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A. TOUR UXDER TOE'SEA. A Queer Craft tJutt Was Tested in Vie JTonlt River on the SSUt. New York special Tho dream of Jules Verne seems to have been realized in a boal constructed by an American inventor. The World this morning gives the followinj account of tho trial ol the boat "The sub marine torpedo boat invented by Professor J.

H. L. Tuck was yesterday tested ant proved a practical success in the presence a large party of gentlemen interested They went aboard tho steamer Chance Shot at Eighty-sixth street North river The submarine vessel lay like a gigantic turtle lashed to the steamer's side. She lias been christened the Peace-Maker. She was constructed at the yard of C.

H. Dela- ineter Co. and is thirty feet long with a breadth ol beam of eight and one-half feet and a depth ol seven and one-half feet. The bow and stern taper off from amid ships si nd the lorvrard end of the vessel is surmounted by a dome twelve inches high which is withg'nss ami just largeenough for a pilot to get liis head into. Admission to the boat Is through a circular scuttle nbaft of the dome.

At the stern there is a propeller and rudder of tho ordinary fash ion uul two horizontal rudders with which the boat may bo deflected up or down. The interior is half filled with machinery and mechanical devices including a power ful little WcstinghoHse engine. Compressed air irt stored in six-inch pipes running around the interior and tho arrangements are made by which air may be supplied by chemicals. A guage registers the depth ol the vcHsel beneath the surface. Light is tarnished by incandescent electric lights.

ACyeitordjy'u experiment Captain John G. Holland and Engineer John H. Kline Hlippul down into the iron hull and fast ened the air light scuttle. Then the cap tain's head appeared in the Lookout dome and thu iron fish started up the river. She had iot gone ono hundred feet before sho dipped her nose into tho water and gradu ally slid out of sight beneath tho ruffled surface.

The spectators anxiously watched the spot where she disappeared for three minutes when she reappeared aboutnquar ter of mile to loward and headed toward them. The Silvan Glen was coming down the river only a few hundred feet above and Iior captain was much surprised at the sudden appearance of the iron monster. He tooted his whistle vigorously and put his wheel aporb whereat tho torpedo boat kicked up its heels and again disappeared. Tho Peace Maker attained a depth yes terday of forty feet and attained a fair rate if speed. The torpedo portion of the experiment was not tried.

It isdesigned to like torpedoes attached together by a chain and fastened to corked magnets which will attach themselves to the iron or steel of the vessel to bo destroyed. They are to be fired by electricity after the torpedo boat lias reached a safe distance. Professor Tuck is working on a device by which he claims tl.e occupants of the boat will be enabled to leave it at a depth of forty feet and return again in safety. PERSONAL AXD OTHER XOTES. Senator Jones of Florida is to open a law office iii Detroit.

Matthew Arnold is the guest of Mrs. Bur ton Harrison in Boston. Maurice B. Flynn was born lie says with a gold spoon in his mouth. Henry Villard is expected to reta rn to New York about October G.

Remcnyi the violinist is playing in India it is said with great success. Cornelius Vanderbilt is spoken of for re publican candidate formayorof New York. Bret Harte is engaged on a new Christ mas story to be entitled "The Queen of the Pirate Isle. Dan de Quille.Mark Twain's ex-associate on the Virginia City Enterprise is writing a history of Nevada. Thomas Powell Fowler 1ms been elected president of the New York Ontario West ern Railroad company.

Justice Stanley Matthews and his bride a are buying ornaments for their home from obliging London dealers. Senator Jones of Nevada is so jolly a gentleman that everybody feels glad that lie is so big a millionaire. Fred Douglass will visit llieliistoricllliine and the Alps in the company of his accom plished wife in September. Gen. Phil Sheridan and Col.

Mike Sheri dan lately went to Somerset Ohio on a visit to their mother who is 81 years old. Slade the Maori pugilist is fighting alco hol at Auburn Cal. He can knock out a customer who does not pay up with one hand. Mr. Beecher's style of oratory docs not appear to take in London but that does not surprlbe his friends.

