instantly kiileL Mr. Miller
was fatally injured. Sone three or four other
houses in the same vimnity were demolished.
At Lanark, Id., William Hixon, a butcher,
was killed.
Reports fr >m many other points iu the
West tell a similar story to the above of im
mense damage to property of all kinds by the
cyclone, which proved to be one of the most
destructive that ever ravaged the West.
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Heavy Raias ia North t nrolina.
Heavy freshets have occurred throughout
upper Carolina. The Fedee river otanda
thirty-six feet above low water mark and is
still iwug. Crops on the river are a total
! m The loss is beyond estimate. Consider- |
aUe damage done to railroads and crops in the
uortlrara and western ports of the state.
THE FATAL FLAMES.
FOUR YOUNG CHILDREN BURNED
TO A CRISP.
A Widowed Motlier’s Frantic Grief—An
Uncle’s Fatal Attempt at Rescue.
Mrs. Mary Mooney, a widow, residing
about three miles north of Akron, Ohio, re
tired about 9 o’clock the other evening, sleep
ing in the same room with her five children—
Thomas, aged 12; Julia, 10; Nellie, 7; Law
rence 4,and Maggie, 2. Their bed chamber was
in the front part on the second floor of a
small frame house. In the rear part ol
the same floor, in other roams, slept
Lawrence Mjoney, aged 58, brother-in
law of the mother of the children:
Lizzie Mooney, aged 20, and Patrick
Mooney, aged W. Mrs. Mooney’s husband,
Michael Mooney, died nearly two years ago
and since that time the children, with tlieir
mother an I uncle, have lived in this house
which was for them a very io.n for able .home’
About 11 o’clock p. m„ some of the children
cried out, which awakened Mrs. Mooney
v of tho inmates?
realized that the house was on
fire. Ihe smoke va; already so dense as to
be almost staling. Mrs Mooney at once
sprang from t’ie bed, grasped her’ two-year
old baby in her arms, and also attempted to
carry the little boy, Lawren re, but her son,
I nomas, said he would take care of him
Mrs Mooney then told the children to join
hands and follow her, and she led the
way to the stairway to go down
to the lower part of the house, and
in this way make their escape, but on reach
ing the stairway she found that the flames
had filled it and that there was no possible
chance of escape by that way. Being almost
overcome from the heat and smoke the poor
mother and little ones retraced their steps to
their bedroom. Here Mrs. Mooney raised a
window and called to her children to jump
tor their lives. She could, howevei-, no
longer see them as the flames were
now scorching her and death stare I her and
her babe in the face. In a half fainting and
terribly excited condition the mother, with
the babe hugged to her breast, threw herself
out of the window and landed safely on the
ground with nothing but her night clothes
on.
Lawrence Mooney, the uncle, and Lizzie
and Patrick Mooney, also succeeded in
making their escape by jumping from the ■
windows, though neither of them had time
to dress. The four children, Thomas, Julia, 1
Nellie and Lawrence, who were last seen
with hands clasped trying to find the stair
way, were still in the building, which was
now one solid wall of flame. The
cries and shrieks were clearly heard, and oc
< asionally the forms of the little ones could
be seen through this terrible shroud of
death that was so rapidly consuming them.
Mr. Mooney, the uncle, was fairly crazed
and fought the fire as best he could.
Again and again he nished into the house
through the fire in his endeavors to save
the little ones. The floor had burned out
from beneath them, and they had fallen into
the cellar. The mother, brother, sister and
uncle were wild from grief as they watched
the terrible sight. Fainter and fainter grew
the cries of their loved ones, until all was
hushed.
Mr, Mooney, in his endeavors to save the
children, almost perished in the flames. He
was a sickening sight to look upon. His face
was so swollen ana blistered that he scarcely
looked like a human being. His lips were I
three times their natural size and looked as !
though they would burst. His cheeks were |
great blisters; his eyebrows, hair and his !
whiskers were burned close to the skin, leav
nothing but the curled yellow roots exposed
on the face. His hands and arms were liter
ally roasted. He was fatally injured.
A CYCLONE’S CAPERS.
Remarkable Occurrences During the Re
cent Storm in Ohio.
Reports of the recent Ohio cyclone show j
the remarkable freaks that these windstorms !
play with human life and property. In ;
the house of George Hoffman was an eight- :
months-old baby. It was picked up !
by the wind, laid in a feather bed,
and the whole business, baby and
all, was carried 150 feet. All
was then deposited, and a log was thrown on
either side of the child, pinning the bad to
the ground. After the storm a search was
instituted for the baby. One of the search
ers heard it cry, and, following the direction
indicated by the sound, found tho little pet,
and restored it uninjured to the arms of its
distracted mother.
