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jj WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO,. S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1882. ESTABLISHED IN 1844. _ The Rainy Day. The day is cold, end dark, and dreary; It rain*, and the wind is never weary; The vine still clings to the ruddering wall, k. But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark asd dreary. lly life is cold, and dark and dreary; L . : Tf mina or>/^ tKa 10 rAW iUi -iiCj ?.?v-t .O XJ.K ? ^A. >1 VAIJ f ^ My thoughts ."till ciiag to the moldering Past, But the hopes of youth fan thick in the blast, And the days are dark ant* dreary. Be still, sa-l heart: and cease repining; Behind the clones is the sun still shining: Thy fate is the common fa:e of all, Into each life some rain must fall, ^r\mo 1\a /lurl* oncl /Traorr * wuiv unj o lyv uaia u> vuij* P . ?Longfellow. L JANET'S MISTAKE. k .. For thi3 one day Janet Sydney might rest and Jace her sorrow. She was only Mrs. Denison's seamstress, whom nobody noticed.; t'-^e housekeeper was a fa - grander personage, and Lydia Denii son*3 cd aid completely outshone quiet little Miss Sydney. A jeer ago, in her father's home, she had been tbe center of attraction; here no one snobs to her, except to say, 'Sew this*lace in my s!ee?e,"or "Mend mr glove." No one. did I say ? Yes, there was* L * one person who always showed a kindly V sympathy for her. Janet sometimes fancied, though sht fcp banished the thonght sternly when ii J? would come, if he had met her in her own heme before her father's death, that kitdly sympathy wonld have been somethicg deeper and stronger; but she was only a seamstress, and he Mrs D^n icon's only son, so she was sure that j^^it was merely a chivalrous instinct that Rronipiea mm 10 ireat cer as ne fcjj^Ireadftil time of his ^fefxttta^tdeath's Mffd grief; of hvsHPr moaned and B^uag man she had HBoV. But Jtnefc SydraPhim?jes, loved him? MFr of t&em, must show no HRef as the superintended the B^of the mourning wardrobe, |PFal that no hot tear dropped on the During Lis lifetime she had been sure of one friend, at least; now she was entirely alone. The only bright- , r>c.ca -Trkv Tar^f tVirrvnerli f.hic c' roar had been when he dropped a fiower in her work-basket, or lets some new book ' \ on the machine. L Now, on the day of his funeral, she 1 could stop her work at last, and thick " of all his kindness. Early thai morning she had stolen ^ into the room whera he lay to place 1 some snowdrops on his bosom. No one would notice her few poor buds in the , wealth of lilies and roses about him. Softly, almost fearfully, she pushed open the door and entered, hfc He lay in his cofiic?her idol?but, j instead of the peaceful expression Janet had learned to associate with death ( SL tines her last lingering look at her fa- ? L , tker, H^am^d^'snstrTRJHnr J \5gSS, in de SnablS "air' oT" ? Jm filled her with dismay. ^ T I? T?a? a ?v\ r\rr\or>f. s};A fifnAfl i him; then, -with a sudden burs of ten\ deroess, she stooped and passionately 1 |l kissed the cold lip?, whispering : "Oh, my dearest, yon never guessed j how I loved yon P The sound of her words frightened , her. With a hot blash, she dropped her flowers and fled to her own room, to give way to a passion of sobs. mi~- 1??cf-ii)??r> sfill tliafc AUW UUUSO ??o f*~ one might fancy Janet's stifled grief ( could be heard from cellar to garret < Suddenly the silence was broken by i piercing shrieks, followed bv smothered m- exclamations, suppressed sobs, hastily j whispered commands, a subdued hubHp bub very unusual for a house of ! grief. W The little mourner heeded it not. | Exhausted by the weary days which had preceded this, she laj on her bed, brooding over every well-remembered look and word. It was not till late in the afternoon Mfe that any <.ne thought of her; then she was aroused by the clatter of heels and rustle of silks that always annonnced Lydia Denison's approach. That little lady rushed into the room ottati ?iam nflr TiRnal imDetll J ~ WXVU OIC/U 4UV4V ? ^ osity, as she exclaimed: n "Oh,Miss Sjdnev,you actually haven't Bk heard?he's alive?alive?don't you understand?not dead, but alive!" Janet started up with a wild cry. "Who?alive. What?what do you mean?" she gasped. R "He isn't dead at all," cried Miss am Lydia, dropping into a chair. "Oh, I W feel as if I was dreaming; and to think. , after parting with hiia and nearly dying I^L of sorrow, aud putting on mourning, and everything else, and he not dead at ~ * *? r ?ali, and un, aear, 1 suppose 1 ought to be down on my knees ana saying my prayers; bnt I'm so happy I can't keep still, for it does se^m as if it realb couldn't be trn<*, and that the doctor ought to go to State's prison, Fm sure; but he always was the only physician dear, darling Hermann ever had"; and to think he is alive. It would do your heart good to see mamma sitting there and looking at him, but it was cruel to - ?a! ? j drive 7X16 out OI US rCUCJ, iiuu 1UI y.y O sake now, Miss Sydney, don t faint, 1 beg of yon don't. I shouldn't have told yon so suddenly if I had thought you cared ; but, then, everybody that knows him loves him. There, I am glad to see y&Hr color coming back. They couldn't hslp it if they would, and they wouldn't if they could." k All * this Miss Lydia said without gieS pause of any kind, while Janet sat on the side of the bed pale as death, her hands tightly clasped. " Do you mean that he, Mr. Denison, is alive P she gasped, not daring to be lievesuch joy. "I don't think I quite k understand you." " I'm sure I don't 6ither, and if I hadn't pincned myself I'd think I was crazy, and they all say so, too, and if this isn't bedlam it must be so.5' " xnen ne is auve r julicl wms^eicu. HRa " Thank God I Thank Gcd !" ~-^A happy mist swam before her eyes, IW a glad Boig xxl thanksgiving rang in her flP> ears. She could net listen to Lydia Danison's excited chatty > what cared she for the how and why. He alive, her friend, and that was enongn for ; ? her. Suddenly these words caught her attention. V>a woe /?nr>c/*iAT}ft DC iSttJO JLIO nao ? all the time he was in the trance?no, not all the time, but, after twelve o'clock JJast night, arl he knew he was in a cc-ffiu and thonght ther wonld put him on ice, and we never can be thankful enough that mamma wo; Mn't have it LV done, and he tried so -jcrd co cry but he couidn't; and he was afraid they would shut down the lid and it would have been murder. Bat everybody knows how dearly we love lam, and this morning they left him all alone, and he said gi you came in." 44 Was he conscious, then ?" criec Janet. ^ 44 After twelve o'clock last night *h< heard every word that was said, evei when I was crying so, and declared I'c 1|: keep his room jnst as he left it, and oh, dear! I am so happy I must do something. I'd just like to rush into the street and shout, ' He's alive !? alive!' " So saying Ljdia tripped away and lefi Janet to her own ihoughts. * * * * * * Three weeks passed, and she sat m | her same quitt corner in the sewing-! room, unnoticed as usual. Mr. Denison j had not jet left his room, and the very j thought of meeting him was dreadful j to her. He had heard her confession, of course, and what could he think of her ? The bare idea overwhelmed her with shame, and she determined never to see him again. As soon as she knew he was strong enough to go from one room to another she would leave the house. Once or twice Mrs. Denison had asked Janet to relieve the nurse and watch by nim, but she had always managed to excuse herself under the plea of other work. But what did this mean ? There was a shuffle of teet in the hall, the sound of Lvdia's voice, and, behold 1 the nurse and the butler entered, carrying Hermann Denison. Miss Lydia followed, srtfcthered in pillows and shawls. "There!" she expostulated, as he was laid on the sofa, and she began to arrange the pillows about him, "I know mother will be furious when she comes home and finds what I have done ; but if you kill yourself you will be satisfied. The doctor said you were not to stir out of your room for three weeks more, and why ycu will insist on coming to this room of all others, I can't imagine. Of course it will make you sick, and I will have to bear the blame. Nurse, you can go now and take a rest, for you do look worn out, and James, too. ixow, nermaca i/enisuu, are juu. contented ?" Hermann smiled faintly and closed his eyes, but did not- notice Janet. As Lydia's back was turned, and she was absorbed in her own, ceaseless chatter, Janet ventured to steal a long, fistful look at the handsome face, so thin and white now. Suddenly opening his eyes Hermann met her gaze with a triumphant smile, chat brought a blush of bitter shame to the poor girl's face ; thea he turned to his sister, and said slowly, with long ' pauses between every few words: "I wish you would?read to me. Get ! my copy of?'The Princess,' please. It's ' eiiher in the left-hand corner?of my : book-case?or in my under-drawer?or I somewhere in the billiard-room." "It will take ire all day to find it," 1 said Lydia, rising to obey. 