they can be cast off The regular crew MAIS' OVERBOARD! side of it. He stood there motionless THE DEADLIEST OF SERPENTS. fo/r the lifeboat in each watch quickly BOB M'GEE S SCALP. An Old Trick in a New Dress. and patient, with his e\ fixed on the scramble into the lee quaiter boat, prepare The Sioux Took It and Eobi-rfc Want Killing Two Cobras on a Sunday Morning: hole. He had stood ten minutes or Street fakirs have been reaping a their oars for use and tend the 85,000 Indemnity for it. In Far off India. more when the head of a rat was big harvest from the sale of little patent unhooiring device, if there is one. HOW A NAVY SHIP IS HANDLED WHEN Robert McGee of Easton, Kan., is but poked out as far as the shoulders. The coxswain prepares to ship his steering glass vials like those used to hold THIS CRY IS HEARD. It was a hot Sunday morning in 89 years old, yet he has gone twe lty-six Quick as a flash the gander hurled his oar, and the plug is put iu. Then homoeopathic pellets The vials cost India, without a cloud "in the brazen head against the rat's and his stron* the men at the lowering tackles lower years without a scalp, with a bullet in at wholesale a fraction of a cent skies. We had just come home from the boat several feet, and all is ready. bill closed over its neck. The rat his rib* and the scais of seveial awful apiece, and the fakirs have been retailing SJfe Buoys And How To Use Thorn—The early morning service, and had taken Just at the bottom of a lee roll, whea squealed and struggled, but he couldn't wounds by Indian arrows. It adds not them for five cents each. Their our seats at the breakfast table. At the headway is nearly stopped, the get away. The mother goose set up a Danger of Mismanaging a Buoy or a a little to the interest of his case to the open door of our dining-room our value as a street hawker's novelty patent unhooking apparatus is let go,the vociferous and triumphant squavvino-, learn that he was shot and scalped by boat drops a foot or two into the water, Telugu sohool teacher appeared, saving: consists in the fact that a remarkably Cork Jacket Illustrated. and the gander waddled as fast as he the men out oars and give way toward the once noted Little Turtle.aud the ball "Sir, a big cobra has just been funny practical joke can be played could to the horse-trough. He shoved tho life buoy. now lodged between two of his ribs was chasing a frog through the whole with them. Each of the little bottles the rat under the water and held him length of your front "veranda. He Meantime", whether by day or night, put there by Little Turtle, with the there until he was drowned. now being sold in the streets has a When the cry "Man overboard!" ia struck at it again and again as it a quarter-master jumps into the rigging identical pistol which President Lincoln small hole drilled or blown in the boetom. 'fceard on board a man-of-war it acts Then the gander threw the carcass sprang past the open doors of your sitting as soon as the buoy is let go, and it is had not long before presented to the When filled with water and •pon the ship's company with as instant on the ground and the two old geese room, but the frog uttering piercing his duty to keep an eye on the buoy all "noble red man." corked tightly the vial will apparently Svery picked and tore it until it was scattered reseure as does the beat to quarters, the time. Then when the boat is away shrieks (as a frog can when pursued in bits about the barn-vard. be perfectly sound. The water will Senator Plumb of Kansas has introduced man has a place assigned to him he directs how the coxswain shall steer by a serpent), sprang each time Whether the rat was the one that kidnapped a bill in congress to pay McGee not escape from the little hole in the I by waving a small signal flag to the quick enongh te elude its jaws, and together •n the watch bill for this emergency, $5,000 out of the general or Indian fund, the gosling is of course not bottom of the vial until the cork is right or left as may be necessary to put they rushed off the end of the And there is no duty required of him and presents in support known, but the geese were satisfied the boat on the light course. veranda, and the frog sprang under a withdrawn from the other end. As that he performs more readily and of it abundant with their vengeance, and after tearing The quicker the boat gets away the soon as the cork is pulled out, however, box that is standing there, too near jealously than this. He knows that the evidence to prove the dead rat to pieces joyfully conducted better the chance of finding and saving down upon the hard floor for the big the water will run out of the little the following facts: life of a snipmate may depend upon hii their family of goslings to the the man. I have known it to take seven cobra to get under, and so escaped." hole. In 1864 Robert McGee, duck pond and gave them their first minutes where the boat was extra well 13 years