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C^r'NlVE “ SPIDER .
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^gulSUU ABOUT A
1 .
m a Spider—TEe Fwt.l
Are Not
* cannibal*.
■*. . JS really a very ferocious
JTT pr George Marx to a
I ► - I know of a case
_ attacked
r yer actually a
kzZed several time* as big as
it upon the shore.
} ' vouched for by the
V' 1 . j, spiders
^ -! authority on
bee n witnessed by himself
^aeiish ‘tie water succeeded once, but in get- was
\ second of time about by the
*** * spread puHed two
h»:f. quickly ” ** out
* .an dispatched d .fiatrhed with with
■ ipr did not catch the fish
F* Pvm-«they l r . of eating it. Spiders do
capture in the
the tissues, but
jje juices. I never heard
J', Fjjjce of a spider’s small mice making
■■ ..riii arc
F ui(l devoured by
ji an implacable enmity
sod mice, perhaps partly
t jjjat mice are very fond of
jjsre monkeys and lizards
r>ig L,,]. _ spider cd foes gets it a is chance good*
i .
»««• Snakes have been
ij, , ill victim* to spiders, and
frequently. I myself once
Ljjjd tarantula spider in a cage with
i sad tbe at once leaped
Ujtkrod < mature, grasping it
r!n n 5 snd inflicting a bite
| fsUl ia exactly seventeen
[thiol; the bite cause of a the tarantula death of is
.
Pj , Xu. I am so sure it
Ml am entirely willing to sub-
1,- : m to an experiment.
, ,n sorts of superstitions ex
-jinj the venomous character
0 ,* hut I don't indulge much
T, S [ .■ widely circulated
LJ For example,
fcjhuwus 'kitipo' spider, con
itdjngerous character of which
['-• ■ shingly widespread
’ 8 vcr v sh >’ blal * s Pj de r
-
P v and m other dark ,
-
IV' »»t* Zealand*™ ,S are “ so atraid re u
Ittip/ Vita which will is the name they
they not camp in any
(inhere it is found. They
[tin;; is that possessed human beings by an evil
dWt are
t; killed by it. The Kirghis of
fts L (quaiiv fearful of this spider,
call the ‘black widow.’
jy.i: whole herds of cattle and
i sre bitten to death by it.
has the same spider is called
j8p»tti\’ and they declare that
[ sre killed by it annually,
uishing that this particular
»should be an object of such
i»ood reasons for believing
Inccounts of the destructive
| ii. creature are purely of a
i ''.oil unfounded character.
a this country a sort of spider
|e.th>- 'kitipo' ’lathrodectus,” itself which is
if as to b» to all
ii piir[K)'C8 of the same species,
i irelin* not very long ago a
Ins bitten by a lathrodectus
pint uigiit. The case was well
ih, anil so I thought recently
nil make some experiments
fokirCtus. just to see how
(ritcally was.
nrabbit am! carefully shaved
its skiu Clear
l’.» 1 made a cut iu the
liitTiluccd into the wound the
pposoa sacs from the jaws of a
at. Next I delicately cut the
t ii while they were in the
Jua pk I'tr.nitted Sow thus the poison they
out, inoculating
■i *8 effectively as could be.
after the operation the rab
E lively us ever. In short, no
• ii ntioning was obtained.
P hied the same experiment
hir; pig and a mouse, with like
I Ml j 1 pei mitted a guinea pi:;
Ifilto three times by two fuil
I on the nose, but again
In. no perceptible effect. The
■stsht ‘kutipo’ may have a deadly
I'fibown, but 1 am whiling ut
tosulimit my arm to mandibles.
fou, 1 have no doubt that the
to'and the ‘katipo’ are veil
dll spiders of whatever sort are
B liquid, salivary glands contaiu a
i which is expelled iu
'6< biting through little holes like
kits of the mandible or jaws.
il’ey do undoubtedly kill
renoin many small animals,
But that there is any spider
■’* poison fatal to human life
in denying, though I
• oae cue where a little girl was
V “■(fierce convulsions jumping by spiders the bite thal of
f“MJ side of walls. T?.ie
} V er "d is of will a particular ven
Point a finger leap at vou if
1 your at him. All
tt* more or less disposed to he
**■ If you try to capture one
'ton himself back upon his hind
# prepare to tight.
ts are a ve ry interesting stud*
lowers. I al wa y s hare a mini
Sr “ 0Q hand. A while
ago
11 h * tched ** *" iitt! * fro™
ctkmotu in a glass receptacle. 1 noticed
their number ateadily diminished
that from they day to day and at length perceived
were eating each other up. J B
fact, they continued this operation until
otdy two were left. One of these ate the
other and so I found myself with only a
single female remaining of my stock.
