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Show 1 I t SACRED SHRiriE Of s Wounded Monster Very Nearly Its Slayer. The South African mall brings a thrilling tale of a fight to the death between a man and a giant baboon. Mr. Robert Ik ugh, proprietor of Kamechs Farm, Uitonhnge, saw a baboon In his orchard, and shot him through the body at 300 yards. The animal was, however, able to get away, and was afterwards seen on the top of an adjoining hill, where he suddenly dropped. Thinking that he W88 dead, Mr. Heugh went after him with two terriers and a native. The dogs ran up to the supposed carcass, when the baboon suddenly rose, caught the unfortunate terriers, bit a large piece out of each, cost them from him with such violence as to kill them, and then made furiously for their master, tearing his arm open from shoulder to wrtst. The native bolted, and the ' partially disabled wblte man was left alone to battle with the enraged baboon. Mr. Heugh is active and muscular, but his efforts to throttle his antagonist and to beat his face in with his fist were unavailing, and he was forced to the ground. Here, while desperately struggling, the man' hand came in contact with a large stone. This he seized, and with almost a last effort fractured the baboons skull with it. When the body was measured It was found to be over five feet. English Exchange. ." - j. i' Grand Monarque Said to Have Squandered $5,000,000 In This Way. Twenty thousand dollars for a dropa shaped pearl scarfpln, $15,000 for coat fastener a 940 for $1 stud, pearl formed of a white bouton pearl with en gold bar, $S50 for seven buttons brilliant of a for and $775 pair suite sleeve links theie are a few of the In prices realized xt the recent sale London of a noble marquis' jewelry. But, after all, everything is comparative, and the marquis gems, rare and costly though they are, would have been quite eclipsed by Louis XIV's monpersonal jewelry. The grand butfor but crazes, arque hod many tons he had a positive mania. In a single year, 1685, he squandered $000,-00on them, and some of his purchases are well worth glancing at On Aug. 1, 1685, he bought two buttons for 67,966 francs and diamond buttors for 586.-70seventy-fiv- e francs. The buttons for a single vest cost Louis $200,000. Of the 254 boutonnieres used 162 contained five diamonds each, while the remainder In all, the were single diamonds. great monarque Is said to have spent $5,000,000 on buttons alone. ?.. Over-come- Boy is 8even Feet High. European prodigy, known as the long Josef, was born In Munich-Glabaoh on April 15, 1888. At 12 years of age he was 6 feet 4 inches in height and Is now 7 feet 1 inch. He Is still A d , . t ,, t, v VrV; . 'V '- - 'r tS f i. ximM & f m. s growing and no doubt will become the Hla family tallest man on earth. aame Is Bchlppers. Ills father la a butcher. At present he Is the prls- efpaf attraction at the Panoptlcum, Berlin. He wae born of normal par ents and Is the eleventh child. The first ten have developed quite nor tnally. Thought It Wae the Camp Pig. While K. J. Suell of Potsdam was trading watches with a frenchman at tils lumber camp near Utica, N. Y the dogs behind the house set up a loud barking. Snell went out to Investigate and discovered an animal taking around In the darkness. He concluded that the camp pig had Again escaped, and after considerable Bard work succeeded In putting the teast In the pen. When he went out piext morning to see If the porker was All right, ho was astonished to find that Instead of a pig be had put a black bear Into the pen. Snell avers that bears are as thick as huckleberries la that section. The law forbids that they be shot at the present time. I t I 8panlsh Women In Suicide Club. The police at Lerlda, Spain, have raided what la believed to be a womens suicide club, and have made several arrests. Recently a young lady named Isabel Rodrigues, belonging to A well family, was found wanderIn A ing about the streets tate of great excitement. When questioned by a policeman she stated that ahe had drawn a number at the club which, according to tho rules, bound tier to commit suicide. She added that at the last moment her couragt bad failed her. Acting on this tnfon motion the police watched the premises used as a club houso. They found It was attended by ladles, who met ostensibly for social pur poses. to-d- ht well-dresse- Holly Tsa. " vrn - v A Midnight Lullaby. Ia the noon of summer, little girl, little Klrl. T.et me lend you to Dreamland Dune, Where the blossoms blow and the ten- i y i. found in the glands of the throat very day. Coleridges famous Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, is based upmake the whale very valuable. There are several varieties of on