old, "Well," said I, "where is the The joke consists in offering a filled exercise in switnminsr. secured on account of heavy weather,and was left an orphan cobra now?" "That is just what I I have seen the ship stopped, the boat and corked bottle to the chosen victim and without means, don't know," said he, "for while I was dropped,the man and buoy picked up, the STANLEY AND EMIN. with the question, "Can you tell but being quite tall looking to see what had become of the boat hoisted and the ship on her course me what that perfume is in that bottle?" for his age he tried Newly Published Details of Their Life frog, how he had got away, the cobra again in nine minutes. At first the victim attempted to to enlist at Fort While Crossing Africa, disappeared among the flower pots, Perhaps as difficult a job as an officer smell it through the cork. Failing Leavenworth. He and, I cannot see where he has gone." can have is to pick up a man who falls Father Schyuze, a German priest who was rejected to perceive any odor in this way he "He must have a hole there close by overboard from a ship that is being accompanied Stanley and Eniin from naturally withdraws the cork, and ROBERT MGEE. employed as a the veranda somewhere," said I. "Will towed. The headway cannot be checked Victoria Nyanza to the coast, has just teamster, and staited with a small tiain the chances are about twenty to one you please go and watch until I come, for many minutes, and the boat must be published a diarvgiving some interestign to Foit Union, N. M. On the 11th of and see if you can get sight of him that the contents of the bottle trickle dropped with headway on. The nicest facts concerning the two great explorers. July, near where the citv of Great Bend judgment in determining the proper again for he must be killed if possible down hiscoat sleeve and wet his arm Of Eniin he speaks r.ow stands.Little Tin lie's band of Sioux instant for letting go and the most if he lives as near the house as that." to the elbow. Then the perpetrator waniois attacked the train. The whites praise: thorough woiking of the men and of the fought long and well, but were overpowered I don't go a shooting on Sunday, but 'The difference between Erain and °f *.ne JHnvH olce laughs fiendishly and the mechanical devices are requisite, for If and every one killed except I went for ray pistol then, for I considered V1 victim "'^,irn says: "B -T/wn, Jove that iic the Stanley is very marked. The former "T^ +.v.a+. fha there is the least mistake or hitch there young McGee. it decidedly a work of necessity the best thing I've seen yet! Where is absorbed in scientific research, a will be a boat's ciew overboard in addition and mercy to put an end to the danger It seems that the Indians at first intended very plain man, who lives more for can I get one?" The trick is an old to the one man. of ourselves or our people being bitten to spare him foi some reason,but science than any thing else, and is a one, but it has probably never been Life saving buoys on board passenger by that deadly cobra. Soon appearing after compelling him to witness the torture learned linguist. Eniin is in delicate old belore—New York Sun. steamers—particulaily those that ply with a revolver, which I keeu for of others not quite dead they decided health but when we offer him wine around New York—belong generally to to kill him also. The chief shot travelling through the jungles* by which we keep for holy mass he brings CLIMBING THE EDGE. one of two styles—the circular cork he a on of Hot S in him with the elegant pistol he carried night, I went hunting for the cobra's it back without tasting it. 'I am going "promptness,and that what has happened buoy,shaped like an exaggerated dough- as a Lincoln souvenir, and three spears hole. to ask for it some day, he says, 'for a J. W Fewkes tells in The American to another may happen to him. Even were run into his back as he lay upon sick man please save it until'then.1 It Two large native flower pots stood Naturalist that vegetation exists in the veriest shirk will spring to his station the ground. Little Turtle then tore off is a riddle to me how he can stand the about six feet from the end of the veranda, hot springs. The highest temperature with alacrity and work with zeal. his scalp and struck him twice with a with each a beautiful rose growing journey. In the morning he has a cup on record in which it occurs is It is astonishing how few sailors know tomahawk, factuiing the skull at each in it, of which my wife was very of Turkish coffee without anything to how to swim, and until late years even blow. The savage departed and in a 200 degs. Fahrenheit. This indicates fond, and beside which she almost eat. Then follows the march, during our naval officers had no instruction in few hours a rarty of soldiers arrived on that vegetation may have occurred daily stood picking off dead leaves, or which he does not get down from their way to Fort