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ii'Ui i nSHAK3LA.BU2 CASIZ3 OF COIJ. Tiction Cast into the Shad a by Fact Tnnrnea Fraud The 2leazer 'Williain Bourbon Story. 'An intelligent reading of lair reports leads one to the opinion that evidenc of identity is of email value except when based upon some deformity or distinct peculiarity. And even "when some such mark has enabled witne ses to speak with an unusual decree of ex tiotness, their testimony has often proved to be quite misleading. In caes of disputed identiiy nowadays whole regiments of wirne sss are called on each side, and the jury has a hard tadc to determine which party is entitled to a verdict.

In the Ticbborne suit the claimant's defence set up a still stronger one. The claimant's mother had identified him as her long lost son, and had spoken of birth mark which the claimant was able to exhibit to the jury. Nurses, farmhands, schoolmates and ne'ghbors 1 1 i At a i were caueu uy me score luiueuiut oir Roger," and when the famous tattoo "testimony was taken all doubt seemed to be at an end. Public rejoicings at the village in which the Ticbborne country teat was situated were followed by tbe mobbing of a man who dared to remind the rejoicers that the case was yet undecided. Then came the evidence for the defence, the stopping of the case by the jury, tbe arrest of the claimant for perjury the second long and tedious trial, tbe conviction and the fourteen years' sentence.

It is diihcult to tay how many persons in various parts of the world have Attempted to pass themselves off as Louis XVII. of France, who, history tells us, was maltreated until he lost the power of speech, and finally died of ill usage, if not starvatiou. None of tbe claimants attracted more a'tention than Eleazer Williams, tbe hero of the article by Dr. Hanson, entitled, "Have "We a Bourbon Among Us?" Eleazer was born in Caughnawaga, N. about the year 1787..

He was the son of Thomas Williams, an Englishman, who liad married an Indian woman named Konwatewentota. When quite young he was wounded at Plattsbnrg, and subsequently took orders and became a missionary among the Indians. The Btory told by Williams to Dr. Hanson was that he was tbe son of Louis XVX, and that in 1841, while on "board a steamboat, tbe Prince de Join ville had urged him, without success, to sign a "solemn abdication of the throne of Franc." So satisfied was Dr. Han son of these fact that he published a "book entitled "The Lost Prince," and sought to prove that Williams's birth had never been registered, and that his putative mother had admitted that he was a foster child.

Physicians declared that there was no Indian blood in his veins, and it was sought to be proved tbat he had been removed from prison and brought to America. An Indian named Shenonddugh swore that Eleazer had been brought to Lake George by two Frenchmen, and that money had been forthcoming for his maintenance from unknown sources. Much evidence was produced to substantiate this theory, but on the other hand, Williams's own papers were found to contain conclusive proof that his claim was purely imaginary. But many people believed in him and his s'range 6tory. The ca of Anglesey agt.

Anglesey was tried in tbo Dublin Court of Exchequer in the winter of 17 43, and occupied fourteen dnys in the bearing. Tbe claimant was James Annesley, who assumed the title of Earl of Anglesey and claimed the Anglesey estates. The most remarkable evidence ever heard in a court of justice was given in this case. In 1714 Lord aud Tadv Altham wore residing in Dublin and the latter ga birth to a son. My Lord was indignant.

Be had been married for eight years, and bail taken advantage of tbeie being no heir to borrow large sums of monev on his entailed estates. The money lenders were furious when the birth was announced, and promptly cut off supplies. Lord Altham was one of the most dissolute and extravagant peers of his day, and he spared no pains to make such disposition of his hated son as would enable tbe sinews of war to be forthcoming' He commenced by ill treating his wife, until she fled for protection to her father, the Duke of Buckingham. He then sent his sou away to a country village, and had letters fabricated announcing that unwelcome little fellow's untimely death. But the boy did not die.

His father quit sending money for his maintenance, and his foster parents abused him so badly tbat he finally ran away, and after tramping around the country for months finally found himself in Dublin. He bad very shady ideas of his identity, but called himself James Annesley. Once, while running about the streets begging, he fell in with some friends of Ins uncle, through whom he was introduced to that geutleman. This uncle was the heir presumptive to the title and estates of his elder brother, and lost no time in getting rid of the true heir. He had him shipped to Pennsylvania.

