Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 9, 1890, Page 3

a THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1890.- ENTY-FOUR PAGES HOW EDISON MADE A BUG. A Woaderful Oontrivance for Threading a Gas Pips with Wire. ELECTRICITY AND THE CENSUS, el feet high. he Work Greatly Reduced by its The most terrific erash of thunder - which has disturbed the South Side Use—~Threshing by Electricity ~A Remarkable Year in Telephony—Sparks, Counted by Elcotricity. terday stood an oak tree which was giant among its fallows, says the In- dinnapolis News, It was four feet in diameter and towered far above all other trees near it. This morning the broken and splintered branches and trunk of the great tree were seattered in fragments over four acres of ground. Where it stood, defying the wind and rain at nightfall yesterday, is now only ariven and ragged stump three or four citizens for years accompanied the bolt which wrought the destruction at 11:30 last night. People hall a mile away awoke in terror and fled to their cellars in unreasoning fear. Windows were shattered 1n the residences of William KELLEY, STIGER & CO. Fresh Arrivals for Spring and Summer Wear. SILKS, SILKS BARGAINS | T.aces, Laces The facts in relation to population | Harmoning William Earle and WE ARE SHOWING SOM ETH I NG NEW IN and vital statistics, upon reaching the | other pu;{vnonn N living i rillx‘ll' a V LATEST NOVELTIES IN ” L where 5 . . ‘ a i b g‘:‘f"':‘h‘:‘:'(fi;c':‘”:h';“w?r‘;“:'l’; "-Vt l;‘,:"reugmz,,, EiFinky. . Tho - Ared GRENADINE SHOES 48-inch Black Silk, Prussian, La Tosca, Figured and i he Mk 0% | had a defective heart ana the bolt 48 INCHES WIDE, BEAUTIFUL STYLES, L] i i | | | without assistance, writes a Washing- ton correspondent of the Denver Re- publican. It is estimated that in the compiling of tables the machine em- ployed saves three-fourths of what R would otherwise be the labor involved - three-fourths of the time. To be- gin with there is a little pencil of steel seems to have run down the center and exploded like dynamite, as the frag- ments are scattered in every direction. A huge chunk of the trunk, weighing not less than a ton, was thrown a dis- tance of more than half a square, and splinters were driven into the walls of parns and houses in the vicinity as though they had been steel. CHINA SILK, CHINA SILK. SPECIAL The best and Iatest styles. SPECIAL Our #1.25 Colored Faille Francaise Monday at 81,124, Monday and Tuesday we will sell [Reynolds Bros' make] fine Dongola Kid hand welt Shoes, broken lot, for g2.50, regular Dotted Draping Nets, exceptional values, 85¢, §1.25, $1.35, $1.50, $1.75 and $2.25 a yard Bargain sale all week of Hand Made Torchon, Me- dici and Smyrna Laces at 8}c, 10¢, 12}c, 15¢, 20¢, 25¢ yd. 50 Real Spanish Lace Scarfs at $2,25, $3, $3.50, $4.50, A heavy rain storm swept over tho Novelties in Dress Goods. tEa 3 A ci'" um‘;"]“ifi"::gifi:‘:r,:)d“'_':::!‘;:c:: country south of the city last night,and price $5. $5.50 about half value. ) g y in less than four hours the creeks were Come and examine the last shipment of our Paris Novelties, in ele- Ladies’ fine French Dongola push the pencil in any direction above a celluloid plate that is full of small round holes just big enough to allow the pencil to be thrust into them, Each of full to the banks. No extensive damage was done. This incident of the queer work of lightning recalled another to the mem- gant Dress Goods. They eclipse anything yet shown this season. Exquisite Broche Effects Hand-turned Button Shoes for $3; very low at §4. Special Sale of Embroideries 5 ory of Secretary Heron,of tho state g $ e 454 “ine Swiss Skirtings, Grecian Designs in Hand the holes bua later or figuro close by |} et agriculture, “,l,i the tower. of Representation of Rich Guipure Lace TN Aha Debble. Goat 3 45-inch 1llm w l;\ Kirtir :fi-(ll\(cl '"‘1 L;'fi' *;\' 1: 3 stinguis ol " the main exposition building,at the fair $ . aw :n Lace < mstitched inlai ack work, ‘Now, the opétator inserts aa muilla | grounds, ‘he said, thers LA {6rty- The Latest in Leather Work Effects Button Shves for $2. These Drawn np(.nl : ace W oxl‘k,\lu m-,ntl: hed |ln L "IC‘ ]\\m paper card in a holder just back of the | barrel tank. An engine pumped water New Plaids, New Colorings i revering and briar stitch, Van Dyke and