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Show i now youve found it out, I shall h&v lookin, neither, for a woman of TOR YOUNG UOLKS. years; not sence she got them new a little peace once more. false teeth o hern. And upon my word, tabled MaFor Miss Maria Denham the one ria, I don't see any reason why we Tho Greatest Inventor A Famous T wasn't a bad niemlier of the family, ow- shouldn't haven double wedding! Eh, idea of mine, Tiger IIow Monkeys aro to Zuleima. ing to a lucky speculation in coal- Miss city mine shares on the part of the late And in Zuleima's mingled wonder, Caught. said WHO WAS IT? In-- r j well-to-d- o Kosy-face- ? w boarders, tel k Mrs. Maydew, as she sat in front of the kitchen table counting out bills of rious denomin- ations. ook that, Zuleima cleared this summer, jienses ca- five Just what I've of all ex. ! lint it wasn't altogether your It said Zuleima. idea, mother, was Cousin Marias. 'Well, pr'aps she did suggest it, said Mrs. Mavdew; but I carried it out and a great deal better speculation I found it than sewing on shirts or taking in shoes to bind; and I've made the lurhum cow's price and Ive bought Deacon wagon, Doubledays second-hanand a new stair carpet, and Ive got $100 to put in the bunk besides all d that! Zuleima listened with a weet abstracted smile. Durham cows second hand wagons bank accounts what was that to the great happiness that had come to her through this experiment? Ought I to tell mother now, or ought I to leave it to him? she questioned herself; nnd while she still deliberated, Mrs. Maydows sharp, voice broke in upon tho current of her thoughts. And really, now I come to think ont, I don't know but what I like the best of any young boarder weve bad. Didnt you, city-hoarde- high-pitche- r d Tuii-grav- Zuleima? The soft Hood of carmine rushed to the girls cheek, her eyelids drooped. Yes, she answered, almost I I liked him very well. And them pictures ho painted were very good, went on unconscious Mrs. Mnydew, though tlyy wasn't ns height colored ns the eliro-ni- o of Abraham Isaac over Miss Barker's parlor mantlei and them views of ruined castlesthat Hath C'liicksey bought of the peddler for $1.,' 0 each, gilt frames nnd all. They were sort o dim colored, you didnt seem to em. liut its strange, aint it, about his bein enknow, and tho sun shine real bright in gaged? Engaged! Zuleima started nnd crimsoned more intensely than ever; a. shy smilo broke out upon lier lips. Her seeret, then, was out. Who could have betrayed it? Perhaps Vernon himself. I didnt believe a word of it at first, added Mrs. Mnydew, rolling up her bills nnd pluoing them in a discolored leather pocket-book- . turned her face away, still smiling. "And she twieo ids age, at least! went on Mrs. Mavdew. She! Who do you mean? Maria, of course, said Mrs. May-de- a, Ive always heard that theres no fool like an old fool, and 1 begin to believe it. Mother, cried Zuleima, whatdo you mean? La? said Mrs. Maydew, is it possible you lmint read that letter .hat came this niornin? Shes to be married to Enirgrave in November the poor, silly, old goose and she wants you to come up nnd help her buy her wedding clothes. I couldnt have believed it if I hadn't seen it writ and signed and sealed under her own name. And shes 43 if shes a day! Zuleima stood bewildered nnd amazed. The walls (seemed to be whirling around her; the ticking of the old clock grew taint in her ears. Vernon Enirgrave engaged to Miss Maria Denham nfter all the sweet words he had whispered in her ear, all the tender hand pressures tho unuterable looks of love that passed between them! Dut, nfter all, now that she came to look dispassionately back on the past, she could not recall that he had ever said to her in so many words: Will you bo my wife? He had never placed a betrothal ring on her finger; he had contented himself with vague words glances which could not absolutely be interpreted into sentences, nnd a horrible sensation of shame and anger seined to fill her veins with tire instead of blood as she thought of how she had been duped. He has been making game of me, she thought He has enjoyed his summer in ttie wilderness, and now fie is going away to leave me without a pang of remorse! Oh, heaven! and how am I to endure it? Aint you well, Zuleima? Mrs. Mnydew asked, with rather a