No sooner had the ship started than the Ea.l died, and James's uncle succeeded him. The captain landed tbe bry in America and sold ln'm to a rich planter, who took him on to bis estates and treated him with great barbarity. He was sold to another and jnore humane master, who he served for many years, his nickname on the estates being "the young Baron." From overwork he fell sick and was taken to the house to be nursed. Here he fell in love with his employer's daughter, who accepted and encouraged his attentions! Unfortunately an Iroquois s'ave also fell in love with James, and assaulted his other sweetheart" so viciously that her life was in danger. This led to the young Baron" being sold to another master.

He ran away and got safely to Jamaica, where he secured passage for home on a man of war. Arriving at Dublin, his old nurse speedily identified him, and said if he was the heir he bad a peculiar mark on his left hip. Other evidence was forthcoming, and the question of identity clearly established. Finally, the plaintiff gained the day. He took the estate, but his American experience j.

i 1... Cx 3 Lis Lcid, and La L13 uncle keep tLe title. That uncle turned out to be a scamp of the worst kind. Much litigation followed, and the title was finally declared extinct. The Wackerle case involved a very intercsfng question of identity.

Mrs. Wackerle claimed $7,000 from the iErha and Mutual Life Insurance Companies on the death of her husband. The companies declined to pay on the ground that Wackerle had not died. They even produced a man in court who swore, he was Wackerle, and for a time the plucky little woman's chances of obtaining justice appeared very feeble. She, however, never lost heart, but traveled up and down tbe 'country in search of evidence, often having to walk because her funds ran out.

The plaintiffs story was that she was married Wackerle at Shakopee, and that they lived a wanJering life until the summer of 1872, when they separated, she coming to St. Louis and he going to Texas, in which State he was killed in the same year. She did not hear of his death at the time and scraped money together to pay tbe January premiums. Finally she went to Texas, collected affidavits, and made her claim, which was resisted, and the impostor came forward. The body was exhumed, oompared with her description, and found to tilly minute ly, even to a broken tootn.

the false Wackerle told a very plausible tale, confronted Mrs. Wackerle face to face, and persisted that he was her loving husband. Again tbe little woman's wits aided her. She collected evidence as to details in her married life, and the perjurer was cross examined and clearly proved to bo an impostor. But whoever this man was, he had such strong evidence proving him to be Wackerle that he drew a cqnsiderable sum in pensions dne that person.

The Hillman insurance case involves questions of identity of a most remark abl kind, and it yet remains to be proved whether the body buried as that of Hillman was really all that remained of that remarkable person. The facts in the case are briefly these: In 1880 Hillman was living with his wife in Lawrence, and was notoriously short of money. But he insured his life for $25,000, and before tbe second premiums were due, Mrs. Hillman claimed the money and produced proofs of her husband's death. Her story was that Hillman and a man named Brown left for tbe Indian Territory, where they were to start a cattle ranch.

At Wifehita they hired a tall young man named Waltero to accompany thorn, offering him suspiciously high wages for h's services. Then Mrs. Hillman received a tele "Tain from Brown, who was at Medi cine Lodge, to the effect that he had ac Gentry shot her husband, and asking what lie was to do with the mule team. Naturally tlie insurance companies were suspicious and sent an agent to make inquiries. His report wa? that an alleged inquest had been held at which the only witnesses were Brown and a man purporting to be Walters.

The body was exhumed, and proved to be that a taller man than Hulman, whose clothes were on the corpse, but were ob viousiy too small for it. Hillman had a scar on his thumb which the corpse had not, and there were other points of dissimilarity. Tbe inference was that Walters had been murdered, and that Hillman had escaped and was in hiding. Brown confessed that this was so, alleging that Hillman first vaccina" el Walters and then shot him, a plot having been arranged whereby Mrs. Hillman was to draw the insurance money und divide up.

Twice tbe alleged widow's claim against the insurance companies resulted in a hung jury, but finally a verdict was given for Mrs. Smith, she having married a Leavenworth barber of that name during tbe litigation. It is now reported that Hillman was found at Tombstone, and arrested on a requisition from the (jrovernor of cince the alleged Hillman has been in the hands of the detectives the mystery surrounding tbo case has heightened, and no immediate solution seems probable. Insurance frauds more remarkable than that alleged to have been attempted in the Hillman case have been attempted in Germany. There is the case of the man Kumf, who was imprisoned for collecting insurance money on his own life.

