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New Britain and Its People.
New Britain is one of the most beauti
“ 1C lJLmtries °of in the mountains world. The are con- very
mrs the lofty variety of tints of the
aceful. Ironical and the attractive
verdure is as as
* lersed o imiisual The dense foliage of is m
Sd with patches of grass an
hue. At Matum m Blanche
ing 3 ®V there volcanic is an island active and volcano, a region a cur¬ of
ot 8. 1 traveled by land once
rom'Nodupto Blanche Bay, and the
Sand fatigue by the were beauty more and than varied com
ensated the scenery traversed. The
haraeter of entirely naked,
lew Britain people fine race, go and want the
’hey are not a of the Solomon-Is-
23S an d vio-or introduced
Foreigners have a
ood many fire-'arms among the inhab
ants of Blanche Bay and KanJbeirah
ut as a rule the spear usually adorned
Mth brightly colored featheis, is their
eapon They build good houses and
ke excellent nets and ingenious fish
ia They the only can
n<r baskets. are
libals I know who are not ashamed of
heir fondness for human flesh. A Ger
nan settler told me that overtures were
nade to him to arrange the purenase of
he bodv of a man who had been acci
lentally killed by a neighboring tribe
rith whom the would-be buyers were
mt friendly. The reason given might was be a
lesire to eat what otherwise
rasted in a commonplace interment
The curious and little understood
eremonies of the dulc-duk are extensive
Neighboring rformed in New Britain and the
Duke of York group, One
hinf about them is certain, and that 1 is,
hatthose who are initiated into the
nysteries obtain considerable influence
»ver the rest of their tribesmen. There
s another very remarkable information custom, by
ibout which I was given of the Wesleyan
he Rev. Mr. Rooney in this of
Mission, which labors part
delanesia. It may be described as fol
ws: If A injures B, B burns down C’s
tut, [ticks or makes in a hole the pathway in his canoe, that or C
a spear so
Is nearly sure to run against injured it him, B and lets
p know that he has
;he reason of it; when C is the expected first to
leitle the account with A, ag
rressor. On the whole the New Britain
jeople are the least attractive of all
Uelanesians whom I know. They skill are
rery dirty, and do not possess the
n fashioning pottery, or carving in wood- the
in bowls, of their Admiralty neighbors Islands.—
Solomons and the
Captain Cyprian Bridge, in Popular
Science Monthly.
Mississippi's Pet Institution.
I A Mississippi letter to the Olobe
UDemocrat says: Mississippians feel
■proud, and very justly, of their state
■library. It occupies the ground floor
■of ling. the east wing of the capitol build
I The apartment does not appear
spacious at the first glance, but that is
■ because it is so broken up by alcoves.
■ Room, without crowding, is found for
■ I 38,000 volumes. These include tho
I the legal text-books in the and reports making from col- all
I states union, a
I lection which ranks third in complete
ness in the whole the
law libraries in Washington and New
I York take rank above that of Missis
I sippi. There are, besides the law
I books, which form the great bulk of
I the library, the standard works in gen¬
eral literature. The library is as in
i viting as a parlor. The A bright carpet
covers the floor. large open-grate
stove shines with polish. Woodwork,
the glass and the pillars show no dust.
Paper, ink, and pens are marshaled in
order on the desks and tables. Even
the spittoons look too clean for use. It
is hardly necessary to say that the pre¬
and siding genius, the guardian of order
cleanliness, is a woman, bright
eyed, as trim in figure and as neat in
dress as her surroundings. Miss Mary
lawyers Morancy is the state librarian. Old
say her knowledge of the con¬
tents of the library is marvelous. They
consult her as they would a carefully
annotated index for what they want.
She keeps up with the latest law pub¬
lications, and her judgment goes a
great way in the additions which are
frequently Mississippi made to the books.
is not the last state in
the union in recognizing the rights
and the merits of woman. One of the
first bills introduced iu the house this
session was “to protect the wife from
ill-treatment on tho part of her hus¬
band.” The state university has opened
its doors to both sexes, and now there
is before the assembly a proposition
lege warmly urged to establish a state coL
for women.
The Life of a Convict.
