Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1888 — Page 3

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. A new, rich gold vein haft been opened near Bozeman, Mont. A. M. Wilson, county and state tax collector at Atlanta, Ga., is $20,000 short. Great numbers of sheep on the Montana ranges have been destroyed by wolves. ■ , / Another strike dfemployeftOi X erkes’ street railway lines at Chicago is imminent. .. , The Mayor of Decatur., Ala., has applied for help for the yellow fever sufferers there. . Postal clerk J. H. Hawkins was arrested at Pittsburg, Wednesday, for robbing the mails. There is great destitution among the farmers of Ramsey county, Dakota, and immediate help is needed. Mias Frances E. Willard was re-elect-ed president of the National Women’s Christian Temperance Union. A vessel just arrived at Bangor,Maine, reports the loss of an unknown schooner on Jeffreys bank with all on board. Young Talmage, son of the late general manager of the Wabash system, is on trial for murder at Keylerville, Mo. In New. York Sunday, James Brennan, a policeman, was shot and killed by Harry Carlton, a thief, who was arrested. Albert A. Shaver, ex-Courity Treasurer of Clare county, Michigan, is under arrest, charged with misappropriating SIB,OOO. There was a collision on the Chicago & Alton near San Jose, 111., Thursday, in which one man was killed and three wounded. 1 . George Gordon, a tramp, who had registered illegally at New York, was sentenced Tuesday to Sing Sing for two and one-half years. At Mt. Vernon, Ky., Wednesday, in a fight between town men and employes of Robinson’s show, three men were fatally hurt. The schooner Makah, of Astoria, Ore., was wrecked off the coast of Oregon last week, and it is supposed that all the hands were lost. A natural gas explosion at the Findlay (O.) Pressed Brick Works, Monday, yrecked the building and fatally injured J. M. McClellan and W.C. W ilson, Jr. A passenger train on the Iron Mountain Railroad was held up by train robbers near Newport, Ark., Sunday. Two hundred dollars were taken from the passengers. At Owensburg, Ky., Friday, John Williamson put his mouth to the muzzle and his foot off the hammer of his gun to see if it was loaded. It was, and John is no more. It is said that the anarchists of the country ard quietly making preparations for a public demonstration on the anniversary of the hanging of the five anarchists at Chicago. Mrs. Thomas J. Lynch, a beautiful young woman, delirious with typhoid fever, jumped from the. window of her room in the Hotel Bristol, New York, and was killed. Reports from the Cheyenne reservation are to the effect that unless aid is soonextended to them by the Government great numbers of the Cheyennes will die of starvation. At the Convention pf the American Missionary Association at Providence, R. L, the year’s receipts were announced to have been 1414,196.16, and the disbursements $828,758.48. _ _ There were three failures in Chicago Monday, A. J. Cole & Co., glove dealers, for $30,000, Diez & Peters, contractors,for $72,000, and W. H. Everill, furniture manufacturer, for $6,000. Assistant Postmaster Michael A. Sheldon, of Hudson, N. Y., arrested on the charge of pilfering from the mails, has made a full confession. It is believed his stealings amount to $3,000. David Crack, said to be 107 years old was married Tuesday at Marlboro, Prince George’s county, Mu., to Susana Oaks, a widow of seventy-five years. Crack says he is a vetern of the war of 1812. The Supreme Court of the United States has decided, in the Pennsylvania case, that a State cannot collect a tax on messages sent by a telegraph company, unless they are wholly within the State. Ann Irvine, ft miser, of Sioux Falls; Dak., died Thursday . night amid filth and squalor. A search of her dwelling revealed bonds, notes, mortgages, deeds, etc., amounting in the aggregate to $13,500. At Boston twenty-one women in convention Sunday nominated Miss Alice D. Stockton, of Wheaton, as candidate of the Equal Rights party for Governor . of Massachusetis. She is twenty-six * years of age. Two ladies from Pennsylvania, visiting their brother, A. McKinley, near West Liberty, la., were killed by a Bur- ■> lington and Cedar Rapids passenger train at a crossing. The boy driver was also killed. Moxie Monheimer, a Chicago Herald compositor, has broken the type-setting . record. His “string" for six days, of forty-five and one-half hours, is 101,000 emu. He worked altogether on “straight” copy. ~ .. ■' At Athens, 0., the public schools closed, Mond<y, on account of the prevalence of diphtheria. There was one death on Friday. The prevalence of wet weather seems to increase the virulence of the disease. A sharper is swindling people in Ohio by telling them that a relative has died leaving a large estate, and then collect-

