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avidercd vento! ro rk Herald east and the and Primate of the Ame Was, appointed a powers t H convene sole Arehbi tended the t ho has not be has ster at this third is now four plenary ¢ kcore years ¢ | BUSINE j At a recent eo} ibbons and several bish al of the t learned pri of certain qnest ry couneil wil 1 be with closed lie, ost important couneil will be States of the Trent. Upto thi rded by the church ont: althoush n has not been np it one of then wre th ¢ brouzht be canon law he could us offences and by es- will and the num- is reported to ishops an diseuss rejectin, ation as the case on of the counc ue questions ar urn consi: pprovinse it ine it with se approval makes it a | lings of the plenary coun- | ly affirmed or modified by the | ive body of the church, are | to each bishop, &e., who w > plenary council. for his g tion of his om | Holiand’s Fight with the Sea. From Good Wools. | After a delicious breakfast of coffee and thick cream, Tusks, scodes and different kinds | of cheese, always in lispensable in Dutch break- | fasts, we took fo the railroad again and crossed Zealand, which chiefly consists of four islands, | pber of t ance in the exec rlands than any other part of the | countr; The land is ail cut up into vast | polders_ as the hu meadows are called, which | the sea and protected by | * country would ps of engineers, | y employed | re was with- | called to watch the Ww keep in repair the menaced | ay | inkabitants of s is to Torre di Outdoor dey’ Lady’s B hts of the young women nd ped bopul ‘strianism. Fr organiza- A conehir is more or ess of an expense, but the his are free to foot passengers. 'A number of clubs, composed entirely of young iadies, hy for brief summer rambles of The costume adopte Teady mount: shoes, perhaps of alligator skin, knapsack and walking stick, is forn @ rough-and- et but, stout with a small When the party the mountains or sually an addition of gentlemen and chaperones. The gentlemen adopt a knick- erbocker costume, which Is found to be of ser. vice also in “wheel parties” or bicycle meets. [Call it bi-sizh-cle, not bi-sick-le,please } Thetri- eycle is rapidly coming tnto favor, being largely used in the parks, where the double-seated ones are ridden by ladies and gentlemen in company. There are single-seated ones, however, in which ladies ride at ease. either alone or with a com- panion bicycle. There is very little skill re- quired in the management of atrieyele. A loose costume and a broad-brimmed hat comprise the only eq nt necessary. After the tricycle cones the swimming suit, the extremely ab- ‘arment which takes the name ofa It is quite as high an accom- wim well as to ride well, and the patronized by the most elegant rh it in picturesque suits of ade aud ornamented. see & British boy, is wanted var onacharge of gross cruelty Sens; he with a cane sword en of th ltodeath. Its He was berated by the his parents promising ent to Eugland i a EVENING STAR: WASHI NGTON, D. C.. NATURAL GAS WELLS, Their Wonderfal Beings at Pittsburg— A City to be Heated by Gas—Use of shire Correspondence New York Tritune, Pitts so long known as the “Smoky City, ises to lose that umenyiatle title in the future. The natural cas lately dis quantities has in tna cov Ire nd blast furnaces, and as si are laid the whole new selt-p by be supplied nid ¢ ith n then vie New York. in ch Boi ider a pressure of tds to th about rayevil ymaker was und suilty of murder y. that te ins di to be obte company wei forme n promised to make | the new fue! », but the eomy amers in the city aininga ci of their own. A number un, but the first la Westinghouse, it Homewood, inside the then ‘it only wa was to bore well: of wells were be struck by Ge of the air-brake, limits. were Ay but not so lar This weli m ugh no die well. To. visitor it from the no: + furnaces, the the y be taken as wureyin amin rumble of workmen, Vividly a the’ of most re horhood, swood, so Ik m seventy to eof the was eee maint of the nois obs Plant life lighting of the well at night was rom the well ‘w weeks th ontinued. The best proposals of the natural ar have been to furnish 1 price that the coai cost here rate bas bi i and the only ups ying then will be in cost of handling the coal, asies and cinders, But the convenience, cleanliness and ada bility of the gas to ce1 nds of manufacture, will be the ch mill whitew ch a thing ac ly exists. One great advantage of the gas the regularity with which at can be supplied. By simply turnt valve, like the throttle-valve of a locomo' the degree of heat can be rezulated. One dan. xer besets the use of zas as fuel—its explosive- ness. The high presstire of 150 pounds to the Square inch makes it impossible to confine the gas in anyordinary gas pipe. The gas must gain. ‘ide and outside. in Pittsbu inn the h Recessarily escape at the crevices and joints. I odorless its presence cannot be de- tected, and when mixed with atmospheric air in certain proportions it explodes very easily has been devis has proved in every w successful. The greatest revolu uel has made is in the dwelling Cooking. once an onerous task, be asant pastime. By t ¥ m- i to the oyster saloons, and in a few minutes a meal ¢: dirt, no smoke, no rutiled temper, be cooked. No no kindling jar whistle has s of natural of the sceam-whi the gas has be eithe ed alr or st can be kept equable f the houses at rew in the or heating on entering nm