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AN INDIAN FAKIR’S TRICK.

An offlccr of the British arm] rarvcd In India with the SeTenl

■ he Fourteenth Hussara waa •pcndlsK

(riemls were talking with him India and hU experience* there, and the conversation turned to Indian faklrr and their wonderful performances. "These fellows do perform some extraordinary tricks.” said the British

ly. who into a itb and danced

Some

j about

aCcer. “but extraordinary as they are. the tricks are not so fearfully wonder-, fu! as some of the stories of them which are brought away from India by tha tourists who learn all about India and its people in the course of a few ^Wtcks' sojourn in some of the coast

towns.

"As a matter of fact, the greatest of the .fakirs are never seen In the towns and cities. Their religion and superctitlon will not permit them to Wander from their native haunts, and only these who hare traveled or lived in th? wildest and most remote parts of In iia have witnessed the performances of the really great tricks .gf the fakirs. "You must remember at tho ousel that the real thing, to use an Americanism. In the way of a Hindoo taklr la o habits, solitude. and he works upon the superstitions of

i heav-

en knows what. “Of course, at every opportunity, he txtorts whatever-be may from his fellows, but that Is not much. And. shunning as he does the cities. It is only for a verturesome foreign hunter that he may now and then perform and get any considerable backrhccsh.

his.native state he is the filthiest human being I ever clapped my eyes on. and by long habit be has fallen into

"Report travels much more rapidly than one would suppose in the mount&ifiF of IMUf and once a party of for-

in the in ttrlking the spoor and he keeps to It until he

is up with the strangers. At such times the fakir usually travels with a small boy and a dirty i a pr of nuts, shells, trick paraphernalia and

bag filled with a promiscuous Jumble of nuts, sh what not "The first time I ever met a no-dis-count fakir was In a wild, unfrequented part of India, where two other offi-

trlp. We had spent the day boating for a tlgei. which got away, and had

• ui m ilfci. . fcui.

returned to camp tired and out of sorts. Taking an early dinner, for we were horribly' hungry, we sat' down

had disappeared from view.

"He had us all going by this time, and wo Just sat there gaping up Into the air like a lot of precious Idiots. There was a second's absolute slltnce. and then an agonizing yell, so piercing that It sunk into one's very bones. Another second, which seemed like an ag.\ and then we saw a_ dtuk object come hurtling down from the sky. Down and down it came until It landed

the cord lying thtre, severed from the body at about the middle of the ntek. A closer examination showed that the face wore a horrible expression, while the scarlet blood poured from the divided arteries ^nd the dark venous blood from the veins. The twitching of the newly cut muscles and the windpipe, and the cleanly severed Joints of two of the cervical. vertebrae were quite plain to the army surgeon and to the rest of us. all of'whom knew a little of anatomy from the field hos-

pitals.

"We hadn't hy any means got over the ahWery feeling we experienced at seeing the head of it; late urchin, when down came an arm. cut off through the shoulder Joint and giving ail the anatomical relations In that pert quite plainly. A moment later the Other arm dropped at our feet and an examination showed that it had been cut off in exactly the same way. The doctor said the old rascal carved . cleverly enough to hare been a surgeon ‘ at the Royal college.

were norriijiy Buugry, we mi uuwh i oundfie'tfch tent to ^tcokb our chcrOoti1 "Suddenly, Just before sundown, we noticed sn uncanny looking person

' and mubllng something which none of us could understand. Wc knew, of course, that our visitor was one of the mountain fakirs, and we calmly waited for him to proceed to bustnoes. “As he put down his bag with great deliberation, the boy accompanying him curled himself oh the ground sad seemed to be paying attention to nothing la particular. After a little the old codger produced,, seemingly from nowhere, s hall of ordinary cotton string, which had once been white, such string as shopkeepers ordinarily

e to tie up light parcels with.

