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SAD SHERIFF REDGRAVE, A DISTINGUISHED BRITISH COL UMBIA CITIZEN AND HIS STOR- IES. a Irsr Ur HIM I.I..I.IHI l.iv Ibr anl>i i. nrt of ilir Or, ,i.|. MI M hi ii lt> a. I I. .1 I I.I I //It .III I lll.lll.HlllM.il. Lying in the picturesque valley of the J*lu*nbia Rivtr ID British Columbia, with tS Selkirk Mountaini on one aide anil the Reeky Mountain* on the other, is the town of Uoaald, ou the Canadian 1'aoific Kail- raid. It used to be known ana "wide- open town," but it in now a sedate little place at nearly 'J.OOO iohaltitanU. It ii the meeting place of division* of the rail- road, and from that reason takes on a com- mercial importance that other towns of the ante size along the railroad lack. It also has au added importance from the fact that il n the home of Sheriff Redgrave, the chief official of all tnat country round 'ur a great distance. Sheriff Kedgrave u a distinguished man, nt nly because he holds the chief office thereabouts for many miles, but because he has a ooUble past. He has had many Aero* campaign* with the Indian!, has taught his full share of deadly duels with ieeperadoes, has "dropped" his man on re than one occasion, knows what rough- ing it means in a country the wildest of the wild, and for years before such a thing al a railroad was thought of in that country was a marked nun. His dignified presence at way. commanded resprct wherever he appeared. He was always pointu* out to strangers, and knew that his position iu the community demanded of him scrupulous re. garil fer his pel sonal appearance, and also vhat he inuit always nanp up hn nerve and Jive up fully to hid reputation. Although the Sheriff is now nearly sixty years old, no one ha* ever found him derelict in hisrelf- appreciation or neglectful of his past. The- Sheriff in these peaceful days ha* few stirring event* '.o call out his proweis, but m the estimation of ir.osl of the citi/eu* of J>mal i is the most conspicuous nun ID the ylace. It is one of hi* habit* always to dsmte dqwn to the through trains every day tm sreei the crews and to exchange a word or two with the mail clerk*. It also gives Use passengers an opportunity, ai they patrol up and down ihu platform while the wiries are lieing changed, to ask who that liaiinguished-loo^iiit; in in la, and, while ISM smries of the Slierill's yreatnen am bring related, to yive the Snenif .!.. an >(>|,rtuiuiy luilispUy a becoming modesty au.i an assumed ignorance i>t the fact that travellers are lis'.enmg to stories of his fellow citizens. Re wat up in the Caribou country many yean ago and (tumbled into camp of Indiana where there was n epidemic of small-pox raging. It would never do for him to return borne after having been disposed to that contagion, and It also was incumbent on him as H man with a sympathetic heart t > try to stamp out the terrible d sesse. He and his f rieirl pondered over the situation for a long time, and at last a plan came to thsm . "How do you luppose we stamped that small-pox out?" the Sheriff says as he tell* the story. " Well, it was this way. Neither of ui had any medical education, and if we had it wouldn't have done any good, for we had no remedies with us, and il would have been impossible to make those Indian* take any medicine. What do you think we did? \Ve just rounded up all the Indians that had the disease, and when we were sure that we had every one of them and had burned all their effect*, we buried each Indian up to his neck in the ground and left them there for the night. The next morning we came around to see how they were getting along, and would you believe it, the wolvea had come during the night and had eaten off the heads of everyone of those Indiana. That stamped oat the ep- idemic in that whole section, and to this day there has never been a case of small- pox there. It was rather rough treatment, but ever since then that tribe of Indians have been among my very beat friends. " The resource* of the Sheriff in time of difficulty are also illustrated by another anecdote he tells. H* and a friend were out in the mountain* one day and came to the only ford in a stream that wa* access- ible tor many miles. To their dismay they found that the heavy rains had made the stream impassable. They had to get over in some way for the f&te of important business depended upon the Sheriff's ar- rival home. Il wa* out of ihe question tor them to try to build a bridge. " How do you suppose we managed it?" the Sheriff asks . " Well, we thought a long time and then we formed a plan. The stream was a I hundred yard* wide and rushing furiously. 