There is no scan dal in it. Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Field of Chicago at their summer home Beverly Farms Mass. Col.

A. L. Rives of Virginia has been offered $23,000 a year by M. de Lesseps. So says rumor.

The colonel is to boss the Panama canal. Patrick Ford of the Irish World has re cently been in conference with Mr. Elaine and is even now "resting" at a quiet hotel at Bar Harbor. zsr RUIXS. VICTORIA TEX.

Aug. 24. Indianola Is a complete wreck not more than three or four houses having escaped destruction. Dr. Fisher the quarantine officer with hfs wife Mr.

Mahone Captain Adolph Sternbrook and a negro woman named Martha Ellis had a narrow escape from drowning. The quarantine station was washed awav early Friday morn ing and they were forced to take refuge in a large grove of Spanish cedars to which they clungfor nine hours. Nearly every house on the upper end of the Island was swept away and Beattie Meade a negro woman and two children were drowned. Nearly all Uie sheep and cattle on the island were drowned and the remainder will probably perish for want of food. There are no pro visions on tbc island except meat as none of the survivors saved an3'thing besides what they had on and much suffering will ensue unless aid is at once extended.

Additional news of the destructive force of last Frldav's storm are constantly being re ceived. The latest advices report the loss of Captain William Moore his wife and five children and his brother Dolph Moore his wife and three children. The former lived at Demon's bridge and the latter at Elliott. They rowed down Mataeorda bay Thursday erenlng to visit friends on Matagorda peninsu la. la.On the same evening the party left Indian ola in the sloop Dauntless for their destina tion.

Yesterday the vessel was discovered in the bay bottom up. In consequence of the destruction of Indian ola the seat of Calhoun county will be remov ed back to Lavaca the former county seat which will also be made the gulf terminus of the Gulf Eastern Texas and Pacific railway which Is badly damaged by the storm. JPARXELX IS DEFEATED. His Amendment to the Address in Reply to the Queen Rejected. London special Mr.

Parnell's amend meut to the address replying to the queen' speech was rejecte'd in the commons to night by a vote of 304 to 181. Lord Randolph Churchill announced tha' it was the intention of tho government to oppose tho abolition of the secret service fund which amounted to 40,000 lastyear Mr. Thomas Sexton who was loudly cheered as he arose to follow Lord Church ill said that tho government enjoyed greal advantage in regard to Mr. Painell's amendment because besides having th power and emoluments of office they were by the aid cl tho casualties relieved of the necessity of forming A policy in the cabine and defending it in debate. Ho regrettec to notice that Mr.

D. Chamberlain was not in his seat but he was not surprised at his absence. The failure to be present he re garded as a questionable example of Brit ish pluck. Mr. Chamberlain showed what confidence he had in his cry by running away.

Laughter. He regarded a speed by Mr. Chamberlain as a positive advap tage to his opponents. Mr. Cliamberlaii was what might be called a political mis- doer and only needed sufficient opportu nity to execute the ends of public justice upon himself.

Mr. Sexton spoke aboul two hours. Mr. Chamberlain entered the house shortly after Mr. Sexton began speaking and remained until the conclusion of the speech.

Ho did not however arrive suffi ciently early to hear Iho part of Mr. Sex ton's speech which was most directly to his own. Sir William Hart Dyke Sir William Har- court and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach also spoke on the amendment. Mr. Harcourt declared that the home rule and purchase schemes of tho late government were not inseparable.

Irish cheers and conserva tive counter cheers. Parnell's amendment was rejected 304 to 181. Lord Hartington Chamberlain and the unionists supported the govern ment. Sir William Vernon Harcourt ab stained from voting and Mr. Morley voted with the minority.

