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puzzled as to what had become of his and his friends' dinner*! 

 He appeared to give up his search, and gave one long ann 

 piercing scream, Avhich quite startled the observer: and in ae 

 instant the other rats set upon the leader and killed him. Th 

 poor thing seemed aware of what was awaiting him. He had 

 apparently told them a he, had led them out on a false errand, 

 and for this it was death by Rat Law, —Western Morning News . 



An experiment of much interesfc is now being made by 

 the maritime province of Canada in the introduction of live 

 lobsters to the English market. The steamer Clifto]), from 

 Miramichi to England, recently took out a tank containing 

 500 Uve lobsters, and if they reached England in good con- 

 dition a large bnisness is expected. There is already consider- 

 able trade ^vith Great Britain in preserved lobsters. Although 

 the fishery was almost unknown in Canada ton years ago, it is 

 now third in point of importance. It is carried on in over 600 

 factories, which send annually to British, United States, and 

 other markets between 16,000,000 and 17,000,080 cans, represent- 

 ing a value of between two and-a half and three iriilhbn dollars. 



A Russian paper gives an account of the circumstances 

 which have led to a most unique lawsuit. A rich lady at her 

 death placed her pet dog Gypsy in the hands of a friend, with 

 the request to provide for ner with the annual interest on 

 1,000 rubles, set aside for that pui-pose in her testament. The 

 ' other day Gypsy died, and the lady who had charge of her 

 took it for gi-anted that the money was now her own. An- 

 other lady, however, appeared on the scene, who owned a son 

 of Gypsy, and who claimed that her dog was heir to the 

 incorne of the 1,000 rubles, stuce nothing was said in the testa- 

 ment regarding the disposal of this money after the death of 

 Gypsy. The resxilt of the trial will be awaited with interest. 



An Opportunity to Study Sharks. — The Ceylon Observer 

 of the ISth of June gives the following narrative of the only 

 survivor of the steamer Speke Hall, which recently foundered: 

 "When I came to the surface after being washed off the bridge, 

 I and Quatermaster Usher were clinging to the same hfe- 

 buoy, and I saw the funnel of the Speke Hall just going under 

 water. Boats and evei-y thing had been smashed to pieces 

 and washed away; and, indeed, if the boats had been available, 

 they would not 'have lived in such water. Catching a spar, 

 I abandoned the hfe-buoy to Usher. It was dark at the time, 

 a.ud I could not see him, and I saw nothing more of him or 

 any one else. At daylight 1 managed to secure another spar. 

 I lashed the two spars together with my belt, crosswise, so 

 that I was able to sit on the centre. I could not have held on 

 much longer to the single spar, because every now and then 

 the spar would fall above me, and my head would go under 

 water. When daylight set in the sea and the wind had gone 

 down, it came on to rain. I had a sou'wester on, luckily, and 

 I held it up till I caught about a cupful of water. I believe 

 that saved my life; for I had swallowed a good deal of salt 

 water, and my mouth was parched. I saw nothing that day 

 except pieces of wreck floating about. On the morning of the 

 second day I saw the smoke of a steamer a long distance off. 

 She passed on without seeing me. I saw one or two otliei-s 

 during the day, but they were too far olf. About the middle 

 of the second day a shark came rushing along at a great speed. 

 It was not a veiy large one— about nine feet long. I was sit- 

 ting on the cross-piece with my feet underneath. The shark 

 rushed over one piece of wood, and I fancy he got the other 

 arm of the raft in his teeth, because he stopped suddenly. I 

 had a piece of stick about three feet long which I picked up, 

 thinlring it might be useful for hoisting my cap on as a signal. 

 I poked him with this stick and he cleared oflf at once, and I 

 never saw anything more of him. That night a steamer passed 

 (}uite close to me. I could see all her lights, but, the night be- 

 ing dark, she did not observe me. I hailed her, but she was too 

 far off to hear me. I dozed off once or twice, but whenever I 

 dozed, I fell into the water. I didn't feel much inconvenience 

 from the sun. My hat saved me. On the morning of the 

 third day I saw a steamer and a saU. I took my coat off and 

 hoisted it on a stick, and tx-ied to attract her attention. She 



altered her course, and came staight toward me. and I fan- 

 cied she had seen me ; but presently she altered her course, 

 and steered away from me. I had almost given up hope then. 

