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The railroad mileage of California U
only about half that of Kansas or Iowa.
Chauncey M. Depew says that there
are not 500,000 persons in this country
who do not indorse Mr. Gladstone's plans
for Ireland.
The prevalence of suicide is frightful,
exclaims the Washington Star. Psycho
, legists should put their heads together
to offer seme practical suggestion toward
its prevention.
The trade has recently been established
in Vienna of serving charged storage
battery cells to private houses on much
the same plaa that the milk is brought
in the morning and the empty can taken
away. "Very likely," suggests the Bos
ton Transcript, "we shall soon be legis
lating to protect ourselves against thf
adulteration of electricity."
It appears from Mr. Poland's book or,
"Fur-bearing Animals" that during last
year nearly six millions of skins were
imported into England. Of Australian
oppossuta there were 2,215,0011; then
the skunk, 631,000; and the raccoon, i
519,100. Ot fur seals tbere were 123,- !
700; bear, I2,70J; beaver, 11, GUI';
chinchilla, 7700, and otter, 7300.
Maritime and business circles of New
York are maturing a scheme to develop
South African trade by establishing at
Cape Town a permanent exhibition of
articles manufactured in the United
States, special attention being given to
the departments of machinery, mining,
quarrying and agricultural implements.
. There is a great commercial opening for
American enterprise in this particular
field, thinks the Detroit' Free Press, and
the attempt to Capture it should not be
abandoned.
The quarantine in Turkey, so it is
stated, during cholera times, la3ts ten
days; Austria, seven days; Italy, five
days; France, five days from Southern
ports and none from Northern ports,
while England is virtually without quar
antine. In the United States, as every
body knows, the quarantine period can
be extended twenty days. This state
ment is given as it comes from a phy
sician who has devoted much time to the
Investigation Sf sanitary and hygienic
matters.
The British Medical Association , which
id the most powerful organization pt
physicians in the United Kingdom, an
which in a great measure controls the
practice of medicine in Queen Victoria's
dominions, has just wiped out a blot
from its escutcheon, announces the New
York Tribune, by Obliterating from its
regulations the oce which has hitherto
excluded women from membership.
Close upon 200 women are now on the
medical register in Great Britain, and
their admission to the Medical Associa
tion removes one of the principal obstacles-which
they have hitherto had to
contend with in their work.
During the last twelve months, says
Electrical Industries, the number of
roads has iucreved from 3S5 to 469.
ni ... .
i no increase in capital stock has been
from $153?0S;7.7J to 2 J5,S7),0G0. It
should not be inferred from this that these
eighty-four roads represent this amount of
money, fcr, included in this sum, there
is not only the capital stoex of these
ew roads, but also au increase in the
capital stock of roa is already established,
nhicb, in xivxiy instances, has been con
siderable. T.i3 increase 'from 39J.5S
miles to 5143 miles represents not only
the sgregite mileage of the new roads,
but also the extension of the old ones.
The abrogate capital stock to date is
$203,870,000, but this does ndt include
the premiums on stocks or the bonds and
other securities, which a conservative
estimate would put at $45,000,000,
bringing the capital invested to an ag
gregate of 203,370,000.
in c ranee iraues-uniouism was nrst
recognized and legalized by the Govern
ment in 1SS4. In the seven years which
hare since elapsed the number of trade
societies has reached the surprising total
of 1234. This rapid growth is doubt
leas due, remarks the Chicago Herald, in
dc small measure to the fact that every
trade society in France is a benefit so
ciety, and makes an allowance to each
member in case of sickness. It is com
puted that the number of trade-unionist
enrolled in these 1234 societies number
something like 4,000,000, or about half
the laboring classes proper. The latest
step in the recognition of trades-union.
Ism in France is the establishment in
every important industrial center of an
labor bureau. This is a building in
some cases especially erected for the pur
pose which is placed at the disposal of
the district trade societies by the munic
ipality, which not only grants the use
of the hall free of rent and provides ail
needful appliances, but makes an annual
rant to coYer workinxr expenses. -,
t m ? ; L
You can telegraph from almost every
spot of the globe now with the excep
tion of the islands of the Pacific.
The San Francisco Chronicle is per
suaded that American corn meal onlj
needs to be tried by the poor of Europe
to supplant wheat or rye flour.
The American Faimer states that en
terprising men are making money in New
England by buying up for a song aban
doned farms and converting them into
sheep rancnes.
Most of the German papers of recent
date contain articles upon Columous.
All agree that the destiny of the entire
American continent is unavoidably bound
up with and can only be accomplished
through the progress and leadership -lof
the United States.
