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Show a fatal hiscovehy. liltIII, f ill F I. first that was frightful to hold. , As we stopped snd'cohtemplated RATTLESNAKE be- A- 1 I 1 ' - It vl bt G-Ii- e, -- X y e, , ' - r - tnto-a-Joh- ' u . That four thousand pounds, ' so strangely acquired, I may say waa my first real start In life. With that I began to trade In different Articles. Juy and selling, and two years afterward returned home In a vessel freighted by myself. I was prosperous In all my undertsk Ings, and twenty years ago retired from business, having what I considered to be enough of this worlds goods. "HAVE A CARE. On exploring this apartment we found on la as many diflx passages-leadin- g ferent directions, We selected the largest, and still went forward, though I began to feel a little uneasy for fear we might venture too far. lose our way and not ba able to get back. "Don't let us risk too much the first time." X said to my companion, by way of courtesy, "tor I have no desire to be burled alive." "There is not tha least danger," he replied. "X know every turn, and Could find my way out la the dark." Boon after this we came to a place where the passage was so contracted that at first w were compelled to stoop and then to crawl forward on our bands and knees . but my. combeed me. i . . Wa kept on In this manner for some Again panion X did remonstrated, not distance, and then the passage enlarged and led up a steep ascent. After tolling up about fifty feet we came to another brilliant chamber of stalactites and found a dozen more Inviting passage leading we knew not where. "It would be tempting fate to go any farther now. propose turning back," X I remarked. "Hark!" be aald. T believe I hear running water, and I must e what it Thls way follow me. There la no danger. 'I- - frill guide you back in Is Machine Cons May Be rsefnL It la suggested that the machtne gun, If certain economical consideration could be adjusted, would find a valuable place among the useful art of peace. "As a feller of trees there I no agency In the world like It Admiral Sir Edmund CotnereU, In aUudlng recently to the superiority in workman hip and effectiveness of the Maxim gun, aald that a .303 M&xlm was cap ble of cutting down a tree seventeen inches In diameter In a quarter-o- f minute. He would not only defy any other gun to do this, but he would give any battalion In her majesty service five hours firing as much aa they liked, at whatever range they pleased, and they would not do the tame thing. Not Omk, bat Politics, lord Dufferin once addressed the Uni- versity of Toronto in Oreek. and on the following day the Canadian Journals announced that bis command of the language was astounding. Idiomatic and grammatically perfect. Whereupon the following dialogue ensued. "How did those blots of reporters know that?" asked Sir Hector Langevln of Sir John Macdonald. ""Because X told them," re plied Sir John. "But who told you? Tou dont know Greek. persisted Sir Hector. 1 don't know Greek, admitted the premier, with his usual gravity, "but X know pintles. Argonaut. Bead the Mot lea of the Lips. In showing how one sense Is sharpsafety." Dr. He again went forward as be spoke, ened to supply the loss of another.Alexthat and as be Mill carried the light, was 8. Millington Miller writes at obliged to accompany him, or remain ander Hunter, of the land office Washington, though entirely deaf, In darkness." We thus went on and on. and through-- spelled without mistake 150 word read rather open passage; and as we ad- to him from the dictionary. This facvanced the sound of falling water be- ulty la not rare among the deaf, and came more and more audible, till at by means of It some of them, like MitStates length we came In sight of a bright chell, the chemist of the United underrunning stream that flowed along over patent office, have been able to n clear bed, and tell down, with sud- stand the lectures necessary for .the den plunge and gloomy roar. Into some graduation fit college. -- X '1 A TOWN wfrlCH HAD RISE A RAPID AND FALL. Marked By fire Crave It Sprang l d In a Bay la fouaty aad After the "IJlg Ktlltag Like a Myth. nr. ar qdl taa-l.br- t HE DEATH Outlaw "Boh r , t - vr' to be several 7 "ell. t manner.tn- - perceived what appeared ) Lingular bright aparka of fire In the bed of the i i i ) deed I will tell stream. A the depth of the water wa only w"-- ' you- f' me see. I m a few Inches, I fixed my