1 1 war a mighty torrent, sweeping every- ( thing before it. Well, we just loaded our | pockets full of stones and hung them about imr necks. Then we each carried a* big a boulder as we could. Taking a long breath, ! o as to last u* after the water got over our heads, we plunged into the stream and waded over by walking on the bottom. The . stones kept u* from being swept away." These stories illustrate the Sheriffs char- acter and ingenuity and indicate to some extent why h is adistiuguiihed man in all llnlish Columbia. 1'liey also serve lo ex- plain the reason why the people of Donald are proud of the Sheriff and lake paips to point him out lo travellers a* their most notable citizen. Snould any one go lo Donald prepared to doubt the Sheriff* i veracity it would bo well fur him not only to provide himself with a couple oi hair- trigger shooters, but he must slao lj ready to get the drop on any one of half a dozen rm/ens, for the ohernl's numerous friends re always ijun-k to refent to toe death any reflections on the Sheritl of any kind what- ever. The Sheriff if of me 1mm height, rather anJidiy built, and has a gn/./ly beard. He wears a low-crowned hat, and has an. m- tary style a* he walk* up and down the platform, nodding 'o this man and thit, Mil o<-casionally npe.tkiiig to one person a* "Jim" and to aii'-Uier as "Jack"and so on. .V--I a turn or two about tho platform ho usually stops at the mull oar and, piittin,: wise foot on the hracrs of the car, enter* a**<i conversation with the nn-iiw-ii H i r.wlule the pasteuger* wulk up und down and take fcn in thoroughly or listen to the tales of <*jn : truer. i-Mil Kfd-rave is always amiable anil almost alwajr* cheerful. Once a year, how- ver, he in manifestly troubled . nd down- cart. It is a rin'mn in Donald on these OvL-wii'iiia n> wait until a goodly coll. if citizens have arrived, anil then this Conversation usually ensues : Ci>o I inorniiii.', Sheriff ; you seem a little troubled thin morning : you lout blue. N'otluiiij Kone wrong, ha* there ?" somo one will say, and the Sheriff will make this re pease : "<)h, no," with an apparent effort to miiw ott his careworn lonk ; ''nothing Is toe matter, but the fact is this is the aauivertary of a very sad day with me, anil J never can shake off its remembrance." "Indeed*" some'one will say, and at that invitation the Sheriff will tell this story of a*) eventful day in hi* career, one that aniiiially tills hi* nonl with sadnes* : "It was just thirty yean ago to day that I was up in the Curilxm country with til.: dearest 1 1 lend 1 everhad. He wasanohle tallow, on* that I would have gladly given my life to any da) were there occasion to do so. We were walking through a '"<y late one alternoon, and by a iamenl- .bl oversight had only one gun wi'.h us. My friend ha ilthat. Suddenly we came iace to face with an enormnu* grizzly bear, *e *f tho old-time liear*, tremendous <t-.1ow*, such as we used to have in these .ntains. The bear wa* angry, and I aluok bad been st ung by some bees. He weil light, and I saw at a glance that it was either hi* life or one or perhaps both >( aura. He came ri'jht for us, roaring and determined to kill us. Ilf friend wa* a nervou* man, and 1 coulU M* that he was a little frightened. .Nam, you know that I never lose my nerve, sussi au I said to him that 1 thought he had hatter give me the gun and let me kill the bear, so u to make sure of the job. He a^reod, and seemed to be glad to have the esponilbilily off his hand*. The hear jtie straight for ui, and I took deliberate aim. He had his mouth open, and 1 aimed t shoot him there and let the bullet pene- trate the brain, and thus make a neat job ol it. When the hear wa* about ten pace* olT I pulled the trigger. That bullet went straight to it* mark, of rouise, but, do you know? JUKI a* it struck the bear in the '<K>.it Ii, that animal for some reason or -other turned on his heels. The bullet pamed through bin head, and the bear, turning just as it wa* passing through, i'e- r -d the hull. t,o that it flew back at us, and killed my frjpnd instantly by my side. Yen, thisis alwa>* a vsry ssd day with me, .in.) 1 am sure you will excuse me if I don't MIIOW iiiyae.'iisinmed cheerfulness. " Sheriff lUdgrave lias another thrilling oiperience that he relates IK rationally, ami K illustrate* his fertility of resource in time of great emergency, end reveals to e extant the reasons foi his popularity advancement m the es imatioL of hi* THEIDEALSOLDIER'S WIFE. MI. IM.I lie Prrpareil Iu Mami) li> llrr llll.llunil III IIIIH.nl llMIISIT II Bit III I llrallr. I his ideal of what a soldier's wife should lie was realised by the wife of Sir Holiry Lawrence. Soon after hi* marriaue he had to survey a dense jungle M the foot of the Nepuul Mountains. The dews and fogs were 10 Heavy that no tent could keep tK-in out. Kirei bad to i..