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Going Homo.
Ki s 1110 when my spirit flies;
Lot tho beiuty of your eyes
Boam along tho waves of death
VvTii o I draw my parting breath,
And am borne to yonder shore
Where the billows boat no more,
And the notes of endless spring
Through the groves immortal ring;
I am going home to-night,
Out of blindness into sight,
Out of weakness, war and pain,
Info power, peace and gain.
Out of winter gale and gioom
Into summer breath and bloom;
Prom the wanderings of the past
I am going home at last.
Kiss my lips and let me go:
Nearer swells the solemn flow
Of the wondrous stream that rolls
By the borderland of souls;
I can catch sweet strains of songs
Floating down from distant throng
And can feel the touch of handsj
Beaching out from angel bands.
Anger’s frown an 1 Envy’s thrust,
Friendship chilled by co’d distrust,
Sleepless night and weary morn,
Toil in fruitless land forlorn,
Aching head and breaking heart,
Love destroyed by Slander’s dart;
Drifting ship and darkened sea,
Over there will righted be.
—James O. Clark.
Kit Carson's Wild Ride.
“Did I know Kit Carson!” repeated
that veteran pioneer, Mr. W. M. Boggs
of Napa, to a question concerning the
famous plainsman and guide. “Well,
slightly, 1 reckon. I wintered and sum¬
mered with him and Nick Gentry in the
old trading days of ’46 and’47—the
t mes, you know, of the overland trade
■on the Santa Fe road, between St. Louis
and New Mexico. It took five or six
months to make the trip by wagon and
team over the Cimarron route, as it was
called. Nick Gentry when I was with
him in 1844, pointed out to me many
places where bloody encounter* had
taken place between the white traders
and the sneaking and bloodthirsty
Pawnees, Kiowas, Comanches, and
Apaches.
“But about Carson. What sort of a
man was the old guide and trapper?”
“Hu li .d many Indian characteristics,
owing to the fact that his life had been
largely spent among the savages, Hu
was retiring modest to a dogree among
his white fellows, resisted any attempt to
bring Mm Tfifb notice, o„d -rr obasUctl
and even irritable when he perceived a
disposition to lionize him. He felt ill
at case ampug white men, but when
among the Indians had no such feeling.
Carson spoke slowly and as one having
authority. His judgment in all dif¬
ficulties occurringon a march or questions
arising in council was never questioned.
His habits wore simple, his fair plain. I
have known him go for days without
food, and at tho same timo feel no great
inconvenience. A handful of dried
buffalo meat, or a little parched corn,
which he carried in a sort of pouch be¬
hind his saddle, was his ouly rations for
weeks sometimes. He was temperate,
t oo, and seldom, if over, indulged in
strong drink. Carson was a loosly-built
man, of small stature, and did not weigh
over 160 pounds. S mple habits of life ;
had become second nature to himself aud
his associates on the plains. The
luxuries of life and the confinement of
towns, when they happened in tho wkite
settlements, soon palied on them, and in
a little while they went off to their
hunting-grounds, the simple fare of the
praire, and the pure wa'er of the
mountain streams. Yes,” continued
Mr. Boggs, “Carson was a model
plainsman. IIo was cautious in all his
movements ou the march, but daring in
times of emergency, quick to perceive
any advantage to be taken, whether
over the wily savage or in combating the
elements. It is unnecessary to speak of
his bravery, Ftemont’s experiences boar
testimony to that. Ho rendered valuable
service to the United States government
during the Mexican war, and after he
had quit Fremont, was guide and scout
for old Gun. Stephen W. Kearny. He
was in the hard fight at San Paschal,
where Kearny was defeated by Andres
Pico.”
“What were the circumstances attend¬
ing Carson’s death!”
“It was caused by an accident. He
broke an artery by falling from his mule,
and breathed his last at my brother’*
residence, on tiie Los Animas, not far
from the site of old Fort Bent, where
the two had passed many happy days
and passed through many exciting
scenes of frontier life.
