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is on a par with that of the Chinese LAND SHARPS AND LAND SHARPS THE CAMP FIRE. PINED FOR A CHANGE. naln-ln-the-Face as a Weather Prophet. cow; the foreman had selectee the tenderest of steak, and, indeed, had prepared the meal. The cat took her place under the table, and the dog came in The mouth of the Jar was then closed with a board and a stone.

A quantity of old timber joists and straw were in the out-house, and no cud of rat-holes everywhere around. incline to the opinion that mj blue-legged Burmah servant very judiciously' punched the hole with ac old nail and a hammer, for, though il was by no means regular or quit round (it 6cemed at first sight tot small) it just admitted a hungry rat. 1 do not think the rats, after they had eaten all the grain, could have gotten through the hole, they seemed so filled out; otherwise, with such a lot in ths jar, somo could have got to the holi and pulled through, I imagine. moving mass of frightened, screaniin rats is a bad 'taking off' for a jump, i admit, but an old fellow now and then might have hit the hole. I doubt il he could, have got It is important, in traps of this kind, to see that the inside of the vessel is sc smooth as to afford no foothold for the rats, or they will readily escape climbing the sides.

Londoi Field. A FATEFUL LETTER." Last year out on the Sioux Reserva-! tion Mr. Augustus Eddy of Chicago and South Dakota held a powwow with a "big Injin" old Raia-iu-the-Face himself. "IXJIN HERE." Being asked to tell about wet yea, and dry years the savage swung himself down from his pony and gave forth weather wisdom in a manner intensely characteristic of the "sign language" and "picture writing." With the simple aid of his stick and a bit of smooth ground he clearly set forth the recurrence of wet and dry seasons somewhat in this fashion. He made two holes in the ground some distance apart: Tnjin Jure" (pointing to one hole).

"Want to go there (pointing to the other). "Much water" (marking lakes and sloughs between the two). "Pony plenty tired. He go so." (Marking with his stick a wavy from point to point to avoid the spots. 1 line wet "Next moon pony go so.

Not so heap tired." "Next mocn pony go so. Pretty quick." Finally the line was straight. "Pony run. No stop. No tired.

Kick Injin off. Get there pretty heap quick. Pony thirsty. Not can get water 'nuff to drink." Standing erect and extending his hand toward the different points of the compass he went on: "Pony eo straight this year. That was in 18S9.

Nextyear big snow. Big rain. Next year some more." Holding up both hands with fingers spread out and one thumb closed: "So many years, plenty water." Thus far the event justifies the prophecy. Many feet of snow beyond the Rockies, loading the western wind with moisture.have given the joyful Dakotans ram in the face as old 'Kain-in-the-Face" predicted, and promising them crops galore. The rainfall up to this time this year is greater than the entire rainfall of 18S9, during the growing period.

Water again shows in the low places on the prairie, and the pony'j trouble today would be not thirst buj leg-weariness. Chicago Tribune. A Novel Iuveotlou. Among the novel applications fo? patents at the U. S.

Patent office is that of Frank Vester and he hails from New ark, N. J. Who of us has not read harrowing accounts of people buried alive? How often, in removing the remains of deceased friends from one place burial to another, have the bodies been found turned over in their coffins and the clinched hands and agonized look told the story of an awakening from a trance, only to find death in a grave. These are well known fatalities, and it is from such horrors that Mr. Frank Vester would save us, and the process is so simple it merely involves the use of a certain kind of coffin.

Here it is. The Tester coffin is like other coffins except that a square tube is placed in the lid of the coffin and directly over the face of the body therein, which extends from the coffin up through and over the surface of the grave, said tube containing a ladder and cord, one end of the cord being placed in the hand of tbe person laid in the coffin and the othsrend of the cord being attached to a bell on the top VESTER COFFIN. of the square tube, so that if a person be interred ere life is extinct he can. on recovering consciousness, ascend from the grave by the ladder, or if not able to do that he can ring tbe bell and give the alarm, and thus be saved from premature burial and death. On the other hand, it inspection shows life to be extinct then the tube can be withdrawn and the sliding door closed.

