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Edible Birds Nests.

One of the chief experts of Mort h
Borneo, according to a recent letter to
the London Standard, is that rare dell
icacy so highly esteemed by the people
of the Flowery Kingdom, the luscious
and appetizing birds ness. They are Il
tolerably unvarying source of revenue
and the caves, if properly worked, are
practically mex haustible. One cave
alone, Gomanton, produces as much as
s20 000 per annum. while those at Bod
madai. in Darve Bay, are reported to
be nearly as valuable. though. owing to
the claims of the natives upon them and
for other reasons they do not produce
anything like that sum. Besides these
there are eight or ten others, which are
for the most part either indifferentiy
worked or as vet unexploFed.
The nests are divided, according to
their color and purity. into three quail
ities-putih. manas, and etain fwhite.
browa and black. which, at low es-
innate, are severaIly worth about ST. 100,
$40. and 500 per Dicul Of 133 pounds.
For the half-year ending June. 1882. the
duties on birds nests exported from
Elopnra at per cent. amounted to the
sum of Sl.107. From January /, 1885,
the duty has been raised to 10 per cent
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nninps nfCr1minals.

On the 18th Deputy United States Mar
shaI Henry Marshall arrested DIR. w. Fl.
Rsrteaa at Fort Howard. Wis. The doctor
has lived in this city tor q number Of years
and stands high In his profession. although
tum3r it that he has not lived in per-
eet accord with local contempor ries DR..
Bartesu served in l. army and is himself
a pensiOner. Some wears since he was APP
pointei pension agent by the government
for his district Il Is alleged. in the charge
upon which he fwss arrested, that duriag
this peri q he exacted and secured from d.
verse parties, pensioners OF the I. tied
S arts, tees tor making examinations. Pen
sion examiners r. ceiye q salary from the
government ami the law says they mast
no exact fees from pensioners. The evil
de@ca IS over helming. Ia msny instances
he gave receipts Tor fees and th.se will BE-
used against him The law imposes q heavy
penalty for each aud every offense, and the
doctors have exlen He'd through a series of
years.
A man, giving the name of Rev. James
Young of Philadelphia. was arrested on
the I2rn inst, at London, Ontario, Tor pas
sing bogus checks on city merchants. Fhe
checks were mhde PAYABLE TO the order OF
Rev James Hughes of Ssrnia. but such
perss n resides here. 4 number of other
ChtCES we're inuud With the prisoner IN
tsvor OF Rev. F Hughes AMI Rev. mes
YOU: also three on the city hank OF Mn
1eapolls in favor of Hughes and Young.
Robert Morrison, an International claim
agent, who occupied handsome quarters at
Pit,sburg has suddenly disappeared. lesv-
ing numerous creditors behind. People ST
New Castle, Pa, New Cumberland, W. Va,
and SteuoeaviIte, Ohio, mourn the loss of
sums ranging from 500 to 81. 30 and 9th
ers who entrusted claims to his manage
lnent ase still TO hear from. ItIs believed
he hiss gone 10 Boston.
Serious troubles have arisen among the
mines in the Co-r d Alene mountains, sew
eral shooting afftays having occurred, and
parties e. that section are OF the opinion
& al q wa exfermin4tion can only be avoid
ed by be interference Of tne military, as
the civil authority of that section is unsbie
to cope with the matter.
\ Mexican named Ssgundoe and Cart.
Campbell and son John, have been ar
rested il McMuilen county, Tex, for the
murder OF Nat Williams. a herder. The
Campbells hired the Mexican 20 do the
killing because Williams knew damaging
business secrets OF theirs. They are among
the richest stockmen of Texas,
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Alonzo Keys, a resident of Marshdeld
Wis, shot his wife on the 18th inst. The
woman cannot live The reasons for the
shooting were jealousy and domestic
troubles. Keys and bis wife have lived I'M
happily for years, and several times sepa-
rated. The murderer escaped to the woods.
Michael Lone prominent Irishman of
Lsdoga, Montgomery county. Ind, left his
home some days since. taking with him
$4,000 and a woman who had resided in
his family for some time. He leaves debts
TO the amount of 1900 ana mortgage on
his farm for $1,000,
Charles Fl. Taylor has been arrested at
jamestown, Dakots, for taking letter
from he post1iIlee and fnihezzling its con-
tents. Taylor was examined Deore Com
missioner o. II. HEWITT ana held to the
United States court in 1900, with sureties.