Chilean advices say vandalism, influ
enza, highway robbery, railway disaster?,
have now suicide as a powerful allay, in
their work of destruction in Chile.
Scarcely a day passes that ca?C3 of self
murder are not reported either at the
capital or Valparaiso, while reports are
constantly "reaching the city from the
interior of similar occurrences.
The British consular agent in North
Borneo says that on the West Coast
several people have been seriously hurt
by trying to fly out of cocoanut trees,
and in some districts the paddy plant
ivicr season has been allowed to pass with
out planting the crop. Tiiat is due to a
curious superstition about a forthcoming
general jubilee when everything may be
left to take care of itself, when paddy
will spring up of its own accord and
people get wings and Jly through the
air.
European Nations have talked loud
about Uganda, Africa, and the planting
in its fertile territory or iheir several
flagstafls. Now returns from Uganda
one who ha3 spied out the land, and
who says that iu isn't much for milk,
and he failed to observe any honey.
However, observes the San Francisco
Examiner, flascaffs planted in its soil
would take root as quickly as anything
else would, and the Nations, for want of
anything better to squabble over, are
f till vociferous.
Queen Marguerite, of Italy, recently
arrived in a town where great prepara
tions had been made to do her honor,
and, being oilered some lunc 1, declined
it ani said t.iat all she needed was a
felass of water. The water being brought,
she drank it and was about to take her
handkerchief from her pocket in order to
wipe her lips when the mayor, misinter
preting her action, bowed repectfully
and said: "Your Majesty need not trou
ble 3 ourself. I can assure you that ;the
lunch is all paid for."
One of the most interesting exhi
bitions in connection with the recent
Orientalist Congress in London is a col
lection of tools used by workmen in
building the pyramids of Egypt. They
were gathered and are exhibited by the.
illustrious Egyptologist, Mr. Flinders
Petrie. These utensils indicate that
ancient workmen had an astonishin? ac
quaintance with many tools which we
have been accustomed to consider essen
tially modern. Among the exhibit are
solid and tubular corundum-tipped
drills and straight and circular saws
and chisels described as "not a bit in.
ferior to those now used."
The experience of Aubrey Stanhope,
the New York Herald's cholera-inoculated
correspondent, has demonstrated
to the satisfaction of its contemporary,
the Tribune, that the plague can be suc
cessfully resisted. The correspondent
went to Hamburg and voluntarily sub
jected himself to the most severe tests.
He drank Elbe water, slept in beds on
which cholera patients had died, lived
in the infected quarters of the city and
took every possible risk of contagion.
After this remarkable experience he has
returned to Pans in perfect health, ap
parently having been so strongly armed
against the disease as to expose himself
to it with impunity. A mission of this
kind has required a very high degree of
courage and self-sacrifice. "The Her
ald" has made maay things plain about
cholera which were imperfectly known.
The bravery of Policeman Griff enha
gen, who stopped the runaway firehorses
on Union -Square, New York City, dur
ing the Columbian military parade, has'
been properly recognized by the Police
Board, who have granted him an honor
able mention and a medal, "One of out
contemporaries,? says the New York
Press, "in commenting on this fact, re.
marks that heroism is not common in
these days. Nothing could be f urthur
from the truth. Every week the news
contains accounts of men who have
tasked their lives in order to save their
fellow menu Never before in our his
tory have more . brave deeds been done
than within the past year. Engineers
are performing them all the time. Fire
men, life savers, policemen, are constant
ly showing that they have in them the
elements of heroism; and not infre
quently cases arise m which the ordinary
citizen, who does not pursue any calling
especially attended with danger, shows
that he, too, has been all the time a po
tential hero. There is no wisdom in
running down our own times. The
are good times and brave times, and we
ousht to recognize the fact."
- THE COMING OF WINTER. '
There's a cloud on tha brow of the mount
am,
A mistiness hangs on the vale;
A film dulls the flash of the fountain,
Aeres a sob in the sigh of the gale.
All the brightness the Autumn king brought
them,'
Is dimmed by the salness of Autumn,
The pensive forebodings of Autumn!
The golden rod bloometh in splendor.
The sumach's red banners float free.
And the rich purple mealow wesds render
The woodlands most wondrous to see,
With the glories the season has wrought
them.
Rich dyes for the mantle of Autumn,
The glamor and glory of Autumn.
A wail that is piteously thrilling
And sad as a lover's last words,
Is heard in the tremulous trilling
Farewell of the lingering birds.
