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r- - ;. T RI-WFK LYEDITIO. WINSBORO -r.~ C. MA RC-8 89.ETALIHD14 fE BOBOLI. )atin the clover blowi ig free Asthe white cloud,?.', away, - in a IA-cap rippk oz ecstasy He.s pouring his merry lay. t aih the blue of the peaceful summer skies % 4ere the bees round the ilowers throug, us wake. as o-er the field he tliie, Is 'a bubbling trail of song. )b, .obolinkum, by faney led. What a happy fate to wing Yer'the sea of clove' billowy red. With nothing to do but sing. THE HIDDEN CITY. It was a gala day in a small town pn' be United States border near ue Mfeican frontier. There-.ad been the usual amount ox iorse raoing and betting, and the great attraction was not reached n nearly night. huge balloon, gay in the national .olors, strained at the ropes which held 't as it swayed in the rising wind. Small, the aeronaut, was talking with a group of young men, each one ager to risk his life for the sake of eaviug terra firna for a short time. "I'd like to please you all, I woulo, pon honor; but it is impossible to take more than three. Harding, you are noted for your steady nerves. Young, you will be second? And, Bolton, you may meet with an adventure which will throw all previous ones in the thade. What do you say?" "That we will gladly make the trip with you," answered Harding, as pokesman of the three. As soon as they took their seat in the car, the last rope was cut, and the great balloon. like a huge carrier dove, shot straight up for a few hundred feet, wavered, swung motionless for an in stant, then crossed the Mexican line and sailed slowly away over that mysterious land. "It isn't going to be a clear night after all. A moonlight balloon ride is weird and grand, but we shall have it dark, I fear,'' said Small, pointing to % cloud bank near the horizon. -"I hope you have a telescope," cried Bolton, .eargerly. Small placed a magnificent field-glas n his hand, saying: "Now you can zee your fill of Mexico. if I am not mistaken we shall cross it obliquely and strike the western coast it we can land there. If not, we may take a bath in the broad Pacidc. But we'll not borrow trouble, for there is no certainty of either. The wind is liable to sudden changes in this climate, and naev send us back into the United States in less than two hours. "I hope not-not until we meet with the adventure which you promised we, answered Bolton, who was busily scanning the changing landscape be neath them. "How the water shines!' L believe our earth is a star to other planets or a moon. Who-knows? See the peop!e run to cover like frightened partridges? I suppose they never saw % balloon before." "They'll get used to them," said Harding. "Whoever lives a hundred years from now will think no more of raveling in air ships than we do of going on the cars." "Do you believe that?" asked Young. "I do, and I think that the North Pole problem will be solved in tbat very vay." "I care more just now about dtiscov ering the bidden Aztec city folks are talking about," mused Bolton. "Why shouldn't we? We have passed by the settlement, and now see how fast we are nearing that range of mountains ' sha# watch for it." The others lauged, but Bolton watched mountain and valley as the night shad Sws fell. 'Before dark the lower hills were passed, and tier on tier the magnificent mountain region of Mexico spread out before them. The moon was somewhat obscured, >ut they could determine that they were passing over lofty mountains, ieep ravines and dense, shadowy for ests. It seemed as if the night would never end, and Boiton had his glass in band at the first streak of day. Presently he uttered a cry of in 3redulous surprise. -'Take the glass, some of you and look! Tell me if I am growing crazy. T'here' just beyond that tall, dome-like, rocky mountain. What do you see?" "I should call it a city, with walls of burnished silver!'' ejaculated Harding. "White stone, no doubt, but the genuine hidden city!" cried Small, excitedly. ''But precious little good it'll do us," groaned Young. "We'll not be in this vicinity long at the rate we're going."' "I don't know about thatt," answered Small, with a critical glance at the sky. "Do you see that black cloud? I thought we shouldn't escape a storm. Do you feel these puffs of hot air? Sure sign