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A Dogs Descent in a Parachute.

Quite novelty in the way of balloon
ascension occurred at Reed Lake re-
Gently. Mr.. Charles Godfrey, proprietor
Of lake hotel, owns a big mastiff,
weighing $50 pounds. which has always
evinced a great interest in balloon ascen-
sions, and double parachute was ar
ranged, one for the dog and one for the
man Both went up. and when at an
altitude of about 1900 feet, the dog was
swung of. His parachute was slow in
opening, but came around all right, and
he fell in the middle Of the lake, from
whence he was rescued by q steamboat.
he howled. but was noe hurt, and dog
ascensions will be featnre hereafter.
The Humane society threatens prosecu-
tons. Grand Rapids Coz. Detroit Free
Press.
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The.Period Of maximum is approach
ing and amateur and professional astron-
emers in all quarters Of the globe are
directing their telescopes to the orb of
day in hopes that his smallpoxed ap-
pearance win be more than usually in
terestiRg. There is an excellent chance
for amateurs in this ckass of observation.
The comparison OF solar disturbances
with the variations of the magnetic
needle forms an abundant field fop use
full work The owner of the smallest
telescope may discover something which
will send his name down to posterity in
the astronomy text books.-NeH York
RecorleE
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Libraries Tor I Farming Com unitieS.
do not know who secured the law
TO establish township libraries in In,
diana, but may every blessing rest on
him, for he did wonderful work, and
the man or committee who selected the
books had Il genius for the task which
rose to an inspiration. How rlany
rainy days, how many lors winter
evenings, how many noon hours did |
spend in porting over the Abbott his
tories, the narratives of travel, and
those books in With scientific princi,
Piles were popularity explained
The recollections OF the vast benefit
and pleasure I derived from that little
library-a mere handful of books-to
which I trudged long distance through
rain and SNOW TO get an occasional COW
eted volume, leaves the firm conviction
in my mind that the benevolence and
wisdom of man cannot devise more
beneticent instrumentality than some
general scheme whereby instructive and
entertaining books may be made readi
ly accessible to the youth of the rural
portions Of our country. w
Bookwalter in Forum.
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Possibly the most novel feature of
two balloon voyages near Denver, and
the one mostly commented upon. was
the experience of the Eagle Eyrie
and its occupants in the snowstorm.
Not q fake of the beautiful"
dropped in Denver or on the crowds
of people who gazed on the air
ship directly above them. The sun
shone brightly and oppressively hot, and
yet in five minutes after the great gas
bag had left the earth it was in raging
snowstorm. almost directly over the
point where the balloon was cut from its
moorings.
It was blowing perfect fury, the
great flakes swirling and flying in blind
ing profusion into the faces of the voy-
ayers, filling the basket and covering
the top with sheet fully three inches
thick. No such occurrence has ever been
recorded in the history of ballooning,
and the chances are not favorable to its
ever occurring again. But the space Of
100 feet and the occupants Of the car
vanished from the glowing sunshine
into the freezing snow.-Denver Repub-
licaT1 tNt=-'-=--'
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FANCIES.

Fair. bright thoughts and tancies golden
Haunt the window where my soul
Sits alone, in prison holden.
Yet defying my control.
can hear their tones of sweetness,
And sometimes catch word.
But the song in its completeness
Never mortal ear has heard.
Through the sash. with glow and glimmer,
Faces peep, rs fair as day:
Bat | only see the simmer.
As the white wings lift away
Once thought 10 cage and bind them
With the letters OF q rhyme;
But. alasl ! cannot find them
! shall never make them mine!
-Ninette VI. Lowater in Arkansaw Traveller.
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STATE NEWS.

