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ship by the most odious criminal methods, and that his support comes only from thd most abominable elements of society. Wo say it is dull stuff—stupid, false, and vicious-

The simple truth of the matter is that Mr. Piatt isja. man of the highest personal character, of the very beat commercial and financial standing, and of extraordinary ability at the head of one of the most important corporations in the country, and has lifted its credit and repute beyond the reach of cavil. He is esteemed and trusted by his associates. He has the respect and confidence of the business world. Neither as an individual, nor as a citizen, nor as a quantity in the commercial equation is there one word to be said against him truthfully. He is a man of affairs, shrewd, clean-handed, wise, conservative, and just. He will serve New York intelligently and faithfully in the Senate—far better than any of the cranks, hypocrites, and fanatics who are now assailing him so bitterly because he does not happen to subscribe to all their feather-headed methods, policies and plans. They hate him as the politically invertebrate always hate the virile and stalwart. But they are not harming him in the estimation of decent and honest folk. They are only earning the conteript of those who understand the situation.

Of course, Mr. Piatt doesn't trouble himself in the least about all this. He is too busy a man, too thoroughly occupied with really serious matters, too careless of futile and insensate antagonism. He has retained his place in New York politic? by virtue of brains, courage and good faith. He is not likely to abandon It under pressure of a few insignificant malcontents.

The adoption of the four-year term and the terms of the charter for Greater NewYork will make the mayor of New York the most powerful executive officer in the United States next to the president and a few governors, and no other mayor in the world will have an authority equal to his. He will have the sole power of appointment In a city of 3,000,000, and for the first six months of his term the power of removal, aud a veto over the acts of the municipal assembly, which will be virtually absolute. It will be a very dignified and honorable office that will demand the best and greatest men of the city. The tendency of municipal reform seems to be to escape some of the influences of popular government. While the people still have the power to overturn or continue any administrator having once selected an executive officer he is to be left untrammeled by the interference of rival powers who profess to be representing the people, while advancing their own ambitions or corrput purposes. The large cities aro getting away from the frequent elections and parcelling of the executive and appointive powers among a great number of men.

The senatorial elections have seldom been so full of interest as this year. As they were to decide the political balance of the senate*,they have been of unusual Importance. The central states from the Atlantic to the Mississippi made a great change and Republicans succeed Democrats from New York, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, and a sound money Republican will replace Cameron of Pennsylvania. Pritchard's success in North Carolina marks another failure of the Popocrat combine, and is a welcome defeat of Butler. A new variety of Populist will succeed Peffer and may introduce some political antics more Interesting than Peffer's dry and pros&lc deliverances. "pV

The Popocrats do not like Bourke Cockran, for he will say about the Bryan movement such things as the following, and, more yet, he proves it: ly "It was an uprising against law." against order, against justice, against morality, against the restraint which civilization has imposed upon each individual that all indlvduals may prosper through the enjoyment of the prosperty which their industry might create.

It is stated that the usual winter rush of

Chicago poor upon the county agent is be^ yond his ability to meet it. He has sufficient money and supplies but not enough assistants to distribute them, as the county commissioners oannot or wtll-Bfot permit to ilire the necessary There

wavs of meetinf «mergehcy. tw0 nnpr. clUx autlt*riM the emThe commissioners ployment of work, or they can volunteer help, and me* it, voltmtsar iajrs tola* the

and are anxious to to assist for some specified or they can pay P°°rer

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BARKING AT MR. PLATT. All this disparagement of Hon. Thomas C. Piatt by Mugwumps and opposition organs strikes us as being very dull stuff. It does Mr. Piatt no sort of harm, and it distresses people of good feeling and common sense, says the Washington Post (Ind.) To read these stupid and rancorous assaults on Mr. Piatt, a person knowing nothing of the man himself and the real facts of the case would conclude that he is one of the •worst of men—disreputable, unscrupulous, of 6vil life and disgraceful antecedents. The object of the articles is to convey the impression that Mr. Piatt obtained the caucus nomination for the New York Senator-

Money, of Mississippi, is keeping very quiet. Probably he is unable to decide which to do first—go over to shoot General Lee for calling him a prevaricator or make a speech in congress against Spain, each act calling for considerable ferocity.

Mod the

allow the attest to accept

do good, !lwi pecifled oiuber of urer menjor dotal

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WOTk.

