One Cent.
_~lb.~:qulrI_i/ Independent.
.FRIDAY, JANUARY, )3, 1801.
THE NEWS 01" '1'0- DA 1’.
Foreign.~~The Bishop of Cork re-
fused to allow the Parnellite Mayor of
that city to be installed in the Cathe-
dral; the Parnellites were extremely
indignant; it is said that Mr. O’Brien
has cabled Mr. Dillon that Parnell may
retire in favor of O’Brien.—- “lTewYear’s
receptions wef'e held by President Car-
not, Emperor IVilliam and King Hum-
bert.~Germany took possession of her
new territory on the African Coast.»—
Dr. Koch was recalled to Berlin.
Domestic—New Year’s receptions
were given by the President and at the
houses of other prominent Government
officials at Wasliington.>—-It is rumored
at Pine Ridge Agency that General
Brooke has been relieved of his com-
mand and ordered home; General Miles
will take command in person.~A fire
did some damage to the fine house
owned by Mr. Blaine in Washington.—-~
A fire in Clinton State Prison did $175,-
000 damage—The Memorial Church
of Corpus Christi, in Baltimore, was
consecrated by Cardinal Gibbons.—~A
snow storm is raging in the West.
N. Y. City.—New York city officials
took charge of their departments.——A
warm wave, bringing fog and rain,
reached the city.—Four young men
tried to take away a knife. from a
drunken German in the street, and all
were badly cut. —-A woman was thrown
from the window of a tenemcnt-house
and killed.
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H'ASIII'NG TON .\'U'I'I'.'.’~'.
’l’he ly‘Ia-ction Bill Discussion.
WASHINGTOX, D. 0., Jan. ,‘3.~«The af-
ternoon session of the Senate yesterday
was given up to a discussion of the
Elections bill. Mr. George of Missis-
sippi spoke for four hours against the
bill.
He got along pretty well until he at-
tempted to compare the constitution of
Mississippi with those. of Connecticut
and Vermont to the disparagement of
the latter. Then it was that the St.
Jerome of the Senate and the old war-
rior from the Nutmeg state, turned
upon the Mississippian. General Haw-
ley had sat for a half-hour listening to
a mass of misstatements concerning the.
qualifications of voters in Connecticut.
In the midst of a savage attack upon
the constitution of Connecticut, George
was interrupted by General Hawlev.
who said:
“The senator has become so accus-
tomed to the habit of slavcholders
alone voting in the South that he
seems to be ignorant of what the term
freeman means.‘ (Laughton) He
- charges that none but freemen can
vote in New England. \Vell, the term
freeman with us is synonymous with
voter: it excludes no citizen from vot—
ing.”
Mr. George finally dropped the free-
man argument and gave his attention
to the state law, whereby, unless a
Connecticut governor is elected by a
majority over all, the legislature
chooses that officer.
“This bill provides that elections
shall be decided by a majority of the
people of Connecticut as well as Missis—
sippi, ”but said Gen. Hawley: “lVouldu’t
that seem strange in your state?"
Senator George then turned toward
Senator Edmunds and tried to crush
the constitutiOn of Vermont, as he had
hoped to smash that of Connecticut,
but the Green Mountain statesman did
his antagonist up in short order.
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All Shake Hmuls with 1111'. «.an .llrs. Hurri-
smi (If the "Wife House.
WASHINGTON. Jan. :2.——The President
and Mrs. Harrison yesterday shook
hands with fifteen hundred school
teachers from New York, Brooklyn
and New England cities. The lady vis-
itors were especially charmed with
Mrs. Harrison,, and many murmurs of
admiration escaped their lips on retir-
ing iTom the White House. In the af-
tel‘nOOn Secretary Tracy, too, had a
hand-‘~‘11\al{i11,c;bce, as several hundred
Brooklyn school mistresses at the. Navy
department. The party returned to
NEW York ilk, night
.1) EA '1'" 01" u ENERJ 1. SP! .«v.v1;1:.
