The morning news., 1897-02-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

of Rest for Horses. in London saws an
eXchange. At this home horses that have
been rescued from brutal masters, if
young, are nursed back to health and
strength, and if old, are allowed to finish
thelr days IN comfort. The dinner was
provided by Mrs. Gore the wife of cler-
gynlan, who has spent good deal of her
own money in the cause, to which has
been added the contributions of fellow en-
thusiasts: The menu consisted of carrots
cut IN slices, apples chopped, sugar in
Jumps or convenient size and brown and
white bread baked in small and inviting
loaVes Wine was not furnished, Mrs
Gore being a temperance woman, but in
!tS stead she supplied an excellent flip
IN the way of currying administered by
mokes which had been rescued from cos
termongers, quite the fattest and happi-
est mokes in all England.
James Bolton of New York is fond of
camping out in the Adfrondacks, bat he
is dangerous man to have about the
camp because he gets up in his sieep and
goes hunting, says the Hartford Times.
one night last fall Sam Cooley, a guide
saw him slip out with a rifle in his hands.
Cooley started after him, but before he
could catch him Bolton stopped. Up came
the rifle, and seven shots were fired, each
sounding like a cannOns roar in the per-
feet night quiet of the woods. Everybody
except BOlton woke up, and the dogs let
out howls of wonderment. Meantime Coo
ley had grabbed a water pail half-full of
cold water, and thrown the contents over
lfCAtC4Af
IL was Bottoms turn to howl then. The
cold water woke him up. and he was in
clined to swear at the guide before he re-
allied the danger he had been in. He had
been shooting. he thought, at a buck deer.
All the bullets were found the next day
in hemlock stump, and they could have
been covered with a hat. Mr.. Bolton once
went Still-hunting a little after midnight,
and was not found until a. m. He had
awakened once during his trip, but had
been unable to make his way back TO
camp.
Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, has
paper on Places in New York" in the
February Century Speaking of the ra-
pid increase of value of real estate in that
city, Mrs. Van Rensselaer, says: Two
miles from the city hall? Very much far
ther away than this stands the new Herald
building, where Broadway and Sixth aVen-
ue intersect. In 1845 the city owned its
site. and sold it for 50 $50. The Herald now
pays rent for it-for the land alone-at the
rate of $4,000 a year. At the same sale
fifty years ago a corner lot on Fifth aVen-
ue and FOrty-second street brought 81 400,
and in 1910 400 lots on Fifth avenue, above
Twentieth street, We're sold at prices rang
ing from 5000 to $i00. Within twenty years
some of these were resold for $1,000 each,
and you may guess their present worth FOR
yourselves. remembering that business and
business values have now moved into this
region also. Less than twenty years ago
a much more northerly district between
Fifty ninth and One Hundred and Tenth
streets, west of Eighth avenue. would have
shown you little but rocks and puddles
and predatory goats and boys. Now much
more than half its surface is covered with
buildings, all of a very good class, ana
their estimated cost has been $4,000. 600
Land UP here is more precious than was
land two miles from the city hall in the
days of Philip Hone And it is just as easy
now as then to grow greatly richer IN New
York if you are already rich enough to
buy little bits of its soil and to hold on to
them for a little while.
The Olympic Mountains. says a Seattle
paper have produced another attraction,
the beauty Of which is not excelled on the
western slope. What is said TO be a grand
waterfall coming from the snow-capped
peaks above the clouds over blut, fall
ing a perpendicular distance of over l,UO
feet, and disappearing in the bosom of
beautiful plain, has just been discovered
near Lake Sutherland, few miles from
Lake Crescent by two ranchmen. Their
description of the scene would exceed any
thing of similar character in the Yellow
stone Park. From the snow on the crests
of the Olymplcs, where white men nave
never visited, comes a little stream. which
rapidly grows in volume until 1t reaches
the edge of a perpendicular cliff OVERLOOK
ing beautiful plateau of 800 acres a
thousand feet below For centuries the
water has poured over the precipice until
il has cut a smooth passage, SomethlnS
like large pipe split in half. in the sides
of the mountain. Here and there 1t
strikes an obstruction, and out Of the
mountains side spurt other falls. Stand
ing alongside of the cliff a short distance
away the scene is beautiful and looks as
though there were half a dozen rivers
bursting out of the mountain. The huge
volume of water disappears in wild-look-
ing cavern, and becomes an underground
river. 1t flows beneath the plateau for a
distance of two miles and then again
bursts out of its Imprisonment in the shape
of an oval bridal veil, and dashes over the
rocks and cataracts down to Lake Suther-
land and out to "a.
An Australian paper reports the cure
of a man who for two years had been ter
rorized daily by the sight of grisly spec
ters of whose reality-so far as ghosts
can be realize had no reason to doubt
since he had the constant evidence of
his eyes of their existence. Believing him
self to be haunted. says the New
York Times, he became deeply melancholy
and often threatened suicide At last he
was persuaded to seek medical advice.
The doctors at once found that the ghosts
were the effects of cataract. When this
was removed by operation. the ghosts
fled and the man recovered his usual
health. Very similar, except for the
greater intelligence of the victim, was the
case, also recently reported of a trades
man in Berlin whose shop was haunted
by apparitions resembling in appearance
some of his deceased customers. Real
izing that he suffered from sensory hal
lucination, the man made notes of his
subjective Impressions In due time he
submitted his eyes TO examination and
operation, with the result of a restoration
OF normal vision and the immediate and
final disappearance of his intangible WIS.,
itors. Not many decades ago these men
could have convinced thousands of peo-
Pile that the apparitions they saw were
of supernatural origin and supposing
their tastes had not happened to lie in
the direction Of forming new religious
sects, as would most probably have been
the case. they would have applied for aid,
not to surgeons, but to those who claimed
the power TO exercise evil spirits.
Mr.. James Creelman. in graphic ca
BILE letter to the New York Journal, has
this TO say of Pope Leo XIII, who recently
assisted at the requiem mass in mem
ory of Plus TX: 1T was a majestic spec
taCle as the pope entered the chapel on
foot, leaning on the arms Of his assistants.
lie wore over his white silk cassock
magnificent trailing robe OF crimson and
gold. caught up with golden Clasps. and his
shoulders were covered with a cape of
crimson the mourning color of the pontiff.
on his head was a mitre of silver cloth,
and his hands were clothed in white lace.
The popes head dropped and his shoulders
were bowed with age, and as he advanced
his hands trembled and his head shook
His face was bloodless, and the lines about
his eyes and mouth were deeper than ever
His lips We're parched and his cheeks sunk
en-, but " must he remembered that I'm a
Few weeks Leo XIII viii be 81 year old
and for nineteen years he has not hacn
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