The accompanying illustration shows how a man, buried alive, can save himself by the aid of Mr. Vester coffin. 9iga of Danger. Farmer Minnerbrook Say, young man, thar an't no flshin' 'lowed in this 'ere stream. Rodney Fly caster Why, I didn't tee any sign npl Farmer Minnerbrook Hebbe not; an' you're lncky.

I'm willin' to hold It by the collar here until ye kin get over the fence. Pvdb. Rough estimate Figuring oa un4 4. of I I a and Japanese artists, the greensward resembling the green baize table, but the woe-begone, blank expression of the lines of the soldiers and spectators as suggestive of the absence of life it is possible for counterfeits of the human countenance to be. In the center stands a monument decorated with large funeral wreaths and surmounted by a brass eagle: behind are grouped the spectators, while still further back, outlined against the sky, rise the masts and rigging of several ships.

A mass of green foliage rising abruptly from either side of the picture forms aback- ground for two rows of soldiers, in blue coats and white pantaloons, who are hugging their guns in a very un-military manner. At the head of each row of soldiers, little to one side, stand Indians, the one on the left hand a chief and that on the right a squaw, with, a child in her arms. Between the rows soldiers is a broad, red-colored walk, which runs up to the monument. On the right, and in the rear of the monument, is reared a tall flag-staff, from which the American flag appears half-masted, not falling in graceful folds moved by the gentle zephyrs, but flat and stiff as a plank. Inscribed en the monument aro the lines: ANDREW JACKSON, EVER DREADFUL.

1815. This unique painting is further or namented with the name, "Fred Schnotti, 1815," presumably tHe artist. Its owner purchased it eight years ago at an auction sale for $5, and though he has been offered hand some sums for it, declines to part with the oddity. It is certainly a curious bit of canvas, and antiquarians in years to come will look on it with ven eration and reverence as a picture of historical importance. Military Law.

A new idea always captures the easiest positions first. The very fact that any body of people have held out against growing principle for a certain number of years makes them specially proof against the truth it embodies, so it always happens that the new idea has its hardest fight at the points it last attacks. The gradual change which has taken place in regard to the exercise of an absolute and personal authority has at last reached the stronghold ol military discipline, where it is having hard time of it. During the last hundred years naval discipline in particular has been modified from time to time to keep pace with the rest of the world, until as Admiral Porter assures us, "there is no comparison between naval discipline to-day and the iron system of 1798." Yet there is no doubt most civilians contrasting the present conditions of life on board of a man-of-war and in a grocery store, for instance, would choose the latter inglorious sphere as the scene of their labors. In spite of its magnificent successes, military law finds itself an anachronism in the nineteenth century.

It is no onger a sufficient recommendation for a system that it was simple and efficacious and has stood the practical test of ages. It must also satisfy the modern theory of logic and justice. Now it is impossible for an American civil ian who has only the most general in formation about the workings of the navy to admit the fairness of a form of aw which first administers a punish ment and afterward affords ample iberty for finding out whether the punishment was a just one. The whole operation of a military justice offends a nation accustomed to the more specious humbug of trial by jury. Uniting the three functions of prosecutor, Judge and jury in one man, has itself a dangerous look.

Than, first to execute a sentence, and afterward afford the criminal a chance of appeal, from which the most he can hope to gain is the knowledge that he has unjustly been submitted to a degrading form of physical torture, seems as arbitrary as the judicial system of that barbarian king in 'The Lady or the Tiger." General Alser at Jacksonville. The Sons of Veterans have been busy with their guest, General Russel A. Alger, of Michigan. Jacksonville, 111., was handsomely decorated with flairs. The verans Fathered at their hall early in the day and prepared to give their commander-in-chief a cor dial reception.

