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THE MYSTIC SIGH.
gorgaotis poppy, of rich renown,
Show u* the way to Sleepy Town.
Baby must go—he’* tired of play;
But yet I think we have missed the way."
Then tranquilly up and down
Waved the flower of rich renown,
And softly it seemed to say,
“This way—this way—this way—
Is the way to Sleepy Town.”
“0 ripening wheat, all golden brown,
Show us the way to Hleepy Town.
How shall we find where the starlight gleams,
On the City of Bleep in the Land of Dreams'”
Then soothingly up and down
Went the wheat, all golden brown,
And whispering seemed to sav,
“This way—this way—this way—
Is the way to Sleepy Town.”
*0 little one, with curly crown,
Have you learned the way to Sleepy Town,
Where faintest music, and softest light,
And swiftest blossoms enchant the night?”
Than drowsily up and down
Went the beautiful curly crown,
Whde the tired eyes seemed to say,
“This way—this way—this way
la the way to Hleepy Town.’'
—Aud or a S. BumsUad in St. Nicholas.
AN UMBRELLA’S STORY.
nv IIAniUBT I.AWSON.
( lotlied in raga too dilapidated to be
railed picturesque or even artistic, with
broken ribs and warped backbone, It is
no wonder that I lost my head; and all
through the abominable taste of Arethusa
and Adolphus, who chose “the King’s
highway” and a tricycle on which to
vine-covered murmur sweet nothings instead of the
good old-fashioned porch or summer house of
times. Adolphus
was appealed leaning so much to our side that he
to be “all out of drawing,”
while Arcthusa’s ear was of the brightest
rose pink and her left dimple in dull
play; moreover, she was perfectly uncon
scioug that the sunbeams had undisputed
possession of her lair face, and were sure
to abuse their advantage by a shower of
freckles tipon her Grecian nose.
In vain the wind tugged at me and I
tugged at Adolphus. lie would not be
win ned, and the result was a mingling of
girlish shrieks and strong masculine
language, and a general upset condition.
Am for me, I was so completely crushed
that had it not been for the habit of a
lifetime I should never have had the
energy to observe and comment (sotto
voce; as usual: “What fools these mortals
be.
Adolphus sprang promptly to his feet,
very red, very much mortified, very
anxious to find somebody or something
to blame bes dea his own carelessness.
And there, peeping out through tho
big wheels, completely caged, sat Are
thusa, looking as sweet and quiet (now
that she had lound terra lirina) as a
“suckmg dove.”
‘ 1 he wretched machine! my poor
darling! that horrid umbrella! Are you
sure you are not hurt? A screw loose!
A hole in the horrid road! I shall never
forgive my-elf if you are hurt 1” ex
claimed Adolphus all in a breath.
“but I am not in the least injured,”
lisped the caged pigeon sweetly, “and if
I had been, it never could have been
youi fault; it was just some weak spot
in the machine, )uat an unavoidable ac
cnient that no one could help.”
“How sweet it is cf you to say so,”
cried Adolphus, going to work at mov
mg the turned over tr.cycle; “but I shall
not have a second’s peuce till I see you
on youi feet again; then, if you really
are unbar cd 1. cannot be altogether
sorry lor the accident, for it has showu
the exquisite amiability of your d.s
position in all its perlection. I don’t
believo there is a girt in a thousand, no,
nor in the world, that would have
borne such a trial without losing her
t# “PV r - ’
1 his style of conversation proved so
agreeable to both parties concerned that
it would doubtless have been indefinitely
prolonged, the but Adolphus finally moved
wheels and discio-ed to the view of
the am able prisoner the crushed remains
ot her uow heliotrope hat! Then, indeed,
came features a change sharpened, o’er her mobile face; the
u liquid there a stony glare filled
i eye>, Wiis a perceptible
straightest, stiffening of the whole frame, and the
I beheld sti.:est, tnl est up-rising that
ever in my lifo. When she had
finally reached her highest possibility,
she inquired in a voice not loud, but as
clear and co.d as cut glass: “Will you
l>e kind enough to tell me, Mr. Radcliffe,
»iuit that object is? 1
“1 am sure 1 don’t know,” said he
itb one puzzled look at her changed
aspect, and another atj[the object indi
cated, going a step nearer as the truth
flashed upon lit in, but unfortunately on
the ludicrous side.
peals “Why, Arie,” he shouted between
hat.’ ut laughter, “it’s—it’s your new
And crushed, battered aud ut
torlv demolished, he presented it for
nearer too much inspection, whic h p.ovcd quite
for Aric’s cool dignity.
“You meant, unfeeling creature,” she
burst out, “to spoil my hat, and you
had no business to tip that tricvelc over,
Do you suppose I w ould have risked
that hat if 1 had known you were ex
laughing perimentiug: Oh, yes! it may le a
matter to you. very amusing,
doubtless! but are you aware that that
hat came from Paris; not only that, hut
it was made to order to match my suit,
and rot till this very morning did 1 re
ctuve it:”
phus long before she had finished, Adol
w as feeling remarkably limp.
“But Arie—but,my dear,” he expostu
ised, “you know it was all an accident;
dou’t you tlnnk you are a little unrea
eon able What is it all about i”
ficient “l thought 1 had expla ucd with suf
clearness what it was all about,”
with a return of dignity. But a glanct
at the wrecked splendor freed her tongue
•gain.
“1 dare say it would give you pleasure,
yes, a. tual pleaauie, to see me make a
guy of myself by wearing a hat that
didn’t m itch this su t! but I won t, sir!
No! I’ll burn the suit first.”