s gray, an

hide was as Mack as Erebus. He wore

"The man's hair was g

and his

a dirty turban and loin cloth, which two articles jajistituted . hit apparel. The boy's outfit was no less elaborate. “After ttwslng the ball of string about for a while—K was about the aixe of a billiard ball—hVthrew it high Into the air, retaining the free end of the string m bis hand. Up and up and op went the hall, growing smaller afcd smaller the higher it traveled, until It disappeared frotn sight altogether. To all appearances it bad sailed up un- . U1 it rtachfd the nearest stratum bf clouds and disappeared behind It It was the mlghties^. hall throwing we bad ever seen and was quits sufficient to attract our attention to anything that the old boy might subsequently do—and that was just wbst he wanted. "As soon as the ball bad disappeared, the fakir let go the tree end of the string and there^we had a line of cotton twine extending from about five feet from the ground up to the Lord knew where. When the old man found that the ball remained np In the air. refusing absolutely to cpmc down, no matter how’ vlldly he gesticulated or bow loudly be yelled at it,

enUy 1 & and

idly h _

be was apparently much annoyed. "He tugged and tugged at the cord, but be couldn't pull the ball out of space, and as an evident last resort, i be called the boy. told him to climb the ^ cord and bring the ball down. Then we saw the spectacle of a boy 12 or

up a lit size of n

14 years old, c * i line of cotton twine about the

if a large pin’.

Up and up, higher and higher, the urchin west, climbing aa a sailor climbs a’ rtpe, .until he. too, bad disappeared behind the clouds which hid the ball. last we saw him, b*. looked to be Just about as big as the bail dld,wben It disapprarrd. "As soon as the urchin disappeared there war more trouble tor the fakir. The bOy appeared Tory well satisfied with the rootling place be had foenfi and the old man wu no more successful In getting him back to earth than be ted been with the tall of twine. ..Then we did have a temple of eplen-

perfect fury. He yelled and and geetlcutsted and gave the

best exhibition of a human demon that 1 ever saw. By way of heightening the effect and Increasing our Interest m the show, he dropped Into broken but intelligible English, the substance of

which was:

" Am I to be made an idiot of by a sell of string and a fool by a chokers (small boy)? Allah forbid! I will them both teach that they may not trifle with one so old and so wise.' “Then rushing to'the filthy old bag that had been lying all this time on the ground, he thrust an arm Into it and drew forth the most murderous looking knife I over saw. It had a curved blade about nine Inches long, three Inches across at the hilt end tapering to a fine point Flaring the knife between his teeth and grasping the twine In both hands the old boy, showing marvellous agility for one of' hie apparent age. went up the cord as the boy had. bfcd over hand.'and In 1cm lira? than It takes to tell It he, too,

trunks, whereas be didn't do anything of the kind." “Maybe Englishmen in India can become thus mentally twisted," said the first Inquirer, "but l‘m blamed If I believe anybody elec can. Either you saw a miracle performed or the whole blessed lot of you were Jagged."—Ntw

"We were about ready for anything ter that, and so were hot particular!' surprised when c leg. severed at

after that, and so were fl

' hip Joint and exposing the head of femnr. the muscles twitching Just os you may have seen them twitch In a

tring. ; round ft

the end of It be was literally covered with gcre from head to foot. The knife, still held between his teeth, was fairly dripping with blood. His eyes appeared wilder than ever, his teatm** drawn, and he paced .back and forth for a few seconds like a chained tiger. ‘Then he collected the bead. limbs and trunk and tossed them Into the old bag. While watching this action we lost sight of the string and the knife and never saw them again. Slinging the bag over bis shoulder, be walked sway. We knew this was only s bluff, because he hadn't yet received any backsheesh and we knew he never

would depart without that.

"He had only moved off a few paces when wc saw that something was moving inside the bag. The old man stopped, pnt on> surprised expression, but the bag down cm the ground, and In a moment out crawled the boy as sound In wind sad limb aa he had ever

man, smiling _____

toward ns for his money. This he got In a very liberal amount, and off he went, leaving us sunding-there, mys-

Ufird. confused, flabbergasted. “We looked about for traces of the

recently toommlttcd tragedy, but where the*gfound had been red with

blood a moment before not a trace of It was left There was not the slightest bit of doubt that the hoy had been carved up and there was not the slightest doubt that be bad as miraculously

tave been

couldn't fool the doctor. He had been

igh to _

different members qt the body as they

cold blooded enough to pick up the

had come tumbling down from the sky, had examined them and was perfectly positive that the dismemberment bad taken place and had been the work of XT ances that ! ever saw of the real, genuine Hindoo fakirs of the Indian

wilds."