Citizens also turned out. and much enthusiasm was mani fested when General Alger arrived. Without any formality whatever he proceeded to make himself at home with the committee that waited on him at the train. The Grand Army post was drawn up in line in tne rear of the depot, and a3 General Alger passed through them going to his car riage, the veterans cheered him lustily and waved their hats. He re sponded by saying, "How do you do, boys?" and passed to the conveyance which was waiting for him, proceeding at once to the hotel, where he and General Griffin, commander-in-chief of the Sons of Veterans, reviewed the members of the encampment, who were out in force, and presented a fine appearance.

In the afternoon the party rode out to the camp and were escorted to the speaker's stand. General Alger delivered a fine address to the assembly, which was composed of both citizens and troops. General Griffin was unable to speak on account of illness and Past Commander-in-chief Abbott, of Chicago, took his place on the programme. In the evening there was a reception at Armory Hall which was attended by the elite of the city. Tree Felling by Dynamite.

Some interesting experiments have been made in the vicinity of Copenhagen. Denmark, with tree-felling for military purposes, by dynamite. The object was to ascertain the saving in time and labor effected by this method, and the results were exceedingly satisfactory. Trees of so much as three feet In diameter were brought down in some twenty or twenty-five min utes, whereas the time occupied by ordinary felling would have been ten I times greater. A in a Senator from a New State Tells How Once Utilized a Locomotive.

lie "You never heard how I made use a locomotive to secure a valuable piece of property, did you?" said a Senator from one of the new States. "Well, it's rather a curious sort of a story, and dates back about thirteen years, to a time when things out on the frontier were comparatively primitive. had invested all the money I had in the world in a half section "of land on which the city of Sioux Falls now stands, only to tind subsequently that my title to "the property was weak, owing to a deed recorded after I had made the purchase, the person who made the sale to me having meanwhile died. On the strength of this deed suit was brought against me to recover three- iourths ol the land, ana it looked as though I was going to lose it. "But there was a mystery about the case somehow.

I could not find out for some time in whose behalf it was that the suit was instituted, but finally discovered that it was a man named Jones, living four miles out of Minneapolis on a farm. Without delay I took train for Minneapolis and went to see Jones, who said that he could not be the man I sought, for tbe reason that he never owned any land in Dakota. Nevertheless I made up my mind that he was the person who actually had the title, although he was not aware of the fact. Tbe lawyers ia Sioux Falls through whose firm the suit against mo had been instituted, were simply attempting a swindle with a view to rettinr hold of the land with out notifying the holder of the title to the property that he had any such ownership. That was all clear enough to me when I learned the fact that one of the firm of lawyers in Sioux Falls was Jones's uncle.

So I made up my mind that I must obtain from Jones a title. 'T got ex-Judge Sanders of Minneapolis, an old friend of Jones's to go with me to see Jones, and I explained to Jones the matter in detail the precise value of the land, the manner in which I came into possession of it, the validity of his own title and all the details. Even had I so desired, it would not have done for me to disguise anything, because any misrepresentation on my part would render my title invalid. I merely urged that, on the strength of certain cirsumstanees which gave me a moral right to the land, ho ought to give me a' title and so place me in posession of my own again. His own friend, the Judge, urged a like argument, and Jones finally agreed to give me a title for the nominal payment of $10.

The papers were drawn and Invent on my way rejoicing, with my full and clear title to the property, which was then worth $40,000. Unluckily Jones had communicated with his uncle, the lawyer in Sioux Falls, during the interval between our two interviews, and I didn't have time to get out of Minneapolis before Jones turned up at the hotel and demanded the deed back. This meant that he had received word from his uncle to hold on to the land at all hazards, because it rightfully belonged to him. Of course I would not give up the deed, and then ensued a most extraordinary contest. "Although I had the deed my title to the property was not made until that deed was recorded at Sioux Falls.

Jones might make the transaction naught by simply executing another deed and placing it on record first. The only thing for me to do was to anticipate any such action on his part by getting to Sioux Falls myself as quickly as possible. So I took the first traiu for Sioux Falls, and after I got on board kept a sharp lookout. Th9 only person who excited anv suspicion in my mind was a deformed little man whom I knew to be a lawyer, and who approached me before we had got very far on our 250-mile journey. Conversation followed.during which I allayed his suspicion that I was wide awake and continued my own notion that lie was an ajrent of the enemy.

