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INj� Nun I pj throe years when I took oharge. She claim• STRUGGLE WITH A MADMAN,
y 1 A. �OJ1ll N s PRISON, ed to be rho vleb1m of a conopira b 6
o6lf the
seemed content to bide her time, Tire Terrible Ex 'Inhumes or the 'Brothers
Strange Bxperienees Related ' _ ., ,r,•__ which hitt been smashed r_-refraotory I and nether or Fr auk Beret.
den, room was now used tie a vetch -all for the ing with his family, in West Twentieth
laundry wee a large, badlylighted room•
bub wbioh had never been finished up. TheIrrank Berg, a young Gorman, aged 23,1iv.
I wag for eeveraf years assistant warden
in a state prison where only male oouviote
were oonfined, and I left that to become
warden of a primal where over 300 females
were under look and key the year rotted.
If forced to °hoose I would prefer to have
oharge of 00G melee rather than 100 females.
Moss moa enter prioor, feeling that they
have deserved their puniahmenb and autrioue
to make all the good timo possible. No
woman admits her guilt, and by the time
she reaches prison she has convinced herself
that she ie a martyr. One not familiar with
the workings of a female prison eau have no
,dee of bho trouble and annoyance an °ba sin -
ate Inmate can cause. A male oonviob who
tie obstinate, malicious, and nenb on causing
trouble can be punished and foroed to give
in, but you wen only go so far id inflicting
puniahmenb on a woman, and the limit
measly compels obedience bo routine or•
dere.
patients was a woman
One myfirst ab w
of$
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named Mary Noonan. She was on a life
sentence for the murder of her husband, and
had been in the prices five years. A change
of wardens always renews the hopes of those
looking for a pardon, end It always cause's a
change in the oonduob of oortam prisoners.
I had nob been in the new place a fortnight
when I discovered that all the oouviote
except one were perfeotly innocent of orime
and bad been sent up through mistake or
malice. Tho exoopbton was a youngish wo-
man named Haskins, who had poieoned the
man who betrayed her and was making
ready to desert her. She nob only 'Mum -
ledged the crime, but fah bhab she had only
done her duby in revenging herself, The
innocents were all agog for some change to
benefio them, while at least a hundred ex•
peoted me to recommend them for pardon.
Mre. Noonan sought an interview with mo
for bhe purpose of stating that she had die -
covered new evidence bearing on her ease :
evidence which would oonolueively prove
her own innocence. She had, in a fit of
an ere as the records of the oaee showed,
stabbed her husband with a butcher knife
ab noontime and before her four children.
It waa the clearest Daae in the world, but
elle contended thab a great wrong had been
done her, and that the real murderer had
escaped.
The new evidence had Dome to her in a
dream. She had dreamed that a clerk in a
certain grocery near her home had stabbed
Noonan before he entered the house, and
that the guilty man was now anxious to con -
fees the feat and obtain her release.' The
idea was so absurd and silly that I oould not
promise her anything, and from that hour
she determined to make me all the trouble
possible. She first refused to work. I gave
her a day In which to think it over, and as
she remained obdurate she was looked up in
a dark oell with only bread and water. Oa
the fourth day word was broughb me that
Mrs. Noonan was dead. I went with the
prison doctor to the Dell, and we found the
Body growing rigid and cold. Both ot us
had seen many oases of shamming, and,
while oonvinced that this was another, the
counterfeit was startling. The jaw dropped,
the half•ahut eyes had the glaze of death,
and the flesh assumed that pallor whioh
only death San bring. And yet we both
felt that the woman was alive. Indeed,
there was a flutter of the pulse and the hearb
to prove gib. It was a case of animation sus-
pended by will power. Perhaps nob more
than one person in ten thousand is able to
control mind and muscle in this manner. It
is, for a time, next door to actual death. Ib
does not require nerve, as I understand it,
but simply the power to oollapee, as ib were,
Prioonere who have thus shammed on me,
have explained afterward that they heard
every word spoken around them, though
no voice founded natural. They did nob re-
alise any feeling exoept that of extreme
lightness, as if all solidity had gone out of
the body. It required no particular effort
to hold the breatth or keep the limbs rigid.
I ordered the body to be prepared and
placed in a coffin and the coffin planed in a
shed next to the laundry, 1 supposed this
was what Mary wanted and had planned
for. All the other prieonere believed her
dead, and she had two or three particular
Mende who wept over her Ioes. The coffin
was placed in the shed about sundown, and
two men set to watoh it. At midnight
Mary rose up, climbed out, and was work-
ing to loosen a board when accosted by the
watchers. She returned to her work next
morning an neuai, and refused to answer any
questions or make any explanations. About
once a week for the next five years she had
some now eoheme to annoy me, and I was
aver wondering what she would do next.
