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OVER NIAGARA FALLS.
WALKER, THE FAMOUS GUIDE, HURLED
INTO THE BOILING WATER AND
DROWNED.

BUFFALO, May 25.-"Pi" Walker, one
the best known characters at Niagara
Falls, ended his life to-day by going over
the cataract. He was the worse for liquor,
failing to which he was frequently VIC
tim, and left Port Day, some two miles
above the falls, about four O'Clock. He en-
deavored TO pull over to the Canada side.
He had often braved the rapids in this reck-
less manner, and had he been himself he
| would probably have accomplished the feat
| on this occasion. There were several hum
dred people on the banks of the river, two
excursions having gone from Buffalo.
| Walker struck out boldly, but one of his
oars caught crab and was whjrled into
the rapids. The boat darted around the
curve above the American Fall, and Walk
er splashed recklessly for moment and
fell backward across the seat. The boat was
now at the complete mercy of the current
and hurried downward until it reached o
point about half a mile above the Falls,
when it struck rock and whirled around
1t was near the shore and hopes were en-
tertained that Walker would be saved. 1t
was only for few seconds, however, for
the boat soon went to pieces. The intoxi-
Gated man seemed to revive when he went
into the water, and threw up his arms and
cried for help. He grasped for piece of
the boat, but the wild current overcame
him and over the cataract he went. Walk
er was about thirty years old. He has
saved ten or twelve lives around the
Falls.
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GRANTS JOURNEY M INDIA.
THE Ex PRESIDENT AND PARTY ENTER.
TANNED BY THE AGRA CLUB.
J. R Youngs Agra Letter to the N. Y. Herald

| J. r Young's Agra Letter to the N. 7. Herald
Our further stay in Agra was made
| pleasant by dinner at the Agra Club. q
roomy building in an enclosure of trees and
grass. The dinner was complimentary to
Grant in the presence of Rama Nehal Singh,
the Mabarajah of Dholpur, who presided.
| This young prince is in the sixteenth year
of his age. He is Jat by descent; the
| Jats, supposed to be tribe of Scythians,
| driven through China and over the noun
tains to find home in Rajputana. The
Maharajah governs small province of 1900
square miles in extent, with population
| of 500. 900 and a revenue from the province
of 81 100000 annually. The Maharajah
has been under the tutelage of the British
Government, his guardian being Lieutenant
Colonel Denneby. The Maharajah wore q
picturesque Hindoo costume and jewels of
immense value. He sat next to Mrs,
Grant, with whom he had long CONVERSE
tion The Prince speaks English fuently,
and, having been under English influence
from his infancy, it is believed will be a
loyal prince The experience of the Eng
lish in the education of Princes and In
dians of high caste has not always been
satisfactory. After they marry and pass
out of the control of their guardians they
remember much of their English education
that might as well be forgotten. and forget
much that might be remembered. | sup
pose blood is stronger than the school
books, and many an Englishman has re-
minded me with bitterness that before the
mutiny no Indian prince was more fie-
quently IN Indian society and more popu-
lar with officers and residents than the
Mana Sahib, who butchered women and
ch ildren at Cawnpore. do not recall this
to throw the least imputation upon the
Maharajah or connect his name IN any way
with the saddest memory in Indian histo-
pleasing countenance and manly, frank
manners, and seemed to be fond of the old
colonel who was in charge of him. At the
close of the dinner the Prince arose, and
bn0 uealGu Vi LILO &u06u WAS pfOpOocus
Then came toast to Gen. Grant, proposed
by Judge Keene, and response from
the General. the substance of which has
gone to you by telegraph and
need not be repeated. AT
the close of the dinner company of native
players gathered on the veranda and told
stories in the Indian dialect, and gave lit
tie mimic charades or comedies, the actors
being puppets, kind of Hindoo Punch
and Judy. The subjects illustrated were
incidents of the mutiny and scenes in the
life of tax -gatherer. There was a good
deal of skill and some humor shown in the
management of the puppets, and altogether
it was an odd experience. The dinner
over, we took leave of our friends, whose
kindness had been unbounded, and next
morning proceeded to the north, to Delhi,
the city Of Mogul kings, and Lucknow, the
the city Of the rulers of Oude-cities fa-
nous in the ancient history Of England for
their wealth and splendor, and even more
famous now with drearv and tragic re-
nown as the centres of the mutiuy of 1347.
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Oatmeal Diet.