JACKSONYJLLE, Fla, Jan. fit—Gener-
81F, 13- Spinner ex-treasurer of the
United States, dial at 8. 30 \Vednesday
evening. General Spinner was born
in German Flats (new Mohawk. N, Y. j
i111803- He “119811 1\ctive republican
from theformation of the party and
was made treasurer duriwg- the Lincoln
administration. holdingbmce frmn
March 16, 1861, to June 30,1375.
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('UNNEC’I' I (1 UT 1' IL'1\'N:;;:~.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. its-Orig-
inal invalid, Newton A. Roberts. A11-
sonia;Jamcs Collins, New Havm; J_
A. Leete, Guilford; Charles F. Dun—
ning, Bridgeport. Increase, T. L.
\Vard, VVillimantic: R. M. Beckwiwj,
Lyme: Benjamin Porter, Hartford
lVilliam E. Moore, Woodstock. Re-
issue. and increase. Hildebrand, Nor-
vwich.
mum}; 1N am. I;I:A.I'Nla"h' "01's H.
‘lVAsummTON, I). C.. Jan. 2.~-—A
blouse belonging to Mr. Blaine in the
morthwesterpjpart of the city was on
fire- to-day. The house is leased to
MT. Letter of y-Chicago. The flames
were brought under control soon after
discovery.
DAILY - NORW’ALK. - GAZETTE.
|_.\’e'/'w'rl l".3(‘lll.s'il.’f_"l/1' m the Daily
Abrzeulk Gucci/(1|
ATcnINsox, KAN., Jun. BIL—The street-
cars in this city have been tied 24 hours by
the snow. In niany places in the city the
streets are. covered to a depth of two feet.
It snowed hard all last night and there are
no signs ofabalcmenl. I1. is the most se-
vere storm in years Reports from Empo—
ria, Wichita, Newlon. and olher places in
state, show that a blanket of snow averng
ing two feet. deep covers the ground.
Naw HAVEN. Foss, Jan. 2 ,—Serge:1nt
Cox of the United States Signal Station pre-
dicts for the twenty-four hours beginning :11
S u. in. to-day: ruin followed on Snmrday
by clearing weather and :1 cold wave.
WATEuuuuv, CoNN., Jun; 2.——A book-
keeper employed at. Apothecary Hall, \Vu-
terbury, was found dead in his room, on
Platt avenue, this morning. Death was
caused by suffocation, deceased having left
the gas in his room turned on. Deceased
was 36 years of age and leaves :1 wife and
two children. He came from Ansonia two
years ago.
New HAvnu, Come. sz. 2d.——A house
belonging to Edward Lownce, New Haven,
was destroyed by lire this morning. The
fire started from an accidental igniting of a
Christmas tree.
NEW YORK, JAN. 2<l.—'l‘he Pope receiv-
ed 0. novel present from the. Queen of Spain
in the shape of a walking slick. When His
Holiness look hold of the git". it. scattered
cains at his feet.
NEW Youk, Jun. 2d.—London, England
is shrouded in a very dense fog.
Despalchcs state that the Thames river is
rapidly rising, and the people fear that. it
will overflow and do great damage.
James II. IIubbell, paper manufacturer of
Norwich, was buried 10-day. He, leaves
$54,000,000 to his wife and One son.
‘ NEWIIAvEE, lonn., Jan. 2,—A heavy
bank of fog overhung the. waters of this
harbor this morning and also the. bigges‘:
portion of Long Island Sound, materially
increasing the dangers of navigation in the
Sound. The steamer John ll. Slarin,ex-
peeled here at 4 a. 11).. did not arrive lill
noon." A large number of sailing vessels
came intothe harbor to escape the dangers
of the Sound;
- Two collisions on the elevated rail-
road in New York occurred to-day,
by which a fireman named l)e\Vitt Kel-
logg had both legs and an arm cut off.
A.-- —— ~- -,.‘, ,.-,_ AW.
THE OLD sOLDiEsis NEW YEAR'S;
“Thank God!” said the car driver, earn-;
cstly, as the great church bell, three orj
four blocks away, struck the midnight!
hour on New Year’s eve.
“What for?” asked the passenger who.
stood muffled up on the front platform,.
puffing at a short pipe. There had been
no conversation, and the driver’s pious'
ejaculation seemed to have startled him.
