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CLYD2, washhtgtoh street. S-MJV HOWELL BROS. Drugs Micinos, FWRS, OILS, BRUSHES, NOTIONS, ETC. 3Lb TLT IB 353 3HL A full and complete line of Dear Grandmother Drown Uvv InCranDerrytown And kindly old woman was she; There was no one so Dad. Xltaer law4o or lad, Hi some good in the same she could see.

One June afternoon If istress Polly Muldoon Ban In for tbat moment that ends In an hour or more. And dtd nawrht but talk o'er The short-comings of neighbors and friends. But in vain did she Mold About young folks and old. Only patient excuses she heard, Till at last she cried out: "You would siHMk, I've no doubt. For old Satai himself a good word." Then s.iid Grandmother Brown Of Cranbcrrytown: whatever his failin's may be, 1 don't think we could And Many people who mind Their own business as closely as he." Uaryaret Eutinoe, in Harter' Mayazinc.

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A German paper says that a roof can be made fire-proof by covering it with a mixture of lime, salt and wood ashes, adding a little lampblack to give a dark color. This not only guards aga nst tre, it is claimed, but "also in a measure prevents decay. A New Haven man has invented a new kind of a parachute, which is fastened around the centre of the balloon itself and it is expected to bring the whole affair, including the aeronaut, down safely If any accident happens to the balloon Hartford Post. There is hardly any safety railway appliance but may be improved, and inventors who are seeking for prolitable fields of labor will do well to investigate the cause of railway accidents and devise means of greater. to life, limb and property.

Scien ific American. Mr. Case, a'wat-jhmaker of Franklin, has completed a locomotive and tender six inches long all told, that has every part complete that is found in a-working engine. It is made of gold, silver and and is destined tor the New Orleans exhib tion. Post.

Experiments by Dr. Pehl, of St. Petersburg, go to support the theory that the waters of rivers are purified by the motion (mass or molecular) imparted to the liquid. Bringing waters into rapid motion by means of a centrifugal machine the number of developing gcrma of bacteria was reduced by ninety par cent. The Photographic Journa1 reports an ingenious way to -event forgery of bank notes.

This is no other than the employment of an invisible actinic ink, of which no trace can be seen on the paper or upon the imago upon the focusing screen. As soon, however, as you come to develop your plate, the word -forgery" appears in bold letters right across the negative. The height and velocity of clouds may be determined by meaus of pho AND Letter, Note and Fancy Paper. Uuciy, Focd QiidQb Static Musical Inotrumento TOTS, FANCY GOODS, SALE HORSES; CONSTANTLY ON HAND. HORSES, BUGGIES AND ROAD WAGONS And a General Assortment of Specialties.

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ALLAUAY. Spanish Hand-Made, Curtiss Spitz "84," and Other Braids. the position of the cloud as photo- srraphed are thus obtained, and simple A Revival of the Old Superstition of Blood-Drinking; Bala and Men The Literature of Vampirism and Ita Influence on Knropeaa Peoples Stories That Were Told of Vampires and Their Doing in the I.aat Cent nr jr. A physician of local fame in an Eastern city said to the writer recently: This is an age of queer mental anil bodily delusions, despite its enlightenment. One ot the oddest cases that I ever saw 1 was called on to treat the other day.

A man came in to complain that hi ankles were wounded. I found that the wounds were scratches, and expressed my surpise that he should have a physician about a He said he often found the skin of his ankles broken in same way oq rising from bed. I suggested lhat he smoo the foot board, and not kick it so much. Then the real object of visit came out. What do 3-ou think it was With bated breath he whispered that he was the victim of a vampire not -a vampire bat, but a human vampire.

Actually, here was a sound, healthy, intelligent man cowering from the effects of that old superstition, lie hinted to me that lie knew who the vampire was a former enemy now deceased. He had come to me for a or something else, to exorcise his terrible visitor. I tried to laugh and chaff him out of the idea. Whether I succeeded 1 don't know. The man went away very m.ich depressed, and hasn't returned since.

