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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1889-6-6, Page 71 LATEST FROM EUROPE The Shah of Persia.h Buropee-The Tate bbia Bright's. WIIl—Another Letter rretri the lifttbdi. An Interesting figure we the horizon Is the degeuerate ocenpeut a the throne of Der Ns, Neer Echdits, Shah of Persie, palled by him. self and hie Mends The light of the I41011 and the Sun, who is travelling gradually toward this town., Resale has been lately enterteins leg him in the meet gergeoae fashion, and incidentally frightening hie poor llfejesty as 'Amy as pessible. Thereat:Ida of Cc:smoke and, endlesa testers of all kinds have been mede to parade before him ever eince he creased the Russian; frontier, The Shah these not seem to like it very much, and it loolcs as theugh Iteetuest have ded his as. trologere, who insisted thee the Shale Rhoda only spend eweety-five derein Eeglend, lied shall aall home aki soon as possible. When he gate to London he will go about A gree deal. The Quell in atIPP0e44, to pity for hint and ttie sixty attendents while he le In Leaden, and the Eoreign Offiee will eepply the money for hie joerneyiugs eboetootode_Leoden, rathiceehle faondon la waltiug anxteastly tO lee What Ina Perm= Mateaty will be 1the won he comes over thia tine% and whether he will hamtlearned any maneers. His con. duet when lege in Irendee would, not; make Pictish et treedieg, hut it's theughe th At Edith Neville, the vet* deeeet your% En, gliehmen who 14 Aeting Al leader to the Lard ot the Lien entl, the Sao, will heee given hlet lterne hide. le la known peeltively that he tom taught luzMojeety to weer pateut leather beam, Joint Beightt* will hen been publithed. ITe leevee pereeeal property to ihi attioUnt of £85,00), and ebewe etrong ieeere to keep up hie !wily Vett offer death. Su- 440ot-illy he atrongly; recommepda end advertises hie deceaeed relatIvem Oue nerd, grepb, roadie, d -ire to be buried in the little grew yerd ettsseleed to the FrIeudes Meetieg tuntab at Ilechdeleealongelde the grave of hiy tete deer wife. In thee email plot ot laud are the waves of my greedunnion, of my dor old aunts Margaret Weed ; of my eest and gene -tone heater, of my eatoted utetber, of my dm sheer Sophih, of my two brother Wittiern. who died in ehildheeel*Ard Bee jethin, ef her who was my precioet wife from the yeer 1$39 to the seer 1$11 gad of her whe Wuxi the emar 1S-17 to the year 1670, Wall tile rife and comfert of my bloat?' 4S. paragraph was printed eeme tette at,,e tellies how the Mithdre • steamer bed eent A letter to tZeceu lmeterse Wadi wax mut be* ley bet Misplay Inectuum of Ito Impolite teue. The follewhig la a trantle- time of * Pelt of the letter, whith shelve that Khalifft Althrdleh, who meat- ly, by the vwey. Las bon reeking etnetegie trovemerate to the rear with great doce not know how email an individuel he Le by very loug elide. The letter steete eieUqU'4 4"„i Met the nee hien /Mahe,. rare aloe, arie crzo; owe. ate! aleteretaa. hie pro. p41. Irete het amme:,-,r, et.f. ug,:!,faithful.10:itgi1b. co Sceofm, Quta 44 Vick rics re Zeeland ; " is the tecond letter I have Mittel) you. We beer you ere held in high repute - tion among your riervaitte a..daubeetite, and we are pleased that on U elewe we lutve re. etived good reports of yen. We therefore couusel you in an amicable meaner at one to embrace the true faith. In thee Cale be amured of our aixteere friendship. and be oertein that you may rely on cur supportand sestet tile° en edl occasloure But we rezone mend you at once to withdraw ycnr forces from the land ef Egypt lest they be deetrote cd by us with all unhollevera and infidels who remain disobedient to our mandate. i.e. 1101131 we come quickly with immenee armlets 0 punish tho obstinate. These %het are dis- obedient will be utterly awept away, but we shall be inereiful to all those who recant their armee and embrace the true falai." Then follows an onornioue quantity of moat utter both, but It le not insulting, like the Khelifies to the Khedive. The latter lito been warned in the meet arrogant style that he it getting hie leaf; chance. Tho Male diss successor regrets that ho should have had to write to the Khedive again on the same suojecte and is astonished that; Ms last letter was tot mamma. "I pity you," he concludes, "in that hour when I altall come upon you." Both letters have been returned. four Oiroee le art lei:unite. Now, yes 311 hh Dinkelshpiel give me the razzle an' want to know fwhat bekem av me rat thrap. That's the only raison 01 trump me head abeut it at all, at all, bare, MeGlaggerty." TEM FRIOAN DWARFS. Stanley Confirms the Existence of thesfett• derful ,akba ripple% The explorer Staeley bee had an °Kier- tunity, during his present journey in Africa, to (maim; the Soutbem limit of thefamons Akka pigmies when' Sohntelnierth versa the first to Keay on their northern froetter. These little gypsies of the Africeo foreet are far nioxe eureeroes me the route Stanley fol- lowed thee in any other region where they have been met. Along OO miles of tile upper Arnwimi he sew