Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 23, 1888, Page 9

& PART 1 THE OMAHA SUNDAY EIGHTEENTH YEAR. OMAHA. SUNDAY. MORNING, SEPTEMBER 23, BEE. 1888,--SIXTEEN PAGES. BED COMFORTS DAMAGED BY WATER. Our Fall shipment of Bed Comforts, while in transit from the factory in Con- necticut, ake from Buffalo to Chicago were damaged slightly by water. The Steamship Company — the Western Transit Company have instructed us to dispose of the govds, they standing the difference in the loss. Monday morning we offer the entire shipmentin two lots. Lot 1, at $1.25 Lot 2, at $1.50 At these prices they cannot last o one day as they are less that half price they will be found in our new bagemen sales room. EIDER DOWN COMFORTS - Manufactured specially for us by Booth & Fox, Ircland; mothing fincr made, come double quilted, cord edge, block printed, extra quality S teen and warranted fast colors: size, 7x64 feet,at 15 each,they are a aecided bargain as the price heretofore has been $22.50, Prompt attention given to Mail Orders. S.P. MORSE & (0 Opening Sale! [1-4 PINK White Blankets, ) best Omahas this week only, at 10-4 SCARLET ALL PURE WOOL, for one week at £2.69 a pair. Grand [SPECIALTIES IN LINENS, BED QUILTS 59c¢. To-morrow we offer 2 more cases of this extra size, and extra weight Crochet Bed Spread, worth $1. at 5.8 DAMASK NAPKINS $1.69. Received Bie! ex WHITE and COLORED MKETS! | weight Pink n color, other- For two days divect from the factory in ; wood value and choice designs to select from. ame number we haveal- ways sold ), but for one week offer them at $1.69 a dozen. 8-4 DAMASK NAPKINS $3.00. 100 dozen finest Grass Bleached double in Damask Napkins, actual value #4560, For this week only 8 a dozen. LUNCH SETS $4.90. ‘We have only 50 of these 8-10 Colored Border Lunch Sets which we display in our East show window, and as they are actually worth %10 a set, would advise an ear! 1to secure one at $4.90. Colored Border Doylies 31,50 a Dozen. During the next two days we offer 100 dozen of our $2.50 Colored Border Doy- lies at $1.50 a dozen. SPIORSER0) BLANKETS, 2 cases extra size, Blankets, slightly “of wise would scll for £3.50. only at $2.50 a pair. [0-4GREY (' BLANKETS, 1. Of these we have 350 pairs bought from the Buell Manufacturing Co., 1n the spring of the year atan important sacrifice to close the lot. They are a good full sized, honest Blanket, and worth $3.00 a pair. For a few days our price will be $1.98. All Wool 10-4 180 pais All Wool Blank N,” the best wearin tlue in Blankets A regular ts “HOME- well as the ever shown in 0 quality, for b8 o pair. BLANKETS, 2.69 150 pairs regular size and guarantecd WHENCE 1S THEIR WEALTH? The Riches of the Men Who Fur- nish the Meat. NOT QUITE MILLIONAIRES. Interesting Figures on the Meat In- dAustry — Profits of Packing Houses—A Visit to the Meat Dealers., The Butchers' Profit. “How is it that a pound of beel costs ns much to-day as it did five years ago, when prices for live stock were much higher, and how is it that so many butchers are growing rich?” Either question was a hard one for %'1nE BEE reporter. In the first place, ns a batchelor and a vegetarian he did not know the price of meat, and in the second, he had never found out how to grow rich himself, and was entirely in the dark as to how the butchers did it. ‘With some thoughts of changing his profession, he sought out a gentleman whose business brings him in daily contact with the wealth-gathering butchers, and after an hour’s severe study he found that at present there are about 112, or nearly one per thousand of the population of Omaha engaged in the business. Of these forty-one were put down as being worth less than 8500, thirty-two between 8500 and $1,000, thirty between $1,000 and $3,000 (the average wasabout $2,000) and nine over #5,000. Resigning all thoughts of hiring out as a butcher for the present, the reporter asked his in- formant how these butchers fut rich. “Well, there are not many of them get- ting rich now,” he was told, ‘‘but like all other lines of business, the men who are industrious, frugal, know their busi ness and who Jhandle their own cash, come out ahead. Many of our prosper- ous butchers are Germans, who learned the business thoroughly in the old coun- try, and know how to get every pound of saleable meat off a carcass. Some of them came to Omaha in early days, in- vested in real estate, and have grown rich on the side. While others run in a grocery or some other business to help them out. But as it is now, very few of the butchers who confine them- selves to the retail trade will ever become millionaires. None of them do their own butchering, and so lose the blood, bones, hoofs and oftal, which the larger packing houses always utilize, but in turn the latter sometimes