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BUDGET QE FM. iSUSIOROTT3^*BEKTGHE3 FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. JXIs Passing Stranjjc—Clairvoyance— His Standard—Another Way— Mifiht \Catch On\—Their Ancestors, Etc. A. chemical change t o somo sooms strange, '\ZBut 'tis not strange to mc, 'For turns m y thought t o changes wrought I 3Ioro wonderful to see. (Bow does it chance that ignorance ! \In homely girls may be ' (Converted, in the prettier ones - To sweet simplicity. —Pi<cfc. CLAIRVOYANCE. '•He married a clairvoyant, I believe? \ \Yes. It was a case of love at second Bight.\— Detroi t Free Press. HIS STANDARD. Philanthropist — \Take whicheve r .•you like—the drum or the whistle. \ Small Boy—\'Which makes the most noise.\— Puck . ANOTHER WAV. iTomson (who has just sung)—\Does (your friend \Wilson sing, Mr . Johnson?\ ^•Johnson—\No ho makes himself (disagreeable in some other way.\— 'Yankee Blade. THEIR ANCESTORS. '•'My ancestors are away abov e par, \ announce d Mr. Oldfnrm proudly. \And mine,\ said Mrs. 0., conclu sively , \are away above grand par.\ — 'Detroit Free Press. A LARGE CIRCULATION. Friend—\Is your book o f poem s hav ing a large circulation?\ Poet—\Yes very. You are the tenth perso n who has borrowed my cop y within a month.\— Yanke e Blade. HOLDS A MORTGAGE ON THEXI. \Jones seems t o take a great interest in you r family affairs.\ •'He thinks he has a right to.\ \\Why?\ 4 'I owe him $7.\— Ne w York Press. MIGHT \CATCH ON. Hanks—\Nevermind; your son narr y (Will catc h tho incentive ono o f these 'days. \ Closefist—\Mobby but he's ha d about »11 those diseases.\— New York Herald. HE KEPT STILL. Mother—\How did your face get that Strained, agonized look in your photo graph? Di d the light hurt your eyes?\ Small Son— ' No, ma 'm. The man tole me to try to keep still, an' I did.\ — Good News. MUCH TOO L0NO. Dimling—\The duel has ha d its hour.\ Tatling—\Tha t is to o long.\ Dimling—\What do you mean? \ Tatling—\A duel requires onl y tw o (Bcconds.\— Judge. TOO PRECIPITATE. In. practice the new cavalry recruit is flung ove r his horde's head. \Ponucrwcttcr 1 Volunteer Purzell, \ cries tho drill sergeant, \can' t you wait .till I giv e the order 'Dismount?'\— Fliegende Blaetter. SOCIABLE NEIGHBORS. Mr. Movooft—\Well my dear, how •do you find tho neighbors here—so ciable?\ Mrs. Moveoft—\Very. Three o r four of the m have sent in to a9k if I would allow their children t o use our pian o to practise OD.\— New York Weekly. this A SENSITIVE MAN. Justice—\Why di d you assault man?\ Culprit—\Ho called me an Irishman. \ Justice—\Wha t di d he say?\ Culprit—\He sung out, 'What' s the -timo, O'Day? 1 and then I soaked him.\ —New York Herald. AT SEA. Small Girl—\Aren' t yo u awfully glad t o b o o n land sometimes?\ Uncle—\Why what do yo u mean? I flatter myself I am on land mo3t o f the lime. \ Small Girl—\Why papa says that whenever he sees you , you are about ialf seas over. \ A CHANGE OF OPINION. Art Critic—\Wha t do you thin k o f Alma Cadmium's painting?\ Artist—\Oh , I think it is superb. \ Art Critic—\I' m surprised to hear you say that. He says just the reverse of yours.\ Artist—\Ah well ; perhaps we're both mistaken.\— Judge. Mrs. affair A BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT. Mrs. Rcdrivcrs—\And that, Clum, is the wholo story of the fro m beginning to end. \ Mrs. Clum (eagerly)—\An d is it a secret? \ Mrs. Redrivcrs—\Oh , no; not at all. \ \Mrs. Clum—\I'm so sorry! I di d •want t o tell Mrs. Loagjaw.\— Judge . HOPE DISPELLED. \Your vote in favor of grantin g U3 this franchise,\ said the promoter o f the scheme, \would be worth to us—\ \Yes broke i n the listener, becom ing instantly attentive, \would b o worth to you—\ \More than a dozen speeches in its favor, on account of the moral effect it woul d have. \ \Um—yes rejoined the Alderma n from the 'Stconth Ward, relapsing at once int o his former apathy.— Chicago Tribune. NOT AMBITIOUS. She (triumphantly)—\Somo o f tho greatest wome n of the world, Harriet Matineau, Sarah Martin, Florence Night ingale, the Cary Sisters, Abbey May , Prances Powe r Cobbc, Harriet llosme r and others, never married. \What do you thin k o f that?\ He—\I think it not unlikely that a woman who wishes to become famous will Buccccd better without a husband than wit h one. If yo u have that am bition, I will—er—rclcaso—\ She (hastily)—\Ob , no, no, indeed . I—I hate fame.' - — New York Weekly. w CELT AND SAXON. One o f Sheridan's tales is of an Irish man who me t a Briton, of tho true Joh n Bull pattern, standing with folded arms in a contemplative mood, apparently meditating o n the greatness o f his little island. \Allow m e to differ with ye I \ ex claimed th o Celt. \But I have said nothing, sir,\ re plied John Bull. \And a man may think a lie as well as publish it, \ persisted the pugnacious {.Hibernian. \Perhap s you are lookin g for fight?\ queried the Briton. \Allow m e to compliment yez o n the quickness o f your perciption,\ said Patrick, throwin g down his coat, and then they pitched in.— Washington Post. COEN FOE EUKOPE. PROOF AOATNST LITTLE SURPRISES. \Why did not you have m c called at 6 o'clock?\ roared the commercial trav eler, as h e faced the dazzling hotel clerk an d bange d his fist on the register. \I did 1\ retorted the unabashed dnz- zler. \You did not, sir!