'Tiiin't. haoV wif.Virtnf. if. " ttae ^ his answer. T7ny had he sent her away ? Janet longed to make her escape ; but ( to reach the door she must pass him, so y she sat sewing as composedly as she ? 3onld while her heart was beating so ? wildJy. . Soon he spoke. ; "Janet/' ' 'Sir!" Janet exclaimed, haughtily, "Come here, please." ' What do yon want ? Shall I call ] ro> I bi'e nurse t "Oh, it's not fair to take advantage of ? i sick man. I can't go to you, please " jome here." a There was no resisting such an ap- 1 Deal. Janet complied, though her ^ whole face flashed defiance. ^ Hermann closed his eyes, with a mis- r ihievous expression lurking in the cor- * "Dpit ^ "Air. Denison! how can yon be so ^ flA?SO Crlld. Xi6u 321V 3and go. You have no right to take 8 advantage of?let me go, I say!" "Janet, Janet, ifc is you who are cruel. , Zou have been so cold and proud to me, even when I showed you by every means in my power" how I loved you; , that I thought you haied me, my dearest ; but there is no use trying to deny it now, for I know?yes, I know the trutn, my own sweet, precious one. . rjnr kiss brought me back to life. I 3cuid not die with such happiness be* -? ?- /"M* wUtt trrkTi f roo f. rrsok CA LUrb ILLU* \JLly >Y LLJ UAIX JVU AMV WW onmercifu It ?" "But, you forget," sobbed Janet. { kneeling by him, and not struggling to release her hand now. "My position ' is so different from yours. What will j your mother say?' i "You are not going to marry my , mother, are you?" asked Hermnaru "And now, please do it again." And she did! i Snow Slieds on the Central Pacific, f; The wonderful snow- sheds?tunnels j ?on the Central Pacific railroad are of ] two kinds, one with very steep roofs j * * . m rnv and the other witii flat roois. mey ; cost per mile from $8,000 to $12,000, , and in some places where heavy masonry , was needed the cost reached $30,000 a mile. They are firmly constructed to support the great weight of snow to resist the rnsh of avalanches. Fire precautions are very thorough. Corrugated plates of iron separate the buildings in- i to sections, and in the great ten mile section there are automatic electric fire alarms. At the summit is an engine i and tank always ready to flood the igni'ed spot in a moment. These shed9 :<hat in the view of tJtie great Sierras, but without them travel would be im- j possible Sometimes five feet of snow j "alls upon them in a day, and often thirty feet lies on tho ground at one time, and in many places snow accumulates to the depth of fifty-feet above these great wooden arches.?Engineering News. Tommy Colt's >"eir Xose. A little over two years ago the medical and surgical world was deeplv interested in the experiment of grafting on a nose. The case was that of Thomas 0. Colt, who had lost his nose, and the eurgeon who had charge of the case was Dr. Thomas T. Sabine, of Bellevue hospital, New York. The operation consisted of grafting the large finger of ' * i 1 J XT rae leic liana ua iu tut! iaue iu oupj/ijr the place of the missing nose. In order to do this the finger had to be split open, the nail removed and it had to be held in position for three months, when it was amputated. Later the nostrils were formed. A short time ago, "Tommy " as he is called, was taken before the New York Surgical association where, the sutures having been removed, an examination was made, and the operation was pro nonnced a success. The bone cf the finger forms the bridge of the nose. There was but one place in the nostril where the junction was not complete, and an operation will shortly be made to remedy this defect. A Curious Railroad. One of tie most curious railroads in tne-Pf'orld is a ten-inch gauge road running from North Billerica, Mass, to Bedford. It was first hooted at by the people, but was completed, making a length of abont eight and a-har.f miles. There are eleven bridge?. The rails weigh twenty-five tons to the mille. One grade is 155 feet. The cars and en giaes are constructed so as to De very near the ground, giving them greater safety. The cars have an aisle, with one seat on each side, in the same man? ner as ordinary cars have two seats. i The cars weigb Out four ana a naif ton3, ordinary cars weighing on an average 1 eighteen tons. Trains ran at the rate of twenty miles an hour with perfect I rafety. The engine is placed behind the tender, giving it greater adhesion i to the track. They weigh eight tons, i and draw two passenger and two freiget I cars. The cost of the road was abont , $4,500 per mile. ALSGSr BURIED AL1YE. | J OHepbine Ryman'n Horrible Experience While Lijinz in a Trance. Josephine Byman, a fair haired, blueeyed young woman, is just recovering from a remarkable illness at the home of tier sister. Mrs Brown, in EvanavillpL Irsd. Her parents died some years ago, and Josephine went to work in St. James, a little village near here. One night last winter she went to singing school. She had net t>een in her seat long when she felt a very stiange sensation about the head, accompanied by pains in the back. She arose to her feet, as if to start out of church, when _1 f_ll ?- _ it _ . 1 # - a i . sue zeii m a aeaa iainc ana was carried home. Her friends at first thought that the attack was a mere fainting spell, and the usual restoratives were applied, but the girl continued to lie as if dead. Sunday came and went bnt still there was no change. The body became colder and colder, and the eyes were open and staring, the lips were apart, there was no perceptible pulse, and every indication pointed to death. T*l_ 3 I**- x - t rni xnjftsiciaiis [.xoiioaucsa one extinct. XQ6 pnest -was sent for to administer the iast rites, and the weeping sisters and friends of the family prepared to bid Josephine the last farewell. The coffin was ordered and bnsy .lingers began to prepare tne white clothes in which to bury the corpse, and, in fact, every preparation was made for the final scene. Thns passed Monday. On the evenins: of that dav there was a slight change in the appearance of the body, which gave the startled watchers a faint V?A*\A llin m"*1 10TT in ft aw/3 fsv viiuu ci,ixj. it*J xu a uauuC) emu. time this was bnt death's counterfeit. The body lay on its back, with arms folded, just as the attendant had placed it There wsis not the least perceptible breathiDg; the eyes still had that stony, unmeaning gaze; the face wes as palid as white marble; but the iciness of real death was wanting. The feet and Jimbs were not warm, but they did not have that chilly touch that is a sure accompaniment of a.ctuai dissolution. There was sufficient doubt in the minds of ihose in attendance to warrant caution, and so another day and nigh' passed, ua Wednesday, or the lourth day afttr the girl was stric&en down, the priest was aga.in sent for. After critically examining the case and consult ing with the physician, he said: "It is a trance S?e may eome to herself, but it will be bnt momentary. When she relapses all will be over. She can't live." ic? crd nglv the faneral was set for the lextuay. Imagine the feelings of horror which possessed this girl when it is ihown that she was cognizant of every vord that was spoken in that room and jould see the forms of her friends and catchers about her couch. Her terrible situation is best told by herself. She ;aid to me yesterday: civ -it. xraa linrriKla 4 o 7 loir -here on my back, stretched ont on the Doaras, with my arms crossed and feet ied together, with the lighted candles ; ibout my head., and conld see my sisters ind neighbors c-ome and peer into my J ace, it was awfnl. I heard every word j poken. My body, limbs and rrcas 1 rere as cold as ice. I thong^t of the 1 .gony of being buried ali^j, of being ! lailed in a coffin ?.nd lowered in the ground. I tried to make some noise or ' cove jost a littls, to let them know : hat I was alive, but it was impossible. ' saw my sisters come in one by one Se"s ^oae.