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Show 1 7 denly Y heard the splendid note, as I thought at that moment, of a strange hound, and listened to hear it again; QUEER AND CURIOUS THINQS when. Instead of It being repealed, the whole pack in the kennel near my AND EVENTS. house gave one burst as If in full 017, as the sounds died away and ail Inmnlty la Animal. Carton. Growth of and, waa again hushed in stllinsGS, my. FUta Tha Old Hound'. Fsrawall huntsman rushed into the room sayWhen Elephant Haro tho Toothacbo ing. in agitated voice, Hector is dead, bloiupa Worth a Forluua. sir! That splendid note of what 1 had thought a strange hound had been the old dog's farewell call to the pack. My.trry." They had heard and had answered." WO year. sro a half LENGTH OP IN THE OI)D COMER. grown mewed kitten our door, timid, and fearing harm; We took Him In and queal kinnd of hi. home; He purred and laid hi. gray head on our arm. lii'Mide Euch day he elept upon our bed or couch ; Each night returned, perchance, from whence he came; We called him "Mystery," and never knew Ilia birthplace, or hla kindred, or hi. mine. He won hie way a. children make a place We du not know la empty till they runic; And when death inukeH It vanuiit there I. pain. Although we dumb. love a creature only One summer day he vanished a. he came; been III, but uttered not a moan; Asked to be held, too weak to purr hla thanka. Then mule away to die aomcwhere, alone. We kept our window oiien toward the emit. The way he crept, under some shrub to lie; We search and sure he will not conic; hope, yet W8 lfVe t0 16Ur our kitten cryT011 " Ahi n!.!! And llivl i" A more? foollHh fondness for a r u" 11,1 hl" humble sb I'woloua; there has ne KUVP 14,11 but that 11 welc0 i Insanity la Animals. In the human subject Is .supposed by some to have no analogue i in the lower animals, aaya Popular 'Sr fence News. Yet many causes, bc-- ; cording to Dr. Sneliaon, will lead to jthe permanent lose of .Cattle driven from the country a crowded town will often workthrough them- -' selves Into a frenzy. Horses have gone mad on the battiefleld. At a an Arabian horse turned on Its attendant as he waa drawing water, .seized him in hia mouth, threw him jdown, and kneeling on him, attacked .him like an Infuriated dog. lie bit off 'another soldier's Unger. An Instance 'la related of a docile hors, suddenly going mad on a hot day. Everything that came in Its way It seized In its teeth and shook aa a terrier does a rat It raided the pigsties and threw the inmates one after another in the air, trampling on the bodies as they fell. Afterward It almost killed Its own paster, after maiming for life the farrier who was called In. This must have been a ease of Insanity, the cause of which ia often to be found In congenital malformations of the bones of the head. A scientist of authority even goes so far aa to prove by what appears to be Incontestable evidence that cats, dogs and monkeys have been observed to have delusions very similar to those of Insane people. aelf-contr- B&la-jdav- i : Carious Growth of a Fish. A few weeks ago one of the most extraordinary Ush ever known came to light in Devonshire, England, aaya a writer in the Rambler. It waa a 'chub, found in a muddy pool, and it waa as hideous a thing as one ;could well imagine. It waa Imprisoned jin a sort of cage formed of the roots jof an elm tree that projected under the iwater, and It had evidently wormed its ,way Into this prison when Quite small, Its way out. It j Being unable to Und had been forced to grow In the shape ;of its rage Instead of the natural form that all chub should take. With no '.room to develop, the ffaha tall haa disappeared altogether, save for a little deformed stump that had wedged Its way between the roots of the tree. The back Un had also disappeared, for there waa no room for it to grow. The whole body of the luckless chub was distorted, and had grown into the gnarled and twisted form or the root cage. The scales were Incrusted with mud, and arranged in layers like roof slates. It Is a puzzle to imagine how the Ush fed and lived in that watery prison, and what It did when times were hard and no food came by. It seemed contented enough, and was certainly healthy and strong In spite of its distorted shape. cer-tain- ly The Obi Unnnit's Farewell, An affecting account of the death of an old hound is given by hla owner in the Animal World. Hector waa a long-trieand trusted dog, the trailer of a pack of hounds. The old dog became too InUrm for the Held, and was left at home when the pack went out. Year by year hla feebleness grew upon him, but be was well eared for, and passed his time mainly in sleeping betide the kitchen Are. Hia long absence from the hunting Ueld caused hla Une, d note to be almost forgotten. One afternoon," says the owner, waa writing In my room when sud d deep-tone- ,I accident than meet an elephant with a toothache. It appears that a toothache affects an elephant in a more severe manner than it doeH any other animal. Elephants have very sensitive nerves, and a touch of toothache often brings on madness. Providing you are able to chain down an elephant and draw out the ofrendlng tooth, the brute is certain to te affectionate to you afterward. Here is an instance: An elephant in Bengal, India, became