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no Fortunate Result of a Tennessee 8n.- The Loving Young—Enu—me and the Philo- NorWalk F11. e I - , ancé oo-
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Bill Wright was a justice or th‘ Perhaps the most touching incident a
peace, and also an'absent~m1nded man, , arising in connection with the war that SUCCE SbF U L 0 PE RATION SIN CE
whose Wlfe was as able an orator as l [ now recall, came to my notice on a 1860. .
Kantippe- . . " (railway train which also bore as a pas-
B111 used to serve. all 1113 91'9055599 I ranger the very pretty young wife of ‘8
himself, and to save tune ngfld Slgn the 3 young soldier. who, by daring bravery,
marriage certificates m 1313111! and de- ' had secured promotion from the ranks
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liver a number to the parson. _
One day Bill had a process -to serve
away up in the mountains on a semi-
barbarous recluse, who was sued for
damages for some misdeeds, and Bill
thought he would deliver a few of the
certificates to the person.
So sticking both packages of papers in
are same pocket he mounted his horse
and rode ofi.
Reaching the minister’s, he stopped
and chatted awhile. and, after deliver-
lng his papers, he started off again and
took the road to the mountains.
The parson had a wedding that day,
one of the parties being a notorious
horse thief from an adjoining county.
When the ceremony was over the person
Selected a certificate from the bundle
and unrolled it sufficiently to sign his
name. On handing it to the man the
latter opened it, and his eye grew wild
when he read instead of, a marriage cer-
tificate a warrant of: arrest, signed by
both the justice of the peace and the
parson. He feared some trap, so sur-
rendered himself to custody.
When the justice reached the moun-
tain side he took out the paper to read
it and immediately saw its nature, but
maintaining his self—possession, he re-
cited the form of summons, which he
fortunately remembered.
He then returned and found the horse
thief in jail, and went and saw the par— .
son, remarking, with his own matrimo-
nial felicity in mind, that both papers
had unintentionally served the ends of
justice-University Courier.
The Greatest Gunpowder Explosion.
The greatest explosion of gunpowder
the world has ever known took place at
the Du Pout-s works on the 7th of Octo-
ber, 1890. With their usual cautious
policy the Du Ponts have never stated
just how great a quantity of powder ex—
ploded at this time, but it is certain
that three magazine: and three mills in
the upper yard were blown up, one
after another. and a safe estimate will
put the quantity of powder exploded at
150 tons. In this explosion thirteen
men and one woman were instantly
killed, while twenty-two men and nine
women were injured, some fatally.
The explosion occurred a little after 8
o’clock in the afternoon. It began in
the magazine for hexagonal powder,
the kind used in large guns and the most
dangerous, being made not in grains,
but in reddish, six-sided cakes, about an ,
inch and a half in diameter and an inch ‘
thick, with a small hole in the center.
These cakes look like nothing so much
as the nut on a. wagon wheel. At the
time of the explosion cakes of powder
were being packed into large wooden
boxes lined with tin, each box being
about three feet square. The tin linings
projected above the tops of the boxes
about two inches, and when a box was
packed, were folded over a tin cover
fitted closely upon the cakes of powder. '
It was the duty of one of the workmen,
William Green, to solder these tin
edges down upon the tin cover, a hot
iron being used for this purpose.
On the day in question what he had
feared came to pass. A fellow work-
man, William McGarvey, was bringing
him the hot irons from a charcoal
brazier about twenty-five yards distant.
Green stood just at the door of the open
magazine, and all around him were un-
covered boxes filled with hexagonal
powder. ready to be sealed and stored
away. There were also dozens of boxes
that had been sealed. Just what hap-
pened will never be known, for neither
Green or McGarvey was left to tell the
story. But the probability is that one
of the soldering irons was a little too
hot, and by touching a particle of dirt on
the tin cover pro-ducal the deadly spark.
.McClure's Magazine.
She Herself was the Thief.
An amusing series of incidents oc-
curred at the Louisville Pure Food
Show. After the first day the mana-
gers found that scarcely a spoon re
mained that they allawed people to use
who wanted to sample the edibles. So
they decided to put strings on the
spoons and fasten that ends to the tables. ‘;
Several times worsen pocketed the
spoons, only to find themselves at the
end of a string, an one exciting epi-
sode took place that was particularly
funny. A nervous. aggressive looking
woman quietly on? deftly placed a
spoou in her pock st cad started to walk
off in that assumed, unconscious man-
not which amounts to positive genius in
her sex. Presently the felt a pulling at
her pocket and at onozs excitedly declared
that she was being robbed. This at-
tracted every one's. attention and also
ledto the discovery of the spoon. which
had- unfortunately got caught in her
pocket and was with some difficulty ex-
tracted. The expression upon her face
at the moment that spoon came to light
is easier imagined than described.
The Magnet in Surgery.
A few days ago C. H. Fiske, the Old 1
Orchard hotel proprietor. got a needle
into his foot and was unable to extract
it, although he tried many ways to do
50. Finally, knowing the affinity of
steel for a magnet. he went to an
electric light station and placed his foot
near a dynamo, and out came the
needle—Portland Press.
