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A NOVEl RACE. F'our-in·hand Teams Drawing Coaohe1 · Will Race on Mile Track. Xaik ot the speed that a four-ln·han<l team of trotting bred horses. recently bought by a New York man !!RD show has. led Samuel Walter 7'nylor, super· intendent of the- horse sho~ feature ot the s~te fair, to oll'er si prize· ot $600 tor a race- fot' !our-in<hands on th~ mlle track at Syracuse on Tuesday . ot the fnlr. There bile be£1n a good deal o! talk about tbe sp~ed' of Alfred G. Vanderbilt's famoua gray~ and vari- ous other ileams, but nobody bas yet put tour horses before a coach on the track and driven them a njue on the trot under the watcb with ~udges and timers in the stand. ' · Under the rules of the povel race planned· by Mr. Taylor tile ~eams must go to coaches and trot all ~he way, or it one or more horses breakiinto a run I the coachman on the box lmust com- . ply w:lth the trotting rules by. pulling them back untn all tour ' ate again colng the prescribed galt. . Three en· tries have been received, a11d the ract sbould be a notable feature ot the state falr show. Cheese Weighing a Ton. One of the attractions In the Dnlr,y bulldmg at the state tair wlll be a single cheese weighing more than a ton. This will be Dlflde by Horace Rees, the veteran state che~se instruct- or at Lowville. The cheese· will I'll• qwre about 20,000 pounds 'ot milk, or tho product ot one day :h-om about 1,200 com. It wm be the tarcea~ cheese ever made, Bri11ht Outloo)<. Karr-What makes you think thai you are going to ·succeed m buslnetlfl? B11gster-Becaullfl m;r partner llal IIIOO,OOO.,...Somenm. J:o~mi~al. . · orders.\-B. R. Wfnsilh .... Tribune. · THE DI\Aii'i:::it:iiiDi;. ,fsAWS OP NEW YORK-BY AUTROBtT\f'. FINED A FRANC. What That Meant to an American wtla Wms Living In Paris. When you are fined a franc In Paris tt means ~bat you pay 12 francs 73 ~entimes, or just over halt a sovereign. This Is the only conclusion to which one ean come after reading the curl· ous experience of an AmerletUl citizen who Is staying In Paris to eomplete the education ot his sons. Be lives In an apartment near the Arc de Trl- owpbe, ,awl tbe other morning one of his servants committed the lmpru- uence ot sbaldng a carpet out ot the \vlndow after 9 o'clock. A. lynx eyed t-onstable saw her and Immediately climbed the iltafl'll, raq the bell, en- tered the apartment and drew up a ~ummons agabiat the tllwmt. The .\merlcan was ealled and 1J8.'fe his a am e. \I did not lroow tt wu a breach ot the Ia w,\ he said. \But as I have broken it 1 must pay. How much 111 It~\ \Yon wlll be ftned 1 franc,\ repHed lhe poll~eman. \There you are,H an~weted the \.merlcau, and be bald ·out the eobl. But the \apnt\ r~~fnlled to tab lt. •'I.,.W' on,\ be remarked u be w1dl- · drew, \you will be· IIUmii:ICIIed before the j1lllttce ot the JN!ace.\ loil!e 41!.7a laW' th. delmquat wu tuvtted to appt!!lr bet~ the \jup de pak\ ·aJ~.d .obeyed. the eummou. He wu obliged ~ wal~ Ua!:• Ja911111 fn an antechamber. Thea he wu a4Jnltte4; \Do you admtt;\ aall:ed tbe ~ trate, \bs.vln&' broken the lawf' \I do,\ weli the reply, \Good. You ar~~ fliled 1 trlute.\ \There yon alii, then.\ And th& American again held out th& fra11..e. But the mag!Strat& would have none ot lt. \You wm PB.J t!J,e 1111m .tater. rn will be advlfled when. Y oa IIIQ wtth- dtaw.\ The American Dot h1JI departme, cons.ldereb}7 surprfl!ed at 110 •DY fm:- malltlea. bl. connection with a franc fine. A few day!J later he received a stamped paper fnvlttug him to pay, (!ret of all, :). .fran~. ·the amount or his fine; plus 25 centimes, the amount o! the declmes, plus 11 francs 48 · cen- times, the a:tllOUnt ot the coats, making In all a total of 12 francs 73 centimes. The American paid, b't!t as be lett the police eourt he remarked: \In America a law which forced a cltlzen to p~ $12 when he had oD!y been tined $1 would be considered a hypocritical and dlshonest law: A.nd we would. not to.lerate it long, you beti\-London Globe. HE HAD TO PAY. Half a Dollar That the 'rravellng Man Hated to ·Spend. ''Tile GO cezUII I bated mJ~~~t to •pend,\ sillit· the .travelJIIg man, \W.t to the · OUiC!Wl Paclftc.railroad. I don't m1n.4 ~. tor thlnp :I .. t: but tb1ll par- tlcti!U u:pendltor& 00\lldn't be tn- :!orsed 'tor· nlue recei'fed.' \A number of UBr~ Into St. J'Obn, N. B.; oDe nlght·3USt in time to catch the nlgllt train for Boatcm. We cot aboard only ·to learn that the train didn't