of a coming tempest. Don't you see that the wind has nearly ceased? When it blows again it will come with a tornado and carry us back *aster than we care to go, perhaps." "Yes, it has stopped-and we are di rectly over the city!" cried Bolton, a moment later. "See the people run ning like frightened sheep. Can't you lower us, Small? "You remember the ancient Aztec belief in superstition. They will surely take us for gods of sir. Let's make them a call." Small silently pulled the cord, and the balloon descended slowly and ma jestically. "Hold!" breathed Young. "We have happened along upon one of their sacrificial days. I can see the temple plainy-the~ horrible altar-the dia he'lical priests-yes, and the victim! see, it is a maiden as white as we are! Here, take the glass and see for your selves, Loo'k at that old villain, his knife in his hand! See the bound maiden, and the people kneeling to our airship. Boys, the Aztecs believed in killing a beautiful maiden as a sacri alcoever yer nni Quetzal should come from the clouds to claim her as hls bride, then the custom was to be abol ished; but he uever came. Smail, can you drop this balloon, and hold it long enough for Harding to take the girl away? He is the best looking one among us, and really there will be ne resistance." "I'll try it," responded the aeronaut firmly, with a look at the coming temnest. Slowly the balloon settled, swaying in the slight bright, until the car touched the earth, amid the prostrate forms of the superstitious natives. "No time to spare. Lively now, Harding!" shouted Small, looping the rope around one of the temple pillars 'Quetzal! Quetzal!" murmured the people, still kneeling, as Harding strode to the sacrificial altar. He rapidly freed the captive, and led her to the car. Small loosed the rope, while Young and Bolton tossed out bags of ballast sufficient to make up for the extra weight of the girl, and the balloon arose quickly, amid the entreaties of the peo ple to stay- "I hit that murdering old priest a whack that he'll remembei when I sent the ballast out," muttered Young. "Hit him with another bag; then. the tempest is coming, and we must go above the clouds,or we are lost!"shouted Small. The wind increased, the air grew dark and -misty, and soon the hitden city was indeed hidden from them by the dense, black storm-elouds below them. The upper current of ai-, althougL not a gale, was sufficiently strong to carry them fast. "But we're not going toward home?' questioned Bolton. "BI.Ess your stars that you Pre safe I anywhere," nodded Harding. The clouds swept by, but the myster. iou3 city was no longer in sight. "Those folks will be more suoersti tious .-han ever because we vanished with the tempest," laughed Young. I "But what shall we.do with our prize now we have got her? that's the ques - tion," asked Harding. "You ought to have asked that be. fore you took her from her people," said Bolton, gravely. "If you can leave me near Fort Nel. son-" began the girl, laughing at - their astonishment. I "What! are you not an Aztec?" cried Young. "No. My father is an officer at the fort. While enjoying a ride on my pony last week, I ventured too fAr 'away, was captured by a band of the Aztecs, and but for you should have met a horrible death. I can never thank you."' "Don't try," advised Young. "I as assure you it was a pleasure to us." "And you are not"'gt- home yet," 5added Small, siguificantly. The wind continued to blow fitfully, sometimes from one direction, some times from another, butaiways keeping the balloon above the uninhabitee country. Darkness came, and toward morning the moon shone out in tropical beauty, . iving a weird, ghastly effect to eartb and sky. IBefore sunrise the wind increaseci and set in steadily toward the land of the stars and strnpes. "There goes the last bag of ballast. and still we are descending," said Young- "But we are out of the woods, or over them, for I see houses in the distance." "The old lady knows a thing 01 two," answered Small, brushing the silken cushion of the car. "She won't carry us safely so far to wreck us at last." He was a true phrophet, for the bal loon descended until the car touched the ground, not far from a farm house. "How fur to Fort Nelson? 