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How an Outlaw was Caught.

A letter from Columbus, Neb., gives
particulars Of the capture of doc "
Middleton, the notorious outlaw. Sol
diers, under Detective Llewellyn, from
Fort Hartsuff, and party of citizens
from Grand Island, arrived mt Niobrara
river by different routes, about the same
time. The party proceeded Immediately
to the house of Middleton's father-in-law,
where they captured him and FIVE other
persons. The old gentleman was given
the choice of leading the party to Mid
dleton's hiding place or of being hanged.
With tears falling down his facs, the un-
happy parent led the party, consisting OF
fourteen mounted men, into the high
hills to the northwest. Proceeding
about seven miles. the head Of deep
canon was reached. Large pirs trees
filled the gorges Of the canon, from the
deep recesses Of which no sound came to
indicate that the brigand chief was hid
den there. The soldiers were quietly
picketed on commanding points. Rich
ardson, Middleton's father-ili-law, re-
fused to enter the canon. saying the out
laws would shoot him if they saw him
guiding the soldiers. The party retened
through different defilcs that led to the
main canon. In q short time the camp
was discovered. The stiffness was soon
broken by the ring of the rifles. Mrs.
Middleton, who was in the camp,
screamed for cessation of hostilties.
She came up to the sheriffs of Hall and
Howard counties, who told her to go
back and tell her husband to surrender.
She went back, and soon returned, say
ing that doc" would not give himself
up. Some men worked their way eau
tiously into the camp, and it was found
to be deserted. The outlaws had fled.
Middleton was discovered crawling
through the grass, and in moment a
ball came near ending his life. He
begged for quarter, and was taken with
arms on. He said he was shot by De-
tective Hazen with Winchester the
Sunday before. The wound only tenn
porarify disabled him. He was at once
taken to the top hills, and thence to the
main camp, near his fathers house, south
of the river. The camp of the outlaws
contained fruit, sugar, ammunition, bed
ping. powder, canned goods and endless
knickknacks. The tents were piled up
and burned.
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How the Zulus Smoke.

When the white man "inhales," he
rarely allows the smoke to pass beyond
his mouth and nostrils; but the Zulu
Kaffir fixes his lips over the broad
mouth of the bullock's horn, closes his
nostrils with his hands, and draws in
the reek of the burning weed till his
lungs are filled. Then, handing the
pipe to his neighbor, he lays hold of a
small tambooty reed, and slowly blows
the smoke through it until his lungs are
empty. Thus unconsciously DO they
illustrate the lyrical conceit Of the time
when tobacco was young in England
they fairly "drink tobacco" There is
no haste or wildness in the earlier stages
of such a festival; for. sententiously
talking together as the pipe goes slowly
round, and waiting their turn in order.
they blow out the spittle from their
sev eral reeds, and trace in figures on the
ground the plans and pictures that give
body to their talk. But one such
powerful inhalation Of the weed is not
enough for a seasoned smoker amongst
the men of Zululand. Again and again
does each warrior fill his lungs to reple.
ton, and blow forth the dense cloud
through his tambooty reed. until the
powerful narcotic either lays them pros
trate on mother earth or drives them
into paroxysms of madness. II have
seen them so excited by smoking" says
one who knows them we'll. THAT they
have jumped to their feet and run away
running till they were out of sight;
and on one occasion remember fellow
running at full speed, under the in
fluence of this excitement, till he
dropped down dead" 1t is clear
enough, from this example, that the
zulu knows nothing of the pipe OF
peace, and that he would be a hopeful
subject for the philanthropic efforts of
the Anti-Tobacco Society,-New Eng
In7ad Grocer
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Curi0sitieS of Human Food.

