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A FAMOUS MTECTIYE’S CRIME. BESSBROOK. Death Cra>coTlch, Who Wa» fci»llcated ta the English Terf Wimd-. The death occurred recently in Lon don of Druscbvich, formerly a chief inspector of the Scotland Ya'rd detec tive force, who became notoriona a few years ago in connection with frauds on the English turf. Drnscovich and two other detective inspectors were sen tenced in 1877 to two years’ imprison ment with bard la»>or for M conspiracy to defeat the ends of jnstioe” in the famons confidence case in which a number of betting men were convfcttHt of defrauding Mme. de Ooncourt of $50,000. Nathaniel Drnscovich was of English birth, about forty years of age, and waa considered a very skillful and success ful officer np to the time of his disgrace in the fall of 1877, when, together with three other Scotland Yard officers, ho was arrested, tried and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment with hard labor for “ unlawfully conspiring to de feat the ends of justice.” Prior to his arrest on this charge Drnscovich had stood high in the estimation of the civil •nd police authorities. He has been 11 ■ i’ro«- Ad Irlrtb Temperance Town and peritr. In my ricent transatlantic trip one of the most interesting localities I visited was Bessbrook, in the north of Ireland, a celebrated linen manufactory. The product of its lootas may be found all over the world, while every interna tional exposition of industry has hon ored its contributions with tho highest prizes and declam.tloiis of approval. The foupde? bi this immense business is George Richardson, one of heaven’s nobility, an unassuming Quaker or member of the Society of Friends. From his yonth George Richardson was brought np in the linen trade, but his present colossal establishment was commenced by him in the year 1854, and it has kept on growing aud improv ing ever since, until it now gives em ployment to 5,000 hands, pays out weekly $35,000 In wages, barns annually 10,000 tons of coal, and weaves into its exquisite fabrics every year $1,000,000 worth of raw material. With inexpressi ble astonishment and delight we ex amined gome of these beautiful produc tions, forgetting as we looked npon WISE WORDS. jm . , m vita • , A V/A ^ W AA-i ^ **■» W UIJVJAA described as a remarkably keen, Intel- j them that they were articles of every- Iigent and zealous man. On several 1 (] av utility, and thinking of them only occasions he bad been rewarded by the ^s works cf art—flowers and ferns as chief magistrate at Bow street out of the funds appropriated for that pur pose, for services in connection with the discharge of his duty. In July, 1876, he was warmly recom mended by the grand jury at the Cork assizdj and also by the judge forinteJli- gence and ability. He was likewise complimented by the foreman of the jury at Cork in 'March, 187G, and by Sir Column O’Loghlan and many other members of the Irish bar. He was an accomplished linguist, and was ac quainted with many prominent people in various parts of Europe. He had in his possession letters of approval sent him by the emperor of Russia and other notable persons, and during his more honorable career as an officer he was tho recipient of several valuable presents. His connection with the Scotland Yard force began in Decem ber, 1861. Of his shortcomings, it is on record that up to the time of tho Mme. de Goncourt aflair Druecovich had been reported, in all, eight times. Jn 1861 he was charged with being in a publij house while on duty, and in 1862 was accused of a similar offense In 1868 he was reported for addressing the in- tspector improperly when spoken to. He was charged with assaulting a man and calling him a swindler; also for in solence when chided for neglect of duty and for improper conduc 4 ". in connection with a private inquiry agent. Tho other police officers who were convicted with Druscovich were John Meiklejohn, William I’almer and George Clarke. The offetise charged against these men and e. certain solicitor named Froggart may bo substantially stated as follows: A gang of swindlers had been engaged for some time in defrauding the public by means of bogus betting agencies, some times of one kind and sometimes of an other. The defendants, it was alleged, had entered into a conspiracy with this gang to prevent any of their number from being arrested or interfered with William Knrr. a man of more than or. dinary ability and energy, was tho leader of the swindlers. An intimacy had sprung up between Knrr and a man named Harry Benson. The latter was the son of a respectable raerohant in Paris. He had a fine education, was smart and industrious, but his ability and industry were entirely devoted to criminal exploits. Benson entered heart and soul into the conspiracy of the Knrr gang to swindle the British and "French public, and, if possible, tho world at large. Drnscovich became eounecTett wr the plot in the spring of 1876. Meikle john, who for several years had been on terms of intimacy with the swindlers, told Kurr that Druscovich was in a financial strait and wanted to b orrow $300 The money was promptly forth coming, and the Scotland Yard detect ive. who had been a bitter enemy of the gang, was transformed into an ally. Soon afterward what has been called the gigantic De Goncourt fraud was started, and in its various stages in volved all the detectives w , ho were sub sequently arrested. A “newspaper” was started by Benson, printed osten sibly in London. It contained a sensational article -on the embarass- ments of a Mr. Montgomery, a gentle man engaged in extensive transations on the turf. Ho was represented to be a man of enormous fortune, who had been so successful in his turf bets that ho could not obtain from the book makers even market odds. The article suggested that Montgomery desired to secure respectable agents in France, unknown to tho book-makers, and he would give them a handsome commis sion. Checks were to be sent to the “Royal Bank of Lcndon, Agar street. Charing Cross, London.” There was no such bank, but the swindlers rented rooms in Agar street and had somo blank checks printed. They also en gaged handsome