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THE MONROE
VOL. XL.
' The United Btate* ii tho youngest
and the richest of the greet nations of
the world. **
Cnlifornis h»« one of tho most re
tnarkablo timber bolts in the world,
etnbrncitiu 4 124 mileu.
Tbe Indian mail steamers «ro run*
lung so fast nowadays that Eng¬
land is ns close to Bombay as to Now
lork by a slow stcainor.
T?
George F. Becker of the Uuited
HtntoH Geological Harvey, has made a
report on the gold fields of tho Bouth.
Ho thinks they offor good prospects
for invent men ta.
[ Edward Atkinson hns ciphered it nil
out, mid siivh 10,800,000,000 eggs arc
Inid in this country iu n yenr. They
nre worth $140.090,000—as much as
tho pig iron and wool crop together.
The Aluminum World states that
since IH01 tho total production of that
metal has increased from 150 pounds
to 89,029 pounds, and that tho price
per pound has fallen from $9 per
pound to seventy-live cents per pound.
Washington is as rich as any state
of tho Union in its Indian names.
Bevcrnl counties bear such names, and
many streams, hikes, and villages.
'They are lino, many syllabled, month
filling words, curiously different iu
character from tho Indian names of
the Houth and East, hut doubtless full
of picturesque significance lost to our
ignorance.
Professor Holden, of Lick Ohserva
lory, writes in the Now York World
that ho loro tho art, of photographing
the moon can bo carried to greater
Success there must bo plates of greater
so ns i live n oss and finer grain. Now tho
photograph of a volcanic orator on tho
idooii'h mirino^a ull ap pear like a grain
of tiie silver t-4 less tho
crater ia r
ovo
diameter j €
Bicyclists are carefully looked after
in France. The wheel is v,r ->' 1 ,0 4 >U
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, lai there, turd , along , country rundg
1 v.~,, \o’iioim
liu-ky Mluw wlio.o whoel ra »j- J need
sudden repair. At these places Eoino
one stays who can lend a helping
hand, and there arc, besides, tools,
air pumps, . liquid .. and . solid ... ,, for .
ruooer
pneumatic tires, and oven extra sad
dlo springs if needed.
Doubtless Alaska will before long
become a favorite hunting and fishing
ground for sportsmen tlmt are content
with nothing lean than primitive na¬
ture, predicts tho New York Hua.
Tho journey to the const of Alaska is
no longer a serious matter, and, while
tho interior is still difficult to reach, it
has an agreeable summer climate, and
is no worse region for camping than
many another frequented by hunters
ami fishermen. The Indians nre good
and faithful guides, though they have
a wav of eating up at n sitting the
sweets provided by travelers fora long
journey.
The Japanese may well claim re¬
marks the New York Mail ami Fx
press, that, ‘‘Pence hath her victories
as well as war.” From Kioto it is
learned that the industrial exposition
recently o^ued there indictee the
great potentialities of Japanese man
uf act nr es. Homo mnde fibers, textiles
let her, mnehtnory, . upholstery, . . . . ho.Bpry .
hardware surgical and scientific m
strumenta, chemicals, glassware and
other goods are shown at prices dis
tancing all ,, possible i i » foreign • competi- ..
turn, ami “the native visitors study
the exhibit, eaperlv, court,!,.„t «rf
conquest in the industrial world.”
For those of us who nre accustomed
to tho wasteful extruvngeuce of Anrer*
iean forest destruction, it is hard to
realize the care and attention paid to
the growth and culture of forest trees
in lands where their preservation is
regard*d as a duty,observes the Farm
Field and Fireside. Keen iu Switzer
land, which we are apt to think of as
nothing but mountains and forests,
the same careful scientific methods of
culture are adhered to. A school of
of thoroughly ’ . / educated \ \ foresters 1 each \
year. There are about 300branch ex
periment stations and several large ex
perimental reservations. The age,
rapidity of growth, and best condi
tions of culture for every variety of
tree are made the subject of the most
careful research in these stations, and
volumes of carefully prepared 1 1 statis *
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ties arc published each year for the
guidance of other students of forestry,
The value of forest* ^.etura
and rain lwSSnd l{ a district has also been
proven i Ltf.f a doubt. How lomr
will it be Indore our great nation ap
preoiateg value of such work, aid
•Htablial 0 * whoola for the feientiflo
Mudy/ f tbo objeot,
FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY, <L TUESDAY MORNING, JULY <), 1895.
fOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.