carey a diner. Now, a long night ride without dinner lan'·t a pleas- nut prospect, so we besieged the con· ductor. '\Why don't you start on the Mont- real, which pulls out ;Just ahead of us?' he· sa!d, 'It carries a diner, and we can pick you up at Frederlckton Junction.' \'No danger of your passing us?' we asked, and he assured Ull that he couldn't very well, as there was only one track. So we all plied out after !eating our baggage Jn our Pullman berths. \It was surely a tine sebeme we thought as we dined at our leisure In the Montreal train. Alter dinner we TWISTING A sought the nearest amoklng co:mpart· Ho Wa• a Gr,<>to,oq••• ment fn a sleeping car and prepared to walt In comfort for Frederlckton Junc- tion. · \Then along comes a much uniform· ed Oftlclnl and demands 50 ceuta eacb ror the privilege ot eating a meal and having a smoke aboard hiS train. We e~lalned caretully that we belonged on the other train, had given nP the price tor Pnliman. berths, and, further· more, that· we had been &ent aboard · this train tor the sole pu~ of pt- ting our· dinner. 'Didn't the ·Canadian J;!acr.c run. both tram• '!' we aske4. I'.'But It was no use. We JMd to pay ... -Washington Post THE HEADSMAN. Ho Used the Sword and Not the A• • Prior to 1483. 1 am inclined to think that prior to 1483 the sword and not the ax was usually employed as the weapon tor Judlclat decapitation and that a· block was dlapen~the victims receiv- Ing their doom \meekly kneellng upon their kne(!S,\ and In thiS opinion I am fortified by the concurrence ot an emi- nent clerical historian. This learned writer n(l'eed with· me that the ax did not becoine the \regulation\ lethal im- plement until atter the rough and ready ':beading'' ot Lord Hastings on t!J,e Tower green, when he was summarily dispatched by order of the protector, Gloucester. In this Instance, accordlns' to the chroniclers, the victlm'e neck was stretched upon a piece ot timber then In use for the repair ot the adjacent church of St. Peter ad Vincula, prob- ably a \putlog part ot the -UoldJng whlcb, we read, \eouvementl;r lay ln the way.\ Contemporary accounts seem w fndJcate that the executioner lltraddled over tile prone body, and trom tbls position I Inter that the de- capitation was ell'ected by the tool known as an adz, the cutting edge of which Ls at a right angle to and not In a plane with the haft. 1 may add U.at the only contemp<> rary reference I ba ve come acrosll or the use or proposed use ot an ax and block for lnfllctinli capltn I punishment prior to this tr~gedy ls In one of the Paston series o! letters describing the perU or an unfortunat11 captive ot Jack Cade'e rebels (A. D. 1450), a generatioo before Lord Elngtfnge wns eo clumsily haeked to deatb.-London Notes and q~ . MASTODONS. 'rhelr Sones Are PO'IInd N~ Salt or Sulphur Springe. . \Wherever you find ealt or lh!lphnr springs,\ says a genUeman connected with the United States geologlo8.t sur- vey, \you may expect tu ibid the•bonee· of mastodons and other bnge creatures that ban now become extt.uct. Many persons suppose that the presl..nce of , ...... '\'\ these bone11 in great numbers indicates that the animals had a sort of common cemetery, like the llamas ot Ohlle, which when they felt death coming on always made for the nearest stream or pond and, If they could get there; died In the water. . \That •. however, 1s likely only ~ su- perstition. The mastodon bones in a salt or sulphur marsh Indicates that the animals went there to drink the water and occasionally one got mired and was sutrocated. The great num- bers of the hones d<> not prove that a whole herd of mastodons was drowned at once, but that one being mired ev- ery year or so during several centuries woultl in time <·au\\ a great accumula- tion of bon<>R. :lliRRom·i has a bone some time afte~ marsh ~t Rulphnr Springs; tbere 1 8 a Will not b!Pnd grea; Olin(' of th<'m at the Snlt li<prii;,:'\ that remains. lin .Iwntucky and at seYPral !lhwes In cnr·e'lnlaV seem worse thun I 0()10 nnd. ln<lillll!l WhPre ll!Pre nre bu1tllfr•nm lt Ln('dicul point ) s:J.llllf\ ~\>IH'IngH. A grpat t;IWin~ in If'l< r- suc~J4lrlg of P<'Ppermluts ls [I !da, one of thl' four or tin, il\1¥<' nut· llm••n\' common 'bull ' lets whkh nrP grouped under thE:' n:uue SCY4? f <•'J , for nParly ~n f ~ .• · ·:. \'('r ~prtug, is ('fllled .. the bonP ount Of sweets USell ' ~. r<l IH'<':lUSE' tliE' b<Jttom and sid··· 1 Ill'!' musses of mastodon bones.\-St. ! Louis G!oue Democrat.
