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Show X JJ- GAME OF MONSTER FOUND ON CHILISCOAST HOW HANDS UP! A MAN FEELS STAR1NQAT A REVOLVER. buMIni of Ou of foant; Hm 1b b Otnblltl Rosb, Who Wr Held Op ky Tbraa DHprniduw Mooiuod Partlyuil, This remarkable fossil wsb discov- phibian animal, a cross between a lizAug. 26, 1&99, at Caldera, a sea- ard and an alligator. Its length is 26 in Chili, by Arthur MacKenzte, feet 11 inches. The head is 9 feet long and has been shipped to the capital, and the tali' Is 14 feet 11 inches. Across Valparaiso. Evidently it is the petri- the back It measures 9 feet 9 Inches. fied carcass of some prehistoric am The fossil Is firmly petrified, and is ered port coated with stone. It was laid barer by an uncommonly low tide, prhlch washed away the sand by which the carcass had been covered, perhips, for centuries. The find was repoiW.d to the Intendente, Senor Carlos hayago, THE THINNEST MAN. Weighed MINIATURE Pound But Forty-Fi- v Wore Pmdded Clothing. Instances of remarkably are not uncommon, but LAW BREAKERS thin men Claude Am-brot- se Seurat, who was exhibited in 1825, was such an extraordinary personage that no less than 70,000 persons Seurat visited him in a few weeks. was born in 1797, and was, therefore, 28 years of age when he made his apMr. Astley freak." pearance as a Cooper, the famous physician, was among the throng who poured into the building in which Seurat received those who were anxious to see him, and in writing of which, said: Seurat Is without doubt the most mysterious His face being I have encountered. is that of an ordinary mansomewhat emaciated, perhaps, but nut remarkably so. His eyes are bright, and his voice pleasing. Seen in the ordinary costume of the day, he in no way differs from the average foreigner. But stripped of his padded clothing, he presents an astounding spectacle. His arms were mere bones covered by parchment-lik- e skin, and muscle and flesh he appears to have none. He Is therefore scarcely able to move his arms and legs, and walks, though without apparent effort, with extreme On meastlrlng hlTfi and difficulty. weighing him I found that his chest measurement was 30 inches, which Is fair; that hls weight waa not more than 45 pounds, the bones being much smaller than those of an ordinary man of hla stature, who might weigh 150 pounds. In appearance. Indeed, he so much resembles a skeleton that a shortsighted person might easily misSeurat's food contake him for one. sisted of two or three ounces of bread and meat dally, and sometimes he took a little wine. He was remarkably Intelligent and well read, and picked On arriving at up English rapidly. places where he was not known he waa accustomed to walk out in his padded clothes, and did not attract any attention. He said that particular until the age of ten years he resembled any ordinary boy, but that he suddenly wasted away. He died in 1849, aged 52 years. Interminable 8traggt, "Do you know, said a girl I know across a supper table to me night he-to- m Utr I ahull noth when I die to find that the dead are Just as busy staying dead as we are living and that they dread coming to life as much as we do dying? I dare say they have to work day and night to stay dead and that all the time they are haunted by the horrible thought that if they make failures of themselves they'll starve to life. What do you think? Washington Post. Here are two children, whose aggregate ages would not equal 6 years, Bewho are already hold them defying the law, represented by David Chalker, the largest policeman in Jackson, Mich. Verne A. Trask and hls sister, Mar- - When Miss Marjorie had attained to the formidable age of 16 months she waa made the proud possessor of a tandeha, and a very peifect tandem it is. The machine weighs 16Vi pounds, has a frame, wheels, and Is geared to 29. This seems rather 12-ln- ch Wbal Crowd ' that it was safe he turned and found the robbers gone. . Ha picked up q heavy chair and threw it throqgh thd window. It carried the sash with fit and the crash that followed attracted general-attenti- on in the street tyelow. The proprietor put hls head out fiTThf window and profanely shoute such details of the hold-u- p as might put th people in the street on the track of th robbers. It was useless, however. Th fellows walked out quietly, took off their masks and .disappeared without leaving any clue. We all plied out ol the place to aid the search. When w found out a chase was hopeless most