This man was a skilful impersonator, and, disguised as a woman, he applied for an insurance on his own life. As the husband of tbe applicant he presented himself for medical examination, was accepted, and tbe policy issued. In course of time ho feigned sickness and was attended by a shortsighted old physician he had selected as a man easuy to be duped. One day during this spell of sickness ho got up quietly, disguised himself once more as bis wife, went to the insurance office, paid a premium about due, and tearfully announced the grevious sickness of tbe insured. Tbe company seem to have suspected that this illness was not all straight, for, having casually asked tbe name of the attending physician, they sjut to that gentleman, whose replies their questions allayed their suspicions.

One day this doctor was called in great haste and told that Kumf was dead. The old fellow does not appear to have bee a very conscientious or painstaking. On liis arrival at tbe house he wan met by Kumf, this time disguised as the wife or a leged widow, and taken to a darkened room in which lay a corpse. His examination of this most have been nominal, fcr in a short space of time he quit the house, leaving behind him the desired death certificate. As the bereaved widow, Kumf attended the interment of what purported to be his own body.

Still, as the widow of himself, he obtained tbe insurance money on his own life and his little 'plot had answered admirably. Unfortunately for him, however, he got intoxicated, first with success and then with liquor, whereupon he neglected to keep up the disguise, went about as tbe dead 'man redivius, was detected, and still languishes in jail. Globe Democrat. Land Tenure China. "'In', ft paper lately read before the Shanghai Asiatic Society by Mr.

Jamie son, it was stated that, although the Emperor theoretically owns everything under the sun, the private owner of land in China has as absolutely a property in it as he can have undv any Government. Waste or abandoned lands, as as veit to tle Crown, wLLh canaLsoar i private land for public purposes." LTmd tax is in all castes raid direct to tbe Government, and there are no zemindars and no farmers general" in China. There are two main tenures, military and common, the former applying only to certain military colonies and to grants made to his follows by the Manchu conqueror of the country in 1644. Ninety nine hundredths of the land is held under common tenure, which has three conditions attached: to it, The payment of the bind tax, the supply on den; aud of 'statute labor to the authorities and a payment of a fine in alienation. For the land tax the hsien, or district, is the unit, and is assessed at a fixed sum by the Government, which the District Magistrate has to pay whether he receives it or not, but, as a rule, he has a surplus.

In the event of some great calamity, such as a dearth or inundation, be may get a remission, the benefit of which reaches the people. The supplying of statute labor lias almost fallen into disuse, which, perhaps, accounts for the bad state of publio works in China. The fees are payable on tbe transfer of land by sale or mortgage, succession or inheritance. half the soil of China is the property of the peasants who till it. Large tracts are owned by retired officials and their families, usually called "the literati and gentry, who lease it to small farmers on a kind of customary tenacy at will, rent, which is paid in 'kind, amounting to half the crop in the best soil, and diminishing as tne land is poorer.

Tho rent is paid as soon as the crop is harvested, so tbat rents are seldom in arrear and evictions are very rare. The laws are all in favor of tbe tenant, who pays no taxes or rates of any kind, and when he leaves takes everything with him, including his house. The soil is so rich tbat the farms are generally very small, and indeed it is estimated that a square mile is capable of supporting a population of 3,840 per sons. Within these broad lines there is every variety of arrangement respecting the ownership of land; there arc absolute sales ana sales in which the vendor has a right to claim something more if the laud rises in value; some sales are revocable, some irrevocable, the former being apparently in tbe nature of the limitation period being thirty years. Again, there is a dmal ownership in land, one man owning the surface, the other being regarded as the owner of the soil, and liable for all the taxes; and there seems to be a good deal of Chinese law in the respective rights of the two owners as to house building and laying coffins in the common ground.

The ownership is established in the usual way by title deeds, registered in the dis trict omces. An Ex Bandit's Haunting Fear. A gentleman who recently returned from Dallas, Texas, says of Frank James, the brother of the dead outlaw, Jesse: "He is a "flic ted with consumption, and it is onl a question of time until he mr i a dies, ine scram upon mm must oe something terrible, as lie is ever upon the alert, not knowing at what time nor from what direction trouble may come to him. I heard him say once, in semi confidential way, that he trusted no man living. 1 Know tne world is against me and I am always prepared, were his words.

