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PICKET SHOTS.
From Alert Comrades All Along the
Line.

IAII communications for this column viii receive
due attention. and those found available used rs
soon as possible. Comrades should write very
briefly and to the point on one side OF the paper
only. and matters of general interest Inc
number of Picket Shots which reach the Editor Is
so great that room cannot be found for all, how
ever meritorious, and those chosen now cannot
find insertion for some little while. Stamps should
be incosed If it is desired that manuscript unava-
able be returned.l
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I am in favor of a Service Pension that
will reach all not now receiving any. IL
should not be less than s. month";. La
Slack, Green Camp, o.
Our Post is in favor of Service Pension.
W. o. Blanchard, Sergeant, Co. b, 9Th Mo.
Cav.,-Ashland, Mo.
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HE WAS AN EYEWITNESS.

Private George Reynolds's Story OF the
Death of Mcpherson.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: here Is the
story Of George Reynolds, Co. ID, 18th Iowa,
and AT the time of Gen. McPhersons death
on duty at the Headquarters OF the THIRD
Brigade, Fourth Division, Seventeenth Corps.
According to his story, in obedience to orders,
Eve others with himself started on the MORN
;ng of July %, 1864, to rejoIn their regiment
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THEIR RECORDS.
Brief Sketches of the Services of
Various Commands.

THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE has In hand several
hundred requests for regimental histories All such
requests will be acceded TO in due time. although
those now received cannot be published for at
least n year. owing to lack of space. Numerous
sketches have already been published. and of these
none can be found room for second time, until all
have been printed.l
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am in favor of Service Pension in some
shape. Congress ought to settle this matter
at once, right now, this coming Winter, and
| think they will if all the soldiers of the
late war will just keep right after them.
There never was better time than right
now.-M. II. Trowbridge 3eth Ohio, Bur
dette, Mo.
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A COUGH SHOULD Nor BE NEGLECTED
Brotrn's bronchial Troches" are simple REM
ed ~ and give immediate and sure relief.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-01-09

The Parliament Of New South Wales has
renewed for thIee years the subsidy to the
direct Canadian Australian steamship line.
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1867. 1896.
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Mems fine Atwood latest style coats, sacks cut
vi Always, etc. Imported wOrsted goods worth S13
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Address Bed Rock Clothing Co, WOneW0c, Wis.
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ments Alvin j. Garrison, Burdetf, Kan.
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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-10-10
PREDICTED HIS OWN DEATH.

Eccentric Man mt Hartford eoun.s Had
His Coffin In Readiness. =. 4
!. Alexander Inwood, OF Hartford, Conn
who months ago predicted the time 81
his own death, and who has kept hA
coffin by his bedside, SO firm was his be.
lief in his own power Of prognostica~
ton, died on Saturday night. The end
came just 4s hours later than the timk
named by him. In accordance with biz
dying wish, bis body was placed r
the cremating furnace in Boston. &5T.
Alexander Inwood was in many ~
spects strange man. He was self
made a:.d self-educated, having CONT
to this country from England whel
poor boy. Eccentric in his belief
and doing:s, he lived a secluded life, thu
greatest Joy of which was to study,
His range Of research was very wide
and it can be said safely that few men
in this section had acquired such high
; literary attajnments. Ills own life he
studied with unfaltering zeal, till ID
said he was able to diagnose the amount
of his waning vitality SO accurately that
he could tell the time Of his death
months ahead. He described to ths
physicians who attended him the NH
nutest details of his aggravated stom'
ach ailment and assured them before
they were obliged to- reach the Same
conclusion that no mortal power could
save his life '
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STRUGGLES FOR LIFE.
Johh W. 1nnis' Balloon Bursts While HI
D.. IL T., M I'll.