frightI ened glance at her daughter. knowed you hadn't ought to go out into the hot sun to piik them last lima l eans to dry. Lay down, and let me get you the camphor bottle to smell. Dut Zuleima recovered lierself with an effort. I'm well enough, said she. Where is Maria's last letter, mother? I want to read it. Well I never should have suspected Mr. Fab grave tf being a fortune-hunter- . Its a great thing to have a little money, shrewdly remarked Mrs. Mavdew. Thouiih Maria aint bad- - Dr. Denham, whose only descendant she was a plump, high-coi- n plexioned old maid with sparkling black eyes like jet beads, and a loud, cheery voice. It was nearly noon the next day when Vernon Eairtrrave strolled up to the house. Mrs. Mavdew greeted him with a broad smile. Zuleima? Slieaintathome, said she. She is gone to the city, to Aba! Marias, to buy weildin-dotlieyou see L know your secret. She has told you, then? Of course shes told me! said Mrs. Maydew, shaking the youngartists hand as if it were a pump-handlAnd I wish you all happiness, Im sure. Shes a good girl, if she uiut e. exactly a beauty, and Dut I think she is a beauty, Mrs. delight, and bewilderment, she spoke no word of opposition to this new intlurefi 5nw and Kara ' a storm lie it I p Jimmie plan. Why should she, nfter all? Opiuiou Why shoul she postpone the dawnlile's happiness. ing of Ned's Idea. Dut Mrs. Mavdews astonishment tbe window pressed, was beyond the power of words to II n cftcpK handThen-IUlIn- on 1 ln-- at iv-- t. descrilie. Our little Nrd, with rye of blue, I thought of course it was Maria, Wrar ami true, Wari lie the enow, as thick and fi said she. 1 he Hakes fly past. Why, didnt I tell you who it was? rather sharply demanded Miss tourer qu siioDs in hi- - small biain gTow, He on Jen so ; Denham. t here Jo they cotne from, mamma dear, You said M. Fairgruve. Down Hilo hear? Well, it was Mr. Fairgrave. May lie theyre feather, pretty things, How was I to know there were two si from wings. Mr. demanded Mrs. Fairgraves? anJ a swift light, eager, wise, Or, Maydew, in an injured voice, and Miint s in bis even, Marias answer was another of those bur nupb Jrop their leaves, you know, n Miow-bir- here below. laughter that caus- IveDow seen them tiy, when the wind blew ed Mrs. Maydew to say irritably: ImrJ Mil vd rew. 1 do believe she does it a purpose All around tbe yard Tastes differ, said the matron, to show thut set o new false teeth! AnJ mavbe GoJ bag a garden high with a, shrug of theshoulders. And Fireside Companion. I p in tbe ky ; I dont doubt shell good AnJ wondt-r- mamma don't you g'pose, makeyoua '1 b it when it snow-.- , wife. Handsome is ns handsome an angel slinking the nowflake-tredoes, that's my motto. Eli? do- The True Way to Bring up TD With a little breeze? ing to the city? Well, give her my Boys, hearty appeals of ! -- , 1 e love. Meanwhile, Zuleima, seated among the splendors of her cousins trous-senwas looking with unseeing eyes atsatins, silks, tulles, gloves, nudbon-nets- , w hile Maria Deuba in in a loud voice recounted the various stages of the prospective bridal trip. Were going to Niagara, said she, though I'm sure I dont know why, I never did take stock in waterfalls; and then down the St. Lawrence, last the Thousand islands I wonder if anybody ever counted em. I shan't, I know to Montreal. Eh, Zuleima? I took vou bv surprise, u Detroit Free Press. Yes, sir, I believe in thrashing a boy, lie was saying in a loud voice to a Cuss Avenue earful of passengers; the more you thrash a boy the better it is for the boy. I think, sir, remarked a meek looking man next to him, that your language is very intemperate. Whatdo you object to, may I ask? Is it the word thrash? You wouldnt have me say beat would you? Perhaps tiog would suit you better. did I? I caunot see the necessity ot flog- Rather, Zuleima answered, huski- ging boys, sir ly. "What would you do with them, Vou thought I was a foregone may I nsk?(( conclusion a desperate old maid Reason with them. Talk to them cried the t with a peal of in mild anil encouraging tones. laughter. "Well, you see I wasnt. Remember that you were once a boy Never lhumas A. K.dWon. will probably be the verdict of history that Thomas A. Edison was the It greatest inventor the world had ever produced up to tho time of his appear- ance. lie was born at Milan, Ohio, in 1847, where his parents lived in very poor circumstances, not evm being able to send imu to any school. Hjs mother, had, however, before her marriage, bceu a teacher in Canada, and could, therefore, give her son the necessary rudiments of knowledge. 