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For an hour and a quarter a mine engineer near Bourne. 0r., was whirl- ed around with the fly wheel. into which he had fallen. but when he re- covered consciousness after the wheel was stopped. it was found that he was not seriously hurt. [The wheel was a. flfoot one. and was making 125 re- volutions a. minute. Gentle shepherds of the olden sort are not likely to iDSpire future poets of Montana. At White Sulphur Springs a big ranchman has been ex- perimenting with a bicycle for use in sheepherding and he pronOunces it Ouch a success that, he believes the Wheel \_Vill soon be in deran for that On the floor of a private dining room in a Minneapolis restaurant a waiter found a 8100 bill one night. The next day the prOprietor of the place was called to the long-distance telephone and a man told him of having lost a .100 bill. The waiter who found the money identified the man by his voice. kind of work. An Indiana professor who took out 3 83.500 insurance policy in 1850 re- ceived an offer from the company 20 years ago. to cash the policy for $2,000 or pay him an annuity of .410. He el- ected to take the annuity. and now. at the age of 90 years. has drawn from the company more than 38.000. It is said in Virginia that the maple of Kansas believe that the Confederate notes ought still to be good money, and are willing to make them gool b accepting them, and it is told that a least one Kansan has written the Richmond Chief of Police asking for all of them that he can get. A rape with a loop in the free end left dangling over the street from a telephone wire in Easton. Md.. caught e button on a marriage which was being driven up the street and. wrenching the t0p from the vehicle. threw out a woman who was riding in it. She was severely infired and died in the house to which a was taken. According to the experience of a H‘Opeka clergyman peoyle out there will pay more to be married than they will to hear the GOSPCI preached. He says he makes more by performing marriage ceremonies than he does by preaching. There is one Tennesseean. anyway. who will not practice the habit of bold- lng a toothpick in his mouth any more. ‘ A sneeze caused him to swallow one the 1 other day and he is considerably exer- cised over its whereabouts and possible Mfects. m not good to him in allowing his nogroan to go free. he said. and he vow- pd never to put foot on the Lord's earth mip. Such is the atorq told in con- motion with a report 0'! a mule 85-1â€"1! and“ by hiyden at his home. Of an Operation commonly looked upâ€" on with more resignation in this world of wickedness and small woes. a Missis- slpgi paper says: “Some fiend incar- n: e. with the roaring furnaces of hell Ocarina him in the face. entered the resilience of John Jones Sunday night 5nd stole the Presbyterian Sunday school collection." 1%. J. “'hite. of Bernidji. a. pioneer trapper and hunter. of Minnesota. stakes his reputation on the prediction of a cold winter. He says. the wild onimall. deer particularly. have. espe- cially thick coats this year. and. that the muakrats are building their houses high and with thick wallsâ€"signs which. he says. have never failed within his Otperiom‘e. Basil Hayden. who as a Confederate Ioldier. has lived in good health in his house at Bloomfield. Ky., since 1863. end not once in all thbt time has he get his foot on ‘the groom.“ The Lord a new stock for a brown and durable paint. The mud. when subjevlerl. to an evaporating process. burdens intocrus- ty blocks. This substance. when crush- ed. has been found available for for- fllizing or as the body of a paint it the usual mixing fluids be added. Experiments upon a sub-stratum of swampy soil on the Myrtle Grove Farm in Queen Anne county. Md. have de- veloped a new. fertiljzing material and During a temp-crane? revival at Ced- ar Rapids. la.. a young man who was converted confessed that he was guilty of a robbery [or which another man has b0 vn iumrisoned since last fall. He was arrested. Somebody in Columbia. Ky.. has sent out and got printer! in the \Vest a story that the Green River at that play-e has been 8.: Law lately that swine have tak- on to wallowing in it. and catching and eating fish. Five cats were boxed up by the pa- tient possessor of twenty-three. in Pun- ta Gorda. Fla. an! expressed to the Mayor of Arvaalm. am! on the third day after shipment each cat had come back. ' Idglbotly Interest in NI: Delugeâ€"Matters a! Moment and mm: Gathered tron HI. Daily Record. In Mexico City