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LOST HIS LIFE. " G A Brave Fireman's Sacrifice in Effort to save Woman. * A FATAL HOTEL FIRF. Many Leaped to Thflr Death. Eight Persons Killed and a Number Injured W hile Piecing Prom the West Hotel in City of Minneapolis. At Minneapolis, Minn., eight persons dead of suffocation or of Injuries sustained in leaping from a "tire proof" hotel building, a score of per sons injured and a building damaged $25,000 by tire, smoke .and water in an epitome of tbe revised ravages caused by a disaster which befell the West hotel, Hennepin avenue and Fifth street, Wednesday, throwing seven hundred guests and employes into a panic. t ^1. nJ. X lit) lit uu . ] Fire Captain John Berwln, fell from t the fourth lloor to the Fifth street t sidewalk while attempting to save a 1 woman's life. 1 W. G. Nickels, Minneapolis, suffo- t cated In his room on sixth lloor. Thomas Summervllle, Springfield, c Mass., salesman for Atkins & Co., i suffocated Id his room on sixth ( lloor. J. 10. Wolfe, Northwesterna^ent for ^ Sperry & Alexander cimpauy of New d York, suffocated In room. Clinton B. Lamme, New York, travelling man; suffocated in his room. J. B. Peisniper, New York, travel- 1 ,in^ mau, jumped from the seventh story. Mrs. M. 10. Bodies, Minneapolis. Jumped from seventh story, t Wm. Black, New Yoik, suffocated f in room. I c The tire was confined to the eltva f tor shaft and the two top floors in one | * corner of the building, bub a dense smcke pervaded everywhere and the wild excitement which followed the first alarm hurried people into halls and out on window ledges in a frantic attempt to nave themselves, The lire started in a packing room on the lirst. lioor near the elevator. The wood in the elevator shaft caught lire and burned like tinder. A sheet of lUme 20 feet wide mounted the Rhaft t>i the seventh story, carrytug an immense volvme of smoke which frightened the e guests out of their senses and started a panic. The smoke spread to most t an pans of the hotel, causing many persons to lose I heir way in the con- < fusion. Five persons were found suf- c focated in their rooms after the tiro 1 was out. i Capt. John Berwin of a hook and t ladder company, having broken open r a window on the seventh lloor which s he had reached by means of a scaling i ladder; stumbled onto the body or c Mrs. Emcliue Barlow, an aged women s He strapped the unconscious form to c his back and started down the ladder, i when midway between the seventh 1 and sixth stories, the strap broke, t Bending over to balance the body for % a moment, he then leaned at the risk rj of his life, and threw the woman to- t ward a pr( jectlng ledge on the lloor e below. Apparently being revived by ; the fresh air or by the shock, the aged c woman grasped the projection and i held on. Later she was rescued. But l In throwing the woman to sarety, Capt. Berwin lost his balance and fell tf? Mio na?or*iflnt. llo j/od fncfai.tln ? V/ V1IV iUVLl v 1AU *T?kJ < LlOtUli Ui J killed.' J. E. Wolfe, 50 years old, travehng 1 representative for Sperry & Alexander, wholesale hardware merchants of New York, met a horrible death. He was burned in his room and the con- <. dilion of the furniture indicated that ! he had fought the llames until the j last. All the clothing had been torn ^ fn in the bed and it was apparent that a the man had sought to smother the a llames which eventually consumed . him. j The excitement was ho intense that r .1. H. I'eisriiger of New York and Mrs. c M. E. Hodges of Minneapolis, who s were on window ledges near an alley, j not being encouraged by the corwd in } Fifth street, leaped from tin seventh lioor to the pavement. Pelsniper's s clothes caugnt lire and he tumbled, ^ burning, through the air. lie struck t a railing near the Hennepin avenue ( side of the hotel and was cut iu two. r There were many thrilling rescues from the >rn li^nr. j Tsie Wilt? mm * llankcr. 