“The study of humau nature,” said
Principal Keeper Trenton, Patterson, N. of J., the state
penitentiary at the National to a
reporter in the lobby of
hotel the other night, “inside prison
wa ^ s is more interesting than pleasant
The class of human beings one comes
in contact with is usually so depraved
life. We believe our system to be as
good as any in existence, and yet we
are not as severe in some ways as the
people of the Eastern penitentiary.”
“Are there not a number of crimi
nals sent you who instead should go
to asylums? Do you not have many
are as a rule, one-sided
characters; their moral character is, so
to speak, lop-sided. But it is not the
men who go into the prisons that are
menta % imbalanced; The it is those who
come out fact is, a man who
serves a five or even a three years’ sen
tence out, is apt to leave the peniten
tiary body unsound in mind, if not in both
and mind. Imagine, for instance,
the life they lead, day in and day out
To the mess-room in the morning,
where they can not speak a word to
where »nyono; talking to the is workshop forbidden; for the day,
the strictly to
mess-room again for supper, where
the same order is enforced; and then to
solitary where there confinement in their cells,
is no one to talk to. Think
oi it Such a life for years! Is it not
e °ough alive, to drive a man insane? Why,
man you can not realize it; but
those percentage who is jail simply frightful both of
go Body to strong in
and and who come out
Wrecks in one or both.”— Washington
MISSING LINKS.
pianist Lady Randolph Churchill is a clever
and often plays at charity con
certs.
Mrs. A. S. Cole, of Peoria, Ill., chased
her husband to Portland, Ore., ahd took
him home with her.
Mrs. Penseyers, of Buffalo. N. Y., mar¬
ried a fourth husband and then killed
him b ^ause she was jealous.
ing George for Alfred Townsend, after dictat¬
some hours to a stenographer,
found out that the fellow was insane.
The friends of the late Sojourner
Truth, of Battle Creek, Mich., are mak¬
ing her an effort to erect a monument over
grave.
Queen Victoria has ordered a tea set
of fifty pieces of Burmese ware, to be
made for her by a New Bedford, Mass.,
manufacturer.
M. Stambouloff, the statesman whom
the Qzar is said to fear more than any
other man in Bulgaria, is only a trifle
over thirty-seven.
girl, .Miss is Ella editor Martin, of the a North New Nebraska England
Argus. The Argus has a sharp tongue
as well as keen eyes.
Tar as a fuel for ocean steamers is
about to be experimented upon by a
German who has constructed a novel
furnace for the purpose.
In a recent case at Seattle, W. T..
Judge law Green held that the territorial
illegal pronouncing the smoking of opium
was unconstitutional.
A Danish hound on exhibition in a
Philadelphia He museum stands as high as«
a man. is the largest dog in the
World, and cost his owner $5,000.
M. Pasteur, being urged by his family
to rest for a time from his labors, re¬
plied, “When I am not working 1 seem
to myself to be committing a theft.”
John Crossman, who died at China,
Me., recently at the age of ninety-six
years, leaves six sons and one daughter,
thirty-two grandchildren and forty
great-grandchildren.
the In 1849 a deposit of Dover. $19 was made in
savings bank at N. H. It re¬
mained in the bank until the other day,
when the book was presented and the
account closed by the payment of
$195.83.
Willie Abronson is the name of a lit¬
tle Russian Jew, V2 years old, at present
stopping in Philadelphia, who has trav¬
eled over Russia, Germany, and En¬
gland and is able to black boots in ten
languages.
Mrs. Anna L. Murphy, widow of the
San Francisco millionaire, is a woman
to be commi8serated. She cannot live
comfortably on her allowance of $2,000
a month from the estate, and petitions
to have it increased.
The Baltimore American, speaking of
the wieued city of Cincinnati, says that
its inhabitants “put sugar on their oys¬
ters, and anybody who will put sugar
on oysters will put vinegar or lyonaiso
dressing on ice cream.”
Industrial people the imperial family
of Austria are. The Crown Prince has
lately published a big book, the Arch¬
duchess Maria Valerie is writing a play,
and the Archduke Karl Salvator has
just got a patent for a new repeating
rifle.
Dr. Eaton, of Benson, Minn., is
justice of the peace as well as physician,
and the economical people arouud there
manage to have him tie hymeneal knots
when he is called out eight or ten miles
into the country on medical or surgical
business.