H01) Lee advertises in. American restaurant. IT ems OF INTEREST ABOUT THE . BUSY YANKEE. There are a dozen doctors and just thr‘ nuxni~er of lawyers. who, if they “ere tuilow. would make one man. to a. Fogulatiun of 1,100 in Bad Age, Mlch. Swpel almonds and chestnuts have [x e-n raise-J with success in parts of 01'- cgon. where it had been thought no palatahb nuts would grow. An unusual perquisites of ragpivking fell to the lot of a Iouisville woman. who found a 82:) gold piece in the rag hwnp of a business house.. WHM UNCU 8AM l8 M “.Love is blind,” according to the pro- verb, but the proverb cannot be tru. of maternal love. for the average mother easily sees in. her baby a world of things which nobody else can dis- oover. THE MONEY IN IT. Mr. Rockefeller, president of the ‘Sttandard Oil 'l'rust. alone became worth from £21,030,000 lo £31,(Ji;0,m:o sterling, all out of petroleum, and it will now be seen that the Standari Oil Trust. is no longer going to retain the whole of the business itself, as the British Petroleum ()il Trust will corn- pete with it. and, having the advant- age of possessing oils of such high quala ity, should coinnianl the market. The company has, in addition, to its already vast promriies within the past month obtained grants from the (‘ana Ean Government of mining rights over large plots of land in the neighbour- hood of its other properties. thnqvnn- trolling practically. the whole of the oil-bearing region." “Does your baby talk any yet?” one woman was heard to ask af another. “Talk? Well, I should say he did talk,” replied the mother, almost in- dignantly. “He says just anything! His little tongue runs steadily from morning till night. He can ask for anything he wants at the table or any place else. I never had a. chi-Id that talked so early or said so many things at his age~ "My sister-in-law has a. little boy eight months and four days older than this child, who don’t begin to talk as murh nor as well, although, of course. I wouldn’t say so before her. She thinks the child is a. wonder, but he don’t compare with his little cousin here. Johnnie, my bread and butter, for the lady. “Bed an’ buttum.” said Johnnie. “There! You see how perfectly he says it; and the best my sister-in-law’s baby can do is to say ‘ bell en’ bullaw,’ and he calls sugar 'coogah,’ Johnnie, s'iy sugar and I’ll give you a. lump when we et home." “Soogum " “'l‘here! You see the difference. It’s inst so with everything, but I never reg about it to my sister-in-law, for she’s real sensitive about it.” ' “‘But I guess you wouldn’t ask if this chil-l could talk if you could hear J vâ€" 'v_-‘- “w him once! Of course he’s in a. strange place now, and; he’s quiet, but I guess he: can talk; and I don’t see who he gets it from, either! There are no great talkers in my family nor in his father’s. As to the productive power of the Petroleum Oil Trust territory, it is stated ofl'ivially that, at the lowest. es- timate. from 10,000 to 12,000 wells may be sunk u_.:on the proyerty. In this prosaic nineteenth century it seems almost inmossilde to believe that dur« ing the twenty-two years previous to 1887 profits amounting to the enor- mous sum of £120,000,000 were made from petroleum and its pro lucts. The most remarkable knife in the world is that in the curiosity room of a. firm of cutlers in Sheffield. It has 1,890 blades and 10 blades are added every 10 years. Another curiosity is three pairs of scissors. all of which can be covered with a. thimble. A story is told which would indicate that swallows have considerable sur- gcal skiill as well as intelligence. A certain physician found in a nest a young swallow much weaker than its mate. which had one of its legs band- aged with horse-hairs. Taking the hairs away he found that the bird's leg was broken. The next time be via- ited the nest he found the leg again bandaged. He continued to observe “the case," and in two weeks found that the bird was cautiously removing the hairs, a few each day. The cure was entirely successful. The geographical position of Gaspe. and the fact of its being on the seaâ€" i‘OEU‘d within seven days passage Of London, an! 1,000 miles nearer to En- ro;wan markets than the United States oilfields, give it many advantages ”1 the matter of carriage and freight- Lahour. timber and fuel are cheat and abundant. while the (-limate is favor- able for petroleum mining all the year round; For the past two or three years an English comgany, known as the Petro- leum Oil Trust. Limited, has been carrying on