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Show srisarfr: WSSSSTWS'SSWsmisSSa ers. The silt deposited by these rivers the first thing the men do on entering ment suffices of itself to keep the tem- AN INDIAN ROMANCE. has rendered the sea so shallow that the casino is to disrobe and search for perature a little above the freezing for miles from the shore there is not vermin, and moreover the majority sel- point, which is considered comfortable water enough at low tide to float a row- dom trouble themselves about resum- enough in a country where wood is so TWO BROTHERS IN LOVE WITH THE SAME MAIDEN. boat. ' The whole country is volcanic; ing their raiment until they are ready precious. immense lava beds and extinct craters to go out. The condensation caused by The casino has no door in our sense are everywheteTo be met with. There the sudden change of temperature ren- of the word. The following ingenious Tlie Dcarded Suitor Sought the Life are interminable wet plains, called by ders the clothes so wet that after all method is used instead: Close by there of His Successful Rival, but U as the Russian name of tundra. The tun- it is only natural that the natives should is a little structure which serves as a Killed Himself Fed by Ragles in a dras are covered with a rank growth of immediately remove them. vestibule. This has a large hole in the Cave. moss, in which the feet sink so deep A casino can be described as simply floor, and from the bottom of this hole that traveling over them is well-nig- h It is a or shaft extends a tunnel which termia cellar with a roof over it. N COUPLES and A of the casino. impossible, except during the winter deep, square excavation, with a pyram- nates in the fire-p- it in small companies season. idal roof of rough logs, covered thick- person desiring to enter a casino goes the Indians hunted The villages are organized on a very ly with earth. At even a short distance into the vestibule, jumps down into the the deer, elk, and convenient socialistic plan. The main it can be easily mistaken for a small hole and then crawls along the tunnel and while f .antelPewas hf edifies of every settlement is called the hillock. The only light and ventila- until he reaches a corresponding hole irzd-halways i danger casino. Around this the private resi- tion is by a little opening at the top, in the floor of the casino. Woe to the tragedies present, dences of barraboras are grouped with- which is protected by a curtain made luckless stranger who fails to emerge sometimes occurred out any regard to regularity. Near each of fish skin. The internal arrangement as soon as this hole is reached, for in .which neither barrabora is? its storehouse, called a varies in different places in respect to should he proceed any further he would wild beasts nor incache or lafkak. details, but the main features are the discover that the short section of the imical tribes had The casino or koshga is the great same. Around three sides of the in- tunnel which remains between this exit part, but which local institution of Alaska. It is common terior a banlr of earth is left, which and the fire-p- it is the sink. arose from feelings and impulses comproperty, and serves as the exchange, extends like a broad step or divan. On Crawling along in the dark, slippery mon to human nature, write Alice C. restaurant, workshop, bath- this the natives sit in their customary tunnel is not a. graceful proceeding, Hunting house, hospital and theater for the resir- - squatting attitude. and this bobbing up from the hole Is Fisher in ofan article entitled Customs the, Omahas in the Century. The following adventure took place in the last century. Two brothers loved the same woman. She favored the younger, but by some means the elder took her to wife. They were married in the fall of the year, and winter passed by, and one Ini' day in spring the brothers went forth to hunt together. Wa.lking near i the breaks of the Clearwater, the elder stopped to look over the edge of the Some casinos have a second and nar canyon, where, a thousand feet below, rower divan, extending from the wall the river glistened in the morning sun. above the other. On extraordinary ocHalf way down the rocky wall, upon a casions a third one is added. This is ledge that jutted out from the sheer formed of three little flat sleds called face of the precipice, he saw a nest of fM kamegatek. A line of these kamegateks$$ young eagles. He called to his