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I. A. SOLOMONS, President.
C. A. DRAYTON, Vice-President.
A. FALK, Secretary and Treasurer.
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THE TALE CLOTHING- COMPANY is a stock company organized for the purpose of continuing the business of A. Falk & Sons, the active man
agements of the affairs being placed in the hands of the Messrs. Falk who will conduct it on the same methods as they did their own.
To always show the new styles and designs simultaneously with their appearances at the centres of fashion.
To see how GOOD ■ not how CHEAP the stock can be made; so that we give with every garment we sell a guarantee of absolute satisfaction.
Not to sacrifice wearing qualities to appearances , but in all cases give
THE BEST VALUE FOR THE MONEY EXPENDED,
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On this basis we ask every buyer of MEN’S, BOYS’, OR CHILDREN'S APPAREL
to examine our superior stock for the present season, guaranteeing that time so spent will prove to their advantage.
AAJ I m • ¥ g*% 'P ARE NOW COMPLETE IN EVERY PARTICULAR
QUK *f* VJjrfßULi yj *t* IJcf Allt 1 iT# wl# 1 u
BUSINESS SUITS.
Our Business Suits are
made Elegant and Dressy,
combining with Stylish ap
pearance good serviceable
wear.
We would call particular at
tention to the suits made for
Jie hard wear of
MECHANICS,
and those made for
COTTON MEN,
to which cotton will not ad
here.
SHOUT DISTANCE’PHONES |
EOW TH ; -Y MAY BE M'•> DE AND
OPER '.T iD BY AN AMATEUR.
A Long Wira Dina, its Cost and Uses.
How to String too Wire—A Thous
and-Foil; Circuit.
(Copyright.)
New York, Oct. 3.—There is no boy In
the country who cannot, if ha wishes, have
his own telephone at a small cost.
Ho can havo a line 1,40) feat long, over
which ho can hold a distinct conversation,
bat his connection for such a distance
ihouH consist of wire.
Or, if he wants only to connect his te'.e
phono with the nearest house so that he may
ab!o t < talk with liia irien i, inquire when
ae is going to school, ask if he is in, or de
sires to put a 6core of other questions, ho
an serve his purpose by using a cigar box
* can w ith one end taken out of it, or an
oblong tin box. For distance of 93 or 100
!eet the contrivances pamed serve the pur
pose well, aud small twine or heavy thread
Key be used. A conversation may bo
lorried on in a moderate tone of voice, and
not a word is missed if the instruments are
properly constructed.
But the really important short distance
Selephoro is tho long wire line, for it can be
Meti as a means of communication between
Ihe dwelling aud the mill, factory or office,
where the master of the house spends his
i*y. When this short-distance wire-lino
eiophom is properly c instructed a clear
sonversution may to held at a distance of
yearly half a mile. Where the rates charged
or electric telephone* are very high, and a
business man wants a means of constant
sommuuication between his place of busi
bess and his private residence, the instru
ment which 1 shall first describe would be
if great convenience.
It doc. not coßt much to put up the wire
ine telephone, and when once strung thoro
s no rent to pay on it end nothing to do ex
cept put it in order after a storm. As for
tho thread or twine telephone lines, they
tost only a few pennies each, and thev roav
be very convenient and a source of ' great
Measure for young folks as well as for the
(row-up members of a family.
Now, as to the quarter tele
phone, please follow me carefully as to the
*st manner of constructing it. Take a
und pine board 16 inches long, 13 wide and
X inch thick, planing it smoothly and
'enly on both sides. Take a pair of com
passes and draw a circle in the board 9
tachea m diameter, and then saw or cut
•round, making the disc oven and smooth.
Ihe circumference of tho bole should be
■heled on the face or outside surface,
oeo two strips of wood, which should also
o. pine, 13 Inches long, 3 inches wide and
V“ ctl thick, should be planed evenly;
'*raust be placed on the edge and run
~allel end even with tho end and nailed
*®, er tho side at right angles to tho
I?* “° aril , like the ends of a shallow box.
