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THE MONROE
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VOL. XL.
In Auntralia the number of homes
is increasing at tho rate of 30,000 a
year.
'I ho total public debt of the self
governing British colonies amounts to
something like 31,300,000,000.
Tomato culture has been specially
commended to tho attention of Brit¬
ish market gardeners by the English
Board of Agriculture.
Queen Victoria’s daily menu is
written in French with the exception
of the single item, "roast beef,"which
is loyally and uncompromisingly En¬
glish as befits a national dish.
The government of Ceylon hnn re¬
cently pasHed stringent laws aguiust
poaching by elophant hun tern. The
elephant ia rather big game to sneak
oil with, but it seems they do it.
Over soventy-fivo per cent of the
ocean cable routes now in operation
aro owned by different governments,
but those routes have less than one
sixth of the total length of wire (3')9,-
6.36 kilometers) in operation.
In Austria tho average number of
executions for murder is four per cont
on convictions in Prussia less than
eight per cent ; in Hwedon, Norway
end Denmark, there is one execution
in every twenty sentenc is for murder.
Edgar Fawcett says of New Yoru
society: "Tho plutocruta reign mi
jireme. You seldom find professional
people, artiats, litterateurs, scientists,
men eminent in the army mid navy, i i
the Rocioly circles of the metropoli ,
ns you do in other cities."
Joseph Wetzlor is authority for the
statement in Harper’s Weekly that
since 1887 the number of electric rail¬
roads in tho United States has in¬
creased from 13 to 850 and tlie number
of cars from 100 to 23,000. There are
now over 9,000 miles of track upon
which electrio traffic is oirriod on,
representing a capital investment of
inoro tlian $400,(1^1^^,
The fa Lh ift) of ‘ tump
ve nt.il at^'c ears
mont to California fruit growers, but
it is hoped, before another season, to
got some substitute for ice in keeping
a low temperature for fruit and ar¬
resting decay. There is a fortune for
tho man who o in devise a cheap means
of refrigerating fruit on the overland
trip, maintains the New York Trib
unc.
Tho Atlanta Constitution says:
« « Nebraska with less illiteracy than any
other Htato also lias less crime, hut
Kansas lias u larger j ercontnge of
crime than any other state, a i l yet
its illiterates are only slightly more
numerous than those of Nebraska. In
South Carolina 45 in every 10 4 e in
not read and write, hut the percentage
of crime is smaller than in tho country
at large.”
Dronhyatokha, a Canadian Indian,
is enjoying himself in London, lie is
a pure Mohawk and is president of tho
Grand Council of the chiefs of C mada,
which comprises tho Mohawks,
Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugns, Sene¬
cas, and Tuscaroras. Ho tickles the
Londoners by saving: "Tho Ameri¬
cans sacked our towns and villages.
As to the French wo thru died them;
when they cam > we drove them back.
Originally, you know, we were settled
on the banks of the Mohawk Valley,
stretching from Albany to Niagara.
We left it voluntarily in order to he
still British; made ourselves exiles in
order to he still British.
Tho people of Utah have beeu di m
oring for statehood for upward of
forty years, and it is now, apparently,
close at hand. It is for the people to
♦I cide l>v their votes on November 5
next whether the state constitution
shall or shall not ha adopted- In the
former case president of tho United
States will issue the necessary proela
niatio l. The delegates to the consti¬
tutional convention were elected on
November 6,189 4 ; the convention as¬
sembled March 7, 1895, and the com¬
pleted constitution was adopted by the
convention on May 8 by a unanimous
vote of those present, only seven of the
107 delegates beiug present. The eon.
volition was in session sixty- -ixdtiys,and
it framed a constitution which covers
about 18,000 words and is incorporated
into twenty-seven articles, or chaptere.
Congress appropriated $30,000 for the
expenses of the convention, and the
final report of the committee on ac¬
counts shows that on the adjournment
of the convention there was a balance
on hand of 8110, with $8,009.50 yet
due to members; $1,500 required for
printing the constitution and the pro¬
ceedings of tho convention. This
mesns another deficiency bill for the
ljcst potiirrfHMt.
