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TIE HERDS AND THE FLOCKS.
SHEEP NOTES.
The sheep buyers on the St. Louis
.( market now want shorn sheep, and not
iheep with the wool on.
The run of muttons from the south-
ern section of the State is about over.
Walter Negley and B«rt Simpson both
have sent their last shipment north this
week.
Marfa: John Cvosson says their
lamb crop is excellent this season. He
estimates it at 4000 head. He says
Lawrence Haley's wop will exceed the
above figures.
, The mutton btrsiness gained some-
/ thing by reason of high prices, but
Ulieei) arc being shorn and the mutton
markets will have to be watched
closely.
San Angelo: W. E. Murphey came
in from Ins ranch yesterday and reports
bis lamb crop at over 100 per cent.
This is undoubtedly the finest lambing
season this oowntiry has experienced for
years.
The Southern Pacific has made the
following order as to what constitutes
a double-deck car-load of sheep or
fjoats, regardless of size : 28-foot, 100
lead; 30-foot, 210; 88-foot, 220, and
80-foot car, 230 hcail.
The mutton slieeu raisers raise both
, wool and mutton, but. make very little
noise about the tariff. The inference
is that, tho mutton sheep will exist
while free wool comes in. It is a pity
that, mutton sheep do not thrive iii
largo Hocks.
In New Mexico tho slieep interest is
not what it used to be any more than it.
is in Texas, but there arc 80 individual
wool growers owning between them
a cool million of sheep. All are Mexi-
cans except four. Tho Navajo Indians
are credited with having 800,000 head
of sheep.
D. P. Atwood, of Colorado City, re-
cently bought 7,000 wethers and has
been holding them about seventy miles
north of Midland. Ho started them
Wednesday on the trail for the South-
ern Kansas railway to ship to Chicago.
He will also drive some 1,C<00 head of
cattle during the season.
The slieep loss the past winter has
been very light, death removing none
but the older animals and such as met
with accident. Slieep are the most
healthy of all tho domestic tribes in
our country. They will thrive and
prosper on our plains and hillsides if
they have something to eat.
San Angelo—The fine crop of lambs
this spring seems to be a subject of
general discussion. But among all the
Socks that of E. R. Jackson seeins to
have done the best—2,600 lambs from
2,000 ewes. Mr. Jackson commences
shearing next week, and will have
about 100 bags for the San Angelo
market.
Corpus Christ!—A gentleman in from
San Diego says that about 20,000 mut-
tons have been sold in Duval at from
11.00 to $2.25 per head during the past
three weeks. Ho also says a greater
acreage of both corn and cotton is be-
ing planted in Duval county than ever
known before. Everybody is busy.
The best fatted sheep last week in
theDenver market wont at five cents a
pound, live weight, while the best cat-
tle only brought $4.15. Mutton is daily
becoming more popular with the West-
ern people. If farmers who grow
great crops of alfalfa and some grain
will pay more attention to mutton they
will profit by it.
Denver Field and Farm: Some of the
Texas cattlemen when returning home
from the late range convention report-
ed that the sheep-owners of Colorado
were fast crowding out the range cat-
tle-owners. While this is not entirely
correct, yet there are reasons why a
stranger should so think. The incom-
ing of the grangers in the eastern part
of the state disturbs the cattlemen,
while they do not the sheep-holders.
(Sheep are always close herded and
therefore can be kept in tho farm set-
tlements, while range cattle cannot.
Sheep have prospered while cattle on
the open range have not.
BTOCK SALES AND TRANSFERS.
W. E. Halsell of Vinita. I. T., has
purchased of H. D. Sullivan of Bee
county 2000 head of two-year-old steers
at private terms.
Tuck Boaz, of Fort Worth, has pur-
chased for some Colorado parties 1000
head of one and two-year-old steers
from T. C. Hunt, of Palo Pinto county.
Terms, as usual, private.
McAllen & Young of Hidalgo county
sold 875 head of steers, three years
old and upwards, to John F. Camp of
San Antonio, for $13 a head delivered
at Beeville.
Tho Swift refrigerator of Kansas
City, through their agent, Mr. Kuowl-
lin, bought 1700 head of muttons of J.
Jd. Campbell, Val Verde county, for
12.50 per head.
Major Seth Mabry bought 3000 head
of yearlings and two-year old steers of
Del Dewees and Max Linheim of Val
Verde, for $0 and $9 a head, delivered
in Mason county.
