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as this had the required effect they soon lay in TOW on the ground in front of the log-house so sick as to be utterly helpless. The whites ministered to them most tenderly meanwhile, saying only:
 Bad Indian! Great spirit punish bad Indian for troubling his white broth CT"
 My great-grandmother Stevens fitted about in her satin gown, and with the help of her neighborS the abundant din- ner was on the table in good time, and although portion of everything was offered. to the Indians, they could not eat, they were too sick even to crawl away.s
 In this condition they were all loaded upon sled and hauled to the block house, where they wore cared for until they were well, when their weapons were returned to them and they were sent away to their tribe loaded with gifts, each one receiving a goodly DOT tion of maple sugar for the delectation of his own sweet tooth.
 The hearts of the Indians seemed to he touched with the most profound gratitude at thIs kindly treatment, and neither at that time nor at any other were the people in that neighborhood molested by the red men, and the block-house decayed and fell to the ground without ever again being occu- pied.
 In honor of that day and that vic- tory,. Great-grandmother Stevens, as long as she lived, on Thanksgiving Day, arrayed herself in her brave crimson satin and yellow bodice and so the dear old lady who told me this story we'll remembered her.--St Louis ReDubLicnn.
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Memory and appetite alike failed.

He even forgot to charge a client five dollars, under the head of advice, for ask ing the time on the steps of the City Hall.
 One day the title of an old book on an old book-stand caught his eye" The Moon, by Bjornbog SkijajoghOg, the great Norwegian astronomer"
 He purchased the book, and fell to de- vouring it like madman.
 Suddenly a yellow paper fell to the ground.
 It bore the following cipher:
 "Noomeht ot yaw sih elddap dna ecaps nj miws nae ell ytivarg lla sesol sthgin evif dna syad evf rof shgual ohw enc ynA.'
 Jacques spent weeks over the riddle.
 One day when on the verge of madness he happened to look backwards at it All was clear in a second.
 The riddle read:
 Any one who laughs for five days and five nights, loses all gravity. He can
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They try. Horrors!!! They can not de- scend.
 Who can describe their horrible situation, hunting for days on the moons surface for rocks to put in their pockets, to give them weight
 At last their powers fail, and they fall fainting iH the sand.
 Suddenly a cry rings on the air: "Saved! Saved!! Saved!!l" exclaims Jacques, in a paroxysm of joy. II have found it."
 "What?" gasped his friend.
 "A copy of an English comic paper in my vest pocket; we have nothing to do but read the jokes"
 In few minutes more the adventurers are falling through the air at a frightful rate of speed. ....,
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PITH AND POINT.

The advertiser. no matter how small his fayors. is like the brave gen. 'eral. He considers his place to be at ike head of the column. Trans. DTpt. The sporting fraternity has grown ! so respectable of late that young lady whose father is in the undertaking bus I mess now speaks of her parent as a professional boxer.
 Mrs. Fogg says she doesn't think much of the special-delivery system. She gave Fogg letter last week, and it hasn't yet reached its destination. She found it in Fogg's pocket this morRing. just the same as usual. -Bos ton Transcript
 -''No," he said, T shall remain sim gle. Matrimony is getting more ex- pensive every day. A man can t marry now without paying fifty cents for a Ii- cense. Let's go in and have some thin r." And when he left the saloon he was S2 poorer.
 An exchange observes that widows ! are always favorites with men. There are some big chunks of truth in this A man may abuse his wife every day of her life, but as soon as she becomes his widow he never even looks cross at her again.-BinghGnlto7 Rep bLtcGn.
 A poor little eight-year-old girl of Westminster. Conn, goes to the Reform School for thirteen years or hitting woman with an apple. The apple has probably made more trouble for woman than any other fruit, except, possibly, he cucumber. .-BurIingtO75 Fres Press-
 A strong reason:
 Atear was in her eye:
 Was 1t for days gone by,- Or for the years that CT her fast were ateal-
 An, welled 1t from her souI2
 Oh, no, it was the toll
 Collected by the onion she was peelins.
 -"Can't you give ne another pail to put your milk in?' said the milk man to the girl the o:her morning. Why, what's the matter with that one you' Ve got in your hand?" "Why, it leaks. want one that's watertight-" The girl went to get one, but she thought much as she went. YorskerS Statesmen.
 Farmer (to tramp who has been looking around his house for some timel: Say. what are you looking for?" Looking for work, boss?" "Come out here. can give you some work" '1 don't want no work" ''Then what are you looking after work forP" ''So kin dodge it, of course. ''- Ne1O Fork MaiJ and Express.
 A scientist named Olszewski has succeeded in obtaining a temperature of 393 degrees below zero. He probably experienced this ss-g depth s of a fgigidness in with whom he had fiirted at the sea- side. In order to obtain temperature of 393 degrees above zero. we've been told, 8 man must gO home at 2 a. m. when his wife is sitting up for him. NorriStO1O11 HeraId
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EXHAUSTION OF SOILS.
Words of Warning to Careless Western
 Agriculturists.