'Bout ten mile," returned the farmer, whose whole family ran out to see what monster had dropped from the clouds. Horses were soon hired, and Hard ing set out to escort the maiden thither. It is needless to tell of the rejoicing when they arrived at the fort. I"Which of you married the young lady?" I asked of Harding, when he told me the story five years after. "Hum! Well, none of us. She mit tened us all for a bit of a corporal that's scar't of his own shadow wh en he hars a gun fired." But what of that hidden city?" 1 persisted. "I don't know a thing more about it. I expect it is there y et,'' was the careless reply. Another Sitory. This simple tale of the kitchen is borrowed from Truth: "Please, ma'am," said the cook, "I'0 ike to give you a week's notice." "Why. Mary, this is a great surprise. Do you hope to better yourself?" "Well, no, not exactly that," answer ed Mary, with a blush. "I'm going tc get married." seir-Deurai. Father-Why don't you work, my son? If you only knew how much hap . uiness work brings you would begin at one. Son-Father, I am trying to lead a lift of self-denial in which happiness cuts no figure. Do not tempt me.-Detroil Free Press. Economic "!Marlar," said the Mormon gentle man, "hain't~ you kep' them letters I wro:e you when I was courtn'r" "Tes," said the wife. "I allowed you had. I wish you would git 'em out so I can use 'em. I've got another wife isview."-Inldianlap I ols Journal. IN OLD KENTUCKY. stories About the People in a Wil1 District. Big Tom Stacey and Sally Ann Bur ris were vitting on a beech log in the forest of the Burris mansion on Tar iork, Lewis County, Kentucky. Sally Ann had her face turned away from her lover.' She was looking to the left, down the road, with an anxious expression on her ruddy face. Big Tom was looking absently in front, while he picked his long, yellow teeth with a pine splinter. They had sat in silence for several minutes- when Tom spoke: "Sal." "I like ye mighty tarnal *ell." "Tell me somethin' I don't know, won't ye?" "I allers did like ye, Sal." "Course." "Ye're the purtiest gal on this crick." "So I've hearn." "How'd it do fer us to yoke up ter gether in mattermony?" "Don't know. What kind o' starting L.ev ye got?" "Er hoss." "What else?" "Ten fattenin, shoats." "What else?" "Er cow." "Is she fresh?" "No; will be in four months." "No trade, Tom," decisively spoke the girl, "Bill Baker heads ye off. He has two hosses, fifteen shoats and two cows -one with a young calf. Git away, Tom; I see Bill cummin' around the bcnd now. He won't want ter ketch y6 aah. Git!" Senator J. P. Huff, editor of the Vance. burg Sun, said to me recently: "The most pathetic experience I eve-. bad occurred about a month ago. I was sitting at my desk writing, when a 'great, tall, big-boned, loose-jointed fellow of about 85 entered, and said: 'ain't you the editor?' "'Yes, sir; what can I do for you?' "'Print this 'ere little piece, if yt please.' "I read the following stanza, writteL on dirty paper, in uncouth scrawls: The little Johnny chap is gone, We won't see him no more, Becalse the little angils took him up, An' toated him unto the golden shore! "Thinking it was only a bit of dog gerel, having no particular reference to any one, I was thoughtless enough to give vent to my mirthful feelings In i loud guffaw. "'Dodgast yer hard-hearted picter! -rclaimed the fellow. "I looked up suddenly. Anger and grief were mixed in his red, swollen yes. Tears coursed down his rough face. He snatched up the paper, say ng: "'Gimme the portry. I'd hate to makt light o' things you'd write about your ttle dead boy!' "That little incident," sadly spoke the. ienator, "has worried -,; ever since." I put up to stay all night at a log :abin in Knott County about two years go. After supper was over the "man of the house" said he "expected I was wore out and would like a little sleep." so he'd hold family prayers, accordinA to his invariable custom, then "we'. til pile in." He dropped on his knees in front oi a chair, and all followed his example. lie Importuned the Lord to send down blessings on himself and family, all his friends and the stranger within the gates. "An' yas, O Lord, oh, PIll ax ye, in all meekness and humbleness of heart, to see to my enemies. Ill ax ye, O Lord, ter have mercy on 'em. Yas, have--" At this juncture an eight pound rock came through the window and thumped the old man square be tween the shoulders. "Ugh!" he grunt ed, and halted for a few seconds. Then he took hold of the strings of isa Invo cation again and yelled'."Yas, dad bust 'm; have mercy on 'em, if ye kin, for aned if I do!" Leaping up, he grabbed his rifle, rani out and fired. The next morning the limp body of a man hung across the ard fence.