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r FREAKS OF SPORT.
How tho Q?mi Boat tho Turkoyt In a
Ton Mil# Race.
The history of sport is made fascinating
by many strange incidents.
From the days when John Mytton
accepted a dare to hunt over frozen
fields in his nightclothes at midnight
up to the last election the annals
of wagers are full of the. most
extraordinary incidents.
No more curious examples of one
of these side issues of sport can be
found than is offered by a match
made when George IV. was still
Prince of Wales. The match was
a famous one in its day from its exceptional
nature, the parties cngag
(ed in it and the unexpected denouement.
The ITon. George Ilan^er,
afterward Lo - ' (>! rrine, was one
of the celebru.e 1 and ocfer.tr":* personages
of the day. At one of the
gay parties at Caricton IIou?c Mr.
Hanger was led, in the coarse of the
conversation, to declare that a tarkey
could tr:;v.! fa-ter than a goose.
The Prince of \V:>!c~. who had great
confidence in !*is j" hTmcnt as to all
matters of "e nd, K'.ib and speed,"
agreed with hhn in this declaration.
A Mr. Berkeley di">rcd from them,
and a match was at once arranged.
Twenty turkeys wore entered against
twenty geese. The distance to be
traveled was ten miles. The race
was for ?*00. Indeed, the confidence
in the turkeys was so great
that odds of 2 to 1 were offered?
and taken?that there birds would
win. The prince al -once arranged
to have twenty ?T the finest and
gamest turkeys collected. At the
I time ana pi*t* iippu.uvru uc met.
Mr. Berkeley math .'his entries of
geese. The race began. From the
start there was ever}' indication that
the turkeys would <come in winners
Viands down" ?*r wings down. They
tripped onward at a brisk pace,
which the geese, with their heavier
waddle, were not able to equal. Indeed,
at the <end of three hours the
tnrfceya were Wading by\wo miles.
But naght was falling. As the light
grew less the turkeys displayed signs
of raseesmess. They began to look
at the trees that appeared by the
wayside and .edged toward them.
The prince, with a pole to which
was fastened a piece of red cloth,
did what he could to urge them forward.
First <ane escaped and, raising
itself to a pendant limb, settled
itself down comfortably. This one
was we sooner dislodged than another
established itself in a like
manner. Barley scattered along the
road did not aid in the least. The
turkeys had concluded that it wa6
time totuin in, and turn in or turn
out they did. in a few minutes all
of the twenty were roosting in trees,
ffrom whirh it was impossible te
drive them. "Meanwhile the geeee
m . came lumbering on. They slowly
"passed their slumbering competitors.
The race finished with the geese
first and -the turkeys "nowhere/'?
George Hibberd in Metropolitan
Magazine.
The Nose Lasts Longest.
Bone and cartilage enter so largely
into the structure of the nose
and determine its characteristics
that it undergoes little perceptible
change, as * rule, with the lapse of
years. The brow becomes wrinkled,
and crow's feet gather round the
eyes, which Themselves gradually
grow dim as time rolls on. Cheeks
lose the bloom which cosmetics cannot
ntplace .and lips their fullness
and color. The .chic, dimpled in
youth, develops angularities or
globukrities, as the case may be,
-%nd the eyebrows become heavy
BL with the crop of many years'
?B growth. The nose shows no mark
comparable to these familiar facial
S^B indications of the .approach of old
^B[ age and practically enjoys immuni
rty from tne ravages wnicn ume
matpm on the other features of the
face- Next to the nose, prpbably
the ears, as a rule, show the fewest
and least obvious signs of old age.
Waters of the Ooeane.
The oceans occupy three-fourths
of the surface of the earth. A mile
down in the sea the water has a
pressure of a ton to every squat*
xnch. If a box six feet deep was
filled with sea water, which was
then allowed to evaporate, there
would be two inches of salt left in
Ihe bottom of the box. Taking the
average depth of the ocean to be
three miles, there would be a layer
of salt 440 feet thick covering the
bottom in case all the water should
evaporate. In many places, espe
ciany in tne iar norm, me water
freezes from the bottom upward.
Riawn For Hio Aboonco.
"I never see Crocket down here
any more/' said the artist as he
toekja seat in the most comfortable
i chair. "Why is it? It used to be
that I never came down but Crocket
was here. If he wasn't actually
HM here, a knock at the door, and
|^^^Crocket."
^^HB^^^I^^medown not long ago,"
"and said he was
^HHHm^BB9H>- I offered him a
fl K it. That's why."