eye on one, descended Into the current. Stooped - now rath? 1; . v' l 4 Vi TT down, picked It up, and held it to the V a need In year Ugh. -f 'TArnCatT"What have you found, Henson?" call inme- - people B asked my companion. Id. though, getting "What U It said T, handlhgltto somehow, my heart him. er. a aa feels young , Never shall Y forget hi wild eager Seventy-seve- n yesrx ago, a Ith" nine look a he fairly shouted: FlftV-elgleen off laavaa fifty-eiglT gold ! g oTiirXi 1 11 v e , gold! year ago Inf June: that would carry It Our fortuc la made!' back to the year I 27. Tea, that la right; In a moment was aa much excited that la the year X went out a. aa bs And, forgetting everything, we HaytL aa captain's clerk, The captain and I not agreeing eery both began a hurried search along the well, I left him there, and while took bed of the stream for gold. W found It In particles here, there, In for another berth I fell In with a everywhere, sparkling like fire becountryman of mlntwho wanted to take and a trip Into the Interior, merely to grati- neath the light of our torch; and while we gathered it. looking eagerly among - fy hia curiosity. "X have beard," he aald. "that tba the rocks on either side fur some enacenery among the hill te the most riching vein, w indulged In the wildest of wealth and ambition. beautiful In the world, and I am anxious dreams At last, coming back down the stream to aee It, but would rather not venture of the dark abyss, my alone, and hitherto have found no one toward the edge te be my companion. Now, tf you can companion saw something that drew apare a few day and will go With, ;ne, him forward In basts I perceived bl X will not only bear all expanses, but danger and shouted. "Have a care!" pay you - reasonable price for your The words had not done echoing time." through the subterranean gloom when "I am your man." wa the reply. We immediately tot to work nd pro- there was a sudden slip, the dashing cured a good outfit rifles, pistol. forward of a human body, an agonising " knives, wallet. ' knapsack,"" canteen, sere mr the ghostly gleam f a quickly and dry provisions, which we expected descending torch, and then 1 was all to eke out with fresh game, and the alone In the bowels of the earth. In the aecond day aaw ns od our travel Into moat appalling darkness For .a time was bewildered and an uninhabited region. On the fifth or lxth day we discov-ere- d stuplfied, and satjjetvn In the rayless succession of precipices, like so darkness, moapidg and wringing my terrace, one above the other, bands. Thejp-f- shouted the name of my 2any which poured and roared a series eompanUrtSmany times, and begged him Of cascades, with mountain towering toaaXwer me, though I knew tt wa far heavenward on throe aide of tha n In vain. Each echo responded an whole, and a tranquil river and flowepy-valle- awful echo, that finally died out far comon the fourth altogether away la the terrific gloom. At laet I aroused myself to thoughts bination of grandeur, beautydnd suof my own preservation. Fortunately. blimity that was really gnChanilng. Wa spent tha remainder of the day I had brought with me the mean! of hare, built our carup fires on one of the striking s light, and one bundle of was still in my possession. highest ledge"and slept, listening to sticks 1 lighted the the musio ef the night birds and falltorch, cast around me one terrified glance, and hurried away ing waters. Oir" the following day we discovered from the roaring water that waa singte entrance to a beautiful grotto, which ing the funeral dirge of my late comwa Immediately determined to explore. panion. My presence here now Is a proof that Collecting some resinous stick, and for I reached the outer world alive: but binding them together to serve enand we our more torches, than once I was lq despair, bebunch, lighted tered where perhaps the foot of man lieving I had lost my way. After that X had nevar before penetrated. had a long, weary Journey back to Tba entrance wa narrow, g little and It waa not till near comthe close of the fourth day that I came higher than our heads, and my panion went cautiously forward with in eight of the town. It rained a great tha light, and I a cautiously followed. deal during those four days, and. after After getting in fifty feet. In a slg being completely drenched, I was often sag course, wa suddenly came to a large exposed to a scorching sun. The effect of all this waa a fever, apartment, hung