“Yes, yes,” said Mr. Boggs, slowly
and in a lower voice, as if communing
with himself, “the Rocky Mountain he¬
roes have all passed away; Carson, Sub¬
lette, Walker, Williams, Greenwood,
Black Harris, Peg-Leg Smith—all gone
to the happy hunting grounds.
Recovering himself the gentleman con¬
tinued:
“Speaking of Carson’s bravery, let me
relate an incident that will illustrate his
'courage. It was most horrible and
distressing one, and took place on the
Santa Fe Road, near the Cimarron
mountains, in 1846. A merchant trader
named James White, from Independence,
Mo., with his wife, servant aad chlld^
was captured, together, with his mer
chai lis’ Ira n, by the Comanches, who
after t ip Apart •», are the most cru*l of
all the North Amaataan faniiaa ttihta.
The Covington Star.
White and all his men were immediately
tomahawked and scalped, and the
women and child carried off prisoners.
Nows of this affair reached the New
Mexican settlement, where Kit Carson
happened !o be (he lived near Taos in
New Mexico), and he immediately start¬
cd, joining a party of United States
dragoons, in pursuit of the murderous
marauders. The troopers were too slow
for the active plainsman. Kit, with his
knowledge of Indian tricks and manners,
soon struck the Comanche trail, and, in
advance of the dragoons, pursued it
until nightfall, when he found the
savages encamped. Returning to Col.
Sumner after long and weary night ride
he urged him to make a forced march
and surprise the Comanches. It was
the only way, Carson argued, to rescue
the prisoners alive, for it is n well
known fact among old Indian fighters
that whdn the cruel redskins, when not
taken by suaprise, will retaliate on the
attacking party by killing the prisoners
sought to be rescued, in order to save
their scalps, as every enemy’s scalp
whether of man, woman or child, counts
one ‘Ca,’ as it is called. Of this fact,”
added Mr. Boggs, “I am myself aware.
I learned it while living with the Chey¬
ennes and Arapahoes in 1844. The
Sioux and Comanches, as well as the
sneaking Pawnees and Kiowas, all
do likewise. Their habits are simi
Ur, roaming as they do over
the same region of country on the great
plains of Colorado and Northwestern
Texas, up to the Yellowstone and the
Missouri River on tho north. But to re¬
turn to Carson and the Comanches. Be¬
fore setting out in pursuit he visited (as
he told me himself) the scene of the
White massacre, which had been dis¬
covered by a Mexican, From tho way
in which the goods and other material
lay scattered around he knew it was the
work of Comanches, and this fact aided
him in trailin'.. When ho returned to
Col. Sumner and the dragoons, and
urged him, as I said before, to make a
forced march so as to reach the Indian
village before daylight, the Colonel ask¬
ed him:
“ ‘How many Indians are there in
camp!’
<( l From 300 to 400,’ replied Carson;
‘ail fighting men, with their families.’
it t Too many for me to handle, ’ sr A
t>Lv O* v/aOUL X « ■j sixty uguuug
regulars and about twenty-five volun¬
teers gathered -in from surrounding
ranches. I cannot risk their lives against
so large a party.’
“Carson grew impatient. ‘There is
not a moment to be lost, Colonel, if you
would surprise the Indians and rescue
the women.’
H i I positively refuse to give the order
to advance,’ Sumner said, with cool de¬
termination.
. > Then Carson's kind heart and daring
courage asserted themselves. He turned
from the cavalry Colonel with a slight
gesture of contempt, and raising himself
in his stirrups, while the fire of heroism
flashed from his eyes, called out in n
loud clear voice:
“ ‘Volunteersi I want volunteers!
Who will ride with me to save .white
women and children from torture and
death!’
“Carson knew a few of the Rocky
Mountain boys in the party, who, of
course, were at his side in a moment,and
a number of tho soldiers also offered to
go. Here Col. Sumner interposed.
“ ‘Carson, said he, ‘I will hold you re¬
sponsible for the lives of my men.’
i t I Allright Colonel,’ replied the gal¬
lant Kit, waving his hand, as at the
head of a part j of thirty bedashed oil into
the darkness on his mission of venge¬
ance and possibly of rescue.