P. N. Blackstone of the Indian Ter-
ritory bought 1000 head of one and two-
year-old steers of Halff at Pena station
in Duval county, paying $4 and $0.00 a
head for them.
Messrs. Wooten & Coon of Tarrant
county sold to Thomas Willis Vanita
1800 3 and 4-year-old steers to bo de-
livered at Mustang. These steers cost
about $17.00 around at the shipping
pens.
Mr. Dalton of Silver creek sold his
beef cattle to Winfield Scott of Colora-
do City, all the beef cattle he can
father from 4 years old up, at $18 per
ead.
A large deal took place in lands and
cattle between J. S. Thornton of Kan-
sas City and Frank O. Skidmore, by
which the latter traded the ranch eight
miles northwest of San Antonio, which
he bought last summer of Mr. Thorn-
ton, for the Welder & West ranch in
Dee and San Patricio counties, which
Mr. Thornton recently bought of said
parties. The Bee county ranon, known
the H. D. Sullivan pasttjrt, oontaina
«t,000 sores, and was put (A at $4 per
tcre. Thornton ranch Contains
1170 acres, and YU put in at
I la ||M transaction 17000 worth
RWd from the hands of Mr.
to Mr. Thornton. Mr. Skid-
_ now has some 42,000 acres of as
land* a« the son ever shone on.
Victoria Telegram in San Antonio
Ixpress: Weaver Bros. & Perry, the
lorfth Texas stockmen who have been
in this section for some days pa.*., "hav*
just effected the purchase of about 200C
'two and three-year-old steers from Bee
county stockmen. They will ship to
the Indian Territory.
Webb, Campbell & Hill, of Albany,
Texas, report the following sales: 1000
head of Souihwcst Texas steer year-
lings to E. P. Davis of Throckmorton
county, and 200 stock cattle to W. C.
Patton, of Vinita, I. T. Terms private*
They bave other big trades an hand,
that will be reported soon.
Hoover & Dunn purchased during
the week past 2300 head of 2 and 3-
year-old steers. James Palmer of Tar-
rant county, sold them 1700 head, John
Shelton 400 head, and W. J. Boaz 200
head. The cattle will be shipped up
the Fort Worth & Denver ana driven
across the Territory into Kansas for
feeding purposes.
Dr. J. B. laylor is now fencings
pasture of some 100,000 acres on the
head waters of Devil's river. It is a
four-strand fence and will require
some 100,000 pounds of wire. The
doctor has two steam well-boring ma-
chines busy sinking wells, and when
once fully supplied with water this will
be one of the iinest pastures in Amer
iea.
O. Fuller of Muskogee, I. T., bought
000 head of three and four-year-old
steers at Florcsville—300 of Kosser &
Carroll and 300 of John McDonald—
paying $13 around. This satisfies Mr.
Fuller for the season and he will re-
turn to his home until next year, when
it is hoped ho may come back after
more.
O'Connor Bros, of Refugio county
sold out the entire beef herd of four-
year-olds and upwards, which they
were rounding up to ship. D. 11. Fant
and Geo. W. West were the purchasers,
the number being about 6000 head,
and the price is yet kept secret, but is
reported to aggregate over $100,000,
which would be at least $17 per head.
Win. Votaw got $3.85 for his grass
beeves sold recently in Chicago. They
averaged 999 pounds and brought
$38.40 per head. This was some $4 a
head more than tlio highest oiler he
had 'from -shippers. Mr. Votaw has
uniformly received good prices for his
beeves, not so much because he out-
sells everybody, but because ho gets
them fat before offering them for sale.
Mr. James Jerome of the Saginaw
Cattle Company, who purchased 5,000
Matador steers delivered on the Sag-
inaw ranch at $16 also purchased of
the King county Land ancl Cattle Com-
pany, 2,000 two, three and four-year-
old steers; the two-year olds at $14,
and three-year olds at $17.50. These
,cattle are from the stock formerly
known as the Mabry, Crawford &
Glasgow stock,ranging in King county.
Mrs. II. M. King of Santa Gertrudes
ranch, Nueces county, sold 1500 head
of yearlings to J. L. Harris, who wants
some 3500 more to stock a ranch in the
Territory. They will go to Marietta
by rail, and be driven from thence.
So far the terms are private.
