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Kailway Possibilities. - Southern Not After Georgia Ballway. Poshing to Sa vannab. President Samuel Spencer states that the Southern has cot acquired the Georgia and hts Dot eve considered tbe matter. / * That sets at ress the gossip which lats been going the roana's for a week Where the report originated is ht rd to say, but the air was full of rumors about it the latter part of last week. Everybody had heard the report, bat no ose could quote official authority. Yesterday the Constitution telegraph ed President Spenser. He promptly wired baek the foi lc wi og message : ^ "New York, May 22.-Editor Con stitution. Atlanta : I have your te'e grasD. There is oot the slightest foao datioo for the report that an arrange ment has been made between the Southern railway and the Louisville and Nashville railroad by which the Southern obtains control ofthe Georgia railroad. "The subject has never been men* doned, to my knowledge, between the two companies and there Is not the slightest probability of such a transac tion taking plaee. "Samuel Spencer. " The telegram knoeks the story oat altogether. But ail yesterday and Son day it was widely discussed. No one could find any reason why a traosfer of the lease should not be made if the Louisville & Nashville was willing to irrender it. .W Tbe feet that the Southern had drop ped Louisville Air Lioe, which extends to St. Louis, was accepted as further evidence of an understanding between the two great systems. Bat that bad nothing to do with the Georgia. There is some ground for believing that the Louisville and Nashville did sot know thar* the Southern was after the South Carolina and Georgia, al though it had been suggested by the Constitution some time before that the Southern was either after the road or its owners wer* trying to sell or lease to the Southern. Although there is nothing io the report about the Georgia, the Southern has taken another road or really two small lines, the Carolioa Midland and the Sievern and Knoxville, whose com bined mileage amounts to 72 miles Tbe Southern was operating that Hoe yesterday. It extends from Batesburg, S. C , to Allendale, and ruos in the direction of Savannah. From Allen dale to Savannah is not more than 75 miles, and if the Southern decides to push os to the Forest City, it eas do it without any great effort. This line used to be known as Mike Brown's . road. Its lease by the Southern is significant and the inference is that the latter is keeping close after the Skelton Willisms combination. President Spenoer denied ih? report a few days ago that the Southern would turn the South Carolioa and Georgia over to the Atlantic Lioe to operate. It is believed now that the Sooth em's principal purpose in leasing the South Carolina and Georgia was to prevent demoralization of rates through the port of Charleston. It is now in a position to have rates maintained through that port, and the Clyde line j will have no rail connection to maoi palate rates -Augusta Chronicle. Virtue its Own Reward. - The accompanying little story, pub lished in an eastern educational jouro a1, is said to have been written bj a boy in the west, one of s class of children of six or eight years old, who bad been requested by their teacher to write a story, they to select a subject and their compositions not to be changed by their teacher, bot to be read before the chil dren's parents exactly as written. This is on of the number submitted. And tbe writer 18 expected to become a great story-waiter : A poor yoong man fell in love with the daughter of a rich lady who kept a eandy shop The poor yoaog mao could sot marry the rich candy lady's daughter because he had not enough money to buy foroitare. A wicked mas offered to give the young mao $25 if he would become a drunkard. the youog man wanted the money very much, but wheo he got to the saloon he turned to the wicked mao and said : "I will not become a drunkard even for great riches. Get thee behind me. Satan !" Oo bis wsy home be found a pocket book containing a million dollars io gold ; then the youog lady consented to marry bim. They bad a beautiful weddiog and the next dav they bad twins. Thus yon see that "Virtue bas its own reward.7' New York, May 26.