“Areth.^a, don’t be a goose, and all
about a hat, too!" and Adolphus now
looked distre-sed enough to suit the
thusa, most exacting lair lady. But not Are
for there were tears in her eves,
and my observation h.s taught me that
those tears must fall before the temper
subs de
‘ llow dare you call me names; I tell
you it was a mean, contemptible, cow
ardly —
“Arethusa," interrupted Adolphus,
very deep and very strong, and he did n’t
look at ail limp now, “you are go ng too
far: 1 shall have to ask you to take that
back "
“ That I altogether decline to do,”
replied Arethusa; “it was cowardly to
ask me to ride when you did n’t know
how to mauage the machine.”
Now, if Adolphus had observed femi
nine nature of the round aud rosy kind
us closely as I have, he would have held
his tongue, for he would have seen the
Aric’s two tears eyelids, iust trembling and on the wink of
known the trouble
was ne irly ended , but being only an
exas, erated man he said very coldly:
THE MONROE ADVERTISER: FORSYTH, GA„ TUESDAY NOVEMBER 20, 1888.—EIGHT PAGES.
Since that is jour opinion, Mias Ander- '
son, I will release you from all promises
to me, as you would hardly care to be
accepting a glass of water; “it is very
1 i^i»ri°>/ 0U t0 lb, nk of iy’and she
v.i i# re, E? vin K s blt °f mud
v, i 38 The »udden ! change of
‘
J® 1 ™ z!nv (a ‘ tb0 eX “gh ?Tu"°? I had seen mad the « two bead tears
f */’ n ewdenty did Adolphus,
r ie ?[! P“ zz ‘ed, although his tones
8 1 lnr l ul f e< T: “Do
C v a k home, Miss Ander
«on ’ n r w M| ! y° u Dust yourself again to
” C W. a a , m v inetficient hands:’
-
link , it . would be better to ride
• t
* 2 ri G ier f' * t .would seem
a tv+tt t C t ti u an< * dusty from
tl tlrnuri* e • 4 uk’ /1 , , * tbbik?”. Then
’
ln ?L ? ^ 8 handkerchief from
lie [jP?® c 8 , tripped - up to Adolphus
’
a. < o serv ed . the
most matter-of-fact
p a "t P2 8 ’ 1 ole, Would you mind, Mr.
.a< o i e, mat tying this under my chin ;
inc ends are so short I can’t get at them?
j am sorry to trouble you, but I'm afraid
i snail take cold if I ride with nothing
on “7 head -
^ . |y>" answered Adolphus,
* eS) ^ l!r aln
aw , ly, and he tried
wan still moreawk
wan y to tie a knot under the remark
aiy pretty <hin that was held up for the
purpose. 1 he eyelashes were down, so
ic ia( an ample opportunity to observe
i<i i was a remarkably pretty chin,
Wl quite an unusually alluring assort
I> Cn ° dimples around the corners of
,f ”‘ e e < niou 0 ^ “ 8 1 > l ’ and as somehow, uwa .y. fr0 as ™ he hl8 looked, face
an<1 1 V nokling the , , bionde , head^straight >
to
wa ^ d him and very firmly by the knot
* ucc eedwd ln making, he said
. would mind looking
^-“ . ne » you
nct ........ the feast indhei world,’ ,, the ,
was
, rau J e answer ‘only Die sun hurts my
»
e , ^ C3,
“Caution is a very excellent trait,” he
answered dryly, “but I do not know
Diat I ever knew it to develop so sud
den ly. ^ ou might shield your eyes with
hands if you are really afraid of
permanent blindness.”
“Why, surely,” cried Arie, “you
wa y s ar e so full of resource in an emer
! « enc y. ! ’ and covering both pink palms
ov with . er a pinker face, she looked at him
ti° an expression of infantile admira
almost n 8( > dry bright and warm that it would
a wet umbrella! Atallevents,
Adolphtu was not proof against it, and
a simultaneous burst of laughter broke
f r om them that startled the robins in
Die branches overhead, which suggested
to A lolphus that ho should secure the
perquisites that belonged to the occasion
Before any further interruption oc
cu r [ ed
r bav ing . been satisfactorily ar
gauged lie asked: “Now, tell me frankly,
Arie, area t you a little bit ashamed to
break your engagement for such a trifle?”
she exclaimed, “I break an en
gagement; who would ever suspect me
o* such a thing. I’ve always been taught
tliat man was a dangerous animal ana it
was dangerous to contradict him when j
. was mearnest. Besides,” she added,
sDll m ire meekly, “it might lead to a
quarrel. ’
“Well,” said Adolphus,highly pleased |
with this sally, “I suppose I shall be
J Ust D )o1 enough to get you,
s pbinx . as you are,” and he
8eat ® d ber on the tricycle as
carefully as if she had been a Dresden
china shepherdess: and thus for the first
time his eyes dropped upon me where I
la 3 T ln the g itier, wondering what
duality of the masculine mind was that
which led him to prefer to be made a
f°°l of in this waj 1
“I hat umbrella is past all usefulness,”
he observed indifferently; “we’ll just
leave it where it is.”
; Hut Arethusa did not think _ so. She
wanted me “as a memento of their first
falhugout.” So I was brought along
forthwith and enjoyed the privilege of
listening to various plans for my restora
Don to deal strength and beauty, besides a
great of conversation quite too deli
cato t0 bear pea and ink!
The next morning I was handed over
to the tender mercies of an umbrella sir
gcon, and his face was certainly a study j
as he examined me. My fractured ribs,
broken m y warped backbone, and generally
up condition, evidently made a
g'cat bis impression upon him, for, ad ust
in g glasses be looked searehingly at
Adolphus and asked dryly: “You didn’t
raa ke a m stake and bring the wrong j
umbrella, did you? This isn’t worth
mending.”
“Possibly I’m the best judge of that,”
with his most lordly air.