- lig -itd constantly to keep off tigers and wild elephants. It was in such a tract that the auistant of Sir Honry l.awrenoe found Mrs Lawrence. Shu was seated on the bank of a nullah, her fee', overhanging the den of some w i..| annual. While li. , with a portfolio iu her lap, was writing overland letters, her bnilwnd, at no great distance, was laying his theodolite. A woman of a highly gitle.i mi. id, an well as of a most cheerful disposi- tion, she helped her husband in his reports and o! her literary compositions even when undergoing roughing! like those iletcribed. While easily falling into her huiband's wiys o! unbounded liberality and hos- pitality, she cared nothing heiself for luxury. She would !" quite content with a tent som-i ten feet square, a suspended shawl separating her bed-room and dressing room from the hospitable breakfast-table. Kven in accommodation like this the well- matched couple found an earthly 1'aradise. The luxury of helping her husband to do good was the only one for which Lady Lawrence oared. It was one day when Sir Henry wa* on leave for the benefit of his health that these two, in happy communion, were reclining ou the side oi the Suuawar Mountain, op poaite Kussuwlee, when the thought which occurred to one was responded to by the other, and taken up by both, that they would erect a sanatorium for children of Kuropea.i soldiers on that very spot. The result is well known, and the noble in- stitution, now under the direction of t. iv- ernment, bean hi* honored name. Insects that Get Tipsy "That drunkenness and its mischievous consequence* are not peculiar to the human race alone," aaid Prof. K. H. Sheldon, of Minneapolis, "are, in my mind, established facts. I have paid particular attention to the avidity with which wasps attack certain fruit when it is overripi, and have noticed some of the peculiar mult* of their doing so. The sugar in some fruit* which are most frequented by waaps has a tendency to pas* into a sort of alcohol in the process of rotting. On such fruit*, particularly grapes and plums, you will frequently see wasps pushing and fighting with each other, endeavoring to get at the coveted prize. After they have got at it and tilled themselves with the juice, you will see them uet vnry drunk, crawl away in a sort of a dazed condition uud repose in the grata for some limn, presumably until the ellect wears off, when they invar- i iably return and got in the same condition I again. It i* while they are thin affected i that they do their worst stinging, both in I the virulent nature of the stioko and tho utterly unprovoked assault* of which they are guilty. I was stung last year by a j drunken wasp, and for several days suffere I severely from symptoms of nerve poisoning. WHAT UNCLE SAM IS AT, ITEMS OF INTEREST ABOUT THE BUSY YANKEE. lr Imrrr.t in III. i.,iuz. n.u n r, ,,t HUM i. in .111.1 nir ih Valhere*] ruin III* Uallr U. . ..r,l Chicago's assessed valuation is S'219,354,- 368. The Chineae legation is the largest in' Washington. Duluth and Superior have a grain capa- city of JT.OOO.lHX) bushels. I >urmg last yeir there were 1,250 deser- tions fi oin the navy . Orange culture in thi* country baa out- grown the consumption. About half the applicant* for enlistment in the navy are rejected. The army of commercial travellers of this country alone numbers 250,000. Wyoming i* covered with a network of 6,000 mile* of irrigating canal*. There is a scheme on foot to connect Pitttburg and Chicago by electric railway. There are truck "farms" in New York city which are attested at $100,000 an acre. Kx.Seuat.or Ingails indorses the proposi- tion to elect United State* Senator* by popular vote. A Norwalk, Conn , gardener, while drinking from the nozzle of a hose, swal- lowed a frog. In the year ending June 30, 1894, the railways of America carried 492,430,000 person*. The latest statistics show that the death rate in ihe city of New York U rapidly de- creasing. Marshall H. Abbott, an extensive real estate operator al Salem, Miss., haa failed for $500,000. Mr. Marvil, who ia running for the I Gov- ernorship of Delaware,** a manufacturer of peach baskets. The State of Ohio spent $-200,000 in military protection during the recent strike of coal millers. An average of 3,000 umhrellaj are con- stantly in the lost parcel office of the New York elevated. Toe silver dinner service which Mrs. J. W. Mackay ha* with her in Europe i* worth SI'.Hi.iKMi. Nevada haa *rnt out 8550,000,000 in ail ver and gold, &3, 000,000 of which came from the Comstock mines. KishopClsrk, Kpisooptl.of Rhode Island, will celebrate the fortieth anniversary of his consecration on Dec. U. Speaking before Michigan bankers Comp- troller Kokels said the recent panic wa* the result of vicious legislation. A Bible distributor lied recent'y in New Hampshire at the a^e of 7(i, who during bis life dmtributed P.'O.OOO Bibles. The arta of tillable land in South Kast- ern Alaska is given a* I.SOOaquaie mile*, a tract larger than Rhode laland. The American* are generally agreed tn have surpassed all other naticn* in '.he in- M ntion and use of rapid tire guns. Last year the I'nited States and Canada pulilnlieil l!l,, r >7.'