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How to Take Care of q Watch.

The following may be taken as funda-
mental maxims in the care Of watch: {
1. Do not let watch run down, bu.
wind it regularly OF fixed time each
day. :,
3. Set your watch by and compare it
with reliable regulator.
3. Hold the watch still when winding
it.
4. Never shake a watch violently.
s. Never meddle with the works.
6. Never carry your watch near an
electrical machine.
Z. Do not let your watch run more
than two years without cleaning. -,
8. Never put your watch into tho
hands of poor workman.
If your watch stops:
1. See whether it has run down, and
if it has wind and set it. ,
Q. If it has not run down, see whether
the hands have caught. If they have,
by using care you may free them. 1
8. If neither of these, take the Watch
to q matchmaker.
If watch is dropped into the water:
1. If into fresh water, open the cases
to the works and put the watch, opend'
into cup of kerosene or machine on.
No time should be lost in doing this
Then, as soon as possible, take it to a
watch maker.
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TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.
Foreign and DOmes.
tic News by Wire.
Seven Young Men Drowned in
Boston Harbor.

Seven young men were drowned early in
the morning in the harbor of Boston, Mass,
pnly about two miles from saore. About
2:30 A. M, eight young fellows, none Of whom
was familiar with the management of a
nilboat, although one was part owner of the
catrigged yacht In which they embarked,
started for day s sail and fishing. The wind
blew fresh from the west all night and the
sea was rough. OF Thompson's Island the
boat was capsized. Several OF them clung
to the overturned boat for an hour OF
more, and finally becoming exhausted,
they slipped off and were drowned,
one by one, Walter Quinan being
saved. The names Of the drowned
were: James H. Mitchell, Joseph Tufts,
Edgar Maloney, Thomas Troy, all of South
Boston; Albert Lombard, of the West End;
John Sullivan and Lawrence McTarnon, of
Charlestown. The overturned boat was seen
by the night vatchman at Moon Island, and
two young men named John and Edward
Clark pulled out to the scene of the disaster
and at the risk of their own lives finally sue
ceeded in getting young Quinlan into their
boat and landing him in au exhausted and
half drowned condition. John Clark is n
well-known athlete and oarsman, and has on
other occasions sayed people from drowning
There does not appear to have been any
liquor on the yacht, and the accident was
due to lack of knowledge how to handle
the craft in rOugh water
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Oueer Nesting Places.

A new use has been discovered for
electric light globes, says the Boston
Adgertiser. The spring birds have found
that they make excellent places in which
to build their nests, sheltered as IS the
inner space from the winds and storms,
and many lively and lovely courtship
may be seen almost any day by glanclng
at the top of the tall poles.
The newcomers perch upon the edges
of the globes and peep and twitter to one
another as they make their connuDlal ar
raneements. Then they may be seen
bringing their twigs and bits OF straw
and twinc preparatory to beginning
housekeeping. A day or two later ana
the domici!c is all ready for occupancy
One NAV see the little nests from below
through the glass. The dear little TEL:
lows seem happy and contented, although
they live in the full glare OF light by day
and by night.
A birds nest one expects to find hid.
den beneath branch in some cool shady
spot and not in so conspicuous place as
this. But if the birds are happy there IL
is to be hoped that the faithful employees
of the electric light companies Will nos
interfere with them. -
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MURDEROUS ROBBERS.
Two Men Killed and About $4,000
! Stolen in Arkansas.

At an early hour in the morning the
north. oun passenger train on the Cotton
Belt route was robbed by masked men at
point between Camden, Ark, and Texar-
kama, Texas. Two men were killed and
about $1,000 secured.
4 The train was running at the usual rate of
peed, when the engine hit pile of rocks and
timbers, which had been placed on the track
The collision threw the engine over bank.
The engineer was crushed by the fall.
The moment the train came 70 2 stop three
Or four armed men rushed out from q pine
thicket in which they had been anibushed,
and, approaching the express car,
began climbing into it. Messenger Nes-
bitt, who had suspected danger when
the wreck occurred, made brave de-
fense He shot at the intruiers and is be-
lieved to have wounded one or two of them.
He was, however, speedily overcome, the
robbers answering his fire with regular
fus 'lade. He was wounded dangerously, and
it was believed he could not survive.
The car was literally sacked The loss will
possibly reach sl0, 900.
A tramp stealing a ride on the mail
car was killed The Sheriff and posse went
at once to the scene. No passengers or mail
were robbed
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WORDS OF WISDOM.
Guilt is always cowardly.

