Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 14 February 1896 — Page 8

— I ■ ■■ DECATUR, IND. M. BLACKBURN, . • - Pctlujtml We will think Schomburgk ought to have drawn his line just west of the letter “k.” Laureate Alfred Austin is In hard hick. There’s precious little Inspiration In a lion’s twisted tall. Everything Is comparatively quiet In Venezuela, but England is still experiencing those shooting pains In the Transvaal region. The official pay of England’s poet laureate is S3O a month. The indications are that Mr. Austin will not be able to earn his salary. A South Carolina man- has been arrested for kissing a girl after courting ner two years. The next time he will know better than to wait so long. It would be a sorry spectacle if Mr. Bill Hohenzollern were to fight his grandma, but boys have some rights Which old folks are bound to respect . George Q. Cannon wanted to be United States Senator from Utah, but the keublican caucus elected his son, Frank J. Cannon. The young man seems to be a pretty enterprising son-of-a-gun. If Mansfield makes a success on the lecture platform he probably will be Imitated by Anson, Sullivan, Fitzsimmons, Brodie, Zella Nicolaus and other thespian bright lights. The country cannot afford to invite this. Os course, it would be regrettable If Dunraven and Iselin were to meet on the field of honor and shoot each other to pieces, but if the continental yacht row can be stopped in no other way we stand ready to waive all objections to such a settlement. A lawyer In Western Kansas declares tn favor of consolidating a number of counties in order to cut down the offices and save expense, and thinks the proposition will be popular. It is not known whether he is demented or merely working off a rich joke. Birmingham is overrun by rats that ire fed from the sewers. The authorities have taken no steps to exterminate them, because Mr. Chamberlain, when Mayor, declared that rats were good scavengers, who, by eating up garbage, prevented the spread of disease. Following in the line of the rest of the ministry, Mr. Joe Chamberlain advances to remark that'the Monroe doctrine is a highly respectable article of diplomatic furniture, and that Mr. Cleveland Is a gentleman and a man of rectitude. It has taken about three weeks for Qgeat Britain’s attitude to turn about-face. Another fine old tradition has been spoiled. Mrs. Glass’ “Cook Book,” published in the last century, gave a recipe for cooking a hare beginning with “first case your hare,” that is, skin the animal. This was the reading In the first edition, the printer of the next changing the “case” to “catch.” He was a wit, at all events, either by nature or accident In the closing month of 1813 a British force of about 1,200 men, with 200 Indians in addition, marched upon the town of Buffalo, N. Y., and captured it after fifty of Its American defenders were killed. The settlement was then burned, with the exception of one residence and a blacksmith shop. Buffalo is now a city of over 300,000 Inhabitants, while the towns on the Canadian side of the river have grown but little. The village that was wiped out eightytwo years ago could furnish a large army if an emergency required It. _______________ f The butler of the Duchesse de Brissac the other day gave notice of his intention to leave. Being asked for the reason, he explained that he had made one hundred thousand dollars by speculating In South African mining shares; and ah hour later her first footman followed the butler’s example by giving notice on the ground that he, too, had won six thousand dollars by speculation, and that he had determined to enter the service of his friend, the exbutler, to whose pointers and advice he was indebted for his good luck. Replanting and extending the orange groves in Florida probably depend upon finding a good method of protecting the trees against a hard freeze such as' came twice last winter. They were exceptional freaks of weather, but no prudent man will invest in an orange grove without counting on their occasional repetition. Small fruits and grapes in the North are often protected in winter by covering them, and no doubt hortlIculturists will devise some plan to counteract the danger, now clearly recognized, of occasional heavy frosts in ■earth is now banked around the trees tand the branches protected. It should tbe still easier to protect the low-grow-ing pineapple crop, which will be half as large this year as in 1894. Florida farmers are also*, planting the grades of tobacco raised in Cuba, and there Is no danger that too much of it will be produced even after the island is qulet'ed and resumes its old industries. ‘‘ ' Q V . & • •» The replies of the peers and representatives of the Japanese Government to Emperor MutSu Hito’a speech from the throne indicate that the statesmen of Japan are wholly free from any selfish desire to shine Ln their country’s eyes. The House of Peers, addressing