old- . Buta over that the apy since the introduction ot thi etimes the urate is filed with a KS or stones, loosely thrown together. eatens the n i new bri ry is be dri ste t @ short time exhauste, down a well and the gas can be supplied companies. In Fredonia, N. iverpool, Mhio, und other piaces i re: been used for years, there is no indication that the supply is likely to fail soon. There is no doubt that ‘ittsburg is underlaid by veins of natural gas, and ac- cording to experts the supply will last for at least twenty years. Hence it is safe to infer that the coal beds that have heretofore built up & commuuity of a quarter of a million people will not be used by the Pittsburg pecue here- | after, but will needs be keted elsewhere. a ge How to Deal with Mr. “Grabseat, From the Philadelphia Ledger. it is a very safe plan on entering a car whicn has been half turned into a baggage car simpiy to request the bold solitary occupant of two or four places to remove the parcels from the seat you choose to Indicate. It does not suffice to ask “‘Is this seat taken?” for the Grabseats do not hesitate to Imply with a gesture that it is reserved. They mean that they have reserved it, but give you to infer that its occupant has Just stepped out. An assured air is the only method of meeting this family on thelr own ground. You can suggest to the conductor, & he fs in the neighborhood, that he remove such pase tothe rack or the floor; and as you ave paid for the seat you Coby, do not be cast down from your composure if, by coughs orahaughty air, your presence is signalled as unwelcome. Reserved seats for baggage or babies are not sold in an ordinary car, though the only way to discover this sometimes is to call on the passenger to show the number of tickets he holds for his barricaded seats. The conductor will do this, at your request, and then —and then only—does this most offensive family sive any sign of confusion or humility. On ail other times, by a magnificent bearing and a show of great annoyance when questioned, the appear to have chartered the car. but the cust of putt 00, W elad men in | To prevent this. however. an apparatus | d to relieve the pressure, which | | y of the | y of 1.200 | | The y uffered, and after a | f | hed in- | terrible | ‘point for th | upon to rene nothing bat pottery imitations ng the of na-| a we ; down. Who ean s: in the London Lancet of September 61s re- corded a case of resuscitation after apparent death by » So remarkable as to be | worthy of notice and discussion outside of | purely p sional cireles. The case Is reported by Dr. Ernest W. White, rator t medical officer to the Kent } or drowning, THE MAN-EATER’S JAWS. Six Villages in India Devastated by Tigers in Broad Day. From the London Times, Mr. H. G. Tunner, acting agent to the gov- ernor of V: ‘am, writes to the chief sec- retary to the Madras government from Lothu- kedda, on the 3d of June, 1884, as follows: “I have the honor to report that the neighborhood of this villa: er with the adjoining vil- such an e: special measures being taken. r destruction a matter of urgent im- Dari e last four months upwards it n killed in the vicinity of Paderu, Nandapoor, | In the neighborhood | m now cheamped, which is within the | at the Lamsinghi police station, upwards Ot thirty-five pe have | killed in the last | and in both places there is a e of deaths from the same sts here is terrible. their houses after Laud bis wife were ploughing this abandoned villa Atheiman in the mide tureed oa the woman and Tr sane s shown two | cer carried off two men in | T was shown a phice where Kusehed him hu so severely that he died t day. This ¢ who were e: On th at one hundred | bree days age vith the st e middle arise from an unis the country. Itis clear done to stop the: * will be gradually de- | ed quite recent dis have fallen | try to live on xo off to the not only the absolute ak about, but ving of all agricul- Je to contemplate | out ic nes of k toat a poer la few nundr ut bith that ance ot his being f tus plough, ort! i see = A Wonderful Kesurrection. po N.Y, Sun, . hear Canterbury. ‘Years oid, atfiieted hat form of insanity known as melan- She had tried to kill herself before ad- n into the asylum, and made several emptsto take her lite after being received into the institution. Finally she succeeded in the watehfulness of the ated her previous ef iohid herseit in found ha edt OF port she had been seen alive L with cholia m who had f eut down she apparently quite nation was so completely suspended = no syinptom whic bled the i present to distinguish her condi- wth.” ‘This is the re- ras the a. Th peratur d, and the eyes ible to the action of light; at the wrist or templ tcould be detected even’ ti iration had absolute woushess was comple aly nm failed to con- woman had been a the extreme penalt us Would doubtless have mptoms in pronouncing alive to and not only but fast recovering from all ent al di i y low, the lips were vi ted anal ir uncon ion of tract the mus criminal who of the law the pi been her di well phy mental Dr. White and his ass nts wisely upon appearance They ga ie benefit of the doubt in tl refused to had to | known | the Silvester method. ‘The move- rmed slowly—ouly ten times a inute—but about ten minute: pr they w y feeble attempt at natural | ‘y weak pulsations: of the he rived by the aid of the stethoscope. Ten minutes is a lone time to wait for the first signs of returning