Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — Page 6

®lje JemocrflticSeiitinti RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - Publisher

ROAD TO THE CLOUDS.

‘ PROJECTED ELECTRIC RAILWAY TO THE JUNGFRAU. 9k* Magnificent Peak of the Bernese Alps, 13,671 Feet Above the Level of the Sea, Soon Can Be Beached by the the Back System of Railroading. Plan of Ascent. The Jungfrau, the magnificent •now-covered peak of the Bernese Alps, is soon to be reached by ralL The European bourses are selling the stock of a projected Jungfrau railway, for which M. Guyer-Zeller, of Zurich, the principal owner of the great Northeast Railway, has Justreeeived a “concession” by the Swiss Federal Council. The Jungfrau is situated on the boundary line of the Cantons Berne and Valois. Its height is 13,671 feet, 200 feet less than that of Mont Blanc, the giant among the mountains of Europe. In 1890 a project to reach the summit by rail was launched, but the plans were not feasible. The present4>lan is to start the road on the Scheideck Mountain (Wengern Alp), some six thousand feet above the sea. The rack system of railroading, which is employed by the Mont Oenis, Righi and Zermatt Railways most successfully, will be used in pulling up the cars to the Jungfrau, being re-enforced by electricity. The

rack engine, as the Illustration ■hows, has a boiler of the vertical erder, and four cylinders, the outer pair of which are connected with wheels running on ordinary rails, while the inner pair operate a cen-tral-toothed wheel, running on a •ingle-racked rail. The two sets of cylinders can be worked separately or together. The route of the Jungfrau Railway will be as follows: From its starting point, the line ascends to the foot of the Eiger Glacier, which is to be tunneled, the trains entering on the east side and coming out in the south at Station Eiger, which is 9,500 feet above the level of the sea. The tunnel is to be open on the outer side. From Station Eiger the line moves, again by tunnel, in the direction of the “Monk” Mountain, until it reaches the Jungfrau-Joch, and, leaving the tunnel there, the railroad ascends to the so-called small plateau, winding itself around the mountain in spiral form like the thread on a screw. The small plateau is 12,500 feet above the level of the sea, and in midsummer clear of snow. There a gigantic elevator will be constructed, powerful enough to hoist fifty people

COGWHEEL TRUCK OF LOCOMOTIVE.

to the mountain summit on each trip. The railroad will ba 50,000 feet long, and for power and lighting purposes electricity will be employed throughout The falls of the Luetschine River and the Truemmel stream are to furnish the power for electrical engines. Work will be started in the spring. The engineers hope to finish the railroad to Station Eiger within two years. In the summer of 1898 American tourists will be able to reach the summit of the Jungfrau, as M. GuyerZeller says, in true United States fashion, by elevator. The cost of the undertaking is estimated at about <2,000,000. The first great mountain railroad constructed in the Alps was that to Mont Cents, 6,775 feet above the sea, finished in 1865. Then followed the Right Culm Railroad, finished six years later, and finally the Zermatt railway, which was thrown open to travel in the summer of 1891. The latter is twenty-two miles in length. The locomotives on these railways, which are fed by coal, are of 105 horse-power, and travel at ’the rate of 16,000 feet per’hour. These roads are also constructed on the rack system.

SALVINI AND BOOTH.

Kxtraordinary Receipt* of Their Performance* In Three Cities. From California we returned to New York, where I had an offer to play for three weeks with the famous artist, Edwin Booth, to give three performances of “Othello" a week, with Booth aslagoand me as Othello. The cities selected were New York, Philadelphia and Boston, writes Salvinl, in the Century. As the managers had to hire the theaters by the week, they proposed that we should give “Hamlet” as a fourth performance, with Booth as Hamlet and me as the Ghost I accepted with the greatest pleasure, flattered to be associated with so distinguished and sympathetic an artist I cannot find epithets to characterize those twelve perform ancesl The word "extraordinary” is not Mongh, nor is “splendid;" I will eub them “unique,• for I do not be-

LOCOMOTIVE FOR JUNGFRAU RAILWAY.

