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The Covington Star.
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ranklin B. Wright,
COVINGTON, GA.
Resident Physician & Surgeon.
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An Address to Winter.
Hal here you come to make us wheeae;
I see your fingers on the trees,
And hoar you shouting on the breea 9 ,
The storm clan’s slogan.
You’ll soon be here to nip my toes,
And paint my cheeks with sunset glows,
And fresco this o'.d chin and nose
With blue and purple.
I hear you’ve been, you raving fellow,
Among the Australasian's yellow,
And scaring with your blatant bellow
The Polynesians.
You’re getting rough; I fear you pass
Your time too much with Boreas,
And that star-mantled gypsy lass,
The dark-eyed Solstice.
Old friend, together many a year
We’ve journeyed on through foul and clear,
And now, old comrade, lend an ear
To my petition.
This year, I pray thee, leave thy snows
In cold Arcturus with thy blows;
Oht Winter, gently come to those
Who have no shelter.
Touch them kindly. Kindly deal
With those who most thy rigors feel,
In trembling suppliuncs they kneel
And crave thy mercy.
Blister around the rich man’s door;
Make him unlock his golden store,
Each year increasing more and more
His deeds of kindness.
Roar ’round the miser till he quakes;
Nip him and strip him till he sh .kes;
Freeze him and squeeze him till he ma
A big donation.
And in the cause of Science, pray
Keep out the ice from Baffin’s Bay,
So that Polar “savants” win their way
To frozen glory.
Let thoso we love, though they abide
Far from us now, come to our side
Happy and well at Cbristmastide,
And we will bless thee.
—[Guy H. Avery.
MARIAN’S VOW.
It was a bright March morning, the
blue-jays darting ia and out of the
cadar-trces, tho river rippling along
under the willows, whoso branchos al¬
ready began to bo v.iicd with soft,
green mist, and tho floor of Seth Calli¬
per’s kitchen had tho pattern of the
two smail-panod windows printed on
its surface in type of sunshine, when
Marian c ime ia from her morning task
of hanging out the clothes.
Mrs. Calliper looked up from tho po¬
tatoes she wa3 paring for the noon din¬
ner.
“VTiy, Marian,” said she, “what’s
tho matter? Gat the toothache again? 1 ’
“It isn’t the toothache, mother,” said
Marian, depositing tho clothes-basket
on the floor with something of a bang.
* ‘It’s—every thing I”
Mrs. Calliper’s faded blue eyes
opened wide.
“Child, what do you moan?” said
•he.
Marlan’s lip quiverod. The vivid
roses mounted tc her cheoks.
“Mother,” said she, “I’ve suspected
something nil along, but sometimes
thoso things come over you suddon-like,
you know. And when I was hanging
out the kitchoi towels, behind the
smoke house wall, Squire Vanderbrug
gen drove by with a man, and they sort
o’ slacked up when they came opposite
tSur gate and tho squire pointed with
his whip-handle and I heard him say to
the other one: ‘That old place is all
going to ruin. Look at tho chimney*,
toppling over; look at tho gates, hang¬
ing on one hinge; look at tho shinglo),
rotting on tho roof; and the stone wall
tumbling down. Things can’t go on that
way long. It’ll be ia tho market pres¬
ently and rII buy it in. But twenty
years ago,’ says ho, mothor, ‘S.th Cal¬
liper Wes tho smartest man and tho best
farmer going. But ho won a hundred,
dollar prieo in the lottery, and that un¬
settled him. Every cent ho made after
that went into the gift enterprise.
Nothing prospered with him. All ho
could sell, he sold, and all he could
mortgage, he mortgaged, until finally
his brain gave way and—•’ ”
11 Hush, Marian i ’ said Mrs. Calliper,
with a quick glance at the room be¬
yond, where a prematurely white-hairod
man sat rocking aimlessly to and fro,
with an unread newspaper ia his lap.
“Ho’s deaf, but sometimes he hears
things whoa we least expect it.”