She was a fine specimen, and I reared her
to maturity. Nearly all spiders drink
water freely, and, in fact, are aery fond
of it; but the ‘lathrodectus’ is affected
with constitutional hydrophobia and fails
over in a spasm if a single drop does but
touch him. If you approach a small
camel’s hair brush loaded with water to
the nose of almost any other kind of
spider the creature will seize it eagerly
and drink. The nude spider is often
only one-twentieth the size of the fernaie
of its species and the female frequently
makes a meal of the male. ”— Washington
Star.
SELECT SIFTINGS.
One-half of the lead used in the United
States is mined in Missouri.
There are said to be 13,000 different
kinds of postage stamps in the world.
A. Kansas City (Mo.) man claims to
own the largest bear akin in the world.
It is estimated that 90,000 pianofortes
are manufactured every year in London.
Only eighteen percent, of the total
population of Portugal can read tr
write.
In the Northwest during the fall Auc¬
tions many voters went to the polls in
sleighs.
The marriage ceremony it Borneo
consists in knocking, the heads of the
couple together.
There were in the United States in the
year 188S 9,000,000 of legal voters who
were unable to read or write.
Sixteen Chinamen, each of whom had
accumulated $500 in cash in this country,
sailed fot home from New York the other
day.
A man died in the Maine State Prison
recently who had been about fifty years
in prison dunng a life of ssventy-six
years.
“Rhino” signifies ready money. In
Sweden they have what they call a nose
tax; a penny per nose or pull, and in
this custom “rhino” had it origin.
The frontier method of giving « fire
a ] arm stlU prevails at Crawford, Neb.
Everybody on the street lire, his re
volver and nnI , gives a blood-curdling __i- cowboy
whoop.
In 1889 over 8,000,000 kegs of nails
were made in the United States, of which
one-half were of cut steel, less than one
fourth of cut iron, and more than a
fourth from wire.
An advertisement has been running in
a Bristol, England, paper, for the last
year, offering $51) reward for any well
authenticated case of a child being car¬
ried away by an eagle, no matter in what
country.
In a graveyard near Toccoa Falls,
quite a number of the letters, cut
seventy-five and eighty years ago on
soapstone rock, are cut backwards, that
is the rounding side of the letter D is
on the left, and the bar side of B on the
light, etc.
Mrs. James Proud, of Hazardvilte,
Penn., ran awav from London thirteen
years ago to marry Mr. Proud. Recently
she received a letter stating that her
father had forgiven her on his death
bed and had left her $100,008. She
read the letter and dropped dead. The
shock killed her.
A Brooklyn writer says that among
the curious apparitions that people saw
iu traveling along Bedford avenue ou a
««at Sunday'afternoon was a Chinaman
in store clothes and eyeglasses riding
down the street on a bicycle. Yet they
claim that the heathen are slow to
adopt the ways of civilization.
Among a large collection of old curi¬
osities left by the late Herr Leopold Et
tel, of Innsbruck, there was found a
large cupboard partitioned into lockers,
tilled with instruments of torture of dif¬
ferent countries and periods. The top¬
most locker was inscribed: “Modern In¬
struments of Torture of the Nineteenth
Century;” and on being opened was
found to contain rate papers, dunning
letters and summonses.
The Diamond.
The diamond has been so long re¬
garded as a natural crystalline form of
; carbon that oue remembers with surprise
! that this assumption rests on such slen
der scientific support as the similarity of
atomic weight, and the property of its
gaseous combustion product to cause a
precipitate in baryta or lime water. As
it appeared not incompatible with this
knondedge that the diamond and carbon
might bear the same relation as nickel
and cobalt, Professor Victor Meyer has
suggested the further investigation of tha
subject. In order to obtain a derivative
wirose preparation entailed no loss of
material and yet admitted of easy deter¬
mination of its physical constants, Herr
K rause led the product of combustion in
oxygen gas over red hot copper oxide
anil then into ammonia water, from
which solution he made the neutral so¬
dium silt. This salt was found to cor¬
respond to the chemically pure carbonate
in its crystalline form, water of crystal
lixation, solubility in water, melting
point, and electrical conductive power,
so that there cau remain no doubt as to
the identity of the two substances.—
Scientific American
IIII 5 MII 0 I COdVEHTIOH
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ucr r E
VI LtE FOR
DELIBERATION.
