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T l = S' DEA?H GULCH. A DEADLY GAS SPRING IN YEL LOWSTONE PARE. Remains of Animals Found That Had Been Asphyxiated by the Ir- respirable Vapors in the Fatal Ravine. It \was evident that he had met his death but a short time before, as the carcass was still perfectly fresh, though offensive enough at the time of a later visit. The remains of a cinnamon b< jnst above and alongside of this were ly C( ! many a traveler's tale, to be a high- olored and exaggerated account of a natural phenomenon. ■ ) ha not poisonous vapors. But The upas tree is lave poisonous sap, vapors. But the survives in the accounts given of ch ] now well known to but not pois( the Death Valley of Java, wlii« 1 it was long believed no traveler could cross, “wherein every living being which pen etrated the valley falls do^ra dead, and the soil is covered ivith the carcasses of tigers, deer, birds, and even the bones of men, all killed by the abundant ex halations of carbonic-acid gas, with ■yis filled.” by Lyell, us famous valley; while another lo cality is described as a place where “ the sulphurous exhalations have killed tigers, birds and innumerable insects, and the soft jaarts of these animals are pei’fectly preserved, while the bones are eroded and entirely destroyed. The re- sly destroyed, searches, of Junghuhn have shown that these accounts are much exaggerated, the “ Valley of Death” being a funnel- shaj)ed depression but 100 feet in diam eter instead of a valley half a mile across. In the bottom of this depression there is a hole fifteen feet in diameter, from which gaseous emanations are given out, which at times accumulate to a depth sufficient to envelop and suffo cate animals on the bottom of the hol low. Repeated visits by Jrmgluilm, ex tending over a fseriod of twelve years, showed that the amount of gas varied greatly from time to time, but rarely ever rose over two to six inches above the bottom. At the time of his earlier visit he found the body of a Javanese native in the depression, but experi enced no difficulty or opiDression while there himself. This same body was still undecomposed, OAving to the preserv ative effect of the layer of gas, Avhen lie rejjeated his visit eighteen months later. The only other remains seen during his syibsequent visits were the carcasseJ gas was shown by the presence of a crow feeding’ upon the dead bodies. Though thus shoru of much of its , the Pakaraman, or poison 3 in advanced state of decomposition, Avhile the other skeletons were almost denuded of flesh, though the claws and much of the hair remained. It was ap parent that these animals, as well as the squirrels and insects, had not met their death by -vioienee, but had been asphyx iated by the irrespiiable gas given off in the gulch. The hollows were tested for carbonic acid gas -with lighted tapers Avithout proAfing its presence; but the strong smell of sulpliur and a choking sensation of the lungs indicated the presence of noxious gases, while the strong wind prevailing at the time, together with the open nature of the ravine, must have caused a rapid diffusion of the vaxmrs. This place differs, therefore, material ly from the famous Death Valley of Java and similar places in being simply a V-shaped ti-ench, not over 75 feet deep, cut in the mountain slope, and not a holloAv or cave. THE LOST MINE. MYSTERIOTTS DEPOSITS OF SIL VER IN INDIANA KNOBS. The Rich Find of Captain Phelps, a Famous Hunter—Guarded by a Silent Chief with a Drawn. Bow. mouth of Fourteen Mile Creek, near the site of Ohio Falls, the ancient hamlet fonnded by the explorer, Clark. Silver Creek is a historic stream also, since it was along its banks the teirified settlers fled on that doleful August day in 1812, u. vi^OfV U.X XX LAO* I XXX when the Indians fell upon the neigh b o r i n g hamlet \ . .ir. I Roost. Few The name Indiana Knobs is applied remain, muu to a range of hills that, rising from the ; looked upon. Ohio River near NeAv Albany, sweep in Pigeon Ro of the~pioneers are left, but the old stone fort still speaks eloquently of that mys terious vanished race, and the circling hills remain, mute witnesses of aU they at times the head of the gulch is, however, proven by the dead squirrels, etc., found on its bottom. — Science. That the gas icumulatesi in