FORSYTH, MONROtalCOUNTY, GA-, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY lti, 1895.
AMATEUR SOLMKRS.
PATRIOTISM IS SPREAI2>|fJG in
THE PUBLIC SC HOftLS.
Illicit Y"
Military Tactic. Teach jTvmcix Ob.: who
d, . nee, Neatness „ j Self Re
,
It is estimated that^» r | v ten thou
sand public schoolbo» paradMm ufNewVork
and Urook yn o«| Memorial
>ay Mill, th.lt .will*, nlm corps
furn.sh music V^anks, ner , prondl y
waving oyer their they
^improved on h^.. regu.ar army
This movement/ „ estahlish mill
tary drill in they ublie schools u
spreading rapidity t/ an{ j three or four
tinioa a. many t , lrIlcd out
spring as did tf IjL", ! VP ., r a coodlv
proportion ol em W c-re uniformed
and armed, now- that they have been
organized into Regiments and battal¬
ions All of the tho "A^j er i CHn Guard.”
over .country military drill
movement is t peeling with favor, and
tho schools in 'most of the cities, as
well as in man ,y of the smaller towns,
are innovation. getting In/i A llne in favor of the
rhe question has be
come one oft nat k>nal importance, *
and has alr< (lv lH > en t! . 77 un in
Congress, nf .1, as „ |,e l.ogis
latures of logfc of the states
The (irn d Army of the Republic is
support ini,' the scheme.
Ex-PresT ofJ^|, dent Harrison ha^ recent
ly said e p] an ;
"It is <J „ood in every aspect of it—
good for Gie hoys, good for the
schools nidfi good for the country.
That military drill is popular
among tlit. schoolboys is evident to
any one a ho sees the lads at drill.
I hey pyjflingly give up part of their
play lfour to take part in it, and the
competition keen. ( >ne has for officers’ but to look positions at tho is
,
nir their* wjfti, uniforms, which the In youngsters of wear the
most
school' g only the larger companies
are unii»r )Pme q and equipped and
there are v pne or two companies coin
posed of the a maller and untrained
boys who fromjphjJ^ com eg p r . . to an awkward
squad, <flio ranks of the
re 8 « lar coj frpaR^ *
are recruited.
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Military instruction involves more
physical drill than is usual in the
schools, and this in itself is a won¬
derful advantage to most of the hoys.
As soon ns a lad declares his wish to
enter the cadet corps of the school he
goes into tHe awkward squad and is
put through a course of ‘‘sprouts.’
The “settingup” exercises which are
used at West Point come first. This
physical drill teaches a boy to stand
straight, to walk straight, to breathe
properly—in short, makes a new boy
of him.
\\ hen the boys have learned to
Hold their heads erect and their
hands at their sides without looking
as if the palms were glided to their
legs, they are taught to face and
march. Marching and wheeling in
columns of twos and fours follow’,
and then more intricate maneuvers,
The best of tho squads are tlien put
into the regular cadet corps and al
lowed to got uniforms and carry guns
if the companies have them.
1 lie manual of arms is tauglit un
til they can Handle the weapons like
veterans, and then they learn to drill
in companies and battalions.
In many schools drum and life
corps have been organized, and the
boys march -to their own music. In
dress parades in iHo armory and
school yards the drum corps givo an
air of importance to the ceremony
and makes the boys fool more like
real soldiers than when marching
without music.
TROUT TICKLING.
A Connecticut Expert Who Catches
the Shy Fish With His Hands.
