Show ninety days A religious mendicant of the jain casto has just completed 1 ninety ono days fast at an cyc witness describes in a burai paper the appearance of tho man on tho last day of alic penance the saint says tho writer underwent a fast of eighty six days last year and has been anoro or less accas lomed to this form of infliction when acon on the ninety first day of the recent fast his veins were lucli swollen and ho seemed to speak only with great effort ho was seated on 1 blankco in a corner and biad near him the sour water of curdled milk which ho sometimes drank lie seemed however to bo capable of physical ph exertion and up to the last day procured the curdled milk water for himself ho was nil along engrossed in prayer and held no communication with oilier men except on religious topics the man has spent his lite in strict asceticism and has denied himself all food and save ivling may bo got from tho milk water bread and yellow rice his bedding consists of an ordinary blanket and nothing more many jains undergo in tho shape of fasts and other scalf but it is said that this mans efforts in this direction arc by even the most devoted co religion abts and lie has drawn to himself a largo following of aks ho accepts however no presents and fees india gazelle edwaad dabica arrived destitute at oshkosh wis and said eliat ho had come from jalcs to seek his fortune in america lie protested that lio did not mind privation for himself but felt keenly for liis wife and children whom ho had left behind he had not been able to send them any money and feared they would the welsh people of oshkosh obtained employment for him and lie soon mccamo popular among them singing in tho church choir and taking an active part in re his new friends raised SUO by subscription to bring over his family and kept alie matter from liis knowledge in order that he might bo surprised ho was surprised indeed but not pleasurably by the arrival of liis wife for lie had deserted her to another woman and had enado all the arrangements to introduce alie latter sit oshkosh as his only consort who is this ferocious looking man he is foreman in n printing he gets paid for throwing men down stairs when they come to lick the editor and tor putting wrong dates at the head of tho paper he can pi more type in fifteen minutes alian seven printers can set up in two weeks ho loves to ask alio editor for copy if it were not for him the paper would look pretty well every morning everything would bo fat and none of abu live ads would bo left out denver tribune primer A number of young englishmen are working on a farm at lo 10 mars iowa alicy arc pupils of an englishman who owns a large tract there and arc bog tho business with a view to conducting farming in the far west there la a large english colony at le mars including many sons of aristocratic families publish your joys but conceal your |