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A Marvellous Escape

a Barnsley correspondent states
that startling accident occurred at
the Barrow Galleries at Worsborough.
a number OF men were at work on q
platform at the top OF the shaft when
one of the clamps broke, and Edward
Banks disappeared down the shaft,
which is nearly 500 yards deep.
James Fletcher, Il fellow workman.
would also have fallen had not q COM
panion seized him. knowing that
men were at work at the bottom OF
the shaft, jackson, another OF the
men on the scatfold, shouted at the
top OF his voice: ''Ned's gone down
the pit" lie vas surprised to hear
Banks well-known voice reply: "I'm
all right, Jackson, lad. Pm going
down to the bottom" AS soon as
possible n descent was made, and the
men were amazed to find Banks alive
and apparently not much the worse
Tor his singular escape. His story is
that i'll the ours OF his descent he
turned two or three somersaults and
then c,asped the conductor with one
hand, and slid to the pit bottom. His
hand was terribly lacerated, but he
assembled and walked to his home
near the colliery.-Tit-Bits.
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Why Fall.

All inventors knowledge OF science
and the arts may only be theoretical,
Of it may only be practical. 1t sci.
dom is thorough in both respects.
But if al inventor has neither q
practical nor q theoretical general
knowledge OF the art he seeks to i'm.
prove he will be apt to produce solu.
tlons that will not command re-
spect. 1t is q fact, nevertheless, that
startling discoveries have been made
by tyros who occasionally have
stumbled on the solutions OF impor-
tant problems without in reality I'M
derstanding the problems at all.
The practical man generally finds q
solution OF practical simplicity, while
the wholly theoretical man finds an
involved and ingenious, but imprac-
teal one. Inventions fall from a
number OF causes. The solution NAV
be new, but inferior to that in use. 1t
may. be new and right, but too ex-
pensive. 1t may be the best solution
in part and the worst in part-amost
common fault. 1t may be inopera.
tive. 1t may be all improved detail
OF another PERSONS machine, and
that other person will not pay for it,
OF it may be a device for which there
Is no practical demand.-Engineering
Magazine.
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maid, Tor we were as helpless as child

maid, Tor we were as helpless as child
rem in this emergency.
The no"ssSeeper told me to leave
the room. went to the door, and
stood there trembling from head to
loot.
had taken Edith's haGd, and the
icy GOODNESS OF the %lifeless fingers that
had only known quick with warm
blood. chilled my very heart with
fear.
There was q long period of ter
rible suspense, and then 1 heard
the dear voice murmur. and
my heart bounded with Joy, | ventur.
ed forward that l might see the life
once o in her beautiful face. Sir
Edmund stopped me OH the TIRES
hold.
"Thank God" he said fervently,
''she has come back to us; but the
women said she must be kept quiet.
Go back TO your room, my dear fell
low, and we will talk it v at break
fast time. Goodnight, good night"
l returned reluctantly to my room.
AS passed his chamber, l heard the
Judge snoring loud and long.
1t needed something more than such
tritles to wake him when he had q bed
to sleep i'll.
What already puzzled me was how
Edith's door came to be wide open,
when she had faintedin aquiteremote
part of the room.
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HAS EARNED A REST.
Monsieur de Paris and His Crew.
some Record,

1t is announced that "Monsieur de
Paris" contemplates resigning from
Office. His name, OR rather title, is a
very aristocratic one, and he is con-
nected with a family which has been
famous, not merely for generations,
but for centuries.
Monsieur de Paris" in no other
than Deibler, the chief public execu-
toner OF the French republic, and he
retires after 81 years active service
on the scaffold- and after having
shortened by q head no less than 26S
French citizeps. He is 10 years OF
age, and possesses q fortune OF nearly
100000 francs.
He is anxious to spend the remain
der OF his days insome out-of-the-way
and picturesque corner OF France,
where concealine his identity, he will
be able to enjoy the respect, the good
will and the affection OF his neighbors
instead OF seeing people turn aside, as
now, when they sue him coming and
themselves when he passes,
deeming the %rencontre as Il premoni-
ton OF misfortune.
His successor has already been ap.
pointed. 1t is his chief assistant,
nj. Berger, son OF the late executioner
OF Mines, and related, like M. Deibler,
by marriage to the well-known Roch
family, which may be regarded as hav.
ing furnished an entire dynasty OF exc.
cutioners. -Marqnise de Fontenoy.
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HIS w WIFE. TOO.
How a Man Managed to Swlndle
TruStinp Ilttla Woman