“Mother, is it truo? You've kept me
at Aunt Alma’s until tho elder girls
were married. I know scarcely any¬
thing of what has happened at home. Is
it true, mothor?’’
Mrs. Calliper burst into tears.
“Yes, child, it’s true,” she admitted.
it Wo are very poor; wo can’t keep up
tho interest on tho old mortgage; and
how can folks blame us wkon tho soa
son for summer boarders was so bad and
poor father can’t do a stroke o’ work to
holp us! ’
ii And yet Louisa and Piiebe married,
and loft you and father to bear all this
sAone! ’
‘It’s human natur’, child. What
else can you expect?”
Marian was silent a moment or two;
then sho spoke with a choked voice.
“I won’t go and loave you, mother 1’
•aid sho, giving Mrs. Calliper such a
bug that tho good soul dropped her
potato-knifo into tha parings. “I’ll
Incver m r ij any one until tho mortgage
is p id up, and the fences built over,
and tho roof re-shingled, and tho old
(place mada to look like itself again,
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1880.
No, not if the President himself came
to ask me 1"
Mrs. Calliper smilod through her
tears.
‘‘You are excitod, dear, said she.
“You don’t mean what you say.
“Yes, I dot” persisted Marian. “I
mean it I Are the calicoes ready,
mother? It’s a pity to miss even an
hour of this bright sunshine.”
So tho farmer’s daughter roturned to
the homely details of her everyday life;
but in her heart she carried the vow
she had made in that first hour of her
wounded prido and filial tondorness.
As for Mrs. Calliper, she forgot all
about it. Phebe had loft her and
Louisa had left her, and so, sho rea¬
soned, Marion would also, when the
fateful moment came. It was only nat¬
ural. Girls would marry, and tho old
folks must expect to bo left to them¬
self.
Simon Gariy was tho first suitor that
came—a well-to-do young clerk in the
villago store.
“I’ve some money of my own,” said
he, “and I get thirty-fivo dollars a
month at the store; and father and
mother’ll let me have the south wing
of tho farm house to keep house in
without rent. Aid I've always loved
you, Marian, since that first Sunday you
came homo from your Aunt Alma’s and
if you'll accept mo, you shan’t have no
reason to complain.”
“I can’t leave father and mother, »»
said Marian, calmly, “Father’s helpless,
and mother is growing old, and I’m
the last child at home.”
i t A man ain’t generally expected to
marry the wholo family, stammered
he.
“And besides,” went on Marian, “I’ll
marry no man until tho old farm is out
of debt, and the homo fitted up to look
a3 it once did. No, Simon—many
thanks to you, but I’m in no hurry to
settle yet. « »
And Simon wont away,scarcely know¬
ing whether to bo glad or sorry.
Marian Calliper was, by all odds, the
prettiest girl in tho neighborhood; but
who would marry her, weighted as
sho was with old folks and the old
house?
Neither wa3 Marian her3elf much dis¬
turbed. She liked honest Simon well
enough; but as for loving a stupid
oaf like that, it was too ridicu’.ou l
She felt quite diffjrently, however,
when Gilbert Weston asked her,
oao soft September twilight, to bo his
wife.
“I don’t pretend to bo riel),’’ said he;
( ( but I can make a nice, cosy little
home for you, Marian, And the rich
est man in all the world couldn’t love
you more than I do. »>
“I—I don’t feci prepared to bo mar¬
ried yet,” said Mini in, intent on a clus
ter of tube-roses which sho had gath
crcd from tha straggling garden.
“I can wait, Marian," pleaded he.
“Oh, it isn’t worth while for you to
wait, said slia, hurriedly—for sho
knew that Gilbert’s slender income
would not go far toward thi objjct sho
had at heart, it But I hope we shall
always be—bo friends!”
And poor Gilbert withdrew, cut to
tho heart.
Tho next day sho accopted Jjhn Van
derbruggen, tho rich squire's son.