THF
HO- doe, the eater come „own. do
you think,
* n rR P'd descent, when it reaches
6 B,c
r\t Jr *» the precipice, . fearful, rugged, and
Bteep r>
It comes on a run. with a jump and
a ,ea P:
Ifc with a 9puttor Q swash ftn(J
a splash;
It comes with a roar, a rumble, . and
dash;
It comes in a way, which, after all,
Is best described by tho word,
“Waterfall.”
AN OOF, AN l OSTOFFICF.
There are post-offices in the United
States whom tho postmaster receives
less than a dollnr'a year salary, hut
the smallest, simplest and best pro
teetorl postoffice in the world is in
there the Straits of Magellan,and has been !
for many years. It consists
Of suihII keg cask and '
a or is chained
to the rocks of tlio extreme capo in
the straits opposite Torra del Fuego.
Kneh passing ship sends a boat to
take letters out and put others in.
The postoffico is solf-neting and un- I
provided with a postmaster, and j s
therefore under tho protection of all
tho navies of the world.
CAT AND DOO
. .. .. i . ,
Innre y '* ? W n ° r 0
large n hJack Newfoum V hnid dog , aiK 1
. !' 0 vn oak ' " J' 0 ? lie 10
" , « g av «
1 . a< °P fc
tl . .. ' mo " " an interesting ’ ,avin family f a o. .
niv . She made him
" ens. room for
. f liei
_ ml . ' P/ ^ 0, an<1 H courso ’ a f ,0rfc grew ‘ me very
l '*!? 118 » os ter mot her, but
» •• rlontly i appreciated the care be
oweu upon Jnm and was never
rough or unruly toward his little
mpamons. lie old cat continued
to watch over him tenderly, and it
*as very funny to see her bristle up
and fly at any dog that dared to ap
proach her charge. Now that he is
a year old, the big dog watches over
the cat, and woo betide the dog that
ares to snarl at her.
AN ODD HAPPENING.
■o something vory odd indeed
■mLIo a Topeka (Kan.) dog.
hun f^£ier, and a mighty his rat
ai vas in
master’-*!
fro*^ ** Hr? @1
i0 wa
hls tra k _ in W
' ;. ' d
out, . and finally leaped into a grea^ i
earthen butter jar that had just been
emptied. There ho was safe as in a
stone tower; t he dog could not get
at him; but tho mouse did not feel
90 8Uro of t , hat; ]l0 cou ldn’t ho com
fortahle with those fiery eyes glaring
at him from above. He raced around
and around his refuge, and tried to
climb its walls, hut, beside being
steep, they were slippery with butter
and could not be scaled. Suddenly
one of the men looking on tipped
down the jar and ho darted—where
to you think? down tho dog’s throat!
Tho terrier stood waiting, open
mouthed, greedy, and tho moment
the jar was tipped that buttered
mouse went down his throat without
either of them knowing it! The dog
was confounded. Where had that
mouse gone? No game had ever he
fore escaped him so strangely. h c
hunted and hunted, and finally w’ent
homo with His tail drooping, per
plexed and baffled. For days after
ward hls master laughed to catch
him furtively searching about in that
corner of the store for the mouse lie
had swallowed!
THE RATTLER’S FOE.
The rattlesnake is justly the most
feared of the reptiles of North Amor
lea. But he has an antagonist in
.... , ......
The king snake is n harmless rnnkj
so far as man is concerned. Its bito
no * poisonous. But it is tHo
rattlesnake’s most deadly enemy,
Tho (ol , owlng 6torv illustrates this
f ac t. A boy in Mississippi recently
started out one morning to cut a
8rnft D hickory for an nx handle.