Undoubtedly one of the most healthfnl
and nourishing articles of diet is oatmeal.
When properly cooked and eaten with
cream and sugar it forms dish which
most peupis relish relish better than meat for
breakfast, and is very much cheaper
Liebig has chemically demonstrated that
oatmeal is almost as nutritious az the very
best English beef, and that 1t isricher than
wheaton bread in the elements that go TO
form bone and muscle. Professor Forbes,
of Edinburg, during some twenty years,
measured the breadth and heighth and also
tested the strength of both arms and loins
Of the students of the University-a very
numerous class Of various nationalities,
drawn to Edlnbnrg BY the fame Of him.
He found that In height, breadth of chest
and shoulders, and strength Of arms and
ioins, che Belgians were at the bottom Of
the list little above them the English,
and the highest Of all the Scotch and
Scotch Irish from Ulster, who. Ike the
natives Of Scotland, afe fed IN their early
years at least one meal day on good oat-
meal porridge.
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The Chances at Whist.
London Spectator.

London Spectator.
The "pull " in favor of good players is
said, indeed, not to be very great but that
idea is naturally one which very good play
ers foster, and their calculation is based
upon an erroneous assumption. There is a
point of whist knowledge at which second
class player has fair chance of beating a
tirst-rate one, the difference being only
about five per cent, but there is also a
point of ignorance, carelessness, or un-
founded self-confidence, at which the infe-
rior player has, as against good players, no
chance at all. Very fair players exist who
are not safe players at any time. who can
not resist the temptation to run a
great risk for the sake of dramatic coup
at the end. Men who have learned whist
by playing without stakes almost invaria-
bly, make this bluuder, and it Is the uncon-
querable temptation of female players and
of boys who think they are going to teach
old hands how to play. Many more cannot
play decently if the run of cards is against
them, getting gradually irritated under de-
feat, as old chess-players do, and running
useless risks in order too soothe their own
wounded amour propre while at least
one-half mankind cannot play at all after
an extra glass of wine. The fine edge of
the whist memory is gone. For first-class
players to play with such players for the
sake of high stakes is, if not exactly swim
ding, at least not honorable and to lie
in wait for them, deliberately preferring
them for opponents, is dsgraceful conduct
1t is common enough. we fear, particularly
in towns outside London, where q habit of
play happens to have sprung up, and any
refinement of whist tending to make it
easier should be summarily frowned down,
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A Stroke OF GENIUS.
HOW TO GET OFF WITH THE OLD LOVE
WITHOUT GETTING INTO COURT.
From the Detroit Free Press

From the Detroit Free Press
The other day muscular young fellow,
| having an odor of the stables about him,
entered a Detroit photographers establish
ment and explained that he would like to
have about one photograph taken, but on
| learning the price he &C included to invest in
a tin type. After taking his seat in the
chair he shut one eye, drew his mouth
around one side, stuck up his nose and pa
tienuly waited for the operator, whose as
tonishment caused him to excIaim
"Good gracious but you don't want to
look that way to get picture. Nobody
will know you from Sitting Bull"
"You go ahead" was the reply.
"Do you want me to take such a phiz as
thatP'
az do.o
'sThe artist took it. 1t beat Sol Smith
Russell all to pieces and was highly salts
factory to the sitter, who paid for it and
said !:
"You see, had sort of object in this.
Come here from Allegan county six months
ago-enRaged to gal out there--found q
gal here like better-got to sever old ties
see ?''
"But what has that picture got to do
with old ties ?"
Lots-heapsl I've writ to her that
was blode up here on a boat and disfgger-
ed for life. She's awful proud. When she
gifts this and sees how that explosion
wrecked me, she'll hunt another lover
quicker'n wink-see How do you like
the plot? just gaze on this picture once
and then tell me that Mary Ann won't send
back my love-letters by first train p
He posted the picture. The letter was
brief, bat explained ALL 1t said l.:
"My Ever Dear CURL incloze my
pickture that you may see how offul bad
was hurt, tho know you will luv me just
the same."
"Ever see that game worked afore ?'' he
asked of the artist as he licked the stamp
on the letter.
"No-never did,
"Course you never did. It's mine. 1t
struck me the other day, while I was greas-
in wagon, and think it's boss. Blode
up-see2 Disfggered for life-see? Pic
ture right here to prove it, and she'll write
back that she has at last concluded to yield
to her parents wishes and marry young
man out there who owns II steers, 100
sheep and an s0-acre lot"
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WHAT THE WITS SAY.

