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Cnriosities of Punishment.

An examination of the different en-
tries contained in the Machyn diary sheds
e strong light on crime and criminal
punishment during the reign of Mary.
who served the English people from 1853
to 1858.
First he mentions a young fellow who
was tied to a post, ''hard by the Stand
ard Chop" with a collar Of iron about
his neck, and soundly whipped every
two hours ''for five days by two stout
men, for the crime of pretending to see
visions. Further on we read: "Cheken,
a parson of St. Nicholas, Cold Harbor,
was this day driven about the streets of
London in a cart, the parson himself
dressed in a yellow gown" all of this
because he had sold his wife to the
butcher! Was it only q coincidence that
a butcher was one OF the parties to this
transaction, or was it the intention of
"the goodly man. to have his better
half served up in roasts9 As it is now
nearly $50 years since ''the parson" COM
mitted that uncanny crime, it is doubt
full if we ever find out whether she
"went to the skillet" or not.
According to other items in Machyn
one can readily see that purveyors of pro-
visions were the same kind of mortals
then as they are to-day. They were in.
cl,ned to palm off their base goods as
sound; TO use their arts to take in the
customer, only the punishment inflicted
when the fraud was discovered was
somewhat more personal and severe than
it is now. Machyn says that a butcher
of that time who had exposed diseased
meat for sale @was forced to ride about
the streets of London, his face toward
the horses tail with half a lamb before
and another half behind, and beef and
veal borne before him on a long pQle.'
Men who sold spoiled fish we're put in
the pillory with decayed fish strung
about their necks.
The entry of March 8, 1857, says:
.sSeen Thomas, the shoemaker, soundly
thrashed at Cheapside to-day for making
a high priced boot of a cheap quality OF
leather."-S. Louis Republic.
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Whaleb0ne.

Owing to a popular misconception
this substance, whose more appropri-
ate name is "baleen," has been called
"bone," while it really contains no bone
whatever in its composition. It resem-
bles rather a number of hardened hairs,
cemented together by a sort of gum.
Chemically it consists of a basis Of al
bumen hardened by phosphate of lime,
the latter, however, in very small guam
tity. It takes the place of teeth in GER
tain species of whales, especially the
Greenland and Southern whale.
A full.grown Greenland whale yields
about q ton of the substance. The
whaling vessels usually bring it in pieces
of ten or twelve blades each, but some
times, if the voyage is long, the sailors
have time to strip off each blade and
divest it off its hairs. In preparing them
for use the blades are cleaned and soft
ened by boiling for about two hoprs;
while still hot they are fixed in large
wooden vices and shaved into the re-
quired sizes.
These slices or stripes are dried smooth
by steel scrapers and polished with
either emery or dry quicklime. Besides
its original usage in stitfeniug the waists
of ladies' dresses whalebone or baleen is
employed in making walking sticks,
snuff boxes, covering telescopes and
whip handles, and even making some
kinds of artificial flowers. The fbres
detached in slicing the blades are used
instead of bristles in cheap brushes and
sometimes instead of hair N stuffing
mattresses.
In its old use as ribs for umbrellas it
has been superseded by the lighter and
more durable steel. Although the de.
mand on the importers each year has been
growing steadily less its value has in.
creased. In 1873 there were 1914
hundred weight, of a value of 1898, 900;
while in 1877, though the quantity ws7
only 1859 hundred weight, the value
was $414, $685.. Louis Post Dispatch.
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Youth and Crime in Great Cities.

Recorder Smyth, of New York, says
in Scribner: A very large proportion OF
the criminal offences brought to the no.
tice of the courts consists of those COM
mitted by boys, or young men under the
age of twenty-five years. In many cases
the crimes are the result of the influence
of elder criminals, or are committed
without a realization Of the great wrong
fulness of the act. Sometimes, however,
the criminal instinct is strong in even
immature youths. A boy of fifteen years
of age, who was brought before me a
few years ago, was convicted of a high
degree of robbery, and it appeared that
in other cases he had been guilty OF
similar offences, but on account of his
extreme youth had escaped punishment.
He took part with older men in assulting
citizens on the street and taking property
from their persons. The managers Of
the House of Refuge, to which institu.
ton I committed the boy, refused to re-
ceive him, because of his previous crimes
and the bad influence which he e1erted
upon other inmates. I was unwilling to
send him either to the Penitentiary or the
State Prison on account of his youth,
and because I felt certain that association
with Older criminals would only render
him more hardened in his vicious career.
He was detained in the city prison for
many months and finally discharged.
Other instances of the early depravity of
members of the criminal class have come
to my attention.
The fact that so many crimes are com.
mitted by persons of immature years,
however sad it may be, proves that, to
some extent at least, the penalties of the
criminal law are effective in preventing
crime. Young men who have had their
first experience in a reforming or penal
institution either learn caution, and do
not again expose themselves to conviction
of serious offences, or become convinced
that honest employment at some labori-
Gus occupation u.s.; after all, more profit
able than the criminal career, with its
liability of detection and severe punish
ment. Some, of course, of the young
offenders continue their lives of crime
and become professional criminals. The
number of professional criminals is, how
ever, smaller than is ordinarily supposed.
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Pet Rooster.

