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The children played about hlra; on his knees A bipeyed boy of four wit, In mns ' Of wonder, at I he BunllRht in the trees And t tho old tar's tales of other days; Tlio ras glowed 'neath the kiss of ocean sprays, The swelling buds (rave promise to (he breeze; The old man looked across the shining bay And sighed, and this is what he seemed to say: If it be pleasant when the winds hold sway, And waves roll mountain high upon the main Krom the firm land to watch the toiling way Of those who through the storm for harbor strain, Surely that pleasure furthest wore from pain Which not a pang of others could betray -- In some snug harbor where old wrecks, like me, Might rest forever from the raging sea! Into that peaceful haven, after storms And the scourged ocean's travail. we'd be towed. Moss covered hulks, now from the oea't alarms Safe sheltered, and the north wind's nruel goad; "Twere sweet no more to fear the waves we rode In peril once, to drink the sunset's charms. And wait the opening of that western deep Where Night comes up to soothe the world to sleep I Sew York World. Young Women TTfco Toot the Horn."; If any one cares to wander out in the direction of Arsenal avenuo, India7i-upoli- s, any dark or moonlit Thursday night thoy will hear the soft notes of a cornot and the loud blasts of a tuba. It is tho practicing chorus of ten eminent and talented local young ladies, who have formed an orchestra for their own amusement and are bound to win under the leadership of one of the city's pro-fessors. It was thoir original intention to havo a thoroughly organized band of twelve, but two of tho party lacked con-fidence in their lung ability to blow a horn and resigned. The other ten are full of application, are self, supporting and feel that if they are capable of buy-ing their own bread and butter, equal to a man, they certainly can ls with him in tooting an instrument. Said one of tho young ladies: "We are not doing this expecting to make a public exhibition of ourselves, but for our own amusement. We prefer to spend our evenings that way rather than in playing progressive euchre and other light-as-a- ir ways. I bought my horn last January, and one evening my brother came to my room and said, 'You will never learn to play that thing.' I was beginning to feel a little shaky about it myself, and when ho said that to me I was bound I would learn to play 'that thing' if it took four years. I flatter myself that I am doing right well. We have learned a serenade, the music of which is soft and pretty, and as an encore for, of course, wo ex-pect an encore wo have learned 'Anuio Booney.'" Indianapolis Sun. A Strange Case of Wonderful Heredi-tary Faculty iu Arizona. THE PRESENCE OF A EATTLEE, How it Affected a Hospital 'Assistant Tko Doctor's Investigations trad Conclusions Therefrom, t S --mr few years ago," said a II B hospital steward, "I 14 was employed in one I B of tho two hospitals I ft supported by ti well LmmJk known milling coin-- I 1 pany In Arizona for the V I ft care of its sick anil in- - -- jured employees. It had over a thousand employees, and the casualties, great and small, sometimes averaged one every day, so that the Burgeon's otlice was no sinecure. The company was not, however, entitled to credit for benevolence, for it levied a tax of a month on each of its em-ployees, stopping it out of their pay, to support the hospital, surgeons ami nurses. The head of the service. Dr. Eckerson, contracted to bear all its ex-penses, so that it was a good thing for the men, the company and tho physi-cians, although tho men paid it all. "Dr. Eckerson was a young man for luch a responsible position. He was a Bwede who had been thoroughly edu-cated in his own country and in Ger-many, and possessed tho mechanical skill and manual tact that made a good sur-geon and the diagnostic iutuition with-out which no man can be a successful physician. Ho whs an enthusiast in his profession and in the cognate sciences-bota- ny, chemistry, physiology and espe-cially comparative anatomy. FELL IN A DEAD FAINT. 'The assistant in the other of the two tinsnifiilK was vnn n tr French Canadian tamed Perot. He was a reticent young fellow, very pallid, but vigorous. He possessed remarkable eyes. The iris had singular way of changing color under the influence of his physical, mental or nervous conditions, and these changes perceptibly altered the entire expression of the man's face. We got so after a little that we could fairly read his moods by the color and expression of his eyes, In spite of his reticence. "One day the doctor had an uncom-monly difficult operation to perform, and both Perot and myself were summoned to assist. When Perot entered the opera-ting room I noticed that his eyes changed color repeatedly and rapidly as if he were under somo great excitement. In a few seconds he complained of being dizzy, and before we realized the urgency of action in his behalf he had dropped to ' the floor in a dead faint. The ordinary means of restoration were immediately applied, but without avail, and Dr. Ecker-son