with tha most beautiful stalactite, which flashed and which kept me on my bed for six weeks, aporkied In tha light with an effect during which time mjr life waa more which defies description, and we could than once deepalred of; and It was easily fancy wa were la a palace of nearly four months from my first atdiamond. tack before I waa again fit for busiWhile feasting our eyes on tha beau ness came we moved and ties on, gradually My purse had now become low, to where three dark passages led deep- I bethought me of tha golden pretty and er Into the bowels of the earth, the cen- - at once endeavored to- turn itcave, some to one foit-trai g straight forward, and account thaotherf turning mentioned mjr discovery to several I and left. the right , different telling them at the We took tho middle one, which was same timeparties the aad tale of the losa et about tea feet wide and aa many high, my companion. ' and arched at tha beginning with near Most of them listened with indiffercut out by ence. ly aa much regularity aa If saying that they did not think that tha hand of art. enough could be found there to After advancing a few pace wa gold tha expense of searching for It; found It gradually narrowed, and began defray I waa about thrive up tho Idea to descend somewhat abruptly, tha and of money out of It, when air becoming more damp and heavy, I making anymet with a speculating fortunately g, low presently tt expended who asked me what sum ball of solid rock, which, unlike tha IFrenchman, would require to guide him to the dark and gloomy, cavern first apartment, and relinquish all claim to w affording Urn wildest contrast. be found within. I named five thousand pounds, and after considerable arguing, he. offered me four thousand, which I finally accepted. I guided him to the grotto, conducted him to tha subterranean stream t which I shuddered as I again beheldlt showed him tha tittle sparkles of gold, and received my promised reward, X never aaw him afterward, but heard that he made a fortune by hie 11 CITY. this torch I get my wonder of nature with the lurid start IV? lighting up the awful scene, 1 suddenly did OW W dark aby " OF Bog-er- and hi a lfe Louise, recalls the rapid rise and fell of Rattle a n a k e City, Oreer county, Texas. All that now remains of thia place U five own graes-g- r mounds, the graves of the victims of the big killing, and on a atone In the center of this group Is the following In rude lettering: "Rattlesnake City Grave Yard. A Modern Hell. A mushroom city had grown up in a week down In Greer county; In the fall of 1887, which the government was disputing as to whether this land belonged to the Indian territory or to First, a hg Rattlesnake Texas. self fellow, calling him- Joe bad gone through Kansas and Missouri, making speeches to the Oklahoma boomers and Inducing them to atop trying to force an entrance to Oklahoma, and go to Greer county, "the paradise of Amercalled IL Incidentally Joe ica," as lectured and took up collections. Somehow the people got the- - Idea that Greer county had tmworked gold mines and diamond fields of fabulous richness. Perhaps Joe told them so. At any rate Bob Rogers and Louise, his pretty wife, left the boomer camp at Hunnewell, In Kansas, and, with s, other they trundled off down the the old Kansas and Texas Ouce trail Into the promised land. there they found that others had come In from the Indian territory. Texas, and even old Mexico. In some manner peculiar to the west a little shanty, wagon and tent town sprang into existence, and they called the place "Rattlesnake City." By common consent "Texas Ben Jones became the marshal. No one proposed his name In a convention, nor was there an election held. Ben simply became the marshal because he was bigger, quicker on the draw, and ready to go Into a fight any day or night of the year. Rattlesnake was a "daisy while she lasted, and the boomers were g. usually Unlike mining camps, there was nothing to keep up the town. No one worked, because There was no work to do, Almost every one had a little money, and gambling became the recWhile ognized trade of Rattlesnake. the mea played poker and bucked the tiger, the women pitched pennlea few cash,. Every abanty and every wagon had a layout for gambling, and soon the desperate hands of highwaymen, moonshiners and cattle thieves that Infest this country began to come to play. Quite a Monte Carlo was thus built up. Bob Rogers and Louise