-Coney Island property lo the valoe of nearly $1,000,000 was destroyed by fire early today, 20 acres in the heart of the summer resort section, the dis trict known as "the bowery" being reduced to ashes The naval odeers posted yesterday assign Capt. J B. Coghlan to duty as commandant of the Puget Sound naval station June 30th, by which time the Raleigh wiil be out of the commission. Soicide bj poison is not more censurable tbau bj refusai to core yourself of Female ORIGIN OP THE DOLLAR SIGN. Washington, May 16 -Several weeks ago Dr. Marcos Baker, of this City, published in one of the maga zines an account of a theory which be bas to account for the origin of the familiar dollar sign. This bas long been given, tbe most common of wbicb is tbat the initials of tbe United States are crossed. But there have been seven or eight other theories to account for the dollar sign, which are about as good. Dr Baker in bis researches in the library of the bureau of education, came across an old book entitled 'A Compendium of Federal Arithmetic. Designed for the use of schools and Especially Calcu lated for the Meridian of the United States/ which was punished at Langsingburg, New York, in 1797. Its author was the Rev Chancey Lee, of Rutland, Yt. In this book was set forth a system of so-called "char acteristics," by which one vertical stroke was to designate the mil!, two vertical strokes the cent, these two crossed by one curved stroke the dime ; and for the doilar a sign cou ist! og of two verticals combined with two curved strokes, now so fjmiliar, was proposed At that time tbe people of the country were jest emerging from the use of pounds, shillings and pence, each separate in writing by a space from the next denomination It seemed necessary to Mr Lee to have an arbitrary mark for each of tbe denominations of our monetary system. But be soon found that one character, with the aid of a decimal point, was all that was nee essary, and in the lattec part of j his own book all of the elaborate sys tem ci symbols except the one intended to mark the dollar was found to have been dropped Dr. Baker certainly Sods the dollar sign in this old arithmetic, and does not find it in use at any earlier date By the time Adam's arithmetic was published, ia 1805, the symbol had become well established. Dr Baker, therefore, regards Mr. Lee as tue inventor, and believes the sign to have been absolutely arbitrary in its origin. Since the publication uf his paper in one of the magazines Dr. Baker bas received many letters on the subject, but none in which his conclusions are challenged He in tends, for further verification, to make a study cf the departmental records to see when the dollar sign first appeared in the treasury ac counts, fie also hopes to make more thorongh search of the old text books to see if by any chance any use of this sign prior to that of tbe Rev. Channcey Lee can be dis covered. Peihaps some of the de 8cendants of Mr Lee wiil be able to find the author's manuscript, in wbicb case additional light might be thews upon the subject It is cer tainly interesting to know the origin of a thing io so constant use as the dollar sign. Dr. Baker's discoveries seem likely to take ali the sentiment out of the matter, but this is the common result of modern historical research -New York Evening Post Three White Men Lynched in Texas. Houston, Tex, May 25-Three white men, James Humphreys and his two sons, were lynched last night near the village of A ley, in Hender son county. Several months ago Constable Melton of the Aley pre cinct, was murdered and the mur derer escape, it ie said through the assistance of the Hum phreys Last night a mob of 13 masked men appeared at the Hum phreys homestead and called the father and two sons out They permitted them to see the women of the family, whom they informed in a spirit of charity that the men were to be taken to Malakoff, a few miles distant, before the justice of the peace, and perhaps to the connty jail at Athens This