about 150 of their viltagee or campa hidden in the dense formes. Very few of them go aontle of the Arewitel Rivet. They call thernselvea the Wambuttl, bet they are Ideptical with the Alate further north, of whena the latest Accounts were watteet by Brain, and published last year. Stauley's diseovery thee the Aruveirol limits the wanderinge of these remarkable nomeds en the eouth shows us thee they are scattered over A territory about 04e -third larger than the Stats of New jereey, Sever- al bUndred IOUS OF =SSE eenesen teperete them from the equally 'interesting Betwa dwarf, who live south of the Mg northern bend of thetatogo, le la probehle thae the Alan* equal or exceed the Batwa. in number, theugh the latter ere seatteted over an area twice as Urge es diet which the Akio, inhibit, They may not have met cr heard of *tact ether kr inauy getieretioue, lest the aumeroal reepecte lu which they are strikingly eimiliar Hem teiedieete thet they bad 4 nentratol (nigh% Living among other Whets. they have pot adopted the language cf their neighban. Meey Betsve gen opeele /Wolf,. the moat prevalent lweguago 11. their territory, bet no Baled° feterpretee in theeervice of i xplorere hue been able to core verge with Betwe in their owu latIgUage. They halres ehewn themeelvve excesnvels timid or very fercelons in the prestoree of white mem and ter Ode re. -on no Betwa vocabulary time yet hoe coltecteds Wheu their language become known it will be letereating to Observe whether the speed% of the Betts% awl the AMP. afford eddltiouet proof that ter *eine pet ego the two tribte were identical. The Altke bed not atteeked white meu until they mede the Stanley expeditien A target for their potioneci arrow. They rodused a very uureverahle inpreesien open Steeley who calk thent "a venemoste, cowerdly, And thievish. twee." Ewan eaya they are very 40NATE ea:40 VitinteriVE, 'end they became elaugehtnei even 0 the tribe% etneng whom they live if their rtqueeta ere uot greeted. Both Akke. aud Betwa are ustiaily lighter in color thee the careened Mg people. nether etriking similarity is thee their woollyheir usuelly growe111 tuft% Von Frarleata eaw Banta With es ineny forty Mate on their heathe a1 netted a fiery red. Beth are cotter eenuthale An Akke who long eerved Ervin wont bone; OA bemuse he ell, he wie tired of bet f. "Uere is meet forn' W49 AIM exclamation Oren, fell oometimes heard m the Betwa mows rattled against the meal net wark which covered lily eteamer. Both Are remarkebly expert aro huntere, and their udisiou in life teems to be to provide larger people with genie, feathers, and *kitei m exchange kr vegetable produce. Their methods of hum timr are the Sante, with tho exeeption that while the Batwa use both the bow and epear the Akka, accarding to Ernie, make entitle. axe use of the bow and %mow. Both are seettered over their countrler In =all earn. wed often chaugo their place a abode to go to fresh hunting grounds, Both intermarry to a conelderable extent with eurrounding tribes, and TIM .511Xlini 1.1t00ENY. are lighter in colour than the largo tribes, and dwarfish, though eon:Adorably taller than the pure pigtnice. who ere kora four feet three incitc!! to four feet and a half in height. Ae the szolo rocks crop out hero and there liko little islands on the world% surfece, allowing the oldest geological formation of which we have knowledge, so these piemy communities in Africa are regarded as vea- tiges of an ancient and inferior race who were nearly swept out of existence by in- coming waves of stronger poptentiohs, leav- ing to testimony of tnew ancient prevalence only tho veetiges we find in the Doke o, Abyssinia, the Obongo of the west coastt the Akka of the north Congo, the Batwa of the zonthConge, and the bushmen of South Africa. This is only a theory, :supported, however by the fact that all our knowledge of them seems to point to their homoge nelty: Undoubtedly the atrongest evidence favoring this' theory is the Mot that their largnages, so far as we know them, are re- lated, and haveno points of effinity with any of the ether groups of African lan- guages. The Decadence ef the Bustle. "Quato thing happirus, Mre. MeGlag- garter." "Throth're they diz, Mrs. Magoogin." An' the quarest thing avail, Mrs. MoGlag. gerty, it the way the bushel is droppin' out mew:tight." "Is that so,me frind ?