hang up a carcass in a customer’s stall for the price they paid per pound for the animal when alive, or eyen less.” Wondering how the pucker could af- ford to be so generous, the scribe made his way to the center of butchering op- erations, South Omaha, and afteralon search, he found a gentleman who ha been fourteen years in the business,and is still indirectly connected with it. “What does l{w&t to kill and deliver o steer?” *Well, the cost to the packer is from 25 to 85 conts, but that does not mean delivery to the city. If a butcher brings his own steer it will be killed and handed over to him for 50 cents, which ives the packer 15 cents on the opera- on, and allows the butcher the hide and offal, The latter he can dispose of $o thp puckar, acd then be can have the SP.ORSE & (0 carcass delivered to any part of thecity for from $1 to $1.25 all told.” be kil dressed, how much do they all make on thedenl?” was next query. and you will have to figure itout. A cow or heifer that would dress to about 400 1bs., would weigh alive from 800 to 850, or say on an average 825 lbs. the present market pric sell 400 1bs. of meat at 4¢ offal, 86; total, §22; profit to packer, $4.65. steer cow and heifer they kill at the pound for cow beef, and you can tabu- 100 pounds rough meat at5eents.$ 5 00 280 pounds better cuts at 10 cents, 25 00 20 pounds shanks, etc., 6 cents. WLOVE SALE! CONTINUED. 69¢ a Pair. During the pastweek our sales in this quality of Gloves has been simply phe- nomenal. new lot on sale, 4-button length, P. K. tops and g houses at $1 them again at 69¢ a pair, Ladies. Jersey Ribbed Vests 25c., One case only, bou owing to the lateness of the season. We have sold the sume vests at 50c. Monday and until sold, 25¢ cach. MISSES' PERFECT FITTING Ribbed Vests, 50c. Something new, opened and will be placed on su ing. See them. Only CHILDREN'S BLACK CASHMERE HOSE. To-morrow morning we make a spe- cial offering in Children’s Black Cash- mere Hose, Sizes 5, 61 and 6at 15¢ a Pair, Sizes 64,7, 74, 8 and 81 at 20¢ a Pair, Ladies’ Black Gashmere Hose,.?gg 50 dozen ‘on sale Monday. each. 3. P.MORSE. & CO Monday morning we_place a wine kid, sold by other 5. For this week we offer ht ot half price, Saturday, Monday morn- NEW INDIA TWILLS $1.00. Monday morning we place on sale picces new India Twills in Black and Grey, wide and hair line stripes, al block and broken checks. inches wide and made of fi £1.00 0 yard; they are o b SOOTCH TARTAN PLAIDN $1.25. These are a direct importation from the mills in Lanarkshire, include all the popular Clan Tartans, Macduff, Rob Roy, Murray, Cameron, 1i Macdonald, and Sutherland: h and handsome all woo! and 42 wide. See them they are anovelty and only $1.25 a yard. NOVELTYSUITS $10.00. To-morrow we offer 60 new desi ble and fashionable Suits, with trimming to match, at $10. No two suits alike. Novelty Suits $15.00. Made of the richest fabrics with elab- orate trimmings to match; only one Suit of a style equal in q sold last seuson at $35. 815, S.P. MORSE & CO Pork loins and chops per 1b . 1fe Pork shoulder per 1b. 08 @12 Hams, green, per 1b : 15¢ Wishing to know where the cheaper grades of meat came from, he once more went back to the stock yards, and found out that a number of “‘downers,” crippled cattle, mysteriously d pet llt-\'c day, and that the commis- sion men never sought to learn their fate. That settled it, and the visions of housckeeping faded away as quickly as those of becoming a millionaire had al- ready done, and the results of a day’s investigations can be summed up as fol- lows: If there is any money made in the business the packing house men get it, as they have charged the retal butch- ers the same prices all through, regard- less of the price of live stock. If there is any money lost the consumers lose it, because a number of the smaller dealers have to charge outside pricesin order to make expenses. 1f they all could sell ten or fifteen carcasses week, they could cut the prices, but where they only sell one or two, they have to charge high rates to pay ex- penses. Those who have a large run of trade aremaking the most of it, and are maintaining the same high prices that their less fortunate competitors are compelied to ny steer to ss already “Su]pposc he don’t bring an cd, but buys the car “Well, that is a little more intricate, At of $2.10, it 5. He would hides and would cost the packer, 817 Steers would dress out more beef, and the hides and offal would bring more, which would all be in_ favor of the packer, and I think it's within the mark 1o say they make > per head on every presentrange of prices.” “‘How do the retailers muke mone y?” was next asked. ““Well, you see they pay 4 cents per late it like thi. They will buy— One 400-pound carcass at 4 cents per pound by $16 00 They wiil sel. 120 — Marketin The Home Muk Fine, well-fed beef muy be known by yellowi i fat—very firm, and_of & fine bright- lean. Very good gometimes not very fa an excellent steal ma Total......... Hints, Balance in ther favor. SIf it’s a steer, they will probably get about 530 pounds to the 1,000 pounds live weight, and they will pay more for it. you can figure it out this w 530 pounds at 5 c: Of this they will seil 212 pounds rough meat, necks, brisket and ribs on the foré quarter at 5 cents. . .....