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MYSTERIOUS OR NOTABLE. MORE OR LESS REMARKABLE INCIDENTS AND PACTS. Florida Alligators The Best Miner Bishops' Salaries-An Old Woman A Soap Mine, Etc., Etc FLORIDA newspaper says that tbe killing off of alligators is having a marked effect on the supply of water in the cattle country. "When alligators took possession of a water hole they always kept the mud pushed up on the-banks, and even when hun dreds of cattle went o the pool, and by crowding and pushing filled it with mud. tne alligators soon repaired me damage by digging and pushing back the mud. Now the cattle stand around these holes, which are filled with mud and almost entirely dried up, and wait for ram; the only water they get mean time being from the dew-covered grass which they eat at night. The authorities of London have for some time had under way an extensive system of works at the outfall of the city's main sewer at Barking Creek, on the Thames, the object in view being to prevent the river in future from becom ing during the hot season a danger to health. According to this plan thirteen precipitating tanks on the land side of the existing reservoir are to receive the sewerage, this being allowed to remain for some two hours in a quiescent state for the deposition' of the sludge. The effluent water will then be run off into the river, and the sludge into other tanks, where it will settle for ten hours longer to remove more of the liquid, the sub stance being used for mixing with lime to form a precipitating agent. The settled solids, still containing equal to ninety per cent, of moisture, will be passed through pipes and loaded into ships, in which, unless it shall be found of sufficient commercial value to warrant its utilization as a land fertilizer, it will be carried a long distance to sea. Ex periments already made with this kind of sludge have led to the conclusion that it will prove valuable as a marketable commodity, and without .any sanitary risk. The movement of the Mormons to- J HjT 1 1 waru luexico is assuming aennue snape and large proportions. Recently dis patches have been published to the ef fect that the Mexican Government had granted a concession of 10,000,000 acres of land to tie Mormons and that they had purchased 10,000 square miles of the Zuni Indian land in Mexico. There is no foundation for such statements. Every foot of land obtained by the Mormons in Mexico so far has been by purcnase irom private owners, and tne Government would no doubt utterly re fuse to make them a concession of land. The Zuni Indians live in New Mexico and not Old Mexico and cannot dispose of a single acre of their reservation. The facts are that the Mormons have quietly bought from private parties large tracts of agricultural lands in Northern Chi huahua, principally in the valley of the Casus Grande River, and that they are negotiating for more. Several flourish ing villages exist in that neighborhood already, the principle one being called Porfiro Diaz. The colonists are the pre cursors of greater bodies in the future, and are very quiet and unobtrusive. Senator Heast, of California, is the best miner in America. He began in the mountains as a day laborer. To-day he is the richest man in the United ft i mi . states, lneie is not a mining State or Territory in which he is not owning or working mines. Jim Witchlatch sold his mine near Union ville, Mont., for $1,800,000 and lost all that money in Wall street. He went back to Leadville and in six months made $120,000. He lost every cent of this by the failure of Grant & Ward in 1883. He now has a fortune of $150,000. Ten years ago Joe Stanley was prospecting in Gilpin coun ty, Col. His wife took in washing while he dug his way through 700 feet of bar ren rock. He had no money and couldn't hire help. At the end of 700 feet he struck pay ore, and named it the Cali fornia Mine. A party of Englishmen on a tour through the' State gave him $1,000,000 cash for it, and have received $5,000,000 in dividends since. Joe is now one of the richest men in Denver, and Vice-President of the Denver City National Bank. If kings have been abolished in France, various Frenchmen seem deter mined to have their "inniDgs" by set ting up as monarchs on their own ac count in far and foreign climes. Every body has heard of the. "King of Aran cania, Orelius I.," who was a Parisian Rio de Tulipatan, and now another Gaul, 31. do Mayrena, has just been crowned monarch of a tribe of Anna mites on the . borders of Siam. The new sovereign calls himself "Marie I., King of the Sedangs," and, according to all accounts, he , has inaugurated