Seizing His hatchet, lie climbed the
hm flnd ftU went well until j U st as
the i.d iho hickorv Tad was falling Le^iug when aTl.lrp the
been
lookout, as he thought, saw n huge
rattler almost at his leer. The
strokes of the hatchet had prevented
his hearing the warning rattle of the
1 serpent, audit
strike. With was preparing to
a erv of terror he
!
a crash from above, and he was
pinned to the earth, with the tree
resting across his back in such a
j been sufficient all
i to arouse the ire of
the 8nakes within hearing, and the
i lad saw them coming from all di
rectiona. hissing and rattling. At by
same time the snake close
| was evidently preparing to strike him
fu u in the face. With a rattle of
increased anger its head flew back,
but just as it darted forward a long.
slim, brown spotted body shot across
Hoover’s face, and in a trice was
wrapped around the yellow throat,
safely behind the deadly fangs. The
rattler had met his master, the king
snab e. A short, sharp struggle on
9ned ’ and then the Ding sna^e
leisurely uncoiled ami crawled away.
leaving its huge adversary dead. As
i for the remaining
j swittiy into their holes,
? nd 800n himself
from Perilous position.
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The Government a Great Publisher,
■ How vast a business j is carried on
* by the Government printing office
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may be gathered from the fact that
more than 8,000 operatives are era
copies of separate documents were
printed in 1894; that the number of
pages of type set the same year was
2*6, 152 (exclusive of t Ho Congres
sional Record), and that for a single
report (that of the Secretary of Ag
rieulture) more than 1,000,000 pounds
of book printing paper were received,
The statement frequently made that
this is tho most extensive printing
office in the world is borne out by its
operations, although by no means
true of its building. The latter is to
the last degree unsuited to so vast a
business, being old, overcrowded,
and notoriously unsafe. The rapid
development and increase of gov
ornment printing is shown con
s r>*«uously in the figures of
i,s anm,al cost In 1819 all
*De printing and binding of the gov
ern,nenfc required an expenditure of
on * i ’ $ fl ’>,000. In a report made to
<on ® ress in 1859, the whole cost
^ T74,:J42, o:n 1819 while to 18r,;J the was stated at $8,-
1&>8 printing for tho
S .'A yoars about to 1§59 cost $8,462,
°r as much in six years
aa m the previous thirty-three years,
1 hls extravagance led to the final
estabhshment , of the Government
P rin tin S oflico; and tho greatly ex
panded , business of multiplying hooks
and documents ever since is shown in
tho figures of annual expenditure,
which were in 1868, for printing and
Ending, $1,417,760; in 1870, $1,609,-
8 6° ; j„ 1880, $2,084,751; in 1890,
$;hl24,462; The cost of Government and in 1894, printing $8,940,410. and
binding in Great Britain in 1894 was
X522,500. or about $2,600,000; but as
this included stationery for all the
p U bli C offices, and as no free docu
,nen t distribution exists there,except
ono copy to each membor of Par
liumont, 1 boro are far more elements
of contrast than of comparison.
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An Affnetionata Affectionate r Fam.iy am -i Horse. m
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Perhaps a good deal of the Listen
er s personal love for horses is trace
able back to a single incident of his
ea rl - v childhood. At the age of six
lie once mounted Old Rosy (the term
ok! at that tune was merely one
of endearment, for the mare was not
as old as the hoy) uo ride to a neigh
hor s. 1 lie mare was fat and sleek,
and so was the boy ; her back was so
round that her spine was a little
hole\v instead of a projection. On
glossy Aundback was no saddle,
,
boy’s short legs simply stuck out
into the air on either side. Tho
greater part of the journey had been
u “hieved, and the boy and maro were
down returning a giopo, homeward, Rosy when inadvertentlj in going
be 2 an /o trot; and the boy, having
n° kind o/ anchorage, began to slide
forward upon t be mare’s neck. Upon
*' ul | be go ti, e bridle, hugged the
ue a , screan ie d. Not knowing
( l u Uo , what this performance meant,
h°sy continued to .trot placidly down
1 aiK ‘ Uie boy continued to
3b( ‘°- Doubtless sr* e thought it was
80,110 nc slid 7f clear ,°d over of boy lib* s .bqad, play. and At
r olied upon the ground. 1 lie 'maro
,nu3 t Dave eased the fall for hin.*i by
kicking her neck slowly, and ,'sho
kept her feet entirely cWr
^ Dim. lie simply rolled into the
ditch by the side of tho road, quqto
unhurt ... hut boo-hooing , , . . lustily, .