1 women are savers rattier than i spenders. And when they spend they ( spend to good advantage. A dollar 1 In a woman's hands goes twice as far < as a dollar in the hands of a man. If you want to save money let your wife he the banker. This Is for the work , Ingman, whether he labors with his handH or tolls with his brain. This Is for the married man and for the man at>out to be married. It is for men in every class of life. It is the ( best advice for the average man , every where. Give this a trial during the present year upon which we have just entered and see if jou are not better oil at Its beginning. , Hat* Two JoI>h. 1 James B. McLaughlin Is the only member of the District of Columbia 1 bar with two widely different and dlstlr ct professions. He Is an excellent lawyer and an ordained minister of the Methodist Kpiscpal Church and regularly preaches to Washington congregations. I WOMEN WANTED, Irantte City III., Haa To Many Old Bachelor*. "God give ug men!" cried Poet Tolland in lofty vein; but what Grante City wants is women. In this nourishing Illinois town vhloh had a population of 6,700 aoordlrg to the census of 1900, and vhich now claims 10,000, there are ;en men to each woman. The majority of these men are bachelors?particularly the business md professional men and as a conlequence more than half of the houses in Granite City are rooming and hoarding houses. While there has been no formal novement to Induce an Inlluxof wonen the marriageable men of the own would be much obliged, to say ihe least, If desirable members of the 'air sex would place themselves withn reaching distai oe. The young bachelors of the town ire so busy making money?and there s hardly a one of them who docs not ake lu from $6 to $10 a day?tb&t (hey have no tune to go courting at a listener; yet they would prove themielvel the marrylngest lot of men In ho country If they only had a chance. Over at Alton there is Mayor Heall, (he friend of Roosevelt, who is preachng against race suicide as hard as he mows how; and as the echoes of his ixhortations reach the ears of the onesome y< ung bachelors at Grante City they are as sad as sad can >e. Even some of the city oillcials canlot get wives. They are City Attorley Maurici Sullivanand City Clerk Jeorge Furnish, for example. Ex- mayor J. lb Judd was forced to to out of cilice lastspring still unwed led, though not unwilling. THE FARMEB.. lo Ih tho Mont Indepenpent of *11 Mankind. Harper's Weekly suggests that In hese piping days of agricultural pros>erity we should not forget the line ?ld fanner's toast not uncommonly ound on Eoglish drinking vessels in ormer times. It goes as follows: "Let the wealthy and great RdII in splender and state, 1 envy thfin not, 1 declare it, I eat ray own lamb, My chickens and ham, 1 shpar mv nuL.it Mnnna and 1 n.no?. t. I have lawns, 1 have bowers, I have fruits, I have How. rp, The lark is my morning alarmer; So my jolly boys now, Here's God speed the plou.h, Long life and success to the farm>r." The young man on the farm who is empted to go to the town or city, living up a substantial cenainty for loubtful prospects, would do well to ionsider tbe^truth expressed in these ines. Tbo farmer's life is the most ndependent, and is beset with less emptatlor.s than any other. It is the learest to nature and the farbbost, iway from the degenerating artliicialties of the modern world. It is because of tills artificiality and its false standards that the ten-dollar a.week derk, who may be tired any day aDd lot be able to pay his laundry bill, Is ed to consider himself the superior of he strong, sun browned harvester vho gathers his cropg on his own land. They are higher prizes than those hat are won by the successful farm :r, but those higher prizes are too ?fteu secured in part thr< ugh a moral ompromise and a sacrifice of self res >ect which the farmer is never called icon to make. ASSAULTED A CHILD. t'oung N( wberry N< ki*<> Charge'd With a Heinous Crime. A dispatch from Newberry to The hate sayb Clarence Butler, a negro .bout 17 years old, was brought to ?U there Wednesday nigh by Shurltr d. M. Buford, charged with felonious assault.. The victim Is a nrgro child, ibout 7 years ola, daughter of Louis 'esse,living on the plantation of Mr. I no. R. Spearman, near Stiver Street. L'he crime is alleged to have been >onrinitted on Tuesday evening of last vetk about 6 