Guilt is always cowardly.
Actions ore ideas in motion. .---.-,.
The man who does nothing is nothingl
A polished rascal is all the more a ras!
cal.
What a man is, depends upon what he
loves.
If the heart is pure ihe life will be all
right.
Great haste can never overtake lost
opportunity.
The best soldier is the one who obeys
orders the best.
The shortest cut to wealth is through
the lane of contentment. o.!
Some men, during their lives, provide
for everything but death.
The grandest piano ever made had to-
be tuned by tuning fork.
The way to perform great work is to
do little toward it every day.
No man is in a condition to enjoy
riches until he can be happy without
them.
Statues are moulded with little
touches. Characters are formed in the
same way.
When all men become loveable, all will
be loved, and will be loveable when they
love all others.
When truth goes out to battle it neve.
returns bootless. 1t is only falsehood
that is overcome.
A moment is all the time it takes to die.
From life to death is measured by two
ticks of the clock.
The poorest soul on earth is the man
who has no time or inclination to do any
thing but make money. !
A mule will follow a bunch of hay all
day, but he hates to be driven to pas
ture. There is good deal of mule in
man.
You can never go back to where you
were this morning. The wheels of time
revolve only in one direction. They never
turn Observation-Disclosures Rams
Horn
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In the House.

134TH DAY.-The Pacific Railroads Com
mittee reported funding bill. :. Mr.. Nc
Kinlcy reported resolution providing that
the House should proceed Immediately to
the consideration OF the Silver bill, and that
the consideration should continue until Sat-
urday at 3P. n, when theprevious question
should be considered as ordered. Adopted.
McComas, Taylor, O'Donnell, Conger, Will
Jams and Lanham.
135TH DAY-The day and night sessions
were devoted to debate on the silver ques-
tion. Speeches were made by Messrs. Lind,
Lacey, Walker, Perkins, Kerr, Blount, Dor
sey, Holman and Wickham.
136TH DAY.-The entire day was devoted
to tn consideration of the Silver bill. The
bill was passed-yeas. 135; nays, 119.
18TH DAT.-Mr. Oates, Of Alabama, re-
ported the bill to prohibit aliens from &C.
United States. Mr.. O'Nein reported favor
able the bill appropriating $50, 900 for the
erection of monument on the battlefield of
Tippecanoe, Ind, to commemorate the hero
ism Of the men who fought s2d died there
under the leadership Of General William
Henry Harrison :. The rest of the session
was devoted to matters from the District Of
Columbia.
13STH DAY.-The conference report on the
OIL dppTOpTldUluS Sio,VUJ lOl Ouo leiiei VI
A. H. Emery was rejected-yeas, 50; nays,
90. The Postofics Appropriation bill was
passed. Mr.. Milliken presented the confer
ence report on the bill to acquire q site for a
city postofice building in Washington.
Agreed to. :. The Speaker laid before the
House Senate bill anendatory Of the In
ternal Revenue laws. Passed. Some
hours were spent in the consideration Of a
Senate bill for the relief of Hyland G. Kirk
and Others assignees of Addison G: Fletcher,
patentes Of a canceling stamp. The bill was
6pally laid upon the table.
.f5sTa QAy.-The Sundry Civil Appropria'
ton bill was reported. 49,. Mr.. Stewart pre-
sented the conference report on the Senate
Antitrust bill. The Pension bill agreed
upon in Conference Committee was passed,
Lis to 56.SE-.Ths Sneaker annoQ9scc1 tha e:
Continent of Mr.. Minis o. s tne@
Der Of the Committee on Rules and OF Mr..
Turner, of Georgia. as member Of the Com
mittee on Ways and Means, to fill yacancle;
occasioned by ths resignation Of Mr.. Car
Isle. of Kentucky. 2:e;a is7ssIa''
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LATER NEWS.