brother, Jsuspended from the' roof by skin ropes who returned, and looked down upon vJwill extend all around the casino. Thus the nest. I know what I will do, he nura-Jba j space is economized and large said; I will make a rope. At a of persons accommodated. So the two set to work. They festival on the mainland I count stripped. the bark from young willows, some 450 men in the casino, all range and plaited it into a rope strong around the sides In regular rows, enough to hold a man. This done, they above tbe other, like books i threw one end over the percipice to see if it was long enough to reach the nest; but It fell far short. Then they worked on, lengthening the rope until it finally rested upon the ledge. They agreed that one was to let the other down to secure the eagles The elder tied the rope about his body and the younger lowered him carefully until his feet were well on the ledge. As he walked along toward the nest he saw the rope LAfcKAS CASINOS, FROM DESCRIPTIONS BY REV. BARNUM. suddenly tossed over the cliff; instinctdents of the village, and also as the library. On" the fourth side of the decidedly an abrupt manner of making ively he steadied himself, caught the hotel for any stranger, and, I may add, casino the main divan extends only a ones appearance in society. Tbe de- rope, and pulled it in. He was alone, the chapel 6f the missionary. According short distance from the corners, leaving parture is fully as ludicrous. The soft with a precipice above and a precipice to Esquimeau etiquette, the casino is free the middle portion .where the en- hoots and fur clothing make no below, on a narrow ledge, with no livrustling n reserved solely for men; women and trance Is situated. and you behold the inmates disappear ing thing but himself and the old the engles. By and by "In the center of the floor Is a large, instantly and silently through the floor, children rarely invade its precincts At and, seeing the inreturned, meal times!, or rather at all hours, wives square pit covered with logs. In this after the fashion . of imps in panto- eagles inclined to be hostile; but bring the food which they have pre- pit, during the time of the bath, a mime. The interior of the casino is truder, were was man careful not to anger them, pared as far as the inner entrance. This large fire is built. At other times no always gloomy; the sides and roof are the rigid seclusion will appear all the more fire is used, as the presence of a num- blackened with smoke and covered and when they went away again he secured part of the game they had apart- - thickly with soot. appropriate .when it is remembered that ber of persons in an brought to their young. Days wore on, and the mans life in are bers strict teetotalers every day WANTED TO BORROW HIM. building up, made a circle with the was sustained by the food the old eagles on the floor, and put seven differ- brought; but his distress from thirst the year except one. Regularly on the rope first day of September, year after Queer Request Two Women Made of a ent species of snakes inside of the rope was great, so he cleared out the little Philadelphian. circle. to catch the rain, year, all the adult members of tbe comA genial Philadelphian, who for ob- as if Every single one crawled over it hollows in the rock mune assemble in the parish church it wasnt there, and since then my, covering .them carefully to prevent and every lone takes a solemn vow be- vious reasons does not care to have his friend has lost faith in its protective evaporation. The young eagles beeame printed on this occasion, secured powers. An old campaigner says to a accustomed to his companionship and fore the altar to drink no wine, beer or name a car seat on an express train reporter for the Inter-Ocea- n spirits from the morrow of the fol- forparlor that this the touch of his hand; but by and by as a he few and ago, Reading days The whole was a poor test. A hair lariat must be the time came when they were ready yea5 lowing day for the was about to pass through the gates made clause from the morrow Is intro- was for this use, and the to fly, and death looked the lonely man surprised to hear himself accosted sharp purposely duced in order to give them a reward projections of the butts of the 4n the face. He resolved to make an in tones feminine somewhat with the a whole of in the hair be made for their virtue He had shape A hair lariat effort to reach the ground. Please, mister, can be, and Is,prominent. startling