had been raised in Ohio and came of good stock. Bob had gone to college long enough to learn to play poker and swear. He soon became a leader In the colony about Rattlesnake because of his nerve, bearing and good looks. Louise waa the beauty of Greer county, and by virtue thereof the queen of border society. She led in all the dances held in the center of the canvas a$d shack city once a week. By degrees Rogers won all the money of his neighbors, and aa fast as he became broke ue unsuccessful player took his outfit and money away. Not always, though, for sometimes he would wager, his wagon And learn and lose them also. In that case he walked out of Rattlesnake. As Rogers won money he took oa Importance. He opened a big gambling house In a tent and called the place He now virtualRoger Pavtlllon. ly owned the city. Thia tent became the center of attraction for all that part of Texas. Louise objected, to the opening of this house, but her husband, carried away with the fever of gambling, laughed at her fears.' He that lives by the sword shall pariah by the sword, she told him more than once, but Bob went right on winning the money of the people who played there. It appeared that he could not lose. One day Texas Ben strode In and took a scat at a tablo where three strangers were preparing to play poker. ' Ben warngly and had been drinking. He picked up the cards and joined lathe game. Ben had money, and so did the other people. By and by, when a big Jack pot was In sight, only Ben aad a dapper little chap remained In the gama Ben drew one card; the stranger three. Then they went to betting and raising until all the cash the Texan had was In tho pot Every one In the room had quit to watch this, play. "IU call you." swore the big msrshal, "and; stranger; if you beat my hand youve got to Je home-seeker- , fight" The little fellow on the other aide of the table only glanced up with a sideways glitter In his eyes. Bob Rogers pushed his way through the crowd and declared that the game waa on the done In the pavllllon - hed have n square and if there was any killing hand In It. The more peaceful boom-er- a moved away, but the gamblers and outlaws generally remained. Bob tried to get Louise to go away, but she refused to comply unless he would go with her. Still the big Texan- - glanced acros the table at the little player on the other side, and the little one amlled back at him.' Every one smelled tra-ed- y In the air. Texas Ben waa known "killer ," and the little cuss fac-- ! A CITY ON WATERS. leg him had all the Indlcitlons - of a a j killer himself. Three kings aad a pair of queens."4 SWAMPS AND LAKES, OF OLD roared Texas Ben, laying down bis . NEW YORK. hand on the table, Four aces, cried the little mti, dropping bis cards like hot cakes, and Lower New Turk with Its Enormous BaUUluc Oar Chlefljr Marsh Waters catching a knife from his sleeve drove That tha Oraath et tha City lias it through the marshals hand, pla ntog-vlt- , loathe, ,.bd!ut move. "TLere wasahosl of rage from the wounded deeptrado, a shrill HE "FAIR RUN-nln- g chirrup from Ms cpx.ooem, a. 4 la s t ra am ll moment a fight was In which Is now bothSnip progress. Ben Jones was filled before ering the contrac-lo- f SMk he could get hta hand loose from the la sn excava- uCIaT Louise tried tb3rag hefhiis- tlon at the corner band away and was ehot through the of Sixth avenue nose. Bob was bound to defend bis and Twelfth street place, and shoot the matter out. The one of the dapper stranger was one of. the slain, watermany and proved to be a woman in disguise. which courses In all, five people were killed, and have been covered life. was RattleLouise disfigured for up In the extensnake City had not a shock that made sion of New Yorks building ground, the people awake as though from a and only wait the chance afforded by hypnotic trance. They shouted that theexcavatoraplck to show that though the place was accursed. The shooting forgotten are not dead. New occurred at noon, and by night not York city,"they and especially the lower even a dog was left to tell where end of It, appears to be ground so solid City had stood. The dead and Is covered with "masses of buildWere hurriedly burled, and the woundings so enormous thht It Is hard to beed carried away in wagons. The tents lieve that a or It has been were folded up and the shacks were built up on large portion swamps, streams and pools, burned to the ground. When the United made