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MYSTERIOUS OR NOTABLE. MORE OR LESS REMARKABLE INCIDENTS AND FACTS. HE town of Dong las now claims to be the Cheyenne 1873-80. They have six monte games running, frow which the town derives $300 revenue per month. There is s.no town of the J West, outside of jjjjSp '4 one or two Colora- do miniDg camps, where there is as much gambling money in flight or more money chances hands on the turn of a card than in Douglas. Where the money comes from is a mys tery, but it is there, and it is chan,ced at every opportunity. There seems to be no strings on it. The six monte games have bank rolls in sight that aggregate $3,000. The Manufacture of wood pulp in Switzerland has been very considerably cheapened of late, by the new method resorted to of conducting the material from one mill to another, in cer tain cases at a distance of, say one kilometre that is, more than half a mile; a valve is opened to let the pulp flow. into the washing engine to ' be freed from the surplus water before it is run into the mixing engine with the other stuffs and ingredi ents required for the different qualities of paper desired. The Swiss manufac ture of cellulose also presents some in teresting features. These factories are mostly sulphite mills, and of late the process of producing sulphite cellulose has been developed to a high degree of perfection so that no more brown, boiled or spoiled digesters will result. The mammoth digesters of cellulose em ployed during all the time that the pro cess is going on allow such a perfect con trol of the direct or indirect pressure of the lye in the digester, of the water while washng or cooling off, and of the chang ing nature and strength of the lye under pressure, that there is no liability to an unfavorable result. Mr. Inter arity, a noted Bombay Shekari, believes that animals killed by tigers suffor little beyond the panic of a few seconds. The shock produces a stupor and dreaminess ili which thero is no sense of pain or feeling of terror. The powerful stroke of the fore paw of the tiger is a fiction ; he clutches with his paws as ono might with the fingers, but does not strike a blow. Tigers wan der immense distances at night, and as they like easy going they go on roads and paths. They do not like to movo during the heat of the day, as the hot ground burns their pads and makes them raw. They can on occasions climb trees. In Salsette one climbed after a certain Pandoo but could not reach him and retired.- Pandoo, thinking the coast clear, got down and ran toward home, but on the way was caught by the tiger and killed. The inquest report stated that ' Pandoo died of the tiger eating him ; there- was no other cause of death." During some of the leisure moments hich the Emperor of Germany has at his disposal he has been overhauling the crown and regalia of his house, and has ordered the imperial crown, which he wears as German Emperor, to be con siderably altered in shape. Nor is the imperial banner or the imperial mantle of state considered, altogether satisfac tory in their present form, and these two are to be changed in several details . Last, and not least, the Kaiser also lound fault with the imperial throne which it was lately his privilege to mount, and this, too, is to bo apprecia bly changed in . appearance, to the no email perturbation of the more conserv ative of his Majesty's subjects, who are going about prophesying all kinds of evil things which are to befall him and his house if he dares to carry out the proposed alterations. Mrs. Nancy Couch, of Jasper county, Ga., says that she is 120 years old. She may be wrong, but she" is certainly very dd and very remarkable. She lives with her granddaughter, Mrs. Halloway, who is 80 years old, and this is wliat Will Harden, her great-great-great-grandson, says about her: "She is just as spry, lively, and quick as most "Btmen of 50 or 60, and when I saw her list looked 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 lots, and they tried to get her to go the Centennial, in Philadel- phia, but she just would not go, as she said she did not want to play the part of a mummy." PROBABiiY 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- Chief Justice Henley: . "I desire a stop may be put to the selling of strong liquors by the white people to my peo ple, especially near 'the Indians. If tie white people make strong drink let jrv 11 i i i . . xnem sen it to one anotner or drinK it in their own families. This will avoid a great deal of mischief which othejrwise will happen from my people getting onms ana quarrelling witn the white people." The Chief Justice, as appears from an endorsement promised to bring the matter to the Governor's notice. Dr. J. S.Newberry recently lectured before the New York A ademy of Sci ences concerning the great museums of Europe th:t he visited during the Sum xar. He described the arrangement of the South Kensington Museum, told how delighted he was with what he saw there and at the Brussels, Berlin, and I nn& of Aix-la-Chapelle Museums, especially in the line of extinct animals. In Brussels he saw a skeleton of what must have been the paleozoic dude, to judge by the size of his brain box and the cut of his nails. The Brussels Museum also boasts of two real novelties a sort of