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Tobogganing in Canada. MIGRATION OF THE LEMMDfGS. The scene upon a winter's evening is BODY DUDLEY, W. J. LLOYD, Treasurer.

0. E. COSBY, Secretary. Uttlo Animals Which Ravage the Country picturesque and gorgeous. bhortly i JEROME and then Flange Into the Sea, after dusk tne guests DegintoassemDie, Once in about every twenty-five years young and old, men and women, being for the greater part apparelled in proper costume, and bringing with 9 Norway and Sweden are the scene of a migration which ia one of the wonders of the natural world, says Harpers THE SMOKY VALLEY them skates and tODoggans.

xne iaay wears suit of blanket cloth, white, Bazar. The participants in this move ment are tiny rat-like creatures, called popularly lemmings and scientifically tntodes lemmus. The lemmings is not more than six inches long including a The coming metropolis of the blue, nffrtle, magenta, the Bame being fancifully trimmed with colors to match. Upon her feet she has buff moccasins, and upon her head a toque of rich color with a long streaming tassel. The men wear similar costumes, knee-breeches, and long black stockings.

It frequently half-inch tail, and individually is no more interesting than a thousand other animals, but collectively it challenges attention. happens that neither moon nor star is LAND CO. It lives ordinarily among the peat to be seen upon one of these festive evenings at the hall, and then an enor mosses of the mountains, and although the principal food of all the predacious mous bon-hre, constructed ot many cords of dry logs, burns in the midst of animals of that region, it continues to increase so rapidly in numbers that by II SI VALLEY, the grounds, it3 gusts of fiamo playing amoai the pines, and waking a thous the time the migratory movement takes place the mountains fairly swarm with its congregated families. From near Dealers in and shadows into mad revel. Those who are afraid to descend the dizzy slides stand in the glare of the giant fire, and the ear furtherest from the and from far the lemmings come, led by.

a restless impulse, and after form' flame may turn white, while the nigh ing an immense army on some great plateau, start east or west, as the case one Is red, for the mercury is at the may be, and an undeviating line of moment probably 20 degrees below i ESTEM LMDS march forward. Hills, valleys, lakes, zero, it is seldom that a more gor rivers, are crossed with an utter dis- geous spectacle is presented than when regard to the havoc made in their ranks a couple of hundred costumed guests by death. pathe about this fire, the colors of It is a sad time for the farmer, for their garments brightened by the glare, when the living torrent pours over a and the gloomy depths ot the pine woods forming a background to the cultivated section it spreads and lingers till everything eatable is cone, in the picture, But all the excitement is in another direction. Jbrom the head of meantime bringing forth young in great numbers and with unusual rapidity, so that, despite all the numerous causes of each of the slides already referred to, WE Cm. KANSAS descends an icy trough, and along each Bide hangs a row of Chinese lanterns, whose sober, unwavering glow is a con destruction that follow or await it, the terrible army actually increases in size during its onward march.

Besides the rivers and lakes, which swallow up stant rebuke to the mad revelling down Is located on a beautiful sunny slope on the north bank of the Smoky Hill River in the Southern part of Gove County, and is surrounded by as fine the slippery steep. Lach toboggan great multitudes, a prolific source of FRANK L. BROWN, Cashie THEO. H. BROWN, President.

accommodates from two to four per deatn is found in the various animals of sons, the stearer throwing himself upon the country. Carnivorous beasts and his side, and steering his conveyance in its lightening career by a quick touch birds, such as wolves, foxes, wild-cats, of his raoccasined toe. The speed of FIRST BANK OF GBAINFIELD, the various members of the weasel family, eagles, hawks, and owls, follow the moving army with wild cries and the toboggan is equal to that of lightening express, and during my first insatiable gluttony. This is quite natural, perhaps, but what is extraordinary, many herbivorous animals seem descent 1 imagined that I was falling sheer down a precipice, and my heart and complete interior economy seemed to rise into my throat. No object is distinguishable during tho downward KANSAS.