$10 60 318 pounds choice rounds, 1oins and rib roasts at 12} cents.. beef is That it to say, v only have ahalf- inch bano of fat around it, or even 1 instead of the inch that the butcher is proud to point out; but this narrow band must be fat, and not gristle. Sometimes meat. is cov nstend of being covered with fat, ved with a quarter of an inch of Total sales.. .. gristle; at others there will be the Balance in their favor . 85 | gristle, but it wiil have an out- “Then why don’t they all get rich?” | side layer of fat. These indica- asked the reporter, with visions of be- | tions do mot always show bad coming a cattle king floating before his | meat, only that it is second-class. This eyes. is the case when the grain of the meat “Well, it’s just like this—there are | 1s good, and the kidney-fat tirm and too many in the business. The figures I give you are not far astray, and those who came here years ago and have worked up a good “trade by fair dealing are now reaping the bencfit. Those who have gone into the business more recently can't sell more than onc or two carcasses a week, and you can see by your own figures that they have not a very great margin to draw on for rent and other expenses. You will find they good. Where the gristle is found in conjunction with a dull ved, or, may borrow a term from u it accurately, a darkish terra cott: red, the meat is to be uvoided altogether. To return to fine meat—the color dif- fers in parts. The leg, neck and coarser parts arve, as o rule, darker than prime parts, The sirloin is a rosy red, the rib u shade darker, mottled with white fat, and without a vein running through it. make no more out of their pork and | Theround is of a bright juicy-look- mutton sales than they dooutof their | ing red on the upper or tender beef, and they have to take chances as | side—(which eally the inside of the to giving credit, cte., the same as other men.” The dream of becoming a wealthy meat merchant having thus passed away, the vision of keeping house at some future date gradually took its place, and once more the reporter went forth to ses what it would cost for the butcher. He took in one of the first-class shops in the city, and obtained the following prices \lnXflr false pretenses—that is, he be- guiled the salesman into thinking that he wanted to correct a price listalready leg and 1 poséd in the animal to use and weather), the lower side— *‘the vein”-—as butchers call it, is paler and drvyer. In a really fine round of beef, the blood will ooze from the grain as it is cut. The best cuts from such a round, if the ox hus been killed long enough, surpass any other steak in flavor and will be quite as tender. The best steaks are those which are cut before the broad bend of fat is reached, but excellent ones are cut for three or four inches after this, then the round begins 2 to decrease in size, the meat gets in a daily paper., They were giver as | darker, the grain of it coarser and suit- {3}10'!: rlerbouss steaks ber 1b.. 18 @30c able for a la mode beef stews, ete., but Choice s ber B t Portorhouss steaks per 1o 18 @igo | Ot for steaks. S —-— Sirloin steaks per 1b. Mr. W. H. Stewart, of Craw/ordville, Ga., had hatched on his lot a few weeks ago a chicken that bad no eyes, nor even signs of eyes. Dr, L. A. Stephens took it to his home and endeavored to raise it. Jt learned to eat and bad lived a week or so when misfortune happened to fall upon it in the shape of some one l\a?pln’ upon_the little blind wonder and killing it. If it had lived it would have beea another Taliaferro wonder, DOWN AMONG THE DIAMONDS Interesting Facts and Figures of the Mining Industry. THE RUBY MINING DISTRICT. Leadville Still On Top—In the Califor- nia Mincs—The Black Hills Mincs—General Mining Notes. Activity in Colorado. The rise in price of lead and silver is causing unwonted ‘activity in all the old properties about Aspen and sending up the gross output to handsow figures. Prospects along the velt being bonded and leased in every di- rection by capitalists who are eager to secure a share of | the riches beneath the surface, and :new producers are being added to the list every week. The ore shipments for the weck wero the largest ever known in the history of the camp, the