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Entered according to Act of Congress, in June, 1869, by J. W. Burke & Cos., in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the So. District of Georgia Vol. Ill—No. 47. THE CAMEL. AMELS are of two kinds. The Arabs’ camel has one hump, an( j ; s ca ]led by a very long name. It is call ed a dromedary, and is more used to ride upon than to carry burdens. The other camel has two humps. He cannot go so fast, but he can carry a greater weight upon his back. God has made the camel so that he can live in the desert. It would scorch your feet to walk upon the hot sand. But the camel’s feet are made on pur pose, and it does not hurt them at all. Sometimes the wind rises in the desert and whirls the sand round and round in the air. The men lie down on their faces, and try to keep the sand out of their mouths, and out of their noses. The camel is better off than they are. He can shut his nose quite tight —so tight that not a bit of sand can get in. Water is very scarce in the des ert. The wells of water are so far apart that men sometimes die of thirst as they go from one well to another. But the camel can go many days without drinking, and I can tell you how it is. He has a pouch in his stomach, and he fills it with clear water. This keeps the camel from being thirsty. And he can smell water a very long way off. When the men have drank up all the water they carry with them, they think they must die of thirst. No well is to be seen, and they don’t know where to find one. But the camel has a stronger smell than they have. He pricks up his ears and snuffs with his nose in the air, as Jf he smelt something. He jogs on a little faster, and a little faster, and a little faster still. The men do not try to stop him. They think that he smells water; and so it is. There is a well miles away in the MACON, GEORGIA, MAY 21, 1870. distance, and the camel is, making his way to it. Then the poor thirsty people can drink as much as they like. Perhaps it is night when they get to the well, and the camel is turned loose to get his own supper. He will eat the nice bit of grass that grows near the water. But he is not dainty, and if there is no grass, he makes his supper on the plants that live in the sand, and that are all over prickles and spikes. The men would not think such plants were of any use, if they did not see the camel eat them. The hair of the camel falls off once a year, and the Arab uses it to make warm clothing of. You have read in the Bi ble that John the Baptist had a garment of camel’s hair, when he was in the desert. Little Sewer. An Eastern Juggler. Americans are often full of delight and wonder at the feats p" of magicians, or jugglers, who seem to turn a handkerchief into a dove, or to break a watch to pieces and Whole No. 151. then return it whole to its owner. But such feats are very simple, compared with those of jugglers in India. Rev. Norman MacLeod, in his travels there, gives the fo 1 - lowing account of what he wit nessed : While the] tom-tom* was beat ing and the pipe playing, the jug gler, singing all the time in low accents, smoothed a place in the gravel, three or Hour yards be fore us. Having thus prepared a bed for the plant to grow in, he took a basket and placed it over the place, covering it with a thin blanket. The man himself did not wear a thread of clothing, except a strip around the lions. The time seemed to have come for the detective’s eye ! So, just as he was becoming more ear nest in his song, and while the tom-tom beat and the pipe shrill ed more loudly, I stepped for ward with becoming dignity, and begged him to bring the basket and its cover[to me. The juggler cheerfully complied. I then examined the cloth cov ering. It was thin, almost trans parent, and certainly there was nothing concealed in it. I then fixed my eyes on his strip of clo thing with such intentness that it was not possible it could have been touched without discovery ; and bade him go on. I felt per- fectly sure that the trick would not suc ceed. Sitting down, he stretched hi3 naked arms under the basket, singing and smi ling as he did so; he then lifted the basket off the ground, and behold! a green plant about a foot high ! Satis fied with our applause, he went on with his incantations. After having sat a little, to give his plant time to grow, he again lifted the basket, and the plant was now two feet high. He asked us to wait a little long er, that we might taste the fruit! But on being assured by those who had seen