Record

irfve. out that th* muaam

of Mr. Fairbanks' cainpail*. J* Mr. Fairbanks himself, are sayi« th| bo cttnpeUtor in the recent senatorial campaign .hall be allowed to run again. The tohouacoma* that Indiana can never have|mt on* candidate for senator

a time,!* Ye* inter

esting. We had not supposed that good men are so scarce in the state or party. It soutids too much like the talk of the Bryan

managers

ator-elect

to be very sensible. Sen

Fairbanks,

no douBt, will try to

reward his friends, as

is entirely regular

and usiial, and will have nothing left for his opponents, but during the distribution of half-pence he will not go out of his to administer kicks.

Illinois must be enjoying an unusual state of grace. One of Altgeld friends informed the assembly that angel# whispered the name of Altgeld, and a frtend of Mason's asserted that Mason's name was repeated in a loud voice in heaven. Lorimer and Madden had no show in such a

contest. W. E. Mason of Illinois may be called a self-made senator. For years he has worked away, always right with the party, and not always right with the rings, until the state to save itself from infinitely worse men had to take him. Such tenacity and energy as Mr. Mason's must be efficient in the senate.

If over 300 congressmen petitioned Speaker Reed to allow them to vote for new buildings there are many among them that are responsible for the present deficiency of revenue and who will vote against a bill to provide enough revenue to pay for the buildings.

After reading the speeches placing in nomination men for senators we wonder how anybody can speak with levity of the senate, a body of men of which the world is not worthy, especially if Voorhees and Altgeld could remain in it. ,,

David B. Hill's perfunctory nomination as senator by the Democratic caucus was very chilly. The senator may be in doubt as to whether his Chicago speech was a mistake. After making it he made a mistake in not following it up.

It is said that the experience Of the Princess de Chimay ought to be a lesson to American women who want to marry foreign princes. In this case the lesson is on the prince, who got much the worst of it.

There are very few Key West battles fought in which one party or the other does not get caught in an ambush. They ought to know an ambuscade when they see it, by this time I

A Philadelphia man who found a wire hook in his mince pie had it located in his esophagus by the rays, Hereafter ha should turn the ravs on the pie before ea,i"sit'

The report that the arbitration treaty will be exhaustively analyzed by the senate foreign relations committee points to a c#»dltion of exhaustion for the unfeftfunate trealy-

Wvm»m

The price paid for the new rotary engine has dropped from $7,000,000 to $1,600,000. One more cut like that will leave the inventor in debt.

Mr. Bryan is talking about "Bimetallism" to Texas crowds. Bimetallism is a more elastic currency term than "16 to 1."

A chicory mill will, be built at Omaha so that we can get both our coffee *°d OH* beet root sugar from Nebraska.

It is said Bryan is to write 350 of his book iu two weeks. The book will show it.

ABOUT PEOPLE.

The famous American prima do'ufia, Minnie Hauk, is living quietly at her beau'J-'ul villa near Luccrne with her husband, Chevalier Von Jlesse Wartegg, -who is a distinguished traveler and writer of books of travels, and is not, like so many husbands of prima'donnas, dependent upon his wife's income.

J'ohri^t).' Rockefeller, the

multi-millionaire,

has been Te-elected superintendent of the Sunday school of the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, Cleveland.

General Caspar Crowinshield of Boston, who died last Sunday, went through 'he four years of the civil war without receiving a wcund, although he saw some very hard lighting.

Both Sagasta and Canovas are from the soil, although they rule alternately the proudest Monarchy in Europe. The former is an engineer by trade and followed that profession until he abandoned it for politics. At present, being out of office, he is the president of the Northern railway at a salary of $12,000 a year.

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A man named Dollar

was married

to a

Miss Xichol out in Oklahoma the other day.

A number of old men have held the position of secretary of state. Webster died secretary in his 71st year. Marcv was as old when his term dosed with Pierce's administration. General Cass was 75 when he «ntered Buchanan cabinet where he became the most pf.teatlal ngure. Hamilton Fish "was ta ^vhen b6 re* tired at the close of Garfield's administration.

Rather a neat way of statin* an awkward fact was adopted by a recent annlicant for a pension. The applicant had been wounded while his regiment was in retreat he didn't say it that way. ~I received my wound," he said, "while marching rauidlv in £ront of the enemy."