Indeed. I became satished that ne actually had 1 deed in his pocket which it was his purpose to have recorded before miue. Several times he got off at stations and tekgraphed ahead to Sioux Falls, as I managed to learn, for a team of fast horses and a carriage to meet him at the depot on his arrival. I saw that at that rate I was likely to be beaten unless I could devise some scheme. I set my wits to work, and an idea occurred to me.

'T left the deformed man and went to have a little talk with the conductor, the result of which did not appear until we had got within three miles of Sioux Falls. At that point the train came to a full stop, aud the locomotive, from which it was detached, went on to the depot. I was on the locomotive, which the other passengers all supposed had gone for water.includiug the deformed lawyer, who thought that I was in the "rear car and was chuckling already over his anticipated victory. Whcn I had been landed in the city the locomotive went back for the tram, and the deformed man upon reaching the depot jumped into a carriage and was driven as quickly as possible to the Court House, where he threw down his deed, saying that he wanted it recorded at once. But tbe clerk said that lie was just finishing the record of another deed handed to him half an hour before for a certain half section of land.

The lawyer took a look at the record and saw that he was beaten, though he could not imagine at the time how it bad been done. Jones's uncle, who engineered the attempted swindle. afterward voted for me when I ran for the Legislature, because he said that I was the only man who bad ever gotten awav with him in a business matter I ashington Star. Burmese Rat-Catching. Rats may readily be induced to jump or drop into any receptacle, especially as it affords them adequate concealment, and they do this without one lingering suspicion of their inability to reach the only existing outlet when the time for retreat approaches.

Thus traps on this principle may readily be designed, and are preferable to our traps where the vermin is numerou3. This method was thus explained by our correspondent, who spoke of the trap as being "most successfully used in Burmah where the rats are" a perfect pest. This trap was set for three nights. On the first occasion I saw seventy-twc rats turned out. On the second night only nine rats were caught, and on the third night not one was caught.

Th trap was then put away for soma weeks, when it was again successfully used, but I am unable to say to what extent it then succeeded. J. he common Pegu jar I used was about ens and one-half or two feet deep and four teen or fifteen inches broad and a holt was punched in the shoulderjust largs enough for a rat to enter. There wai 9 aoout six or seven races ox paaay nee in husk) in the jar. which was they to within eight iaci tfcjjfca 1 REPORTER WHO ACHED TO LEAVE THE CITY'S NOISE AND BUSTLE.

How He Awoke to a Realization of the Bard Fact that Things Are Not Always What They Seem. name is John Horn Whittleby. The better or perhaps the worst part of my life has been spent on the tread-wheel of a great daily newspaper. I have tried time and again to break away from the grinding life of the reporter, and a short time ago thought that I had at last found a velvet-lined loop-hole through which I might escape. Once there waa working on the same paper with me a thoughtful man named Blink Hackett.

He was continuously complaining of the emptiness of his existence. "In this business," he would often declare, "I can only imitate some one else, and my theory has always been this: It is at least more honorable, to be an original fool than the successful imitator of a great man. I might work here 1,000 years and then not be known except possibly as the oldest man the office, an unenviable distinction, surely. I am going to qnit this thing and strike out for myself-" HE OPENED THE GATE. He suddenly disappeared, and more than two years elapsed before I saw him again, writes Opie P.

Read. Then one day I met him in the street. He was well dressed, wore a high hat, and carried a gold-headed cane. "Why, halloo! Blink, where have you been keeping yourself?" "We shook hands, and, looking upon me rather compassionately, he replied: I told you that I was going to get out of that grind, and I have done so." "But how did you accomplish it? You often declared that your slave term on a daily paper had unhtted you for any other business." "i wai tell you. had saved up a few dollars, and with the amount started weekly paper out in the suburbs.