o'clock. The child was n the house alone, ller crus were leard and some of the people on the ilantavion hastened to h^r rescue and ,aw a man running from the house, the child at once told the story or .he assault and it was as said that an '.xaminatlon corroborated her statenents. Mr. Spearman telephoned to sheriff Buford, and yesterday, with a war-ant issued on the ir f .rmation of the 'athor of the child, by Magistrate | Jannon Iilease, ho went in search of tils man. lie found him at. Saluda Jldtown Wednesday evening and brought him to Jail here. SherilT Huford is being congratulated today on the swiftness of the capture. To the prompiut-b and bkill with which lie has alwavs discharged the duties cf his t nice, as in Jhis case many attribute the good order of the Bounty, and the infrequency of serious crime. Indigestion is easily overcome by the use of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure, because this remedy oigests what you eat and gives the stomach a rest? allows fo *" '?" ~?rate and grow, strong : gain, Kodol relieves Indigestl( n, lkiwu.-goi Sour Stomach, Heart-Hum, etc., and enables the digestive organs to transform all foods into the kind of rich red blood that makes health and strength. Sold by Conway Drug Co. WANTED A BOY. GlilL CAME INSTEAD AND THE FATHER GOT MAD. Used Violence On His Unwelcomed Child and is Held for Trial. i Stephen Ilelnbold, of New York, twenty-eight years old, was up before the court recently on a charge of assaulting the baby girl that cane in place of the buy he desired so much. Mrs. Ilelnbold, a pleasant facei, matronly young German was in ex urt with the baby. She said they had been married three years arid have a comrortable home at 987 S?ond avenue. The husband is an upholsterer and earns from $18 to $30 a week. The woman said their marriage whs a love match and that tluir home was a happy one until the birth of the second child, live months ago. Tne tirstborn was a girl. The father was dlssapolnted because the baby was not a boy. Ills wife consoled him by saying the next, child might be a boy. "Stephen was a good husband, as kind and loving as a man could be, and 1 h&w that he was greatly troubled about a sou,"said Mrs. Ileinbold. "I told him that a learned p'o feasor at Berlin said that you ooul.1 have a boy or girl by eating certain kinds of food, and I asked him to get me those things that are mostly what the professor called ctrbom cons." Then began the experiment which it was hoped would bring an heir to the Helnbold household. Mrs. Ileln hold had egg nuriein at breakfast. At luncheon she devoted herself mostly to pumpernlckle and charlotte russes and at dinner she ate schwerbrod until her appetite craved for a change of diet. The parents were hopeful of sue cess until early In May they were disturbed by the published opinion of Director Smith of the central Park menager.e, who said that from his ib nervation of the animals In the Park he believed that sex could be prt determined but that hydrocarbons would predispose to a boy. Peanuts were good for that. If read and er>k6s and such things contained albumen and predisposed to females. The Ileinbolds saw that they had been working tire theory upside down. The food Mrs lleinbold had been eating was considerably albuminous ai d favorable to another girl. Afu r they got over tiieir dissapointment sin started on the Smith theory and had peanuts for dinner, lunchton and breakfast. Early in August tlie second child was born. "When the family doctor told the father that it was a girl the news was rcciived without rej doing. According to the woman's story, he became moody, seemed to lose interest in his family and would not caress thosecond child as he had the first After a while he would scowl every time his eyes happened to fall on the baby. The baby was christened Step banie, after its father, but be was never heard to mention the name. He continued to hand over all his wages at the end of the week to his wife, but he began to treat her coldly and she understood that the cause of the whole trouble was that the baby was not a boy. She went to the court and com plained that her husband bad struck