President-Elect McKiniey is nursuod not only by politicians, but by artists desirous to portray him in their respective ways. The most noted is Theobald Chartran the Parisian. whose portrait of Leo XIII has made him famous. He is now in Canton busy *orlt' and the picture wi!i be exhibited in New York and Washiagton, and then fiu| its bom* to the Carnegie library at Pittsbur*. Another artist is Iieopold Bracony, also Jrreficb, has finished a bust of Major McKiniey and is at work on a bust of Mrs." McKiniey.

The earl of Kenmare. owner nf that most unfortunate tract of Irish land upon which the terrible bog slide recently occurred, is fne of the largest land owners in Ireland, possessing something like 80,000 acres in Kerry alone, to say nothing of other property in Limerick and Cork.

Evangelist Moodv will b»

February 5.

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nw ion til WAiurm amono omit mnu»«& AOBHTS.

•olleltors Who Iiraiti Other Buildings AnLMytnlii^NMilf r. Rayttyift

This Is tk« time when the owaar er the aftat of every big office building la Chicago •its ia his private room and plans a raid oh every other big office building In the city, «*ys the phlcago Tribune. At the same- time he naketT a mental disposition of his force of employes.' so that he may properly Instruct them how to repel invaders from his own structure. The elevator boy constitute a Small wmy of spies, each one to have permission if his car is efepty to leave it at any floor when it is necessary to establish communication with the private policeman who Is to be the head of tlpj» assaulting party composed of the Janitor aad his assistants. *Fhe agents- and the owners are after tenants for their vacant offices, and they want to keep those tenants that they already have. It is a casp with them of doing unto others that whieb they Would not others should do unto them, so they have hired corps of solicitors who this week will go about and use whatever efforts they may to induce tenants of other buildings to leave their present abiding places May 1 and betake themselves to other quarters. These solicitors get salaries of $10 a week and the equivalent of one month's rent for every tenant they secure for their employer.

This week these forces of solicitors will be called in to the room of the owner, who will say something like this: "After May 1 we shall have vacant rooms that are fit for any known kind of business or profession in the, world. Our offices and stores have north, south, "east, west and skylight. Also they have all conveniences, from a bell to the bar to a bootblack on every floor hot and cold water day and night, soap, towels, hair brushes and combs, electric and gas lights, janitor service, clean windows, and rents lower than those charged by any other agent in the city. Go through every place in town, from the Blank Block to the Hyphen Building. Let no man escape. "Those hirelings, the special policeman and th£ janitors, will try to put you out. Don't let thdm. Avoid any controversy With them if you can. but stand on your rights if they attempt to eject you. They have no legal right on earth even to order you out, let alone lay a hand on you. Stick to your job and your prospective tenant, and you ^ill l»nd a victim and a fat commission."

Instruetloas to the Janitor,

Then the solicitors will take up their several ways and the agent will push a button and summon to his room the head of his force of building employes. He is a man who has general supervision of the building and is a special policeman by virtue of power Vested in him by the city of Chicago for a fee. *3^ "Now, Bill," the agent will say, "the season is beginning when the grasping agents all over this town are sending out their sharks of solicitors to endeavor to get our tenants away from us. It's a low-down kind of business and those "fellows have no more right to come into this building than a burglar. Spot them, order them out, and if they won't go, kibik them out. "tinder no circumstances let any one of them get beyond the first floor. If by any chance ohe' of the fellows eludes you and you afterward see him leaving the office of a tenant, shove him out of the building and then go to the tenant's office and tell him that the man Who has just left is oni of the best known confidence men In town and that you have Just handed him over to the police. Have the elevator men keep their eyes open and press the whole janitor force into service. I shalfthold you personally responsible If any tenant quits May 1 on account of the representations made by these men."

If Bill is an old employe he will grin a little, say "All right, sir," and leave, for he has

been

told.this same thing the first

week in January every year since he has entered the agent's employ, and it is more than likely that he overheard the instructions given to jthesolicitors but a few minutes be•fore.

Thie "offlce-rentingfsoliciting, despite Its difficulties and dangers, Is a good thing for shrewd men. Some of them make enough in four months to keep them for a year. These afe the old hands, and their faces and their business are known in every office building in town. This ifact, would Beem to operate against any possibility of success, but time and experience have made them shrewd, and they not infrequently will call on the tenants in a score of offices in a single building uninterrupted while the policeman Is standing guard at tfi'e door below and perhaps watching for the very man who is fishing with a seductive bait for the tenants above.

