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A MOSER- TBAGEDY, Tho Popular Girl and the New Young Man. A 8peU of Mutual Admiration Which Was ?udoly Broken?AU tho Trohhlo Was Caused by a Single Flight- of Stair*. ?? She was the most popular girl in the summer hotel, and when two of the others came into her room and found her dissolved in tears they proffered sympathy at once. . "Has your father sent for you?" cried the girl with her hair looped 'over her eye. "Charley has gone off on the trainl" cried the girl with the penciled brows in a tragic tone. "No?no?much worse.". "You surely never lost that lovely hat overboard while you were boat? ing?" . ' "Or let Jennie get the strange young man seated next her at the table?" ? % _ "Oh," girls, it's much worse than i anything; I think I'll go into a con? vent? everybody will be talking about it. Promise never to breathe it and I'll tell you all.about it." "We never will." ' , "Well, you know that lovely young ; man?" \ t "Noj but I mean to." J? "Oh, it's about him. Mame and LI have been just crazy to know him. V His room is just under ours, and we ghear him singing in a lovely bari I tone." ? . ~ .' "Well, Fred knows him and he'll introducer-" "Never! It was this way: I was asking Fred about him and he told 4me that he wanted to know me; that he said those little baby curls about ?my forehead were lovely j so natural. Then we saw him coming and Fred (Offered to present him at once.'.' "Of course you agreed." > "If I only had. But I told Fred that I must speak .to one of the girls (first;. then SL flew upstairs. When I got there I saw. at once that Mame had had one of her tidying fits, for I couldn't find what I wanted. You see, miy hair was a little out of 3url." "Of course." ' ."Just then I heard Mame coming, and I said, crossly: 'I wish you'd tell me where on earth you've put my curling iron.' There was no re ply/so I repeated my query in a still erosser tone." "Mame is so provoking!" "Listen: I think there must be some mistake,' said a rather faint, masculine, voice. And, girls, there he was standing just inside the door." "My goodness!" "I just stamped my foot: 'There is a mistakel" I cried. 'You're in the wrong room and I'll, thank you to get out,' and I advanced, brush in hand. He fled, and 1 locked and double locked the door; then I sank oh the floor ? in a heap and cried. 1 couldn't forgive him for making such a silly mistake." Suddenly 'some? thingstruck me as strange?". "You surely hadn't?" . "I just had. In my haste I hod missed a flight of stairs and I had driven tho man out of his own room. Obi^ I'll never get over it if I live to lie a hundred!"?Chicago Tribune. DR. LUYS' EXPERIMENT. It Proves That Hypnotism Is Related to Electric Magnetism. ' A series of very wonderful experi? ments, which have just been con? cluded by Dr. Luys, of Paris, whose observations and discoveries in con? nection with magnetism and elec? tricity in relation to hypnotism made & profound impression upon the scientific world some time ago, has led to a remarkable result. The latest discovery establishes the fact that the cerebral activity can be transferred to a crown of magnet? ized iron, in which, the activity can be retained and subsequently passed on to a second person. Incredible as this may seem, Dr. Luys has proved its possibility by the experiments just referred to. He placed the crown, which .in reality is only a cir? cular band of magnetized iron, on the head of a female patient suffer? ing from melancholia, with a mania for self-destruction, and with such success was the experiment attended that within a fortnight the patient could be allowed to go free without danger, the crown having absorbed all her marked tendencies. About two weeks afterwards he put tho same crown, which meanwhile had been carefully kept free from con? tact with anything else, on the head of a male patient suffering from hys? teria, complicated by frequent re? current* periods of lethargy. Tho patient was then hypnotized and immediately comported himself after the manner of the woman who had previously worn the crown. Indeed, he practically assumed ber person? ality and uttered exactly tho samo complaints as she had done. Sim? ilar phenomena have, it is re? ported, been observed in the case of every patient experimented upon. :Another experiment showed that the crown^ retained the impression acquired until it was made red hot. ?London Telegraph. IN PREHISTORIC MICHIGAN. Skeletons, Some Eleven Feet Tall, Unearthed at Crystal Lake. The mounds on the south side of Crystal lake in Montcalm county have been opened and a