JUDGE WALLACE, of Syracuse, N. Y, va.
Gated the writ of habeas corpus in the case
Of William Kemmler, sentenced to die by
electricity in the Auburn IN. ~ prison.
BY an explosion of natural gas in the eel
lar of a dwelling-house at Allegheny City,
Penn, Mrs. Kipp, aged seventy years, and
her granddaughter, Lizzie, sixteen years,
were fatally burned.
GRADUATING exercises were held at Col
upabia College, New York city; Princeton,
N. j.; West Point IN. " Military Academy
and Vassar, at Poughkeepsie, n. Y.
EDWARD F. COSTELLO, brakeman, in
stantly killed his little son, nineteen months
old, at Palmer, Mass, while the child lay
asleep in it's cradle.
BURGLARS entered W. D. Norton's jewelry
store, at Gloversville, N. Y, blew open the
safe, and stole about $40, 900 of jewelry.
A DAUGHTER of General Lyons who was
killed at Wilson's Greek early in the Civil
War, has been found working as a cook in
graders camp at Rocky Mountain Lake, Col.
WIDOW BARTHoLoMEw. of Wiiloughby,
Ohio has secured the support Of all the prom
inent men in the town to her candidacy for
Postmistress. This so angered some women
of the town that they stormed her shop with
rotten eggs.
IT is reported that every gambling house
in Chicago has been closed.
PoTTsBoRo, Texas, is in ashes. Thirteen
of the largest business houses in the town
were burglarizsd and then fred. .EsssA
-! .-~-..ss-sG.-t:-.r-i..
THERE is a shortage of 81 o90 in the funds
Of the Michigan S tate Soldiers Home.
W. ". DIcKERsoN, Of Grant county, KY,
! was S Nominated by acclamation on the 2o7th
ballot for Congress to succeed John G. Car:
| Isle.
THE Canadian schooner North Star has
been seized off the coast of Washington Coz
smuggling Cinnamon into the United States.
THE Senate confirmed the nomination of
Thomas NJ. Newson, OF Minnesota, to be
United States Consul to Malaga.
CHAIRMAN CANNON, from the Committee
On Appropriations, submitted to the House
the sundry Civil Appropriation bill, making
lao pages-the largest appropriation bill yet
submitted. The bill recommends total ap.
propiation of s27, $40, 513.
The strike Of tho Bohemian coal miners
in the district of Pilsen has ended in the de-
feat of the men owing to hunger. 1t lasted
twenty-four days
QUEEN VIcToR1A's favorite lady in wait
ing, the Marchioness Of Ely, is dead.
TEE freedom OF the City Of Edinburgh,
Scotland, was presented to Mr.. Stanley.
THE wedding Of William OBrien. the well
known Irish leader and editor Of tho Free
mans Journal, and Mile. Rafalovitch,
daughter of NJ. Raffalovitch, banker of
Paris. took place at the Brompton Oratory
in London, England.
THE murder of three Christians man
woman and child, BY Turks, and the wound
ing of several others in Crete has been re-
ported from Athens, Greece.
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A LASSO DUEL.
Two Mexican Cowboys Fight to tho
Death

Two Mexican Cowboys Fight to tho
Death.
A most remarkable duel took place near
Moore station, Texas. The participants were
Jose Carraseo and Wamaupa Bass, two Mex
ican cowboys. The young mon had quarrel
over some trivial matter and one
of them challenged the other to
fight duel. Both are expert manlpuia-
tors of the lasso, and after considering the
matter of weapons to be used the one 70
whom the challenge was made chose the iaSSo,
and it was agreed between them that tne
battle was to be to tho death.
The spot chosen was about one milo IRON
the station and accompanied by lew osner
cowboys the men prepared for the tgnt.
The duel was On exciting one from the start.
Both were mounted, and, after num-
Der of Intellectual throws of therope by esch,
-Carraseo succeeded in catching the loop about
BASIS neck. The struggle Of the latter to free
himself caused his horse to become frightened
sand he was thrown and dragged by Carraseo
some distance, until his neck was broken;
The people of the neighborhoo1 soon learned
of the fatal affray and set out to capture
, Carraseo who had ridden OF.
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A Strange Inspiration.

