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V-rw~. . r- «snow-rar‘vw . . my: .> . “Tell ill a snake-story. doctor." The mind for this petuniar form of mental refreshment was manifested by the filth officer of the good ship Chittagong. than steaming northward up the lied Sea at a speed which evoked the tepid ghost of a. breeze out of the stagnant stillness simmering over the gum and sent Jobel Zagar slipping from how to quarter in the 'brief interâ€" val between day and darkness. Reck- tng little of a temperature which might embarrassed a salamander, we crowd- ed. seven or eight of. us. Like true fatn- ous Britons. into a cabin ten feet by eight and a half. the bedroom, sitting- room, library. study, surgery, mena- gerie. and genera": "den" of the ship's doctor. to whom the above invocation was addressed. . “Snakeâ€"story l" ejacuialed the man of medicine in a tone of cynical: disgust, as he sat swinging his legs over the lice-board of his bank. “What do you want a snake-story for? Isn't the story of a snake. enough for youâ€"tho natural lifeâ€"history of any one of, them? Why. you might chop out a half-inch slice from. this beast anyâ€" where you like ’twixt stem and stern. and find more. wonders and. marvels in f it, and real ones too, than you will get i in all the penny-horrible snake-yarns‘ ever invented. But. the fact is, people; will swallow any amoulnt of nonsense; about snake-charming and fights withl serpents forty yards long, when they wouldn't believe the extraordinary: things that are simplry commonplace. everyday facts about them. For inâ€" stance, Lake the abnormal 'r tribuâ€" tion of the internal! organs, asymmetri- cal. enough almost to shake one's faith ‘ in what is regarded as universally! characteristic of the vertebrata. that‘ imamâ€"'â€" There, don’t how]! I’m not going to lecture! Don‘t light up till I’ve stowed these reptiles away. for they can't stand smoke. and then I‘m told you one of the (queerest things about serpents that ever came tomy knmvlhdgeâ€"ouiside themselves, that is; queer enough toaatisfy the fiver there. and. true into the bargainâ€"Get off from the iid of the washstand for a moment. you two, white I chock these boxes off with my instrumentmse, all . snug. Mind none of you come to me to have your teeth out after we leave the Canal; I don't want to find my snake-cage ptluying Isaac and Joss all over the cabin. if it comes on to blow in the Mediterranean, and she r0316!" A silvery slender Citngalese rat-snake, which had been nervoutsfly twining its sinuous length in and. coil between the speaker's accustomed hands and around his arms, was aiflowed. to slide back into its prison of mallow-protected g.ass and perforated zinc; while the oceas- ionatl- hiss of acoiup‘le of sullen rook- pythons lying in an open Lox at "his feet was smothered by the interposiâ€" tion of the shutter which secured their travelingâ€"quarters. Possibly we all felt a little more comfortable when they wem thus packed. up and put to bed, in spite of our confidence in the ‘ ’~ * ' ance that we were in no 333;: $2:twk by~ his. weird pets. The medical. officer of the Chittagpng was. as he llilllseijl expressed it. atonâ€" ftrined ophiomnmac;~ affjcted with a Lunacy for all repmiles and creeping things, but hapcmssly gone hove: snakes. which he caught or boiigdtfal ever practicalnb opportunity. an h et and ondied till he reached home. w ere-5 the sttrptiis 0! his large private muse uni ashore went Ll) the form of'do‘nfb- tions or exchanges to every zoo.ogical collection in Eon-ape. I ‘ ' 'l'hu serpents“ cages being safe.y FLA; ed Leiween the shutâ€"up Washingâ€"stun and the chest of drawers, and so formâ€" ing an adtiitioniuii sottee. W‘hlohlllgbt- sued the cover of the former apparatus of one moiety of its disproportionate burden. haikuâ€"dozen pipes contribut- ed their catniic to the already seethâ€" ing atmosphere. unraicved . by the. scoopâ€"shaped wind-shoot which ang- led vainly outtside the open scuttle for anv stray pulsation oi the sultry night. Goldâ€"laced rains were tossed us‘idc and brass buttons loosed as the smokers retttxed their hmldled-up lunis as far! as the narrow accmuinodation andi scanty huniiin anchorage wuu_.d allow, \vhi.e the dry-tor extended himself nt‘ fia'l length high above \_l.