The census of 1870 showed that there
-were 25,000,000 books in the libraries of
the United States, and it. is believed
that even now there is not in the country
a book for everv inhabitant.
j Much of the color blindness that is be
coming quite common is said to be
caused by the use of tobacco, which, be
ing a narcotic, benumbs the nerves.
Sometimes the victim lose3 sight alto
gether. But is is noticeable, says the
Graphic, that the old smokers are the
fastidious about the colors which the
tabacconists give their cigars.
1 Judge Cook, of Jacksonville, Ala., re
cently bought from the State for $20 as
a speculation, forty acres of land on
Tfhieh the taxes had become delinquent.
On looking up the site of the land he
found to his great astonishment that it
lay within the corporate limits of the
town of Anniston and was worth $10,
000, at a low valuation.
Miss Minnie Freeman, the heroic school
teacher of Myra Valley, Neb., who savod
thirteen school children by her presence
of mind in the recent "blizzard, " has
already been overwhelmed with offers of
marriage. The New York Tribune thinks
sthat "the applicants for this vacant posi
tion must regard her as sure proof
against family breezes."
A two-cent stamp will now carry a let
rter from any place in -the United States
jto any point in Mexico, or Canada. An
arrangement for reciprocal postal facili
ties has been in operation between this
country and Mexico for some months,
and a similar agreement has just been
concluded with Canada. Two cents to
take a letter over the biggest part of this
continent. "
, The City of Liverpool i3 to be supplied
'With water from a reservoir in Wales,
which is 'to be four and one-half miles
long by a half-mile to a mile broad and
eighty feet deep. There will be three
miles of pine, each sixty-eight miles
long, with filtering-beds and secondary
reservoirs. The aqueduct alone will
st $10,000,000.
T" A little Esquimau woman, who. left
ler native home on the eastern shorp of
Greenland when fifteen years old, has
resided in this country long enough to
learn the language and to develop the
fact that Esquinaux are as white as other
people when the dirt and grease are
washed off. Among other things, she
says the people of her nationality never
wash or bathe in all their lives, have no
rulers, no form of government, every one
jdoes as exactly as he or she pleases, and
:all are contented with their lot, as they
jknow of nothing better.;
Mrs. Edna Hill Gray Dow, of Dover,
pSew Hampshire, enjoys the distinction
)f being the only waman in this free
country ever elected to the presidency of
A street railroad company. Mrs. Dow is
;forty years old, married, and rich. She
invested a few hundred dollars in the,
Dover street railway, only to discover
fthat a Boston syndicate was bearing her
fitock, hoping to gain control of the
rproperty. She resented that, and when
'ever any weak shareholders wanted to
'sell out, she bought before: the Boston
syndicate caught up, and speedily she
got in control ; and, fully aroused, she
idected herself president.
The proposed linking of the Old World
rith. the New is thus discussed in the
.Columns of the Juneau (Alaska) Free
Fress: " The great project of building
railroad across Siberia, now being
pushed to completion by the Russian
'Government, strongly holds out the idea,
that in the very near future a great iron
jbelt from this side of the ". World will
meet it half way, and travel by land from
tthe New World to the Old will have
jbeen accomplished. Great railway cor
porations are now seriously looking into
jthis,asit seems, stupendous project, but in
jreality not as great an undertaking as
(Eastern people believe. The country
jthat will necessarily have to be crossed in
(Western British Columbia and Central
Alaska is far from being the frigid zone
!that many believe it to be. The line
jwould undoubtedly in its course north
Striks the headwaters . of the Yukon
jriver, then: keep down that
mijr
hty
stream to within perhaps 100 miles of
the coast, at or near Kulato, where it
iwould leave the river and running nearly
.west would terminate at Cape Prince of
jWales, within about fifty statute miles
of the Siberian coast. Very little diffiV
ulty, except, perhaps, in crossing the
ranges at the headwaters of the Yukon,
.would be apprehended from deep
snows, in winter. Th3 climate alone
the Yukon is dry and but very little
'.snow falls there from eighteen inches
.to perhaps two feet in depth. Extreme
,cold from 70 to 80 degrees below zero,
jonly prevails about two months of mid
jwinter and this would be the greatest
'drawback to' winter travel. Immense
forests skirt the route nearly to the coast
and about midway down the Yukon are.
probably the greatest coal banks in the
jworld. Branch lines would tap all the
coast settlements and the rich mineral
sections of the interior. With such a
fair country befoie them it will ha
wonderful, indeed, in this enlightened
and r progressive age, if work has not
(commenced on such a line within a very
'short time."