^''liieir tears dropped on my 1 mr, and their kisses were warm to my ' ips. As they tturned to leave me, it i eemed as if I must make an effort to ittract their attention, if only by movDg my eyelids. But I couldn't do it. 1 ! felt like screaming. I tried to, but I ;ouldn't move a muscle. The priest 1 :ame in and felt my arms and wrists. 3e shook his hsad. Then he placed his ^r to my heait. It was no use. He ;ould not hear it beat. After saying a short prayer lor the reposa of my soul, ' le too turned a:id left me, and my agony ind horror-weri) redoubled. '"Will no ^ L il-. i T V T .n.'J ?v>tt )hc* ILLIU ULIU tm;u I live ; x oaiu ias jluj >elf. ' Must I be buried only to wake *hen it is too late ? Mu3t I come back :o life when they put mo in the vault, md all of the people have gone away, >nly to die of fright and horror and suffocation ?' The thought was madness! Why doesn't the doctor do something to oring me to myself ? I am not dead I [t was no use. There I lay thinking md lis:ening t:o every word that was said. I could hear a woman giving directions as to the making of the shroud. L heard the time sec lor tne innerai ana ill. I could se 3 every one who came to look at me. I tried to look conscious and let them know that I understood it all, but it was impossible. It is a wonder I did not die of fright and agony. I often think that I would sooner die, a thousand times sooner, than go throught that experience again. "Finally, when all was ready, when theshioud was finished, and all had left the room but two or three, some one said: 'Ain't yon going to cut her hair off?' My hair was done np in loDg braids, and fell down my back. 'Yes,' said my sister, Wil cut it off now.' Then the.v got the scissors and came up to me. While one of them took hold of my head and turned it to one side, the one with the scissors began the cutting. I could feel the cold steel on my neck I realized that this was about the last thing they'd_do before putting me in the coffin. The woman began to cup, and in a second or two one Ion/ braid of hair was taken off and laid aside. My head was then turned the other way to allow them to get at the other braid, but this was not touched. Thank God! something in my condition or some movement, I don't know what it was, caused my sister to scream, and I was saved. The scissors dropped to the floor with a loud noise, the woman jumped back nearly scared to death, and I sat tip. You should have seen that house a litt e while after that. I thought everybody had gone crazy. 'Yenie's anve j "veuitiH suve i xna wtuio i neighborhood came rushing in as socn j as they heard of it, and for several days ! there was nothing talked about but me My folks thought I didn't know what had been going on. Little they thonght that every word spoken in that room was heard and understood by me. They tried to keep everybody from referring to the fact that my shrond was bought, the coffin ordered, and the funeral arranged. They made an excuse, too. for nart, of mv hail1 beinsr cat off. Thev told me the reason of it was that a plaster had been pat on the back of my neck, and my hair got so tangled in it that it had to be cut away. I didn't say anything. One day my little brother said to me. 'Y<?nie, yen was goin' to b? bnried last Thnrsday, and they cntyonr bair off.' He never imagined that I knew more about that than he did. The recollection of those terrible days and nights will never leave me. I pray to ^ 1 xT. T "U~ ~ .11 ~ J ? i... OrOQ tilsl l may iitj>cr ue uajit-u upnu t<> pass throneh it aeaic. I would rather die/'?Cincinnati Enmiircr. Stmtt, an English authority on games and amu-ements, speaks of a Yorkshire jumper, named Ireland, whose powers were marvelous. He was six feet high, and at the age of 18 leaped, without the aid of a spring board, over nine horses ranged side by side. a nf oil fl>o firl/NTmo nCQt^ Xnvuuuuo (M4 fcuw ? vu the United States are manufactured in the little towns of Gloversville and Johnstown, in Fulton county. New York. There are 110 factories in the former place and seventy-five in the latter. ^ , SG3LE SKA STORIES. Tales of Adventures* that Broucht to Dliind Others Equally Remarkable. "While a number of skippers were waiting in the Barge office at the Battery, New York, recently, the conversation turned toward adventures and accidents that fall to the lot of seafaring men in general "It's been my experience," a r d-i'aced man said, "that's it is tne small things in life that do the most damage. Some few rears I had: a second mate that had sailed with me when we were both boys and on and on ever since. He might have been a master years ago, but he would drink. What that man went through was a caution. He was cast away half a dozen times, and twice he had to eat human flesh to save himself. Once he fell from the mizzen royal yard when the sh5p was lying to in a gale of wind, but we picked him up, and lost two hands in doing it In fact, he seemed to bear a charmed life if any one ever did, but he was finally killed by a fish about six inches long. You may laugh, but come aboard my vessel to-night and I'll show no the losr. We were bound for Beiv muda with a load of coal for the government. We were bowling along one afternoon with a ten-knot breeze, and ; as it was smooth we had the main hatch open to cool the ship. My mate stoor? ; by the combing of the hatch when ail ; at once ten or fifteen flying fish cams j aboard; not those soft kind with long wingo. but what they call gurnards, with ] heads as hard as a rock. To make a long story short, one of them struck \ him on the forehead snch a blow that I j heard it "at the wheel. He staggered a s minnte, threw np his arms, and fell ] backward into the holei and broke his , neck." "That certainly is a curious case," a, Swede said, "and I can acid one to it. In the spring of 1880 I arrived in Boston from Liverpool. We came to down by Fort "Warren, and after everything had been made snug, the men stripped and went in swimming. I stood on the. quarter-deck watching th^m. and noticed that the water was full of jellyfish, so I sang out to them to look out for them, because they sting sometimes. Soon the men commenced to badger one another about jumping, and finally the cook went aloft and out on the foreyard and off he jumped, coming down like a shot. We waited a seoond or so, expecting to see him, but he didn't appear wa hp<>.r>minor alarmed. T went aloft so that I could look down on the spot, a About ten feet under the surface I saw t him kick ng and thrashing aboub as if s he was drowning aud entangled in some- o thing. I sang out to the second mate f to lower away tbe boat, and with a long a boat-hook he soon hooked cn to the i i< man. The crew dragged him up, and fi with him a jellyfish that was twice as ti h? nr oc? T\*/y TTmhrp! 