-Cincinnati Tribune. BtG WARS CAUSED BY TRIFLES. A. Shaven Chin Cost France 3,000, 000 Lives and 300 Years of Strife. reat and costly war has been brought about by an incident trivial and even ridiculous, says Answers. Thus the war of the Spanish succession is said tto have been caused through a glass Iof water. A lady, Mrs. Masham, was carryng a glass of water, when she was obstructed by the Marquis de Torey. A Blight scuffle ensued and the water was spilled. The marquis thereat took of. fense, and bad feeling ensued between the English and French courts, with the a ltimate result that war was declared. 1he campaign cost France many severe ,battles, viz., Blenheim, 1704; Ramillies. 1707; Oudenarde, 1708, and Malplaquet 1709. Quite as absurd In Its origin was the war that took place during the common wealth of Modena. A soldier stole a bucket from a public well belonging to the State of Bologna. Although the value of the article did noZ exceed a tuarter, its annexation was the signal or a flerce and prolonged war. Henry, the King of Sardinia, assisted the Mo lenese to retain the bucket, and in one f the subsequent battles he was made a prisoner. The bucket is still exhibit d In the tower of the Cathedral of Mo lena. A third instance of a war resulting trom a trifling cause was that between Louis VIL of France and Henry IL of England. The Archbishop of Rouen lecreed that no one should wear long aair upon their heads or chins. Louis wiRfe, Eleanor, rallied him upon sus ap pearance. A quarrel ensued, which re sulted in the dissolution of the mar riage and Eleanor's marriage with Hen ry. By this marriage the broad do mains in Normandy formerly belonging to Louis passed into the possession of! Henry. Louis, hotly incensed, made anI attack on Normandy, and henceforth, for nearly 800 years, arose those bloody aid devastating wars, which cost Prance upward of 3,000,000 lives. THE GEN. 1OOTH MINE. Gold that Is Dug by Members of the Salvation Army. Way up in one of the most inaccessi ole portions of the Huachuca range of mountains, near Prescott, Ariz., there is situated perhaps the most unique mining camp in the world. The sixteen men who daily toil in the Gen. Booth mine are all members of the Salvation Army, and the protits of the mine all go into the treasury of that organiza tion. The history of the location and subsequent development of the mine is interesting. "Old Dick" Taylor, the discoverer, is one of the best known and most suc cessful prospectors in the territory. Coming to Arizona in the early days, when the whole southwestern country ws a. wilderness given over to the Ap Indians, he h prospected the cotru4y from one end to the other, and has made more valuable locations than any other one man in Arizona. The One Horse, Bad Luck and Desert mines in the Harqua Hula country, the Apache and the New York in the Super stitious Mountains, the King in the Bradshaws, and many others, were lo cated by him, and have since made for tunes for the investors. Dick Taylor was, perhaps, the mos. profane man in the Southwest. His vocabulary of invective was something phenomenal, and was brought into use on the slightest provocation. The pic turesqueness and volubility of his oaths were proverbial over the Territory for many years, It is said that after each sale Taylor would invest in a year's grub stake, then proceed to spend the remainder of the money in the wildest debauchery. At one time he ran through with $10,000 in two weeks in Phoenix, throwing his money away in the most reckless manner. His money once gone, he returned to his prospect ing and touched no liquor until his next sale. It was immediately after the sale oi the Apache mine for $15,000 that he started on his wildest debauch in Phoe nix. For over a month he did not draw a sober breath, and, at last, reduced again to poverty and weakened men tally and physically, he professed relig ton at an open-air meeting of the Sal