pterodactyl a fish-bird with a mouth like a bear trap, and a singularly oom plete mammoth built in squares and sections. -An old mare mule belonging to Mr. N. P. Watt, of Cool Spring Township, was taken sick unto death. Her owner doctored her, but without beneficial re sults. She was turned out and wan dered in pain from one house to an other in the neighborhood. Nobody helped her, and at night she strayed down to Dr. J. R. B. Adams's and stood around the gate and bellowed as if for treatment. She got no treatment, how ever, and finally in despair old Sal sought the creek below Turner's Mill, threw herself into it, and was drowned. Mules are not supposed to have any more sense than turkeys, but it looks like this one deliberately committed sui cide to' get out of her misery. Citizens of St. Louis who were up early the other morning saw a rare sight. Two big flocks of pelicans pass ed over the city on their way south. They flew so low that the pouch under the lower bill and throat of each could be seen. The first flock, numbering over 100, flew slowly and in almost an unbroken line, crossing the river to the Hlinois side and disappearing in the dis tance. The second flock, following close behind, seemed to have lost its way and circled over the river ten min utes, and then the leader suddenly started in a bee line for the southeast and the rest trailed after him. A baby born in Kensington, a suburb of Philadelphia, the other day, is sup posed by the people of that locality to be the devil, so a usually sane paper as sures us. It is a boy baby, with a black face two horns, and a cloven foot. The people in the house decided to kill the monster, but the child astounded them by running about the room and defying them to touch him. As the story goes, his mother objected to having a crucifix in the house, saying she would rather have the devil. When the baby was born the neighbors all said that it was the devil, sent as a punishment for the woman's wickedness. According to a Berlin correspondent news has been received from Egypt to the effect that the tomb of Alexander the Great, which Dr. Schliemann sought in vain last winter, has now been dis covered in Alexandria. The coffin is of marble, and is covered with beautiful decorations. Its breadth is about three feet and a half and its height three feet. The skull of a man was found in it. The coffin was found in a brick vault, about twenty feet high, covered by about eight feet of earth. The keeper of the museum at Boulak is going shortly to make a thorough examination of the tomb. A Russian physician, named Portu galoff, declares that strychnine is an in fallible cure for drunkenness, adminis tered in subcutaneous injections. He assert that the experience of physicians has shown the cure to be as rapid as it is certain. The effect of the strychnine solution is to change the craving for drink into positive aversion, and this change is effected in a day. After a treat ment of eight or ten days the patient may be discharged. The strychnine is administered by dissolving one grain in 200 drops of water, and injecting five drops of the solution every 24 hours. The discovery of two new enemies of the asparagus beetle is announced in France one of them an internal para site, which doubtless has had an impor tant influence in controlling the num bers of the beetle. In making a note of I tnis, an editor says that up to the pres est time not a single natural enemy of this insect has been discovered in Amer ica, although the beetle is doing much damage and extending its work over a , larger area every year. The obvious suggestion is made to import this para site from France and give it a chance to prey upon the beetles. The seclusion of women in Corea is remarkable. Those of the lower classes wear a green mantle over their faces, and at the sight of a stranger dart into the nearest house. In 1887, when the Duke of Genoa was off the coast with an Italian man-of-war, after vain attempts to open communications with the author ities on shore an official came off to re monstrate against the indecency of the Eropeans in bathing and fishing, which had for some days prevented the villa gers from leaving their homes. A Boston fire insurance adjuster went up to the north end to adjust a loss in a Russian Jewish household, and was astonished when -the mistress of the house put in a claim for two feather pillows weighing sixteen pounds each which she had brought over from the old country and valued very highly. Sixteen pounds struck him as rather considerable for a pillow to weigh, but she was sure that she was right, and was grieved when the loss was scaled down materially. Quite a romantic wedding is reported i to nave tasen place nve miles west of Denison, Tex., the happy couple, min ister and all, standing knee-deep in the Red River, while the wedding ceremony was performed. The intention was to cross the stream and have the knot tied on the opposite bank, but when the par ty had waded -out a short distance it was learned that the old folks were in pur suit, so the lovers were made one forth with. The vinegrowers of the Santa Anna and San Gabriel valleys of California think that a new disease has attacked their vines. They call it "sap sour." When attacked the vines wither and die at once. It is infectious