Sad lays that chili win is have taught them,
To chant at the coming of Autumn,
The plant and the pathos of Autumn I
The harvest fields shriveled and sober,
The unfruitful fallows all brown.
Have yielded to solemn October
Their je arels to weave in her crown.
With a grasp of a miser she caught them,
To weave in the diadem ot Autumn,
The costly crown'jewals of AHtutnn!
in the distant abyss of dark heaven
From the pitiless glittering eyes
Of the stars cheerless glances are given
Earthward from the cold dreary skies.
Not the guardian spirit we thought them.
But the slavish magicians of Autumn,
Of the magic and mystery of Autumn!
And faded the nopes that I cherished
Since summer's full pulse beats are stilled.
With the dream of the summer they per
ished And its promises all unfulfilled I
Ah ! vainly in sorrow I sought them
'Mid the wreck and ruin of Autumn,
The dark desolatioa of Autumn 1
Oh God, how I clung to my treasures,
With devotion deep, passionate, wild;
From a heart that is wilful and measures
Its desires from an unreasoning child.
But I know now how dearly 1 bousht them,
Like the life-purchased pleasures of
Autumn,
The death-doomed enjoyments of Au
tumn. M. M. Folsom, in Atlanta Journal.
THE STRANGLE R.
BY CHARLES B. LEWIS.
HREE jears after
the Sepov rebellion
had been put down
in India, and with
the country under
such military and
legal discipline as it
had never known
before, Fwas at Hy
derabad, a large
town 500 miles east
of Bombay, in tho
province of Dekkan. It was there that
a band of professional thu.s, numbering
thirtv-two men, was captured and exe
cuted in 1360. The vigorous search
after and prompt punishment of crimi
nals was having a due effect, and not a
case of poisoning or strangling had
been known about Hyderabad for sev
eral months. In fact these wo classes
of murderers were supposed to have be
come extinct in that province. One
morning a ryot, or farmer, was found
dead on the public square, and it was
speedily discovered that he had been
choked to death. The imorints nrnvpd
it to be the work of a strangler. The
thug used a cord, while the strangler
used his fingers. His marks could "not
be mistaken. He brought hi3 thumbs
together on the "Adam's apple," while
the ends of the fingers got their pur
chase just below the victim's ears.
Sometimes the fingers clutched his ears
cr hair. The "mark" waslways plain
to be seen on the neck. Now and then
a victim was attacked from behind. In
such cases the strangler's thumbs were
brought together on the back of the
neck, and his fingers were locked to
gether over the "apple."
Several suspects were arrested, but
nothing came of it. About twenty days
after the first case a woman was found
dead wituin three blocks of the public
square, and she had also fallen a victim
to the strangler. .Not only had she been
choked to death, but her neck was
broken. The police were again aroused,
and bodies of cavalry scoured the country
and brought in dozens of suspicious
characters, but as in the other case noth
ing could be proved, and all had to be
released. At ihe investigation almost
every suspect made the same replv as
follows: J
"Nc, sahib, I am ashamed to admit
that 1 am not guilty of this crime. We
are no longer men, but slaves. I no
longer have courage, but am a coward
ana dare not lift my hand."
Ten days later the ttraagler counted
his third victim, and this time it was a
European. Only at rare intervals before
the mutiny had a European fallen a vic
tim to the professionals of any class. It
seemed to be an understood thing with
all not tb meddle with them in any man
ner. The victim in this case was a clerk
in the civil service department attached
to the Tax Collector's office, I believe.
He had been ill for a week or two, and
was occupying a room in a bungalow in
the beart of tbe town. Ten or a dozen
clerk kept "bachelors' hall" together,
and there were half a dozen native ser
vants to take care of the place. , This
clerk, whose name was Adams, had a
native man ior a nurse, but was almost
convalescent. One night at 10 o'clock
he sent his nurse with a note to a bun
galow half mile distant. The nurse
was absent about three-quarters of an
hour, and upon his return he found
Adams dead. There was the mark on
his throat, and there was no question
about his having been the victim of a
professional, and probably of the same
fiend who had strangled the other two.
The police and the military now quite
lost their heads. During the following
week there were about 700 arrests"
some of them being . made 200 miles
away. Nothing like detective work was
attempted, and as a consequence every
suspect had to be discharged for want of
anyvidence against him. The authori
ties seemed to go on the idea that if a
sufficient numoer of people were ar
rested the guilty party would somehow
betray himself. Strong eforts were made
in three jor four cases to convict on shady
test;moLy, but a!ter a few weeks every
person wno had been arrested was set at
liberty. Being new to the country, and
having taken a great interest in the work
of exterminating the "professionals," I
asked for information on every hand.
