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Morrison's unconscious comment. "If you demand officially to know what my business is, I don't mind telling' yoij that I am a United States detective on the trail of a band of murderers. I have rounded four of them up here in Clin- "ton, and am ready to put them in jail. I will have all the others within a week if you don't expose my mission here." By this time Morrison's face was aflame and his eyes had in them that unmistakable glare of insanity. I-Iis splendid form was aquiver with excite­ ment, which increased as he warmed, np to his subject. Judge McBeth was quick to set aside the verdict of the jury and hastily adjourn court. Morri­ son retired to his office and locked him­ self in. That night he left Clinton as quietly and unostentatiously as he had" entered it two years before. Nothing has-been seen or heard of him since. That afternoon Dr. Britz told a crowd in the drug store of how a few months previously he had examined Morrison and discovered his insanity by asking him the very question which, when put by Judge McBeth, had set the strange young doctor off on his hobby. And to this day the old citizens of Clinton who remember Mowyison are still wondering how it was that he, be­ ing insane, exercised such a remarkable power over the minds of the jurors with whom, he served. Some of them think that despite this insanity he was a hyp­ notist. .. : . •; . ' Sarah Grand has named lier forth­ coming novel. "The Beth Book"--which is not especially propitious. Miss Charlotte M. Yonge is publish­ ing through Messrs. Macmillan a vol­ ume which conveys its scope in the title "Cameos from English History." In regard to the enormous sums paid authors nowadays it has been aptly said that if Hall Caine's "The Chris­ tian" is worth $50,000--the sum paid him--then Thackeray's "Vanity Pair" was really worth $1,000,000. The German edition of Edward Bel­ lamy's "Equality" is to be followed shortly by an Italian edition. The pub­ lisher of "Equality" in Italy will be Remo Sandron of Palermo. Although "the book was published only recently, it is now appearing in four countries and three languages. The London Literary World verifies the spelling "Naulaklia" (instead of Naulahka," as it appears In Mr. Kip­ ling's book), by saying, "the name mere­ ly means 'of the value of nine laklis,! and wits applied to the necklace which figures in the story: as we should say, •The ninety-thousand pounder." Mr. John L. Stoddard, the popular lecturer on foreign lands, has retired from the platforn^ on account of ill health. All of the lectures he has de­ livered, together with several new ones, will be published in a series of ten volumes, containing 3,400 illustrations. The first volume is to appear in Octo­ ber. Richard Harding Davis' "Soldiers of Fortune" has gone into its fiftieth thou­ sand; so has James Lane Allen's "Choir Invisible"--two stories which have al­ most nothing in common, save the fact that they are the work of young Amer­ ican writers. Mr. Davis was in En­ gland when his book made its great success there and here. Mr. Allen is about to go abroad (if he has not al­ ready started), and will find a cordial welcome awaiting him; for the English press has lauded his work as highly as the papers in this country. Dr. Weir Mitchell, whose novel "Hugh Wynne" proved to be one of the most successful serials the Century has printed, lias written another novel that will appear in this magazine dur­ ing the coming year. It Is called "The Adventures of Francois.; Foundling. Adventurer, Juggler, Fencing Master and Servant During the French Revo­ lution." The scene pf the story shifts from Paris to the provinces and back again, following the wanderings of the eccentric hero,. ...who participates in many of the thrilling scenes of the revolution. Andre Castalgne will illus­ trate the novel.1 twelve dressmakers is always at work for the Eriipress, and that' it is in­ creased lo over thirty whenever the Empress is about to start on a journey. New gowns would, after all, be less ex­ pensive, since the'great Berlin artist in dresses who makes the court costumes for her majesty charges only about $75 for making a gown of state. Mother of a Novelist. There died in Rome recently Louisa Ward, wife of Luther Terry, in her 75th year. This simple announcement suggests .nothing unless the reader al­ ready knows she was the mother of Marion Crawford. Not only was Mrs. Terry the mother of the well-known novelist, whose father, her first hus­ band, was Thomas Crawford, th<* sculptor, but she was the sister of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, who is now the Only, surviving