this belief. whales, but the sperm whale, though Though the superstition about the the smallest, Is the most valuable. bring bad killing of an albatross luck Is only a foolish one, It has servParlor Trick With a Cane. ed a useful purpose for many years Balance a cane on the back of a In preventing the slaughter of these chair, so that the slightest touch sets beautiful and gallant birds the sailIt to wavering. Then tell your friends ors friends and the landsmens wonthat you can make It fall from the der. chair without touching It in any way outUp In dreary Kamchatka, that or even blowing at It. Into cuts which of Siberia lying part Although no one will believe you, the North Pacific, the natives, never It is a very simple thing to do. Get of the superstition having heard a postal card and rub It very briskly about the albatross, catch him and on a woolen cloth till It Is thoroughly eat him. But his flesh makes such poor food that, after all, the legend may be said to hold good, for he Is, indeed, in bad luck who has to make a meal of it. drils curl In the wake of the haunting June; For June Is a spirit, now. llttlo Rlrl, And her footprints are on the Kround The primrose bold on the moonlit hill. The marigold on the shadowy rill. And the daisies all around. These are tho spirits, llttlo girl, llttlo Klrl. And they , dance on tho Dreamland Dune, To the cricket's song and the tendril curl In the smile of the wide, white moon; For the moon Is n spirit, too, little girl. And has joined the spirit band The stars of kM milky sky, And the daisies bold that peep and spy, Llttlo stars of the moonlit land. In the noon of slumber, little girl, llttlo gin. Let me lend you to Dreamland Dune. Where the dewdrops tremble like lobes of pearl On the lashes of the faery June; And on her ankles, too. little girl, Ae she donees o'er the around And the daisies spring from beneath her feet. And everything that Is fair and sweet, On tho starlit, moonlit land. In the noon of youw life, little girl, little Attracting the Card. Klrl, Will yon think of the Dreamland Dune, magnetized. Then hold It near one And remember then, when your heart's end of the cane, which will slowly whirl turn toward It. By holding the card The promise- of the long lost June? When your heart Is lightsome, too, litbelow this end of the cane you will tle Rlrl, attract It downward until It overbalWill you shed your light around? Will your smllo unfold as you bear It ances and falls to the floor. by. Like a marigold In the sainted eky. Or a star on the flower-li- t land? Candle Trick. Aloyslus Coll In Housekeeper. How would you arrange, with a room full of people, to place a candle In Some Conundrums. Why Is a little man ike a good such a position that all but one would book. Because he is often looked see It, and that person must not be blindfolded? over. Place the candle upon the head of In a a la a like pig Why parlor house on fire? Because the sooner the person who is not to see It. Should there be a mirror In the room, be Is put out the better. and this one person should make use Is difference the between a What T One goes of It, he does not see the candle, but soldier and a bomb-shel- l to wars and the other goes to pieces. only Its reflection. Why are birds sad In the morning? The Wandering Albatross. Because their little bills are all over Of all the strange creatures seen by dew. Why is love always represented as travelers not the least Interesting Is a child 7 Because he never reached the wandering albatross. This great, feathered wanderer, sometimes measthe age of discretion. Why did Eve never fear ths uring 17 feet from tip to tip of bis measles. Because shed Adam. wings,, will follow a ship for days at Who had the greatest appetite ever a time. Some travelers and sailors beard of? The man who bolted a declare that they have seen a particOoor. threw up a window, and then ular bird fly for weeks at a time withsat down and swallowed a whole out ever being seen to alight upon the waves. story. It not only follows the ship, but 8hadow Pictures. wheels in great circles around it and above It, high In the air, as if to show that it is not tired. Sometimes the bird will be seen to hang in the air with Its wings apparently motionless, ard the sailors say that then It is - 0 dla-mon- o 3 Prophecy of a Gypsy. The story of The Three Sisters of Denmark sounds like a fairy story, but all the same It Is devoutly believed by the natives of the little northern kingdom. The three sisters are now the Queen of England, the Dowager Czarina and the Duchess of Cumberland, but they started in life as girls In a very plain, simple household. So poor was this royal family that for a daughter to have two dresses In the course of one year