total being 2,760 tons, of which the Midlend carried 1,184 and the Denver & Rio Grande 1,576 tons. The shipments wepe dis lows: Denver, 2,002 tons; Pucblo, tons, Kansas City, 208 tons, and Lead- ville, 105 ton st week in pson ‘still holds out, and ng regular shipments of Tho rich ore body stry the Mollie th Are mal ounce ore. Leadville on Top. The Laplata smelter, which has been idle for the past twp y being re- paired and renovated, and will soon again have its fowr furnaces in full bl In addition ‘to its pr chinery and boiler proper th immediately added a larg gine and three sixty-horse ers. The Autioch mine,a short distance east of Iron hill, is forging to the front as one of the most profitable gold mines in Colorado. It is worked as if it was a rock quarry. The bench being worked is 60 feet high by 50 feet in width. The mineral is broken by drilling a series of verpendicular holes 20 feet deep each, which when charged with No. 2 dyna- mite are exploded at once by electric- ity. From 100 to 1,000 tons are broken with one blast. The ore is runon a double tramway te the forty-stamp mill beneath, which successfully treats 100 tons per day, from which is extracted an average of $4.50 per ton. If there was a mill which cpuld beat 500 tons of the ore per day the mine could read- ily supply the amount for an indefinite period of time. The Lillian is producing twenty tons duily of ore which nets $20 per ton. This ore is being mined from anew chute which trends northwest and southeast, having porphyry for hanging wall and limestone for foot wall. It is four feet thick, but its lateral or longi- tudinal dimensions are as yet alto- gether unknown, The Lillian mill, which was started in operation at the first of the month, only worked a few days, and will likely remain practically idle until after the 800-foot prospect drift lately commenced will have reached its destination. There is reason to believe that the Adams will soon resume the payment of dividends. In a raise completed this week throiigh the white lhm!fl.ono strata in the Hagerman shaft of the Leadville Consolidated a body of low-grade ore bas been discovered, which gives prom- Corliss en- power boil- ise of being the outer edge of a rich and axtensive ore chute. The Mike and Starr, under lease to Manager Hill and others, is being suc- cessfully worked, and indicates a profit- able and productive future. The masonry work of the new Agassiz concentrator is completed, and the en- tire building will soon be in readiness to receive the machinery. In California. The San Diego Union teresting mining news has from Lower California. that th near La ated b richer pected. Since the rich discoveries in this dis- trict many prospectors have come in and the mountain road between En- send d the Real del Castillo hus be- come a busy thoroughfs There is also a well subs port that the San Franc Nicholas mines, in the Real del Cas tillo district have been sold to a syndi- cate of San Francisco and Riverside capitalists with a capital of #1,000,000, one-half of the stock going to the former owners of the min the pur- chase pr The syndicate, it is saida, will commence operations and work the mil! connected with the mines, about September 1 The Lower California Mining com- pany, it is stated, has just sentouta number of men to perfect the locations of all the claims to which they are en- titjed under the Massac concession. These new locations will be on quar Some in- ust come up Tt is reported new mine recently discovered Cruces and owned and oper- the Feliz brothers, is proving than the most sanguine ex- antiated re- 0 and St. ledges, those formerly pe ed hay been in the placers of the Canada Rica or Rich guleh. Several good prospects which will be announced are expected tobe in process of devclopment ina v the present laws of Mexico ies working mines can exercise the right of eminent domain for all arti- cles that are essential for the working of a mine; that is, they can take wood, water or anything they may need from parties who have it in the of the mine by paying whatever the min- ing depatation of that district consider the article worth. The Black Hills Mines. Globe-Democrat: Probably more developments have been made in the mines at Castle Creck than in any other part of the hills th ason. In the early part of the year Mr. M. H. Day purchased the Lookout mine for a nom- inal sum, and spent several thousand dollars in getting it in good shape. The property had been badly managed be- fore, and, the ore being low grade, the mine never paid expenses. Mr. Bay set to work to mill the ore at the very lowest possible expense, and has suc- ceeded in reducing the cost of its mill- ing to less than 81 per ton. There bein excellent water power all cost for fue was saved, and