Live business men advertise in newspa-
pers, dead ones on the graveyard tomb
stones = Whttehau Times.
The Esquimaux amt much on euchre,
but when you come to tackle 'em on old
sledge, it's draw game every time.
An uptown society offers reward for the
arrest of the person who surreptitiously in
troduced a hornets nest into the grab bag.
Boston Post.
The hen which has been putting in three
weeks time over lump of chalk and a
broken teacup came off tho nest yesterday
to learn If there was any new gossip in the
neighborhood. Free Press.
The wheelbarrow is the most useful and
elegant appendage of a well-regulated back
yard. ANY one coming in contact with one
of very dark night cannot fail to be struck
ifurcibly with the truth of this remark..
He'll tumble to it at once.
1t has been proven that the strength, care
and thought expended by the average house
backed consumptive geranium up two in
ches, would lift a ton weight three-Quarters
of mile and raise $1,000 mortgage out of
sight.-StGndGyd.
There is nothing new under the sun. The
Pinafore joke, Never-nardly ever" oc-
ours in the writings of Persus, who was
born A. D. 81. He says: SOUS hgc leget?
Memo mehercuze. Ncmoa Vel duo. uel
memo" In English Who will read this?
Surely nobody. What, nobody? Well,
hardly anybody"
She was thinner than bed-post,
Taller than rail-
As yellow pumpkin,
And slower than snail.
She lived in Indiany;
Had Just come out of school;
She was hell en- planny,
But she eoGldn't-ride mule,
Joaquin Miller.
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A New i" Excelsior. .
Oil City Derrick.

1t was about half-past seven O'Clock in
the evening when youth created some-
thing of a sensation by passing through an
Alpine village, in binding snow storm,
carrying banner, upon which was in.
scribed the strange device, Excelsior. %
His brow was sad, but his eye (according
to all accounts he had but one eye) flashed
like faIchion from it's sheath, while he
pushed on. looking neither to the right nos
to the left, but not forgetting to call loudly
Excelsior - At first the villagers
thought he had been drinking. and pohce-
man was started on his track but. finding
there was nothing disorderly in the boys
conduct, he was permitted to 60 his way
unmolested In happy homes the young
fellow saw the light of household fires
sleam up warm and CHEEKY, although coal
was away mp out of all reason, as it always
ls in cold weather; above, the spectral
glaciers shone, and from his lips escaped a
sigh that was heard all over town, to this
effect, Excelsior
"Try not the pass" the old man said /;
"Ive lived here for ninety years I'm the
oldest inhabitant, an ] never saw signs
more favorable for big storm. Besides,
the roarin' torrent is wide and deep, an if
you get across you can't get back for a
week unless you go around by Rabbit
hash and cross the bridge. Take my ad-
vice, young felIsr, an stop over night
you'll find the Washington right over the
way, the cheapest house in town. Shall
take yonr baggage ?' The boy turned
up another street, Indicating that be in
tended to climb the hill on the west side of
the town.
Oh, stay" the maiden said, "and rest
your weary head upon this breast"
And right here the conduct of the young
man became inex xplicable. He did not ac-
cept the maiden's invitation, although she
was comely, about sixteen years of age,
and evidently belonged to the best society.
He simply said ne was in hurry, and
would probably stop the next time. The
maiden passed into the house. slammed the
door, and remarked to her mother that If
she ever offered to assist man in distress
again she hoped she might be blessed.
The young lady was indignant, indeed.
s. Beware the pine trees withered branch!
beware the"
Oh, give us rest % screamed the boy,
who was getting out of patience, and the
well, meaning peasant retired without com
pleting the warning, which was no doubt
something about = tie tie ssErrf,l avalanehe. =
At break of day, as heavenward the
pious monks of st. Bernard uttered the
oft-repeated prayer. tney were startled,
nay, shocked, to hear young man shout
ing !. Excelsior" and cnrsing the country
black and blus for being the roughest,
coolest and most forbidding Of any he
had seen sincs he left New Jersey. 9 Hos
far is il to the next village 2'' be asked (;
g for have something here that win knock
the socks OF Of anything in this country. 3
With that no passed on. still grasping in
his hand of ice that banner with the strange
device. while in the other he carried q little
tin box labelled z Excelsior Corn and Bun
ion Eradic ssor.n
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POETRY r
THE TANGLED sKE1N.