“All right, all light, sir; if you don’t
tail’d paying twice as much as you
wou d tor a new one, I’m sure I’ve no
objection to put my work on it.” And
then followed a discussion as to my
dress aud e |uipments; that was intensely
interesting’to depended me, for 1 kuew how much
upon it. If some delicate
color were chosen my life would iudeed
\ lor >e a lull-dress gay one, occasions, for I should but, be a’as! reserved how
soon it would end! as fade I must, and
so I e thrust aside into some dark corner
and forgotten! So I was tliaukiul enough
literary when Adolphus decided vbeing of a
turn) that I should be thoroughly
red -
“Remember, I want it as soon as
possible,” were the last directions; and
the surgeon, looking after his retreating 5
back, observed, “a screw loose some -
where in that head ; cranks are thicker
than usual this year.” And then he fell
upon me, and such a wrenching and
happened pulling and stra'ghtening family of rib; never
to one of my before, I
am ceitain, and I squealed and groaned
at everv p .11; but it was done at last,
and then came mv dress which went on
comfon ably and fitted to a charm, and I
should have been quite satisfied if the
surgeon had not discovered at the
momen; a fact that I tried vainly to
hide, namely ’
—a crack in my head !
j “This is the mischief to ; ay,” said he;
“my crank will make it hot for me if I
don’t make a better job than this.” And
he turned me thoughtfully over and over
in his hands. *
“There is no use to trv and glue that
up; there’ll just have to be a new head,
and 1 know where there is the very
broker's, thiug, at my neighbor’s, the pawn
on that broken cane that I saw
there the other dav, that will be ust the
stvle to suit mv d :de customer.”'
I felt this to be a fatal move, for how
would the cane head ever accommodate
himself to his reversed position in life,
and by the time my would be friend
came pressed, am although ling back I was thoroughly the’first de
I realized at
glance that my new head was mu h
handsomer than the old: and in spite of
the fact that we were regularly joined
together could change by a massive foreboding gold"riug, that nothing the
union would my
! Promptly never the be a happy one.
Adolphus called on and following morning
hastened with me
to the abode of the fair Arethusa, who
received me with delight, and expressed
her admiration iu most eloquent terms,
saying: “Just fancy! and how awfully
jolly!’’ tOh, yes, she was very Lnglish in
deed!) a great many times m all her
choicest tones. This, of course,
was very soothing to my feelings,
but I was not long allowed to bask in
the honeyed words, for picknicking was
the order of the day, and I was immedi
SHsIlfFSE £1
resume his natural position and dra~ mv
pretty dre-s in the dust, an effort which
I resented and strained everv bone tc
prevent; and in the commotion that en.
sued there was another hat catastrophe;
but this time it was Mr. Radcliffe who
wa, the sufferer, and much diversion
his antics afforded-us, as he ambled
and leaped, and scrambled and climbed
back and forth on a stone wall in his
pursuit of it, and madeh mself generally
ridiculous in full view of his lady-love,
as she stood cool and serene in the rosy
shade, which, in my gratitude for hold
mg profusion. me firmly aloft, I shed over her in
Iam sorry to be obliged to
state that his race was enlivened by oc
casional breezy expressions, to which
Arethusa and I politely clo c ed our ears.
when, “Why, my dear,” said she sweetly,
red and disgusted he rejoined us
bearing afraid captive the muddy hat, “I am
bo much exercise must have fa
tigued you so soon after breakfast.”
The words were sympathetic enough,
but unfortunately there was a full
blown twinkle in her eyes utterly at va
riance with them, and it was this that
and Adolphus’s quick glance took in at once,
to this he respond d irritably, “Oh,
Iquite understand; I daresay you de
liberately detestable pushed my hat off with that
umbrella for the sake of see
ing me make myself ridiculous.”
things! “Why, Dolphy! how can you say such
I’m sure it was very pretty to
had see you play with the wall so nicely. I
no idea you were so agile!”
quick Dolph’s vanity was touched to the
now.
“Oh, I dare say you would have been
equally diverted if I had fallen and
broken my neck,” he returned acridly,
“Since that is your opinion, ’ mimiek
# successfully his of the
ver y manner
previous day, “I give you back all prom
ises, as you would hardly care to be
bound for life to a murderess ’. ’ Then
sbe remarked absently: “And all about
a hat, too!’
1 hen it w r as that I appreciated the full
meaning of the saying that “two is a
company and three is none.” for those
two ungrateful wretches a rreed to call
poor, iuoilensive me the sour e of alldis
agreement, and between them left me
without a shred of character, actually
deciding to do without my protection
for all time.
But we 11 keep _ it to lend to trouble
sotn e callers,” and with this pleasant
prospect before me I was returned to the
umbrella stand with a bang !—American
Magazine.
Bean Lore.
The flowering beans were anciently
supposed to <nve out a perfume that
made men light-headed- hence silly' w-hen a
person seemed unusually the ex
pression used of him was: “Beans are
i n flower.” Another sayino-connected
with beans was: “i >gni orano ha la sua
semo! a ”_-‘Every bean has its black,”
that is its black eye. This was equivalent
to sayin": ° “Every person has his
fault.”
Deans have always had somethino
mysterious connected with them ever
s i nr . e t } ie ,j avs w h en pii ny wrote of
Pythagoras’s “that”beans contain^ rule against eatino- souls* them,
the of the
dead.” And lom* 'said a"o in the city of
p om e the priests that the dark
p nes on bean blossoms were letters
Still the modern mind is doubtful as to
the sue ess of the said priests in readin" mv”
such alpha et. But the land of
terious beans was Fgyot, where the
priests dared not look upon the ve^e
table.
To Pope Euticianus is attributed “the
blessyn^e gho'sts of benes upon the auitar ” and
the of the dead were anpeased by
t h e Homans, durin<>- the Lemuria by
throwing beans on the fire of the altar
every other ni«-ht for three times.
