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PERIL OF THE AIR,
Strange Accidents Which Are Liable
to Happen to Birds.

F:om the Cornhl Magazine.
1t seems almost Incredible that a bird
should break it's wing in midair by the
mere exertion Of flight: yet four such acct
dents have been reported within the last
two or three years. A gentleman. while
out quail shooting near the Pyramids.
flushed an owl, and, mechanically raising
his gun, without any intention of firing.
when, to his utter surprise. the bird twisted
in its flight and fell to the ground as If
shot. On examination the astonished sports
man discovered that the poor owl had
broken it's wing
Birds that employ hair in the building of
their nests sometimes come to grief by
hanging, but l should say very seldom in
deed in the following singular manner: A
gentleman who had number of colts upon
his farm one day noticed a small bird en-
tangled in the long hair of the tail of one
of them. The little creature had evidently
been in search of material wherewith to
line It's nest, and by some unaccountable
accident had become ensnared in the I'M
kemDt hair of the colts tail. Cases of
birds getting their feet entangled In bits of
yarn or string are not at all uncommon.
especially in the breeding season, and when
ever the victim Of this kind Of mishap hap
pens to get the impeachment fastened in a
tree or among stones death is pretty sure
to be the result, unless prompt human aid
Is forthcoming.
Finally. it may not be uniting to glance
for moment at the way in which birds
regard accidents to each other. 1 have seen
them devoted as to try and carry off
their dead; and many instances are on rec
ord of birds endeavoring to help each other
in time of trouble. An observer not long
ago reported the fact that he saw spar
row trying to release another who had be-
come entangled IN a piece Of horsehair at
tached to the bcugh Of tree.
party of sportsmen out grouse hunting
in Ireland year or two back came upon
a pair of grouse and discovered that the
male was totally blind Of both eyes. and
that his mate, fine bird evidently min
istered to all his wants-leading him about.
bringing him food and keeping close beside
him. Such devotion in a bird ISL should
say, almost without parallel.
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WHEN BURGLARS COME.
How Two Cool-Headed Women Man.
aged With Entire Success.


aged With Entire Success,
From the Bostcn Globe.
To scream is a convenient but doubtful ex-
pedient. and few enough of us have just the
courage to meet the situation as did Mrs
Lorillard. She had come home one night
from the opera. kindheartedly dismissed her
tired maid and began to undo the jewels
from her hair when a reflection from her
mirror showed her an unmistakable mascu-
lire foot, clumsily clad. half protruding from
beneath the bed.
When all the ornaments had been removed
she went across to the bedside, knelt and
softly began her prayers. which somehow
that night were more hearty and generous
than ever before She prayed for her friends
and family, for the needy, and then in q
placid voice for any who might be tempted
to commit crimes. An uncomfortable sob in
terrupted her devotions, and a gaunt. hun
ery-looking red-headed man crawled out
from hiding. numbering like a small boy.
He turned out to be an ex-coachman of the
family who had fallen from grace into crime
in which his extraordinarily tender sensibili-
ties must sooner or later have brought him
to grief and Jail. Not only did his late
mistress forgive him and bestow on the re-
pentant wretch sufficient to relieve his dis
tress, but made him up with her own hands
a comfortable lunch from the ice box and
lighted him out the area door, after severe
lecture and receiving his solemn assurance
of reformation.
On the whole. though. women are cool and
plucky in dealing with burglars, and it was
Mrs. James Kernochan who. all alone one
night in her country house. save for SER
wants on the top floor, caught glimpse over
the uansom of her bedroom door of q
familiar face.
He watched her as she counted a roll of
bills, drawn that day from the bank to pay
her household expenses, but she continued
to make up her accounts, continuing to affix
a mark on every bill, and the whole sum-
amounting to several hundred dollars, she
lut carelessly in her dress drawer, blew out
her light, got into bed, and heard very dis
tinctly when the theft was made BY II
o'clock the next morning both thief and bills
We're returned. and in this instance quiet ac-
quiescence had undoubtedly saved the
lady's life.
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And Her Father Hnd No Objections
If Allowed to Tell His Tale.

