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J. W. ANDERSON, Editor and Proprietor.
JUST ENOUGH.
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iFbe ■ In man this great who hopes world for of little strife j
■Will find success awaiting
I Ere the culminate of life;
■While he who hopes to grasp the stars
I From out their legions bright
fW ill falter by the wayside drear,
3 § With havens just in sight. i
■The child that learns to babble
I Close at the mother’s knee |
■May have the germ, ambition, |
I In babe’s expectancy; I
|To-morrow, f settled when the sun of Ilf |
Has o’er the land,
[A sod of green may cover o’er
| The chill and nerveless hand. j
tit’s much that makes the little, ,
f Or little makes the much, i
[Depending [ all entirely
Upon the might of touch—
[Upon the touch of greed or trust.
■ Oh Hope! why will you die
I When first the beacon flashes o’er
| The firmament of skyf
; Oh heart of great endeavor!
You’ll never learn the worth
That’s germed within the human breast
As smiles and tears in birth.
Why will you never count tba cost
Of jewels far away,
And never stop to gather up
The pearls which fjpund you lay!
— H. S. Kelier, in Clipper,
SPY IN THE CAMP.
BY AN EX-CONFEDERATE.
Jr the winter of 1864, when Johnston’s
jaMBy lay at Dalton in winter quarters, I
two or three excursions in the di
iBinn of Chattanooga, picking up more
^^Bless I^Hing valuable information, and was
after one of these raids when the
I^Bdent ^Bli.-it I am about to relate occurred.
Yankee spies were penetrating
oul camps was a well known fact. Two
^^■tltree had been arrested, but it was
two or three out of a dozen, and or
sSMfe had been issued to all regimental
^^B'ers to be vigilant and alert in seek
to detect the presence of strangers,
the scouts had, as a matter of course,
^Br B ived the same instructions, but for a
k nothing resulted from this com
’•aBed watchfulness.
bne afternoon, while sitting in the
farters of an old friend belonging to a
Igade baud, a crowd gathered outside,
[1 I heard the music of a fiddle. Step
pg to the door, I saw a German about
| years of age in the center of a circle of
jdiers seated on a cracker-box and play¬
•flk the fiddle in a rude sort of a way as
^■entirely unmindful of their presence.
man was in citizen’s clothes, and for
^Bat Hrfit seemed a very good reason. His
ijjpw. arm had been amputated at the el
I looked him over closely as he sat
tfcre, eyes half-closed anct keeping time
Wth his foot, and I could not say that I
l^id liGive ever seen him before.
us a song, cried a dozen men in
cborwH after he had played for a spell,
and he at once complied. The first verse
ran as follows:
[ "Oh ! doan’ yon see my falling [can?
I Oh ! doan' yon know dat I vhae eadf
Pot vhileyon laugh nnd marry vha»,
No home 1 baf to make me glad.”
Hilo had not yet finished it when I was
fcymg hard to remember where and when
■ hail heard it before. His voice was
jlBft ||Brg and plaintive, and the air of thc
was one to captivate a soldier. They
jpnwded closer and were silent while he
'WBtig the second verse:
“Nopody rhalts t« welcome mo,
Nopody cares which way I co;
1 vhalkft alone, adown life’s path,
My happiness vlias turned to woe."
# I was struggling like a prisoner to
IBrcak his bonds. Years ago I had heard
^Bat /*-%as song, and had not heard it since. It
in vain I cudgeled my brain, but just
HB hon I was in despair I happened to no
^j|ire how he was holding and playing the
agiddle. His right arm was gone, qs I
-.:»Jkave told you, but with the stump he
^nras Btancc holding the bow by a simple contri
and with his left hand he was tin
^fcering JpWere the strings. Indeed, the soldiers;
remarking on the novelty of it. I
^kad IHtny not watched him thirty seconds when
memory came to my aid.
I In the summer of 1859 I made a trip to
a watering place in Wisconsin—a bridal
iur. One evening, my wife and I
«at on the porch of the hotel this man
pame along, having a little girl with him.
And as he played that fiddle and sang she
Joined in the chorus and accompanied
pirn on the banjo. This was one of the
(songs he sang that evening—seven or eight
verses to it—and it was so sad and plain
ttive that we paid him to repeat it two or
'three times.
