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Hi! Stare Mmte.
FORSYTH, »A.
Orncui Orojli or Mor*o» Cowstt.
BY McOINTY A CABANISS.
Russia Is doing everything possible to
get rid of nil the German* in that coun
fry, and has just refused to naturalize
jinv more -'1
The Commercial Ad**rt>*r.t estimates
that “the sit rv w States, with a total of
b • ■■■ than hOU,000 votes, have a voice in
the Srnat^Vix times a# loud ns that ol
New yrfrk,” ^ "
^Mrs. Frank Leslie has been inquiring
info the subject of kissing and has come,
to t ho conclusion that “wc seek odic force,
polarized, upon other lips to complete
thc growth of our own.” This simple
explanation, the Chicago News thinks,
ought to satisfy everybody.
y Vaccination*at sea has been declared
hy a number of New York doctors as
*nor<.» dangerous than smalTpox, and
unard jmwu-ngers who claim that fhej
are suffering from blood poisoning in con
sequence of being vsiccinntcd on ship
.board have brought suits against tht
jgreat steamship line.
j Somethifig has been found at last, an
'flounces the New York 1 'elcgram, which
•can defy the live electric light wire. A
buzzard winged its way through Millford,
’Del., the other day and contemptuously
»wept down two electric light wires.
“Unfortunately,” adds the Telegram ,
k‘the birds cannot be trained for line
men.”
/ A Chinese executioner at Pekin hac
1 wenty-one victims to practice on the
• >thcr week, and he set out with a dc
lermination to bent the record. He cut
off the twenty-one heads in exactly two
minutes, and thus gained seven seconds
over the best work ever done in the Era
pi re. If a Chinaman can’t be a champion
pugilist or ball-player he is not, entirely
barred out.
: Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, speaking
of the unimportance of human life in
human affairs, says that “Abraham
Lincoln died at a late n\orning hour, and
before thc evening of the same day af
fairs were moving uninterruptedly nl
Washington, where he died. The world
has not many important lives, and there
are hut few men whose deaths would
cause more than a momentary sensation.”
The effort® of English missionaries tn
change thc customs and habits of the
Greenlanders have thus far been un¬
availing. avers the Detroit Free Press.
The old are sent to a pen to die of star¬
vation and neglect, and thc young get
drunk ns often ns opportunity offers.
Getting drunk and dying of consump¬
tion arc the only two events of any im
portance in a Greenlander’s life, and he
won’t innovate to accommodate anybody.
The Portuguese crosses himself aud
prays God to shield him from nil blas¬
phemous desire to know more than hi?
father did before him. In Portugal, oxen
trend the wheat; the people habitually
rarry things on their heads or on donkeys
which share their habitations. The
wages of a laborer are worth twenty to
twenty-five cents a day, and thoso of a
mechanic about twice as much, aud each
is fairly paid according to the produce of
his labor.
Perhaps the best result of the recent
earthquake shock in San Francisco was
the demonstration that the new tall build¬
ings going up in the city are earthquake
proof. The new Chronicle building is
the loftiest in the city, being nine stories
high and 200 feet to the top of the
tower. It is nearly completed, so that it
furnished a good test. Not even a bit of
plastering was knocked off the walls; in
fact, there was no indication that the
lofty structure had passed through a
severe earthquake.
One result of Prince Bismarck’s retire
meat will, perhaps, be a notable improve
meat in the eyesight of his couutrvmen
U.Tmm oculists almost ooontaoosi,
tribute the extraordinary prevalence of
presbyopia and other defects of vision in
:he Fatherland to the use of the national
black letter ! I tvne type in mscnooi schoolbooks LOOKS Prince x nnce
Q Bismarck . has always resolutely
stood
upon the ancient w^ys in this matter,and
has opposed the substitution of the
tiomnn for the 0*kie eb»r„cter in Get
man books. The party of typographical
reform is now hopeful of succeeding in
its object.