lieve that any stmilir combination has ever aroused such interest in North America. To give some idea of it, I will say that the receipts for the twelve performances were $43,500, an average |of $3,625 a night , In Italy such receipts would be something phenomenal; in America they were very satisfactory. During this time I came to know Booth, and I found in him every quality that can characterize a gentleman. The affability and modesty of his manners rendered him justly loved and esteemed, not only by his countrymen, but by all who had the fortune to make his acquaintance. Where Old English Survives. A correspondent of the Boston Herald writes from the Hot Springs in the North Carolina Mountains: “This is the land of the ‘poor whites,’ who dwell in windy cabins among the mountains, and seem to have nothing to live upon. A kindly, hardy race of mountaineers, they live usually to old age, in spite of what seems like great privation; and they retain in their usual forms of speech many of the old English words which were commpn in Shakspeare’s time. They are apt to appeal to the rifle or shotgun in settlement of a feud, but convictions for murder are rare, although many cases come to trial. Recently in this vicinity one mountaineer was arraigned for fracturing a neighbor’s skull; and a venerable woman from the mountains was called to the witness-stand. ‘Did you ever hear Jim threaten to hurt Bill?’ asked the lawyer. T reckon I did,’ answered the witness. ‘I heerd him say he’d bust his mazzard one day when he was right smart ambitious.’ “Here is the survival of an ancient

word among the mountains of North Carolina. Hamlet says in the gravedigger's scene-. “ ‘Why, e’efi bo; and now my Lady Worm’s chapless, and knocked about the mazzard with’ a saxton’s spade; here’s fine resolution, and we had the trick to see’t. ’ “‘Ambitious’ mean ‘ugly’ in the vernacular of a mountaineer, and it is more than probable that some remote ancestor of the venerable witness was transport) l this part of the world for the mazzard’ of some fellow Briton. “The people of the lowlands coming into constant contact with those whom the Shakers call ‘world’s people,’ have lost the language which their progenitors brought with them from England when they ladded and forced the convict ssttiers back Into the mountains. But the mountain men, seeing few strangers In their rocky homes, have retained much of the original speech which they inherited from the exiles of Elizabeth's reign. ’

Deceased Ancestors in China.

The Chinese dislike to Western innovations which is now threatening the peace of that country, especially in the province of Human, is curlously illustrated by a correspondent who is employed in the service of the telegraph company which built the first telegraph line in China. It is well known that the Chinese used to pull down the lines at night, and that it became necessary to lay the wires underground, otherwise, theie would be no telegraphs in the country to-day. The reason given is that the Chinese venerate their deceased ancestors so profoundly that they will not allow even a shadow to fall upon their graves. As a rule, there are no cemeteries in China, the dead being buried near the dwellings of the living, and hence there is hardly a field or garden which has not its sacred place. Since China is so thickly populated, the telegraph men found themselves embarrassed by graves on every hand, and the people flung down the posts and menaced the workingmen’s lives. On applying to the authorities for the reason of this hostility, the engineers were told that at certain hours of the day the poles cast shadows over the tombs beside them; and, as neither money nor persuasion would overcome the sentiments of the people, all the lines in China have been laid underground.

Sugar at Retail.

Grocers everywhere assert that there is little or no profit in retailing sugars, and housekeepers confirm this by saying that there is small economy In buying sugar by the keg. The tradition touching the small profit in handling sugar at retail is certainly more than 100 years old, for a writer in the middle of last century affirmed that London grocers of .that day were often out £6O to £7O a year for paper and packthread used in wrapping up sugar, and some grocers would not sell sugar to a customer who did not at the same time purchase some other article.—Chicago Herald.

Wooden Swearing.

There is a kind of swearing, which many people are given to, when they are angry. Instead.pl giving vent to their feel isig»4n oaths, they slam the doors, kick the, chairs, stamp,on the floor, throw the furniture about and make all the tfdlse they possibly can. It is practically the same thing as swearing—springs. fron&Jbhe same kind of feelings exactly, - .but avoids saying thhsre awful woras. They force the furniture to make the noise, and so I call it wooden swearing. —Texas Siftings.

DIED BY THOUSANDS.