"
 Agriculturists.
 No country was ever blessed by na tlIre with more productive soil. She made the best possible use of the long ages prior to the settlement of the coun- try by white men, in forcing the most luxuriant growth of vegetation, and by its decay and that ot the annual crop of foliage, and filled the soil with an amount of fertility that seemed exhaustless. So thought our fath- CTS and so think now many of the occupiers of the great fertile West. But continual taking out and putting nothing back would exhaust even the ocean. It has ex- hausted the millions of acres of the older East, and It will exhaust the most fertile fields of the West A study of the census mutt convince any search CT that the production of all our crops is year by year growing less and less. It can not be attributed to change of seasons for series of years, but eau be only to one cause.-the gradual ex- haustion of plant food by our unthink- ing and unwise course.
 This subject of husbanding the re. sources of our acres, and of returning to our starving fields those elements of plant growth quite or nearly exhausted, is yearly forcing itself more prominent ly upon the attention of the farmers of at least the eastern half of the country, and the line is very rapidly extending westward. Millions of acres that once prodced magnificent crops of the va- riOus grains, even west of the great lakes, are now lying vacant, or barely paying for the most shiftless cultivation. This question can not be seriously con- sidered too soon, even by the farmers on the now rich and productive prairies west of the great rivers. Every train hat passes eastward is loaded with DOT tion of their fertility, much of it in the crude and barely remunerative state of bran, oil meal, and the coarser grains, and to the shame of the farmers, even in the bones of their animals, while the returning trains carry back noth- ing in the nature of plant food.
 Though Western farmers may think they have no need of such knowledge, they should not fail to thoroughly post and those farmers who do so and who take advantage of this will, by and by, be looked upon as the ''lucky ones" who have the richest farms in the vicinity in which they live.-RNrGL Ne00 Yorker.
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The Farmers Triumph.

"Did you get any diplomas at the fair, :" asked Deacon DOgwood of Farmer Fur. row.
 "N-n-no, not yet" he replied, with a faint effort to look cheerful; "I'm in 8 sort of a bad fix.''
 "Why, what's the matter?'
 "Wall, had some fine oats on exhibi- tion, and the jockeys took 'em for horse feed; my old woman had a crazy quilt there, and the durned rascals used it for a horse blanket Sal had some of her best fruit there, but the judges ate it all up Of course, I kicked up row, and they said they'd give me diploma to hush the mat ter p."-Indtdndpolis Sentinel.
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TOO MUCH EVEN FOR A CAT
THE END.

