Freak Of Human Nature

IA man in southwest Missouri who advertised for his lost wife the other day says she has a harmonica with her and always a cud oL chewing gum in her mouth. And yet he wants her I h&cJc. Lieut. Peary is making preparations to start for the nortfr pole next July. Jiiincs Bird, an aged colored man, was sent f rom Bellefon taino, O., to the county infirmary, but he hatl such a horror of the poorhouse that he slipped away at night. The next morning he was found f rozen to death in the street at Huntsville. A conference lias been arranged between the executive committce of the United Mine Workers of America and the coal operators of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois to "adjust miners' wages and if possible to make an interstate wag-e agreement. The meeting will be held in Chicago, Jan. 17. The Ontario government has introduced in the legislature a bilí wlnch will uudoubtedly pass, as it embodies the policy of the opposition, making regnlations regarding the cutting of timbera on crown lands, requiring that all logs cut on these lands shall be manfactured into lumber in Canada. The recent, tragic suicide of Miss Leila Herbert, the dangtater of the exsecretary of the navy, by jumping from a third-story window at her home at Washington, is given as the reason for the suicide of Miss Annie Virginia Wells, an accomplished young society lady of Washington who shot herself through the heart. She was much attached to Miss Herbert. The mammoth flouring mili of the Isaac Hurto r Milling Co. , at Fostoria, said to be the largest exclusively winter wheat milis iu the United States, with a capacity of 1,500 barrels per day, is a mass of ruins. Firc broke out in a bolting chest on the fourth flour and soon spread through the six stories of the building. The loss will exceed 6150,000, fully covered by insurance. Elevator A, the smallest of four elevators, was burned to the ground. The mili will be rebuilt at once. Joseph Morgan, a tramp, was found so scverely frozen in a barn at Toronto that he will lose one arm. and may die.