morning the bodies of the three men were found hanging from tie limb of an oak tree, three miles f.om the Humphreys farm. In South Carolina we have seen men who used to fairly wallow iu the dust before Hampton and the Hampton influence do the same way before Tillman and the mob and the mob power. I know a good many and if the Almighty spares me brains enough to remember and a hand to write with I will never cease from fighting and hitting them and keel ing their records before the people while one of them is in public life or try'ng to be -A. B W. in Green ville News. We are the greatest coffee drinkers of tbe world Io 1897 we used GoC, 000.000 pounds of cofleo, which wae 18,000,000 pounds more than was coo sumed in all Earope. Wo have in creased our consumption during the past year at thr rate cf more tbau a pound per person, and we now u?e about fifty pouods aonuaiiy for each person in the (Joitcd Staus. The amount spent for this coffee H enormous. During the past ten years we have paid out 875,000,000. or 87,000,000 per annum for coffee alone. The bulk cf this mooey bas gone to Brazil. CUBAN RELIEF cures Colic, iPV Neuralgia and Toothache in five minutes. Sour Stomach and Summdc Complaints. By BUDYABD KIPLING. Hit a man an help a -woman, an you can't be far -wrong anyways . -Maxims of Privat Mulvaney. The Inexpressibles gave a balL They borrowed a 7 pounder from the gunners and wreathed it with laurels and made the dancing floor plate glass and pro vided a supper the like of which had never been eaten before, and set two I sentries at the door of the room to hold the trays and programme cards. My friend Private Mulvaney was one of the sentries, because he was the tallest man in the regiment When the dance was fairly started, the sentries were re leased, and Private Mulvaney fled to curry favor with the mess sergeant in charge of the supper. Whether the mess sergeant gave or Mulvaney took I can not say. All that I am certain of is that at supper time I found Mulvaney with Private Ortheris, two-thirds of a hain, a loaf of bread, half a pate de foie gja^ and two magnums of champagne sitting on the roof of my carriage. As I came np I heard him saying: "Praise be a danst doesn't come as often as ord'ly room, or, by this an that, Orth'ris, my son, I wud be the dishgrace av the rig'mint instid av the brightest jool in nts crown. " "Hand the colonel's pet noosince, said Ortheris, who was a Londoner. "But wot makes yon curse your ra tions? This 'ere fizzy stuff's good enough. " "Stuff, you oncivilized paginl Tis champagne we're dhrinkin now. 'Tisn't that I am set ag'in. 'Tis the quare stuff wid the little bits av black leather in it I misdoubt I will be distressing sick wid it in the mornin. Fwhat is ni?" "Goose liver," I said, climbing on the top of the carriage, for I knew that it was better to sit out with Mulvaney than to dance many dances. "Goose liver, is ut?" said Mulvaney. "Faith, I'm thinkin thim that makes nt wud do betther to cut up the colonel. He carries a power av liver undher his right arram whin the days are warm an the nights chilL He wud give thim tons an tons av liver 'Tis he sez so. Tm all liver today, ' sez he, an wid that he ordhers me ten days C. B. for as moild a dhxink as iver a good sodger tuk be tune his teeth. " "That was when 'e wanted for to wash 'isself in the fort ditch," Ortheris explained. "Said there was too much beer in the barrack water butts for a God fearing man. Yon was lucky in git tin orf with wot yon did, Mulvaney. " "You say so? Now I'm pershuaded I was cruel hard trated, seein fwhat I've done for the likes av him in the days whin my eyes were wider opin than they are now Man alive, for the colo nel to whip me on the peg in that way I Me that have saved the repitation av a ten times better man than him ! 'Twas ne-farious. an that manes a power av evil!" "Nevermind the nefariousness," 1 said. "Whose reputation did yon save?' "More's the pity, 'twasn't my own, but I tuk more trouble wid ut than if ut was. 