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find myself cleaving body of water
somewhere, and going down, down,
with slower motion than had expert
enced for some time.
A shock at my feet convinced me that
was at the bottom of river or lake,
and upon striking out to swim was de-
lighted to feel that I rose toward the
surface. Notwithstanding the confused
state OF all my faculties l could see, on
getting above the water, that was sew
eral rods from the shore-say about 800
feet-in the bay near Firepan, the end
OF my journey, some 280 miles from
Sllngwheel. With considerable trouble,
for l was stiff and sore, 1 swan to the
railroad dock, and, climbing out of the
water, asked bewildered depot hand
how came there. 's'S
"Shure, SIR" said he. "I don't
know; but I'm after belavin' twas the
devil that fetched ye!" "'.'.'@
BY dint of close questioning, I learned
that he was 6 jist a-settin' on his thruck
a-smokin' his dhudeen," when he
heard singular noise, such as he had
never heard before, and immediately
after saw tremendous splash in the
bay, many yards from the end of the
long dock. The truth was plain. My
internal machine had run the whole
length of the road, and, stopping for
nothing, had shot over the dock. The
fall into the water had saved my life,
and l was spared to tell this story,
which ! feel pretty confident no one
will believe, --i}A oof f1CT
spent the next two weeks at Firepan
in raging fever, and as soon as I re-
covered sufficiently 1 started out to look
Tor the remains of the unlucky machin-
ist, and to learn what it was we had
run over. learned that the latter was
locomotive and tender which had been
found the next morning smashed to
fragments, with the engineer and fire.
man both killed. The accident was
attributed to whirlwind, as pieces OF
the wreck were scattered rods around.
AS for the machinist, could find moth.
ing OF him save few shreds of clothing
and little blood resting upon the rails.
| spoke of this to an old engineer who
accompanied me on my search, and
remarked that I thought it strange that
| could not discover his body any where
about. - sre va
"Well," said the old engineer, eject.
ing quid, "you say you was going
two miles in minute and better?"
eyes, as near as can guess
"Well, you see, when you come to
grease the track with mans body it
don't last long. guess you won't find
no more of him than that. ."-New York
Mercuru. zt5 s34s...
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The sFather" OF the House Of Com
.s9F ffft5sg' mons. f4uf oTs5s

f
The /" Father" " of the present House
of Commons-that is, the one who has
sat in it continuously for the, longest
periods Colonel Christopher r. M.
Talbot, who has represented Glamor-
ganshire uninterruptedly since 1880.
He is Wing, and although he speaks
very rarely, has always been distin-
iguished for his influence in the House
and for his great knowledge of its
opinions and feelings, for which rea-
sons, for long time he has been one of
the most trusted advisers of the Liberal
leaders. He has twice declined peer
age. Lord George Cavendish has rep
resented North Derbyshire since, 1884,
Mr.. Charles Pelham Villiers Wolver-
hampton since 1885, Sir Philip Grey
Egerton (who was also member in
1900 Cheshire, and Mr.. Cowper
Temple different constituencies since
the same year. Mr.. Edward Ellice has
been a amember since 1887. Sir Watkin
Williams-Wynn (the &c Prince Of
Wales ~ was elected on coming of age,
for what may be called the hereditary
seat fer Denbighshire, from which the
Liberals, although they have captured
the other seat, have never succeeded in
displacing him. He too, like his father
and grandfather, has refused peerage.
Mr.. Gladstone was first elected in 1882,
but was out of Parliament in 1887
Mr.. Bright was first elected in 1S43, Mr..
Lowe and the Speaker in 1852, Sir Stat
ford Northcote in 1854, Lord Harting.
ton In 1857, and Mr.. Forster in 1861.
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European Royalty.

There are at present in Europe 719
Princes and Princesses, each having a
claim more or less remote to q crown
The one with the greatest number of
titles is the Emperor ofAustria, Francis
peror, he is nine times King, once Arch
duke, twice Grand Duke, eighteen times
Duke, four times ,Margraye,. five times
Count and Lord. His cartes de visite
make the fortune of photographers.
The King of Portugal, has eighteen first
names, his eldest son has twenty, and
his youngest twenty-nine. One Of the
Kings of Portugal, according to Span
ish, story, got lost in the woods while
hunting. Coming late at night upon a
little country inn, he knocked and de-
manded shelter. The landlord put his
head out of the window and asked who
was there. His Majesty replied by giv-
ing all his names and titles, . Excuse
me, SIR" said the landlord, "I haven't
room in my house. for so many people, =
and he shut the window and left the
King out in the cold. The title of King
of Jerusalem is borne by the Emperor
of Austria, the ex-Kng Of Naples,l and
the Prince de Lusignan. A similar
conflict exists between King Oscar Of
Sweden and King Christian Of Dem
mark, each claiming to be King Of the
Goths. Oscar also calls himself King
of the Wends, and Christian King of the
Vandals. The Grand Duke of Mecklen-
burg -Strelitz is General of cavalry in
the Russian army, Colonel of Infantry
in the Hungarian army, and a Doctor OF
Laws in Oxford University gl xgss ;
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THE DEAD POET.