A. O. Norton, a leading merchant of
New Haven, Conn., Court was fined $50 and
costs iu the City for giving his
customers a chance to guess the number
of seeds in a squash. The nearest guess
ers were to receive prizes. He was ar¬
rested on the charge of disposing of
goods by chance. He took an appeal
to the Superior Court.
One of the latest ideas in the matter
of the arrangement of furniture for re
ceptions is to have three gilded bamboo
chairs so acute-angled arranged that their backs
form an triangle. In some
instances tho chairs are tied together and in
this position with handsome bow
ends of various colored satin ribbon.
William Rockefeller, of the Standard
Oil Company, has purchased the entire
estate of the late William H. Aspinwall and
in the towns of Mount Pleasant
Ossining, on the Hudson. The property .
comprises about eight hundred acres
and all the buildings and appurtenances
thereon. The price paid is not known.
Jay Gould is said to figure that if ho
should give fifty men $5,000 each to go
into business for themselves, one-half
would fail and lose all within five years,
and the other twenty-five would bo mad
because he was able to make it $10,000
and didn’t do it. He argues that men
appreciate their own earning far more
tiian a gift.
A remarkable family experience has
occurred at Findley’s Lake, Chautauqua
photograph County, N. Y. It was the taking of a
of of Mrs. Benjamin Boorman,
that place; her son. Edwin Boorman;
his daughter, Mrs. G. R. Osborne; her
Dean’s daughter, Mrs. D. J. Dean, and Mrs.
baby. The picture represents
five generations, all in good health.
Miss Ransom, a Cleveland artist, has
just completed a portrait of ex-President
Garfield, which is said to be President, a perfect
likeness of the assassinated
just as he appeared when he delivered
his inaugural address from the front of
the Capitol. Mrs. Garfield, when she
saw the portrait, pronounced it the best
likeness of her husband she has yet
seen.
Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Parsons, of Fair¬
mont, Neb., are the parents of a diminu¬
tive boy baby weighing only two and a
quarter pounds. It is only thirteen and
a half inches in length from the crown
to the feet, and metres across the
back of the hand seven-eighths of an
inch, while the nails on its little toes, as
the father says, look like small dots. It
is now two weeks old, is perfectly form¬
ed, vigorous, healthy, and takes its
rations with as much enjoyment as big¬
ger boys.
J. L. Cole, a hardware merchant of
Buffalo, has a remarkably intelligent uncertain
dog, a smali white cur of
pedigree. of difficult This tricks, dog and knows confident any number ia
so
Mr. Cole in its abilities that he is now
willing walk to bet a large sum that the the Niagara dog
ean and a he’U tight rope across
gorge, give him a chance, pr&
vided the railroad companies of tile
Niagara $1,000 Falls hotel folks will contribute
toward the expense of stretching
the rope and net.
The mother of fire new-born shepherd
the puppies, neiy Huston, was mourning
death of four of her babies that had
been taken from her, when a Tory
young pig, whose mother had lost it,
The came shepherd squealing dog around the doghouse.
at once adopted the
little porker, and it now suckles along¬
side of the pup, and follows its fost?r
mother about, squealing vigorously
whenever it feels hungry. The
seems to love the pig quite as much as
she does her own pup.
An old lady of New Hampshire who
day recently by celebrated her eightieth birth¬
which giving an elaborate supper, at
every article, including the cheese
and butter, was made with her own
hands, thus explained the secret of her
vigor and health: “I never fret over
things I cannot help; I take a nap, and
sometimes two, every day of my life; I
never take my work to bed with me,
and 1 oil the many wheels of a busy life
by an implicit faith that there is a brain
and a heart to this great* universe, and
that I can trust them both.”
The wonderful “Glacial Pot Hole” in
Lackawanna county, Pennsylvania,
still attracts many visitors. The hole is
bowl shaped, with a width of thirty feet
and a depth of thirty feet, and is filled
with oval-shaped conglomerate stones
from the size of a hen’s egg to double
the size of a goose egg It was discov¬
ered in sinking a coal shaft, and is said
to be the second one discovered in the
world. It is said to be of volcanic ori¬
gin, and the conglomerates are supposed
to have been worn into their form and
smoothness by glacial action.
A Thrilling Situation.
An incident occurred in the big
canyon on Fraser river last week of a
blood nature of so the terrifying that it makes the
narrator run cold while he
writes. A young Victorian who had
been engaged on tho railway line, be¬
Victoria. ing mustered out of service, started for
At the point where it - pro¬
posed bridge to throw a railway suspension
across the Frazer river there is
stretched a cable from which depends.,
a sort of cage or crate such as is used
to pack Passengers fruit or cabbages in on steam¬
river ers. desiring to cross Wires the
enter this conveyance. or
stays extend from the crate to a pulley
on the cable, and by means of a line
to which a horse is attached the crate
is drawn from side to side of the river.
The cage hangs about one hundred feet
above the stream, which boils and
surges beneath in a manner that terri¬
fies any person of weak nerves who
may intrust himself to the conveyance.
Ten days ago, while making the cross¬
ing, the crate turned upside down, and
ten thousand Canadian cigars i nd a
quantity into of other light goods dropped
the Fraser and were lost. This
incident was still fresh in the mind of
the young Victorian when he entered
the crate and was drawn toward the
other side. His equanimity was not
restored when, having accomplished
about one-half the passage, he saw the
ferryman off. leisurely unhitch his horse
and drive The day was biting cold.
A sharp wind blew down the river and,
whistling made the through solitary the passenger’s bars of the crate, teeth
rattle and his flesh creep. The situa¬
tion was alarming. The frail bark
swayed blast to and that fro, threatening it with
every struck to capsize
and send the voyager into the depths
of the river. No one responded to his
call for more than an hour. Then the
ferryman, having finished his noonday
meal, returned with his horse, made
fast to the line, and drew the half-dead
young man to the shore. The situation
of a person seated in the cage is one of
danger under the most favorable cir¬
cumstances, but under the circum¬
stances in which our young friend
crossed it was positively alarming. The
ferryman, it is supposed, desired to
play a practical joke, but it will strike
most ill-timed persons as Victoria being (B. an exceedingly Colonist.
one.— C.)
Elegant Dining and Breakfast
Room.
On the opposite side of the main hall,
corresponding in size and location with
the this drawing-room, princely establishment is the dining-room How
of
great the contrast between this and the
foregoing rooms. and is The woodwork is of
English oak, Reunaissance such a that perfect type
of Italian it might
have v ' , en taken bodily from an old
Roman palace. The carvings are rich
and b ’d, the divisions simple, large,
and m ssive forming a wainscot six
tee t high. Above it the walls are hung
with Gobelin tapestry relating the story
of a boar and stag hunt from the meet
to the finish.
The sideboard and mantel, both
reaching to the ceiling, simplicity are almost, mon¬
umental in their noble r* out¬
line, combined with a wealth of sculp¬
tural detail. The ceiling, of powerful
parallel painting beams in its of oak, panel, contains by a Henri large
center
Levy, of Paris. It treats of a m., tbolo
gical subject; “The marriage of Ariadne
to Bacchus,” which is a masterpiece of
strength, and calls to mind m its Hand¬
ling of color and composition, the great
clique cento masters of Italy. A ‘able,
measuring 6 x 12 feet and eapaHie of
extending carved 40 chairs, feet, a covered large nurn.er with hand¬ of
richly large of tordi
made tapestry, a rug exi.
nary thickness, and rich but quiet
colors, all combine to make this ban¬
queting hall lit for a feast of tho Olym¬
pian Gods.
There is still another smaller dining¬
room or rather breakfast room, with the
butler’s pantry between it and the large
dining-room. This delightful family
room is a study in simplicity, approach¬
ing the Euglish is Jacobite tho high stylo. wainscoting, A feat¬
ure of the room
surmounted by cupboards and shelves
of oak, run all around the four walls,
with the mantel and sideboard forming
a part of the general treatment. Oriental Hang¬
ings of painted paneled canvas, ceiling in soft of oak,
shades, a par¬
quet floor, and India rug, chairs cover¬
ed with heavy pressed leather, subdued
yet cheerful in tone, make this room a
lovely retreat away from the J. C. suites Flood's of
magnificent California Mansion, apartments.— described in Uood
Housekeeping. _
There are several towns in this coun
try called Bismarck, them Lasker. and it is proposed
to change to
NAVIGATION OF THE AIR.