And Her Father Had No Objections
If Allowed to Tell His Tale.
From the Detroit Free Press.
AS sat on the door step smoking with a
Cumberland mountaineer one evening a
young man about two and twenty came out
of the woods and slowly approached US. He
was barefooted and wore only shirt and
trousers, and he was evidently on an errand
which greatly embarrassed him. The noun
taineer was telling me about how he was
kicked by mule, but he broke off to salute:
"Howdy, Abe! What yo all want around
yere?"
Dun got sunthin' to say" replied the
young man, as he almost turned his back on
us.
Then shoot 'er off"
"Him's stranger" said Abe. as he jerked
his head toward me.
THAT don't count. Wanter borry the
mewl?'
"Noap."
"Wanter borry the gum"
"Noap."
"Wanter trade fur one of the dawgse"
"Noap."
''Say. Abe" continued the mountaineer,
"mebbe yo'un ar hard up and want the loan
of a dollar or some bacon or meal?'
"Noap." was the monotonous reply as the
young man fidgeted about.
Then what on airth do yo' want?"
"Wanter marry Linda
"Wanter marry Linda, Ell? Hev yo' coted
herr"
Yep"
Hey yo' axed herr"
Yep"
'rhen why in thunder don't yo' marry
her;-and. stranger. that mewl he jess
whirled on me and kicked with both feet and
lifted me clean over the brush fence afore I
knowed what was up"
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In Arizona and New Mexfco. Recently a
new mine was discovered in TEXAS. to the
north Of Ell Paso. Whereas the aborieines,
long before the first coming OF the white
man. took cut the TURQUOISE by the crudsst
methods, building fires against the rocks
to crack them. the deposits TODAY are at
tackled on scientific principles. and are
made to yield stones equal to the finest
Persian. Gems up to sixty carats' weight
from them. A great ADVANTAGE which thew
have over most Imported TURQUOISE is that
they do not change color. Owing to the
stringency Of the times, however, the out
was worth onIy GOO.
sapphires ana beryL
During the last year deposits of beautiful
lest ~ ph,n,,,.h,,no. ~. ~ -..S
s,one Ne tha pi.to. D.. 49, oN nh. No ...a,a
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cheese" "And mutton kidneys and mush-
rooms And Tor Lamb chops gPs and pS da
Next? .'rurbot in the English style" ''And
salad" Pheasant" Ducks and olives!'
Algerian peaser Wine 5ellyr' Ice
down on-and SO on for the next day. By
the time madame has satisfied the conflicting
interests she has engaged herself to such
expenses as would swamp three times over
any pension de famille.
All is Peaceful.
The poker players return to their poker
The little girls return to their bouchon,
smearing their interesting faces with blue
chalk, which in gay Paris takes the place
of the white article known to American bill
na I'd tables. The old ladies settle down to
their tittle-tattle. The mothers talk about
their daughters. The servants are flirting in
the kitchen and the dining rooms. The pet
dogs are sleeping in the hallway. From the
salon comes a cheerful caterwauling to pi-
ano accompaniment. High up there are
strains from a harp. 1t Is the young girls
teacher showing her how harp should be
touched. Outside there Is cold rain.
Everybody Is content and purring
Only poor madame. the wife of the pro-
prietor, awaking from the beautiful dream
of the champagne, begins to realize with a
dull pain, that she must change the menus
and endure reproaches. or else bankrupt her
establishment. At lunch tomorrow the
mutton kidneys will have changed to boeuf
a la mode. The lamb chops will have be-
como nice steak. For dinner we will have
pea soup in place of the bisque There will
be no pheasant and no peas. Fresh peas in
October! The ducks and olives remain. and
the flet and the fish, perhaps, If turbot is not
too dear.
You can have deal of elegance for 81 a
day in this Paris boarding house. The stair
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FACTS ABOUT COTTON.
Inc money brought Into the South I'm
Nineteen Years,