"When introduced he invariably places his hands in his pantaloons pockets, and, simply bowing, acknowl edges the introduction by saying: 'I am glad to know you, "When his hands are shoved into these pockets they grasp two ugly look in? guns," continued tbe gentleman. They are always in his tronser's pock ets. His eyes are sma 1 and piercing. Not long ago he went into a big saloon in Dallas, owned by Tom Angus, who has the reputation of being a bad man himself. Tears ago, it was claimed by James, Angus tipped off the James gang to the police.

James bad one of his bad spells that day, and, with his hands in his pockets, he walked up to Angus. Such a scoring I never heard in my life, and all the time Frank James's eyes glittered like a cat as he watched every move of the man." Cincinnati Enquirer. A Wind Bored Tunnel. It was observed long ago that the glass of windows on Cape Cod, had been ground and bored through by the wind driven sands, and the 'soft sandstone bluffs and towers' of the Rocky Mountains bear evidence of having been shaped in some degree by the same agency. M.

Contejean has just reported to the French Academy a remarkable instance of similar erosion noticed during a visit to Corinth. On the neighboring plateau an old amphitheatre some titty feet from the edge of the escarpment communicates with the beach through a cavern with wide opening at both ends, above which the limestone rook forms a natural bridge. The walls of this cavern, which is in the sandstone stratum at the foot of the cliff are extremely rugged ancV. irregularly corroded, and show no marks of human workmanship. The tunnel could not have been excavated by either rains or waves, and its existence can only be explained by the aotion of sand blown by the fierce northern gales against a soft spot in the rock.

Trentan (N. American. Burials In the Sea. The aborigines of the Chatham Islands bury their dead in the sea. When a fisherman dies they put a baited rod in his hand, and, after lashing him fast in a boat, send him adrift.

Among the Norsemen the great chiefs, when dead, were placed with much pomp and ceremony on their war ships and sent out to sea; and similarly among the Sea Dyaks, a dead chief, with his favorite weapons and the best part of his is placed in his cance and cast adrift. It is the custom of some tribes 'of modern Guinea, on the western coast of intertropical Africa, to throw tlieir dead into the sea. By doing so think they have got rid of corpse ax, vtsiiost together. Th materialist believes what he seas, and tfc spiritualise sees what he believe. 1 ACCUJEHTS AirD HJCTDEUTS OF KVKB.Y DAY LXF2.

1 Queer Facts and Thrilling Ad ventures Which Show That Truth is Stranger Than 'Fiction. BATHER curious incident rela'ed to the Field (Eng.) by a correspondent is worth mentioning. He says: "My friend and myself were fishing for pike; eels, and perch in the Lake, Cumberland, when we set a few pike trimmers, or cork floats, with dead gudgeon baited on a double pike hook, and suspended at half depth. Af ter some half hour we took up a lively trimmer, and found, to our astonishment, two fish on the one hook and line. Topmost, and moving about on the length of the gimp up to the knot which fastens the gimp to the line, was a pike of 1 3 4 pounds weight, the gimp leading through one of its gills, thence through its mouth.

The gudgeon itself (baited through the mouth aid out by the tail) and hook were swallowed by an eel of 3 1 2 pounds, so that the one hook at the same time contained an eel on the hook proper and a pike on the gimp. The pike was, of course, prevented from getting away by the eel having swallowed the bait. Who can explain this complication Steve and Wilson Williams, ranch men at Rockdale, Wyoming, have had an exciting and profitable buffalo hunt on lied Desert, eighty miles north of Rawlins. The presence of a herd of bison at this place has been known for years, but the topography of the coun try Has mode the capture of these rare animals extremely difficult. The Williams brothers employed as assistants two.

cowboys who were fearless riders and skilled in the use of the lariat. As mounts they selected powerful horses of great speed and proven endurance. The chase lasted the greater portion of three days, and was a series of adventures. Two full grown cows were captured the first day, a big Jbull the next, while another bull and a pair of females rewarded the hunters the third day. The wild animals struggled fearfully, but each was finally paired with a heavy work ox.

cme of the captives, a mastodon male, in bucking fell ana broke his neck oh the road to the ranch. Steve Williams had a narrow escape the second day out. A mad bull gored his horse, biting rider, saddle and animal high in the air One of the cowboys sent a rifle ball into the infuriated brute's shoulder. The hunters say there are between forty and fifty full grown bison and a few calves in the herd. They have been offered $500 each for their prizes, which they refused.