John W. Innis' Balloon Bursts While III
"-,. IL In Mid-AIr.
John w. Innis, an aeronaut, had
thrilling experience the other after.
noon. He came to Manila, Ind, to
give an exhibition in connection with
political rally and 500 persons wit
messed the ascension. He had attained
the height of $500 feet when the bal.
loon burst and began falling rapidly,
He was on trapeze eight feet below
his parachute, which he could not dis
engage from the falling balloon. With
daring nerve he climbed the rope OF
the parachute, while the Mortified spec.
tators expected at any moment to sec
him dashed to the earth. He succeed
ed in unfurling the parachute, which
checked the downward fright of the
balloon. In few seconds, the bal-
loon. freed of its hot air, tossed wildly
about, and first the balloon would be
on top and then the parachute. The
descent then was not rapid. During
all these, evolutions of the balloon and
parachute Innis held on, sometimes de.
scending head foremost, but always
clinging to the parachute, until he final.
ly landed in safety and without q
scratch. The balloon has the reputa.
ton of having killed six people.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-10-10
FRESH EGGS FROM CHINA.

Unique Invoices Now Keeping Chicago
Custom-House Omcials Busy.
"Fresh eggs from China is con-
spicuous sign posted in the windows of
Chinese stores and restaurants ON Clark
street, Chicago. But the announce
nent is in Chinese characters. The eggs
are e delicacy that come to Chicago
every fall from China. The examiners
room in the custom house has for the
past two weeks been strewn with the
square paper-covered boxes, wrapped
with bamboo splits, which hold the con-
signnents of fruits, vegetables and gro
ceries for the Chinese of Chicago and
the central west. Not the least among
the things imported are the duck eggs.
AT least 10000 of them have passed
through the custom house the past two
weeks. Each egg is wrapped in q mass
Of black mud, that retains its putty-like
consistency for months, even when ex-
posed to the air. They come in boxes
holding IS Chinese dozen--that is, ten.
Everything that comes from China 10
purchased by tens. The eggs thus keep
absolutely fresh. Feeling the mud
coating from them, the faint blue tint
of the shell is disclosed. The only diff
ference between the eggs Of al Ameri-
can duck and Chinese fowl, and an
unfailing mark that keeps the dealer
from practicing deception, is that tho
yolk, instead of being yellow, has the
color of an American beauty rose.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-10-10
GOLD SEEKERS COME TO GRIEF.
Exciting Encounter OF Whoolmen with
Snakes ON Bowman's Hill.

Exciting Encounter OF wheolmen with
Snakes ON Bowman's Hill
Bowman's hill at Lanbertyille, N. j.,
on the brow of which there is reported
to be buried a fabulous amount of Eng
lsh gold, was the scene of an exciting
encounter the other day between a
party of wheelmen and a nest of snakes.
A number of young men and women
from the city started on their wheels
to visit the spot. When near the top Of
the hill one of the party slipped and
fell between two rocks. Quickly re-
gaining his feet, he endeavored to climb
up the rock. Not being able TO do SO, he
overturned q small stone to aid him,
when to his horror dozen or so snakes
wriggled out from under it. The wheel
man msrde frantic efforts to climb up
the rock, yelling the while, butonly fell
back among the dreaded reptiles. In a
few minutes his friends came to his as
sistance and saw him struggling in a
nest of black snakes. After several at
tempts they succeeded in dragging him
from the crawling reptiles, which were
all over him. AS soon as he was rescued
everyone. forgetting the object Of the
trip. rushed pell-mell to the bottom, Of
the hill. falling over rocks and each 9th
err in their eagcrneas to escape from the
loathsome creatures. When the bottom
was reached. covered with bramhles,
clothes torn and badly winded, the
party mounted their wheels and rode
willing. if the gold is buried there,
to allow it to remain rather than go
through another such experience.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-10-10
NEW SQUADRON TACTICS.