Larned. Sorrowfully the art. Now the naval cadets at Annapolis at a much earlier stage of the watering and tending the roses. I soon his ass. In camp it is often evening they gathered the corpses for burial, but have a regular training, and discovered a hole in tne ground about before his men can attend to him. I earth's history than has been generally peiceiving signs of life in McGee they there is no excuse for an officer failing as large as my wrist, partly concealed ne^ er saw a European in Africa who supposed. The prevailing form bound up his wounds and took him to to swim. In the old time navy the only could get along with so little. On the by the grass that was growing right between the fort. of vegetation in these heated waters way that could be depended on for other band, he can not work without the two flower pots, which were is algae. Diatoms also occur, but teaching the seamen how to swim was to The surgeons exhausted their skill his desk and chair. His time belongs far enough apart for a person to stand hang a topmast stu'nsail from the outer sparingly. They have been found in upon him the struggle was long and between them. The hole went down to science his spare moments to his end of the lower stu'nsail boom, the inihip teirible, but he lived—as remaikable a Nevada at a temperature at which perpendicularly, growing larger as it daughter, whom he guards as the apple fs still in the water. Generally the recovery as any related in history. The the vegetation of hot springs is most went deeper. It took but a moment of his eye. She is always carried lee life buoy is dropped as soon as the details were laid before President Lincoln, to bring a hand mirror and throw the just before him, so that he can watch flourishing, but usually occur in great cry is heard, although a trained lookout who sent for the boy, and was reflection of the bright sun right down her in spite of his poor sight." abundance in the cooled waters of hot will look over the side, and not pull the deeply affected by his account. The into the hole. It revealed a horizontal western generals were directed to favoi springs. lanyard until the man is close under the Stanley is not so well liked, although chamber only a foot or so deep, and him in employment. Many years after stern. A lookout is always stationed at admired for his ability. Father the glistening scales of a cobra coiled McGee's uncle acquired wealth in the the life buoys, which are hung one on Schynze sa\s: up at rest. west and tried to recover the scalp from THE CORK JACKET IN ITS PROPER POSITION each quarter. "Stanley is a leader, a commander. Little Turtle, but unsuccessfully Mc Taking a piece of a broken wagon More than once he would like to break Gee is now apparently in robust health, The navy life buoys consist of two nut, and the coik jacket tire in my hand to stop up the hole. I off all negotiations with the negro chiefs but of course terribly disfigured. •opper globes attached to an upight When babj was sick, we gave her Castoria, filed down into the hole. Not a motion The former is entirely capable of sustaining and treat them to lead and powder, but ttaff. There is a crosspiece near the top one or even two persons if properly was seen. I had missed. Turning he curbs himself to avoid useless bloodshed. When she was a Child, she'cried for Castoria, Mr. Worth, The Man-Milliner. ner end supported from the forechains managed, but if the person who the tire up edgewise I fired again. He keeps stiict order. At sunrise When she becamoMiss, she clung toCaBtona, In a curve with about four feet depth of gets hold of it in the water is excited he What a squirming there was! The a shrill whistle sounded bv Stanley When she hadchildren.she gavethemCastoria, watei in the belly of the sail. In this may be unable to use it so as to save his cobra had been wouuded. He struck himself orders ever} body to "take his life. For instance, in the accompany nhallow space the beginners could venture up viciously at the iion, which was place in the caravan and march. He illustrations we have two representations and learn from the experienced turned down flat as soon as I hred, to maintains the strictest discipline, and of how not to use it. If the buoy swimmers. This arrangement is imperative keep him from darting out at us. I his men know him scarcely has the is caught edgewise and turned up like a in waters where shaiks aie plentiful turned the iron edgewise and tired last bound of the whistle died away before wheel in the water.the unfortunate man since the sail is sufficient to keep the again. When I had unloaded the sixth all stand ready to march with may be drowned while frantically trying man eaters off and no one would dare to barrel I let him strike his head out,and their burdens on their shoulders. Stanley Grumblers and growlers have no lifting to climb up its revolving edge. It «$o_outside of it. caught it against the bide with the iron power. lights his short