How a Man Managed to Swlndle a
Trusting Little Woman.
1t was q mean advantage to take
OF a weak, trusting little woman, and
he knew It, but The fellow actually
gloried in his utter d~epravity and
shame.
1t all came about over one of those
startling realistic money-machines
that you see in saloons and other
places, and this is how it happened:
He paid so cents for one, loaded it.
withten new dollar bills, and with
malice in his heart set cooIly to work
to edo" his weak little wife, who he
knew had some money set aside for q
cold day.
Whenhe reached his home he locked
all the doors, closed all the window
shutters, acted mysteriously, spoke
in hoarse whispers, and, OF course, his
wife became interested.
"Henry," she gasped, "what's the
matter?"
"H-u-s-h," he said, with a stage
shudder.
But she would nothush.
"You haven't been drinking again
and killed a MANI" she whimpered.
"Keep quiet, now," he murmured,
"and I'll let you in on one OF the big
gest schemes YER struck"
And from an inner pocket he drew
the Internal machine.
And then the villain ground out halt
a dozen crisp new dollar bills.
"But these are counterfeit" she
said.
counterfeit nothing" he contemp.
tuously remarked.
But she would not be convinced.
She argued and argued. He dared
her to discover any difference between
the money he made and some she
had. She said that she could not see
any difference, but then, she said, she
was not an expert.
"Now, III tell you," he said, and as
he said it he never yer blushed, "this
money is just as good as that turned
out by Uncle Sam. All there is to it
you must keep dead quiet about it.
"Don't even talk to yourself about
it. Be as still as the yawning grave.
Do not even think hard about it.
Now I'll let you in.
And he explained how the ST. ma
chine cost $50, the SIS ones 500, the
$50 over $1,000, and so ON.
She hesitated-and was lost.
All night she thought it over. She
woke him several times to be assured
that the scheme was all right. And in
the morning she allowed him to swim.
die her out OF $50 that she had laid
aside out OF her pin money.
He took tine machine away with
him, told her that he had to keep it
in a safe deposit vault, and now he
goes around telling his friends, with a
chuckle, what a ''soft mark" his own
little wife is on a "sure thing" deal.
-Chicago Inter Ocean.
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C. R. GR0FF, Manufacturer, . ST. PAUL.
A Fuzziins Problem which, Is AgIta-
ting a Maine Citv.
a mis- CENT.

A Fuzziins Problem Which Is Aglta-
ting a Maine City.
The following mathematical prob
lem is disturbing the sleep OF many OF
our citizens, says the Portland Argus.
\. and b are itinerant apple mer-
chants. They each started out in the
morning with thirty apples. A sold
his at the rate OF three for q cent. B
sold his at therate OF two for q cent.
Consequently their receipts were, A,
10 cents, b ten cents; gross receipts
25 CENTS. One day a was sick and
unable to 90 his rounds. so Is took
the whole sixty apples and started
out to sell them.
He figured for IL while on the price
he should charge, and decided by add
ing his own and his partners price to-
getiler, TO sell five for two cents. He
disposed OF his apples, but when he
came to figure up, his cash proved he
had only "a cents instead OF the 25
rs on the previous day. What be-
came OF the other CENTS the question
now before the house for discussion.
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(TO BE CONTlNrED)
C~hnds.Drexel Home.