It was tiny little bird That sat upon tree And warbled from her throbbing throat Her trilling minstrelsy. A crouching, creeping Thomas cat GaZed at her from below, But she sang on and paid no heed Unto her cruel foe. And nearer crept the Thomas cat And then he made spring The hapless bird was in his mouthl But ceased not yet to sing. Oi then chaste music's holy charm Itself made felt ere long: The cat released the singer, which Still chanted its clear song. An, baffled cat! ah. happy birdl An, music's wOndrOuS power! The bird, though, was pretty toy, Which, wound up, sang an houri
 Boston GdzEttE
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CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER II. faiiaiicC . CT fEU palace of Jondrette papa in Fifth avenue.
 The family bulldog is pouring forth his soul in the back yard.
 A young man kneels at the feet of Jon drette's papa. His hand is clasped in the lily-white flipper of JOndrette.
 Jondrette is weeping
 In a short space of time she had shed four quarts of tears.
 To be more explict-a gallon. Nothing would soften the hard heart of the old man.
 In vain they threatened to commit sui eide and other crimes.
 Twill nothing move you, hard heart" gasped Jacques.
 ''Yes, Monsieur, she is yours" A wild cry of joy broke from the lips of the happy pair, and rang and re-echoed through the awful silence of the dark dun geon-no we mean through the richly-fur- nished apartment (The fact is we were
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CHAPTER I.
 Jacques Courbeaudocq was lawyer. He was a criminal lawyer.
 It is sometimes difficult to distinguish which is the criminal, and which is the lawyer, but let thar pass.
 Lawyers are men who collect claims on a five per cent. basis.
 You get the five per cent-the lawyer gets the rest.
 Lawyers get more rest than any other class of professional men.
 Jacques had red hair.
 It was so frey that the building inspect or ordered him to wear fire escape down his back.
 The foregoing statement is poetic license that is, it is lie.
 Jacques loved beauteous maid named Jondrette.
 Jondrette's papa was a retired sausage manufacturer from Chicago.
 He had been knighted by the New York Genealogical Bureau on payment of forty dollars. The trinity of life to him was his pipe, cheese and beer.
 Love for Jondrette caused Jacques heart to beat wildly from morn to night.
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cheese knife and forty pounds of humor- OuS papers.
 When they reached the top of the eleva. tor they looked straight up and commenced to laugh. They read and laughed, and laughed and read.
 People said 'they are mad"
 For five days and five nights they laughed.
 At the end of that time they had no weight. Their gravity was completely overcome.
 They could float in space.
 With a glad shout they sprang out into the ether, and began :o paddle like mad men for the noon.
 On and on they sped, paying their re spects to the Big and Little Bear. the Seal, the Walrus, and other animals in the celeS- tial menagerie. They said to huge star: ''Who are you?'
 Uranus" was the reply.
 You're anotheE," said they.
 At which the stars in their courses groaned in chorus
 The journey is at last over and with a glad cry the UoydgerTs strike cheesd tiTmG. In trice Jacques cxlts huge fragment from the surface of the moon, and wraps ii in a silk handkerchief.
 ''Let us descend" said he.
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In A Critical Condition.

Minister Gust before church service)- How is our worthy brother, Deacon Smith, getting on, Doctor?
 Physician-He Is in very critical condi, tion. was at his house three times yes terday and once this morning.
 Minister (with concern)-Indeed! I will ask the prayers of the congregation in his behalf,-N. r. Sun.
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VOLUME XIV.
CHES1NUTS.
Applicable to any modern mildewed joke.

Applicable to any modern mildewed joke. When this old joke was new,
 This time worn heritage, The monkey-man its point did scan On pre- historic page. The footmark was the only print The leaves were leaves that grew The only tint was natures tint When this old joke was new. When this old joke was new Our literature was scant, And 6herateurS had no reviewers With hearts of adamant. No wild-eyed poets raVed of spring We had our tails it's true, But novels weren't a general thing When this old joke was new When this old joke was new We drew an easier breath, For we had then no funny men To make us long for death. There was no clown auStere and fat To paint our faces blue; They wouldn't have tolerated that When this old joke was new. When this old joke was new We somehow hadn't hit The loss of shame which builds "name' On other peoples wit. Perhaps folk IS were more honest then, Had couscienccS a few, And differed from our race of men When this old joke was new.
 -Hal Berte, in Detroit Free Press.
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CHAPTER V.

The foreman is yelling for copy. and we shall have to condense this last chapter. Jaeques-glad cry-green cheese-beer- Bless you, my children-Do you take this woman?-1 dO-superb collation., elegant $-S-S-newspape reporters, recherche beautifuI-accompli etc. twenty-three corner brackets-twenty-six silver-plated butter dishes.
 THE END.
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A TRIP TO THE MOON.
Jacques Courbeaudocq's Wonder
 ful Achievement.

The Lovers-The Csc Condition-The Mys. terious Riddle and Its SoIUtion-The Joupney-"saved! Saved! i''-The
 Return-Wedding Bells.
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THE HARD-HEARTED PARENT.

getting this story mixed with next week. s romance, and beg the readers pardon for the mistake.)
 ''On one condition," continued the old man, with scOrnful laugh.
 ''Name it." said both, in breath.
 'That you bring me a chunk of the green cheese from which the moon is made, to eat with my beer," said the old man, with a hideous leer.
 JOndrette gave low moan and fell faint ing over a King Anne rocking chair.
 "I will do it." said Jacques.
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It beat so loudly as to annoy the rest of the bOarderS.
 But by all means let us avoid turning this original romance into farce.
 Il will ask for her hand," said Jacques.
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CHAPTER "

CHAPTER ". At noon of the seventeen FeFfier, two ffgufes wefe ascending on the car of the; high elevator at Ceaey Island.
 They were Jacques and friend. The. friend had had a little friendly mi g. understanding with the bank of which lle was cashier, and gladly consented to a to'hI for his health.
 The two men had provisions, a hu ge
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CHAPTER III

CHAPTER III. For days Jacques tasted nothing. He bored night and day over works OE astronomy.
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CHAPTER I.