was considered great good luck. Still, they were brought up as ladies and princesses should be. Once upon a time and here one can feel the delicious fairy feeling creeping In the three princesses were taking their usual walk In their solemn Danish woods, when they fell In with a gypsy, who Insisted on telling them their fortunes. You are to become queen over one of the largest kingdoms of the earth, she told the first young girl. And toAnd day she Is Queen of England. you, too, she told the second. You will become a queen, but a queen without a kingdom, was her message to the third daughter, who Is now Duchess of Cumberland, but might have been a queen had her husband not yielded his claim to the throne of Hanover. Idea. Ministers A West Virginia minister Is to bold a service In the open air soon, and bss advertised that before the sermon there will be an exhibition of trapeze work and tight rope walking. In this way he hopes to get s large audience. CS. T bj tn' awa-the- m win-las- t gratitude. Hibernating Mosquitoes. I Mosquitoes hibernate like bearil the winter. k I - r- hffjoml niet. I 1(ieuon '!i k pjliMU. i. F BW H. C ISSAYF - TEA Sound Waves. It doesnt; Torn- not all; not all. (roctr retain year money U yon don Ilk Schilling VOLCANO Best. 0 A WEATHER PROPHET. Its Warning Known to the Ancients Many Centuries Ago. As a natural weather prophet, and Infallible at that, the volcano on the island of Vulcano, twelve miles north d of Slcllly In the Medlteranean, la to hold the record. The following Is from an account of a dinner given by the Geographical Council club of England In 1893: Capt Wharton, the bydrographer to the admiralty, told how he had ones anchored in very deep water on the east aide of Vulcano, the southernmost of the Llparl Isles, but that he had kept up stream, with the Intention of being off Immediately if the wind He mentioned changed to the east. this to an Englishman who lived on the Island and was In charge of some borax works. But' said the man. there Is cot the remotest chance of the wind going round to the east without the full warning. What warning? asked the other. Oh! was the rejoinder, the volcano always warns us. The volcano! said Wharton. Yes, the volcano; a furaarone always emits a whistling sound before the east wind begins to blow. Shortly after this Wharton was looking st Strabo and, to his astonishment, found that that writer mentions the facL The Englishman bad never heard of Strabo In hts life, Strabo died as an old man about A. D. 25, so that this excellent furmarone must have been giving Its warnings well-nig2,000 years at leasL E WHAT'S THE USE To Keep a Coffee Complexion." A lady says: Poatum has helped my complexion so much that my Blonds say I am growing young again, wy complexion used to be coffee colored, muddy and yellow but It U now clear and rosy aa when I wae a girl I was Induced to try Postum a frltno who had suffered Just aa by I had suffered from terrible indigestion, pal- f th bCarl and ,Dkln spoils011 Finoe Cure for Consumption medicine tor cough and colds. N. W.&ud J Ocean Grove. N. J.. Feb. 17. 1800. 8TRENGTH AT VARIOUS AGE1 Muscles Have Their Stages of velopment and Decline. Careful Investigations have pro that tbe muscles, as well as ot organs of the body, have their ita of development and decline. TesUi tbe strength of several thoussw of people have been made by the of a dynamometer (strength measuij and the following are given u a average figures of the wblte rat The lifting power ot a youth of 1) 2801b. In bis twentieth year this I creases to 3201b., and in bis thlrtia and thirty-firs- t years It reaches f At the end of tt balght, 2561b. tblrty-firs- t year the strength beg-to decline. By the fortieth year has decreased 81b., and this dlmioi Uon continues st a slightly Increase rate until the fiftieth year is resets when tbe figure Is 3301b. After th period the strength falls mors more rapidly. $ t t I TEA If you havent found-o- t Schillings Best you are ing a good deal of comfort mi-'-- Uk ! "1 Tear zrocnr return your money It ? Schilling' nett. Man Cheaper Than Horta In the farming districts costs 40 cents to hire a hi day and 35 cents to hire a mis. TEA. Whether tea ia the wor'-j important thing in the or not wo want it right d wo want it 6tcady. Writ for our X oowlwl Company, Baa Croud aco. Xi Book. A. 0 . ; Labor 8vsd by Electric After 1 had used Postum a ton boll st twenty-twTbs week Is toiw I as so much better that I was Coeur church la Paris cbolr-wfafraid It would not last. But A single slectrlclty, now formirU two years bsvs passed and I am a thus do tbe work which , It all to leaving five men. aL1 drlDklDg I,m,tuni U o ( f bai-loo- an agreeable bitter taste. Devotees Pray fop $a Absent Ones. A romantic custom , of Is described In the "Row?