Now I could not say that he was not
a Confederate, but the fact that he was
not in our uniform, and that I had seen
ton so far North, was enough to rouse a
suspicion. As soon as he had finished his
■ song he offered for sale from his pack,
buttons, thread, needles, pencils and
other small wares, and did a rushing busi¬
ness for half an hour. He could have
sold everything right there, bnt he sud¬
denly packed up and moved away, even
when a dozen customers had money in
their hands. This action seemed queer,
if not suspicious, and I fallowed the man.
In half an hour I was certain that he was
a spy and had been making an estimate of
Without entirely losing sight of the
man, I communicated my suspicions to
the o fficer-of-the-d ay, and the result wa*
•west. The man did not even change
when he found himself be>
tween the bayonets, but marched off as if
such affairs were down on his programme.
Upon reaching the guard house he
calmly submitted to a thorough search of
his person and pack. This Lasted a full
but we made no discovery of im
portance. The man denied that he was
north of the Ohio River, and claimed
Orleans as his residence. He learned
song from a vagabond musican who
that city, and had sung it in hun
of Confederate camps since the war.
was absolutely no evidence against'
and he would have been set at liber
had I not Untreated the officer to give
me until next day to look up something
confirm my suspicions.
I at once mounted my horse and rode
through all the adjacent camps and I
found that the man had visited every one
them. He had certainly taken in a
corps in his round, and was heard
among infantry, artillery, cavalry and
ven the hospitals. As a peddler he
have done this, but as a spy he t
have done the same thing. Alb
evidence I could get was- that he had
played his fiddle, sung his.
and sold his notions, claiming to
to be selling on commission for a
and to others that he was in busi¬
for himself.
I returned to headquarters clean done
and mad at myself for having made
a mess of it. The man was all right
I was all wrong. I went to the
house to ask him a few questions,
it seemed to me that my sudden en- t
rather confused him. While I
I also watched, and presently
observed that he seemed to have a very,
quid of tobacco in his cheek. Mind
I was looking for trifles, and I no
noticed the fact I have mentioned
than I watched to see him expectorate
soon realized that he was doing so
wasn’t at all natural, and I began at
head to look him over. When I
down to the third button on his
there was no button there. Al^
others were in place, but this one was
The man was talkative and even jovial,
by and by I left him with the remark
I would go and report to the officer
have him set at liberty. I stepped
walked around for fiiteen minutes,
then re-entered the-guard-house. The
button on his blouse was now in,
place, and the quid of tobacco no longer*
bulged out his cheek. When ordered to *
<> peel” his coat he hesitated for an in¬
stant and I saw him.change countenance,
but off it came and I earned it to head
quarters. not
Every button on that blouse was
only a hollow cylinder made to screw to
gether, but each cavity was filled with
proofs to convict him as a spy. He had
worked an entire corps, and he had the
number of men, pieces of artillery, condi
tion of arms, and whatever else might be
asked for. It must have taken him two
weeks to secure such full and explicit in
formation.
When he was brought before Gen.
he felt that the jig was up. There were
his own notes to confront him. He re¬
fused to utter one single word, and
seemed to have made up his mind to pay
the penalty without flinching. It was brief
work to try, convict and-condemn him,
but he was never executed, On the
night before his exeentionlhe died on his
blankets. He was in the .full vigor of
years and health, having a hearty appe¬
tite, and his death has ever remained a
mystery. There was no wound of any
sort on the body, and of the-five surgeons
summoned to investigate albwere certain
that he did not take poison of any sort.
After playing on Ills fiddle for half an
hour he lay down on the blankets with
the remark that it was his last night to
sleep. A guard sat within ten feet of
him and saw him apparently fall into a
sweet slumber, but two hours later he
was dead.— Detroit Dree Press.
The Coendon.
The Havre aquarium has just put on
exhibition one of the most curious, and
especially one of the rarest of animals—
the prehensile tailed coendou. It was
brought from Venezuela by Mr. Equidazu,
the commissary of the steamer Colombie.
Brehm says that never but two have been
seen—one of them at the Hamburg Zoo¬
logical Garden and the other at London.