EeX i ,top * s 10 Drocure a piece of calf
and it is best to get this fromadrum
p'*™ may bo procured at most music
, The piece of circular skin socut out
t * le k°* e * n ihe board, having
spare all round of about %-inch.
u the calf skin ovor tho hole with
•L.,, 'brass ones look host), driving
•kwH '' ! °se together, hut have them
n,.. 1 .'"mch from the edge of the hide. A
sii or enameled leather inay be
•itti- n or srou,| d the margin of the disc
He.!, ®?' strengthening the instru-
N '(? ma * t,tJ K *t look better,
fail*,. M tk ® center of the disc and caro
**■’s*r , BCtl i r “ 'Brough the skin a tide large
li, L, 6,11,111 faro cojipvr wires, size No.
sr, Y O . ,l ‘“T be obtained from a harl
trd Alter this take a wet sponge
dbJ-t., saturate the skin at both
*• mitt
*n":**** old-fabloud copper ooln,
<sUnr*,k 0 Bolrs in it pretty close to-
Ln l .iJr*‘*‘ff*bouttof4 of wire,
4 * nd up through o* hole and
DRESS SUITS
For Street Wear.
Our stock will be found in
comparable, containing all of
the many styles and materials
suitable for such dress, all of
the garments being marked by
that indefinable air of elegance
that tend so much to make a
man
Well Dress® .
down the other, twisting the wire round
and round like a woolen thread and close
up to what will be the underside of the
coin. Pass the end of this double wire
through the hole in the wet skin, lay the
disc box across two stools, benches or
tables, and to tho hanging wire fasten a
weight of twenty-five to thirty pounds.
The object of this is to stretch the skin, so
that wueu the board is put agaiust the wall
the disc shall be concave, but do not take
off tho weight till the skin is perfectly dry;
then its strained position will become fixed.
A hole must now bo cut through the wall
in whatever part of the house is most con
venient for the purpose. The hole should
be round and about three inches in diame
ter. The box is next placed against the
wall and the wire attached to the button or
punctured copcer inserted through the hole
where it is ready to be attached to tho main
wire. The board should be fixed to the
wall with staples, screws or long nails, but
the thing is not diflicut. Of course when
the bulged out skin of the disc is nulled out
wards, later on t.y the strain of the con
necting wire, it must not touch the wall, i
but the point should be directly opposite
tbo hole.
We are now ready to begin the work of
wire stretching; and the next step is to pre
pare as many insulators as shall be needed
along the route of the wire. If it must take
a crooked course passing house corners,
trees, telegraph pole3 or any other obstruc
tion it will be necessary to say it by guys
so as to keeo its path clear. The insulators
are not madeof glass as might be supposed,
but are constructed of any olos dy twisted
or braided cord, silver lake cord, or rope,
3-i O-inch in diameter being 1 ost. The in
sulator cord ought to be -1 or 5 inches long,
and this must bo made into a loop, t ie ends
to be secured by fine copper wire wound
tightly rround the ends of the cord so that
the insulator may not come apart.
Now take the end of the coil of wire which
should be lying on the ground below and
slip it through as many of the insulating
loops as may be needed for the whole way—
and I may add it is rnuci better to string
too many than too few insulators on your
line, for you can easily snip off all t at are
unnecessary when your telephone connec
tion is complete. While it is necessary that
the line should be firmly held in its place so
that the wire may not touch any other body,
it must be kept in mind that too many insu
lating loops hanging from the wire deadens
it somewhat by ohecking the vib:ation
which is the medium by which the sound is
sent thrilling along. It is not yet deter
mined bv science whetner electricity lias
anything” to do with tho transmission of
sound along such a line as this, but I believe
that it has.