-cadio Hearn. s those who are anxious of absent ones repair to tbe mV of Dakeyama to perform . rite There Is a shrine at the1 mit to commemorate a princes, ! tlquity who daily watched until she pined and died . body was changed Into stone I who looks with the eyes of a ?till sees the princess on Mo ,,IJ In the shape of a pert! keyama lar rock. Before her ehrice I heaps of pebbles and those whoai to pray for the safe home-corone they love take a pebble as a talisman. And reunited with the beloved an, pilgrimage is made to the shrind Dakeyama to replace the pebble i a handful of otners, in devtJ-- ; yuur i)t, tye Buuk ins. W run tlieiu Man and Wife. 12 (Special). Buxton, N. Dak., Sept To Remove Mud from Shoes Mr. B. L. Skrlvseth of this place A strip of carpet glued to a pi has been added to the steadily grow- of wood will remove mud from tii ing following that Dodds Kidney quickly and without the slightest! of the In this part country. Fills have jury to leather. It Is far better Mr. Skrlvseth gives two reasons , the usual brush. for his faith in the Great American Kidney Cure. The first Is that they Mr, Wlniln' Roothln Kyrnp, Cor children teething, loftena the gumi, cured his wife and the second Is that avnuiUua, Uy pain, cure, w lud uuiiu. fee,, they cured himself. I must say, says Mr. Skrlvseth, Snakes Eyes Never Closed, f that Dodds Kidney Pills are the Snakes may almost be said to 1 best remedy for Kidney Trouble glass eyes, Inasmuch as their ever knew. My wife had Kidney Dis- never close. They are without 1 ease for years and she tried all kinds and each is covered with a tran of medicine from doctors but it did ent scale, much resembling not help her any. An advertisement When the reptile sheds Its outergi led her- to try Dodds Kidney Pills. the eye scales come off with the! The first box helped her so much of the transparent envelope out; that she took eight boxes more and which the snake slips. This g',a now she Is cured. eye scale Is so tough that It d I also took three boxes myself tually protects the true eye from and they made me feel better and twigs, sharp grass and other obst stronger In every way. tlons which the snake encounter; Dodd's Kidney Pills have never yet Its travels, yet It Is transpai failed to cure any kidney disease enough to allow the most per from Backache to Rheumatism, Dia- vision. Thus, It the snake has s betes or Brights Disease. glass eye, it may, at any rate, be wear glasses. to To Report Tuberculosis Cases. The Birmingham (Eng.) city council Fnvorite Rmr Kennedy Tr. THtvtd wire of a terrihie dlMMe. With Mmm has decided to issue a circular to all eared my to lie aurrelou, etfkwcy." medical men In the city, asking them iMUty of of cases tuberculosis to report all Coldest Country of All, the lungs coming under their notice, Siberia has the greatest knows and offering to pay 2s 6d for each In the world. At Yakutsk the aver notification. tor three winter months la 40 deg below zero, while Individual drops 75 and 76 degrees below are not known. But at Verjohansk tbe for January, 1885, was C9.? age How does it happen that greea below zero, and the mercan all good tea comes to Schil- one time dropped to 90.4 degrees low, the lowest on record anyth ling! In the world. - Mats, or Paraguay tea. la mads o! ti dried leaves of the Brazilian holly. The Infusion has a pleasant odor and Where Th Marine Eye Bemedy Co..Chlc,o.Mi, An easy experiment will prove to you how sound Is carried by the air. Ask one of your small friends to go out of doors and speak softly to you. If the window Is open, you can hear him; If it is closed, you cannot The glass panes In the window will preasleep. vent the sound vibrations from reachNot only In pleasant weather will ing you. But suppose your friend the albatross follow a ship for days grows tired of talking when she Is and weeks, but through the most ter- not heard and shouts to you to come rific storms It will continue Its untir- out and play? The louder she calls ing flight In fact, to And an alba- the stronger the vibrations, and these tross otherwise than on the wing la set the glass vibrating also. The glass like finding a weasel asleep. In turn makes the air Indoors vibrate, Once a year the female albatross and you hear. flies away a few thousand miles to the great lonely Island rock of TrisThree With One. tan dAcunba, which lifts Its desolate Fit one match Into a slot cut at head farjn the South Atlantic, or to some equally remote place, and there the top of another and balance against a third. To lift all three together lays one egg In the hollow of a rock. with another match, pass the latter The albatross has always been a bird of mystery, and In ancient times