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Show ment suffices ! of itself to keep the temROMANCE. AN ' INDIAN QJ perature a little above the; freezing point, which is considered comfortable enough in a country where wood is so TWO BROTHERS IN LOVE WITH SOCIALISM ON TRIAL AMONG THE SAME MAIDEN. precious. 'THE ESQUIMEAUX. v to go out. The condensation caused by "The casino has no door in jour sense renof of the word. The following Ingenious The Discarded Suitor Sought . the TAt e the sudden change temperature bat of Intelligence Are Meager ders the clothes so wet that after all method is used instead: Close by there They of His Successful Rival, but Was e to IllnBtrate; the Chief Prln-r it is only natural that the natives should is a little structure which serves as a Killed Himself Fed by Eagles in a clble of Proudhon's Theory Story of vestibule.' This has a large hole in the ' Cave. immediately remove them. a Missionary. "A casino can be described as simply floor, and from the bottom of this hole a cellar with a roof over it. It is a or shaft extends a tunnel which termi-- , N COUPLES and A of the casino. with a pyram- nates in the fire-p- it excavation, Hp most explicit square deep, in small companies and intelligent acidal roof of rough logs, covered thick- person desiring to enter a casino goes the Indians hunted count of life in farly with earth. At even! a short distance into the vestibule, jumps down into the the deer, elk, and away Alaska and of it can be easily mistaken for a small hole and then crawls along the tunnel .antelope; and while the strange habits The only light and ventila- until he reaches a corresponding j hole hillock. danger was always and characteristics tion is by a little opening at the top, in the floor of the casino. Woe to the present, tragedies of the natives that which is protected by; a curtain made luckless stranger who fails to emerge sometimes occurred has ever found, its of fish skin. The internal arrangement as soon as this hole is reached, for in . which neither way into print is varies in different places in respect to should he proceed any further he would wild beasts nor infrom the pen of the but ,the main features are the discover that the short section of the details, imical tribes had Rev. Francis r Bar- same. Around three sides of the in- tunnel which remains between this exit part, but which num, a Catholic is the sink., terior a bank of earth is left, which and the fire-p- it arose from feelings and impulses comHe is stationed in the extends like a broad step or divan. On missionary. along in the dark, slippery mon to human "Crawling nature, write Alice C. this the natives sit in; their customary tunnel is not a. graceful proceeding, jfukon district, 400 miles beyond St. Michael's, in Hortoni Sound, which is and this bobbing up from the hole is Fisher in an article entitled "Hunting squatting attitude. Customs of the Omahas" in the Century, The following adventure took place in the last century. Two brothers loved the same woman. She favored the younger,; but by some means the elder took her to wife. ;They were married in the fall of the year, and winter passed by, and one day in spring the brothers went ' -$ lL HI -gv forth to hunt together. Walking near the breaks of the Clearwater, the elder stopped to look over the edge of the X ai second and nar- s5S have "Some casinos jU ??A ?"v. mlm ,VwV canyon, where, a thousand feet below, V ' rower divan, extending from the IfxC Vj5v;!:rt .v the river glistened in the morning sun. above the x other, Onxtraordinary ; Half way down the rocky wall, upon ia jft This a third ledge that jutted out from; the sheer T .'Sjfo. l Jformed of three uttlelflat sleds face of the precipice, he saw a nest of ' -A of line t;hese kajnegateks fHkamegatek. frm the' by skm roPes young 'eagles. He called to his brother, kM who returned, and looked down upon f iwm casino. Thus the all around extend the nest. "I know what I will do," he ' space is economized and a large said; "I will make a rope." t. . Jber of persons accommodated. Lw At fS So the two set to work. They on the mainland I counted from the bark willows, young stripped 450 men in the casino, all 1 and plaited It into a rope strong ar0Ulld the sides in regular rows, , 2 Ar enough to hold a man. This done, they threw :one end over the percipice to see if it was long enough to reach the nest ; but it fell far short.; Then they worked on, lengthening the rope until it finally rested upon the ledge. They agreed that one was to let the other down to securej the eagles. The elder tied the rope