I ought to have mentioned that he was a native of Hangar)-, and had imbibed vampirism in his childhood's home." This is one of several instances that have come under the writer's notice to prove that the ancient and horrible vampire belief is yet lingering upon earth. Certainly no more extraordinary or appalling belief ever troubled men's wits. The very idea is startling. That the dead returned from their graves to prey on the flesh and blood of the living should have ever been believe I by thousands of people sounds incredible. But it is a fact nevertheless.

The history of the vampire superstition ranges over years. It begins with the Lamia of the (J recks, a beautiful woman who ent'eed. youths to her in to drink their blood, and it may be said tojnd with the dawn of general education about seveniy-tive veors ago. At certain periods its believers have numbered hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of people, not, of the unlettered entirely, but in-eluded educated and scientific men of France, Germany and Italy. Fifty years ago the vampire was a well-known, figure in bteratu-e and the drama.

1 he foremost poet in England wascred ted with the authorship of a nonnlar ilav ealleil the "r9mnin." trigonometrical operations give the GrlViiJ TTTil Contractor Builder. Kansas. Clyde, height and distance from those data. Excliange. PITH AN POINT.

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Office and shop on Grand Avenue, between Mb and 6th Streets. through your soul's windows, but keep warm by the bre of attection. When er nan says dat dn laws The leader of tho Chinese army in, Tonquin, Too Tsung Tang, is seventy-eight years old. Not less than forty-four- deaths from starvation occurred in the city of London in 1383. In Morocco, when a thief is caught in the most trivial offense, they politely request him to hold up both hands.

Then they ask him What hand he would prefer to have in his possession, and when he has made his choice they cut the other. When a thef ha thus lost both hands, and also his feet, he loses his head and quits stea'ing. The br jwery of Bass, wno recently died in his eighty-lifth year, covers two hundred acre of ground, and 3,0 0 people are employed in it. He was the grand on of the founder of the brewery, and was a lo benefactor, having built c'ur. lies, cons ructed baths an.

I endowed a free library. The Basses have always been Liberals, while the other brewers, the Alls ps, have been Tories. Sit Jos ph Fayrcr, who has ben investigating snake po soning, says that to him one of the greatest mysteries is that a poisonous snake can not poison one of its species, scarcely its own congeners, and only ighlly any venomous nake; but it kills innocent snakes quickly. A vigorous cobra can kill several dogs, or from a dozen to twenty fowls befo its bite becomes impotent, and then the immun ty is of brief du-rat on, for the virus is rapidly re se cret d. Ten years ago a penniless man, with a peculiar shaped head, made a bargain with a London professor ot anatomy by which the latter was to have tho head on payment of the man's funeral expenses.

Meanwhile the man became wealthy, and when he died the other day his friends tried to av id fulfill th contra t. But th.3 professor and the matter is to hebr uirlit be ore the law court'. Pending the de-c sion, the defunct gentleman has l.ecn buried with his he id on his shoulders. '1 be late Louis Hymans, the great Belgian jurna ist, was an odd-looking little man with weak eyes, unkempt hair, a chronic air of astonishment on hi face, a curious twang in his voice, and a manner that was always droll, even when he wished to appear serious. Whenever he attended any public gath er ng he was obliged to make a pcec'i, and every one began to laugh befo he spoke his first word.

His ya of political argument in his editorials was usually the reductio ad absurduni. French Military Equipment. The simplic'ty and serviceablcness ol o.ir American lietd dross having been remarked by soveralof th; foreign staff, 1 venti re to repeat what were considered its objections. Our forage cap is very ni.ieh smaller than that worn by Furopsan officers, and is not, as is popularly believed, a copy of the French cap. The latter has a higher crown, which enables the wearer to keep it more firmly on the head, and its vizor slopes slightly downward, at an angie of about tuirty degrees with the horizon, comfortably shading the eyes from the sun.