Come out with me. It will do you good to look at my establishment. Come right on now let's take this car." I had not time to argue, so I went with him. We went out quite a distance.to a beautiful village, where maple trees grew carefully kept door-yard3, and where blooming shrubbery nodded in a per fumed breeze. I felt like an escaped prisouer as I looked upon the half-lazy contentment of the people, and 1 wished that I might come and dream my life away among them.

"Here we are," said Blink.as he open ed a gate in front of a neat cottage. "It does not look much like a printing-office from the outside, does it?" I was too much impressed by the com fort-breathing surroundings to reply, He showed me into a neat apartment which I should have termed a parlor.but which be soon informed me was his editorial-room. "I am a king here," said he. "My paper circulates among the best people in the village, which naturally gives me a strong pull with advertisers. I have very little to do write an editorial or two on the necessity of a lamp-post at a certain corner, or the extreme necessity of every citizen coming out to the town election.

It's the first time in my life that I ever had any real ease, and I should be contented to drift on this way forever. Let me shw vou the compos-ingroom." I CALLED ON MINNIE. He conducted me to a room Where there were all the appliances for printing a small paper. I had never seen a picture of such perfect contentment. There was a neatly dressed foreman with his Bleeves rolled up; there was the boy, standing on a box, learning to set type; there was a happy-looking dog, lying in a corner, tapping the floor with his tail, and on a bundle of paper lay a large cat, purring an accompaniment "to a dream of conquest.

"This is not all," said Blink, proudly, contemplating my gaze of astonishment. "Step this way." He led me into a back yard where flowers were blooming, and then pointed to a lot where he kept a Jersey cow. "Ton see," said my friend, "I am at home here. But of this yon can not really JQde until voa haTe sPent a niht witn me. "I can as well as not; have a day's layoff." "All right," he delightedly exclaimed.

I shall never forget that night of comfort nor the morning of surprise. We were called by the office-boy at 7 o'clock, and when we went Into the editorial -room a half-hoar later were informed that breakfast was awaiting. In the dining-room we found everything in ex- ceuent oraer; me ncnest or cream bad been generously supplied by Jersey ft. (i i Iff I Mosurs Cave in the siienandoaii TALLEY, TIKGIXIA. A Carious Relic of 1815 Military taw-Interesting: Items and News Notes for Veterans.

The Subterranean Cave of Mosby. One day not long after the burning Df Shenandoah Valley small inspecting squad of cavalry men of the Union Army rode by the cha rred ruins of a lonely house in the valley. One of the squad happening to ride across a part of ashy debris discovered that the hind legs of his horse had sunk through a half-charred trap-door. Calling to his comrades he finally succeeded in extricating his horse from the trap, when they found a wooden staircase down into a subterranean opening. As they wound down the wooden staircase they found below a rocky strata a cool cavern 70 feet deep, 30 feet wide and about 200 feet long, having an opening on the Shenandoah under the bluff.

This cavern was still partially strewn with straw, which had undoubtedly been used as bedding for horses, and was divided off, by slanting poles in some instances swung by ropes in the top of the cavern, into stalls for horses. In several of these stalls rude boxes were placed at their head and stray remnants of hay were discovered, showing plainly that a large number of horses had been quartered there. The cavern was ventilated at intervals by wooden shafts running up to the roots of trees and arranged in such a way as to defy detection. On the walls of this cavern hung large iron rings, showing plainly that the cave had" been lit by lanterns. The stable surely could not be that of a private house.

There were stalls enough in it to hold easily between two and three hundred horses and more, if crowded. Following the cavern along, they came at length to the throat of the cave that opens out on the river. This opening was obscured by well arranged rocks, interlacing vines and shrubbery on its banks. It was narrow and only wide enough for one horseman to enter at a time. The water at the mouth of the cave wr.s about three feet deep.