The announcement ol the rcsulb caused little excitement. GLADSTONE'S PAMPHLET. Gladstone's promised pamphlet on the Irish question has just been issued. It is a lengthy document and somewhat similarin stylu to his brochure on Hie Bulgarian atrocities. At the outset he compares the pamphlet to an apology he wroto on his change of attitude in regard to tho Irish church but continues "In the present case I have no such change to vindicatebutonly to.

point out the mode by which my lan guage and conduct have been governed by uniformity of principle. I hare simply fol lowed the various stages by wljich the ques tion of autonomy for Ireland has been brought to the stage of ripeness for practi cal agitation. The pamphlet forcibly argues throughout in support of tho well-known views of Mr. Gladstone on the home rule and land pur chase question and declares the writer's utmost belief that Ireland has now lying before her a broad and even way in which to walk in order to consummate her wishes. 'Before her eyes ho concludes "is opened that same path of constitutional and peaceful action and of steady free and full discussion which has led England and Scotland to the achievement of all their Pacific triumphs.

CLEVELAND'S VACATION. Prospect House N. Y. special When Contractor Watts Cook of Patterson N. J.

who is going to build tho new Harlem bridge left there early this week he gave orders that his little steam-launch tha "Nellie should be placed at the presi dent's disposal. Two guides brought it alongside the wharf this morning and cot up steam when they tried to get back into deep water but ran aground. Finally sho was got off and the president and party boarded her and ran down tho lake dart ing through the channels between the numerous islands. Treating lines and a ride were aboard but the party gave them- t-clves up to enjoying and no fishing or shooting was done. Lunch was eaten eight miles from home on the banks of tho lake.

The cottage was reached about o'clock and all expressed themselves as having thoroughly enjoyed the day's trip. Td-ni ht a german was given at the hotel under the management of Miss Cutter of Boston Miss Warner of New York Miss Albert of Germantown N. Y. and Capt. Curtis of Indianapolis.

Mrs. Cleveland re ceived an invitation which she at once ac cepted. Tho presidential party will proba bly attend church to-morrow in the little chapel on the hill back of the hotel. THE REJUIXS OF MR. ROGERS.

Washington special Five years ago E. II. Rogers of Fremont Neb. was ap pointed consul at Vera Cruz Mexico. Al most before reaching his post he was strick en with yellow fever and upon his first visit to the consulate fell unconscious and soon after expired.

He was buried at Vera Cruz and owing to a law of Mexico forbidding a disinternientundcrfive years from the date of burial his remains could not be returned home until tho present year. There is a fund provided by which the state depart ment is enabled to fetch home the bodies of those in its service dying abroad and a feu- weeks since Consul Hoff at Vera Cruz asked permission to remove the remains. He telegraphed yesterday to the depart ment saying that ha bad procured a casket and that the necessary prepara tions were made for the removal. Secretary Bayard cabled him authority for the nec essary expenditure out of the above fund and the body of tho dead consul will be soon resting beneath hia native sod at Fremont Neb. ACQUIT1ED OF MURDER.

Dayton (0. dispatch Tho trial of Christian Holweger for the fiendish murder of his little thirteen year old daughter con cluded to-day and resulted in his acquit tal. Considerable interest has been mani- 'ested in the trial of the case and many witnesses were examined. It was claimed 3y the detectives that they had positive evidence which would convict Hohveger of the awful crime but they failed to produce it on the trial. After the witnesses had all been examined J.

D. Miller attorney for the prosecution arose and stated that no was convinced that the prisoner was inno cent and Squire M. Deciliter the prosecut- ng witness withdrew the case. A scene of jlie wildest excitement ensued and those present rose up as one man and shouted jnthusiastically. There is much bad feel ing expressed against the detectives and all manner of savage threats are uttered against them.

SEDQEfriCK. AT THE CAPITAL. CUT or MEXICO Aug. 3. General Sedg- wick arrived here this morning and was met by Consul General Porch.

He spent the day with Mr. Jackson. He has not yet visited Minister Variscal of the foreign department bat will probablv do'so to-morrow. He will make his principal investigation at Chihuahua. A rumor is cunent among the Americana here that General Scilgwick carries his com mission as minister to succeed General Jade son.