pipe and armed will turn and turn with him like a treadmill, tire. I had brought out with me a pair with a long cane walks at the head of and keep his head below the surface JfrftgEfiS of large hedge sheais. With these I the caravan, followed by a boy with until unconsciousness and death result. caught bold of his protruding neck, a parasol, his servant with a Winchester and. with a stout pull with both hands, rifle, and a wagwana who leads his Or, as in the second case, the'victim pulled him out and gave him a flirt out ass. Then follows the caravan. gets a broadside hold upon it and pulls into the compound. What a scattering After an hour or two Stanley mounts it down. Perhaps two-thirds of the there was of men, women, and his ass and the speed of the march is buoy will be out of water, but the remaining children! My attention had been so then much increased, but none of third, with the man attached, taken up by the snake that I had not Stanley's men lag behind. But the will be below. This is a situation where noticed what a crowd had gathered great traveler can also be merry. He two persons would be better than one, around. How they screamed and rau! sits under a tiee smoking his pipe and for a second grip on the other circumference for they did not know that the giip of watches the pitohing of his tent. would right the buov and the the shears had dislocated the fellow's When this is done he disappears into it two woulAkeep it flat on the surface, neck, and, seeing a full-sized cobra flying where it would keep the heads of both and does not appear again until after out toward them, they seemed to out of the wet. sunset. I think he spends that part of think that he was springing at them. the day in writing his notes, for whenever Finally we have the third illustration, I have eutered I have found him showing how to put the round Duoy As I had grasped the head of the sitting by a laige book I believe that where it will do the most good. By cobra with the shears, I had given the Few American women who have causing the buoy to lie flat and encircle a description of the journey will be wagon tire to the teacher, asking him visited Europe are unfamiliar with the HOLDING THE BUOY DOWN. the body the aims testing on opposite ready as soon as we come to the coast, to insert the end again instantly that I entresol on the avenue de l'Opera in The work to be done in picking up sides, it will support any person at a for Stanley does not need to pay much drew the cobra out. for where one which Worth, the monarch of dressmaking, sailor who has fallen oveiboaid depends, comfortable height above the surface. attention to his caravan now, as the cobra is you will usually find a second. Both the method and results when holds his court. Woith was originally •of course, largely on the ship and tin The cork jacket is a good life preseiv officers do all. If Stanley is in a a shopman in a large London drygoods I came back and threw the rays of the Syrup of Figs is taken it is pleasant circumstances belonging to each case. er under two conditions—namely, when cheerful frame of mind then the minutes store. He was promoted from the sun in again. Yes, there were bright In a steamer without sails the evolution and refreshing to the taste, and acts rightly put on or when not put on at we spend while the tents are being counter to become a buyer for the firm cobra's scales and another cobra wriggling. is very different from that performed i| all. In the latter case it acts simply as gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, pitched are the most interesting of by which he was employed. In that Loading my pistol again 1 repeated a ship depending wholly or partly on any other buoyant substance, and by the whole day. He then tells incident Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system capacity he visited Paris and there conceived the firing hoping that he would •ail power. The direction and the force clinging to it firmly one can keep his after incident of his adventurous life effectually, dispels colds, headaches of the wind and the amount of sea the idea of the dressmaking business strike his head up out, so that I could head above water. If rightly placed with such fire and such vigorous expression and fevers and cures habitual play important parts in the drama. But which has made his name as catch his head also. Squirm and and secuiely buckled it will keep a man that wo forget how broken the usual routine is somewhat as follows:— familiar to women as that of Bismarck strike as he did, his head did not come constipation. Syrup of Figs is the his French is." or Gladstone is to the world at large. out of the hole until I fired many only remedy of its kind ever produced, The Illustrated American has obtained times but it finally came, and I secured The officer of the deck at once brings pleasing to the taste and acceptable from Worth the only photograph of the ship "by the wind," shortening