Admiral Bunce Prepares . Book That
WMl Interest Naval Officers.
Admiral Bunce's new squadron tao
tics, which he has prepared as a result
of experience in the recent eyolutions
and from careful consideration Of all
the criticisms and recommendations of
all the officers under his command, have
finally been distributed and will be
given trial when the North Atlantic
squadron next goes to sea. The book is
not yet officially sanctioned by the navy
department, but the admiral is au-
thorized to experiment with 1t and he
asks al! officers to observe and COM
ment upon it's provisions.
All the useless and complicated ma
neuvers have been cut out, the number Of
formations have been reduced to mini
mum, ambiguous points have been
cleared up and the arrangement of tho
book has been SO changed as greatly to
facilitate the making and reading OF
signals. 49,
In simplifying the evolutions there has
resulted corresponding simplification
OF the arrangement OF signals, accom-
panied by reduction in the number Of
flags used in all the important signals
that are likely to be needed in battle or
in, the movements preliminary to bat
tie. The whole system of tactics Is
based upon the formations and evo]u-
tons that are necessary for a. squadron
of eight ships. ......
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HUNTERS GAG MANY RArTLERs.

Exciting Sport Engaged in by ErAsss
RiEney and Thomas Perrin.
Ernest Rigney, noted Pike county
(Pa.) hunter, and Thomas Perrin, Of the
banking house of A. 1selin & Co.. So Wall
street, started the other day to hunt
email game in the woods in the vicinity
of Log Tavern pond, four miles back of
Milford, N. Y. AS they had poor luck
Mr.. Rigney proposed to Mr.. Perrin they
spend an hour or so at midday in rat
tlesnake den near the pond and he would
show him such sport as he had never
enjoyed before. The latter assented
and they made their way through the
woods to the snake den, where on lodges
Of rock numerous rattlers lay coiled,
taking sun bath. The snakes were of
all sizes and included both the brown
and yellow varieties. The presence Of
the black snakes was made known to
Mr.. Rigney in an unexpected manner
A huge fellow was coiled about a tree.
and Mr., Rigney fairly ran against It be-
fore he saw it. The hunter stepped
back, raised his gun and blew the
snakes head off. It measured between
seven and eight feet. Both the SPORTS
men next opened fire on every snake in
sight and the crack Of rifles resounded
for an hour. In that brief space OF time
they killed IL rattlers and two black
snakes. Three of the rattlers were
skinned and Mr.. Perrin, who returned to
the city the next day, took them with
him and will exhibit them with the rat
Ties to his frienda
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-10-10
LOTS OF RED TAPE.

Extensive Correspondence Over T. Ten
-".' Dollar Govern msnt Account.
A good specimen of government red
tape has just turned up. One of the
Judges Of the equity court of the Dis
trict of Columbia made up his mind a
few weeks ago that he needed a new
chair and strip of carpet to lay before
his desk, and he ordered his clerk to
buy them.
In due course of time the bill np"
,peared. It wns for less than ten dollars,
but the furniture dealer who presented
It is having as much trouble collecting
his money as he would If the bill called
for million. The bill has been charged
to two or three different funds, but each
time it has been turned down by the
comptroller of the treasury.
The Judge determined not to pay the
bill himself and asked the comptroller
for written opinion on the subject.
The comptroller has just complied with
this request by submitting long writ
ten opinion in which he discusses the
meaning OF the various appropriation
accounts Of congress and decides that
without doing violence to language"
none of them can be held to cover the
purchase of the chair aud carpet, He
suggests that the expense be charged TO
the contingent fund of the department
of Justice, r-.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-10-10
LOOKING FOR ANOTHER FLOOD.

Strange Scot Preparing for q New Deluse
~ In North Carolina.
Active preparations for second
deluge arc being made here. One hum
dred and twenty persons are in camp
waiting for it to come Christmas day
next. 1t is the belief OF Joe Lynch and
his Mormonistic followers that the only
solution to the modern complication Of
social problems and human incongrui-
ties is in the total submersion of the.
earth beneath another flood, and that
the sooner tn, good people Of the earth
build their little arks the better for
them. Three weeks ago it suddenly oc-
Cured to the modern Noah that in De-
ce1nber IS there would be another food.
That was up the Chowan river, ten
miles from here. He lost no time in
imparting the information to his! IL
Htcrate tovnsmen. who. together with
some illiterute townswomen betook
themselves to the modern Noah and
prayed for his protection. Young girls
and young women joined che band.
Farmers sold their plantations to less
excited people who were willing to run
the risk of having them ruined by water.
Wives left their husbands and children
and the whole ncighbprhood was In q
sstate Of chaotic dpsnesticity.
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BADLY WHIPPED BY AN EAGLE.
Resident Of Petoskey. Mich. Ventures Too
Near the Nest.