apartments in King street, Piccadilly, where Mr. Montgom ery. the supposed rich man, was to re side. Fictitious book-makers were then “ placed ” in different parts of London. If anybody in France was foolish enough to faU inlo the trap Montgom ery would send him or her a check on tho Royal bank of London for a large sum and request the recipient to make a bet with ono of the fictitious book makers. Of course the fictitious book makers always lost and tho checks were sent back to the “agents” in France and by them remitted to Montgomery. Several French people of standing were thus inspired with confidence in Mont- ! gomery’s wonderful Inck. Among the J many persons to whom confidential communications were sent by the gang ! was M. de Goncourt, chateau de Gon- ! court. M. de Goncourt had been dead for some time prior to the sending of j tho communication, and it was ; opened by his widow. She was j rich, but with no business abil- j ity, and she at once fell in with i Montgomery’s suggestion and consented | to act as his agent. Several checks for $50,000 (bogus of course) were sent her from time to time, which f he invested in accordance with Montgomery’s in- structious, and, as she always won, she became very much fascinated with the proceeding. She finally determined to invest some of her own money, and from time to time sent her checks to the gang, aggregating a sam of more than $50,000. Of course this money was reported to her as having been lost, and the conspirators called cn her j low their example, for $150,000 with which to make up 1 ' her losses. She was perfectly willing to make up this amount, but not having it in ready cash was obliged to consult her notary. The notary, being a shrewd man, soon saw through the swindle, and calling in the assistance of eminent London solicitors he succeeded in get ting back nearly the whole of Mme. de Gonoourt’s $50,000, and ferreted out the entire gang of swindlers. The con nection of the detectives with the fraud was discovered by means of some cipher dispatches sent to Benson after he had escaped to the Isle of Wight. Druscovich, however, was not as deeply involved as his associates, and upon his conviction he was recommended to mercy by the jury. He was not re quired to serve out his full term. delicate and graceful as though they were scattered over the material into which they were woven. On one set of table linen a buffalo hunt was depicted with as much vigor and accuracy as though it were drawn on canvas. On another set, designed for the French market, the whole series of Fontaine’s fables was most delight fully portrayed. But what most of all challenged our admiration was a table* cloth of immense proportions into which the shuttle had deftly wrought a mag nificent representation of Wm. Penn’s contract with the American Indians. Over the heads of the figures appeared, woven in ornamental letters, this in scription: “The only treaty never rati fied by an oath.” Underneath, woven in a similar manner, appeared the com pletion of the legend: “The only treaty that was never broken.” We suggested the presentation of ibis superb table-cloth to tho State of Penn sylvania. Having been disappointed in obtaining Penn’s body for enshrinement in their new city hall in Philadelphia, such a gift might soothe tho vexation they felt at the refusal of tho British authorities to part with tho relics of the Qnaker statesman. The proposal was quite cordially entertained. I ex pect that some day the Keystone State will gratefully remember the obligation she is uudei to a wandering Methodist preacher for one of her most beautiful specimens of household goods. We wandered through this immense establishment, marked its lofty walls of chiseled granite, the complete ar rangement of its several departments, the skill and accuracy with which every detail of this vast business was carried on, and learned the power and value of intelligent organization as we never before perceived it. We looked into the faces of the men in charge of the various sections of the establishment and read in their countenances a re pose of character, an expression of sobriety and intelligence which plainly showed that they brought more to their business than mere mechanical skill— that they knew how to serve God as well as the corporations by which they were employed. The operatives gener ally looked healthy and o ntented, and appeared to enjoy their work. Around this great establishment lies the beautiful village of Bessbrook, in habited mainly by the workers in the mills; its streets well laid out, wide and clean; fountains qf the purest water gushing up iq every square and ’jb* evtiry'MHari tastfeiui cotta^ built with bric^Bnd stone, of varied form and color; hardly a house without its patch of greensward and flower gar den; every house occupied, and new blocks in course of erection, more elab orate and ornate than any of the earlier structures. We saw fine large churches of the various leading denominations— Friends, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists and Roman Catholics; ele gant school buildings, and throngs of children romping around them; a nice library building and free reading room, a well arranged dispensary and savings bank. We are informed that the dispensary was supported by a light tax on the earnings of every employe, and this tax not only secured medicine and medical attendance, but also half pay for every invalid belcnging to the firm so long as he was unable to work. The savings bank was well supported, some opera tives being depositors to the amount of from $1,500 to 82,000. We saw one of the largest dairies in the land, where milk and butter of the best quality are furnished to the villagers just at the cost of production. Some things found in profuse abundance in almost every other locality are utterly lacking in Bessbrook—no idlers, no loafers, no policemen (while the country at largo is held at the point of the bayonet), no drunkards. All these are lacking cause there are no rum shops. No rumseller or rumdiiuker can find any place in Bessbrook; they are kept out of it as strictly as a wolf is kept from a sheepfold. And in this single