bls majesty, said: ‘There are signa oil growing prosperity of the empire, al prosperity due to the grand and raw sighted policy pursued by your majea-l ty.” And the peers added that It was ■ |helr Intention “to contribute theln humble share to the achievements of imperial policy." The House of] Representatives, In Its speech to the throne, says: “The complete success! that attended the Imperial arms in the war with China has spread the glory of the country far and wide. This Is entirely the result of your majesty’s sacred virtues.” Mutsu Hlto, by grace of bls “sacred virtues,” did it all, and the nation’s statesmen hasten to tell him so. It had been generally supposed that Gen. Yamagata, Count Oyama and a few thousand other Japanese soldiers and officers had taken part In the affair, but the peers correct the false report It was Mutsu Hlto. The affairs of the Manchester 50-mill-lon-dollar ship canal seem to be going from bad to worse. In the last six months of 1895 it carried a barge traffic of 152,116 tons for the small sum of $14,000. The average receipts now amount to about $62,000 per month, while the total monthly charge for interest alone is $130,000. Six months ago the corporation owed the city of Manchester more than $280,000 in arrears of interest, and the debt now must be much greater. The sea-going traffic is being carried on terms which bring in a revenue of but a trifle over 50 cents per ton of 2,240 pounds, and during last year nearly 800,000 tons were carried for only a few cents per ton. It is estimated that the canal company will require to earn at least SIBO,000 per month during the first half of this year in order to meet Interest charges and working expenses, while the present monthly revenue is'less than $70,000. Hence the revenue must be nearly three times as great as now If the company is to “make both ends meet.” It seems probable that the promised Increase of business will have to be continued for a long while before the company gets on a paying basis, and there is some reason to fear it will be swamped under its load before that time arrives. Mr. Depew says: “All the transports and navies of the world could not land upon our shores an army which could march 100 miles from the seacoast, or even return to their ships. With all the world in arms against us the vast Interior of our continent, except in its industrial and economical phases, would know nothing of the trouble and never see a foreign uniform—except on a prisoner of war. Secure in our isolation, supreme in our resources, un-) equaled in our reserves and free from dangerous neighbors, we occupy among the nations of the globe a position so exalted and safe that to compare us with other countries would be absurd. The statesman or the politician who really fears for the safety of this country Is a fool. The statesman or politician who does not fear (because he knows better) and who yet preaches of our weakness and our vulnerability, is a demagogue, and he insults the Intelligence of the American people.” But Mr. Depew speaks not less wisely and patriotically when he declares fori an international court of arbitration,] and asserts that It is the duty of the United States to take the initatlve. This* Is not a warlike country. We have never acquired by conquest a foot of territory; we have conquered and then paid for what any other nation would: have seized as legitimate bootj. He] mistakes the spirit of the American! people who looks upon them as quick! or eager for a quarrel. They have had; enough of fighting. They have never fought in the past except for principles, whose vindication is as dear as na-i tional life itself. They will never fight; in the future except for such principles. Good Rules. A school teacher in the West sends us, with the consent of the “officers” that their names may be used, the “Rules of the tiger Junia foot-ball club,” organized in her school. The little fellows who drew up the rules £a»e set an example in sportsmanship to those whom they would probably denominate their “senias.” We commend the rules to college elevens. It is better to have a good spirit than to be a good speller. 1. We do not allow any one to run and jump on the ball. 2. We do not allow any one to swar or make faces. < 3. We do not allow any one to run and fall over each other. 4. We do not allow any one to try to hurt each other. 5. Nobody is allowed to kick the ball, toward the houses. 6. We do not allow any one to run from bases unLes it is time to. 7. no person is allowed to belong to our order without respect. 8. nobody can play unless his name 18 in the list. 9. no person can throw stones. 10. times we meet after May 16 1895, Wensdays—Saturdays. Dan Hull, Phillip Harrison, Jell Harrison, Harry Hope, Oncers. Where Japanese May Trade. It is reported at Hang-Chow that the high provincial authorities in that city Intend to lay out a settlement for the Japanese for trading purposes in accordance with the recent treaty between the two countries. The spot chosen for this purpose is outside the principal custom house of beginning north of the Kung-Gheng bridge, and having a lateral area east and west of three-miles. The people living within these limits will be allowed to sell land to the expected strangers, but the selling of any other land will be visited with punishment on the offender. One form of toothpick is where a dentist allows a person tq select bis own false teeth.

