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, , Mj (irave.
t dream now of a li'.tlo grave, ' ' :
O'er which tho 1fw-n-f;t grafnpa wave ;
Sow lialf-wa- hid j falling showers
Ad1 drifting H.kkJs of api-1 flowern ;
Nrw lyiiig grr-eu berieath the nun,
That aneH, wlien the day is done,
To jrc-H oti kinn upon the monnd,
Then hnrif n through the gojden door. . ;
And flirn nil hi(4 nncriding round,
To Lrn-t; tn dawn and day once more.
Xhey laid hf-.r there )cuejttli the buda ;
I never knew when it wai done.
Far ou Ibo orient fcumuxcr flooija
. I wafted en 'ncath rnfxn and Hun,
Anl never dreamed that they had laid
The Mtill hweet face I loved no well,
Iloneath the green where violets stored.
In L'ue-cjcd eadnefiH, througli the dell. '
Ah, me, and I am weeping Fti!'
And -he iH hleejiing there b'jow
Lulle d by the low-voice fi1jppor.wiiit
And covered by the a)le Uow
A daiiy bmUt Itn h jowj h
Above my darlr jJ? la hef wat .
And weepn ! A fcWfeetaeHH Q.er my de
And droph iU 1)tUla ou L(Jr lreaBt
terrogatory, be left behind him astroDg
impression orh& , truthfulness.
His wife deoif-i liis identity, bttl
could give no rea-'m for so dottier ; nor
is this remarkab'rt vheu wo consider
the remarkable i . liemblance he bore to
Martin Guerre. The differences between
the two men rere
physical. -
Nearly 200 witnesses testified in tha
course of the two trials. Of these more
than fift who bad been intimately ao
quanted with Guerre, (including his
tour sisters,) swore that; he was tho"
original Martin.
vwore that he
l 1 A. A. " . 1 -w-v .
reaiuy a certain Arnoniu jjutuii, a
peasant, from a neighboring village.
Sixty witnesses could give no opinion
at all, although acquainted, many of
them, with both parties. All this evi
dence was given in detail, with constant
references to pecnlinritfes of stature,
face, gait, etc. But in this branch of
the case the most extraordinary fact of
the overpowering weight of the evidence
of personal identitycarried all before '
it. At Manosque at Caillfe, at Rongon
ho was confront-,! with many who knew
Isaa &nd knew him iDtimately. One
hundred md thirteen swore positively
I tli n.t Via ( t-iI ain f ifT wan i Th winr.
mor mental th&a j by a majority, decided in bis favor, and
tne people wjio baa espoused nis cause
greeted the decision with load cheers.
Having thus obtained possession of
the estates, he might have retained
them nndisturbed, bad not his ambition
Onrrip.il Vi i m an far ah in mtirrv n. vnn n y
equal number lady of good family, who was a relation
was in of one of thft .Tiidces on his first trial.
This step raised a storm about his cars
from a most undesirable quarter. And
here a new actor appears on the scene.
In the story he told of his adventures
when he first appeared there was one
remarkable incident. He appeared as
Pierre Mege, a soldier, and said that
some years, before he had visited the
wife of., the j genuine Pierre Mege, and
i
Conshohochen, -Perm., says Max
Adeler, is a city set on a hill," or
rather on the bide of a hilL It stretches
An
was not.
but
SIISTAKEX IDENTITY.
ail was-the number of similar marks represented himself as her husband,
which Martin was sworn to possess, and who bad disappeared some time before ;
that she knew he was not her husband,
but. rather than remain a grass-widow
any longer, she was . willing that he
should pass , as VsucEuT Extraordinary
..'as',is of personation and mistaken
Mfintu .1: - a. i . . . -
. untjr av n great ueai or. fcimi-
aanty, while at the name time thevseem
tf iKj.ssess tho peculiarity of impressing
the penerul public with the belief that
eacu f rush case is distinctly aui generis.
now oiten in tbe past two years have
we heard .such comments on the Tich-
uorue cum tin the "most wonderful
piece oi imposture," " most extraordi
nary case ever heard of," etc., whereas.
in fact, if we except the immense
amount of time coneumed in putting in
the evidence, aud in summing up, it
umuuos compare witu many earlier ones.
Of theno we will recall the cirenm-
Biances oi two interesting impostures
of this nature. Although one took
place, three hundred vears no-o. and tb
other Kor,o Ouo hundred and fifty years
liiter, they hnve both been so fullv re
ported that tho facts in each are as ac
cessible, as those to more recent ones
whUe their very age may give them i
certain freshness.
They are both French cases, and here
wo may pause to note the fact that from
the tuuf) oi IVrkin Wurberlc. d own tliA
Orton vas is tho only important eise
of fraudulent impersonation reported
'n Unglund. There have been cases of
ita()0ture, where the claimant sought
tfo establish his. identity with some par
'ticuhir htntn, puch as the great case of
: Smyth vh. Hmyth, where he claimed to
bo tho son of Sir Hugh Smyth, when,
in fact, no such son had ever existed.
But of personation, pure and simple,
where a claim is made, of identity with
a red existing or pre-existing person,
tho English lleporta .are utterly barren.
Why this shouldrb'o so ia a paradox.