Ib is seldom that one hears of a woman es-
caping from a prison. This is not for the
reason that they do not long for liberty, nor
that some of them are nob desperate enough
at times to take any risk. One of the most
deceptive of the inmates of the prison was a
little woman of 30, all smiles and sunshine,
who had been sent up for a number of yeare
for committing a robbery. She was good-
looking, well educated, and evidently of
good birth. Every word and movement
was ladylike, and during the six montes she
had served before I took charge she had
quite won the matron's hearb. She was
placed in oharge of twelve sewing women in
a room on the second floor, fronting a aide
street. These women made the olothing of
bhe inmates, This sewing room was lighted
by two windows, defended by bars, of course,
Off this room was a atook or store room, and
Mrs. Newman, as the little woman was
called, had 'the key to this and was in
charge. There was bat one window in bhie
room. Mrs. Newman was the last person I
should have pioked oub as a plotter. Indeed,
1 should nob have expected her to go out had
the doors been left open.
One midafternoon ib was reported that the
little lady was missing, and fifteen minutes
later I had disoovered that she had gone by
the window. Where she got a file I never
could learn, but gibe procured one somehow.
and filed off throe bare, She was engaged
at thio work for throe months• When ehe
got ready t0 go she made a stout rope of
cloth, fastened one end to a remaining bar,
and then slid down to the earth in safety,
She had noretly made hereelf a cap and a
cloak, and she walked off two blocks, board-
ed a otreab oar, and was soon out of the
neighborhood. A trifling oircomstanoe led
to bet capture then same night. If she bad
planned to meet friends, they had not come
on. She had no money, and though the
oonduotor did not put her off on this account,
she wee flurried by the situation. She gob
off at a street running out into the country,
and walked brlekly away, I happened to
tako thio same oar We home later, and over-
heard the conductor relating the circum,
stance. I caught ab the idea that it wee
Aird, 'Newman, and at 10 o'clock that night
I found her in a farm house ten miles away.
She laughed merrily, and hoped I would
hear her no Ill will.
The asoiotenb forewoman in the laundry
wan a Mrs Williams, who had been eenteneed
e to moven years' imprisonment for maiming a
ohldwshe had adopted, Sheyhadabeenin
laundry. There wore eleven women In the Street, Chicago, bee for eevoral years boon
leundry, and is doing what she did Mrs, ooneidorod mildly leeano, Two years ago
Williams had to blind them all. Ono end he woe soot to the asylum at Jefferson, but
of this room was toward the side street, and' was released in a few months and returned
the wall was three feet deep, and sunk six. home. Ho never exhibited any rhea of vio•
or seven feet into the ground. The floor lance until last night aboub 10 o'oloolr, when,
was of marine. A month before I camel Witltoub warning, he etruok hie mother and
the forewoman was taken eiok and Mru,, commenced to abuse her in bbe vilest manner.
Williams was promoted to her plane, She 1 His brothere epoke to him sharply, but this
could now page anywhere about the laundry; only infuriated him, and seizing a chair, he
unquestioned, and oho Ito ono° began work.' mated at hie mother with the evidenb listen.
I
ing on a plan to escape, Her tools were an tion of braining her.
old hatchet and a smell fire shovel, and she The two brothers seized him and succeeded
began digging from the room described to, in forcing him into the hitches, where a ter•
undermine the wall. She wee never absent, rible struggle took place. The intention of
from the laundry over a quarter ot an hour, tiro brothers was to throw the lunatic to the
at a time, and could not work ab her digging; floor and tie him hand and feet. With the
over two hours per day. The other women Dunning of a madman he divined their object':
SAW her go and comp, but 10 was not their I and used every portable object in the room to
defend himself. Time and again ha hurled
hie brothers to the floor, biting, scratching
and kinking atlthem whatever they Dame
within reaoh. In the souffle the madman's
olothee were almoeb torn from hie body, hie
arms being bared to the shoulders. In some
way his bare arm came in contact with the
kitchen stove, which was still hot. Tho hob
iron burned bho madman's flesh and so infuri-
ated him that he turned hie wrath from his
brothers to the stove. He rushed at it and
declared he would throw it into bbe street,
The lunatio endeavored to pick the stove
up in hie arms, bub the hot iron burned his
flesh in half a dozen planes. With a roar of
pain he loosened his hold and pub forth
every effort to upset bhe stove. bearing
shat he would suoceed and set the house on
fire the brothers again interfered. After a
long struggle in which the lunatic battered
and bruiesd hie faoe and eyes in a terrible
manner, he eves finally thrown to bhe floor
in an exhausted oondibion and tied hand
and foot. Although only partially °enecioue
the madman struggled hard to break his
bond's, and the family concluded that the
only thing to be done was to oall in the
police. A patrol wagon was summoned,
As Boon ae the mania° BEM the officers he
became wild again and fought as well as he
could against being removed. Fit teen min.