the people believed that these Irg seabirds were the companions of the Greek warrior Diomedes. who were said to have been changed Into birds at the death of their chief. When America wae discovered and ships began to sail abroad to the Pacific ocean to double the cape of Good under C and In front of A and E Press gently against A and B, when Hope and to explore the seven seas generally, the old belief about the al- C will slip down, hook under the batross had been forgotten by the Joined matches, and the trick Is tailors and explorers, but In their long and lonesome voyages over The Paper Duel. There ia tun In your fingers as well waters which were cut by no keel as work. Study the diagram and teach but their own, and upon whose vast Two boys are placed back to back expanse they saw no other salt but with bails made of soft paper In their them a trick or two. theirs, the present of the albatross hands. Two other boys are their secfollowing the ship day after day be- onds. to pick up their balls. They Snakes Tall. Snake's Tall la a game played by came a great source of comfort and walk away from each other about any number of persons, one of whom companionship. eight feet, turn round and throw their Is selected as catcher, and the others So It came to he a beltef that 111 balls st each other until one Is hit form In single file to represent a luck would follow any ene who killed The seconds pick up the balls, whensnake, the last player being called one of these birds: and that belief Is ever they fall and replace the duelthe anake'a tail. Each player In the common among seafaring men to this ists. file places his hands on the shoulders of the one In front of him. At the THE 8A1LB0AT. opening of the game the catcher stands about 20 feet from the bead of the file, facing him, and at the signal tries to catch the tall without pushing any one In the raw. The snake defends Its tall by moving about In any way. but It the row breaks Itself It Is a foul, and the tall Is considered as caught. When ths tall Is caught, he becomes catcher la turn, and ths catcher takes this place at the head. Another way of playing the game la to allow the catcher to name any one Here Is a way to make In five min- mast firmly Into the hole in the deck, In the row as the one he Intends to utes a boat which will outsail almost and your boat Is almost complete. catch. If he catches the one named, any of the crack fancy boats your Now conies the novel feature of they change positions. The player at llttlo friends may boast, with their your boat Get one of these toy balths bead of the line may stretch out three masts, topsails, balloon Jibs, loons which are so often sold by bis hands to Impede the catcher's centerboards, and all that Your boms street venders. You can get a progress, but Is not allowed to push made boat will not be exactly beauti- one at any toy store. Fasten- a light him.. ful, but It certainly will be able to cord about four feet long to the and tie the other end of the cord sail! How Whales Get Food. Oct a thin piece of board, and to the screweye In the how of you? To obtain food the whale swims sharpen one end to a point, to repre- boat, and you are ready to launch through the water with Us mouth sent the bow. Now bore a hole her. The balloon will fly at tho end of open. The wafer pours In the aper- through a little forward of the center, ture, and carries with It hundreds of and fasten a screweye In the bow the cord, high above your boat, which small fish and nitrlnt animals. Just at the point, and your deck Is will skim over ths water like a swalThs water escape low. As soon as the wind through ths complete. Easy, isnt It? changes sides of tho mouth, but tho fiah are Now for the sail, Oct a piece of ths balloon will yank around tho bow enueht and held by a row of stiff heavy raprr. and through It thrust of the boat, and she will head on a boncl'.k objecta along tho aide of ths the three slender sticks, Is the posi- new tack. Then the square snll will Jaws. These are whalebones, so use- tions shown In the diagram. Wedge fill and ahe will be away at a aurprle-Inful In com mere. These and the oil the bottom of the upright stick or speed. FIVE-MINUT- jAPA pla-aff- C had drank coffee all my life. I wopreted that It was the cause of my I qua coffee j 1 CtU11y started to try Postum becarao certain; then all my Rubles cessed and I am now well Ein." Name furnished - I'nttle Creek. Mich. l,Tro,m a Co-reason. Look In each package for a of wJuX" 111110 boa "Tk JU.2 to ron g U.WM DUt Unt TEA You can seo how your confideneo in us i It is tho making of us. Tour aroenr rniurntyonr won? It t Ilk Schilling link Loss of British SeamenOf 10,000 British sesmea, are lost st sea every year. - 0 j j |