Bss.
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THE TAFLOR TENOR. ,
How tho Great Rubini Cam* to Cul- I
tivata Hit Voice.
; Among the choru6 singers of the
theater of Bergamo, Italy, there
, was a tailor of very moderate
means and resources, who employed
ail his taients and ability toward
I the support of a beloved mother,
j Ore day as it chanced the celebrati
ed singer Xozari went to the shop
| of this modest artist in man's weari
ing app.uci to place an order for an
' pvi?nin?/ s:.it.
After converging for some little
time upon the all absorbing subject
of fit ami finish the singer noticed
that the face of the tailor was familiar
and, making inquiries, discovered
t!iat lie belonged to the
opera c horns.
"Have yoa a good voice?" asked
Xozari.
"Not particularly," replied the
tailor. "I can scarcely reach A."
"I.et me hoa?" demanded Xozari,
stepp:ng to a piano that stood in
one coner of the shop. "Begin!"
The tailor with difficulty reached
(J.
"Now the A."
"I cannot, sign or."
"Sing the A! I command you!"
cried Nozari, showing signs of anger.
Again a great e.Tort was made,
and A was readied.
"And now the B flat!" oricd Nozari.
The unfortunate tailor protested,
but all in vain. Nozari was determined.
"Indeed I am not able."
"Sing it or by my soul I will"?
"No, signer, do wot be angry. tt
will try,"
The B flat was .accomplished und
in a manner that fairly astonished
the quondam pupil himself. Hie
ambition besran t? manifest itself.
"Sow you nee that it is possible,"
said Nozari in triumph, "and II tell
yon, ny son, if voa will but practice
assiduously you will become the
'first tenor of Italy."
Neaari was inot mistaken, 'for the
poor tailor end chorus singer became
afterward the great JRubini.?
Chicago Heoord-Herald.
Animals' Fright Is "Short.
A question that has often been
asked is, How long doe3 fright last
in a wild creature? The close observer
will be surprised at its brief
deration. They arc not subject to
"nerves" like human beings. A
rpartridge after running (or rather
.flying) the gaDtlct of half a dozen
guns?if we may be allowed a mixed
metaphor?drops on the other side
?f a hedge and begins calmlv to
neck as if nothing had happened.
You wguM think a rabbit after
hearing a charge of shot whistling
about its haunches and just man;agingto
escape from a yelping spaniel
would keep indoors for a week,
hut out it pops iquite merrily as
soon ae the coast is clear. A fox
pursued by hounds has been known
to halt and kill a fowl in its flight,
though -we may assume that his enemies
were not close to reynard at
the time. We have been led into
thinking about the matter by noting
I ?-lia+ >nn!f nlano of a pnvar aftpr b?*
! ing shot >over.?Pall Mall Gazette.
An Actrtu In Africa.
One erf the young ladies of the
company?who, 'by the way, never
seem to understand that black people
are men?thought it great fun
to^o-to.a Kaffir's loraal, peep in and
kiss her hand to ihe chief inside.
He immediately came out to buy
her and was very much in earnest
about it.
"No, thank you. I am not up
for auction today."
"Three oxen."
"Really very good <rf you, but"?
"Four oxen.""
"No, thanks. I'm not for sale."
"Five oxen."
"No. Let me go."
He let her go, with a 'Zulu oath,
and her friends, who had missed
her, congratulated her cm her safe
return, which they had reason to
do. ? "Random Recollections," by
R. Ganthony.
In the Wrong Pow.
In Cornish chapels the rule is for
the men to sit on one side of the
building and the women on the
other. A visitor and his fiancee recently
went to chapel. Just before
the service began the young man
wm ?rro?tlv Astonished when the
chapel steward, observing that the
couple were seated in the same pew,
came over to him and in a penetrating
voice said: "Come on out of
that, me son. We don't 'ave no
sweetheartin' 'ere!"
Tough on Papa.
Margaret has learned to spell a
few words, among them doll, pig, J
boy, papa, etc.
Recently a visitor, learning of the
new accomplishment, asked her,
"What does p, i, g, spell?"
"Why, papa, of course," answered
Margaret. Every one laughed except
papa. Somehow he couldn't
see the joke at alL ? Washington
Star.
I UlA
PUSS IN HISTORY.
Th? Cat Haa Been an important Pjr?
sonage in Many Nations.