the baby in the face with his fist, and she was afraid lie might do it seme serious it jury. The case was turned over to Agent O'Connor of th<? Children's society to investigate. O Connor made an investigation, arrested the husband, and be and the woman tokl the ,itory to Magistrate Whitman in court. Mrs. Iltinbold said that the blow from the man's list made the baby'ariose bleed and blackend lis left eye. * "Was he drunk?" asked the magis trato. "No, he doesn't drink. Ills habits are good in everything else, except 1 that bo can't bear the sight of the baby,' she replied. "That's a very pretty baby. He ought to be proud of It," remarked the court as he looked at the unwel corned Infant that tie woman held In her arms. The blue eyed fat infant smiled up at his honor. "What do you want me to do with y ur husband?" The magistrate asked. "Something must bo done to change his mind before he gets worse Its all because the baby was not a boy," she responded. Helnbuld was asked what he had to say. He said tie did not strike j the child with his tist. He only slap ped it with the back of bis hand. The woman said she had money enough to get along without her husband lor a time, and perhaps if he was locked up for a while he would became reconciled to the girl hood of the baby. " I'll hold him in $:100 bail for trial in special sessions," announced the magistrate. The man had no bondsmnn handy and was locked up. Charles Zimmerman, who shot and inhtauily killed Jim Stevens just across the Siluda line in Kdgelielci county Wedmsday night, was lodged in jail there tills evenlr.g for safe keeping by Messrs. W. D. and J. G. Padgelt. Stevens, it is said, was sitting in his home and was shot by Zimmerman through an open window, both parties are negroes. MANY OFf ICRS VACANT. The General Assembly Will Fill Important Places. More elections will be held this year by the general assembly than usual. There are vacancies occurring in six of the judicial circuits and the ohlef Justice of the supreme court is to bo elected. Of course much interest will centre in the election of the three dispensary directors and the State llbarian Is also to be elected. There are two, vacanoies on the board of penitentiary directors. New members must be elected on the boards of trustees of South Carolina college, Clemson, Wlnthrop, the Citadel and the State colored college, at Orangeburg. Chief Justice Y. J. Pope's term ex plres this year and a successor must be chosen to serve eight years. Justice Pope is tilling an unexpired term. The judgrs of the circuit courts whose terms expire and their respective circuits are: U. G. Dantzler tirst; James Aldrlcb, second; It. (). Purdv, third; It C. Watts, fourth; G. W. Gage, six th and J. C. Klugh, eighth. These judges serve for four years each. Toe term of State Commissioner W. O. Tatum expires, and also the term of chairman of the bond of dispensary directors, H. II Evans. The terms of the two direotors, John Bell Towjll and L W. Boykln, also expire. The term Is two yearN. Successors to J. A. Wtngo and D. 1). Peurlfoy of the board of penitentiary n ust be elected to serve two years each. The State librarian must be chosen for a term of two years, Miss LaBorde being the incumbent. The college trustees whose terms expire this year follow, all being elected for six years each: Scuth Carolina College?W. T. C. Bates, J. Q. Davis, August Kohn. Clemson?W. I). Evans, A. T. Smythe. L. A. vSease. YVlnthrop?E. S. Joynes, W. J.| Roddey, A. M. Lee. Citadei?J. J. Lucas, E. M. Rlvthe, State Colored College?W. 11. Lowman, I). .J. Hr&dh&m. ; There are plenty of candidates out for the varlciu othces and there will be lots of log rolling before uexo Tuesday or Wednesday, when the lucky outs will get the plums. Terrible Tragedy. At r? Caledonia, Minn., Matthew Styler, Infatuated with Pearl Wheaton, daughter of S. N. Wheat on, a wealthy farmer, broke Into thp Whea i ton home shot and killed the girl and wounded her sister Ruth her mother and himself. Styler is a dental studens at the University of Minne sota. Pearl Wheaton had refused to m?rry oim. Unable to secure entrance through the door, Styer broke through