G»* Capt. Lew Nettleton. who lives
not far from the junction of the Race
Brook with the Wepawang River,
at Milford, Conn., lias been ac¬
customed for years to catch all the
trout he eats with no other imple
ments than his hare hands. Trout
are very plenty in the Race, and the
s.iallowness oi cue^tream. combinea
with its overhanging hanks, makes
it an ideal place .or trout tickling,
1° those who have ang.ed with nj
and bait for this cunning fish, ta:R
about catching taem in t.ie hand
may seem romance Nevert aeiess
it is an established fact
Capt. Nettleton fishes only on
cloudy . , overcast , when ii Jus
or c ays,
snallow win not rail snarpiy upon
ie stream " .° r / l^ °
ic ' t -ticcewr , Wi.ec \
s ream is ■<-. i. o\\ uater .n .n?
favor for then tlio trout are Hiding
in pools and small basins under t ie
ranks., lie does uoi first >pj out In>
game, the f J i^^mpiy tries :u random ou !*‘*
bath *****
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brook, he slowly works his vifm to
the cautiously edge. to Then the he lowers and on^Hrm
water
to grope under the bank a:no™he
“ nd «**»•
liand moves, and tlio very lightest
11,9 ™ y !P * lins * tsl1 ot
s fontinalis will tell lum the game
„ car . At the first touch 11.0 fish
Renerall}- moves away a few inches.
When the fingers have gently rubbed
its velvety sides a second or third
tim ° ■* ‘“! m «® «“
W the sensation. Continuing a
steady, soft tickling the < aptain slips
*”<* '“f th er ‘“ W
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il h ”\ bcen "°, tico f t '\“‘ the bsh
seems to surrender to the soothing ,,
touch as ,1 under the influence ol a
spell , so that . . it tv,11 ... loan , over upon
the hand - " hen hia hand 1S J ust
!«><*»»"« *«•* and the pectoral fins
the Captain closes on the fish with
the suddenness and power of a rat
trap. With one quick flirt he sends
his victim flying over on the opposite
bank. tSo stealthy are the old man’s
movements that he has been known
5° tickle f ? ur tr cut * one at a tlme ,
from a single pool, ,
In Scotland, the old man s native
country, he says this trick as a very
common one and is called "guddling.
The method pursued there Is to wade
barefooted up a shallow stream in
the hot season, when the water is
very low. The trout will flee before
t he wader and take refuge in secluded
holes under rocks and stumps. Then
the guddlor proceeds to slip his hand
under the rock or root and feel for
tho trout, which, once under his
magic touch, he quickly flips out
into dry land or into a basket.
Scientists who admit the possi
bility of trout tickling, say that it is
only during the spawning season that
trout are susceptible to such manipu
lation. But as the New England
brook trout do not spawn until late
in July and August, and the Captain
catches them only in the oper sea¬
son, that is, from April l to July 1,
the practice in his case does not seem
to support the theory.
Puzzle in Ancestry.
It goes without saying that a man
lias two parents, four grandparents,
eight great grandparents, and so on,
so that if we go back, say, ten genera¬
tions doubling at each step, we have
2,048 ancestors. This sort of argu¬
ment has been used by superficial
genealogists to show that at the time
William th o Conqueror each of us
population of England; hence we
must each bo descended from every
Englishman of that day including
the immortal William himself.
The absurdity of this sort of reason¬
ing lias been pointed out by Professor
Brooks, of Johns Llopkins. While it
is true that we have four grand¬
parents, they need not be four sepa¬
rate and distinct persons. First
cousins have no more "than three
separate grandparents; if they are
doubly cousins they have but two.
So in the tenth generation one’s
2,018 ancestors are never 2,048 sep¬
arate persons. They abound in
“duplicate,” so to speak.
Beside this, the lines from a given
pair of ancestors tend to become ex¬
tinct sooner or later. So,instead of
having all Englishmen of the year
1000 for our ancestors, the proba¬
bility is that we are descended from
comparatively few of them. This is
what Professor Brooks calls the
"convergence of ancestry.”
The Newtown Pippin.