,oet,s little span is done. &
y ppost,s work on earth goes on.
y Ind that strikes the ringing chords;
y snansht that clothes itself in words,
y. ehiI1es with every varying mood,
~, y, Syes si1 friend to solitude, t.
l'ssss' sssh or fire, in smiles or tears,
~ ~ echoes for all coming years.
:. Nets hand and heart are dust.
Y Y rpost,s crave lies green and husled.
y \ apusie lives, and scars, and Swells,
u sbsnes the natures where it dwells.
,ssss ~ with their grief, reflnes their mirth,
- Al It's own pure grace to earth,
s.ses dreams and fancies, and for love
"A, a. words to speak and strength to
prove.
Il manv heart struck desolate,
n many o life, by bite fate ~
IN dry. and dull; a-ld many a soul,
(ssdng 'gainst cire' instance control,
+ Ire. and doubt the surest balm
|F1ds in the peet's golden calm. t...--
|har blessip & whom his power has blest
|apes the poets tranquil rest.
All the Year Round.
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The Antlpathies Of Great People.

Being through an affliction much con.
fined to my house, take delight in
being surrounded by domestic pets, and
have been much amused by what
thought the whims and affectations of
my acquaintance. Some start and are
i'll at ease while my mastiff (who is as
gentle as lamb) lies under the table /;
some tell me they have an aversion to
my parrot-its sometimes startlingly
apropos answers and words that Gu
riously fit in the conversation terrify
them, and they think it uncanny y;
others-and these are many-really
can not sit in the room unless my cat
(who is great pet) is removed. This
all seemed so mysterious to me that I
searched an old work on the ssAffections
and Imaginations of the Mind y for a
solution, and was rewarded by the fol-
lowing extract, which I send, thinking
it may be interesting to your readers.
M. Chevraux, celebrated French
writer, observes: '5 N't <tt'l+ts'&s.A' -
Show exceedingly whimsical some
antipathies appear! l have known
people faint on smelling the delicious
fragrance of rose, and yet experience
a pleasure in smelling a jonquil or hy-
acinth. A certain Governor of one Of
the frontier towns could not bear the
sight of fish-spawn, and lady whom I
knew went into convulsions on seeing a
crawfish. Erasmus, who was native
of Rotterdam, had so great an aversion
to fish that he could not even smell it
without being in fever. If we may
=. A ID of
celebrity, he says that he could never sit
at table where eels were served up with
out fainting. Joseph Scaliger never
drank milk. Garden could not bear
eggs. Julius Cesar Scaliger had an
antipathy to crosses; Uladistas Jagellon,
Polish King, hated apples; and when
Du Chesne, secretary to. Francis the
First, smelt them, they occassioned his
nose to bleed. Henry the Third could
not remain in a room where there was a
cat; the same aversion was OBJ
served in Marshal Shomberg,
Governor of Languedoc. The
Emperor Ferdinand introduced a gen.
tleman to the Cardinal de Lorraine
at Innspruck, whose fear of cats was so
powerful that when he heard them NEW
at a distance blood spurted from his
nose. M. de Laucre says that he knew
gentleman whose fear@,of the hedge
hog was excessive, and who believed
that that animal had actually been prey
ing on his entrails for more than two
years" ss8s..s
He also relates another story equally
singular of gentleman whose bravery
none disputed, but who was SO nervous
when mouse appeared that he could
not take out his sword to destroy it. NJ
Vaughneim, the Kings huntsman In
Hanover, tainted whenever he saw a
roasted pig. The philosopher Chrysip.
pas hated bows so much that when be
was saluted he fell down. There are
persons who can not tolerate the sight
Of spiders, and there are others who
eat them for amusement. A friend o1
mine, gentleman, brave as the best,
tainted when vaccinated a few months
ago. He could not account for it, be
said, as of course there was no pain,
neither did he feel any repugnance.
! t-La,sd and Water.
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China does not intend to relinquish
its control in Central Asia, and is said
to be willing to risk a war with Russia,
not only to maintain it, but even to re-
gain some of its lost possessions. The
Government of the Flowery Kingdom is
not satisfied, either, about its relations
with the United States and other ma
tions, and is about to demand whole
sale revision of treaties in favor of itself.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-07-30