 Later in the day another and much larger shark visited me, 

 but did not come within circle of the raft. He was a tre- 

 mendous fellow, twenty feet long at least, and I gave myself 

 up for lost when I saw him. Nothing more occm'red till the 

 evening. The sun began to get low, and I could not see any- 

 thing all around the horizon, and I made up my mind for an- 

 other night. I must have gone off into a longer doze than 

 usual, for I fell off the raft on my face, and when I got up 

 again the French steamer Periho seemed close on me, as if it 

 had sprang out of the water. I had nothing to signal with but 

 my hat. I held it up as high as I could, and one of the soldiers 

 on board saw me. A boat was lowered and an officer and 

 fom* men came over to me, and took me on boai-d, where they 

 treated me very kindly." 



Lieutenant Allen's Journey on Alaskan Rivers.— 

 Chicago, October 1^. — General Nelson A. Miles, who is in the 

 city, received a telegram yesterday from Lieutenant Henry T. 

 Alien, of the Second Cavalry, stating that he had arrived 

 safely at San Francisco after his Alaska explorations, having 

 completed a journey thi-ough the regions of the far north which 

 in the opinion of General Miles excelled all explorations on the 

 American continent since Lewis and Clarke, and the world's 

 record since Livingston. Lieutenant Allen loft Sitka last 

 February and journeyed to tUe mouth of the Copper River, 

 which he followed until he reached the great Alaskan range of 

 mountains. These he crossed on snow-shoes to the head of the 

 Tennah River — in itself a marvelous accomplishment. For 700 

 or 800 miles he followed the Tennah until it emptied into the 

 Takon, the great river of the North, and that to its mouth, a 

 distance of 400 or .-)00 miles more. Upon the completion of his 

 great jouiniey, Lieutenant Allen repaired to Fort Michel, on 

 the Behrings Strait and returned on the steamer Corwin. 

 The exploration of the Tennah and Takon Rivers has been the 

 iimbition of explorers since long before Alaska came into the 

 possession of tlie United States, but the Russians failed each 

 time it was attempted. Since then, several explorations by 

 American oflScei-s have ended in failure, until among the ai-my 

 officers of the Pacific Coast the feat came to be considered 

 well nigh impossible. Lieutenant Allen's companions were a 

 sergeant and an officer of the Signal Corps, together with the 

 Indians whom he pei'suadcd to join him. 



Jacob Beller of Hamtramek, away back wherein the mem- 

 orj of man ranneth not to the contrary, became the possessor 

 of the original bear which prowled over the present site of 

 Detroit when forest trees grew in the streets and Indian canoes 

 wei'e the only aquatic vehicles which distm-bed the waters of 

 the river. The animal, at the time it came into Mr. Beller's 

 possession, had reached the pi-ime of life but has neveitheless 

 furnished lessons in natural history to every generation of De- 

 troit small boys. As time passed on, the bear began to feel 

 the irritability of age and within the past year has manifested 

 so much petulance that a duly appointed committee finally 

 examined it and agreed in the verdict that the animal was no 

 longer in its right mind by reason of its weight of years. Mr. 

 Beller was advised to kill his venerable pet as a precautionary 

 measure against it killing some one else. An old Rocky- 

 Mountain hvmter— Mr. Charles L. Schmitt— was employed to 

 do the slaughtering. He recognized, with the prescience bom 

 of long experience, the difficulties he would have to encounter. 

 Age had hardened the skin and flesh of the bear until they 

 were as impregnable to ordinary weapons as though hewn 

 out of solid boiler iron. Mr. Schmitt, however, owns an 

 ancient blunderbuss he claims to have found in the fastnesses 

 of the Rockies, clutched in the skeleton hands of w^hat was 

 e^ndently the last of some pre-historic race of giants. This 

 weapon he charged with dynamite, gunpowder and one dozen 

 bullets nearly the size of grape shot. On Friday afternoon he 

 entered the inclosure which imprisoned the old bruin, placed 

 the muzzle of the weapon close to the bear's eye and pulled 

 the trigger. The experiment was in evei-y sense a great suc- 



cess. When the din and smoke of the explosion cleared away 

 and the little crowd of spectators recovered consciousness, the 

 old bear was seen stretched out before them. The balls, a post 

 mortem showed, penetrated far enough into the skull to cause 

 death. The carcass was immediately purchased by Mr. F. X. 