perpendicular ef- s R i 8 fi?.fli‘&‘i&?;é‘;‘fmé’é{’"{‘o r{ffmm:ltscgll.rtig(el i 's' h | gh B e fects i latest 11" ]) 1.2 l“ o, $1 §2 i al ¢ s y 9 Ny A 0 les’ yola <1 :cts, very Id st novcelues, only 25, $L. y 75 $2 original enuimsrator’s schedules, holds | auid refreshment, b YRHORES deeon English Cheviot Cloths Ladies' fine Dongola Kid ects, y ¢ y $1.25 5 75 the steel pencil in his right hand and proceeds to business. The name of the erson on the schedule is Peter Fish; pbut that is not worth counting, for Mr. Fish is henceforth to be regarded from the tower and knocked it all to pieces, The tank was left standing uninjured, except that the boit had broken a small hole in the bottom. The thirty barrels CHECKS, SPRIPES, PLAIDS Weight for Spring Wear. Scotch Tweed Suitings. . BOURETTE Each Dress Pattern being without Duplicate. E ECTS, in Light Button Shoes for ¢1.35, all solid, low at g2.. and §2.25 a yard. 45-inch Fine Hemstitched Lawn g4oc yard; worth 6oc. 48-inch Hemstitched and Tucked Lawns only goc, th. istical i f i or more of water in the tank at the Great assortment of Spring !“eu“'"yhm'l:m‘“ thit: Sto tived t.‘,"if.e'"é‘i‘lfi‘.’,é"“rfi"n’f.de‘&"{L“..'I'.ffi‘&'fii’é Plalds Pl 'd Pl ‘d Slippers and Oxford Tiés osf §1.15, $1.25 and ¢1.40 a yard in - Ward 1, ana accordingly, the . e R alas alas Slipp E 3 ¢ .15, $1.25 and §1.40 a yard. operator jabs the steel pencil down 1nto alittle hole marked **1” in one of the di- visions of the celluloid plate. Also he was white—another hole punched— male—uanother hole—fifty-eight years of age—another hole—born in Germany— another hole—his father likewise—an- other hole—his mother ditto—another hole—his occupation was that of a la- borer—another hole—and he died in January—another hole—of malarial fever—another hole. That 1s all there is apout Mr. Fish; so the card previ- ously inserted is removed from the holder and it isfound to be punched with a number of round holes in differ- ent places. 1881, before the electrician had become o count and known in the most remote corners of the world. says a contributor lightning must gone through several feet of water, A Great Yca- for Electricity. In telephony the past year has been remarkable for some very startling in- ventions, or rather improvements. The event of the year, of course, was the in- vention of the Hammer apparatus. B this a speech recorded on a phonograp! 1 New York was immediately repeated by a carbon transmitter, transferred over a line to Philadelphiaand received in a sceond phonograph, and repro- duced before an audience. The loud- speaking telephone of Seldon, not yet fully completed, fncreases the volume of sound by causing a receiving electro- magnet to act upon the cylinder, the cylinder, which, acting an a diaphram, gave increased sound. The **hedgehog” type of transformer, the Edison marine RICHEST COLORING and STYLES, FRENCH PLAIDS 77ic. FRENCH PLAIDS, The Correct Style This Season, The Colors and Effects cannot be Surpassed, 85¢ and 95¢. SHEPHERD PLAIDS, ALL COLORS, 8je. CHALME D'LAINE, Superb Colorings and Effects 45¢ and 55c. BRILLIANTINES, All Colors, 50c, 60c and upwards. HENRIETTA ‘We have just received alarge line of these goods in the new shades Over Thirty Shades The Latest Extra Width FRENCH HENRIETTA has found great favor. The Shadings and Effects are Equisite, SATEENS, New Colorings and Effects, Choice Styles. all kinds. *Call and see them. They will please. UNDERWEAR. Great sale of Men's White Unlaundried Shirts at 39¢, 50¢, 75¢ and $1. Special bargains in Men's We have just received a very large assortment of Boys’ Flan- 22}-inch and 27-inch Swis and Nainsook Flouncings Hemstitched and Vandyke Points, choicest designs in Drawn and Block work, revering, etc., for children’s dresses only 35¢, 40¢, 50¢, 75¢, §1 and $1.25 a yard. Remnants of Embroideries Made on bias cloth, unequalled for hard wear, will not tear, break or split, (in 44 yard strips at almost half price. 3 in wide 3% in wide Ladies’ | 7inwide | 15inwide 1 wonder how many ever heard the s . 25 . 6 25 wonderful story of how Edison made a | motion resulting causing the rarefac- $1.00. nght Shirts at 50c, 75¢ and $1. 