The school board of Arkansas
Harbor have adopted the Herald of
that city as a reader in the public
school.
r j. Stephens and Mrs. Geo.
Steetman have been jailed at Wealth
erford on a charge OF numbering the
husband OF the latter.
Work on the artesian well at
Midland is soon to begin. A firm
in the town are putting up large
brick building for mercantile pur-
poses.
The water works at Rockdale
have succeeded in securing an abun-
dance of water. The well, it is
thought, will furnish $4,000 gallons
per day.
"A fire at Comanche early Fri
day morning destroyed Ellis & Ri
ley's stables, ". r. Harris meat
market. Five good horses were
burned in the stable.
Another company has been or
ganized at Arkansas Pass, having for
its object the removal of the Arkansas
Pass bar, and the maintenance of a
deep water channel. A. j. Peeler is
secretary of the corporation.
THE French senate's tariff COM
mittee approves the 20 franc duty
on imported sailed meats and dis
cusses the gravity of the enormous
increase of railroad accidents.
Wheat sowing has commenced,
and there is some wheat up. Good
rains have fallen in this section re-
Gently, and the farmers are busy
breaking their land.-Foard County
Enterprise.
The Champion says Amarillo
has had an abundance of rain the
past two weeks. The prairie is
thoroughly soaked with water and
many bridges have been damaged or
washed away.
Mrs. Casey, an old lady fifty
FIVE years of age, living in Franklin
county, on farm with her son, was
foully murdered by an assassin
while in her smoke house, and
robbed OF the pitiful sum Of S430.
Her head was almost severed from
her body and she was otherwise cut
and stabbed IN fully twenty places,
Antonio Rodriguez, who killed
Hipolyte Billiar five years ago in ali
aroya east of Eagle Pass by stab
bling him nine times with a butcher
knife was arrested Saturday night
by City Marshal ". Whitel. He
was going under the name of Luis
Rodriguez, and had been herding
sheep since his return from Mexico
a short time ago. He admitted hay-
inc committed the deed to other
aEI2afasaae is under indict-
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1fiously injured. Al
tne flesh was torn off his left arm
and axilla and his chest, exposing
the large blood vessel. The large
muscle on the back of the arm Nas
also torn in two. The unfortunate
young fellow was Immediately taker
to the hospital, where his wounds
were given attention. His greatest
danger will be from blood poison.
The receivers of the Laredo i'm.
provement company have secured an
order from the district court to sell
all the Laredo improvement COM
pany's property on the first Tuesday
In March, 1892. The property to
be sold is estimated to be worth
about half a million dollars, and its
sale will be of great help in the de-
velopment of Laredo, as the proper
ty now in the receivers hands is in
such shape that it can not now be
sold or improved, and the order of
sale is, welcomed by all parties
there.
Referring to the dispatch from
Hampstead, published in Saturday s
Statesman, to the effect that the
merchants and farmers of Hemp.
stead were enraged at the increase
in rates heretofore prevailing on cot
ton at that point equivalent to a re-
duction of the price of I cent per
pound, the commission states that
there has been no increased rate
authorized by it, and that the rate
from Hampstead to Houston is 80
cents per hundred pounds and to
Galveston 81 cents. The Houston
rate is just what it was before the
commission was organized, and the
Galveston rate is 3 cents per hun.
dred pounds less.
After many days and weeks of
hot pursuit, the men who robbed
the Southern Pacific passenger train
on September 4, out west of San
Antonio, have been captured. 1t oc
CURED Saturday morning about 80
miles north of Stockton or Langtry,
and was accomplished by Captain
Jones, a gallant officer of the ran
gers. He took the matter in hand
at first and never let up. After
lively race he captured three of the
gang, and would have taken four,
but saw the fourth blow his own
brains out in preference to being
He recovered over S11O0
of the money that was taken. This
is one of the great achievements of
late years in Texas, and will have a
strong influence toward stopping
thieves from robbing trains.
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aged 50 and II, respectively, were
dubbed to death bv tramp the,
had given shelter at Bloomfield
Conn.
Miss Helen Gladstone, the Grand
Old Mans daughter, is always laugh.
ing, joking, telling stories, and in
var1ably keeps the dinner table in a
roar.
Justice Field, of the United
States supreme court, once declined
to pay $500 for San Francisco
lot that has since been sold for ST.
100000,
Illinois has a larger railroad
mileage than any other state in the
Union; or, to be more exact, it has
TO- 1913 miles of main lines and 1925
miles of sidlngs.
Miss Xavier, formerly instructor
at Wellesley College, has been ap-
pointed secretary of a foreign con-
sulate. She is familiar with five
modern languages.
Phosphorus is now being made by
electricity. The principal manufac
tory is in England. where, it is an
ticlpated fully 1000 tons will be
made annually.
Mrs. N. H. Hotchkiss, ofLakeville.
Conn, has given two hundred and
seventy-fve thousand dollars and
seventy-fve acres of land for a col
lege fitting school in her town.
Two gum trees which tower over
lOO feet above little church in
Guatemala, are 60 feet in circum-
ference and their strong roots have
pushed the foundation of the church
out of place.
The section of a freight train on
the Chicago and Alton ran into the
first section near Tebo switch, in
Missouri, and Fireman Swlsher was
fatally lnlued. The engine
and six cars were demolished.
Captain White of the Pacific mail
steamer City OF Panama refused to
surrender five refugees on board his
vessel demanded by Gen. Ezeta of
thus preventing massacre
similar to the Barrundia affair.
Artificial bitter almonds sre pro.
duced at trifing cost. and with
such deceptive skill that they scarce
ly can he detected when used as an
adulterant of tie genuine. They
consist chiefly of grape sugar. This
is favored with very small,'quantitv
of nltrobenzole, and when pressed IN
molds the product is made to resem-
bic the natural seeds very closely.
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Girls nnd Their Hearts.