'
M
One day, in conversing with, a Major
Burke on the subject, he explained:
"In my time I hare inspected the
hands of at lea3t a score of stranglers.
Their strength lies mostly in the wrist
and fingers. Before graduating as pro
fessionals they practice on dummies,
and resort to certain gymnastic? to
strengthen the parts I have named. This
man now among us is certainly a profes
sional. If arrested you will find his
thumb flattened on the balL If I were a
detective I should go about looking at
thumbs. In most instances the victim
leaves scratches or cuts on the haods of
the assassin, which would further help
to identify him in case of suspicion."
From that time on I instinctively
glanced at the hands of every native with
whom I came in contact, but without
the slightest hope of making any discov
ery of value. Five weeks after the mur
der of the clerk the strangler was heard
from again. This time his victim was a
sergeant of infantry, and he met his
death on the highway between the town
and the camp, ft was about 9 o'clock
in the evening when he started for camp,
and it was known that he was consid
erably under the influence of liquor. He
was almost' a giant in size and strength,
and it was reasonable to conclude that
he had made something of a struggle,'
even though half drank and taken 'un
awares. Indeed, when the surgeon came
to look him over blood was found in his
finger nails to prove that he had lacerated
the hands of his murderer. This was a
point to go on, but was not even consid
ered by the authorities. They followed
the course previously pursued and made
several hundred arrests.
On the thTf"day atter the sergeant's
death I had a bit of chain work to do on
a piece of land two miles east of the town,
and my helper was a native who had
served in the department for a year. He
was a middle aged man, very slender,
and his weight was not above 120 pounds.
He had drifted into the town at tne close
of the war, and it was said of him that
he came from the north and had been
faithful to the English during the strug
gle. When not acting as a helper in the
field he had the care of some horses be
longing to the department. The only
name that he was known was Peter.
When I sent him word that I wanted him
he returned a reply that he was ill, but
half an hour later he put in his appear
ance and explained that he was- feeling
better. We had reached the field and
had fairly begun when my attention was
attracted to his hands. The backs of
both were scratched and lacerated, though
the wounds were half healed.
"It was the monkey at the stables who
did it, saaib,"-he explained, as he held
up his hands, for inspection. "I was
teasing him and he got revenge. I will
sell him if 1 can find a buyer."
I knew he had a monkey at the stables,
and his explanation wa3 perfectly satis
factory. The matter was forgotten in a
moment, and it would never have oc
curred to me aain Out for waat fol
lowed. It wa3 a scorching hot day, and
after an hour's work we sought the shade
to rest. A3 I was lighting my pipe for
a smoke Peter observed that he was very
thirsty and would visit a spring he knew
of about a quarter of a mile away. Tne
field on watch we were working had
once been cleared, but was now pretty
well grown over with busaes and small
trees. He disappeared at my back, and
I gave him no further thought or many
minutes. I had out my book and was
making some field notes when all of a
w
sudden it struck me that Peter had a pe
culiar look as he explained how he had
received the wspunds on his hand3. I
remembered that his face hardened and
that there was a cruel glitter in his eyes.
Things of this sort never strike one at
the moment, but are vivid when recalled.
When I remembered his looks I won
dered that he had not killed the monkey
for attacking him, and I reflected taat
the man must have a hot temper when
aroused.. I do not suppose I devbted
over five minutes to this train of
thought. As time passed by I forgot
my surroundings wnile busy with the
pencil. Peter had been gone " about
thirty minutes, as I afterward figured
up, whea I was suddenly clutched by
the throat. I wa3 leaning back against
a tree hardly larger than a man's arm,
and wa3 reclining to the left. My eyes
caught no glimpse of anything, nor had
my ears detected the slightest sound to
put me on my guard.
Tne first seniation was exactly like
that of failing. I reinemoer a roaring in
my ears and fireworks dancing before
my eyes, and I was perfectly conscious
that my thioat was in the clutch of
human fingers. W hat saved me was the
tree and the position in which I sat. I
did not realize that I struggled to break
the clutch, but I did put fort i a mighty
ellort. My right shoulder and arm were
a lever against the strangler's right
wrist, and as I heaved I broke his ciutch
and leaped to my feet. It was Peter, as
you have siupected. He had only gone
a few rods away and then turned and
crept bactc on me like a serpent. His
rout was through bushes and vines, but
when I ca ne to go over it I could not
find that he badf broken a twig. My
springing up thfew him down, but he
was on his feet like a cat, and with a cry
like that df an enraged beast he sprang
for my thfoat again. His eyes were fairly
blazing, his face distorted with passion,
and I realized in an instant that it was
his life or mine.