Man has been wonderfully ingenious
from his infancy in the concoction of
edible varieties. Apart from baked
human thighs in Fejee, and boiled
fingers in Sumatra, there are certain
culinary fashions still extant, which
must be marvelously unintelligible to a
conven .ionalized appetite. Not that it
appears strange to eat ducks tongues in
China, kangaroos' tails in Austraka, or
the loose covering of the great elk's nose
in New Brunswick. Not even that it is
startling to see an Esquimaux eating
his daily rations-twenty pounds in
weight Of flesh and oil-or Yakut COM
peting in voracity with a boa-constric-
tor; but who would relish stew of red
ants in Burmah, a haif-hatched egg in
China, monkey outlets and parrot pies in
Rio Janeiro and bats in Malabar, or
polecats and prairie wolves in North
America? Yet there can be little doubt
that these are unwarrantable prejudices.
DR.. Shaw enjoyed lion; Mr.. Darwin
had passion for puma; DIR. Brookes
makes affidavit that melted bears grease
is most refreshing potion. And how
can we disbelieve, after the testimony OF
Hippocrates, as to the flavor of boiled
dog? Ifsquirrels are edible in the East,
and rats in the West Indies-if sloth
be good on the Amazon, and elephants
paws in South Africa, why should we
compassionate such races as have little
beef or mutton? For we may be quite
sure that if, as Montesquieu affirms,
there are valid reasons for not eating
pork, there are reasons quite as unim-
peachable for eating giraffe, alpacha,
mermaids' tails, bustard and anaconda
-Atheneun,.
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The TShudi.

A letter from one of Prof. Nordensk-
iold's assistants, recently published in
various Scandinavian papers, gives an
interesting account of the Tshudi, a pc
culiar race inhnbiting the northeastern
part of Siberia. They look very much
like the Greenlonders, are small but
alert, have a brownish-yellow skin, with
coal-black eyes and hair, and a singular
joyless, almost frozen. expression of face:
They live in tents, dress in skins, and
feed on sral-tish. Their women arc
tatooed in the face. In their intercourse
with the crew of the Vega. they were a
little shy, but curioul ike penguins,
and willing to help. Their moral ideas
were rather ,anif but firmly adhered to,
rs far as then went. OF their language,
dictionary (Tshudi- i-Swedish) has been
made. comprising about three hundred
words, and it will, no doubt, prove Of
interest TO the linGuists, as the tongues
OF the Polar races have hitherto been us
great !. puzzle to the philologists as those
of the negroes of tropical Africa.
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A Hotel with q Million Rooms.

For the benefit of those unacquainted
with the term "dugout," as used in the
far-West, says the New York Hotel Ga
zette, it may be proper here to state that
in the early days of Kansas it was Gus
tomary, owing to the scarcity of timber,
fer the poorer class of settlers to make
their houses in the ground. generally on
the side of a hill or slope, if their claim
afforded such. This statement may at
first thought seem absurd. but it is Il tact
well-known to those who have travelled
through the West. Intelligent and we'll
educated people, who from one cause or
another incident to lifetime had be-
come reduced in circumstances, were
not unfrequently met with living in these
"dugouts," with as much comfort and
ease as many of their former associates
in much costlier homes at the East.
Much depended on the muscle. ingenuity
and taste of the builder whether his
home looked like wood-chuck hole or
a human babitation.
In one of these "dugouts" certain
wealthy hotel proprietor in Kansas first
commenced business as caterer to the
public. His patrons were cattle herders,
Mexican " greaserS anu Istllro"u i;ipoi
ers, who were content with the simple
fare he set before them. His hote! con,
tanned two rooms, the "dugout" Gand
the "boundless prairie" In the former
was kept the cooking utensils, stove, etc.,
and the latter served rs his bedrooms
II have million rooms," he would say,
"room enough for the whole world,
and plenty to eat as long as the buffalo
deer last" His customers. though OF a
rough class, paid their bills promptly,
which enabled him in few months to
Law the foundation Of quite respectable
hotel. A thriving town grew up around
him, and, rs money continued to come in,
hemade additions and added new attrac'
tions, till to-day he enjoys the patronage
of as fine class Of travellers as visit the
West
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What Happene d In August.