Thj Anglo-Saxon race ia as much as any
other given to .wander off for long
periods t-f time, thereby giving rise to
tho very combination of circumstances
which invites imposture of this nature.
Tho pamo complete absence of cases of
personation marks tha Teutonic rp.nnrds
ol cause K-clcbrcH. But to return.
Martin Gneire, a peasant of Artigues,
after a married life of some nine years,
disappeared one day, leaving behind
him his wifo and a young child. The
cansn of his departure was some petty
theft from hhi father, whose anger at
its discovery ho "wished , to blow over
before wiling his 'reappearance. His
wife was privy to his departure, and it
was supposed at the time that after he
had been absent some eight days, he
might return in safety. As? matter of
fact eight years elapsed before any
thing more was heard of Martin Guena
His wife and all his friends had by that
tinrv given him up for dead. u
At length, one evening in' the year
.1555, a man presented himself in the
village as Martin Guerre, and had no
sooner announced himself than he re
ceived a joyful recognition and welcome
from his uucla and four sisters. The
original Martin, it. seems, had not been
a devoted husband, and hiswifo's re
eptiou of hiru was not so enthusiastic.
But he folded her, to, his arms, asked
many and anxious questions about the
which were also present on the claim
ant's person.
When we recall the stress which was
laid at the Tichborno trial on the
" brown mark" and the " tattoo marks."
and then notice the wonderful similari
ty of marks in this ease, we will be
forced to the conclusion that whoever
relies on such testimony , to support his
case leans upon a broken, reed. J The
theory of the tremendous force of evi
dence, which a cumulation of similar
marks must have, is familiar under
another form in the argument of design
m the creation, illustrated by the in
stance of the finding a watch. It as-
sumes mat : wirne tne possession oi a
similar mark is of little weight in iden
tification, the possession of each addi
tional mark strengthens the identifi
cation on a geometrical ratio. This
theory is still popular" despite the
numerous instances in which , it has
caused gross errors, and it is-; hard to
impress on tha minds of ,a jury that it
has proved a false guide too often to be
trusted. Such cases as Gnerre's and
the Ricard tease , (which we will allude
to below.) have made the evidence of
marks of little force to the legal mind
Martin Guerre was sworn to have had
these marks : (1) tho trace of an ulcer
on one cheek ; (2) a scar on the right
eyebrow ; (3, 4) two teeth broken in the
lower jaw; (5) a drop of extravasated
blood in the left eye ; (6) the nail of hia
left, forefinger mi&3ing; (7, 8, and 9)
three warts on the left hand, one be
ing on the little finger. If we as
sume the probability of identity as es
tablished by 'Ordinary resemblance of
face and figure to be x, these nine coin
cident marks would, by the law of geo
metric increase, make the probabitity of
identity or the odds in favor of the
claimant's being the genuine article,
512xtol. No wonder the judges were
perplexed. What would have peen the
result of the case, it is hard to guess,
but at. this 6tage of the proceedings
there appeared a dcus ex machina in
the person of a one-legged soldier, who
caliined to be Martin Guerre. He was
confronted one by one with the witness
es who had sworn to the identity of the
other claimant, and they all at once ac
knowledged their error. His sisters,
weeping, asked his pardon for having
mistaken him, as did also his wife.
In spite of this the other claimant in
sisted that he was the true man, and
the two were confronted and examined
simultaneously. It is a , noteworthy
fact "that the real Martin seemed to
know less of his own private affairs than
the false one, and had it not been for
the fact that at last, upon conviction,
Dutilh confessed, we might still be in
doubt as to which was the true one. He
had been tempted to undertake the per
sonation by his strong resemblance to
Guerre, with whom he had become ac
quainted while in the army, and the
fact that ho was his comrade for years,
enabled him to learn all his secrets and
thus he had been able to deceive even
his wife.
The other case we give is in most of
its details the exact reverse of the
above, while it resembles the Tich
borne caae by reason of tho many and
gross mistakes made by the claimant in
giving his recollections, and also by his
gainingat the outset" a wide-spread
The "Stw Fire Pin.
, HYDROPHOBIA
AH05Q THE D0G&
What It la aad wkat Cm It.
The New York Oitr Sanitary Com-
rom the Schuylkill river up the incline mittee srire the following facta regard-
to the top, which is about 160 feetabote ing hydrophobia, a subject which is
the water letel. Last summer they de- attracting so much attention at this
ermined to introduce water 5 to the
town, and tner oegan Dy erecting a
huge reservoir upon the summit of the
hill, iust beyond the village. When
the work was done and the .reservoir
pumped full of water, Mr. Bunder, who
lives down near the river, had a patent
fire ping of his own intention placed in
Tu fcjr a Hprtr.