ing an assessment, generally about $8 50 from each to pay the expense of prosecuting their imaginary' claims. Samuel H. Albro, of New 'York,, whose nomination as Superintendent of Indian Schools failed of confirmation by the Senate, has been re-appointed to that by the President. He will at once ent6r upon the duties of his' Office. 4 Lieut. Graydbh’s company, at Indianapolis,- has sold to France the right to use his dynamite shell for $1,006,000. Graydon’s invention consists in using asbestos around the shell to prevent explosion from* heat or concussion before it leave the gun. ■" Frank Whitlock a negro, of Searcy Station, Ala., went hunting while intoxicated. He laid down to sleep with his cocked gun pointing toward him. His dog in a playful mood stepped on the trigger and Frank is now in the happj hunting grounds. * President Cleveland submitted to an interview, Monday, on the Lord Sackvilte letter. He says the proper steps will be taken regarding it, but that he has no fears of its political effect. It is conceded that Minister West will have to retire from the country. Miss Fannie Morris, residing near Grantsville, W. Va., while preparing dinner caught her dress on fire, burning her fatally. Her sister, who held a babe in her arms, tried to quench the flames, but in her haste severely if not fatally burned the child. James Talmage, son of the late A. A. Talmage, general manager of the Wabash Railway, was convicted of murder in the second degree at Keytesville, Mo., Thursday, for killing a telegraph operator named C. P. Tidd, one year ago, and sentenced to twenty-one years in the penitentiary. Colonel W. C.* Forry, United States Land Swamp Commissioner, was arrested at lowa Falls, lowa Thursday and taken to Andora, charged with treating a personal friend to a drink of whisky. He admitted it and was fined SIOO and costs by Mayor Ward. It was a political prosecution. Daniel Hand, an aged, and wealthy resident of Guilford, Conn., has given to the American Missionary Association of New York City the sum of $1,000,000 to be held in trust by the Association and the interest to be devoted to the education of colored people in the old slave States of the South. Thomas Axworthy, City Treasurer of Cleveland, Ohio, and one of the most popular Democrats in Northern Ohio, has gone wrong and to Canada, leaving a shortage in the neighborhood of $200,000.. His entire shortage is about $429,060, but his bondsmen will realize a part of it from his vessels, real estate and other property. Charles W. Waldron, the ’ Hillsdale, Mich., banker, who recently fled to Europe, left E. L. Koon, his partner, in shape to loose about $120,000. Mr. Koon has already paid about $50,000. Now Waldron, in a letter, offers to pay the $70,0( 0 outstanding if a satisfactory arrangement can be made relieving him from prosecution. At Yankton, Dak., Monday, an accident occurred at the Insane Hospital by which Christopher Thompson was instantly killed, Jacob Lee fatally hurt, Superintendant Keen dangerously injured and Michael Curry slightly hurt. The accident was the result of the caving in of the walls of one of the two new wings to the hospital. ' An east-bound freight train on the Pennsylvania Road jumped the track near Tyrone, Tuesday, - apd thirty-five cars of grain were almost totally wrecked. Two boys from Altoona, John Aplin and Edward Fawcett, who were stealing a ride, were caught in the jam and crushed to death. The loss to the company was very heavy. Estimates of this year’s potato crop make it the largest ever grown in this country.. For Indiana ths average yield is 68 bushels to the acre and total yield of 6,791,500 bushels; Illinios 118 average, 17,732,568 bushels total; Ohio 96 average, 15,068,448 total; Kencucky 7.7 average, 4,0 9.544 total. The total for the United States is estimated at 216,646,059 bushels.

A premature explosion of blast in the south face of the Wick’s tunnel, on the Montana railway, south of Helena, Mont., Tuesday, killed ten men and seriously wounded five. The accident was caused by the concussion of a giant cap, fired as a warning in the north face, the headings being now close together. This is the first casualty recorded in the tunnel, which is over a mile in length. Charles C. Fardin, who left Chicago about two weeks ago, taking with him a considerable amoufit of money belonging to the Citizens’Building and Loan Association, has not yet been heard from. It is known that he has. since sent a message to his wife, but she pretends utter ignorance as to his present whereabouts. The experts who have been examining the books of the association claim that instead of. $3,001, as at first supposed, Nardin’s shortage will amount to between $12,000 and $15,000. Information from Guthrie,Todd county, Ky. gives the details of an inhuman tragedy that occurred near 'there Saturday. A colored man named Smith, became infuriated at his wife and beat her to death. Being pursued by the Sheriff* he then grabbed up their little child and fled, and upon reaching the barnyard ■ threw the child into a pond, where it was drowned. The officer attempting to 1 arrest him, Smith also sprang into the