about his body and the younger lowered him carefully until his feet were well on the ledge. As he walked along 'toward the nest he saw the rope ONE OP ALASKA'S CASINOS, PROM DESCRIPTIONS BY REV. BARNUM. suddenly tossed over the cliff; instinctthe most northerly point teached. by dents of the village, and also as the library. On' the fourth side of the decidedly an abrupt manner of making ively jhe steadied himself, caught the or steamers, ratherj by steamer, since hotel for any stranger, and, I niay add, casino the main divan extends only a one's appearance in society. The de- rope, and pulled it in. He was alone, but one trip a year is made to! St. the chapel 6f the missionary. According short distance from tite corners, leaving parture is as ludicrous. The soft with a precipice above and a precipice fully Michael's, this by a boat of the Alaska to Esquimeau etiquette, the casino is free the middle portion where the en- boots and fur clothing make no rustling below on a narrow ledge, with no livn !; . ' 3ommercial Company. reserved solely for men; women and trance is situated. and you behold the inmates disappear ing thing but himself and the old and by the engles. By "In the center of the floor is a large, instantly and silently through the floor, Describing the country, he says: "All children rarely invade its precincts At the in:he upper region of Alaska extending meal times, or rather at all hours, wives square pit covered with logs. In this after the fashion , of , and, seeing returned, eagles imps in pantoHong the shore of Behring Sea presents bring the food which hey have pre- pit, during the time of the bath, a mime. The interior of the casino is truder, were inclined to be hostile; but the same general features. This vast pared as far as the inner entrance. This large fire is built. At other times no always gloomy; the sides and roof are the man was careful not to anger them,iesolate area is entirely devoid of trees rigid seclusion will; appear all the more fire is used, as the presence of a num- blackened with smoke and covered and when they went away again he secured part of the game they had ami is intersected by innumerable riv- - appropriate ;when it is remembered that ber of persons in an apart- - thickly with soot." brought to their young. Days wore oh, and the man's life WANTED TO BORROW HIM. was" CONFESSED SHE DIDN'T DO IT. bers are strict teetotalers every day in sustained by the food the old eagles building up, made a circle with the the" year except one.; Regularly on the on the floor, and put seven differ- brought; "but his distress from thirst rope The Little Girl Disappointed, the Ex- -t bf September, year after Queer Request Two Women Made of a ent species of snakes inside first day of the rope was great, so he cleared out the little ' Philadelphian. pectations of Her Guilty Mates. circle. year, all the adult members of the com one over it hollows in the rock to catch the rain,' crawled A genial Philadelphian, who for ob- as if Every single Something dreadful had happened at mune assemble in the parish church it wasn't there, and since then my covering .them carefully to prevent vious reasons does not care to have his friend has Lie Queensville district school, says and every one takes a solemn vow belost faith in its evaporation. The young eagles beeame printed on this occasion, secured powers." An old campaignerprotective Philadelphia Times. May Greene,! the fore the altar to drink no wine, beer or name to his companionship and to accustomed a says a parlor car seat on an express train belle of the village! had smuggled her spirits "from the morrow" of the foln for of his hand; but by and by the touch the reporter that this Sunday sash out of the bureau, and, lowing day for the whole year. The for Reading a few days ago, and as he was a poor test. "A hair lariat must be the time came when they were ready "unbeknownst to her mother,", had clause "from the morrow" is intro- was about to pass through the gates made purposely for this use, and the to fly, and death looked the lonely man was to wornjit to school. iHer triumph, how- duced in order to give them a reward in surprisedtoneshear himself accosted sharp projections of the butts of the in the face. He resolved to make an feminine with the somewhat hair be made ever, was short-liveShe had hung for their virtue in the shape of a whole He had A hair lariat effort to reach the ground. startling "Please, mister, can be, and is,prominent. question: tlie sash most carefully on a hook in the day of drunken carnival. As soon as a made as smooth as any