A New Yorker, famous in the world
of letters, awoke one night recently from
a sound sleep. So far as he knew he had
not been dreaming. He composed him
self again and was sinking into slumber;
when there came into his mind, ,as though
out of the darkness, two lines of verse,
rhythmical but senseles5. They kept
him awake, and after a time two lines
more, equally smooth and absurd, pre-.
sented themselves to his consciousness.
1t seemed to him as though some one:
were debating nonsensical doggerel to
him from the shadows of the night. Un-.
able to sleep he arose and went down.
stairs to his library. He sat quiet in the
darkness for a while, hoping that he
would fall asleep in his chair. But a,
second verse, perfect in form but absurd
in meaning, came into his mind, and
then a third and fourth. Lighting lamp,
he took up pen and wrote down rapid
ly the lines that had come to him. As he
wrote, new verses fell from his pen, and
when he had finished his task poem of
eight stanzas lay before him. He was
surprised to find that, taken in their en-
tirety, the verses were fur from mean
ingless.
He at once put the poem in an envel-
ope and directed it to publishing firm.
Placing it among other letters to be
mailed by a servant in the morning, he
returned to bed and at once fell asleep.
Upon awaking he was uncertain
whether he had dreamed of writing
poem or had merely transcribed one. AS
his letters had been posted he had no
means of deciding the question. His un-
certainty was pleasantly relieved the
aS. however, by the receipt of q
Some c6eck from his publishers and
tier yfaising his poem. The pecuG-i
Ey of this case which makes it very
fercnt from the celebrated instance of |
oleridge and his poem OF "Kublau
lkhan," lies in the fact that the author
had not been dreaming. He awoke from
what seemed to him dead sleep, and
found that his imagination had produced,
without conscious effort on his part, q!
perfect poem.-New York World.
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Foreign.

Foreign.
CHOLERA is rife at Desireh, on the Tigris
in Asiatc Turkey. A sanitary Gordon has
| been placed around tho town.
LA GRAND CHARrREUsE, the famous old
monastery in the Department Of Issre.
France, has been much damaged by the e1-
plosion of quantity Of dynamite. The das-
tardly outrage was the work Of design.
TIE German War Minister has made fur
ther demands Of money for military pur-
poses.
The Duke of Orleans, recsntly released
from Imprisonment in France, landed at
Dover, IN England, where he was met By his
| father.
ANOTHER conflict has taken place at Pris-
! tina, Macedonia, between Servians and Ar
t-aauts. Forty Servians were killed and 300
were made prisoners by the Araauts.
FOUR HUNDRE9, houses were destroyed by
fire in the town of 'Doksyce, near Warsaw,
Poland. Ten persons wars burned to death.
The damage to property is immenSe.
PRESIDENT CARXoT, of France has
granted pardons to seventy-two working
men who were convicted and sent to prison
for offenses in connection with strikes. He
refused pardons to twenty-four.
DISORDER has broken out among the
Somali tribes, in Zanzibar, Africa, and there
has been fighting and looting at Meurkaand
and Kismayu. The Sultan has sent rein
forcements. The great tribe of Yaos, at
Kilwa, has declared hostility to all Euro
peans.
THE City Of Rome, Anchor line, ran upon
Fastnet Rock, on the coast OF Ireland,
in fog, and damaged her prov, severely;
no passengers were injured, and the vessel
proceeded to Liverpool.
The Crown Prince Of Italy arrived in Ber-
lin on O visit.
GENERAL P. J. CHAMoRao, ex-President
of Nicaragua, is dead.
THE CROPS in the northern part Of Ger
many are being rapidly destroyed by insects
which infest them in swarms, devouring
everything in the way OF vegetation in their
path.
MAJOR WIssMANN, Imperial German Com
missioner to East Africa, arrived at Suez
He reports that Emin Pasha when he started
for the interior Of Africa was enjoying fine
health.
Two men attempted to row boat across
the river above Grand Falls. New Bruins
wick, but they were drawn into the swif,
rush Of water and swept over the falls tc
death.
HERR WENDELL MALcHoFF, q member oi
the Reichstag and Of the Prussian Diet, ex
pired in fit at Berlin, while dining with
Minister Won Boetticher.
Mr. FULLY, an Irish editor, was sent to
prison for three months for violating the
Grimes Act.
THE British bark Sinapore went ashore at
Cape Corrientes; the Captain and five of ths
crew were lost.
PRINCE BISMARCK, in an interview, attrib.
uted disaffection in Germany and Rus
sia to oyereducation.
JOSE .AsT1oUETA has been appointed Min
lister Of Justice of Argentine. The minis.
terial crisis has ended.
JOHN HAwARD, Of Gorrie, Canada, and
William Whally, Of Cohoes, N. Y, were
drowned at Winnipeg Manitoba, by the
capsizing of their boat in the rapids of the
Winnipeg River. --..... ~
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A Storm-SWcpt Valley.