The month of August, although less
crowded with battle anniversaries than
June or July, has had an unusually large
share of the worlds greatest events.
On the Sd Columbus sailed from Palos.
in 1892, to discover new world. The
same day, twenty-seven years later, saw
an exploit of almost equal daring-the
outset of Cortez's overland march upon
Mexico. The 4th gave the first blow to
English feudalism by the overthrow of
De Montfort's revolt against Henry ILL.,,
in 1865. On the 10th, the storming OF
the Tuileries, in 1892, consummoted the
triumph of the French revolution. The
18th crushed at one blow the dear-bought
supremacy of Louis XIV. by the de-
feat of Blen!,. i'm, in l704. The 10Th, 18th
and 18th witnessed the great battles OF
Vionville and Gravelotte, and the COM
plete surrounding Of Metz, in 1870. The
56th is doubly memorable to France, as
the anniversary Of the greatest defeats
and greatest victOries-the Rattle OF
Crecy in 1916, and the commencement of
Napoleon's two days fight before Dres-
den in 1913. On the 2Sth Of August,
1881, Gustavus Adolphus defeated tho
Austrians, under Count Tilly, ut Leipsic;
and on the 3lst. Hood evacuated Atlanta
at the approach of Gen. Sherman, in
1864. But in addition to all these famous
days, this eventful month has witnessed
the. execution of the Scottish patriot
william Wallace O3O5): the establish
ment of the Reformed Church of Scot
land (l56O); the outbreak of the Seven
Years3War (l756), as well as three Of
the greatest battles. Minden. Zorndori
and Liegnitz l75s-6O); the birth Of Sir
Walter Scott (l77D; the liberation of
the Christian slaves at Algiers by Lord
Exmouth's bomhardment of the place
(lSl6) and Gen. Winfield SCOTS Mexican
victories of Cherubusco and San An
tonio (l811l
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The First Sewing Machine in India.

In the days when the sewing machine
was in its earliest infancy, lady resid-
ing in India imported one, and for long
time kept its mysterious working hid
from the ken of her natives stailor. This
functionary was the very slowest of his
proverbial slow "caste," and wasted no
end of time drawling over hem and stitch.
One day his mistress came to him arm
laden with yards upon yards of some
dress fabric: "Dirzie," says she, how
long will it take you to- run those
breadths rogether?" "Tree day, missis, "
replies Dirzie. "Missis, please, plenty
too much work" "Three days! Non
sense! Three hours, you mean. You
are very lazy man and I'll cut your
pay. Give me the stuff; I'll do it my
self" Then the lady retires to her
boudoir, from the inmost penetralia of
which sharp and continuous click and
whirr reach the tailor's ears. He can't
make out what the sound is, and
lie is much too lazy to speculate
on it. He continues to "chew
betel," and yawningly to ply needle
and thread. After an hour or
two "Missis" comes back, and throw
lub dG N1I. DlILlc lEcI Iilc Id" iuhICi hti
now fashioned into completed skirt
says: There! See! You wanted three
days. you sleepy fellow, to finish this.
and have done it already" Astonished
Dirzie turns over the drapery, examines
the seams. scrutinizes the stitch. and
satisfies himself that all is proper and &C
cording to tailors' rule. He is confound-
ed. 1t passes his understanding. There
lies the work done and no mistake. But
howp He springs up from the mat on
which he has been squatting: he kicks
over the little brass vessel which holds
his drinking water; he scatters right and
left thread, needles. thimble; he stops not
to put on his sandals or to adjust loosen
ed turban and waistcloth. Scared and
bewildered, he runs for very life into the
bazaar, shouting as he goes along
"Slitan! shitan! (The evil one the
evil oneD he do tailor business at Mems
house. listen! 1 hear! He cry 'Cleek,
cleek, cleekn Two hour time he neber
stop cry. Den! Plenty too much true
dis word I tell. Ebery bit true. All
work done finish! I not 60 back dat
bungalow" And he never did.-Chana'
berS' Journal.
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Typhoid Fever from Impure Ice.

