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Show ESSED TO KILL ' ' Breathes thero th man with sou dead, As Walter Scott sang In a ballad, Who never to his friends has said, I, I alone can mix a salad! Who when his varlet, meek and low, he himself should fix it, SuKKP-steExclaimed with petulance: "No, no! Give me the cruet and I'll fix It! beiaufi4 of shim amlet When (v. r vllHl , m a. iaft We ftaze on him with civil smile If we his strong esteem would capture-Ou- r optic organs roll the while In throes of simulated rapture Hes bound the verdant leaves to spoil. This lettuce notoriety seeker. With too much vinegar or oil Or oversurfeit of paprika. Still we' maintain our placid grin, Although tls salted much too fully, And garlic cloves galore rubbed In, We voice the eulogistic Bully! For conscience prompteth us this way To revel in the product gladly. Well knowing on some future day Well mix another just as badly, New York Herald. Committed to the Deep cross hii I Chapmta dent o. l knocked, and put hla It, once for all, when he came home from his next voyage. He was speeding homeward now, 16." lie tin passenger, air,' No. brer-Vere business-likand the letter was to prepare her for a with hla coming. He wrote It with so many bad era p bis from pauses for reflection that by 10 up Yalden glanced is ton (ot oclock it was still unfinished, when, irritably. that there mindful of his patient, he relocked it fats the matter with him?" gestlvs it In his desk. Uncommon bad." tano, sir. No. 16 was awake, but droway with ' and I suppose? jail Iblng, bat no i sir. Not sea sick. Queer when sheer weakness. For yes If I dont pull through this, docaboard yesterday, I thought I to lists jae bed all day. Wouldn't let me tor .in iy it on Dont you worry about that; yon Till just now he cron ns ;a anything. will. me to fetch you." nseeratj But If I dont Im not afraid of and the steward withdrew, lry.-- Si? I've been near It too often first finish the to dying. r only delayed i;raph of a letter he had been :when he was interrupted. r Vas not precisely an urgent he had no Intention of doing fin steward o two wen being thu IT in their j at the door. y . Things Quaint and Curious Gathered Here and There MUSEUM HAS . PRIZE GORILLA. it until the ship arrived hut it was to contain ,:verpool; that he knew he could not Into speech, and It was to the recipient that he would ar-- ; less than half a day behind it e lamp that shone from the wall a 16 showed him a haggard man ched on the bunk apparently np. While the doctor was taking of him he reliminary , survey ting with awoke. tPirjrd.' fm the doctor. atS wrong?" h, thanks. You sent for me. ... I dont know, head's all afire, and my Js, too. Feel that. he doctor took bis hand and laid nger on his pulse. The hand was or. My and dry, the pulse was galloping piously, and a brief examination was Ifeclent to diagnose hla ailment. u A touch of pneumonia, said Yal-Yo- must take more care of irself than youve been doing late-Yowere not fit to travel: you ,st have felt ill before you staited. I wanted to get home, the other swered, wearily. Ive been away i long time." We must see what we can arrange u rut nursing," the doctor concluded. give you some medicine; you've a good constitution. ar.d with youll pull round all right. Think so? 1 t mi w' He VeB- - F 1 mustnt be Barrow." The doctor turned to steward. Somebody will have to ft P with him Ill see him before i turn In, and Ill get to let you have assist- itilncaptain t. fulfilling which latter duty he fUrd to hla cabin avl resumed the w f brlou8 composition it hla letter, 1 bre ?ear ago he met In London tic! i be told himself he hau been tail f foWog for all hla life. She was near-fa- j af v twenty yeara hla Junior, but what ,, (. M that matter? Her peoplo had and preud, and now, oro'j recent financial disaster lei t! w?r Pcor and prouder, but what on 6? botjJ r8 rlh 4 811 Sha that matter either? heard him with pity in her IN HARO Monster of the Woods Slain by German Traveler, There has just been placed on exhibition in the Umlauff museum, at Hamburg, the biggest known specimen of gorilla. It was shot In the Cameroon Territory, In West Africa. After much difficulty It was removed to Hamburg, stuffed, mounted and placed on exhibition. It measures 6 feet 10 Inches from the crown of the head to the middle toe, and across, from middle finger to middle finger, 9 feet 8 Inches. It w as largely a matter "of chance that the commercial traveler, Herr Paschen of Schwerin, shot this gigantic gorilla. When the natives came to the agency at Cameroon with stories of the "big monkey" Herr Paschen did not take much stock in their yarns, but when the native troops started out to hunt for the gorilla the German traveler took his rarblre and went along. After some hours travel they came to the patch of bush whore the gorilla was supposed to be hiding. The natives surrounded the bush, and suddenly the beasts head appeared. Herr Paschen made a path through the bush with bis bush knife and when within range took air and fired. It was a lucky shot, for the beast at once fell with the bullet through bis head. He fell with a crash and was almost Instantly dead. It was not an easy matter to remove the gorilla to the coast and thence to Hamburg, but