That celebrated apple, the New
town pippin, according to report,
originated at Newtown, Queens
County, New’ York, and was dis
geminated by William Prince, one of
the first pomologists of his time, and
father of L. Bradford Prince, of New
Mexico. At present this variety
does not succeed on Long Island, ex
cept in the town of Huntington, ad
joining Long Island Sound. Those
line Newtown pippin orchards in
Westchester and Putman counties,
N. Y\. once so productive, have
generally failed, and but few’ good
Newtown pippins are shipped from
there now.
Trees from the nursery of William
Prince were planted in Albemarle
County, N. C., many years ago, and,
as is often the case, the name was
lost and tHe name of the county
wjiere planted was given the variety,
but upon tracing the origin it lias
been found the trees were from Mr.
Prince’s nursery at Flushing, Long
Island. This variety succeeds ad¬
mirably along the Blue Ridge in Vir¬
ginia and in eastern Tennessee. We
of the Far West have never succeeded
in producing it to any extent, but
the reason, no doubt, is because we
have never given it much of a chance
in our irrigated orchards.
Recent Pension Decisions.
Assistant Secretary Revnolds, of
the Interior Department, has decided
that when an attorney neglects to
explain within a year his client’s fail
ure to appear for medical examin
a tion on his application for a pension
the attorney forfeits all claim in the
ease, and also that a declaration not
executed before some person entitled
to administer oaths in pension cases
is void. If a later valid declaration
is made it does not entitle the claim
ant to receive a Pension dating back
to the filing of the* void application
The assistant s^creta y lias also de
pitied tuat where a pension has been
granted to se\era. minor children
the pension of each is chargeable
with a proportionate part of the claim fee
to the attorney by whom the
was prosecuted. If pensions to one
of the minors euould ^ ' & with,tela
avgUaiuefoy thi
of Mart portion of m wi
TIIE ST. LOUIS.
BIGGEST VESSEC EVER BUILT
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IN AMERICA.
Details of Her Dimensions and Ap
»o.f ments - Splendid . I nterior
Arrangements of the Great Ship.
The new American liner St. Louis
is a beautiful craft, alike in regard
«« >■« hues her sumptuous internal
arrangements, and above all her
speed. It has not heen claimed that
t h6 T 8 * f” 1“ °f
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A^n^hlV^'ed
of 211 knots an hour without being
pushed, and that when she was asked
if she couldn t do any better the
crack liner bad Plowed^ her way
through the Atlantic at the rate of
22 knots and some odd fractions,
This signifies that the St. Louis, to
put it m plain Engl ill, can travel at
the rate ol about 2T miles an hour,
and,Ishe can do that in her trips
across the Atlantic thaj t-nere isn t anotli
er ship afloat will be ablate
keep pace with Jwri
She .s the first Atlantic greyhound ,
and the biggest steamsh.p that lias
LoVisWltooetlier AmeVcan—built
in an Amedcan^ American shipvard manned bv
an crew of WO men and
commanded by an American captaiu.
The St. Louis has been built in less
than two years- The first frames
were erected on July 23, 1893, and
she was launched ^fifteen months
later. Her dimensions are: Length,
554 feet; length between perpendicu
lar, 535 feet; extreme breadth, 63
feet; molded depth, 42 feet; num
her of decks, 5; number of water
tight compartments formed by trans
verse bulkheads and flats, 17; dis
tanceof collision bulkhead abaft of
stem, 33feet; displaf ft yent at26feet
draft, 16,000 tons. a>
The machinery 6Qgi he St. Louis
consists of two separate engines,
each driving a separate screw. There
are ten enormous boilers, six of which
have double ends and four single
ends. In addition to the main en¬
gines there are no less than forty
nine auxiliary engines used in the
working of the sh ff and twelve ad¬
ditional ones for lighting and ventil¬
ating the vessel, independent of the
propelling machinery. Her gross
tonnage, 11 629.
The ventilating system of the ship,
it is believed, w % ijf fie the source of
the greatest
tricity. By this system it is possible
to change the air completely in every
room in the vessel in ten minutes.