TIE world has long wondered at the
mightywOrks which theancientS wrought
in Egypt and has more than once de-
clared that modern civilization with all
its cOntTlYances cannot equal them
How some of the immense stones of the
pyramids were handled is yet a mystery.
but if an Egyptian of Pharoah's 5 time
could look on the Alexandrian obelisk
now in New York, how it came there
would be still greater mystery to him.
lie could understand the transportation
OF 1t over land, but not over water.
The shaft itself weighs two hundred
tons, the pedestal fOTty-thTee, and the
foundation seyenty-four-three hundred
and seventeen tons loaded upon a vessel
and borne thousands of miles over a
stormy ocean. The method of loading
was to launch the pOnGerOus stone upon
caisSon, tow this into a dry dock sunk
to the right depth then raise the dock,
knock off the caiSson, run the ship along
side the Obelisk, cut a great hole in her
side, and roll the obelisk in on her keel
sons. The hole was then closed up and
the ship set out for the new world. The
Obelisk Will be unloaded in the same way.
The Egyptians may boast of the great
stones handled in their land. They new
er handled such a one as this on the
water.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-07-30
THEPECIrIIARITIEs OF Mono IA

THEPECULIARITIES OF Mono LAKE.
The San Francisco Chronicle in a re-
cent issue says The propeller Rocket,
which will soon be placed on Mono
Lake. will have no trouble about float
ing, as the density of the water is re-
markable, being just the reverse of that
Of Lake Tahoe, in which the body of a
/ drowned person never returns to the
surface. An exchange says that for
bitterness and prOmiScuOuS meanneSs
/ the waters of Mono Lake suTpaSS those
/ of the Dead Sea. They contain so much
/ allaH that on a windy day the lake IS a
regular tub of sOap-suds. The writer
/ has seen a wall of lather five feet high
along the whole of that shore, against
/ which the waves were beating. Occa-
sionally the wind would take up a bunch
/ of this lather as big as bushel basket
/ and carry it several hundred feet inland.
! So buOyant are the waters Of the lake
that quite a party of men may navigate
them on a raft made of four or five dry
cottonwood poles. Out i'll the lake are
/ islands of rock (lava-like cOncretiOns)
through which springs of water boil up.
The water of these springs is like that
. of the lake, but in one place is a large
I spring of fresh water. This is near the
northwest corner of the lake and at a
point where there are eight or ten feet
of water 1t is sort of fountain. y
column of fresh water some three feet
in diameter is projected upwards with
such force that it rises to a height of at
least two feet above the general level of
the lake in the form of a mound on
knoll, and makes a ripping noise that
can be heard a considerable distance
But for the fact that this fountain has
a depth of eight or ten feet of water to
| contend against, it would probably rise
to considerable height in the air.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-07-30

a Cow WITH AN EXTRA TAIL.-The
Reading Eagle furnishes the folio wing:
Mrs. KatZenmOyeT, residing at house
No. 1922 PrincetOwn street, Hampden.
has quite 4 curiosity in the shape of
COW having two tails. The one is loca-
ted where all cows tails are situated,
and the other appendage occupies a po-
sition midway between the horns of the
animal. It is over a foot i'll length. and
is steadily growing. The cow is of a
brown color, and is six years old. The
animal is a good milller, and nothing
seems the matter with her, except the
tail between her horns. When born
nothing was f,uld to be the matter with
the COW, and for years afterward moth
ing was found upon its head which bore
evidences OF some day becoming tail.
Sometime since a hard lump or ball
formed on her forehead. This soon pro-
truded, and has been growing ever
since. Mrs. KatzenmOyeT's COW has one
advantage over those of her neighbOTS
She can wisk both her front and hind
tail and thus keep the flies away from
all sides. Many persons have come to
see the COW. She does not seem to eX-
perience any Inconvenience on account
of the extra tail, except that the hair
gets into her eyes. If the strange APP
pendage continues growing as fast as it
has been doing in the past it will not be
long before it will reach TO the ground.
The tail hangs directly over the COW s
nose, unless she throws it to one side
while eating. The extra tail is regular
ly formed, and is composed first Of ileShy
matter, firmly imbedded in the forehead
and then lot of brown, bushy hair.
! The cow is quite Il curiosity"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-07-30