 Kolb of Michigan Grand avenue, who, as s oon as he can get 

 the machinery necessary to cut it into steaks and roaste in 

 working order, will serve it out to the patx-ons of his establish- 

 ment. — Detroit Times. 



"£is sweet to sit on the vei'dant bank, 



5<etjVBen two mossy boulders, 

 AjJd to feel a bite at the end of your line, 



Ai)d another between the shoulders.— l^o? 



Tuesdav last two Indiana mine spoi-ts, Joe and Pete, boiTowed 

 a gun from a friend and started off in search of a deer. They 

 hadn't gone fhr before one was sighted. A cai-tridge was pro- 

 duced which they tiied to foi-ce into the muzzle of the gun, 

 but the dodgasted thing wouldn't go down. Joe, who is a 

 Coruishmau and had seen the militia in the old country tear- 

 ing off the end of the old-fashioned paper cariridge with their 

 teeth, tried the method on the one he held in his hand. He 

 chewed, and chewed, but to no purpose, and in the struggle 

 finally broke one of ' his teeth off short. Then Pete, who is 

 from Canada and don't know any more about a gun than a 

 horse knows about his grandmothei-, tried his hand at it. He 



got a club and tried to di-ive it in, but after pounding until he 

 ad battered the cartridge out of all shape gave the job up in 

 disgust. In the meantime the deer had got tired of waitmg 

 and left. The two finally concluded that the fellow who 

 gave them the cartridges made a mistake, they were too big 

 for the gun. So they returned to the location to get cartndges 

 that would fit. The trees out that way are said to be laugh- 

 ing yet— the gxm was a breechloadei-. —iVonoai/ Current. 



An Ajcerican Makes Trouble.— Glasgow, Scotland,— While 

 England is having its unsavory social scandals, and Ireland 

 its perennial land agitation, Scotland i« being wrought up by 

 a matter of equal importance and magnitude. An American 

 is the disturbing element, and if all reports are tx'ue the average 

 Irish landlord could not be more aggressive. This gentleman is 

 lessee of one of the largest deer forests in Scotland. It is 

 situated at Ktntail, Ross-shire, and comprises about 220,000 

 aci-es, the rental of which is about $100,000 a year. The man 

 aiTOgates to himself the privilege evicting the tenants from the 

 few farms in the huge tract, so that it may all be devoted to 

 the sport for which he pays so well. Naturally this action is 

 provocative of intense indignation. The quantity of land 

 converted into deer forests since 1860 is abont two million 

 acres. The oi-dinary farm rental of the moor is one shil- 

 ling per acre, while if cleared for deer it is nearly or quite 

 twice that sum. To show the difference an illustration may 

 be used. The Duke of Suthei land is the largest landed pro- 

 prietor in the highlands, owning and renting 1,326.453 acres. 

 The income yielded him by these estates is about §32.5,000, or 

 one shilling per acre over all. The American tenant already 

 alluded to pay $100,000 for 220,000 acres. Notice the difference, 

 and do not wonder that the people strongly object to the 

 present system of converting the land into forests for pre- 

 servation "of deer and game. It was alleged that the ob- 

 noxious Brooks has deprived people of their lands to such an 

 extent that they found it to their interest to leave, until even 

 the lands previously cleared for large sheep farms are now 

 run upon by deer. The commission, after hearing the com- 

 plaints in full have ari-ived at the decision that from the forests 

 gain lias accrued to the proprietors and their dependents, and 

 no injury has resulted to farming and to farmers, but that 

 there is a hmit beyond which the extension of the forest 

 system should not be permitted to go. They recommend that 

 further appropi-iation of land to such purposes be prohibited 

 below a prescribed contour line of elevation. The result is 

 that the reforxners are not satisfied, and evex-ywhere is heard 

 the pecuhar howl for disafforestment. Meanwhile the ' 'ould 

 Yank at Kintail" is determined on having the eviction go on. 

 — Hartford Times. 



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