prehistoric race unearthed, says the Ludingtori Record. One contained five skele? tons and the other three. In the first mound was an earthen tablet, five inches long, four wide and half an inch thick. It was divided into four quarters. On one of them were inscribed queer characters. The skeletons were arranged in the'same relative positions, so far as the mound is concerned. ? In tho other mound there was a casket of earthen? ware, ten and one-half inches long and three and one-half inches wide. The cover bore various inscriptions. The characters found upou the tab? let were also prominent upou the casket. Upon opening the casket a copper coin about the size of a two-cent piece was revealed, to? gether with several stone* types, with which the inscription or marks upon both tablet and caket had evi? dently been made. There were also two pipes, one of stone aud the other of pottery, and -apparently of the same material as the casket. Other pieces of pottery were found so bad? ly broken as to furnish no clew as to what they might have been used for. Some of the bones of the skeletons were'well preserved, showing that the dead men must have been per? sons of huge proportions. The low? er jaw is immense. An ordinary jaw? bone fits inside with ease.. By ir.^as urement the distance from the top of the skull to the upper end of the thigh bone of the largest skeleton was five feet five inches. A doctor who was present sta ted that the man must have been at least eleven feet high. One of these mounds was partly covered by a pine stump three feet six inches in diameter and the ground showed no signs of ever hav? ing been disturbed. The digging had to be done among the roots, which had a large spread. ELECTRICITY AS A FAD. American and Other Notables Who Have Taken Up the Study. The number of wealthy persons in this' country who study electricity as a hobby or mean3 of recreation is becoming large, says the New York Post, and it is believed that with the now universal practice of in? cluding electricity as a part of the curriculum at our schools and colleges the ranks of such amateurs are destined to receive many im? portant accessions. In Europe, young E^mperor William is said to be among the devotees of electrici? ty, while the zest with which the marquis of Salisbury and his nephew, Arthur Balfour, go in for electrical work is well kuown. In New York city one of our very rich young men spends much of his time and money in the improvement of electrical launches; and another wealthy member of an old family in the interior of the state has made valuable researches, including some on the consumption of carbon in the primary battery, as a step toward getting electricity directly from .coal. Note is now made of the sum? mer diversions of a Now York bank? er at Schroon lake, where this elec? trical amateur has built and main? tains for himself aiid his neighbors a beautiful little electric light plant, and where he operates au electric launch, an electric dingy, a search light, a laboratory and some other trifles. In this way not only is steady amusement derived through the summer, but many useful hints and points are picked up that tho commercial concerns are glad to avail themselves of, and not a little interesting work of real scientific value is also the result. ? The Clove Crop. Said a New York importer to a representative of the New York Tribune: "It is reported that the Zanzibar clove crop will be fifty per cent, short. Should this be true, its effect will be largely offset by the fact that tho present stock held in London is 56,822 bales, which is .enough to supply the American and European demand for twelve months. If, however, this stock, which is strongly held by speculators, is to be depended upon for supplying tho world, higher prices "must rule. The American and European markets, not including the London supply, are bare of stock, and recent large shipments from Bombay to China indicate that the East Indian stock must now be small. A heavy de? mand from Bombay will be necessary to offset this drainage, and past ex? perience has shown that the Bombay merchants will secure supplies direct from Zanzibar at' onsiderably higher prices than Europeans are prepared to pay._ Mock Terrapin. Beef fitcw Is not ageneral favorite. When it is called'"mock terrapin," however, it becomes quite another dish. It is then made with the ad? dition of sherry wine, aud of tho yolks of hard-boiled eggs added just before serving, aud having stewed long and carefully, with judicious seasoning, is really delicious. LIKED FEESH BREAD. Pranks of a Clever and Mischiov