The old-time office solicitor owns a long ulster, an ordinary winter coat, and a lightweight spring coat, a cap, and an assortment of hats. ^He will put on his long ulster andstart for a building. He will attempt to get ia unseen, but if the .guardian at the door is watchful and recognizes him the solicitor will go but a few steps beyond the doorway, will pass the time of day with his adversary, whom he will give ample opportunity to take in his general appearance, the ulster, the particular kitfd of hat, and perhaps a cane which he carries. The policeman at the door is not ordinarily acute the chances are ten to one that the next day the solicitor with his short winter overcoat and a cap on with a slightly averted head, will pass within a foot of the watchmaff undetected.

Close Track of the Building. But he is not dependent altogether "upon chance. The average solicitor knows the luncheon hour of every watchman in every building of any size in the city. He also knows and has noted in a little book the time when the elevator boys change shifts. He also knows the hour when it is the duty of the policeman to report at the agent's office.

He will get into the building safely nine times—and the tenth time, too, for that matter—but it is during that tenth visit that he runs against a danger of which he has no of foreknowing. There is in every building some tenant who is particnalrly well satisfied with his quarters, who has had no row with the Janitor, nor with the agent— thfire are such men, though they be a rarity— and this man has no thought of ohanging his location. He thinks that such a good agent deserves well of his tenants, and so when the calls with his seductive little tale about an office that is all windows and located just where business is sure to oome, ft, mprnirhsrt one will apparently fall into the other's plans. He will, however, excuse Mmatilf for a moment and dispatch the office boy fer the policeman, then he wUl go back «jft outdo the solicitor in anxiety to talk ab*ut the BOW office. In a few minutes the Miiceman, backsd by a janitor or two, will appear, and the solicitor will be told to leave, jja gag* it With cut a word, and oven ouffors tie further Indignity of walking down some-

Hfe fourteen flights, while following ejOfe feohind oome his electors, who, to rub it In a bit, have refuted the solicitor the un of the elevator.

Tt Is net lefteqttently the ease that the leaving of an ageet's employ on the part of a staff* solicitor will necessitate the discharge Of nearly the whole police, elevator and janitor farces of the bunding. When a solicitor has been In the employ of one agent for a time, he, of court*, become* acquainted ^Jth an the working force of the building k* "Stand* ta" With the policeman and the «|ovator hoys and the janitors. He has spared no means and hds gone to no little expense )b the way or tips, elgars'aad drlnfcn to get Into their-§eod

When gome other agent offers hlTfi a bigger ularr uA higher eosalwim tbta kia

TT A UTK lxPltESR FRIDAY MORNING. JANUARY 22.189ft-

ent employer l» willing to giye, he leaves and instantly begins to proy upon the building In whoso intoreato ho has kmg^worked. Under no circumstances gave that Qf the immediate presenoo of the agent Will Uhft,policeman turn his old-time solicitor friend^away from the door, nor will the elevator-loys act as informers. A solicitor under these circumstances has also a strong hold upon the tenants of the building. They all know him, and are iready and willing to listen to the teles he has to tell them of the^ superiority of the building for which he is 416W securing rentpayers. The agent beglnB to see his tenants slip away from him, know* something is wrong, and finally one day^epts the solicitor In the hall. "What are you doing herehe says. "Doing exactly what you taught me to do, and told me I had a legal right to do." says the solicitor. J'

"Get out of her£

Aand

don't show your face

here again," replies the agent. Then he discharges his entire building force, and thus shuts the barn door after one-half of the stock has been stolen. "Give me a man who has made a success at soliciting tenants," said the agent of the biggest building in Chicago last week, "and I wilt show you a man who will make a success of anything on earth."

IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

Its Marriage Laws One of the Things the State is Hoted For. "South Carolina is noted for more things than the possession of Ben Tillman and a dispensary law which allows no coektails," said a citizen of that state to a number of listeners, including a Washington Star reporter. "No divorce can be obtained in the state for any cause. It is the only state in the union which doesn't grant divorces. I have known many Instances of couples fbing there from ffcr off states to get married, because they said they never wanted to be parted. On© peculiar case was settled by the superior court a few weeks ago. Two yeare ago a man named Pepper courted a Miss Sallie Shearer. Pepper declined to marry the girl when he was pressed to do so. About this time, however, the brothers of the young woman toOk a hand. They put several bullets Into Pepper and would have put more Into him had he not agreed to marry the sister. The ceremony was duly performed by a legal officer.. Immediately after the ceremony, the two separated and never llyed together. Pepper remained in the state and his wife went to Texas, where she now lives. Pepper was not satisfied with the way the marriage ceremony was brought about and sought legal remedies to release him from his bonds, claiming that he never of his own free will and consent married the woman. He further alleged that the marriage was never legally consummated, because he had never lived with his wife. The circuit judge decided against Pepper and held that he had no jurisdiction in the case, Pepper's wife being in Texas, and refusing to submit to the jurisdiction of a South C&i'olina court. The supreme court sustained .t^e lojisrer cSurt. "The laws of South Carolina do hot recognize the marriage of a divorced woman as a legal marriag«, and she has no rights to the property of her husband when he dies. A case of that "kind was settled by the supreme court two years ago. Before this was settled many ministers refused to marry a couple either one of which had obtained a divorce in some other state."

AFTER TWENTY YEARS.

Mm Bascom Found She Was Still Beautiful. He did not call on her that first evening, though he walked past the gate four times, unaware of the fact that behind one of those slanting shutters a pale'v^oriian stood watching bim pass and repass, says Lippincott's. The nun in her self-elected cell had and made use of means of communication with the world, in the shape generally of Jimmy the choreboy. Sl^e knew whose was the tall figure on the sidewalk. She stood at the window when she could no longer see ,him she heard his slow footsteps go by for the last time and die away.

Half an hour later she went upstairs to her bedroom. Between its two windows hung a long old-fashioned mirror, with carved candelabra on either side. She lighted the three candles '^n epch. The mirror showed a tall, slim iig^r% a face as colorless as an anemone, an abundance of auburn hair carefully arrayed. Mira Bascom studied this reflectioji,.closely. Then she unlocked a black walnut cfiest which stood in a corner and. lifted out its contents till she came to a of pale muslin, which diffused an odor of lavendar as she shook it out. It was'^a1-white gown with lilac sprigs, made wijth Ae full skirts and sleeves of a bygone fashion. She put it on, fastened the belt of lilac ribbon, which still fitted exactly, and, standing again before the mirror,, loosened slightly the band^ of her beautiful wavy hair and pulled it, into little curls about her'fkce. It was a vision of youth which lookeJL iack at her from the glass. Not a thread of gray showed in the hair the.fine lines about the placid eyes were invisible. The skin had the dead whiteness of things kept frogi the sun. But as she gazed a delicate flush overspread her face, her red-brown eyes lit up till their color matched her hair she smiled in startled triumph. She was still beautiful.

Then a swift change came over her. She blew out all but one of the candles and, turning her back on the mirror, took off her gown with cold, shaking fingers.

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IRVING WENT TO SLEEP.

After Taking a Beautiful Woman in to Dinner. Tho venerable John H. B. Lathrobe tells me, writes Dr. John Morris in the Baltimore Sun, that in 1832 Mr. Irving paid a visit to Baltimore and was the guest of the Hon. Louis McLane, the father of the Hon. Robert M. McLane, ex-minister to France. Mr. Lathrobe arranged a dinner party in honor of Mr. Irving. He invited the elite of the city to meet the distinguished author. Among the invited were such well khown people of the day as John P. Kennedy, Charles Fenno Hoffman, both authors Christopher Hughes (Kit Hughes), Charles Carroll (father of Governor Carroll), Mr. Bonaparte and many ladies well known at that time. Mr. Irving led Mrs. Lathrobe into the dining room and sat on her right. Mra. Lathrobe was a very beautiful woman and Mr. Irving, up to a certain point, appeared to be charmed with her beauty and grace. However, her graces and beauty must have palled, for before the dinner was over Mr. IrvinO*ent fast asleep. The members of the dinner party, who, of course, kept their eyes fixed on Mr. Irving, discovered, simultaneously^ that their hero was nodding—a sincere, Earnest, heavy nod. A general smile passed around among the assembled guests. There^were routs in those days, but our people were too polite to carry off the Sieur Geoffrey in the midst of his slumbers to the Adelphlj, the fashionable resort of that day. Shade of Sancho Panza! Was not the creator of ttlp Van Winkle entitled to sleep, even the sleep of the Seven Sleepers?