The action of Col. Sumner was that of
a trained and careful soldier, brave
under all circumstances; but the art of
war had taught him the folly of uselesly
exposing the lives of men for whom he
was responsible, ns he would have done
had he pitted 60 soldiers against 400
of a warlike, desperate, and determined
tribe of Indians, such as the Comanches
were known to be. Carson, of course,
was irresponsible, and his action was
characteristic, taking all chances, and
trusting to his Indian knowledge to beat
the savages at their own game. We call
his ride reckless, but at the same timo
admire the courage that prompted it.
.. They rode all next day and night,
reaching the Indian village a little after
daylight, but unfortunately were dis¬
covered by the Comanches, so that the
Indians had time to make a break, and
several of them got into the ravines and
brush. Carson’s party went to work
with a will, killing indiscriminately
bucks, squaws, and papooses, One of
the avengers, Doc Reed, singled out the
Indian who was dragging off the cap¬
tive Mrs. White by the hair of the head,
in a direction different from that the
other redskin* were taking, thinking,
doubtless, he might be able to escape
unseen with his victim. The hapless
woman’s body was terribly bruised as
well as blistered by sunburns, Com¬
pletely *t the mercy of the brawney sav
*ge, *he, on hearing the yell of the
white men, as they dashed in to the at¬
tack, fall down and was being dragged
.iff in the manuer described. When
Reed dia#ov*red the situation, he
V- heeled his horse and spurred him to¬
ward th* Indian, who shot an arrow in-
GEO RGIA, WEDNESDA Y, FEBRUARY 123. 1887.
to the fleshy part of the rider’s back 1
as
his horse, being somewhat un
manageable, passed him. But
reining him up finally, and
just as the Comanche wa§ about to let
slip another arrow at him, Reed drew a
steady bead on him with a large Colt’s
revolver, and, uttering a piercing death
yell, the savage fell on the ground with
a bullet in his brain. Reed told me the
Indian’s yell rang in his ears for months
afterward. His killing the Comanche,
however, prompt as it was, did not, un -
fortunately, save the captive, Mrs.
White. Hastily dismountin ■ t Rued ran
to where she lay, only to find her gasp¬
ing in death, her bosom pierced by sev¬
eral arrow's. A more pitiable sight had
never been locked on in all the horrid
scenes of Indian warfare. Both the ser
vant girl and the child were carried ofl
by some Indians who were fortunate
enough to escape and were found the
year following in the hands of a friendly
tribe, who had purchased them from the
Comanches and brought them to a trad
mgr post on the Rod River. Mrs. White
was buried near the place where she died,
Carson’s men erecting a cairn over the
grave to prevent the wolves and coyotes
from devouring the remains. that was
a terrible fight. ?. When Reed drew the
arrow from , his , back, ’ after finding ,. the
a
woman , he , had , periled . his life to
rescue
was past all hope, he called to his
comrades to give up the chase of the fly
ing Indians. Some of them returned
with boody hands, full of redskins’
scalps. Many of Carson’s men were
half-breeds, a cross between French and
Indian, and quite as savage as the In¬
dians they warred against, taking also
the same pleasure in ghastly trophies as
their enemies did. Some of the Co¬
manche squaws threw their papooses
into the ravines and brush, hoping to
make their escape and to return and re¬
gain their offspring; but the half-breeds
caught these papooses up by the • heels
and dashed their brains out against the
stones. They considered this a raerci- I
ful act, in a wav. The children would ! |
have starved to death or been eaten by
the coyotes, so they concluded it was
better to put them out of misery at once.
Or, perhaps, they thought with the old
Indian fighter, Gen. Kearny, who favored ;
a policy of extenuation. Such was the ;
darinir to but unsi the white captives. I he |
son rescue
affair is still fresh in the memory of the
old men, who can vouch for the truth¬
fulness of the story of Kit Carson’s ride
and the vengeance he took on the Co
manches. It is only one of thousands of
instances of Carson’s voluntary brave at¬
tempts to aid those whose inexperience
or misfortune had brought them into the
power of tho merciless savage.”— San
Francisco Call.