MISCELLANEOUS POLITICAL NOTES. Congressman Culberson was renominated in the Fourth Texas district. Clifton R. Breckenridgo was nominated for congress by acclamation by tho demo crats tho Second Arkansas district. Sam Barnard shot and instantly killed Newton Harris near London Ky.

Tho two quarreled about a dog. Both aro farmers. The democrats of the First Maryland congressional district met at Ocean City and renominated Hon. Charles H. Gibson for congress by a rising vote.

J. C. Levering of Knox county 0. was nominated for congress on the second bal lot by tho democrats of tho Ninth district in convention at Delaware. The following congressional nominations were made Samuel Griffin democrat in the Eighth Virginia district J.

W. Culber- sons democrat in the Fourth Texas dis trict. Albany special Deputy Comptroller Thomas E. Benedict this evening received his commission as public printer at Wash ington. Many congratulations were ex tended to him.

Ex-Gov. St. John of Kansas opened tho prohibition campaign in Maine at Calais speaking for nearly two hours to a largo audience. The promoters of the meeting have hitherto voted and acted with the re publican party. Col.

Charles S. Stewart of the engineer corps who was next in rank to Gen. New ton has asl'cd to be placed upon the re tired list of tho army on account of ill health he having served forty years. Col. Charles E.

Burt who is next in rank will be retired in February so that Col. James C. Duane is practically at the head of tho engineer corps so far as tho question of promotion is concerned. His chances for succeeding Gen. Newton as chief of engi neers aro increased by tho fact that ho is a life-long democrat.

He served during the war but so strong were his democratic ideas that Secretary Stanton recommended his dismissal for dibloyalty. At the same time the commander of the army of the Potomac recommended he be promoted a brigadier-general for gallant service. President Lincoln it is said sent for him and holding one recommendation in one hand and the otherin tho other hand said "Captain Duane one paper recommends your promotion and the otheryourdismis- sal. I guess they balance each otherpretty well so you go back to your work and take it up where you left off.1' WHT 1HE SALOON 3IEN 2IIET. Sioux City special The Haddock coro ner's jury resumed its work this afternoon the witnesses examined being saloonists.

The investigation is now with reference to a meeting of leading saloon keepers which was held at John Holdenreid's saltfbn on the afternoon of August 3 the day that the assault was planned against Messrs. Wood and Walker and the night of the Haddock murder. That such meeting was held and that the question of saloon litiga tion was discussed and that counsel for the saloonists were present and were paid quite a largo sum in cash from tho general fund raised by assessment is not denied but in the minds of a great many of our best citizens there is a connection between this meeting and the tragedy of the same night. Later on the same day another meeting WHS held and a second assessment levied. Tho exact nature of these confer ences the decisions arrived at etc.

are what the jury want to learn. It is believed that the fund raised was placed in tho hands of H. L. Leavitt and from it the fines of King and Walteriug were to be paid. The latest developments of the inquest are to the effect that a prominent saloon- ist has given valuable information upon which number of arrests are sure to fol low.

There is beginning to be considerable public talk against District Attorney Marsh who it is claimed if not trying to prevent the arrest of the guilty parties in the awful crime is doing little or nothing to hasten their apprehension and arrest. The reason given is political. HEECHER'S BROTHER SUICfflSS. Elmira N. Y.

dispatch Rev. James C. Beecher of Cos Csb Conn. brother ol Henry Ward Beecher and Rev. Thomas K.

Beecher of this city committed suicide at the water cure here thiseveningbybliooting himself through the heart with a rifle. He bad been suffering under severe mental troubles for a number of years and for a time was under treatment at the Middle- town asylum. Beecher was about fifty- nine years old and the youngest son of Dr. Lyman Beecher. He was graduated from Dartmouth college and Andover theological seminery.