ground. Yet such is the fact, States officers heard of the "big say a New York paper. killing, as It waa called, they went te The peninsular tip of Manhattan the place where the town had once island must bkvebeen aa wet and stood, but found nothing but a few swampy as old Holland Itself when heaps of ashes and five newly made New Amsterdam was founded beside graves. the marsh which ran up to Broad street from the East river, and, in all What Ailed Mary. probability, it was this very swampiMistress You are looking very 111, ness that led the Dutchmen to select Mary. What the matter? It as their new hotpe. Thia particular Mary I think It must have been the piece of marsh land ended In a goat, maam. swampy pasture, which ran almost up The goat, Mary? What on earth do to Wall street, and was drained by a , you mean? canal with two lateral branches along Well, maam, you see it was like Bridge street called the Common this: We had a goat whats drawed the Ditch. washin' for a good many years, and as This waa the smallest of the marshes. he was getting old, father had him A short walk beyond the wall would killed and stuffed with artichokes for lead the burghers to a large wet field our dinner." Amusing called Beekmans swamp, which covSunday Journal. ered nearly all of the area bounded by Frankfort, Fulton, and William All The Fame. streets and the then water front. BeThomas Jefferson Look heah, I yond thta, " going east, came a little dat you tuk advantage ob my narrow neck of solid land and then a presence from town an called on Miss still larger swamp called the RooseMatilda Snowball last night, sah. velt swamp, which extended almost up George Washington Smith (dogged- to Park row and covered all the area ly) Yo' is mistaken, s&h. I done call on now Included by that street, the water her alstah. front aa It was, and James and Pearl Thomas Jefferson Well, sah, dat streets. Through It ran quite a stream makea no difference. Yo keep away. called the Auld Kill. This stream beI'ae got my eye on bof ob dem gals. gan about the junction of Roosevelt Brooklyn Life. street and Park row in a narrow band of marsh, which on the other aide of POPULAR SCIENCE. Park Row opened Into a big swamp It 1 said a female codfish will la; lying around two pools of fresh water forty-fiv- e million eggs during a single called the Colleot ponds. This swamp seaaon. Plscatortal authorities aay that as Grand street,' were It not for the work of the natural land, ran up as far in which the whole filled and nearly enemle.,of fish they would fill all the of the space between Broadway and available space In the seas, rivers and the Bowery as far south aa Franklin oceans. A workman In a limestone quarry at street, narrowed ton small outlet at Maquoketa, la., the other day, found the Junction of Canal street and Imbedded in the rock, .twenty-fiv- e feet and then spread out Into an below the surface, a fly. The fossil Is Broadway, of swamps. One of series extensive perfect The feelers and legs and deli- these extended aa far south as the corcate wrings, as welt ss the body, are sa complete as when the Insect alighted ner of Franklin and Hudson streets; and stuck In the oose away back in the another, known aa Lispenards swamp, or meadows, ran almost up to Houston upper Ellurlan period, ages ago. Blr William Thomson has recently street, while a third reaohed far Incalculated that the average size of a land In a northesterly direction as far chemical atom Is not lese than six and not greater than sixty billionths of a up aa the corner of Twelfth streetand cubic Inch. It has also been calculated Sixth avfenue. It will be seen, therethat tn' cubic Inch of air there are fore, that this series of swamps, pools, three hundred qulntllllons of atoms. and streams, extending diagonally Hence the cubic Inch of air ts by no across town from the foot of Roosemeans full, and It Is possible for them velt street to the Hudson river, practicto move eighteen miles s minute and divided Manhattan 'island 7 into collide against each other 8,500,000 times ally two and made a subsidiary isle parts, a second, as has also been lately calcuof the downtown portion. Through the lated that they do. The greatest height of any cloud yet upper arm of the great western chain measured ts 43,800 feet, and the highest of swamps there flowed the stream velocity ts 112 miles an hour for a cloud which has so bothered the contractor at 25,000 feet The most Important