daughter of a wealthy New York banker.named Ward. When Mrs. Terry and her two sisters were young girls at home they were known to their admirers as the three graces. They were not only beautiful but clever and cultivated, >v Ugly on the Wheel. . As a rule American women are pre­ pared. to blindly follow French styles, but most of them hope the day is far distant when they are likely to see their daughters and themselves ar­ rayed in the unsightly plaited bicycle bloomers to be seen daily on the Paris boulevards. They accentuate all the ungraceful lines and the prettiest wo­ men look ugly in them. The riders in Paris bend forward at a sharper angle tlftin they do here and this alone ren­ ders them ungraceful. It is a matter of wonder that French women are so unattractive on the wheel, as feminine France has always stood for charm atid style. For the Nursery. The newest convenience for the baby's boudoir is a big-bowled, long- handled spoon of yellow wood. The bowl is a painting of a scene from the land of faries or nursery ditties. The classic cow performing her aerial feat, Simple Simon, Little Boy Blue, Little Nan Etticoat and other familiar per­ sonages ornament the bowl, whose curling edges make a frame for the gay little figures. All along the handle of the spoon are placed brass hooks, and when it is fastened to the wall by a larger and more solid hook placed at the back it makes an ornamental and very useful little rack for Mie children's clothes. The Smelling Salts Expression. MADE THE BURGLARS FLEE AS trophies of.her recent desper­ate encounter with a burglar, Miss Ellen Zorn. of New Buffalo, Mich., treasures a sandbag and a set of false whiskers. The marauder got away, but Miss Zorn has photographed on her mind a good picture of the fel­ low, and hopes to see the original ere long. She is the daughter of John Zorn. a well-to-do and respected German citi­ zen who resides a short distance out­ side of New Buffalo. Miss Zorn is 24 CLINTON'S MYSTERIOUS ...JUROR-DOCTOR.... BIG ANTS USED IN SURGERY. How Indians in Deep Brazilian Forests Sew Up a Wound. Down in the Brazilian forests sur­ geons are not always at hand and hos­ pitals • fitted with modern surgical ap­ pliances are few and far between. But these facts do not bother the Brazilian Indian. For centuries he has known how to take care of himself, how to treat wounds and cuts and distempers without medical or surgical aid, and one of the most novel of these rude sur­ gical customs is that of sewing up wounds with the aid of ants. Septicaemia and pyaemia have been banished from the world of surgery in civilization almost entirely by the pro­ gress made in antiseptic methods and the introduction of anaesthetics in sur­ gery ha!s made possible operations which fifty years ago would not be dreamed of. But no surgeon, even of the most advanced school, left to him­ self in a Brazilian forest without in­ struments or appliances of any kind could care for a cut-as neatly as do the. Indians. The means employed is a species of very large ant, which is fur­ nished with very powerful mandibles, capable of biting through almost any­ thing. The insect has no sting and no swelling or other painful results follow its bite. Its lower lip is a strange joint­ ed organ, which the ant has the power of projecting far beyond the upper lip on occasion. At its extremity it has a pair of powerful forceps with which it can grasp and hold tenaciously small objects and nothing not encased in met­ al can resist their strength. When the Indian receives a cut or wound from a knife or a thorn he pro­ ceeds to catch a number of these ants. Holding the lips of the wound close to­ gether, he applies the mouth of an ant to the edges and the insect at once bites through and holds on. Then the body of the ant is pinched dff at the neck and the jaws remain fixed. Another and another ant is placed in position until there is a row of jaws along the wound, holding it firmly shut, and when it is healed the jaws are removed with a forceps or other instrument. This style of surgery is strictly antiseptic, since there are no evil after effects from the ants' jaws, and the bite itself does not cause any inconvenience, although the pain must be considerable at first.