water, resolved to perish rather than to be taken alive, but help was called and he was drawn out and carried to Springfield Tenn., where he is now m jail. . Hermann Baade, a section foreman on the Burlington road, started for Dubuque, Monday afternoon, on a hand car, having with him his Wife, three children and a friend. When rounding a sharp curve they were run down by a special making a quick run between St. Paul and Chicago. The handcar was thrown from the track, and Mrs- Baade, and her two sons, aged seven And ‘thirteen, instantly killed. Mr. Baade And his friend escaped. When the train struck the car, Mrs. Baade threw her baby down a bank twenty feet high and saved its life. .FOREIGN. Two hundred Rouses are in ashes and 1,500 persons are homeless and destitute by a fire at Huenfield Weman, Tuesday. A mutiny occurred among the convicts in a prison at Orbitello. Thirty prisonersand several jailors were kiiled or wounded? ||A Kouban Cossack was arrested Saturday for having in his possession explosives, with which he intended to try and kill the Czar. Five thousand working women of the Whitechapel district in London have sent a petition to the Queen to close all the disreputable houses in the neighborhood. A wholesale system ohfreight robbery has just been discovered on the Mexican Central Railroad, and it is believed that the total loss to the company will be in the neighborhood of SSO,W O. It is stated that the president of the Geographical Society of Lille, France has received news from Africa that Henry M. Stanley has been massacred, With all his expedition, excepting two men. The rumor is not credited in Lon don. . The new Salt Trust at London has already put up pure common salt from sixty cents to $2.25 per ton, and lump export salt from $2 to $3.75. There is a great outcry in the press, and it is certain that there will be a fierce demand fi r a legislative remedy when Parliament meets next month. ~ The Daily News correspondent at Nice confirms the report about Americans living with the King of Wurtemburg. The correspondent tried to interview one of the persons in question, but he we 3 shown the door. He says that the King’s intimate counselor for the past six years is also an American. A dispatch from Bonny river, Africa, givqs a revolting story of savage atrocities and cannibalism. The„_Okrikan tribe, in revenge for some iniury, invited a party of Ogonis to a friendly palaver, and then entrapped and massacred them. A cannibal festival of the most horrible and indescribable character followed. Then an attack was made upon the undefended villages, and the most barbarous outrages were committed. It is estimated that over 150 persons, including women and children, were killed and eaten.

NINETEEN PEOPLE DROWNED.

A dispatch from New Orleans of Friday, says: Captain Staples, of the steamer Gussie, from Bluefields, reports that on October 20, at 8 a. m., eightyfive miles south of Cape Gracias and thirteen miles from land, he picked up the dory of the schooner Caldwell, of New York, containing five of the crew and four passengers. The dory was leaking badly. Captain Staples took them all on board, and landed some at Cape Gracias. The schooner was bound from St.. Andrews Island to Old Providence Island with twenty-three passengers. She sprung a leak and sunk thirty-six miles northwest of Old Providence. The dory left the wreck without water or food, leaving nineteen men, women and children dinging to the schooner’s two booms, which were lashed together. When picked up, the nine men had been in the dory thirty-six hours.

REVOLUTION IN HAYTI.

Advices by the steamer M oselle, which has arrived at Aspinwall from Hayti states that never before had Port-au-Prince passed such a night as that of September 20. The night, to begin with, was dreadfully dark, the heavens being a mass of black clouds, with an occasional, flash of lightning. Revolution was abroad. The firing commenced at 7:30 p. m., and the cannon and Gatling guns of the palace did dreadful execution, as did also the shots from the big funs bn Ft. Alexander, which crashed clear through the buildings, destroying everything and everybody with which they came in contact. The firing lasted until the morning of the 24th. These advicez say that as far as had been ascertained, 3(10 persons were killed and over 5i.0 wounded, including many woman and children. Among the notable persons killed, besides General Seide Talemadue, were Mr. Charles Borne and Ducaso.

POLITICAL.