vation Army in Phoenir. - For over two months he marched'wlth the army at its nightly meetings, but finding such a routine life too irksome he again started for the hills. Nothing was heard of him for over two months, and it was reported that lie had perished on the desert, but one day he again turned up in Phoenix with a burro load of rich ore, which set the town ablaze with ex citement. Some of the nuggets which he brought were valued at $50. Every one was surprised when he announced his intention of turning, his latest find over to the Salvation Army. It was duly proffered and accepted by that or ganization, and fifteen men volunteered to develop it. Work was commenced over a year ago under the direction of Taylor and has progressed steadily since. The pay streak is sixteen inches wide, and has paid well from the grass rots The ore is treated in two crush ers erected near the mine, but it is pro posed soon to bring in a ten-stamp mill. Strict religious discipline is maintained in the camp, and the profits, after pay ing the necessary expenses, go into the treasury of the army to aid in the work of that organization. Two shifts of six men each work under ground, while the remainder attend to the treatment of the ore and transportation of neces sary supplies. Supplies are freighted 100 miles.-Mining Industry and Tradesman. ___ LIVING ABROAD. ft I. Not 8o Cheap as Commonly Re puted to Be. "A man soon gets cured of many lona cherished traditions respecting the cost of things in Europe by a little bit of personal contact with old world in stitutons," said Col. W. C. Chapman, of San Francisco. "I had an idea un-I til I sojourned abroad this summerI that the cost of living was much cheap er in London, for example, than in any American city. To miy sorrow, 1 found out that to live in good style in London was dearer a good deal than to exist comfortably in New York. To be spe cifc, I went to the Savoy, the best hotel in the great metropolis, and ordered dinner not at all more elaborate than I am used to having at home. There are some excellent restaurants in Wash ington not noted for their cheapness where that dinner would have cost about $5.50crtainly not more than $6. The bill brought me called for ?2, or $10 in American currency. Of course there was a small bottle of wine, but it was innocent of ice, as neither love, money nor tears will make those beau tiful Britishers give you any ice with your drinks. I don't want to ever hear again of European cheap living; it's a myth. I can live better in this country on less money and have a ton of ice a day, if I want it, gratis. You may be able to live over there on a little money, but a man can exist very cheaply in China if he will limit himself to rice." Bongs of Wild Birds. The song of wild birds is usually a succession of three or four notes con tinued during the same interval, staat S'EGUN SEVEN CENTURIES AGOu The Feudal Service Performed Year1l by the Corporation of London. A curious and ancient ceremonial, ot quit rent service, annually performed by the City of London corporation, as tenants of certain crown lands situated near Bridgeport, In Shropshire, took place at the royal court of justice in the office of the Queon's Remem brancer, G. F. Pollock, says the Illus trated London News. It was formerly done in open court, before the cursitor baron of the exchequer, whose office became extinct in 1856. The land in question, still officially described as "a piece of waste ground called 'The Moors,'" is now a small farm at Eard ington, about two miles from Bridge worth. The feudal service by which it has been held during seven centuries at least is the act of cutting asunder two fagots of wood, one with a hatchet, the other with a billhook. It has been conjectured that, upon some occasion, when one of the old kings, Norman or Plantagenet, was hunting in the neigh borhood he was saved from imminent danger, occasioned by the fierce on slaught of an infuriated bear, by the timely arrival and assistance of a sturdy yeoman who was cutting fag ots. The king may have rewarded the vian with a perpetual grant of the 'Mora," the moor or waste of land, upon condition of his coming yearly to the royal court and presenting a cou ple of fagots cut open In the presence of the king's official