■)ne Mode of Travel that Baffles Human
Ingenuity—The Flight of Birds.
Man, with his thirst for knowledge,
his increasing riosire to pry into nature’s
laws, and wonderful inventive genius,
has been able to accomplish wonders,
sa ys the Pittsburg Dispatch.
We can not go to tho planets to view
them, so by our telescopes we bring tho
planets to us. With microscopes wo
observe the daily life of the most minute
organisms. The telegraph and tele¬
phone enable us to converse with friends
who are miles away. Our application
of the power of steam takes us to dis¬
tant places ip a day’s time which in
tormer years would have required
months, but there is yet remaining olio
mode of travel which seoms to b afiio
human ingenuity. That is the naviga¬
tion of the air—a problem which will
never be solved until some moving
power bo discovered which is very much
lighter than any we now know, and
cordance machinery employed which is in ac¬
with tho natural laws.which
enable birds to tty with such ease.
It is perfectly useless to attempt to
navigate the air by means of balloons.
A balloon rises because it is lighter than
air and floats upon or in it; but for this
reason it is wholly at the mercy of the
air current; one might as well expect to
control the motions of a thistle blow.
There is a general idea that birds sus¬
tain themselves in the air largely on ac¬
count of lightness, and on account of
their hollow bones being filled with
heated air, but it is quite manifest that
if they were as light or lighter than the
air they could not make any forward
motion, as like tho thistle-blow they
would be carried hither and thither by
everv breath of air.
One of the most potent factors in a
bird’s flight, therefore, is its weight.
The force of gravitation works a con¬
stant influence upon the bird to draw it
toward the eartn, and the force of the
stroke of its wings must be enough, and
a little more than enough, to overcome
this force of gravity. In so doing the
weight iu other of the words, body gives acts it as something a fulcrum,
or to
push against, and helps it, when it lias
gained raomenium, effort, to that sail expended along with¬ in
out any except
keeping tho wings stretched.
The amount of force used in flying is
very great, much more than is sup¬
posed. The constant keep body beating of falling the air
necessary to the from
to also the ground propelled is not forward. all, the The bird must
be muscu¬
lar force expended by humming-birds
anil other birds whose wings move
rapidly must watched be enormous. heron Anyone
who has a knows that
they move will find, their wings their slowly, and yet
they to counted surprise, that if
the wing-beats are they amount
to 120 to 150 strokes a minute. A hum¬
mer’s wings move so fast that they can
not be seen, only a blur at each side of
its body is noticeable, and the number
of beats per minute is inconceivable,
representing a wonderful expenditure of
force and energy.
taining The duke of Argyll, entitled in “Contrivance a very enter¬
Necessity.” chapter a
speaks of a bird’s wings
words: and the “No mechanism beautiful of flight example in these
more
can be found, even in the wide and rich
domain of animal mechanics, none in
which we can trace more clearly, too,
the mode and method in which laws the
most vigorous and exact are used as tho
supple instruments of purpose.” the
The construction of the wing*and
bird’s delicate and expert use of it are
formed a very the interesting basis all subject, and have
of attempts of man
to construct devices for navigating the
air.
There are things about a wing which
would be very hard to imitate in any
piece of machinery. In the first place,
the wing must bo of sufficient surface
and supplied with sufficient muscular
force so that its strokes upon the air
wiil be able to counteract tho force of
gravity it would drawing the body to the upward earth,
but seem that the
stroke would neutralize this completely,
just as if, iu rowing a boat, die oar
should be kept in the water as it re¬
covered for a fresh stroke. The wing,
however, is so contrived that the mini¬
mum of resistance is encountered. Tho
feathers of the wing underlie each other
feathers so that during the downward beat theso
are forced to lie together, there¬
by preventing the air from passing
through, as the vane of one feather lies
against the shaft of the next, but during
the upper beat these are all openeii like
so many valves, allowing free passage
of the air and not obstructing the wing.
Beside this the general shape of the
wing facilitates the motion. All wings
are concave below and rounding above.
