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struck against what he supposed to
be a storehouse floating among the
waves, and his body was tumbled over
and over three or four times. He at
tempted to reach the surface of the
water, but lumber and debris kept
him down. He concluded, therefore,
that his only chance was to keep as
composed as possible, and holding his
breath he remained under the water
for what seemed a space of five
minutes. After that he was able to
get his head over the surface and
breathe three or four times. Again a
big building drifted toward him, but
as he had no power to buffet with the
waves he addressed himself to husband
ing what was left of his strength. At
last he could no longer hold his
breath, and had to swallow the salt
| water. The act was followed by loss
| of consciousness. The next thing he
knew was that people were talking in
| his vicinity, and opening his eyes he
| found himself in q temple of Kuji,
about two and half miles away from
| the inn whence he had been swept.
He was told that his body had been
found amongst mass of lumber, and
extricated with difficulty.
An official report of the effects of
| the tidal wave has been issued as fol-
lows:
'On the 18th inst. the weather was
| misty from morning and the ther-
mometer tiuctuated between eighty
and ninety degrees Fahrenheit, about
ten degrees higher than in ordinary
years. People suffered much from
this unusual heat, but did not think it
particularly strange, the weather be-
ing generally tickle in the Baiu Cspring
rainy season. The 18th, coinciding
with the May festival, according to
the old calendar, feast was held In
every family, and the hours were pass
ing merrily, when, at dusk, repeated
shocks of earthquake were felt, and
at about 8 o'clock in the evening g
sound as if made bv the firing of big
cannon was heard from the direction
of the sea, off the coast of Higashl He
district, Such sound from the ses
not being uncommon, the inhabitants
did not pay much attention to it,
thinking that it might be caused by
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earthquake shocks while sitting in
room of the inn, and observed with
surprise that though objects suspended
as lamps-did not oscilllate much,
the sheek ne himself experienced was
lite considerable. At abont ten
minutes past 8 p. m. he heard noise
outside like the crack of q pistol,
which was followed five minutes later
by rumbling sound, resembling the
explosion of steam boiler. The lat
ter sound came evidently from the
direction of the sea. At the same time
an up and down motion os tne ground
was felt, at first somewhat ieebly, but
gradually growing in intensity. Con-
cluding that something extraordinary
was about to happen, he rose hastily
and prepared to leave the house.
just at this moment anumber of sheds
on the beach were struck by the waves,
and amid an appalling din their ruins
were swept forward into the street.
Mr.. Sakai rushed frcm m the house, but
che night was SO dark that he could
not decide whittier to fly, During q
moment of hesitation hugh pillows
overlook him and swept him away.
AS he was being swept on his head
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BIRDS AT SEA.

6r Edwin Arnold, in an account - d
voyage to America, which appears in the
London Daily Telegraph, says:
Every day we see playing round the
ship and skimming up and down the
wave-hollows companies of lovely little
terms and sea swallows, the latter no
larger than thrushes. These fearless
people of the waste have not by any
means followed us from land, living, as
gulls often will, on the waste thrown from
the vessel. They are vague and casual
rOamers of the ocean, who, spying the
great steamship from afar, have sailed
close up, to see if we are rock or an
island, and will then skim away again on
their own free and boundless business
''Yonder tiny bird with purple and
green plumage. his little breast and neck
laced with silver, is distant 200 miles
at this moment from a drop of fresh
water, and yet cares no more for that fact
than did the Irish squire who lived
twelve miles from lemon If his wings
ever grow weary, it is but to settle on the
bosom of great bilow and suffer it for
time to rock and roll him amid the
Kissing spindrif the milky, Tying foam
and the broken sea-lace which terms, and
CLEANS, and disappears again upon the
dark slopes.
"When he pleases, a stroke of the
small red foot and beat of the wonder
full wing launch him or frsaa the jagged
edge of his billow, and he fits past us at
one hundred knots an hour, laughin 2
steam and canvas to scOrn, and steering
for some nameless crag in Labrador or
Fundy, or bound, it may be, homeward
for some island or marsh of the far-away
Irish coast.
"hIarvellously expressive of power as
is our untiring engine, which all day and
all night throbs and pants and pulses in
noisy rhythm under the deck. what
clumsy imperfect affair it is compared
to the dainty plumes and delicate muscles
which will carry that pretty, fearless sea
swallow back to his rOost!"
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Longevity Among Doctors.