A Mexican Dinner.
A Mexican dinner recently served in
Now York city is described by the New
York Star :
The room was adorned with the na¬
tional colors of Mexico, and the table
linen aud tableware, whieh were hand
some in color and pa tern, came from
Mexico. The courses were served in the
usual Mexican order. First came “Pue
chero Mejicano,” a elicious soup, and
then “picadio con tortillas,” or chopped
meat, with Mexican cakes; this was fol
lowed by . i chileconearney frigolas,” a
dish of highly-seasoned meat cut into
small pieces in the Chinese fashion, with
Mexican beans. Next came “chiles
rellenos,” or eggs, and after these “tor
tiilas,” or little Mexican cakes, t ^ en
t . benchilades,” or meat rolled in “tor
tiilas. The next dish was the most
novel one of the dinner. It consisted
of hashed meat rolled in a dough made
of corn meal, and cooked and served in a
corn husk, so that it had the flavor of
the corn. Tho ornmeal was made in
the restaurant, being ground by hand
between two stones by the Mexican cook.
The meal closed with coffee, chocoL.te,
Mexican pudding, or * • Capirotada Meji
cana, Mexican cigarettes and Mexican
cordials. A brown, black-eyed, black
haired Mexican girl waited on the table,
and the other waiters were young Mexi
cans in claw-hammer coats and high
collars All the dishes were excellent,
and everybody said that the chocolate,
made in the Mexican way from chocolate
imported from Mexico, was superior to
any they had ever drank before.
Effect of Imagination.
Thomas Fuller relates a curious inci
dent which is truly characteristic: A
gentleman, he says, having led a com¬
pany of children beyond their usual
journey, they began to be weary, and
jointly cried to him to carry them,
which, because of their multitude, he
could not do; but he told them that he
would provide them horses to ride on.
Then cutting littio wands out of the
hedge, as nags for them, and a larger
one ^for hims' lf, they mounted, and
those who could scarce stand'before,
now full of mirth, bounded cheerfully
home. — Chicago Tribune.
Nowhere.
**Maria,” s*id Tompkins to his wife,
“can you tell mo where lovers never like
to meet!”
“No; where?”
“How did you guess it!” and tha fi«nd
Chuckled.
ANIMAL TRAINING.
Experiments With Horses,
Dogs, Pigs, and F.lephants.
Th 3 Horse the Hardest, a: the Elephant
the Easiest, Anisia to Train,
People who go to the circus and see
horses, elephants, monkeys and the like
perform wonderful tricks, must often
ask themselves how the animals are
taught to do them. A writer in the
Matin, having interviewed several circus
celebrities, undertakes to* ; satisfy their
curiosity. M, Loyal, who has been ring¬
1 master of the leading Paris circus for
32 years supplies interesting information
concerning horses. “The horse,” he
says, i ( contrary to general belief is the
most stupid animal ou earth. Ho has
only one faculty, memory. You must
j^ach him h : s exerc ses with the caves
j son aad the whi Havi forced
| them into hjg head) you must use the
6hort whip when he regists and ive him
a carrot when he obeys. Whips and
carrots form the secret of the trainer.
The horse must be from 5 to 7 years old:
beforo that he is too irited after lt
his mu9clcs are not clastic eu h . T he
first thing to do , to , accustom .
is your
horse to i,. the ring, * to make , him , • run
j round reguiarlyj ^ thea tQ at a
! givea si T accomplish
o
thia tho animal brou „ ht
j into th# ring The trainer
_
holds in his left hand a tether, which is
passed into the cavesson, a kind of iron
crescent armed with sharp points fixed
on the nose of the horse; in his right
hand he holds a long whip. Behind the
animal an assistant, with a stout short
whip, is posted. The trainer calls cn
the horse to start, and, pulling his
tether and smacking his long whip,
forces him to gallop round. If he re
iuses, the assistant uses his whip also; if
he is obedient, he is rewarded with a
carrot. To make him stop short, the
trainer cracks his long whip again,
while the assistant with his short whip
throws hiraseff suddenly in front of the
animal, and tho result is obtained. M.