Mr. Halsett of the Indian Territory
has been buying some 8000 head of
two-year-old steers in Bee county. He
paid $H,50 for them without a cut, and
$9 pear head with a cut. John I.Clare
sold him some 2000 head on the former
terms.
A one-tliird interest in the Horse-
shoe ranch on tho Vermejo in Colfax
county, New Mexico, belonging to T.
F. Maulding, consisting of about 20,000
acres on which are 1600 head of cattle,
has been sold to C. H. Dane of Dem-
ing for $27,000.
Samuel Malvin and the Colorado
National Bank of Texas has sold to
Mitchell Bros., of Grant county, N. M.,
their right, title and interest in a ranch
in the western part of that county, to-
gether with about 3,000 head of cattle
and 170 horses, for $18,000.
At Denver some three to four thous-
and steers were sold to John McKen-
zie, manager of the Cresswell ranch,
and $9.50 lor yearlings and $14 for two-
VQar-olds. The sale was made by Sam
Doss and delivering at Fort Sumner,
where the cattle are.
LEAP FOR LIBERTY.
A special from Longview, Tex., says
As No. 1 was running very fast about
five miles east of this place, Charles
Carter, charged with burglary at Lin-
dale, Texas, jumped from the rear end
of the smoking car and escaped to the
timber before the train could be
stopped. After some search Sheriff
McConncll of Cass county came
here on the train and left his dep-
uty, Ed. Allen, to keep a lookout
for Carter. Some hounds were se-
cured and ho was being tracked, but
without much success, when two of
our sportmen were bird-hunting, heard
hammering, slipped down into a ravine
and found Carter endeavoring to re-
move the handcuffs which were causing
him great pain, being the self-locking
and adjusting kind and tightened more
and more when hammered. It is very
strange that Carter escaped death in
making the jump as the train was
moving very swiftly and going down
grade, too, which accounts for the fail-
ure to stop no sooner when tho bell
cord was pulled by the Sheriff.
When Carter struck the ground he
seemed to fall in a knot and rolled
over and down a small dump out of
sight apparently lifeless, but in reality
alive, for he must have made a rapid
retreat for the wood was several hun-
dred feet distant from the track. The
officers had bccome convinced tliat
Carter was willing to go back to Lin-
dale and answer the charge against
him, and left only one cuff and a chain
attached to him, and allow him to oc-
cupy another seat in tho car, and were
looking out of the window when Car-
ter quietly walked out of the rear door
when the officer's atteutio i was called
to this movement by passengers.
ATTACKED WITH HYDROPHOBIA.
Denison, Tex., May 81.—Five year
ago James Huffmeyer, then a resident
of Navasota, Tex., was bitten on the
left hand by a small black-and-tan
og Huffmeyer paid no attention to
the wound, wnich soon healed. About
one year ago he moved from Winn
connty to tnis section, and located a
•mall tract of land near Denison. Yes-
terday he was seized with paroxysms,
and remarked to his wife that he be-
lieved that he was paralyzed. A phy-
sician was sent for, and when he ar
rived Huffmeyer was passing through■
succession of convulsions. It is be-
lieved that he has hydrophobia and
will die.
POINTS OF HUMOR.
All men are not homeless, but some
men are home less than othera — Texas
loioiicl.
"Sick him!" Sick him! said the deal
er us lie set the cigars on the
small boy.—Boston Commercial.
The great auk is an extinct bird.
Undoubtedly its great auk-wardness
proved fatal—Pittsburgh Bulletin.
"What does it mean when the king
rents his clothes?" "I 'spOse he
hired them out, ma'am." — The leach-
er.
Harlem has a base-ball club called
"The Girls." It is doubtless referred
to as the Femi-nine.—Norristoion Her-
raid.
A waistcoat of some pronounced
rilaid is recommendod for a heavy eater,
t enables him to keop a check on his
stomach.
Alberto: "Do you love mc,d:irliug?"
Cltiribe): "Have I not had all tho
chairs taken from the room except
this?"—Detroit Free Press.
"Yes," said Qtiiggles, "I have a
food ileal on mv hands just now." "So
perceive," replied Fogg; "why don't
you try a litlle soap and waterP" —
Boston Transcript,
Mother: "Are von sure, my dear,
that the ladies' cabin is on this side of
the bout?" Daughter: "Why, of
course, mamma. Don't you aoo thai
it's crowed with men?"—Ju gc.
