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^ LAIN STEALER. t" i. '• • i _S PAPER flM OEOd P! hi* A 00/8 Newspaper Advertising {M Sprttoe Street), where advertising WSNEW YORK. After a conference lasting but a few lours, arranged through the offices of ^Governor Fifer, the differences between the striking miners and their employers were satisfactorily arranged. As a peace­ maker, "Private Joe" is an unqualified MTThe Chicago Journal says: "11 New Tork is unable to raise sufficient money 'to redeem its promise to the widow of General Grant and to the country, by % . building a monument over the dead \ Soldier's grave, what faitli can be placed 4 In its promise to subscribe enough *'1 '& tnoney for the exhibition of 1892? USTMr. Carlisle I) Graham, the gentle- ; . tnan vbo rode over Niagara Falls in a barrel and lives to tell the tale, a vers A WOMAN. J v '* - ... -" j, Mrs, Prindle stood in front of the "plate glass trying On a new bonnet. She r "was a plump little woman with a fair baby-like face, and no one could blame vfier for gazing at herself with some com- <• y- jplacency, for the dainty bit of milli- *j, toery perched over the curly brown bang :^|vas exceedingly becoming. ^ ?- "There'll be nothing like it in Huteh- inville," she said to herself with a thrill Of pride, and her fingers meanwhile flut- > . tered like humming-birds among the trimmings, touching here a flower and , tueir » lOGp. , " She was going to Hutcliinville the -' " tiext week, for the first time" since her . marriage, to spend a few days with her S l mother, and the bonnet had l>een se­ lected from Madame Le Grande's latest importations with a view to dazzling her fnral friends. :}j> "I only hope nothing will happen to it before I get there," was her thought ^ as she turned at last from the mirror. She even denied herself the pleasure ST* r ,of wearing it to church the next day, 1 * bearing a shower, for the skies were low- ering. To face her city acquaintances for one more Sunday in the bonnet that p:--;tnhe had already worn a whole season re- ^ quired far less strength of mind than to P> . take her seat in the little Hutcliinville .^•fchurcli, conscious that her bonnet, rob--: bed of its pristine freshness, was being -• pounced upon by every eye in the con- l- * gregation; but she could not resist p'utr C" ^ iing it on to let Jack see how lie liked it. ; "It's pretiv well up in the world." I-,, -£&id Jack, viewing it critically, with his bands behind him; but that seems to be £ - the fashion in headgear nowadays. And |\ really on your iiead my* dear, it looks ' Remarkably well." Mrs. Prindle preened for a moment j, , before the glass. She was almost - tempted to wear it, after all, but a warn- Vf > ing plash on the window kept her from yielding. . "I won't risk it," she said; and, put- ' ,V - the bonnet back in its nest, she _ - JBtood on tiptoe and pushed the bandbox Si|^|n place on the upper shelf of the ward- r^\ robe. • Hutchinville was a night's journey |g;Jby boatf and the next day proving stormy, Mrs. Prindle, in terror of sea- tickness, decided to defer her trip; but ith the waning of the afternoon the ind suddenly shifted, the clouds iarted, and the sun burst forth like a lonarch newly crowned. It was going be a fair night; it would be to 3 bad to isappoint her mother, who she knew « ; ould be looking, for her the next ; tnorning, and, ordering a carriage at the last moment, she hastily gathered UP l,er baggage and departed. W': , She was a methodical little woman, f-** end even for the short time that she ft?" *as ^ occupy her state-room she wanted ' _a place for everything and everything f|\ , in its placebut on boarding the boat met an invalid friend, who detained her for half an hour or more in the cabin, and before she could ar- .range her belongings in her state-room . ^be capricious wind had veered again. g< She stood for a momemt at the window • trying to persuade herself that there was no cause for uneasiness, but the "*a^u was already driving against the deck, and the increasing roughness soon compelled her to take refuge in her berth. * ' _ To all those on board who were pre- ' -^disposed to sea-sickness it was a night I?' WOe» an(i when the next morning Mrs. I ( Prindle took the stage for Hutchinville, the little village being about three miles inland, she was too exhausted to give a thought.to the baggage; even the precious bonnet had for the moment drifted out of her mind, and it was not until she alighted at her mother's door that the discovery was made that the baudbox was missing. With hasty greetings and equally served onlv loss*£^ght '"vSKhS- * ' « - % hasty directions as to where to find the • t i an. , ^ * - _ box, her brother Tom was dispatched I pho,uteil:, hot day, I tell you! on horseback to the boat, and in a dis­ turbed state of temper and nerves Mrs. fondle seated herself at the breakfast table. "I wouldn't worry about it, Pliebe," said her mother; "it'll be all right if you left it in the state-room." shortly came galloping back ' with the information that the state-room nad been searched in vain; not a box of any kind was to lie found. Tlien the maid must have taken it, It's yery strange,* atiffly. as the Captain he ^ the gatig*plank. "A^ bei couldn't have gone off without Somebcjdy must know "something about it isn't the maid it mtttl be passengers." She p&ssengers had left the '"rs. Prindle herself had to t to send a search warrant after tliem would be an unwarrantable proceeding. Beyond question the bon­ net was lost, and she returned to Hutcliinville feeling that the pleasure of her visit was already at an end. Even the fact that her traveling hat was a pretty aftair, and not at all out of