The one under consideration, then, would
be the third specimen that has been
brought alive to Europe, This animal,
which is allied to the porcupines, is about
three and a half feet long. The tail alone
is one and a half feet in length. The
entire body, save the belly and paws, is
covered with quills, which absolutely hide
the fur. Upon the back, where these
quills are longest (about four inches),
they are strong cylindrical, shining, sharp
pointed, white at the tip and base, and
blackish brown in the middle. The
animal, in addition, has long and strong
moustaches, The paws, anterior and
posterior, have four fingers armed with
strong nails, which are curved and nearly
cylindrical at the base.
Very little is known about the habits
of the animal. All that we do know is
that it passes the day in slumber at the
top of a tree and that it prowls about at
night, its food consisting chiefly of leaves
of all kinds. When it wishes to descend
from one branch to another it suspends
COVINGTON, GEORGIA. VVEDNISUAY, APRIL T, 1886.
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tail, sndUet»*go of the first ;
whenit haa affirm hold of the other. i
peculiarity's that-the extremity of .
dorsal parti of the. tail is prehensile. . .. >
part ls»deprivediof quills for alength *[
about 4tx .inches. The cocndou docs
not like to betdistnrbed. When it does
advances - toward the intruder ana
endeavors to > frighten him by raising its j
quills all over its body. The natives of 1
Central America eat its flesh and employ
The its quills animal for is various quite extensively domestic distributed purposes, j
throughout South America. It is found
in Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Guiana,
in some of the Lesser Antilles, such
Trinidad, Barbadoes, Saint Lucia, etc
—-London Nature.
Some Queer Fish.
A far more singular walking fish than
of ... these ..... the odd creature that ...
any is re
unfortunately, in the veiy classical
of Penophthalmus, which is, be- j
ing interpreted, Stareabout. If he had j
a recogmzied English name of his own,
I would gladly give it; but.he hasn’t, ;
and as it is clearly necessary to call him
something, I fear we must stick to the ,
somewhat alarming scientific nomencla
ture. Penophthalmus, then, is an odd :
fish of the tropical Pacific shores, with a
pair of very distinct forelegs,
ly described as modified pectoral fins,
and with two goggle eyes, which he.can |
protrude at pleasure right outside the
sockets, so as to look in whatever direc
tion he chooses without even taking the
trouble to turn his head to left orright,
backward or forward. At ebb tide this
peripatetic go y litera • y walks straight
out of the water, and promenades the
bare beach >erect on two legs, in (search of
small crabs and other stray marine ani
mala left beliind by the receding waters.
If you try to catch him, heihops away
briskly much like a frog and 4 stares back
at you grimly'Over his left shoulder, with
his squinting optics.^ So completely
adapted is he for this amphibious long
shore existence, that his big .eyes, unlike
those of most other fish, are ’ formed for
seeing in the air as well as in the water.
Nothing can be more ludicious than to j
watch him suddenly thrusting these very
movable orbs right out oftheir sockets j
Uke a pair of telescopes, and them twist
ing round in all directions so as to see be
fore, behind, on top below, in one dehght
ful circular sweep.
There is also a certain curious tropica]
American carp which, though it hardly
deserves to be considered in the stnetef A
sense as a fish out of water, yet manag/ea
to fall half way under thatrpcculiar cute
goiy, for it always swimstwith its ’nead
partly above water and partly below. !
But the funniest thing in this/queer ar
rangement is the fact that onc-lialf of i
each eye is out in the airland the other
half is beneath the water. Accordingly,
the eye ia divided horizontally by a dark
strip into two distinct «and unlike por- |
tions, the upper one of which has a pupil
adapted to vision in the air alone, while
the lower is adapted for seeing in the
•water only. The fish, in fact, always
swims with its eyeihalf out of the water,
and it can see aswell on dry land as in
its native ocean. Its name is Anableps,
but in probability it does not wish the
fact to be generally known.— Comhill,
Proved a Perjurer.