Subjoct: "Can I communicate with
my w.fo in tho other world?" ".Me-
dium: "Do you want to see her spirit?"
Subject: ' Great heavens, 110! 1 saw
enough of it while sho was alive." —
Washington Critic.
Doctor(who tinds a tramp groaning
by the roadside): "What is the matter
with youP" Tramp (dolefully): "My
system is all rundown." Doctor:" By
what?" Tramp: "By a dog." — Bur-
liiHjton Free Press.
Jones Is becoming philosophical.
'•What a splendid "dispensation of
providence that we don't know when
we are to die! Why, if I know that I
had only a wock to live I should bo a
dead man in twenty-four hours."—
Puck.
My son, often you will soe in tho
same wan a. strange combination of
extravagance and economy. Just you
koep your eve on your uncle, and two
or three days after the open trout sea-
Bon begins you'll see him coming home
with a $40 bamboo rod and a twenty
cent trout.—Uurdette.
"But your honor,'' pleaded the pris-
oner, "tho physician's evidence is to
the effect that f can not live to serve a
sentence of live years." "Inasmuch
as the jury has recommended you to
■the mercy of the court," responded his
honor, "and in view of the precarious
condition of your health, therefore bo
it known that I hereby reverse tho
sentence of five years and simply send
you up for life."—Life.
Garnet in Alaska,
The extensive garnet ledges at Fort
Wrangellare an inexhaustible source of
beautiful and ornamental curiosities.
The cropping of the ledgo is about ten
feet wide, standing perpendicularly
and running northeast and southwest
several miles in length; the depth of it
no man has over found out. The rock
is of a mica slate formation, and con-
tains from two to four garnets to tho
cubic foot. Tho gems aro regular
polygons, beautiful in color, and when
fresh from tho mines have a dashing
and brilliant luster; but when exposed
for a time they become dull and opaque.
The crystal varies in dimensions from
the size of a pea to that of a hen's egg,
and to the novice are quito faclnatlng
ami have the appearance of much value
for ornamental and other purposes.
The lapidaries, however, have failed to
utilize them for any purpose whatever,
except as a curio aud to demonstrate
the certainty of the unerring law of
Nature which governs every phenome-
non. Every plan of tho polygon
is of the same form; every angle of
•lie samo decree, aud every gem is the
equal and like of its follow. Tho
mining and shipment of this rock
has become quite a business. It is
worth $20 per ton on the wharf at Fort
Wrangell, and is shipped to all parts of
country to fill the cabincts of tho
wealthy, and the collections in public
institutions.
Boar-Hunting in Morocco.
In one of the boats a hunter named
Shcbaa, a veteran past 70, hail just
shot a boar, when tho dogs came in full
cry after another, and he had just time
to pour in the powder carried loose in
his leather pouch, and to put the long
iron ramrod down tho barrel, when
another tusker came to the front. Shebaa
fired and sent the ramrod like a skewer
through tho body of the boar, who
charged back and knocked hfhi over.
Shebaa fell flat on his face, neither
moving arm nor log, while the boar
stood over him cutting into ribbons his
hooded "jelab" of wool. He shouted
for help, exclaiming: "Fire? fire!" I
ran up to within a few feet "I fear
to hit you," I said. "Fire!" ho cried.
"I would rather lie shot than be killed
by a 'halof.' " I stooped low, and
raising the muzzle of my gun shot tho
hoar through the heart. The huge car-
cass fell upon Shebaa, who when releas-
ed from the weight, got up and shook
ine by the hand heartily, saying:
"Praise bo to God tho merciful, and
thanks to you, I bavo escaped death."
I withdrew the ramrod, which had
passed right through tho body of the
animal.—Murray's Magazine.
HOW THE BOODLERS LIVE.
Trudy Independent Journalism.
V Wo have received a two column let-
ter signed Veritas, which purports to
give a true history of Major Galvanus
Burt, proprietor and landlord of the
Adams bouse. He is shown up as a
thief, hypocrite, liar and coward, but
we shall not publish It While be
keeps the most miserable apology for a
hotel on earth, and while we are satis-
fled he would steal the winkers from a
dead dog's eyes, tho major was tho first
man in town to subscribed to our paper
and we are not going back on him un-
less he refuses to renew.— Arionta
Kicker.
rhe Canadian Colony Bick and Tired of
Its Dreary Exile.