representative. The earliest recorded notices of this tenure occurs in a roll of Serjeanties of 13 John, 1211. The property after ward passed to the city corporation of London. The ceremony on Oct 22 of last year was performed by the city solicitor, who was accompanied by the secondary of the City of London and several other officers of the cor poration. Proclamation was first made, calling upon the tenants and occupiers f the land to come forth and do'serv tce. Another act of similar character was immediately afterward performed by the city solicitor, for a plot of ground in the parish of St. Clement's Danes in the Strand, anciently occupied by a forge-that of counting six horse. hoes and sixty-one hobnails. A WONDERFUL GOBBLER. Mhe Poultryman Expected Him to Keep Growing After Death. "Talkin' about turkeys," observed tht farmer to the produce man the other lay, "we raised one a year ago that probably never had his equal in size id weight in the history of the world." The produce man looked incredulous, but the farmer went on without notie Lg it: "When that turkey was hatched he was no bigger than the rest of the brood, but two days later he weighed ive pounds and was sprouting tall feathers. The end of the first week >ut of the shell saw him a full-fledged bird of a trifle more than ten pound' tnd still he grew." The produce man smiled indulgently choing the farmer's wordal "And still he grew." "Yes, sirree; I never saw anything ike it. He was two weeks old to the lay when he tipped the beam at thfr ty-five pounds, and he only seemed to ae fairly started, for--" "Yes, I know," slowly observed th& roduce man, "for still he grew." "Grew? Well, I should say so! A week later he had put up another ftf teen pounds without impairin' his ac. rivity or seemin' to mind it in the least In picked up his corn as lively as ever. nd still he grew." There was a sickly smile on the prod rice man's face, but he made no re iark. "We bema~ tc wonder where it wa ;oin' to stop," went as the farinier, "for thouOtt this time his appetite, which had lwys been extraordinary, began to ick up at an alarmnin' rate,' and we ew he'd just about got his second wiid, which meant puttin' on weight ore rapidy than ever. It took him lust ten days to put up another twenty e pounds." "That makes seventy-five," gaspe'. he produce man. "Kerrect, and still he grew." "And still he grew," sighed the pron-i uce man. "I suppose he was something likL. ght weeks old when he reache.d the .0-pound mark, and quit walking tout," continued the farmer. "But he still gr-ew?" anxiously put ir. the produc-e man. "Never let up for a minute." wS th, ~ssing reply. "We became a luttle inxious about him at this time, on1 :e ount of the henhouse, which we coalhd ee would soon be too small for huini to itand up in. Finally, we decided to transfer him to the barn, but we hadl een a little slow in comin' to a decis on, for when we went to remove him e had grown too big to go throu;:b the lienhouse door, and we had to Take omt the whole front of the building to ac ~ommodate his size." "And still lie grew," ventured the' produce man in a weak voice, and with mvery painful attempt at a smile. "Yes, he had more room to spre.: ut in the barn and went on growir raster than ever. Very soon it becais question as to how long the ban would last him. and then we decidedt. ll him. That. as you'll .easily guese was no small task, but we did 1r-.1e3 !elled him with a poleax as you woule in ox, and we nmnaged to live hIe is death-blow at the third stroke.' "And still he grew," absent-mnAk~v nurmured the produce maun. "Grew nothini'." retorte:d the farmnet Indignantly. "Did you ezpoet him wC o on growin' forever ? "Oh, I didn't know," answeredi to. ther, somewhat recovering his siyk Lts; "stranger things than thast bay~ ened to the turkey, if I have not beer i..m1e'-ieW York Hocrnim'. FIGS AND THISTLES D'S demand of every sinner is uncondition.1 surrender. God proves ;h presence by his work in the heart Walking w I t h G o d begins in .very short steps. A mote in the eye makes the whole world loolk a wrong. Covetousness h. L more deadly disease than cholera. If we are afflicted, it is because Go6 ees a good reason for it. The man who walks with God mus% e careful how he steps. All things are still working togethe !or