question: a In in rock hidden the his crevice made as a3 day of drunken carnival. As soon as could smooth rope any I borrow you for a while? into church the other leave now to lariat. begin tied from he are useit they they drying; keep it They strong, but Looking arotind, he found two less as a protector each his about from dulge in a horrible bacchanalian drink- buxom I snakes. have body, fastening firmly women, who hastily and hesi- used one in ing, which continues throughout the places where snakes were so end strongly to an eagle, leaving suffiridwere that tatingly explained they in woman nor man thick dozen could be run cient length between the birds and day, until neither of from that half the village is sober. This is naturally aing on a pass made out in the name a under single bush, and never himself to give full play for their wings. gentleman and his wife, and, as the knew one to crawl followed by considerable, physical sufover or inside of my He reasoned that if the eagles were not was not present, they bed. gentleman wheremental remorse, and then able to fly with his weight, they would fering wanted the genial-lookin- g citizen to break his fall by their endeavors to upon the penitent parish enters upon of model sobriety, and place his bought ticket at the disposal its twelve-mont- h savethemselves. At all events, it was one lady and take the other one ( Impeaching a Witness. all live like the Rechabites. Some stu- of the defense) A'You were death to remain upon the ledge after Lawyer (for under his he while personated wing, proceedthis dents imagine that queer in the saloon when the shooting: oc- they had gone. When all wa3 ready, the absent owner of the pass. custom. a tribal he may with his bow and quiver fastened upon prehistoric ing Which is my wife? he inquired curred? his back, he pushed The wondering Witness (for the state) was. an inward qualm, lest his own abI with AGO. off tbpir nest over the cliff, and ONE HUNDRED YEARS . Lawyer "State the location" of the eaglesbore sent better half should ever hear the their strange burden down, they saloon. Our Great Colleges Were Not Such Vast story. the down canyon, and finally, weary Witness "No. 411 Chestnut street, You can take your choice, sir, said Institutions as They Are Now. with their enforced flight, alighted Dartmouth College consisted of a the lady In search of an escort, and he Lexington, Ky. a tree at the bottom. The man wooden building 150 feet long, 50 feet promptly did so by tucking the arm of What was the defendant upon Lawyer a from each of his pretook wide and 36 feet high. the youngest fair one under his own doing when you entered the saloon? ' servers feather released and them; then he Witness He was treating the At Dartmouth English, grammar and and leading her into the car. The down through the swung himself in the soph- couple proved to be right jolly traveling crowd. arithmetic were text-hooto the branches and, ground, taking the omore year. Lawyer What did he say? companions, and the citizens only recame to his trail shortest home, upon . Witness He said: Mister BeaurePrinceton, the greatest Presbyterian gret in the transaction was due to a eVandBTs wife his broth sitting tocoliege, was a huge stone edifice, its fear that the story might leak out and gard, will you and Mister Blublud and tent. It took but a gether outside the get home ahead of him. But it didnt. Mister Fireater and Mister Redeye and moment faculty consisting of a president, an arrow to send through the' one professor, two master of Mister Cornbred and Mister Jefferson so cruelly man who had unsuspecting join me in a drink, suhs? languages and seventy students. The Postofllce in Hindoos tan. Your honor, the defense betrayed him; then, confronting the Harvard University had four brick Lawyer colThe in not India postofllce only woman. In intensity of hope he asked, buildings; the faculty consisted Inof a lects and delivers letters, parcels and rests. I would respectfully submit to Are you glad I have come? She was its other articles, but acts to a certain ex- thi3 intelligent jury that there are not and president and six professors, face him her told the but truth, halls thronged 130 to 160 students. tent as a banker to the general public, six plain misters in the whole state of silent, arrow second a her heart. and pierced Yale boasted of one brick building sells quinine and salt, pays military Kentucky. Her body fell over the prostrate