An extraordinary and pitiable.thongh
at the same time ludicrous scene, pre
, sent itself to the notice of the observ
er. More than 300 dogs are chained to
people who have suffered and died from
the tembie disease:
Hydrophobia ia a disease peculiar to
animals of the canine and feline races,
tho dog, wolf, fox, cat, etc IU origin,
except by actual inoculation, is un
known. It tnav be inoculated bv lick-
front of his hotxse. One day, before ing A raw surface as well as by a wound
time, owing to the immense number of the flooring of a long, tolerably broad.
child and his growth and improvement popularity, and the support of rich, in
in the past eight years : said he had finential, and numerous friends, i '
nowa an uii vua uu, ana naa come iu. ae jauie ana nis wne owneu cs
home to settle down as an ornament to tates at Manosque, in Provence. As
society. v- v they were jCalviuists, the revocation of
ne appeared somewhat changed . by the Edict of Nantes; in 1685, compelled
years and. toil,-nor was this extraor- them to quit France, while their prop-
,dinary, for theoriginal Martin, although erty went , to the Catholic next-of-kin.
nine yeara a benedict, was very young They settled at Lausanne, in Switzer-
when he disappeared. He certainly 1 land,, where the lather was lmng at the
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. uoro a Birong resemDiance io me long- ume uiQ sun. was urougut. xno mom
lost husband.', and seemed perfectly
familiar-with private i ciroumstances
which could be known.onlVjtQ the lat
ter, including some which transpired
dnriug tho honeymoon." "A rehearsal of
these jeminisccnce8vermejwhatever
hesitancy his wife "at first exhibited,
and thoy liveo! happily together for two
years. " Th olimani was of course put
er died in 1G90. Of five children three
boys and two girls the sons and one
daughter died before the suit was
brought. The eldest son, Isaac, died
in 1696, at Vevay, aged thirty:two. ;
In 1699. one Pierre Mege, a soldier,
presen,tet hbaself before the Intendant
of Provence and asserted that he was
the same Isaac ; abjured the Calvinist
into possession of all the property of religion and claimed the estates. !
All wie Biurjr ut; nuu uu iua ursv iritu
(for, like Arnould Dutilh,? he had two
though the story was, the fact that his
wife , remained quiet during the 'first
trial encouraged . the belief that his
statements were" true. " r
Now, however, that he had married
another, the offended, wife rose in
wrath and denounced him as the real
Pierre Mege, a soldier, a convict,
and a galley-slave. A new trial was had
and the customary conflict of evidence o
identity was again witnessed. Nearly 400
witnesses were examined. One nun
dred and ten, (including twelve old and
constant comrades, twenty-one domes
tics in the service of the De Gaille f amilv
and four nurpes, who, at different times,
had had charge of ' him,) swore that he
was Isaac. - One hundred and : eighty
two (including his father, his , sister,
and the undertaker who had buried
him) swore as positively that he was
not Isaac. One hundred and thirty
swore that he was in reality Pierre
Mege, while the evidence of his irate
wife conclusively showed that he was
an impostor. . t
In the course of the trial allusion was
made to a still more remarkable im
posture. It had been urged on behalf
of the claimant that he must be young
De -Caille or he would not have dared
to set np his claim during the life of his
father, and while an infinity of living
witnesses could prove it false. To this
M. JJ6 isiiniere in reply, gave an ac
count of an adventuress, who in 1628,
went to Limoges and entered a nun
nery, passing herself off as .Henrietta
Maria, sister of Louis XIII., and wife of
CharlesT., "of England.1 The people in
the ' vicinity were entirely deceived.
Louis XIIL, then at the siege of La
Bochelle, sent a commission to examine
her. She conducted herself with the
greatest effrontery, related the history
of the English court ; gave the names
of the principal lords and ladies who
waited on her, and stated that she fled
from England because she was perse
cuted for her religion. Everything was
connected in her'answers, she maintain
ed that she was the king s sister, end
signed her examination ' Henrietta De
Bourbon. As the real queen was at
that very time on the throne of Eng
land, visible every day at the JEnglish
ceurt, the imposture was of course ex
posed, but many thought, it could not
be an imposture, for the very reason
that it was so palpable a cheat. '
Becent events in England have pro
duced several brochures on this subject
of mistaken identity from prominent
members of the bar. The strictness of
tteEDglish law with regard to contempt
of court has prevented their publication
till the conclusion of the Tichborne
case, and the accumulations of some two
years are now at once made public. It
is a subject which certainly - deserves
careful attention, for, like insanity, it
is a perplexing question for the jury
man. No system perhaps is superior to
the one now in use of procuring all the
evidence attainable and subjecting it to
a searching analysis, but an improve
ment might be made in the canons
which govern in weighing evidence of
this nature at least so far. as it relates
to marks and personal resemblances.
A suggestion by Mr.. Joseph Brown, Q.
C, that evidence should always be pre
sented to the jury of causes celebres of
a similar character, while perhaps im
practicable from its making the pro
ceedings too volumnious, would no
doubt have good effect p ,Cf "
The lease "of "Ada Ricardr alluded ; to
above, is briefly, this : A body was
found in 18617 floating in the river near
a Jersy City pier. It was supposed it
might be .tho corpse, of a notorious
woman, one Ada Bicard, who had dis
appeared some time before. Her puta
tive husband and others identified the
body to the perfect satisfaction of the
authorities, not only by the facial re
semblance, but also by the following
marks, which Ada had, and which were
all found on the corpse L A habit of
the water had been turned on by the
company, Bunder had his uncle Horace
np from the city to dinner, and he took
the old gentleman out to explain the
fire plug to him. After unscrewing the
top and examining the interior, Bun
der s uncle took a seat on the plug and
began to discuss with Bunder the
questions of ' U63arism and the de
pression in the price of pig iron. In
the very heat of the controversy, the
Superintendent np at the reservoir
turned the water oh for the purpose
washing out the pipes. Two minutes
afterwards, Bunder saw his uncle Hor
ace suddenly shoot twenty feet into the
air, followed by a column of water six
six inches thick ; and during the suc
ceeding quarter of an, hour whilo the
fountain continued to play, old Horace
Bunder remained , on the top of that
column, bouncing about with his legs
pointing in quick succession to all
points of the compass, and to the earth
with the tooth. Its occurrence and
room, care being exercised to leave a
passageway for the attendants, and for
visitors who come to rescue their favor
ites. - For two days thestrong arm of
Municipal law detains the nnmuxxled
Tray caught wandering in the streets.