style, afforded her little consolation. Still slee could have worn the travel­ ing hat in a more resigued state of mind had the weather been such as to make the other seem a trifle in advance of the season; but from the hour of her arrival Until she turned her face home­ ward scarcely a cloud marred the serene azure of the skies. The air was full of subtle hints of bursting buds, and robin songs filled the perfumed dawns, while up and down the streets from morning till night the merry children trundled their hoops, and high above the tree tops soared the inevitable kite ; but to Mrs. Prindle, bereft of her bonnet, these unmistakable signs of spring served onlv to intensify her sense of fas scarcely sorry when •mo for her to return to town, trilling in itself, took the of the velvet lawns. --:<s the dutful spouse that he had always proted himself to be, was at the landing to meet her next morn­ ing, and on the way home she poured into his sympathetic ears the story of the missing bonnet. fl "Yon are sure you took it with you?" he asked, when the recital was ended. "Jack! Of course I'm sure! You don't suppose I'd have gone off without it, after buying it oil purpose to wear it when at home "Hardly; but never mind, dear; all you have to do is to go to Madame Le Grande's and duplicate it," said Jack, eager to comfort her. "I may go to Madame Le Grande's and order another, but I shall not du­ plicate it," said Mrs. Prindle, with much dignity. "I've no wish to have my bonnet a companion piece for Mrs. Bates.' That woman ought to be brought to justice, and as soon as we're through breakfast, Jack, I want you to take a description of the bonnet to some detective and put him on the watch for her." Jack barely succeeded in suppressing a whistle. "Wouldn't it be better--" he began; but the stopping of the street-car in front of their own door served to change the subject. "I feel like a famished hunter," said Jack, as he turned the latchkey. Mrs. Prindle was hungry, too, and when .Tack had deposited her parcels she asked him to tell Bridget to put breakfast on the table at once. "I'll be down in a moment," she added, as she pulled out her hat-pins. Jack started to obey, but before he was half way down the stairs a cry from Mrs, Prindle caused him to face about, and on regaining their room he found her standing in front of the wardrobe gazing in a dazed way at the upper shelf. "Jack," she whispered hw.dkily, "is that a bundle up there?" Jack himself seemed a little dazed. "It looks very much like one, my dear," lie said, slowly, "but of course it is not the one you took away with you." "I'm--oh, I'm afraid it is. Jack!" gasped Phebe, as Jack* took down the box--"or rather I'm afraid I didn't take it after all. I remember now telling Bridget to put it in with the other things in the carriage--she had my bag and umbrella in her hand at the time-- and just then the door-bell rang, sol told her to go on and I'd bring the box, but I didn't think of it again till I was at the gate, and then Bridget came running out with it, or at least with something that I supposed to T)e it, and stowed it into the carriage; but now I think of it, it must have been the lunch- box. Oh, Jack, what a goose I've been!" "Moral," said Jack, taking the bon­ net frgm the bandbox and perching it on his own head. "Please don't, Jack," entreated Phebe. "Well, then, let's have breakfast," said Jack, hungry enough to be glad of a truce. But though the object, was not al­ luded to again that day, whenever Mrs. Prindle shows a disposition to be a little over-positive, Jack, with a mascu­ line memory for feminine short-comings, mildly reminds her of the lost bonnet. Didn't Catch His Meaning. A man was sitting on the third seat in an Allen street car yesterday when a short, fat man climbed abroad and at once began fanning himself with his hat. "Well, this is a hot day, ain't it?" said he, addressing his neighbor. "Begpardon?" said the first man. "I say, it's a pretty hot day!" re­ peated the short, fat man, raising his voice. The other put his hand to his ear and answered: "I didn't quite catch that; please repeat it." The little man's ears grew red as he ay, I and people in the back seats began to titter. I m a little deaf," responded the4(j{rst man. "If you will raise vour voice." Confound it, sir !* howled the little man, perspiring like a sponge. "I say it's hot! hot, I tell you! hot day! D'you hear that ?" . The other shook his head, and the little man, casting a look of wrath on him, alighted. Then the first man looked around on the passengers and WERE EARLY MOTTND - BTXIL1>- ERS OF THAT FAITH P Most Remarkable Work kf the Art of Prehistoric Americans -- Two Only That Are Similar Exist -- One of Which is Other in Scotland^ " • Mrs. Prindle declared ?Sfe WlTl! Clmcklea Usefully-Buffalo Courier. rumaeriner amono-tiiv l • t. ~T7~. ZTT. :---- rumaging among my things last night for my bottle of salts, and I daresay the bandbox took her eve." % ;MoIf likely ifc dipped overboard Ik'- ' :hr ",ey WelT ,rin*ing year traps ^ * ashore, remarked Tom, with a boy's repugnance to having people suspected. '! • i. Vi Prmdle, convinced that the ? bandbox was in the waiting maid's pos- session, insisted on going herself to see the Captain. The Captain, who had just risen fr&m breakfast wheu the carrv-all stopped at • the gate, listened to Mrs. Prindle's storv with courteous patience. Mrs. Bates i haxl been on the boat for thirteen vears he said, and he never had cause to sus­ pect her honesty; but he was willing to investigate the matter. It was possible that Mrs. Bates had taken the box to her own room simply for safe-keeping he suggested. ' But Mrs. Bates, who had just finished : putting in order