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Hie Peculiar Construction of Mexican Doors l’ut Them in Theif Plight. “Last April I was down in Mexico," said a traveling salesman, “on a busi- ness trip and onenight my partner and I had to remain over in a small place a little over fifty miles out of Mexico city. It wasn’t such a bad place, either, but the landlord of the hotel told us that thieves were plenty, and if they were cornered they might stick their knives into people. Our room in the little taVern was a kind of a summer-house affair, out in the yard, with a door on each of two sides, and was only a few feet up from the ground on a kind of platform veranda. We had several hundred dollars which we had collected, and the safest place we could put it was in our satchels in our room. -' “For a wonder the doors had locks on them, but the upper part of the door was ,made in Venetian shutter» style, and a man with a very long arm could, by stretching, probably reach the lock. We weren’t very much afraid, and merely locked the doors without noticing the shutter part at all. Besides, it was dark when we went to bed, as we didn’t want a light to attract the insects. We slept without disturbance until the first gray streaks of dawn, and then we were awakened by a queer noise at the doors. “We suspected thieves at once, and, as quiet as mice, we slipped out of bed and began to reconnoitre. When I got to my door it kind of gave me the creeps to see a dirty yellow hand thrust through the shutter and stretch- itself downward toward the lock, and I was tempted to yell and scare the marauder away. However, I kept my nerve, and in a second or two it was strangely fascinating to watch the efforts of that hand to reach the lock. My partner was having the same kind of an experience, and the thieves were evidently intending to take us ‘a-comin’ an’ a-gwine.’ “We stood irresolute for a minute and then my partner made a sign to me to hand him an old lariat hang- ing on the wall. This in a second he had-looped at each end, and I saw the trick. The next minute we had a hand apiece looped at each end of the rope, and had pulled it tight inside. Every- thing had been perfectly still up to this time, and now it was stiller than ever. I do not know what the thieves thought had happened to them, but they were caught, and,as soon as we got the rope knotted we let go, and they discovered that they were tied together and there wasn’t any way for them to get away unless one of them pulled the other through the knothole, so to speak. “Then it became funny, and we sat there nearly splitting, but never mak? ing a sound. In a minute or two more we could see another hand coming through with a long ugly knife in it, trying to cut the rope holding the first hand, but we had drawn them far through, and the other band could not reach. Of course we now expected to hear a yell, and some kicking and other disturbances, but the stoicism of the Indian was in them, and they . never made a sound until the landlord himself spoke to them when he came to wake us up. “That Was two hours or more later, and We had in the meantime gone back to bed to finish our morning nap, trusting to luck that they would not get away. The landlord, when he dis- covered them, made more noise in a minute than all four of us had made since the act began, and when we got up it was to find our garden house surrounded by half the population of the town, and the two thieves stick,- ing to our doors as if they had been nailed there and nobody able to get them loose.” ‘ MISSED HIS RECKONING. And Could Not Tell Why People Refused to Play Cards With Him. The Pacific train was on its third .day out when the man in the gray suit became restless. He walked up and down the car like a caged lion, grumbled because a baby cried, and made audible remarks about the weather. ‘ Finally he Stopped in front of a mild looking man and asked him to join him in a game of cards. “Excuse me,” said the stranger, “my wife has scruples about—-—-” “Oh, it’s no matter,” interrupted the uneasy man; “I’ll ask some one else.” He approached a traveling man with whom he had played several games on the trip, and asked him if he would join him in a game of euchre. “I guess not,” he answered. “I don’t mind myself allittle thing like that, but there is a minister on the car, and I’m not certain it would be advisable anyway.” The man in the gray suit sat doWn at a window‘ of the car and sulked. Presently he said to his neighbor ops posite: “The country is going to the dogs!” “Gracious alive, man, what makes you think so?” asked the surprised traveler. “Why, look at the farmhouses we are passing, every man, woman and child sitting idly at the doors. There’s a farmer now”——as the train rushed by —“he and his man loafing around, while the corn stands in the field and the potatoes are not dug. They are all discouraged—you can tell by the way they loaf around.” “My friend,” asked the opposite man, “are you in favor of one day of rest?” ' “Certainly.” “Well, as this is Sunday. it does seem as if——” ~ “Sunday?” roared the man in the‘ gray suit; “that accounts for the milk in the cocoanut! -Here I’ve been try- ing to get up a game of euchre. Well, all I can say‘is that I’ve lost a day on this confounded trip.” And he wiped the beads of perspiration from his troubled brow—Detroit le‘tec- I'I'lSS. .1 SOME QUEER INDUSTRIES. Odd Ways of Making a Living Disclosod ' 1:}.