\ \I tell you I did!\ \You did not, sir, and I can prove it!\ \No you can't prov e itl \ \Yc3 I can'\ \Prove.i t then! \ \Well you did no t have me called at 6 o'clock , because I di d not leave wor d to be called at all\ and the commercial traveler grinned and looked for the hotel clerk to blush and apologize. But h o looke d in vain. A little thing like that wouldn' t even make a hotel clerk's eyelid flutter.— Nen York Tri bune. HE COULD NOT OBEY BOTH NOTICES. A Tribune reporter recently witnessed an amusing incident at a railroad station in New Jersey. A waiting passenger stepped ove r t o the counter whero news papers, knicknack s and tobacc o wero sold and bough t a cigar. This he lighted an d strolled composedly about tho room; presently the porter o f tho placo approache d him, and wit h em phatic Hibernian brogu e asked: \Ca n you rade?\ \Quit e fairly,\ replied the passenger. \Why?\ \Then wha t does that sign rade?\ de manded the porter, pointing to one on the ticket seller's box. \ 'No smoking, ' \ responded the pil grim in a deliberate tone. \Well that's the rule, d'ye moind.\ \See here, \ said the transgressor, \can yo u read?\ \Indad e I can, shure.\ \Well wha t does that bi g sign by the cigar-case ove r there say? \ \I t says, 'Smok e the Kin g o f Clubs cigars.' \ \That' s exactly wha t I was doing . Now, which sign must I obey?\ \By the powers ! man, but ye have the best o f it, and I'll report that fellow to the company , so I will.\— Ne w York Tribune. Alarming Fores t Destruction . \The Governmen t must provide somo means for preserving the vast forests o f the great Northwest, \ said J. F. Col- barn, o f Montana, at the Palmer House . \Th e destruction wrough t by the forest files in Montann, Orego n and \Washing ton and other Northwestern States re cently i s onl y a recurrence of what has taken place annually for years. Th o legitimate operations o f lumbermen in these day s are makin g vast inroads on the forests with a rapidity that is simply alarming, and when to this is adde d tho wanton destruction o f great stretches o f heavily timbered land by fire, it is evi dent that ou r timber resources cannot stand the drain muc h longer. Whe n over 30,000,000,000 feet of lumber is being taken from our forests each yenr it behooves the Government to make ruoro definite arrangements for the conserva tion of America n forests. The railroads alone arc using 100,000,00 0 ties a year. Already we have arrived at a stage whero the natural wood cro p in certain direc tions show s signs of exhaustion, and tho mere question of material supply as sumes a national importance. Th o woodworkin g concerns and the various industries o f lumber production in this country consum e a raw product each year whic h is estimated to b o wort b 81,000,000,000. But there is some thing beyond this phase to be consid ered The effect o f the great forests in increasing the rainfall and the humidity of the air must not be overlooked . Other nations arc uot so indifferent to tho value o f their forests. France and Ger many have their forests under well-regu lated departments In Germany largo tracts o f forests are under the supervis ion of the State and arc made to yield a revenue. Young trees arc planted in place o f those cut down. Russia looks closely after her forests, and iu some places forbid s tbe use o f woo d as fuel on steamboats and railways. India has a forestry department that is made to yield a large revenue each year. In some countries seeds and plants are largely distributed, this custom being especially followed in Bohemia , Switzerland and South Australia.\— Chicago Herald. Ancient Hu t Air Baths . Remains o f ancient ho t air baths oi sweat houses still exist on tho island o f Rathlin, o n the northeast coast o f County Antrim, Ireland. Th e Rev . D. B . Mulcahy describes one he recently visited on the farm o f \Widow McCurdy , in tho townland o f Knockans . Mrs. McCurd y said sho ha d used it fifty years ago , and that it ha d been used by the islanders from time immemorial. A heap o f ashes lay outside the doorway , showing i t had formerly been heated b y a fire. Mrs. McCurdy said further that, previous to a bath, a fire was kindle d inside, and, when it was sufficiently heated, tbe ashes were swep t out. Th e people came to bo cured o f rheumatism. There was a holo at tho to p to let out the smoke and admit the light. A stool or a senw ou the floor was used to sit on, or stand upon in a stoopin g posture.— New York Dispatch. Meaning of a Quee r Title . There are three grades of Turkish pashas, distinguished by the number o f horse tails o n their standard. \In war tho horse-tail standard is carried before tho pasha and planted in front o f his tent. The highest rank o f pashas aro those o f three tails—the grand vizier is always cx-officio such a pa3ha. Pashas of two tails are governors of provinces; it is one o f these officers that we mean when we speak o f pasha i n a general way. A pasha o f on e tail is u sanjak or lowest of provincial governors. (The word pasha is the Persian pa-support of Shab, the ruler).\— Boston Cultivator. AMERICAN MAIZE TO BE INTRO DUCED ABROAD. 