The driver looked around, doubtfully.’
It seemed as if he wanted to speak,.and.
yet hesitated to talk to a. stranger. The-
other smoked onin silence.
“It always makes me glad,” said the!
driver after a long pause, “when another
year goes by. I don’t know but what I’d
fight as hard as the next man for my life if‘
I had to. It’s natural, I suppose. Every-
body hatcs the notion of dying when it
comes to the pinch; but after all it’s
mighty comforting to know that you’ve
got one less year 0’ this to go through.”
Then he stopped, and the passenger wait-
ed a little. Finding the driver had stopped
he said between puffs, “Don’t find it worth
while, eh?”
“Yes, I do,” rctorted the driver half an-
grily. “I don’t rightly know howto ex-
plain it, but maybe you’ll know what I
mean if you were in the army. Did 5"
ever go through a big battle?”
The passenger nodded, and the driver
continued: “Well, then, p’raps you’ve felt
like you’d be glad when ’twas over. You
warn’t afraid exactly, and you thought it
was worth while to keep on fightin’ under
orders, and you had no thought 0’ runnin’,
but all the time you kept thinkin’ how
hard it was and how you hated to keep on.
And‘when you noticed how the sun was
goin’ down in the afternoon you thought?
how pleasant ’twould be to wrap yourself;
up in your old blanket, and lie down on
the ground and sleep and dream about the
folks at-home.”
Another nod and another pause.
“Things is a. good deal like that with
me,” continued the driver, ina voice that
was not exactly sad, and yet had no ring
of hope or gladness in it. “I’m a drivin'
up and down this blessed old road thirteen
hours a day, and makin’ just enough
money to keep th’ old woman and me from
bein’ hungry or cold. There don’t seem to
be anything in it, does there? And yet it.
is worth while in one way. I ain’t exactly
religious. You wouldn’t think I was to
hear me cuss sometimes, but I learned in
the army that nothin’ gives a. feller so
much satisfaction as helpin’ somebody else
that’s in trouble, and that’s come to be a.
sort 0’ religion with me. SO I jog along,
getting what satisfaction I can out of it
all, but desperate tired of the whole busi-
ness. '
“And when I look around and see other
men it’s like the army again. The officers
get more pay and better rations and better
clothes, and some of ’cm ride horseback,
instead 0’ carryin’ a knapsack and gum:
but after all they’re all doin’ about the
same work, and there’s mighty few of "6111
that would be missed much if they was
killed.
“Of course, there was a time when I
didn’t feel that way. ’Tain’t natural for a
young man to feel the same as an old fel..
low like me, and I was as spirited and
lively as any 0’ the other boys. but I’ve
had my day.
"I s’pose a man feels different, too, when
he’s get children of his own growin’ up
around him. Me and th’ old woman are
all there is left now, and we hain’t neither
of us goin’ to last much longer. I’dbe
sorry to go and leave her if I thought she’d
have much longer to wait before we’d be
' all together again, but I know she’d foller
me pretty soon if it come my time, and,
stranger, I have a powerful longin’ once in
awhile to see my boy an’ girl again. I
don’t think that’s cowardice, is it? You
know an, old soldier would hate to has
coward. no matter what might come to
him. We’ve all got to stay under orders
a; long as the. Commander-in—chief wants
“1" an’ I’m willin’ to stay here andpeg
”‘W‘w the best I know as long as he says.
"he same, I’ll be glad enough when
mi: “he comes.
A3 '~ said, it’s the children, after all,
that males all the difference. If you’ve
ever had ‘hildrcn of your Own, stranger.
and kn°WPwhat it'was to lose ’em”—-
The an“! looked: around, but all he
saw was his hssengerjumping off the car.
Dava. CURTIS. ‘
tunnecliculllusleleglams."
SOUTH .NORU'AL'K.
Thomas Benedict of East Norwalk,
has purchased a new 25-foot naptha
launch, which is to grace our harbor
lie 1 the coming summer. This will
male. 3. naptha fleet of four in the bar-
bor. , .