During the downward blow the air is
collected and offers resistance, and dur¬
ing the reverse the air flows oft' the
upper side, very well illustrated by any¬
one who is in a strong wind with an
umbrella. Tho wind wi]I roll off tho
upper side easily enough, but turn and
hold the concave side to the blast and it
is This nearly pulled out of tlie hand.
then will account for the ability
of the bird to keep rising, but does not
explain the forward motion. A wing,
is is well known, is composed of long
feathers fastened to the skin or bone in
the front of the wing, and at liberty
behind. As the bird strikes, the air
can in not escape through the wing, nor
front, as it meets there with the firm
resistance of the bone, so the only place
it has is at the back of the wing, turn¬
ing the feathers up a little there and
giving much a forward the wind impulse does to the which body is
blowing rery in as direction
a quartering upon
the saii of a boat, or better still upon a
kite. The kite must be held in position
by a string, and f he weight of the bird’s
Tjjieu body the takes the place of the string. the
wings being moved ascend, at
proper descend angle the forward. bird is able to
or move
The phenomenon of soaring is done
by the same mechanism. That is, by a
delicate angle holding of the wings keep at the body pre¬
cise necessary to the
moving. It is impossible for bird to remain
a
stationary in a perfectly still air with¬
out some motion of the wings, 'lhe ob¬
servation is frequently maue, especially
of sea-birds, that they can stand still
suspended kind of in wind. the air This during occasions the stiffest
a sur¬
prise, whereas the fact is that the
stronger the wind the better tho bird
can soar, as it then ha* no motion what
•ver to make, but simply ta Uloi the
I
! wiugs to the Variations' fii the Velocity
of the wind, but it also follows that in
soaring the stronger the wind the slower
is the bird’s progress, because they must
get their forward motion by flopping
the quired wings, and the momentum thus ac¬
is impeded by the gale. Oceanio
birds the angle can that regain velocity by so altering
then sail rapidly thoy rise in the air, and
down toward the sea.
Homely Materials.
I remember once linding liis studio
occupied by a’ the half-holiday. entire school of village
side boys on studio roughly-con¬ Against one
of the was a
structed flight of steps, that had been
knocked up by the rural carpenter, on
the scale and in imitation of the stone
steps of the communal school. On these
the mass of boys were rushing up and
down.-ynaking a tremendous noiso with
their .wooden shoes on tho vibrating
boards, laughing, shouting, a»d push¬
ing. In the midst of this din the artist
was calmly working at his easel, sketch¬
ing positions and making the composi
tion of and a deli ghtful picture, ho afterward full of paint¬ move¬
ment life, that
ed, of a school breaking up. In many
of his pictures Frere wont to tho samo
trouble to reproduce details with truth¬
fulness to nature. picture He possessed without the the art
of composing a set
rules of classical composition, but by
*n arrangement agreeable to tho eye,
that was first attracted to the subject of
the picture, and then, after composition, wandering
over the details of the re¬
turned natural! v to the subject, the chief
attraction of tlie work. His pictures
representing tho interiors of cottages
were painted in tho cottages, the chil¬
children, dren that and peopled often them wandering were peasant about
in
Ecouen you would find the painter at
the corner of some picturesque street of
the village, painting the background of
one of bis works directly from nature. history
His pictures, besides being tho
of the child-life of this epoch, are also a
record of the departed architecture of
Ecouen, for with modern improvements
many of the quaint and picturesque
buildings, the thatched cottages, and
rustic court-yards have disappeared, it
and Ecouen is not as picturesque as
was when Edouard Frere first came
there to live. Scarcely any of the old
buildings remain except tho tine old
church, that is under Monumental tho protection society, of
the Historical and
and the chateau of the duke of Mont¬
morency. Externally his residence was
only a humble thatchod-roof cottage,
like many others in the village, but once
across the threshold it interiors; differed greatly lor the
from the other cottage
Parisian taste of Mme. Frere had ar¬
ranged and decorated the rooms, so that
it has often been referred to since by
those who knew bonbonniere.—From Frere in those days as
being a porfect the
Art Journal.
Buying Zunl Blankets.