there It la now, almost lifelike In appearance, so carefully waa the mount- LUCK. Early Arrival 8poiled Hie Chances for Fame. We can recall no rainmaker from the time of Plutarch, or any rain doctor of the Indians, or any rain sorcerer of the African tribes, who has played In harder luck than Prof. Meyers has just encountered in the Adlrondacks. He arrived a few days ago with a fine collection of balloons and bomba and got all ready for operations on Tuesday. On the evening of that day he announced that be should send up some balloons with powerful bombs with lighted fuses attached, and that rain would follow the explosion almost Immediately. As a matter of fact, rain preceded the explosion. Just as the professor was about to cut the ropes of hla balloon a tremendous thunderstorm came up, advancing with terrlfHc speed and deluging the region with water. to the Y'ou see, nature had got on professors little game and forestalled But Imagine the airs of the him. professor if he had got his balloons up about fifteen minutes ahead of the No rain doctor that the shower! world has known would have been with him then. New York "In It Commercial Advertiser. 8torm'e pos-p- ;hed and PROFESSOR Flung the glass far out into the dark, for that; and yet. now It seems harder than It ever did before. I dont Youd better not talk. watt you to excite yourself. Not me! What I mean Is, it would be hard luck to die on the way home Ive been away nearly nine years. 1 went away as poor as a rat, and I'm going back rich. Thata something. Isn't It?" It's a great deal. "And I'm not dead yet, though Im supposed to be! the other chuckleJ, terrible One everlasting, grimly. winter we were snowed up miles away from everywhere, and we were put down as done for. Only two of us we managed to worry through, and and knows where, heaven wandered we lived well, we didnt live. But we going through and I'm worried home." His eyes closed and he ram"Nine years; but bled on dreamily: shell be waiting. I told her thatsheIt wouldnt be more than two and If said 'Its till you come, Ned, and till I wait shall I come, never you meet you, at the end. " He lay quiet a minute, and then, the docopening his eyes and finding contor regarding him Intently, he One Dog's Intelligence. The Inteligence of animals seems as a rule to be underrated rather than A dog breeder described overrated. the other day a wonderful collie that had belonged to Sir John Lubbock. This dog, be said, "would, when It was hungry, lay at Its masters feet a When It was card marked Food. thirsty it would fetch a card marked When It wanted to take a Drink. walk It would bring a card marked Out Sir John Lubbock trained It to do this trick In less than a month. He put the food card over the doga food and made It bring the card to him before be would allow It to eat, and in the matter of drinking and going out he used a like method. The tinued: cards were similar in shape and color. Weve never written to each other. Nothing but the writing on them dlf We promised her people we wouldnt fered. Since, therefore, the dog disIf ahe Sh was to be free to change I had tinguished them by the writing alone, would; they said It was best I It may truly be said that the animal no money and no prospects, but ir could read." had ahe and man went back a rich I knw ,he not changed. More Criminals or never would. Whether I lived number of criminals Is on the The died, she said she would never change Increase, and the number of heinous and she won't. - offenses grows less as civilization ad Did you say your name was tavances," said a New York criminal . win Ashton? lawyer the other day. This may aeem the by The doctor was startled parldoxical, but It la easily explained alien sound of hla own voice. New laws are continually being mads The sick man nodded, and, pointing constituting new crimes, and while across the cabin the number of the violations of the "Her portrait's In my bag. doctor, law growa larger, the number of at r It for he said. "Do you mind getting I mads clous crimes diminishes. If you will ne? My wills In there, .too. consult the criminal statistics you it as soon as I struck my first luck. will see that the Increase la almost Oh, what I wanted In cae. In the new and lighter ofI dont pull entirely waa--lf doctor, to ask you. fense." and lound. will you have my bag11 find her? You to aent The Kindly Sinners. everything her address If only kindly sinners Could rule this world's affaire. "Yes yes. But not now." Yalden We'd elt at better dinners talked You've interrupted harshly And spend less time In prayers; already. . - - come much And st lires eperkilng banquet Wed drown corroding cares. ',org Barrow." be hailed the advent If only kindly elnnere f,f the steward with ineffable relief. Could rule thle worlds affatra In the night Call me If he la worse the by He was daxod and stupefied Safety In Numbers. come upon him Come home as teck knowledge that had Brannlgan to g wld me. Flannlgan. unexpectedly, and yearnedbe supper might and be alone where Flannlgan Ehure, It's past yer supfhlS of It One thought only burned time now. Yer wife'll be mid as ... To-da- M ... "Whats th matter with him?" but not love; and she told him, th only pity in her tone, that the ihe loved was dead and her J88 ,rt wa hurled with him. Uter he learned the atory that lay ehind her words, and saw more hope for himself than she had j8 given m' or aurely lit living love of her due time, win her away from . lie mcniory of a doaJ rival, wld not take her answer tlum. but oeg?d her to think of all It must dared not face 4n to him, and let him aRk her for Ungulth. 