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HAMILTON JOURNAL. A
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THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF HARRIS COUNTY.
VOL XIII.
HAPPY CHILDREN.
[Philadelphia Record.]
They To sent before him round the circle fair
bow the prettiest there;
I’m bound to say the choice he made
A creditable taste displayed;
Although, I can’t say what it meant,
The little maid looked ill content.
Hi* task was then anew begun;
To kneel before the wittiest one.
Once more the little maid sought he,
And bent him down upon his knee.
She turned her eyes upon the fLor;
I think she thought the game a bore.
He circled then, his sweet behest,
To kiss the one he loved the best;
He For all she frowned, mai for ail she chid,
kissed that little i, he did,
And thes, though why I can’t decide.
The little maid looked’satisfied.
CAPTURE OF THE CONDOR.
' f the Monarch of th* South Ameri¬
can Mountains Is Ensnared.
That magnificent 'vulture of South
America, the great condor of the Andes,
in thft ir-mnpr’a art “Two nf thcaa
birds will attack a cow or llama and kill
says Rev. J. Lr. Wood, and, added ito
it to hunt the preserves of half a
dozen states, cross the vast mountain
height when even its monstrous expanse
2«ay
-K* ,.' p„ nf?,, , . 1 1,^,7;*'“ hv tha Voxiran
T lllb,
though .imp], in Unit, require.
tt iIxrxwi y tdtnie oirii nf u Z ZtL“d T Kiiffoih Thifl
S hair
erawiin/ r l°L e nirdsTf nntterneLh, T e l turn' and
then in
over on his back and waits, a short
time a condor edines overhead, wheels
round and descends on the hide. Im
mediately after his talons touch the
skin the Indian seizes the legs, and,
starting up, overwhelms the bird and
binds hioi with thongs kept ready ; a
process, however, which usually meets
with a very stubborn resistance.
it is just this weakness for rank flesh
that is the betrayal of it all vulture kind,
All through the east seems as though
nature had kept especially in mind tL«
scavengering duties ol these, her too
often hideous children, and meat with
that gameyness which is produced tropical by a
few day§’exposure to a sun is
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an irresistible attraction 1 to them. The
Andes type is no better*. The wander¬
ing tribes take it by placing a dead
horse in an advanced state of unsavori
ness within a high wattle inilosure, and
noosing the glutted birds when they
have fed too freely to rise readily. accord
And in much the same way,
ing to Tschudi, in one of the Papuan
provinces there cavity exists in a the deep, side natural, of
funnel-shaped a
certain valley. This is utilized by the
Indian as a ready-made trap dead for captur- horse
ing condors. They place a
or mule on the brink of this hollow, and
the pecking and tugging of the the decliv¬ giant
birds presently roll it down
ity. The birds follow, and being heavy
and gorged, are unable to ascend the again,
clubs and stones finishing off dis
gust ing revelers to the last one.
Regulating the Religious Temperature.
[New York Paper.]
Paxton's church in W«t Forty second
trudmg from ***T**® two pews on |“ either **•*■£' side
of ‘ he
,
were, however, harmless telethermom
an 4e
sexton's ® Dew now looks like the
serv lce * 111 P TO # re88 - The in
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£2?g£i
regions. When it rose anywhere above
the normal, “* the sexton •“> simply turned “»> *" a
“•
will i are
made chiefly 'Trustee.BW m accordance with the
«f jod who
^ ~Jot interior deeorations’and
apparatus for yentil^ng and heatmg
s tlol,ld Dot be subjected, as it has been
Spring disagreeabl 1 worship, atmospheric to the chan anno).nice o
e ges.
Uquiiying oxygen osu.
[London Medical Pre*«.j
M. Cailetct, a French chemist, baa
found a new substance by which oxygen
gas can be liquified. This material is
foremen©, or marsh gas, which, under
slight pressure and cooled in ethylene
—it boils under the ordinary atmos
pheric pressure—is resoived into an ex¬
tremely mobile, colorless liquid, which,
in passing again into the gaseous state,
causes such a lowering of temperUture
that oxygen in its neighborhood is at
once
NO.
ARMY HONOR A MYTH.
Army Officers Placed la a False PealII —" 1
The Life They live.
[Washington Oor. Chicago Tribune.]
So-called army honor is a myth. Thai
if to say, there is no higher sense ol
honor among the army odicers as a class
than there is among people of equal
education and position in other occupa¬
tions of life. • 1 doubt if there is a«
much. The truth of it is, the army
oiLcers are placed in a false position
through the attentions officer paid them
by society. An and army he is invited comes
to Washington called associate every¬
where and is upon to
with people who have plenty of money.
As a natural result w soon becomes
involved financially. A man who feels
the sharp pressure of debt cannot al¬
ways a fiord the luxury of indulging is strictly in
the most rigid ideas of what
honorable. None of them have any
better pay than the department and live
bureau chiefs. * Vet those officers
at the best hotels as a general and thing,
have carnages, dress well, are seen
everywhere. The department clerks,
who have equal salaries, live in the
back rooms of oheap boarding-houses,
wear shabby clothes, and never go in
society. second lieutenant has $1,400, first
A a
lieutenant $1,000—that is, if he is
mounted. An unmounted first lieuten¬
ant gets $1,500. A captain not mounted
is paid $1,800; a captaiu mounted ha*
$2,000. It will be seen that up to the
grade of captain officers rank with the
department clerks so far as salary goes.
When you get above captain you strike
the salaries paid to the chiefs of bureaus.
A major is paid $2,500, a lieutenant
colonel $8,000, a colonel $8,500. It is
only when you reach the rank of briga¬
dier general that the pay of a senator
or member is readied. A brigadier
general is paid $5,500, a ma.or general
$7,500, and the lieutenant general
$11,000 per Annum. live comfort¬
There is no one who can
ably in house and
less than $5,000 a year, and in such a
case as that the most rigid economy
would have to be practiced, It would
not be possible to do any entertaining.
Ten thousand dollars a year would not
do much more than givo one a modest
position in the list ot those who enter¬
tain. The rates at all of the hotels in
Washington are high, yet it will be
found that officers whose pav is not
large enough to pay any regular board
bills at the hotels always live in such
places, and it has never been discovered
that they deny themselves any of the
com for. s or luxuries of life.
It has always been a mystery how a
lieutenant with a salary of $125 a month,