'Europeans to ho Taught to Use Com For Food—A Step That Will Add Millions to the Valuo of tho Corn Crop. During the last few months , says Ren e CBache in tho Boston Transcript, a special ugent o f the Department o f Agriculture jhas been in Berlin, trying to teach the Germans to eat corn. Havin g set up small kitchens in different parts o f that capital, ho has distributed corn-bread, corn flapjacks, corn dodgers , and other preparations of tho grain, amon g tho people, serving them ho t and either free of charge or at a nominal price. He has succeeded in interesting that Govern, ment in the subject to such an extent that corn mixed with rye has been re commended officially for the rations o f tho army. Owing to the fact that the Czar has prohibited tho exportation o f rye from Russia, o n accoun t o f tho threatened famine, Germany's main sup ply o f that cereal has been cut off. It is proposed, therefore, thnt in placo o f rye bread, the soldiers shall be supplied with bread made half of ryo an d half o f corn Thus there is reasou to believe that this great European nation will have acquired i taste for the American vegetable beforo long and so become a regular purchaser of it from the United States. Already a merchant name d Wilzynsk i has opened a great store o n on e o f the principal ctoro streets o f Berlin, for sell, ing b y wholesale and retail bread made of corn and rye. Inasmuch as his pro duct is offered for forty per cent, less than ryo bread can be bough t for, it has every prospect o f obtaining popularity, Whe n ten loaves o f the new food can b e got for the price o f six loaves o f the old , the inducement from the point o f view of the toiling masses i s very great. It is anticipated that before lon g tho bakers all over Germany will be bakin g bread of corn and rye. Anothe r firm in Ber lin is about to go into tho manufacture and sale of corn-meal mush, put up in packages of a pound and a half each, or to be sold in cardboard dishes. An international exhibition, to be opened at Leipsic, February 4, will b o largely devoted to cooking and domesti c ccoa omy generally. An agent o f the De partment of Agriculture will probably be sent there to make a sho w of corn and tho methods o f preparing it. Tho only form of corn at all known in Northern Europe as human food is cor n starch. It is mostly sold in Great Britain under other names, to conceal tho fact that it is a product o f maize, as strong is the prejudice against the grain as an ar ticle of diet. It seems very surprising that the leading cereal o f the New \World should not have been adopted as a breadstuff in the Old World, where the cry for \cheap bread \ is so bitter and agonizing. Hope s aro entertained, however, of teaching these peoples across tho ocean t o use maizo by cooking it for them pubbcly, b y distributing literature, advertising its qualities and comparative cheapness, and by enlisting tho influence of Governments and tho agricultural press. Incidentally the increased demand woul d be of great benefit t o tho farmers of this country. It is reckone d b y Sec - rotary Rusk that an advance o f five cents a bushed for corn during the next do - cade would add $1,000,000,00 0 to tho valuo o f this crop during that period. Whil e American wheat meets with competition from Russia, India and tho Argentine Republic, no country in the world can compote with our corn as to quality or price. Th e soil and climate of tho United States produc e a superior growt h of the grain, tho col d winters hardening it, and the war m summers bringing it to perfection. First rate railway facilities and a comparatively short ocean voyage afford to the domes tic product a great advantage over corn from tho Argentine and India. Long trips over seas through the heat ot the tropics causes tho grain to \sweat\ and deteriorate. A n inferior grad e o f corn grow n in Italy is consumed to a consid erable extent in that country. Fro m Southeastern Europe come s tho corn of the Danube, a small variety, whic h is preferred for chicken feed to the Ameri can, owin g to the size o f the grain. In Ireland, corn in the form o f mush, called \stirabout has been slowly comin g into favor, and is largely used when the potato crop fails. Th e tuber is preferred in timss of plenty, although corn is cheaper and more nourishing. Ireland to-day takes more corn as human food than any other country in Europe . To illustrate the strength o f the prej udice against corn in that part o f the world, mention may be made o f an instance in tho city of Glasgow , where it was proposed by a membe r o f tho poor - house board to substitute maizo for costlier lood in that institution. The mere suggestion brought a storm about his ears, because of his inhumanity in thrusting upon defenceless pauper3 a food which was only fit for pigs . Amer ican canned goods o f all other kinds arc largely sold in Europe, but canned corn is almost never seen there. If a deman d lor it could bo created, it woul d mean hundreds of thousands o f dollnr3 yearly to the proprietors and workers o n our canneries. Agents of the Department o f Agriculture have been exhibiting the cereal in this form also abroad, wit h tho hope of teaching tho peopl e to liko it. Wherever corn dishes o f various sorts havo been prepared and distributed by them, thoy have been received so favor ably as to give good ground s for con fident expectation i n this regard. In Great Britain and o n tho Continent also, traveling