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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1888-6-28, Page 7GABLE NEWS. Getting Ready for War--&pprehonsions with -Which the New Raiser's Pofioy is Regarded. Most of what is printed concerntnar the German royal family is mere reproduction of what was published following Kaiser Wi'. helm's death. But from this mass of bio- graphy and personal gossip the public turns aexiously to estimates of the future policy of the new Emperor. It is believed that the policy will have nettling uncertain about ite. but will be promptly and clearly defined. Biernarck has shown such aaggreeelee tee - denies, even when checked by the Empress Victoria, that his future ,course, now that he is .traeti:ally witeout check, is anxiously awaited, He wa3 8 a persistent in his politi• cal opposition to Emperor Frederick that nothing bat his aetuel dying condition bad the effeee of softenieg the bitter asperities whieh every one in Bertin knew to exist, Tae stories o' a recoucilia;fonbetween Priece B smerek and the retiring Empress, brought about by the dying mouarch are received with much ceution, It la known that troth are unrelenting in their dislike, and that no :. real rezone:station is possitle It is now expected that there wilt be at once developed A Moro rigid policy than ever upas the Gar - Mets :matter. Austria fa arming with as mete energy as if aloe were certain of future trouble. Russia ie coos .finelysending eeeretly to London far diametral aid for the purpose of extending her military prepara- tione Alt of the leading English nowspep- ere are making ready for war, hoping it may not come, but believing that it will not be safe to ,ge ahead Irani now without being fatly prepared, ITItSLilN.aialll. Lanni nee Oliphant'a USW' book dealing with scientific religion, la ppronouewed. very daring and origtnat by the i.ondon re- viewers. The Mikado of Japan bas :leaned an edict against what he calla "the pernicious game of base ball, which fareignera are Attempting re) inteeduee into this cotantry, Henry Jaynes, Jr,, the aevellet, Waste that he ham mover laved a woman, though he is now forty "eAril eta, The lete Chief;,TastleeWaite, of the U. q., had four =seamen daring hie &teen yeara c.n the Supreme Benda. Three of them went mad. Mies }largeret aleeintyre, aaS .stela girl, and tate daughter eel General hlaciutyre, of the English sent$ is a new primadonna eoprauo who is rectiviog greet praise from Lenders critics of Italian opera. ,Tonin NV. hiackay,the bonanza king, has a dinner eerviee north Sitlii3011a. The silver was furniehed from his own mince, and upon the completion of the tet he bought the dial oetright in order th;.t the set might never bo dup'.iceted. I rm. Vanberbilt's err ivel in London has plat. eel airs. Mackay eomewhet is a back net aelalt . Mrs Vanderbilt le regarded as a better specimen of an American society wo• man than the bonanza, king's wife, and Mre. :Mackay .is not nn lIeo, Vaanderbilt'a visiting list. Miss Minnie Freeman, the'vebrasha bila• ears: heroine. has left Ord, where silo wan teaching school, nus gone home to herper- entsin California, who are well-to-do people. It is said that alias Freeman has been gory mach annoyed by the notoriety she has achieved, though it has netted her X2700 in crib, two gold watchea, three diamond pine; and a future hnabnnd, Bishop Matthew Simpson, it is said, never refused to sec a tiller,no matter how trivial hin busiaeas might be. Ho made the study of men his specialty, and eo profound was hie knowledge of the aubject that ho was contently conaulted by people outside as well as inside the church, and no ono sought his advice =meagerly than Abraham Lin- coln. E. F Clarke, Ban, Mayor of Toronto, and James L. Hughes, Esq., Public School Inspector of the same city, wore among the first visitors to Twin's new building's, 59 to 85 Adelaide St. Went. Beth gentle. men expressed pleasure at the evidences of prosperity every where visible and surprise at the perfectly appointed printing estab- liahment which Txt:Tix possesses. J. C. Flood, the San Francisco millionaire, may safely bo said to have the most dazzling country place in .America. The estate is at Menlo Park, California, and covers 1000 acres, and is under the constant care of a landscape gardener and 120 assistants. The drives, which are several miles in length, are made of white gravel, the house white, with gold trimmings both inside end out, and gold and white are the decorations of the stables and all the bnisdfngs on the place. Hong Yen Chang is the name of the first Chinese lawyer in America. He was admit- ted to the bar at Poughkeepsie, though he lives in Brooklyn, and is in the office of a New York firm. Mr. Chang came to America in 1872, and studied law at Yale and at the Columbia College law school. He passed hie examination for admission to the bar last year, but he had to be natural- ized before he was admitted. If he only has the patronage of his own countrymen in New York he will have a lucrative practice. The newly elected Bishop, John H. Vin- cent, ot the Methodist Episcopal Church, makes his home in Plainfield, New Jersey. He has a wife and one son, and while the latter was at Yale his parents lived in New Haven. Dr. Vincent is a great beliver in a mother's influence, and he wanted his son to have as much of home life as he could get. When the young man graduated his parents returned to Plainfield, where he went with them, and' where he is engaged with his father in his Chautauqua work and in editing Our Youth, the Methodist young people's paper founded by Bishop Vincent. Col. King Harman, under secretary .for Ireland, over whose salary war has been waged in the Imperial parliament for the greater part of the session, is dead, but as a successor is to be appointed it is not likely that the battle will cease. Its somewhat interestingto note that the Dublin Free man claims that the agitation over the salary bill was largely the, cause of Col. Harman's death, when it was the Freeman's own par- ty that made the st;r and that the deceased had been absent on a voyage to South Africa and back nearly Ell the time the discussion had been going on. TUE POULTRY YARD. P'ox1TS To DD REa:i 'tLBEnED. When your hens get bore feet, or have humble foot, it metes that your roosts are too high. Use pure-bred cocks always. A mongrel does not pay and causes loss of time. Feed sulphur sparingly, as it will cause rheumatism, or leg weakness. Never give it in damp weather. Never bring a hen from another yard into year own, or you may introduce lice and disease. Raise them. Giving water to chicks so aS to allow them to get theirbodiea wet is certain death, as daunpness is fatal to them. A mixture of two parts lard and one part kerosene oil will remove the rough scabby formation on the legs of fowls. Always have your nests removable, and kerosene the roosts, (under and upper sides), once a week. Meting for the show rcona and mating to produce show Liras are different. Cheap egg foods are mostly ground oyster shells, and the benefits are only imaginary. Don't buy there. There Is more in the Management than iu anything else. Everything depends on the poultryman. Give the hens leaves, cut straw, or dry dirt, and scatter the grain in it' so as to com- pel theca to work. The good seratcker is always a good teyer. Broilers: meetly begin to _soma into mer- Icet about deanery15, The highest prima are in April and May, foe sh1 % a leas than, two pounds weight, Bold dressed, and they sometimes reach Wombs per pounds, Pullets de riot fatten AS readily a' hens, It rcquirca a little acieace to feed Frah:nas, Ccchhes. or Plynaouthit teles to prevent them becoming toe fat. The more active the breed the teas liability to fatten, When you flail a► dead lieu ander the moat tbo cause IS Apoplexy foam overfeeding, When your heirs gradually drone and die, remove the cock, as he is the cause, especi- ally if be; is heavy, if a hen has the blind staggers she le too fat. When chicks grow very feat it eometimes esumee leg weakness, but in such eaaea they hove good appetites, and it im not necessarily feral, Bottom heat, or feediogsalpher,wtll al * cause leg When chi ks drooplook Sleep heve rough aparence, tune food, audxde not grow, .leek clew$ Wm the =at, heads and yenta for the dare body lice --not the little red miters, i''or warts, sore beads ;rad skin diceaaes, rub once a_day With A few drops of the fel- lowieg i Lard, two taablespaaafule ; cedar oil, one teaspoonful ; cerb:aio acid- twenty drops. Disinfect the entire premien' when die - we appears, with Dauelaes Mixture, which is made ;of !two gallons water, one pound coppera9, and one gill eulphtrrie acid. The reasons the hen that steals' her nest away hatches well is that eine isnot tea fat, end every egg has the tame vitality, but when person' put eega under a hen the eggs are nasally of all saris and from auywhere, they can be gotten. To feed young chicks, give oceMnq for thirtyaix hours. Then fted bread, crumb- led, made of corn meal three parte, mid- dliuga ono part, ground meat one part•. Cook well, and fedi every two hours, 0,0Al2. hog away all that la Left over, 'Aline the materials with milk if convenient, but if net, mix with hot water, before cooking. Feed no eggs, es they cause bowel disense. As soon an they aro oldonough keep cracked cora and wheat before them. When two weeks old feed on a mixture ot ground corn and oats three parts, bran one part, ground meat ono part, with a little atilt and ground bone, the whole well melded, and feed four times a day. Clive all the drinking water they wish, but only the beaks must got wet. Give milk and also chopped fresh meat three times n week. Chopped onions, mashed potatoes, fine -chopped clover (scalded) or any variety, may also bo fed. That is the Hammonton method. When young chicks aro feathering rapid- ly, feed chopped meat once a day. A pound. for fifty chicks is sufficient. Avoid draughts of air on them. The droppings are worth 50 cents per hen a year. The best way to preserve them is to clean out the haute every alternate day. Mix one bushel dry earth, one bushel drop- pings, and half a peck of kainit (crude German potash salts) together, and put away in a dry place. Kainit can be bought by the bag at any fertilizer store, and is not only cheap, but of itself a good potash fertilizer. In the mixture it forms sul- phates, and fixes the ammonia. If it can- not be procured, usedry land plaster instead, but kainit is much better. The advantages of an incubator are not that they are always better than hens, but that with their aid you can hatch at any time you prefer, and strike the market at the right time, hence an incubator chick may be worth four hatched under hens be- cause he brings a high price. More chicks can be hatched in winter and reised in broodere, with one-tenth the labor, than with hens. .An incubator is as much a necessary part of a poultryman's outfit at a reaper and binder is for a wheat -grower. VI a have raised chicks in brooders to weigh two pounds (when forced in feeding) in nine weeks, but ten to twelve weeks in the aver- age time. Our brooder turkeys weighed five pounds when four months old. Death at Bay. Many instances are on record where death has seemingly been held at bay by the desire of the ,dying person to see once more some absent friend who was hastening to see the sufferer. The latest story of such a death- bed scene comesfrom the Aroostook Pioneer. A young man mimed John Harley, who was married last fall, contracted a severe cold while river driving that terminated in pneu- monia. His wife was in Minnesota, where he intended to join her as soon as he got off the drive. A telegram was sent to her and she arrived in season only to see her husband alive, he seemingly having fought against death to see her once more. As she entered the room be rose in bed and remark- ed : " I wanted to see you and am now will- ing to go." after' these few words were spoken, he fell upon the pillow, turned upon his side ;and expired. THE ZOARUTES, One of the most Singular Place:; and Peo- piesi.n America, A Zoar (0) letter to the Worcester Spy eays —Thea settlement of German mysta s and communists, bolding all property abso• lutely in common, la a complete little king. done in itself, The Zearites own 7,000 acres of land is one traet, of which ha!£ is under cultivation, while the remainder is heavily timbered with valueblewalnut, oak and pine trees, Their original purchase here was 10,400 acres, but 3,000 have been sold from tittle to time at a great advance over first cost, Every article, implement or machine that is used, wrought with, eaten, drunk or worn by the Zoaritea le produced in Tann, as are also the materiala of which it is corn- poeed. The cooly exception to this rule are coffee, tea, sugar and epices. The shoes the Zoaritea wear are made by their own shoe- maker, from Leather prepared by their own tanners, from hides taken from their own cattle. The coal that warms them and cooks their foga is dug is their own mines and is burned in stoves cast in their own foundry, from iron smelted in their own furnaces, from ore found in abundance on their own lands. The clothing that covers them is made by their own tailors, from cloth woven in their own *hill Iron wool sheared from their own sheep. The beer they drink is brewed in their