Loyal tells U3 that “the horse has a
great objection to kneeling or lying
down at any momqnt> This feat ir
taught by meaw ojUw^ ed ' t ~ a tether
be ; d b y the trainer, who, by sudden
jerks or pulls as he is moving makes him
fall or kneel. The animal remembers
the lessons and, by dint of whip and
carrot, ultimately performs them at the
mere command of the trainer. Tho
horse is taught to dance to music in the
same way with the foot bracelets. >> As
regards the learned horse, who opens
boxes and takes articles out of them, here
is how the animal is trained to do it: “I
first g«t a carrot,” says M. Loyal, ‘I
place it in a box. I then lead the horse
to the box. He smells the carrot, lifts
up tbc bd o f the box with his nose and
takes out the vegetable, which he is al
lowed to eat. The next day, before let¬
ting the horse free, I show him a hand -
kerchief full of bran. He takes it and
tries to eat it. I then let him loose. He
runs to the box, but—bitter deception—
jt is empty. The day after I resume the
exerc i se> but this timo the horse finds
the handkerchief with the bran in the
box. He takes it out, and I reward him
with a carrot. I decrease the amount of
bran in the handkerchief every day, un¬
til in the end I put merely the handker¬
chief in the box. Th: horse brings it
to me, and gets his carrot. I then re
ducc the size of the carrot every day,
until at last I give him nothing. The
borsc continues to perform with the
j handkerchief in the hope of getting the
I carrot.’
With respect to dogs, M. Changeux,
’ who is now exhibiting a troupe of them
at the Nouveau Argue, says their educa¬
tion is a work of time and patience.
Sometimes it takes two years. “I use
neither sugar or whip,” he informs us.
tt I take my dog in my hands, talk to
him, and try to make him understand
wliat he is to do. I pc: form tho tricks
myself and the dogs follow and imitate
me.” At present he is show
ing a carriage dog which
performs on the single wire.
“I will tell how I taught him ^
you
become an equilibrist. I made him first
of a'l walk on a plank which was bal
anced to and fro. The plank
gradually reduced in width every day,
and the movement accelerated. At
length the plank dwindled down to a
narrow slip; this was replaced by a long
round stick, and utimately the dog found
I himself on the single wire. Strange to
say, this dog is blind. M. Changeux
says scent is the great quality \vhich.
enables dogs to perlorm some
For example, the poodles who play at ;,
dominoes are taught by thc.r scent.
trainer touches the dominoes which
dog has to play, and the animal,
in:: them, pick them out from the
and plays them.
Tho pig is said to be the most
cult animal to tram. Tony Grice,
clown, does not believe in learned
J They are to be taught only by their
weak point—their gluttony. “When 1
have got my youug p:g,“ he says, “i
begin on the principle that I shall obtain
j nothing from him without satisfying hii
. nr ;etite. 1 feed him mysr f, and durins
1 a taw days I vary his food Si ordar to fine
out what he likes best. As soon as I i
have discovered his favorite dish,
I deprive him of it completely.
This dish is my great talisman The
chief pig I am now performing with
prefers beef fat. I put a piece in my
pocket. I jump over hurdles and the
pig follows me, doing likewise. In this
way he learns his exercises and gets his
fat. I decrease the piece of fat every
day, and at last I give him nothing,
Should he refuse to work I thrash him j
till lie does, and, having completed his :
performances, I recompense him with
his favorite meal.”
10 e ephan , on the contrary, Is very
intelligent, and his education would be ^
easy but for his cumbersome weight,
which forces the trainer to have recourse
to cruel means. For instance, to make
him raise and hold out his foot, an iron
ring with sharp points is placed on it,
and being drawn by a rope the points
enter the flesh. The elephant 1 feeling *
the , pain lifts up his foot and keeps it in
‘
., . ...... .
c air l e pain ceases, or a w
repetitions the sight he of remembers the the pain, his foot. and |
at iron raises
His instruction, thanks to his intelli¬ j
gence, is soon completed. Some ele¬ I
phants are taught in less than a fortnight
to play on a drum, work a tricycle and
beg on their hind legs .—Pall Mall Qa
zette.