Miss Pu$sy not only boasts an :
ancient history, but as far back as '
history foes she lias been quite an
important personage. The Egyptians
reverenced cats. They had a
hospital for sick kittens, and such
as died were embalmed and buried
with much ceremony. Mourning
was also worn by the family to I
whom the beloved kitten belonged. !
This mourning was not black 1
clothes, hut shaved eyebrows.
Though the Egyptians do not do
quite so much in these days, they
still think a great deal of cats.
They have a high officer called father
of cats, and near Cairo is a
building where every day a least is
spread, to which are invited all the
eats of the city. No doubt you
have heard the 6tory of Cambyses
coming to fight the Egyptians and
taking advantage of their reverence
for cats by fastening before every
soldier's breast a live cat. Of course
the Egyptians dared not hurt these
cats, ana so they were conquered.
The Chinese are likewise fond of
oats, but, sad to say for the cats, it
is in stew.
In Koine ar.d also in London the
owners of cats pay a man a certain
sum of money monthly, and every
day he walks through the streets
uttering a peculiar cry. All cats
know him and come from all directions
to get their dinner. He is
called "the cats* meat man." Cats
have always, been highlv valued in
Wales. They are kept a'bout gtanuries
to catch rats. In the old days
anybody stealing one of these cats
had to give for her a sheep or a
lamb. Should the cat chance to be
killed she was hung up by the tail
until her head touched the floor
and wheat poured over her until the
tip of her tail was covered. All this
wheat the thief had be give to the
oat's owner.
The United States government
keeps more than 300 cats in the
Tvvstnflire department to guard the
mails from rats a?3 mice. Before
tke.?e cats were employed valuable
letters were often 'destroyed. These
pussies are well fod, $40 a year bein^
allowed for each cat's meat.
The-Japanese frighten away their
mice and rats with china cats.
These are made so lifelike that
when a candle is placed inside the
figures the mire imagine them to be
real cats and Tun for their lives.?
Brooklyn Eagle.
The End of tho Earth.
The ancient Persians believed in
the Tenovation of the 'earth. A
comet in the course of -its revolutions
will strike the earth and set it
on fn-e. Hirers of molten metals
wlH "float Sown the mountains and
deduge the valleys. All men must
pass through these Streams. The
good will find them "like baths of
milk. The evil will find them like
torrents of lava, but they will be
purified thereby and finally will join
the good upon the mew earth and
sing praises to the eternal source of
*TL This 'belief was held also
among the American Indians and
the Hindoos. The Egyptians'believed
the earth would be destroyed by
fire and water. The Chaldeans said
that when all the planets met in
the aim of Capricorn the earth
would oe overwhelmed with a del?
? ? I
uge ol "water, ana wnenever uiey
all met m Cancer dfc would be consumed
by fire.
N? Distinguishing Mark*.
"Were .there any marks about
him by which he <could be described?"
asked the detective.
"Yes," eagerly replied the father
of the runaway bey, "his trousers
were nearly worn through at the
knees, and he had in one of hi*
Sekets, as I beard my wife say a
y or two ago, a knife with a
broken blade, a pistol cartridge that
had been fired off, a match, 6ome of
the wheels of an old watch, a leather
shoestring, a broken key, a bunch
of twine, two or three white pebbles,
a piece of lead, some buttons
from the last bkycle show, a stump
of a lead pencil and a bit of red
chalk."
And the detective wrote in his
memorandum book, "No distinguishing
marks."
How tho Lantern Wat Invented.
King Alfred the Great is credited
with originating the lantern. He
was so bothered by the candle
flames blowing in the wind that he
protected them by putting the candles
in cow horns, which he ordered
to be scraped thin. Our grandfathers
made lanterns by punching
holes and slits in properly shaped
pieces of tin, which were then soldered
together. The light which
dime through the little cuts was always
very dim and flickering. It
was this kind of lantern which the
old town watchmen used to carry
when they went about calling the
hours and the weather in rhyme:
I 'Tla om o* the clock; midnight la peat
Sleep on, good friends, the time thou heat.
For rise re must at early dawn.
'Tla one o' the dock and Tuesday mora.
4 d::ui v 'V*- -
A GREAT DETECTIVE.
8ome of the Tricks Played by a Noted
English Sleuth.
It was in 1881 that Thomas
Gregory joined the London metropolitan
force. In his time Gregory
arrested many notorious criminals.