1vhen eleven years old he was obliged to make bis own living as a newsboy on the railway, bnt already at that age he was pursuing chemical studies and arranged a laboratory in a goods-wagobut this pleasure did not last long; a violent explosion in his little sanctum very nearly sent tbe tram off the rails and little Thomas had be thankful that the company did not bride-elecdischarge him. Later on he be ante a telegraph operator and soon showed mind, Zuleima, Mr. Fairgruve yourself. great practical ingenuity in making a I do, sir; and I am thankful every says many valuable improvements in And are you really to have a pink day of my life for t lie personal great the instruments. He accumulated ? satin chastisements father bestowed enough capital to establish a factory interrupted my in the at sound of upon me. Newark, moving two years ufterward the name which had once been tho Cruel, cruel, murmured the meek to Menlo lark, w here his large work sweetest music in her ears. It is degarding to a boy to shop is one of the wonders of America. Why man. didn't vou Lave heliotrope color in- tie whipped like a brute beast. No Lroin Menlo he has launched upon a surprised world tlie most astonishing stead? boy requires it. He can always be discoveries. To him we owe the EdiHe likes pink, said Maria, placid- managed with kindness. son light, and he was also the first to Its his favorite color. And I Every woman in the car looked demonstrate the possibility of lighting ly. should looklikeafright in heliotrope! curiously at the meek man, and the a whole city by electricity. lie abo discovered that remarkable Dut really, Zuleima, havent you sus- ndvoente of thrashing had a temporphonograph, which reary chill. Then he leaned forward instrument,the the pected nnvthing all along? human voice, an instruproduces and inquired of tho other: No. ment which is improved upon every Can you manage your boys withThen you must have been stone day. His latest invention is a magnetic out blind, complacently observed the corporeal punishment? which requires about I havent any boys, was the seone-Uibride, holding up the plump engageless fuel than the ordinary ment finger, on which sparkled a pure rene answer, and everybody laughel. one. The powerful magnet in the mawhite diamond, And Ive worn this It is so easy to bring up other peochinery draws the particles of ore iu one direction and allows the rock and all along. ples children. dirt to go in another as smoothly as if Zuleima tried to smile, but her they were all conducted by human heart was ns ice within her. More Forty-thre- e bands. The ore is then immediately Below Degrees and more she felt convinced that it ready for t lie furnace. Mr. Edison has Zero. was of no use trying to face things patented more than 400 inventions ami When a fellow is hunting around lias made a large fortune, which is out. She could not stand calmly by nnd see another womans palace of the boat for a cool place, and yearns counted in millions. happiness rising up on the ashes of more for the shade than he would in A Famous Tigress. her own dead hopes. The pride, The notorious Jounsar the spirit on which she had relied Southern California, when he notes were but broken reeds to lean upon. grass on the hillsides nearly as high tigress has at last been killed by a forest officer. This tigress has She would have given worlds, had as his head, nnd enn gather wild young been the scourge of the neighborhood they lieen hers, for n. chance to hide roses, daisies, buttercups, raspberof Chakrata, India, for the last ten herself away nnd weep out the an- ries, white and black currants and years, and her victims have been many. guish of her poor bleeding heart in blueberries, he thinks: IIow can On one occasion she seized one of a number of foresters who were sleeping solitude. together in a hut, carried hint off and I have been a fool, she told her- this possibly be an Arctic land? made him over to her cubs to play self, and all to win the chance of Dut if lie digs down anywhere for with, and then stood