The recent death of DR.. Reynold Sal
mon, in England, at the ripe age of 106,
bears out the truth of DR.. Saltymann's
statistics regarding the increasing Ion
gevity among medical men. From the
archives of his province, DR.. Saltymann
ton of life among doctors in the six
teenth century was SO years and 5
months, in the seventeenth century 1t
had risen to As years and months, and
at the present time had reached Sc
years and Z months.
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Thomas D. Mckay, for two years
past General Passenger Agent of the
Central and Union Pacific Railroads
at Yokohama, arrived on the steamer
China for short vacation trip. He
has travelled on three different oc-
casions this year through that portion
of Japan recently devastated, and in
talking about the remarkable seismic
disaster he said:
''The earthquake affected fully $50
miles of the coast line. A great wave
rolled inland and wrought havoc to
many villages and their Inhabitants.
Fishermen five miles out at sea were
unharmed and returned at night to
find their towns destroyed and homes
wiped out of existence. The great
loss was in the Miyagi, 1wate and
Aomori procedures. In the Aomori
country eight towns were badly ruined,
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RUINS IN THE VILLAGE OF oDACHI.

with great loss of life. In the lwate
section fully thirty-one towns were
devastated, and in the Prefecture of
Miyagi almost eighteen towns or
hamlets.
''Of course, the survivors all have
strange and interesting stories to re-
late. One man / heard say that he
saved his life by running up to the
top of a mill. His friends were en-
quilted by running in their fright to-
wards the beach. He says the first
shock he felt was slight and he paid
put little attention to it. Then big
wave started to come inland. In half
an hour the damage was done and the
waters were back to their usual level
again. He thinks the big rush of water
proper did not last over five or six
minutes, and it was accompanied by a
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ABOUT SOME QUEER BIRDS.

The woodpecker can climb up the stem
of a ire like flash, but he can't climb
down it to save his life The little sap
sucker of the same family can do both.
The kim nyfsher dives under the water and
catches its fish in its mouth. The crane
stands in the water and fishes, and spears
its prey with its long, sharp bill, as you
might spear an eel with gig. The crane
rises with the fish impaled on its bill and
flies away home. | shot a six-foot crane
once on the wing that had two-pound
trout impaled in that wav. The fish
hawk drops into the water like plummet
and seizes its fish in its talons.
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SHADOW RIFF,

To play shadow buff, you should fasten
q sheet up at one end of the room so that
it will hang quite smooth. Buff mot
blinded) seats himself on a low stool, with
his face to the sheet, and a table, on which
is lighted candle, placeI about FIVE feet
behind him. The rest of the lights in the
room should be cxtinguished, Buff 8
playfeIlows next pass in sue e5slon be-
tween the candle and him, distortng
their features in as grotesque manner
as po3s ibIe-hopp NJ, Iimping and doing
ever thing to make their shadows as un
like their natural looks as possible.
Buff must try 10 guess to whom the
shadows belong, and if he is correct the
PLAYER whose shallow he reCo-1'Ee~ take:
his place Buff is allowed but ont
guess for each person.
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The man who knows it all and can

The man who knows it all and can
learn nothing about poultry never
makes his wonderful success(D much
of an object lesson. There are plenty
of people whom he classes as 'igno-
ramuSes" who can give him pointers
on success.
Take good care of the late-hatched
hr0ods. Many fanciers claim that the
late chicks have the finest plumage,
from Il standard point of view. Late
ha,chttl pullpfs will be the ones that
| vii lie laying late in the spring next
sP;.<ou. VIXEN the he2S will nearly all
| be desiring to set.
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men-of-war practicing gunnery. Onl.

