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lawyer. He asked Miss Paula to find
the lessons for him after each service
for the next one. This detained her
IN that most convenient spot until the
rector could prepare to stroll down the
aisle and bow q triumphant greeting
to the forestalled Radcliffe.
This Sunday morning, as Mr. OHle-
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COllisiOn with II Cable Chr.

Third avenue cable car colidei with an Ice
wagon at the corner Of One Hundred and TNen-
y-third street and Third avenue this morning
taking wheel ON the wagon and throw Ing
the driver David Walsh, from his seat 10 the
pavement, breaking his left arm, Walsh was
taken to the Harlem Hospital. Gripmsn George
Livermore was arrested.
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THE FUNDS HELPERS.
Various Entertainments.
4 SWnday-SchOol Class Collection,

To the Editor:
lnclosed please md s. %. the collection ., a
Sunday school class, composed OF the children
boarders OF II. u. Williams. East Durham
Greene County, ~ Y,
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Child Falls Three stories.

Four -yedr-old Joseph conkin 3ls EaT Forty.
sixth street, fell from the thrd-stury re.cstape
at his home at $50 o clock this morning and
WAS killal
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Fell from His Shin.

At o'clock this morning a fireman attached
to the steamer Aurora, lying In the East River at
the foot of Fifth street, fell overheard and was
drowned.
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DUNG Lawyer Rad

NG Lawyer Rad
ClMe walked lei
surely down May
field street toward
the F. pi &C pa !
Church. He was
tall and thin, with
a narrow, white
face and a Roman
nose. AS usual, he
wore a tall silk
hat and a trim
black suit.
As he came in
sight Of the church
door n crowd Of
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DISEASES OF MEN.

Dr. II Tre.kow. OF lH West Ath St. near sth
ave. positively guarantees quick and permanent
cure by tho improved French method to all suf-
'erers from early errors. loss OF vitality. weak
ness Of bony and mind private diseases. vAr;-
cOc-le. a. Personal consultation. also book aud
testimonials free. once hours to 10, to J.
8 to 6. evenings, to o. Sundays, 10 to u. . u T.
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had sought
valnly. They
nodded ST.
lently and
turned to-
wards the
shade I o
= g S I. A :
they neared
the point .
nlurmur OF
v o l c e .
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Reach RIl of the Greater New
York and much OF the United
states ON the HRlf-MilIiOn Guar
antec Page!
The St. Johns herald., 1895-08-08
Cor;.s as CCsi.

With every indication that coal is going up it is timely to suggest that a couple Of girls in Paris used to keep themselves warm by burning orange peel and empty spools. Cor.1s are also recommended. There $ a story told of a awcll-knoHn English curato who pocs- etcl every cork he came across at 8 dinner table. When questioned as to this singular habit he blashed and said he gaze them 0 tAe DOT. 4 sufficient number of corks would keep Q coaHess man with 8 gool fro all day. Fir cones are also alvisod, ard make a fine, chcery blaze: liI7ewi3e corncobs.
The St. Johns herald., 1895-08-08
In Inc Austrian Arnar.

The polyglot character of the Aus, trian army was abundaatly shown the other day when the ancient custom of sclem5ly swearing in the recruits in the presence Of the troops was revived, after having been discontinued since 1868. In Vienna alone the formula Of oath to the colors had to be admins tered and read out in nine languages. to-wit: German, Hungarian, Croatian, Bohemian, Polish, Euthenian. Rou- nanian, Servian and Turkish, while the religious part of the ceremony was conducted by Eolaan Catholic, Greek Catholic and Greek orthodox priests, Protestant pastors, Jewish rabbis and Mahometan ulema.
The St. Johns herald., 1895-08-08
cuNnIna o: cRocooiLEs.
They Escape inc EJe. Spread for Them by
 Isur-o;vine in tfc asch.