The mystery of Mosby' sudden disappearance was solved. It was at this very spot that he had been so often seen suddenly to Could there be devised a more masterly retreat? An underground stable, out of which at one end a stairway should lead up into a house, which was undoubtedly Mosby' headquarters, where he and his officers drank their healths to those who were looking all about for their horses just over their heads, planned their nightly attacks, slept with their guards posted about them, and laughed, as well they might, at the long joke which they had played upon the whole Northern army. 1 light, to wheel, to hang on to the outskirts of an enemy, and, after seducing him for miles in weary pursuit, suddenly to disappear, and as suddenly to feed, to sleep, to hear nothing of the sounds of war save muffled footsteps scurrying overhead. "What a joculoso tactic! And still what could possibly be better? Suppose the house is surprised. The staircase opens and the trap in the cellar closes on it tightly.

Who would dream of a trap there? But suppose a human ferret or bloodhound scent the fine line and lift the trap. What of it? The whole tile of 200 horses in an instant could pass out of the other end and swim the river, or rush upon Loudon Heights. Or the riders could leave their horses and drop down the Shenandoah by boat to a place of safety, or better yet, they could stand in the dark of tho cavern and pick off all who could possibly come down that staircase one by one, killing all, and losing none. And they could do the same thing at the other end, where only ona could enter at a time. What a place in the hot summer was that river, at tho very mouth of the cavern, to lead horses to water.

How easy of transportation was hay, or oats, or corn, or straw, or forage generally. The bales all came down the river in the night by boat, and were quietly towed right in through the mouth of the cave into the cave stable. And best of all, it was a threadless clue. There were no prints either going out or coming in, for as fast as they were made tho tracks of the horses' hoofs were all washed away by three feet of flowing water. And that opening on the river.

Would any human being suspect it unless his attention was called to it? A person passing by it in a boat would think it but a small cavo between the rocks. From all that I have heard and seen I have very little doubt but that in vestigation would lead to the discovery of a similar cavalry quarters under ground on Loudon Heights and also in the Louray Valley. At both these spots about the mouth of these caves the appearances and disappearances of Mosby' 8 men were of the same sud den and unaccountable character. It was impossible to follow Mosby up the narrow passes and track him to his rocky lair from the fact that as you gained the top of the height you would have been picked off by the sharp- shootert. It was impregnable.

When Mosby finally surrendered it was in the valley where he had been a scout. His own inclination was not to surrender. He did so reluctantly. He surrendered with what remained of his old command, about 400 men, ail dressed in new rebel uniforms. He surrendered under the oath administered to soldiers of the regular army, and passed sullenly away.

Miller Hagemax. A Relic of 1815. In a little grocery in New Orleans is a picture, which by no stretch of the imagination can be considered a work of art, yet it possesses a peculiar interest to the Orleanian. as being possibly the only record extant of one of the great events in the history not only of Louisiana but of the country itself. It is an oil painting about 6 by 4 feet in dimensions, surrounded by a cheap, home-made frame.

The scene represents the ceremonies which were hald at the Chalmette battleground on the day of the funeral of General and President 'Hickory" Jackson. The figures are fiat, stiff and awkward la the extreme; the perspective is as a of a and playfully tapped the floor with his tail. "Blink," said "this is the happiest household I have ever seen. If I could hope to secure such a paradise I should not mind toiling year after year." "You can secure It, my dear 1 rill simply" save you! boy.if you "But that is a very difficult thine to do. I am engaged to marry the handsomest girl in the city and have been flaying for some time and have succeed ed only in raking together SoOO.

Me thought for a moment. Ihe cat purred; the dog tapped the floor with his tail. "John," said he, "has your girl got auy money?" Oh, she may have a few hundred dol lars." "Well, I'll tell you what I was think ing about My uncle wants me to come out west, and I have been thinking of selling this place. Yon may have it, dog, cat, cow, and all, lor isl.ouu. Then, without replying.

I fell into a blissful musing. How charmed my Minnie would be. I begged Blink 'to say nothing to any one until he had seen mo again. In a whirl of delight I returned to town and that evening called on Minnie. How her eyes sparkled when I told her of the village paradise! She would help me raise the money.

