Show to the spring stock of animal stories is the following A calf which refused to leave the railroad track recently stopped a train on the s aug atuck road and incidentally saved the life of thomas lanan who was found lying drunk on the track 1 little further on and would lican crushed but for the accidental stoppage of the train Is germany it has been decided eliat scientific bodies may make their own limitations in the matter of vivisection before the question w as settled a member of the government called upon a medical professor for his opinion oil alie subject the litter took up the latest edition of hermans book on physiology and drew his pen through all parts of the work that were based on experimental research or in any way indebted to it about one fourth of the whole test remained unscratched IN 1579 ji party of zurich men moved by some very kindly feeling toward strasburg contrived to reach that city in one day in a liblit boat bringing with ilcin a huge iron pot whose contents were smoking on arrival strasburg authorities who came to welcome the leader of the zurich men said you are doubtless astonished to sec us bring such a shabby gift as i mess of millet but it is only a symbol it ever god forbid strasburg should be in distress alic lias friends who will toiler aid before a diali of millet will have time to grow cold this promise luada in 1576 was in 1870 when zurich hastened to show all alic kindness she could to the unfortunate people of strasburg and now a memorial is about to be raised in zurich street at strasburg inscribed 1870 to the descendants of alie confederates of old time who to keep alic promise made by their ancestors came will all speed to the aid of alien she was overwhelmed with misfortune THE following inscription will lie placed on charles tombstone it fl britten by himself here lie by alic side of is friend the mortal al ov clit and his last words to mankind on this stone I 1 hope for a 1 biot from any power in nature but from alic n ill of abc lord god omnipotent ho made nature nuil me he created man out ot iiii nat arc could not lie mil restore joaie alic dust which nature cannot and for in a future life not for anything I 1 have said or done in allu s body bill from the merits and mediation of jesus christ he has promised cession to all who seek leand he will not break his word that intercession once granted cannot be rejected for lie is god and iiii merits infinite a finans arc but and inita him to me I 1 will in no wise cast out it any man siu we have an advocate willi the kitlica jesus christ the and he is propitiation for our iiii A berlin newspaper publishes sonic curious and startling information a criminal which giai lately fallen into alic hands 0 alic sicilian police alic acin lii r ot which il niini arc to be tried for their lives nt Ial crino during alic arst week in may it wonlu appear alic of april sig antono alio of i small town named situated a short from salermo some friends who had been visiting liim to alic railway station nt a late hour at night As the party was passing by a wood abutting on alic nigh road several shots were fired at it from the covert and of the mayors companion fell dead upon lie ground in alic course of inquiries instituted suspicion fell upon four householders of who were accordingly arrested and con to palermo where they presently confessed themselves to be active members of n murder club established in and numbering atty cinc members pledged to exercise the practice of homicide for their common advantage nt those to this association were bound to execute private ven geannes for liiro their wages in such case being paid in to alic associations cashier for distribution nt tain lisca periods As financially the club nourished exceedingly it sought to extend its business by establishing a in alic town of Sica razzi where forty five citizens took the oaths and proceeded to carry out the gramme pro of the parent association it lias been ascertained certa ined eliat within a few months thirty persons perished at the hands of the assassins belonging to the branch climb alone denounced by hie four Bagli cria murderers above referred to all elioso miscreants have been seized and arc now lodged in alic jail of |