In a large factory, in which were em
ployed several ^hundred persons, one of
the workmen, in wielding a hammer,
carelessly allowed it to slip from his
hand. It flew half way across,the room,
and struck a fellow-workman-in the .eft
eye. This man claimed that his eye
was blinded by the blow, although a
very carefuljexamination -failed to reveal
any injury. He brought*a suit in the
courts for compensation • for the loss of
half of his eye-sight, and refused all of
fersofa compromise. Under the law,
the owner of:the factory was responsible
for an injury resulting from an accident
of this kind, and although-he believed
that tbe man was shamming, and that
the whole case was an attempt at swind
ling, he had about made up his mind
that he would be compelled to pay the
claim.
The day of the trial arrived, and in
open court an eminent oeculist, retained
by the defence, examined the alleged in
jured member, and gave it as his opinion
that it was as good as the right eye.
Upon the plaintiff s loud protest of his
inability to see with his left eye, the oc
culist proved him a perjurer, and satis
fled the court and jury of the falsity of
his claim.
And how do yon suppose he did it?
Why, simply by knowing that the colors
green and red combined make black.
He procured a black card on which a
few words were written with green ink.
Then the plaintiff was ordered to put on
a pair of spectacles with two different
glasses, the one for the right eye being
red, and the one for the left eye consist
ing of ordinary glass. Then he
was ordered to read the writing on it.
This he did without hesitation, and the
cheat was at once exposed.
The sound right eye, fitted with the
red glass, was unable to distinguish the
green writing on the black surface of the
card, while the left eye, which was
claimed to lie sightless, was the one
with which the reading had to be done,
—Harpers Young People..
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Past Genergion.
Some Facts of Interest A’ It the Differ
ent Styles-of Boots Shoes.
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There have been no Binges in the
fashion of footwear wit n a generation,
In early-days inales war lo‘ng°top boots
the year -round almost - dusively, only
varying in thickness, ren in this re
spect the-variations wei frequently lim
ited to the process <ofciag or “greas
jug. The women > stut quite persist¬
ently to low cut sh'ses, 4 , to speak pre-.
cisely, to slippers for sinmer and bus¬
kins for winter. These Maty slippers
laced with galhson s unoathe ankle anh.iL nro- pro
duced . . a bewitching . effect Occasionally
one saw a woman in eotees. These
were the p/meers of ^e-laced gaiters
which carae along late. Of course
there was^ome better prioetion required
to overcome the discomforts from
deep s nows and wearines,of travel, for
the facilities were then s<meager, and
the-* were afforded by lie ubiquitous
w jolen weta which were wam over the
shoes and ankles. Save it large cities or
villages very few rubber sb.es were worn.
These were luxuries seldon indulged in,
because of the cost andof the lack of
knowledge as to their repdlaut qualities,
** well as to the labor reared in con
forming the ungainly things to the con
of the shoe In the course of events
*7® C ‘ in ” e y, wit
& ° womeni 8 “ r 00
^d^uaUy 1 discarded the long V leg ^ ap
^jage. D S women The ren prevalence ere a species of hoop-skirts o pro
oo wear ne^sar], w e on e
.
411 e 3 J ® ® ^
users wi men m e t e egs o oots
incum ranee. u ei 6 loes, mean
w come c eap an popu ar,
** a _*° sexes are on apane o equa -
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l ° 8 mtl 0 coven *g f° r 1 6
“g ^custom that fonnerly of measurement prevailed so extensive- shoemak
V » ™rth mentiomng. Sale work,
derisively shop work,” was rare
or handled. A shoe store in
^ady-made £ost populous towns was a place
shoes could be procured,
&ough the largest portion of its
left their measures, which were
^2*“ ^ attenuea f8re to. * to Tanou ° Si xf rd mom ^“ ner9
ma! ^ e periodic^ visits to the houses
customers and supplied thdr wants.
j B * cest boots were found among the
P°ricr 8 . We had not then acquired
farflit T producing a boot equal
^ 81:40 the Prench nrticle -
The immediate predecessors of india
rubber sboe8 . for wear in the cities
were P'epared during the snowy
8easoafi » wct* articles technically described
“galoches.” They were, in fact,
leather overshoes, save that the protec
^ on 081110 t° f be soul of the foot rather
than other P art ^- The prototype of
the shoe was the ancient “clog,” which,
wdeed . waa worn 88 a »hoe or foot cov
ering, instead of an extraneous protector,
In later y cars the P atterl1 of England wav
Wndred to the “galoche.” There was
always something natty in the appear
ance of'this article, and the facility with
which it could be donned was in its fa
vor as well. Yet, woe to the individual
who attempted the use of a new pair
upon icy walks, where the hard and
8m0 oth soles beguiled frequent down
falling to the uninitiated. The original
vulcanized rubber shoes had a leather
bottom, and it constituted an objection
hard to overcome, because they
were <*, slipjiery. Tlie use of bot
toms came as a bension to the apprecia
tion of this species of foot wear.”— 8hoe
and Leather Reporter.