the state-room Mrs. Prindle had occupied, denied all knowl- edge of the bandbox, aud was so indig­ nant over Mrs. Prindle's implied sus­ picion that the Captain had some difli- Imlty in preventing a scene. His Father's Aid. What's all this you're do- serpent woisbujti The tamtde of Vitei- liputzli ^ bnut of grcmt atones in the fashion of aiitiii tied together, and the circuit was called the circuit of snakes. The Mexicans kept live serpents as household gods in their private dwell­ ings. The Peruvians worshiped the Goddess Isis and represented her with two serpents at her side. There are irauy pretty stories of Ber pents in mythology. Northburg, the Christian daughter of a Pagan King, re­ fused to marry the man lier father had selected, because he adhered-to the wor­ ship of his fathers. She fled from her .... , XT.,, . /-v, • x xi angered father and sought refuge in a A letter from Hillsboro, Ohio, to the eftve a few miie8 d0W11 the river. But Cincinnati Enquirer says: Decidedly the Ki discovered her retreat, fol- one of the most remarkable Works of art (lowed and her to return. His of the prelustoiio inhabitants of this ftrgUments being unavailing, in his an- cotlntry exists m this county, about ger he 8eizetl del g the ^ Bixtv imles in a northeasterly direction and the member canie inJ bia hand. fr™ Cincinnati. The work is known | jn horror he returne(1 to the castle> as the Seipent Mound, and is regaided j leaving his pious daughter to her own by scientific men as indicating that at device. Scarce had he gone when a some remote period the Mound-builders j whitfi snake appeared, and, licking were serpent worshipers, a form ot yor-; Northburga's Uund, cured the saint! ship that in the early stages of religious enabling her to ™ fm-tl, and tirejich tha development spears everywhere. The mound is located on the farm of Mr. Lovett, about eighteen miles from this city. A drive through a beautiful val­ ley bordered by high hills, surmounted by excellent timber, brought the En­ quirer correspondent to the object of his search. The mound alone, with a hundred and fovty-a re tract surround­ ing it, has recently been purchased with money subscribed by the ladies of Boston, and presented to the Trustees enabling her to go forth and preach the gospel in the valley. There should l»e an effort made this coming winter to induce the Legislature to purchase Ft. Hill and Ft. Ancient, works similar in structure and by the same people who erected the Serpent Mound, so (that they may be preserved as antiquities of the country, to receive the same protection from tlie State that the Yellowstone Park does from the Gen­ eral Government, and to ba a Mecca for foreign tourists and scientists to make or me reaoouy *xuseum oi American ; piigrimage8 to jU8fc a3 Americans visit Archaeology and Kthnology, of which i tho Pyralids 'J Egypt> pompGy's PiUar Frof. F. \V. Putnam, of Harvard Col lege, is a Director. The undergrowth and timber have been entirely removed from the mound, and a wire lattice in­ closes the giant earth monster its entire length, while a cement walk enables the _ visitor to make a complete circuit of this j that ^ k„ow not of-ofTrelig- work of perhaps pre-Adamite age. Prof. fonlind rites th t haye , since ^ «n Putnam his wife and several ladies from burfed in the debrif, o{ the past-can be the hast are spending the summer here ^ in aU ^ convolutions £d ginuogi. engaged in tishmg, photographing and | ̂ jeg fossil collecting. ' Ar the an tiquities at Stonlienge, in Eng land, or the famous clock at Strasburg. Prof. Putnam contemplates the erec­ tion of an observatory near the mound, from the toy of whicli the huge earthen monster--a relic of bv-gone ages of The mound takes its name from its shape. It is not a rough piece of work, but bears evidence of distinct design and forethought. The convolutions and sinuosities of the giant earth ser­ pent are laid out with accuracy and care. earthen embankment of s rpent shape in symmetrical convolutions aud coils, the Stupidly Conservative Venezuelans. The native farmers of Venezuela plow with a crooked stick with one handle, just as the Egyptians did in the days of It is a work of art, and'is an ! Moses, and nothing can induce them to adopt the modern two-handled steel af­ fair. They simply can't do it, and thoy head extremity of which divides in the ' won't. General (xiizman-Blanco, who form of open jaws to inclose an egg-; always favorable to the iutroduc- shaped mound symbolical of an egg, ! ^°n °f . labyr-saving machinery and hicti is 60 by i'20 feet in width anil« methods, at one time attempted to en- lengtli. This egg shaped mound is hoi-! foi'ce the use of improved implements, low in the centre or excavated, and in- bub lie was^compelled to give it up as a closes a stone mound. The serpent mound itself measures along the dorsal olunm or curve from the head to the tips of the tail thirteen hundred md bad job. The productiveness of the re­ public might be enormously increased, as Guzman realized, by enabling one man to do the work of two, or six, or seventy-six feet, or more than a quarter i fcr the great drawback is scarcity of a mile, and in a straight line, leaving labor; but the peons are stubborn, out the convolutions, four hundred and moro stubborn than stupid, and will in- ninety-six feet. The embankment at "Pon d >ing everything just as their the thickest part of the body of the Others did, and their great grandfathers serpent is thirty feet iu widtli and fif- f°r that matter. It is the same spirit, teen feet high, forming a hemispherical f ^ie same resisten:?e to innovations, that section. In height the embankment J causes them to t-hip their coffee and rises from four to ten