a hap py and prosperous reign, and promises to be as merry and as contented a poten tate as "Old King Cole" himself. A natural soap mine has been dis covered near Crawfordsville, Ga., and the editor of the Crawfordsville Democrat has tried it. He says: "We took the article, and to test it we washed our face and hands- with it, and it cut the dirt from the skin and made the water lather like manufactured soap. It is exactly the color of turpentine soap, and has a peculiar smell. There is money in this natural soap mine." 1 A cebtazx M. Alex. Seiler, native of a Swiss canton, owner of the chief hotel at Zermatt, a few miles from his native town in the same canton, made applica tion in 1875 for leave to become a citizen of Zermatt The cantonal government granted his petition, but the commune refused to confirm it, because M. Seiler was a "stranger" not born in the town. He has continued his effort unsuccess fully ever since, and lately he has been boycotted by the inhabitants, with the connivance of the local authorities. He can get nothing in the neighborhood, but must fetch everything for his hotel from other towns miles away. He ap pealed to the. can tonal authorities, and they have sent gendarmes to protect him. The commune has to pay for the lodging and food of these officers, and if this does not make the local author ities relent it is announced that a com pany of soldiers will be sent to Zermatt to board upon the same terms. A curious old marriage custom, which is still widely prevalent in Brittany,-was recently interpreted in a novel and amusing manner. According to the custom, the bridegroom, immediately after the priest had wedded the couple, strikes his wife in the face, saying: "This is how you will fare if you make me angry," and then, kissing her, he says: "This is how you will fare if you treat me well." A short time ago a young Breton married a German girl, and after the ceremony was over began at once to practice the first part of the time . hon ored custom. The bride, who was ig norant of the "inner meaning" of what she considered an insult, turned round on her lord and master and returned the stroke, saying: "Look here, I do not ap prove of such behavior." after which the husband is said to have performed the second part of the ceremony with more than usual affection. The bishop of - New York has the largest personal revenue in this country. It is $10,000 a year. The Bishop of Maine has the smallest. It is $1,300 a year. The Bishops of California, Chi cago, Long Island and Massachusetts have each $6,000 a year. Others have incomes running from $5,000 a year down, while eight of the American pre lates are content with $2,000 a year each, and are not perfectly sure of getting it in time "to meet their butcher's books and coal bills. . In England, where the State takes the place of tbe voluntary contribution in support of the church, the head of the prelacy has an income of $75,000 a year. Two of the bishops have each $50,000 a year. Otbers run from $40,000 down, the average revenue of the episcopate below the greatest named being between $25,000 to $20, 000 a year. An engineer on the Wabash railroad, whose run is between Danville and Springfield, has a cat which he would not part with for love or money. It be longed to his wife, who is now dead, and for a year past has been his companion in the cab. Ordinarily it sits perched up in the cab window before its master, but occasionally it strolls out to the pilot, where it will ride for hours at a stretch, winking knowinglg at the dogs which bark at the train as it thunders by the cross-roads. Sometimes when the train is approaching a station the adventurous animal climbs to .the top of the sand box and'calmly rests there, un deterred by the shriek of the whistle or the clang of the bell. The engine has had good luck ever since the animal became an occupant of the cab, and the trainmen look upon it as a mascot. i Recently the Pacific Coast Steamship Company employed Victor Hinston, a professional diver, at $150 per day, to go down and examine the machinery of the steamer City of Chester, which was sunk in the waters of Golden Gate in August last by. collision with the Oceanic. The diver located the vessel in fifty fathoms of water, cut in two as if by an immense saw. While looking into the steerage, the first thing which met his eyes was the form of a man' standing with distorted face and tongue hanging from his mouth. The body was swoolen to twice its natural size. Going a little further aft he saw another victim of the wreck on his knees grasping a third man around the waist. The diver returned to the