AWFUL RAVAGES OFTHE PLAGUE IN LONDON IN 1665. Men Fell Like Autumn Leave* and Were Thrown Into NameleM Grave* Without Burial Bites—Murdering the Living, Bobbins the Dead. A Tale of Horror. The great epidemic that visited London in 1665, wiping out nearly 100,000 lives, must be reckoned one of the most disastrous visitations In history. London at that time was

A FAMILIAR SIGHT DURING THE PLAGUE.

ripe for an epidemic. It had a population of nearly 500,000, and the majority of the people were badly housed. The city was built mainly of wood and plaster. The streets were narrow, badly paved, worse drained, and never cleaned. Under the very windows of the palaces the streets reeked vith unspeakable abomination. In December, 1664, the first case of the epidemic occurred, but it was not until the following June that the people realized their perilous position and the horrible nature of the disease. In the second week of June 120 deaths occurred. A sudden panic swept over the city. The royal court fled to Oxford and thousands left the city as if fleeing from a charnal house. By August the city was at the mercy of the plague. Business was at a standstill. Streets once thronged were as quiet and deserted as the grave, and whole rows of houses were shut up, their occupants having fled. As soon as the disease was known to be present in any dwelling the house was shut up and marked in the middle of the door with a red cross a foot long, ani above it the printed words, “Lord have mercy upon us.” No one was suffered to leave the smitten house unless it was to go to the pest house. The authorities endeavored in every manner to isolate the infected, and those who in any way had come in contact with them were required to carry a red wand before them while traveling the streets. The dealers in the necessaries of life—all other traffic was suspended—received the money from their customers in disinfectants. People were afraid to speak to their best friends, and walked in the middle of the streets lest they should come in contact with others leaving their homes. All domestic animals were banished from the city, beggars were not allowed to frequent the streets, and all games that might draw a crowd were forbidden. Burying the Dead. As the plague progressed burials ceased to be performed with any religious ceremonies. The dead became so numerous that it was impossible any longer to preserve the individuality of a corpse. Pits were

GATHERING UP THE DEAD DURING THE PLAGUE.

dug, at first so small as to contain only 50 or 60 bodies each, but afterward they reached proportions sufficient to accommodate over 1,000 corpses each. The pits were generally dug down to the water and into these the rich and poor, the innocent child and the hoary reprobate were flung. There were no prayers, no friends to weep a last farewell; only hired bearers attended each commitment to earth. The dead carts went their dreary rounds by night, accompanied by a man ringing a bell, who called out as he passed the Infected houses, “Bring out your dead.” Then the bodies were piled on the carts and were taken to a common burial ground. And yet amid all this the depravity of human nature blossomed. The living were robbed by hireling nurses; the dead were stripped of the linen enshrouding their bodies; nay, what is more horrible by far, nurses after robbing killed the unhappy creatures committed to their care that they might hasten elsewhere to pillage and to murder. From the middle of August to the middle of October the plague was at its height. In these two months there perished of the plague 49,705.' The most fatal week was that between the 12th and 19th of September, when there died of all diseases 8,297, of whom 7,165 were killed by the plague. The entire mortality during the prevalence of the epidemic, which did not entirely die out until winter, was nearly 100,000. A violent fever, ending either in death or in an eruption of inflammatory tumors, generally marked each case of the plague. If the tumors broke the patient was considered . ree nom danger. In other cases the invasion of the disease was sudden, and many thus attacked fell down and died in the streets, in the market houses and in their homes.

Adopted Names.

Authors are apt to become very fanciful about their names, as soon as the latter have received public approbation. J. B. Jeaffreson says that his friend, William Stigand, was uneasy about his surname until he had changed the spelling of It, so that it stands thus on the title-page of one book and “Stigant” cn another. Will-