form and a chapel with a steeple 125 feet pensions, and collects the revenue acof the younger brother before any one The faculty was a president, a cruing to the government from land high! SCRAPS. in camp realized that he who had long and other sources. But to the fertile professor of divinity and three tutors. been given up as dead had returned The household work of the families to avenge The greatest Episcopal college in the brain of one of the oldest officers In his grievous wrongs. United States was William and Marys. the department is due the latest devel- in the United States was. In 18S0, done state patronage, opment in the work of the postofllce. by 1,075,653 domestic servants. It was under royal and An Absent-Minde- d Preacher. and was,1 therefore, more substantially The Punjab postofllce has come forOver one-ha- lf the population of odd circumstance An happened once favored tban most of our American ward as an elementary- teacher. It not Rhode Island and nearly one-ha- lf that As Dr. Wilson was one at Winchester. schools. At this time, it is said in a only collects letters and delivers them, of Connecticut Is employed in the mills. Sunday morning going through the curious old state report, the college was but teaches boys in elementary schools It is claimed that Lake Erie produces streets toward the cathedral he heard like a how to write them and address the more a building of three stories, fish to the square mile than any a woman cry, Mackerel! All alive, all brick kiln, and had thirty gentlemen covers. other body of water In the world. alive, O! and on his arrival at the students. Native-bor- n farmers of this country church he began the services as follows: Hair Ropes and Snakes. The students lodged in dormitories, When the wicked 'man turneth away form 26 per cent of Its population; There is a common superstition farmers of ate at the commons and were satisfrom his wickedness, and doeth that 17.6 number birth foreign fied with what we would consider among western cowboys that a rattle- per cent. which is lawful and right, he shall save small can of snake will not cross a hair rope, said These last prison diet. Breakfast, a ounce Of all the handicraftsmen the car- his soul alive, alive, O! c butan about of Philaa ths Brown, biscuit, the doctor words Superintendent coffee, numerous most proclaimed aloud, to were when the penters ter. Dinner, one pound of meat, two delphia Zoological Garden, the other the tenth census was taken, numbering the great surprise of the congregation. SupBut tbe good doctor was so studious and day. The cowboy dont mind a rattlepotatoes and romo vegetables. un- snake much, anyhow, but. when he has 373,143. Tho milk. absent-minde- d and only bread that he knew not what per, is estimated by engineers who It was frefurnished in to the cider, the he open, spend done. night he had limited supply have studied the subject that which was passed in a can from mouth quently takes the precaution of encirpower gqa to waste every to mouth. Tho days wero spoken of as cling his camp with a repe of this de- hour over Niagara Falls. Heres a Melon for Ton. A Jessamine, Ky., farmer drove into scription, and then goes to sleep with a boll day, roast day, stew day, etc. The letters in the various alphabets the village with a watermelon that quiet mind. I often wondered if there fcbofS JlaJo from I'apor. Kor-Rand one-hawas any truth in this belief, hut never of the world vary from 12 to 232 in weighed ninety-eigA German veterinary surgeon has alThe Sandwich number. Islanders to have a hair repo and ratIt was bought by Dick Dowpounds. CLcnrVl a method by which herso happened tlesnake handy to test it, until one day phabet has 12, the Tartarian 202. ny, the village blacksmith, who cut it A c ' j can bo successfully mmufactured saw and treated a of A mine who came from the has been open with a cross-cwhen friend Philadelphia oculist, fre.-The paper is Impregnated NY One-ha- lf j of the rind eat, and wo bron talking on the sub- studying the human eye fer tnirty the entire village to make it waterproof. with He had a heir repo with him, years, declares that all great ra:n cf veas saved intact and placed under the The lav- t;r claims that a horse wear- ject. and we decided to it on the snakes the past and present had cr have blue village pump as a trough to water stock ing tt ' hr s cannot flip on grrwy in the rep til a Lou-e-try . from NYo shut the or fray eye a J?