“He's a sullen, rough sort of fellow,
daughter,” said Mrs. Calliper, wiit
fully. i • Are you sure you love him? ’
‘II) has promised to cancol tha mort-
3aid Marian, exultantly. “And
to put tho place ia order; and ho will
let mo livo hero with you, dear, and
father. What olso could I hope for? ’
Young Vanderbruggen wont homo and
told his father of the bargain he had
made.
«< Humph!’’ grunted tho squire.
“Couldn’t you have done better than
that?”
i > She’s got a face liko a rosa,” said
John. “1 waDt her; and I’d have her,
if it cost twice as much 1”
‘ Humph 1’ again uttcrod the squire.
“Well, promises are cheap. And as
long as nothing i3 put down in b.ack
and white, noboly is bound 1”
John Vanderbruggen chuckled. Ho
was a truo chip of tho old block.
“Do you s'pose I didn’t know that?”
said he.
The week before tho proposed wed
ding, however, poor old Mr. Calliper
died, quietly sitting in his rocking
chair, and the ceremony was postponed.
And one day Marian took courage and
went over to the squire’s house.
“John,” said she, “I’m sorry if it’s
any disappointment to you; but I’ve
been thinking it over— and I can’t
marry you. I don’t love you as a wife
should love her husband, It was the
money I wa3 thinking of—not you.
Horo is the ring and the presents you
given Aid now good-byl 1 ’
have ma.
John Vanderbruggen turnod purple
with rage. to
“It’s Gil Weston you are going
marry!” said he, in a choked voice.
“Yes, said Marian, valiantly, “it ia.
For I love him, and I don’t love you!’
So she repulsed tho tomptation that
had se nearly overpowered her better
nature, and followed the dictates of her
own heart.
“But I can’t marry you jot, Gilt erf,
said she. “I mud ^ait ave
earned some more money.
And thon she told him tho story of
her vow.
“Mother says,’’ sho added smiling,
“that a foolish promise is better broken
than kept; but I don’t feel so. It’s very
real to mo.”
“And you are right," said Gilbert
•But we will work together, Marian.
What I can savo shall bo added to your
storo, and all the while I shall be work¬
ing for you.”
Tho tears camo into Marian’s eyes.
How thankful sho was that slio had not
married John Vanderbruggen, when
Gilbert We3ton loved her like this!
Scarcely a week had elapied, when
Gilbert came to tha old farm-house
with a radiant face.
“lean claim you now, Marian," said
he. 1 Sweetheart, I have sold my f irm
to a company who are manufacturing
silex. They havo found a ledge of the
very quartz they needed up in tho sheep
pasture, and the old Racket Falls will
supply the water power. Ton thousand
dollars is to be the price. That will
take up the mortgage and fit up this
placo neater than any pink and leavo us
a nice sun to begin housekeeping with.
And we will live here. To a young
man like me it don’t matter much whero
I am, so that my heart’s dearest is with
me; but your mother will like to live
under tho shadow of the roof that has
sheltered her so long, I know. ’
The Vinderbruggens were not
pleased. Puobe and Louisa declared
that tho wholo thing from beginning to
end was ridiculous and fantastic, es¬
pecially aino their mother had made a
will, loaving the placo to M irian alone.
But Marian was happy. Hal sho not
kept her vow?—[Ssturiay Night.
The Fecundity of Fish.
It has been calculated that, a3 fhh
produco so many oggs, if vast numbers
of tho latter aid ot the fish themselvos
were not continually destroyed aal
taken they would soon fill up every
available space ia the seas. For in¬
stance, from 60,001.000 to 70,000,010
codfish are annually caught on tha
shores of Newfoundland. B it even
that quintity seems small whoa it is
considered that each cod yields about
4,500, 000 oggs every season, and that
even 8,000,000 havo been found ia tha
roe of a siaglo cod. Were the GO 000,
000 cod taken on the coast of Newfound¬
land left to breed, tha 31,000,000 re¬
males producing 5,000,000 eggs
every year, it would give a yearly ad
ditioa of 150.000,000,000,000 young
codfiih. Othor fish, though not equal¬
ling tho cod, are wonderfully prolific.