hidden his rope in crevice in the rock cloakroom while she ran out at recess they leave1 the church they begin to In- could I borrow you for a while?" other lariat. are but use- to keep it from drying; he now tied it They Looking around, he found two less as a protector from strong, for a; good romp. '! On her return ishe dulge in a! horrible bacchanalian drinksnakes. I have firmly about his body, fastening each was dismayed to find that it had been ing, which continues throughout the buxom women, who hastily and hesione in places where snakes were so end strongly to an eagle, leaving-- suffiused cut in two pieces. Every scholar was day, until neither man nor woman in tatingly explained that they were rid- thick that half a dozen could be run cient length between the birds and ing on a pass made out in the name of from under a single bush, and never himself to give full play for their wings. carefully questioned, but no one, of the village is sober, j This is naturally a gentleman and his wife, and, as the knew one to crawl over or inside of course, knew anything about it. The followed by considerable, physical sufmy He reasone'd that if the eagles were not teacher accordingly announced that fering and then mental remorse, where- gentleman was not present, they bed." able to fly with his weight, they would g wanted the citizen to whenj the afternoon session should open upon the penitent parish enters upon break his fall by their endeavors to she would lay all lessons aside, and hold its twelvemonth of model sobriety, and place his bought ticket at the disposal ' all events, it was save 'themselves. Impeaching a Witness. a court of investigation. She herself all live like the Rechabites. Some stu- of one lady and take the other one after Lawyer (for the defense)- -" You were death to remain upon the ledge under his wing, while he personated would be the judge. May Greene should dents imagine that this queer proceedwas When all had gone. ready, in the saloon when the shooting oc- they the absent owner of the pass. be" the bow and fastened his with plaintiff and every, scholar in ing may be a prehistoric tribal custom. upon quiver "Which is my wife?" he inquired curred?" turn! should come; up into a witness he his ,the pushedback, wondering Witness (for the state) "I was." an inward qualm, lest his own abbox, rigged up for the occasion, 'and tell 'over tie cliff, and one Hundred years ago. with sent the ever Lawyer "State the location' of the eagles off their nest better half should hear exactly what he knew about the mattbore their strange burden down, Vast story. they saloon." er. IShe also said that if anyone would Our Great Colleges Were Not Stich Witness "No. 411 Chestnut street, down the canyon, and finally, weary Institutions as .They Are Now. "You can take your choice, sir," said confess his wrong-doin- g j before the bf with their enforced flight, alighted a Dartmouth College consisted the lady in search of an escort, and he Lexington, Ky." opening of court he would be pardoned wooden the bottom. The man 50 feet promptly did so by Lawyer " What was the defendant upon aa tree at from building 150 feet long, the arm of tucking and all proceedings stopped. Two guilty each of his prefeather took ' wide andj 36 feet high. the youngest fair one under his own doing when you entered the saloon?" boys; discarded beaux of the gay ' Dartmouth English grammar and and leading her into the car. The Witness was treating the servers and released them ; then he "He At were now coquette, swung himself down through the pale with dismay. arithmetic were in the couple proved to be right jolly traveling crowd." They had told untruths when privately, to the ground, and, taking the branches year. Lawyer "What did he say?" companions, and the citizen's only requestioned and now they feared they . came upon Witness "He said: 'Mister Beaure- shortest trail to his home, Princeton, the greatest Presbyterian gret in the transaction was due to a would not be able to brave them out its fear that the story might leak out and gard, will you and Mister Blublud and his brother and his wife sitting before the awful cour t ordeal es- college, was a huge stone edifice, the tent. It took but a get home ahead of him. But it didn't. Mister Fireater and Mister Redeye and momentoutside faculty consisting of a president, pecially since it' had begun, to be whisan arrow through the? to send one professor, two master of Mister Cornbred and Mister Jefferson pered around that they knew more, of man who had so cruelly unsuspecting and seventy students. join me in a