THE KAISER DEAD
A Lingering Illness, Ended By
Peaceful Hand Of Death. -
the
Scenes at tbe Death Bed-History of an
Lseiul L,ife-HIs Aire, Birth Place
And Daily Habits.
One of the mightiest potentations of
earth has passed away in the death of
William, Emperor of Germany. He was
born on the 22d day of March, 1797, and
therefore, would have been 91 years old
had he lived thirteen days longer.
His death occurred at 8 o'clock in the
morning, surrounded by the different
members of the Royal family, and the
end was a peaceful one. On account of
the Emporer's extreme old age, it must
necessarily follow that his life has been
one of strict simplicity and attention to
business. He was proud of his native
land (Prussia) and his one great aim was
the advancement of its interest, and the
display of of military powers.
He was the second son of Frederick
III. In 1858 he became regent on ac
count of the mental condition of the
King of Prussia. On the death of Fred
rick William II, on the 2d of January,
1RR1. he. assumed the Urown ol Prussia
eel tne urown oi rruw ;
This fact ljd to the solu-)
as William I.
tion of the grave centripetal questions
which had so deeply and long agitated
the German States. Under the astute
manipulations of the peerless statesman
and diplomatist, Prince Bismark, who
was made Prussian premier in 1802,
Germany became united and King Wil
liam was proclaimed Emperor. The 18th
day of January was the 17th anniversary
of 'his reign as Emperor.
THE DEAD EMPEROR.
He married on June 11th, 1829, Maria
Louise, of Saxe-Weimar. He leaves
two children Frederick William, the
Crown Prince of Prussia, who is dying
of cancer, and Louisa, the present Grand ,
Duchess of Baden.
The Emperor s ability as a statesman
appeared in , life, and now that he is
dead, more so, almost lost in the greater
grasp and sagacity of his Premier, Bis
mark. It is "-with difficulty ' we try to
measure it because untested. He had
from the first the guidance and assistance
of one of the world's greatest State
manipulators.
One of the most formidable of Euro
pean Powers is suddenly bereft of a head.
The effect of his demise will be felt the
world over, and tne results upon the
people " of ths States, which, under his
reign, were united into an Empire and
which have never been tried by a transi
tion from one reign to another, watched
with keen interest by other people.
The Germans are not a contented peo
ple politically, notwithstanding their
military strength and military achieve
ments. There is among the people a
deep seated desire for an unfettered rep
resentative government. The survival
of Prince Bismark may intercept a revo
lution, but a disruption of the union and
the establishment of some form of gov
ernment more representative in character
may follow. ' '
Furs for Decorative Purposes.
1 A Washington letter to the New York
Graphic says : Going into a taxidermist's
studio a day or two since to buy a pair
of owl's eyes they can be had for from
fifty to sixty cents, according to the ex
pression wished for I noticed many
elegant furs lying in heaps upon the
j floor. They are, used principally for
decorative purposes, although one sees
much fur worn upon the streets of Wash
ington. I asked the proprietor to give
me a few of his prices. "Here," he
said pointing to a magnificent white
polar beat skin ten feet long, "is a rug,
handsomely mounted, for which I ask
$200. I had a lovely Corcan tiger skin
the other day, for .which I got $500.
These are rare. A lody who visited my
studio and saw this skin remarked that
it must have been a pretty large buffalo !