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Short Journeys by the Overland Route,
Strollin „ one da y in , vhat is euphemis
^ ^rmed in equatorial latitudes,
^ CQO , of ^ evening) » a i ong atan
g | ed tropical American field-path, through
a j ow reg ; oa 0 f lagoons and water-courses,
my attention happened to be momen¬
tarily attracted from the monotonous.pur
Q f f be nimble mosquito by a/small
animal scuttling along irregularly, before
me, as if in a hurry to get out of 1 my way
j could turn him into an excellent
ipecimen. At first sight I took the little
bopper) j n the gray dusk, for one of the
gtnall g^n lizards, and wasn’t
mucb disposed to pay it any distinguished
*bare either of personal or scientific atten
tion. But, as I walked on a little farther
though the dense underbrush, more and
,jj 0re Q f these shuffling and scurrying lit
y e crea tures kept crossing the path, hasti
ly, all in one direction, and all, as it were,
In a formed body or inarching phalanx,
closer, to my great surprise I
f ound they were actually fish out of wa
ter, going on a walking-tour, for a change
0 f ^ ^ a new residence—genuine fish, a
couple of inches long each, not eel-shaped
or serpentine in outline, but closely re
gembling a red mullet in miniature,
though much more beautifully and deii
cateiy colored, and with fins and tails of
ra ost orthodox spiuy aud prickly de
senption. They were traveling across
country in a bee-line, thousands of them
together, not at all like the helpless fish
of water of popular imagination, but
unconcernedly and naUiraHy as if they
had, been i
accustomed to the overland
for their whole lifetimes, and were
■walking now on tlic king’s highway with
out let or hindranoa.— .Popular Science
Monthly.
Ants ns Pickles.
It is curious what an appetite for some
thing sour men have who eat a great deal
of fat food. Generally in the lumbering
region, a large quantity of raspberries or
blueberries are picked and put down in
tubs .... to . sour for . winter .. use. But that
year had been a poor berry year; scarcely
any had been gathered. “Pickles 1
Pickles I” was the cry, morning, noon and
night. There were 26 choppers of the
camp, all calling for “pickles.” “An’ ef
yer can't git us roz-briz git ants 1” So
the cook sent A1 Churchill and I—the
youngest ........ two members in the camp—off
LoThe woods after great ant^pil
les . it may seem rather odd, to say the
leaflt> that a bod could have the 8tom .
ach to eat 80 ugly an insect „ a big>
black ant But it not inf uKntly
done in the lumbering camps of northern
Maine and Canada. I did muster courage
to chew one up once. It had a fine, acid
flav0I . by no mean8 unpleasant if on0
could keep his eyes shut. Rough fellows,
Uke ^ lumbennen| are not very fast3di .
ous . The CO ok gave us a six quart tin
pa il and cover to get the ants in. Altook
an old gun which was kept at the camp
to shoot partridges and other game; and
x took an as to cut open the old { md
8tu ^ We 8et ofl for a tract
where the fire had ^ yeare before> and
wbere 0 [ d p ; ne trunks lay scattered in
decay on the ground as they fell. Many
of these had colonies of large ants living
in tunuels Md galleri h , s whicb they ^ had
^ In Scptcmber it is
fl nd out wb j cb stunqis, 0r logs, have the
nesta of ants . for by rapping smartly on
the side, an army of black fellows will
pour out 0 f their holes; and if you pre
scnt your band they will attack it with
remarkab i e fierceness. But so late as
o ecember t} ie ;ln ts are too torpid from
the cold to sally forth. But we were
guided by the ho , e8 which they had cut
{(Jr gatc8 _ and the heaps of frcsh chipS)
Ukc 8awdugt) which had been thrown out
A few strokes of ^ ax sufficed t0 #plit
or knock to pieces> thc old stump9) and
expose the long tunnels ftnd act , WO rk of
cr 0SS passages inside. Many of these we
found packed with dorraa!)t ants, and
hacl only to 8C00p them into our pail.
one log I remember that we scraped
t not i e88 f ban a quart . aad a quarx or au w
must con t aln at least 10 , 000 , even
these large ones .—American Rural llwne.
j The Streets of Jerusalem.