That Catarrh It a Local Affection Of the nasal passages is a fact established by physicians and this authority should carry more weight than assertions of incompetent parties that catarrh is a blood affection. Ely's Cream Balm,a local remedy is composed of harmless medicants and free of mercury or any Injurious drug. It will cure catarrh. -Applied directly to the inflamed membrane, It resicres it to its healthy condition.

STORIES OF ANIMALS

A DOG'S PASSION FOB PUMPING WATER.

Poisonous Vlih of the Tropics—Pralrlo Dogs As Scon In a. SSoo.

For over a year the dog-motor on the hill back of Mill Valley has been operated by a dog named Gyp, and she really likes the work and knows more about pumping water thfl" half of the men in the state, says the Sian Francisco Call, When Gyp wag first put Into the machine she knew Just what she had to do, and started in at a great rate. She ran so fast that she would have fallen from exhaustion had she not been lifted out. But as she has grown older »t the business she has learned better. But she likes the work as much as when she started. When Gyp first started in to pump water she did not know when to stop. She pumped and pumped until the tank ran over all the time. In a few weeks, though, she was taught that all she was expected to do was to keep the tank full, and now she doesn't do any more.

When Gyp is taken to th9 &otor in the morning she first looks into the trough to see how much it lacks of being full. She then works accordingly, and when she thinks she has done enough she runs out and tal^es a look at It. If it is full she lies down and rests, and if there are still a few inches remaining she starts in again and does not stop until the trough is running over.'

All the water that Gyp pttmpft is for cattle to drink. It flows directly from the well into the drinking-trough, so that they can get it without trouble. Gyp knows as soon as she sees a band of steers making for the trough what they are after, and she starts in pumping, so as to keep them from emptying it. Her idea seems to be to keep the trough full. In fact, she is unable to rest unless she knows it is in that condition. Gyp has to work hard to do her work. Each stroke of the pump brings up about a'quart of water, and she has to make about six jumps to do it but when she feels like working nothing stops her, and the pumps make at least ten strokes a minute, or perhaps 500 gallons of water in ten hours.

Gyp is the only dog on the ranch that has ever liked the work. Others have been tried, but it is always necessary to lock them in to keep them from jumping the job. Even Gyp's brothers always had business elsewhere whenever they thought there was any pumping to do. There was one, though, that was a good worker. He used to get so mad at being put in the motor that he seemed trying to wear It out for spite. He used to run and run until the axle fairly smoked, but as soon as he saw that he couldn't do the machineany harm he curled up in the bottom and went to sleepr

Poisonous Fish of the Tropics. Poisonous fish are found in large numbers and in many places, but more especially in the tropics, says the Medical Record. They are quite common in the Brazilian and West Indian waters, and also in the East Indian and Australian waters. Three kinds of fish belonging to the mackerel family ate poisonous. One is called the jurel, and is found in the West Indies in large numbers. It can be distinguished from the common mackerel, which also abounds in the same waters, by certain peculiarities of marks. Thus, the jurel has not the black spot on the gill covers it has two scales on the neck, while the harmless kind has a black spot and no scales on the neck. The poisonous kind grow large, and often weigh as much as twenty pounds but the others seldom run over two pounds. Mackerel weighing over two pounds are not allowed to be sold in the Havana markets

The chicora is another kind of poisonous mackerel. It is also found in the West Indies but the natives of those is lands do not regard it as dangerous. The meat of the chicora. is not fit or safe to eat at certain times of the year, especially during the spawning season. Then it becomes highly poisonous, and the people of the Guadaloupe sometimes use pieces of the fish which have been caught to poison rats. The bonito is a kind of mackerel that is most dangerous at certain times of the year. Usually it is a very pleasant and palatable bit of food, but every once in a while people are taken with colic after eating the bonito. Two kinds of herring are known to be poisonous. The meletta, or tropical herring, is found all along the Atlantic coast as far north as New York. Within recent years there have been several cases In which people have died after eating this fish.

The spawning season seems to be the time when the herring and other tropical fish should be let severely alone. The part which is considered most dangerous is the roe. The meletta, which is found in the East Indian and Australian waters, is always poisonous, and is the most dangerous, because it is not easily distinguished from another kind of herring which is comparatively harmless. The poisonous kind has a black spot on the dorsal fin, while the other has not these marks. The poisonous meletta resembles a herring, being five or six inches long, with silvery scales and a bluish green back. Some fish are poisonous at certain seasons of the year, and at other times wholesome. And, finally, as a note of warning, we may say that visitors to the tropical countries should take no risk of eating fish which are not known to be safe, as well as palatable. jrwa

Prairie Ilogs ins Zoo.