'Twas just my way, messin wid fwhat was no business av mine Hear now!" He settled himself at ease on the top of the carriage. "I'll tell you all about nt. Av coorse 1 will name no names, for there's wan that's an orf' cer's lady now that was in nt, an no more will I name places, for a man is thracked by a place. " "Ejah!" said Ortheris lazily. "But this is a mixed story wot's comin. " "Wanst upon a time, as the childer books say. I was a recru ity. " "Was you. though?" said Ortheris. "Now that's extryordinary !" "Orth 'ris, " said Mulvaney, "av you opin thim lips av yours again I will, savin your presince, sorr, take yon by the slack av your trousers an heave yon. " "I'm mum, " said Ortheris. "Wot appened when you was a recmity?" "I was a betther recmity than you iver was or will be, but that's neither here nor there. Thin I became a man, an the divil cf a man I was 15 years ago. They called me Buck Mulvaney in thim days, an, begad, I tuk a woman's eye. I did that! Orth'ris, you scrub, fwhat are you sniggerin at ? Do you misdoubt me?" ? 'Devil a doubt ! ' ' said Ortheris. . 'But I've 'eard surumat like that before. " Mulvaney dismissed the impertinence with a lofty wave of his hand and con tinued: "An the orf'cers av the rig'mint 1 was in in thim days was orf'cers grand men, wid a manner on 'em an a way wid 'em such as is not made these days-all but wan-wan av the capt'ns. A bad dhrill, a wake voice, an a limp leg-thim three "hings are t>.e signs av a bad man. You bear that in your hid. Orth'ris, my son. "An the colonel av the rig'mint had a daughter-wan av thim lamblike, bieatin, pick me up an carry me or I'll die gnrls such as was made for the nat ural prey av men like the capt'n who was iverlastin payin coort to her. though the colonel he said time an over. 'Kape out av the brute's way, my dear! But he niver had the heart for to send her away from the thronble, bein as he was a widower an she their wan child. ' "Stop a minute, Mulvaney," said L "How in the world did you come to know these things?" "How did I come?" said Mulvaney with a scorni l gr/nt "Bekase I'm tr.rne annn tne qnane~s pleasure to a lump av wood, lookin out straight for ninst me, wid a-a candelabbrom in my band, for you to pick your cards ont av. must I net soe nor feel ? Av coorse I do! Up my back, an in my boots, an in the short hair av the neck -that's where I kape my eyes whin I'm on duty an the rog'lar wans are fixed Know! Take my word for it. sorr, ivrything an a great dale moro is known in a rig'mint. or fwhat wud be I the use av a mess sargint, or asargint's j wife doin wet nurse to he major's | bv ? To reshume, he was a bad j auxin, was mis capt'n-a rotten dhrill-an whin first I ran my eye him I sez to myself, 'My militia tam,' I sez, 'my cock av a Go -dunghill'-'twas from Portsinout came to ns-'there's combs to be sez I, 'an by the grace av God Terence Mulvaney will cnt thim. ' "So he wint menowderin, an mi derin, an blandandhering reran about the colonel's daughter, an poor innocint, lookin at bim lr comm'ssariat bullock looks at the p'ny cook. He'cT a dhirty little s av a black mustache, an he twiste turned ivry wurrd he used as a found nt too sweet for to spit Eyah I He was a tricky man an a by natur'. Some are born so. He wan. I knew he was over his be money borrowed from natives. Be; a lot av other matthers which in re, to your presince, sorr, I will oblit ate. A little av fwhat I knew the < nel knew, for he wnd have noni him, an that, I'm thinkin, by ft happened aftherward, the capt'n ki "Wan day, bein mortial idle, or wud never have thried ut, the rig'i gave amshure theatricals-orf'cer orf'cers* ladies. You've seen the 1 time an ag'in, sorr, an poor fun 'tis them that sit in the back row an st: wid their boots for the honor av rig'mint. I was told off for to shif scenes, hanlin up this an draggin d< that. Light work ut was, wid las] av beer an the gnrl that dhressed orf'cers' ladies-but she died in A 12 years gone, an my tongue's ge the betther av me. They was act: play thing called 'Sweethearts, ' wi you may have heard av, an the colon daughter she was a lady's maid. ' capt'n was a boy called Broom-Spr Broom was his name in the play T I saw-ut come out in the actin-f w I niver saw before, an that was thal .was no