Most of the forage caps worn by the foreign staff were very similar to the French pattern. Our long and somewhat looio trousers, worn equally mounted and afoot, involve riding boo's so wide at the top that rain eniers in stormy weather. Officers of other nations represented at the maneuvers mostly wore culot'cs (short, breeches,) fastened just below the knee to prevent their unching on the thighs from the motion of the horse, their riding boots conse jnently followed more closely the nat shape of the leg. Coats of mounted officers were generally very shoit and neatly outlined the figure of the wearer, without uncomfortably confining it by tight buttoning. A convenience which I noticed in the tie dress of many was an outside breast-pockoi, for carrying map, note-book and pencil, so thatth vse ai tides could be quickly used, when mounted, without unfastening the coat, tfome officers wo a neat and occasionally ornamental shoulder-belt, to which was attached a Citse for these articles and a field-glass.

The last-named component of an European officer's piipnient is smaller and mo: convenient than the heavy b'nocular glasses much used by us. Wi traordina i'y powerful lenses and with tubes of aluminum, they weigh but a few ounces, can be carried by a light string, and render objects several miles distant Very distinct. For wet weather some of the foreign officers had loose overcoats of dark blue water-proof ma'erial, neat, light and comfortable. Gauntlets were never worn; all object to them upon the same ground as tho wide-top riding-boot. Neat white "wash-leather gloves, easily cleaned daily wi soap and wate-, were generally worn.

In the field gloves of the same pattern ssemed to be authorized and were much worn. Excepting the Russians, who carry the saber suspended by a narrow sling passing over the right shoulder and under the left arm to the thigh, all the foreign ollicers seemed t) wear the waist-belt underneath the coat. French officers, when mounted, often detached the sabre from the belt and caught the upper ring to a short strap fastened high, near the cantcl of the saddle; the horse did not then bruise his shins by rlking the flying scabbard, when galloping, while the rider was spa ed constant jerking of the heavy weapon at the waist, French ollicers and troopers carry the revolver in a holster suspended by a narrow sling passinjr over the left shoulder to the right side; its we'ght is thus taken from the waist. Much thought seemed to be given to everything that would protect the abdominal region and relieve it from pressure; as a sanitary appliance, flannel de lan' is or bearin' down on hini, ycr KANSAS. CLAY CENTER, ken mighty nirh alius come tode cut sion dat he is er trvin' tcr ar down on de laws.

Arkstnta Trave'er. Prepared to do all kinds of is Very c'ose," wai observed by "he wills iuabble about a cent "Well," remarked "1 have always thought that the less one squabbles "We keep a full arid complete stoolc of Beds, Chairs, Sofas, Looking Glasses, Safes, Picture Frames, Cords and Anything You Want, CARPETS. A Full Stcsh of CARPETS. GIVE US' A CALL. SAYRE riORGAN, Carpenter, House, Bridge about the better." A.

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KANSAS. of Mcohi and Mappin as razor-seller Running- In fall blast. For voung ladies, if you know their The Story ef a Watch. One day I was passing through tie Green Park. Let me recall tat event ful day.

I have been working hard all day to catch up dost time; am now walking slowly through the park, when a sight meets my eye which makes me forget fatigue and change my strcll into a sharp walk. A crowd. I am soon in it. Wl at is th? matter? Indeed! Then I must stop. One does not see a Sultan every da--.

This is some'hing 1 ke. An Oriental potentate, in all his magnificence, is about to enter the palace of the great upon whose dominions tie sun never sets. Hark! M- sic! Here they come! Hurrah! A rush, a sqnoe, a man pu-hes rudely against me; 1 g'ance round at him; be isworking his way qu ckly through the crowd very quickly. A suspicion flashes upon me. "One touch of my hand to ivy side makes it cetainty.