ordered him removed to one of the hospital wards and laid upon abed. Here, to our surprise, Perot at once came to himself without further aid and declared himself ready for duty. "Upon our return to the operating room, however, Perot's disturbed symp-toms at once returned. His eyeballs be-came fixed and glaring, his breathing stertorous, and he would again have swooned had we not caught him and re-moved him from the room. The experi-ment was tried the third time, with the same phenomenal result. Perot himself was at a loss to account for his condition. He said he felt perfectly well and had no repugnance for the scenes of the operat-ing table, but directly he entered the room the terrible symptoms were at once apparent. "The doctor now set seriously to work to investigate this strange case. Ho soon came to the conclusion that the influence that disturbed Perot wus external to him-self, and, as he had these a ttacks only in the operating room, began to examine its contents, condition and surroundings for the cause of the extraordinary affection. What seemed further to complicate the caso was the fact that Perot had for months frequented the room without ex-periencing any unusual sensation, At last I said to the doctor: 'Has any change been mado in this room recently?' At first he said, 'No.' THE DOCTOIl'S DISCOVERY. "Suddenly, with a half smothered ex-clamation, he went to his zoological cabinet, and, taking down a jar which contained a live rattlesuake.which he had purchased a few days before from an In-dian, he examined it with a curious ex-pression on his face. "The reptile was in this larg-- jar, over the mouth of which a wire gauze cover had been bound to permit the ad-mission of air. The cabinet stood behind a curtain, and no one but the doctor knew of the snake in the room. "The doctor caused the jar to be re-moved from the operating room, mid called Perot in. To our astonishment none of the previous unpleasant symp-toms appeared. Then the jar was car-ried into another room and secroted. Perot was summoned, and upon enter-ing the room the former distressing symptoms at once recurred. Whenever the Canadian was brought near tho rep-tile he went into this trance. "Dr. Eckerson believed firmly in the influence of heredity on individual char-acteristics, and he began questioning Perot about his family antecedents. Pe-rot 6aid that his father was a Canadian of mixed blood; his mother a French-woman, who had died when lie was about 12 years old. He recollected her as a woman of vivacious and happy tem-perament. He said that she had a great passion for flowers, and would in the autumn gather and di-- large bouquets, declaring that they smelled as sweet to her as when frsh. She also liked to smell flowers which were lierfectly in-odorous. These facts had been riveted in Perot's memory by bis father's scoffing at her strange taste and by her persistent defense of the same. This singularity seemed to have been the cause of no wnail contention in the family and talk among the neighbor. "The doctor was now convinced that with his special hereditary senso Perot had smelled the snake. Ha at once drowned the reptilt. with alcohol, stop-pered the jar tightly and called Perot into tho room. To his delight the man exhibited none of the unpleasant symp-toms. The jar was then placed before him, but without affecting him in the least. The mystery was solved. Perot had smelled the suake." New York Sun. which will be my fault, and I shall never forgive myself as long as I live." , "I wish to have nothing to say to you, ar," she said, dryly. . - I was nervous and much excited. . in the first place I thought her perfectly charming. In the next place I was furi-ous at my idiotic mistake. In short I was ready for the most desperate steps. "Madame," I said, "take my rug or I swear I will throw myself out on the track," and casting the rug between us I lifted the window and took hold of the outside handle of the door. Was I really in earnest? Entre nous, not really I suppose, but it seems I must have looked so, for she cried out: "But you are crazy, monsieur; you are ""The rug, or I jump." She took the rug and in a softened tone: "But you, monsieur, you will die of cold." , ' "Don't disturb yourself about me, madame. I am not delicate and even if I do take cold it will only be the just reward of my unpardonable stupidity." "Say, rather, your haste, for of course, as you say, your motive was good; but how could you have taken that other woman for me?" ' "Because she was if pretty!" She smiled, the ice was broken the ice of conversation, I mean,', for otherwise I was chattering with the cold. But how soon I forgot the cold, the journey everything. She was delicious, exquis-ite, adorable, a clover mind, bright, gay, original. She was fond of traveling like myself like myself she had been in Italy, in Spain. She dreamed of going to Egypt just as I did. In literature, music, in everything in fact, the same tastes as mine. And then, only think, a host of mutual friends. She was inti-mate with the Saint Chames. with the Savonys, particularly with the