°' "Yie, Mrs.MeGlggerty," said the Widow Magoogin ; "the bushel is in the lamp, as me bye Tammy so so far as high-chooned socoiety is columned at che preaenb toime. They're not wearin' id no longer, an,' be gorry,d'ye know, Mrs. MeGlaggerey, there's some av the gerruls luks loike a eamil wud a brokin' hoick since they left aft their bus - hale. Thim that had big bushellooks the wusht, av course'but dear knows thim that had little wane looks bad enough. Oi wore a bushel rneser fur afwhoile, Mrs. MoGlag gerty, jisht because id war the ehtoyle, d'ye moind, an' not bekaee 01 wanted to deeply° annybody about me figger ; an' dye know now, Mrs. MoGlaggerty, idll almosht break me heart to have to take id aff. Andher ehtand me, now, Mrs. MoGiaggerty, that Oi doon't moind wan bit fwhat thransformatioe it makes in th' appearance av me figger— Oi'm not at all proud av the Vanyus de Bolony oontoor, as Paddy Clancy a brother, that wint to school at Maynooth an' kern near to bein' priested, ushed to say—buteda an account av me feelin's an' iwhatseaeple id be loikely to my. Parteokly, too, 01 don't want that bananny-faced Ditch woman, lain. nery's mother, to have the laugh an me, fwhioh she will aff she uver sees me wad me bushel aff. 01 mother bechance, as id were, in the Parrk wan day, an' she eez she to me, pititin' to me Toohnoor, as the Frinch calls the bushel: • Fictive haves ye andher there, Berdie ?' sez alto, 'Fwhere?' sez 0i, purbin- din' not to know fwhat she was talkinabout There,' stez the, pintin' to me bushel. 'Well now, me foine leady,' sez Oi to mesil '0111 be trery bit as cute as you are, so Oi up an see to her: Mrs. Dinkelehmele says Oi sfwbalt d'yo think Oi have there?" A rat tbrap,' says she. • Fwbat's that?' says Oi. 'A rat thrap,' fez she agin, sayin ' id so loud that sivsril young frinds av mom who war paean' by hurd id. Oh, but Oi was so %S- hamed Oi kudhave sunkroight downthrough the airth i :but 01 didn't, Mrs. MeGlaggerty, Oi simply towld the Ditoh cattymantefwhat Oi newt av her, an' eed that whouver towld her 01 wore a rt:t thrap ur a burd cage ur - bushel av anny koind was a monkey -faced Mar au ' 01 kud fwhip the loife out av her Against Tobacco. The Anti -Tobacco Association of St John, N. B., have published the prizt °stays on tobacco written by Rev. Mr. Wilson and Miss Bigney. Mr. Wilson mentions that, at the lowed estimate, the money consumed yearly on tobacco would construct ten rail- roads around the globe at a cost of $25 000 per mile, and leave a surplus of $162,500,- 000. It would, we think, be a desirable thing to have ten railroads round the globe. pro. vided the locomotives could be prevented from smoking. out we are afraid that Mr. Wileon has left oat of accounb the °amine- ering difficulties in the way of bridging the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans ; the cost of which would use up the surpulus of $162 5C0,000. Miss Bigney says that a few drops of the essential oil of toab000 would kill a man. The comparatively small number of men who have met death in this manner shows the difficulty of extracting the essen- tial oil. Miss Bigney quotes another writer who says that if his dog were to acquire the tobacco habit he would shoot him. Most men, we think, would do the same. What eoula be more annoying than to come home and find your dog sitting on the front steps and cavity puffing away at the Havanas for which you pay ten dollars a box? A man is not bound to find a dog in tobacco'and if the dog's life is miserable without the weed, it is the part of Mimility as well as of economy to shoot him. How is it possible to expect] that mankind will take edema when they will not so much as take warning? "Beware of collars that are too tight" is the warning voice uttered by a German professor ot ophthalmic eurgery. He has reached this conclusion after discovering that: some tbree hundred patients whom he treated for chronic) complaints of the eye owed their infirmity to disturbance of the normal flow ot blood by collars whioh gripp- ed the neck too closely. A LITTLE RUSSIAN EZEO. Not to 130SM:bed luta Breaking 1114 Pleat It 95 is only a feweZirtiesincethothe newspap- ers reported the Russian Entperor as having knighted, a privete soldier In Siberia for re- mitting at hi a post during a terrible earth- quake, when all around him was rula and consternation. It certeiely was a manly and heroic, 4014 but it is pot the first instance of ado sort displayed by A Itnsslau soldier, fore there was a similar occurtenee in 1821 dur- ing atrernendonsinundation in SePetershurg, when a sentinel. at the Imperial Palacteetay, ing Imo deep in water, tisruseo TO Luava IBS PoST even at the eomutand of the Emperor himself, and rernehied there until his immediate sup- erior cane in a boat artd released him. Yet, ad- herence to duty, and even the leer of a rigid military discipliuemay eomewhat account flourboinataucea there Veaa 014 a6° it.th t wee e boy of Iyeats l bow - %Vet, poor, ignorant little fellow without Thera r'S esae, a I any rratniog at all, OII0 of the so-called umezike, born in bondage., io the terrib'e relive of E nperor Nicholas. The lord ef this boy was Nicholaa' first favorite and famine victor of Turkey, .Persia and Peland, Prinee Pokievite Brivaesky, It happened that at the Prince's aojourn in his rural pea- seesions Ma children evinced A done to secure the nest of a 'bird with her yeurig one, and a specie" efaeer was dispatched to proenro the covetehl thing from the linemen bholiog to ger. it atter a. thorough sweetie of the weeds, the toreater milted the peasant boy, '40411 2t TriB WOW'S for bevies, if they knew whine 4 Pelt to be found, and only one boy, Svleiedeof, reepeuried effirmetively t but ho redwied to slum the piece, explainteg that It wee net clisetwered by Mew% but by 4 friend of hhe and was ubeWP to him nutter a pledge of