lite, and it is to be feared that in. many cases of apparent death, ally by drowning, itation are not continued to rekindle the smouldering spark that remains in the body. There can hardly be too much patience or perseverance. In tis case artiticial respiration was steadily maintained for two hours before the natural breathing was sufficiently established to dis- pense with assistance in this w It it had wen abandoned earlier, the woman would prob- ably have died, notwithstanding her partial restoration to sensibility. We need not follow the treatment in detall. The patient became imperfectiy conscious about n hours after the act of strangulation, and In the course of a fortnight was in good bodily z She lost her melancholy illusions and became cheerful, looking back at her attempt at suicide with horror. Fortwo days from the time of hanging, however, her memory was a te blank. xtraordinary ‘case ts interesting In aspects. 1 complete simulation of death sugzests a possibility that phy ns may cometines themselves be dec as to the fact of death, especially careless practitioners or those of comparatively limited information. We have already referred to the lesson which it ches of the need of steadfast and hopetul perseverance in etforts to restore those who have apparently lost their lives by strangulation Tt would appear that artificial pspiration is more useful and effective when the movements are performed slowly than when | dten a minute. This is an important | to remember who are r first aid to the injured. arkable occurrence may tothe many stories which have | 1 of the restoration to life of men ently suffered death by hanging ble that full¥ seven minutes had Ween the moment of the act of sus- and the time when the woman was cut that similar measures might ve brought about a resuscitation if she hed remained hanging twice as long? And mizht not astrong man possess the potential Lility to recover, with like ‘tance, trom the effects of strangulation lasting half an hour? Who can now assert with confidence that a con- ct with on unkroken, cut down after z thirty minutes and turned over to friends having all the resources of modern med- ical science at command, mizht not be called back to existence in this world? Such an event is improbable enough, we know. bnt we do not see how it can be pro- nounced physically impossible, in view of the facts to which we have drawn attention. sabia A Nihilisvs Terrible Girthood. From the Manchester Courier, The girl Maria Kaloojny, who so daringly attempted to murder the chief of the Odessa police the other day, seems to have been closely associated with, if she does not herself belong to, the inner circles of the nihilist conspiracy. Her brother was accused in 1879, when he was amidsitpman in the Black Sea fleet, of having supplied dynamite to the men who attemptedto assussinate the late emperor by explosions at Odessa and on the railway near Alexandroff, and was convicted and sent to Siberia. He es- caped thence, but only to be captured again by the late Col. Soudaikin, at a nihilist dynamite depot. He was then sentenced to death, but his sentence was commuted to the more terrible punishment of hard labor for life in the mines. His sister, in 1882, was found living, with a false Passport, as cook at Odessa, in the house of the notorious Degaieff, who, having been captured by Soudaikin, was spared by the latter to be- come, as the wily chief of police believed, a use- ful tool in his hands, but, in trath, to be Sou- daikin’s murderer. The girl herself, who 1s barely 19, was shut up for ten months in the Fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul. She has since been at Odessa, making a wretched liveli- hood by teaching, and under police supervision, trom which she has eauente? asked to be re- lieved, so that she might return home, She was visiting the chief of the Odessa police, otensi- bly in order to renew this request, when she attempted his life. Tt would be hardly Possible te twagine a more terrible story of a girlhood. be Te: who lave ap on the gallow pension net h | but I have no doubt he kn | pression | out thousands of ori | ting and in | simply a qu AFTER-DINNER SPEAKERS, Characteristics of Some Notable Im- promptu ‘falkers, Good and Bad. Howard Paul in the HotlMail, Lord Coleridge, at the Irving banquet at St. James’ Hall, before our popular tragedian-went to America, intimated that an after-dinner speech “consisted of platitudes and anecdotes,” and I remember hearing Mr. James R. Lowell, poet, humorist and American Minister at the Court of St. James, say that if suddenly called upon atter dinner to speak his mind was more orless a blank, but that om the way home from the feast he thought of ever so many good things he would like to have said. Thisimplied a lack of ready wit, but I fancy Mr. James It. Lowell did himself an injustice by this confes- sion, as his speeches usnail, ean impromptu air and abound in point and interest. Charles Dickens was an admirable after-dinner speaker, y toleravly well beforehand what he was to talk about, and since the lamented death of Boz” T fancy George Augustus Sala bears away the palm. When this notable journalist ri Poises his chin in r, rolls his dark eyes upward and sends out his clear, metallic cliest notes one feels an T speech is forthcoming, delivered with fluent ease and felicity of ex- press I once heard a noble Lord, who very frequently makes excellent speeches