the x>ocket at 1 the gulch is, however, pr Two Brothers Wed Two Sisters. Old Liederkianz Hall, on East Fourth street, was thronged with Magyar friends of the Kleins and Poppers on Sunday afternoon to Avitness the nuptial ceremonies which should bind Herman Klein to Fanny Popper and Geza Klein to Charlotte Popper. It is not often that brothers take two sisters for better or for worse at the same time, and it is seldom that two brothers are fonnd to look so much alike as the tAVO Kleins, or tAA^o sisters Avho so closely resemble each other as the Poppers. The grooms are blonde, closely sha\’en, and the brides are handsome black-eyed and plump branettes. The ceremonies were an nounced for three o’clock, but it was nearly five before the Rev. Mr. Kohn- feld, of Kaschau, Hungary, tmned his face to the east and chanted the “Min- oha” (afternoon) service. After this the Huppa (nuptial canopy), of red silk bordered Avdth orange-satin was raised upon four small poles held by foiu* sin gle men wearing their hats. Beneath the centre of this Herman Klein took his place, facing to the east and vis-a- vis to the officiating rabbi. He was flanked by Heir Wohlberger, Wolf, Greenberg and Bernard and Leopold Klein as his best men. An orchesti-a then struck up the Rakozcy march, and the bridal procession entered the hall led by the bride, supported by Amelia and Lena Klein and Misses Wohlberg and Greenberg. The brides were clad alike in old-gold silk en. traine, sur mounted by long veils and orange blos- 1 T XT - 4 . i soms, Avhile. their impending spouses ^iwes the title ol a n t o a l death trap. ! Alberts. Only one Though common patrweifemateethen, a s t e t s ^ o t e ^ in all volcanic regions, tlus has been the ii^^ical law that two brothers cannot be only place ^oAvn where the gases have ^ ^he same day. ^cumulated and caused the death of The Hebrew day, however, according to T.. narrative of the Creation in the In the Yellowstone National Paik, . tne ei'ening and the morning were the ■first day,” so Herman and Fanny were united just before sundown, and two bsequent visits were the carcasses oi tsAvine. Avhich were decomposed and itrid. At this time the absence of the former gloiy, t now so well known as the wonderland of America, there is a place equalling this famous death valley, and Avhere the gaseous exhalations have proved fatal to numerous bear, elk and many smaller animals. hours later, after the next Biblical day began, Charlotte and Geza were made man and vdfe. All the principals were TM.place, to _ j3 i*mony, andl the brides were kept serupu- discovered in ' 4-1 «mony, and the bndes were kept serupu- rvey of t >gist n’k. It is situated portion of I rabbi had previt Ain* ^ . of the survey of the park. i1 in the extreme northeastera this reseiwation, a short distance south of the mail route, Avhich, leaving Lamar river, follows up Soda Butte creek to the mining camp of Cook City. In this region the lavas Avhich fill the ancient basin of the park rest upon the flanks of mountains formed of fragmentary vol canic ejecta, and tertiary andesitic brec cias, which rest in turn upon nearly horizontal paleozoic strata; while the hydrothei-mal forces, which are repre-. sentecl by the geysers and hot springs of the ceiffral portion of the park, Avhere the lava sheet is thicker, shoAv but feeble manifestations of their energy in the al- i most extinct hot-spring areas of Soda ; creek, Lamar river. Cache creek a n d } A rtificial Lungs for the Drowning. Miller creek. Although hot water no le bride’s finger. The bad previously recited the mar ge contract in Hebrew, which had been signed in that lang^uage by the contracting parties. Benediction W'ine was then drunk by the newly married couifle, a glass was broken to indicate that separation is as impossible as a re union of the broken fragments, and the bride and groom were declared man and Avife amid a hurricane of “mozzel tauvs” (good luck). A great deal of Avliolesale indiscriminate kissing among the guests followed, and all the pro ceedings Avere duplicated tAVO hours later at the nuptials of Charlotte and Geza.