tHE SOUTHLAND BOOM El. FlTTINa
home AS A
r m a he isaim immigrant—
UWEUAL HI PORT or THE PROi Lklii NOE
on HE CONVENTION
Three hundred and fiftv delegates,
representing e very section of the wulb,
*ere present at the opening of the south
, ern interstate immig ation convention at
Asheville, N. C., Wednesdav. The
l,0 dy was called to order by N. J T
Johnson, of Texas Hon. II. B. Vance,
chairman i Asheville, was (lios-.n temporary
and welcomed the conveu
t l | aptmii uu Nat Jhe Atkic state- of delivered North Carolina,
-on an ad
01 welcome on behalf of the city
of Asheville, and Governor Fowle
welcomed the convention on behalf of
the state of North Carolina. James
Lyons, of Virginia, delivered a response
on behalf of the* convention. The com
folHee on permanent organization made
the following report for permanent offi¬
cers of the convention: Mr. Brvant, of
Tennessee, Florida, president; D. H. Elliott, of
secretary; D. C. Garlington, of
South Carolina, and Mr. Wilcox, of
dell, Georgia, assistant secretaries; F. N. IVad
of Asheville, sergeant-at-arms; vice
presidents to be elcete 1 by each state in
the convention. The convention adjourn¬
ed at 6 o’clock p. m. till Thursday morn¬
ing at 10 o’clock.
The convention got down to business
Thursday morning, the second day of the
session, and during the day several very
important measures were adopted.
It has been decided that the scalpers of
railroad tickets are a menace to the south,
also that they inerfere with
the influx of emigrants, and
conscqU' ntly they must be abolished.
THE FORCE BILL At.LCD.uD TO.
A sensation was caused by the intro¬
duction of this resolution, fathered b;
W. H. of
vention Whereas, I' is the sense of this con¬
that all sectional animosities be
tween the North and the South should
cease; that the agitation of sectional
questions tends to retard the general
prosperity of the whole country; there¬
fore,
Resolved, That we deprecate as un
W’scand impolitic the present agitation
in congiess of whut is known as the na¬
tion d election law, or force bill, and do
hereby protest against the enactment of
this bill into law.
No sooner had the secretary read the
resolution than a howl wus raised that
the inter-state convention was held to
should promote have immigration, and deliberations, that politics
no part in its
The resolution was tabled.
The fol owing ^-solution from North
Carolina was introduced:
We deplore the proposed legislation
where it retards the prosperous condition
of the Southern states, and which tends
to hinder the flow of capital into the
Southern states.
Referred to the committee on resolu¬
tions. >
The following resolutions were intro¬
duced by R. J. Boone, of Durham, N. C.,
and referred to the committee:
Resolved, That the war between the
sections is ended, and all bitter remem¬
brances thereof are forgotten.
Resolved, That on the maps of the
world and in southern hearts the United
States is one nation, bound together by
every tie of commercial interests and of
bn therly love.
Resolved - , That we, citizens of the
southern part of this, the grandest nation
the world ever saw, extend to our brothers
in the north and w est the right hand and of
fellowship, and invite them to come
make their homes among us, and aid us
in developing the richest country iu uat
ural resources *nd the most favored in
elimate and location of any section on the
face of the earth:
Resolved, That we hereby issue a call
for 500,009 sturdy sons of toil and 500 -
000 manufacturers of the north and west
to make their homes with us and to join
in the development of thiiland i f ours.
Resolved, That we recognize no polit¬
ical cast, no political wc.-t, no political
north and no banner political and south; in that under
a common a common
country, we pledge the ourselves upbuilding to of every this
honest effort to
uaiion. of which the south is the most
favored by nature and nature’s God.
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
The following executive committee
was chosen:
Alabama—J. C. Keith, Anniston.
Arkansas—Johu J. Sumpter, Hot
Springs. Florida--William Davidson, Jackson¬
ville.
Georgia—W. L. Glessner, Amcrieus.
Kentucky—E. Pope Johnson, Frank¬
Louisiana—T. W. Poole, New Orleans.
Mississippi—Captain Sam Brown.
Maryland—Henry "E. Alvord, Maryland
Agricultural college. Wilson, Wins¬
North Carolina—P. M.
ton.
South Carolina—N. R. Duncan, Spar¬
tanburg. Johnson, Corsicana.
Texas—S. J. T.
Tennessee—Major H, M. Aiken, Knox¬
ville.
Virginia-G. W. B. Hale, Boekv
Mount.
West Virginia—C. F. Moote, Hunter*
ville.
THE RAILROAD QUESTION.