Resident Of Petoskey. Mich. Ventures Too
Near the Nest.
Oscar Talcott. a solicitor for a farmers
insurance company. had startling ex-
perience the, other day four miles from
Rondo. Mich. While passing through
a dense woods he was startled by
scream. and at the same moment he re-
ceived tearing blows on the head and
neck that hurled him into the under
brush. Rising he grappled with an
American eagle. which had taken this
way Of resenting approach to it's nest,
and which was again and again
plunging his tnlons into Talcott's
neck and face. The female bird did
not join in the fight. After a dozen
rounds be drove his eagleship off and
started for assistance. Huge gashes
were cut In his cheeks and neck and
blood poured from other wounds in his
face. He came to Petoskey and will
take some men from here to try to cap
ture the birds and their nest. Two
years ago. in the same vicinity, n child
was carried three miles by an eagle.
The father pursued on horseback and
shot the bird as it alighted to rest.
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THE CONTRACTS AwARDElpll,...

Two Torpedo Boats to He Built at Bath,
r. Mo. and Ono Mt San Francisco. =
The Bath iron works Of Maine will
build two Of the 3O-knot torpedo bouts
and the Union iron works Of San FRAN
cisco the remaining one; Wolff & Zwick-
er, of Portland, Ore. two" .221la knot
boats, ana of the little 20-knot boats,
Herresheff will have three, +Col usnbian
Iron works of Baltimore two,#and Hill
man Bros, Of Philadelphia, one. y This
is the decision finally reached by Chief
! Constructor Hichburn and Engineef,inn
Chief Melville, to whom the nuperoIs
and complicated bids opened septembsr
II were referred. 49,. s u.
The two bureaus under these officers
have devoted their energies nnremit-
tingly for the past two weeks to can
wassipg the relative merits of the de-
signs offered by the various competitors
for the work, and no doubt is felt that
their recommendations will be. precise
~ followed in awarding the contracts.
The policy pursued has been to obtain
boats as large as possible under the pro-.
posals and to secure as many As the ap-s
preparation of S1.aoo,0o0 would permit.
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MAY BUY OUR BICYCLES.

Agent Carpenter Reports Demand Greatly
Increased In Germany.
A general bicycle craze has struck
Bavaria. according to a report from
United States Commercial Agent Car
penter at Furth. "A short time ago it
was not considered at all proper for
young ladies to appear on bicycles, but
the strong prejudice which existed has
been gradually giving way. and now
the ladies. married and single, and the
young girls, are rapidly becoming. en-
thusiastic deyotees of this outdoor
sport.
The two local bicycle companies have
begun to increase their plants to meet
the rush Of business. and two new COM
panies are about to embark in the BUSH
ness before the end of the year. The
consul thinks there seerns to be a fine
opening for the American bicycle
maker, as good European wheels are
sold for an exceedingly high price, and
they are not to be preferred to the light,
graceful American machine.
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they did not dare to do for four years We
propose to give to the country silver bill
sat will take all OF the silver practically
OF the United States and makes available
for the use of the people"
Again: Mckinley said: so, Mr.. Speaker.
this bin IS just to the silver producers OF
the Tinted States. for it does what the
present law, as demonstrated by every
Standardization for ten years has not done.
it takes every dollar Of silver bullion that
III @p4arc chased In the United States and
places It atssthe disposal OF the people as
money, That was the Mckinley Of 1880.
Let me read you the Mckinley 81 1896;
3: & e ts mot more money VIZ F ant. flAt
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-10-10
NAIL TRUST. IN TROUBLE.
Outside Mills Refuse to Go Into the Con.
hinatiQn. =