a window and was met by Ruth Wheaton, who, armed with a revolver attempted to protect the utmny. ooyer wresuea tne revolver from her and shot her twice through the breast and then turned on Mrs. Whraton, shooting her In the throat and arms. lie ran upstairs to Pearl's room, breaking In the door he shot her through the heart and then shot himself. When neighbors rushed In Styer was found with his head on the girl's breast. She was dead and he was barely living. The only other Inmate of the house, a child, escaped by leaping through the window Styer broke. Mr, Wheaton was away from home at the time. hound At Charleston L P. Fouche, of Anderson, a pharmacy student of the South Carolina Medical college, was found wounded on Coming street at an early hour Friday morning, lie had been shot in the stomach, and a friend, L S. Maxwell, who was with him, was taken into custody by the pjlice, while Fouche was sent to the Roper Hospital. An Investrgation siemedto establish the fact Friday that Fouche had shot himself proba t l.. i i.l # ? - * uiy cuitUKiHK nis pisioi irODQ HIS pittOl ,from 1 coat p ckut to his hip pocket The wound is not serious and the young man will doubt I^bs recover. (Jhilil Hiiruod, Melton Jamison, a negro livlrg on Mr. Lent Kerry's place near Swansea, lost <\ c'^lri T tursday from a severe burn. The child's clothing In some way caught lire and at least one half the skin on its entire b >dy and extremities was burr.ed, the cut icle peeling (IT. The child 21 months old and did rot see m to suffer any pain. It lived about 18 hours after being burned T to secret of successfully ridding the s/stem of a cold is a thorougu evacuation cf the bowels. K mnedy's Lixative II innv anrl '] ar dn?>.K t.hU? L quid Cold Cure, drives ell cold c ut of the system. Best for Couerhs, Croup, etc. Sold by Conway Drug Co. At*(iy killed. A cablegram from Toklo, Japan, says that on the 4 th instant an explosion set lire to a mine at Akita, on the. main Island of Japan, and that 101 persons lost their lives. TLvidkntly Japan means to b2 ready for ail comers In the future. She is building five immense battle ships, having a total displacement of more than 08,000 ton*. Two, whioh have just been contracted for In England, will weigh 19.000 tons each being the heaviest and largest lighting ehips yet planned. Japan is also having built two great armored orulsers, each of 13,500 tons displacement. A New Year Prayer. O, thou Master of all times and seasons? , Thou who dost mark the ages in their flight, Grant this new year my gift to Thee may be. To love my fellow man, to be, to do For bsm what I wculd have him do for me! That selfsameness may cause my every deed; That 1 may know no hate?no bitterness, But love the world as even Thou hast loved Grant me thy peace which years can never bring? Peace withih my heart?peace to follow men; For this new year which thou bast given me 1 must return to thee when thcu demand . I ask not for myself material things, That come ana pass away like common dust; I only plead that thou to me will give To live the life which thou dost live in rue. O, thou Master, in whose sight the passing Of a thousand years is but a single day, Wilt thou not heed this prayer and grant to me Its answer as the gift of Thy new year. 8TAfJS DlSPfiNStiRY. The Supporters of the Institution I Hold a Cancan. The dispensary supporters in the gsnoral assembly are making prepara lions to rally against the onslaught of adverse legislation proposed by ardent anti-dispensary people. Thursday night in the ways and means commit, tee r< om of the house a caucus was held and the dispensary people put their i.eads together. Tuey also began to count noses, and The State says ac coiding to the statement of one of the members who attended the meeting, tiie result was entirely satisfactory, lie made the prediction that the dispensary as an institution would not be ' put out of business" at this ses slon of the general assembly. The dispensary people have introduced no bill as yet. la this they think that they have showed biicre j tion for they will t:ght fur it if they see that some legislation must be put through. Senator