Mr. Curtis Hall, Jr., of Neptune, reports
that he saw straws that were blown into old
oak trees. A bed in the Louse of Andy Gin
ter was blown into the fields, and three chil
dren in it were carried along with it. AU of
the furniture was blown out of George Fox’s
house. Feathers were stripperl from chickens !
on this farm as clean as though the fowls h id
been prepared by a cook for the jxit The
chickens were caught by an obstruction
that held them for tue wind t j operate upon
them.
William Stevenson says that he saw the
cyclone approach. It lookel like a great
black ball in the act of rolling over the sur
face of the earth. It came along with fright
ful velocity, and made a noise louder than
the roaring of a hundred thunder peals.
It was a clear night everywaere but
in the wake of the fearful mon- j
ster. It was about a half mile wide, and it
twisted immense trees off at the ground as
though they were pipe stems. It cut crops-1
of grain and grass off as dean as a mowing
machine, and in instances stripped fr£es of
bark as a hungry ita’ian would peal a i
banana.
9 eor S® Fox’s wagon was carried half a
mite. The tires on two wheels we re each cut
in two as with a sharp instrument, and each
partly straightened exactly in tho same
shape. .At John Grimm’s dishes were carried j
and driven into stumps so that they could
not be pulled out.
A FATAL HURRICANE.
■
A ■'torm in Spain Kills Many People and
n Large Number Wounded.
A terrible hurricane has just swept across !
the middle of Spain. In Madrid thirty-two j
persons are known to have been instantly i
killed, and <>2o others have been seriously in- I
jured. The wind struck the city with the sud
denness of lightning. Tram cars and cabs were
overturned and broken into splinters, roofs j
v. ere dislodge!. and telegraph wires every
where turn from their poles. The parks in
and about ths city were devastated, and in
some eases entirel denuded. One church
tower was blown down. A number
of houses in the suburbs were
entirely wrecked, and of the many cottages
on tbe outskirts of the capital which were
blown from th ir foundations and wrecked,
some were so completely and quickly broken
up and scattered by the wind that they may
be said to have simply vanished before the
storm.
Farm crops and village? were distressingly
ravaged in the country districts, the working
classes suffering the heaviest l osses. Many
washerwomen were blown into the River
Manzanares, and twent ■.■-eight weredrownedL
The .'arg -*t tree in Madrid, which stood in
front of the Farliament Building, was blown I
down. The ho-pitals are crowded with suf
ferers. The storm was preceded by several
davs of extremely hot weather.
The Queen visited various points in the
city an l suburbs where the damage wrought
by the hurricane was most inarke 1 She ex- |
pressed profound sorrow at the loss of life
and much sr.nnathv with those wlvee ho >ies
hsd leen wre k•I it *’»•*s..j.vn. The dam- !
age wia exceed ,! •, ML
BASE BAM BOTES.
Five million baseballs have been made i
this season.
O’Rourke is doing the best work with the
bat for New York.
Macon claims to have the best running
team in the Southern League.
The “big four" in the Detroits—Brouthers,
Rowe, White, and Richardson—are doing
tremendous hitting.
Bobby Mathews, of the Athletics, has
been pitching professional ball longer than
anybody before the public.
The Pennsylvania State League consists of
six clubs, located at Altoona, Lancaster,
Lewiston, Scranton, Wilkesbarra and Wil
liamsport..
The paid base-ball players throughout the
country, a Washington paper states, number
over 1,000, and draw annually salaries ao - -
gregating about S9OO, 00j.
The Supreme Court of Michigan has given
a decision to the effect that persons owning
houses overlooking baseball parks may erect
seats tor spectators on the roof thereof, aud
tne associations have no recourse.
The National League was organized on
February 2, 1876, in l\ew York city, bydele-
I 1 ? 1 ?- the follow ing clubs: Athletic of
1 hiladelphia, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati,
Hartford, Louisville, Mutual of New York,
and St. Louis.
Speaking of the National League giants
of the Metropolis, a New York paper.savs:
’Only give them a little time and they wili
come to.tue front again.” But what they
need more than time, responds a Chieao-o
paper, are runs.
There is a statue in front of the nations l
capitol, holding a ball in one hand, which
has been known as “Columbus discovering
the new world,” but it is now suppose! that
the artist intended to represent a base-ball
pitcher, in honor of the national game.
There will be a very material change in
the positions of the clubs in all the leading
organizations by the middle of June. As
soon as the wear and tear begins to tell on
tne teams, those which have tho most united
teams and the most enduring “batteries" will
take up their position in the van.