men-of-war practicing gunnery. Only
few minutes had elapsed when a
seismic wave suddenly rolled IN with
terrible force, and towns and villages
along the coast, through a distance of
IT'S miles, were inundated. In mo-
ment men, cattle, buildings, ships,
etc., we're almost entirely swept away,
so that towns which had been thickly
populated only the day before were
turned into sandy wastes. Corpses
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terrific noise. Following the first big
wave there was second one not SO
large, but he thinks it made fully as
much noise"
Mr.. Sakai, an assistant expert of
the Iwate Local Office. was one of
those saved. A report submitted by
him to the local Governor graphically
describes what he had to endure. On
the tateful evening he was lodging in
m inn at Kuii He felt . number Of
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Remarkable CabbageS.

A favorite industry of the Channel
Islands is the raising of cabbages to
great heights to make canes of their
stalks. These readily sell to visitors,
who buy them as mementoes, paying
oil the way from twelve cents to 81. %
apiece. Some Of them are twelve feet
high, and have a diameter of sIx
inches at the base.
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Houses
Washed
AVA or
$500 1913
Total. % 975

The damage to boats and fishing
gear, that we're washed away or de-
stroyel by the big wave, is estimated
at 100000 yen in Miyagi. $4,000
yen in Iwate and 10000 yen in
Aomor1, ali in round numbers. If to
these figures be added the damage to
cultivated fields, to houses and the
loss of other valuables as we'll as cash,
the whole must reach a very large
figure. The fishing industry alone in
each of the three districts produced
over 1900, 900 ven year on the aver
age, and this has been seriously Grip
pied, especially in Iwate, owing to the
destruction OF the fishermen and their
indictments.
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VOL. XXXV.
WAVE OF DEATH.
DETAILS OF THE TIDE THAT
SWEPT NORTHERN JAPAN.
Some 27, 900 Persons Were Killed
and 5000 Iniured-Whole
Towns and Villages
Swept Away.
THE story of the tremendous

TTHE story of the tremendous
tidal wave that swept the
northern shores of Japan and
caused the loss of some q, 900
lives on June Is is told in full detail in
the advices recently received at San
Francisco by the Pacific Mail steamer
China. The Iirst reports were not ex-
aggerated, and in addition to the loss
OF life there were over 5000 persons
seriously wounded and in bad condi-
tion owing to the destruction of hos
pital facilities and medical stores.
The damage to property is enormous,
and is roughly estimated in the Off
cial report at nearly 10000 600 yen.
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NO. 80.
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS
THE LITTLE WHITE LAMB.

Green arc the pastures of Sleepy-Land,
Fresh are the fields and fair;
Wide are the ways to its onder-Fold--
And my little lamb is there.
Blue are the skies of Sleepy-Land
Clear are the brooks and bright;
With Shepherd-Dream to the Slumber
Gate
Went my little lamb last night.
o tall Dream Shepherd, pray you, hear!
Fair tho your pasture be,
Let down the bars, and bring once moro
My little white lamb to me.
i Grace Goodwin.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-08-15

converted bulls to. hold out for more
than a few points at time.
The exchange market continues 10
sag and to-day actual rates for short
and long bills were reduced to S4.S7H19
1861 In addition to the realizing
which characterized the final hour, a
furry in money rates caused q shad-
ing off from the best figures. The
tone Of the speculation was confident
throughout and many stocks touched
the highest figures of the advance,
some of the gains in the Industrials
and specialtites being quite material.
In the last hour prices yielded to
renewed realizing, and the closing was
heavy at net fractional improvements
generally.
Railway Uonjs were lower in The
early dealings, but rallied later on the
advance in stocks. The sales were
$816 900.
Governments were strong and moved
up sharply for the new !; s ON I ar
ohases Of $4,000.
New York, August 14.-Money on cali
| frmer, at 3M4 per cent; last loan a,
closed 4, with bids for small amounts
ranging up to per cent Prime mer-
camille paper 6HM7% per cent. Ster-
| ling exchange easier, with actual bust
| ness in bankers bills at S4S7H for
demand and $4.S6H for 60 days. Posted
rates $4.87m48Sh and $4.88@4S9H.
Commercial bills, $4.85H. Bar silver
| 675k. Silver certificates, 67A068H
| Governments bonds strong. State
bonds dull. Railroad bonds tirmer
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LIVERPOOL.

