: the U, , se able hy # ter Paving od Biren thie hrgtat tin HEE Saito] led. the" combined enter- ses, which o that 1 can enormous trade retired. The wonders of the Worcester and Upper Forest works attracted metal lurgical authoritios from far and near for it is a rare sight to sec a red hot ten hundred weight ingot of steel picked up and rolled into a ribbon in the twinkling of an eye, ! The year 1884 found him mayor of Swansea, and upon the elevation of Sir Hussey Vivian to the peerage in 1893 he was retvrned unopposed to . .18 the Sweetest, most speedy, Per- | retired two years later. In a speech in and economical treatment for | (hy house he said with pride that he 5 had used tongs in the rolling mill and the mandril in the mine. An exceedingly generous man, he never slighted anyone he had known in his humble days. Often he was soen making his way through the streets Swansea with the aid of crutches, and he had a kindly word for every- A Good Impression Impression one he recognized. TUMOR WEIGHED 108 POUNDS. Is always made with MACK'S PATENT Immense Growth Taken From ' Flexible Cushion . Body Of Syracuse Woman, 8 - RUBBER STAMP | racuse Post-Standard, Ramin a huge gourd in shape, Prints on Uneven Surfaces. with a reddish skin lined with streaks ALS BME een. llow, and a knob at one end : STENCILS AND STEEL STAMPS, omCE MARKERS, of ye with which it was attached to the walls of the abdomen, a tumor weigh- ing in its original form 108 pounds an a successfully removed from aged Syracuse woman. The unnatural growth, which Dr. Campbell exhibited to several mem- bets of the medical fraternity: and which was the subject of a spectacular tration at a meeting of ' the Academy of Medicine, has excited much interest and considerable discus: sion among Syracuse physicians. The tumor is one of the largest, if not the largest, which have ever come to the notice of local medical men. Having shrunk a third of its origina} in an advanced state of decom- | size since removal, it is now four feet, : was found impaled on a post | nine inches in circumference. alle' the walls of Palermo. Attach-| The woman from whom it was ro- GRUESOME THING. Is Severed Head That Of Noted a. Sicily Bandit 4 Rome, May 10.--From Sicily comes aighastly story reminiscent of the mid- agus, Last Thursday morning a man's fy af e the Juss was a card bearing the | moved Tuesday morning after an op- : , "This is the head of Ahe in- eration lasting only twelve minutes is famous brigand Varsalona." seventy-one years of age. The growth This curious discovery was made on | had its inception nine years ago. At the property of a certain Baron Ani- | that time the woman went to a Syra- ello, who took a prominent part in |cuse hospital for an operation, but be- the trial of the notorious Varsalona [fore the time arrived for submission two months ago for murder, and of- | to the surgeon's knife, she decided nat fered a large reward for his capture, | to undergo the ordeal. The growth When the daughters of the brigand | continued to expand year after year were confronted with the head, one | until it reached such an enormous size declared it was that of her fathér, | that it was impossible for the woman but the other denied it. The brigand's | to put her arms around .in front of » however, recognized the | herself and have her hands reach with- head by the filling in a front tooth. | in eighteen inches of each other. Great excitement prevails in Sicily | At the solicitation of her relatives, a8 the result of this strange occur- | the woman finally decided to undergo rence. The inhabitants in the neigh- [an operation. She is now recovering borhood are divided into two parties, oh y. one believing in the death of the fa- ie operation was practically pain- mous bandit, and the other declar- . A two and one-half inches incision ing the event to be merely another | Was made in the abdomen and into trick to make the police believe that | the growth itself. Then a half-inch ho is dead in order that he may con | "ubber tube was inserted and the tinue to rob undisturbed, water drawn from the growth into an Sev -- ordinary washtub, filling it to within 'The Parish Goat. ine inches of the top. The sac was As some ladies were en, in de- | then twisted into a rope and drawn corating the church in a sored i vil. | through the aperture in the abdo- lage news wad brought them that ga |™e The stem of the growth was goat was making a meal off a "peace the size of an ordinary little finger, on earth, goodwill toward men" de After the operalion the woman sign in vew leaves, which was stand. weighed only eighty pounds. The skin ing for removal into thé building. The | ©" her abdomen could be strotched sexton, who was" assisting, imme around her. This will in tim. tighten, diately rushed to the rescue; but the to ita natural place. : goat, resenting the interruption, re-| Pr: Campbell attended the meeting pelled the attack in the most approv: [of the Academy of Medicine Tuesday od oatly style. "Make haste, John. | Pight, carrying with him in his coat son, and Ret up," said the vicars pocket the sac of the tumor wrapped wife from "a place of safety, "it's laid -- pp : During the Sefton he in "OF : cka, on the ident's starting to eat again. Let him table, attaching: to it the Rich of i i agin to wall ls or ome | Pvc Rump and asking he preciling hy officer to pump. As the air filled th Rood-will to man inside 'im." sac it hoy Dot te » | | BOWspaper wrapper. As it reached its natural full size, those present took on a look of astonishment at the en. ormity of the growth and an animat. ed discussion followed. ISTRY, perform- latest tmproved ---- : A Golden Opportunity. When Max O'Rell was on a lecturing tour in the United States he was one dav approached bv a voung man, who thanked him earnestly, for his lecture the previous night, saying : Nie never enjoved myself more in my le. t The pleased lecturer grasped his ad- mirer's hand. "I