affected with toothache, but the keepers managed to secure it while a dentist drew a decayed tooth the cause of the trouble. After a time the elephant seemed to understand that the dentist waa trying to do something for his pain, and he gave every evidence of appreciating the attention. When the operation was over he frisked round the dentist like a young lamb. Stamps Wurth a Fortana. Here are pictures of the costliest stamp In the world and the stamp moat difficult to obtain. The Urst Is valued at the modest little Ugure of 91.750 the largest price ever aet on bo small a piece of printed paper. It la an obsolete stamp from Hawaii a badly design, originally costing two cents, English money, and now valued at the price of a country home. The round stamp la the rarest thing of its kind In existence. It comes from, British Guinea, and, like Its expensive brother of Hawaii, ia a With this $1,825 stamp In hla vest pocket, a person of even liberal tastes could raise the wherewithal for a vacation trip to Europe and back. With the price of thlB philatelic rarity a family of four could be comfortably housed, clothed and fed for a year and a half, and Uncle Sams soldiers could be supplied with enough bread to satisfy their hunger for a day. All ed Insanity : Whan Elephants Hava Toothache, . is not easy to tell when an elephant has got a toothache, but It la best to keep out of hia way when you do know it. A London surgeon, who had bepn for many years In India, aaya ho would sooner risk a railway It two-cente- r. of which goes to show that It Is not always the small things that are of the least value. New York Evening World. Rail Extraordinary. way-Maki- It may be Interesting both for layman aa well as those engaged tha In railway work to know the way In which the actual laying of the Soudan desert line la done. First of all, as I said before (the Daily Graphic correspondent tells us), the track is prepared a good way ahead. When the material train arrives out Jump the workers, and so admirably are they drilled thnt without any confusion they fail Into their appointed places. In front of the train a party at once proceeds to lay the sleepers. Although a man la only required to carry one at a time, I saw several of them carrying two of these heavy pieces of wood, and in one case a Soudanese was going gaily along with three on his shoulder. The sleepers are laid down roughly In their places, and Immediately a sufficient length !a laid the rail carriers come along with a swing, ten men to a rail, and they place their burden properly on the sleepers. Immediately the fish plate gang acts to work, and in an Incredibly short space of time the plates are screwed fast. Then come the sturdy blacks armed with sledgehammers and rapidly drive the bolts into the ' sleepers to keep the rails straight ond firm. They, however, iE not 'finish their work completely, but fasten the rails to the sleepers Just sufficiently to allow the heavy sixty ton engiue with her tender to follow on a little nearer. Then the work goes on behind the train. A strengthening party sees the rails are right, and another gang follows, parking the sleepers and filling the Interstices with ballast. Last of all a party follows far behind, giving a finishing touch to everything, and seeing thnt nothing has been overlooked. The line Is now finished. In less than four hours two miles of line had been laid. History Is the politics of the past, and present politics are nothing but history in the making. Green. t one-eleven- lANDY ALL DRUGGISTS ..... rASCABETS t iMis puod. km Ultra Us candy. Tint ra-i- ii any bad tail l'i the leaving Uia brunt ana perfumed. It I a pluuiura to taka Hum In. laud of Ban bills. 11 imi .. 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"You are trifling with the dignity of this court, sir," sternly said the Judge, and I will fine "Hold on, judge, said the clerk; "there haln't been but one yoke of oxen In this town in a week. Old man wood, and the Henleys been same oxen the been counting lawyers over and over." "Judgment for plaintiff, said the esJudge, and the city lawyer, glad to his took his honor, cape the wrath of departure, a sadder but wiser man. TO VBIK. THE AWUCTM), THRLE B- TTLES OF HIS NEWLY MFCoTFRED R Ml EDITS TO CUBE Bio Grande Scenic Line of the World CON AND Train No. 2 leaves Ainriicsn Korx st 9:02 s in, arrive at Puetilo nt 0:10 t m, Colorado Siurings 7:51 a m, Denver 10:31) TKOL'B s m. Cripple Creek S):50 s m. LIS Train No. 4 leaves American Fork Nothing could bs fairer, more pfallsn (stops on signal) st 8:85 p ni arrive at thrcptc. or carry mo'K jov in its wake Pueblo 5:27 p ni, Colorado Springs 6:58 than ths off r of T. A. Sl cum, M. C.,0f p m, Denver 9:25 p m. 08 Pice rtrect, Sew York City. 