feet, gradua ly 811^1" upon the backs of donkeys instead tapering to a sharp, small point at the the railroad; that requires the pay- tail. A section across one or two point * j ment *for produce in coin inst ad of checks, and causes that coin to be hid­ den away tinder an old stump or a craok in the roof instead of being de­ posited in a bank to draw interest and increase the circulating medium. The workingmen, the mechanics, know nothing of labor-saving machin- of the embankment clearly shows itS interior construction. It was laid with a rock foundation of . sand-rock and ashes: the mound is bulit of clay, brought from a distance. On top of this lies from three to four inches of rich, black soil of the neighboring country, _ . _ being the product of decayine vegetable ! ery, All the timber and woodwork for matter since the mound was built. The j house-building is dressed by hand, situation of the mound is commanding There is not such a thing as a planing- and picturesque. It lies on a level! miM or a >cash factory in the whole ooun- plateau, at the top of a cliff of solid rock i *ry» and all the furniture and cabinet elevated one hundred feet high, and ! work is made the sa ne way. You will which borders on Brush Creek, a small; always find locks placed upon tho door- stream flowing at its base on the south. | casings aud the socket for the bolt Brown ing? Little Johnnie--Please, dad, teacher told me if I wanted to learn quickly I was to put down every word I didn't know and ask you what it meant. Brown--That's an excellent plan, my boy. Littje Johnnie--Well, dad, I have on this piece of paper 103 words marked down. Brown--Johnnie, go right upstairs to l>ed this moment.--Epoch. Hard to Get the Hang Of. "Father," said a farmer's boy stop- ping to rest a moment, "this dinged scythe don't hang right." ' • "I'll fix it fer ye," said the 9ld man, and he adjusted the handle. After a brief trial the young mail again found fault with it. "It don't hang right yet," he said. "Well, durn it all," remarked the old j man, ' hang it to suit yourself." i Then I guess I'll hang it in the barn an' go flshin'," said the yoatb. . . But Le didn't. On the other side the country is gradu­ ally rising, to a height from 600 to 800 feet. Near the tail of the serpent mound is a smaller one, supposed to have been symbolical of serpent eggs. Near one of the convolutions is the stump of a chestnut tree, four feet in diameter, and, according to forestry ex­ perts, can not be less than 500 years old. Long before this tree grew there the mound was erected and formed part of a system of worship. Yet even this an-, cient chestnut stump would carry the mound back to the days before Christo­ pher Columbus discovered America. This serpent mound has it-t counter­ part nowhere else in America. There are two similar mounds in Asia and one has been discovered in Scotland. The evidence of serpent worship hav- ing-been at one time ^prevalent over a large, if not the entire, portion of the inhabitable globe, have long been con­ sidered bv scientists as arguing a com­ mon religious form of belief, if not a common origin. The serpent was the god of knowledge, and taught men all the useful arts. Iu Eden it was a tempter more dreaded on account of its persuasive eloquence. Sinuous and graceful, wise and tender as the symbol ^Eeculapius, it healed and blessed men, and by its legitimate progeny, the dra­ gon, it cured and annihilated them. As an emblem of eternity it encircled the Brahmin idea of the universe. At the root of Ygg nasil, the world upheaving orb, in the Norse legends, it lies the enemy of the gods whom he shall sur­ vive. Even Bvan-Kee, the Chinese A clam, was assisted by a dragon in his mighty work of chiseling a world out of the-chaos in which he was born. The Persians were great serpent worshipers. The first principles were Ormazo Aher- nian, the good and evil deity whose con­ tention for the universe was represented by two serpents contending by the mun­ dane egg. They are standing upon their tails, and ea -li of them has fasten­ ed upon the object iu dispute with his teeth. The great Chinese dragon so conspicuous in every public and private edifice was the symbolical seipent of ancient mythology. The Chinese god "Fold lias the form of a man which ter­ minates in a tail of a snake, which is not only a proof of the early existence of serpent worship in China, but also shows that the dragon and the snake of Chinese mythology were cognate. The Egy ptians used the serpent in their religion as an emblem of divinity," a charm, an oracle and a god. Harpo- crates, an ancient god, was symbolized by a serpent. Cueph, who' was the architect of the universe, was represent­ ed as a serpent with an egg in his mouth. The egg denoted mundane elements as proceeding from him. There are trace of serpent wor­ ship among the Greeks. Miner­ va is sometimes represented with a dragon, and holding a staff, around which a serpent coils. In the Acropolis at Athens a live serpent was kept who was considered the guardian of the place. The incarnation of deity in a serpent was not an uncommon event iu Grecian mytho'ogy. Olympias, Nico- letea and Aristodainia, the mothers of Alexander. Arisvoinenes and Aratus by some god who had changed himself into the form of a serpent. Jupiter himself changed himself into a dragon to reduce Proserpine. Every feature in the re­ ligion of the new world discovered by Cortez and Pizarro indicates an origin common to the superstitions of Egypt and Asia. The same solar worship, the flame pyramidal monuments, the same screwed upon the door, and the locks are invariably upside down. When you .call attention to it you are told that it is the custom of the country. When a house is being erected, whether it is one story or two, the solid walls are first laised to their full height, and then holes are chiseled out to admit the ends of the rafters and timbers for the floors. It never occurs to the builder that an easier way would be to set the timbers in the walls as he lays the bricks.