Mv watch is gone! I plunge fiercely alter that roan. I think of my wife's tears, of my own vexation; I think, with a tender regret, of wind ng-np time; 1 feel like a father as 1 th nk of the times I have corrected my treasure I the church. I picture Blogg's pretended sympathy and secret ulee. 1 imagine him flaunting h's gold Geneva in my face, and myself without my good old forty-guinea English lever to pnt him down with: and all because of that black-whiskered now making his escape. These thoughts the thoughts of a moment give me the strength and energy of a 1 on.

I dash and push and squeeze through the people who give me no aid, but curse me volubly as stamp on their toes and dig my elbows into their ribs. I mak a tl tch at him. Missed, by a hand's breadth. Oh, if tbat man between us ha 1 been thin! Another attempt; I touch his coat Ons more I have him! Oh, the ecstasy of that moment, mingled wi the fear of his having passed the watch to a confederate! lie-fore I can g-tsp out a word he turns half round, slips it into my hand, and as I place it in my pocket he makes off once more, this time uopursued. for I have regained my treasure and am satisfied.

I do not venture to take it out of my pocket, but walk home at once, keeping my hand on my watch all the way. No one shall come near me till I reach home. I feci very hjt, but at the same time a hero. Have 1 not had anadvemu a-d have I not come through it triumphantly? tears now from my wife, no sneers now from Blogg. How I shall enjoy winding up mv watch to-night! Its value is it has a story! I wish I could go home on horseback "or by steam.

I am bu sting to tell my wife all about it. At last I am at home. I am sitting down. I begin my tale. I tell of the crowd, of the thief, of my loss.

My wife tties to interrupt me; I won't allow it. I describe the deed, the chaso. the capture, the rest I pause for my wife's words of admiration and congratulation, which I am sure will now follow. Mie says quietly: "My dear, you know you in a great hurry this morning. Jf you look on the mantelpiece you will see your watch, which you left at home." She was right.

I have now two watjhes! liOndon So ciety. "The Man Witlftlic Wax Head." fome terrible stories are told by the burial parties after the battle of lel-el-Kebir of tho ghastly nature of the wounds inflicted by modern arms of precision. In one case the dicers in charge found a poor Egyptian, who had been le for dead, w.th the upper part of his faee blown quite away. He was, however, still alive, and, notwithstanding his fearful injuries, was, by the ca-e and skill of the English doctors, fairly on the way to recovery when he was attacked by" dysentery, which proved fatal. A different fate, however, if not a more fortunate one, seems to have awa'ted Jean Moreau, a rench artilleryman, wounded in the Franco-German war, whose story is told by General Anibeit in the second volume of his "Souvenirs Militaires," which is shortly to be published iu Paris.

"Moreau entered the service in 1870, and on January 3, 1871, was engaged in the affair at Bapaume. Toward three o'clock in the afternoon, while he was loading a cannon, tie was struck' down by a shell, which, bursting ac: oss his face, tore away his nose, eyes, the. upper jaw and a portion of the lie was left for dead on the field, but after a time recovered his senses, and by chance staggered, falling at almost every step, on the road to the village of 'Ihe Colonel of the Twenty-fourth Regiment sent him from this place by carriage to the next morning, where he staid till the 4th of Octobei following. He was transfercd to the, military hospital of the Val de Grace at l'aris a fortnight latter, and rema ned there till the 2tth of March, 1872, when cicatrization was nearly complete. All the soft portions of the fore part of the head having disappeared, and the ny framework being crushed various places, the unfortunate man presented the appearance of a veritable death's head, with two cavities for the eyes, one for the nose, and a large opening fo the mouth.

How ver, by ingenuity and patience a wax resemblance of a face was invented and titled with the utmost exactitude to the healthy potlions of flesh which still surrounded the immense cicatrix. The adhesion, which is almost hermetic, was completed by a natural cushion of skin, which thus, as it were, keeps the border of the mask in a grove. The inner ca ity has also been utilized, ono of its uses by means of lint, to guard the patient against tho effects of sudden alternations of heat and cold, while tho upper jaw and the palate are protected by a plate, to which are attached a row of false teeth, and mastication of the hardest kinds of food is successfully performed. "Thanks to the disposition of the natural parts and the ingenious shaping of the mask, and particularly that of the false nose, respiration is rendered possible through its nostrils, and, indeed, has regained the normal direction, from below to above. The system of aeration is assisted by two small holes toward the inner angle of the eyes creating a current of air, the eyes themselves of course being closed.