25(} 3¢ c | SF | 9"'-.) bug? 1t happened awuy back in 1880 or | tion and condensation of the air in the OMBRE CASHMERE, This New Production for Summer Dresses, a strip. a strip, | a strip. \ a strip. Muslin Underwear dynamo, the Paget transformer and the alternating transformer of Thomson are among the prominent inventions made during the past yeur. to the St. Louis Republic.. There had been two or three persons killed by the electric wires, and people were seriously . contemplating some plan to get them SCOTCH GINGHAMS, Large Selection of . Fashionable Stripes, Plaids and Checks, OURWHITE GOODS DEPARTMENT nel and Percale Shirt Waists. Sale prices 23¢, 50c, 70c and Will be continued all this week, don’t fail to look out of the way and still keep the new vonderful white light. Tdison proposed that the wires be put in the gas pipes; but how on earth were the pipes to be ‘“‘threaded” with the electric wires? After studying the matter one night Edison said to a fellow-electrician: “Why, see here, Johnson, I will make a bug that will draga wire through Electric Lights for China. The unexpected arrival of two distin- guished Chinamen among their coun- trymen in New York has created a sen- sation in Chinatown. They are Wong and Fong, poth middle-aged men, and they were sent here, it is said. by a wealthy syndicate of Canton merchants to buy electric light plants for the em- 1S NOW FILLED WITH SEASONABLE GOODS, $1. throughourstock before purchaseing, it will repay you. Corner Dodge and 15th Streets. own innovating energy there will not, we venture to say, be a close scrutiny as attraction was sufficiently intense to withdraw the splinter of ~iron from the DREADEUL WOMAN PANTHER | than usual, coming along under the trees which clustered round in the who was eyeing the animal very clo: 1y, was surprised by hearing a ver, d Svryctoot of pipe i New Worl oity-if | pire of China. Wong and Fone told o |-to who brought about the desired re- | exy. meui e sblinter of dron neighborhood of the chateau to give it | tinctly enunciated appeal for help® from Ton. thinking the faye ad logt | the imperial goverament to furnish all [ Stamping Letters by Flectrioity. A novel electrical contrivaco for the | Sequel of & Wealthy Maiden's Love | i \rolo the mountebank and the | 1o e e g dammunicatod the fucts Rnnlnn. thinking the inyentor had lost is mind; “what n the world do you mean ¥ “Well, I’ll make a bug,” said the in- ventor, confidently, ‘that will go where Tsend him and drag a wire, t00.” the public buildings and offices with electric light. [t also owns the exclu- sive right to supply the rest of the em- pire with the light, says the Electrical World. Wong and Fong are stock- A new letter-stamping machine has been put on_trial in the Philadelphia postofti It is run by electricaty, will cancel 25,000 letters an hour, and has a register that keeps count of each letter announcing of approaching stations was experimented with on a passenger train on the Lehigh & Susquebanna division of the Jersey Central railroad. Over the door of each passenger coach 1s at- tached the name of each station on the for a Mountébank. ANIMAL HIDE ON HUMAN FORM. wine-grower’s daughter. How the two had become acquainted was a mystery, but they were evidently very well ac- quainted with each other from their be- . havior. It is probable that the mounte- obtain a corroboration of his story. A fow days later all Paris know that it had been tricked by a clever swindler and atale of the most inhuman barbar- ity was unfolded before one of the po- A few days afterward he laid a curi- | holders in this new enterprise and came | stamped. This machine may do away | ¥ 4 h bank had detected the girl’s admiration | 1; e oS POTRASLE i ousiy-constructed. thing on the table in | here to purchase the necossary machines | with the service of « fow stampers. line. By the pressing of a button in [ o TR s R e L (| LD SRy RS e the office befors time to go to work; it | to supply only the largest cities of | Phonographs are to be put in tho | the buggage car the namo of tho station ( Surgeons Fin SRS malke theiniouts of it *iDhe news 500! | ataa o LOURN & Svery gk mus wis his @as pipe bug. It was con- | China, Hong Koug, oo Chow, Shung- | postoffices of Mexico to be used by per- | 18 changed to the next oneto be stopped yond Reach of Their sproad through the villnge, and before | biar o oy, cnd With « very pathetio structed thus: A mingto electro-mag- | hai, Nanking, Hankow, Ning