Patti’s agent recently told the London
Tmth a good story about President Diaz.
While in Mexico Patti was accused by a
newspaper of calling Madam Diaz a
washerwoman. The two ladies were on
the best of terms, and the libel was
p’.ainly intended to annoy the President's
family. Now. Diaz is full of grit. He
made no rumpus. He did not bother the
courts, nor send a file of soldiers to ar¬
rest the libeler. He invited the libeler
nto his garden, told him to defend hijn
?e!f and then gave him a sound thrash¬
ing, and let him go. Perhaps it was
very undignified conduct for a President,
but it is said that every man and woman
in Mexico thought all the better of Diaz
w hen the story got out. “Not much
reu-tape about such a ruler,” comments
the Atlanta Constitution. ---.
THE MONROE ADVERTISER. FORSYTH, GA-, TUESDAY, JUNE 17.1890 -EIGHT PAGES-
IHE OLD FfnEPCA.CE.
Y"U may talk y#ur furnace fire*
That warm youf city homes.
And fril me how the fo-at a-pir*-.
Ami through the building roaui-^
’Ti* haady. I ll admit, to push
A little iron wheel,
And let th» ghost of summer out
About the room to stei).
But oh. I'd love to sec on-'* mors
My father s big fireplace.
To hear the old logs sing and roar.
And watch the dodging sparks outpour
And up the chimney chase’
Your modern grate's a nice affair;
When full of anthracite.
It le«fte the.room a pleasant air
On any winter's night.
_
The glowing coal's a flower bed—
Lilies and crimson pinks,
And mong them many an elfin ere
Peeps through, and winks and blinks.
But oh, 1 long to see once more
My father's old fireplace!
To watch the shadows flicker o'er
My mother's whitely sanded floor,
And round the ceiling race!
These patent parlor sieves are fin?,
And charm AtVay the chill
With windows whence the light may shine
The room with cheer to fill.
Some people love to lxmst about
< >ur stylish modern ways.
And thank the Lord who cast their line*
In these progressive days
But oh, that I might be once more
Beside the old fireplace!
To see the fleet-winged flames upsoav
And watch the flashes on the floor
Entwine and interlace.
Hearty and jovial fires were thoso
I loved so when a boy.
They tinted darkness like the rose
And warmed the heart with joy.
They chuckled in an undertone,
They cackled, whistled, laughed.
They burned so bright, the cares of life
Flew upward in the draught!
And oh, I’d love to be once more
Beside the old fireplace:
To drowse upon the sanded floor
And find my mother bending o’er
dl ith love-light on her face!
—George Horton, in Chicago Herald.
HIRAM’S ROMANCE.
Hiram Stillman came from the pine
Woods back of New Brunswick to make
his fortune in New York. He had no
'cry ambitious hopes of becoming a
A anderbilt or an alderman, but he knew
something he about horses, and he thought
might get a job as a driver.
The folks down on the fain#- were op¬
posed to Ins going; they would have pre¬
ferred to have him marry the youngest
daughter of the Methodist parson and
settle down at home. His father had
even gone so far a>- to offer him two
rooms on the second floor of the old farm
house and a third interest, in the farm,
with $200 down on the day of his wed¬
ding, but Hiram wanted to see the city,
and his interest in the Methodist par¬
son’s youngest daughter was very slight.
He came to New York with just $18 in
silver in his pocket, and a shiny papier
mache valise. As soon as he saw the
long, u§broken line of carts and drays on
West, street he gave up all idea of becom¬
ing a driver. He could guide a horse
down the furrow in front of the plow,
and he could steer the hay wOg/n
the country roads, but this writhing puz
zle of heavy drays and trucks and the
swearing drivers dazed and terrified him.