They Escape inc Net Spread for Them by
 Isur-oiying jn the &cd.
 The following iS fair sample of how cunninrly cr0codilcs, in conmon with all other wild animals, can conceal themselves in moments 3f danger, says the Westminster Gazette. After a happy week spent in the jungle with a friend Cf mine ve halted for break fast. before making the last stage for headquarters and home. at a place called Poonarhyn-Arg!ice, garden of foUers-aIld while at brealzf2s' were amused by watching . number of croc- odiles, about eight or te2. sanning themselves on the surface of q small lake, or tank. as it is there called. of about an acre in extent. A sudden thought struck ne.
 T say, Murray, what fun it would be to try and catch some of these baggars in q net" 'Bravo!'' said he. Let's try it presently. Appu, send the horse keeper to the village and tell him to bring ID al tho men he can find and some long fishing nets. We will give good santosum' (present).
 The villagers scented some fun, and with the further stimulus of santo sum very soon turned I'D to the mum, Der Of thirty. It was now eleven o'clock and scorching hot, the air quivering over the bare, sandy plain in which the pond was situated. It was breast deep. as we knew. including about one foot or eighteen inches of heavy mud. We tied two nets together 50 as to make one long enough to reach across the tank, about thirty yards, and this was heavily weighted along the bot tom and arranged to be drawn with long ropes from each shore.
 Immediately behind the net came a line, and men about a yarl apart. with long, pointed poles with which to prod the mud along the bottom of the net, and so drive the r1alingcring gentle men into proper position in front of the net. Ny friend and his servant (for all entered into the sport) fol lowed close mp to the second line.
 At it we ;3l now went, spl2shing, shouting. stamping and hauling. but a big but-not sign did we find of a single one of the brutcs that we had seen before IS when we came to the edge of the water lTc dragged tllat water backward and forward more than once, but our only reward was a deadly thirst that lasted us till late that night.
 They had burrowcd deeper into the mud than we could reach them, for nothing-I doubt if even 3 rat-could have escaped nnssen out of the water
The St. Johns herald., 1895-08-08
ALI-REN-ALl, THE CoeeLER.
How He Lost His Wives and His Faith at
 the sanlo Time.

Ali-Bcn-Ah was and is a renegade. lie believes in three gods, and drinks spirits Of wine, corn and rye. lie also believes that women have souls and that, while there arc many houris in heaven, there orc more in hell When the r1ucz3iR calls to prayer he puts his thumb 10 his nose and spreads his fin gers out, which is his Turkish way of expressing derision. Once upon q time he owned seven slaves, four of whom were white. Great 1aen were his friends Now he cobblcs shoes, says Vance Thompson in the New York Ad- vcrtiser.
 He might have been happy man to this day had it not been for that devil of an Alcibia;cs. Ali-ben-Ali was sit ting on his feet, looking through the op3n door out on tho blue waters of the Bo5porus and the low sandy shore beyond when the Crock came up. He was Iow-browcd Greek. He wa9 peddliDg slippers with long rcd points which curlcl over like rams horns Ali was absorbed in thinking of his seven female slaves. He kicked the Greek in the back violently two or three times, but otherwise ignored his presence.
 The subtle Creek departed. Under his low brew he devised this revenge. He wrote letter to the sultan.
 ''We'n sec about this" said the sul- tan. 'Nlcsrour, off with Ben Ais head and bring me his seven nice wives"
 IIcsroUr returned in half an hour. the seven slaves, of whom four were white, trailing after him.
 Ben Ali is dcad.'' he said.
 Mesrour lied Ben Ali, by bribes. lad secarcd his escape and, disguised as Q bale of tobacco, was stored away in q hold of q vessel bound for New York; He is in New York now to prove tlsat this tale is no lie. lie cobblcs shoes. At times he drinks strong spirits. Then he curses the com n2an5or of the faithful and Alcibiades, the l3v-bro.-cl Greek. The sultan is ! 4Tohammcd29, and him Ben Ah curses; the Greek is Christian and is cursed of Ben Ali.
The St. Johns herald., 1895-08-08
couRAGE I.l SURGERY.
Why Experieucos; Practitioners Arc Cool
 EsA.is Cpcrat.nG.