He was chaplain of the Seaman's Bethel in China chaplain of tho Brooklyn regiment during the rebellion bee nne a olonel and was mustered out a brevet brigadier general. RICHMOND DECLARED INSANE. St. Joseph Mo. special After being out forty minutes this afternoon the jury the Richmond murder trial brought in a verdict of aofc guilty on the ground of in sanity and decided that Richmond is insane sometimes.

He was given over to the sheriff and to-morrow steps will be taken to put him in lunatic asylum No. 2 near this city. The case was hotly contested and the arguments on both sides were tho most carefully presented and powerfully con tested ever witnessed in this county. Tho verdict is not generally satisfactory but public opinion is so divided that no ver- lict that might have been returned would have met with popular indorsement. BUFFALO BILL'S ZO.

A New York dispatch says Pushalnck the Pawnee Indian who ran away from Buffalo Bill's "Wild West" camp with a pretty young lady hailing from Newark last Sunday was found by two of Buffalo Bill's searchers yesterday and arrived at the camp on Staten Island this morning bringing with him Mrs. Pusbalnck. The pair were regularly married by a clergy man in Philadelphia and had taken board in a house on Ninth street frequented by liuman curiosities. The bride has some 57,000 in her own right and is respectably connected. She seems happy with her hoice and will go to the reservation with trin at the end of the season.

AETF TORSi AROUSED. It is thought the information received by Assistant District Nicoll in New York con cerning the meeting held there recently by he anarchists called to sympathize with he condemned Chicago bomb throwers will result in the indictment of those most con spicuously identified with the meeting for unlawful assembling by the next grand jury. CUE NATIONAL PAEK. Some of the Beauties and "Won ders of the Yellowstone Reservation. Streams Where Brook Trout Can Be Caught with a Pitchfork or Eatrieved by a Dog A Region "Worth Protecting A Fort Keogh Montana correspond ent of The Chicago Times writes There are many wonders within our great national reservation that have never been noticed by the numerous uide-books and there are just as many more outside of the border line and in the neighborhood which should have been included when the park was cre ated.

The mistake was in not making it twice the size for the whole country roundabout is one region of continuous wonders such as no other portion of the known or unknown world can boast of. The Cinnabar mountains the Devil's slide the beautiful valley of the Stinking Water the Teton basis just across the Continental divide and last but not least Henry's lake over in Idaho these and the other marvels close by when taken as a whole and leaving out all that is not included in the park proper combine a region of stupenduous and startling wonders fully equal to if not actually superior to all that is contained in the 8,575 square miles of the park. THE CINNABAH MOUNTAINS are full of petrifications of every kind and the fossils scattered all through the canyons and gorges and on the peaks are numerous and varied enough to supply all the museums in the country for ages to come. On the summits of these huge piles arc undoubted eviden ces of the glacial period. Glaciers ex- st even now in the Wind River and Teton ranges much below twelve thous and feet and the tens of thousands of granite boulders that occur on both sides of the Yellowstone valley beyond the Second canyon and from the Cin nabar mountains to the north base of the Amethyst mountain in the park were no doubt stranded in their pres ent locations by an immense water- power which must have swept them down from thu north ages ago when the rivers ran as high as the mountain tops.

But the most remarkable exam ple of the glacial period in this region is a huge boulder resting on the brink of the Grand canyon about a mile and a half below the great falls. It is very compact a coarse crystalline feklspathie granite in shape rectangu lar the edges sharp and unworn and its cubical dimensions somewhat more than 2.5UO feet It is within a stone's throw of the brink of the canj-on and rests upon a series of sheets of rhyolite surely not more than 1,000 feet in thickness. In seeking the possible source of this rock one would naturally turn toward the south the sources of the Yellowstone but the great ranges to the east and south are valcanic and are not known to con tain a single exposure of granite rock. There are no such formations in the whole tipper Yellowstone for there is a total absence of granite pebbles on the shores of the lake or in the beds of the rivers. The home of this wanderer must be sought in the north beyond the valley of the Third canyon 50 miles away and at the southern end of the Gallatin mountains.