--[Chicago News, The Speed of Fishes. The speed of fishes is almost an un­ known quantity, beiug, as Professor G. Brown Goode, of the United States fish commission, says, very difficult to measure. "If you could get a fish," says Professor Goode, to a Washington Post reporter, "and put him in a trough of water 1,000 feet long and start him at one end and make him swim to the other without stopping, the information could be easily obtained, but fish are unintelligent and they won't do this. Estimates of the speed of fish conse­ quently are only approximated, and more or less founded on guessing. Yon can te'l, however, at a glance whether a fish is built for speed or not. A fast fish looks trim and pointed, like a yacht. Its head is conical shaped, and its fins fit down close to its bodv, like a knife-blade to its handle. Fish with large heads, bigger than their bodies, and with short, stubby fins are, of course, built for slow motion." "What are the fastest fishes?" "The predatory fish, those which live on prey, are the fastest swimmers. The food fishes are generally among the slowest and are consequently easily captured. Their loss is recompensed, however, by the natural law which makes them very prolific in reproduc­ tion. Dolphins have been known to swim around an ocean steamer, and it is quite safe to say Chat their speed is twenty miles an hour, but it inay be twice as much. The bonito is a fast swimming fish. Just what its speed is I do not know. The head of the goose fish is very large --twenty times as big as its body. It moves about very little, and swims about at the bottom of the ocean. The Spanish mackerel is one of the fastest of the food fishes. Its body is cone shaped aud as smooth as bur­ nished metal. Its speed is as match­ less as the dolphin, and in motion it cuts the water like a yacht." A Cure for Hydrophobia. Mr. Charley Reynolds tells us that he knows of two men who were bitten by mad dogs in this county, and that they both recovered. The treatment was to give them a strong tea, made of sweet milk and green jentian. The tea is to be drank freely for nine days after the bite. One of the men alluded to above was Mr. Giles Jennings, who died a few years ago at the advanced age of seventy. He was bit \vhen a young boy.--Athens (Ga.) Chronicle. Sons Are Good Collateral in China. . . i s t t v - r ;<•. .A--"' •> "'*%> pftyu ̂ •»*_ J3i ,* S&M®.. . In China one can always borrow money on the strength of having a son, but nobody would advance him a cent if he had a dozen daughters. The former is responsible for the debt of his father for three generations. The latter is only responsible for the debt of iter own husband. . GKIA?> MiftT ON THE SNOW- MOUNTAINS OF :<V %&'•> * y - The Edible and Interesting Sword- *. fish. Swordfish meat is firm and its flavor superior to that of the lial but, and it is entirely fresh and above reproach. It is a mystery that New York should so fail to appreciate a good thing. The coming of the swordt'sli is always an in­ teresting fact, with no little mystery about it, too. They are not here and then they are here. Nobody knows where they come from and no one ever saw a young one on the American coast. They are raised in the Mediterranean sea, and the old folks, leaving the little ones behind, spend their summers along our shore, and chiefly about Block Island. It takes a pretty smart fish to lay his course from Gibraltar to Block Island every year without fail, and the movements and migiationsof the sword- fish are a noteworthy illustration of the strange and clever ways of fishes.-- Hartford (Conn.) Courant * • '-- How Wild dheep and Goats Are fol­ lowed on the Dizzy Crags--A Won­ derful I»ong-I>i«tance Shot* , '*What kind of sport do I enj^tisfc? Well, outside of hunting for grizzly or polar bears, or buffaloes, when you have lots f them to kill, there is no more ex- 'liilarating S|;ort now to be had than go­ ing after wild sheep and goats," *aid William Kennedy, of L&esburg, Idaho, to a San Francisco Examiner reporter. "The heights of the Bitter Root Mountains are now covered with snow, and thene are plenty of big horn and white wild goats up there. Every win-, ter we go up there and have a hunt. It is no trouble to get this kind of game, especially tho goata. The big horn are a little harder to get and require more skill. - "These are the things you read about in your early school-books, that, like the chamofs, leap from lofty heights and light on their heads; not damaged in the least, by reason of the great horns they have. These mountain sheep weigh from 300 to 350 pounds each. They are strong, stalwart fel­ lows, and well muscled, and their necks, though long, are earned well up over their forelegs, so that the perpendicular from their ponderous horns is well pre­ served. The horns themselves, with the head, weigh from 50 to 75 pounds. The female is smaller than the male, and has smaller horns, resembling those of the goat. This is the animal kuown by naturalists as the orvis mo atari a, and it is only found in the Bitter Eoot Moun­ tains, in Bearshed County, Mont., and in th same range of mountains over in Idaho. last winter I shot and killed ten of these big horns. They are splendid eating, tasting something like venison. We ascend the Black Fork of the Sal­ mon River and it is right on the very top of the mountains that you find the big horn and the mountain