lam Hepworth Dixon did not receive his middle name from bis parents, but assumed it at his own discretion. Charley Shirley Brooks, formerly editor of Punch, had no right, except that <jf adoption, to his middle name; and perhaps, had he foreseen that the satirical humor of the day would convert it into “Shallow,” would have been willing to remain plain Brooks.” , , Abraham Hayward a literary veteran, detested his own Christian name, but an essayist who was ignorant of the fact insisted on addressing him by it in an open letter on some public affair. Mr. Hayward died in a few months, and a remorseless joker worried the essayist by declar tng that the deceased had merely been killed by this excessive use of his Christian name. George Henry Tfcornbury, who has done such good work in general literature, was once asked why he had taken to calling himself “Walter.” “As my ballads have made so decided a hit,” he explained, “I have decided to call myself Walter altogether.” The questioner smiled, and Thornbury added: “Surely you must see that Hen-e-r-y. Hen-e-r-y, is not a flt name for a writer of ballads, and that George is almost as bad, though no doubt Byron was a George. Walter is a much better name for a poet; so henceforth be good enough to speak to me and think of me as Walter.” A name seems so Irrevocable a fact to some of us that we do not stop to consider how recently certain famous ones have been changed or modified. The Alcotts were not originally Alcott, but Alcock; and the Brontes, of good and great memory, were, not so many generations before the day of the famous Charlotte, an Irish family named Prunty. And thus have decided or eccentric men modified the spelling of their names, as they might change the fashion of their beards.

SAVED BY A HORSE.

A BemarkEble Example of Equine InteUl(fence. James B. Dill, a New York lawyer, has a little girl about 12 years old who owes her life to the affection and Intelligence of one of Mr. Dill’s horses. Mr. Dill has a very tine stable of hufitcrs at his home at Orange

SAVED BY THE HORSE.

and although he does not hunt himself he loves to ride across country and is out every pleasant morning. He is often accompanigl by his daughter. One day recently Mr. Dill went out to ride alone and whqn he returned to the stable his little daughter came toward the stable to greet him. Mr. Dill was standing inside the stable door, talking with the groom and had the bridle of Jack, the bay horse he had just been riding, in his hand. Suddenly he heard a scream. Jack heard it, to. Before his master had time to turn around the horse had jerked the bridle away and was running across the stable yard. Mr. Dill followed and what he, saw was calculated to make him follow pretty rapidly. His little daughter was being attacked by a dog, a big, ugly, yellow cur, that did not belong around the place. Its teeth were tearing her dress and she was vainly struggling to free herself. Jack must have had an'appreciation of her danger. Running until he had reached the little girl and the dog he reared up on his hind legs and brought his forefeet down with crushing force on the vicious cur. The dog released its hold on the child’s clothing and fell; but Jack had not finished his work. Turning just as the dog was about to rise again he let fly his hind legs and gave the cur a kick that landed it in a heap against a stone fence full ten feet away. Then Jack’s work was done —the dog was dead and his friendls life was saved.

A Rabbit Drive in Texas.

In the Panhandle of Texas the rabbits are very nearly as much of a nuisance as they are in Australia, and the problem of how to exterminate is a serious one. Unlike the prairie dog, which moves when civilisation reaches his habitation, the jack rabbit will remain very near the settlements and run the chances of being killed. Parties are formed to drive these rabbits. A triangle, with the sides about a quarter of a mile long and the base about an equal distance across, is formed with closely constructed wire fences or wire screening. The hunters separate very much as in a fox hunt and, going in a circle, meet a short distance below the base of the triange, beating the grass as they go. Then, closing in, they drive the rabbits into the triangle, and the animals suspect no danger until they are huddled together at the point. They try to jump the fence, and, falling in that, make a rush to reteat. The hunters are armed with stout clubs and kill them by the hundred. It is not uncommon for two or three thousand to be killed ift a single drive. The sport is an exciting one, as the animals are exceedingly quick in their movements and will execute some very artful dodges to try to pass the hunters. The King of Dahomey, wishing to communicate with his father, who had the excellent fortune to be dead, cut off the head of his mother so that she could act as messenger. As an instance of filial devotion the case is complex and further confused by the circumstance that while the headsman was at work the King looked on calmly smoking a pipe. The King is clearly entitled to some recognition. He deserves at least the privilege of being sent forthwith to join his lamented parents, bearing his owij head under his arm.