— Ifew York Mercury. creek. Although not wate longer flows from the vents of thes areas, the deposits of travertine, sinter and decomposed rock attest the former presence of thermal springs. Gaseous emanations are not given off, however, in considerable A’olume, producing ex tensive alteration in the adjacent rocks, and giving rise to sulphurous deposits. Professor Poe, of Bridgeport, Conn., has invented an artificial pair of lungs AA'luch he uses in restoring life in cases of drowning and asphyxiation. He is experimenting on a pet rabbit, and has already drowned it and restored it to life eleA’en times. The rabbit has also been suffocated by the fumes of burning It is at one of these places that the : charcoal u n t i l all signs of life Avere ex- t A The Professor then attached his fatal raAdne is found. Situated Cache creek, but two miles above its confluence Arith Lamar river, it is easily reached by a horse^ck ride of some miles from the mail station of Soda Butte. The region is, however, rarely visited; for hunting is forbidden in the park, while the place has not been knoAvn to present any attraction for the few visitors who pass near it on their way to the well-knoAvn Fossil forests and the weird scenery of the Hindoo basin. The gulch ends, or ratlier begins, in a “ scoop ” or basin about 250 feet above Cache creek; and just below this Ave found the fresh body of a large bear, a silver-tip grizzly Avdth the remains of a companion in . an advanced state of de composition above him. Near by were the skeletons of four more bears, with the bones of an elk a yard or two above, while in the bottom of the pocket were the fresh patent bellows to the animal’s mouth and forced oxygen into the lungs. The returning suction drew out the deadly gases, and the artificial respiration pro duced a muscular contraction and ex pansion of the lungs until life was re stored. Professor Poe claims that his invention will save human beings as well as rabbits .—Atlanta Gomtitution, Gotham’s Horse-Car Houses. The up-town movement in New York is all for little narrow houses built three on two lots or eight on five lots, and yet so well finished and lavishly ornamented that they fetch more than a splendid, big, old-fashioned house in the old parts of town. Those Avho like elboAV-room call these ncAV little dwellings “ horse-car houses.” One can not sAving a cat in several squirrels, any room in such a house, and in the rock hares and other small animals, b e - } bedrooms the custom is to_ u se patent- sides numerous dead butterflies and in- j beds and to shut them up in the mom- seets. body of the grizzlv ^ ‘ carefully examined for bullet holes s and to sliut tnem up in ti was 1 ing in order to make room in which to I dress. I t is said that nine in ten of these houses are sold or rented to new-comers other marks of injury, but showed traces of violence, the only indication in toAvn. Old residents, who have lived being a few' drops of blood under the ' in larger houses, can not be induced to nose. move into these little boxes.— Argonaut. >lno River near JN cav Avide semicircle tlu’ough of Floyd, Clark, Scott, and Jefferson, ny, sweep the counties | debouching upon the river a t Madison, thirty-five m iles from NeAV A lbany. These hills are not in a continuous range, but in clusters, like links of a broken chain. Of irregular outlines, thickly wooded and piled together in the greatest con fusion, they AA'ere, until the last decade, awdlderness Avhose AAuldness could hardly be exceeded. All the region inclosed in the SAveep of these hills is rather I oav , and traA’ersed by sevei*al beautiful sti’eams, AV'ith loA'ely Avinding valleys, shut off b y low h ills from neighboring A'alleys. The Knobs are the scene of many quaint legends and traditions', lome of which have come doAvn from the Big Owl and Little Dog. Orrin Wliipple, of South Albington toAvnship, Penn,, saw a huge owl .mop ing on a fence stoke in one of his back fields the other day. \Whipple ran to the house after his gun, and when he started out -with the gun on liis shoulder his little dog Frolic followed him and began to yelp. He silenced the dog be fore he got to Avhere the big owl was,but the moment he fired and knocked the owi off the stake Frolic had another fur ious barking spell as he dashed at the OAA’l and acted as though he was going to bite his head off’. The mammoth bird was sprawled out on the ground Avith a broken Aving when som e OI w liicii havecom < M a n occupancy of the countiy , fluttering One of the earhest settlers