Each of the plants has two fans, one
for exhaust and one for supply. As
fast as one fan draws the vitiated air
from the rooms another pumps fresh
air in. In cold weather this fresh
air is heated by means of ventilators
near the top and the bottom of every
apartment; the passenger may regu¬
late the temperature and the ventil¬
ation as lie chooses.
The lightning system is elaborate.
All told there are more than thirteen
hundred electric lights in the ship
and four large dynamos are required
in operating the extensive plant.'
That would be enough to supply a
town of large size. The passenger
capacity of the ship is: First cabin,
350; second cabin, 200; steerage,
800. The crew will number about
400.
Among the interesting facts about
the ship are that there are fully one
thousand tons of piping of the vari
ous kinds in the ship. The circulat
ing pumps will pump up at least fifty
million gallons of cooling water a
day, probably double the amount of
water required for the use of New
York City in a single day. The fur
naces will consume no less than the
enormous amount of 7,500,000 cubic
feet of air an hour. The amount of
coal used a day will be little more
than three hundred tons. Tho length
of the boiler tubes if placed in a
straight line would be nearly ten
miles and the length of the condenser
tubes would be more than twenty
five miles if $ut in a line. The total
number of separate pieces ^|teel
in the less main than structure 40,(XK), and of t-h<P^B thlMfeal is
no timbeMfcd
number of square feet of
in the construction is more
1,200,000. The total numberlof
rivets used in building the vessel'is
not far from a million and a quarter,
The people of St. Louis are natur
ally proud of the ship that has been
called after their town. As a sense
of their appreciation they have pre
tented the St. Louis with 1,622 stand¬
ard volumes for the saloon library
and 639 volumes for the second
saloon. Some folks in St. L'ouis
also presented the ship with
200 copies of hymnals and prayer
books. Other gifts from the town in
eluded ten ornamental glass windows,
portraying prominent features of St.
Louis/and a beautiful set of flags.
The vessel is so divided that in
case of collision two and even three
W ater tight compartments could be
flooded and not endanger the safety
G f the ship. The fastening edges of
the bulkheads have been made un
i usual! v secure, so that if the
sustained a shock in that place in
collision the chances are that only
one compartment would be
xhis same arrangement has been
made in the engine and boiler spaces,
boilers are in two groups, one
for each funnel. They are entirely
separa ted from each other, and if
; set of boilers became ineapaei
, ^ated the other set eoulddothe work
t of supplying steam to the engines at
a modera te rate of speed. The engines
likewise are cat off from each other
water tight compartments, and
Jt would be possible to qiu tho ship
with t-ithe? if the other should
fctiJs 4<m«. to Mini
ADVERTISER
precautions for safety, there are fa
the life saving equipment fourteen
life boats, fourteen collapsible boats,
one cutter, one gig and four metal
life boats, and they all have the ad
vantage of being operated from the
shade deck above any possible rush
of frightened persons to secure
places in them.
Keep the Water Pure.
i, a pitcller ot ic8 wate r is set in a
inhabited, in a few hours it
, , absorbed the perspiration * „.,, ich
f h (| , e ,
Will have become purer but the water
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nearlv Covered aU the gases, lienee water
kept In a room a while is
„% (or use a , ld sho uld be
orte emoTed , whether it has become
or not Impllre waleris as
furious J to health ns impure air,
an d ev • ‘ erson should provide the
0 b , nin| " fresh pure water
f „ domestic lls es . A „ hour's In
tt esamlnation „f . he water
aNaTgeiaVorityb 1 ,
Tn fevers cases
prevent J, the risk of and dipli
Take in vour dressing case
an ounce p h in l ot saturated solution
of permanganate of potasli. Missis
or eight drops l ? to a tumbl f’ ° f tJ l°
drinking water that is supplied. If
it turns brown in an hour, the water
is broadly s eaking, unfit to
if not, it is not especially harmful.
If a country hotel sewage system is
confined to cesspools, within a hun
dred feet of the house, and near the
water supply, take the next train,
These matters should force thein
selves on one’s personal attention.
Odds and Ends.
Only thirty per cent, of tho
robberies committed in London lead
to a conviction.