Ihe sese of smell, strange to say, has been regained, while the voice possesses its natural tone and clearness. Thus Moreau who when' he removes his mask, it is needless to say, presents a most hideous aspect, inconsequence of the disappearance of a great part of the bony portions, as well as the muscles which should cover them, and of whose head there literally remains only the brain and the cranium is enabled by this wonderful exercise of medical skill and constructive talent to breathe, eat, speak, smell, and even, so it is said, to play the flute. The mutilated soldier, who is fond of chatting about his campaigns, possesses that resigned common to blind men, and his sense of touch, moreover, has excessively developed. He lives at Favril, Landrecies, in the Nord Department, and ekes out his pension by the sale of a pamphlet recounting the facts of his wondrous cure. says General Ambert, 'it would have been well to nave kept silence about this poor fellow; but It ia not sufficient to only show the gloria of war every one should know the sacrifioesof tae soldier.

This ono has given more than his life, for each day which passes is a But lioroau never complains, lie is hold In groat respect by thoWawtawki3a, and feels a renniao DrkU tx shoWJFr la Chaise, and a heavy bomb concealed beneath it. One night the sentinels posted about the cemetery heard the bomb They entered, but beyond a few drops of blood and some fragments of military clothing, found no trace of the vampire. Next day it became known that Sergeant Bertrand, a soldier, was dangerously wounded. He was arrested. On his court-martial, of which Colonel Mansolon was President, Bertrand confessed to having committed all the horrible violations of graves, but could not explain why he did it.

Ho was controlled by a great power, he Like de Retz, this man was frank, gay. and gentle. He was sentenced to twelve months1 imprisonment, and a counsel of physicians appointed to examine his nd. These are more properly stories ot were-wolves, since the distinction in vampirism made between the vampire roper and the were-wolf is that the atter is alone all the time, and the other arises from his grave only at night- The true vampire, according to the superstition, may be detected by the signs of life he presents on being exhumed from his grave. His cheeks are red.

his lips moist, his flesh warm, and his veins full of rich red blood. In the literature and legends of Hungary, Silesia, Poland, bohemia, Morav'a and the Grecian Islands, where the vampire is easiest f6und, he is always the same, a terrible creature who re urns to earth at night to kill men and women and drink their blood. He is a vampire by inclination, by inheritance, or by the curse of his own misdeeds. He has usually the power to transform those person's whom he attacks into vampires like himself Such is the vampire of the legends of these countries, and sue h. it may be added, be is in all essential particulars the same to-day.

For among the poorer and more ignorant peasantry of Silesia, Poland, llun-gary, and especially Crete, the vampire belief is by no means eradicated. It st 11 exists. A traveler in the latter country informed the writer he witnessed a few years ago the ceremony of exorcising a vampire. It was the sa-ue method in use a hundred and fifty years ago. The body was dug up, the heart removed and burned on the seashore.

Among the eld chains this was the only one considered effective. Driving a stake through the vampire's heart, whipping his grave with a hazel switch wielded by a virgin not less than twenty-five years old, putting pieces of silver in his month, tying up his jaws tightly, were all of no avail the vampire continued to return until his body was exhumed and incinerated. From a large collection of vampire stories these are a few of the bet. The story ot the Arnold Paul vampire gained a wide in Enrope "about 1725. Arnold Paul was a peasant who lived on the borders of Hungary.

Neat Madnerga he fell from a wagon and was crushed to death. He was duly buried and forgotten. Thirty days later four persons had died, each with a small incision in his throat, the edges of wh ch were purplish. Another person, a young girl, declared that in the night she had awakened with a terrible feeling of suffocation. In the dim light she recognized Arnold Paul, and cried: "Avaunt, vampire, in Jesus' name." and the vampire immediately vanished.