AFTER JULES VERNE. Robert D. Brain, in Texas Siftings.l
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! swirnEin srace and paddle his way ts the
 lsmonn:'' ''I'shall succeed" said he.
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CONDENSED rELeoRAMs.

The president and directors. OF the Aurora
Watch Company OF Chicago, filed n bill yes
teiday IN that city, In which they allege that
Maurice Wendell, secretary and treasurer
and chief stakeholder, has spent $206 900 OF
the company's funds In little more than a
year.
W. W. Bair and G. II. Phipps yesterday
leased the Belmont trottlng track at Patla.
delphia Tor three years, dating from the arst
OF April next BAR is tho ell-known driver
Of Maud S., and II Is expected that the famous
mare will take her spring work over this
course.
The oficlols OF the International window.
Glass Workers Association have received In.
telligence OF an extensive strike inaugurated
by Belgian glass workers against reduction
OF 10 per cent. In wages. The strike, 1t Ia
thought, will have the effect OF booming the
trade in this country.
Owing 10 the danger threatening the Penn.
sylvania Railroad bridge at Columbia, Pa, ia
the event OF an ice break up In the Susque
hanna River, the railroad onlcials decided "a
blast the Ice In the Immediate Vicinity OF the
bridge. II was then discovered that the river
IN many places Is frozen to the bottom, thus
rendering the plan impractlcable.
The court at Pittsburgh, Pa, yesterday
granted non.suit In the case OF b. J. McGraun,
contractor, OF Lancaster, Pa, against the Pitts
nureh & Lake Erie Railroad Company for
100000 for extra work alleged to have been
done In building the road. The ground on
which the non-suit was granted was the failure
OF McGrann 10 show that fraud had been
practiced on him by the road.
Governor Sheldon OF New Mexico has orerad
reward OF 81 900 for the capture OF a border
ruillan named Dick ROgere, who has been
running tho town OF Ration at Intervals during
several weeks. His latest exploit was taking
possession OF dance hall, and with the as
sistance OF four comrades compelling the In.
mates to dance at the muzzle OF pistol all
night.
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Newsboxs, Ala society.

The executive committee and the ad-
visory board of the Newsboys' Aid Society
met in the Riggs House last evening at
1850 D. m. The president, Mrs. Darwin
r. James, laid before the meeting, for con-
sideration, suggestions from the society
upon the importance of securing, in the vi
entity of the newspaper offices, room or
house for the newsboys and bootblacks, to
be fitted up with baths and system Of
boxes to serve as savings banks; also the
desirability of providing tho boys with
badges, as Is the custom in Detroit and
London. Mr. Beall, Captain Bradford, Mr..
Stinemetz, Hon. Darwin r. James, Hon.
John NJ. Gregory and Professor Il. t.
Greener discussed these subj Gets fully, max
ing many valuable suggestions.
Captain Bradford, Mr.. George w. Adams,
Professor L. T. Greeuer, Mrs, DIR. Talbot
and Mrs. s. D. La Fetra were appointed u
finance committee.
Mrs. Darwin II. James, Mrs. Elphonzo
Youngs, Mrs. r. T. Greener, and Messrs.
Beall and Stinemetz were appointed COM
mittee to look up suitable building and
report as early as practicable.
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Meeting of Mining Engineers.

NEW YORK, Feb. 1S.-Tho forty-lrst
annual meeting Of the American Institute
Of Mining Engineers opened in this city
yesterday. There was a business meeting
teresting public session in the evening at
the Academy of Medicine, No. 10 West
Thirty-fiIst street, where addresses of well
come and some scientific essays were lis
tened TO. Tho members will Inspect the
Stevens Institute of Technology in Ho-
boken to-day, and another session will be
held at the Academy of Medicine in the
evening. Tomorrow the delegates will
visit the lilly Foster Iron Mine, near
Brewster, and will dine at DelmOuico's
after returning. The meeting will close
on Friday. That evening the members
and their wives will attend reception at
ex.May or Cooper's residence.
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The Trnops ror ERNnt.