drink, suhs?' " languages the matter than had at first The Postofflce in Ilindoostan. the appeared. Harvard University had four brick Lawyer "Your honor, the defense betrayed Inhim; then, ofconfronting colThe not India in postofflce Tbey therefore hit upon ' the following only he woman, asked, hope a intensity the faculty consisted of lects and delivers letters, parcels and rests. I would respectfully submit to "Are you glad I have come?" She was expedient: The youngest child in the buildings; and six in and its professors, other articles, but acts to a certain ex- this intelligent jury that there are not silent, but her face told him the truth, school, little. Annie Cork, was the pet president 160 students. to 130 halls thronged tent as a banker to the general public, six plain misters in the whole state of and a second arrow pierced her heart. of the county. If she now could be in, one brick of boasted building Yale sells quinine and salt, pays military Kentucky." duced to confess to the Her body fell over the prostrate form cutting of the and a chapel "with a steeple 125 feet pensions, and collects the revenue acsash surely she would be on of the younger brother before any one pardoned The faculty was a president, a cruing to the government from- land account, of her popularity. SCRAPS. in She was high!" camp, realized that he who had long tutors. therefore beset by the guilty young- professor of divinity and three In the and other sources. But to the fertile given up as dead had returned The household work of the families been The greatest Episcopal college brain of one of the oldest officers in sters, who, by dint of dire threats and to avenge his grievous wrongs. United States was William and Mary's. the department is due the latest devel- in the United States was, in 1880, done Iarge bribes, and by confession urging It was under royal and state patronage, opment in the work of the postofflce. by 1,075,653 domestic servants. upon her as a d An Preacher. duty, finally secured her and was,1 therefore, more substantially The Over the population of Punjab postofflce has come forbewildered consent "to confess." When circumstance odd An happened once most of our American ward as' an elementary teacher. It not Rhode Island and nearly than favored lf the afternoon, bell that As Dr. was one Wilson at Winchester. rang the scholars schools. At this time, it is said in a only collects letters and delivers them, of Connecticut is came in in the mills. employed Sunday morning going through the promptly, looking askanc at curious old state report, the college was but teaches boys in elementary schools the awful witness box is Lake claimed streets toward the cathedral he heard Erie It that produces and at .the mutil- a a "like to them write how address three of the stories, and building more fish to the square mile than any a woman cry, "Mackerel! All alive, all ated finery floating out from the teachA. es desk. The judge was about to open brick kiln," and had thirty gentlemen covers. other body of water in the world. alive, OI" and on .' his arrival at the students.! Native-bor- n sourt, when in came farmers of this; country church he began ther services as follows: criminals in dormitories, students Hair lodged and Snakes. The Ropes form 26 per cent of its population; "When the wicked, man turneth away triumphantly leading the innocent "commons" and were satisa common superstition farmers of is "There at the ate child between them. foreign birth number 17.6 from his wickedness, and doeth that They informed fied with what we would consider among western cowboys that a rattlewhich Is lawful and rightj he shall save . cent. judge', that Annie Cork had come to of snake will not cross a hair rope," said per can small a diet. Breakfast, Of all the. handicraftsmen the car his soul alive, alive, O!" These last 2jafess, and, omciously placing her on prison a biscuits about an ounce of betof Philathe Brown, Superintendent were the most numerous when words the doctor proclaimed aloud, to Jae witness stand, they withdrew to coffee, Dininer, one pound of meat, two delphia Zoological Garden, the other penters weir seat3. The child's ter. attitthe tenth census was taken, numbering the great surprise of the congregation. Supsome and "The don't rattlea mind vegetables. cowboy ude was too much for helpless day. But the good doctor was so studious and tender-Jeartepotatoes d the 373,143. unThe milk. and only snake but has he .when much, bread d anyhow, that he knew not what judge, who took her by the per, is estimated by engineers who It was furnished