in this sec- flopping in an endeavor to fly, but little dog pitched into it and before Mr. to interfere. At ; Frolic began to •11 I xuau, irom -^ouis- , to his tail, but he wasn’t racing at all, viUe to the settlements on White River, for the big owl had him by the left ear crossed the range. yanking with all his might Captain Phelps Avas a famous hunter, to get aA\ay, and howling as if his heart and spent much of his time ranging. Avould break. Just as Mi*. Whipple over the h^s, which at that time ! reached the fluttering and yelping pair, abounded Avitb bear, deer, and all the ! the oav I’ s sharp bill tore more than one- four-footed and feathered game common ' half of poor Frolic’s ear off, and the re- to the locality. He was accompanied by ! leased cur scampered across the pasture. ipper friend named Brooks, and in one of their rambling expeditions they found in one of the wildest recesses of tiiat Avild region an excavation, and near it a rud< the mel supposed smelting of silver ore. FolloAving the course of the excava tion they dug out and ran off much of the precious metal, which, rex>ort says, Avas in the form of native silver; that is, almost pure. Phelps and Brooks estab- lislied a camp here, and gave them- seh'es up to the business of mining, going home occasionally for supplies. During one of Phelps’ absences for this purpose poor Brooks was bitten by a rattlesnake—they were very numerous in the hill country—and he died alone in the solitary moxmtain camp. As Phelps had no near neighbors^ upon whom he could call for assistance, or perhaps did not desire that any one should become acquainted Avith their treasure house, he dug the grave un aided, and laid his unfortunate compah- ion to rest iindpr the spreading pine that had sheltered hini whSe dying. Just then occurred the Indian out break knoAra as the Pigeon Boost mas sacre, and Phcli)s fled with his family to the frieniUy shelter of the fort at Louisville. While here waiting the ad justment of the Indian question, Avearied of the inactmty or the monotony of life in the fort, he took charge of a vessel and made several trips to New Orleans. On one of these trips ho was smitten with yelloAv fever and died there. Dur ing his last illness he drew from memory a chart of the locality of the mine, de siring that it should be given to his son when he grew to manhood. After the countrj' Avas deemed secure from Indian outbreaks Mrs. Phetys returned to the farm, and some of the citizens called upon her and asked permission to see the chart, for some inkling of its exis- tance had got abroad. She shoAved them the chart, but refused to alloAv it to be matter and save i t for her son. In this chart, Avhich, in vieAV of the circum stances under Avhieh it Avas draAvn, may not have been correct, the m ine was lo cated fom* m iles south of his house, wJiicli would bring i t in the vicinity of the Round Top, one of the loftiest hills of the chain and the m ost regular in out- Acting upon that theory the neigh bors thoroughly explored the ravines in the Jieighborhood of the Round Top and made many exca\'ations, but Avere ncA'er able to discover a spot bearing a resem blance to the locality descril^d in the chart. Those who Saw the chart Avere only permitted a hasty examination, but all agreed that the m ine was situ ated in a raAinfe at AA'hose m onth was the figure of an Indian Avith draAvn bow, carved upon an oak, Avith the arroAV pointed in the direction of their excava- Wh* ight diligently for the lAvithout success. Again again, at intervals of several years, he rencAved the search, but all in vain, and for fifty years he has not been heard of. The probability of their being sil ver in the Knobs' is sti'engthened by the circumstance that,dniing the BlackHawk war, some Indians Avho Avere encamjied in the vicinity of RockIslancl,Avaiting the signing of the treaty that should remove them beyond the MississipjDi, told some of the citi^fen soldiers from this section that there was silver in the Knobs. These Indians AA'ere not from this section, but were in communication Avith parties Avho had hunted over the hills or made their summer homes there. The precise locality of the mine they did not state, or they Avere, jierhaps, ignorant of it. There is much of wild beauty in these hills, and he Avho has rambled one