ol us came back to the gambling room to talk It over. When we entered th place we found the Chink standing la the ruins of hls glasses with hls hand still above hls head. The proprietor told him to take his bands down. Th Chink wouldnt do lt.and two men who pulled bis arms to bis sides bad all they could do to hold him. Ha had looked In the big barrel of one of thos If yon will take my word for a little experience I had recently perhaps 1 can make it clear to you how it is possible for three bad men to hold up a room full of fairly brave men and get away sarely with their money, sai4 a merchant from the state of Washington. I was in such a hoid-u- p not long ago and I have ceased Jeering at fellows ho have been through similar experiences. I waa one of seventy men who were held up in a big gambling hall, and as I am not a regular patron of such places I kept quiet about it at home. The gambling house is one of the best known in the West, and on the it was filled with night of the hold-u- p a representative crowd. A search would have disclosed the fact, undoubtedly, that many of the men present were armed. No trouble in recent years has occurred in this place, and there was no reason to anticipate any. It was nearly midnight when the door opened end three men, masked, and and it was brought ashore in sections, each holding two revolvers, entered under his supervision. Then it was the room. " Hands up quick, shouted the forephotographed. The picture presented Is the first published in the tutted most man. I was sitting at a faro table when 1 States. Washington Correspondent of heard this command, and as I looked the Nfew York Sun. up I found a revolver pointing straight at my head. When I compared notes cer. It may be well to add that they with the other seventy-od- d men later 1 are both bona fide amateurs. New found that each one had the same exEngland Home Magazine. perience. There were only six revolvers, and yet each man in the room C.afmMd HU IfDortnM. was willing to swear that one of them Augustus Birrell tells of a delightful was pointed at hls head all the time. Incident that occurred at the JohnThe crowd waa simply paralyzed with WITH HIS HANDS STILL ABOVE! son Club," which meets four times a frghL For two or three seconds not a HIS HEAD. a man moved. Then over la one corner year at the "Old Cheslre Cheese, house in Wine Office a Leadvllle sport brought hls hand small revolvers, and he hadnt for-- 1 court, London, Just out of Fleet stieet, around to reach for his hip pocket gotten it. " 'Stop that or I'll shoot. said one and where its members dine and talk Now, this was an actual experience. and explore the mind of their hero. of the masked men, covering him with If I were mixed up in an affair of that Dr. Samuel Johnson, says the Buffalo hls revolver. Hands up, now, quick! sort again I would raise my arms Just Commercisl. At one of these dinners We mean business.' as quickly. It waa expediency and not there happened to be present Bonnor, Every man in the room did bold a yellow streak that mad th crowd i the famous Australian cricketer, who hla hands up. There was no hesita- act as it did." until that to the company confessed tion then. It was my first experience that evening he had never heard of Dr. in that kind of game, hut It was not Chlldrem. ' "" The Father of Samuel Johnson. Mr. Birrell says that until I was able to take my hands down The man who Is pointed out as th at this wimwine Uttered, Whereupon that 1 realised how tlrssomethe operation father of' the largest family on Bonnor,-th- e bearded, -- the terrific, war. There we stood, each man American continent lives In th valley -clear-eye- d, drew himself up to his full with hls bands stretched high above of the Yelthe south Snake of river, bight Of six feet, and said: Tea; and his head, when an outcry would bring lowstone National park, and In the exwhat la more, I come from a great help at once. It was a pretty sure treme western part of Wyoming, and country where you might ride a horse thing, however, that no one would hla name is Heber Ricks. He ie d, a day for three months, make the outcry. The thres masked sixty-mil- es unusual attract not and would and never meet anybocy who bad. But men had eyes for every move, and attention were it not for his reputation, I have heard of him now, and can only their revolvers pointed all way at aa a d 8lxty-l- x man, aay, that were I not Bonnor, the once. It is easy for a man who has children have