A royal Bengal tiger skin will sell for
from $100 to $150. The musk or ox skin,
which a few years ago sold for $35 or $10,
is now worth $150 as a sleighing robe. I
have an eider down quilt, eight feet long
by hve wide, beautifully pieced, which is
worth $100. A good lion rug costs
$400. An angora rug can be had for
from $6 to $20. I have just mounted as
a rug for a Washington lady a beauti
ful monkey skin. It rest3 on gold
plush. Here is a lovely reindeer skin,
which Greely carried with him to the
North Pole. It came from Norway, and
can be had for $10."
An ode by a poet is dedicated to
" Senora." It is all j.bout snorer. Here
it is. It is, acceding to the laureate
standard of pay, worth 1 a line: "Oh,
the snore, the beautiful snore, filling the
chamber from ceiling to floor; over tbe
cover-let, under the sheet; from her wee
dimpled chin to her pretty feet; now ris
ing aloft like a bee in June, now sunk it
the wail of a cracked bassoon ; now, flute
like, subsiding, then rising again, is the
beautiful snore of Elizabeth. Jane."
Chk ago Herald.
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Feeding for Strength.
One of the remarkable results in the
experiments made at the Wisconsin sta
tion was shown in the tests of the
strength of bones. Those fed mainly
for the production of lean meat bore a
strain of 1,000 pounds. . Others, appar
ently the same, made from a feed of corn
meal, broke at 300 pounds. Perhaps
farmers can see from this why it is that
corn alone is not good food for horses
hard at work. It puts on fat, but it does
not wear, because it gives so little for
making muscle. The world-wide prefer
ence for oats as food for working horses
is not an accident. It is one of the best
grains for giving strength. Farmers
learned this practically long before sci
ence explained the reason.
Loss of Wool in Sheep.
Dry feeding and close penning have
the effect of causing congestion of the
skin, and this causes the wool to become
loose and be pulled off or rubbed off by
the sheep scratching themselves. To
avoid thi3 trouble give the sheep some
... . -f
tuceu mruips ur potatoes, wuu a ihiiu
salt, and a dram, for each sheep, of epsom
sales sprinkled over them. Continue this
for a week. A little oat straw given in
place of clover hay occasionally will be
useful. For ewes having lambs a mix
ture of oats, buckwheat and flaxseed
ground together will be useful for in
creasing the milk. A pint daily will be
sufficient. Where early Jambs are reared
a supply of carrots, mangels or ruta
bagas should be grown for the ewes, as
these encourage the flow of milk more
than any other food. Seic York Tima.
Salt for Cows.
A commission appointed by the French
Government to inquire into the use of
salt for domestic animals reported on the
matter as follows: 1. Salt ought to be
given to domestic animals to replace the
saline matter washed out of their food by
boiling, steaming, etc. 2. Salt counter
acts the ill effects of wet pastures and
food on sheep, and prevents foot rot. 3;
It increases the flow of saliva, and there
fore hastens fattening. 4. In making
mixtures of chaff, potatoes, beets, bran,
oilcake, etc., salt always otrght to be
added. The daily allowance recom
mended by the commission was : For a
milch cow or ox, two ounces; for a fat
ting stall fed ox, two and a half to four
and a half ounces; for a fatting pig, one
to two ounces; for a lean sheep, one-half
to three-quarters of an ounce; for ahorse,
one ounce
Onions.
Mr. Wm. H. Derby, of Revere, read a
very practical paper before the meeting
of the Boston 3Iarket Gardeners' Associa
tion on December 21. The general rules
for, growing crops are varied by different
conditions of soil and climate, and the
speaker confined himself to the methods
of onion growing at Revere, where the
business has been steadily growing and
is fairly profitable. Good seed is a very
important item. To grow it one must
select carefully the best bulbs and nlace
them in a dry place to keep with tops
on. Early in spring they are set out
after cutting off the old tops, if any re
main, in rows three feet apart and six
T "L. - i. .1 i ' n . -i
muiics ueiween me ouids in tne rows.