Riysor has had the engrossing department at work on the bill which he introduced List session, hut he may not introduce it. Senator ManulDg has been spoken of its one who will probably introduce the bill which is iinally decided upon. The dispensary people claim to have fcaelr hopes raised by the rtsult of the caucus Thursday uight. Senator Tillman was in Columbia Thursday and while he did not participate in any caucus he is said to have talked freely with the members cf the legislature who consulted with him ou the dispensary situation. l\ie Mora* Law, Andrew Hamilton, the life Insurance lobbyist, declares that of the $800,000 expended by him in his lobby work, not one dollar was expended contrary to the moral law. It is fortunate for the country that the Hamilton idea of morals does not generally prevail. The idea that the use of money to debauch legislatures and ! corrupt judges is not contrary to morals would, If generally accepted, make government a farce and reduce the people to abject slavery. Tuere was a time when many thoughtful men believed that the Hamilton code of morals pot vailed generally, but recent developments prove that, after all a majority of the people are honest and will insist that public business be honestly cared for. it required a long time, and multiplied persecutions, to arouse the people to a realizing sense c f the fact tljat the J! a mtlt/in t\ ^r\ /\f vwamaI. ~ ? it?J ..wuuiivuu v ?n> ut juuiaia pieyaut;u In high financial circles, but when they were finally aroused they took speedy action with the resu't that a groat many men who had long posed as statesmen, patriots and "defenders of national honor" were exposec to public contempt.. The Hamilton code of morals will be ably defended 1 / the Amalgamated Association of Porch Climbers, the HurgUr's Henevolem and Protective Asstciatior , the Sand baggers" Mutual A jF/ciation, and kindred organizations. Hut it will be scored by men who tiedeve in the ! moral code handed down u on Siuia and who are trying to IP a upright and pure lives. Cheated iho Onflows. Hooker Glass, ft uegr> coaflrved in dalina Al. *< - ' * 'r I wi.iiu-a, <1.1ir'i HUO 1U Idler UI JV W, ! Allen, ayounq whiten an audst-in enIced to harg Januav.T 19 <u, cheated the gallows in a dari' g dash for li'ierty Tuesday, la wh'ch l 0 was shot to d??ath by deputies. T.ie negro lil< d olT his manacles with a ' hoe Iron and tried to wrest a revolver from a guard. Two men were required to overpower the negro and one deputy shot him at the risk of the other's life. The dead negro was named for hooker Washington. Tin dinuer plates were found folded over his heart when the body was examined. Perfection can only be attained in the physical by slowing Nature to appropriate and not dissipate her own resources. Cartharfcics gripe, weaken?dissipate, while Da Witt's Little Early Risers simply expel all purtrid matter and bile, thus allowing the liver to assume normal activity. Good for the complexion. Sold by Conway Drug Co. VOLCANOES IN MARYLAND. Prove to Be th? Oldest Rock Formation In the United States. Prof. Philip R. Uhler gives an account of a discovery which he made lu the western Maryland mountains, say? the Baltimore American. Three peaks, tho principal one named Buzzard's Knob, crown a plateau about six mile? from the city. It was for Prof. Uhler to discover that the three prominence? are in faot volcanoes, aud that they are the very oldest type of volcanic rock that is found In the United States. These po&ks are of a different form from volcanoes like Vesuvius. In tho latter form of volcano molten lava and stonos are forced up by superheated steam, leaving a deep hole, but in these craters In western Maryland the whole mountain was sriginally in a. molten condltlou and tne top crust was forced upward In a dome-shaped form, and such lava a? did escape; was forced out in vents at various places. The volcanic rock of the region is metalbearing, and speclments of gray, green and gold copper were found by I>r. Uhler. The domes of tlie craters were somewhat elliptical lu shape. In Mountain Climbing. The highest point at which climbers have stayed for any length of time is 20,992 feet, on the Himalayas, where an exploring party jminfully stayed for six weeks in lfOf, Higher still, at 21,910 feet, is the extreme point of I^'s. BuiIfiflf "VA/rvr Ir ma ti 'c uc/'on t ? t h n irrontpof height rwu-h?