*D© story. then The comes the pretty didynot parijfc of
young mare
g° ° n ten steps after the small jboy
r turned °Dod off hack, her neck, down but stopped to the
came ,•
screaming child nosed him affection¬
ately, and, as he will swear t(o his
dying day, comforted him as besjtshe
could. She showed him that/ the
bridle reins were hanging/ down
within His reach. Under siflch an
influence the boy of six—\lhiclv is
an age, it is scarcely needful/to sav,
when tow B ° 9t0n b ° yS are 'W™ 1 " 1
with the management of a Horse—
stopped weeping, got up, too»k j hold
of the bridle, and reflecfcingly ] e d the
mare home. /
Australian Ladybirds
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. e q. . Hoard 1 a of 0 Htirfi/climM 0 Ur dture ia is
se ? din ,. S various . CoasA counties
0 °l° nies 01 birds,the iHkt ara l cne
'»>«* •< «» J" a f, scale; a, 1(i other
Ore ladybirds are atta placed. P k £*"» Upon tree soft f-
1,1083 ‘o small round M>*es. which
sent through he mart. anti , F.fty are
placed in each box about oOO
A1 e * oa
Uom Au».ra,ia >“Y“ a ou iree years
ago- They have perform been xjeriy effective
work and xCry beneficial
ia ' e D e *? n propa^a e i n dhe office of
tho Commission, and m gentlemen
* n c ,a r &° ° iese ,ik ^ts, whoha\e
_ Ire
* n c ® the n h * l5 %} glass 'Is jars in/jvhich they are
Dept. 60 iene ' er
they look at the r e d beetles.
r tzarnage ■ , 1 +e of o Pulp.
found New for uses wood are pulpl. beijng One constantly of the
latest carriage devices shafts, is tho wood x^anufacture of
junction with iron) bcir^g pyjlp the (in chief con
material with a covering yf leather.
Patents for the invention have been
taken out in Frahme England and
and it is claimed nut tLo
shafts are very strong and unbreaka
bis, a point regarded as important,
so far as safety of passengers is con
corned. These shafts are already in
use in Paris, and t hey are
ated by cab owners, rot on lx fot
tneir strength, but for their compara
tive cheapness.
ABOUT THE BLUE JAY,
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aodaC ^? ,d •
! From tall, straight chestnut trees a
strong, vigorous note sounds afar,
j j jay 1 jay! jay! The note moves
about, falling successively from dif
j ferent but not very the distant spots. In
a few moments eye lights upon
its source—it is the bluo jay, the
handsomest and mosc mischievous of
our birds. His pale blue crest dis
tinguishes him at once; so do the
white bars on wings and tail, brilliant
' dark blue wings and tail, pale throat
I i decorated with a trim black collar;
sharp black bill that carries a menace
j to the timid, set firm in front of the
| strong, erect head. T t is a large bird,
nearly twelve incliQt long, or about
the size of the blackbird.
The hluejay has had a great share
of attention from our writers. Long
ago Audubon watched its habits
closely as he followed it from its win
ter quarters in Carolina to its sum
mer breeding places at the North.
He says little good of it, for it is a
predatory creature, robbing every
nest it can find and sucking the eggs
like a crow or tearing in pieces and
devouring tho young. “One of my
friends,” he says, “put a flying
squirrel into the cage of a blue jay,
merely to preserve it over night, but
on looking into th^, cage the next
morning he found the squirrel partly
eaten ” A jay destroyed all the birds
in an aviary belonging to a man in
Charleston. One uf or another had
been killed; the rats wese suspected,
but no crevice could be found large
enough to admit onG, Then the mice
were accused and wru* waged against
them, but still the birds continued
to disappear, first tho- smaller, then
the larger, and finally the large Key
West pigeons. At length the jay
was found to be the destroyer. He
was taken out and placed in a cage
with a quantity of flour and several
small birds which wt> had just killed,
The birds he soon a. /oured, but the
flour he would not tkmch, and, refus
ing every other kindmf food, he soon
died. Audubon undertook to natu
ralize these birds iiu England. He
W ent to the troubile of purchasing
twenty or more of tMem ]out to be sent to
England and turned scflKe in the woods
there . He records lively studies
0 f them the as big they werf^owly lie# Bd ordered. gathered
into surprjsedf cage Mhe
“j wag M Mpewly says, “to
see how cowardly caught
b j r( j was vvher Ji'ynwid to .^ his
wt _ a n
v gay ana irouc
somo as if in the woods. The new¬
comer, on the contrary, would run
into a corner, place his head almost
in a perpendicular position and re
main silent and sulky, with an ap
pearance of stupidity quite foreign
to his nature. He would suffer all
tho rest to walk over him and tram
pie him down without ever changing
his position. If corn or fruit was
presented to him or even close to
his bill ho would not so much as
look at it. If touched with the
hand he would cower, lie down on
his side and remain motionless. The
next day, however, things were al
tered; he was again a jay, taking up
corn, placing it between his
hammering it with his hill, splitting
tho grain, picking out the kernel
and dropping the divided husks.