A herring weighing six or seven ouicc-s
is provided with about 30,000 eggs.
After makiagal! reasonable allowanc.s
for the destruction of eggs and tho
young it has been estimated that in
threo years a single pair of herrings
would produco 154 001,000. Buff in
calcu'atod that if a pair of herrings
could be loft to breed and multiply un¬
disturbed for a period of twoaty years,
they would yield an amount of fish
eqml in bulk to tha globe on which wa
livo.
Bleached Moustaches.
“Tho latest fad is bleaching mon>
taches,” said a barber. “B rbors don’t
do it. Men buy tho bleach and apply
it at home. It i) done mostly by young
men. You caa sco lots of young men
today with dark brown hair who havo
lcvdly blond moustaches. The bleach
makes tho moustacho streaked in lines
of gold and light browo. The girls
liko blond moustaches. Black mous¬
taches, even of the simon- pure sort,
havo lost favor.
“Mon with fi;ry red moustaches uso
bleach nowadays. Not all mon with
red moustaches, but a groat many.
You won’t see near so many red mous
tachos now a3 you could havo seea a
year ago. You’ll soo a man with a head
of red hair, while his moustacho will bo
a lova'y tint of old gold. Tha bleach
is just as injurious as tha black hair
dye. A good many men with red
boards uso tho bleach too. A blond
beard is very fashionable nowadays.
Tho ordinary every-day observer isn’t
likely to detoct a bogus blond board or
moustache, iut q barber who knotV3
his business can tell them every time.”
Monster Mississippi Bridge.
Work on the great bridge which is to
span the Mississippi river at Mjmphis,
Tonn., has been commenced, The
bridge proper is on tho cantilever plan,
and will consist of a channel span 770
feet in length. This is said to be the
longest single span of the kind in the
world, and its construction is a difficult
piece of engineering. Tho bridge will
also have two spans, each 620 feet ia
length. The bridge will be 34 feet in
width, and whi e only ono railroad
track will bo used at present, the
strength of tho bridge will bo such that
two tracks can be laid. Tho plans al
ready contemplate a wagon road for ve¬
hicles. The bridge will be approached
from the west ovor an iron treitlo 5200
feet in length and an embankment ol
1800 feet in longth. It will be ap¬
proached L om tho east ever an iron
trestle 1000 feet long and over an em
bank meat. Tho bridge will be 75 feet
above high-water mark. Tho estfc
mated cost is $2,200, 000.—[Tin es-Dem.
ocrat.
BRASS r BANDS.
The Life of Metropolitan
sional Musicians.
Their Organizations,
and Scale of Wages.
A complete band requires at least
men. Commencing with tha base in¬
struments, there are tho tubs, the bari
i tone, tho touor, threo cornets, twoaltoi,
two trombones, two clarioaots, the
bass drum, tho small drum and the
cymbals.
Thcro are 4500 professional musicians
in New York City who make a liveli¬
hood by playing ia bands and orches¬
tras, and occasionally alone whoa re¬
quired for small entertainments. These
men hwve eight organizations, and are
all known aj union mon.
About half of tho musicians are Ger¬
mans. Americans and Italians are the
next prominent nationalities, and near¬
ly all countries are represented.
The union rate of pay for regular
musicians is $5 per day. For marching
in parades $6 is charged, on account of
tho extra labor. On special occasions,
when thero is an unusual demand, extra
pay is obtained. Occasionally thore ts
such a cornor in music that almost any
price can be had by a shrowd player.
M.mbers of orchestras are paid a scale
of prices that varies according to the
instrument played and the ability of
the performer. Viry few musicians
aro employed in theatres for loss than
$15 a week. Tho gonoral prices paid
are from $18 to $25, and exceptional
players got as high a3 $40 a week. Men
who play in drum and fife corps get all
prices—from $1 to $3 per day.