sail him also. On drawing him out The Petticoat Iiobbjr. to the stomach, prompt in himself that he ever consented to have as necessary then the maintopsail—if and examining him closely, we found its action and truly beneficial in its published. It shows him the costume the ship be sqaure rigged—is thrown fourteen pistol ball holes through his The "petticoat lobby" of the Capitol in which he usually receives his subjects—the effects, prepared only from the most aback to check the headway. If under body, and still there was fight in him. has always been exaggerated. Some devotees of fashion—who ttearn the engines are backed till the Any three of the wounds would have healthy and agreeable substances, its lobbying is done here by women, but stag and a weight and ledge at the bottom. will at once recognize the peculiar velvet proved fatal in time but he died making many excellent qualities commend it as for professional women lobbvists The ledge is for the man's feet cap, somewhat like a loose Tarn o' I a splendid fight. We laid the to all and have made it the most they are scarcer than hen-teeth. *You the weight is to keep it floating upright, Shanter, and the velvet-faced dressinggown cobras out in the veranda and measured meet numerous women with claims in popular remedy known. THE CORK JACKET TOO LOW DOWN. and the cross-piece is to hold on by. which he affects. Worth's manner them. One of them measured afloat without reference to his own exertions. the Capitol corridors, and there are a At the very top of the staff is a flat box is autocratic. He fully appreciates Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c five feet eleven inches, and the other Even if unconsciousness 01 couple of old ladies who have been containing a pyrotechnic composition the fact that he has achieved greatness. and $1 bottles by all leading druggists. six feet and two inches, than which one death ensue the jacket will keep the here for a generation awaiting the settlement that burns fiercely and is inextinguishable He lives in a pretty villa, buried in flowers, head well above the water. It is therefore rarely finds a cobra larger. Their Any reliable druggist who of a cotton claim. The claim by water. At night a lockstring is at Ville d'Avray, the suburb of 8, ecially desirable for women and hole showed that thev bad evidently may not have it on hand will procure first pulled, exploding a cap and lighting is probably a just one, but Congress Paris where Gambetta died. Worth receives children, who might not have the been living there, right among the the composition then the other lanyard does not get at it, and they will be in it promptly for any one who his would-be customers with the strength or resolution to cling to around flower pots that were tended daily and is pulled and the buoy diops in the dignified air of veritable sovereign. He their graves before it is settled. Their wishes to try it. Do not accept any buoy for any length of time. within six feet of our vieranda and Water. The light enables the rescuers listens to their intimations of the style faces were fresh when they came here. substitute. But wje betide the man or woman within twelve feet of my study door, to see the buoy at a long distance. In in which they believe the forthcoming They are wrinkled now and there are who puts one on wrong. The unfortunate for weeks or months. Though the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. the daytime the lockstrinc is disconnect' costume should be "created," but he crows' feet at their ej'es. They bring who gets it on about his hips ot cobra is the deadliest serpent known does not always follow their suggestions. their Knitting with them and sit together SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. lower down on hi* legs will find that he and thousands of persons die of their He refuses to be fettered in any way in in the galleries waiting and watching, LOUISVILLE. KY. NEW YORK. N.Y. would, in the language of Rip Van bite yearly in India, no one in our mission his "creations." The interview ended, and watching and waiting session Winkle, "be better mitout it." No has every been harmed by one.— he waves his fair visitor toward an adjoining in and session out. A new lobbyist amount of endeavor will bring the legs Keep your eye on Christian Intelligencer. room,where Mile. Louis or some this season is a red-faced woman with down and head up, and he will assume other of his chief assistants perhaps blue eyes and a rakish straw hat. She the position shown in the illustration.