- ALASKA. NORTH the esquimeaux. of Meager Intelligence lnt Prln-clbl- e Manage to Illustrate the Chief of Proudhons Theory Story of f They . Missionary. j t HE most explicit arid intelligent account of life in faraway Alaska and of the strange hahits and characteristics of the natives that has ever found its way Into print is from the pen of the Rev. Francis : , AMONG ON TRIAL SOCIALISM -' Bar-nu- m, a Gatholic is in the He jstationed missionary. 400 miles beyond St. JTukop district, Horton Sound, which is Michael's, in j club-hous- e, well-authenticat- ed : er ' r5. I the most northerly point reached by steamers, yOr rather, by steamer, since but W trip $. year is made to St. Michaels, this by a boat of1 the Alaska Commercial Company. Describing the country, he says: "All ;he upper region of Alaska extending llongj the shore of Behring Sea presents the same general features. This vast iesolate area is entirely devoid of trees md is intersected by innumerable riv- - CONFESSED SHE DIDN'T DO IT. The Little Girl Disappointed tbe Ex of Her Guilty Mates. s pectations dreadful had happened at Something the Queensville district school, says Philadelphia Times. May Greene,' the ' i the village, had smuggled her Sunday sash out of the bureau, and, had unbeknownst to her mother, worn! it to school. Her howtriumph, ever, was short-liveShe had hung the sash most carefully on a hook in the cloakroom while she ran out at recess for a good romp. On her return she was dismayed to find that it had been cut In two pieces. Every scholar was carefully questioned, but no one, of course, knew anything about it. The teacher accordingly announced that when the afternoon session should open she would lay all lessons aside and hold a court of investigation. She herself would be the judge. May Greene should be the plaintiff and every scholar in turn should come up into a witness box, rigged up for the occasion, and tell exactly what he knew about the matter. She also said that if anyone would confess his wrong-doin- g before the opening of court he would be pardoned and all proceedings stopped. Two guilty boys, discarded beaux of the gay coquette, were now pale with dismay. They had tolff untruths when privately, questioned and now they feared they would not be able to brave them out before the awful court ordeal especially since It had begun to he whispered around that they knew more, of the matter than had at first appeared. They therefore hit upon the following expedient: The youngest child in the school, little. Annie Cork, was the pet of the county. If she now could be induced to confess to the cutting of the surely she would be pardoned on account of her popularity. She was belle pf j d. sh therefore beset by the guilty young-Etc- rs who, by dint of dire threats and bribes, and by urging confession 3 upon her as a duty, finally secured her When he afternoon bell scholars the rang elms in promptly, looking askanco at the awful witness (box and at the mutinied finery floating out from the teach-- 3 desk. The judge was about to open bewildered consent "to confess. C3urt, the criminals when in came leading the innocent between them. They informed ;ae judge that Annie Cork had come to dously placing her on stand, they withdrew to The childs helpless atti-nr'sfor the tendered judge, who took her by the and said gently, Well, deer, Ku really come to conf s? sNf faltered, eppre by -- r t fctillncm In the ream; but, ' : s ::v - from the j da Id:: hiunphantly ch lt ( r, Y. fli, : t 0 Tlk come W .ch-'- r rth c::ee to cenfhth to that I j it. half-grow- j . air-tig- ht -- ; 1. i ...j ks vice-preside- nt, - w , 16,000,-OCO-hor- se - lf ht ut x , . . .1 i'i s. j d.ty in : the rn; :r In ; c'Z'.i third;: :.l a of t t 2 11 c! i :o- A He WEST XVsis KILLER. 1 I.sl.ii .1 Frowej It has often l j la. t"uin tu. r i to m y favored men who, travli. the west, made the rf some famous killers, that the hill a ; always quietly and soberly re eve I about the homicides he had commltt- - I and never cared to talk aUut tlm, says the Washington PoT. Chrrlcu Bassett, who has great renown in tta southwest as a and a g :;ne It 'man, is no exception to the rul chanced that all of Bassetts klUing? were on the side of public order ant occurred while he was an officer cf the law. For several years Bassett was marshal of Dodge City. Bat Masterson was Bassetts deputy. H hnpp.