And an ancient Popish booK of 1565
sav3 0 f SO me ceremony to which beaus
belono-ed: “We do not use to seeth ten
or twelve beans together no' b it as manv as
wc me ane to eate; more must' be
twelve' s teepe, that is meditate, upon ten 0 r
sinnes only, neither for ten or
twe lve dayes, but upon all the sinnes
that ever we committed even from our
themI”_ birth if it were possible to remember
’ Independent ‘
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Origin . slang.
oi
, correspondent asks the Arkansaw
Traveler: “Why is it that the word
‘rats’ has become such popular slang?
What is its origin, anyway?” We do
not know why “rats” became popular
unless it is because they have at last
decided not to die in the house. The
origin of the word ‘‘rats,” as it is now
applied, expressive of disgust or disbe
l ef in a statement, is to be found in
Shakespeaie. Old Polonius has hidden
behind the arras to overhear the conver
sation held by the darkly brooding
Prince and his mother. The old man
makes a noise, and Hamlet, excla ming:
“A rat—a rat,” kills him. In England,
there has When been no departure from the
original. some one tells the
Prince of Wales a fish story, his royal
highness quietly remarks: “A rat;” but
Americans, ever intent upon enlarge
mdut, and ever seeking the plural in all
things, say “rats.” The origin of much
of the popular slang of to-day can be
traced to Shakespeare. To call a fulsome
compliment “taffy” is declared by the
London Tim s to be an Americanism, but
it is not. In the first part of Henry 1Y.
occurs this phrase: “A candy deal oi
courtesy.” Americans, seizing upon so
gracious a hint, resolved the whole
phrase into “taffy,” whch, we all know.
is candy. *--—----
An Island’s New Dress of Flora.
The luxuriant vegetation of Krakatoa
was totally destroyed bv the eruption !ef‘. in
i SjcU not a living germ being Th-ee
years later the Hand was visited bv Dr.
M. Treub, who now reports having
found six spec es of m croscopic alg e,
which coated the rock and seemed to
have formed the soil on which eleven
species of ferns had taken root. A com
mon grass "were of ava was g owing, and
there quite a num er of oweriag
plants as first ap ear on coral islands,
Seeds or fruit of several coral island
tr-es were found on the shore. Krakatos
is ten miles from the island of Sibesie,
containing the nearest terrestrial vegeta
tion twenty miles from Sumatra, and
twenty-one'from Java.
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TllA The A,n0s » inn - ’ are ~ rp . BeaideJ ne-irdo-l Llke like Pard:5 Paris -
The British Consul at Hokodale states
that the Ainos—who are a remarka ble
tribe of small, hairy people, originally
living by hunting and fishing—have
been in great straits since the occupation
of their fishing grounds by the Japanese
in 1869. Since 1 "82 efforts have been
made to relieve their distress and to
teach them farming, and in 18S6 about
803 acres were cultivated by them. In
their chief home in the island of Yesso,
the Ainos are estimated to number 14,
, 000 individuals, with 3600 houses. They
; are .—Arkansas supposed to Tracder. be gradually disappear
ing
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A THE
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Queer Boats From All Parts df the
World—Secrets of Naviga
tion Known By Rml
Savages.'
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There is a department in the National
Museum that would delight any rightly
constituted boy, or man, either—for a
man never outgrows his boyhood interest
in boats and ships and the mysteries of
navigation. This department tells tho
story of the ship. It is not a written or
printed story, but one told by the collec
tion of ra ts, canoes, catamarans and
ships that fill a large exhibition hall.
An old idea was that the first boat was
a log. There are, however, treeless
, lands, where the people have no logs to
begin with. Thev start, perhaps, by
the making boats of skins. In some parts of
world, where there are neither logs
nor skins available,savage men construct
boats or rafts by binding together in
sheaves.
; From the log the next step is to the
‘ dug-out, wh ch fashioned by
hollowing aV.Igwith savages
out fire oi—rude
tools. When savages began to make
bark canoes they took quite a step to
ward the modern ship, as a bark canoe,
with its frame-work and outer covering,
illustrates in a rudimentary way import
ant principles involved in the shipbuild
er’s art. Savages, too, observed that the
wind could te used to propel their boats,
I It is supposed that the first sail was a
j bush, i- rom the bush the savage went
; to a piece of skin or bark, or a matting
rudely triced up on a pole. It is curious
to note thit the forms of sails used on
yachts and ships of the most highly civ
ili/.ed people have been developed nat
urally from the primitive forms used by
people. “
savage
The primitive is either a square or a
lateen or triangular sail. The lateeu
sail is so named because it is the form
used on the Alediterranean by people of
the J atin races. When men learned
more of the shipbuilding art, and boats
grew bigger, the lateen sail was enlarged, "and
booms were projected fore and aft,
the sail extended so as to reach beyond
the bows in front and beyond the stern
in the rear.
Near the centre of the hall a kyak
from the Greenland coast, made of skins
by the Esquimaux, hangs from the ceil
ing. drum, It is decked over as tight as a
and the ends are sharpened and
curved up. In the centre is a hole in the
deck just large enough to admit a man’s
body. The Esquimaux, when in his
kyak, sits squarely on the bottom, his
I e g s stretched out before him, all of his
b °dy below the waist being under deck,
H e bas a garment or coat of skin, the
I° wer edges of which are fastened to the
T im of l he hole or cockpit, thus making
it water-tight. In this cockel-shell of a
boat the Esquimaux,' with paddle and
spear in hand, hazards his life on rough
Arctic seas in pursuit of seal or walrus,
“ahuman nautilus upon the tide.” There
are kyak a, too, from Alaska, and from
other Arctic regions. Bidarkas, or skin
boats from the Aleutian Islands, are
deck ed over like Esquimaux kyaks, and
are orna niented with colored fringes at
the seams, ust as Indians love to orna
ment their clothing.