He wandered up Oortlandt street to
the City Hall park, which struck him as
the pleasantest, part of the city that he
had yet seen, aud he sat down on a
bench and looked around him wonder
Nffiy with hi.s valise .shut in between his
knees, for he knew what thieves and
sharpers there were prowling about iu
this big metropolis. He had a great
curiosity to see the Bowery, of which
his cousin Elijah had told him, and when
he was rested, and a little used to thc
noise and rush, aud felt a little more
confidence in himself, he asked oue of
the “constables” iu gray where thc
Bowery vms. He was much relieved to
find it was so near a’ hand, and plunged
into the stream that flowed up Park Row
wit d vivid inton - and yet with his senses
.
still alert for possible sharpers, .He was
much please l with the Chinamen, and
observed them cautiously at first, until
he saw they w ere used to being stared at,
then he took his fill and stood for half an
hour on t ie corner of Mott street gazing
at the n an.l listening with puzzled in
teres;, to their queer chatter. He was
rather surpri -e 1 to find that no oue else
seem ’ 1 t- notice them iff was also
11,11 11 p oised with tne pawnbroker's
shops, th" eiieap clothing stores and the
chc iper lo Iging houses which seemed to
promise such rare accommodations at
nit ; mo vent t _■ rates. He went into one
of these Wiiere the rooms were a quarter
of a dollar a day or a dollar a week aud
paid .or .: neck in advance. The man
in hr- mi r sleeves beuiad the desk gave
him a big tv., with a brass tag to it, and
he v. v it a > > his ream and left his bag
then-. IK muvi feted out with quite a
feeling o. ovuigsome-'ody, for the owner
ship of the room gave him a sense of
vested proprietary right iu the metropolis,
Gdt almost like a citizeu and rather
wished thc folks at home could see him.
Z) l
( was covered with colored canvas signs
such ;>> Iliram had seen billowing before
,
^ 1C sideshows at the circus.
^ le pi ( ’ tlires woe very inviting, but
•
( Hiram knew, from his experience at the
circus, that thev were not to be relied
on. He stopped to look at them,
• though, and then he moved pver to the
"fee <* » crowd of o*» who
stood gazing tn through a pane of glass
at a young woman. Hiram thought she
was rutne. bold to sit mere aud be stared
at by so many men and he thought-it
was all the more a pity because she was
to young and so comely. She had a red
silk bodice and a very hirge gold chain
around her neck, .also reddish hair and
the fair complexion that always goes
with red hair.
Hiram thought her remarkably pretty.
She looked as if she was put out about
something or other and did not meet the
eyes of the men in front,but stared un over
flwlr Hiram wedercl whil.be
could be .ioing ann crowded wp ceenT to
scc.B hat b saw t-.c presence u mind
completely away, for when he; ante near
er he discovered that the girl waa whole
to the waist aud that the lower part of
her body was cut completely away.
Hiram had seen some dozen circuses in
his time and many curious human freaks,
as they are very well called, but that #
woman who was so good to look at
should have l»een born in this way filled
him with sudden pity and disgust.
Then he blushed and bowed his head
in anguish at his own ^experience when
one of the men in front of him said: “A
very pretty trick, a very clever decep¬
tion. Of course it's done with the lights
anti mirrors, bat it's good, isn't it?”
then the gentleman added carelessly
to his companion as he moved away:
“And the girl’» pretty, too—quite slums.” too
pretty to be wasted in these
Hiram followed them as they turned
up the street. He recognized them as
belonging to a different class than that
of th<- men lounging on the street around
him. Yet they seemed to be ns strange
to the place as himself. He rather fancied
he would like to get work from them,
and he stopped them after a block or two
and asked if they knew of a job lor a
young rain who was strong and willing
to work.
They answered him sharply iu the
negative, but stopped as he turned away
at once with a startled apology,
“Do you reallr want work?” one of
them asked, and then they told him there
were thousands like him, and that only
one out of a hundred ever got the work
he came for, but stopped looking for it
and w r ent to the bad. They told him to
"o back to the farm and stay there; that
it took very bright men indeed to get
along in New York, and that he might
better be a big man on his Own farm than
slave fOr a small man in New Y'ork. They
seemed to think they ought to soften this
by some assistance, but Iliram told them
sharply that he didn’t want any money,
and walked away feeling very much hurt
and discouraged, though he wouldn’t
own it even to himself.
