- .a "" ea .94, 25 cents per Month.nue apartment bouse fire on a recent: 5 Entered ag second-class mail matter.PRICES AND MONEY.""- quent exam pies; of finauvwieone side claims that stiverver bas other thiegs, espevially farm products, hare coue down with it,| while the soti-silver man on theBas notbiog so do witbthat prices are governed maod.Both of these parties use theword osilver, but they meso«more than thas. for the silver meu| (we mean the mass Of mlver me,these who are not interested is_ silver mines or ia silver proda.-"It very frequently happens thstT~over zealous men iD arguing tO 451 ArmstrenyTs rescue of the which followed the eord, as inmip the cause they espouse ¢j-h man, Caeser Pinto, it was ap | Franklin's famous experiment, andre too math We have fre ~parent that the flames bad eaten descended into the earth throughles of this in the dis:- back into the rear of Prof. KernTs the pboyTs body. Wonderful to re-question,4 ly and dv-) |er by the law of supply "| perfect and bis legs were spread out|night which was unobserved byRY AFTERNOON (EXCEPT SUNDAY) many of the thousands ef spoctators the earth when twas the escape from cremativn ot acat from a window on the fourthWihile the mulfitude was guzing withbated breath upon Detective Ser-Jat on the top floor.A dull red glow was soon followediby the Oreaking of the window. Atand prices go together and as sil- |); instant a large black cat withbeen ostracized apd de [shining yellow eyes appeared uponin value, the prices of the sill It was apparent that tbe bya terrible bruise, while the fingers~rooms behind were a seething Mass | were burned and covered with bils-iof flames. Tom arched his back, andhis uplifted tail furtber bespoke histerrorthat of a squirrel. His poise wasas wide as possible. He descendedin along, graceful plane, seeming tomove slowly, as if buoyed up. Therewas a curve te the descent, as if theanimal were an aéroplafe. A re-| spot where Tom landed.There was no dull bud, althouxb1]|porter stood within five feet of the)procbing.§ AThe boy at oneé began to haul inbis cord. The kite, however, wasA CATS NDERFUL LEAP. |ate York Fire |An incident of the mous ave-~still one bundred yards or so abovewas a briiliant(fash of lightning. Young Janti| was thrown into the air, made two~floor facipg& Ninety-fourth ~street. 4, three somersaults and fell ten~or twelve feet away. The kite~bad attracted the electric fluid,~late, the Jad was not kilied. Afteralittle be arose and made his wayhome, trembling and crying. The| nails of bis left hand, which had heldthe string, were turned blue, as ift~ters. Besides this, his face wasbruised considerably by his fall.|The kite string was burned in twoT : otner band, declares that silver 7. hesitated but a moment, aod ~py the discharge, ard the kite, re-it, buat) then he launched himself into space. |¢ased, dew awav to oarts unknownaltogeth | His flight through the air was like | 7As to Wedding Presents.It is a sutprisé to note that aquestion has arisen at Camden, N.J.. as to whether wedding presents| belong to the bride or groom. Cam-| den is near New York, and in NewYork the bride generally owns prac-tically everything and the groomgets what he can induce her to givebim. Aside from that, bowever,~i,~| (6B) beck the coinage of SIIVET those who had followed whe black | there should be no question as to| because that would sdd to thevolume of the currency and make_ money more abundant, or ocheapex,� asthe phrase goes Theopponents of free coinage Opposeit not on account of the metal ontof which the coins are made, butbecause thes are opposed to anexpansion of the carrency, whichohey contend would make money" Reduced to its essencede is fordthe contention ou ove 6!an expansion of the currency anon the other side to prevent thand keep the volame where it 1s~streak through the air vaturally ea-pected to see a cat with all its prov-erbial nine lives crushed out in aoinstant by the impact. The per-itFit$~~feet and the cat landed at a pointabout thirty feet east of the line of~the window from which he hadleaped.The spreading feet of the fiyinganimal seemed to group togetherjust before the aspbalt pavementwas reached. For a singte instantdid the animal pause, as if to recoverfrom the shock it bad experienced,|~that spoke only of terror, and withevery bafr oo end, it dashed down| pendieular distance was all of nity |'wedding presents. They are given(to the bride and the groom getsber. If he cannot keep. her, boween he expect to keep the presents?In the Camden case the groomwas unable to keep the bride, andshe took the presents with her whenshe 'eft. He bas begun suit to re-cover them, but not to recover her.