own brewery, from melt made by their own malts - tore and hops grown on their own lands. Alt maiufactarbrg las Zaar is done by water power. Steam seemly wed at all. The Tuaearawee River, by means of darns, le made to dowwith autfi:ieut swiftness and volume to supply thirty or forty hone - power to ew'ht of the Z ante menolaetoriea. Nearly allthe machinery used was made iu Zoar by Zoarite rueehatuioa, One of their principal products is flour, of which, alter quantities their own ld,rl W Wee iagton and Baltimore,' 044 of the chief places of interest in Zear is the great eol1ee- 194 of im manse barna, le whiels the milk cattle are kept. A conaaiderable persica of the Zoaritea' wealth ie invested in their live stock, and they have devoted much at - Mutton to deteranining what are really the beat breed% They have experimented largely with the Holstein, the Jersey, the Alderney and the Durham, and are now IA- olined to favour the last muted, though all four varieties are well repreaaented iu their berds. Every smeltery and eniivvenieut de- vice that modern ingeaulty has been able to suggest is utilizedin the coustruet]on of thecae cow stables, The atalla extend in long rows on either side of A breed ;fate, and, the conditions for light and ventilation are of the most favourable hind. Already the eowa are out at pamture, and it le as rare sight to see the miid•faced, patient creatures tonne tiling in at eveutido in u emotively interminable preeeaaaie% each one knowing her aecwstemed place, and going voluntarily to it witlaout the slightest disturbance er conflation. Oa the morning aidevening of eaele day all the yssang women in Zoar repair, in merry proceeseon, to theaso barna auk milk the cows, Am member' of C:ongrese some- timea are for a lunch losn useful purpose, the girls ere "paired' and to Saco WO aria aa. signed eight cow%, which they must Meals milk. Riney more than thirty buxom youog milkmattle, with the good looks which are the ctfdpring of good health, outdoor ante cans and good diet, sparkling in their eyes, lips and cheeks•, Each one Is tastefully dressed in well•fitting chintz or calico, and wears a white apron, which, litre everything else about these moat attractive young wo• ;nen, is aerupulonsly neat and clean, The girls leave she privilege of naming the cows assrgneil to them, and the name of each cow is painted over her atoll. These names show that there is a trace of the romantic iia the minds of the young women of Ziar, the be - vines rejoicing in such fanciful appellations as Lily, Maud, Ethel, etc. Another place in which to see the Zearite young woman to advantage ie the bakery, where all the bread and pies for the entire community aro baked fresh every morning. From 75 to 100 loaves comprise the average daily consumption of the town. Tho baking is done by men, but each household ambits young women to the bakery to procure its supply of daily bread, and cam it home wrapped in a large, spotless white cloth which each damsel carries with her. Besides these quaint processions of young women to the cow stables and the bakery, there io another similar one to be seen in Zoar on every pleasant day. That is a pro, cession of girls, ranging from 8 to 13 years - drawing in an old•feshioued baby carriage a younger brother or sister for an airing. As all property in Zoar is hold in common, so the Zeerities shara equally and participate together in all their pleasures and duties. Thus even the babies ot the society are aired" simultaneously in along drawn-out procession. For the pleasure of the members of the so- ciety and their visitors, a public garden and a greenhouse are maintained in Zoar. Both are of considerable extent, and would be highly creditable to any large city. The garden is tastefully laid out, and contains some noble trees and elegant shrubbery. A large and delightfully cool arbour in the centre is entirely concealed by the latter. The greenhouse boasts a fine collection of choice plants and flowers. There is no pro hibitory "No admittance"tor "Hands off' on anything, and everyone is free to enter at all times and roam about at will. From the garden and greenhouse it is but a few steps to the picnic ground, a grove of grand old forest trees, in which the Zoarites have placed swings and a wavered dancing plat- form for the enjoyment of their yoanger vtsitors, who, in summer time, come in large numbers from surrounding cities and towns, as well an from the adjacent country and