re- referred to. la the opening paragraph. sult thus far reached from these meas- For some reason or other this stream urements Is the fact that clouds are seems to havebeenaAubJect.ofaa quite Tegutarty distributed In throe lay- much diversity of opinion among the ers, the mean summer levels for Upsala cumulus, early topographers as It has been being: low clouds-r-stratcumulo-nimbu- s, two thousand six among the later ioeslps of Greenwich thousand feet; middle clouds strato-etrru- s, village. The Dutch map makers did curaulo-clrru-s, twelve thousand not apparently venturers far north fifteen thousand feet; high clouds as this, but in a map made by Col. s, cirrus, John Montresor la the winter of 1775 n twenty thousand to twenty seven for the Hon. Thomas Gage, major gen feet. of his eral and commander-tn-chlmajestys forees in North America, FOLI.Y AS IT FLIES. this stream is found set down. It la Father to young mn Sir, X saw you plotted aa a creek which apparently kiss my youngest daughter. You must drained the swamp land that reached marry , my oldest FUegende Blatter. .from beyond the Obelisk road to the Northern visitor Any race riots in Greenwich road, that ts, from about this section? Old Inhabitant No; but re- Greenwich avenue to Greenwich street most o the niggers die along the line of Christopher street, ligion! Atlanta Constitution. ,J "I caught a burglar in my arofcrir last between the high land on which Lady night," said the editor. eV. Indeed?. Warren's house was built, and the hills "Tea; but I only got 26 out of the jupqr back of which lay the Llspenard v fellow! Atlanta Constitution. of the stream The swamp peculiarity A sign has been discovered in an old to Montresor, that it was, acocordlng tailor's shop in Pompeii, reading: had neither source nor mouth; It just "Creases Ironed in your togas while lay there. you Walk Minneapolis Times. Teacher (in Episcopalian Sabbath-schoo- l) Can any little boy tell me about Good Friday? Eager scholar Tha Iaka sad Dorhea of York. He was the feller that done chores for ; The''nrhea.lthbf loththe queen and Reblnson Crusoe. Truth. Mr. Toung Mother was here last the Prince of Wales lends additional innight She stayed till after 12. Mr. terest to the news now discreetly cirToung Did she sdy anything about my culated In Mayfair to the effect that the No. She said she being out so late? York Is once again to bewould wait till she saw you to talk Duchess of come a mother. It Is believed some time about that" Indianapolis Journal. Teacher Miss Fields, you spell Well in June. She is compelled to take and write nicely, but your capitalization great care of herself, and Is looking is not In accordance with our modern both wan and pinched, very unlike tho methods. Jdlss Fields Indeed? What smiling Princess May of Is wrong with It? Teacher Tou never The Prince of Wales is really far day capitalize M In money. Detroit Free more seriously Indisposed than has Press. and Magistrate Tou say he hit you twice. 'been allowed to become known, Then X suppose he tried to hit you when he left London for the Riviera again. Frnsqcut!ng Witness Tes, but was so run down, partly from the efit was only s trial: X fetched him one fects of grip and partly from the after-mat- h under the Jaw that sent him so far that of the terrible fatigues he underI am surprised that he Is at this trtaL went in Russia in connection with the Philadelphia Inquirer. tiresome obsequies of hl brother-in-lal, "They do tell me," said Farmer that some o these here million- the czar, that he was scarcely able to aires put In an hour a day clippln cou- raise hla voice above a whisper. MoreDearie me."' exclaimed Ms over, he has bad a recurrence of his pons. wife. That goes to show thet rich peo- old trouble, varlocse veins la hta legs, ple is Jest like other folks after all. I which had to be bandaged several times wonder whut they air voMn furrthe and prevent him from moving ni6k popular policeman or the boy that a day, with his usual activity. about W Islington Star. gits the bicycle free-for-a- '? '3 Rat-tlenna- us, cirro-stratu- s, -- mil-Lo- ef v al w Corn-tosse- r I :4 CEORCE WASHINGTONS WIDOW. Only LMter and Signature A Copy v of ture Ht-- n Extant. copy of the only letter and signaof Martha Washington Is in pos- session of the United States government, according to Kate Fields Washington. This letter lay for more than ninety years hidden among some musty archives at the capitol, and