The direction that the wire is to take
should be carefully detormino 1 before you
pezin to string it. If it has to run through
a neighborhood where there are many
houses it is best to guy it to auy trees that
are available, or it might now and again be
held to the edge of a house roof. It is best
not to uso the regular telegraph pole al
ready strung witn wiies for the latter are
constantly breaking and would destroy your
telephone line; moreover, the linemen at
their regular work one the poles might cut
it down if it stood in thoir way when
climbing. Ask permission of course of
your neighbor to fasten your line t > somo
portion of his house where it will not be an
annoyance. If it is to be run through a
suburb on its way to a mill or factory,
select the highest tree and fasten it well up,
for thero it wilt be out of the way of mis
chievous persons. A long, light lad.lo. will
be necessary stringing.
A word about guying: The guy Is a
brace formed by attaching a cooper wlro to
the shank of the insulator; this wire is
drawn tight, so that tho lower <>r insulating
pert of the loop shall press tightly against
the main wire. Now fasten the guy firmly
to some substantial object, as described. In
running the line nev.r turn it et right
angles for. if you do, viitration, message
and all flies .ut in a mraight lm >•
lost at tbe turn. But tbe wire may be laid
in numerous cuff's: and wbon turning a
corner brace tne wire firmly outward to
keep it from touching. If U* passes
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4,1891-TWELVE PAGES.
FULL DRESS
is a branch of the business we
pride ourselves on.
We show in this Depart
ment the
Choicest Assortment
of goods.
The styles and workman
ship are simply perfect.
We are way
Above Competition
in this Department
among tree3 it should be Btayed from side
to side, and perpendicular guys will also be
needed in the whole process. Care and
common sense will be needed from first to
last, and the constructor will have to rely
on bis own judgment maiuly.
When the lino is stretched, have at the
second end a disc board exactly like that at
the first and a hole of the same size in the
wall. The wire will now have sagged or
bellied downward a good deal, and it is
rather difficult to make it tight. Turn into
tho wall near the hole a stout eye-scrow,
raise the wire from the ground and screw a
damp upon it tightly, about 2 foet from the
end. A simple block and tackle is attached
to this clamp, and one end of the pulley rope
is fastened in tho serew-eye; pull the other
end, till tho wire is tight enough. Care
must be taken not to put on too much
purchase, else some of the guvs may break
or the button burst through the drum-head
skin at the other end.
The twisted wire hanging under the button
has now to be joined to the end of tho wire
hanging downward from the clamp. Insert
the short wire with the button or copper
head through the disc box, and then through
the wall. Take a pair of pincers and join
the ends of the short and long wire by a
telegraphic splice. Now tho line is com
pleted and ready to talk over.
Caro must be taken that the wire shall
not touch the hole in the wall; to come in
c "itact with any solid substance except in
;ul l ing matter kills the vibration at that
sjot. VV hen the weather gets cold slight
pieces of board should be nailed up and
down the two open sides of the disc-board
joining them very closoiy. Let me give
one word more of caution and tuat is to he
very careful in guying the line when it
passes among trees or through branches so
that the limbs or boughs may not touch it
during a storm.
Loss elaborate and expensive telephone!
may be constructed from house to house;
as i have said, they will convey conversa
tion distinctly for 900 or 1,000 feet. Take
a cigar box and bore a hole in the bottom
at the point where two lines drawn long
wise, oach bisecting the bottom of the box
intersect at right angles. If you live in a
woeden house bore a hole with a 2J-£-lnch
brace and bit, and rave the hole in rile box
placed opposite the center of ihe hole in the
wall. I’a is the end of the heavy thread or
very slight twine intended for ttie connect
ing line through one hole in a button from
the back,and downward through unother
hole from the face, fastening it with a care
ful knot. The line is then taken up at the
other end and connected with a similar con
trivance in the other heuse with which
communication is desired. The cord must
be pretty strong, otherwise it will break
by the shrinkage when wet. This is why
fiDe wire lines are best.
Empty tomato or lobster cans are better
than cigar boxes, or an oblong tin box
sorves the purpose for a very short distance
' exoellently. Any boy can have an instru
i ment like this and 1 have known whole
J neighborhoods so connected.
When tauing through these telephones
■do not speak in too loud a voice, aud keep
! the mouth about six inches away from the
■ box, can, or sounding dire.
I Edmund Collins.
Abrrdsks. O . July 21, 1891.