; The streets of the Holy City are narrow,
j badly paved, and crooked as a corkscrew;
the principal being the street of David,
leading from the Jaffa Gate to the Haram;
thr street of the Gate of the Columns,
street running of the roin Gate c of the I rophet a,t David, ^ \ * e
um er w uc i name i continues to ion
Gate; Chnstian btreet ninning from the
Jreet of David to thqChurch of the Holy
Sepu'chre; and the Via Dolorosa,running
from the Church of the Holy bepulchre
to bt. Stephens Gate. There are very
few open places, and not one street m
1 winch a carnage can be driven; the ba
Mars are poor and not to be compared
for a moment with those nf Cairo or Da
mascus; they are in narrow lanes, for the
most part vaulted over, and exhibit the
usual articles to be found in Eastern ba
zaars—-shoes, l»ipes, tobacco, hardware,
jewelry, cutlery, and so forth—-each stall
being under the superintendence of a man
inflowing robes and turban, who sits
cross-legged and smokes while the crowd
buzzes unceasingly around him. There
ar, ‘ two S°°d hotels, the “Mediterrane
a 11 " - imi tbe “Damascus;” and several
hospices the Casa Nova of the Francis
cans; the Austrian Hospice, and the
Prussian Hospice of 8 t. John—but the
mi, j nrit ? of traveler9 who are Makin 8
tour of Palestine, camp outside the dty,
“ indeed do many of the inhabitants
the “ summer time for the sake of
air. Almost every house in
ha-a cupola, with a flat surface on
roof to allow a stroil round it, and all
the houses are of stone. Very few
them exhibit any traces of architectural
beauty; in fact, thc dwelling-houses gen
eraily su S8 est P overt J and dirt -
! Sailors as Smugglers.
In a talk with a custom house officer
a Pliiladelphia Times reporter elicited
thc following: “All the sailors smuggle.
They secrete goods all over the ship and
derive a profitable trade by bringing in
j dutiable goods without submitting them
j to the appraiser. cabins and False thousand lockers are made
in the a odd nooks
and corners on a ship are utilized to con
ceal smuggled goods. They do not at
tempt to remove these while the vessel i*
discharging her cargo, because a great
majority of the inspectors are vigilant and
honest and the goods would be apt to be
, confiscated. They wait until the cargo is
discharged, and after the inspector has
( gone over the vessel and certified tu. :■ no
dutiable goods remain on her they bring
out their hidden treasures and carry them
ashore. All sorts of goods are smuggled,
and there are lots of common sailors who
are in league with professional smugglers
nnd bring in contraband goods on every
4np."
VOL. XIL NO 20.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
Prof. Bakliuyzen, of the Leiden ofaser
v «tory, finds reason for believing that a
part of the planetary surface of Mars is
liquid.
The first arehmopteryx, the fossil re
mains of the oldest known bird, which
scans to form the “connecting Unk” be
tween birds and reptiles, was discovered
in the lithographic slate of Solenhofan in
1801. Another specimen recently found
in the same locality, has been sold .a t for
$->000 to the Berlin Museum.
Tidal observations on the eastern coast
of America have acquired a new impor
tance since the coast survey has confirmed
bv recent observations the older sugges
tion that there are tidal fluxes in the Gulf
Stream, and variations of its velocity due
to half-monthlv chances in ^ the relative
Mexico
An electric spark in a dusty atmosphere
causes the dust to settle, and if the air
be smoky clears it up. This is probably
one reason why the air seems so clear
when sniffed after a thunder storm, eve*
though there has been but little rain.