secreey. Considering this explimetien as afighter.. fair, aimed to emenee Olt few roptiba, he watt offered e whole rouble (eopelkes), an emetint of =nee; rover acne by A reliant hey in theite grave. But whoa not only A rouble:, bet twee golden pie (five. realties), could not *hake the boy' fortitude, then the fere*ter aud his party beceme iofurieted, mid after eking the lad A terrible flogging, with ne hotter leault, they threetemei to elmot hien. Arid ooly the leterfereeere of the prince% effiser prevented his death. Being latermed of the occurrence, Price... Paskiewita became intereeted irt tbe little roartyr, but neither hie pereuissiens noz 1114 kiudi Wall of auy Avdi with the boy. The Beiheesteo tee higheedutledto altesehire, hut provided the boy with A liberal military clew...Wein and in the course of time the peer peasatt aleve beceme 4 inajlr general of th. 1.aiaa army tied commander at a We "mg the Stipp.. Mowry, oue of the early v titer* on -the habits Aud costume of the Africen trbe*, ells nu Malin *tory of te ladyhi slipper which by reale thence WWI curled auto the emmtry haat of Cape Calony, and heeded about with delight And admiration Among the Hottentot% It was a balbslipper of embroidered white sena, Wheu Captain Moiety *revelled among the tribe* a year later, he found that every women of die:lee:len punned a rule indts mien of this Slipper, made madly of lasek. She wore it only on occulene of great int Pentane°, tied to A Mang stud hung boat her neck, sud showed It eeith complacent flee to the etrenger1 to prove, that she kept up with the taehleue *a well as her tvhito sisters. This seem elasurd enough to me but have we not, also, customs that ere quite as ridi- cutout ? Tho head of a seminary for girls, in ono of tho Middle States:, geld, a few months ago, " FtSlitegliths of my pupils take hams In music, Of thecte probably, five in a hundred ()STRIQE FARMINQ nSOUTH AFRIQA, • ' 1 neer Ways or the Mig Birds I Domestica, nen. A latter from a medical man living in South Africa, in Ammer to the questions of 4 friend who wrote to hint in regard to some ehegreeted statements respecting emelt-ice proem -ea upon ostrithers by the feether ferm- ent of that colony, gives ;some interesting facts as to the prevailing methods of secur- ing the crop. Efe says: Rho mile bird Oka AG night, and the fe- male during the day, aucl this is a rale which ie never departed them. The feathers are alwaya wit off, and the remaining mumps are drawn outabout three months afterward, never being left in lower, if the stumps are net teken out, the neZt crop of feather is not neatly So good, for the young feathers. push the stumps before them, and they eente out unevenly, whereae for a good crop it is eaaential that they all come out at enee, 80 that one proteetatheother, AS it were. As* eonsequeeee they are much Auer and strong• er. If the feathers ole yet:mg bird, are pluck- ed eut iestead of being eut ff, the feather prodeeing propertiee ot teet bird are epoilt for Me. This is much after the style in whieh the permeneet teeth of cbildrete are often spoilt by too math force hang ;wed In removing the temperer.? *mem Oatriceee are very ettipta, and deposit their egga he the &end without; the slightest preouttiou for their sefety. The famine often have to dig te trench around the nest order to prevent water washing theta all away in the rainy ;season. Ceieke betehed by the iitelbater are wore weakly than those hatched Ly perm% birds for the firet thew moolhe, het after that time they bteeete as litraUg n the othete. The feetkent sire cat every eight months, or three time iu two years. The young birde etieeld elweith he cut at eight moons+, end not later, for the drat time. The eggs are from twelve 20 twenty at number. The birth) eat stash, inealleo, prickly peeve Zees. Oely well tel birtda pmelitee good feather. Ostrieltee are very vseletio aud kid; with teat bras any object in dont et them. It iiI impaseible for theta to kick leaekweed* OT eitleways, Therefore, when their telethon) are cut, they Are driven luta 4 narrow piece wherethay are apatite to tura, and the putter operates from behind without anY tleego to itimeele Extracting the atueope is a per- feetly paleteee optranou, 41 they are ellaw- ed to dry theel thrive' up before the 4 :area, %len ii attempted, A Japaum Stabblm; gale. Karewo Sawaearo, 34, netive of dopey, *MO firemen, was broligilt up on retrial chargeti with terieusly weutalitig Suk Wake, ;soother .lettateee dream, by stabbleg him on the Zeit aide of the oecice—Proste e'er wee able 0 ;Weed, and, !twice; tee. -.vont, in Mitten lathier., by the breakioe of a *owe; mid he wrie uow stayieg in the 1011t14 Homo. Ou the iihti u.t, he wee in A liQuee la Liewhoneemaurieway with the 'Firmer stud other shipmates. A quarrel took plao between hint and the prisuuer, and tho letter etruck him in the face and knocked him to the ground. After that witnese went aud lay dime ou a bed. Fie afterwards gat up, took A Imp gime, and etruck the priaaner In the We with it. He nein returned to the bedroom and 'lay down, The actitteed Immo in end COratneUeed titabbillg him with e knife. lie tried to get t ff thole:a, but was nimble to do so. Atter P10078 27106 henumemed to raise himielf, and fell tecli atm tie hmi a deep Cut in the netelitente afterwards taken to the hem pled.