Logic on .‘E‘ll Fours.
Teaches -—Why was George Washing-
ton a great man? ‘
Tommy—Because we don’t have no
school on his birthday.—Piiladelphia
Record. s: '
In the Grad; Pie Belt.
Housewife (suspiciously)—Aren‘t you
the tramp to whom I gave a whole
mince pie last week? ;
Ragged Haggard —- Noma- I'm his
‘I needn’t give yourself such airs!
to a Confederate Captaincy. The wife
, was a Pennsylvania. girl whom he had
i met while visiting in the North, and
whom he had married and taken to his
Southern home just before the war. He
was one of the first to enlist in the Con-
federate army. To devote himself more
completely to the cause, he sent his wife,
at the first boom of the guns at Fort
Sumter, back to her parents in Penn-
sylvania to remain till the great strug-
gle was ended.
Now, in 1866, five years after their
separation, she was on her way South
to rejoin her husband and place in his
arms their four-year-old daughter,whom
he had never seen. It was not long be-
fore all the passengers on our car knew
the romantic story of the pretty little
woman and her beautiful child, and
there was not a man among us who did
not feel a tenderness for and a protect-
ing interest in both. There never was
a woman whose heart was more full of
love and joy. She could do nothing but
talk of the captain, and wonder if he had
changed so that she could not recognize
him, or if he wouldn’t be able to recog-
nize her. Then she would fall to won-
dering if he would know his little
daughter if he met her in the street by
. her resemblance to himself, which, as he
i had never set eyes on her, (lid not seem
probable.
Throughout that long days ride we
' all entered most heartily into that dear '
little woman’s hopes, fears, doubts and
joys, and shared them to such an extent
that we were quite as anxious to see the
captain as she was.
We reached our journey’s end, and be-
fore the train had fairly stepped a tall,
elegantly proportioned fellow of 27 came
bounding into the car. The little woman
gave such a scream of joy as I never
can forget, and in less time than I can
tell it, was standing in the car aisle,
clasped in the young soldier‘s manly
arms, and tears of joy unutterable
coursed down two beautiful young faces
as their lips met. For my own part, my
eyes were so full of blinding moisture
that I could see nothing when the proud
and happy young wife and mother led
her husband for the first time to the
place where the little child lay sleeping.
The Potato Cure for Tippling.
A man prominent in the affairs of
Dunkirk yesterday related the following
incident: ‘
“One day, two months after I had
signed the pledge, I had a craving for a
drink of whisky so strong that I could
see nothing else but drinks about me
and felt as if I must have at least one
drink. I told a friend of my state of
mind. He said, ‘You need not drink.
I can tell you of. a substitute that will
stop your discomfort. Get a bowl of
ice water and a raw potato, peel it and
out down one end of it to a size con-
venient to take in the mouth. Dip the
potato in the ice water and suck it every
time you think you must have the
whisky.’ I did as he advised. I took
‘ the bowl of ice water and the potato and
placed them on a table at the head of my
bed and would dip the potato in the
water and place it between my lips every
few moments till I went to sleep. I
awoke free from any desire to drink
: whisky and have been free from it ever
since. That one treatment eradicated
my craving for whisky for all the time
that has since,elapsed.”—Buifalo Cou-
rier.
Prepared Breakfast \Vhllc Asleep.
Somnambulism has' in all ages fum-
ished many curious illustrations, and
among them may be noted one that 00o
curred in a West Utica residence a few
days ago. The husband and wife were
aroused by the breakfast bell ringing in
the middle of the night. They arose
1 and discovered that it was 2 o'clock, but
' on hastily dressing and going down *0
the dining room they found breakfast
ready and waiting for them. They were
greatly alarmed at the condition of
things, for they at first imagined that
the hired girl had suddenly gone in-
sane. '
After a few minutes. however, they
discovered that she was asleep. She had
got up, started the fire, prepared the
morning meal and had it ready for serv-
ing, but was sound asleep all the time.
The only unusual thing was her failure
to put on her shoes. They were in a
quandary as to what course to pursue,
for the girl could not be awakened, and
seemed to take it as an affront that they
should insist that. she was asleep. The
gentleman was about to summon a
physician. when the wife dashed a glass
of cold water in the girl‘s face and she -
awoke. She was badly frightened over
the occurrence, but as this was the first
time in her life she had ever exhibited
somnambulistic tendencies. and as she
has done no housework in her sleep since.
thehousehold has ceased to be disturbed.
”U'tica Observer.
The Difl‘erence.
Well Known Millionaire (to a beggar)
—Be off with you, this minute!
Beggar—Come. now. my man, you
The
only difference between you and meis
' that you are making your second mil-
lion, while I am as yet working at the
first.
The Benson He Had. I
One—You haven‘t a single reason why
j you won't join our club.
Tother—Perhaps not. but I have a
married reason—Detroit Free Press.
Doing the Best He Could.
Hopper—Is the baby get-ting old
enough to entertain himself?
Popper—No; but he rolled out of bed,
broken window and fell dowstairs to-
day and we are feeling very much en-
5 ’conruged.~—St. Leuis Republic.
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