fact wo have the most obvious cause of its marvelous prosperity. Mr. Richard son is a strict teetotaler, and all his as sociates in the business are men equally as zealous for the cause of total absti nence; and the law of local option ad ministered by them excludes every in toxicant from their premises. What an amazing contrast this little village presents to almost every other locality in the nation in which it is situ- Men should be tried before they are trusted. The society ol women is the element of good manners, Wo may be as goed as we please, if we pleaie to be good. Affection hides three times as many virtues As charity dees sins. No one i- 1 so blind to his own faults as a man who has the habit of detecting the faults of others. The man who is not living aright is sour within; and the sour works cut. He who lives aright is your sympathetic and generous mail-. It is well that there is no one with out a fault, for he would not have a friend in the world j he would seem to belong to a different species. Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without dam age; it is a precious stone, the price of whijh is lessened by the least flaw. In those countries where the morals aria the most dissolute, the language is the most severe; as if they would re place on the lips what his deserted the heart. It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when to morrow’s burden is added to the burden of to-day that the weight is more than a man can bear. Ho who lives happily through tho short rosedajs of his youth, and, far away from envy and complaining, strives to be good, still enjoys the days of his youth when the winter of life ap proaches, an.I contentment and virtue scatter flowers along his path. With out fear he can look before and behind. John Brown is to have a statue on ono of the reservations bordering on Pennsylvania avenue in Washington. SNOW-SHOES. The Sea Gull. Birds of the gull family frequent the shores of the ocean, but often wander to great distances from the land ; in fact, a traveler making his first voyage across the ocean is astonished to "find members of the gull species following in the ship’s wake a thousand or more miles from land. Gulls are incapable of diving, but swim buoyantly but slowly. Their food consists principally of fish and Crustacea. They also prey on young birds and carrion ; indeed, on almost any kind of food except that of a vegetable nature. The gull family has several general characteristics, among which may be mentioned the curvature at tho end of the bill, the length and pointed form of the wings, the web between the tees and the hind toe small and elevated. The black-backed gull may be dis tinguished by the dark slate color of its back and wings, its deep black pri mary feathers tipped with white and its pale yellow legs and feet. The average length of body is about ihirty inches; wing twenty inches, with a breadth of five feet; tail nine inches in length, with bill nearly three inches. Tho black-bscked gull is of frequent occurrence on our New England coast in the autumn and winter months, and in winter travels as far South as Flor ida. Its favorite breeding places are on tho coast of Labrador, though a few breed as far south as the islands in the Bay of Fundy. Audubon describes its breeding habits as follows: The nest is usually placed on the bare rock of some low island, sometimes beneath a projecting shelf, sometimes in a wide fissure. In Labrador it is formed of moss and seaweeds, carefully arranged, and has a diameter of about two feet, being raised on the edges to the height of five or six inches, but seldom more ;han two inches thick in the cen Ay- gwws other materials are added. The eggs am three, and in no instance have I found more. They are two and seven* eighth inches in length by two and one- eighth inches in breadth, broadly ovate, rough but not granulated, of a pale, earthy, greenish-gray color, irregularly blotched and spotted with brownish- black, dark umber and dull purple. The sea gull flies high and has a majestic carriage in the air, encounter- iug the fiercest gales with impunity; it is tyrannical toward weaker birds, but it is naturally very cowardly. Its eggs are considered good eating and the young gulls are killed and salted by the fishermen of Labrador and New foundland; bat the old ones are very tough and too fishy in taste lor food.— American Cmltivator. A Shipwrecked Crew’s Sufferings. As Captain Saunders was about thirty miles northeast of Rockport, Mass., with his schooner, fishing, he discov ered an open boat filled w’th men The latter were frozen purple and hardly able to speak, and thoii lips and faces were smeared with blocd. They were lifted aboard the schooner, and the story of their sufferings was told in broken fragments. The coasting schooner Almon Bird, 1 of Rockland, Me., Captain C. A. Pack- ard, was bound from ‘Windsor, .N. S., for Alexandria, Va., with a cargo of plaster. On a Sunday night, when off Boone Island, the gale tore off’ her top mast, and tho rigging became so thick ly covered with ice that it was almost useless. On Monday morning the high seas stove in her bulwarks, ripped up the hatches, and flooded the vessel. Soon it was found that she was sinking, and the crew took to the large boat. There was little time to get foed or extra clothing, and by a strange mis fortune they conld not get their oars. The schooner sank, and the boat was left oarless with its living freight in a . . violent gale and heavy sea. Thus they ated! It is a healthy spot in the body ff r jfted about drenched with the icy that is almost wholly covered with gan grene. Since about the time Bessbrook came into existence. Ireland has lost 4,000,000 of her inhabitar-ts. Bess brook is the picture of thrift, beauty, prosperity and progress. — Letter in Zron'e Herald. Washerwomen on a Strike. The Paris correspondent of the Bos ton Journal writes : Paris has been in distress over the strike of the washer women of Aroueil-Cachau. This is a more serious matter than may at first be thought. The w r omen, several hundred in nnmber, announced their intention of never washing another shirt or napkin until their daily