— Other eviderce lieviog been given, Mr. Corner, housmiturgeon at the Poplar Ifespital, staid thew:mouton when admitt. ed to the hospital, bad A deep, incised wound outlet lett aide of the neck, and Mao other irjuries. Ile wee now quite well. —Inspector Bridgmen said he searehed the room where the ell%ece wee committed, and foetid a piece of rag einothered with blood. beccrae uneticians ; they love the art and, Moe nee clothes %WO Aloe hieed.eeined, and give to it the large amount of time, letter nnd f he plotted Up SUMO pewee of :broken glue, pAtieuce it demanda. .) —Sergeant C Price, 6 K, eald he emoted " Of the others, a fewgirls, after leaving oohed, keep lip .thr ugh life thar practice tmongli to sing simple gouge and hymns, and to play the sweet, tamilier melodies of which their parents or children are loud. They are not scientific performers, but their mueie gives plenum in their homes, and atm mother. and quiets their own strained nerves. "But the great majority of girls vtho learn music only do it because 12 35 consider. ed the proper thing for a girl in good society to do. Thew parents, however small them means, are heavily taxed for years to pay for their leseons and a piano la purchased at a largo outlay. When the girl comes home from school, she has learned, embalm, by the eaerifire of an hour's labor a day for years, to strum three or four marches and waltzes. She plays them until everybody is tired of them ; but she never opens the piano to give pleasure to herself or others. "The same thing is true, in a less degree, of girls who learn to paint without any love for the art." Nothing can widen or beautify the horizon of a worner' life thine mere nrely than one of 4F. te at Le • faithfully sd and used. But to waste le ...ey, time nd labor on them simply to " be in the fashion," is as foolish in the white women as 12 19 or the black to hang for show a ball -slipper about her neck which ehe never can wear upon her feet. The capital of Tonquin bas a population of 439 persons, of whom 336 are men, 73 wo- men, and 30 children. A little more than a third of the adult mMe population-123.—are officials, 71 are merchants or clerks,15 opium ferment, and 14 publicans. The total Euro• pea.n population o Annam and Tonquin amounts to about 1,200. Two applicat:ons for United States citizen ship, made at Lockport N. Y. the other day, possess no little interest for a good many Canadians. The one application read as follows "Ovide Bertold Seran Agnan aged thirty four -years, born in Belgium and foreswore hie allegiance to the Klg of Belgium." The other applicant wrote thus "William Thomas Whitney Mookridge, aged twenty. seven years, born in Canada, and foreswore his allegiance to the Qaeen 1 Great} Britain and Ireland Lind Empress of Indis.." the pewter. Tno shirt he w is wearing Wift blood atained on both wriethends.—Mr. Luehingent committed the prisoner for WM. Wby Deserts are Barren. But why are desorte rocky and barren? Wny emit they covered like the rot of the world, with earth, soil, motile or dust One cen see plainly encuoh why there ahold be little or no vegetation where no rain falls, but one can't see quite so clearly why there shout& be only sena and rook in- stead of arid day field. Well, the answer is that without vegeta. tion there is no such thing as boil on earth anywhere. The top layer of the land in all ordinary and well behaved ceuntries corm potted entirely of vegetable mould, the decaying remains of innumerable generations of weeds and grasses, Earth to earth is the rule of nature. Soil, in fad, consiets entirely of dead leaves. And where there are no leaves to die and decay, there can be no mould or eon to speak of. Darwin show- ed, indeed, in his last great book, that we owe the whole earthy uovering ot our hills and plains almost entirely to the perennial exertions of the harmless necessary earth- worm. Year after year the silent worker is batty every night pulling down leaves through his tunneled burrow into his un• derground nest, and there converting them by means of his castings into the black mould which producee, in the end, for lordly man all his covertible fields and pasture lands and meadows. Where there are no ler.ves and no earthworms, therefore, there can be no soil ; and under those oiroumatan- oes we get what we familiarly know as a desert. She Was Was No Medical Almanac. Aunt Jerushy nailed the doctor as he was passing. She was "kind o' [tick all- overiem" " Dootor, I'm troubled with a pain In my left breast," she seed. "Pleurisy," crisply replied the deo*. "1 haven't no appetite." " Dyspepsia.' " My feet swell occasionally." " Gout." Mrs Charles Casperd one,living near Man- 1 "I've the baokeche a good deal." dan, Dak., heard a noise in her ben -house the "Lumbago' other night. Her husband was away, hay- Ing gone bo Mandan to spend the night"Softening of the