AN ILLINOIS MIRACLE

A CASE OF DEEP INTEREST TO WOMEN EVERYWHERE. Saved Through a Cuual Glance at a Newspaper—Weak, Pale and In a Deplorable Condition When Relief Came—A Remarkable Narrative Carefully Investigated by a Dabnqne Times Reporter. [Dubuque. lowa, Timet.] Among the peculiar conditions with whicn tne people of thepre?ent age are endowed u a remarkable capacity tor doubting. 2'Ae 2imee determined upon a thorough investigation into a medical case out in Savannah, HL, as a matter of news, with the result that the case was even more remarkable than the public had been given to understand. Mrs. Kenyon was a good talker and told the story in a terse way as lollows: “I was born in Warren County, New York, thirty-three years ago. I was married when 1 was 1H anu came to Savannah seven years ago. With the exception of being at times subject to violent sick headaches, I considered myself a healthy w.man up to five years ago. At tnat time I was very much run down and an easy prey to the ever present ma.aria in and about the Mississippi bottom lands. I was taken violently ill. The local physicians said I was affected by malaria and intermittent fever. I continually grew weaker and finally went to iee Dr. McVey, of Clinton, lowa, who is reputed to be one of the ablest physicians in the Mississippi valley. He treated me for a time without beneficial effects. I then consulted a prominent doctor of Savannah. My stomach would not retain the.medicine he gave me and he came to the conclusion that my stomach was badly diseased. Occasionally I would choke down and nearly suffocate. I then went to Dr. Maloney and he pronounced it a case of heart trouble. He helped me only temporarily. All this time I had grown weaker and paler until I was in a deplorable condition. I had a continual feeling of tiredness, my muscular power was nearly gone, and 1 could not go up half a dozen steps without resting, and often that much exercise would cause me to have a terrible pain in my side. Seemingly the blood had left my veins. I was pale as death; my lips were blue and cold and I had given up all hope of ever getting better. My husband insisted that I snould take some of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. When the e had been used I was somewhat improved in health. I continued their use and felt I was growing stronger, my sleep refreshed me and it seemed as if I could feel new blood coursing through my veins. I kept on taking Pink Pills until a short time ago, and now I consider myself a healthy, rugged woman. My house is full of boarders, and I superintend all the work myself. In other words, 1 work all the time and am happy all the time. lam positive that Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People saved my life, and I believe there are thousands of women who could find great relief if they used them. The sick headaches 1 was subject to from girlhood have disappeared, and I have not had a single attack since I commenced taking Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills." One of her neighbors said: “Mrs. Kenyon's recovery is something marvelous. She was reduced to a mere shadow, and was the palest and most ghost-like person I had ever seen. If miracles are not performed in these days I would be pleased to know how to describe a case of this kind.” Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, it seems, contain in a condensed form all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood, and restore shattered nerves. They are an unfailing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus’ dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after effects of the grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, that tired feeling resulting from nervous prostration; all disea-es resulting from vitiated humors in the blood, such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc. They are also a specific for troubles peculiar to females, such as suppressions, irregularities and all forms of weakness. They build up the bood and restore the glow of health to pale or sallow cheeks. In men they effect a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, overwork, or excess of whatever nature. These Pills are manufactured by the Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y., and are sold in boxes at 50 cents a box, or six toxes for $2.50. They are never sold by the dozen or hundred.

Editor Not to Be Muzzled.

On Friday last Councilman David Smith turned his little finger over his thumb a few times tco often, became uproariously drunk and was promptly arrested by Marshal Davis and lodged in the lockup to cool off. He was taken before Judge Neal Monday and was fined $2 and trimmings. We wish to say in this connection that we were im! portuned not to write this up, but will say that it is a news item and is a mat ter that the public have a right through their local' paper to know about.—Vanceburg Sun.

Freak of a Fish.

In the window of a cigar store on Columbus avenue, New York, is to be seen a freak of nature that attracts much attention. It is a goldfish without any fin’on its back. Otherwise it is perfectly developed, and seems to suffer no inconvenience frpm the absence of this part of its anatomy. There is said to be but one other such specimen In the country, and it is a stuffed one in the Smithsonian Institution at Washington.

A Standard Bearer.

In the ernsade Inaumirated nearly half a century ago against the professional ignorance of the old school of medicine, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters was a standard- bearer. Its victories over disease, when the old-time specifics proved abject failures, proved that the pseudo-philosophy which sanctioned the administration of violent remedies where the case required none, which laid down as unalterable rules blood-letting, violent purgation, the use of emetics and the employment of corrosive and cumulative poisons in simple cases of liver and malarial complaint, was in fact the worst of unphilosophy, contrary alike te the laws of true medicinal science, of hygiene and of common sense. Biliousness, constlpa“on chills and fever, as now treated' by the Bitters, promptly yield where before they obstinately resisted old-fashioned medication. Bo do dyspepsia, rheumatism and kidney comP>uht—all surely conquerable by this safe and really philosophic remedy.