cooking-schools, main tained b y philanthropic effort, go from tow n to town, instructing tho people b y means of lectures, literature and exper imental cooking, in the proper prepara tion o f food. Arrangements are to b o made for having at least on e dish pre pared from corn included in the exhibi tion o f each such school, the teachers being given preliminary instruction in the methods of preparing tho grain. Circulars including recipes, with informa tion as t o where the meal can be obtained, may bo handed around at tho mect- ing3. There is room i n Europ e for tho consumption of several hundre d million bushels annually of America n corn , muc h of it as food for human beings who do not now get enough to cat. Dead Beats In a Now Yorlt Restaurant. \There are som o of the very worst dea d beats t o be seen abou t a place lika this, \ said Manage r Williamson , of Brown's Chop House . \They try to work us in all sorts of ways. I havo become pretty expert o n character, and eigh t times out o f te a ca n size a man up abou t right. On e da y a slick looking fellow cam e in here an d got his break, fast. When ho got throug h ho calmly pushed the sixty cen t check bac k and said ho was broke . The waiter came to mc, and I asked the ma n wh y he came there i f h e had n o money. Ho said it was all light , ho' d pa y it somo time. 'There's my watch, ' said h o suddenly, unhitchin g it fro m a heav y chain—'take my watch . I guess that will secure you.' Thi s wa s dorjo impetuously and with a sho w o f indignation. In most instances this offer would havo mad e things good. I would probabl y hav e tol d hi m to keep his watch; bu t thero wa s something in this fellow' s face that made a disagree able impression o n me. I reached out and took the watch. I t looked like an ordinary hunting caso gold watch, and I pressed the openin g spring. Don' t yo u know that thero wasn't a sign o f work s in itl Fact—nothin g bu t the empty case. \I was as ma d as a hornot, and I told hi m h e would pay thnt sixty cents now or go t o jail. Tha t fellow just deliber ately pulled out a five dollar nolo and settled. For downright impudenc e that beat anything withi n my experience— excep t on e other case, whic h is a fair stand off. Thi s was wher e a man drov e u p in a cab an d aske d me i f I had rooms. I showed him som e rooms , and he se lected the best, hurried down and go t his dinner—pint bottl e o f wine with it too—and gav o elaborate instructions abou t his tiun k which wo 3 t o come . He was a nice lookin g fellow, and said he was a n actor playin g at a prominent theatre nearby. \I happene d to know tho stage man. ager there, an d casually aske d my new tenant wha t the stage manager's name was. He gav e an entirely different one. When that trunk cam e my suspicions grew. It was an ordinary dollar and a half packing trunk, jus t ou t o f tho store. I wen t upstairs later and investigated. It contained nothin g but old rubbish. Thn t fello w came in late iu the evening and almost took my breath away by asking for a loan o f $ 5 till next day. 'Not much!'says I. 'You go t dinnei here and u bottle o f win e and didn't pay for it.butyou can't ge t anythin g more.'\ —New York Herald Th e telephone line between London and Paris has worked so well that another will be laid between London and Brus sels. Recent statistics have show n that there are 700 0 locomotives i n use in France . Executions in China . \For th o mino r offcuses tho punish ment in China is beating o n the mouth with a bamboo,\ says a traveler who has just returned fro m the Flowery Kingdom in the St. Loui s Globe-Demo crat. \It is terrible t o see the mouths of the women swell as the cane is laid on, and o f men, too. When sent to jail thoy must supply their own food and that o f tho jailor, or the y are allowed to starve. I f they hav o no t sufficient bUnket s they are allowe d to freeze to death. Ther e are different methods o f execution. On e is wha t woul d corre spon d wit h our hanging , but it is differ ent. The victi m i s pu t against a post aud a rop e is throw n aroun d his neck. The n it is pulled till the breath of life departs. Auothe r for m o f execution is that o f cutting to pieces by inches, whic h is don e whe n tho sentence o f death is for the murder o f a father or mother or som o other near relative. First one ear is taken off, then the other, next the tongu e is taken out, an d so on. A third is death by starvation. I havo seeu a man cage d in the publi c streets and allowe d to end his life by this method, not bein g permittod to touc h either water or food . Sometimes a small boy will bring hi m a little opium , whic h helps to lessen tho suffering and brings about a mor e speedy death. 'The most common for m is taking off tho head by tho sword , and tho extra ordinary nerve o f these Chinese is shown in this mor e than any other. It took. three strokes o f the sword to kill tho fir3t, and while the operation was goin g on the secon d knelt down with his neck outstretched waiting his turn. Thinkin g that the process was slow, he turned to tho executioner and asked if ho were oin g to b e muc h longe r with the first. Then , whe n the executioner came to him ho stretched his neck again and waited for the blow whic h completel y severed his head fro m his body.