Keenan Keeps His Mind Occupied with Ht
Real-Estate Investments, but the Others
Think Only of Oettlng Back to New York
-Dempsey's Hard Lot-Is Billy Maloney
Trying to Return?
The excitemeut in the boodle colony
which was caused by the sudden visit
■jf Inspector Byrnes bore some weeks
ugo has largely subsided and tho ex-
Aldermen have resumed their usual
habits, says a Montreal special to the
Now York World. None of the colony
iins any daily routine of business to
attend to. Ono day is very much like
another with the exiles, and they de-
rote their time to playing billiards and
it rolling about tho otUce of tho Wind-
sor Iiotel until 9 o'clock in tho even-
ing. when tho New York daily papors
arrive. John Keenan, who is the
most conservative of tho colony, hAs
Ids papers sent to his house, but
Dempsey, IJ(j Lacy and Sayles buy
tho r papers at tho hotel news-stand
nd read them together.
Tho lifo of tho four exiles has bo-
romo an intolerable monotony. John
ttoenan ia-tlie only ono whoso mind is
at all actively engaged. Wnen he lirst
Julius hero ho began a study of tho real-
astato market of Moutreal, and has
made several largo investments.
Keenan was tho first man to leave the
Windsor Hotel and sol lip housekeep-
ing in a residence of his own. Ho
bought tho handsome stone house at
No. 1144 Shorbrooke street, which is in
the contre of the fine residence district.
His homo is the second of a long ter-
race, and faces tho mountain, with a
grand sweeping view of the St. Law-
rence from tho upper windows.
Keenan brought a few pieces of furni-
ture from Now York, but he purchased
largely here. He sends his childron to
school and has a private tutor in
French and music give instructions at
the house. Bosides his residence,
Keenan has bought several vacant city
lots, and at the present timo is engag-
ed in supervising the instruction of a
long block of stone houses a Iittlo east
9f his homo, which is almost complet-
ad. He has put some money in Can-
adian bank stocks, and a few weeks
ago, at the meeting of tho stockhold-
ers of the Windsor Hotel, ho bought
imough of the stock to secure a con-
trolling interost in the house. Keenan
is the wealthiest of the exiles, but
makes no parade of his money. He
lives quietly and does not even koep a
sarriage. He retains his old custom of
sitting up until 1 or 2 o'clock in the
morning and then not rising for break-
fast before 11. He is busy with a
large correspondence with politicians
and business men in New York, and
still directs his interests in the me-
tropolis. In l^is old home tho largest
part pf litp money ix invested in his
big brewery aud in furnishing funds to
carry on city contracts. It is said that
Keenan has an interest in tho uew
aqueduct job and in several street-pav-
ing contracts. At all events his busi-
ness relations aro such in New York
that he is greatly inconvenienced by
his exile and has several times made
secret visits to Manhattan Island. On
these occasions he has loft Montreal by
the Canadian Pacific Kailway and lak-
Bn way trains to Weschester Couuty,
reaching New York City by carriage.
Keenan is seen less by "the people of
Montreal than any of the rest of tho
boodlers. He remains at home except
when he drops into the Windsor to see
the other exiles or is looking about at
his new buildings.
Very little is'kuown about De Lacv
by tho guests at the Windsor. He
spends his time between the hotel and
liis own residence, on Mackay street.
Recently he closed his houso and went
back to the hotel to board. His wife
and child are in New York, It is not
yery clearly understood why Do Lacy
lias sent his family away at this time
jf the year and taken up temporary
quarters in a hotel. If Do Lacy intends
to leave, as it is reported, tho closing
af his house is explained. He is a
yery quiet man, and* walks and drives
Bvery pleasant day, always making a
sail in the afternoon and again in the
jvening to soo his fellow-exiles and get
his new York papors at the Windsor.
He is said to be doing some speculat-
ing, but has no regular business. He
has not made any investments in
Canada, and draws his money from
Now York.