frecider, to in the the he spend night he had done. open, and said gently, "Well, dear, limited supply have studied the subject that which was passed in a can from mouth quently takes the precaution of enciryou reallv fiftme to confess?" power goes to waste every etV she faltered, oppressed by to moutti. The days were spoken of as cling his camp with a rope of this de- hour over Niagara Falls. Here's a Melon for You. etc. stew a then to and roast day, goes with A. day, scription, sleep Jessamine, Ky., farmer drove into tt earae3t stillness in the room; but, boil day, in the The various letters 1 often wondered if there mind. alphabets the village with a watermelon that quiet posies courage from, the judge's Shoes Blade from Paper. 12 to 202 In world from Horse of vary In the, was never this and truth any belief, but weighed, ninety-eigbanner, "Yeth,: teacher I'th come to A German veterinary surgeon has alThe Sandwich Bow-nnumber. Islanders a to have hair rope and ratnfth I'th 'come to confeth that I discovered a method by which horse happened pounds. It was bought by Dick cut 12. the has 202. Tartarian it tlesnake handy to test it, until one day phabet a't do it" the village blacksmith, who shoes can be successfully manufactured when treated and saw cross-ca of A mine who a friend came has the been with from Philadelphia oculist, open from paper. The paper is impregnated lf of the rind we subthe. for and human on entire village. eye the the West, began studying talking tnirty n Annual Drunk. with turpentine to make it waterproof. and placed under the ject. He had a hair rope with him, years, declares that all great men of was saved intact eldest temperance society in the The inventor claims that a horse, wear-in- s and as a trough to water stock we decided to try it on the snakes the past and present had or have blue village pump these shoes cannot slip on greasy is ite abstaining commune In from. in the reptile house. We shut the or gray eyes " thiria, all of whose msm- - roads. NORTH j ; ALASKA. j -- ers. The, silt deposited by these rivers has rendered the. sea so shallow ..that for miles from the shore there is not water enough,' at low tide to float a row-boa- t. The whole country is volcanic; immense lava beds and extinct craters are everywhere" to be met with. There are interminable wet plains, called by the Russian name of tundra. V The tundras are covered with a rank growth of moss, in which the feet sink so deep that traveling over them is well-nig- h impossible, except during the winter season. "The villages are organized on a very convenient socialistic plan. The main edifice of every settlement is called the casino. Around this the private residences of bairaboras are grouped without any regard to regularity. Near each barrabora is? its storehouse, called a cache or lafkak. "The casino or koshga is the great local institution of Alaska! It is common property, and serves as the exchange, e, restaurant, workshop, bath house, hospital and theater for the resi- - the first thing the men do on entering the casino is to disrobe and search for vermin, and moreover the majority seldom trouble themselves about resuming their raiment until they are ready ; j ; : J i j ; club-hous- . well-authentica- j Wa tjL mmPrhfff1- - : : sSStC lWffr -- mMWm-j&4fC y &&Z& fa X&i" .,r JCJv WIxMWm 'Wlm ISfe JW& $V wmml WWM mmSX '"'hW SiSi WJMCZZM'WC "rWtival W "ii) ted ' -- - It' m ; wall.Hr, : calledH jj oc-8F"';- ife f mm i num.JM t avKSi I , ranged' onew SVvlst ; half-grow- 1 - i air-tig- ht i - I " ; MAN-KILLE- R. He Was Pained by a Reference, to III J row ess at Dodge City. It has often been noted by those favored men who, in traveling atout the west, made the acquaintance of r - some famous killers, that the killer was always quietly and soberly reserved about the homicides he had committed and never cared to talk about them,, says the Washington Post. Charles. Bassett, Who has great renown in the southwest as a and a game no is man, exception to the rule. It chanced that all of Bassett's killings were on the side of public order and occurred while he was an officer of thet law. For several years Bassett of Dodge City. Bat Mastersom was Bassett's deputy. It happened more than once in straightening out the destinies of Dodge that Bassett was called on to shoot a ceremony wherein, he was always careful to aim low, with gratifying, results. When Luke Short who afterward killed Jim Court wright, a Texas 'desperado was run out of Dodge, Bassett was the first man he came to in jseeking help to' put him back. Having secured Bassett, Luke