When tho cage was filled it was
amusing to listen to their hammer
ing, all mounted on their perch,
side by side, each pecking at a grain
of maize like so many blacksmiths
paid by the piece. They drank a
great deal, roosted very peaceably
clbse together and were verj' pleas
ing pets.”
They bore the sea voyage apparent
ly well, but all died soon after reach
ing Liverpool. These birds are very
expert in discovering any quadruped
hostile to birds. They will follow a
eat or a fox, making a great outcry,
as if they would bring every jay and
crow to their aid. They are more
tyrannical than brave, domineer over
the feeble, dread the strongest, fly
even from their equals. In many
cases they are downright cowards,
The cardinal bird will challenge a jay
and beat him off his ground, though
a much smaller bird; but with birds
tis with men, a little honest courage
goes a long way against a thief. He
creeps silently to the nests of absent
birds, will go the rounds from one
nest to another every day and suck
the newly laid eggs, as regularly as
a physician would call upon his pa
tients. But the advantage is not al
ways on his side, for on his return he
sometimes finds his nest upset, the
eggs all gone and liis mate in the
jaws of a snake.
CUSTER'S LAST FIGHT.
His Force Overwhelmed By Sitting
Bull’s Braves.
On June 25 Custer struck Sitting
Bull’s main trail and eagerly pur¬
sued it across the divide into the
Little Big Horn valley . Expecting
battle, he detached Major Reno with
seven of his twelve companies to
cross the Little Big Horn, descend
it> and strike the foe from the west;
but Reno was soon attacked and hej.'A
at bay, being besieged in alR -^ore
than suddey^^^^^^fcneuUthe twenH^^^Bours. .^iTeantime, lower end
of camp, the
braves, with
advanced
Balaklava
iiere not one
A left of
Brntes,
dians
riors,
heroes,
ADVERT ^■BBSBCUS^ OQ 1
mainly on two hills some way apart,
the advance one held by Custer, the
°ll %££?% ££
dearly. By waving blankets and
uttering their hellish yells they
stampeded many of the cavalry
horses, which carried off precious am
munition in their saddle bags. Lin
ing up just behind a ridge they would
I rise quickly, fire at the soldiers, and
drop, exposing themselves little, but
drawing Custer’s tire, so causing ad
ditional loss of sorely needed bullets,
The whites’ ammunition spent, the
dismounted savages rose, fired, and
whooped like the demons they were,
while the mounted ones, lashing theii
ponies, charged with infinite venom,
j overwhelming Calhoun and Keogh
and lastly Custer himself. Indian
boys then pranced over the fields °n
ponies, scalping and reshooting the
dead and dying. At tho burial many
a stark visage wore a look of horror,
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Colonel Wilson, of the corps of
engineers, who has special charge of
the work of marking the birthplace
of Washington, at Wakefield, West
moroland County, Ya., has receiv
e d a letter from Mr. William
Crawford, of Buffalo, N. Y., who
was awarded the contract for the
erection of a monument, in accord
ance with the design approved by the
Secretary of State statin- that he
expects to complete the work before
the close of the present calendar year.