Sayles is tho best natured of tho four
boodle exilos. lie still retains his half
of the big butcher business in Now
York, which is now managed by his
brother "Sol." The exiled member of
the firm is consulted on all matters,
and has half the profits sent him every
month. Sayles lives at No. 43 Tupper
street, in a less aristocratic neighbor-
hood than Keenan, in the centor of
the middle-class quarter. Ho enjoys
his three square meals each day. and
admires the Southdown mutton and
Western beef that he gets hero. Sayles
sleeps late every morning, and usually
starts down to tho Windsor Hotel soon
after dinner every day. Here ho moots
Dempsey, and they chalk their cues
together In the billiard-room. Almost
avery afternoon John Keenan's oldest
boy is in the billiard-room. The young-
ster is very fond of pool, and he plays
it very good game. If Dempsey is not
around. Sayles and the bov play pool,
and if the latter is beaten, Sayles pays
for tho game just tho same. Sayles
smokes constantly and seems fat and
happy, and evidently worries less than
any of the rest. While lie would very
much like to return to New York, ho
is not so discontented hero as his
fellow-exiles.
Dempsey is tho piost interesting of
the four. He is a short man. who
wears a roundabont jacket and lives iu
tho hotel. He never had much money
or much political influence, and what
lie did have he has lost It is a
well-known fact that Dempsey is sup-
ported by those who do not dare to
bave him return to New York. Ho is
eery short of money and practises the
itrictest economy. Ills only expenses
re for cigars and an occasional game
of billiards. But Dempsey smokes a
three-for-a-quarter cigar, and he plavs
such a good same that lie seldom has
to pay. He buys ono New York news-
paper every night, and what other
reading he does Is from the papers on
file on the rack in the hotel reading-
room. Dempsey rises just in time to
get breakfast before the dining hall
closes and spends the forenoon walk-
ing around the office or standing be-
hiud the swinging doors at the hotel
entrance watching people go iu and
out. He keops an eyo on the register
and notos every arrival. After lunch
he usually meets Sayles and they play
billinrds ot^r down and discuss the
state of affairs in Now York. Dempsey
is restless and nervous and longs to get
back to New York. He has uo friends
here, nnd is too suspicious to make ac-
quaintances among tho drummers and
business men who stop a day or two at
the hotel and are gone again. He talks
to very few people except his fellow
exiles. If he dared to run the risk of
arrest Dempsey would go back to New
York at onoe, but he knows that Koe-
nan is doing nil ho can to got back and
he is afraid of a trap. Dempjey is not
trusted by'Koenan or the rest, nnd lie
is not in a happy framo nif mind. He
isjsuspicious of every body and is in con-
stant apprehension that some deal will
bo arranged that wili not include Jiim.
Ho seldom leaves tho hotel and finds
Iittlo within its four walls to amuse
him.
Tho exiles have escapod tho grasp of
tho law, but tlioy aro getting their pun-
ishment every day. Tho climate of
Montreal is bleak, aud tho fact that not
a horse-car run all winter and that tho
snow and ice in the street aro not yet
all gone illustrates the dismal prospoct
of a perpetual exilo in this city. The
boodlers do not enjoy the ico and snow
aud thoy sadly miss the attractions of
Now York which are not found hero.
Another thing that annoys them is
their inability to understand French,
which is spoken much moro in Montre-
al than English. Every one of tho four
is tired and sick of tho forced absence
from his homo and would gladly leave
here at a moment's notice if he could
turn informer and return to Now
York.
A particularly lively interost is at-
tached to tho trial of Koor, beoauso
somo of tho exilos bollovo that ho will
not bo convicted. They hold the opin-
ion that the District Attorney has not
got the brains and ability clustered
about him that Mr. Martine had when
De Lancoy Nicoll was the moving pow-
er against tho boodlers. Besides this,
they think that Kerr's counsel are very
muoli alive and will niako a bettor fight
than has ever boon made before. An-
other curious matter that is rumored
about by those outside of the exilo col-
ony is that Billy Moloney is coming
back to Montreal. There aro several
queer things connected with his depart-
ure from here last fall. It is said that
two of tho ex-reading clork's childron
have been seen in Montreal recently.
Soon after Moloney's departure his son
sent a postal card to the proprietor of
St. Lawrence Hall Hotel, saying that
his father was in Paris. Although Mo-
loney had been living at this hotel the
proprietor is still puzzled to under-
stand why that postal card was sent to
him. It is also remnrkod as strange
that a man so well known to New
Yorkors has not been seen or heard
from about Europe. 11 is said by some
people hero that Moloney is now not
very far nwav from Montronl and that
the negotiations pending between Kee-
nan and District-Attorney Fellows
brought him home in a hurry.
O My Eyes!
"Good bye I car stove," said the cinder,
"Now I'll slip Into the window,
Opened wido and nought to hinder,
And will perforate the eyes of
Those who railed at you last winter."