picnic here on two or three days of almost every weeks. Deep -Sea Soundings. According to Mr Stalibrass, the history of deep-sea sounding might almost be said to date from the time of the first Almanac cable scheme in 1858, but proper attention has not been given to the subject until quite recently. The work of surveying with a view to ascertaining the configuration of the ocean -bed previous to laying a submarine cable is of vital importance. Between Cadiz and Teneriffe alone, a die -teamed about seven hundred railer', seventy-three soundings; were taken on one expedition, resulting in the discovery of two banks, two corel•patches, and four other shoal spots. Some of the inches near these banks were reme rkable for their•steepnese. ItallSCELL 1d EO1JS. A baby, aged 5 months, named Edwin Wild, was lett in his cradle by his mother, who lives at Stufneld, England, and' was worried to death by a tame ferret kept for killing rats, T. H. Stewart of Smyrna, Ga. , owns a cat with three kittens. A young rabbit was given her to Eat recently, but instead she adopted it and is rearing it as carefully as if it had been onto of her kittens. A new are escape in L•'eglaud is asortof a chair that elides down ropes, and the host ef a house possessing it often entertains his guests by permitting them to take a ride. At the Italian exhibition in Leaden itis expected toprove a great rival to the switch- back railway. The nnunieipal authorities thinkthe cross- ings are so unsafe in Paris teat au Eoglish paper says they have employed surgeons disguised as policemen for the purpose of helping the timid people across the perilous parts of the streets and boulevards, and to be at hand in case of aceident>i. By means of recent improvements made in the mantafa tore of rides, as many as 19,0 barrels can slow be rolled io an hour by cote machine. They are straiehteued colic and bored with corresponding speed, and even the idling is done automatically eo that one man tending six rnechines can Lamont sixty or seventy barrels per day. With the old ri t1ing machine twenty barrels wars about the limit of a day's work; but the improved ma- chines attend to everything after being omsce smarted, sad, when the riding 18 completed, rinse bell to call the attention of the work - mat+. Nits Agneq Murray of Bridgeport is an eccentric woman, to put it ;wildly. She to very rich, and spends her money in oddwaya. A year ago she bought as tine house in Bridrb'ti part, paying $35,000, Shut it up and hes Since then allowed no one to live in it, though several desirtable tenants have been anxioes to rent it, Her country place is leer mile' from the railreed etatlaa, aid it i' said that invited paste are permitted to walk the distance, notwithstanding that there are: numerous horse& and cerriagees in her stable,. lakes Murray wan a great belle in her youth. Lightning recently at RAllaville, near Centralia, to,, ,struck the amokeetsck of a mill owned. by Carpenter Brea`. On L m n ia• dow of the grill the etrokcof electricity pilin- lyphotagraphed the.uumerala 1SSS, i3atwee4. the.Gguree wee azigzsg .lice. On the wall opposite heng a ealecder for the pr'eeent } ear from which tee photograph weesupposed to have been copied. Chief Sapsrintendeet William of the Liver - peel detective police recently hadhia honse robbed. The rear of has home la guarded by A lileeillaound, and too thieves, probably aware of this, el teres in the front kitchen winda:v and completely etrippeal the drawing roam sad sitting roam of all that wasvalueble, such as jewelry, plate, anal wearingoep:arol, without interrupting the sleep of the Liver - plot bend detective. The i'ommiaoionera of Glaegaw have pre• aentcd a report, in which theyreecomend au. (intension or the bona Iariea an ae to include a,iau:on : counties of f,ivark and Renfrew. Tnc effect will to if these propenalta are car- ried out to inereatie the population of Glee - mite by lee 000 bringing up toototal ta;2;1.