1^3 run cDA r\n /v VMV V4o wwu vm waw v stages here. In the middle of the fish, ]< tangled in a n^ass of streamers, was the Is man. We 'iiad him out on short notice, s pon maj be sure, and he was a bad t] sight: Everywhere the streamers had ^ touched him was a red mark. He came b bo after a while, and said that the ani- si mal must have been swimming along 3even or eight feet below the surface when he struck it in jumping down. It measured nearly nine feet across, and the streamers must have been more than 200 feet long." ^ "That reminds .ma of flTittrrnqrianna T rSpanfslTbng said, " before I went to 3ea. I was a diver, not a wrecker, but li a pearl diver, and a hard business it si was. Wpi worked off the Mexican and tl Panama coasts, principally on the Pacific side. Sometimes we worked alone, a' but generally on shares, and sometimes ^ on regular pay. We went 1.0 the grounds fj in small sailing vessels, then took to n the small boats and covered as much si ground as possible. Each man was pro- i? vided with a basket and a knife. For sharks? Yes, but it's a poor defense, ^ because it is almost impossible to swing f your arm with any force under water, b The best weapon is a short spear. When b you reach the grounds you strip, catch 3 your feet in a big sinker, 'cake the bask- n et that has a rope for hoisting, drop t> over, and soon find yourself at the bot- " torn. Then your business is to knock as ? many oysters off as you can and pile v them into the basket before you lose fc your wind. It's a terrible strain, but I could stand it in those days sis minutes, L and I have known men that conld stay 4 down ten; but it's sure death in the i long ran. If the ground is well stocked, you can ^et twenty or more shells, but s it's all vick. Whea the basket is full, c it is hauied up, anci after you come up 0 for your wind, down you go again, the ] sinker having been hauled up by a small r cord for the purpose. It was on one of \ these trips that I ran foul of the animal that gave me a lasting fright. You'll t smile when I say that it was only a star, t fish, but that's all it really was. I made f my first trip that day all right, but on r striking the bottom on the second trip I saw a big shadow over me, and some- f thing moved along like a huge bird. It ] was only a devil fish, one of the big i sting rays that grow about twenty feet \ wide in that country, but it gave me j the shakes, nevertheless. When I went < down for the third time the water was nearly hixty-feet deep over a coral bot- | com. I went down with a rush, and landing on the edge of a big bunch of ] coral, swung off into a kiDd of a basin, j The basket went ahead of me, and as I swung off to reach the bottom, some j thing seemed to t-pring up all around me. and I was in the arms of some kind i of a monster that coiled about me, , waved its arms over my head, and twisted about my body, arms and legs. I tiied to scream, forgetting that I was in the water, and lost my wind. It was just as if a plant had sprouted under me and thrown its vines and tendrils about me. There were thousands of them, coiling and writhing, and I I ? ? i . a i. _e tiiougnc i naa lanaea m a nest tn ?ea snakes. I gave the signal as soon as I could, and made a break upward, part of the creature clinging to me, while die rest, I could eee, was dropping to pieces. They hauled me into the boat when I reached the surface, and pulled the main part of the animal from me. It was oval, about three feet across, and the five arms seemed to divide into thousands of others. Of course there wasn't any real danger, but the fright it gave me lasted for months. The starfish is common enough and known as the basketfish, and it generally grows two or three feet across I probably landed on top of that one, which at that time was the largest I had ever seen. I afterward saw the body or one rbat was washed ashore on the Isthmus that must have had a spread of thirtyfive feet. Their ^power of grasping is considerable, but touch them in a certain way and they throw off their arms j ? in a regular shower?and are soon reduced to an oval body." The Hotel Clerk. The hotel clerk is a young man who was originally created to fill an emperor's throne or adorn a dukedom, but when he grew up, there being fewer ihronos and doms than there empercra - >-' i- :i_ r j alia auaes, ne wao icmpuiunijr lujrueu 1 to take a position behind a hotel register. His chief characteristics are dignity of bearing, radiant gorgeousness of apparel, hanghtiness of manner and jewelry. His principal dnties consist of hammering on the call bell, in handing gnests the wrong keys to their rooms, and in keeping a supply of toothpicks on the end of the desk.?Texit Sift I' ys' I 5 The French residents of New York I number about 10,000 , I WONDERFUL MIXEKAL WEALTH. What Professor Silliman Says About New Mexico's Silver Mines?Cottinz Slabs ot Silver with ?tana Saw?. At a recent meeting of the American Institute of Mining Enpraeera at the National museum in Washington. Professor Silliman made a remarkable statement confternmc the* ATfranr^ inert? I ? J mineral wealth of New Mexico, especially of a portion of that Territory but little known to the general public. The new district is readily reached from ilutt station, twenty-seven miles east of Deming and twelve miles from Daly, where the mining deposit spoken of has been uncovered. The region is known ! as Lake valley, and nestles in the foot hills of the Mimbres mountains. The , mineral wealth recently disclosed is in ' the shape of silver ores in various de- j posits, including chlorides of silver, 1 carbonates, galena embolite, chorite ( and other minerals. In one of the | shafts on the lin-^of giivision between . the Sierra Plata ??d the Sierra Grande \ mines, and at the function of the Stan- ( ton with the Lincoln claims, the ores ( aie so rich in eilver as to render it . difficult to select' a sackful averaging j le?s than 1,000 pounds to the ton, and j it is quite easy to excavate from the leader mass of crystals of horn silver ? in the red iron ore with the simplest j means thousands of pounds of ore j averaging from 5,000 to 10,000 ounces j in silver. A conservative measurement led to the estimate of not less than 5,000 tons of ore of this richer d6scrip kion, carrying at least 500 ounces to the j ton, and of the ores valued at 100 ounces. und less than 500 ounces, a. mass of at * [east 10,000 tons, in an area of not over r :me acre of ground. T3?e explorations at c ;hi8 point were -not over fifty feet in a leptb, and, whilii the entire mass to this depth was silver-bearing, only v ourteen feet of the richer portion were _ nclnded in the measurement. Pro- q res?or Silliman also spoke of the very q "ich sheets of horn-siiver which wt-rs . :aken from the so called '1 Colambia _ ihaft," the deepest working yet sunk ^ m the Sierra mines?about eighty feet t n sinking this shaft, which follows g 9hat may prove to be a regular vein, g here was a sheet of horn-silver found s m the foot-wall from which slabs as t) Lick as the hand and many feet square rare cut by a hand saw. A portion of n lis very remarkable mass was exhibt<?d. The whole area embraced in the ? our Sierra companies is about 300 acres, ^ ud upon this area between twenty and hirty exploratory shafts have been unk to very moderate depths. In most , f these explorations silver has been a ound, and always of the general char- Q cter jiirciuly described Metallic silvsr ^ ? sometimes, but :rarely, seen. More ^ requently the disguise of the silver by j be iron oxide is so complete that a asual observer, looking at the piles of a! 5ad ore 1 ving about the numerous windjcccio iTAnl/^ 4-Vi i r> Tr fV?