goats so numerous. "The goat iB the apolceros montanus zoology. It has jet-black, polished, slender horns, much liko the chamois, and is clothed with long, white hair. It has-also a tolerably long, bushy white tail and beard. These goats are exceed­ ingly active and if they see tho hunter before he sees them they will elude him, and it is pretty neariy impossible to find them. Being white, they are hard to see in the snow, and the only way to do is to keep a keen watch out for tiieir horns. They roam iu bands of from ten to twenty, while not often more than three of the sheep are found together. The goat meat is very much like mut­ ton. "I am an old resident of Leesburg, which is just up from the Gibbon Val­ ley. For years paat whenever the snow gets verr deep in the Bitter Root Moun­ tains, the big horn sheep and • goats come down to feed. It is at such times that we have made our biggest hauls. Going after them in the mountains one is obliged to wear snowslioes. We usu­ ally take two kinds--the web-foot ones in going up and the Norwegian, or long- runner shoes in coming down. The only way to kill this kind of game is to watch your chance. Hounds are of no avail. You can't bring anything to your assistance, but must depend alone on your individual skill. A light step, keen eye aud as good a iong-innge ritie as can be had are the essentials. "I went hunting for goats and sheep the last of October. Far up on a crag on the side of old Mount Williams I saw what appeared to be a little white speck, coveted by two straight, short lines of black. I knew it was a goat, but he was so far away on his dizzy eyrrie in the sky that I was afraid I would miss him. I had a magnificent 38-calibre Henry rifle, however, and I took as careful aim as possible. The two dark lines, follow­ ed by a fleecy body, which showed against a blue cloud, turned a double somersault, it seemed, fifty feet out from the crag, and shot down into the gorge almost one thousaud feet below. I had a wearisome trip getting down into the canyon. I had to dodge fallen trees and rocks and avoid deep ravines, but finally I got there, and he was <as dead as a mackerel. I had made a centre shot, and taken him through the heart. I got four goats that trip, all of them very fine ones. John Kincaid and Tom Wilson, of Salmon City, who were with me, also ^ot five or six goats and three mountain sheep. We could not begin to pack the meat down, of course, so we merely took the hams and other choice parts, besides the skins. "Both tlie big horn and goat skins make very fine robes. They are used in that part of Idaho-a great deal. Spread gn the floor they make a room exceed­ ingly warm and comfortable. "A number of English sportsmen have come in over the Northern Pacific Road and spent a good deal of time the Bitter Root Mountains during the past two or three winters. They have lulled a great deal of game, but there is plenty of it there yet. The biggest wild animal there is the elk. The elk we have up there are as large as oxen. Aside from these in the Saskatchewan country, they have no peers on the con­ tinent. As to small game, like timber wolves, coyotes, foxes, beaver and sable, the mountain regions of Idaho are pretty well filled. The country is not settling lip fast enough in such locali­ ties as to make tho game timid. "There are many men in the Hitter Root and Sawtooth Mountains who make hunting and trapping a business, and they make go~d money out of it. They market their meat and skins at Halley and Ketchum principally, but spend most of tlie winter in the wild regions of the mountains, where they have erected < abins, and are well situ­ ated for a long camping." - CABJMLB»e BUT bvommf: *. Iwtaaoes in Which !Lost Property Has Been Recovered. Hie carelessness which many men dis- |»Jay in the handling of large sums of money seems somewhat surprising, but that a special providence often guards the careless man is shown in the .follow­ ing authentic anecdotes collected by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat: The paymaster of a large railroad company, having its headquarters in Boston, went out on one occasion with $30,000 to pay off its employees. The money was carried under his aim, wrapped up in an old newspaper. He stopped at a little wayside eating- house for dinner, and on going away, iu a fit of absent-mindedness, left* the money lying on a chair. He had not fjone many miles from the place before le missed it, and his dismay on dis­ covering its loss can well be imagined. Almost despairing of recovering the package left in so public a place, he hurried back, and, with trembling voice, asked the woman in charge if she had seen the parcel. " There's a piece of paper on the chair beyant," she said, "perhaps that's it," which it proved to be, and the gentle­ man returned a happier and a wiser man. Another man in the same city lost a roll of bills amounting to $10,000, which, also, was wrapped up in a news­ paper. He told a friend of nis loss, and the friend made him describe all the ground he had been over since he had the money. The last place mentioned was the post-office. The night was wet overhead and slushy under foot. They visited the post-oflice and, going to the spot where the man had been standing, they found two or three torn bits of newspaper. It was the same. They looked further and at last found tlie lost treasure. It had been kicked in turn by every one who came into the office, and when found was untied and com- pletety soaked with water. It was all there, however, and the friends returned to their hotel and spent several hours in cleaning and drying it. The gentleman was so grateful for the sensible advice which had saved him from the