Ԥl on the grass' iiiai “hu'h served him for lfltlâ€"t‘.0.ncs. And in an unduranw of heat. and smoke ; which might have (planted for the Metropolitan Fire Brigade or earnedt the Victoria Crcss. he Spit-at the fo.low- tr 2 mini). can't go in for out-ofâ€"thc-way kind of "t-rittiu‘s" like these all your .ile without meeting with some adâ€" ventures more or .css strange in con- nection with flit-iii. l have run across a few in my time. as you Know :.-y .ha l‘iintr-tiiai'ks and s-ars on my arms and neck; but I don't think anything-that has ever occurred within my ram-ricotta of things stinkyâ€"and l was 't-vl’l‘. ~and brotutlii up uiiuhgm Lheiu ..:\_l have been iii pretty ruse companionship with them aJ my daysâ€"nothing. i say, that lhuve known of them in their casual relations with human brings has been more repuetc with gamma: and FOElliLllt‘e and mysticism .nrtn the oven! am going to route. Though l stuck to niyorigina.‘ [.Qs‘ltlup for aJ, that, rfliwmuerâ€"uiai the uniâ€", hut-R lht‘uu‘t‘iitfi In“: 1113‘“ mun- i'.\- imordinary in their structure and habits than the tlieutri'a. lll‘tt'tsb‘orlt's of any drums of mere banninntntcrts‘. wherein they have. been univuing ac:- tors or passive prowrues. ‘ Just think of the mnmrkabx mechanism of their Lower ya“: for example. and their facial bones. undergrang at eat-h meal they make it sgwnaiasnrs‘ data-alien by 'virtue a". the .cq-o ligainentonu at- tst‘h:tio\z~~-â€"- Ali rigal. all right; i “on t ‘x You tiOu'l “Lab It! \ u,gnr [off this Which ; 3 salted; attended sensationalisxn carries the day versus the magic and mystery of Nature: so here's your snake-story. I pin}'t“l_‘mt a very subordinate part in it. Jim more than that at aspectator: but! as m the scene “hence all our troubles date, the. teadin‘g dramatis personoe were a woman and. a sex-pant. Reality twenty years ago there lived for a time in the neighborhood of Rh do Janeiro a certain naturaiist, whose avowed speciality was ophiology. more particulhrly the study of venomous species, ‘with that most futika and Laminating quest which has exercised the mind of man from prehistoric ages In the pres-gent my, and which is astandwmisled by sundry current mil? 311d an engrossing now as in the beginningâ€"the search for an antidote “0 the P015011. He was comparatively a._ young man. certain-fly on the right Side or forty. unmarried. and possessed 0'f \V‘Jierewithui; [0 ensure the timely appmmn’fi of the. daifly bread independâ€" ‘ entl‘y of labor with hand: or brain even in that. ruinous part. of the world; not a. native Brazilian. butt 8. Portuguese. who. _after studying- in the medical shoots of Paris and Vienna, had left Europe. to take up his Mode in tropical tundra-in order to faciligate his special pursuit. Lacerda. with his perman- ganate of potash flheory had. not arisen in Rio at that time; Hailfouirdfs experiâ€" mutants with ammonia on the thaw.â€" tIgn‘rllldla of Australia, and those of 1‘ ai'fer in India, were too remotelry Oriâ€" ental to imprem a. Son t‘h American Dyl’liq; and' a taste for the collection 0‘; .ivlng serpents and an investigation 0: their manners and customs were apt pm be regarded as a curious phase of mental aberration in those davs by the _F.uminenses.” as the inhabitants otho de J aneiro jociuiiarly. style themâ€" senves. Per ' it was ahconsciousness . . ~ our Op 110 ist to be- take himself and his reptileg to a picâ€" tmresgue nook on the island of Paqueta. one bL. the largest of the three huln‘dred and sixtyâ€"five which dot the gibrious bay. Here he established his Vivarium rand read, and wrote, anaflysod, and dis- , ' v ‘ by his bllttck servants, military egos and comfontable quarters. and varying the mufiine of his Rife by smakodiunztmg excursions into the inâ€" terior, or__'hotrtda-ying trips to the city, fifteen nines off; for his devotion to pork by no means pa'ecllwded his cnâ€" 303111th of sociuv.