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Show ? MOftOERED BV MISTAKE. f An Extraordinary Story of a Father Ffc. KIIIimI His Son For Anotlier. An extraordinary story is reported from Tarnopol, in Galicia. A peasant aamed Adam Gawrydo, whose property (s in a small village near Zbaraz, is Galicia, nut his own son's thrd it with a kitchen knife by mistake. Sonowcek ago a Hebrew merchant Solomon Barb, bought old Gawrydo's stock of honey nd paid 50 florins in advance to maks the bargain valid. When the time fos delivering the honey camo, the peasan declaied that ho conlduot keep his wore Mid was prepared to pay any damagw to the merchant that the rabbi might decide. They both went to the rabbi, who said the peasant must pay the merchant 10 florins damages. This he did most willingly, and both went away together On the way home they stopped at. away side inn and did not leave it till night. It began to rain, and the peasant asked the merchant to pass tho night in hit house. The merchant accepted, and they went homo together. The peasant prepared a bed of straw in the barn, and when the merchant hud laid down went to his own room after carefully locking tho barn door. This frightened the merchant so muoh that hR got up, fult his way about until ho found a seo ond door, which was bolted from the Inside, loft the barn and started to walk back to -the inn. In the meantime the son of the peasant peas-ant returned home half drunk, and find Ing the barn door open walked in and dropped on the bed of straw prepared for tho" stronger. Ho was soon fast asleep. The merchant on his way to tht Inn met a gendarme, who asked him where he was going so lata Barb told aim all that had happened, and the gendarme, gen-darme, thinking he had & dangerous man before hin who was lying to avoid Hispicion, asked him fo go with him to the peasant's houso. There they found 3awrydo in the act of washing hi hands, which were stained with blood. When he saw them he exclaimed, "Sur lyl killed you an instant ago I" Th gendarme tearohed the house and in the bam found the sou of tho peasant dead, with his throat cut The poasant was Immediately arrested. - Vieona Go woadon News. Almost any kind of fruit cr noirei can be imitated in ice creaui. A cocoa-nut, cocoa-nut, brown, hairy, resting on its broad palm loaf, with little wisps and tendrils of foliage clinging to it, Is so exact a likeness ot tho original in sizo, shape and coloring that one wonders at tho clever deception. A muskmelon, round and fluted, with its rough rind and two or three mutilated leaves attaohed to the stem, is also imitated oloverJy it hapo and coloring. |