and spreads rapidly. The best remedy thus far known is to pull up and burn the vines the I moment they show the blight Dovxxt, Me., has a mystery that ex cites its people. A girl of 12 years, vis iting at the house of J. B. Chase, just before going to bed on Saturday night, stood some time before the dressing case arranging her hair. The next morning she discovered that on the glass there was a perfect profile picture of her face. The outlines are very distinct and easily recognizable. A large number of citi zens have visited the house and looked at the picture. A Natural soap mine has been dis covered near Crawford ville, Ga., and the editor of the Crawf ord ville Democrat has tried it He says: "We took the article, and to test it we washed our face and hands with it, and it out 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." A stone tomahawk was recently found in Victor while excavating for the foun dation of one of. the abutments to the new iron bridge being constructed on Maple avenue. ' This is very near the spot where the historic conflict occurred between De Nonville's troops and the Senacas about 200 years ago. This tool was found seven feet below the surface, and it is evident that they had "buried the hatchet." A curious ferryboat is building for the River Clyde at Glasgow. Instead of requiring movable landing stages or bridges to meet the rise and fall of the tide, the deck of the boat itself will be movable, carried on six hydraulic ele vators, by which it can be raised or lowered.. The boat will be a double ender, 150 feet long, of 55 feet beam, and 12 feet 6 inches draught. Rev. B. Waugh, secretary of an Eng lish society for the prevention of cruelty to children, recently asserted that 1,000 children are murdered in England every winter to obtain the . insurance on their lives. The Rubber Hunters. The Tularoes, or rubber hunters of Costo Rica, writes a correspondent, are the most irresponsible and ignorant of creatures, whose first object, when out on an expedition, is to secure as much caoutchouc as possible, and next to dam age the prospects of other Yularoes, re gardless of the future. A thrifty tree at its first cutting, ought to yield not less than fifty pounds of rubber; but the hunters of to-day find few so profit- able, unless they penetrate far into the virgin forests, and are fortunate enough to discover an entirely new district. In the sections already worked most of the trees have been topped several times, and many of them were spoiled at the outset by having been cut too young be cause its greedy discoverer feared that if the prize were left to attain perfec tion another might secure it. Were the matter regulated by judicious laws, so that only mature trees might be tapped, and those not to an extent to cause death, the production of caoutchouc would soon be a source of wealth to the republic. Among the inhabitants of Central America the Yularoes form a distinct class, by all odds the lowest in the coun try, unless it may be the Caribs of Guate mala, or the pearl divers of the western coast. They are mostly half breeds or negroes, for white men seldom engage in it, though the business might be ex tremely profitable. A Yularo can be dis tinguished at a glance from natives of other "professions," as easily as a cow boy in genteel society, or a miller fresh from his mill, not only by his general air of dare-dovil-don't-care-itiveness, but by the thick coating of caoutchouc that covers his clothing from head to foot. This extra coating accumulates gradual ly by contact with the rubber trees, without intention on the part of the wearer, and in time renders his gar ments absolutely waterproof and almost indestructible. Men Are Just as Bad. A woman, speaking of the attacks made upon her sex for their methods of handling their skirts or bustles when sitting down, carrying their parasols, and other habits, says: "I think three quarters of such talk is nonsense. I am perfectly sure that men have just as many marked habits as women. What can be more absurd, I would like to know, than to see a man., every time he sits down, fling his coat tails wide apart? Then, again, that everlasting twitching at the legs of his trousers, so as to pull them up in folds above the knees, and exposing generally the not always at tractive top of a pair of shoes, with strings tied in a by no means pictur esque knot. To mo one of the repulsive habits is the refolding up of a handker-. chief before replacing in the pocket, which is quite common among men. I always wonder if the user is afraid of getting them mussed or only wants the outside fresh and clean. As regards ! pulling down cuffs so they will show be ! neath the sleeve, and similar tricks, are ! they not every day sights ?" From Bad to Worse. "No, Orestes, it cannot, must not be." "And is this, then, the end ? And the fair girl sobbed, but no word parted the moist quivering lips. "You loved me once," he broke in with wild passionate pathos. "What, oh, what has wrought this change ?" "You promised me you would stop smoking cigarettes" with a drawn, set look navigating the east and west end of her recherche mouth. "And I did, I did," he wailed plead ingly. "And took to a clay pipe instead," she thundered forth; and he knew that life for him held nothing now but the blank