The little prairie dogs of the Zoo regularly disappear at the beginning of cold weather, and lie dormant till its termination, says the New York Journal. A warm spell always rouses them again, and out they are sure to come, until a renewal of cold sends them once more to their retreat. During the past week fheir actions have been most interesting.

During the cold weather of Christmas time they never showed a nose above ground. The soft and foggy weather of a week ago, however, brought them out in force, and day by day new noses of the just awakened were poked out.

Several new holes were begun, just outside of the paddock which the prairie dogs may lawfully claim as their own. They have tunneled under the fence, as if they had read and imitated the stories of escaped prisoners from Andersonville, and, from the adjoining portion of the hillside, have started to make new homes.

On Tuesday six of them were seen working thgre in unison, and working hard. The foremost dog, the only one who was actually digging, was pawing out the earth and passing it to the one immediately behind. This one pawed it back to No. 3. He in turn shoved it along to No. 4, who, at the very entrance of the hole, gave the earth in charge to the remaining two, who worked there at packing it around the moutii of the hole in a raised ridge.

In this packing the little dogs show what is much more like reason than instinct. The entire colony is on a side hill, and the natural way to leave the dirt that is brought out would be about the lower side of the hole. This, however, would leave the holes open to the water that, flows down the hill at every rain storm. To obviate this, fully half of the earth is placed at the upper side

of the bole, and so oarefully packed as to turn aside all the water that flows down. Whenever a rain storm Is impending the little fellows feel it, and they at such times frequently come oi\t and carefully repack the earth above their- holes, to remedy such a washing away as has been done by previous rains. On several days of tho early part of this week they wore noticed busily engaged at this task. The heavy fogs of Sunday and Monday affectsd them in a similar manner to an impending storm, and the defeases about a number #f their holes were carefully prepared.

A DECEPTIVE APPEARANCE.

The Fair Novel Reader Was Not 80 Dasophisticated As She Looked. There was a young woman with a musical ear sitting (n*a corner of the cable car. says the Washington Star. Several times she looked up with curious surprise as the conductor rang tho bell to register fares. The bell did not always sound the same. Soimetimes it had a dujl, clanking tone, and every now and then it came out sharp and clear, several notes higher in the scale. She was a demure little creature, with blonde frizzes, and she" became so interested in the variations played on the bell that she quite neglected the! paper covered novel which lay in her lap—a novel she was evidenly not reading for the first iime, for she had opened it at random, and when she had dropped it to listen to the bell, she never troubled to. find the place.

But, in the course- of time, she reached a more Interesting portion of the work. There were things that she apparently desired to remember, for she took a lead pencil from a small bag, and began to mark passages here and there. The old gentleman with white side Whiskers who sat opposite her xhoped that it was a proper book for a young woman to read, owing to unsuccessful effort to pass an out-of-date soda water ticket for car fare, was sure that it wasn't.

She rode almost to the end of the line. Just before the car finally stopped, she took out a notebook. The conductor happened to come to the frofit of the car, and he glanced at what she wrote.. It was the number of his car.

As she walked toward the railway office, he opened the door that looked out on the front platform and said to the motorman: "It's all up, Jim.*

"I told you somgbbdy would notice the difference in the sound of those two bells. Somebody was bound fo wonder about it, and discover that you weren't ringing up all the fares in the right place."

The conductor's face was very pale and his mouth was drawn at the corners. It was one of the every-day tragedies of lifepoverty, temptation, discovery and regret that came too late. The girl with blonde .frizzes was a Piakerton detective,

A CARELESS PEDESTRIAN!