He captured a gang who were
known as the "Cabinet of Crime"
and under whose guidance all big
robberies wore carried out. Gregory
was gifted with a faculty for dis*
1 _
guising, and he appeared in niauv
characters^ In order to enter and
raid a club in Solio he was given the
task of gaining admittance to the
premises. At an appointed time,
dressed as a poor old man, he was
lurching up against the door laden
with a basket of groundsel. The
doorkeeper, a pugilist, knocked him
over into the road, but this gave the '
waiting officers an opportunity for
getting inside and effecting their
mission.
t)ne 6ummer for weeks he might
have been 6cen daily outside the
general postoffice as a boot cleaner,
and eventually he brought off the
arrest of a gang. f
Obtaining the position of valet to
a wealthy coiner, who kept a mansion
in Westminster, Gregory, with
other officers, contrived a big coup,
four confederates being sent to
penal servitude.
An amusing story is told of one
of Gregory's adventures. He was
keeping observation on the corner
of Dean street west and hod adopted
the plan of selling matches. He
had only two boxes, a large and a
small one. A Scotchman went up
to him and offered a halfpenny for
the large box, at the same time
handing the officer a penny. Gregory
said he could not let him have that
one, but would try to get one for
him. Just at this moment the man
he was watching passed by, and
Gregory went after him and located
his residence. Some forty minutes
afterward Gregory returned to the
corner of Dean street and found the
Scotchman awaiting him for his
matches and change.
A Bond street capture is quite a
dramatic little story. One morning
Gregory noticed in Bond street a
landau stop outside a jeweler's shop.
A woman dressed in the height of
fashion alighted and looked into the
window. She somehow attracted
the detective's attention and was
seen to drop her parasol through
the grating under the window.
The shop assistants noticed her
trouble and came out to help her
recover the article. No sooner had
they left the shop than two
"swells" entered and proceeded to
fill their pockets with jewelry. The
detective got assistance and arrested
all three, who turned out to be
old convicts.?Pearson's Weekly.
Food For Canaries.
Th-? best of food for young canaries
is hard boiled egg mixed with a
little wheat bread. Cut up the egg
fine and add to it a part of a roll
that has been soaked in water for a
few minutes and then squeeze dry.
Great care must be taken that the
food be fresh, for if it be the least
sour it will kill the birds. The
voting ones are nearly always iea Dy
the male bird, but in about two
weeks they will feed themselves.
When they are a month old put
them in a cage by themselves. Feed
them on the egg and bread mixed
with some of the seed that you give
the old birds, and, having continued
this diet for four or five weeks, you
may treat them as you do the old
ones. Keep your cage perfectly
clean, give the birds plenty of light
and fresh air and keep them out of
drafts. Sudden changes of temperature
will be sure to make them
sick.?Scotsman.
Funny Irish Sayings.
Here are a few Irish bulls: An
Irish member of the Yentnor local
board some thirty years ago proposed
chat St. Boniface down should
be planted with some fine old oaks.
Horace Walpole records one
which he pronounces the best he I
ever met with. "I hate that woman,"
said a gentleman, looking at a
person who had been his nurse. "I
hate her, for when I was a child she
changed me at nurse."
This was a perplexing assertion,
but a similar instance is recorded
in the autobiography of an Irish
man, who gravely ujlonns us tnat
he ''ran away early in life from his
father on discovering he was only
his uncle."?London Telegraph.
Try This.
Without any preliminary ask a
number of persona to kindly draw
from memory the figure which indicates
6 o'clock exactly as it appears
on the dials of their watches. Now
ask them to take out their watches
and look at them. Most of them
will discover that the characters
they saw so clearly at the foot of
the imaginary watch floating before
their mind's eye have no existence
at all on the dial of the real watch,
where its place is taken by the small
seconds hand dial.?Strapd Magaune.
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ONE HUNDRED SACKS COFFEE ANY GRADE. >Ch
FOUR HUNDRED SACKS RICE ANY GRADE. IT
ONE HUNDRED BOXES CRACKERS. Jl
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?AND THE PRINCE REGENT ISTOBACCO.
There will be a number of subjects of both in Lake City this
Fall and we are ready to serve them. In anticipation of the
splendid crop prospect we are repairing- our warehouse so as to T
enlarge our floor space, and rather than remove the stock of O.K.
Queen Stoves and Ranges from warehouse #we have , reduced thg. ,
price "
20 IFex Cent. .
We have just received a carload of Wire Fence, which is of- V '
fered at a low price. Remember we are headquarters for Benjamin
Moore & Co's Paint. Also, we offer exceptional values in
Cutlery and Razors. The Robeson Razor can't be beat. We appreciate
our friends'patronage and will try to merit their con
t'nued conUdence.
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