T HE 2E v E N I n GLGAZ E T T E .5 l A DOG’S PRESS NTifoI‘LNT. He Seemed to Kim n'thO Exact Time His- Master was Disabled. L. C. Meachamp, th lives at Ho- ' finer, La., is a great hunter, and has a fine deer‘nouud, Dan. of which he is . justly proud. A few mo-nthsago Mr. Meachamp was going out squirrel hunting, and in order to keep Dan at home he was compelled to tie him up. The hound whin-ed and begged, but finding 1.1.5. master was obduxate he at last lay quite peaceably before his kennel all «lay. ' ‘ At 5 oclock in the after.Ln on, how- eve1, when Mrs. Meachamp was begin- ning to look for her husband’s return, Dan became so unusually restless tLa she went out to see what Was 1115;- mat- ter. In spite of 111:1 repeated. cferl's she could do nothing to pacify hi)- and at last, to he. tutor astoniruant he bro-hot the lope and bounded away over the fume and into the woods. He was gene inphebly 9... ha. if hour, when he came running ha ck, panting and almost breathless, wit ‘1} his master’s hat in his mo‘..th.. Mrs. Meachamp become at once alarmed, and calling her son they set _out to find Mr. Meachamp, the dog all the time bounding along in front and leading the way. At last they came upon Mr. Meachamp lying helpless in l e woods, where at precisely 5 o’clock he had fallen in a little ditch and bro- ken a small bone in his leg. The dog’s knowledge of the accident at the very momentof its occurrence seems almost incredible, but the truth of this is be- yond dispute—New York Alliance. 280 Press Agentheeded. Jackson—Did it ever occur to you that two of Edison’s greatest inven~ tions do not have to be praised? J ohnson——N:o. How’s that? . Jackson—Well, the kinetoscope illus- trates its own merits. Johnson—Yes. Jackson—And the phonograph speaks or itself.—New York Journal. What is Really Needed. “Somebody has invented another alking machine.” “That’s a stupid thing to do. “fisn’t hese Scientists ever learn that what he world needs is listening ma- hines?”—Chicago Record. - .dnmflbdfinm dorm? it's neglect of throat and bronchial ' troubles that . leads to - cath- _ HUHEHOUND - callng a isease. TAB No wonder Hale’ 3 Honey of Horehound and at is praised by its users. Its curative efiects like magic. Sold by druggists. "Airs HONEY OF Pike’s Toothache Drops cure in one minute. HAL E LUBQG. G.- BALSAM ,1 / :25C; sk Your Druggisi conducted with decorum.” have your them home just as cheap. If you want a canopy for a party or :1 Wed— ding. I will supply it at him 'hours’ notice. A letter or postal card will receive prompt ai- iention. ' P. E. CALLAHAN, Awning Maker, 53 Cross St., Norwalk. Don’t go out of town to Awnings made when ydu can get right here at WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE IN COLORADO. t'i .e ! ives Her Position 11 Dignity which i: Sometimes Lacking in the East. The report that comes from Colmado of the good work done by the women of the state during the three years they have been enfranchised may give a boom to woman sufirage in the East. One of the difficulties upon which great stress has been laid by the anti-wo- man sulfragists here seems have been answered in Colorado. This is in re- gard 'to the unpleasant nature of pri- mary meetings and polling places. This decidedly minor matter was one. which, as in other small things in other large matters, has had great stress laid upon it .by the controvertionalists. "Woman’s presence has made a great . improvement in primary meetings and polling places,” says the Colorado statement, “and where they'were for- merly held in stables or drinking sa- loons, in many precincts, primaries are now held in home parlors and polling booths are arranged in respectable buildings, and voting is invariably The deco- rum in the Representative Hall, Where there are women members, is also said to outrank that in the Senate, where there are no.women. The general in- fluence exertedby women upon pol- itics is said to have been excellent, and there has beenmore general study of political economy by'both men and women during the last three years than ever before in the history of the State. , It may be that a greater number of women in the newer States are brought into closer connection with questions of government than in older parts of the country, and this has given them an added dignity of thought and ac- tion. The conduct of some of the members of some of the women’s or- ganizations