The LhilGs Drexel home at Colorado
Springs, which has been built for inirm
members of the International Typo
graphica! union" will bs dedicated on
the twelfth of this month. the birthday
OF George W. Childs of the Philadel-
phia Ledger. who, as we'll as Banker
Drexel of the same city, contributed
s 5000 toward it's erection. The re-
mainder of the amount was raised by
taxes levied on the members of the
union. The city of Colorado donated
the ground.
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nanas, ana very soon after that 1
heard the clock strike"
She showed me the watch; the
minute-hand was so bent that it
could not pass the hour-hand; when
| lifted it, the movement recommend
ed, proving that the spring had not
run down.
The hour marked by the hands
was five minutes to one.
cat five minutes to one Lola was
sleeping at my door," | said.
The Dickinson press., 1892-05-14
Dangerous Shooting,

The good people OF Berlin are get
ting more and more excited over the
question OF street shooting by SOL
diers. The sentinel who shot a man
the other day was threatened with a
knife, and seems to have had more
justification than existed in some
earlier cases, but the military author
tiles were not content with declaring
him guiltless, but have expressed the
warmth OF their approval by promot-
ing him to be u corporal. OF course,
other sentinels will be eager to gain
promotion on such easy terms.
The serious point is that the bullets
from the new service rifle have such
enormous velocity that the soldier
discharging them has; not the least
idea OF where they may go to-. In the
latest instance reported, the missile
passed through the body Of the man
originally fired at, then passed
through the groin OF an innocent by-
ISLANDER, and finally buried itself deep
ly in q brick wall. The possibilities OF
mischief with weapons such as these
are infinite, and anyman may be shot
at the most unexpected time and in
the most unexpected place.
The Dickinson press., 1892-05-14

BuDA PEsrH. May 9-lt transpires that
the recent sword due! between Herr Hcr-
varth and Lieut.. Ovary resulted more seri-
ously than the frs. report indicated. Hor.
varth was wounded, although the frs t &C.
count of the duel had it that Il slight scalp
wound inflicted on Ovarv was the worst
injury received by either combatant,
The Dickinson press., 1892-05-14
THE MARKETS,
Chicago.

CHICAGO. May 11.-Heayy orders to sell wheat
cam today from the Northwest. So much of
the recent buying has been on account of the
supposed sufferings CT natives of that region
from HOODS and snow storms. their indifference
10 the alleged deplorable condl ion of the coun-
TRY up there staggered the luis and caused a
wholesale throwing over Of long wheat. A TEN.
porary bulge of exc in May corn. oc ,asioned by
nervous shorts, was another feature OF the day.
Compared with last night. wheat this evening
Is &c Off While corn is up &c for May and &c TO-
July.
The Dickinson press., 1892-05-14

WASHINGTON, May lO.-The investigation
into the charges affecting Judge Boardmar
of Louisiana. hes been closed. The indica,
lions are hat the matter will be dropped
and no steps taken towards Impeachment
The Dickinson press., 1892-05-14
FARGO MARKETS.

FARGO. May 1.-THE following YIN oe Il,
opening quotations for Thurs lay morning. s.
furnished by the Fargo Potter Eill: No. i hsrd
6sc; No. l northern, &c.
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Miup"Eoila.

M1NNEArons. May 11.-wheat took a big
drop today On account Of the government re
port and the crowd dumped. July opened at
ssHc and reached 8 &c before 10 oclcok. TIE
,he1s,ing is quite bea1ish. May opened at SOC;
opening. SaAc highest, SCI G; lowest sic: clos,
ING. Slac' Oh track. so. ] hard. S2Ilc; No, ]
Northern. s1lc; No. 2Northern, f1619c.
The Dickinson press., 1892-05-14
How German Railway Men Are Paid