‘ pleasures. \\'ilhihc entree into the best native and foreign sonetynhe would run over at frequent intervenes Ln his little steam-launch and putt _up for a mock or so at. the Estrangoiros or Carson’s, while [he ed .in the amusement of the gaiety- .loving town. Let me saiyi at once that I'firmy believe him to have been un- honest enthusiastic student of his stybect, an earnest; laborer in the VvlneYEy'dt ofsoience, and one who must have neft his name written in golden characters upon “the history of reâ€" search, butfor the tragedy in which he grillewfl thagms'hIiould “have made iiis‘ . were . ’ . t. was real; wish to meet him in person; fgyogn‘ common Ora-.28 hudah‘eady ktnitt a bond of union and. had did to correspondence between us; but I never saw h‘v . though I shoot it?) lltlliddlihunbl‘ed grave before . a a ] t. in ho ‘ him. Poor foilowl mm MS upon He fell in lye. How often tho :e four words preface the chapter which is the beginning of rthe end of this tale! 'He fell in lovez miserably, hopelessly, yet hopeful against hope. He met her durâ€" ing Carnival. whilst staying at the mountain hotel at Tijucal They met at; dinner. they met in the sala, they {not by‘ the Cascades; they went down in the same diligence to Boa. Vista, and thence by the same tram-car towit- ness the saturnalia. in the city far be- low. .lt's all told in a very 'few words. She was an English girl, just arrived with her. father. an official high in the diplomatic service. )‘BJth eagerly and gratefully accepted the. guidance and good offices of the courteous Portugu- eie, who spoke French fluently, and whose knowledge of the country made him quite an old inhabitant bv com~ purison with themselves. With him they wanted the Avenue ofl’aims ii: the Botanic Garden; with him they made the ascent of Santa'Theresa and climbed the Corcovada; with him then wandered at daybreak round the gorges of the Chinese View. The steam-launch bore them over to Paqucta, where they shuddered at the snakes. and saw with marvel the tact and intrepidity will: which their owner handled them. Then a month later her fiance, also in the servnce of the Government, came out from Constantinople via Lisl.on by the Royal Mail. and they were married at tho lt.Il1l.8$S_\'. She with her husband and father went to live at Petropolis; he returned to his lonely quintn an i iiâ€" variuui on the island. Ah me! the Bra- ztitans have a. proverb about the most daiigerpus snakes being cobras vestidas y penitadasâ€"the serpuus that wear clothes and comb their hair; and they're not, for wrong! i l m not going to indulge in anv psv- chologicnl speculations as to his mental and moral struggles. his battles and doubts and resolves. That such amind as lim- would suffer acutely..and that .it might be torn and tossed in a fear- ful conflict. there can be no doubt. But 'whetlier he formed any deliberiite plan of Zli'ilQll. or whether he simplv allowed himself to become the prey of circuin~ stances in what followed. ncn‘ can know. lAll that is certain is that 'a short time. after the Wedding-41 few weeks or months. I don't know how longâ€"lie set out on a s'ial.