of NewYork, notably sev- eral of the patriotic societies, has been in several instances sufficiently dis- graceful to kill any inclination for wo— men suffrage in the minds of those gen- erally well disposed to the cause. And this over small matters. An ordinarily charming and cultivated young ma- tron, who belongs, as she would ex- plain, to the Vere de Veres, who stands in a doorway of a hall and shrieks at a body of voting women where her side is in the minority, “You can’t vote; you are illegal; you haven’t a quorum!” is not dignified. and her paroxysms of rage afterward not pleas- ant to see. It savors of personal ma- lignity. This was one example. Many of the so-called conservative women belong to these patriotic organizations. If they took these hysterical methods to defeat woman suffragists they did well. They werecertainly effective. It is further stated in Colorado that, all rumors to the contrary notwith- standing, women will not be called up« on for military duty. TAX ON BACHELORS. An‘Endeavor in a South America State to Force Young People to Marry. New Women and old women, young maids and old ones, are always and everywhere interested in the question of matrimony, says an exchange. At conventions the subject is brought for- ward and discussedrand yet statistics from all quarters of the globe present annually a steady decline in the n’um<‘ ber of marriages. Nowhere, however, has the matrimonial percentage reached so low a point as in the Argen- tine Republic. The existing state of afi'airs in that young South American state has attracted attention as a grave public evil, and her Senators and wise men have recently passed the follow- ing law: On and after January 1, 1897, every male from the age of twenty to eighty shall pay a tax until he marries, and shall pay it once every month. Young celibates of either sex who shall, with- out legitimate motives, reject the ad- dresses of him or her who may" aspire to her or his hand, and who may con- tinue contumaciously unmarried, six-all pay the sum of 500 plasters for the benefit of the young person who has been so refused. ' Climate of New Zouland. New Zeland enjoys one of the finest climates in the world; trees present, as well as herbage, a never-failing ver- dure. The small portion of culti— vated land yields in great abundance all the fruits and grains of Europe. In New Zealand it is quite practicable to raise two crops on the same soil within the year; and in the garden not an inch of ground need remain idle for any length of time. A Costly Tiny Boat. A jeweller in Tarin has made a tiny boat of a single pearl. ‘ The hull is finely shaped, and might serve as :1 model for a great sloop. The sail is of beaten gold, studded with diamonds,» and the binnacle light is a perfect ru- by. An emerald serves as its rudder. and its stand is a slab of ivory. Its weight is less than an ounce. is said to have cost £1.000.—~ ’l‘id-Bits. A Cheer-less invitation. Youngbach—Hello. old man. Glad to see you. Come in and make yourself at home Henpeck— Humph! If you can't. make me any more comfortable than that I guess I won’t stay—New York Journal. Profound Ignorance. “Pa, who was Shylock?" , “Great goodness, boy! You attend church and Sunday school every week. and don’t know who Shylock, was?“ cried his father. with a look of sur- prise and horror” “Go and read your Bible, sir.” ' Tatters (cheerfullyl—Good mornin'! ' Faimer—It wouldn't be good morn in‘ of I offered rye W'.01k ‘ ’l‘atters—Nau; dc word ’ud be men'- like good day. fien- Iudce. and it ‘5 / A SAD EXPERIENCE. \ewly Married People Can Never be Sure of Fooling the Public. A Pennsylvania Railroad man had an unhappy experience at a New York hotel several months ago. He was a popular man, and every baggage hand- ler along the road was interested in his marriage. He left town wit-h his bride promptly after the ceremony, and when be inspected his trunk at the station there was no distinguishing mark toindicate that it was the prop- erty of a new1y married man. The trunk was checked right through to New York, and when its owner arrived in Jersey City. he gave his baggage checks to a transfer agent and asked that his baggage be sent at once to a well-known Broadway hotel. There was no rice in his pockets, and when he arrived at the hotel and registered “Mr. and Mrs. John'_Blank,” he flat- tered himself that no one would sus- pect him of being a newly wedded man. 