Tha busy season in the mu ical world
is from November 1 until May 1, with
a dull spell in Lont. The thoatres,
balk, partios, receptions, concerts and
holiday work keep the musicians busy,
so that a good perforator, especially a
pianht, need not lose a night for sever¬
al months. Nearly all good musicians
aro able to play two or throe different
instiumonts, and when a band is short
handed they are capable of fi.ling near¬
ly any placo that ia vacant. Ia the
summer many of the players go to
watering places and obtain as good pay
as when employed in town; but the
large number have a dull time of it
Occasionally excursions and employ¬
ment at tho parka and concert gardens
are about all that the musicians find to
do.
Aside from tho union musicians there
are several hundred who get their liv¬
ing by travelling tho streets in side¬
walk bands and picking up any few odd
jobs of producing alleged music to un¬
cultivated gatherings. This class of
players is composed almost entirely of
recently landed Germans and youthful
Italians. many musicians of all grades
of ability mako their headquartors ia
New York City, and accept engage -
ments that take them to all parts of the
Country.
The hoadquartars of the musicians
are located in Fourth street, oast of the
Bowery. Several of tha larger so¬
cieties occupy substantial buildings,
whilo the others rent lodge rooms ia
which they moot eve tings. Tho wholo
block is almost entirely monopolized by
tho musicians ani dealers in music and
band supplies. Employers in search of
men to play in bands and orchestras and
for special ontertaiameats go to Fourth
street to secure musicians. Tho num¬
ber of men who gather in the steeet in
front of the headquarters on pleasant
days is so great that the street is
blocked. A stranger would think that
there wa3 a fire or some unusual excito
ment that attracted the crowd, hut it is
an everyday occurrence. Tho mon are
making engagements and arranging for
work with loaders and agents who need
them. On stormy days the beer gardens
do a thriving business, as tho Gorman
musicians, and othor nationalities as
well, are great beer drinkers. Yet
they are a steady set of men and are
seldom intoxicated.
Ia the last few years women havo
taken to playing in bands, and there
are several cxcellont female orchestras
now performing in different parts of the
country. They are paid less than tho
male performers, although they piny
with almost equal ability. Amateur
bands havo become quite popular, and
one or two of the best ones in the city
play as woll as the average professional
band. The rogularly organized bands
of Now York City are tha regimental
band*. They have loaners who are
good business men, and who manage
: the band as a theatrical manager doos
his troup. —[Mail aa l Express.
What He Didn't Do.
II So it was you who broke my beauti¬
ful vase,” said Mrs. Brown.
“No, ma,” replied little Johnny, be¬
ginning to cry beforo ho .cas hurt.
“How dare you tell mo such a false¬
hood,” she cried, growing very angry.
“Your sister told me she saw you do
it."
“No, ma, I didn’t break it," he re¬
turned. “I only made the crack in it.”
—[Now York Bun.
Right to the Use of Water.
The Legal Adviser gives to its read¬
ers some information respecting wator
rights, which has boon a sourco of great
trouble and much litigation. It is a
generous principle, says tho writer, that
every owner of land upon a natural
stream of water has a right to use tho
water for any reasonable purposo not in¬
consistent with a similar right in the
owners of the land above, below and
opposite to him. lie may tako tho
water to supply his dwelling, to irri¬
gate hia land, or to quench the thirst
of his cattle; to use it for manufactur¬
ing purposes, such as tha supplying of
steam boilers or the running of water
wheels or other hydrau.ic works, so long
as such use docs not sensibly and in¬
juriously affect its volume. Bat this is
a mere privilogo running with the land,
not a property in tho water itself.
Where the stream is small, and doos
not supply water more than sufficient to
answer the wants of tho different pro¬
prietors living on the stream, none of
tho proprietors can uso the water for
either irrigation or manufactur
ing, but for domestic purposes and
watering stock one proprietor will bo
justified in consuming all tho water.
Twenty years’ use adverse to tho
right of anothor will give the person so
using the stream the right to continue
the use, rogardloss of tho other's
rights.