Under the ne v law no native was al
lowed to carry a deadly weapon. Il one
was found provided with knife or pistol
he was sent to prison. On the other hand,
all Europeans went aimed. I had a re
volver buckled around me, and if Peter
had not been so sure of strangling me he
could have secured the weapon as he crept
up behind me. He sprang upon me litce
a wildcat, seeking my throat at every
clutch, acd we grabbled and roiled over
and over on the ground. He made a
dash for my throat with his right band
as we rolled about and I caught the ends
of his first two fingers in my teeth and
bit to the bone. Tnat one bite gave me
the victory. Still gripping his 'fingers, I
struggled to my knees, reached for ray
revolver, and I had the muzzle agiiast
his body when the thought flashed acrosr
my mind that he was the professional
strangler wanted by the police. Up to
that instant I bad no too ught as to why
he attacked me. Waen I dropped his
fingers and covered him with the revol
ver he made no further resistance. The
native of India, like the Arab, believes
in fate. -
"Sahib, yoa have won, he said, as
I stood over him. "It was to be and so
it is. Do as yoa will with me.
, "Peter, way should you seek my
life!'' I asked, even yet half hoping
there might be some mistake about it.
"Why did I strangle the others, sahib,
A voice commanded me and I obeyed."
"Good heavens! bat yoa are not the
murderer of the farmer, the clerk, and
the soldier you who have been con
sidered so faithful to the English 1"
"Even so, sahib. It was to be, and it
is. Take me to the police and I will ad
mit everything and die like a man."
I drove him befofe me until we en
countered a troop of cavalry which had
been scouring the country for subjects,
and was then returning to town with no
less than twenty-six prisoners. Had
Peter denied his admission to me
nothing could have been proved, and he
only would have been punished for as
sault. But he felt that fate had deliv
ered him into the hands of his enemies,
and he was willing to help convict him
self. He gave the particulars of each
murder with such detail that no doubt
could exist. It was the sergeant who
had lacerated his hands. He was keep
ing shady while he waited for them to
heal. He would not have accompanied
me that day but for the fear that he
might be suspected, though as a matter
of fact he would have been among the
very last to fall under the ban.
"I had no thought of strangling you
when we started out," be said to me
after his trial. "It was only after you
had noticed my hands. While you ap
peared indifferent, I was alraid that you
suspected. I could have snatched away
your pistol and shot y oa dead, or I could
have beaten you to death with a club,
but my creed would not permit it. 1
must either strangle you or let you live
on. Had I been successful I should
have made my way north as fast as pos
sible." He did not hesitate to tell the police
that he was a professional strangler, and
it was with considerable pride that he
exhibited his flattened thumbs and illus
trated the manner in which the deadly
ciutch was made. He had been a pro
fessional for upward of twenty years.
He spent one whole day making out a
list of dates, localities and victims, and
the number of murders was appalling.
The figures ran up to forty-two or forty
three, and there were seven Europeans
among them. He begged no one's for
giveness nad no apologies to offer. He
told me very plainly that he was sorry
he had not succeeded with me, as he
believed he could have safely escaped
and lived to gather in ten or twelve more
victims. He had "marsed down" six
different Europeans in the town, arid but
for the interference of fate would have
strangled them at intervals of about four
weeks.
Peter went to the gallows with the
utmost indifference. He did not even
betray the anxiety of a man walking
about the street. He was, I believe, the
la3t professional strangler executed in
'that province, althougu his class flour
ished else .vnere and were picked up one
by one for many years after. New York
Sun.
The Nation llify of fehns.
Painting to represent gun-porcs is not
much in vogue nowadays except among
French and Scotch ships and craft hail
ing but of London, aboard which latter
vessels sailors are supposed to live better
than on most Eaglisn ships. The Scotch
men and Londoners may be easily dis
tinguished from the Frenchmen, Johnny
Crapeau's long flagpoles on his masts
towering many feet above the rigging,
wnt'e the smp3 of Ureat Britain nave
their trucks sec just aoove the hounds of
the skysail or royal rigging, which gives
them a squatty appearance. In the
distance some Nova Scotian ships may
be taken for Americans, but not at near
approach. They are much more poorly
kept and equipped and their sparring is
less graceful. Scandinavian vessels may
always be known by the presence of a
windmill purnp abaft the mainmast.
This windmill is a compulsory adjunct
of Swedish and Norwegian snips.