I should go out immediately and take charge of the paper, and just as soon as she could arrange her wedding outfit we should be married. Well, I paid Blink the money and took charge of the office. There was the dog and the cat and the boy and the foreman with hia Bleeves rolled up, and there, too. was the Jersey cow. I could scarcely realize the change in my condition, and.

as sat at the table writing an editorial on the crying necessity of grading Maple street, was afraid that the 6cene might be suddenly shifted and that I might find myself in a dingy old room, receiving instructions from a city editor, but the scene was not shifted I was in paradise. The second night after my installation I sat up rather late, writing an article on the tariff, having turned my attention to national affairs, but I was consoled by the thought that I should not have to get up early, and that when I did get up there would be an excellent breakfast and rich cream from the Jersey cow waiting for me; but when I went into the dining-room the next morning I found that the table had not been set and that no fire had been made in the stove. Having expected so much 1 was naturally a little put out at this, and stepping into the composing-room I called the foreman and said: "Ah, Mr. Jackson.why is it that breakfast is not "Ah, come off!" he replied. "Do you take me for a scrub? I've been wearing out my life for you blamed capitalists about as long as I'm going to.

I've been waiting to teach some feller a lesson and I believe I'll give it to you;" and before I could realize what he meant he danced up and boxed my jaws, and the boy jumped off his box and hit me with a broom; the dog jumped up and bit me; the cat sprang off her bundle of paper and scratched me. I ran out of the back THE COW KICKED ME AS I WENT THROUGH THE BACK YARD. door.and as I passed through the lot the Jersey cow kicked me. The paradise had been turned into a place of torment, particularly so when, calling upon Blink, I found that he had not owned the house, but simply rented it. Minnie is clerking in a store.

I am still in the newspaper business I am doing night police. The Doctor's First Fee "Was a Pis "Doctors have queer experiences in the beginning of their medical career," said one of the young medics who recently was graduated into the science of healing here in Detroit. "I began practicing as an under-graduate in a lumber town in northern Michigan, and if I had but little money my patrons had less. I wanted to put an advertisement in the weekly paper, and was permitted to go into" the composing- room and general office and set it up myself, to save The first fee had was a pig." There was a roar of 'aughter from his chums, toothpicks all lound, and he resumed: "I was sent for to see a very sick woman. Six or seven other women were in the room, and they all flocked around me and all talked at once.

1 hadn't an idea of what ailed her, and I haven't to this day, but I at once prescribed anti-pyrine and opium powder, to be given at regular intervals. In the morning she was better and I discontinued the medicine. In a few days she was well. Her husband said he had no monev, but he would give me a pig worth $12. I shouldered the pig and sold it on my way home for $5.

That was my first fee." Detroit Free Press. Advice to Smokers. If you are a smoker, and don't own a cigar case, carry your cigars in your upper waistcoat pocket, on the left, with the mouth end down. The constant motion of the right arm (presuming you are right-handed) is sure to crush the tobacco or loosen the wrapper if the cigar be on the right side, and the same result is more readily attained with the match end down. If you have to let a cigar go out.

do not pull in the last puff, but blow it through the burning end. This expels the nicotine that would otherwise gather at the mouth, and prevents the cigar from having a rank taste. Indeed some smokers question whether a cigar is not improved by this method of reducing it to an "old soldier.1' Compressing Coal. An TCnorlich innntnr nloima fr 1M II AM III, a system by which coal gas can be com- Eressed into 8 per cent of its natural ulk, and in that shape carried about and turned into an illuminant at an; time by simply turning a stop-cock an! I lighting tne evaporation. i our silver salt-cellars of tbe 16th oenrory sold in London lately for $700.

The Tart riayed by th Letter In the Affairs of the Napolecns. The first one who discovered Napoleon's genius was Marbceuf in the College Militaire. Tho battle of Marengo was the first won by General Bonaparte; upon this Melas yielded his place in Italy to him. Later one of his best generals was Morticr, whose oppositea Napoleon's betrayer, was Moreau. Murat was the first victim of hi political strategy.

Maria Louisa shared the time of his highest fortune, Moscow became the scene of his fall, and Mettcrnich vanquished him on the battlefield of diplomacy. Six of his generals (Massena, Mor-tier, Marmont, Macdonald. Murat and Moncej') and twenty-six division geu-erals had the initial to their names. Maret, duke of Bassano. was his truest adherer.