Paul's grave was opened and his body was found to present strong signs of life. There were traces of blood about his lips and blood on his hands. The Embassador of Louis XV. was present at the disinterment and stated that the full liie blood was in the cheeks of the supposed corpse. Paul's body was burned, his ashes scattered to the four winds, and from that time the vampire vexed Badnerga no more.

Another vampire story is taken from a book containing many which was published under the protection of the Bishop of Olmultz in 170 A herdsman nanfed Blow, who lived near kadam, in 1'ohcmia, was suspected of being a vamp re while in lite. After his death and burial several persons were killed and the flocks about the place were sadly decimated. Blow's grave was opened. He sat up, confessed he was a. vampire, and defied the villagers to prevent hm from glutt'ng bis fearful appetite.

A stake was put into his colli by direction of a physician, whereupon the vampire thanked him ironically. That night he arose and killed three persons, besides twenty head of cattle. His body was carried out of the village and burned, his blood gushing forth the while, and his lips uttering fearful cries. Another somewhat similar case in Gradltz is attested by two officials of the tribunal of Belgrade, and the King's officer, who were present as ocular witnesses at the operation of destroying the. vampire.

Mr. Pashley relates that a man of note was buried in St. George's Church in Kalkrati, in the island of Crete. In the popular belief he was in life a vampire. An arch was built over his grave to hold him down.

One night a shepherd lay down, to sleep near the grave, leaving his arms arranged so as to form a cross. The vampire rose in the night, but could not pass over the cross. He requested the shepherd to remove it, as he had important business in the village. On his promise to return shortly, the shepherd removed the cross. The vampire went into the village, killed a man and woman, and drank their blood.

The following day his body was taken out and burned. A drop of his blood spurted upon the foot of a bystander, and instantly that member withered. The scene of another manifestation of the superstition which ended in a tragedy was laid in Hungary. A young miller, on the eve ot his marriage with a peasant girl, was suddenly seized with a mortal illness, expired, and was buried the next day. That night several cattle were killed in a mysterious manner, and the youn man's betrothed dreamed that she heard him calling for help.

Her story, together with the incident of the dead cattle, inflamed the minds of the villagers, already saturated with the vampire belief. They repaired in a body to the miller's grave. On opening it the supposed corpse sat up with a lond cry. The mob vampire, and fell upon him immediately and beat and mangled him with stones and clnbs. A physician who examined the body shortly afterward declared it his opinion that the young man had awakened from a trance only to be murdered by his former friends.

Chicago Inter-Ocean. 9 Av L. Shephard, of Dallas, visiting" at Hartford, lost a roll of greenbacks amounting to 93,800. He mentioned his loss at the Allyn House, and a stranger who was present said he had found a sum of money which he would restore to the owner on proper identitica1 ion. Mr.

Shephard described his missing package in detail, and the stranger handed over to him the entire sum. Mr. Shephard offered him a $100 bill, but he declined to take it. He finally consented to accept 50. I am, broke, he said, "or I wouldn't take anything." Hartford Post.

-m On the tomb of the Emperor William the Silent, at Delft, Holland, is the marble effigy of a spaniel. At the night attack before Mons the Emperor was asleep in his tent, and would probably have been seised and killed had not a favorite wat r-snaniel sorunsr un- color to be natural, accuse them of painting. -C'ticago Tribune. Some people are poctu al by nature, Promptness. Keatness First-Glass fort but there are others to whom poetical or language is utterly unin Is my Motto.

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vanishes in your company, dearest Mol lie! The hours become brief minutes.1 Three Outfits in One! "How can you tell anything about it? You haven't even looked at your watch," responded the prosaic Molly. 1 1 1 and did not wholly deny it. A hundred years before this time vampires and nouls were the topic of interest in the salens of Paris, that ranked w.th Law and his schemes. At this period, hide -d, the superstition obtaine I the greatest currency among educated people, and its, tcrature. is the richest.