\ A \DUMMY CHECKER\ CURIOUS STORY OF A BOGUS EPILEPTIC AN'D THIEF. It Was His Business to Havo a Fit in a Crowd, While His Pals Went About Picking Pockets —A StraiiRO Career. All Sorrow iu Pollco Hcadqnartors. \I tm gla d to go t awa y from Polico neadquurter3,\ said Inspector Byrnes the other afternoon as h o hurried out o f the bi g whito buildin g o n Mulberry street. \It's all sorro w there, \ he went on; \nobody ever come s to Polic o Head quarters to bring sunshine. Fro m early mornin g uutil late at night it is the same ol d story every da y in tho year— rascality, thievery, persecution.tears and broke n hearts. I hear nothin g there that is pleasant. Nobody come3 to Polic e Headquarters who can stay away, and tho whol e placo is forbiddin g and gloomy, an d 1 am gla d t o go t out into the sunshine whore men and wome n are free and contented looking . PcUc o Headquarters is the plac e t o chill a man's bloo d and turn his heart to stone. It is the saddest place I know of,\ and New York's greatest detectiv e hurried out into Broadwa y for a stroll that he might forget abou t it.— New York Mail ani Ex press. A Monster Radish. With the people , tho housas, tho tea. pots, the chickens , aud so many things on so small a scale i n Japan, there is all the greater surprise when on o finds any thin g there whic h has attained an unusual or gigauti c size. The coarse white rad ish, daikon , fro m six t o ten feet in length, strikes one as a vcgetabl o joko iu that land o f Lllliput. The giant in one fairy story use? a daiko n for a club, and the street-peddlers lean their daikons up against the side o f a hous o as if they were whip s or fish-poles. One might very naturally inquire the price of dai kon by the yard, when h e goes to mar ket. — St. Nicholas. Origin of th e Aztec Race. Th e Aztec s trace their origin to tho legendary land o f Aztiun , whero they dwel t in seven caverns of the earth. After a cataclysm and distribution of tongues the Aztec s wandered away from their fellows, and traveled southward. It is said that the seven tribes halted many times beforo the y finally reached the Valle y of Mexico, so that the journey occupie d fro m fifty-three to 163 years. Thejemigration occurred i n tbe thirteenth century.— Boston Cultivator. } ' Dr. Carlos F. McDonald , for fifteen years in chargo of tho Asylu m for Crim inal Insane, nt Auburn, N. Y., and now President of the New York State Com mission in Lunacy,tolls in tho New York Sun how he once unmasked a noted burglar who feigned epileptic convul sions. We quote from the doctor' s a c count : \My suspicions were fully confirmed, and I ha d James Clcgg sent to m y pri vate office. There I confronted him alone and tol d him that I had evidenc e suf ficieut t o convict him of shamming. He denied tho charge but this time I noticed he was no t so emphatic and outspoken ns on tho former occasion. Thi s led m e to press the accusation more forcibly. Finally he laughed and admitted that the fits I had seen were feigned, but he insisted that he di d havo real fits. I de clined to beliovo this and told him I should at once return him t o prison as a fraud, wit h instructions to the officials to punish him with great severity if h e ever should Lave another'fit.' The n he though t a moment and at last said rather slowly and with a dejected ait : 'Wel l it's no use; but yo u are tho first docto r that ever tumbled to me. ' \As he said this the 'epileptic look ' vanished from his face 'like dew in the sunshine ' He was transferred to Aubur n Prison nnd served out his sentence. \Before I turned him ove r t o the prison authorities I made hi m giv o mo a full history o f his life, and it is ono o f the mos t singular stories in all the annals of crime . Ho was born in Manchester, England . He robbed his father's till whe n onl y nine years old; and later he ran awa y and turned up in the famous East End o f London , where he entered at once upo n a criminal career. Pocke t pickin g was the crime t o whic h h o first turned his talents, and be scored a suc cess fro m the very start. \One day as he was goin g along tho street he saw a crow d gathered. Ho walke d up and saw that the peopl e had gathered around a man lying on the pavement in an epileptic fit. Cleg g im proved the occasion to relievo tw o men of their watches. Another thief saw him steal the watches and insisted upon a di vision. To this Clcgg had to consent. \But this incident came as a bright flash o f revelation to Clegg's resource ful mind . 'What, ' he thought, 'if I could ge t another fellow to sham an epileptic fit, while I pick the pocket s o f the peopl e wh o crow d around?' Cleg g was still brooding over this though t sev eral days later, when he again met tbe thief to whom he gave the other watch. This fellow told him of a den of thieves with whom he lived and worked. Cleg g accepted an invitation to go down nnd see them. He found them in what is know n in the thieves' dialect of Londo n as a 'paddin g ken.' This is a resort o f criminals o f the worst kind. \The habitues of the paddin g ken ap pointed on e McCarty to examine hira. He was put through an examination, which , provin g satisfactory, was fol lowe d by his taking an oath o f allegiance to be faithful to the band, and not to peach o n any member if he should fall into the hands