rites were spent trying to get him out and;
the offioere were finally compelled to roll
him in a heavy blanket and strap him up.
He was taken to the Detention Hospital
for the Insane. The physicians there report
his condition serious. The room where the
struggle took place ab the Berg's residence
presented a terrible appearance. Nearly
every piece of furniture in the room is broken
and blood is smeared over everything, The
two brothers were severely bruised.
Rosiness to enquire Into her movements.
In aboub seventy days Mra. Williams had
gone down under the wall and wee ready to
break the eateneatenof the ground on the other
aide, he would not riska li hb as the
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other had done, bub waited nearly a weak
until some extra wash gave her an exouse to
remain in the laundry an hour later than
usual. She had been gone half an hour be.
fore she was missed, and ib was a full hour
before the means of exit was discovered.
The dirt had been carried to the rear end of
the room and flung behind some old
tube and mangles, and she had done
her work as well ae the oraftieatman.
She bad likewise got hold of breed and meat,
and when she gob into the street she only
wont two squares before hiding herself in
a horse barn. The owner had no horse, and
as it was summer time the woman could not
puffer lying on the hay up stairs. There
was water below, and she economized her
food to make it last as long as possible, Im-
mediately that her escape was eiaoovered, I
used every exertion to secure her recapture,
having depots watohed and the country
scoured in every direction. A week past
and I could nob obtain the olightesb olue.
Then Dao night abarn on the alley opposite the
one she was hidden in was set on fire, and
before the engines got to work the roof of
the other was ablate. I happened to be
early on the spot, and what was my tie•
toniehment when Mre. Williams quietly
opened the door and .e alked plump into my
arms. She shed tears of vexation when re-
turned to her old quarters, having made up
her mind thab her escape was assured.
Another of the inmates who pulled the
wool over my eyes for the moment was a
Mies Hutchins who was serving a sentence
for pocket picking: I give you her prison
name but it was said that she was the wife
of a notorious thief and bank sneak. He
had exauoted the law in hie endeavors to
get her clear, and bad made hie boasts thab
she should not serve her time out. When
I took oharge I was warned to be on the
alert, and I kept my eyes open a0 far ate
possible. Mise Hutchins and two others
were employed in making fanny baskets,
which were sold to procure books and
papers for the prisoners. They had a
small room off the hall leading from the
corridor to the laundry, and were conatant
-
Stanley's Method.
I remember Stanley once saying to me,
jest as I was starting to ascend the Congo:
' Pat a native, slap him if you will with
the open hand, but never strike him with
the closed fist, and never shoot until yon are
first attacked and escape eeeme hopeless."
This was meant—and I, too, quote it—as
both literal and figurative advice, The
"patting policy" is the only one thaboarries
ly under some one'a eyes, I had been in an explorer safely through Negro Africa,
in bhe plane about three months when two' and it is the one that men like Livingston,
young women called as visitors. Io so bap• I Spoke, Grant, Kirk, Thomson, De Bram,
paned bhab the mabron was busy, and I Enda, Sohweiafurth, Lonsdale, Coquilhat,
volunteered to escort them about until she and Vangele have pursued wibh such sum
should be at leisure. We went to the Dass ; whereas what I would term the "fiat
bakery, kitchen, laundry, and other places, fashion"—the impatient recourse to brute
and would have pinged by the basket force—has often led to grievous disasters,
room had they nob partioulary requested aud has hover resulted in much inoreaee of
to enter it. Not a alga of recognition knowledge or gain to civilization. It is the
passed between the visitor and any of the application of the old fable, " The wind, the
three workers, A few questions wore sun, and the traveler, or persuasion is better
asked, some of the finished work admired, than force." whioh is so often needed se an
and we passed out. Ae the door closed explanation of African success and failures.