oub Bear Cub. ??Billy," the Pet?Ho Lived and Thrived on a Strictly Vegetarian DF.et ? Learning to Dig Potatoes?A Coup d'Etat in the Kitchen. Ben's little girl, about eight years old, took a fancy to a bear cub, cap? tured by a backwoodsman named Ben Lawson, and saved as a pet for bis children, and called him "Billy." Billy, says Tappan Adney in St. Nicholas, looked like a big New? foundland pup, black and shaggy, but with a tail conspicuous by being "hardly a tail at all," as Ben said. He was as playful as a young dog or kitten, and used to romp on the floor with the children, hugging and pre? tending to bite them. < But the good woman of the house viewed the little fellow with sus? picion, and was not easily persuaded that all bears were not equally dan? gerous. It was plain from the first that even a baby cub was hardly welcome. So Billy was provided with a small leather collar that could be let out as he grew, and a small chain, which, however, was never used. He was fed at first on milk, and afterward on bread and buck? wheat pancakes. Indeed,"he was confined to a strictly vegetable diet, because they thought his savage na? ture might be developed by eating meat. Billy throve and soon needed a bigger collar. It was ne ver thought necessary to keep him chained up, because he was so gentle. Ho had, therefore, the run of not' only their own farmyard, but those of their neighbors as well. He was bent upon every sort of mischief. Summer came and passed. In the autumn, when Ben dug his potatoes, Billy followed behind, watching what was going on, and, it is said, as the chil? dren picked the potatoes up, Billy himself learned to look for them and paw them out of the soil. Be this as it may, every bear uses its paws with great cleverness?and Billy was a clever bear. When the days grew colder, at the approach of winter, he commenced to dig a hole under the side of the barn, and soon had a great cavity under the floor of the cow stable. Into this den he began to carry all sorts of stuff, and Ben thought Billy was getting ready for winter in his natural way. One day when bread was being baked Billy hung about the kitchen^ with a make-believe 'indifferent air. After the bread was carefully lajd away under a white cloth upon the ? pantry shelf Billy wailed until the mistress' back was turned. In an instant the cub made for the pantry. There was a shuffle and rattle of claws, followed by a scream. "The bear, quick! The bear's got the bread!" cried the wife in distress, as she turned in time to see the rascal running out of doors with several fine loaves in his arms. Ben, as it happened, was close by, and heard the hubbub. He sprang to the door of the house just in time to intercept 'Master Billy. Billy reared on his hind legs, and, as Ben caught him by the back of the neck, he growled savagely and struck back at Ben with one free paw, but never quitting his hold of the bread. Fiually, after getting a good shak? ing and cuffing about the cars, Billy broke away, carrying off the middle loaf of the three. He disappeared into the den, where 'he ate it at, leisure. j Senator Hill's Love Affair. I asked Senator David B. Hill if ho was ever in love. He glanced at me quickly, bis eyes twinkled for a moment, and then he, hid himself behind a newspaper and said something about the question being a delicate one. And that Is. all he would say on the subject. It Is my opinion that he was in love once, very desperately, and that something went wrong and he' vowed to love never again, to shut out from his life all affection, and to live for ambition solely. That the senator has beeu loved goes without qustion; that he is loved I have seen proof in a woman's writteu declara? tion, and that he would be loved if he saw fit to pay court no one can doubt.?N. "X. World. The Vanderbilt Millions. The Vanderbilt skill and judgment in financial affairs crops out in the daughters of the family as well a.s. the sons. The four daughters each received $10,000,000 on the death of their father, and have managed and spent it as they pleased. That they; have done it well is attested by tho fact that, despite their liberal phi? lanthropies, which in the case of Mrs. Shepard amounts to almost continuous giving, the fortune of ?each has increased by fully $5,000, 000. Their mother, Mrs. Maria' Vanderbilt, is much less assertive and "capable" as a woman of af? fairs, and prefers to let^hcr son relieve her of the care of the millions which her husband left her.? Phil? oclebhia Ledger. STORIES TOLD BY OLD TREES. Their Rings Tell of Wei and Dry Sea? sons a Hundred Years Ago. It has