Scandinavians were much given, some
years ago, to the purchase of the cast-off
craft of other countries. Through this
practice a very large proportion of their
ships were old, worn out and leaky.
Hence tthe wis Jom of the powers that
were ordained that wind uills should
ornament their ships to facilitate tue
labor of keeping afloat. A marked
peculiarity of Spaniards is their fondness
for white paint, and also for nettings
such as are seen on old fasiiioned wai
ship3 under the bowsprit, for stowing
stay sails in. and around the tops and
quarter-deck. Hollanders, too, like
nettings, but are not so conspicuously
devoted to them as their Spanish
brethren. Germans and Hollanders often
have little round port holes and small
doors in their deck houses instead of the
large, rectangular, airy windows and
spacious door .v ays which they might as
well have. However, these good folk
are not supposed to be over fond ol
fresh air, nor yet of water, fresh or salt.
New if oris Post.
C duaiba ilaps.
The Columbus exhibition at Madrid,
Spun, has on s.gat two very ancient and
cunou3 m i s loaned oy the Vatican li
brary. One drawn in tue lifetime of
Alexander V. saows the cnart of the
world a3 it was be; level to exist at tne
commencement of the sixteenth century.
A line, the drawing of wnica is tra
ditionally ascribed to Alexander him
self, detines tne limits of the Spanish
possessions in America and separates
them from those oi Portugal. The second
mapless ancient than tne first has a
greater historic U value, as the precise
date is not left to conjecture. An in
scription in Spanish announces that it
is the handiworicof tbecosmogripher of
the king ot S:an, wno prepared it by
command of the king at Seville, in the
year 152 J, and under it is the rather
naive announcement, not that it is a
map of the world, but a map of so much
of the world as had been discovered up
to that date. Tnese documents are the
more interesting as their authenticity
and pedigree are above all douat. They
come from tbe fa nous museum originally
founded by Cardinal Borgia when he
was President of the Propaganda. No
European institution is so rich in ethno
graphic treasures, which have poured
into it from all parts of the Christian
world in answer to eloquent and pressing
appeals. New Orleans Picayune.
Subierra :eaa Channels.
On the place of W. B. Keele, Way
cross, Ga., there are two wells and the
water in them seems to be boiling all the
time. Upon investigation the fact was
disclosed that the bubbling is caused
from air issuing from (Issues in the earth
below the surface of the water. Where
the air comes from is a mystery,, as the
disturbed condition of the water wai
never noticed until a lew days a o.
Atlanta Constitution.
WOUDS OF ITISDOJI.
Make the home attractive.
Necessity is its own justification.
Nature is the mother of tragedians.
Crumbs saved are pleasures purchased.
It pays to investigate and experi
ment. The mind that is unfed is also un
stored.
i Where there is no hopt there can be
no endeavor. .
Fate rever exhausts its resources noi
life its surprises.
Solitude cherishes great virtue, and
destroys little ones.
The more perfect the jewel the more
deplorable the flaw.
One's greatest cruelty is usually'prac
ticed upon one's self.
Happiness is like caloric in it dispo
sition to seek a conductor.
Truly, this world can go on without
us, if we would Lmt think so.
It is a rare philosopher who never de
parts from his own philosophy.
If nature abhors a vacuum s"i? is
equally intolerant of a surplus.
There is always room for a mm of
force, and he makes room for maQy.
Pride is essential to a noble character,
and the love of praise is one of the civil
izing elements.
Our estimate of a character always de
pends much on the manner in waich
tnat character affects our own interests
and passions.
True popularity takes deep rout
spreads itself wide ; but the falst
away like blossoms; for nothing t .
false can be lasting, j
In good company you need nr '.
who is the master of the feast,
man who sits in the lowest plac
who is always industrious in lit.'
sveryoue, is certainly the man.
and
Mis
is
ask
The
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Su ciles oi holders.
The Journal of the American Statis
tical Association gives some curious facts
concerning the number of suicidesin Me
ranks and more especially among the
officers of all the great European po.vers.
The Austrian ar.ny takes the leal in this
matter From 1875 to 1S87 a yearly
average of 122 suicides is recorded for
every 100,000 effective troops. In 1339
the number was 148. Deatn by suicide
represents a fifth part of the whole
mortality of the Austrian arrsy. No dis
ease is more- deadly. The Germans re
port about half tne number; the Italian
army about one-third; the French army
about one-fourth; the Eoglish army in
the home seivice about one-sixth; the
rate in the Russian army is nearly the
same, while in the Spanish army it is
least of all. There are some curicus facts
about these suicides. In the European
' armies, especially in Austria, it is the
young soldiers who kill themselves
during the first month of their service.