was lately diroTem!,'by' YaltefFfr'Freach, effrrk of the department of files, base of The .speliJhk. puncrepresentatives. tuation and breaks of lines afe carefully ' reproduced; Mount Vernon, December 31st, 1799. Sir S. While I feel with keenest anguish the late Disposition of Divine Providence, I cannot be insensible to the mournful tributes of respect and veneration which are paid to the memory of my dear deceased husband and as his best services a ud moEt anxious -- wishes were always devoted to the welfare and happiness thleountry to know that they were truly appreciated and gratefully remembered affords no inconsiderable consolation Taught by the great example which I have so long and before me never to oppose my private wishes to the public will must consent to the request made by congress which you have had the goodness to to transmit and la doing this I need not I cannot say what a sacrifice of individual feeling I make to a sense of public duty. With grateful acknowledgement and unfeigned thanks to the personal respect and evidence of condolence me ex-pj- ' sed by congress, and your self. I remain, very respectfully sir, Your most obedient & humble servant, MARTHA WASHINGTON. Light. Fannie (to her bosom friend Gussie) I bear that you and Charlie have quarreled. Gusste Yes, we dont look at each other any more. That is, I dont look at him, but I have quite often caught him looking at me. Fannie Well, Gussie, If you can aee people looking at you without you looking at them you ought to go into the clairvoyant business. y" Rain Varan Shine. Th rain gets all the credit For the crops of grain and hay, While the sunshine does the growing In Its steady, smiling way. So tha salesmans salary Is raised For the goods sold In the store. While the wily advertisement Coaxes trade Inside the door. Printers Ink. CURIOUS FACTS-.In Switzerland 100 of every 1.000 stone cutters die of consumption; In England the rate is 340 deaths per 1,000. The lowest sick rate in the English navy service in 1893 was on the southeast coast of America station, and the highest on the China station. The tensile strength of Iron at 44 deg. below zero is Just twice what it Is at 60 deg. above. It will take a strain of sixty Instead of thirty ton to the square inch, and equally curious results have come out as to the elongation of metals under these conditions. It Is believed that a herd of buffalo ts goamtng the Red Desert, northwest of Rawline, Wyo. For the protection of these animals a bill has been Introduced In the state legislature punishing the killing of a buffalo by from three to ten years' Imprisonment. The crossing of a buffalo with black Galway cattle has been successfully tested at Good Night, Tex., Gordon City, Kan., and Sioux City. Ia., and has proven so highly profitable that the raisers of this novel species are going into the business on an extensive scale. It Is said that the late Hans von Bulow left directions that a examination of his brain should be made to ascertain the cause of the excruciating headache from which he was a lifelong sufferer. The autopsy revealed the fact that the end of the nerves had become imbedded In the scar of an injury to the brain, which he had received in childhood. post-morte- m WISDOM. love lives at home.' He who is full of faith will ful. be faith- a wise man to master It takes sea U his own Do your duty and let somebody else it talk about it Our civilization seems to be running rz It to corners. religion lifts no man out of the gutter. Some homes are merely excuse factories. Contentment Is natural wealth; luxury Is artificial poverty. Socrates. Willful Idleness Is an Invitation to the devil to eome and tempt you. ' Some people are not even Strong enough to convey their own meaning. Unless you flatter some people they imagine you are slandering them. If mortals did not overrate their Importance they would not be such High-head- coward When the devil falls In his effort to a young man to trade horses persuade him Into politics. Existence waa lven ua for actfrn. Our worth is determlneTby the good deeds we do rather than by the fin emotions we feet E, L. Magoon. As the soil, however rich It may be, can not be productive without culture, so the mind wtthntit cultivation oan never produce good fruit. Seneca. Convictions are more than opinions. A mad with opinions is s steamlcs engine: a pattern, but no force. A man with convictions has the steam turned he gets on - T ' |