Mont-Vazin- s. And to think that I might have seen her twenty times at those houses, and that I had not noticed her. Where were my eyes I should like to know-wh- ere were my eyes? She spoke freely, pleasantly, with that distinguished simplicity which I always so much admire, with a little, a very little, southern accent almost imper- - ' What, sent it on? lam not to have the conpolet immediately?" "Impossible, madame, we have no car-riages here. You can only get one at Lyons." "At Lyons at wh at time?" "At five forty-fiv- e, madame." "All day, then. But I can't stay in this carriage until that time. It is im-possible. I don't wish to" "Take care, madame, the train is leav-ing!" And off the train went. She buried herself in her corner again, in a perfect rage, and did not deign to cast tho smallest glance at me. As for me I set myself to reading as-siduously my tenth newspaper. Shall I confess it? It took me longer to read that tenth paper than it had to read the nine others. I read the same line over twenty times. I believe that half the time I held the paper upside down. But then, after all, a French-man's a Frenchman, and yon can't ex-pect a man to take a long journey with distractingly pretty woman and not feel some kind of interest in her. I was dying to talk to her. but I could not find or invent any pretext to begin a conver-sation. On account of the cold the old time expedient of raising or lowering the window was of no avail. What was to be done? Make some idiotic remark, apropos of nothing? No, ' a hundred times rather keep still. I had immedi-ately discovered, with the instinct of the old Parisian, that my companion was a woman of position. To suddenly address her, without an introduction, in any such fashion would have set mo down in her eyes as the most contemptible of commercial travelers. " The only way to manage it was to find something magnificently original to say to her. But what? What? I searched in vain. I was still searching when the train suddenly stopped with that new patented brake so good for accidents and so bad for passengers. "Tonnere. Twenty-fiv- e minutes for refreshments," sang out the conductor as he opened the door. My neighbor got up, freed herself from THE EXPRESS. was general astonish-- ' in our little cirolo of when we heard of the marriage of THERE What! Ite I1 bachelor, of the boulevards, at marriage, the gayest of the mou about town, ho who had sworn a hundred times that ho would havo none of it Valentin, in short, going over.lo the eneniv? And who is he goingto niarrv? A widow! And, what is more, from the country; We couldn't make it out. So the first time I met him I grabbed him by tho collar and demanded an" ex-planation, "I haven't a minute," he said; "such a lot of things to do. I have just come from the Maine, and am going to Stern's, the engraver, Passage des Panoramas, for the announcement cards. Come along, won't you?" "Of course I will," said I. Wo were just in front of the Made-- leine, and we walked down the boule-vard anu in arm. "It'B a short story," said Valentin, "and commonplace to a degree, but since you are bent on knowing it, the fact is 1 am going to take the fatal plunge." In February I was on my way to Nice for the carnival. I hate to travel at night, so 1 took the 8:45 train in the morning, arriving at Marseilles at five minutes after midnight. I was to spend the day at Marseilles with my friends, the Rombauds, who were expecting me to luncheon, and the next morning I was to leave for Nice, to arrive there about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. At the station at Lyons there was a terrific crush. Thanks to the well known politeness of M. Fregnoul, the station master, I got a carriage facing the engine. I found myself alone except for ono other traveler who had a severe executive manner, a decoration, and a portfolio. He had no baggage excopt this same portfolio, and of course he couldn't be going far, so I should soon be left to myself alone; the only condition which makes a railway journey endur-able. Everybody was on board and the train was on the point of departure. There was a noise of vehement discussion just outside our door. "No, monsieur! No!" said a woman's voice, very sweet and fresh, with an al-most imperceptible southern accent. "1 ordered a coupelet, and a coupelet 1 must have." "But, madame, if we haven't any!" "Why didn't you pay some attention to my letter?" "We didn't receive any letter, ma-dame!" "Put on another carriage, then!" "Impossible! We have already put on all we are allowed. Come, come, hurry the train is going!" "I must have a place, at least!" "But I have just offered you two in the carriage." "There!" "Yes, there." A- - little dark head peeped in at the door and if her rugs, which she left in the carriage with her three little bags, and got out. It was noon. She was beginning to get hungry. She took her way to the buffet at the left on the other side of the track. I followed her, admiring at my ease her charming figure, well set off in along cloak which fitted her to perfection. I noticed also the pretty little dark curls