Outside Mills Refuse to Go Into the Com
bination.
The nail trust is in trouble. This fact
was made apparent the other day by
an important and secretly-conducted
meeting in a private parlor at the Hotel
Waldorf, New York. The members Of
the trust met in conference with repre-
sentatives of the 10 independent nail
mills. the object being to draw the out
sders, if possible, into the conbina~
ton. It was conference engineered
by the trust as a last effort to preserve
its power and clear the way for an abb
solute unopposed control Of the nail
market. About 30 attended the corfer-
ence. beginning at ten o'clock a. M. and
continuing in exciting session until
nearly midnight. Each OF the IL out
side mills was represented, and all sorts
of a]luring promises were placed before
them by the combine managers to draw
them into the fold. But the outsiders
were Obdurate 49, -,-
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Mares 9. D ,sari. Is
Isss q u & bicycle Clothes atyMldnfEht. S
81 & Justice Of; the Peace Charles a. Ja-s
cobs, OF Elizabet ii, N. /, matfied . runs
away couple at 1878 the other morning
1t His Office on Elizabeth ayen1s., Tho
bride gave her name az Lizzie: Is: Kelly,
20 years old, Of New Dorp, and The
groom said, he was John sBfechtel, an
actor OF New York city, The couple
rode up to the JUSTICE office on bicycles
and were accompanied by the young
woman's aunt, Miss Cecilia ~Finnan,
Miss Mamie Pierson and Frank Fl. wills
lis, who said they lived In New York.
Justice Jacobs was awakened by 9
pounding on his door and put his head
out Of the window. He saw the party
sstanding on the porch and dressed has
tily. When he ascertained what was
wanted he told the party to 60 to a min-
lister. Then Willis explained, tina t Mics
Kelly was a Catholic and would De mar
ried only bys i priest or a Justice, sand
as she did not care to 30 before priest
they came to Justice Jacobs: he: ar
gument prevailed and the ceremony
was performed. Bridegrooun and witt
r,esses were dressed in bicycle Allits ana
the Justice wore no coat or vest and was
l>arefooted. After the ceremony Brech-
tel told Justice Jacobs that he had
known Miss Kelly three years, but.a ne,
parents objected to him because: j was
Protestant. Then Miss. Finnan canle
to the rescue and planned Gftfe bicycle.
ride which led to the M e Sst.
party went back to Staten Island oti thu
last ferry boat. y ..a.i d; ;s s.j.s.
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TRAVELLING HOME IN A HEARsE.

stowaw way Discovered In u Carriage - .
Fiat Car at Decatur, Inu.
A. hearse. shipped from WaterviliA
Me-. to Portland, Ind, on fat car
passed through Decatur, Ind, the other
morning. When the train stopped in
the city the conductor discovered q pair
of feet protruding from the back OF the
hearse, and on examination found man
asleep inside. He had good supply Of
food with him and says he was an enass
ploye of the factory where the hearss
was made, and took this method ia
reach his family at Hannibal. Mo. Hi (
fellow employees assisted HMM making
preparations for his long ride in the
funeral car and supplied him with food
enough to last Is days. He had been
on the road eight days when he reacheds
this city. The conductor refused to LET
him ride further. and he will endeavoI
to secure employment in the city.
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JAPANESE ENTERPRISE.
After Texas Cotton to Manufacture Into
!. !. Goods for Eas torn NIhrketa.

After Texas Cotton to Manufacture Into
=, Goods for Eastern aIarkota. !:
Mr.. Tsurutani. of Kobe, Japan. IS at
Waco. Tex, with letters Of in PRODUCTION
to local cotton shippers. The OBJ eetof
the visit OF Mr.. Tsurutanit TO Texas IS
TO arrange on the part of Japanese man.
ufacturers of cotton textiles for direct.
importatiops of Texas cotton into Jap
anese ports. Mr.. Tsurutani says there
are so plants in Japan for the, lnan'ufac-
ture Of cotton goods and other millsare
abou.>to be established His nation in
tends to supply cotton goods largely in
the east and will send buyers annually
to the cotton states, as is the practice
with the European spinners. Mr. Tsnru-
tani says Texas cotton will shortly be
shipped from San Francisco roFokio:on
q Japanese steamship. which will bes
q new movement in the cotton trade.