His plan is to transport the monolith
and the other stones Harming the
monument from Ruffa o to Wako
field, on the Potomac, entirely by
water, in time for delivery about the
1st of September. The route will
be through the Welland canal, down
the St. Lawrence river, by sea to
Chesapeake bay, thence up the l’o
tomac river to Popo’s creek, where
the stone will bo disembarked, and
carted to the spot selected as the
sito for the monument. This method
of transportation is chosen because
of tho greater difficulty of overland
j transportation of the monolith, weighing
j which is a solid stone,
! thirty-five tons. Colonel Wilson says
[ that while the contract does not ro¬
; quire the* completion of tho raomi
ment until July 1, 1896, he is confi
dent, barring accidents, that the
entire work will be finished before
the 1st of January next,
THE REAL TROUBLE.
rr~ N
Home.
Bingo—Didn’t you have some trou
bio in building your house?
Kingley—Oh, a little. The archi
tect made a slight mistake in the es
timate, and it cost me $4,000 more
1 than I counted on.
j Bingo—Was that all?
Kingley—All? No, sir! The car
penters forgot there was such a thing
as specifications, and left out a hall;
bu fc 0 f course one shouldn’t mind a
little thing like that,
Bingo—Certainly not
; Kingley—Then the pipe3 were put
j n wrong, and had to be replaced,
Bingo—That usually happens,
Kingley—Oh, yes. Then I neglected
m y business for three months trying
to find the architect, and that cost
n i£ a pretty penny.
Bingo—But you expected that,
Kingley—Certainly. After the place
' finished I found old furniture
was mv
wouldn’t do, and I had to get a new
outfit! Then my cellar flooded, the
r0 of leaked and the piazza warped;
but these things aren’t anything te
the trouble I’m in now.
Bingo—What’s the matter now?
Kingley—I can’t sell the house.
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Miles of Solid Ice.
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The front of the glacier is about
j three miles wide, but the sheer mid
die, berg-producing portion that
stretches across the inlet from side
i to side, like a huge green-and-blue
barrier, is only about two miles'wide,
and its height above the water is
from 250 to 800 feet. But soundings
made by ( aptain Carroll show that
720 feet of the wall is below the sur
face, while a third unmeasured por
tion is buried beneath the moraine
detritus, that is constantly deposited
at the foot of it. Therefore, were the
water and rocky detritus cleared
away, a sheer precipice of iffe would
he presented nearly two miles long
and more than a thousand feet high,
Seen from a distance, as you come up
the fiord, it seems
regular in form; but it is far
wise; bold, jagged capes jut forward
into the fiord, alternating’ with deep
re-entering angles and sharp, craggy
hollows with plain bastions, while
the top is roughened with innumer
able spires and pyramids and sharp,
hacked blades leaning and toppling,
or cutting straight into the sky.
A Hint to Husbands.
A significant occurrence Is reported
from Louisville. Matt Schmidt had
occasion to stay Quit later the other
night than ostial, and his wife, who
is a ngx-Nous woman, became very
mvrtTi alarmed for fear of burglars,
or something. She locked up the
house tightly and went to bed, and
when Mr. Schmidt came home and
tried to get in he could not. He rang
the bell, and as there was no re
sponse he forced the door and went
upstairs, liis wife was apparently
sleeping peacefully, so he went to
bed. In the morning he discovered
that she had heard him trying to get
i in, and it had frightened her so that
s he had entirely lost the use of her
voice. It is to be feared that there
will now be an epidemic of men com
ing home late and frightening their
wives by forcing the door. Possibly,
however, it mav not have the same
effect on every nervclis womac,
HE DISCOVERED THE CURVE.
Tk ‘ " a ’" WI « e “ aa - a Revolution
in Baseball.
H ‘ 3 s ®id that a Brooklyn man,
Arthur Cummings, a_member of tho
Amateur Stars in 1807, was tho dis
coverer of the curve that lias revolu
tionized baseball and made it so
largely a pitcher’s game. Murnane,
member of^the fiynous old Boston
team of 1877, says that Cummings
became a professional about 1872,
and played in the Hartford,^Ciuein
nati and other clubs until 1878, when
ho retired from pitching,
nickname . " a3 Candy. Jight build, He and stood bore feet t he
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8, and had a remarkably long arm
ail y long fingers.
uummings, said Alurnane, “was
one of the few men to this day who
cou.d make a hull curve with a
pendulum or underhand swing, and
J; 111 '’® was t ' 10 widest 1 over 8a ' v -
For the last seven years after this
thseoyery ieh to himself, Mr. Cummings and was looked had upon tho
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“ ‘Purely accidental,’ said he. ‘I
never heard of such a thing, and
couldn’t believe mv own eyes at first.