As we entered the village everyone
there was busy doing something. Some
old squaws were sitting outside their
houses crooning snatches of Indian
songs in a low, guttural tone, their
hands meanwhile moving with wonder¬
ful rapidity, passing balls of colored
woolen thread backward and forward
between other threads which were
stretched vertically inside a squaro
wooden frame. While we were watch¬
ing them some of the natiyes old gathered
around, and one of them, an buck,
addressed us saying, in broken English:
“Halloo nnswered sojers; where goin’P” his satisfac¬ After
we had him to
tion we tried to find out what the
squaws were making, but we could not
get the desired information until we
had produced some tobacco and signi¬
fied that if ho would tell us wo would
give him some. When the old fellow
saw tho tobacco his face beamed with
smiles in an instant, and ho replied: inucbo
“Ow, ow [yes, yes], Tobacco me like heap him bueno;”
[very much]. had given him
(good); said, ami when pointing we the
some he to squaw:
“Him make blanket; blanket heap
bueno; me go get him,” and he disap¬
peared inside one of the houses, return¬
ing almost immediately which with held a blanket for
across his arm, ho up
our inspection, saying: “You like him?
Twenty dollars. Me sell.”
After bargaining with him for a few
minutes one of our party bought tho
blanket for $15, and ho never regretted
it. Their blankets far excel those man
ufactured , by their white brethren. I lie
Zunis take the wool as it conies off tho
sheep, color it, spin it into threads, and
then turn it over to the squaws, who
make tho blankets, everything being
done by hand alone. Tho prices for
blankets range from $5 to $50, accord¬
ing to size, and they are well worth tho
money. I have seen one tied by the
corners hold a quantity of water for
days without letting color a drop suffer come in
through, and its did not
the least— Cor. San Francisco Chron¬
icle. * *
Women Can Afford to Remain
Single.
The common talk is among young
men that they cannot afford marriage
because wives are such an expensive
luxury, and altogether afford such an impedi¬
ment that no one cau to have ono
unless he is very rich, This or kind is willing twaddle to re¬
main very poor. of
is so much in vogue that it wiil probably
seem heresy but to Hearing take any in other mind view the in¬ of
the case,
numerable stories of beating and muti¬
lation, and even murder, inflicted upon
women by drunken and ugly husbands,
it seer.>s to be about time to start a cru¬
sade to bring about a resolve on the
part of women not to get married.
They run about twenty times as much
risk in and such an operation as the “afford” man
does, if the latter cannot
to take unto himself a wife the majority
of women can well afford on their part
to remain single. Within twenty years
we predict that clubs for women, and
an livelihood, increased independence ami a generally in earning better
a
status for unmarried women will result
in a serious diminution of the marriage
rate. And, when women ara not to bo
got for the asking, men will bo more
careful of them. A little "corner” in
the marriage market would not be »
bad thing.-—Boston llecord.
A hawk always eating picks it, all but tho feathers owl
off a bird before an
swallows birds whole, feathers, claws,
and all. ... — —•
THE EGYPTIAN SOLDIER.
A Course of Training Which Makes
Him a Coward.
How the Egyptian soldier acquired
his phenomenal non-fighting qualities Wallace
is well told by Mr. Mackenzie
in his recent volume on Egypt and the
Egyptian question. To begin at tlie
beginning, the fellah is brought up on
kurbash (stick) in the samo way that
some infants are brought up on the
bottle, with tho difference that the feK
lah always remains an infant, and the
stick is always in near proximity of his feet. to
his bare back or the soles
Whatever the Government wants of
him, whether taxes or military service
—and it never manifests itself to him
in any other light—the first indication
of its needs is disclosed to liis ppre
hension by the kurbash.