‘.n;; expedi- tiun among the Organ Mountains. put in an appearance at l’etropuii :. an i was greeted with effusive welmuie bv his late acquaintances in their our home. About this period 1 came round from the Pacific coast in it steamer “'llll‘ll was a day or so overdue when we go: into liio. having been detainid hi" it pamperu which blew heavilv noth of the Plate. The. pratique. boat brought me a letter dated two days previously. ifseeching me to come immediatelv to loin-pelts to see a gentleman suffer- ing from snake-bile; so, without wait- iitg to ponder over a certain mystifim- llt'li about the summons and its details. but once embarked in the )Iississippi riverâ€"boat sort of craft then just start- ing on the first stage of the journcv. deferring my long~lmked-for visit i0 Panamaâ€"where I could we the verv hviise its the steamer glide! hyâ€"till my r.-iurn. 8 had furnished myself with the neWs'papers to while away the time: t, and sitting down in the saloon :if; -.- :i couple of hours' deep draught of the never-suing beauties of the bay. thel first paragraph which caught my eye as I unfolded the Jornal do Commerczo was a brief announcement of the death of the savant whom I so destred to meet. He had‘ lxen bitten, so the ac- counl stated. by a curucucu. one of the worst of Brazilian serpents. two days before. and. had died in less than an hour, on the very date which the letter in my pocket bore. and at the very spot for which I was then bound.- As soon as I reached Petropolzs. Iwas , conducted without delay. by a messeng- er Who had been sent. to meet‘ me, to the bedside of the patient. an_ hnglish- man, evidently of good position. but personally unknown to me. His friends. it seemed. had Lecome aware that l was expected to come to R10 at the time when the accident. happened. fables as to my knowledge of miraculous cures for serpent-bitesâ€"had instantly de- Spatched the urgent appeal \thh I had received on my tardy arrival. It is needless to say that the primary issue of the man's life or death was long since decided; the native pbySicmns at- tached to the imperial court had done everything for him that.skill and get- ence rendered possible. and all questinn of specific treatment had been at an end for thirty~six hours or more. But. he was still very ill, and by no means out of danger of the secondary coniâ€" plicationsâ€"not seldom fatal in them- seli'esâ€"â€"\vhich may follow a venomous inoculationâ€"shock. gfltngren'l. WOO-3' poisoning, arid other disastrous cons;- quences. The bitten hand. the wlioe arm. and. even that side of the chest, were terrible swollen, and the consti- tutional symptoms severe; but there were certain. appearances and pheniâ€" mena iif'the case which I could not- re; concile with any past experience .0 form of injury... had. perceived nothing anomalous in them. And so it came about that on my mentionlng these disâ€" crepa‘ncies to the sufferer's charming wife and. his father-in-law. the pbvmus air of mystery and reserve which had manifested itself- all through their agâ€" onized anxiety was resolved. after a brief consultation between them. by their confiding to me the secret oft this hideous affair. No wonder that they were almost beside themselves With grief and. "horror and the consmons no: cessitiy of suppression and concealment: You have guessed, of course, who the patient wasâ€"the newly-made Benedict. As I have intimated. the naturalist had been received by them With open arms, for no suspicion of the emotion entertained by him had crossed their exerted themselves to the utmost to render his visit a pleasant and mem- orable one; indeed, so fervid was the warmth of their hospitality that they had even done their best to procure live serpents for him. In this endeavâ€" or, however, they had been successful only to a. very limited extent, since the slaves who were sent out to scour the forestrclothed hills for bixos brought in but one specimen uninjured» among many dead, and that one proved to be of no great scientific interest. though a pretty' and harmless little creature a bright grass-green whip-snake. Its recipient taking it out of the glass jar in which its captors had imprisoned it as coolly and quietly as though it had been a yard of inanimate ribbon op- ened its long arrowâ€"shaped jaws to do monstrate the absence of fan s in its mouth and then proposed that 's host ess should; herself retain it as a pet showing her how to handle it so as to avoid exciting. its anger. This she ac» romplis‘hedâ€"most women can manipul- ate a snake far better than a manâ€"to her half-terrified delight; and present.