& nlo^A Tnao mjuvU) ir vuiu uuiutt vuv HOO Uliv ^ tock-yard of an iron furnace rather .. ban a silver mine. The whole area over 'liich this remarkable class of ores is telieved to exist is abont one mile ^ jaare. tj A Unique Newspaper. ^ There are a great ms.ny newspapers ts ublished in American schools and al alleges, but the most noteworthy and ci iterating amrmgtVmaR .rath arm is p, :r^- -a-.ygjpd in grammar, rhx. It is The ScJiool Neves, issued at Car- o: sle Barracks, Pennsylvania, in the fr ihool established by government for w ae Indians. a The little paper is written, edited tl rsA 1-vrr 4 Via Tn^ion vr LIU yXXUVCUJ K/J bJLLV rr rithout any correction or assistance tl :om their teachers ; and gives ns a h inch clearer insight into the work the tl 2I100I has done for them than any vi ibored official statement could do. Y "Now, boys and girls, look this ^ ray !" Kiota, tho son of a chief, aged k welve, thus begins his description of a h attle which he had once seen between h is own tribe and the whites, and a 0 pirited description it is, in spite of e; lisspelled words and unfinished sen- 0 ences. "But," he adds at tie close, p 'I have now to learn something better; p irst thing, I have to be educated, and n rhen I go back home I shall be> able to f< Lelp my people to lift it up." 0 It is something when a white boy h :nows that the use of his education is t] ' to go among his people and lift t' f. mr> ? n The editor, Kihega, an Iowa Indian, ays, "The bread in our school is made j >f wheat that was raised on our farm, a .nd work all done by boys (Indians), i Chey threshed it and took it too the nill, and had it grind into flour, and ( )aked by our boys." t There are letters from boys of every c ribe who are being taught farming, and t ;rades of every kind ; and from the ( jirls, who are being taught household i york, cooking, sewing, etc. a One girl?Sioux?mixes her ideas i t<T onft Ai/^rv* ... JUUljr CllUUgLU A aiu 5iau ly j lere. I am going to teach my people i ibout the true God. I am going to 1 :eacn my people to make omelet. I I im not sure I learn how to cook chick- j sn." i Editorial notice to delinquent subscri- i bers appears at the head of the paper i thus : "When Subscribers find X < cnarked on your paper please remember i it is time to send 25 cents again." ] A Dakota boy tells how a dispute < arose in the geography class as to j whether the Eastern or Western hemi- i sphere was the oldest. "The teacher -i decided that the land first inhabited by ! peoples, bo the Eastern was the first of ] thai;. Bnt those boy:3 has not been sat- i isfitd wirli that way, it was decided, i Where did our breed come from? The j Indian was found here. We like to ask < some question to somebody through ; ? I1* ' *1?1 Jl J tne paper, is ims iana me jouag wuriu ; or the old Jiiah Seger?Arapahoe?sajs: "We are here to learn about white people as he do. Some white people this wicked alsc just same Indians. I think after whi le no more Indian people." However strong our prejudices against the red man, no one could read this little sheet of childish utterances without being moved by its significance and pathcs.? Youth's Companion. Training a Racing Dog. Mr. Tvler. of Philadelphia, the owner of Let-me-go, a swift miming greyhound, furnished a reporter some information in regard +c the manner in which dogs are trained fur racing While in training they are fed upon the best mea*s, including mutton chops and eggs. A jaunt of fifteen miles a day is considered the proper distance 1 for the canine exercise. They are given two meals a day?one at 8 o'clock in the morning and the other at 5 in the evening. After (he 5 o'clock supper a trot of a mile or two precedes retiring, which takes place immediately after the exercise is over. The dog is placed in a bed as comfortable as that of any per? j i:? ?:.n- -7 : i.-i sod, ana iie? i^iucuj oiocpiug ituui early morning, when the routine continues. A peculiar feature of the treatment is that the dogs are scarcely, if ever, given water to drink. In its place tea is provided, which the canines relish as thoroughly as a human beingWater. it is claimed, is fattening, while tea has not that quality. It is nourishing and helps to develop the musoles. Tn "P,norland dnp-racincr is verv Dooular. " "" ^""O " 'O W ? t t and many canines are constantly in training. The theological seminary for colored people near Natchez, Miss., has 135 stndents. 1 he Family Photograph Album, "This," the young lady said, "is the photograph of a young gentleman who used to pay attention to Auut Martha. He is a very nice youn? man. He was attending Letherhed College when this picture was taken." And he was a nice youns man. His collar wanders out over his shoulders and his necktie looks like a roll of car a r_:_ j tt: l _ pet wiuLi me eiiuo inugeu. J_LIS vesb 10 a flowered pattern ot velvet cut low in the neck. His coat is a Prince Albert and his legs hang down from the vast embrace of its encircling tails, making him look like a donble-tongned bell. His trousers are broad, and he leans on a large book in a very painfnl attitude. His hair is combed low on his forehead and high at the temples, thus displaying the broad sweep and comprehensive 3Cope of two ears that flare with the unfolding spread of intellectual develapment. His brow is contracted with thought and the intense effort to look Sxodiy at the impossible point indicated by the artist. The freckles on his ncse 3o not show. They were kindly and larefully obliterated by the photographer, whose motto is, "Art, for art's sake," and who Baw they were the only real and natnral thing in the negative. "And this," sail the young lady, "is i photograph of lirs. Thistlepod, an old !riend of oar family. I think I have leard it sai I that pa liked her, indeed, jefore he met ma. It is not a very good photograph." TVia TrrkTirir* 1 o tt ia HPV-i/i /\"v_ AUU JUUUg lOUJ Jk J VU11V/VV< CA scution is not a brilliant success. The ! >onnet which is massive and of a mul iflora style of decoration is well out- I ined, and the massive bow of four-inch ibbon with which it is tied under the shin is brought out in startling relief 1 .gainst the blank, oval-shaped space be- : ween it and the brow of the "buniiit," ' Fhich is supposed to represent the >lacid features of "pa's" early flame. ' crossed on lier lap, in close focus, Mrs. ' ?histlepod's hands are magnified into ' tie dimen-ions of small hams with fin- ( ;ers. This colossal effect is also rather ( mphasized by the too long fingers of be glov9s. Mrs. Thistlepod is sitting o rigidly erect that you fear she has wallowed the headrest by mistake, in- * tead of leaning against it, as she was I Did. The deadly weapon lying in her 1 ip is sometimes mistaken for a police- 1 lan's billy. It is Mrs. Thistlepod's fan. 1 ' And here," the young lady went on, < is Mr. Thistlepod. He is a very kind- c earted man." ^ I was glad she told me so. Mrs. * 'histlepod had made her husband's * hirts under the impression that he was * rapidly-growing boy instead of a man t f forty-seven years, weighing already 72 pounds. The shirt boils and bub- ^ les and wrinkles np out of his vest 1 ont. His collar stands up like the ^ ar of a terrier on one side, but droops * way in languid angularity on the 11 ther. His black necktie, after passing r ve times around his neck, is tied in a F not, the secret hitch of which is only ^ squired by long years of actual prac- b ce in tying old fashioned hame-strings. t; he coat he wears is the awful coat of i] le Sabbath day and Fourth of July, c ad the set of the fearful and wonder- c . . .... z. il pantaloons, ail-tent on tne larboard 1: ick, betrays the solitary suspender in ? :1 its loneliness. One knotted kL>ee is s "ossea above the ether and the sus- r' teJ'te | a ae hand, witfi the a/m still fixed in the 8 ozen agony of the acute aDgle at " hich the "artist" set it, he holds s stovepipe hat with a level briro, with f le intensity of a despairing man who D ill only loose his vise-like grip upon 2 iat. hat with death. The other arm ^ as been lashed across his body, and t le extended finger driven between his <3 est and coat with a sledge-hammer, t. on cannot see the tenpenny nails d hich pin this arm to its place, but yon K now they are there. Mr. Thistlepr.d's s air is combed straight out from his * ead in both directions from any point 1 f view. His lips are set, and his e yes glare with the pained expression I f a man who has just been given the c leasant alternative of having his tooth i ulled or the boil on the back of his