— this medicine. "tries on" a dress of the style desired Gander and Rat. N. T. Herald. seems to be eraz}-, and imagines that by the caller, and attends to the details it is her mission to catch Silcott. She Quality, not quantity Derangement of the Eyes. of her order. A goose on the Lingle farm hatched addresses Congressmen whenever she is what out a fine family of goslings last week, meets them and they usually treat her It is unnecessary to enter into the A Collection of Clovers. says a letter in the N. Y? Sun. She well. you should details of various derangements of the and her mate, au imported gander, eye affecting the range of sight, since James L. Pennypacker of Philadelphia look for. have been assiduous in their attentions none of them can be properly treated Manufacture of Oil Paintings. has a curious collection of clovers to the downy, little yellow things but by an inexperienced person. Especially Ayer"s Sarsaparilla. from different states. The clovers are in spite of that a "big Norway rat, According to the Philadelphia Inquirer should any sudden affection or mounted upon a card so as to reprerent -i« hordes of whose kind infest the outbuildings oil paintings are manufactured change of the range or power of vision a four-leaf clover. One leaf is is a powerful in that city by the yard. The proprietor on tho farm, and smart be promptly cared for by the highest made up of eleven four-leaved clovers, enough to elude the watchful eves of of the factory is a German, with blood purifier. skill attainable. It is probably an indication another of nine five-leaved clovers, the old gopse and gander, and a dav or four sons, and a dealer who orders of some internal disease which another of nine six-leaved clovers, and It is safe, so ago captured one of the goslings pictures from them tells how it is done: may result seriously if not treated in the fourth of six nine-leaved clovers. & BIGHT POSITION IN THE LIFE BUOY. and dragged it to his lair under the "I run out of pastorals, say, and order time. Above all, avoid traveling venders economical, and ud, so that oniv the dropping lanyard The stem is represented by a series of barn. A few feet from the barn is a a couple of dozen. The "manufacturers «& of spectacles, with astounding will work. When Jack gets hold of the clovers containing cup or funnel leaves low horse-trough, which is kept constantly stretch a big sheet of canvass, the always reliable. pretensions to great skill in everything buoy he puts one foot on each side of the and at the very end is one clover having whole length of their factor* and begin full of water. There is a hole pertaining to the eye. If really possessed staff on the ledge at the bottom.holds on nine leaves and a cup and another Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co^ three inches in circumference under work. The boss artist makes a. draft by the crosspiece and rides standing, of the accomplishments, the clover having thirteen leaves. the foundation of the barn which is a in charcoal, and one after another his Lowell, Mass. with his shoulders well out of water. vender wonld not need to travel about runway for rats, and it was into this assistants go over it. The 1irst man Simultaneously with the orders for reducing the country to earn a living. Nor is China's Great Need. puts in the sky, the second the grass that the rat dragged the gosling. Tf'^f sail, heaving to and dropping the ordinary local dealer more to be The two old geese indulged in noisy and trees, the third the figures, the the buoy the offlqer of the deck sends A Canton (China) paper estimates trusted in* delicate cases, for in much I prescribe \n4 folly exw lamentations for some time over the fourth houses and barns heie and there, dona B«g ja. th* onl* the lifeboat's crew to their boat. The that 750,000 people die every year in more than nine times out of ten he specific for the oartaincux* and the old gentleman goes over the loss of their little one, and then au idea two quarter boats are usually left China by fire and flood, but it is not has had no opportunity to make special of this,disease. O. H-CSGRABiAM.M. IV swung out, with their tackles coiled seemed to strike the gander. He and whole work putting in little touches latisfied. "The fact is,1' it remarks study of the eye and its diseases. Amsterdam, N. down on deck ready for lowering. The his mate held a sort of confab in subdued that makes the perfeot whole. It is with cold-blooded cynicism, "the great Thanks to cheap and rapid travel, it We have sold Big lot gripes, or broad sennit bands that go tones, and tnen they both became astonishing how fast they work, and "«.ny yean, and it bat need of China is the sudden removal of is ah easy matter.to reach a specialist, Iven the best »f oatia around the boat and hold it fast against when the canvas is drjy they cut it up quiet. The gander waddled up two or three million inhabitants to whose judgement can be trusted and action. tba daviti at sea, are fitted with a quick to the rat-hole under the foundation of into sections, take, each "bit" on a D. B. DYCHE CO.. make elbow-room tot those who are whose fees will be moderate,—Qood Chicago, IU taction hook by which in one motion the barn and too]£ a positioa. at one stretcher, and brj^ig the lot to me." left. Housekeeping. i*l.Q0. SoUltoBraftiati ftfe aafeeavtHMnggii ~r—»