brain." , so " I git dizzy spells." she seized an ax and hurried out, very seat- That was too muoh for Aunt Jerushy. tily dressed. When she opened the door of " Ole it is, eh ? ' she said, as she reached the hen house a wildcat jumped at her and for the rolling -pin. "Take care I don't tore her left arm savagely. Puehing it off I eaten your brain! I'm no medical alman- she struck ib on the head and knocked it " lifeless. At that instant; another oat sprang The doctor thanked hi at her, grasped her leg, bit it severely, and found thee he had escaped serious injury. s stars when he then made off. But there was atill a third wildcat, aud this one attacked her, and near- ly stripped tier clothing off before she could get in a fatal blow. The cats thus disposed of,Mrs. Casperdone fainted, and was earn- ed into the house by a neighbor who had give me some little hope? lour father, been summonedI by one of her little boys. am sure, looks with some favor on my suit,' She was 40 severely bitten and clawed that "1 think your are mistaken, sir. I h la 5 t t in bed several da ii. is of poor quality and ready-made, too." IT WAS EIS LAST HUT. A:Famous Hunter Dead from the Effects of a Bear Flaht ne )144 lkt Months Age, Nick Vierning, the king af the bear bun- ters of the northern West: Virginia mom tAins, le dead. He was 70 yeers old, and had roamed tbe wilds of West Virginia eud eouthere Pennsylvania ever since he was big enough to carry a gee or set a trap. Time is no record of the member of witd beams he had slain and captured duriog his career in the woods, but m must have beeta enormoute He was especially laments as a bear hunter, and his death was the direct but lingering result of a sangukary engage - meet he had with a big bear ite Nieleolais county in the fall of 18S7. QU the last hunt he was ever able to perticipate in. Fteuutag had been housed up for four weeks immetlietely preceding his lent bunt, hexing been nearly killed by a she bearin November, tsse. Ifp to the day of that bear fight he had killed ttvolve beam that; fall. It was while followiteet the emit of hie teirteepth, in Novemher. that he fell in with the ugly she bear. Hie dogs had struck the trail of a twee and were a longdietenceehead of Flem- ing. He was fallowing them as feet as he could, ‘vhen he was suddenly confronted by Another bear, whoee scent the 4040 bad no winded In their eagerness on the trail ,they Were following. Se abrupt was the meeting of Fleming coddle bear teat he bed no those to fire at her before the had charged _epee him, She fell the old hunter to the ground with one blow of ber nave, end, while he lay half attained on the ereenul, tore at him with her teeth and claws. Before Flemireg recovered himself And atruggled to regain laie feet, 1de elething wars ripped into ellthela, ikod the flub on hie lege was badly lecereted. In otder 0 get to bie feet he wail obliged to turn overon hie htunill ad knee)), altdal he did le thebearstruck with both of her fore pawe hetweea the ehooldere, siniciug her long. sherp Ouse throuell his thick hunting clothe% and be his them deep In hie Bleed; g rnete A great effort and rose to his feet, tile bear'e elewe strippiug off hie clothing Awl teerieg galhee in his flesh ae he row. At! meta as Fleming wee equate on hie feel he drew his kid% Aud tamed to dekod hint oelf with it, but the beer threw herself npou him agein And bore hint to the grimed. The kink waa forced trom the launterh bend by the fall. Tim beer fell upon Fieutieg tete her great weight knocked the breath out ete him, The old beer killer found drat lie bad met his math mad he geve himself Up as bet het at that erideal monteot he heard hie deg; appreething, yelpieg en the treat Of the bear they. were kilessiug, which heti evidently turned, aud was retaralue alumat upen Ito former ttadl. This ten reeked by Fletniug m he lay helpleehbeueeth the ehe beer, seed not mere than ten feet away. It did not stop to Lama handle the fight, Iseviogeneogit butineai of lee own 04 hand in trvies to etcapt front the doge that were pressing km. cloeely. The dem were oat malty Ite?.•=1* behind the hear, and the trail broeght them open the beer that wAt threeteniug their maeteret life. They forsoeli the trail At ooze and sprang upon the bear that stood anerlieg over the preetrate taunt er, wIth her pews OD his breaun The eppeararce of the dogs on the reene changei. the eituritIon Immetlitstely, The bear left Fleming tied turned on the atteek Ing demi. The ohmage ileum jutit in time to Neve the hunter's life. While the dogs were haraseing the beer, Fleming dragged Diemen to whore bit gee lay, AMR to 4 eietieg pea ture, and, taking careful elm, fired a ball through the beer's brain, killing her elmest Iestentlye Fleming was unable to got up, and again hie dogs mitred bine They le le up 4 peculiar heating, haying, and yelping that attracted the attention of twe wood. choppera who were at work In filet vicinity, And they cerried the injured hunter home, where he was forced to reinein until the middle of December. , The Lover's Mistake. Impecunious Lover (dying for the all - wool heiress) —" Oh, Miss Minnie, won't t 1 form into almost all of the hats and bonnets furnished by them. A. day or so after Fleming waa able to get about again, bang atilt weak Iran his hum confinement, be made a trip to the woods for the purpose of looting some Merman place et a beer family, so that ho could swore them in their fine winter coat of Inc At his leinure. He bed no Moe that he would run acme any bear out of winter quatters, as the snow was deep and the WOa. cher very cold. Ilti went to the :same looab ity whore ho had his Adventure with the she bear the mouth before, und within three rode of that spot he came upon a track that had just teen made by a bear ahullling along through the snow, as if it had heard the hunter's approach, and was hurrying away out of possible danger. Fleming folloeved the track and overtook the bear in a hollow in the woods. The animal made every eh fort to get away, but W415 BO badly handi- capped by the snow that its progress, was 2111)vifemiog's bunting instinct waa too strong to be resisted: be pushed ahead after the bear, and, coming close upon it, gave it a shoe. Bruin fell, and the blood from the wound Fleming's rIlle ball had inflicted wes soon dyeingthe snow. The hunter sent another ball into the bear's body. The bear had succeeded in getting pert way up the slope on one side of the hollow, and Fleming stood twenty feet below him. As the bear lay in its death struggle, Fleming started up the rise. The possibility of the bear ever rising again was not in bus mind, but suddenly the wounded brute did rise, and, half springing and half tumbling down the slope, threw itself full upon Fleming, and bear and hunter fell headlong in the snow. Fleming's gun lay directly across his breast, and the weight of the bear held it there, while the infuriated an- imal clawed fiercely at his breast and throat, and tried to tear him with its teeth. Flem- ing prevented the bear's jaws from seizing hie throat by quickly thinsting his arm, wheel was covered and protected by tougb and heavy clothing, into the animal's open mouth. The bear closed its jawe on the arm, and in spite of the heavy covering crunched the bones of the forearm as if they had been brittle sticks. The sudden great pain caused by the injury to his arm was more than Fleming in his weak condition could bear up under, and he fainted. How long he remained unconscious he never knew, but when he came to the bear was lying dead in the snow by his side, and he was drenched with its blood and his own. Fleming got to his feet with great diffi- culty, and after taking a few unoertain steps he sank exhausted in the snow again. After a few minutes he was able to stagger on a few steps furtner, and in this way, some- times dragging himself forward for rods at a time, and then staggering along on his feet until he fell again, he at last reached home, nearly two miles from where he encountered the bear. The old hunter's injuries and ex- posure on that unfortunate hunt were more than he could recover from, Paralysis of the rigot side and leg ensued, and he linger. ed a helpless sufferer until one day last week, when he died. He was the last of three generations of a family of famous Indian fighters and hunters. 4 -.01114,1111A. - English milliners introduce gold in some LAIIDINO A BR= $TUEGEON. An Exciting Time With aElsts Nearly as Xerox As 4 Man. PeRtaearrizistlYCrieweka,sfisPbuititigngforineluldrriaftn7rture°uT ab anything else. It 18 a tide -water stream, emptying into San Pablo Bay, and during a good portion of the year it is frequented be a veriete of salt WORM 044P0,.. The eturgeola is 4 sly biter, and ecmtitnee "menthes' the bait ten or fifteen minutes before taking hold. On this ocee ion I had baited with e small smelt and tnrewn lot° deep water from a email tvhart. The wired was blowing a gale, so it was hard to telt whee ore, had a bite. 'Cho pies were scattered along the wharf tak- ing care of themselves, when one of theta be. gen to Act queer. The line weeld slacken slowly ;several inchee, then grow taut, the tip of the pole beetlIng, then the Nee woeld 4134 - en agent. It did thie for several miento witless:it elmoge, Artd Imelda not make up my mind whether to pall or not. Then trudelenly the tine slackened severe/ feet. This ia almost 4 sure indication of a sturgeon. theick 44 possible I streek aud felt the hook enek in- to somethiegcliettessingly like a snag,it sem- ed so heavy and sluggish; bap you "cen't moat always stometithea MAL" ' Slowly evreetiaieg below seemed to wake FP, for all the world like A lozoiriotive new - mg a heavy train. Tnen, is itgained head. way, it got madder and ;madder, and The reel bummed lender smcl bousber, until it isereeet- ed like a. little fiend. TWO 114Acirea feet of line ran cue in few seezade,4nd thm5 with 4 spbeh as if A bore had fallen int% the seater, three feet of hie, drab-eokred fish plunged iota the air. aa Wals evidently reCo big to jarnp nut edi oece. Then he taart- ed freek up *tream, aed, In RAW of altthe trail; I dared beek ou him, ran out ueerly every feot of the Rae from the reel. My heart