The crop is carefully cultivated and
weeded, and in September the seed is
cut and stored in a dry place until it can
be cleaned. A barrel of onions will pro
duce about ten pounds of seed in a fa
vorable year, but sometimes less than half
this amount. The land at Revere is
mostly strong clay loam, and works best
by applying in the fall heavy dressing of
coarse manure, which is ploughed in;
land thus enriched will admit of work
ing a week earlier in spring than if not
thus heated, a very important point with
onions, 'which must be planted early, the
earlier the better. Mav ID bein7 js Ubv a
is considered safe. The rows are sown
13 inches apart, with 9 to 12 seeds to the
foot or 3i pounds per acre. If celery is
to be grown on th3 same land, as is
usually done at Revere, eah eighth row
is left blank for the celery. Clean cul
ture is very important, and for this pur
pose the Arlington wheel hoe is used
verv often, and several hand weedinss
are needed. The best crops are usually
grown on the strongest clay land. The
crop is housed, after drying in the
field with the tops on, and sold as want
ed through the fall and winter. This
crop is subject to blight and' smut and i3
infected by green flies or lice. There is
no remedy of much value, though many
have been tried. Formerly the onion
growers used to grow them continuously
on the same land, but recently they have
adopted the plan of growing them only
one or two years in the same plare,
thinking that they thus avoid the dis
eases to some extent. . ' When asked what
fertilizers, if any, he used, Mr. Derby
replied that he relied almost entirely on
Stable manure, although he had experi
mented with many other thing3 in addi
tion, but had not on the whole received
return enough to warrant a repetition of 1
their use. nis average crop was 600 to !
700 bushels per acre on land one-eighth
of which is occupied by celery, and on
rare occasions he had known 1,000
bushels per acre to be grown. N. ' E.
Farmer.
Recipes.
Koodles fok Soup. One teacup of
flour, two tablespoons of yeast, a little
salt and two eggs, mix hard with milk
and roll out as thin as a wafer on a well
floured board, cover with a cloth and set
in a warm place (not hot); after an hour
or two, cut into small pieces and drop
into the soup; boil ten minutes and serve
hot. ,
Bkax Soup Without Meat. Parboil
one pint of beans, drain off the water
and add fresh, and let boil until tender,
season with salt and pepper, add a piece
of butter the size of a walnut, or more if
preferred; when done skim out half the
beans, leaving the broth and the remain
ing half of the beans, now add a teacup
of cream or rich milk, a dozen or more
crackers broken up; let it boil up and
serve.
Chicken Salad. Mince the meat of
chicken fine; then chop the white
parts of celery, and prepare a dressing as
follows: Rub the yolks of two hard
boiled eggs smooth; to each yolk put
Dne teaspoonful of made mustard, half as
much salt, two raw eggs, a wineglass of
Itrong vinegar and a tablespoonful of
be best olive oil. Put the celery in at
salad bowl; lay the chicken on that and
then pour over it the dressing. Lettuce
cut small may be used instead of celery,
but the latter is much more delicious.
Cut the whites of the eggs in rings to
garnish salad.
; Brother Jon ath ax. Shorten a piece
of bread dough as for biscuit, add a
little salt and flour and knead thorough
ly. Place upon a buttered plate to get
light and cover with a basin. Two cups
will serve six people. An hour before
dinner, peel and slice some apples into
a well butte-ed basin, nearly cover with
water, then turn the light dough over it;
cut a large hole in the center and cover
with a deep basin; place on the stove and
let it steam. The dough will puff ' up
and fill the upper basin. It should
steam an hour more or less according to
the Bi.e. Eat with sweetened cream
flavored with nutmeg. The basin should
be well greased as the apples are apt to
burn down.
A Bonnet That Saved Two Lives.
"The biggest piece of luck I
sa w," once said Allan Pinkerton,
detective, to a correspondent of
ever
the
the
Albany (N. Y.) Argus, "happened to a
raw Scotchman and his wife that I knew.