LOVE’S MILLIONAIRE. >1 I—■ |, 1 I say: ‘The world is lonely; 1 The hearth at home is cold, j And sad Is life to child and wife 3 When life hath little gold!” 5 But soft her arms steal round my neck—--1 My comforter so dear; * And “How much do you love me?" } And her sweet voice answers clear: j “I love you—l love you j A hundred million—there!” And then I'm poor no more—no more, I For I’m love’s millionaire! J Then sweeter seems the breaking Os Poverty’s sad bread; i And roses bloom from out the gloom And crown her curly head. And if sometimes a thankful tear My dreaming eyes will fill, Her soft arms steal around me , And she, whispers sweetly still: [ “I love you—l love you ] A hundred millions—there!” ' I weep no more; God help the poor! I’m Love’s own millionaire! -Frank L. Stanton. i AN UNEXPECTED VALENTINE. I By Bessie Tobin. : When my dear Aunt Maud died—she | died the very summer I graduated— I was really too heart-broken to care what became of me. Still, I had to be | disposed of in some way, so it was decided that I go to live with my brother Richard. I I had always lived with my aunt, had known no other mother; therefore her death was the greatest blow possible to me. And this brother Richard I knew only slightly, and that when 1 was a mere child. If I had been in a state of mind to care about anything I should have hated the idea of going very much. As it was. I went without a murmur. I took the journey alone, almost across the continent, and subsequently, after many ups and downs, arrived at Dick’s town, a queer little village in South Carolina. Dick is a moderately young bachelor. He is an attorney-at-law, and has a very fair practice indeed. Anterior to my advent, he had lived by himself in a pretty cottage on the prettiest street, and was rather a central figure, and was quite the most eligible young man about town. He was not spoiled, though. I found him to be a very dear old fellow, and determined in my heart to be to him such a faithful co-operator and satisfactory housekeeper that he would never need or desire any other. We got on famously together, so famously that in all probability the last chapter would have found us still there, he a grizzly old bachelor, I a grizzled old maid, had not something occurred which brought about a change. It all grew out of what happened one St. Valentine’s eve. On this day, memorable above other days, just about an hour after dinner Dick received a telegram to go up that evening to A , a city fifty miles away, to meet an important client He did not have time to come home, for the train was then in sight,but he scribbled me the following note, which I did not get until nearly midnight, because the office-boy neglected to bring It until that time. v 3:10 p. m. Dear Girl—Have to leave on next train to meet a man in A . Probably won’t get home till tomorrow noon. Spend the night with the Ancient (a dear old lady friend of mine). Be sure to put that money in the bank before it closes at 4. Don’t fail. DICK. It was such a bore to lock up at that late hour and go out for the night. It had been such a gloomy afternoon, and looked like it would rain. Altogether, I did not feel like it. I was not afraid, though I had never stayed alone all night in a house. And the moneyseveral thousand dollars collected for a client—surely I could not at 7 o’clock put money in a bank that closed at 4. I could n«t very well carry it with me to the Ancient’s, and I certainly could not leave it. I had never heard of any burglaries in the village, so I made up my mind that I would stay at home that night, and take the risk, if there was any, because it was troublesome to do other- < wise. I did not want any tea, so I let the servant girl go early, and sat, neglecting even to light the lamps, before a big oak fire in She sitting room “thinking up” one of Dick’s cases. It was a murder case, that had a great deal of circumstantial evidence leading in various directions. I soon became deeply absorbed, so deeply absorbed that I presently went to sleep at it, and in a dream saw our poor man tried, convicted and actually sentenced to be hanged, and was myself possessed of a frantic desire to attend the hanging in person, my nonappearance being wholy due to the fact that I could not find my shoes, being separated from them for some unex-plainable-reason. • I woke up suddenly, frightened to find myself enveloped. In darkness, relieved only by an uncanny red glow from the fast-dying coals upon the hearth. Everything was so still. Not the smallest sound except the ticking of a little clock In my darkened bedroom, and the clicking of the dying coals. I was possessed with a strange, sinking fear. I was afraid to move, afraid to turn my head to left or right lest I should see something terrifying lurking in the gloomy corner®; I fancied it was just before My fear increased rather tha# diminished as the moments dragged by. I could hear my heart beating. I soon