under the knot of hair at the back, a hat of gray felt, and a pair of very little feet. The proprietor of the restaurant, ar-rayed in a velvet cap, and who bore a wonderful resemblance to Napoleon III, stood at the door and pointed out with much dignity and a wave of his napkin the long table which the travelers were to take by assault. I was hustled along with a throng of disheveled and bnrldled up passengers the typical crowd f a fast express, es-sentially grotesque and utterly impossi-ble from the standpoint of beauty rush-ing to be fed. I sat down and hastily devoured the succession of courses which were put be-fore me. As for my fellow traveler she took a cup of bouillon at a table by her-self. 4 " I was one of the' first to finish, and went out to smoke1 a cigarette on the platform. The twenty-fiv- e minutes, re-duced to twenty as nsual, would soon be up. The travelers in groups were leav-ing the restaurant and taking their places in the train. I had resettled myself in mine. My little traveler had not ap-peared. I could see her at the little book-stand, on the other side of the track, looking at the books Bpread out in a row. Her hair seemed a little lighter to me than before, but that was doubtless the effect of the distance! Everybody was on board; the guards were slamming the doors. "Is she going to stay here!" I thought, "she is mad." "Madame! Madame!" I ctdled out of the door. A shriek of a whistle the train was going! What was to be done? A thought struck my brain like a flash of lightning. She was going to be left behind in this ceptible, rather a lisp giving a little bird like sound to her voice. It was entranc-ing. But, although J did everything to keep from showing it, heavens, how cold 1 was? At Dijon (2:20 p. m.) my right hand was seized with a cramp.' We telegraphed to Tonnerre for the bags. At Macon (4:25 p. m.) the left foot went the same way. A dispatch from Tonnerre saying that the baggage would reach Marseilles the next day. At Lyon-Perrach- e (5:48 p. m.) my left hand became insensible. She forgot to claim her coupelet. At Valence (9:59 p. m.) my right hand followed the ex-ample of the left. I learned she was a widow without incumbrances. My nose turned a brilliant purple. I was given to understand that she had never loved her first husband. At Marseilles, finally (five minutes after midnight), I sneezed three times violently. She handed me my rug and said, graciously, "Au revoir." "Au revoir!" I was in the seventh heaven! I passed the night at the hotel at (Joailles, a restless night, filled with Noughts of her. The next day when 1 woke I had the most terrific cold in the head that you could imagine. Did I dare present myself at the Rombauds' in such a state? Unfortunate, of course, but they knew I was on a journey they will have to take me as I am, and to-morrow I shall be cured in the sunshine of Nice! But, my friend, what a surprise awaited me! That good fellow, Rombaud, had asked several friends to meet me, and among these friends was she, my travel-ing companion, my enchantress. When I was presented to her an im-perceptible Biiiile fluttered over her lips. I bowed. "And Tonnerre?" I asked very low. "I have them," she replied in the same tone. We went into luncheon. "What a cold you have, old fellow," said my friend Rombaud; "where the devil did you catch it? Traveling, per-haps." P "Perhaps," Ireplied, "but I really don't regrei ii. io one understood tins cu-rious reply, of course, but my fair fellow traveler sent me a tender and sympathetic glance from across the fragrant fumes of the magnificent ragout which adorned the table and I was content. What more shall I say, my dear fellow? i'did not go to Nice next day, and I am to be married in a fortnight! Translated from the French of Jacques Normand by Anna Farwell de Koven for Chicago Tribune. immediately disappeared as in fright. "But there are two men there." "Well, madame, I can't give you a carriage all to yourself." "Very well, then, I won't go." "As you please the train is going. I must give the signal." "Stop, sir, stop. I absolutely must go and as there is only the carriage will they give mo a coupelet at the next sta-tion?" "Yes, madame! Yes, madame!" "You promise me?" "Certainly." "You are sure?" "Yes. Yes. Yes." The door opened, the little brown head tumbled iu, surrounded by a halo of packages and rugs, a whistle shrieked, and we were off. Tha executive gentleman politely seat-ed himself next me, so as to leave all one side for tho new arrival. She was flushed and excited, and did not deign to give us a glance, but set to work to arrange her packages in the net above and in the seats about her with the haste that people usually manifest when they have hours before them in a railway carriage. There was one bag two bags three bags and a number of rugs. I watched her arrangements from the corner of my eye uud came to the decided conclusion that she was charming. In fact, it is always pleasanter to travel with n pretty woman than with au old Englishman with spectacles. It was bit-terly cold. Tho country, covered with snow and illumined with