gentleman. They was too m together, thim two, a-whisperin beh the scenes I shifted, an some av fw they said I beard, for I was death-t death an ivy-on the comb cuttin. was iverlastin'ly oppressin her to ; in wid some sneakin schame av his, she was thryin to stand out against hi but not as though she was set in wilL I wonder now in thim days tl my ears did not grow a yard on head wid list'nin. But I looked straii forninst me, an hauled up this an dr; ged down that such as was my du an the orf'cers' ladies sez one to ano er, thinkin I was out av listen reai 'Fwhat an obiigin young man is t'. Corp'ril Mulvaney!' I was a corp' then. I was rejoiced aftherward, but, matther, I was a corp'ril wanst. "Well, this 'Sweethearts* busin wint on like most amshHre theatrica an, barrin fwhat I suspicioned, 'twas] till the dhress rehearsal that I saw i certain that thim two-he the blac guard an she no wiser than she shot have been-had put np an e-vasion. " "A what?" said L "E-vasion 1 Fwhat you lorruds ladies call an elopement. E-vasion calls it, bekase, exceptin whin 'tis rig an natural an proper, 'tis wrong J dhirty to steal a man's wan child n knowin her own mind. There was sargint in the comm'ssariat who set n face upon e-vasions. I'll tell you abo' that"-' "Stick to the bloomin captains. Mn vaney, " said Ortheris. "Comm'ssari eargints is low. " Mulvaney accepted the emendatic and went on "Now, I knew that the colonel WJ no fool any more than me, fer I WJ hild the smartest man in the rig'min an the colonel was the best orf'cer con mandin in Asia. So fwhat he said an said was a mortial truth. We knew thc the capt'n was bad, but for reasoi which I have already oblitherated knew more than my colonel. I wud hav rolled out his face wid the butt av m gun before permittin av him to steal th gurl. Saints knew av he wud have mai ried her, an av he didn't she wud be i gerat termini an the divil av wha you. sorr, call a 'scandal. ' But I nive sthruck, uiver raised me hand on nr shuperior orf'cer. an that was a mer riele now I come to considher it. " "Mulvaney, the dawn's risin. " sai< Ortheris. "an we're no nearer omi than we wa3 at the beginnin. Lend mi your pouch. Mine's all dust. ' Mulvaney pitched his pouch across and he filled his pipe afresh "So the dhress rehearsal came to ai end, an, bekaze I was curious, I staic behind whin the scene shiftin was end ed, an I shud have been in harricks, lyir as flat as a toad under a painted cot tage thing. They was talkin in whis pers, an she was shiverin an gaspin like a fresh hukked fish. 'Are you sure you've got the hang av the manew vers?' sez he, or wurrds to that effec'. as the coort martial sez. 'Sure as death,' sez she, 'but I misdoubt tis cruel hard on my father. ' 'Damn your father!' sez he, or anyways 'twas fwhat he thought. 'The arrangement is as clear as mud. Jungi will drive the carn ge afther all's o\ier, an you come to the station, cool an'aisy; m time for the 2 o'clock thrain, where I'll be wid your kit. ' 'Faith, ' thinks I to myself, 'thin there's a ayah in the business tn! "A powerful bad thing is a ayah Don't you uiver have any thruck wid wan Thin he began sootheriu her, an nil the orf'cers an orf'cers' ladies left, an they put out the lights. To explain the theory av the flight, as they say at imiskthry, you must understand that afther this 'Sweethearts" nonsinse was ended there was another little bit av a play called 'Couples'-some kind av couple or another. The gurl was actin in this, but not the man. I suspicioned he'd go to the station wid the gull's kit at the end av the first piece. 'Twas the kit that flustherod me. for I knew for a capt'n to go trapasing about the impire wid the Lord knew what av a truso on his armin was ne-farious. an wud bf worse than easin the flag, so far as the talk aftherward wint " " 'Old on. Mulvaney! Wot's truso?' said Ortheris "You're an oncivilized man. my son. Wbia a gurl's married, all her kit an 'conferments are truso, which manes , weddin portion. An 'tis^the same whin j gest blackguard on the arrmy lis "So I made my plan av cam The colonel's honse was a goo miles away. 