 vFA.ie Operating.
 An old surgeon, engaged for the mo- mcnt i1 diascctilg 2 cold roast quail. and IzaIzing, it Elnst be confessed. only an indilTerent job of it. had been lis tcning incidentally to the conversation of his table companions who were dis cussing t'.c calmness and nerve dis played hy the average practitionerdur- ing surgical operations, says the New York Herald Both agreed that the roisc nrd coolness shown by surgeons at tines were extraordinary and hard to understand.
 '.Now, friends, if you will permit re. interrupted the surgeon at this point. ''I wonl5 lie to tell you that there Is nothing extraordinary about t. The 'ncrTc,' as you cell it, Of the sIl.rcon under such circumstances is t.ls host natural thing in the world. T. is rot diaplay of calmness which has been put on for that occasion, or .. exhibition of courage summoned up for aa unusual emergency, but simply the normal dc1acanor Of . practical, I12ttcr-Cf-fact man who knows what he has to do and how he is going 10 do it.
 '.The trouble with many people who marvel at what they call surgeons courage is that they fail utterly to comprehend the conditions under which hc performs his work. They imagine that iie is experimenting, or Glat h. doesn't knew his ground, or that he .vin cut something that he ought not to cut. Nothing could be further from the facts. No movement in science or mechanics is preceded by q more accurate forci2oWlcdgc of its result3 than inc average operation in sur y. There is no such thing as gucsswcr1. about it. The operator knows Ec is performing an operation which is based upon an exact science. He fellows rules which apply to all cases. and is secure in the confidence that cauecs which have produced cer- tain effects ia gwen instances will do 90 in all others.
 '#-hy, then, should therc be any need il his work for extraordinary courage? There are cases, of course, oO Et lte+s4 tJf f5J tl-Eil5tts-l SS5 u [fAClVs- even the cai1nost and most sclf-con- taiacd operator. end when these arc under treatment tho surgeons powers Of sclf-control are frequently taxed to their utnost limit. To the man who, il sEch a case, can Uield the knife without .. tre1lor. when life itself de- ponds upon tho accuracy and delicacy Of his touch. VIC mnet award the praise due to real heroes. But in tEe aver age case, say of amputation CT Of skull fracture involving cranial operations, the surgeon neither needs TOT possesses more than the courage of an intclli- gent. sincere man, who knows his duty and has learned how to perform it. His technical Knowledge of anatomy a1l its metbcdical habit of work ac- custom him 70 conditions which alarm and excite ron professional minds, and he goes about his task with q certain quiet, vigorous, assertive confidence in the result Of his movements which the observer is quite likely to mistake for marvellous courage summoned up for that particular occasion. It is courage of a certain sort 1 confes6-the cour- ago of absolute confidence in the i1- gzllibility of the science lie repre- scnts''
The St. Johns herald., 1895-08-08
TREES AND THEIR AGES.
They Hrc tho OniY Terms of Nature VFhicI
 Accurately I;cco7.! tao Years.

They Hrc tho Onir Terms of Nature Which
 Accurately Ecco-! tao Years.
 r Elm, 313 yeal'a; ivy, 3335 years; maple, 5f0 years; l3rc,l. 575 years; orange. 63o years; cypress. 800 years; olive. 500 years; walnut, 500 years; Oriental plane, 1.G0o years; liIa4, 1,10o years; spruce, 1.G00 years: calz, 1,533 years; cedar, 2,020 years; yev, 3.220 years. The way in which the ages of these trees have been &scereGined leaves no doubt of it3 ccrrcccncs3. h some few cases the data have been furnished by historical records and by traditions, but the botanical arcAcologists have a resource Independent Of either, and, when carefully used. iafallible.
 Of all t.lc forms of nature. trees Slonc disclose tIcir ages candidly and freely. Tn the stems of trees which have branches and leaves with netted veins-In all cxogcas, as the botanist would say-thc i1crc8cc takes place by means of an annual deposit of wood spread il an even layer upon the sur face of the preceding one.
 III tiic E'.iii~F l'-1IN)'to ot lie trees lh- crease Innca faster than when adult the oak. for ia3tanec. grows more rap idly between the twentieth and thir- tieth ycG..3-ard when oil the annual deposits considerably diminish, so that the strata gre thinner and the rings IroportionablE closer. Some treca slaci,cn ia rate of growth at a very early pcrioi Of life. and layers of oak become thinner after 49, those of the elm after 5o, taose of the yew after 60.
The St. Johns herald., 1895-08-08
recucoa to tho Ranks.

Different ideas exist in England from those prevalent in Germany with regard to the attitude to be adopted by soldiers toward escaping prisoners. Whereas Emperor William some time ago aroused much unpleasant com ment by promoting a corporal who had shot at and killed in a crowded street an escaping prisoner, at Wool rich a sergeant and a corporal have just been reduced to the ranks and sentenced to a months imprisonment for having discharged their carbines, without injury to anybody, in public thoroughfare at Q deserter who had broken away from them.
The St. Johns herald., 1895-08-08
slxfv Niles of r.ocusts.