Why is it that when girls have an OPP
portunity TO ask for advice, or have
their fortunes told, or anything in that
line. the first thing they do is to ask
something about their hearts or the
hearts Of Others with relation to their
OWN Don't they ever think of any
thing else except einotionsf Or is it
that they feel competent to settle all
other questions theinselves2-Det
Free Press.
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Prnise Out of Place.

Jinks-That fellow Sillipate is the
most inexcuSable fool ever saw.
Wink What has he been doing to
yOuf
Jinks-A few days ago some one in
vited him to dinner nj our boarding
house. Well, sir, THAT idiot just praised
every dish on The. rablp and compli.
mented the lahdlady Gil her cooking
until She raised her terms two pounds a
week. London Tit-Rits
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In q Hurry.

He (anxiously) What did your fn-
ther Sayf
She (sweetly)-Nothing. except that
he would look you mp and see if you
had enough to support a wife.
He-Um-my dear, hadn't we better
elope tonight2-New York Weekly.
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A cat at Montrenx which can open
doors heard another eat outside NEW
ing to get in. No one answering the
request, it rose from the chair on which
it was sleeping, walked across the room
to the door, opened it, and let its
friend in.
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Professor Mendcleff has succeeded in
distillipg petroleum from mineral sub
stances which cannot be distinguished
from the natural product. This re-
wives faith in the belief that petroleum
is of mineral origin.
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The small, round black seeds of Can
ns indica are used by the Burmese fos
sacred beads and by the HiDdoos for
necklaces. They are called IN Guiana
buckshot, for the natives use them as
shot in their blowpipes.
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A cat in Chico, Cal, pou2ced upoR
sparrow and was about to make meal
Of it, when n dozen other sparrows few
to the reliet of its captured associate.
They so terrified the cat that the latter
hurriedly dropped the captive and ran
away.
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An American named Edwards about
four years ago at New York was SEN
fenced to death for the sixth time. On
each cf the five previous occasions he.
had escaped the capital punishment.
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Sharpsighted observers can see on
moonless nights nearly three thousand
stars, Jupiter - the brightest of them
all The telescope brings out $1,000. 600
stars Not one can compare with Jupi-
ter Venus is ais only rival, and she IS
now hidden in the suns rays. so that he
reigns alone
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There is a cone of FURNISHED tin.
20 inches in height and II in diane
ter, on the top of Mount Katahdin,
placed there by the Appalachian, of
Bangor. Me. It denotes the dis
lance from which the summit of the
peak may be seen.
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An Illinois man has just completed a
tramp from North Lawrence to Chicago,
distance of 500 miles, and he is over
seventy years of age.
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The lower house of the Tennessee
legislature adopted q resolution
declaring the general assembly
powerless to abrogate the present
lease of convicts.
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A recent invention used in factories
enables any person in any part of the
factory to stop the main engine by sim
ply pushing an electric button
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Port Huron is said to have a girl
colt ii. e., the manageable young
women have combined against the
boys. The girlcott will end by the
girls getting married.
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Saxony imposes tax on cats.
This is something new in the fee line.
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There is one sort of ignorance
that becomes women-ignorance of
men.
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Men of sciene say that the chemist
will dominate coming inventions.
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The Pussian government has for
hidden press illusions to the famine.
Deaths from starvation are so
numerous that many people are
buried without rligious rites.
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NEWS ITEMS.