<1 by a woman. Mr. Bullock Workman kept on to a point 23,393 feot high, which is the greatest height reached by any mountain climber. The altitudes reached by Mr. and Mrs. Bullock Workman were above* those at which M. Berson, the aeronaut, began his artificial inhalation of oxygen. At 26,210 feet the aeronauts In general begin the continued inspiration of oxygen, and neglect of this precaution was responsible for the death, of MM. Croco, Spinelli and Sirel at 28,208 feet, and their companion, Tissandler, just escaping by a miracle. Mount Everest, the highest point of the globe, U only some 700 feet higher,. 28,995 feet, and 3,000 above that begin the cirrus clouds that are composed of spicules of Ice. At 35,424 feet is 4fhehighest point ever reached by man. This is the height attained by M. Berson in his balloon on July 31, 1901.? Loudon Post. His Muscles Obey Him. , Medical circles in Vienna are being, edilied by some remarkable examples of muscular action which a man aged about 30 years is showing. His power over his muscles is t>o great that he can perform feats that would usually be deemed incredible. Ho can contract his abdominal muscles so as to show an. undulating movement massing upward and downwaru; his larynx goes up and down -without the aid of tho tongue; and he can even cause his pupils either to contract or dilate thus showing theinfluence of will over so-called involuntary actions. By contracting the diaphragm he is n Kin r\ /Hc?\lu??o V\ la L?? 4V?n ?? uuiv WW uioi/tnvg win H' iu I try 1UU1 inches. One of his marvelous feats, narrated by a Lancet correspondent, is the "transposition of the intestinesinto tne space occupied usually by the' lungs.?Exchange. Oxygen to Cut Metals. Diamond may cut diamond, but oxygen cuts metals, at least at Liege. There there in a daily exhibition of theJottrand process for cutting metals by a jet of oxygen. The apparatus consists essentially in blow pipes, moved, along a.guide in front of the metal plates or part to be cut at the rate of about six inch?? per minute. One of the blow pipes delivers an oxyhydrogcn flame, which raises the metal where It Is to be cut to a temperature corresponding with dark rod. The following blow pipe delivers a jet oi pure oxygen which enters into combustion with the hot metal, thus producing a clear channel like a saw cut about ono-eighth inch thick, tne remainder of the metal being unaffected by the operating.?Exchange. A Real Rapid-Fire Gun. A new death-dealing instrument has been invented. A Lithuanian gentleman, M. Feodor Troitz, has contrived a gun, worked by electricity, which will fire from t,000 to 12,000 shots a minute. The range of this now weapon is three miles, and its destructive power, if all i AlnLvtM 1. ^ L ~ t ? ? - tiaiuis un us ut'uail ill~*i genuine, snouid put in the shade such trivial toys as magazine rifles. The gun only requires oue man to work it. Luminous Shrimps. Luminous shrimps have been discovered by the Prince of Monaca in the course of his deep sea fishing in the' Mediterranean. They live at a depth of from 1,100 to 1,600 fathoms. They areof* the si/.o of line prawns, and are studded with small phosphorescent spots. These light their way in the gloom of the deep waters.?Exchange. Railways In Mexico. ^ In Mexico railways are being extended and facilities for transportation arebeing improved. The port of Vera Cruz has, at a cost of some $16,000,000. been made into one of tho flnest harbors in the world, and its miles of magnificent stone quays shame the flimsy woodeu water fronts that characterize NewYork and San Francisco. An Offense to Royalty. A governess named Kathle Schmidt was prosecuted for leso majeste because she wrote her name in a visitors* book at a hotel at Gross-Ijiehterfelde, immediately beneath the signatures of the king of Saxony and the two princesses. It is always better to take things na the* come than to attempt to caui\ them m they go.