Daring that time the 'owner may re
claim him and take him away on pay
ment of three dollars. At the fixat sor-
prevalence are not materially affected yey the eye, in its glancing ees;noth
bv the Reasons of : the vear. nor br cli-
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mate. It is perhaps slightly more fre
quent in the spring months, but it oc
curs alike in the coldest regions of
Canada and the hottest districts of the
East and West Indies. Of those bitten
by animals known to be rabid but a
small percentage are affected, namely,
five to twenty per cent. This is largely
duo to the fact that the saliva of the
mg but curs, the great- majority ox
which are auito vonng poppies, born"
the present year. Some "are playing,
some are howling,' some are sleeping.
But. walking down the aisle, a more
careful view shows that there are quite
a number ef dogs of race, of genteel
animals, so to speak, among the ban
dreds. And here one notices a re
markable thing. Almost all the street
Items ef Intrmt
-NibbUa - eaya that. Slcethe Jndk
clerk, was always considered a vry up
right man until he sloped.- 4 .
An. Eastern psper iotimsW that
Treasurer Spinner ajqaired his hsbit
of profanity while learning to read his
own wrilintf
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ti u a "fcnioriont fact that xne men
ie net
who essay to manage the opinions of
the world, invariably neglect their do
mestic affairs, and allow them to run to
ruin.
An Illinoi .cirt hat jo decided
that property pawned as aeenrity for
money is not absolately and wholly
forfeited when not redeemed at tho
time agreed upon. , .
From one grain of muscle takn rom
a deceased person !a Flint, Mlth.,tw bo
had died of trichina pi rati. 102 tri
chinie were taken, looking like snakes
under a 200 power lens.
Mits Skillings gives notice to owners
of some seven seres' of the, best riart of
Portland. Me., that she owns the trop-
rrtr: and the lawyers are taking off
of rabid dog is so far removed by the hair dogs choose a chum from among those ' preparing ior batUe.
es of the animal or clothes of the person around him, and the two play together . . . t , 4 , ,. , f , , f , J. ,
r- bitten that none of it enters in the nd leP ide by side in the most An account of a deer-hunt fa roca-
f riendly way. They are so tethered
that any one dog could make inends
with at least half a dozen, but there is
manifest selection. Now. the pets
wound. The male dog is far more
liable to be affected than the female.
Pet dogs confined to the house and
f amilv are as liable to develorj hydro
Tbohfa as dors at larire. The.mnzzlinc will not make friends, but hold off on
T " o-- I I.. . n ..
of healthy dogs and those allowed in their dignity, xne writer nouces an
the streets is at best a most imperfect unhappy Skye terrier with a head and
preventive measure, n me ammai wui we uiup, mw bmuus up
rabid he can readily inflict a wound
and the sky, sometimes standing upon with the metallio mnzsle, and thus in
his head, sometimes resting on the pit
of his stomach, sometimes with the
water in the small of his back, but
never for a moment at rest. Bunder
tried to turn the patent valve in the
plug but it wouldn't work, and he could
only stand there and feel sick as he
waited for his venerable relative to come
down. At last the old man did descend
all of a sudden, landing upon his back
in the mud. Any other man would have dence engraved upon it.
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expressed mmseit in vioiem language, prove oi mucn Bernco
a . -w - 1 I
but Horace merely rose, squeezed tne
water out of his hair, picked np his hat
oculate the victim. If he is not rabid
the muzzle will prove a species of cru
elty and annoyance far more likely to
produce canine madnees than to pro
tect against it. It would prove far
more effective against the nuisance of
the roving herds of vagrant curs in our
streets if the ordinance forbid any dog
in the street which did not wear a col
lar having the owner s name and rest-
It might also
if the public
were better lniormed as to tne eatiy
symptoms of hydrophobia in the dog.
and shook it, glanced contemptuously These symptoms are thus giren by an regulation if his friends do not claim
mm during lorxj-eigns nours. ue
ii ? .i . i
at Bunder, went up and kicked the pa
tent fire plug, jammed his hat firmly
over his eyes, took the four o'clock train
to town, and before he changed his
clothes altered his will so that $10,000
that he intended for Bunder goes to
any man who will invent an infernal
machine which will exterminate Bun
der's patent rights, fori that A6 VS
can be had at a sacrifice.
A Young Bride Burned to Death.
In Cincinnati, says a local journal, a
young
man oi- twenty-seven, named
John Vanden burg, was married to Anna
Scwegman, a young girl not quite sev
enteen years old.