by and watched will find the ground he inches him eight his with falsehood confronting their gambols. The ghastly tragedy nnd baseness? Why did I not re- frozen solid with a frost that never was witnessed by some of the poor knows thaw. a main at home? mans companions, who had sought Just then a servant brought in a It takes some remark like the en- refuge in a tree. The tigress callled her cubs in a catcard. Miss Denham pounced eager- comium of Jack McQuesting (the old trader of Forty-Mil- e manner, and Creek) on like and ly upon it. the season they had last winter to soon the young tigers were romping Its him! said she, joyously. about over the apparently Zuleima recoiled as if an arrow had remind us that we are in Arctic re- lifeless body. She then lay down a gions: struck her. few rods off and with blinking eyes Last winter was the finest, and watched the gambols of her progeny. Your your lover? she gasped. In a few moments the man recovered Just, that, nodded Maria, with warmest season I have seen in the an excellent view of the new false country; the thermometer never fell himself, sat up and tried to beat the below degrees below zero during young brutes off. They were too young teeth. Here, child, where are you to hold him down, so he made a desperthe winter. going to? That door lends into the ate attempt to shake himself free and of Seventy-fivfrost! At degrees umbrella closet! What are you runstarted off on a run, but before he had Nulato 1 looked at a well Father ning away for, anyhow? gone twenty yards the tigress bounded Why was digging out at his misout and brought him back to her cubs. shouldnt you stop and speak to writes a sion, from Once more the doomed wretch had to correspondent your new cousin, eh? defend himself from their playful atIn her perturbation poor Zuleima Alaska to the San Francisco Chronihad seized bold of the wrong door- cle. It was 23 feet deep, nnd the tacks. He made renewed attempts to frozen ground began within eight in- regain his freedom, hut was seized by handle, and ere sheeould recover herthe old tigress and brought back each self the opposite portals were thrown ches of the surface, and continued time before he had gone many yards. wide open, and in walked a stout down, except for two layers of sand His groans and cries for help were far" free as from as well the water, gentleman, with a clean shaven face had lieartrendering, but the men on the on and the it yet ground trees were paralyzed with fear and and a shining bald bead, carrying in was gone, sultry to a man in his shirt quite unable to do anything to assist one hand a cane, and sleeves. their unfortunate comrade. in the other a bouquet the size of a At last the tigress lierself joined in small haystack. the gambols of her cubs and the he said, dramatically. "My angel! A Horse With La Grippe. wretched man was thrown about and Miss Maria jumped up and accord- From the Baltimore Sun. tossed over her head exactly as our ed him a hearty kiss. domestic cats throw rats and mice about A case of la grippe developed in a before beginning to feed on them. in so glad you happened to The mans efforts to escape grew come in just now, said she. horse. Theanimal arrived from New Here's mv cousin, Zuleima, May- York and was sent to Irof. Ward's in- feebler. For the last time his comrades saw him try to get away on his hands dew. Zuleima, this is Mr. firmary in St. Paul Street. The in- and kness towards a large tig tree with grave. valid was placed in nn insolated box the cubs hanging to Ins limbs. This Mr, Fairgrave! final was as futile as the rest. stall, nnd treatment like that used on The attempt Maria, burst out tigress brought him hack once more. human beingssiinilnrly afflicted was again, and then held him down under Well, I dont wonder youre begun. The symptoms of la grippe ln-- forepaws and deliberately began t'oine to re- in the horse are similar to those of her living meal before their eyes. amazed, said she. It was this formible beasrt that a member, you haven't any of you human beings who have it, beginning simmi Nicholas before, and Id forgotwith sneezing. Then a high fever sets young Cooper s Hill officer and a comon foot. They were ten to toll you how stout he was. Aint in which is the loerrunnerof pneumo- panion attacked up her trail, fifteen yards much like his nephew, eh? Nicholas nia and which sometimes ends fatally. working when suddenly the officer beard a this is the young lady whose folks During the epidemic of influenza apart, cry of alarm from his comrade. He ran Vernon boarded with this summer; which swept over Europe in 172 nnd up just in time to see the young man I've told you about em often. 