Bennie Joyce, an apprentice in Sol-
man’s hat shop, was severely burned a
day or two ago, through the fault of
one of those. idiotic practical jokers.
He brought a scuttle of coal to put in
the finishing room furnace and left it a
I . . . .
few minutes while attending to some
more urgent duty, and the joker ex-
changed the scuttle for another one
filled with water. Joyce returned in a
hurry, and, without detecting the. trick,
threw the water on the fire. A volume
of steam issued forth and scalded his
face and one arm in a severe manner.
The joker covered his tracks so well as
to avoid identification, otherwise he
would have gotten the “bag.”
Hon. E. A. Woodward expects to
make a winter visit to Florida, shortly.
His trip down there last winter made
him an enthusiastic admirer of that
land of perpetual flowers.
Yesterday the reporter heard two
men vigorously discussing the respect-
ive merits of Major Doty, our present
postmaster, and Mr. Dunning, his pre-
d‘écessor. The disputants finally com-
promised the mattcr by conceding, as
the reporter inferred, that the one was
a very doughty official, and that no cit-
izen had to do any extensive dunning
from the other when in search of an es-
tray postal card. Selah!
Jake Linxweiler has trimmed his
place very artistically by a combina-
tion of evergreens and pretzels, an old
German custom, which, as he isthc first
to introduce. here, entitles Jake to the
cake.
The wife of George Platt, who lives
near the tide mill, is quite ill. Mr.
Platt is obliged to go away to work ev-
ery day and leave her alone. If some
good Samaritan neighbor would drop in
occasionally, the kind act would be re-
corded to his or her credit in the heav-
en:y books.
A man whose stomach was overbal-
anced with “ Happy New Years," took
a tumble. on IVashington street yester-
day. Luckily hc plunged into a con-
venient gutter which was full of snow,
otherwise he would have sorely abraded
his proboscis.
Grand Army hall was open all day
yesterday, and several hundred people
were filled nearly to overflowing with
Cale \Vood’s ne plus ultra clam chow-
der, and other eatables too numerous
for mention. The old boys sang the fa-
vorite war songs, and talked, and talk—
ed very much faster than the old lady
whose tongue was “ hung in the middle
an dplayed at both ends.” They told
some whopping—t-r-u-t—h-s. Bob Rob-
erts wasthc champion chowder destroy-
er until Ben Bechtel came down from
the borough, andthen poor Bob had to
take a back seat. Among the many dis-
tinguished guests was Colonel Crowe
who appeared to enjoy himself hugely.
The installation of officers to—nightwill
be another enjoyable affair.
At the temperance hall on the bridge,
President \Vood entertained a large
number of callers yesterday, all of
whom were. handsomely dined, but not
wined.
The S0. Norwalk Athletic club gave a
matinee ball at Germania hall yester-
day. A large party assembled. The
proceeds will be for the aid of the new
gymnasium.
Commander—elect E. Tuttlc, of the
G. A. R., is very ill at his home at Five
Mill river.
Miss C. Frank spent New Year’s in
the city with her relatives on Union
street.
W. M. Ayres went to Yonkers yester-
day and astonished the natives.
Mrs. Isaac Jennings gave a large par—
ty on New Year’s eve, entertaining a
large number of friends.
The children are not crying any
more for soothing syrup—they prefer
the DAILY GAZETTE, and say it not only
tastes excedingly sweet but doesn’t em-
bitter their abdominal vicera, likealit-
tle book that was swallowed by John of
Patmos.
That little unpleasantness at a cigar
store is accounted for in this way : A
young “blood” could pay $4 for a
sleigh ride with his best girl, but did
not pay his cigar bill of $23, so his ears
were boxed. .
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Raymond spent
Christmas at Mrs. R’s. late home in
New Jersey. ,
The Misses Annie and Ethel Smith,
who have been the guests of Mrs. Robs
ert McDonald, have returned to their
Brooklyn home.
Mr. Thomas Village, who emigrated
some months since :from this city to
Bridgeport, has returned with his fam-
|
i
ily, finding it more economical to 00- ‘
cupy his house here than to rent in
Bridgeport.
Joseph Jennings. of the firm of C. E.