pay had been raised from two francs and a quarter i spray of tho waves, crowded together for profcecticn from the bitter cold, and ; almost hopeless of rescue. On Tnes- I day their stock of food was nearly gone, and they were becoming frozen, i They saw a sail and made an effort to attract attention, but in vain, and they I cronched down for another night. On Wednesday they suffered terribly from hunger and cold. Two of tho men be came crazed and threw themselves about the boat in their delirium To ward night one of the men went to j sleep in the bottom of the boat and died before morning. The two deliri- ! ous men also died. There were now ! three dead and five living men in the boat. The living, suffering the pangs of huusrer, and hopeless of relief, held a consultation, the result of which was An Editar’n Experience Graphically Told. A great many people can’t manage siiow-sbofes in the way th»-y are intended to be managed. Of course, any one could bhild a rail fence with them, if enough were supplied, or split ’em up into kindling wood, or convert ’em into cricket bats, or—well, do almost any thing with them except walk on top of the snow with them. That’s what a great many people can’t manage to do with them, and I know what I am as serting. I tried it one time. Con> pared to a pair of snow-shoes, such as I experienced; roller skates are things of joy, and a bucking mustang symbol izes reliability in the matter of locomo tion. It came about in tho cbnrse of business. I was “running” the Bodie paper, which was published in Aurora, just across the Nevada state line. In order to make tho official advertise ments. in the paper legal, it was ab solutely necessary that the papers should be circulated in Bodie on the day of weekly publication. On one of these days it was snowing, so the stage did not make its regular trip, and I set out to find some means of sending a bundle of papers over to Bodie. In the principal saloon, in every mining camp the main depot for news and gen eral intelligence, I found a man who had a pair of snow-shoes. “ Will you go to Bodie for me !” “ I will.” “ How much ?*’ “ Fifty dollars.” “ And only ten miles!” “ My friend, I’ve got the onlj pair of snow-shoes in Aurora.” Tho peculiar and binding force of tho man’s argument struck me with re^ doubled power when be added, after an eloquent pause, “And snow-shoes are tho only things on which a trip to Bodie can be made for twenty-four hours.” “Fifty dollars!” I repeated, “why I suppose I conld buy a pair of snow- shoes for less than that.” “Buy a pair? You needn’t do that, even if you could. I’ll lend you mine for nothing.” I was surprised. Here was a man contrclling a monopoly which, in a most nnmonopolist manner, he was offering to place in my charge free of cost. “If you only would,” I said, “I wouldn’t mind taking the trip, just for the novelty of the thing. Now, if you Lave those shoes about you I wi.l just put them on and start right away.” The man stared at me curiously “I haven’t them about mo exactly, but they are in the back room.” He brought them out, and I was sur prised. They were not just what I thought they would be. The pictures I had seen of snowehoes represented things mada of a light frame of wood, flat-iron shaped, three or four feet long* and laced with raw hide thongs, like the end of a lacrosse stick. The “ shoes ” tho man brought out and laid out in tho street were pieces of pine fourteen feet long, five inches wide and about an inch thick, with one end slightly curved upward. Across the center of tho shoes were straps, into which the ieet were thrust and held in place. The bottom of the shoes were polished and shellacked into amazing slipperiness. “ These are not the kind of shoes 1 have been accustomed to,” I said, with some misgivings. “Yon have seen the Canadian shoes, then,” my man said. “ These are Nor wegian shoes. Just strap your pa] on your back and start off.” I fixed my feet into the shoes, an my bundle of papers on my back, but did net start. I felt as little like al ing as though I had fastened sAtfo wafAr r~ “Just shove your feet ahead,” said the owner, and the crowd whi h had gathered in front of the saloon to see snow-shoeing before, and that in going down hill men had to regulate their speed and steer themselves by a pole or staff, used as a drag and rudder. • At the same instant, for all «his flashed at once through ray mind, I felt the ileed of , some means of either altering my course or stopping myself, for directly in the line of my lightiting passige, and not so very far ahead, was a bluff, partaking almost of the dignity of a precipice, over which I was sure of going unless I could bteer around its edge, where the road ran. or else stop to alter my course without a staff, I felt at that moment to be an undertaking very much ia the nature of lifting myself by my boot straps, and to stop, something like interfering with a locomotive on a down grade. As short a time as it took me to realise all this, I had yet made an unpleasant advance toward the edge of the bluff ; and I recollected, with Uncomfortable Vividness, that at the foot ol that bluff | was the rocky, icy bed of a dashing winter torrent. The situation was seriously alarming. Suddenly one of my shoes was diverted from its line parallel with the other, and that acci dent caused a startling change in the aspect of affairs. If the reader will pause a moment to consider the method by which I was traveling, he will realize what the re sult would be if the two long shoes were diverted even the slightest degree from exactly parallel lines. One of my shoes pointed slightly outward. At the rate 1 was going that meant that my feet were departing from each other something like twenty feet a second. It occurred to me all at once, so to say, when my legs were stretched out like those of a stage contortionist, and I felt that my body was about to divide itself in tv ain, each half taking its sepa- iate and individual course, and at its own sweet will make i!s disappeiraco over the bluff at points much farther apart than I hoped my body ever to separate. I again left the earth. I described a graceful, I trust, parabola, flew