behind tor one of the visitors exclaimed: A savage ie much like a eat. Onoe geb your
"Dear me, but I have lost my glover,. I hand—your open hand, your palm, not
most have left them on the table in the lean- your fist—in onntact with his body, gently
dr ." and in friendship, and it is ram that he does
1, of course, volunteered to go after them, not yield oympathetioally, If he waxes
and I found them on the table. I did not friendly you may pat hie broad back approo.
stop to speak with any one, and was not ingly, if lie is saucy you may vent your an.
absent over seventy or eighty monde. The
owner of the gloves thanked me, complained
of a sudden headache, and remarked that
they would trouble me no further. I passed
them through two wiakote and the main hall
and oub of the front door, and had jueb gut
deeate in the °Moe to write a letter when a
messenger from the matron said I was want-
ed at once. When I reached her she stood
beside a sharp, good•looking young woman,
who was in diahaoine, and a etrauger. She
had been discovered in one of the °elle almost
by accident..
What does this mean P" leaked, failing
to connect her presence wibh an absence.
"I do not know 1" she replied, wringing
her bands and looking in a helpleea way.
" Oh, air, where am I, and won't you bake
me home f"
I own up that she befooled me neatly, and
delayed me a quarter of an hour. It was a
pat -up job. The two girls had 'tome in to
do just what they did do. When I started
for the }loves Mies Hutchins came into
the hall. In the minute and a half
she was clothed at the expense of one
of the visitors, and the latter found
refuge in an open oell. A carriage
stood in front of the prison to carry them
away, and they had a long start. There
were two crooks in the job, and the party
felt so elated over bamboozling mo that they
gob drunk as they pushed along the highway
for a town twenty miles off. Fifteen mike
away the earring? was upset and broken,
Mise Hutehiae injured, and the other three
arrested for brawling. Suspicion was axone.
ed, and I was telegraphed to, and inside of
twenty. four hours Plied my prisoner bank,
Later on those who had helped her escape
bad to serve out sentences for six months,
and the crooks were wanted for a job whioh
gays them five years apiece,
Great Strike in Gas,
CotsoNowoon, Feb. 28.—Sunday morning
while pumping water for a baptiem in the
Bapbiat church in this town, the top of the
pump (which is situated inside the building)
was blown off by natural gas. The windows
and door's were immediately thrown open
and duo precautions were taken to prevent
the gas taking fire. No damage was done to
the edifice, bun the congregation was greatly
alarmed, The gas is atilt rushing from the
wall with great foroe, bat from the uncertain
Me of the pipe it is almost impossible to
estimate the quantity that is escaping. Ex•
citemenb prevails in town, and .great things
are expected from thie find,
Miss Amelia Wadsworth, of Springfield,
having publicly lectured on marriage aa a
failure, a newspaper man went to work and
proved that she had been engaged and
jilted three different Orme.
A silver pocket flask that excites attention
ie delicately embossed with memo of twin•
ing foliage and decorations,
A bib pin thab claims re00pnition is decor.
ated as the lower part of the frock, front
beneath which are eeon the togs of two tiny
fest,
noyance in a smart slap, but beware of the
kink and rho knook-down blow. They
effectually preolude reconciliation. Chaff
the savage, poke him in the ribs, pull his
oar, make him grin, and urge the grin on
into a laugh, and he ie yours, and the mon-
tagion of good humor spreads among hes
hesitating fellows, You need not go in for
buffooneries or lower that dignity which
should always attend the white man, bub
you will find a little playfulness, a little
human sympathy and kindness in no way
prejudice the respect that the poor savage
innately feels for she—to him—godlike white
man, In penetrating and over -running
these unoivilized Iande European travelers
should remember that they belong to the
native inhabitants, nob bo the civilized die-
ooverer—it is their oonnbry, not ours—and
this ie too easily forgotten.—[The Fortnight-
ly Review.
Well -Dressed Missouri,
A Washington deopatoh to the Now York
World says : —The recent appoiotmenb of a
Mr. Overall as a member of the Police Board
in St. Louis suggested to Mr. Springer to.
day how very sartorial a State Missouri is.
-Vest and Sohurz are two of its leading orna-
ments. The State Legislature has a Dresser,
a Beaver, two Drapers, and several Taylors.
It has its Coats, and its Stocking too, and
and now that an Overall hes been produced,
all the public life of Missouri seems to requite
are tremors and an umbrella,
Five Weeks Beneath an Avalanohe.