The committee appointed grievances to make met sug¬ and
gestions considered to railroad correct business, and made
the following r -port: begs leave to report
The committee
uaanitnously that it endorse* the plan
< ursiou tickets to promote and encourage
immigration, and recommends that a
committee of three be appointed by the
south-rn interstate immigration conven
tion to »pplj t»the several passenger snd
tragic associations for an extension o
the sate of such tickets at as low n rate
and at as frequent dates as can be se¬
cured. As far as the practice of scalp¬
ing or ticket brok* rage makes the -ale of
such tickets on numerous dates and from
many points at low rates haza dons to the
tran-portation lines selling such ticket-,
and diverts the use of such tickets from
their orig nal purooses, the committee re
c* *ntnena that this convention mcmor.ilize
emigres- to prohibit scalping or ticket
brokerage by an amendment to the inter
-tate commerce act, as recommended by
the interstate commerce commission in
its fourth annual report That we further
rerommend that each state dele¬
gation to this convention bring
the action of this convention to
the attention of the con rrosstoaal rep¬
resentatives of their respective 8 utes,
ini ask their co-operation in aecuring the
proposed legislation. Also, the that legisla¬ thr
saate State their deiegati ms ask instruct
tive of several States to
their legislation representatives ou’lin d in congress interstate to enact
by the
commerce commi-sion.
The report brought on a discussion,
pin icipated in by the representatives
fttim nearly every State. Finally the re¬
port was adopted.
manager chii.ton’s report.
F. B. Chilton, of Austin, Tex . general
manager of the southern interstate com¬
merce convention, then made his report
At the af ernoon session, Colonel Wad¬
dell submitted a splendid report from h e
cemmittee, showing the vast received importance
ij immigration, which was with
tethu-dastie applause.
The ri mainder of the afternoon was oc¬
James cupied by a prolonged 8|>eech by Mr.
rid’s McKenzie, of Kentucky, one of the
w fair comtni-*.otter9.
A Warning to Fat Men.
Chorus of Indians—“Waugh! Wow
Arrow no kill pale face! Great-Spirit
Never-Die. Injin better skip!”
The Living Skeleton—“I’ll bet the tat
man wouldn’t her got off so easy if he
had missed bis train and had to foot it
across the prairie.”— Life.
Iron From Old Steel Rail*.
A new iron organized manufacturing company
has been in making Heading, Pehn.,
for the purpose of a special
brand of tnelchant bar iron by a peculiar
process invented by II. Harris, the secret
of which is in the sole possession of the
company. It is proposed to manufacture
the bar troll from the discarded and
second-hand steel rails, which are now
a drug on the market and can be pur¬
chased at a cost slightly above that of
common iron.
It is asserted that, by a simple pro¬
cess invented by Mr. Harris, decarbonized the steel and in
the rails is easily superior quality.
changed to iron of very
A number of tests have been made, arid
specimens of iron produced by the this office pro¬
cess are now on exhibition at
of the company in that city, where they
have been examined by iron specialists.
—[New York Times.
Living Without Sleep.
Bouc.icault, the late playwright, was
so anxious to get a- much out of life as
possible that during the last four or live
years of his career he deuied himself
proper sleep, going to bed at two and
rising at six. The time wasted. passed in slum¬
ber he considered More rest
than this he did not seem to require.
The other day 1 read of a man in Lon¬
don who never sleeps, as we understand
the word. He is the janitor of a large
building to which people This resort ceberus at all
hours of the twenty-four. do
volunteered fora double salary to the
w atching day and night, and so he does,
sitting iu achairand opening a gate every
time the bell rings. There is never a
longer interval than fifteen minutes, and
yet he contrives to snatch sufficient sleep
to serve him. His health is good and
his happiness apparently complete. He
looks upon himself as fortunate in having
this exacting place, which mo3t other
men would not accept at any price. The
amourtnf sleep is to a considerable de¬
gree a matt* r of temperament.—[Balti¬
more News,
FARMERS’ ALLIANCE NOTES
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND ITS
MEMBERS.
WHAT IS BF.ISO DONE IN THE VARIOt*
SECTIONS rOB THE ADTAXCEMUIT OW
THE GREAT OHOASIZATION.—ECHOIC*
FROM THE REFORM PRSSa.
The California State Alliance has been
organized at 8**i Jose, Thirteen coun¬
ties being represented.
A*.
At Ocala the sub-treasury plan was re¬
adout: d and will continue to be the ral¬
lying cry of the Alliance. The objection
to it, what little there was, seems to
>.*vc made but little impression.