A Brooklyn IN. ~ stoorkeeper has
the satisfaction of possessing a pet Pc
culiarly his own. It is a rooster, whose
antics attract many people to his owners
shop. This bird is oftentimes seen on
the sidewalk playing with the children.
He will let a stranger pick him up in bis
arms and stroke him, and enjoys the
process with as much apparent delight
as would a dog or. cat. The owner OF
the bird is particularly attached to him,
and appears to be one of the proudest
men in the city, going to and returning
from his store with the rooster following
him as would a pet dog. When the
owner reaches out his hand the bird
jumps up to peck at 1t, and altogether
they attract a good deal of attention.
CHICAGO Times.
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CURIOUS FACTS.

London policemen never carry pistols.
Turniptown, Ca, has a gourd with a
handle five feet long.
A Norfolk (Va.) woman has given
birth to nine sets of twins.
Every year 1000 children are born IN
the warehouses in London.
A recruiting sergeant says that few
men have legs of equal length.
There is a man seventy-seven years
old studying at Harvard College.
Dried fish was formerly and is still to
some extent a medium Of exchange in
Iceland.
A river of ink that is suitable for writ:
ing with is one of the curiosities of
Algeria.
The London Gazette is the oldest Eng
lish paper. 1t was first published Nov
ember z, 1865.
The waters of the Indian Ocean now
flow over the site of old Calicut, the
place from which calico takes its name.
One of the Paris tFrance) restaurants
has introduced colored walters, all OF
whom, according to a correspondent,
s'speak excellent French"
The frog, owing to its peculiar con-
~struction, cannot breathe with the mouth
open, and would die from suffocation If
it were kept open forcibly.
Wild clover is said to be a delicacy
among certain tribes of American 10.
dams, who devour it with all the relish
that a Frenchman does a salad.
A woman and her two sons have just
matriculated in the Kentucky UniVer-
sity, and expect to take the entire COL
lege course In the same classes.
John Allen, q colored man, who is
said to have had the biggest feet ever
seen in Iowa, died the other day at Fort
Dodge. He wore No. II shoes.
The Tasmanian caves. of which there
are a large number, are lit in a singular
manner. Millions of glow worms hang
ing to the walls and ceilings furnish the
illumination.
The surface of any given quantity OF
gold, according to the best authorities,
may be extended by the hammer 310,-
S14 times. The thickness of the metal
thus extended appears to be no more
than the $50, 020th part of an inch.
Eight ounces of this wonderful metal
would gid a silver wire of sufficient
length to extend entirely around the
globe.
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THE oLo FASHIONED ROCKER.

She sat by the old fashioned rocker
And smiled as she sang to her boy
No mother was ever so happy;
No another so modest and coy
As she of the old fashioned rocker
The light of her home and its Joy.
She met each new conner with sunshine
Till a house full of boys and girls
Grew out of the old fashioned rocker
She called them her darlings-her pearls
And soothed them to rest on its bosom,
And toyed with their gathering curls'
She sang to them oft in the darkness
A song like the murmuring sea-,
And with a prayer to the Father
That righteous they always might be-
No breath from the sweet scented orchard
Was ever so sweet unto me.
She sang through the siege of the fever,
Sang while she rocked the low bed;
And all asked at once for her soothing,
Her hand on each hot little head;
TIL the roses gave place to the lilies
They told her the baby was oead.
flushed were the song and the rocker;
Heavy her heart all the day,
Tears for the loved and the lost one
She kaelt by the rocker to pray
That angels of God from high heaven
Would chase the dark shadows away.
Back to the song and the rocker,
The song of the murmuring sea,
She went with her heart half bursting
To sing unto you and to me,
As when she had sung to her baby
Ere its spirit from earth was set free.
Beaten and worn is the rocker
That cherished our gathering curls.
Silent tonight and forgotten
By all save the mother of pearls
Who sang and rocked in the darkness
To her house full of boys and girls.
r. NJ. Yost, in Columbia Herald.
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PaDer Bed Spreads.