After the wedding the couple moved
to a suite of rooms in the rear of 272
Richmond street. Everything appeared
bright to the newly married pair. The
girl was young, good looking and ami
able, while the husband was a first-class
tailor steady, Bober, trustworthy and
capable. The bride and groom gave a
little party to their immediate friendp,
in their neatly furnished apartments.
Nothing was spared to make the day a
pleasant one ; all were dressed in their
best, the bride wearing her light and
airy white wedding dres s.
The feast went merrily on, when,
about half-past seven o'clock, the new
housewife discovered that the contents
of the coffee pot were getting low, so
she hurried down etalrs to the kitchea
to make some fresh, leaving the hus
band and guests laughing and talking
alone. The fire -'in the kitchen stove
had died down, and . the little girl, in
her haste to get back to her company,
thoughtlessly picked np a can of kero
sene and poured some of the oil upon
the fire. Instantly the Are cDmmuni
cated to her gossamer dress, and in a
second she was completely enveloped
in the flames. . The kitchen . she was in
was soon on fire too. She rushed out,
but could not get free from the fierce
embrace of death. Her screams com
pletely paralyzed , the . company above.
They sat still an instant, then all rushed
down into the yard. Mr. Rickoff was
first, and soon threw his " coat around
her, and then a blanket was added but
the fire still smoldered und burnt up
eminent veterinary surgeon:
There are no premonitory signs of an
attack of the disease in the dog. When
the period of incubation (three to seven
weeks) is passed, the animal is restless,
dull, watchful, and snaps at dogs, other
animals, or men, which come in its
way. It shuns the light, but with much
slyness seeks an opportunity of escape,
and roves about town or country, mani
festing extraordinary powers of exer
tion and marked insensibility to blows
and ill-usage. The habits of ah animal
may not change completely at first, and
the recognition of persons it has been
in daily contact with is sometimes very
remarkable. The dilated pupils, the
manner in which the eyes follow any
object moved before them, and the pe
culiar modification of the bark, which
is more of the nature of a howl, are
among the characteristic symptoms.
The appetite is lost, thirst often con
siderable, aud the animals usually drink
without difficulty. The coat is staring,
hontas county. West Virginia, in the
neighborhood of the headwaUrs of the
Greenbrier river, says that 87 d era and
two bears were killed by a party of eight
gentlemen. '5
In these days -of coal monopoly it is
a fact of lntareat to know that near
Montreal peat is prepared for fuel to
the amount .of 18.000 to 20,000 tons
annually, and that it finds a ready raar
kot in the city. ' -
A Tempting. Inducement. Cheerful
agent for life insurance company : "The
advantage of our company ia that you
do rot forfeit vour policy either by be-
ing hanged or by co rami tun g suiciae i
Pray, take a prospectus V
A man who was seen eomlcg out of a
Texas newspaper, office with a split
nose, with one eye and ' with one ear,
explained to a policeman that he enter
ed the offioo simply to. inquire if the
editor was in. . "And be was in," the
victim mournfully added.
A liltl alx-vear-old daughUr of a
passes all the time in sleeping or observ-1 Rot land clergyman watched Barnum's
m a a
a mop, who stands up and
barks with anger, and snaps at all the
other dogs near him.
JJot far off is a noble old watch dog,
a great creature, beautiful in his
ugliness, with a . strong look of the
mastiff about him. His friend did not
like to put a muxzle on the fine old fel
low, knowing bow ridiculous and. rea
sonless such a prooednre was. He haa
been caught taking a nap somewhere,
and has waked to find a siring round
his neck and a big loafer choking him
by dragging him along the pavement.
is Wa WW S .
tie is au ngnt, nowever. xie nis oeeu
bespoken by a man who will pay, the
money, and take him according to the
mg silently the company he is in. This
he doei with his head down between
his outstretehed forepawt, - his eyes
glancing fiercely from aide to side.. Let
him out and give him five minutes with
the greasy tramp who kidnapped kirn,
and there would be a job for one of the
Coroner s assistants. , .
Not far from the door is a pitifnl
case. It is a fine Spitz dog, who is suf
fering from . some disease, and his
friends gave a man fifty cents to bring
him here. They-think it may be hydro
phobia. Perhaps it is. Ilia dreadful
to see that dog fighting against his
malady, ne is trembling f earf nlly, aud
has a spasmodio motion of the ribs.
He endeavors to stand erect, but can
not, and falls back with a piteous look
of mute anguish. He has never barked
nor howled, but from the moment ho
was brought here has been fighting with
his malady. He has become dreadfully
skin-tight on the ribs, abdomen tuckod J thin, and looks in his emaciation liae a
up, head depressed, and nose pro- j famished Arctic wolf. His friends evi-
truded, with a dirty mouth and tongue, I uenuy seni mm nere mat ne mim
Killed in a mercirut way sua iuuer no
pain. The dogs around him know that
and sometimes a discharge oi mucous
and saliva from the sides of the month.