money Wrought Into the South I'm
Nineteen Years.
From Harper's Weekly
- stuoy or the crop figures will show
tiat seven years successfully increasing
crops from 1856 to 1912 were unprece.
oented in the history of trade 1t is doubt
iul II any leading crop raised can show such
an unbroken increase for seven wears
jumping from 100000 bales in 1856, there
was practically no hating until 1So,-2
when the yield was 9O35, 600 bales-a gain
OF "'5Vo'oOo bales> or nearly GO per cent ad.
vance in seven years.
In nineteen years cotton has brought into
the south over $4,000, 900, OO0-a sum so vast
that the profits out of it ought to have been
enough 10 greatly enrich that section Tn
fortunately, however. the system 1ecessi
tated by the conditions prevailing imme-
date.y after the war, Of Raising cotton only
and buying provisions and grain in the
west, left at home but little, if any, surplus
money out of the cotton crop. The west
anu north drained that section of several
hundred million dollars every year, because
1t depended upon them for all of its manu-.
factured goods, as well as for the bulk of
its food stuffS
from cotton, very little remained in the
south. The increase in the Investigation OF
farm products, the raising of home supplies
the development of trucking and the build
h me the money which formerly went north
and west. Whether the cotton raiser him.
self be getting the full benefit of this or
not, the south at large is necess arily doing
so. The increase in the attention given tc
81 ain cultivation is illustrated by the fact
that the south's grain crop of 1894 was Gill;
e0,o00 bushels, valued at $780,, coo 900, or
more than the value of it's entire cotton
crop. and the yield for 1895 will probably
exceed these figures by at least $1,000, 900
bushels.
The Importance of cotton in our foreign
trade relations can be realized from the
simple statement that since 1879 our ex-
ports of this staple have aggregated in
valve si,UO.0o00d0. while the total exports
of wheat and flour comb ined for the same
period have been about $1,000. 000,O show
ing difference of 81, 100000 900. or over 30
per cent In favor of cotton. Moreover, dur
ing the same period, we have exported
about S2O0.00OCOO of manufactured cotton
goods. making the total value really 81 .2o0,-
CO9.0o0. Compared with the exports of
wheat. -four and corn combined-the value
of which since 1873 has been about s., 200,-
000.O0-there is a difference in favor of
cotton of $1,000. 100000.
Going back to 1920 1T is found that the
total value of flour and wheat exported for
the last seventy-four years Is. in round
figures, S4,OC0.GOO,OO0. or s200,OOO.OO0 less
than the value of the cotton exported dur
ing the last nineteen years.
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grace and huency, except for that toreador
accent. The young American and his wife
from Manchester, England, are beginning,
having GO. to the point of being able to call
each other real naughty" and have mas
tered the shrug. The doctor and his wife
insist on speaking French" Vice. je aim lie
Franchise tres bo-koo." Madame, the wife
of the proprietor cannot speak English. A
half-cynical, half-mournful American with
a pointed beard and gold eye glasses, acts as
the table dictionary And the rest stumble
alorg they may. sweet-faced French
lady has come to sit at the table to learn
English. 1t is an excellent opportunity, be-
cause the conversation at lunch runs some
thing like this:
Good morning. good morning. good morn
Ing, good morning! Isn't it a wretched morn
ing? Showing in Octoberi And we Were
to go to RESPONSIBILITIES on our bicycles!
Now Wen have to play poker Madame Es-
padito, what are you going to do this after
noon? Jouer au po-caire? Yes? l won
two francs night before last, and Suzanne
did too, but / think you might come and
respectable and good! And think it's real
improving for the gentlemen, it keeps them
in and out of harm. Doctor, where are you
going this afternoon?
"Parley Francois. Madame Jones, c'eSt la
table Francois with increasing difficulty.
Alvey YOU eu une bon Sum-ay? Je ETY. tray
jsney dan lie mutt parsk there was some Kind
of an engine pumping across la rue"
Say. Turkey, wish you'd tell madame she
ought to heat the plates My steak is stone
cold already"
At all the other tables they are speaking
plain English, when it is not Portuguese.
Spanish or Russian. 1t Is a large boarding
house, five stories high; and the majority
of the rooms are filled with beautiful
American ladies' and their daughters. come