Messrs, TAppman tiros ., Savannah, Oa:
Lear Sirs—l bought a bottle of your P. P. P.
at Hot Springs, Ark., and it has done me more
good than three months’ treatment at the Hot
>P |U*e*vou no agent in this part of the country,
or let me know how much it will cost to get
three or six bottles from your city by express.
Respectfully Yours,
Jab. M. Nswtos,
Aberdeen. Brown County, O.
Abbott • Earn Indies Core Paint aura* earns,
bunions and warts.—Ad
Boys’ and Children’s
Department.
We devote especial care to
this branch of the business, it
being one of which we arc
particularly fond.
All of the goods in this De
partment are made with a view
to withstand the hard usage to
which they are sure to be sub
jected, and at the same time to
present that neat, attractive
appearance that pleases both
PARENT AND CHILD.
THE BOWERY WAKES UP.
OPENING A NEW 6E \SON IN THE
FAMOUS TSOROUGHPARE.
The Gathering of Dime Museum
Freakg— High Grade Professional
Lying—The Lady Orchestras Are
Popular—Shooting Gallery Devices
and Advertising Dodges.
(Copyright 1891.)
New York, Oct. 3.—Of oourse the
Bowery never actually goes to sloop, night
or day, summer or winter. But there are
periods when it is relatively drowsy. In
June it is tame, in July it visibly nods, and
in August it 1b positively torpid.
In this declino a sad change comes over
the essentially regulative features of the
thoroughfares. Toe Thalia aud the other
theaters close intermittently if not alto
gether, and the fitful sparring shows or
what not t at break out during tho warm
weather are out of condition as compared
with the more healthy vigor of the shows in
season. The dime museums, one by one,
become feeble and doze off, leaving the
doors covered with a trick aud gorgeous
sealing of posters, stupidly closed in the
public’s face. A few of the museums remain
open for the whole summer, and the spas
motic gasps of the hand organ, which is
supposed to be a band, fitfully appeal to the
wailing patronage Inside these gav and
festive halls of dazzling light there is a soli
tary freak, who may be the ludia rubber
man, but is more likely to be the tatcosd
girl, and who lonesomely ignores the con
templation and keen disappointment of the
occasional victim. Then the dives, which
the police are supposed to have swept out of
Now York, but which are dotted here and
there throughout the whole length of the
Bowery, are less infamously prosperous in
the hot season; while the saloous acquire a
stale, flyblown and more or less surly inac
tivity.
The Bowery is most completely dull just
before the awakening of the new season;
for sometimes a museum or a shooting gal
lery that will hold out almost until tho first
of September will go ail to pieces at the
last moment. In Auxust Bowery patrons
and promenaders are likely to bo found at
tho west end of Coney' Island, where they
dance, and vituperate and drink beer in
much the "Sorhe ■ way in which
they do these . Absngs i- :dt - win
ter j quarters, though perhaps with an
added freedom from restraint suggested by
the presence of tho tumultuous sea and the
absence of the Bowery policeman.
But just now the Bowery is waking up.
The wheezy barrel organs of the museums
Is sounding a recklossiy animated note. The
freaks are increasing in number aud
bracing to the winter siege. The ossified
girl, wno will probably multiply like the
females who have been tatoned has in one
instance made way f .r the “human butter
flies,” who perform a kind of revised version
of the gaiety skirt dance in parti-oolored
gowns, cut liko the skirts in Mrs. Eva
Mann's theatrical contract, just below the
knee. The fire oator exhibits a fantastic
buoyancy of spirits in the face of a fill in
the thermometer, sad the fat lady is posi
tively chipper. Tho three-legged man who
naturally cau s’and more than bis contem
poraries, did not lose heart in the dullness
i.f August and early September, but there
is nevertheless a distinct contrast in bis
manner at this opening of a-i.ew
season. As , . , matter o£ fact
a man of little sutasiUlity might ban felt
the ignominy oftlmwlng a -luffed pair— no,
a stuffed s*t trousers hnntrtiWore
the eyes of a W-pr?d t tpe qflJtYhnco
b> the
allowance -k
obarmers pad canasWl* Hun *wi, and
there is ad istwi •* drop -n the human fish
department fke taarkani* in Her
culraes, rsp*eiatly'Hv <be WIIb Arfljfiff' W fieri
you go outside ydtf.Mod that MY; *)ob*tb
has gone out to see a uuul For ought I
FURNISHINGS
are among the most important
features of man’s attire.