a pale, cold sunlight, seemed to fleo away rapidly on either side of the carnage. Our little traveler,wrapped to her chin in her nigs, set herself obstinately to lookius- out of tho window t her left, Tho exivutivo gentleman drew from his portfolio great shite papers with seals in all colors of the rainbow yellow, green, bine and purple which he read with considerable attention. As for me. comfortably seated with my feet on the heater, I looked over the pile of papers I had bought at the station to pass away the time. Twenty-on- o minutes after 11. "La-roche- !" The train stopped. The execu-tive gentleman arranged his papers, got up, took off his hat and left tho carriage. He had hardly reached the platform be-fore ho waa received by the station mas-ter, who addressed him as M. l'lnspec-teu- r in a tone of deep respect' Our littlo passenger rushed to the door. "Is this the station master?" "Yes, madame." "You have received a teleyiam from Paris for a coupelet?" "I have, madame, and have sent on the disnatai.." frightfully cold weather, without her baggage or her wraps. She might at least have her own belongings, the poor little thing. , I took up in one armful her three bags And her rugs, and, throwing them at a baggage man who happened to be stand-ing on the track next the train. "To that lady over there," I cried. The baggage man took the things and started off toward the lady at tbe book stand. At the same instant in the other end of the carriage, the side next the plat-form, the door opened and my fellow traveler appeared frightened and hus-tled along by a cross conductor, threw herself into the seat, and the train de-parted. Horrors! I had mistaken the woman! The lady of the book stand was not she, after all same cloak, same hat, same way of holding her head but it was not she. It was a traveler who was not travel-ing! How absurd that two women should look so alike! I had made a fine mess of it. She hardly entered the carriage before she uttered a cry: "My bags, my bags have been stolen!" and for the first time she looked at ino; but, good heavens.with what a look! I'll never forget that look, you may be sure. ' io, madame," I stammered, "your bag are not stolen they are they are left at Tonnerre!" "At Tonnerre? How" I explained it all to her. Lord! I won't attempt to describe the second look she gave me, but I think I shall re-member that longer than the first. "I am in despair, madame!" I ex-claimed, "absolutely in despair, but my motive was a good one, I assure you. 1 thought you were going to miss the train, that you would catch cold, and I did not want you to catch cold. In fact, if you will pardon my saying so, you need not worry about your bags; they are in safe hands a baggageman at the next sta-tion you will telegraph I will telegraph we Will telegraph they will be sent on immediately. Oh! you will surely have them, I swear, if I have to return to Tonnere myself to recover them." "Enough, sir," she said. "I knowper-fectl- y what to do." And she sank into her corner again, angrily twisting her gloves. But alas! poor little woman, she had not thought about the cold, and she no longer had her good, warm nigs. Before ten minutes were out she began to shiver. In vain she changed her position and drewcloak closer about herprettv figure; she was positively chattering. "Madame," I said, "I beg vou oil mv knees take mv nur. You will catch cold. IlrlnKlng Ice to Town. Seven hundred thousand tons of ice are stacked on tho shores of Lake Champlain and Lake George. Tho ice harvesters had expected to ship most of this by boat to the city storehouses and depots at tho opening of navigation. The regular ice barges will not lock through tha Cham-plai- n canal, so here is the difficulty. A fair average of 17 tons per car would re-quire 750 trains of 40 cars each, and if six such trains could bo loaded and sent per day, which, with the single track road, is doubtful, it would require 125 days or steady woru. On the other hand, if water transpor-tation is chosen on account of lower rates, at lf0 tons per canal boat, it would require 8,800 canal boats to bring it to tide water. Last year, which was ex-ceptionally good for boating, only 2,000 boats were cleared from the Whitehall office south. The boatmen propose to take advantage of the necessities of shippers, and will largely increase thoir rates. Thoy are demanding $8 per day for the use of then hoata. Many of the ice companies have brought their barges up the Hudson and propose to transfer the ice from the canal boats to tho barges, many of which hold 1,1200 tons, thus saving some time in the use of the canal boats, but causing con-siderable loss of ice through waste in handling so many times. It is estimated that Essex county is some $300,000 wealthier through the ice bonanza this winter. Now York Press. The Old Jiupoleoulntu or Contra. It now leaks out that when M. Carnot visited the "house of Napoleon," at Ajac-ci-a collision between some of the Re-publicans and Reactionists who had gat hered outside was only averted by the prudence displayed by the authorities. A few