"But how do you account for It all?" aake'd one of the British army officers'

friends.

erepl: or b;

« i __ rally had been enacted “ “But how about the army doctor, who handled the dismembered parts?" .asked some one else. "Oh. he was befuddled Just like the re*t of us. He thought he handled stray arms and legs and heads and

A MODERN CUSTOM. EarapMB Dlscassloa of nsgar-gUM

The use of finger glasses after din-

ner is quite a modern Innovation In Germany. Introduced from England. Until abont 10 years ago glasses were Indeed brought round at dessert at the very end of the meal, bnt this was for the purpose of rinsing the mouth, and a very comical sight ^lt was Indeed to see gentleanen and la* dies in plain dress, or en grande tonne, washing their mouths at a sumptuously furnished tabic—or for the matter of that, in any private or public assembly room—Instead of retiring to some private chamber for this purpose. In Bavaria it often hsppens that persons of talent, but without much knowledge of the manners of

ferred to been made there, lowing little anecdote, however, contains the details of s practical Joke played, by a number of artists on a colleague still living who had for the first time received sn Invitation to dine with the prince regent at the Scbloss at Munich. Several masters of the brush had received similar Invitations, and as the painter In question was somewhat elated and excited by the honor conferred upon him. and at the same '.imt singularly nervous and inquiring as to the way he would be expected to behave at the royaf table, bis confreres put their heads together and determined to play a practical-Joke upon him. Ho was accordingly told: "The first time anybody is invited to dine at court a special drink Is handed rcund In glass bowls, and the newly invited guest Is expected, according to strict etiquette, to take one of these bowls In his hand and to rise and exT drink to the health of his

sn to qu

contents of the bowl at a draught.

highness,' and then to quaff the nta of the bowl at a draught, make a profound bow toward the prince regent ' and so resume bis seat." The gonilepian In question acted to the letter according to the Instruction given Mm.' To the manners of the court must be attributed the suppreeson of all suspicion of a giggle, and It Is stated that the royal host did not appear in the least disconcerted. hut afterward over the beer" the merriment was unrestricted.

—London Telegram.

the horse files behaving way opens conversation: How do you do, sir? Nice wfcather we're hav— Help: murder! watch! but saltlcus hza him all right."—Harvey Suther-

*«nd in Alnslee's.

GUAINT AND CURIOUS.

e lights and

The secretary bird at the London zoo has been cinematograpbed while In the act of seizing, killing and carrying off a rat. A hotel landlord in St. Lonls, Mo., has establisheo curfew regulations In his house. Promptly at 10 o'clock at night the curfew rings, and are expected to t rurn ont the go to bed.

A little church In Pennsylvania was

walls, dld-tbe plastering, painting, workrefc.. and paid out of his own pocket all tbs money for materials—

abont 11000. .

There is living in Paris today a man blind from his'birth, who claims to be able to sea through his nose. The

severest tests have been applied. The the result that the most skeptical are convinced that the man's eyes are ab-

solutely sightless and that be can distinguish objects by some means Inexplicable on any other hypothesis than the one claimed. There are recorded Instances of a similarly unaocountabla

gif* of sight.

The perfunctory manner in which witnesses are sworn in EngUpb courts was Illustrated’ recently In a London court after soma 20 witnesses had given their evidence. It was then discovered that all had solemnly sworn on and had kissed a guide to the law of landlord and tenant The mistake came to light only when a court officer saw the supposed Bible was much more clean than usual, and. as a consequence, looked more closely at the

service is reported HHm England. William Barrow, the timekeeper at OlUow's cabinet works, has been In the employ of the firm for M years. Although over40 years of Age., he Is still active, feeing Invariably the first on the premises every morning and the last to leaVe every night His father held the keys before him. baring Joined the house of GIDow'a in 1801, so that the present year crowns “a eentniy of service" by father and soil

te species of Reptile, a lizard, and until 15 or 20 years ago tberes were no amphibians. At that time-pome of the huge Oclana toads wire imported from Demarara by the owner cf a Bermudan garden, who thought these animals would clear his plants of insects. The toads thrived on the insects and spread over the Islands, and now Uysy are regarded with-dis-favor because they get Into the cisterns which hold the rain water that is unversally .used for drinking purposes In Bermuda.