A remarkable inotanoe of three poreono
surviving an imprisonment of live weeks
under an avalanche is recorded in "Narra.
heves of Peril and Suffering," In the valley
of the Upper Stunt et the foot of Otto Alps,
le the little hamlet of Bergolebto. In the
winter of 1755 the falls of snow were anoom•
mealy heavy, Ou the Nineteenth of March
the parish priest, who wits on hie way to the
Mheard a noise from bite mountains,
and, canting up hie eyes, he saw two aval.
anohoe amending towards the village. He
gave the alarm to some villagers, and then
retreated into hie own house,
The avalaaoheo Dame and buried over
thirty houses, and twenty-bwo portions were
found to be missing, among them the
est
parish priwho had given the alarm. The
amouub of mow which lay over the ruined
dwellings was about forty-two Mob deep,
bwo hundred and seventy feet long, and
sixty feet wide.
When the surviving peasants had shaken
off the terror mud depression which ouch au
event must nooessarily acute, they ea about
trying to save any lifo or property possible,
More than three hundred peasants from
neighboring villages came to their aas'wt
ansa
Bun they could do little; the thickness of
the snow mass waso
s great, and the snow
aonbinued to full front the clouds in ouch
amount that they were obliged to Maw
Ulnae their fruibleee exertions, end wail till
the eating in of the warm April winds which
would partly melt the gigentio piles.
On the Eighteenth of April the villagers
returned to their melancholy task, Ib wee
with no hope of finding any human being
alive. One of them named Simon, whose
whole fancily was beneath the avalanche,
was moat aobive in the search. By the
Twenty-fourth of April he nod advanced so
far, thab, after breaking through six feet of
ice he could touch the ground with a long
pole. Three friends worked with him.
Tho four worked vigorously, and made
their way, at length, into R000ia'e house, but
no one, dead or living, was there, As it
was probable that, ab the fatal momeub, the
victims had Bought shelter in the stable
which was about a hundred feet from the
house, Roadie and his oomponione directed
their efforts in that quarter.
After they bad burrowed for some time,
one of them thrush a pole through an opera
tura, and, on withdrawing ib, Beard a hoarse,
faint voice say ;
"Help, oh dear husband I Help, dear bro-
buor 1 We are alive."
They now worked wibh redoubled activity,
and soon made a considerable opening. And
there, under the mow, Rocoia to his joy
found his wife, daughter, and a sister•in-
law.
The three sugerers were iaoapable of mot,
ing, and were shrunken almost to skeletons.
They were oarefully removed from their
plate of imprisonment and conveyed to the
house of a friend, and proper meaouree adopt.
ed for their restoration. In a few days they
were fairly recovered.
Theft• lives were preserved during bhese
long five weeks, in the following maturer :
They had taken rotuge in the rank and
manger, which being strong, had withetood
the strain, though the roof fell. Fortunate
lI two goats wore near them, which supplied
them with goat's milk in quantity sufficient
to sustain life.
To feed the goats woe of prime importance.
Immediately over the manger was a hole
into the hay lof b, through this hole ono of
the women was able to pull down fodder into
the rack, and when she could no longer reaoh
it, the sagacious animals climbed upon her
shoulders, and helped themselves,
Through the whole of their imprisonmeab
they were in total darknesdl After the first
five or six days they suffered little from
hunger, though a quarb of goat's milk had
to sulfa for the three. They suffered far
more from the excessive coldness of the melt
ed snow water that trickled over them.
The Secret of Broiling.
We are told that beefsteak for broiling
should be cub three-quarters of an inch think
and pub over a hot fire of coal or oharooal,
Qaite right; but when it has browned quick-
ly, as it should, and been turned and browned
on the obher side, it yeb romaine raw in the
middle, and if left longer the surface burns.
This is the experience of the novice, who
hoe yet to learn two things; Caret, that imme-
diately after the first browning the fire must
deoreaee in heat, or the meati be broughb
further away so that the steak may cook ten
or twelve minutes without burning—leas
time will not cook it nicely in the middle;
and second, that, like baked meat, the sur-
face must be kept moist with hob fat. Be-
fore your steak is put over Dover bobh aides
with melted duet, and afterward as ib dries
spread on a little butter or beef fat. Have
ready in a hob platter a few spoonfuls of
water, in wbioh the bones oub from the steak
have been boiling, also salt and pepper.
When the steak is done lay it in the platter
and keep It hot for five minutes, turning it
once iu the time. Than you will have both
good steak and good gravy.
