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Show Things Quaint end 6urno:i3 Gathered Merc TEnsre j WOMAN FRIEND OF BAILORS. i Mrs." Nancy Role Faitbfully AttencH Li(jhthciis Lumps. When once ii inr !k-l uw I tcndl T t!f'.: hi llui'si'-l off Stony Tolnl nnd H.-n .: nOMiT n man villi 1 siipi.lles. hi! I iii"i Iiv a woman who, j If inn tin' niili M iii:Iii!iiiii. kix'por In I tho soivl.o. I- i.r.l i v in in- II. Sin- Ik Mm. Nhiii lt ami for fitly yam she lm irlimi'i'fl I "1 lamps nf twu llclils on Si., ny point ami M M tin m LEAP OF A LOCOMOTIVE. Marvelous Feflt Recently Performed by Freiu'it tnqlne. A mm vw.ii- I-.it Is nal. I to hnvii been p. i ini iii. i i -'ino yearn a:.i by a fr. ii;li I'M . nr. iin.l It will plolal,.y In' u l.'in; titno h. fin.i such Ui.i.; happens Illlllll. Ai H i- lu. nmollve wit rounding K lu'iul In llii' IIih-, Ii win in liy tho ; ilrluT Unit tin' HWititltr: lirhUi- unr I a 'M mi I Kim open, ninl u rli.ir i up it I ! Stony Point's Two Llghthoutea. burning every night an regularly an tho ami while III river wna Mn. Mra. Hobo recently rounded utit hrr fiftieth year nf llio In llio govern-menl's govern-menl's little n.ilni'p high up on Blony 1'ulnL During Ilial iiiiii aha lina tended tin- lights. Imt fur only forty-flvo forty-flvo years na the ollli'lul light keeper. Klral alio dlil llio work fur her husband, hus-band, t.ho wna npisilutcd keeper lu 11."i2. In isr7 the government put up a bill lower lo worn rlviT crafts dor-Inti dor-Inti fnKa and while at work nn Ita construction Mr. Iloao ruptured a blood vessel, which caused Ills tluatli ala weeks afterward. Mra. Iloao was appolntod to be her husband's successor, but In reality aha only continued thai work Hint alio bad formerly dons and, unices appear- . Th Keeper's Cottage, ances deceive, she will remain In rhari nf tho light until lark of phy-, phy-, ' alral strength makes her rellroinent Imperative. It muat not be auptioaed that 11 vine ' upon Ihe I'olnt mukea Mra. Iloae'a life hinosumo. Hhe haa a pretty little cot tage. aiirmunded by flower beila, with a barn, a Harden and all Hie other country comforts lo bo found In a leHa inoiinialiioiia plaee. To the north uf the cottage, but a few alepa away on slightly higher ground, ainnil the Inrgor lighthouse of Ihe two. white mid solid, on Hie hill top. An flKln h of a mile away, r Indus In-dus friun Ihe edfe of Ihe water. Ii another lower containing a red bea eon llr.lit and a foe horn, llntli lights muat burn all night and every night until the lie go's i thick tlmt even tho hlR river rrnlta llutt bucy inroiigh eight luch Ice haie lo He up for llio wluter. NEW RAPID FIRE CUN. Terribly Detlructlvs Weapon Invented by Cleveland Man. It la belle.eil Hint I tU pc.ferled by I)r. 8. N. ..c("lcuu of Cli eland. and which baa J been liispc.cd by high iilltcluli. of Hie " J hi iny. lb' linllni! Hen. Mile and r' the oriinaiK'o iHiard, will pmvo a lerrlbly dealruc- ordinary alio will y I about from 1,000 Y lo 1,500 bullets Bilnute with an ac- Dr. McClean. turale ranite of be twoen two and three mllea, while the macblno kuii of the ordinary field type thrown Sod one-pound projectiles a niluute with arriirary at a ratiKO of three to live mllea. (liven a kuii of that anrt wllh aWmlulely no recoil which can bo moulted and llred from a rarrlaau with wheela as llliht ss tboae tmcd for a bicycle, the marvelous features of Ihe Invention will he understood. The cartrlilKea are fed lulu the gun from a wheel mai'U.lno. which liirna with each dlm huiKO. Kauh niamiiliie bolda twenty live curtililKcir; and when ono la empty It tuny bo removed. Instantly In-stantly and replaced by one thai la full without seriously Interrupting; the action ac-tion of tho gun. la Without a Country. Capt. Henry Miii-iiiuiluke. a son of former Gov. .Mm-niadiike of Mlhaoiirl, la now a man without a country. He ave up his United Htatea rlil.eiialilp to tnka part lu a recent revolution In Bouih Amerlra. which failed, so now lis la not a cltlron of any land, lie Is Id business In Bt. Louis. Grandnleca of Btechar an Actress. Mra. Isabel Ileecher Alln-rt. a crund lilsco of Henry Ward lleecher, baa Jimt narle her appearance on the lociure platform. twent) i lclil feet In) lu fore Ihe loco-tnotlve. loco-tnotlve. There wna no time to atop the enutiie. wli!rh wna tilivellnK at nlioiit lltty-nliie mllea an hour, ami the only tiling for tho men on the footplate? foot-plate? to do waa to Jump. The driver and the ntnlter Jumped and wore killed. The Inriimotlve alao Jumped, and, atrnuite to any, kindeil anlely, tliuiinh much bailored and disabled, on tbe other side. To IIiIn day no KntlHfiirtnry explanation expla-nation has