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then, should they he "tipped?" — 

 New York Letter in Boston Herald. 



Not Pretty, but Valuable. 



In disciissi7ag the risks which pro- 

 fessional ball players run and the 

 prevalence of decrepit and crippled 

 fingers in the profession, the base- 

 ball editor of the JSIew York Herald 

 recalls the case of Silver Flint, once 

 a faiuous catcher, whose hands were 

 mutilated and pounded out of shape. 

 Back in the eighties Flint was in a 

 railroad wreck in Illinois. When 

 they dug him out he was badly 

 skinned and somewhat stunned. 

 Several siirgeons who were at the 

 scene of the accident began a hasty 

 examination of the half conscious 

 baseball catcher to discover what in- 

 juries he had received. They found 

 none until they raised his right 

 hand. It was bloody (from a cut in 

 the wrist), and of covirse in its nat- 

 ural unshapeliness. "Good heav- 

 tns !" exclaimed one of the surgeons, 

 "the poor fellow hasn't a whole bone 

 in his hand. It will have to be am- 

 putated. " Silver was regaining con- 

 sciousness and heard the doctor's 

 decision. Jerking the member from 

 the would be amputator's grasp, he 

 yelled : ' ' Cut it oil', eh ? Well, I guess 

 rv^t ! It's a bit out of gear, but there's 

 not another in the League that can 

 gtop a wild pitch so well. Excuse 

 rne; I'll keeiD it. I've use for it in 

 ajy business." 



Mrs. Bill Cook's Gang. 



Our correspondent at Guthrie 

 writes us as follows under date of 

 nineteen hundred and something: 



"The west bound express, due at 

 13:15 this afternoon, was held up by 

 female bandits about ten miles east 

 of this city. Several kodak views 

 of a bonnet that was just too lovely 

 for anything were taken, but the 

 male passengers who had seats were 

 courteously allowed to keep them. 

 Great excitement prevails." — De- 

 troit Tribune. 



The Terrible Buddhistic Hell. 



The place of torment to which all 

 ■wicked Buddhists are to be assigned 

 on the day of final reckoning is, pro- 

 viding such a thing be possible, a 

 more terrible place of punishment 

 than the Christian hell is supposed 

 to be. This Buddhistic hell is a sort 

 of apartment house, divided into 

 eight "easy stages." In the first 

 the poor victim is compelled to 

 walk for untold ages in his bare feet 

 over hills thickly set with redhot 

 needles, points upward. In the sec- 

 ond stage the skin is all carefully 

 filed or rasped from the body and ir- 

 ritating mixtures applied. In the 

 third stage the nails, hair and eyes 

 are jjlucked out and the denuded 

 body sawed and planed into all sorts 

 of fantastic shapes. The fourth 

 stage is that of "sorrowful lamenta- 

 tions." In the fifth the left side of 

 the body and the denuded head are 

 carefully roasted, Yema, the Bud- 

 dhistic satan, superintending the 

 work. In the sixth stage the arms 

 are torn from the body and throwm 

 into an immense vat among the eyes, 

 nails and hair previously removed. 

 Then, in i)lain hearing of the sore 

 footed, blind, maimed, roasted and 

 bleeding victim, the whole horrid 

 mass is pounded into a jelly. In the 

 seventh stage the other side of the 

 victim and his feet are roasted 

 brown, and then comes the eighth 

 and last stage, in which the candi- 

 date is thrown into the bottomless 

 pit of perdition. — St. Louis Eepublic. 



Wise men will apply their reme- 

 dies to vices, not to names; to the 

 causes of evil which are permanent, 

 not the occasional organs by which 

 they act and the transitory modes 

 in which they appear. — Burke. 



Bombast once signified the cotton 

 that waa employed to stuff garments, 

 particularly the enormous trunk 

 hose worn in the fourteenth and fif- 

 teenth centuries. 