Jennings & Co., of New York, has re—
turned from his extendedbusincss trav-
els in California, and is very prolific in
his description of the beauties and the
balmy air of that state and its business
prospects. ,
S. Taylor and Robert Pearson of this
city spent New Year’s in New York.
The Mahackemo Hotel kept open
house yesterday to friends and .‘Lflllliitfl.
The “Meeker Quartettc Club ” ofthis
city, gave a varied selection of their"
music in the cars on their return from
work in Mamaroneck, Wednesday af-
ternoon. The only thing which marred
its touching beauty was the tenor voice
that sounded often like the filing of a
buzz saw.
Jake Dalton and Hurly Smith were
tried before Judge Knapp this morn-
ing for keeping New Year’s too liba-
tiously and fined $1 and costs each.
A handsome young city expressman,
whose younger brother is a devotee of
the yellow-covered novel came home
early one evening not long since and
finding an attractive edition that the
youngster had forgotten to hide from
the old folks, hied himself off to his
room with abold determination to read
the blood-curdling story of “Rainbow,
the broken nosed cutthroat of the Ya-
zoo,” or die. After undressing himself
and adjusting the pillow in a comforta-
ble position he lighted a' cigarette and
settled himself to read “Rainbow,”but
tired nature soon asserted itself, how-
ever, and our young friend was fast
asleep. Suddenly the familybelow stairs
were. startled by a. shriek that would
have made. one of Buffalo Bill’s Cow-
boys ashamed of himself, and upon
rushing up the stairs, two steps at a
jump, they found our young friend
standing in the hall, a cold perspira-
tion was on his forchead,his hair on end,
a two-tickets-for-a-quarter look upon
his face, and his eyes protruding from
their sockets. After getting him back
into bed and (losing him wit-l1 spirits
fermenti, he explained to the startled
household that he had had a dream, a
a dream that surpassed all other dreams
which he related as follows : “I dream-
ed that ‘Shady’ and I were floating
down the starlit Yazoo in our yacht.
The hour was late and I was on the
deck alone, when suddenl * a hideous
creature climbed over the gunwale of
the yacht and pounced upon me. His
knees were upon my very breast, his
one-stove-pipe-for-five-cents’ b r c a th
fanned my face, one hand grasped me
by the throat and the other contain—
ed a small needle-pointed knife. I
struggled to get away, but the more I
struggled. the more he pricked check-
board squares on my neck, until I
thought I had one of Johnny Bruin-
mcr’s shaves. At last I resorted to
strategy. Raising both hands in the
attitude of prayer, I said, “Pray, Mr.
Rainbow, do not kill me, spear me this
time.” Rainbow stopped the pricking
process, and looking me in the eye ex-
claimed: ‘ Young man, why do you
call me Rainbow?’ \Vith a voice trem-
bling with fear I replied, ‘because you
are so handsome, and your face iscom-
posed of so many beautiful colors.’ Up—
on this he rose to his feet, while asar-
donic grin played over his face as he
cried. ‘Young man, that Taffy has just
saved your life. G0, but if ever you
“Teeter ” another hat box off your
truck, you shall surely die,’ and with
a parting jab of the knife. in the ribs.
which made me yell with pain. I awoke. ’ ’
It is needless to remark that this
young man now reads the DAiLv GA-
ZE’I‘TE, price ONE CENT, every evening
before going to bed, in place. of his i . _
f as he held it in his hand.
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yellow-covered literature.
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.1 New Yum-’5 (lifi.
brother‘s
Mr. Linus Benedict has presented the
following compliments to the new court
of burgesses accompanied with the gift :
i it fora purpose, and that purpose was to
alluded to in the "memorial :“
’ 'o the ll’ardcn. and ('mn'l of Billy/(asses:
I wish you a. Happy New Year. I had
a Christmas present of a demijohn of
good whiskey, but I thought it rather
small of its age and I present it with my
compliments of the season. Were it not
for my limited circumstances perhaps I
should have been more liberal. for I
like to see others enjoy the good things
of this life so I will give you my toast.
It is: “Health, prosperity and long life
to you all.”
Dr. Baldwin says when they get that
new hotel done he is going to tend bar.