17J0 horses were attacked with a borne to the ground by the tigress. officer The bred and shot to meet her. Im sure, the beast in disease having all the symptoms of Happy said Mr. Nicholas Fairgrave, on the human influenza. In 1872 there the spine, and a second ball gave her her The quietus. young man whom whose visage brooded u perpetual was a widespread outbreak among smile possibly at the prospect of horses in the Inited States, followed she attacked was seriously bruised, but will recover from his injuries. Youths his matrimonial good fortune nnd early in 187ffbya univeral prevalin the same instant Vernon Fair-grave- s ence ot the disease among human be- Companion, face was seen looking over ings. Itwnsenlledepizootic. Horses How Monkeys are Caught. his kinsman's broad shoulder. were first affected and dogs the next. Almost all monkeys which one sees 1 thought I should find you here, While the disease in the animals was in the United States come from Gorgo-na little village which is situated a Zuliema, lie said, brightening up. epidemic, the people who took care Vou cant think, my darling, how of the horses and were ijnuh in con- short distance from the Panama railthis secret of Uncle Nicholas has em- tact with them did not Buffer more road. The inhabitants of this district are mostly native negroes, for no white barrassed me these past weeks. Dut severly than those not so exposed. nun could liear the climate without driukiti plenty of whisky and almost, ball-dress- r, man-eatin- g and-roilm- g 4-- e gold-handle- d a, qninine. Tfi The whole tgiou is niar-L- v - and covered with extremely profuse tropical vegeta t.ou. At night there arises a thick va- laden with fever, whiclt Langs over the woods like a cloud. This regiou of wooJ is the paradis f tltd monkeys, writes a They travel in troops arouud the woods, led by an older monkev. When tbe people receive the information that the traveling monkey troops are near the village they repair to the woods in crowds in chase of them. Their plan is very simple. They cut a hole in the cocoanut large enough for a monkey's paw. The nut is then hollowed out and a piece of sugar is placed in it. A piece of string is then fastened to it, and it is placed in the road of the approaching monkeys. It is known that moukeys are very inquisitive animals. , Soon they see the lonesome cocoanut in the grass and hurry to examine it thoroughly. It is a curious sight to see how they climb from the trees, chattering, to take a good view of the concern. It does not take them long to find out that the inner part contains a piece of sugar. One of the boldest and greediest sticks a paw into the nut to get the sugar and grasps it as tightly as he can. But his list is so large that he cannot draw it out of the hole again with the sugar, whii li he holds fast to, cost what it may. The negroes now pull the string until nut and monkey arrive in the vicinity of their ambuscade. In the meantime the other monkeys wonder what is the matter with their comrade. They hurry to see where lie is being pulled to with his paw in the cocoanut. They crowd around him, chattering and gesticulating to their hearts content. Now the great moment lias come The negroes have a large net ready, and they spread it out over the unsuspecting monkeys and before they know it they are prisoners. They ure sold to the employes of the Panama railroad and reach the North American markets through commercial dealers. Light in Colonial Times. constantly swallowing corre-ponde- Cliildren Now and Then. A significant bint of the condition ot r rom the Xer hnglund MiiBitzinp , ,, , , " illiain and By a law pass sl in 1G!H), every lioitseh . i. s j '. i n certain parishes, o thecity of estminster, whose ho adjoined or was near the sti. froni Michaelmas unto Onr yeurly, shall every night hang out caudles or lights in.! thorns on the outside of the ho next the street, to enlighten the safer the convenience of passer, from time to time, as it shall jU dark, until 12 of tlieclock in them- upon the pain to forfeit tl ie Mu,, two shillings for every default. i. rangements might. however, heirJ wit li two or more justices of C OB Ma.