Short gathered about him an array which had a record for cool nerve anA quick, sure work with a Colo's pistol that would be (hard to duplicate. Short was escorted back to Dodge by Bassett Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Bill Earp,. Virgil Earp, Doc Holliday, Curly Bill,. Shotgun Collins and others, who, as stark, indomitable fighters, had. as much fame in their country as ever had gun-fight- er -- was-marsha- l ' lace in his. But as to the solemn reti-cen- ce of those killers when touched on-ato their bloody deeds: Bassett is and has been for years, the manager of a resort, in Kansas City. One winter ' night Bassett and several others were standing near the big stove, drinking and defying the weather. The talk had, drifted to the! winter days of Dodge-City- , when. 'Jack Nuckols suddenly-spok, up with:: "By. the way, Charlie, you killed several men at Dodge City, didn't you?" A look of pain and uneasiness came across Bassett's face like a cloud. He was staggered and worried and Showed it. A profound silence fell upon, the several men present and NuckoIs.be-- . gan to grow emoarrassea: or imi naiL-minute Bassett looked at the ques- -. tioner without saying, a word. Then as if a thought had come to him that he knew he was safe to , act on. he helped himself to a drink of whisky all alone. When he returned he backed up to the stove, and, surveying Nuckols, said, in a mild, inquiring tone: "Well, if I did it'was right." Nuckols hastened to assure him that, no one harbored a doubt on that point and the subject was politely changed. Af terwardnne of : the onlookers res e a . , marked:' ' 1". . "You can oet.it botnered Bassett when it drove him to drinking whisky by, himself. 111 bet two to one that's the first drink; Bassett's taken alone ia twenty years. ; j - ! Inter-Ocea- ; d. : k ; genial-lookin- , A WESTERN j j - ' V SIFTINGS. A swallow may not make a summer, but a frog makes a spring. The military prisoner makes his escape in an unguarded moment. A stag party would be twice as enjoyable if a few dears were invited. A printer being asked if he was a said no, he was a setter. Fortune is ;like a market, where-mantimes if you wait a little the : . - . West-Point- er y price will fall. Binx calls his doctor his biographer-tothe reason that he is at work'upou. ., his life. How happy our neighbors might be If they would only do as we think they ought to do. Come to think of it, how can you exthe . pect the poor to be contented when -t rich never arej? Ruffs for. the throat are fashionable, and it is generally for the throat that a t rough. goes, j r ': . i ' I j . ; j ; v ' text-boo- ,' soph-omo- re ks I to-gel- her . vice-preside- nt, , . FLOTSAM. Abraham Rimes, of Fulton county; Indiana, has just married his eleventh, wife, having been married and divorced ' ten times. There were recently 324 physicians present in consultation at the bedside of a member of the Imperial family of. :. . China. influence-waIt is said that If the sun's entirely withdrawn from the earth,, universal death would ensue withia. three days. A painter of Marseilles earned $2,000 on recently by standing in one positionThis-wahours. a pedestal twenty-eig- s Abseut-Minde- one-ha- lf , one-ha- V ' . ,, . , j :j absent-minde- ; 16,000,-000-hor- se one-ha- lf ht y, ut One-ha- ' u : i ; ht done on a wager. A coon cat; in Lewiston,. Maine; not s 1 , - j 1 , only plays the piano, but when it want, to look out of the window pushes jap if it happens to be down.! The only fish that breathes with is the periophthalmus, a native of the May layahd swamps. If the tail ia painted over with oil or varnish the fislx dies of suffocation. It cost $100,000 a year to keep up the-Boide Boulogne, but from $40,000 to $50,000 Is derived from the park Itself,, and from the rents of the race courses,, restaurants and private houses in it. It is said that the cocoanut plam of the Phillippine islands sometimes produces pearls, like pxose of the ocean, composed of carbonate of limet and that the bamboo yields' opals, which ;, in. Its joints. A club of people with si fingers-oeach hand exists in London. The see- -, retary of the club, reports that there- are 2,173 persons witn six, and 431 with, seven fingers on one hand. There- - 1& but one person living with eight fingers. It is said that there are 260,000 cats In England, and sixty-nin- e varieties. A pure tortoise-she- ll torn cat is very-rare- , as is also a female red tabby. Some cats are actually vegetarians. a curious variety from Burmah live ani en tirelv ucon water. the-curtai- its-tai- l s i are-foun- i d |