am glad," he said, "that my humble effort pleased vou so much." "Yes," said the voung man, "it gave me immense pleasure. You see, | am engaged to a girl, and her family all went to vour show, and I had her at home all to myself. It was a hap pv evening. Thank vou so much. Mr. O'Rell. Do lecture again, soon !" Henry Cunningham, : Son hiekering's, Princess 's store, Pri treet. Low shoes at low prices at oi then he started plate works. These te anahmlacturer in the world, and joy 3,000 hands, an n every market, he parliament for Swansea district, but "ongly supported Mr. him a place in the | Gladstone. The oprietor of The and Yd nk wi iy was Mery Levi, who,' i upon being given a baronetcy, chang- ability, and rose | ud his name to Lawson. "During his journalistic carcer he was in writing poetry, but hever ined a t. reputation as a poet. He had, however, a remarke able of luscious language. The Light of Asia' was s great suc- Coss, partly because it was new to most . Another work, 'The Light of the World,' was not so great a success; it was hot new, and was exceedingly difficult to handle. "He visited Japan, where he be came enamored with Japanese chare acter and civilization, and married a Japanese wife. "He was a _ successful journalist, judged from a pecuniary point of view, while his gencral success as an educationist earned him a knight hood." "Was Sir Edwin not a guest at the Grange?" querried the reporter. "Ho was upon two occasions, the last of which was on Nov. 26, 1891, when he was on a lecturing tour," replied Dr. Smith, in conclusion, eens Story of Seten Thempsen. M. 8S. Clark writes from Toronto to The Montreal Witness as follows: "The other day at the closing ex- ercises of Palmerston Averue Public School 1 heard Mr. Hughes, Public School Inspector, tell the children the following story of Ernest Seton Thompson: "Thompson was a pupil at the Victoria Street School in this city, and seems tven at that time to have acquired some skill in animal sketchs ing. One day while the teacher was out young Thompson went up to the board and made an excellent chalk crayon picture of some animal, give ing it, however, a man's head casily to be recognized as that of the teacher of 'the room, When the lat- ter came in and saw the picture, he sternly asked who "had made it. When Thompson owned the deed, the teacher punished him for (aring to leave his scat without lea'®. 'And thus," added the inspecter, with strong facial expression, 'idstead of taking the incident as a joke and complimenting the young artist on his excellent drawing and thereby winning the heart of every boy and girl in the class, he thrrer-a-s-h-cd' (crushing frown here) 'him, and did his hest to beat out of his young heart the splendid talepts which God had given him.' "While, wondering what the moral effect of such a story would be, when told to a room full of boys and girls before their teachers, it occurred to me that Seton Thompson had not yet got over the habit of putting men's heads on the animals he has known and sketched, but his own most frequently, rather than that of his teacher's. It is hardly to be ex- pected that any other students of ture will meet such creatures in the wild wood or flowery vale as Seton Thompson claims to have known," ---------------- - Trunks and valises, lowest prices at Abernethy's Shoe Store. 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Some of these whales have been known to bring back evidences .of where they have been, for harpoons of the peculiar kind coast of South America have been found stuck in them. has accumulated the largest number of brain weights ever published. He gives a thorough analysis of 1,169 cases. He says he finds the average weight of the brain at birth of a male "child is 360 grams and of a female child 353 grams. The maxi- mum brain weight is usually _at- tained about the when the male's average is about 1,400 grams. The female maximum teenth year, 1,275 grams. - Lord Arthur Hill, Says a London cable, is anxious to relieve the ordi- Rary 'sombreness of the masculine grab. He appeared at a public func- tion the other day check trousers and a cutaway black ont of original style, t bright crimson was the pre- wide sxPase wide he wore a large watch chain. A black Be -- Wonderful Strvival Of a Canine On a Farm Near Prescot Lived 47 Days Without Food. Mr. Thomas Curry, who lives four miles below Prescott, has probably the most remarkable collie dog on record. This collie being a house- hold pet was not addicted to roam- ing, and never leit the farm where he was useful rounding up cows in summer. But on January 28, Collie having got ponderously fat from lying round the kitchen stove, teok a trip out around the premises. Ha sniffed around behind an old shed, and suddenly felt an earthquake. When he came to after his fright, he found that he was down in a nine- foot hole, half buried with snow and a few rotten timbers. Above him he $ the perfect Dressing for both Ladies' and Men's Shoes that takes the place of the liquid-and-paste polish. i It does the worksin half the time, twice a easily and twice as well: "2 in 1" puts on the 'shine that will please makes them waterproof. you, oils the shoes, keeps them soft and springy, 10c and 35c boxes, 15¢ tubes Sold Everywhere saw the bright blue sky, and about him the walls of an old dry well that used to water the cattle long before he became # dog. Collie had never been in a well before. He howled at the sky till the stars came out. Then he rolled himself in his fat and went to sleep, dreaming that he was behind the kitchen stove. He woke to find him- self still in the well, with not even a toad or a worm to keep him com- pany. He howled again till his lungs were sore and the stars came again! Nobody came. Collie decided that he would peace- fully glide off to the land where all good doggies go. But he didn't. He stayed hungry four days. 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