WAR in my :meant for leer of An AG. eirleot, but he is -hived juet et tLe righethrie. aeb fought lihe & dereou Inc One hour and 4 luat Aetna' thne, pod seemed determih. ed net to cerne to gaff. A Frenchman hep, petted along just them end .1 beggedhire to Pee the self. Ile etepped en A re* near the water edge, but tt,to Esta omost up, and, eviniogi_y With mance efetethellghteWith PAO flip Of lisle tail wet the l_te AMp§r from head to rapt. fro +stepped up And Oa as greeefully poseible. The Ash wee Meetly lauded awl mead to weigh exactly. forty peinnie awl to trieunre iifty eight niches in lergth. W'hile making st slower fight than cue trout, the etorgerm'e mad rushee are thrilling an exeiting, eed I believe the meet fastidietis apgter will vote Ma ageme tieh itifilhecr thAettilret, ouctilee4a felh, low wit tikt qouttueteIhYpilitilb5Areve bt?oefilly tbrotr, thQeuettei". feat gut Leek. tatcd Witle Werta, Uet, their fight is pertimalerly nleiming, but A weuld cet cute to try ore ar..ve four ife:: Itegth oo, that Wed t f teelde, es belt8 elay is tea lees, to tato in jeuding one fish. Banier Deereel. "hie one cau bah° any denthe to.day but thet the pettier hi dosteed, and yet it is arenvieg to see how erraduelly fasoionables are recenciled by their easterners to its tame. Alt I Lothian end her employes re elate wary, lied rarely indeed oprIng upon the world, A new thing. Little hy little, by one imperceptible atep setter another, Are we lured Aimee the debatable land, awl bo- rne We tlre AWAre are we leaded in "tt newe eouutrieS. whore feehlone eurroundeti tut ,tf which we lento rover more then dreamed. Sold M. ---- them would 111 know him too well if liernhelle to14 his naintY 14 ow, madame, of COUrt30 you want to diteard that extenders in the back of your draw. but ra hardly advise you to do it at once—let—mo —nee-- Ah I I hey° k. I will make a deniheemen costume for you, and it shall have st end and one very abort hoop; then melte your Indicts, crepes and sum- mer thinge witheut the sign uf a panier, And so you eau gradually aping it on your friends that you are bound to have your Ramie Oleg as closely as vonr grandmother's did. HOW do you liko the idea, madame?" hlamhtelle gives you the epeech as 'twas seid. Take the hint and not upon it. Make your frocks clitig and outline your figure like a silken sheath. Are Women Increasing in She? With regard to the income:laze of ladies' gloves the explanation of economy aeons, on reflection, hardly A eatiefactory one. Gloves will split oceettionally, as we all know, to our mizery, but loose ones are by no :mans durable and the unsightly wrinkles and fieby fineertips, sailed and frayed, are terrible, so that after half a ds zen times wearing they look only fitter an area sneak. It seems more likely that ladiete hande may have kept in proportion with their general stature, which is certainly on the increase. One eau scarcely mix in any crowd, especial- ly et the welt.to•do elaes, withontremarking giantesses in the hand—fine, well•grown vigorous creatures, who, judging by cora- 'mason, seemed to have developed all the beight and strength whice ought to have been their brothels'. The happy change in public openion. too, which enables women of all minim to work with their hands and take pride in doing no, may also not be with- out effect in enlarging these member& A Oity With a Ftrtare. Great Falls, Montana, has a great future. With a water power ettimated at one million horse power, the entire volume of the great Missouri fella a distance of 350 feet in four miles. There is now available at Great Falls, 157 feet of this fall in two miles, making it by far the largest in the world. "Cataract Milt" the largest and most complete roller mill in Montana, has been in operation a year. There is now under construction large copper smelting worke. One fourth of the plant of the largest gold and silver smelting works in the world is in operation. With three linea of railway, coal and minerals in abundance, tributary to the great Judith basin and San river valley it is destined to becotne a large city. The expected visit of the Shah of Ps.rsia, to England recalls the fact that no Persian monarch ever had gray hair. Gray hair is by universal custom prohibited in Persia, rand is never seen. Some of the American trunk railroads should put their own houses in order before attempting to interfere with those of the Canadian roads. At one of the seasons of the Sewer Interstate Commerce Committee Mr. Herack, who represented the New York Produce Exchange, testified that western grain cost more in New York than in London. The roads made a grain rate, he said, from Chicago to Liverpool at 19 cents, while to New York it was 33 cents, and he had known flour to be shipped from the wese to Europe and brought back to New York at less than the railroads chargee to bake it direct to New York. This is die - crimination with a vengeance, and so long as the American oads continue thus to place their chief seaport at a disadvantage they should refrain from laying complaints , against the Grand' Trunk and Canadian ' Pacific.