-mmore than once in straightening out tlu destinies of Dodge that Bw-t- t was to on a called shoot ceremony whrein he was always carpful to aim low, with gratifying results. When Luke Short who afterward killed Jim Court-wriga Texas 'desperado was run out of Dodge, Bassett was the first man he came to in seeking heip to put him back. Having secured Barnett, Luke Short gathered about him an array which had a record for cool nerve and quick, sure work with a Colts pistol that would be hard to duplicate. Short was escorted back to Dodge by Ba. ctt. Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Bill Earp, Virgil Earp, Doc IlolllJuy, Curly Bill, Shotgun Collins and others, who, as stark, indomitable fighters, had as much fame in their country as ever had the Black Douglass or Bruce or Wallace in his. But as to the solemn reticence of those killers when touched on as to their bloody deeds: Bassett is and has been for years, the manager of a resort, in Kansas City. One winter night Bassett and several others wrere standing near the big stove, drinking and defying the weather. The talk had drifted to the winter days of Dodge City, when Jack Nuckols suddenly spoke up with:, By the way, Charlie, you killed several men at Dodge City, didnt you? A look of pain and uneasiness came across' Bassett's face like a cloud. He was staggered and wrorried and Showed it. A profound silence fell upon the several men present and Nuckols began to grow embarrassed. For full half a minute Bassett looked at the questioner without saying a wrord. Then as if a thought had come to him that he knew he was safe 'to act on, he helped himself to a drink of whisky all alone. When he returned he hacked up to the stove, and, surveying Nuckols said. In a mild, inquiring tone: Vell, if I did it? was right. Nuckols hastened to assure him that no one harbored a doubt on that point and the subject was politely changed. Afterward one of the onlookers re-- gun-fight- . er ht, marked:" You "can bet it bothered Bassett when it drove him to drinking whisky byhimself. Ill bet two to one thats the first drink Bassetts taken alone in twenty years. SIFTINGS. A swallow may not make a summer but a frog makes a spring. The military prisoner makes his es- cape in an unguarded moment. A stag party would be twice as enjoyable If a few dears were invited. A printer being asked if he was a West-Pointsaid no, he was a setter. Is like a market, where Fortune If you wait a little the many times price will fall. Blnx calls his doctor his biographer for the reason that he is at work upon his life. How happy our neighbors might be If they would only do as we think they ought to do. Come to think of it, how can you excontented when the pect the poor to be ' are? never rich Ruffs for, the throat are fashionable, and it is generally for the throat that a. t , rough goes. er , , FLOTSAM. Abraham Rimes, of Fulton county, Indiana, has jqst married his eleventh wife, having been married and divorced ten times. There were recently 324 physicians present in consultation at the bedside of a member of the Imperial family of China. It Is said that if the suns influence-waentirely withdrawn from the earth, universal death would ensue within three days. A painter of Marseilles earned 2,0(KK on recently by standing in one positionThin-wahours. a pedestal twenty-eigdone on a wager. A coon cat in Lewiston, Maine, not only plays the piano, but when it wants-tlook out of the window pushes up if It happens to be down.1 The only fish that breathes with its tail Is the perlophthalmus, a native cf the Maylayand swamps. If the tail la painted over with oil or varnish the fish dies of suffocation. It cost $100,000 a year to keep up the? Bois de Boulogne, but from $40,000 to $50,000 is derived from the park Itself, and from the rents of the race courses, restaurants and private houses in it. It Is said that the cocoanut plam of the Phillippine islands sometimes produces pearls, like those of the ocean,' composed of carbonate of lime, and that the bamboo yields opals, which are found in Its joints. A club of people with six fingers oxs each hand exists in London. The secretary of the club reports that there-ar- e 2,173 persons with six, and 431 with seven fingers on one hand. There is but one person living with eight fingers. It is said that there are 333,003 cats in England, and sixty-nin- e varieties. A pure tortoise-she- ll tom cat is rare, as is also a female red Como cats are actually a: a curious variety from vegetarians, Burmah live e: tirelv uron water. , ; i s t ht ; the-curtain- s , |