At Denver Col. William Harrison. shot
his fftesn- wear old wife and then himself
both dying al most instantly. The cause as
signed was jealousy. The couple were
married at Shawnee, Ks, last March, and
had been ia Denver a month.
Bill Johnson was hanged on the 18th INST,
at Monticello, Ark, for the murder of Cal
Williams three years ago. Williams
WI t anu 1 G+SdT Hts dlsJ SeDtEHCtQ AoE as
sisfins in the murder, received respite a
few days ago.
George Webb of Telgarden, Ind, while
under the influence of liquor, killed his
two-y year oil ] child and then blew his own
brains out Tue husband aud wife had
lived unnsppily, and the latter had applied
for divorce.
Joseph Marphy. an old and respected
resident of North Alton, H., committed
suicide by hanging himself in his sable
vi a halSer, while temporarily insane.
he went 10 Ilinois in 1886.
During the disaster at Carlyon, n Y, the
body of ex- Mayor Hayne of Chicsgo was
robbed of everything valuable. Fra
Bottsford has been sentenced to SIX months
IL the Monroe county, N. Y, jail, for the
crime
Thomas Taylor, arrested In New York on
charge OF abscondiug from Chicago with
funds of the Bricklayers' UNION, of which
he was secretary, has peen turned over to
Chicago officers.
Thomas C4rmody, the six teen-y ear-old
son of John Carmody, who lives on farm
four miles south of R3wley, Iowa. hanged
himself in his fathers barn few days 400.
Felix wilson, colored. in Jail at Charlotte,
n. G , for mur Ter hung mself in his cell
the tiird condemned criminal in two years
to take his own life.
George @. Wendell, letter carrier of
Jersey CRY and son of the assistant post
master there. has been arrested for stealing
money from letters
Joha Mccain, Russell sages clerk kicked
an officer out doors who came 10 serve D
prs on his employer, recently, and went
to the Tombs tor it.
Two tramps recently stoned the house OF
Franklin Monroe in Hun locks Creek.
Pa Monroe fred upon them, killing one.
Samuel MeNeal.
Craft, the Highland, KY. murderer, has
issued card denouncing George Ellis
as a liar and begging for delay of sen,
tence.
Mrs Vreeland, insane, killed Keeper
Wayne at Erie, Penn, with an iron bar
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The Omaha road was completed to Ray
field, Wis, few days ago, but the en-
vas not celebrated until the 18th inst.
| when the fist train arrived. Throughout
the day an engine stood IL front Of the town
and whistles We're blown, ard bells rug
he dag long. Tle FIRST tram over the new
| road was expec ed early in the afternoon,
bur, for some reason or other, did not r
rive until $50 at night. Its approach was
the signal tor one grand hgnan, BAYFIELD,
the extreme northern limiI of the Omaha
road, and, inc u Ting it, the ad now has
four take tefmini. These are Bay field, Ash
iand, WashbuFn and Superior Bayfield,
dis'anced about twelve miles from ASH
land Junction. NJ time tat has vet heen
arranged, bat trains will now be run regular
y between bayfield, and Sc. Paul.
There is quite stir in Chicago among
the officials of the passenger depar ment OF
tie trunk lines over the payment of heavy
commission to brokers tor the sale OF tick
cts between all leading points by the Penn.
syl7a1ia company. This! pad has always
opposed the paymeat OF com EissiOners
an. tor a long time refused 10 70 low the
example OF their lines. 1t has been fore
III by competition, however aad it is
claimed is paying heavier commissions
than any 0 her line, with view to forcing
adjustment OF the entire system l. is
stated that IS high as SIT com mission has
been paid on tic&st from New Yor to
) francisco,
R9mors are current that Albert Keep,
president of the Northwestern road, intends
10 resign next Jane in order to make Gu ex,
tended trip through Europe. Marvin
Hughift, vice president and general mana
ger, Is q be promoted to the preside ncy,
I'D in order to relieve him of a portion OF
mis- duties, report has it that c. Wheeler
te OF the Atchison, Topeka g. mia Fe, is
% be placed in charge ofthe business of til,
ST. Paul d Omaha road. MIR. Wheeler is
NOT only to have charge of tue direct basl
cess oflbe Ollaha road, but also OF that il
eonnec ion with the Northwes ern. His
headquarters are TO be in Caicigo.