surface and reported his discovery, but nothing could induce him to return to the wreck. , Mbs. Nancy Coucn of Jasper county, Ga., says that she is 120 years old. She may bo wrong, but she is certainly very old and very remarkable. She lives with her granddaughter, Mrs. Halloway, who is 80 years old, and this is what Will Harden, her great-great-great-grandson, says about her: "She is just as spry, lively, and quick as most women of 50 or ou, ana wnen l saw ner last loosed as healthy, pretty, and young, as most of the women around. You can't tell that she is so old, as she is lively and young looking, but when you talk to her of her childhood it looks like you are hearing about the creation. She just knows Jots, and they tried to get her to goto the Centennial, in Philadelphia, but she just would not go, as she said she did not want to play the part of a mummy." There are two dogs, one on the Can adian and the other on the Ameiican side of the Niagara River, just below the railway suspension bridge.ont of human reach. The one on the American side is a small black and tan, who was thrown into the river four months ago and man ages to live where he landed. Ths other is a large Newfoundland dog which was thrown from the bank. He landed 100 feet from the top of the rock precipice and still -lives, roaming about and wag ging his tail at his smaller companion across. the way. Miss Kate Bishop, an actress in Aus tralia, wears a silver bracelet on the left arm night and day. Her only sister lock ed it there before she sailed for Ameriea to get married. The ship went down with all hands, and the key is with the drowned girL Onb of the simplest of natures barom eters is a spider's web. . When their is a prospect of wind or rain, the spider shortens the filaments by which its web is sustained and leaves it in this state as long as the weather is variable. If il elongates its threads, it is a sign of fine, calm weather, the duration of which may be judged by the length to which the threads are let out. If the snider re mains inactive it is a sign of rain; if it keeps at wprk during rain the down pour will not last long, and will be fol lowed by fine weather. Observation has taught that the spider makes changes in its web every twenty-four hours, and that if such changes are made in the eve ning, just before sunset, the night will be clear and beautiful. Probably the first prohibition peti tion issued in this country has been dis covered in the State archives of North Carolina. On May:26, 1756, King Hag. ler of the Catawbas thus petitioned Chief Justice Henley: "I desire a stop may be put to the selling of strong liquors by the white people to my people, especially near the Indians. If the white people make strong drink let them sell it to one another, or drink it in their own families. This will avoid a great deal of- mischief which otherwise will happen from my people getting drunk and quarreling with the white people. " The Chief J us tice as appears from, an endorsement promised to bring the matter to the Gov ernor's notice. If the lawmakers of Georgia are wise, they will take steps to stop the rapid destruction of the pine forests of the State. It is estimated that from 200 to 400 square miles of timber land are cleared every year. The Atlanta Lum ber Company "has 40,000, and is cutting 100,000 feet a day. Since the moun tains to the 'southwest of Home have been cleared floods have become very common in that part of the' State, and the rapid riso of water has caused great damage. It is the old story; and when Georgia is stripped of its trees the Government will be called upon to re plant the forests. An ounce of preven tion is worth a pound of cure. A couple spent their honeymoon at Bar Harbor. They met first on a steam er on the Atlantic Ocean; he proposed in Sweden; was accepted in Kussia; ob tained her father's permission in Eng land; the marriage settlements were drawn up in this country; they were married in Algiers and goodness knows where they are now and will be to-morrow. The Black Silk Dress. The latest fashions seem to be de signed for large women, who will find the plain skirts and flat folds of drapery eminently becoming. Last year's style of an underskirt of a lighter or brighter shade than the drapery has, by no means, disappeared, and tho costumes now most popular for street wear are those which are ecru or some light shade draped with dark colors. Terra cotta is much worn this fall; and the bordered materials in barra cotta with white stripes make a petticoat of terra cotta striped with bands of white, over which falls an artistic drapery. The basque may have