of the police. \Thus enrolled as a membe r o f the band , Clegg says ho began to teel him self o f som e importance in the world. He though t he could contribute some thing original and startling to the plan of campaign pursued by his comrades. He imparted to McCarty his scheme o f bonus epileptic fits for successful pocke t picking, and dilated upon the visions of wealth he saw in it. But, alas! even in the annals o f crime, buddin g genius is doomed to fiud its brightest ideas anti cipated, and, ns i t were, copyrighted by others. Cleg g was pained to learn that his scheme was not only in lon g use al ready amon g the deuizeas of the pad din g ken, but that the rogues' vocabu lary had been enriched by a special name for it. \The thief wh o falls doivn and feigns an attack o f epilepsy while his confeder ates rob the crow d was know n in the paddin g ken as a dumm y chuckcr . Mc Carty was the chief dumm y chucke r o f the baud, and with him Cleg g nt once began operations as a pickpock et. Bu t McCarty was finally arrested aud sent to prison, and the role o f dum my chucke r developed upon Cleg.' , who thowed that the lunatic o f the master had fallen upou him. li e at onc e made a brilliant record for himself. Ho says he trequently chucked a dummy , aud was put into a cab and hurriod t o a doc tor's, wher e remedies were applied and he was brought to without even beiDg suspected. \Once he chucked a dummy , during whic h his accomplic e stole a valuable watch. The watch was missed before the dummy was over, and Cleg g was ar rested as an accomplice. Th e lawyer he engaged advised him to chuc k a dumm y iu court. Cleg g said he chucke d a beau tiful dummy right before tho Judg e and all the lawyers. A physician was called, wbo pronounced it a caso o f epilepsy, and C egg was 'honorably discharged.' \ \That night,' says Clcgg, 'there was } jollification in the padding ken, aud I was tho head dumm y chucker o f them all.' li e operated in fashionable churches and at the funerals o f noted men, having co-operation o f the most noted pickpock ets. 'Often, ' h e said, 'have I chucked a dumm y while looking at tho corpse, nnd then the boys plundered the poo r Dats.' \At length Clegg became known to the authorities, and he had to quit Lon don for Glnsgow. Hero he operated successfully for some time, addin g burg- uiry to his other accomplishments. Things at last began to gro w ho t for him in Glasgow , too , aud ho seized a favor- ilile occasion, after robbing a house of •:2000, to llec t o America. •'In New York he at once bega n life ic;aiu as a dumm y chucker 'It was omcthir.g new among the crooke d peo ple ove r here,'he said; 'they never saw a man befor e who could do it as i t should be done.' Ho joined a band o f pick pockets operating in Ne w York, Boston, md Philadelphia. The y operated in the large retail dry good housc3 when well filled wit h ladies, and on the ferry boats when crowded. \Once o n a Hoboke n ferry boa t ho chucked a dummy , and a kin d hearted physician, who was elbowin g his wa y through the crow d to help him, wa s re lieved of his watch by one o f the con - 'erates. When tho boa t lande d thi pBWcan called and hurried to his hom i •wilh Clegg . Onl y after h e ha d brought thS epileptic t o di d he discover that hii watc h was gone . Cleg g say3 that foi once his conscience smote Bim, and when hejgo t bac k to New York ho at once sought his pals to get tho watc h and send it back, bu t thoy had sold it. \Afte r this h o chucke d a dummy in a Fulto n ferry bout and was taken tc Bellevuo Hospital. H o was here 'brought to,' but was detained to be examine d by a specialist from the hospital for epilep tics. A s soon as h o heard the nurse say: 'There comes the doctor, ' h e wen t into convulsions. He was examined an d duly pronoui.ced a ba d caso o f epilepsy. \Afte r he loft Aubur n I lost sight o f hira for several years. But on e day a criminal was sent up there from Sbj g Sing under the name o f James Lec. H o was described b y tho physician at Sin g Sing ns an 'epileptic imbecile. ' I siw him beforo he recognize d mo , and his face served as excellent crdentials o f tho doctor's certificate—it wor e the well - know n 'epilcpticlook.' \Lee was Clegg . As soon as h o recog nized m e he threw oi l the musk, laughe d heartily, and begged mo t o let hi m stay in the asylum a few days to 'recruit up.' Ho explained that siuca his dismissal from Auburn he had been chuckin g dum mies i n Boston and through Canada with great success. Ho had drifted bac k to New York, wher e ho was arrested on a chargo o f burglary and sont up to Sin g Sing. Here he was about to b e punished for somo infraction o f the prison rules nnd he chucke d a dumm y to avoi d tbe punishment. Bu t to his dismay, h o was taken too seriously and was sent to tho asylum again where he was suro t o b o recognized. He said to rao, ' I did'n t intend to wor k tho gam e hard enoug h for that.' \I kept hi m in the asylum for several days to try and experiment. I told hi m to come into my office at a certain hou r and 'chuc k the dummy ' before several medical gentlemen whom I woul d havo there. H e borrowe d m y pocke t knife to cut the sido o f his tongue, and cam e in nt tho appointed time on some feigned errand. Whil e iu the roo m ho uttered tho 'epileptic cry ' nnd threw himself on the floor iu convulsions. An attendance of bloody saliva was sputtered from his mouth. This time he clinched his thumb s inside his fists and improve d cn several other symptoms. Every one o f tho in vited physicians was decieved.