Vollaire expressed astonishment at the spread the belief. The shafts of his pen and the powers of other writers we directed against it. We learn from the me "notrs of a court ladv at the time that vampirism was talked at every so ne, and that its ardent believers were nearly as many as those who scoffed it. Among the former were members of the army, the law, several members of the academy, and numerous men. Physieians were divided.

They agreed there must be some foundation for the vampire belief, and for the were-wolf belief, which was closely allied to it. Finally they gave the monomania which lay at the bottom of all the vampire belief the name of lycan- I have whole of th? Machinery wed by Hall Texas Stfungs. Some stoic writes: McKnisht, 8. L. Armstrong, B.

W. Powers, with everything ntficd to mako a complete outfit. Have two sets of men working same, and am prepared to do your work on short no tioe. If you want your house Man that is marrieil to a woman is of many riuv.4 in 1 full of trouble. In the morning he draws his salary, and in the BROWER.

cfc evening-. Behold, it i gone! It tjtn that is told ltis vanished, and no man knows whither it Moved, Raised or Turned Bound, iroeth. He risoth up clothed in the chilly garments Of ho nijtht And soeket'i the somnolent paregoric. Wherewith to soothe hia infant posterity. He eomcth as a horse or ox, A nH Hraweth the chariot of his ofTsDrinir.

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BROVVER Clay (Vntor, Kansas. This wild and solitary biru, once abundantly represented in this region in the old days of the early New England settlements is now but seldom seen on our Connecticut rivers and lakes. It is still occasionally met with. Livery Transfer however, on some of our Connecticut waters, as on Hartland Point in West Hartford, Long Hill Pond in New Hart ford where a few years ago, on a iow- water island, it was known to rest). LOOK OUT FOR THE FINEST DISPLAY OF and other places in not much frequented localities.

Dr. Wood, of South Windsor, shot one on the Connecticut ITAZTSAS River, onposite that place, not long ago CLYDE, writers flung out books on the subject. The principal of these were Rauflt and The latter' work is especially rich in cases of vampires, many of which arc described by actual witnesses. One of the best attested vampire stories in Calmet' work is that of Marshal de Retz. This was a noble, brave and worthy man, who lived in France in the reign of Charles VII.

He was a soldier and after distinguishing himself in the wars retired to his country seat. Miortly after he took up his residence the neighborhood became alarmed at the disappearance of many young children. Only children under the age of seven disappeared, and soon the number of distracted parents mourning their lost ones was verv great. No amount of vigilance could discover the mysterious agency which as it were swallowed the children up. Accident, however, directed suspicion to the noble de Fetz.

His castle was watched by desperate parents who bad lost their little ones, and circumstances multiplied to give the people courage to accuse him of being at the bottom of the mystery. He was arrested and placed on trial, charged with having kidnaped over one hundred children. He was convicted and executed. Before he was led to the block, the monster confessed in three years he had killed 80() ch ldren. He was led to do it, he said, by an in'sat'able desire to taste their blood.

Calmet relates this story cir- piimati i 1 1 1 M.li 1 1 thnnirli if ta but the loon is the hardest of all birds tn shoot, His quickness is amazing. The beat liipiJ waistbands form part of the regular He will escape a rifle ball by diving after he sees the flash, and this at a distance not greater than eight rods. The writer once succeeded in hitting one with a bullet at long range by creeping through thick cover toward a small and select company of these issue ot unaerciotning to trench troops. In the matter of horse equipements I saw nothing to compare in convenience and comfort with our McClellan and Whitman saddles. The French officers generally use the ordinary English civilian saddle, with open steel stirrups.

Colonel Volkmar, in Journal of the Military Service. wild birds that were having a little picnic of their own in the water at sunrise; And Hunting Wagons, but, unless they can be so taken they must be shot, if at all, as Dr. Wood shot his. bv having his gun already Transportation for With teams to match. Commercial Men promptly attended to.