Suicides are the most frequent among
the cavalry' and infantry, and in the
latter among the soldiers who are accused
and awaiting trial.
The most frequent method is shooting,
though hanging and drowning are fre
quent methods The infantry use fire
arms and usually aim at their heads. The
mounted soldiers hang themselves by
their horse bridles. The Algerian soldiers
almost always shoot themselves through
the body, perhaps because the Arabs
think is is infamous to mutilate the
head. In Austria, a third of the suicides
are attributed to a distaste for military
duty ; in France, lore trouble is a very
frequent cause; the fear of punishment
Is everywhere a great Incentive. The
maximum of suicides is reached in the
hottest weather, and the minimum is
reached in the coldest weather. The
late Mr. Buckle affirmed as a law of
civilization that there is a periodic
regularity in the suicide mania, and this
testimony of the suicides in the European
armies goes far to confirm it.
An Authority Oa Tar les.
Tom Haskili, a laborer residing on
Tehama street, near Fourth, knows a
great deal more about turtles now than
he did when ho started for a stroll alon
Market street the other afternoon.
A large turtle lying on the sidewalk
attracted his attention and he stopped to
admire the ungainly replile. A couple
of gentlemen alsa stopped to look, and
one of them remarked that turtles were
3aid to live longer than anything else
under the sun.
"About how old would you take this
one to bel" said one of the men to Has
kili. 'When I was catching them fellows
around New York we never took the old
anes to market because they were too
,tough. You tell how old a horse is by
his teeth, and of course vou do the same
thing with a turtle," said Haskili, as he
stooped down ani tried to pry open the
reptile's mouth with a pocket Knife.
At last he succeeded in opening the
strong beiklike moulh and then he
placed the toe of his heavy broian in
side to keep it open. Tne turtle did not
i : i- j At ...... . . I
uiiuu ueins; ueu aout, out it did object
to having its mouth u?ed that way, and
it shut its jaws like a two-spring bear
trap.
Haskili yelled :,"Take the beast off.
He's eating the foot ol me."
Some one got a piece of iron and
forced open the big beak.
The injured mai was taken to a drug
store, wnere a surgeon found every toe
on the right foot badly bruised. Tne
foot was dressed and H,askill went home,
San Francisco Examiner.
A ramus Old Grizzly.
In the Gray's Harbor Country of
Wasnington there has been a fam-ms
grizzly lor ten years or more. His habi
tat is in the Big Creek neighborhood,
a few miles soutn of Mnteano. The
settlers all pronounce it a grzz!y, and
one of immense size. No one has yet
bad tbe courage to aitem t to kill it, but
all get out of the way as soon as possiolc.
It is said to be as large as a good-iized
ox, and E. L. Wade, wno maisurel its
footprints, found them to oe fourteen
inches long. It is tne only grizzly beat
ever heard of in that section of the State,
San Francisco Examiner.
There Are itinera sia Greenland.
Greenland is a high, raju;itaia.ni re
gioa, mmr to a height of 10,03d feet
above tie sea, inclusive of the ice ani
snow wnica caver it. It coataia otl
and severil otaer valuable mineral?, and
its gigantic grante sauid;rs projicc out
of the ice waerever it is ex isi ti the
rays of the long suramr of nearly si
months. New Orleans Picayune.
COLUMBUS.
He made bis single, throbbing thougafc
Amidst the age's withering scorn
Do more than ever Heroes wrount
For, oat of it a world was born.
Target of slander, mark for jeer?, --
H held his long, strong-purposed plan; 1
His vision pierced all coming years,
Thoozh named a fool and charlatan.
Homer has sung the dauntless deeds
That shook the toppling walls of Troy; .
Dante of darkened traglo creeds, ;
Of hopeless pain and fadeless joy. ' )
And Alexander, titan-bold,
Drew the whole world beneath his throne
These deeds are as a story told
To that which made a new world known.'
Tbe winds that blew that small, frail fleet '
Seemed but sworn couriers of death .
But he who would not own defeat '
Was moved by Faith's unfaltering breath.'
No storm or terror held him back; 1
No doubt could dim his hope to wine.
The mystery ol his lengthened track
He braved and mutiny within.
His work leads the long scroll of man's
Fame-ambered deeds, or song-wreathed
feat.
No future fact, no fair romance,
Its equal wonder can repeat.
And so on tower and carven stone
Highest of all decreed to fame
History's stern penman graves aione
The world-em oracing Genoan's name.
Joel Benton, in Frank. Leslie's.