Killing a Bull Elk.
From an account of a hunting trip in j
the Sierra Madre mountains, by Frank
Wilkeson in tho New York Times , we
quote as follows: Late in the afternoon |
I reached the wooded point near which
the deer had been killed in the morning.
was exceedingly tired. I waked slowly
the hill to its top, where the timber
sufficiently open to see through for
yards. There I sat down behind a
boulder to rest and to smoke.
smoking I heard a noise behind
I looked around the boulder and
a large, handsome bull elk standing
with his head high in the
His almost coal-black mane waved
jil. • \ in e reez- , eart i
y sprang
my throat, and there struggled and
I drew my rifle around and
it at the elk, but I could not
it on him. Trees, rocks, bushes
the sights, and now and then the j
unaccountable manner. Bit T
, , down , and , waited - until A .i t I got i i
of my nerves, and then again i
thrust the rifle around the rock. The
was still there, looking through
beautiful eyes at the blue moun¬
beyond tho creek. He was not
than seventy-five yards from
I covered his forehead, and was
going to pul! the trigger, when he
dropped his muzzle almost to
ground, drew in a long breath, and
his head high in the air, hi*
slightly his wide-spread !
open,
resting on his back, and bugled
for a mate to come to him.
close by the note is not as sweet
when it is mellowed by distance.
bugling, the bull stood motionless, !
listening intently. Again he
I was no longer eager to kill
but we were shooting meat, on the
of which mv comrade and his family
depended for their winter’s provisions,
so I murmured to myself, “Well, meat i*
meat. I will have to gather you in;’’
and then I shot him through the head.
I dressed him, and threw his liver and
heart and lungs on the ground, where
the parrots could get them to eat.
Metallic Pens.
The alleged discovery of a bronze slit
pen at Aosta, would indicato that ths
Romans used a sort of metal pen beyond
th? stylus. The first unquestioned, defi¬
nite reference to a metal pun is in a Dutch
patent book, of 1717. About the same
time the pout Pope, in one of his odes,
refers to a steel or gold pen. The first
English pens were made in Birmingham,
by Mr. liarrisou and Dr. Priestly, about
a hundred years ago. Metallic pens
were expensive and little used until the
revolution in the manufacture about
sixty years ago, caused by the invention
of the hand screw press. The new ma
chine pierced the pens from sheet steel,
Provioustv thev had been made from
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Thompson’s Hestaurant.
Thompson’s popular restaurant, in At
Jg now opc ,, to the public
j in the most excellent style.
gupp ii ed every day with fresh fish, ;
t er s.game., aud the best of even, thing
e mar ket affords, or the most fastidious
desire. Meals prepared in any style
a first class French cook, furnished at
hours. Every thing bright and clean,
polite servants to attend your wants,
and see Thompson, on Alabama
next door to the Atlanta National .
when you visit Atlanta. tf
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VOL. XIII, NO, 14.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
-
A boat has been successfully propelled
on tlie 8eine b y means of artificial wings
acting on the air and driven by a rotat
in % wheel -
The museum at Boulak, in Egypt, ;
contains what has been called the oldest ;
picture in the world—a fresco from a
tomb at Maydoom representing six j j
geese.
In experiments in a Russian military
hospital, smokers required seven hours i
to digest a meal exactly similar in kind
and . quantity u J to that digested in . six . hours , |
by others.
F renc h horticulturist, M. Nobbe,
has found that the seeds of the finest
varieties of grapes germinate more quickly
than those of the commoner sorts, and
that seeds fresh from the fruit germi- j
nate better than those which have been | ,
dried.
A . case , lately . , reported „ , to . the New -
was
x lork - , Pathological c Society . . of , a negro, „
child, which lived but two months, with 1
on!y ona , th# left the other being
rudimentary and never inflated, The
heart had only one auricle add one ven
tricle—both the left.
Mr. A. H. Allen, in a paper on oils
read ip the American Association, said
that shark and fish oils are often uusa¬
ponifiable, and hence are not fatty
ethers. He believed them to contain
cholesterine, like cod-liver oiL The
fixed oils can be separated into groups,
but we know no process for separating
a mixture of lard and cotton-seed oil.