We recognize this fact and
have made this Department
complete in every detail, and
we justly claim to be head
quarters in this line.
UNDERWEAR,
HOSIERY, .
II (MiIIEIICHI EES.
NECKWEAR,
SHIRTS,
COLE 4RS and CUFFS,
RUBBER GOODS
and U.tIIIRELLAS,
in endless variety, to please the
man of quiet or nobby taste.
know the one Hercules is fulfilling the
promise of all the bill boards on the street.
The code of morals practiced in the Bow
ery museums is peculiar, ns peculiar as
almost everything else on tho street. After
a little experience you discover that the bill
blards and the finning delineations on the
front of the building are presented on a
purely historical place. Wbon you en
counter the staggering array of attractions
In tho pictorial part of the show, and go
inside to find a solitary ana exceedingly
morose freak; and when you appeal to the
proprietor or his representative it will
dawn up m you that the pictured series rep
resents all the curiosities that ever en
livened the museum, and not by any means
the list now under engagement. Until a
man thoroughly understands this theory he
is liable to feel wronged, and porhaps re
sentful.
The high grade professional liar with a
rattan auio stands at tho door of the mu
seum is iooking particularly fresh and vig
orous this season. He has generally been
to some place that agreed with him. W hen
he dies he may not be so luoky.
Tho good old-fashioned institution, the
shooting gallery, acquires new features
every year. It is now a very complicated
and pioturesque affair. The Indian girl and
trapper who stood with targets betweon
their shoulders, have been succeeded by
warriors and guides who bob from behind
a tree trunk, giving the patron with a rifle
an opportunity to see how it would feel to
got the drop on an enemy who should expose
himself in this interestingly, deliberate and
regular manner. For people of a more ad
venturous turn thero are leaping lions and
leopards, which appear very regular, but.
are by no means so easy to hit in the vital
spot. The vital spot is painted white and is
generally over the left lung.
The theaters are all in full blast, and are
opening the season with particularly ag
gressive brands of mel ilrama and bur
lesque. Tho lady orchestras at Atlantic
Garden, and the less seemly Volks Garden
and elsewhere, continue to supply a popular
craving for musical novelty. Sometimes
they are found to be playing very fairly,
as at Atlantic Garden, but the status is not
high. Yet these lady orchestras are classic
in comparison with tho dance hall warblers.
The din of talk in these places is so great
that onlv women with fog-horn voices in
tho lower baritone register are able to make
themselves heard to anybody but the leader
of the orchestra, while a vast majority of
the girls afford tho auditor in the back of
the hail nothing more than a pantomime,
and a feeble pantomime at that, partly vis
ible through au ugly bank of tobacco
smoke.
The bureau of street encumbrances am uses
itself occasionally by descending upon the
Bowery and carting off varioss picturesque
objects from fruit stands to suspender carts.
But the encumbrances multiply m.dor this
piuclung. All the way up to Cooper Union,
doorways continue in great de
mand. Men, women aid children
are found iu charge of “Hebrew notions”—
moro or leis in the suspender li le—und
fruit stalls bow besiege every available
spot. Fruit was never so cheap an the
Bowery as it has been this month. The
same may bo said of drinks. The saloons
are cutting pricos on fancy drinks. Con
uois>eurs say the quality has not improved
in proportion.