Po, | sons unable to write, in order to send | 3% and & bell is rung to attract tho pas- Skill—A Crime With- it was many hours old had traveled up | brivy on the aart ol b oo o8t bat- net, carrying behind it a fine insulated | Tientsin and Pekin. They brought a | messages to friends through the mails, | $engers’ attention to the change, The out a Parallel to the chateau. There was a stormy L k . wire-pawl. Now observe—overy time the aireuit was closed through the mag- net the armature was attached, the pawl clutehed the sides of a piece of gus armature inch, armature reached for take a second s When the circuit was opened the ard ready to Thus, at every large bill of credit with them to the rich firm of Wing Wah Chong & Co., importers. Threshing by Electricity. performing some interesting expe ments as to the transmission of power by electricity ina direct manner, that spacks. The fastest recorded time made by an electric railway is about twenty miles an hour on a street car system. time by using the quadruplex system. It is estimated that 250,000 persons in tne United States are engaged in busi- names are sufficiently large to admit of tnem being easily read at the furthest part of the car. The newly _invented electric snow- sweeper consists of a platform car, horse-power each being attached to the axles. Underneath each end of the car is a large cylindrical brush made of New York Mercury: The sequel to a romantic elopement of some years ago courts. About six years ago, one fine summer evening, one of those nonde- seript characters who hang around the scene between father and daughter,and the foilowing morning the mountebank waus hustled out of the village with scant ceremony. The sardonic griu was still on his face as he went, however, and he village authorities. Three or four days later the wine-growers daughter was missing, together with s | thousand IN THE COURSE OF THE INQUIRY into her case instituted by the court it was discovered that the woman was the runaway daughter of the wine-grower in the Depurtment of the Charentee, / i ¢ i pipe provided for the occasion, and the BYiroes g > 2 i DiaLor) z et v B " about the sixteenth of an | S8t belgium, have for some time bec be transmitted over one wire at one ip 1QlONN.0l iftecn- | being tried in one of the Parisian | ghouldered his load in obedience to the | mountebank whose wiles had lod the foolish youne creature away from her sumptuous home. After years of mi y and tramping about from city to city X e + ad- | 15 to say. without the intermediary of [ 3¢ LU A oddetd rattan, set at an angle of about 45 de- ' 3 . francs from her father’s chiffonier and v seemel 0= 3‘::1‘;5 gfl;’;‘éu'i:'hr:f, 5‘.‘:, l,“::l‘:’ 3‘4"}_’0 ‘,‘)g aceumulutors. By means of the elcetric | 10ss deponding solely on electricity. | yreesand reaching across the track. | outskirts of the profession---amonte- ula“fin;émof }I(;\\':!]m IR GR e AL ::;I:?m;.‘u‘g:lmui::mllu(v;ukt;‘ huthuhm'xxnlx‘(‘):t :l);h M i ] thi‘;hdusscriplion will | curvent @ threshing machine was Over l,flmlit_ltm |}nllv.;s of"te_.:‘.f:drué):\ l\nro lUna bru ‘ho{s are l'cv(}l\‘cd very rapidly [ bank juggler, or whatever one might part to h It and other members of | of his wife, conceived a scheme for Q) q i ids bat w are in operation he United States hy ver iftean-horse-pow 3 i anter o] ing village : & oAt TH L ¢ rekiaky bo hard for non-cxperts to understand, | Worked in the midst o{“\‘vcl:‘:x‘tm: :1‘:‘:‘2;:5 cllm“;,ll Yolaroirole R (R figlobaa Torty ufm:l:ll{;‘(.c:“m;?"vlm{t tifteon-horse-power | call him--.entered a charming village | the family. [t was evidently a flight | the rehabilitation of the family for- but as c\'cri'budy knows something about electricity nowadays a tolerable the aid of an engine. er fire nor steam, The shoaves went into the thresher to come out at one times. More than 170,000 miles of telephone is on the platform of the car. The sweepers are propelled precisely the same as the electric cars, in the Department of Charente. After refreshing his inner man with a sound out of Egypt, for everything available wis taken. tunes. By some means he managed to possess himself of a large panther's reader never saw an electric motor of | 10 the shape of corn, where it was re- | States; o hese 1,025,000 messagés | being fixed to a post on the platform. wine, the