\ Yucatan' s Deadl y Spider . iV sailor on a coasting vessel whic h plies between Galveston, Texas , and ports on tho Gulf o f Mexico , has somo very interesting specimens whic h he se cured while o n to o coast o f Yucatan . Among them is a large jar filled wit h enormous spiders, which ho says aro lookod upon with greatest fear by tho Indians of tho central portion o f that country and whic h are undoubtedl y tho lurgest ever seen. Th e bod y o f the spider is fully five inches in diameter and his legs are short and thick, being especially adapted to running and climbing . The y are abou t two inches lon g and are as big around as an ordinary lead pencil. Th e animal is of a grayish brow n color, but is mo3t peculiarly marked by dee p red bands whic h cross its body, extending clear around diagonally fro'm shoulder to hip , crossing each other in the middl e o f the bac k and the body. Tho head is so large that tho details can readily be seen, and even tbe dea d ones had such a ferocious aspect that they caused a feeling o f fear. The color in g is peculiarly adapted to the country, for the bod y is like the earth, while the red bands are like many of the creepin g vines which aboun d amon g the rock s of tho interior. Th e fierceness o f tho insect nnd tha mai-King ou the buc k have induced the Indians to name it the \Devil' s Soldier, \ and they say that it is undoubtedl y the worse foe t o man iu that whole couutry , making ic almost impossible for anyone to go into the interior, for it abounds in such numbers that no place is free from it aud its bite is certain death. Only one instance is know n to Indians ' wher e a man has been bitten and did | not die, and this ra in was wildly insane | ever afterward. The spider make s its j hom e in the rocks and when anything approaches it rushes bodil y out WOKDS O F WISDO A friend is a man who flatters you judiciously. An enemy is one who brutally informs you of your faults. Wo get. impatient, \and thero crops out our human weakness. The perfect woman is dead ; tho per fect man never existed. Man is tho only animal that doc s not always defend his young . Our high respect for a well-bred man is praise enough o f literature. Famo is tho blossom o f Dea d Sea fruit that turns to ashes on the lips. Tho great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. Kindness in us is the hone y thatb'.unb ! the sting of unkindness in auother. He that wilt leso his friend tor a jest deserves to die a beggar by the bargain. Music is what wo say, poetry is wha t we dream, and sculpture is imprisoned thought. Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. Tho way to procure insults is to sub mit to them. A man meets with n o more respect than he exacts. The deep-toned funcpal knell wa3 a mero whisper, but how lou d was the crash of that first clo d o n the coffin. The man is ungrateful who denio3 that ho has received a benefit, wh o pretends that ho has not received it, and wh o does not return it. Tho finer the nature tho more \ flaws it will show through the clearness o f it; and it is a law o f this universe that the best things shall b e scldomest seen in their best form. \Wild Boar Agai ist Alligator. Th e swamps o f Cypress bayou , about six milc3 from Pittsburg, Texas, are very dense indeed—all kinds o f wil d animals found in the State havo been found iu this swamp, including the wild hog and 'alligator It is a paradise for all kinds o f iish, fowls and game of nearly every de scription. Th e swamp is very difficult ! for man to peuetrate very far into it. Last weok Mr. Dallas Huey , Dr. Lrght- foot aud myself, writes a correspondent, went to the swamp to try our luc k on a venison or two . We ha d not gon e very far—three-fourths of a mile probably— when our attention was directed to a loud rumbling noise and very foreign to anything I liad ever hoard before not more than one hundred yards from us. Ea^er to see what it all meant, the trio crept up behind a largo gum lo g within a few paces o f tho aforesaid noise When wc raised up wo beheld a large wild boar weighing 250 , and an alligutor measur ing seveu feet eight inches, iu uvjrtal combat. For awhile odd s were against the biar , and it lookeJ as if he never was goin g to get in his wor k on his deadly foe ; the old alligator would lash him heavily with his tail and try to get his whole head into his mouth, but the boar soon found out that that was no way to fight in alligator, and he went to him head to head. Ho made several ineffective blow3, not even breaking the hide on the ol d alligator, while ho (the hog ) was bleed ing from several bad aud ugly gashes indicted upon him by the saurian. In a few minutes thiugs took a radical change. The boar go t hi3 tusk hun g in the alli gator's hide ju3t behind aud a little be low tho left shoulder, tearing a place as large as your hand, aud i n a few minutes longer all was up with the alligator, for ao had severed an artory, so the docto r said. Tiie fight must have lasted forty minutos after ivo arrived o n the spot oi observation. Th e hog starte 1 off very unconcerned about his victory, when Mr. Uuoy killed him.