In a certain number of cases the ner-
trt nanda with ereal interest tne
other day, and finally eiid to her pspa :
If I wa'n't a rainiater's little girl I
could go to the circus, but I suppose I
must set an example to1 the whole
church now." ' ' ,t.-v
There are many fruits which never
turn sweet vntil the- Xxot has ..touched
them. There axe many nuts that never
Zall from the bough of the tree till the
frost haa opened and ripened them,
An.l there, are many, element Jf life
that never grow sweet and beautiful till
sorrow touches them." -
"Isay, Sambo, "does ye know what
makes de corn grow so faat when yoa
Eut the manure on it? " o, I uon t
ardly." "Now 111 jUt tell yon:
when de corn begins to smell de
manure, it don't like de lutnery, so it
hurries out ob de ground, an gets np
as high r s possible so as not to breathe
de bad air. ;.
Since the breaking of the Williams
burg dam no fiah have been een in
Mill River, although it was formerly
vail.tAkad with them. AJWr the
he is in anguish, and occasionally lick I disaster, mauv suckers, eels, and m all
ium ; and he looks at them so mtelli- er fjy were scattered along the mead-
gently, so gratefully, that one can un- owt and such as escaped death thus
deratand how great a pet he must Lave on Jjj land were probably killed by the
been at homo. He can neither eat nor guii and poisonous quantities oi the
drink. When the pails ol water and .Um derjoeits which fcava been ao
vous symptoms are very prominent at
this period, and the lower jaw drops
from ratalysis of tho muscles connect
ed with it. The howl is then lost, hence
the, name of dumb rabies. Emaciation
and craving after filth, which is iwal-1 of soaked bread are passed around, he I mtDy years accumulaiagin the earner-
uoea out iiHs. an wcui, nu 2tcitt qtjs miil-uam.
lowed with some difficulty, are among
the noticeable symptoms. There is a
singular absence of any marked accel
eration of the pulse and breathing dur
ing the disease ; the animal sinks, often
paralyzed in the hind quarters, and dies
somewhat tranquilly from the fourth Vi
the eighth day.
Dogs or cats suffering from these
symptoms should be at once de
stroyed. . . - .
- Lfnen Salts.
The linen polonaise worn with a skirt
of a different material has taken the
place ot , the plain linen suits to a great
extent for ordinary traveling and every
day purposes, says a fashion writer.
called "tourist,' outfits
What are called " tourist , outfits are
everything except the waistbands of her I imported, consisting 'ol ' loose linen
8&irt8 and ner wmte weaamg suppers, i poioa&ise uwku iu uv uact, v uut
.The poor girl was carried up stairs to I of striped cambric, and a linen satchel
bed. and Dr. Brown" summoned.' He
prescribed for her, but pronounced the
case hopeless. ' Indeed be might 'well ;
she was burned completely there was
strapped with leather.
These are not so bad for country ex
cursions and such' light uses, but for
traveling,' a black skirt is best ; . a black
. fn..nm.l ... a I . -f i n lfiitlriilinrf i nrtm a
i i-' P. All
, i-iuu-.. iuu?riieu irom. ma jaiucii xvu
went well with him,-until in an unlucky
hour he became iuyoived- in a quarrel
with his uncle, who had teen among
the first to recognize him on his arrival
at the village.- & -.a.-- a-. .' I
Angered ' af hlsnephew, Pierre
Guerre urged his niece to institute pro
ceedings against1 her supposed husband
for impostureb ' which 'he quickly
consented. As the, ."neW iMartinT'had
made a far kinder husband than the old
one, his wife's conduct is only explioa-
bio ou tin supposition' that two: years
interoours4(as-mla and Wife had en
abled her ia judge more correctly; as to
his pretention?, and, had finally; con
vinced her that .hd was not sher .hus
band. ""-p" i
i - He was-mooordinglT' brought Jef ore
' the Court of Rien2, and.'as he hadatwo
not a' square inch upon her whole body silk or mohair, with which can be worn
.a . . a . I a VI a. ' : a . - w-a -
that was not browned by . the horrible
fire.' She lay on 'the bed and: fairly
writhed lnS)ahi.?-Two Sisters of Mercy
watched her and nursed her, but -their
efforts were in vain. 'Death was a happy
release. 1 The husband was' severely embroidery, ana there is an abundance
aa a a
a discs straw nat and ' biaea i&ussia
leather belt. ; ; . . . .
More dressy linen and batiste suits
are elaborately embroidered or "orna
mented with a' mixture of braid and
burned about the head and a ho alders
terribly 'so? but not necessarily fatal.
SW 1 V Ui I Li. -Ljt- .
trials, the proceedings dragd'ba for
, iyuu, iixOi aeuuis oi
. several montha-
the evidencewe need not
will give a brief rift nee at the tnoret im
portant points. Tho, claimant himself
told a perfectly smooth, Btraightfprward
. story - of. hia andefingsfind unlike
urion, never once ; oonixaa icrea. xum se 1 1
trials) there were the following in
accuracies ; He called himself Andre; the
real name was Isaac He called his father
Eutrevergues ; .his real name was Bran
De Chastelaae.' He said his mother's
given name was Susanne ; it was really
Judith. ' He said he was twenty-three
years bid ; Isaac's age, had he lived,
would have been thirty-five. . He said
he-was only ten years old when he left
France ; Isaac was then twenty-one.
He did not know the street or trammer
of the hbusewherei his family lived int
Manosque. He said his lather bad
onlv three children : he had five. He
aid hbtfapJth 3plor ofhejpvls or
hair of his sister, nor of an aunt who
had lived with the family at Lausanne.