Paper quilts are said to be coming
into extensive use abroad for the poorer
classes. They are composed of sheets Of
brown paper sewed together and perfo.
rated all over at q distance of an inch or
two apart. This is then covered with
chlntz or cretonne on one side, and lined
with patchwork. They make surpris-
ugly warm covers, and the manufacture
ers find a ready market for all they can
make PHILADELPHIA Record.
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Finest Harbor in the World.

Rio Janeiro, Brazil, situated in the
bay of the same name. has probably the
finest harbor in the world. It is en-.
tered from the south through a passage
not more than 17O0 yards wide, between
steep hills rising more than 1000 feet
and extending inland about fifteen miles,
thus forming one of the most spacious
and most beautiful harbors in the world.
The entrance, girded on both sides with
lines of impregnable Notifications, can
be made without pilots, aud the largest
vessels can anchor Immediately at the
quays of the city and enter its magniiI
cent docks.-Detroh Free Press.
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Many a life has been lost
because of the taste of cod
liver oil.
If SCOTS Emulsion did
nothing more than take that
taste away, it would save the
lives of some at least of those
that put off too long the
means of recovery.
1t does more. 1t is half
digested already. 1t slips
through the stomach as if by
stealth. 1t goes to make
strength when cod-liver oil
would be a burden.
SeoFT& BowxE. Chemists, Iss South 9Th A-enus.
New York.
Your druEg1s, keeps SCOTS Emulsion Of eod-iivse
s1-all druggists sve1yvhszs do. 81.
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GRACIOUS"
BIZ A. S. CODY.

II. rahLO WAS
a compact business.
m a n, b gh t,
shrewd, and kindly.
He had cen a good
deal of life in his
day, and it was not
commonplace life,
either. One e
ing as we sat cozily
together he told
mo how he found
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Syrup"

Ihave been a great
Asthma. sufferer from Asth-
ma and severe Colds
every Winter, and last Fall my
friends as well as myself thought
because of my feeble condition, and
great distress from constant cough
ing, and inability to raise any ofthe
accumulated matter from my lungs,
that my ii was close at hand.
When nearly worn out for want of
sleep and rest, a friend recommend
ed me to try thy valuable medicine,
Boschee's German
Gentle, Syrup. I am con-
p.~..L,.- fdent it saved my
neiIee''Is life. Almost thefrst
Sleep. dose gave me great
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freshing sleep, such asI had not had
for weeks. Mycough began immedi-
ately to loosen and pass away, and
I found myself rapidly gaining in
health and weight. I am pleased
to inform Observation-Disclosures I
am in excellent health and do GER
tainly attribute it to thy Boschee's
German Syrup. G. B. STIcKNEY,
Picton. Ontario" 9
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There is reported to be enoughcoal in
Colorado to supply Kansas and Ne.
braska.
500 Reward. O

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Wise MOfner6

wise Mothers
Use DR.. Hoxsie's Certain Group Cure, the only
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The Convenience OF solid IrafnG
The Erie Is the only railway running sold
trains over its own tracks between New York
md Chicago. No change Of cars tor any class
bf passengers. Rates lower than Via any other
hrat-claSS line, > p
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made especially for woman's needs.
In the cure of all afemale COM
plants" it's guaranteed to give sat
isfaction, or the money is refunded.
No other medicine for women Is
sold so. Think of that, when the
dealer says something else which
pays him better is s just as good"
"Times have changed" So have
methods. The modern improve
ments in pills are Dr. Pierce's Pleas
ant Pellets. They help Nature, in-
stead of fighting with her. Sick
and nervous headache, ~biliousness,
costiveness, and all arrangements
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FITS stopped Tree by DIR. kLrNE's GREAT
NERVE REsToRER. No fits after first days use.
Marvellous cures. Treatise and SO trial bottle
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FOR THROAT DISEASES N CogGHs use
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really g6od things, they are initiated. The
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Mothers should watch carefully those signs
of i'll health in their daughters, and at once use
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. 1t
will prove a lasting blessing.
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DIR. SwAN'sP AsTILEs Cure female 1Cedknesses;
his T-Tablets cure chronic constipation. Sam
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table Compound has saved thousands Of such
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Read Star Stretcher advt. in this paper.
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lead Star stretcher advt. in this paper.
The record-union., 1892-10-13
DEPARTMENT OF ARIZONA.
General McCook'S Report Deals at
Length with the Indian Question.