He walked up and down the Bowery
all the rest of the day, and ventured into
little cross streets and into big ware¬
houses, where he asked for work of any
sort. He determined not to go back to
the farm with nothing to show for his
visit and have his people say: “We told
you so.” He felt very lonely and wished
he had some one to talk to. He concluded
finally to go back and look at that girl
in front of the dime museum. She- was
still theiy.', and he took a great deal of
comfort in looking at her. Once or twice
ho fancied she noticed him standing
there at the back of the constantly chang¬
ing crowd, and he turned his eyes away
because he thought it enough to shame
any girl to have a man stare at her.
When it grew dark and the electric
lights began to sputter overhead, Hiram
felt himself conspicuous and turned away
to get supper, which lie purchased for
fiftceu cents iu a restaurant. lie was
very tired, and the hard pavements hurt
his feet after the soft country roads; but
before he went to his room he walked a
few blocks out of his way to take a look
at the red-haired girl with the pretty
complexion. She saw him this time,
surely,and looked rather curiously at him,
but she made no sign, which rather
pleased him than otherwise; he would
not have liked it at all if she had smiled
at him.
One day followed another and no w r ork
came to Iliram, and liis money ran very
low. Each day he refreshed his home¬
sickness by going to look at the young
lady, without any waist, who hung in
midair in the window of a museum. The
young lady without any waist had grown
to look for and expect Hiram; there was
a something so earnest and likeable in his
honest, handsome, sunburned face, and
then he w’as so respectful in his bearing
Ax-fflL anddid not wink at her, no r laugh at
otUer men did. She was very
tired of hanging in midair m the window,
but she knew no other way to keep her¬
self alive in that big city, to which she
had turned when her aunt died and left
her alone in the Connecticut village from
which she came.
Aud one afternoon, after Hiram had
not turned up for a whole day, she could
not help smiling when she saw him, and
he saw her smile, and it pleased him, for
she looked so much prettier when she
smiled. After that, Hiram came regu¬
larly to the window three times a day,
and though she never smiled after that
first time, he knew she saw him and that
she was pleased to have him there. He
often wanted to punch the heads of the
men around the window, but lie consid¬
ered that she could not hear what they
said, and so let them alone. But one
night, when his money was quite gone,
and when he had already learned the way
to one of the big pawnshops, and while
he was standing disconsolately gazing at
the lady in midair, something happened
that made him boil with rage. Two very
unpleasant young men iu front of him
tapped on the window pane and took oil
their hats and bowed to the girl and
called her very endearing names. She
grew as red as her hair,but she was afraid
to move, as that would upset the mirrors
which made her look as though she were
cut in two, but she called to the proprie
tor and the tears came to her eyes. Hiram
did not *vait for the proprietor.
He just learned over the heads of the
laughing crowd and caught the young
men by the collar and shook them as
though they were dirty rags,
“You mean, cowardly pups, you,”
yelled Hiram, “insulting a lady that ain’t
got no one to take care of her. If you
dare to speak, ur look,ur even come near
that girl again I’ll beat every fait of life
oufc’en your mean bodies.”
Then Hiram whirled the two toughs
into the gutter and strode angrily up the
street. It was late and there were few
™ wteot
failure, a bitter failure, and he would
hive returned to the farm the very next
morning if it had not. been for that girl,
but he felt he could'not leave her to be
abused and insulted. It was really more
than anv on" could ask. And then a
hand touched him lightly on the shoulder,
an d, turning, he saw the young lady of
tho dime museum standing firmly on her
feel now-, and with a shawl thrown over
her re . hair. -I oar here, quick, she
said, drawing him into the vestibule of a
dwelling house. “They re a piping followin’ you,
the boys are; they've been a
you ever since you knocked Casey down.