How German Railway Men Are Paid
An official list has just beenpublish.
ed OF the wages paid in Germany to
the whole OF the railway employees on
the State railways in that empire be.
glnnlngat the Presidents OF Direction,o OF
whomthere are eleven, downto brakes
men and the poorer officials. These
Presidents do not reap colossal
wealth, their pay being a little over
$500 year only; and this is bv O
lorg way the highest salary paid upon
the railway. Telegraph inspectors, Of
whom there are only eighteen, get from
ESQ to 1900; bookkeepers and secre-
taries, s1OO to ESQ; ticket stampers
and Office clerks, from ESQ to ELS;
porters, or rather portiers, and ticket
guards, $40 to ego a year. And the
artisans and engine-drivers get butvery
poor pay indeed compared to the paw
on our English railways. Drivers and
the electric machinists get from e6Oto
91OO a year the highest; that is, not
over 92 a week. Stokers and assis-
tants and this class of helpers, from
81 u week to % shilings; and the semi
guard porters, who sit in their great
coats in all weathers On the top Of the
train, get but from f4O to coca wear.
Pail Mall Gazette.
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Duluth.

DULUTH. May ll.-Close: No. l hard, cash
SAC; May. s4kc; June, s44c; July.
s5&c. No. 1 northern. cash. sl1c; May. s1sc;
June. sakc' July. s3,. No. 9 northern, cash,
'Gac; No. 3. exc; rejected. Csc: on track, No,
l hard, s,Ac; No. / northern, sake.
The Dickinson press., 1892-05-14
WHEAT NJ. 9.


CHICAGO. May 11.-Cattle, slow, 10 10 lsc
lower; good to extra stee 8. s4.15a4.75; Others.
s3.'5@4oo; feeders. saa5@3.Tc; CONS and
helfers. %sa5oe3.:0.
S~heep-slow. steady; clipped Texan,, sa.5oa
ss.l5: clipped natives. sat0@s.15; westerns
s6.c0@ Clio; lambs, 81 C0@G rs.
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Four Corpse. Take, O,.

LONDON, May 9.-Sco,t's Oyster bar in
Coventry street. London. was burned to-
night. Four corpses have been taken from
the ruins, and it is feared there are more
under the debris,
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Ranm Playcd tne Horye.,

WAsHlNGroN, May lO-Thc Raum investi
CATION was continued to-day. The only
interesting testimony was Il statement that
Green y. Isaum, Jr, liabi;ualiy haunted
the pool rooms during office hours.
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Park Route.

The Northern Pacific r. R, is the rail line tn
Yellowstone Park: the popular line to California
ana Alaska; and Its trains pass through the
grandest scenery Of seven states.
The Dickinson press., 1892-05-14

THROUGH TICKETS
Are sold at all coupon offices Of the Northern
RACINE Railroad to Points North, East, South
and west. In the United States and Canada,
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the ground

The home is large and commodioue,
and is valued at 500. QUO. 1t has pic
turesque surroundings for miles around,
beautiful drives, ard fine scenery.
The international Typographical
union" has membership Of G5 900;
looks cut for its sick members and
those who are out of work, and by this
latest step shows that it is organized
with the purpose of bettering the condi.
tons If its members, in all parts of the
country.
Printers and newspaper men will be
at the dedication in great numbers.
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Pnllman Sleeping Car Route.
H POPULAR LINE.

Daily Express Trains carry elegant Pullman
siesp Ply cars, Dining Cars. Day Coaches. Pull
The Dickinson press., 1892-05-14