Colonel W. W. Dudley says that Harrison will carry all the Northern States: In a speech at Ogdensburg, N. Y., Tuesday night, Governor Hill emphatically denied that there were dissensions among the New York Democracy. If the Woman Suffrage party want a candidate who can make herself solid with the voters of the country, why not raid some-dime museum and get the fat woman? '■ ■ The man who colors clothes is never afraid of any dyer results.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Peru has natural gas. Morgan county is out of debt. ... j Evansville’s Justices are idle. Monticello coal diggers struck mineral water. Pumpkins sell on Seymour’s streets at 50c. a Ipad. _ Crawfordsville and Michigan City report snow.” There are 470 boys in the Plainfield Reform School. The Cooking Club is Anderson’s oniy and very exclusive society. Crawfordsville young ladies have organized a Bible society for the study of the scriptures. Certain Montgomery county people would like to see Mr. Taylbr Peterson. He has been guilty of changing insurance paper so that it was payable to him, and sold it. - The grasshoppers are making devastating ravages in parts of Bartholomew county. There are myriads of them, and they have literally eaten up a number of fields of growing wheat. The few frosts do not appear to have decreased the pests in number. Two Bedford boys, fifteen years of age, went hunting Monday. Young Sears attempted to raise the hammer of the gun to see if there was any cap on the tube. Joseph |Lances was standing in front of him. Sears’s thumb slipped off the hammer, with the usual result. Mrs. Mary Doran,-a woman in jail at Columous for the murder of her husband by pouring carbolic acid down his throat while he slumbered, attemped to bum the jail, Tuesday but the building was saved by the prompt work of the fire department. She wanted to cremate herseif. The residence of Frederick Mast, east of Michigan City, in wnich were confined his two children,burned to the ground Monday. Mrs Mast was out in the field at the time, but succeeded in rescuing the infant.. The older son became suffocated, and perished before his mother’s eyes. Mrs. Mast was terribly burned. Fernando Ladunn, a Bohemian employed in the glass 'works at Muncie,was arrested at the instance of the humane society and fined $14.05. His offense was in being taken to and from his place of daily toil in a cart that was drawn by a dog that was scarcely able to pull the ghariot, much less Fernando’s avoirdupois. The County Treasurers are responding slowly to the call for an advance of money for the support of State institutions. Almost SIOO,OOO is required to pay running expenses for the months of September and October and but a small part of that sum is now in the vaults of the State Treasury. There is a complaint of great scarcity of money from every section of Indiana, and a consequent slowness in the payment of taxes. In the suit of the American Bell Telephone Company in the United States Court against the Cushman Telephone and Service Company, now operating Telephone Exchanges at Laporte, Elkhart and South Bend, Ind., Judge

Blodgett, Monday, granted an injunction against the Cushman- Company, who were given until January I to close their exchanges. A sensation has been caused in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, at Wabash, /By the action of several members, prominent among whom is Mrs. Kate M‘. Busick, the president of the Woman’s Harrison and Hovey Club, in withdrawing from the organization. Mrs. Busick states that the seceders were impelled by the action of the national body in ignoring Mrs. Foster and committing itself to the. third party. Chairman Jewett Friday morning received from Cecil county, Maryland, a horeseshoe lost by the trotter namea S. J. Tilden. The horse was given the Democratic statesman’s name because it was born on the day of Tilden’s nomination for President. The horeshoe was sent to the Democratic Chairman with the hope, the sender stated, that it would„hring good luck to the party in Indiana. It has been placed over the Chairmap’s desk.

A remarkable coincidence occurs in the death of Mrs. Laura V. Wihson at Greencastle. Colonel 8. C. Willson, her husband, was born on October 21, almost at the same hour that his future law partner, Governor Lane, was born. While their homes were in Crawfordsville they lived across the street from each other, and their' deaths both occurred there at the same time, October 21, 1882, the anniversary of their birth. Now Mrs. Willson dies suddenly on the same day and month of the year. Policeman William Burton, of Elkhart was shot at Elkhart Saturday evening by Jos. Barrett, a brother officer. Recently Mayor Goldthwait reprimanded Barrett for intoxication, and the man waylaid the city’s chief executive Friday night and severely whipped him. He could not give bonds for SI,OOO as required, and when Burton and Marshal Needham attemped to arrest him, shot the former. He discharged his revolver five times. The second shot killed Burton instantly; the third took off the end of Councilman Stears’ stinger; the fourth grazed the Marshal’s head, stunning him, and the fifth went through the hat of a passer-by A mob tried to get hold of the infuriated man, but he was hurried to a place of safety. Communications received daily at the State Agricultural Department indicate