11 rv.'rr. and could not ex per a hatter. Prannlgan Thats Jest it; she can't lick the two of us. THE CZARS RAT SHOWS ITS SAGACITY. let-fo- i psec; s tie ,i.t all count of time, as a nan does when he sleeps, but when the steward summoned him hurriedly an hour after midnight he had evidently not been In bod; a light was burning In his abln, he was still dressed, and Ms far was wan and his eyes heavy, as if he were in pain. Mr. Ashtons worse, sir. Edwards is with him, and called me to fetch ou. Ho cant sleep. Keeps sitting up. Edwards says, staring as if he could see people, an' talking very slnglar. Delirious, I expect, sir. We must try a sleeping draught," said Yalden dully. TU be there directly. Barrow being gone, he busied himself in the medicine cupboard, and hastened after him, carrying something In a glass. Drawing near to No. 16, he could hear the sick man babbling monotonously, and the very sound of hla voice stung him and quickened a fiercer flame within him; till suddenly he caught a word of what the man was saying merely a name, but the utterance of It checked him instantly, as if a hand had plucked at hla sleeve. He stood trembling, and In that same instant saw, shaping white In the darkness before him, a sweet, sad face, grown pale with weary years of longing the pure, wistful eyes looked into his, and their calmness calmed him, and their sadness made him ashamed. With a something breaking like a sob In his throat, he swiftly retraced his steps, pauslrg In the unllghted saloon to open c ,e of the portholes and fling the glass he carried far out Into the dark. Thereafter he sat till well Into the day watching and tending the man she loved and had loved bo king. Going on deck In the morning, he leaned over the aide to tear up the letter he had written and scatter its fragments into the sea. It was the burial of a great hope that had died in the night As he walked away, the captain, coming from breakfast, met him, and lingered to make inquiries. Morning, doctor; hows the patient? Youre not going to make a funeral of It, I hope? Not quite, Yalden laughed careHe has taken a turn for the lessly. better Black and White. Rare Intelligence Displayed by Pet of Famous Writer. That delightful writer on natural history, the late Mr, Frank Buckland, used to be particularly fond of watching the various ways In which hla peta would thieve. He told a good tale about a rat that he had which not terrified his visitors at breakfast Mr, Buckland had made a house for his pet rodent by the elde of the mantelpiece, and this waa approached by a kind of ladder, which the rat had to ascend when he had GREAT ARMY. It le One of the Great Civilizing Forces of the Muscovite Empire. The czar is In favor of universal peace, but be has the largest army of the world. He has more officers than we have officers and men In our regular army and, even In these piping times of peace hts troops exceed 1,000,-00writes Frank G. Carpenter. Should war be declared be could Increase them to 5,000,000, and could put Into the field 560,000 of the best horses la the world. For the past thirty years military service baa been obligatory upon all Russians. Every boy on becoming of age is liable to service, and there are 870,000 new recruits every year. Of these 219,000 are taken Into the active army and fleet and of the rest the They majority go into the militia. serve off and on until they are 48 yeara old, and are always ready to be called out in case of war. It takes a vast number of troops to keep this great empire In order. During the Chinese war 200,000 men were sent Into Siberia and a great wall of fortifications has to be kept np along Frank Bucklands Rat been foraging on the floor. Mr. Rat waa very fond of certain sorts of fish and was sure to venture forth If the savor were strong. One day Mr. Bucklard turned hla back In order to give hla pet a chance of seizing the coveted morsel, which he was not long In doing. Hastening up the ladder with Lis piscatorial prize, he had it fixed by the middle of the back, and found that this prevented him drawing the fish through the narrow portal of hlB den. This, however, did not disconcert the rat at all. He laid down his capture on the little platform before his door, went In himself, turned around, poked out hla head, caught the fish by the nose and pulled him In with easy triumph and shortly dined sumptuously. What Is more, Mr. Rat never again tried to house bis provender sideways. pros-pectlngl- y the western frontier to guard against invasion from Europe. The frontier guard now amounts to 85,000 men and In addition vast numbers have to he scattered throughout the various states and the Russian territories In Asia. , The Cossacks are rough looking fellows from about the Black dark-faced- iftV Gigantic Wedding Feast A monster banquet has Just been given by a wealthy landowner, at Qulmperle, In Normandy, to celebrato the simultaneous