Show irish harvester my curse la on the harvest fields the miles on golden ml es that wl ed av ay my lover out of the achill islai lie sailed across to england och weary on the wl eat it put the hw saw my dermot s feet along tle engligh uplands eath the softening sur there are so many reapers that ahby might spare me one in the windy isles 0 achill I 1 loved him loy and man but nancy smiles at him and what Is irish nan I 1 am a shadow in a rain wept land alone A voice tor his forgetting a face forgot like a poppy in tl e cornfield her feet tread down my grief and she takes his love and binds it in the gold gaits of her nora chesson in london sketch weird cold weather story oscar bilte of le sueur minn met with a most remarkable re bently that very nearly cost him his life with his rifle in hand he was at tempting to get within range of a cat he desired to shoot when the animal ran up into the framework supporting the water tank standing directly beneath the cat walte shot straight up at it carp ess ly forgetting the tact that the tante was within range the bullet 1 llred the cat and pierced the bottom of the tank and in an instant the water gushing out sur rounded mr walte with a complete shower bath in a temperature of 35 degrees below beio instantly his overshoes froze to the stone foundation on which he was standing and stooping to unbuckle them he was chained by the spray freezing in the terrible cold as fast as it fell into a helpless of ice stiff and immovable as a stone only by bis stooping costura which 1 ept his face tree from the ice was he saved from suffocation soon the flow of the water was stopped by the sediment of the tank flowing into the bullet role and a little son of mr walte who had seen the whole affair ran tor assistance it was necessary to loosen the anfor dunate mans feet with chisels and when he had been carried into the house by three strong men the ice had to be brol en from him with clubs he was badly frightened by the experience but otherwise unharmed the body of the cat was found frozen to hia back pioneer press she has right to damages what compensation can be made to a woman who after being engaged tor a quarter of a century Is finally jilted by the man ho had won her maiden affections the jury the other day assessed it at accoo miss ellza dawes of manchester Manc iester angland sued william drown for breach of promise she is now forty six and ho is fifty two she was a girl of eighteen when brown won her heart and two years later they became engaged drown promising to wed her aa soon as his mother died an event which was shortly expected but mrs brown per aisted in living on until two years ago then the marriage was set for march 1902 to brown however the idea of marriage seemed to have lost its charm for suddenly he sailed tor america and there became en to a young woman so the first and faithful betrothed believed it her duty to institute proceedings against the fickle brown especially as she had during the twenty six years refused tour other offers of marriage the mud of patagonia A scientist exploring patagonia says the of pata conlan mud Is p you can not walk through it and it takes a sturdy mule to carry you through more often than not it Is caused by the of a tailless rat known as the bucu tucu bucu tucu ares A res upon acres amounting to square miles even ot otherwise sound and wholesome ground are undermined by this inde fatigable little pest he holds the country as nothing else ho ds it until the advent of the sheep or cattia which he hates induces him to shift the scenes of his nightly labors enterprising highwayman years ago the grandfather brand father of the present lord Tan kerville was puzzled by the distressed condition of his horses in their stables of morning As he was talking the matter over with lord derby one night while they drove across putney heath a highway man approached the occupants of the coach kept up a fight as long aa their ammini ion lasted but in the end lord derby popped a white hand kerchief through the window under this flag of truce the robber approach ed it was lord Tan kerville s head groom mounted on his lordship s best hunter rals ns as a hat decoration A hat decoration in new york was discovered to be bunches of kalsons as flat as they bad just come from a grocer box the grayish purple hue and crinkled sur face of the ral in were found by the artistic milliner to be just the thing tor gathered velvet bats in shades 0 mauve and plum where the orfil nal grape would be altogether too glaring the raisins were combined with a foliage of gray receda velvet bricks a dangerous carso brici s are capable of about a pint of water each owing to this circumstance the captain ot I 1 a ship that carries a cargo of bricks has to be careful that a leakage boeri not go undetected the water being sucked up nearly as fast as it beti in had busy fall and winter mrs nat Littler eld of village N who h to years old has spun the yarn and knit more than fifty pairs of double mittens I 1 esl les doing the family knitting this tall and biln ter wilt be solid mass of salt A german geologist estimates that the dead sea will be ne masv nt sol d salt within less than |