Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-19

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Wall paper with fine borders to match,
just received at J. w. Bucks, Sonestown.
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Buck, he has different sizes on hand.
A French paper has published a roll
of honor of dogs which have distin-
guished themselves in war; This is
not inappropriate, considering that the
dog has been pressed into military SER
vice. For instance, there was Bob. the
mastiff of the Grenadier Guards, which
made the Crimean campaign with that
corps; and also Whitepaw, brave
French ally of Bob, that made the same
campaign with the 116th of the line
and was wounded in defending the
flag.
Another, Moustacke, was entered on
the strength of his regiment as entitled
to a grenadier's rations. The barber
had orders to clip and comb him once
week. This gallant animal received
bayonet thrust at Marengo and recov-
cred a flag at Austerlitz. Marshal
Lannes had Moustache decorated with
medal attached to his neck by red
ribbon. Corps de Garde followed a
soldier to Marengo, was wounded at
Austerlitz, and perished in the retreat
from Moscow.
The 9th of the Guard had military
mastiff named Misere, which wore
three white stripes sewn on his black
hair. There was also Pompon of the
4Sth Bedouins, the best sentry of the
baggage train; Loutpute. Crimean
heroine; Mitraille, killed at Inkerman
by shell; Mofino, that saved his mas
ter in Russia and was lost or lost him
self, but found his way alone from
Moscow to Milan, his first dwelling
place.
The most remarkable. however. was
an English terrier, named Mustapha,
which went into action with his Eng
lish comrades at Fontenoy, and, ac-
cording to the story, remained alone
by field-piece after the death of the
gunner, his master clapped the match
to the touch-hole of the cannon, and
thus killed seventy soldiers" and it is
further added that Mustapha was pre-
sented to King George II. and reward
ed with pension.
The Match That Saved Three Lives.
This is the story Of match that
saved three mems lives in the Klon-
dixie
The men were Baron Selkiff Peglau,
Stark Humes, of Seattle, and B. ].
Littler, of Pictou, Ont They left Daw-
son City with sleds and dogs, bound
down the Yukon to st. Michaels.
When one hundred and ten miles from
Dawson they ran into 60-below-zero
blizzard, which paralyzed them with
cold SO that they could scarcely move.
The baron was, far ahead. Humes
and Littler tried to build fire. Match
after match was lighted only to go
out Their fingers were so numb that
they could not hold the matches,
which dropped into the snow, flickered
and died out. Their last match was
gone. Death from freezing stared
them in the face
The baron came up. "Got any
matches?" they cried in one voice.
The baron felt numbly through his
pockets, and after much desperate
fumbling produced a single, dirty, little
match. Their lives hung on that
splinter of wood. Eagerly they got
some dry shavings. Humes and Lit
Ter spread wide open their great coats,
opposite each other. The baron
stopped down and tried to light the
fatal match. He struck it and it fell
from his nerveless fingers. Picking it
up he struck it again along his leg.
Humes and Littler felt their hearts
choking their throats.
This time tiny spark flew off the
end of the match, flickered bashfully
In the cold, dry air, took courage, ig-
nited one of the shavings, and then an
other, while the baron nursed it until
the flame bit his frozen fingers. The
fire caught, then burned briskly. and
In a few moments three desperate
Klondikers thanked their lucky stars
that they had escaped that most hor-
rible death, frozen stiff in the Klon-
dixie
Saint Folk. the Frencn poet. VINO
was always in debt, sat one day in a
BARRIERS shop waiting to be shaved. He
was lathered when the door opened
and tradesman entered who hap
pened to be one Of the poets creditors,
and angrily demanded his money. The
poet composedly begged him not to
make scene. won't you wait for
the money until am shaved?" Ger
tainly," said the other, pleased at the
prospect Saint Folk then made the
barber witness of the agreement and
Immediately took towel, wiped the
lather from his face and left the shop.
He wore beard to tie end Of his days.