The case of Arthur Elmer Hatch, of Lewiston, Maine, should act as a stimulant upon the energies of the lagging student. Young Hatch is the son of poor parents, and is stone blind, having lost his sight by disease when only two years old. He was sent to the South Boston Institute for the Blind for ten years, and there received a good common school education, and learned the trade of chair bottoming. Then he came home thirsting for a higher education. He went to the Lewiston Academy, where he graduated with honor, notwithstanding the difficulties surrounding him.

The way he learned his lessons was by having hi mother read to him those that were in English, while his fellow students helped him with Latin and Greek. To study geometry he devised an arrangement of pins and strings. After leaving the academy he worked at his trade a year, in order to earn money to enter Bates College, where he graduated this summer, carrying two prizes off with him. There are few such cases of perseverance and pluck on record. The Atlantic Ocean still continues to cool itself off with gigantic icebergs.

The report of the ship McLeod, Captain Henderson, forty days from Fleetwood, which arrived at New York the other day, mentions the biggest ice mountain yet. Captain Henderson met with foggy weather, and in the midst of fogs sus pected the presence of icebergs. The weather was very thick one day. Captain Henderson wisely tacked ship to the southward to avoid the hidden danger which he felt must be near at hand. At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon it cleared up, when four large icebergs loomed up, fairly surrounding tbe ship.

It was evident at once that but for the Captain's timely alteration of his course the ship must have been dashed to pieces against one of these monsters of the deep. "I dodged through these said Captain Henderson, "for four hours, keeping the ship away to the southeast The largest of the four big icebergs was at least four miles in length, and was very high, the tops of the pinnacles standing out against the Bky like great mountain peaks." New York Times. "A pbtjend and myself were frog hunting on thq Milwaukee River, a few miles from Milwaukee, says a gentleman in the New York Sun. "My riend, a school teacher, engaged in instructing a class in anatomy, proceeded to enlighten nis on the subject by becoming demonstrator of anatomy on the body of a large bullfrog I had just shot. Imagine our surprise upon opening the stomach to discover and all the partially digested.

body of a small snipe, commonly known here as tip up. Another hunter relates that while out gunning with a friend in New Jersey two or three years since, he a bluebird, which fell at the edge of a pond. The bird couldn't be found, and his companion ins'Bted that it had not been hit. Passing the place a short time after, he killed at tbe edge of the pond a large bullfrog. Picking the animal up he discovered protruding from its mouth a pair of bird's feet, which proved to be attached to the bluebird he had recently shet, as proved by a 22 calibre bullet hole in its body." Thxbb was an exciting and dangerous fight with an enraged bull the other day at the hay farm of Thomas J.

Witherly, in Bangor, Me. The animal, a three year old, in some way scaped from the strong indosure in which he has been confined and gained an entrance to the Lis raeu "vera at wcik. ILa Lull cLi0 upon iliem, and their long tined pitchforks failed to keep him at bay. Aa the men dodged behind the hay cocks the infuriated bull would hurl himself upon the stacks, making the hay fill the air. When it was seen that all efforts to tire the bull out were useless one of the men was ordered" to ran to the house for a rifle, wl)ile the others climbed a high pile of rocks in tho field.

They had scarcely reached their elevated position when tbe bull made a grand onslaught and clambered up the rock pile as easily as the men hod done. They, rained rocks upon him to no purpose, and the men were flying in all directions when a rifle bullet terminated the chase. A Boston letter says that Lieutenant Franklin A. Shaw, of the First Regiment of Infantry, was out walking at Greathead with little daughter Grace. They were attended by a thoroughbred St.

Bernard dog, the property of Lieutenant Shaw. While at the highest point of the cliff, Grace went close to the edge, and the dog, seeing her danger, walked between the child and the precipice. The turf started and the dog lost his footing. Realizing his danger he made a spring far out over tbe clin'. The child had turned to her father and was really out of danger when the dog sprang up in front of her, but the noble brute had done his duty in guarding her.