that the rains of the past two weeks' have been hailed with joy throughout Indiana in spfte-of the horrible condir tion of Washington 1 street. October, 1887, was the dryest October for many years, and to that fact is traced one of the chief causes of the light wheat crop of this year. It is said the soil wan so completely devoid of moisture the wheat which was sowed could not germinate, until the cold wheater made it rot. The la’e rains came just at a time when the wheat was all sowed for this fall and ready to begin to grow. The grass, too, could not have been better pleased, as it is now given a fresh start that promises pasture far into the winter. Instead of rain pouring down and running off into the s reams, it came gently and was nearly all absorbed as it fell. This assures plenty of water in the wells, whi h will be especially appreciated after the experiences Of the past twelve months. Another thing which suits the farmers is the date at which the rain fell. It waited until the winter fruit was safely gathered and housed and then came just before time to begin harvesting the great corn crop. The general tone of the letters above referred to is hopeful and satisfied, which is an unusual one for farmers. A dog afflicted with rabies ran loose in the country near Lawrenceburg, several weeks ago; and attacked several animals. Four other dogs that were bitten by the mad canine showed unmistakeable signs of hydrophobia, and the five dogs were killed in the hope that no injury would result.. From subsequent developments, however, it is apparent that every species of animals in the vicinity was bitten by one of the five mad dogs and each has become impregnated with rabies. Tuesday morning Mr. Fred Weieenhan, a farmer living near Weiaburg, killed sixteen fine hogs that showed symptoms of hydrophobia. A fine sow, weighing more than 260 pounds, was bitten by one of.the dogs, and Wednesday became affected rabies. It attacked every hog in the field, and its rage attacked a tree, jumping at it and tearing away the bark. It was covered with froth and blood, and was finally killed, along with all the other hogs that were attacked by the sow. A number of cows in the neighborhood were bitten by the dogs, and Mr. Miller was compelled to kill a fine young heifer that exhibited signs of madness;

The State Board of Health was in session at Indianapolis, Thursday. Reports submitted by the members show the public health to be exceptionally good, and such sickness as is reported results in comparatively few deaths. Dr. S. R. Seawright filed a report of a recent examination of the management and hygenic condition of the State Reform School for Boys. He thinks the sanitary provisions are excellent, and was impressed by the resemblance of the institution to a home rather than a prison. Drs. Taylor and Seawright have also recently inspected the new Insane Hospital at Logansport and have only words of praise for the management. The plumbing and other sanitary appointments could not be better. Owing to a lack of funds the grounds haye not been improved and present a rather crude appearance, but the next session of the Legislature is expected to provide for that. The capacity of the institutionis 370 inmates and 300 are already entered. Many of them, howover, will be removed to Evansville when the hospital there is opened. The health of the patients is good and the Superintendent, Dr. Rogers, reports that fifty percent, of those admitted will recover. The inspectors speak in flattering terms of the medical and executive ability of the Superintendent, of Dr. 8, E. Smith, and other officers connected with the institution.

Greenland’s Icy Mountains.

Cincinnati Star. “I heard an odd story the other day about Bishop Heber’s beautiful hymn, ‘From Greenland’s Icy Mountains,” said a well-known Cincinnatian. “What is it?” “It relates to the music for the hymn. You remeniber that Bishop Heber wrote it while in Ceylon in 1824. About a year later it reached America and a lady in Charleston, 8. C., was struck with its beauty. .“She could find..however, no tune that seemed to suit it She remembered a young bank clerk, Lowell Mason, afterwards so celebrated, who was just a few steps down the street,- and who had a reputation as a musical genius. So she sent her son to ask him to write a tune that would go with the hymn. In just half an hour the boy came back with the music, and the melody ’ dashed off in such haste is to this day sung with that song.” The report that an Irish brass band was hissed in London the other day at an exhibition because it would not play “God Save the Queen,” calls to the mind of a Boston correspondent a little story. Some years ago a German musician of Boston returned to that city in a very battered condition, his horn quite as much banged as himself. He said that he had been playing with an American circus band in the British provinces, and in one town there, when “Yankee Doodle” was played, the audience Objected, and broke the barn and its instruments all up. “But,” sak the German, ‘vot der teufql could ve do? Der horses vould not go rount der ring to any udder tune!”