serious loss that he took out his friend aud bought him the handsomest gold watch- chain that he could find in the city. A still more remarkable incident is re­ lated of the finding of $130,COO, lost by M. Pages ig the Northern Railway Sta­ tion in Paris some ten years ago. As one Ezelot, a French soldier, was walk­ ing with two comrades through the sta­ tion, they noticed on the floor a small package wrapped in a newspaper. They kicked it along before them for some distance, and when Ezelot was getting into the train, going home on short leave, one of his comrades, picking up the package, tlirust it into the canvas forage bag slung at his side, Ezelot going on his way without having per­ ceived the little pleasantry. Arriving at Neuilly, where his parents lived, Ezelot's mother, emptying the forage- bag, discovered the bundle, but think­ ing it a roll of old newspapers put it on a table in the kitchen. There it re­ mained for four or five days, till a mar-, ried sister, calling in and seeing the package, was moved by an unwonted curiosity. Opening it she discovered documents representing the £26,000, the loss of which M. Pages had adver­ tised throughout Europe. The soldier and his parents, however, had not seen the advertisement, and not knowing what else to do, had recourso to the Maim That functionary, communicat­ ing with Paris, speedily brought down M. Pages, wlio, gladly paying the Eromised reward of £1,000, went off with keasiire. . . . Deadly A^row Polaoxt. '• Oldest Summer Resort. Few of the thousands who enjoy the rest or excitement of the great American summer resorts are aware that up among the Jersey mountains, near Schooley'B Mountain, is the oldest "resort" of all. The old Heath 'House, built in 1793, is one of the first establishments of its kind erected in the country. Genera) Washington slept in it while President, and his room is just as he left it, all of the old furniture and fixtures having been jealously guarded by the several proprietors. In the early years of the present centuiy Saratoga Avas the only rival of Schooley's ^fountain, and the two resorts vied with each other in point of excitement and entertainment. Each boasted of its springs, and each at­ tracted the best people of America, but "the mouutain, as it was commonly called, was nearer the great cities, and the stages from Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York carried more passengers through the German Valley and up the beautiful ravine of Schooley's Creek than ever journeyed to Saratoga. For seventy years the old plaoe led the watering places of the country, but although it is still healthful, beautiful and lively, it has been comparativaly lost in tlie growth of great resorts in every corner of the country. The original Heath House, now called the Alpha, is still standing, besides other "Heath Houses," each a generation or so younger than its neighbor. The present hotel was built forty years ago. Kcliooley's Mountain is a broad plateau twelve hundred feet above the sea level, aud overlooking the valley of the Mus- conetcong on tlie north aud the German Valley on the south. Its iron springs, for which it has always been famous, are on tho side of the mountain from Hackettstowii. The Chalybeate Spring is the largest. A beautifal summer house surrounds and covers it. The waters are peculiarly heaHhful, a fact discovered by the Nariticoiig Indians long before the builders of the Heath House were born.--|New York Timeo. A Christian Tribe in Central Africa. A letter has been received by the Paris Geographical Society announcing that Count Teleki, who, a while ago, discov­ ered the big lake Basso-Narok in East Central Africa, had found a Christian tribe to the north of this lake. They live about 300 miles southwest of Ab­ yssinia. No white man or native mis­ sionary has ever been among them, so far as they know, and County Teleki is the first to give any information about them. He believes that at some distant period in the past they have had rela­ tions with the Christian Abyssinians. About 800 years ago a princess of tlie Jewish faith drove out the reigning dynasty in Northern Abyssinia, ayd for a century the Christians were bitterly persecuted. It is thought probable that during this era some Abyssinian families esoaped to the south and founded Chris­ tian colonies, from whom Mjrung the Christian natives whom Teleki has found surrounded on all sides by pagan­ ism. Their religion is a very debased form of Christian ly, but considerable New Testament history has been haudea down to them in tradition^, and they have a priesthood, the cross, and other emblems of Christianity, Host of the arrow poisons of AlM«*,-4 hitherto known have been of vegetable*,;,. 7^ 'origin, indeed, all the famous poisons are of this nature. Mr. H. M. Staniev- has added one poison to the list whictrT" ; . does not appear to be a product of tlie" I vegetable kingdom. In the Lower Con--. ^ , go district Mr. Stanley's force was as- ^ sailed by a tribe of dwarfs, who used,., poisoned arrows. Five members of thef*'*•„ expedition were hit by these an-ows, ' t four (black men) dyiug very shortly'...;' after, their sufferings having* been iii- -- .. tense. The fifth man, Lieutenant Stairs,: j had a narrow escape. The poison of - O the arrow which hit him had been dry, and so he did not experience the full ' toxicity of the barb. It was afterwards " fouud that the poison is manufactured /frqjn the dried bodies of, red ants, or pismli'es, ground into powder, cooked in palm oil and smeared over tho wooden points of the arrows. What ia the nature ol the poison whioh causes death? The Lancet says it is formic acid, whioh exists in the free state in red ants, and is