And as to tho division of water,
every one who owns land situ¬
ated upon a stream has tho following
rights:
1. To tho natural flow of the stream.
2. That it shall continue to run in its
accustomed channels.
8. That it shall flow upon his land
in its usual quantity, natural placo and
usual height.
4. That it shall flow off his land
upon tha land of his neighbor be¬
low, in accustomed place and at the
usual level.
These lights ho has as an incident to
tho properly in his land, and ho cannot
he doprived of it by grant or descrip¬
tion.
In any ono shall make any chnngo in
tho natural flow of a stream, to the ma
terial injury of any owner situated upon
it, or by any interference shill prevent
tho stroam from flowing as it was wont
to flow, ho is responsible for tho dam
age he may occasion. These rights are
subject to tho privilege of each ono to
mako a reasonable uso of tho water upon
his owa land while it is passing along
the same. It matters not what the
sourco of the water may bo, whether it
be backwater or the fi swage of the
same, or the wntor of anothor stream.
Still, the division of a stream may bo
made by any one, if it be returned to
its natural channel before it loaves tho
premise!.
Mingrclian Rituals.
The people of Miagreha, in the Cau¬
casus, although professodly Christians,
are, according to Freiherr von Guttner,
addicted to practic s and sacrifices that
snr ck of heathenism. Off . rings aro
established for all kinds of occasions,
which every countryman can talo off on
his fingers nt will. Days aro set for
services to insuro tho protection of live¬
stock against disense. Tho most im¬
posing of these is in behalf of tho horse.
Cakos are baked, on which is impressed
the image of a horse or horsohoe, and
are cast into a hollow tree, drenched
with wine and blessed by tha priest,
while the participants in the sacrifice
hop around the tree and imitate the
capering and neighing of horses. Ia
case a person has tho measlos,ho and his
attendants aro dressed ia red and tho
room is hung with tho snmo celor and
adorned with red flowers, whilo care is
taken not to irritate the demon by us¬
ing a cutting instrument or admitting
a dog. For diseases of the eye, littie
round cakos aro made furnished with
inserted pupil) to resemble an eyo, and
then swung before tho eyes of tho pa¬
tient. The priosts are cognizant of
these off rings md are sai 1 in fact to
get tho best part of tha gifts.—[Popu¬
lar Scionce Monthly.
Streams that Vanish.
Ono of the peculiar featuros of Idaho
scenery is the fr. quent occurrence of
dark, rocky chasms and channels of lava
into which streams and rivers plunge
and aro apparently forever lost.
These fissures are supposed to bo old
lava beds. The outsido of the molten
mass cooled and formed a roof, the fiery
stroam below becamo exhausted, leaving
aa empty chamber. A break in this
roof hiving occurred, an opening was
formed into which the r:-fr or stream
now disappears, to reappear as a mys¬
terious lake, basin or spring on some
distant mountain or plain.
On the banks of the Snake River one
of thoso stroam) ronppoars, gushing
from a high cliff in a cataract to tho
waters below.—[Scientific American.
The Secret of Tlieir Unhappiness.
Elith—“S<you and Tom were final¬
ly married, Nell?”
N e ll—“Yts; but wo’re not happy!"
Elith—“Whatl not happy? Why,
how’s that?”
Nell—“Wo didn’t marry each other.
—B izir.
VOL. XV. NO. 8.
Sing to Me.
Out of the silence wake mew song
j Beautiful, sad, soft and low;
Let the loveliest music sound along,
And wing each note with a wail of wofc
Dim and drear,
As hope’s last tear,
Out of the silence wake me a hymn,
Whose sounds are like shadows soft ant
dim.
Out of the stillness of your heart—
A thousand songs are sleeping there—
Wake me a song, thou child of art!
Tho song of a hope in a last despair
Dark and low,
A chant of woe,
Out of the stillness, tone tiy tone,
Cold as a snowfl ike, low as a moan.