stranger went out in front of | made by the girl’s family was a failure; while ;’,ut warm after it had buu‘" l.Ls’nllmu any kind. ceived 10 sacks and was ready for the are sent dail The prevalent opinion is not well the hostelry to perform some of his but a fow weeks afterward a new ci U8 from the dead animal. e market. The source of electricity was | Pive hundred volts of an electrical | founded, it seems, that an electric car | trick T » vil- | was added to the traveling attractions An Electrically Fed Horse. a dynumo placed about 1000 yards | cqrrent is considered dangerous to | cannot run in the snow, says the Hmftl- ;NL" 8 rurTlL‘hg n:‘(‘,‘l‘:“,;‘:::::l “(.‘I{H”:‘Lh‘l:ll of the continent, and lhg proprietors IN ORDER TO MAKE HIS BCHEME Electrical Expert Wheeler was tell- | away human life, but death depends largely | ford Courant. Yestevday morning Mr. ‘“’" 5 & Sk 1 * | were the Belphegor and his bride from | a thorough success the mountebank fng a story yestorduy to a party of nc- | Erectrioity in an Indian Palnce, | upon physical conditions, T. B. Stewart, master car builder of the | muscular fellow, and when rigged out | g Gapartment of the Charente. They | believed that it would be necessary to quintunces “about what he called an | poiyarcho o e o tieant evidence | In the Cape de la Hoguo lighthouse in | Hartford & Wethersfield hores railway | in his spangles looked a very gay blade | gpened fivst at Belgium and from thero | ingraft the skin on to his wife, whom “electrically fed horse.” A citizen of 1 £ ¢ tion | France a windmill is used to drive two ! company, made some experiments with | indeed, with his long curled mustache | went all over the continent,the girl act- | he had determined to transfer into a a western town, of an inyentive turn of mind, concluded that it involved too of the onward march of civilization could be afforded than the lighting by dynamos, the current being stored up some new steel scrapers on the electric curs in Wethersfield, The serapers ar- and self-satisfied smile. ing as cashier and clerk, becuuse her husband was too 1lliterate’ to perform woman panther, For this purpose he drugged her with some cheap brandy, ! ; ! elecuricity of the pulace of the guikwar [ in accumulators. i ; : ) THE TRICKS HE SOON 1 s ey il A much lubor on his part to rise eutly | of Baroda in India, that, too, on n scale | —C. Benedict of Jacksonville, Fla., has | Fived some timo ugo, but yesterday's | ¢, yopform with iron bars, rings ana | fcse functions. Afteru fairly succoss- | and taking her to lonely spot in tho every cold morning and trot out o the | of Brolin Indey thuts too, on sewe | . e e o aitachod Ly | SnOW storm guve the first opportunity il BE%, ful touring sason the circus put up in | woods proceoded to flay hor while sho barn to feed the famiiy horse, so he X . With this invens | for a trial. They were attached to the | the usual routine entertainment soon | gne'of the principal towns in southern [ was in the state of stipor and to fit the . purchased two tons of oats, had them placed in a bid over the horse’s stall and_connected the manger and the lit with 215 sixteen-candle power incan- descent lights, The large hall is illumi- nated with two large twelve-light elec- the telephone sets. tion the arms enjoy perfect rest while one is receiving or sending messages. axle boxes of the cars and cleared the six inches of snow and ice away so effectually that the car moved smoothly brought the people out of their houses and a crowd gathered around him. Presentlv a young girl, evidently not Germany for the winter, and there tho mountehank, evidently unable to stand the success which had raised him to the panther’s skin onto her body immedi- ately afterward. What tortures the poor woman must have suffered through ' i A p ki trolieas, made in bronze and lacquered | A part of the device takes the place of t i 2 T ol S S o i S 2 bin by means of chute torminating in | oric Whilo tha Light 18 softonel wnd | Gosk so that the mossges eun be | And without diminution of spoed. more thun _fifteen or sixteon, but vory | 41Enity of u circus propriotor and given boing the victim of his brutal sohomo | o o ttiohad & valvo con | diffused by dToptric shades. Single | written down as they are received. The applications of electricity are