-po-r, Day i i j Nigh t!nw LtC-Da- v Com Com' Conn Com, fwa! Telh And Are c O. Pt fihini , The l the establisment of ar! And in tliestreets at certain intervals This law seems to have pronir,-- Figu pence for . similar legislations in tlie tow New York, in 1G!7, in an every seventh house to a lamp upon n ole. New V,! thus antedates all other Ameri, towns in this respect by nearly yj. years. Tlie next town in order of tir. and tlie first in New England, is port. Here, however, street ai, were hung out of shop windi ws houses, and this was due to pri enterprise. In 1731 tlie town tioned the General Assembly Rhode Island to pass a law for of these lamps, as wi: and malicious persons would Oil break them. order-quirin- Feat' Fvr. g 'Whei Smile Open Ok, t Is tel' NVt Dried Buffalo Tripe. Recently a gentleman from You IVar, Our I oc A I rani You r 1 Woll You Come Co. Rise f district was promenading dw Whitehall street, when he spied neck Scroii With our ancestois as to humanity may be string of sponges hanging upinfre found in the reports of the ravages of of a big grocery store. the plague in London. What is them ere? he Six thousand, says the chronicler, have died dtmngthe w eek, but of these Patrolman Brooks, who s Were only thildreu. ing. It is difficult for us to comprehend the That is dried buffalo general brutality, nnd the lack of pity and kindred emotions, among our fore- friend. fathers only seven generations back. The dickens you say! Is tt The torture of animals was the most to eat? good amusement. The popular good Queen Bess and her ladies delighted iu watchFinest eating in the world if y ing the agonies of a baited bear or bull; cook it properly. the children of the poor were cruelly How do you cook em? overworked, and died by hundreds in the Why, just sliceituptliin.anda1: mines yearly. Even "tlie children of families were soaking it thoroughly, dip it in wealthy. taught to serve God only at the point batter and fry it. its just sple Come, Hnetf Come Come two-third- God-fearin- of the rod. g Savage beatings only a gen- eration ago were part of the daily in dis- cipline many families. The strength of Christian feeling in the present day finds no higher or more beautiful expression than in the tenderness and cure shown toward cliildren. The exodus of thousands of poor little ones from American cities every summer to the mountains and is as sure a testimony to the power of the good God among men as was the going out of tlie host of Israel from Egvpt. The whole force of modern civilization is directed to their training, to making them strong, happy and good. The old heathen Anaxagoras, when he was dying, was asked what was liis lust, command. That all the children may have a yearly holiday on the day of my death, was his reply. Then they will sometimes be glad that Anaxagoras ever lived. The modern American does not wait for death to make the children about him hnppy. Whatever may have been the golden age for adults, yours is now, children. It is worth your while to contrast your own standing-groun- d with that of the child of two centuries ago, that you may rate your chances at their just weight and value. Jimmie Opinion. Interested fathers and mothers are often anxious to see their childrens school reports, but possibly they might gain a deeper knowledge of the childish mind if they also perused Tommys or Dicky's examination papers. One child brought two of his papers home for inspection, because, as he indignantly declared, he saw the teacher when she was correcting em. laugh 1 know they were mine, lie protested, because both times she looked and at me. $uid, O Jimmie, Jimmie, what shall we do with you? Now, you look at em, nta, and tell me whats the mutter. Ma looked, and mode two choice extracts, over which she herself could not forbear smiling, Mountains have a great effect on the rainfall. They are very useful at such times, because, when it rains, people can take to the mountains for shelter.1 The reason you can't boil eggs at a high altitude is because there is not enough pressure of the atmosphere to harden the yolk. Did you understand exactly