Out of the darkness flash me a song,
Brightly dark and darkly bright;
Let it sweep as a lone star sweeps along
The mystical shadows of the night.
Sing it sweet,
Where nothing is drear or dark or dim,
And earth song soars into heavenly hyun
—[Father Ryan
HUMOROUS
A counter-statement: “It will wash.”
The purchase of a drama is mere buy
play.
How to mako money—Gat a situation
in a mint.
A military post is something to which
an army muio may bo tied.
When a man slips on a banana skin
ho is thrown upon his owa resources.
Wkon all are left a man running
ahead of his ticket doss not set there
first.
Looka are not everything; tha home¬
liest women always make tho best
pickles and preserves.
A Chicago man undor tho domination
of kloptomaniac proclivities actually
took tho pledge and kept it.
“Armor plates,” said Mrs. McGilll
gaD, looking up from tha papor; “I
suppose they aro what nav.d officers oat
off. ’»
George—After Miss Di Pink, eh?
Are you solid with her father? Gus—
Solid? Every time I am with her father
I am petrified.
“Ah, I sec,” said an equestrian,meet¬
ing a ono-loggod mm in the road, “you
have had oao of your limbs sawed off
and aro hopping about on one leg in
fulfilment of an election bet?”
The next Royal Academy Exhibition
will havo a fino pair of sketches by a
prominent English humorist, ono of
which will represent a critic playing on
a harp and tho other of which will
show the same individual harping on a
play. Eigland is convulsed over the
humorousnoss of the conception.
Curious Feet of the Ciiincso Jacana.
One of tho most striking modifications
of a bird foot is found ia the little Chi¬
nese jacana, which is a water bird in
its haunts and habit) and yet is not so
in appearance. Its food is found for
the most part on tho leavos of tho
aquatic woeds which rise abovo the sur¬
face of tho water, and consists of tha
tiny insect life always so abundant
there. Many of these aquatic plant),
notably tho lily, cover the surfaco of
the water with a rank but unstable
growth. No one or two of the leaves
would afford a sufficient resting placo
for even a bird; but dhtributo the
weight of a small bird over several of
the leavos, and it could wander over tho
undulating surfaco with perfect safety.
Tha toos of tho jacana are so dispropor¬
tionately elongated that tha desired
condition is attained, and it can pass
securely over a carpet of floating woods
whore a lighter bird, lacking tho elon¬
gated toos, would sink at once into tho
water. The j icana endures the water
well enough, but It is on tho surface and
not ia tho water that it finds its food.
When alarmed, it divo3 at once into the
water and swims somo distance before
coming up. And even then it does not
cotno fairly to tho surface, but merely
thruats its long bill out of water until
tho nostrils are exposed, and so hidden
it remains until danger is past.—[Scien¬
tific American.
Long Canals
An English newspaper gives the fol¬
lowing list of long canals: Tie Impe¬
rial canal of China is over 1000 miles
long. In tho year of 1881 was com¬
pleted the greatest undertaking of the
kind on tha European continent, the
canal of Linguedoc, or the Canal du
Midi, to connect tho Atlantic with the
Mediterranean. Its length is 148 miles,
it has more than 100 locks and about
fifty aqueducts, and its highest part is
no less than 600 feet abovo the so*,
while it is navigable for vessels of up¬
ward of 100 tons, Tho largest ship
canal ia Europe is the great North Hol¬
land canal, completed in 1825. It is
125 feet wido at the water surface, 81
feet wido at the bottom, and has a
depth of 20 feet, and extends from
Amsterdam to the Holder, 51 miles.
The Caledonian Canal, in Scotland, has
a total length of 60 miles, including
three lakes. The Suez Canal is 88 mile*
long, of which 60 miles are actual
canal. Tho Erie Canal is 850 1-2 mile*
long; tho Ohio Cana', Cleveland to
Portsmouth, 332; tho Miami and Erie,
Cincinnati to Toledo. 291; and the
Wabash and Erie, Evansville to tha
Ohio line, 374. —[Brooklyn Citixea.