a white India silk vest and velvet revers. A green cloth dress, has a petticoat of white striped with green, or the green may be draped over a beige skirt. Silk passementerie and braid will be much used, even upon walking costumes. There seems to be a revival of gold in braid and buttons, not only upon green, but upon Roman red. Many women will be pleased with the array of black silks, which seems to pro phesy a renewal of the old-time popu larity of the "black silk gown." Faille, satin, moire and armure are to be found and are often seen in combinations, such as moire antique striped with satin, black armure silk ornamented with satin designs. Twilled silks will be liked, and surah silks with a serge weave are heavier than than those manufac tured for summer use. The most novel silks are those which have small polka dots and plaid stripes on moire back grounds. Square blocks of satin are popular ornamentations, and the black silks ornamented with braided designs are very new. A dress of black moire is made with simple elegance. Narrow box plaits, with wider plaits on each side, make the front of the skirt; the sides and back are in plain loose folds. The basque has a point of medium length in front and a short postillion at the back. A vest of the material is out lined by graduated folds, set n at the shoulder seams and extending to the point of the basque. The collar is plain and high; the sleeves are slightly full at the shoulders and plain below the el bows; around the arm midway is passed a band of the material with bow. Jet ornaments are set on the front of the basque and skirt. A Tery Curious Stone. There has lately been found in Colo rado a white opaque variety of hydro phane in rounded lumps from five to twenty-five mm. in diameter, with a white, chalky, or glazed coating, and which is of peculiar inter t to scientific men. For its power of absorbing liquid this substance is quite remarkable, and when water is allowed to slowly drop on it it first becomes very white and chalky, and then gradually perfectly transpar ent. This property is developed so strikingly as to give rise to the name magic stone" for it, and has suggested its use in rings, lockets, chains, etc., to conceal photographs, hair, or other ob jects which the wearer wishes to reyeal only when caprico might dictate. In an examination of several specimens of this curious material to determine its speci fic gravity, etc, the fact was readily dis closed that hydrophane the weight being taken both dry and wet absorbs more than an equal volume of water. THOSE JOKING STORIES. HUMOROUS ITEMS GIjEANED FROM THE PAPERS. Up In Maine Explained It A Mean Thing A Fine Opening End of the Season, Ftc, Etc. WHAT HADE TUB BOY HAD. Hardly closer their heads could be bent if 'twere tried; - 'Pweep! Pweep! Pweep !" The dickey bird sat in th window outaide: "Pweep! Pweep! Pweep!' And the small boy in hiding tbe sofa beneath, Clenched his teeth in his anger and gritted his teeth, For he couldn't determine if lorers or bird Were making the comical sound that he heard: "Pweep! Pweep! Pweep!" Chicago Mail A FINK OPENING . One-legged Man Say, boss, can't you do something for an unfortunate crip pie? , Gent Yes, let me give you a piece of advice: Sail into politics. Nows your chance. One-legged orators are always successful on the stump. I You can get fifty dollars a speech fromveither of the campaign committees. TexfipJSiftings. CHICKEN FOB THAT DINNER. Visitor (to convict) Why, what brought yon here, Uncle Rastus ? Uncle Eastus 'Cessive hospitality, sah. Visitor Excessive hospitality? Uncle Rastus Yes, sah. Yr see, sah, I invited the minister to a Sunday din ner, an when I got home late Saturday night de ole 'ooman 'fo'med me dat dar warn't a chicken in de house an' de sto's was all clos'd. GOT ON THE INSIDE. Friend I don't hear of yon making any more speeches against the Trusts, Boomly. Boomly You bet you don't. I've been elected President of one. SPEAK, OH SPEAK ! Fat Widow Doctor, I want you to answer my question candidly. Dootor Certainly, my dear madame Well, am I in love, or have I only got fatty degeneration of the heart? WHAT MADE HIM MADDER. ' Soon they snatched the young wretch from his cosy retreat; "Swipe! Swash! Swank!" He got about ten on his upholstered seat: "Swipe! Swash! Swank!" And the small boy soon learned to his infinite woe, That his big sister had a most muscular bean, And he felt quite assured 'twas a man, not & , bird, Was making the terrible sound that he heard: "Swipe! Swash! Swank!" Minneapolis Tribune. A MEAN THING. " What is George's last name, Etta ? " asked the little sister one morning at