Liverpool, August 14.-4:15 z. NJ
Closing cotton, spot moderate demand /;
prices higher: American middling,
fair, 4 27-32d; good middling, 17-32d;
American middling, 13-32d; low mid
ding, 5-16d; good ordinary, A 3-16d;
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The General Financial Outlook
Is Improving.
STOCKS SHOW AN ADVANCE
The Tone of Speculation Be-
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THE GRAIN MARKET DECLINED
Cote Had Another Irregular OaY OF
II and the Price Again See
Sawed Up and
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New York, Aug. 14.-Cotton opened
firm az an advance of to ~ points,
eased off partially and turned strong
on unexpectedly strong cables and I'M
favorable crop advices. Later reports
Of light rains caused reaction ana
the close was barely steady with Au-
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NANAL STORES

Charleston, s. c., August 14.-Rosin
firm, $t25M1.30; turpentine, firm, Fl.
Wilmington, N. c., August 14.-Rosin
firm; strained, $1.32h; good strained,
$1.3715; spirits steady, 21HM22h; tatr
firm, $105; turpentine, steady; hard,
$3.50; SOFT $l55; virgin, $t.G5.
Savannah, Ga, August 14.-Spirits
firm, 22A sales, 1,672; rosin firm:
water white, $500; window glass, S1S5;
n, S1.75; NJ, $1.70; X, $1.G5; l., $1.60;
G.. $~55; T., L, D., c., b., and A., $l4O;
sales 504
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NEW YORK MONEY MARKET.

New York, August IA Further re-
taxation OF the recent tension regard
ing the general financial and business
outlook was again evident to-day.
There was a significant abatement Of
the late bear predictions and about
she only check to the advancing ten.
dency was the execution of realizing
orders for both foreign and domestic
account. It is not reasonable TO eX-
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OTHER MARKETS..

Norfolk, steady. 7as; 459 bales.
baltimore, nominal, 8; "a bales.
Boston, dull, 8; - bales.
Wilmington, firm, rs; 2 bales.
Philadelphia, quiet, 7-16; - bales
Savannah, quiet, 1-16; 467 bales.
New Orleans, firm, 5-16; 1913 bales.
augusta, quiet, 71s; So bales.
Charleston, firm, z; ~ bales.
New York, dull, 3-16 - bales.
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Sugar, raw, steady; refined, steady
BALTIMORE.

Baltimore, Nd, August 14.-Flour
dull and unchanged.
Wheat, steady; spot and month,
595s65924; September, 60H@60h ;
steamer, No. ,, red 54%@54A; south
ern wheat, by sample, 59061h; do,
on grade, jSMG1
Corn, duh; spot and month and
September, 271h@2794; October, 280
2SL; steamer MIXED, 24A 024T
southern white corn, 2sd29; DO. yellow
25629H.
Oats, steady; No 2 white western
2G627; No. 2 mixed do, 23h024.
Rye, weak; No. 2, nearby, 33H@34;
western. 34lbM35.
Hay, firm; choice Timothy, $1G.5(
hid.
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CHIAGO PROVISION MARKET.

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Wheat opened steady on higher cables,
closed easy at s. for September or
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Corn, oats and provisions were dali
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middling gulf, T-16; sales -.
Futures opened firm; sales 5000
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