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Show THE ONG r rs A He St POP EYED Cool Was: and Always The same The WESTERNER. Wore Came old Broadcloth, of Woman ip St. Louis A DEATH The loveliest woman that I have seen in St. Louis—and I have seen many, and ali of the celebrated beauties—is not “in society.” She is a humble’ school Sister of Notre Dame, a teacher of the poor and ill clad pupils of a parochial school. Day after day I see her accompanying a. long line of restless littleones to and from church. Meeting her (to me) is like beholding a vision from the other and _ perfect world. Clad in the coarse habiliments buat to Time. coterie Loveliest WESTERN fib ex- changers were assembled around the corner table at ‘‘Del’s” Saturday night when the doctor dropped in. Asking for a light, one of the boys pulled out -asilver match box inthe shape of a miniature revolver. This reminded the doc of a story of his mining days, - and forthwith he was besieged to. tell it for the benefit of the younger members who had not learned the Munchuusen abilities of the narrator before. ‘It was back in the sixties when I first saw my gesperadg,” said the doc- of her order, she glides along, The bat, and was ta. th@* ersonal eg his of serupulously linen gnd The sight trousers tucked his the was left leg was into On look virtue is too and you could see by the set of his frock goat over his hip that he packed the out- He seldom swore alld never Arkansaw,’ and he was. “Although my gentleman in broadcloth was politeness personified, he was very agéressive and quick to take offense. [f he heard any ody making a blutf about fighting he couldn't keep his tongue still, but came right to the front with an offer to fight any how, anywhere and at any time. Toward quiet and peaceable men he was gravely courteous and uever in the least aggressive, but if a fighting man showed up. Gibbons was uneasy until he had driven the fellow out of camp. hands up to the bar. Everybody responded except Gibbons, who remained seated and _ paid no attention to the fellow. When_ the stranger turned aboutand said: ‘Come up here, pop eye, and take your medicine, Gibbons answered, with grave politeness, ‘I am much obliged to you, sir, but I] never drink.’ “After all had taken their drinks and walked away, Gibbons stepped up _ and said to the barldeper: ‘Give me 'a cigar. The stranger turned upon him and said: ‘D—n you, I didn’t ask you to have a cigar.’ : “Dn you, sir,’ rejoined Gibbons, ‘I didn’t ask you to pay for my cigar. And, d—n you, sir, don't you talk to me In that way or I will cut your head off, sir.’ “Start right in,’ said the stranger. ‘Tve got a tough neck tocut. But before he could draw a weapon my bad ‘ man in broadcloth seized him by the hair, bent his head .back, whipped out _ the big bowie and made two lightning slashes at the fellow’s throat. The point of the knife just cut the skin enough to draw blos.. at each stroke. “Letting go his hold, Gibbons drawled, ‘I've a pretty good knife for cutting, stranger, and walked away, supremely contemptuous of the fellow, who sneaked out of camp. “The last time I saw Gibbons he was just getting over a little fracas with a Mexican. The greaser was a noted knife fighter and his presence in camp made Gibbons uneasy, but no chance {or picking a quarrel occurred. One day Gibbons, who could endure it no longer, met the Mexican and politely asked him if he was heeled. The man replied that he was ‘Very well,’ said Gibbons, ‘go and your knife, because I intend to you, sir. tue next time I have pleasure of meeting you.’ “They met within an hour. not. get kill the Gib- bons received thirteen wounds, all on the left side. end one thrust was in his throat, the Mexican’s blade going clear through his neck. .The Mexican was killed ~ “Doc,” drawled Longbow, “guess we'd better have a little beef, iron and wine after thut.”—New York Star. Steel Pens. Steel pens were not so called from terial used in manufacture, the ma- but from the Large Painting. letters our harbors or coming to anchor eyes--the people of in parts Burlington County, New Jersey, last week, and many rushed from their homes expecting that the end of the world had come. A few persons who happened to be in tke streets of Burlington at the time wit- nessed a rare sight. A brilliant meteor, which seemed about the size of a man’s head, went hissing through the air on the southern side of the town, appar which for Air. detonation overhead, the heavens, startled high standing sub- beat of Fire in the The |ently just above the housetops. gneat ball of fire dropped big sparks as in- it flew, and was left behind visible for some it a trail that minutes. Just stance in the lower New York Bay could after the great ball disappeared there be quickly and easily destroyed. The was a loud explosion, which shook boat will be expensive as compared with houses all over the city. The shock war other torpedo boats. Injan emergency. felt at Mount Holly, where houses were tug boats of twenty-five to 100 tons could also shaken. It seemed like an explobe speedily converted into effective tor- sion of dynamite, and caused consicerpedo beats.. My ehoice, however, would able alarm for a time. ™ be iron ar steel boats with a speed of not less than twenty knots an hour.” a a ene nent “Is speed one of the essentials of your plan?” I asked, speed, the chief elements’_are armament and the full protection of the Machine. officers and men, and these may all be With such a craft as readily combined. I have I can designed, put a torpedo under any war vessel, however protected, Turned into the guns of the ship and will be so protected that the shots fired at her will have no effect.” “What are your weapons of offense?” “Making my boat as impregnable as possible, I resort for the destruction of a hostile vessel in thezuse of high explo- sives, such as nitro gelatine, dynamite, etc. My system may be generally de- to twenty-five been unable to work, owing to de- fective eyesight, and the family was reduced to sore straits. So much was this the case that a few days ago Mr. Nunn, of the Army Veterans’ Society, raised a small subscription among his acquaintances woman’s limbs had also been eaten. flesh was Peculiar the woman had heen helpless for hours to drive away the rodents. Captain Egan sent Mrs. Coughlin to care for the woman. A lighted candle was left in the room, and in ten minutes it ried off by ing. wagon. Just as the wagon reached within a few feet of me the tire of the hind wheel left its fastenings, the hub and the wheel. fell with and had'I been been nearer I would most struck in the ach and instantly killed. dent seldom served not me thought asa warning stom- It is an acci- of, but it has which I have failed to obey. —St. Louis Globe- Democrat. was car- Mrs. Mahan is dy; Sold His Body for a Drink, The case of a man who sold his body for a drink of whisky has come to light. Edward W. Homan is a skilful engineer, but occasionally pawns takes everything from his friends other dime, long sprees, owns, borrows he ‘to supply the poor folks with bread. When month’s rent fell due, Brown told landlord he was altogether unable pay: Collins took out a writ forthwith, the Brown family, consisting of the the his to then hands all across the barin exchange for liquor. After a long spree he could find no one who would lend him money or trust him for one drink. The craving for rum had become 60 strong that he proposed to a saloon keeper to sell him his body fora of whisky. Pens were brought Jan 18, 1889,—This is to certify that I, Edward county W. Homan, of San of the Francisco, for city and the con- sideration of one drink of whisky, do agree, after my death, to leave my body to be disposed of as Albert White may think fit. It is my express wish that said Albert White, at my death, shall sell my body to the highest bidder. Epwarp W. Homan. Several witnesses signed their names to this ghastly document, and then the poor wretch snatched a glass of whisky from White’s hands, before it was half filled, and drank it at one gulp. eect A Ten Safe Blower’s Ruse. days ago a young man who he was the agent of the New said York Safe and Lock company examined the safe of C. G. Rochat, a New Jersey jewler. He went through all the compartments of the safe carefully, ment or two suggested an improv- in the mounting, and with the promise He came again to come while watchman slept. left again soon. Mr. Rochat’s He cut a hole through the wall of an adjoining store, cracked the safe and carried away eight gold watches, 2 < ed es 4 Marine nee Disaster, Glencoe was bound London, and last wrote a reply, an act had think A Fight At with a Fiendish Cheyenne, Wyo.,a Tramp. few days ago, sum- moned a conclave of cardinals. After a long discussion it was decided that only one deranged could have entered into Brown left the house quietly and loosened Brown’s two bull-dogs. They made for the tramp, but the man suc sucha duel. This decision-arrived at, permission to bury the dead prince with religious rites was granted. Emperor Francis: Joseph received it with the deepest feeling and sent a dispatch in reply, saying that his holiness had ceeded elub. own life. His holines immediately spared him the greatest grief. <> —— a Wagon. William Strong, cook in a lumber camp, went to Berholz, Ohio, for provisions for the late at night, in killing both animals with a During the fight the wife and daughter doors. prisoner until late in the morning when he was found, nearly frozen to death, by his companions who had started out to hunt him. He will recover. Boring a Square Hole, It is reported that C. W. Young, a telegraph operator in the Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad at Charles City, has solved the scientific problem of making an auger that will bore a square holes He made a pattern auger, and it is claimed by those who have seen it work locked and barred The tramp, unsuccessful the in the attempt to enter the house, set fire to it and an adjoining house. Brown appeared at this juncture, extinguished the flames in his kitchen, and, arming himself, started for the tramp, enlistivg a posse. The tramp will be lynched Liverpool to as having. the vessel sunk. masted, iron-screw Sae was a three-steamer of 900 tons. The crew numbered fifty-two men, cluding twenty-three Chinamen. in- A tempest was raging at the time of the accident and the snow was