Some of the bidarkas are “three
j holed,” or have places for three men to
sit in them, and to the little models
■
shown in the Museum miniature spears
ar ® lashed ust as the Iudians lash their
s P eais to their boats when they start out
Bo hunt seal.
The rudest form of the bark canoe
shown in the collection is from British
Guiana. It was made merely by taking
a 8iD g !e sheet of bark of suitable size,
curling tbe up the sides and then stiffening
bound edges by means of slender splints
to them with thongs. The ends
of tbe canoe are left open and the savage
naV! g at °r has to use much skill to pre
vent water from washing in at stem or
8tern - An Did an canoe, made by the
j shown Passamaquoddy Indians of Maine, is
1 as a model of this type. It is
I made of birch bark, over light wooden
j f baik rame >. is with sewed one together thwart amid the h’ps. ends The and
at
to Tiie gunwales with dyed wooden
fiber. It has a round bottom—the ends
being alike, sharp and curved upward.
A balsa or swimming raft from the
i East Indies is made simply of long bua
i dies of rushes bonnd together. A cat
amaran from Madras, India, is made of
! bound together with ropes and
I fashioned so that they tend to a point
and bend upward slightly in front. This
is use d as a surf boat. When a heavy
i swell threatens the. craft the native
mariner deserts it altogeter, jumping
into the wave and then clambering upon
j it when he comes to the surface again,
j On_ this craft, too, he sometimes sets up
! a tiny mast andhoists a bit of cottou as
a sail.
A simpledugout,perhaps the simplest,
1 is _ a “donga” from Jessore, India. It is
! made from the stem of the tar palm,
The natural form of the tree, with its
bulbous end, is preserved, and the boat
looks like a b g spoon. The native sits
in the bow,-of the spoon or boat, and his
weight keeps the other end out of the
; water.
A dugout made by Chinese fishermen
is a log completely hollowed out from
end to end. Instead of gouging the
logs so as to leave the ends solid, the
simple Chinaman cuts out the ends then
stops them up again wLh pieces of wood
made to fit the apertures. A dugout from
Patna, India, made from the trunk of a
Semul tree, looixs much like a shallow
; wooden trough with square ends.
The Indian-of the northwest coast of
America developed the art of making
boats from s : ng e logs to the highest
degree. The huge cedar trees that grow
on the coast, the wotrdbeing soft enough
to be worked with their rude tools, af
forded them a natural oportunity that
they did nut neglect. The great canoe
Dr‘t is suspended from the ceiiling on
one side of the hall and makes all other
canoes look like pigmies is a specimeTa
of the work of the Haidak Ind aus and
was brought tj the museum from tho
t ueen C. arlotte Islands, British C lum
bia. It w s hewn out of a single log di
yellow cedar. The length is fifty nine
feet and the bean eight feet. The ends
ere sharp and alike, the stem being tar
ried op aud finished in an angular sort
of ornament suggested the outline of a
bead of some aquatic an mil. The body
cd the canoe is painted a dingy white,
and a-each end is a series of figures
painted in wh te, Hue and green, rude
circles and rhomboids enclosing repre
sentations of eyes. These figures are
symbols of totems of the chief who
owned the canoe, representing the tradi
tions of his family, like the heraldic
coat of-arms of some royal or noble family
of Europe. In this canoe a chief woulcl
set out with fifty or more men, on a war
like expedition. None bat men of con
sequence, who could commiud the labor
of ma.sy hands could own such a canoe,
To cut down the immense tree, hollow
out the log, and fash on the canoe with
the rude stone hatchets and chisels with
which these Indians worked, required
; the labor of many men for aontM and
years. A dugout canoe in which Hoopah
Indians sailed on Trinity River, Califor
hia, is made like .an old fashioned
EtfilSUSKH
rise to a point. several boats placed togethei
There are
showing how people in different parts of
the world hit upon the same form.
These are boats of the corraclc pattern,
round as a bowl that the old nursery
rhvme says three wise men of Gotham
went to sea in. There is a Boyne cor
racle in which Irish fishermen take out
their snap nets and fish for salmon on
the Boyne. It is almost perfectly round.
The frame is made of willow like stretched, a huge
basket, and over it hides are
Another eorraele similar in construe
tion is from the River Dee and another
is from India. The litter is a child’s
eorraele, plaited like a basket of stin
rushes and has no outer covering. Neat
it stands a bull boat, used by Indians of
Dakota. It is a round boat, about four
feet in diameter, the same being made
of pliant wood and the coverings of
king.— Washington S'ar.
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Creature Comforts for Cattle.
Saturday afternoon there passed
through this city Benjamin American F. Holmes, Live
general manager of the
Stock Express Company, in charge ol
the first train of rapid transit stock Cars
ever run west of Chicago. This company
has devised a new car for the transpbrta
tion of live stock, such as will prevent
the brushing and suffering of animals
while being shipped. This car will
provide for the feeding and watering of
stock while in transit, and it can be so
divided that each animal will have a
separate compartment or stall. These
compartments or stalls are formed by a
very which simple, yet practicable device,
consist of a series of slats made of
hickory and strapped with steel or iron,
and operating transversely in grooves or
channels formed in the side parts of the
cars and being attached at each end
with endless belt chains which engage
with Sprocket wheels situated close to
the roof of the car and mounted upon
countershafts situated in the sills, to
which power is applied by means of a
crank to move the partitions from a
horizontalpositiomnthecars,uplongi- tudinally under "in
close the roof, or
either direction, to form the stalls or
make an open car. The cars carry the
samenumber of head of stocks as ordinary
cars, and when loaded by means of the
above device, the stock can be separated
very readily. The hay or grain is carried
to the top or attic of the car, and the
manner of placing it in the manger is as
convenient as it would be m a stable,
and can be fed at any time while the
tram is in motion. Water is furnished
the by means outside of supply around pipes, extending on
the car, to which
troughs into are attached by short pipes,
tapped rotating the main supply pipe, and
by the main pipe water, which
is received in a tank at the end of the
car, every trough will instantly fill up to
the water level in the main pipe, furnish
ing eight gallons to each animal. The
troughs, like the mangers, are built into
the side walls in such a manner that the
interior of the cars are smooth. The
ventilation of these cars is by means of
fan wheels, situated in the top and side
of the feed bins.