DR. JSGEG's CURE FOR DETNKES,-
ESS.-The claims of DIR. UngeT for Il
remedy for curing intemperance would
seem to be justified. if we NAV rely up
on as good authority as the Chicago
Tribune for the evidence. Mr.. Joseph
Medill, the editor, is d strong indOrser
of the new remedy, and from the editO-
rial commentators of IT in the columns
of the Tribune we conclude the remedy
hos produced some benefit to the COM
munity already. 1t is claimed that the
doctor has cured y 900 persons of the
worst form of intemperancc with il. and
that this is the first remedy ever dis
covered that kills the disease and the in
clinatiOn TO drink at one and the same
time.
Remedy.-Take one pound Of lest
fresh, quill red Peruvian bark, powder
il, and soak it in one pint Of diluted al
cohOl. AfterwaTd strain and evaporate
it down TO half pint. Direct ions for
its use: DCse-a teaspOonful every
three hours the first and second day. and
occasionally moisten the tongue between
the doses. Il acts like qUauine, and the
patient can tell by a headache if he is
getting too much The third day take
as previous, but reduce the dose 10 one
half teaspoOnful. Afterward reduce
the dose % fifteen drops, and then down
to ten. and then down TO five drops
To make cure, it takes from five to
fifteen days, and in extreme cases thirty
days. Seven days are about the average
IN which cure can be effected.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-07-30

IHE COST OF CAEELE~SNFsS u -
only poor farming that don't nav
fTuit-gTOwer sends an unassOrte9 lat n
big and little and fair and guarly srrra,
to market, and gets Ieturns that scsres.
" cover cost, while his neigh50r viii "a
ceive twice as much for half the grs-.
tity. One butseT-maEer is paid l5 cent,
to the pound, and another 80. and frsi-
ideas Of the profit OF dairying are a lft.
tie wider than the prices Of their In
duct. It is 50 in every enterprise of Ia.
farm. One would suppose that in wbsst
culture by machinery there would h
little chance for difference in results Of
harvesting and marketing. ret even
there Is abundant opportunity for The
blight Of carcleSSness to assert It's de-
structive power. For instance. IN Ala
media county, California, a lot of I.lE
centals Of wheat could only command q
bid OF 50 cents per GENITAL. because 10.
left in the CleaneSt condition by the SD
aratOr. The owner was neither So az7
nor so thoughtless as TO ACCEPT il. but
had it cleaned and was offered 81. Els.
ted with so large a gain at so small an
outlay, he gave it q second cleaning, and
then sold the shipping wheat for g ls.
1856 $40 Centals; Us $40 centals q
feed, and S53 Centals Of oats and lurss
for al Of which he received q. .24l Il
As the cleaning cost S14T. "A. he made &
clear profit Of S412. 96. CLEANLINESS is
next to gOdlinesS, - and profitable in 1l
thinGS,-A I. Tribune.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-07-30

WHAT A VOLCANO CAN Do. -Cota-
paxi, in 1873, threw its fiery rockets B.
900 feet above its crater, while III lfo4
the blazing mass, struggling for an out
LET. roared so that its awful voice was
heard at a distance of more than 6oo
miles. In 17S7 the crater of Tungura-
qua. one of the great peaks of the An
des. flung out torrents of mud, winch
damned up the rivers, opened new
lakes. and. in valleys LOCO feet wide,
made deposits 600 feet deep. The
stream from NeSuYius which, IN 1881,
passed through Tore del Greco contain
ed 80, 900, 600 cubic feet of solid matter,
and in 1893, when Tore del Greco was
destroyed a second time, the mass Of
lava amounted to As, 600, 600 cubic feet.
In 17GO lEtna poured forth flood which
covered eighty-four square miles of sur
face, and measured nearly 1,OOO.OOO, 600
cubic feet. On this occasion the sand
and ScOria formed the Monte ROsini,
near Nicholosa, a cone of two miles In
circumference and 1000 feet high
The stream thrown out by Etna in 1910
was in motion at the rate of a yard day
for nine months after the eruption and
it is on record that the lava of the same
mountain, after a terrible eruption, was
not thoroughly cool and consolidated
for ten years after the event. In the
eruption of Nesuvius, 4. ID. 20, the
scoria and ashes vOmited forth far eX-
/ ceeded the entire bulk of the mountain
/ while in 1860 4Etna disgorged more
! than twenty times its own mass. We
suvius has sent its ashes as far as Con.
+ stantinople. Syria and Egypt {; it hurled
/ stones eight pounds in weight to Pom
/ peii, distance of six miles, while sim
! liar masses were tossed up 1900 feet
/ above the summit. COtapaXi has pro
I jected block of 100 cubic yards in vol
ume a distance of nine miles anC
! Sumbawa, in 1915, during the most ter
rible eruption on record, sent its ashe:
as far as Java, a distance of 300 mile:
of surface, and out of population o.
! 1900 souls only twenty escaped.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-07-30