falling so thickly that it was impossible for. the lookout on either vessel to see the lights of the other until a collision was inevi- table. The Glencoe forged ahead trying to cross the Largo Bay’s bow, but failed, and ran at full speed into the bark, demolishing ten feet of her bow. The Largo Bay would also have sunk had she not been provided with water-tight horrible cases that the police of this city have ever known came before them, sections. The crew of the bark saw nothing further of the steamer but could make out her crew struggling in the water. It was impossible, however, to render them any assistance, all of the Largo Bay’s boats being smashed. The wind blew with such force that the sails of the bark were torn to shreds. The bark weathered the storm until rescued and when was towed into the Cowes. when caught. campers, and returning the horses scared, ran away and striking a tree, overturned the wagon on Strong, which kept him a had from reported passed Prawle point. It has been as. certained beyond a doubt that she was a tramp called’ at the residences of Sam Brown, a butcher. He was refused assistance, and knowing Brown was absent he insulted his daughter. Mrs. lost, and that in compliance with the terms of the contract, he had taken his | Woman Eaten By Rats. Providence, R. I.—One they were called of the by the most residents of Webster street No. 61 on that thoroughfare. In a hovel at that number,resides Julia Mahan, aged fifty-six years, and her husband, John, a man who, it is said, lived from his wife’s earnings fora long time. Mrs. Mahan was stricken with paralysis about four weeks ago and has been lying thelpless and deserted ever since. The police who went to Mrs. Mahan’s bedside, found that the place was ted with ravenous || rats,and - until he cannot get an- and him to get out. himself first telegram a loud crash, the tire striking my foot near the instep. The accident oceurred in the twinkling of an eye, the rats. the pope Imprisoned under Dangers. I have the mark of an accident on my left foot that came about, by a peculiar accident when I was a school boy. In fact, I have never heard or known that the accident had a pre cedent. On my way home from the Clay school one summer afternoon I met with the accident. I was crossing over Broadway, near Ferry street, and was cut off by a heavily loaded The thighs, and line. The Glencoe carried a crew of fifty-four men, but no passengers. The the that was especially noteworthy, the pope being hardly able to hold a pen. On the following day,a long telegram told how Rudolph had agreed to decide a en- from the he was to blame in the matter. quarrel by a duel with dice, how he the gnawed He wanted his rent, and if Brown was not prepared to pay it it was time for day, with bed was arrived at the vatican simply announced the death of Rudolph. To this telegram Prince Rudolph, says that he was inspired covering of the The owners of the Glen line of steamers state that they believe the steamer sunk by the British bark Largo Bay, off Beachy head,was the Glencoe of that wedding day, and thereare a few charitable benefactions up and down our land which date their foundation from the ‘thappiest day” in the founder’s life. The great hotel keeper Frohler, of Buda-Pesth, who has just been divorced from his wife, is of the quite contrary opinion. It was not upon his wedding day, but upon his divorce thusiasm of humanity. In gratitude for his divorce and in perpetual memory of that ‘‘happiest dy of his life,” he has founded three charitable institutions—first, a pension fund for deeayed Hungarian journalists; secondly, an exhibition for school boys of Austrian birth who can pass the best examination in the Magyar language and literature; and,. thirdly, a village hospital in his own native place, Inzersdorf. Future generations are to be glad and rejoice because a wealthy landlord obtained a divorce, but they will hardly be able to say they owe the endowment to ‘‘the pious ancestor.” —Pall Mall Gazette. Her been eaten away left bare. When and the following contract was signed: Ireland is not the only country where | the eviction flourishes. In Toronte there have been quite a few recently. For some five months a man named Brown, an army veteran with a pension of eight cents a day, and an employe of the Corporation, has rented the house has meager glass Snow. despite the utmost efforts of{the vessel to No. 162 Manning avenue from C. H. Colavoidit. My boat will be propelled by _lins. During the past few weeks Brown steam and will approach an ironclad bow on presenting the least surface to the the ee likely have A The larcest painting in the world is Tintoretta’s ‘‘Paradise.” It is eighty-four feet. wide and thirty-five feet high. It is now in the Doge’s Palace, Venice. simple from Ball A thrilling apparently in words the large hand moves forward a and quarter of a space. The face is divi- scribed as that of ‘controlled torpedoes,’ ded into twenty-five spaces, one for which are under the absolute control of sick each hundred words, and a glance at | the officers on the%boat until the instant father, Mrs. Brown with a two months it shows at once how many words of explosion. My plan will