Soon began, amid confusion,
Retribution t
—Detroit Free Press.
ABSINTHE.
A lloveraao Very Deleterious In It*
KflTocte Upon tlie Human ftyatem.
A pliysicinn of The St. Louis Qlobe-
Democrat says: I regret to see the
number of victims to the absinthe habit
increasing, as in fact are tho victims to
every form of stimulant. Tho young
men are cultivating absinthe, and when
the present generation reaches middle
ngo the absinthe tippler wili bo one of
the frequent guests at our hospitals,
which aro now full of drunkards and
narcotic-takers. I nm now fronting a
man who has reached tho last stage.
'The effects are fearful. It is a drink
that serves as a powerful stimulant at
first, but it is tho most injurious in tho
end because of its strenth. It is easy to
drink absinthe to excess because it re-
quires such a small quantity to do tho
work. Tho intoxication it causes is ex-
hilarating and pleasant, but aflwr it is
drank to excess the digoslive organs
aro distroyed and the appetite ruined.
With the eflects worn olti comes a ter-
rible thirst, giddiness and a tingling in
the ears, mental depression uud hallu-
cination and loss of brain power. The
symptoms of an excessive drinker
breaking down are muscular quiverings,
loss of physical strength, emaciation,
and a sallow complexion. Paralvsis
finally sends him to the grave. The
drink will hasten a man's ruin faster
than all the other drinks of the modern
drunhnrd. Absinthe was introduced
to civilization by tho French soldiers of
Aiglers after tho Algerian war of IHil.
It is a product of North Africa, and the
soldiers mixed it with their wines as ;t
febrifuge. They took the habit to
France, and now Its manufacture is
one of the largest liquor trades id
Europo. What Franco does not con-
sumo finds its way to America. It is
chiefly made at Noufehatel, Switzerland
which averages over Si,000,000 gallon?
yearly. It is a pretty liquid and nice,
to taste, but you would not think to«e<i
it that it is inado by mashing up the
leaves and flowering tops of four spec-
ies of worm wood with sweet flag, aud
angelica root, and star anise fruit, and
macerating them in alcohol. The coin-
pound is distilled after eight day's
soaking, and anise oil is added to givo
it taste. Of course Imitations are made
of essential oils and barks with blue
vitriol; but the genuine is dei^lly
eaough.
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CURRENT EVENT*
Vichy and milk Is • new beverage. „
Europe la complaining of a late sprla^
Tbev are making a Jellr out of bane
A new pottofflce In Alabama Is
Toy.
Orchid velvet Is an exquisite new
fabric.
There It a Sunday cane th at unfold* Into s
fish pole.
A new perfecting press print* 900 postal
cards a minute.
There will be elicht "Dr. lekylls" Iu tbt-
field next season.
A kitten born at Putnam, Conn., bas sevsa
leg* and two tall*.
Iu England the draft horte I* never drive*
faater thin a walk.
A $2,000 hearse has been Imported by a
Riverside (Col.) firm.
One wool-grower of San Delgo shipped Vt,-
000 pounds In one week.
8uow three feet deep was to be found last
week In Mlllslield, N. H.
A private wire between New York and
Philadelphia costs f0,0J0 u year.
Straw-colored houses with whlto trimmings
are becoming plentiful In the East.
A couplo returned lately to Buffalo after a
continuous wedding trip of six years.
The Ilrst ecVipsu upon recird win lunar
one, and was observed at liabylon 7 JI U. C.
A Pennsylvania schoolboy defines tho word
"baruaclo" as "a tramp who sleeps iu a barn."
The old warship Tlconderoga liu* beou tow-
ed to Apple Island, near lioatou, to t*c broken
up for junk.
A South Carolina man drank a (<uart ol
whisky to deaden the pain while having a
tooth extracted.
Tho Hotel Brighton, at Manhattan Beach,
ts now upon Its uew foundations, ftlX) feet
from Its old site.
Twenty-one suicides have taken place fro®
Clifton Suspension lirldire, England, since Its
opening In ]>occmher, 1804.
A horso that was sick with lung lever at
Manchester, N. H., was fed ou milk tor *
week, lie came out all right.
Attompts have beon made st St. I.oul* and
Chicago to Introduce the use of goat*' Oe*fc
for food, but without success.