General McCook'S Report Deals at
Length with the Indian Question.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.-The annual re-
port of General McCook, commanding
the Department of Arizona, has been re-
ceived by the War Department. He
dwells at length upon Indian depreda-
tons, and particularly on the conduct of
''The Kid" the San Carlos Apache In
dian and refugee from the civil authori-
ties. His escapades," the General says,
have caused much anxiety to white peo-
pie living near the border of the White
Mountain Reservation, as we'll as to In
dams who live upon it. 1t seems that this
Indian killed many persons during May
and June last, but every plan and device
put in operation to entrap this willy saw
age failed. He eluded them ALL"
The conditions surrounding the Ma
vajo Indian reservation, the report says,
are a constant cause Of anxiety to the In
dian Bureau and the civil and military
authorities of Arizona and New Mexico.
There are 5000 Indians living beyond
the limits of the reservation. They have
been living upon unsurveyed lands for
generations and claim these lands as their
homes,
General McCook says in order to assist
these people the reservation should be
divided into districts and an army officer
sent into each district to make an exami-
nation, with a view of the establishment
of system of irrigation and developing
supply of water by artesian wells, ETC.
General McCook suggests the above in
the interest of peace, for a conflict with
these Indians, who are in great numbers
and well armed. would be very serious
business. He further suggests the elimi-
nation from the civil and military adj
ministration of the affairs of this tribe.
The record-union., 1892-10-13
Special to the RECORD U MON.

SpSS4dA W the hECORD- MON.
LONDON, Oct. 12.-With all the honors
which the church could bestow, and in
the presence of many eminent men of
letters, statesmen ana mobiles, the remains
OF Tennyson were inferred in the poets
corner at Westminster Abbey to-day. The
Jerusalem Chamber contained mass of
rare floral offerings, including laurel
wreath from the Queen.
The procession was formed at noon in
the Jerusalem Chamber. The coffin was
borne on the shoulders of stalwart men.
Among the pall-bearers were Henry
White, United States Secretary of Lega-
ton, and Lord Salisbury. The mourners
followed the coffin, then the household
servants, representatives Of the Queen,
the Prince of Wales and other royal
persons.
On reaching the chancel the coffin was
set down at the foot of the altar. Canon
Duckworth opened the service for the
dead. Then the choir chanted the fifteenth
psalm. After the lesson for the day was
read, the choir sang Tennyson's last
poem, ''Silent Voices"
The body was then borne to the poets
corner, and after further services, conn-
The benediction was pronounced by the
Archbishop of Canterbury.
The service throughout, though e2,-
tremely simple, was very impressive.
The weather was fine, and the bright
sunshine streaming through the windows
of the Abbey rendered artificial light I'M
necessary. The music was rendered by
forty singers.
Immediately after the service was con-
Guided there was q great rush to tie
grave and a number Of police were obliged
to form a Gordon about it.
The Star this afternoon makes a covert
attack on the Prince of Wales for his alb
sence. 1t was announced two days ago
that the Prince would be present, but he
did not attend. The Star prints a letter
saying the Prince had gone shooting, or
to attend the Newmarket races, in prefer
ence to going to the funeral of Tennyson.
The writer protests as a patriotic tax
payer that the Prince finds the popping
overof helpless birds more congenial en-
ployment than attending funerals of great
men, and urges that this should not be
allowed to pass without official protest.
The record-union., 1892-10-13
Special to the REcoRD-UNroS.

FRESNO, Oct. 12.-Emil L. Tretton, one
OF the leading stockmen and landowners
of Squaw Valley, was in Fresno to-day,
and gave some interesting information
concerning Evans and Sontag. Two
weeks ago tomorrow Tretton was out on
his cattle range looking after his stock.
About o'clock in the afternoon, while
some distance from home, he saw not far
from his house someone talking to his
boy. He thought nothing more about it,
but went on towards home. As he
neared the house, and just as he was
crossing small creek, he noticed man
standing near the trail about thirty
yards in front of him towards the house.
AS Mr.. Tretton approached the man the
stranger called out, SIS that you, Emil ?"
Tretton replied, YES, it's me.''
Iretton knew Evans about ten years
ago in Hanford, but was not very we'll
acquainted with him. AS he approached
Evans he was surprised to see another
man standing just behind Evans. He at
ouce knew that the two men were Evans
and Sontag. They were standing with
their backs together, Evans looking
down the trail and Sontag toward the
house.
Tretton supposed that they were after
horses, and, SO as to get rid of them as
easily as possible, he said to them that he
would give them couple of horses.
Evans replied that they were not after
horses, but wanted something to eat. They
accompanied Tretton to the house, and
the appearance Of the men badly fright
ened Mrs. Tretton and the children
Evans observed this, and said they need
have no fear; that they would not be
harmed. This was about two weeks ago.
When the meal was ready the two men
sat at the table, one facing the window and
the other the door. They ate with their
guns across their knees. The two men
left Tretton's place at shutdown.
When asked if he didn't think the
ROBBERS were still in his neighborhood,
Iretton evaded the question, and said
that owing to him and his family having
to live in that community he would not
dare give his opinion.