in the upper House, de that he would part with this worldly po ions if he could roll off ech with the facility of G. A. S. This may have been a facon de parler, but it certainly im- ed a large measure of admiration for the torical ability of our prince of journalists. To my mind the most wonderful speaker in the is Henry Ward Beecher the celebrated oklyn divine. He can speak at any time, at any place, and on any ject. His pyrotechnic brain, ine ing and whirling, shoots cht thoughts, Which he in most musical and expressive The worst speaker I eyer heard is r ucieault, who, though a capable Trish comedian and adapter of French p: a it and stammers, hesitates and trips when he “rises to respond,” and resumes his seat without having produced the slizhest effect ex- cept that of disappointment. On the whole, I think the Americans are more telling after- dinuer speakers than the English. There are readily cloth Jang Daniel Dougherty, the eminent advocate, of Philadelphia; Sunset Cox, Ben Butler ‘and Chauncey whose names are well known on thi nand who, when they get on th . ustiaily eorruscate to. the tion of the Sheriff's dinner at the Central Criminal Court, inthecity of London,a rule has been i troduced by which the speaker returns than! ew words as possible. Why could pit obtain in other countries and on casions? It seems to be a law of human at a gentleman who is a sensible, creature when safely anchored in his chair should lose his head and go wildiy we gathering when he gets on his pins Tf 5 stion of posture and ate: suggestion might be useful. A Celebrated Case. From the Boston Advertiser. Yesterday, in the United States circuit co..i, at New York, argument bezan in what is des- tined to be the great telephone case. The cause is a peculiar one, not only in regard to the great value of the patent issued to Pro- fessor Bell (now owned by the Ameri Beil Telephone company), which the defendants in this suit are endeavoring to overthrow, but in many other respects as well. The time and hor consumed in its preparation have been immense. For months, and in fact for years, both sides have been taking testimony, which has been printed and is now to be submitted to Wallace, with such comments and ex- jons as the distinguished counsel on each will be able to make in the conrse of their protracted arguments. Five hundred and fifty Witnesses have been examined. The plaintiff's not this other nature t testimony fills three large printed volumes of about 800 pages each. The documents on which they rely make a huge volume of 1,000 » defendant's testimony and exhibits, pr, amount to tour large volume: tract of evidence prepared by the plaintitt’s counsel isa book of over 800 pages, and the briefs tiled on both s will compos when taken together, an exhaustive and minute Sc n such principles of the patent law as le to the It Is very seldom that the argument of a patent suit takes more than a day or two. but inthe present case ten days or a fortnight will be consumed by the yers on both sides, It is hoped that by har- i length as this the counsel will be able to give him some notion of. the “lay” of the case, and that in this way his n will be rendered comparatively easy. ainly any plan should be put in practice which seems calculated to lighten the labors of a judge who is bound to examine such a mass of evidence as must determine the decision of this case, but it may weil be doubted if any judi- cial mind, however capacious, could retain the sion of arguments extending over ten ora fortnight. he point at issue 4s, atter all, a very simple one, in its statement at least, being merely the ques ether Daniel Drawbauzh, of Eberly’s vivanii nted the telephone prior to the year 1876. . being a question of tact, might Seem to require no great amount of ev dence or research for its proof or disproot, as the ¢ ight be. But it is chiefly in regard to collateral points that this legal battle has waged so long, and it is apparent that, so conducted, it might almost go on forever, Thus, a witness is produced who swears that he saw Daniel augh’s talking machine at his workshop r187—. Hels then asked, by one side otner, how he fixes the date which he n, aud he replies that he knows it was ear which he has stated hecause his Aunt died in that year, or his Uncle Parker ed from the west, or he ploughed up his north pasture The other side then hunts up evidence which tends to show that his aunt Polly died, or the other event, what- ever it was, took place In some year different, from the one which he has stated. Other wit- nesses, again, are produced, who. confirm his testimony; and so the contest goes on, until all the evidence which can ve procured on the point in question is put into the case. Every answer given by the witnesses is written down, of course, precisely in their own language; and, inasmuch as many ot the events to which they refer as establishing a date are household and family occurrences, the evidence contains a large amount of sociological information, ex- pressed ina picturesque Pennsylvania dialect. In fact, an author in search of material for a “chi er” novel might find what he wanted in these interesting volumes. Notwithstanding their length, the arguments in this case will be followed with keen interest. $e. Disgusted Dowagers, From the New York Queen, It is said that a number of Newport dowagers are coming home thoroughly disgusted with the place, and determined not to