— Atlanta Cjnstiiuthn. • Russian Nobility. The Rusiian nobility i s constitution \Uy not an exclusive ca?tc. There is a con stant liuctuition in its nu nbers. Persoi s of the lower classes aro often raised to aobility if they uit'.ce thomselvjs de- Bcrving in the Government service, ail nobles are degraded if f jr the oiu nis- sion of crimo the courts deprive the.n o: '.heir \titles and nrefcrciices *' A com plaint has rcaciic I tho Senate thit an as- | scrably of nobles had refused to enter makes an attack so fiercely that it is al mos t imposib h to escape it. It runs with great rapidity and climbs sticks and trees as easily as if it was on the ground . — Chicago Post. A Great Yea r For Ros e Bugs. Thi s year, it is said, will be a great year for rose bugs. Some are found in the gardens almost every year, but the probability is that when the spring of 1S92 comes o n they will not leave a lent on the rose bushes, and will be very destructive of other plauts also. Th e indication o f their probable presence in great abundance is now to be seen down amon g the roo !3 o f the plants, says a florist. If yo u cake a spade and turn u p the earth at the roots o f the rose bushes you will find their egg s and larvaj b y tho tbousauds. Th o rose bu g is a produc t ot quite modern civilization, makin g his appearance less than fifty year3 ago, an d appearing so numerously since that florists and gardeners have been put to all sorts of expedients to ge t rid o f him . They generally fail i n the effort to do so , however , for he gets fat ou poisons, and the only effectual plan has thus far been to pic k him off tho plants and burn him . —New York Tclegra-n. — in in t A Lal; o i u it Crater . Some forty miles nortawest o f tho In dian pueblo of Zuni, New Mexico, o n the eastern border o f Arizona, ma y be seen, it is said, a strange curiosity of na ture—a great shallow salt lake, at tho botto m o f a bowl-lik e depression, som o hundreds o f feet dee p nnd about three miles across. The basin is dazzling white, with a crust o f salt crystals. About in tho centre rises a small blac k volcanie peak, and if one will take tho trouble to ford the salt lake—whic h ho will Hud a disagreeable, but not danger ous task, and clim b the peak, he will find its crater half filled b y a lakelet of pure, fresh water.— Picuyuiie. Peculiar Arctic Sledges . M. H. Ekroll, a Norwegian , propose s to start from tho northeast coast of Spitzenberg with a fe w men and a largo' number of dogs t o dra w peculiar littlo sledges o f his invention. Th o distinctivo feature about the conveyance is that thoy can b e put together at a fe w minutes' notice to form a large boat. Rapidit y of movemen t is wha t h e aims at. Hav ing attained Pctcrsmanland h e expect s to piocee d directly t o the Pole.— New York Press. apon thsir rolls the imm; ; of pjr>.)in re cently raised to their station LT.jja further inquiry it was fouu.l that the as sembles of many district) 1 M J mido it a practice to d o the same. Waea a per son who ha.l bjen intido a noble sought for almUsiou into their couueils they would decide his c iso b y b illot. If he did not receive a sufficient number of votes he was excluded from their rolls and assemblies. Tn o \pedigree d no bility\ (Stolbovoyo Dvaryaustvo) have zqaloujly watched over such billots and taken caro that no uc.v-raido nobl o should be admitted into tiei r circle. The Senate therefore decide d that as soon as any person is ndmitted to tho privilege of nobility ho become defacto a member of tho assembly o f nobles o f his district. It is tho duty oi the assem bly to enter iiis name upo n their roll3 and to totily him o f the constitutional and special meetings held b y their body . They have tin option in this mitter and their balloting for now candidates is a mere farce.— C'ncu/o News. Th e Greatest liulldiu g Iu the World. An astonishing feature o f the Colum- biau Exposition will be one o f ths p:ilace? grouped iu the heart o f the fairgrounds, i t is the Manufactures Building designed by Mr. George Post, of Ne w York. It will bear the same relation to this expo sition as the Eilfel Towe r di d to that o f Paris in 1S39; and, indeed, Its possible use 03 a vantage-point from whic h to seo tbe fair grounds has terminated in tht negative the diseussioi for aud against the construction in Cuicig o o f a rival tc tho great tower of Paris. This greatest of all the exposition buildings, and o f the buildings o f tho w.irld, will present to Lake Michigan a facal e of suc a a length as t o suggest the wall of a city, yet it is so admirably designed, so liglit and graceful in its elleet upon the vision, that its true extent can only be compre . bended when itsdim ;n3iocs arj expressed ia ligurcs aud by comparisoas. It is oae - thirJ of a mile Ion,', anl to compass it round about is to walk a mile. Tn « roof of it is 1GSS by 7S8 feet, and tht span of the dome , tho largest ever at tempted, is 3S8 feet. Th e roof is 23C feet from the ground, and tho building has forty acres of ground-floor. Two o; the vast machinery halls o f the Parii Exposition could be wheeled through it, and the Auditorium, tho buildin g o; whic h Chicago is most proud , coul d bi pushed under this great roof, tower anc oil.—Harper's Magazine.