• 1195, anal in so inning. will, plata+ the city in a position to claim without question the ilia - tinction of being the eceond city in the Unit, ed Kingdom. A Bangor yonng woman orio 'Saturday evening went into e. book attire, and asked the clerk, whomabe knew well to pick her out a good novel to read next day. The novel was selected, and the clerk deftly substituted for it a new Teetauriente made n neat pack- age, and thought that he had played a goo I joke, on the girl. Oa Monday morning he heard from the joke. The young woman catered the store very white in the face and banged the Testament down on the counter. "i'd have thrown that in the fire," she said, "if there lied been any way in which I could have made you pay for it. I'll never buy a cent's worth of you again, so there. Give mo the book I bought on Saturday," and then she flounced out. The Druggist's Coloured Jars. While a reporter was talking with a druggist the other evening a little fellow, clad in a blue suit, entered and bought a postage stamp. After getting tate stamp he said—" Say, mister, what do you put in them big jars in the window ?-' " Colored water," replied the druggist, smiling, and when the little fellow had gone he added —"Every now and then some little child asks us about those globes." " Well, I am curious myself. What is the full receipt?" said the reporter. "Those used by the better class of druggists," replied the drug- gist," "are, in reality, composed of mix. tures of chemicals. Some use bottles of coloured glass filled with water, but these do not reflect the light fromthe gas jets as the chemicals do. For red, the most common of all, we mix iodine and iodide of potassium with water. Some add alco- hol to prevent freezing. Blue is formed by a mixture of sulphate of copper, common- ly called blue vitriol, and water of ammonia. Plain bichromate of potash in water forms the yellow colouring, and green is made by a mixture of the blue and yellow, or else from nickel dissolved in nitric acid. A pretty crimson colour may be made by com- bining alkanet root and oil of turpentine, and lilac is the result of a mixture of crude oxide of cobalt and nitric acid. Royal purple, one of the window colours, is made by dissolving logwood or cochineal in ammonia or sulphate of indigo. Pink is nitrate of cobalt and sesquicarbonate of ammonia, and amber is formed of one part of dragon's blood and four oil of vitriol, filtered and mixed with water. Of course, all sorts of combinations of these colors may be made, and other shades pro- duced, but thong which I have named are the principal ones in use. The first thing a druggist does on starting in business is to buy the chemicals needed for his bottles. They are an important item in the equip- ment of his stare." Why:is a bullock a very obedient animal? Because he will lie down when you axe him. It isstated that words hurt nobody ; nevertheless, Samson jawed a thousand Philistines to death. "Well, sir, what does th a -i -r spell ? Boy—"I don't know." "What bave you got onyour head?" Boy (scratching)—"I guess it's a muskeeter bite, for it itches like thunder. Sculling .Across the British Channel, Mr. Samuel Osborne, whose disappearance in a small pleasure host on Ideraley caused considerable anxiety, returned to Dover Thursday with the boat in winch be sculled across the Channel to the French coast. Ile belongs to Tewkesbury, Gloncestershiire, where it is stated he is well known. He is A well-built, athletic-lookiugyoung fellow of about 30, and resembles in a remarkable degree the late Capt, Matthew Webb, who some yeara ago swain across the Channel. ale came to Dover on Saturday eleht, and states that hie only object was to prove that the voyage of the Oxford erevx in crossing the Channel in an eight -oared galley was 110 great feat of endurance when it could be done by one Ferrier). Altogether Mr. 04 - borne must have rowed between forty and Efty miles, and, as a feat of strength and. endurance, it is certainly a notable one. Tee time occupied from, start to finish was only thirteen hour's. This is the moat remarkable part of the perform enoe, as the voyage was made against a strong easterly wind: Osborne states that he lxucched from Dover beach at 11 A, M., there being a fresh wind at the time. The only refreshurente he took with him were a few Weenier; and a bottle of stout, His intention was to row straight to Calais, bat he fauna the tide drifted him dowachannel toward Folkestone. In crossing he was drifted backward and forward, acccrding to the set of the tide. About 3 fa Al. he passed the Nest Varaie buoy, where !weighted a yacht, which signal led to hie,. Toward dusk he had reacted the Ridge Bank, or dvhing ground, where he carne up with as Felkeateaa tiehieg boat, The wind had thea increaastd, and his little twenty five punt w&' pitching about a great deal, although, with careful handling, only a little water wee shipped. The flabermen told him it was going to be a rough night, And