abroad to spend their husbands money. We
have no cause to blush for our country. On
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a troupe that could not be equaled If you
Should hunt through the whole length OF
the Avenue de fAlma.
The Frenchmen simply gasp as some OF
these real American peaches, rosy-fa 2ed.
frank-eyed. and bubbiing over with the
10y of life, pass by. Everything is new to
Them every thing is interesting and delight
full oh Mr. Watkins. do look at those
dear little goatsI And the man with the
blue Mother Hubbard driving them! What
is he playing on? What pretty tune? why
does he drive the goats along the street!
For goats milk? How. goats milk? DO you
mean to say he stops those goats and mllks
them on the street? In a lineup? Mr.. Wat
kins you're jokinSi And that tune he's
playing is to tell people mes coming! Ana
they come out with their tincups! Why, It's
awful
You must understand that these Ameri-
can girls are rich well as pretty Some
times the great marble vestibule of the
first floor is piled high with boxes from the
/ ouvrC and the Bon Mlrche. On such an
evening everything else stops and there is
a worlds fair held in one of the parors.
Everybody comes to look at the hats, the
gloves the fans. the slippers. the coats, the
furs the buckles, the bracelets. And there
are mysterious boxes and packages they
never unite till they get alone.
As Overheard.
But if you have a room next to one of
them YOU will be forced to overhear many
a confidence.
ION, Lucy. don't you thiEk it's too high
No. that's the style. They're just like
stove pipes Gusting). Isn't it grand!
That's the gayest one l ever saw. All silk?
Yes, sixty francs. Jane. l don't blame
these French women for lifting their gowns
when it's muddy"
Three of these American girls in Paris
are perfeCting themselves at the piano.
Two others are perfecting themselves in
FOCAL music. One is perfecting herself at
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copperS. Ant l haf
at tree pair, ma chere, ant he say 1 mus
rot play. for hat seeks cart!' Madame
come up.' Com opp. how com opp" Put
your ante and you will have less money
Now Mr.. Watkins. you must not teach
these French ladies that horrid poker
slang. Yes, that's my money. Thanks.
Three typewriters.''
The JOY of Winning.
1t is the most delightful thing in the world
to see Madame x play pokaire. She has
just learned the game. and has been very
successful. One evening she won three
francs, another evening four francs fifty
and still on another evening six francs. She
always counts her winnings in cab fares
How much are you ahead, Madame X-?'
"Ah. hat two cab and one omnibus" She
is the travelling companion of the American
lady from Manchester, England, who is very
nice to her. Young. pretty and fiercely
economical her face f1ushes like a rose and
her eyes grow moist when one deals her
three aces from the bottom of the pack With
what joy and triumph she rakes in those
precious cab fares! 1t is holy privilege to
raise her back until she lrembles when you
only have a bob-tailed straight against those
aces.
The doctor drinks champagne at dinner
and his wife drinks milk This evening he
lad whole bottle of champagne instead of
a half bottle, as Is usual. He sits next to
madame the wife of the proprietor and
wished to offer her champagne. to please her
and to make her gay. Madame, his own
wife had almost quarreled with madame
the wife of the proprietor, this morning on
the price of fire wood for her open CRATES
So madame. the wife of the proprietor, was
flushed and happy after dinner. Come, my
dears, am going to make up the menus for
tomorrow and the day after. We will have
anything you please. Name the dishes you
love best
Even the poker players stop. Madame,
speak for eggs poached In cream and
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case is marble. as imposing as that of a
tbeater. The table is waited on by men in
livery. Each floor has long balconies. The
private hotel of an American marquise is
directly in front, the aristocratic American
church of the Alma at one side and the ave-
nue. of the Champs Elysees hundred steps
away. Madame bought fine bay horse last
summer. and now she has bought a coupe
1t is against the law to rent the coupe out
but who will know it? The concierge has
suit Of livery, and boarders are at liberty to
engage the turnout at three francs an hour!
STERLING HEIIIG
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Murder In His Art,