-- Chicago Chronicle. Electrical Power in America. John Bogart, one of the American engineers connected with the work of completing the Niagara Falls electrical power works, gives to the Pall Mall Gazette of London some interesting facts in regard to electrical power in America. The Niagara company fur­ nishes an electrical horse-power of 15,- 000 with a cpacity for 40,000, and pos­ sibilities of increasing to any extent needed. The works cost $9,000,000, it having been necessary to construct a tunnel 7,000 feet long at a considera­ ble depth and through solid rock. Of the utility of the work the fact that Buffalo and Niagara City are supplied at the rate of $20 per liorse-power per annum, while in some cases nearly $100 per horse-power has been paid, is sufficient evidence. Next to the electri­ cal works at Niagara are those at Sault Ste. Marie, and according to Mr. Bogart the greatest of all are in construction about sixty miles from Montreal, near the town of Massena, N. Y., close to the St. Lawrence River. The power will be obtained from a fall of forty feet between the southern branch of the St. Lawrence River and a small placid stream known as Grass River. A canal of a little more than three miles in length is in process of con­ struction and when the works are completed a total of 7.^,000 electrical horse-power can be furnished. It seems a pity that the attention of engineers had not sooner been directed to this point on the St. Lawrence, as in that case probably the vicinity of Niagara Falls would not have been given over to manufacturing and thus become a great industrial center, as it will in\ the not distant future. MISS KLLES ZOIJX years old, of slight build and full of courage. She was sleeping alone in the lower part of the house, when she was awakened, by a noise upstairs. She quickly arose, and on opening the door of the room from whence the noise, seemed to come ran plump into the arms of a big, black-bearded man. The fellow aimed a blow, at her with a sand­ bag, but she dodged and -closed with him. Her first grab, woman-like, per­ haps, was for his beard, which came away in her hand. The man struck at her repeatedly, but she escaped serious injury. Meantime she had seized his throat" in one hand and the sandbag with the other, choking him so he could hardly breathe. Then he dropped the sandbag, which she seized and pro­ ceeded to use vigorously on the unwel­ come visitor. Upon this he jumped from a window and escaped. No Opening.for Women. Mrs. Emily Crawford, the well- known Paris correspondent of the Lon­ don Daily News, says that there is no opening at all for women journalists in Paris. "The manners of the country," she says, "are entirely against it. The French press is at present in the hands of a rough, pushing, scrambling set of men, who guard their own rights most jealously against any intrusion of wo­ men. If a girl tried to force her way into a Paris newspaper office she would meet with scant courtesy and would be looked upon as an interloper who deserved no mercy." SOME RECENT INVENTIONS. Bernhardt's Hair. Sarah Bernhardt'^ hair is naturally of a dark brown and is far from luxuri­ ant. It is, however, stiff and eriukly and now that it is bleached a reddish- gold is picturesque and pretty; this golden aureole, which frames the great actress' face, is exceedingly be­ coming, and she did well to refuse to accept the indifferent color conferred on her by nature. Keep Accounts. Keeping household accounts is an af­ fair, if not a necessity, still of the greatest wisdom, says an exchange. In comparison with the small amount of time and labor which the doing so em­ ploys the satisfaction of knowing at the end accounts which will show at once where expenses can be lessened is entitled to respectful consideration. Wears Masculine Garb. Mine. Dieulafoy, the famous traveler and archaeologist, is one of the two or three women to whom the French Gov­ ernment has grr.ntcd permission to weir masculine garb. She is always as correctly dressed as a London swell, and she and her husband patronize the sailt; tailor. ,. His Real Worth. The spirit of thrift which pervades, or used to pervade, New England, is amusingly illustrated in a remark once made by a Vermont farmer. He had been seriously ill in mid­ summer, but his strong constitution stood him in good stead and he quickly rallied. On being asked in the autumn how he was feeling, he said cheerfully: "Oh, I'm fair to middling now, thank ye; but anyway it don't make so much difference, seeing the farm's pretty well slicked up. If I'd 'a' died in hay­ ing or harvesting time, it would have been full fifty dollars' damage to me." Then, after a thoughtful interval, lie added: "Come to think of it, that's too low a figger--sixty dollars would be nearer!" • It Is the Same Thing. Jaggs--Gimme a loaded acrobat. Barkeep--Wot's dat? Jaggs--Tumbler full of whisky. When a man has a reputation for. wisdom lie'can say foolish things and his friends applaud them as .sarcasm. Some people are high livers simply because they can't Afford to pay the ground-floor rents. 1 *