good to them that love God. A little sin will squirm just as ba6 ts a big one when you try to kill it. Every drunkard's wife knows b) litter experience that wine is a mocker. The world ia not so much in need of Detter preaching as it is of better prac ice. Drops of grief can't do anything Tothing gives perfect peace but trust a Christ. Religion is not needed any more I. he church than it is in the store and vorkshop. God loves a cheerful giver as mueL is he did when the widow gave her wo mites. The sheep that has felt the tooth 01 he wolf ought to keep very close to he Shepherd. God needs intelligent service as much is he does a loyalty that is willing to ,o to the stake. God is still opening windows in heavr n for people who bring every tithe into he storehouse. The shield of faith was made te uench all fiery darts of the wicked ne, if held right When God has put our sins behind its back, we have no right to keep them onstantly before our face. The man who believes in a holy God annot be satisfied with anything short f righteousness in himself. Pounding the Bible and making a oise in church is one thing, and win ing men to Christ is another. When the preacher can't get all tht alary that has been promised him, here is somebody that ought to make horter prayers in church. SIX WEEKS IN THE WATER. L Hospital Patient's Prolonged Bath and the Success Which A t tended It. George Hennessy, who had been Im. aersed in water for six weeks, was ta en out Tuesday evening, says the St. .ouis Republic. He declared that he elt like a fish that had just been land d and said he was much more comfort ble under water than he was out of it. le is a patient at the city hospital an] as suffering from a particularly viru at abscess which had formed on his nck. When be was taken to the hos ital it became necessary to wash the bscess so often that Dr. Marks de Ided that the best way to treat him 'as to put nim in a bathtub and have stream of water flow over the sore i the time. At first Hennessy wanted > get out of the tub, but in a few days e became as comfortable as could be spected and did not object. A large ortion of his body was bnder water early all the time, and the afflicted art has been constantly under water r six weeks. The temperature of the rater was regulated so that it was the me heat as that of his blood, and at st Hennessy actually enjoyed his ex erience. Last night he said that he uld not go to sleep without hearing e rippling of water as usual Dr. eine Marks says the experiment has een an eminently successful one, for e man has almost recovered and is be to walk about When he was taken the hospital he could hardly standi. r. Marks at that time asked himi if he vas -accustomed to bathing regularly, d Hennessy truthfully replied that he vas not " think I'll give you a bath," said Dr. arks, and he gave him oneS wh~ieb ted six weeks. The object in keeping Hennessy i. e water all the time was to have the ore kept clean all of the time and to :ee' down the fever, which destroyed ie tissues. The case is a novel one d will doubtless inaugurate a new ethod of treating abeesses, although he French surgeons at the)3icetrehave .dopted a cure somewhat similar to is one. "It feels queer to have the water nlow g over you all of the time," said Hen Lessy last evening. "Some of the time Imagined I was drowning. and some ies I thought I was a diver. I got so ised to hearing the rippling of water, hough, that I cannot go to sleep with ut earing it now. There is no music : sweet as the constant sound of fall g water. I have heard it so long that has become just as Indispensable to l as a bed when 1 wanted to go to leep. I wanted to stay there longer, t Dr. Marks told me that if I did fins night grow on me, and then I would ave to be put in a glass case, so t hought I would not object to comilar imarck and the Number Three. Prince Bismarck has a curious so )erstition in connection with~ the numn er three, and appatrent~ly not without 'eason. He has served three G.