been born in hie family. cricketer, I would be Samuel John- - not been through such an experience to Hls grandchildren at latest report son! suggest that If several men had Only number 218 with several precincts yet mads a break these fellows would have to be heard from. Th valley ot th WbbSbbS. GeatfaMS rua. I can honestly aay that tha Snake is pretty much settled up with, Th I grew the more I revere barrel of tb revolver into which 1 members of the Ricks family, and A good-nesgoodness Jum plain, every-da- y looked seemed to me to be as large as a having nothing herolcal nor sewer pipe. I even thought that "1 town called Ricksvill has been estabspectacular la it, for 1 think this la could see the eifd of the bullet, and I lished, named after th venerable piothe gift of which God has been the was awfully afraid that the man who neer. least prodigal. Intelligence without held the revolver might get nervous Sk.l.ona of Shlpwroekod Crtwa goodness may mean nothing higher and shoot me by accident' I tried to than a prize fighter, but goodness with look pleasant to appease him. All this Divers made a gruesome find recentstrength and intelligence makes a man had taken perhaps a minute and a half ly in the waters of the Atlantic near as be was created to be an image of when the spokesman shouted to us: Montauk Point, L, I. Clinging to the rigth pooheadk- - The moat symmetrical ... ,Llne up against that , wall with ging of two wrecked coasting school-er- a man of this century waa Mr. Oladston they dlscovereif several' skeleton your backs to toe, and the man' who and his moral nature was as tweet and takes hlshand down will get shot of the crewa. The vessels at the botwholesome as hls Intellect and body Quick, now, gentlemen, if you please. tom of the ocean are the Howard H, were strong. In mind, in heart. In Obey orders, and you wont get hurt' Hanscom of New Haven and the James aoul, in everything but physique and "We lined up as directed, like a lot of B. Pace, which went down in a colinches, he was a giant. But the sa- school boys. lision off Montauk Point In the storm " Now, then, my friend here will re- of November, 1898. The wreck wer lient feature in Gladstone's character, and what lifts him above every conlieve you of your valuables without dangerous to navigation, and it waa temporary, waa hla moral earnestness. your assistance,' said the spokesman. while examining them that divers He was s good man, and hls religious Don't move, because there are two found the skeletons lashed to th rifi- -. convictions formed the warp and woof dead shots behind you. Keep quiet glng or to the rails The government of his nature.Woman's Home Companand it will soon be over.' will take steps to rescue the remains ion. "It was a very cool piece of work, I by the aid of divers and turn them can assure you. One of tne three went over to relatives for Christian burial- Rnl ruhtoDlbl. right straight down the row, taking He From Puck: It was the first time each man's watch and money. had seen ever a with bull a porothy A diabolical outragy has just taken ls she Mamma, ring in his nose. place in a district, ordering on the la whet an Fityteglyf jttt new British opposRr Iftntg--- J unbecoming place he wears his Jewkong, A gang of rifflans kidnapped a elry." yeary of age, and sent a' . boy about r message to demanding a , At th Clmn ransom quite beyond th latter' means The Clown !ollnow, Jump! This and which' lie said he could not pay, is as encore! The Dbg An encore, The gangbellevjng that he could raise ' eh? Why, I begin to think Im worth th monojr If he wished, sent a further -three bones a week more than any dog threatening message to the effect that In the troupe! Puck. if the money were forthcoming by tha time specified, the boy would b returnedyo him in pickle. The money , not being paid, they actually carried, out the threat, and returned the dead body, of top son to hls father in a cask of brine. Bteak-and-ch- ' .th, gray-haire- much-marrie- A CORPOREAL CONTRAST. The smallest scorchera and the largest policeman la the United States. jorie Trask, are the youngest tandem country,- - and, jierhap in . the world. Verne Is three years and a half old, and hls sister Is 21 months Every day for fifteen minutes these two amateurs mount their tandem and increase the tally on their cyclometer; Sundays they are allowed to ride three or four miles. At the age of 2 Master Trask test began to ride, a single wheel of about twenty-fiv- e gear