- the Latest Census. Occupations open'to the thrifty in- dividuals of both sexes have greatly increased during the last two decades, or even since the taking of the last decennial census, in 1890. The extraordinary progress of sci- ence during the time specified and the application of its principles to the prac- tical problems of human life have not only had the effect of greatly increas— ing the capacity for production in the trades already firmly established, but have opened hundreds of queer alleys which lead to the avenues of trade. . There are, of course, dozens of these new and remarkable occupations with which science does not deal even in the remotest sense. In this class we find the rat catcher, the skunk farmer, the man who makes his living by picking up lost things in the depots, theatres, hotels, &c., and returning them to their owners with the expec- tation of being rewarded; the clock winder, the man who collects orange and lemon peels, and the Lake Michi- gan syndicate, which is now engaged in raising black cats for their fur. They are not raising these cats on wa- ter, as might be inferred from the title, but have leased an island in the great lake, which is now plentifully stocked with both sexes of screeching felines. ' 'There are still others in the non- scientific category of queer occupa- tions, but it will only be necessary to mention a few. One is a. “rattlesnake farmer,” who lives in the Ozark Moun- tains, and makes the products of his “farm” b'ring money from three dif- ferent directions. The oil he disposes of to druggists who have regular cus- tomers that believe it to be a panacea for a hundred different ills; the skins he sells to would-be cowboys, who use them as but bands, and the skeletons are always a ready sale, the pur- chasers being the curators of the natural history departments of the dif- ferent college and society museums. The man who wakes people up in the morning, the cork collectors, and the dog catchers are well known charac- ters in every large city. The individuals who gain a liveli- hood in pursuits that are strictly scien- tific are equally as numerbus as those who follow the more humble callings. In the list of occupations that are strictly scientific is the manufacture of artificial eggs, artificial cofiee, and false diamonds. Also the industry of making buttons, combs, penholders, and other articles of similar nature rfrom blood collected at the slaughter houses. The man who makes billiard balls, buttons, and rings from pota- toes which have been treated to a solu- tion of nitric and sulphuric acids is also the proprietor of an “industry” wherein the fundamental principles are strictly scientific. by two young Pennsylvanians, who are making a regular business of ex- tracting the poison from hon‘ey bees. According to the accounts, they have two different ways of collecting their crop of venom. In the first the bees are caught and held with their abdo- mens in small glass tubes until they poison sacs have been emptied. In the second they are placed in a bot- tle on wire netting and enraged until the tiny drops of venom fall into the alcohol which fills the lower third of the bottle. This venom is said to be a sovereign remedy for cancer, rheuma- tism, snake bite, and a hundred others of the more terrible ills of humanity. The Deaf May Hear. Many an old lady goes to church of a Sunday and sits through the ser- vice in a frame of mind devout to a degree, but never hears a solitary word of the sermon. There is a preacher in Syracuse, Rev. George B. Spalding, D. D., who has changed all that. Dr. Spalding is pastor at" the First Presbyterian Church, a religious body made up in the main of wealthy folks to whom money is no particular object. Moved at first by the lamentations of some of his aged parishioners that they could not hear his preachments— Dr. Spalding was a newspaper man before he joined the clergy, and is a practical soul withal—he arranged, for the better delivery of the Gospel to these deaf brethren and sisters, speaking tubes which ran from a. large metal receiver—really a mega- phone—immediately in front of him on the pulpit, down under the floor- ing of the auditorium and up into the pews. The megaphone is built into the front of the pulpit, so that when read- ing or speaking the doctor addresses it directly. So successful did the clergyman’s device prove, that speaking tubes were put into every pew in the great auditorium, Any person, who is hard of hearing and happens to be a vis- itor to the church, will find means at hand of hearing the sermon. One deaf old lady, who went to Dr. Spaulding’s church the other day, having heard of the speaking tube system, :burst into tears when she put the transmitter to her ear and caught the sound of the preacher’s voice. She said it was the first sermon she had heard for over a quarter. of a cen- tury. ‘ A Trick ofMotormen. . The motormen on trolley cars be- tween Jamaica and East New York have a simple and effective scheme to force stubborn drivers to pull out of cars up close behind the obstructing vehicle, keeping full power on, and using the brakes to keep down speed. The "horses attached to the obstruct- ing vehicles receive a shock when they come in contact with the tracks. Now the farmers, when they hear the sound of a trolley gong, get out of the way in a hurry. 0 But the queerest of all is carried on their way. The motormen run their 7 I'll I 2 expected in the family how - lovingly the parents plan together for its future well- They sometimes even forecast its Does this seem too early to anticipate while the child is fare. education and career. yet unborn? It isn’t. The child’s des- tiny has already been partly mapped out by Nature according to the disposmon and habits of the parents. The best plan a mother can make for the future happi- ness of her unborn child is to maintain her own cheerfulness and health while her child’s undeveloped being is still a part of hers. Her health at this critical period is of tremendous consequence to the little one’s whole future existence. Every prospective mother will find direct nourishment, comfort and sustaining strength, in Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pre- scri tion. It will maintain her vitality botli’ bodily and mental; shorten the pen- od of confinement and make labor easy and almost painless. It imparts strength and elasticity to the organs concerned in par- turition, invests the mother With recu er- ative energy a ainst any after .perio of weakness and epression, and aids in the secretion of healthy nourishment for the child. It is the unfailing cure of all “ fe- male weaknesses.” Dear Doctor—Your " Favorite Prescription,” is the best medicine to take before confinement that can be found. It proved so with me. I never suffered so little With any of my children as I did with my last, and she is the healthiest we have. When I began your treatment I could not stand on in feet long enough to wash my dishes without su ering almost death ; now I do all my housework, washing, cooking, sewmg, and every- thing for my family. (ms): 2 64’ W , Oakley. Overton. Co., Tenn. CENTRAL NATIONAL BANK 26 WALL .911, NOR WALK. CORPORATED SEPT. 1, 1876. 