The Bitter Ro It Valley Railroad com
pany If Montana was recently incorporated
by The following ger tleuleE: w. F. Sander
AID E Stone OF Helene; f. II WoJSy, L
A. Ea0y, and A. 3. Hammond OF Nilsson
5. II IS the intention OF the Incorporates
o build railroad from Nj ssoula up to th
head of Bitter Root Valley. The capital
stock is 81 900, 900
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The Streets of Cairo.

FROM Reveis Egypt.
The most popuious streets Of Cairo are
more popuIous and more crowded than
any street in Paris, but their life is OF a
different kind. There is no regularity
in it; in one place the street is blocked
up l,v a group of musicians, around
whom q group of idleis gather; In an
other %pedd ar attracts the crowd,
showing the stuffs which he carries on
his shoulders; another r.an, his fin 'ers
covered with rinss TOR sale, displays
them in the ewes of customers. Often
we are stopped on our way by tocks OF
sheep and Goats, or camels laden with
great stones or beams OF tim
Der Tat We encounter as we
pass. The greater part of the
passe ngers in the streets are mounted
on d )nkeys. How Often in the streets
OF Cairo have seen the wel-known
picture of the "Flight into Egypt" re-
produceli Upon donkey is yelled
woman, with child in her arms; by her
side man with white beard, wearing
long robe holding in one hand stick
and re ting the other upon the neck of
the beast. to gnide and urge him. But
there is one point in which the tablesu (
vlyant of which | am speaking differs
from that Of the pictures; that is, that
in the east the women do not sit on the
animals they ride, as ours DO, but be-
stride them like men. VIII they go
on foot they generally carry their clli-
dren astride upon their shoulders, the
little creatures leaning with both hands
upon this head Of its mother, IL is
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az sang about my work, as put things
| in shape around the room, and viewed
the brilliant sunset, without fear or
care.
Thomas, our new man-of-all work,
was very busy pottering about the
grounds, tying up grapevines and mulch
| ing eyeigreens / knew there was some
coarse aftermath upon the hill that faith
er was anxious 10 have put on the straw
berry be is. and, seeing Thomas 20 up
there with his basket, | tied Il scar over
my head, took another basket, and went
| up to help him.
"As % ,ssed up the hill, | saw man
| in the highway speak tc him, hesitated
about going on, but the man made only
| a moments pause, and then went down
| the hill and was soon concealed by a
| turn in the highway.
stWho was that, Thomas?" inquired.
"Oh, miss. it was N IN from the
mills. saving that my brother has had
| bad tal on the dam and is believing for
me to ONE and see him. His legs are
broken entirely
"What will you do?"
al told the man | could not come to
see him to day-but il | went, Miss. |
would be sure to be back by III CLOCK,
if not earlier"
"You may go, Thomas, your brother
is hurt so bad. Papa will not be away
long"
but, my yonng LADY,
"Neyer mn d me IN such case as
this" | was always very tender-heart ed.
you may go. and / will run right back
to the house."
"He talked few minutes more, was
profuse in his thanks for my kindness,
and then started down for the city. l
took up the two baskets and went sing
ing to the house.
Il sat alone by the open window, en-
ioying intensely thus being alone, and
the quiet beauty of this cool autumn
evening.
perhaps you wonder at this" and
the dimpes played about her pretty
mouth, ''but little birds were singing d
new song in my heart, and the quiet let
me hear the sweet echoes.
''But directly chided myself for being
rather careless, as the road was thor
oughfare, and chance stragger might
surprise me. | arose, closed my WIN
dow, and oheying some strange, I'M
pressive power, walked through the
hall into the library, took my fathers
KEY from It's accustomed place, unlocked
his desk, found the package of $5,0oO,
and, placing it in my bosom, relocked
the door and returned to the sitting
room. / did not light lamp; | had
no need of fire, as that from the
kitchen stove warmed tue sitting
room sufficiently in this mild wealth
err.
''The house was old-fashioned, very,
with fireplace in the sitting-room open
ing up into chimney of capacity sutti..
cient Tor a boundary stack. We had
cheerful open fires latter on; but the
house being an ancestral pile, was get
ting somewhat dilapidated, and the par
tition separating the large chimney had
fallen in. Men had been sent out to
clear the rubbish and make repairs, but
the work, half done, was suspended on
account of the arrival of Capt. Boswell
and this important business affair.
would have enjoyed immensely to
kindle a sparkling tlre in the huge,
wide fireplace, but as affairs were,
could not. j unused in darkness for
hours.