operations with great secrecy, all the employes being bound not to divulge anything, they might learn about the company’s business; so that up till recently it has been very difficult to obtain anything like com- plete or reliable information. But cer- tain facts have now leaked out, and the liotential wealth of the Gaspe oil fields no longer remains a secret. The pro- prietary company referred to owns over 48,000 freehold acres of oil-bearing lands and of mineral and oil-bearing rights in perpetuity. which are free of rent and royalties. All the necessary features which usually betoken the existen e of em oleum in quantities ob- tained in the peninsula of Gaspe. NAT URAL ADVANTAGES. W4 rum for Wealth In Secret-Everythlng Favourn‘ple for Development. A special correspondent writes to the Financial News. London :â€"If only a portion of the reports which are to hand concerning the value of the oil wells in Canada anti the United States are reliable,the richer' of the Klondike gold fields almost fade into insignifi- cance. A great deal of excitemmet Prevails at present in Canada, where. in eastern Quebec, the Gaspe oil fields have created something like a. boom. REMARKA BLE CUTLERY A FE ATHERED SURGEON. NEW CANADIAN OIL FIELDS. AN EA RLY TA LKER. rumu, king of the Pickpockets.” HE FOllGxAVE HlM'. The Prince was so much amused by this letter that he sent for the man promising that, no harm should befall lurn, and had along and most enter- taining conversation with him in Sir Francis Knollys‘ room at Marlborough house. the Prin. e subsequently express- ing a. warm appreciation of the man's astounding slight of hand and know- ledge of the world, especially his un- erring and pointer-like instinct as to the game_ worthy of being followed. It may be addefi that although Fred's description was known at every police office throughout EurOpe, yet he was never arrested. so far as known, since he never ailoweil himself to be caught in flagrante delicto. Indeed. the only time that he made what may be de- scribed as a faux pas was when Baron Hirsch laughingly requested him to return his empty pocketbook. SANITARY SCIENCE IN ENGLAND er hand would appear to have increas- ed, nor was the whole of the increase attribuzable to more precise diagnosis. Ague hid been nearly eradicated owing to the better cultivation of the soil. Only hose who died from acute alco- holism were returned as .having died from the effects of drink. yet the deuhs from that cause were as num- erous is they were twenty or thirty years ago. Dr. Parkes holds that the general effect of improvement in san. itation is such that 600,000 persons have reached the age at 21 years who would have ded at the beginning of the Queen’s reign. A curious fact pointed out by Dr. Parkes is that the expecta- tion of life diminished in males after 26 ’yeus. and in females after 44 years Ilemarkahlc Reduction In the [Death lum- Dllrlug the Victorian Era. Some interesting statistics collected by Dr. Louis Parkes to indiwte what sanitary science has done towards the preservation and prolongation of hu- man life in Great Britain during the Victorian era. show that the mortality from small-pox had diminished by ’96 per cent in 1891-5, as compared with the mortality in 1838-42. In the same period the deaths from fever had de- clined 82 per cent; while Isince 1871-5 there had been a decrease of 95 per cent in the mortality from typhus. and of 60 per cent. from enteric fever. Since 1861-5 the mortality from scarlet fev- er had fallen 81 per cent.. although that from diphtheria had risen in re- cent years. and was now very much the sane as it was thirty years ago. ln zymotic diseases there had been a decrease of 24 per cent. and in measles 21 per cent. though epidemics of meas- les and whooping cough were as com- mon as when the Queen came to the throne. In phthisis the mortality had fallen 45 per cent. though it was still high. Otncerous diseases. _0n the oth- ”00K 18 in my [2055953011, and that it. has in "5" PINE-5' a double value, not, so much on zu-munt, of its contents, as by reason Of its fonner “Li'nflt‘uhivx l 110-" nus In 115' eyes a double value, not, so much on zu-munt, of its contents. as by reason of Its former uwnershlp. 