being hla mount. ridereis tbia small, but it well suited to Us riders, and ty see them spinning along, whjst- ling and singing, one would suppose that they had been riding for many yean. A snap-sh- ot of these two young law- breakers shows them in the act of trying to escape from an officer. They seem to be unconscious of the fact that they are liable to arrest oh two charges; first, tor riding on the sidewalk, and, second, for resisting an offi ex-C- h4 hls-fathe- STATISTICS OF CRIMINALS cmmAL5 CRIMINALS BY JiATlYlTLES imrsons out of everr 8 000 men, women .ana c uc - nU( . h ,, J , States are eith or are fugitives from . Justice. - xneir total number Is 90.000 out of a PPU l&tkm estimated at, 70000,000. American women make an excellent rather, lack of showing In crime statistics. Only t per cent of all those who have fallen foul of the . . law are women. The sex is most prominent In what are known aa crime against society,ofIncluding bigamy. To this class of ' PAUPERS PAUPER5 BY tiATNlTlti fenders it contributes 25 per cent of States Is Interesting, It Is surprising to find that less than fi per cent of all , totaK -- The total number of crime commi- t- prisoners are colored-- - Foreigners are te(j against the person, running the much more numerous in the criminal whole gamUl man assault do murder, - courts, 20 per cent,, perhaps, while-?5.- -, are 20 per nt 0f the total of crime per cent are native. It 5a recorded that of tha total insan committed tri lha country, T per cent are Against society are 25 per cent of all 'in the- United States th CTjmea punished In the United colored, 28 per cent are foreigner and course gtates, while 10 per cent are tniscel- - 66 per cent are natives. Thia of of janeous one which it la Impossible to does not mean that the number to in proportion classify. The proportion of the natives to the to the population. Judged on tM ot native insane foreign classes and to the colored class basis the percentage Is than smalls the foreigner United in among the th prisoner am0ng - ' lnn Pter IN5MZ BY rfAWlTIES f colored people, In sex there la ost no difference, the women out- numbering the men so slightly that tho difference, Is scarcely appreciable, In th pauper .ward, the relation of classes la very different. But 60 per of the total number of paupers are or strives, while 41 per cent are era and I per cent ere colored. The re Outnumbered by the men i the asylumi throuabout the country V ratio of 44 to 56. . ne insane com in large proportion from country regions. In spite of the quiet, monotonous life. ur foreign-showing- THE BARREL SEEMED AS LARGE AS A SEWER PIPE, didnt get fts much as he expected, and as near as we could estimate later the total haul waa under 15,000. There was over $100,000 in the safe which tbs robbers overlooked. When we had been cleaned out the spokesmha said: 'Now, - gentlemen... we are .sorry to Inconvenience you further, hut we shall have to request you to stand Just as you are for five minutes more. Don't cut the time short or you will get hurt The side door- opened at thie in stant and we heard tbeorder'Hand up. dead man.1 It was Chink, or. ons of our Chinese servants who Was returning with s tray filled with drinks. He promptly dropped the trsy, smashing all the glasses, and threw np his bands. We heard no other sound for five- minutes. Each man counted the seconds to make sure that he' shouldn't - take down his hands ahead of time. The proprietor was th first man to move. As soon as he felt A kf.VBOBI.Bt to B PI. Luneberg, in Hanover, has 'the distinction of beln' the first town in th world to erect a lubnument in memory of a pig. In the Hotel de Ville there is a mausoleum containing a costly glass structure, inclosing a ham aUlt in a state of good preservation. Above there is a slab upon which i written in golden letters a Latin inscription, which may be translated aa follows;. "Passers by, contemplate here the mortal remaJnA.oL.the. pig which acquired for itself Imperishable glory by the dls- covery of the salt springs of Luna berg." -- -- - Th Cultar.4 R. 1 M a. The Indians had bound their captive to; th stake;-when-t- he eonventibaal happy thought struck the latter: "If you calculate the parallax to the forty-thir- d decimal place, that the eclipse does not take place until the day after tomorrow." Saying which, for these simple children of the forest were all graduates of the governmen. schools, they proceeded with thotr harbsrta slaughter. -- 4 |