Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-03-25
insanity is not diminishing In this
country. rs under proper treatment II
ought to be.

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ought to be.
The discovery has recently been made
In the southeastern districts of Russia
th tigers, long unknown In those
parvs have found their way there. Some
peasants of Golot- u bani. in the district
of Tifiis, recently noticed quite unusual
depredations among their hocks and
herds. which they ascribed to the raw
ages of wolves and bears. Finding a
fresh track of large animal quite un-
known to them in the snow only re-
Gently fallen near the village, twelve
of them pursued IL into the mountains
armed with hatchcts. On their march
they were surprised by terrible roar,
and at the same moment huge tiger,
measuring between five and six feet in
length. bounded out of a cave in the
rock and struck down three men before
they knew what they were about. The
snow lying deep and soft, and therefore
giving way under them, fortunately
saved them. One other peasant rushed
up Just in time ard Glove the animals
skull in two. The tiger in his death
struggle, however, gave his slayer few
ngly scratches.
Minnie Karell's fight with burglar
in her room deserves.to be immortalized.
She is slight girl only eighteen years
OF age, and tends her Iather's bakery in
New York. She was awakened Mt an
early hour IN the morning by man
standing over her Aed, and was told by
the burglar that if she screamed he
would kill her. Nothing daunted Min
ME screamed and Mt once struck the
burglar in the face with all her might.
Quite tussle now ensued, the burglar
trying TO escape from Minnie's grasp,
and she trying to hold him until her
father and the workmen from below
could come to her assistance. But the
robber broke away from her and made
his exit from a window, not, however,
until Minnie had recognized him rs j ohm
Oates, a resident of the next block.
When the police came they found Min
MES bureau ransacked and all her best
clothes gone; but fortunately they met
man named Rogers in the street carry
ing bundle of female wearing apparel
and arrested him. The clothing proved
to be Minnie's. They next went i'm
search of Oates and found him at wake
next door TO the bakery, coolly smoking
his pipe and condoling with the be-
reaved family. Minnie gets her heroism
from her mother, who is dead. She
used to tell Minnie always to fight when
she got in trouble; and the old lady
acted upon this principle, for she her
self used TO take club to all who came
to the bakery and didn't conduct them
selves with propriety.
Mrs. Gov. Lew Wallace finds in New
Mexico what she calls subtle Spanish
essence" pervading everything. Even
the names of the commonest persons she
meets are poetic. She says in the Inde-
pendent: "Perfectio (perfection), a
worthless peon in Navajo blanket,
sweeps the sidewalk; Benito (the good),
a shambling Mexican boy, watching his
chance for spring at the spoons, brings
the daily mail; Mariposa (butterfy),
the si.iest of Slowboys, pushes the baby
wagon; while Angellus, an angel whose
form has lost its original brightness.
laziiy watches her. Three old witches,
whom we familiarity call the Macbeths,
were baptized Feiiciana, the happy:
Rosita, little Rose; Hermosa, the beau
tiful." Mrs. Wallace adds that most OF
the people she meets have Indian blood
in their veins. and not few are mix
ture OF Spanish, African and Indian.
Here is picture of Santa Fe woman
Quiet out of reach OF the shady trees,
in the fiercest blaze of the sun, sitting
on fragment Of the Rocky mountains Is
a statuesque figure, which might repre-
sent the Oldest, the most furious of the
Furies. 1t is Blandina, the fair one, the
soft one, OF Santa Fe. Her face, like one
OF her own foothills, is worn into cutters
and seams. Not like them so nodded
by the action of water, but by exposure
to sharp sunlight and whitening wind.
destructive to beauty, which make even
young persons appear old. Her skin Is
a parchment, which looks as though IL
might date back to-I was abo ut TO saw
the flood, but that would imply that at
some prehistoric era she had felt the
sanitary influence OF a shower bath"