“ ‘I was pitching to some hoys in
tho open lots outside of Brooklyn,
where I lived, one afternoon, and
noticed the ball would work away
from their bats. I was pitching
easy, for in those days you were
obliged to keep your arm straight.
“ ‘Tho idea came to me that by
snapping the ball with the wrist I
could get it to sail away from tho
batter. When I went homo that
night I commenced to think about
what effect t he twisting of a pitched
hall would have, and went out the
next day to show some friends what
I had discovered, and, to my as¬
tonishment, the ball would go per¬
fectly straight, and I went home
that night disgusted.
“ ‘In two or three days I went out
again and found I could get the same
curve as the first day, and after ex
J learned^
against the ball as on tho first day,
and that a fastball would not curve
as well as ono thrown in at a medium
pace.
“ ‘1 worked on the secret the rest
of that season, and the next spring
had all the local amateur clubs after
me. ’
t < Air. Cummings was at that time
working hard, trying to invent a
coupling for steam cars, and had
about given up the idea of following
baseball as a pi'ofession. 1 have
never heard of this player making
any statement before or since of how
he discovered the way to curve a
baseball, and being thoroughly in
terosted in the subject I can ro
member the description as if it were
made but yesterday.”
Tha Doctor’s Tate.
It was while I was practicing at
Asheville, N. C., a few years ago.
One morning there came into my of
fice an old fellow who had the ap
pearance of a mountaineer. He was
accompanied by his wife, who was
totally blind from cataract. Tho old
fellow said that-if I would cure her,
or manage to give her just a little
sight, he would pay me $100.
g a id lie:
“The ole woman’s been blind for
over twelve years and ain’t of no use
to herself nor nobody else, so if you
go ahead and lix her up so’s she
can se why,°I e again and bo of some use to
me, will give you the money.”
j a g ree d to take the case; not
without some trepidation, as a fellow
physician had already operated upon
one 0 f the eyes with bad results. In
t he course of time, however, I man¬
aged to restore tho old lady’s sight,
so that she could see and read quite
we U ) and then, after a reasonable
lapse of time, I presented the bill.
1 “j ain’t agoing to pay you nothin’
on that bill.”
| “Why?” I asked. “What is the
matter?” ’
“Well,” said he, “it’s just here. I
to j c ] y0Ui j y OU w jq remember, that if
; you wou i ( fj x U p the old woman so
| that she would be of somo use to me
tbat j wou i d pay you; but she ain't
; n0 more US e now than she was before,
or ag much, for she used to do some
J wor i £ before she could see; but now,
s be don’t do nothing but sit around
the house and read novels.”
Kangaroos That Climb.
By the steamer Wodonga, which
arrived recently from the north, have
arrived eight cages animals of tree
kangaroos. The were
ture"d after considerable difficulty on
j the Bloomfield river, and were ship
pe d at Cocktown for delivery to the
Zoological ’give Gardens, Melbourne,
To an illustration of their
c limbing propensities, it may be
stated that while on board one of tlu
smaller specimens escaped from con
; fi ne ment and immediately jumped
into the rigging, up which it went
j w jth amazing speed, and seemed per
f ec tiy in its element when in the
j v j c demonstrates inity of the masthead. that the This climbing clear
i ly
’ these animals, which
power of was
j formerly looked upon as mythical, it
founded on fact.
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Greeco has 490,000 . women over
years of age.
NO.
IWMMI
The Courting of Animals.
This subject seems to prove at¬
tractive to many naturalists. In Vol.
X of the ‘‘Transactions of tho Wis¬
consin Academy of Sciences,” there
Is a highly interesting paper by Mr.
and Mrs. l’eekham on tho ‘‘Courtship
of Certain Spiders.” It scorns to ho
the case that tho sharpness of vision
in spiders is accentuated by love. A
male of tho Satis pulex was put into
a box in which was a female of the
same species twelve inches away, and
the male “perceived her at once, lift¬
ing his head with an alert, and excited
expression, and wont, bounding to¬
ward her. By experiments it, was
proved that this recognition was
really due to sight These results
are interesting, because some have af¬
firmed that spiders cannot, sec nearly
as far as twelve inches. Further ex¬
periments seem to show t hat spiders
can differentiate color. M. Racovitza,
a Roumanian naturalist, has been
studying the courting and marriage
customs of the octopus, and in a re¬
cent number of tho “Archives do
Zoologie Experimontale” he gives us
some of his observations. It, is sat¬
isfactory to know that the octopus
docs not, as some have thought, be¬
have brutally in its love affairs. M.