He Had a Little Discussion With a Bicycle Rider. "Who're you runnin' into?" roared the man with a thick neck and apparently thick head, as he picked himself up from the brick pavement, brushing his clothes with one hand and holding his nose with the other, according to the Detroit Free Press. "Are you cross-eyer or crazy? Don't you know enough to keep a lookout for bicycles when you're crossing the street? I couldn sell that Wheel to a junk dealer now. My face is stove in, I couldn't give my clothes to a tramp, and I might have broken my neck against the curbstone." "I'd bet on that neck of yours against any curbstone in the city," coolly chuckled the big man as he stood with his hands in his pockets. "That was an awful punch you gave it. Wheel does look a little demoralized, doesn't it? Good thing that suit of clothes didn't cost over $10. You came out of the collision in pretty good shape, after a"-" "Look here, mister, that kind of talk don't go with me. You mus't get it into your head that because you're big you can go around tripping up bicyclists and tossing the riders around on brick pavements. You'll pay for that wheel, this suit of clothes and for getting my face put together again."

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"Yes 'so,' and don't let it wander outilde of your memory. What excuse have you for getting in my way like that?" "None at all, my bull-necked friend, none at all. Of course, you didn't ring any bell, blow a whistle, show a light or make any outcry but I was too careless. I should have dashed across the street swinging a lantern over my head, waited for a policeman to come along and give me safe conduct or sat patiently down until the people that ride wheels were through with the streets. But I have lived here only since I was born and have a good deal to learn. Now just give me what is left of the wheel and the clothes and I'll settle on the spot "What* Give you my clothes here. Do you mean to insult me? What's your name and number?"

Here the unhorsed wheelman made the mistake of seizing his tormentorbythecolar. The big man took one hand. out of his pocket long enough to knock the thick necked man from an eighth to a quarter of a block and then strode up the middle of the street solemnly whistling "One More River

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S A I S I E A O WtM! Was Longing For tho Wolf to

Come.

Talk 'bout you beln' hongry," said tHe colored man, according to the Detroit Press "some er dese folks dat hab mos* remarks ter mako 'bout privations fully re'lize how bad de hongriness kin

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Out of seventy-three cases of dlphtheru ia Ogdensburg, X. Y., which were treated with antitoxin only two were fatal.

Fourteen balloonists were either killed or badly injured during 18D«. Two of these unfortunates we:e women and both were killed.

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rule forbidding a student who falls below a certain standard of scholarship from becoming a member of any athletic team.

Negus Menelek has received as a present from the czar of Russia a complete set of wind instruments, a piano and an organ. Several Russian musicians have been sent with the instruments to teach the Abyssinians to play on them.

Chelsea district in London utilizes its street refuse by separating the rags and paper, which are converted into brown wrapping paper, while the rest of the refuse Is burned in the furnaces of the reducing works and the residuum is used in briukmaklng.

Mr. W. S. Witham of Atlanta, Ga., enjoys the plutocratic distinction of being president of more banks than any other man in the world, probably. He Is at the head of no less than twenty-seven banks, all In the state of Georgia, and he says every one of them ia making money.

Dr. John H. Driggs, a Delawarean who has returned to his duties as medical missionary^ at Point Hope, Alaska, In a letter home give* a glimpse of an Alaskan belle: "Since my arc rival the villagers have all come to tell ma how glad they are to have me back with thenjl again. One of the most stylish girls of Tlgarf was evidently dressed up for the occ&sion« for she wore her full line of Jewelry, whlcty consisted of a safety pin dangling from on$ ear."

A lady was entertaining at dinner the othe* day quite informally an old clergyman and a few relatives. The children were allowed tar come in with the desert. On rising from the. table the latter stood aside to allow the white*., haired priest to leave the room in advance, He, however, pushing the youngsters through the doorway, said, laughingly, "Angels first. Glancing next at the hostess, as if inviting her $ to precede him, he was met by a wave of the •. hand from the latter, who said, with greaO promptness: "Saints next!"—Troy Times.

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TO SWINDLE INNOCENTS.

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work on the case. A short time ago a man claiming S. E. Mardorfi called at the *»tofflce Bloomfield, rented a lock box and uold Post master Dailey to put all letters addressed to Smi MaJshall in the box. The two men, !tAlleged, then began an -tensive ^orr spondence, mostly with people and Michigan, informing them that E. Parker had died in the to»n 'P^ considerable insurance money to. the P« sons addressed, which could be obtained by the payment of premiums and ^sess^Dt^ in arrears. In reply tbe men are said to have received a number of letters con-

shall who meanwhile had di*appea»ed been Kept bu.y .«.WM Western cities of the operations of the m£ He communicated with the postoffice ofSialT^ Washington, who have stopped Marshall's mail and ordered the arrest both men on sight.

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