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A Little Incident in the Life of the Elder Sothern. : is. related of the elder Sothern ll :11. he was once acting the hero in a r mantic play which required his lo -, ug from a window in a tall tower to . e stage below, where he alighted on mattress. behind. a wooden rock and imediately made Off rapidly into the forest. One night he hurt his an- kle. and vowed he would leap no- more. Accordingly the next day his manager hired a professional circus performer to do the actual leap, while the actor would slip back under cover of part of the tower wall and descend by a safe but unromantic ladder to his dressing room. The manager pro- vided the circus man with a costume precisely like Sothern’s, to the end that the illusion might be kept up with the audience, and sent ‘him to the theatre to practice. The man made the jump, and sent up a loud complaint. “What’s the row?” inquired a young member of the company, who happened to be at the playhouse. "Why, see here,” exclaimed the pro- fessloua , “this ’ere drop is too dead easy. A man with a. wooden leg and ' two glassapeepers could do it. Now, if they’d let me turn two somersets in the air I wouldn’t make no fuss.” “Capital!” cried the actor. “Do it!” “You think the 01d cove wouldn’t mind?” said the athlete doubtfully. “Mind!” returned the young player; “why, he’d be tickled to death, and probably raise your salary as well. Besides, it would bring down the house. Do it, by all means.” That evening when the part of the performance was reached wherein the hero took leave of the heroine, Soth- ern was gratified to see his substitute crouching in the shadow of the case- zncnt ready to leap. “Love, good night—good cried Sothern. “Stay!” pleaded the heroine, cling- ing round his neck; “stay! that lcap is—death’” “Nay, nay, sweet; ’tis honor. I leap, ’tis true, but what in my heart doth hear me up? Thine image, love! Good night—good night!” He kissed her frantically on the forehead, tore himself from her em- brace and rushed across the open space into the shadow. “Jump!”‘he hissed between his teeth. Out into the air shot the circus man, whirled around twice like the flywheel of a steam engine, and lit like a bird on the highest point of the rock. The applause came in thunders. The man bowed stifiiy and walked off into the wings with his arms folded. Unfortunately the remarks of Soth- ern are lost to history.—Chicago Post a night!" HOW TRAPS ARE MADE. Accidents that Have Been Caused by the Devices Set by Hunters. Traps set by hunters have often proved as dangerous to man as the spring gun over in Brooklyn turned out to be the other day to the man who set it to protect his grapes from thieves. Bob Michael, one of the best hunters and most thoorough of woods- men in northern Herkimer county, N. Y., walked against a string one night and was mortally wounded with buck shot} An old French Canadian trap- per above the Saranac Lake region was setting a 17-pound steel bear trap near an old burning one day, and had both arms caught between the jaws, and there his body remained for weeks. ' In Africa a curious trap is used for elephants. It consists merely of a long blade of steel in a four—foot log of wood, suspended from a tree by triggers. When the elephant stirs the string the contrivance drops, burying the steel between the victim‘s shoul- der blades. One of the odd things one meets in forests where bears, panthers and Wildcats are found is a log house, a sort of lean-to-camp, with an eight- inch spruce stick lying over the en- trance and putting off into the woods fifty or sixty feet. A' hewn plank in- side the enclosure is arranged so as to look like a fine resting place for a foot. Beyond the plank is a chunk of foul—smelling meat, burnt honey comb or other bait suitable for the intended game. Men who use dogs in hunting detest such contrivances, for the ani- mal that steps on the plank has itsa back broken by the spruce stick. Such a. deadfall is hard to build, but it is among the surest of traps for- large game that is not shy of enclosures. Men set snares for big game, using Wire rope to encircle the beast’s neck when they venture to touch the bait. It is a curious fact that such men sometimes get a leg in their .own trap, and are yanked into the air by the stout sapling tree used as a spring pole. After a. man has dangled ‘with his head downward trying to climb the spring pole feet first for a while, and finally gets down safely, he exer- cises extra care with his machines thereafter. . Badly‘Mixed. E a “George Todgers, where have you been until this time in the morning?’ “Been havin’ little finanshul dis- cushin, thatsh all.” “Couldn’t you do your discussing by daylight?” , “Not thish time, m’ dear. I had to shtaay an’ prove that t’other side sticked its matistics.” , “Did what?” I “Sicked its mististics.” ' “Say that again.” m 6 “Course' I can say it again. Micked 9 its tixtics. Wha’s matt’r with that?” “Well, you go to bed. I’ll see that your statistics are thoroughly well mixed for you In the morning. Climb!”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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