eck lanced, as the only care for the ?lon on his thumb. In all the agony f his face you can read murder in his eart, and the beholder i3 glad to have ? Kq rvraH-TT -cr.rmcr ladv's WOrd fOI" it, i Lit. j ~ O ------ , bat Mr.JTliistlepod is a kind-hearted j lan. i ' And this," the young lady said, j litching her voice in a lower key, while > faint color mantled her cheeks, "this j s George Stevenson." I knew by her voico and manner that *eorge DieYensou was we juivou . ant man in that album, but ner father 't ame in just then to take me to the , rain, and I had only a brief glance at ! George Stevenson. His collar was very ugh and very wide open at the throat, ,nd his neck was very long. His curing hair curled as never hair curls ontiide of a country village. It climbed ip on top of itself in billows of curls ike pine shavings; it clustered over his >row in rings and hooks and scrolls, .n/l r>nt. own t.Vifl nrt, nf the all-disiTUis g photographer cotild hide the glistering of the perfumed bear's oil wherewith those twin id g locks were annointid. His necktie was dark, dark blufe arith white polka-dots. His right hand ested on his hip; his left hand held his jane; his legs were crossed. The expression of his face was stern, as a man oorn to command men. His profession t^as cierk in a hide and leather store. His mnstache cnrled up to meet his hair. A bouquet bloomed in the lapel Df bis coat. The ring on his finger had i set as large as an acorn, and tbe pin Ln his scarf looked like a champagne sork. I glanced in through the sittingroom window as I drove away with her father, and the youcg lady was still looking with tender interest at the pictnre of George Stevenson.?Robert J. Bicrdette. A Sad nitv Sesnr. About 11 o clock last night the cries j of a little girl were heard by pedestrians i on O'Fallon and Twelfth streets, which i were so pitiful that those who happened j to be in the vicinity at that hour has- | tened to the place to ascertain what had ! happened. They found a little girl i clinging to the hand of a drunkea woman, endeavoring to prevent her from falling, and exclaiming in agonizing tones, as she sobbed as though her little heart would bre k : "Oh. clease. please help me take my mother home, please do, won't you, gentlemen ? " The scene was indeed a touching cne, as the little creature, poorly clad, stood on the deserted corner under the gaslight looking pale and haggard, and weeping as she clung to the hand of her drunken mother, who staggered and cnrsed, and endeavored to push her " ' > ? YT?Vl Clllia irom ner presence. wcu r? collected at the corner were so deeply touched by the child's grief that they promptly came to her rescue, and took the miserable woman to the address given them. In the darkness, unattended, the poor little child, who is not seven years of age, wandered throngh the streets, heart-broken and crying, visi'ing saloon after saloon, until at last she found her unnatural parent, the only relative she has in the world, overcome by intoxication. The life of the girl must indeed be terrible, for one so voncg and frail to endure.?St. Louis Republican. The production of buttpr in Iowa qow amounts to 85,409,700 pounds annually. Queer Happenings. There is a bachelor in Ipswich, Mass., eighty-five years of age, who has worn the same hat for over sixty years. He has never used anything bat peat for fire3 and he burns tallow dips for light. A man in Pioche, Nevada, gave a poor family an order on a grocer for goods to the amount of S25, to be charged to bim. The bill rendered read '-?10 in cash and ?15 for wines and chocolate." In splitting the butt of a tree into fence rails, Ephraim Alston, of Newlin's township, N. C-, discovered twenty-sis large gold coins. They were concealed in an inch and a half angnr hole, over -which wood had formed six inches thick. The coins are supposed to have been put there in the war of 1812. A young man in Chicago stood a oreacn or promise suit rather than marry his sweetheart. His only defense was that the girl had' depreciated in value, her face being pitted by an attack of smallpox. He declared that neither law nor honor required him to keep his promisej under such circumstances. Four y^ats ago a Texas farmer declared his intention of making one opossum hunt net him $10,000 in less than ten years. The meat and pelts of that hunt were sold for SS5. This was invested in twelve calves, which at the end of t>70 years were sold; the pro ceeds were reinvested in 100 calves, , which now, at the end of fonr years ' from the first investment, are valned at . S40 each. As the earth was being thrown npon < the grave of an opera singer at Richmond a snccession of trills and warbles were hear*3. from a mocking bird perched in a tree near by. The bird continued its song until the minister pronounced ihe benediction. As the mourners Sled away the bird flew back into its jage, the door of which had bet n left )pen, in the window of a house near by. ClOVfS. Cloves grow on trees from twenty to ihirty f^et. high, having a handsome pyramidal shape, with leaves that are arge, glo&sy and evergreen. It is a native of Malacca, bat is now grown in iearJr all the spice islands of the Inlian Ocean, the larger part of the crop soming from Amboyna, in the island of Cernate. Many years ago the Dntch mdertcok to control the production of liis spice, and to confine its growth to his island ; they, therefore, destroyed he clove trees in the other .?pice slands, but the high prices which they c lemanded gradually led to its cultiva- 1 ion in territory outside their jurisdie- t ion, and they afterward abandoned t hat policj. Still, most of the cloves tow produced are grown in Datch ter- i itcry, and the high prices which have i irevaih-d during the last year or two r lave been attributed partly to the fail- s .re in the crop at Ternate and partly to k he Acheen war, which has considerably t nterfered with the supply usually re- t eived from Sumatra. The cloves of ommerce ar not. as many suppose, the t' ruit of the clove tree, but are the flow- n r buds. The ripe fruit in shape re- t c-mbles a small olive ; it is of a dajk to ed color, with one or two cells contain i] tate under the curious name of i 'mother of olives." It is not nearly a o pungent, however, as the flower a terns. Indeed the whole tree?leaves, ? ark, and wood?seems to be impreg- c ated in some degree with the strong, a istinctive clove flavor, but the flower n mas are iae principal cummciwui jjiu- acts of the tree. When first gathered t hey are of a reddish color, but in the * rjing process, which is generally part- t y done by wood fires and partly in the s an, they tarn a deep brown color, as 2 chen they reach as in America Alhoagh the tree grows wild to some s stent, it is regularly cultivated in ? ilantations, the plaDts being some ten ?r fifteen feet apart and carefully 1 >runed and cared for. ___ i A "Rom art a hi a C!flrf>pr. * There died in Salem, Mass., recently, j i man whose career has been a remark- j ible one. Captain John Bertram was 30m on the Island of Jersey in 1796. 3e bronght ail his possessions to Salem ] n a handkerchief when a boy. In 1814 ] ie shipped on an American privateer. t Ee was taken prisoner by the British, , but was soon afterward released be- , 3anse of his French birth, bnt was , aga^n captured a few weeks later, and t remained a prisoner until the war } ended. Id 1824, in command of the 3 schooner General Brewer, he sailed ; with a valuable cargo for St. Helena i Wht-n a few days out they spoke the . bri* Elizabeth, of Salem, Captain Story, ( bound for the same pfrc. Captain , Story came on board and took tea with ( Captain Bertram, and each announced , his destination as Pernambuco. "When Dight came on Captain Bertram launched his entire deck load of lumber over the stern so as to lighten his vessel, crowded all Siil on, and on arriving at St. Helena sold his cargo at a bii^ profit On his return trip he met the Elizabeth bound in. His subsequent career was one of unbroken prosperity. He visited almost every country on the globe, makiDg his fortune principally in the gam copal trad . Hi-; wealth is estimated at nearly $10,000,000. Making Goo:l Use of Sharks. The skins of certain sharks are used in jewelry for sleeve buttons and the like, and when dried and cured take a polish almost equal to that of stone, and greatly resemble the iossil coral pontes. The vertebrae of the shark is always in demand for canes The opening filled with marrow during life is now fitted with a steel or iron rod. The side openings are filled with mother-ofpearl, and when polished the fane is decidedly ornamental. In India, in 1880, ?300,000 worth of shark fins were shipped to China for tood. In the Isl?