THE LARGEST POULTRY RAISER IL
THE WORLD.-W. {. Baker. Of Crsss-
hill, y. J., is the largest artificial p0ul.
try raiser in the world. aid after spend
ing $50, 600 in experiments and getting
established, now has a gross income q
$50, 600 a year, and VIII raie 2jl1-
young chickens during 1850. lie is sl.
largi1g his accommodations TO keep T.
500 laying hens Of the best varieties b-.
still has to buy eggs. Both hens al
chicks are housed and fed in luxurious
systematic style, the matching bailg
done in two incubating chambers Cags-
bic Of holding 5000 eggs each, in tiI-s
of shallow drawers. where they a.
warmed by gas made on the place, an
turned daily by women in Attendance
The young chick is taken TO the hrOgi.
ing-hOuse, several hours afteTitis hath
ed, where il is kept until three weeks
old and creeps under the hen-mOthsT g.
hollow zinc, filled with hot water an
lined on the under side with blaHke.1g
After three weeks the lusty young tOV-
Is put among the laying hens OF IN IL
crammIng-hOuse, where each fowl =
confined in a small box and stuffed 10
two or three weeks till ready Tor maTkt-
Mr.. Baker can row fatten 50,ol0ayear
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-07-30

a TREMENDOUS SPIDER SToRY.-A
correspondent writes from Plainview
to the Chicago Inter Ocean:
The following facts transpired on the
farm of an honest ole farmer, about two
miles from the town of Plainyiew, Last
Monday morning on entering his barn,
the farmer found, to his surprise, his pet
bulldog and old cat and her kittens sus-
pended from tie crosS-beams in his barn.
On examination he found them to be sus-
pended there by cord about the size of
common wrapping cord, the fiber OF
which much resembled silk, but proved
however to be spiders web. At first
he thought the kittens, which were on
the hay lust above the beams, had acci-
dentaliv dropped into the web, and the
old cat, following the instinct of her
maternal nature and endeavOring to res
cue them, had herself become entangled.
As to the situation of the bulldog, he
thought he had been trying to get at the
cat while in her trouble, and had him.
self to succumb to the same fate as the
cats. but he afterwaTd came to the cOE-
clusion that they had been picked up by
the spiders as they went about seeking
! whom they might devour.
( The farmer went out to call in some
neighbOrs to witness the marvellous scene
/ but imagine his surprise When, on his
return. lie found a sucking colt ascend
/ ing to the web, having been encircled by
/ two different fbers, one just before his
! hind and the other just behind the fore
/ legs, he was being drawn up by the spi
ders. When the colt had been drawn
up five or six feet, spider, apparently
well versed in physiology, came down
one of the fibers and began boring fol
the spinal cord, just between the atlas
and the axis, as I have seen small ones
do with flies, but the farmer was un
! willing to sacrifice the colt for the bene
fit of scientific investigation, and so hC
! was rescued.
The spiders were then taken from th'
dovecoat and killed. One measured
three and One-half inches in length, anC
weighed one-half pound. They are of f;
dark brown color, with light stripe
down their backs, strong, active, anC
ferociOus. Several men of good reput,
I in this section are ready to testify TO tn,
above facts.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-07-30

RECIPE FOR BLEACHING MUSLIN. -
:, NJ. i. sends the following directions
which she has followed with success for
twelve years without iujuring the fab
ric: Into eight quarts of warm water
put one pound of chloride Of lime stir
with stick a few minutes, then strain
through bag of coarse muslin, work
ing it with the hand to dissolve thor
oughly. Add to this five bucketfuls of
warm water, stir it well, and put in the
muslin. Let it remain in one hour.
turning it over occasionally that every
part may get thoroughly bleached.
When taken out, wash we'll in two wat
eTs to remove the lime, rinse and dry.
This quantity viii bleach twenty-five
yards of yard-wide muslin. This mus
lin viii bleach more evenly and quickly
If it has been thoroughly wet and dried
before bleaching. Wee Torb Iiitlue.