< papers, with an aggregate circulation of :i,4M,lili>,i>uO copies. Mifs M it'.ie Copeland has accepted the populist nomination for superintendent of public school* in Preston County, Virginia. Miss Kllen .1. I'ortcli, oilitor of the Milledgeville Chronicle, is to lie the private secretary of (iovernor Atkinson ot Georgia. i Inca^o is the great cold s'orage depot for ei(s. It is calculated that nearly half a million ca;et are packed away there every year. The 1'. S Department of Agriculture estimates that 15,5Oti,OINl acre* of corn in the welt have beeu abandoned or cut up for fodder. At a recent reunion of the well-known Smith tribe in New Jersey, rive thousand members are reported to ha\e put in an ap- pearance. An ice cream dealer in Kast port, Me., is a bicycle rider, and wheels around the city with a hi,* advertisment of hi* business on his wheel. At a depth of 1,000 feet from the surface at Ithica, X. Y., there is a solid stratum of rock tall of an excellent quality nearly 300 feet tin, k. Mr*. Kate Chaae Sprague ha* been com- pelled to give up her home that wa* once her father*, to satisfy the demands of credi- tors. Stuffed white dove*, for funeral emblems, are prepared in large numbers in Jersey City. Their bodies are sold to French restaurants. Rritisli Vice-Consul Burroughs has taken official notice of the supposed murder near Guthrie, Ok., of Frank Ledgers, of Buck- ingham, Kngland. Lawton Sherrrtn who died in Providence recently, aged 9!) years, was married *ev- enty-oight years ago. His wife, who is still living, i* H9 years old. At a reoent wedding in Mnkane, Mo., the groom'* name wa* Abraham Lincoln Strick- land, and that of the officiating clergyman was Jefferson Davis Greer. William Buck was given two years in the penitentiary by a judge in St. Louis, Mo., for placing an obsiruotion on the Missouri Pacific tracka during the late strike. Members of the G. A. R. of Braddock, Pa., refused to march under an arch on which wat a portrait of President Cleveland, and it was pulled down by the crowd. Lady Henry Somerset tells a Union re- porter : " I feel that women here are mak- ing great progress, acd the outlook ia moat promiaing : yet we shall have full suffrage in England before you do,as already women have all votes except tho parliamentary, and that is in the near future." Russian c Act us has gained such heidway in Kausom County, in North Diko^a, that on one quarter section alone it will take fifteen men six days to pull up the weeds, and on the ad joining quarter ploughing CAU not be done, as horses are unable to mrce iheir way through ihe cactus. King Price, a convict in the Landing Mich., penitentiary, has onfessel that while a clerk in Wichita, Ktn., post office iwunty years ago, he ritiliod registered let- ters. J. T. Holmes, who was postmaster at the time, was sentenced to tea year*' imprisonment, bat was released after eigh- teen month*, his friend* making good the shortage. R. W. Hutcninson, florist of the Penn- sylvania Company, has been doing some fine work at stations along tho Pitunurg, Fort Wayne and Chicago. Moat of his floral em- blems are a keystone, the trade mark of the road, 15 by 20 fast, and a flag 10 by In feet in pUuta of different colors. The plants used are all grown in the company's conser- vatory. FALL~FU.J. It't funny, but a speaking countenance it most expressive when the mouth is shut. He "Oh, I'm not to big a fool as you think." .She "Of course not; that were impossible." "Is young Jimk.ns improving in hit vio- lin work ?" "I dunno. Either he'* im- provin' or we're getlin' need to it." He "Charlotte, I love you : can you not return my affection?" She "I'm afraid I'll have to, a* I have no use for it." He "I hear Miss Oldgirl is going to marry Tommy Small" She "Is that so ? I wonder if be know* it?" Student "Professor, which is the logi cal way of reaching a conclusion ?" Pro fessor " Take a train of thought, my boy." "Oh, yes ; when I wa* in England 1 