in the pure state so cor­ rosive, that it produces blisters on tho skin. Hence there ia little ground, says our contemporary, for doubting that itfc ' was the "deadly irritant by which soj^', ; many men had been lost with such ter-iTi -*?;• ribie suffering." The multitude of. f curious insects encountered, which ren-" *- ;4<,j dered their lives "as miserable as they < . could well be," bears out Mr. Stanley'^ ;V idea, that many similar poisons coulttrJ </ be- prepared from insects. It certainly is strange that, with the exception of,,, , cantharides, and perhaps of blafcta ori-, - • ' t entalis, the insect world is so little usett^ for active therapeutics. Not forgetting" the fact that homoeopaths have long had" ' that respect for the insect kingdom5 , which the Lancet desires, we may men­ tion that ptomaines as a source of toxicity are more likely than formic acid to have produced the paralytic symptoms which were exhibited by" the dying men.--[New England Druggist. The Corean Embassy Enjoys Itself. The Coreans certainly appear to .en- i joy life in Washington to the full, and , they seem determined to "catch on" with all the latest fads and amusements of the day. At a handsome billiard table in their commodious mausion in Iowa Circle they hugely enjoy their iuitiation into the recondite mysteries of the "carom," while on hoi summer evenings rece itly they were seen strol­ ling in the garden, nay, even sitting on the front door-steps in approved Wash­ ington style, and taking a kindly inter­ est in the various babies of the neigh­ borhood whose mammas, and nurses passed with them along the sidewalk. The Coreans, moreover, appeal- to have ' become passionately fond of tho intri­ cate and mysterious game of croquet, for they have had an adjoining vacant lot fenced in, which makes an excellent crequet ground. Here the gentlemen of the legation, with their wives, used to play during the early summer with great enjoyment; and even upon occa­ sion, v.'oyl'l greet a lucky hit with hearty laughter and loud cries of " JJ e-t li-e- r g-o!" "G-o-o-d s-h-o-l!" "L-eth-e-r w-e-u-t!"and like expressions so dear to the American heart, while their pecu­ liar patriotic methods of resting upon their mallets--somewhat after the seden­ tary manner of the " tailors of Tooley street"--merely added a rare Eastern flavor to the kindly scene. Possibly it is this genial bonhomie which has led the members of the Chinese Embassy ' to. abate sAmewliat of the hauteur born of claims io suzerainty, and to call often on the legation in Iowa Cirole. In any case our Corean visitors have evidently?!^ some counterpart in their " Celestial "i|^ language for the old proverb : " Wheu'":'" you are in Rome do as the Romans do." --[New York Tribune. Two of "Old Hickory's" Slaves. Two of General Jackson's old slaves are still living at the Hermifhge. One is "old Alfred," who has convinced himself, aud would like to convince all who visit the place, that he was the body servant of his master. The truth of history compels the statement that this is a figment of his imagination. Hannah's claims are, however, beyond «»!! doubt or controversy. They rest on the solid foundation of fact. She 'vs.s r. trusted, confidential household servant long before General Jackson became President, and it was in her arms that Mrs. Jacksou died in 1828, Her age is at least ninety-five. When James Par- ton visited the Hermitage, about 1860, he was struok by the great number of vigorous old people whom he met, and this sentence occurs in his "Life of Jackson" : " Old Hannah, for example, whose care of the children at the Her­ mitage Jackson extols, ia now sixty- seven years of age, and she appears to be still in the very prime of her vigor. She strode about the Hermitage with us on a chilly, wet day in February, bare­ headed, with a spring in her step that belongs to thirty-five. When informed of her age I stared incredulous," Nine- and-twenty anniversaries of that chilly, wet morning in February have come and gone and Hannah, says Mrs. Dorris, "is so well preserved to day as to lead to doubts as to her age, and is as bright, animated and spry as a woman of forty, and much more so than many of that age." " I'se a sassy nigger, I is, and I be­ longed to a sassy white man," is the way she puts it. To observe her drop one of her old fashioned curtsies ia worth going miles to see. *' How old are you, Aunt Hannah f" "I'se ninety-five yean old, an' ef you don't Relieve it, jes you go up here and look at Jeemes K. Polk's tomb, an' I'se jes one year older den he is."-- York World. / • A Strange Place fer a ^omlf. The death of Signor Bottesini, the great double-bass player, gives rise to many interesting reminiscences. In one curious incident of his life, Count Bac, ciocchi, Master of Ceremonies to Napo­ leon III. was concerned. Bottesini had been commanded to play at the Tuiler- ies, and in the antechamber he was ao- costed by the Count with the astonish­ ing inquiry whether his double bass was "empty or full." It was not until the Court functionary had made a minute inspection of the instrument that the explanation was afforded, Tlie Oisini attempt to blow up the Emperor with a bonify it seems, had scared the officials, though how an explosive could have been smuggled into a contra basso is not quite clear.---[New York Tribune, Why He Retired Prematurely,, ., If was the ah ent-minded man who said: "I went home and lighted my candle, but before going to bed I thought I would smoke a cigar, I look­ ed everywhere for a match, but as I could not find one I b'cw out my candle and went to bed," Why didn't youtake p a light from the candle t" was the query, 4 ^'irVi'-i*. sr.if. t'C ..-JL-Vtl..t.A... >.,/ ...