: News from the valley of the Capon, in the
eastern part OF Hampshire County, W. Va,
says the country has been inundated by q
storm which has washed away much Of the
soil of the valley farms, destroyed crops and
a large amount of property. This valley
was devastated one year ago, and the loss Of
two crops in succession will result in destitu.
tiOn to many
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A Women i'm the Lead

A young woman has carried OFF the highest
honorS at the June examination at Cambridge
England University. The winner Of this
distinction is Miss Phillipa Fawcett, who is
bracketed as the superior of the male senior
}@rangler in the mathematical class. Miss
Fawcett, who is twenty-five years of age, is
daughter Of the late Professor Fawcett
Two other young women, Miss Field and Miss
Leare, were also among the wranglers.
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Nooses for Three sIurderers.

Three colored men, Tom Mills, FletcherHol-
den and Henry Holden, were hanged at Lin
den, Texas, for the confessed murder and rob-
berry Of James McSregor, white man, at
Atlanta. Texas, on the 7th Of last December.
McGregor had just settled in Cass County,
and let people know he had money. He
drank freely with the three colored men, and
they enticed him to the edge of ths town,
where Tom Mills broke his head with car
coupling.
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Killed Each Other With Knives.

Watkins while returning from church near
Beltop, in Anderson County, s. c., quar-
relied. They went from words to blows, and
finally drew their pocket-knives and began
slashinS at each other Holloway received
a terrible cash in tho throat, upon which he
rushed at Watkins and plunged his knife iu-
to his breast. The point of the small blade
just reached the heart and death was in
stantaneous. Watkins aud his dead antago-
mist were found together in the road The
wound of the former was fatal. They were
about sixteen years old
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The Fight Cost 40 Lives.

Topltza is the name of the Bulgarian vii
1Se which was the scene of the recent Ar
haut assault. 1t seems that the marauders
held possession of the place for seven hours,
after which the fugitives from the village
and the country people mustered in force
and attacked them.
There was heavy fighting, and the Arnauts
were forced to withdraw, and finally fed
across the frontier, pursued by the outraged
villagers. 1t is reported that iu the fighting
which followed the capture of the village
and accompanied the pursuit of the Arnauts
100 of the latter were killed, while the Ser
VANS lost forty killed. Bloody reprisals are
feared.
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FIVE MEN KILLED.
ATrain Leaves the Track and Topples
Over on 4 Section Gang.

The Northwestern passenger train from
Freeport, ILL.,. which reaches Chicago az
o'clock, jumped the track two miles west OF
Rockford, ILL.,, on account of broken wheel.
A gang of section men were working about
two hundred feet from the point where the
engine left the rails, and before they could
get away the train had run them down and
toppled over on them.
The entire train was wrecked, and the
engineer and four of the section men were
killed outright The fireman, two station
men, and some Of the passengers were In
jured.
port who had been engineer on this division
for over thirty-fiye years, August johnson,
of Winnebago: Emil Anderson, Of Winnie,
bago: John Gustafson, Of Pecatonia, and
John r. Drymer, Of Pecatonia.
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BUFFALO Bill has captured the city Of
Dresden, Germany, with his Wild West
Show. The first performance was held on
q Sunday, and there was an immense crowd
!. in attendance. The enthusiasm was great,
particularly when Colonel Cody and his
,cowboys did their sensational rifle shooting
ION horseback.
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FORTY PEOPLE BURNED.

$4,000 Made Homeless by Fire in .
Ural Mountain Village. g.
Reports have been received at st. Peter5-
burg, Russia, of disastrous conaagrations
and great loss Of life and property in tho
mining districts of the Ural Mountains, Tho
iron works at Ufallisk and Newjanks, a thou:
sand dwelling houses, four school hou7es,
three churches, ten hospitals and the maga-,
zines were com pletely destroyed. Forty per-
sons were burned to death and $4,000 were
made homeless by the destruction of the
towns.
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Burglars Burn Seventeen Stores,

Burglars blew open safe in Browns Bank,
at Chatsworth, Ill, at 2 o'clock in the morn
ing. The building caught fire and seventeen
store buildings, comprising the main block,
were burned. Afirsman named Prather was
badly hurt. The bank vaults contained
$4,000. The total loss is $4,000.