I think he has got a man in view to
clean the spittoons and I am to superin—
tend the work. but as he likes to sleep
so well in the morning I shall get quite
thirsty before I can get my hitters.
There is probably a good many here
3 that don’t know me so that I shall have
to introduce myself. I was born in New
Canaan June 17, 1813. At the age of 1:1.
I commenced to paddle my own canoe.
I commenced to learn the printer’s trade
in the building, over Merrill’s store. A
paper was started there called The
Fair-field County Democrat, edited by
Albert Hanford. I enjoyed myself un—
til the sheriff took possession, but I was
so constituted that I would not say die.
and I strayed away to Schenectady. I
got a job in a book printing office. I
was quite an expert setting type and
could read a book as fast bottom side
up as Dr. Noble can the Bible right side
up. They did not make the business
pay, so they sent me off on a canal to
reship the goods to another route. The.
next year the cholera was raging and I
didn’t do much. In 1833 the first rail-
road in the United States, running from
Albany to Schenectady,was commenced.
I was employed as an overseer by a man
named Crane as an overseer over a gang
of men in the lower part of Albany. and
stayed until the road was completed.
He afterwards took a contract to build
the Saratoga raih‘oad. and then helped
to build the first railroad in the eastern
states. He wanted me to go with him,
but I refused as I liked printing better.
Printing offices were not as numerous
then as now. There were only two law-
yers in Norwalk then, and that goes to'
show that rascality is on the increase.
for every fifth man you meet is either a
lawyer or saloonkeeper.
Now I am too old to get into the ring,
but I can vote. and I wish you. gentle—
men, out of your bountiful supply to
remember the poor. Now. I bid you
all good bye with my best wishes.
LINUS S. Bnnnnier.
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Letters remaining uncalled for at the Nor-
walk post office for the week endiin,r January
Elli. ism:
, Maybiu W. Brown. Norman Linbarger. Paul-
}11'i'oub, (l-ilbcrt Van Scoy. .
' ('. (l. HUBBELL, Postmaster.
Andrew Borjensegi, the Swede, who
l murdered his sweetheart, Emma, Ander-
sen in New Milford in August, has been
sentenced to hang on J an. 29, 1892,
Growth of Brains.
Inthe inferior races the head ceases to
grow after 20 years of age. In the superior
races the head of the intelligent and edu-
cated man increases in volume until 35, 40
and --45 years. The skull has reached its
.maximum development when the bones
composing it are welded together, so as to
render the sutures invisible. Once the
sutures are solidified, the future growth'of
the brain is impossible, which is said to
explain the insurmountable difficulty ex-
perienced in trying to teach illiterate
adults.
The solidification varies according to the
investigating activit-j.r of the brain. It
takes place between the ages of 22 and 25
years in the task worker, between 28 and
35 in the middle class manual professions,
and after 35 in educated persons who prac-
tise intellectual professions. Recent ex-
periments in the female colleges of Russia
prove that woman’s head, though natur~
ally smaller than man’s, is susceptible to
similar development: under educational
treatment. The skulls of great thinkers
grow throughout life.
The frontal sutures of Pascal, Rousseau
and others who lived to a. ripe old age were
found open. Comparison of the individual
skulls of di li'crcnt races discloses the singu—
lar and important fact that in the inferior
beings the solidification of the sutures be-
gins in the frontal, or intellectual, region
of the brain, and terminates in the occi-
pital, or animal. In the case of the civil-
ized man, on the contrary, the solidifica-
tion. beginning much later in life, starts
in the occipital, passes to the parietal
bone, and thence to the frontal, thus giv-
ing till the last moment the fullest scope
to the superior functions—Chicago News.
The Pororoca.
Shortly after the tide had stopped run-
ning out, they saw something coming
toward them from the ocean in a long
white line, which grew bigger and Whiter
as it approached. Then there was a. sound
like the rumbling of distant thunder,
which grew louder and louder as the White
line came nearer, until it seemed as if the
whole ocean had risen up and was coming,
charging and thundering down upon them,
boiling over the edge of this pile of water
like an endless cataract, from four to seven
metres high, that spread out across the
whole eastern horizon. This was the por-
oroca!