To reach its pres ent position from the northern locality this stupendous bowlder must have crossed the course of the great valley of the East fork and the third canyon and have ascended the river as it now exists a distance of 20 miles avoidng on its way by a circuitous route the in tervening Washbuni range and tiie op posing mis of Amethyst mountain a most curious freak of nature consider ed from any po.nt of view. Pour miles from the northern border line of the park and just after passing the Second canyon going south is the famous Devil's slide it is a rosy brown-colored shoot running from the top to the basu of the mountain at an angle of about oO degrees and looks for all the world like a toboggan slide that has been generously sprinkled with cinnamon. At the top on either side rise two lofty minaret towers so wonderfully paired in size shape and outline that one might very well sup pose they were constructed from a sin gle model rather than being as they are the simple handiwork of nature" The slide starts from this point and shoots down a steep grade bringing up sharp and abrupt on the brink of the Second canyon. The Indians be lieved when it thundered that the evil one went plunging down this awful in cline pitching into the roaring Yellow stone at its base and then by some subterranean passage within the earth mounted to the top again and repeat ed his little diversion until it ceased thundering. The lightning was caused with the road by friction fiery-colored bed in the devil's rapid descent.

THE VALLET OP THE STINK1XG "WATER is the most beautiful little garden of Eden on the North American continent The title would seem to convey the im pression that it is a bad smelling stream of offensive odor and vile taste as its name would indicate. On the contra ry it is a beautiful mountain rivulet of the clearest and purest water but strongly impregnated with sulphur. On account of its peculiar odor it was named by the Bannock Indians whose reservation was a long time ago the park 'Ynskinmaya Wicista which translated into the vernacular signifies bad water. Here it is that a few large game animals still left alive in the northwest seek refuge from the ready riilc of the hunter. This beautiful country is the home of the mighty elk.

Hero arc to be found the brown spe cies the giant bull elk. and the rarest of all game animals the albino elk. The snow elk is certainly the scarcest of the big game still our coun try and until a shore time asra was known to the white man only by tra dition. The Indians have often spoken of it but their were never credited. Now comes the proof in the seeing.

A band of fifty was sighted ia the Stinking Water country by a party of hunters last February and although they were pursued for two days and a night by the indefatigable nioun- taineers.yet dfd they fortunately succeeii in escaping the deadly bullets of the pot-hunters. The finally made their escape over into the National park where they were safe from pursuit. The Stinking Water country is no longer what it used to be. The poor hunted animals are never sure of their lives there now. With an instinct truly marvelous they drift over into the park where cold lead and murderous powder can not reach them.

The superinten dent his assistants and the army of ficer in charge of the improvements as sured the writer that the large game animals not already slaughtered now seek out the park as the only place of refuge left them in the whole north west It is about time they were find ing it out for themselves as the great government under which they live has never thought of enacting any laws looking to their preservation. There are a few mountain buffalo in the park numerous bands of elk numberless deer of all species and hordes of mountain sheep. The park should be increased before it is too late not only to include the natural wonders round about that properly belong there but also to give the few animals living within its boundaries a wide range. The Teton basin and in fact the whole stretch of country from the southern boundary of the park as far as the Garden of the Gods in Colorado is filled with carboniferous fossils lava- flows and volcanic ejectameuta. It is a country that if fully explored and classified would double the interest now contained in the park proper.

Just across the western boundary in Idaho is the lovely UENKV LAKE. Before it is too late this beautiful sheet of water should be preserved from destruction. It is situated on the public road built by the government leading from the upper geyser basin to Virginia City. This the head waters of the Henry's fork or Snake river and is the breeding-ground of the salmon-trout so plentiful in Snake riv er and in the Columbia and its tributa ries. On my first trip over this road some two years ago I fouud on the banks ofthe lake and hidden by tall fir and pine trees a rude log-cobSn oc cupied by an individual who was there as a speculator.