This week a small regiment of human be
ings that in an older era would have been
sandwioh men appeared on the Bowery,
marching in siogle file, and wearing a most
gorgeous nondescript military uniform. By
a shoulder brace device a tin advertising
sign held its place over each man’s head and
as the msn moved through the afternoon
crowd, each of them wearing a curiously
self conscious grin, the spectacle was calcu
lated to accomplish all that the advertise'
ex pelted it would. The Bowery Is a good
place to bring anew advertising
derma. Adopting the try-it-sn-tbe-dog
principle a great many advertisers train
their promenaders bare. The shrinking
man who are sometimes lured by a low
purse mto serving as a promsnoder forooro
seise or silk bats are often overcome with
horror after a few hours ter vice. They
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL, $250,000.0C
PAID UP CAPITAL, -525.000.0 C
HATS.
There are three or four Hat
ters in this country who set
the styles over here. They do
not meet in convention and
then decide on what shall be
worn, but each makes his own
shape and thus there frequent
ly are two or three shapes
equally stylish and desirable.
We do not represent any of
these hatters hut carry all of
their shapes, besides those of
(he well-known English man
ufacturers,giving our customers
their choice of
ALL THE STYLES,
besides saving them consider
able money.
tremble anti flush like a stage super in his
first aei. But if one of these novices
weather the Bowery he cau bo sent any
where. No other thoroughfare can worry
him.
At night the Bowery is now more bril
liant, more noisy and moro depressing than
ever. For if it is somewhat less immoral
and loss dirty than it once was, say fifteen
years ago, the increasing number of electric
lights casts a preposterous brilliancy upon
its cheap splen lor, Its making pawn
brokers' emblems, its bill plasterod shows,
its cheap clothing displays and its dis
mantled nhopr. Tho stroet car bells glnglo;
the elevated roads overhead from the black
recesses of the Chatham Square end to the
open ground of Cooper Union: the Italian
“shiners” pipe a sleepy note; a fitful
jumble of noises emerge from the dives and
beer shops, a id a shuffling of footsteps lasts
until daylight. Victor Sims.
A NURSMBY STORY.
An Exciting Experience With a Crazy
Nurse Maid.
From the New York Tribune.
"What a quiet woman your new nurse is,
Lottio!” said Mr. S. to his wife. "I never
saw any one so taciturn aud so noiseless; do
the children like her!”
"Yes, that is the oddest part of it,” she
answered, "tboy are perfectly devoted to
her already, and as soon as Bhe is alone with
them she rom; sand plays just like o .e of
themselves; if it were not for the sedate
manners at other times, I should think her
almost too boisterous, but taken all
in all she really seems a treasure.
I told Mrs. A., with whom she lived for
two years, and who gave her an excellent
character, what a curious combination I
found her, aud she seemed quite surprised,
and that she hod nevor noticed anything
about her particularly. That just snows,"
added Mr*. 8. complacently, “bow llttlo
people study tbe character of those to whom
they intrust their children. I always muko
a point of observing everything!”
The summer weeks passed on, and the
mistress of the house bad no reason to
change her good opinion, fur “Harsh,” as the
maid was called, seemed everything that
could bo desired as a child’s
Mrs. 8. felt so perfectly comfortable about
the children’s welfare that, emtrary ti
her usual custom, she accepted an in
vitation to spend a fow days at Newport
with a friend, leaving the two little ones
entirely iu Sarah’s charge. What, how
ever, was the dismay of her husband and
horsclf on arriving home, somewhat early
in the day, to find the entire household
greatly excited and completely at a loss as
to what to do—for the nurse and tho
children were shut up in tho nurwry, and
no oue had seen them that muruing. “Hbe
has been actin’ quesr-like ever
since you wint,” said the Irish
butier. ‘The children are rnoine,’
sezshe; ‘shur'.anl the mistress gave tLem
to me;’ aud last night she took up provi
sions enough to last a week, and they have
been shut up thero ever since.” All this
was said as they were hurrying upstairs
to the nursery. From tho room
eamo sounds of wild singing and
burst* of childish merriment. "Tnaiik God !”
gasped the mother, “the children are all
right.” “Sarah,” said her master, sternly,
shaking the door-knob, “unlock the door
immediately.” A wild, maniacui laugh
>• the only answer, “i'apa, ” called the
little ones, hearing his voice. Aud then, to
their horror, the woman seemed to become
infuriated, for they heard tbe
heavy smash of crockery. This was
too much for the poor mother, who ii shear
terror fumted away; while Mr. S.. almost
dlst acted, paused, foai ful of turning tbe
wrath of the lunatic on the iie<euels
cblldiea If he resulted to violent measures.