He sprang clear of the rocks and landed on his feet on 'the beach, J.20 feet It was a remarkable escape, for the dog is extremely large, weighing 165 pounds, and such a leap, without breaking limbs, seems impossible. Beyond a few cuts on his feet the dog was apparently unhurt. The authorities of Gera, Germany, recently captured a copy of a work published under tbe modest title of a "Pedestrian Guide," but which, on closer inspection, proved to be a sys tematic directory and gazetter for mendicant tramps. Besides a schedule of march routes and itineraries with distance tables, it contained a considerable number of private addresses, marked with symbols of doubtful significance, but which an expert explained as hints on the culinary resources of hospitable households. The business opportunities of numerous towns were summarized in such marginals as: "Soft snap;" "worked out;" 'fly gendarmes" (mounted policemen); "plenty grub, but beastly cookery;" "out town barns;" 'hill orchards; no end of apples;" "tough pups, etc.

ine enterprise 01 some Chicago publisher ought to enrich American literature with a similar work. The little village of St. Helena, on the Nebraska side of the Missouri, ten miles below Yankton, is worked up over a gbastly Men who were prospecting in a chalk cliff in that neighborhood for material for the manufacture of cement came upon a small opening in tho" Missouri River face of the rock. It led to a large cave, in which were discovered six or eight human skeletons lying about in disorder. The bones have undoubtedly lain there a long time.

Several skulls were brought out of the cave and are exhibited by the people of St. Helena. It is thought the skeletons are those of I emigrants who sought shelter in the cave whvn attacked by Indians, and that they were either killed or starved to death. Algeria is suffering from a plague of locusts. A hundred Zouaves nave been sent with dry straw to Aumale to destroy the invading insects.

At Setif nearly 800 soldiers were lately engaged in the work, and colonists and agricultural laborers had been requisitioned to help them. At Sedrata a long line of fires was kept up to prevent the invasion, but the fuel was exhausted before the of invaders, which had an unbroken front of six miles, i The Governor General has been to Massowah, and Mustapba and other localities to see that the civil and military authorities do what lies in their power to drive back the enemy. Thb Emperor of China is anxious to encourage the building of railroads in kingdom, but he is surrounded by many obstacles. His priests, astrologers and advisers of various kinds are afraid of western civilization and they employ all manner of devices to keup the young potentate from acting in a progressive way. The astrologers never find tbe stars favorable to tbe granting of a railroad franchise.

The Emperor is not more superstitious than other educated Chinamen, but he is obliged to conform to certain ancient customs or stand in danger of a rebellion. Os both sides of the Josen Fiord, on the west coast of Norway, mountains rise perpendicularly to I a height of i several thousand feet. One morning. some days ago, stones and rocks, some of which are said to have been as large as a house, began to fall on the western side of the fjord. The avalanche continued for over two hours, accompanied by a noise heard ten miles distant.

A black cloud settled over the fjord, tbe water of which was in terriblo commotion for many hours. According to the Persian custom, the Shah has his mutton killed in his own palace. He wanted to do this while staying in Buckingham Palace, but the Queen would not permit it, though long negotiations were carried on to obtain her permission. In the end it was settled that the royal butchering should be performed at Prince Mai com Khan's house in Holland Park, Ed Roe, a young Englishman, while swimming in the Cumberland Sound with fifteen other boys from Fernandi na, was struck by a shark, which bit off the calf of one leg. Roe was taken into a boat at once, but bled to death before medical assistance could be obtained.

This is the first instance known of a shark attacking man in these waters. A miraculous escape from death is reported from Richmond, Ind. "A young man named George Beatz, living in the extreme southern portion of the city, was struck by lightning, but although the bolt tore the shoes from his feet, tbe burning and breaking of, the skin, and the shock he sustained, were the worst result. Only the toe of one shoe with the torn upper was left on one foot Griotth Williams, wife and four children, survivors of the Johnstown flood, have left this oountrv for WaIa. The youngest member of ihe family, a JiwaTjl.icli wa toirj about ca the waters.

The little fellow has beea named 'loses Williams. A SoTTTHERN gentleman had a chanoe the other day to find the first cause of an accident which happened in his store. A rattlesnake frightened a cat; that scared a hen, that knocked a jar of jam from a shelf, whioh hit the faucet of a barrel of molasses, which turned tbe faucet, causing the loss of a barrel of molasses. A ciiXVKB English girl hai invented ft new industry. She calls herself an accountant and auditor for large households, and finds plenty of employment in looking after the business of a few families of large expenditures whose heads have not taste for the ork.

FISH NOT PARTICULAR. They Care for Quantity, Not Quality, in Eating. It's a well established fact in natura history," said Fish Commissioner E. G. Blackford, of New York, to a Sun re porter, tnac nsli nave two cniei occupations.