The train was composed of seventeen
stock cars and a way car. The way car
is a model of elegance and comfort,
being supplied with sleeping, cooking
and dining rooms to accommodate three
men, who are furnished by the company,
the number required to take care of the
stock while in transit. The cars are
supplied with elliptic springs, Westing
house air brakes, automatic couplers and
the Sisum canting lever trucks, ‘the same
equipments These now usedonthebestsleep
ing cars. trains will be run on
the Union Pacific and Milwaukee from
Soda Springs, Idaho, to Chicago or any
point in the East, and will run at the
rate of twenty-five miles an hour.—
Omaha Bee.
Peculiarities of Chinese Quarrels.
The ine North JNortq r t ’hina tuna Herald ticrald s&vs says • “ Among \mono
a population of sucti unexampled dens
sity, vvher^ families of great siz.e are
crowded together—three or four /-fill genera
tions tions, with witn all all the me wives wivps ana anrl childien, rl.pn
under one toof occasions for quarrels
are am all.nervasive au-perxasive. The tiie sons sons’wives wives and nnrl
children are prolific sources of domestic
unpleasantness. Each wife strives to
make her husband feel that in the com
munity of property he is the one who is
worsted; the elder wfffe tyrannizes ovei
the younger ones, and the latter rebel,
I he instinct of the Occidental with a
grievance is to get it redressed straight
way; that of the Oriental is, first of all,
to let the world know that he has a
grievance. A Chinaman who has been
wronged will go upon the street and roat
at the top of his voice. The art of hal¬
looing, as it is called in Chinese, is closely
associated with that of reviling, and the
Chinese women are such adepts in both
as to justify the aphorism that what they
have lost in their feet they have gained
in their tongues.
“Much of this abusive language is
regarded as a sort of spell or curse. A
man who has had the heads removed
from his field of millet stands at the
entrance of the alley which leads to his
dwelling and pours forth volleys of
■ abuse upon the unknown offender. This
has a double value—first, as a means of
notifying the public of his loss and his
consequent fury, thus freeing his mind;
j and, secondly, as a prophylactic tending
to secure him against the reputation of
the offense, women indulge in this
i practice of ‘reviling the secret’ from the
fiat roofs of the houses, and shriek away
for hours at a time until their voices fail,
Abuse delivered in this way attracts
little or no attention, and one sometimes
| comes themselves oa a man red or woman in the face thus with screech
ing sight. If the day hot not
an auditor in is a
one the reviler bawls as long as he (or
she has breath, then proceeds to refresh
j himself with a season of fanning, and
afterwards returns to the attack with
rsnewed fury. A concerned fight in which only
two parties are usually re
, solves itself into mere hair-pulling; their the
combatants when separated by
friends shout back to each other male
dictions and defiance. The quarrel be
tween Labau and Jacob, recorded in the
thirty-ninth chapter of Genesis, when
the latter stole away from Laban’s house,
is a ‘photographically Oriental performance accurate account wh.ch
of the true
the Chinese call making an uproar.’»
ra.iu up f „ v .
A correspondent of Forest and Stream
tells a story about a favorite cat that
spends a good deal of her time in a cosey
old armchair. Her owner last May put
four hen eggs into the chair l%- the way
of seeing what puss wouid do with them
j in order to make her bed more com
fortable. Strange as it may appear, puss
took kindly to the eggs and in due time
i hatched out four chickens. For weeks
after the chickens were hatched she
licked them all over everyday fondled with her
tongue, caressed and with them
as much as if they had been her own
kittens. Whenever the chickens strayed
from the nursery she c&rried tflern back
in her mouth as if they had been made of
j the finest of glass, ____
BIRD ARCHITECTS,*
DWELLING HOUSES BUILT BY
FEATHERED ARTISTS.
Assembly Booms Constrncted by
Public Spirited Birds—Tiie Crow
Family Are Famous House Dec¬
orators—The Gardener Bird.
In looking foT the artists among the
birds, says John R. Coryell, in the Scien
tific American, one would hardly think
of going to the crows to fin l them aud
yet it is among the crows that the fcath
ered artists are most common. J he
most famous artists of the crow family
are the bower birds of Australia. And
among the bower birds the spotted builds col
lar bird is the most artistic. It
but an ordinary nest for laying of its
eggs and the rearing of its family in, dis- but
to compensate for the lack of taste
played there,it exerts itself like the ideal
Socialist to apply its talent for the gen¬
eral good. world the fe¬
Ordinarily in the bird
male is the’architect, but with male the bowmr birds
bird this is not the case. The
at certain season 9 of the year come to
as the
beavers when building their dams, and
unite for the erection of x>”hat have been
aptly called assembly rooms. In
lii/ , e 5
these structures are bower
the name given the bird. In
they are literally for the assembln'' 4 *
the two sexes at pairiug time, wb
every male bird in his best plumage at
tends and disports himself in the way
which to’ him seems best calculated to
win him the object of his affections.