\Vhen they saw it coming, the crew be-
came utterly demoralized, and fell to weep-
ing and praying in the bottom of theboat,
expecting that it would certainly be dashed
‘ to pieces. and they themselves drowned.
The pilot, however. had the. presence of
mind to heave anchor before the wall of
waters struck them; and, when it did
strike, they were first pitched violently
forward, and then lifted, and leftrolling
and tossing like a. cork on the foaming sea.
it left behind, the boat nearly filled with
water.
But their trouble was not ended; for,
before they had emptied the boat, two
other such seas came down on them at
short intervals, tossing them in the same
manner, and finally leaving them within a.
stone’s throw of the river bank, where an-
other such wave would have dashed them
upon the shore. They had been anchored,
before the waves struck them, near the
middle of the stream, which at this place
is several miles wide.—John C. Branner in
Popular Science.
The Man with the Bull’s-Eye.
Some one asked what time it was, and
the five of us pulled out our watches in
concert, just as one man yawning will be
followed by all in the group. One of the
crowd had a. very heavy old fashioned
bull’s-eye watch, and it attracted attention
and inquiry;
“No, it is not an heirloom,” he replied,
“Left you by a. dear friend?”
“N o.”
“Belong to some great man?”
“No.7,
“Any romance connected with it?”
“Hardly. I went deliberately and bought
have a handy weapon of defense. I am
mortally afraid of a pistol, have a. horror
of a knife, and one can’t always find a club
or stone handy. In brief, I bought it to
throw at a man, should occasion ever de-
mam .” .
“Has such occasion ever arisen?”
"It has. About a year ago, while I was
in a Chicago suburb, a footpad suddenly
appeared and demanded my cash. I swung
for him with this watch.”
“And killed him?”
“No. It missed him and brokeaboot-
block’s jaw, and it costs me over a. hundred
dollars to repair damages. Don’t criticise
it as a timepiece, gentlemen, but as a.
weapon of defense. I’m not handy with
my dukes, and I can’t run.”—-New York
Sun.
Surprising. if True.
A robust man of about 05 years of age
entered the office of the board of auditors
a day or two ago. He called Auditor Holi-
han aside and related the following: “In
the year 1840 I arrived in the city of De-
troit, sick and destitute. I went to the
mayor, whose name I have forgotten, laid
my case before him, and he kindly allowed
me quarters in the county house. I was
there three weeks, and now I want to
square myself with the county for the fa-
vors rendered.” \Vhereat the robust man
pulled out two $50 bills and waited. forthe
astonished Holihan to gather himself.
“Why,” exclaimed Mr. I-Iolihan, “that
was fifty years ago, and, of course, there is
no charge against you, and”—- But the
robust man insisted on paying up. He
urged so firmly that Mr. Holihan finally
accepted $15 and covered the sum backinto
the treasury. But the 01d fellow would
give no scrap of his history and refused
his name—Detroit News.
An Insect Goliath.
The bird spider of tropical . America
grows to be th rec inches in breadth andas
much as four and a half inches in length,
being the largest of the several hundred
species of spiders known to naturalists.
Its nests resemble those of the large cater-
pillars of France and Spain, and consists
of a beautiful white silken tissue of several
thick layers, and strengthened by very
strong threads capable of arresting the
flight of any small bird. In the center of
this nest are placed the eggs, 1,500 to 2,000
in number. The creature is very powerful
and is provided with formidable instru-
ments of attack, enabling it not only to
destroy small birds and the young of larger
species, as some writers ' have maintained,
but large lizards and reptiles—St. Louis
Republic.
Curious Wedding Customs.
The Armenian girl on the eve of her wed-
ding paints delicate flowers of celestial blue
all over her breast and neck, and dyes her
eyebrows black and her nails a bright
orange.
‘Thé German girl the night before the
nuptials is treat ‘ to the curious masquer-
ade called the‘Pol ' ‘rabénd, when the guests
dress up as the ancestors of the faniilyrand
pay her 9 dramagic vi'sit.—I4_ondon’1‘it'-Bits..
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