became enthralled by terror. I had a kind of Instinctive animal fear of impending danger. I thought of the money. It was locked up in the cabinet at my right hand, not two yards away. I found myself listening painfully, tortuously. My throat seemed swollen. I swallowed in gulps. I endeavored to rally my courage, to persuade myself that I hnd awakened from a nightmare, and was nervous; that there was nothing to fear, and that I was'making a baby of myself. All to nb purpose. Something was going to happen; something was happening at that moment which would bring me hurt. I could not throw off the notion. Just then it began to rain— a regular downfall, as if the bottom had suddenly fallen but of the clouds. I have never known it to rain so heavily. A perfect deluge, and every drop seemed to penetrate my soul. I did not move. I lay back in my cushioned chair helpless, and felt that 1 could not have raised my hand to my face if my life were the forfeit. Such pouring! •! found myself listening behind the rain—listening for another sound. I had a grotesque idea that the elements and this something that.was coming to me were col- ( leagued together, the one to screen the approach of the other. 1 was listening with every fibre of jny body drawn taut. Listening for what? I did not know. Something thing beyond, behind the rain. Then I heard it. A sound distinct from the I \ rain-patter. A sound emanating from our little drawing room—a scraping, , sawing sound. It came from the front portico. I knew someone was cutting through the Venetian blinds into the house. My faintest doubts vanished soon, when I unmistakably heard the blinds dragged back and the sash creak as it was pushed up. Someone was entering the house! This person, who- i ever it was, knew of my brother’s ab- . sence. Good Heavens! 1 thought of Henry, our office man. He brought the note—an open note. It was he who caused the delay which prevented my . depositing the money. It was as clear as day. I rose rigidly to my feet. In a twinkling my mind was acutely active, and a thousand ways of escaoe surged through my brain in a moment. I unlocked the cabinet and grasped the large pocketbook which contained the notes, and thrust it into my bosom. To what purpose I did not know. I retreated into the dense darkness of my own bedroom, where I stood uncertain and shivering. „ . The windows were too high from the ground to admit of my jumping therefrom without incurring the risk of a broken limb; besides, there was no time. At the first sound of my putting : up the sash I would be detected and 1 overpowered. I heard a heavy tread I along the hall. An idea flashed into my , head like the incision of a blade. I clutched the money in my bosom, and stepped into the empty fireplace. In another moment I was scrambling up the sooty chimney with the agility of ; a finished chimney-sweep, and I kept ' scrambling until I had made a strong-1 hold for myself. What.went on down below I did not J know. In the cessations of the rain 1 could hear the heavy tread passing to and fro in a search, I knew, for that money. But I, from my lofty vantage ground, could only thank Heaven again and again for such a blessed deliverance. I was so benumbed with cold and fright that I think I lost consciousness, and would probably have tujnbled down the chimney but that I was so rigid and so walled in I could not. The next thing I remember was opening my eyes and seeing the square of wan light above me, Then realizing all, my strength gave way. and I fell heavily, striking my head against something which left me senseless for hours. When I came to myself I was in the arms of a young man who I had never seen before. He sat upon thg floor, and held my head across his knees, while he wiped the blood from my cut forehead with a pocket handkerchief, which every now and then he would squeeze out in a basin of water at his elbow. I don’t suppose.there ever was a more terrified young man upon this earth of ours. Imagine an inoffensive young man turning up in a town where an intimate friend lived, coming in on the 1 very train that takes this intimate ! friend out. Imagine this intimate friend cordially inviting the newcomer : to his house, telling him there was nobody in it, but.that he could put up there, make himself lord and master, find plenty to eat by foraging around, and get a good bed. Then to make the thing complete, gave him the wrong keys by which to let himself in. Imagine this newcomer booming about town until 11 o’clock, then striking out for his friend’s abode; overtaken by the rain; at last to arrive at his intended abiding place to. discover he has the wrong keys, which necessitates his climbing into the house like a burglar. Imagine him piling into the first bed he comes to, very soon sinking into the untroubled slumber of the innocent at : heart, to be awakened at the peep of day by a something tumbling down the chimney. Not a hobgoblin—that were better—but a young woman bespattered ■ and grimy, but still a young woman, and one probably more dead than alive. Imagine it all if you can, for that is ■ what happened to the misguided young ; man, who held me across his knees and ; wiped the blood from my broken fore- • head on that memorable St. Valentine’s ;■ morning. Imagine it and tell me if men through ■ stupidity .don’t cause half of all the I trouble in’the-world: We explained it [ all to each other as best we could, for • I was really 111, and quite readv to go t off Into another swoon. When the servant girl came he went for the doctor, - and Mary got me to bed. I Dick came at noon, and was horrified 1 at what had happened. But the doctor