'An hour later he heard a great noise in the trunk room and he went in to investigate it. In the centre of 1 crowd of bell boys, porters and hotel loungers was his trunk, that had left his native town in good condition. Some one had varnished it with glue and then sprinkled rice all over it. Half 1 dozen pans of old shoes weie fast- ened to the top with sc1ews, and every baggage man along the line had tacked on a message conveying his congratu- lations and advice. The trunk was a curiosity, and it took one of the port- ers half a day to scrape it clean—New York Sun. HE GOT TWO HALF DOLLARS. And the Chicago Hotel'l’orter Now Gets to Work Earlier Than Ever. Philip D. Armour is among the earli- est rise1s of any business man in Chi. cago. He is in his office by 6:30 evei y morning. He leaves his car and walks down Adams stieet to the Home insurance Building just as the sun’s first kiss of the day lights upon the tall buildings His gait is'steady and elas- tic, and he looks as if- he had just en- joyed a hearty meal. In passing the Lansing Hotelthe other morning a porter, who was washing the sidewalk, stepped politely out‘of his way and begged pardon for the water that lay in puddles through which he must walk. He did not know whom he was addressing. The gentleman reached in his pocket in a hasty sort of way, and among a lot of loose silver drew forth two half dollars that he handed to the porter and passed on. As he did so I asked the servant if he knew the donor‘s name. He did not. When I told him that he was the richest man in Chi- cago he seemed astounded. “A'n’ you say he passes long dis ’er way every day ’bout dis time? “Iall, sah, you sho’ gwine fin’ me washin’ dis h-er’ sidewal’ reglar after dis mitey early in do maw-nings.” Mr. Armour gives more money to mendicants than all of the other pedes- trians who walk Adams street—Chi- cago Times-Herald. PRUSSIA’S AMBER MONOPOLY. [t is Found in the Seaweed When Washed Up by the Gales. The working ’of amber in Prussia is a monopoly in the hands of a firm which owns the best two mines, Palm- nicken and Kraxtepelle. For the con- cession they have, according to a re— port from the British Consul of Dant- zic, to pay to the German Government a royalty of 65,000 marks a year. It is reckoned that this firm has up to now paid no less than $1,000,000 in royalties to the German Government. In addition to the output from the mines in 1895, a good deal of amber- was picked up on the beach at Pillau, in the province of East Prussia, being washed up with the sea weed during the prevalence of northwesterly gales. The shore at Pillau after a storm is sometimes covered with a layer of sea- weed three feet thick, among which the amber is found entangled. Men, women and children find easy and lu- crative employment in searching for the amber along this part of the amber coast. The people engaged in this pre- carious work often earns $6 a day and more. In 1895 about 100 tons of raw amber came to Dantzic to be worked up, as compared with 140 tons in 1894. [t was nearly all melted to make lac and varnish—New York World. The Fighting Lemming. If the lemming’s powers were pro-- portioned to its pluck, the lemming would make things lively for the hun- ter. It attacks with reckless fury the harmless passer-by. One of these crea- tures, smaller than a rat, will assail without a second thought a couple of human beings weighing 50 pounds apiece. It will spring to one’s knees, barking and biting, and in purbli-nd fury fall back “all-ends-up” to the earth, only to renew the attack again and again. Today, while one lemming was flying at me, another from be- yond :1 ‘demonstration, and presently swam / , six hogs. three times as many across to get to close quarters. I was not quite sure that the first fall into the water was not accident-a1, but hardly think so, since once there it came straight to the charge—From "Wild Norway.” Her Clever Device. “Flossie didn't have to write much of a graduating essay." "Why not?” "The title of it was so, long.” “What was it?” "It was "xi’lience Does the Human Soul_’Derive the Remarkable Powei of Investing Exteinal Circum- stances with the Lu1id Hue of Its Own Feelings ?”—Chicago Ileco1d. Making It too Plain. "G eutlemenof’the jury," said a law- yer the other day,.“there were thirty- Remember the fact—just as in the jury box, gentlemen.”