DR.. Flint, of New York, has become
satisfied that source of typhoid fever
exists in ice. The poison is not destroyed
or impaired by freezing, but is simply
held in suspension. The ice conceals
what it does not kill.
The Scientific A1,erica7a, in speaking on
this subject, says: Whence comes our
ice supplyp Often from shallow reser-
voirs in the midst of neighborhoods of
large towns purposely made to receive
surface drainage from all around, under
the erroneous idea that no harm will
ensue, as freezing is supposed to purify
and render harmless what might other
wise be Objectionable. Great quantities
of ice are taken from canals. from creeks,
from stagnant ponds, and from streams
that are either the natural or artificial
recipients of surface drainage, of the
outporing of sewers, and of uncleanli-
ness from various sources. The danger
from ice taken from improper places is
not only from that which ic drunk, but
from its use in refrigerators and preserv-
atories, where milk, butter, fruits, vege-
tables and meats are subject to its satur-
ating influence rs it vaporizes. Several
lldfC uoSUol
observation where the disease, by the
most careful investigation, could not be
traced to any other source. If we accept
rs fact tine statement positively made
in the London Lancet, that it never orig
mates de nouo. but proceeds from a spe-
cial and specific poison, which is capa:
BILE of diffusion to a great extent, and
which preserves its noxious qualities fol-
long period, even if buried for many
months, we cannot reject the hypothesis
of ice infection.
On this theory swamps and shallow
ponds, and streams in which drainage i.
permitted to flow, and ponds drawn of
in summer. are not only dangerous to
the immediate neighborhood, but may
send disease and sickness wherever the
ice cut from them is transported. This
is new peril which can easily be guarded
against. See to it that the ice you use is
nothing but pure frozen living water.
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Quality Of the Brain.

The Amcricnn Naturalist has an ac-
count of Il cheerful set of scientists in
France, calling themselves the Societe
d'Autopsie. Believing that the study OF
the brain Of Il man whom we have
known, not only through his works. but
in his character and faculties, will con-
tribute to the advancement of knowl-
edge, the members Of the society bind
themselves to surrender their brains to
the inspection of their fellows immedi-
ately upon death. Tie first to die was
Jules Asseza. thus losing his chance at
any other member. The second was a
NJ. Asselinc, whose brain contradirts in
many ways important conclusions at
which students ofthe brain thought they
had arrived. The intelligence of NJ. AS
seline was Of IN exquisite tncSsc that
was pushed even to subt!cty, and yet tile
,onvolutions of his brain were thick and
large. Broca. the great authority on
trains. was surprised to tind il Ola coarse
l:N t1lt
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At the Gate.

The golden flush of the morning lies
O'er smiling river and bending skies;
While Ger the meadow the sweet winds sigh
And breaths of fragrance blow tar and nigh
And the tide flows by.
A boy stands under the oak tree tall,
At the old gray gate by the orchard wall;
He looks far away where the blue sea smiles
Wondering where lie the Fortunate Isles,
And the tide flows by.
A youth and a maiden pause and wait
In the sunset light at :he old gray gate;
They silently gaze in each others eyes
And dream Of the rapture Of Paradise,
And the tide flows by.
Beside the gate stands a careworn man,
Meath a wintry moonlight, faint and wan;
He looks far away toward the cold, gray sea,
With sigh for the days that were once to be,
And the tide flows by.
An old man stands by the moss-grown gate,
Sorrowing, weary and desolate;
The starlight CLEANS ocr distant grave,
And over it softly the yew trees wave,
And the tide flows by.
Through the old gray gate, toward the shining
west,
They have borne the weary one to his rest;
The new day breaks and the shadows fee,
Tho tide of the river flows fast and free
Far out to sea!
-Susine w. .Mouiton.
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A Hawk Story.

A correspondent of the New York
Eueninq Post, writing from Columbus,
Ohio, tells story about weasel's es-
cape from hawks clutches. The in
cident is similar to one told in old read
ing books. Not long since, says the
writer, while in thickly-wooded dis
trict in the northern part of this State,
nv attention was attracted to the pecu-
liar movement in the flight of what
proved to be large male Misus "COPPER"
or Cooper's hawk. He flew in circles
just over the tops of trees which bor'
dered a meadow land, through which
ran small stream of water. Each cir
Gle he made seemed to be smaller than
the preceding one, and Notwithstanding
my presence each circle brought him
nearer to the ground. Now and then he
would take an upward flight, as if doubt
ing the certainty of his prey, when pres
emily he seemed to know that his best
chance was at hand, and. swooping down
upon his victim, seized it in his talons
and darted away. He had not gone far
when he began to descend in perpen-
dicular line, with q tremendous f1apping
of his wings, rs if something troubled
him. Arising to about double the height
of the surrounding trees he began slowly
to descend with dropping head; and his
tail, which acted so well as q rudder to
guide him in his upward flight, now
seemed to be a useless member. while
the wings haG ceased their Tapping and
were spread motionle5s in the air. All
this time 1 could distinguish something.
rs it were, in the shape Of a snake coiled
up in his talons. Notwithstanding his
seemingly exhausted condition, every
now and then he would make an effort
to ascend, but his efforts were in vain.
In a few moments more he struck the
ground, when instantly from his talons
there sprang u common brown weasel
which made its way to the nearest un.
derbush. Upon examining the bird,
which was more dead than alive, found
that this cunning little animal had sue
ceeded in forcing its slender body through
the tight grasp Of the hawks claws, unit
| it reached the part on the left side of the
bird Immediately under the wing. There
| it nibbled small hole and drank the
blood of this high-fown bird until il
was compelled to die the death it haC
| intended for it's victim. The weasel was
undoubtedly about to take its meal from
| a number of ducks which were floating
| in the stream near by; but it feasted ir
mid-air on the blood of its would-be dc
stroyer.
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A Curious Family Dispute.

