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tralia, became useless through disease,
and he lost his voice. Prof. Stuart Of the
University of Sydney, is said to have
made an artificial one, and 1t can be so
regulated as to make the voice soprano,
tenor contralto or bass at will
"A fat citizen of the sea coast town of
Lubec, Me-. went down ladder at the
side Of a schooner to get hammer he had
dropped overheard. He inserted his body
between the rungs of the ladder that he
might reach down and get the hammer
from the shoal water, and became stuck
there. The tide was rising. and he was
rescued three hours afterward, just in time
to save him from drowning, the water hav-
ing reached within two inches of his
mouth.
Prince Oukthomsky sent his celebrated
collections OF bronze Mongol idols to the
Russian Asiatic section of the Paris ex-
hibition. They remained on view for a
time but some OF the figures shocked even
Paris ideas Of decency and complaints be-
gan to come in. Having been accepted,
the exhibit could not very we'll be return
ed, so the officials picked out the worst
specimens. packed them in a box of Asint
ic appearance and have placed this in
conspicuous position, with the label,
''Mougol idols
Joplin, Mo. comes to the front with a
new idea, which, however, is not likely TO
come into general favor. fancy saloon
has just been opened there and its fittings
and furnishings are said to surpass in ele-
gance those of any wet goods emporium
west of st. Louis. Monday night il was
thrown open, not to the general public,
but to 1.-THE ladies of Joplin" For two
hours nothing was sold, and only ladies
and their gentlemen escorts" were admit
ted. The common herd was kept out I'M
til the next night.
England is going to inaugurate meas
ures insuring the safe and pleasant trav-
cling of canine pets, for whose comfort
a sort of special palace car will be added
to every train. Each dog will have a
species of loose box constructed on highly
luxurous-and hygienic principles, provided
with running water. elegantly nickeled
food receptacles and even thick and vel
vety mats to lie down upon, while plate
glass windows will allow them to admire
the landscape as they are carried along
at full speed.
EARLY one morning last week the police
of Jersey City captured an Illicit still and
a quantity of whisky in a cellar. There
were two stills, in fact. and two furnaces
in full blast. 1t is not quite so romantic
to make whisky in dirty cellar in New
Jersey as among the mountains of Somer-
set county, Pennsylvania, or in the fast
nesses of Tennessee. but the whisky in
Jersey City probably brings a higher
profit as well as a reader sale. The stuff
captured was of the genuine Jersey light
ming description.
-Push-cart men are to be excluded from
the business districts on lower Broad
way, New York. and the adjacent streets
Mayor Van Wyck has signed an ordi-
nance which banishes the Deddlers from
Fulton street This is to be followed by
another ordinance which will drive the
push-cart men out of the whole lower
business district. including Wall street
and ether thoroughfares in the financial
section. The fakirs have held possession
of the sides Of the streets where business
is always on a run for so long that they
doubt the power of the administration
TO Danish them So there may be a fight
in the courts over the ordinances.
in 1854, New Orleans received from
Simon V. Sickles, a druggist a fund OF
S16,S44 for the establishment of a dispen-
sary to furnish drugs and medical advice
free to the poor of that city. Until 1877
the income of the fund was used for the
ellis, finding that the expense greatly ex-
ceeded the receipts. voted to stop the dis
bursements until the time when the fund
should have so increased that the city
could equip a free dispensary and thus
carry out the testator's desire to the let
ter. The amount of the fund is now
sS3 ,o5S.6l When 1t shall have reached
100000 the plan will be carried out.
of the 5000 and odd New York, Wash
ington Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston and
Baltimore families who have given their
addresses to the Social Register, $50 are
located inland and 1853 are at the sea-
shore. OF these latter 325 are at Newport
and 221 ait Bar Harbor and vicinity. Six
hundred and five families are on Long
Island of which the Hampstons claim
us, and 1877 are on the Connecticut shore
of the sound. Since May there have been
20i marriages, decrease as compared to
last year, and Is men and 63 wo-
men have died. Five hundred and
siXty-six families have gone abroad and
may be reached through their foreign
bankers. This is slight decrease as COM
pared to last year, Notwithstanding the
attractions of the exposition.
The consolidation of the two great
sleeping car companies made necessary a
vast amount of work, says the Chicago
News. The word Wagner had to be paint
ed out of 100 cars of that company OF the
cars operated by the Wagner Company 500
bore the same names as 502 of those be-
longing to the Pullman Company. A list
of these duplicate cars was made out, and
the day after the transfer painters went
to work changing them. The first Wag-
ner sleeper had its name changed from
Java to Paltava. The Pullman standard
lock Is being placed in former Wagner
cars, thus causing a change of 10000 locks.
The bed linen, blankets. towels doormats
and the glass in those windows containing
monograms will have to be changed and
it may take many months before the al
terations are completed.
The largest contract ever let by a
mining company in the state of Colorado
for the delivery of ore to reduction works
or smelters was made last week when
Dudley NJ. Gray of Cripple Creek closed
a contract with the Independence mine
management for the delivery of 200 tons
of Gre per day from that mine contnu-
ously for period Of five years. The work
of breaking ore at the mine for transfer
under the terms of the contract agree
ment with the reduction firm has been
begun. Outside of the immense magni-
tude Of the contract in the matter of the
ore tonnage which IL involves for the
whole period stated, II also represents
the greatest amount of value In ore pro-