——Grapl:ic. . the dodo, called the solitaire. small stream joined in the4 Auk AND THE 9000 cons. ' or All Birds Extinct. None More Interest. ing'than the Great Auk. Before the white man came there. was a large and clumsy bird on the island of Mauritius called the “dodo.” it was related to the family of pigeons. Being incapable of flight and good to eat, the species was destroyed whole- sale by sailors, and the eggs and youn: 1 u ere eaten by hogs. So it disappeaieul and not a single specimen remains in any museum to tell its melancholy story. Mauritius had also a small but peculiar owl and a big parrot, a large heron with short' wings, and a big rail. all of which are now extinct, as well as a good many other birds which are now only known by the stories of early voyagers and the bones found in caves on the island. Far to the eastward of Mauritius, on 130er guoz Island, dwelt a near relative of It be- came extinct about the beginning of the eighteenth century. Of all birds recently extinct none is more interesting than the gare fowl, or great auk. The last two living specimens were seen and taken on a rocky islet 01f the southwestern point of Ireland. A single egg of a great auk was sold not long ago at auction for $1,500. And yet sixty years ago birds of this species were found on Funk Island, off the Newfoundland coast, in countless numbers. People from the mainland used to go over to the island in summer and kill them by myriads to eat and for their feath- ers. They were so fat that they served as fuel. Ships used to land there and get boatloads of the auks by the simple process of placing a plank between the boat and the shore, and driving the helpless creatures over it. The Smithsonian Institution has practically a corner on their bones. A while ago it sent an agent to Funk Island for the purpose, and he brought back nearly a barrelful of auk bones. If you want a skeleton you will have to send to Washington for it, and it will cost you about $600.—Washington Post. FEATS OF HINDOO PORTERS. Hardy Hill-Men Climb Steep Mountains Carrying Caimbersome Packs. Darjeeling tea, said Mr. George W. Christison, in a recent lecture before the British Society of Arts, is all car- ried by the hardy hill-men up the steep mountain roads to the nearest railway station on the way to market. It is no unusual day’s work for a coolie to carry from J10 to 130 pounds a dis- tance of five or six miles, making at the same time an ascent of from 2,500 o 3.500 feet in sheer vertical elevation. There can be no deception about a task like that, and we can not but have an admiration for the powers of en- durance of those who perform such a feat. Of course these people are .rained to load carrying and mountain climbing from their very infancy, and hence the peculiar set of muscular fac‘ ulties required for them are fully de. veloped, if not actually called into ex- istence at a cost of others—so much so that walking on a level, after a few miles, becomes positively painful to them. In the prosecution of their own trade, or in domestic affairs, they fre- quently undertake long, arduous jour- neys over ridges and along and across hot valleys, varying many thousands of feet in elevation, occupying many days, carrying heavy loads of from 150 to 200 pounds and over, and in ad- iition to their food and bedding most cheerfully lighting a fire, cooking and eating their scanty meal, and going to sleep by the wayside. There is a story still current of a Bhootean in old times having carried a giand piano up a hill to Darjeeling, a distance of fifty miles forward, and in- volving a rise of more than 5, 000 feet in elevation by the old road. These hill tribes are a hardy people, capable of performing marvelous journeys with- out partaking of food, or on the most meagre fare—New York World. LIABLE TO CAUSE BLINDNESS. [t is Possible for Certain Kinds of Food to Endanger the Eyesight, ~ Few people know that some foods are very injurious to the eyesight, and, indeed, may cause total blindness. Medical men agree that defects of vision are often attributable to this cause, and warn their patients against eating certain foods. Stale sausages, sour cream and taint- ed rabbit pie are injurious to the eye- sight. In one instance a case was brought under the notice of an eye specialist in which the eyes of a whole family were affected by eating rabbit pie. In each instance the patient had become afflicted with