had pronounced me more frightened than hurt; and, really, but for the dreadful cold I caught and my wounded forehead, it did not amount to anything, and soon became a treinendour joke. And it turned out that this friend of Dick’s, whose acquaintance I made in such an unconventional fashion, was the very client whose money I defended. And it also came about that—that he —that I- that wo have—we have grown to know each other very well; and Dick—Dick is to look out for another co-operator before next fall; because—well, for reasons best known to myself. Electricity in the Earth. “Take a spade, turn up a sifiall quantity of soil, hold a portion in your hand, hold it up to your ear, then smell it. You will observe first a slight motion, I hear a faint sound as of the moving of distant timber, and readily notice the odor of heat. Do you know that the forces held in your hand are from electricity; that the earth for three feet deep is alive with the Invisible power and forms the secret of vegetable life? Waves of electricity are constantly passing through the soil in unseen billows, thus keeping the soil from souring, as the billows of the ocean keep the waters from becoming stagnant. To demonstrate this fact, go to some rock-bound pool, dip out a small quantity of the polluted water, place It in a bottle, cork and set aside in a warm place for a short time. Then take the bottle into a dark room, shake the bottle and draw out the cork, and you will see tiny forks of blue lightning shoot out from the bottle, and if you keep perfectly quiet you will hear faint mutterings like thunder. This comes ■ from the flint-like rock preventing the i unbroken flow of electricity through the soil and from the air becoming charged and emptying itself into tbe water. „ : -Electricity, as is being gradually shown, is fire—Are of friction, if you will, the first known by the Inhabitants of our globe. Look at an arc lamp and see Its combined sparks as they emit from the carbons so swiftly that they are taken for a regular flame of eye-bedazzling light. In the ages to come the charges of electricity will keep on accumulating, until some commotion of the earth will cause It to ignite, when, in the twinkling of an eye, I our world, with all it contains, will be enwrapt and consumed by a conflagration that will startle if not frighten the inhabitants of other planets as they look down upon the flaming mass and i see it burn up one of the greatest works ( of the Almighty’s creation.” Distilling Pepperment Oil. The manufacture of essential oils from peppermint, wormwood, sassafras and sage is practically the same, and all of these plants are raised quite ex- | tensively in the country for this puri pose. The cost of the distilling mai chlnery for making these oils does not 1 amount to more than $25 to SSO, and the work is conducted upon many small farms in the country. Near St. Joseph, Mich., extensive fields of peppermint are cultivated for distilling the oil. The process is very similar to that of extracting birch oil. It consists principally in sending hot steam through t#e mint and thus vaporizing the oil, which is carried with the steam and with it condensed in the worm of the still. From this place the two run together in a steady stream to the “separator.” This is nothing more than a tin vessel resembling a coffeepot, with a spout rising from near the bottom to about an inch below the top. When the oil and water runs into this, the water sinks to the bottom, and tbe oil, being lighter, rises to the surface. The two are thus separated, so that the oil can be skimmed off with a spoon. It costs about as much to raise an acre of peppermint as it does an acre of com, and the yield of oil is about ten to twenty pounds to the acre. The prices for this oil vary greatly in the market, but it is usually a pretty expensive article. The other essential oils made from the plants and vegetables named above have been made for many : years in this country, and in the Teni nessee mountains, the country people ■i making a living in gathering the herbs for the oil mills. The plants grow wild ■ there in great oprfusion, and they are ; gathered by the hundreds of tons. I While large quantities are used right in the mountains for distilling -the oil, others are dried and shipped to the cit< les in that condition. A Light in His Pocket. A number of electric lamps of various sizes and Shapes have been patented and are constructed by an electrical engineer in Vienna. These lamps come in the shape of bottles, clocks, opera glasses.in fact,any desired shape, but are all constructed after the same principle. The neck of this bottle contains a small battery. In which three pairs of platinum and zinc elements of the smallest possible size are concealed. This battery has a six-volt tension and furnishes a current of from four to five amphere intensity. A minute incandescent lamp is connected with the ?oles of the batter, and protected by a unob of cut glass, the lower part of which is silvered and acts as a reflector. The body of the bottle contains the reservoir, in which a fluid, which is furnished by the inventor of the apparatus, is kept. When the light is to be used the top containing the battery Is screwed off, ahd the bottje is filled. During 1804, 3,315 patents relating to electricity -were granted in Great Britain, the United States and Germany. Os these 1,130 were British, being one-twentieth of all British patents, 1,704 wore American, and 481 were German. ,