be [ protty and well dressed, approached | hill & Wine-growors avghiob for his | is not known, but it is certain that parts { Lo the hoppor ho attuchedn valve con: | ights are also pendent from the ends of [ The electric cars in use in various | coming bewildoring i their' number | the groun. Many of the peoplo paid | Wife, took to driuk and ‘wont hoadlong | of the skin of the panthor at lenst ook | I a0 & e} | the columns of the gallery. In the | cities ure said to be a great help to peo- [ and variewy. A recent affair of some | their respects to the young lady by | 10 Wi . fn L shoORE timo the clreus Was | roots on the woman’s body and pre- 1 pnvhiocioperased a slag] He | numerous rooms ave three ind four light | ple affiicted with chronic rheumatism. | local importance i a western town de- | doffing their hats and so forth, making | 32,0, f0¢ the Infuthatod gixd wis Joft to served all the appeurance of life.” So | oats would run into the manger, electroliors made in a varioty of desigis | * Rivotine by olosteietty has b . | veloped the fact that a young woman | room for her so that she could haye u | foce Peggary with tho degrafcd mate | successful was the montobank in ar- r ran hig wires into the kitchen and con- FRLOERIGARA 1), iveting by electricity has been suc- | Y& OO 1 | ) 8 ! Yo | she bad chosen. The puir became | ranging the skin and fixing up his | T to suit tlhe surroundings. aestil accomplished, The cold | bad purchased a four-light chundelier | good view of the proceedings. The i i i hi g ¥ | 4 ected them with a push button. The L cessfully 0N | i Lh specially designed to contain a detec- | young lady was the daughter of a rich | Famps, and from this point their his- [ monstrosity that when the woman family was charmed with the arrange- rivet is placed in the hole, and which | FHC5 camers, arrangad 10 be operated by | 5 208 o i- { tory does not appear to be traceable. | recovered = consciousness she was - ment ana quite envied him the plens- ure of feeding the family pet. After a few days peculiar noises began to is- ste from the barn, and, upon investign- tion, poor Pegasus was found to be swimming in two tons of Aloats, He was dug out, and the valve which worked 80 well was consigned to oblivion, Klectric Eels. These creatures are well known as amoung the curiosities of the streams of tropical South America says the Youth's Companion, A more particular ac- count of them, by an English naturalist, who had much experience of their Women Telegeapers in Russia. Really the Russian powers that be are 100 hard on the young women employed in their teiegraph offices. It appears that on entering the service they are only admitted on the condition that they will marry only such men as are employed in the same work as them- selves, and that if the husband should happen to be ill she will take his place, besides retaining her own, A few days ago the youung ladies made up the minds to bear such tyranny no longer and sent in a humble petition to the heads of the service demanding a re- lease from the law which condewmns heatea to the proper ‘temperature it can be closed by any of the ordinary apparatus now in use. The teatang of a half-inch rivet of two or three inches in length takes about half a minute. Electrie lights*have been adopted to such an extent in the cities and towns of Guatemala that the importation of mineral oils has largely fallen off. At tho capital the use of oil has diminished one-half. The new Talmage tabernacle in Brooklyn will be lighted by electricity, and there will be special illuminating effects 1n_connection with the organ, which will be surmounted by a crown the closing of an -electric cireuir, con- cealed pushes of circuit closers being placed at convenient points, while a miniature reflector directed a portion of the rays of light from one gas jet di- rectly on the plate. /The apparatus worked to perfection omthe fourth even- ing that the victim, a wealthy old gen- tleman, called on the yoimig woman. - Handling Manuscripts with Gloves, I was railroading a few days with the editor of one of the populir magazines. After some conversation we both turned wine-grower who owned all the priu pal wine fields thereabouts and who v sided in the fine old chateau about a quarter of a mile away. For some time the girl observed the