A novel museum is being established
by Dr. Guilbeau, a blind professor in a
Paris institution for the blind. His col
lection comprises articles specially de
vised for the use of the sightless, and is
already quite valuable. It includes a
very complete display of the various
kinds of letters which have been used
for reading by touch,
Sugar can be made from any descrip¬
tion of vegetable fibre, such as sawdust,
rags or tow. The process is to digest
for several hours in sulphuric acid; then
to dilute the mixture with water and
boil for 50me * whan the rags or
what _ not will be {ound t0 have under _
gone a magical change, and to have been
converted into sugar. A curious fact is
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being due to the elements of water ab
sorbed during ths change.
On the northern elope of the Alps t be
zone of perpetual snow reaches down to
about 8000 feet above the level of the
sea, and on the south side about 8800
feet. In the Pyrenees the snow line is
at a height of about 8950 feet; in the
Caucasus, 10,000 to 11,000 feet; on the
south side of the Himalayas, 12,980 feet,
and on the north, 19,620 feet; in Bolivia
18,520 feet in the Western Cordillera
and 15,920 in the Eastern; in Mexico,
14,760 feet; in Chili, near Santiago, 12,-
670; in Norway, 5000 feet in its middle
portion aud 2300 feet at its northern
extremity; in Kamchatka, 5200 feet,and
Alaska, 5500 feet.
The Shah of Persia.
“The Shah, ” say* the St. James' Qa
aette , “is a mighty hunter; a good shot,
and an enthusiastic sportsman. Big
game i* his delight. The king, like all
the ^sportsmen of his country, uses a
smooth-bore and a bullet. Of course
royal hunts are to a certain extent bat¬
tues. A strange incident of Eastern
life, but a true one, occurred some
twelve years ago at one of the royal
huntings. As usual, a couple of regi¬
ments accompanied the Shah on his hunt¬
ing party. The men acted as beaters.
A tiger was wounded and was making
off under the King’s eyes. The royal
second barrel was discharged, but did
not kill the wounded animal. Fearful
of losing his quarry, the king was re¬
loading (muzzle-holders are still preferred
by Persians), when a private soldier
seized the tiger by the tail and detained
him long enough for the Shah to dis¬
patch the animal. His Majesty made
that soldier a captain on the spot.
The Largest Gold Mine.
The famous Mulatos mine, regarded
by many as the largest gold mine in the
world, is situated at Sonora, Mex., aad
was worked hundreds of years ago by
the natives, but was lost track of. la
1804 it was rediscovered and sold te
French parties, who, after w'orking It
for nearly fifty yc^rs, resold it to a rich
Mexican, and it has been in his hand*
ever since. There are 100 chambers in
the mine, some 150 feet high, yet not *
stick of timber is used to support the
roc if, th* support consisting of pillar*
left in digging out the ore. The ore is of
low grade.
A Society 1’nppy Paralyzed.
She was a young woman who admired j
dogs, and he was a young man with lit- ;
era ry tastes, about to embark for u- ,
rope. i
“And I shall go to see Ouida, he
sat id, t after narrating a long long list of |
anticipations. 1
• Oh, will you!” she exclaimed, “How
nice that will be. Ouida is so fond of
dous.’’
lie looked at her a' if she had thrust t
dagger into bis heart, but she rattled oa :
without a thought of what sh* had said.
— Wsahaagtm QritU.
Both Sides.
A man in his carriage-was riding along,
A gaily-dressed wife by his side;
In satin and laces she looked like a queen,
And he like a king in his pride,
A wood-sawyer stood on the street as they
passed;
And ^ M h(J worked withhissaw on a fag,,
i w j s j, j wa3 ric!l and cou | (1 rida »
The man in the carriage remarked to his
wife,
“One thing I would give if Icou'd—
I’d gb 0 m 7 wealth for the strength and the
health
Of the man who is sawing ...f the wood.'
A . pretty , young maid .. witha bundle of . work, .