A young person named Irving Latimer,
in gaol at Jaokeon, Mioh., is receiving largo
quantities of flowers and good things to
eat from kiud•heartod ladies of that plane.
He io accused of murdering hia mother for
bar money. Should he prove to be innocent
he will no doubt feel bound to return gifts
which were made under a misapprehension
of the feats. The good ladies would even
then be shocked to learn that the jellies
they had prepared for an interesting mur-
derer had been eaten by an innocent im-
postor.
tfir r phr t hea tamtmsmt� aumuwttamr, y
TELE LADY AND THE PANTHER,
liYendorfld courage lihown by a "00 oasap
Endes lrelerate CtrennOotareeee,
Mts. II --,wife of a Bombay odtcial,
tends us the following amens 0f a rooepb
adventure;
I was viaibiag some friends ab Mathoran,
a delightful hill resort, wbioh affords au
agreeable relief during the bot season to a
large number of jaded ilambuy ofifuiale. On
my arrival at Sada Viatu, I found tttah tame
other of S --'s friends had ueexpoobcdly
asked to bo pub up, and worn indeed ooen-
pyiug the spare room of the bungalow. I
therefore Waisted that no °hang° should be
made in the family arrungemonto on my 00.
counts. At tray earnest ooliaitatlon I was al.
lowed to bavo my way and tako,up my gear.
tore In a 000l, fovfcmg tent emoted about
thirty yards from the house, and which I
found mine host was using as astudy. The
removal of hie books was the work of a few
minutes, and these worn quickly replaced
by the neoeasary furniture of a bedroom. I
soon found everything arranged to my mind,
and f congratulated myself upon staving
secured the 000leet and moat delightful sleep.
Mg apartment in the plane, The look.
oub from the0
do r was one of exec tional
beauty.Tb p
Tho moon shoe °
n oub clear and
sofb over the whole landscape before
mo. Having done a greab deal bhab
day, I was very weary and tired, so I soon
prepared for bed. My little fox terrier
Fidget, my only companion, took up her
usual place at the foot of my bed, I orepb
under the mosquito curtains and Boon Bunk
into a sound sheep. In about an hour I was
awakened by the growling and barking of
Fi'igob, and by the light of the moan I
caught sight eta huge panbher °tending in
the doorway of my tent. Its oyes were flesh-
ing fire, and it was lashing its long tail fur -
Maly to and fro, as If it really meanb mis•
thief. In a moment more it seemed on the
point of making a spring at me, and I could
no longer doubt than ib woo bent on making
a meal on my dog or myself. I in no way,
however, lab my proaenoe of mind, he I
oommenoed shouting with all my mighb,
which caused the boast to beat a retreat.
He walked slowly towards the open door, by
which ho had entered, bub only to walk
round the outside of the tent and enter by
another opening, which brought him Boma•
what nearer to the bed. I stretched out my
hand and clutched at my candles and matches
and quickly struck a light. Thio, together
with my shouting and the dog's barking,
startled the animal, and he again disappear.
ed. I was not certain that he would etaod
such trifling any longer, 0o I made a dash
for my dressing -gown, slipped into my
slippers, tucked my dog under my arm
and ran for my life. Unfortunately, 1
could nob tell where the animal was, and the
dark shrubbery wibh breed overhead looked
jab the place for him to be hiding ; but I
bad to take my chance, and I ran as if fifty
bulls were behind me, leaving my slippers
on the path, and tumbling up the stops, I
fell into the verandah panting. I malted to
the door, which was looked from the rest of
the house, and knocking loudly called oub
"Mr. S—, there is a panbher in my tent."
You can imagine the commotion ; everyone
was about in a few seconds ; the gentlemen
all seized tbeir guns and ran out to see if
there was any chance of a ehot, and I was
made a great fuss of; everyone said what a
wonderful esoape I had had. They saw no
more of the panther, bub the next morning
we heard thab he made for the house of an-
other friend soma diebanoe off, and there ho
attempted to carry off a big English ball -
dog, whioh he found asleep in the inner vor-
randah, Fortunately the cries of the dog
brought the servants to the rescue, bub not
before its tbroah and faoe had been fright-
fullymauled. My friends are all of the
opinion that the mosquito curtains saved
my lite. Tho beast was evidentally very
hungry and was at one monteub preparing
to spring upon us, bub bo was puzzled by
my surroundings and probably took them
for Boma kind of trap, But 1 never for a
moment lost my presence of mind ; Male
and the watohfulneae of my little dog on.
abled me to boat a safe retreat and escape
the jaws of my midnight visitor.—(The Lon-
don Queen.