go there nex! sumin Many of them have failed to en: or marry off their daughters, and they re: that Newport must be waning in glory, the few marriageable young men ho were there during the son did not appreciate tueir daughters. ——— Axpaca Is again in fashion, and the very fine and excellent quality of the new brands will doubtless insure the material aga tained unpopularity. A most though e: harmonious, Xceedingly quict. toilet was the fol- lowing, worn in’ fashionable up-town New York church recently: The dove-zray skirt and tunie were simply tucked w trimming of any other kind. hussar jacket of dark blue velvet, perfectly tight fitting. A small nuns’ cap of ‘dark blue velvet was trimmed with silver-frosted grapes and fastened with narrow velvet strings. A pair of dainty gray Suede kid gloves covered the hands and arms to the elbows. ——_~-o-____ Fifty years ago, Black Crowther, was sold on the Gold Coast asa slave fora hogshead of rum, and as he was a boy of spirit, he is now the church of England's Bishop Crowther, of Africa. In regard tothe discovery of silver ore in New York and other Atlantic states, Professor Newberry asserts that silver is not uncommon along the Appalachian range, but seldom occurs in paying proportions. Nine-tenths of the mines in these districts fail. A Boston spirit medium was detected using telephone in his cabinet. He allowed his mouth to be filled with marbles and sealed with court plaster. By attaching the telephone to éon- cealed wires that ran to a confederate inanother part of the house he neyerthcless produced ghostly voices. The Paris municipal council has voted $600 to enable a delegation of carpenters to go to Sweden and Norway for the purpose of finding out how it is that Teady-made doors and win- dow frames from those countries can be deliy- ered in Paris at less cost than the price there of the unwrought material. A Philadelphia coroner's proposed to punish a drug clerk Mecatnoe strychnine pills which he had not marked poison, were fatally swallowed; but a judge orders his re- lease. ‘The legislature could never have in- tended,” says his honor, “that a prescription of a reputable physician, in case of delicate treat- ment, in which one of the poisons named should be used in the proper quantity, should be sent by the druggist to the sick room of anervous tient with the word ‘noison’ marked on the label. Such a law would bedestructive of med- ieal science, unreasonable, and against the spirit of sound legislation.” Ipaca, hout Above was a have been told that | ee < SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27. 1881-DOUBLE SHEET. EELWS LATEST. Public Test of the Motor Man's Vaporic Gun From the New York Herald, 21st instant. The “Keely Motor company's vaporle gun” was what the invitations called it, and the gov- ernment range at Sandy Hock was named as the place for the first public test of the famous Mr. Keely’s invention, The steamer Joha H. Starin was loaded with capitalists, brokers, two lunches, and a brass band, and at 2 o'clock yes- terday afternoon landed 200 interested zentle- men at the Sandy Hook pier. Headed by the Fort Hamilton military band, the company marched solemnly up to the range, where, in his shirtsleeves, Mr. Keely was_tound bending over his latest invention. A little group of army officers appointed by the Secretary of War to report onthe gun stvod at a respectful dis- tance from the cannon. As the visitors drew up Mr. Keely straightened out to ~reet them, and they s: the medium height, well built, with bold, eyes set wide apart in a head covered with black, curly hair. His dark side whiskers and mus- tathe were streaked with gray, and the deep lines about his face bore witness to the fifty eight years he cont His heavy hands were knotted, and, with the grime upon them, resem- bled those of a practical machinist. With only ack to his gun. It wa non, very heavy in the breech, and. with a thin barrel about afoot long. By its side lay two heavy iron cylinders, one of one gallon aud the other of five gallons capacity. From these cylinders to the rear of the gun rana_ strong hollow ‘wire, as thick as a lead pencil. The bore in the wire was not large enough to admit aknitting needle. It was throuzh this small wire pipe that the energy or force. ormysterious something, was admitted to the gun. The cyl- inders had been stored with the *etheric force” at Mr. Keely’s workshop in Philadelphia, and he had brought them with him to the tange. The thia wire pipe ran from the cylinders to the breech of the gun, and by turning a trigger or valve the force passed like lightning through the four feet of hollow wire into tie gun, dis- charging the bullet. The gun was a little over an inch bore, and threw a ball of lead weighing half @ pound, or a steel conical bullet much heavier. It was loaded by putting in first a rubber wad and then the bullet. Everything was ready, the man at the tarzet five hundred yards away was signaled to hide, and Mr, Keely touched the valve. There was a slight report as the bullet left the gun and sped onits way over the mark. Nothing had ex- ploded, and the visitors crowded around the in- vention, wondering at the force that could pass so rapidly throw: i an aperture. 