1 had me honor to take it from Your Royal ”Mindless as you were Inavina um ”03...: stan . l V I “I remain, sir, “in; the most pro- found respect, your Royal Highness' hugl‘lg._l;o_ pervant, to possess himself of the pwketbook of his future hing without the latter perceiving his 1035. Fred was so lick- led by this feat that he could not reâ€" frain from addressing the following letter to the Prince, whirh is carefully preserved among the latter's corres- pondence at Marlborough House. It runs as; "ollowszâ€" “Sirzâ€" ' ‘ ”Your Royal Highness will have notlvell on returning from Epsom that .YOPIj povketbook had disappeared, conâ€" taining bank notes to the following amount. Here follows a list of lhe notes. I think it my duty to inform Your Royal Highness that the pocket DODk is in HIV linsspsuinn unll Hml :4 STOLEN 1*‘ROMJ THE PRINCE. Fred was so much mortified by this break on his part that, be determined to repair his damaged prestige by means of a master stroke. 50 when shortly afterwards Um Prince of Wales attended the races at Emom he mun- oeuvred so clcvereiy that hewasable I.‘ nounâ€"4â€" ‘ ' " ‘ ' ‘ “Fred, my friend, you have {nude a mistake to-day. If you will look at that pocketbook which you have just. taken you will find that it is quito empty. as luck has been against me. The best thing-Pr you can do is to give it back to me.’ It happened in this way. One day while attending the races at Newszr-a ket Fred attempted to pick the pocket of Baron Hirsch. The ltter, who knew Fred “ell by sight, the latter having been pointed out to him at Paris by some of the pxivate detectives in his employ, turned laughinfly to him and em Iaunecl _. 3 one o! the Queer Acquaintmce” 0’ "'0 Prince of Wales and a 50"! A"‘“" llim. The Prince of \Vales has pany queer acquaintances, some of then respect- able and others quite the leverse, but as a rule, each of them distinguished {for Dre-eminence in some particular tart, calling, or even mere trick. One of the strangest of tiles) acquaint- ances, and certainly one (f the clev- erest was an individual whc was known by the name of “Fred," and W110 was wont to style himself the "King of the Pickpockets," a title that was accord- ed to him with a certain degree 0f de- ference, not only by his brethren of the craft. but likewise b) the police authorities in London and all over the COntinent of Europe. He has just died prematurely and sincerely regretted by a large host of admirers. including the Prince, whose pocket he. picked on one memorable occasilu about 8 years ago. i 1 KING OF THE PIGKPIUKETS A STORY ABOUT FRED AND ““5 PRINCE OF WALK;- Sheâ€"But you change your mind so often. Heâ€"lf you do not accept me I shall shoot myself. Yes‘m; I‘m anus ’feerd she might sit down on me. Johnny always stands up in the car and let’s a woman have his seatâ€"don't yog. Johny? was said she was suffering from avutje mania. caused by .the incessant teas- ing by the other children and by brood- ing. She has probably lost her rea- son forever. -uvv- vals. These fits became so frequent that a. doctor was called in. and be pre- scribed a medicine which relieved her. The children kept up the teasing. however. For days at a time the young woman retused to talk to any- body in the house and went about mut- tering to herself. The young children came in from the street on Wednesday afternoon and began as usual to tease their sis- ter. Suddenly she jumped from the chair in which she was seated and seizing the youngest of the children. she lifted it clear of the ground and was about to swing it around her head to strike another of the family. when she was restrained by one of her bro- thers. The young woman became (ran... tic. She scratched and bit those who went near her. Her brother. becom- ing alarmed. called in a policeman. who, seeing the condition of the girl. called an ambulance, and she was ta- ken to_ Bellevue Hospital. There it 'l‘his pleasédâ€"tlâ€"lb ‘éh'ii-dxtggf' The' un- fortunate young woman became mor- ose. and finally she had a fit. Then she? thsevquxl {its at short inter- A despatch from New York says:â€" Constantly teased by her brothers and sisterbs because she could not Speak English. Ida Grudberg, the pretty nineâ€" teen-year-old daughter of Barnett Grudberg. an actor, living at No 142 Rivington street, became insane on \Vednesday, and was removed. a rav- ing maniac, to Bellevue Hospital. '- The girl is one of a family of seven children. boys and girls. The younger children, playing in the street. learned to talk English rapidly. Ida remained indoors and kept herself busy about the house. Her father and mother both un- derstood and conversed in the English language. The result was that the eld- est daughter found herself isolated from the family. Her brothers and sisters. and mother and father as well. teased her about her inability to learn to speak like the rest of the family. and the younger ones were accustomed to gather around her and tease her until she became frantic with rage. __ InL:__ _ | .