in many othev respects the expenses were cut dow This ex- periment has attracted considerable at- tention throughout the hills and the re- sult has been to lead many other miners to study economy in the treatment of their ores, The Lookout is now one of the paying mines of the Black Hills, and a half interest in it was sold to some New Hampshire parties a short time ago for considerable more than the original price paid for the mine, The Lookout 1s runuing forty stamps. The Cortle Chief mine,inthe same neighborhood, has recently made arich strike. From the intermediate tunnel, eighty feet from the surface, a drift was run five feet through barren rock, DRESS GO0D scotland, and nchs lity to those For one week at ¥Morse&Co Special Prices! Black Siks Every yard of these Silks are guaran- teed te ve satisfactory wear or the amount of the sale will be refunded. 100 Qully 2 inches wide, rich and lustrous and nnot be dupli S0 a yard, The M.2) Qnalt is 21 inches wide, all pure silk and will noteut or « will compare with any- thing at § yard, The 20l 3 inches wide, perfect in weave, very heavy, and with a magni- ficent rich Tustre. We invite an exami- nation of this number it would be good value at $2.00 a y: « BLACK SATIN RHAMADAS, $1.35 We secured at a_recent sale of Black Silks, 4 pieces of Black Satin Rhad 21 inches wide stional in weight, Tustre price MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. SP.MORSE& (0 measure .00 a yard. where a continuation of the ledge was developed of seven feet increase width, all good milling rock. They have now connected with the shaft sixty-eight feet from the commencement of their tunnel. The Cortle Chief is running a small mill of ten stamps. Considerable development is being done on other properties in the same neighborhood. = Many prophesy that this will become one of the best specu- lating districts of the Black Hills. Min coming in from the Carbonate district report o good deal of work being done there. The Hartshorn company 18 working a good force, with excellent prospects. The Ruby Mining District. The Portland Oregonian contains the following description of the Rub, ing district of Washington territory: Fverybody has heard of the Ruby mining district, formerly called the Salmon river mines, but probably few who have not been there unders much about the location of these dis- 5, except in a general way that they o somewhere up in Washington ter- ritory, toward the boundary line. For the benefit of the public at large his statement in regard to the location of various mines and districts is given below The Tough Nut is the leading mine, or one of the leading ones, in Con- conully. The War Eagle is astrong mine ‘in the Ruby district, six miles south of Conconully and forty miles Now, It is a mining Conconully are the southwest of Wannacut lake. where is Conconull center on the 101, ol creek, around and within which Tough Nut, Homestake, I Lake, and several other min of this town of Conconully & Mineral hill, whe the rich mines of Launa, Columbia, ete., are located. The Avlington is the most southern mine of note in the Ruby distriet, on Ruby mountain, at least cight miles south of Conconully. It is not on the water-course, or creek, or road to Con- conully by way of Ruby City; and plac- ing the Arlington at Conconully is no more a mistake than to place it on the Santiam. Conconully isa mining dis- t, and the town the center. The Ruby district is another,on Ruby mountain, 3,000 feet perpendicularly above Ruby City,and to which the only approach by wagon road is up the Loop Loop from the Okanogan, or from the north by wagon road from Conconully, In this Ruby district are the Arlington, Pomeroy, Missing Link, Arvizona, Buckeye, Emperor, Yourth of July, Oregon Boy, First Thought, Second Thought, Ruby, Fairview, Poorman, Peacock, Idaho, War llagle, ete. This is the belt and district of strong mines, The Arlington is in Ruby district, on Ruby mountain, several thousand fect above Concenully level, and eight miles south. But twoof the Avlington party who came here ever saw Conconully, and they were there only a short time. Buby mountain, Loop Loop, is the cen- ter for all these strong mines, 1 was in the Arlington tunnel. It looks well—five and one-half fcet of ore, The mines here at Ruby are immense, So they are at theother points. Another year will produce wonders in_develop- ment of these mines, When I speak of Ruby district I do not mean Ruby City ~—far from it. Ruby district proper is, as I say, 8,000 feet perpendicularly above Ruby City, This is the estimate, and nothing but a steep trail, almost impassable, connects Ruby City with Ruby mountain. The wagon road that takes all these mines in runsup the Loop Loop creek to Loop Loopon the mountain, ited in