a certain remarkable number of feet in the air and landed on my head. I think not much more than my feet remained above the snow. Indeed it was the resistance the shoes offered to the snow that prevented me <rom going to the bottom of the deepidrift into which I dived. It was some .time before I felt entirely sure that I had not split in two, as I thought I should. I felt very much broke up, but managed to dig out and bo on the surface and recover breath and view the situation* The latter was not encouraging. With in a few feet from the edge of the bluff, at the bottom of tho hill, thoroughly convinced that I was not /access 'asja snow-shoe traveler, bruised in body and mind, and anxious only to return to town and get dry and warm aiidf feel safe, I saw no way of working ont^Sf my difficulty. I tried to walk with] the shoes first. The effort was a lamenta ble failure. No such process as “ bold ing on by my toe ” effected a headway up the hill. Tho slippery shoes would slide back with me as fast as if at tempted to climb up. Then I todk off the shoes and tried to walk. That was worse. I floundered around up tL my waist in the light snow, and ou]Jf got mad. Then I eat down on tho sjioes and thought. I could not clirnl^ np without the shoes, and the shoes kvere to slippery to climb with. Naturally, aft*r turning this grave problem ovh* jq for some time, the solution ind ted itself; the shoes must be less slippery. I took off a jioi g en scarf which I wore orounjl my cut it in two, and tied eac* hal; y own and the snow-shoes. I learned afterward, b e travelers on that Dangerous Encounter With a Whale. Mr. Joseph W. Mead, of Ponghkeep- sie, is now on board the bark Hercules on a whaling voyage. His ship was off 8t. Helena on the 28th of October, 1881, from which place he writes : On the 6th of June last wo raised whales and got them ftK in favorable positions, when We lowered oar boats and in a short time our second msrte struck one. In a few minutes after the whale caught the beat iu the quarter and com plotely chewed it tip. Mr. Luoe, the chief mate, when he saw onr signal from the ship, sent a boat and had tho crew picked up, took the line and still had tho whale fast. The third mate also came up and went on tho whale three times. The fomth time tho whale caught and mashed his boat into fire wood. The steeref was killed but the rest of the crew weic saved. In the meantime the boats did not dare to go near tho wounded whale, but fired at it from a distance with gnus. About this time we received help from a shin called tin Milton, which sent two boats to the rescue, for we Wcte iu a very weak condition. Before you could hardly think it possible, however, the Milton’s boats were both mashed and their crews swimming in the water. They were soon rescued by our boats. The bontr, hung about the whale until dark, when wo cut the line and let the) huge monster go. The next morning, however, w.:- saw him again and took another hold of him, and about 5 o’clock iu the afternoon wo succeeded in dispatching him. It was the largest whale takdn in this section for many yearr., and made us 150 barrels ot oit. Its length was sixty feet and jaws nine teen feet. That (ke ConatltatUn la Wrecked By periodicelly recurring attacks of malaria, if they are not arrested, is a fact too amply proven by the haggard looks, worn and nervous debility of those who have felt the malign influence for any length of time, to so* - ’ ibt. mit of reasonable done temporize with A REGULAR CIRCUS* longer than it was not wanted to do, it not a spectator in me start volunteered much valuable ad vice to the same effect. Finally, I did shove; but jnst as far as I pushed my left foot forward, my right foot pushed itself backward, rbad Then I came together like a pair of shears. I tried it several times, but with results aggravatiugly the same. I would have kept that action up even did, for, though exactly what I was easy to do, had the crowd remarked to a companion, critically: “ He does a pretty good double-shoflie; wonder what kind of a jig ho dances ?” Then I stood still for a little while in the middle of the street and looked at the crowd on the sidewalk, and wished that I had not borrowed the shoes. I tried to summon up enough moral courage to give up the attempt, and might have done so had not the fellow who had ad mired my double-shuffle said: “Do you think, Bill, that he’s doing this for fun, or will he really start an independ ent mail line in opposition to Wells, Fargo ?” The owner of the shoes gave mo some more advice then, by which I profited. “Just kind of hold on by your toes,” he said. Instinctively I knew what was in tended by “holding on by my toes,” and when I next slid my left foot for ward, I bore down with tho front of my right foot, and was delighted and surprised to find that I stuck there, s > to say. Then I bore down with my left and brought up my right, advanced it, repeated the operation, and felt a thrill of satisfaction to find myself sliding over the deep, soft snow*, my fourteen-feet- long shoes leaving only a narrow, shal low trail behind. My thrill did not last long. I bore down on the front of rue foot just a little too much once, and the toe of my shoe caught in the snow, and there was a sudden convul sion, an upheaval a disturbance of the order of events that was startliug. I must have been under considerable headway, for when the end of that shoe stuck in the snow I rose in the air mnch as if I had been tired out of a mortar, like the magician’s wife The earth appeared to be leaving me with astonishing suddenness, but it was nothing compared with the sud denness with which I immediately afterward struck the snow. Plowed the snow, rather, for I continued to progress for a dozen yards after my outstretched arms first struck the snow, and when I came to a halt my sleeves were filled with snow up to my arm- pits. I can’t attempt to describe the work it was to regain my feet. I had to first unfasten the shoes, lay them mm Toift^Hflkme purpe the she d making hen I got which was after a it I cheerfully gave up 1 ay scarf, (K 1 ” on the sno rg possible. used “ hoi dim to tb|e saloon hard fetrnggle- shoes to tho owner, with the re I gif ess you can make the trip ; nn enough. I will give yo order- for the $50.” The owner an swered, coolly : “ Well, you see, yo i’'© been 'enjoying yourself so long ‘ -hat I could not start out now and re ach Bodie\ in time to return to-ni ght. Board and lodgings are high in Be die, and I guess I’ll have to charge yqp: $75 for the trip. I won’t charge you any thing for the use of the shoes. Th ei*e’s nothing mean about me.” I gave the man an order for the amount, unde r the revised tariff’.