tricks of the mountebank carelessly. Few of them were new to her, but still she remained, interested by something. It was the powerful glances which the mounte- bank was stopping every now and again 1o concentrate on her in the pauses of his performance. SHORTLY AFIERWARD THE GIRL turned and walked away up vhe hill toward her home. ‘fhe eyes of the mountebank followed her. The girl They disuppeared from public notic LAST WINTER A TREMENDOUS SENSA- TION was caused in by a ereature which was at first exhibited in a simall tent at Montemartre, but which afterward ap- peared at some of the leading shows in > The monstrosity was known as the femme panthere, and was supposed to be the joint offspring of u panther and & human being. [t_was, in fuct, a panther in every particular except the aco, which was undoubtedly a woman’s, wearing & very tortured expression, but, nevertheless, unmistakably human, almost persunded that she had been be- witched and turned into a panther, as ber husband said she had, f"or months the pair remained in seclusion, the mountehank menntime compelling his victim to get accustomed to eating raw meat and to adapting herself to the gait of u panther by walking on all fours, FINALLY THE MOUNTEBANK FELT CON= VINCED that it would be impossible to detect what his curiosity really was, as the skin seemed to have grown 1in place of the cuticle on the woman’s bodv. fand to have fixed itself firmly all over her. nature and habits, will be of interest. them to calibucy if they do not choose | %A ol 9 to our reading, he oceupying himself lked al i dazed y i sh The proprietor of this unique show | He informe i vi 4 h 95 §o of electric jewels, while on the huge | wi 1ot e walked along in a dazed way, 08 1f she P { X 1 I e informed his wife that if she They are of all sizes, from a foot to | to marry one of their male colleagues. SIARARN \ g with a bundle of manuscripts which he | ©. 0" Greaming, Once or twice sk made money rapidly., The mysterious te " i | 3 An nugwer 1o the petition has nob yet | boundin board will be either a lamp as dreaming n e T LT y x“")m”!d ) attempted to betray her identity ¢ix feet in length, and are frequently caught on lines which are set for other been granted, and if the matter is taken or a star in incandescent lamps, invention is an carried in his valise, says, a New York letter w the Chicago Journal. Before turned back to look at the herculean figure of the mountebank outlined Was by a num- ber of scientific men, who appeared to he would at once kill her,and then put her on exhibition in the next towng fishes, They are sometimes eaten, but [ in hand with the elaborate sluggish-| A wonderful electri settling hi inst the vill i 3h ered | be puzzled over it and unable to expluin oy Breiv j ar | k ok 0. A 4 “ “ ¢ himself to reading he donned a | against the village inu. She entere be puz ¥ they arrived at. In the journey to 'aris | ot ofian, though dhelr flesh lsswid to | Ass, Mhch | aliingulshes | Kussian | automatio sa to cpuivol tho_ BAY: | b of gloves, which 1 fo theremari | tho chatenu ‘quieily, and. insiead of f s existonco on uny othor ground han | alone the showman made a large sum of | “Horsos, as woll as mon. on coming in [ flow down the Nova bofore the matter | and hotels. A company has been formed | thatthis was certainly hagdling authors | E0NE o the sslon, whore hor family § (1988 S50 (0ER D VGG PRARTISIOR, CRIter | monay by exnibiting the “womun pan- contact with them in the wator arve not | issettled. with a capital of 8,000,000 francs. It is | With gloves. “Yes,” he. replied, “you | yon¢" directly to her own pretty bed- | bandsome sum for some months and | nequired a smull fortune. The unfor- unfrequently thrown down by the shock. They are called by the inhabitants “trome-treme.” In rainy weather those who fish in these rivers often re- ceive a shock, which is communicated along the moisture upon the rod and line, when one of them happens to seize the hook. On the incorporation line southeast of the city, near Prospect street, yes- octric Railways. An_electrical paper recently pub- lished a efully compiled list "of the electric railways in operation in the United States. The table shows a grand total of 179 veads, 1,270 miles of track and 11,884 cars, some 113 being actually they succeed in