PITH AND POINT.
Food for thought Fishes.
A spoiled child The adult.
Down-stares Furtive glances.
Bound to please In tree calf.
The cucumber fights best when
it's
down. Life.
By Christopher The discoverer of
America. Puck.
A man is called a confirmed liar whea
nothing that he says is continued.
Every dog has its day; but it is not
every dog tnat knows when he is having
it. Puck.
The stage villain is always at a disad-j
vantage, as he is invariably caught in the
act. Arkansas Traveler.
The buncoman is not fastidious, ne
lives on the simplest things he can find.'
Eiraira Gazette.
' Patient "Doctor, how is society as
you have found it?" Dr. Highbiil
"Bilious very bilious." Life.
The fair sex is capable of almost any.,
thing wnen driven to it. Example:
Nancy Hanks. Jamestown News.
Orator "And now, my friends, ona
word more." Reporter (to boy) "Bring
me a lot more paper, quick 1' Bulletin.
She played lor him until he said
it really made him tour:
An i now he wonders way it is
bhe speaks to him no more.
Life.
A Mere Question of Sex: "Well,
Willie, did you master your lesson to
dayP "No'm; I missed it." Phila-'
deiphia Record.
Children could be brought up with
much greater care if it were the duty of
every mother to punish her neighbor's
children. Eimira Gazette.
She "Miss Fussanleather Is passion
ately lond of dogs." He" Then I under-,
stood her leelins when she called mo
a puppy I" Yonkers Statesman.
Though experience has been a school
Teat's taught you much; somehow"
While you uave learned you were a fool.
You're utile wiser now.
. Truth.
"I'm getting tired of this injustice,"
said the trigger to the barrel. "Youare
the one wno gets loaded, and then I get
pulled on account of it." Indianapolis
Journal.
Billings "You shouldn't say 'Will-'
iam's politics are." Kay William's
politics is.' " Jones "Not much., Will-'
iam has beveral kinds of politics to suit
the tastes oi clients." Cnicago News.
"Snallow "Why, just read that
sign 'Dental Parlors.' Isn'tit absurd
to call a dental room a pailorl' Deepe
"It is probaoly the painter's mistake. Ho
meant drawing room." Boston Courier.
Delicate, fair, ueyond believing
Is cbe aamty weo ot the opiaer's weaving,
y. et nothing can prompt tue ny a minute
io prauje iut beauty and yet ue'i in ill
Judge.
Father "That cat made an awful
noise in the back garden last night."
Arnold "Yes, father; I think that
since he ate the canary he thinics he can
sing." New York Observer.
Irate Father "The idea of promis
ing your fiance a diamond necklace!
"Wnere do you expect to get the money
for it?" His Son "That doesn't worry
me; I oniy promised it." Jewelers
Weekly. "
Every bicylist ought to remember that
if ue persists in bending away over the
handie-bar when he rides he will ruin his
ske.eton, so that it won't be worth even
five dollars alter he is dead. domer villa
Journa.
Invalid Wife "John, dear, I do hopo
if you should ever marry again you will
find , a better wife than I have been."
JduL Tuere, there, my love, don't
worry; t:.ere will be no trouble about
that." Indianapolis Journal.
They tol l me when 1 married bar
ari.ent.iove would fade away,
Bu, a I cuy uer gowns, I nod
iy wJerows uearer every day.
Cloa Kev.w.
They had been discussing tbe pro
nunciation of "oleomargarine, and
finally agreed to leave it to tbe waiter,
but be hedged. Sure," said be, "I
have to pronounce it butter or lose mj
job. Indianapolis Journal.
dome up to my bouse to-morrow
nlgnt," said Henpecque, "I'm going to
celebrate ray colden wedding." "Golden
wed linn! Why. man, you've only been
married three years. "I know it, but
it see.ns like fifty, so everything is ail
right. Buffalo Express.
Delia "Can't yoa go down shopping
witn me this afternoon? I want tn get
my husband a birthday gift. -Esther
"Yes; what ere you going to get himf
Delia "Well, I have beea thinking
about it for some -time, and, I think I
need table linen and rugs more than any-"
tin o g. Chicago I nter-Occar.
Mr. Jones "Husband, the children;
have bt-ea invite 1 to parties at different!
places on tne 11th, the 13th, the 15tbf
aud the 18th. suull I write accept
ances?" Mr. Jones "Tes; and you'd!
better write to Dr. Snooks while you're
about it, asking h'xnx to call on he 12th,'
the ll;b, the lC;h, and the l'Jth." 1
Pharmaceutical Era. .... j
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