—Sa7i Francisco Post The Flora of Europe. The flora of Europe is more than its funna, says a letter from ence, Italy. Coming through t varian Alps we discovered almost plant, tree and flower to which had become accustomed in New Connecticut and Minnesota—gold radiant above the fences, willow ding by tho streams, Lombardy p stiff-backed and defiant, like the si that have so often desolated these lands, elms (small and unthrifty)] oaks, whitewoods and walnut tansy, campanula, mulleins, a water lilies, wild asters, vervain, ing bets, yarrow, the woodbine, suckle, and many others as fai The flower gardens are of th blossoms as ours, but not so br it seems to me. The omnipresen vine adds a novel element to t" scape. Throughout Germany are generally trained on arbors o like beanpoles ; on the steep slopes of Austria they are bowe hill over a wire or a horizontal as to let iu the sun to the best lage All throngh Northern Ita are furnished trees for a fcue addition of a swing o or rope, stetching from along which tho agile vine! Ihere is nothing in vegetatio] picturesque than these leafy fes which * i’** r *”' n£ ' '■'f T -ombardy is ; vi re tree, ,ried ior- Ba- every 17 eye ork, n rod nod [tplara diers rtile i, large trees, elica, ounc- oney- iliar. same illiant, grape- land- grapes sticks, ■ountain down ole, so advan- y they upport, large tree to creeps. more oons of radled. Bv actual merit the tamous sifibatance St Jacobs Oil, has steadily won! its wnj until it is to day the national rei|nedy foi rheumatism. Lawyers, physician men—all use it.—[Cincinnati [Oh^o] Dailj Enquirer. (forty-five cents) to three francs (sixty thev opened the veins in the neck i cut properlv, and then climb up on top 4 n \ n /T 411 o 4 oil 4 Wl /■»»%> - * - . . ^ « -» 1 i #> 1 1 * V W ^ A a A a f The Polar regions are reckoned as extending over 2,411.875 square miles, the only inhabitants being 72,000 in Iceland and 10,000 in Greenland. cents), and said that all the other mem bers of their profession would soon xol- There are no less ! than 6,000 washerwomen in the im- j mediate neighborhood of Paris. Nearly i all the washing of the great city falls into their hands. For tho moment a compromise has been made, but the women say that they will carry out their original plan, and are holding meetings every weak. A suspension of ; their humble functions for a fortnight would leave the city in a rather un pleasant predicament, for there is not one family in ten that does its own washing. All the restaurants, hotels, etc., send their linen into the country, whence it is returned clean at the end e he reminded of eight dais. | “Quite true,” of one of their dead comrades, and wet their lips and throat with the still warm blood. ' On Thursday morning they were rescued by Captain Saunders. What is regarded as a very impertan discovery has recently been made in Butte county, California—a rich silver bearing quartz lead near the north line of the county. Heretofore it has been supposed that the qnartz ledges of Cali fornia contained no silver. A maiden of advanced years and very plain appearance having been told by a gentleman that she reminded him of a lady once famed as a belle and who at sixty still retained many traces of her former beauty, was so elated by the compliment that she communicated it to all her friends. One of them hap pening to meet the gentleman a few days later inquired with some surprise: “ Is it trne that yon told Miss C — that you of Mrs. R— ?” he answered, “ they’ve both got crow-feet in the corner of their eyes.” Dost thou lore life ? Then do not squander valuable time, for that is the stuff life is made of; but procure at once a bottle of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup for your cough and be cured. Your druggist keeps it of them. I did not pay any attention to the crowd back there by the saloon, though I may have lacked in politeness thereby, as the crowd appeared to be paying contiderable attention to me. I was not so far away but that I heard some one ask: “ What was it—a comet?” “No,” some one else remarked, “I think it was a land-slide, or an earth quake, or beth.” Then I made another start, and trav eled carefully until I reached the brow of the first hill. When I began to de scend the hill, which was long and steep, I knew* what rapid transit was. I had no more than started than I was i traveling at the rate of a mile a minute. Leaning back, with my shoes forming exactly parallel lines, I came so near flying that my breath left my body, and I was powerless to recover it. But the total lack of breath did not trouble me as much as the lack of some thing else I suddenly remembered to have forgotten. It flashed throngh my mind that I had heard of this’ kind at In Ireland during the last t dwelling houses have disapp the number of 43,61°, while b| used as accessories to farms business pursuits in towns creased to the number of 15,221 The Pittsburg Sunday Leade - quotes Mr. Mart : .n Karg, Silver Cree c, Minn cured Jacobs badly Oil. wounded horse An International Fisheries e] will be held in Edinburgh, next April. Everything perl the fishing interest will bo re] —fishing and life boats, nets fishermen’s dresses, preparal preserving fish, etc. n years ared to [uildings and for have in- I’emons Who Stand Upon Th whether men or women, are of with serious pains and weaknesses loins and other parts of the body, proven beyoud a doubt, however, Safe Kidney and Liver Cure is ventive of these troubles. witu St hibition cotland, aining to resented nd lines, ions for If Feet, a troubled In the back, |lt has been it Warner’s ertain pre- The losses by fire in New York