wedding of his four children, two sons and two daughters. No fewer than 1,600 guesta sat down to the feast, which took place In the open air. The bill of fare Included So five cattle and sixteen Iambs. lavish was the scale of orderlrg that, though the 1,600 guests are reported to have had magnificent appetites, lag and stuffing done. Alongside Is there was more than enough for all. the gigantic skeleton. Since the gor- Nor waa their thirst neglected, for the K Cossack Officer. illa was placed on exhibition the guests emptied ten large barrels of crowds at the museum have been enor- wine and fifteen of rider, besides dis- sea. There are about 8.000,000 of them mous and the comments upon Its posing of much else of a liquid charae all told and they furnish 150,000 men ' marked resemblance to the human ter. for the army. They are sent out by The gorbeen have general. aperies tbs various CosB&ck states, each of Bones. Broken illa might have something to say on which equips, clothes and arms its this subject if alive. own soldiers. They belong mostly to the cavalry and are among the finest The Biggest Hanging Bell. horsemen of the world. Indeed it to What la perhaps the largest harglng said that the average Cossack can ride bell In the world Is to be seen In bareback, standing up like the athlete of the circus. Mandalay. This Is the Mlngun bell, on the right bank of the Irrawaddy, The Russian army Is one of the almost opposite the city of Mandalay. great civilizing forces of this country. The peasants are very Ignorant and This Immense bell measures as folnvtirsuj TltV there are but few schools. Those lows; Height to crown, 12 feet; 21 drafted Into the army are taught to feet high to the top of the griffin-lik16 feet diameter the and write and they are sent back at read lip, monsters; 8 inches; thickness of metal, from 6 borne with new Ideas got through their AAtlOS Inches to 12 Inches. It weighs about service In different parts of the Rus-ala- n tons world. Indeed the change Is so 80 tons, and is suspended on three marked that a man who has had milimassive round beams of teak placed horizontally the one over the other, ' tary service can command 25 per cent their ends resting on two pillars of higher wages In almost any pursuit enormous size, composed of masonry than those who have not aerved. This and large upright teak posts. Utica Globe. . f bell was cast at the end of the eight- t eenth century under the superintend Has Outlived a Century. ) ence of the reigning king. The oldest recorded minister of the Soriety of Friends In the world, Mts. Making Trees Eat Phoebe Ann Gifford, recently ceto In the Crimea scientists have been brated the 100th anniversary of her making queer experiments with fruit birth at her home In Providence. A trees. Instead of trying to increase large number of congratulatory mew their growth and yield by heaping fersages were received by Mrs. Gifford, tilizers around their roots, they have who retains her powers to a remarkbeen cutting tiny boles Into tholr able degree. trunks and Inserting salts of Iron In both solid and liquid form. An ac- j Professional Bible Readers. Ehrstlne of Mulberry Grovs, count of these curious experiments has jjj jIarry n 12 yeara old, has Readings from tbe Bible are no ( though only read before the Imperial society fere(j jj fractures of the arms and leg being given In Berlin by professional recently and It was declared by the . ghown above reciter. men who have been thus feeding the trees that the method has proved itself FIRST OPEN AIR THEATRE IN ENGLAND. to be highly successful. Photographs were shown of nlno hundred trees that had been thus treated, and the pictures appeared to prove the truth of the allegations, for all the trees were beautiful with foliage and flourishing excellently. e j auf-bee- Boy Burled Alive. Immediately after the burial of her only son at Naples, Signers Cupolo cried out that the angels were whispering to her that the child was still alive. She attacked the grave diggers and began throwing out the earth, while friends, taking pity on her, assisted. Finally the lid was unscrewed, and It was found that the child had suffocated; the little body was lying on the stomach, the clothing torn Into ahreda and the finger nails red with blood. The body was still warm, but efforts to revive the poor boy were futile. Protest Against Profanation. British residents of Greece are much wrought up over the action of the In accepting the offer of a foreign capitalist to erect a gambling casino In the old British cemetery In Corfu. When the Ionian Islands were 'it 74f An open air theater the first of Its kind In England, and of which we present a special sketch above was opened at Port Sunlight recently. Th Greeke and Romani held many of their cedod by England to Greece In 1864 gathering In the open air, and many It was specifically provided that the of their sport were witnessed under Our cMmate eemeterles would remain undisturbed. the canopy of heaven. r. i V. , rrn am does not always permit us to tailtatft them; but, even In England, who hay not fe!t, on a warm summer's day, how much preferable a suitable elt In th fresh air would be to a stuffy, unventllafed and abominably oves crewjed lecture hall or church? Liverpool Mercury. |