Dr. E. Fleischer has conducted experi
Dient.s on the action of sea mud on moor¬
lands and‘sands. In the first year there
Was no appreciable result, but in the sec¬
ond and third years there was a benefi¬
cial influence manifested, which, how¬
ever, declined again in the fourth year,
A Storm’s Journey.—The first storm
ever followed day by day from the Pacific
to Europe has been described to the
Uoyal Meteorological Society of London
by ,' Mr. Harry Harries. It originated as a
t ^ phoori near the Philippine Islands on
tcraber 27,passing Japan and the
Aleutian Islands, and entering the Unit
ed States on October 10. Crossing the
Rocky Mountains, it proceeded through
the northern status and Canada to Labra
dor and Davis Strait. Encountering two
other disturbances in its passage of the
Atlantic, it reached the French coast on
October 27, causing extensive destruc
^ and on Novcmber ly ia the Baltic,
i( . quiet , y disper8edi ftfter accomplishing
t0 000 mile8 b 36 da
« a P a P«’ . of ^ de ,
» elo P me “ t of coa f t8 ’ a German geo ogis
l>r. Fischer, reaches the concl 10 .
K C S * ' 1&V ^
erosive action . of waves and streams, ter- .
r ® c0S “ nd fl “ t 8Urf ^ eS ”? th * f ' *
charactenstics, . with semi-circular . . ba,ys of
8mftd rad ' 118 ° n u rr,lcp d coasts and larg.
ra ' 1,US 011 flat coaste ' Where other fea
tures exist, they are mainly attributable
to subterranean movements and com
paratively recent changes in the level of
thc land, some modifying effectshaving
of course been wrought by the sea.
... ........ ...
Power of an Ocean Wave.
In a paper by the Rev Phillip Neale
late British Chaplain at Batavia, in Leis
Ur( , Hour) 8p€ak ing of the great inunda
tion from the sea caused by the Krakatoa
eart hquake, Java, he says: “One of the
most rema rkable facts concerning thc
inundation remains to be told. As we
walked or scrambled along, we were
much 8Urpri8e d to find great masses of
white coral lying at the side of our path
iu every d i rec tion. Some of these were
of immense size, and had been cast up
morc tban two or three miles from the
gp^fiorp. It was evident, as they were
of cora j formation, that these immense
bloukg of go i id rock had been torn up
from tbeb ocean bed j n tbe midst of the
g unda straits, borne inland by the gigan
tic wave, and finally left on the land sev
era i m ii C8 from the shore. Anyone who
had not seen the sight would scarcely
cred;t the gtoryi T he feat seems almost
an i mposs i b i e one. How these great
ma , sse8 cou ] d have been carried so far into
tkc j nter jor is a mystery, and bears out
what j have said in previous papers as to
th e height of this terrible wave. Many
of these rocks were from twenty to thirty
tons in weight, and some of the largest
must have been nearly double. Lloyd’s
agent, who was with me, agreed in think
; ing that we could not be mistaken if we
put down the largest block of coral rock
that we passed as weighing not less than
fifty tons.
A Gray-hslred Yale Student.
The present senior class m Yale college
which numbers 130 men, has one among
the number whose gray locks are in strik
ing contrast with the youthful appear
ance of his 129 classmates. The veteran’s
name is Porter Sherman, and his name
also appeared as a senior in the college
catalogue of 1864 5, issued just twenty
one years ago. Sherman is about 50
years old, and first entered Yaie in the
fall of 1861, hailing from Hillsdale, Mich,
For three yeare he pursued his college
course, rooming at No. 74 High street,
At the beginning of his senior year he
suddenly left college and subsequently
oxjierienced a varied career, finally be
coming superintendent of schools at Kan
sas City. While holding that position he .
decided to complete his course at Yale,
and leaving his office duties in the hands
of a substitute for a year, he entered the
class of'86. In looking fora lodging
place he found that his old room on High
street was “for rent,” and so ensconced
himself for his final college year in the
same quarters occupied by him over
twenty years ago.— Globe-Democrat.
i
Drifting.
Ilia waves may sparkle through tbs livelong
day,
Decked In the folds of Heaven's reflected
blue,
And sparkling over soft-voiced shoals may
play,
Or mirror In its surface-depths the view:
Butthe “ n flowa on ’ “ d we ’ uponUfe ’ 8
^ the currenti ^ {orever .