the city under mas nd quality and worth at regular s MorseCo UPHOLSTERY DEPARTMENT, Door and Window Drapery, WINDOW ~ SHADES Laes Clrtas, We will offer another BIG DRIVE, in Madras, Crepe, Crete, Turkish Stripes, Chenille, Madras and many other stylish makes of new curtaing " %5 a Pair. Every pair of these curtains have sold from $12 to 815 a pair. The best patterns always goes first, therefore, come early, REMNANTS which have accumulated from out past seasons business, such as tapese try, Jutes, Raw Silk, Plush, Reps and other Furniture coverimgs, will be sold at greatly reduced prices durs ing the coming week. SPECIAL SALE Straw Mattings, 15¢ and 35¢. Worth 25¢ and 60c a yard ANOTHE W LOT of FULL-SIZED HASSOCKS Only 50 Gents Each, S.P.JMORSE&CO SBINGULARITIES. A florist in England claims that a rosa bush, which has been bearing whito roses for more than thirty years, has suddenly changed, and now puts out only red roses. The only cause assigned for this is the eus richment of the surrounding earth, A man in Clayton, TlL, has a large maltese thatis an exception. This ammal takes to water even more kindly than a spaniel. He will go into the water on his own account, and seems to enjoy 1t hugely. Like a dog, he will bring back a stick thrown in the water, The schooner Young Sultan, of Portland, Me., Captain Stone, captured on George's Banks and brought to this city an enormous sea turtle_that weighs 1,500 pounds. Tha turtle is 7¢ifeet long, 3'§ feet thick, and from tip to tip of his forward fins measures nine feet. Master Melbourne Grubb, who lives near ytheyille, Va., i3 claimed by his parents to be the largest boy in America: He measures 47 inches around the waist, 44 around the chest, 24 around the thigh, and 13 around tha muscle of the arm. He is b high, weighs 210 pounds, and was ton years old July 8. A remarkable double-headed child was re- cently born to @ French family named Reoulbault in Manchester, Me, The heads are both perfect, and are joined to the body by two short, well-shaped necks, It uses its niouths and cyes apparently at will in eating, crying, winking, and even sleeping. Thq parents were much shocked at the appear ance of their baby, and went at once te Montreal to avoid the notice of their neighe bors. The child is likely to live, Swarms of bees swooped down on a cons fectioner stand in a Bishop-Auckland (Eng) market, and ate ravenously of the tmeats exposed. The owner of the had to desist (glad to do so without harm), and several of his neighbors forced to follow suit; in fact, business all around was suspended until the intruders untarily departed. [t is supposed that t cold and incleme season had deprived the bees of their or of sustenance, W ven by famine from the country into the town. The New York World mentions an almost incredible accident which befell a horse in the upper part of New York city on Mons day. The animal is a trotter, and was en- gaged in o “brush” when, in ' trying to ins crease his speed, ho reached too far farward with his _nigh hind hoof and caught the for- ward off hoof before it descended, The shoes became locked, the ani fell heavily to the ground, and its driver was shot out of his wagon atop of the horse. The hovse's shoes were so tightly locked that they had to be pried off before he could get on his feet, ‘The unimal’s legs are badly strained, Jonas King, a farmer living two miles east of Vinccunes, Ind., was attacked by a mone strous black snake while plowing. For scven or ecight years tho snake, which is over tweive feet long, has infested an old grave- yard near King's farm, has been the ter- ror of the women and children of the neigh. borhood. It crawled up to King, and had coiled itself about kis waist before he was aware of its presence. Ali his attempts to throw the reptile off proved vain, as did also his efforts to cut its ‘ounmry skin with the knifo which he used to scrape Lis plow. He finally began thrusting the point of the knife into the snake, which after writhing aboug King's waist and shoulders till it could no longer bear the pair,loosened its hold and darted into the woods, It is expected that the czar of Russia's two months' absence from Petersburg has been decided upon owing to the presenco of Carter Harrison in that city. Carter has way of making other despots look small, Lasalle, the famous baritone of the Paris grand opera house, is forty-five years old, six feet three inches in height, uns weighs 25 pou He is very rich, an excellent busis ness man and takes good ‘care of his life, He does not drink or smoke, and, on the night before he Ihlrl. he iuvariably goes to bed at So'clock, and stays under cover for sixteea licura. Then herises and eats one hea meal,uud does not eat another mouthfyl unf be sings at nighty feot 3 inches_