advised him to come or; tears, as be wars then fifteen miles from Ca- Iais And twenty from Boulogne. Osborne, however, thanked them for their eller,e and said he intended to :delete bis voyage. ,Aa there was considerably more wind—which to always felt more in this tido of the Channel-- the beatrequiredveryeareful handling for the r eat of the distauce. Night soon after set in, and the remainder of the voyage was ,nada by moonlight Nothing farther wan fallen in with, and Osborne ran hit boat aground on the Freueh coast. near Wimereurc at wide eight, abaut two mites and *het! want of Boulogne. Oeberno atatea that be kept up a steady pai4 .right across the Channel, and did not feel any the worao for hie trip, There helot, no one about, tisborne pulled his acme up, and ley in it till niorsaiag, when be ob- earamed aaarstae e, and bad his beet c:usveyed into Ileuloa;ne, where it wet subsequently placed ea board the packet and lrryagnt ever to Folkeetowe. When the mstter bc,;ame known at Boo - /ape it ercated a great deal of interest iu the town. The Twat belonged to a boatman r.asncd Newell% who had very little hope of ever ccefng lain boot back again. Mr. Oa. borne three years oge performed tiro feat of rowing fifty miles in twelve hours, froth, Tewkcabury to Gloaceater, and Sharpness Faint and back to Glouce:itcr.--(baaaden Telegraph, ALIVE IN HEI: COFFIN. 8aranee .tteatoratton or a Sloane woman 'ino Wus Supposed to be tread. Mrs. nide Webb keeps a greeery in Cin- 'Owneti, 0., and is known to hundreda of people, T vo years ego Jolla Webb, a sora of 1Jrs. 'Webb, married Sarah Kelly, a re- ,narkably pretty girl, to whom the mother- in•law'becamo greatly attached. Before the Brat year of their married life had passed Mrs. Webb, je,, became stricken with con- sumption. About a month ago the young lady became anxious to visit her parents in Henderson County. Two weeks ago last Tuesday a telegram announced bar death, and the husband started for the remains. Throe dap; later he returned with the oorpee. The mother-in-law pleaded so hard for a sight of the dead woman it was deoidcd to open the ccfdn, While looking at the 'placid face Mrs Webb became almost paralyzed with fright at beholding the eyelids of the dead woman slowly open. Mrs. Webb was unable to utter a sound. Faally she fell upon a chair near by, but her horror was only increased when the supposed corpse slowly sat upright and in an almost inaudible voice said: "Oh, where am I1" At this the weeping woman screamed. Friends who rushed into the room were almost paralyzed at the sight. One, bolder than the others, returned and spoke to the woman, who asked to be laid on the bed. Hastily she was taken from the coffin and tenderly cared for. The day following she related, as her strength permitted, a won- derful story. She was conscious of all that occurred, and did not lose consciousness until she was put aboard the train for Memphis. Soon after being placed in her mother-in- law's home she regained consciousness. A supreme effort was made to speak while her mother -in law was looking at her, and in that :instant, while returning to life, she again lost track of her surroundings, which caused her to ask where she wag. Mrs. Webb lived a number of days, when she again apparently died. The doctor pro- nounced her dead, and she was once more placed in the coffin from which she had been taken, and next day was buried. A Lady Who Saw Napoleon. Lady Buchan, whose death is recorded at the age of 90 years, was one of the last surviving persons who had a distinct recol- lection of Napoleon the Great. Her father, Colonel Wilks, was Governor of St Helena in 1815, at the time of Bonaparte's banish- ment, and on the term of bis Governorship expiring, Miss Wilke was desirous of being introduced to the ex -emperor. "Iliave long heard from various quarters of the superior eloquence and beauty of Miss Wilke, but now I ,am convinced from my own eyes that report has scarcely done her sufficient justice," said Napoleon to her. "You must be very glad to leave this island," ho said. "Oh, no, sire," was the answer, " I am very sorry to go away." "Oh 1 mademoiselle, 1 wish I could change places with you." Napoleon presented her with a gold bracelet in memory of this visit. Mise Wilks subse- quently married ubse-quentlymarried the late General Sir John Buchan, whom she .long survived. Why is a person asking questions the strangest of individuals? Because he's the querist.