Soft melodies may soothe us as wo drift
Beneath the boughs of over-arching trees,
And perfumes float from every leafy nit,
G r from the neighboring lily-mantled leas:
jjf t) expands into a mighty river,
And we, upon its bosom, drift forever.
Ah, soon its sparkle dulls; its glitter dies;
And all the song in life is left behind;
^nd only emptiness around us lias
As love grows cold; until at last we find
Life’s perfume fled. Then we, upon the
river,
Yearn for a sweetness that ts gone forever.
But often in our hearts a fragrant air
Floats down the stream in sad, delicious
And in, and round, and near us everywhere
A thousand mellowed memories arise,
Like flowery perfumes wafted down the
river
To soothe us as we drift along forever.
— O. H. Murphy in the Current,
HUMOROUS.
A liberty pole—Kosciusko.
u Ever kneeling at thy feet”—Hie boot
black.
People we must put up witb—Hotel
keepers.
A friend in need—The re«l estate
agent.
Jonah was the first secretary of the in
terior
“The money makers"—Workers in the
mint
What ia pie-plant? Why, the burial of
a baker, of course.
Buttons—Missus told me to come down
and tell you she was not at home. Huff
cut—Go back and tell your mistress I say
I haven’t called.
A poor young man and his poor young
wife get along very well with their
economy until the dry goods stems begin
to spread all over the newspapers. Then
there’s a break.
}f & WQman ha(ra ^ bnt three
lines to write on a page of letter paper,
she can’t resist the temptation to write
^ q{ ^ on the ride margin
then sign her name upside down over the
An up-country schoolmaster.whoeewife
was one of his pupils, had occasion to
punish her one day. The next day the
school-house door bore this inscription:
“School closed for one week owing to the
illness of the schoolmaster.
Mecca, the Holy Oily,
^ecc*, the most celebrated city «f
the seat of thc Mohammedan re¬
u • ^ a narrow gandy vaUe y
by hills, without trees or verd*
ure In it8 centre is the Beatu Allah
(I1 ouse of God), or El Harem (the invwl
^ ^ ferreat mosquCj mc]osing the
dividing the whole into the
northcrn and sout hem towns, these again
b ■ sub . divided into 26 quarters, ex
„f the suburbs ^ which stretch in
. le bneg of boU8e along struts the narrow
p , irt/8 0 f the valley The are wider
than is usual in Eastern towns, the houses
o{ gtone t h re e stories high and usually
wel , u hted ^ shpreet - s house is
( e enougb said”to f or a garrison of 1,000
aod j s be impregnable. The city
^ a[lnua Uy J filled at the time of the
j, - a and thousands of the devout
*
c in the 8uburbs The inhabitants Of
thi 9 ren owned city of the False Prophet,
witb tbe exception of Hjaazi Bedouin,
are strangers by birth or parentage, being
mostly 3 settlers or children attracted hkh
er by gain.
The colleges of Mecca have falleB to
decayj aad t h e libraries, once rich, have
totally disappeared. As this wonderful
cR y during the pilgrimage is visit
ed by from 100,000 to 200,000 strangers
j t bec0£nes for three or four months in
^ year market in the East;
- te merc h a nts occasionally accumulating
large fortunes, On the other hand, the
beggars of the city are importunate as
well as numerous.
The Shereefs, or direct descendant* of
Mohammed are now a numerous and
w i de [y spread body. These nobles, as
they may be called, elect the Shereel of
Mecca, and their choice is confirmed by
the Ottoman Sultan. The stationary
population of Mecca is estimated at be.
tween 25,000 and 30,000, including some
3 000 or 4,000 Abyssinian and negro
(
slaves. But two Europeans have ever
been permitted to enter the Holy City of
Mohammed.
A Leading Question.
“And so Mr. Featherly will lead your
daug hter to the altar next month, Mrs.
Hendricks?” said the minister, who was
his weekly call.
“Ah, yes!” replied Mrs. Hendricks,
with a sigh; “I don’t know what I shall
do without Clara.
“Will Mr. Featherly lead Clara to the
altar the same as Aunt Jane says that ma
leads pa?” inquired Bobby.
“How is that, Bobby?" asked the
pleasantly.
“By the nose.”— N. Y. Times.