been found that the rings of growth visible in the trunks of trees have a far more interesting story to tell than has usually been supposed. Everybody lciows they indicate the number of years that the tree has lived, says the New York Advertiser, but J. Heuchler, of Texas, has recently made experi? ments and observations which seem to show that trees carry in their trunks a record of the weather con? ditions that have prevailed during the successive years of their growth. Several trees, each more than one hundred and thirty years old, were felled, and the order and relative width of the rings of growth in their trunks were found to agree exactly. This fact showed that all the trees had experienced the sams stimula? tion in certain years and the same retardation in other years. Assum? ing that the most rapid growth had occurred in wet years, aud the least rapid in dry years, it was concluded that out of the one hundred and thirty-four years covered by the lifo of the trees sixty had been very wet, six extremely wot, eighteen wet, seventeen average as to the supply of moisture, nineteen dry, eight very dry and six extremely dry. But when the records of the rainfall, run? ning back as far as 1840, were con? sulted it was found that they did not all'agree with the record of the trees. Still it could not be denied that tho rings in the trunk's told a 'irue story of the weather influences which had affected the trees in successive years. The conclusion was therefore reached that the record of the rings con? tained more than a mere index of the annual rainfall; that it showed what the character of the seasons had been as to sunshine, tempera? ture, evaporation, regularity of the supply of moisture and tho like; in short, that the trees contained in? delibly imprinted in theiir trunks more than one hundred years of na? ture's history, a history which wo might completely decipher if we could but look upon the face of nature from a tree's point of view. HOW A MAN WALKS. Mechanism of the Exercise and the Muscles Brought Into Play. The chief muscles concerned in walking, says the London Hospital, are those In the calf and back of tho leg, which, by pulling up the heel, also pull up the bones of the foot connected with it, and then the whole body, the weight of which is passed on through the bones of the leg. When walking, the trunk is thrown forward so that it would fall down prostrate were not the right foot planted' in time to support it. The calf muscles are helped in this actiou by those on the front of the trunk rnd legs, which contract and pull the body forward, and the trunk slanting forward when the heel is raised by the calf muscles, the whole body will be raised and pusihed for? ward and .upward. This advance? ment of each leg is effected partly by muscular action, the muscles used being (1) those on the front of the thigh, bending it forward on the. pelvis; (2) the hamstring muscles, which slightly bend the leg on the thigh; (3) the muscles on the front of the leg, which raise" the front of the foot and toes, preventing the latter, in swinging forward, from hitching in the ground. 11 When one foot has reached tho ground the action of the other has not ceased. There is anothsr point. 1 in walking. The body is constantly supported and balanced on each log alternately, and therefore on only one at once. Hence there must be some means for throwing the center, of gravity over the line of support formed by the bones of each leg, as it supports the weight of the body. This is done in various ways, and hence the difference iu the walk of different people. There may be slight rotation at the hip joint, bringing the center of gravity of tho body over the foot of this side. This "rocking" motion of tho trunk and thigh is accompanied by a movement of the whole trunk and leg over tho foot planted on the ground., and is accompanied by a compensating cut ward movement at the hip. The body rises and swings alternately from one side to the other as i ts cen? ter of gravity comes alternately over one or the other leg, and the curva? ture of tho spinal bones is altered with the varying position of tho weight. _ An Air Congress. The latest thing in scientific con? gresses is an Atmospheric Science congress, which has been organized by the Royal Society of Geography at Antwerp. On the com^joVtee are tho Belgian ministers of the:ir?erior and of war, M. do Burlet and Gen. Brasslno, and director of the mili? tary cartographic institute of Brus? sels, Col. Hennequin. The principal subjects set down for discussion aro air currents, their causes aud effects, and tho