drive a tor- old baby at her breast, and four other have been written. pedo through any net or other;protection children, the eldest a girl of thirteen The use of the word countcr is not conducted out into the limited to typewriting machines, but an ironclad may have and’place it at the years, were it can be used in writing and in dicta- desired point for explosion. In a short drifted snow by the Bailiffs, who piled tion by keeping it at hand and mak- time I shall be prepared to give to the their few sticks of. furniture round a slight pressure at the end of each public a detailed description of my plans, thei. word. Some operators attach it to and I am satisfied%that the simplicity The neighbors around deeply sympatheir desks and work it with a strin and economy of the system will be seen thize with the Browns in their trouble, attached to their feet. It is a “acti and they found a temporary residence invention, especially in telegraphy, at once, as well as itsfefficiency.” and in making an article of a speciSee ERED at 5 Henderson avenue ina house be-fied length. —New York Sun. longing to Mr. W. A. Lee. How Rudolph’s Fate was Decided, A Globe representative called on Mr. A Happy Old Landlord. _A dispatch from Rome tothe Daily Collins, but that gentleman said he had A bridegroom is generally supposed to be in a generous mood upon his News in relation to the late Crown only asserted his rights, and did not cracked, name of the first manufacturer, a Mr. Steele, who began busitess in England in 1803, cheap, action than any heretofore invented, With it any ironclad seeking to enter telegraph operator in Minneapolis has invented a word counting machine which may be used by itself or attached toatypewriter. It is much the same sort of thing as a pedometer, only it is more accurate. It is as large as asmall clock. The works are inside the nickel case, on one side of which is the face. The machine will coun: up to 2,500 words, and can be used for any number by keeping tally of the number of times it passes the 9,500 mark. There are two hands like the hour and second hand of the watch. Every time a word on the typewriter is finished the same motion which spaces for the word registers the word counter. When the jon pons, swagzered into the saloon and A swarmed in the sick woman’s bed. nose and cheeks had and the jaw-bone was raised a dozen rats came out from under it, and then it was found that the sick. after- I regard as more effective and certain in A second hand counts up once “T have devised a torpedo Ee Counting this stantiating everything that he claimed. Dr. Gatling said: “The Word at effective, by quoting from raval officers of tingiished’ vocation. —New York Mer. big fellow, bristling with deadly weaall and eury. “Of course, he hud to prove his claims asa fighter before he had been in camp very long. One evening a ordered vised something such a woman no man dares to with base’ desire. Her mnate disarms passion. Such as she good for man. She is God’s A a conversation tailed description of his boat, but he fortitied his assertion that he had de- ‘the spouse of Christ” and truly she appears entirely worthy of her dis- a oun, ertiet, Her painfully pieasant. side in proper style. In his right boot he carried an enormous bowie knife, dank, and his only small vice was smoking. He occasionally referred to himself as ‘a pop. eyed galoot from heaven. had final protection of his rights as a patentee, Dr. Gatling was disinclined to give a de- penetrates one’s heart Jike a ray from above, filling it with a strange sense of unwerthiiccs anda yague longing out- ‘He spoke slowly and deliberately and was punctiliously polite. ~ His . long drawl heightened the effect of his ceremonious courtesy and al the same time procluimed him a south: from I mortice rapidly and accurately. A company has been formed and applicatious filed for patents in this and foreign countries. noon ‘with Dr. Gatling, the inventor of the Gatling machine gun, regarding his newly invented torpedo boat. Pending windows ef a sinless soul—have such an expression that a glance from them © neat matt:3 ef appearance. peek ‘and light He wore a suit of and a fall that it will cut a square. DEALER. Herald’s Hartford, Conn., special says: lines of her figure showing the acme of grace and symmetry. Her hands and feet are such as artists dream of but seldom create. Her face--‘‘Oh, call it fair, not pale,” —is such as one imagines the Madonna had, so pure. so noble, so exalted. It is not the face an ascetic, but that of a woman tor. “When he came into camp | of peaceful in mind, didn’t know whether he was a bad | contented and healthy of _ body and gifted with a man ora pretender inthat line. He was tall. angular, wiry and singu- trusting faith that illumines like a larly unhandsome. black - kroadclot) WEEKLY. that infes- they Slaves and Opium. Chicago, Il1l.—The Government is being cheated out of millions of dollars of revenue every year, and the laws against Chinese immigration are flagrantly violated right under the noses of the Government officials. There are in Victoria nine factories or “cook-houses” where opium is manufactured and prepared for the market. The combined product |