est of blank despairs. TACOaiA, TYT0MI3G. A Correspondent Tells of the and Its Steady Growth. City Tacoma is located on the western shore of Commencement Bay, near its union with Puget Sound. The location of the city is perfect for drainage," the land rising to the west and south from the water in several well defined ter races, and the longitudinal streets of the city have been laid out with special reference to the contour of the land, so as to give broad thoroughfares with the least amount of grade. This places resi dence lots so that from nearly all of them there can be obtained magnificent views of the sound, bay, Cascade Moun tains and Mount Tacoma, the latter be- ; ing a huge, snow covered peak rising to ! the height of 14,441 feet. rom the .northern section of the city there is obtained, in addition to these, a view of the rugged, snow capped Olympic J range. The streets are all 100 feet wide, with alleys of 40 feet wide running in the rear of all lots. About fifty miles of streets have been opened and graded and as many miles of sidewalks have been laid. The natural stony soil of the bluff makes a good carriageway, wnile the sidewalks are made of planks 16 feet in length, which, with 4 feet along the outer edge, left for grass and trees, gives a uniform width of 20 feet on each side of the street, the wagon way occupy ing the remaining 60 feet. The city is well laid out and the streets are so planned tbat there will never be need of any change in that respect in the future. There are about sixteen square miles of territory now embraced within the city, with six continuous miles of water front. The built up section runs along the bay a distance of nearly three miles and extends back from the water more than a mile. The people here speak with truth of the phenomenal growth of the city, for in 1880, only eight years ago, there were less than 1,000 inhabitants, while now 20,000 is claimed; then there was less than a mile of sidewalk, none of the streets were graded, there were only two brick structures in the city, it had but two public school buildings, one news paper, three churches, six hotels, three factories and not a single bank; to-day, beside the streets graded and sidewalks laid, there are scores of brick and stone buildings, seven public schools, two seminaries, three daily and five weekly newspapers, twenty-two churches, twenty-six hotels, over fifty manufac tories and five national banks. Then the assessed valuation of property was $500,000, now it is $6,000,000. Street cars run in four directions from a com mon centre, with a new line building to the southern suburbs; the streets are lighted by electricity; gas and water are furnished throughout toe city, while many of the principal streets are already sewered. The main business thoroughfare, call ed Pacific avenue, is lined with impos ing structures, which give it quite a metropolitan appearance, and the scenes here every day remind one5 forcibly of the busy air of Fulton street, Brooklyn. With many new and still handsomer business houses now in course of erec tion, the avenue will soon be solidly flanked for two miles with brick and stone buildings, four and fivo stories high, that would be a credit to any East ern city. The hotels are epecially fine in appearance, one having cost $250,000 and others upward of $100,000 each. While the majority of the dwellings are small, there are several that might well be termed palatial, and already many of the early-built one and two-story houses are being replaced by more pretentious structures. Nearly all dwellings are placed on two lots of land, which give grounds 50 feet front by 130 feet in depth. The climate of Tacoma is all that could be. desired, the average annual temperature being fifty degrees. During August, the hottest month, eighty-six degrees was the highest point registered by the thermometer; while in Winter it is seldom cold enough to freeze, and ice for domestic purposes has to be brought here from other localities. This equable climate is supposed to be caused by the cooling influence of the many snow covered mountains within a radius of a hundred: miles; while the warm Japan current, equivalent to the Gulf Stream of the Atlantic, which strikes the coast here, exerts such a modifying influence on the temperature that the weather much resembles that of points 500 miles southward. It is said that out of door occupations, can be pursued every day in the year without discomfort from either heat or cold. There is said to be no malaria, malignant or contagious diseases, and the death rate is corres pondingly low. The rainy season is not dreaded by old residents, as a native of seventeen years said the other day that as yet he had found no need of buying an umbrella. The land all about Tacoma, and all through the Sound district, is heavily timbered, the manufacture of lumber being one of the principal industries pursued. Some of the trees are of mam moth size, it being not unusual to find logs having a diameter of eight and ten feet, while 200 feet is often reached in length. Frequently the trunk runs up straight 100 feet without a knot or limb, making excellent spars and masts for the largest ships. Besides lumber mills a ship yard is located here. . In addition to the lumber industry, a smelter is now