The male birds having given their time
and talents to the building think per¬
haps that they have the best right to the
privileges of the place. However that
may be, they certainly do most of^ the
promenading promenading and dancing. They
actually do dance, seeming, moreover to
enjoy the exercise. They are the not fe- so
selfish, however, as to exclude
males from the delights of this much pastime,
but permit them to dance as as
they chooss, only observing the decorous
rule of dancing singly instead of in
pairsof opposite sexes. A remarkable
degree of ingenuity and skill are dis
length of the platform m such a way
that the tops meet in an arch over it.
These are held firmly m place by being
ssr, aid forming ssfus? side of the bower
these twigs the
Ihem they are removed aod othersi pat m
ssrwas sujrztum vssfr
with tall, soft grass so disposed that the
glass .'. rlfisSia^a^hva is kept in p.ace by a row mw ot o stones stone
arranged along the inner base of the
bower. the birds The structure being search completed,
go out upon a lor o r
jects with which to ornament not on y
the bower Well, but the approaches to
it as well, for the entrances to the
structure are marked by well defined
pathways lined j , by small „ ii white i-a pebbles vi!
in the manner of some of our country
walks. The ornamental ob ects sought
are required to be either pure white in
aeate and the like substances a-e most
commonly employed. In front of each
entrance a little mound covered with or
nameninl namental objects ohieets m is placed. nlaeed
In Africa there is a bird, which, like
the bower bird, combines the qualities
of architect and decorative artist with
the difference that this bird divides the
talents between the sexes the female
being the architect and the male the
' 2COrat °r. f be house, for such it realty
■ notable ad and
1S > i® a air covering an
area of fifty square feet in some instances.
One observer has described this extra
ordinary structure in these words: “The
doorway ^ to this 7 dwelling 5, is olaced P, on “
the lower , part of ,,, the slope, i in • order that t1
i rain mav ?• not cause 1 an inundation .i 1 of 1 the
habitation. , -, A a level , plattorm , of wood ,
is then built at the higher end of the
structure and a carpet of some soft vege
table material is laid on it. A partition
wall with a doorway is then raised to cut
this portion off from the main room, for
this is the mother’s chamber and the
nurserv. Another portion of the dwelling
is then partitioned o f for use as a store¬
room, and it is the male bird’s duty to
stock , it with . , provisions . . against . , a bad , .
season. The remaining space in the house
is ictained by tne ma.e Jll d as a sort of
guard limed.” bouse and resting, place com ;
No sort of decoration is allowed
by the mother to encumber the interior
of the house, but apparently she does
not care what the father does with the
outside, provided he first procures food
before giving himself up to his artistic
in-tincts. The things which he collects
show his catholic taste in art. Anything
glittering or odd in shape will his please
him, and, if the truth be told, house
in the end comes to look like a refuse
heap o -a modified city dumping ground.
The passion of the hammerhead for ob.
jets de vertu is su h, and so wed under¬
stood among the natives, specially that w r hen one
of them loses a'nv glittering or
gaudv article, he at once sets out for the
nearest hammerhead house and there
searches for it.
In a o-rtain spnse the o-ardenpr bird of
v pw p,,; nM mr-o o than
'either rf the forp-ennw nmtWii- 1 b-ds M is 2 rn
‘“rises Yl ItVSrRnci hnildim?K™ tUwpiT When
ti a h- m
’ Ji -which tpWt a stout nnrio-ht- shrub
• -d and Ml around
° f ’
, shrno as around t nt nulr thp
a P
edifice H is erected T The ane of the tent
- t t inches from the ./round
an( j the base is nparlv a vard in diampfpr
The sides ^ a r e formed ' of stems material ti^htlv
inter V ’ t, n uatil w-a’ernroof
j s ma dp An arched doorwav s made
i n the most convenient s de and a "allerv
j s con8 t r ucted all around the inter or of
the building. Tentral An embankment of moss
holds the nillar firmly in Ts
. Rut it is on the arrun,Is that the
art ; st ' i c f ee ' Ii n ^ 0 f the bird shows itself
aud th thu3 described: “The
f’ o-rounds co~er about the <ame snace ^ as
like }lphni , 8P anrl aro Tnn j ( , „ roon nri ]awn
bv bein- covered with patches of
mo=s brour/ht th the- for that nnrnose man*
Over the awn a-e Vuit placed in arUstic fa'
n er brirrht ° 1 flowers and kH
t w hich arc attractive bv rpason
0 f brilliant coloring are captured and
d igp 0(;ed about the "aounds Nor is
this all—the inner ^allew is also decor
a ted with the-e bright objects And "and
when the ornamental fruits ’ flowers
i Qsec t e be "in to fade thev are removed
in d replaced ^ Moreover w’th evident
q eg - . material of which the house
[s built is a specie^ of orchid which re
ta ^ ng 2 freshness 3 ‘ for a verv J long 2 “ t ; me ‘ ”
—
Elizabeth. Cady Stanton says she re
garda the religion of to-day aj th* chief
obstacle to woman suffrage,
___
WORDS OF WISDOM, N
V
II* who giTes becomes rich.
Charity i* more than sacrifices.
Great plenty breeds much dainty.
Economy is of itself a great revenue.
The corn grows on the prettiest foot.
Tripe broth is better than no porridge.
The cat and the rat make peace over a
carcass.
A myrtle, even in the desert, remains
a myrtle,
q^e hangman has no grudge against
the murderer.
Do not talk o{ your p r i vate , personal
Qr famil matters .
... lf thou te ,, Jest , thy m secret , to , ,, hree pe.r
sons, ten know it.
Never kick unless you find you ara
getting the worst of it.
It is hard to catch a fish if you haven’t
t ^ e r i g ht kind of bait,
A man ^, ants a great ifltay things he
^ oega > t nce .| j n this xvorld.
Success iu most things depends succeed; on
knowing how long it takes to
A failure establishes only th’i**>—ourr
determination to succeed was not sfoong;
enough.