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The Casualty Record.

At Waukan, Wis, on the 9ra inst, Mrs
Trougert, section bUss oa the ST. PsuI rail-
road, his wife and baby, accomptuled by
his daughter and her husband ana child,
who live near Rush Lake, were riding on b
hand-car, Mrs. Trougerts hat blew og. and
in reaching for it her baby slipped out OF
her hands in front of the car The little one
vas caught up by the gear Wheels and in
al instant was crushed amorg the gears
aud wound upon the shaft o the machinery,
being torn limb from limb and is fe,h
era med in the meshes of the c0gs lbe
car was thrown FROM the track, snd th0s
on II were hurled soMe diSta ae. Both WI :
men were very badly hurt and are now it,
4 preca'ious condition, while the other
child was also quite badly Injured,
Arvi.ls, small station on the Larimore
division of the Manitoba railway. was ter
ror y ID recently by party of three dru ken
iaborers connected with threshing perty
The party. armed with Winehesters, rode
into Arvi'la, and firing righ ami left, drov
citizens into their houses. Ore Swede was
shot through the thigh. No arrests, and
none OF the names of The party known.
When the local Texas Pacific passenger
train pulled out rom Marshall, Tex. few
days ego, new or ignorant brakeman, III
haste to get aboard, turned the saitch be-
ore the last trucks passed and threw the
rear couch, with passel gers own a fifteec
loot trestle. The slow motion otthe tr in
prevented a fearful accident As it was
en- PERSONS were more or less il Tired.
1 A saloon keeper of Dubuque named Henry
KooI,u an left that city sumo weeks since
with the intention o. going to Cascade and
Monticello since which time nothing HIS
been heard of MIN. He had $500 on his
person at The time, and it is feared he mas
met with foul play.
at Scranton, Pa, Jennie n on's friend
heard she was dead. called and found her
live. Expressing surprise, JenAie fell in a
swoon, and died next day.
An insane man committed suicide at the
Ramsey county, MINI, Jail, st. Paul, on
the h inst, by haagihg himself to the cell
door with blanket
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The Dry Goods i9ommefelsI Agency re-
ports that Hymas Brothers, large firm o.
Nav York and San Francisco in the whole
sale clothing trade has suspended with
liabilities OF S25o,090.
Harvey Mann, an old resident of Marble
Rock, Iowa, eec5ed county surveyor at the
late election. committed suicide at his home
ny drowning.
Gov. M rray Of Utah recommends dras
tic me 3sures Tor the cure OF The p ygfmy
u Ger. II the legislature elected under the
imunds law fai3s to repeal the laws of
tue erritory n conf c. with the authority
Of co gress, he .uls htv4 thu organic law
repealed auG ne community deprived OF
even q e rtorial government Congress,
~ thinks, sbCul3 ass. sue comp etc control,
ard reiorm and Te establish the political
sanity from the bottom.
The body oi man was found in the Mis-
siFsiali near Point Douglas, Washington
ca, From letters in is POCKET il is thought
that the MAJ was Peter 5. HUT. his sister
Mary having writes him from Frankfort,
herkiueF county, n. Y, on wo occasion 5
direc,i1 e 10 him - Lsma1s, iowa. Tie re-
m sins vas bJaied at Point Douglas.
Robert NJ. paimer. a rising young a tor
my OF Albert Les, FIR, eborn Co, was acct
dentally s. 1t BY friend while out huntir G
at Bear Lake, ia that county, on the I1th
inst. Tae chsIga lodged under his knee
cap and $ vered sn artery, causing death
from loss of blood in four hours Mr..
Palmer vas enssgea 20 a young lady, aad
the wedding was 10 have taSen place in q
lev VS.. He was brother ofC. r. Palm
er. Mime potts attorney.
Not % be outdons in Charity, the butch
ers and dtovers Of IT. Paul are making
larse aad effective preparations for the bal
to be gwen, under tseir aaspices. TOR the
benefit of the sufferers ~ the Rochester cy-
c one.
The new Braineri hotel will be called
Tie Vl.lald.
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Petroleum Motors.

