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"N Jk; I) A MAD STOKER’S WILD RIDE. WHALES IN BEHRING SEA. Failed the Throttle Wide Open and Tore Headlong to Death. On Wednesday morning last there started from the station at Padna, on the Bologna railway line, a goods train that should have reached Bo logna in the evening. There were on the engine the driver and stoker, both natives of Bologna. On the train arriving at Poggio Renatico, a small station close to Ferrara, the stoker found some means to get rid of the driver. He told him that the station master wanted him. The driver, as he afterward asserted, left the train without the slightest suspicion of anything. The stoker then, without being seen, detached the engine from the rest of the train, put on full steam tnd started off with the engine. He the spring of the whistle down such a way that the engine ca- '•■eered along at always increasing |>eed, whistling all the time. He ■Iso kept filling up the furnace, so that there was no chance of the engine working itself out. The en gine at a tremendous pace passed through five stations. The Bologna papers say that for those who witnessed the mad race of the engine, going to certain ruin as it rushed through the different stations, the spectacle was terrible. At all the stations the officials rushed out and made signs for him to stop, at the same time turning on all the danger signals. The stoker, how ever, stood calmly looking out of the cab of the engine without taking the slightest notice. At the different crossroads the men appointed to bar them when the trains passed, on hearing the whistle, were able to do so in time, or some bad accident might have happened. Telegrams were immedi ately sent to the station at Bologna warning the station master. He at once had the principal line cleared and switches put on which would turn the engine on to a side line. The engine soon appeared at full speed, and men were stationed along the line to call out to the stoker to stop or to throw himself off the en gine. He stood there, however, look ing as pale as death, but only smiled at the shouted warnings of tire men. He calmly walked along the side of the engine and placed himself on the standing board in front right under the funnel. A moment after ward the engine dashed into a rail way carriage that had been left on the side line. The crash was tremendous, the carriage was smashed to bits and the engine damaged in such a way that it had to be broken up. The stoker was found under the debris fearfully crushed, but still alive, and was taken to the hospital It is sup posed that he had gone suddenly mad. , _ It seems, as far as can be made out by what he said, that his intention was to commit suicide in that horri ble manner because he was mixed up in a theft of 10 francs and was afraid of being found out—London Tablet Whjr It Is “a Tabby Cat.” Some writers on the curiosity of anirosl nomenclature tell us that the reason tre call a feline of certain markings of color a “tabby” cat is because Tabitha was the goddess of the crooked clawed species. Wag ner’s “Names and Their Meaning,” although n has a splendid deport ment on the nicknames of birds, does net refer to those applied to the ani mal species at all, therefore it will be of no use to consult that work to find out why a “tabby” cat bears its unique name, or why a “Jerusalem” donkey is so called. In' a curious old work (printed in London in 1606) entitled “Names Ap plied to Animate Things," I find the following, which seems to explain the tabby cat enigma: “The terme ‘Tabbie Cat’ is derived from A tab, a famouse streetein Bagdad, a cittie of the Orient. This streete is inhabited by the manufacturers of a silken stuff called ‘atabi,’ the wave dmarkings of the watered silke resembling a cat’s coat. From that we call all cats so marked ‘stab,’ ‘atabbie,’ or simply “tabbie’ cats.”—St Louis Republic. Zqaklltx In Ome». Greece has set up in her midst as her demigod the great equaliser (and liberator and fratemizer, too), edu cation. As the tourist rides about the interior he is surprised perhaps at the innocent communism of his muleteer, who after drinking passes his master the cup; who, unless re strained, will sleep in the same room as his lordos (milord), but is some what reconciled when he discovers that his servant (at a shilling or so a day) is a briefless barrister or a poli tician out of work. Neither in pub lic nor in private life is heed paid to social standing. The democratic idea which permeates Greek life from court to court is perfectly sincere. Exclusiveness there means unsocia bility. A Greek is quite willing to extend his acquaintance downward or upward.—“Greece Under King George.” It Would Stick to th. but. “When I had my shoes fixed the other day." said a man, “I had to have one of them patched. Ton know they don't sew patches on nowadays; they pasts ’em on in tome way, and they stay. I knew this well enough, but when I went for my shoes and looked at the patch I was thought less enough to ask if it would stay on. The shoemaker didn’t answer tie in words, but in a look of about one second’s duration he conveyed to me the intelligence that the up pers of the shoes might pert from the soles, the eote might drop away, and the Heels be left by the wayside, but that i ‘‘oh would never come oft”—Net Fork Bun. BHILO’S CURE, the great Cough and. Croup .Cure, is in great demand. Pocket size contains twenty five doses only 26c. Children love it, ^ ■■ ¥ * Hemrlj All of the Denn Bern Munutcrs Haro Disappeared. The valuable whales have about all disappeared from the north Pa cific. Behring and Okhotsk seas no longer contain them, and the Arctic ocean is the only recognized whaling ground left There are but 50 whal ers now afloat in the western ocean, while a half century ago there were 600 of such ships. There are 10 steam vessels in this fleet, and the rest are relics—ancient barks and brigs that date from the long ago, are seldom insured and with difficul ty secure crews. The captain and crew go on shares or are paid a percentage of the sea son’s catch, and six or eight whales will credit the former with $4,000 or $5,000, and the sailors with a couple of hundred dollars each. For three seasons one of the whalers has not secured a single whale, while one crew captured 21 whales in the sum mer of 1891. In 1891 Sitka was surprised by a visit from a whaler, the first in many years since the Fairweather grounds, off Mount St Elias, were abandoned. This ship had sailed in March for that-old ground, but off Prince William sound nine whales were taken in eight days, and a tenth had been wounded when the bark grounded in a fog, unshipped and broke the rudder. It then worked Its way to Sitka and for a fortnight gave a new interest to the life of that quiet capital There had been time to clean and lightly deodorize the ship during its iu into port, and it fell disappoint ingly short of thfe traditional whaler. But it was interesting to visit it and have the cheerful mate show pieces of whalebone 6 and 7 feet in length stacked up like cordwood; to see the boats, harpoons, knives and tackle and the huge vats in the brick fur nace on deck where the mountains of blubber are tried out. But the blubber and oil are little regarded in this day, as whalebone at $6 a pound is the most valuable part of the mon ster. Catching their whales so fast, this crew bad not time to cut up one whale before another was sighted, and the hold was filled with the blubber of the first whale while they were busy harpooning and cutting the bone from the later catches. They had only 430 barrels of oil, and the tongue of one whale yielded 13 of those barrels. From nine whales there came 10,000 pounds of bone.— Harper’s Weekly. St. Paul's Epistle In Turkey. The Rev. G. Furness Smith, an English missionary, recently related to a London meeting that the Turk ish authorities at Constantinople had declined to allow the circulation of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians, supposing the people of Galata, a sub urb of the Turkish capital to bo those addressed, and refused to be entirely satisfied on the point till a certificate of St. Paul's death was forthcoming. K, R. 0. DOES A.N'D AVILD CURE Summer Complaints, Dyspepsia, Stom- acli Troubles of Every Kind, Rheu matism, Neuralgia and all disorders of the Kidneys and Blood. TESTED AND PROVED FOR YEARS. Terry, Miss., April 21,1893. We have been using Dr. King’s ROYAL UEttMETEUR for several years in our family, and have recom- mciided it to many others. It has always done what is claiimd for it, as far as tried, and I regard it as the best n-e Heine we have ever had iu our family. Mrs. J. 8. 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