Experiments prove that snakes will
not cross hair ropes.
The horned toad of California is
almost as invisible as the sand in
which it exists.
The strawberry is known all over
the world, and was used as an article
of food by the ancients.
In several European countries, in¬
cluding France and Belgium, elec¬
tions are always held on Sunday.
There are forty-eight different ma¬
terials used in the constructionof a
piano, from no fewer than sixteen
countries.
At the depth of three thousand feet
of the oceans is said,
7 ^ aiAthe Arc ti c
Circle and on me eqmftB^** 1 * 1 ***
The Chicago Civic Confederation
declares that there are60,000 victims
of the opium habit in that city.
They keep alive 100 public smoking
places.
Australia is a country without
orphans or an orphanage. Every
waif is taken to the receiving house,
where it is kept until a country home
is found for it.
To the Pyramids by trolley may
soon be a possible trip. The Egyp¬
tian government has just granted a
concession for an electric railroad in
Cairo, and the Pyramids are only
eight miles away.
There is a loaf of bread in the
Agricultural Department at Wash¬
ington made from the roasted leaves
of a plant allied to the century plant,
Another kind of bread is from dough
of juniper berries.
Scores of Quaker families in south
ern Pennsylvania have preserved the
carriage certificates of their ances
tors for many generations,
as is the Quaker custom by all the
ghosts at t he ceremony.
When the tunes of a piano-organ
are changed, the cost of a new set,
consisting of ten tunes, is about $15.
Diving to the intricacies oi the in
strument, if a new tune is required,
an cntire fresh set musfc be P ufc in -
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Wilhelmina, Queen of Holland.
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The sweet girlish face which ac
companies this paragraph might be
long to almost any little
schoolgirl, but it is the latest pic
ture of Holland’s young queen, Wil
helmina. She is a most winsome
and lovable girl, just past her four
teenth birthday, and is adored by her
loyal subjects. With all her
ness she is conscious of her coming
responsibilities, and that gives her
manners a little touch of resew«-&ud
dignity that seem almost out of
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place with the fresh simplicit >> of
her youth. She has jusl been over
to England with her mother, to visit
her aunt, the Duchess of Albany,
and in the ^rounds at Ciarmont,
where her aunt’s fine palace stands,
with her cousins, a boy and a ^irl
near her own age, she has had as
merry a romp as if she were not bur
dened with the coming cares of a
kingdom. Everybody will wish this
nleasant-faced child, who is both
amlr.ble and mteliigour a happy lifo
m i tafig *fid poipvrou# reign
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.
‘ forward, march!’*
;, llalt!” cries Captain Lazy Bones,
“Halt! halt! and stand at ease;
This dusty street will tire our feet,
And make us cough and sneeze.”
Then furl your colors. Lazy Bones,
And make your meaning clear;
You're not the man to lead the van,
Your place is in the rear.
"Kicht -Ymountain about!” cries t'antain Doubt
rou"h^ lies weNedone ahead
Theroadis J “,' enough
p j£J ° ', T » r ° £ atbars Captain
- • nch T duels ?T as you are only X t true
At mess and dress parade.
‘‘Forward! March!” cries Captain
Pluck,
“Heed not how winds may blow.
Sound no retreat until defeat.
Or we defeat the foe.”
Three cheers! Lead on, we’ll follow
you:
For glorious cause we fight,
And we will go and meet the foe,
To battle for tho right.
—Edward Carswell.
ANTS AS BITERS.
Ants are terrible fighters. Tlioy
hftvo ver y powerful jaws, considering
the size of their bodies, and there
fore, their method is by biting,
They will bite one another and hold
on with a wonderful grip of tho jaws,
even after all their legs have been
bitten olT by other ants,
Sometimes six or eight ants will be
clinging with a death hold to one
another, making a peculiar spectacle,
some with a leg gone and some with
half the body gone. One singular
fact is that the grip of an ant’s jaw
is retained even after the body has
been bitten oil and nothing but the
head remains,
PRESENCE OF MIND.