Petroleum motors--that is, engines
fo- obtaining motive power from an ex.
plosiye mixture of gasoline vapor and
air-are now constructed in Germany
on principle which. it would appear
realizes efFectually some long-sought
advantages. The working cylinder Is
eight inches in diameter. with fourteen
and three sixte- nths' inch stroke, and
the general de ign of the machine ia
similar to tina OF certain types Of gas
engines. The gasoline is led through
pipes to the pump cylinder, where it
mixes with definite proportion Of at
mospheric air; and the mixture is then
compressed and forced into the working
cylinder, where it is ignited by lamp
separately supplied with oil In the
various trials made with this description
of engine, the maximum force obtained
is given as four and five-tenths' horse
power, with 1870 revolutions per min
ute the consumption of spirit, OF specific
gravity 0,675, was at the rate of one and
three fourths to two and one-half pints
per horse power.
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Ill.

really took no heed of time, until
nv quick ear caught the sound of foot
fall approaching, close up 10 the door
step, / could have taken an cath. 1t
was so light an echo that | sprang to my
feet, thinking that my Cousin Milly,
absent when my father called and re-
turning later, had come down to stay with
NE.
II sprang up with smile to answer
her knock, albeit was bit jealous o.
her pretty face; but no knock came,
and tie echoes died out. and altogether
| concluded | had deceived myself in
regard 10 them. Anyhow, | would
.ight the lamp | did so and was start
ied to fini it past 10 o'cl ,ck. / WAS suf-
ticiently aroused from my reyerie to
want q hook from the library shelves.
took up my lamp and went singing in
to the room.
81 obta ned the desired volume, step
ped down from the stool, and
eff ever anyone felt themselves dying
I did at that moment NY song died on
nv lips. while a thous md thoughts
seemed TO fash into my mind in one IN
slant. Invoiuntarily gasped, and then
with a strong effort of the will power,
for WnlCn am iaulDust L AoOk up tHc
song again and sang it to the close.
Among other thing, | remembered
the latentss Of the hour and the proba-
bilty that all the people were in bed
and asleep. | remembered the foot
steps in the door ward, and-and d er
was d fresh, pnngent smell of tobacn"
smoke in the room. A scent OF smoke
that was not in the room when | VAS
there and placed the package of money
in my bosom.
Do you wonder that my brain reelcd
and my hea. t stopped beating for an in
slant? Besides, whoever the robber
was. he would soon hegin work, not
knowing how early my father and the
captain might return. And | should De
murdered. somewhere within few
wards or a few feet of me the robber as
sassin was concealed-either in the re-
cess behind the cabinet, or under the
long. draped, paper-strewn table.
"A faint sound outside nearly made
me set down the lamp; stillI had uneon-
sciously left my first. sone.indIwas.-inging
Fer bride soldier won ner,
And winning tongue had ne,
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Statistics just .abulated by railroad
commissioners Of the several states,
show that during the mo tn Of Augns t
last, throughout the country, there were
II railroad accidents, in which forty
two persons were killed ami 1876 injured
an increase o five accidents, but de-
crease Of four killed and eighty.six in
cured, as compared with August, 1882
The month Of August has usually made
very unfavorable showing, and this
year is no exception, although there Is
some improvement over last year. The
eight months Of the current wear to the
end OF August, show a iotal of 1914 az
cidents, 500 killed and l,l48 injured; a
montbiy average Of G34 accidents, forty
killed and III injured. August was
above the average in the number OF ac-
ciients, abage it also IN killed, kut
signify below in injured. There were
no notable fatal accidents during the
mouth.
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A writer in tho London Times gives
this as an example the condition of
the Chinese peasant: "A family con-
sisting Of eight persons lwnsa an acre and
tialf of land The land was bought by
Jhe grandfather Of the present head and
has never been subdivided since nor
aided to. He grows about seventy
bushels Of rice and thirty five Of wheat
and some vegetables and cotton besides.
worth altogether in money about $50
lie has two Hephews who work outside
and bring home something to help, end
IN that way they get along. but they are
very poor. He and all his nei lhbors
wear native blue cloth. spun and woven
~ the family by the women from cotton
grown by themselves. He never wore
foreign cotton. The coat he had on "a
well-worr aft ir,l had been made two
years previously, and it would last two
years more, II served him by night as a
coverlet as well as a coat hv day,