The Two Parrots.
An old retired major and an old maid
lived in adjoining houses, and each of them
had a parrot. The old lady was very religi•
oda, and had only taught her parrot scrip-
tural phrases, whilab the majora bird, hav-
ing
aging been broughb up in the barracks, had
heard the use of bad language. The lady
gave a party, and invited the major to
attend and bring hes parrot. He did so,
and on carrying the bird into the room et
looked around and called out]: " I wish that
blanked old woman nexb door was dead ;"
and the old lady's parrot at once chimed in
with : " We beseech thee bo hear us, dear
brethren,"
Boulanger's Mistake.
The other night Gen, Boulanger mortally
offended the beautiful Mme. de Tredern by
asking her to sing Paulus's gong, " En
Revenant de la Revue," or, as we call it,
"Boulanger Maroh"—a request about equiva-
lent to asking Adelina Pabbi to sing " Oham•
pagne Charley," or a fragment out of that
very scandalous operetta, " Le Honour
d'Ulyeee," whioh Mlle. MilyMoyer is likely
to moko a 0uooess at the Bouffes•Parioion.—
[London World.
Two Much For the Lawyer.
A lawyer, who had been baffled by a fem.
inine witness whom he was 0ros0-examining,
ab last said, with an air of mystery : " Now,
madam, having got to the street in whioh
you reside, will you please answer frankly
whioh aide of bhe otreeb you live on?" On
either side," quietly answered the 'althea'.
"How oan that bet" thundered bhe mats -
iterated lawyer. " Why, if you're going op
the street, I live on the right side ; but if
you are going down, I live on the left' side."
General laughter, and the lawyer gave it up.
Good Cause for Hatred.
Jabaon—" Hang portioree, I say P" Dob•
oon—" Correct. They generally are hung. I
Bub why do you dislike them?" Jobson--
" Well, a few yeare ago, when a man was
angry, he oould bang the doors and so re-
lieve his feelings. Now, well, you can't
bang a portiere. There seems to be really
nothing left to do but keep a cat and tramp
on lbs"
Mrs. Winks Mollified,
Mre. Winks (enraged)—" How la this 7
Mre. Stuoltup's letter of reference maid you
were a good cook, and yet you have utterly
spoiled the first meal attempted." New
Geri—" May be Mrs. Stuokup don't know
nothing about cooking." Mre. Winks (mol-
lified)—" Probably that is the ease. Well,
1'11 teach you myself,"
Dooplte the fact that women lame, wear
thin mimes and ex ase their health in a
dozen other ways, the average of lougeeiby
of the female sex fa increasing. It ie doubt.,
loos duo to their obatfnacy,
ONBR_ENCL
A Poklp weekly newspaper has just^jfp.
;shod a aerial story whioh contained 2,04c
ohaptero, You get the worth of your
money In Ubina.
Au Ohio womap Bays that pioklod poach.
ea are bho first step in a downward eerier,
Moab guy ono eau eland a bushel of the
downward,
A horse named "Bob Ingersoll" has been
ruled off all Oho California raoo•ooureeo. He
didn't seems to believe in anything except
bolting,
Tho Now Orleaue Picayune has oomo to
the ooaoluoioa that "a limited lability deb
prevents a m to from paying more debts
than 0bfb0 his convenience,"
When 10 le ono minute after 8 o'olook ib to
)test 8, Wham it thirty minutee after 8
10 ie only half past 8. Hero is another dia.
oovory to make the world pause and foal
Bad.
There aro explosivee wbioh have seventy
times more power than gunpowder, and yet
itis only now and then that a man spate
himself on e. keg of powder to enjoy a quiet
smoke.
Boston is to have a thirbeen story business
block, If it ever gets op fire the !lama are
to start in the third story where the engines
clan reaoh them. Tho arolalteob has provided
for thab.
Au Ohio farmer mortgaged hie farm to
gab hie wife some diamond ear -rings, and
she lost ono of them in the suds the very
flret wash day, and attempted to hang her•
self in the barn,
A rich man in Portland, 0., got drunk the
other day and bought thirtyaix coffins for
hitneelf, leaving only about ten more in
etouk in the town. The rioh are alweys
taking these advantages.
Two witneaoee in a ease in Iowa who swore
than they sew a mal forty rods off draw a
revolver wore proved to bo so nearsighted
Slab they could nob tell a revolver from a
poodle doe fifteen rode away.
