| Show AN OLD CHURCH the vie centre church I 1 of hartford connecticut is 14 now two hundred and thirty years old having been organized in 1636 it has had eleven ministers I 1 all of whom except the last died in the pastorate ICE por VOR EUROPEAN europea N the glaciers of the aipa alpa are now mines of wealth and tributa tributaries rles ries to lumur luxury y i in eab exhaustible exhaust du stable able abie in both respects they are worked says dr prime precisely like liked stone quarries and their product is trans transi i ported by rail to paris and other conti cental cities not lot only so but they are re excavated into galleries chambers and magnificent saloons the depths of snow on the surface exclude the sun san i beams but calcium lights shed a brilliant luster reflected as from a thousand mirrors of glass and in irr small apartments fitted up for the purpose the fur kiture of a well appointed ted parlor invites to cool but no not inhospitable repose 3 I 1 ENCOUNTER BETWEEN AN ELEPHANT AND A RAT BAT A very extraordinary encounter i between a batand rat and an aft elephant t has recently taken place in the gaiden garden y of plants nop lop london don which was witnessed with interest by hundreds of perso persons the keepers were I 1 engaged ing a great number of rats when abne oneff of them escaped and ran to alid the allotted to the elephant seeing nother refuge in the of an ah ey eye b tile the rat snugly ensconced himself in the them trunk of the elephant very much to the tha elephants dissatisfaction he stamped his foot and twisted his hig trunk round like ilke the eail of a windmill after these evolutions he stood suddenly still evidently reflecting what was best to d do he then ran to the ilie trough where he Is accustomed to drink and plunged his trunk into the water then ret returned ito 40 his den and raising his trunk with the tho water he absorb absorbed eo he dashed out the unfortunate rat which was in a d sheet of water like that issuing froma fire eill eril engine when the rat fell to the ground the elephant seized him and made him undergo the immersion and projection four times at the fourth throw it fell eh dead the elephant with a majestic air but cool and placid crit crushed shelt his annoying little enemy with his foot and then went hrent round to the spectators to make anake his bis usual collection of cakes sugar and other dainties the feat was received I 1 with vociferous applause which the elephant seemed fully to understand and appreciate A LOVE lave LETTER pil lii ill bet it a sheep said old meredith to his better half that our boy otho is abing crazy for hes grinning at the plow hes grinning at the barn and hes grinning at himself he 11 1 sho old everywhere goes oes man said his wife eyou you dont kno uno know nothing the critters got a love letter THERE thern are now in california built and in running order two hundred and ninety six bix and one half miles niiles of railroad THE greal great union railroad depot at chicago is v completed d its cost is 1250 and it measures measures feet in length by in depth |