This money-making fellow had foreseen that ina'ny park tourists after visiting the geyser ba sins would return to civilization via Virginia City so he built his cabin on the road and. near the lake hewed out of a solid pine log a dugout boat for the accommodation of the sightseers and provided himself with scores of spears for the use his customers who desired to try their hand at fish spear ing. How the poor innocent trout did suller that year. There was terrible destruction by greehorn specrsmen who wounded and luntilatcda vast deal more of the piscatory tribe than they caught. The proprietor of the log cabin also kept a seine for the amuse ment of his patrons which consisted in casting the net and making a haul and the throwing the fish back into the pond again.

At the time I strongly suspected the miscreant of employing dynamite or gaint powder as one of his pastimes.for the shoivs of the lake were lined with dead trout that bore the ap pearance of being stunned or having been killed by a sudden shock. I saw at one time and in one pile the results of a night's seining and spearing and I think the pile would have aggroirat- ed close on to nine hunderd pounds avoirdupois. Fortunately the specula tor is no longer at his old post nor at his old tricks and the trout can there fore go on spawning undisturbed and in peace. At present this lovely Iittlts pondnestled down amid the gi-int peaks surrounding it. is full to overflowing of the gamy salmon-trout.

They are in school three and four feet deep one above the other and packed as close together as fish can conviently be. These schools extend as far as the eye can reach. There are no other kind of fish in tho lake save salmon-trout and the num ber of this species seem to be beyond conception. There are a great many more there now than there were two years ago and they have virtually overstocked the lake. They mass them selves in the small streams tributary to the lake evidently for no other pur pose than the want of room.

There are no larger fish to prey on them and so they go on increasing without chock or hindrance. Where they crowd tip a stream very thick the leaders often find themselves pushed into the grass and reeds and possibly wriggling around on dry ground. With a spaJe or pitchfork thousands could be thrown out on the shore. An old hunter living in the neighborhood says when he wants a raess of fish he "WHISTLES TO HIS DOG who goes plunging into the water and usually brings out one or two in his mouth. An average of the weight of the fish in Henry lake would be about 125 trout to the 100 pounds.

Of course they run much larger than this one fellow being caught br spearing two years ago that tipped the beam at 121-2 pounds. From every acre of ground surrounding Henry lake a ton of grass could be cut. The soil in places is as black as coal and there is no name for its richness. Game is very plenti ful and ducks geese white and black swans fairly swarm about and through the rushes or hover over the mirror sur face of this enchanting sheet of water. Henry lake is rarely the source of Snake river which in turn tumbles into the Columbia and so finds an out let to the sea.

Snake river followed throughout its course is truly a river of rapids. For three miles above the Shoshone falls it flows through immense caverns with lofty basaltic walls on each side hundreds of feet high. At the Twins or Little falls the river is divided by an island and the two streams rush over separate precipices and pitch into a pool 175 feet below. As viewed from the bluff hundreds of feet above the sight is grand and as for looking up from be-low the gorge ous panorama is too awful and tremen dous to describe in words. Five miles below are the great fulls where the en tire river descends in one mighty sheel 210 feet.

Forty miles further arc the Solomon's falls. A short distance uc tho canyon before reaching these falls is tho most remarkable sight in Amer ica. High up on the wall perhaps two thousand feet a river of water gushes out in one solid stream and leaps a cataract into tho torrent below. Jt has a tremendous volume and looks like an immense hose stream shooting out of the mountain side. From tho high bluffs following down stream issue numerous great springs thu water of which fall over the rocks and are lashed into sil very spray in their descent.

The first of these pours over the cliff in a semi circular form and falls over two hun dred feet. Tho spaces between aro lined with green moss or shrubs so that it presents the appearance of an immense grotto. As seen from the op posite side of tho river it is very beauti ful. The above are only a few of tho marvels of nature contained in tho strange country surrounding our great National park. Removing Hairs from tho Face.