were 15,800,000 against $3,183,000 year. The tires numbered 1,780. city in 1881 he previous Pub* Cod Liver On, made ft im selected livers, on the seashore, by Caswxl l, Hazard & Cot, New York. It ia absolutel r sweet. Patients who have once it to all others. superior to any of the other oili m The Science of Life, or Self-Pi pure and en it prefer Physicians ha via decided it medical work for every man—yo agpd or old. 125 invaluable market. An Ancient Horror. The Vienna Heuc Freie Preasc.quotes from Tacitus his description of the col lapse of tho wooden amphitheater at Fideme during the reign of Tiberius, by which, according to the annals, 50,000 persons were killed or wounded. The immense struotare was a flimsy affair, put up by a certain Atilius, and after reading about the horrors of the catastrophe and the measures adopted to prevent their repetition, we are in formed by Tacitus, with characteristic terseness, that “Atiliuswas burned.” Nervousness, and all derangements of the nervous system, are usually connected with a diseased condition of the blood. Debility is a frequent accompaniment. The first thing to bo done is to improve the condition of the blood. This is accomplished by taking Yeqe- tine. It is a nerve medicine, and possesses a controlling power over the nervous system. On Thirty Dnys* Trial. 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Diary Free the disease is to incur physical evils, soon fell and very serious. The pleasant and saft ; specific, Hottetter s Stomach Bitters, roots on! the disease and prevents its return, and is also A curative for the debilitating effects of dys- - pepsia, as well as for irregularity of the bowel* and kidneys, and for rheumatism. It restore! diminishei nervous energy, and is a general , appetizer and cheering corrective. Biliouf symptoms are removed by it, and constipation, flatulence, heartburn and other indicia of a derangement of the organs of assimilation and secretion, are overcome by it, with their cause. CouTiucing and abundant testimony establishes the above facta. Potatoes cut into tiny cubes and sprinkled with arsenic are breaking up' a plague of field mice in France, where the evil lias bsen roost serious to crops. The Age of Miracles , is past, and Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medics. Discoverv ” will not raise tho dead ; will not cure you if your lungs are almost wasted by consumption. It is, however, n usurp as so t both as a pectoral and alterative, and will cure obstinate and severe diseases of the throat and lungs, coughs and bronchial affections. By virtue of its wonderful alterative properties It j cleanses and enriches the bloody cures pimples, j blotches and eruptions, and causes even great j eating ulcers to neal. The mayor ot New York performed tho mar riage service for 123 couples during the past year. Get iho Original. . Dr. Pierce’s “ Pellets ’—the original Little Liver Pills” (sugar-coated) - cure sick and bilious headache, sour stomach and bilious attacks. By druggists. . It is said that Chicago has 50,000 girls work ing at the various trades for average wages of $2 a week. Dr. puree's “ Favorite Prescription,” for aU those weaknesses peculiar to vromen, w an nnoqualed remedy. Distres-ing backache anc “ bo iriug-down ” sensations yield to ns *trangth-givine properties. By druggists. The price of a locomotive ranges from $8,000 to $14,000, according to the size aud character. Not preparation ever discovered except Car- bo like, a deodorized extract of potrolcuin, will really produce new hair on bald neads. It will be a’ happy dav when the great army of bald heads fully understand this. B Alls AM hAi.| £ < This engraving represent* the Longs In s healthy state.) i STMDiBD BEIGDT IN MANY HOMES. For Cooffhs, Colds, Croup, Bronchlti-and ail other affections of the Thront and LUN<.>i it stands unrivaled and utterly beyond aU competition. IN CONSUMPTIVE CASES AS AN EXPECTORANT IT HAS NO EQUAL! IT CONTAINS NO OPIUM IN ANY FORM! J. N. HARRIS A CO. f Proprietors, CINCINNATI, O. FOR SAL£ BY ALL DRUGGISTS. Vkoettnr is made exclusively from the Juices of carefully-selected barks, roots and herbs, and so strongly concentrated that it will effectually eradi cate from' the system every taint of Hcrofuln, Scrofulous Humor, Tumors, Cancer, Can cerous Humor, Eryaipelnn, Salt Klieum, Syphilitic Dieeases, Conker, Faintness ut I lie Stomach, and all diseases that arise from im pure blood. Sciatica, Inflammatory and Chronic Rheumatism, Neiiralitia, Gout ami Spiini I Complaints, can only be effectually cured through the blood. For I leers and Eruptive Diseases of the Skin, rust ales, Pimples, Blotches, Boils, Tetter, Scnldhead and Ringworm, Veqetink has never failed to effect a permanent cure. For Pains In the Hnck, Kidney Complaint*, Dropsy, Female Weakness, L« ucorrhea, arising from internai ulceration, and uterine dis eases and General Debility, Vzowtinr acts directly upon the causes of these complaints. It invigorates and strengthens the whole system, acts upon the secretive organs, allays inflammation, cures ulceration and regulates the bowels. For Catarrh, Dyspepsia, Habitual Costive ness, Palpitation ot the Heart, Headache, Piles, Nervousness, and General Prostration of the Nervous System, no medicine has ever given such perfect satisfaction as the Vegetine. It purifies the blood, cleanses all of the organs, and possesses a controlling lower over the nervous system. The remarkable cures effected by Vegetine have induced many physicians and apothecaries whom wr know, to prescribe aud use it in theirown families. In fact. Vegetine is the best remedy yet discov ered for the above diseases, and is the only reliable B LOO D PL It I FI EK. yet placed before the public. Vegetine PREPARED BY H. R. STEVENS, Boston, Mass. DR. WHI BALSAM Cures Consumption, Colds, Pneumonia, In fluenza, Bronchial Difficulties, Bronchitis, Hoarseness, Asthma, Croup, Whooping Cough, and all Diseases of the BrejUaing Organs. It soothes and heals the Membrane of the Lungs, inflamed and poisoned by the disease, and prevents the night sweats and tightness across the chest which accompany it. Consumption Is not an incurable malady. HALL'S BALSAM will care you, even though professional aid fails. Payne’s Automatic Engines. 