LONDON, Feb. 1S.-The Duke of Cam
bridge, Commauder-in-Chef of the forces,
accompanied by tho Princess Of Wales, in
speotod the guards to- day previous to their
departure for Suakim. The weather was
fair and the men presented fine appear
ance. AS they rode past the reviewing
stand they were loudly cheered, both for
their fine soldiorly bearing and precision of
action. After the review they wore drawn
up before the grand stand and tho Duko Of
Cambridge, In n short address, urged them
to remember that discipline was one Of the
cardinal virtues of q good soldier. He
hoped, he said, that they would readily aud
gracefully submit to all rules or restrictions
imposed on them. Continuing, the Duke
said: Remember your discipline and duty.
Your gallaptry is undoubted. Good-by
guards" During his address tho Duke was
repeatedly interrupted by applause, and at
the close of his remarks the band played the
national hymn, while tho crowd cheered
and yelled themselves bosrse.
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ST. PAUL. MINI, Feb. 1s.-Jamos H.
Hepryhead, keeper OF the lighthouse at
Frazer Point, and three assistants left VIC
toria, Il. G., some time ago in a boat for the
station. The water was rough, and the
boat never reached its destination. For
several nights the lights were not seen
from tho shore, and finally some people
went out to investigate They found the
lighthouse deserted, Afterward the bodies
of three of the mon were picked up on the
beach. Yesterday a boat drifted ashore,
and dashed to one of the seats was a mans
leg and foot 1t is believed that the boat was
cspsized and righted again, and that one of
the men got in and bailed her out. The oars
having been lost, he probably drifted about
in the boat until he died of exposure aud
starvation. 1t is thought that he lashed
himself fast, but that by the waves or some
collision mis- body was torn loose from tho
fastened limb.
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MONROE, PA, Feb. lS.-Two weeks ago
Ira Ball, manager OF the skating rink here,
elopod with Miss Jennie Carr the 17.yelr-
old daughter Of rich widow. Ball had
heen paying attention TO the young lady,
and Mrs. Carr had ON his account forbidden
her to visit the rink Ball found means to
communicate with her, aud one night she
escaped By means of ladder from hor
room and elopcd with him. They wore
married at midnight in noighboring town.
Mrs. Carr subsequently, accepted tho situa-
tion and took the couple to her home aglln.
Nothing marred their happiness until
yesterday when young woman with an
infant appeared at the Carr Mansion aud
caused sensation by stating that she was
Balls wife. She produced her marrisge
certificate, and on Balls dcnouncing hor a5
u blackmailer she obtained Il warrant for
his arrest but he fed before it could be
served.
Mrs. Carr offers a large reward for his APP
prohension. Since his departure IL has been
discovered that he victimi2ed several young
women in. the town. The affair has caused
great local scandal.
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nisns,crtnnConln.

ERIE, PA, Feb. 1s--As the coffin con.
tanning the remains OF a daughter of Mr..
John Wells was being carried into the
Methodist Church in Wesleyvile, Pa, Mon-
day afternoon, by four young lady pail
bearers, Two of them slipped on the ice
covered steps and the colliu foil. The
shock burst open the casket, allowing the
corpse to roll out upon Que of tho PROSTATE
young ladies, who was frightened into in
sensibility. The body was replaced and
tho services concluded At tho entrance
to the cemetery adjoining the church the
handles of the casket broke and the jar re-
suited in another exposure.
As the coffin was being lowered into the
grave the cords slipped and the casket was
dashed in pieces at tho bottom of tho pit.
The gTavedigger, losing his balance, was
precipitated upon the corpse and was drawn
ont, palsied with fright. Another coffin
and habiliments were procured and the re-
mains inferred without further accldout.
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The Niagara Park.

ALBANY, N. Y, Feb 18.-The report of
the Niagara Park Commissioners states
that it has been resolved to purchase Goat
Bath, Bird, Luna, Chaplin and the Three
Sisters islands, and small islands adjacent,
the bed of the river between the islands and
the New York mainland and the bed Of
the river between Goat Island and the
Canadian boundary, on the mainland, a
strip from Port Day to Prospect Park the
cliff and debris slope, and all lands at the
foot of the falls.
The reservation embraces all points from
which the falls are visible, which are now
fenced in, and for admission TO which a
charge is made. The appraisers appointed
by the Supreme Court award for this prop
eIty 81 ,433,4 29. The report remains TO be
acted or by tho Legislature.