Two men were talking by the sea
OF what had been and what might be,
And as the first his hopes made known
The tide upon the bar made moan,
"The boon / ask of fate is fame
A world-known and an honored name,
ask not love. Let that pass by,
If fame be mine, that cannot die;
Those in the valley seek for love;
My feet must climb the heights above"
s'I ask not fame" the other said;
What matters praise when am dead?
Be mine the boon of love and home,
From which my feet may never roam.
The lowliest path will pleasant be
If love is there to walk with me.''
All strange. indeed, the ways of fate,
The tangled threads will not come straight.
Love came to him who asked for fame,
The world has never heard his name,
With wife and children by his side,
HIS neighbors think him satisfied.
But by his hearth he often hears
The great worlds praises in his ears,
And wonders vaguely which were best,
The hills wide view or valleys rest?
To him who asked for love and home,
Came fame, and ever he must roam,
Through all the world his fame is known,
But he goes on unloved. alone
Men envy HIM. They can not know
The human heart that hungers so
For love and home. Below he sees,
With longing eyes, the valleys peace.
But up the hill he climbs alone
He asked for bread and found stone.
Oh, sorel7 tangled skein of fate
Some time, God grant, the threads come straight
.-.. Eben e. ReaJord.
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EvE-ANaELIcAL CORNER.
Belts are again ia fashion.

Large bonnets do not take.
Tom Thumb has kissed million ladies'
The use of elbow sleeves has revived tha
of black velvet bands for bracelets.
Chinese red and old gold are the favorite
colors in furniture colors this season.
The fashionable wedding ring is a gold
band with diamond deeply imbedded in
it.
A Philadelphia young lady has vainly
consulted all the ladies' journals to see if il
will be fashionable to wear liver-pads thi.
summer to picnics.
Princess Beatrice, 1t is said, is enamoreo
OF a young nobleman, and wants to marry
for love, like sister Lorne.
A pretty girl won musket in lottery
When they gave 1T to her, she asked: ''Don't
they give soldier with it?''
Eve was the first and we reckon the only
woman who did not gather up her dress in
both hands and yell at the sight of snake
E@thar Roberts. a nenhAlp- Of nardinal
Manning, has broken his vows of celibacy
by marrying an English maiden who con-
fessed to HIM her love.
To remove grease from carpets and re.
store colors, take handful of crushed SOAP
bark (quillaya) to pail of water. Scrub
the spots and sponge the carpet all over.
A French woman, who wishes the world
to understand that she is not in mourning,
fastens a small colored flower, ,encircled with
black feathers in the back of the black bon
net which she wears.
A young lady said to her lover: "Char-
ley, how far is it around the world ?''
"About twenty-four inches, my darling, u
replied he, as his arm encircled her waist
She was all the world to him.
Very dressy shoes are of white satin, with
lace drawn tightly over the satin. These
are worn with bridal costumes. Slippers
still have many straps on the instep, some
having small bows with pug dogs head
in each bow.
+" Ma, has sister Floy ever travelled any e''
"No, child, no. "Then, when l was a.
lying under the sofy Sunday night, and sis
ter and Mr.. John came in from church and
was a-settin' in the big rockin' cheer, how
come her TO say that the incest land she
ever was in was Lapland ?"
g say, Maud" says young man to a
young woman, "really, old girl, you know
you ought to bounce that old woman that
you have to open the door and do chores.
She takes snuff and talks like magpie, and
is altogether very revolving" 81 know l
ought to; but then you see, it's difficult to
do 1t. She's my mother. However, I'll
give her talking to-"
Miss Maud Miller, Joaquin's daughter,
has been arrested in Portland, Oregon, for
completely with her stepfather, Thomas E.
Logan, in the abduction of Alice Mcdonald,
12-year-old girl. This child is the same
little one who figured in the modern Grape
of the lock. She was taken to the woods
near Portland and robbed of her long, silken
curls--the pride of the city-heing left
otherwise unharmed to sit ON log all
night. It now appears that letter from
Miss Miller, in which she reveals the fact
that she instigated the kidnapping, has
been intercepted by the police. The poets
daughter is said to be astonishingly litter
ate and unpoetical.
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Nine. Bonaparte's Letters.