- ly her husband who had been abjectly afraid of- the reptile at first, growing bolder by? the contagion of her former Sty. took it gingerly in his fingersâ€"- with the usual result. It hit him will: a sharp plungeâ€"only a scratch in tin- angle between he forefinger uni thumb. just enough to draw blood; but he flung the poor whipâ€"snake on the ground in! fright and disgust. an'l biz-- gan to nurse his hand. "Do not be alarmed i" said the. guest. with a smile; “it is perfectly harmless The snake’s teeth cannot hurt you as much as the beak of yonder love-bird !" Suddenly be seized the bitten hand and bent; over it as though to inspect "i. closely; bent lower and lower. while It stifled: silence fell on the group low- :‘r and: longer till every heart throb- Ted audiibly in the pausing moments. Then he slowly raised his h-.-ad and lift- ed up a white ghastly face. the fact- of one changed by death. 'culate utterance. "I have been deceivâ€" (Hi! The. serpent is venomous, and in ’1!) hour you will have. succumbed in its lite un‘css vig :i‘ous meas ires are taken. 1 have the antidote. a counterâ€" poison proved by a hundred experim- ents upon myself. Submit. yourself to me. and I will save you. Quick! there is no time to be lost. Though you feel nothing now. in a few minutes the p018- (In will have taken possession of your system. and it will be. too late. Lie down on the floor of the veranda in- stantly-«do what I tell youâ€"do noth- ing else i" His speech cleared. and the blood flushed back to his lips again. as the words poured forth in a mad torrent. and be rushed into the house-where his preparations had been deposited. The iii-tiin half incredulous. yet scared out of his: senses pinced himself in afrauie- work chair and lay back on its foldl of jaguar-skin. His wife. with despeâ€"; irate calmi took a flask of ltulia from: liho sideboard and poured its contents' into a tall Venetian glass. for. she. ban [a dazed remembrance ()f'll‘rtvlllg read [or heard that large quantities o s I :were given to keep up the Circulation inf people serpent-bitten. She was last (on ihe point of holding the vessol to her lhnsband's lips when their guest sped lback into the veranda with two small ‘boxes. in his band. In a perfect fury. of ;excilenient he flashed the glass nsndu ‘with Si ’11 violent-e that it was shatter- ed in tpr grasp. "Drink. and you are a dead man!" he. shrieked vehemently. "1 say. do no- thing but what i command. or i am powerless for your rcsoue. On the floor -â€"-quick. quick on the {lot-r. or you are lost !" ‘ Like one possessed he caught the bag- lishtnan in his arms and threw him lout of the. chair upon the ioards. while ithe poor girl. frozen Wltll terror. stood hv niotioniess as u_statuo. With _the 2broken glass siiH in her uni-inviting i ban". and her arms stamed uni stizash- these matters.'tliough _t1}0 Braz-lt‘l‘lhn' a. clump of bamboo in the garden. doctors. no‘t bemg Spfl‘mvllSltS m 13 dead. The splintered glass which her mind. 'U-naffcctedly desirous \to “PM: There could be no doubt as to what had the recent cwilities at 'lijuoa. they ha” \hnpnd but I believe that no one but “Senhor‘.” M gasped- With scarce M‘t- rmen uses flvas proved by the. pit. pirit 4 ed” by the spirit.’ Down he knelt by the recumbent form. and drawing forth a lancet from a case of surgicai instruments. he lightly scarified the skin of the hand in the eighbuurhood of the scarce-visible bite. Then from 9......“ â€". -.â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€""5' db . if“ ‘ . ‘ in UN _ Mini the other box he took a tiny giass tub- {TEMS OF INTEREST ABOUT THE tile. fine almost as a hair. but contain- ing a glistening streak of fluid. Steadying himself by a fierce repressive effort. and evincing a quictude and de‘ liberation as unnatural as his previous frenzy. he gently blew the minute drop of glutinous liquid out 0'. his tube on lathe point of the knife. and rubbed it into the bleeding scratches. A mom- ent later his patient uttered a cry of agony, and the operator glanced swift- ly upwards for one moment. In that one moment she learned all. .By the lurid flash of that one. swift. involuntary glance she read revealed in the. figure kneeling at her feet her lover and her husband's murderer. )i‘ithtiut a word. without a thought, impelled only by a blind protective in- stinct. she stooped and, with a wild thrust. pushed his head away as he hung over the poisoned hand. Never heading him further as he. reeled to. his feet and. clasping his throat with both hands. staggered out into the air. she caught up the rapidly 'discolouring limb and sucked the wound in despera- tion to drain the veins of the death al- ready creeping through them. That. terrible cry had brought some of the slaves into the veranda. and by this time her father had reached her side. Medical aid was summoned. and stimuâ€" lants were poured down the sufferer’s throat, pending the arrival of the phy- sicians. "Snake-bite!" resounded on (Everyuside, and was enough to account or a . ’Outside inl the glory of the sunshine stood the Portuguese, leunimg against hand had mechanically retained had struck him‘ in the neck as she pushed him aside from his lethal work. Pene- trating his1 cartoid artery. and he had bled to death in a few moments. I Suppose some influence in high places and a sufficiency of milreis notes ar- ranged what little was left between him and the concerns of the world. Anyhow. he was huddled into the ground the same night. and next day the. Jornal do Commercio informed its readers that he had been killed by a curucucu.‘ Care. skilful surgrry, and a grand constitution pulled the patient out of: the fire, and he ultimately recovered perfectly as far as his general health was concerned, though he never fully regained the -’use of his hand and arm. the wife. her father. and myself over shared with the victim the. true explanâ€" ation. The Brazilian doctors had nat- urally accepted without cavil the. state- ment that 5the hand which by the time they examined it had undergone such 'lzsfiguratiotn as to mask any original fangâ€"wounds. had been bitten by a venomous ser out which had escaped llp-hthnt‘lfledâ€" or the little Pliilodryas vtridissnn'us, the lithe. green whip- snakehhad.’ made good its exit in the confusion and. was seen no more. The description given of it, however, was :iuinzstakable. and could not possibly :0 confound-3:1 with that of any pois- mous snake; it is a species which lives chiefly in! trees and bushes. feeding rn wards and leafâ€"frogs, and is very coni~ own in that region. I may add that )n_m9re. than one subsequent Occasion a Similar specimen was recognized with- out a moment’s hesitation by all those who had. been brought ill] contact with the. reptile: in questionâ€"a creature ab- solutely destitute of fangs or poison- vags', possessing lfF‘l power of inâ€" flicting injury than a mouse. It may be, that the whole train of events. seem- :ngly fortuitous. was the result of a aleful forethought. and design on the part of the unhappy man. More prn- ably, as. rt appears to me. he was inâ€" {incent of any purpose until struck by the