30 for nineteen times the experiment was repeated, tin last’ ball x throush one three-inch ik and half way down into a second. ‘There as no diminution of force, and it was claimed ‘eat over one hundred shots could be fired with five gallons of mysterious energy stored up, “last shot would have just as much force * t. As for manufacturing the force, it we in what Mr. Ke called his *-vibra- cory,’ out of haifa wine giass of water and a little air. After the firing was over the wire or tube was detached trom the gun and the trigger turned just a little, so that the ‘force” could escape slowly, giving evervbody an opportu- nity to touch, taste and test it. Its appear- anes was very much like common everyday air. Once back on the boat, Mr. Keely made a few remarks, in which he said he had ylelded to the pressure of Keely motor stockholders to test this gun publicly. In six weeks he would give everything to the world, would get his patents, and then the public would see this wonderful energy applied as a motive power. He ex- plained the long ten years’ wait as the natural consequence of working in a new field. Col. Hailton, the military expert, said he» was pleased with the experiments. He was a scien- tist, and declared positively that the powerused could not possibly be compressed air, carbonic acid gas, or any force Known to the’ scientific world. Other scientists present admitted that asa matter of course. The colonel suggested that life was short, the motor secret was pre- cious, and begged Keely to contide in some one. CED THE INMATES OF A BURNING HOTEL. Anew chapter must be added to the annals of canine bravery, and one of the most remarkable and interesting in the already long series. The Newfoundland has distinguished himself by many rescues, and proved himself on many oc- casions a devoted helper of man, but never was a more spirit-stirring instance of heroism and devotion known than the behavior of the doz “Heck” at the burning of the St. Elmo hotel, at Eldred, Pa., last week. His master, the porter, went to bed drunk Thursday night, and was drazved out of his bed and into the hail by the dog before he (the porter) discovered that the house was on fire. Satisfied of the porter’s safety, “Heck” rushed through the halls bark- ing to arouse the inmates, and in several in- stances piloted them down stairs safely through the smoke. At last he fella martyr to his no- ble desire ot saving life. A motlier. carrying a little child, tripped and fell_on the stairs, drop- ding the baby in the hall. The aog rashed in and pulled ‘the child out. The mother, not aware of its safety, started in for the burn- ing building, when ‘‘Heck,” understanding from her action that some one was still left unres- cued, rushed in once more. It was too late, and he perished in the flam The dog seems to have been the only cool-headed individual in the entire building. If it had not been for his ac- tivity iy lives must have been lost. Such is the story of “Heck” as told by a veracious cor- respondent. 2+ ‘The Mystery of Flowers. CURIOUS STUDIES IN THE WORLD OF VEGETABLE BEAUTY. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. The name of the peony ts derived from Peon, a celebrated Greek physician, who taught the Greeks that this pretty flower was of divine origin, ema- nating from the light of the moon, and a valuable cure, therefore, for epilepsy, which was supposed to be a moonstruck malady. ‘The peony was thought to have power over the winds, to protect the har- vest from storms, and to avert tempests. ‘The floral kingdom furnishes piants which flower unfailingly on certain days, and superstition has selzed on this fact and’ associated some with the qualities of great persons who happened to be born on the day they plant flowers. The eyclamon opens in southern Europe on St. Romould’s day, and 1s dedicated to this romantic recluse, who abandoned a noble career for a monastery because he witnessed father kill a Kinsman ina duel. ‘The rose ow herb the French exlled St. An- thony’s dire because of {ts brililapt red hue and its having appeared first in the eleventh century,when the plague of erysipelas was r it the powers of intercession with’ dise hich its patron, St. Anthony, was believed to possess. ‘The early Christians, attracted to some towers by their pecullar beauty, gathered a number of these into a herbarium, ahd dedicated them to the Virgin Mai show drop, the lily of the ¥ te Tose, white s finger, ie ’sglove, marigold, lady's mvintle, efe., to allof which’ superstition attached qualities of purity and goodness, and, conferred these upon the wearer of any of these’ syimbolical flowers. 1 common hollyhoek 1s a carruption of holy o: 4s reverenced tn parts of England, where tra ditions percolate through:centuries, becaus ders brought 1t from tke Holy Land. shrinking blue bell ts, despite these most opposite qualities, a plant of war in the supersutlous beltet of the same people. It ts dedicated to St. George, thelr patron salut. By the French the white va: rlety of this plant fs, in curious contrast, associated with the peaceful character of a nun, ands called ta retigieus des champs. ‘The familiar Une “balm of Gilead,” is the name of a plant whose nearest summer Telation 1s our acacia. In the earliest age it was celebrated by Pliny, Strabo, Tacitus and Justin, not. alone for its medicinal qualities, but tne lofty Spirit and dignity its meaning was supposed to Increase. ‘The Queen of Sheba brought it to King Solomon, and Cleo- Patra planted one species of it near Matrara,which Tipened into a shrub celebrated by travelers for ages afterwards. ‘The eastern chrisulans believed the plant