-J? - "D?a ic in ftrroo * SUUS Ui tliC U(ylU(^ LUC lioU iO aju. ^A >/i?v demand for his teeth, which are manufactured into weapons of various kinds, ranging from spears to swords and daggers. The teeth are all serrated or sawedged, and make terrible wounds. The base of the tooth is bored with some ; small instrument, and forty or fifty of ! them are tied or lashed to a hardwood ! sword, forming the edge. The hUt is also protected by crosspipces armed in the same way. So effective ere these weapons tha* the natives of these islands wear an armor made of rope es i pecially to protect themselves irom me shark's teeth.?Sea World. An American Hotel in London. The American Palace hotel to be erected on the Victoria embankment of the Thames in London, between the river and the palace of "Whitehall, is to be nine stories high, accomodate 1,300 gnesi 8, be managed by Leland, of the Delevan H<;nse. Albany, the waiters and bar-keepers American, the capital S2,000,000, or ?400,000, famished by Eng ishmen with whom the idea, suggested by their liking hotels in America, originated. It will not be ran for Ameri can travelers exclusively, out iz is expected that Englishmen will patronize it. According to the statistical annnal cf thf>Ras-ian emnirp, tne population increases more rapidly than that of any other state, excpi Holland and Denmark. It doubles itself in fifty-eight I years. A RAT-CATCHER'S METHODS. A Xiffbt With an Expert ia an Infe-'t d Carriaze House. A New York professional rat-catcher in vifced a reporter to go with him on one of his expeditions against his enemy, tne rat, and a few nights later they met at a j stable m west uortietn street, lne rat-catcher wore a pair of light cloth slippers, heavy trousers, flannel shirt and vest. * He had a kit of tools with him, and at about 11 o'clock he went to work. First he went carefally around the edges of the floor, and learned every rat hole. There were a number; some at the edges of the partitions between the stalls, others at the washstand, and a number in the harness closet. The rats had ruined valuable harness. Many encns naa teen maae to exterminate them, but without success. "I guess ril get 'em out, sir. I just cleared 217 rats out of.a private resi dence ou Tenth avenue in three nights," he said. \ He then took a numberof little viredoors out of his bag. They were about four inches square. One of these was screwed over each rat hole at an ancle of forty-five degrees, so that the rat could easily raise it on coming out cf the hole, hut could not get back into the hole again after it had dropped in place. "When every hole had been thus covered, the reporter retired to the top shelf of a long step-ladder and smoked, while the rat-catcher turned down the lights and cleared the large floor of the stable of all the small objecta that could be readily piled in the carriages or on the shelves. "Are you sure the rets will come out r' "Oh, yes, sir. They comes out every oight. Some men professin' to cali themselves professionals, claims that they has a poison that will make rats 3ome out o' their holes an' die, but it lan't be done. Thty claims, also, as bow they can charm rats; more lies, I issure you. Phosphorus poison causes ! most horrid thirst, an' the rats comes : 3ut of their holes an' drinks, an' then 1 joes back an' dies. Then there's a pretty how-to-do, an' whole floors must ;ome up at great expense." He was moving about in a most stealthy manner, now trying one little gate j md now another. A large bag of coarse material, with a string with which to 1 ;lose the opening, hung on a harness j 5 g, and he hid sprinkled a Uttie pow- ' ler down several of the holes, which vas designed to make the rats thirsty ma canse them to come out for water. 3e lighted a stub pipe and perched f limself on the bottom of the step-lad- ] ler, with his chin in one hand, while i le slowly opened and closed a pair of ( t-? , u-ufto, uvauj t?ru iccn xon^j vrivu -LLC*O i )lades. ( Everything was quiet for a few min- i ites, and then there was a slight scratch 1 ng at one of the little doors, and a \ uonstrous rat, as fat as an alderman, 3 lowly came ont. The door dropped to 1 >ehind him; he turned quickly, tried c 0 get back, and ran sqnealing along i he wall, i "He's a good one," remarked the lit- < le mail in a wnisper, gcing out mio tne i liddie of the room, laying his pipe on he step and turning up the gas. "I'll t ell you what I'll do; I'll catch this one I i my hands." ? L.i0..fp^>tkmiihjgvj'dlulww atrnder. The rat backed into a corner * nd stood with his little eyes gleaming < nd tail swishing rapidly from side to < ide. The rat-catcher slowly drew i loser nntil the rat suddenly shot off i long the wall, In an instant the little J wrifVt a ViATITI^ * Lt&II 1121U. bpi UJ-lg iiunwu mvu * 4 hat was entirely reckless, and went. 2 tead first, for the rat. Both his hands ? cere outstretched, and he pinned it to 1 he floor with a force that made it t queal. The bound was like that which ] . cat would make. 1 "He is, indeed, a fat one, sir," he ] aid, getting on his feet; "you'll ob- 1 [?rve " < "Keep him aw?iy! Ain't you afraid j ie'11 bite T j "Afraid, sir ? I do assure you nothing 1 s further from my thoushts. Besides, 3 t's very rarely that they bite if you i enow how to handle 'em. You miglit < et this one run all over you and not get iurt." _ j "Yes ; I might, but I won't." j "I will, then," he said, calmly, and j Defore the reporter conld interfere, the j ittle Englishman had thrust the rat in side his clothiBg, and the creature < jmersed from his right trousers leg and shot like a me?eor behind the step-lad- : ler. The reporter raised his fee one step higher, and the rat-catcher crept up toward tue rat wun me s?iie nmec movement that a cat displays. The oadgered animal shot one way and then mother until it reached the corner, when the little man pounced on it and dropped it into the bag. There it quealed for a time, and then became (juiet, while the little rat-catcher resumed his pipe.' "Were you ever badly bitten ?' "Several" times. Once I suffered long, but I deserved it, for I let the beast bite me through carelessness, you know. His bite poisoned my arm, an' I bad a dreadful unhappy time for four ?T+ mrto in Pittflhnrff. Pa. LLIUliOUO KJl OU? XV frovj 0, Rats? Well, there was rata there an' no mistake. In the St. Clair hotel I canght 120 in one ni?ht, and 437 in six nights. I canght 169 in the Seventh avenne h tel in two nights, and in five I got 211 ont of t> e Mooongahela hotel 'The hotels t] ere seem to have been very fairly stocked." <<TtT?n -r-^a cfr kifc ifc'a dlmnsfc as bad H CUy J ViOj CU J MU? AW V __ here. I've been five years employed by Earle's hotel, cleared out the St. Stephen, an' get regular jobs at the Fifth Avenue, "Windsor, Brunswick an' Metropolitan hotels. Eats in abundance is not desirable." He laid his pipe on the step again and said reflectively: "That's as ngly a lookin' customer as I've seen this many a day. He'll! tight, but I'll get him baro-h*nded just to show you the sport." Another rat, much larger than the first, with scrawny legs, and an emaciated body, was standing by the iiole he had just emerged from, and trying to open the little wire door- When the little man approached him, the rat slowly retreated, bnt did not go as though frightened, as his fat predecessor had, but rather as a savage cur retreats, turning half around toward his ? x TT71 I pursuer every lew sieps. >> ucii uc u.