He said'his father-, had a black beard J
it was red Jr and that his complexion
was brown and sallow, whereas it was
remarkably fair., Moreover. the evi-
delay.2 but , deuce of his father, 'who was liting at
evay, was. taken, showing that his son
had died in his arms- "n f
Here, surely, was enough to damn
his casW.espccialIyas the Parlement
before which he was tried was, under
wearing very heavy earring shad slit the i t tCat tho plume portion of the feathers
lobe of one ear, and they had both been from the stem. by. means of ordinary
pierced higher up. 2. She had a pecu- hand scissors. .-Tne former are placed
liar cicatrix in a lower limb. 3. She in quantities, in a coarse bag, which,
a. a a a . b"a . m a at a .a.
habitually wore s toe Kings two sizes too when (uu. is cioeea ana subiectea to a
large for her feet.- 4. She -had a beau thorough, kneading with, the hands.
tiful and regular set of teeth, with the
exception of one lower tooth, which
was absent The corpse had lost two
lower teeth, hut a 'closer examination
showed that one had been knocked out
in the course of the death struggle, and
was. still adhering, to the gum. No
sooner, however, had the police satia-
of embroidery upon linen sold by the
yard, black upon gray, white upon dais:
blue, chocolate upon brown,. which may
be applied to the plain linen fabric bj
ladies who wish to make it up in exclu
sive designs. " - :? tt . 4-
The tight-fiUing, rather loud style of
polonaise, or redingote, of boat year,
with its large pockets and deep, wide
cuffs, has disappeared. The best styles
this year have French backs (narrow
without side forma) and loose fronts,
which are held in with belt or san.
The skirt is long, the form simple, am-
in his ceaseless endeavors to get up,
He aecms to have a dim belief that if
he could once stand he would be all
right, and would be permitted to go
home.
What a dreadful howl that Utile poo
dle docs make. Ho is also a pet, bat
he has been sent here for biting one of
the household. After the two days lisve
expired, if he haa shown no symptoms
of rabies, he will be conaigned to the
care of a livery-stable man. Such were
the orders of his owners. This will be
a lesson to him to moderate his little
temper. He is a very intelligent little
beast,' and comprehends that all is not
well. Close to him is a Hootch terrier,
a very gentlemanly dog, who is evident
ly annoyed at the howling of the poo
dle, which he considers ill-bred. He is
lying all his length along the floor,
meditating. He takes the water offer
ed him gratefully enough, but 'refuses
the food with a disdainful sniff. Some
body will take him, even if his friends
do not claim him. There is sn old Irish
man, master, one would think, oi a pea
nut stand, who is in want of a good
dog to drive away the bad boys, ne
0 a vaiaa . .a
has already expressed bis opinion to tne
writer thai -the dogs, are all curs
"Shure
wan, among
Tfhat a Great Flood Aeaas.
The following is an extract from a
recent letter from a planter to his agent
in New Orleani : '
I regret that I have nothing favora
ble to write from this section (Boeuff
Prairie). We are under water, and have
been for the past six weeks. -There is
nothing doing except boating stock
from one high place to another, and, as
you might fuppoe, they are now nearly
all dead. The water is falliag alowlv,
but has only receded six inches in all,
which does us no good yet. A fall of
two feet more would give ut some re
liVf Manv have had to leava- their.
homes snd put up mde tents, to afford
belter to their wives and hitle'one-,
while they returned to their homes with
the purpose, ia most instances futile,
of saving their stock and household ef
fects. Chickeni and turkey ara on the J
housetops. Psasifig through the coun-,
try in hosts the stench from .tht desd '
stock is terrible, and much sickness
muat necesssrily ' follow : tha great
ilmi tv under which we are now auf-
: : . . ... . .
mm m
rn'nr Mmt rjf the fencing is washed
there Un't a rale good, blooded awsy and cannot be recovered. -'A great
ong theSrhole lot," 'Bui he proportion of ihAwrorkiockJs already
dead, snd that text,, ii. any asoxua
left, will not be able to wor1 f lte
end unotyet." Thewattr ta-aignieen
changes hia mind when he sees this
Scotch terrier, andxiakes whistling ad-
yanoes of amity, to which the dog does
or made an error ia his statementsas far I tha ancUu r'mcompoeed of men of tEnglish lawyer tvti u
u nuiuuui'vi- icocuiuuucci
as they could bo , yerified. He replied
1 a i a . l.
unnesitaungiy and accurately to every
education and , abilities, possessed of
means tobtfy Hheir position, and ex-
question of family history, and when he perienced by the constant hearing and
eft the bar at the end of his long in--fweighing of evidence. But here, again,
fied themselves as to the identity of the 1 and six-tenths troy ounces of this down
corpse than Ada herself made bear ap-
pearanchavingSrandered'OiT to New
Orleans for a few months. Renewed
efforts having been made to ascertain
the identity of the murdered, girl, a
woman from one of the Eastern States
next claimed the" body as - her daugh
ter's; -and identified' it by" the' very
marks which bad led the detectives to
suppose it was Ada Rreard.By this
time, however, she learned "that fber
At the end of five minutes the feathers,
it is stated, become, disaggregated and
felted together, forming a down perfect
ly homogeneous and of great lightness. pia Md gracef uT. the akirt tied back in-
Afc i 5Tcu vxigu uim uaiuraa tuuer I stead OI bunched m
W if. T. aa a aa. I '
a own, oecsase uieiaiier contains ice
ribs of the feathers,' which "give extra
weight. . A quantity equal to about one
K- -si'-. ' : .! u' -.