"The climate of San Francisco must be very bad for the complexion said an Oakland man to his wife on the boat the other day. "I notice a great many ladies from San Francisco who go over two or three times a week to our sido of the bay and four out of five of them seem to be troubled with an eruption which appears in patches on their faces. The eruption is confined to tho cheeks and chins generally but I saw- one quite pretty girl the other day with her upper lip all disfigured in this way. Look there is one now. "You poor stupid creattjre re sponded the wife of his bosom in that pitying tone used by wives when they happen to bo possessed of a little ex clusive information "that is not an eruption.

"What is it then small pox "No she has been to her doctor's to have tho superllous hair removed by electricity. The San Francisco ladies ro over to a doctor in Oakland for treatment because they don't want to be seen going into the offices of thoso in their own city known as practitioners of the art. while the Oakland girls go over to the city. About six out of ten women are troubled with stipcrflous hairs on the face or arms and the pro cess of plucking them out with a pair of tweezers two or three times a month is not pleasant. The electric doctor burns the root of each hair with a needle through which an electric spark is sent and the removal of the hair is permanent.

So when you see a girl with that eruption on her fa'e you may know she has been having heV whiskers removed. Some girls have to shavo regularly but that makes the whiskers grow coarse and stiff like a man's. "Yes I've noticed that often said the husband thoughtlessly. "When Where Who is she And once more the pursuit of knowl edge caused trouble in the human fam ily. San Francisco Post.

Ilis Lovely Blue Whiskers. Oh but there arc people who mako foolsof themselves When a man sets out to make himself a fool in the lino of a park ilirtation he is likely to be very successful. The Park lounger over in Allegheny has in his mind's eye- a stiff-jointed gentleman in a white stovepipe hat who in the struggle to give Father Time a black eye. has dyed his whiskers a gorgeous and peaeocky Syrian purple. He doubtless meant to have black whi kers.

but the machine slipped a cog in the dye works he pat ronized and his whiskers came out im Mi. Cleveland's pet hue which prom ises to be fashionable here. This man walks more miles and makes the least showing in his efforts to perform tho feat vulgarly known as masking than any man in Allegheny. Ili attempts in this line are positively debilitating to the eye witness. School girls and sweet sixteens are his especial delight.

But he met with a Waterloo yesterday. He struck up a flirtation with three bold young things and was making himself agreeable as best he knew how. Finally the girls wanted to get rid of him. One addressed him in a low tone of voice as "Pa. whereat he colored up and laughed feebly at the joke.

This not proving quite petrifyining enough another remarked "What lovely whiskers yon have got Won't you give me a lock of your whiskers The old boy was gratified and wanted know dear The to 'Why. my giddy young thing pushed They are just he shade of blue that I want for my dress. I want a lock for a sample to match the color. The crushed dye louse sign went out under the shade of one of the trees which formerly graced the front of the pcnitentiar- Jhio street and when he had fully re covered he set out for home. Pitts burgh PosL Ashamed of Her.

Man to wife who justly despises puns "My dear I saw soniethicg to day that shocked me very much. Wife "Tell me abont'it" Husband "I was standing on the jtreet when along came a well known oafer a regular free lunch fiend. He topped and would have doubtles spo ken to me but just then a man rushed ip seized the loafer and threw him own. Immediately the man who had hrown the loafer was arrested and aken to the police court which hap- oened to be in session where he was charged with being an anarchist. Wife "An anarchist.

"Husband "Yes. Wife "Why how could they bring uch a charge against him Husband "Because you see he had hrown a bum. Wife indignantly "You miserable hing I am a great mind never to speak you again. Husband "Yes but don't you think is a pretty good pun Wife might have thought so when my grand-father told it to'me a3 a reminiscence of his early life. If you want any supper you'll have to cook it ourself.

Husband crest fallen "There you go. Never saw the like. Why. your ack of appreciation of American minor makes me ashamed of you. Arkansaw Trader..