day amid their glories has enjoyed a rare and not soon forgotten pleasure. It is a re gion abounding in liistoiic interest also. The old stone fort on the Ohio is one of the most remarkable defensrie works ox taut of the mound builders. I t lies at the how ling as he ran, and looking over his shoulder at every bound to see if ho Avas in danger of getting any more of the same sort of torture. With the exception of the broken Aving the owl had not been injured, and Mr*. Whipple lugged the mad bird home and put it in a coop. From tip to tip of its wings it measured four feet three inches, and it has a face like a cat. Fi olic’s ear has healed up some, but Mr. Wliipple can’t get the dog to go near the coop Avhere the owl is. Invisible Patches for Shoes. Procure from the drug^st^s two ounces of bi-sulpliuret of carbon, put into a A\dde-mouthed bottle, add tO k one-half ounce of gutta-percha' shredded,. The Ihdia-nibber is frequently procurable in shavings kept for tfcs purpose, in India, rubber supplies. Shake the bottle often, p.ntil the gutta-percha is perfectly dis solved; it is then ready te be applied. Scrape gently the' boot or shoexmtffh'eie- from blacking and the. leathei* slightly * roughened; thin by paring caiefiilly edges of the b it of Teather to be applied^ dust Arith the tiniest mite of finely x>ow- dered resin, both patch and shge, spread ' a little of the cement well over each; but little of tbe cement is needed. The siu'faces must be pressed close together and smoothed \with a Avarm iron or spoon. The parts Avill adhere firmly in a few minutes and may then be -worn. A few hours will be required for the cement to harden. It is water-proof; if nicel piece of Avoirk that may be done by a lady, ©r Avithin the compass of a boy or girl of twelve years of age. I t is inex pensive; a sufficient quantity of viigin India-rubber may be bought for ten cents to do the patching of the shoes of a family for quite a length of time, and for a nickel or ten cents an ounce the bi- sulphuret of carbon. The very dis agreeable odor of the latter quickly evaporates. — Independent. FEROCIOUS ALLIGATORS. Thrilling Experiences in Georgia** Oaky IFoods District—Wild Cattle. Alligators are quite numerous in till swamps and ponds in the famous oikj woods district in the Aucinity of Albany, Ga. Fishermen in their bateaus fre quently see their black noses protruding in every direction from the surface oJ of an immense bullfrog’s choruses oi the noise of’ bulls with’ a toiich of the epizootic, commences. It is a chorur by no means reassuring to persons -witi} timid nerves. Physicians, in driving tiirough the swamps, often see them passing thi road, proceeding from one. pond tc another. A doctor not long since had .. 4.1—:iij ---------- ■-ince ‘ 'with £~ K>k the rd id dispute further progress. This had happened repeatedly. Horses generally b ^ m i unmanageable when confronted b y ‘ these hideous monsters. Not long ^ n c e a< two gentlemen were driving a span, fn aUigator about eight feet long rush^ directly between the two horses. Thi animals became frantic Avith The .'gator left his singular position and moved to the comer of .the fence, when one of the gentlemen, who foifriiiatelj had a rifle in the buggy Avith 1dm, pUJ out in pui’suit, and AA*ith a few Avell di rected shots placed the reptile hom. di combat. One of the most singular experiences I tho alU- H oav Seals Are Balled. The little schooner Venture, com manded by Captain G. C. Steinorth, left Seattle, \Washington Territory, the othei day on a sealing cruise. Captain Steinorth was seen by a reporter and gave the folloAving information: “The Venture Avill carry nine men aU told. T avo of these are hunters, each oi Avhom will have a boat. One man, if he has any kind of luck, can kill between 500 and 600 seals in a season. However; this is not abvays the rule. I dare say if we were td liaA'e a few months of bad weather the Venture would return to Seattle almost empty. “Seals are either shot or speared. Shotguns loaded with buckshot and rifles, are generally used, the Indians who hunt seals being the only ones who use speai’s. The Indians are yerj adept in handling the si>ear, but white men season, S. N. Johnson and P. T. Mul- doon, the former being unusually ex pert. The seal is unusually hard to kill, the vital spots