Republicans, burning with zeal, and animated by the wish to get up a political demonstration, began singing the Chant du Depurt. Immediately the Reactionists replied to tho challenge with the Ajaccienne, one of the verses of which is as follows: "On your knees, citizens and brothers, Mb shade his de-scending among us in our squares and streets; let only the name of Napoleon be heard." Matters were looking very black, when the authorities intervened and succeeded in restoring order. Lon-don Telegraph. A llotanlcttl Museum, Dr. Rothrock, professor of botany at the University of Pennsylvania, is pre-paring for the establishment in his de-partment of a museum, which promises to be of unusual industrial imnortance. Few steps that the institution has taken lately tend to bring it into as close con-tact with the manufacturing interests of the country us this seems likely to do. The new collection, to be called the mu-seum of economic botany, will consist of specimens of all kinds of woods, vege-table fibers, grains and drugs, arranged so as to illustrate the processes of manu-facture from the raw product and the various uses to which each material may be put, New Orleans Picayune. Could Get Along Without It. "I'd like to have you in the club, but we (ire too full for comfort as it is." "It's just as well. I have no use for a stuffed club.'-Chatt- er. A Portrait for the White Hoima. A portrait of Mrs. Angelina Van Bnren has been hung in the White House. It is a half length figure and in evening dress. The white gown hns the decollete, point-ed bodice, quite like the present fashion. The sleeves are short, and over the lace ruffle of tho right arm falls a spray of pale pink morning glory. This is the only color in the toilet. One whitogloved hand holds the other glove, and in the left hand 13 a mull handkerchief trimmed with laca. The dark hair is very smooth, and well toward the front is a band of pearls. What is said to be the largest shad ever caught above tidewater in the Del-aware river has just been taken in the net of William Smith, an old fisherman, at the Lambertville, N. J., fishery. It measures 81 inches in length, 8 inches in breadth and G inches in thickness, and weighs 13 2 pounds. IRELAND'S ROUND TOWERS. . Lusk--, height 100 feet; circumference, 43 feet. Antrim, height B2 feet; circumference. 50 feet. Meelick, height 70 foet; circumference 42 feet. Cashel, height 80 feet; circumference, 43 feet. Devcnish, height 76 feet; circumference, 43 feet. Tmm'noe, height 96 feet; circum'srence eo feet. Cioudalkiii, height 83 feet; circumference 4S feet. Bcattery, height 125 feet; circumference 62 feet ' Temple Pinau. height 66 feet ; circumfer-ence, 41) feet. Ardmore, height !W feet; circumference, 53 feet, Sti'oug, rough but excellent ashlar ma-sonry; rather open jointed; suudstoiie in well squared courses. Jlonasterboioe, height 110 feet; circumfer-ence, 51 feet Stones roughly hammer : dressed, rounded to the curve of the wait; de-cidedly though somewhat irregularly coursed. Killala, height 84 feet ; circumference, ,M feet. Stones laid in horizontal courses, well dressed and carefully worked to the round and batter; th whole is cemented in stron-pla- m mortar of lime and sand. ' Turlough, height 70 feet; circumference 57 feet. It is built of rough field stone, by hammer or chisel, not rounded but fitted by their length to the curvo of the wall, roughly coursed, wide jointed, with small rtones fitted into the interstices; mor- tar of ;oarse, unsifted sand or gravel. Will- - I iaro Ci. Hodspn in San Francisco Chronicle, A large meteor was seen from Mason City and other places in Iowa and struck somewhere near Blue Earth, Minn. The sound mado as it passed through the air resembled the noise of heavy cannon. It left a long streak of fire and smoko which did not disappear for some time. Ten million young whiteffeh from the government fish hatchery have been placed in Lake Superior this season, and 15,000,000 moro are to follow. About 8,000,000 of the whole deposit will prob-ata- snrvivB. matnrins in .onr years. How He Cnme by Them. Frioud You have a lot of agricultural implements. Where did you get them? Kiuis:is Man They fell to me; "Ah, a relative of yours'died and left them to you, eh?" "No, no; a cyclone did the work." Detroit Free Press. Investigations in the Alps' and Py. ' renees have shown that height produces modifications, Uot only in tho shape o'l plants, but in the thickness of the bark i the color of the leaves, and even in the anatomical structure of certain organs Ihe leaves especially become thicker at great heights, and their facts often hava ' a double lyr of imllulos. j Lightning Tor Oat His Eyes. A Lafayette special to The Indianapo-lis Journal of April 10 says: "During last night's storm lightning struck John Eberly, of Pine Village, Warren county, tearing out both bis eyes from their sockets. ' He is still alive." . French doctors are reported to have discovered that the essence of cinnamon, when sprinkled in the room of typhoid fever patients, kills the bacteria within twelve hours and prevents the disease from spreading. |