diabolical idea that the harmless scratch might be converted into a. 1carh-tlealirng catastronhe by the. means =.vlinf:ii his pursuit of srienii'i' invest igu- linns had: placed at his disposalâ€"an irliz-a ierhaps actually {engendered by fire. fright and! unrensnning' fears of his lupe. But: howsoever the horrible inâ€" tent may 'have originated. it is certain that the matter contained in the. tu- bule was the venom of one. of the. great Viper-me serpents which abound in the, tropical parts of South America. most ')kely a rgiltlesnnkc. His Collection at laquetu included a large number of these. ('l‘t‘lflll‘l‘lfl‘s, which I believe to be. :he most virulent. serpents on earth: 'lllfl that! be stored the pofson for ex? cumstanre that a considerable quantity of it was founrl’ammigst his drugs and chemicals in dried scales and on blui- lmg-r-a or and sugar. as well as. in E’ass illl'OS. I discovered als'i a l'i‘l'llll‘ :irlv shanetl spnnn. and some shells In"â€" nreri with vegetable parchment: which had been prepared in rmcive t'm him-,- nf flip. enraged reptiles, leased into strik'ng. and so to collect the fluid oiâ€" ect’ei from their glands. And with this deadlv virus he was deliberately xmvl murdermtsly infecting the. lifeblood of the man whose sa‘t he h'l'i eaten fwimn thn love fur which his snulg was siftin- ed lretraved' him. _B'r-<s ma there goes six bolls! Who didn't some; of you brim: me up with it round turn lmfnrf‘? 1V1- sliall have. the l']11:1!‘i"‘l'lll(t%f‘.‘r upon us proscnt'v in order the light outâ€"Fiver if you mean to keep tit“ middle wait-h with vniir eyes open. you'd lcitnr turn in for an hour all standing or i'mi'll he found on the wheel-gratings nfi dream- ing of snake-bitesâ€"l'm point: no to sleep on the iiiirrfrnnn~clei-k skvlighls. â€"Good~night. n‘l Y ' ’l‘lil'". END. A DAY'S ‘.'.\ltl;\NC-E IN “'l‘IlGl‘I'l‘. Have you ever tried this exteriuwm of weighing yourself in the mornim.r and again in the evening: It. is uni» of the best ways. so doctors say, of finding whether your bomb is goal or not. if you are thoroughly well them should not be a difference of more than two or three mines either way in the 12 houm. if you lose or gain as much as eight Mint-es you should immediately consult a doctor. while ller gain or loss of a pound indicates you are on the verge. of serious illness. This. of course. does not apply to om: just. recovering from illness. for non valesrents who have. been much rennin ed may sometimes gain 13 In :50 aunt-us a day. BUSY YANKEE. .icighborly Interest In His linings-Matters of Moment and “um Gathered from His Daily Record. Polk county, 1a., has paid off all its debt. There is a white sparrow in Lafay- ette, lnd. Wilde-its have attacked persons in various parts of Monroe county, 1{.V‘! wulun the last few weeks. Part of the tombstone over his mother‘s grave fell on a little. child m u Jacksin. Tenn, cemetery and broke- his leg. In the Portland district of Michi- gun fruit growers have found it diffi- cult to gut. baskets enough in which to ship their large. crops of plums this 59415011. An loiva husband and wife were ad- mitted to an insane usyium at Mount "lfcasiint at the some time. it was the first case. of the kind in the history of“ the asylum. One of the cheerful. previiricalors of Dunviile. Ky., says that a schemelias been proposed there for a cockittg main arranged on the pan of the huturtty running race. During a. part. of last. month the Missouri River was so flow at Jefferson City, Mo. that it was said that people might walk across it. without wetting their feet. T-wo Amhrchists under arrest at Portland, 0r., so annoyed their cell mates by efforts to propagate their doctrines among them tliutvthe other prisoners petitioned the jailur‘ for re- lief. Fishers for sadmon in the Yuquiim Bay. 01:, are advised in these days to take wliaille