Per i to. reran? part of aimed at the probable spot where the loon will rise, and firing at the very in sons and Batrgage transferred to a Eyer bronght to Clyde, consisting ol 1 'V' STALK-CUTTERS, CULTIVATORS, PLANTERS, CHECK-ROWERS, HAY RAKES, REAPERS, MOWERS AND TWINE BINDERS. All Standard Goods. Old Maids. Street.

ttaa city, day or nirnc Stables: East end of Washlnstoa opposite Commercial Hotel. stant the water breaks, even ociore uie bird's head rcallvaDnears. Here is an account of the loon by the J. B. JENKINS 00., Dealers I best observer of birds in America: One of the strong and original strokes of nature was when she made the loon.

It is always refreshing to contemplate a creature so positive and characteristic. He is the great diver and flyer under water. The loon is the genus loci of the wild Northern lakes, as solitarv as thev are. Oom and see us and we will treat you rig-ht. Also remember tbat this Is onlv an addition to oar business ot building- BugRiea, Carriages and Spring Wagons.

And jou mil always flna a good assortment at our place of business. Ii llardivaroCsTimvQrc. birds renresent the nuvestv of nature. like the easrles: others its ferocity, like hawks: others its cunning, like the We handle the celebrated crow; others its sweetness and melody, like the song birds. The loons repre fjiyVDSi, Isn't it a blessed good thing that the niilennium has come, or is about to dawn, rather, for old maids? But, thank heaven, good, charitable Josiah Allen's wife tells us it's no disgrace to bo an old maid, but only a little unfortunate and unhandy, giving an unequal and one-sided appearance in funeral processions; that there are worse things than being an old maid, and that it's possible for a true, good woman to make for herself a pleasant home.

One room and a tiny kitchen, a window made bright with baskets of ivy and bright-hued, fragrant flowers; a small but select library, and a plain-cased, sw et-toned piano; a neatly-kept room here, after her day's work has been done, and well done, too, with her cat. poodle, parrot and canary for company, she can cook and eat her frugal supper, and sip her chooola'e in happy content, until some one invades her sanctum to ask her to "write an or make a speech at the next oonven tioo, go and nurse a small-pox patient, bog for the flood, fire, orxsyclone sufferers, and Widow Gray comes to ask her to take tho "out of stent table'! ftt tho festival, that she will not have, as the crisis is near at hand. She thinks "better so than to become the prey of sTndai and lootcy bachelors, Ms what ft fits ttt 2foJ. axJ sent its wildness and solitariness. Hartford lime.

a Saa Lumber! largely exaggerated that he believes it is not a myth. He cites de Uetz's confession that he was led to commit the horrible atrocities by an irresistible im-pu's'j as an evidence that there must be a trait in humanity which leads to vampirism, and which Awakens from ita dormant state in individuals from t'me to time. A case rather different from the aove was that of Jean Grenier, a herd boy. In 1603 he was placed on trial for attacking young girls in the form of a wolf. The girls themselves and their fathers gravely and po itively identified him, and what was more singular, Grenier himself admitted that their charge was true.

He declared that he had eaten several of them. He produced what his judges accepted as good evidence of his assertions. It is presumed that he had suffered the pen lty of being; a vampire, though Calmet omits to state what his punishment was. The most celebrated vampire case, perhaps, and the late happened in In that year the cemeteries of Paris were entered, graves broken open, and uuupsea ridel tossed about the grounds greatest alarm was Mt as the horrft4, depredations oontinoecL Tas strSatest watch failed to dates STANDARD CmTEZXION If you think you are a prodigy of onuiion. orthographic potentiality, go into a Chinese laundry and learn humility On Hang," who spells' two shirts, an nndarahirt and three na'rs of socks Otovca czd Esse; Afau iHwof with a wrong side up, and all tho rest of your washing with half ft button- book ana two or cares fragments Goods.

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