PROFOUND CRAFT Of SPIDERS,

They I in list* Slsinea* of Stowers le Caleb

Mullerfllee.

"Then there are the spiders that do sidesteps. The]; 'must reason, or some ancestor must have reasoned for tbtm thus, ‘All of our enemies figure that we will run forward. Well, I’ll Just fool 'em. I'll take a hop to one side.’ Also when the nephlla plumipes. a big black and yellow ptrson that hangs in her web In plain sight, sees sn evildisposed bird making for her, wbst does she do? Bbe vanishes. Run? Never. She vanishes, I tell you. Buys where she .Is, bnt goes out of sight She shakes her web so violently that Instead of appearing to be a big, fat -Juicy spider there Is only a haze where •be was. Pholcus, the long legged cellar spider that splps an Irregular web In similar circumstances swings lu

body In a circle so ust that It cannot bo seen. Orb weavers scatter rubbish in tbeir webs till they look like old things that have been up two or three months, and then they get In line with the chips and blU of bark

terns, scales on trees, lichens and the Ike, is wonderful. Some spiders bare found It a paying proposition to look like the stamens and pistils of bright colored flowers. There they stand by

elegs

stuck up stiff Into the air. A butter-

thc hour with their yello

fly comes along and anghts to suck honey. He never gets away alive. The resemblance Is so close that botanists are deceived. One kind of a spider spins a little round patch of white silk on a leaf. It sits Jn the centre. The outer edge of Its body Is a light grayish, green merging Into white. In the centre of lu body Is a dark spot. An entomologist was once quite curious to know what could attract butterflies to birds' droppings. He tried to puH one away from It. He found

me i

The reason why It didn't fly away was that tub

spider had hold of it, and was snek-

spider

look like withered flowers lying on

Ing its blood. Some spiders not only

the ground, but have’ developed a perfume like Jasmine. Some look like snail shells, and one smart saltlcus disports herself on sonny walls and fences after this fashion: She walks hurriedly, stops abruptly, rapidly amoves her Jaws as If she were

Enropa Likas American Prodncta. “A foreign coalition to check the influx of American manufactures and merchandise Into Europe is as fuiile and as Imaginative as Pharaoh's attempt to ride through the Red sea," •aid S. T. Palmer of Omaha at the Albemarle. Mr. Palmer has been abroad for the last four months, and spent much of his time in -Berlin., “While in Berlin," he continued, “I saw frequent reference In the newspapers to the strides of American enterprise, particularly the great Increase of

and P her «

among the local manu(a> those papers which’•talked rial coalition of Oermaay. Italy, or, in other words, of the Triple Alliance for protection, were read by enthusiasm. Investigation merchants and the however, showed that sm was regarded as baseless vised. They told me. for- It Germany or any other n not benefit by such an i American imports from tl ive marts. The traden bought certain wares froi manufacturers because thi only .buy them cheaper, the people found thqmaeli by them. Such, especially with agricultural implei introduction of American of this type has done a g enlighten the peasantry; them to abandon the oli hand tools, such as the sej rake, for labor saving de is only one example. I* a hundred more. An c American Imports wonjd work s blow to the people lions, who Are learning oc benefits by ohr products."—New York Tribune.

A Castly Co Bn. A very beautiful burial casket, and one about as costly, too. as Is ever made even In these days of lavish expenditure Is one now shown In the warerooma of a big manufacturing concern in this city. This casket la of mahogany of a deep, dark red. Its oolaringAlke that of some fine specimen 3f old mahogany furniture. The corners of the casket Itself and the corners of the casket lid and the escutcheon upon th* top of the Ud and the handrails along the sid« and upon the ends of the casket are richly carved. The carving upon this casket occu--pled the entire time of an expert for nearly four months; there wm paid out for the carving alone within less than *16 af *500. In the getting out. and preparing of the material-qf which the casket U made. In the cabiak work upon It, and In the various details dT Its construction there have been employed upon 1J, from first to last, half izen or more men, and the total : occupied In lu construction was (even months It Is an admirably specimen of workiinshlp. the piW of which Is *2500. —New York Sun.

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