ever been offered to account ac-count fur the lunit Jump uf the locomotive, locomo-tive, and It can only ke said. In partial explanation, that tho euulno'a momentum momen-tum must have I a ao great that It had. to a certain extent, overcome Ita own Ireinetiiloiia weight and the natural laws of Kravliatlnn, and mado It for the moment a free nKcut that did, until llio epeed waa alackelied, literally fly through sauce. How oth erwlee could It without the Icaat aup. port, have passed tbrouh auch a great apace? BURIAL OF CANINE ACTOR. Dog. Given Honorable Interment In New York Cemetery. After playltiK on tho atuKe before the crar of Ituasla. Ihe empress of China, tho mikado of Japan and oth ers leas notable, Tytaa, a great Dane doK. haa been hurled with honors In New York's iIiik cemetery at Scars-dsle. Scars-dsle. Ills body lay' In a rosewood renin, tbe head on a pillow of flow ers, and was followed to the cemetery by nine automoblli-a, containing forty niournurs. Tyraa waa 13 years old and belonged be-longed to an actor. Ho bad appeared on the ataae In nearly every country uf tbe world. He had been twlco around the ghihe, and at the time of death wore a beautiful collar given to hi in by ('cell Ithoilea. Ten years alio Trlnce Cliailea of Jicnmark gave Hie dug to the ai-ior, who lmicion aied "great men of the pust and present." pres-ent." The acinr al'uiys had the dog by bis slilo In hla liniierwinnttou of llisninrck. as Ittavinn k lor yeura waa always aii-ompuuli-d by bis reli-htv himil. While reiurnliig fiom Australia (ant Jiiruiiiry wllh hla master Ihe dog bo-came bo-came blind as the ship crossed tho equator. Arriving lu New York ho was taken to a dog hospital, where he died of ItrlKlil's disease. A large granite iimnuinenl wrtl mark Tyraa last rcHtlng place. Submarlps Telephonea. A year or an aKii when I'rnf, IMipln's luventliiu of a eiHtcui of liuluctuuce i ooiN l.y wl.ic'i . -i'i cililes coilH t"' tni:-.:,f..'niii (1 iui.i t -l..i...-.l- Ht .01 ' ! ni.;.n I .' .1. n .r l.i .'.I litly tliotts'll I '.hnt t.iil.iii.- H i -s in" Aim tic woi-.I.: n ., r.c. k,-., ,! !....! f..d I It';! tl.e !,.: ol ,- ; an. I ti chulcl! i.::m ili..'i . i m i.i i.u- na-. In lb I n. :;..-. I., ..--r. It In r.-i it; ! II. :it I'., i im i i . w Ini hate ac- J illil...i l.;..th Ii, I.' II1V. 1. 1 mil till I t !" ! :pli- ' btw.v p .illU mi II.- : . i:i" M. I.h i r.i i-. in. t;.e l-l lie Ii"'! ' N.'llll tills. Illrect , lei' ;.:,"! in. 1.11, III. I lliill III ! II , II I llll 111.. I I IM II. .111.1 Itelltn, I'.ipcll- I .'ii nr. I Si Im by tbe Mil nf I tills ..!. 1,1 I SI . I lli-.!r,l 11 a feai-lblo. HAS BEtN CHILO ;N'3 FRIEND. Splendid Record r.'i.ide by Mra. E. C Picki rt cf St. Louis. Mrs. I-:. ('. I li U.il if St. Lnula has bail ilian:e. iliii.nn l.fi.-. n ycilia. nl I in. Mil clill.lr. n Will, llll, rei-er.1. C-X alio rellrin Imiiii f v the s,s,l,o or ma- f-rt i trim of the South JJ Klilo liny nuisery . I In l.ouls. An V-v''""V fa Intercsllng fm-l Is ' '"V; , ; A thai she illi-np- ft .--V. ', I proves of whip- ',', V '.' l'l ring. K-'V f When It la con- 1 L'J) slilered that none f of tho clillilren In Mrs. Plcksrt. her care hud paasril I'm sro of sli years, and Hint the majority ramrod In age from three week to four years', the prodigious lurk that Mra. Plrkert accomplished can he readily appreciated, appreciat-ed, mill a young woman she doss not look a duy over 40 Mrs. lickart relinquishes her arduous duties lo confine her attention to the proud d velopnient of her only aon now bright young man nf 111 years. All of Mia thuusmiiL ol clillilren that Mrs. l'U kni t csied for as only a wots an and a mother can. were boused front tlmo to time In tli building it llill South Tenth street, the conimnci ous home of tbe South Side IH! nursery. The object of tho nurserj waa and Is to rare for the small rail-dren rail-dren of mothers who are forced to earn a llvellhisid for themselvea ar.d rhllilreii, and also for tho children of widowers. New and Useful. .' The buoy for awlmmlns; and usn. life saving, here Illustrated, la rr.i'r I a loag tube of India-rubber with roiiiril ends, which can be IliHated by Ul mouth In leas than a niluuto, ami IS Tht Serpentina Buoy, tlii'n won in I uliout Iho tioily Ktt aliowti It In nine fMt ImiR. but v.-ry tiitn, thu foci n k eaMlly ctrrliMl in tho iKx:kiit. It j lina thp tlvuntnn at not inipi'tl !np rifftpliHtion, ninl tiu nvn rvvomnwni tt I tor iih4 In (hu Krt'm b wliiimlDtV' tliouli. OrriU Ilrituln Ih thin yiur provltljnp for th tntiHtiuitlon nf tliro Ki"1 ' VCMnell of IS. Olio tniit: (1 (pln oiiM'llt, or 2.iMio ituiu mure than tl Iuiku voi-olfl voi-olfl con nr. 'UK Iiuh JtiHt autliorltl. |