GRAINFIELD, to be driven to fury by the invasion of the little creatures, and, deserting their ordinary food, rush among the lem Buy and sell Foreign and Domestic Exchange. Loan mou mings, and not only stamp them to plunge; Chinese lanterns, returning tobogganers, the icy bank, and the motionless spectators, all being mingled death, but use their teeth for the same purpose, and even eat the flesh. Rein an agricultural country on good -signatures, or satisfactory collaterals. Interest allowed deer and cows are prominent this deadly employment; while man, with like the passing ensemble of a kaleidoscope. No one seems to enjoy this exciting passage a3 the Canadian girl, and a picturesque sight it is to see her as she is shot past, her toque and head- on time, deposits by special agreement.

his household pets, the eat and the dog, exerts himself the same destructive as can be found in the work. Still the stream pours on, never de COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. wrap streaming behind, her eyes gleaming with excitement. But either by night or day there is only the space of a heart-beat given you to note her look, viating from the course first laid out, filling the air with vile odors and mak ing the earth loathsome. For three vears this terrible sooirrca afflicts tha for sho goes past bravely reliant upon the gallant stoersman Tith the impetuosity of a shot-bolt.

land, resisting all efforts to turn it or conquer it, and covering with desola Dramatic Escape of Gen. Beale's Daugh tion every spot it visits, until at last the REAL ESTATE LOANS. CORRESPONDENTS: mo. the Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of ter. Gen.

Beale's daughter Mary married Bothnia interposes its impassable a distinguished Russian, a member of waters. Does it then turn back JSo. With the same frightful disregard of Far-famed "Golden Belt" of the Great West. consequences which has characterized the diplomatic service of his nativa country. Several years ago they wore living in Paris.

The husband was connected with the Russian legation. Gen. Beale's daughter had at that time a stag-hound of unusual size and purity the infatuated creature from the outset, the whole army, with eager haste, REFERENCES: Gov. Wm, H. Larrabee, Des Moines, la.

First plunge into the waves, andthere ends National Bank, Griswold, Bank of Atlantic, Atlantic, Iowa. the migration. of breed. It was very docile and her What is the cause of this extraor favorite companion. lie nearly always dinaryfact? Nobody knows.

The most plausible theory yet advanced says that the vast increase in numbers of the went out with her. One day the dog disappeared. As he was a great pet and a dog of unusual value, they advertised JEROME is situated seven F. W. MARTIN lemming in its mountain home creates a scarcety of food.

Hunuer arouses for him, and sought through the police to recover him. One night when the Russian diplomate and his wife were the desire to seek for food elsewhere, and, a movement once made, a long- teen miles south of Gove City dormant instinct of migration, which seated about an open fire in their salon after returning from the opera there most animals possess, forces it to con was a knock at the door. Ihis was so KANSAS, GOVE CITY, tinue its onward march with unreasoning and fatal persistency. Clans Mag unusual at this late hour of the night and eighteen miles north of nus and some other writers have sug that the Russian went himself to answer the knock. As the door opened gested that the lemmings are a scourge rained down from heaven, but there are several fairly good reasons for not ac two men entered having the lost dog attached to a stout stick, which held Has a large and well selected stock of Dighton, and is destined to be him between them, but yet kept them cepting this theory.

at a safe distance. Gen. Beale's son- in-law was delighted to see the dog Liquid Fuel In Russia. come the Licmid fuel has made during the last again, lhe dogs mistress was specially pleased. Tho dog, however, showed no sign of pleasure or recogni few days a fresh advance in European water, the Bailing vessel rrotektsia, ht HARDWARE ted with tanks, having arrived at tion.