infusin, M‘l\fllwl.)' compuniel wit the English some of their stated that orders haye already been received for about 2,000 stamps in Brussels, Belgium. The Danish government is moving actively in the question of electrica communication with light vessels, and has in many cases established conn tion with isolated lighthouses and life- Brown placed his eye as olose as possi- ble to the machine, and the magnetic may construe it that way, but thereis a more practical veason for my wearing gloves whenever I handle a quantity of manuscript at one time. The fact is, T do it as a self-protection to henlth, We nuturally receive manuscripts from all kinds of people and from all sorts of homes and places, Noone knows what -— Dr.Birney,practice limited to catarrh- al diseases of nose and throat. Bee bldg, chamber, where she sat down to revel in some new and not unpleasant.sensi- tions. She was in love with the mounte- bank, The full chest and splendid limbs of the mountebank had fascinated her. She could not see beyond his splendid physique the low, cunning trickery of the deceitful mouth, the Finally the secret leaked out. A vine- dresser who had been at work later while he was absent from the ‘front of the cage for a short time—a circum- stance which seldom occurred—u visitor who was standing 1n the vicinity of the cage wns astonished to hear a low, plaintive sound like that of a woman’s voice coming from the cage. The man who was & rustic and had read the the devil, But two wesks ago*s medi- cal student from oue of the hospitals, tunate victim of his insatinte greed is now in the hospital, and an attempt is being made to reduce her once again to ordinary human shape, but the doctors do not find their task at all an easy one. The husband has not been sentenced, but a good deal of stir is being made by the Parisian press to bring about his captivi at work, Considering that at the end | “O' . sickness may be in some of the homes = : -y g f wigwong fn & state of captivity, Xt | Of 1585 there was only on eloctric rail- | Sving stations. from which theso manuscripts come, | [oVIDE_ predatory glances of tho eye, TALE ABOUT BALAAM'S ASS convietion, that it would allow any one to put his | Way in operation, the growth of elec- | A novel cure effected by the use of & | And so, some time ago, I made it a prac- T Ot L P T e T U Thought that there was something un Only 88 hand upon it. and would even slide for | tric traction has been something phe- | dynamo at Westgate-on-Sea, England, | tice to don a pair of gloves whenever 1 [ gi¥iGuite Gt W8 & SULY YORUR KIT 8 | canny about the proceeding and made niy $8.9| | its whole longth through the fingers, | nomenal, even for such u go-uhead | is reported by an custern journal. A |sat down . for manuscript-reading, [ pist WOH8 O wm‘;"wd ls“muw,'m" o | bis way from the vicinity of the cage as via the 1f it was ireitated in the smollest de- | country as America, An English elec- | Mr. Brown, while trimming'a grate to | There’s nothing like being careful fi, Aoy R T o e e R a1 rnnhll{ as possible, 1t avpears that i Wabash R. R. > | _# gree, however, by no matter how slight | trical paper, commenting ou this un- | make a fit, detached a very small splin- | all things, and in this case ? think care |’ Eprian, b ' l‘l " il | severa Ycuplu heard a similar noise | Omaha to St Louis with corresponding ) u pineh, it instautly communicated a | Precedented boom, says: L ter of iron, which flew off and struck | is exercised by not having a miscella- [ [aFFY HA¥ Biter Cay gt the Wi | coming from the cage, but, notwith- | reductions to ull points oast and south. swart shock. *'Not content with this brilliant rec- | him iu the eye. An electrical engineor | neous lot of manuscripts come in con- *;l- i ™ ‘l" ‘t‘;{’ a q bl““)""' standing it, walked away, probably un-| ., Geo. N Clayton, - - AR ord, our enterprising cousins are turn- | who met him shortly after took him to | tact with my hands.” o is patrons the first day, but that | go. ) a impression that the ‘‘femme [ Ticket agent, 1602 Farnamn St.; Omaha. Explosion of an Oak Tree. ing their attentions to this conntry. 1f | & dynamo that was working near by, f—— DID NOT SEEM TO CONCERN MIM, panthere” wus a modern incarnation of ———— A. P. Tukoy, Lifo building. Homes in Clifton Hill for men of limited income,