Racovibza assures us that “there is
nothing more than a courteous flirta¬
tion,” and that, the male behaves
with a certain delicacy toward his
companion. * •
Grim HighlanUsi-3.
My father had no end of anocdMos
about, our ancestors, parts of which
1 remember, though 1 was only a
schoolroom child of under fourteen
when I heard him relating them I
was, however, old enough to feel
keenly interested in them. One story
that impressed me very much was
related to account for the origin of
tho Clan Macintyrc. A party of
Macdonolls on ono occasion were out
in a boat when a knot of wood
sprang out causing a serious leak;
whereupon one of the y-» r fc y stuck in
his finger to till the ho 0 , an savii^i d then
cut it off with his dirk, tli- !s
the life of tho whole part
this circumstance his descenu.^l
were called tho-Macintyres, or Hons
of tho Carpenter.
Another story which 1 heard my
father toll relates to the bloody hand
which appears in our coat of arms.
A doubt having arisen as to which of
two brothers a certain estate ho¬
longed, it »’ as agreed that r
fflesli anil blood should lir.sj
rightful owner. Accord!) Tt Uiiw
two young men started in two boats
for the land in question. Ono of
them, seeing that lie was losing the
race, when near the shore pulled out
his dirk, cut off his hand and threw
it on land, thus establishing his
right to the property as His flesh and
blood had touched it first.
An Automatic Harness,
The harnessing of a carriage or
buggy horse is made a simple matter
by the invention of an automatic
harness. The attachments are suita¬
ble for all classes of vehicles, using
single harness with either breast
strap or collar, with or without
breeching, and they can he converted
into double harness instantly. The
single tree, traces, shaft tugs and
many leather bands and straps upon
the shafts are removed, giving the
shaft a clean appearance, and reduc¬
ing the harnessing and “hitching
up” to a mere moment’s work. Tho
attempt to dispense with the single
tree and traces has often been tried,
but never before successfully. The
wear and tear of the harness is said
to he reduced thirty per cent., and
the horse can be detached instantly.
The horse can w r alk in perfect com¬
fort, with no chance of sore hack,
bruised shoulders or rubbings of the
sides. The bearing on the back of
the animal being removed, the vital
organs are released from unnatural
pressuro, and his breathing is nor¬
mal. The automatic harness, which
is unhitched by the easy pull of a
trigger, seems to be as humane as it
ia up to date.
A Rooster Kills a Dag.
A very peculiar fight took place at
William Fox’s barnyard, at Law
renceburg, on Friday. Mr. Fo -A IS
the owner of a plucky ga™*e cock
that had won a number oi battles in
tho pit. The ownc- placed the steel
gaffs upon Us leg 3 to illustrate to
some of Lis friends how the cock used
them when fighting, and procured
another rooster to combat with it;
but the selected bird refused to fight,
and flew over the fence. A dog was
in the yard at the time, and the fowl,
as if determined to have a fight of
some kind, attacked the dog with
the greatest fury. bat¬
The brute fought back, and a
tle not contemplated by the parties
began. The dog broke one wing of
the cock, but the bird continued the
j f^ht £ in its crippled state and drove
0 e o{ t h e s teel gaffs through the eye
of tbe d og " into its brain, killing badly"in- it
i ns tantly The bird was so
iured J that }t will never a ,_, a i n en ter
the pit.
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An Anti-Combustib!e Solutior.
i A fire test in a little building, the
materials of which had been treated
with an anti-combustible solution,was
tried in Boston recently. Tho window
glass Window melted and ran down upon the
cells, but the specially treated
material of the curtains and shades
simply shriveled up into carbon with
0 ut flaming, and the wood inside the
house was charred to the thickness
of a quarter of an inch. The outside
of the house simply turned black, and
rewa ined otherwise unharmed.