Where time Is not Shown trains will not st0n
Passengers with tickets will be carried on rear
secrion OF regular freigbttrains.
For rates. maps. time tables or special intor-.
nation, apply 10 L. j. Greene, Agent Northern.
Pacific II. r, at u cklnson or
CHAS. S. FEE,
Genl Pass. and Ticket Agent.
ST. PAUL, MINI.
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every kind of trouble had he: but at
the sound OF that name the sea drop.
ped and the clouds parted, and the
sunburst of eternal gladness poured
upon his soul. l have seen a man
hardened in infGelity, defiant OF God,
full OF ieer and scott, iocose of the
judgment day, reckless OF eternity, at
the sound OF that name blanch, and
cover, and groan, and kneel, and weep
n repent, and pray, and believe,
and rejoice, and triumph.
Oh. 1T is a mighty name. Under it's
power the last temple OF superstition
will come down and the last Jugser-
naut OF iniquity will be shattered to
pieces. The red horse of carnage,
spoken OF i'll apocalyptic vision, and
the black horse OF death must come
back on their launches, while the
white horse OF victory goes forth.
mounted OF him who hath the moon
under his feet, and the stars ofheaven
for his tiara. Mighty name! 1t will
first make the whole earth tremble'
and then it will make all the nations
sing. Mighty name!
Other dominions seem to be giving
way; France had to give up some OF
her favorite provinces; Swain has lost
q great deal OF her power; many ofthe
thrones OF the world are being lower
ed; many OF the sceptres OF the
world are being shortened,
but every tract distributor, every
Bible printer, every Christian insti-
tuition established, spreads abroad
the mighty name OF Christ. 1t has al
ready been heard under the Chinese
wall. and in the Siberian snow castle,
and i'll the Brazilian grove, and in the
Eastern pagoda. That name will
swallow up all other names. That
crown will yet cover up all other
crowns: That empire will yet com
pass all nominations.
All crimes shall cease and ancient frauds
shall tial.
returning j. stice lift alott her scale;
Peace DER the world her olive wand ex-
tend,
And whitc-robed innocence from heaven
descend.
But | remark again, taking a step
forward in this subject, that the name
OF Christ is All enduring name. You
get over the fence OF the graveyard
and you pull the weeds back from the
name that has nearly faded from the
tombstone, and you wish that Walter
SCOTS cold Mortality" would come
along and rcchisel it SO that YOU
might really find out what the name
is. Why, that was the name OF the
greatest man i'm all the town, in all
the county, in all the state, now al.
most faded from the tombstone. And
so the greatest names OF this world
either have persisted or are perishing.
Gregory vi, Sancho, OF Spain, Conrad
L., OF Germany, Richard L., of Eng
land, Catharine OF Russia. Those
names were once mighty and they
made the earth tremble. Who cares
for them now? None SO poor as to do
them reverence.
The Dickinson press., 1892-05-14
THE DINING CAR LINE.

Dining cars are run between Chicago, st. Paul.
Mlnneapolis, Winnipeg. Helena, Butte. Tacoma.
The Dickinson press., 1892-05-14
TIME TABLE.

WEST BOUND. pAsr porrn
No. /. No. 3 STATIONS. No.a NO..
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-18
RAILWAY INTERESTS.

MEXICAN railroads and steamship lines are
at war.
THE Chicago. Burlington and Quincy Rail-
road is building gradually toward the Black
Hills.
The Northern Pacific will have double
daily service to the Pacific coast after
April l.
A MOVEMENT is on foot to reduce the fare
between st. Louis and Chicago to "a, but the
Alton threatens rate war ii such action is
taken.
Southern Railroad have ratified the lease of
that road to the Norfolk and Western for
period OF 80 years.
THE conductors and brakemen on the
Canadian Pacific Railway went out on a
strike yesterday. The passenger trains are
moving, but no freight trains are in opera
ton.
The management of the Chicago and Erie
Railroad, in order to curtatl expenses, has
pany's shop at Huntington. One hundred
and sixty men were laid off.
The Eastern roads seem to be united in
their fight on the Grand Trunk because of
its action in abolishing switching charges in
Chicago and allowing Western roads q
division of the through rate on traffic to and
from points on their lines in the city limits.
IHoMAS WALL, as agent OF the CnlcagO,
Milwaukee and st. Paul road, is buying the
stock of the bankrupt Oshkosh and Missis-
slpp1 line at $40 share, and has purchased
considerable amount. His object is un-
known. The st. Paul road holds claims
against the line amounting to $4,000.
THE New York Sheriff yesterday visited
the offices of the Monterey and Mexican
Gulf Railroad Company to levy upon its
property under executions for s2O,4OO in
fOvr <,fT NJ O. ~
no property to attach. being informed that
1t was hypothecated by railroad contractors,
THE transportation committee of the Bos-
ton Chamber of Commerce reported yester-
day recommendation that the Chamber
enter suit in the United States Court, pray
ing that the Lake Shore Railroad tie en-
Joined from maintaining their present east
bound freight tariff, on the ground that it
unlawfully Disseminated against Boston in
favor of rival cities.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-18