Here is an account of two boys,
who by presence of mind and rare
good sense, saved the life of their
father.
In Maine, lately, these two boys
went out to the woods with their
father to see him cut down trees.
Through a mistake in calculating
how a tree ho was cutting would fall,
the father was caught and pinned to
the ground, the tree lying across his
body.
At the fearful sight the boys did
not loose their presence of mind,
but set to work with energy to save
their father Some boys would have
exhansated their iu'fllBiD
_ rGe:
would .. . -r— and screamed for
mive run
help, and meantime the father would
have died.
The boys did neither of these
things. ’They commenced digging
a hole immediately under their
father, and in a very short time re¬
leased him from his awful situation.
Their coolness and wisdom were the
means of saving his life.
I.ION AND MOUSE.
A mouse was put in the cage of a
lion to test whether, as the old fables
asserted, there was a natural affect¬
ion between them. The experiment
demonstrates that each was so afraid
of tlie other that no affection could
exist between them. The lion saw
^j 10 mouse before he was fairly
through the bars, and was after him
instantly.
Away went the little fellow, scurry
i n g across the floor and squeaking in
f r jght. When he had gone about
ten feet the lion sprang, lighting a
little in front of him. The mouse
turned, and the lion sprang again.
This was repeated several times, the
mo use traversing a shorter distance
after each spring of the lion.
Finally tlie mouse stood still,
squealing and trembling. Tho lion
stood over him, studying him with
interest. Presently he shot out his
big paw and brought it down directly
on the mouse, but so gently that the
mouse was not injured in the least,
though held fast between the claws.
Tlien tho lion played with him,
now lifting his paw and letting tho
mouse run a few inches, and then
stopping him again as before. Sud
denly the mouse changed his tactics,
and i nstead of running when the lion
lifted his paw, sprang into the air
straight at the lion’s head.
The lion, terrified, gave a great
! ea P hack, striking the bars with all
his weight. Then lie opened his
and roared and roared again,
while the little mouse, still squeal
ing, made his escape. Of the two
the lion was the more frightened.
THE CAT’S REVENGE.
A cat story for a change,
Blossom is a big gray cat. She
has been in the family for seven
years, and her mistress thinks she
was fully 10 when she came unin
vited and took possession, according
to the Boston Transcript. Her
charms made her welcome, and
visitors, as a rule, pet her to her
heart’s satisfaction Still she shows
her loyalty to her mistress by many
feline qualities,
One day a young man came for a
short visit. Ho was an inveterate
tease. As there was no one else for
a victim, he took Blossom in hand,
in spite of pleadings and protesta
Her ears were greeted with
the strange terms, "old * rascal,”
“scapegrace,” “tramp” and kindred
names tiil the astonished cat did not
know wbafc bad C3m e to her. Her
P^tty ways disappeared, she fled
Jds approach and hid whenever
could till he was out of the
bouse.
0ne morning she was missing for
some hours ancl was not to be found
in any of her hiding places. A loud
from the chambermaid revealed
her whereabouts, Blossom had re*
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shirt, which lay in tatters on i’.i*
floor! Pussy was scolded, and every
one was cautioned to keep, t he door
shut. In vain! The cat would find
her way in and hide till the chamber¬
maid was through for the day, and
then tho claws went to work, first on
the visitor's own clothes, if any could
be found, and then on the pillow
cases. The young man tried to
soothe her feelings, but she would
have none cf him, and he was glad
to cut short his visit. Blossom
quickly recovered her usual de¬
meanor, and has never been known
to destroy anything from that day
to this.
A William Goat Flags a Train.
A track walker on the Pennsylva¬
nia Railroad, who lives in Philadel¬
phia suburbs, is thoroughly con¬
vinced that an offensive W illiam
goat that infests his neighborhood
was not horn to die on the railroad.