being but two in number—the head and either side of the body near the fore flip 2 >er. I have seen huntei*s put tAventy-one buckshot in a seal, and then the animal has escaped. This is the Venture’s second trip to the iling grounds. The prospects for a good season are many, and it is my sin- vfto1’ir7ft/l sealing gro I season cfere wish that they may be realized.” H er Majesty Queen Victoria must be a very wealthy woman. Ever since her accession to the throne she has been in receipt of $12,000,000 a year, most of ^ which is clear. During the lifetime of the Prince Consort she did not spend more than one-fifth of her income, and it is reasonably certain that since his death the projiortion of savings is cA'en larger. There Avill be a pretty penny to diA-ide among the heirs one of these the road and viciously snapped at th« buggy, catching one: of the spokes in his m o u t h with a despei-ate\ grip. The wheel tuimed over Avith the alligato] clinging to the spoke. It was thfpAirn, as the wheel revolved, directly into th| beneath the seat occupied b 5 ' the gentlemen. His eompanidii jumped from the vehicle, leaving thi gentleman alone in the buggy, Avith the ' ■” ------- ned and 1 „ * c the seati gei*<ms proximity to his legs. As , soon .as the horse could be quieted the plant er leaped out, and ’with a fence rail soon dispatched the -vicious occupant of thi buggy. He now has a .pair of shoes made from its hide. A number\ of little colcned boys weii teasing a large babboon the other day, brought to Albany by a ten cent circus. The immense monkey stood the annoy ance as long as Simian endurance could. horse terribly frightened gator pounding under the seati in dan- • * , I f l o A„ . Lg' it at the mosi tonnenfaos. The, troublesome of babboon’s aim was enough to .make » small boy ashamed of himself. Tlif brick sti-uck the little negro directly be- Out in the oaky Aroods; in the dense i swamp of the Ghipkasawatchee a droye , of AVild cattle have \ token pcffisescacm;. They feed upon the- tender groAvth, the canebrakes. They have become sc annoying to‘some of the planters that :otton. The highest fences are no im pediment to them, as they leap them AVith ease and fly at the first approach of man, seeking the almost impenetrabk denseness of the swamps. Sonie twenty- five cows have been coninted among them. They are. sleek and fet from good living and arc supposed to have escaped from the farm of a lady in Banr dolph county, and finding such good quarters in swamp, have tasted the. delights of freedom and become wild. —AUanta Gomtitution, The Loca VTeed. > The discussion as to whether the “her- ba loca” Avill, if eaten by stock, produce insanity, is becoming general, james. Kennedy, Ph. G., of the Texas Pharinat ceutical Society, has made analyses, and he declares that the only til effect that could follow its consumption would be the usual effect of over-eating. Dr. L. M. Booth, of Stanislaus county, a physician of thirty years’ practice, and •who is a pioneer stockman, says rattle-weed is not poisonous. He thmks that insanity in holies is caused by the SAvalloAv|ng- of sand and d irt which clings to the' roots of grasses and herbs that the animals feed upon. His testimony is corroborate; ed by that of S. Gates, of San Louis Obispo county, whose letter we print her« “i have noticed in anumher of papers' lately remarks and opinions about the? -nlauL **herba Tnno.” Tor rattl^weed^. and in ti quality. I Avish to be |m t doAvn as one who' does not believe in the loca-weed? theory. I am in the stock business, and live between the Cox & Clark ranch on the west and the Cholame of 40,000 acies on the east—all run to stock. There are fully 50,000 head of cattle,’ horse and* sheep kept in this neighborhood ^ and I have no knowledge of one loca animal-^ so-called—and there is an abnndancb bt rattleweed all over this country. Lasti year was a very iioor grass yeag: and everything in the way of vegetotion was eaten—rattle weed and aU—^without any bad efiects. I t is my opinion tlmt stock having to use poor, muddy Water has more to do Avith their going crazy than anything they eat .”—Fremo iGal,)Reptdh lican. j SHORT AHP SAVEET. She—Did yom uncle leave you any thing, Henri? He—^He did. She—Henri, I am yours. He—He left me his ble.'-.sing. She—Henri, J am not yoitrs,—Biwica Covn'ier,