A curious case, says Paris paper, has
Just been decided Mt Fontainbleau. where
a M.and Nine. Missiessy appeared in court
to plead against each other for two of
their daughters. 1t appears that this
married couple have seven children
five daughters and two sons-and that
the father had insisted on the three eld-
est daughters becoming nuns. The
mother offered no resistance; but when
it came to depriving her of her two re-
manning daughters, who were also dis
patched to convent in spite of her en-
treaties and delicate health, she appealed
to the secular arm. The court erdeav-
ored to shake the determination OF the
husband. but he remained infexible, de-
claring that a voice from above had
called upon him to submit, and that his
daughters should remain where they
are. The court of Fontainbleau took a
middle course, and decided that the two
young ladies in question should be re
leased from the cloistered convent in
which they have been imprisoned, and
sent to the celebrated Convent of the
Oiseaux in Paris, which is not cloisteretl,
and where they will be able to receive
the visits Of their parents.
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An Arkansas Mans Omen.

A strange story comes from st. Francis
county. In the St. Francis river bot
toms there lives q man named George
H. Toban. With him live wife and a
thirteen-year-old son. The family has
resided in quiet way, so far as any one
knows. until recently. One morning.
just after the yellow fever excitement
began to spread over the country, Mr..
Toban, upon opening his door, found a
card lying on the doorstep. On the card
were written the words, "yellow fever"
Very little attention was paid to the
matter, but when, again and again, SIM
liar cards were found, Mr.. Toban be-
of superstition as might be, regarded the
cards as ominouj and as warning OF
an approach of the terrible disease.
Every night he would read gloomy re-
ports from Memphis and every morning
found the card, "yellow fever" Finally
lie determined to watch and satisfy him
self, and on the doorstep remained all
night. No one appeared; but when the
darkness was dispelled by the streaks of
daylight he saw card lying on the
step beside him. Catching it up and
examining it, lie saw the words yellow
fever" written in exactly the same hand
that had marked the cards before. Then
there was indeed anxiety in the family.
The fever reports grew gloomier, and the
family settled into thesbelief that Provi-
dence, by a handwriting on cards, had
advised flight. The husband did not
know what to do, the wife was fright
ened into terror that trembled at every
sound as though yellow fever walked
with noisy footsteps, and the son was
almost dumb and sometimes deaf with
fright. 1t was at last decided that yaca-
ton of the place would be necessary.
But a change came, and the mystery,
like mist, cleared up. On the night be-
fore the proposed departure the hus-
band, unable to sleep, sat on the bedside,
almost terrified and weak with dread.
Suddenly the door of the room opened
and his son, in might ATTIRE" stood in
the room. The father, influenced by a
sudden feeling, did not speak. The boy
advanced to the mantelpiece, took down
a pencil, went to "the little table," took
out card, leaned over, wrote some
thing on it, and then, advancing to the
door, slipped it under: The father
watched breathlessly, and when the boy
started to leave the room the man
caught him. The boy struggled, gasped
and awoke. He did not know. nor could
he understand. why he stood there
grasped by his father. The wife sprang
out of bed. A few words explained all,
and when the door was opened there
was the card bearing the words yellow
fever" The young man in his early
youth had exhibited signs of somnam-
bulism, and reading every day the yel-
low fever reports to the family no doubt
influenced his action.-LiHle Rock (Ark.)
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