The African Steamship company's steamer Winnebah, which lately ar rived from West Africa at Liverpool. had a most unusual experience when steaming between the attitudes of Cape Verde and St. Louis, Senegal. For sixty miles the vessel steamed through locusts, which were so thickiy packed together on the top of the water that they completely covered the surface for miles around. Indeed, they appeared to be lying on the sea as far as the eye could reach. The locusts had no doubt been blown from the Morocco coast into the sea. They rcscmbled gigantic grasshoppers, and one which was secured was five inches in length. Of course, all of the locusts had been drowned.
The St. Johns herald., 1895-08-08
: s.,t,l,-,;ose l Eea-iineot.

Tn the Russian army there is one particular regiment oi infantry Of the guards formod by EanpNror Paul, the men of which are recruited. not so much with regard to their height or the color of their ha:r and cooplcxions as ta the shape Of their noses En- peror Paol had 2 typical Ga!:nulz nos> of t!2e I2ost e--eraciatingiy up-tilted pattern, and since then, cut Of com Dlin2at b h:l:l. all Of t,2e Officers and men Of t,:i5 particular regiment have noses Of tle sane shape, the sight which they present on parade being so.ac7v'::.. stGrtling
The St. Johns herald., 1895-08-08
TIE AUTHOR OF "ePARTAcus.
Composed by EiijaE, Kellogg When q Stu
 dent at .Ardovar.


 Talking with correspondent of the Boston Herald Rev Elijah Kellogg, of Ifarpswen Me. thus described how he wrote that fayorite Reclamation of school boys: '-Spartacus to the Gladia- tc,rs'':
 It was while I was at Andover. '' said he. smiling as the remembrance of the event came back to hlm. We were required to prepare speeches for our rhetorical exercises, and after each man had spoken lie was subjected to criticisms by his fellows-and their comments weren't always so compli- mentary as they were pointed. Then the professor wopld follow with scri- ous criticism, and he always found faults that needcI correcting.
 So these speeches came to be looked upon with dread and at last made up my mind that I'd try to get something so different from anything we had had and % Interesting that 1t would hold their attention too closely for them to think about points on which to criti- else me, and 60 1 would get eff free.
 Well. l wrote 'S5part2cus' When began 1t worked jast as I had ex- pcctcd They were 50 taken by sur prise that they never thought of any thing but the speech. You could have heard q pin drop at any time while 1 was speaking, and they did not recover until had finished and had come down to ask for criticism.
 Then when Prof. Payne turned to the students and inquired: What criticism have you to offer, young cen tleInen?' thcrc wasn't one Of them had g word to say. for they were all think ing of the piece and hadn't noticed anything else.
 'GentleInon,' said the professor, i've are net here for theological dis quisitioas nor for learned arguments, but these exercises are purely rhetor- ical. and, gentlemen. that is rhetoric.
 Then. turning to me, he remarked: T could crit;cise you, Kellogg, but l don't know whether it would do you more good CT harm, and so, on the whole think :! will say nothing.
 ',So," added tho oil gentleman, with Q ehuclzle, I escaped criticism"
The St. Johns herald., 1895-08-08
Thc Snp,-:asit.nra Turk.

There is TO land on earth where more expectations prevail than that of the unspe,i2,;lDle Turk. Some Of them are interesting. IfbT any chance sparrow ol swallow flies il t,lo window and cir clcs tirco times around the room 1t is q sign that q blood relation of soc2c one present i5 about to die. There are rnany signs and happenings that are supposed to pTe-!iet raa-uia.ge. For in stance. if 6 h.,.'se s-zcc-23 w,ao2 Q young girl rs-sae.s ii tAe street she is positive that her time is De2rly come. If her hair beeoGc8 u2fsste1od she knows that sAc Eiitao :c sought for. and if she Eoes t eat 2 P3ach and finds its igeInel split ahe ia equaiiy certain that s:ie will soon bc welded
The St. Johns herald., 1895-08-08
FLOWERS CF TIE NIGHT.
Peculiarly Adapted to Attract Winged
 I.SeCts.