Dost thou love life? Then do noL.
squander time for that is the stuff life;
is made of.
jf a word spoken in its time is worth:
one piece of money, silence in its time is ,
wort h two.
| "When "When thou thou art art tho tho only only purchaser, purchaser,
then buy; when other buyers are present,
■ Do thou nobody,
Flowers are the hieroglyphics of na
turt'> with which she ’ dieates how
much she loves us.
YVlie u 3 r ° u r ’ s0 fbe morning, form a
resolutio ' u L 0 make the day a happy ouo
to a fellovH creature.
Thrift ot ' t' me will repay you in after
life with mwy of P rotit beyond your
most sanguine dreams.
xiie Prince ol Wales Spanked,
f 0 D 0W j Qf , taken from a paper
v Scotland, in
B , riutcd in Aberdeen, uds 1844,
qow the ratA ol the press:
Majesty? Queeu ^onsort Victoria, and accom- the
P . d by the PrinCd get»u’ aad f the
cbil J.- e n, visited °r
sasrs ;a
^ inhabitans of that city turned c ufc
“ x « numbers to do honor to tW
sove reign. tnHfc A guard .of honor,;,
J™ f « ^’ i* ti ■,£
k dclo wh to iMs,
'the°veeul moored at justsullicte,*.
t as*.* «•— tzu
of —»•?»>-• ••
gnf.ify p" Yah, meek redly remaiaed pessiW*
•» as as
cuffos.ty J oi the bonnv |-,inw Scots, of andi tlr«
f 6naJed about in ful
crowd . The Prince of Wales,,
„rsix years, was,
i hh Among f other ,.am„d things dion placed of
d , acco
, ,, ueeQ asaros yai y 1
•- -
v
sota, A ornamented with tasBeuH ana tno
other hoys J of that a^e. being >
of , a destructive turn began , to, pull r , n n at n
^? anT^ea aC f? it . a nYs^no'thcr observeli the Hct,
him to desist. He did
but as aS her back was turned 8e ' 7€A
*(jueen / l PP re * la ' e 0X |’ ft G,J c # /
the kind, , f for she , at
something of was
that moment watching him from the
()f hpr „ vo In an instant she
lurned and Knglantfby sei/ j ne . ti ;e luckless he I? ap
parentof ^ t> “scruff of the
cck „ elevated one of her feet upon tho
’ her
8of hoistcd the youngster " over
knee> adju8tfid h ; m in the posit.on cb
mu tually familiar to parents il
dren generally, when such ceretA°nies
to be nerformed ’ and ^ mvehj’u »
snl1Tld ‘ smnklnrr {.' f ?j
11 Tt rn ! Z be l o P rnnpr r °P® r v. to mention, en
passant, for the information of youths
sometimes find themselves similarly ^
circumstanced, ■ , . that ,, , the , illustrious ...
feu,re,er cn w or *. k ck d a nna (1 showed under tu the
afflictive dispensation quite as lustily as
boys of lowlier birth are wont to do.
The amazement with which the specta¬
tors witnessed the exampl ■ of royaR
domestic discipline may be imagined,,
but scarcely described in fitting terms.
A dead silence prevailed for a moment,
but was suddenly broken by a tremen
dous roar of laughter, which canid not
be suppressed by any thought of det>
0 mm, respect for the Queen, or sym
pa t by f or the victim of her displeasure^
The explosion recalled the royal mother
to a of her position, and, hiving
turned toward the crowd for a moment,
her face suffused with crimson, she
hastily descended into the cabin, and
was seen no more by the expectant
populace.
Walrus Hides.
“Walrus Hide” was the announcement
that greeted a New fork World report¬
er’s eyes, as he was taking his daily jour
ney through „ , a downtown , , thoroughfare
recently. 1 he sign was painted in black
f^Ders on what appeared to be a larger
piece of iron, terribly rusted. On closer
inspection, however, the reporter dis
covered that it was soft, like leather.
blacksmith’s '” s *bp store supply was shop, a hardware the and
‘led how th* hide reporter
f a to see could be util¬
i zed - but the propriet*.- of the place ex
pained that all wa kinds rus hide was used for
P olishin n of metal. When
properly tanned, it has a peculiar, tough
g rain ' and is used by brass and silver
bnishers cutlery and stove manufacturers
and nickel Platers. Manufacturers of
ed !fd tools and agricultural implements
P fwd ur P thlS oses lea T D th ® r 3 a H B° ie best U'e l for with polishing
.°D - and - emery,
p ro cus » r en pumice stone forpol-
18 ^ . D # ^ ewelr y- It gives a very fine
ro !'v ^ 1 ^ T r l0ra *° loO
P onnd? 1 > and ar e from dae t0 one and a
^ . ^! b sold by
1 nCii es T 11C Rn the
b lde . t brings , . $i.5t _ and $2 pound,
] a
but when cut into wheels it is worth
muc b more. M heels ranire in size from
1 •• to 10 ’“ ches diameter, and from 10
ceat8 t0 each ,
m price.
The walrus is caught in ^ the polar
regl0nS ’ and WalrU3 hldPS are taQDe(i ia
Europe.
Americas * . , First ^ Plate ril Glass,
There is a window on Pearl street
New Albany, Ind., in which is set the
first sheet of plate glass ever cast in
America. It was made in the town by
Captain J. B. Ford, the pioneermanu
facturer this side of salt water. By the
how many New Yorkers who look
daily through the acres of translucence
Bning our streets know that each of the
big sheets is cast while liquid upon a
st0Iie or marble table, the excess 6wept
off by machinery, and the future nlate
while still hot enough to be almost
viscid, slid off and taken through no end
0 f ovens and oil baths by way J oi ani
n^ilng, ]