-rman Dmuperors; he has fought in three 'ars; he has signed three treaties of eae; he arranged the meeting of the bree Emperors and established the ipled' alliance. News in Brief --Paper pulp doors are new. -Chicago University has 167 instrue tors. -Iminois railroads stretch 10,576 miles. -London consumes eleven tons of salt daily. -Girls stammer much less frequentl than boys. -Many popular perfumes are strong vntiseptics. -Thyme destroys the bacilli of ty -hoid fever. -Only 906 persons in 1,000,000 die from sensility. -St. Louis, Mo., has an ambulanca ;rolley service. -Some sailors can distinguish color& ot sea but not on land. -The engines of a first clae man-ot. 'sur e at about $700,000. The normal death rate of Canton. Uhma, is 100J per month. - With the aid of potassium, a can dle can be lighted with an icicle. -An edition of the Cleveland Plain Dealer was issued by 100 women. -Edible snails vary generally it size. The most esteemed are the large vhite ones. Only six persons oat of 1,000 live to be 7> years old, and only one reaches ihe century. -A clay found near Clarence, Mo., has been found to contain 40 per cent !f aluminam. -A butcher in Belfast, Me., is training a hog to harness, driving him behind a tiled. -The ruling dynasty of Japan has been in power since long before the ?tbristian era. - "How He Quit Sucking Hit Thumb" is the head on a news item in ' Chicago newspaper. --The kkin gives off a thirtieth to a sixtieth part of the carbonic acid gas ,iven out by the lungs. -A new planing machine is worked by electricity, and will do the work - -)f fifty men in one day. -A friend of the late Christina Boss etti tells of hearing her say twenty years ago that she had never iseen the Nun rise. -The b6ttom of the deees par the Atlantic has very recently -been proved to be about Ave, miles and a aalf down. -The orbit of Jupiter is 1,000,000, 000 miles in extent and in it takis t- , grand planet 4,332 days to make one !ound trip. -Some of the-coloredpapersuppeie for kindergarten,,rork has been proved - bfanalysis to - contaia sall36a qitY ->f arsenic. -There are forty-five survivors ol the War of 1812 on the roll of the Pen sion CMioe, of whom fifteen are 100 years old. -Some botanists think that no plant is absolutely pois.noas, but only rela tively so, being harmfal to to only cer ain animals. -.Our sun with his train of attendant planets, is traveling through space at the unthinkable speed of eighteen miles or second. -A new artesan welt near Chamber. lain, South Dakota, throws a six-inch . stream of water thirty-eight inches above its top. -A method has been devised by which aluminum miy be substituted for platinum for leading wires in incan -escent lamps. -There were two total ecipses of the, sinin the year72 and two in1889. T ds rare phenomenon wifl not happen 1;amu until the year 2057. -In South America an electric dry-. ing machine in which air is forced through a chamber of heated plates t; to be used in drying wheat. -Au electrie railroad is to be buit in the spring from Merced to the Yosen' ite valley in California. The leagth >f the road is to be sixty-five -mile. -- A black down grows under tha. feathers of many birds at the approach of winter because down is the best non conductor and black the warmneui ,olor. -- The ratio of deaf mutes in the world is one to 1,600 people. There are upward of 40,00such unfortuniates in the United States; 1,000,000 in the world. -Dr. Sophi-r Jex-Blake of London, says that too niuch tea, especially tea that is simmered over the fire for hours, is worse than too much ab- - sinthe. -There is a lodging house in course of construction at Mecca, Arabia, which, when completed, willaccommio date 6000 people. It is for the use of igrims. ---Victor Horsley, the eminent Eng lish pathologist, says a bullet in the brain stimulates lbeart action, but stops respiration. One dies for. want >f breath. .- J paes felds are usually divided not by fences but by dykes and ditchee somcwhat rec'alling those o t Holland. The principal food crop, rice, require sonstant irrigation. -No parental care ever falls to the lot of a single member of the insect tribe. In geceral, the eggs of an in soet are destined te be hatched long ifter the p'uents are dead. --Throuigh the use of anti-toxie i. Trieste, the deathi rate in cases of diphtheria has fallen from fifty to eighteern per cent. in Baskowina from -. ,ixty three to sixcteen per cent. -As a resnit of the examination os 4 00 (eyes, Dr. Miles of Bridgeport, Conn i.,'fonna that sixty- five, per cent, required g'a-es. The wo~i. td g hs f-r exc ed the *~e~lndi