This Scotch fool had been a chartist ; a
price was set on his head; he had a
sweetheart, Joan Carfrae, a bookfolder's
apprentice, and a lass that had caught
his heart a-singing chartist songs, who
married him with his -head all but in the
noose; and some friends shipped them
by stealth to Quebec, he as a ship's cooper
and she as a cook on the bark Kent,
April 9, 1810. On May 8 the Kent was
wrecked on Sable Island, but the crew
and passengers were saved by the aid of
friendly . Indians, who took everything
that came ashore. The cooper and wife
finally got from the scene of the wreck
to Fisherman's Village in a ' small boat,
and from there by a fishing smack to
Aspy bay, where the Unicorn, of Quebec,
changed' mails with, the Britannia, one
of the first steamers across the Atlantic.
They were helped from here to Montreal,
where the cooper got work heading beef
barrels, and the couple soon got to
housekeeping famously in one room.
But members of the Coopers' union con
fidentially told him this job would shut
down at a certain date, and so he im
pulsively decided on going to the thriv
ing little city of Chicago. After- buying
their tickets they had no money left
The steamer was to leave that very after
noon. The cooper's little bit of a wife
came and confessed that she had
criminally v ordered a bonnet at the
milliner's -that it could not be got fot
the charges; and pitifully pleaded thai
they wait for the next boat, a week
piter, that the money might b3 earned,
and the precious bonnet secured- The
Scotch cooper roared like a mad bull,
but finally consented.' They got the
bonnet; but that husband made that
wife's life little short of a hell till" and
here Pinkerton roared the startled
passengers out of their dozings "news
came in a few days that the boat they
would have ta'ien, had it not been fot
that lucky bonnet, blew up,-and every
soul on board was lost !
"I tell you that little song-singing
wife has hadl her way about bonnets
ever since '." chuckled Pinkerton. "For
that little Edinburgh girl was 'my Joan!
and that fool cooper that ran away
fjrom the Queen's officers was me?"
The estimates of acreage product and
value of corn, wheat, and oats for each
State and Territory have been issued by
the statistician of the Department of
Agriculture. The area of corn harvested,
excluding abandoned or worthless acre
age, is 72,000; 000 acres. In round num
bers the product is 1,456,000,000 bushels,
valued at $346,000,000. The area of
wheat wos 37,400,000; product, 456,000,
000 bushels; value, 300,000,000. The
area of oats was nearly 26,000,000 acres ;
production, 659,000,000 bushels; value,
-n0. 000.000. ;
Over 5,000 acres of good timber land
near Hawkinsville, Ga., sold at auction
recently for $58. Some of the land went
for les3 than one-half cent an acre.
LADIES' COLUMN.
The Czarina's Necklace. ,
The Weiner Allgemcine Zeitung tells
that on the Czarina's fortieth birthday
inniversary the Czar gave her a necklace
composed of forty emeralds. In order
to collect forty stones of blameless per
fection and sufficient size, Russian agents
had been engaged for nine months in
traveling to all the great European cities
in search of emeralds. The Czar's pur
pose had to be kept a profound secret,
since if it had been known that so great
potentate was in want of so many em
eralds the price wild have risen to a
prodigious height. "The Czarina,
ays the St'. Petersburg correspondent of
the Vienna paper, "although she posses
ses a more splendid collection of jewels
:han any other European sovereign, was
so delighted at this unexpected addition
to them that she danced around the
saloon like a child, with the necklace in
aer hand."
Sara Bernhardt' Costume.
Usually the bride is the principle feat
xre of a. wedding, but when the Prin
cess Jabolonski married the son of Sara
Bernhardt all eyes were turned to her
mother-in-law, who, as she entered the
:hurch, was entirely concealed by a long
jray manteau trimmed with black fox.
rhrowing this back, she revealed a gown
Df gray sicilienne, a silver belt, and an
Jxquisite bonnet of aurore crepe. The
bride's gown was of creamy white satin,
the front looped with orange blossoms,
md the whole covered with old point
i l'aiguille, worth $5,000. I hear that
.his lace was presented to the Princes ;
some years ago, with the request that it
mould be worn on her wedding day.
rhe corsage was strikingly beautiful,
for a broad lace Louis XIII. collar en
circled the throat, ornamented the front
)f the waist, and was fastened at the
left of the belt by satin ribbon and
arange blossoms. LVcoTy? Eagle.