would grow only under the care of a christian gardener, and that were the bark incised by any instrument of metal the flow of balsam Would be corrupt ‘Under their fostering care the plant grew as farge as a fir tree, and such was the Fesp2ct that it exerted that’ when christianity ‘spread Into European courts, the balm of Gilead came to be mingled in the oll used at the corona- Uonof monarchs. The Coptic christians had a tradition that when the Holy family were leaving Egypt to return to Judea they Stopped to rest at Matara and went from house to ouse Dexging & Cup of water, and were everywhere Faint ‘with thirst and sorrow the Virgin Mary sat down ‘under a balm of Gilead and immediately a ‘he modest, fountain sprang up beside her, and the tree its leaves and tanned a gentle breeze as the Mother and Child drank of the water and rested. Cause For Joy. From the Providence Journal. Mr. Dumps, who didn’t know that the paper he Was reading was more than a month old, laid it aside andsaid: ~ Pega, oe Dat been a very affecting meet- ig.” “What meeting?” asked Mrs. Dumps. “Why, between Lieutenant Greely and his wife. You know he has just come back from the Arctic region?” ‘What did Mrs. Greely dor? “She fell {nto his arms and wept and laughed and “Like enough. She probably thought he'd brought her a gealskin sake A report of the potato crop in New England, Canada and New Fone shows a decided falling off in the yield and acreage, with considerable Tot and many grubs. aman above | a friendly nod to his friends he turned at once | =~ Did Not-Hnow He Was Marricd. A MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE PLACRD BEFORE AN ASTON- “ISHED YOUNG MAN. From the New York Times, The gossips of South Oyster Ray and Smithville South, Long Isiand, are busy discussing the alleged marriage of Conklin Vandewater and Miss Cornelia the son of the late Conklin Vandewat and when he attains his majority will become the possessor te fortune. For the past year he has xd as bookkeeper in a wholesale col al of a model been empic Yard tn Brooklyn, paying occasto’ sits to South Oyster Bay to see bis mother, who resides a short distance from the village. The villagers noticed that when he went to see his mother he was very attentive to Miss Mann, who always happened to be at the ratiroad station when young Vandewater alighted from the train. He usually accompanied her home, and, It is said, always Kissed her *good- bye” at the gate, ndewater was tn the village on Sunday, and, young men, imbibed Sony wsier Hay Whisky, He left his companions in the evening and called on Miss | Mann. He had no recollection of what occurred after, but when he awoke on Monday morning he found the fair Cornelia beside lita. He was sur- prised and asked for an explanation. “Why, Conkey dear, don't you know that we » inarried ‘last ad, putting her armsarcund his né ld repeated, Vandewater thot king, but Ww she exhibited te he thou: | the thing was getlug jous He left the he | and returned vo his mother. He stoutiy denies Unit | he was murried, and saj ‘S 3 | have been dru her mother, Mrs. Mary Jane Ma a little thing upon wheels, !ike a can- | d him and informed aLoMrs WV: and ordered Mrs. ~ 2% Mann went aw: ening to have Vandewater arrested for abandonment. She has not put her threat in execution, n OUt of the Louse. years of age, a Suuday Mr’ Vandewate | tention to me, cam: marry hina, {objected at first, but he was so per- sistent Ut I finally and we went and ‘That Js ail there Is about it. [know got marred, Unat Comkey loves m and butfor his mother he ) a reporter yt who has been a eand asked me to would be living with But [ know he'll come back.” ‘The young lady declined to say b whom they had been ‘married. Mr. Vandewater Was not at home wh-n the reporter called, and his mother positively refused to speak about the mat- ter. She inttuated, however, Unat If they had been Married her son would commence divorce proceed- ings atonce. ‘The villagers are about equally dl- vided for and against the marfiaze story. A strange feature of the marriage Certificate is that Miss Mann will not allow anybody to examine it, nor can she be induced to disclose te name of the clergyman. Sr gosts es Suing for a Theater Seat. THE NOVEL TI CASE BROUGHT BY A CONGRESSMAN AGAINST MRS. ARTHUR CHENEY. A novel law=uit came up in Newport Tuesday | In the United States Supreme Court before Judge Blatchiord, in which Congressman Morse, of Massa- chusetts, fs plaiuti, and Mrs Euilline Cheney, widow and administratrix of Arthur Cheney, of Boston, is defendant. The action ts to recover a seat in the Globe theater, in Boston, whieh to the plaintifl duriug his life by the de- d. Cheney died during U istence of the lease, and the theater went tnto other hands and the Massachusetts Congressinan lost his seat. He now brings thls sult to recover the seat and dam- ages to the amount of $1,000, This Is a test case, aS there are others in tho sume position as Morse, Its understood that the number deprived of their seats Is ninety, and in view of this Lact a decision Will be awaited with Interest. Guarding Against Danger, From the New York Star, “Say, Jim, what’re you doin’ these dayst” “Me? I'm workin’ on the section!” “What! Diggin?” ve'p.” tell you where you can make a miliion dol- want to make a million dollars.” I don’t.” “Why?” “Waal; ef I should make a million dollars I'd want to keep a coach, wouldu’t 12” “Of course.” An’ a coacumant” “Gervniy.” “An’ mebby my darter’d fall in love ‘th my coachman, mighta't she?” “Prraps. “Waal, @’ye think I want to be disgraced by having a darter o’ mine marry a coachman?” permis esis ‘The Hearing hool Children, From the New York Tribune. ‘The macdical journals indorse, without exception, the suggestion made by Dr. Weil, in the “Archives of Otology,” based on his examtnation of the ears and hearing of nearly 6,000 school children, namely, that in every case of inattention the child should have its ears examined, so convinced fs he of the fact that children who are simply hard of hearing are often iuisjudged and considered inattentive Indeed, such ah examination he thinks would be desirable once or tw! a year for e" child, the test being made in School room itself If there be no otuer room conventent; that ts, the teacher could place the pupil in one corner Of the room, then retire to the other himself, and test each eat separately by whispering—causing the words and sentences used to be repeated by the pupil, and thus essily find out which of them are hard of hear- ing. ‘This, {t is believed, would have the furtuer advantage of calling the attention of parents to the conditicn of their children and inducing them to act accordtugly, or, What would be still better, @ surgeon should have the health of the children in charge, including the examination of the ears of every pupil whom the teacher finds inattentive, ails ase ane The Most Northern Point of Europe. From the London Times, Hitherto it has always been taken for granted that the North Cape on the island of Mageroe, at the extremity of Norway, was the most northern Polnt of Europe. But observations lately made by “apt. Sorensen go to show that Cape Knilvsjaerod- den, on the same Island, to the west of Nort Cape, lies still more to the north. | ‘The latitude of Nortll Cape is set down at 70° 1045”, and that of its rival at 71° 40’ 15”, being a differenc of nearly 30 minutes in favor of the new Claimant of extreme nortuern honors, ——_—____+e-+______ Whereabouts of «i led From a Letter by Mr. Nye, the Humorist. Isaw William G. LeDuc the other day at Hast- ings, Minn. He used to be at the head of the Ag- ricultural department ana I used to offer him sug- Lions about raising iced tea by grafting an old- fastoned teapot on some hardy variety of refrig- erator. lars.” “Don't “Dol LeDuc. ——_—_—_++-_____ Curiosities on Cuffs, Laundress in the Cincinnati Enquirer. “There are quite a number of pecullaritles con- nected with cuffs. We have one customer, a clerk in the Third National bank, who isin the habit of figuring on his cuffs. Sometimes he uses an ana- line pencil, and it takes a good deal of work to get the marks out. Then he has a habit of always turning his cuffs and marking up the other ends,so that by the time they reach the laundry they look more like two dirty telegrams than anything else. Quite a number of reporters have the same habit, and I found the text and the leading outlines of a minister's sermon upon a pairon Wednesday morn- ing.” How Two Girls Went to the Circus, From the Virginia (Ney.) Enterprise. Two girls, of 15 and 17 years respectively, left Monticello in a ght spring wagon to see the circus . Before reaching the “divide” the seat of the vehicle became loose, throwing both girls to the ground. The shoulder of one was dislocated and the right wrist of the other fractured. The the circus, kathered themselves together, righted the seat, ciiinbed back Into the wagon and pro- ceeded on their way, each holding a line in her un— injured {ter having thelr bones set aud ured for they Went to the citeus. eee ee Bathing in Salt Lake. From the Salt Lake Herald. A bather can leon the surface of the water of the Great Salt Lake without exertion, or, by passing a towel under his knees and holding the two ends, heean remain in any depth of water kneeling, with the head and shoulders out of water; or, by shifting it under the soles of the feet, he can sit on the water. ‘The one exertion, in fact, ts to keep one’s. balance, none whatever fs re- quired to keep afloat. ‘The only danger, therefore, arises froin choking by accidentally swallowing some of the water, for the strength of the brine is 80 Intense that the muscles of ‘ubroat are con- ‘Vulsed and strangulation ensues, AMUSING STORIES are sometimes invyénted about ‘well-known citizens, ana here is one of them, copied from the Pittsburg Dispatch: “Mr. C, A. Dana’s collection of game fowls ts said to be the finest in the country. Like Bonner, he does not keep his pets for their ability to make money, but simply because he dotes on them. only benefit he gets from them 1s what ts derived from the fresh they isnot a word of truth in it. The gentleman in question has in his lifetime owned as many as three game fowls, presented to him a8 a testimonial of esteem by a distl ed and successful demo- cratic candidate for an important office; but some- how they did not Care was lost uj them; and while the ith Rocks and wi Brabmas—these are the birds we advise sensible erately, Very moderately successful, game chickens dwindled and Perhaps it ‘was because there was no for them. It ts wonderful what imagination the writers of the present day develop. Was there ever such a set in any former erat ‘We tender to them the assurance of our distinguished considera- ion. divorce cases have been on docket of fila it t Mann. 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