3 Iff H JOHNSON’S ANODYNE LINIMENT will positively prevent this terrible disease, and will posi tively cure nine cases out of ten. Information that will save many lives, sent free by mail. Don’t delay a moment. Prevention is better than cure. I. S. .Tohn- son A Co.. Boston, Mass,, formerly Bangor, Maine. LIMmW to tend 3-ct. aiari.p for the mo „ a I Parsons’ Purgative Pills make New RirTi j Blood, and will completely c hange the blood in the : entire system in three months. Anv person who | will take one pill each night from 1 to 12 weeks may bo I restored to sound health, if suc h a thing be possible, i Sold everywhere or sent by mail for H letter stain!*'. I. ». JOHNSON eV CO., Boston, Maas., I formerly Bangor, Me. If you enjoy a laugh hearten Then read our Science in Storke Ot Sammy Tubbs and his Sponsie, The Bo> Doctor A: Trick Monkey; The author, E. B. Foote, M. D. Illustrated contents free. - But if you're fond of lots o’ fun, , ^ Just buy the Poll opt iron: v^For Magic: Lante rns are outdone. ■?ol>.isa 4 gig The P. i a picture-gun ,For photographs of anv one. ML UK/ - ■sm tie 13 IfthcroisonctUiiift In af! Iheworlfl that allures the nvernco boy light* people generally. It Is a * managed and thoroughly equip;** circus? The children ro a city ortowTJ seem to know of its coming by a kino of intuition, and prepare accordingly. The pennies, hitherto dropped into tho missionary-bo* with consclenti- oov regularity, are now ftUhftffly dl- vertea into an old coffee-pot In the cellar corner for prospective use. ana scrap-metal, old paper, etc v do wrtr- suntial service In The way of securinw the amount of an admission fee. Bn* for all that, we believe folly in thw properly conducted circus as a means* of amusement and diversion, and ars* happy to state the gratifying fact that- the circus—or rather Its proprictow and employes—experimentally bJK Here In St. Jacobs Oil, the Great Pain Reliever of the age. Hon. P. T. Bamum’s Greatest Show on Earth and Coup’s Monster Show can be iakena* typical cases. The former says: take great pleasure in stating w*t w*. Jacobs Oil is In use by many ring ar tists now engaged with P. T. Barnum s G«*t«flt Show on Earth, united with the Great lABdatr arcus, Sanger's Royal British Menagerie and tha- International Allied Shows. From It* happy efrect upon those who have occasion to employ It, we have no hesitation in pronouncing St. Jacob* Oil the best Uniment which has ever been brought to our notice. It is wonderfully effica cious in subduing pain. to a IV T>. ***.*«*%« TO a aflcr using one or iwo poura ui wah**. I felt no pain whatever, and have had none tince. I am firm believer in 8t. J a cob* Oil, and I want everybody in my company to keep it near them* SY lTU—i „ TRUTH! -AND NOTHINGBUTTHE TRUTH! DR. TOBIAS’ Venetian liniment Has given universal satisfaction since ithas been y treduced into the United Suites. Alter b** tried by millions it has been proclaim^ The Pain Destroyer of tj Thousands of Physiciai it as an External Incases of Chronic Rheumatism,, ache, Mosquito Bites. Cut*, Bri Sores. I’aius in tho Limbs, Bacjj pies. Blotches, Freckles, bUffene- 1 tracted Muscles. Its Wonderful Curt era are Miraci Taken internally in case* of I>s Seasickness, Cholera, Croup, Qolic,l Headache, its soothing and P.Bl>?j| ire immediately felt. It is perfect." TO TAKE INTERNJ READ THE CERTIFH Warranted for Thlrty-1 and Never Fall No ono once tryinffit wiU bo will] physicians use It Thousands of J Been received and a few are given be paid if any one 1* false. ORODP—gihlidren’s Havebmteaw, N. Y.—This is toj need for ten years Du. Tobias and during that time I have r- biU*. I have used *t for pains i ■ore **•- ' nd burns,j avvod trap** live i. "To .1 gad it* ralne. Two Rivms, Morrison Co., Minn.—Many yean age I received a severe injury by a heavy blow npon mr back. I tried many things without any relief, and ~ V,iN ^TEFHEN E wilioN d * Reliable, Durable and Economical, tcul/urntoh a hors, poirer cith M less fuel and neater than any other Engine built, not fitted with an Automatic Cut-off. Henri lor Illustrated Catalogue ''J,” torlntormation A Prices. B. \V. 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Send* stamps for “The Citi*en-Soldie^. ,, and Pernios and Itonnty laws, blanks and instructions. We can refer to thousands of Pensioners and Clients. Address N. W. Fitzgerald A Co. Pension & Patent A tfye, LockTjoxsw. Washington. D. 0. r. koi a most complete cure. Macon, Ga.—I was laid up with Chronic Rheuma tism for near four months and used various rer™- 11 : aX. A S’lwass 4lv*9t_r\11TW*-A ixnttie dies’ without any good. One flve-ounoe bott WT . —... — . T w-wTvwwwsvrae VMA ctn/l J CL0 oi diets WILIlUUb ISWAAs V-'AAVJ AA » your Venetian Liniment cured me and sincerely recommend it for Khenmati»m. E. D. COIaEMAHa FROM THE REV. I. P. FEIGL. New Yobk, September 11,1881.—A short time ago Db. Tobias’ mooiciues were brought to my notice- I was suffering from an affection of tho throat. 1 tried outwardly his Venetian Liniment and took occasionally during tho day his Pulmowio Livs Sybup, which made a perfect cure. In future I will not be without bis medicines. I. P. 1EIUL, D. D. What Horsemen Want. A GOOD RELIABLE HORSE LINIMENT AND CONDITION POWDERS. Such are to bo found in Dr. Tobias’ House Lini ment in pint bottles and Debby Condition Powdxb* from col. d. McDaniel. Owner of Some of the Fastest Running Horses In the World. Jebome Park, June 21.-Tbis is to certify that I have used Dr. Tobias’ Venetian House Liniment and Derby Condition Powdf.ks on my race horse* and found them to give perfect satisfaction. Infer* they hate never failed to cure any ailment for which they were used; tho Liniment when rubbed In by the hand never blisters or takes the hair off; it ha* more penetrative qualities than any other I hare tried, which I Hiipj>ose is the great secret of its suc cess in curing sprains. The ingredients from whicto the Derry Powders are made have been made known to meby Dr. Tobias. They are pcrfetdly harmless. D. MCDAPiiiLL. 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