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New York, and It wilt be ent pompaid, In iUla wrarper. with fall direction how to clvo rnr for which has If g" Antt-JX- a Hcrrtl. Inforainlian mulled tree. Fat-n- Trd-k!rl- C.A.SNOW&CO. 6 Patint Ornet. t & the Railway. log the remedies ;o simple send him their express and postufflee nddrira, ard receive in return the three free bot ties. Already this new seieotflo count of mslclne has permanently eurd thoiBMda of apparently hopeless esses. He consldon It his rellclons duty a dnty which he own to numanlty te donate his Infallible euro. Offered fresly, apirt from its inherent strength, la enough to eom innd it, and mors so Is the perfect eoufldsnee of the great chemist making tbs offer. Ha baa proved eonnumptioi to be a cnrable disease beyond any doubt. Thors will bo no mistake In sending the mistake will be In overlooking the Doctors' generous Invitation, Ho has ou file in his American and European laboratories tbonsands of testimonials of ex per Isnee from those eared, in all parte of the wcrld. Delays are dangerous: mall your ad' dross to T. A. Slocum, M. C., 98 Pine Tha Birds' Balance of l'ower. street, New York, and when writing In a recent lecture Prof. Wilmer thaDoctor, please mi a lion reading Stone of Philadelphia cited many facts tha article In inn Americaa Fork to show that birds are natures great World check on the excess of insects, and D UiTPUETTPQ ....nrouw.... il( mAIbnCI 111 a Tsbsccs AstUots that they keep the balance between foMlttvily ear, all tobacco hMU In bnurv. lrln M rte. par box, aaoagb to suiw any ordinary oar. plants and insect life. Ten thousand Da. Battkttk'b Wondorful Hrt,Blod been estimated, has It caterpillars. ad Nrv Kaniody. Frio. M cnl. All could destroy every blade of grass on dmxxtrt. r tiy mll. Asont w.ntfd DR. HATCHXTTS, Cnicxao, 111. an acre of cultivated ground. In thirty days from the time' it la hatched an SO WARS' ordinary caterpillar Increases 10,030 EXPERIENCE. times In bulk, and the food ii lives and The insect grows on Is vegetable. population of a single cherry tree infested with aphides was calculated by a prominent entomologist at no less than 12.000,000! The bird population of cultivated districts has been estiTRADE MARKS mated at from 700 to 1,000 per square DEMONS OOPVRICHTS Ae. This la small compared with mile. Aavaa MiMlInf a ikatah and dMcrtptton may the number of insects, yet as each bird auiekly orrUin. fra, whntbor aa liivcmn is itrlrUy probably paMnUbl. Coiumunlaallim consumes hundreds of Insects every oaSdntlL Oldan wmwj furMeurlng p!uts ore. bela Amonca. W bv a Waalila.loa day the latter are prevented from A Fount tokon through Mima Co. roiv doom la tb coming the scourge they would be but for their feathered enemies. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, bautl'1l Il1utrtd, luiwart dmilallon 4 nv MlsntlSa Journal, wnkiy,tnntyJU a I'm for l Gold. lUU in monCi. Sprrlmmi oipl and two. ok Fatiwtc Mat fru. AddrnM One of the most sensible "fads MUNN & CO., among the girls Just now la to save up Brendwav. Kww Tark. Sit all their old jewelry, old gold thimbles which have the tops worn off, gold fob chains, gold bracelets, and pins, and even necklaces, and take them to some rellab,i jeweler, who will either melt them down and make what she wants out of them, or else will exchange them, allowing her for the weight of a t obtaluad and all CavMta, and the gold. One girl made a collection hounm conducted far MoutsxTC Fees. for several years of boken bits of jewS. PSTcarorriee OunOmeeisOroosirgU, w cauMrur patent in laas tiau lliaa lhuc and elry and, with aome of her grandmothrwmot (ram Waahfngtaa. ers added to them, sold them to het Scad modal, drawing or pkata with draerip. Wa adviaa, if paicmahla or sot, Iran of iloa. own jeweler and now is the happy Margo. Oar tea tint dua till patent ia aernred. possessor of a beautiful pearl necklace oat el mm in tHa U S. and ion iga couaUtaa which she got ia exchange, Harpers mot frea. Addrr, Bazar. ' Denver weak men Got boaklefc SCHPTIOX ALL I.l'NG Op. i a THOUGHT Surprising Knoll of Experiment MaAa ky a Noted Hrltl.b Krieatlat. How long does it take a man to think? Professor Richet, at the recent meeting of the British association, gave the results of his investigations Into this subject. He found that by mentally running up the notes of the musical scale for one or more octaves nd then dividing the total time by the number of notes thought of, the time taken for each note waa of a second. There are various ways of arriving at conclusions as to the amount of time nrcsary for realizing any physical sensation or mental Impression. If the skin be touched repeatedly with light blows from a small hammer a person may, according to Professor Richet, distinguish the fact that the blows are separate and not continuous pressure when they follow one another as as 1 ,000 a second. The smallest intervals of sound can be much better distinguished with one ear than with both. Tims the separateness of Ule clicks nf a revolving toothed wheel was noted by one observer when they did not exceed sixty to the second, but ising both ears he could not distinguish them when they occurred often-e- r than fifteen times a second. The Bharp sound of tho electric spark of an induction coll was distinguished with one ear when the rale was as high as 500 to the second. Sight la much less keen than hearing in distinguishing differences. If a disc half white and half black be revolved. It will appear gray when its revolutions exceed twenty-fou- r per second. It has been found that we can hear far more rapidly than we can count, so that li a movement runs faster than ten to the second wc can count four clicks, while with twenty to the second we can only count two of them. i ' A Washington. D. DcWItt 5 Witch Hazel Salva CartiPIlM, Acildi. BurU ." |