My stars, but you did do for him, didn’t
you! Those two boy- are cappers for
the place, and they were a bit full, that’s
all. Well, theyhY after you now, and
I’ve run all the way to tell you. You get
away, now, quick.” She looked cau
tiously out of the hallway, and pulledhim
after her. “Rim up h! to Houston street."
.herald, -Keep thc lighb amf vek I
the e!evateeL ! "
“But where to-what for? gasped
Hiram.
S “Oh, anywhere,"she said: “only get
away. They're wild as ♦alls, they are,
and they're the worst »f the gang. If
you run up against them now they'd go
- for you, sure.
“And what about you?” asked Hiram,
who was too ignorant of the particular
gang of which the girl spoke to be very
frightened. right,” said the girl,
: ‘‘Oh, I'm all
“I'm used to taking c^re ef 'myself; and
you stood by me, ar.d so I thought I’d
do you a turn. Lookout.” she screamed,
“here they are. Palice!”" There was a
sudden stamping aad trampling of feet, !
a blocking and the of the entrance to him. the hall- Hi- j
way, gang were upon
ram pulled the girl behind him and
struck out like a wild man. They were
too close to use their fists well, and he
drove them back. Then he felt the doot
behind his back give way, and as it
opened he put his arm around the gir
and pulled her with him inside the house,
and threw his shoulder against the dooi
and locked it.
Thev^vere standing in the hallway of
the lodging house, which was lighted by
a single burner, Outside the men
kicked at the panels and cursed viciously,
™d then a voice cried hoarsely: “Cheese
^ fevers, t ^ c co P s 1S onter us » an( tlie >
heard them i um P awa -D and thc s0 \ iml
of their footsteps growing fainter . as they
ran.
Iliram put his hand to his head, and
found that it was bleeding, but he did
not mind that, for the girl was leaning
heavily against him and trembling with
terror.
“It don’t seem to me,” said Hiram,
meditatively, “that this sort, of a life’s
just the thing for a young girl.”
“I haven’t got any other,” sobbed the
young woman at his side.
“I know of a place on a farm down in
New Jersey,” said Hiram, slowly, “where
they'll take you and treat you well if 1
say so—and I will say so if you’ll come.
Will you?”
The young lady of midair fame looked
up and drew nearer to Hiram and nodded
her head in assent as she blinked tear¬
fully.
They were trudged all very glad to see Hiram
when he up to the farmhouse c
few days later, and very much surprised
to sec the pretty, slight young girl at his
side.
“This, mother,” said Hiram, simply
by way of introduction, “is my wife. I
told you when J went away I wouldn’t
come back empty-handed, an* she’s bet
ter'n money.”
Aud this is how it came about that
Hiram got a third interest iu the farm,
$200 down and the two rooms on
the second floor, and was eventually for¬
given for preferring the lady who hung
in midair to the youngest daughter of the
Methodist minister .—New York Sun .
Usefulness of the Peanut.
The peanut is a useful product—much
more so indeed than people imagine.
We all know how extensively it is eaten
in its roasted state, but therein by nc
means lies the extent of its value. The
nuts contain from forty-two to fifty pet
cent, of a nearly colorless, bland,fixed oil.
resembling olive oil, aud used for similar
purposes. The best is obtained by cold
expression, but a large quantity of infe¬
rior oil is procured by heating the seeds
before pressing. It is a non-drying oil,
changing but slowly by exposure to the
atmosphere, and remaining fluid in cold
several degrees below 32 degrees Fahr.