Luring the momentary hush oamo Ibe
shrill pil ing of childish voice : “>arab,
open the door; it l* papa end nitnimo."
“Oh, Diaunus, Sarah it so funny.” A no.her
crash of china aud a crezy jihberlng fol
lowed ; and tbe next mousest the door gave
wey before the heavy rush of the men
MEN OUT OF THE
ORDINARY BUILD
will find that they can be fitted
from our stcck as perfectly as
those whose proportions are in
accordance with the set rulet
of physiology.
We have suits to fit
LONG MEN,
SHORT MEN,
STOUT MEN,
and Extra Large Men,
that are bound to please ae
well as clothes made to order.
against it. Quite beside herself, the now
raviug madwoman stood twinging a broken
Ditcher In the air and daring any one to
touch hor; but tbe first thought of the
father was for bis children, who
were slttiug up in their little
beds calmly munching the dainties
Harah hail prepared for their delecta
tion, for, fortunately, her madness had
taken th > phase of intense devotion to them.
If their joy and mirth at her antics had
turned to fright, howover, and they had
become troublesome, the story might well
have hail a tragic ending; for it took several
men to capture the raving creature, and
for several weeks she was one of the most
dangerous lunatics in hloomingdale.
That this could be a true incident in an
ordinary, every-day nursery, especially
where the mother was noted for her careful
supervision of her household, seems strange
enough; but the terrifying thing ocourrod
only a few years ago, and Is still fresh in tbe
memories of many.
TERSIBLH AFRICAN ANT.
A Veracious Creature Which Devours
Everything Within Its Reach.
From the New York Commercial Advertiser.
There are a great many species of ants la
Africa, some of which are found in vast
numbers. The most remarkable and most
dreaded of all is tbo bashikouay, and is a
most veracious creature, which carries
DOthing away but eats its prey on tbe spot.
It is the dread of all living animals of tbe
forest—tho elephant, the leouard.the gorilla,
and all tbe insect world—the man himself
is compelled to floe before the advance of
these marauders, or to protect himself by
fire and boiling water. It is tbe habit of
the basbikouays to maroh through tbe
forest in a long, regular line, about two
inches broad or more, and often miles in
length.
All along the line large ants, who act as
officers, stand outside the ranks and keep
the regular army in order. If they come to
a place where there are no trees to shelter
them from the sun, tbe heat of whioh they
cau nut bear, they Immediately burrow un
derground and form tunnels. It often takes
more tnan twelve hours for one of these
armies to pass.
When they grow hungry, at a certain
command, which seems to take place along
the line at the same time, the long file
sureads itself through tbe forest in a front
line and attacks aud devours all it over
takes with a fury that is quite Irresistible.
All tbe other living inhabitants of the forest
flee before it. Their advent is known be
forehand; tbe still forest beoomes alive with
the trampling of the eleohant, tbe flight of
tho antelope, or of tho gazelle, of the leop
ard, of snakes, all the living world, in tho
same direction where tbo other animals are
floeiug awov.
Their manner of attack is an impetuous
leap. Instantly the strong pincers are
fastened, and they only let go when the
piece gives way. They even ascend to tbe
top of toe trees for their prey. This ant
seems to be animated with a kind of fury.
Sometimes men condemned to death are
made fast to a tree, and if au array of hun
gry bashikounys passes, in a short time
only bare skeletons remain to tell the tale
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Mias, she clung to Castoria.
Whan she had Children, sba gars them Cartsrt*
Tbe beet $3 derby bat for tbe money at
La Far’s. 27 Bull street. -Ad.
Pictures in great variety and aii priced
it, T. Taylor. IS3 York street.—Ad.
Umbrellas, umbrellas, Mclntosh ooata
and rubber at LaFar’a.—Ad.
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