the breakfast table. " Simpson, dear," said Etta, with a becoming blush. " What makes you ask?" " Oh, nothing," said the little sister, carelessly, "only I was listening outside the parlor door when he was. here last night, and I thought from what I heard you say to him all the time that it might be Don't." LIMITS TO HIS AMBITION. Bobby was ill. "Mamma," he asked wearily one dav, "will I get well again?" "Yes, darling," replied the mother, "you will soon be 'well again, and grow up to be a big man.". Silence for one minute. "Mamma," he asked earnestly, "will I be as big as Uncle Dick?" "Yes, my dear." "Then , I guess," he continued thoughtfully, "I'd rather die." FORGOTTEN MUCH OF IT. Miss Weldo, of Boston, and young Mr. Wabash, of Chicago, -were discussing literature, and as he allowed her to do all the talking, he was getting on famously. "You have read "The Quick or the Dead?' of course, Mr. Wabash?" she said. Oh, yes," he replied, "but very much of it has escaped my mind. It must be ten years now since I read it." AN UNKNOWN SPECTES. New Governess Now, my dear, in what zoological classification would you place man. Pretty Girl Man? "Yes; don't you know what a man is?" "No, ma'am. I been spending my winters in a convent and my summers at seaside resorts." Philadelphia He '11 sail loVe . yre billow, ntrZ In barque thatnevl ow, ho! the weddiT dBLTANOTHtaso, . "What did yoa find in v inquired MaSM,ar "There was a iAu hJr vV theroner,-.ta. "he'., probb. boat." Chicas, frihuiu 3 Til AT EXFLAIXED rr. What's the matter, Johnnrr v one of the neighbors boys, Sy&f panion came out of the Min't finished joordi&g; "Nop." "Didn't ye get anv "wSlt'mll 8la-T 10 it' and evervbodv but n tJ.? hS chant Traveller. UNRECOGNIZED G EXITS. He was dressed in a new suit or fr bobtail car This gave him an ? tunity to show off a tine diamond & he wore. . At last he gave up his atb a lady and then posed for a farther lo efit orxthe outside platform. But ' fate, in the shape of awocu pursued him. The woman to vboall had surrendered his good seat reaped the end of her route. Singling bin oui with her index finger she called 6iem!r "C-o-n-ductor, stop the car." A PRACTICAL WIDOW. " I confess, sir," said the widow with some shyness, "that I might in 'tin learn to love you; but, er you are quia poor, are you not ?" "Well, yes; but with you, dear Ma Tompkins, to cheer and encourage e it would soon " "Ah," interrupted the widow, witht sigh, "that would be giving hostages to fortune. I am drawing fifteen dolian i month pension, and I wouldn't like to give up a dead sure thing for a rauk na certainty. "Epoch. PBEVXXTTXO A' FAMIXE. A missionary writes from the Feejee Islands as follows: "Our small force of brethren soema to be absolutely unable to cope with th distress which prevails in this dark aal benighted land. Many of the nativa urn srnrvi n rr fnr f nrui PlpaoA cpntl ! once a few more . missionaries. .V York JSun. i WAT UP IN MAINE. "How's crops this year?" asked a tourist of a Maine farmer. "Well, purty fair, purty fair; nothin' to brag on, but a purty fair averilge. after all." "How many bushels of corn will wch land as this produce i" "Well, if it's mane wered right smart and worked as it'd orter be, it'll torn out about eight bushels." "Eight bushels, man; is that all! Eight bushels to the acre?" "Eight bushels to the acre? Land, no ! eight bushels to the fdrm! Time. NO RUIN TnBEATENED. "Vhot vas ve going to do, fadd," said little Abraham, as be laid down the newspaper, "if dose Democrads talc 02 de duty on vool! It means ruin, sore; de brices was too low, alretty!" "Nef. r you fear, mine little sohn, re plied the old man: "it vill not affect ds peezniss; dere was not an ounze ol yow m all de clodhings in dis emponaEL - Puck. AT THE VZBY EKD OF THE SEAS'J He I've been trying to away, for a week, but these breezes are awfully enticm?. , p, She-How very funny .fejj say, yesterday, he couldn t enough to get away on to save RELIGIOUS BUT ECOSOMXCAt. Husband (on his way to chnrcb) jnstskip on ahead nxy ear, some change. I've f one dollar, and that's too Wife (on his overtaking ner- get the bill changed Husband les. . . . j x Wife You will contribute lar, John? n -o-, Husband-I can't r happened to meet three 5t' and I've only got a quarter 1 York Sun rl5i "Did you see WStrSttf delphia t" was that citr. ' . recently returned MC. "Only one that I ?voa f , "Did he 'tbee' and 'thou J k "He did. He got off Jus said: 'Hthec Jon'tpayme- thy blamed head off. an j though I knew the reguta f fod 3 shilhngs. You to these Quakers any, ana u it!" Free Press.
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