The method of recruiting for tho ar¬
my is simple. Tho village of sheikh
gives tlie names of a number men
to tho local police, who go to the hov¬
els of tho luckless fellaheen and drive
them into the street, put iron collars
or yokes around their nocks, fasten
tho several collars together by a chain,
and drive them, as cattle are driven in
other countries, to tho prison, to be ex¬
amined bv tho medical officers, “A
stranger,” says Mr. Wallace, “when
stopping in a quiet village, which ho
naturally supposes to bo tlie abodo of
perpetual undisturbed tranquillity, night may
be suddenly awakened at which by be¬ a
violent altercation outside
gins by a gruff, bass male voice, and
culminates in shrill, hysterical, falsetto
tones, resembling the unmusical, plain¬
tive bowlings of funeral. the professional The first wail- timo
ers at a native
he is so disturbed he probably assumes
that it is a case of burglary with or man¬ tho
slaughter, and rushes out
laudable ously the purpose party of of law supporting and order; vigor¬ but
he finds, to his disappointment, that it
is nothing moro serious than tho cap¬
turing of a recruit for the army; and
though it may bo quite true, as tho
women tremulously declare, that tho
village his victim, sheikh, has in making been influenced tlie choice by of
baksheesh, tho arguments adduced pro
and con involve such contradictory
statements of fact and such complica¬ morals,
ted considerations of law And
that he will justified probably, in interfering ns a stranger, with tho
not feel
action of the legally constituted au¬
thorities. Tho great majority of tho
recruits endeavor to prove by wordy
arguments, solemn asseverations, ex¬
pressive gestures and totally revolting for contor¬ mili¬
tions that they are unfit
tary service; and, when arguments fail,
importunate entreaties, heart-rending
ployed. appeals or In indignant the protests police, with are em¬ the
vain
aid of their sticks and switches, en¬
deavor to keep order obstinate and persistently impose si¬
lence; tho moro
break from tiie ranks and have to bo
kept in their place by force. Those
who have no glaring succeeded corporeal in defect, pri¬
and wim have not
vately conciliating tho medical officer
or the military authorities, are marched
Once in the army the recruit is given
up for dead by all his friends’. His
term of service is fixed up by tho wiil
of the Government, and if he survives
the harsh treatment of his officers and
the casualties of war until old age he
is turatal out almost pensionless, to be
a burden upon relatives who have for¬
gotten him and who have scarce
enough for their own support. It is
no wonder, with such prospects before
them, that those liable to conscription
mutilate themselves by cutting off the
right forefinger The and putting out the
right eye. practice was so com
mon in the time of Mehemct Alt that
that talions enlightened one-eyed Prince and formed bat¬
or men sent them
into battle with Tut fish bashi-bazouks
and artillery beiiin v them, with orders
to shoot down even man who attempt¬
ed to run away. This plan for infus¬
ing courage into the soldiery has been
tried so often that it lias ceased to havo
any effect. The fellah would as lief bo,
shot by the enemy in his rear as by
the one in front. By male nature tlie most tho
submissive of ail creatures,
fellah never shows signs of disobe¬
dience until brought into tho neigh¬
borhood of the enemy. Ho then braves
any danger from his superiors Whole in order regi
to get out of bullet range.
ments havo been known to mutiny,
murder their officers and disband when
within a day’s march of peaceful tho opposing disposi¬
force. The naturally soldier lias been
tion of the Egyptian which Mr.
cultivated by tlie system
Wallace describes until ho has reached
tho very pinnacle of timidity. There
are no extremes of cowardice for him
to conquer. Ho lias surmounted them
ail—Nevj York Evening Post.
Patti and Bernhardt.
Mme. Patti has sung with more cele¬
brated artists in her duy than any other
person living, says tho New York Com
mercial Advertiser. She is tlie link
connectin? the singers of 1845 and
those of 1885. When she made her
debut in 1859 in New York Bngnoii;
was on hand, and afterward she ap-.
peared with Alboni, Grisi, Mario, Cam
panini, Capoul, and a score of others
equally well known. If she has ever
left any professional she has contrived heartburnings keep and
jealousies, welt hidden. Christine Nilsson, to
them
in the days when she was studying at
Paris and singing in the American
chapel, used to go constantly to Mme.,
Patti’s apartments, and when Marie
Van Zandt made her brilliant operatic
debut Mme. Patti was one of the first to
congratulate her. Patti certainly has a
generosity which is seldom coupled
with supremacy. Not longer ago than
Nov. G, 18G9, an obscure actress in
Paris lost all she possessed of worldly
goods by fire. Patti sang for her bene¬
fit. and at tho close of tho performance
her beneficiary came timidly and to the
door of the dressing-room asked if
she might see tlie person whose voice
had again furnished her with a home
and clothing. Mme. Patti gave willing
consent, and a tali, thin, and awkward
woman entered. She said nothing at
first, but touk Patti's hand and kissed
it. It ivus but a lew months later that
ttiis same red-haired woman was as-i
cais, toniihiiig ami her ali Paris /name, at tlie Sarah Theater Bernhardt,; Fran-|
was as well known as was that of Ado
lina Patti. „ J