Passive Beauty of Peasant Women.
One sees very many beautiful women
imong the Croatians and Slavonians. It
Is quite surprising the number of lovely
faces that are to be seen in a gathering
)f Groatian peasants.
The beauty of these countries inplines
;o the passive, Madonna-like style of
loveliness, in which figure dreamy, ga-sclle-like
eyes and an expression of lan
guor that tells of gentleness personified,
fn Servia and Roumelia, too, one finds
this type of beauty prevalent, and in
:hese Balkan States, so recently domina
ted by the Turks, the women still pos
sess a timid, retiring disposition that
sauses them to go about with half -veiled
faces. The legacy of Osmanli dominion
(mparts to the Servian and Roumelian
oadien the additional charm of mystery.
One sees two heavy braids of dark hair
iescending, perhaps, well nigh to the
ground, and a pair of large, languishing
black eyes lighting up features that are
kalf concealed behind a veil of tulle.
Courier-Journal.
End of the Short Hair Craze.
"The short hair craze has sort of run
out," said a Washington lady barber.
''Some of the hair has got discouraged
through being cut so often, and never
piven a chance to grow, so that now it
won't. That is the trouble with lots of
heads I could mention. It doesn't do
for a young lady 'to cut off her hair short
too late in life. That's why there are
I great many wigs being worn this sea
ion. You saw all those young ladies
with short hair last summer? You
don't see them now. Sometimes hair
grows out very well after it has been cut
3hort. Sometimes it doesn't. We have
sold quite a number of wigs on account
of this change of fashion. There were
ome pretty suits of hair spoiled by that
ihort hair cut. , Some refuse ever to
grow long again, some grow out stiff
md straight, some lose all their natural
to:or. Soft blonde hair came out stiffer
ind darker. Some did not sufier from
the fashion, but -many did. Young la
dies who had soft, curly hair of rich
natural color, were struck with the short
hair craze. And now well, they are
awfully sorry.. All the curl is gone.
The softness is gone, too, and so has the
rich color. The most common result has
been the entire loss of .the natural ten
dency to curl. Constant cutting has
made the hair straight. SomHmoc.
they have their own natural " hair that
was cut oil made over into wigs."
Fashion Xotes,
Gray and red is a favorite combination
in children's dresses. .
Braided coiffures are again in vome,
especially the braided coronet or dia
dem. -
Bodices for promenade costumes are
3ometime3 made with the basques set on
separately at ihe waistline.
Shaded plush embroidery, exactly
matching the dress material, is the new
est trimming for cloth costurne3.
Black veils induce tan and white ones
injure the eyes, so: gray and blue should
be chosen, even if they are not so becom
ing.
Clasps of old silver are used
to
fasten outer garments, and these aie
sometimes elaborately ornamented, ofte.i
being set with . small turquoise v gar
nets, etc. ! -
K light felt bonnet noted recently hud
a fluted plaiting up the centre o er
the crown, which gradually widened
into a fan-plaited bri
m the sides
quite plain.
Green is -in high favor for short
telets. as it fnrmQ o .
man-
' , " Elective 1:ipv
ground for the colored beaded pS" "
men enes with which these pretty '
ments are usually trimmed. b '
A somewhat original hat for a you
lady was in turban shape, the plain br ,
being made of red velvet and the fu
crown of dark blue plush. A cluster
red and blue ostrich feathers placed It
the back was the only garniture. -
Close to a Huge Grizzly,
Sylvester Scott, of Sonoma County
Cal., is considered in that region the
greatest bear-hunter in the State. To a.