was enthusiastically received in courl circlet." She (snippy) " What wa* ihe charge againsi you ?" Blame not the man who from the path Of rectitude doth rove; It may perchance be thai he halb Been pulling ap i stove. "Robbie," said the visitor kindly, "have you any little brothers and sisters?" "No," replied Robbie solemnly, " I'mall the chil- dren we've got." "What'a the difference between concei and self-esteem, anyhow." "A great deal Conceit ia the self-eeteem belonging to somebody else." The wife (during a spat) "The villain in ! and in itm production the play it always a man." fhe husband 21,731,311 bushels w< "Yes, and it is alwayt a woman who being an average pro< makes him one. ' 'No," *he lobbed, "I do not wih to marry him." "Then why not break the engagement ?" asked her mother. "If f-ti do, he'll want back hi* diamond ring." "What have you got to say for ycurself ?'* "Jest dis, sun ; I wants a liar to defend me;" "You mean a lawyer ?" Yes, sub ; I knowed I most had It !" Thermometers she putt away, Their stories ne'er believes, She will no*, don a winter wrap To cruth down her big sleeves. Carleton "How did you enjoy yourself at .Mrs. Hamilton'* last night?" Montauk "First-rale ; there wasn't a song or recita- tion sprung on us during the entire even- ing." It must lie strange for the Spaniards to leel that they are ruled over by a mere in- fant," "Why?" "It 1 * so uncommon.'' THE GARDEN OF AMERICA. \o Other s'.iril.iii of \urih Inn-rim Thai 1,, ly Excels Ontario la Veaeral Asj- rtealttjMi A wrilar in The Springfield Republican had something recently to say with refer- ence to farming in Ontario. The paragraph caught the eye of Mr. C. C. James, Depu'y Minuter of Agriculture, and, in reply to it, he contributes a two-column statement of the agricultural position of Ontario, chal- lenging the conclusions of the writer m question. Mr. James defines the size and geographical position of the Province, and while stating th<) former in its full extent, from Jamet Bay to Pelee Island, and from the delta of the utuwa River lo the Lake of the Woods, a territory lamer in extent than the combined area* of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Pennsyl- vania and Ohio, he i* careful not to mislead by imparting the notion thai it is ali alike tilted for settlement. Eighty per cent, of it is still Crown property, although there are SEVERAL MILLION'S OF Ai'RIS of the finest agricultural Und as yet unoc- cupied. With the exception of a ahort portage between Lake Kipissing and Trout Lake on the north, the old settled portion of the Province is practically an island washed by tbe waters of two larqe rivers and three great lakes. Iu more southerly point is in a lower latitude than either Itoston, or Chicago, while almost a'l of the 2,1 14..TJ1 iiihaDitanta of Ontario are lo ihe south of a line drawn from the Son to Portland, Maine. Within this area are J.>,000,OOU acres of occupied farm lands. Mr. James points out something that i* too often forgotten, namely, that Ontario is still tbe greatest wheat-growing Province of the Dominion most pro uric. In 189:1 'ere grown in Ontario, being au average production of 17.10 bush- els per acre, wnile in Manitoba, the next largest wheat-growing Province, the pro- duction was l.*>,ol~>.!l'J-'<, or an average cf l.'i.'Hi per acre. The average yield of wheat barley and oats for the twelve years 1 <*'_' ll.'i wa* higher than the average for uny State in tbe Union. In ft nits, too, the Province takes a prominent place. Peaches of the finest quality are grown in the southern counties: grapes ^row everywhere, thoir value retail during the season just closing being about two cents a pound. Ontario apples are unexcelled. At the World's hair the Province exhibited fourteen varieties of raspberries, seven of blackberries, OS of atrawberriea, :> of cherries, IU of currants, 34 of goose >>erries, 44 of peaches, SS of pears,*:.' of plums, IOS of grapes, 1 Hi of apples, besides many other trulls, including even tigs thrown out of doors. In the compe- tition Ontario secured ten Provincial "Humph '. It's plain you nevjr had au in- ' aw rd . fourteen districts awards and tif- f ant '' , teen individual awards y.