means adopted to record them, as well as aero-dynamics. London Telegraph. A CONFEDERATE'S JOKE; Bory of an Adjournmont of the Georgia Legislature. Tho Motion Was Mado by a Citizen of Ten ncssco Under the Benign Influence of "Monnealn Dew" ? It Passed tho House. It is not often that an outsider, especially if this outsider be a cit? izen of another state, can adjourn a session of a legislature, yet this hap? pened once when the legislature of the state of Georgia was adjourned by a Tennesseean, says the Wash? ington Post. It all happened in the Ifall of 1864, during the late civil war and just after the battle of Franklin, Tenn. It will be remembered that the .battle of Franklin was a most dis? astrous one to the confederates so far as loss of men was concerned. Hood was in command of the con? federate forces, having recently succeeded Gen. Johnston, and he was foolish enough to think that be could capture the Yankee forces when they were ensconced behind impregnable breastworks. The action of Hood and the criti? cism to which he has been subjected on account of his management of af? fairs during this and other battles is a part of history and has nothing to do with the story which Con? gressman McDearmon, of the Ninth Tennessee district, was telling to a crowd of friends. It was just after this battle of Franklin, however, and the confederate army was some? what demoralized, none of them lik? ing Hood as a commanding officer, when Congressman McDearmon, then a private in the rear rank, in company with "Knapp" Gillespie, of Humboldt, T enn., was making his way to the army in North Carolina to join their command. . On their way they passed through Georgia and chanced to stop in Milledgeville, then the capital of the state. The two confederate soldiers were feeling pretty good, having on their rounds been fortunate enough to get hold of a good supply of j"mountain dew," when, strolling down the streets of Milledgeville, they stopped in front of a little church, and, learning from some passerby that the Georgia legislature was in session in the church, they walked in. The proceedings of the session wjre 'not of an exciting nature, at least not enough so to interest men who had so lately been stirred to action by tho trumpet's blare and the cannon's roar, and after listen? ing to the dull routine for half an hour Lieut. Gillespie, emboldened by a goodly load of "mountain dew," ;rose from his seat and moved that "the legislature do now adjourn." Some old member from a back dis? trict of Georgia promptly seconded jthe motion. "To what hour shall ?the adjournment be?" asked tho chairman. "Till eight o'clock," re? plied Lieut. Gillespie, and the mo? tion was put and carried. ' After adjournment some of the members got onto the joke, and McDearmon and Lieut. Gillespie were the heroes of the hour, and when they left Milledgeville they bad added considerably to their sup? ply of "mountain dew." This is the only instance on record where a legislature was ever adjourned on motion of an outsider, and Congress? man McDearmon vouched for the truth of the story. It may be added that these were war t imes, and since that time both McDearmon and Gillespie have reformed all their wicked ways. The Concealed Orchestra. Although visitors to Baircuth this year have complained that the ac? companiments to "Lohengrin" have often been almost inaudible, yet it seems that the concealment of the band beneath the stage is not alto? gether without its advantages in warm weather. It has this summer been very hot at Baireuth, and Sig nor Eugenio Pirnni, the special cor? respondent of the Milan La Pcr severanza, on goiug early one even? ing to see Herr Felix Mottl in his own domain, found the eminent con? ductor wielding the baton in his shirt sleeves, while a good many of the baud had likewise discarded their coats. The invisible orchestra is at any rate popular with the perform? ers, who arc not condemned to tho starfhed shirt fronts and clawham? mer coats necessarily insisted upon at Covent garden, and may, indeed, wear boating costume if they prefer It. Among the recent visitors to Baircuth, by the way, have been Sig uor Mascagni and Signor Leonca? vallo. The latter is a confirmed Wag? neritc.?London News. Winea In Dining Cars. In the kitchen attached to the dining car of the fast express from Ostende to Vienna there are a num? ber of cases scaled with the customs seals of Belgium, Germany, Bavaria, Austria. They contain wir.es of the respective countries, the dining car company being allowed to use, free from duty, only the wines of the country the train happens to