Nine. Patterson Banaparte has long had
the reputation of being one of the most in
teresting women of her time. This impress
sion will be strengthened by the perusal of
some of the letters she wrote from abroad,
an installment of which are published in the
June Scri5aer. The letters were written in
1921, while she was in Europe trying to OBJ
tain royal recognition for her son. The fol-
lowing was written from England:
"My fervent desire of European pleasure
was not the vision of d:stempered fancy,
it was only a prophetic spirit of the fasci-
nations which here surround existence.
The purposes of life are all faded--actiyity
and repose without monotony. Beauty
commands homage, talents secure admira-
tion, misfortune meets with respect.
"In this country the term old which is
SO often repeated in America, is complete
~ banished from the polite vocabulary.
Women of forty, even fifty. are more cher
ished and as advantageously married as
chits Of sixteen. They are not here cheated
out of their youth as with us, but retain the
glorious privilege of charming until at least
sixty. Another advantage, too. they pos
sess, of generally marrying men as young
or younger than themselves. Since am
SO happy as to be in the best society much
aeplore the absence of American friends to
witness the estimation in which I am
held.n
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The British government has completed
an apparatus for initiating and manipnla-
ting military balloons on shipboard or on
the field. It consists essentially of port
able tank weighing 400 pounds, which
contains IRON shavings, and of boiler and
furnace. Ths gas (hydrogen) is generated
by passing steam through the iron shavings.
zululand il TO have the benefit Of the prao-
tical test Of the contrivance when the exps-
rimental tests ars completed.
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s.GENTLEMEN,' said MIR. Lincoln one
day during the war, to .veral Western
men who called upon him to criticize the
administration, suppose all the property
your are worth was in gold. and you bad
put it in the bands of Blondin TO carry
across the Niagara Falls on . tight rope,
would yon shake the rope while he was
passing over and keep shouting, Blondin,
stoop a little more, Go a little faster !?
No. am sure you would not. You would
hold your breath as well as your tongue.
and keep your hands off until be was safely
over. Nov. the Government u IN the same
situation, and ii carrying across stormy
ocean an immense weight. Untold treas
nres are IN its hands. Il i doing the best
ii can don't badger il; keep silence and
Ii will carry you safely over. Z
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RECENTLY The Times tCld how the head
of Frank Tolles, the leader of band of
highwaymen. was borne into Cheyenne,
Wyoming Territory, and exhibited to ju-
bilant crowd. There are further interest
ing points in relation to that head. When
the citizens had taken good look at the
head it WAS buried on prairie ON the out
skirts of the town. In passing over the
prairie few evenings ago, G. P. Clark
saw the skull dancing along and bobbing
up and down among the cactus bushes,
Clark's hair stood on end. Cold chills
struck him. When he reached Cheyenne
he was as white as sheet. Everybody
scoffed at his story, but few were induced
to go out and take a look. They, too, saw
the skull fitting hither and thither. Next
morning large crowd went out to inyesti-
gate There again was the moving skull.
The boldest of the party approached. He
drew nearer and nearer. All at once lit
tie prairie dog bounded from che skull and
shot away into its hole near by. The
prairie dogs had appropriated the highway
mans head fer plaything. Philadelphia
Times.
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THE History OF Nom DE PEUME.-I
said to MIR. Locke the other day, writes
correspondent of the Philadelphia Press
:. How did you come by such ridiculous
pseudonym as Petroleum v. Nasty ?o
hadn's any idea wnen t started these pa
pers,n said be, that they would have
such a run, and IN q manner carry me
along with them. At that time the oil ex-
citement was very high and everybody was
talking about petroleum. The word Nasby
/ got from story written By DR.. Wardeld,
author of Ten Thousand Year. Among
his miscellanies you viii find delightful
composition, included in which is q lady by
the name ol Miss Nasty. 1t is my habit
when | like anything TO stick to it, and |
used to print that story at least once year.
It made at least seven columns ID my news
paper, When / started those kentucky
papers was puzzled 70 find q signature,
and all &c once my mind dropped to that
exquisite story, and without any more
thong hi put Nasby At tbs end Of Pstro-
leum.