the Philadelphia Inquirer, which is alleged
to be doing an insurance business in viola
t1on OF the insurance laws by Offering to pay
a fixed sum to the heirs Of anyone killed
with an Inquirer on his person within "a
hours after its issue. The writ is returnable
March 49,
IHE latest Information regarding the
affairs of the st. Petersburg banker, Guenz-
burg, places the liabilities at between 15,0OO,-
900 and 20 100000 roubles. The assets are
said to amount to about 100000 roubles, of
which securities and property to the amount
OF 10 OO0, 0OO roubles can be easily converted
into cash. The remainder will be difficult to
realize on.
GOVERNOR ALBEIT, of New Jersey, has
signed new law, taxing telegraph, cable.
telephone and express companies per cent
upon gross receipts; gas and electric light
companies, one-half of l per cent on gross
receipts; oil pipe line companies, eight
tenths OF per cent on gross receipts: life in
snrance companies, l per cent on surplus
pan1es, per cent of gross receipts.
A JUDGMENT for s9O, s96 has been entered
against the Brookhaven Rubber Shoe Com
pany, of Setauket, Long Island, in favor of
the New York Commercial Company, bal
ance of account for money loaned, goods
sold. etc. The company was Incorporated
in August, 1888; succeeded the l.. r. Smith
Rubber Company, and had a capital stock of
$4S5OOO. IL leased its plant to the Manhattan
Rubber Company about Is months ago.
THE general assignment of Peter Pitkin &
Son, dealers in and manufacturers of cut
stone and monumental work, Rochester, N.
T., was filed yesterday. For So years Peter
Pitkin has been engaged in the manufacture
of monumental work. Pitkin & Son have an
900 contract to supply the stone for the
new Troy postofhce, and inability to obtain
on the work as it progressed from
the chief contractor was the direct cause of
the assignment. The assignee will continue
the work.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-18
G0oGIKs AN EASY WINNER.
How CIark's Men Got the Worst of 1t in the
Convention.

How CIark's Men Got the Worst of 1t in the
Convention.
The mass meeting of the colored Republi-
cans of Allegheny county, to suggest an
alternate delegate to the National Republi-
can Convention, was held last evening in
Common Council chamber and resulted in a
complete victory for Lemuel Googins
The meeting was in a continual uproar from
start to finish, and it was impossible for
anyone to be heard or to heas. The
Googins people arrived early on the scene
and organized by electing Broadax Smith
Chairman, and when the Clark faction arrived
they found the convention in the hands of
the enemy On every motion that was
made the cries of Mr.. Chairman increased.
Broadax kept continually pounding the
gavel for order, without effect. At the
mention of either Googins' or Clark's
name the yells increased. Finally, Attor-
ney Holmes gained the attention of the
convention, and, in neat speech, placed in
nomination the name of John M. Clark.
Then amid repeated cries for Randolph,
Scott Tapir was recognized by the Chair.
The storm of whistles and calls tor Ran
dolph increased until the Chair finally made
himself heard. He announced that he had
recognized Mr.. Tapir and he was entitled
to the floor, and until he had been heard no
further business would be done. Mr.. Tapir