a peculiar defect of vison that is technically known as “failure of accommodation.” The eating of chocolate was recently proved to be the cause in a. case of weakening of the sight known as am— blopia. Blindness resulting from eat- ing tainted fish has been found almost impossible to cure, and quinine is also responsible for some persons half- blind condition. This drug affects the optic nerve in a manner that so-me-_ times 'Days. ends in. blindness—Golden A Pair of Tin-m. Borrowit—Say, Jack, can’t you lend me a five? ’Hardup—Sorry; I’m busted .my‘self. [ just had to borrow a ten. . Borrowit—VVell, my eyes! line kind of hog to refuse after luck as thatl—Truth. such ‘ llIean Thing. Miss Newwoman—Yes, cur unpreju- lit-ed opinion is that man is a total failure ' Dick Rounderj—Taking that view of t1- 9 case, I am willing to admit the. v; omnn is his equal —-New Y01k Jour mil 'You‘re ‘a' L OAKE OF TOILET SOAP IN EVERY PACKAGE. A TRILBY vILLAGE. Billee Street. . . Now that there is a town «named Trilby down in Florida, with streets named for the characters. of DuM~au— years to come the people of that neigh- borhood will hear nothing, see noth- ing, think of nothing but Svengali, Svengali, Svengali. The founding and the naming of this town are. part of a ,good story. It seems that H. 3. Plant, the million- aire, who owns all the railroads on the western side of Florida, was called on to name the new town which he caused his railroads. There had been a sta- tion there before the new town was started, and it had been called Macon. When 'it was decided to cut down the grade-of the railroad at that point the old station house, which was about all there was to the old town of Macon. was left standing high upon the blufl’. It had to be torn down, as it was of no use in its lofty altitude above the track. When the old building was de molishe'd the. death knell of Macon, Fla., was sounded, and then the ques- tion was asked Mr. Plant, the railroad President, “What shall we name the new town?” "Just at that time the railroad mag- nate was much absorbed in a second reading of DuMaurier’s book, and when the question was asked he re- Sponded: “Let us call the little town site Trilby.” And so it was. Strange to say, the little village at once began to grow. It was put down Trilby on the maps of Florida, and it became conspicuous by reason of the Trilby craze, which was in full frenzy just at that time. Real estate agents took hold and helped to build it up, while traveling newspaper men passing over the railroad wrote columns about the town that was growing there to per- petuate the name of Du Maurier’s book. The town of Trilby is today a pretentious little place with a dozen or 'more stores, shops and dwellings. The 'streets are named appropriately. The principal square is called Svengali square, and the three leading streets which run parallel and lose themselves in this square are called“Little Billee street,” “Tafiy street,” and “The Laird.” There are several avenues named after the women folks of the book—New York Sun. OIL SHELL TO QUIET WAVES. Automatic Device which Discharges Its Contents Over Half an Acre. A shell for shooting oil' upon the stormy seas from the shore, in order to 'reach wrecked vessels, has recently been invented and successfully tested. The oil shell is a tin cylinder ten inches long that holds a quart of oil. the oil is kept in place by a brass pis4 ton at one end of the cylinder, which is connected by a rod to a wooden plug, which closely fits in the other, which is the rear of the shell. The wooden plug projects three inches beyond the shell, and is grooved around its circumference and acts as 'a feather to hold the shell in position during its flight. The head of the shell is also weighted with a band of lead to aid it in holding its position while in flight and in maintaining its direction. the oil.——New York Herald. Typewriting Injurious. Now that type-writers are found in writing desk, it is perhaps, pertinent to remind women that the use of the machine is very hurtful to a piano player. The sharp staccato movements of the writing machine stiffen the fingers and tend to lessen the sup- pleness necessary for the piano keys.