The North Springfield, (Mo.) Southwester
reports a local baseball game with the fol
lowing new and unique table of points in its
score: R—Runs. O—Outs. F. D.—Fell '
Down. M—Muffed the ball. Umpires- \
Sperry, Gates, Feeeman, Meischbach and
~ n 9 of the Players had eighteen
h - D- s marked against him, aud another
ha! ‘M. 36 opposite his name. Tho large
number of umpires show that the game was
an exciting one.
IEWSY GLEANINGS.
Out of a coinage of 229.000,000 silver dol
lars only 52,000,0J0 at ein circulation.
The money value of tin real estate changing
hands weakly in New York is $4,0J0,(W0.
The profits of the gambling tables at Monte
Carlo during fonr months were $6,678,05;!.
The colored people in the District of Co
lumbia have eighty churches and missions.
The Boston Postoffice yields the Govern
ment an annnal net revenue c f over $3,000,0.10.
It is alleged that $50,000,000 worth of build
ing has been stopped in Philadelphia by the
strikes.
Two diamonds have been found in Wiscon
sin, and now com; auies are organizing to dig
formore.
A shoal of whales, eighty in number, was
recently driven ashore on the She tian! islands
and captured.
The American Society of Civil Engineers
will hold its annual meeting early in u aly at
Denver, Col.
JNo fewer than 100,000 shade trees now make
Washington glorious in fresh green and ira
grant blossoms.
Arbor Day in Nebraska was duly observed
this year. Over I,OO’J,OJJ trees were jilante l
throughout the State.
Recently a steamer, the British Queen,
sailed from these shores for Liverpool with
tho first shipment of chemically preserved .
beef ever sen; to England.
A new law in Connecticut requires every
hotel, i estaurant and boarding house serving
oleomargarine to display a conspicuous sign
to that effect in the dining-room.
Considering the threatened invasion of
cholera it is announced that a Germau phy
sician has discovered thatsmall coins are im
portant factors in the spreading of diseases.
Ho has found bacteria and vegetable fungua
in scrapings from the metal.
Fourteen hundred blaekfish were recently
driven ashore by men in boats at Wood End,
Provincetown. The fish were speared and
sold at public au ‘tion at an average of $1.21
apiece* the gross proceeds being about sl,-
50J. Each fish yields about a barrel ot oil
PERSONAL MENTION.
Vice Admibal Don Patricio Lynch,
head of the Chilian Navy, died recently.
_ Edward C. Knight, the Philadelphia mil
lionaire, began life as an errand boy at $2 a»
week.
Mrs. Sartoris is said to have not yet re
covered her spirits since the death of General
Grant, her father.
Mr. Moody is raising $200,090 to start a I
training school at Chicago, for evangelizing I
work among the masses. 1
Chief Justice Waite, of the United
States Supreme Court, is going to Alaska to
spend his summer vacation this year.
Mrs. Grant is going to spend the summer
at West Point, and will be accompan.ed by
Colonel Fred Grant and his
Senator Joseph E» Brown, of Georgia,,
is hard at work on a book showing the ma
terial and social progress of the South since
the war.
Senator Kenna of West Virginia, keeps
a fine pack o' deer hounds and beagled, and
is a crack shot. In ona day recently he
brought down nine deer.
King Kalakaua i.i an active member of
the Honolulu Fire Department. He runs to
fires with the engine, an l is an expert operator
of the pump handle.
The Empress of Austria is going to Eng
lard to visit the Edinburgh Exhibition. She
will l e accompanied by the Archduchess
■Valerie and will remain seve. al weeks in
Scotland.
William Penn and Jacobus were the
two men who first brewed beer on.
American soil. Jacobus built his brew
ery in 1644, on what is dow thecorner of
Pearl street and Old slip, New York,
where he also established a beer garden.
He afterward became the first burgo
mister, and his beer and justice gave
< qnal satisfaction to the citizens of New
Amsterdam. Penn’s Brewery was at
Pen sburg, Bucks county, Pennsyl
vania, where the excellence of his brew
is considered by no means the least of
his virtues. A hundred years later that
doughty soldier, General Israel Putnam,
w ..s, running a brewery and tavern at
Lh-voklyn, Connecticut,
Nervous debilitated sufferers from early
indircretions, excesses, etc. It you will
send me your name and address, I will
send you by return mail a treatise on the
cause and cure of nervous exhaustions
loss of manhood, loss of memory, di nines,
of vision, and all other symptoms aris
ing from se;/ abuse, over-work or *:ndy.
Neglect eattees insanity and early death,
Address T. W. Rice, 249 Fulton' e treet,
Brooklyn, N. Y. ts