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

John L Sullivan has made and spen r $300,000 in his brief lifetime. ’’’he Jamestown Kansan, is not above taking Atraw oqjjhibscription. The woman who gets but one letter A year always reads it on the street. It is estimated that in England one man in 500 gets a college education. In this glorious country one man in every 200 takes a college course. - 5 - It is hard enough, anyway, for a bachelor to hold a baby, but it is simple torture when it is the baby of the girl who jilted him heartlessly only three years before. > The Prince of Wales has been bear hunting in’Austria, but he coaid not make anything like sttch an immense bag as Old Hutch made in his bear hunt n Chicago. It is said that when Gen. Grant was :n Japan, the Japanese Premier, Prince Kung, desiring to compliment the General by telling aim that he was born to command, tried it in English with this result: “Sire, brave General, you vas made to order.” . Micah French of lowa thinks that he is the senior Tippecanoe veteran of that State, if not of the United States. He carries a British bullet in his body, shot there in 1812; voted for Monroe in 1816 and for William Henry Harrison in 1840, and expects to vote for Grandson Ben in November. At the Haymarket riot in Chicago, on May 4,1886, John Weinlte was struck in the back of the head by a pistol ball that lodged in the skull. It remained there, occasionally giving him much troubles until a few days ago, when surgeons removed it. It had been flattened into the shape of a horse’s hoof, and was completely covered with a bony growth. -Here’s a pretty tough story from New Haven: Brakeman George Loftus stood on top of a car moving over a bridge at West Haven,when a strong gust of wind lifted the roof from the car. As the roof with George on it swept under a telegraph wire, he seized the wire, made his way along it to the nearest pole and then slid to the ground unharmed. A couple spent their honeymoon at Bar Harbor. They met first on asteamer on the Atlantic Ocean; he proposed in Sweden, was accepted in Russia; obtained her father’s permission in England; the marriage settlements were drawn up in this country; they were married in Algiers and goodness knows where they are now and will be tomorrow. King Otho of Bavaria is sinking deeper and deeper in his religious mania. He remains so long in a kneeling posture as to be unable to rise without assistance. He frequently summons his priest to bis bedside at night in order to confess, and exclaims to those about him: “You do not know what sins I was guilty of yesterday. I dare not close my eyesuntil I have received absolution.” There were 19,912 patents issued last year, and of these but 1,083 were granted to Southerners. Texas led the Southern States, a patent being granted for every 4,006 Texans. Florida came next. Missippi’s ratio was one patent to every 25,146 of the population. Alabama, in spite of the recent great mechanical development of that State, was credited with but 54 inventions in the year. The New York girl, of the unimpeachable Fifth avenue variety, who stops stages by her whistle, without making the slightest fuss, is the latest advent of the kind. She is described, if she wishes to board one of those vehicles, as stopping carelessly at the curb, lifting one hand in a graceful, lazy signal to the driver, and then prettily puckering her red lips, from which she emits a shrill, musical whistle.

The first girl baby born in Denver was the daughter of a settler named Harvey, and she was born in 1860 or thereabouts. In recognition of her enterprise in being born in the camp, public spirited citizens presented her with all the land in sight of her father’s cabin. Unfortunately the taxes were never paid, and the land,how worth $2,000,000, fell into other hands. The girl who once owned it all is now a singer in a variety show in that city. An endless railway train, consisting of 400 platform cars, is to be one of the attractions at the Paris Exhibition. The lines will be sunk so that the platforms will be on a level with the surface, and the train will run slowly enough to permit'most people to step on and off while it is in motion; but for the accommodation of elderly people a stop of fifteen seconds every minute will be made. The motive power will be electricity. A Chinese tiger story: In a wild region nearKaiping is the village of Takang Taun. In a temple of Wu-ti there, there stays a man not a priest Two small holes in the door allow him to look out. The tiger came and crouched outside the door a long time. Then he put his paw through one of the holes and clawed around. Then he put his tail through and felt around for the man. The man cut the tail off with an axe. The tiger butted the door until it was knocked from its hinges and fell over on the man who had been trying to prop it up on the irfside. The tiger sprang over the door without finding the man under , it, and seizing one of the josses, which was in the form of a man, ran away with it. Next day some grass cutters on the mountain, a good distance off, found the joss lying on a lonely hillside, where it had been abandoned by the tiger, and took it back to the village.