- Phil-adelphia Ledger. Professor: “To"wh'at'did Xenophon owe his reputation ‘3” Student: “Principally to the fact that his name commenced with an ‘X,’ and came in so handy for head- lines in alphabetical copy books.” It has a Svengali Square and 3 Little rier’s book, it is fair to assume that for , to have built at the crossing of two of’ 5-YEAR om ANATOMISTE Astonishes Chicago aPhysiclans by His blur-velour. Knowle‘dge of Osteology. .Little D. Will Gwyn, son ‘of Dr. Howell B. Gwyn of Chicago, is the only child who holds a certificate of proficiency in anatomy from profess sors of recognized medical colleges. Though scarcely 5 years of age and no taller than a table, this little tot is perfectly familiar with the human skeleton and the work of the dissect ing room. In fact he has witnessed nearly every capital operation known to surgery in the New York, Louisville, New Orleans and Chicago hospitals. He is a marvel of precocity, and knows every bone in the human body as well as does ,a medical student at his final examination. That is not all. He can tell you with equal ease and accuracy everything that is to be known about the heart structure and its complex functions, so that, were it not for the sweet little face and the fresh childish smile that illuminates his bright features, and the childish prattle that follows on the heels of his wisdom, one might imagine him a lit- tle automaton of anatomical wisdom. It is not an uncommon thin-g to see a child able to repeat by rote things which he does not understand, after the fashion of the parrot. Such chil- ‘dren are frequently found. But this W'he-n the shell in its flight strikes the ; water the impact drives in the piston . head, forces out the plug and liberates . homes almost as commonly as the little one knOws what he is talking about. It is a feat of the brain and tongue combined. It is seldom he is ever “stumped,” even when one ques‘ tions from one part of the anatomy to' another remote and little used. When he seems to have forgotten the answer his memory gropes for the name of the particular bone or portion of the body, and no matter how hard the term is to pronounce his quick thought grasps it in a second, and then he rolls it out with the ease and readi- ness of an old practitioner.-—Chica-go Times-Herald. He Got 'His blotch. One cold and stormy evening last winter a prosperous-looking business ‘ man stopped in the vestibule of a large ofiice building, on his way out, and attempted to light a cigar. An urchin with an armful of papers also stood within the arch, stamping his feet on the stone step to warm them, as he lustily cried his wares. The wind blew out the last match which the fur-coated broker had about his person, and he turned to the boy and said: “Ho1e, boy, give me a mate. The lad eyed tne gentleman furtive— iy, as he inquired, “Say, mister, is that a demand or a request?” Instead of being angry at his re- meet, the gentleman—for such he w as—replied kindly: 4 “A request, my boy, a humble re- quest; and I’ll take a couple of evening papers, too, I guess,” he added, as he received the match from the ybung- ster’s hand and passed him a quarter, “and you may keep the change.” “That man’s got manners if he’s a mind ter take time for use ’em,” said the boy as his patron boarded a car. “That bpy won’t always have to sell papers if he practices what he preaches,” thought the broker, as he sat down to read the news. He Preferred the Diortgaze. A Swede went into a lawyer’s oflice at Sigourney the other day to get him to make out aconveyance' for some lafid which he had purchased. He said he wanted a. mortgage, but the lawyer said he should have a. warran- ty deed. “No,” replied the Swede, “I once had a warranty deed to a farm, but another man held a mortgage and got the- land. I want a mortgage.”— Wellman. Iowa Advance. The Old Tin Basin. Gov. Leedy of Kansas recenty has boycotted the porcelain lavatory with its patent appliances in his office. He set the water flowing, but was 1111- able to shut it off, and he and the floor were deluged. Immediately be direct- ed his' private secretary to purchase for his personal use a tin washbasin. . “I was raised on that," he said, “and i am not afraid 02: being drowned .vhen I use it. Stamped u BOSS” Always the Same , THE ORIGINAL is Extra , flofloctor mmmwfismm .~ E" lights the Way and stays lighted. All brass, .. nickel-plated-no tin; outside oil-filler; cotton packed oil foont; double convex ground photo lens, ‘ bums kerosene, throws a light 90 it. and weighs but 12 ounces. 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