One is to eat and the other is to avoid being eaten. Few persons bave had occasion to actuallv observe the voraciousness of fish. Fish are not par iculat. as to what they eat when hungry. I have seen a half pound trout swallow a quarter of a pound trout.

JL have found in the stomach of a codfish weighing eight pounds a block of wood as large as my band. There was found in tne stomacn of a codfish that was taken at Gloucester, not so very long ago. a pack of plavinsr cards. How the codfish found the cards no one has ever been able to surmise. "I have found in the stomach of striped boss which weighed twelve pounds another striped bass weighing four pounds.

And, astonishing as it may seem, there were found in the same, fish nine menhaden and a few other smaii nsn. a iew weeKS ago mere was found in the stomach of a fish caught svAF 4 1 a iAaaf Tnmnnd Innv uio vubov mm awus a vr4 a bolt. "Probably the greediest of all fish," added Commissioner Blackford, is the 'black swallower," as it is popularly termed. This fish can perform the seemingly impossible feat of swallowing another fish from eight to twelve times knmr tlinn ttralf. Tin trnA habitation seems to be at a depth of 1,500 fathoms.

It has an elongated body of nearly uni i 11 1 a 1 a iorm LiiiCKiieos irom we nemi 4 Via tail 'iTia eVin ia 1 Aafifn km svf onaloQ the mouth is very deeply cleft, extending between the eyes, and reminding von of the chestnut about the boy who was said to have so large a mouth tbat when he opened it the top of his head was an island. The peculiarity of the1 swallower's month is that some of 'the teeth, all of which are long and sharply pointed, are movable. Let the swallower espy a fish many times larger than itself and it darts upon its victim like a flash. seizes it by the tail and gradually climbs over it with its jaws, first advancing one in ill tua BHBuunei biiuuuwu iv appears as a great bag projecting oat far backward and forward. The walls of the stomach are so tdchtlr stretched ii ii v.

that they are transparent, and the species 01 tne nsn tacen in mar do dis covered. Such rapacity is often more than the captor can back up by digestion, and the swallower is forced upward from the depths to the surface of the ocean, where it may be picked up. Ja it ti 1 mis way specimens 01 ims rare uau uave teen obtained and sent to the National Museum at Washington." Syrian. Bakeries and Burials. The chief articles of food in Syria are milk and curds.

I partook of a dish called kibbe, to Syria what pork and beans are to New England. They beat up grain and chopped meat and vegetables together, make it into a cake and cook it in butter and onions. I might; have acquired a taste for it, but a very little was enough at the first trial. The bread is baked not in loaves but in large and very thin cakes. The ovens are built in the ground, and the inside walls are dried mud or mortar.

They heat them with straw and thorns, and the cakes are thrown against the side walls, and lest they should be like "Ephraim's cake not turned," both sides are exposed tq the hot surface. A missionary friend gave me for a luncheon two cooked pigeons wrapped up in two of these cakes just as we would wrap a bundle in paper. I found the bread tough but palatable It might not be pleasant to" talk of such things at the table, but yon cannot help but observe the customs of a people, and I noticed that the men on the roads, pilgrims and peasants, earned these cakes between loose shirts and the bare skin and ate them on occasions with as muoh dignity and appetite as king ever ate meal. There is no special connection that 1 know of between a bakery and a burial ground, but the bakery oven, in the village I inspected most, closely, and the grave" yard adjoined each other. Prairie cemeteries in the first stages of far Western towns, "without fence or shrub, are melancholy spectacles, but these Syrian cemeteries are more A few mounds at the edge of the village contain the village dead of many generations.

When there is a death one of the graves is opened, the bones of the last interment gathered up and put in one corner, and the body, unooffined, lowered into the receptacle. It is then filled in with cobble stones to protect it against the jackals and the birds. When the graves become full the bones are taken out and thrown upon a pile, and that gbastly sight stares one in the face at every village. Mail and Express. Makers of Fans and Baskets.

Fiesole, near Florence, Italy, contains only between 2,000 and inhabitants, all engaged apparently in makir straw baskets and Women wita these wares to sell beset you on every side, run after every carriage and ofTcr their goods so cheap that you can scarcely help buying. pretty fan at 13 cents does not seem dear to an American nor a basket of intri ate work at cents. All the inhabitants of tbe pla who do not plait straw beg, and afraid get almost as much as their industrious neighbors. San Chronicle..