It a man recoivcd 13a day, and aaved ever/
cent of It, 1,000 years would elapse before be
could be master of 11,000,009.
A woman In Perry county, Ky., ha* a circa
lar hole In one of her eyelid* through which
she can soe when both eye* are closed.
Nearly all the Northern men who conduct
Florida hotel* In winter bave closed their re-
spective establishment* and come home.
Massachusetts has a new law which probity
Its the sale of liquor ou Fast Day, Memorial
Day, Tbanksglvlnit Day an<\ Christmas D*J.
In the grand court of the Kremlin at Mos-
cow there Is about to bo erected a monument
In memory of tho late Caar, which la to coat
$000,000.
A Chicago man give* a* an excuse for wa-
tering milk that the milk tho granger* send
In to that city I* so vile be I* compelled to nee
water to purify It.
A (windier bat been victimising North
Omaha housewives by selling them India*
turnip roots as "French tulip bulbs," 8#
got fifty cent* apiece for them.
A member of Parliament onoe rose In hts
place and solemnly declared: "Mr. Speake*
1 can not sit here snd keep silent without
rising snd laying a few word*."
A parrot which died at Foughkeepsle is
cently was quite a Ifngulst, being able, ft It
said, to talk In tho EnglUh, Dutch aad
Portuguese languages. It was valued at
$3001
Flower culture Is suggeited as one of the
most attractive an profitable occupation*
which women are fitted to pursue. Twe
New Orleans ladles went into the busi-
ness a few years ago, and are rapidly growing
rich.
John Jones, a near-sighted young man,
living In Bath county, Ky., attempted to cat
off the head of a chicken, missed bis marl
and took off his left band Instead at tht
wrist
A handsome relic of the Mound Build-
era, consisting of a piece of carnellan beauti-
fully carved In the shape of a boat, was re-
cently dug up near Alton, 111. It 1* shoal'
five Inches long *nd a gem of artistic lapi-
dary work. ,
A New York minister last Sunday proscbe*
npon the antiquity of May moving. H<
chose for his text the verse from tbe Acta
"Paul dwelt two whole years In bis own
hired bouse."
A stick of timber 151 feet long snd twenty
Inches square, believed to be the largest
piece ever turned out from any saw mill, hat
been sen t from Puget Sound to an exhlbltlm
In Ban Francisco.
Lawrence Corcoran and wife, a hard work
Ing couple at South Orange N. J., haw-
proved up their claims to a $500,000 Interval
In an estate of $7,500,000 left by Mrs. Ellei
Blake, of England.
The isrgest grain fleet that ever loft Cbt
cago at the opening of navigation bagar
starting Sunday night It I* composed u
W> vessels and tho cargoes aggregate 4,48V
000 bushels of grain.
A man in a Western town serlonaly pro-
posed to i*suo an edition of tbe Bible wltt
pages devoted to advertising Inserted In UN-
text, but he save up the Idea when he learn
ed what Indignation It excited.
A Swiss engineer named Rltter wants th*
city of Paris to adopt hi* plan for obtaining
an Inexhaustible supply of water from th*
lake of Neucbatel, Switzerland, 812 mllet
away. The cost would be $00,000,000.
A sham convent ha* just been discovered Ir
Paris, and an artful alleged Mother Mope
rlor, two ex-nuns and forty.*lx girls whs
participated In the swindle by posing at.
nuns, bave been locked np to await trial.
T. II. Garrett, of Baltimore, has had mad*
for his steam yacht Oleam the smallest plans
ever constructed. It is forty-seven liicbet
high, forty-seven luches wide and twenty-
six inches deep. It* tone I* wonderful!.'
sweet.
Two rsgged Italian children, who were ar-
rested In Chicago while gathering cigar
stu in is on the streets, explained that tbe>
sold the discarded weeds to a fellow- connttf.
man for fifteen cents a pound, and that the)
were "made Into cigaretts."
A New Yorker who has been staying at'
a Saratoga hotel wa* asked to step Into s
strange lady'* room and turn on tbe *te**a
She locked the door, demanded 9100 o*
threatened to (cream, aad he banded orm
the cash and walked humbly ouL
Among tbe curious machine* recently
patented Is one by a Newark ^N. J.) man
which when you step upon a platform andde
posit your nickel In a slot, Indicates yoor
weight upon a dial, soothes your sayag*
bresst by mutlc,*nd prints for yon a allp out-
tifjlng your weight
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