~'â€"â€"--v uu‘rvvu IAIIJ L'III‘IS GIJ‘IUI it, and I suppose my expcrivm-e with n; will result in adding a new andyow- erful poxson to the pharmacoyuena.” â€"â€"â€"â€" _â€"~ varv‘ .vuuv “U a landscape gardener, and his curiosity was aroused. IIe plucked one of the green stems and examined it carefully. it had a pleasant odor, and as he smell- ed it he thoughtlessly bit off one of the petals of the bull). The taste we." agreeable and he chewed and swallowed it. \ “Half an hour afterward,” says Mr. Goth, “I suddenly became very dizzy and fell down unconscious. For three Weeks I knew nothing, except that oc- casionally [would come to a sort of half-consciousness for a few minutes. But such periods Were like dreams dis- turbing a deep sleep. 1 can barely re- member them. . When I finally came w my senses I was too weak to lift hand or foot, and for four months was confined to my bed. My left arm was almost paralyzed, and is yet, and in every muscle of my body I could feel the effect of the poison I had taken into my system lty chewing the one small piece! of that strange plant. I can now drag myself about but all the strength of my body seems snapped. No one to whom I have de- scribed the plant knows anything about :1 “an t..-”â€" _ on the end a single, bulb-like green flower. If Goth had known nothing of botany and cared as little about genera and species as most prospevtors he would not now be a 'lphysival wreck But that green plant was like nothing he had 6‘. en seen in his experience as .‘I In hllfll.n‘.n n... _-l _- His name is L. Goth, and he was up in the Yukon country for four years. LPrevious to going thither he was a landscape gardener at Seattle. He has brought back with him $15,000 or $20,000 in gold dust, title to valueable claims on Birch and Deadwood creeks, ruined health, a mysterious ailment and information of a new kind of vege- table poison. He was prospecting early this year on Birch Creek with 8: few companions. They were about thirty miles irom Circle City, where a mountain rises abruptly from asnelf along the shore of the creek. As they neared a knoll at the base of the moun- tain the temperature grew veryniu ii warmer andun the knoll they found 3 springspf boiling hot water. The only Vegetation near the springs was a vix id green weed which grew on the very‘ brink of the steaming, bubbling basin; it had a long stem, bare’ of leaves, and J A Miner's llealm Wrecked by 3 Vegetable lle [Discovered In Alaska. A man has just arrived 'from Alaska with some bags of gold. dust which he would like to swap for a remedy for the mysterious poison which he took into his system while he was putting the gold into his 'pockets. It all came of his knowing too much about botany and being too curious about green weeds which he had never seen before and which had a pleasant taste. He was unconscious for three weeks, and he‘has been almost paralyzed ever Since. FOUND GOLD AND POISON. TOO. Young Woman‘s Henson ”Mm-MINI In "no Tannin of Brothers and Mute-rs. JUVENILE GALLANTRY TEASED T0 INSAlVITY. ITNRELIABLE, . and his curigsity Scottâ€"I hear you are to marry the eldest. Miss Binks. Let me congratu- late you on your good taste !. Knottâ€"Ob! that has been dularod GONG RATULATIONS ALL In Burmah. when a men meets a “0- men. he puts his nose and his mouth close to her cheek and drawe along breath. as if inhaling a delicious per- fume. He does not [rise her cheek. strange to say. A man is greeted in exactly the same way. In the greater part of Germany it is considered an act; of politness. not of gallantry. for a mzin to kiss a woman's hand. In Italy that privilege is al- lowed only to near relatives. while in Russia it is extendecl' to kissing the forehead. priate. The Arabians shake hands six or eight times. Once 18 not enough. If. however. they be persons of distinctiun they embrace and kiss one another sev- eral times, end else kiss their own hands. In Turkey the salute is m in advance of his staff to reconnoiter the position 0! the enemy. He dis- mounted. and was gazing with his glass through the darkness. when sudden- ly a shell, fired, it. is summed. at ran- dom. fell between him and his horse. It buried itself in the sand". and did not explode. If it had. in all likeli- hood Wolseley would have been blown to pieces. Not a few envy the immer- ous honours and high position Lord “'olseley has attained. but how many would undergo the same hardships. dangers and wounds to secure them “I Felis amat pieces sed non vull Langere plantas. was struck on the helmet by a slug shot and knocked to the ground. It the slug had not. been arrested by the pugaree folds, the career of the com- mander-in-chief. would have been end- ed. After the night march before the battle of Tel-el-Kebir. when the troops pad lhalted. I-flrd \Volgeley proceeded In the Indian Mutiny he frequently x'asscd through a “perfect Silt“??? of shots and bullets." To employ his own words. “ The bullets hopped off the tires of the guns like peas off a drum.’ \Vhen storming the Motee Mahul at Lucknow a soldier, who had been 1:18 servant. in the Crimea. was shot, and fell on the street. \Volseley Sprung out to carry him under shelter. when a. mutineer at a distance of five or 81X yards took deliberate aim at him and fired: but the bullet. instead of striking bill). passed throur h the holy of the soldier. In the Re River ex- pedition in 1870. during a severe storm. of thunder and rain at night. a tree was thrown down. and in falling vrush- ed a boat close to the spot where Wol- seley was sleeping. In the Ashan ee campaign. during the attack on the village of. Ordashu. Wolseley. while .On the night of August 30. he was nearly killed in the trenches. Along: with two suppers. he was engaged in refilling some gahions with stone. when a round shot struck the gahions and scattered their contents with (er- rific force. The two sappers were kiil- ed, and \Volseley was hurled to line ground. with the ut‘nost violem‘e. His [um and hoiy were cut and battered all over.. He was severely woundel in the leg. Both eyes were rinsed; an'i the sight of one totzully lost. Many thought that he would never I‘PPO‘PI‘. but he did. after Spending a number of weeks shut up in a cave in complete darkness. No living soldier. so far as I know, has eXperienced more remarkable es- capes from death than Field Marshal Viscount Wolseley. Campaign after campaign he has seemed to hear a charmed life. His first escape occur- red in the Burmese war. when an en- sign in the Eightieth Regiment. Along with another officer who was killed. he was leading a storming party against ’the fortified position of Myattoon, when struck by an iron jingal hull nn I the left thigh ; the artery was laid lame 7but not cut; otherwise he would in. v0 bled to death in a few minutes. llm condition. however, was most crux-:1}, and required the constant attendants of a soldier for six months. Sewml narrow escapes took place during lino (".rimean war. One in the trenches lie- fore Sebastolnl in February. 1855, when his coat was pierced by a bullet; an- other. two months afterward, whvn he was slightly wounded by the debris scattered by a round shot; and another. when. with Captain Peel, 11.. N., he dashed into a powder magazine. the entrance of which had been set on fire by a shell. and managed to ex- tinguish the flames. At the taking of the Quarries a ball [assed througl. his cap. knocking it from his head. will shortly afterwards he was wounlml in the thigh by canister shot, and lost. a considerable quantity of Hood. Lord Wolceley’s )lzuu' [Imam from luau. III ‘0‘... TONI by a {torroupomlq-m -_ What. Ilc ll“ Gone Through. A correspondent to, the North Rm. ish’ Daily Mail sent in the follow“; interesting letter concerning Lum Wolseley’s wonderful esea; es :â€" THE COMMANDER-lN-CHIEF HAS HAD A CHARMED LIFE. MANY TIMES UNDER FIRE. SITTING ON A SMALL STOOL ucu m nonunental Europe have m that would seem queer. not laughable. here. They greet one r w1th a kiss if they be friends, the cheek. but right on the iips SA LUTATIONS AROUND on the capital the; mind the very 894 dermke. The pr (ion is the: one. to . vided that. this: But here we must . to Query 'watchfu l t. Assuming t mitten in trans": will he the height a: I basis for. an cunning and flu mt at them im every cont'eivah of the fielcls, h promise ample pl ture to spend tht {utilities for am it is a gamble. I gain in Klondiln he peonle who I .gettinf -there i: an w th only I [if and limb, ‘ titled toe very The moral to “I. .de “'indt, regarding the v dike is a vet , fields are of at do Windt, "tn. fight hundred buy it." Min ‘Qund dying of with sacks of 4 Iowa. The star! civilization find when I nd pi tot your been funds. H. (1: nothing of build some at rarryu 'd reds ¢ £21719 ( at an arm "13 81111 ha re: 01 gold DRAW! with“ and tel concm great II V9 OI imp! ru \K' 0 todo I} (V low tha If 1n I'l ti ti