V
V rious prominent Kansas Farmers’
Alliancemeu mentioned in recent dis¬
patches as having been concerned in a
pint to disintegrate the southern democ¬
racy by supporting the subtreasury amend¬
ment at the Farmers’ Alliance convention,
laugh at the story Messrs. Willetts, Chase
and others said that they voted for the
subtreasury bill because they believed in
it.
***
The Newspaper (California, Mo.) figures
up the loss aud grin thusly; “In the re¬
cent election ia Missouri the Democratic
party cast 11,932 less votes than it did
two years ago. The Republicans cast 48,
002 less. The Prohibitionists cast 3.a41
less, whilst the Union Labor party east
6,465 more votes than it did two years
ago. Look out for a Kansas cyclone in
this State in ’92.”
The National Citizens Alliance was
formed at the recent convention at Ocala,
Fla., by the adoption officers: of n platform and
the election of these J. P. Hol¬
den, of Kansas, president; Ralph Beau¬
mont, of New York, secretary, aud L. P.
Wil t, of Washington, treasurer. During
the tecent elections the Citizens Ail auces
were formed in Kansas, Nebraska and
Iowa as auxiliaries to the Farmers’ Alli¬
ance movement. It comprises people in
the cities, towns and villages, and its
object is to promote the princi¬
ples of the St. Louis Platform.
Outside of the officers there
i- to be an executive committee consist¬
ing of one Irom each State and Territory.
Offices are to be opened in Washington
at once, and a weekly peper will be es¬
joint tablished. The organization Knights will hold
conventions with the of
Labor und the Farmers’ Alliance, and
the local b ranches are forbidden to make
auy coalition with either of the two old
parties. The organization formed majority is only
temporary. As soon as a of
States are organized a natioual co iven
tion will be held.
«**
do, A Kansu-, dispatch of Thursday The effects fr itn Eldora¬ of the
says:
alliance movement in Kansas are already
beginning to he felt. Two years ago
the Kansas state senate appointed a com¬
mittee to revise C 1 rtaiu portions of ex¬
isting state laws. The committee is com¬
posed of five republicans. The committee,
will hold its last meeting at Topeka, and
will present its report to the government.
Senator Murdock, of the committee, says
the report abolishes a dozen useless
b oards; consolidates half a dozen other
boards; revises the laws regarding the
control of the state normal and state
agricultural colleges and Hutchinson re¬
formatory; decapitates Satn Crawford,
state agent at Washington; cu s
down the numbet of local
district judges about one-fourth; Sheriff
sales, state and county printing of all
kinds, 50 per cent; provides for the
Australian system of voting, railway and the
election o( a state board of com
missioners; provides that the state furnish
schoolbooks of uniform text, free; over
hauls the system of taxation and assess¬
ment, and puts it on a bona fide basis;
cuts down the fees and salaries of all
county officers, except coroners and com
missioners, and affecls constables’ ami
justices of the peace’s if fees. adopted The report,
says Mr. Murdock, und en¬
acted into law will save the people of
Kansas $800,000 in taxes Mutually. As
all of the committee are republicans, and
a* the report is simply a redemption of
pledges made in the recent state repub¬
lican platform, the republican senate
canuot refuse to adopt it.
George III.’s Christinas Pie,
James, Earl of Lonsdale, once sent a
Christmas pie to King George Ilf. which
contained nine geese, two ducks, two
turkeys, four fowls (what kind the old
recount docs not say), six pigeons, six
wild ducks (the two shove must, hive
oecu tame), three teals, two starlings,
twelve two guinea partridges, fowls, fifteen three woodcocks, snipes, six
water-hens, one wild goose, one curlew,
forty-six yellow-hammers, chaffinches, fifteen spar¬
rows. fifteen two lacks, four
thrushes, twelve fieldfares, six black¬
birds. twenty rabbits, one leg of veal,
one ham. three bushels of flour and
twenty-eight weighed pounds 576 of pounds, butter. and Tho
whole pie was
carried from the Lonsdale estate to Lon
don in a two-horse wagou. It was hard
ly as dainty a piece of pastry as the cele’
brated pie containing the “four and
twenty” tire blackbirds, but it was “set be¬
fore king,” nevertheless.—[St. Louis
Republic.
on, misery!
“ I believe Fanny is making me an
afghan,” sqid the youth. “ I working was calling
there last night aud she was on
it, but she wouldn’t tell me who or what
it was for.”
“She told me. It is for you, but it is
not an afghan. It’s oue of a pair of ear
tabs.”