what you meant by those answers? asked bis mother mildly. Praps not, said Jimmie, with an air of indifference, "but thats what the book said, anyway! II III av It tp. Elijah, dear, will you dress Willie tin's morning? Im in such a burry, and it wont take but a minute or two. Certainly, replied Mr. Bixby, cheerfully. Pd just as soon dress the little chap as not. Here, my little man, come and let papa dress you. I'll have you as neat as a piu in a" jiffy. W il lie, aged four, comes reluctantly front his playthings, and Bixby begins: Now, let's off with your nighty gow n and keep still, dear, or I can't unbutton it. There, now, we'll sit still, child. What makes vou squirm around like an eel? Where's your little shirty? Ah. here it is, nnd sit still! Put up your arm no, the other one, and can't you keep still half a second? Put up your other arm and stop hauling and pulling so! Now, lets come here, hoy! W hat under heaven do vou mean by racing off like that with nothing on hut your shirt? Now. you come here and let me put the rest of your duds on. Stand still. Isay! Put your leg in here! Not that legf There vou go squirming around like an angle-worNow, if you dont keep still, young man, I'll stop pulling at that chain, and here, Mary Ellen, you'll have IV dress this wriggling animal yourseli. I couldn't do it (a 10 years. Go to your mother, sir! did.; Well, Ill be Juneswoggied dont try em one bait, il "said ! and he walked into the store a purchased the whole string, vvliiln clerks were much mystified astoii: he wanted with so many in an nppenranee.a fow d, later and meeting Patrolman Broi again, he remarked: "Sav vou know them era tript thou; i 'that: t sponge-llepu- him. Bui princ be ha Yes. Well, they must a ben tlie tr exem o the oldest bull on the range, Becky Ann parbiied em, tried hashed em an done every way n em, an darned if she ever could, em fitten to eat; and I know t! haint no better cook inCofilneck Atk Becky Ann. ef I do say it. V Constitution. busiu Thosi upon tions bourn the la guilfj What Killing Rats By Electricity, grand Victor Po issant, a young electric occur of Omaha, has a very ingenious r speak of killing rats. The prying Setl roden' caught in anordinary royal trap,' Easoi bottom of which is covered with t purch Mr. Poissant has a small dynamt ofter his own manufacture. Onewire.K a po.V necting with the dynam , is faste: late o rived to the tin lining of the trap, is thrust into the prisopart ned! The well known propensity in g it caged rat to do battle nsserts t that he siezes the wire betwten ; teeth. In sodoing he makes the", xvas tc take of his life. The circuit is ft would piete, his jaws close rn the wire f Buttei a death grip, and without a sqc safety and almost without a quiver heps es into a state of eternal dceueti Buttei 000 a; Chicago Times. bis va permit Habits of Fur Seals. The seals of these waters mip ly gra Duri southward in each year, and be is to move from the islands toward , larmv close of October. They proceed di it was the California const, and are nbsoi-I- from Batter unmolested on that journey, bad di sliortd? and stormy weather, fogs w not permitting a profitable hue" and, bad pi during the winter months. Ton bad be May they return northward nnd tr the pn el at the rate of ten to twelve e tire ha per hour, and their northwest jf worko been se ney is thus accomplished in a Ho days, when they reach their bw; grounds in the Pribyloff Isinnd.O "that George and St. Paul, situated But GO, passing for the most f vvasm; between the Aleutian Islands, broken laska and Aluta, or between Alt contaii Tim-- and Unimak. Cor. London silarm Butter For His Curefor It. A few there;. 0, Mr. Cahokia, exclaimed Boston young woman with enh sum! Inimi asm, is it not wondrously piR1" or robl i and,-othe- r 1 I even in its utilitarian aspect, to serve the gradual eneroachmet rationalistic concepts and met-- on tlie superstition the age! While onr judgement commend, our sympathies are untarily excited. Is it not soOf course, of course, rejoin; St. Louis young man heartilytough while it lasts, but there; use of folks going sneezing pr the way they're doing. Quinine goose grease will knock it sky iu three days. time-honore- d - - , ser s and tin of the c Now, that i may sa near m oven re' in Dun,1-tea- a to my I store t back yt trough, |