On returning from his work one
afternoon he found the goat engaged
making a meal of one of his best
flannel shirts, which had been placed
on the line to dry The shirt was a
wreck when he arrived on the scene,
but ho was not too mad to let. the
chance slip for punishing the goat.
After a hot chase he caught William,
and securing his legs with what was
left of the red shirt, carried him out
and placed him on the railroad,
hurrying out of sight to watch an
approaching freight train relieve the
neighborhood of tho offensive goat.
The animal, in the meantime, kopb
up a continual kicking, giving por¬
tions of tho red shirt a chance to
move rapidly to and fro, and with so
much success that tho engineer of
the on coming freight train mistook
the fluttering remnants of tho red
j shirt for the regular danger signal,
and stopped his engine in time to
save the goat’s lifo.
Antiquity of Our Race.
An Austrian student, Herr Low,
who lias been traveling in Central
America, has recently obtained and
forwarded to the Imperial Museum
in Vienna twelve large stone slabs
hearing footprints in the solid rock.
The slabs were taken from tho quarry
over Lake Managua, in the territory
of Nicaragua. These footprints had
been overlaid by eleven different lay¬
ers of stone, extending to a depth of
four meters, and indicating an an¬
tiquity for our race quite transcend¬
ing all conjectures hitherto hazarded.
They are about three-quarters of a
meter square and are sunk into.the
I stone to a depth of from eight to a ten Ht
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to be very conspicuous “aniT'Seem
be those of three distinct persons,
one of whom was a child. To what
race or to what age they belonged no
one yet has ventured to guess.
The Deepest Mina.
It has been the undisputed claim
of Austria that she possessed the
deepest metal mine in the world, the
Maria shaft at the mines of Przibram,
which was 3,675 feet below the sur¬
face at tho time of the great lire in
1892. It has now been surpassed,
says the Engineering and Mining
Journal, by the No. 3 shaft of tho
Tamarack Copper Mining Company,
in Michigan, which on December 1
was 3,640 feet deep, and is now more
than 3,700, the average rate of sink¬
ing being about seventy-five feet a
month. This makes it beyondquos
tion the deepest metal mine in ex
istence, and only one other shaft has
roached a greater depth, that of a
coal mine in Belgium, for which 3,
900 feet are claimed, The Adalbert
shaft in Germany reached a depth of
3,281 foot,
Worth More Than Gold.
A r „ nf An i ft1 i in (lie fif
te enth century paid for onp book
200 gh livo quarts 0 f wheat and
the game c . Urtn tify of rye and millet
and }n ear) times t j ie i oan 0 f a hook
was considered to be an affair of such
j mportan ce that in 1299 the Bishop
G f Winchester ’ on borrowin'* a Bible
from a ( . onve n t j n that city was
obliged to give a bond for its restora
tion drawn up in the most, solemn
rnanner an q j„ oui8 \I in 1471, was
compelled to deposit a large quantity
of plate, and to get some of Jiis
nobles to join him in a bond, under
a heavy penalty, to restore it, before
lie could procure the loan of a hook
which he borrowed from the Faculty
of Medicine at Paris.
Eccentric Matches.
A curious experiment can be per¬
formed with an ordinary box of par¬
lor matches. Take four matches
from the box and fix two of them be
tween the box and the cover, one
each side, so that their heads may l>8
protruding a short distance from the
box, and also pointing the same way.
j Fix a third match between tightly in a hori
zontal direction the two
heads of these two matches, so that
it is not touching anything else hut
the two matches, Tlien strike the
fourth match and apply the light to
the center of the third, Instead of
setting light to either of the two up
| right matches as might be expected,
the match shoots right out into tho
air.
Curiosities of Words.
j
it is said that there are only two
WO rds in the English language which
contain all the vowels in their order,
These are “abstemious” and “face
tious, M
j The following each have them in
irregular order: Authoritative, dis¬
{ advantageous, encouraging, effica
cious instantaneous, importunate,
mendacious, nefarious, precarious,
pertinacious, sacrilegious, unlntontlQual, siraulta*
neous, Unaaiana, un,