> in all "Mrs. Snippey is almost frantic about her little Imy having measles." "Is he dan- gerous?" "No, but tout of her near neigh- Iwrs have new bonnets, and she can't go to church." Seedy Samson "You see, your honor, I was intoxicated with joy over " His honor "The intoxication may have been of joy, bul the udor is the odor of alcohol. Thirty days." "No, he doesn't love me," she sighed, a* swim . \\ he listened lo the receding fooicieps of numbers. ^ A KKSI I.T I NKgl AI.I.KD by any single Slate or foreign country. In honey Onta.no secured seventeen awards, agaiust JS for the entire L'niu-d Slate*. The remarkable succe*dH of the Provinceun the dairy department constitute a familiar slory. In the production of stock there is no other portion of equal size in North America where are to be found so many ' ditfereut breeds of hones, cattle, sheep and have henvy horses iu large In hackneys, Americo- Arabs the youth who had juit parted from her. and thoroughbreds the Ontario horses took No, he doesn't love me. He aaid good- practically everything at Cnicago, Here night only four times before going." are to be found .shorthorns, (Ulloways, Widow "Well, Mr. Brief, have you Polled Angus, Herefords,Devous, Jerseys, read the will ?" Brief "Yes, but I can't, i Guernseys, Holstems and Ayrshire*, make anything out of i;." Heirs "Latu* In poultry our achievement* at Chicago have it patented. A will thai a lawyer I w re also noteworthy, 497 awards being can'l make anything out of is a blessing." taken by Ontario agaiust U9N by the whole Mrs. Klatter-"Geor ? e, dear, the cook Uolt * 1 Sl * te - Summing up Mr. Jamet is going to-morrow." George "Why. y ; -"A country that can np.u the peach what is the matter with her? I thought "J" 1 lhe r P e - produce cheese that, in its the liked the place." Mrt. K. "That ia i C ' M *' l ' r '"K "> highest price in Kurope, the trouble. She says she U too contented ' *> vel P cattle and sheep umur passed on with us." i the continent, must surely have line agri- "I tell you, women are coming to the . cullur ' possibilities. It can be nid with- front, said the woman's right) man. . out , n "*tiou that in general agriculture, including gram growing, trail raising, dairying and *lock production there is no other portion oi Mori b Americ* thai to-day excels Ontario." ' 1 hat's a fact," atid the bald-headed man; " there was one in front of me at the the- ater last night, and I never saw the stage once." Father He says that he loves you, but can he support you in the style that you have been accustomed to ?" Daughter " Kven better, father dear, if you will just furnish the money ; that is all that discour- ages him." r lusher--" Did Mis* daygirl make any remark when you handed her my boquet ?" The messenger" Yep ; the said ' Oh, the dear, dear flowers.' " Klusher " Humph! That florist must have sent the bill along with the boquet." Lucy (single) Do you think it is wicked to smoke, dear?" Fanny (married) "No dear, I'm sureit isn't." Lucy " Why are vou so sure ?" Fanny " Because my hus- band doesn't imoke ; and if it was wicked I'm aure he would do it." Aunt Maria " I really think the would make you a good wife, John. I admit she Is something of a scold, but then she is such a good housekeeper ! ao neat, you know." Harry " But then one would soon tire of neat's tocgue. " Ghost In the Barber Shop. Customer " I w.sh you wouldn't al- ways tell such (rightful stories: It ma ;es one's hair stand en end. " Barber " Kxict'y! That's the dei.fo: then I can c u your bair better." Il'EMS OF INTEREST. The horse, of all animals, is the quickest to succumb to cold. In the last five years the population of Franc* has decreased. Ninety per cent, of the business of th* United States is done with checks. The Hudson River i* salty as far as Poughkeepsie, seventy-five miles from ita mouth. A thief in Topeka broke into the First Baptist church, and stole the baptismal boots. People who wore shoe* iu Italy during the fourteenth century had to pay a tax for the privilege. Bicycle* arc taxod in France. Last year the government derived a revenue of 950,000 francs from the tax on 132 27(j wheels. Railway accident* are so rare in Holland that p average of only one death a year result* from them, throughout the entire country. Jacob RulHy, aged seventy, of Wilket Barre, stole a loaf of bread. Mayor Nichols sentenced him to imprisonment until he ate the loaf. In four hour* Jacob ate hi* way to freedom. J. W. (i rimes, of Newport, Ky., al- though he weighs 444 pounds, is a lively bicyclist. When mounted, he look* like a giant on wheels. He has just ordered a bicycle that will weigh thirty-five pounds. In ancient 'lines, in Greece, it was cus- tomary to place a coin under the tongue of a dea-1 person. This waa to pay hi* fare to Charon, whose dutv then was to ferry the deceased over the river Acheron, in the infernal region*. A serum taken from hcrses ha* been tested iu the Paris hospitals as a remedy lor diphtheria, by inoculation. Seven -\ rive per cent, of the children inocuUte'.l recovered ; whil* of those not inoculated cnly forty percent, survived.