Scottish Expedient.

A curious method°of resuscitation in vogue among the miners of Scotland in the case of insensibility from exposure to choke-damp, and which is said to be very efficacious, is as follows: The half suffocated man is placed face downward over a hole freshly dug in the earth, and allowed tp lie until he shows signs of consciousness. The idea involved in this proceeding is that the fresh earth draws the foul gas out of the lungs.

Light and Tough.

Australians are beginning to use horseshoes made of cowhide.

MONTANA HAS AN ICE MINE.

Proapaecon Cslag It M a Ref rlferator aad Meat Safe. An “ice mine" Is reported from New York Gulch, Meagher County, Montana. In early days the gulch turned out $2,000,000 worth of gold, but of late years It has been nearly deserted. Last summer, says the Northwest Magazine, two prospectors uncovered the mouth of an old shaft and glanced curiously down it. They saw the Ice, which reached up to within four feet and eight inches of the surface. They considered it curious, and thought what a good place it would be to keep their meat, butter and other food from spoiling while they were working in the neighborhood. They lowered their provender into the ice mine with the best results. Naturally they told of their And to other miners, with the result that for a radius of three or four miles around the miners came to the ice shaft, lowered the beef and other provisions into the mine, putting their tag on it, and hoisting the rope from time to time as provisions were needed. It is a godsend to the miners, as it enables them to keep meat fresh in the very hottest weather. The miners are unable to give any solution of this strange phenomenon. The formation of the gulch is shale, reddish in color and full of fissures. It is supposed that gusts of air from a cold cave may have underground connections with the shaft, and rapid evaporation near the top may explain the continued formation of ice there as it iv cut away.

A TOMBSTONE EULOGY.

A Pious Pennsylvania Man and the Fathet of an Enormous Family. In the old Pine Creek graveyard at Jersey Shore is a grave marked by i time-stained slab bearing the follow Ing unique inscription, says a Rou lette (Pa.) correspondent of the Nev York Sun: »...-. : James MuMubbay. : : Boru in Ireland, June 11, 1764. ; : Emigrated to America in 1700. Was : : converted to God in 1820 and united : : with the M. E. Church. The hue- l : band of three wives, the father of 22 : : children (18 living), the grandfather : : of 82 and great-grandfather of 38, : : who died in Jersey Shore, April 11, ; : 1863, in great peace ana triumph, : : being 64 years a resident of the : : county where he exchanged earth : : for heaven. ; One of the twenty-two children of James McMurray was the late Rev. Jacob McMurray, who at eight years of age Astounded the people of his locality by his precocious power in discussing religious subjects and questions involving nice theological points, and of whom his mother prophesied: “He will become a great preacher and die in the Lord’s harness.” He did become a distinguished and powerful preacher, and in 1885 fulfilled his mother’s prophecy by dying while officiating at communion service in the church. He was the author of the famous local option act, which passed the legislature and disturbed Pennsylvania politics so greatly some years ago.

Do Flying Fish Fly?

A very common error made in natural histories where this fish is mentioned is that it does not fly. “Its supposed flight is nothing more than a prolonged leap; it cannot deviate from a stright line, and cannot rise a second time without entering the water.” ThiSj briefly, is the sort of thing one meets with in textbooks where reference is made to this fish.' The simplest way of dealing with it is the professor's method of answeiing the query of the French Academy whether their definition of a crab was correct The story is so well known that it does not need repetition. As the result of personal observation extending over a good many years, I assert that the exocetus does fly. I have often seen a flying fish rise 200 yards off, describe a semi-circle, and, meeting the ship, rise twenty feet in the air perpendicularly, at the same time darting off at right angles to its previous course. Then, after another long flight, when just about to enter the water, the gaping jaws of a dolphin emerging from the sea gave it pause and it rose again, returning almost directly upon its former course. This procedure is so common that it is a marvel it is not more widely known. A flying fish of mature size can fly 1,000 yards. It does not flap its fins as a bird, but they vibrate, like the wings of an insect, with a distinct hum. The only thing which terminates flight involuntarily is the drying of its tin membranes and their consequent stiffening.;

How He Got In.