New York San correspondent he said:
"I have killed in all, during the twenty- .
five years that I have lived on my nioun- "
tain ranch, not gss than 385 bears, jj
quit keeping account after a while, and
the exact number is certainly something
more. I have also killed a great many
ianioraia lions ana wildcats, but I never
kept any record of them. For eight
years I got away with an average of 44
bears a year, and probably 10 or 12
panthers. The bears were principally
brown and black, but there were a great
many grizzlies too. The best bear year
was 1878, when I got 64, sometimes
killing four in one day. For the last
three years I haven't hunted much, be
cause bears are getting, scarce in nry
neck o'-woods.
"I've read lots of yarns about fellows
fighting b.ars with butcher knives, but
I reckon those stories are not told by :: "
genuine bear hunters. They don't sound'
just right. I never allowed myself to
get away from my gun, and I never "
fought with a knife. I never got into
any; collar-and-elbow wrestle with a
grizzly, and don't want " to, but I've
bio wed the heads off. 'em when they
were within two feet of. the end of my
gun, and that's close enough.
"The closest call I ever had was in the
spring of '81, four or five miles west of
my place, in a deep gulch coverad with a
rank growth of chaparral. A holy terror
of a grizzly had been living on the . fat of .
the land in Sonoma County for about
eight years. He nad killed loads of beef
and mutton, and every hunter in the
county had been out looking for him. .. I
had been out myself on his. trail for sev
eral years. He had been trapped and shot
j j a j . .
was a rouser at least a i,500-pounder.
I concluded to make a business of
downing the old fellow, and set out with
my pack of hounds for a steady hunt.
After a loner run the dos drorve him into
101s 01 Times, out niwnvs irnr, awav. ns
this gorge, the sides of which were tod
steep for him to climb. They brought
him to bay in a clump of chemisal, but .
he was so game that he wouldn't climb aT
tree. A grizzly can shin up a tree when
he wants to, and the biggest of them do
go up after nuts ; but get a grizzily riled
and he won't run or climb for anybody.
"A grizzly will stay with, the dogs
and bat them whenever they come with
in reach until he gets a sniff of a man,
when he will scatter the dogs and make
a break for the fellow that he knowa
put up the job on him. I had been try
ing all day to. draw him out with the
dog", and finally went in closer to the
brush. He got a snifter of me and out
came, followed by the whole pact
rhey were biting his legs and hanging
on to his hide as thick as bees, but ha
paid no attention to them. He was bound
for headquarters, and he came a-running.
I had an express rifle, built for lion and
tiger shooting in Africa, given to me by
an English sportsman named Adkinson,
and I was ready for him. His big red
mouth, set with great sharp teeth,
seemed about a 3-ard wide. When he
got within two feet of the muzzle I let
him have it, and he fell as dead as a nail,
with a big hole in his head. My dog
had fought that bear from early morn
ing until four in the afternoon, before I
could get a shot at him. I can't say
that I felt particularly scared. I knew!
had to make a centre .shot, and it
wouldn't be healthy to get nervous, even
if it did look scaly; but I was sure of
my gun, and knew what, was going to
happen to Mister Bear.
The Origin of Leap Year.
The custom observed every four ye
of permitting the fairer sev to assume the
right and prerogatives . appertaining to
their brothers during the remaining
; three is a very ancient one, according to
a New York World correspondent. v nen
it originated is not definitely known, but
h law enacted by the Parliament of Scot
land in the year 1283 is doubtless the first
statutory recognition of the custom.
That law was as follows :. "It is statut
and ordaint that during the reine of Her
Maist Blissit Megcstie, i k fourth year,
'known as Leap l ear, ilk maiden ladjecf
baith high and low estat shall haei:berty
to bespeak ye man she likes; albeit,
he refuses to tak hir to be his wyfe, V,
shall be mulcted in ye sumrae of &
dundis or less, as his !estait moit. be,
cept and awis gn ne can uiaa. il ai
tnat ne is Detruiun- tu .mo uuti v ,
that he then shall be free. '
' There is a volunteer regiment in .-vTe
tucky that served in the civil war ; an
was never mustered out. The rneniher
of it want pay from the day. of Lee's
render to the present time.
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