Mrs. Stanley's lineage leads back
to Oliver Cromwell.
\ woman has been elected organ
list and bellringer in n Holland viii
age.
Rutherford B. Hayes Is ranked
among the millionaires of this coun-
try.
The president of the Silk Growing
Association of Pennsylvania is a
woman.
A number of colored democratic
clubs have been organized in Penn!
syIvania.
The city of Mexico has subscribed
over $4,000 to aid Spanish flood
sufferers.
Judge Thurman will celebrate his
18th birthday at Columbus on the
18th of November.
NJ. Constans, the great French
statesman, is strikingly like Mr..
Blaine in appearance.
A Boston woman conducts a job
printing house on her own account,
and is will patronized.
Among Ontonagon's 2O0O iphabit-
ants there is not a family named
Smith, Brown or Jones.
A woman has been appointed TO
collect specimens of the fora of
Colorado for the Worlds Fair.
Two women, sisters, of New York,
propose to build and furnish an art
building for Bowdoin college.
At the recent naturalization exami-
nation of the University of London,
a woman took the highest honors.
Mrs. Packson, mayor of Kansas
city, notified the sly liquor sellers
they must stop, and stop they did.
Prof, Linter, an authorit on ento-
mology, says that there are a million
or more species of insects in the
world.
Scientists assert that that Eiffel
tower causes electrical disturbances.
The climate is much worse since the
tower was built.
Forest fires IN the Cascade noun
tains extending twenty-five miles
destroyed much valuable timber and
are still spreading.
Glace Patton, who has been teach.
ing in Colorado Agricultural College
six years, has been elected to q
professorship in the same.
Mrs. Chaska has APPLIED for a
divorce from her Indian husband.
Mrs. Chaska loves her Indian hus-
band better than ever. So say the
papers.
John Frisbee was dragged up by
: balloon while he was holding one
The roHsS at QSEASo y, Y. Fe,
\ -"
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The pay roll of the servants alone
of g. W. Child's country place, at
Bryn Mawr, amounts to $1,000 a.
month. This is said to be the finest
country readence In the Uuited
States.
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The uglier a man is the better his
wife likes him
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A New York girl, suffering from
the grip, meditated suicide. Then,
changing her mind, she sought re-
lief in another way-she got mar
ried.
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AGirl of eighteen has more sense
in the matrimonial way than man
of thirty.
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4 syndicate has offered to buy the
Washington monument for a shot
tower.
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The extreme danger to life attend
ant upon breaking jam of logs has
been overcome by using dynamite
cartridges on the end of long poles.
These are pushed under the jam and
exploded.
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The damage to the cereal in Can
ada byinsects has been estimated at
$3S. 100000
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In the interior of South America
chocolate, cocoanuts and eggs are
used as currency.
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AS500,0O0 sale of whisky recently
took place at Lexington, Ky.-the
largest on record.
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A meeting of southern farmers in
Memphis adopted resolutions to
protect themselves against exorbit-
ant demands of labor.
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The five States of Iowa, Kansas,
Illinois, Arkansas and Nebraska, in
duce fully one half of the corn crop
of the United States.
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Chicago is looking sharply after
saloons that sell liquor to minors.
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The remarkable vigor of Oliver
Wendall Holmes mind is due to the
strict care he his taken of himself
since he became an octogenarian.
His life is now one of great
abstemiousness.
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Nicholson has calculated the velo-
city of light to be 1S6,360 miles per
second.
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A railroad IN the Argentine re-
public has one stretch of 211 miles
without a curve or bridge.
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The worlds remnant counter is
crowded with people who imagine
they are styles in advance.
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1t is said that a cross, competent
woman is the best to live with for
a life time.
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In the year 1886 bulip tub was
sold in Holland for $4,000; it weigh
ed but 200 grains.
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If you should die and find your
self a ghost is there any one you
would haunt!
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The actual length of the new St.
Clair tunnel is 6026 feet. It cost
81. 100000.
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Kentucky went democratic by co.
900 majority. The farmers alliance
showed little strength.
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During the last 100 years SS5, 900
patents have been issued by the
United States. There have been
100000 applications.
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Fashionable men in Paris and
London are now using electricity as
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