In 1777, while Harrodsburg, Ky., was so beset with Indians that the inhabitants were in straits for daily bread, a young man only 16 years old made himself extremely useful by venturing out of the fort before daybreak, and returning with a load of game after nightfall. This intrepid youth was James Ray, afterward Gen. Ray. One day in the year just mentioned Ray and another young man were shooting at a mark near the fort when the second man was suddenly shot down by the Indians. Ray looked in the direction whence the shot had come, and seeing the enemy, was on the point of raising his rifle, when he was set upon by another gang who had crept near him unseen . He tool? to his heels, and being a quick runner, reached the fbrtatnid a shower of bullets. But the gates were shut, and the men inside were so frightened that they dared not open them. Finding himself shut out, Ray threw himself flat on the ground in the rear of a stump, and here, perhaps seven steps from the fort and within sight of bls mother, he lay for four hours, while the bullets of the Indians tore up the ground on either side of him. At last be grew impatient and called out to the garrison: “For heaven’s sake, dig a hole under the cabin wall, and take me in. ” The men inside set to work immediately, and the brave young hunter was speedily safe inside the fort. = “Why is it the English stand for office instead of running for it?” “England is a very small country. I suppose there is standing-room only.” —Harper’s Bazar. Most men look Out forhumber one* most women claim to look out for number two—at the shoe store.— Texas Siftings.

HOW TO HAVE A HONE

SUGGESTIONS TO THOSE INTENDING TO BUILD. A Hoose Handsome, Convenient and Compact—Exterior Is Very Striking—Splendid Cellar for the Storage of Fuel and Other Purposes. An Eight-Room Cottage. For a compact arrangement this handsome house, from Palliser’a American Architecture, cannot be beat. There is a splendid cellar under the whole house, arranged for the storage of fuel and other purposed; a well has also been put down in the cellar which, with the cistern, supplies an unlimited amount of water at the kitchen sink through the aid of a pump. The attic is very spacious, and will be found very useful as a place for drying clothes, or should it be found necessary at some future time two rooms could be finished off, which would be almost as good sleeping rooms as any in the house. There is but one chimney, which is

PERSPFCTIVE VIEW.

so placed that it can be used from all the rooms on first floor; the staircase is also placed in a position to be easy of access from all parts of the house; two doors are placed between the hall and kitchen, a feature which cannot fail to commend itself. The windows in the hall and staircase are filled entirely with ornamental and stained glass, as are also those in the attic; the other windows in the house have the lower sash glazed in two lights of ordinary glass, while the upper sash has a white light in center and small colored lights or* .each side. The interior is finished in a very pleasing, yet economical manner, the casings of doors and windows are trimmed with a back mold, though they are not mitred at the angles as is usually done, but a square block, ornamented with sunk work to be picked out in color is placed in the corner, and the molding cut square against it; this is a decided improvement on the monotonous mitred back 'mold which we see in nearly every house. The rooms are all of ample accommodation to meet the requirements, and

PLAN OF FIRST FLOOR.

each chamber is supplied with a good closet. The exterior is very striking, the front gable very handsome, and a free rendering of what is known as the Queen Anne style of architecture; the front veranda, and especially the hood over entrance, is very pretty—in fact, this is one of the prettily designed cottages which will always attract attention. An architect designs a building with special reference to the colors to be used in painting, and as color is the life of design, his instructions in this respect should be minutely followed if the desired-result is to be arrived at. This cottage has been

PLAN OF SECOND FLOOR.

painted Venetian red, trimmed with Indian red, the chamfers, cut and sunk work being picked out in black, making it very effective and showing the detail boldly. The cost is SI, 460, and the architects doubt if there is any one who can show a prettier house, either in arrangement or appearance, for the same price.” 0 [Copyright by Palllser, Pilllser <fc Co., New York.]

Girls in China.

Grimly significant is the notice set up by the side of a piece of water in Foochow: “Girls must not be drowned in this pond." The day of woman has not dawned in Qhina. The calamity of a daughter Is a serious one, and it is not infrequently mitigated as we lessen the kitten and puppy nuisance—by drowning. They have a proverb out there that “the worst son is better than the cleverest daughter. ”