'Dennis, ' sez I to m sargint, 'if you lovq me lend m kyart, for my heart is bruk an n is sore wid trampin to an fro foolishness at the Gaff. ' An Denn ut, wid a rampin, stampin red s in the shafts. Whin they was i tied down to their 'Sweethearts* first scene, which was a long ? slips outside an into the kyar+. "h av Hivin, but I made that brse an we came into the colonel s com as the divil wint through Athloi standin leps. There was no one excipt the servints, an I wint roi the back an found the girl's ryah. " 'Ye black, brazen Jezebel,' 'sellin your masther's honor for 51 -pack up all the Miss Sahib's j look slippy! Capt'n Sahib's orde: I ; 'goin to the station we are, ' an wid that I laid my finger to m; an looked the schamin sinner I W " 'Bote acchy, ' sez she, so I she was in the business, an I pil all the sweet talk I'd iver lean the bazaars on to this she bullo prayed av her to put all the quic knew into the thing. While she-p; I stud outside an sweated, for ' wanted for to shif' the second scei tell you a young gurl's e-vasion r as much baggage as a rig'mint o line av marchi 'Saints help De springs, * thinks I, as I bundled the into the thrap, 'for I'll have no me " 'I'm comin, too, ' sez the ayah " 'No, you don't,' sez I, 'la pechyl You baito where you are. pechy come an bring you sart, I with me, you maraudin'-niver : fwhat I called her. "Thin I wint for the Gaff, an b; special ordher av Providence, for I doin a good work you will ondersth Dennis' springs hild toight. 'Now, 1 the capt'n goes for that kit, ' thin] 'he'll be throubled.' At the en< .Sweethearts* off the capt'n runs ii kyart to the colonel's house, an I down on the steps an laughs. Wan; again I slipped in to see how the 1 piece was goin, an whin ut was endin I stepped out all among the ri'ges an sings out very softly, ' gi 1' Wid that a cairi'ge began to m an I waved to the dhriver. 'Hithei sez I, an he hitheraoed till I judge was at proper distance, an thin I him fair an square betune the eyes I knew for good or bad, an he dhro] wid a guggle like the canteen beer gine whin ut's runnin low. Thin I to the kyart an tuk out all the ki' piled ut into the carri'ge, the sv runnin down my face in dhrops. home,' sez I to the sais. 'You'll fir man close here. Very sick he is. T him away, an if you iver say ~\ wurrd about fwhat you've dekkced marrow you till your own wife w< sumjao who you arel' Thin I heard stampin av feet at the ind av the p] an I ran in to let down the curt Whin they all came cut, the gur thi to hide herself behind wan av the ; lars, an sez 'Jungi' in a voice t wudn't have scared a hare. I run ove: Jungi's carri'ge an tuk up the lo' old horse blanket on the box, wrap] my head an the rest av me in ut dhrove up to where she was. " 'Miss Sahib, ' sez I, 'goin to the s tion; Captain Sahib's order V An wid< a sign she jumped in all among her 0 kit. "I laid to an dhruv like steam to 1 colonel's hor.se before the colonel v there, an she screamed an I thou 6he was goin off. Out comes the ay* sayin all sorts av things about t capt'n havin come for the kit an gc to the station. " 'Take out the luggage, you divi sez 1, 'or I'll murther youl' "The lights av the thraps peoj comin from the Gaff was showin acre the parade ground, an by this an th the way thim two women worked the bundles an thrunks was a cautio I was dyin to help, but seein I didr want to be known, I sat wid the blas et roun' me an coughed an thanked ti saints there was no moon that night. "Whin all was in the house ag'in, niver asked for bukshish, but dhruv tr menjus in the epp'site way from tl other carri'ge an put out my light Presintly I saw a naygur man wallov in in the road. I slipped down before got to him, for I suspicioned Providern was wid me all through that nigh Twas Jungi, his nose smashed in fla all dumb sick as you please. Denni; man must have tilted him out av ti thrap. Whin he carno to. 'Hutt I' sez 3 but he began to howl. " 'You black lump av dirt, ' I sez, *i this the way you dhrive your gharri That tikka has been owin an fereowi: all over the bloomin country this whol bloom in night, an you as mut-walla a Davey's sew. Get up, you hog I' sez I louder, for I heard the wheels av J thrap in the dark. 