Show largo large numbers of muskrats aro are being sold for food in ofies cities by m many t any ahey ard are considered a great delicacy the afie peat meat being sweeter ind and of finer flavor than chicken indeed they are c clean little animal for formatter aft er pulling up a v vegetable e they will thoroughly scrub it in iv water a ter before eating it the fact that a they have the name of rat has bag many persons against them but in realia leakity Y this name is wrong for they belong to the beaver family there is no better preventive of ne ivious exhaustion than regular unhurried muscular exer ciso cise if we could moderate out our hurry lessen our worry and increase CIT ase our open n air exercise a large proportion of nervous diseases would be abolished for those who cannot get a sufficient bent holiday the best s substitute is an all occasional day in bed many whose nerves are constantly trained strained in their daily aboc avocation aaion have discovered this for them selves A nebraska editors barn was burned bb theother the other day and he crowded out the latest news from stanley in order to insert a two column aln account of the lurid work of the fire fiend as he be ex I 1 pressed the sed it and lie he ended thus As the last dying flames flicker ed heavenward we realized realised reali sed that the loss was 65 no insurance to great and small alike baine come the deeper tragedies ot life that furrow the cheek and sear scar the heart we hope the coyotes w who ho are in arrears will now acce Ic ce it if you should see a man digging in ift a snowdrift snow drift with the expectation of finding valuable ore or planting seed upon the rolling billows you would say at atice once that he yas was beside himself but in what respect does this man differ from you while you sow ow the seeds of idleness and dissipation si in in your youth and expect the fruits of age will be a good constitution elevated affections and holy principles if you desire a virtuous and happy life in youth you must shape your character by the word of unerring wisdom and plant early in your bosom the seeds of virtue the laziest man in scotland is said to have been the joiner who af after ter repeated dismissals from his employment by his master was at length forcibly dinto lai lal a coffin by his shipmates shop mates and car ried off for burial by way of a joke on the way they met a farmer who asked if the man was dead no was the reply but we intend to bury him lie ho I 1 is that lazy that lie ho should not bo be allowed to live at the farmers ro quest they took off the lid when the farmer asked this the lazy one if lb he thought he could eat two or three boiled tattles tat ties are they peeled inquired the man no i returned the farmer ah wee weel alet let the funeral gang on morris monis gross a negro piano mover foll foil 30 feet and landed with a grand piano on top of him T physicians were puzzled to find only a few scalp wounds on tho tV avian iman Ian the piano was smashed cad annd the cement sidewalk was jg cracked morris was riding rd tho he piano while it was being rais ato ajl to an upper window when I 1 atho rope broke A submarine cigar shaped and constructed of iron was recently i raised fr from om the chicago river in it were found the bones of a man and his dog this undersea under sea boat called in its time the fool killer mysteriously disappeared 25 years ago after having claimed several victims physicians at a wilmington Wilmine ton del hospital amputated a finger from each hand of alve cearold year old elsie mills the little girl was born with six fingers on each hand extra lingers fingers are not an unknown thing but they are rare they run in certain families ten black whales weighing from 1000 to pounds each were washed ashore at cape hat teras it is thought they were killed by the fleet of U S war ships which was holding maneuvers en ell route to cuban waters for winter practice the carcasses were sold for fertilizing vu purposes r it is likely that off leial measures will be taken in sauk county wis to protect valuable trees from being ruined by deer which inhabit that region at present the deer are protected by law the year ear around on one farm fruit trees worth 95 85 each were killed by the deer which ate the bark off tho the trunks deer are becoming a pest in various parts of the country where people are fox forbidden bidden to kill them patients at the military hospital at cambridge eng have been made more comfortable by the use of tubs of water as beds supported by a system of slings the patient lies on a rubber mattress with his big entire body except the head under water one patient who had his thigh torn away by a shell was suffer suffering hig intense pain after he was put into the water bed he said he felt fell comford comfort more than that which aich usually comes from long confine ment in bed |