hooks along, as the rela- ceans are so plentiful that it is diffi- cult to get the salmon without en- countering them. In Kentucky the naan of persons wanted in court. are cried from the front steps of the court houses, and it is and that Kentucky is the duty Stzite_in the Union where the custom prevails. With cruel neglect of their own statesmen the immunities of the Kun- sas University dismissed all the nat- ural: history classes on] circus day re- cently _to enable the. students to study the, animals. People of South Norridgtiivock, Me. might be forgiVen. if they got their dates mixed just now, for in one day there. rc'e‘nlluy a resident pickedstmnivâ€" berries. and raspberries, blackberries and blueberries. Especially good sugar is being manu- factured (his season from beets at. Grand Island. Nab. the heels testing as high as 18 per cent. sugar. accm-ding to reports sent out at H e close. of the first week of inunxufuc- turning. A Lawrence. Kan , man, writing from New York, in the TJLWI‘BIICVS Journal, says, “The greatest thinig i saw hero was a former student“. of the music depirtinient. of Kansas lJiiiVi-rsil.y play- mg :1 hand organ in Central} Park." lloncy dripping down a lightning: I'Dzl is the littlest novelty mportcd from Independence, Mu; ’l‘hc. rod is on the spare of the Court House and passes through at big brass ball into which bees have mule their way and where they have. hivcd: Charity is to profit. from profanity in ()ii‘ingsvilla, l(_\'.. where a society has been formed whoa: members. With the, ! Intention of checking thch profane tendencies, cow-mint in pay ill“) the treasury five-,ccnls for every 01th uttered by “Will. .0119 man with. or nay enough in buy his mortuary nmnumwnl ahead of time, who is not llSll:l.!n> rl of his vocation is John llyinimn of .l.(m;oo‘.uc, Ind. who has had carved in :41. me. a burn»: with a. keg on top of it, this li'lrrt-l i'nsr'ril'c'l, "'A ('hopz-i' by 'l‘r-idc." - l‘rusidenl Affrcvi ('1 olidgre of the Sawmill N itiou i2 llziti‘: (iftfolfax. “Hash . has raised an immense quantity (if “llt' it this Sunfiwil illl‘l sold it .1! ii. rate cqu'tlliiig 5-31.?!” an acre. while ll'.<‘ land ifs-If could. not have, iii-0n sold at :inv tivm- these past three years at SH) an r't'rc. Aftn-r swirling :1. good deal nfli'nc. :It a fir.- um: (waning. lhu youthful {ion of :u. [)ll)'.‘-}l,f‘illl of North 'Yiikinm, ."“"slt.. found hitmvw'f llll‘ new morn- 'nq almost strangling “O‘i'll‘l hur- rimilv r' riled, lrm': from his lltrmt rev- eril winders, :tn'l bv int-ins of .1” Pill"- U" got 50mm Izii‘gcr (fill’lf‘l'S out. «if iii-z st munch. Bishop Vln'W'Ht mmlc smtu‘tling of 't llt'D'll‘illl‘v“ for a Eli-"mind. is'!--::.:It tlit- )iit‘iii;.:rii ('Ullfl‘l‘l‘lll‘l‘, :it. Kahunaâ€" zm», ht- expresw'l disapproval of Hm mid-time ri‘t‘l'fl'l‘l‘ :in'l t'nvivul lit: tic.» said that halmrl no syinpzitliy with xll‘i"7|(’lii'l‘.-i wizn rm: :inl pl-n' a mum- of insxlull or r2 in :i bicycle. and added that 5"!!!“ é'hristiiins llruuplil liw‘.’ were. pious \vI-cn Hwy won: only Minus. '1 ii". [Namibia lV‘f‘u'fii of nviyhlmrhmri gusst has had 'in. i'lusitrntiuu in Uru- gun. wlwru: .i bitof it, v. Liv}; was starl- et! in t‘ircuI-ttirru a. year ago in June lNII'P we'm'mie fruit, last won-k 5-; ll. .‘Jo'vil found wliiie illnugbing mirrotsunhis Iand, nint- mile". from :onzlleton. last yinr, a grid Intkut which had laci'n List-d as a watt-l: charm it (zu.-nt,'timn| two lOf‘kts‘ of l:';'.x' “1- Hill! many l't'fl‘rflf‘. of what he lirul fuziml. finally. nut. many days ago, Jaur-H Litisey rs-sfailwl luv-'an lu‘urtl onw- that :t slumpman. IézllH'S li'it'ko-tl. ll'l’l. th such aciiarm. Hut‘kull n2... sought out an-l he recov- i-rwl the flute! which line had lit-it is'lziit- rounding up some izorrws half a dozen years :1in it contaian tucks of the L'iér of his two dead childrul you.