It contains besides oleic and palmitic
acids, two other oily acids, which have
been called the arahic aud hypogotic,
though it is doubtful if they are really
distinct. The principal consumption ol
the oil is in soap making. In 1883 Vir¬
ginia began the manufacture of peanut
flou r, the re sult 'i^^^^narticularly pal
atab FT- DNcuit, orgitt
made pastry of pounded peanuts. The
kernels, roasted, are largely used in the
manufacture of chocolate, while the
amande de terre, is used by confection¬
ers. It is also eaten as a fruit and roast¬
ed for coffee. The poor man’s fruit, the
peanut, is capable of sustaining life for
a long time, owing to its peculiarly' nu¬
tritive qualities, the negroes using it
alike as a porridge, custard, or as a bev¬
erage. Nor does its usefulness end here,
for the vines form a splendid fodder as
good as clover hay, while hogs will fat¬
ten on what they find in the fields after
the crop has been gathered. It is an
easy crop to raise, the demand for the
nuts has trebled within the past few
years, and *he supply has never yet
equaled the demand. The quantity used
in this country may be set down at
3,000,000 bushels .—New York Dispatch.
A $10,000 Thermometer.
“The finest thermometer in this coun¬
try, and I suppose in the world, is at
Johns Hopkins Uuiversity,” remarked
Lieutenant Finley, the Government Sig¬
nal Service Inspector. Lieutenant Fin¬
ley inspects a great many thermometers
every year and he knows something about
them. “This remarkable instrument,’
he continued, “is known as Professor
Rowland’s thermometer, and it Is valued
at the enormous sum of 610,000. It is
absolutely perfect, aud so line are the
graduations on the glass that it requires £
telescope to read them. There are s
number of fine instruments that are
rigged with telescopes. But an instru¬
ment like that w«uld be of no possible
use to an ordinary individual. It re¬
quires a scientific education in order to
read them. The United States Govern
uaent don tgom for expensive thermome
ters, said Lieutenant Finiey. ‘ I don •
su PP ose the finest one at the headquarters
^ ea ther bureau in Washington is
wor ^ 1 °^ er ^H)0. The thermometers
«•>” Si/'S— £. £
Purchased for that amount. These ther-
1 urometers are about twelve inches.long,
^ ac ^ staaon ^ severa * °f t - lcn “ H j
necessar } l0 na%e t'” 0 kmas, tne spirit
thermometer to measure minimum tern
P erature and the mercurial thermometer
to measure the maximum temperature.
There are three famous makers in the
*^ho^o^M t £ wine"
or “° Hke
““'f Fj ” te remrke( ' ", J j. J, ,. |t
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P™™ “='■ Th 1 J?‘ d “
. better it is. It is absolutely necessary
for the tube to season. It must be
era } years old beior$ it becomes tellable,
Times Democrat.
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A Famous Old Mantel.
Most of the tomb-like fireplaces* and
m-nrek erected in Npw York house "hor- 1
twentv-five or thirty vears now"and a^o are
ri ble to contemplate', but tuen {
beautiful antiaue of this <=ort is found
. ago a beautiful marble mantel that' ,m
, belng taken out of an house in Greene
street. He interfered just'in time tc
| p ieve nt its destruction, and could prob
al ,lv have bought it- for half the sum hf
pa f d jt was’ of statuarv marble deli
cate i y carved in relief. 'The purchase!
sold it to a rich suburban resident foi
$500, and would gladly have it back at
that price, for since the second sale then
has been discovered upon the marble tb<
name of a famous sculptor. The piect
was brought over l^om Holland by ac
earlv Knickerbocker.— Picayune.
WINSHIP MACHINE CO.,
Atlanta, Georgia.
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Our Cotton Gin as now Improved is Superior to any on the Market- i
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A CURIOUS LIZARD.
It Can Drop Off Its Tail at the
Slightest Warning.
In one of his papers, Dr. Gunthqr, the
well known aud eminent English na¬
turalist, states that the geckos, the
curious lizards that have the faculty of
various walking upon walls* and ate found in
countries, have thc remarkable
power of dropping off their tails at tlio
slightest warning, and that that organ
will, as if astonished at the uncere¬
monious desertion, jump about in a
frantic manner for some time, and per¬
haps lizard. finally be gobbled up by some other
He suggests that this curious
methods proceeding may be one of nature’s
that ol‘ protecting her own; and
in Dr. least Gunther’s theory is the right
one at one case, has been proven
by the experience of a careful observer
in the East.