<?? reached the corner he stood at bay. The man edged up toward him, but before he got within jumping distance rhe rat shot ofi along the wall. He was iriven back several times, and he became uglier at every defeat, until at length the little man was just ready to spring at him, when the rat made a noisy squeak and jumped straight for his throat. It bounded from the floor with a spring of extraordinary strength, on*} shnt at the man's throat as though driven from a cannon, with its teeth all showing and its long tail straight The rat-catcher threw np his arm, hitting t a savage Mow, which drove it against the wall, whence it fell to the floor with a thn<?. In an instunt it got on i s feet and made another fnrions spring at the rat-catcher's throat. This time he dodged it. The rat, when it came to the floor, 1 5 ' 1 1 4.,, tnen started ior us uuju, uui, iniiiuy u get in once more, ran aloaa to the corner. The little man was circling abon.' it, constantly tittering the squeaking call throogh his teeth. A "I'll get him this time," calmlv; "he's a bed one, but him." He slowly aran was again at bay in the corner, bnfc whenever the animal showed any disposition to jnmp he wonid retreat. These tactics were kept no for some time, till the rat started once more toward its hole. That was the fatal step, for the instant it started the oatcher threw himself forward and pinned it with both hands to the floor. His recklessness in diving forward was as remarkable as his snccess in always catching the rat. The reporter noticed that neatly half a dozen big rats were on the floor, huddled behind the harness closet. They. had slipped out of the holes unnoticed, and skurried around for concealment dnring the fight. The catcher took his : | long tongs, and crept toward them with vthe implement open and held well in front. One of the rats started along the wall, and tfee catcher sprang after it and ?&ag&t it by the tail as it ran akrog with his big tongs, and held it dangling up to view. This was thrnsfc into the bag,and the others soon joined it. " Now weM have the pleasure of waitin',n observed the little mac, as he 1 sprinkled more of the thiEw-inspiritrg powder in tire holes,, relit the pipe, and, turning the gas almost out, seated himself on the lower steps of the ladder Q&sB #a1! T?n? QT) auu icu iuvu iucauwmuvu* A. WX au . - hour he sat thus, without speaking, and while the reporter roosted, listened to the occasional clicking of the little doors and the monotonous patter of the \-?p| rats' feet as they scampered to and fto V:3?S on the bare floor. When the little man tamed up the gas, there was a sight! At least half a hundred black and brown ~ little animals were scudding around on the floor. The repugnance that men' . naturally feel for rats seemed to have no place in the feelings of the stumpy ;;V?| little rat-catcher, who sailed into his work with great vigor. Only twice did he encounter any opposition, and then it was short-lived. At the expiration-q? half an hour they were all squeaJdngv""'*"-"*,,^ja| together in the big bag?a tnrbnlent ; mass of rats. He went outside in the - ^ yard, and brought in a little terrier to :v|| guard the place till morning, and then, swinging the tag on his shoulders, he : went out into the street "What do you do with them all?* we asked. " I have a number of dogs for trainin'," an' they're very fond of rats." The little "man went trudging up the . street in ine eariy morning, wna ma huge burden of scrambling rats overshadowing his figure. It is said that the Emperor Charles '*-?'^1 ie Filth, reading an epithet, "Hera lies one who never knew fear," renarked, "Then he never snuffed a '-fM jandle with his fingers " It is certainly ' Jgg jomewbat absurd, though a favorite ;laim for a popular heio, that "he . > lever knew fear." No one possessing --JS luraan nerves and brain could say this yith truth. That a brave man never rields to the emotion may be true : mough ; but to say that at no period ~ )f his life he experienced fear is simply mpossible. As Lord Lytton expresses 'It shames man not to feel man's mortal fear, . - 'iijS t shames man only if that fear subdue." There is a story of a yoirng recruit in he Thirty Years' War going into action j or the first time in his life in the highsst spirits. "Look at Johann," reul'u luu ui jQjfrjt), iiuw uimu im iiii ! "ggg! 'Net at alLw replied the veteran ad- Jffl Iressed, "he knows nothing of what is coming. You and I, old comrade, are kr braver; we sit still on our horses, honfeh we are terribly afraid." Fear certainly is one of the most Ir ational of the passions. It is not . g|| ilways excited by the presence of dan- "jer. Men who can be cool and colected in the presence of real peril will remble at some fanciful alarm. The Duke of Schomberg could face an eneny with ready courage, but fled from a oom if he saw a cat in it A very Drave French officer fainted at the sight )f a mouse. The author of the "Turk sh. Spy " states tnat 11 ne naa a bworu in his "hand he would rather encounter i lion in the desert than be alone in a room with a spider. Man; people have similar fanciful antipathies, which exsite their fears in a manner real danger . wonld be powerless to do. Ft-ar of infection is a dread that embitters the Lives of many sent-ible people. There .^3 is a legend of an Eastern dervish, who, ;%s +Viof. fVia r?lacTjA was coinar to dUVStf-lLLQ X' o ? , visit a certain city, bargained with the disease that only a specified number of victims should fall When twice the number perished, the Plague explained its apparent breach of contract by asserting "Fear killed the rest," In all times of epidemics doctors tell similar tales. Daring the Great Plague of 1665-6 an unfortunate man died purely irom mgai ; a pravuuuju&a .. uv. him on the street pretended to discover ^ the fatal "spots" xipon him, and the poor man went home and died, not of the disease, but of sheer terror. A long obituary list might be compiled of the victims of fear; from the criminal in the Middle Ages who, reprieved after he bad laid his head on the block, was fonnd to have died ere the ax conld touch him, down to the poor nnn mentioned by Horace Walpole, whose disreputable abbess literally "frightened hv visiti'ne her at night UV?. W ?J w _ and telling her that she was dying. ^ What the Snrvejor Kissed. A surveyor who was running township . lines ia a new county in this State last fall was engaged by a farmer to survey the line between his farm and that of a neighbor. They bad a line one*, but bad engaged in several disputes as to whether it was on the divide. The sur? -v}i?n v" - veyor was muuig the owner of the other farm approached . M and inquired: "What are yon going to do now V "Find the exact line," was the reAt this the man wheeled and went off on tbe gallop, and he was seen no more nntil the line had been run. The surveyor and the first, named farmer had just completed the work when the other same np to within about ten feet of tnem ana iuneu. "Well, have von got through V ' Yes, all through." "And is the fence a foot on his far it4 No, he has two feet of yours, and the fence must be moved so that you can have it." The man sprang upon ? 3.-_ a thicket about five rods away, and yelled "Yon, there?Eenben and James and Samuel! The survey is made and we are all right! You kin shoulder them shotguns and go back to the sawmill, and if you meet the old woman coming with the pitch-fork, you kin tell her to turn back and git up a squar* dinner for the surveyor!"?Detroit Free Press. Stingy. Lump kins Tacke? is known to bp the stingiest young man in Austin He is also borrowing, continually, from his friends. A few days ago he was seen tramping^^fl H 1 down Austin avt-nne in great ha^M 1 taking tremendous strides. N " I wonder what Lumpkjy^fl ' such infernal lona^^jM '' T