SUPERSTITIONS C II Sixpences C« -i I Other Char W Cecil Rhodes haa the H and the strong teeth tha hl of his type. So great ha |t«. || of this man that South eel ||| times got him to bite bxhJ®® A young Englishman I I evening in Bohemia pref, . M ditional crooked "PC/K $ pocket and told how Ce*»t bitten it. The possessor lk« with it for many times < body laughed at the sufjr .« 1 as it turned out, ijfMirj" V present had someWch Yc at he of the crooked sixper j e . />' ■ his companions quite b efficacy of his charm, bu iy dally with the superstitio M ' company carried an oh penny to jingle J in his pocket. AnotMr, o rt • 1 cigarette case, showed aL,. \iu' snake skin, supposed to ej I tie influence upon poker itt, [ It was a cosmopolitan 11' ■ ■ of decidedly modern quail]' ly skeptical about*maMj ' • most good persons belletC. jorlty of its members ca[e / to bring good luck. If ever pany could be induced r show of pocket pieces F avowal of superstitions L but not quite disregarded! L would rather astonish f] lieve this a skeptical. agl a English hangman, ■ pretty penny by selling F | with uncanny histories. I _ w The coral beads brought Europe as presents to <t A really designed to keep off i | The branches of the coral a like the horns of a horsesl off ill luck. Amber bead S| by many excellent persons J|J erysipelas. Ther6 many New Yorkers carry! bit's foot, a’ young woma! j not very long ago to stoop wet and muddy day, pick . shoe from the pavement ol ?■ nue, and tuck it away uffife: < ' proof. None of the great < £ sails from this port on Fi crescents of gold and Ivory 1 watch chain by many persoi lets to keep off evil spirits. J; is the horn or prong, as in U shoe. This crescent is one < monest forms for the so-ca J charms. p The old superstition that a the arm gives strength among some New Yorkers. I J of several metals and desigr !* off rheumatism are sold by . York jewelers. In spite of tl: ‘ (i the Thirteen Club has flou many years, few hostesses i: | of the town would care | of thirteen persons, for whih ’ | ess might be indifferent 1 f tiou she could by no means ( I that every one of her guests ■ h as free from its tyranny, houses iii all parts of tbe cl f; tenement houses are found lu h shoes over their doors, titd t| U East Side house where the do er is made of two horseshoes,' to the door, the other hing<i first. I A Hot Place. The hottest region on the ea face is on the southwestern r Persia, on the border of the , Gulf. j For forty consecutive f months of July and August fi’ cury has been known to stai ! 100 degrees in the shade I and to run up as high aS 130 , L in the middle of the afterm F Bahrein, in the centre of the m< ; sL part of this most torrid belt, ai it were nature’s intention to nlWj place as unbearable ns posslbl y from wells is something w Great shafts have been suit ' depth of 100, 200, 300 and even I ■ but always with the same re|| water. This serious drawbaw withstanding, a comparatively* ous population contrives to liv thanks to copious springs whig forth from the bottom of the gut than a mile from the shore. | The water from these spring! tallied in a most curious anl manner. “Machadores” (divers, sole occupation is that of furnish people of Bahrein with the Hff ; | fluid, repair to that portion of til where the springs are situatl! bring away with them huadil/j bags full of the water each dayl water of the gulf where the ei burst forth is nearly 200 feet det these machadores manage to fl;i goatskin sacks by diving to ttfe l ( and holding the mouths of the over the fountain jets—this, too, out allowing the salt water of tl to mix with it. The source of submarine fountains is thought! in the hills of Osmond, 400 or 50C away. Being situated at the b£ttj the gulf it is a mystery how the) ever discovered, but the fact re that they have been known aim dawn of history. The Leopard’s Oyster Supperl A wild leopard being shipped t Muter quarters of Walter L. circus, at Geneva, or, escaped fro cage in a Pennsylvania baggagf The baggage master and express senger barely Nad time to escap< slam the door after them. From to Corry the beast had undisnutec session of the ear and brosl» ■©[ number of packages. He opened and ate five gallons of They made him sick, and at I 1 animal handler had little dlfflK’ driving him into Ids Cage. The whole national debt of Yens Is only $22,000,000.