The witness of the strange opera!io 3
was returning from a hunting trip, an —
being heavy fatigued with the day’s tramp, lxis
rifle, and bag of game, he took
advantage of a shady nook among some
huge rocks, and was soon enjoying a
noonday does siesta. How long he slept he
not know, but he was awakened
suddenly by a rough body rushing across
his face, and starting up he saw that tlio
cause of the disturbance was a leaf-tailed
gecko that was darting away over the
rocks at full speed. Knowing its harm¬
less nature, he lay still to watch its
movements.
It was about six inches long, seemingly
covered with rough excrescences, with a
- lender iwxiy, ami wide, staring,
stony eyes. Its tail, instead of being
longand shapely like many of the lizards,
was leaf shaped and almost as large as
its body, so that if the gecko were cling¬
down ing- close to a limb and the tail hanging
easily or extending upward, it might
be taken for a leaf of thc tree;
The little fellow darted away swiftly,
scrambling later over the rocks, and a moment
the appeared the object of its alarm in
and shape of a hawk that soared down,
but for a most remarkable proceed¬
ing, would have caught it. The gecko
was ing making for a high rock, and cross¬
an the open hawk space about behind thirty feet dis¬
tant, close aiid over it,
when two geckos seemed to appear;
oue ludicrous stopping and leaping the about in a
manner, clearing ground,
now on one end, now on another,
straightening out, curling up, bounding
around here and there in a livety dance,
and performing such strange feats of
gymnastics that the hawk seemed at first
alarmed as it whirled around, and then
dropped to the ground in apparent amaze¬
ment.
In the meantime the other gecko had
reached the wall, darted up its precipit¬
ous sides with its hairy feet that are
adapted for such climbing, and disap¬
peared in a crevice. Here the observer,
overcome putting with curiosity, rose up, and
the bird to flight, found that
what had appeared to be a second and
dancing leaf-like gecko, was actually the curious
tail of the wily lizard that had
been thrown^off to distract the attention
of the hawk* and with what success we
have seen. For several moments the tail
continued its-gyrations, then finally sub¬
sided,
t A verv natural question now occurs.
Z'"n attack^ 6 So°lut
to throw out, for some time it remains
concealed in the rocks to recover from
its fright, and nature now comes to the
rescue. Another tail begins to appear,
like a bud, where the old one fell off: it
grows quite rapidly, and after a while
U as large and leaf-like as ever, and quite
** ^
This seC ond growth or renewal is not
always, however, as satisfactory as we
might suppose. Nature is sometimes
too bountiful, and two tails appear in
stead of one, or the one assumes sur-h
strange proportions and forms that the
gecko must feel that; it would be good
riddance to utilize it in a second narrow
“feme of the geckos at ni B ht gleam
a vivid phosphorescent flic, light asjf
they had caught and might easily riinj b.
taken for a mass of for fire as they
oq t ^ e t e'mar ^ r
h W assnme that this is
, mol ] Jer easc 0 f protection,
The geckos are not alone in the habit
of throwing off their tails. In the
Philippine Islands a snail called the
has a similar propensity, and
I roicssorSemper, when collecting, found
ertut difficulty in securing them on this
] ° ng
‘ ™ prop-uy, foot, off it came
IgSTTiS ^
„ r portion to tell fhe tale in more
s-than "no.
In relieving themselvc-s of the attacked
down portion, thev whisk the member up and
and from side to side with great
rapidity, showing muscular force that
'would hardly be expected in so small an :
nn •' h If held upon thc had, the little
eren’uro will raise itself up in the air,
an,: , V‘ U1 s re ' ease a regular spring,
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