Whose face as the morning was fair,
Went tripping along with a smile of delight
While humming a love-breathing air.
She looked on the carriage, the lady she saw,
Arrayed in apparel so fine,
“ whisper, “I wish from my
Ih03e satms .. and . , lace > were mine.” .
The lady looked out on the maid with her
_ rt ’
So fair in her calico dress,
And said, “I’d relinquish position and
wealth
Her beauty and youth to possess.”
Thus it is in the world, whatever oar law,
Our minds and our time we employ
In longing and sighing for what, we have
not,
Ungrateful for what we enjoy.
HUMOROUS.
The men who marry most frequently
for money are the ministers.
“You’re trying to make game of me,”
as the deer said to the sportsman.
Judge—I will give you ten dollars oi
three days—Prisoner—Jed ge I’ll take the
ten dollars.
The lap of luxury—The cat’s inter¬
view with the milk. A swell affair—
Next morning’s head.
There is a man out in Illinois whose
name is Joseph Gotobed. Ho is said to
be of a very retiring disposition.
There is room for everybody in this
big world. Friction comes from the fact
that too many want the front room.
A scientist says that a man who has
been struck by lightning cannot swim.
He might have added that he never tries
to.
Bride (on shipboard at 36a)—“I feel
so sick, my dear, and if I sliouli die and
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English milliners are said to have dis¬
covered a way of making bonnets of
tissue paper so that the bonnet will not
cost over ten cents, It this is true
young men can begin to marry on ordi¬
nary salaries.
A beggar, to all appearance slightly
befogged, thus accosted a passcr-by:
“Sir, would you please give me a little
money to buy a bit of bread, for I am
so dreadfully thirsty that I don’t know
where I am to get a night’s lodging.’’
liow to Address the President.
For ninety seven years the country
has grown in dignity, wealth and power
under the simple constitutional title of
the Chief Executive of the American
Republic, until.it epbpses all the high
sounding designations of rank known to
the vocabulary of raonarchial institutions.
All official communications or from
strangers sli > uld therefore be addressed
“To the President, Washington, D. C.'
A letter from a personal friend should
be addressed: “Grover Cleveland,Wash¬
ington, D. C.,” without title.
The President to all communications,
whether offici .1 or personal, simply
signs his name, without the usual com¬
plimentary closing as “yours truly, or
closing of respect, as “very respectful¬
ly,” used by all officials.
The discussion of the subject of titles
was com menced in Congress before the
arrival of Wnsh'ington in New York. In
a letter of July, 1789, to a friend in Vir¬
ginia, the^first president expressed his
opposition’ to an additional title. It was
urged that “His High Mightiness, the
title of the Stacltholders of Holland, was
his choice; but there is nothing to show
that he ever expressed such an opinion,
—Philadelphia Times.
The Word “Hurrah.”
What was the origin of the exe’ama
tion i i Hurrah”? There are few words
s tm in use which can boast such a re¬
m ote and widely extended prevalence as
this. It is one of those interjections in
which sound so echoes sense that men
seem to have adopted ft almost instinct—
iveiy. In India and Ceylon the mahouts
and attendants of baggage elephants
cheer them on L*y perpetual repetitions
of “ur-re-rel ’' The arabsaad camei-dri—
vers in Turkey, Palestine, and Egypt
encourage their animals to speed by
shouting ‘ 'ar ; re, ar-rel” The Moors in
in Spain drive their giulcs and horses
with cries of « C arre.” In France the
sportsman excites the hounds by his
g jj ou t s 0 f “hare, hare!” and wagoners
t h e j r horses by crying “liariiaut! >1
herdsmen of Ireland and Fcot.aud
shout “hurrishl. hurriahl’’ to the cattle
t ; ley are dr j v ing. It is evidently an ex
c ; ama ^j on common to many nations, and
is probably a corruption of “Tur aie”
(Thor aid), a battle cry of the ancient
Norsemen, though some authorities de¬
rive it from the Jewish “Hosannah.”
The word is-very often, and was fi rm
^ r j y invariably spelt “buzzi,” and its
pronunciation was “hurray.”