Montalivet was his minister, and his first chancellor was a Montesquieu. His last residence in France was Malraaison. The captain's name who took him to St. Helena was Maitland, and his companions there were Montholon and his servant Marchand. The ife of Napoleon III.

was a Mon-tijo and his most intimate friend was Moray. The greatest triumph for hiia aud his armv durinjr the Crimean war was the taking of Malakoff and Maine- Ion. The names Moutcbello names iUouteuello ana Magenta appear in the foreground ia the Italian war. Later it is MacMahon. who played one of the most important roles during the Franco-German war, and who was appointed duke of Magenta by Napoleon.

"Then we come to the epoch hen Napoleon entered Maitland and shortly after drove the Austrians out of Mariano. His greatest enemy was Mazzini. After the battle of Solferino on the Miucio, Napoleon closed the gates of Mantua. Then followed the sad affair of Mexico and Emperor Maximilian. In the year 1870 Metz was one of the aims of the French operations, but being driven back over the Moselle the destinj' of Napoleon found a fatal conclusion at Sedan, on the Moselle.

Then followed the capitulation of Metz, but all his disaster was brought about by the wisdom of oue of the greatest strategists of our times and the German fatherland, Moltke. A New Life-Saving Celt. In nautical circles a newly patented life-saving belt is attracting much attention. This new apparatus, which has just passed muster at the Berlin patent bureau, is a hollow girdle, air and water proof, which is intended primarily for the use of ship's crews. It claps around the body at the waist line, and in its empty condition is easily carried.

To this girdle is attached a little iron flask, which contains carbonic acid or carburetted hydrogen gas. the former mixed with from 10 to 20 per cent of pure alcohol, in order to prevent the chilling of the gases when quitingthe flask. The hollow space in the belt has a capacity of 100 litres, or a little less than 100 'English quarts; 200 grains of fluid carbonic acid gas and twenty grains of alcohol arc required to fill it. When the belt is to be used a conveniently placed valve is opened and fills at once with the light gases. An automatic feather valve placed at one side, prevents more than the projcr amount from being transfused.

Ac-! cording to seientitie principles. 100 litres of gas will displace the same amount of water; that is to say, will support in the water a weight corresponding to 100 in other words, 100 kilograms. It is quite clear, therefore, that any human being equipped with this girdle has every prospect of success in a contest with the waves. Oa the high seas, cf course, it is necessary, in addiiton to this girdle to have a hermetically scaled and water-tight sack in which several days' rations can be placed, that the swimmer may not die of hunger. The invention will be invaluable in all cases of accident on the water, like the disaster at Samoa or the sinking ol the Cimbria.

Woman's Dress At lircafast. So far as possible let all women dress beautifully; so God dresses the meadows and the mountains. Let them wear pearls and diamonds, if they can afford it God has hung round the neck of His world strings of diamonds, end braided tbe black locks of tbe itorm with bright ribbons of rainbow. Especially before and right after breakfast, ere they expect to be seen of the world, let them look neat and attractive for the family's sake. One of the most hideous sights is a slovenly woman at a breakfast-table.

Let woman adorn herself. Let her speak on platforms so far as she may have time and ability to do so. But let no mothers imagine that there is any new wav of successfully training children, or of escaping the old-time self-denial and continuous painstaking. T. Dt Witt Talmage in Ladiif Home Journal.

Emln Pasha and Stanley. It is evident from Emin Tasha's re marks that not only was he an unwilling companion of Stanley to the coast, but that Stanley's going to Ids succo: was the cause of his loss of heart an of many of his disasters. For tei years he had managed to keep ordet and authority in his province and thert is no reason why he should not havt maintained himself for ten years ot even fifty years more had he received the kind of succor he wanted and askej for. Bnt Emin had to be drago-el away from his province to prevenriTin making alliances with Germany and to make thrilling chapters for Stanley'! 1200.000 book. N.

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