izsSeCtS
 As VIC all know, there are day-bloom- ing and night-blooning flowers. says the Cornhill Margarine. The former lay themselves out for tho fcrtilizing visits Of bees and butt 6,lics; they are generally dcclicd in red, blae, vel low orpurplc. and have often lines,spots or markings on their petals which point to the ncctarios and so act as honcy guides. The night-blooming flowers. on the ether hand, lay them selves out for the visits of moths or other crepuscular i21ects, and therefore have recourse to concthing E:;e the tactics of the Grci.ic5 and the Clow-worms. They a~c uS';a,ly pnre white and the petals arc often of such peculiar tex ture that they seem to glow with in tcrral light in thc dim shades of even ing. At tunes ono might almost fancy they were stained 5y nature with some curious fcrcrunccr of luminous paint. 50 strongly do they reflect every invisible ray of tho faint twilight. They thus succeed in catching the eyes of motAa. which, of course, are es- pecially modified for receiving and per cciving thc olo21cr stimulus of dusk and the Gloonin.g.
 Bat the nocturnal flowers have no lines or spots, becacse these last could never hc p2rc>ired n the gray gloom of evening. Illcy. rla..o up for it, how ever, by being heavily scented; indeed, almost all the strong white flowers, like jassamine, tubcrosc, gardenia, stephanotis. ccrau5 and syringa. which are such fav3ritc5 with florists, belong to niGht-bloolaing plants, specially adapted to attract the eyes and noses of night-fying insects.
The St. Johns herald., 1895-08-08
BIsMARcK's MORTGAGES.

The Ex-Chanceiior cevo.iaE SG2 0co a
 Year to the Lilli lasioa of Do3ss.
 Nobody in Gernany has felt the evil effects of the agricultural dapre eesion more keenly than has Bismarck. To persons who have read of the magnid cent presents given to Dis1na-clz by the old emperor it has been q surprise to learn recently that bis estates are heavily mortg2@cd. His present from the old emperor after the Austrc-P -Prus- sian war of 1866 was &3o0, ,O)0, and with this sum he bought his palace at Var zin. After the FraRco-PrussiGn war he received from the same hands the Saxon forest at Friedrichsruhe, valued at S750,000 He inherited the ancestral estate at Schoenhausen. On April 1, 1885, Bismarck's seventieth bI.thdcy, his admirers throughout the world gave him that portion of the Schce1- hausen property which his father had been obliged to sell when times were hard. The money value of tl2o gift was soEae S400,00O Bismarck is also 8 distiller, forester and the owner of 8 large brick yard. Despite all these ad- vantages, however, says writer in the Home Journal, he has found it ilnDossi- ble to lift the mortgages, amolntiag to about S750,000, which have incuInbered his estates for many years. Of his gross income more than S32, GOO must be devoted every year to paying the in terest on his debts. The burden is not agreeable to the old chancellor, and he has often remarked to his friends re- gently that his ambition to leave an unincumbered property to his children would never be gr2thiel.
The St. Johns herald., 1895-08-08
Groat tsritain in Ialia.

Great Britain has been stretching her wings over India. In 1892 she laid claim to 626,00O square miles of that country. She made additions to thi3 every year except 1843. 1845, and 1852. down to 1856. when her possessions nggregatcd 35G,099 square miles Ad- vances were made in 1865, 188: and 1886, and now the area of India under British rule is 927,s square miles. British India is larger thanall that part of the United States lying east of the Mississippi river and it's pops;la- ton five times as great as Che present population of this whole country. Great Britain may not be able to acquire much fnore of India. Indeed there is likely to be difficulty in retaining what she has, with native dissatisfaction and the watchfulnees Of her aggravating enemy on tho north, who in the last forty years has moved his boundaries over many degrees Of latitude.
The St. Johns herald., 1895-08-08
Too Goa ] 2 ,.nke.

Lord Bowen, an English ja1ge, was once tempted to sa-n u9 ironically. T. was the case of 9 burglar who had been caught, having oa ri iron the roof and taken the pro-2aeion t5 leave his boots on top. lis dcf9cze waa t,l,t he was in the h2',it of t2',llF midnight strolls on the rc- -e5 of houses, and thct he was tempted by curiosity to have q look ct one of the interiors. Lord Bowen said, sarcastic2lly: Ii, rentlc- men of the jury, yoa think it probable that the prisoner considered the roofs of the houses a salubrious place for m evening walk; if yen suppose that the temptation to inspect the interior Of the houses beneath him was tho out come of natural and pario1ablc cCri- osity, in that case, of corrse. you will aceult him. and rcgard him as a thoughtful and ccnsil5era:e man, who would naturally remove his boots be- fore entering the hoSse, Gnd t>ko every preeaution n9t to dizturb his neiehbors." ID the ja7.7as arna-5aae12t, tbe jury took hin et his word and ac- quilted the prisoner. Lc.d Bowen never attempted b joke with jury egain.