From the Boston Trarscrlpt.
Prospective Tenant-'I was given to I'M
derstand that this house was mile away
from the railroad, but I hear a steam
whistle this very minute. 1 can't stand the
roise it just drives me Wild
Prospective Landlady-"But, my dear sir
that is not a steam whistle; it is only my son
practicing on the flute"
Prospective Tenant-"Oh, very we'll One
cannot coerce a railroad company. you
know; but one can kill boy. Yes, 1 think
I'll take the rooms
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just Co.'S.


From Harper's Bazaar
Bobhy-'Tommy Jones Is an awful bad
boy; he called me an other and AN other Is
a dreadful name"
Mammal don't think AN other is such
a dreadful name"
Bobby-"Oh. you don't know! Why, AN
other means nasty, mean, Injun-giving
strck-up pig"
Mamma-"How does my little boy know
that?"
Bobby-"Well, you see Oh, Just CO.'S"
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Self-Defense.

From Harper's Bazaar.
Wife-"What in the world do you want
with a trombone? You know that the man
next door has driven US nearly wild by his
performance on that awful instrument"
Hubby-"Calm yourself, my dear. That's
the one I've bought"
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The best way TO avoid scalp diseases hair fall
ing out and premature badness is to use the best
preventive known for that purposc-IIall's Hair
Remover.
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French table at our
boarding house. To
the right of US and to
the left of us they
volley and thunder.
for the most part In
the good old Ameri-
can language. But
those at the French
table are supposed to
be more serious. The
Spanish lady already
speaks the language
of Paul Bourget with
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DIAMONDS A DRUG
Il 10
Americans Not Buying as Many
M They Did.
q an
PURCHASING gems BY TEE TON
News About Precious Stones in the
",
United States.
sS IA
A M ERIC AN JEW ELS
PURCHASING gems BY TEE TON
A M E RIO AN JEW Ell S

MERICANS A R E
buying dukes t h 1 s
year; they have no
money for diamonds.
Importations of those
precious stones have
gone away down ow-
ing to hard times. In
1894 they dropped to
a lower point than
for many years, only
Sc, 76S,0OO worth being
brought to this coun-
try. The growth of
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EFT elcore." Moi,
vous savez, j. al plus
lie sou! Henry, just
hand me over another
francs worth of those
cpDDerS " Ant T haf,
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s und ay morning
when they all start
out In a triple rank
for DR.. MOrgan's
Amer can Church of
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Pictures Of Life in Boarding House
in Paris.
TABLE WHERE ONLY FRENCH SPOKEN
How American Visitors Intend to
Improve the Time, but Don't.
POKER AS 1T IS PLAYED

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
PARIS, November 5, 1895.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-09-25
The japanese are having two battle

The Japanese are having two battle
ships, each Of 2,450 tons displacement,
constructed in England. They will be
874 feet long on the water line, and
their armament will comprise four IL
inch breechloading rifles, mounted in
pairs in two steel barbettes, Ia inches
thick; ten l6 inch rapid firing guns in
easements, 20 three FOUNDER and four
~ FOUNDER Hotchkiss rapid firing guns.
This battery will be able to throw 1000
pounds Of projectiles at q single dis
charge. The vessels will also be fitted
with four submerged and n above wa
ter torpedo launching tubes. New York
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-09-25

DIVISION AND CHEESE
Mrs. j. II. Cole and Z. r. G. Gross,
superintendente.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-09-25

Admission to the grounds, single
ticket, % cents: family ticket, including
all members Of one family, Is cents.
II. H.. ODELL, President.
HUGH G. MURRAY Secretary.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1895-11-24
POR UNA NIRADA

de au oigarro, fernando espiralea que ae enaan.
ohaban medida que subfan haca el teoho
70 volvta los ojos haoia el lugar dondo Ia
joven de los oahelos rubios hab1a eatado senta~
da oreia aumentar sobre mi aquella mirada
que lego al ooraz6n.
Salirnos los dos dltimos del restaurant L.
gnerea me aoompaf6 haata Ia puerta una vez
alh me dijo:
-1Con que tn ruptura es defnitiva?
-JCon Oimpia7
-Claro.
-Completa.
La echaras de menos..
-Es possible, pero estoy resuelta d no vol
verla yer mas.
ESQ 10 dices hoy, quizas mehana vayas
q implorar d su puerta
No.
va 10 veremos.
-Hablemos de Ia otra
=lDe cudl!
DE la del rest. urant. e. .dC6mo Ia eneuen.
tras?....
- incantadora. .... 7 len que puede intere.
sarte Il esa muohaoha?
Te ia razon.
lQu6 podia Importance aquella muier. que
10 habfs <visto nupca que no volveria 4 YER
euizGa9 1Q-e importencia podia tener que fueee
hermoss q detsatable' = ain embargo, en- ella
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1895-11-24

-" DEPOSTTO GENERAL. y de P,aeESc>-
geo: F1DEI oUI1LERAErY Boeioaa
DEoq1eraas do Capital Mayague& Acuads Gs1aya-
na Coa1no xarsa Araano Adtnntaz UHaado Bc-