being erected to the north of the city, gold and silver mines sending their pro ducts here to be reduced. Extensive coal mines are in operation about thirty miles distant. The rich valley to the south of Tacoma produces hops in great abundance; also wheat, oats and barley. Apples thrive well, as do cherries, plums, prunes, pears and berries. In the waters of the bay fish of alh kinds are abund ant, carloads being shipped to other cities daily. It is fine sport to troll for Eumon. a a i eighteen pounds are of ti, Vi! e peTple i stranger as possessing thi ou of the TttETcij SSSS and enterprise of XeVJP residents are mostly from States, comparativel y. being among their number iff1 not a Chinaman in thecitV U are allowed to come here !L endeavoured to secure a footv!i i? been directed to leave i ti order that was promptly ohf is an abundance of soc-af Vi societies, all shades of belief being represented. Even t' !,11 Army has a corps of follower", racks, band, parades and al iZ, r' There is also an active The Payallup Indian res..mt , directly across the Uy froS TJt? and a day spent in visiting the Ck red man in his native Wild, wm enjoyed. Although these Inlu greatly affected by the civiliZat5 rounding them and listen ratunVtf the good advice the miss4 them, to a great extent they contir5.! exist in a semi-barbaric state ii live chiefly by fishing, raisinir'cwvS and from the money received inm J . ing hops. A few were found inboard houses, while others live i! rude shanties, covered with mattin-15 an old carpet. Still fewer occupy white canvas tents with pro Win" pci at the top, such as are seen in VVt of Indian villages. Thev were squatting around on the ground, 8oa. cooking meals over fires in the opea air, kettles being suspended from piles resting in notched sticks set in the ground, some were stolidly mokic others lying asleep in the huts, Li2 children and dogs in profusion vera playing around promiscuously. They make many small articles, which they offer for sale, and appear to be geaer ally happy. Made Blood on the Sea. Mr. George Roy, officer jo! the watch on board the Maggie C. bloore, i our authenticity for the followfcs remarks" ble incident which occulrel oa the morning of the 10th instA about TiO miles north-northwest of Cajpe Fkttery. He states that the attention oY the crew to the existence of blood floatinc on adjacent sea. Speculation was rVe ; the immediate origin of so tr spectacle, and a careful watch wa$ to ascertain it. Eventually it was found that a was blowing and spouting on the was first noticed, and a partial &oluij to the phenomenon was gained whecV swordfish darted up close, and following tnat terror oi tne seas came ine enemv t t m . m a.- At oi wnaieaom. tne tnrasner cor Knier. aa m 1 a V s i-li the fish is sometimes deitmated). The W V ri vo o tt a a nv t v"t vy thn yrn rov CTT a (j ' ten feet into the air, and with a pene trating crash alighted upon the whale. A fierce conflict ensued, and the result that the whale appeared to be ex hausted from the attack the thrasher made upon Him. Recovering himst-lf, however, the whale, after several efforts, succeeded in diving below, and came up on the starboard side of the schooner. The crew then took their whaling iron and struck at the thrasher, but unfor- tunately did not hit on a vital part, me thrasher, following the whale, made another savage attack on his victim, an4 hit for a second time within the sight of the crew. The whale appeared at this juncture to be in extremities, and the swordfish, realizing the position, maf a farther attack at this common eneoy and stabbed the Jonah-swallowiug mob ster. ! All was now over ; the whale s je maining strength was gone, and he jtas compelled to succumb to his fate w.ta the grace of a doubly assailed warrior of the deep. After the death he floun dered " topsy turvey," and the thrasher was observed to be luxuratins oivxhe choicest parts of the conquered dJj This is no mythical story of the sea.bct an incident of peculiar interest to tlose who realize the hostility existing be tween the thrasher and the whale and the characteristics of the swordhsli. lta latter knows no danger. lie does not discern between a floating hull aad buoyant whale. His sword is boitid M penetrate either at all hazards and r? to himself, and in this respect he u sfl ilar to some misguided non-ampUbio-J creatures. She Was Not that Kind. They were holding an swffl smuggled goods at the custom bo-se, and the auctioneer was crying f w on a suawi worm u , t,e when a woman on the outskirts oi crowd called out: "I bid four dollars!" "TiiiWl ftnrl last call and ae ! ; and c' it. madam." &he pusnea ner J " k. was, and backed out with the reD-- "That's no silk dress. "Nobody said it was, madam. "But that's what I came or.. J"fof told me that silk dresses w er jb go Q four dollars apiece, and I lj ;wroar dollars for a shawl !" ' "How much will you ti;a . o cir find no. . more!" ,. "Stand back, please. ftboai "Oh, yes! Because I wonty with my feet on the und aad dollar shawl on my back, it ss fcot if you please ! I'M stand bac, t FwHnd of woman. in consistency.' ' . j' "But you wanted a gested one of the crou. ftge S "And wasn't I fi?fflt?efct to houe and lot to buy the bo- 3C T m IB I With is : sue
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