An English ship which recently entered
Vera Crnz'had seven of its crew laid up with
broken bones. The mato had been pratio.
reg on them for a week or two, and he was
astonished that any coutpleinb should be
made,
An Italian newspaper warns Italiana
against immigrating to this country, saying
that Comedians hem no reaped' for them.
That is not true, An Italian laborer or hand
organ grinder is respected for what there is
in him.
An Ohio cow was found in a swamp the
other day whore elle had passed thirbysix
days and nights of anxious waiting. She
had grown so thin that a man easily picked
her up, and ib took three days bo get her full
of hay. -
GeorgeOomae., arestdeubof Virginia City,
claims to have been visited by Satan, and to
have had a long balk with the old boy. He
was told that everything was 0. K. this win-
ter, with business pushing his majesty day
and night.
The medical student who saioided in Now
York the other day left a message reading:
"I die because there is no room for any more
dooters." Bo mush have boon crazy. Hun-
dreds of doctors are graduating every year
and findingpatients.
South Carolina always hangs a murderer
in publics, and she defies any one to find a
spectator of any hanging who has sobs°.
quontly taken human life, She claims bhab
every execution oaken a profound impres.
cion of Oho vengeance of thdlaw.
Fire Screens.
1 here are now so many pretty ways of
making screens, that it semi a real ease of
" embarrae de Mimeos ;' but I think, for a
fire shield, nothing to 0o charming as plate.
glees, as it dome away with the rather forlorn
feeling that cornea over one when an opaque
screen hides the glowing code from view ;
and, though nob in itself a novelty, still
there are so many pretty new ways of fram-
ing and decorating the ghee, that I think it
may claim a plaoe among "winter novelties."
The prettiest is an oval wooden frame, paint•
ed oream, lighly Beaked with gold " clouds "
riving to a point ab the top. A group of
roses, ivy, and berries, or any deeign select-
ed, may be modelled lightly below the point,
a delicate trail being carried down one aide,
and on the other a few birds or butterflies
painted flat. The reverse aide would be
pretty carried out in a different style, say a
small landscape painted, and shaded off
underneath the point, with a few grasses
rising from the bottom of the frame, with
here and there a bee or butterfly poised. The
modelling musb be very light, and nob car-
ried too far down or near the edge, as a
screen of this description is oonsbanaly mov-
ed about.—The Queen.
Macaulay on British Polities.
Macaulay had not an exalted idea of Brit-
ish politica. In a newlypnbliehed letter
whioh he wrote to the late Duncan McLaren
about the alienation of the Scottish Dissen-
ters from the Whig Government, he said
'' I am familiar, I am sorry to eay, and so
are all men in office, with the low selfishness
of mankind. One man gives you to under-
stand that unless his earldom is burned into
a marquisate he cannot continue to eupporb
the Government. Another stays away from
the House of Commons on an imporbanb di•
vision bowmen his father is nob made Lord -
Lieutenant, Your precious townsman—
(but this is between ourselves)—toile me
that he shall withdraw his support from me
because I bavo positively refund bo ask
Lord Melborne to make him a Grand Cross
of the Bath. Then things aro pitiable, but
I am used to them. I do hope, however,
that the whole dissenting body of Scotland
is not about to lower ibself to the level of
such people as I have mentioned."
The Piokerel he Caught,
On a recent trip Governor Routh gave me
permission to toll a fish story, which, he
says, General Grant enjoyed exoeedingly,
In the early days of Leadville's boom a group
of minors and good fellows warn gathered
around the tavern stove spinning yarns.
One had caught a 10 pound trout, another
had harpooned a whale in the Arotio eons,
and so on, when up spoke the little Govern-
or: "Well, boys, all thetas nothing to my
luck ; I once naught a pickerel that weighed
180 pounds l" "Oh, Governor I a pickerel
weighing 180 pounds I" resounded from all
sides. No one would believe the tale, but
Routh persisted, and, after vainly trying to
shake their incredulity explained : "Pick•
oral is my wifo's name." He says he never
spent a cent for cigars or other luxuries dine
ing the root of his vlgib, One of his hearers
Rave him a share in the mine that started
him on the high road to great wealth.•• -(Chi.
°ago America.
Dropped Dead From Ezoitement.
Crana'oN, March 4.—David Welsh, it re.
tired farmer, of Godorioh bownehip, about
70 years of age, dropped dead the other
afternoon from exoitemonb while attending
a meeting of the creditors of 11. bt, Realty
at the Grand Union hotel.
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