be traversing. AN EDUCATED TRAMP. A Heidelberg Graduate, He Was Sent to Jail for Vagrancy. When the regular morning busi? ness of the police court docket was finished a ragged and exhausted specimen of humanity was brought before Judge Mulholland on the charge of being a tramp. In reply, to the usual questions the man stated that his name was Robert, Lanz, thirty-six years of age, born in Germany and a lawyer by pro? fession. Lanz was born in Berlin, Ger? many. His parents were very wealthy. He attended Heidelberg university, and was graduated there. Then he went to Freiberg, where he studied law and received a diploma in 1883. About four years ago he started from Berlin on a tour around the world for educational purposes and pleasure oniy. He traveled over Europe, and crossed into Asia, passing through India, China, Corea and Japan. He then went to Hawaii, where he spent some time, and in December, 1892, landed in San Francisco. Lanz liked America, and admired the American people. Last winter he went to Chicago, where he re? mained for some time, and there met a woman whom he loved, wooed and married about a month ago. On the very day on which he was mar? ried Lanz discovered that his wife was a bigamist. The blow almost crazed him. He had furnished a dwelling, and he had money in the bouse which he had provided for his wife, but he never went back to it. He had money enough in his pocket ,io take him outside of the city of Chicago, and his only desire was to flee from his disgrace and disap? pointment and get back to Ger? many. 1 The man has tramped from the eastern boundary of Illinois to Lyons, this state. At Lyons a friendly German assisted him, and he was able to buy a ticket for Syra? cuse. Justice Mulholland sentenced him to thirty days in the peniten? tiary, where he will be looked after. Lanz says that he speaks six languages. He carries his diplomas from Heidelberg, his marriage cer? tificate, and a photograph of bis wife, all in the same package. He Bays that he should receive a remit? tance from Germany on the nine? teenth of this month. Life, he says, has no charms for him, and money can bring no pleasure:?Syracuse Herald. FACED ABOUT QUICK. Mrs. Skunk and Her Family on the March in Single File. An Auburn man who was riding in the country a few days ago says he saw crossing the road ahead-of his team an old mamma skunk with five youngsters trailing behind ner in single file. Ranks wer:, closed and tails dragged. The little com? pany moved toward an unoccupied building, and the old skunk disap? peared through a hole in the founda? tion wall. But just as the young ones were about to follow the Au? burn man flung a stone, and the missile banged loudly against the corner of the building. The narra? tor says that he has witnessed many military evolutions by crack com? panies, but never in his experience did he see a drill squad " 'bout face, 'tention, present arms" with any? thing like the rapidity with which that platoon of skunks moved. They whirled like one, stood in line, their tails whisking up straight over their backs. It was a moment full of critical suspense, but the command "Fire" was not issued. As no ene? my presented itself, they trailed arms once more and made a digni? fied retreat, one after another, into the hole of the wall, and the Auburn man, who had already repented the first stone, was glad that it was so.?Lewlston (Me.) Journal. A Very Interesting Scrapbook. Among the scrapbooks which a benevolent woman ha3 made for chil? dren's hospitals and asylums is one on novel lines. She allowed her chil? dren to help her, thinking they would not only be pleasantly em? ployed, but also learn in this way the pleasures of working for others, and become interested in charitable undertakings. Between them, they cut out a number of figures from newspaper and periodical, advertise? ments, until they had a whole fam? ily of paper dolls. These they put into an envelope and pasted in the front of a cheap scrapbook, bought for the purpose. On the rest of the pages, or, rather, on every other page, they made tho rooms of a house for tho paper dolls to live in. They pasted pretty papers on tho page for carpetings, using small-figured wall paper, usually. Then they cut out and put on this, pictures of arti? cles of furniture appropriate to the several rooms. The children were kept happily employed for many days this summer, hunting up and cuttiug out what was required, and displayed no mean ability in con? structing the apartments. No one can doubt with what favor the result will be received at its destination.? Philadelphia Press,