'Get up an ligh your lamps, or you'll be run into!' Thi was on the road to the railway station "'Fwhat the divil's this?'sez th< capt'n's voice in the dhark, an I coi^c indee he was in a iatiier av ra^d " 'Gharri dhriver here, dhrunlr, sorr, sez 1. 'I've found his gharri sthrayir about cantonmints, an now I've found him " 'Oh/ sez the capt'n. 'Fwhat's his name?' 1 stooped down an pretended to listen '* 'He sez his name's Jungi. scrr. sez I " 'Hould my harse, ' sez the capt'n to his man, an wid that he gets down wid the whip an lays into Jungi, just mad wid rage an swearin like the sent lie was. "I thought afthcr awhile hewud kill the man, so 1 sez. 'Stop, sir, or you'll murdher him! That dhrew all his fire on me. an he cursed me into blazes an out acain. I stud to attenshin an salut ed. 'Sorr.' sez I, 'if ivry man in tin's wurruld bad his rights. I'm thinkiu that more than wau wud be beat rn to a shakin eily for this night's work - 'that never came off at ali. sorr, as yon see.' 'Now. ' thinks I to myself, 'Ter ence Mulvaney, you've cut your own throat, for he'll sthrike, an you'llknock him down for the good av his sowl an your own iverlastiu dislnrrace!' " 5ut tne capt'n never said a 8iD ;c wurrd. He choked where he stud, an thir. he wint into his thrap widcutsayin good night, an I wint back to harricks.'' "And then?" said Ortheris and I to gether. "That was all," said Mulvaney. "Niver another wnrrd did I hear ii v the whole thing. All I know was that there was no e-vasion, an that was fwhat I wanted. Now, I prit nt to you, sorr, is ten days' C. B. a fit an a proper tratement for a man who has behaved as me?" "Well, any'ow," said Ortheris, "'tweren't this 'ere colonel's daughter, an you was blazin copped when yon tried to wash in the fort ditch." 'That," said Mulvaney, finishing the champagne, "is a shuparfluous an im pert'nint observation." Tolstoi appears to have an abiding interest for everybody from emperors to serfs. Nobody goes to Russia without calling on him, and everybody that does writes about him. We have bad him in every possible shape-socialist, reformer, recluse, apostle, Christian saint, literary man, crank and genius. It remains now to present him as a hen pecked husband, somewhat snubbed by his family, who do not believe in his theories and who make him the butt of incessant little jokes and sarcasms which he takes uncomplainingly. Such is the picture presented by a recent English interviewer, who says that Tol stoi has made everything over to his wife, even the interests in his books, and it is as much as his family can do to keep him decently dressed, for he takes ofi! his clothes and gives them to the first beggar he meets. Equal to tbe Strain. One of the most imposing objects on earth is the bass drummer in a brass band. Arrayed in full panoply, and hammering with might and main on both sides of the huge structure stick ing ont in front of him, he is an awe inspiring and fear compelling spectacle. It is related of a bass drummer in the Blimtown brass band that when the band was playing and marching one day at the front of a political proces sion a dog, belonging probably to some man of the opposite party, rushed ont barking furiously, and singling out the man with the big drum as being the heavy villain, so to speak, made a dash for him. The drummer, without removing his eyes from the faroff depths of space into which he was gazing straight ahead, missed just one beat. Wish his heavy drumstick he hit the dog a blow that knocked it entirely out of the action, and went ahead drumming as before. "Yes, sir, " said the Blimtown histori ans, in speaking of the incident after ward, "he knocked that dog down and came in on time on the next beatl There ain't another man alive that could have done it I "-Detroit Free Press. A Wind Railroad. St Petersburg, Fla., has a railroad operated entirely by the winds. The road is of standard gauge and runs from Tampa bay np a steep grade to the shed of an old fisherman, who is the owner, director and operator of the system. 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