. Its Cost. 'Mr. Hammond, the re
vivalist, spoke to a man standing in a
crowd at Qoiney," 1IL, a short. time ago.
can be obtained, from the leathers of an iuquiring -how iie lt.. . Do yon see
ordinary sized Tpullet,- aud it readily anything greenV said the man, poini-
seii , ia tuv, ior wwm iwo uousxb ing to hii eye, as mucn as to say be
The down thus obtained is said to
form a' beautiful cloth.. For about a
square yard of, such material a pound
and a half of the down is required. The
fabric is found tole almost indestructi
ble, as in place. of fraying or-wearing'
outa t lokla it only seems to felt with a
not a subject for eonversion. "No.xny
friend, f Mr. -IL replied, "but I see
something red your nose and it cost
$5,000 to paint .it, if yoa paid for the
drinks.".
daughter was sick at Bellevue Hospital, I greater degree ot tightness. In addition
todthcorpsehsnevrbeenidmtified. to these , valuable qualities, the 'fabric
This donble error should lead us to 1 takes dye rapidly and is thoroughly
aaopt tne 'proposition t or en -eminent i waterproox ic , .
and
- The explosion of. a bottle of. soda-
hardly 'any ? amount of timiUtudee inTwiWr in the hands of George Fecher of
combination, can be safely received as 1 Atlanta, Ga. , severed an artery and put
proof of identity, 1 the man's life in danger.
Tir Tbotbui. JL Burhiigton Board of
Trade man got into trouble by letting
his business weigh too hearfly on his
mind the other night. His wife heard
biai' murmur in his sleep, Ella, dear
Ella, fondly and tenderly, aud as her
name ii Mehitabel, she awoke him with
a bald end of a hair brush, and asked
him .-who "I was thinking of Ella
Yator, the wretched man said calmly.
and chuckled off to aleep again.
nt In' tha -lAa.t vMTmnd.vi.Kow. ririds I iaehea higher thaA in tklt 'ocmorable
- - - . i . i . . . t..'t -1
Loeanoteotae l year we near our oia peopie n"wii,
... 1 ? - m iL. a... TV. .a 4 .
lai. a oewnpuon oi wo u u
quite impossible,' Ya eannotedneeive
von would have to be here to realize
... ... ira. t
the extent of the autre, a a
rorsof an overflow are ewfuTto read
about, but if yea could see and reshze
what we have seen and experienced tho
Sast six weeks ee your favorite cows
ying of starvation, and ia the water
perhaps drownis g, lo wing . to you for
help; your oxen, your, horaea, mules,
Berkshire hogs, sheep;-fencing timber,
lumber for building purposes, all being
swept away by. the raerciiees nooo, ana
no power to stay"or "pretest it ; the
ork perhaps ol yourwuc.eius saaicnea
from yoa tn.a dsy yoa rwouii then
fully realize our distress,
The good peophf cf New OH cans
snd other cities both Zlazih and South
have kindly and in' a ChrivUan-like
spirit come forward to the aaauiance ox
the districts. "Borne provisions have
been aad are beir, d'-lribtr-Y; in this
section, aad let ne ny they axe very
much needed. 1-tak fcr-cclhicg for
myself am abls to take care ol myself
sand iaaily, t least for. the. present
but there are a great cxay' people as
good as I am' or anyone else who are
a- a .a a a W
not able, &2d tiia Who is eoierea popu
will have a fall, ii master does
to the rescue, snd this scornful deg
will hsve to eat very dirty puddings. '
. Up in the remote comer are the sluts.
Among them is a miserable cur, not
larger than a puppy herself, who has
yeaned and brought forth trpon the
hard planks two wretched little things
not half the size of rats. Only think of
the brute who had no compassion upon
her trouble, and dragged her here for
the sum of fifty cents It ,is horrible
to see her licking her unfortunate lit
ter, snd suekbng them as best she may.
locking np i ialo the face of every one
a ? if '
wno approecnes ner witn a iimia gianco
of deprecation like the mute appeal of !
a real beggar aakingi pixy for.. Christ's
sake with his eyes only., She is a meat
lamentable specimen of s cur; there is
neither strength -nor comeliness, nor
race about her,. and her pupa are prob.
ably aa worthless, as herself. One can
not see there, for she hides mem wiin
her paws,' her motherhood, giving b?r
aoae propheUs sense ol danger. Will
she be tanked f Tho official Is non
committal, but 'shrugs his shoulders
with a meaning that is ominous. She
is a Dariab. a dog-waif, a canine flotsam
and jetsam. , She exists ia defiance of
the laws of supply and demand. There
a a w
isnobope for her,i and she and-her llauoa wiu stxrve u- some cooprruru
pupa wiU aeon sleep the dealh-slaep of I ir ty stem is not adopted to proruion
suffbeat-on by the carbonic add " ' them the coming summer.