He went over into an opposite corner and would pav no attention to Odessa with 300 tons of petroleum re their calls. They thought that he fuse, which was at once purchased for might foel strange, and so paid no various Russian factories there, hitherto further attention to him. buddenly, using English coal, cays Engineering, ft The consignment was from the Cau- without even a bark of warning, this great dog sprang and bit his mistress right through the upper lip and on her dill caususport of Novorossisk, where potro i U1UU leum refuse has been selling for some cheek before her husband could reach time past at about Is shillings per ton. the stout collar which still encirclod As, by means of the Russian furnaces the dog's nock. Tho Russian succeeded w.

ft j'A in use, a ton of oil rofuse goes as far as two tons of English ooal, the latter is altogether out of tha running at Odessa; in half a moment in dragging the dog oil from his mistress, and then he had a terrifio fight with the infuriated am and we may expect in consequence to see a. considerable development of the mal. If he had not beon very muscu of Western Kansas. Grade new enterprise. We ourselves, in dis lar, he would not have succeedod in subduing him.

He succooded finally in dragging him into a bath-room and cussing the future of liquid fuel, have always expressed the opinion that its locking him up, but not until his right arm was bitten and torn from shoulder use would spread gradually from the stakes have already been set Caspian to the Black sea, and thence to the Mediterranean and the East in to wrist. The scene that followed is dramatio advance of any sudden and sweeping success at home prognosticated by en through the town for enough for tho most sensational of plays. Tho moment the door was locked the Russian returned. He elanced ouicklr at the fireplace, where thusiastic inventors in this country. Up to now this view has been justified by events.

And Stoves he saw the poker was imbedded in the Liquid fuel has made very little coals, and was fortunately nearly at headway in England, whore it has to compote with cheap coal, while it has white heat. He drew it at once from its bod, and said to his wife "The dog only been adopted by a number of vessels running between Batum and is mad. This is our only chance to es cape a horrible death. These wounds Odessa, at both of which ports coal is must bo cauterized at once." lhe brave dear, but at lentrth has buen adopted THREE RAILROADS, and before January 1st, 1888, her citizens also by factories at Odessa. In all American wife never flinched.

With the courage of her soldier father Bhe A large and complete stock of probability, now that a start has been submitted to have the flaming iron burn mado in conveying oil refuse in bulk in most cruelly the flesh of her fair face, A momont's delay upon her part, or the uiacK sea, the enterprise will extend, and before long successors to the Protektaia may be conveying it to the cowardice, would have mado the opera tion upon her husband's arm useless. confidently expect to see the "varnished Mediterranean ports. The fact that the AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS Russians should have mado this start The moment aftor cauterizing nor wounds the Russian turned to his own arm, and thoroughly burnod every thomsolves shows that they are not do cars" steaming into the city. pendent upon Enfitlish capital and en break mado in his fiosh by the dog, terprise in this matter. JNovorssisk is Aftor this had been done as com the outlot of the Black Sea petroleum A number of good business and dwelling as it was possible, they sent for the sur Just received.

Call and get prices. fields, and now that the railway through thom is nearly finished, a copious sup croon of the Russian legation, lie was one of tho finest Hiirgeons in Europe ply Of oil is bocoming available for houses are already completed and many He came and examined them. I have employed T. H. Bacon, a first-class steamers.

A telegram to the Kavlcaa brought his irons to porform the opera statos that of the two tunnols delaying tion of cauterizing, but he said after he came that ho had nothing to do. The Harness maker, and am now prepared'to do the opening of the lino, one is flntslted and tho other will bo complotod by April Tha railway will then be vounsr Russian dinlomnte had per formed the work as well as if ho had finished throughout, and English coal all kinds of work in his line; Harness, Sad beon a skillful surgeon. The surgeon also added that thore was no danger. Tho dog was undoubtedly mad. It tore evervthinor to piuoes in the room more are now under way.

For further information address THE JEROME TOWN CO. will experience a formidable rivalry in tho Blaok Boa region. It is unnecessary to discuss here which will prove tho better fuoL The faot roninins that where it was confined, and died in hor dles, Collars, Whips, etc, etc. F. W.

MARTIN. tho Russians pro for potroloum fuel to Enlish ooal. and that tho two of liquid rible aaronv. Gen. Boalo savs that loot is making rapid headway in Mouth noithor his daughter nor her husband hare over felt the slightest symptoms eui torope.

of trouble resulting from this aooidont..