~Io fact, he plainly intimates that bedoes not wanther. It is deubtfal ifhe bas good grounds for his action.He got them with her; can heseparate them now? They were alldrawn. as one prize in the matri-||jg and then, with a long-drawn meouw! monial lottery. Cau he discard her| part of that prize and keep the rest?{[t seems only reasonable to supposeor reduce it"Wilmington Sfar- the brilliantly lighted street and that he must keep all or nothing."SESSome people are friends to youas long as they cau use you a8 &tool to do their bidding, batif you* essert your mapbecod and act with- that independence which mast_ gometimes characterize the pro-' eeedings of every one who is not* gslave, thelr pretended friendship_ gt opce turos to enmity."fact is their friendship never wasworth a picayune. A true friendwoald pot, if he could, influenceyou to deviate from a conscien"ms discharge of duty. Dur-Thedisappeared in the shadows near~Central park. The cat was a pet in|the family of Prof. Kern. So far asknown it has not as yet come backto the scene of its great scare andstill greater exploit."N. Y. World.A KITE-FLYING THRILLA Flash of Lightning Follows theCord and Floors the Boy.Kite flying is usually considered aharmless amusement, but that it isnot alwayssuch is sufficiently provedby the recent experience of a thir-teen-year-old boy at Cateau, nearCambray, France, who became,while indulging in this sport, an in-voluntary imitator of the immortalFranklin. The lad, whose name wasJanti was fiving his kite"a amall4|«Chicago Evening Post.A Fastidious Miss.A short time ago a young womanof fashion in Washington went toome of tbe taxidermists of theSmithsonian institution and wanteda favor. She had with her a brighteanary bird, alive and chirruping,land she much desired tbe taxider-mist to kill and stuff the bird forber. She went on to say that shehad *~huated all over the city for abird of _just this shade,� because shewanted the plumage to match incolor a new gown which she wasbaving made. The bird that shebrought she wanted stuffed for aneae Ee a, Odkua & Oo: have justcompleted a fine silk flag on a spe-cial onder, to whichis attached apretty romance, says the BaltimoreSun.A few years ago, after the closeof the war, a young man liviny inasuburb of Boston, Mass., conveyedhis invalid sister to a hotel at OldPoiot Comfort, hoping the genialclimate would aid in the restorationof ber health. The orpban chiidrenand only heirs of a wealthy leathermagnate, with interests in the greattanneries at Salem and _ leatherhouses in Boston, they had abund-ant means to entertain in lavishstyle and soon were the center of aselect circle at the noted resort.Among the most intimate friendsthey won by their hospitality was uMaryland girl of much yrace audbeauty, who was that season's belleat Old Point. The youny New Eng-lauder courted her assiduously, butas she boasted that she was a ~~littlerebel� and ~~woutd never marry aYankee,� he postponed the ~~pop-ping of the question.� However,before parting he frankly told ber-that she bad stolen his beart and hewould never wed another.oIf yeu can ever kiss the starryflaz,�T were bis parting words to her,~~T will fly to you from any part ofthe world.�~*] never cau,Tlaughter.Years passed away. The youngraam's sister kept in correspondencewith the charming Marylander andfinally camc the news that she wasmarried. He plunged into literature,the resort of Bostonians; traveledon the continent, went around theworld a restless wanderer, neverforgetting his vow ~~to marry noother thae she." He haunted OldPoint, season after season, hopingto catch a glimpse of the eyes thathad fascinated him, and a year agoheard that she was a widow, child-less and penniless. Through his in-valid sister he conveyed to her,after the lapse of several months, amsesayve that brought to him a fewdays ggo this reply, while he was inBaltimore on bis way home:oIT will kiss the starry flag.�Immediately he ordered an elab-orate flag made"~~one worthy to bekissed by a queenTT"and hastenedtoan old mansion near Washington,where the young widow was sojourn-ing.~Hold it till I wire for it,� was hisorder.The flag is now on exhibition,gracefully draped in ove of the Bal-timore street windows, and it is ex-pected that in a short time the ro-mance will culminate in a nuptialevent tbat will occur under its folds.The flag is of the beavies* silk, oneof its characteristics being that thestars and stripes are woven into itinstead of beiug sewn in the usualwavT was retorted with: